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1. 2019 Trend Predictions Come to Life: We conducted a mid-year review of some of the most highly discussed food, beverage and nutrition topics to see exactly how these trends have played out:
Digestive Health: The microbiome offers a new paradigm for health. Research shows that when the microbes that make up the digestive system are healthy, mental and physical wellbeing follow suit. Industry players are responding with in-market products to support consumers in their pursuit of a healthy gut. Kefir, Kvass and fermented products, which may be linked to improved health of the gut microbiome, continue to pop-up on shelves. Technology is also evolving to help analyze and identify pathologies in the microbiome and metagenome.
Plant-based: New milk and meat alternatives continue to rise in popularity. Oat-based drinks and yogurts are the newest non-dairy darlings. Grubhub's State of the Plate survey found orders of vegan-friendly foods on Grubhub were up 25% between January and May, and orders of the Impossible Burger rose 82% nationwide in one year. That said, warning flags have been raised concerning this growing trend. For example, Today's Dietitian recently cautioned that plant-based alternatives can be highly processed, which may increase levels of sodium, saturated fat, additives and artificial colors. Additionally, plant-based meat alternatives can be expensive and often lack important nutrients, like vitamin B12. From a policy standpoint, another growing issue with conversion to plant-based alternatives is the growing dialogue on standard of identity. Despite the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) stating it would enforce standard of identity labeling in 2018, the agency has yet to make strides in this realm. The National Milk Producers Federation put pressure on the FDA earlier this month to enforce these standards, and restrict the labeling of milk to avoid confusion over the nutrient composition of plant-based dairy alternatives, an initiative that has received support from health professionals. Authoritative organizations, like the American Academy of Pediatrics, have commented that the lack of a standard of identity when it comes to non-dairy sources of milk is misleading – causing many consumers to believe non-dairy sources of milk are equivalent in nutrient composition to the dairy counterparts they are imitating.
Snacking: Typical eating occasions are no longer black and white. The lines between meals and snacks are blurring, as consumers continue to insert regular snacking into a formal meals structure. The trend is not expected to slow down anytime soon. Of note, consumer research shows breakfast snacking is growing in popularity – as breakfast is already an on-the-go behavior.
*DYK? Research from Frito Lay suggests Independence Day as the biggest snacking opportunity of the year.
Value-based Choices: Food and beverage choices are becoming an extension of an individual's personal beliefs. Consumers – especially millennials – are looking to make conscious, responsible purchases that benefit themselves and their environment.
Cannabis and CBD: CBD has gained and continues to gain momentum. It is now waiting for FDA approval to take over food and beverage shelves. Many cannabis companies are pushing FDA to ease regulatory hurdles.
*DYK? Research from Mintel suggests that edibles, such as chocolate and candy, are the most popular way to consume CBD.
Bottom line: Both large and small players in the food and beverage environment are adapting more efficient and nimble product development processes. Expect to see trends move more quickly from paper to store shelves.
2. Global Conversations Influence Sustainable Conversations; Local Forces Creating Action: Consumers and companies alike are making strides toward decreasing our carbon footprint, but there is also opportunity to deepen the conversation and commitment to food-related sustainability activities, such as decreased food waste. While conversations on sustainable nutrition are occurring at a global level (i.e., EAT Lancet), local bodies are taking actionable steps to create changes in their environment. That said, sustainability can mean different things to different people. According to IFIC's 2019 Food & Health Survey, consumers define sustainable products as locally-produced, products labeled as sustainably-produced, non-GMO/not bioengineered or organic, having recyclable packaging, and having minimal packaging. Almost two-thirds of consumers (63%) noted they would purchase more sustainable products, if easier to identify on shelves.
Bottom Line: Consumers look for on-pack support to guide decision making processes. More education and information will improve consumers' consumption of sustainable products.
3. Just-For-You Nutrition: Genetics-based, personalized nutrition has replaced the one-size-fits-all nutrition approach. Improvements in technology have translated into reduced costs, improved ease of access, and explosion of direct-to-consumer testing. The most apparent benefit of genetic testing is its potential as a motivator for change, inspiring patients and clients to change lifestyle behaviors based on professional advice that fits them, and not just the general population. However, recent research points to our environment as being the most important factor in how we metabolize food including sleep habits, stress levels, and exercise routine, as well as the diversity and population of our microbiome. As exciting as genes are, they are only one part of a much bigger picture. Research needs to catch up to the demand for personalization and precision, in order to make genetics-based nutrition more applicable.
Gatorade has put advancing technology into practice through measuring sodium loss through exercise to "prescribe" replenishment.
DuPont and BioMe Oxford plan to co-develop smart capsules to sample gut microbiota, providing a non-invasive, easy access way to assess different substrates' effect (such as probiotics or specific carbohydrates) on the microbiome.
The Federal Communications Commission Connect2Health Task Force is working to raise consumer awareness on the advancing technology and accessibility of ingestible, wearable and embeddable devices to measure things like heart rate, respiration and blood pressure.
Bottom line: Health professionals and consumers alike are eagerly waiting on researchers to fill in the gaps needed, in order to make personalized and precision nutrition more useful and reliable in practice. While some organizations are dabbling in the technology, more research is warranted. Read more here.
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A Thousand Reasons, a new contemporary romance by Mariah Dietz is NOW AVAILABLE!!!!
Release Date: Thursday, June 21st!
A Thousand Reasons is a sweet, slow burn romance!
Wes and Leela come from entirely different worlds. He comes from wealth but absent parents, and she lives right at, if not sometimes, below the poverty level. However, for the most part her parents are supportive of her and her goal of becoming an ER doctor.
Wes is one of the good guys. He doesn't make judgments about people, and he really wants to get to know Leela. Ironically, Leela appears to judge people based on their socioeconomic status but not really in a negative way. It stems from her childhood and the struggles she faced. Thankfully, Wes wears her down little by little, and she makes room in her heart for him.
I really admired both characters, and I really liked how Dietz portrayed them. Leela is an amazing character. She has sacrificed so much, she struggles with maintaining balance in her life. She works several jobs to support her family, and she also maintains a straight A average in med school. Wes brings her some balance.
As I wrote earlier, this is a slow burn romance, but it had to be. These are individuals from two very different worlds. Dietz clearly illustrates that. It really struck me and really made me think about how very lucky I was and am. She very realistically shows what leaving at the poverty level looks like. Leela only used mustard because ketchup was too expensive. She had to call the electric company to see if her family could pay installments so their electricity wasn't cut off, and both her parents worked. Those things made me respect Leela even more. She is one tough cookie. She never gave up no matter what obstacles she faced.
The only thing missing from this book is an epilogue of sorts. Wes and Leela are such great characters, and I would like to know where life took them.
This is my first read from Mariah Dietz, and I can't wait to read more from her. I know that some of her characters in this book appear in earlier books, so I'm excited to get to know their stories as well.


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Update! The owners of the Hollywood Theatre are encouraging neighbourhood residents to write City Hall in support of their liquor license application.
As they say in their recent Facebook page post, "The Hollywood Theatre is an event-driven establishment and we wish to provide our patrons the added amenity of serving alcohol."
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Legends of Franklin Castle
Franklin Castle is a haunted location in Cleveland, Ohio. The legendary history of the house is filled with tales of horrible murders and ghostly apparitions.
Franklin Castle is known today as one of the most haunted places in Ohio. It was built in 1865 by a German immigrant and investment banker named Hannes Tiedemann. He lived there with his wife, his children and his elderly mother.
According to the legend, Hannes Tiedemann was a vicious and brutal man who ruled his house like a tyrant. There were rumors that he violently abused his wife and children. His entire family died under mysterious circumstances within a short period of time and many people believe that Hannes Tiedemann murdered them all.
It is said that the murders began with his eldest daughter, Emma. She died in the house, under suspicious circumstances in January 1881 and the family claimed it was from diabetes. Some people said that Emma's body was actually found hanging from the rafters in the attic. She was only 15 years old. When Tiedemann's elderly mother also died in the house, just a few weeks later, rumors began to spread around the area that there was more to these deaths than met the eye.
To distract his wife from her grief, Tiedemann decided to remodel the house. Franklin Castle already had close to 30 rooms and a grand ballroom that spanned the entire fourth floor. Outside, he added features like turrets, gargoyles and a wrought-iron fence, which made the home look even more like a castle. Inside, he added marble fireplaces and intricate carvings. What Mrs Tiedemann did not know was that her husband also added hidden passageways and secret rooms all over the house.
Then the other children began to die. Over the next three years, the Tiedemanns buried three children. One of them was just eleven days old. Suspicions grew among the local community.
Whispers started circulating through the town that more babies had been murdered inside Franklin Castle, but that Tiedemann had hidden their deaths from the public, storing their dead bodies in a secret room in the house.
According to legend, the secret rooms and hidden passages were designed so that Tiedemann could commit his horrific crimes without being detected. They say he murdered his teenage niece after he caught her kissing a young servant boy. He hung her corpse in a hidden passageway off the ballroom.
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Tiedemann also murdered a young servant girl named Rachel because she rejected his amorous advances and became engaged to someone else. She came to see him, on her wedding day, to tell him she had gotten married and would be leaving the house. He flew into a fit of jealous rage and supposedly hacked her to death with an axe in front of one of the bedroom windows in the turret.
According to another story, Tiedemann had affairs with many different women. He used the secret passageways to make sure his wife never found out about his mistresses. When one of his girlfriends told him she was leaving him, he was said to have tied her up, gagged her and left her in a hidden room. When he returned hours later, he discovered that the gag had accidentally suffocated her.
Tiedemann's wife passed away in 1895. He told his neighbors that she died from liver disease, but many of them quietly suspected that Hannes was responsible for her death. Shortly afterwards, he moved out of Franklin Castle and married a young waitress. When Hannes Tiedemann died of a stroke in 1908, he had outlived every member of his family and most people who knew him believed he had gotten away with mass murder.
As the years passed, the house was bought and sold a number of times and many people have reported seeing ghostly apparitions roaming the halls Franklin Castle.
In the 1970s, Franklin Castle was being renovated. Legend has it one of the owners accidentally discovered a small, hidden room that had been sealed off. Inside, he found the skeletons of at least a dozen babies. Some say these are the bones of the missing Tiedemann children.
A nurse who was staying in one of the rooms reported being terrified at night by the sound of a small child crying. She left the next morning and swore she would never set foot in the house again. Many more have heard the voices of sobbing children and others have heard the sound of babies screaming and crying in the walls.
One family, who bought the home said their children had a strange encounter. The mother sent her children upstairs to play, but a little while later, they came back down and asked if they could have a cookie for their new friend, a little girl who was upstairs crying. The mother followed the children back upstairs, but the little girl had disappeared.
A few years later, the owner came across a hidden panel in one of the walls in the turret room. When he opened it, he was shocked to discover human bones secreted inside. They are believed to be the remains of the young servant girl who was hacked to death in that room. For years, in the windows of the turret room, many people claim to have seen the shadowy figure of a woman dressed in black staring out at them.
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One young boy who was delivering newspapers claimed that, when he knocked on the door, he heard a voice telling him to come in. As soon as he walked through the front door, he saw an apparition of a woman in black, gliding down the staircase before she disappeared through a closed door.
When a woman visited the house, she entered one of the rooms and immediately complained of feeling like she was being choked. This was the same room where Tiedemann's mistress.supposedly suffocated to death.
The restless spirit of a young girl haunts the 4th floor ballroom. The secret passageways around the ballroom are said to be where Tiedemann hung his niece. Her ghost is often seen in a third floor room known as "the cold room" because it is always ten degrees colder than the rest of the house. Her ghost is often described as tall and thin and eerie. In the ballroom, there is a large, bloody red stain on the marble floor that cannot be removed.
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Susan Carol Bedford, 68, of Elizabeth, N.J., formerly of Carteret, N.J., died Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019, at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, N.J.
Born in Jersey City, N.J., Susan lived in Carteret for 30 years before moving to Elizabeth. She was a teaching assistant at Gateway School in Carteret for 30 years.
Susan is survived by her husband, Dennis Bedford; her three sons, Christopher Fruge and his wife, Marta Palanques, Jason Fruge, and Dennis Bedford, and her four grandchildren, Jessica, Michelle, Lidia, and Ava.
Visiting hours will be on Monday, Feb. 11, 2019, from 4 to 7 p.m. at Synowiecki Funeral Home, 56 Carteret Ave. in Carteret. Private cremation will be held. In lieu of flowers, donations to in her memory would be appreciated.
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Roger Waters hits North America with DiGiCo
By AVNetwork Staff (Digital Signage Magazine) 2017-10-11T18:54:00Z
Roger Waters' Us + Them hit North America with monitor engineer Matt Napier sitting at the side of the stage, working from his trusted DiGiCo SD7 console.
Napier started working with Waters last year for his shows in Mexico and Desert Trip. Waters' previous engineer, Ian Newton, unfortunately passed away a few years ago, so it was an honor for Napier to fill such shoes.
"I felt a lot of responsibility to do Ian's memory justice, and make the gig work as smoothly as possible," said Napier. "We didn't have a lot of rehearsal time, so it was intense, but the shows went really well. You just have to do this music justice."
The production for Us + Them is puts a strong emphasis on the synergy between the music and the aural/visual experience.
"The surround system installed in each venue makes the aural experience very immersive for the audience, and the visuals are absolutely stunning," Napier said. "Roger really is the captain of the ship, and steers its direction, but he allows the musicians to explore their creativity and add their own flavor. He is always fair, and very professional; if there's a technical problem, as long as you're honest, he understands."
With 10 people on stage to look after, it gets pretty busy in monitor world, which means Napier needs a fairly monumental channel count. Enter the SD7. Napier is running 130 inputs (many of which are stereo), 21 mono auxes, 16 stereo auxes, three mono groups, seven stereo groups, 32 matrix inputs, 14 matrix outputs, and 24 control groups.
"I keep playing with other consoles, but the SD7 is still the only really serious choice for a show of this complexity; and actually, it's not just about the channel count," Napier said. "The SD Series sounds fantastic, too, and the flexibility of the SD Racks and SD-Mini Racks, the redundancy, and user flexibility means nothing else comes close. I also have two SD Racks dealing with stage inputs and IEM outputs, and a Mini Rack, which takes care of some analog inserts."
In addition to the musicians, there are a number of techs under the stage, and that is where the majority of the IEM mixes get eaten up.
"Most of the musicians are multi-instrumentalists, and also sing, so there are a lot of things going on; at the last count, we had about 70 different guitars in play," Napier said. "We also have a few discrete wedges around the stage to add a bit of weight, and we need a bit of extra stage volume for when we get to Another Brick In The Wall; we have a local kids group join us on stage, and they need to hear, as well."
To help deal with this vast setup, Napier uses snapshots on his SD7 quite extensively: 53, to be precise.
"I run them all in 'relative' mode so that any changes in soundcheck can be adjusted across the board," he said. "All the snapshots are fired via SMPTE. All the music is live, but we also have a lot of sound FX running for the surround PA, which I also feed into the IEM system. Due to the massive visual element and video content, the SMPTE is always running. It's actually a godsend for me, as once programmed, I can let the snapshots/SMPTE control all the mutes, major level changes, guitar changes, vocal mics; that frees me up to actually listen to, and actively mix the show for Roger. Well... it's a godsend now, but it took quite a few late nights programming to get it all running so smoothly!"
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'You know': Ambassador Yovanovitch's 300-page testimony reveals only assumptions, innuendo and what's in the papers
Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch smiles as she departs after testifying in the U.S. House of Representatives impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 11, 2019. © REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
The highlights of impeachment testimony paint Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch as a victim of character assassination by corrupt Ukrainians and US President Donald Trump. We read through all 317 pages to see what's actually inside.
Yovanovitch testified before the House Intelligence Committee last month, and the transcript of the all-day proceedings was among the first made public by Chairman Adam Schiff (D-California) on Monday. Schiff's office also released a nine-page"highlights" reel, which most reporters were all too happy to focus on.
Rather than accept the pre-sliced serving of this particular political sausage, we rolled up our sleeves and got to reading the whole thing ourselves. The final result is far less dramatic. It reveals a diplomat who made a whole lot of assumptions and retrospective conclusions based on media reporting. Her most frequently used phrase was "you know" – but she didn't actually know a whole lot at all.
READ MORE: House Intelligence Committee releases first transcripts in Trump impeachment probe (READ THEM HERE)
In the opening remarks that she ended up sharing with the Washington Post – despite the hearing being held behind locked doors – Yovanovitch denied being anti-Trump, favoring Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, or ever suggesting to anyone in Ukraine to refrain from prosecuting corruption.
She described her ouster as "based, as far as I can tell, on unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives." (p. 23)
Yovanovitch testified that in February, she was warned about Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani scheming behind her back with two Ukrainian-American businessmen – naming them as Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman (p. 28). The man who warned her was Interior Minister Arsen Avakov (p.43) – one of the rare unchanging fixtures in Kiev who has run the country's police since the February 2014 coup.
She named now-former prosecutor Yury Lutsenko as one of the people who schemed to get rid of her, but could not explain why there was never any US pressure to get him fired – as there had been in the case of his predecessor Viktor Shokin, who reportedly investigated the company that had hired VP Joe Biden's son onto its board of directors.
"We also had more leverage before. I mean, this was not easy. President Poroshenko and Mr. Shokin go way back. In fact, I think they are godfathers to each other's children. So this was, you know, this was a big deal. But we had assistance, as did the IMF, that we could condition," she said (p. 103). Shokhin was fired in March 2016, months before Yovanovitch was confirmed as US ambassador to Kiev.
Yovanovich did not seem to understand that in the famous July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the US president was referring to Shokin – and Biden's public boast about getting him fired – and not Lutsenko. Which is interesting, because she also revealed she knew about the call before the general public.
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Namely, at one point Yovanovich told members of Congress that a State Department official named George Kent had told her about the call "weeks before" it was made public, but could not give the exact date, or even what he said beyond "some information." (p.206) Kent supposedly did not mention that her name came up in the discussion, which several Republicans on the committee found hard to believe.
Another incredulous bit of her testimony was that she never contacted Lutsenko after his March 2019 interview with The Hill – in which he accused her of giving him a "do not prosecute" list, a claim he later recanted – because "I didn't think there would have been any point in that."
Yovanovitch used the same phrasing to explain why she never bothered to inquire about the exact reasons for her abrupt recall in May.
"I think there was just a general assumption that just must have had to do with the information that Mr. Lutsenko provided to Mr. Giuliani," she said. "There just didn't seem to be much point." (p.129)
Much ado was made about two of Schiff's highlights, robbed of context from the actual testimony. One mentioned that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo "or perhaps somebody around him" would call Fox News host Sean Hannity to see what was going on – except it was not about her recall, but about attacks on her in April, and to demand that Hannity either present evidence against Yovanovitch or keep quiet (p.117).
Omg… Yovanovitch says she was told that as she was being recalled, Pompeo would try to find out what was going on by…. calling Sean Hannity pic.twitter.com/ISFbFp0oBc
— Miriam Elder (@MiriamElder) November 4, 2019
The other, about Ambassador Gordon Sondland's advice to "support President Trump" in reaction to Lutsenko's claims, was actually walked back by Yovanovitch herself.
"I mean, he may not have used the words 'support President Trump,' but he said: You know the President. WeIl, maybe you don't know him personally, but you know, you know, the sorts of things that he likes. You know, go out there battling aggressively and, you know, praise him or support him," is how she clarified it (p. 306).
When Ambassador Yovanovitch sought advice from Gordon Sondland, he recommended that she tweet her praise of Trump, she testified. https://t.co/j0pxR1iySVpic.twitter.com/HZ2IdCQX7D
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) November 4, 2019
While it does reveal to what extent Ukraine is dependent on the US, or to what extent the professional bureaucrats in Washington see themselves as not just guardians but creators of US policy, Yovanovitch's testimony does not in any way incriminate Trump or move the ball on impeachment. In that respect, the slog through 300 pages of transcripts has been much ado about nothing.
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Tale of Two Cities Mayor deBlasio Awash in Lofty Rhetoric Than Practical Action
Frozen New York City. What does it take for the new mayor to close schools during emergency? Apparently, an asteroid hitting City Hall. But then deBlasio would have to open window and look out.
He's only been in office over a month, but so far, NYC Mayor, Bill deBlasio has managed to cross hairs with "rich" residents of the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the governor of New York, more than a million school kids and their parents and even Today Show weatherman, Al Roker.
The latest snafu occurs over the mayor's decision to keep open NYC public schools on a day Governor Cuomo (correctly) declared a "State of Emergency" for New York and urged people to "stay home."
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After personally shoveling his Park Slope driveway yesterday of snow (a photo op deBlasio always takes full advantage of for media cameras) the mayor held a press conference in which he attempted to blame the National Weather Service for failing to predict the severity of the latest snow storm.
But, anyone paying even slight attention to media weather forecasts knew days in advance this was going to be "a big one" -- a "Nor'easter" in fact, dumping up to a foot of snow in the city.
deBlasio's attempt to divert blame to the National Weather Service for his poor and senseless decision to keep open public schools did not sit well with Al Roker who went on to post a number of critical tweets on Twitter, including one that suggested de Blasio would be a "one term mayor" (a tweet Roker later apologized for, but not the others).
My problem with de Blasio (and reason I didn't support him for the office of Mayor) is that he doesn't appear to understand the actual job of a mayor of a large city.
That is to be manager and administrator of public services. (i.e. insure the trains and buses run on time as well as insuring public safety -- especially from crime).
Considering that during a previous snow storm when deBlasio also kept open public schools, hundreds of children were stranded on school buses for hours because Manhattan's Upper East Side streets had failed to be plowed and considering that less than half of public school kids actually attended school that day, it seems deBlasio fails to learn anything from past mistakes.
Yesterday too, only 45% of children actually attended classes in NYC public schools. With such poor attendance teachers were forced more into the roles of baby sitters, meal providers and showing movies than actually teaching anything.
Then again, deBlasio seems to think schools are more for baby sitting and providing "hot meals" than actually providing education. -- Hence his campaign for "Universal Pre-K" education in NYC with price tag going to "rich taxpayers." (Apparently, deBlasio doesn't believe modern parents capable of opening a can of Spaghetti O's or tuning on a microwave.)
I am not in favor of Universal Pre-K because I believe young childrens' time with parents when very young is critical to their sense of security and emotional development. (My earliest childhood memory is the "trauma" I felt when first being separated from my mother when attending first grade.)
In nature most animals stay with mothers (or parents) long after maturity from infant stage. It is how animals learn to function in an otherwise dangerous and threatening world.
That some politicians (like deBlasio) seem in a rush to move parental/child separation along sooner than it normally would occur under the guise of "Pre-K Education" seems a push for too much governmental authority and influence upon both the young and parents. These in turn can lead to too much dependency upon governmental services such as meal providing or "baby sitting" (responsibilities that normally fall to one or both parents).
In essence, I have concerns with the long range impacts of these programs upon the emotional stability, security and independent functionality of future generations.
I believe it is always a little "traumatic" when children first have to separate from parents and spend large parts of the days with otherwise strangers. But, that this would become common practice for toddlers and children not old enough to understand the reasons for it is all the more troubling.
Yesterday someone posted on the NY One site that deBlasio was "soft on crime and hard on children."
I don't believe that accusation to be far from the mark of truth.
deBlasio's answers to much the criticisms often begin with, "As the parent of public school children......."
But deBlasio's kids are teenagers, not toddlers. And they are kids of a prominent New Yorker who are likely not stranded on school buses for hours because Dad makes a bad decision based upon personal social agendas rather than practical and safe management of a city.
deBlasio has only been in office a month, but I am already weary of his lofty "Tale of Two Cities" divisive talk, his liberal and extremist social agendas and most of all, the photo ops of him shoveling his driveway.
If deBlasio cares so much for the "poor" then why isn't he offering some down on his luck young man a few bucks to shovel a driveway and buy his own "hot meal?"
Along with everything else, the new mayor is an apparent cheapskate.
Spare me from the mayors who push "health" and social agendas (for some kind of eternal Utopia) ahead of actually seeing to it that the trains run on time and the people are kept reasonably safe. -- PCA
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Organised for the third time in Antalya, the final of the Gloria Ironman 70.3 Turkey was as magnificent as its start. 1375 athletes and 100 teams from 55 countries participated in the race, which was started this year by Nicholas Watson, who opened the competition by pulling his sick 14-year-old son, Rio, in a canoe. Professional male and female competitors followed Watson, entering the sea on the beach of Gloria Serenity Resorts to begin the 1.9km swimming course.
Competitors completed the swimming stage before continuing on to the 90km cycling race, which passed through the EXPO Fair Ground. The final stage of the competition was the 21km race, which took place within the Gloria Hotels & Resorts' golf courses, and ended at the Gloria Sports Arena.
Sergey Khazov with a time of 4:09:05. In third place was Russia's Eger Vinogradau, with a time of 4:09:29. The athletes received their awards by Münir Karaoğlu, the Governor of Antalya. In the Women's category, Belgian triathlete Sara Van der Wel finished first with a time of 4 hours, 25 minutes and 31 seconds. Russian athlete Arina Sgulgina took second place with a time of 4:34:41, followed by Britain's Kerry Mcgawley, who placed third in the Women's category with a time of 4:42:49. The three female place winners were presented with their awards by South African Olympic and World Champion Swimmer, Chad le Clos.
Most competitors of the Gloria Ironman 70.3 Turkey came from Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, England, Germany or Switzerland, with athletes' ages ranging from 18 to 76. The number of Turkish athletes which participate in the race increases each year, with Turkish competitors making up 40% of the total number of triathletes in the competition. The number of international athletes competing has also increased by 50% since last year, and in addition to the athletes taking part in the competition, many businessmen and CEOs also competed in the race. The Nuri Özaltın team comprised of Nevşin Mengü, and national athletes Bahar Saygılı and Ediz Yıldırımer. This year, the Gloria Ironman 70.3 Turkey also saw the first Ironman from Iran, Shirin Gerami, compete in the race.


This week we begin a three-part serial of my short story, Stolen Parts!
This takes place in an urban fantasy setting where a couple of down on their luck necromancers are having a rough day already.
And someone's heart has been stolen.
Life can be complicated for a necromancer.
My usual work days amounted to talking to ghosts or working in morgues for a bit of money. Sometimes I did scarier things for worse people to get the money that kept me in a nice apartment in my little town. That Friday I had just gotten home after a rough day, that started with a fight with Jeremy, my boyfriend, to find a master necromancer waiting in my kitchen. Things blurred in my memory between that moment and the next.
A little droplet of sunlight fell through the part in the curtains and spilled across the floor of my living room where Jeremy paced back and forth, all six feet of him swaying like a drunk. He shook his head and rattled the locked iron collar around his neck that kept my soul bound to his mind. My body lay in the bedroom, an identical collar around my throat, and a large hole in the chest where my heart used to be.
"I'm sorry," Jeremy murmured, forgetting that the bond he had made with me through the collars after he had burst in let me hear his thoughts as well as share his senses.
I spoke into his mind, "I know." Never mind that you talked about breaking up with me this morning. Never mind that's what you came here to do, and I still don't understand why.
He heard that thought and tensed. "Odette," he said. "I never wanted this to happen." He hesitated, but his thought continued. He wondered if it was really Sam, though he had seen him standing with his hand in my chest. How dense can a guy get?
"It was him. Who else could have done this? Not exactly normal necromancer activity, tearing hearts out." I hoped my tone went across. I was going for something wry, that sort of downplayed the gaping hole and my missing heart. Stolen heart. Sam wants to use it for something. Sam never cared that much about my heart when we were together.
Jeremy's mind sprinted over a list of dozens of weapons, potions, and tools useful against necromancers. Then he narrowed it down to only those that worked well against ancient masters. Three items remained, the haunted nooses, the witch daggers, and the cursed scrolls. I went over the shortlist with a bit of approval mingled with disappointment.
But you were about to break up with me this morning. I knew it, but didn't want to admit it.
"You've seemed so distant…" Jeremy shook his head in frustration. I decided not to press the subject just then.
He took the knife and slipped it into the belt loop of his jeans. Then he turned toward the door to the bedroom. He did not want to go in there. I couldn't tell if his reluctance was his usual awkwardness or if he just didn't like seeing me that way.
He walked to the bedroom door, took a deep breath, then pulled it open.
My body lay on the bed looking very small, arms covered in tattoos ranging from snakes to feathers folded on my stomach, bloody hole in my chest, torn clear through my shirt. Blood had sprayed up to my collarbone and now seeped onto the iron around my throat, and the opposite way down to my stomach. A few flecks even found their way into my twist of blonde hair.
Sam's hand had been ice cold.
I wasn't exactly what my mother would call 'decent', and the bed was gonna get soaked, but that was the least of my worries. The iron collar around my neck gleamed with rays from the vanishing sun. That locked ring of metal and the one around Jeremy's neck were the only thing keeping me from flying off into ever after. If I still had motor impulses I would have shuddered. I was lucky Jeremy had arrived at that moment, just not lucky enough for him to be five minutes earlier.
"Alright." Jeremy's voice sounded dead. He walked around the bloody queen where my mortal form lay, and to the night table on the other side.
He inhaled slowly, then exhaled, before moving to the other side of the bed. He dropped down to his hands and knees and felt around past my legs for the safe. Finally his hands closed around cool metal, a cube the size of a big lunch box. That's it, I thought.
Jeremy pulled the safe out and fiddled with the combination lock. It didn't take him long to open it. I didn't remember ever telling him the combination and I kept combinations like that tight to keep mind readers from just grabbing them, but I told myself I had bigger problems right now.
I would have giggled. But I couldn't. Jeremy lifted the scroll case off my social security card and pile of emergency cash. He put the safe back carefully, but his arm brushed my leg. He shivered at the cold touch.
"Not like mine." What can I say? Death makes me punchy.
Death can be complicated for a necromancer.


Stephen's moved to a new show, but he still has a lot of guests on who write interesting books. I started keeping track.
I also keep a list of guests and books from The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. And, I used to keep track of Stephen's guests on my Colbert Report Book List site which is still live.
Important! I am not affiliated with The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in any way. I am just a fan who loves to read and gets a lot of great "to read" ideas from the guests on the show. Please note: the book, movie and music links generally go to Amazon where you can purchase the item. These are affiliate links and if you buy the book, I do get a small commission.


Because the EL naturally glows blue/green the brightest colour of the wire is the Light Blue, Lime Green and White. The least bright are the red and purple as they have to be filtered the most to get the colours right.
It is a cliche to say you are only limited by your imagination but with this neon string it is true!!!


There were two pieces of inspiration which came to mind today. A strong impression of tears and that of the reprover. Neither one came to the fore, so this short post will treat them as related.
Tears are a necessary component of the human experience, they are present in times of joy and of sorrow. A sense of relief often follows the presence of tears. They are a complex fluid essential to the good health of the eye. If we do not reside on a deserted island, we are almost daily confronted by images of men, women and children overwhelmed by the anguish they find themselves in. Regardless of differences, and there are very real differences, we share the common reaction of shedding of tears.
Y'shua wept. Joseph wept aloud in Egypt. Peter wept bitterly. For most of us tears come at the extremes of the emotional scale. As the Called Out, we have experienced the boundless joy of a healing in Y'shua's name, and the pain of abandonment, ridicule, threats to life and limb, and tears as a reprover.
As a reprover we have acted to set right, to chasten, to convince according to the truths which radiate from within us. We can not be silenced regardless of the cost to us in friends, family, financially (and in page view statistics). Quite frankly, as we well know, it is a thankless occupation, fraught with sorrow. We are a little like Ezekiel, who's forehead Yahweh made an adamant harder than flint. Hard headed, fearless? Absolutely. Yet we are rejected because they knew us before, and choose instead to push us through the meat grinder.
They are in rebellion, which is a highly dangerous place to be. No doubt this adds to our sense of urgency in the warnings we deliver out of love. And we also know that it is not perceived as love, it does not look like love, because it is correction. It is not judgment either, as so many claim.


Although the apostles were told of the events that were to come, they must have thought that the passion and death of Jesus was the end of the world. They may have reacted differently, but all likely experienced a sense of helplessness at the chaos that was unleashed in the garden on that Passover night. Similarly, we are living now in a time of chaos. Despite the warnings, structure from which we have found support - institutions, religions, processes, the earth itself - are experiencing destruction and breakdown. And we, like the apostles, may be experiencing a sense of helplessness and hopelessness.
The celebration of the Triduum frames past events within the hopeful context of faith in the future. We will gather in community as we face the chaos of our current reality, finding strength, comfort and hope with those among us and in the Presence of our loving God.


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FROM centos:7

# First install the development tools and OpenSSL. The development tools
# distributed with CentOS 7 are too old to build the project. In these
# instructions, we use `cmake3` and `gcc-7` obtained from
# [Software Collections](https://www.softwarecollections.org/).

RUN rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
RUN yum install -y centos-release-scl yum-utils
RUN yum-config-manager --enable rhel-server-rhscl-7-rpms
RUN yum makecache && \
    yum install -y automake ccache cmake3 curl-devel devtoolset-7 gcc gcc-c++ \
        git libtool make ninja-build openssl-devel patch re2-devel tar wget \
        which zlib-devel
RUN ln -sf /usr/bin/cmake3 /usr/bin/cmake && ln -sf /usr/bin/ctest3 /usr/bin/ctest

# In order to use the `devtoolset-7` Software Collection we're supposed to run
# `scl enable devtoolset-7 bash`, which starts a new shell with the environment
# configured correctly. However, we can't do that in this Dockerfile, AND we
# want the instructions that we generate for the user to say the right thing.
# So this block is ignored, and we manually set some environment variables to
# make the devtoolset-7 available. After this ignored block, we'll include the
# correct instructions for the user. NOTE: These env values were obtained by
# manually running the `scl ...` command (above) then copying the values set in
# its environment.
ENV PATH /opt/rh/devtoolset-7/root/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH /opt/rh/devtoolset-7/root/usr/lib64:/opt/rh/devtoolset-7/root/usr/lib:/opt/rh/devtoolset-7/root/usr/lib64/dyninst:/opt/rh/devtoolset-7/root/usr/lib/dyninst:/opt/rh/devtoolset-7/root/usr/lib64:/opt/rh/devtoolset-7/root/usr/lib

# CentOS-7 ships with `pkg-config` 0.27.1, which has a
# [bug](https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54716) that can make
# invocations take extremely long to complete.

WORKDIR /var/tmp/build/pkg-config-cpp
RUN curl -sSL https://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.29.2.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    ./configure --with-internal-glib && \
    make -j "$(nproc)" && \
    make install && \
    ldconfig && cd /var/tmp && rm -fr build

# The following steps will install libraries and tools in `/usr/local`. By
# default, CentOS-7 does not search for shared libraries in these directories,
# there are multiple ways to solve this problem, the following steps are one
# solution:

RUN (echo "/usr/local/lib" ; echo "/usr/local/lib64") | \
    tee /etc/ld.so.conf.d/usrlocal.conf
ENV PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig
ENV PATH=/usr/local/bin:${PATH}

WORKDIR /var/tmp/build/abseil-cpp
RUN curl -sSL https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/archive/20220623.1.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    sed -i 's/^#define ABSL_OPTION_USE_\(.*\) 2/#define ABSL_OPTION_USE_\1 0/' "absl/base/options.h" && \
    cmake \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
      -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
      -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
      -GNinja -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out --target install && \
    ldconfig && cd /var/tmp && rm -fr build

WORKDIR /var/tmp/build/protobuf
RUN curl -sSL https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/archive/v21.9.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -Dprotobuf_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
        -Dprotobuf_ABSL_PROVIDER=package \
        -GNinja -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out --target install && \
    ldconfig && cd /var/tmp && rm -fr build

WORKDIR /var/tmp/build/c-ares
RUN curl -sSL https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/archive/cares-1_14_0.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    ./buildconf && ./configure && make -j "$(nproc)" && \
    make install && \
    ldconfig && cd /var/tmp && rm -fr build

WORKDIR /var/tmp/build/grpc
RUN curl -sSL https://github.com/grpc/grpc/archive/v1.49.1.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -DgRPC_INSTALL=ON \
        -DgRPC_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
        -DgRPC_ABSL_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_CARES_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_PROTOBUF_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_RE2_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_SSL_PROVIDER=package \
        -DgRPC_ZLIB_PROVIDER=package \
        -GNinja -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out --target install && \
    ldconfig && cd /var/tmp && rm -fr build

WORKDIR /var/tmp/build/crc32c
RUN curl -sSL https://github.com/google/crc32c/archive/1.1.2.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -DCRC32C_BUILD_TESTS=OFF \
        -DCRC32C_BUILD_BENCHMARKS=OFF \
        -DCRC32C_USE_GLOG=OFF \
        -GNinja -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out --target install  && \
    ldconfig && cd /var/tmp && rm -fr build

WORKDIR /var/tmp/build/json
RUN curl -sSL https://github.com/nlohmann/json/archive/v3.11.2.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
      -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
      -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
      -DJSON_BuildTests=OFF \
      -GNinja -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out --target install && \
    ldconfig && cd /var/tmp && rm -fr build

# Install googletest, remove the downloaded files and the temporary artifacts
# after a successful build to keep the image smaller (and with fewer layers)
WORKDIR /var/tmp/build
RUN curl -sSL https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/release-1.11.0.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Release" \
      -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
      -GNinja -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out --target install && \
    ldconfig && cd /var/tmp && rm -fr build

# Download and compile Google microbenchmark support library:
WORKDIR /var/tmp/build
RUN curl -sSL https://github.com/google/benchmark/archive/v1.7.0.tar.gz | \
    tar -xzf - --strip-components=1 && \
    cmake \
        -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE="Release" \
        -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes \
        -DBENCHMARK_ENABLE_TESTING=OFF \
        -GNinja -S . -B cmake-out && \
    cmake --build cmake-out --target install && \
    ldconfig && cd /var/tmp && rm -fr build

RUN ldconfig /usr/local/lib*

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Nella liturgia della Chiesa cattolica ed anglicana il cingolo è un cordone di lana (o altro materiale) che viene indossato all'altezza della vita sul camice. Nell'indossarlo si deve aver cura che le nappe terminali siano perfettamente allineate ai fianchi.

Utilizzo

Ne fanno uso tutti coloro che partecipano alle funzioni liturgiche indossando il camice, quindi anche i lettori e gli accoliti. In questo caso esso è di colore bianco.

Usano il cingolo anche i diaconi, i presbiteri e i vescovi, sotto le rispettive vesti. In questo caso il cingolo può essere di diversi colori, a seconda dei tempi liturgici. Ogni colore può essere combinato con il colore oro.

Secondo Principi e norme per l'uso del Messale Romano questo può essere omesso purché il camice sia fatto in modo tale da aderire da solo ai fianchi.

Simbologia
Nel rito di San Pio V il sacerdote mentre lo indossa prima della celebrazione eucaristica, recita la seguente preghiera: "Praecinge me, Domine, cingulo puritatis, et exstingue in lumbis meis humorem libidinis; ut maneat in me virtus continentiae et castitatis" In italiano: "Cingimi, Signore, con il cingolo della purezza e liberami dalle passioni della libidine, affinché rimanga sempre in me la virtù della continenza e della castità". Il cingolo sta anche a ricordare la fune con la quale Gesù venne legato alla colonna durante la propria passione.

Esso è quindi segno penitenziale e ricorda anche gli Ebrei che consumarono l'agnello pasquale con i fianchi cinti (Es 12,11).

Altri "cingoli"
Cingolo è detto anche il cordiglio che cinge ai fianchi il saio e che caratterizza, in genere, i religiosi appartenenti alla famiglia francescana come anche i devoti dello stesso san Francesco che per primo lo scelse al posto della cintura. Da qui la denominazione di cordone di san Francesco. Quando il cingolo fa parte dell'abito francescano è solitamente contraddistinto dalla presenza dei tre nodi, segno dei voti di povertà, castità e obbedienza.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Vesti e paramenti cattolici

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You are now on the top of the hill you have admired from the plain. According to an old legend, in this point there was the temple of the goddess Diana Trivia, demolished by S. Feliciano in order to build a church dedicated to the Holy Trinity. This church was later dedicated to Saint Emiliano, first bishop of the Trevi Christian Community. He was martyred in 303, at the time of Diocleziano. The church was enlarged in the XV century and again at the end of the XIX century. Main façade: a beautiful renaissance portal (end of the XV century), with an elegant cornice that incorporates an old roman tombstone, visible on the right. On the triangular timpano is refigured S. Emiliano among the lions. This timpano was originally located upon an altar, in the centre of the main square, where the new priests celebrated their first mass. There are also paintings. Lateral façade: on the top of the closed portal (1400) you can see a marble statuette refiguring S. Emilano (maybe XII century). The three apses, remains of the XII century church, are the most elegant of the whole region.


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Modern Home Joins a Storied Site on the Pacific Ocean
Fred A. Bernstein
Mark Mahaney
Originally published in Modern Across America
Back at the Ranch
A new home at Sea Ranch, a half-century-old enclave of rugged modernist houses on the Northern California coast, captures the spirit of its surroundings.
Ramirez and his partner, Sarah Mason Williams, dine at a sequoia table by Redwood Burl next to a hulking juniper tree that they asked the architects to preserve as a centerpiece of the property.
The view from Gabriel Ramirez's property in Sea Ranch, California, where meadow grasses and cypress trees give way to craggy cliffs and the lapping Pacific Ocean. His house joins those that a cohort of forward-thinking architects built along this stretch of coast in the 1960s.
Cor-Ten steel and board-form concrete give the exterior a weathered look.
Norman Millar and Judith Sheine designed the built-ins in the living-dining area, which were made from vertical-grain Douglas fir. Vintage Dutch industrial chairs are arranged around a black walnut dining table that, like the madrone coffee table, is by Urban Hardwoods.
The living room is furnished with vintage items, including a leather-and-chrome chair by Suekichi Uchida and a stacking stool by Florence Knoll.
Boi sconces, which David Weeks designed for Ralph Pucci, illuminate the bedroom. The area rug is by Stephanie Odegard.
Sea caves on the property forced the architects to split some of the living space into a 483-square-foot guesthouse.
The guesthouse has similar built-ins and is outfitted with a reproduction rotating sconce by Serge Mouille and rugs by Stephanie Odegard.
Ramirez Residence Floor Plan
A Terrace
B Living-Dining-Kitchen Area
C Wine Cellar
D Half Bathroom
E Guest Bedroom-Office
F Garage
G Guest Bathroom
H Guest Loft
I Master Bathroom
J Master Bedroom
Ramirez Residence
Norman Millar Architects
Judith Sheine
Fifty years ago, a group of young architects began planning a cluster of contemporary houses on a rugged strip of coastline north of San Francisco. The goal was to turn a ten-mile expanse of bluffs and beaches into a community where modest, rustic second homes would blend in with the landscape. Among the founding architects was Charles Moore, a future dean of the Yale School of Architecture whose own condo featured a bedroom raised on corner posts over the living and dining rooms, partaking of their light and views. Another was Joseph Esherick, whose famous Hedgerow Houses use occasional steps, two or three at a time, to scale the gently sloping sites.
Over the years, Sea Ranch has become a destination for architectural pilgrims, attracted by the pastoral modernism of its early buildings. But it's also a thriving community that gains 30 or so houses each year. One of the newer structures, sheathed in rough concrete and Cor-Ten steel, takes the Sea Ranch principles to heart. As Donlyn Lyndon, one of the original Sea Ranch architects, says, "It is a real continuation of what we were trying to do."
The owner is Gabriel Ramirez, a radiologist who lived for 20 years in a Richard Neutra house in Los Angeles and commuted to area hospitals. But now that technology lets him review scans remotely, he prefers to work in quiet, isolated Sea Ranch. After buying a site overlooking an inlet called Smuggler's Cove, he asked two architects—Norman Millar, dean of the Woodbury School of Architecture, and Judith Sheine, head of the architecture department at the University of Oregon—to design the house. The architects had never worked together but had similar modernist credentials, and both are close friends of Ramirez, who didn't want to have to choose between them. "We're like a family," says Millar, who adds that Ramirez made it clear that the architects would always be welcome in their creation.
Sea caves located beneath the property presented a problem: The house couldn't occupy the center of the lot but rather had to hug its edges. By all accounts, that challenge proved beneficial by forcing the architectural duo to create two structures, a modest main house and a guesthouse, rather than one big one. This was fine by Ramirez and his partner, Sarah Mason Williams, a graphic designer. In true Sea Ranch fashion, they wanted the giant juniper at the center of their property to remain the site's dominant feature.
For the couple, following the Sea Ranch rules—local covenants guide new designs—didn't mean slipping into Sea Ranch clichés. Lovers of Cor-Ten steel, with its ruddy and almost organic surface, the architects made it the main exterior material, along with board-formed concrete and ipe wood. The Cor-Ten, which quickly turned an autumnal rust in the sea air, and the concrete, with its grain and crannies, mean the house isn't a pristine box, Ramirez says. His Neutra house "was very crisp and clean," he says. "This house is more distressed, more wabi-sabi."
No wonder Sea Ranch stalwarts have embraced it. Lyndon—coauthor of The Sea Ranch, the definitive volume on the development and its architecture (a new edition was released in time for its 50th anniversary in 2014)—says, "It doesn't look like other Sea Ranch houses on the surface, but it's deeply rooted in the place."
Indeed, the interiors recall both Moore's loft, with its raised bedroom, and Esherick's houses, with their stepped interiors. In Ramirez's version, the living room, dining area, and kitchen are closest to the bluff. A few steps lead up to a guest room and study, and a few more lead to the master bedroom. The only enclosed rooms are the bathrooms, which project out in ipe boxes from one side of the house, and Ramirez's office, tucked away below the master bedroom. The spaces flow into each other under an angled ceiling made of richly hued plywood—which, Sheine says, makes the interiors "warm, warm, warm." On the sidewalls, everything above the datum line is covered in the same plywood; everything below is concrete, with grooves and pits that seem appropriate to the rugged surroundings. No part of the house is drywall, which Sheine describes as a kind of crutch—the material of last resort.
To avoid interrupting the long, sloped ceiling, Sheine and Millar decided there would be no lights mounted in it or on it. Instead, swing-arm fixtures—two by Serge Mouille, the others by David Weeks—are mounted on the walls. And when he serves dinner at night, Ramirez lights a pair of hurricane lamps on the large, black walnut dining table. As for the rest of his furniture, Ramirez relied as much as possible on built-ins, including a thickly upholstered bench that runs the length of the living room and is a perfect place to stretch out with one of his many architecture books. Though he may be working remotely, "in the end," Ramirez says, "Sea Ranch is all about relaxing."
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// Licensed under the MIT License.
// Code generated by Microsoft (R) AutoRest Code Generator.

package com.azure.resourcemanager.mediaservices.models;

import com.azure.core.annotation.Immutable;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonSubTypes;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonTypeInfo;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonTypeName;

/** Base class for Content Key Policy configuration. A derived class must be used to create a configuration. */
@JsonTypeInfo(
    use = JsonTypeInfo.Id.NAME,
    include = JsonTypeInfo.As.PROPERTY,
    property = "@odata.type",
    defaultImpl = ContentKeyPolicyConfiguration.class)
@JsonTypeName("ContentKeyPolicyConfiguration")
@JsonSubTypes({
    @JsonSubTypes.Type(
        name = "#Microsoft.Media.ContentKeyPolicyClearKeyConfiguration",
        value = ContentKeyPolicyClearKeyConfiguration.class),
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        name = "#Microsoft.Media.ContentKeyPolicyUnknownConfiguration",
        value = ContentKeyPolicyUnknownConfiguration.class),
    @JsonSubTypes.Type(
        name = "#Microsoft.Media.ContentKeyPolicyWidevineConfiguration",
        value = ContentKeyPolicyWidevineConfiguration.class),
    @JsonSubTypes.Type(
        name = "#Microsoft.Media.ContentKeyPolicyPlayReadyConfiguration",
        value = ContentKeyPolicyPlayReadyConfiguration.class),
    @JsonSubTypes.Type(
        name = "#Microsoft.Media.ContentKeyPolicyFairPlayConfiguration",
        value = ContentKeyPolicyFairPlayConfiguration.class)
})
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    /**
     * Validates the instance.
     *
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException thrown if the instance is not valid.
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    public void validate() {
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I thought a few days on this before deciding to write out my thoughts. As many know, I am a Christian and I also am trying to live a healthy life, making good decisions that treat my body, mind, and soul well. Does this mean I am afraid to die or am trying to live to be 100? No. Honestly, no. I do what I do because whether I live to be 50 or 100, how I feel each day matters. It matters how I see myself, how I see the world around me, and how my body functions. My mental clarity and mental health are important. Being fueled to face the day the best I can is a good thing to focus on. On top of that, so many people take health for granted until they lose it. Bad health significantly decreases your quality of life. People can live to 80 and be miserable for 30 of those years, suffering from chronic illness. While there are so many mysteries around why good people get sick, it is still fact that poor diet, lack of exercise, and intake of toxins and chemicals all cause cancer, diabetes, poor mental health, and general dysfunction of \ bodily systems. There is always that tragic exception – some health nut who gets cancer and dies young. However, even with that…it's not to say that their good decisions amounted to nothing. Keep in mind, plastics, fumes from paints or finishes on furniture, cleaning products, glue bonding carpets together, pollution in cities, etc. can all have negative effects on our health. Diet is key but there are still other factors at play. You are never 100% guaranteed to not be exposed to any harsh chemicals that are toxic to your body. However, you can do everything you can to love and respect your body – to help it flush out the bad by giving it the good.
I do think life is too short to deny yourself all pleasures. Don't punish yourself! It's not good for your mental health to constantly feel negativity towards food or your body either. If you want that slice of cake, by all means eat the freaking cake! Just be aware that our bodies can become addicted to sugar and carbs – so we need to eat those things with moderation. Balance is key my friends J But overall, please enjoy your life! Invest in your day-to-day health so you have no regrets…no matter the length of your life…it's the quality of your life that really matters!


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Q: Jquery not working on route change (Svelte, Sapper) im using a datepicker plugin for jquery and it works when the page load first time but when i go to a route the input do not show the datepicker anymore only reloading the page.
  onMount(() => {
window.$("#datePick").datepicker({
  dateFormat: "mm-dd-yy",
  minDate: new Date(),
  language: "en",
});
window.$("#dateOne").datepicker({
  dateFormat: "mm-dd-yy",
  minDate: new Date(),
  language: "en",
}); });

thats the code that i run in the component.
also in the template.html a call the javascript files as
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/datepicker.min.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="/datepicker.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/datepicker.en.js"></script>

what im doing wrong ? thanks for your help

A: I'm guessing your issue lies at where your onMount is defined.
The component may not be destroy / remounted, that's why when you navigate away and back, the function wasn't called, therefore, unable to reinitialise the date picker.
Actually Svelte actions is the best way to integrate with 3rd party API.
<script>
  function jqueryDatePicker(divElem) {
    $(divElem).datepicker({
      dateFormat: "mm-dd-yy",
      minDate: new Date(),
      language: "en",
    })
  }
</script>

<div use:jqueryDatePicker />

you can check out this "Introducton to actions"

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If Americans don't want to be forced to pay more for unhealthy foods, perhaps we should flip the logic on its head: Reduce the cost of healthy foods.
In Virginia, one pediatrician tweaked electronic health record billing codes so Medicaid and private insurers are paying for patients' trips to food banks.
In California, Colorado, Massachusetts and Vermont, variant comprehensive models of getting payers involved in setting standards for dealing with food insecurity are underway or already up and running.
But the mounting push to expand and hone how the medical community treats food insecurity is clashing with the fight over food stamp restrictions currently raging on Capitol Hill. The farm bill that passed Wednesday out of the key House committee along a party-line vote would put a controversial 20-hour work requirement on adults who buy food through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
The SNAP fight touches on healthcare policy as stakeholders from hospitals to insurers ramp up talks about confronting social determinants of health to cut costs and improve health of the general population. One recent study puts the annual direct health costs of food insecurity for the U.S. at almost $30 billion, with direct and indirect healthcare costs totaling about $160 billion. The same study estimates that more than 15% of Americans face food insecurity.
"SNAP is the biggest food assistance program that we have," said Dr. John Cook, a leading author of that study who works as principal investigator at Children's HealthWatch at Boston Medical Center.
Cook cited empirical literature that shows the program's effectiveness "both in terms of reducing food insecurity but also the health of recipients." He opposes the work requirements, as he doesn't want to see the program structurally changed in "any way that makes it more difficult for eligible people to receive" assistance to buy food.
The work requirement provision however has acquired political heft as Republicans are pushing it under the mantle of retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan's promised entitlement reform that did not materialize this Congress.
After Ryan announced he would leave the speakership and the House in January, conservatives including House Freedom Caucus Chair Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) told reporters that SNAP work requirements were the main focus of any efforts on entitlement reform in the months leading into the midterms. The work requirement was one issue that split House Democrats from the previously bipartisan talks on the farm bill, and also brought advocates working on the food scarcity issue to Capitol Hill to lobby last week, ahead of the committee's vote.
Children's HealthWatch was among these advocates. Since February the group has been unrolling work on EHRs to push for screening people dealing with food insecurity. Their work in EHRs involves a tweak to flag the sole billing code that touches on the issue of food insecurity. The group has developed a tool called the Hunger Vital Sign based on the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Security module to help doctors screen their patients.
The goal isn't necessarily reimbursement, said Richard Sheward, deputy director of innovative partnerships at Children's HealthWatch, but rather making the screening part of the standard of care.
Since February, Vermont's two mainstay payers—Medicaid and Blue Cross and Blue Shield—have been using the code tweak. Children's HealthWatch is working on California, Colorado and Massachusetts and is speaking with other states as well.
"There is no barrier to this; there's not even a ton of convincing," Sheward said. "It's a matter of educating people, and letting folks know that it's an option, that it is an opportunity at their disposal."
Once it's a normal part of a physician or hospital's work with patients, Sheward said, the EHR incorporation can push patient follow-up and aid research on food insecurity's relation to health outcomes.
Cook and other advocates want lawmakers to see the possibilities for tightening the links between the healthcare industry and federal food programs like SNAP, but policy analysts critical of the measure passed by the House committee say it would slash food assistance available to poor families.
According to Robert Greenstein of the liberal think tank the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the bill would eliminate or reduce benefits for about 2 million people or 1 million households. Moreover, Greenstein projects, states would need to find work or training programs for about 3 million people every month, with about $300 per work-program slot available per year for them to do so.
Whether the House proposal will move through the Senate isn't clear. House aides close to talks on both sides of the aisle are speculating that with midterms approaching and the legislative calendar days dwindling, the upper chamber may kick the can down the road and pass a temporary reauthorization of farm bill funding, but the key senators are more coy.
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), who chairs the Senate agriculture committee, said in a statement that his chamber's proposed legislation will be "an evolutionary—not revolutionary—farm bill" and that the lawmakers are taking "a hard look at every program and title to see where can find efficiencies and make improvements."
"As we learned at our hearing on SNAP in September, we need to improve the state quality control process to ensure that we have an accurate error rate for the program," Roberts said.
The Senate committee's ranking Democrat, Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, blasted the House committee for choosing "a partisan path that makes it impossible to pass a five-year farm bill."
"I remain committed to working with Chairman Roberts to write a bipartisan bill in the Senate focused on our farmers, families and rural communities in Michigan and across the country," he said.


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About BIPT
The Burnaby Intercultural Planning Table (BIPT) was formed in 2007 to help immigrant and refugee service providers share resources and identify ways to better meet the needs of the City's newcomers.
The Table immediately attracted, and has continued to engage, senior level representation from a broad range of institutions and community agencies. Current membership includes the City of Burnaby, businesses, schools (K-12 and post-secondary), libraries, recreation facilities, cultural organizations, policing, volunteerism and refugee, community, legal, family and women's services.
Over the years, with initial funding from the United Way and later funding from Welcoming Communities programming, the BIPT has successfully improved the comfort, health and standards of living of newcomers by bridging communities, decreasing competition amongst service providers, developing stronger resources and improving inter-agency cooperation and knowledge-sharing.
The Table won the first "WelcomeBC Award" in 2010 for outstanding partnership creation and delivery of comprehensive and innovative solutions to make Burnaby a welcoming place for everyone. But there is still more work to do to ensure the successful settlement and true inclusion of newcomers. Funding from Citizenship and Immigration Canada and the Local Immigration Partnership Initiative will allow the BIPT to build on its previous work to reduce barriers to immigrant integration at the local level.
Burnaby celebrates diversity.
Burnaby will distinguish itself as a welcoming and inclusive community.
What is a Local Immigration Partnership (LIP)?
Local immigration Partnerships (LIPs) build on local services in order to optimize engagement, planning and coordination in the area of newcomer settlement and integration. LIPs do not deliver services directly to immigrants. Instead, they foster local engagement of organizations that offer services to newcomers, support community-level research and planning and improve coordination of services that help immigrants settle and integrate.
LIPs aim to enhance collaboration, coordination and strategic planning at the local level to make communities more welcoming and inclusive. These local partnerships first received funding from Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) in Ontario in 2008. Since then, they have helped initiate innovative approaches to newcomer services in communities across the country.
Membership in these partnerships reflects a diversity of services within communities. Libraries, schools, hospitals, employment services, chambers of commerce, employers, local government, neighbourhood houses and women, child and senior services are some examples of typical LIP members, as they interact with newcomers regularly and can make recommendations about their needs.
Why does Burnaby need one?
More than 50% of Burnaby's population was born outside of Canada, according to the 2011 Census. At the time the data was collected, about 34% of Burnaby's residents spoke a language other than English at home and more than 218 ethnic origins were cited by residents. The city is also one of the largest recipients of refugees in British Columbia. Burnaby's refugees come from some of the most impoverished and troubled parts of world, their needs are broad and many require significant support.
Burnaby's increasing diversity has made the city vibrant, culturally rich and dynamic. However, the rapid influx of newcomers has also created some significant challenges for the community. Employers, the City, libraries, school district, health providers, training institutes and community agencies have responded to rapid demographic shifts. But these organizations also struggle to provide appropriate first language supports and adequate resources, services and programs to help new residents successfully integrate and feel welcome. The planning and work of this Local Immigration Partnership is crucial to Burnaby's growth and development.


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Online Fundraising Terms and Definitions
Technology changes quickly, as do the words we use to describe the tasks the new technology accomplishes. We put together this quick, easy online fundraising glossary to help our clients and the larger nonprofit community understand the many ideas involved in the current state of online fundraising. It is likely this glossary will change to incorporate new technologies and ideas as the industry grows and changes.
Anyone who is associated with your nonprofit (staff, volunteers, board members, donors, etc.)
The individual(s) that Fundraisers invite to visit their Crowdfunding and contribute.
An individual webpage set up by a Fundraiser for the purpose of raising funds (and more) for your nonprofit.
A social fundraising system that enables a nonprofit's constituents to create their own individual webpage and invite their social network to contribute. Donor information is downloaded into DonorPerfect, while funds are automatically transferred to the nonprofit's bank account.
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Fundraising and Donor Management system featuring the central data repository.
A constituent that sets up a Crowdfunding on behalf of your nonprofit.
Social Fundraising
The method in which nonprofits raise funds for their mission by asking constituents to contact everyone in their social network and promote the nonprofit's mission, event, and/or goal.
Everyone that a constituent personally knows, such as friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, club members, and other associates.
Team Captain
A Fundraiser who creates a social fundraising team and establishes a team goal. Each team member creates his own Crowdfunding, and contributions are pooled together to reach the team's overall goal (e.g., the Team Captain establishes a $10,000 team goal, and asks his/her ten team members to raise $1,000 via their own Crowdfunding and social network).
Refers to a second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis, etc. — which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing among users.
Enables information and funds from Crowdfunding and a nonprofit's website to be downloaded directly into DonorPerfect and the nonprofit's bank account – eliminating manual data entry.
Personalized graphical icons fundraisers can put on their own websites and social sites (e.g., Facebook, MySpace, etc.) to promote contribution toward their fundraising goals.
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Scientists 'freeze' light for an entire minute
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In what could prove to be a major breakthrough in quantum memory storage and information processing, German researchers have frozen the fastest thing in the universe: light. And they did so for a record-breaking one minute.
It sounds weird and it is. The reason for wanting to hold light in its place (aside from the sheer awesomeness of it) is to ensure that it retains its quantum coherence properties (i.e. its information state), thus making it possible to build light-based quantum memory. And the longer that light can be held, the better as far as computation is concerned. Accordingly, it could allow for more secure quantum communications over longer distances.
Did government scientists really create a secret quantum internet?
No, not really. But for two years, researchers at Los Alamos National Labs have been working on…
Needless to say, halting light is not easy — you can't just put in the freezer. Light is electromagnetic radiation that moves at 300 million meters per second. Over the course of a one minute span, it can travel about 11 million miles (18 million km), or 20 round trips to the moon. So it's a rather wily and slippery medium, to say the least.
But light can be slowed down and even halted altogether. And in fact, researchers once kept it still for 16 seconds by using cold atoms.
For this particular experiment, researcher Georg Heinze and his team converted light coherence into atomic coherences. They did so by using a quantum interference effect that makes an opaque medium — in this case a crystal — transparent over a narrow range of light spectra (a process called electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT)). The researchers shot a laser through this crystal (a source of light), which sent its atoms into a quantum superposition of two states. A second beam then switched off the first laser, and as a consequence, the transparency. Thus, the researchers collapsed the superposition — and trapped the second laser beam inside.
Image: Heinze et al.
And they proved the accomplishment by storing — and then successfully retrieving — information in the form of a 100-micrometer-long picture with three horizontal stripes on it.
"The result outperforms earlier demonstrations in atomic gases by about six orders of magnitude and offers exciting possibilities of long-storage-time quantum memories that are spatially multiplexed, i.e., can store different quantum bits as different pixels," notes physicist Hugues de Riedmatten in an associated Physics Review article.
In future, the researchers will try to use different substances to increase the duration of information storage even further.
Read the entire study at Physical Review Letters: "Stopped Light and Image Storage by Electromagnetically Induced Transparency up to the Regime of One Minute."
[Sources: New Scientist, American Physical Society.]
Image: imredesiuk/Shutterstock.
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Q: Modifying a for loop in a string I have string it contains some code. I want to make some changes on it. There is a for loop I want to modify with js.
The loop:
"for i in 0..10 loop"

I want it to be:
"for (var i=0; i<10; i++)"

It sounds me very complicated. What should be the easiest approach?

A: Based on my comment here is simple implementation:
var before = "for i in 0..10 loop";
var after = Translate(before);

function Translate(command) {
    var tokens = command.split(" ");
    if (tokens.length != 5)
        return "ERROR: invalid command (wrong number of tokens)";
    if (tokens[0] != "for" || tokens[2] != "in" || tokens[4] != "loop")
        return "ERROR: invalid command (syntax error)";
    var indices = tokens[3].split("..");
    if (indices.length != 2)
        return "ERROR: invalid command (invalid indices format)";
    var startIndex = parseInt(indices[0], 10);
    var endIndex = parseInt(indices[1], 10);
    if (isNaN(startIndex) || isNaN(endIndex))
        return "ERROR: invalid command (illegal indices)";
    var varName = tokens[1];
    return "for (var " + varName + "=" + startIndex + "; " + varName + "<" + endIndex + "; " + varName + "++)";
}

Live test case.
It's not perfect, for example you can further check the variable name is legal i.e. start with English letter, not a reserved word etc.

A: You can use regex matching to pull out the parts you are interested in.
var string_to_match = 'for i in 0..10 loop',
    re = /for ([A-z]*) in (\d*)\.\.(\d*) loop/,
    data = re.exec(string_to_match);

// data contains:
// ["for i in 0..10 loop", "i", "0", "10"]

for(i = data[2]; i < data[3]; i++) {
    console.log(i);
}

A: Here's a way to do it, but probably not the best:
var str = "for i in 0..10 loop",
    str = str.replace("i in ", "(var i="),
    str = str.replace("..", "; i<"),
    str = str.replace(" loop", "; i++)");
console.log(str);

Example.

A: You can try to match this regular expression ^for (.+) in (\d+)\.\.(\d+) loop$ and replace with for (var \1=\2; \1 < \3; \1++).
Try it on http://www.solmetra.com/scripts/regex/ for example...