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Beer in Bloom
A bounty of new local microbreweries
By Lee Nichols, Fri., June 18, 2010
It's a beautiful Hill Country April day just west of Oak Hill – the perfect time of year to cruise a little country road. Bluebonnets are popping up everywhere. It's a time and place that makes any native Texan giddy, and I am.
On this particular journey, the drive makes me even more delirious than usual – at the end of it, delicious beer awaits. The occasion is the groundbreaking for Jester King Craft Brewery, an aspiring entrant into Austin's small microbrewing industry.
I pull into a bucolic ranch setting, where recognizable faces in Austin's beer-geek scene crowd around kegs while others wander down a hill – under the watchful gaze of some cattle – to admire a building foundation under construction.
I came out here to get a few quotes from the Jester King guys for an article spotlighting four or five new breweries currently in the start-up phase in Central Texas. But then someone mentions that another brewer looking to turn pro is present. Who? That guy over there. And hey, you should talk to this person, they're starting a brewery as well. Oh, and have you met so-and-so?
Wow! Something other than wildflowers is popping up in Central Texas. At last count – updated moments before I started typing this article – at least 10 groups of entrepreneurs have plans to enter the brewing scene. They're in varying stages of making it happen: At least one might be in business by the time you read this; some are under construction; still others are nothing more than a business plan and a website. Here is a quick survey of the soldiers entering the battle, with hopes they all survive.
Michael Stuffings (Photo by John Anderson)
Jester King Craft Brewery
13005 Fitzhugh, 364-7278, www.jesterkingbrewery.com
I said Jester King is in a ranch "setting" – actually, it is literally on a ranch. "We just randomly got a call from the landowner here," says Jeffrey Stuffings. As it turns out, ranch owner Chad Nemec wanted a brewery on his land and was looking for prospects. "He was actually at Spec's talking to one of the beer persons there and asked if they knew any local brewers that were starting up, and fortunately, he mentioned Jester King. So we're leasing about 4 acres from him, and we want it to be a craft beer destination, where people can come out to the Hill Country, enjoy craft beer, and be outdoors. We want to have a lot of live music out here and just make it a fun place for people to come out." Now construction is under way, and the fermentation tanks and brewhouse were scheduled to arrive last week, with brewing expected by August.
Jester King already has a fully developed line of styles ready to go, and my own taste buds can attest: Stuffings and his co-founders – brother Michael and friend Joe Madia – are ready for prime time. At the groundbreaking they rolled out a wheat, an imperial stout, a red, a saison, an imperial IPA, and a rye IPA.
Stuffings' path into the business is a common one: "I was in a position where I didn't feel passionate about what I was doing. I went to law school and ended up getting a job here doing insurance defense litigation, and it was really boring and the clients were just terrible people. I started homebrewing when I was in law school. I just wanted to do something I love and care about.
"We're excited to get going. It's been a long-term process to build this dream. It's so exciting seeing things actually start to take shape, whereas before it was just a business plan on paper."
Benjamin Sabel (l) and Judson Mulherin, co-owners of Circle Brewing Co. (Photo by John Anderson)
Circle Brewing Co.
2340-B W. Braker, 814-7599, www.circlebrewing.com
Benjamin Sabel began brewing at a legally questionable time: high school. "My mother was very understanding," he says. "I did my first batch in one of those Mr. Beer kits in the fridge. It tasted terrible, but it was a start."
Now, he and lifelong friend Judson Mulherin are on the edge of something very grownup: starting and running a business. Capital has been raised, a lease acquired, and on June 21, the brewhouse equipment and fermenters should arrive. "By the day, the excitement is growing," Sabel says. "Pouring the concrete, getting things accomplished is a great feeling."
Sabel and Mulherin grew up in Nashville and stayed in touch after leaving. They went to separate brewing hotbeds: Sabel to Portland, Ore., Mulherin to Southern California and then Boulder, Colo. Sabel worked for California's Bayhawk Ales, a contract brewer, and then they both moved to Austin in 2008. "We remained friends the whole time," Sabel says, "and he came up with the idea for this business. So then we got very serious about our beer-making."
Now, the duo anticipates the results of those efforts will launch in October. They intend to first land in bars with Envy Amber and Blur Texas Hefe, followed by Alibi Blonde Bock and Nightlight Dry Irish Stout. Within nine months to a year after launch, they hope to be bottling. "Our amber is kind of a unique blend," says Sabel. "Kind of a light ESB, very flavorful, but not too hoppy or too malty – a nice blend for an amber. Our hefe is kind of a different take on a hefe. We have a little bit of caramel malt in ours to kind of round it out, give it a little more flavor. We lean toward the citrus, so it's a very refreshing summertime beer but also a beer you can drink any time of the year."
Black Star Co-op Pub & Brewery
Midtown Commons (Airport @ North Lamar), 452-BEER, www.blackstar.coop
The nation's first cooperatively run brewpub plans to start serving later this summer. We're giving them short shrift here, but only because we featured them in detail earlier: see "From Beer to Infinity," Jan. 22.
South Austin Brewing Co.
415 E. St. Elmo, 968-8297, www.southaustinbrewery.com
Jordan Weeks and Caleb Cranford aren't quite as far along as Jester King, Circle, or Thirsty Planet, but they're ahead on one front: They already have a building. "It has everything we need; all we really need is equipment," Weeks says. "Right now we're in fundraising mode to buy the equipment."
As for potential product, "We're only going to be packaging in kegs and 750-milliliter wire-cork bottles," says Weeks, who has lived in Austin 21 years. "We'll be doing 'style-challenging' beers – huge, aggressive beers that seasoned beer connoisseurs enjoy, the kind of beers that brewers like to drink."
He's not a dabbler, Weeks insists: "Hopefully by next year we'll have actual product," he says. "We're in it for the long haul. In the prospectus [for investors], we say, 'We'll make $50 million in the next 20 years.' So it's a family affair; it will be here forever. We want to be part of something exciting in South Austin. We want to create more excellence in South Austin."
Pecan Street Brewing
106 E. Pecan St., Johnson City
Can craft brewing make it in the Texas countryside, a bastion of Bud Light? It already has. Fredericksburg Brewing Co. has operated a brewpub there since 1994. Now Tim Elliott and son Sean will try the same in nearby but smaller Johnson City. Brewer Sean went to college in Fort Collins, Colo., home to New Belgium and others, and got the brewing bug.
What makes him think he can go pro? "Well, I can never keep my beer on hand," he laughs, "so that's one thing that led me to believe I can make the jump. It's a little scary, but I think we're ready, and it should be interesting."
While Sean handles the beer, Tim has been constructing the building for a year and a half and says, "I suspect we'll be open before the end of the year." Tim says to expect brick-oven pizza, "and you gotta have a good hamburger anywhere."
As for the brew, Sean says he doesn't expect any crazy hop bombs, at least not immediately. "Nothing too drastic," he says of his planned beer menu. "A blond or a kolsch, something easy-drinking, an American pale ale, some sort of amber. I'm thinking of a pecan amber. Nothing too complicated for people just getting into the microbrew scene, but we'll have seasonals."
Hops & Grain
914-2467, www.hopsandgrain.com
It's hard to imagine anyone with a more unique business niche or background than Josh Hare. Originally a professional triathlete, he's already in business selling (via his website) dog biscuits made from spent grain left over from brewing. Now he's trying to raise $300,000 to go pro in beer-making, hopefully by the end of the year.
"I started doing a lot of market research when I lived up in Boulder about four years ago," Hare told me. "I moved to Austin to train during the wintertime and just fell in love with the city and saw an opportunity for craft beer and small, local business." He came to Austin to help a friend open a running shop but started fundraising with partner Jeff Russell for Hops & Grain in December. He says he'll start with a 15-barrel system, smaller than the typical 30. "A lot of my ideas came from the craft beer movement in Boulder," he says. "They all started small, one or two flagship beers, made those work, and then made their brand experimenting beyond that."
Chris Orf (Photo by Lee Nichols)
Orf Brewing
www.orfbrewing.com
"I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, so I was weaned on Anheuser-Busch, and that's all I knew. Anything exotic was like Michelob Dark."
But Chris Orf ("I just go by 'Orf,'" he says), after undergrad years at Southern Methodist University, went up to grad school in Oregon for a master's degree in chemistry. The combination of a craft brewing hotbed and a knack for mixing things led to homebrewing. "It was just a natural next step," he says. He came to Austin after acquiring a business background in New York City in advertising and film/theatre production. Orf is still early in the capital-raising phase but hopes to hit the market in early 2011. If he does, his motto will be "Creativity in ale forms."
"Orf Brewing specializes in American hybrid ales," he says. "Beers that don't fit any of the known, accepted judging categories." His flagship beer would mix pilsner grains, pale ale hops, and kolsch yeast. "Frankenstein beers," he says. "We just make something up, and as long as it tastes good, we'll go with it."
Michael Haiges (l) and Brian Smittle (Photo by John Anderson)
Thirsty Planet Brewing Co.
11160 Circle, www.thirstyplanet.net
Hopes were high that you'd be able to read this article with a glass of Yellow Armadillo or Thirsty Goat in your hand. Alas, Thirsty Planet wasn't quite ready to send its brews to bars at press time, but start asking for them next week.
That puts Brian Smittle and wife Tammy at the front of the line for Austin's new brewers, completing a two-decade journey. After he received a business administration degree from William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., "the job market wasn't very good, so I decided to go be a ski bum in Vail, Colorado," says Smittle. Within a couple of days, he attended a beer festival and got an invitation to watch a local brewer work. "He was mixing up 300 gallons of beer, and I said, 'Are you getting paid for this?' He said, 'Yeah, I usually ski in the morning and brew beer at night.' And I thought: 'Wow, that could be the best sentence I've ever heard. It's a scam, and I want in on it.'" Within a few years, he was also getting paid to do it, including stints at Oklahoma brewpubs.
Now that you've returned from the bar, enjoy your Yellow Armadillo – it's an American-style wheat, with 50% wheat and 50% barley, and Smittle promises it will be refreshing and citrusy. Or if you got the Thirsty Goat, expect an amber with "a spicy bitterness, but nothing too heavy." And eventually, the more adventurous among you can try Bucket Head IPA, which should be out soon. "It's a big-alcohol beer," says Smittle. "It's not a double IPA, but you can see it from there. It won't quite pull the enamel off your teeth, but it will get you where you want to go. It's not for everyone and doesn't try to be."
Twisted X Brewing Co.
850-6722, www.texmexbeer.com
Shane Bordeaux, Shawn Franks, and Jim Sampson are still in early days of making their brewing dream come true, but they hope to find some land on the north shore of Lake Travis and start building by the end of summer, with beer coming out by next spring.
The three high tech workers are looking to make "Tex-Mex beer": "Mexican lager-type stuff brewed here in Texas," Sampson says. "A lighter lager, a darker lager, the standard beers, and then throw things in like jalapeños or prickly pears or agave nectar, those kinds of things, and throw a Texas flair on it."
Moonlight Tower Brewing Co.
www.moonlighttowerbrewing.com
Erik Marr is currently the furthest of this bunch from making the dream a reality. So far, the brewery is just a blog and a business plan. But if the New Mexico native, an Austinite since 1997, executes his plan, he'll be in business by 2012 with a 100% organic brewery. "I think it would do well here," Marr says. "Austin is the place for it."
Lee Nichols blogs about beer at i-love-beer.blogspot.com.
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Bin Laden's Death Brings Reprisals!
By admin on May 6, 2011 in Politics, Religion
I've been hearing a lot of people saying that now there'll be attacks because of bin Laden's death.
I don't get it.
The terrorists spend 24 hours a day (minus time to brush and floss) plotting ways to kill people.
So what's going to happen? Now, they're going to spend 25 hours a day doing it? 'Cause now they're really pissed off?
Ladies and gentlemen, it's my reasoned opinion that there will be exactly ZERO reprisals.
There may be a few dates shifted around. ("Let's do it now instead of next week." "Let's do it on the anniversary of bin Laden's death.") But there will be ZERO acts of terrorism that weren't already going to happen.
You heard it here first. Unless you heard it somewhere else first.
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BruceS May 11, 2011 at 1:49 pm #
That's an interesting take on it, and being the sort of person I am, it makes me think of a new approach. If nothing we can do would make the situation worse (the terrorists are already at full capacity), we have license to try just about *anything* in the hope that it may make things better. For instance, if we started treating the bodies of dead terrorists in some way that would be grossly offensive to their culture, and promised to continue the practice on all terrorists who acted against us or our interests, maybe that would be a deterrent. Or, we could announce a sort of Pax Romana policy—for every U.S. citizen killed in a terrorist attack, the U.S. would act to kill a thousand of whatever group the attackers came from (or whoever harbored or assisted them) regardless of the victims' actual participation. Since the overwhelming majority of terrorism seems to come from Islam, we could promise to nuke Mecca in response to the next such attack, and Medina for the one after that. The possibilities stagger the mind!
admin May 11, 2011 at 5:37 pm #
It's not a new idea that certain politically impossible ideas might be effective. For example, before even wondering whether bombing Mecca would work, we have to wonder what the the millions of Islamic Americans would think about it.
The same could be said about fighting crime. I believe that Soviet Russia had pretty low levels of violent crime.


A saintly person is always absorbed in glorifying the Lord because by broadcasting the holy name and fame of the Lord, the polluted atmosphere of the world would change. In the age of Kali there is always quarrel on slight provocation. There is systematic propaganda to stop glorification of the Lord. Thus there is a great need to disseminate the message of Bhāgavatam all over the world. If this message is received only by the leaders of the world, there will be a change of heart, and naturally the people in general will follow them.
Śrīla Prabhupāda says that his attempt to write Bhāgavatam to revive God consciousness and re-spiritualize the world would be fraught with difficulties. He says there would be many literary discrepancies despite his honest attempt to present it in a proper way. But he was confident that his attempt would succeed due to it being an honest one to glorify the Lord. After all, it is a technical science of spiritual values, and if this great literature of Bhāgavatam is understood by the people, there would be success. Śrīla Prabhupāda indeed succeeded in respiritualizing the whole world with Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
The world is full of so many unwanted literatures filled with materialistic ideas of sense enjoyment. People in general want to read but because their minds are polluted they want such literatures. Thus transcendental literatures like Śrīmad Bhāgavatam will not only diminish the activities of the corrupt mind in general, but also will supply food for their hankering after reading some interesting literature. Systematic propaganda for popularizing reading of Bhagavad gītā and Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, would act like sugar candy for the jaundice-like condition of sense gratification.


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Review: Acer Aspire Switch 11
|In Laptops and netbooks, Laptops & portable PCs, PC & Mac
Introduction and design
There's certainly a market for entry-level Windows tablets. Plenty of people would prefer to run their favourite desktop software, such as desktop web browsers, rather than having to use alternatives from Apple and Google's app stores with an iPad or Android tablet.
The Surface Pro 3 is without a doubt the best in this class, but its cost and performance approaches that of a fairly high-end laptop, which somewhat limits its audience. If you're not looking to run demanding software like Photoshop or would prefer a simple device for little more than Microsoft Office on the move, then a hybrid could be the perfect alternative – less powerful, but much more affordable.
The Switch 11 is designed to fill that gap. It can be used as a tablet when detached from the dock, or like a laptop when the two are conjoined. It comes with an 11.6-inch screen, an upgrade from the 10.1-inch screen in the Switch 10, providing a bigger desktop area to work in, which many people will prefer when using Windows. But aside from that change, the design remains just about the same.
It costs a bit more than its predecessor too. The Switch 11 retails for about £369 (around $550, AU$720), while the Switch 10 was £299 (around $445, AU$580). Being less affordable eliminates one of the key advantages of the Switch 10, and means the shortcomings of the new model are less forgivable.
The dock and trackpad feel like they were taken straight from a netbook, with a cheap feeling plastic keyboard. There's a single USB 2.0 port on the side of this section. With the tablet and dock connected together, the Switch 11 weighs a hefty 1.6kg.
The tablet part is 11mm thick and weighs 840g, considerably more than many other tablets, but not an absolute show-stopper. The rest of the connectors and ports are built into this section – there's mini-HDMI, mini-USB, a MicroSD card reader, the volume controls and the power button.
The screen has a standard 1366 x 768 resolution, is coated in Gorilla Glass, and delivers a crisp, picture with bright colours. It looks okay even when viewed at different angles. It's perhaps the high point of the hardware, as with its predecessor. I've used far worse displays on laptops and have no real complaints.
Spec and performance
The hardware specification is designed to maximise battery life as much as possible, and for this reason, you get really low performance. There's a 1.3GHz quad-core Intel Atom Z3745 Bay Trail processor, with 2GB of video memory, and a burst frequency of 1.8GHz. On paper, it sounds okay, but Windows 8.1 noticeably chugs at times on the Switch 11, made worse by some of Acer's policies and design choices.
There's a more powerful version too, with a 1920 x 1080 display and a 64-bit 1.5GHz Core i3-4012Y processor, 4GB of memory and a 60GB SSD.
The Switch 11 we tested has a 32GB Hynix HBG4e eMMC flash drive with a 500GB Western Digital hard disk. It's dreadful. The useful SSD-Z application reported TRIM was not running, its performance was no better than a hard disk and its formatted capacity was only 29.13GB – not much once Windows is installed.
The Switch 11 uses WIMBoot though, with 7GB consumed by the recovery partition, so the reported capacity is only 21.8GB – pretty tiny indeed.
It's not helped by Acer bundling so much near-useless bloatware. The desktop is covered in affiliate links – there's abFiles, abDocs, abPhoto and abMedia, Acer's store, Acer Care Centre, and the ubiquitous McAfee Antivirus and its torrent of endless popups. This doesn't even cover everything…
With all this junk installed, the C: drive filled up quickly, to the point where benchmarks were crashing. It took hours to get PCMark to perform reliably, even when it was installed on the D: drive, since temporary files still filled up the C: drive.
Be warned – without changing the default installation path to the D: drive whenever you install software onto the Switch 11, you'll run into this problem too. If you buy a Switch 11 for a less technical family member, it's worth explaining this point.
Here are the full specs of our review model:
CPU: Intel Atom Z3745
Graphics: Integrated
Screen: 11.6-inch 1366 x 768
Storage: 32GB eMMC
Ports: 1 x USB 2.0, 1 x Micro-HDMI, 1 x Micro-USB, 1 x MicroSD
Connectivity: 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi
Camera: 720p
Weight: 840g (1.55kg with dock)
Size: 298 x 205 x 11mm (W x D x H) with dock 25mm high
The benchmark results for the Switch 11 were as follows:
3DMark: Sky Diver: 512; Cloud Gate: 1334; Ice Storm: 17781
Cinebench 11.5: CPU:1.72 points; Graphics: 6.74 fps
PCMark 8 (Home Test): 1163
PCMark 8 Battery Life: 5 hours 51 minutes
Now, this Acer hybrid isn't designed to be a supercomputer, so low performance results are to be expected. PCMark 8's Conventional test result of 1163 points was notably slightly lower than the Switch 10's 1240 points. A typical score from a gaming laptop is around 3500 points, so it's clear the Switch 11 is no powerhouse.
Graphics performance is similarly limited, as seen from the Cinebench tests. As the Atom Z3745 is only a 32-bit chip, I could only use Cinebench 11.5. An OpenGL score of 6.74 fps looks bad, and a CPU score of 1.72 not much better, but once again, this isn't a system designed to replace a high-end laptop. To judge it on these scores alone would be missing the point a bit.
The Fire Strike section of 3DMark wouldn't run, seemingly since the Switch 11 only supports DirectX 9 graphics. And the scores that I could get from 3DMark weren't great, but again, this is expected.
However, real-world usage is where the Switch 11 shines. Sure, it's slower than a normal laptop, but it will run Office, and crucially, could play back 1080p HD video from a connected USB hard disk without any problems. So it's certainly powerful enough for basic tasks.
Battery life is good too. Almost six hours in PCMark 8 when docked is a decent result.
The Switch 11 provides a netbook-like Windows 8.1 environment, with both a tablet and keyboard dock for a fairly reasonable price.
It lets you run (32-bit only) Windows software, without being restricted to an app store, and therefore you can use the same software you have on your desktop PC in a tablet. That is something a lot of people will definitely want.
Battery life is pretty good. You'd expect that, since it's one of the main driving forces behind Intel's Bay Trail processors – but credit is still due. PCMark 8 is quite a tough test for battery life, and any score over five hours is good, so the Switch 11 does well here.
The Switch 11 is really not very well designed. Nearly every aspect of its build feels cheap, notably excluding the display. It's heavier than most tablets, and even some laptops when docked.
It's full of bloatware too, which takes up a chunk of the very limited space on the C: drive, and really makes the Windows experience less pleasurable.
While we can forgive its slow application performance, loading times seem quite long, and the overall feel of the device is a bit clunky. It's Windows 8.1, but not at its best. The slow performance may lead to frustration at times, made worse when the C: drive fills up and the Switch 11 no longer behaves itself.
Just as happened when I tested its predecessor, my feelings about the Switch 11 changed during use. The initial grumbles at the low benchmark scores were put to one side when it handled a 1080p video with ease, bearing in mind the price tag is still lower than Apple's starting price for a 16GB iPad Air 2.
The concept of hybrid tablets has some legs, and they bear a strong resemblance to netbooks, but Acer's execution falls short with the Switch 11. With limited hardware resources, lean and mean is the way to go, but the Switch 11 is loaded with junk. Uninstalling the whole lot makes the experience a good deal better.
Given the higher price than its predecessor, I feel the shortcomings of the Switch 11 cannot be ignored. It's not a great tablet, laptop or Windows 8.1 system. It's not particularly portable, it feels cheap and it's most definitely not powerful. But it works okay as long as it isn't given anything stressful to do.
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With an overall theme of 'Fresh Out of the 90's' for the Black Hills State University Swarm Day Parade on Saturday, October 1, 2016, the Kenadi Jean Weis Foundation entered their 'School the Cowboys' float. Their inspiration came from the hit comedy 'Saved by the Bell' about six Bayside High School students.
The float was staged with a teacher, and the characters of a geek, grunge, track star, Clueless popular girl, marginal, rocker dude and of course, the New Mexico Highlander Cowboy dunce in the corner.
The overhead projector displayed 'School the Cowboys' on the projector screen and the students had so much fun pulling pranks, shooting rubber bands and throwing paper airplanes at each other as well as volunteer walkers handing out candy from their Lisa Frank bags.
At one point during the parade route, the teacher instructed the students that their lesson was the macerana, and they all danced to the music!
For the second year in a row their float won 1st Place for Best Community Float… all that and a bag of chips!
Thank you to White's Queen City Motors for the use of their truck and trailer, Spearfish High School for letting us borrow their school desks and overhead projector, and James at Binky's Studio for his graffiti on our projector screen.


Presenting the masterworks of contemporary choral music has been a priority for Soundstreams from its very beginning. In 1994, when Soundstreams mounted the first Canadian performance of Henryk Górecki's Miserere, it was with the Bach Elgar Choir, an amateur choir based in Hamilton, Ontario. This season, as we celebrate 60 years of professional choral singing in Canada, it's a perfect opportunity to present this monumental work again with the three professional choirs we assembled from Alberta (Pro Coro Canada), British Columbia (Vancouver Chamber Choir) and Ontario (Elmer Iseler Singers).
Miserere by Polish composer Henryk Górecki (1933–2010) is remarkable in its history, its construction and its impact on the listener. In 1981, the year Górecki composed the work, Poland was in turmoil. There was growing unrest from conflicts between the members of the Solidarity trade union and the Polish government. A violent confrontation in the city of Bydgoszca affected Górecki deeply and his response was to compose this Miserere. But by December 1981, Poland was under martial law, making a performance of the work highly risky, if not impossible, and Górecki hid the score. By 1987 the political landscape had shifted sufficiently that it became possible to premiere the work and it was presented that September at a music festival in the Polish city of Włocławek. This 35-minute work unfolds very slowly as merely three Latin words 'Domine Deus Noster' (Lord our God) support a gradual eight-voice counterpoint, building to the climax some thirty minutes later. In its resolution, the final section of the piece introduces two words, 'Miserere nobis' (Have mercy on us). The powerful, cumulative force of the music can be overwhelming. One can imagine how the Polish public might have reacted to such a moving work in the midst of their nation's crisis.
The Elmer Iseler Singers, Pro Coro Canada and the Vancouver Chamber Choir sing these two large works as a single massed choir under the direction of Latvian conductor Kaspars Putniņš. They also sing another brief work together, Immortal Bach (1987) by elder Norwegian composer Knut Nystedt. This work uses the first stanza of J.S. Bach's chorale, Komm süßer Tod (Come, Sweet Death) as sonic source material for the subsequent fantasy-like choral mutations.
Each of the individual choirs and their respective conductors bring us a work of their own choosing. The Elmer Iseler Singers and conductor Lydia Adams perform Kaija Saariaho's Tag des Jahres (Day of the Year), a 2002 work for choir and recorded natural sounds inspired by thoughts of nature and the seasons in the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlein. The Vancouver Chamber Choir and founding conductor John Washburn sing John Beckwith's Sharon Fragments (1966), based on texts by David Willson and English hymn tunes found on the mechanical organ at the Sharon Temple in East Gwillimbury, Ontario. And Pro Coro Canada, conducted by Michael Zaugg, introduce us to Latvian composer Ugis Praulinš and his Laudibus in sanctis (Praise the Lord), a joyful, exuberant setting of Psalm 150.
Tonight's diverse collection of choral compositions and configurations showcases the rich tradition of professional choral singing we are fortunate to have in Canada after 60 years of development and stewardship. It's something to celebrate!
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Although it resembles a chouriço or other meat sausage, its taste is not meaty; it is tangy (but not hot), with a doughy texture and has a somewhat sweet finish in the palate. It is never cooked sliced unlike other sausages since its dough-like content would pour out of the skin during cooking.
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Q: A compact, Hausdorff and connected topology on $\mathbb {N}$ I am studying Topology for the first time and I am attempting to solve the following homework problem.

Given an example of a topology on $\mathbb {N}$ such that it makes it a compact and Hausdorff space. Can this topology also be connected?

My solution so far: Let $(\mathbb{N},\tau)$ and $(\mathbb{N}$$\cup\left\{ \infty\right\} ,\tau')$
be two topological spaces. The topology $\tau$ is the subspace topology
inherited from the usual topology in $\mathbb{R}$ and $\tau'$ is
the topology of the Aleksandrov compactification of $\mathbb{N}$.
Consider the map
\begin{array}{cccc}
f: & (\mathbb{N}\cup\left\{ \infty\right\} ,\tau^{'}) & \rightarrow & (\mathbb{N},\tau^{*})\\
 & \infty & \mapsto & 0\\
 & n & \mapsto & n+1
\end{array}
I claim that the final topology induced by $f$ is Hausdorff and compact.
$\tau$ is the discrete topology since every singleton is open.
$\tau'=\tau\cup\{(\mathbb{N}\setminus C)\cup\{\infty\}\mid C\text{ is compact in }\mathbb{N}\}$.
The compact sets of $\mathbb{N}$ are finite sets because the compacts
sets of a discrete topology must be finite (the proof being clear).
Therefore,
$$
\tau'=\tau\cup\left\{ (\mathbb{N}\setminus\{n,\dots,k\})\cup\{\infty\}\right\}
$$
The final topology induced by $f$ is the finest topology that makes
$f$ continuous, i.e. $U\in\tau^{*}\iff f^{-1}(U)\in\tau'$ and it
follows that
$$
\tau^{*}=\left\{ \left\{ n\right\} \mid n\in\mathbb{N}\setminus\left\{ 0\right\} \right\} \cup\left\{ \mathbb{N}\setminus\left\{ n,\dots,k\right\} \mid n>0\right\}
$$
It's easy to see that $(\mathbb{N},\tau^{*})$ is compact since for
any cover of $\mathbb{N}$ there is a finite subcover of the form
$\mathbb{N}\setminus\left\{ n,\dots,k\right\} \cup\left\{ n,\dots,k\right\} $.
I could also reason that the image of a compact space is compact but
one gains more insight in this fashion.
Let's check that $(\mathbb{N},\tau^{*})$ is still Hausdorff. Let
$x,y\in\mathbb{N}$ such that $x\neq y$. There are two cases to be
considered.

*

*If $x,y\neq0$ then pick the following open sets $U=\left\{ x\right\} $
and $V=\left\{ y\right\} $.

*Now suppose, without loss of generality that $x\neq0$. Then choose
the opens sets $U=\left\{ x\right\} $ and $V=\mathbb{N}\setminus\{x\}$.
In either case $U\cap V=\emptyset$ and $U,V\in\tau^{*}$proving that
it is indeed Hausdorff.

Clearly this topological space isn't connected. Given any subspace
$U\subset\mathbb{N}$ which is not a singleton or $\emptyset$ (these
are always trivially connected) it is always possible to find $V_{1},V_{2}\in\tau^{*}$
such that $V_{1}\cap V_{2}=\emptyset$ and $V_{1}\cup V_{2}=U$. Again,
let's consider two different cases.

*

*If $0\notin U$ then $U$ is a discrete space which is trivially disconnected.

*If $0\in U$ then simply set $V_{1}=U\setminus\left\{ 0\right\} $
and $V_{2}=\mathbb{N}\setminus\left\{ n,\dots,k\right\} $ such that
$\left\{ n,\dots,k\right\} \notin V_{1}$.

This proves that this space is actually totally disconnected.
Questions: I feel that this is always true, i.e. given any compact and Hausdorff topology on $\mathbb{N}$ it is always the case that it can't be connected. My argument would go like this: since the Aleksandrov compactification is unique up to homeomorphism then every topology that I could give for $\mathbb{N}$ would give rise to a homeomorphic topological space. Clearly I could have defined $f$ in another way but the topology would be the "same" (up to homeomorphism). I found this exercise in a book and the hint they gave was: think of Baire category theorem. But I honestly can't see the connection. I know that a compact and Hausdorff space is a Baire space but what follows from here...?

A: Depending on your background, you may find the following approach to be easier than using Baire's theorem.

A nontrivial connected $T_{3.5}$ space (where $T_{3.5}$ means completely regular and $T_1$) is uncountable.

Proof:
Let $X$ be a nontrivial connected $T_{3.5}$ space. Since $X$ is nontrivial it contains two distinct elements $x$ and $y$.
Due to the fact that $X$ is $T_1$, the singleton $\{y\}$ is closed. Then complete regularity implies the existence of a continuous function $f:X\to[0,1]$ such that $f(x)=0$ and $f(y)=1$. The connectedness of $X$ and continuity of $f$ implies that $f(X)$ is a connected subspace of $[0,1]$ containing $0$ and $1$. Therefore $f(X)=[0,1]$, so $X$ is uncountable. $\square$
Now suppose $X$ is a countably infinite compact Haudorff space.
Since compact Haudorff spaces are normal and normal spaces are (by Urysohn's lemma) completely regular, we infer that $X$ is a nontrivial countable $T_{3.5}$ space. The above result applies to conclude that $X$ is not connected.

A: Baire's theorem/the definition of Baire spaces can be stated in terms of intersections of open sets or of unions of closed sets. Here, it's in my opinion more suitable to use the "unions of closed sets" phrasing. A topological space $X$ is a Baire space if and only if for every countable family $\{ F_n : n \in \mathbb{N}\}$ of closed sets with empty interior, the union
$$\bigcup_{n\in \mathbb{N}} F_n$$
has empty interior.
In particular, if we write $X$ - which is assumed to be a Baire space - as a countable union of closed sets,
$$X = \bigcup_{n \in \mathbb{N}} A_n,$$
then at least one of the $A_n$ has nonempty interior.
Now if $X$ is a countable Baire space, we can write it as a countable union of singletons. If $X$ is a $T_1$ space, then singletons are closed, so then it follows that at least one of the singletons has nonempty interior. But the only nonempty subset of a singleton is the singleton itself, so a singleton with nonempty interior must be an open set. And hence, if $X$ contains more than one point, that gives a partition of $X$ into two disjoint nonempty open sets, the open singleton $\{x\}$ and $X\setminus \{x\}$, so $X$ is not connected.
A (locally) compact Hausdorff space is a Baire space, and clearly $T_1$, so a connected compact Hausdorff space with more than one point must be uncountable.

A: Your example is fine, I would just pick a countable compact Hausdorff space, like the convergent sequence $X=\{\frac{1}{n}: n =1,2,3,4,\ldots\} \cup \{0\}$ and take any bijection with $\mathbb{N}$ and define the topology on $\mathbb{N}$ to be such that $f$ is a homeomorphism, say if $f: X \to \mathbb{N}$ is a bijection, define $O \subseteq \mathbb{N}$ open iff $f^{-1}[O]$ open in $X$.
Note that $X$ is just homeomorphic to the ALexandroff compactification of $\mathbb{N}$, which is your example.
It's also homeomorphic to the ordinal $\omega+1$ in the order topology, and in fact it's not too hard to show that any countable compact Hausdorff space is homeomorphic to some countable ordinal in the order topology.
Such a space can never be connected because a connected normal ($T_4$) space has size at least continuum. This is because if $x \neq y$ in a normal space we can find a continuous function $f:X \to [0,1]$ such that $f(x) =0$ and $f(x)= 1$,by Urysohn's lemma. By connectedness of $X$, $f[X] \subseteq [0,1]$ is connected and contains $0$ and $1$, so $f[X] = [0,1]$. So $X$ has size at least continuum.

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The jury gave its verdict in the lawsuit on Feb. 14, saying Hytera and two subsidiaries had violated one or more of Motorola's trade secrets and must pay the Chicago-based company USD346 million in compensatory damages and USD419 million in punitive damages.
While Hytera respected the verdict, it disagreed with the ruling, the Shenzhen-based company said in a statement today.
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Why I Was Unimpressed With the Airbus A350-900 Aircraft Operated by Delta Air Lines
While researching how I was going to travel from Atlanta to Amsterdam during a sale through which I was going to save on the amount of SkyMiles which I was required to redeem, I noticed that one of the options was to stop off in Detroit, from which the new flagship Airbus A350 would depart — and as I had never flown as a passenger on that aircraft which Delta Air Lines took delivery only last year, I was curious and wanted to try it out.
After an uneventful flight from Atlanta to Detroit aboard a Boeing 757-200 aircraft operated by Delta Air Lines, I finally saw the airplane on which I was to travel to Amsterdam.
Photograph ©2018 by Brian Cohen.
Unfortunately, the window was covered with dots for some reason; so the photograph of the Airbus A350-900 airplane which you see above was the best I could do to mitigate the appearance of those dots, which was mildly annoying.
Photographs ©2018 by Brian Cohen.
I arrived at my seat, which was by the window, as I usually prefer a seat by the window. A blanket wrapped in plastic and a pillow awaited passengers in each seat, which had adjustable headrests.
The configuration in the economy class cabin is three seats across on either side of the aircraft, as well as in the middle.
Universal electrical outlets with USB ports were available at each seat; and an additional USB port is built into the monitor of the in-flight entertainment system. Notice the stains behind the seat to the left of the electrical outlet which were never cleaned.
The control panel above each seat included lights and adjustable air vents, which provided an adequate amount of cold air when fully opened.
As passengers boarded the airplane, ample space was available in the overhead storage bins.
The room available at each seat is adequate for many passengers — in other words, neither roomy nor cramped — and the monitors for the in-flight entertainment systems are adjustable.
The most significant issue I had was the legroom — or lack thereof — underneath the seat in front of me as I sat in my window seat. I could barely fit both of my feet in the cramped space due to the configuration of the supports of the seat — and there was no way to stretch out my legs at all.
I must have won the lottery that day, because fortunately, the middle seat next to me remained unoccupied for the duration of the flight, which gave me a chance to stretch my legs which I otherwise would not have been able to do had a passenger occupied it.
Once again, stains appear all over the back of the seat in front of me, which indicates that the interior of this otherwise relatively new airplane was not properly cleaned.
The winglets of this airplane are also known as sharklets due to their shape, which resemble the fins of sharks.
Complimentary in-flight entertainment systems were available at each seat, through which passengers seated in all cabins can choose from dozens of movies, television programs, songs — or simply just use the customizable and adjustable moving map to track the trip. The touch display of the monitor works similarly to mobile telephones and tablets in terms of zooming in or out of the map.
The refuse of the passenger during a prior trip of this airplane was never removed.
Offered on the menu in the economy class cabin was a choice of the following, with the last two meal choices offered as vegetarian options:
Herb-roasted chicken piccata with lemon caper sauce, creamy polenta and green beans
Burrata Agnolotti in classic Pomodoro with Tuscan tomato and nut-free pesto
Indian style Paneer cheese with onion sauce and marinated spices, served with Basmati rice, carrots, bell pepper and potatoes
After the menus were handed out to passengers by the flight attendants, Billboard earbud headphones — which are not pictured above but were reviewed by me in this article — and mini amenity kits which consisted of eyeshades and earplugs.
Another sign that the cabin had not been properly cleaned was what I found when I opened the tray table: stains from the beverage of a previous passenger.
Fortunately, the wet hot towels which were handed out by the flight attendants helped to clean the tray table — and yes, that is a hair on it; and it is not mine.
For an airplane which is only 15 months old at the most, the "leather" upholstery should not already be separating from the rest of the seat, as seen in the photograph on the left. The photograph on the right shows what is supposed to be the appearance of the seat.
The flight attendant served each passenger a package of Biscoff cookies and a snack mix, which consisted of cheddar tortilla chips, pretzel twists and cheese curls — which in my opinion are better than the offerings from the King Nut Company which had been served aboard airplanes operated by Delta Air Lines for years.
I ordered the buratta, which is actually a jumbo ravioli. I wish I would have known that it was filled with cheese, which I do not like — but I was really in the mood for pasta; I was hungry; and both the Pomodoro and pesto sauces were just enough to help me mask the cheese flavor to the point where eating the meal was tolerable. I probably should have ordered the chicken instead.
The meal came with a pretzel roll with a butter spread; a basic salad consisting of one grape tomato, lettuce and a few slices of cucumber and Caesar salad dressing; two types of cheeses with crackers and grapes which looked like they had seen better days; and a chocolate fudge brownie for dessert. Basic snacks were available in the back of the airplane during the flight overnight — including more of the snack mix and Biscoff cookies.
Approximately one hour prior to landing in Amsterdam, the flight attendants gave out a choice of either a warm egg and cheese sandwich or a continental breakfast box with breakfast bread and yogurt.
I chose the continental breakfast box with breakfast bread and yogurt, which contained honey yogurt, a peach muffin, a small package of medium cheddar cheese, and a cup of orange juice…
…as well as dark chocolate mints and a moist towelette — although hot towels were provided to all passengers prior to this breakfast service.
This flight was not up to the usual standards of which Delta Air Lines prides itself for three reasons: the legroom at the window seat was too cramped for a transoceanic flight; the cabin was obviously not properly cleaned and maintained; and the food — while adequate — was not the greatest I have ever had aboard an airplane. In my opinion, seeing the condition of the interior of this relatively new airplane is inexcusable at best.
If you find yourself aboard the Airbus A350-900 airplane operated by Delta Air Lines, avoid the window seat at all costs if you value legroom. Between the overnight flight over the ocean and the wing outside of the aircraft, you are not going to have much of a view anyway for a significant duration of the flight.
Besides, I much preferred being a "test pilot" of this aircraft in the flight simulator — especially when the instructor was not familiar yet with how it worked. Please refer to this article for details pertaining to my experience piloting the Airbus A350-900 aircraft in the flight simulator.
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16 thoughts on "Why I Was Unimpressed With the Airbus A350-900 Aircraft Operated by Delta Air Lines"
LF says:
Thanks for taking one for the team. I do prefer the window seat so will avoid this aircraft.
john russell says:
I thought the "review" was all about Deltas ability to please this guy, NOT the A350, which is at the mercy of Airlines and how the kit out their aircraft. Gives the impression that the A350 is somehow to be blamed and avoided-this guy work for Boeing? Next time try the A350 with Qatar or Singapore Airlines. To me, the A350 is the best. "Jewel of the Skies" maybe this guy should try out the 737max8!!!!!!!!!
If your assertions were true, that guy — er…I mean john russell — I would have titled the article Why I Was Unimpressed With the Airbus A350-900 Aircraft in General.
Thank you for reading the article.
Marco TD says:
burrata is a famous type of italian Mozzarella… so it was easy to understand that agnolotti were filled with cheese. agnolotti is a type of fresh egg pasta filled with cheese or meat. As a vegetarian option, itcould be filled only with cheese.
I actually never heard the term buratta before, Marco TD; but thank you for the meaning.
Actually, a suitable vegetarian option for me would have been mushroom agnolotti.
Although I did not like the cheese, I was really in the mood for ravioli; so I took it. The other options did not sound all that appetizing to me anyway.
Pro Tip: If you don't like cheese, don't order buratta.
Hiaperture says:
Always disappointing to sit in an uncleaned seat, especially for a long haul.
That footspace does look awful cramped, good to know.
Buratta is actually a type of italian cheese, so I would mark that one off your future ordering list.
Thommy says:
* Seat designs are the choice of the airline – no connection with the A350-900 "in general"
* Brian Cohen was seating obviously in the second row of seats in Economy, that is to say right behind the bulkhead row with contains apprently with Delta airlines in-armrest IFE screens, which eats up a lot of footspace for those passengers in the second row.
* Have a look onto the real legroom space offered by A350, it is by FAR the most generous in the market.
* Brian Cohen no doubt understood that upon writing this paper; a biased paper against, pick one, Delta or A350.
DumpIFE says:
Everyone wants IFE but they don't realize it comes with a price – the space in the footwell.
I know I'm in the minority but I'm capable of entertaining myself so I'd MUCH rather than the space for me legs/feet back and also not have to deal with a woodpecker tapping the back of my head all flight. Dump the IFE.
That was not the main issue, DumpIFE. It was how close the supports of the seat in front of me were that gave that cramped feeling where I could barely fit both my feet under the seat…
…and by the way, you are not alone on your point of view, as I expressed a similar view greater than three years ago in this article:
https://thegate.boardingarea.com/are-the-days-of-in-flight-entertainment-numbered/
Did you go to http://www.seatguru.com to look at the seat configuration
beforehand ?
Also was the aircraft much quieter as they say it is ?
No, I did not, Jim; but I looked at it just now and saw no indication that there was anything wrong with the seat in which I sat. It is classified simply as a standard seat.
I also must admit that I did not notice the aircraft being any quieter than others; but that may be due to the fact that my window seat was right next to the wing where one of the engines is located.
In about a month, we are flying a Delta A350-900 from ATL to ICN and then ICN to ATL on the return. But we are flying in the Delta One Suites so it should be a better experience. We are not thrilled that we are going to to be at ICN for about 9 hours each way to/from SIN. Have heard that vegans like us don't have food available at ICN.
I am not a vegan, David; but South Korea is known for such dishes as kimchee, which I initially thought was vegan — until I realized that it can be prepared in a fermented seafood product such as fish sauce.
Still, I am surprised that no vegan food options are available at Incheon Airport. Although I have been to that airport, I am not vegan; so I would not know.
Can anyone corroborate that no vegan food options are available at that airport?
Barbara Orsolits says:
I am a retired Delta Flight Attendant 41 years. In the past, five years it was very clear to the Flight Attendants the planes even for International were not being really being cleaned. It is cursory at best. If a plane has a longer turn time it can be more thoroughly cleaned but this is the exception, not the rule. One of my last flights before I retired on January 1st, 2019 we were running late and the plane was trashed. The Gate Agents wanted to board the flight without cleaning. Luckily, the Captain stepped in and told the cleaners to get to work. This is also the exception rather than the rule.
Delta always sucks ..over rated. Their planes have been so dirty, food SUCKS compared to UA and the service is always arrogant and not that great. They have the most condensed aircraft.. why does everyone like them so much? I think their 1st class is the worst pitch, the Economy Comfort is like 3 rows and difficult to manage their stupid upgrade system OH and their new "suites"… they just look cheaply made from plastic and fake leather. I saw in the A350 middle section and it was warm with no air vents and the food in Delta One… IT SUCKS bad.


A food fight is shaping up between advocates clamoring to require labels on products that include genetically modified ingredients and a deep-pocketed food lobby that calls such labels confusing.
More than 150 lawmakers have signed on as cosponsors of a bill to make Massachusetts the latest state to require food processors to label products with genetically modified ingredients, or food grown from engineered seeds.
Backers include Sens. Joan Lovely, D-Salem, Kathleen O'Connor-Ives, D-Newburyport, and Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr, R-Gloucester.
They say they have enough support to put the bill on Gov. Charlie Baker's desk in the current legislative session.
"People have the right to know and understand the products that are contained within our food in order to make informed and healthy decisions to meet their dietary needs," Tarr said.
Supporters say consumers are increasingly conscious about the quality and safety of their food.


The C-band Alliance (formed by Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat and Telesat) is stressing that its proposed restructuring of C-band frequencies for 5G usage over the US will not exceed 180 MHz (plus a 20 MHz guard band) in the proposed speedy time-frame of 18-36 months. The consortium's previous discussions with the FCC had offered 100 MHz of capacity (plus a 50 MHz guard band).
However, analyst comments over the past few days (and reported by Advanced Television) have suggested that the 200 MHz under discussion might be extended later to 250 MHz.
"Not so," stressed Markus Payer, head of Corporate Communications at SES, who added that [SES CEO] Steve Collar's comments, and similar statements from Intelsat were absolutely clear. The CBA, in reaction to recent market speculation, wanted to clarify recent speculation.
"The CBA and its members make clear that clearing up to 200 MHz (which includes 20 MHz guard band) is the proposal of the CBA and that 200 MHz is the maximum available for future 5G roll-out in the foreseen time-frame, i.e., within 18-36 months from the final FCC order," said Payer.
"The CBA stress that both the proposed market-based approach to free up spectrum at the lower end of C-band AND the full protection of the all-important incumbent services (including the video ecosystem distributing content to 100 million US households) remain of highest importance," added Payer.


Ella Maureen Hill-Carver, 80 years, of Apache Junction, AZ passed away June 23rd 2018 in Apache Junction. Mrs. Hill-Carver, a communications facilitator. Was born in Prescott but raised in the Verde Valley. Survivors are her five children, Bill (Debbie) Hill, Jerry (Brenda) Hill, Karen Tulin, Kathy (Britt) Batty, Kevin (Jody) Hill; her siblings, Jeanne (Bob) Hardy, Kenneth (Helen) Brown, Floyd (Helen) Brown, Laverne Basham. She has six grandchildren, 3 great grandchildren with two more on the way. There are many nieces nephews and others who will miss her love of family and charity for them. Mom was loving, caring, and forgiving. But she was also very competitive. No one had better kids, grandkids, brothers and sisters. She propped all of us up so high you had to do better. We loved her and will miss her presence but not her love. Her love will always be a part of our lives and this world. A small family service will be held 1:00 PM Friday June 29th at Superstition Funeral Home, 398 E Old HWY Apache Junction, AZ 85119.
Dear family of Maureen,. Please know we are thinking of all of you in the loss of your mom, grandma, sister…and friend. My prayers are with you for the peace and love of Christ Jesus to be with all of you, to sustain you and strengthen you. So glad I got to meet Maureen at Elisha's wedding and spend many wonderful hours with her. She had such a beautiful smile. She seemed like a very dear lady. I know you will miss her and miss her yearly trips to spend a week with each of you. What cherished memories you will have of those times. I will be thinking of all of you Friday. Safe travels to all of you also.
To the sweetest mother anyone can ask for! You taught me so much in life how to be a great mother grandmother and to be kind like you were to everyone. I wish I could be there for you but life goes on. And you would just tell me not to make you cry. Love you with all my heart and Thank you for being the greatest mom for me when I need to cry on your shoulder. Love you Karen.
Hi! My name is Elaine and I am a friend and neighbor of LaVerne. And I just have to say that I have never seen as much love and caring in one family as this one. The parents of all these children and grandchildren did an awesome job!


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Bettina Carl (born 1968 in Coburg, Germany) focuses on art as a semiotic system, as "commentaries nobody asked for". Her drawings aim to reconstruct clusters of thoughts and of perceptions, fugitive architectures of memories that inevitably fail to fit in syntactical structures. The balance of her images remains precarious, an ephemeral momentary collision of restless elements that are always on the verge of disintegration.


Guangzhou Xin Ji Shaxi Hospitality supplies Expo Center is the largest hotel article wholesale market in China at present. It occupies an areas of 120,000 square meters,now available more than 1000 shops , with the financial, catering, logistics and other service equipment.
Xinji Shaxi Hospitality Supplies Expo Center is located right next to Xiajiao subway station and at this massive market you can find just about anything that's related to the catering and restaurant industry and hotel industry. You can find a large range of ceramics from several companies and there's many companies who can custom make your own design cups and plates etc if the order is large enough. Along with ceramics there's numerous glassware manufacturers representing themselves at the market.


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Best way of including timing in a waveform graph?
I've been toying with a number of different ways to do this, but so far I haven't had all that much luck. I've posted a picture so you can see what's going on. All I have is 4 plots that need to be plotted with accurate timing information on the x-axis. I guess I'm just wondering what the best way to go about this is. This method seems to be the most cluttered and messy that I've done, but is the only one I've gotten to have the actual correct timing info on the graph. I would put a wait in the loop, but I need to acquire this data as fast as possible. Thanks for any help!
The display options you have chosen are OK on their own.
If you're looking to get more speed out of the code, try only graphing the data every 10 iterations or so. You can save the processed data (your waveforms) in a shift register where they can then be appended every 10 iterations.
This will obviously not clean up your code. The best way to clean up your code might be to simply throw the conversions you're performing into a sub-vi. Or create a time input for your "meters" VI and have thr processing done there with correctly-scaled values being outputted.
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Now THIS is pretty cool. Don't be mad at me if they're swamped and it takes you a while to get your "go ahead" — I just got mine after a couple of weeks. But I tried it, and, well, it's pretty cool: Tellme.com.
Basically, once you're signed up, you just call 800-555-TELL and say, in words, what you want — stock quotes, the weather, local movie listings, a traffic report. You can even make free long distance phone calls.
It's all free. At least so far.
If you're calling from your home base, Tellme seems to know that and doesn't ask you to punch in your ID number. You just say "movies" or "traffic" and off you go.
If you're calling from a different phone, you do have to enter your ID number, but just the first time — and it's easy to remember. At least for now, your ID is just your 7-digit local phone number.
So, theoretically, at least, if the new policy is that "we will give or sell your information to anyone we want any time we want" . . . and if the new user agreement is that "we will bill you $5 per call" . . . that's it — we've agreed to it unless we've checked Tellme's web site and reread the Agreement and Policy before each call.
I've suggested this, and been thanked for the suggestion, but so far, no change. Anyway, it can't hurt to check out the demo. Voice recognition is really almost ready for prime time.
Speaking of talking computers . . . would you like someone to read my column to you every morning while you're getting dressed? I haven't tried this, but it's free: ReadPlease. Apparently, after downloading the software, you can then cut and paste anything you want into the Windows clipboard and have ReadPlease read it out loud. You even get to choose the reader's voice and speed. (I got this tip from TheFreeSite newsletter, which is also free and alerts you to lots of other free stuff. I tell you: this dot-com economy is a gold mine! I can't believe all those stocks tanked.


Mississauga, Ontario, February 14, 2013 – Walmart Canada today unveiled the results of a nationwide Valentine's Day shopping survey conducted for the retailer by Research Management Group. The survey probes buying trends and shopping preferences across Canada for Valentine's Day**. According to this year's survey, Canadians see Walmart as the number one retailer for saving money this Valentine's Day.
"We're all set to help customers find the perfect gift for their Valentine," said Oliver Horton, senior vice president for food and consumables. "With competitive pricing across the top Valentine's Day items, ranging from candy, flowers, jewellery, and even video games, Walmart Canada is Canada's Valentine's Day one-stop-shop for the whole family.
To ensure Walmart Canada is saving its customers money and providing low prices on a basket of merchandise, the retailer checks and compares 140,000 prices at hundreds of stores under multiple banners across the country on a weekly basis.
Conducted by Research Management Group for Walmart Canada, the online survey of 787 shoppers has a margin of error is 3.5 per cent. Respondents were recruited from the AskingCanadians national panel to quotas representing primary household shoppers by region, gender and age to reflect the national profile. Note that like the primary household shopper profile the sample is 70 per cent female and 30 per cent male. Fieldwork timing was from January 14 and February 8.
Walmart Canada operates a growing chain of more than 375 locations nationwide serving more than one million customers each day, as well as its flagship online store, www.walmart.ca, which is visited by over 250,000 Canadians daily. With over 94,000 associates, Walmart Canada is one of Canada's largest employers and is recognized by Waterstone Human Capital as having one of Canada's top 10 corporate cultures. Walmart Canada is focused on helping Canadian families in need. Since 1994, Walmart has donated and raised more than $160 million to Canadian charities and not-for-profit organizations. Additional company information can be found at walmartcanada.ca, facebook.com/walmartcanada and at twitter.com/@walmartcanada.


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Rolling Back Government on Every Front
Supreme Court to rule on phony Obama 'recess' appointments
June 24, 2013 by press
Constitutional separation of powers at issue.
June 24, 2013, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Nathan Mehrens today issued the following statement responding to the Supreme Court's decision to grant certiorari in the NLRB v. Noel Canning case:
"The fundamental checks and balances that our founders put into the U.S. Constitution are at the heart of this case, and the Supreme Court is commended for taking up this important issue.
"The case revolves around a decision by President Obama to place nominees onto the National Labor Relations Board without the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate. The nominees had only been recently nominated and within a month, the President placed them on the National Labor Relations Board using the claim that they were being appointed in an official Senate recess.
"The President's action obliterated the foundational principle that the Senate has a responsibility to confirm or reject a nominee, a principle that has served as a means of protecting our nation from being ruled by the executive branch through administrative actions.
"The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the President's recess appointments were unconstitutional due to the failure to follow the Senate confirmation process."
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On 23 May in New York, the day after the UN Security Council open debate on Protection of Civilians, INEW will co-host a panel discussion on protecting civilians from the effects of explosive weapons.
The event, co-hosted by the Permanent Missions of Austria, Ireland, Mexico and Mozambique is part of a series of side-events on the 23rd and 24th May.
For additional information, please see the flyer linked below.


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Football: Carlo Ancelotti re-joins Real Madrid on a three-year deal
New Delhi, Delhi, IndiaUpdated: Jun 02, 2021, 12:54 PM IST
Photograph:(AFP)
Ancelotti left Premier League club Everton to re-join his former side (Real Madrid) on a three-year deal.
Carlo Ancelotti has returned to Real Madrid as head coach for a second spell on Tuesday after Zinedine Zidane resigned from the position last month. Previously, the Italian coach managed the Los Blancos side between 2013 and 2015.
"While I have enjoyed being at Everton I have been presented with an unexpected opportunity which I believe is the right move for me and my family at this time," Ancelotti said in a statement on the Everton website.
In his previous spell with Real Madrid, Ancelotti led the Spanish giants to 'La Decima', which means the 10th European Championship in 2014.
He has won the European Cup or Champions League on three occasions, having also led AC Milan to glory in 2003 and 2007.
"Carlo Ancelotti will be the new first team coach for the next three seasons," a brief Real Madrid statement read.
Zinedine Zidane penned down an emotional letter to fans before leaving Real.
He said: "For more than 20 years, from the first day I arrived in Madrid and wore the white shirt, you've shown me your love. I've always felt that there was something special between us. "I have now decided to leave and I want to properly explain the reasons. I'm going, but I'm not jumping overboard, nor am I tired of coaching. In May 2018 I left because after two and a half years, with so many victories and so many trophies, I felt the team needed a new approach to stay at the very highest level. Right now, things are different. I'm leaving because I feel the club no longer has the faith in me I need, nor the support to build something in the medium or long term."
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