A newly introduced bill would authorize California tenants to use their rental units to provide shelter for people facing homelessness.
Although the bill has not yet been finalized, AB 1188 by Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, D-Van Nuys, is expected to authorize renters to house an individual or family at risk of homelessness for up to 12 months, even if doing so would violate the lease.
So it's no longer my apartment, but rather the government's. Will they pay me for it?
We have been members of CAA since the late 80's and appreciate all the good work you have done on behalf of landlords. In this please do everything you can to defeat AB 1188.
Perhaps Mr. Gabriel will be willing to pay the increased water and gas costs I'll have to pay if homeless families can be moved into my units.
California is rapidly becoming so Socialist that we will be controlled by government from the leftists. I'm becoming very disillusioned in even owning rentals.
Why would anyone want to be a landlord anymore, as it it is we don't have any rights, everything is for the tenants. Every time you have to evict a tenant the court always sides with them, no matter how much proof you have against the tenant they always win. The landlord does not have any rights and no protections from tenants. We went into the business to invest our money and get a return on it, we have all the responsibility of maintenance, insurance, mortgage ect. The tenants can trash your house, not pay rent and then go to court and say you are a bad landlord. And they always win in court and now they you want us to take in the homeless.
I am a manager in Hanford,Ca and our homeless is awful and we are a small town.But I truly do not want this law to pass.We screen our tenants very closely and I do not want them to be able to bring in just anyone.Utilities are high enough as it is.
freedoms to house homeless persons. This is an invasion of everyone's liberties and freedoms.
When does the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution start to kick in?
Check the last phrase. It seems like these liberal politicians are skating on thin ice. It might be time for CAA to start talking about inverse condemnation – treble damages in California.
This proposed bill is ludicrous – once again the tail wagging the dog. While I'm all for helping the homeless and providing sensible housing, doing so is a function of government, not property owners. Moreover, to propose such legislation without specifics, be it undefined restrictions on the number of "guests" (fire code?) or assuring the landlord a road to compensation for damages, increased use of common utilities, or wear and tear etc., is mere thievery. Unintelligent and politically expedient legislative tactics. As more anti-landlord measures are proposed and implemented, I seriously contemplate exiting the business of being a landlord.
Meanwhile, rarely is the discussion of means testing tenants raised (CAA are you listening?). Means testing would help mitigate long term nesters who not only pay relatively low controlled rents (SF restricts increases to 60% of CPI) but seriously reduce the housing supply by never vacating and/or subletting (think NYC). Why is a tenant who earns far more than a landlord so protected (rhetorical)?
With a myriad of anti landlord bills both current and proposed, California, and especially the likes of San Francisco, is working overtime to discourage rental housing ownership and development, and disregarding the will of the people; with the defeat of Prop 10, the voters last November overwhelmingly made it clear that such legislative notions are unacceptable. But still, from one side of their legislative mouths, the likes of Chiu and Gabriel scream for more housing and greater protections for tenants while from the other side, they legislate measures that do far more damage than good, factually worsening the housing crisis that they willingly promulgate for the sake of political expediency — look no further than San Francisco's failed rent control as proof.
It is clearly time to sell my rentals.
Thank you for your comments. We absolutely hear you when it comes to means testing. That is an argument we made on Proposition 10 and have used on other local proposals.
The concept behind AB1188 places the housing of the homeless on the backs of apartment owners. That is not where it belongs. This is a Statewide problem and should be handled and addressed by the State. Your article notes other legislation pending by the State that would be far more appropriate in addressing this issue. Please take whatever action you can to see that AB1188 does not become a law.
I find the arrogance of Jesse Gabriel outrageous! This bill must be defeated so soundly, it never raises its ugly head again. The government is again trying to shirk responsibility by forcing landlords to put their property at risk of overcrowding, utility overload, possible damages by those who are fleeing homelessness due to eviction and other risks. Property values will fall due to mass exodus of landlords selling if this passes.
We should all get on the internet and write letters to state reps. This is a feeble attempt that tries to give proof that the legislature is trying to solve the homeless problem. This won't do anything to solve that problem.
I could not agree more with everyone commenting. Please do everything you can to not allow this to pass. So many issues that it isn't fair to the other tenants in my complex who came into my units the right way. I am a crime free property and pay for water and multiple utilities.
We must stop this. Or pass a law that anyone selling stocks must also contribute a percent of their earnings to a housing fund – this is an outright taking of my personal property rights – I am struggling right now to remove a tenant with a BAD guest even with the laws that exist! And years ago we gave the OK to shelter a "homeless sister" – who brought her bedbugs, roaches and lice into the property. Is there some kind of occupancy rules that makes sure a two bedroom unit is not suddenly housing 10 peiople?
Each of these socialist bills removing my property into the hands of the State of California, if passed, is only putting more and more stones on my back and providing just another and another reason to sell my properties and move to another state. Where have these legislators been living all their lives? Do they know how ridiculous what they are purposing is in actual life?
The homeless need a lot more than housing. They also need food, clothing, transportation, and auto insurance. Perhaps this ludicrous bill should also demand that the food industry feed them with free food, the department stores provide them free clothing, the dealerships set them up with a free car, and the insurance industry pay for their auto insurance. I take great pride in providing quality housing and spare no expense in their maintenance, but strongly object to turning my properties into homeless shelters for untold numbers of people. Has the legislature lost its mind?


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Dial-a-frog — researchers develop the 'FrogPhone' to remotely call frogs in the wild
IMAGE: Researchers Anke Marie Hoefer and Adrian Garrido Sanchis test the FrogPhone
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Researchers have developed the 'FrogPhone', a novel device which allows scientists to call up a frog survey site and monitor them in the wild. The FrogPhone is the world's first solar-powered remote survey device that relays environmental data to the observer via text messages, whilst conducting real-time remote acoustic surveys over the phone. These findings are presented in the British Ecological Society Journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution today.
The FrogPhone introduces a new concept that allows researchers to "call" a frog habitat, any time, from anywhere, once the device has been installed. The device has been developed at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra and the University of Canberra in collaboration with the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and Region Frogwatch Program and the Australian National University.
The FrogPhone utilises 3G/4G cellular mobile data coverage and capitalises on the characteristic wideband audio of mobile phones, which acts as a carrier for frog calls. Real time frog calls can be transmitted across the 3G/4G network infrastructure, directly to the user's phone. This supports clear sound quality and minimal background noise, allowing users to identify the calls of different frog species.
"We estimate that the device with its current microphone can detect calling frogs from a 100-150m radius" said lead author Dr. Adrian Garrido Sanchis, Associate Lecturer at UNSW Canberra. "The device allows us to monitor the local frog population with more frequency and ease, which is significant as frog species are widely recognised as indicators of environmental health" said the ACT and Region Frogwatch coordinator and co-author, Anke Maria Hoefer.
The FrogPhone unifies both passive acoustic and active monitoring methods, all in a waterproof casing. The system has a large battery capacity coupled to a powerful solar panel. It also contains digital thermal sensors to automatically collect environmental data such as water and air temperature in real-time. The FrogPhone uses an open-source platform which allows any researcher to adapt it to project-specific needs.
The system simulates the main features of a mobile phone device. The FrogPhone accepts incoming calls independently after three seconds. These three seconds allow time to activate the temperature sensors and measure the battery storage levels. All readings then get automatically texted to the caller's phone.
Acoustic monitoring of animals generally involves either site visits by a researcher or using battery-powered passive acoustic devices, which record calls and store them locally on the device for later analysis. These often require night-time observation, when frogs are most active. Now, when researchers dial a device remotely, the call to the FrogPhone can be recorded indirectly and analysed later.
Ms. Hoefer remarked that "The FrogPhone will help to drastically reduce the costs and risks involved in remote or high intensity surveys. Its use will also minimize potential negative impacts of human presence at survey sites. These benefits are magnified with increasing distance to and inaccessibility of a field site."
A successful field trial of the device was performed in Canberra from August 2017 to March 2018. Researchers used spectrograms, graphs which allow the visual comparison of the spectrum of frequencies of frog signals over time, to test the recording capabilities of the FrogPhone.
Ms. Hoefer commented that "The spectrogram comparison between the FrogPhone and the standard direct mobile phone methodology in the lab, for the calls of 9 different frog species, and the field tests have proven that the FrogPhone can be successfully used as a new alternative to conduct frog call surveys."
The use of the current FrogPhone is limited to areas with adequate 3G/4G phone coverage. Secondly, to listen to frogs in a large area, several survey devices would be needed. In addition, it relies on exposure to sunlight.
Future additions to the FrogPhone could include a satellite communications module for poor signal areas, or the use of multidirectional microphones for large areas. Lead author Garrido Sanchis emphasized that "In densely vegetated areas the waterproof case of the FrogPhone allows the device to be installed as a floating device in the middle of a pond, to maximise solar access to recharge the batteries".
Dr. Garrido Sanchis said "While initially tested in frogs, the technology used for the FrogPhone could easily be extended to capture other animal vocalisation (e.g. insects and mammals), expanding the applicability to a wide range of biodiversity conservation studies".
For more information about this study and/or to arrange an interview, please contact:
Adrian Garrido Sanchis, Lead author, University of New South Wales Canberra, Canberra
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Sicily Fiennes, Press Office Assistant, British Ecological Society
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A pdf of the study and high-resolution images can be accessed here (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7s0o7w95s7x6hgj/AACsTUOrUtR4dfiSfpPp-7Hpa?dl=0)
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The paper can be accessed here (https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210X.13332).
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Never let it be said that I am not a trend setter in all aspects of life, in fact when it comes to clothes I consider my wardrobe to be the *hight* of fashion. With this in mind I decided to take a leaf out the latest in couture from South Korea: behold the Sheep Head (literal translation), otherwise known as the "Princess Leia towel doo".
Walking down the street will never feel the same again, warm ears and a dry head are just some of the benefits of having a Sheep Head. Worn as an every-day accessory by both young and old this is the essential 2007 look, heading from a republic peninsular to your head shortly. You heard it hear first!
I'm wearing mine right now, are you?! Reader submissions of self-portraits always welcome (although NO cutsie babies or animals please!!).
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SWIFT creates financial sector API blueprint
Cooperative expedites standardisation to foster financial industry API adoption
Brussels, 16 October 2018
SWIFT has today published a blueprint for common API standards following collaboration with European banking standards bodies, STET and Berlin Group NextGenPSD2 – who together represent many of the region's banks and payment service providers.
As pressure from regulators and customers shift banking towards more open access to financial services, SWIFT is playing a lead role in unlocking the potential of API technology by providing the neutral collaboration platform to develop the common data standards the industry needs.
SWIFT's white paper, Towards a global platform for the Financial Services API economy, published today, concludes that a successful transition to an API-based financial ecosystem is only possible if financial standards bodies converge towards a shared business standardisation methodology.
Regulators around the world have identified the need for interoperability among financial institutions as they move towards a more open banking model. SWIFT, STET and Berlin Group NextGenPSD2 are at the centre of efforts to avoid fragmentation, isolation, and the needless complexities that will frustrate attempts to build the value-added services that customers want.
SWIFT is working to minimise inefficiencies caused by differing regulatory specifications that could limit opportunities for common API frameworks across different regions and potentially require different solutions for every market. The cooperative has lent its long-standing expertise in standards, specifically ISO 20022 – the standard for electronic data interchange between financial institutions – to work alongside STET and Berlin Group NextGenPSD2 in Europe to define the building blocks for the new services that will spring from the new API economy.
Stephen Lindsay, Head of Standards at SWIFT, said: "APIs are at the core of SWIFT's strategy and a key part of how we deliver a faster, more transparent experience to our customers. Overall, the financial services industry has been slow to adopt APIs, but it's catching up fast. With the wealth of experience we have working with standards at SWIFT, it is fitting that we're at the forefront of API standardisation and efforts to avoid fragmentation of approach as the industry embraces API technology. In our role as neutral facilitator, we have made the most of our unique position to create and maintain the standards necessary for processing financial transactions efficiently and securely."
SWIFT, STET and Berlin Group NextGenPSD2 have concluded a first phase where a business model for the PSD2 Account Information Services has been defined using common standards. This data model will be the foundation for any API definitions and will enable interoperability among PSD2 participants. This work follows a successful collaboration on the creation of a common API framework between SWIFT and Australia's New Payments Platform (NPP).
Hervé Robache, PSD2 API Coordinator at STET, said: "STET has been involved with PSD2 API topics since 2016. Our participation in different working groups at the European level has confirmed our assumption that there is strong demand for common standards. Having the building blocks that can accommodate all business needs and be reused by all API providers is critical to achieving this goal, which is why the development of this ISO20022 model is such an important and exciting development."
Dr. Ortwin Scheja, Chief Editor at Berlin Group NextGenPSD2, said: "For Berlin Group NextGenPSD2, alignment and convergence on PSD2 API standards has always been a crucial objective which has consistently been communicated into the market since the start in 2016. The alignment with SWIFT and STET on the PSD2 relevant data models is a perfect example of a core component in the harmonisation that Berlin Group NextGenPSD2 advocates. We believe that open and harmonised PSD2 API standards are the necessary building blocks of an interoperable market."
SWIFT has published an information paper on the challenges the industry faces as it moves towards an API economy. Available here.
About SWIFT
SWIFT is a global member owned cooperative and the world's leading provider of secure financial messaging services. We provide our community with a platform for messaging and standards for communicating, and we offer products and services to facilitate access and integration, identification, analysis and regulatory compliance.
Our messaging platform, products and services connect more than 11,000 banking and securities organisations, market infrastructures and corporate customers in more than 200 countries and territories. While SWIFT does not hold funds or manage accounts on behalf of customers, we enable our global community of users to communicate securely, exchanging standardised financial messages in a reliable way, thereby supporting global and local financial flows, as well as trade and commerce all around the world.
As their trusted provider, we relentlessly pursue operational excellence; we support our community in addressing cyber threats; and we continually seek ways to lower costs, reduce risks and eliminate operational inefficiencies. Our products and services support our community's access and integration, business intelligence, reference data and financial crime compliance needs. SWIFT also brings the financial community together – at global, regional and local levels – to shape market practice, define standards and debate issues of mutual interest or concern. SWIFT's strategic five-year plan, SWIFT2020, challenges SWIFT to continue investing in the security, reliability and growth of its core messaging platform, while making additional investments in existing services and delivering new and innovative solutions.
Headquartered in Belgium, SWIFT's international governance and oversight reinforces the neutral, global character of its cooperative structure. SWIFT's global office network ensures an active presence in all the major financial centres.
For more information, visit www.swift.com or follow us on Twitter: @swiftcommunity and LinkedIn: SWIFT.
About STET
STET is one of the leading payments processors in Europe operating both a highly performant CSM and a Card authorisation Switch, STET processed over 23.1 billion transactions in 2017.
STET is at the forefront of the digital revolution offering latest technology CSM services including instant payments. Our work on PSD, Fraud scoring, TPP Digital HUB and Tokenization contributes to safer payments in a fast evolving market.
More about STET: www.stet.eu
About the Berlin Group
The Berlin Group is a pan-European payments interoperability standards and harmonisation initiative with the primary objective of defining open and common standards in the interbank domain. In the same spirit, Berlin Group NextGenPSD2 is an open, ad-hoc, pan-European industry standards coalition of 51 organisations operating across all EU Member States and representing a diverse cross-section of the European banking and payments industry.
A full list of the NextGenPSD2 participants, with their company logos, can be found at www.berlin-group.org/psd2-access-to-bank-accounts
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In the Lee of Hindutva
Prabhat Patnaik
THE class function of Hindutva is becoming clearer by the day. In the lee of Hindutva the Modi government is embarking on a massive programme of privatisation of the public sector, and of attack on the working class. Such a programme could not have been launched under the "normal" circumstances of bourgeois rule; it would have aroused stiff opposition. But the government feels emboldened to attempt it when the nation is being divided in the name of Hindutva, when the combination of fear of the "other", and hatred in consequence of it, are being inculcated among the majority. Fear creates the need for a "saviour"; and if the so-called "saviour" is also doing the privatisation, then people are less strident in their opposition to it. They are too distracted by the Hindutva discourse to mount any challenge to the class agenda of the corporate-financial oligarchy in which such privatisation figures prominently. Hindutva in short brings about a discourse shift that works in the interests of the corporate-financial oligarchy.
Privatisation is being introduced in diverse ways. Some public sector enterprises are earmarked for outright sale, not just loss-making ones, but even those which make handsome profits. In others, the government intends to reduce its own share of equity below 51 per cent through disinvestment. In still others, the idea is to break up the total activity into several different individual activities and to privatise some individual activities by divesting the public sector of those; this last route is what is being followed with regard to the railways.
In addition to these ways of privatising the existing public sector, there is also an effort to by-pass the public sector where it exists, to reduce its scope as much as possible. In a sphere like coal mining, which had been hitherto kept more or less exclusively for the public sector, even foreign capital is now being invited to participate. In railway components like locomotives, imports from foreign firms are being resorted to, and domestic production in the public sector is being correspondingly curtailed; this is but a prelude to running down the public sector units to extinction.
Likewise legislation to "reform" existing labour laws which would make the sacking of workers easier is likely to be introduced in the coming Lok Sabha session. In fact only about 4 per cent of the total work-force in the country is covered by whatever protection the existing labour laws provide, since even in the "organised sector" casualisation of the work-force has proceeded remarkably fast; the real objective of the proposed change in labour laws therefore is to make trade unions impossible, since anyone unionising the workers would be sacked forthwith.
Privatising the public sector will have an exactly similar consequence. All over the world workers in the private sector are less unionised than in the public sector. In the U S for instance, while only about 7 per cent of private sector workers are unionised, the corresponding ratio in the public sector (including education) is 33 per cent. The shift of a unit from the domain of the public sector to that of the private sector therefore will have a deleterious effect on unionisation.
The Modi government's real objective therefore is a frontal attack on the working class, something which the corporate-financial oligarchy would dearly love, but which had not been easy to launch earlier. In the shadow of Hindutva this is being sought to be achieved.
The corporate gain in the shadow of Hindutva is by no means accidental. In fact the economic ideology of the votaries of Hindutva is unblinkingly and unashamedly pro-corporate. This fact was expressed in the clearest possible terms by Narendra Modi himself when he said that the capitalists were the "wealth creators" for the country, which even bourgeois economics would not claim.
Standard text-books of bourgeois economics mention four "factors of production", land, labour, capital, and enterprise, as coming together to undertake production, upon which the creation of wealth depends. This eclecticism on their part is suggestive of the fact that they want to show capital which the capitalists "contribute" as being no less important than labour in the process of wealth creation: the capitalists in other words, far from being exploiters as the socialists argue, are co-contributors to the creation of wealth. The Hindu Right however has gone even further than standard bourgeois text-books. It has eliminated labour completely from the list of wealth-creators. It sees the capitalists not just as co-contributors alongside labour to the process of wealth creation, as bourgeois text-books do; it sees them as the lone creators of wealth. A more craven apologia for the capitalists, and hence in today's world for the corporates, can scarcely be imagined.
In fact, going beyond bourgeois text-books, we can say that human labour acting upon nature is the source of all things, or use-values. Some of these things are used in the process of man's acting upon nature, as instruments of labour (capital stock). A group of persons, namely the capitalists, make themselves the owners of these instruments of labour and therefore claim a part of the things produced without performing any labour themselves. They consume a part of what they appropriate, and use the other part to add to the stock of instruments of labour.
Let us, generously, interpret Modi as lauding the capitalists because they add to the stock of instruments of labour. Even then, to call them "wealth-creators", because they do not consume everything they appropriate but also add to the instruments of labour, is to show complete ignorance of this total process.
Even greater ignorance is displayed by Modi in his remark that the tax concession amounting to Rs1.45 lakh crores which his government has just given to the corporates is for the benefit of all; it represents, he claims, a "win-win situation" for 120 crore Indians! Here Modi has gone even beyond his own view of capitalists being "wealth creators". Even if the corproates simply hoard the entire Rs 1.45 lakh crores without adding an iota to the stock of instruments of labour (which incidentally would produce massive unemployment because of a reduction in aggregate demand), even then it apparently constitutes a "win-win situation"!
It is clear that the Hindutva view of economics is a simple one: the more money is handed over to the corporates, the better it is for society. The limit to what can be handed over however is set by what must be given to the working people; hence the Hindutva view would suggest that the less is given to the working people, the better it is for society! The Hindutva view in short is not just anti-minority, anti-dalit, anti-tribal, anti-women, as is well-known; it is essentially and fundamentally anti-working people as well.
There is a vicious dialectic at work here. Hindutva's solution to the economic crisis currently engulfing the country is to further increase the amount of money in the hands of the corporates; in fact given its economics it can have no other conception. To do this however it will have to bring about an even more aggressive discourse shift, by engaging in even more "shock and awe" operations, like "one nation-one-language", the National Register of Citizens, and the Citizenship Amendment Bill. Each of these will have a devastating effect on the lives of the people and the unity of the nation.
But additionally, since putting more money into the hands of the corporates, far from overcoming the crisis, will only have the effect of worsening it, the Hindutva government, instead of desisting from such dangerous measures, will only intensify them further. In other words, as the crisis deepens, and as the pro-corporate measures escalate in a futile bid to alleviate it, the communal assault on the hapless minorities, will also escalate.
While the Hindutva-corporate axis, which is built around this particular class understanding imbibed by Hindutva, unleashes this vicious dialectic, its Achilles heel consists in the fact that through this dialectic the crisis will only intensify, ultimately calling forth resistance that will overwhelm it.


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QIC launches $494 million takeover of Superloop
Written on the 3 May 2019 by David Simmons
Internet infrastructure company Superloop (ASX:SLC) has received a takeover offer from a Queensland private capital group for $494 million.
The proposed deal would see QIC Private Capital, on behalf of its global infrastructure managed and advised funds and clients, acquire the Bevan Slattery (pictured) founded company for $1.95 per share.
Initially, QIC lodged a takeover bid with Superloop on 2 April for $1.90 per share. It has since upped the offer to $1.95, lodged on 26 April, 2019.
Superloop's closing share price upon receipt of the initial proposal on 2 April was $1.47 per share. Currently the company is trading at $1.81 per share and has a market capitalisation of $458.47 million.
The $1.95 per share offer falls well below the company's recent peak of $2.49 on 29 June 2018, and the group's all-time peak of $3.29 per share on 9 September 2016.
This revised proposal includes two alternative forms of consideration to Superloop shareholders: full cash or partial cash and partial scrip in a newly formed, unlisted entity.
Superloop says that it has determined that it is in the "best interests of shareholders" to grant QIC a period of three weeks to conduct due diligence on an exclusive basis.
This period commenced on 28 April, and may be extended by mutual agreement.
The company has not yet commented on whether shareholders should accept this proposal, not commented on whether it is good value for shareholders.
Superloop recently completed a $30 million equity raise to put towards future development plans.
This raise was the latest piece in the puzzle for a three-way play by serial entrepreneur Bevan Slattery, the founder of Superloop, Megaport, and its subsidiary SubPartners, NextDC, Asia Pacific Data Centre and PIPE Networks.
The $30 million raise was announced in conjunction with Superloop's future vision, called Superloop 2.0. When announced, CEO Drew Kelton said the company was on the frontier of something great for the company.
"We are now nearing completion of the transition phase and entering the leverage phase which will start to generate significant returns with expected strong growth in gross margin," said Kelton.
The company intends to deploy the new capital to strengthen its balance sheet, provide additional funding to allow Superloop to take advantage of new opportunities, and to provide general working capital.
Superloop is in the midst of a multi-national infrastructure build, connecting more than 275 key data centres in the Asia Pacific.
Its undersea fibre optic network as part of the INDIGO Consortium which stretches around the Asia Pacific is the company's main project. The group owns and operates over 640 km of carrier-grade metropolitan fibre networks in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Once the whole cable system is up and running it is expected to strengthen links between Australia and the fast-growing South East Asian markets, providing lower latency and enhanced reliability. Using today's coherent optical technology, the cable's two-fibre pairs will be able to support up to 36 terabits per second.
The INDIGO cable system will utilise new spectrum sharing technology so each consortium member will have the ability to independently take advantage of technology advancements for future upgrades and capacity increases on demand.
Superloop's revenue is generated from three operating segments: 1) connectivity, which includes revenue generated from the group's metro fibre networks in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, a fixed wireless network in Australia, and revenues related to the development of the INDIGO subsea cable network, 2) broadband, which includes revenues generated from Superloop WiFi for resorts & student accommodation and from Superloop Home Broadband, and 3) services, which includes cloud & managed services and security products.
On the same day that the raise was announced Superloop revealed its 1H19 results, demonstrating stronger revenue ($60.3 million, up 18 per cent) but a harsher loss ($8.73 million down 390 per cent).


Twenty-nine year-old Jayesel Innaissance found out the hard way that shoplifting doesn't pay. And then running from officers and entering someone's home in an attempt to hide is certainly a bad idea as well.
On 2-6-19 at 3:30 p.m., Winter Haven officers responded to a call of a shoplifter at Macy's, located at 231 Citi Center St in Winter Haven. When officers arrived, the associate with Macy's told them that a male had just run from the store after taking approximately $555 worth of merchandise. When the associate attempted to make the man stop, he dropped some items and ran towards 3rd St. SW.
As officers approached the area, they saw a male matching the description given by the Macy's associate walking on Ave. G SW holding several articles of clothing. Officers attempted to make contact with him and he ran towards Ave. F SW.
Officers found him in a driveway out of breath at a residence on Ave. F SW. Officers immediately detained Innaissance and the homeowner exited the residence saying that Innaissance had run into the home without permission while the homeowner was inside. The homeowner indicated that he didn't know Innaissance and he didn't have permission to enter the residence.
After the associate from Macy's was able to positively identify Innaissance as the one who took the merchandise from the store, he was charged with Grand Theft (F.S.S. 812.014(2)(C) F3, Unarmed Burglary (F.S.S. 810.02(3)(A) F2, and Resisting an Officer W/O Violence (F.S.S. 843.02) M1 and booked into the Polk County Jail.


Eminent historian and writer Tom Griffiths (The Art of Time Travel) talks about viewing Antarctica through a historian's eyes. Griffiths draws on his experience as the historian on board a centennial voyage to Mawson's Huts. He sees Antarctica as a wondrous, otherworldly place – a barometer of planetary health, climate archive, bold experiment in global government and fascinating microcosm of human society. Tom says nature looks different in Antarctica, and so does history.


We had another TED Ed Club meeting this afternoon. These meetings always have 3 parts: evaluation of our recent project, discussion about the newest TED Talk, and setting an agenda for the next meeting. After school meetings are tough because so many students are involved in extra-curricular activities that they just can't find time for everything. But, in the end, we had about 15 attend with a few of those arriving late.
Our latest project involved what we were calling the "Thank You Wall." Using the TED Talk by Drew Dudley as our inspiration, we decided to create a space for anyone in the building to say thank you to someone who had a positive impact on their life. It was extremely well received as you can see from the pictures below. The columns we created were 6ft tall by 2 feet wide so between the 2 of them there was 96 square feet of whiteboards filled with nearly 400 messages of thanks.
The project was headed up by one of our seniors. He commented in the meeting that on one day he saw a girl glance up at the board, see a message that was written to her, and a huge smile broke out on her face. He said right then it made all the planning and time worth it.
But what I really wanted to share was the discussion that ensued for the next hour. The talk we chose was by Shawn Achor about what makes us happy. There have been a lot of changes in our school/district, not all of which have been well received by the students. I thought this video would be a chance for the students to get refocused on the important things in their life.
This discussion was intense! I decided to try a new system and had the students write down their comments on post-it notes and stick them to their faces whenever they had something to say. We have a tendency to get very passionate and talk over each other so this was a way for us to stay organized and keep track of our next comments. Students had 3 and 4 notes stuck to their face, they are standing on desks trying to be recognized next. Two girls who are best friends got into a huge argument over the ability to have selfless acts. It was amazing!!! I have never seen students debate so adamantly before over something that was, in reality, so trivial.
3. Change the way people treat each other.
4. Create a bonded community.
5. Make a change in ourselves.
6. Do something that other schools don't.
7. Provide a forum for unique ideas that have nothing to do with what happens in the classroom.
8. Put ideas into action.
9. Bring our ideas to younger kids.
In all the years I have been an advisor, I have never seen a group of students so excited at a meeting. I can't wait until next week's meeting and I wish it wasn't only 30 minutes long.
This entry was posted in engaging students, student centered, student choice, TED Ed Club on October 24, 2013 by DaretoChem.
While reading Teacher Man, Frank McCourt makes the comment "Keep kids busy or they might start thinking." He is talking about how too many teachers are just assigning work, yet they have little meaning for the students and rarely makes them think.
I had a conversation with a former supervisor over mandating summer assignments in all Honors science classes. The reason he gave me was: 1) we need to reduce the number of students who are dropping out of the honors program after school starts; this will hopefully scare a few of them off, 2) we need to provide assignments that keep the kids busy for the summer, and 3) we need to eliminate the summer slide that so many of them experience. You can imagine my reaction.
Now, I am not opposed to summer assignments, but the kids need to find meaning in them. Give them articles to read and perform research on or give them experiments to do in their kitchen so they can explain the science behind them (or food is always a great experiment) or let them pick their own book to read to demonstrate their understanding of theme or character development. Don't give them copies of a textbook (which is what came out of my colleagues) and have them mindlessly complete exercises. If the teachers don't want to grade it because it is so boring, what makes you think the students will want to do it?
One of my goals this year (a formal list will be coming later this week) is to have the students develop 1 assignment in each unit. I will give them the requirements and the learning objectives and let them run with it. If one of my classroom rules is going to be "Think Critically" then I need to give my students the opportunity to do so.
This entry was posted in critical thinking, student choice, Teacher Man on September 5, 2011 by DaretoChem.


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Jurassic Park (film)
University of California Press. The first installment in the Jurassic Park franchise, it is based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton and a screenplay written by Crichton and David Koepp.
Jurassic Park's biggest impact on subsequent films was a result of its computer-generated visual effects. Most of the park's electric fences are deactivated, allowing the Tyrannosaurus rex to escape and attack the group. Johnston also said the film would take the franchise into a new trilogy.
When Ray goes missing, Ellie goes to finish the rebooting process. Malcolm scoffs at the idea, saying it will inevitably break down. The review praised the film's score as well as Pratt and Howard's performances. It was also the second-highest-grossing film of and the highest-grossing in the franchise.
They also took mime classes to aid in understanding movements. Jurassic Park video games. After most of the unit is wiped out, Claire orders the evacuation of the island's northern sector.
The only reason they'd go back to that island is if the screenwriters contrived a reason for them to go. While exploring the park in a vehicle, Zach and Gray enter a restricted area. Owen warns Claire the Indominus lacks social skills, making it more dangerous and unpredictable. He also said the events depicted in the film's predecessors are still canon in the film series.
But there were a couple of concepts that he wanted to keep. Jurassic Park became the highest-grossing film released worldwide up to that time. Grant concludes the dinosaurs have been breeding.
Overwhelmed, the Indominus is cornered at the lagoon's edge, where the Mosasaurus drags it underwater. After the enormous success of the film, Spielberg asked Crichton to write a sequel novel, leading to the book The Lost World. Most of the dinosaurs fail to appear and the group encounters a sick Triceratops.
The script focused mostly on the efforts of Harris and a team of experts as they train the dinosaurs. The other part he was considering for me was substantially larger, but I won't go into any details in case I make Steven angry laughs. Best Sound Editing and Mixing.
The Incredible Shrinking Man. Spielberg again produced, with Colin Trevorrow directing a script he wrote with Derek Connolly. Additionally, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Buffett cameo as themselves. Deadline Hollywood Penske Media Corporation. Sattler is attacked by a raptor and discovers Arnold's severed arm.
Characters by Michael Crichton. The New York Times Company. Trevorrow had a brainwave of his own. There were a lot of things I loved about it. Johns Hopkins University Press.
When the park's power turns back on, Tim gets shocked by the fence and gets hurt. It is cut short as a tropical storm approaches Isla Nublar. Frank Marshall Patrick Crowley. Navy veteran and ethologist Owen Grady has been training and researching four Velociraptors. At first, they are confused, since the dinosaurs are all female, and eggs can't be laid unless there is a male dinosaur involved.
Actors were aided by cardboard cut-outs and tennis balls on sticks, all of which represented the creatures that would later be added into the film. Jackson was to film a lengthy death scene where his character is chased and killed by raptors, but the set was destroyed by Hurricane Iniki. Two scenes from the book were ultimately excised. This forced Stan Winston's crew to dry the model with shammys between takes.
We're surrounded by wonder and yet we want more, and we want it bigger, faster, louder, better. University of Texas Press. There, billionaire philanthropist John Hammond and a small team of genetic scientists have created a wildlife park of de-extinct dinosaurs. Along with a mathematician named Ian Malcolm and a lawyer named Donald Gennaro, they go to the park and see a few dinosaurs, like Brachiosaurus.
Crichton and co-screenwriter David Koepp have flattened them into nonentities on the trip from page to screen. John Neufeld and Alexander Courage provided the score's orchestrations.
It's going to be different. Instead Spielberg sought the best effects supervisors in Hollywood. Czech Film and Television Academy. The Burlington Free Press.
Jurassic Park isn't about the bad luck of three people who keep getting thrown into the same situation. The music that plays in the movie was composed by John Williams. At the time, Jurassic Park had made more money than any other movie. Many people praised the movie's special effects and music.
He continued to wrestle with his fascination with dinosaurs and cloning until he began writing the novel Jurassic Park. In the draft, the remains are stolen by a corporation with malicious intentions, leading the paleontologist and her two sons to visit Jurassic Park. Jurassic World was also shot in Louisiana to take advantage of the state's tax incentives, wwe smack pain game making it the first film in the series not to be shot at studios in Los Angeles.
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"Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection." – Ludwig Bemelmans
I think I'm going to miss the butter most of all.
Because this was no ordinary butter. No, this was a smooth, oblong, silky obelisk the size of a football, stood on end on its own trolley, waiting to be shaved and savored to your heart's content throughout the meal.
Bordier butter it was, and we shall not see its like again. Not in a Vegas restaurant; not in my lifetime anyway.
The irony of me missing the butter most of all should not be lost on you, since the chefs did precious little to prepare the soft, spreadable, sunshine yellow sculpture for your table. It probably represented the least amount of work, skill, and creativity of anything on the menu at Joël Robuchon. But it also represented a level of sublime decadence and luxury unseen in these parts before Robuchon planted his very very French flag here in 2005.
And now it is gone. No one has announced its permanent exit from Vegas — the suits running the show are too crafty for that. They will keep everyone in suspense, hoping against hope that Las Vegas will return to its former glory and slabs of sunshine yellow, smooth as silk, milk fat will once again magically appear at your table .
But our best guess is the butter, like the Robuchon restaurants, have departed, never to return.
Have I been told this by someone? Yes and no. Some employees of the restaurants were given their walking papers back in September, and asked not to make a big deal about it. Will the MGM announce that JR is gone for good? Not anytime soon, even if the decision has already been made. Good luck with that, MGM!
Is there a scenario whereby, a year or two from now, a set of circumstances will come together to re-open one of the best restaurants in the world because Vegas has rebounded so much that gastro-tourists and high-rollers are (once again) clamoring to eat at the mega-expensive, namesake restaurant of a chef who died two years ago? Yeah….but don't bet on it.
If a Robuchon restaurant is resuscitated, it will most likely be L'Atelier (above) — a more modest link in the JR chain, and certainly an easier one to re-attach. So many more of our temples of gastronomy will soon suffer the same fate. But more on them in a moment.
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I was once married to a gal who had once (in the 1970s) been married to a Vegas casino executive. She told me tales laced with incredulity about how hotels would decide their restaurant lineups back in those leisurely leisure suit days. Everything was fungible; nothing but the coffee shop was sacred. In the blink of an eye and snap of the fingers, an under-performing Italian might be plowed under for a tiki lounge; or some bigwig's wife would get a craving for kung pao chicken and pow! — in a matter of weeks, in would come a Chinese eatery.
Casino money back then was spent fast and loose; restaurants were amenities; they had to be good, but they didn't have to be important.
Sometime in the early 21st Century, the restaurants here started to be important. Important to tourists, high-rollers, the reputation of Las Vegas and the bottom line. With importance came quality (Robuchon, Savoy, Gagnaire, Boulud, Andrés, Batali…), with quality came pressure to succeed, and maintain that success. In retrospect, it is a wonder we sustained it for so long.
Back in the day, this storm would've been weathered much more easily. International reputations and 30 page licensing/profit-sharing deals weren't part of the equation. There were no public relations minefields to navigate, nor the gaze of the food world to deflect. Eating out wasn't entertainment, it was something you did when you weren't home to stay alive.
Opening and closing casino restaurants was no big deal in 1980. There were no prying eyes or oversized egos to contend with. All you had to do was keep the gamblers happy.
Closing restaurants in the early months of 2021 is going to be a very big deal for Las Vegas. It will signify a sea change in how we eat and how the world perceives us. Like old rock stars, some of the "name brands" will hang around, cycling through their old hits, but one by one, they will slowly be put out to pasture.
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(Mon. Bordier with his beauteous beurre)
Back to the butter. It was glorious: rich, fresh, deeply creamy, sweet — like no butter Vegas had ever tasted. In summer it had a savory lilt; in winter, a sweeter one.
Waiters in fine French restaurants talk about such things: such things as butter that takes days to make and is delivered in 50 kilo sizes to the most expensive restaurants in the world so people can swoon over ivory-yellow towers of football-sized thickened, cultured cream to slathered on the best baked goods in the business….or just eaten with a spoon, which is what I did.
The butter was only the beginning at Joël Robuchon. After it, the courses cascaded down, one after one, until the the food and wine and service converged into a single gestalt of gustatory perfection. Food so perfect it would take your breath away. A meal so special only a handful in the world could compete with it.
Las Vegas did not get these restaurants and their fancy butters because we were a town of appreciative gourmets. We got them because for thirty years the world treated us as its playground, servicing all of its seven sins, ready to serve a clientele flush with cash and eager to part with it.
They stood like beacons to the hungry and starstruck once — these outposts of Puck, Lagasse, Flay, Trotter, Maccioni, Mina, Ramsay, the Michelin stars, the gastronomic gods — like nowhere else on earth, crammed together, right in our own backyard.
But no more. Those days are gone with the wind. The winds of change, of Covid, of a recovery that will take years. This will not be like the Great Recession of 2008-2012. Then, people retained their hunger for Vegas, their yearning for sin, their eagerness to unleash their ids in defeat of all superegos. All they lacked back then was equity, or corporate expense accounts — the two things our economy relied on to keep the hotels full. But all of those were in reserve waiting to be unleashed when the economy loosened up. And loosen up it did. And Vegas came roaring back stronger than ever. Until 2020 hit.
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Somehow the butter — from French cows that traveled 6,000 miles to be here — represents all that we have lost. Of course, neither it nor the meals it preceded were for everyone: How many people don't blink at spending $500/pp on dinner? We're talking rarefied air here, something even the most dedicated, well-heeled fresser might only indulge in occasionally. (No one appreciates fine French more than yours truly, but even in my haughtiest, haute cuisine heyday, too many supercilious meals in a row would have me craving a burger or pizza.)
But the Robuchons, Savoys, Minas, Ducasses and Maccionis represented something that transcended their super swanky settings: they meant Las Vegas had arrived on the big kitchen stage and deserved to be there.
Now the stage will shrink and with it, our reputation. This isn't the 80s: we can't just throw up another in-house concept and keep the customers satisfied.
Fifty years ago, a gambler didn't care who the cook was; neither he nor his wife gave a hoot who was tossing the pasta at the Desert Inn. The only chef any of them could name was probably Chef Boy-Ar-Dee.
And then we became known for such things: for outposts of celebrities we had seen cooking on TV; for the stars who were then gracing the covers of food magazines, appearing on cooking contests, hobnobbing with the cool kids. From anonymity to superstardom in 30 years — it happened to chefs, and it happened to Las Vegas's food scene, almost on parallel tracks. And it all culminated with that tower of butter in a 40-seat jewel box tucked into a corner of a mega-casino: ruining us forever for other luxury meals — because everything looks like a valley once you've been to the mountaintop.
There will always be a place for super-posh ultra-refined dining. The best-of-everything crowd will demand it, and world capitals like Paris, London, New York and Tokyo will provide it. And for a glorious quarter-century, so did a tacky tourist town in the middle of the High Mojave Desert.
Culinary reputations aren't built solely upon ethereal ingredients, intensive care service, and wallet-bending meals fit for a king. But remove that level of excellence and what continues will be barely an echo of a time when the world took us seriously, we seemed to have it all, and we could boast of being among the best.
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The following represented our gastronomic scene at its peak. These were the important ones; the ones that put Las Vegas on the map. A few will make it; most won't. (My crystal ball tells me the Vegas of 2030 will resemble Branson, Missouri more than an ersatz Paris.)
Restaurant Guy Savoy (Against all odds, has reopened and is thriving; I'd eat here weekly if my bank account and waistline would let me.)
Le Cirque (If you think I'm sad about Joël Robuchon….)
Michael Mina (Has always been an underrated gem.)
Jaleo (Still sets the Spanish standard.)
'e' by José Andrés (Amazingly, has also re-opened. Having only 8 seats helps.)
CUT (Packed five nights a week.)
Emeril's (Still busy; still good; still a bitch to get to.)
Bazaar Meat (Steakhouses will be the only survivors of the coming gastronomic genocide.)
Spago ( Spago 2.0 has scaled back its ambitions and is still solid, if unspectacular.)
Twist by Pierre Gagnaire ("Temporarily Closed," but they're not fooling anyone. I was told it was on the chopping block two years ago.)
L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon (see above)
Joël Robuchon (see above)
Picasso (For its first decade, as pitch-perfect as a restaurant can be. For its second, a little stale. Those paintings though.)
Bartolotta Ristorante di Mare (Still doesn't get enough credit for the excellence it brought to our burg.)
ALEX (Spectacular, but in so many ways, destined for failure.)
Aureole (Lost its fastball after five years and never recovered its form.)
Bradley Ogden (Was like one of those ensemble movies where the young cast all go on to be big stars. Amazing talent; incredible food. A shooting star.)
Carnevino (If only Mario could've kept his dick in his pants. I know Mario, it's hard when you're a sex symbol.)
Circo (I treated it like a private club in its early years; Vegas will never again taste Tuscan this good.)
Boulud Brasserie (The original in the Wynn was something special….for about 3 years.)
miX (Ditto, just substitute Mandalay Bay for Wynn in the above sentence.)
B & B Ristorante (Best. Pastas. Ever.)
Valentino (Terrible layout; wonderful wine; never got the traction it deserved, despite awards and accolades.)
Spago (The original; the granddaddy; the restaurant that started our revolution. )
Fleur de Lys (One of the most beautiful restaurants anywhere….until Mandalay Bay ruined it.)
Mesa Grill (Yes, Mesa Grill. You're welcome, Bobby.)
RM Seafood (Along with Bartolotta, Rick Moonen brought heavyweight chops to our shores, and made us take seafood seriously.)
Charlie Trotter (Charlie was too early ('94) and too late ('o9) to the Las Vegas restaurant party.)
Coyote Cafe (Was too good for Vegas's knuckle-dragging hordes. Too authentically southwestern; too spicy; too excellent. The Food Gal® and I had our first kiss at this bar. Sigh.)
Sage (Like Fleur de Lys, an eye-popping design with food to match.)
Napa (Jean-Louis Palladin's last stand)
Renoir (Alex Stratta's first Vegas foray)
Vetri (Gone for good, but its progeny – Osteria Fiorella – is packing them in at Red Rock, for good reason.)
…and a few I've probably missed.
Las Vegas Battles Lethargy
(Costa di Mare)
Nobody knows anything. – William Goldman
Trying to take the temperature of where we are and where we're going is a fruitless exercise. No one knows the answers; everyone has their fingers crossed.
During a recent conversation with a local magazine editor, I was at a loss when asked what I wanted to write about. The "new normal" is anything but. Hotels and restaurants have opened seeking to reestablish themselves, but no one knows how sustainable these operations can be over the long haul, especially when seating is restricted and probably a quarter of your (former) customers are too scared to dine out.
The Strip has rolled the dice and opened its doors: chugging along at a quarter speed with no conventions in the foreseeable future and the slowest time of the year staring it in the face. People are showing up, but nowhere near in the numbers for which these places were designed.
No one has any idea what the demand for Las Vegas is going to be. Nobody knows anything. Everyone's in the dark. Demand for beds, booze, or breakfast — it's anyone's guess what it'll be: next week, next month, or in November for that matter..
Because we're all flying blind, no one can plan anything. Everyone is in survival mode, on and off the Strip. Restaurants designed to turn hundreds of covers a night are making do with a fraction of their capacity — like a Formula One racer puttering around and conserving fuel on a go-kart track. Tiny 40 seat Japanese gems like Hiroyoshi and Yui Edomae Sushi are confined to twelve diners at a time.
If you thought we had a tedious, interminable Spring, the next eight weeks are going to be brutal.
(ELIO es magnifico!)
Even in places that are open, something very key to every restaurant's survival is missing. The key to everyone's survival — un-quantifiable but essential nonetheless. We're not talking tables, turnover or customers. We're not even speaking of service, aliments or alcohol.
No, we're talking about energy. The Big E, the thing every business needs to succeed. It doesn't matter what business, if you don't bring energy to what you do, you won't be doing it for long.
Restaurants derive energy from two places: their patrons and their staff. Both feed off of each other, literally and figuratively.
Small places like ShangHai Taste exude energy (or at least they did) from the moment you enter. It comes from customers eagerly awaiting their seats, and from the chefs furiously rolling, pinching and steaming your xiao long bao for scores of hungry stomachs.
When it's firing on all cylinders, a huge restaurant like Mott 32 crackles from the minute you hit the gangplank. Bazaar Meat and Cut smell of beef, testosterone, and money; Restaurant Guy Savoy of French perfection.
Even a homey neighborhood joint like Jamie Tran's Black Sheep has (or used to have) an electricity about it when you walked in the door — a palpable sense of people enjoying themselves. Energy, conviviality, and excitement are what made Esther's Kitchen a hit from the get-go.
Now, they've lost it. All of them. Vitality has been replaced by defensiveness — an almost apologetic feeling in the air permeating these rooms and everyone in them.
The feeling is the same from the our most expensive to our most modest eateries, and it isn't a pretty sight, even if the food remains as tasty as ever.
Diners are on the defensive. They are out and about at great risk, they are told, and they're being policed by self-righteous, finger-waggers — emboldened by media, government, and public health officials — who've deputized them (they think) to tell the rest of us how to behave. The restaurants themselves live in fear of being outed for the smallest health infraction; their customers are less fearful, but ever vigilant, lest they be thought of as not properly protecting themselves or those around them.
Needless to say, none of this is a recipe for success.
But undaunted, we persevere. Eating out more than anyone, trying to gauge the temperature of our hospitality industry every week. Since good lunches are problematic downtown, and the hotels have reduced options and hours, we're picking our spots
The following are the places I've eaten since the the quarantine was lifted in early June. As usual, all places come highly recommended.
The (short) List:
Against all odds, Caesars Palace decided to reopen one of America's fanciest and most expensive restaurants. Like most higher-end joints, it's only serving four nights a week (Wed.-Sat.), and multiple compromises have been made in the way they serve things. The bread cart is now for show only, silverware comes wrapped in paper, and the (smaller) cheese selection is one step removed from a Tupperware party.
(Pretty cheesy if you ask me)
That said, Exec Chef Nicolas Costagliola continues to execute the Guy Savoy canon with delicious precision, the service never misses a beat, and you won't find any better duck, veal, fish, vegetables, and desserts anywhere. With its already limited competition being laid low on both coasts, there is no better big deal meal in America right now. In fact, it may be the only big deal meal in America right now.
(You won't turnip your nose at these)
Another surprise. Straight from Mexico City by way of New York City. On every gastronaut's radar, even though it's only open Thurs.-Sun.. Wonderful bar, mescal tasting room, molés out the wazoo, and modern Mexican food like Vegas has never seen before. Most of the food gobsmacked us, but we want/need a second round before letting our opinions gel. Be advised though: they take no prisoners with strong flavors and it is pricey — some of the vegetable dishes are priced from in the mid-twenties….for turnips (above).
(John Dory at Costa di Mare)
Dramatic setting, dramatic seafood. We wrote this place off several years ago after two mediocre meals. But to the Wynn's credit (as well as Chef Mark LoRusso and GM Ivo Angelov), it has arisen from the quarantine ashes and recaptured some of the old Bartolotta Ristorante di Mare mojo. The Food Gal® (aka my wife) can't wait to go back. Neither can I.
Bazaar Meat by José Andrés
At this point, I don't think it's possible to have a bad meal at Bazaar Meat, or even a bad bite. Totally hit the ground running and tastes as wonderful as ever. The only thing that feels strange are the socially-distanced empty tables. As a steakhouse, however, it remains a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside the enigma which is the new-old Sahara hotel.
ShangHai Taste
One of those mom and pop places struggling with reduced seating. Acclaim-worthy xiao long bao, noodles and spareribs were a hit from day one….the Covid hit. Now, the once-mobbed, spanking-new Shanghai Plaza is a shadow of its once-bustling self. All Chef Jimmy Li can do is hang on and hope.
Oodle Noodle
Oodles of udon. Healthy bowls of Japanese goodness and super-foods like seaweed salad. If you're looking for a tasty, economical lunch with wellness-giving properties, look no further.
DE Thai
We had one of our best meals ever here for lunch the other day. Small but mighty terrific Thai.
Other Notables — Where you should be eating now:
8oz Korean Steakhouse
Pho So 1
Yui Edomae Sushi
Lamaii
Cucina by Wolfgang Puck
7th & Carson
Kaiseki Yuzu
Player's Locker by Wolfgang Puck
Monzú Italian Oven + Bar
Esther's Kitchen
The Black Sheep
EDO Gastro Tapas & Wine
Saga Pastry + Sandwich
Oscar's Steakhouse
Allegro at Wynn
(Keep calm and carrot on at ELIO)
The Covid Diaries – Vol. 11 – Survivors
Day 69, May 24 – Who Will Survive?
This will be our last "Covid Diaries" post.
Where we go from here, no one knows, least of all the person typing these words.
Life is returning to normal in Las Vegas; restaurants are re-opening; and we've spent the last two weeks plowing through a bunch of them.
And by "plowing through them" we mean spending beaucoup bucks in support thereof.
(Did you mezze me? Oh yes we did, Khoury's)
As of today, the Strip and all major hotels remain closed, so downtown and the neighborhoods have been where we've concentrated. Even when it opens, most hotels will be running at very low occupancy rates, with only a handful of restaurants being re-booted.
The Wynncore has announced five of its venues will resume operations on May 29, but other hotels aren't showing their cards just yet.
Steakhouses will lead the way in every hotel, with buffets nowhere to be found for the time being.
Here's the list of places we've hit lately in the order we've hit them since the quarantine lifted:
La Maison de Maggie
Japaneiro
Khoury's
Edo Tapas and Wine
The Real Crepe
Pizzeria Monzù
And right there, you have the beginnings of the next edition of EATING LAS VEGAS – The 52 Essential Restaurants 2020. (More on this below.)
Twice we've been to the Capital Grille and 7th & Carson, and the cooking at both has blown us away. Even those serving truncated menus in smaller dining rooms are working extra hard. Don't think for one second that every restaurant in town won't be busting its ass for months to come, whether it's a creperie, a Middle Eastern standard, or high-falutin' gastopub,
You'll see the same thing on the Strip when it reopens. Every cook, every waiter, every bottle-washer will be on their game. They're in survival mode now and they know it, and the only way to prevail is to impress every customer so much they will want to come back — and dazzle them so much they'll tell all their friends to go there — even if everyone looks pretty ridiculous in all those masks.
(Brunch, sans mask, at 7th & Carson)
So, you might say in some perverse way that this shutdown will be a boon for restaurant goers.
But it won't be for restaurant writers.
With the end of phoning it in (Hello, Giada!), indifferent cooking, and poor service (at least for the time being) comes the lack of raison d'etre for a critic to be in the game.
The idea of criticizing a restaurant — even well-financed, over-hyped, under-performing Strip restaurants — will not fit the current zeitgeist of everyone hanging on for dear life.
Entire hotels are being phased out, and in the ones that remain, nothing is certain until the casinos can gauge the level of returning tourism. This could take a year…or longer.
Our gubenator thinks Las Vegas won't get back to where it was until a vaccine can be found. Experts are saying this could be years away.
As a local, I've always hated going to the Strip on weekends or when huge conventions were in town, but now, the idea of wandering around Aria or Caesars Palace when it's only 30% full seems kind of creepy.
We're also mindful of the fact that once the shutdown began, our book became more artifact than all-encompassing.
With this in mind, we at #BeingJohnCurtas have been doing some thought experiments in our heads, trying to guess which of our 52 favorites (and others) will survive the #coronapocalypse.
So, for shits and giggles, we're going to list all 52 of our "essential" Las Vegas restaurants, along with a rating of chances for survival (or eventual resuscitation).
Here's how we've rated the restaurants:
4 **** – a cinch to reopen (or has already reopened).
3 *** – on the bubble, but corks could be popped, sooner or later.
2 ** – outlook is drearier than a Golden Corral steak.
1 * – put a fork in them, they're done.
As always, these opinions are worth exactly what you paid for them.
(Black rice/oxtail risotto at Carson Kitchen)
Chances for survival: good to great. Downtown's popularity and loyal customers will see to that.
Future outlook: Rosy. Good Chinese food (even bad Chinese food) could survive a nuclear winter.
This is a tougher call. How Chinatown reacts to the shrinking economy will be interesting to watch.
Edo Gastro Tapas
Small and agile, with a passionate fan base.
It will thrive….IF it can find a new location
It came roaring back a week ago. Already, reservations are harder to get than a PPP loan.
Ferraro's
I have a dream that in the year 2065, long after Gino Ferraro and I have departed this mortal vale, he will still be complaining about his overhead and offering me a sip of Chianti.
Will there still be a market for ultra-refined, high-end sushi once this cloud lifts? Only time will tell.
Another tiny gem now threatened by a looming recession/depression. All I know is I'm going to eat here as often as I can as long as Kaoru-san is cooking.
Our best Lebanese restaurant hit the ground running and won't look back.
(Al fresco tables – only for the sober – at Marche Bacchus)
Even with its new table-spacing, none of the charm has been lost and some has been gained (see above).
Incendiary Thai + killer wine list = a long list of food and wine professionals who treat this place like a private club.
Will they re-open both locations or just one? Either way, they'll be packed.
Mordeo Boutique Wine Bar
Was on its way to becoming a must-stop for serious winos and foodies. Can it re-capture its mojo?
Ohlala French Bistro
Another tiny neighborhood gem. If the landlord cooperates, Chef Richard Terzaghi will be in great shape.
Pamplona Cocktails & Tapas
I love this place, but it's location was challenging even during a boom economy.
The well-spaced tables and booths here will need very little adjustment to comply with "social distancing" regulations. The food needs no improvement.
Believe it or not, it's better than ever.
Other Mama
An industry watering hole that has succeeded against all odds. For that reason alone, I'm not worried about it.
Raku & Sweets Raku
Like Lotus, one of our most famous restaurants. It's worldwide reputation and customers constantly clamoring for a table will sustain it.
Brian Howard is set to re-open as we type this — how he re-sets his menu will be most interesting to watch
Jamie Tran has a small, nimble restaurant with a minuscule kitchen, and a large following. But the location gives us pause. Fingers are crossed.
Weera Thai Kitchen
Won't miss a beat.
Here's where things get trickier. Timing, tourists, and multiple tabulations control the fate of (most of) these places. Being on the cusp of summer doesn't help matters, either. My guess is that each has a strong enough following (and is a critical part of a hotel's F&B program) not to be considered a good candidate for reopening sooner than later.
Management has told us they may not reopen until after Labor Day. This might be a smart move since summertime is bargain-hunting-time in Vegas, and the Cipriani brand does not appeal to the 2-for-1 crowd.
Steakhouses will lead the way when high-end restaurants re-open, and there's not a more famous one in town.
Aria will no doubt cut back on its strong lineup of top-shelf eateries; either Carbone or Bardot will get the boot, and we're betting it will be the former.
Along with CUT, our most famous steakhouse. Between the re-branding of the Sahara and the re-booting of everything, it's bounty of beef and seafood may not fit the current mood. Personally, I wish it would re-locate to a hotel more befitting its brand and quality.
Jaleo is a big, multi-faceted, expensive operation. What might save it is a flexible menu which appeals to multiple price points. Plus, José Andrés may be the only surviving celebrity chef with a big following when this is all over. Several sources have told us "Julian Serrano" (its tapas competition in the Aria) has pitched its last paella.
The Bellagio without Le Cirque is like Disneyland without the mouse.
The location alone will keep it alive.
Rooster Boy Cafe
Such a gem. So tiny. So perfect. My fear is Sonia El-Nawal may find catering more profitable than table service. And who could blame her?
My favorite sushi spot. Waiting with bated breath for them to start slicing again.
Here's where a higher level of pessimism kicks in.
Expensive French bistro in this climate? I just don't see it happening, but god I hope I'm wrong.
The aspirational, 30- and 40-somethings who have coveted a reservation here for nine years are the same ninnies who are cowering in fear of coronavirus. Having to sit within three feet of fellow diners is the type of stress their snowflake brains can't handle.
I'm hearing rumors they might be moving. I'm not hearing anything about The Cosmo's re-opening plans. Neither is a good sign.
Hatsumi
The seating is naturally "social-distanced" (at least in the booths), but Dan Krohmer's going to have his hands full with Other Mama.
Again….high end French comes back? I just don't see it.
Matteo's Ristorante Italiano
A real sleeper in the Venetian that serves incredible pasta. Having to compete with 40 other restaurants (6 of which are Italian) might be too much to ask.
Will top-notch hotels need multiple "fine dining" venues? My heart wants MM to stay, but my head tells me his restaurant group is in for a thinning.
No conventions. No Asian tourists. No more superb Peking duck.
Great cooking, but a tough sell in the best of times.
* Put a fork in them, they're done…
Mabel's BBQ
More done than a twelve-hour brisket.
I'm weeping as I write these words, but I think I'm going to have to go to Paris to eat Guy's food again.
Joël Robuchon
On any given night, the best restaurant in America. Certainly in the top 5. But it's a big deal meal restaurant, perhaps the biggest, and too many of its customers are not coming back to Vegas in the foreseeable future.
Was already on the ropes.
The Kitchen at Atomic
Vetri Cucina
We love Marc Vetri, and he tried to put a game face on things, but announcing "we won't be opening this year, maybe in 2021" is the same as saying we're history.
The only type of food more endangered than high-end French in Las Vegas is high-end Asian.
My hearts weeps for each of these uncertain futures, and I hope I am wrong about all of them.
No matter who opens, the reopening will be the easy part. Staying open in a depressed economy is going to be the real struggle, and who is still in business a year from now is anyone's guess.
One thing is certain though: there won't be any new restaurants opening on the Strip for many, many months to come. You have a better chance of catching me at a Garth Brooks concert than you will of seeing any new concepts springing up in 2020.
Which brings us back to our book. If we do one, it'll be probably be so stuffed with neighborhood eateries that it'll be more useful as a local's guide than something for tourists. At this point, that might be its final legacy.
Anything we can do to help the restaurant industry bounce back from this idiotic, force-fed oblivion, the better. And if that means forgetting about the big hotels until they've had time to re-adjust, that's what we'll do.
I don't know if our local food scene can sustain itself without all those Strip dollars being pumped into our economy, but we're about to find out.
Life was so much easier when all we had to do was compare the Dover sole presentations.
(Social distance dining at Edo)


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HK$120,000 will go to the winners, with the runners-up getting HK$60,000. The two other losing semi-finalists will each receive HK$30,000, with the six remaining teams getting HK$15,000 each. Players will also be rewarded for their performances, with the best under-22 player from each team winning HK$3,000. The best of the best will earn an additional HK$5,000.

The current Sapling Cup holder is Eastern.

Competition name and Rules

Finals

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Results

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Performance by clubs

See also
The Hong Kong Football Association
Hong Kong Premier League

References

External links
FA Cup, The Hong Kong Football Association website.
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Team driver "Tokan" is invited to participate in Drift Grand Prix 2013, Chile. First competition is due in May, together with drivers from all over the world. We will keep you updated!
Team driver "Tokan" is invited to participate in Drift Grand Prix 2013, Chile.
First competition is due in May, together with drivers from all over the world.


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I'm not really understanding the problem.
If you're talking about Take Command tab windows (and not TCC standalone windows), just drag the TCMD window to the size you want. It will be remembered for subsequent sessions.


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Well, we told you we'd be doing plenty of work once summer began and we've already got a new video for you. Yes, we shot it just yesterday, when we found our camera hidden behind some books in our library. It is so big, we frequently lose things in it. Anyway, the video consists of Kate doing some arts and crafts featuring scissors and a pair of yellow Crocs. We hope you like it and we also hope you will like the next few videos we have planned.
Get the word out, Croc-Blockers. Our time is nigh!
A plague of biblical proportions.
With the warmer weather becoming more and more apparent in our corner of the globe, Vincenzo has been urging me out of the dark, cavernous recesses of the manor. Summer is upon us at last, and he can no longer do it alone. The menace is back, with a vengeance.
Just when we had begun to hope that the ravages of cold and time would put to rest this ungodly fad, they get corporate sponsorship. I was absolutely horrified today, upon visiting the local Shoppe-Mall to pick up some food for the horses, to find Crocs with Mickey-Mouse stamped holes in them. You, too, can have a conglomerate icon sunburnt onto your feet. The horror!
Not only that, but I saw them in nearly every store. I saw imitations in stores catered to children too young to fight back. I saw knock-offs in shoe stores, racks upon racks towering over unsuspecting customers. Like cockroaches crawling out from beneath the ruin of the apocalypse, Crocs are back, and the slaughter of acceptable footwear must be stemmed.
It's time to step up and fight. Summer is here.
Peter Barlow from Coronation Street says no to Crocs - so can you!
The weather is getting warmer and warmer. Yesterday, I didn't wear my jacket and instead of taking our heated, chauffeured car to town, Kate and I walked. It was very pleasant, though we both know that with the new warmth, Crocs have returned.
A friend of mine recently visited my house.