Twenty years ago the Las Vegas dining scene was all about the cheap buffet and 24-hour coffee shops. Lucky for us, the city has evolved into a major culinary destination with some of the top restaurants in the world. It all started when Wolfgang Puck brought Spago to Las Vegas in 1992. After its success, people started taking the culinary scene in Las Vegas a little more seriously and dozens of celebrity chefs followed suit.
Today, Las Vegas is home to countless restaurants by famous chefs from around the world, serving every type of cuisine imaginable. You might know some of them from popular food TV shows or if you're a serious foodie you might just know them as award-winning and highly acclaimed chefs.
In fact, there are so many celebrity chef restaurants in Las Vegas we almost ran out of paper when we started writing them all down. To help you keep track of them all we put together a handy (alphabetical) list to show you where you can find them and what kind of food you can expect from their Las Vegas restaurants.
Awards: Andrés was named Chef of the Year by "Bon Appétit" in 2004 and Outstanding Chef by the James Beard Foundation in 2011.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: You can taste true Spanish tapas at Jaleo at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Andrés combines authentic Chinese and Mexican flavors under one roof at China Poblano at The Cosmopolitan. His restaurant, Bazaar Meat by José Andrés, at the SLS Hotel celebrates all things carnivorous.
Awards: Batali was named Best Chef: New York City from the James Beard Foundation in 2002 and in 2005 the James Beard Foundation awarded him Outstanding Chef of the Year.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: In Las Vegas you can find Batali's delectable Italian cuisine at Otto Enoteca Pizzeria and B&B Ristorante at the Venetian, amazing steaks at Carnevino at the Palazzo and more casual fare and burgers at B&B Burger & Beer at the Venetian.
Why you know him: French chef Daniel Boulud is the chef and owner of several award-winning restaurants and the Feast & Fêtes catering company. His renowned New York restaurants have made him a leading culinary authority in the U.S. and he has written eight cookbooks.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: You can taste Boulud's French contemporary fare at db Brasserie at the Venetian.
Awards: Conant was nominated for the James Beard Foundation's Best Chef New York in 2005. Scarpetta in New York was nominated for Best New Restaurant by the James Beard Foundation in 2009.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: Conant has two Italian restaurants in Las Vegas at The Cosmopolitan. Try Scarpetta for his famous spaghetti or head to his wine and pizza restaurant D.O.C.G.
Awards: He was the winner of the 2010 Outstanding Chef award from the James Beard Foundation.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: Steak fans will love his two restaurants in Las Vegas. Craftsteak at the MGM Grand serves prime cuts of grain and grass-fed beef and Heritage Steak at The Mirage focuses on meats prepared over an open flame on wood-burning ovens and charcoal grills.
Why you know her: Italian chef Giada De Laurentiis has starred in many shows on Food Network and is also a correspondent on NBC's "Today." She is the author of six cookbooks, all of which have charted on the New York Times best-seller list.
Awards: She has won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle Host and has been inducted into the Culinary Hall of Fame.
Where you can find her food in Las Vegas: De Laurentiis opened her first restaurant at The Cromwell last year. Her restaurant, called Giada embraces her passion for Italian cooking with lighter California influences.
Awards: He runs several restaurants and is only one of two chefs to hold 21 Michelin stars throughout his career. In 2013 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement on The World's 50 Best Restaurants List produced by British magazine "Restaurant," based on a poll of chefs, restaurateurs, gourmands and critics.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: Ducasse's restaurant Mix at the Delano will shutter later this month to be remodeled into a new concept called Rivea, which will serve French and Italian cuisine.
Why you know him: American chef Todd English is known for his restaurant, Olives, located in both Boston and Las Vegas, plus his TV cooking show, "Food Trip with Todd English," on PBS. In 2005 he was a judge on the PBS show "Cooking Under Fire." English has also written several cookbooks and has his own cookware line, the Todd English Collection.
Awards: In 1991 the James Beard Foundation named him their National Rising Star Chef. In 1994 James Beard Foundation named him Best Chef in the Northeast. "Nation's Restaurant News" named English one of their Top 50 Tastemakers in 1999. In 2001, English was awarded "Bon Appétit's" Restaurateur of the Year award.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: At Olives at Bellagio, you can sample English's Mediterranean fare including pastas, pizzas and steaks. English also runs Todd English P.U.B. at Crystals at CityCenter. The restaurant serves modern interpretations of traditional pub fare.
Why you know him: Guy Fieri is a bit of a local Las Vegas celebrity chef — he graduated from UNLV in 1990. In 2006, he premiered his first show, "Guy's Big Bite" on Food Network. He hosts "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" and "Tailgate Warriors" as well as guest judges on "Food Network Star." Fieri is the chef at six restaurants.
Awards: Fieri won the second season of "The Next Food Network Star." He is a New York Times best-selling cookbook author.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: His first Las Vegas restaurant, Guy Fieri's Kitchen and Bar at The LINQ Hotel & Casino serves a variety of food including tacos, Guy's Fireball Wings and his famous Vegas Fries with Buffalo seasoning, blue cheese, celery and carrots.
Awards: Flay was named the James Beard Foundation's Rising Star Chef of the Year in 1993 and was named to the James Beard Foundation's Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America in 2007.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: You can dine at Flay's Mesa Grill at Caesars Palace, which serves contemporary Southwestern-style food, or at Bobby's Burger Palace at Crystals at CityCenter, which is a fast-casual burger concept serving unique burgers and sides.
Awards: In 2009, Gagnaire made his United States debut with Twist restaurant at the Mandarin Oriental in Las Vegas, which has received a Forbes Five-Star Award.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: Twist is the only place in the U.S. where you can indulge in Gagnaire's contemporary French cuisine. Twist offers a choice of seasonal à la carte dishes as well as a three-course or six-course tasting menu.
Awards: In 1988 Keller was ranked as one of the 10 Best New Chefs in America by "Food & Wine Magazine." In 1997 he won the James Beard Foundation/Perrier-Jouët award for America's Best Chef in California. Keller was also named to the James Beard Foundation's Who's Who of Food and Beverage.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: You can taste Keller's cuisine at Fleur and Burger Bar at Mandalay Bay. Fleur features small plates from around the world including Thailand, China, the U.S., France and Spain. Burger Bar serves the finest varieties of beef, buffalo, turkey and vegetarian burgers.
Why you know him: Keller is an acclaimed American chef, restaurateur, and cookbook writer.
Awards: He and his famous Napa Valley restaurant, The French Laundry in Yountville, California, have won multiple awards from the James Beard Foundation, including the Best California Chef in 1996, and the Best Chef in America in 1997. In 2001, Keller was named America's Best Chef by "Time" magazine. Keller is the only American-born chef to hold multiple three star ratings by the Michelin Guide, having received a total of seven stars in the 2011 editions.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: You can sample Keller's cuisine at Bouchon and Bouchon Bakery at the Venetian. Bouchon is a French restaurant serving traditional bistro fare as well as a raw bar with fresh seafood. The bakery offers sweet and savory concoctions including croissants, tarts, chocolates and macarons.
Awards: Lagasse was named Best Southeast Regional Chef by the James Beard Foundation in 1991. He was named Chef of the Year by "GQ Magazine" in 1998 and was inducted into the Culinary Hall of Fame in 2013.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: He has several restaurants around Las Vegas including Emeril's New Orleans Fish House at MGM Grand, which serves Cajun and seafood dishes, Delmonico Steakhouse at the Venetian and Table 10 and Lagasse's Stadium at the Palazzo. Table 10 serves Cajun and Creole fare and Lagasse's Stadium features the chef's take on traditional American sports bar food.
Where you can find their food in Las Vegas: Mary Sue and Susan are known for their authentic Mexican cuisine and are co-chef/owners of the critically acclaimed Border Grill Mexican restaurants in Las Vegas at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino and the Forum Shops at Caesars.
Awards: Mina has won many accolades. He was named "Wine Enthusiast Magazine" Restaurateur of the Year in 2012; "Bon Appétit's" Chef of the Year for Michael Mina Bellagio in 2005 and the James Beard Foundation Best Chef in 2002.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: Mina offers several restaurant choices in Las Vegas including the new Bardot Brasserie French restaurant at Aria. His namesake restaurant, Michael Mina, serves seafood and American food at Bellagio, and Pub 1842 at MGM Grand serves beer and pub favorites. Meat lovers will also appreciate the modern steakhouse fare at Stripsteak at Mandalay Bay.
Awards: Moonen was given the 1993 Chef of the Year Award for the Northeast Region from Chefs in America.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: Moonen's Las Vegas restaurants include RM Seafood and RX Boiler Room, which is a steampunk-inspired restaurant and lounge showcasing Moonen's spin on comfort food and handcrafted cocktails.
Why you know him: Known simply as Nobu, this famous Japanese chef opened Matsuhisa in Beverly Hills in 1987. He partnered with Robert De Niro and Meir Teper in 1994 to open Nobu Tribeca in New York City. He has since opened many more Nobu restaurants worldwide.
Awards: Nobu in New York was named The Best New Restaurant by The James Beard Foundation in 1995. He was nominated for Outstanding Chef by the James Beard Foundation nine times.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: Nobu has two restaurants in Vegas where you can dine on fine Japanese food and sushi – at the Hard Rock Hotel and at Caesars Palace. Nobu is also a partner in the Nobu Hotel at Caesars Palace.
Why you know him: Charlie Palmer was one of 16 chefs honored in the Julia Child PBS series, "Cooking with Master Chefs," and is featured in the cookbook that followed the series. He has also authored four cookbooks. He has been a frequent guest on the "Today" show.
Awards: He was named New York's Best Chef in 1997 by the James Beard Foundation. In 2011 Palmer was appointed the Chairman of the Board of the Culinary Institute of America.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: Diners in Las Vegas can visit his restaurant Aureole at Mandalay Bay, which features seasonal dishes including dry-aged beef and fresh seafood. The restaurant received one Michelin star in 2007, 2008 and 2009. He also runs Charlie Palmer Steak at the Four Seasons at Mandalay Bay, a restaurant offering steak and seafood favorites.
Why you know him: This celebrated French pastry chef has several shops around the world and is the author of several popular cookbooks.
Awards: Payard was the 1995 recipient of the James Beard Foundation Pastry Chef of the Year award, honoring him for his unique pastry designs and flavors. He was named Pastry Chef of the Year by the "Bon Appétit" Food & Entertainment Awards and again in 2001 by the International Pastry Competition Committee-Beaver Creek. In July of 2004, the French government honored him with the Ordre du Mérite Agricole, Medal of Honor.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: You can find his sweet concoctions at his pastry shop at Caesars Palace. There is also a bistro adjacent to the pastry shop where you'll find Payard's signature sandwiches, and French-inspired breakfast and lunch items.
Why you know him: Wolfgang Puck owns several restaurants, has written cookbooks and is the official caterer for the Academy Awards Governors Ball. He has appeared in several TV shows and films and has been on "Iron Chef America: Battle of the Masters," as well as "Cooking Class with Wolfgang Puck" on the Food Network.
Awards: Puck won the James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Chef of the Year, twice, in 1991 and 1998. He is the only chef to have won the Outstanding Chef of the Year Award two times.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: Wolfgang Puck is often credited with starting the celebrity chef craze in Las Vegas with the opening of Spago at the Forum Shops at Caesars back in 1992. His Las Vegas restaurant empire now includes Spago, Cut, a steakhouse at the Palazzo, Trattoria del Lupo Italian restaurant at Mandalay Bay, Wolfgang Puck Pizzeria & Cucina at CityCenter and two outlets of Wolfgang Puck Bar & Grill casual eatery at MGM Grand and at the local Downtown Summerlin outdoor mall.
Awards: Restaurant Gordon Ramsay was Ramsay's first solo restaurant, located in London. In 2001, it was voted Top Restaurant in the U.K. in the London Zagat Survey and was awarded its third Michelin star, making Gordon Ramsay the first Scottish chef to win three Michelin stars.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: In Las Vegas, Ramsay has three restaurants — Gordon Ramsay Steak at Paris Las Vegas, Gordon Ramsay BurGR at Planet Hollywood and Gordon Ramsay Pub & Grill at Caesars Palace. Ramsay will soon be opening his fourth restaurant in town, Gordon Ramsay Fish & Chips at the LINQ Promenade.
Why you know him: Joël Robuchon was given the title "Chef of the Century" by the guide Gault Millau (one of the most influential French restaurant guides) in 1989. He has published several cookbooks in French, two of which have been translated into English, and has hosted culinary television shows in France.
Awards: He operates restaurants in Hong Kong, London, Macau, Monaco, Paris, Taipei and Tokyo, with a total of 28 Michelin Guide stars among them – the most of any chef in the world.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: The only place in the United States where you'll find one of his restaurants is in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand. There are two dining experiences available — Joël Robuchon and L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon. Joël Robuchon offers a six-course menu and a 16-course menu. There are also special tasting menus. At L'Atelier is a more casual restaurant featuring a selection of small plates and entrees.
Why you know him: Guy Savoy is a world-renowned French chef who owns the Guy Savoy restaurants in Paris and in Las Vegas at Caesars Palace.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: At Restaurant Guy Savoy at Caesars Palace, guests will be treated to French dishes including Savoy's famous artichoke and black truffle soup, French sea bass, pan seared quail, whole roasted duck and more.
Why you know him: Spanish chef Julian Serrano is a graduate of the Escuela Gastronomie P.P.O. hotel management school in Marbella, Spain, and has pursued his passion for French cuisine in some of Europe's most acclaimed kitchens.
Awards: Serrano is a two-time winner of the James Beard Foundation Award (Best Chef Pacific 1998 & Best Chef Southwest 2002).
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: In 1998, Serrano brought his Mediterranean-French cooking to Bellagio at Picasso restaurant. The Michelin two-star restaurant has won the AAA Five Diamond Award every year since 2002 and its wine list has received the Grand Award from "Wine Spectator" magazine. The chef also serves Spanish-style tapas at his Julian Serrano restaurant at Aria and Italian small dishes at Lago at Bellagio.
Awards: In 2002, the now-closed Simon Kitchen & Bar at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino was selected as one of America's Best New Restaurants by "Esquire" magazine.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: Simon's latest venture is the popular Carson Kitchen in Downtown Las Vegas. The restaurant serves small plates with creative twists on American food.
Why you know him: Masayoshi "Masa" Takayama is one of the most famous sushi chefs in the U.S.
Awards: He is the chef and owner of Masa Japanese and sushi restaurant in New York City, which has won three Michelin stars.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: Masa owns Bar Masa at Aria in Las Vegas. The restaurant uses fish that have been out of Japan's coastal waters for no more than 24 hours.
Why you know him: Buddy Valastro is an Italian American celebrity chef, entrepreneur, and reality television personality. He is best known as the star of the reality television series "Cake Boss." He is also the host of the show's spin-off, "Kitchen Boss," as well as "Next Great Baker" and "Bakery Boss." He serves as head baker at Carlo's Bakery in Hoboken, N.J.
Awards: In January 2012, the "Hudson Reporter" named Valastro as an honorable mention in its list of Hudson County's 50 most influential people.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: In Las Vegas, Valastro has an Italian restaurant, Buddy V's at the Venetian, which features family recipes, and a branch of Carlo's Bakery next door.
Why you know him: Jean-Georges Vongerichten is the author of five cookbooks. In 1986 he arrived in New York to take over the executive chef position at Lafayette in the Drake Swissôtel, generating critical acclaim and earning four stars from "The New York Times" at the age of 29.
Awards: Vongerichten and Phil Suarez opened a bistro, JoJo, in 1991. JoJo was named Best New Restaurant of the Year, and earned three stars from "The New York Times." In 1997 he opened Jean-Georges restaurant in the Trump International Hotel and Tower, earning a four star review from "The New York Times" less than three months after opening, and the Chef of the Year Award from John Mariani at "Esquire." Jean-Georges Restaurant remains one of seven restaurants in the city awarded three stars by the Michelin Guide.
Where you can find his food in Las Vegas: In Las Vegas, you can find his cuisine at Prime Steakhouse at the Bellagio and Jean-Georges Steakhouse at Aria.


How can we display a list of subsites for a multi-domain subsite?
and a follow-up would be if can use semi-global recent posts/updates for these sites separately from the rest of the network?
I am not actually sure on how either to generate a list of sites within a multisite that's within another multisite, rather than the old-fashioned way. (Type it.) :slight_smile: Let's ask our SLS friends (second level support) to take a look at this and also assess whether we can extend the global recent posts plugin to only work within a multisite within a multisite.
Can you please provide more information?, so your idea is a create an index page, which lists all the subsites there?
Hi - thanks for following up.
And then, you can use the shortcode [list_domains_wpmu root_domain="yourdomain.com"] to list all the domains base on the root domain.
Hey Thanks, I'll give it a try. appreciate the help.


Sounds and Colours sat down, had a good think, got up again, made some tea, then decided that these were the best records we had heard in 2010 so far. Let us know your thoughts on our choices in the comments section.
Surely one of the breakthrough artists of the year, Choc Quib Town have been taking the USA and Europe by storm since Oro was released. It's not too hard to understand why. Oro is that perfect mixture of roots and modernity. It sounds Colombian and modern at the same time. They use all kinds of different rhythms, from the pure hip-hop of 'Somos Pacifico' to the slow R 'n' B groove of "Alguien Como Tú", from the salsa of "Pescao Envenenao" to the rumba of "Rumba Sin Pelea," and yet despite mixing all these rhythms they always manage to sound as if they're from Colombia, and perhaps this has more to do with modern music in their home country, a place which has fallen in love with Western music such as hip-hop and its pop music but yet has also found a new love for its traditional musics, and this shines through here. The key to it all though is the infectiousness of their melodies. They seem to have a knack for finding that hook that will leave you wanting to listen to the album over and over again.
Cibelle left a few people perplexed with the release of this album. After the acoustic/electronica treatment on her second album The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves a move to tropical pop was the last thing people expected. Although she may have lost as many fans as she has gained there is no doubting the achievement of the album. Kitsch pop numbers such as "Underneath the Mango Tree" and "Melting the Ice" sit alongside the electro-fried "Man from Mars" and deathly ballads such as "Sad Piano" and "The Gun and The Knife." The real triumphs on the album though are the straight pop numbers "Frankenstein" and "Lightworks." Of course nothing is perfectly straight when it comes to Cibelle, she loves to push her audience as much as possible, but these two both show her beautiful knack for vocal melody and inventive production.
It's hard to pick all the references in this album from Venezuela's La Otrabanda. They have a fresh, upbeat sound with echoes of the Caribbean but use a lot of rhythms that are not common in South America, possibly coming from more Western influences. It leaves the album feeling very much a 'world music' album, coming from many different parts, but perhaps expressing something about Venezuela that no-one has yet to do. This approach is evident in the instrumentation too – there are bagpipes on "Pasaje." It's on songs such as "La Cebolla" and "Indigenas" when they are at their best, allying vibrant rhythms with positive vocals, while the band show enough flourishes and invention to keep you coming back for more.
A collection of songs by Anibal Velasquez, this is a marvellously rich assortment by this living legend of Colombia's music scene. Famed for his ability to drive a dancefloor into a frenzy his music still packs a punch. His signature tune "Mambo Loco" fails to disappoint. It is one of those songs like Screaming Jay Hawkin's version of "I Put A Spell On You" that has that extra something which somehow manages to give you goosepimples. It's the song that sees him perfect his formula, using the accordion in a more percussive and driving way than other Colombian performers, and augmenting his singing with occasional yelps and menacing chuckles. "Los Vecinos" and "Carruseles" also show his knack for singing about simple, everyday topics while also mixing up the instrumentation of his band; the first song is led by guitar, the second by piano. If you want your music raw and full of character you won't find many better than Anibal.


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Ins and Outs of Unemployment in Turkey
Gonul Sengul
This paper analyzes rates of inflow to and outflow from unemployment for Turkey since 2006. The average rate of exiting unemployment (outflow) within a month is 9.4 percent, while the average rate of transiting from employment to unemployment (inflow) is 1.3 percent. Moreover, the analysis of flow rates for different age and education groups show that these rates change significantly across groups. The paper decomposes changes in unemployment into contributions from inflow and outflow rates and finds that the volatility of inflow rates is the main driving force of the change in the unemployment rate in Turkey.
Gonul Sengul, 2012. "Ins and Outs of Unemployment in Turkey," Working Papers 1210, Research and Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey.
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File URL: https://www.tcmb.gov.tr/wps/wcm/connect/EN/TCMB+EN/Main+Menu/Publications/Research/Working+Paperss/2012/12-10
Gonul Sengul, 2014. "Ins and Outs of Unemployment in Turkey," Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 50(3), pages 28-44, May.
Layard, Richard & Nickell, Stephen & Jackman, Richard, 2005. "Unemployment: Macroeconomic Performance and the Labour Market," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780199279173.
Gary Solon & Ryan Michaels & Michael W. L. Elsby, 2009. "The Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment," American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 1(1), pages 84-110, January.
Michael W. Elsby & Ryan Michaels & Gary Solon, 2007. "The Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment," NBER Working Papers 12853, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
Shigeru Fujita & Garey Ramey, 2009. "The Cyclicality Of Separation And Job Finding Rates," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 50(2), pages 415-430, May.
Shigeru Fujita & Garey Ramey, 2007. "The cyclicality of separation and job finding rates," Working Papers 07-19, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, revised 2007.
Michael W. L. Elsby & Bart Hobijn & Ayşegül Şahin, 2013. "Unemployment Dynamics in the OECD," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 95(2), pages 530-548, May.
Michael Elsby & Bart Hobijn & Aysegul Sahin, 2008. "Unemployment Dynamics in the OECD," NBER Working Papers 14617, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Yusuf Soner Baskaya & Gonul Sengul, 2012. "Turkiye'de Emek Piyasasinin Cevrimsel Hareketinin Cinsiyet Bazinda Analizi," CBT Research Notes in Economics 1209, Research and Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey.
Gonul Sengul & Murat Tasci, 2014. "Unemployment Flows, Participation and the Natural Rate for Turkey," Working Papers 1435, Research and Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey.
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Serdar Selçuk & Orhan Torul, 2016. "A note on the intertemporal labor dynamics in Turkey," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 36(4), pages 2063-2079.
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Recently, a group of researchers decided to try a rather unique health intervention – one designed to decrease people's life satisfaction.
Why would health researchers ever do something like that when they've dedicated their work to making people healthier and happier? In this case, the idea was to learn more about the relationship between sedentary behavior and life satisfaction.
Here's how the study worked. Researchers from University of Mississippi designed a one-week health intervention – or unhealth intervention, maybe – in which participants were told to stop exercising altogether and to limit their movements to 5000 steps or less each day. For comparison, there was also a second group of people who continued to exercise and move around as normal.
Among the group who cut back on exercise, the effects of becoming sedentary were immediate: at the end of the week, they reported significantly lower life satisfaction. In fact, their score on the questionnaire researchers used to measure life satisfaction went down by 31 percent on average!
What this shows is that activity levels appear to have an immediate and direct impact on happiness. Becoming sedentary can precipitate a real decline in life satisfaction.
Previous research has shown that high levels of sedentary behavior – essentially, activities like watching TV or reading that are done while sitting or lying down – are worse than a simple lack of exercise. For example, one study found that low levels of physical activity and high levels of sedentary both independently harm life satisfaction. That is, someone who isn't very physically active but doesn't engage in too much sedentary behavior will on average have higher life satisfaction than someone who isn't physically active and also engages in high levels of sedentary behavior.
The flip side of this is that encouraging people to spend less time sitting can actually improve people's quality of life, even if those people don't go so far as to actually exercise. A 2016 study found that interventions that discourage sedentary behavior tend to be more effective at reducing people's sitting time than interventions that encourage physical activity.
There are many questions that remain to be answered about why sedentary behavior has the mental health implications it does and how sedentary behavior is similar to and different from mere lack of exercise. One thing that's becoming increasingly clear, though, is that if you want to live life to the fullest, you might have to stand up and move around.
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While I can understand the general point that too much sedentary behavior is bad, some of these findings seem really weird to me.
What about people like me who are avid readers and film buffs (I can take or leave most regular broadcast TV)? To us, getting through a couple of good books while on vacation or finally finding a copy of that rare Chinese film we always thought we'd like ARE wonderful, fulfilling activities.
But I'd like a little more explanation of the benefits of a relative lack of both physical and mental activity (aside from periods of recovery from general over-stimulation, of course). What would the person without sedentary pleasures or exercise be doing? It sounds kind of zombie-like to me.
I agree with you that there's probably a lot of difference between various sedentary activities. As I see it, the main argument from these findings is that while sedentary activities can be fulfilling and rewarding, people are generally happier with a minimum dose of physical activity — no matter how much they enjoy reading or watching films.
Link to the study doesn't appear to work.


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Pelosi supports invoking the 25th Amendment because it 'gets rid' of Trump
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would support Vice President Mike Pence invoking the 25th Amendment because it "gets rid" of President Trump.
Pelosi, who said the House has prepared an article of impeachment against the president for "inciting" his supporters to go on a rampage last Wednesday at the US Capitol, acknowledged the 25th Amendment would be more efficient in getting Trump out of the White House.
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Moscow Patriarchate No Longer Ally of Russian State but Rather Its Victim, Kuznetsova Says
Staunton, September 21 – The present church crisis, Ekaterina Kuznetsova says, "is a rare case in Russian history when the Russian state not only cannot help its church but is itself the primary cause of the current split" which has arisen as a result of the decision of the Universal Patriarchate to grant autocephaly to Ukraine's Orthodox.
That action and the inability of either the Russian state or the Russian church to respond effectively highlights something the Moscow Patriarchate can never admit: it is not the partner of the state but rather its victim and will continue to suffer because its own needs and culture preclude the kind of break with the state that would be required to salvage the situation.
The co-author of the forthcoming book, The Kremlin Paradox: Strength and Weakness of Russian Rulers, says that the Moscow Patriarchate has not found the strength within itself to recognize that the Russian state is "the source of its current problems," a reflection of the fact that the current church "cannot exist without the state" (snob.ru/entry/165977).
Without the state's blessing, the Russian Orthodox Church could not conceal its current incomes of perhaps 500 million US dollars a year, would be forced to make public its "commercial empire," and would lose the support of the financial authorities for the operation of its banks and other institutions. Nor could it count on restoration of property it claims.
The Russian state, of course, also is interested in the church, Kuznetsova says. "Above all, the Kremlin needs a church which will support in the population not only faith but also the traditional submission connected with that belief not only in the heavenly authorities but also the earthly ones."
But perhaps most important, "the supreme power needs the church as a unique space for the regular demonstration of national 'uniqueness,' of attachment to Russian values and ideals of morality from time immemorial. The public appearance at services is much cheaper than the organization of 'direct lines,'" the commentator says.
"With the intensification of the conflict among the churches, it has become obvious that the toxicity of the Ukrainian crisis is much deeper than had been thought. It has penetrated into the Russian state itself by affecting the power and influence of its chief ally, the church," Kuznetsov says.
The Russian church's silence about or support for Kremlin policies in Ukraine have not only led to its "loss of authority and trust among part of Ukrainian society" but put the church "unexpectedly" on the front lines of the conflict in Ukraine, leading to the loss of income and influence of the church and thus ultimately of the state itself.
The separation of Orthodox Ukraine from the Moscow Patriarchate "has become a powerful shock not only for the Russian Orthodox Church but also for the Kremlin. This destroys not only the idea of 'the Russian Orthodox world,' but in a broader sense undermines the idea of a Russian empire embracing all Russian speakers and Orthodox regardless of where they live."
The only way the Russian Orthodox Church could break out of this is to break with the Russian state, something its leaders seem incapable of doing and that the Kremlin would view as "the personal betrayal of the patriarch and of state values." Thus, it won't do so, and "this means that the church from ow on is not an ally of the Russian state but its victim."
But this has another consequence, Kuznetsov concludes. It demonstrates, albeit "in the reverse logic of Russian politics" that "the state in Russia is completely separate from the church."


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Electron Odyssey is Jeff Spoonhower, an independent musician and producer living in Northern Indiana (USA). Jeff has worked in the video game and animation industries since 2002. His debut album of electronic music 'Your Future Awaits' was inspired by 80s synth-driven pop, progressive rock, synthwave, and film/game scores. The album won the award for 'Best Electro Act of 2021' at the Radio Wigwam awards. I spoke to Jeff about the music and films that inspired him.
Can you tell me a little bit about yourself?
"I've been working in the video game industry for 20 years as a creative artist on lots of awesome projects. For the past nine years, I've also been teaching film and animation courses as a professor at the University of Notre Dame. I've lived all over the country thanks to my career in video games, and have been blessed with the opportunity to meet and work with amazing people and experience life on all coasts, and in-between. I grew up in a suburb of Rochester, NY and was fortunate to have excellent art and music programs in my schools. My teachers and my parents always encouraged me to follow my passions, practice hard, and shoot for the moon."
What's your musical background?
"I started playing the trombone when I was in 4th grade and spent my youth through college playing brass instruments in a variety of bands and ensembles, including concert band, wind ensemble, orchestra, drum and bugle corps, and jazz band. I particularly loved playing jazz trombone, and was pretty good at soloing and playing by ear. I was never great at playing my scales, although as a composer, now, I wish I had practiced them more!"
When did you first become interested in music?
"My dad used to play vinyl records for my brothers and I at home, as far back into my youth as my memories take me. I grew up listening to bands like Genesis, Rush, The Beatles, Steve Winwood, Billy Joel, and Peter Gabriel all throughout the 80s. I received a pretty good education in pop and prog rock music when I was a kid, even though I didn't really know what I was listening to. Once I started playing an instrument in grade school, and through high school and college, my musical world really opened up and I fell in love with all types of film scores and symphonic music."
Who are some of your main influences?
"On the pop/rock front – Rush, Pink Floyd, Genesis/Phil Collins, The Police/Sting, Billy Joel, Carly Rae Jepsen, Alan Parsons Project, Space Art, Depeche Mode, The Doors, and Van Halen, to name a few. On the jazz front – Count Basie, Chick Corea, Stan Kenton, and Roy Hargrove."
"I also listen to a lot of 20th century orchestral music by John Adams, Bela Bartok, Claude Debussy, Samuel Barber, and Leonard Bernstein."
What's one album you could listen to over and over from start to finish?
"Rush – 'Signals'. I've been listening to this album since I was five years old, and it just keeps on giving. A more semi-recent album would be Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories' based on the sheer variety of styles and emotions present. Each track is so different, yet beautifully written and performed."
Let's talk about your debut album 'Your Future Awaits'. What was your goal with the album?
"It's is partly an homage to the various types of music I've loved listening to over the course of my life, and also a vehicle for me to explore the making-music process, as it was my first album."
"I began experimenting with electronic music composition and production in 2014, and really enjoyed the process. After improving my skills over the course of a few years, I became serious about committing to the production of a full-length album in 2019. The songs that ended up on the album were the result of a great deal of experimentation, trial and error, and musical exploration over the course of 2+ years."
"I wasn't interested in telling a literal story with the album, rather, I wanted to create music that I really like listening to – 80s progressive rock, synth-driven pop, and cinematic score music. Each song on the album has a different feel, but my goal was to make an album that felt stylistically unified – something that takes the listener on a journey of sorts."
Your album is inspired by 80s synth-driven pop. What is it about the 80s that inspires you?
"Music made in the 80s had strong melodic hooks and well-written harmonies. The musicians and vocalists could really play back then and they had actual talent! No auto-tuning or any other technological enhancements were available, for the most part. 80s music is just fun to listen to and makes me feel good. I wanted to capture some of that in my own music."
Most songwriters name their songs after one of the lyrics. Since most of your songs are instrumental, is it hard for you to come up with song titles? How did you come up with effective titles?
"Correct. And for the songs that do feature lyrics on my album, I chose titles based on a prominent word, or words, from the songs' choruses. I approach naming purely instrumental tracks from an emotional, or narrative standpoint. How does the song make me feel? What emotion am I trying to convey to the listener? What is the story being told through the music? I let my heart and my imagination come up with evocative titles that just feel right. I let the instrumental songs simmer for a while and usually choose titles late in the production process."
What's your favourite song on the album and why?
"That's a tough one. I like to think of each song I create as a child of mine – I love them all equally! If I had to choose one, I'd probably have to say 'Show Me The Way' because it has a unique emotional feel to it. I wanted to lean on my background in jazz, and also incorporate elements of 70s space funk and synthwave. The song also suggests a sort of strange story, if you pay attention to the lyrics, as told by the vocalist."
We spoke about the fact your album is inspired by sounds from the 80s, but your music is also very cinematic. What films have inspired you to make music?
"One from my childhood, in particular, is 'Tron' (1982). Wendy Carlos' monumental score to that film is an absolute masterpiece. Carlos was a pioneer in the field of electronic music in the 60s and 70s, and her 'Tron' score was one of the first to successfully fuse a large-scale orchestra and synthesizers in a way that tightly integrated with the film's narrative themes and visual style. Of course, almost all of John Williams' scores have influenced me and my love of music in general, along with Stanley Kubrick's unusual use of music and score in each of his films."
What's your favourite film soundtrack or score?
"OK, now you're really killing me with this question. I have too many favorites! If I had to pick one, I'd choose Jerry Goldsmith's score to 'Total Recall' (1990). All of my John Williams CDs are screaming at me right now."
You get the chance to rewrite the soundtrack or score for an existing film. What film would you pick?
"There was this awesomely corny movie that came out in the 80s called 'Iron Eagle'. If someone decides to remake it, I would be the person to score it, for sure."
You have a Master of Fine Arts degree in Computer Animation. You've worked in the video game industry as an art director, animator and sound engineer. Can we expect any animated videos to your music?
"I would love to make a music video for my next album, if I can find the time. I've got a few ideas already that I'm kicking around. Animation is a lot of fun to produce, but it's incredibly difficult and time-intensive to do well. Between my game development career, family, and actually working on new music, the animation/video stuff always gets put on the back-burner."
What's your favourite gear?
"I do most of my writing on a computer using Ableton and software instruments. I love the instruments made by Cherry Audio, TAL, Arturia, UVI, Korg, IK Multimedia, and Synapse Audio, to name a few. Some of my favorite hardware instruments in my collection are the Moog Minimoog Model D, Sequential Pro-3, Novation Summit, and a few of the excellent Roland boutique units (JU-06A, SE-02, SH-01A, D-05). I really like the Rode NT1 mic for vocals – it sounds amazing and is very affordable."
If you could collaborate with any artist who would you pick and why?
"The electro artist, Droid Bishop. I love how his music fuses together synthwave, 80s-style pop, rock, and funk into something new and exciting."
"I'm currently working on my next LP, which I plan to release this fall. I started working on it shortly after the release of my debut LP 'Your Future Awaits' in August of 2021. I'm very excited about the new album and I'm looking forward to sharing more details about it, and a few singles, this spring and summer. It's got some connective tissue, or shared DNA, with my first album, but it also goes in some fun, new directions."
Compact disc, audio cassette or digital?
"CDs all the way! I understand the popular opinion that compact discs are dead/lame/unhip/ancient technology, and that vinyl is the greatest format of all time, but I think CDs really do present music in the best light possible. You can't beat listening to a CD on a good deck through a quality pair of headphones. I have a Teac CD player on my nightstand, along with a pair of Beyerdynamic DT-990 Pros. There's also something to be said for listening to an album from start to finish, as a singular listening experience (as intended by the artist), rather than consuming a wide selection of songs through the digital "mix tape" playlist format via MP3, streaming services, etc. I like listening to entire albums and going on musical journeys."
What's your favourite song from the Cool Top 20 and why?
"Every single track on the Top 20 playlist right now is fantastic, but I really love 'Dive' by Dawn Coulshed. The very simple descending piano melody at the start of the track drew me right in and held me through to the end of the song. Dawn's got such a gorgeous, smooth voice, and the song has a very dark, noir-ish emotional tone which is beautiful. Lovely solo trumpet and cello work on the track as well."
What song would you like to add as a bonus track and why?
"Droid Bishop – 'The Light'. Droid is pretty well known in the synth/electro community, but I just love his retro aesthetic and melodic, groovy approach to writing. He performs all instruments and sings on his tracks, which is very impressive.
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Jim Sanger (UK) started as a guitarist and songwriter in indie rock bands, but now mostly writes music for film and television. He has scored several award winning films including 'Loco' which won best film at the 2021 BFI Future Film Festival. "The track 'Cloud Nine' started as a piece of film score for a project I was working on last year. The film didn't end up getting finished for […]
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2020 Northeast Ohio Smart 50 Awards celebrate area's top executives
By: SBN Staff | 5:08pm EST October 27, 2020 11:51am EST November 5, 2020
Brett Lindsey
Everstream
Brett Lindsey's leadership has guided Everstream on a growth trajectory not often experienced, while meticulously cultivating a corporate culture where integrity, transparency and open communication are paramount.
In 2015, he secured an investment to fund Everstream, and between 2016-2017, more than tripled the size of the organization with two Michigan-based acquisitions. In 2018, Lindsey facilitated the sale of Everstream to AMP Capital. In the past year, Everstream has opened five offices and completed two additional acquisitions.
Lindsey has emerged as a thought leader in the telecom industry and the merger and acquisition space, securing guest articles, panel placements and interviews, leveraging both his successes with Everstream and more than 25 years of experience in the industry.
Rob Falls
Founder, president & CEO
Falls, led by Founder, President and CEO Rob Falls, has become one of the fastest growing marketing companies in the Midwest with an expected growth of more than 40 percent in 2020 over 2019. This is being accomplished by merging three companies — Falls Communications, Falls Digital and Wyse Advertising — into one integrated agency, which will soon be renamed Falls & Co.
The mergers, which were complete in late 2019, integrated the three entities, providing a successful and comprehensive offering of public relations, communications, digital and advertising. The strategic decision by Falls to bring all three together into one unified approach has proven to be a growth accelerator for the agency's existing clients and has increased the ability to attract new clients.
Joe DiRocco
Regional president
Joe DiRocco runs a smart organization by focusing on growing the business through hiring top talent, encouraging a collaborative culture and servicing the community to improve lives through financial solutions.
He focuses on a collaborative culture, encouraging team members to focus on the customer and the community, and ties employees' work to improving lives through financial solutions and supporting strong communities. At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, he helped lead employees to make major changes to accommodate customers, including making branch modifications, rolling out several hardship programs, facilitating the bank's support of the SBA Paycheck Protection Program and coordinating local philanthropic efforts to address the effects of COVID-19.
Scott Mawaka
Fleet Response
Scott Mawaka, president and CEO of Fleet Response, leads his team through innovation. He has a strong conviction for treating employees and clients like family. As a result, he is committed to operating on Fleet Response's founding principle of innovation, with a culture that not only places clients in the forefront of the business, but employees as well.
Mawaka knows that the difference between good customer service and great customer service ultimately depends on the people who provide the service. By creating a family-focused environment, everyone truly cares about the work they are accomplishing.
The mission of Fleet Response is to provide innovative and effective service to its clients and maintain high standards of professionalism and partnership in an environment that fosters opportunity, integrity and excellence.
Ed Weinfurtner
Executive Chairman & Co-Owner
Great Day Improvements LLC
The growth of Great Day Improvements continues at a strong rate under the leadership of Co-owner and Executive Chairman Ed Weinfurtner and his management team. During four years at the helm, it has doubled in size and expanded into nine new markets.
In the past 12 months, Great Day Improvements has expanded its geographic footprint, opening locations in 14 additional markets, mostly in the Southeast and South Central U.S. It serves 40 metro markets, up from 12 in 2017, with more on the way.
Qualified Remodeler Magazine recently ranked the company in the Top 20 on its list of the U.S's Top 500 largest remodeling companies. Year to date, it has realized a 51 percent increase over last year in customer inquiries and sales.
Tu Scaparotti
President & Director of Operations
Greenspace Construction Services LLC (GCS)
Tu Scaparotti is a successful entrepreneur dedicated to making companies grow and thrive. Born in Vietnam, she immigrated to the United States in 1973 and has started four companies, all of which are in operation today. Her newest endeavor, Greenspace Construction Services (GCS), was founded in 2011, and she has assembled a diverse, experienced team devoted to the construction industry.
Scaparotti has established GCS as a leader in the Ohio construction market. She sets the direction and plans the course for all critical aspects of the business. With her background in business administration, she takes a primary role in the oversight and management of the business's marketing and development, accounting, estimating and financial operations. She also directs the day-to-day operations of all project staff members.
Sam Falletta
Incept
Sam Falletta, Incept's CEO, has been at the center of developing and executing customer engagement strategies for companies like Ford, Honda, Microsoft and the American Red Cross, and has been responsible for over 20 million conversations between his clients and their customers.
Some conversations have helped companies save millions of dollars through the retention and acquisition of customers, while others have saved lives through blood donation recruitment. Falletta is continuously on the edge of innovation, transforming a call center company traditionally known for its negative appeal into a heavily sought-after career move. He encourages Incept employees to be the best versions of themselves by giving the company a youthful appeal with progressive policies, no dress code and community involvement.
W. Michael Jarrett believes that some of the most important factors to running a smart organization are passion, financial responsibility, vision, persistence and a solid foundation of integrity, character and faith.
Jarrett secures the success of his organization by hiring people with integrity, character, honesty, respect and work ethic. He believes that with the right people in the right positions, through the values they possess and the training JLS can provide, the business will grow.
JLS has an open door policy in place to encourage employees to discuss new ideas, opportunities and projects that will advance the organization. Jarrett believes that if employees feel like their opinions matter and their ideas are taken seriously, that will help a company truly succeed.
Jon Pinney
Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP
Jon Pinney, managing partner at Kohrman Jackson & Krantz, is well known in Cleveland's legal and business community for his leadership, credibility and trustworthiness. His tireless efforts of community involvement and betterment have been recognized for years — for instance, being a prime architect of the winning bid to host the 2016 Republican National Convention and serving in leadership positions on local boards.
He uses his legal acumen and business savvy to win for clients, including those critical to the regional economy like entrepreneurs, privately held businesses and nonprofit organizations. Pinney believes in and practices excellence in client service. He is a great delegator, assigning team members to appropriate clients and empowering them to do their best jobs.
Peruri Srinivasulu
Krish Services Group
Peruri Srinivasulu is CEO of Krish Services Group, an information technology, development and service company in Northeast Ohio with more than 40 employees between its Brecksville, Ohio, headquarters and Bangalore, India, offices.
Srinivasulu was born in Nellore, India, and came to the U.S. in 1999 to work for Pilgrim Software in Florida. He moved to Cleveland in 2005 to join a local employer as a Microsoft consultant and founded Krish Services Group in 2011. Srinivasulu structured his team to deliver end-to-end services in the areas of Microsoft SharePoint/Office 365, enterprise application, and mobile app development. As business markets and needs change, Srinivasulu continues to grow his technology service offerings to meet demand.
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Maryland Avenue School rainwater catchment system. Photo courtesy of MMSD.
The District was given the award for its "Vision 2035" plan, adopted in its current form in 2010. Two provisions that NACWA found worth noting were MMSD's shift to watershed-based management and triple bottom-line accounting.
Bryan Hartsook, who manages that permit for the Wisconsin DNR, says the grant was "appealing" to MMSD because it was a way to work green infrastructure into the existing MS4 permitting structure that those communities use. The work on the process was subcontracted to Southeast Wisconsin Watershed Trust and eventually, eleven communities—3 more than were part of the existing group permit—became part of the watershed permit.
Though the group permit had already brought those communities together, the new watershed permit enabled them to share costs on larger projects that would benefit the watershed, which means individual municipalities now get credit for work even though it's not wholly within their political boundaries.
MMSD adopted this accounting system in 2002, says Shafer, because they were "seeing poor water quality that wasn't from our feeder system." Even with a vastly improved gray infrastructure, there were still high level of bacteria and pollution that were coming from non-point source pollution—runoff in cities and rural areas that may include lawn or agricultural fertilizers and pesticides, oil leakage from cars, bird and dog feces, which now accounts for about 90 percent of all river and lake pollution in the MMSD region. (Non-point pollution has become the major problem since the Deep Tunnel ended most sewage overflows into the lake.) "They [the DNR] wanted us to start treating storm water outfalls," Shafer explains. "That cost would have been too great." Far better than building more expensive and high-maintenance tunnels and pipes was an approach allowing the water to be absorbed where it landed, and partnering with other entities and pooling resources for solutions. Poblocki Paving is a perfect example, as is MMSD's April Green Luminary and Milwaukee's Maryland Avenue Montessori School.
Watershed based management and accounting enabled MMSD to provide financial support for the Maryland Avenue School to build a rainwater catchment system in place of a parking lot. The school leveraged the support to drum up funding for a 14,000 square foot rain garden complete with a dry riverbed and pond. Native plantings help the packed clay soil absorb water, and a new entrance to the school includes more green space and plantings and the entire project is incorporated into the classroom curriculum. According to the project organizer and Maryland Avenue parent Angeline Koch, the combined projects, which began because of MMSD's support, divert about 80,000 gallons of water a year from the city's combined sewer system.
While many city and municipal leaders might find it surprising that MMSD asks to have stipulations included in their permit, Shafer explains that they're just asking for credit for what they're already doing. "Flood management wasn't in the permit. We're doing the work because it makes sense to keep floods out of people's basements. We wanted to count the Greenseams project because we were already doing it." Because of those kinds of additions, MMSD's 2014 wastewater permit is the first in the nation that requires green infrastructure.
In 2013, the City of Milwaukee's Office of Environmental Sustainability released its ReFresh Milwaukee 2013-2023 Sustainability Plan. The clean water goals of ReFresh Milwaukee are meant to nest within the district-wide goals that MMSD outlined in the Vision 2035 plan. By 2035, MMSD wants to capture the first half-inch of rainfall landing on all impervious surfaces in the area. The first step was to establish a Green Infrastructure Baseline Inventory. That report, released in April of this year, calculated that about 45 percent of the city's 96 square miles are covered by impervious surfaces. Capturing half an inch of rainfall from just those surfaces "would require the collection of approximately 380 million gallons of stormwater runoff," — more than two-thirds of the entire capacity of the Deep Tunnel. Alternately, the city could meet the requirement of the Vision 2035 plan by prorating according to the size of the city's area. Milwaukee only holds 23.4 percent of the District's service area. The city's portion of the total 740 million gallons, then, is 23.4 percent—or 173 million gallons.
Either way, MMSD's goals far exceed those the city is on track to achieve. Currently the city is only capturing about 14 million gallons of storm water. The city's goal of increasing green infrastructure by 10 percent annually would enable the city to capture an additional 19.5 gallons for a total of 33.5 million gallons by the city's 2023 deadline.
Inside one of MMSD's anaerobic digesters which convert waste into methane gas. Photo courtesy of MMSD.
While the city and the municipalities and neighborhood organizations are willing and even eager collaborators, not everyone with whom MMSD works is focused on the same goals. Last fall the District had a dust-up with We Energies that prompted Shafer to write an op ed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. We Energies had filed a claim with the Public Service Commission to change its rate structure—the way that it charges for energy. The request was in response to the impact that renewable energy is having on We Energies bottom line. The more renewable energy people use, the less income We Energies gets. MMSD's goals of using 100 percent renewable energy by 2035 presents a problem for a utility whose rate structure works more profitably with non-renewable energy.
The change We Energies was requesting would have increased MMSD's bill by a million dollars that the District would have been forced to recoup from its ratepayers. MMSD already generates 65 percent of its energy needs from internal sources, Shafer wrote. "Over the longer term, if MMSD no longer needs We Energies, its income will be reduced $4 million to $6 million a year." Part of the 2035 Vision is for the District to use 100 percent renewable energy, 80 percent of which would come from internal sources, but that program experienced a setback last year when Emerald Park in Muskego, which pipes its landfill gas to MMSD via a 19-mile long pipeline, failed to deliver the amount it contracted for and forced MMSD to purchase more costly natural gas to cover the difference. Landfill operator Advanced Disposal is obligated to compensate the District for the cost of the gas that it doesn't produce, but the ongoing difficulties with the landfill project raise questions about its long-term viability.
Flood management plans are all modeled on what the industry calls a 100-year flood area, meaning that there's a 1 percent probability of the highest level of flooding given the current record, but the "current" estimates haven't been updated since the late 1970s. As more and more 100-year storms are happening, some in the industry wonder if the premises behind the modeling need to be revised.
Those challenges, however, are actually less immediate than another problem faced by the MMSD: the old-fashioned deterioration of its gray infrastructure—namely the laterals that connect private property to the sewer systems. There is so much groundwater leaking into decaying laterals that the amount of storm water in the sanitary sewer, which carries only waste, is the same as it is in the combined sewer, which carries both waste and storm water. "The percentage of storm water in CSOs or SSOs is virtually always 95 percent storm water or greater, and can sometime be as high as 98 percent," notes the DNR's Russ Rasmussen. Property owners, many of whom may not even know they have a lateral pipe, much less that they're responsible for maintaining it, are going to bear the cost of upgrading that part of the system.
MMSD's 2015 Capital Budget is $215 million and its Operating Budget is $89 million. The majority of MMSD's income comes from the district's ratepayers—as it did in 1914 when the newly formed Milwaukee Sewerage Commission wouldn't submit a budget to the city because they didn't didn't know what the sewer system was going to cost. Now, as then, those who are responsible for the quality of the region's water have to convince their ratepayers to think differently about it. The "new normal" for MMSD, Shafer writes in his budget introduction, includes "building green infrastructure in lieu of building sewers," as well as "creating financial partnerships with the municipalities we serve." Funding and building a giant tunnel and a water treatment plant is a fundamentally different skill than convincing 1.1 million people to disconnect their downspouts, stop flushing medicines down the toilet, repair leaky pipes, and plant gardens in their yards and on their roofs. Back in Philadelphia, Neukrug notes that the industry is transition from "dealing with pipe to dealing with land and politics — and it's very different." Yet, just as it's done for the last century, MMSD is leading the way, showing everyone how that transition is made.
Don't anyone tell Charlie Sykes!


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ROCK SOUND ISSUE 256 The Faim
ROCK SOUND ISSUE 256 The Faim £4.99
One of the hottest bands to emerge over the last 12 months, we welcome The Faim to the cover of Rock Sound for their first ever cover, anywhere in the world.
As they prepare for the release of their debut album 'State Of Mind', we travelled to New York city to catch up with the Perth quartet, and get the full story of their amazing journey towards superstardom.
Also in Rock Sound this month: Awsten Knight and Chrissy Costanza bring you their regular monthly columns; we speak to The All-American Rejects about their comeback EP and catch up with Wage War, Bad Omens and Asking Alexandria; Sum 41 take us behind closed doors; You Me At Six's Josh Franceschi tells us about the first band he ever met; Taking Back Sunday's Adam Lazarra tackles Any Question Answered and much, much more.
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Featuring some outstanding new talent as well as some great returning troupe members, Come What Mayhem! is a brilliant blend of bitingly intelligent comedy with universal theatrical antics that caters to every sense of humour. No matter whether you love comically over-the-top musical numbers, incisive satire, or surreal snapshots that induce hard laughs in under 30 seconds, this show has a sketch to make you double over laughing at least once.
One of the greatest strengths of Come What Mayhem! is its skewering of difficult topical issues in daringly unique ways. Notably, the troupe showed the ridiculousness of the transgender washroom controversy in a sketch where an alien called Crom ended up "depositing biomass" on the floor of a restaurant because the staff spent too long debating which washroom the extraterrestrial was allowed to go into.
Better yet, Come What Mayhem! addressed fat-shaming through a sketch starring the always refreshingly hilarious Ann Pornel, where she tried to get her friends to admit she's fat without it being an insult. In addition, the Second City company's game show called "You Oughta Know!," hosted by the fantastically twisted Roger Bainbridge, was ingenious. By asking ditzy characters and a random man from the crowd to answer questions about ISIS, the military coup in Turkey and Cabinet of Canada, the audience was forced to recognize their own political apathy, but got to laugh through it. Brandon Hackett shone in this scene of his Second City Mainstage debut as he grinned brightly, then punished wrong answers from contestants with hilariously horrible things like ripping up and eating a cheque made out to a women's shelter.
Amazingly, Come What Mayhem! is just as in its element with sketches intended purely for entertainment as it was with commentary on socio-political conflicts. A brief scene where someone put their ear up to a conch only to hear it groan "Help me..." in agony was one of the most hilarious moments of the night, plus their opening sketch where a woman lied to her boyfriend about whether she was pregnant to see his real reaction was shockingly funny. Moreover, the consistently wonderful songs included two characters admitting they were just singing because they needed to segue into the next scene, a man bragging about ordering a side salad instead of fries, and three musicians talking about being totally broke.


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LIFESTYLE 1/10/22 6:18pm
BEST OF: Lashes and Brows
By Chloe Franklin
Best Of is an annual publication by Elon News Network that surveys students, faculty, staff and the general community on their favorite dining, entertainment outlets, academics and more.
NEWS 9/15/21 10:11am
Elon University fall concert experience returns to Schar Center
Elon University's Student Union Board announced American rapper and singer Bryce Vine will headline this year's fall concert.
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Elon University Spring Break uncertain
Depending on how the coronavirus has progressed in 2021, Elon University may have to re-evaluate whether students, faculty and staff will have a traditional or modified spring break. As of now, according to senior administration at the university, how spring break will be conducted is undecided. It is currently listed on the university's academic calendar as the traditional one week off.
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Q: Horizontal scroll in iPhone 6 I used a responsive version of the wordpress twentyten theme for my website, and tweaked some css slightly to display things better.
My site looks fine on iPhone 4 + 5, but when I view it on my bosses iPhone6, the website scrolls horizontally. I'm pretty sure I have the correct css media query size of '667', so I'm not sure why the 6's content seems to be expanding over the rightside of the page.
(My site was here: http://www.inspiredental.ca/new/)
And I've made a PasteBin of the CSS for the responsive part: http://pastebin.com/4E6wSA1p

A: I can't replicate the error in a browser but there is one flag I'm seeing in the CSS:
#container {
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}

Try putting this inside of your media query and test it on your iPhone again to see if that's the problem:
#container {
    display: none;
}

If you're not wanting to use a framework, you might want to re-write #container like this:
#container {
    float: left;
    margin: 0;
    width: calc(100% - 300px);
}
#content {
  margin-right: 0;
}

Having a high negative margin on your main container is just asking for trouble. It's easier to do percentages for containers and sidebars and manipulate them using media queries. The above example lets you have a fixed width for your sidebar while resetting the margin.

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Further Submissions on Proposed Plan Change 2
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Home Publications & Consultation Current Consultation Further Submissions on Proposed Plan Change 2
Plan Change 2 Further Submissions Process
All further submissions on the original submissions received on Proposed Plan Change 2 (PPC2) have been all been received by Horizons and thus submissions are now closed. The Summary of Submissions and Decisions Requested is available here.
A further submission allows people to support or oppose other people's submissions, and to comment on how a submission could impact on you. Further submitters can present their views to the hearing panel alongside the original submitter.
The further submission process is prescribed by the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA), Schedule 1 Clauses 7, 8 and 8A. It enables the following people to make a further submission:
Any person representing a relevant area of the public interest;
Any person who has an interest in the proposed plan change greater than the interest the general public has;
The local authority itself (i.e., Horizons).
In a further submission you are limited to a matter in support or opposition to the original submission; you cannot introduce a new topic through a further submission.
All further submissions have been received and can be found here.
IMPORTANT: A copy of your further submission must be sent to the person who made the original submission within 5 working days of making your further submission to the Regional Council. This can be via email; email addressed are listed at the beginning of the Summary of Submissions, where submitters have provided them. Alternatively, postal addresses can be found with deicisons requested.
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November 18, 2015 December 6, 2017 • 5 minute read
Cardinal for Israel hosts vigil for victims of violence in Israel
Members of the Stanford community came together to remember the lives of nine Israeli victims of recent terrorist attacks at a Sunday evening vigil hosted by Cardinal for Israel (CFI). The vigil occurred only days after students had gathered in White Plaza in silent protest of what they have called an Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Varied opinions on the conflict
"Alexander Levlovich's funeral in Jerusalem, September 16, 2015. Credit: Emil Salman" (Photo Source)
Violence perpetrated by Palestinians against Israelis has been growing since Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, according to the Wall Street Journal. Attacks have left nine Israelis dead and over 60 seriously injured. The first attack occurred on Sept. 14, when Palestinians threw rocks at a driver's car in East Jerusalem, causing him to fatally crash. The driver, Alexander Levlovich, was 64 years old.
As the violence has escalated, over 40 Palestinians have been killed and 1,770 injured by live fire or rubber bullets, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, some of whom perpetrated these acts of terror against Israeli citizens. However, many of these Palestinian civilians were not the attackers and were killed in clashes with Israeli troops in the West Bank and Gaza. These clashes are the result of tightened security by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) in response to the terrorist attacks.
Militant groups, such as Hamas, have praised the attacks against Israelis and called for a third intifada, an organized uprising by Palestinians against Israel. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has not supported further escalation.
The reaction on Stanford's campus to the increased violence between Israelis and Palestinians has been varied, representing many sides of the complex situation. This past Friday, a group of students gathered in White Plaza with black tape over their mouths, bearing signs condemning what they believe is an Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Fatima Zehra '17, co-president of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), explained that Friday's protest was a preemptive response to Sunday's vigil.
"It was essentially a silent protest," Zehra said. "We wanted to do something because we felt that Sunday's protest was going to be really one-sided. So we wanted to shed some light on the fact that this is a part of a broader context… It is important to not frame this as two equal sides. It is occupier and occupied."
CFI president Miriam Pollock '16 responded to Zehra's comment in a message to The Daily.
"Unfortunately, SJP lives in a different reality than the rest of us," Pollock wrote. "SJP has decided to criticize our vigil, which mourned innocent victims of terror, for being too 'one-sided.'"
"SJP would apparently prefer everyone took the side of terrorists," she added. "In SJP's reality, a vigil for victims of the 9/11 terror attacks must also mourn the '15 Saudi Arabians who were killed' lest it be too 'one-sided.'"
Sunday's vigil
Sunday's vigil focused primarily on the murders of Israelis over the past month and the terrorist attacks committed by Palestinians against Israelis.
"This is an event to remember victims of terrorism," Pollock said. "So we would hope that a lot of people understand that message and would want to come out and show their support."
Pollock emphasized that the objective of the vigil was to provide members of the Stanford community affected by the terrorist attacks with a space to mourn those who have died and an opportunity to support Israel during this time of increased violence and terror.
During the vigil, community members gathered around the stage in almost complete silence. An older man stood in the back of the crowd holding the Israeli flag, and another man wore an Israeli flag over his shoulders like a prayer shawl. On the stage, four student speakers stood in front of candles arranged to form a Star of David.
"A still image taken from cellphone footage of security forces surrounding a knife-wielding Israeli Arab woman after she allegedly tried to stab a security guard at Afula bus station on Friday, October 9, 2015. (screen capture)" (Photo Source)
"On Oct. 9, at the central bus station in Afula, an assailant stabs an innocent woman," said Jacob Kaplan-Lipkin '19, addressing the crowd. "That bus station is a block and a half from my family's apartment. I've taken the bus there. They take it every day. It could've been one of them."
Kaplan-Lipkin's words captured why many chose to come to the vigil.
"I am here because my family has experienced these terror attacks in Israel right now," said Rebecca Avera, the Israel Fellow at the Stanford Hillel. "Two of my cousins were almost there in two different terror attacks in Jerusalem and today in Beersheva. We are lucky that nothing happened to them,"
Avera herself is Israeli and has experienced a terrorist attack in Israel. As the Israel Fellow, she works at Hillel to coordinate events about Israel.
The vigil closed with the singing of a song of peace and the lighting of candles. CFI plans to continue to spread awareness of the violence in Israel through a social media campaign using #ItCouldBeMe, along with student groups at UCLA, UC Berkeley and other California schools.
"The basic idea behind it is that it could have been any one of us that are in charge of hosting this event that had been killed," Pollock said in reference to #ItCouldBeMe.
However, the entirety of the Jewish community at Stanford does not necessarily agree with the position of Cardinal for Israel. In the coming weeks, Jewish community members will be hosting a memorial for lives lost in both Israel and Palestine.
"Help us honor Palestinian and Israeli lives recently lost in Jerusalem with interfaith prayer and a call for a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," read flyers for the event.
Matthew Cohen '18, a member of the Jewish community, chose not to attend Sunday's vigil, hosted by CFI, but plans to attend the memorial gathering.
"I just hope that when people see what members of the Jewish community are doing here on campus, they don't believe that the entire Jewish community feels that way," Cohen said in reference to Sunday's vigil. "We are a very diverse group of people."
The current escalation of violence in Israel has deeply affected many in the Stanford community. Some identify with the Israeli side, themselves having experienced terror attacks in Israel. Others identify with the Palestinian struggle of life under Israeli occupation.
In his final words to the crowd at Sunday's vigil, Kaplan-Lipkin captured this complexity and perhaps the only common ground at the moment in this conflict.
"I don't care whether the victim was Israeli or Palestinian," Kaplan-Lipkin said. "A life is a life. And what I care about are innocent civilians losing their lives every day."
This was originally published in The Stanford Daily and was written by Blanca Andrei.


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What Is... Methods
Comparative Musicology
What Is Ethnomusicology? Definition, History, and Methods
The first musical ethnography was published by the early comparative musicologist Carl Stumpf, which documented the origins and the evolution of the art.
They looked at the changing landscapes and the nomadic nature of influences. Comparative musicology also looked at the classification of musical instruments and systems.
The rhythm of the night: How music can help insomnia
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Some research supports the idea that classical music has a positive effect on sleep, perhaps due to its impact on the parasympathetic nervous system. This system is the network responsible for the body's 'rest and digest' responses. Learn more about how music can fight off insomnia in this article.
Thoughts and restlessness are a product of stress and worry and lead to a common problem: Insomnia.
Being unable to sleep can cause further mental health issues like chronic anxiet...
Music And Sleep
Music of various minimalistic and calm genres has the ability to silence any sleep-preventing thoughts, with the positive distraction of music being safer and as much effective as a sleep medication.
Ambient beats, dreamy landscapes and delicate strains of the piano or the sitar (an ancient Indian guitar) naturally imbues positive mental states, infusing rhythmic color and emotions and creating hypnotic pulses that promote sleep.
A Sonic Environment To Doze Off
Though any slow music can promote sleep (provided it has around 60 to 80 beats per minute) classical music goes further and even impacts the 'parasympathetic nervous system' of the body, which is responsible for resting and digesting food.
Frédéric Chopin's Nocturnes, 21 solo piano pieces that transform the mind into a dream state, are masterpiece compositions that even mimic the oncoming of sleep by ending without any ending, similar to how one never registers the exact moment one falls asleep.
The Ultimate Exercises to Improve Posture (Simple and Effective)
If you love listening to music, you're in good company. Charles Darwin once remarked, "If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week."
Exercises For Posture Correction
Plank: Hold the initial push-up position, legs straight. Don't allow your lower back to sink, and make sure you are looking down at the floor.
Wall Angels: Lean bac...
Posture Belt
Wearing a posture belt during the first few hours of morning is good practice.
Place the strap over your upper back and hold the ends in each hand.
Drape each end of the strap over its respective shoulder.
Cross the strap in the back holding one end in each hand.
Pull the straps so that you feel it in your trapezius muscles and secure the ends at the front.
Reverse Plank Bridge
Keep your arms straight and pull your shoulders back.
Bring your shoulder blades together.
Tuck your chin.
Push your chest up and extend your spine.
Your fingers can be pointed forward or backward.
Is It Even Possible to Define What Art Is, Exactly?
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There are many things that contribute to the definition of art. Explore the history, philosophy, value, and meaning of visual art.
Defining Art
Art does not have a universal definition, though it is generally believed that it is an intentional and conscious creation of something that requires imagination and skill.
It can ...
Defining Art Through History
From the 11th century until the end of the 17th century, the definition of art was anything that was done with expertise, with the result of knowledge and practice.
The Romantic period of the 18th century, beauty became the main criteria for defining good art. Nature, spirituality and free expression were sought after and well received.
The 19th Century started the Avant-garde art movement, with art becoming real, modern, futuristic and surreal. Whatever the definitions, the originality of art stands out as a time-tested measure, with new genres and manifestations like performance art, digital art, and electronic art.
Art as Representation or Mimesis. Representation of art as an imitation or copying became the mainstream meaning of art in Greece. Plato first developed the idea of art as "mimesis," which, in Greek, means copying or imitation. How immaculately it replicated the original subject became the measure of its value.
Art as Expression of Emotional content. Dramatic, sublime and heartfelt art becomes a way to express oneself during the Romantic movement , with audience response becoming key to the valuation of the content. The emotions that were felt when the art was witnessed became its barometer for success.
Art as Form. Formal qualities of art became influential in the 18th century, with the principles of art and design, like balance, rhythm, harmony and unity became as important as the content of the work of art.


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