CONSTITUTION OF THE AUSTRALASIAN REGISTRARS COMMITTEE, INC.
The name of the Association shall be the Australasian Registrars Committee, Inc, hereinafter known as the "Committee".
e) to encourage the professional development of members.
The Committee may undertake any activities which promote its objectives.
The income and property of the Committee however derived, shall be applied solely toward the promotion of the objectives of the Committee and no portion thereof shall be paid or transferred, directly or indirectly, by dividend, bonus, or otherwise, to any member of the Committee.
c) a reasonable and proper sum by way of rent for premise let to the Committee by the worker or member, and any other expenses incurred with the prior approval of the Council.
Membership of the Committee shall be open to any individual, organisation or company who subscribes to the objectives of the Committee.
i) Full membership: available to individuals employed by museums and related non-profit organisations as Registrars, Assistant-Registrars, Registration Assistants and those performing registration or collection management or exhibition management functions as the majority of their duties but under a different position title.
iv) Supporting Commercial membership: available to commercial organisations.
v) be accepted as soon as practicable after the receipt of the application and upon receipt of the sum payable by or on behalf of the applicant as the first years subscription and the applicant's name shall be entered in a register of members to be kept by the Honorary Secretary or the Honorary Treasurer, whereupon the applicant becomes a member of the relevant category of membership of the Committee, and the applicant shall be notified in writing that membership in the category described therein has been granted.
ii) All subscriptions and fees shall be due and payable on the first day of January in each year for the calendar year then commenced.
ii) Associate, Student, Supporting Institution and Supporting Commercial members shall have all the rights of Full membership except for the right of voting and appointment to office of the Council of the Committee.
i) A member of the Committee may, at any time, resign from the Committee by written notice of resignation addressed to the Committee.
ii) Any member whose subscription shall be more than twelve months in arrears shall be deemed to be an un-financial member. Un-financial members and their delegates shall not hold any office, be members of the Committee or any of its sub-committees or be entitled to vote an Annual or Special General Meetings.
iii) The issue of a notice of the intention to suspend or terminate the membership of any person or organisation may be determined by a two-thirds majority vote at a meeting of the Council. If no request for consideration of such suspension or termination by the subject of the notice within twenty-eight days of the issue of the notice, the suspension or termination shall be deemed to have taken effect. Following a request for such consideration, effect of the notice shall be suspended until the action of suspension or termination of membership is approved or rejected by a majority of members present at a Special General Meeting.
iv) Upon the termination of membership under this rule, the Honorary Secretary or Honorary Treasurer shall remove the name of the member from the register of members, whereupon that member ceases to be a member of the Committee.
2) terminates upon the cessation of his or her membership.
i) A member of the Committee may, at any time, transfer their membership to a different category of membership upon fulfilling the requirements of that category and by giving written notice of their wish to do so addressed to the Committee.
ii) Annual subscriptions at the rate applicable to the new category to which the member is transferring shall be payable when they fall due at the beginning of the calendar year following the transfer of membership category.
A member of the Committee is liable to contribute towards the payment of the debts of the Committee or the costs, charges and expenses of a winding up of the Committee, only to the extent of the membership subscription.
ii) of the property, credits and liabilities of the Committee.
b) The financial year of the Committee shall be the period of a calendar year from the first day of January to the thirty-first day of December that same year.
c) The Committee shall cause to be opened with such bank as the Council selects a banking account or accounts in the name of the Committee into which all moneys received shall be paid as soon as possible after receipt thereof.
e) All cheques, drafts, bills of exchange, promissory notes, and other negotiable instruments shall be signed by such persons as the Committee shall from time to time nominate for that purpose.
a) The Committee shall appoint a suitably qualified person (not being a member or the Public Officer) as Auditor. Once at least in each financial year of the Committee the Auditor shall examine accounts of the Committee and report as to the correctness of those accounts to the members.
iv) may, in relation to the accounts of the Committee examine any member of the Committee or any worker of the Committee.
iii) elect the office bearers of the Council and other Committee appointments.
f) All General Meetings other than the Annual General Meeting shall be called Special General Meetings.
e) A Special General Meeting convened by requisitioners in pursuance of these rules shall be convened in the same manner as that in which those Meetings are convened by the Committee.
The Committee shall give at least twenty-eight (28) days notice in writing to members of the place, day, and time for the holding of the Annual General Meeting and any Special General Meeting and the nature of the business to be transacted thereat. Such notice in writing shall be sent to the last address notified by each member to the Honorary Secretary and may be sent by post, facsimile or email.
iii) For the purpose of Article 12 a) only, a proxy for a member shall not be considered as a member for the purposes of forming a quorum.
The President or one of the Council shall preside at Annual and Special General Meetings of the Committee. If none of these people are present or if it has been agreed to by the Council then the members present shall elect one of their number to preside thereat.
iv) A poll shall be taken in such manner and after such intervals as the Chairperson directs unless the poll is on the election of a chairperson or on the question of an adjournment when it shall be taken forthwith.
b) The officers shall be elected annually from among the Committee members.
iv) shall have power to appoint sub-committees for the purpose of carrying out such functions of the Committee as the Council directs.
iii) Such other members as may be co-opted from time to time by a majority decision of Council.
b) The membership of the Council shall represent at least four of the following nine geographic jurisdictions: Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, New Zealand, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia. Representation shall be taken to mean the Country, State or Territory of the Council member's residence or employment.
i) The term of office for every member of the Council is from the date of election at the Annual General Meeting until the date of the following Annual General Meeting.
ii) In the event of a casual vacancy occurring in the office of ordinary Council member, then the Council may appoint a member of the Committee to fill the vacancy and the member so appointed shall hold office till the Annual General Meeting next following.
g) In the event that the election of officers and ordinary Council members does not result in adequate representation specified in 15(b) above, the Council shall co-opt one or more members of the Committee in order to achieve such representation. Members so appointed shall hold office until the following Annual General Meeting.
The Council may grant leave of absence to a member, for a specified period, upon request by that member.
d) fails to pay all arrears of subscription due him or her within fourteen days after he or she has received a notice in writing stating that he or she has ceased to be a financial member of the Committee.
g) The members present at each meeting shall elect a Chairperson for that meeting and that person shall preside over the meeting.
i) Each person present at a meeting of the Council or of any sub-committee appointed by the Council (including the person presiding at the meeting) shall be entitled to one vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, the motion shall lapse.
j) A meeting of the Council (or any sub-committee) may be held in person or by any telephonic or electronic means (whether now known or hereafter invented).
a) A member of the Council who has interest in any contract or arrangement made or purposed to be made with the Committee, shall disclose that interest at the first meeting of the Council at which the contract or arrangement is first taken into consideration if the interest then exists; or, in any other case, at the first meeting of the Council after the acquisition of the interest.
b) If a member of the Council becomes interested in a contract or arrangement after it is made or entered into the member shall disclose that interest at the first meeting of the council after becoming so interested.
c) No member of the Council shall vote as a member of the Council in respect of any contract or arrangement in which that member is so interested and if the member does so vote that vote shall not be counted.
The Committee has no measures for discipline.
The Council may appoint or may arrange to be appointed such staff as are needed by the Association from time to time and shall designate or arrange to be designed the terms of such appointments.
a) The Council shall appoint a Public Officer who must be a resident of the ACT and, if the office becomes vacant, shall within fourteen days after it becomes vacant, appoint a person to fill the vacancy.
ii) ceases to be a member of the Committee.
iii) ceases to be a resident of the ACT.
A notice may be served by or on behalf of the Committee upon any member either personally or by sending it through the post in a prepaid letter addressed to the member at his or her usual or last known place of abode.
a) Any changes to the objects or rules of the Committee must be passed by special resolution under section 70 of the Associations Incorporation Act 1991.
b) This requires the special resolution to be passed at a general meeting of the Committee, of which at least 21 days' notice has been given to the members, accompanied by notice of the intention to pass the resolution as a special resolution.
c) The special resolution must be passed by a majority of at least 75% of the votes of those members who are entitled to vote and who vote in person, or by proxy, at the general meeting.
a) This seal of the Committee shall be in the form of a rubber stamp inscribed with the name of the Committee encircling the word "Seal".
b) The seal shall not be affixed to any instrument except by authority of a resolution of the Council and in the presence of at least two (2) members of the Council or of one member of the Council and the Public Officer of the Association or such other person as the Council may appoint to that purpose and that attestation is sufficient for all purposes that the seal was affixed by authority of the Council.
c) The Seal shall remain in the custody of the Public Officer or for a temporary period, any other member of the Committee specified for the purpose by the Council.
a) If, upon winding up or dissolution of the Committee there remains, after the satisfaction of all its debts and liabilities, any property whatsoever, the same way, by determination of the members of the Committee at or before the time of dissolution, be given or transferred to a society, institution or organisation covered by the provisions of Item 81(1) (c) in the First Schedule to the Sales Tax (Exceptions and Classifications) Act, or to some other institution or institutions having objectives similar to the objectives of the Committee, and which is fund, authority or institution referred to in paragraph 78 (1) (a) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936, such institution or institutions to be determined by the members of the Association at or before the time of dissolution, or in default thereof by the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory.
b) Upon the winding up or dissolution of the Committee, not any property nor any assets are to be disbursed to any of the Committee's members.


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Q: sencha touch 2 - Store - [WARN][Ext.dataview.NestedList#applyStore] The specified Store cannot be found I'm working on small json example and I'm getting the error
[WARN][Ext.dataview.NestedList#applyStore] The specified Store cannot be found "

when i try to access store from nested list
> here is the code for Store
    Ext.define('kids.store.vids',{
    extend: 'Ext.data.Model',
    xtype: 'vids',
    config: {
        type: 'tree',
        fields: ['id' , 'title' ],
        root: { leaf: false },
        proxy:{
            type: 'ajax',
            url: 'resources/jsonfile/jsonfile.json',
            reader: {
                type: 'json',
                rootProperty: 'items.feed.Lang.Type'
            }
        },
        autoLoad: true
    }
});

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View

Ext.define('kids.view.VidList',{
    extend: 'Ext.Container',
    xtype: 'vidlist',
    fullscreen: true,
    requires: [
        'Ext.NestedList',
        'Ext.tab.Panel',
        'Ext.data.*',
        'kids.store.vids',
        'Ext.data.TreeStore',
        'Ext.dataview.NestedList',
    ],
    config: {
        items: [
            {
                xtype: 'nestedlist',
                title: 'video list from model vids',
                displayField: 'title',
                layout: 'vbox',
                store: 'vids',
            }
        ]
    }
});

Am i doing anything wrong here?
I've added stores, views in app.js

A: When declaring your store, use storeId instead of xtype to identify the store:
Ext.define('kids.store.vids',{
    extend: 'Ext.data.Model',
    config: {
        storeId: 'vids', // use this as the value of the 'store' property in your list
        type: 'tree',
        fields: ['id' , 'title' ],
        root: { leaf: false },
        proxy:{
            type: 'ajax',
            url: 'resources/jsonfile/jsonfile.json',
            reader: {
                type: 'json',
                rootProperty: 'items.feed.Lang.Type'
            }
        },
        autoLoad: true
    }
});

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Letter to the editor: Violations of military regulations grounds for loss of weapons privileges
The Second Amendment to the Constitution states, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
When I enlisted in the U.S. Air Force on 9 January 1962, and every time after that until I retired on 28 February 1989, I took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. As the First Sergeant of the 501 Strategic Ground Launch Cruise Missile unit, the first in the Air Force, in the United Kingdom, the security personnel assigned whose duty was to guard nuclear weapons were issued weapons from the armory to perform their duties. The signs on the security fence around the base stated, "USE OF DEADLY FORCE AUTHORIZED!"
Private ownership of firearms was forbidden. Each individual who required a weapon to perform duties had to be on the Personnel Reliable Program (PRP) and carry an authorization certificate (gun card). PRP was a very strict program that monitored the behavior of each member of the unit. The slightest violation of Air Force Regulations and/or the Uniform Code of Military Justice was justification to have that certification removed.
Each of these individuals, who swore to protect and defend the Constitution, do not have Second Amendment rights. An article in The Canton Repository last month quoted Mr. Chris Dorr, who is the leader of the Ohio Guns Owners, about elected officials from the state of Ohio who are considering background checks. He said, "There will be political bodies laying all over the ground … We gun owners will pull the trigger and leave the corpse for the buzzards."
He has the means to make that happen. Comments like that should land a person in jail.
SMSGT. FREDERICK L. ELSASS, NORTH CANTON

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Halloween is a holiday period that throughout the history is used to celebrate the end of summer and supernatural figures such as monsters, ghosts, skeletons, witches, and devils costumes were made for the adults and kids to wear as a disguise to go and ask for coins or food.
The Jack-o-lantern is one of the items that were changed from the original turnips that was used to the bigger pumpkins that are easier to shape the face and lit a candle once the seeds have been taken out. A few of these lanterns are a must to have to create the right atmosphere for any Halloween party.
Should one follow the legends of the monsters, ghosts, skeletons, witches and devils, Dracula and Frakenstein you will realize that the legends have been altered to include the children in the modern day and age where some of the characters did not have families mentioned in the legends? This idea could create an interesting medium for the whole family. If your children like the idea of being Dracula's children, they could use costumes that dates back to the same period and add the traditional black cloak to their wardrobe to fit in with the Dracula family.
The ninja clothes, the outer space suits, the medical profession's wardrobe, the clown from the circus, The Reaper and his tool, the werewolf costume and much more are costumes that started to be used at the beginning of the 21st century to wear for the Halloween holiday. To be scary in your costume would be the highest point of achievement for the evening.
The newer ideas for the Halloween party for costumes could include the Bride and Groom costume for couples to wear where the roles are reversed in the sense that the man should be the bride and wear the wedding gown and the woman should be dressed as the groom. The costumes could be to display themes were the funnier part of life could be portrayed as all the costumes do not have to be scary anymore.
The guising of the children when they go out to do the trick-or-treat part had a different meaning as per the earlier versions of the Halloween period. Currently the children will knock on doors and say the words and the grown ups will play along to hand them candy for the trick portion and hope the threat in the treat will not be applied as it used to be when the first holiday was celebrated and recorded in the early 1895's. As part of the trick, the children could sing a song to get their treat of candy.
One of the traditional games that were played during Halloween is to Dunk an Apple. A big basin filled with water and a few apples that is floating in it would be an interesting idea if one was to kneel on a chair and then try to bite an apple to remove it from the water. The other traditional aspect was to tell ghost stories around a fire. The scarier the story the better and if you have a haunted house to go to, that would really put the cherry on the cake. To follow these old traditions in the modern day and age could really bring a change to the way the Halloween parties are celebrated.
Even to have a theme of the "Henry VI" period with their style of clothes and food and games for the period would be most enjoyable but the woman's dresses with all the hoops and lace may very well be a problem as most of our modern transport means doors would not be able to open big enough to allow a person with such a costume to get in a vehicle.


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A Convenient Hatred: The History of Anti-Semitism
Phyllis Goldstein,
Charles S. Weinblatt
"A Convenient Hatred is a profoundly authoritative resource for educators. Its examples, stories, references, maps, pictures, and illustrations bring the history of the Jews to life in a powerful way not experienced since James Michener's The Source, a work of fiction. . . . With impeccable references and well-researched examples, Ms. Goldstein has created a tour de force."
A Convenient Hatred, with foreword by Sir Harold Evans, chronicles the evolution of anti-Semitism from the time of Alexander through the Holocaust and modern Israel.
This powerful treatise explores with exquisite detail the pernicious foundations of bigotry against Jews, from ancient times through the dark ages, the enlightenment and into contemporary examples. A Convenient Hatred could just as easily been called A Convenient History, as it illustrates the magnitude of anti-Jewish vitriol, loathing and detestation over the ages, leading to a unique and mendacious version of history that blames Jews for impossibly disparate and disconnected events and catastrophes.
Ms. Goldstein has produced a masterful exposition on the vulnerability of Jews throughout history, highlighting how malicious pagan and Christian leaders exploited the Jewish people. She also addresses the unending value of education within Jewish culture, a trait that has served them well for dozens of centuries. That Jews have been able to survive at all seems miraculous, considering the fact that until recently, Jews were largely forbidden from owning land and property and from most skilled occupations—including crafts and guilds—and were forced to take up the most distasteful occupation among Christians: money lending.
A Convenient Hatred is a profoundly authoritative resource for educators. Its examples, stories, references, maps, pictures, and illustrations bring the history of the Jews to life in a powerful way not experienced since James Michener's The Source, a work of fiction.
A Convenient Hatred communicates the magnitude of anti-Jewish prejudice throughout the centuries, offering well-researched examples of why so many people throughout time have found it convenient to hate Jews. A Convenient Hatred belongs globally in every high-school history classroom. With impeccable references and well-researched examples, Ms. Goldstein has created a tour de force.
The author carefully examines the origins of anti-Semitism in an age when Jews were forced from their ancestral homes and temples in ancient Israel to Europe and Asia. She methodically details the separation of Jews from Christians leading to centuries of Jewish slavery, incarceration, and extermination during the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, The Reformation, and the English Expulsion.
The rise of the Islamic empire and holy wars are also carefully explored. Centuries of intolerance produced the Diaspora, in which Jews fled to safe haven in places far and wide, but were again faced with extermination when blamed for the Black Death (plague) across Europe. This marked a period in which Jews were charged with ritual murder and blood libel; as well, the Talmud was universally attacked by Christians and Muslims. Jews were also almost universally oppressed during the Dark Ages. They sought reprieve in places as disparate as Poland and the Ottoman Empire. But for hundreds of years, Jews remained ostracized, antagonized, and isolated.
The ages of enlightenment and nationalism are also painstakingly explored. Ms. Goldstein proffers "the power of publicity" as a tool used by anti-Semites to attack and condemn Jews in a prolific manner.
The same level of discriminating detail continues in an examination of anti-Semitism during Renaissance France and Russia, continuing into the age of nationalism and World War I. Ms. Goldstein carefully describes the consistent deleterious effect of anti-Jewish propaganda in incongruent Renaissance societies with France being democratic and Russia communist.
The age of written communication via printing presses almost immediately delivered anti-Semitic books, such as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, one of the most significant attacks upon Jews. She describes Hitler's rise to power largely upon the backs of Jews, through propaganda and putsches by the proletariat against Germany's Jewish population. The "turning point" came in 1941 with the Nazi establishment of the "Final Solution to the Jewish question."
Finally, Ms. Goldstein adroitly illustrates anti-Semitism after the Holocaust, throughout the Cold War, and into contemporary society, which she calls, "a convenient hatred." Here, nationalism and xenophobia collide in a perfect storm of bigotry and persecution. The result of this collision is a brainwashing of impoverished youth, the economically and socially oppressed, and the politically disadvantaged, resulting in a unified hatred of all things Jewish, especially Israel.
Ms. Goldstein calls to mind a speech by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, in which he states that we cannot judge contemporary Germans for the genocide perpetrated by their ancestors. At the same time, all Germans can be held accountable for preserving the memory of the Holocaust—for its link from past to future holds in the balance the potential for the survival of the human spirit as well as the destiny of the Jewish people.
A Convenient Hatred is a powerful, historically astute, contemporary masterpiece and a superb illustration of prejudice. It is a groundbreaking educational tool and an indispensable textbook for students of history, anthropology, psychology, and sociology. Phyllis Goldstein's lucid and cogent examination of the history of anti-Semitism is a seminal work, lucidly explaining the magnitude of illogical hatred and its centuries-old influence against the Jews.
Charles Weinblatt is the author of the young adult novel, Jacob's Courage: A Holocaust Love Story (Mazo Publishers).


While it's hard to deny that the housing recovery is gaining momentum, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is not convinced federal fiscal policies are a mere tailwind from the past.
For now, the majority of Federal Open Market Committee members agreed to continue purchasing agency mortgage-backed securities to nurture the housing recovery while attempting to keep unemployment rates down.
Nonetheless, if the recovery continues, the Federal Reserve plans to taper off MBS purchases once the unemployment rate hits 7%, Bernanke suggested.
But there were two FOMC members who posted a dissenting vote on the continuation of the Fed's bond-buying program, particularly James Bullard, president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank.
Bullard worries that the Fed's decision to announce a plan to reduce its quantitative easing program was poorly timed.
Through the Summary of Economic Projections process, the committee was marking down its assessment of both real gross domestic product growth and inflation for 2013, and yet simultaneously announcing that less accommodative easing may be looming, the St. Louis Fed president noted.
"President Bullard felt that a more prudent approach would be to wait for more tangible signs that the economy was strengthening and that inflation was on a path to return toward target before making such an announcement," the statement said.
The essence of Bullard's decision is the committee's lack of willingness to defend its inflation target of 2% and inflation expectations that have surprised on the downturn of 2013.
For instance, the personal consumption expenditures headline inflation rate is running below 1% and the PCE core inflation rate is nearly 1%, the statement noted.
To maintain any creditability, the committee should defend its inflation target when inflation is below target as well as when it is above its goal, Bullard stated.
"The markets may have overreacted a bit to the details of the Fed's QE3 tapering timetable and the prospect of the first interest rate hike taking place in two years' time," explained analysts for Capital Economics.
They added, "Nonetheless, the growing likelihood that rates will be raised a little earlier than we previously expected is one reason why we have revised up our Treasury yield forecasts."
Bullard also felt that the committee's decision to authorize Bernanke to make an announcement of an approximate timeline for reducing the pace of asset purchases to zero was a setback from state-contingent monetary policy.
The St. Louis Fed president firmly believes policy actions should be undertaken to meet policy objectives, not calendar objectives.
"President Bullard feels strongly that state-contingent monetary policy is best central bank practice, with clear support both from academic theory and from central bank experience over the last several decades," the statement noted.
Overall, members of the FOMC agree that going forward, an appropriate and effective monetary policy can be put into place with the right fundamentals in order.
The goal is to ease off the accommodative policy gas pedal without substantially impacting the housing comeback.


In true new year resolution form I've decided to kick off a Whole 30 tomorrow. For the next thirty days I'm going to try I WILL omit dairy, grains, added sugars, alcohol, and legumes. The focus is on whole foods with out unnecessary processing or additives. I had been contemplating starting this journey before the holidays, but now with a pending wedding it seems like an even better idea.
We already have a freezer full of free-range, natural meats so that's some what easy for me. I just have to remember to take things out and thaw them. That's the harder part.
Since our fridge was pretty empty after being gone for the last week I took advantage of the opportunity to only restock it with good stuff. I did a pretty big grocery run and picked up: broccoli, cauliflower, sugar snap peas, spaghetti squash, acorn squash, cucumbers, mushrooms, radishes, onions, salad greens, green onions, cilantro, avocados, jalapenos, Bubbies pickles, a mango, zucchinis, broccoli slaw, kale, sweet potatoes, raspberries, blueberries, a melon, and shrimp. I had it in mind to do fajita salad, cream of chicken/mushroom soup, chicken tuscan soup, and spaghetti squash (or zoodles) with homemade marinara as some starting meals. Pork chops or a steak with a salad and broccoli is a pretty standard staple around this house so I don't have to get too creative.
In order to make sure I have good stuff on hand (and to minimize temptations) I threw a whole chicken, still partly frozen, in to the crock pot with an onion, bay leaves, peppercorns, two carrots, a couple tablespoons of homemade Fire Cider (recipe coming soon!), and a healthy pinch of kosher salt. I topped the whole thing up with water and left it to simmer on low for probably a good twelve hours. It was less about intention and more about laziness, but my house smelled AMAZING. Eight hours would have been plenty.
After the chicken was cooked I pulled out the meat, as well as I could anyway, and shredded it up in a bowl. While it was still hot I spooned in some of the cooking liquid (stock) and tossed it together. The chicken reabsorbed the liquid so I kept doing so until it stopped reabsorbing liquid. The shredded chicken went in the fridge for chicken salad, soups, and other dishes. Then I strained the remaining liquid (stock) from the crock pot in to two quart sized jars and put them in the fridge to be used for soups, or frankly, just drunk straight up.
In order to make my "cream of…" soups I filled a pint jar half way with raw organic cashews and then filled the jar to the top with water. I left it on the counter to soak for 8 hours before blending it up and putting it in the fridge as my cream substitute. I like doing this all in a standard mouth mason jar because it will fit on most standard round blenders. Just screw the blender blade part on to the jar and place it on the blender base. No dirty dishes! Here's more information on using "cashew cream".
Since dairy is out and I'm a big fan of cheese (mmm… cheese) I wanted to make sure I had another creamy alternative using healthy fats. Mayo to the rescue!
I made homemade mayonnaise before using the super-duper-mind-numbingly-slow oil drizzle in to a standard blender process. I'm not a big mayo fan to begin with and something about the batch I made was just off putting to me. I didn't like it. I think I may have used extra virgin olive oil. That may have been the problem.
So this time I did some more research and made the choice to go with LIGHT olive oil (it's lighter in flavor, not calories – let's get that clear) and to use my immersion blender (a.k.a. a stick blender or hand blender). I was shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, at how perfectly and quickly it came out. I'm never doing the stupid drizzle thing again.
The things I believe I did right this time… the light olive oil. I might try avocado oil next time though. It just sounds yummy. I also let the ingredients come up to room temperature. That was literally as simple as putting the egg, 2 TBSP organic lemon juice, and 1 1/4 cup light olive oil in to a jar and leaving it on the counter for 30 minutes while I did other things. The recipe I was using didn't call for salt, which I think I'll add next time. Overall, super fast, pretty cheap, and crazy easy.
My last prep activity was to try to knock off the Costco cilantro-lime shrimp. I LOVE those things and, relatively speaking, they are pretty healthy. I cranked my immersion circulator to 135°F. I had bought 1.75 lbs of shrimp and tediously deveined them (such a coy label: "deveining". Let's be honest – it ain't no vein). In a bowl I added two TBSP organic lime juice, 1 TBSP olive oil, several healthy pinches of kosher salt, one diced green onion (because I felt like it), about a quarter cup of chopped cilantro, and 2-3 crushed garlic gloves (or 1 TSP of the stuff that comes in the jar – I'm not judging). I added the shrimp and tossed them to coat thoroughly. I sealed the shrimp in to two bags and tossed them in to cook for 45 minutes. After they were done I put them in the fridge to chill.
Have you done a Whole30 or another type of elimination diet before?


Typically used on smaller openings such as doorways, windows, serveries or bars.
Both operable and lockable from both sides of the opening.
Used on smaller to medium sized openings that are either too large for a push up, or where there is no electrical supply available.
Provided with a safety brake (anti-fall back device) to comply with European regulations.
240 volt, single-phase tube motors, typically used on shop-front, office or domestic, low use applications.
The motor is mounted within the roller mechanism, which reduces the amount of space required to accommodated the head assembly.
Safety brakes (anti fall-back device) are fitted where necessary to comply with European regulations.
Emergency hand operation is provided as standard.
Available with a wide range of control options.
Typically used on industrial applications.
Integral safety brake (anti fall-back device) to comply with European regulations.
Eliminates the need for counterbalance springs.
Eliminates the need for drive chains or gear trains.
Ideal for high usage applications such as car parks or loading bays.
Plug-in, pre-wired, low voltage controls.
Emergency hand chain, operable from floor level, provided as standard.
Available with an extensive range of control options, varying from a simple push-button or keyswitch, right up to full remote/automatic operation with safety features to comply with health and safety regulations.
brake (anti fall-back device) to comply with European regulations.
Drive chain or gear chain drive.


Do kids need vitamin pills? Are smartphones really as addictive as heroin? And how are Muslim parents supposed to stop terrorism when they can't even get children to put their shoes on? Answering all these questions and more is Dr Afrosa Ahmed!
She tells us about her work as a GP and her life as a mum to three boys. We get her top doctor's tips for raising kids, and discover why Instagram Wrist is the new Tennis Elbow.
There's also some serious chat about religion, terrorism, and what it's like to raise a Muslim family in Britain today. Then normal service is resumed as Helen shares a Scummy Mummy Confession about farting in a lift.
Do check out Afrosa's blog at mum2sons.com. She's on Facebook too.
**SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! Over the next few months we're visiting Cambridge, Tunbridge Wells, Chester, Manchester, Hillingdon, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com.
Muslin is being used for the Muslims to cover their heads as the order to obey in their religion for the women. It helps to other to recognize the muslim and muslim women feel proud to wear this as a scarf.


If you're struggling to find (or hold onto) your why, we have a quick suggestion on where it might be hiding.
It's buried deep inside that person you want to be.
To find it, all you have to do is look at someone you likely understand better than you think: your future self.
It will make understanding your Why easier - you'll see the patterns, feel the purpose behind it all, and almost be able to touch why you want to be that person.
Who are you 10 years from now, 1 year from now, 21 days from now?


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Her Excellency Michele Sison
Ambassador Michele Sison was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Haiti on February 12, 2018. She served as U.S. Deputy Representative to the United Nations (2014-2018), U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives (2012-2014), U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon (2008-2010), and U.S. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (2004-2008).
Ambassador Sison's diplomatic assignments also include Assistant Chief of Mission in Baghdad, Iraq; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs; Deputy Chief of Mission in Islamabad, Pakistan; Consul General in Chennai, India; and tours in Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Benin, Togo, and Haiti. She also served as the State Department's Director of Career Development and Assignments. Ambassador Sison is the recipient of the U.S. Presidential Distinguished Service Award, U.S. Presidential Meritorious Service Award, and the U.S. Department of the Army's Outstanding Civilian Service Medal. She also holds numerous U.S. Department of State awards, including Superior Honor Awards and Ambassadorial-level awards for her contributions to counter-proliferation (2008) and combatting trafficking in persons (2005). Ambassador Sison is the mother of two grown daughters.
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DENVER - OCTOBER 11: Dexter Fowler #24 of the Colorado Rockies scores the game tying run against the Philadelphia Phillies in the bottom of the eighth inning in Game Four of the NLDS during the 2009 MLB Playoffs at Coors Field on October 12, 2009 in Denver, Colorado.
KOA Radio signed veteran sports broadcaster Jerry Schemmel to team with Jack Corrigan on the Rockies broadcasts, the station said today.
Schemmel, known mostly for his radio coverage of the the Nuggets since 1992, replaces Jeff Kingery, an original Rockies broadcaster, who retired at the end of last season.
Schemmel and Altitude Sports, which broadcasts Nuggets games on KCKK-AM (1510), will part company following the Jan. 25 game against Charlotte.
Jason Kosmicki, who's been broadcasting Nuggets road games, is expected to handle home and road games for the remainder of the season.
Larsen added that Schemmel, who signed a multi-year contract, was one of 196 current and past broadcasters who applied for the job.
While known mostly for his Nuggets coverage, Schemmel's varied background includes baseball booth announcing. In 2007, he did play-by-play for the Billings (Mont.) Mustangs, a Cincinnati Reds farm team.
Schemmel, 50, began broadcasting only Nuggets home games last season.
This marks the second time Schemmel has succeeded Kingery in a sports broadcasting booth.
In 1992, Schemmel replaced Kingery on KOA as the voice of the Nuggets when Kingery left the booth to prepare for the Rockies job.
Yet to be resolved is how Schemmel will end his association with Colorado State as the voice of the Rams football and basketball network.
"I may have to do a bit of traveling from Tucson during spring training to cover the final games CSU's basketball season," Schemmel said.
Schemmel has given up his Metro State baseball coaching position — a job that whetted his appetite to get more involved in baseball.
The first broadcast for the Corrigan-Schemmel team is April 5.


Four years ago, Art Director Matt Petty came up with a brilliant idea for a Christmas Eve cover: a package of silly holiday-themed fun and games. A hit with readers, the Super Fun Christmas Activity Book has become an annual tradition.
"The section is all about the contributors, so once I've found folks who are willing to do it, it's just a matter of waiting to see what they come up with," Petty says. "I like to make sure there's a mix of cynical, entertaining and funny content."
Today's installment includes "Games for Kids" by Don Asmussen, whose goal is "to make fun of Matier & Ross every year," and an unusual maze by Jon Adams, who Petty says is "best described as having a uniquely dark perspective on the holiday season."
Our resident board game expert Joshua Kosman offers a word game of his own, which he created with a little electronic help. "I made a long list of words associated with Christmas and used a computer search to find the ones that were part of a long word with a third word left over," he says.
Also in the mix: movie editor Walter Addiego's holiday film quiz, columnist Jon Carroll's fill-in-the-blanks story "Santa's Agent" and Avery Monsen and Jory John's take on the popular "find the differences" picture game. The fun begins on Page 18.
Next week: 2010 in review.


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Solutions for small-scale, distributed waste-to-energy opportunities
In 2011, Cogent's founders were frustrated as they sought small-scale, distributed waste-to-energy solutions for opportunities emerging in the US, Canada, and the Caribbean.
Finding no readily-available solutions, they set out to fill this gap in the market themselves. Teaming up with an innovative scientist at Idaho National Lab (now Cogent's CTO), the world-class engineering team at Creare, and forward-thinking investors, Cogent Energy Systems was founded in 2012. The company's technology development takes place in Idaho Falls, Idaho, while business operations are headquartered in Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C.
Since 2012, the company has been awarded a succession of grants from the U.S. Navy, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and the Idaho National Laboratory. In partnership with these organizations and Creare, Cogent has developed and demonstrated two full-scale waste-to-energy gasifiers at its Idaho Falls facility, with a complete end-to-end commercial demonstration system scheduled to come online by Q3 2018.
Abraham Haspel, Ph.D. — CEO
Dr. Haspel is the founder and President/CEO of Cogent Energy Systems, Inc. He is also the President of Cogent Analysis Group, LLC, an energy and environment consulting firm founded in 2008. Prior, Dr. Haspel spent more than 30 years as a decorated career senior executive at the US Department of Energy – where, among other positions, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary and Chief Operating Officer for the Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, successfully managing an organization with more than 500 employees and a budget of more than $1 billion – and at the US Department of the Interior – where he was the Assistant Deputy Secretary. While at the Department of Energy, Dr. Haspel was also one of the lead U.S. negotiators between 1993 and 2000 at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, including the negotiations that led to carbon trading and the Clean Development Mechanism provisions of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. He chaired the OECD's Clean Technology Initiative from 1998 through 2000. Dr. Haspel holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Peter Kong, Ph.D. — R&D
Prior to his retirement in May, 2013, Dr. Kong served as technical lead for the Plasma Processing Group at the Department of Energy's Idaho National Lab (INL). His research activities included studying plasma technology for direct natural gas conversion to high value liquids, heavy oil upgrade, black liquor gasification and white liquor chemicals recovery; leading research in nanoparticle synthesis, development of advanced coating deposition methods and systems, electrochemical materials research for energy conversion and storage, cermet filters development for automotive exhaust pollutants destruction; and plasma arc melter research & development for nuclear and hazardous waste vitrification. In addition, Dr. Kong has researched Group IV elements enhanced Iron-Enriched Basalt glass-ceramic waste forms for nuclear waste immobilization; synthesizing complex chemical hydrides for hydrogen storage and most recently the development of innovative advanced hybrid plasma reactor systems for low cost industrial pilot scale nanomaterials production.
Mark Frankel, Ph.D. — Operations
Dr. Frankel has extensive management experience in entrepreneurial settings, including time as Executive VP of Franklin China, as a founder and managing partner of Healthcare Executive Partners, and as founder and CTO of QuiqMeds. At Franklin China, Dr. Frankel had complete responsibility for all product development, sales, and marketing operations for the company, elevating a small independent local company to a national firm with distribution in all 50 states and several foreign countries and leading the sale of the company in 2001. While at Healthcare Executive Partners, Dr. Frankel worked with major pharmaceutical and bioinformatics companies on projects including launch strategies, marketing programs, executive counseling, sales programs, product messaging, forecasting, business acceleration and turnarounds. At QuiqMeds, Dr. Frankel architected the system and process and is the sole author on the patents filed.
Bert Edwards, CPA, CGFM — Finance
Mr. Edwards is the former CFO of the US Department of State, an Assistant Secretary level position confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Mr. Edwards oversaw financial, accounting and budgeting operations relating to the Department of State's then over $14 billion domestic and overseas operations for the Department of State's then 260 embassies and consulates in 130 countries. During his tenure, Mr. Edwards achieved unqualified ("clean") independent auditors' reports for all three entities for the first time in Department of State history. He then joined the US Department of the Interior's Office of the Secretary to develop and implement a plan to provide a historical accounting of Indian Trust Accounts. Prior to his government service, Mr. Edwards was an audit partner in the Arthur Andersen LLP Washington, DC, office for 24 years. He led Andersen's Federal, state and local governmental accounting and auditing practice, managing 2,000 employees by 1994. In July 2010, Mr. Edwards received the Association of Government Accountants' Outstanding Accomplishment of the Year Award.
Douglas Russell — Business Development
Mr. Russell founded, built, and sold Global Change Strategies International (GCSI), an energy and environment consulting company. In 2002, Mr. Russell successfully guided GCSI through an acquisition process by Natsource LLC, one of the world's largest carbon asset management firms. As a Managing Director at Natsource, he provided risk assessment and carbon management advice to a number of large corporations in the Canadian energy sector. In his previous positions as Director of International Climate Change Negotiations, Director of Air Issues Branch, and Director General Air Pollution Prevention Directorate at Environment Canada, he has led Canadian negotiations to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and headed Environment Canada's policy development for climate change and air issues such as acid rain, smog and stratospheric ozone depletion.
Joel Haspel — Corporate Services
Mr. Haspel leads the renewable energy development division at Cogent Analysis Group, as well as the company's Cogent New Media division. Prior to his time at Cogent, Mr. Haspel spent more than a decade founding and leading marketing and strategic programs for three software companies, including the venture-backed security and remote access startup Plethora Technology. He has led successful company efforts in IP protection, raising capital, designing marketing programs, market research, customer support programs, and developing distribution partnerships.
We're passionate about what we do, and we're always excited to share it with the world. Some of our previous news coverage and press releases are included on this page. If you'd like to speak with someone at Cogent for more information, please contact pr [at] cogentenergysystems.com.
We believe the untapped market for local, on-site waste-to-energy conversion has the potential to exceed $30 billion worldwide. We're actively looking for sales, marketing, and engineering partners to work with us as we enter lucrative markets around the world.
Cogent Energy Systems is always interested in hearing from talented individuals looking to join our innovative team. Please send your resume and cover letter to jobs [at] cogentenergysystems.com for consideration.


Light and airy choux pastry buns filled with light pumpkin whipped cream and topped with dulce de leche. Delicious sweet clouds of joy. Pumpkin-filled Cream Puffs are a very flavorful dessert! Aren't you glad it's September already? I'm doing my happy dance because I can officially cook or create something with pumpkin. I have actually finished two big cans of pumpkins during the Labor Day's weekend and am excited to create something fun this month. September is also a big month since I added more clients to my list. It's a good sign when you get lots of traffic at work, but it also means losing that flexibility in blogging.
Today we're celebrating National Grandparents Day. I have so little memories about my grandparents from both sides. One of my grandfather passed away years before I was born and the other one passed away when I was ten. My grandmother passed away when I have moved to the U.S. I remember planning to visit her, after thirteen years living abroad, but sadly, she passed away few months before I went back to Indonesia. It was shocking.
Though I had little memories with them, I remembered how they spoiled their grandchildren so much. We visited them every weekend and they always had something for everyone of us. From candies to snacks to surprises, they had prepared everything.
Both of my grandmothers were sweet teeth, though one of them also cook delicious food and enjoyed gardening so much. And I just want to dedicate today's post to all grandparents, including my mom. Thanks for giving me all the stuffs Mom and Dad won't let me have!
Light and airy choux pastry buns filled with light pumpkin whipped cream and topped with dulce de leche. Delicious sweet clouds of joy and flavorful dessert!
Choux pastry: In a pot, combine butter, water, and salt. Add flour, and mix well. Let it cool.
Using a wooden spoon or stand mixer, beat in the eggs one at a time, mixing well after each until the dough becomes sticky.
Drop by tablespoonfuls onto an ungreased baking sheet. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes in the preheated oven, until golden brown. Centers should be dry.
Pumpkin filling: in a mixer, whip the heavy cream until soft peak. Add the confectioners sugar and beat for another 1 minute.
Add the rest of the ingredients and fold until everything is combined.
Drizzle with dulce de leche on top.
I'm a huge fan of cream puffs 🙂 I love these little seasonal bites you made!
Your pumpkin filled cream puffs are perfect for the fall! And, look soooo delicious!!
I am a pumpkin nut and these sound to die for!!!
I love cream puffs…and with pumpkin filling? SO yummy!!!
Your cream puffs are absolutely gorgeous!
I love the fall flavors in these cream puffs! What a special treat to share!
I love your seasonal twist on cream puffs! They look delicious!
These cream puffs look amazing! A perfect fall treat!
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Your cream puffs look incredible!


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Q: Using linux source command in Dockerfile gives error I download and install Go programming language like this:
curl -OL https://golang.org/dl/go1.17.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -C /usr/local -xvf go1.17.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
touch /etc/profile.d/go.sh
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin" >> /etc/profile.d/go.sh
source /etc/profile.d/go.sh

And it works. But I want to create a Docker image containing Go and ready to use. So I did like this in Dockerfile:
RUN curl -OL https://golang.org/dl/go1.17.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
RUN tar -C /usr/local -xvf go1.17.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
RUN touch /etc/profile.d/go.sh
RUN echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin" >> /etc/profile.d/go.sh
RUN source /etc/profile.d/go.sh

But it gives me error:
 > [25/25] RUN source /etc/profile.d/go.sh:
#28 0.737 /bin/sh: 1: source: not found

How I have to do this? Im using ubuntu 20.04 as a base Docker image


Our greatest strength at CCF is the way we love and care about people. From the time you step onto the parking lot of our facilities , get greeted at the door and ushered to your seat, you will be loved and appreciated by the CCF Family. Our Benevolence Ministry works hard to take care of those who are burdened inside of CCF and outside of CCF. Our Deacons and Pastoral and Ministerial Staff counsel the wounded, visit the sick and hospitalized, and our Family Care Servant Teams shepherd their families with great passion. Members who are missing are called and tracked and many times, we will send a team to go back and get them!
If you visit us, expect to get no less than five hugs before you leave our services!


Learn the functionality of the canonical social interaction model and examine a major topic in political economics – the tragedy of the commons.
The fifth lecture begins with an analytical presentation of the canonical social interaction model. The model integrates social interaction into economics and answers the question of what would happen in a social coordination case, in which all people gathered together and decided what to do. The subject of what is the best response for each individual in a variety of cases is also examined. After the theoretical analysis, the lecture focuses on the mathematical framework of the model and an accurate graphical visualization is given by presenting on what extent the certain parameters can affect the model's fluctuation. Through this approach, they are able to explain in which cases there is a strategic complementarity between agents and in which cases there is not. Prisoner's dilemma is just a subset of this theory. In the last part of the class, the major topic of the Tragedy of Commons in Political Economy is discussed as an example that integrates this model into real life.


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Clinical Pharmacology (4)
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An Overview for the Podiatric Physician
Robert G. Smith
An increased reliance on vancomycin to treat bacterial infections has led to the emergence of vancomycin-resistant organisms. The podiatric physician must select and use vancomycin with due caution. This article presents a general review of vancomycin's pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, and dosing recommendations. Literature citations of clinically based evidence regarding the development and use of vancomycin nomograms are also presented. A vancomycin dosing nomogram is introduced as an effective tool for the prescribing podiatric physician. Appropriate use of the information presented may improve patient outcomes and enable the podiatric physician to treat patients with less effort and at a lower cost. (J Am Podiatr Med Assoc 94(4): 389–394, 2004)
A Critical Discussion of the Use of Antiseptics in Acute Traumatic Wounds
Approximately 10 million patients with traumatic wounds are treated in US emergency departments annually. The practice of wound cleansing or antiseptic management has a dichotomous history anchored in tradition and science. The merits of antiseptic fluid irrigation of traumatic wounds have received little scientific study. The purpose of this article is to critically evaluate the potential harm to patient outcome by the use of antiseptics on acute wounds. First, animal and cell culture data that describe the effects of topical antiseptics on wound healing are offered. Second, human case studies are presented to illustrate the potential harm of the indiscriminate use of antiseptics. Finally, data from previously published reviews are presented and evaluated for clinically based evidence to justify the current practice of antiseptic use in acute traumatic wounds. (J Am Podiatr Med Assoc 95(2): 148–153, 2005)
An Appraisal of the Effects of Frequently Prescribed Medications
https://doi.org/10.7547/0003-0538-105.2.160
Recognizing the existence of adverse drug effects of frequently prescribed drugs can empower a clinician with knowledge to avoid dangerous adverse effects that may result in hazardous, negative patient outcomes on either fracture healing or bone health. Pharmacovigilance reports have described the influence of medications, allowing for bone health to be quite unpredictable.
First, mechanisms found in the medical literature of potential drug adverse effects regarding fracture healing are presented. Second, the 100 most frequently prescribed medications in 2010 are reviewed regarding adverse effects on fracture healing. These reported adverse effects are evaluated for medical causation. Last, a data table describing the 100 reviewed medications and their reported effects on fracture healing is provided.
The actual number of different medications in the review was 72. Reported drug adverse effects on bone and fracture healing occurred with 59 of the 72 drugs (81.9%). These adverse effects are either described as a definitive statement or represented by postmarketing case reports. Thirteen of the 72 review drugs (18.1%) did not have any description of the possible effects on bone health. A total of 301 cases reports describing delayed union, malunion, and nonunion of fractures represent 31 of the 72 medications reviewed (43.1%).
This review offers the health-care provider information regarding potential adverse drug effects on bone health. Empowered with this information, clinicians may assist their patients in maximizing pharmacologic outcomes by avoiding these reported harmful adverse effects.
Penicillin and Cephalosporin Drug Allergies
Medication hypersensitivity is a constant variable that podiatric physicians face during their professional day. To avoid potential patient harm, an understanding of penicillin and cephalosporin hypersensitivities as it pertains to podiatric medicine needs to be achieved. To accomplish this, a narrative describing the signs, symptoms, and immunologic mechanisms for the basis of penicillin and cephalosporin drug hypersensitivities is presented. Second, specific medical literature serving as clinical-based evidence to support the prescribing of cephalosporins in patients with documented penicillin allergy is presented. Finally, a review of the medical and legal literature describing health-care provider liability regarding subsequent drug hypersensitivity is presented. The information contained in this review allows for the evolving paradigm that permits the prescribing of selective cephalosporins to patients with a history of penicillin allergy as long as the allergic symptoms were not serious or life-threatening. (J Am Podiatr Med Assoc 98(6): 479–488, 2008)


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MetaVisa optimizes the on-chain credit system and integrates decentralized identity into DAO and GameFi as a support to improve the management and service for other projects like YGG
Chainwire December 30, 2021 3:10 am December 30, 2021
HongKong, China, 30th December, 2021, Chainwire
MetaVisa, a layer-3 middleware protocol, helps users to establish and display reliable on-chain identity and credit records by analyzing on-chain data and makes it easier for DeFi, NFT, GameFi, DAO, and etc, and dedicate on helping other Metaverse project integrates the identity system into those applications, such as Yield Guild Games (YGG).
YGG is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) for investing in Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs), used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games, a play-to earn gaming guild, bringing players together to earn via blockchain-based economies.
MetaVisa captures the on-chain actions of YGG users' address based on on-chain data, which is used to create a profile of YGG's guild members. This helps YGG to better target its users and improve the output of its members, allowing for optimizing management.
MetaVisa will determine the output capacity of users based on the NFT game props holding period of the address, for example, those with shorter periods tend to be star players with stronger output capacity. Similarly, stars with strong output value can be identified based on token output rate. Based on this data combined with MetaVisa's model can provide a scientific point system that will help YGG to better manage its members and build a ladder return structure.
YGG aims to build up the largest crypto economic community. With the help of MetaVisa decentralized identity and credit system, YGG could have the support to optimize the assets of the community with maximum utility, distributing the profit to token holders. The participants of this DAO are the owner and manager of the entire ecosystem.
YGG has been dedicated to investing in and managing NFTs in the Metaverse, in part because of their ability to serve as the basis of digital property rights. MetaVisa believes that the usage scenario for NFT will be to generate cash flows for GameFi assets that have real utility and monetization potential.
The ownership of digital assets in virtual worlds is an enabling example that is beginning to redefine "work" and democratized access to high-paying "jobs"in virtual worlds.
These jobs are becoming more and more like games. In a world where capital flows freely across borders but Labour does not, capital has greater profit potential. However, the rewards for Labour are higher in virtual worlds, where "jobs" are mobile and the barriers to entry are much lower. This is the Play-to-earn revolution. In this case, improving the on-chain identity with a model or standard to rating the users in DAO will better serve the DAO members with a scientific output rate reference based on on-chain data analysis.
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Bristol's month-long walking festival, now in its seventh successful year, regularly attracts over 2,000 walkers from across the city and beyond.
Each year there is a variety of walking events on offer. Whether you like historical tours, nature walks, exploring street art, walking sports, or you just want to get fit and enjoy some fresh air, there is something for everyone.
The mostly free events are for all ages from young to old and all levels of fitness are welcome – walk distances range from less than a mile to more than ten.
Bristol Walk Fest 2019 is coordinated by Active Ageing Bristol, a collaboration between Bristol Sport Foundation, The Anchor Society and St Monica Trust, in partnership with Age UK Bristol with funding from Active Ageing Bristol and the Travelwest Fund.
Most of the walks are free and some require advanced booking.


The 2016-2017 Newell School Board was awarded the Associated School Board of South Dakota's ALL Gold Level School Board Award. The award is based on points earned by the school board members who attended training workshops throughout the school year. Newell School Board accumulated 570 points during the 2016-17 school year to reach the Gold Level.


Here is some of the latest news from our projects. For detailed information regarding our references please contact us. Our company representatives will get in contact with you.
February 2017 | ARTI has been awarded the design and consulting services for the marine works within the Hulhumale Phase II Development Project, initiated by the Government of Maldives. The Hulhumale Project aims to create an artificial island for residential, commercial, tourism and industrial purposes. Phase II of the project adds 240 hectares of land to Phase I, which was completed in 2002.
ARTI's scope of work includes the design of residential canals, marinas and harbours, beach areas and quaywalls for the new island. Read more about the project at: http://bit.ly/2ls7if3.
August 2016 | ARTI has been selected by the winning contractor to develop all construction and detailed designs of Filyos Port. Construction of the third biggest port of Turkey, Filyos Port, is about to commence. Located along the Black Sea coastline, this multi-cargo port will include container, bulk and general cargo terminals. Two massive breakwaters and berths exceeding 3.0 km in length will be constructed. Total dredging across the navigation channel and the basin will amount to 15 million cu.m.
ARTI Proje has been selected by the winning contractor to develop all construction and detailed designs of the port structures. Our engineering team is excited to be taking on another challenging and monumental project.
May 2016 | ARTI has been selected as the Lender's Technical Advisor for the new Derince Container Terminal project. ARTI Proje has been selected as the Lender's Technical Advisor for the new Derince Container Terminal project. Derince Port had been privatized via a BOT model in 2014, on the condition that the existing facilities would undergo an extension to reach a container throughput of 1.5 million TEUs. After completion of master plans, the engineering design works for the port are ongoing, with construction works about to commence. ARTI Proje's services to the Lenders will cover the entire duration of the construction period, with an option to extend the services into the operation period.
April 2016 | ARTI has been awarded the feasibility and basic design studies for the new cruise port in Mersin. ARTI Proje has been awarded the feasibility and basic design studies for the new cruise port in Mersin, a southern Mediterranean city on the coast of Turkey. The cruise port project aims to attract more marine traffic into the area and to boost the tourism potential of the region. ARTI Proje already has significant experience in the region, most recently providing the Mersin Metropolitan Municipality with engineering services to develop and upgrade city's magnificent 6 km-long waterfront.
February 2016 | ARTI is now providing consulting services to the Balikesir Metropolitan Municipality for the new Bandirma Port Project. ARTI Proje is now providing consulting services to the Balikesir Metropolitan Municipality for the new Bandirma Port Project. The scope includes planning and engineering works to develop the second largest port of Turkey. The multipurpose port will have an extensive liquid bulk terminal to serve a chemical industrial area to be located in the port zone. The Port of Rotterdam has already signed a MoU with the Municipality to investigate the opportunities to develop the port jointly. This collaboration has the potential to lead to new port governance model applications in the country.
January 2016 | Public voting to decide on the design of a bridge connecting the Lale (Tulip) Island on the Aegean Coast of Turkey. Public voting to decide on the design of a bridge connecting the Lale (Tulip) Island on the Aegean Coast of Turkey to the mainland town of Ayvalik was recently completed. The local municipality asked the public to vote for their favourite of three bridge design options, with the overwhelming majority choosing a design inspired by the rocks found in the region.
By replacing the existing impermeable, road built many decades ago, the bridge will enhance the water circulation and overall water quality. The new design will also allow passage of boats and will significantly reduce sailing times to nearby islands.
ARTI Proje is designing the bridge and providing marine engineering consulting services to the Municipality.
August 2015 | Epique Island Project was launched with a big party. One of our latest waterfront development and marina projects was launched with a big party last week in the world-famous Turkish town of Bodrum. In the real estate development project known as Epique Island, the developer Aksoy Holding will be constructing 75 villas, a top-class marina, boutique hotel, artificial beaches and many more. For the launching party itself, we prepared and installed a large floating platform that can allow 500 people on board to enjoy a Pink Martini concert.
ARTI Proje has been providing master planning and design services for the waterfront facilities, beaches and the marina at Epique Island for last two years. We will be continuing our involvement in the project during construction phase.
July 2015 | The consulting works for the expansion of Derince Port Container Terminal. We signed a contract with SAFI Holding for providing consulting services during master planning and design of Derince Port container terminal expansion.
Being one of the major ports of Turkey in Marmara region, Derince Port had been privatized in 2014. The expansion project includes modernization and capacity increment at existing facilities as well as construction of a new container terminal for annual throughput of minimum 1.25 million TEU's.
June 2015 | We entering into a busy summer season with on-going construction works. Following a winter period which saw several new beach and waterfront development projects, this summer will be a time to commence construction activities of completed designs. The construction of the marina in Albania started recently with the first phase focusing on the residential canal section of the project. The Petronas Harbour in Turkmenistan is nearing completion. In another Caspian region project, Dragon Oil's harbour upgrade design works have been largely completed and first piling works will commence very soon.
May 2015 | Design works of a new pier in Sefine Shipyard. ARTI signed a contract for design works of a new pier in Sefine Shipyard. Vessels upto 100,000 DWT will use the berth and 40 ton capacity crane will be operating on the pier. On the pier also heavy duty bollards will be installed to be used in pull-tests of the new vessels.
September 2014 | We are moving to a new address. As of October 1st, our head office will be moving to a new address: Key Plaza, Sisli, Istanbul.
August 2014 | The design and consulting works for the upgrade of Hazar Harbour berths. ARTI Proje Consulting Ltd. has been awarded the design and consulting works for the upgrade of Hazar Harbour berths. The harbour is presently owned by Dragon Oil, a Dubai based Oil Company operating the offshore fields in Cheleken area located in the Turkmenistan section of the Caspian Sea. Within the scope of the project, nine existing berths will be upgraded for capacity increment and new berths will be constructed for heavy load out operations. Construction works in the harbour are being undertaken by EPIC Contractor ILK Construction.
July 2014 | New Power Plant by EMBA Electricity Production Inc. ARTI Proje Consulting Ltd. has been awarded the design works of marine terminal at new power plant by EMBA Electricity Production Inc., a partnership of Shanghai Electric Power. ARTI Proje will prepare designs for app. 1800 meter long jetty, reclamation zones and cooling water intake / outfall system of the plant.
April 2014 | Power generation started at Erzin Power Plant. AKENERJI announced offical start of power generation by 14th of April at their new Erzin Power Plant. ARTI Proje Ltd. had provided design services for the offshore parts of the plant, including all hydraulic-environmental modeling and structural design of cooling water intake and discharge system components. ARTI worked both at FEED stage with AKENERJI and later with GAMA POWER SYSTEMS during implementation-construction stage.
May 2013 | Completion of the beaches for D-Hotel Gocek and Maris. The new beaches are now complete and welcoming guests. Please find further information regarding our services for beach construction and rehabilitation for tourism facilities here.
December 2012 | We commenced the stream remediation and coastal restructuring project for D-Hotel group in Gocek. We commenced the stream remediation and beach nourishment project for the D-Hotel group in Gocek. The project involves going through the coast of Dogus Group's new D-Hotel in Gocek, remediation of the Yarılgan stream which flows into the sea to provide flood control and a restructuring of the hotel as a recreational area.
November 2012 | We commenced works on the port project for Bahar Energy. We commenced work on the port project for Bahar Energy, which is headquartered in Dubai. We are developing a port on an island to the South of Baku owned by Bahar Energy and used as a passage to its offshore platforms.
September 2012 | Habas Power Plant Seawater Intake/Discharge System We signed the contract for project and consultancy services for the cooling water system for the natural gas conversion power plant HABAS is planning in Aliaga, Izmir. Please find further information regarding our services for underwater pipeline engineering here.
March 2012 | Sefine Shipyard Located in Yalova, we signed the contract for the field restructuring and designs for a ship launching pier to be used in Sefine Shipyard's new manufacturing.
October 2011 | Erzin Power Plant We will be providing Gama Power Systems with construction projects and construction consultancy for the coastal engineering areas related to the cooling water systems of the Erzin Natural Gas Conversion Power Plant, which is being carried out by a CEZ partnership. We provided FEED services for the same project prior to its tender.
August 2011 | Socar Star Refinery Within the scope of the Star Refinery sea terminal planned by Socar in Aliaga, ARTI Proje will provide services for the preparation of FEED level projects and tender documents for the 2 liquid and singular dry cargo jetties.
July 2011 | Candarli Container Port The construction of Turkey's biggest and one of the world's ten largest container ports, Candarli Container Port, commenced recently. Within the scope of the contract signed with the Limak-Kolin joint venture, ARTI Proje prepared the detailed design projects for the port.
With a final capacity of 10 million TEU, Candarli Port is an extremely important and at the same time challenging engineering project due to the importance it carries for the regional port sector and the technical difficulties the project invovles. Once known as Izmir's crazy project, we are honoured to be taking part in this project with two of Turkey's biggest contractors.
November 2010 | Petkim Port and Sea Terminal The implementation of new investments has begun at Socar Turcas' Petkim facilities. In addition to a project to increase the capacity of the Petkim Port to transform it into a container port handling over 1 million TEU, work on a close to 5 billion dollar investment has begun with the refinery project receiving its license a few months ago. As per ARTI Proje's new contract, ARTI Proje will provide the Socar Turcas group consultancy services for all the sea investments at Petkim.
Within the scope of these services, the planning of the structures for the refinery's sea terminal, the drafting of preliminary projects and the preparation of tender documents will also be carried out in addition to work for the container port. We previously provided Petkim with the preparation of feasibility studies for the container port in 2009 and our technical consultancy services in project management for the company's investments in the region have been continuing.
July 2010 | Iskenderun Port One of the region's important ports, the TCDD Iskenderun port, is being put up for sale again via the privatisation tender to be held on August 5th. In addition to the increase of the port's dry and general cargo capacity, the construction of a 400,000 TEU/year capacity container berth is included in the tender conditions.
During the tender period we are providing services which include the preparation of a general master plan, the preparation of the port's expansion plans, capacity estimations and cost analyses to Turkey's leading port investors and operators. Please find further information regarding our Build-Operate- Transfer projects here.


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Q: Kind of a concatenation for 2 hashes There are a few method calls in a js file looking like:
$("#id_1").someMethod({
  //some common hash values
  key1: "value1",
  key2: "value2",

  // some unique has values
  someKey1: "value123",
  someKey2: "value444"
})

// and so on

You see the idea: a few methods those have some common hash values (those the other method have) and some unique hash values those are different for each method.
How do I make a function which will have all the same hash values in it and will receive some additional hash values as an argument to be able to simplify the code?
UPDATE: Although using jquery is ok, I'm curious about achieving it without jquery.

A: Is jQuery.extend() what you are looking for?
var commonValues = {
    key1: "value1",
    key2: "value2"
};

$('#id').someMethod($.extend({
    someKey1: "value123",
    someKey1: "value444"
}, commonValues));

You should keep in mind that in this example the shared values with the same keys will overwrite the unique ones. If this is not the desired behavior, you need to provide an empty object as the first argument to $.extend():
$.extend({}, commonValues, {
    /* unique values */
};

In case if someMethod() is of your own, and you are happy to modify it, you can move this logic inside:
someMethod: function(values) {
    values = $.extend({}, commonValues, values)
}

A: Have you looked at $.extend?
I'm not sure exactly what you want to achieve, but it sounds like something like this.  Note that extend will modifiy the first parameter.
A non-jquery implementation might look as follows:
function addDefaults(overrides, defaults) {
  for(var prop in defaults)
    if(!(prop in overrides))
      overrides[prop] = defaults[prop];
  return overrides;
}

Here, addDefaults(specific, general) is roughly equivalent to $.extend({}, general, specific), however it alters the specific object.  A version that supports multiple arguments and does not alter any is a little longer:
function addDefaults() {
  var retval = {}, arg;
  for(var i=arguments.length-1; i >=0; --i)
    for(var prop in arg=arguments[i])
        retval[prop] = arg[prop];
  return retval;
}

A: You can use this snippet:
function concat(a, b) {
  // Shallow copy
  var c = $.extend(b, a);
  return c;
}

Example usage:
common = {
      key1: "value1",
      key2: "value2"
};

$("#id_1").someMethod(concat(common, {
  // some unique has values
  someKey1: "value123",
  someKey2: "value444"
});

If you need a deep copy it should be not hard to modificate it.

A: Sounds like you are looking for something like this:
var commonValues = {
    key1 : "value1",
    key2 : "value2"
};

function helperFunc(additionalOptions) {
    $("#id_1").someMethod($.extend({}, additionalOptions, commonValues));
}

helperFunc({ someKey1: "value123", someKey2: "value444" });

$.extend docs
If you don't want to use jQuery, you can take a look at someone else's implementation of extend, for example Underscore's _.extend, and make your own.

A: Since you used the expression "how do I MAKE a function", I assume that someMethod is a function that you wrote. In that case you can let the function accept two arguments, one for the common keys and one for the unique keys. Then you can use the bind function to bind your common keys object to the function:
var obj = {};

obj.someMethod = function(commonKeys, uniqueKeys){
    console.log(commonKeys);
    console.log(uniqueKeys);
};

var newFunction = obj.someMethod.bind(obj, {key1: 1, key2: 2});

newFunction({ukey1: 1, ukey2: 2});

With this way you create a new function, that you can call only with your unique keys while the common keys are provided automatically.
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Thacher School was built in 1900 at Independence Ave. and Quincy Ave.
It was closed in 2009, and in 2011 there was a fire inside of the school. In 2015, the City Council voted to demolish the school. The Kansas City School District is currently building new athletic fields on the grounds. The completed space will also include a memorial to Thacher School.
The majority of the photos below were taken in 1997 and are courtesy of David Remley.


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Q: Integrating blog in my website Is there any blog provider that allows you to integrate the blog under your own website/domain?
I have a site www.aaaaaaa.es and would like to have the blog under www.aaaaaaa.es/blog using my own header, but fully manage the blog with the third party provider.

A: Try using Wordpress. It enables you to make and customize your own blog within your website. Here is a link to the documentation.

A: Seems like you want to perform an URL Rewrite.
If you have two system under the same server you can use the rewrite module of your web server (in IIS URL Rewrite, in Apache rewrite directive).
Another way is like aruba and other domains does: use an iframe full width so initially you don't see the change of domain, but when you click on one link (such as article) you will not see the change in the URL.
Futher information to this link


Nearly 2 million Windows Phone 7 handsets sold?
Every so often we do a complete run down of the Windows Phone 7 vital signs, and there is no more contentious number in the market than the number of 'monthly active users' for the official WP7 Facebook application.
When the number was first discovered, people assumed that it was a leading indicator of how many people had purchased a handset. After all, who would buy a WP7 handset and not use the app, right? As it turns out, a good number.
The day that Microsoft announced that it had sold some 1.5 million WP7 handsets, the number of 'monthly active users' for the FB app only a bit over 200,000. We have a recorded data point for December 17th, four days before Microsoft announced the 1.5 million units sold statistic. On the 17th, there were 209,961 users.
We need the number of users, however, for the 21st of December to see how many active users there were per phone sold. Given the mere four-day gap between the 17th and the 21st, let's add 10,000 more monthly active users, for a total of (with rounding) 220,000 monthly active users among 1.5 million sold phones. That gives us a ratio of 6.756 handsets sold per active user.
So, while we have no new numbers from Microsoft on how the phone line did over the holidays, we can get a fair guess based on our ratio, and the current number of monthly active users of the WP7 Facebook app.
As of the time of writing there are 290,452 users, according to the app's Facebook page. At our ratio of 6.756 phones sold per active FB user, we end up with a total of 1,962,513 total phones sold, or for all intents and purposes, 2 million.
That implies that in the month (well, month minus a day) from when Microsoft let forth the 1.5 million phones sold number, the phone line has moved (according to our estimates) another 500,000 units, adding 33% to its size.
You decide if that means that WP7 had a good holiday or not.


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FCC chairman outlines strong Internet protections
New year brings new hope for Net neutrality supporters
FCC chairman looks set to throw down strong Net neutrality rules
Experts: FCC will adopt Net neutrality rules in early 2015
FCC a 'referee,' not a regulator, of the Internet, Wheeler says
'We're for an open Internet and that's not regulation of the Internet,' FCC chairman says at Mobile World Congress
By Matt Hamblen
Senior Editor, Computerworld |
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler on Tuesday defended the commission's recent vote in support of Net neutrality, saying it isn't regulation as some critics contend it is, but instead sets up the Federal Communication Commission as a kind of referee.
"If the Internet is the most powerful pervasive platform in the history of the planet, can it exist without a referee?" Wheeler said. "There needs to be a referee with a yardstick ... isn't that something that makes sense? It's not a regulatory structure but a structure that says Internet activity should be 'just and reasonable' and with somebody to throw a flag when they aren't."
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Wheeler spoke during an onstage appearance at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and was interviewed by Anne Bouverot, director general of the MWC's governing organization, GSMA.
Bouverot asked Wheeler to explain some of the arcane points of the Federal Communications Commission vote on Net neutrality for the international audience. For one, she wondered how Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 became a central tenant of the vote by reclassifying Internet broadband providers as a type of utility.
Wheeler said that the FCC actually modernized Title II and relied on that portion of the 1934 law because it was used to regulate wireless carriers more than a decade ago.
"We didn't go off half-cocked, we said, 'let's find a model that works,'" Wheeler said. At one point, he said that Title II in the original law has 48 sections, of which 19 sections weren't used to regulate the wireless industry in 1993. With Net neutrality, the FCC didn't use 27 of the 48 sections to oversee broadband Internet providers --both wired and wireless.
"We are being less regulatory" than with the wireless industry, he said.
"We built a model for Net neutrality that has been wildly successful for mobile," Wheeler explained. "We took Title II and modernized it...In 1993, the wireless industry asked the FCC to regulate them as a common carrier but to forebear all the monopoly-era regulations, and that is what has resulted in $300 billion in investments, which has been wildly successful."
At the center of Title II is a standard of making rulings, when needed, with the "just and reasonable" yardstick. "Our goal is to specifically not impose restrictions or order on how [the Internet] should work," Wheeler said. "We want operators to be as innovative as possible and to have a revenue stream that is unchanged. It's with that revenue stream that they will build the networks of the future."
Bouverot asked how Wheeler changed his thinking to using Title II from his earlier position to defend Net neutrality by using Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. He answered that Section 706 allows "commercially reasonable" activities, but that many innovators and investors challenged him as to whether commercially reasonable meant what is reasonable for network providers rather than for consumers.
Wheeler, a former chairman of the CTIA wireless association in the U.S. in the early 1990s, said he worked in that job when the mobile industry asked for Title II rules. "Suddenly over [last] summer—bam! I realized I've been here before and it's Title II. "
In its controversial decision, the commission voted 3-2 to reclassify broadband as a regulated public utility and to prohibit broadband providers from selectively blocking or slowing Web traffic and from offering paid services to prioritize Web traffic.
Many critics of the FCC's action have said Wheeler picked the Title II approach at the behest of President Obama. Wheeler, a Democrat, was appointed to the FCC by Obama .
Repeating a comment he made at the Feb. 26 meeting when the FCC voted to support Net neutrality, Wheeler said, "Let's be real clear: This is no more regulating the Internet than the First Amendment regulates free speech. This is not regulating; regulation is tariffing and rate regulation.... We're for an open Internet and that's not regulation of the Internet. No government or private entity will block the Internet as a vehicle of fee expression."
Carrier executives attending MWC steered away from commenting on the FCC's Net neutrality vote, including AT&T Mobility CEO Glenn Lurie. Noting that the official rules voted on by the FCC won't be published for weeks and only a summary has been made official, Lurie said in an interview, "Let's see the rules before we comment. It's hard to tell what they mean."
Like Verizon and other carriers, Lurie said AT&T is already devoted to the principles of Net neutrality. "We've always supported Net neutrality. The U.S. is leading the world in every aspect of the Internet. The world views us as a leader and a role model."
This story, "FCC a 'referee,' not a regulator, of the Internet, Wheeler says" was originally published by Computerworld.
Matt Hamblen is a multi-media journalist covering mobile, networking and smart city tech. He previously was a senior editor at Computerworld.


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from django.contrib.auth.decorators import user_passes_test
from django.contrib.auth.models import Group

def group_required(names, login_url=None):
    """
    Checks if the user is a member of a particular group (or at least one
    group from the list)
    """
    if not hasattr(names,'__iter__'):
        names = [names]
    return user_passes_test(lambda u: u.groups.filter(name__in=names),
                            login_url=login_url)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


When it's been this cold, there's no kitchen aroma more welcoming, warming, and enticing than a slowly simmering braise. Beef and red wine, pork and dried fruits, chicken and tomatoes, the combinations are limitless and ideal to keep us nourished through the depths of winter.
Pot roast is the all-American braise, a staple of home kitchens and family restaurant menus for generations: a slab of darkly browned beef chuck surrounded with aromatic vegetables swimming in red wine – all slowly simmering in the oven. Meltingly tender slices covered in rich gravy and surrounded by root vegetables – it doesn't get any better than that.
Braising takes a little time, but the rewards are worth it. Get everything ready, sear the meat for deep flavor and set it all to simmer in the pot. In the oven or on top of the stove, a gentle simmer with plenty of liquid yields rich flavors and tender meat.
In her award-winning book, All About Braising, classically trained chef Molly Stevens says, "Braising produces food that draws people together. The concentrated aromas, tender textures, and deep flavors set people at ease, and braising is easy on the cook." Indeed, all the work is done ahead. The braise comes out of the pot, magically ready to serve.
Her recipe for Pork Pot Roast with Apricots, Cardamom and Ginger is one of my favorites. Dried apricots become puddles of sweet flavor. Exotic ginger and cardamom along with turmeric, cloves, cayenne, and orange zest bring the flavors of far away places. A fatty pork shoulder becomes fork tender by simmering in stock and white wine. It's a knockout dish and even better the day after.
You don't always need a recipe for a braise. For pot roast, I often wing it. A couple of strips of bacon is a good beginning. The smoky, salty fat that renders out is great for browning the beef and then wilting the onions, carrots, and celery. When the vegetables are tender, put the meat back in the pot along with the cooked bacon, add the better part of a bottle of red wine (not your best), and maybe a little beef stock (store bought is OK). Sometimes I add a handful of dried cranberries for a mysterious hint of fruity sweetness. No tomatoes for me. Put the pot in the oven at 325° for about three hours. The house will smell wonderful and the dinner will be delicious.
Brisket is favored by some for a pot roast, but I like chuck. Cut from the shoulder, it has fat marbling for flavor and gristle which melts into silky richness. It's a tough cut that requires a long slow braise, but it's loaded with flavor as the tough cuts usually are. Round steak, which is sometimes labeled as pot roast, is too lean to make a good braise. Dry and cottony when cooked, it just doesn't cut it for me.
Chicken makes a quick braise. We have a few favorites that are in regular rotation. Thighs are the most forgiving for braising. They won't dry out like white meat and will stay moist even if you're ahead of schedule and have to hold them for a while.
A few years ago I came across Mark Bittman's recipe for Braised Chicken With Tomatoes, Olives and Capers in the New York Times. With only 8 ingredients, mostly kitchen staples, it's a crowd pleaser that's easy to pull together at the last minute. I use chicken thighs instead of a whole chicken. Some capers, a can of diced tomatoes, and a handful of Kalamata olives round out the picture. Serve it over rice and be sure to make enough for leftovers. They're even better.
technique. A few decades ago, braised lamb shanks were on almost every menu, but you don't see them much these days. Short ribs have taken their place as the popular braise for this era. The tender ribs are slow simmered until fork tender and served with the rich braising liquid. Usually there is some polenta or mashed potatoes to soak up the sauce. Osso Bucco, braised veal shank, has always been a special occasion braise on restaurant menus.
Ben also reminded me that vegetables are excellent candidates for braising. While we were talking, he had some salsify in the oven braising with butter, tarragon, and thyme. He braises parsnips in stock as a side for his braised short ribs. In fact, just about any root vegetable or a mix of several will braise nicely.
I hope this inspires you to get a fragrant, nourishing braise going in your kitchen. Judging from the last few weeks, it looks like we're in for a cold winter.


The 32-A Tension Set Packer is a versatile, easy to use tension set tool, which holds differential pressure from above or below. It is designed to run, set, reset and retrieve easily even under adverse conditions. It is ideal for squeeze cementing, casing testing, stimulation treatments and straddle operations using a retrievable bridge plug. Full-bore design minimizes the potential for screen-out during fracturing, does not restrict flow rates and allows the use of through-tubing tools without pulling the packer.
The 32-A Tension Set Packer is run with the SC Tension Unloader Valve above the tool, allowing equalization of the fluid levels while the running the tool to setting depth. To set the tool, pick up on tubing string and rotate 1/4 turn to the left (or right, if using righthand set) at the tool.
Slack-off tubing weight while holding torque. This allows the tool to take weight. Packing elements will not be compressed with the SC unloader in the open position. At this point, circulation between tubing and annulus is possible.
Tension is pulled to compress the packing element system and closes the unloader isolating tubing from annulus.
Slack-off tubing weight which will result in setdown weight on the 32-A and open the SC unloader and establish communication between tubing and annulus. Rotate tubing string 1/4 turn to the right (or to the left if right-hand set) at the tool and pick-up on tubing while holding torque.
The service tool will jay into the running slot and can then be moved, reset or retrieved from the well.
The SC Unloader Valve should remain in the open position while packer is free.
If service tool will not release using the normal procedure, right-hand rotation will release the safety joint. This will relax the packing elements and retract the slips from the cone allowing the service tool to be pulled from the well. The service tool must be pulled from the well and redressed before trying to reset service tool.