If you think we're proud of our new house, you should talk to our builders, Whittle and Johnson Custom Homes (W&J). They just put us on their website.
The first Whittle we got to know was Rob Whittle of Whittle Development. He found us wandering around a parcel of land in his Buffalo Creek development. Sure, he wanted to sell us some land, but he was also a very nice guy. He's so in love with Rockwall County that he wants to share it with everyone. He showed us several lots before we happened on to the one we bought and the one we picked was one for which he'd already had plans drawn. Still , he was almost as excited about our plans for the lot as we were.
Now that we're in the house, he's just as excited about us as he was the first day he found us. We had some tough days during the build, but Rob was a straight-shooter every step of the way and took the hit a few times when others might have stuck it to us. Not everybody in town is as fond of Rob as I am, but I appreciate the vision he had and still has for the area and the determination and perseverance he's applied to making his vision a reality.
Once we were the proud owners of our pond-side lot, Rob handed us over to a couple more Whittles, Mike and Aaron, a.k.a Whittle and Johnson Custom Homes. Mike is Rob's brother and Aaron is married to Rob's daughter. If you go over to their office you'll find more of the Whittle clan.
There are very few lots left to build on here in Buffalo Creek, so Rob's primary concern these days is a huge development called The Heath Golf and Yacht Club. What was nothing but some empty land this time last year now has roads, sewage, utilities and more. Were you to attend a meeting of the Heath Planning Department, I've heard you'd have to listen to a lot of chatter about the new development. The Whittles also have projects in Royce City and other Rockwall County locations.
We absolutely adore our house, but you guys know I am very honest here in this space. I tell you what I love, but I also tell you what I don't love and why. I love Rob Whittle's vision. I also appreciate that when the results of a routine inspection came in after we'd purchased the lot said our lot might benefit from water injections for the foundation, he didn't sweep it under the rug (which he could have done), but revealed the findings to us and split the cost of it with us. I love his enthusiasm for our area and the way he keeps plugging away at developing it, even in the face of a lot of conflict. If you Google him or Whittle Development, you're going to read a lot of ugly things, most of which are based on mis-information. You have to have a tough skin to be a developer, that and the heart of a salesman.
I'm also fond of Mike and Aaron. How could you not like Aaron? No matter what we threw at him, and we threw a lot, he always had a smile for us – and still does. If his name were on our deed, he couldn't be prouder of the finished product. Mike, too, is a nice guy. He works hard and his heart is definitely in the right place.
Even though I happen to be a personal fan of Rob, Mike and Aaron, I haven't come away from our building experience with complete satisfaction. It's not that they don't know how to build a house. It's that they are first and foremost a builder of spec homes and "custom" isn't their usual gig. I'd have no problem going out and buying a house built by Whittle and Johnson, but I'd never have them custom-build for me again. We know that we couldn't have built this house so economically with any other builder, but the headaches and heartaches sure made up the difference in sweat equity.
Basics to the custom home building process like, "tell-us-before-you-spend-our-money", seemed impossible for them grasp. We'd ask what the standard was for a Whittle home, go out and research other options, and then we'd ask, "What would it cost to do it this way?" Either they'd go ahead with it before telling us any price or they'd start the upgrade while we were still negotiating a price.
This would happen, in part, because they use the same subs for their custom builds as they do for their specs. The subs are used to doing things the "Whittle Way" and that didn't always line up with our way. For instance, the brick layers showed up one Saturday in December and started putting down brick. Our build was the next project on their schedule, but we were still discussing ornamental treatments with Aaron. A neighbor called us and alerted us to the fact that the walls weren't going up as we'd told him we'd planned. What a nightmare!
Another challenge was making changes. This wasn't our first build, so we knew the difficulty of change orders, but this project took the frustrations to a whole new level. Because W&J have been using their subs for so long, the subs, like the brick layer, make assumptions about the way things are going to happen. Compound this with a lag time between when we'd tell Aaron what we wanted and when Aaron would tell the subs. Pure frustration.
Far too many times we walked into the house and what we saw going up was not what we wanted. We'd stop the sub and try to contact the Whittles. Everything would then come to a screeching halt and the sub would move on to their next project. It could take months to get a sub back to finish something. Sometimes the other subs would just have to work around a project on hold, but sometimes everything would have to stop. During one of our many complaint sessions, I was told one of the reasons we were having so much trouble was because we were interfering with the sub-contractors' rhythms. That explained a lot, but it does not recommend W&J as "custom" builders.
Another issue was their spec sub-contractors aren't familiar with custom features. The builder's tile guy is one of the sweetest, hardest working subs we had working on our house. We have a lot of tile in the house so we really got to know him and like him a lot, but Carrera marble on the shower wall with black grout and a glass tile feature, slate laid in a Versailles pattern on the patio and other custom features were either just at the edge of his capabilities or in the case of the Versaille pattern, beyond them.
Bill actually had to sit down and figure out a pattern which would properly utilize the tiles which had already been purchased and then supervise the installation. Bill is not in the tile business, but even after we googled Versaille pattern and gave it to the tile guy, the tile guy couldn't figure it out. Our wooden stairwell with slate trim and rod iron balustrades? I don't even want to go into the challenges we had trying to get three subs and various suppliers to cooperate with our design.
There was more – like locking up at night. It's one thing for a builder to decide they can live with the risk of leaving a spec house open overnight. They do have insurance after all. But when clients have installed one-of-a-kind or hard-to-find features, the risk of theft and vandalism escalates. We were lucky to have befriended a guy that plays golf on most afternoons. After seeing the house wide open late in the day, as he played the hole next to the house, he gave us a call and offered to lock up for us. Then, the situation repeated itself so often that he just got in the habit of locking up our house each night.
I think you get the idea. All this and more is why, even though I love the finished product, I hated the nightmare of the build. We've been here for three months and W&J are still working their way through our first punch list. It's been tough; a real love-hate relationship.
Building a house is always a challenge. We can tell you nightmares about the house we built in California too, but those have more to do with tree-huggers, slow-growth proponents and restrictive CC&R's.
Don't build a house unless you are really ready for a lot of headaches. Were the headaches we had with W&J out of the norm? You'll have to be the judge of that. I'm never, ever going to build a house again. Next time Bill suggests it, I'm going to show him this blog post and this napkin.
Come back next week and I'll tell you about that nice guy that kept locking up our house each night and some other wonderful people we've met here in Buffalo Creek.
On our move-in day, my peaceful respite on the patio was cut short by two texts, but I was happy to receive both. One was Bill letting me know the second load was on its way. The other was my bestie, telling me she was leaving work and coming to help out. She also wanted to find out if we needed food.
Ah food – no need for that. We'd grabbed snacks out of our survival kit all day long, but we hadn't gotten around to giving it our full attention and there was a lot there to pay attention to. Knowing the delicious gift was waiting for us, I encouraged Bill and Debbie to hurry up. Then I set about making sure we were ready for the second load – pets safe, pathways clear, that sort of thing.
The second load was both easier and more difficult than the first. We'd sorted out all the boxes with the first load, but now we had all the big stuff. Nightfall had come and the rain continued.
The final piece to come in was our refrigerator. Of course, it wouldn't fit through any of the doors accessible from the driveway. They had to move the truck to the front of the house and carry it up the front walk which has three sets of steps on its way up to the house. These guys had to be hating on us about right now and that's when the bottom fell out of the sky – as if it had not been draining all day long.
Bill was tired, the movers were tired, I was tired – and the refrigerator didn't fit into the space which had been custom built for it. We left the refrigerator in the middle of the floor and ushered the movers out into the wet night.
Deb and I had been setting the table and unloading the gift box. What a feast! Along with a delicious bottle of wine were different kinds of crackers, a plethora of cheese and even a roll of hard salami. By then it was after nine o'clock, but we went ahead and texted our neighbors to tell them what lifesavers they'd been to deliver that box.
With our strength renewed, Deb and I cleaned off the table. Then it was time for her to head home. She foolishly offered up her services over the weekend. I warned her that the next job was cleaning the rent house, but she didn't renig on the offer.
We were in! Thankfully I'd made up the bed earlier in the day. We figured out a way to plug in the refrigerator and unloaded the ice chests full frozen food and other perishables. There were a million other things we needed to do – but tomorrow was another day.
That's when we heard the frogs – one great big bullfrog and a chorus of tenors. We hadn't quite counted on a serenade, but I was so tired that nothing could have stood between me and slumber. I think the Vienna Boys Choir would have had a hard time keeping me awake – even if they'd been standing at the foot of my bed. A few frogs quickly faded into nirvana.
What happened over the weekend – more excitement! Come back and I'll tell you about it.


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Posted byadmin July 29, 2009
Verizon Communications has had a change of heart about using Wi-Fi to extend its wireless broadband offering as the company announces free access to Wi-Fi hot spots for its Fios and DSL Internet customers.
On Monday the company announced that customers subscribed to its Verizon Fios Internet service with 20Mbps per second downstream and 15Mbps upstream or faster and customers who subscribe to its 3Mbps/768 Kbps or higher DSL service will be able to connect to Verizon Wi-Fi hot spots, at no additional charge as part of their broadband service. Verizon has partnered with the Wi-Fi service Boingo to offer access in thousands of locations throughout the U.S. including hotels, airports, restaurants, coffee shops, retailers, convention centers and public locations across the U.S. The company has a Web page where customers can locate these Verizon hot spots. For example, in New York City, the service is available at many Barnes & Noble bookstores, as well as at JFK airport, and in some Starbucks locations. For the past few years, Verizon has downplayed the importance of Wi-Fi. The company experimented with deploying its own Wi-Fi hot spots several years ago in New York City, turning old phone booths into wireless hot spots. The service never took off, and Verizon dismantled the hotspots. The company was also a vocal critic of many municipal Wi-Fi projects, including the one in Philadelphia. Instead Verizon has always pushed its 3G wireless network and more recently it's soon-to-be-built 4G wireless network as a perfect solution for its subscribers on the go. But as other broadband providers start offering Wi-Fi access for free with their services, it seems that Verizon has decided to jump on the Wi-Fi bandwagon. AT&T has been offering free Wi-Fi to its high-speed Internet customers for more than two years.
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And cable operator Cablevision, which competes in Verizon's territory, launched its Wi-Fi service last year. Cablevision and Comcast have teamed up to provide free Wi-Fi access to their subscribers who commute by offering the service on train platforms . Verizon spokesman Eric Rabe argues that the Verizon offering is better than what cable offers because it is available nationwide. The cable Wi-Fi networks are only available regionally where the cable providers operate. Rabe stopped short of admitting that Verizon has changed its tune when it comes to Wi-Fi. He said the company is merely answering the demand from its customers. "I would call this an expansion of the way we see mobility," he said in a phone interview. "We are broadening how people access the Internet when they aren't at home. And we're doing it because our customers have told us it's what they want." Rabe does not think that the new Wi-Fi offering will cut into the company's wireless broadband business, which requires a monthly service and contract to get access to the company's 3G wireless network on laptops. This service costs about $60 a month for up to 5GB of Internet usage a month. While the speeds on the 3G network are slower than when using a Wi-Fi hot spot, the wireless broadband card offers access to the Net wherever Verizon's 3G cellular network is available. "Our cellular 3G network allows people to be truly mobile," he said. "And you can't do that with hot spots. So I don't think it will compete at all with our wireless broadband service. There will still be a lot of users, particularly business customers, who still want the reliability and ubiquity of 3G wireless." Verizon has also been touting its new 4G wireless network, which will be in trials later this year in Seattle and Boston. The new network, which uses a technology called LTE, or Long Term Evolution, will go live commercially in 2010. The company expects to have the entire network built out by 2013. Verizon's plan is for the 4G network to provide wireless connectivity to a whole range of devices other than cell phones, laptops, and Netbooks. Rabe said that any Wi-Fi device that can download "access credentials" from the Verizon Web site, should be able to access the Wi-Fi hot spots. Some Windows Mobile phones may be able to access to the Wi-Fi hot spots, but he isn't certain that that is the case. And he could not confirm whether the Apple iPhone would be able to connect to the Verizon hot spots. AT&T , which is the exclusive U.S. carrier for the iPhone, already offers free Net access to iPhone users in its more than 20,000 hot spots.
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2015 Planned Parenthood Shooter Indicted For Murder, Tells Judge, "I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just A Religious Zealot"
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A federal grand jury has indicted Robert L. Dear, charging him with committing a mass shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015 that resulted in three deaths, including a police officer.
The grand jury indicted Dear on 68 counts, including 65 counts of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act and 3 counts of murder, according to a Department of Justice announcement released on Monday. The DOJ went on to explain that a decision had not yet been reached on whether they would pursue the death penalty for Dear.
"The department will follow the usual rigorous protocol to thoroughly consider all factual and legal issues relevant to that decision, which will necessarily involve consultation with the counsel for the defendant," stated the DOJ.
The Denver Channel reports:
Robert Lewis Dear, Jr., 61, appeared before a federal magistrate judge at 2 p.m. Monday in Denver after he was taken into custody Monday morning at the State Mental Hospital in Pueblo, where he has been held as his state mental competency hearings have been ongoing. But he waived his first appearance, which will now be held on Friday.
However, Dear did speak in court on Monday, telling the judge, "I am not crazy. I am just a religious zealot."
He also told the court that "they are afraid of the truth about abortions and selling of baby body parts" while on a rant in which he said he had a right to represent himself. Dear will be held in federal custody and not returned to the mental health facility in Pueblo pending his Friday court appearance.
The Huffington Post reports:
The state had already charged Dear with 179 counts, including murder and attempted murder, but the state's case has moved slowly as Dear has repeatedly been deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial.
In 2017, a Colorado Court of Appeals judge ruled that Dear could be given anti-psychotic medicine against his will. In earlier court appearances, Dear asked to represent himself and stated his guilt, proclaiming himself a "warrior for babies."
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado decided to bring charges now, before a five-year statute of limitations on charges filed under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) could expire.
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If you're looking for various decoration ideas for the upcoming Christmas, you must have purchased a Christmas tree. Apart from purchasing a Christmas tree, a Christmas bell is of immense importance. A Christmas bell can add beauty to the Christmas tree, and can also bring the theme of Christmas to your house.
Christmas bells are generally golden in color, and you can get such bells from a number of stores, selling Christmas items. You can also decorate a normal bell, by wrapping it with Golden colored paper, if you want to get a Christmas bell in the easiest possible way. It's a great idea.


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Q: JRE core dump. MapReduce running in Docker container I am running a docker container which is based on the : openjdk:7-jre
Inside that, I have a java MapReduce running causing a core dump as follows:
mapreduce@mapreduce:~$ cat hs_err_pid15.log
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# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
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#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f68a214e687, pid=15, tid=140086747383552
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# JRE version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (7.0_181-b01) (build 1.7.0_181-b01)
# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (24.181-b01 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Derivative: IcedTea 2.6.14
# Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux 8.10 (jessie), package 7u181-2.6.14-1~deb8u1
# Problematic frame:
# V  [libjvm.so+0x417687]
#
# Core dump written. Default location: /home/mapreduce/core or core.15
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please include
# instructions on how to reproduce the bug and visit:
#   http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla
#

---------------  T H R E A D  ---------------

Current thread (0x00007f67b80e0800):  JavaThread "LocalJobRunner Map Task Executor #0" [_thread_in_vm, id=732, stack(0x00007f687cc0c000,0x00007f687cd0d000)]

To run my MapReduce I use:

VM Arguments: jvm_args: -XX:-UseLoopPredicate
java_command:
  current/jars/mapreduce-01.jar Launcher Type: SUN_STANDARD
Environment Variables:
JAVA_HOME=/docker-java-home/jre
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

Any ideas what is causing it or where I should be looking. There is a lot of info in hs_err_pid15.log but I am not sure where to look?
Using -XX:-UseLoopPredicate did not solve the problem.

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This is a New Jersey based project that has produced 5 records over the last 15 years. This CD was put together from one 2½ hr session on June 28th, 2008. While it is not totally improvised, there are no bass or drum overdubs, mainly vocals, some guitar on tracks 12 and 15 and piano (track 6) and Glock on 13, otherwise it is what was recorded. They also inserted some public domain samples as well. Some of the 16 tracks are long and some short like the first track, which is under a 2mins and starts as if you are ending a concert! Spirit or Matter is next and a cool songs with some beautiful melodies and male and female singing as the track glides along and the spacey keyboards melt into the melodic guitar playing. Torpedo is mainly lead by a cool bass line and Talking Heads like rhythm guitar while a quite space lead guitar takes the lead part in this cool instrumental track. Bugbear Blues is just what is says, a short jazz blues rock track with some very melodic and very jazzy lead playing. Invincible Pole Fighters has a sort of darker thread to by one guitar and the other plays a more melodic line. It is quite a surprise when the vocal sample cuts through. Into another Time is a slow track with some special keyboards, singing and a good chance compared to the other tracks. The melodic guitar line is quite spacey and has some nice delay. It gets quite dreamy at the end. Gargantua is another one with a kind of dark theme with a keyboard that sounds like a haunting voice as the guitars play more melodic lines. I should mention that the drum and bass playing is very solid and I like the drum sound. Sand Palm V is a under 3 min piece that sounds like it came at the end of a longer jam but is pretty intense to start and I like the sound sample and the heavy almost doom guitar riff they use at the end, while the other guitar is very spacey. Dear Me has a flangy guitar and the vocals tell a short story. The drumming is more uptempo and contrasts the slow pace of the rest of the track. You'd make a lot of Money, one of the few tracks over 5 mins, and has some really cool guitar playing that is once again quite jazzy but with some effects on it and pushed to the right corner speaker before the other guitar trys to come in from the left side as they both solo away, making for a cool track. Death to Disco starts with an uptempo bass line and drum that some spacey keyboards float into the soundscape before the guitar player really enter the picture. The guitar player on the right plays some great leads while the one on the left makes a lot of far out sounds. It makes for an interesting contrast. Mag 3 has a funny hop to it and some spacey stuff and cool xylophone like parts and word samples. The Burrowers Beneath is nearly 9 mins and is slow and spacey track unlike anything else on the CD. Fading of my memories is the last of the person moments before the Sand Palm Vi and heavy ending track that takes us back to the beginning of the this album and has a quite hard and heavy sound and riff. Interesting CD.


Climate Common Sense: Insulation Inspection Data Kept Secret!
Tom Arup from SMH reports that data from the Federal Government's inspections of home insulation installations is not being released to prevent "further disruption of the industry".
THE federal government has refused to release data from its inspection of homes affected by the defunct $2.45 billion home insulation scheme, saying it could create further havoc for the already battered industry.
Climate Change Minister Greg Combet and parliamentary secretary Mark Dreyfus issued a joint statement yesterday saying the inspections had been targeted at installations suspected of being dodgy, so the results would be ''misleading'' and could ''generate further disruption in the insulation industry''.
The opposition accused the government of a cover-up, with climate change spokesman Greg Hunt saying ''the results must be really scaring them to go to these lengths to hide them''.
''This is a blatant, disgraceful and shameful attempt to hide important facts about safety risks facing worried homeowners,'' he said.
The opposition has indicated it will push for a judicial inquiry into the home insulation scheme through a private members bill in Parliament.
A judicial inquiry is just what is needed into the most disgraceful waste of taxpayer's money I can remember and heads should roll!


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Le phare du fort Saint-Elme, ou de La Valette, est un phare situé sur le fort Saint-Elme de la ville de La Valette sur l'île de Malte (république de Malte) en mer Méditerranée.

Histoire
Le phare est situé sur la forteresse à l'extrémité de la péninsule de Xiberras, entre le Grand Harbour et le Marsamxett Harbour. Mis en service en 2013, il marque l'entrée du port de La Valette.

Description
La balise actuelle est placée sur un pylone métallique à claire-voie de . Elle émet, à une hauteur focale de , trois éclats blancs toutes les 15 secondes. Sa portée n'est pas connue.

Identifiant : ARLHS : MLT007 - Amirauté : E2061.5 - NGA : 10544 .

Voir aussi

Notes et références

Lien connexe
 Liste des phares de Malte

Liens externes
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's The Lighthouse Directory:  Lighthouses of Malta
  Online List of Lights - Malta
  Liste ARLHS - Malta
  Grand Harbour Light- Site Lightphotos.net

Phare à Malte
Phare du XXIe siècle
Malte (Île)
La Valette

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Knowing KIXEYE it probably/almost certainly wouldn't be awesome. They'd almost certainly ruin the game like they've done their other projects with filling it with shovelware and taking out features favoured by the community and make players wish it remained dead.


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Issue: Apr 1999
Digestive Enzymes: The Missing Link
With age, the body's capacity to make enzymes diminishes, causing organs to become overworked and, ultimately, bringing on digestive disorders. By guarding against the loss of enzymes, scientists believe that humans could live longer, healthier lives.
Enzymes are a vital component of the digestive process, essential to the body's absorption and full use of food. The capacity of a living organism to make enzymes diminishes with age, and some scientists believe that humans could live longer and be healthier by guarding against the loss of our precious enzymes.
by Marilyn Bitomsky
Enzymes are responsible for every activity of life-even thinking requires enzyme activity. There are two primary classes of enzymes responsible for maintaining life functions: digestive and metabolic. The primary digestive enzymes-proteases, amylases and lipases- function as biological catalysts, helping to break down protein, carbohydrates and fats. Raw foods also provide enzymes that naturally break down food for proper absorption. Metabolic enzymes are responsible for the structuring, repair and remodeling of every cell, and the body is under a great daily burden to supply sufficient enzymes for optimal health. Metabolic enzymes operate in every cell, every organ and every tissue, and they need constant replenishment.
Digestion of food takes a high priority and has a high demand for enzymes. When we eat, enzymatic activity begins in the mouth where salivary amylase, lingual lipase and ptyalin initiate starch and fat digestion. In the stomach, hydrochloric acid activates pepsinogen to pepsin, which breaks down protein, and gastric lipase begins the hydrolysis of fats. Without proper enzyme production, the body has a difficult time digesting food, often resulting in a variety of chronic disorders.
Poor eating habits, including inadequate chewing and eating on the run, can result in inadequate enzyme production and hence malabsorption of food. And this is exacerbated with aging, since that is a time of decreased hydrochloric acid production as well as of a general decline in digestive enzyme secretion.
Saliva is rich in amylase, while gastric juice contains protease. The pancreas secretes digestive juices containing high concentrations of amylase and protease as well as a smaller concentration of lipase. It also secretes a small concentration of maltase, which reduces to dextrose. Animals eating raw food often have no enzymes at all in saliva, unlike humans. However, dogs fed on a high carbohydrate, heat-treated diet, have been found to develop enzymes in their saliva within a week in response to enzyme depleting foods.
One of America's pioneering bio-chemists and nutrition researchers Dr. Edward Howell, in his book Enzyme Nutrition, cites numerous animal studies showing that animals fed diets that are deficient in enzymes suffer from enlargement of the pancreas, as huge amounts of pancreatic enzymes are squandered in digesting foods that are devoid of natural enzymes. The result of this wasteful outpouring of pancreatic digestive enzymes is a decrease in the supply of crucial metabolic enzymes and impaired health.
How significant is an enzyme deficiency to overall health? For starters, organs that are overworked enlarge in order to perform the increased work load. Those with congestive heart failure or aortic valvular disease often suffer from an enlarged heart-not a healthy condition. When the pancreas enlarges in order to produce more digestive enzymes, there becomes a deficiency in the production of life-sustaining metabolic enzymes, as available enzyme-producing capacity is used in digesting food, instead of supporting cellular enzymatic functions. The tremendous impact that wastage of pancreatic enzymes can have on health and even life itself has been established in animal studies. The critical question is how this applies to human health.
For a good part of the 20th Century, European oncologists have included enzyme therapy as a natural, non-toxic therapy against cancer. Almost all of the leading alternative cancer specialists treating Americans prescribe both food enzymes and concentrated enzyme supplements as primary or adjuvant cancer therapies. Nicholas Gonzalez, M.D., a New York City cancer specialist, uses very high doses of supplemental pancreas enzymes as a primary anti-tumor therapy. Dr. Gonzalez's clinical successes have led conventional drug companies to seek to duplicate these natural therapies and offer them as adjuvant drug therapies. One might assume that if pancreatic enzymes are efficacious in treating existing cancers, that maintaining a large pool of these precious enzymes in the body would help to prevent cancer from developing in the first place. Epidemiological studies on human populations show that those who eat fresh fruits and vegetables that are loaded with natural enzymes have dramatically reduced levels of cancer and other diseases. Whether the high enzyme content of these foods is partially responsible for their anti-cancer effect has not been proven, but the evidence is compelling.
Digestive organs such as the pancreas and liver produce most of the body's digestive enzymes, while the remainder should come from uncooked foods such as fresh fruit and vegetables, raw sprouted grains, seeds and nuts, unpasteurized dairy products, and from enzyme supplements.
Eating food in its natural, unprocessed state is vital to the maintenance of good health, and a lack of it in the modern diet is directly responsible for much degenerative disease. Cooking of food, particularly if heat is prolonged and over 118 degrees Fahrenheit, destroys enzymes in that food, leaving what is commonly consumed by the modern person - an "enzymeless" diet. This is how by middle age we become metabolically depleted of enzymes. The glands and major organs, including the brain. suffer most from this deficiency. The brain may actually shrink as a result of a cooked, over-refined diet devoid of enzymes the body so desperately needs. As stated earlier in this article, to try to meet the deficiency, the pancreas swells. Laboratory mice fed on heat-processed enzymeless food have a pancreas two or three times heavier than that of wild mice eating their natural enzyme diet of raw food.
If foods are eaten uncooked, fewer of the body's digestive enzymes are required to perform the digestive function. The body thereby adapts to the plentiful, external supply by secreting fewer of its own enzymes, preserving these enzymes to assist in vital cellular metabolic functions. Frying is one of the worst cooking methods since it occurs at a much higher temperature than boiling, damaging protein as well as destroying enzymes. Many digestive disorders such as bloating may be related to an enzyme deficit that begins in middle age.
Enzymes can also be wasted by lifestyle factors. Enzymes do more work with increasing temperatures, and they are used up faster. For example, a fever induces faster enzyme action, and hence is unfavorable for bacterial activity. Enzymes have been found in the urine not only after fevers but also after strenuous athletic activity.
Animals harness the power of enzymes in food by burying or covering it, thereby allowing enzyme activity to begin and food to be predigested. That way animals preserve their own enzyme supply. In fact, animals-and also the people of some native cultures-teach us not only about how to preserve our enzyme supply, but also about disease prevention through efficient use of enzymes. Although whales have up to six inches of fat keeping them warm, for instance, their arteries are unclogged. Similarly Eskimos, who frequently eat large quantities of fat, are often not obese. Both these groups eat the fat-digesting enzyme lipase in the form of raw foods.
In vitro and controlled in vivo studies using internal and parenteral routes have examined the effectiveness of different types and sources of plant enzymes in a wide range of conditions, including maldigestion, malabsorption, pancreatic insufficiency, steatorrhoea, celiac disease, lactose intolerance, arterial obstruction and thrombotic disease.
Enzymes derived from the Aspergillus oryzae fungus have been subjected to numerous studies evaluating their role in supporting healthy digestive function. Moreover, several human studies suggest the proteolytic enzymes derived from this fungus may play a role in anti-inflammatory and fibrinolytic therapy. These enzymes appear to be relatively heat stable and they are also active throughout a wide pH range, important because most enzymes are deact*ated in stomach acid. These enzymes. synthesized from fungus, contain no fungal residue even though that is their derivation. Modern filtration technology enables these fungal enzymes to be ideal for human consumption.
Oral supplementation of digestive enzymes taken just before or at mealtimes can assist digestion, according to Dr. Mark Percival. Writing in Nurntional Peads, he says although most supplemental enzymes are labile and will deactivate when exposed to stomach acid, if they are taken just before or with a meal, some of the enzymes remain active. "The enzymes are physically protected" by the meal, allowing for some enzymatic activity to occur in the stomach. And for those enzymes that make it through to the small intestine. they may help with digestion there as well. Because pH plays a major role in enzymatic activity, the enzymes derived from Aspergillus "may be highly useful as they appear to be remarkably stable, even when subjected to an acidic environment." Dr Howell says he chews an enzyme capsule with his food in order to start the digestive process as soon as the food is consumed. Enzyme activity has been shown to begin even before the food is swallowed.
Dr. Arnold Renshaw, from Manchester in England, reported in Annals of Rheumatic Disease that he had obtained good results with enzyme treatment of over 700 patients with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis or fibrositis. "Some intractable cases of ankylosing spondylitis and Still's disease have also responded to this therapy." He went on to say that of 556 people with various types of arthritis, 283 were found to be much improved, and a further 219 were improved to a less marked extent. Of 292 cases of rheumatoid arthritis, 264 showed improvement of various degrees. The longer the duration of the disease, the longer time before improvement was observed, although most started to show improvement after just two or three months of enzyme therapy. Despite these favorable findings, digestive enzyme therapy in conventional medicine has been reserved to those diseases that directly result in a pathological deficiency of pancreas-derived digestive enzymes.
Common digestive disorders may benefit from enzyme replacement. In pathological digestive diseases, the oral intake of exocrine pancreatic enzymes is of key importance in the treatment of maldigestion in chronic pancreatitis with pancreatic insufficiency, according to Schneider et al. They studied the therapeutic effectiveness of a conventional and an acid-protected enzyme preparation, and an acid-stable fungal enzyme preparation in the treatment of severe pancreatogenic steatorrhoea. The results showed that a supplemental enzyme preparation is best for patients with chronic pancreatitis and prior Whipple's procedure (a surgical procedure performed on pancreatic cancer patients), while patients with an intact upper gastrointestinal tract fare best with an acid-protected porcine pancreatic enzyme preparation.
Dr. Brad Rachman says that 58% of the population suffers from some type of digestive disorder, and a lack of optimal digestive function associated with enzyme inadequacy may lead to malabsorption and numerous related conditions. The problem is exacerbated in the elderly because their production of gastric HCl may be suboptimal. "This can be a significant factor that can impact nutrient absorption along with the creation of maldigestive-type symptoms. Bacterial production of hydrogen and methane are determined after a carbohydrate challenge. Excessive levels of these gases reflect overgrowth of bacteria in the upper gut." Help is at hand, he says, with enzyme replacement. Dr Rachman says enzymes administered orally at meals may improve the digestion of dietary protein and thereby decrease the quantity of antigenic macromolecules leaking across the intestinal wall into the bloodstream. Such leaks may trigger the body's defenses against exposure to what it perceives as foreign protein or polypeptide invaders, producing the symptoms of allergy.
Dr. Howell agrees that allergies can also be helped by enzyme additions to the diet. So too can excessive cholesterol levels, he says. Discussing cholesterol and atherosclerosis, he quotes a 1962 study by three British doctors, CW Adams, OB Bayliss and MZ Ibrahim, who set out to discover why cholesterol clogs arteries, ultimately manifesting in heart disease. They found all enzymes studied became progressively weaker in the arteries as people aged, and the hardening became more severe. They suggested a shortage of enzymes is part of the mechanism which allows cholesterol deposits to accumulate in the inner part of arterial walls. Blood tests conducted by Stanford University researcher LO Pilgeram in 1958 demonstrated progressive decline in lipase in the blood of atherosclerosis patients with advancing middle and old age.
About the same time, Becker, Meyer and Necheles at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago found enzymes in the saliva, pancreas, and blood became weaker with advancing age. They speculated that fat may be absorbed in the unhydrolyzed state in atherosclerosis. They also found definite improvement in the character of fat utilization following the use of enzymes. Intravenous administration of brinase, a proteolytic enzyme preparation from Aspergillus oryzae, was found by an Irish research group, Fitzgerald et al, to be beneficial in the treatment of chronic arterial obstruction. Patients were observed for three months before receiving six intravenous infusions of either saline or brinase over two weeks. During the observation period, no changes were observed. After the infusion, 17 of the 27 obstructed arterial segments were found to have resumed blood flow, and the number of patent segments increased from it to 27. No improvements were observed in the placebo-treated patients.
Considerable evidence exists to support the beneficial effects of enzymes, natural and supplemental. And it is obvious that plant enzymes benefit specific conditions. Research dealing with intact absorption of food substrates proves undoubtedly that non-digested food substrates enter the blood and that plant enzymes break down different food substrates that would otherwise be passed into the blood without being fully digested.
The time when our normal ability to produce enzymes is greatest is in our youth, a time of rapid growth, and in most cases a time of no serious illness. When we age and our food enzymes become depleted, we begin to suffer a broad range of health complaints.
How long we live and in what state of health is determined by our enzyme potential, according to Dr. Howell. Referring to a study by Dr. Meyer and his associates at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, Dr. Howell said the enzyme of the saliva in young adults is 30 times stronger than that in people aged over 69 years. Similarly, a German study by Eckardt of 1200 urine specimens found almost twice as much of the starch-digesting enzyme, amylase, in young people as in old.
So humans eating an enzymeless diet use up vast quantities of their enzyme potential through secretion of the pancreas and other digestive organs, resulting in a shortened life-span, illness, and lowered resistance to all types of stress.
University of Illinois researcher. GA Leveille discovered in the early that enzyme activities in the tissues become weaker with aging. Conducting experiments on rats, he found that at the age of 18 months - which is considered old age for rats - enzyme free fabricated diets, enzyme activity had shrunk to less than 20% of its level at one month of age. And Dr. Howell agrees: "the more lavishly a young body gives up its enzymes, the sooner the state of enzyme poverty, or old age. is reached."
The answer is substitution of raw food for cooked as much as possible. By eating foods with their enzymes intact and by supplementing cooked foods with enzyme capsules, Dr. Howell suggests we can stop abnormal and pathological aging processes. He singles out raw milk, bananas, avocados, seeds, nuts, grapes, and other natural foods as rich in food enzymes. He also suggests enzyme supplements be taken with all cooked food and, under medical supervision, large doses in enzyme therapy to treat certain diseases. We are what we eat. Few would disagree with this adage, but not everyone realizes it is not quite so simple. Enzymes make the digestion of food possible. This means we must make maximum use of enzyme activity, both internal enzymes and those we consume either in food or as supplements.
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Our practice has been a presence in Lancaster County dentistry for over 65 years. Dr. John F. Schreder attended St. Francis College in Loretto, Pennsylvania and graduated from Georgetown University School of Dentistry in 1952. Upon graduation, Dr. John returned to Lancaster and founded the practice at 320 West King Street. Located just three blocks from Penn's Square and a stone's throw from the Cabbage Hill section of Lancaster where he was born and raised, the practice became an important part of dentistry in town.
As the practice grew, it became evident that expansion was necessary. In 1965 Dr. John and Dr. Al doubled the size of their office space at the King Street location to accommodate the increased demand.
In 1991, Dr. Michael J. Schreder joined his father, Dr. John, and uncle, Dr. Al, at the King Street office. The practice experienced continued growth and was relocated to its present location at 151 Good Drive in January 1994. This move more than doubled the office space of the King Street location. With the opening of the new office, Dr. Jane Aldrich Schreder joined her husband, Dr. Mike, and father-in-law, Dr. John, in the practice.
Dr. Al retired with the closing of the King Street office on December 23, 1993. Dr. John continued to practice at the new office until his retirement in May 1997.
Drs. Jane and Mike have continued the same patient-centered approach to dentistry that was such a large part of the way Dr. John and Dr. Al practiced. They take pride in the fact that many Lancaster families have continued to call our office their home for dental care over several generations.


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With Maps, Researcher Aims to Bridge Gap between Scientists, Indigenous Experts
As humankind wrestles with the growing repercussions of a changing climate, the transfer of knowledge between scientists and local environmental experts becomes ever more crucial to human adaptation.
Yet, due to historical and cultural factors, dialogue about environmental change between two crucial groups — scientists from the developed world and experts from indigenous populations — remains largely ineffective.
Margaret Pearce
"There are indigenous ways of knowing and strategizing about environmental change," said Margaret Pearce, assistant professor of geography at the University of Kansas. "Those are different from nonindigenous people. They're different because they're based on disparate worldviews. It can be as basic as the separation between science and religion, or perceptions of time and ways to measure distance. These kinds of differences then influence the failure of dialogue between indigenous and nonindigenous experts regarding environmental change. It's a very entrenched historical and cultural lack of communication."
Now, using cartography as a tool, Pearce is set to help blend local, indigenous knowledge and outside, scientific understanding of environmental adaptation into a visual entity clear to both groups. Her work is based on recent research conducted in the North Pare Mountains of Tanzania as part of a collaborative study titled "Linking Local Knowledge" funded by the National Science Foundation.
By interpreting the conclusions of previous NSF researchers and communicating with people in the Tanzanian villages of Kirya, Lambo, and Mangio — communities that have suffered a crisis of livelihood loss as the result of environmental change — Pearce will use her training in cartography to translate these findings into maps that visually connect the adaptive strategies of the culturally disparate groups.
"There's a need for a synthesizing dialogue between local and outside experts," she said. "That's been hard in words — whether the words are spoken or written — for a variety of historical reasons. I see cartography as a very powerful tool because it can visually represent spaces of difference and spaces of agreement. You can point and say, 'Here are the places where we agree and see things similarly, and here are the places where we diverge.'"
Through better cross-cultural communication, Pearce aims to help solve the problem of livelihood loss in the region. Further, she hopes to create a model that will encourage both indigenous and nonindigenous people around the world to share strategies for effective adaptation in the face of severe environmental change.
"My expertise is to listen to what people are telling me about geography in a certain place and represent those geographies graphically in the map," Pearce said. "What's wonderful about cartographic language is that it can show specific information like, 'This is how far we used to have to walk to water, and this is how far we walk now.' But maps can also show differences in how we think in general, like the way we think about distance. A Western scientist might use kilometers to map how far away something is, whereas local people might map the same distance in terms of the time on a watch, because for them the distance is inextricable from time. Those differences can be revealed clearly on the map."
Pearce will devote a full year to this project as an American Council of Learned Societies Fellow and as the Anne Ray Fellow at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, N.M., where she will be based. Pearce's collaborators in the NSF project include researchers at Ohio University, Michigan State University, University of Florida and Sokoine University.
[Source: University of Kansas news release]
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Climate|Large Sections of Australia's Great Reef Are Now Dead, Scientists Find
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Large Sections of Australia's Great Reef Are Now Dead, Scientists Find
Severe bleaching last year on the northern Great Barrier Reef affected even the largest and oldest corals, like this slow-growing Porites colony.Credit...Terry Hughes et al./Nature
By Damien Cave and Justin Gillis
SYDNEY, Australia — The Great Barrier Reef in Australia has long been one of the world's most magnificent natural wonders, so enormous it can be seen from space, so beautiful it can move visitors to tears.
But the reef, and the profusion of sea creatures living near it, are in profound trouble.
Huge sections of the Great Barrier Reef, stretching across hundreds of miles of its most pristine northern sector, were recently found to be dead, killed last year by overheated seawater. More southerly sections around the middle of the reef that barely escaped then are bleaching now, a potential precursor to another die-off that could rob some of the reef's most visited areas of color and life.
"We didn't expect to see this level of destruction to the Great Barrier Reef for another 30 years," said Terry P. Hughes, director of a government-funded center for coral reef studies at James Cook University in Australia and the lead author of a paper on the reef that is being published Thursday as the cover article of the journal Nature. "In the north, I saw hundreds of reefs — literally two-thirds of the reefs were dying and are now dead."
The damage to the Great Barrier Reef, one of the world's largest living structures, is part of a global calamity that has been unfolding intermittently for nearly two decades and seems to be intensifying. In the paper, dozens of scientists described the recent disaster as the third worldwide mass bleaching of coral reefs since 1998, but by far the most widespread and damaging.
The state of coral reefs is a telling sign of the health of the seas. Their distress and death are yet another marker of the ravages of global climate change.
If most of the world's coral reefs die, as scientists fear is increasingly likely, some of the richest and most colorful life in the ocean could be lost, along with huge sums from reef tourism. In poorer countries, lives are at stake: Hundreds of millions of people get their protein primarily from reef fish, and the loss of that food supply could become a humanitarian crisis.
With this latest global bleaching in its third year, reef scientists say they have no doubt as to the responsible party.
They warned decades ago that the coral reefs would be at risk if human society kept burning fossil fuels at a runaway pace, releasing greenhouse gases that warm the ocean. Emissions continued to rise, and now the background ocean temperature is high enough that any temporary spike poses a critical risk to reefs.
"Climate change is not a future threat," Professor Hughes said. "On the Great Barrier Reef, it's been happening for 18 years."
Corals require warm water to thrive, but they are exquisitely sensitive to extra heat. Just two or three degrees Fahrenheit of excess warming can sometimes kill the tiny creatures.
Globally, the ocean has warmed by about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit since the late 19th century, by a conservative calculation, and a bit more in the tropics, home to many reefs. An additional kick was supplied by an El Niño weather pattern that peaked in 2016 and temporarily warmed much of the surface of the planet, causing the hottest year in a historical record dating to 1880.
It was obvious last year that the corals on many reefs were likely to die, but now formal scientific assessments are coming in. The paper in Nature documents vast coral bleaching in 2016 along a 500-mile section of the reef north of Cairns, a city on Australia's eastern coast.
Bleaching indicates that corals are under heat stress, but they do not always die and cooler water can help them recover. Subsequent surveys of the Great Barrier Reef, conducted late last year after the deadline for inclusion in the Nature paper, documented that extensive patches of reef had in fact died, and would not be likely to recover soon, if at all.
Professor Hughes led those surveys. He said that he and his students cried when he showed them maps of the damage, which he had calculated in part by flying low in small planes and helicopters.
His aerial surveys, combined with underwater measurements, found that 67 percent of the corals had died in a long stretch north of Port Douglas, and in patches, the mortality reached 83 percent.
By luck, a storm stirred the waters in the central and southern parts of the reef at a critical moment, cooling them, and mortality there was much lower — about 6 percent in a stretch off Townsville, and even lower in the southernmost part of the reef.
But an Australian government study released last week found that over all, last year brought "the highest sea surface temperatures across the Great Barrier Reef on record."
Only 9 percent of the reef has avoided bleaching since 1998, Professor Hughes said, and now, the less remote, more heavily visited stretch from Cairns south is in trouble again. Water temperatures there remain so high that another round of mass bleaching is underway, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority confirmed last week.
Professor Hughes said he hoped the die-off this time would not be as serious as last year's, but "back-to-back bleaching is unheard-of in Australia." The central and southern part of the reef had already been badly damaged by human activities like dredging and pollution.
The Australian government has tried to combat these local threats with its Reef 2050 plan, restricting port development, dredging and agricultural runoff, among other risks. But Professor Hughes's research found that, given the high temperatures, these national efforts to improve water quality were not enough.
"The reefs in muddy water were just as fried as those in pristine water," Professor Hughes said. "That's not good news in terms of what you can do locally to prevent bleaching — the answer to that is not very much at all. You have to address climate change directly."
With the election of Donald J. Trump as the American president, a recent global deal to tackle the problem, known as the Paris Agreement, seems to be in peril. Australia's conservative government also continues to support fossil fuel development, including what many scientists and conservationists see as the reef's most immediate threat — a proposed coal mine, expected to be among the world's largest, to be built inland from the reef by the Adani Group, a conglomerate based in India.
"The fact is, Australia is the largest coal exporter in the world, and the last thing we should be doing to our greatest national asset is making the situation worse," said Imogen Zethoven, campaign director for the Australian Marine Conservation Society.
Australia relies on the Great Barrier Reef for about 70,000 jobs and billions of dollars annually in tourism revenue, and it is not yet clear how that economy will be affected by the reef's deterioration. Even in hard-hit areas, large patches of the Great Barrier Reef survived, and guides will most likely take tourists there, avoiding the dead zones.
The global reef crisis does not necessarily mean extinction for coral species. The corals may save themselves, as many other creatures are attempting to do, by moving toward the poles as the Earth warms, establishing new reefs in cooler water.
But the changes humans are causing are so rapid, by geological standards, that it is not entirely clear that coral species will be able to keep up. And even if the corals do survive, that does not mean individual reefs will continue to thrive where they do now.
Coral reefs are sensitive systems, built by unusual animals. The corals themselves are tiny polyps that act like farmers, capturing colorful single-celled plants called algae that convert sunlight into food. The coral polyps form colonies and build a limestone scaffolding on which to live — a reef.
But when the water near a reef gets too hot, the algae begin producing toxins, and the corals expel them in self-defense, turning ghostly white. If water temperatures drop soon enough, the corals can grow new algae and survive, but if not, they may succumb to starvation or disease.
Even when the corals die, some reefs eventually recover. If water temperatures stay moderate, the damaged sections of the Great Barrier Reef may be covered with corals again in as few as 10 or 15 years.
But the temperature of the ocean is now high enough that global mass bleaching events seem to be growing more frequent. If they become routine, many of the world's hard-hit coral reefs may never be able to re-establish themselves.
Within a decade, certain kinds of branching and plate coral could be extinct, reef scientists say, along with a variety of small fish that rely on them for protection from predators.
"I don't think the Great Barrier Reef will ever again be as great as it used to be — at least not in our lifetimes," said C. Mark Eakin, a reef expert with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in Silver Spring, Md.
Dr. Eakin was an author of the new paper and heads a program called Coral Reef Watch, producing predictive maps to warn when coral bleaching is imminent. Even though last year's El Niño has ended, water temperatures are high enough that his maps are showing continued hot water across millions of square miles of the ocean.
Kim M. Cobb, a climate scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology who was not involved in the writing of the new paper, described it and the more recent findings as accurate, and depressing. She said she saw extensive coral devastation last year off Kiritimati Island, part of the Republic of Kiribati several thousand miles from Australia and a place she visits regularly in her research.
With the international effort to fight climate change at risk of losing momentum, "ocean temperatures continue to march upward," Dr. Cobb said. "The idea that we're going to have 20 or 30 years before we reach the next bleaching and mortality event for the corals is basically a fantasy."


Dammit. It's my blog. If I declare it's The Bangles Week, it's The Bangles Week. In our heart of heart's we know the post about Vic, Two Buttons Deep, and the Utica pizza joint is totally perfect for "Manic Monday".
Maybe the lyrics of "Eternal Flame" are entirely vapid. But the song is all about a deep longing. It's a longing I have, and I suspect that many share. Sure, the song isn't technically about a longing for international cuisines, cooked by hands with a deep knowledge of the food and culture, and served to eager consumers who want as true a taste of place as possible in a foreign land.
But it could be. Do you feel the same? Or am I only dreaming?
Here's the thing. Yesterday -R took issue with calling Bon Appetit Cafe an Egyptian restaurant. And his reasoning is certainly valid. The presence of one signature dish does not define a restaurant's identity. However, there is a larger issue at play.
How many Chinese restaurants aren't actually Chinese restaurants? I mean, what's Chinese about General Tso's Chicken? How Japanese are our sushi places?
I don't know how far you were able to make it through Ugly Delicious, or if you were even able to make it through the first pizza episode. At some point in the show there was a great thing about Chinese restaurants opening, where the family decided to put away their traditional Chinese recipes, and serve only American food.
People will say they want more interesting dining options. Then an excellent Burmese place opens, and people think perhaps maybe it's too interesting.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I want the flexibility to be able to define a restaurant based on the knowledge, capability, and passion of the chef and owner. Of course, this doesn't make sense in every instance. If a French chef has a love for Texas BBQ and opens up a smokehouse focused entirely on brisket, I'm not going to call that a French restaurant.
Owning a restaurant is a terrible job. It's an awful way to make money, and it's a brutal way to live. Margins are slim. Hours are long. Failure is almost inevitable. So I don't blame those who stake their livelihoods on this segment of the economy for trying to produce a product that sells.
In an office building on Wolf Road, that's salads, sandwiches, and wraps.
The fact that there is even one Egyptian dish on the menu at all is a small miracle. And while it broke my heart a little, I wasn't entirely surprised that no previous review for Bon Appetit Cafe mentioned the Koshari. I did not see anyone else order it while I was in the restaurant. And I have to wonder if they sell more than a small handful of order on any given week.
My hope is that you—yes, you—will go there soon, try it, love it, and tell your friends all about it. And then hopefully, some of them might go out and repeat the cycle.
Should the owners come to see a higher demand and interest in Egyptian food, they may put on another dish as a special. If that does well, maybe they will develop an entire Egyptian section of the menu. And maybe, just maybe, they'll expand to open a fully Egyptian restaurant.
Perhaps other budding entrepreneurs see a thriving Egyptian restaurant in Albany. It might give them the encouragement to open, I don't know, maybe an Ethiopian place?
Because right now, despite the rise in some truly fine Chinese restaurants that are actually serving bona fide Chinese food, the Capital Region doesn't have the most adventurous diners. It's something we need to work on, and hopefully you're up for helping with the task.


*Climate Killer* by XOEarth Stele is a parody of *Psycho Killer* by Talking Heads, David Byrne, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth.
Our ailing planet could suffer a deadly ecological system[s] failure within three years - say some climate scientists. Help our planet stay healthy so we can keep having fun. Work ecologically. Travel ecologically. Eat ecologically. Donate ecologically. Play ecologically.


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Limerickleader
PICTURE SLIDESHOW: St Michael's pupils set for Bloomsday
Mike Dwane
LIMERICK has said yes to Molly Bloom - or at least to a new variety of tulip named in honour of Joyce's heroine.
A competition to christen the striking white and lilac perennial was organised by the Dutch Embassy in Dublin, with Corbally's Mary O'Sullivan victorious.
And the flower is now to form the centrepiece of a new "Love Limerick" flower bed at the People's Park, set with the help of pupils at neighbouring St Michael's National School this week.
Over 900 bulbs were planted this week which in the coming weeks will bloom into a beautiful pink heart. According to Limerick City Council, these will be surrounded by additional varieties of tulip to form "Limerick" in red lettering, set against white tulips and all bordered by vivid blue muscari armeniacum.
"It is wonderful to see the new Molly Bloom flower bed in the People's Park and I am very pleased that the parks department were able to run with the idea of bringing the Molly Bloom to Limerick and to involve St Michael's National School. I hope people will take the time to enjoy the new 'Love Limerick' Molly Bloom flowerbed," said Mary, whose tulip has also been planted at the National Botanic Gardens - in the shape of James Joyce - ahead of flowering season.
Michael Sheehan, parks department, said it was "lovely to be here on such a bright sunny spring day showcasing the Molly Bloom tulip. Great credit is due to Mary for bringing her tulip-naming win to our attention and we look forward to seeing the flower bed in full bloom in four to six weeks time".
"It had been Mary's wish to share the 'Molly Bloom' tulip with the people of Limerick," explained a spokesperson for the council.
"She contacted Minister of State Jan O'Sullivan and from there Mary contacted the parks department and the idea of the 'Love Limerick' tulip flower bed was cultivated."
To give the bulbs the best chance, they were potted up in the nursery to get through the harshest of the weather.
"It is great to see pupils from St Michael's assisting the City Council with this project," said Cllr Maria Byrne as they had "been great neighbours to the park over the years".
All pictures in the above slideshow taken by Limerick Leader photographer Adrian Butler. To order any of the pictures contact the picture desk on 061-214542 or buy a photo online.


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Q: docker proxy pull windows 10 After install docker v1.12.0-rc2 on windows 10 pro machine, set the http and  https variables, i get the following error:
docker run hello-world
Unable to find image 'hello-world:latest' locally
Pulling repository docker.io/library/hello-world
C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\Resources\bin\docker.exe: Error while pulling image: Get https://index.docker.io/v1/repos
itories/library/hello-world/images: x509: certificate is valid for FG200B3911602237, not index.docker.io.
See 'C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\Resources\bin\docker.exe run --help'.

A: world image is images for Linux container, you can't use it on windows container.
At the moment, there're only about 9 or 10 images for windows containers, you can use it follow this article https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscontainers/deployment/deployment.

A: After install  v1.12.0-rc3-beta18 build 5226 pull container works behind a proxy. tks @huy-tran


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Q: How to format single line css file? I am using VS 2013 and there is some downloaded css files that have everything packed in 1 line.
How do I get it in proper format?

A: Try using Ctrl + K, Ctrl + D to auto format it. Works for me in VS 2013.
EDIT: Just noticed you're using the "min" version. That's the minified version. There is a 'full' version available where everything is 'correctly' formatted.


PocketPhonics teaches kids letter sounds, first words and handwriting. It is used in over 300 UK primary schools, and tens of thousands of homes. It follows the national curriculum, and independent research (see appsinmypocket.com/research) found children learnt nine times faster using PocketPhonics compared to a classroom lesson.
We've also had coverage in the Daily Telegraph and Guardian.
PocketPhonics is split in to 12 groups of letter sounds, each group is followed by a set of storybooks for those letter sounds. Kids read storybooks on the right level for them.
The phonics levels are included in the price of this "basic edition", but the storybooks cost extra. PocketPhonics Stories (full edition) includes the stories in the price.
In the first group of letter sounds, there are six sounds to master before the child will be able to read their first storybook. Most children aged 4+ start to read their first storybook within 10 weeks if they use the app for 15 mins everyday.
Parents and teachers can easily monitor children's progress online. Teachers and parents are emailed a certificate when a child completes a task.
Children can tap an unfamiliar word in a story, and the app will sound out the letters to help the child understand what the word says. They can tap again to hear the word and see a picture that illustrates its meaning.
As the child reads a story, the app tests whether they can read some of the key words. At the end of the story, it quizzes the child on all new words in that story.
* The phonics levels are included in the price.
The section of the app for parents and teachers is now easier to navigate.
Schools can now change the group (class) the app is being used for much more quickly and straight from the adult menu.
I highly recommend this app. My child enjoys using it and the app is very easy to use and engaging. I particularly like that you can choose an English voice or American voice for the pronunciation. You are able to personalise the style of the text and choose between upper and lowercase letters. Right or left hand for writing. My child finds it motivating when they receive a certificate or feedback from the program. When I had any difficulties/problem or didn't understand something, the customer support was excellent. The developer was quick to respond. I purchased Pocket Phonics, PocketPhonic Stories and Dot to Dot letters and numbers. These compliment each other beautifully and are very educational and fun.
Such an amazing app for little ones learning to read. My 3 year old grandson thoroughly enjoys his screen time with this very user friendly app. It has allowed him to become very confident with recognising and writing letters, so much so, that his nursery teacher remarked on his phonics knowledge. An added bonus of this app is the Weekly Progress Report, accompanied by printable Achievement Certificates which are awarded as each level is achieved - an exciting and proud event for little ones. After each set of phonics are mastered, there are accompanying 'books' to reinforce the learning, followed by new sets of phonics... books... phonics etc. All in all, I believe this app to be second to none. Also, another bonus is the very reasonable cost!
Very pleased with this app. My twins like to draw around the letters and repeat the sounds. I have noticed a difference in their understanding in just a few days. It's fun and can be tailored to suit your children's level. When I contacted support for advice they give a speedy reply and answered all of my questions. I wouldn't normally spend money on apps but I upgraded from the lite straight away as it's worth it. It is ideal for my preschool children but with lots of potential to get much from it over the coming years.


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Q: Why I'm getting wrong values when using ST_Area I Have created a table with the following commands:
  CREATE TABLE example (
    FIRST_NAME CHAR(20) NOT NULL,
    LAST_NAME CHAR(20),
    AGE INT,
    SEX CHAR(6),
    INCOME FLOAT,
    LOCATION geometry)

And inserted values with the following command:
INSERT INTO example (FIRST_NAME,LAST_NAME, AGE,SEX,INCOME,LOCATION)
            VALUES ("b", "b", 30, "M", 500,  POLYGON((10 10, 10 20, 30 20, 30 30, 10 10)))

When I try to display the content with the area of the polygon, I'm getting wrong size:
SELECT FIRST_NAME, ST_Area(LOCATION) AS Area FROM example

I'm getting 0 (and I expect to get 200 (10*20))
What am I doing wrong, and how can I fix it ?

A: Could it be that your polygon is not valid? It is crossing itself:
POLYGON((10 10, 10 20, 30 20, 30 30, 10 10))

The ST_Area of such polygon will inevitably return zero:
SELECT
 ST_Area('POLYGON((10 10, 20 10,20 30,30 30, 10 10))')

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(1 Zeile)

On a first glance it seems you set the latitude value of the fourth coordinate pair wrong. It should be 30 10, not 30 30. Doing so you will get the 200 output you wished:
POLYGON((10 10, 10 20, 30 20, 30 10, 10 10))

SELECT
 ST_Area('POLYGON((10 10, 10 20, 30 20, 30 10, 10 10))')

 st_area
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     200
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Vaping is far more than a substitute for conventional smoking. In recent years vaping has shifted into a lifestyle. So for that reason we have compile 4 unique and eye-catching mods that are suitable for you who wants to stand out.
Speaking about design, this one sure is a unique one, with engrave all over its body makes this one stand out from the crowd. The panel of this mod made from abalone that makes it looks unique yet elegant. For chipset R200 use an HM Chip with TC, Variable Wattage and Bypass mode. You can also customize your display using software provided by HotCig which you can download from their official account.
This box mod have an unusual design. For us it does looks like an engine chassis that sure makes this mod looks fierce. Smoant also design this with a transparent look and cool looking lamp, so you can see all the chip and everything inside. But if you ever use or see this mod, you will realize that there are gaps in its case, but you don't have to worry, because Smoant claim that the chipset and circuit for this mod are waterproof.
If you are a gamers, you will surely like Stentorian AT-7. With a concept that looks exactly like a CPU. Just like Rabox, AT-& have a transparent case but you cant see whats inside clearly because there is something that looks like an intercooler pipe behind the case. The maximum output of this device is 100W with a build in 3500mah battery.
This is a game changer. Mod that specifically made for you who seeks performance and the luxury of a high end mod. There are no identical stabwoob hexohm, because each device are made different. Made by Craving Vapor chipset on this beast are out of question. So yes for those of you who seeks luxury and pride in a vaping device, this is it.
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William Dorsey Pender, né le  dans le comté d'Edgecombe et mort le  à Staunton, est un officier de carrière de l'armée des États-Unis qui est devenu l'un des plus jeunes officiers de l'armée des États confédérés pendant la guerre de Sécession.

Avant la guerre

Il est diplômé de l'académie militaire de West Point en 1854.

Guerre de Sécession
Il participe à la bataille de Sept Jours, la Seconde bataille de Bull Run, la bataille de Fredericksburg ou encore la bataille de Chancellorsville.

Il trouve la mort lors de la bataille de Gettysburg.

Postérité
Le comté de Pender est nommé en son honneur. Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, un liberty ship portera son nom.

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Naissance en février 1834
Naissance dans le comté d'Edgecombe
Décès en juillet 1863
Décès à Staunton (Virginie)
Décès à 29 ans
Premier-lieutenant de l'United States Army
Major général de la Confederate States Army
Élève de l'Académie militaire de West Point
Confédéré mort à la guerre lors de la guerre de Sécession
Personnalité liée à la Caroline du Nord durant la guerre de Sécession


The bombastic, sinister and triumphant score to the final harry potter film.
a score as expansive & fantastical as the film it depicts, this is an exceptional musical odyssey.
The movie's amazing score is composed by very well known ACADEMY Award, GOLDEN Globe & two time GRAMMY Award winner French composer Alexandre Desplat (Harry Potter, Twilight, the King's Speech, The Grand Budapest Hotel & many more). It was recorded in the prestigious Radio France Studio 104 with the National French Orchestra (97 musicians) & the Choeur de Radio France (40 choristers) & has a continuous & determining presence in the movie. Inspired by the cult French comic book from the 70s, "Valerian & the City of Thousand Planets" is the biggest Luc Besson movie ever, featuring Cara Delevingne & Dane Dehaan in leading roles & Clive Owen, Rihanna, Ethan Hawke, Herbie flipping Hancock, Kris Wu & Alain Chabat on support roles.


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I can still see your name, date of birth and address on bottom of pink ones.
Personal info showing at bottom of pages.
Thanks Andy, that's much easier to read and understand.


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Québec, Quebec, August 27, 2013 – The Honourable Denis Lebel, Minister of Infrastructure, Communities and Intergovernmental Affairs and Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec, today announced that the firm MPEX Business Solutions Inc. has been granted financial assistance for product development and commercialization activities.
"Supporting innovation is one of the pillars of the Government of Canada's strategy for building a high-performance, wealth-generating and job-creating economy. That is why we were unhesitating in our decision to lend financial support to MPEX Business Solutions' innovative project," said Minister Lebel.
MPEX Business Solutions Inc. designs and develops workforce management software for businesses. The company has created a family of innovative software solutions grouped together under the name "MX-SOLUTION" that allows for the integrated management of such things as human resources, productivity, employee scheduling, time tracking, and so on. The company serves a diverse clientele that includes Canadian food enterprises, oil companies and retailers, among others.
The financial contribution from Canada Economic Development will go to supporting the development and North American commercialization of MX-SOLUTION. More specifically, MPEX Business Solutions Inc. will use it to make the software available online and to promote its products. The firm also intends to create promotional materials and a Web site adapted to the American marketplace and revamp its brand identity.
This assistance, granted in the form of a $200,000 repayable financial contribution, has been awarded through Canada Economic Development's Quebec Economic Development Program.
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Shaun A. Frost, PA-C, brings over 30 years of medical experience and a decade of ear, nose and throat experience to BASS Medical Group. A certified physician assistant, Shaun sees patients at two of our San Jose locations and will also practice at our Morgan Hill location when it opens later this year.
Shaun is originally from New Hampshire and served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a field medic. During his time with the Marines, he had the honor of serving on the Presidential Helicopter Team (HMX-1) under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
After leaving the Navy, Shaun worked at a high-tech company in Silicon Valley as a member of their emergency medical response team and computer technical development group.
Looking for new challenges, he attended the Stanford Physician Assistant Program where he served as class president. After graduation, he was hired at the Stanford Cancer Center in head and neck surgical oncology department. In addition to this, he worked a second job in family practice. He held these jobs for almost ten years before joining the team at BASS.
Shaun works with patients of all ages and has a special interest in helping other veterans recover from cancer and improve their lives.
Shaun is married to his wife, Katy, a labor and delivery nurse. Together they have four children. He recently welcomed his first granddaughter. Shaun's personal interests include camping and backpacking with his family, California wine and watching football (NFL and College).


You will probably never look at a plate of spaghetti Bolognese in quite the same way after seeing NoNoseKnows (2015), a video installation by the Argentine-born, New York-based artist Mika Rottenberg. In it, plates of endless varieties of pasta are magically created each time the story's protagonist, Bunny Glamazon, sneezes. The same could be said for the way you will think about the Chinese workshops and factories, an issue explored in Cosmic Generator (2017). Both installations deal with the idea of production—a theme that underpins much of the artist's work. Rottenberg is interested in the processes behind the creation of objects, from the use of raw resources to the way finished objects are traded globally. Her work seeks to create images of the hidden labour involved. "If art has any power, it is in making things visible," she says.
"It's important to us to open this museum with an exhibition centred on the lives and work of artists," says Alex Gartenfeld, the deputy director and chief curator of the ICA Miami, which has just opened its new building. "The studio is the perfect metaphor for the place where life and work come together." The show has around 100 pieces that depict or explore the artist's studio by artists including Faith Ringgold and Carolee Schneemann. It "begins with the idea that the studio is central to an artist's myth and the way that we come to understand the work of art and its meaning in society", Gartenfeld says. The young Detroit artist, who works in 3D-printed ceramics, has brought his studio on-site. He will be intermittently making work in the gallery throughout the show's run.
It is fitting that the Wolfsonian—the largest repository in the US for works by the Austrian graphic artist Julius Klinger (1876-1942)—should be behind the designer's first solo exhibition in the country. More than 100 posters, prints, drawings and book illustrations tell the story of the artist who was at the forefront of 20th-century European graphic design but whose career, and eventually life, were tragically cut short by the Nazis in 1938. Four years later, Klinger and his wife Emilie were deported to a concentration camp in Russia, where they died. Klinger principally worked in Vienna and Berlin as a poster designer, graphic artist, satirist and typographer, but his talent also took him to the US twice: once as a design consultant for the car industry in Detroit and later to New York where he taught poster design at the New School.


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Warriors' Kevin Durant sees something…
Warriors' Kevin Durant sees something special in Lakers' Brandon Ingram
Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant, left, dunks past Portland Trail Blazers forward Maurice Harkless, right, during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer)
Golden State Warriors' Kevin Durant shoots over Los Angeles Lakers' Brandon Ingram during the first half of an NBA preseason basketball game Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, file)
PUBLISHED: November 3, 2016 at 10:30 p.m. | UPDATED: August 28, 2017 at 2:05 a.m.
The issue has hovered over Brandon Ingram like a pesky defender. It's been more discussed than his intriguing jump shot and positional versatility.
So when Ingram trained with the U.S. Select team in Las Vegas this summer, it hardly seemed surprising he elicited countless inquiries about his rail-thin physique. Reporters were not the only ones who brought it up, though.
Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant also broached the subject. This time, Ingram was eager to address his 6-foot-9, 190-pound frame with his childhood idol, namely because of the unique perspective he provided.
"He was telling me to be patient and not rush everything," the Lakers' No. 2 draft pick said. "When guys like him tell me that, I believe in him. He's putting on weight and is doing great in this league."
The Lakers (2-3) play host to the Warriors (3-1) on Friday at Staples Center with Durant as the headliner for multiple reasons. He wouldn't even take a meeting with the Lakers to let them make a free-agent sales pitch in July, then left Oklahoma City to sign with Golden State. Durant went into Thursday's game against the Thunder averaging 28.5 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals per game.
Well before Durant established his credentials in a 10-year NBA career that includes a league MVP (2014) and seven All-Star appearances (2010-2016), the Warriors forward faced scrutiny about his strength as a thinly framed No. 2 pick out of Texas.
He entered his NBA rookie season with the then-Seattle Sonics in 2007 listed at 6-9 and 215 pounds. The Seattle Times cited a confidential pre-draft document that revealed Durant could not bench press 185 pounds. The Portland Trail Blazers drafted Ohio State center Greg Oden ahead of Durant partly because of Oden's superior strength.
Since then, Durant has bulked up to 240 pounds and downplayed his previous weaknesses in the weight room. And while Durant has grown into one of the league's most dominant scorers and versatile players, Oden played only three NBA seasons because of multiple knee surgeries.
That explains why Durant "never really believed in" the concern surrounding his thin frame. Durant dismissed the same criticism of Ingram, adding that he "could see why he's picked No. 2."
"The narrative comes from the outside. If that came from GMs, he wouldn't have been picked No. 2. So he must have been doing something right," Durant said. "A lot of players might be stronger than him, but they don't have the other things. He's a sponge. He wants to get better and he wants to learn. Those are much more important than lifting 185 pounds."
Ingram nodded his head as Durant's words were relayed back to him, adding that the feedback "means a lot coming from a guy that I have looked up to" for the past decade.
Ingram rooted for the Sonics after admiring the skills Durant showed in college, with his outside shooting, post presence and positional versatility. Ingram has a copy of Durant's rookie card and jokingly said he will buy Durant's jersey "maybe when I retire."
For now, Ingram remains intent on fulfilling a different childhood dream.
"I try to compare my game and pattern it after him. But at the end of the day, I want to be Brandon Ingram," he said. "When I grew up, I always wanted to be just like him. But I think the comparison is beyond my years. The comparison is more when he came into the league."
The Lakers share that sentiment.
"I don't think any comparison to any player of Kevin Durant's talent to a young kid is fair," Lakers coach Luke Walton said. "Brandon has the opportunity to become that type of special player. But to compare him right now at the age of 19 is a little unfair."
Nonetheless, the way Walton assembled his coaching staff could help Ingram's quest to model his game after Durant. Walton hired Brian Keefe as one of his assistants after Keefe spent time as an assistant with the New York Knicks (2013-15) and with the Thunder (2009-2013). Keefe originally was the franchise's player development coach in Seattle and Oklahoma City (2007-09), giving him unique insight on Durant's growth.
"The idea that he was with a young team in Oklahoma City and was part of that buildup was definitely something on his side," Walton said of Keefe. "But the reason we brought him here was because every reference I called said nothing but great things about him."
Still, Keefe's insight about Durant is one of the reasons Ingram has enjoyed working with him. The Lakers declined to make Keefe available for comment, but Ingram credited Keefe for helping with his footwork and balance. Keefe also put together a daily workout for Ingram that mirrored Durant's regimen.
"That's ironic," Ingram said of the connection. "Coming in, I didn't know he worked with (Durant). It's helped me a lot with his teaching and the routine that he has given me to work on every day."
That instruction also shaped Durant's development.
"It seems like everything has come full circle. Brian's teaching Brandon the same stuff he taught me when I came into the league," Durant said. "Brandon has what every great player has, that want to get better and that want to go out there and compete."
Ingram had the same thought process when he matched up against Durant in two preseason games last month. As Ingram acknowledged, "when you're going against one of your idols, you want to get a piece of him."
It did not take long, though, for Durant to get a piece of Ingram. In one game, Durant stuffed Ingram's shot as he attacked the basket, but Ingram stayed aggressive looking for his shot and defending Durant.
Afterward, Durant provided more feedback on how Ingram can affect the game by scoring in different ways and using his versatility. Durant walked away with increased optimism about Ingram's trajectory.
"I've seen the skills. I've seen the length, the effort and the competitiveness. He looks like a quiet, reserved and nonchalant kid. But when he steps in between the lines, he just wants to play," Durant said. "I have nothing but good things to say and nothing but support for him. I'll be here no matter what, trying to encourage him and helping him out through the process."
It sounds like he's already helped. Ingram echoes Durant's perspective on the weight issue.
"I don't think weight matters at all," Ingram said. "Of course, you need to get stronger. But it's all about will, talent and skill level. The work you put in on the basketball floor will help me build over time."
Ingram can look at Durant for validation. Durant can look at Ingram and imagine the same thing happening again.