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Home Interest Food & Drink Kyoto by the Sea. Enchanting places. Engaging locals
So you've seen the golden splendour of to Kinkaku-ji, and walked the famed paths of Fushimi-inari taisha and Arashiyama. Perhaps you've even wondered the back alleys of Nishiki market and peered around town from Kyoto tower. This city has much to offer to be sure. But did you stand at the top of Kyoto tower and look beyond the city's brim? Did you too wonder what might be hidden out there off the beaten track? The answer is Kyoto by the Sea and it is a treasure trove of vistas, culture and fascinating encounters.
Kyoto prefecture is so much more that just the old capital. Travel north approximately 100 km to the sea of Japan and you'll discover the area known as Kyoto by the Sea. Extraordinary views, historic crafts and traditions unchanged in preserved fishing villages await you. And if you really want to get a feel for the roots of the area, you can't do any better than hearing it from the locals themselves.
A fine local's welcome
Maizuru Brick Park
Maizuru Brick park is at first glance not where you'd expect to be able to connect to any local or marine theme. But don't let these European style red brick facades fool you. There is history here. Japanese history. The park is situated on the coast in Maizuru city strategically placed next to the port which was developed during the Russo-Japanese war of 1901. These large brick buildings served as storehouses for munitions and equipment during both world wars and were once painted black to hide them from American bombers. They escaped bombings, but not the ravishes of wind and rain as over time the paint washed away, revealing the much more stately charm of the red brick beneath. Today a visit to the park reminds one of scenes from wartime spy novels and a tour of the museum tells the true stories Maizuru city's important role in Japan's Naval exploits. Today, the city is still home to the Maritime defence force.
Shoeikan Restaurant
Japanese Navy table setting rules
Nearby you will find yourself welcomed on a red carpet to a Naval themed lunch at the Shoeikan restaurant. A luxurious Meiji era house, it is well worth a walk about. The upper floor exhibits the meeting of east and west of a bygone era where styles were mixed tastefully by placing 18th and early 19th century european wood furniture and persian carpets next to wall hangings of Japanese calligraphy and washi paper screen doors finely speckled in gold. In the the dining hall guests can enjoy a meal served straight from the pages of the official Imperial Navy's recipe book from the Meiji era, still bound in it's Watogi string style. Dishes from the time included many western influences like meat and potatoes. In fact this homely Japanese dish of Nikujaga finds its roots firmly planted in this region's Naval history.
Iwan no Sato homestay
Iwan no Sato breakfast
Outside of the city you might land on a welcoming doorstep of a different kind. Local farmers' families have taken to opening their homes to travellers who wish to experience the feel of rural Japan. Iwan no Sato is one such home run guesthouse were tatami rooms, a wood stove, futon beds and feast of an entirely locally sourced, home cooked farmer's meal awaits. Husband and wife team Hideo and Hiroko Akimoto pull out all the stops to make visitors feel welcome. Hideo is an exceptional cook and they go to some trouble to accommodate special dietary requests. Pouring sake for her guests Hiroko explained their ethos: "I used to teach at a primary school. So many kids had allergies and restrictions. So we understand the many challenges that people can face in their diet. We wanted to create a place that would be welcoming to all here".
Fishers of the Japan sea
Yoshihara Irie
Turn to the ocean and you'll find the old fishing villages of Kyoto by the Sea. If you'd like to discover the lifestyles of local fishers in traditional villages minimally changed by time, you should swing by Yoshihara Irie inlet or Ine fishing village. Both villages feature so called Funaya or 'boat homes' where the houses are built right on the water's edge and a boat garage and working spaces are located on the ground floor of the homes. The second floor is the fisher family's living space. Fishers first settled in these villages during the Edo period. The Japanese government has recognised the cultural significance of these places and funding and local regulations serve to preserve traditional architectural styles and prevent these places from morphing into touristy seaside resorts. Yoshihara Irie, also known as the Venice of Japan is located at the mouth of the Izazu river. The area used to be covered by marshy land which explains how "Yoshihara" got its name which means reed fields.
Inside a 'funaya' (boathouse)
in front of the boathouse
Ine bay
Ine fishing village is a favourite location for Japanese dramas and movies. If you like you can catch a boat tour to view the pretty town and surrounds from the water. Here the fishers still haul their boats into their garages directly from the water and fishing practices like fish farming still continues on various scales. Village local Nagahama Yuichi pulled up a basket hanging from the edge of her home which drops right into the water. "We keep young Akou (red rockfish) and Tai (sea bream) in these baskets and fatten them up for eating later. Although it has become harder to make a living here because the fish have become scarce, we still choose to live by the will of the sea. We depend on selling fish like the farmed Buri (Japanese amberjack, a local Yellowtail species) as well as the wild caught Amadai (Japanese branquillo) and Kuji (Tile fish) which are the two most valuable locally caught fishes per weight."
Also in the coastal area you can visit Amanohashidate. Known as one of a trio of the top three most scenic views in Japan (or one of the Nihon Sankei), Amanohashidate sports a sandbar thrown across Miyazu bay and covered by Pine trees. It was first formed thousands of years ago by opposing ocean currents loaded with sand. In Japanese mythology it is said to have been created during the age of the gods before the appearance of man. Wishing to meet his future wife the goddess Izanami who was living at Moto-Ise Kono shrine on earth, the god Izanagi built a bridge down from heaven. Only the bridge collapsed and fell to earth an still lies where Amanohashidate is today. To get a good view you should visit the hilltop of Kasamatsu park.
A trade in Chirimen silk
Not that into seaside towns and scenery? OK, let's talk silk. Tango Chirimen silk to be exact. The tradition of silk weaving in Japan goes back two thousand years as is evidenced by archaeological digs unearthing silk looms from kofun or ancient burial mounds. The knowledge of how to unravel cocoons and process them to produce silk thread was brought to Japan from mainland China. Today, about three percent of all the cocoons used in Japan come from within its own borders, the rest is sourced from China and Brazil. Japanese silk saw its heyday in 1970 when the economy was starting to boom and practically everybody had need of owning their own silk kimono. Since then, the Japanese people have opted to wear Kimono only for special occasions and the industry has declined significantly. Yet in the Tango region of the Kyoto prefecture the old traditions of Chirimen silk have not only been kept alive over the past 300 years, but has also gained new fame in unexpected ways.
one of Tamiya Raiden's unique kimonos
Enter Katsuichiroi Tamiya of Tamiya Raden Ltd. and his unique passion for reinventing silk into the future. It took him two years to develop a special technique known as hikihaku to inlay fine slivers of shells from abalone into fabrics and create complex designs of never before seen iridescence. That was back in 1977. They continued to experiment and used the same technique to create inlays and woven fabrics of leather and even natural wood. Since then some of these incredible fabrics have made their way onto the runways of the high fashion world and adorns the collections of big names like Louis Vuitton. "We produce the highest levels of quality here from the finest materials. We produced two kimonos inlaid kompletely with shell and gold and silver. I cannot give you a price for the kimono you see here, it is literally priceless, worth more than a Lamborghini or Rolls Royce."
Fabrics by Yoshimura Shouten, silk wholesaler
And still the old tradition of Tango Chirimen runs deep in the area. Due to the constant moisture in the air almost year round, the area is perfect for the production of silk thread and weaving it into fine fabrics. There are still around 780 silk production factories in Kyoto's Tango. Once produced, the white rolls of undyed silk are delivered to a quality checking and redistribution house. One such house is the Mineyama branch of Yoshimura Shouten where the wholesaler, Hitoshi Yoshioka, introduced the history of silk wholesale. "We sell the fabric by weight of the roll, just like it has been done for several hundred years. We even still keep the old company abacus that was used to calculate prices here in the office and break it out every now and then for old times sake. Rolls of silk are checked here by hand for flaws at least twice or three times over, then stamped if they pass the check and sold on. Anything without the red passing mark and the yellow Tango region stamp is a fake." He carries his commitment to the industry literally close to his heart as he shows off his white silk shirt and fine tie. "I prefer to wear silk because it's light and warm and well" he continues" I guess I just feel personally connected to it."
Decades of treading for washi
Making Japanese washi paper
Another old art of the region is washi Japanese paper making."I started doing this when I was twenty years old". Now Sayo Horie is eighty six. She continues to tread with her gumboots on the rather insignificant looking bundle of sticks in the clear steam. "You do this to loosen the bark of the Kozo (a local mulberry) for the paper making you see. Oh look a sawagani." She fishes out a little crab known as the reverse side crab. "You know when I was little we used to eat these in a local dish. Now we don't eat them so often anymore." The stream waters running through her village of Kurotani is clear as glass, perfect for crabs and paper making. The tradition of making paper by hand (and foot) in this village is over 800 years old. Kurotani washi is strong and durable, good for making all kinds of things from writing paper for calligraphy on notebooks, wall hangings and certificates to paper of subtle designs for screen doors, handbags and traditional Kyoto style umbrellas known as kyowagasa. There is of course a little shop in the village where you can buy some of these items.
Soaking the bark necessary for paper-making
But perhaps you might find some of these Kurotani washi items, or indeed enjoy a meal of Tai from Ine, or discover a Tango Chirimen scarf in Kyoto or even Tokyo. If you do, you might do well to remember fondly some of the places and engaging people of Kyoto by the Sea.
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Edith Mertz from South Africa is currently pursuing advanced environmental studies in Japan. Aside from studying, not only does she love exploring different cultures and history, but she is also a fan of martial arts and animation.
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JPMC Specialty Mortgage vs. Douglas D. Williams, Sheila M. Williams, mortgage foreclosure.
James W. Weist, name changed to James W. McElroy.
The Bank of New York vs. Dalene L. Jost, Osage Funding Corporation, Kansas Department of Revenue, mortgage foreclosure; plaintiff voluntarily dismissed action against defendants and case is dismissed without prejudice.
Wells Fargo Bank, NA vs. unknown spouse of Eric, unknown heirs of Luella N. Schultz, Sandra L. Schmidt, unknown spouse of Sandra L. Schmidt, unknown spouse of Lendell C. Schultz, unknown spouse of Wallis D. Schultz, Wallis D. Schultz Revocable Trust, Lendell C. Schultz; hearing rescheduled to 10 a.m. June 2.
Kena Lindgren, Ray Lindgren, Ray Lindgren, Rocky Lindgren, Ryon W. Lindgren, Karole Lindgren vs. Board of Marion County Commissioners, hearing at 10 a.m. June 2.
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Beneficial Kansas, Inc. vs. Linda McDougal, answer hearing at 9 a.m. May 27.
Memorial Hospital, Inc. vs. Stephanie Ann Quinonez, answer hearing at 9 a.m. May 27.
Newton Medical Center vs. William P. Robinson, Lena M. Robinson, default judgment against defendants for $580.15 plus costs and interests, if applicable.
Newton Medical Center vs. Justin Pontious, Linessa Pontious, default judgment against defendants for $2,775.51 plus costs and interest, if applicable.
Newton Medical Center vs. John W. Kerschner, Anne Kerchner, default judgment against defendants for $214.19 plus costs and interest, if applicable.
Ruf Nek Well Servicing Supply Co. Inc. vs. KOT Inc., pretrial conference at 10 a.m. Aug. 11.
HSBC Bank USA, National Association vs. Kristine K. Dameron, motion hearing at 10:30 a.m. July 20.
Beneficial Kansas, Inc. vs. Lana Fahey, Kyle Fahey, bench trial with Kyle Fahey at 1:15 p.m. June 24.
Newton Medical Center vs. Travis Wilson, Amber Wilson; default judgment against defendants for $877.22 plus costs and interest, if applicable.
Cody D. Cook, Frankie L. Cook Jr., Brenda Cook vs. USD 408, pretrial conference at 10 a.m. Oct. 6.
Daryl J. Brewer, Linda K. Brewer vs. City of Marion, Board of Zoning Appeals — City of Marion; pretrial conference at 10 a.m. Sept. 1.

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Q: Remove QCombobox to show all the data in the window panel for the user to select multiple values at once I have used the following code what it does is displays a list of values in the combo box but the difficulty that i am experiencing is that each and every time the value is check ed the drop down closes.
Is there a way possible where instead of the drop down all the menu is displayed in the main window as a list of all check boxes so that multiple values can be clicked at once.
Following is the code snippet.
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets
import sys

class CheckableComboBox(QtWidgets.QComboBox):
    def __init__(self, parent = None):
        super(CheckableComboBox, self).__init__(parent)
        self.setView(QtWidgets.QListView(self))
        self.view().pressed.connect(self.handleItemPressed)
        self.setModel(QtGui.QStandardItemModel(self))

    def handleItemPressed(self, index):
        item = self.model().itemFromIndex(index)
        if item.checkState() == QtCore.Qt.Checked:
            item.setCheckState(QtCore.Qt.Unchecked)
        else:
            item.setCheckState(QtCore.Qt.Checked)

    def checkedItems(self):
        checkedItems = []
        for index in range(self.count()):
            item = self.model().item(index)
            if item.checkState() == QtCore.Qt.Checked:
                checkedItems.append(item)
        return checkedItems

class Ui_dialogCreateBatch(object):
    def setupUi(self, dialogCreateBatch):
        dialogCreateBatch.resize(400, 338)
        dialogCreateBatch.setMouseTracking(True)

        self.gridLayoutWidget = QtWidgets.QWidget(dialogCreateBatch)
        self.gridLayoutWidget.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(10, 10, 360, 115))
        self.gridLayoutWidget.setObjectName("gridLayoutWidget")
        self.gridLayout = QtWidgets.QGridLayout(self.gridLayoutWidget)
        self.gridLayout.setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0)
        self.gridLayout.setObjectName("gridLayout")

        self.cboItemList = CheckableComboBox(self.gridLayoutWidget)
        self.cboItemList.setObjectName("cboItemList")
        self.gridLayout.addWidget(self.cboItemList, 0, 0, 1, 1)

        data = ('item1', 'item2', 'item3')

        for index, element in enumerate(data):
            self.cboItemList.addItem(element)
            item = self.cboItemList.model().item(index, 0)
            item.setCheckState(QtCore.Qt.Unchecked)

        self.buttonBox = QtWidgets.QDialogButtonBox(dialogCreateBatch)
        self.buttonBox.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(100, 300, 156, 23))
        self.buttonBox.setOrientation(QtCore.Qt.Horizontal)

        self.buttonBox.setStandardButtons(QtWidgets.QDialogButtonBox.Cancel|QtWidgets.QDialogButtonBox.Ok)
        self.buttonBox.setObjectName("buttonBox")

        self.retranslateUi(dialogCreateBatch)
        QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(dialogCreateBatch)

    def retranslateUi(self, dialogCreateBatch):
        _translate = QtCore.QCoreApplication.translate
        dialogCreateBatch.setWindowTitle(_translate("dialogCreateBatch", "Create Item Batch"))

class DialogCreateBatch(QtWidgets.QDialog, Ui_dialogCreateBatch):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        QtWidgets.QDialog.__init__(self, parent)
        self.setupUi(self)
        self.buttonBox.accepted.connect(self.on_accepted)
        self.buttonBox.rejected.connect(self.reject)

    def on_accepted(self):
        selectedItems = self.cboItemList.checkedItems()
        print(selectedItems)
        self.accept()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
    w = DialogCreateBatch()
    w.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

A: The following code implements a QDialog that shows a QListView with a model that has checkable items based on QStandardItemModel:
import sys

from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets

class DialogCreateBatch(QtWidgets.QDialog):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(DialogCreateBatch, self).__init__(parent)
        self.model = QtGui.QStandardItemModel(self)
        self.view = QtWidgets.QListView()
        self.view.setModel(self.model)

        self.button_box = QtWidgets.QDialogButtonBox()
        self.button_box.setOrientation(QtCore.Qt.Horizontal)
        self.button_box.setStandardButtons(
            QtWidgets.QDialogButtonBox.Cancel | QtWidgets.QDialogButtonBox.Ok
        )
        self.button_box.accepted.connect(self.accept)
        self.button_box.rejected.connect(self.reject)

        lay = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout(self)
        lay.addWidget(self.view)
        lay.addWidget(self.button_box)

    @property
    def items(self):
        items = []
        for i in range(self.model.rowCount()):
            it = self.model.item(i)
            items.append(it.text())
        return items

    @items.setter
    def items(self, items):
        self.model.clear()
        for item in items:
            it = QtGui.QStandardItem(item)
            it.setCheckable(True)
            self.model.appendRow(it)

    @property
    def checked_items(self):
        checked_items = []
        for i in range(self.model.rowCount()):
            it = self.model.item(i)
            if it.data(QtCore.Qt.CheckStateRole) == QtCore.Qt.Checked:
                checked_items.append(it.text())
        return checked_items

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
    w = DialogCreateBatch()
    w.setWindowTitle("Stack Overflow")
    w.items = ("item1", "item2", "item3")
    if w.exec_() == QtWidgets.QDialog.Accepted:
        print(w.checked_items)

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There is a perception out there that blue-collar people have nothing of value to offer in regards to wisdom and insight. I will either change that perception or confirm it. I am a regular guy, a blue-collar man from a fractured family, an average joe. I have worked blue-collar jobs my entire adult life and I have dealt with all kinds of people in all kinds of situations. I write from a different perspective than almost all Christian authors. Which is more qualified to speak of faith; the man who has spent his life in academia studying and debating the finer points of God, or the man who has had to pray to him again and again just for the strength to get through the day?
This is my Uncle Ralph.
People say I look like him but I don't see a resemblance.
This photo was taken years ago. He is older and grayer now and he has put on a few pounds. His double chin has doubled making it a quadruple, I guess.
I am afraid we have not been very respectful of Uncle Ralph these last few years. We make fun of him cause he falls asleep with his Bible at every family gathering. He has chronic bad breath, his body makes weird noises, and the smells–oh man, don't get me started. Worst of all, he will drone on and on about his glory days, how he once did 784 pull-ups, how he used to swing from tree to tree and all the girls couldn't take their eyes off him. Probably true. Just look at that picture; The guy had movie-star good looks.
Uncle Ralph was pretty smart in his day; ran his own banana sales business and it prospered for years. Nowadays, though, his mind is not so sharp and his memory is not good at all. Half the time he calls me by my sister's name, Average Josephine. We tend not to expect much from Uncle Ralph, we overlook him and marginalize him.
When all of us are sitting around, though, trying to ignore the smells coming from Uncle Ralph's chair, talking about the recent events in our lives and what they might mean and how we should deal with them, Uncle Ralph will invariably have the wisest and most relevant and helpful advice.
He does it all the time and every time it surprises us because we think we are the smart ones. We don't believe that someone so old, someone who can't remember our names could possibly help us deal with any modern-day problem.
We might be right. Maybe we are smarter than Uncle Ralph is now… but we aren't wiser. He may forget our names but God's Word is part of him which makes him wiser than all of us who look down on him.
Do you have an Uncle Ralph? I'll bet he is not as handsome as mine.
Mankind's ridiculous argument over the existence of God is like the entire world population of light bulbs debating whether or not Thomas Edison existed. Of course, that's just one light bulb's opinion.
In a grace crowd, mentioning works could get me tarred and feathered. Most of you can't reach me, though, so I will risk it.
You must understand–I am talking to me as much as anyone.
If I write about anger, jealousy, or lust, there's a good chance I am struggling with those things in my life. Pretty much every Christian will agree that those particular sins need to be rooted out of our lives. But, if I mention our laziness as Christians (again, because I notice that laziness in myself), there are always some who take offense that I could say anything that might make them feel guilty, and they can be quick to remind me that their guilt has been taken away. The thing is, I would agree totally; our guilt has been taken away — but our responsibility hasn't.
Grace is not a permission slip to skip everything we are called to do. In Ephesians 2, Paul rolls immediately from the clearest possible statement that we are saved by grace alone–straight into a call to do good works.
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I do not forget grace; I write about it often. I am never saying we should get off the couch SO we can be saved. I am saying if we are saved–let's get off the couch. God wants to put us in the game.
What would it take for the skeptic to believe? Proof, right? Wrong! Humility is the corrective lens we all must look through to see things clearly.
Proof of something should cause all to believe, but strangely, that is not how it works. Often, people will believe or claim to believe what they want to believe, regardless of evidence.
You doubt that? Look around. Everywhere, I mean absolutely EVERYWHERE, there is proof of a creator. Yet, proud people who cannot accept the fact that there is someone greater than them–claim there is none. Desperate to believe they have no one to answer to, people claim that nothing must have created everything, and that inanimate things came to life. First-grade common sense tells us this is impossible yet they will stick by absurd postulations, attacking the integrity and intelligence of any who disagree rather than admit God exists. God is not Tinker Bell, though. He does not need our belief to BE.
Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead. Some fell on their knees and worshipped him while others plotted to kill him. All had seen proof.
Thousands were fed from food that would have fit in a child's lunchbox, lepers were healed, the lame walked, the blind were seeing, and the dead… lived.
But only the humble believed.
The most unbelievable thing about Jesus was not his wisdom or power, but his humility.
On his final evening Jesus sits down and eats with them. The "last supper" it is called, though that phrase is not used in any of the Gospels. Before they eat though, Jesus blows their minds once again, not with an astounding display of power but with a shocking display of humility. John begins his account by saying Jesus "now showed them the full extent of his love." While the disciples sat at the table he got up, wrapped a towel around his waist, filled a bowl with water, and one by one Jesus washed their feet, drying them with the towel.
If that last sentence doesn't blow you out of your chair then you are not really listening, not really getting the situation. Remember everything these men had seen from Jesus? It's one thing for a man to wash another man's feet, although outside of hospital workers probably very few men ever have. But this was Jesus! The one who silenced a ferocious storm with a word was washing the dirt and manure of Jerusalem's streets from their feet! The Messiah was stooped in front of them like a servant washing their feet! God was washing their filthy feet!
Has there been a more awkward moment in human history? How could this be? What did it mean? Imagine their reaction! Were their mouths agape? Were they staring at their clean feet, avoiding eye contact with Jesus and each other? Typically, it was the volatile Peter who couldn't accept the situation; "No, you shall never wash my feet." he said, refusing until Jesus says he can have no part with him unless he allows his feet to be washed.
Obviously, on his last night on earth Jesus didn't look at his disciples feet and think; "Holy Bethlehem, that's some nasty looking foot fungus you guys got going on! I better wash them feet." No, as always he was teaching them a lesson, showing them that if the Son of God could humble himself to help and serve others then there was no one who should not do the same.
It was never about washing feet particularly, but about helping others according to their needs, whatever those needs may be, and however low we might have to go to provide the needed aid. Jesus was giving them a lesson, a huge demonstration on humility. He was teaching them that the needs of others should come ahead of our own desires or even our own needs. Humility 101. The more advanced course would come later that very night and into the next day.
Picture the cutest 10-week-old puppy EVER sitting by himself….
by a grove of trees out beyond centerfield at the ballpark. You and some buddies are walking past after your game and you see this little guy sitting there staring towards the parking lot a hundred yards away. Your heart breaks for the poor abandoned pup and you and your pals start to fan out around him so you can save him from a life on the streets. Then, from the parking lot you hear a whistle and the tiny lab shoots a gap and runs straight for a man waiting by his car. The man gobbles the ecstatic pup into his arms, tosses him into his car, nods in your direction, and drives off.
I was the whistler in that story. The pup was my boy, Bandit. Beautiful, loyal, protective but gentle, and super smart. His list of tricks was loooong. Turned out to be a giant, the biggest black lab you ever saw. He played hard but he was a serious dog, always focused on his job, whatever he decided that was. When the family was hiking some trail in the woods, it would drive him crazy when we started to separate and he would constantly run back and forth making sure he didn't lose any of us.
He died a few years back but he will forever be the one all our future dogs will be compared to. My son and I each have another male lab, mine a yellow and his a fox red. They have their own names but they are both often referred to as not-Bandit.
A few times lately, my wife and I have heard a few people say that we did a fantastic job raising our kids, that we are great parents, one even said she wanted to raise her kids like we raised ours.
While it is true our kids are awesome people, I told my wife last night that it is kinda like with Bandit. He was the best and I trained him so I must be a good dog trainer, right? But his successor, Not-Bandit the 1st, has proven conclusively that I am not a great dog trainer; I just had a great dog. By the same token, maybe it is not that we are such great parents but we just had great kids.
All we did is love them and point towards Jesus. Maybe that is all it takes to be a good parent.
You are a blur to everyone who think they know you. Some may see you slightly clearer than others but still no better than if they were looking through a bottle of root beer. There is only one who truly knows you, and get this–it isn't you.
Often, others see us better through the root beer than we can see ourselves. The people around us can see the inclinations, motivations, flaws, and insecurities of our character that we ourselves refuse to recognize and admit. We, looking through our own bottle, believe we see everyone else's flaws so clearly but we are blind to our own. It is self-righteous, self-blindness.
There is a remedy for this blindness, though. Well, remedy is the wrong word. There is a miracle-cure. There is one out there who has on multiple occasions caused the blind to see. Jesus. We need to find Him.
Something keeps hitting me lately, rocking me like a punch to the jaw. How did I not see it years ago? Pretty much every problem mankind comes across is made better or cured by one thing: Getting to know God better, getting to know Jesus. It makes EVERY problem easier. It doesn't matter how bad the problem; it doesn't matter how much we already know about God, knowing Him better will help.
Take this self-blindness I speak of: Learning more about God and understanding how he sees us, can only help us see who we truly are in his eyes, and our own.


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Rogue One Finds The Wars In Star Wars
Director: Gareth Edwards Starring: Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Mads Mikkelsen, Forest Whitaker, Riz Ahmed, Donnie Yen, Jiang Wen, Alan Tudyk Running Time: 133 minutes
The ambition to have a Star Wars movie come out every single year may end up hitting a point of diminishing returns, but for now the annual return to a galaxy far, far away is still fresh enough to be music to the ears of fans and lining to the pockets of Disney. No one knows quite like they do how to appeal to a wide range of demographics; though The Force Awakens definitely owed a lot of its success to the memories it stirred in fans who had been left in the cold by the prequels, it aimed and succeeded at continuing the series tradition of kid appeal, something that goes right back to George Lucas' attempts to recreate his own childhood joy watching pulp sci-fi serials. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is unlikely to sell as many toys as last year's film, but it should provide older fans that have grown up with Star Wars with they've always wanted: more of the actual wars.
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Skeleton adds €29m for fast charging battery production
July 02, 2021	// By Nick Flaherty
Skeleton Technologies brings in additional capital to close a total of €70 million equity in Round D financing and €120m in the last year
Skeleton Technologies has raised €29m in the last few months to bring the total for its latest round to €70.4m. The funding will be used to scale up production of its curved graphene-based ultracapacitors and fast-charging battery.
The €29m comes from strategic partner Marubeni, a group of alumni from payments company alumni, and several European industrial financiers. Existing backers MM Grupp and Harju Elekter also participated.
Skeleton Technologies raises €41.3m
Skeleton signs strategic deal for Asian automotive market
This follows the announcement of €51 million in funding by Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) and the Free State of Saxony announced in March 2021, bringing the total capital raised in the last twelve months to over €120m for the company.
Overall the company has raised over €167m according to Crunchbase.
"Skeleton is growing fast and preparing for the next stage in the company's lifecycle, that will include a significant scaling up of our operations, supported by strong growth in customer demand," said Taavi Madiberk, CEO and co-founder of Skeleton Technologies,
"The company is backed by leading industrial investors from Marubeni and InnoEnergy to the founders of Adyen. Most of the investors who joined the company at the end of last year not only participated in the round but wanted to increase their stake in the company. It is a great proof of trust generated by the good progress all these investors have seen over the last six months since becoming shareholders."
"Unlike Tesla, Panasonic, or LG who use similar raw materials and compete in engineering, Skeleton has taken an alternative approach and has focused on vertical integration based on our proprietary curved graphene material," he said. "In terms of commercialization, we have started with a relatively niche market of supercapacitors and are now moving to Superbatteries, covering the high efficiency, high power niche of the battery market. As the next step of our strategy, we aim at merging the long lifetime, fast charging supercapacitors and high energy, long-duration battery technology, to allow to offer a more competitive long range EV battery than currently on the market or in the development pipeline,"
Skeleton Technologies Group has three main locations with manufacturing in Großröhrsdorf, Saxony, Germany, materials development in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Saxony-Anhalt and electrical engineering in Tallinn, Estonia, and now has over 200 staff.
www.skeletontech.com
Skeleton, KIT team for graphene battery that charges in 15s
Skeleton launches ultracapacitor grid system
Skeleton in bus graphene ultracapacitor deal
US restricts silica and polysilicon imports
UK's first grid-scale battery connects
Backside power opens up new realms in chip design
ST inks power deals with Renault, Arrival
First dedicated CrM totem pole PFC controller
Johnson Matthey teams for graphene battery materials
First US government contract for Ruag Space targets power


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Wagner a bénéficié pour la construction d'une subvention de 25 000 thalers du roi Louis II de Bavière, son ami, protecteur et mécène. Il s'y installe le , avec sa femme Cosima (fille de Franz Liszt), leurs trois enfants Isolde, Eva et Siegfried, et les deux filles que Cosima avait eues de son précédent mariage avec le pianiste et chef d'orchestre Hans von Bülow, Daniela et Blandine. Wahnfried signifie en allemand « Paix des illusions » ; ce nom  vient d'une inscription que Wagner a fait graver sur la façade :  (

C'est à Wahnfried que Wagner achève Le Crépuscule des dieux le  et Parsifal le . Il est enterré en 1883 dans le jardin, où sa femme ne le rejoint qu'en 1930.

L'élargissement de la famille rendit nécessaire la construction en 1896 d'une extension, plus tard appelée maison Siegfried-Wagner. Elle devint dans les années 1930 une résidence pour les invités de la famille, et accueillit Arturo Toscanini, Richard Strauss et un intime de Winifred Wagner, Adolf Hitler.

Le , le bâtiment est en grande partie détruit par une bombe incendiaire.

La famille Wagner habite la villa jusqu'à la mort de Wieland en 1966 et en reste propriétaire jusqu'en 1973, date à laquelle Wolfgang en fait don à la ville de Bayreuth. Après des travaux de restauration, elle rouvre le . Elle est depuis cette date le siège des archives nationales et du centre de recherche de la Richard-Wagner-Stiftung (Fondation Richard-Wagner) et abrite le Richard-Wagner-Museum (musée Richard-Wagner).

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Brexit: Minister and officials disagree over NI port controls
Image caption The government says the Internal Market Bill is designed to be a safety net in case the Brexit negotiations fail
NI Environment Minister Edwin Poots and Stormont officials are in disagreement over work on entry controls at local ports, the BBC understands.
The entry controls are required to implement the checks envisaged as part of the EU withdrawal agreement.
In the NI Assembly on Tuesday, the DUP minister was asked if he intended to temporarily stop work on the controls.
"We will have to wait to see what happens," the minister said.
In July, the UK confirmed it intended to put border control posts at Northern Ireland's ports.
The government described the move as "a limited expansion of facilities at some existing entry points, where certain controls for animal and plant health already take place".
Speaking in the assembly, South Down Sinn Féin assembly member Sinead Ennis asked Mr Poots whether he was signalling his intention to put a "temporary stop" to work at these point of entry controls.
Ms Ennis said such a policy would be detrimental and in conflict with the executive's position regarding the Brexit protocol.
Image caption The entry control facilities at NI ports would be used to check animals and food arriving in the EU single market
Mr Poots said he did not want to create any barriers around Northern Ireland.
He said he favoured giving people bringing goods in to Northern Ireland as much access as possible.
The minister said work on the entry controls had been ordered by Westminster's Department for the Environment and Rural Affairs and "we will have to wait to see what happens".
However the BBC understands the prospect of a "temporary stop" to the work at local ports has been causing friction behind the scenes.
Image copyright PA Media Image caption Edwin Poots says he does not want to create any barriers around Northern Ireland
Officials are concerned any ministerial order to pause work on the points of entry could be in breach of the Northern Ireland Act.
The act – which underpins the Stormont Executive – gives the secretary of state the power to order a minister or department to take an action if he believes it is required to fulfil the UK's international obligations.
Earlier on Tuesday, a senior DUP MP said there was "only one train of thought" in the party when it comes to opposing the NI Protocol in the Brexit deal.
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson made the comments after the government said it would bring new legislation on customs rules in NI this week.
DUP leader Arlene Foster previously told Sky News she had to recognise the protocol was "the reality now".


Someone once asked me, how do you describe the presence of God? He wasn't referring to the sort of omnipresent sense of God, but of the manifest type referred to by Brother Lawrence and other mystics throughout Christian history.
How does one define the intangible, unsensable notion of this presence of the Creator? Oddly enough, I had an answer for him and I still stand by it.
"Then suppose, someone comes in. It's your roommate. You both say 'hi' and then you go back to reading. He settles in on his bunkbed, also now reading out of your eyesight. You're reading your book and he's reading his book across the room, out of your vision.
My friend, who was far less ethereal and more concrete in his thinking, politely nodded and then shrugged as if I was talking about my imaginary pet lizard. Nonetheless, as a Christian, this is still how I think about the presence of God.
Most of us, for most of our lives, will not have sensual experiences with God. By that, I mean any kind of experience in which we sense Him with any of our five senses. I know plenty of people who claim to have audibly heard His voice, or seen some sign from Him with their eyes. I myself have a basketful of similar memories, though it's easy to look back on them in my moments of doubt and dismiss them as emotional trips.
I even have a friend who told me that she was once praying and suddenly she knew she was "smelling heaven." She described it as the best scent she had ever inhaled and had no other way to describe it.
Stories like these will largely always be the exception to the daily rule of drudging on beneath a silent God. He is quiet. He is a Gentleman, meaning He doesn't spill Himself into our lives uninvited.
But what if we thought about Him as a presence we were previously unaware of. Not one you can sense, but that same idea of knowing someone is in the room with you? It's like in those million and one films where someone walks into a room and suddenly the light turns on: Someone has been sitting in the dark waiting for them and they had no idea (Spoiler alert: It's always either their enemy or their boss/parent).
If this has ever happened to you (usually it's a friend just trying to scare us, not James Bond emptying your pistol of ammo), you know what a shock to your system it is to think you're alone and discover you're wrong. It's disorienting for a few seconds to realize that someone is actually there with you.
I can't help but think that most of us are the person entering the room, unaware of this incredible presence there with us. Except in our case, the light rarely turns on and we go about our business.
1 // Imagine if God were to turn on the light and you spin around, amazed that you are actually not alone. I don't mean this as a "you better not sin because God will always see you touching yourself" type of notion. But more in the sense of Emmanuel, God With Us. You are never alone because someone is always with you, cheering for you and on your team.
2 // Imagine if you were intentional about making yourself more aware of God's quiet presence, even when the light is off. Like the silent roommate in the room with you, you can continually draw your mind back to the profound knowledge that God is present with you. I am trying to get better at this, and 'practice the presence of God' more often. It's hard because of the number of visible, non-spiritual things there are to focus on, but if it were easy, everyone would do it. Or in this case, if it were sensed, everyone would believe it.
So wherever you're reading this right now, maybe just sit back and realize. Look up from the screen and acknowledge the quiet, invisible presence of Someone in the room with you. Or on the train with you. Or in the cafe or car with you. Like I said, it takes practice to focus on the mystical presence of God, but I'm trying to get better at it.
Wouldn't it be amazing to carry an awareness of Him while you were working? While you were doing the dishes, or stuck in a red light? What if you could even be aware of His invisible presence with you during conversations? While parenting or playing sports?
Let's do this together. Let's be people who carry this awareness of our god with us everywhere, and even make this awareness contagious.
This was definitely something I needed to read today. I need to be more aware of His presence in my life.


Overview of Atlassian products and how they work together?
The JIRA platform is, at its core, our workflow engine that allows you to track issues or tasks through a predefined and customizable workflow. These tasks can be organized by project, allowing for the entirety of your organization to track their issues at a project level with complete transparency using granular user permissions.
JIRA Service Desk is for teams who receive incoming issues/requests from other teams/customers. For example, hardware requests from other employees. It has extra features that let its projects function as help desks: service level agreements, reports, queues, accepting issues over portal or email, and more.
JIRA Core takes this workflow engine and caters it for business teams to develop organized, easy to use, task-oriented projects. Whether the tasks are a simple to-do list or a robust 7 step workflow with complex transitions, JIRA Core is built to accommodate all of your requirements. JIRA Core is an excellent solution for business teams, legal teams, HR teams, non-technical teams, marketing teams, financial teams, operation teams, and more.
JIRA Software unlocks the power of agile and kanban by giving your team the tools to easily create & estimate stories, build a sprint backlog, identify team commitments & velocity, visualize team activity, and report on your team's progress. To give your team a tour through a complete project, the following guide contains two tutorials that show a simple agile workflow at a small software company. This guide touches on some of the most used features and follows the development team at Teams in Space as they work to improve their next generation space travel software.
HipChat enables your team to work better together by making it easy to share ideas, updates, code and files in real-time, anywhere. You can start rooms for projects, teams, or social interactions.
HipChat can be used as a standalone application with its own web, desktop, and mobile clients for a defined group of people – teams of all kinds. However, one of the HipChat strengths is its integrability with other Atlassian applications and third party systems. For how to integrate with other Atlassian applications and the benefits integration features provide see integrations.
To integrate HipChat with other systems, you can build your own integrations. This could be integrations that allow you to share data between HipChat and other application. This approach, building your own custom integrations, is not directly supported by Atlassian but we are happy to provide you with developer resources and implementation partners information. Have a look at HipChat API documentation, our developer site, and Atlassian answers community Q&A site.
Confluence is a collaboration wiki used to help teams collaborate and share knowledge efficiently. It acts as your document collaboration and repository as it keeps full tracking of what changed in each document, when, and by whom to keep an 'audit' trail. Team members can create, share, and collaborate on content. For service teams, Confluence in integration with JIRA Service Desk provides a powerful knowledge base. For development teams in JIRA Software and for business teams working in JIRA Core, Confluence offers powerful integration features for project documentation, team knowledge, capturing requirements, and much more.
With version 5.7, Confluence introduced a new feedback loop and Confluence 6.x offers even more with collaborative editing. Confluence becomes the singles source of truth for all of your teams.
Bitbucket Server is the on-premises Git repository management solution for enterprise teams. It allows everyone in your organization to easily collaborate on your Git repositories.
JIRA is "the workflow engine". Meaning, JIRA is great at holding items that represent specific tasks or 'objects' and can track the status of the task. In this example the contract lifecycle. JIRA can support custom fields where you can define dates to remind your team of due dates or expiration of the contract.
The power comes from JIRA and Confluence integrated together. You can link a page (the contract from this example) and the JIRA item together. Then JIRA becomes your reporting tool on the number of contracts in progress or completed, region, due date, reminders, etc. You can even create a dashboard to report on all your contract statuses cumulatively such as percent completed or in the review.
Confluence and JIRA were designed to complement each other, and have a number of integration points built-in. If your Confluence and JIRA sites are connected using Application Links, you can display and create JIRA issues and more from within Confluence. Check out this article for full details on creating JIRA issues from Confluence.
Bamboo can pass important development information like build results and deployment statuses back to a JIRA application. This information is collated within the Development Panel. This panel summarizes the status of all work related to an issue and can assist in identifying where an issue's build is failing, and where it has been deployed.
JIRA (Core, Software, Service Desk) integrates with HipChat for real-time communication for your teams. Configuring JIRA with HipChat allow you to see real time feed of important JIRA activity in your HipChat rooms.
Connect Confluence and HipChat to take team collaboration to the next level. When you use HipChat and Confluence together you'll be always up to date on any new content and changes to your existing content.
Use the HipChat integration with Bitbucket for real-time updates on your pull requests—when they are created, commented, merged, and declined, commits—when they are pushed and commented, and issues.


If your PPCx Pressure Controller (PPC2+, PPC3, PPC4, PPC4E, PPC4EX, PPCH, PPCH-G) is having control problems we might ask that you capture diagnostics logs and send them to us.
Diagnostics can be captured from the RS232 COM1 port of these controllers when connected to a computer running logging software like HyperTerminal or putty.org. These instructions refer to HyperTerminal software.
Connect to COM1 of the device with a serial (RS-232) connection.
Establish a communications channel with the device with a program such as HyperTerminal. High baud rates are suggested for diagnostics. Suggested COM settings for both HyperTerminal and test equipment are 19200, N, 8, 1. Typical path for PPC controllers is [Special], <Remote>, <RS232>, <COM1>.
To confirm that there is a connection, send the command VER. When typing commands in HyperTerminal they are not shown on the screemn.
Use the HyperTerminal menu selection of <Transfer>,<Capture Text> to start capturing and saving data that will be generated. Choose a directory and file name or make one.
Send diagnostic command(s) as desired. Typically only the command, !diaggen=1 is needed for troubleshooting control problems. !diaggen=1 captures pressure control parameters for PPC and PPCH valve control. A response containing 1 should be returned.
Send command !diag=0 to stop capturing diagnostics. Cycling power on the controller also stops diagnostics.
When you are done, use the <Transfer>,<Capture Text>,<Stop> menu selections to stop capturing data.
Cycle power after doing diagnostics to prevent any communications problems.
Send the file to pressuresupport@flukecal.com along with a description of what was happening.


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yeah men can cause more damage physically. but mentally it could be just damaging 2 the guys as the women because the men will feel less "manly" because a woman abused them. it could hurt their "manhood"
This. My dh was physically abused by his ex wife. He has scars on his face from her, and the mental scars are much worse. He has never once talked to me about it (whilst sorting paper work I found stat decs etc from court cases) I can't even play slap him (when joking around etc) without him flinching and getting scared. Of course I haven't done this in a long time as soon as I realised he was actually scared I stopped doing it, found out well after why he was/is scared.
So whilst it is common for men to do more damage than women the reverse can happen.
I haven't read all of the more recent responses but the issue that I have with your reasoning is that you are equating a punishment with a beating.
It should not be up to your son to 'punish' his sister for hitting him - that's your job as a parent.
She should absolutely be punished by you for hitting her brother - regardless of how much damage/pain she inflicted. And he should be punished for retaliating and for showing a lack of control. And the punishments should be equal - they are both in trouble for doing the same thing.
Perhaps if appropriate consequences are shown to your DD your DS won't feel like he has to punish his sister himself KWIM?
I don't agree - I think there's support out there for all victims of abuse. Guys I know are very supportive of each other and would never laugh at a mate who opened up about abuse. Still, DV is a far more prevalent issue for female victims and it's just as difficult for females to open up about it/seek help as it is for male victims.
On the issue of size, it's far more intimidating to be stood over/hit by a larger and stronger person. A lot of DV victims fear for their lives on a daily basis so I don't think it can be compared to kids fighting.
I think there are a few cases where a woman would hold more power, both physically and otherwise. Anyone seen big fat gypsy wedding? Those women are HUGE, but live in a culture where they are powerless. I did see an episode of dr phil where a woman would beat her alcoholic husband. He was very small compared to her.
in most cases though I tend to agree. If I had an argument with a large man and it turned physical, whether or not I "started" it, the damage to him would be well....nil! I think there are allowances in the law that give smaller people more room to defend themselves (like a home invasion by a man with a woman home alone who grabs a knife) because they do acknowledge a difference in strength and it would be much more threatening.
Sadly, a woman was imprisoned recently for stabbing her partner who was belting her.
I get what you mean OP. I think a lot of it comes down to if a woman is hitting a man, usually he can restrain her to protect himself. If a man is hitting a woman she usually can't defend herself as he is so much more physically strong. Obviously both are wrong, but there's definitely a grey area.
Or could it be that he is deliberately being verbally and emotionally abusive in order to provoke her into slapping him, then he has an excuse to wail on her and show her who's boss? I see alot of power and control issues from the 13 yo.
Again, I don't condone her hitting her brother. For me this situation has nothing to do with gender. What I see, is an older stronger sibling, deliberately inciting a behaviour they want (i.e. the younger sib hitting them) in order then go to town on them.
I think what the OP needs to do is jump in as soon as he's being verbally abusive and reprimanding him before she retaliates. What is his currency? take something off him he values. His ipod, his stereo, his friends; so grounding him. Stop the cycle before it starts.
Last edited by delirium; 28-10-2012 at 11:43.
I agree. I hadn't read the OPs post about his antagonizing his sister.
I think though that my point is still valid. He should be punished by the OP for what he is saying and she should be punished by OP for hitting. Regardless of the provocation violence should never be seen as the answer and should not be ignored even if it does not cause a lot of damage because of her size.
Completely agree. My point is I think there is more at play here than 2 fighting kids, but an older sib with power issues than is manipulating their younger sib into retaliating.
People saying she hit him therefore she deserves getting belted up is a bit much. No she shouldn't hit him. But she is a 9 yo who is being regularly verbally abused. So while his behaviour isn't an excuse for hers, it is an explanation. Also people saying the OP is playing favourites. I see a bit of a complex chain of events here with an older (and probably wiser) brother being quite cunning. I don't think the OP is playing favourites at all. She is worried about her DD's safety and is asking how to curb it.
I agree with Delirium, your son sounds like he is inciting a reaction from your daughter, and when she does react, WHOOP, it's a$$ kicking time! So in this instance, I think her punishment (getting belted) is punishment enough (given that she didn't just randomly go up and hit him out of the blue).
I think the issue you are trying to raise is the concept of overkill (undue force)? Perhaps that's getting lost in the discussion somewhere, or confused with gender stereotyping, or something.
But essentially (I assume) what you are trying to explore is whether or not it's justifiable to react in a situation to the fullest extent of someones power.
I think this is definitely a grey area, and would have many variables to consider.


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Dear Baking Partners here is this month challenge, and we are going to make traditional Spanish bread. Since Thanksgiving is coming in this month we can use this bread for our dinner tables too. Marisa (Thermofan) suggested the recipe. You can also make this bread using whole wheat flour. I have included few more shapes to make this bread. Make sure you make few of traditional versions and with the rest of dough you can make few other shapes too if you are interested.
I'm glad to present this traditional bread from Valencia, known at least since the Seventeenth Century. The Pataqueta, diminutive for "pataca" has the shape of a crescent Moon. This is the bread the inhabitants of the Valencia's Orchard used to eat when they went to work. It was firstly baked in the Moorish oven they have in their Barraca and then in wood stoves.
Nowadays, it is not frequently baked and people book it in advance to get one. "Pataquetas" are usually baked for our main important festival, "Fallas". Most of Valencia's bakers are asked to bake "pataquetas" every year in March.
As a member of Baking partners, I asked Swathi Iyer to collaborate with a recipe from my country. My idea is to spread the word and make known this original and unknown bread. Swathi agreed and I think she is as enthusiastic as me. I hope that everyone who bakes "pataqueta" enjoys it as much as me and what is the most important for me, is to RESPECT the origin of the bread and its shape when publishing it.
The recipe is adapted from here "Entre cacerolas". This bread has a soft crumb, a firm crust and its taste is the taste of ancient bread.
Stir the yeast into the water in your mixing bowl, then add the flour and sugar and mix well. Cover with plastic film.
- Keeping the ferment in its bowl, add the rest of the ingredients except the salt, and mix together with your scraper.
- When everything starts to come together into dough, turn it out onto your work surface (don't flour it first).
Divide dough into 150 g pieces and then form the dough into small balls, cover with a baking cloth and leave to rest for 20 minutes or until them double in size.
Flatten with the palm of the hand, putting more pressure on the edges of the dough to get a rounded shape.
- Then with a sharp knife or baker scraper make a cut in and cut open from the outside. Flatten the ball and mark the cut above.
- Place them on a baking tray and cover them again with a kitchen cloth dusted with flower.
- Leave to rest until them double in size, for about 1 hour.
Make two cuts on the bottom before baking.
- Sprinkle a little fine flour using a sieve or strainer.
- Bake with steam, 30 minutes at 200 °C / 392 F.
*Following Richard Bertinet advices, it is preferable to introduce the ferment in the fridge than leaving it at room temperature: "the slower the maturation the better developed the flavor and characteristic crumb and crust of the bread".
- The amount of flour can vary depending on the type of flour that we use. The dough should not be soft.
- My pataquetas are of medium size. It can be made smaller or larger.
- Pataquetas can also be frozen.
- I've used my bread machine, but I'm willing to find time to experiment with the traditional method inspired in Richard Bertinet tips on how to work the dough.


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AIAIAI TMA-2 Studio Wireless+ Headphones Review
Phil Morse
AIAIAI latency free low latency TMA-2 Wireless DJ headphones
Production Gear
Last updated 20 December, 2021
These are a clever and well-designed pair of headphones, and the latency-free wireless tech is definitely smart. Bluetooth and wired options are a welcome addition, too. If you need low-latency wireless headphones, this is your only choice currently – and luckily they definitely live up to their promise.
AIAIAI TMA-2 Studio Wireless+ Headphones
Product type: Headphones
Launched: December 2021
All AIAIAI headphones are fun to receive and set up, coming as they do in multiple (recycled) plastic bags, each containing a component or two – you assemble them yourself, which is easy. That allows the company to mix and match components so you can "build" the headphones that suit you on the website, so model numbers are really just a pre-chosen set of components.
In this case, as well as the usual drivers, over-ear "alcantara" pads (soft fabric) and cable, you get a special headband that contains the battery, Bluetooth and all important new W+ wireless receiver. AIAIAI's aesthetic is black, simple, rubberised and minimalistic, with just one discrete piece of AIAIAI branding on the top of the headband.
You also get a wireless transmitter, which is about the size of a small phone battery pack, and is also largely rubberised. It has a short, coiled, detachable flourescent TRS lead for plugging into your headphones output. I found myself wishing the wired full-length lead was also supplied in this colour.
AIAIAI are pros when it comes to sleek, minimalistic design, pops of colour, and subtle branding.
They come partly charged, as does the wireless transmitter unit, so you can get going right away – but charging is quick (a couple of hours) via the supplied USB-C lead.
Obviously to use them wired you don't need to turn them on at all, you just plug them in – but for everything else, you press the middle of three discrete little buttons on the right-hand outside of the headband, and they spring into life.
To select Bluetooth, you slide a little switch on the right-hand end of the headband to the blue position, then press the outer two of the little buttons on the headband to put the headphones into pairing mode. The little "on" LED by the buttons on the headband glows blue to show you're in Bluetooth mode, flashes slowly to show they're not paired, flashes fast to show they're in pairing mode, and is steady once pairing is complete.
It took me a couple of goes to get the pairing to work, but once it did, all was good.
Setting up low-latency W+ wireless is a little different. To get this to work, you slide the selector switch from its blue setting to its white setting. The LED slow flashes white, to tell you they're not yet paired. Again, you press the top and bottom buttons on the headphones to enter pairing mode (you get tonal audio cues for all this stuff in the phones), but this time, you first turn on the transmitter (long hold on its only button), then quickly double press the button to put it into pairing mode. Pairing is near instant, and you're good to go – just plug the transmitter into your usual headphones output to connect the audio.
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So let's talk about the low-latency wireless first. I found it was great to be able to work on my music in Logic on my laptop when out and about, without a lead. It's surprising how annoying a lead can be, especially when – for instance – you're in a plane seat. As you only ever try to make music on Bluetooth headphones the once, and this solves the latency issue instantly. If you've always hankered after DJ headphones minus the connection to your mixer, ditto you're going to love this.
Sound quality was near perfect (it is compression-less). A bit of background hiss, but frankly without noise cancellation, in anything other than an ideal studio situation that is the least of your issues – you really don't notice it at all after a few seconds.
Of course, this mode relies on the transmitter, which is not the smallest thing in the world, so just bear that in mind when assessing where you'll use them (you'll also need to use them with gear that actually still has a headphones output, or use an adaptor – for all you iPad producers out there…).
In this mode too, bear in mind that they work as "dumb" headphones – clearly a third-party wireless system can't feed any info back to the source of the audio, so no play/puase, volume adjustment etc.
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You get 16 hours of use from it and the headphones and transmitter charge quickly. (Note that there's only a charging cable supplied, not an adaptor, which is usual nowadays.)
A pair of these would be great in bigger studios where engineers/producers can get up and walk around, instead of being tied to the mixing console.
In Bluetooth mode, though, the three buttons do what you'd expect, at least on iOS and iPadOS, which was what we tested the Bluetooth functions on. So you can turn the volume up and down (outer two buttons), and play/pause, skip forwards a track, and back a track (one, two and three presses of the middle button). Note that they don't have a microphone built in for true out-and-about use as a companion to your phone.
Bluetooth gives a generous 80 hours of playtime too, and again, sounds great.
In general, the headphones are very comfortable. While the headband is necessarily a bit bulkier than some due to the kit it contains, it's fine to wear and definitely light enough, and the earcups – while a little tight for my liking – are still comfy, thanks to the luxurious pad supplied.
There's nothing to compare these to right now, because to the best of my knowledge there are no low-latency wireless headphones on the market apart from these. And happily, the headline wireless function works great, as does Bluetooth.
We would like to have had spoken instructions rather than beeps and tones ("Bluetooth connected", "volume full" etc), which would make the headphones easier to get used to.
Design wise, we do like AIAIAI headphones, and we buy in to the modular concept; you genuinely can mix and match components, and also replace anything that breaks – it feels like the way forward. That said, the parts are all supplied in individual plastic bags, which isn't so good – yeah they're recycled plastic, but that plastic still had to be made, and will still need to be recycled again. Surely the headphones can be built for you, saving all of that? Either that, or wrap the items in tissue paper, for instance?
Also, the headphones come with a simple fabric bag, but once you add in the extra bits (lead, transmitter, charging cable) this bag doesn't feel like enough. We'd like to see the option of a better case for those who need it that can more safely store those extra bits and pieces.
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Audio quality-wise, suffice to say that AIAIAI cites Richie Hawtin's involvement in the three years of development, so I'll defer to his approval here – they certainly sounded fine to me in all modes. That said, some producers do question how "flat" AIAIAI's drivers are – but the thing is, with headphones it's as much about getting used to the sonic qualities of the ones you've chosen as it is obsessing over perfection. As few producers will mix and master on headphones alone, anyway, I'd say you'll be good to go with these unless you're particularly exacting.
"It's important to have the freedom of movement in your most creative and expressive moments. It sounds so archaic to plug a cable in here and only to be able to go one metre this way or that way. It's about freedom, it's forward-thinking, it's futuristic, it's empowering." – Richie Hawtin
Finally, if you're thinking of buying these headphones for DJ use, you may want to switch out the pads for some which cancel external noise better – presumably that will become an option on the AIAIAI website once they go on full sale in January 2022 (we're reviewing a sample sent to us in December 2021).
Really, whether these are for you depends upon how much you've been wishing for low-latency wireless headphones. As I say, for producing on the road, wires can be annoying, but also I guess in larger studios where you can get up and walk around, the ability to do so may be freeing, rather than being tied to the console. I also think livestreamers who have sets they can wander around while performing may find a use for these, and DJs on stage or in big DJ booths too.
Overall, they're a winner. While you may not use the low-latency wireless option all the time, it's great to have for when you need it, and Bluetooth (or indeed wired mode) work great for other times. For an industry first, low-latency wireless is exceptionally well implemented, and the price is fair for the tech.
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Inaugurated in 2007, The Grand Dragon is one of the first luxurious hotels in Ladakh. The hotel is owned as well as managed by the Abdu family from Leh. With over 40 years of experience in the hotel industry, they leave no stone unturned to welcome their guests. The moment you step into their hotel, you'll be mesmerized by their handcrafted paintings made by Gulam Mustafa. And the traditional fixtures will remind you of the royal era.
Now, with so many hotels in Ladakh to match your taste, why do you think you should come to Grand Dragon? Well, to begin with, this is the first hotel that introduces you to a wealth of amenities like electronic key cards, and sewage treatment facility. Moreover, the complete facility can be accessed on a wheelchair; now this is certainly a plus point for the differently abled vacationers eyeing a comfy sojourn. Moreover, the hotel is also solar powered and centrally heated, which ensures maximum warmth on your arrival. Besides, the friendly staff members ensure to attend to the individual needs of the customers. So, why look for other options on your stay? Choose this hotel and pave your way towards a comfortable stay.


After Josh Liberles recently emerged from the Redlands Bicycle Classic battered and bruised (literally - he t-boned a car during the road race and snapped his bike) he climbed on board his backup rig, a cyclocross bike, for the Cherry Blossom Classic stage race weekend.
The change of steed didn't seem to slow Liberles down in the criterium where he was very active, got into several breakaway attempts, and still had enough gas in the crazy-fast mad final dash to the line to take 3rd.
"The Hagens Berman team hit the front the last couple of laps but once Land Rover Orbea's train took over, the pace really ramped up," recounts Liberles.
Roman Van Uden used the leadout to perfection for the win, Steven Beardsley (Gentle Lovers) and Liberles were able to match the pace and join him on the podium. There was a small gap back to the rest of the pack.
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