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Joining a growing trend, Boulder Chamber Orchestra plans return to the stage
2021-22 season will celebrate heroes and mourn victims of the past year
By Peter Alexander June 25 at 5:24 p.m.
Bahman Saless, music director of the Boulder Chamber Orchestra (BCO), can hardly wait to get back in front of a live audience
Bahman Saless and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra.
"Oh my god yes, I'm dying!" he says.
The BCO recently announced their 2021–22 season, which will feature a mix of orchestra concerts and mini-chamber concerts through the coming year—very much the pattern of previous seasons. "People want to feel that normalcy is back, and that was the whole plan," Saless says. "We haven't gone anywhere, we're here, and we're going to have a super season!"
For those who prefer to retain some social distancing in public situations, Saless points out that the current location of most of their concerts, Boulder's Seventh-Day Adventist Church, had a large space that does not usually sell out.
"We never filled all the seats, because Seventh Day Adventist is pretty big." He says. "I think the same number of people will want to come back, in which case they would still be OK. They could occupy the entire place, sitting every other seat. We're all crossing our fingers that things will get even better and they will get back to normal by October. I'm pretty confident we should be OK."
Saless says the programs were chosen to fit the timing, of opening up again after a pandemic. "We're going to celebrate heroes, the people that were in the front line with COVID," he says. "That's the first concert, with the Beethoven "Eroica" (Symphony). And then (we remember) the victims, which is the last concert."
Howard Goodall
The major piece on that closing concert is Eternal Light by British composer Howard Goodall, a piece that Saless says recalls his years in a British boarding school. "I was homesick for so long about English hymn tunes," he says. "When I heard this piece I was like 'Oh my God, this is what I've wanted to do!' I thought it would be very fitting to dedicate that concert to the people who lost their lives to COVID. And it's absolutely gorgeous."
Most of the rest of the season is music that Saless had originally planned for the "lost" season of 2020-21.
A discounted season ticket for the 2021–22 season is available here. You may purchase tickets to the individual concerts by clicking through from that page to the listing of each concert.
Mini-Chamber Concert
Members of the Boulder Chamber Orchestra performing string quintets
Dvorak: String Quintet, Op. 97
Mozart: String Quintet in G Minor, K. 515
8 PM, Sept. 23, 2021, Boulder Seventh-Day Adventist Church
"Celebrating the Heroes": All-Beethoven Concert
Boulder Chamber Orchestra, Bahman Saless, conductor, with
Jennifer Hayghe, piano
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major ("Eroica")
Beethoven: Concerto for Piano No. 4 in G major
7:30 PM, Oct. 23, 2021, Boulder Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Maxime Goulet
"A Gift of Music": Celebrating the Season with BCO Stars
Joey Howe, cello, and Kellan Toohey, clarinet
Maxime Goulet: Symphonic Chocolates
Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
7:30 PM, Dec. 11, Boulder Seventh-Day Adventist Church
"Diversions in History"
Andrew Staupe, piano, and Sam Dusinberre, trumpet
Johann Christian Bach: Concerto for Piano in E-flat
Dimitri Shostakovich: Concerto for Piano No. 1
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings.
7:30 PM, Jan. 29, 2022, Boulder Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Program TBA
Feb. 12, 2022.
"Eternal Light"
Boulder Chorale, directed by Vicki Burrichter
Vladimir Martynov: Come in! (Colorado premiere)
Howard Goodall: Requiem Eternal Light (in memory of the lives lost due to the pandemic; Colorado premiere)
8 PM. April 1, 2022, First United Methodist Church
Andrew Staupe
Bahman Saless
Boulder Chamber Orchestra
Boulder Chorale
Jennifer Hayghe
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Q: JavaFX Layout issue within hbox I want to add an statusbar to my application (the root pane is a vbox and the statusbar is a hbox with a fix height). On this statusbar I have a label with something like "2 processes running". As soon as the mouse hoovers this label, I want to add a Pane above this label with some details about the processes (like IntelliJ or Eclipse).
My problem in the moment is how to create this pane and position this pane above the label.
I create a simple example of my problem

The green area is a StackPane on the root VBox with VGow = Always. The red area is the Hbox with a fix height of 30 pixel. Then I added the yellow VBox the the HBox and put the minHeight to 300.
The problem is, that the yellow area should be above the red area (over the green area) and not outside the window.
What is the best way to achive something like that?
The only way I figured out was using a negative top margin amount (- max/min height). But then the window gets stretched because the yellow pane (or the green bordered pane is not on top of the other elements). The red crossed area shouldn't be there. The green boxed area should be above the other content. Probably I can't use a vbox as my root element?

Update 1
Here is an example - strange thing is, that it is working in this standalone example. But is that the way I should do something like that?
    VBox rootBox = new VBox();
    rootBox.setMaxHeight(500);
    rootBox.setStyle("-fx-background-color: lightgreen");

    StackPane contentPane = new StackPane();
    contentPane.getChildren().add(new Button("Dont click me"));
    contentPane.setStyle("-fx-background-color: lightblue");
    VBox.setVgrow(contentPane, Priority.ALWAYS);

    HBox statusbar = new HBox();
    statusbar.setMinHeight(30);
    statusbar.setMaxHeight(30);
    statusbar.setStyle("-fx-background-color: red");

    VBox processIndicatorBox = new VBox();
    processIndicatorBox.setMinHeight(30);
    processIndicatorBox.setMaxHeight(30);

    HBox.setMargin(processIndicatorBox, new Insets(-300, 0, 0, 0));

    StackPane processListPane = new StackPane();
    processListPane.setStyle("-fx-background-color: yellow");
    processListPane.setMinHeight(300);
    processListPane.setMaxHeight(300);
    processListPane.setMinWidth(150);
    processListPane.setMaxWidth(150);
    processListPane.setVisible(false);

    Label label = new Label("Show processes");
    label.setOnMouseEntered(mouseEvent -> processListPane.setVisible(true));
    label.setOnMouseExited(mouseEvent -> processListPane.setVisible(false));
    processIndicatorBox.getChildren().addAll(processListPane, label);

    statusbar.getChildren().add(processIndicatorBox);

    rootBox.getChildren().addAll(contentPane, statusbar);

    Scene scene = new Scene(rootBox, 600, 500);
    primaryStage.setScene(scene);
    primaryStage.show();

Many greetings
Hauke

A: Did you consider using GridPane? ( https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/javafx/api/javafx/scene/layout/GridPane.html ). Gives you more control to layout elements with different sizes. VBox and HBox are from my experience good when all elements have similar sizes.
Here a pseudo-pseudo code
GridPane grid = new GridPane();

Pane greenBox = new Pane(); //your green box
Pane redBox = new Pane(); //your red box
Pane yellowBox = new Pane(); //your yellow box

// add the panes to the grid pane and define where they are
grid.add(greenBox, 0, 0); set the green box in column 0 and row 0
grid.add(redBox, 0, 1); set the red box in column 0 and row 1
grid.add(yellowBox, 1, 1); set the yellowbox in column 1 and row 1

// size of the boxes
GridPane.setColumnSpan(greenBox,2); //The green box should span over 2 columns
GridPane.setRowSpan(yellowBox,2); //The red box should span over 2 rows

The boxes are now only empty panes, which will have a minimum size without content. Replace the Pane() boxes with the content you want to put in or put the content in the Pane() objects.

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Confession: I've never had shrimp & grits before. So i was even more surprised to be craving it over the holidays. How can you crave something you've never even tasted? I took some liberties that would horrify even Paula Deen with this classic Southern dish and adapted it to my half-Spaniard taste buds using aged manchego instead of cheddar cheese and smoked paprika because it goes so well with sauteed shrimp and bacon.
There seems to be some confusions out there on whether polenta and grits are the same thing. The short answer is no. Corn meal and polenta are both ground corn, the only real difference is in the coarseness of the meal. Grits are ground hominy, and in fact, they are more accurately called hominy grits. Hominy is corn that has been soaked in lye or lime and then dried. It's finally ground into coarse, medium or fine grits, the finer version being masa, the hominy flour that is used to make corn tortillas and tamales.
Like for risotto, making grits takes quick decision making and serious multitasks abilities like being able to reach for your glass of chilled Pouilly-Fuissé with your left hand while stirring the pot with your right hand (Pouilly-Fuissé is not an ingredient in the recipe but if you are the one designated to stand in front of the stove sweating, you might as well do it in style). The best part of it all? It's cheap, quick and has the wow factor of something that has been cooking for hours.
In a medium pot, bring water and milk to a simmer. Add the grits, season with salt and pepper and cook over medium-low heat while stirring until the mixture is smooth and creamy, about 20 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in butter and aged manchego cheese.
Fry the bacon until crisp. Drain on paper towels. In the same pan sautee the shrimp until golden, add the garlic, smoked paprika and lemon juice. Toss in the chopped bacon, parsley and scallions.
Spoon the creamy grits in soup bowls, top with the shrimp and bacon mixture. Shave some manchego over the top.
yum! I've been craving this too… nice!
I have some grits, and was trying to figure out what to make with them. I need look no further. This recipe sounds just delicious!
Love your style. Always a joy to read your blog. And when I'm back in the States, can't wait to cook up some of your dishes that are currently positively mouthwatering by photo and description.
This is the ultimate comfort food, homey and delicious with a touch of sophistication. It's making me hungry!
I love your updated version of Shrimp and Grits! This sounds positively scrumptious!
Looooks amazingly delicious! those succulent looking prawns.. Never had manchego cheese before, how are they like?
OMG all your dishes are soooo beautiful!!!
Ok so now you have FrancoSpanglified Italian food? Someone needs to put you in a head lock till you cry uncle.
Oh no, not a head lock again!
Manchego has the characteristics of sheep's milk cheese of course, well developed but not too strong, quite creamy with a bit of sharpness.
I had shrimp & grits at a wedding in North Carolina, and have been vainly searching for a NYC equivalent ever since. Nothing's come close, but this is beautiful.
Hey, it's a great recipe, but I'll probably just use polenta for my grits. Sorry, you Southerners and wanna be. The paprika and manchego I can do.
Lovely. I'll get my hands on some when I get to the states again!
The problem with grits is that it can be hard to find the non-quick varieties when you're not in the south. Sometimes polenta is your alternative unless you want to go with Quaker instant.
I did actually manage to find some slow-cooking grits and I hope I remember where I bought them before the next time I run out.
Love the idea of using the smoked paprika – gives the dish great color and I am sure a well received pop of flavor – plus, I can't really see how anyone can go wrong with Aged Manchego, for those who haven't used it in cooking, it melts very well. Thanks for the recipe!
Beautiful beautiful! I do crave for food I've never had before, too much foodgawking!
Shrimp and Grits is a dish they serve in heaven, on demand. A southern boy now living in the Pacific Northwest, I make the dish with fresh shelled Dungeness crab and oooooh weeee doggie it's good. It's not crab season yet so for now I'm using shrimp, and not complaining.
it's such a popular Southern dish. I looooooooove me some grits. I'll pass on the shrimp, but such a great combo! You've inspired me to make some, too! Hugs my dear.
This sounds nice! We don't put milk or cheese in our grits (I think that's a Charleston thing) but it may also be why we only have to stir them occasionally. They're still nice & smooth if you start with enough water & cook them a longish time with the lid on & just barely simmering. If you turn off the heat & leave the lid on for a few minutes at the end they will thicken up nicely. I should also point out that not all corn grits are hominy grits – you can find both yellow corn and white corn grits at http://www.lakesidemills.com if your relatives are too low down & no account to put together a care package.
Reading this at midnight and seriously thinking of making it. You will be my undoing. So glad I found your blog.


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Elena Strike - "Blue Blitz"
Elena Strike - "Blue Blitz" Mar 1, 2019 13:58:09 GMT -4 Ailuroremy likes this
Post by Elena Strike on Mar 1, 2019 13:58:09 GMT -4
Hero/Vigilante/Villain alias: Blue Blitz
Player Name: Keiran
Faceclaim/Series: Shinobu / No More Heroes 2
Height: 1.8m (5'11")
Weight: 68kg (155)
Hair/Style: White (bleached from black), styled into a large afro.
Skin/Scars: Medium-Tone Brown. No visible scars.
Eyes: Right Eye - Brown, Left Eye - Blue. Almond-shaped.
Notables: She deliberately styles her hair to cover her left eye, as it appears to flicker like fire at all times. When her Quirk is about to be activated, her left eye will glow strong enough to shine through her bangs. See below for more.
APPEARANCE AND PERSONALITY
Tall, lean, and made of muscle, Elena is quite an appealing young woman. Her features stand out with dark, full lips and large eyes that are usually painted with vibrant reds, violets, and even deep blues; though that's to say nothing about the absolutely brilliant head of white hair she keeps styled in an enormous afro atop her head. It's clear she puts a lot of effort into her appearance. She wants to stand out, wants to be unique...yet, not too unique, as she hides the only part of her that looks distinctly inhuman: her left eye, which glows and flickers like blue flame.
Like that eye, when she manifests her Quirk, Elena becomes a being entirely made of blue fire, burning brightly and brilliantly, her features and figure completely engulfed in flame. In this form it is neigh impossible to recognize Elena at all.
For the most part her fashion sense is as bold as the rest of her appearance; bright, punk-rock style clothes chosen specifically to match with her choice of jewelry, make-up, and heels that give her already impressive height an even higher reach. She stands out on the street, be it for her hair, her fashion, or simply her stature.
✔ Independent, Brave, Energetic, Cheerful
✖ Naive, Impatient, Reactive, Bullheaded
✔ Games of Any Sort, Jewelry, Bad Jokes, Jogging, Uniqueness
✖ Rain, Feeling Inadequate, Silence, Vermin (Bugs, Rodents, Etc.), Cruelty
Elena is something of a mess at this current point in time, emotionally speaking. While she puts a lot of work into maintaining her looks and physical health, she doesn't spare very much time to process her own feelings or consider her well-being.
She's incredibly impatient and cannot sit still for too long without anything to do. Thankfully, "anything to do" can be even small things, such as playing with her phone or a hand-held game system, talking with another person, or listening to music. However take away her little distractions and Elena becomes more than a bit snappy and irate, and will bite the head off of anyone who demands she sit down and sit still for too long. She rushes into danger, too, without any care for herself. Be it something like running through traffic when the light is red to catch a purse-snatcher, or even something small like jumping from one balcony to another instead of using the hallway; Elena is not a rational woman when there's something she wants to do. The quickest route, even if not the safest or smartest, is hers to take.
Past her impatience and lack of better judgment, though, there is a somewhat naive person that sees the world with too much contrast. Evil is evil and good is good, with very little room for in-between. However that only applies to hew own views. Elena burning a thief's hand with her quirk is good, despite it breaking the law, because the thief was stealing from somebody, which is bad. Heroes who save civilians at the cost of a villain escaping are fine, but the best heroes would have stopped the villain at whatever the cost. It's this mindset that keeps Elena from trying to become a legitimate hero; why bother doing what's "good" when she's doing what's "best" for everyone? Despite this, though, Elena would never kill another. She would burn them bad enough to incapacitate, if she had to, but murder is evil.
Elena was born in northern Spain, deep in the heart of a bustling city. Her mother and father were both Quirkless, but not against the Quirker movement. While they were both what many would consider "quiet, respectable people", Elena was more than a handful, and would oftentimes cause trouble at school for her mother or father to have to deal with. She got sent home with notices quite a lot. Still, her parents loved her, and she loved them as much as a child who was always in trouble could. Things shifted, however, when in the spring of her seventh year her arm suddenly burst into bright blue flame. Her teacher did the only reasonable thing and doused her with the fire extinguisher, and after passing out, Elena woke up in the hospital with her terrified parents demanding answers from the doctor.
Elena's Quirk was identified as the ability to transform herself, or parts of herself, into pure flame. Since she was young this could not always be controlled well. Sometimes she would sneeze and her legs from the knee-down would turn into fire, burning through her pants and sneakers and whatever she was sitting on. On more than one occasion she burnt a particularly hard homework assignment by accident--and far more often then those she'd burn them on purpose and say it was an accident. Her parents, though not anti-Quirk, discouraged Elena from using her Quirk at all. Fire was too dangerous for a girl her age. They may have meant well, but their actions began to make a rift between them and Elena that never healed.
After one particular outburst from Elena's Quirk torched another student's arm, her family relocated to a new city closer to the heart of Spain, and a now secondary-school aged Elena was forced to make brand new friends in a new city at an age where everyone is cagey as can be. Fortunately for her she found some; mostly outsiders, troublemakers, and, unsurprisingly, fellow Quirkers who were pushed out of the more accepted social circles. Nobody among them had a Quirk quite as dangerous as Elena's own. Most of them were cosmetic mutations or small, simple emissions. However, due to the incident that caused their move and her parent's growing strictness, Elena herself was not using her Quirk for anything more than tiny tricks and lighting a few illegally bought cigarettes.
For a few years that was just how it was. One of her closer friends, one that had a fish-like mutation and scales all over, asked her often why she didn't use her Quirk for more. She could do so much with it. Perhaps even be a hero, like the vigilantes spoken about on the news. But Elena laughed those ideas off. She didn't want her parents to tighten their hold on her anymore than they were already.
And somewhere deep down she was scared of hurting anyone else, accidental or not.
Then there was a shooting. It was a shock across the news: one of the peaceful pro-Quirk marches in the capital had been fired upon by radicals, killing three but injuring dozens more. Elena had not been in attendance--her parents refused to let her go, despite some of her friends leaving to do so. Among the dead was her friend who'd asked her why she didn't try to be a hero. She'd only been sixteen years old.
Elena's perspective changed overnight. She was no longer scared of hurting people with her Quirk; or rather, she was no longer afraid of hurting those who deserved it. With blind fury she snuck out of her parents home and went to the arrested shooter's home, having taken all the information given out by the news, and burned the place to the ground. Nobody was inside, but the act of arson was still a crime, as was the use of her Quirk to do so. Elena avoided arrest simply by the virtue that her figure, when engulfed in flame, was unrecognizable to any witnesses.
But her parents recognized it.
The fight when her parents confronted Elena was one that woke the neighbors and frightened alley cats. While they threw demands and threats and desperate attempts to get her to understand just how reckless her actions had been, Elena screeched that their forced inaction on her part had left her friend to die. What was she supposed to do? Let the law throw a murderer in jail? He deserved to burn for what he'd done, and without his body to do so to, then his belongings could melt and turn to ash for what he'd done to her friend. Her parents didn't agree. They kept telling her what she'd done was a crime, that she had to go to the police and turn herself in, that it was the only way for her to at least receive a lighter punishment. They didn't understand. How could they, when they were "normal"?
Once again Elena ran away from home, narrowly avoiding pursuit by hiding in one of her other friends' homes, and sleeping under bridges and on the street when they weren't able to hide her. She lived like this until a greater chance for escape presented itself: one of her surviving friends from the protest was leaving for Japan--where his family was from--to escape his own survivors guilt and, hopefully, be safer from future attacks. He helped to hide Elena among his belongings until they were on a boat headed south, and once they were on Japanese soil, she stayed with him for two years in a small apartment paid for by his unaware parents still living back in Spain. In that time she's learned the language and, even without her high school diploma, has managed to get a job as a hostess. It makes decent money.
But of course hosting isn't what she's really doing for a living. Whenever she's not working--or avoiding the police since she has no real visa--she's become the Blue Blitz, a vigilante hero seeking to help others and burn out the evil of the world.
If only it were so simple.
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Last Edit: Jul 14, 2019 14:49:21 GMT -4 by Maya
Elena Strike - "Blue Blitz" Mar 1, 2019 21:04:54 GMT -4
QUIRK INFORMATION
Type: Transformation
Rank: D
Description: Elena's body can turn into literal fire. She can either turn her entire body into flame--which will burn off any clothes she's wearing and, as such, is a bit of a pain--or choose to ignite part of her body, usually her arms up to the elbow. When in this state she can still take physical damage, but she can slowly heal herself as her flames will engulf or regrow wherever or whatever has been harmed. However she cannot hold items or punch people when she's made of flame, and, naturally, anything she touches will burn. Even her footprints, should she be entirely made of flame, will leave scorch-marks on the ground they walk on.
She can turn her fire on and off at will. When she is about to ignite her left eye will glow bright enough to be seen through her bangs. Aside from her eye her Quirk also causes her body temperature to be quite a bit higher than average--only by three degrees or so, but still enough that a worried party may think she's feverish--and, despite her body temperature not being nearly high enough to cause this, drops water will cause her skin to steam. Because of this she despises rain. Drinking water and other liquids does not, thankfully, cause the same effect to happen.
[Burn:] Elena's fire burns at a fairly high temperature, enough that a good "punch" from her will light a campfire ablaze. Wood will be reduced to ash, stone will crack from heat, and metals with a lower melting temperature (such as lead) will slowly turn into liquid at her touch. She can leave a moderately strong burn on a person that lasts two rounds, causing them persistent pain unless they seek medical attention.
[Regeneration:] Elena can heal damage done by physical attacks over a period of time. She can heal small injuries, such as scrapes and bruises (though they do not appear on her flame body), and shallow bleeding cuts, within a single post; she can heal moderate injuries, such as deep bleeding wounds and dislocated joints, within three posts; and she can mend ripped muscles and regrow severed fingers over four posts. Her healing effect manifests as blue fire both in and out of her flame body (cuts will glow blue as they stitch shut, severed fingers will appear to be made of flame until complete), and as such is obvious to any observing her that she is using her Quirk.
[Flame Resistant:] Elena's skin is resilient to fire and heat in general, which is good when one of her arms is made of fire and the other isn't. She doesn't want to burn herself. That said she can only be standing in or otherwise touching fire for five posts before she begins to burn like a normal person. This includes fire produced from herself, so she has to limit the self-high-fives in combat.
Exhaustion and Weakness:
Fire does not like water. This should be obvious. For whatever advantages Elena's flame-body offers her in combat, it leaves her incredibly vulnerable to even the gentlest rain shower or a bucket of water. Any time a flame limb is hit with water, the flame will be doused and she will revert to flesh and blood, leaving her wide open to attack. When this occurs she cannot re-ignite that limb for three rounds, regardless of whether or not she can dry it off in the meantime.
Similarly, being hit with water when her entire body is in flame is very very bad. Not only will she revert to flesh and blood--and be naked, too, because clothing is surprisingly not flame-resistant--but she will be in incredible pain that will debilitate her for one round of posts. In this time she is completely vulnerable, and even once her senses have returned to her, she still cannot re-ignite any part of her body for another two rounds. In this instance her best option is to run away or hide behind an ally until she can rejoin the fight.
On the same note, however, Elena is unable to use physical attacks on people with her flame limbs as they have no "body" inside to lift, punch, grapple, or otherwise harm anyone beyond burning. This also means that she can't pick up anything, turn any doorknobs, or do anything that requires touch.
(Which is a lot of stuff when you think about it.)
COMBAT ABILITIES
Blunt Force Trauma
Rank: F - Weapon
Effect: While her fire can't do anything in the way of physical damage, Elena has learned to use one-handed weapons pretty efficiently to make up for that. Her preference is for slender, heavy items like pipes, bats, and even just broken table legs. For this purpose she keeps a baseball-bat tucked into her backpack alongside her work clothes and other necessities.
Heat Rises
Rank: F - Agility
Effect: When her body is consumed by flame, Elena is able to jump higher and leap farther--not by flying, per say, but by being lighter, as she is literally made of hot air. She can jump upwards about the height of an average ceiling (5-7m). She can also lunge that distance if she has a running start. To use this ability, though, she must be entirely made of fire. Any unchanged limbs will prevent her from "floating".
Flame-Proof Suit
Rank: E (Durability)
Effect: With the aid of a mysterious techie, Elena now has a suit that is completely flame resistant. It is thin enough that she can wear it under her clothing, and, upon activating her Quirk, it will keep her from being entirely naked once the fire dies down. It has a few pockets for her phone and wallet as well. Helpful!
Stat-wise, it functions as simple durability, capable of tanking hits that could break stone. She's still as prone to burns as her actual Fire-Proof ability allows her to be.
SPECIALIST ABILITIES
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Cocinera
Rank: E - Cooking
Effect: Between growing up with a mother who loved cooking and living on her own for the last few years, Elena's become quite a good chef. Now that she has a growing amount of friends to cook for she's been working to improve her skills and extend her recipe books. Her repertoire has expanded to include more traditional Japanese foods, as well as a growing number of showy (and still delicious) desserts.
Just don't ask who taught her how to cook. It's still a tender subject.
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Tag Archives: Arctic Circle
From the moment we stepped ashore at the head of Pangnirtung Fiord in Baffin Island in Canada's far north territory of Nunavut and the sound of the boat dissolved among the waterfalls we felt alone in an ancient primal land controlled completely by the forces of nature. Loaded with more than we could carry we were forced to repeat each day's journey two more times for the first four days in order to ferry loads.This way we experienced the landscape under different conditions as the weather changed constantly and unexpectedly from sunshine to gale force winds and rain. Rivers rose and fell within hours making crossings dangerous, and avalanches of rock poured down thousand meter rock walls. Camping each night meant finding a huge rock to shelter us and flat ground that was safe from flood. Polar bear safety required stashing food and fuel well away from our camp.
The sheer scale of the Weasel Valley is hard to comprehend with granite walls that tower above us for a thousand metres capped by glaciers hundreds of metres thick. The valley floor has no trees, the tallest shrub being a low growing Arctic willow. When the ice and snow melts in the brief summer months the exposed tundra is covered with flowering plants, Arctic geese fly in formation overhead and eider ducks flock at the river's edge. The remains of caribou antlers and tracks of other creatures show us that there is life here but we saw little except a lone peregrine falcon.
One of the most inspiring peaks is Thor named after the god of thunder by the Inuit people who have inhabited Baffin Island for 4000 years. The overhanging west face is one of the tallest and home to one of the hardest climbs in the world. The peak's shape is so dramatic we wanted to make The Fine Line Sculpture in its shadow. This is a land dominated by ice so we were excited to find that some of the winter ice still remained in the coldest part of the valley shaded by the walls.
Although the ice was very thick it was melting at the edges where the rocks absorbed sunlight. Here it was possible to cut off and shape a piece about 1.5m across using our ice axes and with much effort, especially from Len, move it to a suitable site on the ice sheet. We had little time to get the shape right before the sun dipped behind the giant peak of Odin to the west. Since the sun never actually sets here above the arctic circle in summer its golden light touched the high peaks for some time giving me the opportunity to photograph and film the glorious spectacle.
Some days later we had made our way to Summit Lake, climbed up onto the Caribou Glacier and camped on ice beneath the mighty flat topped towers of Mt Asgard. A day or two of clear weather meant this was a highlight of the expedition and a chance to experience the high Arctic terrain I had dreamt of for so long.
The return journey with our heavy loads was punctuated by severe storms, difficult river crossings and a transformed landscape.
The friendly Inuit family with whom we stayed in Pangnirtung told us that the rainfall is the worst for decades and that the annual winter ice festival last Christmas was the first they have held using boats because there was no ice on the fiord.
Our flight out was cancelled and we hitched a ride on a rescue helicopter returning to base after evacuating those in the mountains affected by the severe weather and a polar bear sighting. Flying low across the vast Arctic wilderness of Baffin Island for hours we saw no human habitation only endless rock and tundra interspersed with lakes and patches of remnant ice, as wild as any place can be.


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Make sure that standard size tires are installed to the vehicle before inspection.
(a) Check the cabin for any object that might interrupt radio reception on the instrument panel. If such an object exists, remove it and check if the vehicle position mark returns to the appropriate position.
After driving for a while, the vehicle position mark returns to the appropriate position.
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Thanks to Tadek I have had sight of his Pastel Blue metallic swatch.
Together with finding the original colour on the window mechanism behind the door panel I went suitably armed to the local paint shop.
JNJ/471 Triumph Zircon Blue Metallic. Year 1981 and currently available.
Colour of uncarpeted inside side panels of boot/trunk. Body colour or black?
Colour of bodywork in battery area. Body colour black or red primer?
Colour of bulkhead /firewall under bonnet. Body colour or black?
The illustrations in Viart and Schmid do seem to vary from car to car.
I can come pretty close, having 679187 from Nov '51 which was pastel green metallic.
In the boot is black, except for the hinge panel and the bar across separating the upper floor and the spare tire compartment were body color.
Around the edge of the boot lid was body color, but the interior area left exposed to clear the tire and not covered by the rexine panel was black.
Battery area is a strange pale color primer, not the usual red primer we see today. Same with under the dashboard. Make of that what you will.
Underside of the bonnet, bulkhead, firewall, side valence panels, all black.
Areas that were not exposed to much road dirt such as under the voltage regulator I find are what I would call chassis gloss black, gloss but not a good quality paint, perhaps such as you would find today on a new truck chassis in the showroom.
I looked at your car on xkdata.
If you are interested in participating in our ongoing research, I would like to see more photos and information about it.
I see the round Lucas junction box made of Bakelite on the scuttle (firewall) right hand side. Very few cars had this, including mine. I would like to know anything you can learn about the wiring from that box to the engine, such as lengths and colors of wires and their routing and clips and destinations.
The brake fluid reservoir, are there any markings on it?
The radiator cap is the same as mine. Any indication of the origin or age?
Pictures of the map drawer if it has one.
Here are some photos. I can't say how much is completely original because some rewiring was done in the 60's (as shown by the plastic clip in the brake fluid reservoir shot). I can't get at the map drawer at the moment as it is masked off while I remove the floorpanels, but it looks the same as the books.
20 years; I am finding acorn shells everywhere! Your request suggests to me that manufactured new looms don't necessarily come with the correct lengths??
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Richard Harvey becomes Educational Ambassador for world-leading music publisher
Categories: School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology
Congratulations to Lecturer in Music Richard Harvey who has just been appointed as Educational Ambassador for one of the world's leading publishers of brass and wind music, Warwick Music Group (WMG).
Salford School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology's Richard Harvey is a former Royal Marines musician is the founding owner of Blast Off Brass, a workshop-based initiative designed to introduce Key Stage 2 children to the wonderful world of brass playing using the innovative and award-winning pBuzz. Richard has been a friend of WMG's for some years and has worked alongside the company on several projects, including British Trombone Society events and primary school workshops across the West, South and East of England.
When asked about his new role, Richard said "I have partnered with WMG on various projects over the last five years or so and have always been impressed by their innovative approach to music education. I am a fan of the pBuzz, using it to great effect in my workshops and am looking forward to incorporating the new pBugle into these sessions. I am incredibly excited to have been given this new role and I am keen to get involved in as many projects with WMG as I can."
Chris Fower, WMG's Director of Creativity and Innovation said "I'm delighted to have Richard on board, since we first met I have always felt that he really "gets" what we are trying to do here at WMG. Richard's skills and experience are incredibly complementary to those we have in house and I'm really looking forward to deepening and broadening what is already a strong and fruitful relationship."
You can read more about Richard's career and expertise here.
For all press office enquiries please email communications@salford.ac.uk.
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The Flying Inn
Posted By Rick Davis June 04, 2019 Bible Book Review Theology
Through New Eyes is the quintessence of James Jordan. Jordan always takes his readers by the hand and whirls them through a wonderland of symbols, connections, ideas, and paradigms. It's always a fun ride, and he always challenges his readers to think more deeply about the Bible. For that reason alone, Jordan is always worth a read.
In this book Jordan is trying to reawaken readers to the rich depth of symbolism in the world God created, especially as that world is described in Scripture. After taking time to talk about man, the animals, the structure of creation, plants, trees, stars, planets, rocks, and gems, Jordan specifically focuses on the repeated pattern of covenants in the Bible. He shows how with each new covenant there is a new heaven and new earth, better and more glorious than the one before. I had already read Peter Leithart's A House For My Name, but in Jordan I see the seed from which many of Leithart's ideas germinated.
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Defending Mrs. Bennet
Posted By Rick Davis
Seeing Mrs. Bennet from Pride and Prejudice on the top-five list of worst mothers in fiction over on my sister's blog gave me a bit of a brainstorm today. No, I wouldn't like to be around Mrs. Bennet. I've been around many such mothers in my day, and none of them are pleasant. However, I think sometimes we simply judge the woman we see in front of us without inquiring as to why she is the way she is. So here we go. I'm going to briefly go to the plate and defend Mrs. Bennet.
As readers of Austen's novel know, Mrs. B was hysterical, loud, lacked discernment in young men, and had no sense of distinction between public and private matters. However, I want to argue that she wasn't always that way. If she had been, why did Mr. Bennet marry her to begin with?
Oftentimes when we see a woman like Mrs. Bennet, we heap the blame on her shoulders alone, and sometimes this is right. But more often I find, and I think that this is the case in Mrs. Bennet's situation, a fair share, if not most, of the blame can be laid at the feet of her husband.
Put quite simply, Mr. Bennet is an unfeeling, abdicating, lazy husband. This isn't a popular opinion to hold because frankly Mr. Bennet is a lot more likeable than Mrs. Bennet. But that's the way it always is. The lazy husband, provided he's not abusive or ill-tempered, is tut-tutted and indulged. The wife he has driven to distraction by his abdication in leadership is excoriated by everyone. But let's examine the nature of the situation a little more clearly.
Mr. Bennet is well-acquainted with Mrs. Bennet's nerves. He has heard her "mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least," as he affirms. All right then, what is she always worried about? She's worried about the future of her family, the very thing Mr. Bennet should be taking pains to worry about for her rather than hiding in his library all day. It is well known that when Mr. Bennet dies, the estate will all go to Mr. Collins, and as far as we see he is taking no steps to marry off any of his daughters to ensure that they won't be out on the street when he's gone.
Years and years of this continual worry have told on Mrs. Bennet's already nervous and excitable personality, and have made her the woman we see her in Pride and Prejudice. But rarely is the blame laid in the right place. When we do, we conclude that Mrs. Bennet is doing her best to think about the future of her children, and if that means that the daughters are too focused on snagging themselves a husband or that Mrs. Bennet is more loud and forward than women in those times were expected to be, then so be it. She has her children to think about. On the other hand, the likeable Mr. Bennet, who loathes his wife's hysteria without doing anything to help it, who scoffs at the silliness of his younger daughters despite not having taken pains to raise them better, and who denies his wife and children a prospect of a secure future by not doing his best to find suitable husbands for his daughters, is really to blame for all the problems of his wife and daughters. Despite his geniality and, admittedly, clever wit, Mr. Bennet is the worse parent of the two, and Mrs. Bennet is merely the result of his abdication.
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Erica said…
You make an excellent point about Mr. Bennett. He briefly acknowledges he wasn't responsible like he should be, then promptly went back to reading books and making snarky comments.
However, the problem with Mrs. Bennett is that she goes too far in her attempts to take the reins, and has the opposite effect she wants to have. I still think Jane and Elizabeth turned out as well as they did because they spent more time with Mrs. Gardiner than the other girls. One parent has sense with no feeling, and the other has feeling with no sense.
(Oh no, now I'm the one on the verge of writing a blog post! I'll stop here and add this one to my ideas list.)
Rick said…
I agree, and this is one of those things that show how brilliant Austen was. She was a keen observer of human nature and knew how things went. Usually when a wife, for one reason or another, takes the reins she does go too far. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet just need to be happy that they're living in Austen-land, because I think I know exactly what would happen if the two of them were in a Flannery O'Connor story. :)
Overall though I still think that Mr. Bennet, as the husband and father, bears the responsibility for his wife and younger daughters. After all, despite the fact that Eve ate the fruit first, Adam is the one responsible for the Fall.


Cheryl deserves some happiness OKAY?
We may have had a lot of Riverdale news for you already this week, but we figured what's another teaser of season two when we've already told you the other six thousand?!
Chatting to Forbes recently, Madelaine Petsch opened up about what's in store for her character Cheryl Blossom and whether she'll have a new romance.
"I'm excited to finally get a love interest," she exclaimed, before adding that it's "nothing that anybody expects."
Meanwhile some more important character arcs are set to take place, as the show continues to listen to what the fans want.
"It's important that we go back to the things we discussed in the last season and that includes a lot of social justice issues," she said.
"We're going into episode five next week of 22 and a lot of things happen in that episode that is very normal for people in high school. It's important for TV to bring that to light, so I'm excited for people to see it."
But back to her romance, will it be with newbie Toni Topaz? Actress Vanessa Morgan (and Madelaine's real life BFF) recently said she'd love nothing more than for Cheryl to find love in Toni, and tbh we're already on board that ship.
Riverdale is back on Netflix on October 12, so not long to wait!


Both Coast Guard and EPA advocate a technology-based method to bring ballast water discharges within applicable standards. The agencies differ, however, on whether the unavailability of necessary technology should expose a vessel owner/operator to civil and criminal sanctions for not installing equipment in order to comply with the standards.
EPA's 2013 VGP imposes numeric ballast water discharge limits for most vessels.  EPA intended vessels to achieve the numeric limits by employing the same technology approved by the Coast Guard. When the Coast Guard issued its ballast water regulations and the EPA issued the 2013 VGP, they both concluded that safe, reliable, and effective treatment technologies existed that could sufficiently reduce viable organisms in ballast water discharges to meet the numeric limits. However, EPA took a different approach than the Coast Guard regarding whether delays in ballast water management equipment manufacturers obtaining type approval from the Coast Guard should impact vessel owners/operators' obligation to comply with the standards. Section 1.9.1 of the 2013 VGP acknowledged that, while the Coast Guard may grant extensions under the Coast Guard's regulations if the equipment was not approved or available, EPA could still enforce its ballast water standards, regardless of the Coast Guard extensions.
The Enforcement Policy also specifically states that EPA's enforcement discretion does not apply to criminal violations (e.g., "knowing" violations) or "grossly excessive ballast water discharges," a term that is not defined. Under the Enforcement Policy, EPA's decision on whether to bring an enforcement action against vessel owners/operators will ultimately depend on "all relevant facts and circumstances." This is, of course, the standard applicable to all enforcement actions, with or without the Enforcement Policy.
The Enforcement Policy and the Coast Guard extension decisions, together, illustrate an all too common theme: two federal agencies that have overlapping authority to regulate ballast water discharges decline to reconcile those authorities in a manner that provides any certainty or consistency for those seeking to comply. While one agency has said it will grant extension requests that protect the regulated community from liability, the other has declined to do so, and instead says, essentially, "trust us, we will be fair." Although it acknowledges the existence of the Coast Guard extensions, EPA has not provided vessel owners/operators with any greater certainty that it will not take enforcement actions against them than it did before it issued the Enforcement Policy.
(1) consider filing for an individual National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System ("NPDES") permit to replace the general permit , or (2) seek a judicial or administrative consent decree.  The prospect of thousands of vessels seeking individual permits from multiple regions of EPA through the formal NPDES process is a formidable challenge. The second option would require that a vessel owner/operator first violate the law by discharging ballast water without first installing approved technology, which in turn could result in imposition of civil or criminal penalties.
 16 U.S.C. § 4701 et seq.
 EPA issued the current iteration of the VGP on March 28, 2013, pursuant to the Clean Water Act. The 2013 VGP regulates discharges from commercial vessels greater than or equal to 79 feet in length, excluding military and recreational vessels. Additional information on the 2013 VGP and its creation can be found in EPA Issues 2013 Vessel General Permit (K&L Gates Client Alert, April 2, 2013).
 Background on these programs can be found at EPA Issues Draft of the Next Vessel General Permit for Public Review - Comments Due by February 21, 2012 (K&L Gates Client Alert, Dec. 9, 2011); EPA Issues Preliminary Study on Vessel Discharges for Fishing Industry and Smaller Cargo Vessels (K&L Gates Client Alert, March 30, 2010); The Winds of Change Continue to Blow: Coast Guard Proposes New Ballast Water Discharge Limitations (K&L Gates Client Alert, Nov. 27, 2009).
 Existing vessels with ballast water capacity between 1,500 and 5,000 m3 must comply starting January 1, 2014, while existing vessels with ballast water capacity less than 1500 m3 or greater than 5,000 m3 must comply starting January 1, 2016. All newly-built vessels constructed on or after December 1, 2013, have to comply with the discharge standards upon delivery. 33 C.F.R. Table 151.2035(b).
 2013 VGP at § 2.2.3.5. The ballast water discharge standards in the 2013 VGP are equal to the Coast Guard Phase I discharge standards, which will be implemented on a rolling implementation schedule equal to those adopted by the International Maritime Organization in 2004.
 See Extension CG-OES Policy Letter 13-01 (Sept. 25, 2013).
 See EPA's Enforcement Response Policy for EPA's 2013 Vessel General Permit: Ballast Water Discharges and U.S. Coast Guard Extensions Under 33 C.F.R. Part 151 (Dec. 27, 2013).
 This Alert does not address whether the current regulations still qualify as "Best Available Technology" due to the lack of type-approved equipment.
 Under the Clean Water Act, violations of the 2013 VGP could result in civil penalties of up to $37,500 per day of violation, criminal penalties for "knowing" violations that could result in prison sentences of up to three years, and fines that could reach $50,000 per day. 40 C.F.R. §122.41(a); 73 Fed. Reg. 75,340 (Dec. 11, 2008). Higher criminal fines may also be assessed under the Alternative Fines Act. 18 U.S.C. § 3571.
 Specifically, EPA personnel should "take into account conditions expressed in the Coast Guard's extension letter such as whether the vessel conducts complete ballast water exchange in an area 200 nautical miles from any shore prior to discharging ballast water into the waters of the United States, adheres to the Coast Guard's ballast water management plan as well as to recordkeeping and reporting provisions, and complies with all other applicable ballast water requirements under relevant Coast Guard regulations and the VGP. When a vessel has adequately undertaken these measures (as well as any other reasonably available or appropriate measures under the circumstances to minimize the extent or the effects of the VGP ballast water numeric discharge exceedance), EPA will consider such violations of the 2013 VGP ballast water numeric discharge limit a low enforcement priority." EPA's Enforcement Response Policy for EPA's 2013 Vessel General Permit: Ballast Water Discharges and U.S. Coast Guard Extensions under 33 C.F.R. Part 151 (Dec. 27, 2013).
 2013 VGP at § 1.9.1 (Permit Reopener Clause).
 This option existed under the 2013 VGP as well for any permit holder, and for any reasons. To date only one company has been known to seek an individual permit, and that was for a non-ballast water discharge, and none have been granted. See Lake Michigan Carferry, Inc., S.S. Badger.
 EPA has also suggested that vessel owners/operators install Coast Guard AMS-approved equipment, which is only valid for five years because it has not been "type-approved" by the Coast Guard, and risk that it will not be type-approved, requiring that it be completely replaced within five years. This option may cost many vessel owners/operators millions more than was anticipated when the 2013 VGP economic feasibility analysis was performed.