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Established in 1984, Ryman Healthcare, is a publicly listed company operating 30 retirement villages in Australia and New Zealand. They provide homes for over 10,000 residents and employ over 4,000 staff and have consistently grown over the course of this century.
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Ryman handles the building of its villages itself, making it New Zealand's third largest builder of residential houses, currently building about 550 new units or rest home beds per annum in New Zealand. The company is vertically integrated with almost no outsourced work, and it's this integration that create complexities. Ryman is made up of 30 companies employing numerous construction sub-contractors and suppliers.
"We didn't have a very good financial system, let alone anything else around it," says Simon Challies, CEO. "We were running the ledgers in spreadsheets, there was no supply ledger, and the cashbook system was linked to our billing system and was relatively basic." Ryman was effectively running 10 different supply ledgers, which it then had to consolidate manually.
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Enphase Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:ENPH), a global energy technology company and the world's leading supplier of solar microinverters, today announced that it has renewed its low-income solar partnership with GRID Alternatives, a national leader in making renewable energy technology and job training accessible to underserved communities.
Through the donation of microinverters, Enphase will help GRID Alternatives meet its goal of installing more than 10 megawatts of solar power in 2019, helping families and affordable housing providers save millions of dollars in energy costs and providing hands-on solar installation training to over 4,000 individuals.
"Partnerships like this help make the environmental and economic benefits of the clean energy economy accessible to families and workers across the country," said Tim Sears, GRID Alternatives COO & co-founder.
To commemorate the renewed collaboration, eight Enphase employees joined GRID Alternatives on Friday, May 31, volunteering their time to install solar for an income-qualified California family. Enphase microinverter technology was used to provide the household with 5.3 kilowatts of no-cost solar energy, potentially saving the family more than $44,896 over the lifetime of their solar system.
"The work with GRID Alternatives has always been an important opportunity for Enphase to bring solar to underserved communities, and these corporate workdays allow all Enphase employees an opportunity to get hands-on experience with our products," said JD Dillon, vice president of marketing at Enphase Energy. "GRID Alternatives also delivers solar job training as part of their mission. Small and mid-sized installation companies install much of the solar energy deployed in the US, and having a workforce of well-trained installation technicians is a key part of the solar value chain."
Nationally, GRID Alternatives has installed over 24 megawatts of solar power for low-income communities using Enphase microinverters, benefiting nearly 7,000 families, and has provided job trainees and volunteers with 494,000 hours of solar education and training.
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Leaders of ex-militants in phases Two and Three of the Presidential Amnesty Programme have commended President Muhammadu Buhari for ordering the release of N30 billion for the rehabilitation and reintegration of ex-agitators.
They urged the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brig-Gen Paul Boro (retd), to commence payment of all allowances owed ex-militants particularly seven years housing allowance and outstanding stipends from January 2017 till date.
Speaking to Vanguard on behalf of his colleagues, one of the leaders, self styled 'Gen' Kingsley Egiriki, expressed satisfaction with the Federal Government's decision to allocate N35 billion for the Amnesty programme.
He said: "For the President to release N30 billion out of the N35 billion to the Amnesty programmes goes to show that the Federal Government has the interest of the Niger Delta region at heart.
"With this, it is becoming glaring that our people will soon begin to see the fruits of the various dialogues between the federal government and leaders of the region".
Looking closely at the developments in Nigeria one can not but wonder what is behind it all.
There was a reason why the militant from the oil producing areas of the country started their uprising in the first place. The reasons of poverty and serious neglect in Niger Delta area, lack of motor-able roads, lack of school or education for the citizens, serious problem of unemployment and total disregard to the welfare of the people.
These whole and much more issues are still present in these areas. A walk through all places makes one wonder if they are actually part of the country.
Shell and Chevron Oil colluded with the government and have totally destroyed the farm land and the livelihood of the people.
Oil spillage makes it impossible to farm on the land, there are no classroom for the children in the community, the Oil company prefer to bribe government nonentities rather than putting a very small fraction of money back into the community, something Shell and Chevron Oil can never do in the western world.
See the attached video to be able to understand the plight of the people.
So when you look at this then one can only conclude that the N30bn amnesty program money release to this ex-militant leaders is a big time BRIBRY from the federal Government to keep the leaders quite while the community suffers, no difference from what Shell and chevron Oil is doing to the same community.
The people deserves huge compensation as to be able to live their life like every other person in other part of the country.
No compensation for them and to add more insult to it the crude oil is taking from the land and sent to the Northern part of the country to be refined. What happen to building a refinery where the crude oil is been extracted to create jobs for the locals? Why is it that the Northern Nigeria politicians and ex-military men owns oil wells in the country? These group of NONENTITIES are super rich while the Niger Delta people are forever in poverty.
Shame on the Government, I can't blame the Ex-militant leaders at all they just wanted to get paid and they have the right to but in an ideal society not through such an elaborate presidential Bribery program like Amnesty program.


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Jefferson Thomas and the Courage of Children
09/13/2010 09:37 am ET Updated May 25, 2011
"[Jefferson] Thomas was just a teenager when he became one of the first African-American students to enroll in Little Rock Central High School. Yet even at such a young age, he had the courage to risk his own safety, to defy a governor and a mob, and to walk proudly into that school even though it would have been far easier to give up and turn back. And through this simple act of pursuing an equal education, he and his fellow members of the Little Rock Nine helped open the doors of opportunity for their generation and for those that followed. The searing images of soldiers guarding students from those days will forever serve as a testament to the progress we've made, the barriers that previous generations have torn down, and the power of ordinary men and women to help us build a more perfect union. Our nation owes Mr. Thomas a debt of gratitude[.]"
This is part of the statement issued by President Obama about Jefferson Thomas, who passed away on September 5th. In 1957, he and eight fellow Black students at Little Rock Central High School made history as they helped make our nation live up to the promise of Brown v. Board of Education, the end of legal segregation in public schools. As President Obama has said before, he himself was among the next generation of Americans who were able to step through those doors of opportunity the Little Rock Nine helped open. In reminding us that Thomas and his fellow students were just teenagers when they endured daily harassment and physical threats just to go to school each day, he raises another key point: our nation owes a debt of gratitude not just to the ordinary men and women who took a stand during the Civil Rights Movement, but to the extraordinary children and youths who were frontline soldiers in the war to end Jim Crow in American life.
Children and young people in the Movement taught us to be courageous and stand up against injustice and showed uncommon dignity, maturity, and grace that was often a direct contrast to the hate-filled adults around them. Dr. Robert Coles, in his children's book The Story of Ruby Bridges, describes Ruby's loving forgiveness and courage when faced with the ugly screaming White mobs who jeered and taunted her as she attended alone, only six years old, a previously all-White school in New Orleans boycotted by Whites. Ruby astonished her teacher when she asked Ruby why she had paused and talked to the crowd of White adults one day. "I wasn't talking," said Ruby. "I was praying. I was praying for them."
Historians like Taylor Branch and David Halberstam recount the incredible courage and determination and grit of children and youths like Ruby Bridges, Thomas and his classmates at Little Rock Central High, and others who subjected themselves often to the violent resistance we witnessed in Little Rock and New Orleans to end discrimination in the American South. Their names were not just in the court papers filed by their brave parents in dozens of school desegregation cases. Children were the shock troops who parted the milling, jeering, and threatening crowds and weathered daily the hateful isolation and ugly epithets encouraged or ignored by some White adults who taught their children to spurn and insult Black children. Children faced fierce police dogs and fire hoses and filled the jails in Birmingham and Selma, Alabama when most adults hesitated to respond to Dr. King's call for fear of their jobs or personal safety. Children withstood arrests and tough treatment in Jackson, Mississippi and harsh treatment in Southern jails where they were detained. They were sometimes beaten by police for standing up for freedom. High school and college youths sat down until lunch counters across the South were desegregated. And four little girls had to die as a sacrifice in Birmingham before the nation assured Black citizens the right to vote.
As Taylor Branch said at a Children's Defense Fund/Black Community Crusade for Children forum, "There is no precedent that I know of in recorded history for the power balance of a great nation turning on the moral witness of schoolchildren…A movement that rode through in history on the spirit of children now looks to how we treat our children [decades] later. Now we have adults who, in effect, need to pay back children." How will we do that? When will we do that? Giving children fair treatment, leadership, and protection today is our nation's chance to honor the debt we owe young people like Jefferson Thomas whose life made such a difference to us all.
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1. Fees exacted by the California Motor Vehicle Act for the registration of specified classes of motor vehicles used for intrastate transportation of passengers for hire and of property, the revenue from which fees is applied by the Act to the support of the State Division of Motor Vehicles and to the construction and maintenance of public roads, held exactions made in the exercise of the state taxing power for the privilege of operating such vehicles over public highways, expended for state purposes, and not in conflict with the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. P. 281 U. S. 71.
2. There is nothing in the federal Constitution which requires a state to apply such fees for the benefit of those who pay them. P. 281 U. S. 72.
3. The proposition that, although the fees are not per se disproportionate to the privilege of operating over all the highways of the state, owners are entitled to licenses limiting the operation of their motor vehicles to a few highways which they wish to use (e.g., to streets in particular cities) upon payment of correspondingly reduced fees, is not supported by any constitutional principle. P. 281 U. S. 72.
4. Owners of motor vehicles operated wholly or principally within the limits of California cities may not escape payment of the registration fees exacted by the Motor Vehicle Act upon the round that they already pay the fees imposed by the cities, since the imposition of two taxes by different state statutes upon the same subject matter does not transgress the due process clause if the imposition of the total tax by a single statute would not do so. P. 281 U. S. 72.
5. The California Motor Vehicle Act, in imposing graduated registration fees on described classes of motor vehicles used for the transportation of passengers for hire or of property, exempts vehicles weighing, when unladen, less than 3,000 lbs. Held not violative of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment or of the similar provision of § 21, Art. I, of the California Constitution. 281 U. S. 72.
6. The legislature may graduate such fees according to the propensities of the vehicles to injure the public highways, and may exempt those with respect to which it finds this tendency to be slight or nonexistent. P. 281 U. S. 73.
7. These registration fees are not "tolls" within the meaning of § 9 of the federal Highway Act, providing "that all highways constructed or reconstructed under the provisions of this Act shall be free from tolls of all kinds." P. 281 U. S. 73.
Appeals from decrees of the district court of three judges dissolving temporary injunctions and dismissing the bills in two suits against California officials, to enjoin them from enforcing provisions cf the state Motor Vehicle Act with respect to the imposition and collection of certain registration fees for motor vehicles.
in advance, is exacted for registration of motor vehicles used for transportation "of passengers for hire or for transportation of property." The duty of enforcing the act is committed to the respondent, the chief of the division of motor vehicles, who is required to deposit the fees collected in the state treasury to the credit of the "motor vehicle fund." After deductions for the support of the division of motor vehicles, the fund is required to be expended, one half by paying it over to the counties, to be used by them in the construction and maintenance of public roads, the other half for the maintenance of state roads.
misdemeanor, punishable by fine of not more than $500, or imprisonment for not more than six months, or both. By § 81, fees not paid for 30 days after they become due are doubled. Their payment is secured by a lien upon the vehicles required to be registered, enforceable by seizure and sale.
Incorporated cities in California may enact ordinances requiring license fees for the operation of motor vehicles used in transporting passengers for hire, and property, within city limits. Constitution of California, Art. 11, §§ 11, 12; § 145, Motor Vehicle Act. It is conceded that all California cities have passed ordinances imposing such registration fees, varying from $5 to $42 per motor vehicle, in addition to those scheduled in § 77, and that 75 percent of the fees collected under these ordinances are applied to the maintenance of streets in cities.
The petitioners in both suits are owners of motor vehicles of various types, described in § 77(b) or (c), which petitioners in No. 86 operate exclusively over highways within the limits of incorporated cities, and which petitioners in No. 267 operate over highways principally within but partly without city limits. Both complaints assail the validity of the act under the Constitution of California and the Fourteenth Amendment of the federal Constitution. The bill in No. 86 was filed December 29, 1928. Its allegations, admitted by the motion to dismiss, are that the petitioners will be required to pay license fees for the ensuing year on or before January 31, 1929, in order to use their motor vehicles upon streets of incorporated cities, and to avoid the destruction of their business and irreparable loss by the seizure and sale of their motor vehicles and the imposition of the penalties of the act, which respondent threatens to enforce. See Packard v. Banton, 264 U. S. 140.
maintained by the state, see Matter of Schuler, 167 Cal. 282, 290; Bacon Service Corp. v. Huss, 199 Cal. 21, 29, 248 P. 235, and, as they pay the license tax imposed by the cities for the use of city streets, the exaction of the additional "tolls" with respect to highways outside of cities, which petitioners in No. 86 do not use and which the petitioners in No. 267 use less than the city streets, is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
This argument is based upon cases in this Court arising not under the Fourteenth Amendment, but the commerce clause of the Constitution, where the tax assailed was levied by a state on interstate carriers and purported to be exacted for their use of the state highways. In such cases, this Court must ascertain whether a forbidden burden is imposed on interstate commerce. For that purpose, it may inquire whether the tax bears some reasonable relation to the use of the state facilities by the carrier. Sprout v. South Bend, 277 U. S. 163; Interstate Busses Corp. v. Blodgett, 276 U. S. 245, 276 U. S. 246; Hendrick v. Maryland, 235 U. S. 619; Kane v. New Jersey, 242 U. S. 160; Clark v. Poor, 274 U. S. 554.
which they may be used. There is nothing in the federal Constitution which requires a state to apply such fees for the benefit of those who pay them. See Thomas v. Gay, 169 U. S. 264, 169 U. S. 280.
A corollary of this contention is that, although the fees are not per se disproportionate to the privilege of operating over all the highways of the state, petitioners are nevertheless entitled to receive licenses limiting the operation of their motorcars to the few highways which they wish to use, upon payment of correspondingly reduced fees. But no constitutional principle is suggested, and we know of none, which would enable a licensee thus to regulate the extent of the privilege granted or to assail an otherwise valid tax upon it merely because a reduction of the privilege and the tax would better suit his convenience or his pocketbook.
The objection that the petitioners should not be required to pay the challenged fees because they are already paying the city license tax is but the familiar one, often rejected, that a state may not, by different statutes, impose two taxes upon the same subject matter, although, concededly, the total tax, if imposed by a single taxing statute, would not transgress the due process clause. See Swiss Corp. v. Shanks, 273 U. S. 407, 273 U. S. 413; St. Louis, Southwestern Ry. v. Arkansas, 235 U. S. 350, 235 U. S. 367-368; Shaffer v. Carter, 252 U. S. 37, 252 U. S. 58; Ft. Smith Lumber Co. v. Arkansas, 251 U. S. 532, 251 U. S. 533.
may graduate the fees according to the propensities of the vehicles to injure or to destroy the public highways, and may exempt those with respect to which this tendency is slight or nonexistent, cannot be doubted. We may not assume that vehicles weighing less than 3,000 pounds, with loads which they usually carry, are not of this class, or that vehicles weighing more than 3,000 pounds with their accustomed burden added do not have this tendency. It is for the legislature to draw the line between the two classes. Magoun v. Illinois Trust & Savings Bank, 170 U. S. 283, 170 U. S. 300-301; Clark v. Titusville, 184 U. S. 329, 184 U. S. 331; Quong Wing v. Kirkendall, 223 U. S. 59, 223 U. S. 62; Citizens' Telephone Co. v. Fuller, 229 U. S. 322; Watson v. State Comptroller, 254 U. S. 122, 254 U. S. 125; Franchise Motor Freight Assn. v. Seavey, 196 Cal. 77, 81; In re Schmolke, 199 Cal. 42, 48, 248 P. 244. Cf. Fifth Avenue Coach Co. v. New York, 221 U. S. 467, 221 U. S. 484; Packard v. Banton, supra; Silver v. Silver, 280 U. S. 117, 280 U. S. 123.
These conclusions are decisive of the like questions raised in No. 267. An additional objection raised in that suit is that the registration fees under § 77 are "tolls" prohibited by the federal Highway Act, 42 Stat. 212, under which the state has received grants of federal aid for the construction and reconstruction of highways. Section 9 of the federal Highway Act provides "that all highways constructed or reconstructed under the provisions of this Act shall be free from tolls of all kinds."
particular highways or to the extent or frequency of the use, and that, as in California, they are not exacted of nonresident automobilists passing through the state (1923 California Statutes, c. 266, § 47), marks them as demands of sovereignty, not of proprietorship, and likens them to taxes, rather than tolls. The fact that they may have been held justified, in other connections, because of their similarity to "tolls for the use of highways" affords no basis for saying that the present fees are prohibited tolls within the meaning of the federal Highway Act.
"Sec. 77. Registration fees. (a) A registration fee of three dollars shall be paid to the division for the registration of every motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer, except for those which are exempted in this act, and such fee shall be paid at the time application is made for registration."
"(b) In addition to the registration fee specified in subdivision (a) of this section, there shall be paid for the registration of every electric passenger motor vehicle a registration fee of ten dollars, and for the registration of every electric motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of passengers for hire, or for the transportation of property, there shall be paid fees according to the following schedule:"
(c) The following registration fees, in addition to the registration fee specified in subdivision (a) of this section, shall be paid for the registration of vehicles, including trailers and semitrailers, designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of passengers for hire or for the transportation of property, according to the following table, except that the fees specified in this subsection need not be paid for electric vehicles.
When such vehicles are not equipped wholly with pneumatic tires, there shall be paid, in addition to the fees specified in subdivision (a) of this section, fees according to the weight thereof unladen amounting to twice the fees set forth in the foregoing table.
" . . . Nor shall any citizen, or class of citizens, be granted privileges or immunities which, upon the same terms, shall not be granted to all citizens."


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Kathleen McDermott combines craft and sculpture techniques with open-source electronic experiments to build video-based narratives of a strange future. She takes a critical perspective on emerging and wearable technologies by creating electronics that are counterproductive, humorous, and uncontrollable. A recurring theme in her work has been the relationship between technology, the body, and personal and public space.
While at MAD, McDermott will explore the relationship between robots and protest. Popular conceptions of robots produce visions of metallic objects that are use-oriented, calculating, and driven by logic; but what about robots that appear to be expressive, useless, or illogical, or robots that fail to perform their intended functions? This investigation might relate to larger cultural attitudes toward work and productivity.
McDermott is pursuing a PhD in Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She has an MFA in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong and a BFA from Cornell University. Her work has been exhibited internationally. For more information, please visit: kthartic.com.


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Q: cups unable to communicate with avahi-daemon when running as a service I'm finishing setting up my Raspberry Pi in a read-only mode and cups service seems to be the last thing that is causing me issues.
As cups writes the config to /etc, I decided to mount /etc/cups as an overlay system:
$ mount
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overlay on /etc/cups type overlay (rw,relatime,lowerdir=/etc/cups_org,upperdir=/etc/cups_rw/upper,workdir=/etc/cups_rw/work)
...

The cups service starts successfully, I'm able to access the localhost:631 page, however going to /admin subpage results in "Internal server error" and the /printer subpage shows: Unable to get printer list: Bad file descriptor.
During startup of the service I see in the log:
E [03/Sep/2016:17:17:13 +0200] Unable to communicate with avahi-daemon: Daemon not running

while the avahi daemon is active and running
When accessing the /admin subpage the log shows:
D [03/Sep/2016:18:22:39 +0200] [CGI] Started /usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi (PID 5367)
I [03/Sep/2016:18:22:39 +0200] [Client 13] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi" (pid=5367)
D [03/Sep/2016:18:22:39 +0200] [Client 13] file=14
D [03/Sep/2016:18:22:39 +0200] [Client 13] Waiting for CGI data.
D [03/Sep/2016:18:22:39 +0200] Report: clients=1
D [03/Sep/2016:18:22:39 +0200] Report: jobs=0
D [03/Sep/2016:18:22:39 +0200] Report: jobs-active=0
D [03/Sep/2016:18:22:39 +0200] Report: printers=1
D [03/Sep/2016:18:22:39 +0200] Report: stringpool-string-count=654
D [03/Sep/2016:18:22:39 +0200] Report: stringpool-alloc-bytes=6392
D [03/Sep/2016:18:22:39 +0200] Report: stringpool-total-bytes=11720
D [03/Sep/2016:18:22:39 +0200] cupsd is not idle any more, canceling shutdown.
D [03/Sep/2016:18:22:39 +0200] [CGI] admin.cgi started...
D [03/Sep/2016:18:22:39 +0200] cupsd is not idle any more, canceling shutdown.
E [03/Sep/2016:18:22:39 +0200] [CGI] Unable to connect to cupsd: Bad file descriptor
E [03/Sep/2016:18:22:39 +0200] [CGI] Unable to connect to cupsd: Bad file descriptor
D [03/Sep/2016:18:22:39 +0200] [CGI] cupsServer()="/var/run/cups/cups.sock"
D [03/Sep/2016:18:22:39 +0200] [CGI] ippPort()=631
D [03/Sep/2016:18:22:39 +0200] cupsd is not idle any more, canceling shutdown.
D [03/Sep/2016:18:22:39 +0200] [CGI] cupsEncryption()=0
D [03/Sep/2016:18:22:39 +0200] cupsd is not idle any more, canceling shutdown.
D [03/Sep/2016:18:22:39 +0200] [Client 13] CGI data ready to be sent.
D [03/Sep/2016:18:22:39 +0200] PID 5367 (/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi) stopped with status 1.

However, when I stop the service, and run the program manually:
/usr/sbin/cupsd -f

the problem does not occur at all. The log shows:
D [03/Sep/2016:18:25:33 +0200] Avahi server connection now available, registering printers for Bonjour broadcasting.

And I'm able to access /admin (and all the other subpages):
D [03/Sep/2016:18:25:36 +0200] [CGI] Started /usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi (PID 6269)
I [03/Sep/2016:18:25:36 +0200] [Client 17] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi" (pid=6269)
D [03/Sep/2016:18:25:36 +0200] [Client 17] file=18
D [03/Sep/2016:18:25:36 +0200] [Client 17] Waiting for CGI data.
D [03/Sep/2016:18:25:36 +0200] cupsd is not idle any more, canceling shutdown.
D [03/Sep/2016:18:25:36 +0200] [CGI] admin.cgi started...
D [03/Sep/2016:18:25:36 +0200] cupsd is not idle any more, canceling shutdown.
D [03/Sep/2016:18:25:36 +0200] [Client 19] Accepted from localhost (Domain)
D [03/Sep/2016:18:25:36 +0200] [Client 19] Waiting for request.
D [03/Sep/2016:18:25:36 +0200] [CGI] http=0x554e9db8
D [03/Sep/2016:18:25:36 +0200] [CGI] cgiSetVariable: SECTION="admin"
D [03/Sep/2016:18:25:36 +0200] [CGI] cgiSetVariable: REFRESH_PAGE=""
D [03/Sep/2016:18:25:36 +0200] cupsd is not idle any more, canceling shutdown.
D [03/Sep/2016:18:25:36 +0200] [CGI] org.cups.sid cookie is "72b5efbcd72416115613b87b329ce911"
D [03/Sep/2016:18:25:36 +0200] [CGI] No form data, showing main menu...

Any hints on what can be the reason of this behavior and how to solve the issue (change the config in cups.service file?) or at least to move this troubleshooting further?

A: I had similar problem, and what helped me is that I had edited the file: /usr/lib/systemd/system/org.cups.cupsd.service
[Unit]
Description=CUPS Scheduler
Documentation=man:cupsd(8)
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/cupsd -f

[Install]
Also=org.cups.cupsd.socket org.cups.cupsd.path
WantedBy=printer.target

And restarted the service as root or with sudo:
# systemctl daemon-reload
# systemctl restart org.cups.cupsd

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Here is a summary of investment markets for the month of November 2018.
Global share markets were higher in local currency terms in November, despite a difficult start to the month. Stocks traded lower throughout much of the period amid evidence growth in the euro-zone and China is slowing, a sharp drop in oil prices and a number of notable European earnings misses.
Share markets were also impacted by ongoing geopolitical risks, including uncertainty surrounding Brexit negotiations and heightened Sino-US frictions after US Vice President Mike Pence and Chinese President Xi Jinping traded barbs at the APEC summit in Papua New Guinea.
However, sentiment turned more positive in the wake of some surprisingly dovish comments from US Federal Reserve (Fed) chairman, Jerome Powell, who conceded that interest rates are now close to neutral. These were in stark contrast to comments he made back in October, when he said interest rates were a long way from neutral. Investors interpreted Powell's comments to mean the pace of rate hikes next year may be slower than previously anticipated.
Stocks also benefited from some encouraging third-quarter US growth data—the US Commerce Department's latest estimate putting growth for the year ended 30 September at 3.5%—and hopes toward the end of the month that the US and China might resolve their trade spat at the G20 Summit in Argentina.
At the country level, US stocks closed the month higher; though much of the gains came later in the period after Powell struck a less aggressive tone on interest rates. Share markets were also stronger in Japan and China but fell in the UK and Europe.
The Australian share market fell in November, driven by weakness across the major miners, mixed performances from the 'Big Four' banks and yet another tepid inflation reading. Stocks were also impacted by further domestic political uncertainty following Labor's landslide win against the Liberals in Victoria's state election, evidence growth in China is slowing and heightened geopolitical risks. Limiting the decline was the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)'s decision to upgrade its domestic growth forecast, Powell's dovish comments on US interest rates and late hopes of a resolution to US-China trade frictions ahead of the G20 Summit.
The RBA left the official cash rate on hold at a record low 1.50% in November, with officials remaining cautiously optimistic without showing any urgency to deviate from current policy. In its post-meeting statement, the bank said it now expects domestic growth to average around 3.5% this year and next; up from its previous forecast of a bit above 3.0%. Officials also noted that the labour market remains positive and that inflation, which is at the lower end of the RBA's 2-3% target range, is expected to be higher in 2019 and 2020 than it is now.
At Russell Investments, we expect the RBA will raise interest rates in the second half of next year as wage and price inflation rises further. At the time of writing, the market is pricing in around a 44% chance of a rate hike by the end of 2019.
The Australian dollar (AUD) made strong gains in November; the local unit rising on the back of the RBA's decision to upgrade its growth forecasts, some encouraging domestic jobs data and Powell's dovish comments. The AUD also benefited from hopes of a resolution to US-China trade frictions ahead of the much-anticipated meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the G20 Summit.
Limiting the AUD's advance were lower commodity prices, further domestic and global political uncertainty, and another soft inflation reading. Further evidence Chinese growth is slowing also weighed on the currency.
We expect volatility to continue through the rest of 2018 and into next year, as investors contend with US policy agenda, potential further US rate hikes, and potential normalisation of monetary policy outside the US. Geopolitical uncertainty poses a further risk, with investors shifting their attention to the threat of trade wars. Acts of retaliation, particularly from China, already have had negative impacts on emerging markets. The spectre of trade war escalation and the potential impacts on global growth will need to be watched closely.
Relative to the US, we still believe other developed markets represent better value. Whilst Europe has significantly underperformed this year, we maintain the view that European equities are fairly valued. Although European corporate earnings have slowed and political risks are rising, we nonetheless expect European economic growth to rebound into next year as transient negative factors, such as a reduction in car production after a change in environmental regulations, begin to dissipate.
The risk from Italy has become greater over the past few months, with a draft 2019 budget poorly received by markets. Whilst there could be further headwinds in the near-term, we believe a more benign resolution will be found as 2019 progresses.
Emerging markets assets have weakened significantly due to a stronger USD and trade frictions. Momentum from positive corporate earnings has slowed, but resilient economic growth means emerging markets still offer attractive long-term value relative to their developed peers. Geopolitical risks remain along with the threat of tighter US monetary policy, additional USD strength and further trade war escalation. With equity markets remaining expensive late-cycle, a cautious approach is warranted; particularly given the uncertainty around the pace of Fed rate hikes and global trade issues.
Our base case is for the Fed to raise interest rates once more in December, and at least three times in 2019. Our more hawkish outlook has been driven by a reacceleration of wage growth along with strong data from US business surveys that show healthy manufacturing confidence.
We feel bonds remain expensive and may face headwinds in the form of potential rising inflation and higher US yields, especially given that the US labour market is tight. Any selloff in bonds could be amplified if the Fed decides to raise interest rates at a faster pace than expected, and if global central banks shift away from their accommodative monetary policy stances.
We hold an unfavourable view on high-yield debt, as valuations have become stretched given the compression in credit spreads to near-historical lows. Conversely, we favour local currency emerging markets debt, with fundamentals remaining strong. However, we acknowledge that the prospect of tighter monetary policy may present increasing challenges across the emerging markets complex.
In terms of currencies, the USD has staged a recovery in 2018, driven by interest rate differentials between the US and the rest of the G10. The strength of US growth relative to the rest of the world will continue to have implications on USD movements. We see continued upside for the USD versus other G4 and commodity currencies given our view on the Fed's rate path into 2019. However, an expensive valuation and stretched market positioning is likely to limit the medium-term upside for the greenback.
We continue to favour the Japanese yen, which is not only cheaply valued but also has 'safe haven' properties due to its strong negative correlations with global equity returns. The AUD has suffered this year, driven by the widening US-Australian bond yield differential and the geopolitical risks negatively impacting China and other emerging markets. The future direction of the AUD is likely to continue to be influenced by these factors, as well as commodity price movements.
Overall, we expect global growth to remain modestly positive into next year, with downside risks of further selloffs as markets continue to adjust to potentially higher levels of interest rates and changes to global trade policies. Importantly, we believe financial markets will continue to provide further investment opportunities for our active management approach.
1The trade-weighted index for the AUD is an indicator of movements in the average value of the AUD against the currencies of our trading partners.


The full implementation of the foundation's mission was delayed after Simon's health declined. She eventually relocated to a lakefront home in North Carolina, near the headquarters of Tree of Life, so that she could plan, along with co-founder Victor Faccinto, the future of the foundation. When she passed away in 2011, she left a substantial legacy that will enable Tree of Life to fulfill her dream of giving meaningful financial support to senior visual artists.
Tree of Life shares Simon's philosophy of "giving back" through their grant program benefitting senior artists.
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text:
package dns

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"strings"
	"time"

	extapi "k8s.io/apiextensions-apiserver/pkg/apis/apiextensions/v1beta1"

	"github.com/jetstack/cert-manager/pkg/acme/webhook"
)

// Option applies a configuration option to the test fixture being built
type Option func(*fixture)

// NewFixture constructs a new *fixture, applying the given Options before
// returning.
func NewFixture(solver webhook.Solver, opts ...Option) *fixture {
	f := &fixture{
		testSolver: solver,
	}
	for _, o := range opts {
		o(f)
	}
	applyDefaults(f)
	return f
}

func applyDefaults(f *fixture) {
	if f.testDNSServer == "" {
		f.testDNSServer = "8.8.8.8:53"
	}
	if f.resolvedFQDN == "" {
		f.resolvedFQDN = "cert-manager-dns01-tests." + f.resolvedZone
	}
	if f.dnsName == "" {
		f.dnsName = "example.com"
	}
	if f.dnsChallengeKey == "" {
		f.dnsChallengeKey = "123d=="
	}
	if f.jsonConfig == nil {
		if f.kubectlManifestsPath != "" {
			d, err := ioutil.ReadFile(f.kubectlManifestsPath + "/config.json")
			if err == nil {
				f.jsonConfig = &extapi.JSON{
					Raw: d,
				}
			}
		}
	}
	if f.useAuthoritative == nil {
		trueVal := true
		f.useAuthoritative = &trueVal
	}
}

func validate(f *fixture) error {
	var errs []error
	if f.resolvedFQDN == "" {
		errs = append(errs, fmt.Errorf("resolvedFQDN must be provided"))
	}
	if !strings.HasSuffix(f.resolvedFQDN, ".") {
		errs = append(errs, fmt.Errorf("resolvedFQDN must end with a '.'"))
	}
	if f.resolvedZone == "" {
		errs = append(errs, fmt.Errorf("resolvedZone must be provided"))
	}
	if f.jsonConfig == nil {
		errs = append(errs, fmt.Errorf("jsonConfig must be provided"))
	}
	if f.useAuthoritative == nil {
		errs = append(errs, fmt.Errorf("useAuthoritative must be provided"))
	}
	if len(errs) > 0 {
		return fmt.Errorf("%v", errs)
	}

	return nil
}

func SetResolvedFQDN(s string) Option {
	return func(f *fixture) {
		f.resolvedFQDN = s
	}
}

func SetResolvedZone(s string) Option {
	return func(f *fixture) {
		f.resolvedZone = s
	}
}

func SetAllowAmbientCredentials(b bool) Option {
	return func(f *fixture) {
		f.allowAmbientCredentials = b
	}
}

func SetConfig(i interface{}) Option {
	return func(f *fixture) {
		d, err := json.Marshal(i)
		if err != nil {
			panic(err)
		}
		f.jsonConfig = &extapi.JSON{Raw: d}
	}
}

func SetStrict(s bool) Option {
	return func(f *fixture) {
		f.strictMode = s
	}
}

func SetUseAuthoritative(s bool) Option {
	return func(f *fixture) {
		f.useAuthoritative = &s
	}
}

func SetManifestPath(s string) Option {
	return func(f *fixture) {
		f.kubectlManifestsPath = s
	}
}

func SetDNSServer(s string) Option {
	return func(f *fixture) {
		f.testDNSServer = s
	}
}

func SetPollInterval(d time.Duration) Option {
	return func(f *fixture) {
		f.pollInterval = d
	}
}

func SetPropagationLimit(d time.Duration) Option {
	return func(f *fixture) {
		f.propagationLimit = d
	}
}

// SetDNSChallengeKey defines the value of the acme challenge string.
func SetDNSChallengeKey(s string) Option {
	return func(f *fixture) {
		f.dnsChallengeKey = s
	}
}

// SetDNSName defines the domain name to be used in the webhook
// integration tests.
func SetDNSName(s string) Option {
	return func(f *fixture) {
		f.dnsName = s
	}
}

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2017 MNI Fellowship applications now open
The MNI Fellowships provide an opportunity for the University to promote strategic areas of research, in this case, interdisciplinary research projects in the Neurosciences and related disciplines. There are two Fellowships available, for a one year period. The MNI Fellows will be instrumental in facilitating the coming together of academic staff from across disciplines to work on a project consistent with the broad research objectives of the Melbourne Neuroscience Institute which demonstrates the following:
Innovative interdisciplinary research
Involves a team of academic staff from relevant disciplines with appropriate and complementary expertise for the intended research. The research project to be undertaken must, however, be clearly identifiable with the Fellow.
Shows significant potential for future funding by granting bodies.
Applicants must be employed in a Department of the University of Melbourne in order to apply, as the Melbourne Neuroscience Institute provides funding of $50,000 only and the Department must fund the balance of employment costs.
Applications close
Notification of outcomes to applicants and Departments
Funds made available to host Department. Fellowships commence.
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U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, a Hood River Republican answers a question from Gary Jackson, of Myrtle Creek, during a town hall meeting at Oregon Tech on Friday afternoon. The gathering, one of several for Walden this week, drew about 150 to the university.
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Congressman Greg Walden wasn't shy about his thoughts on border security and the wall on the border between the United States and Mexico during a town hall in Klamath Falls on Friday, where he discussed recently casting a vote outside Republican Party lines to end the partial shutdown of the federal government.
The Hood River Republican specifically took issue, though, with the furlough of employees of the Departments of the Interior, Agriculture, Bureau of Land Management, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
"I've cited the Klamath Basin and the Biological Opinion as one of the things that got delayed (in the) course of these discussions," Walden said.
Walden wants to exempt agencies funded by Department of Interior, Agriculture, and Fish and Wildlife from the shutdown.
"Why inflict all this?" he said. "I didn't sign up for this kind of shutdown," Walden added.
During the town hall, which drew about 150 people to Oregon Tech, he called the vote a bit of a "break" with party lines, a comment met with applause from some in the audience.
"I don't know what a BLM worker in Vale or a Forest Service worker in John Day or Fish and Wildlife down here has to do with this debate that's going on in Washington right now," Walden said. "I also very much support getting border security in place."
Walden said he asked for his pay to be with held during the shutdown out of solidarity for federal workers furloughed.
"I told Mrs. Walden a couple days later," he noted.
"We need to work through this, the people that make the decisions — Nancy Pelosi and Donald Trump and Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell — need to get in a big room and work this out."
But when it comes to the wall, the concept isn't new to Walden, or he said, many other politicians.
"What the president is actually proposing is a wall, it is a fence, it is a added border security, it's the whole thing," Walden said. "He wraps it around the term wall, but really what it is is much more than that. It's much more than that. It's repairing fencing, it's building new border security, some sort of wall. It is all these other security measures and I do support that."
Walden called out U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., as having voted for a "wall" — "It was called a fence in 2006," Walden said.
That fence references House Resolution 6061, known as the Secure Fence Act of 2006.
"Most of it's been built," Walden said. "There are walls, there's fencing, some is high tech," he added. "They put up the wall in San Diego, they put up the wall in El Paso, and they put up solid border protection in Arizona."
"We're actually rebuilding fencing that needs to be redone and some of old wall that needs to be redone," he said.
"The fight is over the Homeland Security appropriations bill that contains the funding for the wall and border security."
For Walden, it's a holding pattern until 60 votes can be found to move the bill in the Senate.
"The president said he'll veto until they get a resolution on border funding," Walden said.
Walden also touched on other national issues, such as elections, in response to Michael Fitzgerald's question.
"We don't need other governments — Russia — involved in our elections, or the way we conduct our public process," Walden said. "We need to be able to have faith in our electoral process."
He responded to Leslie Lowe's questions of whether he would change his votes on issues, such as immigration by saying: "I don't support open borders … I do support border security."
Water Infrastructure Act
Walden also addressed drought relief funding allocated in the America's Water Infrastructure Act (AWIA).
"It's authorized $10 million for each of the next four years, if necessary," he said.
"You would have to fund it but then it's already authorized. You can't fund something if you don't know if you're going to need it. Part of what we ran into was we needed that authorization."
Walden said funding for drought relief would likely be found in a disaster bill in 2019, if needed, which can cover wildfires, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes and drought.
"In the context of that, we can say, this is already authorized," he said. "It's emergency funding for emergency situations."
The Klamath Project Drought Response Agency (KPDRA), which is set to distribute more than $9 million in federal drought relief to irrigators, was set to dissolve in June.
The agency will have approximately $1.5 million left over and, if it remains an organization, could oversee transfer of funding from AWIA, according to Walden's staff.
On-Project irrigator and farmer Rob Unruh addressed declining levels of farmers in the Project, despite welcomed federal aid spearheaded by Walden.
"We've got to look at something different," Unruh said. "We need your help and we need to fix the problem."
Walden said he's not worked on an issue that's "more vexing" and "more elusive" than trying to come to a long-term solution over ongoing water conflicts in the Klamath Basin.
"There's so many legal issues, treaty issues, political issues," Walden said. "I'm open to working with anybody. I still believe there's a way through this."
Walden also addressed wildfires in 2018 and expressed dissatisfaction with how they've been handled.
"I pushed hard in the last Congress to get more authorities that are proven and work to reduce the fuel loads in our forests," Walden said.
Walden said a prior Farm Bill had included authority for "thinning" of forests but it was up to governors of states to decide which forests to conduct thinning. He hopes to gain authority to allow thinning in all areas of the district.
Kingsley updates
Walden also waxed hopeful that a visit by Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson to Kingsley Field late last year could mean big things for Air National Guard base in the future.
"I am hopeful as a result of that visit that we can move forward and have a flying mission out of here that keeps that base at its full capacity or more," Walden said. "Whether that's F-35s or the F-15-e's, or other type of training of aircraft, I think we're in a little better position."
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Walden defends communication with district
Congressman Greg Walden defended his lack of in-person town halls in 2018 — when he was up for re-election — which were replaced with telephonic town halls, as well as regular responses to emails, phone calls and letters.
His last town hall took place in Merrill on Nov. 10, 2017, at Lost River Junior/Senior High School.
"We've had problems getting you here and getting opportunities to speak with you," said Leslie Lowe on Friday.
In an interview following the forum, Walden elaborated on the other ways he chose to respond to constituents in 2018 other than in a public forum.
In the last two years, he said, Walden and staff responded to 9,610 phone calls, emails, and via social media just in Klamath County alone in the last two years. The responses tipped the scales at more than 168,000 for the 2nd Congressional District in the last two years, which he covers. He also held telephone town halls, which he said reaches far more than in-person town halls.
"I've been here a number of other times," Walden said, citing many private meetings he has held with residents in the business, as well as public and private sector in Klamath Falls in 2018.
Many of the private meetings were reported on by the H&N though the direction from Walden's staff was that they were not open to the general public.
"Representing people is more than a town hall," Walden said, "but town halls are important."
Compared to two decades ago, Walden said communication has changed how he talks with those in his district.
"There weren't many people on email, there was no YouTube, there was no Facebook, there was no Instagram," Walden said. "It's just another way to hear from people. And that's part of why I come back on a regular basis."
Walden said he regularly benefits from private round table discussions on topics such as opioids, methamphetamine, forest policy, tours of Kingsley Field and local higher education institutions.
"We should not diminish the value of those sorts of parts of this job because they're really important," Walden said.
"We try to be accessible and open," Walden added. "But not every meeting is a public meeting. We meet with people who don't want a public meeting."
Walden denied that he doesn't want certain groups, such as Indivisible Klamath, to attend town halls.
"I have an open door policy," Walden said. "We were advised by security for all these town halls not to allow signs in and so we've asked people to park their signs."
Fifteen signs were left at the door, according to Walden's staff.
"We're not going to get into a big fight, you get competing interests at these meetings and the last thing you want is some conflict over somebody's darn sign," Walden said.
Walden said at times during past town halls, some individuals have shouted down others around them in the audience.
"I don't put up with that on either side," Walden said. "I try to maintain civility. But at some point it kind of diminishes … it's not as productive."
Walden also said he's taken a tip from senators who use the system of signing up for a ticket in order to ask him a question at the podium.
"It brings calm to the room and then you can start to have a conversation," Walden said.
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Another poster for UCF Atheletics; The Women's UCF Tennis Poster is in. Blurs, sparkles, less black but more skin color…this one is nice. Go Knights!
It features the entire women's UCF Tennis team, scaling from small to extra-medium to extra large… Following the them and template from the other designs I've created this season, the schedule appears at the bottom, although this schedule differs in style a bit from the others.
For more info on Central Florida Track and poster distribution, visit ucfatheltics.com/wtennis.


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By the People Transcription Program, Digital Content
Making Room in the Crowd: Library Teleworkers Transcribing in Extraordinary Times
by Trevor Owens • July 20, 2021 • Comments Off on Making Room in the Crowd: Library Teleworkers Transcribing in Extraordinary Times
In today's post, By the People community managers Carlyn Osborn, Lauren Algee, and Abby Shelton reflect back on changes in their program since March 2020. Launched in 2018, By the People is a volunteer engagement and collection enhancement program at the Library of Congress that invites the public to explore and transcribe documents on the Library's website, loc.gov. When transcriptions are completed by volunteers, they are integrated back into the Library's online catalog, where they become fully searchable and readable by accessibility technologies.
The title page of Patton's earliest war diary, 1916, which documents his participation in the Mexican Punitive Expedition, organized to capture Pancho Villa. As a result of staff transcribers, this diary is now full text searchable.
Fifteen months ago, the By the People crowdsourced transcription program was in a different place. We had launched fewer than a dozen campaigns representing 50,000 pages from the Library of Congress collection on crowd.loc.gov, and recruited and registered around 12,000 volunteers. Compare this to July 2021, where we now have 24 campaigns representing over 500,000 pages, with 25,000 registered volunteers. As the Covid-19 pandemic unfolded in March and April 2020, activity on our site more than doubled and suddenly we were seeing demand for Library of Congress virtual volunteering like never before. During this transformational and challenging time, we were also asked to introduce an entirely new user group to By the People: fellow Library of Congress staff.
As our buildings largely closed to the public fifteen months ago, many staff (including us) transitioned to telework. For some Library of Congress staff, it was possible to do their normal work remotely, but for many, it was necessary to identify new kinds of remote projects. In this context, as an already 100% virtual program, we were able to provide safe opportunities for our colleagues who needed to rapidly shift to remote work.
We quickly rose to the challenge by developing a section of our website designed specifically for Library staff at home. Working with the curator for the Theodore Roosevelt Papers, Michelle Krowl, we selected a large portion of his presidential papers to be made available to staff for telework purposes. By the end of spring 2020, we had also consulted with curator Meg McAleer, to publish another batch of papers for staff-only transcription – this time, the War Diaries of George S. Patton. By summer 2021, our program had successfully released over 120,000 pages to Library of Congress staff who had been working from home during the pandemic.
So where are the staff-only campaigns today? We're excited to announce that staff transcribers completed the War Diaries of George S. Patton and the transcriptions are now searchable, discoverable, and accessible in loc.gov. Special thanks to the Digital Conversion Team's Ariel Segal, who reviewed the majority of the collection! Staff transcribers also completed over 72,000 pages, or 62%, of the Roosevelt campaign. Just over 190 staff members have participated in this campaign and they have done incredible work, completing an average of 154 pages per day! When these are finished and combined with the public campaign, they will help complete two series of the Teddy Roosevelt papers.
Some Library staff members also contributed their expertise to challenging materials in the public campaigns. For example, David B. Morris, German Area Specialist, used his knowledge of historical German scripts to decipher pages in the Abraham Lincoln, William Oland Bourne, and Mary Church Terrell Papers. These pages had been identified by public volunteers as German via tags and in our History Hub discussion forum.
Many Library of Congress staff members have returned to work onsite part- and full-time, and even more will follow in the coming months. We have been proud to support staff transcription and awed by staff contributions, but also look forward to closing out the staff campaigns.
Our staff transcribers weren't the only new volunteers! By the People saw a 100% increase in the number of registered users in 2020 and we were excited to host fully-virtual online transcribe-a-thons for the first time. We also made some updates to our open source transcription platform Concordia in response to the increase in public and staff participation. We invested in infrastructure enhancements to make sure the site performs well as we see more visitors. We heard from many more students seeking documentation of their virtual volunteering, so we also improved how registered volunteers can view and navigate their contributions and added a downloadable service letter. Read about all our recent Concordia improvements in our community forum on History Hub.
Are you interested in learning more about the By the People program? You can sign-up for an account on crowd.loc.gov and follow along on both Twitter and History Hub. You can also check out some of our other posts here on the Signal, like "Celebrating another year with By the People" and "Volunteer Vignette: Transcribe without fear, don't be intimidated!" Let us know what you think by leaving a comment below!
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‹‹ Alibi V.19 No.50 • Dec 16-22, 2010 ››
El Mezquite
Where the first language is meat
By Ari LeVaux
A trio of tacos
Sergio Salvador salvadorphoto.com
If you haven't been inside one of the many Mexican markets around town, you're missing out. They're enclaves of culture as well as food, filled with goods and services to make their customers feel at home, not unlike an Asian supermarket or a Whole Foods. Some Mexican markets have developed a loyal following among the English-as-a-first-language demographic as well; because in addition to the fresh papayas, phone cards and goat-milk candy, they have restaurants with great Mexican food. Today we explore the culinary offerings of the locally owned El Mezquite Market chain, with four stores in Albuquerque.
Mmm ... frito.
Inside the flagship location on San Pedro near Central, the biggest clue you're still in the U.S. is an MVD Express. All the stores have a casa de cambio currency exchange service, which adds to the foreign flavor. So do rows of Mexican and other Hispanic foods with an army of piñatas suspended above.
A restaurant, flanked by the store's bakery, features a cafeteria-style serving line that begins in front of a mountain of roasted pig. Next, there's an array of meats, some mixed with vegetables, and at least one soup: menudo, posole, or a caldo of beef or chicken. Finally, past horchata and aguas frescas and a cash register, big wooden tables and a 20-something-member salsa bar await diners.
One $5.99 lunch plate included a pile of barbacoa that was rich, moist and fatty, with a browned exterior and a small, stray piece of animal plumbing from an airway or blood vessel—all meltingly soft. It came with rice and beans, a stack of house-made tortillas, and a second meat dish: fatty pork ribs in red chile that were flavorful but not too spicy. Any painful levels of heat are self-administered at the salsa bar.
Piñatas, Pine-Sol and a substance known only as "fabuloso"
In addition to what's served on platos, the same meats are also available rolled into burritos, folded into tortas or sold by the pound, which is a terrific deal—$15 would easily feed a whole band, groupies included. Bulk orders come with rice, beans, tortillas and to-go containers for the salsa bar. The kitchen also does tamales on occasion, as well as fajitas and other dishes to order, including breakfast.
El Mezquite's biggest competitor, Pro's Ranch Market, gets a lot of well-deserved praise for its diverse bounty. But unlike that multistate "Hispanic concept store" chain created by an Italian family ("Pro" being short for Provenzano), El Mezquite was started in the South Valley by six siblings from Sonora. Since 1998, El Mesquite has quietly become the largest Latino immigrant-owned business in New Mexico, according to the Asociación de Comerciantes Latinos de Nuevo México.
If you want a steak or pork chop cooked to order, they have that—and they can cook it in a variety of ways, depending only on how good your Spanish is.
In addition to four stores in Albuquerque, there's an El Mezquite in Los Lunas. Another one's set to open in Rio Rancho next year. Since a Google Maps search somehow only turns up two locations, a group of diehard fans got together on a Duke City Fix forum and created a map with all of them (at the time, it even included a street view of the West Central store's construction site).
Although I can tell you with confidence that it's worth a visit, I'm hesitant to give specific recommendations on what you should eat at El Mezquite. I had the chicharrónes one time and they were great, but what gets called chicharrónes from day to day changes. Sometimes they're in tomatillo sauce, sometimes they're plain or cooked with string beans. Sometimes they're meaty and chewy, like mine were, but I've also observed trays full of soft, fatty pieces of pure pork rind.
As a general rule: Breakfast or an early lunch are the best bets. I've seen the kitchen run out by 6 p.m. on busy days. And as with any cafeteria or buffet-style restaurant, you want to hit it when it's fresh. In the summer, look for lots of calabacitas among the meats and a few dishes sin carne (though probably with cheese aplenty). And while whole corn cobs can be seen floating in the caldos during the summer, these days we get chewy corn kernels in the red rice instead.
Duke City Fix poster mombat raved about the chuleta de siete, a cut of pork from the rib/loin area that's cooked a la plancha to order. This is a great example of the advantageous symbiosis that's possible between a butcher shop and a restaurant. On stainless-steel tables behind the cafeteria counter, employees can often be seen cutting animals apart. The tough, odd-shapen, semi-cartilagenous bits of meat carved off the bones—what in the U.S. gets turned into burger or hot dogs—is transformed into tender, flavorful Mexican dishes. But as mombat's chuleta de siete suggests, if you want a steak or pork chop cooked to order, they have that—and they can cook it in a variety of ways, depending only on how good your Spanish is.
Like the hot food selection, the salsa bar is unlabeled. Among the pico de gallo, onions, oregano, lime and pickled jalapeño slices, there are several red and green sauces that you'll have to taste your way through. Most, if not all, of the green sauces are tomatillo-based—as if you needed further proof that you aren't in New Mexico anymore.
El Mezquite Market
East Central flagship: 201 San Pedro SE, 452-0092
North Valley: 4401 Fourth Street NW, 344-3235
South Valley: 3765 Isleta SW, 877-0980
Westside: 100 Nolasco NW, 839-8377
Hours: 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day at every location. Kitchens close at 8 p.m., though they've been known to run out of food earlier.
Vibe: Auténtico Latino
Booze: Beer and wine. Package liquor is also available. Occasional specials give restaurant discounts for certain booze purchases.
ICAN: Ideas for Cooking and Nutrition
Wednesday, July 17: 11:30am-12:30pm
Central & Unser Library
A hands-on nutrition education service for improving quality of life by identifying community needs, providing nutrition education, cooking skills, food safety and connecting with resources.
Potluck Dinner
Thursday, July 18: 7-10pm
Piggy's SqueekEasy
Enjoy a community meal at the art and education center. Don't forget to bring a contribution.
Albuquerque Rail Yards Market
Albuquerque Rail Yards
A market celebrating all things local and at the heart of NM culture with hundreds food, farm, artisan and healing vendors, live music as well as a kids' zone.
Image by Clarke Conde
Plant Powered Pop-Up Market: Plant Powered Things
Sunday, July 21: 5-8pm
Wanderlust Vegan Eatery
Enjoy vegan food, live music and vendors with an '80s theme.
Albuquerque ServSafe Manger Certification Class
Tuesday, July 23: 8am-5pm
New Mexico Restaurant Association
Receive a certification from NRA Solutions, valid for five years. The eight-hour course utilizes the ServSafe Manager Book and approved videos. Pre-registration and prepayment are required.
Dinner Club for People with Young Onset Parkinson's Disease
Tuesday, July 23: 6-7:30pm
Fuddruckers
The Parkinson's Connection of Central NM invites people with young onset Parkinson's to join its informal dinner club.
Jack and The Beanstalk is designed to encourage an interest and enthusiasm for literature and music through musical theater with larger-than-life characters perfect for a children's opera.