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My first experience with lettuce wraps – butter lettuce leaves offered with a wide variety of fillings and sauces – was at the Cheesecake Factory, which was an eye-opening foodie moment for me. Instead of soft tortillas, crispy green butter leaves can be used as a lighter alternative to hold raw vegetables (bean sprouts, minced scallions, carrot sticks, chopped tomatoes, diced avocado, thinly sliced cucumber or radishes) and/or cooked vegetables (sautéed mushrooms and/or onions, corn, tofu) blended with herbs (cilantro, mint, basil), and sauce (soy, teriyaki, peanut). The options are vast and only limited by what's in the garden, pantry, or fridge.
The following recipe for Lettuce Wraps was inspired by the Cheesecake Factory and the Purple Carrot whose recipe for Lettuce Cups with Tofu and Thai Basil led me to create an entree that is colorful, flavorful, and full of textures. The flavor of this dish primarily relies on the shallots, garlic, teriyaki sauce, fresh herbs, and lime juice.
Rinse, dry and cut the butter lettuce leaves off the stem and place on a large serving platter.
Drain the tofu block and then cut into small squares by slicing across in one direction and then the other.
Place the minced shallots, pressed garlic, and 4 tablespoons of the teriyaki sauce in a large pan and turn the stove on medium-high heat. Add the tofu and gently stir to combine the shallots, garlic, sauce, and tofu. Cook for 4-5 minutes and then stir again, turning the heat down to medium if the tofu starts to darken too quickly. Add up to two tablespoons more of teriyaki sauce if the pan starts to dry out. Continue cooking 4-5 more minutes until the tofu is brown. Remove from the heat and set aside.
Chop the basil, mint, and cilantro leaves and place in a large mixing bowl. Squeeze the lime juice over the herbs and stir. Add the tofu mixture and stir to blend. Transfer the tofu mixture to a medium-sized serving bowl.
Place the chopped tomatoes, diced avocado, corn, and sliced radishes in separate small serving bowls.
Place the platter of lettuce leaves, the bowl of tofu, and the small bowls of additional fillings (tomatoes, avocado, corn, and radishes) on the table. Place 2-3 lettuce leaves on each plate and fill with preferred toppings taking care not to overfill the leaves. Fold each side of the butter lettuce leaf over and enjoy.


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WATER ✪ THE EMOTIONAL
Crassostrea virginica, better known as the gulf oyster, may seem only a humble mollusk, filter feeding at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico's coastal waters. But beneath its unassuming exterior lies a cornerstone of wetland health. Each oyster filters chemicals and other pollutants from up to 50 gallons of water a day. Their reefs provide a nutrient-rich habit that supports thousands of species, and increases the integrity of our ever receding coastline. Despite the decimation of their population by the 2010 BP oil spill, the gulf oyster has endured. Its population continues to grow. It remains intimately intertwined with the soul of the Mississippi Delta, and that of her people, who have created amazing dishes from its flesh since the beginning of human history. Its hard shell protects a beautiful, delicate living force. We too protect a delicate part of ourselves, our emotional and sensitive side, which is integral to a healthy soul as the oyster to the Mississippi Delta.
The suit of oysters speaks on the emotional parts of the soul: love, feelings, romance, and connections to others. Once represented by cups, these cards reflect the elemental water sign, and the zodiac signs Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces.These cards offer reflection on how to navigate those emotions, and how they impact the people close to us. The individuals depicted in these cards are creatives, romantics, dreamers in touch with their emotional selves. Spreads with multiple Oyster cards suggest considering how you are relating to your emotional core, as it may be dominating your life in some way. Are you holding too much back, clamming up? Are you letting your emotions guide your actions over your mind? Are you drawing strength from your own emotional intellect, or letting it hold you back? These cards hold insight into how to approach these matters of the heart.
CAST IRONS
EARTH ✪ THE MATERIAL
Born from ore mined from deep within the Earth's crust, formed by the labor of human hands, the cast iron skillet is the lasting symbol of the Earth sign in the Delta Enduring Tarot. Cast iron skillets have been used for centuries to prepare amazing dishes around the globe, and have found their own culinary niche within the robust integrative history of Mississippi Delta cuisine. They distribute heat evenly across their surface. They keep food warm for those unable to partake in a meal right away. They provide a source of iron supplementation. They are practically unbreakable. That dark, well-greased skillet can conjure forth both the magic of food and the comfort of the cook, a venerable black cauldron in its own right. Such a powerful tool can become an heirloom in some families, passed down from generation to generation along with the recipes for Mawmaw's shrimp creole or coveted jalapeno cornbread. There is magic in the kitchen.
Cast iron skillets are representative of the element, Earth, associated with the zodiac signs Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn. The suit of cast irons relates to the realization and manifestation of our desires, prosperity, ego, and matters of vocation. Traditionally, the earth sign in the tarot has been symbolized by the "pentacle" or coin, a pentagram-clad piece of currency. This take on the Earth sign contextualizes our relationship to the material world within the confines of a capitalist system. Pentacle cards often glorify wealth and work, while displaying the lives of those in poverty or disability as symbols of misery (See the Five of Pentacles). There is so much more to our physical existence than what this classist reading of the tarot can give.
The Delta Enduring Tarot rejects a consumerist vision of the material world for a more nuanced understanding of how our spirits interact with our earthly resources. Coins are mined and minted, and then given or earned. They are inert, except when used to buy or sell. The cast iron skillet, unlike its pentacle counterpart, requires constant work to keep it well-seasoned,each use adding more flavor and history to its fine black patina. A well-seasoned cast iron skillet, like our relationship with the material world, is always a work in progress.
AIR ✪ THE INTELLECTUAL
The pursuit of knowledge is one of humanity's oldest drives, the distinct desire to see behind the veil. It is our understanding of the world around us that gives us our ability to solve problems, to see our way through challenges, and face the difficulties in our communities in a constructive, intersectional way. Knowledge should not be confused for intelligence or cognitive ability however. While some are privileged with these gifts, they are not necessary in a journey toward wisdom. It is not a formal education nor high IQ that dictates our ability to see the world with clarity and understanding.The pursuit of wisdom instead requires an openness to new experiences and outlooks, and the willingness to admit mistakes.
Many in power would like you to think otherwise, so it is no wonder the symbol for the air sign in the traditional tarot was the sword. Knowledge can be wielded like a weapon by those in control. Many cards in the suit of oysters speak of action,oppression, and force. Sometimes, these powers are external–incarceration, systemic racial oppression, violence. Other times, it is our own intelligence holding us back–overthinking, self deprecation, and doubt. It is the delicate balance between our intellect and our heart that makes these cards so important to consider.
Knowledge too can be a transient thing. There are times where we are listening intently, where we are reading and discovering new truths. In those moments our deep understanding can be powerful, empowering, and beautiful. There are also times when we are caught up in our own heads, the world moving too fast for us to keep up. There may be new ways of thinking or speaking about sensitive topics you may not know about. It's important to remember that the pursuit of knowledge is a lifelong process. There is always something to learn, even on topics which you may feel you're knowledgeable.
The beauty and fleeting nature of knowledge makes the moth an elegant symbol of intellectualism in the Delta Enduring Tarot. Beginning life as simple caterpillars, moths undergo a mysterious and energy intensive transformation. When they emerge, they have been completely changed, taking flight as they continue their journey toward furthering their species. Moths are drawn to light and illumination, often at the expense of their safety. It is important to remember that the desire for truth comes with its own risks.
The suit of moths represents the air signs, Gemini, Aquarius, and Libra. Moths reflect the analytical parts of our souls; our search for truth, our desire to find rational truth in the world. Moth people are great communicators, writers, and scientists. It is important, however, to remember that our intellect can only serve us if it is balanced by empathy (cups) and spiritual connectedness (oaks).
FIRE ✪ THE SPIRITUAL
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Q: Limit input symbols by square of textarea Is there a way to limit count of symbols by square of textarea.
For example when I enter some text in the textarea it should stop after the text reaches the end of its visible area(right bottom corner).
More details:
I want the input stops like on the screenshot below:

A: Wow - I had no idea that <textarea> supported an onoverflow and onoverflowchanged events:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOM_events
Plug in a JavaScript callback that annoys the user when they write one too many characters, and make the field about to overflow. And good luck characterizing the browser support for such a rare event...

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Responsa by R. Aaron David Deutsch, Balassagyarmat 1866 (2322900)
Responsa by R. Aaron David Deutsch, Balassagyarmat 1866
שו"ת מה"ר אהרן דוד דייטש בעמ"ס גורן דוד - Manuscript
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Title (English) Responsa by R. Aaron David Deutsch
Title (Hebrew) שו"ת מה"ר אהרן דוד דייטש בעמ"ס גורן דוד
Note Manuscript
City Balassagyarmat
Estimated Price - Low 4,000
Estimated Price - High 6,000
[7] pp., 447:285 mm., light age staining, ink on paper, bound in modern cloth over boards.
Chief Rabbi Aaron David Deutsch or Aharon David Deutsch (also known as Rabbi David Prag) z'tl was born in 1812, in Raudnitz, Bohemia (today Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic) - died at Balassagyarmat, on 26, April 1878.
He received his early education under his grandfather, Joseph Emanuel ben Menachem Deutsch, who was district rabbi (Bezirksrabbiner) in Raudnitz, and then frequented the yeshivot of Prague and Pozsony (Pressburg, today Bratislava, Slovakia) being one of the favored disciples of the famous Moses Schreiber (the "Chatam Sofer").
He lived subsequently in Albertirsa, where he married, and after the death of his wife moved to Budapest, where he lectured on Talmud to a small society in a yeshiva. In 1846 he was called as rabbi to Sebes and in 1851 to Balassagyarmat, where he officiated till his death. In the era of the Reform movement, and the Hungarian Jewish Congress of 1868, Deutsch was one of the most uncompromising and most important leaders of Orthodoxy; and the legal recognition of the autonomy of the Orthodox congregations in Hungary was largely due to his efforts.
It is worth mentioning that on 24 April 1869, he lead the visiting delegation of Orthodox rabbis to the Emperor and King, Franz Joseph I in the Royal Palace of Buda, where Rabbi Ktav Sofer (son of the Chatam Sofer) of Pozsony (Bratislava), Rabbi Menachem Asch of Ungvár, Rabbi Menachem Katz of Deutschkreutz (Németkeresztúr, Burgenland, Austria) were also present.
He confessed a strict Orthodox ideology, and was in sympathy with the Chasidism, although he did not adopt all their tenets. As typical of his views may be quoted the facts that he declared it sinful to pray in a synagogue in which the bimah was not in the center, and that he prohibited the winding up and setting of an alarm-clock on Friday so that it should ring on Saturday.
Of his works a collection of responsa, under the title "Goren David" (David's Threshing-Floor), was published after his death by his sons (Paks, 1885). After his death, his son Joseph Israel (Yosef Yisroel) Deutsch followed him as Chief rabbi (av beit din) of Balassagyarmat. Pilgrims from far and wide visit his grave to the Jewish Cemetery of Balassagyarmat.
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Q: Symfony CollectionType of Entities I'm working on a project on Symfony 3.4 without Doctrine (we use a homemade ORM similar to Eloquent) and have been stucked trying to make a CollectionType of an Entity I use : IntroductionSlide.
The form looks like this :

You can add or delete IntroductionSlides and each IntroductionSlide is defined only by its image. As the image depends on the locale, it's handled by a TranslatableImageType which creates a field per locale. Clicking on the little flag allows you to choose target locale's input field.
Here's what my code looks like :
The creation of the CollectionType :
case 'introduction_slides':
    $options['label'] = "Pages de présentation";
    $options['entry_type'] = IntroductionSlideType::class;
    $options['allow_add'] = true;
    $options['allow_delete'] = true;
    $options['attr']['class'] = "introduction-slides";
    $options['required'] = false;
    $this->form->add($field, CollectionType::class, $options);
    break;

The IntroductionSlideType :
<?php

namespace AppBundle\Form\Type;

use AppBundle\Model\IntroductionSlide;
use Symfony\Component\Form\AbstractType;
use Symfony\Component\OptionsResolver\OptionsResolver;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormView;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormBuilderInterface;

class IntroductionSlideType extends AbstractType
{
    public function buildView(FormView $view, FormInterface $form, array $options)
    {}

    public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
    {
        $options['mapped'] = false;
        $builder->add("images", TranslatableImageType::class, $options);
    }

    /**
     * @param OptionsResolver $resolver
     */
    public function configureOptions(OptionsResolver $resolver)
    {
        $resolver->setDefaults(array(
            'data_class' => IntroductionSlide::class,
        ));
    }
}

And The TranslatableImageType :
<?php

namespace AppBundle\Form\Type;

use AppBundle\EventSubscriber\StaticConfig;
use Symfony\Component\Form\AbstractType;
use Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\Type\FileType;
use Symfony\Component\OptionsResolver\OptionsResolver;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormView;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormBuilderInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\Image;

class TranslatableImageType extends AbstractType
{
    public function buildView(FormView $view, FormInterface $form, array $options)
    {
        $view->vars['locales'] = $options['locales'];
        $view->vars['locale'] = $options['locale'];
    }

    public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
    {
        $file_options = array_merge($options, $options["field_options"]);

        unset($file_options['locales'], $file_options['locale'], $file_options["field_options"]); // not valid text options
        $file_options['compound'] = false; // sub items are simple widgets

        $file_options['constraints'] = [new Image([
            'mimeTypes' => ["image/png", "image/jpg", "image/jpeg", "image/gif"],
            'mimeTypesMessage' => "Seul un fichier avec l'extension png, jpg, jpeg ou gif peut être uploadé.",
            "maxSize" => "7M",
            'maxSizeMessage' => "Ce fichier est trop volumineux ({{ size }} {{ suffix }}). La limite de volume est de {{ limit }} {{ suffix }}.",
        ])];

        foreach ($options['locales'] as $locale) {
            $file_options['attr']['lang'] = $locale;
            $builder->add($locale, FileType::class, $file_options);
        }
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    /**
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     */
    public function configureOptions(OptionsResolver $resolver)
    {
        $resolver->setDefaults(array(
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        ));

        $resolver->setDefaults(array(
            'locales' => StaticConfig::getLocales(),
            'locale' => StaticConfig::getLocale(),
            'field_options' => [],
        ));
    }

    public function getBlockPrefix()
    {
        return 'translatableImage';
    }
}

Here what I was thinking Symfony would do (with no data passed to the collection) :
 1. define a CollectionType
 2. define an IntroductionSlideType inside the CollectionType
 3. instanciate an empty IntroductionSlide and use is as data for the IntroductionSlideType
 4. create a field "images" to the builder and call $IntroductionSlide->getImages() to feed its value
 5. define a TranslatableImageType inside the IntroductionSlideType
 6. use $IntroductionSlide->getImages()'s returned value as data (contains an array of locale => image_name)
Instead, Symfony triggers an Exception :
Cannot read index "0" from object of type "AppBundle\Model\IntroductionSlide" because it doesn't implement \ArrayAccess.

I don't see why it would try to reach an index "0" in an IntroductionSlide.
Setting up a break-point showed me this happens when Symfony is trying to build the field "images" in IntroductionSlideType.
Adding $options['mapped'] = false; to $builder->add("images", TranslatableImageType::class, $options); makes it able to reach the view without triggering the Exception.
When submitting the form, after the data is processed by the Form component, here's what it looks like :


In October 1978, 334 evangelical leaders gathered in the city of Chicago to formulate what is now known as the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy. One of the younger attendees at that gathering was John MacArthur, who was just shy of a decade into his pastorate at Grace Community Church.
Those who formulated and signed the Chicago Statement did so in response to the large-scale assaults on biblical authority by theological liberals. Many of the signatories have since gone to heaven, but the statement lives on as their legacy. To this day, it continues to set the benchmark for what it means to hold to biblical inerrancy—Holy Scripture is God's written, errorless witness to Himself.
The great peril that the Chicago signers saw in 1978 was from an easily identifiable enemy—theological liberalism. The battle lines were drawn with two clear positions to choose from: evangelicals who submitted to the authority of Scripture or liberals who rejected it. But in more recent times, the battle has shifted increasingly away from conventional warfare to stealth attacks from soldiers wearing the same uniform.
Conservative evangelicals still love to open their doctrinal statements by professing their allegiance to biblical inerrancy. But as this series has demonstrated, making Scripture subservient to the demands of scientific theories, feminism, psychology, and other cultural pressures makes the truth of God's Word subjective and robs inerrancy of significant meaning.
Moreover, the propensity of so many evangelicals toward ecumenical compromise, and their reluctance to preach man's depravity, reveals an abject failure on their part to take the Bible seriously. What exactly does their professed allegiance to Scripture mean when they are so willing to either alter or ignore it?
Those affirmations and denials erect a protective perimeter around the doctrine of inerrancy. The examples of evangelical syncretism we have highlighted these last two weeks are obvious breaches of those guidelines, compromising the truth of Scripture and capitulating to worldly wisdom.
The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy is not inerrant. Its intent was to point people toward God's inerrant Word by helping define and shape the way we understand it.
Nor was inerrancy the invention of those 334 men who assembled in 1978. They codified the standard belief held throughout church history in response to heretics who denied it. Athanasius defeated Arius, Augustine defeated Pelagius, Luther defeated the Catholic Church, and Christ defeated the temptations of Satan in the wilderness—all of those victories were won by wielding the sword of the Spirit, as godly men relied on the plain and perfect teaching of God's inerrant Word.
Starting tomorrow, Grace Community Church and The Master's Seminary will host a four-day summit on inerrancy. Pastors and church leaders from all over the world will gather to extol and explain the authority, sufficiency, and reliability of Scripture; and defend it from new threats, including some we've recently discussed here.


As the spacecraft rover Curiosity sends us new photos of Mars, humanity is pondering the nature of life and the origins of the universe. By making a study of the heavens, these essayists also found inspiration for their beliefs. Click the links below to learn what they discovered.
Whether you call it a do-over or a mulligan, the philosophy of the second chance has saved many a sports endeavor, homework assignment, career, or relationship. To move beyond the mistake or failure and start fresh is an opportunity for redemption at its most fundamental level. Click the links below to read how these essayists have benefitted from a second chance.
Throughout his storied career at CBS, Edward R. Murrow hired a number of acclaimed producers and reporters, including William L. Shirer (pictured here with Murrow). This group came to be known as Murrow's Boys. Several of these journalists also contributed essays to the 1950s This I Believe series. Click the links below to read statements from these esteemed newsmen.
Many people say that listening to music is a very important part of their lives. And those who make music feel even stronger about its power to move them. For both famous musicians and the person sitting in the cubicle next to you, music can inspire some powerful beliefs.
Just like in the United States, teachers in China have asked their students to write This I Believe essays. The hopes and passions of these students are evident, even as they write in a second language. Click the links below to learn what these Chinese students believe.
Some may choose to dwell on the unfortunate evils of existence, but others — these writers among them — prefer to note the essentially good and decent side of humanity. Whether it be found in the simple gesture of holding a door open for someone or the gracious admittance of a stranger in need into one's home, these individuals manage to find decency in many places, even unlikely ones (compiled by This I Believe intern Colin Hanna).
The hot, thick air of summer provides the perfect breeding ground for thunderstorms. And in the driving rain and brilliant lightning, some people find the flash of inspiration. Click the links below to read what these essayists believe about summer storms.
What do parents hope to teach their children? Not the "sit up straight" or "eat your vegetables" messages, but the deeper lessons for a life well-lived. Click the links below to read the messages these parents are passing from one generation to the next.
Monty Python's Michael Palin has said, "Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected for the rest of my life." There's nothing like a good trip to see the sites, meet new people, and generally refresh the spirit. Click the links below to discover what these essayists believe about their travels.
When the founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. Many essayists for This I Believe share that dedication to the principles on which our country was created. Click the links below to see how a former President, a renowned comic book artist, and others explore their beliefs in freedom, democracy, and government.


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Voodoos 6th; Rock 17th in CJHL rankings
NOJHL NETWORK MEDIA UPDATE
Release Date: Monday, Nov. 28, 2016
SUDBURY – The Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League is once again represented by two clubs in the Canadian Junior Hockey League's Top 20 rankings in the latest weekly listings that were announced Monday.
Rolling right along riding a 17-game winning streak, the Powassan moved up another notch this week as they were tabbed sixth overall in the 132-team CJHL while the Timmins Rock earned a spot at No. 17.
Powassan's play has helped them expand their point lead in the overall NOJHL standings as they are now 10 clear of their closest rival with their league-best record of 24-3-1-0.
Timmins meanwhile has played few games than any club in the NOJHL to date and boasts the second-best winning percentage in the league at .740 trailing only the Voodoos .875 mark.
The Rock has gone 18-6-1-0 in their first 25 outings this season.
College Francais de Longueuil (LHJAAAQ) remains the No. 1 side in the CJHL once again this week followed by the Penticton Vees (BCHL) at No. 2 and the 2017 Dudley-Hewitt Cup host Trenton Golden Hawks (OJHL) at No. 3.
The following are the latest CJHL Top 20 rankings:
CJHL TOP 20 (As of Nov. 28, 2016)
RANK TEAM (LEAGUE) (LAST WEEK)
1. College Francais de Longueuil (LHJAAAQ) (1)
2. Penticton Vees (BCHL) (4)
3. Trenton Golden Hawks (OJHL) (6)
4. Georgetown Raiders (OJHL) (2)
5. Les Cobras de Terrebonne (LHJAAAQ) (5)
6. Powassan Voodoos (NOJHL) (7)
7. Steinbach Pistons (MJHL) (3)
8. Fort McMurray Oil Barons (AJHL) (8)
9. Wenatchee Wild (BCHL) (15)
10. Battlefords North Stars (SJHL) (9)
11. Brooks Bandits (AJHL) (13)
12. Whitby Fury (OJHL) (10)
13. Cobourg Cougars (OJHL) (HM)
14. Portage Terriers (MJHL) (NR)
15. Thunder Bay North Stars (SIJHL) (19)
16. Carleton Place Canadians (CCHL) (20)
17. Timmins Rock (NOJHL) (12)
18. Whitecourt Wolverines (AJHL) (14)
19. Pictou County Weeks Crushers (MHL) (HM)
20. Dryden GM Ice Dogs (SIJHL) (11)
Honourable Mention: Victoria Grizzlies (BCHL); Bonnyville Pontiacs (AJHL); Estevan Bruins (SJHL); Winkler Flyers (MJHL); Hawkesbury Hawks (CCHL)
ABOUT THE CJHL TOP 20 RANKINGS
The CJHL Top 20 weekly rankings are based upon a variety of factors, including the league in which the team plays, winning percentage, win-loss record, total points accumulated, goals-for versus goals-against ratio, etc.
ABOUT THE CJHL
The Canadian Junior Hockey League is a national organization comprised of all 10 Junior A hockey leagues in Canada.
The CJHL represents 132 teams and over 3,000 players and has just as many former players furthering their hockey careers at the professional, major junior and college level across North America.
For latest CJHL news and features, visit www.cjhlhockey.com and follow on Twitter at twitter.com/cjhlhockey or @cjhlhockey.
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Lake Natron is a salt lake located in northern Tanzania in Africa's Great Rift Valley, close to the Kenyan border. This shallow lake is less than 10 feet deep with a variable width that depends on its water level. The water level varies significantly between rainy and dry seasons.
As water evaporates during the dry season, salinity levels increase promoting growth of salt-loving microorganisms. These salt-loving organisms include cyanobacteria which use photosynthesis as plants do to produce energy. Red pigment in the cyanobacteria produces the deep reds of the open water and the orange hues of the shallows of the lake. These colors are characteristic of lakes with very high evaporation rates. In addition, the alkali salt crust on the surface of the lake is often colored red or pink by the cyanobacteria.
Lake Natron is the only breeding area for the 2.5 million endangered Lesser Flamingoes that live in the valley. As salinity and cyanobacteria increase, the flamingoes flock along saline lakes in the region to feed on Spirulina (a blue-green algae with red pigments). However, Lake Natron is the only breeding location for Lesser Flamingoes because its caustic environment is a barrier against predators trying to reach their nests.The temperatures in the mud can reach 50 degrees C (120 degrees F), and depending on rainfall, the alkalinity can reach a pH of 9 to 10.5 (similar to ammonia). Amazingly, an endemic species of fish, the alkaline tilapia, also thrives at the periphery of the hot spring inlets in these ordinarily inhospitable waters.
We had an ornithologist with us who explained that flamingoes actually originated in East Africa in this area. Flamingoes were imported to North Africa and the Romans imported them to raise them for their tongues as a delicacy…..hmmm. Spain imported flamingoes and then the US imported flamingoes from Spain to Florida, so our flamingoes actually originated in Africa. The only ones that did not are the pink plastic flamingoes we see in yards in Kentucky and rural Maryland. Anyway, they were really beautiful, especially as large flocks flying off to Ngorongoro right after sunset to feed.
The area around Lake Natron turns out to be exactly like the lake my son Tim and I visited a couple of years ago where we saw soda ash being mined at Lake Magadi. The soda ash mined at Lake Magadi is Kenya's most valuable mineral export.
Because of threats to the salinity balance from projected logging in Natron watersheds, a planned hydroelectric power plant, and proposed development of a soda ash plant at Lake Natron, Tanzania named the Lake Natron Basin to the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance on July 4, 2001. Destruction of this breeding site would be devastating to the Lesser Flamingo population.
The Ngare Sero Tented Camp was developed in 2004 around a recently discovered spring on private land leased from the Maasai in the sparsely inhabited northern border of Tanzania. This small comfortable camp is an attractive location for birders to view the flamingoes of Lake Natron and other bird species and animals attracted to the spring waters. In 2006, a Maasai herder tending the small herd of camels at the camp came across footprints in the volcanic ash about a 10 minute drive from the camp.Preliminary indications suggested that these prints were old enough to generate scientific interest. The first scientific evaluation of the prints occurred in August 2009 when a small group of scientists headed by Dr. Cindy Liutkus excavated and mapped the visible prints and uncovered several more.
Known fossil hominin footprint sites are extremely rare and range widely in age and location from about 350,000 years in Europe (1) to the most famous track dated to 3.6 million years in Tanzania (2). Footprints provide important information about the biomechanics and behavior of our bipedal ancestors (3-6) while clues about paleoenvironments, paleoclimate, and preservation mechanisms can be determined from studies of the geology surrounding footprint sites (5, 7-9).
There was lots of game around, including many wildebeest, zebra, giraffes, jackals, some oryx. I heard hyenas near the tent but did not see any. There were no large predators because the Maasai keep them out to protect their cattle. Lots of birds also, especially around the camp which was around a clear spring that created a small lake.
The camp was about a 10 min drive from the footprint site. The whole place is in the shadow of a large volcano, Oldoinyo Lengai, one of two active volcanoes in Africa. It was quite beautiful and the landscape had all kinds of large volcanic rocks that had been spewed out by the volcano.
"Ol Doinyo Lengai" means "Mountain of God" in the Maasai language. It is unique among active volcanoes because it produces a very rare type of volcanic carbonatite. Most lavas are rich in silicate minerals but the lava of Oldoinyo Lengai is rich in the rare sodium and potassium carbonates, nyerereite and gregoryite. This unusual composition produces lava erupted at relatively low temperatures (approximately 500-600 degrees C). Interestingly, this temperature is so low that the molten lava appears black in sunlight rather than the red glow associated with most lavas. It is also much more fluid than silicate lavas. The unusual combination of sodium and potassium carbonate minerals in lava formed by Oldoinyo Lengai is susceptible to rapid weathering and rapidly turns from black to grey in color creating a unique volcanic landscape. The chemical makeup of the lava has been compared to dish soap.
Volcanic activity in Oldoinyo Lengai caused daily earth tremors in Kenya and Tanzania beginning on July 12, 2007, and culminate in an eruption on September 4, 2007, which sent a plume of ash and steam 18 kilometers downwind and covered the north and west flanks in fresh lava flows. The eruption continued intermittently until late August 2008. Lava emission appears to have resumed from two vents in the floor of the new crater.
The footprint site was located in the shadow of this active volcano, in the middle of a windswept area intermittently inundated by floodwaters. The impressions in the volcanic ash are very well preserved with frequent exquisite detail; volcanic ash mixed with water makes cement. Rains often accompany a volcanic eruption so maybe that was the source of water. Right next to the ash was a lava flow so it may very well be that there are more prints under the old flow. The lava actually had large rocks that had been shot out of the volcano and made a still visible splash as they landed. The rocks (called pyroclasts) were a little bit elongated because they stretched and cooled as they were shot out of the volcano. Very interesting indeed.
There were about 25 prints when we arrived, heading in a direction away from the volcano. There were only 6 of us, including 2 Tanzanians from the Department of Antiquities, so the excavation and documentation kept us quite busy. We uncovered over 30 more prints for a total of 58 (I found about 8 or 9 myself), many of them in excellent shape. We had to shovel first gently, then brush, then chip the layer of ancient sediment above the ash gently to find prints. It was thrilling to uncover a curve that turned out to be a toe or heel. There were at least 3 individuals, probably 2 men and a woman. The woman's track was 20 meters long, amazing (they almost named her Susanna after my daughter but will probably give her a Maasai name); I actually uncovered 6 of these. One man had about a size 13 or 14 foot and a stride 6 inches longer than mine so he must have been 6'3″ or so, very unusual because the humans of that era were thought to be shorter, about 5'6″ or so. The other man (presumably) seems to have been close to 6'0″ with about a size 10 foot. We measured each print, all the stride lengths, and charted and photographed them. The tracks appear to go right under a sand dune so there are probably many more still there, making this a multi-year project.
It is speculated that these human prints may be the finest in the entire world of any age. Many prints had all the toes clearly visible. They appear to be the oldest modern human (Homo sapiens) prints but that will await confirmation of the samples of ash that we obtained. Preliminary sampling has placed the age of the footprints at approximately 80,000 years old, based on five 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating experiments on biotite separated from the footprint ash. Current fossil and genetic evidence point to the origin of modern humans in Africa about 200,000 years ago, suggesting the footprints most likely originate from Homo sapiens and, therefore, would be the oldest known footprints of our species. These footprints will be studied in detail to reconstruct gait, speed, and tentative body weight and height. Chemical composition of the ash will be compared to that of the regional volcanoes to determine the origin of the footprint-bearing ash. The findings will be submitted to one of the most prestigious scientific journals.
After 6 days and delightful visits from the Maasai elders in the surrounding villages who promised to guard the prints, we left for Arusha. On the way, we stopped at Laetoli, the site of the oldest and most famous human prints, dating from 3.6 million years to very early ancestors of humans, the australopithecines. These print tracks are much shorter in length and now have been covered up since 1997 to protect them. However, the dirt used for cover had seeds in it and acacia trees sprung up causing root damage to the site. So a big controversy now is how to protect the prints we found and there is much speculation about how to do that. The president of Tanzania has declared that they cannot be covered so the public cannot see them. It is a biq question that is not answered yet.
We also had a great side trip to Olduvai Gorge, the most famous site of early human fossils starting with the Leakeys in the 1930s and 40s. Louis Leakey's son Richard, a very famous paleoanthropologist now about 65, has continued the work for almost 50 years. He was a speaker at the conference in Arusha that we attended after coming back where Dr. Liutkus presented the preliminary findings from our field work. He is a good friend of Dr. Rick Potts (Director of the Human Origins Program at The Smithsonian and close friend) and first suggested to Rick that Olorgesailie in the Kenyan Rift Valley area was a potentially good site over 20 yrs ago. It has been highly productive.
The trip home was LONG but uneventful, it was good to get home. I was ready for a good burger and pizza. It will be intriguing to see how this anthropological gold mine is further excavated and preserved.
1. Mietto, P., Avanzini, M. and Rolandi, G., 2003, Palaeontology: Human footprints in Pleistocene volcanic ash: Nature, v. 422, p. 133.
2. Leakey, M.D., and Hay, R.L., 1979, Pliocene footprints in the Laetolil Beds at Laetoli, northern Tanzania: Nature, v. 278, p. 317-323.
3. Behrensmeyer, A.K., and Laporte, L.F., 1981, Footprints of a Pleistocene hominid in northern Kenya: Nature, v. 289, p. 167-169.
4. Charteris, J., Wall, J.C., and Nottrodt, J.W., 1981, Functional reconstruction of gait from the Pliocene hominid footprints at Laetoli, northern Tanzania: Am J Phys Anthropol, v. 58, 133-144.
5. Leakey, M.D., 1987, The hominid footprints: in Laetoli, A Pliocene site in northern Tanzania (Leakey, M.D., and Harris, J.M., eds.), Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 584 pp.
6. Raichlen, D.A., Pontzer, H., and Sockol, M.D., 2008, The Laetoli footprints and early hominin locomotor kinematics: Journal of Human Evolution, v. 54, p. 112-117.
7. Laporte, L.F., and Behrensmeyer, A.K., 1980, Tracks and substrate reworking by terrestrial vertebrates in Quaternary sediments of Kenya: Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, v. 50, p. 1337-1346.
8. Deocampo, D.M., 2002, Sedimentary structures generated by Hippopotamus amphibius in a lake-margin wetland, Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania: Palaios, v. 17, p. 212-217.
9. Ashley, G.M., and Liutkus, C.M., 2002, Tracks, trails, and trampling by large vertebrates in a rift valley paleo-wetland, lowermost Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: Ichnos, v. 9, p. 23-32.


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Matthew Bronfman's Booze Bought Behemoths
Yesterday Your Mama discussed the sprawling spread on Fifth Avenue that Seagram booze empire scion Edgar Bronfman Jr. is reported to be purchasing. Today we will chat about the real estate transactions of another Bronfman brother, this time Matthew.
First up the Upper East Side townhouse, and second up the legendary Fifth Avenue apartment the booze heir is reported to be purchasing.
SELLER: Matthew Bronfman
LOCATION: 7 East 67th Street, New York, NY
PRICE: $33,000,000 (sale price)
SIZE: 9,733 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms
DESCRIPTION: A 25 room mansion, with a superb limestone facade, set up on 6 levels plus a full basement, serviced by an elevator, and a sweeping staircase. Airy elegance throughout. The house consists of a baronial Living Room, FDR, 6 Brs, 8 Baths, a dramatic double height panelled library, 2 family rooms, a huge family kitchen, generous staff quarters. It features a glass enclosed 4 story atrium, a magical roof garden overgrown with ivy and climbing roses, a private terrace with outside fireplace, sophisticated and truly distinguished heating and A/C systems, soaring ceilings throughout, gracious moldings…
YOUR MAMAS NOTES: A couple of days ago Mister Max Abelson at the New York Observer, one of the high priests of celebrity real estate gossips, reported that Matthew Bronfman, younger brother to the more well known Edgar Jr., finally sold his East 67th Street townhouse for a hair raising $33,000,000. Starting in 2002, in the scandalous wake of his social butterfly wife Lisa Belzberg reportedly having an affair with Bill Clinton, the investment banker/real estate developer has had the townhouse on and off the market at several different prices. Bronfman reconciled with and then deevorced Belzberg before marrying another woman in 2005. We've heard Mister Bronfman is dee-vorced from this woman too. Phew!
Finally, after RAISING the asking price to $36,000,000, along comes another stinking rich banker who is reportedly snapping the place up for a record breaking $33,000,000. What makes the price record breaking you might ask? In the splitting hairs world of New York real estate, $33M is the highest price ever paid for a townhouse LESS than 26 feet wide. Whoopee!
Mister Abelson reports that the lucky and loaded Mister Bronfman paid just $3,000,000 for the property in 1994 having purchased the house from The Foundation for Depression & Manic Depression, Inc., which is an organization only someone like our Dr. Cooter could love.
Anyhoo, Mister Bronfman and his allegedly cuckolding wife spent many, MANY millions on renovations by a top notch New York firm who turned the six story townhouse into a huge and well organized machine for entertaining and impressing other socialites and Wall Street tycoons, not to mention raising and housing a startling number of children (7).
The floor plan shows a fairly typical program for the layout and flow of a big ass New York townhouse, with public spaces occupying much of the ground and first floors, private quarters for the family above, and naturally, dark and nearly windowless staff room rooms in the basement. Your Mama couldn't be more pleased to see an elevator servicing all six floors of the mansion. There is nothing more we'd like to do than slowly and gracefully glide DOWN that gorgeous elliptical staircase, but we'd have a coronary climbing back UP that spectacular feat of engineering.
On the ground floor, a grand entry reinforces to guests and the Chinese food delivery people that you have mounds of money. So much money in fact that you can comfortably have the audacity to place a horrid artwork above the fireplace that puts the bubbly backsides of a number of muscle queens right at eye level. If you're a visiting David Geffen you might appreciate it, if you're Barbara Walters come for dinner, not so much.
Up on the fifth floor a double height, very dignified, and fully panelled library has been fitted with a massive Palladian window and a pair of leather club chairs. Libraries are customary in the mansions and apartments of well to do New Yorkers all up and down the Upper East Side, but even Your Mama has to confess this library is swoon worthy. We don't care for 85% of the furniture, but the room itself is is truly magnificent.
Another feature we'd like to point out is the expansive roof terrace. The listing says it's a overgrown with ivy and climbing roses, which probably does look very pretty in an English sort of way. But if you ask Your Mama, and no one did, a garden spilling over with roses is not a good thing. Who needs their skin to be all poked and scratched while trying to sunbathe in the nood up on the roof?
Because it's what people with extreme amounts of money do, we expect the new owner, a Charles Murphy, will hire his own team of uber educated and hugely paid architects and decorators to do this place over from basement to roof terrace. Your Mama just hopes he has the good sense to leave the stair case, the elevator, and the marvelous library alone.
Sources: On the Inside, New York Observer
BUYER: Matthew Bronfman
SELLER: Estate of Anne Slater
LOCATION: 998 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
PRICE: $17,700,000 (list price), $2,571 (monthly maintenance)
SIZE: 5 bedrooms, 7.5 bathrooms
DESCRIPTION: Live within the walls of this magnificent designed simplex with all the Standford White details intact. This 3-6 bedroom residence is light flooded and fabulous for large scale entertaining or intimate gatherings. The apartment offers remarkable views of the architecture of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is a one of a kind offering of New York's most gracious rooms in one of the city's most significant residential buildings.
YOUR MAMAS NOTES: After a very long time sitting on the market, and despite heavy press coverage, someone has finally agreed to purchase New York fashion diva and society icon Anne Slater's legendary Fifth Avenue time capsule. According to a recent article in New York Magazine by S. Joanna Robledo that buyer is Matthew Bronfman, who is reported to be purchasing the sprawling apartment in the Italianate palazzo style building that is known as being one of the best buildings in New York City. Miz Robledo states in her article that Mister Bronfman is believed to be paying close to the $17,700,000 asking price.
Well known among the hoity–toity set for her cobalt blue tinted glasses and raucous after hours parties where guests played Ping-Pong, the old and still fabulous Miz Slater hosted all the East Coast blue bloods as well as a healthy and impressive contingent of Hollywood types like Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Fred Astaire, as well as the enormously and famously endowed Porfirio Rubirosa. The stately building was built in 1910 and originally housed exorbitantly rich rental tenants with names like Astor and Guggenheim. Old Miz Slater, also originally a rental tenant, moved in to the building in 1953, but shortly after moving in the building went co-op and she purchased her apartment where she's been ever since.
One enters the u-shaped simplex apartment through a long and glitzy gallery with a gorgeous honey combed ceiling, steel grey panelled walls, and a built in bar. We hope that Mr. Bronfman will at least consider keeping the entrance gallery bar because it's truly an inspired and fantastic idea. Because, let's face it, sometimes these Fifth Avenue bitches just need to come home and first thing grab a nice stiff cocktail to take the edge off of the stress and frustration from all the snotty sales gurls and bitchy shoe queens at Bergdorfs and Barney's.
We're not going to spend much time discussing the decor of Old Miz Slater's apartment. No babies, this monochromatic beige decor would not cut it in today's world, not with all the Diamond/Barattas and Miles Redds plying their colorful trade. However, when Sister Parish, or some other 1950s decorator du jour, conceived and executed this beige on beige fest it must have been terribly chic in that old fashioned upper crust upper east side sort of way.
From the photos, it appears the acres of buff colored carpeting, the buff colored walls, and the buff colored furniture have not been touched since Old Miz Slater had it done a thousand years ago. And in fact, an article in New York Magazine states that the apartment, while grand in scale, is as old fashioned as they come with the original fixturing in the bathrooms and kitchen, including a stove that dates from the teens. Guess Miz Slater didn't ask her staff to cook much the last fifty years or so.
What Your Mama really wants to know though, is where is Mister Matthew Bronfman going to put all his damn children? After living in 14,000 square feet of townhouse opulence, this place is going to seem downright closet like, particularly to a family of nine that surely includes full time staff. With just three principle bedrooms and four staff rooms, it's hard to imagine how Mr. Bronfman's team of architects and decorators are going to slice, dice and reconfigure Old Miz Slater's party palace into an apartment that will comfortably fit their Brady Bunch. A quick glance over the floor plan reveals that most of the Bronfman babies, at least those still living at home, will need to be housed back in the staff quarters behind the kitchen. Or at distant boarding schools. Or, are the Bronfmans hoping to buy the adjacent apartment and combine the two into one gargantuan Fifth Avenue aerie?
One note: the monthly maintenance on the huge apartment seems extremely low at just $2,571 per month. Could this be a misprint, or are the financials of this building so stellar that the maintenance is just a quarter of what one might expect in one of the finest full service buildings lining Fifth Avenue?
Just as Miz Slater lived among the richest people of her time, Mister Bronfman and family will also live among the world's richest people including billionaire Len Blavatnik and corporate raider Mark Rachesky.
Sources: New York Magazine, Streeteasy
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Born on the Gower and graduating in Mech Eng from University of Wales, Swansea, James joined Rover Group's component plant in Llanelli (now called CalsonicKansei) in 1989. In 2006 he was appointed Head for CalsonicKansei Europe (plc). From 2011 he was appointed the first non-Japanese Corporate Officer of Calsonic Kansei Corporation, based in Europe and Japan. His last role was SVP of HE Business and Head of Global Sales ($10bn turnover) in Japan.
In April 2017, he became Executive Chair of Industry Wales, to bring the Voice of Industry to Welsh Government. Industry Wales is also the umbrella body of ESTnet, WAF and AFW. An Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, he also previously sat on advisory bodies for Autocouncil, universities and the Board of SMMT. James is a member of the WG Ministerial Economic Advisory Board and Foundational Economy Sub Group.
James is also a Board Member, Higher Education Funding Council for Wales; Member of the Economy Strategy Board, Swansea Bay City Deal; Member of ministerial Valleys Taskforce and Member of Strategy Advice Group, Tech Valleys.


The Internet Archive has gone live with a collection of nearly 2,400 MS-DOS games that are playable directly in your browser. The gory details of the project can be found over at the blog of the man behind the project, Jason Scott, but the long and short of it is that now anyone can play games like Duke Nukem 3D, Lemmings 2, The Lost Vikings, Cannon Fodder 2, Wolfenstein 3D, The Incredible Machine 2, Total Carnage, Tyrian, Red Baron and Raptor—Call of the Shadows without installing DOSbox or even a browser plugin. The list of games goes on and on, but really, if you're looking at a list of DOS games, you're looking for the trilogy that defined a generation's cereal buying habits. So, yes, Chex Quest 1-3 are all available right in your browser. Go zorch some flemoids, Chex Warrior.


Anxiety can cause a person to silently battle behind closed doors. Racing thoughts, low self-worth, and anxious energy can make the individual behave other than themselves. Being on the receiving end of this behavior can be frustrating, but keeping the following quote in mind can aid in easing our reacting temper.
"You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving." Perfectly stated by Navid Negahban, this is the ideal reminder when placed into these circumstances. The following rude behaviors/actions are commonly expressed by those who suffer from anxiety.
Another participant states that when faced with conversation, they can be rude and short with people as a type of "defense mechanism". Especially during periods of high anxiety, feeling extremely vulnerable during conversation is uncomfortable and in a sense, frightening.
Have you ever met someone and truly enjoyed their company? Perhaps you have asked to grab a coffee with them; however, they tend to either have an excuse, agree to the plan and cancel last minute, or just not show up. It is possible that they experience severe anxiety that causes them to rudely cancel plans that they were initially interested in.
Consider yourself lucky if your friend with anxiety has decided to join you at a social gathering. Knowing that this sort of situation can be debilitating for them, they still showed without canceling. But, sometimes they may catch you off guard and say something along the lines of, "I'm really sorry about this, but my friend just called and really needs my help at the moment, I need to head out earlier than planned;" or, "My sibling isn't feeling well, just received a call from them that they need me home." These constant actions and excuses can be due to underlying anxiety.
Are they ignoring you? Do they no longer want to communicate? If you are aware of their anxious behavior, they most likely still want a friendship. Their anxiety holds them back from responding to text messages or returning phone calls. If they engage in such, they will experience the dreadful symptoms of anxiety, which would much rather be avoided.


Are you looking for photography classes in Morton IL? No matter if you are a hobbyist, professional, or beginner, the most effective way to improve your photography technique is through hands-on classes with professional instructors.
Illinois has many accredited and recognized photography schools. Topics covered in photography classes include portrait capture, exposure and composition, lighting, posing and unposing, and other photography fundamentals. Being an expert photographer can result in a booming professional career or lifelong hobby.


Recipe links for the women's conference are at the end.
Early that morning, I went and picked up the 20 boxes of spinach and my husband went the other direction and picked up the 30 dozen rolls; we met at the stake center.
Here's a photo of the wrapped cakes (11 batches of a triple-layer cake) and the vats of cream (for the ganache icing).
First step: Lora paints the "jam" on top of the cake. It's really just the orange juice, mixed with a small amount of sugar and boiled down by two-thirds.
Cake is glazed, and now she's going to put the prepared kumquat garnish on top.
Cake decorated with almonds and ready to go out. They'd be cut on the table, so we added a little sign to go with our RS Bistro theme.
Sue washes the tomatoes, in preparation for the making of the garnishes.
It was hard to get snapshots as we were all so busy, but I managed to capture Jana, Kristen and Sue spearing the tomatoes and cornichons (little French sour pickles).
Dave and Carrie sliced open all thirty dozen rolls, then stuffed them with lunchmeats: ham or turkey.
All the salads we'd asked for showed up, and they were beautiful! So the scene shifts here, to our prep table. Robyn and Jana put out the spinach on the plates. The salads and sandwiches are added, then topped with the garnish.
All hands on deck! The women in charge of the conference had set up all the tables and chairs, set the tables and made the floral decorations. It all looked so lovely.
Plates ready to go out on the tables.
We had a combination of round tables and long tables.
A couple more photos of the luncheon.
It is satisfying to take a look at this shot and realize all the hard work that has gone into this event. We had over 15 salad makers, 8 members of our kitchen crew, 8 more helpers from a neighboring congregation. This doesn't even factor in all the countless hours spent by the organizers of this event: those who got the conference together, those who presented the workshops and the many who set up the physical needs of the conference in terms of tables, linens, and so much else. Thank you to all!
There are two versions of each salad recipe on this website.
Here is the link to the WOMEN'S CONFERENCE Quinoa Sping Salad version, with lots of step by step photos; this salad makes 45 1/2-cup servings, or enough to feed a crowd.
Here is the link to the ORIGINAL version of Quinoa, Corn and Edamame Salad; it makes enough for 4-6 people, plus a little about the origins of the recipe.
Here is the link to the WOMEN'S CONFERENCE Confetti Pasta Salad version, with lots of step by step photos; this salad makes 45 1/2-cup servings, or enough to feed a crowd.
Here is the link to the ORIGINAL version of Confetti Pasta Salad; it makes enough for 4-6 people, plus a little about the origins of the recipe.
Here's the recipe for the Orange-Almond Cake, and the link to icing is on that post.


Hopefully Boston drivers have a healthy queue of podcasts to listen to because they're spending more time locked in traffic.
Congestion into and around Boston got worse in 2017, with the average driver spending 60 hours stuck in traffic during the year — two more hours than in 2016. That's according to annual rankings released by INRIX, a firm that studies transportation data.
By that measure, Boston now has the seventh-worst traffic in the country, leapfrogging past Dallas after ranking eighth in 2016. Boston drivers also spend 14 percent of their overall driving time in congested traffic, tying it for worst in the country on that measure.
The study came the same week a survey from a regional planning agency suggested Uber and Lyft rides are making Boston's gridlock worse.
Los Angeles's infamous traffic is still the worst in the country, INRIX found, with drivers spending 102 hours in traffic last year. New York ranked second, followed by San Francisco, Atlanta, Miami, and Washington, D.C.
INRIX's data made an appearance in Boston's bid to host Amazon's second headquarters. The city said its 2016 rank as eighth-worst in the nation wasn't so bad and noted that time spent in congestion had decreased by six hours, from 64 to 58, over a little more than a decade.
But with things getting a little worse since, the city now probably owes Amazon a few edits on those traffic levels as it enters the next round of the headquarters sweepstakes.
The "high-speed" trolley line between Mattapan and Ashmont has always been something of a misnomer. But things have been moving slower than usual of late since a late-December crash took two of the line's 72-year-old trolleys out of service.
Now just four trolleys are operating on the 2.5-mile link, meaning longer waits for passengers between trips.
The T is planning to mix and match parts from the two trolleys damaged in the crash, as well as a pair of other trolleys on the disabled list because of mechanical issues, ultimately bringing two vehicles back to service. That won't be until the summer.
Meanwhile, the T will also spend nearly $8 million to repair deteriorating roofs and other equipment issues on the old Mattapan fleet. That work is expected to be completed throughout 2019 and would extend the trolleys' life by another six years or so, MBTA Deputy General Manager Jeff Gonneville said.
This all comes as the MBTA awaits the results of a study due this spring that will consider what the agency should do with the line. In the past, officials have floated the idea of replacing the fleet with new trolleys, or with buses. Standard Red Line subway cars cannot operate on the trolley line for several reasons, including the lack of an electrified third rail.
Abandoning trolleys for buses would almost certainly be met with some neighborhood resistance.
But even a decision to replace the existing old fleet could get some pushback. While commuters cheer plans to replace the Red and Orange line trains, the Mattapan line's trolleys are treated with an antique reverence by some advocates and elected officials.
Ah, the big transit hubs around Boston: Back Bay . . . Kendall Square . . . Lynn Waterfront?
A new transit study from the business group A Better City identified Lynn and several other outlying areas as upcoming areas for economic growth in the Boston area, suggesting they will need transportation improvements to sustain the growth.
Suffolk Downs, Lower Allston, and the neighborhoods surrounding Somerville's Green Line extension are high-profile areas primed for major development and were all noted in the report. But the study also cited parts of Lynn, Waltham, Mattapan, and Malden as areas that will develop alongside transit in the coming years.
■ Redesigning commuter rail service to provide frequent trips from urban areas like Lynn or Allston, or on the Fairmount Line, as well as more regular service out to the suburbs.
Some of these are already in the works. The state is exploring new ferry routes, lobbying cities to create bus-only lanes, and undertaking a long-term study on how to better use the commuter rail system.


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use Doctrine\ORM\QueryBuilder;
use Sylius\Component\Product\Repository\ProductVariantRepositoryInterface as BaseProductVariantRepositoryInterface;

interface ProductVariantRepositoryInterface extends BaseProductVariantRepositoryInterface
{
    public function createInventoryListQueryBuilder(string $locale): QueryBuilder;
}


If you are a smoker then you probably realize just how expensive a pack of cigarettes are. In the United States, a pack can go from anywhere between four and nine dollars. To be perfectly in the middle, this study will use $6.50 as a baseline calculation on how much a pack costs you. You probably have your favorite pack down to the cent, so if you want to follow along, just plug that number in instead of the base. Now, how much cheaper is vaping (and we are talking about just starting with the vape itself and no other factors).
The more you smoke, the more expensive it is. If you smoke a pack each day, over the course of the year, $2,372 will go up in smoke. Some people smoke more, others less, but going with $2,400 will give a good annual amount. With twelve months in a year that is an easy $200, you will spend each month supporting your habit. The main difference between vaping and smoking as far as costs go is the startup cost.
With vaping, you can spend anywhere from $60 to $200 just to get started for the first week. You might say, woah, that is as much as I spend in a month. While that is accurate, once you have the vaping device of your choice, you enter a maintenance mode. Most vapes have two primary costs associated with them, the cost of the coils, the heater part that vaporizes the liquid, and the liquid itself. This is where the math gets fancy.
Starting with the vape itself, a good startup can be purchased for 60$. This will usually come with everything you need to vape plus an extra coil or two. You may have to replace a coil each month or every other month depending on how much you vape and the model. Coils are fairly cost effective normally ranging about 2 to 3 bucks per coil. Talk with a local shop on pricing. That means the vape total will be 60$ plus a generous calc of 3$ per month, or $36 a year.
The biggest cost of vaping comes with the price of the e-liquid. Depending on how much you smoke, one bottle can last anywhere from two to three weeks. If you drop 15 to 20 dollars on each bottle it adds up over the course of the year. For prosperity calculation, say you get one every two weeks for 20 bucks each. That equates to a grand total of 26 x 20 or $520 each year. For those of you following along, something might have just clicked.
Taking the starting costs of 60 plus 36 for the coils and 520 for the vape juice brings you to a whopping $614 for the year! This is a quarter of the costs of buying packs of cigarettes each day and sending it up in smoke. Now as a disclaimer, the prices are going to vary on how much you smoke, what brands you use and how much cigarettes cost in your part of the world. Overall though, the price does not compare with how much you save while vaping.
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Synonym of Berberis napaulensis (DC.) Spreng.
Ahrendt, L. W. A. 1961. Berberis and Mahonia a taxonomic revision J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 57:312.
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Q: Reading a specific line in Julia Since I'm new in Julia I have sometimes obvious for you problems.
This time I do not know how to read the certain piece of data from the file i.e.:
...
      stencil: half/bin/3d/newton
      bin: intel
Per MPI rank memory allocation (min/avg/max) = 12.41 | 12.5 | 12.6 Mbytes

Step TotEng PotEng Temp Press Pxx Pyy Pzz Density Lx Ly Lz c_Tr

  200000    261360.25    261349.16    413.63193    2032.9855    -8486.073    4108.1669
  200010    261360.45    261349.36    413.53903    22.925126   -29.762605    132.03134
  200020    261360.25    261349.17    413.46495    20.373081   -30.088775     129.6742

Loop

What I want is to read this file from third row after "Step" (the one which starts at 200010 which can be a different number - I have many files which stars at the same place but from different integer) until the program will reach the "Loop". Could you help me please? I'm stacked - I don't know how to combine the different options of julia to do it...

A: Here is one solution. It uses eachline to iterate over the lines. The loop skips the header, and any empty lines, and breaks when the Loop line is found. The lines to keep are returned in a vector. You might have to modify the detection of the header and/or the end token depending on the exact file format you have.
julia> function f(file)
           result = String[]
           for line in eachline(file)
               if startswith(line, "Step") || isempty(line)
                   continue # skip the header and any empty lines
               elseif startswith(line, "Loop")
                   break # stop reading completely
               end

               push!(result, line)
           end
           return result
       end
f (generic function with 2 methods)

julia> f("file.txt")
3-element Array{String,1}:
 "200000 261360.25 261349.16 413.63193 2032.9855 -8486.073 4108.1669"
 "200010 261360.45 261349.36 413.53903 22.925126 -29.762605 132.03134"
 "200020 261360.25 261349.17 413.46495 20.373081 -30.088775 129.6742"


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Whipsnade Zoo: Conserving elephants
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by Malcolm Fitzpatrick, ZSL Chief Curator
Recent reports have claimed that elephants should be banned from zoos. ZSL's Chief Curator Malcolm Fitzpatrick explains why a ban on keeping elephants isn't the solution, and how zoos like Whipsnade are ensuring the future survival of these irreplaceable creatures.
I've cared for elephants for much of my career, and these magnificent animals will never cease to amaze me. Their gentle nature and deep bonds are fascinating, and I'm proud to work for a zoo where a rich understanding of these animals informs every aspect of their care - their needs come first, all day, every day.
Whipsnade Zoo – Caring for and conserving elephants
ZSL Whipsnade Zoo is home to a herd of Asian elephants. We're committed to providing a home for elephants where they can live their fullest lives, in a healthy, safe and enriching environment, now and in the future.
As a global conservation charity, with everything we do deeply-rooted in science and based on evidence, we believe we provide the best care for our herd of elephants at Whipsnade Zoo, all the while helping to ensure the future of their species in the wild through our global conservation projects.
Whipsnade's Family Herd
While Asian elephants are identifiable by their smaller stature and features than their African cousins, their personalities are just as big, and their daily care is tailored to meet their specific needs. Looked after by a team of expert keepers, our Asian elephants are given choice and variety throughout their day, deciding, for example, when they eat and where they sleep, and if they want to be outside or in. We do regular training to help us when we need to carry out health checks or weigh them, but if they don't want to take part in a training session, they don't.
Their large home, which includes a deep sand-filled indoor space, providing comfort and enrichment for the elephants - keepers will pile the sand into mounds for the younger members of the herd to roll on or knock down or to simply give a much-needed scratch on the back for the adults – is nestled among multiple paddocks.
Our family herd, made up of seven individuals, comprises of male Ming Jung, matriarchs Kaylee and Lucha, adult females Karishma and Donna, our youngster Elizabeth, and our newest arrival, Donna's daughter. The third in a matriarchal family line here at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo, she'll grow up being nurtured and learning from her mum Donna and grandmother Kaylee, as well as her 'aunts' and 'cousins' in the herd.
Kaylee and Lucha will both turn 40 this year, and while Kaylee has just become a grandmother, these two females are still very much in their prime. A healthy herd includes multi-generational family members, and that's exactly where Whipsnade's group is headed.
The Species360 Conservation Science Alliance is reviewing the most recent data on elephants in zoos and early findings confirm that the ever increasing standards of care are leading to increasing longevity of elephants. We expect to see all of our elephants living long lives, well into their fifties and beyond, and we hope to see our herd grow further as our elephants mature, and our current youngsters become parents.
This hope is echoed in our future plans for Whipsnade's elephant habitat. We intend to significantly increase their already spacious home by more than tripling the size, and alongside the expansion of their outdoor areas, we'll create brand new indoor spaces – accommodating a growing herd and allowing us even more opportunity to grow our conservation efforts.
Zoos are leading on elephant conservation
Whipsnade Zoo doesn't just support elephant conservation elsewhere, we're doing it. Every visit to see our elephants is an act of support for their conservation, providing vital funds to continue our work.
Our elephants play an active role in developing new conservation technology, they contribute to vital veterinary advancements and help conservationists through behavioural and scientific studies – all of which are applied to efforts to preserve elephants in the wild.
One of the key ways ZSL and other elephant conservationists monitor elephant populations in forests where even animals as large as elephants can't be seen easily is to take samples from their dung and extract 'genetic fingerprints.' But one of the big challenges is how best to preserve the dung samples until they reach the laboratory. So ZSL staff at Whipsnade Zoo are taking advantage of having a ready supply of fresh dung to test the best methods of preserving samples and to assess how long the samples can be stored before analysis. This work will be help elephant conservationists across Asia and Africa better monitor and conserve wild elephant populations.
Historically, wild elephants and humans have coexisted with relatively little conflict but as the elephants' habitat is shrinking rapidly, it's forcing them into closer proximity with humans, and increasing the risk and severity of human-wildlife conflict. Often destroying farmer's crops or trampling their land, the elephants face being shot or trapped by farmers who need to protect their precious livelihoods.
Over the past two years 30,000 thermal images of the elephants at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo have been taken, and this vast image library isn't just a collection of fascinating pictures – it also has a vital purpose. In a bid to tackle human wildlife conflict, we've led the development of an affordable technology solution, the HEAT project, that uses thermal cameras to identify the heat signature of elephants – put simply, these images were taken to help computers learn what an elephant looks like.
ZSL researchers, working with zookeepers and the Arribada Initiative, set up thermal cameras to collect the tens of thousands of images of elephants needed for to accurately confirm the presence of an elephant. The camera system is able to detect elephants 24/7 as it can 'see' the thermal shape of elephants (even in the dark), sending an alert to people living around elephants so they can avoid any conflict situations.
Just recently we launched a new study, to help us better understand elephant behaviour in the wild.
Whipsnade's conservation researchers hid palm-sized recording devices within the habitat of Whipsnade Zoo's herd of six Endangered Asian elephants, to capture both the audible sounds and ultrasonic frequencies they made. Visual assessments of the herd's behaviours were simultaneously recorded by the Zoo's specialist elephant keepers and researchers, and then tallied up with the sound recordings, to give conservationists a picture of what each sound might indicate about elephant behaviour and communication.
The first time that this type of small, acoustic loggers have been used with elephants in a zoo, we're already seeing exciting results. So far, our recordings reveal four distinct sounds made by the Zoo's herd of Asian elephants; a 'trumpet', a 'rumble', a 'roar' and a 'chirp' – which we can link to specific behaviour and share with our colleagues working in the field.
Reintroducing elephants to the wild
A question sometimes asked of us, is why don't you return elephants to the wild? The simple answer is that it wouldn't be right for the elephants.
Reintroductions are an incredibly complex process – they need careful planning and preparation to ensure that the animals you're releasing can survive in their new environment, they don't come into conflict with humans, and, importantly, that they don't cause any harm to precious ecosystems that are already under threat, for example by introducing disease that could harm local wildlife. ZSL works on the Disease Risk Analysis and Health Surveillance Project which investigates planned reintroductions, so as to mitigate against this exact risk.
The sad truth is that the wild is not quite the haven it can be made out to be. Elephants are one of the most persecuted species in the world, facing daily threats from poachers, conflict with the communities they live alongside, droughts, as well as habitat loss and degradation.
Elephant conservation priorities right now, must remain protecting remaining wild elephant populations and their habitat and reducing human-elephant conflict.
We don't believe that now is the right time for us to consider relocating our elephants. We provide a safe and secure home for our herd at Whipsnade while continuing our vital work to make the wild a safer place for elephants around the world.
ZSL's elephant conservation
ZSL is one of the few conservation organisations working around the world to protect all three species of elephants – Asian elephants, African elephants and African forest elephants.
In Thailand, ZSL is working to monitor and mitigate conflict between humans and elephants around the boundaries of the protected area complex in south eastern Western Forest Complex, including Salakpra Wildlife Sanctuary, Kheuan Srinakarin National Park and Chaloem Ratanakosin National Park. Approximately 200 Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) live in this landscape, and working closely with the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP), ZSL manages a programme to monitor, mitigate and initiate community outreach activities that address conflict between humans and elephants.
ZSL is working to address the poaching threat to elephants, big cats and other wildlife in the W-Arli-Pendjari conservation complex (WAP complex) – an area home to more than 60% of the remaining West African elephant population. Spanning the borders of Burkina Faso, Niger and Benin and encompasses five protected areas, hunting concessions and community lands, it represents the last relatively intact savannah system in the region.
The severe decline of forest elephants in Central Africa is largely a result of the unprecedented levels of poaching for the illegal ivory trade in recent years. ZSL conservationists are focussing on conserving forest elephants in Cameroon; specifically in the forest landscape of the Dja Biosphere Reserve. The Reserve itself is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to an important population of the forest elephant.
ZSL's training initiative The Wildlife Health Bridge, a collaboration with four other international institutions, has provided Masters' level training on elephant health, welfare, care and medicine to more than 700 wildlife health professionals from 67 countries worldwide. Two of our courses have a specific module focused on elephant population monitoring, care, welfare and health. Many of these alumni go onto work with wild elephants in range countries and we have graduates working in Thailand, Myanmar and India with elephants.
Find out more about The Wildlife Health Bridge
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