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Il 4 luglio è il 185º giorno del calendario gregoriano (il 186º negli anni bisestili). Mancano 180 giorni alla fine dell'anno.
È il giorno in cui la Terra è più lontana dal Sole (afelio).

Eventi
 993 – Viene canonizzato Sant'Ulrico di Augusta
 1054 – Esplode la supernova che porterà alla formazione della Nebulosa del Granchio. Secondo le cronache cinesi del tempo, la supernova restò visibile in pieno giorno per parecchi mesi
 1187 – Saladino sconfigge Guido di Lusignano, re di Gerusalemme, nella battaglia di Hattin. La reliquia della Vera Croce è perduta per sempre
 1300 – Nell'universo fittizio della tragedia shakespeariana Romeo e Giulietta durante una festa in casa Capuleti, Romeo Montecchi e Giulietta Capuleti si conoscono e s'innamorano
 1776 – Rivoluzione americana: il Congresso continentale approva la Dichiarazione d'indipendenza dalla Gran Bretagna. Nascono così gli Stati Uniti d'America
 1802 – A West Point (New York) apre l'Accademia Militare degli Stati Uniti
 1803 – L'acquisto della Louisiana viene annunciato al popolo americano
 1817 – A Rome (New York), inizia la costruzione del Canale Erie
 1837 – Grand Junction Railway, la prima ferrovia a lunga distanza del mondo, apre tra Birmingham e Liverpool
 1838 – Viene costituito il Territorio dello Iowa
 1840 – Il battello a vapore della Cunard Line RMS Britannia parte da Liverpool diretto ad Halifax, per la prima traversata atlantica di una nave passeggeri
 1855 – A Brooklyn (New York), viene pubblicata la prima edizione del libro di poesie di Walt Whitman, intitolato Leaves of Grass
 1863 – Guerra di secessione americana: battaglia di Vicksburg – Ulysses S. Grant e l'esercito dell'Unione, dopo 47 giorni di assedio, catturano la città confederata di Vicksburg (Mississippi), che si arrende
 1865 – Viene pubblicato Le avventure di Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie
 1866 – Terza guerra d'indipendenza italiana: nella battaglia di Vezza d'Oglio, il Corpo Volontari Italiani comandato da Giuseppe Garibaldi viene sconfitto dall'esercito austriaco comandato da Ulysses von Albertini
 1879 - Termina la guerra anglo-zulu: il Regno Unito conquista il Regno Zulu
 1881 – In Alabama, apre il Tuskegee Institute
 1894 – Sanford B. Dole proclama la Repubblica delle Hawaii; avrà vita breve
 1909 – A Edolo viene inaugurata la linea ferroviaria per Breno, tratto finale della Ferrovia Brescia-Iseo-Edolo
 1910 – Il pugile afroamericano Jack Johnson manda k.o. il pugile bianco Jim Jeffries, durante un incontro dei pesi massimi, innescando delle rivolte razziali in tutti gli USA
 1918 – Il sultano ottomano Mehmed VI sale al trono
 1934 – Il pugile Joe Louis vince il suo primo incontro da professionista
 1940 – Seconda guerra mondiale: le truppe italiane conquistano Cassala.
 1941 – Omicidio in massa di scienziati e scrittori polacchi, commesso dai nazisti nella città occupata di Lvov
 1944 – Stragi naziste nel comune di Cavriglia (Arezzo), nei paesi di Meleto Valdarno (94 morti) e Castelnuovo dei Sabbioni (73)
 1946 – Le Filippine ottengono la piena indipendenza
 1950 – Prima trasmissione di Radio Free Europe
1954 – A Berna la Germania Ovest sconfigge l'Ungheria per 3-2 e vince la sua prima Coppa Rimet
 1959 – Con l'ammissione dell'Alaska come 49º Stato, avvenuta all'inizio dell'anno, la bandiera statunitense a 49 stelle debutta a Filadelfia
 1960 – Con l'ammissione delle Hawaii come 50º Stato, avvenuta all'inizio dell'anno, la bandiera statunitense a 50 stelle debutta a Filadelfia
 1961 – Incidente del sottomarino nucleare russo K-19.
 1965 - Nascita Agostino Ghiglia
 1966 – Il presidente statunitense Lyndon B. Johnson tramuta in legge il Freedom of Information Act. L'atto entrerà in vigore l'anno seguente
 1970 – Tonga ottiene l'indipendenza e perde lo status di protettorato britannico
 1971 – Michael Hart ricopia in digitale la Dichiarazione d'Indipendenza degli Stati Uniti, che diventa il primo E-book del Progetto Gutenberg
 1976 – Commando di Israele effettuano un raid nell'Aeroporto di Entebbe, in Uganda, salvando la maggior parte dei passeggeri e dell'equipaggio di un aereo dell'Air France, preso da dirottatori pro-palestinesi
 1987 – In Francia, l'ex ufficiale della Gestapo Klaus Barbie (noto come il "macellaio di Lione") viene dichiarato colpevole di crimini contro l'umanità e condannato all'ergastolo
 1991 – La finlandese Radiolinja lancia la prima rete commerciale GSM
 1997 – La sonda spaziale Pathfinder, della NASA, atterra sulla superficie di Marte
 2003
 La rivista Physical Review Letters pubblica un articolo sull'evidenza sperimentale dei pentaquark, la cui esistenza era stata ipotizzata sin dal 1986.
Papa Giovanni Paolo II pubblica la lettera enciclica Ecclesia de Eucharistia, sull'eucaristia nel suo rapporto con la Chiesa
 2004 – Nella finale del campionato europeo di calcio a sorpresa la Grecia supera per 2-1 i padroni di casa del Portogallo e conquista il suo primo alloro europeo.
 2005 – Alle 5.52 UTC il modulo Impactor della sonda spaziale Deep Impact raggiunge e colpisce la cometa 9P/Tempel 1: l'impatto è avvenuto alla velocità di 13.000 chilometri orari. L'esplosione scaturita è paragonabile a quella di 5 tonnellate di tritolo ed ha liberato nello spazio una nube di ghiaccio, polveri e detriti. Proprio questo era l'obiettivo della missione: analizzare i componenti di una cometa per avere più informazioni sui materiali presenti nello spazio
 2006 – Si svolge al Signal Iduna Park di Dortmund la semifinale del 18º Campionato mondiale di calcio tra Germania e Italia vinta da quest'ultima per 2-0 ai tempi supplementari
 2012 – Viene annunciata la scoperta del Bosone di Higgs da parte del Large Hadron Collider ai laboratori del CERN e si completa in Italia lo switch-off del segnale televisivo analogico

Nati

Morti

Feste e ricorrenze

Civili
Nazionali:
 Stati Uniti – Giorno dell'Indipendenza, festa dell'indipendenza delle Tredici colonie dal Regno Unito, avvenuta nel 1776

Religiose
Cristianesimo:
 Sant'Elisabetta del Portogallo, regina
 Sant'Alberto Quadrelli da Rivolta d'Adda, vescovo
 Sant'Andrea di Creta (di Gortina), vescovo
 Sant'Antoine Daniel, sacerdote e martire
 Santa Berta di Blangy, badessa
 San Carileffo di Anille, abate
 San Cesidio da Fossa (Cesidio Giacomantonio), martire
 Sant'Elia I, patriarca di Gerusalemme
 San Fiorenzo di Cahors, vescovo
 San Giocondiano, martire africano
 San Lauriano, martire
 San Luarsab, re di Karthli, martire (Chiese di rito orientale)
 Santa Natalia di Tolosa, vergine mercedaria
 Sant'Ulrico di Augusta, vescovo
 San Valentino, sacerdote ed eremita
 Beato Bonifacio di Savoia
 Beata Caterina Jarrige, domenicana
 Beato Damiano Grassi da Rivoli, sacerdote domenicano
 Beato Giovanni da Vespignano
 Beati Giovanni detto Cornelio, Tommaso Bosgrave, Giovanni Carey e Patrizio Salmon, martiri
 Beato Giuseppe Kowalski, sacerdote salesiano, martire
 Beato Guglielmo di Hirsau, monaco benedettino, abate di Hirsau
 Beati Guglielmo Andleby, Enrico Abbot, Tommaso Warcop ed Eduardo Fulthorp, martiri
 Beata Maria Crocifissa Curcio, fondatrice delle Suore carmelitane missionarie di Santa Teresa del Bambin Gesù
 Beato Pier Giorgio Frassati, terziario domenicano
 Beato Pietro Kibe Kasui, sacerdote gesuita e martire

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I would like to take a moment to provide an update and remind residents of the Hydro Ottawa web application.
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Among its features, the app can also help customers pinpoint what appliances are consuming the most power in their homes and track the progress of major power outages in their area or across the city.
Hydro Ottawa is one of the only utilities in North America offering its customers this level of detailed access to their account data in an easy-to-use secure app.
The app is available through the online Google Play and Apple App Stores and I highly encourage all residents and Hydro Ottawa customers to download this useful tool.


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As evidenced by last year's release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the galaxy, "far, far away," reigns supreme over pop culture once again. But the next release in the Star Wars universe proves to be a rather different, and somewhat challenging, sell for audiences: a spin-off set between episodes three and four of the intergalactic saga. Without the Skywalker family or lightsabers (mostly) as the main focus, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is a view of the inner workings of both sides of the all-out war between the Rebellion and the Empire. Rogue One could have easily been just a "cash grab" simply by inserting the words "Star Wars" to its title, but luckily, for the most part, it isn't. Despite some issues, Rogue One is a fine expedition filled with new characters on both sides of the conflict that feel somewhat meaningful to the Star Wars universe.


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487: Taryn Southern On Composing Her New Album Entirely With AI
Taryn Southern has nearly half a million YouTube subscribers and her videos have received more than 700 million views online. But the artist and digital storyteller turned to artificial intelligence to create her upcoming album called I AM.
What makes the project unique is the entire album is composed with the help of AI. The music videos that accompany the singles leverage AR, VR, and 360° video technology too. Taryn has also created a new system that enables hundreds of people to collaborate on a song and split the proceeds or royalty payments using Ethereum smart contracts.
An inspirational episode of this tech podcast where Taryn is transforming the entire creative process using AI, AR, VR, Blockchain and 360° video technology

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If a client can dream it, Stage Directions Inc. can create it.
Stage Directions Inc. founder Richard Hoggatt has always been a bit of a maverick, looking ahead at what's next, while perfecting the art of audio and video production, lighting, and staging. The Houston-based company has worked with an enviable roster of clients, creating memorable events for VH1, UNICEF, and powerful corporate clients, while still serving those seeking something special for weddings, parties, and charity events.
For almost 30 years, Hoggatt and his team of skilled creative talent have established Stage Directions Inc. as Houston's most comprehensive production and staging company, which also creates inspired content with cutting-edge technology. When Stage Directions Inc. was formed in 1987, events were recorded on reel-to-reel video tape, now the company uses the highest quality digital files.
It's an evolution that reminds Stage Directions Inc. operations manager Trent Blake just how far the company has come through the technological advances. The benefit of the ever-changing field means Stage Directions Inc. offers clients the very latest services for every occasion.
The list of just what Stage Directions Inc. can create is lengthy, giving clients plenty of options. LED video walls, video mapping, high-quality live streaming from iPhones, and webcasting are among the services available. Think HD everything, full custom lighting shows, expert audio, and a fully designed show from top to bottom, but Blake said the service menu doesn't end there.
The cost-savings benefit is one element, but technologically speaking, when Stage Directions Inc. is running the whole show, every piece of equipment speaks and understands each other, alleviating the risk of any hiccups along the way.
While building Stage Directions Inc., Hoggatt also became a distributor for multiple companies such as QSC Audio, Elation Lighting, and EIKI Projection, which eliminated the cost of the middle man, keeping the budget affordable for clients. Hoggatt believes in cultivating relationships in all aspects of the business, a business philosophy that has not only garnered a cadre of clients, but also the respect of those who work with the company.
Stage Directions Inc. is the preferred vendor for Bayou City Event Center, the Deborah Colton Art Gallery, River Oaks Country Club, and multiple other locales. The Methodist Hospital, Texas Instruments, Lakewood Church, BMC Software, and the Houston Rockets are among the heavy hitters on their client list.
"The scope is pretty big and we believe we haven't really scratched the surface here in Houston," Blake said. He stressed that the company does not compromise its standard of excellence, and whether planning for a corporate event or a wedding, Blake encourages clients of all sizes to leave what's been before at the door and get ready to explore.
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City of Birmingham awarded World Trade Center license
Birmingham Times
By Ariel Worthy
The city of Birmingham has received a license to operate a World Trade Center, said City Council President Johnathan Austin on Wednesday.
A World Trade Center designation is expected to boost international investment in Birmingham and grow jobs, he said.
"This opens up opportunities for the city to attract international business to Birmingham and result in more jobs for our citizens," Austin said. "Our citizens will be available to get some of those jobs."
Last month, the city council agreed to $250,000 as a one-time fee to become a member of the WTC, and an annual $12,500 fee.
Kirk Atkinson, president of Birmingham-based Adah International, who is serving as a consultant on the project, said the next move is to find a location.
Meetings between Atkinson, Mayor William Bell and Austin have been held to discuss possible locations for the WTC Birmingham including the Birmingham Business Alliance, Rev Birmingham and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Being a part of WTC, a network of 300 other centers in the world, allows the city to do business around the globe, Atkinson said.
"For example, when a company is looking for something that matches Birmingham, a location or a customer or distributer or supplier, that country goes through its WTC," he explained.
Another example, Atkison said: "If you have a company and you sell water bottles and they're really popular here, but not so much in Europe. So you want to sell your water bottles in Germany. The WTC here would contact Germany and facilitate the business development meetings, tax accountant, lawyer, everything needed to set up your business over there. They would do it from Birmingham. It's a group whose job is to promote internationally."
Birmingham is now linked to 99 World Trade Centers around the globe that serve as facilitators for international businesses wishing to locate in the U.S. The network also gives Birmingham exposure to global markets.
Each location has a particular focus, Atkinson said. Birmingham's focus could possibly be automation, he said.
"One of the things we've noticed is the need to merge the manufacturing that built and continues to support the city of Birmingham, but also the tech industry," he said.
The WTC's focus wouldn't be solely on big companies, he said.
"It's not just for places with 30,000 employees," he said. "We can focus on people who also only have about 10 employees. This is a benefit for everyone in Birmingham."
The WTC would also help sell Birmingham companies overseas.
"If a Birmingham company wants to sell their products overseas, they would receive support locally, and by mandate, the support in other countries to sell their other products and services abroad," Atkinson said. "It's a two-way street; we're not recreating any existing services, just promoting the services we currently have."
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A conservation plan for the people
The Blueprint, by the Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy, is helping to make collaborative conservation a reality across the South
Damage caused by Hurricane Michael in 2018.
The Panhandle needed all the help it could get in 2018 after Hurricane Michael barreled through with killer, 160 mph winds. Mexico Beach was almost wiped off the map. Other towns along Michael's path were pummeled, too. Countless fields and forests in-between suffered major damage.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Southeast is helping those communities revive, providing the mapping and technical support to identify places within the Florida Panhandle that are critical to the region's ecological health. Communities from Quincy to Mexico Beach are connecting biodiverse landscapes, creating recreational opportunities, and celebrating cultural resources while building more resilient economies.
And they're using the Blueprint, a continuously updated mapping tool, to get the job done. It's also being deployed by the U.S. Forest Service to prioritize land acquisition in South Carolina; by the Defense Department to identify conservation opportunities in northwest Florida; by NGOs to protect Atlantic salt marshes; and by communities in need of more equitable access to greenspace.
Each Blueprint-fueled project dovetails nicely with the Southeast region's vision of "working with and for people." Conservation only works when public and private groups band together for the benefit of wildlife, plants and people.
The mapping tool hews closely to the conservation priorities of the region's 15 state natural resource agencies, as well as those of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Service's mission, after all, is to protect and recover threatened and endangered species, as well as to preserve wildlife habitats at 130 refuges across the region.
The Blueprint is the data-fueled engine of the Southeast Conservation Adaptation Strategy, a regional initiative working to connect lands and waters to benefit wildlife and surrounding communities. State and federal agencies, as well as NGOs, tribes, universities and private entities, rely upon the Blueprint to boost, by at least 10 percent, "the health, function, and connectivity of Southeastern ecosystems by 2060." They also use it to make the case for new funding opportunities.
The mapping tool proved a technological lifeline for battered Panhandle communities. Virtually every building in Parker, just east of Panama City Beach, for example, was damaged. The Florida Caverns State Park, near Marianna, lost more than 80 percent of its trees. The winds destroyed most of a nearby farmer's 3,800-acre loblolly pine crop.
Pine trees in Decatur County, Georgia, snapped off by winds from Hurricane Michael.
Fearing more hurricanes, the towns decided to re-imagine their economic, cultural, and environmental futures. Region-wide cooperation, they decided, was the key to a resilient 21st century. The Federal Emergency Management Agency brought experts and money together to help the Panhandle towns lay out their visions for downtown development, stormwater management, recreational opportunities, and trail networks to connect parks, greenspaces, rivers, lakes and cities.
The Blueprint also helps local groups, like the North Star Legacy Communities, identify places where African American history, culture, and natural resources all come together to boost tourism and economic development. North Star, founded by Dr. Sandra Thompson, uses the mapping tool to plan a cultural heritage trail in northwest Florida. The Blueprint, she says, "builds capacity for vulnerable rural communities to achieve community and economic vibrancy."
The Service's work in the Panhandle also highlights the agency's commitment to community-led conservation efforts, climate resilience, wildlife corridors, and America the Beautiful.
Perhaps no state uses the Blueprint as much, or as effectively, as South Carolina. Federal, state, regional, and municipal governments, as well as NGOs and universities across the Palmetto State, employ the mapping tool to make sound conservation decisions. The U.S. Forest Service, for example, uses the datasets to acquire the most compatible pieces of property in the Francis Marion and Sumter national forests. In Sumter, the Blueprint helps make a compelling case for land protection in the oft-overlooked Piedmont region. And it assisted the forests in strengthening grant proposals for Land and Water Conservation Fund dollars. More than $16 million has been awarded to acquire and protect 12,000 acres of forested land in South Carolina.
At the state level, the Blueprint provides the technical heft that helps update federally mandated wildlife and forest plans. The S.C. Department of Natural Resources also uses the spatial analysis tool to undergird requests for wetland and forestry grants.
At the local level, the Catawba Council of Governments employs the Blueprint to help towns like Fort Mill and Van Wyck recommend conservation actions and identify natural resource priorities, including restoration of Piedmont prairies and riparian riparian
Definition of riparian habitat or riparian areas.
Learn more about riparian buffers. Local officials then decide what gets conserved and where.
"The Blueprint's maps and analyses provide additional validity to the importance of our projects, makes them more competitive nationally, and helps secure funding for increased federal land protections," says Peggy Jo Nadler, a Forest Service lands program manager in South Carolina.
The Blueprint's possibilities are boundless. Yet it's just one, albeit powerful, tool used in the Southeast to bring people together with the land that they love.
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Have you ever stood in front of the dairy case at the grocery store wondering about those "other" butters – the ones in the gold wrappers, the ones that come in a package half the size but double the price of the butter you're used to? I know I have!
I've long wondered what it's like in there, what $10/pound butter tastes like, and if the butter churned from the milk of these idealized cows grazing on only the finest and greenest grasses of Ireland was really any better than the run-of-the-mill store brand butter I've always bought.
So one day when I found myself feeling that old curiosity standing in front of the butters at our local Whole Foods, I took the plunge and bought 4 different butters (3 of them in those fancy gold packages!). In the past I've been held back by my relative foodie-solititude – but among the many perks of writing for a food blog is having a community of people who say YES! when you ask if they'd like to come over and try some butter. It might have helped that I mentioned the words "scones," "mimosas," and "shortbread" as well – the overall effect was rather undeniable and hence the 2015 Laughing Lemon Pie Better Butter Tasting was born.
With the 4 butters I bo ught at Whole Foods plus my usual Safeway store brand on hand, we tested 5 kinds of butters ranging from $2.50 per pound to $10 per pound. I couldn't bring myself to buy the most expensive butter on offer – it was $8 for 8oz. That's $16/lb butter! Wow. But even when I'm trying to be extravagant I'm a cheap-o, and I just couldn't do it. We figured it was either infused with gold, or perhaps made from the cream of unicorns hand milked by virgins. Some things are better left to the imagination, and $16/lb butter might fall into that category.
For baking I thought that shortbread and scones would be best for testing the butters' taste. I chose the Scotch Shortbread recipe out of that good old standby, The Joy of Cooking (1997) (or the JOC as I call it). It's a very simple recipe of working 1 cup creamed butter into 2 cups flour, 1/2 cup powdered sugar, and 1/4 tsp salt. Pressed into a pan, it gets baked at 325° for 35 minute s (more or less). I topped it with a nice layer of white sugar – cuz what goes better with butter, really? The simplicity and near-lack of any other ingredients in this recipe let the butter shine, as it were.
For Scones…that was a tough decision involving me thumbing through my vast collection of scone recipes, seeking a butter-based and simple one. Since I've moved onto cream scones, I haven't been in the butter scone biz for a while and don't have a particular go-to in that category. However, I found a 2013 recipe I'd clipped out of Bon Appetit for Adare Manor Scones – I had written "fave" in the margins, the ingredients were simple, and the directions uncomplicated so it won out. It's a milk and butter scone – no eggs, no cream, no buttermilk or half & half. Just flour, sug ar, salt, baking powder, butter and milk. I used the Cooks Illustrated method of cutting the chilled butter into the flour using the food processor. These were supposed to be cut out scones, but with the volume (40 scones) and the time crunch (wanting them to be freshly baked, but not wanting to wake up earlier than 6am) I just formed them into scored rounds topped with eggwash and turbinado sugar.
So that was the process, what were the results already?
There was a tie for first place and…they were both store-brand! Our A & D, Whole Foods 356 ($4/lb) and Lucerne/Safeway ($2.50/lb), were the most universally liked butters. B & C, Organic Valley ($8/lb) and PLUGRA ($7.58-$10/lb), fell in the middle of the pack – not un-liked, but not standing out as special. And poor E, Kerrygold ($8/lb), was universally dis-liked.
I have to take some of the blame for Kerrygold's failure – it is a salted butter. It doesn't say so on the front of the package, but I know I read that on the ingredient list but then somehow didn't factor it into my baking. I should have reduced or eliminated the salt in both recipes when baking with it. Tasters thought it came off salty, and that was my fault.
It did however have several other characteristics that were hard to get over – it was very yellow and had a chemically taste. Tasters were openly debating whether or not I might be trying to trick them by putting a margarine into the test, that's how much and how oddly Kerrygold stood out! And that is the butter I most wanted to like – I've always coveted it in the store and imagined it to be the epitome of butters! Ha! It just goes to show you the power of good packaging. That cow and the idea of the green Irish meadow grasses have tugged at me for so long, but no longer!
One very deep thought came up as we tasted, and may further reflect on our reaction to Kerrygold – we wondered if we had a European on the tasting panel what their opinion would be. In other words – did we North Americans like the American store-brand butters best because that is what we're all used to? What we're conditioned to like? What we recognize as tasting "good?" There really wasn't an answer to that, but it was interesting to consider our cultural biases and experience and how those impact our palates.
Overall it was amazing to me how little relative difference there was between the butters. Many stood out "in no way whatsoever" as one taster said. For the most part the butters were quite mild, tasters often reacted to differences in their saltiness but not many comments on how buttery any of the butters tasted.
Whole Foods 365 and Lucerne performed well in baked goods, but as for plain butter as a spread or condiment tasters agreed that A and B were tops – Whole Foods 365 and Organic Valley European Style Cultured.
The venerated baker/scientists at Cooks Illustrated did a butter tasting in 2011 and found similar results. Their tasters like PLUGRA best (as did one of ours), but regular butter (they used Land O'Lakes) was recommended overall due to the small difference in taste vs the big difference in price.
Now, some of you are wondering what exactly is "better?" Better is kind of a judge-y word, implying some kind of superiority. Obviously I chose it because "better" next to "butter" is kind of a headline no-brainer, and it gets the basic point across.
"Better" here was meant to signify butters other than the generic grocery store brand – those pricier ones that we often pass by. One could assume based on their price that those butters are superior in some way. However, our small tasting group decided that grocery store brands were actually the better tasting butters.
"Better" could signify a range of factors though, like environmental (grass-fed) and health (organic). Better butter could mean more expensive, but/and it could mean better for the environment and you – often and lately those two overlap. Unfortunately a lot of those factors are difficult for the consumer to determine in-store. That's why it can be nice to shop at a place like Natural Grocers/Vitamin Cottage where they've fastidiously narrowed down the choices for you by only stocking pasture-raised dairy products.
I didn't particularly seek out grass-fed or organic butters for this testing. I'm not looking for the "best" butter for me and the environment because frankly I don't think that exists. Personally, I'm trying to cut dairy/beef products out of my diet altogether – organic, grass-fed, conventional, CAFO or otherwise – mostly for environmental reasons (water usage and carbon/methane emissions). There are some shocking numbers associated with gallons of water needed to make butter – it's hard to pin down, but estimates range from 665 gallons of water per pound, to 2,044 gallons of water per pound, and up to 2,586 by my own math if you multiply the 122 gallons of water to make a pound of milk by the 21.2 pounds of milk required to make a pound of butter. *See Comments* Basically, if you weren't already using butter judiciously for health and weight reasons, the environmental impact of the stuff should encourage a very limited use of this product.
So, overall no big butter switch over here as a result of this weekend's tasting. It's nice to know that the plain old wax paper wrapped store-brand butter I've always used pleases most palates. Lacy's go-to butter is Costco's organic butter, I wish I'd added that to the panel. Do YOU have a favorite butter? Tell us all about it in the comments section below!
OK, one gallon = 4 quarts. So 1lb of butter = the cream of 2.75 gallons of milk. If milk is 122 gallons of water per gallon that would be *just* 335.5. So I'm still confused about how much water, cuz that math doesn't seem near any of the other sources I found either. Harumph.
I have been awaiting the results of your butter test since you announced it the other day.
Thanks for putting so much time and effort to answering a question that I have been thinking about myself.
Ever since a trip to Ireland and most recently to France, I have wondered why we do not have good, creamy, delicious butter in the US. For many years, I have been used whipped butter (usually Land O'Lakes brand) for table butter in our house. It is ok, but does pale in comparison to the incredible butter tasted in Europe. Plus, I have read but have not been able to confirm that Land O'Lakes is GMO friendly…trying to steer clear of companies who are continuing to promote GMO.
Here in the US, I have found Plugra seems to be the closest to a European butter. Hard to justify the cost though.
Thank you for introducing me to the concept of environmental impact and the making of butter. I had no idea.
Loved this post! Thank you for sharing your findings.
You're welcome, and thank YOU for such great feedback.
The Kerrygold brand is the only butter of the group that comes from truly healthy cows that are allowed to roam free and eat grass (not mildly corn and soy like the other butters you tried most likely are). Therefore, the nutritional content is much better in that butter (heart-healthy CLA, vitamin K, etc). The deeper the color, typically the better the quality of butter and health of cow. The stronger/richer "buttery" flavor is what you get with high quality butter! I highly recommend looking into the benefits of grass fed butter, you'll never regret it and never go back!
Do you have a grass fed butter you'd recommend? (other than Kerrygold?) I agree with that so much in theory – I was really thrown off and disappointed to not enjoy Kerrygold more, it seems like it should be superior in taste.
Interesting. I really like the overpriced Euro-butters better for eating, but for cooking/baking, I use anything that is unsalted. I find that when I return from certain European countries where good butter is prized, I am more attuned to the European style here. It quickly wears out, however.


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Train and Retrain
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From the Herald-Dispatch, Huntington, W.Va., on a skills gap in new manufacturing jobs:
Automation and robotics can be frightening words for some American workers, and understandably so.
Smarter, computerized equipment has changed the workplace — and manufacturing in particular — worldwide. But those machines perform functions that people once did, and many of the "factory jobs" we remember from decades past have gone away.
In their place are new jobs — jobs that often require skills that much of today's workforce does not have.
American manufacturers have actually added nearly a million jobs in the past seven years, according a special report by The Associated Press, and labor statistics show almost 390,000 such jobs are open right now. In fact, experts say it will not be easy to fill the 2 million new American manufacturing jobs that are forecast over the next decade because of the "skills gap."
Rather than putting the pieces together themselves, today's manufacturing workers are often running or troubleshooting computer-directed machinery. Even warehouse and transportation jobs require complex computer programs that keep track of pricing, shipping and inventory.
"There are more computers on the manufacturing floor than machine tools and other types of equipment," Siemens USA CEO Judy Marks told AP. Her company employs 7,500 software developers – nearly 15 percent of its U.S. workforce.
The same transition is going on around the world, but the United States "trails virtually all its industrial competitors in public and private spending on training," said Scott Paul, president of the Alliance of American Manufacturing.
It is in everyone's interest to change that.
We need to retrain older workers and make sure younger workers are getting the education and developing the skills that will help them fill these new jobs and hold on to them as technology continues to change.
That is going to require investment and participation. West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky all have strong community and technical college networks, but too few students take advantage of those training opportunities. Community college enrollment in West Virginia has actually declined in recent years.
Our states have retraining programs for older workers, but considering the scope of the problem, the programs are fairly small, and again, many of those who need the help do not participate.
But as U.S. Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio said recently, "we're not going to see the kind of manufacturing renaissance that we all want in this country unless we focus on skills training."


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Laval Lucas-Perry Wins Back Eligibility
Big news from Eric Lacy, Laval Lucas-Perry (transfer from Arizona) will receive eligibility back next year. He will still sit until December but will get his lost time back for a mid season transfer. This is big and essentially makes Lucas-Perry an 08 recruit who just can't play the first half of next season. Props to Lacy for the heads up and being all over this and the Ekpe situation. Here are quotes from Laval's father:
"I don't know what they did or considered," said Laval Perry of the NCAA's decision. "All I know is that the result was in our favor. "We're very happy about it, (Michigan's) compliance office really helped." Lucas-Perry, a 6-foot, 3-inch guard from Grand Blanc, Mich., left Arizona last December after completion of his first semester and won't be able to play for Michigan until about mid-December. "We're thinking his first game might be when Michigan plays Oakland at The Palace (of Auburn Hills)," Laval Perry said.
Updated Scholarship Breakdown. Here is some high school footage of Laval made when he committed to Arizona. I will go out on a limb and say that LLP will be our starting point guard December 20th:


CreateSpace is a mess. The process to get the proof is no problem. Everything was going swell until I ordered 50 copies on the 9th of January and chose expedited shipping. They shipped it standard, then it took 5 days to print the book, then another 5 days to get it to USPS. Then it was sent off, only to be delayed another 2 days. Now it's the 20th and I need it for a book signing on the 23rd and there's no way it's getting from Pennsylvania to Lafayette, Louisiana in 2 days. Hopefully your service will be done correctly.
How Much Should I Pay a Book Illustrator?
Different illustrators charge different rates. The prices are all over the board. I definitely recommend having a work-for-hire contract so you'll own all rights to the artwork in your book – forever. You need to be able to use that artwork not only in the book, but also in marketing and, if the book takes off, you'll want to be able to use it when creating related products in the future as well. You don't want to have to pay additional fees each time you want to use artwork that you paid the illustrator to create. Of course, you may need to pay a bit more up front but it will be worth if you can use it freely in the future.
Writing isn't for wimps, or for those who are sensitive or thin skinned. It's for writers who believe in themselves and their work, and realize that rejection is part of the business. Even with a thick skin, rejection hurts. Writers labor over their creations, and rewrite, trying to find that perfect word. Our manuscripts are like our babies. We send them out into the world, only to be rejected. Anyone who puts pen to paper knows the sting of rejection. It goes with the territory.
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'45 Years' producer The Bureau talks new dark comedy-drama 'Daphne'
By Tom Grater2017-01-27T15:14:00+00:00
Screen sat down with the film's creative team and star to discuss the project's origins ahead of its world premiere at IFFR on Jan 29.
Following the success of 2011 microbudget drama Weekend and Oscar-nominated 2014 drama 45 Years, London-based production outfit The Bureau has forged a solid reputation as a developer of burgeoning film talent.
The company's modus operandi has been to identify content that will appeal to underserved film audiences; Weekend was a heartfelt romance aimed primarily at a gay audience, while 45 Years was an arthouse drama that appealed to older cinema-goers.
When the script for Daphne, which premieres on Jan 29 in the Limelight strand at this year's IFFR, first passed across the desk of Valentina Brazzini, in-house producer at The Bureau, she thought that the material could appeal to a female audience that was not being catered for by most cinema releases in the UK.
"The Americans were already doing stories about funny, complex female characters, but it was very hard to find similar films in the UK," she recalls, "Sometimes if you don't see a certain type of film it's because it's not that interesting, but other times it's because there's something really missing there that you can tap into."
Emily Beecham in Daphne
A long wait
The screenplay was written by Nico Mensinga and had been sent by Scottish filmmaker Peter Mackie-Burns, an established short film director who had won a Golden Bear for Milk at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival but had since struggled to get his first feature off the ground.
Brazzini remembers that it wasn't so much the script that grabbed her attention, but an accompanying short film, Happy Birthday, that Mackie-Burns had shot with star Emily Beecham, who would go on to play the titular Daphne in the feature.
Emily Beecham
"The short was so different, it really stood out," says Brazzini, "At first I didn't realise Peter was the same guy who had won a Golden Bear, he didn't mention any of that."
Mackie-Burns says that the short film was made as a proof on concept for the eventual feature. "It featured an early incarnation of the character [Daphne]… I thought Emily's performance would be really good for marketing the project to The Bureau, selling them the tone, actor, character, and the first draft of the script at the same time. It made the script stand out a bit, I think," he says.
After spending almost ten years struggling to get a feature project greenlit – occupying himself with plenty of theatre work and further shorts in the meantime - Mackie-Burns could have been excused for wondering whether his career as a film director would ever take off, but he says that he always kept the faith.
"The shorts had done well, it's really important to keep making them," he adds, explaining that he had multiple features get to various stages of development, none of which made it to production.
Why does he think that happened? "The financial crash. I got very close with two projects but they couldn't close the last part of finance. One was about to shoot but collapsed with only four weeks to go."
Brazzini and fellow producer at The Bureau Tristan Goligher opted to produce Daphne together (marking Brazzini's first feature as a full producer). Goligher would largely stay outside of the development process, allowing him to devote his full attention to Andrew Haigh's 45 Years follow-up Lean On Pete (which shot in America in summer 2016), meaning he could bring a fresh eye to the Daphne shoot.
The Bureau production team
"I had experienced development hell for a few years, and then with The Bureau it was kind of development heaven," recalls the director.
The project was initially taken to participate in Film London's microbudget production initiative Microwave, which produces films with a budget of £150,000. After not making it through the first stage, the producers decided to turn to UK public funders, with which they had forged strong relationships following the successes of 45 Years and Weekend.
"We have developed good relationships with these financiers, they're predisposed to have a conversation with us. That definitely helps, it's easier to pick up the phone to them now, but it has taken 15 years" she says, adding that it's "all about the material – if they don't respond to the material they don't respond to us."
"It was one of the fastest financing processes I have ever been involved in," recalls Brazzini. They had gone out to the British Film Institute (BFI), a regular collaborator, and Creative Scotland due to Mackie-Burns' Scottish connection. The BFI's Lizzie Francke and Creative Scotland's Robbie Allen boarded the project as executive producers.
Able to attract a greater level of investment, the budget was upped to almost £1m (with a smaller percentage inputted by The Bureau's sales arm), a figure that made the project feel "like a £20m movie," comments Brazzini.
That was a comfortable budget, but not exactly a surplus, adds the producer, "Every budget level is both restrictive and liberating for certain things. In this case, we didn't feel like we had to make sacrifices or compromise too much."
Daphne is a black comedy character portrait of a 31-year-old woman living in London who ignores the greater pressures of life while spending her time and energy on libertine pursuits such as partying and casual sexual encounters.
For both Brazzini and Mackie-Burns, Emily Beecham was the only choice to play the film's titular lead character. "She needed to be funny, truthful, and to convey a lot of emotions. It's a very complex, layered performance, and she completely pulled it off," comments Brazzini.
Emily Beecham on set
For Beecham, whose credits include the Coen Brothers' Hail Caesar and American TV series Into The Badlands, she was initially attracted to the character spirit, "It's an audacious character, she's not the usual female protagonist."
The actress was also been impressed by Mackie-Burns' directing style, which included less reliance on traditional methods such as rehearsing individual scenes, and instead put more emphasis on in-depth research into the backgrounds of characters. "There was so much history to the character Daphne, it really helped," she comments.
While Mackie-Burns prefers to avoid rehearsals – "I don't rehearse," he says bluntly – his deep research into his characters also impressed producer Brazzini. "Peter doesn't want to rehearse because he wants to keep performances fresh, I think that's something that paid off," she says, "instead, he produced bibles, a catalogue of work on each character."
"I want actors to come to the set knowing the character, we spent two years on them," adds the director.
Peter Mackie-Burns and Emily Beecham
Filming lasted for four weeks at variety of locations across London in February 2016. The time-frame was limiting, but offered the team the opportunity to prioritise energy and enthusiasm, says Mackie-Burns, "We wanted to go on set and shoot quickly, we wanted to keep it fresh. It was like a low budget Woody Allen-style shoot."
Despite his aversion to rehearsals, he emphasises that improvisation is not his style, "We always stuck to the script, sometimes I'd cut a line. If I was going to do any improvisations with actors, we'd do it before we get to the set."
Brazzini adds that her approach when working with a new director (The Bureau has often prioritised first and second time directors to date) is to try to be flexible and to provide the support they need, both in development and onset. "You always have to understand what your director needs and you try to work around that, so far I've not come across someone with such crazy needs that you can't work with their method," she says.
The completed film is now set for its world premiere in Rotterdam on Sunday (Jan 29). The Bureau's sales wing – The Bureau Sales – is handling worldwide rights and will be working on deals at this year's European Film Market in Berlin (Feb 9-17). Altitude will distribute in the UK.
Brazzini explains that the team felt Rotterdam was an appropriate berth for the film because the event has "established itself as a festival with an eye for exceptional talent [that] brings together idiosyncratic films by top directors and debut filmmakers".
"Unveiling Daphne in such a buzzing atmosphere is the perfect launch for the film's long journey around the world," she adds.
'1917' posts excellent second weekend at UK box office; 'Bad Boys For Life' makes strong start
The action threequel opened to £3.8m across the weekend.
How working with Tarantino and Baumbach made David Heyman "a better producer"
David Heyman has two contenders in the Oscar race for best picture.
Leading German filmmaker and LGBT+ activist Rosa von Praunheim: "I made a lot of difference and I was controversial"
von Praunheim will receive the inaugural Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival lifetime achievement award.
When Greta Gerwig heard Sony was planning another big-screen adaptation of her favourite book, she fought her way into the room to pitch her vision.


I would recommend this to mothers as it also has a history log where you can show the doctor when you have had fever spikes, so they can see what is going on in the last 24, 48 and even 72 hours. I'm absolutely in love with this product.
Would recommend this for anyone who wants to act fast on an approaching fever before the baby gets too hot and uncomfortable.


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Carrie Underwood REFLECTION at Resorts World Las Vegas
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Carrie Underwood announces her first-ever residency, REFLECTION: The Las Vegas Residency, at The Theatre at Resorts World Las Vegas, which will begin December 1.
Carrie Underwood – REFLECTION The Las Vegas Residency
Carrie joins global music stars Celine Dion, Katy Perry, and Luke Bryan as the founding headliners at the Strip's highly anticipated new 3,500-room luxury destination opening June 24, who will also call The Theatre at Resorts World Las Vegas their performing home. The 5,000-capacity, world-class theatre will open its doors in November 2021 and is exclusively programmed and operated by Concerts West / AEG Presents.
Carrie's first six shows are scheduled for December 1, 3, 4, 8, 10, and 11. More shows are to come.
Of her first residency, Carrie says, "Touring is one of my favorite things I get to do as a performer and we've all really been missing that. I love being on the road and coming to the fans where they live but it will also be fun to get to do multiple shows in one place where people will be able to come to get that concert experience and have some fun in Las Vegas at the same time. It's such a special honor to be one of the first artists to get to perform in a brand new, beautiful, state-of-the-art theatre at such an exciting new destination as Resorts World Las Vegas."
Carrie also revealed exclusive new artwork and inspiration for REFLECTION: The Las Vegas Residency. "The show title refers to the fact that this show will reflect the amazing journey I've been on for the past 16 years, as well as a glimpse into what lies ahead," she says.
Additionally, Carrie has arranged for a donation of $1 from each ticket sold for REFLECTION: The Las Vegas Residency to be contributed to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
About Carrie Underwood
Carrie Underwood is a true multi-format, multi-media superstar, spanning achievements in music, television, film, and as a New York Times bestselling author and successful entrepreneur. She has sold more than 66 million records worldwide, recorded 28 #1 singles (14 of which she co-wrote), and has seven albums that are certified Platinum or Multi-Platinum by the RIAA, all while continuing to sell-out arena tours across North America and the UK.
All nine of her consecutive album releases (two of which she co-produced) from the beginning of her career debuted #1 on the Billboard Country Chart, making her the only artist to accomplish that feat. She has won over 100 major awards including 7 GRAMMY® Awards, 15 ACM Awards including three for Entertainer of the Year (the first female in history to win twice and the only female ever to win three times), 23 CMT Music Awards (holding the record for the most award wins ever for the show), 7 CMA Awards, and 17 American Music Awards.
She has also built a successful business portfolio inspired by her passion for health and wellness. She founded and created the fitness and lifestyle brand, CALIA by Carrie Underwood, and her first book, FIND YOUR PATH was an instant New York Times bestseller. She launched her fit52 app in 2020 and expanded her lifestyle portfolio with a partnership with BODYARMOR Sports Drink in 2021.
Her first-ever residency, REFLECTION: The Las Vegas Residency, begins in December at The Theatre at Resorts World Las Vegas.
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Heijmans reiterates outlook for 2018, good performance business areas
Order book at healthy level
All business areas perform well;
Dispute Wintrack II to arbitration, loss provision of € 10 million;
Order book at healthy level, stood at € 2.0 billion end-September;
Strong cash development, early reduction of credit facility to € 121 million;
Heijmans reiterates its forecast that all business units will make a positive contribution to the result for 2018.
Ton Hillen, Chairman of the Executive Board /CEO Heijmans:
"The market conditions and the performance of Property Development and our residential building activities remain good, with revenues and results that continue to increase in the second half of the year. Our non-residential activities are on track with the start-up of a number of new projects, and the increased revenue will translate into a positive contribution to Heijmans' operating result. The majority of our infra activities are performing in line with expectations.
We remain cautious and selective in our acquisition policy, in view of current market conditions. The Wintrack II project has been terminated by client TenneT as a result of a difference of opinion. We are taking this dispute to arbitration. Our strong market positions and the positive development of our activities have improved our financial position, which has enabled us to accelerate the reduction of our credit facility to the level agreed for mid-2019. We reiterate our outlook for 2018."
The positive developments at Property Development have continued, with growth in both revenue and result. The energy we have put over the past few months into maintaining a healthy pipeline of new projects up for sale, is now paying off. In the period to 26 October of this year, we sold 1,631 homes, compared with 1,636 homes in the same period of last year. Heijmans sold 922 of these homes to private buyers (2017: 1,061) and sold 709 to investors (2017: 575).
Heijmans continues to feel the persistent pressure on the housing market. Due to the lack of new development locations in the Netherlands, rising costs and the availability of resources, the supply on the housing market is lagging the enormous demand, while rising house prices are putting additional pressure on the affordability of homes. Heijmans is responding to this by working with preferred procurement partners and using standardised concepts whenever possible.
Havenkwartier, Rotterdam
In the period under review, Heijmans closed a development contract with the city of Rotterdam for new-build project Havenkwartier, which includes 200 owner-occupier homes in the Katendrecht district of the city. A number of projects also progressed to the sales phase, including Greenville Leidsche Rijn and De Verbinding Spaarndammerhart, while we have been making preparations to start construction on the Land van Dico project in Uden in May 2019.
Building & Technology
The development of Building & Technology is on track, with clear growth in residential building activities and the targeted acquisition of non-residential projects, as well as the acquisition and extension of service & maintenance contracts.
At the residential building activities, revenue, result and order book have all increased. Heijmans' concept homes are very much in demand. So far this year, we have produced the shells of around 800 homes, which puts Heijmans on track to realise more than 1,000 of these homes in 2018. Heijmans offers both Heijmans Huismerk and Heijmans Wenswonen homes (in Berkel-Enschot and Nijkerk among other places), as well as Heijmans ONE homes (in Nijkerk among others). Heijmans has developed gas-free versions of these homes.
The non-residential projects that Heijmans acquired at the end of 2017 and in early 2018 are progressing to the production phase, which has pushed revenues to a considerably higher level than last year. This is also contributing to the result and order book.
At end-August, it was announced that Heijmans had been chosen as a preferred candidate in Schiphol's Main contracts 2019 tender for the Terminals 1 & 2 Parcel, with accompanying piers. The initial term of this contract is three years, with an option to extend the contract by two terms of three years. The specification phase is now fully underway and we expect to reach a final agreement at the end of 2018, after which we will begin execution in April 2019. The construction of the New Amsterdam Court House (NACH) and the construction of the new head office for the European Medicines Agency (EMA), which Heijmans is realising in partnership with Dura Vermeer, are moving full steam ahead. Heijmans is also building a number of high-grade data centres.
The construction of the new head office for the European Medicines Agency (EMA), which Heijmans is realising in partnership with Dura Vermeer, is moving full steam ahead.
Heijmans realises a substantial share of these revenues from renovation, maintenance and management contracts, with a strong focus on increasing the sustainability of buildings. Examples of current projects in this segment include 174 homes in Alandsbeek, Leusden, 24 homes in Hoofddorp and 64 homes in Zoetermeer. Heijmans also completed the large-scale renovation of a care home complex in Valkenswaard, which included the realisation of 105 care apartments.
As part of the non-residential activities, Heijmans is currently redeveloping the tax offices on Laan op Zuid in Rotterdam into a central government office, including maintenance. Another example is the long-term maintenance contract for former royal palace and museum Paleis Het Loo, where Heijmans is currently also renewing and extending the technical installations.
Heijmans' Technical Services activities (maintenance and management) once again recorded an increase in revenue and result. In this segment, Heijmans is currently working for various clients, including ministries, educational institutions and medical centres. Through its client knowledge, Services has managed to translate long-term partnerships and integrated approach into stable growth at healthy margins for many years in succession. These activities use their strong base to deliver a structural contribution to the continued development of Building & Technology.
Unlike Heijmans' other business areas, Infra is not focused on growth. Instead, the focus on predictability and a healthy balance in its order book remains this business area's highest priority. Revenue and result were in line with expectations in the third quarter. In the third quarter, TenneT formally terminated the Wintrack II contract. The Heijmans-Europoles consortium and TenneT have failed to reach an amicable agreement and this dispute will now be submitted for arbitration. In the third quarter, Heijmans took a loss provision of € 10 million for unpaid invoices and costs, as well as the settlement of any commitments already entered into. As a result of this contract termination, Infra's order book has been adjusted by € 130 million.
Wintrack II contract Heijmans-Europoles and TenneT terminated
work has been stopped
Heijmans has signed a Letter of Intent with the Province of North Holland for the joint completion of the Wilhelmina lock project. The parties have reached agreements on the further planning and execution, as a result of which the project remains within the previously stated financial bandwidth. The work on this project will resume in February 2019.
In Schiphol's Main contracts 2019 tender, Heijmans has also been selected as a preferred candidate for the Runway sites Parcel. The specification phase for this parcel is also fully underway. We expect to complete this phase by the end of 2018, after which we will be able to start work on the project in April 2019.
Heijmans recently received the final award for the maintenance of the main waterway Lemmer – Delfzijl. The work on the N23 road project and the Gaasperdammerweg section of the A9 motorway are progressing according to plan. The progress of the work on the Beatrix lock in Nieuwegein is on track. The widening of the A27/A1 motorway project is close to completion, barring a number of finishing touches. In the regional infra activities, Heijmans is working on a number of projects, including the redevelopment of the Dardanellenstraat, part of Distripark in Rotterdam, for the Port of Rotterdam. We recently also delivered the redevelopment of the Quackplein in Nijmegen.
Heijmans' operational business is performing according to plan. Property Development and Building & Technology are making solid progress. The growth of the property development and residential building activities has continued and Heijmans has been able to seize targeted opportunities in the non-residential market, as a result of which the non-residential activities will make a positive contribution to our operating result. Although most of the infra activities are performing in line with expectations, predictability and stability remain our highest priorities. As long as the risk-return ratios in the infra market remain suboptimal, Heijmans has no growth ambitions for its infra business. While Infra's results have been negatively impacted by the termination of the Wintrack II contract, these are still positive overall. Heijmans reiterates its forecast that all its business areas will make a positive contribution to its result for 2018.
Heijmans' cash position has developed positively and the company's debt position has further improved. As a result of this, in the third quarter Heijmans decided to reduce its credit facility by € 22.75 million, which the company effectuated early October. This means that Heijmans has already realised the phased reduction to € 121 million, originally scheduled for 30 June 2019, and KBC has left the bank syndicate early. The bank syndicate now consists of ABN AMRO, ING and Rabobank and these banks have committed until mid-2022.
Heijmans will publish its annual results for 2018 on Thursday 21 February 2019.
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NHS England has instructed the Business Services Authority (BSA) to pause its recently announced dental assurance reviews, following a request from the BDA.
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The BDA was not consulted ahead of the announcement of the new wave of assurance activity, and this meeting will give the opportunity for the GDPC to challenge these reviews, which it regards as fundamentally flawed.
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Students' package delivery woes persist into the spring
By Sam Patz
Posted on March 3, 2021 in News
Juliette Pope/The Miscellany News
Among the many challenges of life on campus with COVID-19 restrictions, package delays have been an ongoing issue for students who rely on shipping for necessities.
The delays persist following the previous semester's lags in package deliveries. Many students experienced longer than anticipated delivery times for prescriptions from nearby pharmacies amid the ongoing health crisis of COVID-19.
Months later, many questions remain about the reasons behind the delays.
Haylee Backs '22 recently went to great lengths to get her textbooks and school supplies from Amazon. On Tuesday, Feb. 16, Amazon sent Backs three emails within 30 minutes alerting her that USPS had attempted and failed to deliver her three packages. Delivery failures are most common during weekends, as the Mailroom and Central Receiving are closed to students.
"I got no explanation for why my packages were not accepted," Backs said. USPS delivered two of her three packages the next day. But Backs had to wait until Feb. 23 for the last package, a week after the first attempt at delivery.
Backs explained that because students get emails from the delivery company when packages are not delivered, it is easy to tell whether the problem stems from Vassar or another party. She noted, "I think Vassar students get upset when the package is tracked as arrived and Vassar seemingly takes days to process it."
For Backs, package delays amongst other delivery qualms are an ongoing issue. "I have had minor issues with package delivery, usually when a delivery is attempted after hours. Additionally, in the past I have waited for about a week after my package has arrived before Vassar processed it and I was able to pick it up," she explained.
But unlike Backs, other students have had their delivery issues solved rather quickly. Schuyler Osgood '21 was also alerted that there was a failed delivery with a book he ordered. It was delivered the next day. "I've never had any issues with package delivery or pickup," Osgood explained. He continued, "I've actually only had positive experiences when I needed to interact with someone from the post office regarding questions or concerns of mine."
He contacted Mailroom employees last year after students were sent home for the spring semester due to COVID-19 because he was worried about packages not being forwarded to his home correctly, "The person I contacted at the post office was incredibly helpful," he said.
Olivia Feltus's '21 package was also delivered the day after the first attempt. On Feb. 17, Feltus posted on the "Vassar: The Virtual Version" Facebook page to see if anyone else was having problems with packages that day, and discovered others were, including Osgood and Backs.
"I'm pretty sure there was nobody there that morning to receive USPS packages because it was snowing and facilities opened late," Feltus explained. Snow can often delay transportation and shipping services. "I know some people whose packages took longer to process," Feltus added.
In a previous Miscellany News interview, Mailroom and Copy Center Manager Renee DeSantis explained that USPS' delivery method to the college may be to blame for these lags.
Busy periods such as the start of school can also drive Vassar Mailroom processing delays. And tracked packages are marked 'delivered' when they arrive at the Arlington Post Office processing center, not when they make it to Vassar. That means Mailroom staff cannot confirm if a package is on campus grounds or not.
The Mailroom has not responded to a request for comment from The Miscellany News.
Delays also have occurred when there is no clear reason. While many resolve their delivery issues rather quickly, some students find themselves waiting for weeks with little guidance from the Mailroom. In 2019 Molly Canfield '23 grew worried after a package from England took longer than anticipated to arrive, triggering her resolve to embark on a mission to find it.
"I went to the post office several times and asked the workers behind the desk if they possibly had my package, if there was somewhere they could look for it, [or] if it could have gotten lost in their system," she said.
Almost three months later in Feb. 2020, Canfield received an email about the package. It had been in the Mailroom since November and needed to be picked up due to limited storage space in the Mailroom.
Lasting questions remain about these holes in the delivery system. In Canfield's case, the answer to why she waited two months for her package is still unknown. "After so long, it was completely thrilling to finally receive it, but I also felt frustrated—who could I have contacted sooner to have gotten clearer information?" she wondered.


Kitcho. Kitcho, Kitcho, Kitcho. I can sing praises on high about this sushi restaurant. It's definitely my favorite place in Taipei for sushi. If you can't make it to Tokyo....go here instead. It is a very delicious (and perhaps cheaper?) alternative.
To me this place represents the clean, trendy, modern sushi bar that pays homage to the legacy of sushi and yet, isn't afraid to take the cuisine in a new direction. The decor reflects that ideal: with clean lines, soft ambient lighting, and modern yet delicate artwork. However, in contrast to the rest of the restaurant, the sushi bar fully lit, with clean bright light. The contrast in lighting make the restaurant reminiscent of a small theater. A stage where the actors, in this case sushi chefs, can perform and a modest auditorium in which spectators can observe.
And boy do they observe.
Although there are two rooms in the back for a more formal seating, the majority of the restaurant is dedicated to bar seating. For good reason! The chefs are completely in their element while behind the bar. Watching them meld traditional sushi ideals with modern techniques, you'll be completely entranced by their knife acrobatics, wielding of the kitchen torch, and their precision in which they use their chopsticks.
Each piece of sushi and each slice of sashimi are are meticulously prepared for consumption. I can guarantee you that if you dine here, you will be completely satisfied.
As a diner you won't just be impressed by the cuisine, but also by the wonderful service and casual banter. I never once had to ask for a refill on tea and the waitstaff cleaned away empty plates and cups quietly, efficiently, and politely.
They also provide you with the essential tools to eat sushi: chopsticks, soy sauce plate, a finger wipes, and a nice hot cup of tea.
The whole restaurant is set up with a mindset focused on detail. Each sushi platter placed before you is completely one of a kind in both design, color, and texture. The owner, and main sushi chef, had them custom ordered from Japan specifically for his diners. Don't be shy to ask for more radish, seaweed, pickled ginger or pickled radish!
Unfortunately, when I ate this meal it was before I started carrying around a notepad to write down my "in meal thoughts." Because of that, and the fact I'm not a sushi chef, I can't quite identify some sushi/sashimi. I'll label as best I can and add notes of what my favorite dishes were. I hope you enjoy!
This is the "amuse bouche" is a stewed cod-fish roe, with some orange zest.
One of my favorite fishes in the world. It's very light in flavor and most often served with "ponzu sauce," a tart, citrus-y soy sauce. <3 It's supposed to taste light on the palate and very fresh. Because of the hirame itself is so light in taste, the function of the ponzu sauce is to add flavor. My father says that one usually eats hirame for the texture, as opposed to the flavor.
Engawa is also one of my sushi favorites and staples. It's another part of the flounder, this time the flounder's sides, and is much stronger in flavor than hirame sashimi. The texture is slightly crunchy and overall is quite firm. A definitely treat for the mouth.
Beautiful! Fresh Uni has a distinct flavor, very sweet and creamy. This particular uni comes from Hokkaido, typically uni that comes from there are sweeter and more delicate in flavor.
What can I say about this? It's probably something that everyone needs to eat at least once in their lives. Eating something so sweet, creamy, and fatty at the same time is a luxuriously sinful experience.
All in all, a lovely meal that left me feeling satisfied and full, but not bloated. It's absolutely lovely and a definite stop for me in Taipei. Always order "omakase" the chef will treat you well. I highly recommend it to anyone who lives in Taipei or has a craving for sushi.
The place looks so clean and elegant, I guess that is also reflected in the price? The food looks amazing, though. The sashimi looks fresh and I love the presentation.
each pieces look like a piece of art. the restaurant has a nice sleek decor.
@ Joey o^_^o You make me blush! Thank you!


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Правцева діагностична тріада (; також рання діагностична тріада симптомів при правцеві) — поєднання трьох симптомів у ранній стадії генералізованої форми правця в людини. Являє собою одночасну появу двостороннього тризму (утруднення відкривання рота через спазм жувальних м'язів), «сардонічної посмішки» та дисфагії. Є патогномонічним симптомом правця. Самі по собі ці ознаки можуть спостерігатися при різних захворюваннях — односторонній тризм часто зустрічається при різних захворюваннях зубів та ясен, двосторонній тризм виникає при травмі щелепи; «сардонічна посмішка» іноді спостерігається при отруєнні стрихніном; дисфагія формується під дією багатьох чинників, зокрема при інсульті, пухлинах стравоходу тощо. Але одночасна поява цих трьох симптомів відбувається тільки при правцеві, не зустрічається при жодній іншій хворобі. Сутність пошуку цієї тріади є необхідність ранньої діагностики хвороби, адже вона є суто клінічною. Тому виявити генералізований правець ще до появи розгорнутих ознак хвороби (опістотонус, клоніко-тонічні судоми тощо) є необхідно задля раннього початку відповідного лікування, тому що летальність при цьому є високою.

Для виявлення не очевидного тризму застосовують 2-й варіант шпательного тесту — постукування (перкусія) по шпателю, покладеному на зуби, при вільно відкритій нижній щелепі провокує скорочення жувального м'язу, яке в нормі не відбувається.

У деяких джерелах пишуть про тріаду при правці, вводячи до неї пізні прояви правця, зокрема опістотонус чи ригідність потиличних м'язів, що не є правильним і не стосується саме ранньої діагностичної тріади.

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 Інфекційні хвороби (підручник) (за ред. О. А. Голубовської). — Київ: ВСВ «Медицина» (2 видання, доповнене і перероблене). — 2018. — 688 С. + 12 с. кольор. вкл. (О. А. Голубовська, М. А. Андрейчин, А. В. Шкурба та ін.) ISBN 978-617-505-675-2
 Возіанова Ж. І. Інфекційні і паразитарні хвороби: У 3 т. — К.: Здоров'я, 2002. — Т. 2. — 658 с. ISBN 5-311-01249
 Andrew Michael Taylor Tetanus. Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care & Pain | Volume 6 Number 3 2006. р. 101—104 / с. 102
 Руководство по инфекционным болезням. Под ред. Ю. В. Лобзина. Санкт-Петербург, ООО «Медицинское информационное агентство», 2000. Часть 1. 186 с. / с. 173.
 Инфекционные болезни: национальное руководство / Под ред. Н. Д. Ющука, Ю. Я. Венгерова. — М. : ГЭОТАР-Медиа, 2009. — 1040 с.— (Серия «Национальные руководства») / С. 53 ISBN 978-5-9704-1000-4
 Инфекционные болезни и эпидемиология: Учебник / В.И. Покровский, С.Г. Пак, Н.И. Брико, Б.К. Данилкин. - 2-е изд. - М.: ГЭОТАР-Медиа, 2007. - 816 с.: ил. / С. 490 ISBN 978-5-9704-0471-3
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