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Tools for managing a set of Atlassian_ product installations.

`Source code on github`_.

.. _Atlassian: http://www.atlassian.com
.. _Source code on github: http://github.com/a-e/ameh

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* :ref:`genindex`
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Marines Invade Goleta: World War II Brought Big Changes to Goodland – Noozhawk, February 25, 2016
By Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation
Air station and training base directly affected development of the Santa Barbara airport and UCSB
World War II brought a lot of changes to our world, and Goleta was no exception.
Our little airport served as the backdrop for a Marine air station that served as a training base for multiple squadrons that went on to support combat operations in the Pacific Theater.
A 1938 photo shows how things looked in the vicinity of what is now the Santa Barbara Airport in the few years before before World War II. (Adam Lewis Collection)
This sleepy little agriculture village was abruptly invaded by the U.S. Marines in 1942, and the work they did in a few short years changed Goleta forever.
Today, an aerial view shows the ever-expanding UCSB on one side and the Santa Barbara Airport on the other. The size of the airport and the location of the university are both direct results of the U.S. Marine base.
Photos from 1938 shows how things looked a few years before before the war. The red arrow points to downtown Goleta. The white arrow shows the single runway of the earliest stages of the airport.
The green arrow points to a complete Mescaltitlan Island. The slough was still a large lagoon of sorts, and the mesa that holds UCSB was farmland.
Two old General Western hangars were used for additional barracks and a mess hall. A temporary station headquarters was set up in the old terminal building ,and for squadron areas they used the former Army revetments.
Things were pretty rough for the first Marines. High tides and heavy rains flooded the landing field with mud, so four-wheel-drive Jeeps were required to get around the base.
Mosquitoes were abundant and a constant nuisance.
The Marines nicknamed the station "The Swamp," and a standing joke among the pilots was to request permission to land on Santa Barbara Lake.
Life got a little easier for the Marines with the construction of new living quarters. Due to the marshy slough surrounding the air base, the operations and the housing had to be widely separated.
Planes wait on the flight line at the U.S. Marine training base in Goleta during World War II. (Adam Lewis Collection)
These buildings would later lay the groundwork for the UCSB, as many were easily converted into classrooms.
By the time the base was complete, it was considered to be one of the most comfortable places for a Marine to be stationed.
The citizens of Santa Barbara and Goleta made the Marines feel right at home. With the memory of the Japanese attack at Ellwood fresh in their minds, the locals considered the Marines their protectors.
Due to the marshy slough surrounding the air base, the barracks buildings were spread out. Many were converted to other uses after the war. (Adam Lewis Collection)
But it wasn't all fun and games. Goleta was the last stop before the Marines went into the Pacific war zone. This base was where pilots and gunners learned the specific skills needed to perform their upcoming combat missions.
Today, the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation is working to create a unique and powerful monument commemorating the historical significance of the Marine Corps Air Station at the Santa Barbara Airport.
The monument will be placed in front of the new terminal. Learn more and make a donation to this worthy cause at Wings of Honor website.
[Click here to read the full story at GoletaHistory.com]
Tom Modugno, a local businessman, publishes the website GoletaHistory.com.
The Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation is working to create a monument commemorating the historical significance of the Marine Corps Air Station at the Santa Barbara Airport. (Wings of Honor)
http://www.noozhawk.com/article/marines_invade_goleta_world_war_ii_and_training_base_brought_big_changes
D Day Event, Normandy, France, June 2014
Santa Barbara Veterans
Veterans Events in Santa Barbara, CA

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54.—(1) The Lord Chancellor may with the consent of the Treasury by order prescribe fees payable in respect of anything dealt with by the court.
(c) the Senior Judge of the Court of Protection.
(4) The Lord Chancellor must take such steps as are reasonably practicable to bring information about fees to the attention of persons likely to have to pay them.
(5) Fees payable under this section are recoverable summarily as a civil debt.


Bi-level club features live rock and DJs most nights. It looks link it was transported straight from early '90s Sunset Boulevard, and settles in to its own unique niche on the usually predictable Hawthorne Ave.
Not a big expensive theater, nor a hole-in the wall dive, the Analog lies somewhere in between, filling a void on Portland's live music landscape. It's a casual music venue in which you don't have to stand in a puddle of dumped PBR with a sweaty guy's armpit in your face.
The downstairs is loungy and spread out, lots of couches and alcoves to cozy up to an object of desire. The upstairs is an intimate escape with its own little bar.
The food is upscale, made by a chef with a purpose.
Regular events include dark burlesque acts mingled with rock bands.
$2-5 menu, $3 select domestic beers, $4 micros, 3pm-6pm, Monday-Friday.


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Who has played the most - and least - minutes for Bristol City so far this season?
A look at each of the players used by Lee Johnson so far this season and how long they have spent on the pitch
Jordan Wilkins
Bristol City have enjoyed a strong start to the season, currently sitting third in the Championship after twenty matches.
We've had a look at who's played the most - and least - for City this term, calculating how many minutes each of the players has spent on the pitch in both league and cup games.
In those 20 league games, 28 different players have contributed so far, here's how they have all fared:
Frank Fielding – 1,980 minutes - 22 games
Goalkeeper Fielding is an obvious choice to top the list, having only missed the third and fourth round Carabao Cup ties. The keeper, who signed a new deal last week, has been crucial to City's success so far this season.
Bobby Reid – 1,859 minutes – 23 games
Reid has not played less than 80 minutes in the league season, and has only not played the full 90 five times.
He has been rested for the Carabao Cup, missing City's fourth-round defeat of Crystal Palace.
Josh Brownhill – 1,815 minutes – 22 games
Brownhill has played a huge part in City's good start.
The only games he's missed are the Carabao Cup second round victory over Watford and the 2-0 win over Bolton in late September.
Joe Bryan – 1,754 minutes - 21 games
City's left back is another mainstay of the team, only missing three games so far.
He has played at least 65 minutes in every league game this season, and has only been subbed off three times.
The 24-year-old sat out the recent victory over Hull City with a hip injury, but returned against Boro last time out.
Why Bristol City are similar to the Huddersfield Town of last season, according to this top EFL Pundit
Korey Smith – 1,692 minutes – 22 games
Smith is another regular on the team sheet this season, having only missed two games with a hamstring injury in October.
Aden Flint – 1,628 minutes – 19 games
Flint has been a key part of the City side this season, forming a strong partnership with fellow centre-back Bailey Wright.
He missed five games in August as speculation over his future mounted.
Aden Flint
Bailey Wright – 1,620 minutes – 18 games
Wright has played a very similar number of minutes to Flint, with the Australian only missing six games this season.
He has been used sparingly in the Carabao Cup and was banned for two matches in November after being controversially found guilty of diving.
Nathan Baker – 1,476 minutes – 17 games
Baker has played most City's games this season, his only missing games have mostly come in Carabao Cup matches.
He has missed four league games with various injuries and suspensions.
Former Bristol City man full of praise for highly-rated Robins prospect
Callum O'Dowda – 1,454 minutes – 22 games
Irishman O'Dowda had played almost every game for City this season until picking up his ankle injury.
The winger is now set to be out for around 12 weeks.
Callum O'Dowda is the latest Bristol City player to suffer an injury
Marlon Pack – 1,432 minutes – 21 games
Pack has played in almost every game City have played this season, but has been used mainly a substitute.
Jamie Paterson – 1,289 minutes – 20 games
Paterson is another player who has been used as a starter and a substitute so far this season.
The classy winger also missed a chunk of the season through illness while a hamstring has also been troubling him.
Famara Diedhiou – 1,088 minutes – 16 games
Club record signing Diedhiou was a regular in the team, before a significant knee injury sidelined him for three months in late October.
He's expected back at the start of next month.
Chris Wilder talks up his Sheffield United side ahead of exciting Bristol City clash
Famara Diedhiou (Image: JMP)
Hordur Magnusson – 823 minutes – 10 games
Magnusson did not begin the season as a regular player, but he has come into the side since October.
Eros Pisano – 578 minutes – 8 games
A key summer signing for City, defender Pisano has missed significant portions of the season with various knee and hamstring injuries.
He's currently out until around February.
Jens Hegeler - 459 minutes – 6 games
Hegeler is another marquee signing who has not played much for City this season.
The German has missed long periods of the season from August onwards with ankle and knee injuries.
Jens Hegeler
Matty Taylor – 423 minutes – 11 games
Taylor missed the start of the season with a groin injury, and since returning has largely been a sub for City.
He started in the recent 0-0 draw at Sheffield Wednesday.
Niclas Eliasson – 375 minutes – 10 games
Eliasson has made several impressive cameo appearances from the bench for City this season.
Zak Vyner – 360 minutes – 4 games
Right back Vyner has been primarily used in the Carabao Cup this season, with only one league start against Reading this season.
He is expected to head out on loan in January.
Newcastle United, Leeds United and Leicester City among sides chasing Bristol City star Josh Brownhill - reports
Zak Vyner of Bristol City in action (Image: Alex James/JMP)
Jonathan Leko – 326 minutes – 9 games
West Brom loanee Leko started the season with regular minutes, but this has dried up in the last several months.
Milan Djuric – 306 minutes – 8 games
Striker Djuric missed the first few months of the season with a groin injury, and since returning has struggled to get regular 90 minutes.
Cauley Woodrow – 263 minutes – 9 games
Fulham loanee striker Woodrow has yet to play a full 90 for City, but has been a regular sub for the side so far.
Cauley Woodrow
Gary O'Neil – 227 minutes – 4 games
O'Neil featured for the side four times at the beginning of the season, but has been sidelined since with an ongoing injury problem.
Luke Steele – 180 minutes - 2 games
Back-up keeper Steele has only featured twice this season in the early round of the Carabao Cup.
Freddie Hinds – 174 minutes – 3 games
Young striker Hinds played a large part in the opening two Carabao Cup fixtures, before he was sent on-loan to League 2 side Cheltenham.
Bristol City promotion progress report: Are the Robins are on course for the Premier League?
Freddie Hinds of Bristol City
Lloyd Kelly – 111 minutes – 2 games
Kelly is another young player who was given some significant game time in the opening two Carabao Cup wins, but has not featured for the first team since.
Joe Morrell – 32 minutes – 1 game
Morrell played in City's Carabao Cup first round thrashing of Plymouth, before following Hinds and joining Cheltenham Town for the season.
Tyreeq Bakinson – 10 minutes – 1 game
His only appearance this season for City has been as a substitute in their Carabao Cup fourth round victory over Crystal Palace in October.
Gustav Engvall – 9 minutes – 1 game
Engvall made a nine-minute sub appearance in City's opening day win over Barnsley, before joining Swedish side Djurgårdens IF on loan.
He is now back with the club, but can't play until January.


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Q: Use middleware for specific verbs in Express I have an express application where I handle authorization using middleware, adminFilterMiddleware
module.exports = function(req, res, next){
  if(res.locals.isAdmin){
    next();
    return;
  }
  res.status(403).send('403 Forbidden').end();
};

I apply the middleware for certain routes which should only be accessible by admins:
app.use('/only-for-admin', adminFilterMiddleware);

However, is there a way I can apply the middleware only on certain verbs, such as DELETE or PUT?

A: you may use app.put('/:id',adminFilterMiddleware) then this middleware will be applicable to all put requests.
hope it helps :)

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"THE OLDEST and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. [...]"
The Monarchy of Fear
In 1963, Roger Corman directed The Raven, a horror-comedy written by Richard Matheson very loosely based on the poem, "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe. It stars Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff as a trio of rival sorcerers.
Fear from the Greek: φόβος,phóbos, meaning "fear" or "morbid fear", is a distressing negative sensation induced by a perceived threat. It is a basic survival mechanism occurring in response to a specific stimulus, such as pain or the threat of danger. In short, fear is the ability to recognize danger and flee from it or confront it, also known as the Fight or Flight response. Some psychologists such as John B. Watson, Robert Plutchik, and Paul Ekman have suggested that fear belongs to a small set of basic or innate emotions. This set also includes such emotions as joy, sadness, and anger. Fear should be distinguished from the related emotional state of anxiety, which typically occurs without any external threat. Additionally, fear is related to the specific behaviors of escape and avoidance, whereas anxiety is the result of threats which are perceived to be uncontrollable or unavoidable. Worth noting is that fear almost always relates to future events, such as worsening of a situation, or continuation of a situation that is unacceptable. Fear could also be an instant reaction to something presently happening.
2 Common fears
3 Causes
4 Effects
5 Neurobiology
6 Fear of death
Fear can be widely classified into two types: external fear and internal fear.
External fear is caused by something outside or inside of you which you are strongly motivated to avoid, for example: fear of spiders.
Internal fear is something inside of you that you link a negative emotion, for example: fear developed out of low self esteem.
Fear can be described with different terms in relation to the degree of fear that is experienced. Fear is widely considered to be the worst emotion of all, it varies from mild caution to extreme phobia and paranoia. Fear is related to a number of additional cognitive and emotional states including worry, anxiety, terror, horror, panic, and dread. Experiences of fear can remain long after exposure in the unconscious mind, where they may then manifest as nightmares, or, in an even stronger form, night terrors. Fear may also be experienced within a larger group or social network, and may be compounded by social influence and become mass hysteria. Some pathologies related to fear (defined by persistent and irrational fears) can include different types of anxiety disorder which are very common, and also other more severe illnesses like the extreme phase of bipolar disorder and some kinds of schizophrenia.
The experience of distrust can be explained as a feeling of mild fear or caution, usually in response to an unfamiliar or potentially dangerous person. Distrust may occur as a feeling of warning towards someone or something that is questionable or unknown. For example, one may distrust a stranger who acts in a way that is perceived as odd or unusual. Likewise, one may distrust the safety of a rusty old bridge across a 1000 ft drop. The spiritual teacher Meher Baba noted the divisive effects of fear and distrust: "Fear acts as a thick curtain between the 'I' and the 'you' and it not only nourishes deep distrust of the other, but inevitably brings about a shrinking and withdrawal of consciousness so as to exclude the being of another from the context of one's own life." Yet, distrust may also serve as an adaptive, early warning signal for situations that could lead to greater fear and danger. Reassurance can usually dissolve a fear like this e.g. repeatedly doing something to gain trust in it.
Terror is an acute and pronounced form of fear. It is an overwhelming sense of immediate personal danger. It can also be caused by perceiving the object of a phobia. Terror may overwhelm a person to the point of making irrational choices and atypical behavior. Paranoia is a term used to describe a psychosis of fear. It is experienced as long-standing feelings and perceptions of being persecuted. Paranoia is an extreme emotional state combined with cognitions or, more specifically, delusions that one is in danger. This degree of fear may indicate that a person has changed his or her normal behavior in extreme or maladaptive ways.
Common fears
According to surveys, some of the most common fears are of: ghosts, the existence of evil powers, cockroaches, spiders, snakes, heights, water, enclosed spaces, tunnels and bridges, needles, social rejection, failure, examinations and public speaking. In an innovative test of what people fear the most, Bill Tancer analyzed the most frequent online search queries that involved the phrase, "fear of...". This follows the assumption that people tend to seek information on the issues that concern them the most. His top ten list of fears consisted of flying, heights, clowns, intimacy, death, rejection, people, snakes, success, and driving.
Another common fear can be the fear of public speaking. People may be expertised speakers inside a room but when it becomes public speaking, fear enters in the form of suspicion that whether the words uttered are correct or wrong because there are many to judge it.
Another common fear can be of pain, or of someone damaging a person. Fear of pain in a plausible situation brings flinching, or cringing.
In a 2005 Gallup poll (U.S.A.), a national sample of adolescents between the ages of 13 and 15 were asked what they feared the most. The question was open ended and participants were able to say whatever they wanted. The most frequently cited fear (mentioned by 8% of the teens) was terrorism. The top ten fears were, in order: terrorist attacks, spiders, death, being a failure, war, heights, criminal or gang violence, being alone, the future, and nuclear war.
People develop specific fears as a result of learning. This has been studied in psychology as fear conditioning, beginning with John B. Watson's Little Albert experiment in 1920. In this study, an 11-month-old boy was conditioned to fear a white rat in the laboratory. The fear became generalized to include other white, furry objects. In the real world, fear can be acquired by a frightening traumatic accident. For example, if a child falls into a well and struggles to get out, he or she may develop a fear of wells, heights (acrophobia), enclosed spaces (claustrophobia), or water (aquaphobia). There are studies looking at areas of the brain that are affected in relation to fear. When looking at these areas (amygdala), it was proposed that a person learns to fear regardless of whether they themselves have experienced trauma, or if they have observed the fear in others. In a study completed by Andreas Olsson, Katherine I. Nearing and Elizabeth A. Phelps the amygdala were affected both when subjects observed someone else being submitted to an aversive event, knowing that the same treatment awaited themselves, and when subjects were subsequently placed in a fear-provoking situation. This suggests that fear can develop in both conditions, not just simply from personal history.
Although fear is learned, the capacity to fear is part of human nature. Many studies have found that certain fears (e.g. animals, heights) are much more common than others (e.g. flowers, clouds). These fears are also easier to induce in the laboratory. This phenomenon is known as preparedness. Because early humans that were quick to fear dangerous situations were more likely to survive and reproduce, preparedness is theorized to be a genetic effect that is the result of natural selection.
The experience of fear is affected by historical and cultural influences. For example, in the early 20th Century, many Americans feared polio, a disease that cripples the body part it affects, leaving that body part immobilized for the rest of one's life. There are also consistent cross-cultural differences in how people respond to fear. Display rules affect how likely people are to show the facial expression of fear and other emotions.
Shown in the study of Stevens and Boeh (2010) revealed that "…exposure to chronic stressors alter subsequent defensive responses and fear learning in mice, in a manner that is dependent upon both the type of stress and the sex of the animal. Among male mice, chronic variable stress produced a significant inflation of contextual fear conditioning. Repeated restraint stress, while having no significant impact upon long-term fear memory, did alter exploratory behavior and the response to shock. Among female mice, chronic variable stress instead produced a specific inflation of tone fear conditioning. Repeated restraint stress, while having no impact on long-term fear memory, tended to inhibit slightly the short-term freezing response during conditioning." Here showing that females were more reluctant to go near the thing that they feared sooner than the males.
Fear, like many emotions, is very powerful. This affects us mentally and physically; personal and interpersonal consequences can arise from fear. "Self-perceived vulnerability to ataques (attacks): owing to recent ataque episodes, poor sleep, recent stressors, the self-perception of being a person with nervios (nerves)" (Hinton, Lewis-Fernandez and Pollack, 2009, p. 265) Which will lead to the fear of having a panic attack which then leads to the increase of your anxiety and "(2) hypervigilant surveying of the body and mind for emotions and somatic and psychological symptoms associated with an ataque" (Hinton, 2009, p. 265) and all this leads to an actual attack. Fear can cause dizziness, cold extremities, hyperventilation, chest tightness, shortness of breath, shakiness, a feeling of bodily lightness even derealization. "Negative emotions and somatic and psychological symptoms activate fear networks, namely, catastrophic cognitions (e.g., concern that racing thoughts indicate impending insanity, that palpitations indicate a heart attack), metaphoric associations (e.g., the combination of dizziness and fear recalling sexual abuse suffered as a child)". (Hinton, 2009, p. 265) Therefore becoming this circle of fear and panic attacks that a person can't escape from unless they calm their fears. Fears can be paralyzing to people and affect their lives in many ways. With reoccurring attacks there are certain things a person might have to start giving up like straying too far away from home, not being able to go places without a "safe" person, going out with friends and even driving; basically giving up your freedom and now affecting your personal relationships.
Another way fear has affected human beings would be the relationships we choose to have. With fear conditioning we have been taught at an early age either by experience or from our role models what to fear. "Beginning in the 1980s, media accounts and policy discourses increasingly equated crime and race. The result is that 'White Americans tend to associate criminality with people of color and believe that most criminals come from racial minorities' (Soss, Langbein, & Metelko, 2003, p. 400)." (Mears and Stewart, 2009, p. 34) Fear of being hurt, emotionally or physically, can keep us from finding relationships that could be extremely significant in our lives; we don't fear what we know. Mears and Stewart (2009) also stated, "By contrast, Covington and Taylor's (1991) study of Baltimore neighborhoods found that Blacks residing in predominantly White neighborhoods were more fearful of crime than was the case among Blacks in predominantly Black neighborhoods, Reflecting on the Covington and Taylor (1991) finding, Skogan (1995) observed that it accords with the idea that 'Black residents of White neighborhoods [may face] threats or harassment and more often [may be] the targets of humiliation and contempt'(p.68)." Also if you have experienced abuse in your life you might be fearful of people that would match your assailant. Fear can really cause barriers with certain communication between people.
The amygdala is a key brain structure in the neurobiology of fear. It is involved in the processing of negative emotions (such as fear and anger). Researchers have observed hyperactivity in the amygdala when patients were shown threatening faces or confronted with frightening situations. Patients with a more severe social phobia showed a correlation with increased response in the amygdala. Studies have also shown that subjects exposed to images of frightened faces, or faces of people from another race, exhibit increased activity in the amygdala.
The fear response generated by the amygdala can be mitigated by another brain region known as the rostral anterior cingulate cortex, located in the frontal lobe. In a 2006 study at Columbia University, researchers observed that test subjects experienced less activity in the amygdala when they consciously perceived fearful stimuli than when they unconsciously perceived fearful stimuli. In the former case, they discovered the rostral anterior cingulate cortex activates to dampen activity in amygdala, granting the subjects a degree of emotional control.
The role of the amygdala in the processing of fear-related stimuli has been questioned by research upon those in which it is bilateral damaged. Even in the absence of their amygdala, they still react rapidly to fearful faces.
Suppression of amygdala activity can also be achieved by pathogens. Rats infected with the toxoplasmosis parasite become less fearful of cats, sometimes even seeking out their urine-marked areas. This behavior often leads to them being eaten by cats. The parasite then reproduces within the body of the cat. There is evidence that the parasite concentrates itself in the amygdala of infected rats.
Several brain structures other than the amygdala have also been observed to be activated when individuals are presented with fearful vs. neutral faces, namely the occipitocerebellar regions including the fusiform gyrus and the inferior parietal / superior temporal gyri. Interestingly, fearful eyes, brows and mouth seem to separately reproduce these brain responses.
Psychologists have addressed the hypothesis that fear of death motivates religious commitment, and that it may be alleviated by assurances about an afterlife. Empirical research on this topic has been equivocal. According to Kahoe and Dunn, people who are most firm in their faith and attend religious services weekly are the least afraid of dying. People who hold a loose religious faith are the most anxious, and people who are not religious are intermediate in their fear of death. A survey of people in various Christian denominations showed a positive correlation between fear of death and dogmatic adherence to religious doctrine. In other words, Christian fundamentalism and other strict interpretations of the Bible are associated with greater fear of death. {Having read the first page of the cited report, this statement seems contradictory...} Furthermore, some religious orientations were more effective than others in allaying that fear.
In another study, data from a sample of white, Christian men and women were used to test the hypothesis that traditional, church-centered religiousness and de-institutionalized spiritual seeking are distinct ways of approaching fear of death in old age. Both religiousness and spirituality were related to positive psychosocial functioning, but only church-centered religiousness protected subjects against the fear of death.
Fear of death is also known as death anxiety. This may be a more accurate label because, like other anxieties, the emotional state in question is long lasting and not typically linked to a specific stimulus. The analysis of fear of death, death anxiety, and concerns over mortality is an important feature of existentialism and terror management theory.
Fear of death is also known as Thanatophobia.
Appeal to fear
Culture of fear
Fight-or-flight response
Horror and terror
Night terror
Ontogenetic parade
Psychological trauma
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Check the latest Substratum (SUB) price in Raiden Network Token (RDN). It gives incentives to the web hosting computers in form of SUB tokens to secure the network. The Substratum Network. The Substratum Network incentivizes network users with its own cryptocurrency token to essentially rent out their unused computing.
Several hours later, the problem was solved, but the mere fact of widespread failure indicated the need for decentralized and stable alternative systems, where such.
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The SUB team also have a number of releases lined up including nodes that pay out SUB tokens.Substratum is developing an open-source foundation for the decentralized.The Substratum Network is a worldwide collection of nodes that uses industry-leading cryptography to.SubstratumNode lets anyone become a web host on the decentralized internet.
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Julie K. Silver, MD is the founder of Oncology Rehab Partners. She is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation as well as a breast cancer survivor. Following her acute treatment for cancer in 2003, Dr. Silver realized there was a large gap in helping survivors to heal as well as possible from toxic cancer therapies. In 2012, Oncology Rehab Partners was recognized by Bloomberg/Businessweek as one of the 12 most promising social entrepreneurial companies in the United States. That same year, Oncology Rehab Partners received two Stevie Awards in the business services category– Most Innovative Company and Company of the Year.
Dr. Silver has published extensively in the area of oncology rehabilitation, prehabilitation and survivorship. She is on the medical staff at Massachusetts General, Brigham and Womens, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospitals in Boston, Massachusetts. In recognition for her work in integrating high-quality cancer rehabilitation services into oncology care, the American Cancer Society bestowed her with the prestigious Lane Adams Quality of Life award and she was named a Top Innovator in Medicine by the Boston Globe.
Dr. Silver is also an award-winning author and her books include Before and After Cancer Treatment: Heal Faster, Better, Stronger (Johns Hopkins Press) and What Helped Get Me Through: Cancer Survivors Share Wisdom and Hope (American Cancer Society). She is a founding chair of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine's Cancer Rehabilitation Group. Her work has been featured in many media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, USA Today, The London Times and NPR.
Pete has over 10 years of healthcare leadership experience including business development, marketing, operations and sales. Pete joined Oncology Rehab Partners in 2014 so he could contribute to the future of cancer care and help bring positive solutions to millions of cancer survivors. He is committed to improving patient lives by helping healthcare organizations achieve the Triple Aim: improved patient outcomes, improved patient experience, and reduced per capita cost of healthcare. Pete believes in empowering his team, challenging assumptions, and sharing successes. Prior to his current role, Pete led Oncology Rehab Partners' Business Development team as Senior Director, Business Development. He has worked closely with many leading IDNs and NCI-designated cancer centers across the country to implement solutions aligned to their strategic imperatives. Pete's early work with post-acute care providers has helped set the foundation for further growth across the rehab care continuum. Before healthcare, Pete served 4 years with the US Army as an Infantry Officer. He holds a B.S. from the University of New Hampshire and an M.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts. Pete and his family live in Windham, NH.
Lori received her BS and MA from Ohio University in Speech-Language Pathology and then completed an MBA from Clemson University. She spent 16 years at Bon Secours St. Francis, in Greenville, SC as the Director of Rehab Services. Lori, in collaboration with many staff and departments, developed a continuum of care that took each cancer survivor through each distinct phase of cancer care: from diagnosis through long term survivorship. Knowing that patients ask, "What will help me?", her focus has been to incorporate patient-centered care and shared decision making into the integration of evidence-based cancer rehabilitation. Lori's commitment to improving the outcomes of patients and their satisfaction with care while being mindful of reducing per capital healthcare costs has made her a leader in value based cancer rehabilitation care. In 2014, Lori published two research abstracts that were presented at the Academy of Oncology Nurse and Patient Navigators annual conference. The first abstract was titled "Cancer Rehabilitation Service Line Directors Perceive Navigators as Having High Value on Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation Teams and Identify 3 Key Barriers to Improving Their Value." The second abstract was titled "Can Nurses Provide Assessments and Interventions for Prehabilitation? A Survey Study of Cancer Rehabilitation Service Line Coordinators." Lori works with STAR Programs throughout the United States and helps them to deliver value based cancer rehabilitation care.


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Wegmans Recalls 1,125 Pounds of Uninspected Chicken
by Mike BarrettPosted on January 6, 2016
Food Safety Contamination
On Tuesday the Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced the Class 1 recall of approximately 1,125 pounds of chicken sold at mega-supermarket Wegmans.
The recall was issued after a federal inspector discovered that Wegmans, due to an altered production schedule, produced the chicken products outside the confines of specific approval hours of operations. In other words, the chicken is being taken off the shelves due to improper inspection by federal authorities.
This recent recall is "classified as a situation that has 'a reasonable probability' that consuming the product will result in serious, adverse health consequences or death." [1]
According to the United States Department of Agriculture:
"Approximately 1-lb. vacuum-sealed packages containing "Wegmans Italian Flavored Chicken Breast Cutlet" with a use-by date of 1/24/2016.
Approximately 1-lb. vacuum-sealed packages containing "Wegmans Brown Sugar Barbecue Seasoned Chicken Breast Cutlet" with a use-by date of 1/15/2016.
3-lb. vacuum-sealed packages containing "Wegmans Garlic & Fennel Whole Chicken Roaster" with a use-by date of 1/13/2016.
1-lb. vacuum-sealed packages containing "Wokery Sherry Chicken 27482" with use-by date of 1/13/2016."
Sold in Wegmans retail locations in Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, the recalled chicken products have the establishment number "EST or P-7567" inside the USDA mark of inspection.
Thankfully, there have been no reports of adverse reactions due to consumption of these products. Hopefully the announced recall will reach individuals who may have otherwise consumed the chicken and gotten intensely sick.
The Rochester, New York-based supermarket chain is offering full refunds for eligible products.
For a full list of recalled products, click here.
Hopefully Wegmans will be a bit more fortunate than Chipotle, which has experienced numerous recalls in 2015 – so many that some fans of Chipotle are theorizing that 'bioterrorism' is behind the outbreaks.
[1] 6abc
Mike is the co-founder, editor, and researcher behind Natural Society. Studying the work of top natural health activists, and writing special reports for top 10 alternative health websites, Mike has written hundreds of articles and pages on how to obtain optimum wellness through natural health.
2 thoughts on "Wegmans Recalls 1,125 Pounds of Uninspected Chicken"
Gmo Roberts says:
So if you cook it properly what are the concerns?
Tater says:
The concerns are,
Their leadership has your mental capacity, which easily demonstrates future failures and dangers to their consumers.
The problem isn't in the end product, but in the lazy fascist leadership, you should be able to relate to that observation moron.
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Thanks to your purchases of Whole Trade products and the commitment of Whole Trade farmworkers to their own communities, tangible improvements in people's lives are happening every day.
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William H. 'Bill' Bentley
Mr. Bentley, 84, of Lebanon, died Saturday, Jan. 12 at his home.
Visitation will be Wednesday, Jan. 16 from noon until 3 p.m. at Sellars Funeral Home in Lebanon. Funeral services will be Wednesday, Jan. 16 at 3 p.m. at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Alzheimer's Association or to West Haven Baptist Church.
Tony Gaines
Mr. Gaines, 61, of Mt. Juliet, died Monday, Jan. 9.
A celebration of life was Saturday, Jan. 12 at 2 p.m. at Sellars Funeral Home at Mt. Juliet. Visitation was Saturday, Jan. 12 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Providence United Methodist Church in Mt. Juliet.
Sean Hollis McDougal
Mr. McDougal, 19, of Mt. Juliet, died Thursday, Jan. 3.
Funeral services were Saturday, Jan. 12 at 10 a.m. at First Baptist Church at 735 N. Mt. Juliet Road in Mt. Juliet. Interment followed in Mt. Juliet Memorial Gardens. Visitation was Friday, Jan. 11 from 5-8 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 12 from 9-10 a.m. at the church. Bond Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Ralph Jacob 'Jake' Pennycuff
Mr. Pennycuff, 22, of Denver and formerly of Mt. Juliet, died Wednesday, Jan. 2.
Funeral services were Saturday, Jan. 12 at 2 p.m. at Bond Memorial Chapel. Visitation was Friday, Jan. 11 from 4-8 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 12 from 1-2 p.m. at the funeral home.
Herman Leslie Ramey
Mr. Ramey, 75, of Old Hickory, died Thursday, Jan. 10.
Funeral services were Monday, Jan. 14 at 12:30 p.m. at Bond Memorial Chapel. Interment followed in Hermitage Memorial Gardens. Visitation was Sunday, Jan. 13 from 2-5 p.m. and Monday, Jan. 14 from 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Churches of Christ Disaster Relief Fund.
Shirley G. Zboja
Mrs. Zboja, 82, of Lebanon, died Sunday, Jan. 19.
Funeral services will be Wednesday, Jan. 16 at 1 p.m. at Sellars Funeral Home at Mt. Juliet. Interment will follow in Roselawn Memorial Gardens. Visitation was Tuesday, Jan. 15 from 4-8 p.m. at the funeral home.


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Invaders from Mars
What's the connection between condoms and Martian invaders?
Find out in today's Trillion $ Movie, Invaders from Mars. The Martians fit the stereotype. Their leader is a little, green man inside a flying saucer who practices mind control on unwary humans by planting an
electrode at the base of their skulls. The Martians don't wear prophylactics, but body suits with zippers plainly visible on the backs. You can spot the condoms — more than 3,000 of them, all fully inflated — adorning the maze-like tunnels in the sandpit where the alien spaceship is hiding. The prop men first tried out balloons, but then switched to the blown-up condoms, finding they gave off a brighter red glow.
Republic Pictures' Invaders from Mars, released in 1953, competed at the box office with It Came from Outer Space, Universal Pictures' first 3-D movie. Invaders was also originally planned as a 3-D movie, but with a production budget of only $290,000, that option had to be scrapped. Still, it's fun to count how many scenes have protuberances — like test tubes, telescopes and alien probes — jutting out in the foreground.
Invaders has one plot hook that distinguishes it from the many Alien Scare movies that proliferated during the 1950s. The hero is a 10-year-old boy, an astronomy geek, who not only witnesses the Martian landing, but leads the US Army in the counterattack. Talk about wish fulfillment for the kids watching the movie! Jimmy Hunt plays young David Maclean, while Leif Erickson is his father, transformed into an automaton by the "Mu-tants." Rounding out the cast: Helena Carter and Arthur Franz as David's surrogate parents, and the avuncular Morris Ankrum as the Army's Col. Fielding.
The direction is by William Cameron Menzies, better known as a set designer on Gone With the Wind, The Son of the Sheik, The Thief of Bagdad and many other titles. Menzies' visual flair is much evidence here, as in the scene where David gets hauled into a police station that looks strangely dreamlike and surreal, as if Salvador Dali might have designed it. Enjoy and do return next Friday for another Trillion $ Movie!
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I don't see the point of using antiseptic/disinfectant solutions, when dish detergent and a dish sponge, and garden hose works just fine. Sure, it doesn't kill the germs, but the action of detergent is that it loosens the germs and they rinse off with the water.
This is how we clean our dishes, which we eat off of-- I don't know of anyone who dips their dishes in antiseptic solutions, and I don't see why we need to for bird cages. Further, the first thing they teach you in medical school is that antiseptic/disinfectant solutions don't even work when there is biological material present--which means that the cage has to be pretty much already clean for them to be effective.
I also really dislike the smell of most antiseptics, including the home made 'alternatives'.
Well I dont get the whole disinfect everything all the time thing either because animals need exposure to some bad bacteria to keep the immune system working well, I do believe over cleaning is part of the reasons our immune systems are getting so bad at fighting things off amongst other reasons. That doesn't mean I would want them in filthy conditions though and I don't believe soap, water and a quick rinse gets rid of everything because bacteria is so tiny and there can by millions of them in the tiniest bit missed. I use washing up liquid and hot water mainly and wipe of the excess with a damp cloth or occasionally a bit of vinegar diluted with water. I do disinfect usually but only every month but at the moment its every 1-2 days til I find out what the hecks wrong with them.
But yeah I like hosing /steaming off items fairly frequent.
I don't use chemicals on our cages at all. I pressure wash them. For the bird cage I pressure wash only the 'base grate' (which comes out separately) about once a week - it will strip off all poop and everything and requires no soap. The rest of the cage gets a pressure wash every couple months since it doesn't really get messy or dirty at all. I do the same for our sugar glider's cage but theirs needs a full pressure washing every week or so as they get pee all over every bar, perch and everything else.
I find pressure washing to require (by far) the least amount of effort and also seems to get things even cleaner than a sponge + detergent.
I hose down my cages outside in the summer.
But hey.... I just bought a STEAMER!!!! So I will definitely try it out and tell you about it!
Cleaning for parrot cage is not that so hard unlike cleaning home.It is really funny that i use to call puhdistuspalvelu or cleaning service at Finland country where i use to live now to clean my house but for my parrot i always have time to clean it because he always reminds me to clean his cage really amazing.
Thank You for the tips i found out its easier to clean with a vacuum and faster too.
A quiet parrot its a busy parrot.
A lovebird has the soul of a larger parrot in a small body.
My quaker parrots cage is squeaky clean!


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Q: What's the best way to convert a SQL glob style pattern into a regex on android I'm doing some hacking on a T9 style dialler for android. The code works by setting a glob pattern up based on the numeric keys which is eventually passed down to the contact resolver. For example the keypad sequence gives the (simplified for example) pattern of:
[JKL][DEF][DEF]
This works fine. However I'd also like to highlight the letters that were matched in the UI. I've been trying to do this with the following code:
String filter = createFilter(pattern);
String filterAsRegex = filter.replaceAll("\\[", "[\\\\Q").replaceAll("\\]", "\\\\E]{1}");
Log.i("nextMatch", "using filter: "+filter+" to a regex: " + filterAsRegex);

Pattern p = Pattern.compile(filterAsRegex);
Matcher m = p.matcher(n);
if (m.find()) {
    result[0] = n.indexOf(m.group());
} else {
    Log.i("nextMatch", "no matches :-(");
}

The idea being to convert the glob string to a regex, in this case:
[JKL]{1}[DEF]{1}[DEF]{1}

However I'm having trouble getting this to work. It seems to be OK for a single sequence but not for anything longer. It might also be being confused by the UTF-8 encoded characters in the sequence. The sequence for 5 is actually:
"[5JKL\u0134\u0135\u01f0\u0136\u0137\u01e8\u01e9\u1e30\u1e31\u1e32\u1e33\u1e34\u1e35\u212a\u0139\u013a\u013b\u013c\u013d\u013e\u1e36\u1e37\u1e38\u1e39\u1e3a\u1e3b\u1e3c\u1e3d]"

To account for all the variants of names with accents and the like. This is why I added the /Q and /E escaping to make sure it was all handled. Is there an easier way to achieve this in Android's java?

A: If you're not averse to using a good old Apache project you could always include ORO in your application (it's Apache licensed as usual). Its unfortunately in the attic nowadays, but the 2.0.x release is stable and works just fine on Android without any additional crud.
    GlobCompiler gc = new GlobCompiler();
    try {
        Perl5Pattern pattern = (Perl5Pattern) gc.compile("[JKL][DEF][DEF]");
        Perl5Matcher matcher = new Perl5Matcher();
        String straw = "JEEVES";
        if (matcher.matchesPrefix(straw, pattern)) {
            MatchResult res = matcher.getMatch();
            for (int i = 0; i < res.groups(); i++) {
                String s = straw.substring(res.beginOffset(i), res.endOffset(i));
                // 's' now contains a the match of group #i
            }
        } else {
            // No match
        }
    } catch (MalformedPatternException e) {
        // Oh noes
    }


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Share your vision for the Third Crossing branding
As construction of the Third Crossing approaches completion, the City of Kingston invites community members to complete a brief branding survey to share their vision for the bridge.
The bridge's new name, Waaban Crossing, and related branding will be integrated into interpretive and directional signage, planning for future artistic installations, as well as the continued development of educational, community-based programming.
"These branding guidelines are being developed to communicate the greater meaning of the bridge, and to celebrate the history, culture and contributions of Indigenous communities in the region," says Jennifer Campbell, Director, Heritage Services. "We welcome the community's input, which will guide how the name will be represented once the bridge is complete."
Following the announcement of the community-selected name at the City Council meeting on March 22, a request for proposals was launched, inviting prospective proponents to submit proposals for the branding guidelines. Through this process, BmDodo Strategic Design was selected in May 2022, and has met with staff to begin discussions.
The use of "Third Crossing" will continue until the bridge construction is complete and the bridge officially opens at the end of 2022.
How to get involved:
Complete the branding survey on Get Involved Kingston by 4 p.m. on June 27.
Request a copy of the survey by calling 613-546-0000. (A postage-paid envelope to return the survey will be included.)
Complete the survey by phone with City staff by calling 613-546-0000.


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Myoko Kogen, not somewhere internationally famous, a network of snow resorts on mainland Japan on the Niigata prefecture side of the Niigata-Nagano border. Surrounded by better known snow resorts of Nozawa Onsen, Shiga Kogen and Hakuba, we travelled here on a recommendation of one of our group who had been here before.
It is a mainland resort, therefore one less domestic flight to Japan's top island, and less time hanging around airports for connections as well as cutting out the 2 hour shuttle bus from Sapporo to Niseko. We have a wriggly toddler who is not the best at waiting around at airports and on buses so this really appealed to us. We have skied in Niseko before so can compare the two areas.
The area has a reputation for being a good destination for deep powder and lots of it. Sadly, we hit a particularly poor snow season and we experienced twigs sticking out where they shouldn't and not much powder. In an ideal world it would be nice to book last minute plane tickets to go to where the snow is falling abundantly, but unless you are financed by Donald Trump, this can be difficult.
I was sold on the idea of a snow resort where adults could take turns navigating tree runs and powder slopes while the kids could navigate child-friendly runs and all meet at the bottom of the runs and live happily ever after. See the above point regarding snow conditions.
There is potential at this resort for powder skiers to go one direction and snow plowers or beginner/intermediates to go the other way and all meet at the base to do it again.
This a a skier and snowboarder mountain. For non-snow sports people there are much better resorts in Canada and USA to go tubing, horse riding, sledding, skidoo riding and everything else in between. You would be bored if you don't like skiing or snowboarding here unless you bring a good book.
I was told this resort didn't attract hordes of Aussies like you see in Hirafu (Niseko) or Hakuba , but sadly the hordes have found Myoko too. Sure, there was more room on the slopes, but at night every restaurant and cafe was full. We made bookings for every night of our stay, Weekends were especially booked up. All holiday-makers want the same thing (traditional Japanese experience and a great snow at great prices) but it's a full town now.
I boarded a shuttle bus at a nearby connecting resort at 4pm and the shuttle bus was packed with Aussies. We stood in the bus aisle for 40 minutes squeezed in between skiers, all clutching children and skis, lurching at every corner. It was the longest ride home and I felt completely ill.
Let's talk traditional Japanese towns for a minute. At this juncture it's relevant to mention I have a degree in Japanese language and have spent over 64 weeks of my life living, working or studying in Japan. Let's just say, I've experienced a few Japanese towns. Myoko is an onsen town and 2016 celebrates 100 years of Myoko as a traditional place for Japanese folk to come and bathe in mineral-rich natural springs while resting and recouping strength.
Geologically speaking, Japan lies on a fault line that runs through the centre of the country, if you've experienced an earthquake or two, I'd be betting you were be in Japan. Every cloud has a silver lining, and the Japanese Alps (AKA the high peaks we like to ski) are the result. Deep underground boiling hot waters run up from the inside of the earth bringing with it minerals such as magnesium, sulphur, iron and other minerals beneficial to the body.
There are truly gorgeous and picturesque towns peppered throughout Japan, Kamakura, Takayama and Kyoto are three of my all time favourites. Japan does beautiful and ancient towns well, utilising solid timber in construction and spectacular gardens reflecting nature and specialised trades. It's a little like Australian beaches, once you've been to a few beautiful Japanese towns you become VERY FUSSY. So Myoko? It's ok, it's fairly run down and in desperate need of a refurb. If it's beautiful Japanese town you're after WITH skiing (for the fussies) try Nozawa Onsen. Now that's a story for another day. Stay tuned for my next post.
You bet I'm fussy. We lug 3 kids and a billion items of luggage around and spend plenty-penny in the quest for a good time, good conditions, good company and good snow. Some families go waterskiing or some women spend thousands on fancy handbags. This is what WE do. We've visited over 20 international snow resorts in the past decade and I write content for a domestic snow resort. I'm not a high maintenance gal by an account but I know what I want in a resort.
See my earlier post about getting here in this section . In a nutshell, it's pretty easy to catch a shinkansen (fast bullet train) from Tokyo and it's reasonably easy to navigate Tokyo. Don't be too proud to ask for directions, everyone loves practice their English on you. They consider it a genuine project and may even lead you personally to the appropriate train platform.
If you're rolling in cash the best bet is a Chuo taxi. It picks you up at the airport and transports you on the tomei (toll highway) to your destination hotel. It is approximately A$100 per person one way. If you're ok with the price and it circumnavigates concerns about internal travel in Japan, this option is worry-free. I initially booked a Chuo taxi (shuttle bus) by calling the phone number via Skype that I found online but I can't tell you whether they spoke English or not, as I booked in Japanese. I cancelled due to price, we prefered the Shinkansen price.
The vocabulary you need is endless, I have added other sentences you can use in my other posts. When in doubt use google translate or but a Japanese language CD and learn some basics when you're driving around pre-trip.
Myoko town is largely on a T-configuration with roads and alleys running off the T. Take care, accommodation can be 2 minutes from chairlifts or 20 minutes walk. It can be the difference between a great trip or a hassle. Do your homework. We stayed 100 steps from the 'snap skis on' point where we could comfortably ski down to the ticket office. My husband called that 'ski in-ski out' because he'd stayed in the hotel previously on a boys trip. The perspective soon changed when we had a toddler to carry. In 100 steps carrying 2 sets of skis it was back strain, sweat and puffing. A lady staying at accommodation even further was struggling with her two kids. These things count for logistics.See my post on Niseko for a super-easy logistics trip.
The mountain range, or Kogen (pronounced kor-gen) consists of 4 resorts accessible to each other via a shuttle bus service. From left to right is Suginohara, Ikenotaira, Akakura Kanko, Akakura Onsen and Seki. All have pros and cons and cater for different abilities. We were based at Myoko for 2 weeks, due to poor snow conditions we got good at checking out other resorts to stave off boredom. In addition to these 4 we visited others accessible by car, shuttle buses, taxis or private guides. These were Madarao, Nozawa Onsen and Tangram. More on these to follow.
Myoko resort is split down the middle between Kanko and Onsen. You can buy a ticket for both resorts or buy a ticket for just one resort but you will be restricted to skiing on just that side. They are owned by different companies thus the ticketing discrepency.
I was surprised to see Myoko had so many eating options. The T-formation of the town teems with restaurants, cafes, burger places and little bars squeezed side by side in between souvenir stores and old hotels.
We didn't have a bad meal, food wise. Service varied from great to slow. At a pizza eatery we waited an hour and a half between ordering and eating. It was a husband and wife team, they desperately needed more staff to fill demand. Given that we had a two year old desperate to eat it became a little stressful.
Our best meal was at a tiny traditional eatery that didn't even have a name sign, merely a couple of red lanterns out the front advertising main meals. The husband and wife team supplied our kids with books while they waited and gifted them with toys, special kids items and a lucky dip including a large Kendama (traditional and popular Japanese toy). In between cooking and serving food they played with the kids, we have fond and special memories from there.
Our hotel meal was one of our highlights. It consisted of lots of little local delicacies and the kids really got a kick out of experiencing hot and cold dishes all delicately placed and very pretty.
Undeniably, Japanese resort lift prices were good. The skier or snow boarder that got the best out of the experience was the intermediate. Advanced/ powder skiers were frustrated on our trip with those conditions. Beginner were limited to a few areas at the Myoko resort itself unless progress was swift. Adjacent resorts of Ikenotaira and Suginohara were good for beginners with broad, long runs.
It was nice to take time skiing as a family. Our youngest learnt to ski independently and learnt to traverse and stop and turn all in the first week. By week two we skied at a few different resorts taking turns skiing with her while the other adult took the boys on other runs.
Skiing as a family is fantastic.
Lift ticket costs vary depending on full day, morning, afternoon or child pass. We found out buying tickets at Myoko Snow Sports office was the best value on the mountain.
We had been given the thumbs up on Myoko Snow Sports prior to our trip. This thumbs up was due to excellent service. Tom who owns Myoko Snow Sports runs it well. Confirming excellent reports, the snow sports school was flexible with little skiers, prices, times and very customer-centric. I would definitely recommend them for kids.
Let's talk about Seki here. Seki is the advanced snow resort, geographically positioned well attracting deep powder. Steep slopes attract customers in search of these conditions. Prior to 2014, Seki-devotees were powder hounds, but lately Seki has been attracting a plethora of multi-ability skiers. One local has never seen seek as crowded as January 2016.
The problem is Se ki is a privately and family owned basic resort consisting of just two chairlifts, neither of which have safety bars holding skiers/ boarders safely onto chairs.
What happened the day we were there is a typical safety story for Seki. Once off the lift there are two ways to get down the mountain, the mountain face and the cliff face. We traversed the mountain face then deliberately navigated the cliff face, anticipating more powdery 'pillows' in the crevasses. Instead we found a 20 year old female Australian skier, shivering and crying, left by her group at the top of the cliff at this completely unpatrolled Japanese resort.
My husband and I earned our Austrian Anverter ski instructor qualification, so we felt capable enough to guide her down the cliff face. She lost her confidence and largely slid vertically until she met with the bottom of the mountain. This is a typical story, more and more young Aussies are falling prey to accidents like this and there's nothing stopping intermediate inexperienced skiers or boarders coming to try their hand and getting STUCK. If I had a young adult son or daughter I would discourage them to come to Seki. Check out the photos of the queue waiting for the 2nd lift (higher) to open. Queues for both chairlifts were up to an hour long. Holy Mackerel!
The crazy thing was …..Seki was my BEST day out of our two week trip. Luckily, my husband is pretty safety conscious and refused to let our kids come, or anyone else (including me) until he'd done a reconnaissance trip. He'd skied at Seki in 2014 as well. We had our strategies in place for how we wanted to attack Seki. But it's NOT a place for intermediates to try their hand. If you fall down a cliff there's limited rescue options. It's a well known joke that between 1pm and 2pm the lifties go to lunch and leave skiers and boarders to load themselves on and off.
Could I spend a week at Seki? No way, one day was plenty. It's a tiny place and it gets skied out.
Ever the restless traveller we've booked next year's trip for somewhere else. It would be nice to experience Myoko with snow on it again some day but we won't be back next year.
When the Australian dollar recovers we are super-keen to return to Jackson Hole, Snowbird and Aspen Highlands. And my 'one day' resort is Telluride.
It was a ski brochure on the Dolomites (Italy) that first stirred Emma's interest in all things ski-related. That endless white moonscape, skiable as far as the eye can see... those geological wonderments. All those hot gluhwein drinks! Promptly quitting her Japanese language teaching job Emma hot-footed it to Austria to become a a ski-instructor, got engaged and did a season alternating between consuming chicken schnitzels and demonstrating the 'alpine position' to English ski students. Whist still not fulfilling her Dolomite ski fantasy, Emma happily lives and breathes her passion, albeit through writing and finds North America and Japan great snow resorts to share with her young family. Particularly the buffalo wings and the okonomiyaki.
Hi Emma, thanks for the great write up. Glad you had a good time.
Can I please point out that in general you are talking about AKAKURA ONSEN, not MYOKO. Akakura Onsen is a village within the old Myoko Kogen town region. Several years ago it merged with Arai and Myoko Village to for Myoko City. So when you say Myoko you are actually referring to the city area about 30 minutes drive away.
Increasingly we are seeing travellers get confused and get off at the wrong station (such as JoetsuMyoko) and wondering where the lifts are, or booking hotels in the Myoko City area. So just wanted to clarify that for interested readers. Thanks!
Also it was good to point out re the travails of staying ski in, ski out.


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Reggie Fils-Aime Talks Wii U
Essel Pratt September 26, 2012 3 Comments 861 views
Most of Infendo's followers are uber excited about the launch of the Wii U, regardless of what might still be unknown about the system. Although, some are a little skeptical about what is under the hood and in the cloud. There are a lot of gamers that are devout to other consoles that seem to think the Wii U is more of a gimmick than a legitimate system, I find that a bit childish, but it is no different than a Coke vs Pepsi or Mac vs PC debate.
Because of the lingering questions out there, by fans and foes, I found the following interview between Forbes Magazine contributor David M. Ewalt, and Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime quite interesting. I hope you will too!
See the interview after the jump
Forbes: One of the reasons the Wii has been a success is because it expanded the market, and attracted a lot of first-time console buyers. How do you convince these new gamers to become return customers? I hear people saying, "I already have a video game machine. Why do I need to buy a new one?"
Reggie Fils-Aime: Well, what we've seen is that these new entrants to the market really have broadened their own gaming experiences. They started by playing Wii Sports, but then they graduated to games like Mario Kart and New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Then they continued on to experiences like Donkey Kong Country Returns orThe Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. So their gaming tastes have matured.
So we'll continue to have all the family-friendly farelike Nintendo Land and New Super Mario Brothers U… but in addition, we're going to have more active gamer content, which was something that was missing other than from Nintendo's first party titles. Maybe these new entrants will find their first opportunity [to play] something like Call of Dutynow that it can be delivered through Wii U.
The flip side of the coin is hardcore gamers, the people who are already playing games like Call of Duty. How do you get them to take the Wii U as seriously as they might take a new Xbox or PlayStation?
We showed that [with the announcement that Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops II will be released for the Wii U]. You're going to have the beautiful graphics. You're going to have the online multiplayer, and now you're going to have a same-room two player experience that you can't get anywhere else, because I'll be playing on the game pad, you'll be playing on the big screen T.V. That's a huge innovation… there are a series of innovations that we're bringing for the more active gamer.
You've had issues winning over hardcore gamers because of big third party games, particularly first person shooters, that came out for PlayStation and Xbox, but not Wii. How do you fix that?
I think you have to peel the onion back and ask why. And the why is that publishers creating these types of games have wanted to leverage their assets amongst multiple platforms. So when they created HD, online-driven platforms, it took them a significant amount of work to bring it on to the Wii. And that's why we didn't have those games. Now that we use HD and have strong online capabilities, we've broken the biggest barrier that the third party publishers had. Plus now we're giving them this fantastic new tool called the GamePad to create new experiences.
So I mean you're seeing it here –50 games in the launch window, demonstrated support by three of the biggest western publishers, plus all of the great support out of Japan. So we're confident that we have this system that really will draw the best of third party publishers.
Can you attract more of those big third party games to become Wii U exclusives?
Are there going to be Wii exclusive active gamer titles? Absolutely. We've announced a number already, with [Sega's] Bayonetta 2 and [Ubisoft's] Zombi U. I mean these are active gamer experiences that are exclusive to our platform.
Plus we're going to have what we do best, which really are bigger, broader, key fan franchise driven games leveraging Mario and Zelda and Donkey Kong. And I'll tell you what's interesting –if you look at this current generation, for all of the noise around core gamer games, the best selling titles, the top four selling titles have all been Nintendo-published, first party, exclusive to the Wii games.
One of the Wii U's selling points is the unique multiplayer experience –one player using the Wii U GamePad and looking at their own screen, while other players use a remote and look at the TV. How are you going to sell people on a different kind of gaming, instead of just a bigger, faster machine?
This challenge is a challenge we've faced before. Getting consumers to understand the two screen experience on the Nintendo DS is an example. Getting consumers to embrace motion gaming when they had never seen anything like a Wii remote before. Our approach is to partner our marketing teams with the product teams, and make sure that we identify those key product-based selling points, and then communicate them as broadly as possible.
So for example, you will see much more focused marketing that showcases this two screen experience, and why it's so much fun. You'll see much more hands-on activities for consumers, so that they can experience it themselves. We'll be in malls across the country beginning right around Black Friday, to help consumers understand what this experience is all about, and to get them to advocate for it.
The Wii U will retail for $300, making it the most expensive console on the market. How will you address that?
We'll see what our competitors do and where they are… but we're going to be going after different consumers. With the Wii U, Nintendo will be speaking to the active consumer looking for the latest in a gaming experience… but we're also going to be speaking to a much broader mass market consumer with games like Nintendo Land and new Super Mario Brothers U, as well as the innovative NintendoTVii. So we believe that given everything we're offering, the price points we've announced –$300 for the basic set, $349 for the deluxe– represent incredible values to the consumer.
And all of the things that we're including for free, others charge you for. The Nintendo TVii service, video chat… all of these capabilities are built into our proposition. So we feel pretty good. But in the end the consumer is going to vote.
The Wii U only comes with one controller, the Wii U GamePad. It also works with the Wii's controllers, so existing customers can keep using those for multi-player games. But will first-time customers buy a box that only has one controller?
If we're talking about Wii U-generation brand new consumers, we think absolutely they will buy this system, and we believe that they will buy additional remotes, just like the Wii generation did. We've sold over 100 million remotes. If you do the math on an install base of 40 million systems here in the United States, that's over two per household. We know consumers will buy an additional remote.
That raises the price. Now you're talking $350 for a basic system.
It does. But what we have found is that as long as the consumer sees the value, they're willing to pay an extra $40 for an additional remote. And we wouldn't have sold the numbers that we did if we didn't represent that type of value. So we believe that given everything you get in this system, the pricing we've announced is an incredible value.
When the Wii came out, its initial popularity led to shortages and frustrated customers. What does the supply chain look like for the Wii U?
We've learned a lot of lessons from the launch of the DS, the launch of Wii and the launch of 3DS. And our supply chain is solid. My job is to work with retailers, work with other business partners to create demand for the product, and have the consumer get excited. And I think we're well on the way to doing that.
My expectation is that we will do a phenomenal job helping the consumer understand the benefits of Wii U, and that our retailers will do a wonderful job of merchandising the product and getting it into consumers' hands. We want to satisfy all of the demand that's out there. That's our goal.
Meanwhile, you're still going to be selling the Wii in stores. How will the marketing message change?
The broad marketing for the Wii is not going to change. The Wii is focused against today the late adopter, the consumer who is spending $149 or less to have a gaming experience. And we believe –not only in the U.S. but through all of the Americas– there's still millions of these types of consumers available. So it's a sizable opportunity. But that's a different consumer than who is going to look at the Wii U and get excited by the latest graphical capabilities, all of the services that are included, and new types of games. We see these as two different market opportunities.
Have you learned anything from watching Sony's continued success selling thePlayStation 2?
You know, PlayStation has done a phenomenal job driving sales on what is a [twelve] year-old machine. They've done a phenomenal job, and they have been able to address different marketing over time, to build an incredibly large install base. We believe that the Wii system, similarly, will keep selling for quite some time. They're going to be different addressable markets, not only from a U.S. perspective but from a global perspective… [but we'll] hopefully continue to drive sales at a historic rate.
Last month the editors of Nintendo Power announced that the magazine is shutting down after 24 years of publication. But they didn't go out of business –Nintendo declined to renew their license. Does that mean that you have other plans for the license, like producing the magazine internally?
We had a fabulous relationship with [Nintendo Power publisher] Future. When we made the decision a number of years ago on who would be the best publishing partner to work with, hands down they were the right choice, and they did a phenomenal job.
But this is a tough time for the print industry. And so mutually we came to the decision that Nintendo Power in a printed form didn't make sense today. What the future holds, we'll all see. But right now that December issue is going to be the last one. I'll make sure to have my copy. I was a subscriber to the publication before I worked for the company, so the Nintendo Powerbrand personally is very meaningful to me. It'll be a sad day when I open up that last issue.
But you're not closing the door on it returning, maybe as an online-only publication?
We have nothing to announce today and there are no plans that are currently in place, but you said it. The Nintendo Power brand is very strong.
Written by: Essel Pratt on September 26, 2012.
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Essel Pratt has spent his life exploring his imagination and dreams. As a Husband and a Father, he doesn't have as much time to write as he would like. However, his mind is always plotting out his next story. Someday he hopes to quit the 9-5 grind and focus on writing full time.Currently, Essel has three published short stories and is working on a handful of novels. Essel focuses his writings on mostly Horror/Sci-Fi, however is known to add a dash of other genres into his writings as well. In his spare time, he can be found playing one of the 40+ video game consoles in his collection, especially his Wii U (NNID: EsselPratt).Click the links below to follow Essel's exploits in the writing world, and be sure to follow his blog at http://esselpratt.blogspot.com/ as well as his articles on Nerdzy.com.
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