What else happened this week? G went to Zurich on her regular work trip – and, of course, brought back some chocolate. Oh, memories of going to the Sion Festival as a child – for the masterclasses (not for holidays, definitely not, unless your definition of holiday includes several hours of practising your instrument and sitting in masterclasses for almost the entire day) – and meeting all our friends driving down at the first stop on the motorway in Switzerland – to buy chocolate. The amount of string instruments that were, accidentally, left in the restaurant were staggering. Thankfully no-one ever noticed or knew how expensive they were!
With cooler weather the knitting season starts again! I hope this year I can finish my cardigan, which I started …. (mumble, mumble) years ago (Wool and pattern from Lana Grossa). To be fair, I did finish the stripy jumper before and I pledged not to buy any wool until I have at least finished the cardigan. Ah, coffee + cake + audio book + knitting + sleepy dog = sounds like a great weekend. Currently re-listening to the first book of Riyari Revelation (in German and love David Nathan reading it) and can't decide which book to listen to next. Hm, I still have 2 weeks left before my subscription renews, maybe you have a suggestion?
What else? I started to work through a new ethics application, I went dog-walking with our dog-walking friend (OMG, you really know what you have done, if you go out with 6 dogs!), ate too many apricots (but not enough in general), and sung a lot of Mozart to counterbalance the building noise. And for this reason, I'd like to put this burger on the breakfast/brunch menu for the weekend. I've been waking up with headaches lately (from doing too much, I know), maybe this will help for that, too.
Not wanting to leave you without showing you this young-at-heard bridesmaid. How cool is this?! It makes me miss my grandmother. I think, she only made it to one wedding of her grand-children before he memory self-destructed too much to go places.
What are your plans for the weekend? Going for walks, doing something for your fitness, staying home and relaxing? What ever you do, have a great one!


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In about 1853 the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) in Swellendam resolved to establish a new congregation to serve the spiritual needs of residents in its Southern region. To this end it purchased the Farm; 'Over Het Roode Zand' from its owner, Johannes van Zyl. It was surveyed by H van Reenen and the first Plots, went on sale on 4 May 1853.
The settlement was named after Dr William Robertson, the first DRC Minister in Clanwilliam, and up to 1857 it affairs were Administered by the local Church Council. The 1865 census indicated that Robertson had a population of 715. In 1875 this number had risen to 1 104, and in 1891 it was 2 121. By 1904 it stood at 3 244, of whom 1 875 were literate.
With 150 years of History, Robertson has grown into one of the most attractive Cape Winelands Towns. Victorian buildings, jacaranda-lined Streets, rose-boarded Vineyards, columns of red and yellow Cannas as well as bright Bougainvilleas all form the back drop to this delightful Town. This Region may be best known for its wines and forms part of 'Route 62', but there are many attractions, activities, accommodation, and culinary delights on offer. Combined with spectacular Scenery and the warm hospitality of the people, makes it a superb getaway. No matter what time of year and no matter whom the visitor, Robertson ensures visitors an unforgettable stay.
In 1728 a large tract of Land which fell within the very large boundaries of Swellendam District, was let to a Mr. P Joubert. The area soon attracted other migrant farmers who required grazing for their sheep and by 1800 many of them settled permanently on these pieces of Land, which they now purchased outright from the Government. The names of the original farms are still much in evidence as districts, eg. Roodezant, Le Chasseur, Retreat, Noree, Goree, Vink Rivier, Willem Nels River, Klaasvoogds, Goudmyn, Vlolikheid and De Hoop.
In 1852 it was decided that a town be established and Mr. Van Zijl's farm was purchased for the then enormous sum of 4 200 Pounds. The sale of plots at about 40 Pounds each and the laying of the cornerstone in 1853 of the D R C well-situated block in the centre of Town was considered the birth date of the town. The original Church was pulled down in 1905 and a larger, more imposing Church was erected above the old foundations. The erection of Churches of other denominations soon followed, Wesleyan Church being completed in 1859 and St Mary's Anglican Church, designed by Sophie Grey, commenced in 1862. Soon traders and general dealer stores started to open up and several Private Schools, were opened.
The year 1860 proved to be disastrous for the small Town, when a measles epidemic broke out followed by an enteric fever epidemic of alarming proportions, which swept through the entire Village, killing eighty-nine people. By 1872 Robertson boasted a well stocked Public Library and by 1880 a branch of the Standard Bank of South Africa was opened. During this period few Farmers were wealthy but the District was already gaining a reputation for its fruit, wine and brandy, and with ostrich feathers becoming high fashion overseas, ostrich farming too developed. The main industry of the Town itself was that of Wagon Building, and there were many Wheelwrights, Blacksmiths, Carpenters, Upholsterers and Professional Transport Riders.
A New River Irrigation Scheme, which brought water by means of Canals to the Farms, meant that farms became more productive. In 1891 the Standard Bank Manager's report could state that the income for the area was between 30 000 Pounds and 40 000 Pounds a year, making it extremely prosperous. Where before post had arrived in the town bi-weekly it was now delivered daily, because of the newly built Cape Central Railway, a privately owned line that ran between Worcester and Mossel Bay with Robertson its Head Post Office.
The Anglo Boer War of 1898 – 1902 saw the stationing in the Town of a British Garrison under the Command of Lieutenant Cooper, and even before hostilities ceased, the wagon making Industry was grinding to a halt, and the Railways had taken over the transport of all goods.
The beginning of the First World War in 1914 saw many, for the size of the Town, young men leaving their tranquil surroundings for the horrors of War in France.
The total collapse of the Ostrich Feather Industry in 1915, ruined many farmers, some of whom never recovered and while Robertson had never depended entirely on ostriches as had Oudtshoorn and Ladismith, there is no denying that many were materially affected, and it is perhaps at this stage that wine farming started developing into the multi million rand industry it is today. These, together with the Racehorse Breeding Farms, which have proliferated in the last thirty years, certainly have added to the prosperity of the Town and the District.
Now, at the beginning of the 21st century, Robertson is a clean, tree-lined Town, well known for its roses and gardens, with all the amenities of a much larger Town. According to the latest figure the town has 40 000 residents. This figure includes the outlying areas.
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Ultra-Crispy Slow-Roasted Pork Shoulder Recipe
Pull-apart tender meat and ultra-crisp skin: slow-roasted pork may not be the most gorgeous looking, but the flavor more than makes up for it.
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Starting the pork in a low oven breaks down tough connective tissue.
Finishing the pork in high heat rapidly crisps up the skin.
Remember in the first season of Thundercats when Lion-o had to prove himself as the true Lord of New Thundera by battling each of the other cats in their own game? After he proves himself stronger than Panthro, beats Cheetara in a race, outwiles the ThunderKittens WilyKit and WilyKat in the Maze of Infinity, and overcomes Tygra's mental projections to face his greatest fear, you think that the whole thing is over and you can finally rest easy.
But no, Lion-o's anointment comes back with a vengeance as he is forced to face none other than Mumm-ra himself on the fifth day.
Well, we've tackled whole roasted suckling pig, not just one, but two versions of all-belly porchetta (one cooked sous-vide and deep fried), and a crown roast of pork. Surely our adventures in Swineville are over, you thought.
Nope. Here, we're going to talk about what is perhaps the greatest of all bits of culinary alchemy. The transformation of one of the cheapest cuts of meat in the butcher's display case into one of the most glorious festive centerpieces imaginable.
We're talking pork butt, in all of it's juicy, porky, spoon-tender in the middle, impossibly crisp and crusty-on-the-outside glory.
What is Pork Butt?
First off, a quick word on nomenclature. Pork butt is not pork butt. Let me explain.
See, at some point in our colonial past, Boston was well known for its pork production and would often ship preserved pork (most often front shoulders—the least desirable part of the hog—but often hams and heads as well) in large wooden barrels. These barrels were of the size officially known as "butt" or "pipe." That'd be a 126 gallon barrel half the size of a 252 gallon tun, larger than a 84 gallon firkin, and twice the size of a 63 gallon hogshead (which, incidentally, have nothing to do with actual hogs or heads).
The pork-filled barrels shipped out across the country came to be known as Boston Butts, a term which was soon applied to the meat inside, despite the fact that it actually came from the shoulder of the hog. These days, conventions in many parts of the country still refer to the pork shoulder as Boston butt, though in many cities (including Boston itself), they're known as just plain "butt."
Had our forebears deigned to ship pork in 84 gallon barrels, we might have found ourselves spooning slow-cooked pulled Boston firkin into our BBQ sandwiches, perhaps making our Italian sausages out of Boston puncheon, or if those shoulders were shipped to New Mexico via 18 gallon barrels, they'd be chowing down on chile verde made out of Boston rundlet.
With that out of the way, let's talk about what is actually inside a Boston butt... er, shoulder.
A full bone-in Boston butt is a formidable piece of meat, usually weighing in at around eight to twelve pounds, riddled with a significant amount of connective tissue and inter/intramuscular fat, all swathed in a thick, tough skin.
Our goal is to make this tough piece of meat spoonably tender. How do you do that? Well, you cook it.
Fast twitch muscle is the stuff that the animal rarely uses except in short bursts. The breasts on a chicken that let it flap its wings rapidly when escaping danger. The loins on a cow that, well, barely get used at all. Fast twitch muscle is characterized by tenderness (think chicken breast, pork chops, or New York strip steaks) and finely textured grain and is best cooked using fast-cooking methods like roasting, grilling, or sautéeing. With fast twitch muscle, optimal eating conditions are met pretty much as soon as you reach your final serving temperature (say, 145°F for a chicken breast or 125°F for a steak). Extended holding at that temperature can increase tenderness slightly, but you won't see any major changes in texture or flavor.
Slow twitch muscle, on the other hand, comprises the continually working muscles in an animal. The shoulders and haunches that keep the animal upright and walking. The tail muscles that keep the flies off. The muscles around the flank that keep the animal breathing. Slow twitch muscle is characterized by robust flavor, but a very tough texture with lots of connective tissue that needs to be cooked for extended periods of time to be broken down. With slow twitch muscle, the tenderness of the finished product is dependent not only on the temperature at which it's cooked, but also the length of time it is cooked for. Beginning around 160°F tough collagen begins to break down into tender, juicy gelatin. The hotter the meat, the faster this breakdown occurs.
So to sum up: With fast twitch muscle, temperature is the most important factor when cooking. With slow twitch, both time and temperature affect the final product.
The Key to Crispy Pork Skin
So if higher temperatures leads to faster breakdown of connective tissue, shouldn't you just blast your pork shoulder at the highest oven temperature it can take without burning the skin?
Not so fast. Temperature has other effects too, namely, drying meat out. I roasted two identical pork shoulders until they were both equally tender. One at 375°F (which took about 3 hours), and second at 250°F (which took about 8 hours). After roasting I calculated the amount of total moisture lost in the meat by adding together the weight of the finished roast plus the fatty drippings in the pan below and subtracting that from the initial weight of the roast.
Turns out that at a higher temperature, a pork shoulder loses about 8% more juices than at a lower temperature due to muscle fibers contracting and squeezing out their contents. Eating the meat from the two roasts confirmed as much, though to be honest, both were pretty crazy juicy and moist.
On the other hand, the high temperature roast showed at least one definite advantage over the low-roast: The skin.
Here is a piece of skin from a pork shoulder cooked at 375°F the whole time:
And here is a piece cooked at 250°F:
See the difference? Problem is that cooking a great piece of pork skin requires two separate activities.
First, you've got to break down connective tissue. There's a common misconception that animal skin—chicken skin, turkey skin, pork rinds—is made up of fat. This is not true. There certainly is a lot of fat in the skin and directly underneath it (necessary to help warm blooded animals maintain their body temperature), but skin also contains a great deal of water and connective proteins which, just like connective tissues in slow-twitch muscles, must be broken down via long cooking.
On top of that, once the connective tissue has softened sufficiently, moisture needs to be forced out of it, and the remaining proteins need to be heated until they coagulate and stiffen up. It's the combination of these three things—connective tissue breakdown, moisture loss, and firming of proteins—that leads to crisp-but-not-tough skin.
When cooked at 375°F, all three of these things happen at about the same time. By the time the connective tissue has broken down, you've driven off enough moisture from the rind to render it hard and crunchy. In a 250°F oven, on the other hand, connective tissue breaks down for sure, but moisture loss and protein stiffening don't occur to a great enough degree to deliver a crisp finished product. Instead, you end up with skin that's soft and tender, but floppy.
So clearly, once again we should be cooking our pork at a higher temperature, right?
Hold up, there's one more thing to consider.
Getting The Crunchiest Skin
We all know what surface area is, right? Take a look once again at a close up of the crisp skin from the pork cooked at 375°F:
See how despite a few wrinkles here and there, it's all relatively smooth? Well, smooth objects have relatively low surface area given a particular volume, while winkled, bubbled, crinkly, curvy objects have a relatively high surface area given the same internal volume. And when it comes to texture, more surface area = more crunch.
It's the same principle behind, say, scratching up the surface of potatoes before roasting them to get them extra crisp (more on ultra crispy roast potatoes here), or packing your burger extra loose to give it a crisper exterior and more browning (check out that effect in my recipe for Ultra Crispy Burgers.
When roasting at 375°F, because the dehydrating and protein-setting is taking place at the same time that the connective tissue is breaking down, there's never really a stage when the skin is relatively structure-free. It goes from being firm through connective tissue directly to being firm through dehydration.
On the other hand, after 8 hours in a 250°F oven, the pig skin has very little structural integrity—there's really very little holding it together and it closely resembles a bundle of tiny balloons just waiting to be filled.
How do you fill those balloons? Let heat do the work for you.
By taking that slow-cooked pork, and banging it into a preheated 500°F oven, both air and steam trapped within the skin will rapidly expand, causing millions of tiny bubbles to form and causing the skin to rapidly expand. And here's the key: As the bubbles expand, they stretch their walls out thinner and thinner. Eventually, they are so thin that the heat from the oven is able to quite rapidly cause them to set into a permanent shape that won't collapse even when the pork is pulled out of the oven.
In this sense, pig skin is very much like a loaf of bread: high temperature causes gas expansion which then gets trapped in a protein matrix that firms up in the heat of the oven to create a crunchy, crisp crust.
Have you ever seen anything so beautiful?
Personally, I generally prefer my meat relatively unadorned—good meat, salt, and pepper is all I need. Pork shoulder, on the other hand, is great at taking flavor. You can feel free to rub the meat and skin with your favorite spice blend or dry rub before roasting it, or—my method of choice since it keeps your options open—keep it plain for roasting and instead season the shredded picked tender meat before serving.
I like to bring the thing whole to the table and allow diners to pick and pull at it with their fingers, offering a few sauces to work with on the side. Try sweet and spicy nuoc cham, Chinese style char sui, Cuban mojo, a sweet Memphis-style barbecue sauce, or a bright Argentinian chimichurri. Or better yet, this is a pork party, so throw out a whole selection.
Shredded roasted pork shoulder is excellent on its own, even better in sandwiches with a bit of cole slaw, or makes an excellent addition to soups, stews, taco fillings, Cuban sandwiches, empanada fillings, arepa stuffings, hash, omelettes, etc.
It's nearly as impossible to mess up slow-cooked pork shoulder as it is to bring the sucker to the table without eating half the skin yourself before it arrives.
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Active: 10 mins
Serves: 8 to 12 servings
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1 whole bone-in, skin-on pork shoulder, 8 to 12 pounds total
Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 250°F (121°C).
Line a rimmed baking sheet with heavy duty aluminum foil (see note) and set a wire rack inside it. Place a piece of parchment paper on top of the wire rack. Season pork on all sides liberally with salt and pepper and place on parchment paper. Transfer to oven and roast until knife or fork inserted into side shows very little resistance when twisted, about 8 hours total.
Remove pork from oven and tent with foil. Let rest at room temperature for at least 15 minutes and up to 2 hours. Increase oven to 500°F and allow to preheat. Return pork to the oven and roast until skin is blistered and puffed, rotating every 5 minutes, about 20 minutes total. Remove from oven, tent with foil and allow to rest an additional 15 minutes. Serve by picking in the kitchen or just bring it to the table and let guests pick meat and crispy skin themselves, dipping into sauce of their choice on the side (see note).
Rimmed baking sheet, wire rack
To make a pan sauce, skip the aluminum foil when roasting; when the pork's finished, drain off and discard the excess fat and deglaze the rimmed baking sheet by heating it over a single burner and adding two cups of white wine, chicken stock, or a combination of both. Scrape up browned bits, transfer to a small saucepan, season to taste, and whisk in two tablespoons butter off heat.
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After years of mismanagement, the Suburban Cook County Regional Office of Education should be closed -- once and for all.
Last month, Cook County state's attorney's investigators raided the office in Westchester and Regional Superintendent Charles Flowers' home in Maywood. They confiscated computers and documents as part of an investigation in apparent mismanagement in the office.
• late or no payments including employees' payroll, health insurance and rent on the building.
Days after the raid, the county filed a lawsuit against the office and Flowers for defaulting on a $190,000 loan.
The problems with the office are not new. A similar audit in 2007, before Flowers took over, warned the office was $413,000 in debt.
Flowers was ushered in as a reformer in July 2007, but two years later the office has doubled its debt and appears to have even more problems. Flowers blames the current office's financial problems on his predecessor.
Regardless, nearly $1 million will be absorbed by the state and county, even though neither clearly has the means to take on more debt. No wonder taxpayers are spitting mad with the government waste.
On the surface, the bill introduced by state Rep. Elaine Nekritz, D-57th, of Northbrook, to eliminate the regional superintendent's office has merit.
The work of the regional education office -- issuing teaching certificates and reviewing school finances of 143 school districts and 700 schools outside Chicago's city limits -- would be given to the Illinois State Board of Education.
Nekritz and her fellow legislators need to ensure that the State Board of Education will be able to take over these limited tasks. Will teachers' and schools' needs be met locally (not requiring trips to Springfield)? Will the state board of education be able to handle concerns in a timely manner?
Removing a costly layer of government administration is a smart step in the right direction for increased efficiency in government, just as long as the state education can handle these new duties and it doesn't cost taxpayers more in the long run.


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Neve Campbell was born and raised in Guelph, Ontario, to Marnie (Neve), a Dutch-born psychologist and yoga instructor (from Amsterdam), and Gerry Campbell, a Scottish-born teacher (from Glasgow). Campbell first came to our TV screens in the hit Drama series Party of Five (1994). Described as TV's most believable teenager, her first major film role came in the form of innocent victim "Sidney Prescott" in Scream (1996), the film which re-defined the slasher genre.
Many film offers came her way but, as she was filming Party of Five (1994) for nine months of the year, the filming schedules often clashed. So in 2000, she announced that she was to leave the award winning show to concentrate on a film career.
Spreading through many genres, her film credits to date include the romantic comedy Three to Tango (1999) alongside Matthew Perry and the erotic thriller Wild Things (1998) with Denise Richards and Matt Dillon, though she has turned to a more art house approach with the critically acclaimed Panic (2000) and, more recently, Fitzgerald (2002), both directed by Henry Bromell. She is an animal lover and describes herself as having a dry, often offensive sense of humor.
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On People (USA) magazine's '50 Most Beautiful' list. [2000]
Voted No.3 in EMPIRE (UK) magazine's 100 sexiest movie stars of 1998. [October 1998]
One of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People. [1998]
Younger sister of Christian Campbell.
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Posed for a swimsuit photo believing it to be intended for a catalogue only to see it appear on a Toronto billboard.
Had to turn down the role in Armageddon (1998) because of conflicts with the Party of Five (1994) schedule.
(If she could change one feature about her, what would it be?): "I have the ugliest feet in the world. But even if I didn't dance, they would still be ugly. My toes are too big!"
("What was the most diificult time of her life?"): Probably when I was at the National Ballet School of Canada, from the ages of nine to fourteen. It's the best dance school in the world, but an extremely competitive one, and there was a lot of pressure for a child. It had an extremely back-stabbing mentality, and there was a lot of favoritism. I wanted to be there because I wanted to be a dancer. I love to dance, and that was my dream. When you're in that school, it means you've beaten out two thousand people to get there, so you're not exactly gonna quit. But I did, at fourteen, because I basically had a nervous breakdown--I wouldn't have been able to function had I stayed there. It was a huge decision. But I'd just about given up on my dream of being a dancer and realized that I'd completely lost myself and had no friends and was very unhappy in my life and couldn't have continued if I'd stayed there.
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Just like the title says, let's get to sawing and measuring! Of course, we'll need a saw. I suggest a hand saw, coping saw or one of each. Make sure that they are the correct size for your child. Also, we'll need rulers, a yardstick, tape measure and a T square if you have one available. Don't forget something to measure and cut! Have a few C clamps, plastic foam, thick pieces of cardboard and some wood pieces and boxes ready.
Make sure they set up their work space and workbench while you gather the above items. Before having your child jump right in and start sawing logs, let's ease them into it. Have them practice through a few thick pieces of cardboard. You can even use large pieces of plastic foam.
Show them how to use the clamp to clamp down the foam to their workbench. Then demonstrate with the hand saw how to saw through the foam or cardboard. Take all the time you need to explain what the saw does and how to handle it safely. Guide them as they take their turn and encourage them if they get disoriented or discouraged. Have them changing materials and try sawing some more!
Your child will need many supervised opportunities to saw through wood. If you can, make sure that the wood is of the softer variety. Help them saw in a straight line by drawing a guideline on the wood with a pencil and a T square, yardstick or ruler. You may want to explain to them about the sawdust collecting on the floor beneath where they are sawing and that it will need to be cleaned up every time they finish working in their work space. I know I sound crazy, but walking them through every step of the process of woodworking now will develop good habits that will stand them in good stead for the future. Naturally, this means that you'll have to lead by example, so don't be a slacker. Clean up, clean up, clean up!
Now, sawing is a lot of fun, and if all you want your child to do is cut things safely, then your job is done. But don't we want them to be able to make things? Well, they'll need to know where to start cutting, won't they?
Obviously measuring will require some mastery of numbers, so this gives you a perfect opportunity to help them with that. Ease them into it. Repeated measuring is something that can actually help your child improve their ability to recognize numbers and the order they come in.
Oh, I forgot to tell you one thing. You'll need blank paper and pencils for this one. Sorry.
Anyhow, completely cover a table with paper. Set out the pencils and a T square. Let your child practice drawing lines on the paper, using the T square as a guide. You can also use a ruler, but getting them accustomed to the T square will enable to them to be ready to use it effortlessly on their woodworking project when they are ready. Add wood pieces or boxes and let them measure the sides and ends.
Measuring is so much fun that your child will probably start measuring everything in your house and telling you how long it is, how high it is, etc. Be ready for that. Ask them how long Daddy's shoe is in comparison to Mommy's shoe, or their own. Ask them how long the dog's tail is, if you have a patient dog. Encourage their curiosity about numbers. Who knows, maybe they'll become an accountant-just kidding!
And never forget to carpenter's mantra.
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I thought the Russian collusion madness had long ago reached a peak. I was wrong.
Intercept writer James Risen asks "Is Donald Trump a traitor?"
I FIND IT hard to write about Donald Trump.
It is not that he is a complicated subject. Quite the opposite. It is that everything about him is so painfully obvious. He is a low-rent racist, a shameless misogynist, and an unbalanced narcissist. He is an unrelenting liar and a two-bit white identity demagogue. Lest anyone forget these things, he goes out of his way each day to remind us of them.
At the end of the day, he is certain to be left in the dustbin of history, alongside Father Coughlin and Gen. Edwin Walker. (Exactly – you don't remember them, either.)
What more can I add?
Unfortunately, another word also describes him: president. The fact that such an unstable egomaniac occupies the White House is the greatest threat to the national security of the United States in modern history.
Which brings me to the only question about Donald Trump that I find really interesting: Is he a traitor?
Did he gain the presidency through collusion with Russian President Vladimir Putin?
One year after Trump took office, it is still unclear whether the president of the United States is an agent of a foreign power. Just step back and think about that for a moment.
Most pundits in Washington now recoil at any suggestion that the Trump-Russia story is really about treason. They all want to say it's about something else – what, they aren't quite sure. They are afraid to use serious words. They are in the business of breaking down the Trump-Russia narrative into a long series of bite-sized, incremental stories in which the gravity of the overall case often gets lost. They seem to think that treason is too much of a conversation-stopper, that it interrupts the flow of cable television and Twitter. God forbid you might upset the right wing! (And the left wing, for that matter.)
But if a presidential candidate or his lieutenants secretly work with a foreign government that is a longtime adversary of the United States to manipulate and then win a presidential election, that is almost a textbook definition of treason.
Traitor? Foreign Agent? Treason?
It's easy to make a case that Trump is a liar and a narcissist. Traitor? Agent of a foreign power? Treason?
Risen is delusional. He needs a new career. He would fit right in with the Washington Post or CNN. Perhaps he can get together with Michael Moore and do a movie.
The again, I shouldn't suggest such things. The Washington Post and CNN need cleansing, not bigger political nut cases.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock
No. 1-30
SweetKenny
The Intercept is the biggest hit or miss publisher. Glenn Greenwald is great but it's also populated by raving liberals.
Curious-Cat
We should not to get too upset with these guys and their outlandish statements. Pretty much everything that can be said about President Trump has already been said. So here's a guy who's sniffing around for a new angle and a novel way to be provocative. While one can never be sure such idiocy won't catch on, it's probably pretty unlikely. I would hate to have to earn my living writing stories about President Trump. Almost as bad as being a member of the US House of Representatives.
Blurtman
Trumpsky!
But this kind of drivel continues to be so popular with the democrats and never-Trumpers, so they keep writing it. The more preposterous the better. It's like a drug for these people. They just can't get enough of it.
abend237-04
They've finally formed a circular firing squad; Feed them ammo: Hey James, I heard Trump's gardner was seen talking to a local guy whose grandmother spoke Russian. Looks rotten to me; a good journalist could pull the string and unravel this one for a Pulitzer...
Stuki
"The fact that such an unstable egomaniac occupies the White House is the greatest threat to the national security of the United States in modern history."
And true to progressive form, this dimwit doesn't have the logical aptitude to conclude from this, that the guy occupying the White House has too much power. Instead just wanting his own favorite Caudillo to have all that power instead.
ccichocki
If the liberal message is so off then why is it taking so long for republican Mueller to say no collusion? Seems like he's just busting people...for no reason? I wonder.
Greggg
I'd bet a wad that this is the cause of all the uproar: "President Trump has accelerated his diplomatic efforts to broker peace (undermine the military industrial complex) among quarreling Arab monarchies..." How dare he upset the status quo! https://www.axios.com/trump-arab-leaders-sensitive-talks-33073439-1f4c-4cc9-bdf4-1d8f745a693a.html
Trump to host Arab leaders for sensitive talks
The hope is that the talks will lead to a peace deal over Qatar in late spring.
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FelixMish
"secretly work with a foreign government that is a longtime adversary of the United States"
Does this mean he thinks the Soviet Union was an adversary of the US? I wonder what he thought in 1980.
wootendw
"Risen is delusional."
I am afraid that most of the so-called 'American' people are delusional about Russia. It's simply mad hysteria. Here are some numbers from Google or Wikipedia:
Russia population 143 million
US population 325 million
NATO population 906 million
Russia GDP < 2 trillion (USD)
US GDP > 16 trillion (USD)
NATO GDP > 36 trillion (USD)
Russian losses in WWII ~20m (ejecting Germans from Soviet territory)
US losses in ALL wars ~1m
Clearly, Russia is not a threat to US (nor Europe) unless 'we' attack them - which means nukes. They do not have the resources to fight a long term war with NATO and they are not going risk war having lost 20m people in WWII - something incomprehensible to most Americans. The US mainland has never even been bombed from the air.
Moreover, Russia has done nothing that should offend US. They intervened in Syria against USG/KSA/UK-armed terrorists who caused the deaths of 100s of thousands of Syrians and also caused the European refugee crisis.
Russia's 'annexation' of Crimea - with the support of 93% of Crimeans - was a purely defensive move after Hillary's assistant, Victoria Nuland, arranged the overthrow of Ukraine's elected president using paid demonstrators and snipers - yes those snipers were hired by the USG side.
Russia also intervened in S. Ossetia, in 2008, when Georgian president Mikhail Saashkivili, a friend of Senator McCain and a certifiable nutcase, launched an attack in violation of an internationally recognized cease fire while Putin, PM at the time, was in Beijing for the Olympics.
Yet there is all this hysteria. It is far worse than with Saddam Hussein, who was vilified for years after Iraq I. And the established order - MIC, CIA, State Dept - keeps fueling it. A substantial number of 'Americans' believe Putin is trying to re-establish the Soviet Union - or worse. The end result of this mass hysteria will be war and it will certainly be nuclear. I am serioulsy thinking of leaving the country although I might just settle for Oregon where the people are even crazier but where there are no nuclear targets and winds from the Pacific will prevent fallout drift.
Does anyone believe this idiot "finds it hard to write about Trump"? Then again, it's hard to top all the idiocies that have been written. He did. Congrats.
JanNL
wootendw said: "Risen is delusional." I am afraid that most of the so-called 'American' people are delusional about Russia. It's simply mad hysteria. Here are some numbers from Google or Wikipedia: Russia population 143 million US population 325 million NATO population 906 million Russia GDP < 2 trillion (USD) US GDP > 16 trillion (USD) NATO GDP > 36 trillion (USD) Russian losses in WWII ~20m (ejecting Germans from Soviet territory) US losses in ALL wars ~1m Clearly, Russia is not a threat to US (nor Europe) unless 'we' attack them - which means nukes. They do not have the resources to fight a long term war with NATO and they are not going risk war having lost 20m people in WWII - something incomprehensible to most Americans. The US mainland has never even been bombed from the air. Moreover, Russia has done nothing that should offend US. They intervened in Syria against USG/KSA/UK-armed terrorists who caused the deaths of 100s of thousands of Syrians and also caused the European refugee crisis. Russia's 'annexation' of Crimea - with the support of 93% of Crimeans - was a purely defensive move after Hillary's assistant, Victoria Nuland, arranged the overthrow of Ukraine's elected president using paid demonstrators and snipers - yes those snipers were hired by the USG side. Russia also intervened in S. Ossetia, in 2008, when Georgian president Mikhail Saashkivili, a friend of Senator McCain and a certifiable nutcase, launched an attack in violation of an internationally recognized cease fire while Putin, PM at the time, was in Beijing for the Olympics. Yet there is all this hysteria. It is far worse than with Saddam Hussein, who was vilified for years after Iraq I. And the established order - MIC, CIA, State Dept - keeps fueling it. A substantial number of 'Americans' believe Putin is trying to re-establish the Soviet Union - or worse. The end result of this mass hysteria will be war and it will certainly be nuclear. I am serioulsy thinking of leaving the country although I might just settle for Oregon where the people are even crazier but where there are no nuclear targets and winds from the Pacific will prevent fallout drift.
Nice summary of reality. Groupthink is everywhere.
Robin Banks
US debt to GDP 103% and rising, Russia's 11% debt to GDP and no foreign debt. Russia gold reserves of over 1800 tonnes, US reserves could be any number between bugger all an 8000 tonnes. I'd go nearer to bugger all. Russia leading light in the SCO with the likes of China, India, Pakistan, Iran etc. US still has the UK and EU in its pocket but for how much longer?
Snow_Dog
It sounds like locker room talk to me, but I'm just an everyday deplorable who needs the Intercept to think for me.
@[Robin Banks] Russia's gold reserve to GDP ratio is higher than the US now and its gold reserve to population ratio will exceed the US in a few years if they keep buying. But diplomacy is where Russia is really 'winning'. Because it has been conducting continuous warfare against other nations, the US is becoming a pariah nation. Putin can talk with the leader of any country - Israel, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, etc. Trump's moving of the US Embassy to Jerusalem is causing its Muslim allies (and other allies) to question their relationship with US. Frankly, I am okay with this as I am tired of entangling alliances and I'd like to put 'our' foreign policy 'experts' out of a job.
RonJ
Russia Russia Russia. I am not fooled by the anti Trump propaganda campaign. The real collusion story is that of those who colluded against Trump, attempting to prevent him from becoming President, then attempting to prevent him from doing his job as President. Trump is the object of a viscous smear campaign.
"He is an unrelenting liar and a two-bit white identity demagogue." Risen is lying.
Trump helped fund a medical mission to Haiti, whose purpose was to help restore eye sight to some 200 Haitians.
Six000mileyear
Risen is willfully ignorant of Bill and Hillary Clinton's involvement in selling ownership of a US nuclear mining operation to Russians.
Ambrose_Bierce
It's a rhetorical question, Mish can't say anything, there are too many Russian trollbots hanging around, and they are what puts your blog on the top of the trending list. To sum up the unfortunate position Russia is in. They lost the Cold War, but they kept their nuclear weapons. This makes Putin a third world dictator with Nukes, and that flags him for regime change. To that end Dick Cheney put missiles in the old Soviet satellite states and aims them at Moscow. Obama promised to negotiate with Putin, but it was too good a deal (for US strategic planners). Trump may be figuring out the same thing. His brand of Russian gangster politics interfaces nicely with Putin, he could be the next President of Russia. They do have a Democracy after all. Some voters take the view that we should seek BETTER relations with Russia, and there is nothing wrong with that, we gave WTO to a much larger communist country and the economic synergies have been fantastic while capitalism in Russia never got off the ground. Wall Street tries every few years. It only becomes treason when you hide it, if everything was revealed in the first instance, (like tax returns) there would be no reason to question his loyalty.
Kinuachdrach
Lefties always accuse other people of doing what they themselves are doing. Bill Clinton selling missile guidance secrets to the Chinese in exchange for illegal campaign contributions? Hillary Rodman Clinton selling uranium to the Russians for illegal campaign contributions? Barry giving cash and an OK to develop nuclear weapons to Iran in exchange for ... nothing? The adulterous couple in the FBI seeking to overturn the presidential election? Yes, there is lots of treason out there.
stillCJ
ccichocki said: If the liberal message is so off then why is it taking so long for republican Mueller to say no collusion? Seems like he's just busting people...for no reason? I wonder.
Answer: Mueller is taking so long because he knows his assignment is to find something on The Donald and he does not want to admit he failed. He has had to produce some irrelevant charges to make it look like he is doing something.
As I read Comrade Risen's description of The Donald, it occurred to me that all the negatives he listed would actually apply very well to Obama. Especially "racist, liar and narcissist". Plus Obama always has seemed like the real Manchurian Candidate, groomed and put there by the embedded communist revolutionary Bill Ayers.
Make no mistake, Mueller, a tool of the establishment, will try to bring down Trump. As was correctly stated, a Grand Jury can indict a ham sandwich. Who polices the police?
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Sane people understand these types of rants are nonsense. However, since time is running out for the establishment, people should expect the insanity and propaganda to intensify, especially against this anti-establishment President, who must build a wall between Socialism and tyranny before it's too late.
The govt debt bubble (Socialism) is close to popping. As the sovereign debt crisis spreads from the periphery to the core, the ability for govts to fund their largess will increasingly require more taxes, fees, asset forfeitures, bail-ins, and wars to be imposed on the people. Will it take banks confiscating deposits, and govt confiscating retirement accounts for the average Joe to realize we are on the path to tyranny?
Regardless, sane people should be prepared, because we also know that career politicians never proactively reform. The last defense between an insane mass murderer and law enforcement, that has limited response time or is incompetent, is a gun. Similary, our Founders understood that the only thing between freedom and a tyrannical govt is an armed citizenry. Banning guns insures the only people with guns are govt and criminals, who have always bought them on the black market.
If the establishment and their useful idiots have a sliver of sanity they need to realize they can impeach or assasinate Trump, renig on pensions, impose bail-ins, make up polls, and ban sane comments on social media, but they will never take the guns from Patriots. The establishment knows the 2nd Ammendment was not about protecting the right to hunt, which was ubiquitous at its writing. The fact they are trying to make this point is further proof the propaganda machine is alive and well.
JonSellers
I am old enough to remember when the American people would have found it completely unacceptable for a news organization to write this garbage about a sitting president. I didn't vote for Obama or Trump, but I am disgusted with the way Americans put up with the garbage that has been written about them.
Hey Mish here's a newer video of Jordan Peterson talking about a gotcha interview with Vice and the legacy media. I think it speaks to the Intercepts article https://youtu.be/LvCLNVZ-2sk
Guinny_Ire
Have we considered that the Press may be colluding with the Russians in their coverage on Trump? Do we know that Risen is not receiving compensation by govt agencies, domestic or foreign, for writing an article like this along with past work? It's not that Trump is suspect, it's everyone is suspect now. Welcome to the new McCarthyism.
Libertarian slant is enlightening - especially for purposes of trying to understand current world (e.g. antithesis of the fed's dogma etc.). In this same way Mish, I'm really amazed that you don't let the facts speak for themselves in regards to Trump (1) in excess of 3500 lawsuits (2) Trump university -- garbage and exploitative (3) "good folks on both sides" in relation to charlottesville -- these were nazi's -- do you really support mass murder (4) indictments -- manafort/flynn (5) Arm the teachers ? (6) His whole family is working in the white house -- There is just too much smoke -- I'm a trader and a libertarian -- but this guy is an absolute crook/dbag under any type of analysis. As I recall you were all over Hillary weaknesses (I'm no fan) --
MorrisWR
To mch, have you not read all of the Mish articles about Trump that are negative? I believe he is "all over" Trump as well. Whether anyone agrees with Mish's views, he seems to at least be fair about listing his negatives.
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When things collapse, it can feel like they've been teetering for a long time, but the final crumbling usually comes quickly. I think we've finally reached that tipping point with the Edinburgh Fringe.
People have been saying the Fringe is unsustainable for years now, and yet it's gone on not only sustaining itself, but posting bigger numbers in every column year on year. Round about this time every year we usually see the news that once again audience numbers are up on all previous years.
That's not going to happen this year. We're yet to see any hard data but reports that audience numbers have dropped are rife. It's hard for me to say from my own show, because it's an incredibly limited capacity so it sold out reasonably quickly. But looking around, that seems right. It's somehow quieter around Summerhall and the Pleasance Courtyard. Comedians who've had a steady, consistent audience for several years (this barely ever happens in theatre) are seeing a steady, consistent, smaller audience this year. There are of course hit shows selling out. But you can get tickets for things you wouldn't expect.
The reason is easily identified. Accommodation costs have gone up about 35-40% this year. That sounds like such a ridiculous increase on already ridiculous costs that it can't possibly be true. But it is. Our three-bedroom flat this year costs £1500 more than the one I was in two years ago. A change in Scottish tenancy laws gave more power to the tenants over their departure dates - a good thing - but led to the unintended consequence of far fewer properties available for the month of August. The resulting squeeze in supply of course created higher demand, and - who'd have thought it! - landlords were emboldened to considerably increase their already sky-high prices.
People who'd already made plans to bring shows up to the Fringe had no choice but to find ways of weathering these increased costs. Audiences are in no such corral. Those who usually come for a fortnight have come for a week; those who usually come for a week have come for three nights; those who usually come for a couple of nights often haven't bothered at all.
Journalists and promoters have also found it harder to get up and see as much work as they might usually. There's been less press covering the festival this year, and there've been fewer promoters shopping for shows for their venue. In some ways this is worse for artists than the drop in audience numbers: many are at the Fringe in order to sell a tour, impossible without some decent reviews and a good number of programmers.
Everyone already knows that you're guaranteed to lose a packet at the Edinburgh Fringe. The size of that packet has increased, even if you already budgeted on a conservative box office assumption. In the past, a sufficient number of artists have assessed that risk and considered it a worthwhile investment in the potential future life of the show.
This is without even beginning to address the huge barriers to access created by the necessity of this assessment, and the position of privilege enjoyed by those who are in a position to make it. I don't want to suggest that I think up until now things have been rosy: clearly not. It's been impossible for a lot of people for a long time; it's in the process of becoming impossible for many more too. And even to those for whom it remains possible, will it continue to be worthwhile? Losing an increasingly large packet might make sense if you've got one to lose, so long as you can book a tour off it. If you can't even do that, why bother?
Don't be surprised if next year show numbers are down with audience numbers. The feedback loop that kept it all growing year on year will work the other way too, and the air could go out of the balloon very quickly indeed.
It seems churlish to be writing this towards the end of a successful Edinburgh run. In fact, in lots of ways this Fringe has been a lot less stressful for me than ever before. My show doesn't have a venue: I take it to the home of whoever books it, with capacity determined by the size of your living room. So although I'm doing two shows a day, that's still less than 500 tickets to sell across the course of the run, far less than I've sold in any Fringe run for over a decade. With that release of pressure on box office comes a release of pressure on reviews: it's lovely if they're positive, but my pocket doesn't so keenly feel the need for them. And the show's not going to tour, so I'm not worried about promoters either. It makes me wonder why I'm here at all.
This show exists because of a slightly ridiculous concatenation of circumstances and has been made quite quickly as a result. I had four other projects, all of which moved out of this summer in the course of two catastrophic weeks in March. Suddenly I had five empty months ahead. I had a bit of producing and project planning to do on other upcoming projects, and a lot of applications to write. But there were no project budgets from which to pay for that work.
Over the past seven or eight years, the theatre company that bears my name has built up a small reserve. This is mostly from theatre tax relief claims, along with a couple of budget underspends or better-than-projected box office. In theory that money's there in order to be able to put some of it into grant applications as match funding, but it's also there for when the day gets very rainy: if I have no other paid work, it means I can continue e.g. writing grant applications as might be the case if I were AD at an NPO (albeit on a much lower salary).
(As an independent artist this is a position of extraordinary privilege and I've used as much of this time as I can to support the work of younger and emerging artists - over the past five months this averages out at a little over half a day a week.)
(I'm also concerned that the weather front we're currently facing mean there'll be more rainy days ahead than not, and there isn't much of this money left.)
The project producing, grant applications, and so on, were going to amount to at most a couple of days a week. And meanwhile, with a lot of creative projects delayed, some indefinitely, I was feeling a bit frustrated. So, shortly after 10am one morning in early April I said to my wife, I could just make a new solo show on a shoestring and take it to Edinburgh. She said, what about that idea we had about a home show with Dot when she was a baby? We could make that with Arthur. So we had a look at the Fringe website to find out the registration deadline. Answer: 5pm that day. Game on.
We wrote a budget for a show that had no venue costs, no flyers and no posters. Apart from our time, our costs were someone to do PR, about £50 in props, a couple of train fares, and thousands of pounds in Edinburgh accommodation. For the budget to balance, we needed to sell 70%, and although we had fewer of the usual methods available for trying to make those sales, that figure still represented far fewer tickets than I'd usually expect to sell. It felt worth the risk.
Why it felt worth the risk, I'm still not sure. This Edinburgh run hasn't been an investment in future touring. We just did it for us, just because we wanted to make this show. Its success has been unnecessary. It's been an exercise in lightness, in intrinsic over extrinsic motivations. I'll reflect further on the show itself when the run's over: although it's gone well there have been some absolute shockers along the way. But on the whole, this month has disproved the theory that artists need a gun to their head in order to do good work.
The format of the show has also inadvertently resulted in me being much more able to remain outside the Fringe bubble. I'm not tied to a venue and we have no flyers or posters. And I spend a lot of time being welcomed into people's homes in parts of the city I previously knew barely or not at all. Escaping the orbit of the big venues feels like freedom, even when I'm escaping to do a show. It's been even better when I'm escaping for a run.
I've said before that I'm mystified by runners who come up for the Festival and then do all their running round and round the Meadows. I mean, you do you, and if you're enjoying yourself I have no wish to dissuade you. But I'd go mad. There are so many great places to run in this city and almost all of them (with the exception of Arthur's Seat) are an escape from the melee. I've done most of my running over the past week in the woods around the Hermitage of Braid and Blackford Hill. This is closer to Marchmont than is Holyrood Park, but I'm yet to meet a festivalgoer who's even heard of it, let alone been there. Craiglockhart and Braid Hills are barely any further, but if anyone's heard of either it's because of Siegfried Sassoon and again, most wouldn't know it's even in Edinburgh.
There are loads of these green hilly places, so this is a great city in which to be a runner, and last week was the heaviest training week I've ever had. Sixty miles, 10,500 feet of climbing and that's without counting the innumerable miles traipsing round Edinburgh carrying a baby. The endurance athlete Ian Sharman is a huge advocate of weight-vest hiking as training for ultra runners and I've thought about that a lot during long walks to shows in Leith: I'm exhausted by this festival, as always, but everything about it is good training. According to my phone, my average step count for the month of August is just over 30,000. In March I ran a good 10K; since then I've run a marathon, a trail ultra and a long fell race and not been well-trained for any of them. Next weekend I run another trail ultra and for the first time since March I feel ready.
I do need to catch up on some sleep, though.
In the spring of next year Boff and I will premiere These Hills Are Ours and there's an open debate about whether we bring it to Edinburgh. It feels like a good Edinburgh show for loads of reasons but my current inclination towards is obviously emotional: I've had a lovely time this year, and I want more of the same. That is utter foolishness. I don't want to be the last artist in Edinburgh when the Fringe finally collapses. It's become, for most, and under the normal circumstances to which I'd be returning, a sort of nightmare vision of itself. Still, it's been a big part of my life and I think I'll miss it when it's gone.


Jo has welcomed the Government's announcement of an independent inquiry into Britain's involvement in the torture of detainees.
The Prime Minister last week announced that there would be an independent judge-led inquiry into Britain's role in the rendition and torture of terror suspects since September 11th bombings in 2001.
The Liberal Democrats were the only major party with a pledge to hold an inquiry into allegations of British Government complicity in torture in their General Election manifesto.


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'Very dissatisfied with outcome of Planning and Housing Committee on Official Plan Change' – Long Branch Neighbourhood Association
A previous post is entitled:
Higher Order Transit Corridor is being recommended along Lake Shore Blvd W. through Long Branch. Understand what it will mean to you.
The post provides details on how to apply for membership in the LBNA and provides background related to the message that follows below.
Following update is from the Long Branch Neighbourhood Association:
Christine Mercado and Ron Jaimeson of the LBNA deputed to the Planning and Housing Committee on Wednesday to request that Map 4 in the Official Plan Amendment (OPA) for Transportation be revised to remove Lake Shore Blvd W as a Higher Order Transit Corridor. But the Committee did not make this change and if nothing changes, it will be going to City Council for approval at the next Council meeting Feb 27th. In addition there were multiple letters to the Committee from residents and a deputation (also opposing Higher Order Transit on Lake Shore) by the Mimico Residents Association.
The Councillors on the Committee did not ask staff for clarification of any of the issues and concerns we raised. You can view the deputation here. See time stamp 2:24:52 – 2:36:20 for the deputations from Christine and Ron and 2:42:10 – 2:47:34 for the deputation from Mimico.
The video after the lunch break shows the Committee discussion on this topic.
Figure 1 – Map 4 – Higher Order Transit Corridors – Draft of Official Plan Amendment, City of Toronto, October 2019. Click on map to enlarge it.
The overwhelming majority of residents in South Etobicoke oppose this once they fully understand the implications. All the previous studies and public consultations that have ever been done do not support it. It is not a responsible use of scarce transit funds as it duplicates the GO line which is already a Higher Order Transit Corridor. Not a single study that has been done over the past 20-30 years have shown it is even physically feasible. This contradicts the recently City Council approved Waterfront Transit Reset Plan (2018).
Map of Waterfront Transit Reset Plan (2018). Click on map to enlarge it.
Even though no Higher Order Transit is planned or budgeted for out to the foreseeable future, based on the May 2019 Provincial Growth Strategy, by putting this in the Official Plan it will define 500 – 800m on either side of Lake Shore W throughout South Etobicoke immediately as a strategic growth area with no Growth Plan in place from the City to say it is not. This will allow, and in fact encourage, land investors and developers to overwhelm the South Etobicoke communities, including Long Branch, with Development applications to try to achieve the Provincially mandated intensification targets that go with this Official Plan designation.
While we are aware of the explanation being given by the Transportation Department that this designation on Map 4, showing Higher Order Transit along Lake Shore W through Long Branch, is merely intended to protect the corridor in case it is required for future use, in the meantime, it is already being exploited in TLAB Hearings by developers as a justification for intensifying in stable neighbourhoods and sets the stage for much more intensive intensification deeper into the neighbourhood with the 800 metre radius attached to this designation.
The implications of this OPA on our neighbourhood are significant and we are appalled that there was no public process put in place during the general public consultation to specifically inform our residents of this proposed change to the Official Plan and to provide the opportunity for meaningful input and representation from our community.
If no further action is taken this will be approved by City Council on Thursday, Feb 27th and it will become part of the Official Plan.
Our first step has already been taken. We have reached out to Councillor Grimes' office who has in turn reached out to senior staff in Transportation and Planning. We are awaiting a reply and will update you shortly.
Please stay tuned as further action may be required early next week.
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Q: Redshift SQL: How to get today's count and sum of counts from previous 3 days I have a table with a date and some count like the following:
| Date       | Count |
| 2019-01-02 | 100   |
| 2019-01-03 | 101   |
| 2019-01-04 |  99   |
| 2019-01-05 |  95   |
| 2019-01-06 |  90   |
| 2019-01-07 |  88   |

Given this table, what I want to compute is to sum the counts for the previous 3 days for each date like the followings:
| Date       | Prev3DaysCount |
| 2019-01-02 |    0  |
| 2019-01-03 |  100  |
| 2019-01-04 |  201  |
| 2019-01-05 |  300  |
| 2019-01-06 |  295  |
| 2019-01-07 |  284  |

For example, the Prev3DaysCount of 284 for 2019-01-07 is from previous 3 days of (99+95+90). I figured that I can use SUM window function but I couldn't figure out how to limit the window to previous 3 days.

A: You can use a window function (along with a COALESCE to transform the null (in the first row) to 0):
SELECT
  day,
  COALESCE(
    SUM(count) OVER (ORDER BY day ROWS BETWEEN 3 PRECEDING AND 1 PRECEDING),
    0
  ) AS Prev3DaysCount
FROM t;

Returns:
┌────────────┬────────────────┐
│    day     │ prev3dayscount │
├────────────┼────────────────┤
│ 2019-01-02 │              0 │
│ 2019-01-03 │            100 │
│ 2019-01-04 │            201 │
│ 2019-01-05 │            300 │
│ 2019-01-06 │            295 │
│ 2019-01-07 │            284 │
└────────────┴────────────────┘
(5 rows)

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Almost all the peoples of the Middle East, Eastern Mediterranean, Balkans, Caucasia; Turks, Arabs, Jews, Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians introduce baklava as their national dessert. When we consider that all of these regions once belonged to the Ottoman Empire, it is possible to think of Baklava as an Ottoman dessert. But because Ottoman is mostly equivalent with 'Turks', especially Greeks and Arabs don't like this qualification.
Does the history of baklava go back to Byzantine ?
Greeks claim that Turks had borrowed Baklava from Byzantine . Professor Speros Vryonis in trying to prove this claim asserts that baklava is very like the dessert kopte or kopton (koptoplakous) very much liked during the Byzantine period. According to Charles Perry ,one of the defenders that Baklava is not from Byzantine but from the Middle East, kopteom is not a pastry but is a kind of confection. Walnut, nut, almond or poppy mixed with honey is placed between two layers of mastic made up of ground sesame and boiled honey. Sula Bozis a Greek from İstanbul in his book named ' Kitchen Culture' tells about a Byzantine dessert (kopti) made by placing grounded nut ,sesame, and honey between two thin layers of dough.
He came across this recipe in the old notebooks from Greeks in Istanbul. If kopte which is a basically a sesame mastic confection has been transformed into a pastry made of sheets of dough , it might then have been transformed into baklava made of many, many thin sheets of dough. But then we have to explain how thin sheets of dough entered into Byzantine culinary culture.
Is baklava a discovery of nomad Turks ?
Professor Speros explains that the nomad tribes were very poor in culinary culture and they fed on what they got from the herds they had , the vegetable and fruit they could find and the simple bread baked on sheet of metal. It is known that the nomad Turks couldn't bake bread the way we can and ate the thin layers of dough they bake on portable metal sheets . Even today in many parts of Turkey they eat thin layers of dough as home made bread.
The Turks who have the thin layers of dough as their basic food might have developed layered desserts by placing certain things between the layers to enrich the dough. It is highly probable that Turks had devised desserts made of layered dough by using cream and honey as an ingredient placed between the layers and this might be considered as the origin of baklava.
Charles Perry considers the traditional pahlava of Azerbaijan as the evolution of the thin layered of dough cooked on sheets of metals in the plains of the Central Asia into the classical baklava. The Pahlava of Baku is a dessert prepared by placing nuts and peanuts between 8 layered dough not thinner than the home made macaroni. Perry stating that Azerbaijan is on the migratory route from Central Asia considers baklava as the product of the contact between migratory Turks and settled Iranians.
Baklava is like the combination of an Iranian dessert made of dough filled up with nuts and peanuts and baked in ovens with the thin layered bread of the Turks. Though this is considered to be an assumption it looks more rational than the claims of the Greeks.
Whether baklava came from ancient Greek or from Byzantine or whether from the nomadic times of Arabs and Turks , it is clear that what we now define as classical baklava had taken its elaborate form during the Ottoman period.
The oldest reports about baklava is Topkapı Palace kitchen notebooks from the Fatih period. According to this report baklava was baked in the Palace in 1473. Evilya Çelebi has written that in the middle of the 17th century he as a guest in the mansion house of the esquire of Bitlis has eaten baklava.
In the 'Surname' written by Vehbi it is reported that in the circumcision ceremony of the Sultan's four sons in 1720 all the guests had been offered baklava.
From these records we know that baklava which was well known in every part of the Ottoman empire was consumed more in the mansion houses, ceremonies and the banquets.
It can be said that baklava has been elaborated from a simple pastry into a dessert which needed skill in order to please the dignitaries and the rich people. Some researchers like Bert Fragner from Bamberg University claim that the culinary tastes in the Ottoman Empire has been shaped according to the tastes and preferences of the İstanbul high society.
It is known that in places and mansion houses to be a master of baklava was a reason for being preferred as a cook and that it was very important that the layer of dough was very thin. In the 15th century records baklava is referred to as 'rikak baklava'. Rikak is the plural of the Arabic word rakik which means thin. The word thin might have been used to mean the layers of dough. Describing baklava as 'rikak' brings to mind the possibility that formerly thick layers of baklava was used. And if this is the case ,then we might say that baklava gained its perfect taste in the Ottoman kitchen.
In the old mansion houses the cook nominees had to cook pilav and baklava to test their abilities. The master cook could be understood from the way he cut the dough. If the pieces are thin enough and the exact size of the tray ,then the skill of the cook was admitted.
According to the book about the cultural roots of Turkish people ,Burhan Oğuz writes that in the old mansion houses the cook was supposed to fit 100 thin pieces into the tray when making baklava. It was a matter of pride and joy for the family to have a cook who can make such thin pieces. Baklava was brought to the owner of the house for inspection before it was put into oven. The owner threw a gold coin perpendicularly onto the tray and if the coin could reach the tray then the cook was successful. Then the gold coin was given to the cook as a tip. If this show was done in front of the guests and the cook was not successful, the owner felt embarrassed.
It would be reasonable to conclude that making of baklava has been seen as a mastership on its own because of the importance given to baklava in these old mansion houses. Sula Bozis writes that in the 19th century the masters from Sakız who belonged to a guild were invited to roll out baklava dough. In the Istanbul encyclopedia by Reşat Ekrem Koçu there were people in the kitchens especially to roll out dough for baklava and börek. These people nearly spent a life to be master in rolling out dough; no exaggeration but in one tray of baklava they could lay 40 sheets of dough as thin as a rose leaf. There were more famous kitchens than the kitchen of the Palace. For example during the reign of Sultan Mahmud 2 the mansion house of Dürrizade Efendi , a Muslim theologian , had achieved a great reputation.
Baklava which is the sultan of desserts was also the dessert of the sultans. The importance of baklava at the palace was not only because it was accepted as the token of wealth and sophistication ( as in the mansion houses) but also because it was a state tradition. The baklava parade that started at the end of the 17th century or at the beginning of the 18th century is example of this tradition.
During the reign of Kanuni Sultan Suleyman it was traditional that the soldiers were treated to stewed meat, zerde ( a sweet, gelatinous dessert that has been colored and flavored with saffron) and pilav when they were going on expedition. Afterwards when the expeditions became rare this tradition was also forgotten. Instead of this tradition when soldiers were getting their trimonthly pay from the sultan they were offered a big feast and on the 15th of Ramazan they were treated to baklava.
On the 15th Ramazan when the sultan visited hırka-i şerif (the cloak of Mohammed kept in Topkapı Palace) as a caliph , baklava from the palace was sent to janissary and other soldier bases . One tray of baklava for ten soldiers.
The delivery of baklava to the soldiers and carrying the baklava to the barracks has become an imposing parade. The baklava trays covered in a kind of towels called futa were lined in front of the Palace kitchens; the soldiers who were to take away the baklava trays also lined up in front of the trays.
First Silahdar Ağa took the first two trays in the name of Sultan who was the number one Janissary; and then two soldiers hooked the trays by the help of green poles through the knots of the fut-as and placed them on their soldiers. The chief of every troop in front and the baklava carriers at the back started their long march from the gates to their barracks .This procession was called the baklava parade. All the people in İstanbul would come out to watch this parade and jeer for the sultan and the soldiers.
The tradition which made baklava the symbol of the Ottoman court disappeared when the Janissary were abolished. The latest baklava parade was made on 21 April 1826 about 2 months before the abolition of the Janissary.


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Chapman names Matthew J. Parlow new dean of the Fowler School of Law
Mary Platt
Matthew J. Parlow, new dean of Chapman University's Fowler School of Law
Chapman University today announced the selection of Matthew J. Parlow as the next dean of its
Fowler School of Law
. Parlow will become dean on July 1, 2016, succeeding Tom Campbell, who served in that role since February 2011.
Parlow, a native Southern Californian, returns to Chapman after serving as associate dean for academic affairs at Marquette University Law School, where he has taught for the past seven years. He served on the Chapman University faculty from 2005 to 2008. Parlow has also been a visiting professor at Yale University, and a fellow at Loyola Marymount University.
"We are delighted to welcome Matt Parlow back to Chapman University and the Fowler School of Law," said Chapman President Jim Doti. "His expertise in legal affairs, coupled with teaching skills that earned him awards at both Chapman and Marquette, only begin to hint at the strengths he'll bring to the law school."
Parlow's nationally recognized expertise in land use and urban redevelopment, his passion for sports law, and his tenure as associate dean at Marquette highlights the wealth of academic and administrative experience he will bring to the dean's role.
"Returning to Chapman is a special and exciting opportunity," Parlow said. "The law school has made tremendous strides in its first twenty years, and is poised now for even greater success. I'm honored to have been selected as dean. I appreciate the confidence that President Doti, Chancellor Struppa, the faculty, and the search committee have placed in me, and I look forward to working with the Chapman community to further enhance legal education in Southern California."
Following a wide-sweeping national search, Parlow was selected by a prominent search committee that included Reginald Gilyard, Dean of the Argyros School of Business; Thomas Phelps, co-founder of Manatt Phelps, an international law firm; Parker Kennedy, chairman and chief executive officer of First American Financial Corporation; Wylie Aitken, president and founding partner of Aitken, Aitken & Cohn, and selected faculty of the Fowler School of Law.
In the five years of Dean Tom Campbell's tenure, the Fowler School enacted a broad practice-ready curricular overhaul, created a new Business Law Emphasis program, and received a major naming gift for the law library from the Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation. In 2013, the law school was named the Dale E. Fowler School of Law in grateful recognition of a $55 million gift by Ann and Dale E. Fowler, one of the largest single gifts to a U.S. law school. Upon the conclusion of his term, Campbell will return to teaching as a full time professor on the Fowler School of Law faculty.
Fowler School of Law is nationally ranked among American law schools by
U.S. News & World Report,
and 2015 marked the fifth year that graduates exceeded the California ABA-accredited law school average pass rate on the state's bar examination. The Fowler School is one of only seven law schools in the state to have exceeded the state average pass rate in each of the past five years.
"Matt Parlow is uniquely qualified to lead the Fowler School at this time in its history," said Daniele Struppa, Chapman University chancellor and presidential designee. "In addition to a great legal mind, he brings a wealth of experience with colleagues throughout Southern California. We anticipate he will build even more bridges between Chapman and the Southland legal and business communities, helping to educate and place our practice-ready graduates."
Parlow holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the
Yale Law and Policy Review
, and the
Yale Journal on Regulation
. He earned his bachelor's degree from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Prior to his academic career, Parlow was an associate with the Los Angeles firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, specializing in real estate, land use, environmental, and local/state government law. He also served as a law clerk for the Honorable Pamela Ann Rymer of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He also serves as a consultant to professional sports leagues and teams, and has served on the board of directors of several nonprofit organizations, as well as been appointed to a number of local and state government task forces.
Parlow is married to Janine Kim, a professor of law at Marquette University Law School, who will also be joining the Fowler School of Law faculty. She teaches courses in multiple areas of the law and her primary areas of research include criminal law and race and the law. Prior to teaching, Kim clerked for the Honorable Alfred T. Goodwin of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and was an associate with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School and her B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University.
Consistently ranked among the top universities in the West, Chapman University attracts highly qualified students from around the globe. Its programs are designed to encourage leadership in innovation, creativity and collaboration, and are increasingly recognized for providing an extraordinary educational experience. In addition to its highly regarded Fowler School of Law, the university excels in film and media arts, performing arts, educational studies, economics and business, humanities and the sciences. Student enrollment in graduate and undergraduate programs is approaching 8,000, and Chapman University alumni are found throughout California and the world.
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President Duterte remains popular because he focuses on solving problems RELEVANT to ordinary Filipinos
May 7, 2019 By benign0 Government, Politics
One of the reasons Duterte's popularity continues to rise while the opposition continues to fail is because Duterte also targets the little problems in parts of the country that were ignored by the previous administrations – while the opposition focuses on Luzon problems.
Take for example the free irrigation enacted by Duterte. You think the opposition cared about the millions of farmers, the millions of Filipinos that have been begging for years to give them free irrigation? Did the opposition even know this was an issue to begin with?
The opposition continues to screech over the idea that the freedom of press is being attacked? While for the first time, small Filipinos were given a platform to voice out their concerns through the Presidential Complaint Center. I work in a government agency, and I've seen how government agencies cannot anymore ignore the concerns of the common people because the PCC will keep following up the issues brought forward by the smaller people.
How do Diokno's "fight for justice" platform resonate with the rest of the Philippines when only people from NCR can relate to this? Do you think Filipinos in the outer reaches of Visayas cares about this so called justice when they struggle to even get to town because of the lack of roads?
Free college tuition? A big chunk of the country don't even have proper schools to begin with.
Anti-train law? Give the people a means to grow their food first before we talk about consumer issues. Give them dams and irrigation facilities first.
Oh wait. Duterte is already doing that.
Also, isn't it hilarious that the opposition keeps promoting the idea that DEMOCRACY IS DYING under the Duterte "regime". But at the same time, they slam the majority's opinion and the majority choice simply because it doesn't align with what they want.
Hilarious, I tell you!
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