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Tired of searching for pickup basketball games and only finding empty courts? What about arriving just as a game ends, or worse, leaving right as one picks up? Fast-paced and busy lifestyles make it harder than ever to find a game when you need one. Luckily, two Sacramento State grads have created an app just for that.
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Hoopmaps users can also create their own games that show when, where, and how long the game will run as well as how many players are needed. Friends and local users can join on the app or share the game via a social media link, helping to get the word out and increasing the chances of a full game. The app also lets you connect your Facebook friends, allowing you to invite them to a game from within Hoopmaps.
Featured on Sports Center, ESPN, Now This, TechCrunch and more, the app helps basketball players network together and takes the guesswork out of finding games. This allows you to fit the sport you love into your busy schedule on your terms. Hoopmaps lets users create a profile, add a picture, and connect with friends or users from recent games with convenient in-app messaging.
Created by Donte and Dominic Morris from Sacramento, these twin brothers were tired of searching for games and finding empty courts or playing alone. Their only option was to call or message friends and attempt to recruit enough players for a game, a time consuming method. They took their business and technology backgrounds and love for basketball and created Hoopmaps to solve this problem and help players connect and organize games. They wanted users to be able to play basketball with others on demand, and they've done just that.
With tens of thousands of downloads since June of 2016, this app is gaining support from fans worldwide. A recent #4POINTCHALLENGE competition sponsored by Hoopmaps sparked impressive submissions from users across the country and as far away as Barcelona, Spain. Increased usage can be expected when the Android version is released as well.


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Discuss the issue with the other person and determine how you both perceive it. Ask, "Is the issue a conflict?" What feels like a tense conflict to one person may feel like an animated discussion to another person.
Acknowledge that diversity-related issues may be contributing to the conflict, and commit to understanding and learning about each other. What one person views as a stand-alone issue to be resolved might be viewed by the other person as evidence of a larger pattern of disrespect.
Reserved vs. emotional:
Some people believe that showing strong emotion signals a loss of control and therefore a lack of respect for others. Others believe strong emotions show that you care and that you value and respect others enough to be open with them.
Hierarchy:
Some people respect positions and status levels more than others. As a result, these people may not speak up around higher-ups out of respect to them. If the higher-ups don't share this value, they may judge the employee negatively for not speaking up.
Individual vs. group:
Some people value individual achievement and recognition while others value group achievement and recognition. Those who value group achievement may be unwilling to make decisions on their own because they view it as disrespectful to the rest of the group.
Some people believe being on time shows respect and being late shows disrespect. Others believe people are more important than time and don't worry about being late to an appointment or meeting if they are spending time with someone else.
Direct vs. indirect:
Some people prefer direct eye contact and straightforward conversations, and they would feel disrespected if the person they were speaking with did not make eye contact. Others prefer a more indirect approach—not coming directly to the point but making small talk first, and they would feel uncomfortable if the eye contact were too intense.
Manager Behaviors
Practice everything that is expected of every employee, plus:
Understand how personal preferences may affect personnel decisions, such as who gets promoted or who gets assigned plum projects. Bottom line: Make fair HR decisions.
Coach and mentor individuals who may be struggling to engage with others appropriately.
Manage employees individually. Great to know their personalities, unique skills, and interests.
Make decisions based on employees' skills and abilities and the task requirements. Avoid assigning employees to projects based on age, gender, culture, etc.
Employee Behaviors
One person can make a difference! Every employee can and should exhibit all of these behaviors.
Take the time to resolve a conflict so that both sides feel as though their needs are met.
Adapt your communication or working style to show you respect the person your working with.
Actively seek to understand the viewpoint of someone you disagree with.
Have lunch with or socialize with someone outside your usual "group."
Solicit different perspectives before making a decision that impacts your work unit.
Share your own background and experiences with others, especially with people who are "different" from you.
Take the time to get to know a new employee's background. (work history, experience, education, interests, etc.)
Consider needs of different populations/profiles, e.g., a space for nursing mothers, ergonomic adjustments for older employees, etc.
Consider larger tables in break or lunch rooms so more people can mix together at one time.
Create common spaces where employees can interact easily and informally.
Share insights about the organization's culture and norms, be a point of contact for questions, or solicit feedback on their experience as a new employee.
Allow employees to contribute outside their regular job responsibilities.
Switch positions among employees at various levels for half a day and see what new perspectives they bring to the position.
Leaving someone out of a conversation.
Consistently mispronouncing someone's name.
Relying on the same trusted colleagues for advice instead of seeking new perspectives.
Neglecting to invite someone to a meeting.
Excluding someone from a group activity.
Checking emails, phone, or your watch while someone is talking to you.
Asking someone to work on a day or at a time that is sacred to them.
Not making direct eye contact when shaking someone's hand.
Barging in on someone's workspace without asking permission.
Interrupting one person (but not others).
At Ernst & Young, they discovered micro-inequities in how their firm assigned jobs.v Women were assigned to nonprofit clients while men were assigned to Fortune 500 companies, which in turn affected promotions.
Assuming a female employee doesn't want to work with a client requiring conference calls at odd hours because she is a new mother.
Habitual seating arrangements in a meeting that don't allow others to sit close to the leader.
Always eating lunch with the same person or group of people.
Giving feedback to one employee more frequently than to others.
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Furthermore, a
positive judgment in one dimension was usually accompanied by a negative
judgment in the other dimension.
Obviously, when
people's perspectives are influenced by their
warmth/competence judgments (which may or may not be
accurate) then those perspectives may have poor outcomes.
For example, the finance department in your organization may
be stereotyped as high competence and low warmth—they do
their job well, but they're basically not on your side. If that is
the perspective in your organization, then they may have trouble
finding people to mentor them and help them grow in the
We all know that
stereotyping—grouping people by simplistic, often inaccurate generalizations—is
unproductive and can result in unfair treatment or discrimination. Recent
research has found that people stereotype others in more subtle ways.
A study, completed by
psychologists at Princeton University, found that stereotypes tend to be
characterized in terms of warmth (or lack thereof) and competence (or lack
thereof).iii
Warmth was defined as whether a person had positive or negative intentions.
Competence was defined as how effective a person was at fulfilling those
intentions.
Treat each person as the individual he/she is.
Communicate and resolve conflict with anyone.
Resist the urge to compare others to themselves (he/she is "like me" or "not like me").
Historically, affirmative action was put in place to compensate for pervasive and entrenched discrimination that prevented women and minorities from succeeding in the workplace. As a result, the emphasis was on integrating groups of people into a white, male-dominated workplace.
Today, although people don't want to be discriminated against, most also don't want to be labeled as a certain "type" or group and would prefer to be treated as an individual.
POINT - 1
When people are divided into categories to demonstrate diversity, it reinforces the idea of categories or "groups" of people and separation. In these cases, instead of changing people's attitudes, diversity training solidifies them.
What is the source of unfair treatment and differences among people in organizations? Traditional diversity awareness programs have focused on the treatment of women and minorities. However, differences arise from a host of other traits as well including age, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical abilities, educational background, whether someone has children, even being an engineer versus being a salesperson. These traits or "profiles" cause people to make inaccurate assumptions, create separation, and yes, treat people unfairly.
The goal of diversity awareness is to promote an inclusive work environment.

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Q: Why does this function parameter need double braces on a tuple? Note: I am using scalac. Please do not recommend to use sbt instead.
I ran into a peculiar issue that I could resolve, but I am wondering why it works that way and not the way I did it before. Here's a code snippet:
def multiply[A](r1: Vector[A], r2: Vector[A], multOp: (A,A) => A, sumOp: (A, A) => A) =
    r1.zip(r2).map(multOp).reduce(sumOp)

It does not compile, resulting in an error message like:
Error:(73, 20) type mismatch;
 found   : (A, A) => A
 required: ((A, A)) => ?
    r1.zip(r2).map(multOp).reduce(sumOp)

Changing the snippet to:
def multiply[A](r1: Vector[A], r2: Vector[A], multOp: ((A,A)) => A, sumOp: (A, A) => A) =
   r1.zip(r2).map(multOp).reduce(sumOp)

will resolve the issue.
Note that sumOp does work with only one pair of braces.
Why?

A: Method map is defined as taking a single parameter, and (A, A) => A has two. By converting two parameters of type A into one parameter which is a tuple of type (A, A), it compiles.
(A, A) => A // fails due to two params of type A
((A, A)) => A // works due to one param of type (A, A)

On the other hand, reduce is defined as taking two parameters of the same type, so it's happy to take sumOp which matches that description.
Here are the full signatures found in TraversableLike and TraversableOnce respectively:
def map[B, That](f: A => B)(implicit bf: CanBuildFrom[Repr, B, That]): That

def reduce[A1 >: A](op: (A1, A1) => A1): A1

EDIT (extra info):
Reason for this is the fact that reduce always takes a 2-arity function (that is, a function of two parameters) in order to reduce the collection to a single value by iteratively applying that function on the result of previous application and the next value. On the other hand, map always takes a 1-arity function and it maps the underlying value with that function. In case of Option, Future, etc. there's only one single underlying value, while in case of a Vector (like yours) there can be many, so it applies it to every element of the collection.
In some libraries you might come across map2 which takes a two-parameter function. For example, in order to combine two Options (actually, any applicative functors, but let's leave theory aside), you might do:
// presudocode
Option(1, 2).map2((a, b) => a + b)

which would give you an Option(3). I think this mechanism has been dropped in the favour of more easily understandable map + product
// presudocode
(Option(1) product Option(2)) map ((a, b) => a + b)

Actual scalaz syntax for the line above would be (in Scalaz 7):
(Option(1) |@| Option(2))((a, b) => a + b)

They are equally powerful principles (what one can do, exactly the same other one can do, no more, no less) so the latter one is usually preferred and sometimes it's the only one provided, but yes, you might come across map2 from time to time.
Alright, that's a bit of extra info. As far as map is concerned, just remember there's always just one single parameter coming in and one value coming out.

A: The first snippet will work, if you define it as:
def multiply[A](r1: Vector[A], r2: Vector[A], multOp: (A,A) => A, sumOp: (A, A) => A) =
  (r1, r2).zipped.map(multOp).reduce(sumOp)

The map method of a zipped tuple takes a function with two arguments (A, A) => B, because that's the expected usage pattern.
This approach also avoids the creation of an intermediate Vector[(A, A)].

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What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the words "Artificial Intelligence?" Most folks automatically think of sentient machines, like HAL from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey or Skynet from The Terminator.
If you're a tester and you manage to get this concept stuck in your head, it's undoubtedly going to trip you up.
Remember: there are two kinds of AI that most folks are familiar with.
The first one is the strong type of artificial intelligence–like a Turing machine you can have a conversation with and not be able to tell if you're speaking with a human or a computer.
The other is a more statistics-based, machine learning AI. If you use the latter definition of AI, you can see how machine learning is already transforming the way we do test automation.
Today we're going to be talking about the machine learning kind of AI in test automation.
Following are six examples of the automation testing scenarios that are already leveraging AI.
Before we look at some automation testing examples impacted by machine learning (ML), let's try to define what machine learning actually is.
At its core, ML is a pattern recognition technology.
So naturally, it's excellent at finding patterns in data. It can then use those patterns identified by your ML algorithms to predict future trends.
Of course, to do this, you need a set of data that would be impossible for a person to go through and detect all of the familiar repetitions.
That's why ML is so powerful.
It can consume tons of complex information and find patterns that are predictive, then alert you to those differences. Angie Jones shares a hands-on demo of this in her AiSummitGuild session on Show and Tell: Explain Machine Learning to Me Like I'm Five.
To see machine learning in action, you need to look no further than the smartphone you're probably carrying.
Phones that have voice recognition software (like Cortana or Siri) apply AI to mimic the voice/human interactions you take part in.
Another frequent use case you've probably experienced is the list of recommendations served up when you're shopping on Amazon, which is based on your previous, machine-learning-generated purchases.
As we've already covered, ML is a pattern recognition technique. So what kind of patterns can it recognize? One that is becoming more and more popular is image-based testing using automated visual validation tools.
Using ML-based visual validation tools like Applitools can find differences that human testers would most likely miss.
"Visual testing is a quality assurance activity that is meant to verify that the UI appears correctly to users," explained Adam Carmi, co-founder, and CTO of Applitools, a dev-tools vendor. Many people confuse that with traditional, functional testing tools, which were designed to help you test the functionality of your application through the UI.
In fact, he added, many of these types of tests are so difficult to automate that they end up being manual tests. This makes them a perfect fit for AI testing.
This has already changed the way I do automation testing. I can create a simple ML test that automatically detects all the visual bugs in my software to help validate the visual correctness of the application without me having to implicitly assert what I want it to check.
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Another ML change that is impacting how we do automation is the absence of a user interface to automate. Much of the testing is back-end-related, not front-end-focused.
In fact, in her TestTalks interview, "The Reality of Testing in an Artificial World," Angie Jones, an automation engineer at Twitter, mentioned that much of her recent work has relied heavily on API test automation to help her ML testing efforts.
Besides not having a traditional user interface to test against, being able to train an ML algorithm requires that you come up with a Testing Model.
This activity needs someone with domain knowledge; many automation engineers are getting involved with creating models to help with this development endeavor.
With this change, there is a need for folks who not only know how to automate but can also do more headless-based automation–along with analyzing and understanding complex data structures, statistics, and algorithms.
How many times have you run your entire test suite due to a very small change in your application because you couldn't trace that change?
Not very strategic, is it?
If you're doing continuous integration and continues testing you're probably already generating a wealth of data from your test runs. But who has time to go through it all to search for common patterns over time?
Lots of companies are leveraging existing AI tools that do just this. Using ML, they can tell you with precision what the minimal subset of tests is to test the piece of changed code.
They can also analyze your current test coverage and flag areas that have little coverage, or point out areas in your application that are at risk.
Geoff Meyer, a test engineer at Dell EMC, will talk about this in his upcoming session at the AI Summit Guild. He will tell the story of how his team members found themselves caught in the test-automation trap: They were unable to complete the test-failure triage from a preceding automated test run before the next testable build was released.
What they needed was an insight into the pile of failures to determine which were new and which were duplicates. Their solution was to implement an ML algorithm that established a "fingerprint" of test case failures by correlating them with the system and debug logs, so the algorithm could predict which failures were duplicates.
Once armed with this information, the team could focus its efforts on new test failures and come back to the others as time permitted, or not at all. "This is a really good example of a smart assistant enabling precision testing," Meyer said.
In my opinion, the most popular AI automation area right now is using ML to automatically write tests for your application by spidering.
For example, newer AI/ML tools like Mabel have a feature that allows you to simply point it to your web app, and it will automatically begin to crawl the application.
As the tool is crawling it is also collecting data having to do with features like taking screenshots, downloading the HTML of every page, measuring load times and so forth. And it continues to run the same steps again and again.
So over time, it's building up a data set and training your ML models for what the expected patterns of your application are.
Some of these differences might be valid. For example, there was a valid new UI change. In that case, a human with domain knowledge of their application still needs to go in and validate whether or not the issue(s) flagged by the machine learning algorithms are really bugs.
ML does the heavy lifting, but ultimately a human tester does the verification.
How often do your Selenium or UFT tests fail due to developers making changes to your application, like renaming a field ID? It happens to me all the time.
Our current solutions are based mainly on one selector or one path just using one way of actually finding fields in our applications.
But AI tools can make use of machine learning to automatically adjust to these changes. This makes our tests more maintainable and reliable.
For example, current AI/ML testing tools are able to start learning about your application, understanding relationships between the parts of the DOM, and learning about changes throughout time.
Once it starts learning and observing how the application changes, then it can make decisions automatically at runtime as to what locators it should use to identify an element–all without you having to do anything.
And if your application keeps changing, it's no longer a problem because by using machine learning the script can automatically adjust itself.
This was one of the main reasons Dan Belcher, co-founder of testing tool company Mabl, and his team developed an ML testing algorithm. In my recent interview with him he said, "Although Selenium is the most broadly used framework, the challenge with it is that it's pretty rigidly tied to the specific elements on the front end.
Gil Tayor in his Automation Guild 2018 session Not Only Cars: "AI, Please Test My Apps" gave some of the best advice I've heard around AI — Don't panic!
As you have seen, machine learning is not magic. AI is already here.
Are you out of a job? Probably not.
So let's do what we do best. Let's stop worrying and keep automating.


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Animation Respect
I usually don't reprint press articles, but I found this one in Hollywood Reporter in December and I thought it was particularly interesting.
However, two points Tim Gray failed to bring up are the extreme prejudice against animation that deals with adult topics, and secondly, why should animation be relegated to its status as a minor art form when the year's Top 10 box office grossers usually includes 3 or 4 animated features?
It seems like audiences have no problem loving animation, while the Hollywood establishment just doesn't get it.
Anyway, please let me know what you think of this article. Thanks!
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keiv Brown January 6, 2016 at 5:44 AM
I'm a new subscriber. I just wanted to say I agree with this article 100% Walt Disney him self probably saw it this way, I feel ashamed when talking publicly about animation as an "art-form" but that's how I view it as art. people always look at me, and scoff cartoons.
GW January 10, 2016 at 1:54 AM
I sat in a packed theater for the movie 9 and I can tell you that there is adult interest in animation. People thought it was a Tim Burton movie though and were disillusioned when they saw the end credits. Video games seem to be more popular among adults than animation though. I can't explain exactly why. First person shooters and RPGs are very popular among adult gamers.
Some issues are shared like the obsession with graphical realism which is pushed in every release. Others like the outdated play formats of old games aren't.
I know that there's stories out there waiting to be told in adult animation and I know that at least some of the audience is waiting to see them. Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tale The Shadow is one that somebody pointed out on Eddie Fitzgerald's blog. I'd love to see that turned into an animated feature. The Rose Elf could make for a good movie too with some plot additions to make it longer.
I can't wrap my head around what motivates otherwise perfectly intelligent people to immediately ditch animation in the "unworthy" bin. Same goes for comic books. No matter how absolutely mind-blowing and game-changing some animation films and comic books are, nope, it's just not art, or even not an adult-worthy thing according to some. And indeed, when presented with animation that perfectly deals with adult themes, those people seem to totally freak out and feel that is one obscene thing to do. I just don't get it.
On an other topic, just saw your "Revengeance" update, the samples are fantastic, it's really inspiring to see how you deal with distorted perspectives. And, knowing your art, it's never gratuitous, and perfectly serves the narration and expression of inner feelings of your characters. Were you inspired by the expressionism movement or is that a natural drive you got?
Thanks for the great work!
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James Dalby February 11, 2016 at 6:24 AM
I can agree with that. Is it right that a film worthy of best picture is one where the ideas from the stories or characters of a film have to be powerful enough to live outside the film itself? Even for a comedy?
If the Oscars had allowed more than 5 nominees for Best Picture in 2002, I'm imagining how much chance Spirited Away would have had of making the shortlist. I can't think of a film animated that's felt as grand as that film in the past 15 years. It combines solid ideas from classic mythology and literature, and carefully tests the audience's patience unlike all animated features since then. Then again I feel like I praise that film too much. I haven't seen Anomalisa yet and I'm hearing good things about it.
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China Bans Bitcoin Trading By Banks : The Two-Way The exchange rate of Bitcoin, the digital currency whose value has sharply risen this year, took a hit following a government ban. Chinese citizens are not forbidden from using the currency.
Chinese banks cannot trade in Bitcoins, the digital currency that doesn't recognize international boundaries, China's top regulators said Thursday.
China says banks in the country are no longer allowed to trade in Bitcoin, the digital currency whose value has sharply risen this year. Chinese citizens, however, are not forbidden from using the currency.
The Bitcoin exchange rate took a hit following Thursday's news from China's central bank.
"China is the world's biggest market for Bitcoin and has helped drive its explosive appreciation this year. Today, though, the People's Bank of China appeared to prick the Bitcoin bubble here.
"China's central bank said Bitcoin is unsafe because it has few controls and makes it easier to launder money and finance terrorism.
"The bank said: 'It does not have the legal status of a currency, and it cannot and moreover should not be allowed to circulate in the market as a currency.' "
Frank says that after the central bank issued its ban, "the price of Bitcoin fell from a daily high of about $1,240 to about $920, according to BTC China, a Bitcoin trading platform here."
The Bitcoin currency is unregulated and can easily cross international borders. Its lack of ties to a banking system give Bitcoin a degree of anonymity that has led critics to say it eases transactions in the drug trade and other illegal markets.
As Reuters reports, "Chinese nationals are major participants in the [Bitcoin] market and hold an outsized share of the total number of Bitcoins in circulation. Shanghai-based BTC China has recently become the world's largest Bitcoin exchange by volume."
"I have a cousin that's a dentist, and I had a toothache right before we were leaving on our trip. So he agreed to see me, and I set him up to take Bitcoin. And then a couple days ago he called me, and he was like, 'So, I haven't cashed in my Bitcoin, and I just checked the balance and it's really high now.' "


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In this clip, Clinton Wilson—Online Customer Retention Manager—talks about Kafka's classic. Click here to watch the complete twenty-minute video program, The Ten Essential Penguin Classics, highlighting each of the essential books.
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For all his fame, Franz Kafka published only a small number of stories in his lifetime. This new translation of those stories, by Michael Hofmann, one of the most respected German-to-English translators at work today, makes Kafka's best-known works available to a new generation of readers. Metamorphosis gives full expression to the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary depth of his imagination.
Clinton also sent us these thoughts about why Kafka's book is essential...
Why It's a Classic:
The transformation of a human being into an insect is a popular 20th century conceit (see: science fiction). Kafka created darkly humorous worlds where his characters become ensnared within a disorienting nexus of inhospitable systems. Encompassing themes of spiritual isolation, rejection of social systems, disillusionment and despair in the face of an ungovernable future, Kafka's work reads like a testament of the demoralized, modern man. His work also gave us the word Kafkaesque, which means having a nightmarishly complex, bizarre, or illogical quality.
What It Influenced:
Kafka influenced practically every Western writer who succeeded him. He's a precursor to the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie. His writing also directly influenced Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Jose Saramago's Blindness, and Japanese writer Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
Another Great Book By This Author:
Although unfinished and published posthumously, The Trial is another significant work by Franz Kafka. The Kafkaesque struggle against absurdly hostile institutions—seemingly existing only to promote a general sense of alienation and helplessness—is played out more extensively in this novel.
Contemporary Example of the Theme/Story:
With its themes of corporal disfigurement and the transformation of a human into insect, The Fly is a popular science fiction thriller (a David Cronenberg remake of a 1958 film) influenced by Kafka's Metamorphosis.
Is the Movie Version Any Good?:
There have been a few foreign and short films based on Metamorphosis, and there is a new motion picture adaptation currently in development. Steven Soderbergh made the sci-fi thriller, Kafka, a noir-riff on Kafkaesque themes. Orson Welles's The Trial is arguably the most important film based on Kafka's work.
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Franz Kafka's The Castle is a rarely read and fascinating book by this author. It's a novel that beautifully realizes the term Kafkaesque, and Kafka's city of Prague is most recognizable in the book's setting.
Two Russian novels also come to mind when thinking of related forgotten classics. Although they are not forgotten, they are not as widely read.
Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita is a fantastical satire of stultifying bureaucracies, and one of the novel's characters is a talking cat.
In Gogol's short story "The Nose," a man wakes up to find his nose is missing and is walking about pretending to be a human being. His stories "Diary of a Madman" and "The Overcoat" satirize the demoralizing nature of bureaucracies. His characters are harshly exposed to these systems until they are ultimately undone by them.
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Europe's next two Galileo navigation satellites have touched down in Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana ahead of the launch of a quartet by Ariane 5 at the end of this year.
Galileos 19 and 20 left Luxembourg Airport on a Boeing 747 cargo jet on the morning of 18 September, arriving at Cayenne – Félix Eboué Airport in French Guiana that evening.
Safely cocooned within protective air-conditioned containers, the pair were offloaded and driven to the cleanroom environment of the preparation building within the space centre.
This building will remain their home as preparations for their launch proceeds, with the next two Galileos due to join them later this month.
The satellites join the first elements of their customised Ariane 5 at the centre – including its cryogenic main stage and half-shell payload fairing – which were delivered by ship the week before.
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The Steinberger Succah
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Yom Kippur Panel
Steinber Text Panel and Biblical Scene
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Rebecca and Eliezer at the well
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Installation View: Steinberger Succah; Museum of Jewish HeritageThe Museum of Jewish Heritage, located at the southern edge of Battery Park City in Manhattan, attempts (and largely succeeds) to make sense of the last century of Jewish life. The first floor, "Jewish Life a Century Ago"; presents the diverse and extensive Jewish world in Europe prior to the Holocaust. The second floor exhibition of "The War Against the Jews" depicts the unprecedented storm that swept that Jewish world by the Nazis and their cohorts. Finally, the third floor documents "Jewish Renewal"; the revitalization of the Jewish world, predominately in the United States and in Israel. Unfortunately, the museum fails to adequately explore the extensive yeshiva world, its destruction and stunning post-war renewal; the complex development of the State of Israel in light of the Holocaust, and the vibrant rebirth of a Jewish world in parts of Europe and Russia. But what it does focus on, i.e. a broad view of Jewish life, it succeeds admirably.
Text panel and biblical scene; Steinberger Succah; Museum of Jewish HeritageOne must move through this museum slowly and thoughtfully. The presentations are done using three major elements; 1) Objects that document this history; 2) Text that describes events; and 3) Video presentations that either illustrate history or present personal video testimonies. The personal video testimonies are clearly most powerful because only they can transform a history into living memories that we can now share. To ignore any one of these elements is to miss the depth and complexity of the Museum's message. The Museum has an extremely diverse audience of Jews and non-Jews with many different levels of knowledge. Therefore, it starts with an 8 ½ minute slide and video presentation to present the Jewish People to this audience. Next one enters "Jewish Life a Century Ago", a primer of Jewish ritual and life. The centerpiece of this primer on the first floor is the museum's masterpiece of Jewish art, the Steinberger Succah.
Aryeh Steinberger, born in 1859 in Olaszliszka, Hungry, and was a cantor and shochet in Budapest. In 1924 he retired to devote himself to his art work. Over the next decade he made these hand painted succah panels on canvas which expresses a complete and moving vision of the fully integrated Jewish world he lived and loved. He continually added to these paintings over the years. This succah was used until his death in 1942 at age 83. It was hidden during the Nazi occupation of Hungary in the basement of the Great Synagogue on Dohany Street (pictured in the Succah itself) until after liberation.
The upper seven panels guides us as we lift our eyes to make our brochos pertaining to Succah, including the 'Kavana' and brochos before taking the Four Species, Benching, Ushpizin, Yom Tov and Shabbos Kiddush, Havdalah, etc. They are all wonderfully lettered, surrounded by sumptuous border panels with local landscapes, floral and decorative motifs, all made to look like rich hanging tapestries.
A narrow street with an ornate fence and many gates runs as border between the upper and middle registers. Between the seven upper panels you see five fantastic towers (perhaps entrances to local apartment buildings) while along the street there are ox carts and cattle along with ordinary people strolling or peering through the elaborate fence.
The middle register depicts local Budapest backyards and gardens dotted with 10 family succahs. Yom Tov is everywhere. Further along Steinberger depicts, his own family going to shul on Succos and extensive Hungarian landscapes and towns. Then the subjects become biblical with Abraham Greeting the Three Strangers, The Stolen Blessing of Isaac, Moses and the Law, The Mishkan in the Wilderness, Joseph Greeting his Brothers and finally King David Playing the Harp. With over 70 painted figures, the diversity of subjects and their depiction in these panels are truly splendid. Steinberger manages to blend the biblical with the contemporary scenes in a way that fully expresses the fullness of a religious Jew's life in Budapest in the 1930's. And most significantly, he makes us feel welcome in this world.
Yom Kippur Panel; Steinberger Succah; Museum of Jewish HeritageThe lowest register, which acts like a foundation for the whole succah, contains eight narrative panels interspersed with entire Mishnah Succah meticulously hand lettered. The 18" x 24" painted panels are a masterful meditation on faith, kindness and our contemporary lives as seen through biblical narratives and yearly rituals. The highly personal choice of the following subjects reveals that Steinberger was a complex and profound artist. We see Daniel in the Lion's Den, Abram and Lot Separating, Rebecca Offering Eliezer Water, the First Seder in Egypt with His Family Fully Prepared to Go, Hoshannas Around the Bimah, Blowing the Shofar at Rosh Hashana in Shul, Kaporos with Chickens Erev Yom Kippur, and Complete Prostration during the Yom Kippur service. Many of these motifs are unique in their depiction in Jewish art.
Rebecca and Eliezer at the well; Steinberger Succah; Museum of Jewish HeritageThe very personal nature of his paintings reflects the stories we see and hear again and again in seemingly live video reflections on the two floors of the museum above.
This wonderful painted succah is a metaphor for our reflections on the terror of the Holocaust and the inspiring life the Jewish people have made since. Yearly we move ourselves into a temporary dwelling to contemplate our lives and our relationship with God. What should surround us is, as in the Steinberger Succah, our Torah, our traditions, and our life in the contemporary world. This shelter of faith, kindness and community allows us to persevere over our enemies and build a more vibrant and stronger Jewish world in the year to come. We have remembered who we are and why we are here. The injunction, Zahor, Remember…Never forget, is fulfilled.
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Dayton Aviation Heritage
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Lorin Wright's Life Story
November 18th, 1862 – December 1st, 1939
Lorin, the second son of Milton and Susan Wright, was born in Fairmont, Indiana, in the home of his grandparents. Named by his parents for a community chosen randomly from a map, Lorin moved with his parents and siblings to Dayton, Ohio, in 1870. As a child, Lorin developed a close relationship with his elder brother Reuchlin. He and Reuchlin enrolled at Hartsville University in Indiana, the alma mater of their parents, between 1881 and 1883, but did not earn degrees. Instead, Lorin ventured west to Kansas City in 1886 in search of work. Lorin spent little time in Kansas City, where Reuchlin settled, returning to Dayton in the fall of 1886. However, Lorin returned west in 1887, settling in the frontier town of Coldwater, Kansas, where he worked as a bookkeeper and deputy county treasurer. In 1889, he returned to Dayton, where he lived for the remainder of his life. Lorin married Ivonette Stokes on January 12, 1892 and took a position with the John Rouzer Company as a bookkeeper. Lorin and Netta had four children, nieces and nephews with whom Wilbur and Orville developed close relationships.
While not a frequent participant in the research of his brothers Wilbur and Orville that produced the first successful airplane, Lorin assisted them when needed. He helped manage his brothers' financial affairs in Dayton while they were away from home, and he delivered news of their first powered flight in December of 1903 to the Dayton Journal. Unfortunately, the Associated Press representative at the Journal ignored Lorin's important news. In 1915, amidst the Wright-Curtiss patent battles, Lorin secretly visited Lake Keuka in New York, where Glenn Curtiss attempted to fly a modified 1903 model of Samuel Langley's Aerodrome. Curtiss's employees discovered Lorin and confiscated his film, but they failed to demonstrate that Langley's craft was capable of flight before Orville and Wilbur's flights of December 1903. Lorin turned his energies to the Dayton area in the 1920s and 1930s, becoming an owner and president of Miami Wood Specialties, which made wooden toys (including toy airplanes) and serving as a Dayton City Commissioner from 1920 to 1927. He died in Dayton in 1939 and is buried at Woodland Cemetery.
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227 civilians killed in occupied Afrin, including 32 children
At least 227 civilians have been killed and 638 others wounded in Turkish occupied Afrin during the past 1,5 years.
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The Turkish invasion of Afrin has left one and a half years behind. During this period of time, the Turkish state has committed numerous crimes and massacres. Afrin Human Rights Organization has documented the crimes since the first day of invasion.
227 CIVILIANS MURDERED
According to an ANHA report based on data from Afrin Human Rights Organization, 167 men, 28 women and 32 children have been killed since the launch of Turkey's invasion attacks against Afrin on 20 January 2018. A further 638 civilians were injured, of whom 87 are children.
Afrin Human Rights Organization also documented over six thousand abductions, who again include children. The fate of 3,000 abducted civilians remains unknown.
DESTRUCTION OF NATURE
The occupation forces have cut down 15,000 olive trees in the occupied Afrin territory. 15,000 juniper trees and 10,000 grapefruit trees were plundered by the occupation forces.
According to the recorded data, 3 to 5 million trees were plundered by the invaders.
Only 160 are left of the total 300 olive plants in Afrin after its occupation. The Turkish state held these plants to ransom, causing a decrease in the soap production in the canton. A 25 percent decrease has been recorded in the production of commercial products.
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Md. groups closely watching new Congress, political landscape
By John Fritze
As Congress opens its session on Tuesday, several Maryland interests — including chicken farmers, environmentalists and federal employees — will be watching for signs of how the new political landscape on Capitol Hill will affect issues they say are critical to the state's economy.
With Republicans in control of both the House and Senate for the first time in nearly a decade, Washington is bracing for more battles over health care, immigration and government spending. But there are indications that agreements might be possible on overhauling the nation's tax code, funding for infrastructure and finalizing trade agreements with Asia and Europe.
All of those issues could have implications for Maryland.
Meat and poultry groups, including those that represent the Eastern Shore's poultry industry, are hoping trade agreements include stronger enforcement mechanisms to limit overseas markets from blocking imports. Federal employee unions want lawmakers to increase — or at least not cut —compensation for their members. Environmentalists worry about the potential rollback of regulations and funding.
"As was shown in the 1990s, there are areas like trade, tax reform, and support for biomedical research that Republicans and Democrats can jointly support," said Rep. Andy Harris, a Baltimore County Republican, referring to deals between Democratic President Bill Clinton and the GOP-led Congress at the time.
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But Harris said President Barack Obama has jeopardized the possibility of finding common ground with what he called his "unconstitutional executive overreaching" on immigration and other issues.
Obama and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell have signaled a willingness to work together on trade, including deals pending with Asia and Europe. Free trade agreements are often more popular among Republicans than Democrats, who worry they lead to a loss of U.S. jobs.
"Global trade is extremely important to the future of manufacturing," said Michael Galiazzo, president of the Regional Manufacturing Institute, a nonprofit association that represents Maryland manufacturers. "Manufacturing in Maryland benefits greatly by doors of opportunity that get opened for us to sell our products overseas."
Tom Super, a spokesman for the National Chicken Council, said the group would like to see a trade agreement pending with Pacific Rim countries to loosen Canada's restrictions on poultry imports, for instance. And the group has long raised concerns about safety standards it believes other countries sometimes impose as a form or protectionism.
Other groups are waiting to see if previous GOP proposals will remain priorities now that the party is in control of Congress.
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Federal employee unions, which have been on defense for several years, are concerned about compensation for their members. Leaders of two unions said Monday they will seek more substantial pay increases than the 1 percent raise most workers are scheduled to begin receiving this month.
Maryland is home to some 300,000 federal workers, one of the highest concentrations in the nation. In an effort to cut spending and reduce budget deficits, Washington froze pay for most of those workers for three years and increased the contributions newly hired employees make to retirement plans.
"Federal employees are losing buying power," said William Dougan, president of the National Federation of Federal Employees. "That's important for the federal employees themselves but it's also important for the local economies where these people live and work and shop."
Dougan said the unions are in a "wait and see" position as they assess whether Republicans revive previous proposals to limit compensation.
Colleen M. Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, acknowledged that "federal employees have had a difficult few years" and said her union expects 2015 to "present continuing challenges." But she said her group and others would work with the new Congress to find areas of possible agreement.
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"We will continue to push for strengthening the federal workforce and ensuring agencies have the resources they need to accomplish their missions," Kelley said in a statement.
Republicans have also indicated they are considering a rollback of Environmental Protection Agency regulations, including a rule to extend federal oversight of intermittent or seasonal streams — some of which flow into the Chesapeake.
That has given pause to environmentalists but has been applauded by agriculture groups.
"We are apprehensive about the new Congress," said Tom Zolper, a spokesman with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
"The federal government has agreed to be a partner with state and local governments to clean up the Chesapeake Bay," he said. "We have a blueprint to do the job. But we need continued federal help, especially funding for critical programs to upgrade sewage plants, to reduce pollution from farms and other efforts."
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Republicans will have 54 members in the Senate this year. There are 44 Democrats and two independents who caucus with them.
While McConnell has indicated potential areas of agreement with the White House, Republicans also hope to move quickly on priorities intended to draw a distinction with the Obama administration. The House and Senate both are set to take up legislation this week to expedite approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.
Among the issues Congress is due to address this year is transportation funding. A short-term fix to keep the Highway Trust Fund solvent runs out at the end of the May. Lawmakers have wrestled for years with the question of how to deal with the fund's shortfall without raising the gasoline tax, its primary source of funding.
The outcome of that debate will be important not only for Maryland's highways, but also for its newest member of Congress. Rep. John Delaney, a Montgomery County Democrat, has proposed funding transportation and other infrastructure projects through new taxing mechanisms on overseas holdings.
The idea has been endorsed by members of both parties.
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"Rebuilding America should be at the top of our economic agenda this Congress," Delaney said in a statement. "I believe we're very close to a bipartisan deal … because our inadequate infrastructure and uncompetitive tax code are dragging down economic growth and both parties understand that."
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Cherry Clafouti, Julia Child, and Stella . . .
I'll bet you're among the huge flock of bakers out there who are looking forward to the Julia Child movie, Julie & Julia, that will be in theaters soon, yes? I know I am. I figure it's a good bet that a hefty percentage of the people interested in this film feel some sort of personal connection--and I don't mean in a touchy-feely encounter-group sort of way--to the memory of Julia Child as we knew her from public television.
My own relationship with the TV personage of Julia Child was channeled, if you will, through my mom, whose name was Stella. Back then, there were only a couple of cooking shows on TV that I can recall--Julia's, and Graham Kerr's Galloping Gourmet. My mom loved watching them both, especially the former.
As kids, my older sister Joanie and I spent hours at my mom's side on summer afternoons while Julia chirped away on the screen in black and white, instructing American housewives of the proper way to render goose fat, unmold coeur a la creme, or achieve the perfect golden crust on a baguette. The three of us would perch on the big bed in my parent's room, a summer breeze moving through the pristine white curtains, and all of us folding clean laundry for the thirty minutes or so of the show. (Joanie and I eventually came to label my mom's particular--and more or less mandatory--towel folding technique as "The Stella Fold.") That's got to be one of my fondest old memories. Not that I loved the program. In fact, I thought Julia's voice was just awful. I can still hear her breath-laden, overly lengthy pronunciation of the word tomatoes as "tommaaaatoes." But, Julia was pleasingly far from intimidating and, clearly, Stella felt some kind of kinship with her enthusiasm and gutsy confidence when it came to food. That brief half hour represented a cheery, and very female, domestic diversion in the middle of a typical summertime weekday.
Stella, just like Julie Powell's mother, had her own set of Child's two-volume masterwork. Well worn as an old pair of fine leather gloves, and pictured above, those books inhabited my parents' house for decades, alongside dozens of other somewhat less awe-inspiring cookbooks. This spring, when I began reading Powell's book, I took Stella's volumes off the shelf where they'd stood undisturbed for a few years now, reverently blew the dust off the bindings (if such a thing can be reverently done), and brought them home to join my own ever expanding cookbook collection. Since Stella's death at the age of 79, two and a half years ago, I'd already taken--with my father's blessing--the vast majority of her wonderful cookbooks, but I'd hesitated when it came to removing these seminal tomes. It had seemed to me that removing them too soon would be unseemly, not in any formal sense that anyone else would notice, but just in terms of my own knowledge of how much they belonged so expressly to her, and because of my sense of how much joy she must have derived from them.
The only Julia Child recipes that I know for certain my mom used were for breads. She perfected, through literally hundreds of batches, the most delicious homemade breads I've ever tasted. Probably her greatest triumph was her French baguette. Until I entered culinary school this past spring, and was offered slices from a very fresh baguette created (I assume!) by the artisan breads class, I didn't realize how completely perfect--truly perfect--Stella's breads must have been. I have renewed admiration and appreciation for her talent and perseverance as a baker, based on that recent experience alone, and I had quite a bit to start with.
A few days after Julia Child died, in August of 2004, my husband and I traveled with our kids on a trip we'd planned to Washington D.C. and while there we made the obligatory trip to the Smithsonian. Julia's actual home kitchen--all of her own belongings, I believe--had recently been recreated and installed in a display there, not too far from the First Ladies' inaugural gowns. It seemed fitting to me that I was able to see her kitchen so soon after her passing. It looked at the same time cluttered, functional, and comfortingly well used. That experience, of looking at the objects she must have handled over and over, is part of what I think of when I think of Julia. I wish my mom could have seen that kitchen too; I imagine she would have stood there gazing quietly, examining all the details for a long time, smiling to herself.
My sister, several years ago, went to one of Julia's book-signings in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and that year for Christmas she gave me an autographed copy of the book Baking With Julia. Of all the cookbooks I own, that is the one I am least likely to part with.
In homage to Julia, and in honor of Stella (who adored sweets of every stripe), I made Julia's very simple and very French recipe for cherry clafouti (accent on the last syllable, bakers!). An eggy, custardy dish, that is sometimes served as part of a breakfast meal, clafouti is also served as a dessert. Julia's clafouti recipes, with several variations, appear in Volume I of Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly butter a 7 or 8 cup baking dish (or a 9" cake pan will work).
Using a blender (by necessity I used my food processor and it worked fine) combine the milk, half the sugar, eggs, vanilla, salt, and flour.
Pour one quarter of the batter into the pan. Place the dish in the oven just until it sets. Remove from the oven and spread the cherries over the batter.
Sprinkle on the remaining sugar. Pour on the remaining batter.
Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour, until the clafouti is puffed, brown, and a knife inserted in the center comes out clean.
Sift the top with the powdered sugar. Serve warm.
Peach-Blueberry Cake . . . or, if you prefer, Nectarine-Blueberry Cake . . .
When I was expecting a baby in July of 1996, late in my third trimester, I was hungry. My doctor had advised me in those last couple of weeks to keep my weight steady, not to gain, and I was carefully adhering to his advice. I was also, apparently, clipping recipes from magazines for delectable baked goods I would have to indefinitely put off trying out. (I think I must have been really hungry.) One such item was this cake recipe, which surfaced recently in a little black notebook where I had taped it neatly for future use.
Now, I'm not in the habit of neatly taping things into notebooks, so it was probably the nesting instinct that made me do that. I was nesting alright. One look at the military precision with which I had organized the baby's room--particularly all the paraphernalia on the changing table--attested to this. Everything in it's proper place, right down to the Desitin and baby wipes. I was prepared. Newborn-sized diapers stood at attention in neat little stacks, just awaiting the signal to spring into action. Yes, we women can be astoundingly organized when new babies impel us to be so (we're amazing that way, aren't we?). And, apparently, clipping recipes for baked delicacies I could not eat at the time, was just another outlet for my obvious need to systemize things before the Big Event.
Anyway, until yesterday I'd never tested out this summery cake recipe and, this being summer and all, I figured I might as well finally give it a go. The original recipe's title, Peach-Blueberry Pound Cake, is something of a misnomer. This is not--in my sole opinion--a pound cake, thus I have changed the name of the recipe below to reflect that. It doesn't really have the density or texture of a pound cake, and the process for putting it together doesn't mirror the majority of garden-variety pound cake formulas that I've ever seen. (It doesn't even call for any sort of extract or flavoring at all--that in itself is uncustomary, don't you think?) It is a good cake, but I'd say it straddles the fence between being a coffee cake and a huge cake-shaped muffin. You can hold a piece of it in your hand to eat it, or savor it with a fork. Your choice.
It was originally intended to be made with peaches but I just had nectarines on hand so I used those and they worked out fine. Besides that minor change, the only other thing I altered was to reduce the total amount of fruit required. I thought the recipe called for significantly more fruit than could be absorbed, or supported if you will, by the cakey part itself. I am pretty sure I was on target. The amount of fruit in the version of the recipe I prepared seems just right. It's a rather light cake, actually, and it would be very at home served along with a special breakfast or brunch, though it also makes a perfectly respectable dessert. It could probably be dolled up with a little dollop of whipped cream on top, to make it even more respectable.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour, or use baking spray to coat (that's always the easiest option when you're dealing with a funny shaped pan), a 10" tube pan with a removable bottom.
Heat milk and butter in a small sauce pan until butter melts. Set aside to cool slightly.
Peel and slice peaches/nectarines into 1/2" chunks. (If you like, blanch and shock them first to make removing the skin much easier; this works extremely well with very ripe fruit, particularly peaches, but not so well with really firm, less ripe fruit.) Set the chopped fruit aside.
Beat the eggs and sugar in a large mixer bowl until they're thick and and pale, for about 5 minutes.
On low speed, mix in the baking powder and salt. Add the flour in two additions, alternately with the warm butter mixture, until thoroughly combined.
Fold in all of the fruit gently.
Let the cake cool, in the pan, on a rack for about half an hour. Run a very thin knife or spatula around the sides of the cake to help loosen it from the pan. Remove the outer portion of the pan, and let the cake finish cooling completely on its base before inverting the cake onto the rack, and then flipping it back onto its serving plate so the top is right-side up.
P.S. That 1996 baby was a boy, and when he saw me making this cake yesterday he said (in kind of a whiney voice), "Mommm, how come you're always making all kinds of other things lately, and not chocolate chip cookies???" So pitiful was his mournful plea, I decided to be merciful. So I'm off now to make a little batch of the cookie-that-never-fails-to-please-adolescent-boys, the mighty chocolate chip. Till next time . . .
Recipe Full Disclosure! This recipe, in its original form, appeared in the May 1996 issue of Woman's Day magazine, and it was titled, "Peach-Blueberry Poundcake."
What does one do with a five-pound bag of large-shredded, unsweetened coconut? Unless you're planning to open a macaroon shop sometime soon, you probably have no business purchasing that much. Think about it bakers . . . five pounds is a lot of coconut. But when I bought it I couldn't help myself. Caught up in the moment, thrilled at the sight of this kind of coconut to begin with (only the sweet, moist, tiny-shredded stuff is ubiquitous around here), astounded at the price (less than $15.00 for the bag), and charmed by the lovely creamy color of the curly flakes . . . well, clearly it was inevitable. Maybe you would have done the same thing . . . ?
I know you're dying to ask where I obtained that moderately priced, pillow-sized bag of our favorite, indispensable, tropical staple, right? At Detroit's Eastern Market, of course. The "historic Eastern Market" (it's well over 110 years old), as it's affectionately termed, is the largest farmer's market in Michigan. Located just east of downtown Detroit, it's a relatively short drive from the small city where we live. To say that the Market is beautifully colorful is a profound understatement. It is vivid in every way--even the smells are wonderful. It's fertile territory for people watching, too, even if you're not really there to spend money. So much freshness everywhere you look--produce of every description, annuals and perennials, house plants, fresh cut flowers, unusual spices, poultry, fish and shellfish, sausages, cheeses, meats (and meat parts that you've probably never heard of and didn't know existed), nuts, dried fruits, breads, and bakery items. You name it, you can probably find it.
Forgive me, I digress. Back to the gigantic bag of coconut.
As you can imagine, I've been itching to use some of the flaky white stuff in a recipe and this morning I had my chance. After searching the last couple of days through cookbooks and food blogs for an enticing coconut bread recipe, the best candidate was turned up via the foodie website called Baking Bites. It comes from Bill Granger, an Australian celebrity chef who owns a restaurant where this bread is a mainstay. Word on the street is that they serve it thickly sliced, toasted, and generously buttered. It is, according to fans, to die for. That recommendation was good enough for me so I gave the recipe a whirl, and the results are in. It is very good. Fair warning though: The texture of the bread is substantive, hearty, and chewy. One slice is probably going to be plenty at one sitting, unless perhaps you're a linebacker or you're pregnant with twins. The flavor is really nice, with a slight cinnamon thread throughout. It's the kind of quick bread that can be sliced, wrapped in a napkin, tossed in a backpack or lunch-bag, and hauled out hours later still in one piece and still delicious.
Because the original recipe is so revered, I figured I'd better not fiddle with it the first time out, so I made one loaf almost exactly as indicated. Then, because you know I can't help myself when it comes to this kind of thing, I had to make another loaf with my own alterations. They are both good breads. I've listed the two recipe versions below. The second version--the Jane Version--contains the addition of lime juice, lime zest, coconut milk in place of some of the regular milk, less butter, and much less cinnamon than the original recipe. Also, my bread's version is glazed with a very light, thin, sweet lime glaze. Mmmmmm . . . yummy.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees; grease and flour a 9" x 5" loaf pan.
In a medium bowl, whisk eggs, milk, and vanilla extract.
Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour in the egg mixture.
Stir just until combined and a few streak of flour remain.
Add in the melted butter and stir just until smooth. Don't overmix.
Pour into loaf pan and, if you like, sprinkle sugar over the top (I did this but it's not part of the original recipe). Bake for about 60 minutes (my loaves took maybe 50 minutes) or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Cool in pans on a rack for about five minutes; turn out of pan and finish cooling on a rack.
In a medium bowl, whisk eggs, coconut milk, regular milk, lime juice, and vanilla extract. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour in the egg mixture. Stir just until combined and a few streaks of flour remain.
Pour into loaf pan. Bake for about 60 minutes (my loaves took maybe 50 minutes) or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
When the loaf is cool, mix about 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar with the 2 Tbsp. fresh lime juice, and 1 tsp. lime zest. Stir until smooth and any sugar lumps dissolve. If too thick, add more sugar; too thin, add more juice. Pour, in a thin stream, all over the top of the loaf; let it drip down the sides. Let the loaf sit uncovered for a while so the glaze can soak in. Store the loaf loosely covered once the glaze is no longer completely wet.
Below is a picture of the coconut-lime bread . . . it's yellower than the other loaf. . . looks delish, doesn't it? It smells pretty good too. It's shown here just out of the oven, without the glaze on.
So go ahead! Cut a little slice and try it out.
What do you think? Any thoughts to share?
Lemon Yellow and Holland Blue: Crunchy Lemon Poppy Seed Cookies . . .
Have you ever looked closely at poppy seeds? I mean really closely? They're actually not black, but an unusually appealing shade of grayish blue. And they're not essentially tasteless, as they've often seemed to me in the past. Think about it . . . you're munching a deli sandwich made with a poppy seed roll on your lunch hour; do you even have the time or inclination to truly taste the poppy seeds, much less admire their color, or to pay them any mind at all? I thought not. The only reaction you might have to them is annoyance when one becomes stuck in your teeth, right?
In the U.S. at least, they go mostly unnoticed and get little respect. Based on my now decades-long perusal of baking cookbooks, you're far more likely to see them used in European recipes. But that's too bad, because heaven knows they're no Johnny-come-lately to the pantry. In comparison to most of the things we throw into our everyday American chow, they're an old and distinguished soul. Native to Asia, the tiny dark seeds are rich in history. They've been used medicinally for centuries. In ancient cultures they were valued for metaphysical, as well as practical, properties. Luckily for us, they willingly lend their esoteric magic to baked goods.
Whoever first had the idea to combine the flavor of lemon with poppy seeds was certainly on the right track. The toasted-nutty flavor of poppy seeds--for that is how they taste when we pay attention--is pretty subtle. Diminutive seeds that they are, they simply don't blow their own horn. Combining them with another distinct flavor is almost always a good idea, and they just cohabit so nicely with lemon.
Thus we have today's recipe for lemon poppy seed cookies. Now, if you don't like crunchy cookies, and I mean really crunchy cookies, you probably won't write home about these babies. I'm sure there are more delicate, fragile cookies that could be made beautifully with lemon and poppy seeds, this just doesn't happen to be one of them. This is the kind of cookie you can dunk in a cup of hot tea knowing that it won't immediately fall apart and dissolve, the kind of cookie you can nibble on slowly, savoring the small chewy seeds and the nice citrus aspect. It's like a very firm shortbread. Firm firm.
Not convinced? Are you worried about those opium rumors? Have you been watching the Seinfeld rerun where Elaine eats a lemon poppy seed muffin, and frets because she thinks it caused her to flunk a drug test at work? Well, not to worry. The poppy seeds used in our food (as opposed to whatever it was Elaine may have ingested) are mature seeds, not the unripe seeds that contain the milky stuff from which opium can be extracted. It's the mature seeds we're baking with, and the best ones come from Holland. So while you might very well become a cookie junkie (and there are support groups to help you with that), chances are slim and none that you'll become an opium addict from using poppy seeds in your pastry.
Okay, good. Grab your car keys and go buy some premium Holland Blue poppy seeds. Then go home and make some cookies!
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line a couple of cookie sheets with parchment paper or Silpats.
Chill the dough in the fridge or freezer for at least 20 minutes. (Good idea to chill your cookie sheets in the freezer or fridge also, if you can manage it.) After the dough is cold, portion them onto the sheets. I used a No. 50 sccop for these; that holds about 1 and 1/4 Tbsp. Place the cookies about two inches apart.
Put a few tablespoons of sugar in a shallow bowl. Find a small drinking glass that's completely smooth on the bottom; dampen the bottom and dip it in the sugar, then use that to press down the cookies, as pictured. For each cookie, dip the glass again in the sugar.
Recipe Full Disclosure: This recipe derives in part from the recipe for "Tangy Lemon Butter Cookies" in George Geary's The Complete Baking Cookbook. I changed the formula by adding in the poppy seeds, increasing the salt slightly, using butter and shortening instead of butter and oil, adding in lemon juice, increasing the amounts of vanilla and lemon extracts, and halving the amount of baking soda to make the cookies crunchier and more shortbread-like.
*I bought my Holland Blue seeds at a Penzey's spice store.
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Arkansas bill: Raise cigarette taxes to pay for tax cuts by ANDREW DeMILLO The Associated Press | March 15, 2019 at 4:00 a.m.
LITTLE ROCK -- The Republican leader of the Arkansas Senate and a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Thursday proposed raising taxes on cigarettes and e-cigarettes to pay for tax cuts for the state's low- and middle-income residents.
Flanked by more than a dozen lawmakers from both parties, Senate President Jim Hendren detailed the $100 million plan that he says will go before a legislative committee next week.
"Arkansas has a very regressive tax code. ... The purpose of this legislation today is to begin to adjust some of that," Hendren said.
The proposal comes after the majority-Republican Legislature last month backed GOP Gov. Asa Hutchinson's proposal to cut the state's top income tax rate. Democrats complained that the benefits of the cut, which was passed and signed into law, were too heavily skewed toward the state's highest earners.
The measure unveiled Thursday includes a tax credit for low-income residents, which has long been pushed by Democrats in the Legislature. It also cuts taxes for those making less than $22,000 a year. Under the proposal, the first $8,899 earned by those in that category won't be subject to income tax. Currently, up to $4,499 for those in that category isn't subject to income tax. The proposal also raises the standard deduction for taxpayers from $2,000 to $3,300.
To pay for the cuts, the proposal imposes a 20 percent excise tax on cigarettes, or 80 cents a pack. The proposal would also make e-cigarettes subject to the same taxes as traditional tax products.
Since they're considered new taxes, the legislation only need a simple majority rather than the three-fourths support that tax increases usually require in the Legislature. Hendren's proposal has 16 co-sponsors in the Senate and 40 in the House.
Hutchinson stopped short of saying whether he backs the legislation. Hendren said he didn't expect opposition to the measure from the governor.
"It is important that any additional tax relief be offset on the revenue side, which this bill seems to accomplish through a new tax on tobacco and related products," Hutchinson, who is Hendren's uncle, said in a statement. "However, I will continue to study this bill and its revenue impact as it moves through the legislative process."
House Speaker Matthew Shepherd, a Republican, also expressed reluctance about the bill and said he was still reviewing the plan.
Hendren said he was still waiting on a revenue impact statement on the proposal. Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, which has backed the state Earned Income Tax Credit, said that provision would benefit more than 300,000 people.


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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a victory heard around the country on June 26, becoming the Democratic nominee in New York's 14th Congressional District, which encompasses parts of the Bronx and Queens. Ocasio-Cortez is heavily favored to win the general election. She published an essay on the "urgency of criminal justice reform," tying it to her Catholic faith and forgiveness, on the day after her primary win.
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Q: Creat and push value in multidimensional array using php I have two separate array. Now I want to create multidimensional array using existing two array.
This is my two separate array -
Array
(
[0] => 11
[1] => 22
[2] => 33
[3] => 44
)

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    Array
(
[0] => 555
[1] => 666
[2] => 777
[3] => 888
)

I want result in multidimensional array, that is   -
Array
(

[0] => Array
    (
        [0] => 11
        [demoid] => 11
        [1] => 555
        [demovalue] => 555
    )
    [1] => Array
    (
        [0] => 22
        [demoid] => 22
        [1] => 666
        [demovalue] => 666
    )
    [2] => Array
    (
        [0] => 33
        [demoid] => 33
        [1] => 777
        [demovalue] => 777
    )
)

A: Just loop around and add the values into a new array - I don't see why you would struggle to do so...
$new_array = array();
foreach($array1 as $key => $val) {
    $new_array[] = array(   0 => $val,
                            'demoid' => $val,
                            1 => $array2[$key],
                            'demovalue' => $array2[$key]);
}


When an application is opened, the OS moves the neccesary parts to memory, followed by required additional parts.
To run multiple applications, the OS makes sure the applications don't interfere. It does this by using a memory manager to allocate memory addresses.
As files are moved, deleted, or change size lots of small gaps appear which new files fill in. Over time, the hard drive becomes more fragmented which slows the performance down.
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Incremental backups are when only the files created or edited since the last backup are copied. This saves time and space but will take longer to restore.


Hey Folks, Having just gone through this process with someone else, I figured there may be others who've tried to access the Bulletin Board and after trying to figure out all the Google protocols, thrown up their hands in frustration never to come back again.
If you do NOT have a gmail account, do not WANT to have a gmail account and yet still be part of the Mac High Bulletin Board? This post is for you!
When you go to the main bulletin board page (http://www.machigh.org/p/bulletin-board.html), click on "Apply for Membership" link.
You will be taken to a Google sign in form (username/email). Click on the red "Sign Up" button in the upper right hand corner.
Fill in your name and instead of a gmail.com account you will see a link underneath about signing in using your own email account. Click this.
Fill in the remainder of the form, including password, after which Google will say that in order to activate your account they will send an email to your account.
Click on the link within that email.
Use that email account/password combination to log into the Mac High Alumni Bulletin Board.


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Dr. Jon Kane joined Consulting Radiologists, Ltd. (CRL) in the early 2000s with a specialization in Diagnostic Radiology. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota, Morris, and his medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis. He then completed a Transitional Internship at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis and his residency in Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis.
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So I've decided to take the plunge and set up my own business, sharing my love of amigurumi with fellow crochet lovers up and down the land. My word, there is a lot to think about! Logo, website, email account, social media, designers, suppliers, packaging, payment systems, budget - the list doesn't stop there!
I can reveal that subscriptions will open on 1st November 2017 and the posting date for the first ami2u subscription club box will be Monday 12th December 2017. I'm terribly excited, and hope you are too!


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Großmuß ist ein Gemeindeteil der Gemeinde Hausen im niederbayerischen Landkreis Kelheim. Bis zum 31. Dezember 1977 bildete es eine selbstständige Gemeinde.

Lage
Großmuß liegt in der Hallertau in der Nähe der A 93 etwa drei Kilometer südwestlich von Hausen.

Geschichte
Die ersten Hinweise auf Großmuß, dessen Name sich von einem "großen Moos" herleitet, sind die urkundlichen Nennungen von Muzze, Musse und Mussa nach dem Jahre 1000 in den Schenkungsurkunden der umliegenden Klöster Weltenburg und Rohr, indem hier ansässige Zeugen beim Kauf oder Tausch unterschrieben. Das Kloster St. Emmeram in Regensburg hatte zudem in Mussa einen Gutshof.

Die Urkunden und Urbare des Klosters Weltenburg erbrachten den Beweis, dass Großmuß nicht von St. Emmeram, sondern vom Kloster Weltenburg kultiviert wurde. Im Jahre 1128 besaß das Kloster Weltenburg in Großmuß drei Höfe. Die Bezeichnung Großmuß findet sich erstmals in einer Urkunde des Klosters vom 10. März 1447, als der Hof und das Gut zu Großmuß an den Pfarrer Sigmund Werder von St. Emmeram in Regensburg zu einem Kaufpreis von 60 Pfund Regensburger Pfennigen verkauft wurde.

Aus den Aufzeichnungen von Pfarrer Werder kann man auf die Größe des Dorfes und dessen Bauernhöfen schließen. Daraus und aus den Niederschriften über die Zehentleistungen an das Kloster Weltenburg ist zu erkennen, dass es sich um recht stattliche und ertragreiche Höfe handelte, bis 1803 im Jahr der Säkularisation in Bayern deren Aufteilung erfolgte.

Die Gemeinde Großmuß gehörte zum Landgericht Kelheim und zuletzt zum Landkreis Kelheim. Sie wurde im Zuge der Gebietsreform in Bayern am 1. Januar 1978 in die Gemeinde Hausen eingegliedert. Die 727 Hektar große Gemarkung Großmuß unterteilt sich heute in etwa 177 Hektar Wald, 50 Hektar Gebäude und Straßenfläche und 500 Hektar landwirtschaftlich genutzte Fläche. Durch den Anbau der Sonderkultur Hopfen gehört Großmuß zum Anbaugebiet Hallertau. 1987 hatte Großmuß 462 Einwohner, 2018 waren es 570 Einwohner.

Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Pfarrkirche St. Georg. Der gotische Bau der ersten Hälfte des 14. Jahrhunderts wurde in der Barockzeit verändert. Er enthält Fresken des 15. Jahrhunderts.

Vereine
 Freiwillige Feuerwehr Großmuß
 KLJB Großmuß. 1966 wurde der Katholische Burschenverein, unter Vorstand Johann Kellerer, in die Katholische Landjugend überführt.
 Kriegerverein Großmuß
 OGV Großmuß/Herrnwahlthann
 SV Großmuß

Weblinks
 Geschichte von Großmuß

Einzelnachweise

Hausen (Niederbayern)
Ort in der Hallertau
Ort im Landkreis Kelheim
Ehemalige Gemeinde (Landkreis Kelheim)
Gemeindeauflösung 1977
Kirchdorf (Siedlungstyp)