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Conservative groups encouraged by meeting with Facebook's Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg admits conservatives don't trust Facebook, says he wants to build trust
Conservative groups encouraged by meeting with Facebook's Zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg admits conservatives don't trust Facebook, says he wants to build trust Check out this story on CurrentArgus.com: https://usat.ly/1To6tA4
Jessica Guynn and Roger Yu, USA TODAY Published 1:59 p.m. MT May 18, 2016 | Updated 11:06 a.m. MT May 20, 2016
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg(Photo: Martin E. Klimek, USA TODAY)
SAN FRANCISCO — Big names in conservative media and political circles say they came away from a meeting with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg convinced the giant social network wants to repair its relationship with the right after damaging allegations it steers people away from conservative viewpoints.
"I know many conservatives don't trust that our platform surfaces content without a political bias. I wanted to hear their concerns personally and have an open conversation about how we can build trust," Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post following the meeting held at the company's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters.
Checking out The Facebook Wall at @facebook HQ in California! pic.twitter.com/cGP7OggZDJ
— Jenny Beth Martin (@jennybethm) May 18, 2016
The perspective in the conservative establishment: Silicon Valley exists in a liberal bubble and that world view has unintentionally seeped into the Facebook platform. Those who attended the meeting say they believe Facebook is serious about addressing the problem.
"From the very top there is a genuine desire to resolve it," Brent Bozell, president of conservative media watchdog the Media Research Center, said in a statement. "There were good exchanges and overall it was cordial. We'll see how the investigation turns out. There has been a serious issue of trust within the conservative movement about this issue, but everyone in that room, on both sides, wants to see it restored."
Kristen Soltis Anderson, the Republican pollster, television personality and writer, told CNN it was a "civil but frank" discussion.
"Most assumed Facebook is not operating in bad faith but wanted to raise the issue on unconscious bias where it can crop up," she said. "Because Silicon Valley is largely left of center, the folks in the room wanted to convey that it's important to make sure there's a culture of respecting viewpoints of all types and preserving Facebook as a free marketplace of ideas."
Not all conservatives were eager to engage with Facebook. American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp told Fox News he refused the invitation and dismissed the meeting as a publicity stunt. He says Facebook should be transparent about whether conservative viewpoints were suppressed in the "Trending Topics" feature.
"They are not promising transparency," Schlapp said. "I want to see exactly how they treat conservatives and treat everyone."
In an email, Facebook said executives received direct feedback on "Trending Topics" feature, the source of last week's controversy.
Very productive meeting at @Facebook with Mark and team. Strong commitments to address issues, as well as to work together on common goals.
— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) May 18, 2016
Gizmodo reported that Facebook's news curators suppress conservative articles and news outlets in the feature that highlights the most popular news on Facebook. Facebook has repeatedly denied the allegation, but its image has taken a hit with Republicans.
Republicans' perceptions of Facebook have declined 68% since the story broke, Recode reported, citing YouGov. And that has put growing pressure on Facebook to repair the damage.
With @ClaudiaCowan1 in California @FoxNewspic.twitter.com/hA8kbuVjQV
— Dana Perino (@DanaPerino) May 18, 2016
The controversy is coming to the forefront as voters increasingly rely on social media channels for their political news and information. And political candidates now consider Facebook a key message platform on par with television.
A poll by polling firm Morning Consult said Tuesday more than half of registered voters — 55% — get their news from social media companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. Nearly half, 47%, also said they're "comfortable" with social media companies determining what news they see on their sites vs. 34% who said they were not comfortable.
Mark Zuckerberg to meet with Glenn Beck
Among the 16 people who attended the meeting at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. were conservative radio host and publisher Glenn Beck; Dana Perino, co-host of The Five on Fox News Channel; Zac Moffatt, co-founder of Targeted Victory; Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute; Barry Bennett, former campaign manager for Ben Carson and senior adviser to the Trump campaign; and Jim DeMint, president of the Heritage Foundation.
While at Facebook, they met with Zuckerberg and Facebook executives, asked questions about Trending Topics, got training on how to best engage their audience on Facebook and extend their reach and a demo of virtual reality technology Oculus.
Zuckerberg called Facebook "a platform for all ideas" that prominently features conservative voices.
"Donald Trump has more fans on Facebook than any other presidential candidate," he wrote in his Facebook post. "And Fox News drives more interactions on its Facebook page than any other news outlet in the world. It's not even close."
Facebook exec: 'No evidence' of censoring stories
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cream puffs | Cooking is Fun … Really!!
I've had a beef/steak craving for a while and picked up a couple of rib steaks (cap off), as well as a tray of pork chops, also on sale this week, with a plan to barbecue. Unfortunately, with Friday and Saturday's rain and thunderstorms, it took a post-supper lull on Saturday before I could finally throw a few things on the grill.
** I used extra virgin olive oil since that's all I had.
Place garlic in the bowl of a food processor and pulse several times until finely chopped. Add the mint and parsley leaves and pulse until finely chopped.
In a medium sized bowl, add the vinegar, salt, and red pepper flakes and stir until the salt has dissolved. Add the mint-parsley mixture and stir until well mixed. Stir in the olive oil.
Transfer to a glass jar, seal and refrigerate. The chimichurri will keep for several days in the refrigerator.
Perfect to serve over steak, lamb or even roasted potatoes!
Steak, potatoes and mint chimichurri – I put the chimichurri on the potatoes for visual contrast though it's generally served on top of your grilled meat.
… I actually have NO cooking plans for this weekend.
I slept in (it was wonderful) and woke to a gray, damp, miserable morning. The sun decided not to show up and after some more rain, I decided not to go grocery shopping after all. Tomorrow, I'll have to go, but NOT today. I even passed up an anticipated trip to the city market cause I lost my enthusiasm for the outing.
I've asked for recommendations on FB for a good hot cross bun recipe, hoping for examples that people have made themselves and were proud of but, unfortunately, links to google recipes with no personal anecdotes is what was shared. It was disappointing.
For a foodie with a LJ/blog, seasonal/holiday inspiration is welcome especially when falling into the rut of trying to post something new on a regular basis. Depending on how I feel, I may or may not end up making the hot cross buns after all.
My sole cooking (not that I actually cooked anything) in the last few days was putting together a "shrub". It has nothing to do with shrubbery but I'll share the results after I go grocery shopping so I can do a proper presentation.
And so you're not left without something pretty to look at, here's a picture of a home made cream puff from the freezer, filled with ice cream and topped with some home made salted caramel sauce.
No recipes … just lots of pictures. If you want recipes for something, let me know.
It's been really warm and humid, and the A/C is labouring to deal with it all, so I have been doing minimal cooking.
In fact, I bought a giant (28 piece) cheese and pepperoni shreds pizza and have been eating 2-4 pieces for lunch or dinner over the last week, while playing with some aspect of tried and true recipes.
Like trying a substitute for chicken stock in the form of a jar of "Better than Bouillon low sodium organic chicken base" and then using it to make egg drop/flower soup. The pinch of turmeric didn't make the soup appreciably more 'yellow' than my usual recipe even though it's supposedly a Chinese restaurant trick.
And then there was the boneless chicken breast that I sliced in half horizontally, pounded thin, and panko-breaded. I ended up with a cutlet and some chicken fingers which I baked. The twist was combining the egg/flour breading steps into a batter flavoured with mayo and mustard. The end result was super crunchy.
Place the Batter ingredients in a bowl and whisk with a fork until combined.
I pounded a boneless pork chop thin and treated it in the same manner.
I also made a batch of crepes (must remember to re-season my cast iron frying pan cause there's a sticky spot), a dozen cream puffs and a half recipe of pastry cream. Instead of baking the cream puffs at the usual temperature (350 deg F) I tried the high/low combo that the classic recipe calls for. They looked great but about half the tray fell and I can't account for it.
And, finally, I attempted the classic Italian pasta dish egg-yolk ravioli (Uova da Raviolo). I used beet pasta from the freezer, cause I didn't want to bother making a fresh batch of plain pasta dough. I rolled the dough a bit too thin and, while I was cooking the ravioli, the fragile pasta tore open. I managed to salvage the 2 ravioli (that's all I made) and, after dressing them up with a browned butter-bacon-sage sauce, ate a delicious dish with a perfectly cooked egg yolk.
The effort is worth the fuss. I used the rest of the ricotta-Grana Padano cheese filling to make some regular ravioli which I froze away.
I kneaded a bit more flour into the pasta from the trimmings used above for these ravioli giving me a paler colour.
After a modest meatless Good Friday meal, Easter is a celebratory occasion and this meal reflects that.
Soup was re-purposed from the salted cod, cannellini bean dip with the addition of egg noodles and ham broth.
Washed down with strawberry lemonade.
I made a batch of crepes and paired them with the cherries jubilee sauce.
And drunken strawberries (strawberries macerated in sugar and Cointreau) over crepes with French vanilla ice cream.
And then, cause I had some cream puffs in the freezer and fresh strawberries, I sliced half open and filled them with sliced strawberries and sweetened whipped cream. I made a chocolate glaze to finish the presentation. Pretty but a bit messy to eat.
So, I piped the whipped cream into the rest of the cream puffs and served them with chocolate dipped strawberries.
Pick the one you want or eat one … or 2 of each.
Good Friday Meal – Pan fried Panko breaded sole fillets, sauteed kale and a re-purposed white cannellini bean dip over dried salted cod. (No recipe cause I'm still working on getting it as good as my dad's. After last year's under-seasoned dish, this year, I didn't soak the cod long enough and the dip needed to be baked longer as it was a bit too watery from the moisture in the cod. Eaten with the semolina sourdough bread, however, the saltiness was reduced somewhat. I started the meal with clam chowder.


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Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
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Music composed by: Lorne Balfe
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Tech Mentors Guide Boyle Heights Students in STEAM Resume Workshop
By Lilly Kam on April 30, 2015 at 1:23 am |
Last week, tech professionals from Los Angeles-based IT company Prosum hosted a resume writing workshop at Roosevelt High School.
Over 20 students in the school's STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) Pathways and i.am College Track program attended the workshop, undeterred by prom festivities the night before!
Mentors from Prosum discussed possible career paths in STEAM and also shared their own stories. Together, they walked through resume and cover letter guidelines and discussed the dos and don'ts of presenting themselves on paper.
From there, the students broke up into small groups for some one-on-one interaction with a mentor of their choice. Each student received a flash drive preloaded with interview tips, a sample resume and cover letter, and a "cheat sheet" to work through with their mentor.
Eleni Tio, Head of Human Resources at Prosum, was inspired to mentor Boyle Heights students after attending the i.am.angel Foundation's most recent TRANS4M Gala in February, and wanted to bring her colleagues on board.
"It is amazing to think that maybe we just helped prepare for the job market someone who will go on to invent something incredible in technology, or be part of something totally transformational for our society! These students just need to be made to feel that these opportunities exist for them and they can be a part of something that shapes the future," says Ms. Tio.
Prosum team members connected so well with the students that several wanted to continue mentoring them throughout the year. One of Prosum's Senior Directors is even set on hiring the two young students that she worked with in a couple of years when they are ready to enter the job market!
This mentorship workshop was a great reflection of Prosum's company mission in focusing on relationships to better improve people's lives through technology. In a low-income community like Boyle Heights, access and exposure to tech jobs is scarce, which made advice from tech professionals all the more valuable.
Prosum mentors will be returning to Roosevelt High School in May to conduct an interview workshop to help students prepare for the next level in the job-seeking process, including a lesson on personal branding and social media.
We hope to see more tech companies getting involved in communities like Boyle Heights to help TRANS4M students' lives and futures!


Hot Damn. It's been one hell of a ride. I just wanted to put a little something fun together expressing that indeed, I am quitting ski racing. This decision came surprisingly easy materializing since early February. But, my years devoted to this sport would have never happened without all of the support from my community, friends, teammates, and family. I love this sport, but I also love that I am saying good bye on my own terms and with a healthy body. Far too many athletes get cut from their national team and are forced into retirement. When they cut me, time and time again, I just laughed at the US Ski Team and smiled because groups like them will never decide my destiny.
The governing body of World Cup and Olympic Skiing (F.I.S.) changed the dimensions and length requirements of Men's and Women's Giant Slalom, Super G, and Downhill skis for the 2012-2013 seasons.
The most dramatic change was to Men's Giant Slalom skis as these skis must be 10 cm longer and much straighter making them much more difficult to turn. Although F.I.S. claims these new skis are "scientifically proven to enhance athlete safety and reduce risk of injury," the jury is definitely still out.
Rather than focusing on the safety concerns in this video, we talk to many of the best male giant slalom ski racers in the world to see what they think of the changes. Some think it's better while others argue it is taking us back in time to the 1980s.
1. The athletes do not have any power under the dictatorship of F.I.S. and the athletes must be heard.
2. The athletes have very mixed reviews on how these new skis work, but they do not seem to be as detrimental as we originally thought. However, younger athletes -- racing F.I.S. at age 16 -- rarely have sufficient strength and the correct snow conditions to properly turn these new skis. This change is potentially terrible for the future of our sport.
3. I think the athletes ability to overcome these drastic changes is a compelling story.


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Home Dining Saracen Casino Resort goes all in on dining
Saracen Casino Resort goes all in on dining
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SARACEN CULINARY TEAM: (From left) Lucus Setterfield, Cindy East and Todd Gold Brian Chilson
Every time my friends and I arrive at a casino in the Delta region, there's a palpable excitement. We know good things are about to happen. Parking lot high-fives are followed by hyperbolic gambling predictions. "Those pit bosses are gonna wish they'd never seen us coming," one of us will say. Never mind the fact that we're all terrible gamblers with no bankroll and only half-baked betting strategies: We're always going to bring the house down.
Hours later, either in the wee hours of the morning or after I've slept it off, I find myself practically sobbing over a plate of runny eggs and wondering what went wrong and why the comped buffet meal is making me feel like I've lost all over again.
That seems like an unlikely outcome, at least when it comes to the food, at Saracen Casino, the Quapaw Nation's new casino resort in Pine Bluff. The eateries in the casino, most of which are set to open Oct. 20, are designed to make a gambler feel like a winner after a meal there.
"We're going to be a culinary and hospitality destination like no other in the state, I say even region," said Todd Gold, director of food and beverage at Saracen Casino. Gold knows that people are going to come to try their luck on the games. "But we want just as many to come here to dine, and then they'll go play the games," he said.
Up until about six months ago, Gold was the associate dean of Culinary Arts and Hospitality at UA Pulaski Technical College, a program he started working on 25 years ago. He co-owned and helped revitalize Purple Cow restaurants from 2007-2013. He received the American Culinary Central Region Chef Educator of the year award in 2014, and in 2015 he was inducted into the Arkansas Hospitality Hall of Fame.
Lucus Setterfield, director of food and beverage at the Quapaw Nation's Downstream Casino in Oklahoma, has been plotting out themes for Saracen restaurants for nearly two years, and he knew he wanted Gold to be a part of the team.
"I lived in Little Rock on and off for 20 years," Setterfield said. "Todd [Gold] didn't know about me, but I knew about Todd. Everyone knows about Todd. And we knew that was a relationship we wanted to be a part of."
Before Setterfield was director of food and beverage at Downstream, he was the executive chef there. After he'd been with the company for about two years, he took part in conversations with members of Quapaw Nation centered around Downstream getting its own cattle and greenhouses.
"It became an initiative of Quapaw Nation to make sure that some of the agricultural products that they take pride in have the ability to kind of shine at the casino," Setterfield said. "They truly believe in making sure that some of that stuff is never forgotten. How you do it, education of the youth — they strive hard to make sure that people remember what it takes to do things. It really started to feel like 'This is something different; this is something I want to be a part of for a long time.' "
It had a similar effect on Gold when he went to see Downstream's agricultural program for himself. Along with greenhouses, cows and bison, Downstream has its own beer brewery, coffee roasting company, beehives for honey cultivation and a processing plant 18 miles from the casino.
"So farm to table, pasture to plate, roast to cup, grain to glass … Lucus is doing all of this at Downstream in Oklahoma and I was just blown away," Gold said. "Two months after that, I sent him a text that said, 'What kind of positions are you going to have?' The rest is history."
Before this reporter and a photographer entered the casino in September, security did a health screening. We confirmed we had no COVID-19 symptoms or exposure and had our temperatures taken by a machine that scanned our wrists.
The sight of a casino after months of pandemic solitude was striking: the building is 200,000 square feet, 80,000 of which is gaming space that holds 2,100 slot machines, 30 gaming tables and a sports book.
"More slots on that floor than anywhere in Arkansas," Gold said. "It just goes on and on."
Brian Chilson
Saracen Casino will have a total of eight different restaurants, four of which are in an area called The Post, which resembles a food court. The Post's restaurants share a kitchen, but offer four "concepts," Setterfield said, giving the chefs the opportunity "to get creative in all kinds of ways."
For example, one of The Post's restaurants, Delta Farms, has been developed to showcase local produce from Delta farmers. "We wanted Delta food represented in what we did," Setterfield said. "So the idea behind that was trying to work collaboratively with Delta farmers in the area and see if we can highlight some of their produce, highlight some of the things that they're doing. We just picked up 30 pounds of honey from a local honey guy."
Delta Farms will feature items such as a pimento, bacon and cheese croissant, a Creole greens flatbread, a greens and grains power bowl and a smoked chicken salad club sandwich.
Saracen Express is the place to get a burger fix or fried chicken. A variety of street tacos will be available from The Taqueria, including one that's a tribute to the South. "It has pickled aioli, sweet potato fries, citrus slaw and fried catfish," Executive Chef Cindy East said. "One of my personal favorites is the Saracen Dog — a hot dog with ground beef [and] our homemade queso, and then it's pressed."
East worked with Gold at Pulaski Tech.
"Our executive sous chef [at Saracen], Manley [Clark], he's one of our culinary school graduates, so you can see a little bit of a theme going there," Gold said. Clark is one of the near dozen UA Pulaski Tech culinary graduates currently working at Saracen. Gold said a couple more have been interviewed so he expects that number to grow.
The fourth restaurant in The Post is Coffee & Sweets. Fresh donuts will be made in an automatic machine right in front of the customer and then topped with either a sugar glaze or powdered sugar. Guests can also have a cappuccino made with the Quapaw Nation's O-Gah-Pah coffee, which is roasted at a facility about a mile away from Downstream Casino in Oklahoma.
"We have one guy that runs it," Setterfield said, "and he roasts all the time. He packages it, he does everything with it. We get beans in from about 13 different areas of the world, 16 different countries."
Outside the food court, the casino will also have a bar/brewery, The Legends Sports Bar. On the menu there: cheese curds, BBQ ribs, brisket, burgers, several different sandwiches and a variety of wings. The bar will also have a cheesesteak, but it won't call it a Philly cheesesteak because the cheese will be house-made with Quapaw-brewed beer. The beer cheese sauce will also be served as an appetizer with house-made pretzels. "It's like the pretzel is just kind of there so you don't have to drink the beer cheese," East said with a laugh.
Legends Sports Bar
Legends has a stage for live music and a drop-down projector for sporting events.
Displayed in a glass case above the bar are six gleaming beer tanks made of copper, brass and stainless steel. Each tank holds 132 gallons and has the capacity to produce 1,000 pints a week. Four of the tanks are fermenters and two are "bright tanks" where the beer is transferred after fermentation to be conditioned and carbonated. The system, from Global BeerCo out of Reno, Nev., cost roughly $200,000.
"So this beer goes nowhere else," Setterfield said. "It's only sold on property. It's kegged here, we do all our own marketing, we design custom tap handles. It's been a smashing success at Downstream. It takes up about 25 percent of our draft beer sales. We sell a whole lot of draft beer, so that is a massive market."
Another place to eat, although not expected to open until early Nov., is the Quapaw Kitchen. It resembles a sectioned buffet area, but because of the pandemic nothing will be self-served. Servers for each station will stand behind stanchions and work directly with the chefs behind the lines to plate customers' food.
"Anything and everything you can imagine goes on in here," Gold said. "We have a sushi roller, a roaster…"
"A hibachi grill," East said. "We're going to do a Creole Asian fusion station. We'll have pizza, a Southern roots section, a chocolate fountain."
"You'll have Rice Crispy treats and marshmallows on a stick and you can dip them in white or dark or make it a tuxedo," Gold said.
"We'll do the dipping for you," Setterfield added.
Rather than the ubiquitous buffet self-serve ice cream machine, Quapaw Kitchen features a rotating display case for up to 12 flavors of gelato. The server will use a pedal to rotate the circular refrigerator.
It's important to Gold and Setterfield that all the cooking is done in front of the customer.
"A lot of buffets are coming out of the kitchen with pans of food. That doesn't happen here," Gold said. "Our focus has been for this to be culinary and hospitality because it's front of the house, too. It's customer service, it's anticipating your customers' needs. I don't want the ice to jingle around in the bottom of the glass; I want us to be there with a full one before that happens."
Red Oak Steakhouse will be Saracen's premier high-end restaurant, and it's slated to open sometime in early November. The kitchen and a dry-aged cabinet for meats are visible through a window from the casino floor. Red Oak will be managed by Mark Lopez, former beverage manager at the Capital Hotel. Joseph Coleman, formerly of the Little Rock Marriott, will serve as executive chef.
Red Oaks Kitchen
"We'll serve everything from duck to lamb to pork belly to halibut," East said "And we want to bring in fresh fish. It's hard to get fresh fish in Arkansas. It is expensive, but when you get that beautiful fish in, it makes a huge difference."
"We've got a great company that we used at the culinary school. Seafood.com does an unbelievable job. The fish is not 30 hours out of the water when we're cooking it," Gold said.
The steaks served at Red Oak Steakhouse will come from Quapaw Cattle Co.
"We know where it is, we know where it comes from. That's why we feature it so heavily everywhere," Setterfield said. "That's why we have a dry-aging case here and at Downstream."
"Chef Derek Smith, our chef de cuisine, we got him out of Memphis, but this land was his uncle's land," Gold said. "He sold it to the casino. We all call him Uncle Wink. [Uncle Wink] doesn't work for us, but he's in here every day."
"He quickly became family," Setterfield said. "Uncle Wink had a conversation with us and he said, 'My nephew, he cooks at Folk's Folly [Prime Steakhouse] in Memphis.' That place is old school, wonderful. Our executive chef and sous chef went to Memphis and recruited him. We gave him Red Oak at Downstream for a night. We said, 'You write the menu,' and it was one of the most successful nights we ever had. All of our VIPs came through and said, 'We want him to cook for us all the time. Everybody does great, but that guy just showed us something completely different.' And he worked with us for about eight months at Downstream. We offered him a job on the spot. I was like, 'I don't know where you're going to fit in the grand scheme of things, but we need you to be part of our story. We need you to be part of our success,' " Setterfield said.
One of the desserts at Red Oak that Gold is excited about is a bread pudding souffle inspired by one he had in New Orleans at Commander's Palace.
The Employee Market Center will be a place for the employees to relax and eat a hot meal when they're on break or before or after their shift. The center has its own restaurant. "It's not buffet leftovers," Setterfield said.
On the last leg of the tour, I asked Gold what it was about Saracen that convinced him to take the job.
"I was 25 years deep in the culinary school," he said. "I could've easily done my next 16 to 20 years worth of work there and retired. So it really had to be the right thing. I'm a project guy. I built the culinary school; I was a project owner on that thing. I helped build the Arts Center in North Little Rock for Pulaski Tech. I was on that construction team. I love construction, I love projects, I love new things, I love getting things set up, hiring people. So why not take on the biggest construction project the state of Arkansas has ever seen with the largest hiring pool of almost 400 food and beverage people? You can't take on anything bigger than that. I'll be 48 in a few weeks, so it's now or never. Do I want to make a move like that after 50? No."
Carlton Saffa, chief market officer at Saracen Casino, made sure we got to see the new Rational iCombi Pro ovens the chefs and Downstream are cooking in — essentially a combination steamer/convection oven/smoker. Saracen Casino is the first place in the U.S. to have them, Setterfield said, and it has 13. It can boil eggs in their carton, or cook octopus in a four-step process, or air fry a chicken, and it can do those things simultaneously.
Greg Bolton, executive sous chef at Downstream, was smoking a pork butt in one of the ovens when we arrived.
The ovens have a touch screen on the side, much like a smart device. Items are selected by picture and dragged into a "shopping cart." Bolton selects several items at once. "It will tell me when it's time to load them, each one will cook at a different time and it will tell me when they're done. The cabinet itself will automatically tell you because I have built these programs inside the system."
Each rack has its own corresponding LED light. The light blinks to let you know which shelf is ready to come out. Or the oven can just text you when dinner's ready.
Greg Bolton and the iCombi Rational Pro
"It's a new world as far as consistency, and it saves energy," Bolton said.
The ovens also clean themselves. Bolton showed us one of the ovens running a washing cycle. If I didn't know any better, I would've thought it was a fancy dishwasher.
The first phase of development at Saracen is the casino and the restaurants, opening Oct 20. The second phase, which will include the resort with 300-plus rooms, a spa, a resort-style pool and a convention center that can host a concert for 1,500 people or a convention-style event for 2,000, will complete the project. The question of when phase two might be complete has a lot to do with the future of the pandemic.
"We made the decision late last year to phase Saracen to focus our attention on getting the gaming floor up," Saffa said. "With COVID, that proved to be smart," he said.
"I don't know anyone today who wants to be in the convention/hotel business — not a great business from a profitability standpoint at the moment, but ultimately a game floor of this scope will include a hotel and event center. The hotel lobby and first four floors are shelled out and the foundation of the convention center is in the ground. The question is, of course, what's the outlook for the future on COVID," he said.
None of the restaurants at Saracen Casino will allows smoking. Eventually, smoking will be allowed on the casino floor, but as long as the state mask mandate stays in place, smokers will have to smoke in certain designated places outside the casino floor.
Saracen Casino will run soft openings the third week of October before its grand opening on Oct. 20. Legends Sports Bar, The Post and all the beverage centers will be open.
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Finding your way in a new city or a new country, can be challenging at the best of times. Having someone on call around the clock to answer the myriad questions a new expatriate might have would seem like a godsend.
This was the idea that inspired Chameleon City, a "city concierge" service that was launched in Vietnam's capital Hanoi in 2016 and in the country's largest city, Saigon, at the beginning of this year.
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The way it works is simple. Once individuals or companies sign up to the service, they can use the chat-based service, which depending on their type of inquiry, connects them with one of the service's "experts". These experts are made up of a mix of English-speaking locals and long-term expats. Individuals can sign up for the service for $19 per month.
Of course, in all expat communities there tends to be an informal network to help recent arrivals navigate their way through a new environment. But these networks are not always accessible at all hours, and there is also the fact some may balk at asking new acquaintances more delicate questions.
"Where can I get a bikini wax and my dreadlocks curled?" is the oddest inquiry the team has had to date according to Chameleon City co-founder Peter Petracca. "And we found it for them," he says.
Having a diverse mix of experts is also a key to providing a quality service. Petracca says they have locals who grew up in the city and know the streets like the back of their hand, but also retain other expats who can bring an international perspective to inquiries.
A digital nomad himself, Petracca first moved from San Francisco to New York before heading to Vietnam to take advantage of the country's budding start-up community and far lower cost of living and doing business.
"Back home, to get little things done - like getting a light bulb replaced, or water delivered to your house - you would just go to the corner store but these things don't exist here," he says of his initial experience upon moving to Vietnam, and the reason he first thought of starting something like Chameleon City.
But it is also the way people work now that fed into the need for such a service. With an increasing globally mobile workforce, expatriate life is not the rarity it once was. Some of the corporate clients they have worked with range from a tech manufacturing company with 10 international employees, to an international gap year program with 75 people on the books.
"The fact that technology, the internet, has progressed in such a way means we can work from anywhere," he says. "There is a major trend of people not only moving across cities and states, but across oceans."
Chameleon City operates only in Vietnam's two largest cities, but the U.S.-incorporated company is looking to expand rapidly across Asia. "We did market research in other big cities in Southeast Asia and beyond, and found that this service is needed in many cities around the world," he says.
So, if you are in Asia and searching for someone to tend to your dreadlocks or your nether regions, help may soon be at hand.
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Posted on April 2, 2013 by Sass Linneken	Leave a comment
How would you like to eat an eel-salmon hybrid? Support farmers selling genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and you can do just that. Prefer to eat your eel-salmon hybrid without knowing that's what you're eating? Don't support labeling GMOs and you can do that too.
This is the argument that a coalition of organic farmers and political leaders in Maine are making in favor of passing LD 718, An Act to Protect Maine Food Consumers' Right to Know About Genetically Engineered Food and Seed Stock, slated to move through this spring's legislative session, according to State Representative, Brian Jones (D-Freedom), one of the bill's 123 co-sponsors.
"It's real simple," said Jones, "people should know what's in their food."
Genetically modified foods, which according to the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA), are crops engineered to contain DNA from different organisms than themselves to speed growth and enhance yield, make up over 75% of all processed foods found in supermarkets today. The five major genetically altered crops are corn, soy, sugar beets, canola, and cotton.
The bill, which "requires disclosure of genetic engineering at the point of retail sale," resides in the Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee, and found its way into the legislative process through its original sponsor, State Representative Lance Harvell (R-Farmington). Exemptions to the disclosure requirement include restaurant food, alcoholic beverages, and medical food.
In order for the labeling mandate to become effective, the bill also says that five other states or a state with a combined population of 20 million people or more have to adopt similar legislation.
To help the legislation pass in Maine MOFGA has spearheaded a campaign called Right to Know GMO Maine, which is aimed at educating consumers on what GMOs are, and at helping constituents make contact with representatives who have already signed onto the bill as a co-sponsor.
"Reliable, peer-reviewed scientific data on the health and environmental impacts of genetically engineered foods do not exist and until they do, I think people have a right to choose to avoid GMOs in their foods due to this uncertainty," said Jessie Dowling, one of the campaign's lead organizers.
Both Dowling and Jones point out that there are labeling mandates for arbitrary ingredients like food dye, and neither could offer explanation on why GMOs should be any different.
Now that the bill is moving out of Committee and into the realm of public hearings, scheduled for 1:00pm on April 23rd in Augusta's Cross Building (Room 214), Dowling suggests that citizens who want to see it pass should contact their legislators, write a letter to the editor of their local paper, and/or discuss the implications of LD 718 with attended groups like knitting circles or local churches.
According to Jones public hearings allow citizens to submit either oral or written testimony, which he says people will show up to offer if they want to see this legislation pass.
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Dr. Barbara Cox continues her article series on ditching anxiety and living happily by exploring self-hypnosis can help you define your goals.
In my previous article, Ditching Anxiety & Finding Your Muse: Part 1, I shared with you Joe's success with self-hypnosis and how he moved up the corporate ladder without sacrificing his happiness. This week, I want to personally walk you through the process and show you how self-hypnosis really works.
I'll teach you some of these tools and illustrate them with real life cases to help you realize that whatever challenges you face in your life – be they old belief patterns, stress, money concerns, job transitions, or other issues– you can, through the power of your mind, be the master of your own destiny. It may not happen tomorrow, but if you stay on the path, you can and will achieve great things.
Feeling relaxed when I _____.
Clear out stress so that you are most open to positive change and positive patterns. Cultivate a community that supports this.
Learn to get into a hypnotic, relaxed 'alpha' state. There are many ways to do this and I'll show you some options so you can pick one that resonates with you and practice it.
Follow any action steps or insights you get while in the relaxed state.
Develop the skill of neutrality to avoid getting pulled off your path.
Review the above steps and refine your goal if needed to ensure you're staying on your path of optimal flow.
If you are reading these articles, you are meant to learn these tools and create a fulfilling life. You are here to express your talents to the world. I'll teach you tools to awaken dormant skills and grow them so you can reach your goal and be more relaxed in your daily life. And always know I am with you, cheering you on and supporting you in this process. I want you to succeed and to be relaxed and happy.
Example: I've got a higher education degree and I'm at a high position in a tech start-up company, with flexible hours, a good amount of freedom, the opportunity to expand the company, and the opportunity to travel. I live in a nice apartment in the city, not far from friends, and visit family pretty regularly. I've got a good assortment of hobbies and the time and money to pursue them, and do some freelance writing outside of work. I have a good, trusting relationship with friends, family, coworkers, and a significant other.
Example: I'm motivated to do well at work, and am content with my current situation. I also feel free to pursue what I want.
What do you look like in that place?
Example: Well put together, laid back, healthy, and active.
What is one thing you are saying?
Example: I'm eating a home-cooked meal at a friend's home.
Example: With respect, friendliness, openness, and a willingness to share their lives.
In the above exercise, you described in detail your ideal life/work situation, in essence, your goal. Now boil your goal down even more. Do this by describing your goal in seven words or less and write it in the present tense as if it has already happened. You will refer back to this goal often throughout the articles. Examples: I have happy, prosperous work, or I am relaxed and calm more often: I have time, security, and motivation.
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Dead Rising 3 Smartglass has exclusive missions, character
By Brenna Hillier, Monday, 24 June 2013 02:06 GMT
Hook up your phone or tablet to Dead Rising 3 to get access to content not available to those single-screen plebs.
Speaking to Siliconera, Dead Rising 3 executive producer Josh Bridge confirmed the zombie title will take advantage of an upcoming version of SmartGlass.
"After you launch the app, it notices that Dead Rising is currently being played, press a button, and in kicks our phone. It actually skins your phone to be like the phone from the game's universe," he said.
"You'll get calls from a character that are only on the SmartGlass device. So if you don't have SmartGlass, you won't get those calls from that guy. Which also means you won't get those missions."
While you'll have no problem finishing the game without SmartGlass, there's no way to access the extra material without a compatible device, which means one chnaracter and several missions are exclusive to the app.
"His storyline is his own. And it interweaves with the main storyline. Without it, you're not losing out on what the story is. But you're getting more out of the game," Bridge said.
The app also allows the player access to special bonuses like aerial strikes. When the player completes a mission, they'll earn codes for the app which can then be used to purchase these bonuses at their own discretion – although they do have a cool down period, so you can't just spam bombing runs to clear a space.
"And there's no microstransactions at all. This is all within the game's own ecosystem," Bridge added.
Dead Rising 3 is an Xbox One exclusive due in November.
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Imposter Syndrome and Leaps of Faith: Westros and Academia
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I cannot speak on behalf of all academics but sometimes I feel like my scholarly career is a dubious combination of imposter syndrome and leaps of faith. I am sure that this paradigm is not exclusive to those in academia, however. In fact, I would almost put money on the idea that this experience affects many merely as a result of growing older and taking on more and far greater responsibilities. That being said, these leaps of faith are often the means by which people are able to understand their strengths and weaknesses; they raise you up or tear you down. At least that seems to be how it works for me.
I find that Season six, Episode two of Game of Thrones appears to be applying this idea of uncertainty and leaps of faith to the story arcs of several characters through "go big or go home" moments that will either move them forward in the game or ultimately cause their fall. I would like to chat about two of these instances from this week's episode as, I believe, they will have vast implications on the greater narrative as it moves forward.
Tyrion is often presented as confident in his political know-how. As he professes in this episode "That's what I do: I drink and I know things." I am sure many of my colleagues would reply, "Touche, Tyrion... tou-freaking-che."
However, with Daenerys still missing, the people of Meereen becoming increasingly more difficult to control (i.e. the masters have re-taken the city), and both Rhaegal and Viserion, Dany's captive Dragons, refusing to eat in their mother's absence, Tyrion is practically at his wit's end. Tyrion understands that both of these situations are dire. Through both the lack of control of the Meereenese people and the potential loss of her dragons, Dany's rule is placed in a particularly precarious situation. In Dany's absence, Tyrion must find a way to reassert control and although he has no reason to believe that he holds any sway over the behavior of Dany's dragons, he takes a leap of faith by unchaining them in the hopes that this action will assist in solving his biggest problems. Of course, we have no way of knowing at this point how this act will pay off for Tyrion, but the potential pay-off is huge. The presence of the Dragons has the potential for inspiring a renewed sense of fear (and thus loyalty) among the people and will, hopefully, also ensure the health of the dragons (in that they will begin to feed again). Tyrion, of course, is completely aware of the danger he put himself in to appeal to the Dragons and unchain them, leading him to speak one of his most memorable lines of the night to Viserys:
"Next time I have an idea like that, punch me in the face." - #TyrionLannister #GameOfThrones #GoTSeason6
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As an additional small point to make regarding the chance that Tyrion takes with the dragons, they react to him in a similar way as they do Daenerys. There are fan theories that suggest Tyrion is actually a Targaryen. Are the Dragon's reactions a hint at Tyrion's true parentage?
This episode also presented a fairly large leap of faith on the part of Ser Davos. It is no secret to those who have been loyal viewers for the past several seasons (or those who have read the books) that Davos has been one of Melisandre's biggest skeptics. However, he has come around in the last season or so to at least recognize that Melisandre has some kind of power. I am unconvinced that he sees her power as rooted in "good" but he certainly has come to understand that she has abilities to make things happen. He asks her in this episode to try her hand at resurrecting Jon Snow. For Melisandre, this request comes in a time where she is clearly experiencing a crisis of faith (hello imposter syndrome!). She was incorrect in thinking that Stannis was Azor Ahai and was thrown off guard when Jon died, for she saw him in the flames fighting at the wall (clearly he would not be able to do that if he were dead). Melisandre, even though she admits she has never performed a resurrection, makes an attempt at the ritual. The end of the episode clearly demonstrates that her magic has served the purpose Davos was hoping it would, but we have yet to know how this leap of faith, on behalf of both Melisandre and Davos, will impact the remainder of the season.
I am quite interested in seeing how these leaps of faith play out in the future episodes. Will Tyrion's release of the Dragons allow him to retake power in Meereen? Will Jon Snow's return mean a return of "business as usual" at the wall?...or will all of these leaps of faith mean that death and/or destruction will befall those who took them? I suppose we loyal viewers will have to wait and see. In the meantime, however, I will just go ahead and convince myself that my life in academia is not so different from the lives of the Westrosi after all.
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That's an intriguing perspective. I think that Davos does make a kind of leap of faith when he risks his life to try to get Melisandre to perform a black magic feat and revive Jon Snow. But where is his moment of self-doubt. We certainly see one with Melisandre, but at what moment did Davos pause and say: "I served this guy Stannis for years, he cut my fingers off, my sons died for him, what the hell was I thinking?" Instead he blithely jumps to the let's-revive-Jon-Snow camp. Maybe it was so exciting we weren't supposed to think about these things?
Shawn Hannan May 5, 2016 at 9:40 AM
Tyrion has really stepped up and shown us what he can do. He have been able to help the dragons as you pointed out. It shows Tyrion is willing to take the necessary leaps and deal with the consequences. I did like his little statement to Varys about punching him in the face if he tries that again. I am interested to see what he does with Meereen knowing that the rest of Slaver's Bay have returned to their masters. I am excited to see what goes on next week.
Ace Henricks May 5, 2016 at 5:22 PM
I might argue that Tommen took a leap of faith asking for help from Cersei. With Margaery around he wasn't very keen on having her influence around because I think he had a very objective mind. All of this chaos has seemed to make him stubborn and vengeful like his mother.
Katie Hemmeter May 9, 2016 at 3:40 PM
I thought it must have been hard for Davos to turn to Melisandre. He has seen her do some crazy things, but he did not like them. I imagine he had to suck it up a bit, put away his pride, and ask her for help. I'm more curious about how he will feel toward her afterward...
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