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Episode 207 Aired: Sunday, November 9th 2014
Jewish Soul Food
This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is talking with author Janna Gur about her new recipe book, "Jewish Soul Food." Just in time for upcoming holidays, Cathy kicks off the show asking Janna why she decided to take on writing this book. She elaborates that she wanted to bring the 'greatest hits' of Jewish grandmothers to North American readers. Considering herself more of a curator of wonderful recipes at her disposal, she explains that she nearly prefers that title to cookbook author because the included recipes have been tried again and again and are not solely based on her personal tastes. Janna currently lives in Tel Aviv, Israel and sheds light on the environment there from the political turmoil to the cultural and culinary highlights. Tune in to hear all about the new book as well as the definition and differences between Ashkenazi and Sephardic cooking. This program was brought to you by Fairway Market.
"The only way to really preserve a cuisine to cook it and find as many people as possible to eat it."
"Israelis have this really lustful life and part of it is the food."
--Janna Gur on Eat Your Words
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Coconut & Sambal with Lara Lee
For the season finale of Eat Your Words, Cathy dials up Lara Lee, whose acclaimed new book celebrates Indonesian cuisine. Hear how Lara's fond memories of cooking with her grandmother inspired her to explore her food and culture more, and how Indonesian cooking can be replicated anywhere in the...
Xi'an Famous Foods with Jason Wang
We can thank Jason Wang for expanding the tastes of New Yorkers and the rest of the world through his popular and influential small chain, Xi'an Famous Foods, specializing in the cuisine of Western China. And his new cookbook, also called Xi'an Famous Foods, is destined to be a classic. Hear Jason...
East by Meera Sodha
Cathy dials up Meera Sodha, bestselling author (and The Guardian's vegan columnist) to chat about her latest cookbook. We talk about how her book thoughtfully incorporates the cuisines of many Asian countries, and how Meera collaborated with the home cooks and chefs she met on her culinary journeys...
The Chilean Kitchen
Cathy dials up the authors of The Chilean Kitchen, Pilar Hernandez and Eileen Smith. They discuss the classics of Chilean cuisine and the rich history of influences that has molded it over the centuries. Image courtesy of Skyhorse Publishing. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit...
Snacky Tunes Cookbook
Episode 392, Aired: October 18, 2020
Cathy welcomes Darin and Greg Bresnitz, the hosts of the podcast Snacky Tunes on HRN, and authors of a new cookbook on food and music also called Snacky Tunes: Music is the Main Ingredient. The authors share the fun behind-the-scenes of working on the book, which includes recipes from acclaimed...
Perilous Bounty
To kick off the fall season, Cathy welcomes to the show Tom Philpott, a veteran food and environmental reporter currently with Mother Jones. Tom's new book, Perilous Bounty, is an urgent wake-up call to the plight of the American farming system that just might remind you of classics like Silent...
Moonshine: "The Original Expression of Whiskey."
[audio mp3="https://heritageradionetwork.org/sites/default/files/wp-uploads/2015/09/Beverage-Moonshine-The-Original-Expression-of-Whiskey-1.mp3"][/audio] Jaime Joyce, author of Moonshine: A Cultural History of America's Infamous Liquor, joins Cathy Erway on Eat Your...
Another Reason to be Nice to Your Barista
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Not surprisingly considering the truckload of money the series continues to make, Ubisoft has announced there will be a new "Assassin's Creed" for 2014. What is surprising is that it will be developed by new design teams, feature a new hero, and take place in a different time period.
That last one is particularly interesting considering the amount of miles that the publisher got out of the renaissance era Italy setting of "Assassin's Creed II," and the big news that was the third taking place in the new (and rarely seen in gaming) era of the American revolution. The question now is, where (or more appropriately, when) will gamers get to free run and eliminate their targets next?
There could be worse options for sure, as the Victorian Era is both one of the most stylized periods consistently featured in pop culture (and a big inspiration for steampunk worlds), and a genuinely interesting historical time that featured a melding of two different time eras, resulting in unique architecture, technology, and people. Not to mention the series preference to include historical figures could have you interacting with everyone from Charles Dickens to Jack the Ripper.
In many ways this would be a logical, and welcome, next step for the franchise.
It would definitely violate the chronological story progression up until this point, but may be worth it.
The feudal Japan era is one of the most romanticized yet brutal periods in world history, and has the added benefit of not quite being overplayed yet in the world of video games. Featuring two of the most prolific and exciting warrior types of all time (samurais and ninjas), as well as the potential of siding with several warring clans "Yojimbo" style, depending on the exact time period, feudal Japan could feature a nice mix of styles and weaponry as well as provide plenty of opportunities for memorable moments.
If Ubisoft is looking for a new time period, but not a new setting entirely, this might be the best way to go.
The big draw of the industrial revolution is all of the new technology that could be incorporated into the series, but the time period itself was also noteworthy for the effects it had on society and social mentalities of the people. Ubisoft could incorporate the prolific plight of the average working man in this new, exciting, yet often challenging time and create a story both unique to gaming, and genuinely noteworthy if they play it right.
"Assassin's Creed III" surprised nearly everyone by taking place in the rarely seen American revolution. "Assassin's Creed IV" could do the same by visiting Ming Dynasty China.
This time period had everything you could want for a dramatic tale. Unique weaponry, feuding clans, government corruption, plight, rebellion, rising industry, incredible works of art and design, empires, and much, much more. There is a lot to explore during this time, much of which hasn't been thoroughly examined by a video game. For sheer potential, this would be my personal favorite way for the series to go, though a dark horse candidate to be sure.
The only real question is, how far does the series want to go?
Though part of the games do take place in the future, the majority of "Assassin's Creed" takes place in the pretty distant past. Without fundamentally changing the gameplay to a serious degree, World War I is about as far as you could go, considering the major influence of technology on just about everything past this point. Since some of the best parts of "Assassin's Creed III" was your involvement in large scale battles, doing the same during the chaotic, often confused battles of WWI would be incredibly intense and provide some of the most uniquely hectic moments seen yet in gaming, all set on a world stage.
Considering the options it presents, "Assassin's Creed" needs to reach this era at some point, but it's a matter of when.
Check out Anthony Stalter's weekly NFL column at ScoresReport.com as he covers all aspects of the game during the season and offseason as well.


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Wesley Snipes Starts 3-Year Prison Sentence
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Even though he really tried hard to have his three-year prison sentence delayed, Wesley Snipes is now in federal custody. He has begun his sentence for tax evasion, according to prison officials.
Recently, Wesley pleaded with the judge to extend his turn-in date from today to January 6th, but his request was denied.
TMZ reports:
Traci Billingsley, Chief Public Information Officer for the Bureau of Prisons, tells TMZ, "Wesley Snipes has self surrendered to the minimum security Federal Prison Camp at the Federal Correctional Institution McKean, in Bradford, Pennsylvania."
Another spokesperson for the B.O.P., Ed Ross, confirms, "Wesley Snipes has arrived and is at the prison facility in PA."
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Raincoats and rubber boots for Edhi Foundation workers in coronavirus fight
PESHAWAR: The Edhi Foundation — famous for its emergency services and shelter homes for the country's poor, is kitting staff out in rain coats and rubber boots in the battle against coronavirus as it can't get hold of proper personal protective equipment, the organisation says.
Pakistan has reported the highest number of coronavirus infections in South Asia, with 1,238 cases and nine deaths, but health experts say there is a lack of public awareness about the virus and the cash-strapped government is ill-prepared to tackle it.
The Edhi Foundation has for decades stepped in to help when government services fail communities and it runs the country's largest ambulance service.
Now it has had to train dozens of staff on how to handle suspected coronavirus patients. But providing them with proper protection is a problem given a nationwide shortage of the equipment.
"We've compromised on certain things and use alternatives," Faisal Edhi, head of the Edhi Foundation, told Reuters at his office in Karachi on Thursday.
"Full aprons are in short supply in the market." He said he was confident the raincoats would work just as well.
Doctors in the capital, Islamabad, last week threatened to go on strike over a lack of protective equipment in hospitals.
The health ministry has acknowledged some problems with facilities and shortages of equipment to tackle the virus and officials have said they are importing personal protection equipment from China.
Edhi said his organisation was getting dozens of calls a day from people worried that they or their relatives were infected with the coronavirus. "We advise them to self-isolate and separate the utensils," he said. - Reuters


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Boven ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 Jan Boven (* 1972), niederländischer Radrennfahrer
 Jim Van Boven (* 1949), US-amerikanischer Radrennfahrer
 Karin Boven (* 1963), niederländische Kulturanthropologin und Diplomatin
 Kristof Van Boven (* 1981), belgischer Theaterschauspieler
 Lars Boven (* 2001), niederländischer Radrennfahrer
 Theo van Boven (* 1934), niederländischer Jurist und emeritierter Professor des Völkerrechts an der Universität Maastricht

Siehe auch:
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Do I know where my team members shine and where they need help? Is is based on feeling or DATA?
Do I know if the projects are running smoothly and the billing is happening properly?
What happens when a team member leaves? How does knowledge transfer happen?
Do I know the percentage of team trained in the skills my business sells or needs? Do I know who needs what kind of training?
The answers are already there, they just need to be seen.
Whether it is a small organisation, too small to produce enough data related to HR, finances, operations, projects or a big organisation which feels that they have all of their functions under control through the various departments, they all need to make informed decisions for their business to profit and do well. These decisions could either be intuitive and feeling based or based on the trails of data that the organisation leaves behind which can be collected without making any extra effort at all and then synthesised for effective decision making.
This talk shows how building a business can be much less intimidating and more empowering.


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New artificial intelligence system can predict human actions
Computer systems that predict actions would open up new possibilities ranging from robots that can better navigate human environments.PTI | June 23, 2016, 09:02 IST
BOSTON: In a breakthrough, scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system - using videos from YouTube and popular TV shows - that can predict whether two people will hug, kiss or shake hands.
Computer systems that predict actions would open up new possibilities ranging from robots that can better navigate human environments, to emergency response systems that predict falls, to virtual reality headsets that feed you suggestions for what to do in different situations.
Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US have made an important new breakthrough in predictive vision, developing an algorithm that can anticipate interactions more accurately than ever before.
Trained on YouTube videos and popular TV shows, the system can predict whether two individuals will hug, kiss, shake hands or slap five.
In a second scenario, it could also anticipate what object is likely to appear in a video five seconds later.
While human greetings may seem like arbitrary actions to predict, the task served as a more easily controllable test case for the researchers to study.
"Humans automatically learn to anticipate actions through experience, which is what made us interested in trying to imbue computers with the same sort of common sense," said Carl Vondrick, PhD student at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
"We wanted to show that just by watching large amounts of video, computers can gain enough knowledge to consistently make predictions about their surroundings," said Vondrick.
Researchers created an algorithm that can predict "visual representations," which are basically freeze-frames showing different versions of what the scene might look like.
The algorithm employs techniques from deep-learning, a field of artificial intelligence that uses systems called "neural networks" to teach computers to pore over massive amounts of data to find patterns on their own.
Each of the algorithm's networks predicts a representation is automatically classified as one of the four actions - in this case, a hug, handshake, high-five, or kiss.
The system then merges those actions into one that it uses as its prediction.
For example, three networks might predict a kiss, while another might use the fact that another person has entered the frame as a rationale for predicting a hug instead.
After training the algorithm on 600 hours of unlabelled video, the team tested it on new videos showing both actions and objects.
When shown a video of people who are one second away from performing one of the four actions, the algorithm correctly predicted the action more than 43 per cent of the time, which compares to existing algorithms that could only do 36 per cent of the time.
It is worth noting that even humans make mistakes on these tasks. For example, human subjects were only able to correctly predict the action 71 per cent of the time, researchers said.
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If you are familiar with Mike Leigh's body of works, you'll be familiar with the themes and the setting of this film. In fact, for the first few minutes you might even be thinking "Oh dear… Another Year, another Mike's Leigh's movie". Then slowly this becomes something that somehow stays with you, especially, I suppose, if you are a slightly older person than I am. This is not only a film about relationships, but it's a film about growing old and what relationship mean to a person who's growing old. You've got the old happy perfect couple on one side of the spectrum, the old man who starts his day and ends his day by drinking a can of beer (and obviously has many of them in between), the ageing 40 something woman, who suffers from depression and her to drinks herself to the point of embarrassing herself all the time, you've got the recently widowed man whose life seems to have stop making sense since the death of the wife. Anyway, in other words, this isn't a happy depiction of life: it is after all a Mike's Leigh's film. It's a film about real life, about little moments, silences, gestures, little things. There are so big resolutions, no big twists, not a lot of character development, because after all in life we don't really change much and the biggest twist one may have in his life over the course of one year, is that his or her car might have broken down.
A lot has been made about how Mike Leigh like to shoot his films (rehearsing for 6 months with the actors, letting them improvise and basically writing down the script as he goes along). In this one he ended up dividing his film into 4 season and he gave each of them a different look and feel. Well, to be honest, there's absolutely nothing new or original in that: summer looks shining and warm, winter is obviously grey, foggy and with muted colours, perfectly in keeping with the last chapter which is mainly about death.
However I did find some of the dialogue a bit fake and forced (especially the scenes at the dinner table with the new girlfriend). Everybody is always waiting for somebody else to finish their sentence before speaking again during the busiest dialogue scenes. On the other hand, during the slower and more quiet scenes silences and awkward moments are stretched a bit too far. It didn't quite feel right to me.
At the end of the day I couldn't really help feeling that the film is a bit too indulgent in a few places and some of those scenes could have been trimmed a lot more in the editing (I suppose, that's the danger of filming sequences in one very long take: there's probably not a lot of coverage to shorten things with).
Critics have loved it, of course, and I can see why. This is the kind of film that stays with you… But really, in a few years time will we go back to "Another Year" and watch it again? I don't think so.
I like that you are reviewing a wide range of films and TV. I look forward to reading more of your entries. You might want to add an "About me page" though, so an audience to your writing could realte to you a little more.


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Analysis of drug research identifies causes of declining returns, like the "better than the Beatles" problem, and a possible solution, "Dead Drugs Officers"
My last post, "Is Science Hitting a Wall?," provoked lots of reactions. Some readers sent me other writings about diminishing returns from research. One is "Diagnosing the decline in pharmaceutical R&D efficiency," published in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery in 2012. The paper is so clever, loaded with ideas and relevant to science as a whole that I'm summarizing its main points here.
Eroom's Law. The paper notes that "the number of new drugs approved per billion U.S. dollars spent on R&D has halved roughly every 9 years since 1950." The authors, Jack Scannell and three other British investment analysts, call this trend "Eroom's Law," which is Moore's Law flipped over. Moore's Law is Gordon's Moore's famous observation about the growing power of computer chips.
The "better than the Beatles problem" has an equivalent in pure science. Call it the "better than Einstein problem." Ambitious scientists don't want merely to tweak or extend science's greatest hits. They want to come up with revolutionary insights of their own, which might even show that older paradigms were incomplete or wrong. This feat is extremely difficult, because science's greatest hits are not just aesthetically pleasing, like "Yesterday" or "A Day in a Life." General relativity, quantum mechanics, the big bang theory, evolutionary theory and the genetic code are true, in the sense of being confirmed by mountains of evidence. That's one reason why there will probably never be another Einstein.
Scannell et al state that "it is hard to see the regulatory environment relaxing to any extent." They could not foresee Trump, who has called for rolling back FDA restrictions on drug firms. But so far Trump's FDA commissioner, Scott Gottlieb, has not pursued deregulation as aggressively as some critics feared.
Ethical constraints impede research in other fields, notably neuroscience. Modern neuroscientists could undoubtedly learn a lot from brain-implant experiments like those carried out in the 1950s and 1960s. (See for example "Tribute to Jose Delgado, Legendary and Slightly Scary Pioneer of Mind Control," and "Bizarre Brain-Implant Experiment Sought to 'Cure' Homosexuality.") Brain-implant research continues, and occasionally goes awry. But experimentation on humans and other animals is much more tightly regulated than it used to be, fortunately.
Drug research has been transformed over the past few decades by advances such as the discovery of the double helix and of neurotransmitters, as well as the invention of powerful tools for decoding genomes and screening compounds. Pharmaceutical research based on these advances has been touted as more rational and efficient than the intuitive, hit-or-miss guesswork of the past.
But the clinical payoff from "molecular reductionism" has been overrated. Look at the failure, so far, of the Human Genome Project to translate into improved therapies for inherited illnesses, or of knowledge about neurotransmitters to produce better psychiatric medications.
Another name for the basic-research-brute force bias could be the devil is in the details problem. Nuclear physics has fallen prey to this problem. The discovery of nuclear fusion in the 1930s and invention of thermonuclear weapons in the 1950s led physicists to expect that fusion could quickly be harnessed for generating energy. More than 70 years later, those expectations remain unfulfilled.
Appoint Dead Drugs Officers. Scannell et al propose that to counter Eroom's Law, drug firms should appoint a "Dead Drug Officer" to perform a post mortem on drugs that fail the R&D process. The officer would submit reports to the firm as well as to funding agencies such as the NSF or NIH and a peer-reviewed journal. These dead-drug reports would help identify ways to make research more productive.
Scannell et al are essentially proposing that science be more accountable. This is the theme of "Saving Science," a controversial 2016 essay by science-policy scholar Daniel Sarewitz. He argues that science "is trapped in a self-destructive vortex; to escape, it will have to abdicate its protected political status and embrace both its limits and its accountability to the rest of society." See responses to the essay here.
I can imagine other fields designating a Dead Ideas Officer to improve efficiency, except that in some fields ideas never die. Look, for example, at the persistence of Freudian psychoanalysis in psychology and of string theory in physics. The Dead Ideas Officer could perhaps issue recommendations as to which ideas should be dead and hence cut off from further investment. That would be a thankless job, but someone has to do it, for science's sake.
Has the Era of Gene Therapy Finally Arrived?
What's So Great about Innovation?
See also this 2015 paper by Scannell, a 2016 paper by Scannell and a co-author and a non-technical commentary on that paper.


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Latest news from the field team in Russia
News from the field: The release!
Update from Roland Digby At around 12:00hrs, all 30 of the 2017 cohort of headstarted spoon-billed sandpipers were released. Around three hours before the release all shelters were removed from the pen and dishes moved to the front near the entrance. We've adopted this approach
News from the field: Chick of headstarted pair spotted
Update from Roland Digby On the 24 July, Ivan reported seeing a spoon-billed sandpiper with a white leg flag around 200m north of the release pen. Being aware that the headstarted pair White 0C and U6 had recently hatched two chicks (Light green U6 and Light green V6) from a replaceme
News from the Field: Moving to the release aviary and the obligatory bear photo
Update from Roland Digby On Friday 14 July, we finally got the first couple of broods of birds out into the release aviary. Because of the storm we couldn't put the birds out as early as we'd hoped (Wednesday 12 July), so the first couple of broods were a bit older than th
News from the Field: Eggs hatched and release pen ready to go
Update from Roland Digby At 15:30hrs on 10 July, our 30th and last chick hatched! Although we didn't expect all 34 viable eggs to hatch, we had hoped for 32. Unfortunately that wasn't the case, with one dying just as it started to hatch and two others just before pipping,
News from the Field: Hatching update from 3 July
Update from Roland Digby (from 3 July 2017) On 1 July, clutch A pipped and were all moved from the Hemel incubator to the AB Newlife hatcher. As of 3 July, a total of 24 of the 34 viable eggs have pipped and been moved over and we expect the remaining 10 eggs in the incubators to pip
News from the Field: 38 eggs!
On 24 June, the final clutch of eggs was collected from the plain at the foot of the moraine hills close to the village, making a total of 38 eggs collected. This is amazing because at one point earlier in the season when the floods were inundating territories (particularly in Angkavi
News from the Field: Three more spoonies have been tagged to track migration south to the Yellow Sea
With funding from the Mohamed bin Zayed Conservation Fund, Nigel Clark has gone to the Spoonie breeding grounds to fit satellite tags to three breeding birds in the hope that we can learn where they stop on their migration south to the Yellow Sea. For more information on how the Moham
News from the Field: The first eggs of 2017
The team has collected the first eggs of the season, many more flagged birds have been seen and flooding continues to cause problems. Here's the latest from Russia. From Roland Digby We collected the first clutch of eggs this week – four eggs were collected from the nest o
News from the Field: First update from the team
We're very pleased to be able to share the first news from the field with you. Roland and the BirdsRussia team have been at the breeding grounds for almost a month now but have had a more limited internet connection than usual. Below is the first update we received and we'
Captive Breeding


6 Bedroom Detached House For Sale in London for Guide Price £2,495,000.
A large Victorian double fronted house with six double bedrooms that has been brought to life by the current owners with a mixture of the original period features and character plus cutting edge modern design and styling. Living space offers three separate spacious rooms with the rear room opening onto the garden and also a wonderful reception hall with original fireplace. There is a family and every day breakfast/dining area that follows on from the kitchen and enjoys a double garden aspect with two sets of glass doors opening onto a raised decked area. The first floor provides five double bedrooms; the main front bedroom has a magnificent en-suite bathroom with centre roll top bath. On to the second floor a large master bedroom with en-suite, air conditioning and built in wardrobes.
Creffield Road is an attractive residential street with similar period properties on both sides. It is located slightly to the north of Ealing Common and is convenient for access to the A406 North Circular Road (with connections to the M1, M4, A4, A40 and M25) The transport facilities are excellent with Ealing Common station at just 0.3 miles (Piccadilly and District lines) West Acton Station 0.5 miles (Central Line) and Ealing Broadway with two underground lines and an over ground (soon to be part of the Crossrail network in 2020) is 0.9 miles.
The rear garden is accessed via two sets of glass doors from the kitchen/family room and also from the rear reception room. There is a lawn plus raised deck area. Off street parking for at least four cars is available at the front of the property.


The Irish landscape is a living compendium of human and natural history, its character a testament to the lives and aspirations of countless generations. It has been our inspiration and is an essential part of our identity. The landscape sustains us in every way possible — it is both our inheritance and our gift to the future.
'Landscape' as described in the 1995 Heritage Act [PDF 96KB] includes areas, sites, vistas and features of significant scenic, archaeological, geological, historical, ecological or other scientific interest.
Our vision is that the Irish landscape will be a dynamic, living landscape, one which accommodates the physical and spiritual needs of people with the needs of nature in a harmonious manner, and as a result, bring long-term benefits to both.
However, the accelerated pace of building and development witnessed over the last 20 years in Ireland has left a mixed legacy of successes and failures that we are going to have to live with for the foreseeable future.
The European Landscape Convention (ELC) offers an inclusive way of engaging with the landscape. Its starting point is the recognition of the multiplicity of ways in which the landscape supports human life.
The Heritage Council espouses the principle of shared stewardship of our natural and cultural heritage. Our experience has been that, equipped with reliable knowledge and support, local communities are more than capable of critiquing what they have around them and imagining, describing and delivering better futures for themselves and their children.
Their efforts and their vision deserve to be enshrined in local and regional planning. The case studies that we have sponsored, facilitated and partnered prove that this approach works and delivers quality communal landscapes that generate sustainable employment, social capital, community identity and functioning ecologies.
Real benefits are to be derived from co-operation, partnership, and co-ordination between all who impact on our landscape.
In November 2015, a workshop was held in Dublin to explore new developments in Landscape Character Assessment and ways of implementing the National Landscape Strategy.
This document reflects new ideas regarding how we might manage, plan and conserve Ireland's landscape into the future. It is based on the work of the Heritage Council and many of its Irish and European partners in seeking, over a ten-year period, to promote the implementation of the European Landscape Convention (ELC). The Convention offers us a new way of thinking about our landscape - one that places people, and their active participation in shaping their landscape, in a central position.
The Irish Landscape Institute's (ILI) President, Mary Ann Harris formally launched the South East Branch of the ILI on the evening of the 20th June 2012 at the Heritage Council's Headquarters in Kilkenny. The inaugural branch event included a participative seminar given by Alison Harvey (Heritage Council Planning Officer) entitled 'Landscape Character Assessment & the National Landscape Strategy' which can be downloaded below.


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Eleutherodactylus corona

Descripción
Los machos miden de 17.2 a 18.4 mm y las hembras de 16.6 a 19.1 mm.

Etimología
El nombre específico corona proviene del latín corona, la corona, en referencia a los múltiples tubérculos presentes en las cabezas de la mayoría de los especímenes de esta especie.

Publicación original
 Hedges & Thomas, 1992 : Two New Species of Eleutherodactylus from Remnant Cloud Forest in Haiti (Anura: Leptodactylidae). Herpetologica, vol. 48, n.º3, p. 351-358

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Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: IV. Chorus: Omnes generationes
Masaaki Suzuki & Bach Collegium Japan
Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: VII. Fecit potentiam
Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: XI. Sicut loctus est
Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: XII. Gloria
Coronation Mass in C Major, K. 317: I. Kyrie
Ernst Hinreiner, Gabriele Fuchs, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra & Salzburg Mozarteum Choir
Coronation Mass in C Major, K. 317: II. Gloria
Coronation Mass in C Major, K. 317: III. Credo
Coronation Mass in C Major, K. 317: IV. Sanctus
Coronation Mass in C Major, K. 317: V. Benedictus
Coronation Mass in C Major, K. 317: VI. Agnus Dei
Ave verum corpus, K. 618
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Magnificat, RV 611: II. Ex exultavit
Jakub Burzynski & La Tempesta
Magnificat, RV 611: V. Et misericordia
Magnificat, RV 611: VII. Deposuit potentes
Magnificat, RV 611: IX. Suscepit Israel
Magnificat, RV 611: XI. Gloria Patri
Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral": IV. Presto (Excerpt: Ode to Joy)
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In the case of pressure equipment or assemblies intended for experimental purposes, the Office for Standards, Metrology and Testing may, in justified cases, permit their placement on the market or putting into service in the Czech Republic without the conformity assessment for such pressure equipment otherwise required for its placing on the market or putting into service.
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You are a manufacturer or importer of pressure equipment that you want to place on the market or put into service and this pressure equipment is intended for experimental purposes.
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This permit from the Office for Standards, Metrology and Testing means you can place on the market or put into service pressure equipment or an assembly that would otherwise be subject to conformity assessment.
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The Office for Standards, Metrology and Testing issues permits through an administrative procedure. In such a case, the procedure will be conducted in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Code. The administrative procedure begins with the submission of a complete application The Administrative Procedure Code sets a deadline of 30 days for the processing of an application.
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To obtain a permit, you need to deliver a reasoned application that must have the requisites specified in Section 45(1) of the Administrative Procedure Code. The application may be written in free form.
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The application may be submitted to the Office for Standards, Metrology and Testing via data box or by e-mail with a recognized electronic signature. The application may be sent by e-mail to podatelna@unmz.cz. Data box identifier: zdkaa2i.
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The application may be submitted through a postal service provider to the address of the Office for Standards, Metrology and Testing at
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If a permit is not granted by the Office for the said equipment, the requirements in Act No 90/2016 and the relevant government decree on its implementation will apply for the placement on the market or putting into service of such equipment. If such equipment is placed on the market or put into service without these requirements being met, the Czech Trade Inspection Authority, as the supervisory body, may proceed in accordance with Section 49 of Act No 90/2016.
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Home Film Film Reviews Scott Cooper's Crazy Heart
Scott Cooper's Crazy Heart
Golden Globe winner Ready for the Oscars?
by Nathan Lerner
For years, ScottCooper plugged away in Hollywoodas an actor. Stardom eluded him. Now, he has created quite a splash as thescreenwriter and director of the critically acclaimed Crazy Heart.
The film chroniclesBad Blake, a down-and-out country singer/songwriter. Once a rising force, he'sbecome encumbered with numerous ex-wives and a serious drinking problem. Theerstwhile star has been reduced to the status of a dissolute vagabond. Baddrives a battered Dodge to a litany of demeaning gigs in bowling alleys andbars, where he's backed up by local pick-up bands.
The 39-year-oldCooper was born and raised in the artistic community of Abingdon,Va., in the Blue Ridge Mountains. "I cut my teeth on bluegrass musicians, listening toBill Monroe, Ralph Stanley and Doc Watson," he recounts in a mild Southernaccent. Originally, Cooper had hoped to do a straight biopic of Merle Haggard.Instead, he ended up adapting the novel by Thomas Cobb.
"I tried to staytrue to the spirit of the novel, but if you're a filmmaker, you try topersonalize it in what you want to say," Cooper notes. "I took liberties bypersonalizing it as I know it, basing things on people I knew, who suffered throughalcoholism or some of the great radio heroes I grew up on and how they wroteabout their life experiences. You use the novel as a blueprint and embellishfrom there. I made it fictionalized as opposed to a straight biopic."
How did Cooper seguefrom a struggling actor to writing and helming a feature film? It seeminglystems from his relationship with actor/director/producer Robert Duvall, who hedescribes as his "mentor." The two men met on the set of the Civil War epic Gods and Generals. Duvall portrayed Gen.Robert E. Lee, while Cooper was relegated to a significantly less substantiverole.
"After seeing mywork, Duvall thought I should have had one of the lead roles," Cooper says. "Hereally liked my approach to the work. He likes actors and directors who don'tpush the emotion.
"I had dinner withhim soon thereafter," Cooper continues. "We ended up becoming very close. Weshared similar tastes in actors and films. I ended up getting married on hisfarm in Virginia.I'm blessed to now have a 10-year relationship with him. I count him as one ofmy closest friends."
As the protagonistof Crazy Heart, Jeff Bridges won theGolden Globe as best actor and is widely touted as the prohibitive favorite foran Oscar in the same category. Cooper wrote the role specifically for Bridges.Cooper recounted that when Duvall expressed interest in producing the film, "Itold him if I can't get Jeff Bridges, I shouldn't make this movie. He was theonly one who could play this part. He's a musician and very good guitarist andshares the physicality of people like Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson."
Cooper describes thecollaborative relationship he developed with Bridges: "We worked very closelyfor a year, working on the music together and shaping the character. I inundatedhim with music that influenced me while writing. I gave him lots of concertfootage of Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings performing. So he really embodiedthat outlaw sensibility of these guys."
Referencing thecountry supergroup of Cash, Jennings,Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson, Cooper says Bad Blake "would have beenthe fifth member of The Highwaymen."
Crazy Heartwas made under the aegis of Paramount Vantage. However, the studio folded. Itappeared that the film was doomed to go directly to DVD without the benefit ofa theatrical release. Fortunately, that dubious distinction was averted whenthe film was picked up by Fox Searchlight.
"I guess that I wasborn under a lucky star," Cooper says.
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Jubilee Artists Look Forward To Christmas and 2015
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By Lorraine Walker / December 11, 2014
The Jubilee artists were recently in Ontario, Canada to present a Jubilee Christmas and SGM Radio caught up with them to talk about everyone's favorite: Christmas vacation! [Editor's note: See below for link to the Jubilee Christmas concert review.]
IMC Concerts and Greater Vision, Booth Brothers and Legacy Five bring the Jubilee series to many States throughout the year, as well as performing a special Christmas series in December. Gerald Wolfe who does most of the emcee work for the Jubilee presentation, is looking forward to having some time off from the stage work. "By the time I get home, our house will be in full Christmas mode, probably have a half-dozen trees up. We go out and run around, look at lights, go to the mall, eat, do what everybody else does. Then right after Christmas week, we get right back on the road. I'm looking forward to it though, I'm looking forward to putting my feet up!"
Wolfe is not the only one looking for a bit of rest. Fellow Greater Vision singer, Chris Allman says, "I look forward to relaxing, but that usually doesn't happen. Because we are out here so much, when I get home there is a lot that my wife wants me to do. Then I will be just hanging out with the family. I always take my wife and my two daughters who still live at home (my two sons are married), to a city like Atlanta or Cincinnati and we shop for a couple of days. We like to go to big cities to get away. So when I'm away, I'm on the road, and when I get back home, I'm on the road! But it's just different when you are with your family." Allman adds, "And this year of course my grandkids are going to be with us. My two grandbabies are going to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with us. So Santa is going to come to see them at our house, so that's going to be fun."
Rodney Griffin is looking for to a couple of celebrations once he gets off the Greater Vision bus. "I'm looking forward to seeing my wife and two daughters. The day after we get home is my wife's and my 20th anniversary. So that will be a fun day. I've got her a gift kind of hidden away. I hope she doesn't find it!" (Note: Rodney told us where but we aren't saying!) Griffin continues, "A couple of years ago we moved back to Kentucky where we are from. My mom and dad are there as well as my wife's mom. I look forward to home cooking from my mom. She cooks as often as we will come over! We love that."
Legacy Five's Matt Fouch comments, "This Jubilee stretch is 12 days and last year was 17 days. So we got five days less this year, so that's good. I look forward to doing what everyone else does at Christmas: spending time with the family, especially after having been gone for 12 days. I get to see my little boy and my wife. I look forward to just relaxing and getting to go see our extended family." The other Legacy Five members may need some rest, but Scott Howard isn't planning on going home to put his feet up; at least, not for his entire vacation. "We finish on the 15th in Chattanooga and I will get home the morning of the 16th. My family will already be out of town for our little Christmas get-together. My son and I will catch up with them in Texas. We are doing a big deer-hunt down in south Texas. We'll get back home around Christmas Eve and spend a few days there and then start in on the New Year's sing. It's right around the corner…it's amazing how quickly it's gotten here."
Chris Allman
With the New Year swiftly approaching, we asked the guys about their New Year's Resolutions. Trey Ivey intends to keep abstaining from soda pop, and Scott Fowler intends to stop making New Year's Resolutions! Scott Howard says, "I'm not a good resolution maker because I'm not a good resolution keeper. I think my resolution will be to try to be healthier in 2015. I have discovered that the older I get, the faster my health deteriorates." He laughs and continues, "So I think that is going to be a resolution of mine; to eat a little bit healthier, live a healthier lifestyle, work out a little bit more, try to be not quite so fat and happy as in 2014." Howard smiles and says, "Well, I still want to be happy, just less of the fat and more of the happy!"
IMC's Landon Beene comments, "I say 'lose weight' every year, but this year it needs to be a reality. And to find a nice balance of being at home and spending time with my babies, and doing more of what I love and less of what I don't." Matt Fouch remarks, "It's too early! I still have a month or so before I have to decide that. We do a New Year's Eve thing at the Opryland Hotel so I try to hold all of my resolutions off until after that because the food they have in the green room is awesome. So any type of diet or food resolutions, I try to hold off on until after that event."
Gerald Wolfe is not a Resolution maker. "I don't make them because I'm no good at keeping them. My New Year's Resolution, this coming year, is to eat. That's the only one I can keep!" Chris Allman says he wants to keep his weight off. Rodney Griffin comments, "I want to draw closer to the Lord. I want to read my Bible more intently. I try to read it through every year but I don't want it to become mechanical. I want the Lord to speak to me next year, give me songs He wants me to write, to live for Him and be a blessing to someone."
It seems that Michael Booth is also on a health-kick for his New Year's Resolution. "It's pretty much just my health, to exercise and have a little better diet. I'm 43 now and that is still young, but I'm feeling the miles more than I used to. And I can feel it in my voice too. If you want to sing well into your sixties, you need to be really careful and eat right. And you know, God says it's a temple. I've ignored that because it's hard to do on the road. This is the hardest part of the day [following the evening concert] because I'm starving, and we will soon be going to bed. If you eat wrong then you get acid reflux and all that stuff. It's really challenging."
Ronnie Booth is working on his spiritual health for the New Year. "Keep walking closer, staying more in the Word and being more obedient. True success in life is doing the will of God."
We also asked some of the men what they foresee for the coming year and whether there were any changes ahead. Scott Fowler comments, "The older I get, the more I don't like change. I hope there are no changes on the horizon. When things are going well, I like for them just to stay put. I'm hoping things will just stay as they are and life is
Gerald Wolfe
good." He says there won't be a new Legacy Five release for a little while. "We are still kind of enjoying our latest recording which is Great Day, and we've had two radio singles off of that so far. We will start recording again in 2015, but nothing in the next couple of months." Scott Howard echoes Fowler's remarks when he says, "I don't know of anything I would predict. There's always change and the older I get, the less I like it. I don't really plan for change but I've grown to kind of accept it. I don't foresee anything changing. Our group will still be out doing our thing, unless the Lord tells us something different. I feel like we are doing what we are supposed to be doing now. I tell people all the time that it is subject to change. Sometimes God will steer you in a different direction, for whatever reason. I don't foresee that, but I never know. So I just wait and see what happens."
The Legacy Five men are looking forward to their New Year's Concert and Fowler is also looking forward to his family's New Year's celebrations. "We usually spend New Years Eve at our event in Nashville, Tennessee. We have a three-day event at the Opryland Hotel. 12-million Christmas lights are up, 12 life-sized nativity scenes, and it's just a lot of fun. When the hustle and bustle of that is over, we'll have a delayed New Year's party and celebration dinner at my in-laws. They are of Norwegian descent, so they have some Norwegian dishes they prepare for us, so it's a lot of fun to taste that culture."
Gerald Wolfe is looking forward to the New Year, though maybe not so much any of the inevitable alterations that life brings. "There's always change. That's the only certainty in life. We are releasing a new album in March, the first major one we've released in two years. Also, we are now getting into our 25th year, so all of 2015 will be leading up to our 25th anniversary. So we will do some special events along the way, we are giving away a cruise to the Caribbean, all kinds of special stuff like that!"
In 2015, Chris Allman is looking forward working on his personal projects and with Greater Vision. "There are different goals that I have. I enjoy producing. I'm producing a group right now called The Wrights from Kansas; we just did tracks with them. I'm very excited about what is happening there. They have a great CD that is going to be released next year. I'd like to produce some more groups and do several more of those during the year. So we'll try to get that underway." He continues, "We have a new project coming out in 2015; it's already in the can as they would say. It's already mixed and ready for release. It has some new songs I've written and some new ones that Rodney's written." Allman notes, "This past year was the busiest we have ever been. Ever, ever, ever. It's good and bad. It's good because there is a demand, and bad because it wears you out. You have to have a balance and this year we got close to crossing that balance. So we are getting pretty tired here at the end of the year. We are still enjoying it though."
Rodney Griffin is looking a little closer to home for changes in the New Year. "The biggest news in the Griffin household for 2015 will be if we get a dog. We had two family dogs and both of them lived about 19 years, and we lost both of them this year. It was a tough 'dog year' at our house as both of them had lived the extent of their lives."
Matt Fouch
Legacy Five's Matt Fouch is excited about an unusual trip that they will be making in the fall. "In 2015, Legacy Five is going to Israel! We are doing a Holy Land trip and that is exciting and something new for me; I have not done that before. As you hear from other people who have gone there before, it's one of those things that is an experience of a lifetime especially for Christians, because you get to see with your eyes and walk the places, physically, that you read about in the Bible. I am looking forward to that and I know most of the guys in the group are looking forward to it as well. We are going in October 2015, so I have a little time to wait, but that is one of the things I am most excited about in the New Year."
Fouch says the unrest in the Middle East doesn't worry him, when it comes to the Israel trip and personal safety. "Scott went there with Dr. Charles Stanley and In Touch, as well as Greater Vision. Scott wanted to check it out and he was there when the fighting was at its peak. He said that he never heard anything, or saw anything, because it was taking place in a different part of the country. He said that with all the different religions of the people that lived in that area, everyone was peaceful. I think it's a thing where everyone understands that this is a tourist area, so they stay away from it. Scott said there were no problems, no issues with security, so we are not really concerned about that at all."
A Social Media interview guru; Matt plans to continue his On The Couch With Fouch in 2015. "I love doing it. For those who are reading, one of the really unique things about the interview series is that the audience gets to ask the questions! It's Social Media driven. So if you are reading this, you are probably on the Internet, or on Facebook. I read a statistic that about 70 or 80% of Americans have a Facebook account. So I put out there whom I am interviewing and you guys get to tell me the questions. I ask the questions you guys want me to ask. That's what makes it so unique. So if you want to follow me on Facebook, you can go to Matthew Fouch – Bass Singer, or if you are on Twitter you can follow me @L5bass. When I do have upcoming interviews you guys can let me know what you want to know!"
With a big smile, Fouch adds: "I love Legacy Five, I love being here, and everything is going wonderfully. I've been here for over two years now. September 2012 was my first date with the group. It fit like a glove from the beginning. They made me feel very comfortable. I guess they don't have a problem with me because they haven't run me off yet!"
Ronnie Booth
We hope you have enjoyed these insights into the lives and hearts of the men from the Jubilee series and Jubilee Christmas. To read the concert review on Jubilee Christmas, visit http://www.sgnscoops.com/2014/12/11/jubilee-christmas/
For more information on the following groups, visit their websites:
IMC Concerts http://www.imcconcerts.com/
Greater Vision http://www.greatervisionmusic.com/
Booth Brothers http://boothbrothers.com/
Legacy Five http://www.legacyfive.com/
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"The Dubya Albatross": Why Republicans Can Never Distance Themselves From George W. Bush
When he was performing his Full Jeb of Sunday show interviews over the weekend, Jeb Bush got asked everywhere whether he's running for president, and each time he gave the same practiced answer (not thinking about it yet). He also got asked whether his brother's disastrous presidency, and the fact that Dubya left office with abysmal approval ratings (Gallup had him in the 20s for much of 2008) would be a drag on him. Jeb gave the answer you'd expect: history will be kind to my brother, I'm very proud of him, and so on. Of course it's true that Jeb, what with his last name and all, would have to "grapple" with his brother's legacy more than other candidates. But when we think about it in those terms, I think we overlook something important about how the Bush legacy will continue to operate on Republicans, not just Jeb but all of them.
I thought of this when reading Peter Beinart's take on Jeb, wherein he says something I think misses the mark:
That's why Jeb Bush will never seriously challenge for the presidency—because to seriously challenge for the presidency, a Republican will have to pointedly distance himself from Jeb's older brother. No Republican will enjoy credibility as a deficit hawk unless he or she acknowledges that George W. Bush squandered the budget surplus he inherited. No Republican will be able to promise foreign-policy competence unless he or she acknowledges the Bush administration's disastrous mismanagement in Afghanistan and Iraq. It won't be enough for a candidate merely to keep his or her distance from W. John McCain and Mitt Romney tried that, and they failed because the Obama campaign hung Bush around their neck every chance it got. To seriously compete, the next Republican candidate for president will have to preempt that Democratic line of attack by repudiating key aspects of Bush's legacy. Jeb Bush would find that excruciatingly hard even if he wanted to. And as his interviews Sunday make clear, he doesn't even want to try.
The focus on ideas like credibility and pre-empting attacks makes it seem as though this is really an issue of rhetoric and positioning, but it's more than that. Let's go through point by point. Does a Republican need to establish credibility as a deficit hawk? No, because the definition of deficit hawkery is endlessly malleable; Republicans who want to give huge tax cuts to the rich and increase military spending pretend to be deficit hawks just by saying "We need to rein in entitlements," and people in the press believe them. Nobody voted for Barack Obama because they didn't think Mitt Romney was enough of a legitimate deficit hawk. Does the next Republican candidate need to promise foreign-policy competence? Ask Michael Dukakis how important establishing your competence is to winning the White House. And did McCain and Romney lose because they didn't create enough distance between themselves and Bush by not repudiating parts of his legacy?
Ah, here's where it gets tricky. What, exactly, should they have repudiated, or should future Republican presidential contenders repudiate? Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy that helped explode the deficit? His military adventurism? Appointing right-wing judges? Undermining environmental and workplace protections? The trouble is that those things are central to conservative ideology as it exists today. During much of the Bush years, Republicans controlled all three branches of government, and got pretty much everything they had ever wanted. You can tweak Bush's legacy around the edges, but if you don't believe in nearly everything he did, you aren't really a Republican.
This reminds me of a terrific piece this magazine ran about the Iraq War in the fall of 2005 by Sam Rosenfeld and Matthew Yglesias called "The Competence Dodge." Their argument was that while the Bush administration was most certainly screwing up the war, even if they had been more competent, it would only have made a small difference. The problem wasn't the details of the execution; the problem was that invading Iraq was a terrible idea. The same is true of the Bush administration more broadly. Yes, they screwed some things up. But on the whole, the problems sprang from their goals. The people who run for the Republican nomination in 2016 are going to share those goals, and the Democrats will once again say "You just want to take us back to the Bush years." That will be true whether any of them are named Bush or not.
By: Paul Waldman, Contributing Editor, The American Prospect, March 12, 2013
March 13, 2013 - Posted by	raemd95 | Politics	| Bush Tax Cuts, Conservatives, Foreign Policy, George W. Bush, GOP, Iraq War, Jeb Bush, media, Republicans


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I use my left hand for turret adjustment and my thumb can obscure the CCW turret numbering when rotating it upward and has always seemed a little awkward. In reading left to right a CW turret rotations seems more natural. I have always used CCW and am considering a CW trial. Would appreciate hearing from a few of you who tried switching from CCW, normally utilized in the US, to CW turret rotation. How did it work out? Probably been discussed before but a quick search didn't find much.
I use my left hand to turn the Standard CCW turrets. Never had a real issue seeing the numbers. Just have my thumb slightly above them. What sort of drives me crazy though are CW turrets. I have a Zeiss that has them and I really have to stop and think when I use them and that is distracting for me.
That's probably one of those things that should be universally standard. I never really understood why everybody doesn't drive on the same side of the road either.
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