As part of a strategic plan for growth across the U.S., German-based grocery giant ALDI set out to open a slew of new stores in California in 2016. Gray was selected as one of the few contractors to build for ALDI in California and completed five of the brand's first stores in the Golden State. Headquartered in Batavia, Illinois, ALDI now has nearly 1,600 stores across 34 states, employs over 24,000 people and has been steadily growing since opening its first US store in Iowa in 1976.
In addition to the Yucaipa location, Gray completed several other stores for ALDI in California including the Fountain Valley facility which features the brand's Western Training Center.


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I have been a fan of Lemony Snicket for as long as I can remember. As a kid I was enchanted by the miserable, never-ending woeful life of the Baudelaire orphans as documented in the dark and often comical A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Fast forward to 2015 when it was announced that Netflix was about to start pre-production on an adaptation of the books, transforming it into a new series. Anyone that has Netflix knows that they make some amazing tv shows. Orange is the New Black is a firm favourite. Sense8 tantalised people early last year and the political warfare of House of Cards has left me breathless on more than one occasion as Frank Underwood claws his way to the oval office. So imagine how bloody excited I was when this announcement was made. Answer... very bloody excited. For real!
So I have decided to re-read all 13 books in preparation for the new series. It's supposedly due to debut later this year. I've already started as a matter of fact, and have polished off the first two books. The Bad Beginning and The Reptile Room. I have not yet decided if I am going to give them full reviews. Or if I'll just update the page I've set up in the sidebar (link here also, for those who just want to click rather than go searching...) with my brief thoughts about the series as I go through the books. Either way I am excited to re-read them and see how they fare ten years on from my original reading as a fourteen year old.
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Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues are economic issues with financial consequences. A good CEO or board director who cares about the long-term value of an organisation cannot dismiss the impact on society of that organisation's operations. Yet, not all of them see the connection. And therein lies an opportunity.
When you can understand the connection between a company's operations and impacts—and can measure those impacts in dollars and cents—strategic decisions that seemed opaque become clearer and hard choices become easier to make.
ESG impacts are hard to quantify, and the system today is built upon a scattered, rankings-oriented approach; we don't think this is right because it doesn't translate directly to financial value. We believe the solution to this is to put a tangible, dollar value on the ESG impacts a company generates, which allows investors to incorporate ESG criteria directly into investment strategies alongside traditional financial analytics. In other words, it ties ESG criteria directly to economic outcomes.
When you can understand the connection between a company's operations and impacts—and can measure those impacts in dollars and cents—strategic decisions that seemed opaque become clearer and hard choices become easier to make. ESG data become more than the basis of a subjective rating: they form the core of a financially driven analysis, a new tool for making capital allocation decisions that create long-term value and make a meaningful social difference.
It's common-sense capitalism. It's clear that positive and negative social impacts show up on a company's bottom line. Most investors are long-term thinkers with the ability to push for changes so a company thrives over the long term.
Read more: Climatenomics: Washington, Wall Street and the Economic Battle to Save Our Planet by Bob Keefe, Executive Director, E2
We have the foresight to know climate change is killing our economy, and that we can save it—and our planet—by expanding clean energy and other climate solutions. The question is, will we choose a future that's dark and unsustainable, or one that's bright and promising?
Climate risk is business risk, but also opportunity. Investors increasingly understand that a company cannot succeed in the long run if its strategy presumes that society will fail to achieve its decarbonisation goals. A strategy where success only happens if society doesn't achieve its goals is fundamentally flawed because society is a broad term for customers, or potential customers. A better value-creation strategy is to focus on reducing long-term capital expenditures on operations with highly negative externalities such as long-lived fossil fuel production projects that take decades to realise. With increasing uncertainty around long-term oil and gas demand, the risk profile of such projects has risen markedly as the world seeks to move away from fossil fuels. A sound capital allocation approach needs to take this into account. At Exxon, we were able to make that case and brought large investors along with us. We've made a very modest start, but the results so far suggest we are headed in the right direction.
General Motors presents another aspect of the long-term approach. Like Exxon, GM is a big player in an industry that is transforming at enormous speed. But rather than doing what it has always done and hoping for the best, GM is embracing the future of transportation and, after making a significant commitment to electric vehicles, is now the company best positioned to monetise those early investments. As one of the world's great internal combustion engine innovators, GM enjoyed nearly a century of success. But the negative environmental impact of its core product, measured primarily in Scope 3 emissions, poses an existential risk to its business. Recognising this, GM leadership made the costly decision to convert production to battery electric vehicles (BEVs). The impact on this transition is massive. As one of the largest incumbent auto makers, GM is driving innovation at scale through one of the world's biggest industries. Tesla sells about 1 million cars per year; imagine the impact of a BEV-oriented GM that sells nearly 9 million vehicles annually.
Rather than be content to drift along toward a bleak future, these companies—and increasingly their shareholders—are taking the future into their own hands.
So, after a century of dominance GM has become an auto industry disrupter once again. We believe GM will be a growth stock as changing consumer preferences cascade toward EVs—and GM is ready to meet demand with a fleet of 21st century vehicles.
That's what meaningful change looks like and we are proud to be playing a part in it. Companies are looking at the data and seeing the connection between financial value and change. Rather than be content to drift along toward a bleak future, these companies—and increasingly their shareholders—are taking the future into their own hands. Companies pushing towards the transition to a low-carbon economy are on the right side of history and value creation. It's up to investors to continue pushing companies in the right direction.
And the most exciting part is that it's only just beginning.
The OECD Forum on Green Finance and Investment 2022 takes place 5-7 October on the theme "Moving from commitments to actions in the decade for delivery: towards impactful green and sustainable finance"—register now!
Read the OECD report ESG Investing and Climate Transition: Market Prices, Issues and Policy Considerations and find out more about our work on ESG investing
Chris founded Engine No. 1 based on his vision that capitalism can be harnessed for positive change and companies that align the interests of their shareholders and stakeholders are better, stronger companies as a result. He has more than 30 years of experience investing in and building businesses across multiple industries in transition.
Prior to the launch of Engine No. 1, Chris founded Partner Fund Management, where he served as co-managing partner and portfolio manager. Previously, he cofounded Andor Capital Management, and before that, served as a member of the Management Committee of Pequot Capital Management. Early in his career, Chris was an analyst at Ethos Capital (merged into Moore Capital Management) and started his career at JGM Management.
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Elvis Andrus: "If Pujols doesn't chase, give him first base"
By Drew SilvaOct 23, 2011, 11:53 AM EDT
Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus has a revolutionary idea for the Texas pitching staff: whenever Albert Pujols steps to the plate for the remainder of the World Series, either keep all pitches out of the strike zone or simply give him a free, intentional pass.
Via Jon Machota of the Dallas Morning News:
"We cannot take chances on Pujols," Andrus said after Saturday's 16-7 Game 3 loss to the Cardinals. "Everybody knows how good he is. We've got to execute pitches. If he doesn't chase, give him first base. We'd rather see Matt Holliday beat us than Pujols. You never want to see the best hitter beat you."
It's the kind of thing you hear TV analysts suggest often, but is it really a smart strategy? And will it actually stymie the Cards' attack?
Holliday went 1-for-5 in Game 3 Saturday and is just 2-for-11 through the first three games of this Fall Classic. But he's also batting .326/.420/.465 across 50 plate appearances this postseason and carries a .929 career OPS. The guy is a monster. Behind him is Lance Berkman, with a career .954 OPS. And right behind Berkman is David Freese, the hottest overall hitter in these 2011 playoffs.
Walking Pujols at every turn might make sense on the surface, but the St. Louis lineup is deep enough to make the Rangers pay dearly. If Ron Washington is going to employ Andrus' strategy, he'll have to pick and choose his spots. Feeding the Cardinals free base runners will only lead to trouble.


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Authentic or Abbey: Trappist Beers and Beyond
Thirty bottles of Westvleteren XII | By Sean Coates – self-made, CC0
Trappist ales are consistently rated some of the best beers in the world – and in fact Westvleteren XII was named the world's best beer in 2012 – but getting your hands on some of them can seem downright impossible. In 2012, St. Sixtus Abbey sent just 15,000 six-packs of the highly-coveted Westvleteren to the US according to NPR, and the abbey only makes 4,750 hectolitres annually – which equals just under 836,000 Imperial pints.
While a few of the Trappist breweries, like Chimay, are more prolific, Trappist ales aren't created on the basis of supply and demand. In order to comply with the rules of the International Trappist Association, monasteries may not turn a profit from selling their world-famous beers. Beer brewing must be secondary to religious pursuits, and all money earned from selling beer to the public must support the monastery, the monks themselves, and the surrounding communities and charities.
There are currently only 11 Trappist breweries that are ITA-approved to sell beer as an Authentic Trappist Product, which means the supply of Trappist ales from many of those monasteries will never meet demand. However, that doesn't mean you're out of luck if you're dying for a Dubbel or craving a Quad. Building upon the tradition of Trappist ales, abbey beers are crafted in the same style but aren't required to have actual monks involved in the brewing process. That means you can get all the goodness of a Trappist ale in a commercially-produced beer that you're actually able to find.
TRAPPIST VERSUS ABBEY
For hundreds of years, monks brewed Trappist ales behind cloistered walls for their own personal enjoyment and for enjoyment by their local communities. However, in the decades leading up to and following World War II, Trappist beer began to earn a worldwide reputation for exceptional quality and taste. After the war, "Trappist" beers started popping up everywhere, and many had no association with monasteries whatsoever.
To prevent opportunistic brewers from cashing in on – and potentially ruining – their reputation, the Abbaye Notre Dame d'Orval took the Veltem brewery of Leuven to court to stop the production of "Veltem Trappist" in 1960. The Belgian Trade and Commerce court determined that to be called "Trappist," a beer must be created and sold by monks who belonged to the Trappist order. Beers created in the Trappist style but not made by monks would be called "abbey beer."
THE RISE OF THE ABBEY BEER
To further protect the Trappist name, the International Trappist Association was formed in 1997, allowing only ITA-member monasteries that followed strict brewing rules to bear the Authentic Trappist Product logo on their ales. Those rules include brewing the beer inside the abbey walls by or under the supervision of monks – and that all proceeds from beer brewing be used to support the monastery and community.
Anything that doesn't meet the strict criteria for Trappist beer is considered to be an "abbey beer," and according to the Belgian Beer Journal, there are very few rules for what it takes to qualify as an abbey beer. The beer doesn't have to be brewed inside ancient walls and monks do not need to supervise the process or brew the beers themselves, but initially, the breweries did have some historical connection to a monastery. However, the standards soon expanded – and an "abbey beer" could be any of the following:
produced by any monastery – including those that are non-Trappist
made by a commercial brewery who has a license or commercial arrangement with an active monastery
a beer with no religious connection that's simply been given the name of a former or even fake abbey by a commercial brewer
a beer that features a monk, abbey, or other vague religious symbol on the label without specifically referring to a monastery
Because what qualifies as an abbey beer started to vary so wildly, the Union of Belgian Brewers introduced a new logo for "Certified Belgian Abbey Beer" in 1999. This logo was used to designate beers that were created under license to a current or abandoned abbey. To use the logo, a brewery had to allow the monastery to have some control over the commercial brewing operation and give a portion of the profits from the beer to the abbey or its associated charities. This helped to weed out breweries that simply implied religious connections by using the name of an abbey or saint and calling their product an abbey beer. Today, there are roughly 20 Certified Belgian Abbey Beers available – along with a significant number of "abbey beers" that haven't obtained any type of certification.
THE TYPES OF TRAPPIST STYLE ALES
Since abbey beers can be made on a commercial scale, it's become much easier to get your hands on a brew that has the same characteristics of the Trappist style ale – even if it wasn't made by monks. Both official Trappist beers and certified abbey beers are considered to be "Belgian style" beers according to Aleteia, which means they're highly-fermented and non-filtered. Craft Beer and Brewing magazine goes into even more depth, explaining Trappist beers and abbey beers:
are top-fermented ales
use warm fermentations, at temperatures as high as 86°F
are made with Belgian yeast strains that result in fruity and spicy flavors
have high alcohol by volume ABV levels, often between 6% and 9.5%
may include dark candi sugar (instead of roasted malts) for a dark, rich color
These beers are made in different styles, but there are three main types that are most commonly associated with Trappist ales or Abbey beers: the Dubbel, the Triple, and the Quadruple. According to Nick Anderson, beermonger at Arrowine, the Enkel – or "single" – was also an original Abbey style that's comparable to today's Session Ale and was made for everyday drinking. However, Enkels have become fairly uncommon as the other three types of Trappist ale have gained popularity.
Anderson explains that while many people believe Dubbel, Tripel, and Quadrupiel refer to either the number of fermentations or the amount of malts, that's not necessarily true. The names were given as warnings to the general public that the beers were stronger than normal – with the increase in number corresponding to an increase in strength. This remains true today, as Dubbles are often in the 6% ABV range, Tripels average around 8% ABV, and Quadrupiels are somewhere between 10% and 12% ABV – though some have been known to reach as high as 14% or 16% ABV.
Of course, every abbey beer or Trappist ale has a distinctive taste that reflects the recipe, the ingredients, and the brewing process, but there are common characteristics that define each type of brew.
Dubbels are usually Brown Ales with a russet color that comes from the caramelized sugar syrup used in many recipes. They often have a grainy flavor, a slight sweetness, and a caramel or fruity undertone with a gentle bitterness.
Originally created by Trappist brewery Westmalle, Tripels are Golden Ales that tend to be strong and deep gold in color. With a clean wheat taste, assertive hoppiness and malty fruitiness, Tripels are subtle but show definite hints of stronger levels of alcohols.
Dark brown or sometimes even black in color, Quadrupiels are the heaviest of the Trappist ales. With higher ABVs, Quads are known for a stronger, warm alcohol taste, along with an intense malt flavor, complex fruitiness, and balanced bitterness.
It's incredible to consider that group of monks who simply wanted to follow the Rule of Benedict and support themselves through the manual labor of brewing played a part in a craft beer craze nearly a century later. Today, the Trappist tradition continues in those ancient monasteries where the monks still tend to generations-old recipes – and in the abbey beers that allow a wider audience to experience the pinnacle of brewing known as Trappist ale. Whether it's filled with authentic Trappist ale or certified abbey beer, raise your goblet to the Trappists, and then sit back and savor every sip.
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Released in North America as Bruce Woolley And The Camera Club, is a studio album by Bruce Woolley's new wave band Bruce Woolley and the Camera Club. Before forming the group, Woolley was creating pop songs intended for publishing companies, but he was not happy with what the artists were doing with his songs and decided to write material for himself.
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For the ninth year in a row, the Hibernian Hunger Project has helped make Christmas dinner a reality for area families in need.
Mary Patrick loads up the truck.
It was just after 9 o'clock Saturday morning at Shamrock Food Distributors in Frankford, a few minutes after local Hibernians were scheduled to start loading up trucks, cars and vans with Christmas baskets for the needy.
In all, 84 cardboard boxes were slated for delivery to local families. Each box contained a 14-pound frozen turkey with all the holiday trimmings, including enough for leftovers. And as well-organized as the Hibernian Hunger Project effort was last year, the project this time around was even more so. Minutes after the drive began, it was nearly all over. Most of the boxes had already been picked up and were on their way. Only a few volunteer drivers remained to finish up the job.
Ten more families will receive gift cards, Gessler said.
Packing the boxes last year.
The good people of the Hibernian Hunger Project don't know when you're sleeping. They don't know if you're awake. The only thing they know for sure is that many of you are struggling to make it in a depressed economy. And while they can't turn the economy around, the one thing they can do is help you have a merrier Christmas.
Early in the morning of Saturday, December 17, organizer Bob Gessler will gather with volunteers at Shamrock Food Distributors on Fraley Street in Frankford to put the finishing touches on large boxes containing the fixings for a generous Christmas dinner—turkey, stuffing, veggies, bread, pie and even some cheery decorations. After that, they'll load the boxes into cars and vans, and fan out throughout the city to deliver the boxes to dozens of needy families.
Last year, the Hibernians brightened up the holiday for about 70 families; this year, organizer Bob Gessler hopes to at least double last year's total.
"That's the number we anticipate, but quite frankly, if we wind up with 200 names, we'll try to get that done," he said.
As bad as the local economy was last year, it's not much improved this year—it could even be a bit worse. Gessler knows people are hurting, although he and others who are working on this project often don't have a line on exactly who needs help. Just based on personal experience, Gessler knows that many in the Irish and Irish-American community are reluctant to make their need known, so the folks behind the project have cast a wide net, looking for information on anyone who needs a bit of help come Christmas day.
First, help pack the boxes.
Third, let the Hibernian Christmas crew know of families in need.
Communicate directly with Bob Gessler at gesslervs@comcast.net.
Joining the Hibernian Christmas effort will make many Christmases bright—including yours.
It must have been a little painful for Jim Donnelly to watch the 40 bowlers on his Hibernian Hunger Project league roll games with scores that might be great out on the gold course, but in a bowling alley. . .not so much.
But, over the past 12 weeks, these bowlers, dropping $5 into the kitty every Tuesday night at Thunderbird Lanes in the Northeast, have raised about $2,500 for the Hibernian Hunger Project (HHP), a program that feeds thousands of needy people in the Philadelphia area and, since it's been adopted as an official charity of the national Ancient Order of Hibernians, tens of thousands around the country.
Founded in 2000 by former AOH Div. 87 President Bob Gessler, the program delivers food—usually packaged meals prepared fresh by volunteers during the annual "Cook-in"—to senior centers, homeless shelters, churches, and service agencies such as Aid for Friends which provides meals to the elderly and shut-ins.
We went out to Thunderbird Lanes this week and saw what it looks like when you combine fun with helping others.


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Arsène De Prest (Adegem, 13 maart 1917 - Eeklo, 1 februari 1993) was een Belgisch CVP-politicus.

Hij werd burgemeester van Waarschoot op 8 april 1947 en bleef in functie tot 1989. Hij was burgemeester tijdens de periode van fusie van gemeenten waaraan het Oost-Vlaamse Waarschoot ontsnapte. De gemeente bleef zelfstandig en er trad geen enkele andere gemeente toe.

Arsène De Prest was ook een tijdlang lid van de provincieraad van Oost-Vlaanderen. Hij was beroepshalve advocaat.

Zijn broer Jozef de Prest was de laatste burgemeester van de zelfstandige gemeente en hun beider geboortedorp Adegem.

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I often work with piano scrolls because they have two components, the visual/graphic and the auditory. I am interested in employing as many of a viewer's senses as possible. In working with piano scrolls over time, I have always felt that their patterns made for the player piano mimic the braille of the blind. Inside this cell is the self, both blind and able to see, isolated and in touch with everything through connection of grace.
"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779, with words written by the English poet and Anglican clergyman John Newton (1725–1807). Newton wrote the words from personal experience. He grew up without any particular religious conviction, but his life's path was formed by a variety of twists and coincidences that were often put into motion by others' reactions to what they took as his recalcitrant insubordination. He was pressed (conscripted) into service in the Royal Navy, and after leaving the service, he became involved in the Atlantic slave trade. In 1748, a violent storm battered his vessel off the coast of County Donegal, Ireland, so severely that he called out to God for mercy, a moment that marked his spiritual conversion. He continued his slave-trading career until 1754 or 1755, when he ended his seafaring altogether and began studying Christian theology. Ordained in the Church of England in 1764, Newton became curate of Olney, Buckinghamshire, where he began to write hymns. "Amazing Grace" was written to illustrate a sermon on New Year's Day of 1773. Later Newton joined forces with a young man named William Wilberforce, the British Member of Parliament who led the Parliamentarian campaign to abolish the slave trade in the British Empire, culminating in the Slave Trade Act 1807.
There is a transformative power in 'Amazing Grace'; of sin and sorrow into grace, of suffering into beauty, of alienation into empathy and connection, of the unspeakable into imaginative literature. With it's message that forgiveness and redemption are possible regardless of sins committed and that the soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God, "Amazing Grace" is one of the most recognizable songs in the English-speaking world
This work is a projected film on what is called a 'controlled reader', a device that was used improve the reading speeds of school children when I was growing up. In using this device the words of a story would flash across the screen and the teacher would continue to speed the frame setting until comprehension decreased. As a child dyslexic, I hated this machine and learning under this orchestrated pressure felt to me the way the machine looked, like being exposed to the constant firing of a gun.
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With two children in primary school I worry, like most parents today, about school shootings. In coupling E.E.Cumming's poem Buffalo Bill's Defunct, a poem that Cummings intentionally shaped as a bullet, I condemn this new norm; America has traded the basic right of all, to go to school with the assurance of safety, for a right of the few, to own a gun. Current data shows that around 25% of all households in America own ONE gun, this most commonly being a hand-gun used for self-protection. The vast majority of guns are owned by what are called 'Super-Owners". These are the owners of assault rifles and automatic machine guns.
New survey, part of most definitive portrait of gun ownership in decades, shows just 3% of American adults own half of guns in the US
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Hello all Speedhunters fans out there. My fourth attempt to win the 24 Hours at the Green Hell was a real disappointment: even though we were right up amongst the front runners during whole weekend, we failed to finish. I'll try to point out and describe why it was so difficult this time. At the 'Ring you always learn something new, but the basics are that you need a good team, a good car, experienced drivers and just to be well prepared.
The first time I ever competed at the N24 was back in 2010 and without any super preparations. The only ambition we had at that time was to not take any unnecessary risk. For sure you don't win with that package, but even when you go for the win, you've got to be clear about what level of risk you can afford to take. Because N24 always bites back when you ask to have too much of the cake…
The last couple of years have been quite disappointing: we crashed out from good positions during the night in both 2011 and 2012. Therefore I really wanted to finish this year's race.
For 2013 I would be driving alongside well-known Audi colleagues in my Audi R8 LMS Ultra: Christopher Haase (who was in the winning Phoenix Audi last year), 'Ring specialist Christopher Mies and a Nordschleife rookie in Laurens Vanthoor. Our speed wasn't a problem at all, even though we'd struggled quite a bit in the VLN3 race in the run-up to the N24 and at a separate test, it was a relief when we started the week with a smooth car that we could drive directly, and we were all able to run top five through the practice sessions. We just tried to develop a good set-up for the race.
Our car had a rock-hard design from Andy Blackmore. The Battlefield brand is a good fit to the Nürburgring: it's the hardest battle you can find the racing scene…
The major change for 2013 was with the mounting of the rear wing, using the 'swan neck' posts. We also had a new position for the exhaust to reduce possible damage if we got hit from behind. We had also developed a new diffuser, but it wasn't approved in time by the FIA. Well you can't get everything.
This would be my office for the week.
There are so many corners on the track, but race by race I'm learning them all. It's important to know where you are when it comes to strategy.
I'd made some small adjustments to my seat insert to make it fit even better over the shoulders: you can see the tape, and the handles that mean it's easy to remove during driver swaps. It's really important to have good support, and when you're running up to 8-10 hours you've got to be comfortable.
The race would be the first time I used my new helmet from Schuberth. Because I tend to dehydrate a lot I've been investigating which helmet has the best ventilation when using helmet cooling. Schuberth is really good in this and the fit is great. This year I'll have two different designs, one for each sponsor. First out was the blue one made for Gluetec. The next one will be red and white for Olsbergs. The paint is done by Uffedesigns – he's the painter of Kimi Raikkonen's helmets.
It was no secret that the weekend would be extremely wet, but you never know for sure: it can change very quickly around the Nordschleife. But when you see the amount saying 60-80mm rain you know it will be a real challenge. The only way to survive is to keep concentrating and to have a good feeling on how to keep the car on the track – but you also need to have a bit of luck, especially if you're pushing hard.
Mentally it's much harder when the weather is this bad. If you make one small mistake there's a big chance you're out. In the dry you can often repair it easier. And when you can't see, your concentration level automatically gets raised from high to super high. At least it's less physically demanding in the rain. The hard thing when you drive in the wet is not to overdrive: you've got to feel what the car is doing and stay relaxed, but it's easier to say than to do.
Imagine changing up to sixth gear in the darkness and feeling the car is on the limit of aquaplaning all the time and the spray of the slow car in front means you can't see anything… I guess that's when driving is really unpredictable. You can go from hero to zero very fast. We were all prepared for this though and also had a lot of different tyres from Michelin for the upcoming weather.
It's massively important to put the right tyre on at the right time. It's easy to put everything on one step too late. The good teams make the call at the right time, and tyre choice is crucial for success at the N24. The weather forecast looked horrible, and in the end Michelin cut the rain tyres even more to avoid aquaplaning.
Here's what it's like to drive a lap. The GP track is for sure the easy part, but you don't want to lose any time there. When entering the turn to go onto the Nordschleife, there's a small jump out of the corner and then you are just squeezing the car against the guardrail. The first fast turn is the Hatzenbach-bogen, a small lift in fourth gear.
After that follows a technical session through Hatzenbach and Hocheichen. Here it's important to have the right line and be well positioned before all the corners. If you turn in late you'll lose speed.
Next one is Flugplatz and it is what it sounds like. The front of the car gets airborne in fifth gear, and you have to start to turn right as fast as you can after landing. The trick is to keep the right speed over the lift to not fly too much, because you need to be hard on the throttle again down to Schwedenkreuz. This is the fastest 'real' turn on the track. There's a small lift in the middle of this one at about 240-250kph. You really have to avoid touching the pedals too hard!
You have to brake hard into Aremberg. Fuchsröhre is flat out and the car bottoms out slightly at around 260kph. You then get a little coffee break in Adenauer Forst, which is taken in second gear. Then you come to Metzgesfeld, a fantastic corner in fifth gear, though there are no curbs at the exit so you have to avoid going wide.
A technical section with lots of elevation changes follows. There's a lot of new asphalt here, which has made it much faster. Braking downhill is the next experience down to Kallenhard and Breidscheid. The Lauda Kink is normally flat out and after that it's really heavy braking into Bergwerk.
After this you've got another coffee break again, but now at high speed. Though in the rain it's not so relaxing, as you've several small turns to take care about, but in the dry it's just pedal down and wait for Mutkurve where you only have to slow down from 250kph to 220kph – the exit is blind when you enter. A small lift in next kink and then braking into Klostertal 2 which is taken in third gear. Next one is the Karussell: you jump into it and then you try to stay in before jumping out. Not so much feeling in that one, but anyway the braking into it is fun.
Before Hohe Acht you have a left kink which normally is flat in fourth. This section is really fun and flowing. Third gear in Hohe Acht before going to a superfast right-left-right combination called Hedwigshöhe and Wippermann. Here the line and the entry speed is important: you can't afford to be late or slow. Also the car has to be good in changing direction. You enter the first right one flat and then brake for the second one, cut the curbs in the right one and you more or less fly out of it. At least it feels like that! Next is a blind right-hander in third gear. When you hit the concrete on the outside you know the minimum speed was okay.
It's then time to say hello to all the people in Brünnchen. This is fast and flowing in third. Off we go to Eiscurve, a right hander that can be a bit tricky to get perfect as you can easily brake a bit too late there. You keep the sight right and you're flat to Pflanzgarten 1. Here you can be the hero for the fans and do a long jump, but it will maybe not give you the perfect lap time. It's better to lift a little and get settled fast to accelerate and hopefully be able to keep flat through the Kleiner Sprunghügel – which is easier when the car has a good set-up. Planzgarten 2 is flat and after that you're like in a rollercoaster, keeping flat until Schwalbenschwanz. The new asphalt from last year makes it really fast: fourth or fifth on entry that goes into a third gear right-hander.
During my top 40 there was dirt here and I had a real moment, like a rally driver through the first right-hander and then take the left one on the return slide! The small Karussell follows. Much more fun then the first one. Here you can push and really fly out. Small brake into Galgenkopf. Start thinking about saying hello on the radio and give the fuel values and other valuable information. Last corner is flat out onto the Döttinger Höhe. You take a big breath and keep flat through Tiergarten before braking. In qualifying it's possible, but for me not over a normal racing lap. The car jumps quite a lot, but with a lot of aero everything is possible. There's just the last chicane and then you're racing down to the finish line!
WRT are very experienced with preparing for a 24-hour race. When it comes to this they know how to do it now. I mean after two years as a works team for Audi at Spa they've picked up a lot of things. Apart from that they work to achieve the very best and they are developing the team all the time.
We gained some experience with WRT at the race last year, which was the first one for them. My experience says you've got to understand this race to be able to win it. It starts even when you reach the paddock. At VLN and Nürburgring you'd better show up on time. The one who comes first will also be served first. For the mechanics it's tight in the garage and not maybe the best environment for working, but that's the Nürburgring 24 Hours: amateurs and professionals are equally important.
The paddock is a unique environment, with all the teams' trucks and awnings crammed in. It makes for tough conditions for the mechanics, but it's better than the pit garages. For any major operations on the car, like changing gearbox, all corners and so on, we always did it in the team tent. But this picture tells a lot about how it is in the garage.
This year was the strongest field I've ever seen. All cars in the top 20 had very good line-ups. BMW had two teams with strong drivers. Aston Martin was one of the fastest cars in the dry and was a works entry. But the one everyone always has a eye on is the Manthey Porsche team. Because of the decision to use the GTE car it was even more difficult to predict what they had in their pocket. In Q1 he clearly slowed down on Tiergarten on a hot lap, so they were for sure sandbagging a bit. Olaf Manthey is surely the team boss who knows this event the best, and controls all the details. Though it looked like they were struggling a lot in the rain, they were never showing any symptoms of stress and didn't take any risks. That's when you know what you have, and what you can achieve in the moment.
My first run of the weekend was in heavy rain in FP1. I did two installation laps and the car was key to drive even if the aquaplaning was dangerous when we entered the session. Actually I haven't been driving too much in the rain at the Nordschliefe. I like rain, so no problem, but the track is quite different in the wet and to know small important spots can be crucial to avoid mistakes. The race is all about that. To be very fast without going outside the comfort zone. That's why experience is vital.
Anyway I was cruising in the rain to get comfortable and build up my speed and knowledge in the wet. The thing that asks the most of the driver in rain at Nordschleife is the high speed sections. When you lose the car there it can be game over very fast. I had one of this experiences in qualifying at VLN3. In fifth gear I lost the rear and there was no way I could catch the car with even a fast countersteer. I had a look in the data afterwards to learn and a small bump made me lose traction when I was nearly on 80% throttle. The only solution to avoid that mistake would be to drive slower or knowing that bump was there, to lift off on it. Now I know.
My approach to driving in the rain is to make sure I get all possible grip from the tyres down on the tarmac. I don't steer more then the tyres can take and I try to accelerate without any slip. I know it's fastest, but to control the slip can be very difficult. In mid-corner when off both brake and throttle you can have a fight to keep the car stable, but the best way is when you drive really without too much slip and get the grip down in the ground. It doesn't look so cool, but it's fast.
I was out first in Free Practice on Friday, which had a delayed start because of the horrible conditions. The thing to achieve was to get laps under our belts and to try out the tyre pressures in the rain. I did only two laps. In the end of the session Laurens did a really good time and everything felt promising. We finished second fastest behind the ROWE Racing Mercedes SLS, with a 10m19s lap.
For the first qualifying session that evening we stopped a bit early, because in our plan we would change all four tyres after this session and the guys also have to sleep. We all did some driving in the dark though, as the the track was drying up. It was a good chance to check the lights as well.
Like all the sessions before we looked to be very competitive during Qualifying 2 on Saturday lunchtime, and the goal was just to make sure we made it into the Top 40 shoot-out. We aimed to find a set-up that would be good for all conditions: maybe we would lose a bit in the dry, but this time there was no doubt it would be wet later. Again we finished second overall, this time with a 8m24s lap, less than a second behind the Black Falcon SLS, and easily into the shoot-out.
It was an exciting opportunity to be driving in the Top 40 session. We were drawn to go out 13th; we didn't make any set-up changes to the car, and the plan was to break into the top 15. The car was good apart from one thing that spoiled the qualifying a bit: the organisers delayed the start and we had to stay in the pit without tyre heaters for about 20 minutes. My tyres were ice cold by the time we went out, but the worst issue was with the resultant tyre pressures. They went so low I couldn't get them up during my whole warm-up lap around the Nordschleife.
You've also got to pay attention to not go too fast with too low pressures, as there's a big chance you'll destroy the shoulder and have a puncture later. Last year the Mercedes cars were suffering from this. The first lap when the peak normally is normally was therefore not too good, though the second lap was reasonable. But there was no way I could match my usual teammate Frank Stippler, who took pole in the Phoenix Audi. But I must say with the feeling I had in the car I never really went for pole. Frank Biela was in front of me and I was getting closer and closer, but it was still really something special to get two free laps at the Nordschleife with such a car as the R8 LMS Ultra.
I was walking the grid for a while before the start and couldn't go without wishing Christopher Mies a touch of luck. We didn't have any crashes or big problems in practice, so it wasn't too bad for the mechanics compared to how it could have been, but to start at 5pm was a bit too late in my opinion.
Christopher's got plenty of experience and took it easy at the start of the race. He went a bit wide in T3 and lost some places, but just kept going. The race is about staying calm. In my eyes the ones with mental strength in the race are the ones who know when it's time to push and when it's time to have a bit of safe mode. Mies has done enough races at the Nordschliefe to know this.
Pit stops are very challenging because of how tight it is in the pit lane. You make sure the others know when you're about to stop, so the fuel pump is free. Actually the only thing you want is to start the refuelling as fast as possible. When it comes to repairs I don't think you can really plan. You can only prepare the parts, so it's quick to change things in an emergency.
WRT had a set operating plan for the pit crew. When everybody knows what to do, everything goes much smoother. We use the 'go jacks' to position the car while refuelling. So if it's crowded we only drive in and the mechanics take care of the rest. But there's no real rush as refuelling takes nearly three minutes.
There were problems early in the race for the Abt R8 we were sharing a garage with. They were running a bit too low I think and destroyed the splitter of the car, but I'm not sure. The track can grind the car away if you set up your car too low. When you land after the jumps and bottom out too much the car will definitely be stressed.
We had Patrick Söderlund running strategy again, who I drove with in FIA GT3 in 2010. He's now got a lot of experience with this race, though we've still got to win it to close the case.
So into the evening the race was going well. We were taking place after place and everything was running smoothly. The times from Mies' second stint and Haase's first stint were very competitive. Traffic is a part of the game. After a while in the race you start to know the opposition – at least the cars. But the drivers can act really differently, so you need to keep some distance to avoid any unnecessary contact.
My rule is to overtake a slower car on the inside and be at least halfway alongside on entry to a corner. The best way is when you feel they've seen you, then you can make the pass as smooth as possible. The worst thing is the guys who don't want to let you past and try to race you without any meaning.
But the race came to a temporary halt for everyone around 11pm when the rain came lashing down, the visibility dropped to zero and the red flag was waved.
After the restart early on Monday morning our race didn't last long: we were forced to retire after Laurens Vanthoor went off in the wet on oil at Bergwerk.
Three corners were damaged. We had already had an off in the dark the previous evening before the race was red-flagged, so I guess one more complete repair wasn't an option.
I hadn't even got to drive! There's not much more to say other than that I was hugely disappointed. Laurens was okay and for sure that's the most important thing: you take a big amount of risk out there. We had been running fourth, so we were definitely in the fight for the win again.
Again it was game over. The book of lessons is starting to get long. Next year I hope we can actually finish the race.
At least we were competitive as ever, though not strong enough to predict the risk to take the car to the flag. It's hard to slow down when you're fast, but if you can't guarantee the car will be safe all the way back to the next stop you're probably too fast. This race is really hard for the driver. But that's also the fun thing with it. I'm racing at Silverstone this weekend, where I'm hoping to strike back and have a fun weekend in the UK. It's the fantastic Blancpain Endurance Series with around 60 GT3-cars on the grid: there will definitely be some exciting racing.
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Tofu Shop Beauties Chapter 25 English Manhwa and Raw Webtoon
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Genre: Drama, Comedy, Slice of life
Author: castle-zi
Artists: PAPER
JU-YUNG, the main character of the webtoon Tofu Shop Beauties was kicked out of his house.
To find a place and make some money for leaving, he relocated out of town and found a tofu shop.
This work was ideal for him because it provided him with a large sum of money and a place to live.
However, the only issue causing difficulty in the job was a lack of experience (as demonstrated in Chapter 1). How he refers to manga to cut food.
He accidentally cut his fingers on the very first day but not to worry because he got a Too good owner too.
Jung hye Su is the owner of the tofu shop. She has been living in her hometown without ever trying to get out.
She even told that she grew up like a Tarzan in a rustic place.
Tofu Shop Beauties Manhwa is also known as (AKA) "Tofu Shop Beauties". This Ongoing webtoon was released on 2022. The story was written by castle-zi and illustrations by PAPER. Tofu Shop Beauties webtoon is about Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life story.
The webtoon is going to be awesome as even he lied to get a job and it would be scary when the real truth would come out.
As left in the previous chapter both of them Jung Hye and Ju Yung were going on a little trip and in between on the road their car broke down.
Ju Yung called the insurance company for the car's flat tire. Soon rain starts and it was getting dark too and the insurance company said clearly that they would be there by morning.
Ju Yung earlier misunderstood Jung Hye's actions which lead to them being angry with him.
But later on, she felt sorry about her behavior. However, Jung Hye wants to sleep in the car but she stops him to do so because it's raining outside.
Jung Hye tells his feeling toward her and their confession which is finally happening.
Chapter 24 didn't get to any point to summarise it however the whole chapter was just immaculate.
Ju Yung asked the main character to keep the promise they made. Upcoming chapters would be dramatic and will show Jung Hye will be the promise to him.
Here the trouble starts and Chapter 24 gets more interesting but nothing is concluded and a misunderstanding is leading to the upcoming chapter.
Chapter 24 showed many things but didn't gets to a conclusion and made a lead to upcoming chapters of "Tofu Shop Beauties".
There is no lead in Tofu Shoop Beauties Raw Chapters and Chapter 25 is still yet to drop.
On the 18th of August Chapter 23, and Later on, the 3rd of September chapter 24 dropped and got a great reader's impression.
Raw Chapter 25 of Tofu Shop Beauties is yet to release and is supposed to drop on the same day as on which English translated manhwa release.
As we All Know 24 chapters are released in Both English and Korean languages.
The author has still yet to confirm the release date of the next chapter, but the upload rates of the previous 24 chapters disclose that it will be on September 12th, 2022.
The good news is that both Korean and English chapter 25 are going to drop on the same day.
So, For Now, it is expected that Tofu Shop Beauties Chapter 25 will drop on the 12th of September 2022.


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How to distinguish bleeding from monthly ones
Allocations in the early stages of pregnancy withan admixture of blood has absolutely no relation to menstruation. They can pose a threat to both women's health and developing embryos. How to distinguish bleeding from menstruation? Are there any special differences? Let's look at it together.
It is a normal physiological process,terminating each cycle. Bleeding with menstruation is repeated every twenty-one to thirty-five days. It lasts an average of five days, in some cases the duration is a week. Intensity of blood loss is individual for each woman. Often menstruation is a mild vaginal discharge. As a rule, they begin with a scant "smear", then becoming more abundant, and gradually stop. Many women during this period complain of general malaise, heaviness and pulling pains in the lower abdomen. Deviations in the cycle for three days are considered normal and permissible. In the case of impending fertilization, menstruation ceases.
How to distinguish bleeding from menstruation
During the penetration of the egg into the uterine cavitysmall damage to blood vessels is possible. These phenomena are accompanied by bloody vaginal changes. And how do you know if it's a bleeding or a period? Many women tend to confuse implantation bleeding with menstrual bleeding. This happens solely from ignorance. After all, bleeding can occur a week before the proposed menstruation.
How to distinguish bleeding from menstruation - the main differences
There are a number of distinctive features:
1. Duration. The duration of implantation bleeding is several hours, however, in some cases, they can be delayed for a couple of days. While normal menstruation takes about a week.
2. Intensity. The volume of discharge during bleeding is insignificant, most often in the form of a few drops that can be seen on the underwear. With menstruation, the situation is different. Intensity of hemorrhage is more significant.
3. Color. When bleeding, they have a pale pink or yellowish color with veins of blood, with menstruation - a scarlet highlight.
4. Discomfort. In the process of attaching a fertilized egg to the wall of the uterus, there may be unpleasant sensations (slight abdominal swelling and heaviness in the lower abdomen). Cramping pains can indicate the presence of an inflammatory process in the genital area or a cycle.
5. Change in basal temperature. In the middle of the menstrual cycle, it rises to a mark of thirty-seven degrees or more. This temperature lasts for about two weeks. While in the implantation of the egg, it falls below thirty-seven degrees, after which it rises sharply.
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By Associated Press | Monday, June 17, 2019, 3:24 p.m.
US-Iran move closer to a flashpoint as tensions spike
WASHINGTON — The U.S. and Iran edged toward a flashpoint Monday as Tehran announced it was breaking compliance with the accord that keeps it from making nuclear weapons and the Trump administration followed by ordering 1,000 more troops to the Middle East.
The Pentagon said the deployment includes security forces and troops for additional surveillance and intelligence gathering in the region. While the number is small, it represents an escalation of U.S. military might aimed at deterring Iran and calming allies worried that transit through key shipping lanes could be in jeopardy.
Tehran's announcement earlier Monday means it could soon start to enrich uranium to just a step away from weapons-grade levels, challenging President Donald Trump's assurances to allies that the U.S. withdrawal from the deal last year made the world a safer place.
The developments are bound to inflame tensions in the Middle East and pose a test of resolve and credibility for both adversaries.
Iran said it would break a limit on uranium stockpiles established by the 2015 agreement with world powers that was intended to restrict the Islamic Republic's nuclear program in exchange for an easing of international sanctions.
US restores some aid to El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Monday it is easing previously announced cuts in hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the Central American nations of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala but will not allow new funding until those countries do more to reduce migrant flows to the United States.
The State Department said that after a review of more than $615 million in assistance that President Donald Trump ordered in March to be cut entirely, it would go ahead with $432 million in projects and grants that had been previously approved. The remaining amount will be held in escrow pending consultations with Congress, it said.
That $432 million, which comes from the 2017 budget, is being spent on health, education and poverty alleviation programs as well as anti-crime efforts that many believe help reduce migrant outflows from the impoverished Northern Triangle region. About $370 million in money from the 2018 budget will not be spent and instead will be moved to other projects, the State Department said.
"Previously awarded grants and contracts will continue with current funding," department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said. She added that assistance "to help the Northern Triangle governments take actions that will protect the U.S. border and counter transnational organized crime will also continue."
U.S. officials said the review looked at roughly 700 projects funded with fiscal 2017 money by the United States in the three countries and concluded that a significant number were too far advanced to end them.
Egypt's ousted president Morsi dies in court during trial
CAIRO — Egypt's first democratically elected president, Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi who was ousted by the military in 2013 after a year in office, collapsed in court while on trial Monday and died, state TV and his family said.
The 67-year-old Morsi had just addressed the court, speaking from the glass cage he is kept in during sessions and warning that he had "many secrets" he could reveal, a judicial official said. A few minutes afterward, he collapsed in the cage, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press.
In his final comments, he continued to insist he was Egypt's legitimate president, demanding a special tribunal, one of his defense lawyers, Kamel Madour told the Associated Press. State TV said Morsi died before he could be taken to the hospital.
Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood accused the government of "assassinating" him through years of poor prison conditions. In a statement, the group demanded an international investigation into Morsi's death and called on Egyptians to protest outside Egypt's embassy across the world.
Morsi, who was known to have diabetes, had been imprisoned since his 2013 ouster, often in solitary confinement and barred from visitors — his family was allowed to visit only three times during that time.
Blackout in South America raises questions about power grid
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The huge blackout that left tens of millions of people in the dark in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay over the weekend raised serious questions about the vulnerability of the power grid in South America and brought criticism down on Argentina's leader.
President Mauricio Macri promised a thorough investigation into the cause of what he called an unprecedented outage. Energy officials said the findings would not be available for 10 to 15 days, and they had no immediate estimate of the economic damage from Sunday's 14-hour power failure.
"This is an extraordinary event that should have never happened," said Argentine Energy Secretary Gustavo Lopetegui. "It's very serious. We can't leave the whole country all of a sudden without electricity."
He vowed: "There is zero chance that this will repeat itself. It can't repeat itself."
While the precise cause has yet to be established, the blackout originated at a transmission point between two power stations in the country's northeast "when the system was getting too much power," Lopetegui said. A chain of events then caused a total disruption, he said.
Trump campaign fires pollsters after mixed messaging
WASHINGTON — When President Donald Trump's internal polling suggested he was trailing Democrats in crucial states earlier this year, it did what any campaign would do: tried to bury the bad numbers.
When the findings leaked to the media anyway, an infuriated Trump and his aides first disputed the poll's existence, then tried to dismiss its importance before finally firing some of the pollsters.
The deception and muddled messaging are part reflexive: Trump and his team have made a habit of discounting embarrassing news as "fake." But the internal drama on the brink of Trump's formal reelection launch could also signal trouble ahead if staffers are skittish about being candid with a boss who has made "winning" a central part of his brand.
"All news about the president's polling is completely false," campaign manager Brad Parscale said in a statement. "The president's new polling is extraordinary and his numbers have never been better."
The episode was also a sobering reminder that for all the Trump campaign's efforts to professionalize its operation, much hasn't changed. Despite its new fundraising prowess and growing staff working from a gleaming tower overlooking the Potomac River, the reelection campaign is likely to feature the same leaks, backbiting and high turnover as Trump's ramshackle 2016 effort and early White House tenure.
Kansas boy very lucky to survive knife impaling his face
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A 15-year-old Kansas boy got a large knife to the face, and doctors say he's extremely lucky.
Jimmy Russell said her son, Eli Gregg, was playing Thursday evening outside of their home in Redfield, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) south of Kansas City, when she heard him scream. She found him with a 10-inch knife jutting from just below his eye and called 911.
"It looked pretty grim, it was scary," Russell said in a video released by the University of Kansas Health System, where he was treated.
The knife was embedded in his skull and extended to just under his brain. The blade's tip, meanwhile, was pushing against his carotid artery, which supplies the brain with blood.
"It could not have had a pound more force on it and him survive that event," said Dr. Koji Ebersole, who oversaw the extraction. "I don't think he would have survived it."
Harvard pulls Parkland grad's admission over racist comments
BOSTON — A survivor of the Parkland school shooting announced Monday that Harvard University withdrew his admission over racist comments he made in a shared Google Doc and text messages nearly two years ago.
In a series of posts on Twitter, Kyle Kashuv shared several letters he received from the Ivy League school first notifying him that his admission offer was being reconsidered in light of the comments and, later, that it was being revoked.
The decision stems from comments that have surfaced online recently and that Kashuv says were shared among friends when he was 16, months before the February 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
Screenshots that have circulated on social media appear to show Kashuv using racial slurs on Google Docs, an online word processor, and in text messages. The comments include anti-Semitic barbs and repeated use of a slur referring to black people.
Kashuv, now 18, has apologized for the comments and said he didn't remember them until they spread online. In a May 22 statement on Twitter, as the comments began to spread, he said they were made by a "petty, flippant kid" and not the person he has become. He later said he made poor choices but bears no real racial hatred.
Gloria Vanderbilt, heiress, jeans queen, dies at 95
NEW YORK — Gloria Vanderbilt, the intrepid heiress, artist and romantic who began her extraordinary life as the "poor little rich girl" of the Great Depression, survived family tragedy and multiple marriages and reigned during the 1970s and '80s as a designer jeans pioneer, died Monday at the age of 95.
Vanderbilt was the great-great-granddaughter of financier Cornelius Vanderbilt and the mother of CNN newsman Anderson Cooper, who announced her death via a first-person obituary that aired on the network Monday morning.
Cooper said Vanderbilt died at home with friends and family at her side. She had been suffering from advanced stomach cancer, he noted.
"Gloria Vanderbilt was an extraordinary woman, who loved life, and lived it on her own terms," Cooper said in a statement. "She was a painter, a writer, and designer but also a remarkable mother, wife, and friend. She was 95 years old, but ask anyone close to her, and they'd tell you, she was the youngest person they knew, the coolest, and most modern."
Her life was chronicled in sensational headlines from her childhood through four marriages and three divorces. She married for the first time at 17, causing her aunt to disinherit her. Her husbands included Leopold Stokowski, the celebrated conductor, and Sidney Lumet, the award-winning movie and television director. In 1988, she witnessed the suicide of one of her four sons.
Buttigieg goes home to South Bend after man killed by police
INDIANAPOLIS — The fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer in the Indiana city where Pete Buttigieg is mayor presents both political peril for a presidential candidate who has struggled to connect with minority voters and an opportunity to show leadership on issues of race and policing that are critical — and personal — for much of the Democratic primary electorate.
Buttigieg on Monday canceled several days of campaign events after returning to South Bend, where he spent the day meeting with community members and faith leaders following the shooting of 54-year-old Eric Jack Logan.
Logan died after he was shot once in the abdomen from the front by a white officer who responded to a call about a suspicious person going through cars about 3:30 a.m. Sunday, St. Joseph County Prosecutor Ken Cotter said Monday.
Sgt. Ryan O'Neill spotted the man, later identified as Logan, leaning inside a car, Cotter said. When O'Neill confronted him, Logan allegedly approached the officer with a 6 to 8-inch long knife raised over his head. That's when Cotter said the officer fired twice, with the other shot hitting a car door.
In a matter of months, Buttigieg has gone from a relatively obscure 37-year-old mayor to the top tier of a crowded Democratic presidential field. His handling of the shooting could test his ability to navigate the demands of the campaign trail while still performing his day job.
Masked gunman killed in shootout at Dallas courthouse
DALLAS — An Army veteran wearing a mask and carrying more than 150 rounds of ammunition for his high-powered rifle was shot dead Monday after he opened fire outside a busy federal courthouse in downtown Dallas, authorities said.
Federal officers killed 22-year-old Brian Isaack Clyde after he approached an entrance of the Earle Cabell Federal Building and began shooting. Glass panes were shattered in a revolving door during the gunfight, but no one else was seriously hurt.
"It's a lot of rounds — a lot of rounds at his disposal, a large powerful weapon at his disposal," FBI agent Matthew DeSarno said.
Clyde's attack began about 8:40 a.m., and three officers from the Federal Protective Service who were stationed at the building confronted him. DeSarno and other officials praised their courage at a news conference.
"But for the actions for the Federal Protective Service officers, this likely would have been a very deadly incident," DeSarno said.
Massive power outage hits tens of millions in South America
China's Xi to visit North Korea as US nuke diplomacy stalls


Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cheesecakes dotted with mini chocolate chips celebrate the American July 4th holiday with flare. The rich and creamy batter, baked over? a thick layer of crunchy chocolate, is finished with a drizzle of salty caramel. Each layer bursts? with New York cheesecake flavour. Witness the frenzy around the dessert table, as big-eyed children reach for handfuls of mini cheesecakes. Adults appreciate bite-size morsels too, as there's no need to commit to the calories of a whole slice. End your Independence Day picnic with a bang by serving these velvety Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cheesecakes. Or serve them anytime throughout the year.
A historical note: New York Style cheesecake is not the same as the cheesecakes of the Romans or Greeks. Theirs were made for religious ceremonies, and were probably lighter in texture. Like today's cheesecake, styles vary depending on the local cheeses. The French make cheesecake with Neufchatel.? The Italians use ricotta. The Americans make cheesecake with a denser, heavier cheese, commonly known as cream cheese. It was developed in? 1880 by a guy named William Lawrence who added heavy cream to a Neufchatel recipe to make it thicker. Commercial brands of cream cheese add stabilizers for consistent spreadability. As an ingredient in baking, it works perfectly every time. Use grocery store brand cream cheese in your Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cheesecakes and enjoy a bite or two of these dense, velvety morsels.
Thank you Sally for this recipe. I've adapted it slightly to fit the mini format.
99 grams chocolate wafer crumbs store bought or homemade. See how to make your own homemade chocolate wafer cookies.
30 grams plain yogurt . any fat content will work well.
3.5 ounces chocolate wafer crumbs store bought or homemade. See how to make your own homemade chocolate wafer cookies.
1 ounce plain yogurt . any fat content will work well.
1 cup chocolate wafer crumbs store bought or homemade. See how to make your own homemade chocolate wafer cookies.
2 tablespoons plain yogurt . any fat content will work well.
Melt butter and set aside.
In a food processor or blender, pulse the Homemade Chocolate Wafer Cookies or whole Oreo Cookies until finely ground.
Add melted butter and pulse until the crumbs are evenly moistened.
Ground chocolate wafers and melted butter.
Fill each cup with 1.5 tablespoons (6 grams) of cookie crust. Tamp down firmly with the back end of a glass or wooden dowel. Anything that fits into the corners of the cup will be fine. The pressed cookie crust should fill 1/4 to 1/3 of the cup.
Press the chocolate wafer crust into the mini cups.
See chocolate wafer crust pressed into the cups.
Store the remainder of cookie crust for another application. Sprinkle it over ice cream or fill ramekins and cover with chocolate pudding. Remainder of cookie crust can be frozen, as well.
Bake at 350F for 5 minutes or so until the crust feels set.
What is mise en place and how could it benefit you? See The Finer Cookie's post How to Mise en Place.
In the bowl of a stand mixer or a hand mixer, measure the cream cheese and set aside.
In another small bowl, measure the yogurt and sugar and set aside.
Crack the egg into a small bowl and add the vanilla. Set aside.
Measure the mini chocolate chips into separate bowl and set it aside too.
Beat the cream cheese with a paddle attachment (in a stand mixer) or a whip (with a hand mixer) until smooth, soft and creamy.
Add the sugar and yogurt mixture, and beat until combined.
Scape down the bowl often.
Add the egg and vanilla and beat well until smooth. Scraping the bowl as you go to ensure everything is incorporated.
Add the mini chocolate chips and mix.
With two spoons or two mini spatulas, fill each cup until nearly full. Leave room in the cups for the filling to puff as they bake.
Fill each cup with cheesecake batter.
Fill each cup and bake at 350??F 15-20 minutes (for the minis) and 20 to 25 minutes (for the larger cups). The filling will jiggle even when set. Removing them at this stage will give you a creamy cheesecake. Leaving them in the oven to bake longer will yield a slightly drier cheesecake.
Golden brown cheesecakes out of the oven.
As the cups cool, they will deflate and create a tiny depression. This is where you'll spoon on the salted caramel. Allow the cups to cool completely before the next step. Chilling the cheesecakes for at least 2 hours will produce the proper texture.
Pour the dry granulated sugar into a roomy saucepan to allow for expansion when it bubbles up.
Measure the butter and let it come to room temperature.
Pour the heavy cream into a liquid measuring cup, and set aside.
Set the salt at your workspace.
Heat the dry granulated sugar, stirring constantly. It will begin to clump and soften. In a very short time the sugar will liquify and begin to brown. Don't let the sugar brown too much or it will burn.
Melt the dry sugar in a large saucepan.
Once the sugar is a beautiful golden brown, add the butter and stir until it's completely melted.
Very slowly, pour the heavy cream into the sugar and butter mixture. The caramel will bubble vigorously. Keep stirring until the reaction calms down. Continue to cook for 1 or 2 minutes more. This will thicken the caramel.
Bubbling melted sugar and cream.
Add the salt to the caramel. If you've used unsalted butter, add a pinch extra salt. Stir until completely combined.
Pour the salted caramel into a liquid measuring cup. This kind of cup will always have a spout. For more information on the difference between measuring cups, see How to Weigh and Measure.
Let the caramel cool to room temperature before drizzling onto the cheesecakes.
The caramel will keep refrigerated for about 2 weeks. Warm it in the microwave for a couple of minutes to loosen. Ut's delicious over vanilla ice cream.
Very gently and slowly, drizzle a tiny pool of caramel into the depression of each cheesecake.
Gently pour the salted caramel in the depression of the baked cheesecake.
Sprinkle with fleur de sel, and enjoy.
Hi Rita, Thanks so much for your message. I built this post at your resort, which was why you saw me working away at my computer, when I should have been hiking and canoeing. I could easily make these Salted Caramel Cheesecakes for you and the staff. I'll e-mail you privately to discuss this further.
where is the recipe for the salted caramel? Or is it just store bought??
SWOON. These are the perfect addition to my 4th spread! Gotta try em!


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Chef's Corner: Carlos Abedrop
By Dai Huynh, Staff writer | May 1, 2018
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CARLOS ABEDROP Carlos Abedrop opened a successful Mexican steakhouse in northern Mexico before opening one in Houston. Named after his beloved hometown, Saltillo Mexican Kitchen in Bellaire is known for its four-pound, mesquite-grilled tapa de lomo, or ribeye cap. (Photo: Dylan Aguilar)
Find out about your favorite chefs in our Chef's Corner column. This month, restaurant writer Dai Huynh interviews chef/owner Carlos Abedrop.
Fate brought Carlos Abedrop and food together. As a young boy growing up in the arid colonial town of Saltillo in northern Mexico, families and friends would gather to cook steaks over a mesquite fire. With music in the background, men and women spent the afternoon eating, drinking and catching up on local news.
"Every week my father used to do this gathering," said the 52-year-old owner of Saltillo Mexican Kitchen (5427 Bissonnet). Even after Carlos graduated from college and started working in finance, he hosted 20 or more friends for dinner every weekend. In 2000, his hobby turned into a profession. Here, Carlos talks about his restaurant in Mexico, how to grill steaks and must-visit restaurants in Mexico City.
Tell us about Saltillo.
About a million people live there now, but growing up, it was much smaller. It's an industrial automobile town with lots of business travelers, many of whom have eaten at my restaurant, La Casa del Caballo. After 18 years, it is still there, and I am fortunate to have good people running it.
You opened a location here because your wife, Vanesa, is a native Houstonian. And then you closed it to open Saltillo in 2015. Yet you've kept the horse painting from La Casa del Caballo. What does the name mean?
Caballo means horse, and that was my nickname. Everybody had a nickname in my hometown. You see my nose? When I was younger, my face was skinnier, and I looked like a horse. When my friends gathered for dinner, they would call each other up and say, "Are you going to the house of the horse?"
Saltillo is known for steaks. What's your secret?
Our steaks come from Allen Brothers in Chicago. We bring to the steakhouses in Houston three cuts of meats that are less common: the four-pound tapa de lomo, or ribeye cap, that can feed four to six people; the diezmillo that comes from the shoulder of the cow; and we grill a whole pork tenderloin. We serve them with salsas and tortillas. We thought by bringing a little of what we do in Mexico over here, it would bring something extra to the table.
Customers come to the restaurant and they ask, "What did you do to the meat?" I tell them, "Nothing." We don't age it, and we don't marinate. We simply season with salt and pepper. However, we grill over mesquite embers. Now why do I say embers? Because when you cook over an open flame, you burn the steaks.
You've had no formal training, and you've learned by cooking for friends. Who else has influenced your cooking?
Oh, so many people all over Mexico. There is a dish on the menu, called pollo en salsa borracha, which means drunken chicken. When I was very young, I was on a ranch with no electricity, no gas. It was just fire and sunlight. One night, the couple in charge of the ranch made salsa borracha. They grabbed some tomatoes, serrano peppers, onions and garlic. They put it all together in a pan over the grill, and then, they poured in three bottles of beer. When the sauce was reduced, they used the bottom of one of the beer bottles to smash the tomatoes, and just the tomatoes. I will never forget the taste of that rich salsa.
You are a frequent traveler to Mexico City. Are there some restaurants you can recommend?
Mexico City is a city of almost 30 million and has one of the richest environments for food. You have diplomats from all over the world there, and there are the restaurants who service them. You can find all kinds of cuisines. You can go fusion or traditional. There is the timeless La Taberna del Leon (Altamirano 46). It is very famous for its traditional Mexican food.
There is another place, Restaurante Antiguo San Angel Inn (Calle Diego Rivera No. 50). It is in a very old hacienda, one of the very first built. It is huge. It can sit up to 700 people. There are separate rooms and patios. The traditional Mexican menu has a little twist of modern. But, you go there not only for the food, but for the history. Can you imagine the powerful Mexicans who walked through those doors centuries ago? You look through the windows and you can almost see the people who once lived there.
Then there is Hacienda de Los Morales (525 Juan Vàzquez de Mella), which was built in the 1500s. Going to these three places is like going into a sacred old chapel. They bring you something more than food.
You said Mexico has changed in last three decades and this is mirrored in the new styles of tequilas.
Thirty years ago, there weren't many women who were professionals. But today there are women who are doctors, lawyers, politicians, just like in the United States. Long ago only men drank tequila. Today you have tequilas designed for women. They are smoother and maybe with hints of almond, honey or vanilla. There is Don Julio 70. It is so smooth. As is Maestro Dobel and Herradura Ultra Añejo. If you're a Mexican of the old generation and you sipped any of these three, you'll quickly realize that time has changed.
Editor's note: Buzz dining columnist Dai Huynh is a James Beard food-journalism award winner and longtime Houston-based restaurant writer.
APPETIZING At Saltillo Mexican Kitchen, it's steaks and chips with made-from-scratch salsas. (Photo: Dylan Aguilar)
SALTILLO STEAK The secret to perfectly grilled steaks at Saltillo Mexican Kitchen is mesquite wood embers. (Photo: Dylan Aguilar)
Carlos Abedrop, Vanesa Abedrop
Mexican cuisine, Star chefs, Steakhouses
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