I got my start as a graphic designer laying out ads for a newspaper in southern Minnesota. I had an old fashioned "in and out" box on my desk. Am I dating myself? Ad copy would pile up in the "in" box and finished ads loitered in the "out" box, waiting to be proofed. Every so often our proof reader, Hallie, would come by and empty my "out" box. She'd return my stack a few hours later.
My routine was to pour a cup of coffee and thumb my way through the return pile. Most ads had minor corrections. Ads that were perfect though got a signature Hallie smiley face scrawled with her blue proofer's pen. Oh how I loved to find a perky little smiley face lurking in the corner. Ads that were really messed up got a confused face. And if an ad came through the proofing rotation more than twice, you could expect an evil stink eye. Shudder.
It quickly became clear to me that Hallie was a master. Nothing got by her. And boy could she draw a smiley face. I marveled at her ability to give a simple little face so much expression. Her faces frequently made my day. I actually started a smiley face file. Every once and a while I'd clip a face until slowly I amassed an envelope full of smileys. And let me tell you, when you're feeling down and you dump out a pile of smiley faces that someone has drawn, it's hard not to feel at least a little bit better. It's been over 10 years since I left the paper, but I still have my envelope of smileys tucked in my desk drawer. Just in case.
The staff at the paper was small and frequently we'd gather together for lunch at the back table, sharing bits and pieces of our lives. Hallie's kids and grandkids are scattered all over the country and I loved hearing about their lives. She could also talk food and gardening to no end. Truly a woman after my own heart. We shared many meals and swapped many recipes.
I start every rhubarb season off with a batch of Hallie's rhubarb muffins. Made with brown sugar, they have a rich carmel flavor that pairs beautifully with tart rhubarb. Last week I baked my third round of Hallie's muffins in as many weeks. They're that good. I packed a few muffins and a thermos of tea to take out to the bee yard for a hive check. My two new hives have been limping along with the cold spring weather – which has resulted in me clucking around them like a nervous mother hen.
Out at the bee yard I pull the lid off of hive one and find a gorgeous queen, busy at work. Her brood pattern is good, but it's still in small patches on the frames. Her hive population is small too – all young nurse bees and not many foragers. I close up the hive and give them a reassuring pat. The situation in hive two, however, is all together brighter. After multiple hive checks, I've yet to lay eyes on this queen, but that hardly matters. My heart leaps at her handiwork – frame after frame of perfectly laid brood. In a week or two this hive will be bursting with bees.
I remove my veil and take a seat on an empty pallet for a cup of tea and a muffin. I decide to call the elusive queen in hive two Hallie Frances. She has earned a smiley face, no question. I think I'll even tape one of Hallie's smileys to her hive for extra encouragement. I mull over hive one. This queen is younger by a good two weeks. I'm confident that she'll catch up. Last fall I named the daughter of my all-time favorite queen Ella Bella – after another woman whom I respect and admire (childhood idol turned adulthood inspiration). Sadly this little hive did not get a fair shake and they met their match with this winter's unrelenting cold. So I decide to call my new underdog queen simply, EB. Hell, maybe I'll give her a smiley face too. Smile power works – I know.
I pack up and test the voltage on the electric bear fence before I go. Finally I can relax. I'm heading into the summer bee season with two strong ladies at the helm. And that, makes me smile.
I don't care for overly sweet rhubarb baked goods, so I do not pack the brown sugar. I also prefer a very rhubarby muffin. Adjust both to suit your taste.
Cream together brown sugar, oil, egg, and vanilla. Mix together dry ingredients and add to creamed mixture alternately with the buttermilk. Fold in rhubarb and optional nuts. Batter will be thick and sticky. Fill muffin tins 3/4 full and bake at 400º for 20 minutes. Makes 1 1/2 dozen regular muffins.
Believe it or not, there is a special place in my kitchen for Pillsbury Pop n' Fresh Biscuits. Normally I'm more of a "do it from scratch" sort of girl, but the Dough Boy has long held a spot in my heart. This most likely stems from early childhood, when I became very attached to the whole Pop n' Fresh family.
This was in the 70's – pre action figures. My Pop n' Fresh toys are more like static rubber dolls, but the heads on all of the adults do spin. I have the whole Fresh clan. Grandpa Fresh, Grandma Fresh, Mrs. Fresh, Poppin and Poppie (the kids), BunBun (baby Fresh), Biscuit (the Fresh cat), Flapjack (the Fresh dog), and of course Pop n' Fresh himself. I was especially taken with Biscuit. He went everywhere with me.
When I was about six my family took a trip to Sweden to trace my mother's roots and visit long lost relatives. This was my first big trip and I packed carefully. I singled out Biscuit to keep me company on the long overseas flight. But after we were settled in our seats, I was dismayed to find my little cat was missing. Really the only thing I remember about my one and only trip to Sweden is the agony I felt over loosing my best companion. That and I got nipped in the stomach by a pony at some relative's farm while trying to feed it an apple slice. It was a traumatic trip.
But my luck shifted upon arriving back to the States. It turned out that Biscuit had spent the entire trip to Sweden under the guest bed at my grandmother's where I had slept the night before our flight out. And oh the relief to have the whole Fresh family reunited again! I think this incident is what really sealed my allegiance to Pillsbury.
That and my mom was good enough to fuel my love of being in the kitchen by supplying me with kid-friendly recipes. One of my signature dishes was weekend Sticky Buns – made with a tin of Pillsbury refrigerated biscuits. It was so thrilling to pop open the roll of biscuits. And the gooey warm buns that resulted were a treat to be sure. Gradually, I evolved in the kitchen and outgrew my Sticky Bun phase. But not without having made them often enough to commit the recipe to memory.
Several years ago, after what seemed like an arduous amount of time in the kitchen preparing fancy meals and copious holiday baking, I was racking my brain for something quick yet festive to ring in the new year with. Frankly the thought of my usual homemade cinnamon rolls for the first breakfast of the year felt like too much effort. And that's when it hit me. Sticky Buns. Ten minutes to assemble, ten minutes to bake. Exactly what I was looking for. And they were even – a little to my astonishment – as good as I remembered.
For a slightly more grown up flare I switched from light corn syrup to honey and added a hint of vanilla. But beyond that, I've never looked back. A strong pot of coffee and a plate of Sticky Buns has become my New Year's Day morning tradition. I look forward to it every year. Even though popping open the can of refrigerator biscuits still makes me jump.
Cut each square tablespoon of butter into quarters. Take two of the pieces and grease 10 cups in a standard muffin tin. Take the other 10 pieces and put 1 in each of the 10 muffin cups. Add 1 teaspoon of brown sugar and 1 teaspoon honey to each cup. For a little extra flavor you can also add 5 to 6 drops of pure vanilla in each cup. Sprinkle a few raisins in each cup (or if you want to branch out like Peter and Katie, add any combination of coconut, chocolate chips, and nuts). Pop open the can of biscuits and put 1 on top of each cup. Bake the Sticky Buns in a 400ºF oven 8 to 10 minutes, until the biscuits are gently browned. Run a knife around each bun. Then put a cookie sheet or tray over the muffin pan and invert the whole shebang. Give the bottom of each cup a tap with the base of the knife, wait about 2 minutes and lift up the muffin pan. Gently pry out any stuck buns with the knife. Makes 10 buns.
I live in northern Wisconsin. Which means I live with no less than six months of winter. Truly, if I had it my way, I think I'd hole up and hibernate with the neighborhood black bears. But, no. It's become pretty clear that no one else up here on the south shore of Lake Superior seems to share my sentiments. In fact, sometimes the winter months feel as jam packed as summer. Go ahead. Burst my bubble. I'll do my best to embrace it.
The craziness kicks off with Santa and Mrs. Claus arriving on the Madeline Island Ferry. And then there's the Apostle Islands Sled Dog Race – a 2 day dog filled affair, followed by the Blue Moon Ball with the 20-piece Big Woods Band. We barely have time to catch our breath before the Book Across the Bay – a 10k ski race across Superior's iced over Chequmegon Bay. Frozen beach parties, trips across the ice road to the Island, maple sugaring, snowshoeing. It never ends.
But the winter event that I have come to appreciate most is the Drummond Bar Stool Races. This is exactly what it sounds like. Every year, dozens and dozens of grown adults gather on the third Saturday in February to race bar stools mounted onto skis down a man-made hill. Welcome to northern Wisconsin. Laugh if you will, but people take this event seriously. Listen carefully in the crowd and you'll overhear people discussing snow conditions, wax choices, barstool aerodynamics, test runs, and pushing strategies.
Barstool teams consist of two people – a rider and a pusher. A stoplight at the top of the hill gives pushers the cue to propel their rider down the hill. It doesn't take long to discern that the best strategy is to have a pusher with some weight and brawn paired with a slim built rider. Shortly into our first time spectating, my husband leaned over and said "If we ever compete – you're riding." It's been five years, and we still haven't had the gumption to register.
Notice how the pusher (in white) in the right hand lane has gone into an all-out belly slide? Notice how the rider in the right lane has caught some air?
This particular third Saturday in February was a gorgeous, sunny 28º F day. I might have even gotten my recommended daily allowance of vitamin D. For whatever reason though, the course and conditions boasted an unprecedented amount of crashes and ties. It was a highly entertaining race.
The barstool races have become a tradition for Mark and I, and we generally make a day of it – kicking things off with a hearty breakfast at the Delta Diner. The Delta Diner is an authentic roadside diner located in the heart of Delta, Wisconsin. Which means it is located in the heart of nowhere. But it is worth the trip. Really. Check your GPS. If you are within an hour (maybe even two) of Delta, make the detour.
Owner and cook Todd Bucher provides a gastronomical experience that is unforgettable. Breakfasts are out of this world – including a thoroughly refreshing Mexican Eggs Benny. Add a side of crunchy hash browns and you won't need to eat for the rest of the day. Also offered up are traditional blue plate specials, old-fashioned malts, fish-frys and specialty burgers. Todd and his wife Nina make a point of using as many local ingredients as they can find. Could it get any better?
One of the house specialties is thin, Norwegian style pancakes. And while it's not officially on the menu, if you ask for "hot cakes" Todd will throw a handful of chopped jalapeños onto your cakes. Brilliant! I have dreams about these pancakes. The tang of hot meeting sweet is so amazingly perfect. Why have I not thought of this before?
And so it is that I have Todd to thank for my latest kitchen inspiration – Jalapeño Cornmeal Waffles. I took my favorite waffle recipe (clipped from somewhere long ago), substituted cornmeal for part of the flour and added a healthy handful of chopped jalepeños to the batter. And whoo-eee did they ever surpass my expectations! The cornmeal offers a perfect nutty crunch to the jalapeños. Winter does have it's perks. And zingy waffles on a Wednesday night is one of them.
Mix dry ingredients in a medium bowl. Separate egg, and reserve the white in a small bowl. Mix the yolk with the rest of the wet ingredients in a 2-cup measuring cup or bowl. Beat the egg white with a hand mixer until soft peaks form. Sprinkle in sugar and continue to beat until glossy. Beat vanilla into the egg white.
Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and mix until just incorporated. Gently fold in egg white and jalapeños, but do not over mix!
Add batter to hot waffle iron and cook until golden brown and crisp.
Makes 2 full sized Belgian waffles.
I've been in a breakfast rut lately. Maybe it's the mid-winter doldrums. I mull around the kitchen, open the fridge, peer into the pantry, but nothing really jumps out at me. Except for this past week. This past week there was left over Valentine cupcakes. And yes. I have a weakness for cake. Especially when it involves breakfast. But, like all good things, the cupcakes came to an end. Which is probably just as well. Bikini season is just around the corner.
This morning though, I realized the source of my problem. The granola jar has been empty for weeks. I'm not exactly sure why. We almost always have granola on hand. But there it was, empty as could be, staring me in the face. "Fill me" it whispered. And so I did.
I have several granola recipes, but I tend to latch on to certain ones for long spells, making them over and over again – ignoring all other contenders. Among past pet favorites is a version loaded with toasty cinnamon. My friend Cari introduced me to it on a backpacking trip and I was immediately smitten. Three tablespoons of cinnamon takes the chill out of the morning air like nobody's business. Before that it was a fruit laden number that I adapted from Bon Appétit. But my new, all-time, number one favorite, is a subtle, seedy affair with coconut and honey. It has stayed in rotation longer than any other.
The recipe originated from sort of an odd source – the Anti-Inflammation Diet and Recipe Book, by an N.D. named Jessica Black. The subtitle beckons "Protect Yourself and Your Family from Heart Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Allergies – and More." I picked it up a few years ago for the "and More" claim. Hopefully to help slow the progression of irreversible inflammatory glaucoma in my eye.
I have to admit that I didn't have terribly high expectations for the recipes, but I have been pleasantly surprised with everything I have tried. If nothing else, the book is an interesting read. Black does an easy job of explaining the three different families of prostaglandins (fatty acids) found in foods. Two types (PGE1 and PGE3) are "good" and the other (PGE2) is a "not so good" pro-inflammatory type. Naturally, the book focuses on recipes with foods that are high in camps 1 and 3.
But good or bad prostaglandins aside, this granola is a winner. I love that it uses honey for the sweet and coconut oil for the fat. Two of my favorite ingredients. (If the thought of raw coconut oil scares you, I urge you to do a little research. It's an amazing fat that has gotten an unfair bad rap for way too long.) The light, subtle coconut flavor matches perfectly with the oats. This is an understated granola but its flavor and texture are spot on. And who knows, maybe it really will help protect us and and our families from all the nasties out there. Who can argue with that?


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Q: Java Mouse Listener error with UIManager SetLookAndFeel The below code displays a JFrame with a JMenu and a [custom] JPanel.
I set the look-and-feel (LAF) to Windows LAF by calling method UIManager.setLookAndFeel
I click on the JMenu with the mouse and then I move the mouse onto the [custom] JPanel – while the menu is still visible. Then I click the mouse again and the mousePressed method of the MouseListener on my [custom] JPanel does not get called, even though the mouseReleased method does.
If I do not explicitly set the LAF, i.e. if I use the default LAF, it works fine.
How can I fix this?
Below are two classes: MListen and Panel. Class MListen declares a main method, so you can launch that class. Then you can perform the actions described above to reproduce the behavior. Class Panel is my custom JPanel.
I want the mousePressed method of the MouseListener, in class Panel to be called every time that the mouse is pressed if it is on the Panel.

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*MListen.java
package drawer.Main;
import javax.swing.*;

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.event.*;

public class MListen extends JFrame{

    public MListen(){

        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

        setSize(800, 600);
        //setExtendedState(MAXIMIZED_BOTH);
        setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        getContentPane().setBackground(Color.WHITE);

        Panel panel = new Panel();
        JMenuBar bar = new JMenuBar();
        JMenu file = new JMenu("file");
        JMenuItem open = new JMenuItem("open");
        JButton b = new JButton("AB");
        file.add(b);

        bar.add(file);
        file.add(open);
        setJMenuBar(bar);

        add(panel, BorderLayout.CENTER);

        setVisible(true);

    }

    public static void main(String[] args){
        javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

            public void run() {
                try {
                    UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel");
                } catch (ClassNotFoundException | InstantiationException | IllegalAccessException
                        | UnsupportedLookAndFeelException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
                new MListen();
            }
        });
    }

}

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*Panel.java
package drawer.Main;

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.JPanel;

public class Panel extends JPanel implements MouseListener, MouseMotionListener{
    public float size;
    public Color color;
    public boolean DoDraw;

    public Panel(){
        addMouseListener(this);
        setFocusable(true);
        addMouseMotionListener(this);
        setBackground(Color.RED);
    }

    @Override
    public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent arg0) {
        //System.out.println("Drag");

    }

    @Override
    public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent arg0) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    }

    @Override
    public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent arg0) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    }

    @Override
    public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent arg0) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    }

    @Override
    public void mouseExited(MouseEvent arg0) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    }

    @Override
    public void mousePressed(MouseEvent arg0) {
        System.out.println("Press");
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    }

    @Override
    public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent arg0) {
        System.out.println("relese");
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    }
}

Try running the above code clicking on the red JPanel. The console will display "Press". Now click on the JMenu and then on the JPanel and "Press" will not be displayed in the console.
Thanks!

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*Edit
I need the UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel");
Can I fix this without removing it?
Also I need the MousePressed on the first time

A: Here is a bad answer, but it should work. You can capture all of the events before they're delegated.
This can be added to your JPanel constructor.
long eventMask = AWTEvent.MOUSE_EVENT_MASK;
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().addAWTEventListener( new AWTEventListener() {
    public void eventDispatched(AWTEvent e){
                MouseEvent evt = (MouseEvent)e;
                if( evt.getSource() == this && evt.getId()==MouseEvent.MOUSE_PRESSED ){
                    this.mousePressed(evt);
                    evt.consume();
                }
    }
}, eventMask );

This captures all mouse events check that they original from the correct panel, checks if it is a mousePressed event and calls the method.
This is good code for debugging, but not good to find in your project.

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Alexandrovo Sloboda
Today, Alexandrova is a two hour ride from Moscow by commuter train. That two hours does not exactly fly by; through the window, all you see is forest and the occasional little village. But if you listen hard to the rattle of the wheels, you can begin to understand what a remote place Alexandrova Sloboda must have been more than four hundred years ago, in the 16th century, when the fate of Russia was being decided here.
At first, this was just a village that sat amidst the favorite hunting grounds of Grand Prince Vasily III – it was he who ordered a palace built on the banks of the Seraya River. Time passed, and Vasily's son, Ivan IV, ascended the throne of the Muscovite Principality. The boy became Grand Prince at the age of three. At that time, no one foresaw that he would become a bloody tyrant and the first Tsar of Russia, Ivan the Terrible.
We do not know how often the young Ivan visited the village. In any event, it is well known that he loved to hunt and he undoubtedly spent time there. Probably his anxious and troubled soul felt safe and secure in this place, nestled amidst dense forest. From his youngest years, Ivan lacked safety and security. As a child, he had lost his father at age three and his mother at eight. As a small boy, he was forced to sit for hours as foreign ambassadors were received and pronounce words he could not understand. As a depraved adolescent, with no one in charge of his upbringing, he was surrounded by people trying to ingratiate themselves with him and not daring to stop him when he threw cats from the roof. At the age of thirteen, he ordered his first execution.

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In Eastern Europe, Jewish communities are woven with memory and culture
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Legend has it that Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, was founded by Jason and the Argonauts. The heroes of Greek mythology stole the Golden Fleece from King Aetes and fled across the Black Sea and up the Danube until they rested on the modest Ljubljana River.
The way Robert Waltl figures it, if legend is anything like life, there undoubtedly were Jews among the Argonauts. In the lands of Eastern Europe, you never know who will turn out to be a Jew.
Waltl, an actor and activist, is director of Ljubljana's Mini Teater and Jewish Cultural Center. I met him in Berlin last month on a weeklong tour of Jewish Germany sponsored by the German Foreign Office. Waltl was one of four participants from Eastern Europe. In conversations and in emails following the tour, they described Jewish life that was tenuous, fragile, yet surprisingly resilient. Surprising, at least, to an American Jew accustomed to abundance in all things, including the number of Jews.
Slovenia, tucked between Austria, Italy and Croatia, lost 90 percent of its Jews in the Holocaust. It emerged from the war with 200 Jewish souls. Most left the country, Waltl says. In Slovenia's 2002 census, 99 citizens declared themselves of Jewish religion, he says, although unofficially the number is believed to be higher.
Waltl tries to knit this community together through culture — "theater and puppet performances, concerts, literary evenings, exhibitions, lectures, educational programs about Holocaust, Hebrew lessons," he says. The Chanukah menorah lighting in front of the center at 3 Križevniška St. attracts public officials as well as interested citizens. Holocaust Remembrance Day and an International Festival of Tolerance are also on the annual calendar.
"I see culture as an instrument for creating tolerance," Waltl says. "Culture, unlike religion, offers the gift of discussion about various issues with different people. Our Jewish center provides opportunities for cultural enriching and acquiring knowledge, openness and generosity."
Not everyone in this community who is drawn to Jewish culture is a Jew. That includes Waltl, a burly 50-year-old with short-cropped graying blond hair. Born in Austria, he came to Ljubljana as a young man to study theater. A few years ago, he learned that his great-great-grandfather may have been Jewish. Around that time he found out that a Jewish actress friend was a relative of his.
He began studying about Judaism, learning Hebrew, collecting Judaica. He attends religious services, although he is not religious.
"I even started to wear a kippa to all bigger events in order to raise the awareness among fellow citizens about the existence of Jews in Slovenia," he says. "Since I discovered my Jewish roots, I felt obligated as a public figure to make sure that Jewish culture that left behind its traces here in Slovenia regains its deserved importance."
Ghosts of old Bukovina
Bukovina is one of those Eastern European territories with large Jewish populations that changed hands several times in the 20th century, going from bad to worse at each turn. At the end of World War I, Bukovina passed from Austria-Hungary to Romania. A part, including the city of Chernivtsi, was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940.
The Soviets exiled bourgeois Jews to Siberia. The next year the Nazis invaded. Today Chernivtsi is in western Ukraine, with a Jewish population of perhaps 1,300. At the Chernivtsi Museum of the History and Culture of Bukovinian Jews, Anna Yamchuk helps preserve the memory of the lives snuffed out in the Holocaust.
Yamchuk, 27, is the museum's PR and program manager. Walking between meetings one day in Berlin, she told me how terrifying it is for her as a Ukrainian that Russia's Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea and continues to threaten the country militarily. The West is just watching, she said. It is doing nothing.
It's easy to draw parallels between the latent threat to this region and the devastating war that was fought here 70 years ago. The museum in which Yamchuk works calls up the ghosts of old Bukovina, where many nationalities mingled and Jews lived with relative freedom until Austria lost the war.
"I believe that the work that we do is important for Jews, for the people of Chernivtsi and Ukrainians in general," says Yamchuk, who is not Jewish. "Here we are preserving the memory about the history and culture of a great community — Bukovinian Jews. The memory that cannot be lost."
Here, as in Ljubljana, one can join the Jewish community by remembering it. The national act of remembering what happened to the Jews, liberals believe, will promote tolerance.
The museum also promotes a living culture, she adds. "We do some projects with students and young people. These projects aim not only at discovering important historical facts, but also at promoting tolerance, understanding and friendship. This is a small contribution into forming open-minded civil society."
The sky of Belarus
My Eastern European tour mates left me with the impression that, although they came from nearby, their Jewish communities were a world away. They needed support from the West to give them the oxygen necessary to flourish.
"Communities in Eastern Europe don't feel secure and this is for several reasons," says Marcin Wodzinski, director of the Center for the Culture and Languages of Jews at the University of Wroclaw, in Western Poland. "With the exception of Ukraine, they are tiny, suffering from extensive out-migration, either in the past or very recently. Simply, they feel very fragile and rightly so."
Wodzinski is neither Jewish nor a specialist in contemporary Jewish life — the 19th century is his field of study — but his deep knowledge of Jewish subjects is obvious.
Eastern European Jews suffer from an identity crisis, he says in an email. "It is rooted in the Holocaust, frozen through the communist times and actually aggravated by the post-communist transformations." At the same time, it's easier to be a Jew in Eastern Europe.
While walking in Frankfurt, we passed a group of 22 Stolpelsteine — so-called stumbling stones embedded in the pavement that memorialize spots where Jews had lived before the Holocaust. Galina Levina, an architect from Belarus, saw them and froze. The tiles stated the Jews named on them had been deported from Frankfurt to Minsk, where Levina lives.
"During the Second World War, Jews from Germany, Austria, the former Czechoslovakia and Poland were deported to and killed in the Minsk ghetto and the Maly Trostenets extermination camp," she explains in an email.
"I was at the end point, where the fates of the 22 names listed on these tiles had been broken," she says. "The last thing these people saw was the sky of Belarus."
It is a great responsibility for those who live freely under the sky of Belarus today "to preserve the memory of the names and fates of the Holocaust victims and all the events of the Shoah."
Levina, 53, has a quiet, disciplined presence. She carries out that responsibility as an architect and as first vice-chairman of the Union of Belarusian Jewish Public Organizations and Communities, an umbrella group for the ex-Soviet republic's 60,000 Jews.
She also acts as the daughter of Leonid Levin, the union's chairman until his death in 2014 and a prominent architect and artist. Levin's work included designing Holocaust memorials around Belarus.
"Father had planned to carry out the project of a monument in Trostenets, in the place where the Jews from Minsk and European countries, partisans and civilians were exterminated," Levina says. "I am working on this project together with a group of architects and sculptors. It is the duty of memory for me. Not only is it a monument — it is also great public activity to preserve the historical memory and explore the fates of the perished."
Levina says that her Jewish community, while different than it was before the Holocaust, "is different nowadays, but it is developing after passing what seemed to be the point of no return."
Wodzinski, watching Jewish life unfold from Poland, agrees.
"I've heard this story of the end of Eastern European Jewry so many times for nearly 40 years. It is certainly in process of transformation. It needs to reinvent itself, but I'm confident it will develop and thrive."
When Eastern European economies improve, he predicts, they'll act as a magnet for Israelis and other Jews, just as Berlin is today.
"There are also still East Europeans who search for their Jewish identity," he says. "Even if not all of them become really Jewish, I'm confident some of them will and they will make a new chapter of Eastern European Jewry."
David Holzel is a senior writer for Washington Jewish Week. He can be reached at dholzel@midatlanticmedia.com.


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1) Caïna is a one-man band, from the United Kingdom (Hampshire / Sussex, England) and created by Andy, known as "A" on early releases. Stylistically drawing from influences as disparate as black and death Metal, drone, dream-pop/shoegaze, neofolk and post-rock, each Caïna release is designed to be a distinct entity with it's own palette and mood. Amongst the project's lyrical themes are English myths and legends, literature, the repudiation of religion and the exultation of the individual.
Caïna Discography :
When We Are Grown, We Will Be Strong (EP / 2005)
Age of Thorns (an anti-monotheistic hate monument) (Split / 2006)
The Cold Taste of Perdition (EP / 2006)
The King Beneath (EP / 2006)
Some People Fall (CD / 2006)
I, Mountain (EP / 2007)
Mourner (Full length CD / 2007)
The Heart of the Master (EP / 2007)
Temporary Antennae (Full-length CD/2008)
Krieg/Caïna (split 7"/2009)
Caïna/Process of Guilt (split 10"/2009)
Caïna (EP/2009)
Will Over Worlds (Compilation CD/2011)
Hands that Pluck (Full-length 2CD/2011)
White Medal/Caïna (split/2011)
2) There's also a French band called Caïna, they play celtico-gypsy rock. For more information : http://www.myspace.com/groupecaina/
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Berkman became Florida's all-time leading scorer last week, while helping his team to a District Championship. Honorable Mentions this week hail from Chatham (N.J.), Boys' Latin (Md.), Loyola-Blakefield (Md.), Landon (Md.), First Academy (Fla.), St. Mary's (Md.), Darien (Conn.), Radnor (Pa.), Episcopal Dallas (Texas), Mountain Lakes (N.J.), Loyola Academy (Ill.) and Haverford School (Pa.).
In addition to Davidson's victory, coaches from New Fairfield (Conn.), Central Bucks East (Pa.), Loyola Academy (Ill.), St. Francis DeSales (Ohio) and Severna Park (Md.) are featured today. Plus, 19 players are added to the Stylax Stat Leaders update.


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Amid concerns over the widening trade deficit, India today hoped that China will open up its market to Indian companies and promised to make it easier for Chinese firms to do business in India.
"A critical change in nature of our bilateral ties over the last few decades has been its growing economic dimension. China is today our largest partner in trade in goods. The two economies are moving to invest each other," External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said.
"Serious discussions on enhancing connectivity have been initiated. On that foundation, we are now seeking to take our economic cooperation to a qualitatively new level," she said addressing the the second India-China Media Forum.
Swaraj said the 'Closer Development Partnership' agreed upon during President Xi Jinping's visit to India in September last year symbolises the resolve to enhance economic ties.
She said a significant new area of collaboration include railways sector where the two countries are cooperating in areas like heavy haulage, speed upgradation, station development and capacity building.
"Another major thrust is in establishing industrial parks in two Indian states that would contribute to the 'Make in India' initiative," she said.
"We will make it easier for Chinese companies to do business in India and expect that similar encouragement would be given to our companies to expand their business in China," Swaraj, who arrived here yesterday on a four-day visit, said.
China has promised to address the USD 38 billion deficit in over USD 70 billion bilateral trade in 2014 and the issue will feature during Swaraj's talks with top Chinese leaders.
"We expect that the momentum that has been set in the last few months would not only be kept up but accelerated event further at various levels," Swaraj said.
Tomorrow she will launch the '2015: Visit India Year' in China.
Describing tourism is an effective vehicle to promote people-to-people understanding, she said the two countries have agreed that they need to make stronger efforts in that regard.
"As both our countries play a larger international role, our contacts and dialogues must commensurately grow. As the two major civilisational powers of Asia we should have confidence in each other, to build on our shared interests. I expect discussions during this visit to contribute to this objective," she said.


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In late 2010, a supporter of Nepal Jaroslav Volsicky and his wife Martina decided to contribute to the construction of another elementary school in Nepal. Namaste Nepal donated to match the final sum for the construction of the 24th school in Nepal mediated by Development of Children and Woman Centre Foundation. Located on the hill above the village Chhyarpa at Gauswara, Ramechhap district, which lies on the foothills of the Himalayas, about 65 km east of Kathmandu. New walls of Chhyarpa school started to grow in March 2011. This is already the second school to be financed by money from the Czech Republic. Its name is Siddhartha Primary School.
New school in Chhyarpa was officially opened on the 18th March 2012.
Big thanks to all those who contributed to its construction. (photo gallery from the opening ceremony)
Further details on the construction of schools as well as related projects can be found on the website Chhyarpa Siddhartha Primary School (in English only).
Photos: Akka Lama, Tomáš Beránek, Jarda Volšický, Jakub Moravec © 2011


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Bamboo, today's hottest pinoy rock sensation, is composed of Bamboo Mañalac and Nathan Azarcon on bass, both ex-Rivermaya members, and Ira Cruz on guitars and Vic Mercado on drums, both former instrumentalists of the Passage Band.
This band is an alternative rock band founded by the ex-vocalist of the Rivermaya band, Bamboo Mañalac, on the year 2002 and was also named after him. He serves as the band's frontman.
Mañalac and Azarcon, four years after they left Rivermaya, met again and Azarcon introduced him to Ira Cruz and Vic Mercado who were then members of the pop ballad band, Passage. Eventually, the four became friends and formed a new group which is now known as "Bamboo".
In February 2004, Bamboo launched their debut album, As the Music Plays, and it received a positive response from both fans and critics. The album garnered numerous awards at the AWIT Awards, NU107 Rock Awards, and MTV Awards 2004.
Light Peace Love, their second album, was released in 2005. It consists of ten songs which only took 3 months to record and it has differing moods and subjects. This album has a softer sound in both its lyrics and the way it was delivered. For this album, the band added more strings and some instruments, including a trumpet and used other styles that may catch the taste of new listeners. This was done with the risk of disappointing the fans of their first album which has a more conservative rock style.
Their third album, We Stand Alone Together, was released in 2007. It contains the revived local songs which includes Cabangon's "Tatsulok" and international songs such as Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" from different generations. It also includes bonus tracks like unplugged versions of their hit songs from the previous albums such as "Mr. Clay", "These Days", and "Hallelujah". Opting to do away with the conventional rock image that was attached to the band, they produced sounds which were more jazzy than expected.
Backed up by ABS-CBN TV Production and MYX, Star Records produced and created the official soundtrack for the tele-epiko "ROUNIN", wherein the title track "Argos" was performed by Bamboo. Argos is said to be the band's first venture to record a song for a primetime television show. It is also the first time for the multi-awarded band and Star Records to work together.
The band, together with Gary Valenciano, was part of the "Days of Peace" campaign by UNICEF.
SOP Music Awards 2005
Strictly Alternative Category Winner: "Hallelujah" - Bamboo
SOP Pasiklaband 2006
Best Rock Band: BambooVocalist of the Year: Bamboo Mañalac
MTV Pilipinas 2004 Music Awards
Favorite New Artist/Group: Bamboo for "Noypi"
Favorite Song: "Noypi" - Bamboo
Favorite Group: Bamboo for "Noypi"
Favorite Media Soundtrack: "Fiesta Amazing" (Smart) - Bamboo
Best Cinematography in a Video: Bamboo for "Much Has Been Said"
18th Awit Awards 2005
Best Performance by a New Group Recording Artist: "Noypi" - Bamboo
Best Rock Song: "Noypi" - Bamboo
People's Choice Favorite Song: "Noypi" - Bamboo
Album of the Year: Light Peace Love - Bamboo
Best Performance by a Group: Bamboo
Song of the Year: "Hallelujah" - Bamboo
Best Ballad: "Much Has Been Said" - Bamboo
Best Rock Song: "Hallelujah" - Bamboo
People's Choice Award: Bamboo
Most Promising Entertainer: Bamboo
NU Rock Awards 2004
Vocalist of the Year: Bamboo Mañalac
Song of the Year: "Noypi" - Bamboo
Drummer of the Year: Vic Mercado of Bamboo
Listeners' Choice Award: Bamboo
Band of the Year: Bamboo
93.1 RX Year End Awards 2004
Song of the Year: "Masaya" - Bamboo
New Local Artist of the Year: Bamboo
Local Group of the Year: Bamboo
89.9 TM Year End Awards 2004
Songs from Bamboo Band
Alpha Beta Omega
I-You
Mr. Clay
Peace Man
Probinsyana
Tatsulok
Dinner At 6
Much Had Been Said
Prayer For The Dying
War of Hearts and Minds
As The Music Plays Our Band
Hudas
Noypi
Pride and the Flame


Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan have succeeded in inducing human embryonic stem cells to self-organize into a three-dimensional structure similar to the cerebellum, providing tantalizing clues in the quest to recreate neural structures in the laboratory. One of the primary goals of stem-cell research is to be able to replace damaged body parts with tissues grown from undifferentiated stem cells. For the nervous system, this is a particular challenge because not only do specific neurons need to be generated, but they must also be coaxed into connecting to each other in very specific ways.
RIKEN researchers have taken up this challenge, and the work published in Cell Reports details how sequentially applying several signaling molecules to three-dimensional cultures of human embryotic stem cells prompts the cells to differentiate into functioning cerebellar neurons that self-organize to form the proper dorsal/ventral patterning and multi-layer structure found in the natural developing cerebellum.
Expanding from their previous studies with mice, the researchers first established that under specific conditions, culturing human embryonic stem cells with fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) leads to neural differentiation particular to the midbrain/hindbrain region—the location of the cerebellum—within three weeks, and the expression of markers for the cerebellar plate neuroepithelium—the part of the developing nervous system specific for the cerebellum—within five. These cells also showed early markers that are specific to developing Purkinje cells, granule cells, or deep cerebellar projection neurons—all types of neurons only found in the cerebellum.
The researchers then looked for mature cerebellar neurons. They found that cells treated with FGF2 expressed late Purkinje-cell markers and developed structures characteristic of those cells. Electrophysiological recordings of these cells after culture for about 15 weeks revealed proper responses to currents and to inhibition of receptors needed for normal cerebellar signaling, indicating that function had developed along with structure. Some FGF2-treated cells also expressed markers for the rhombic lip—the structure from which granule cells develop and migrate, and a marker specific to migrating granule precursors by week seven. Moreover, cells were seen to migrate and extend fibers that bent to form the T-shape characteristic of granule cell parallel fibers.
Where these neurons form and how they locate in relation to each other is critical in the developing brain. Early in cerebellar development, particular cell types become distributed unevenly from top to bottom, creating a dorsal-ventral separation. Researchers tested several factors, and found that adding FGF19 around day 14 to the FGF2-treated cells caused several flat oval neuroepithelium to form by day 35, expressing dorsal-specific markers on the outside and ventral-specific markers on the inside. By adding stromal cell-derived factor 1 (SDF1) between days 28-35, they were able to generate a continuous neuroepithelial structure with dorsal-ventral polarity.
SDF1 also induced two other important structural changes. The dorsal region spontaneously developed three layers along the dorsal-ventral axis: the ventricular zone, a Purkinje-cell precursor zone, and a rhombic lip zone. At one end of the neuroepithelium, a region developed that was positive for markers of progenitors of granule and deep cerebellar nuclei projection neurons and negative for Purkinje-cell markers, and whose origins could be traced to the rhombic lip zone of the cerebellar plate.
CALB and L7 are Purkinje-cell specific late markers. GRID2 is a marker for a Purkinje-specific glutamate receptor. LHX5 is a marker for the early Purkinje cells.
Fibers extend radially (left) on day 5 and bend to form characteristic T-shape morphology on day 8 (right). Magenta arrowheads and arrow show the parallel fiber-like axon and the branch point, respectively. Blue arrowheads indicate the trailing process of the reoriented cell.
(Left) A clear separation can be seen with the outer side expressing dorsal-specific markers (KIRREL2), while the inner side expresses ventral-specific ones (FOXA2, NKX6.1). (Right) A schematic of the self-patterned neuroepithelium induced by adding FGF19 to the FGF2-treated cells.
(Top left) Continuous neuroepithelium with a rhombic lip-like region. (Top right) A closer look shows the development of a layered structure with KIRREL2 cells on the apical side and SKOR2 cells located more basaly. (Bottom left) Schematic of the three zones in the laminar structure. RLZ, rhombic lip zone; PCPZ, Purkinje cell precursor zone; VZ, ventricular zone. (Bottom right) A close-up of the rhombic lip-like germinal zone showing markers for granule and deep cerebellar nuclei projection cells.


My name is Angel and I am 15 years old, going into 10th grade. I have lived in Old Harbor for about 8 years and I wanted to join the project because I am interested in learning what life was like in the area over the past several hundred years. I also wanted to learn more about my culture's history and to see what old houses and artifacts look like.


Firstly, thank you very much respectful Professor, with all your valuable knowledge and cares, we have completed very useful course in Business Strategy Game, based on simulation which is interesting, competitive with lots of lessons and knowledge we gain for business, financial analytics, marketing, production, HR and also business ethics.
We have for the first time experienced making lots of big decision in business strategy, any of the decision affect company operation immediately, not only for the nature of decisions but also for the competitive decisions from competing groups. We have learnt a lots of lessons from the BSG game, also from the guides of teachers and strategies from other groups.
We now preparing this report to present in front of Board of Directors, to show what we have done, why we do so, to explain what we think are good decisions and also what we will change in the future to make better decision, and improving G-Company's performance.
We set the vision to become a leading company in foot ware industry, providing largest collections of foot ware products, with high quality and reasonable prices. We followed the strategies of high Style/Quality, largest models collection and competitive prices with production networks worldwide. We have pursued this strategy by applying from 5 to 7 stars, and 500 models at USD 63.00 for Internet market and USD 54, 56, 52 and 55 in NA, EA, AP and LA respectively.
The G-company employed a global differentiation strategy that sets the company's footwear apart from rival brands based on such attributes as a higher S/Q rating, more models/styles, more advertising, greater celebrity appeal, higher mail-in rebates, or a bigger network of retail outlets carrying the company's brand. We selected this global differentiation strategy because we see the good potential in market shares, large market segments for high quality shoes, and with long term strategy of large scale production we can have good production costs which bring good margins. We also notice that production of good quality, above average S/Q bring good values for customers, good margins for retailers and more jobs, with factory capacity expansion regularly. Higher sales bring higher Net Profit which meet the demand from Investors and also increase market shares, strengthening Image of the company. We set the plan of increasing all the factors such as EPS, ROR and Stock Price and also Credit Rating and Image Rating higher than Investor Expectation for all the Years.
We followed the strategy over years, especially from Year 14-18, we provide the market with the best price for value, we maintain highest quality and style, keeping the price just 15% higher than market average. However, we focus on the Investor Expectation, the highest ROE or Return on Investment, also the Net Profit and other factors such as Credit Rating, Image Rating and EPS or Earning Per Share. The last but not least factor we keep increasing is Stock Price. That we cannot be seen until the results of each year. We keep other factor increasing so that Stock Price will be increased every years.
We applied the Price from 48, 49 and 51, 54 over the years. We just get 15% higher than Industry Average and also adjust the Price to get 5-6 USD of margin per pair of shoes. We also apply the S/Q of High End, keep it 1 star over Industry Average. We see that we can keep it moving up to 9 or 10 stars toward the end of the year 20. After bad results of Year 11, 12 and 13, we notice we need strong advertising to sell enough capacity, so we always spend 200% of Industry Average for Advertising, about 16.000 to 24.000 in Year 18.
In anticipation of market growth, also following the strategy of high end market, we upgraded the factory and borrow money to expand factory in A.P.
Looking back at 8 years, we still have more things that we could do better for long term strategy. The first thing is upgrading the factory in Option C, so that in later years, such as 16, 17 and 18 we could have more S/Q or Style and Quality advantage, because we follow High End markets.
The second thing we could do better is build a new factory in L.A, if we do so, when the exchange rate so high, we could save more cost in shipping from A.P to L.A. This is to take advantage of the absence of tariffs for shipping between these regions.
We have also contracted with several celebrity, always higher than average, with quite a large investment. We recognize that they help selling more products, we can get higher market shares and we can increase Image Rating.
The margins in Internet market is high, we notice this can bring higher than 10 million in Net Profit, each pair of shoes get higher than 15 USD margin, so that we keep lower price than Industry Average to sell more and get over 25% market share of each market.
We also expand factory to get market shares in Private Label market, we know that these Private Market is risky, and fluctuate high over the years. But we still keep 10% -20% for this markets, we can get market shares, some Net Profit, increasing Image Rating and also keep control of other companies bidding too high in this markets.
Quality: We continuously strive to improve our products to provide quality shoes great image and comfort.
We notice a big lesson from Quality management, even we lead the game for a few years, and stay top 2 in Year 18. We did notice the WRONG decision from early years that we cannot fix. We upgraded AP factory in B and D. We should have upgraded C – because we followed the High S/Q strategy in later years. But we have done well enough to get up from Year 13 and keep top to the end of the game. If we have more years, we could possibly have done better ! (In fact, we upgraded NA factory in A and D, factory in AP in B and D, we did that too early in Year 11 and 12, when we know the strategy better, we cannot change back).
Customer Centered: Our customers are at the center of our strategy and decisions. We intend to exceed the expectation of our customers and we can achieve this when our strategy is focused on our customers and we strive to provide our customers with quality product at affordable prices.
We offered higher number of models, 500 vs. 320 of Industry Average, and 7 S/Q vs. 6 of Ind. Avg. We also advertised strongly. At the same time, we applied reasonable prices with less than 15% compared with Ind. Avg. eg. 54 vs. 48 in NA; 56 vs. 50 in EA; 52 vs. 46 in AP and 55 vs. 52 in LA.
Employees: Our employees are one group of people who drive our company. Therefore, we are committed to retaining, develop and improve their performances to ensure sustained growth.
We believe that workers are key to quality of the company, and invest strongly in our people.
The Environment: Our Company places significant emphasis on the environment. As such, we ensure that our activities do not inflict any harm on the environment. We invested in the Use of Recycled Boxing/Packaging, Training Ethics and Workforce Diversity Program for all the years.
Flexibility: Over the years we have tried to develop our products to meet the requirement of our customers. We keep high Retailer Support all the years, keep high Margin per pair of shoes in all markets, from 13, 19, 13, and 16 in NA, EA, AP and LA respectively.
During this first three years, from Year 11-12-13 we did not focus on a good strategy, we just keep 200 models, price up and down a little bit, e.g. 48, 52 and 49 per pair of shoes. We also did not have a clear advertising strategy, so we just give 7.000; 6.000; 8.000 with the hope of selling products. Therefore, after 3 first years, we get very normal Net Profit of only 26 million, nearly no change from Year 10. Which caused our G-Company down to 4th position, with only 70/100 Investor Expectation.
We noticed that we need to focus to get a good and strong strategy for Year 14 to get back the company performance and efficiency. We get the company up from Years 13 by several strategies at the same time, which proved very successful, we jumped up from 4th to 1st in Year 14, although, over all game we still number 4. We get up to Top in both Score boards in Year 15, and 16 and 2nd in 17 and back to top in 18. If we have 2 more years, we hope that we can continued with different strategies. We always look carefully at FOOTWARE INDUSTRY REPORT, Page 5: Financial Summary to see details of Financial Status after every Year, Net Profit of year 13 is only 26.075.000 is not so good, we stayed the same from year 11 when in charge of the company. At least we should get 15% of increase every year to meet the market growth and Investor Expectation. So, in Year 14 we should get 50-60 million of Net Profit to meet Investor Expectation. So, we changed the strategy to get higher margin, sell full capacity.
- Keep price just higher then Ind. Avg. to get higher margin, but keep high Sales volume, so that we have high market shares, which increase Image.
- Apply very heavy advertising, often 200% of Ind. Avg. because we are in 4th position, so we need to advertise more than other top 3. Then we keep continue advertising strongly and one of the key strategy.


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Jigger's Hill and Harbour Diner
Temptifying Johnnycakes!
145 Main Street, East Greenwich
www.hillandharbourdiner.com
Jigger's traces its pedigree back to Lindy's, a restaurant opened by Vilgot "Jigger" Lindberg in 1917. It was located just north of a lunch cart which sat on the plot of land that Jigger's occupies today. Jigger bought the lunch cart around 1920 and sold so many hot dogs and hamburgers that he was able to replace it with a bigger diner in 1929 (Worcester Lunchcar #632). The larger space allowed Jigger to serve full dinners, increasing the popularity of his business in the 1930s to the point where, reportedly, "people would stand three deep behind the stools and even pass meals through a diner window to the small restaurant next door."
Jigger sold the business in 1941, after which it had a succession of owners. In 1950 the smaller diner was replaced with the present building, a thirty-six-seat 1947 Worcester Lunch Car (#826). Jigger's closed in 1983, and for the next decade was used to store paint for a nearby hardware store. Jigger's savior arrived in the early 1990s in the person of Carol Shriner, an entrepreneur and natural foods enthusiast, who made the rescue of the abandoned diner her personal mission.
Beginning in January 1992, Shriner restored the interior, retaining many of the original elements, like the green stools, the beige refrigerator locker doors, and the red clock. Jigger's reopened later the same year, ready to serve the greasy spoon needs of a new generation of patrons.
The menu includes a lot of creative takes on diner food�like cranberry and gingerbread pancakes, ham and portobello strata, and the Vermonticristo (three pieces of raisin French toast sandwiched with ham and cheddar cheese) �as well as the basic stuff. Ordering Jigger's Special will get you three temptifying johnnycakes along with two eggs and two diner-made sausage patties. A 1999 Providence Phoenix review praised the "creamy insides, crusty edges and non-sweet, flint-corn taste" of the johnnycakes, and we've rather enjoyed them, too.
Jigger's is now owned by Johnson & Wales-trained Iva Reynhout, who purchased the diner from Carol Shriner in 2000. Reynhout ably carries on with the diner's creative culinary tradition and, as she told the New York Times in 2007, has at least one additional goal: "I hope I can do it until the business is one hundred years old."
Reopening December 18, 2010, after a four month hiatus due to tax problems, Jigger's is scheduled to be open 6am to 1pm on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays until further notice.
Rhode Island Monthly's Best of Rhode Island: Best Pancakes (1995), Best Diner Dinner (2004).
Rhode Island Monthly's Readers' Poll: Best Diner in the West Bay (1994-1996, 2001-2004, 2009-2010), Best Breakfast Place (2003), Best Breakfast in the West Bay (2006).
Posted by Laury C on April 7, 2007
If you want to impress your date with your sense of style, your cutting edge chic, or your romantic charm, you might want to pass on Jigger's. But if you're looking for a good meal at a good price, in very modest surroundings, with the economy of BYOB to boot, Jigger's on Friday Night is a good bet. The menu is limited but innovative, with a couple of old standbys. One of them, the fish and chips, is among the very best in RI, which is saying a lot. Expect a wait if you arrive after 6.
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Let's count down the 10 worst teams in modern Ole Miss football history
We've got to run out the clock on this summer somehow, so let's revisit some old nightmares.
By Gray Hardison Jul 1, 2016, 2:25pm EDT
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If you've been a fan of Ole Miss football for any significant stretch, you're quite familiar with the emotional whiplash related to that commitment and drain on your life expectancy. One minute you're drinking Dallas dry at back-to-back Cotton Bowls for the first time in 50 years (FIF-TY! FIF-TY!), and the next you're babbling incoherently as you lie facedown in a drainage ditch after one SEC win over two years (TWO! TWO!).
Right now, thanks to BEARS BE CHEATIN, times are very good. But as the scars on your psyche should remind you ("Can't wait to see the backups play against Jacksonville State!"), times have been much, much worse. In order to better appreciate how #blessed we Ole Miss fans are right now, we need to look back at some of the truly horrible football seasons in program history.
Since we don't have anything better to do over the rest of the summer, we'll be going back through the 10 worst teams in modern-ish Ole Miss football history.
This countdown will only include teams from the Billy Brewer era to present day because 1) I am lazy and care not for the research involved in all of that, and 2) it's more enjoyable to discuss teams that are more fresh in the minds of the majority of Ole Miss fans. However, I do find it impressive the 1905 team did not score a point (0-2) and the 1907 team was outscored 195-6 (0-6; almost beat Missouri Normal to avoid the winless season).
We'll typically just do one team/season per article, but we're gonna get things rolling by knocking out three in the first installment: the 1984, 1985 and 1987 Billy Brewer teams. Since these teams played 30 years ago, first-hand experience and audiovisual entertainment are somewhat lacking, so they get to share a post, like they shared misery.
10) 1984 (4-6-1 overall, 1-5 SEC)
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Though this team was only outscored by nine points overall, the difference in SEC play was 148-115, which is a good way to only win one conference game. If you look at the schedule, you'll notice that they played five non-conference games and only one SEC game in Oxford, which, if that happened today, would lead to a mob physically removing the athletic director from his office, throwing him in a dumpster, pushing the dumpster into a lake, and then setting the lake on fire.
As for that lone Oxford SEC game, behold the majesty of 1980s Ole Miss football!
The really depressing part is that the stadium was still six years away from getting lights and would look essentially the same for another 14 years. But in not-as-depressing images, a blurry shot of Dog Brewer walking the team through The Grove.
Point deductions for waiting until he got in the stadium to put on his red pants.
The 1984 team was also the last Ole Miss team to play Southern Mississippi, because if the Rebels were going to keep losing to a Conference USA-like team, they'll damn well do it an hour from home in the Liberty Bowl.
Finally, the Egg Bowl that year was between two teams with one SEC win between them (Mississippi State upset LSU the week before), yet the powers that be decided it was a game worthy of appearing on televisions across our fine land. After countless Google searches, I am unable to confirm if these TV executives were later indicted for war crimes.
9) 1985 (4-6-1 overall, 2-4 SEC)
Quite an impressive feat to score 115 points in SEC games for the second straight year (while giving up 172; SEC margin of defeat jumped from 5.5 points/game to 9.5) and post the same bizarre 4-6-1 record. After a little bit of research, I learned it was a season of very odd things.
First, in the second game of the season against Arkansas in Jackson, your halftime score:
WE'VE GOT A FIVER, PEOPLE.
But the madness didn't stop there.
WE'VE GOT AN ELEVENER, PEOPLE.
Could that be topped?
Never doubt the power of a football program that has the ability to throw up consecutive 4-6-1 seasons.
It's also worth noting that in an era when most offenses considered passing an extension of the DANG LIBERAL AGENDA, Ole Miss was out-rushed 2,032 to 971 and averaged 2.4 yards/carry FOR THE SEASON. In an effort to overcome that ground game deficit, five separate players for the Rebels combined to throw 16 interceptions.
8) 1987 (3-8 overall, 1-5 SEC)
After the 1986 season, Ole Miss was placed on probation (Billy Brewer's first experience, but not his last), which set the tone for what would be a brutal year. Outscored in SEC games 207-108 (average loss of 34.5-18), there were very few causes for celebration in the fall of 1987, outside of thrashing what must've been a miserable Vanderbilt team.
Highlights from that season include losing to Kentucky 35-6 (and quarterback Mark Young throwing four interceptions in the process), remembering what one of the end zones at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium looked like:
And fans showing up for non-conference games like it was Ed Orgeron's last year in Oxford:
THE COUNTDOWN OF SADNESS: Remembering the worst teams in modern Ole Miss history
The saddest season: Hooty Dale burns it all down in 2011
Nos. 8-10: Billy Brewer had some rough years


> I am intrigued by the proposition but a word of caution; brooklyn is trickier and the immediate rationale is not as clear. I have been away from new york alot recently and am currently in georgia for the troy davis funeral, which was yesterday but the make up of the occupation would need to be different. We also admit the world as it is, this society as it is, not as we would desIre it. And, we have to acknowledge the great disparities in necessities Based on race and nationalities, and the greatly disproportionate levels of oppressed peoples who are in dire circumstances. Brooklyn is a borough mainly of people of color, so there is the need to be in solidarity with the most oppressed n mOst dispossessed and we must reflect that in the march and not be insensitive and not run the risk of angering communities we need to take pains to include. Writing from a phone, sorry for capitalizations and duplications. Will return monnday and will see you alll downtown.
>> Be cool next March we have more numbers and actually the take Brooklyn Bridge, cross into BK have the first GA for #Occupythehood, #OcccupyBrooklyn, or whatever.
Groups "No Budget Cuts NY--Announcements" group.


Bedrijfs Autobus Museum Utrecht (BAMU) was founded in 1988. BAMU offered rides through the city of Utrecht (The Netherlands). The museum buses could also be hired. The museum was closed in 1996.
The blue ticket was for a ride around Beukenburg estate in the Netherlands. The ticket depicts GEVU 101 which was built in 1954. This bus was scrapped in 1971. It has never been a museum bus.
The black and white ticket was for a (special) ride between two schools in Bilthoven (near Utrecht). The two schools were merging. Depicted on this ticket is GVU 27. Both tickets are issued around 1995.
BAMU had several buses. Parts of GVU 31 were used to keep GVU 27 roadworthy.


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Ryan Reynolds Speaks Warmly After Betty White Who He Joked About Having a Crush On: "We'll Miss You"
Ryan Reynold is in mourning too.
The actor has always joked about how he crushes on Betty White, and now he has taken to his Twitter to speak warmly about her following the news of her death.
Only recently, the actor called out media houses for continually talking about his supposed romantic relationship with Betty White, a hilarious response which came after White had jokingly referenced Reynold's unrequited love for her. "I've heard Ryan can't get over his thing for me," she quipped to People magazine, "but Robert Redford is The One."
When Reynolds caught wind of White's comments and, he decided to further the joke on Twitter. "I'm absolutely sick of the media exploiting past relationships just to drive clicks," he quote-tweeted the People article.
Now, he mourns her: "The world looks different now. She was great at defying expectation. She managed to grow very old and somehow, not old enough. We'll miss you, Betty. Now you know the secret."
See his tweet:
Pharrell Replies After Rapper 21 Savage Called Him the "King of Drip"
Steve Harvey Shares His Thoughts About Daughter Lori Harvey's Relationship With Michael B. Jordan
2022 Grammys Rescheduled for April in Las Vegas
Fashion Icon and Former Vogue Editor, André Leon Talley, Dead at 73


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You've seen the four-year-old dressed up as Dolly Parton (complete with "enhancements"), right? And, of course, you've seen the images of the three-year-old dressed up as Julia Roberts' prostitute character from Pretty Woman, haven't you?
Judging by the ratings for TLC's fourth season of Toddlers & Tiaras, it seems you have. Each week over two million people tune in to watch the series. The show, which premiered almost three years ago in January 2009, has always been talked about. But over the past month it has shot into the stratosphere of pop culture. Not since the death of JonBenét Ramsey have child beauty pageants received so much media coverage. This week, for example, the cover of People features five-year-old Madisyn (aka Maddy) Verst -- little "Dolly Parton" dolled up in her cupcake beauty pageant dress -- and asks, "Gone Too Far?"
As Wednesday night's season finale of Toddlers & Tiaras made clear, pageant moms are acutely aware of the television cameras. One mother harshly whispered into her five-year-old daughter's ear during an at-home practice session: "We are on camera. Don't you dare tell me 'no' one more time. Do you hear me? We are on national TV. Everybody's going to see this. Do you hear me?" After her daughter, Carley, said, "Yeah," her mom immediately pasted a smile on her face and declared in a kinder tone, "Ok. We're doing the Cruella de Vil run through. I want this..." But Carley cut her off declaring, "You are driving me crazy!"
Mommie Dearest-like scenes are decidedly uncomfortable to watch, though that doesn't mean we should go to the extreme of banning child beauty pageants outright. Activists recently tried this approach in Australia after the introduction of "American-style" child beauty pageants in July. But they were unsuccessful and the pageant show went on.
Hilary Levey Friedman, PhD is a Harvard sociologist and writer who studies American childhood, particularly competitive afterschool activities -- including child beauty pageants.


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Friday June 24, 2022 08:00 PM EDT 06/24/2022 8:00 PM
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The Hip Hopera Performance
By Jeghetto's Entertainment of Durham, NC
Using music, video, and magical marionettes, the show spins the story to which its title and Jeghetto's moniker refer into an Afrofuturist parable about a robot that longs to be a real B-boy in a post-apocalyptic future. The 5P1N0K10 universe takes the stage. This Hip Hopera created by Jeghetto and co-written by Pierce Freelon was awarded grants from the Henson Foundation two years in a row.
Performance attendees will be transported to an Afro-futuristic post-apocalyptic realm. Puppets by Jeghetto, original score by Hip Hop producer Hir-O.
Photo by J Caldwell
At Center For Puppetry Arts
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then when spiritual directees find themselves without words or are drawn to creative expression, they can follow and expand on Clarence Heller's example and paint, watercolor, sketch, cut out shapes, or play with color using paper, fabric, or nature to manifest God's abiding presence. How often does a spiritual director ask the question, "How and where is God in this experience?" Art can reveal untapped ways of discovering answers and insight. Heller offers many expressions of wisdom and invitations for contemplation between the covers of Everyday Sacred: Meditations and Paintings to Inspire Reflection and Prayer. His works of art, created by using his "non-dominant hand and fingerpaints" (xi), are bright, bold, colorful expressions of the way that God moves in his life. They draw the observer in to discover the depths of his soul, which he shares with spiritual power and vulnerability.
His poem How Often speaks truthfully to any spiritual directee who is willing to listen: "How often / the person God / is most inviting / us to love / is ourselves" (35). Who is this God who wants us to love ourselves? Heller speaks to a "mysterious God" (28), a "glorious God" (24) who beams with delight at what God has done and is doing (24), a "God who gives us a taste of heaven" (40), and "the Mother Father God" (45). He relates putting a hand over the heart in order to hear the pulsing of God's "I love you" again and again (25). It takes a spiritual directee willing to feel her own heart beat and a spiritual director with keen listening skills and an open spirit to not only recognize but also celebrate the profound, passionate love experience that God offers. Heller's poetry touches those deeply rooted places within us and begs the reader to sit and be still with the words, the emotions, and the possibility that remain hidden yet willing to be revealed. His poems flow into the soul and spring forth with a refreshed knowing that becomes prayer.
Everyday Sacred uses the very stuff of our ordinary lives and acknowledges the Sacred is manifest in nature, home, family, Jesus, holy communion, church, and living in the present moment—the chapters of the book. Heller's work is conveyed with humility and holy words, both of which are essential to the process of spiritual direction and formation. Only in that place of humility can both the spiritual director and directee hear the sacred whispering of the Holy Spirit.
Bobbie Bonk, MA, is a spiritual director and retreat facilitator living in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. Through additional training in workshops for adult survivors of childhood abuse led by Mary's Hope and advanced certification in "Soul Healing for the Spiritual Director," she has enhanced her spiritual direction training from The Center for Spirituality at Work in Denver, Colorado.


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It all started when I took my 5 year olds to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. The first exhibits we saw were in the Tasmanian Aboriginal themed room. They were full of questions (the 5 year olds, not the Aboriginals). My son asked why there was an illustration of a man shooting a brown man. I fumbled about with some kind of response involving the brown people living here forever and the white people coming and wanting their land and fighting them for it and how a lot of Aboriginal people were killed. All the Tasmanian ones died, I added as I realised it was my responsibility not to sugar coat it. Then I imagined Michael Mansell's knickers twisting and further added, the full blooded ones. Then a big sob came out of me and I blubbered and had to press the interactive button near the clap sticks, which was a mistake because clap sticks always make me feel kind of sad. My bewildered children took my hand and dragged me to the stuffed animal room where things were less uncomfortable (if slightly skanky). And with that, the can had popped and the worms came wriggling out right into my conscience, with frontal lobe seats.
Dreamtime (or apparently more correctly, Tjukurpa) refers to the time when Aboriginal ancestors sang the world into existence. (My romantic side jumps with joy at the beauty of it but again I see the stern faces of Aboriginals as I make fantasy of their truth). So, at the beginning of time, the spirit or totemic ancestors emerged from the earth. they were half human / half animal or plant and they moved across the barren, bare surface of the newborn land. As they went, they sang the names of elements of the landscape – the trees, the sand hills, rivers, mountains…and as the names were sung, the elements were formed. They sang people into existence too, and animals, water, air, fire, sun, moon and stars. Then, the work-weary spirits sank back into the ground, or rested as rocks, or mounds, trees or other landscape features, all returning to their state of sleep. The spirits that turned into landscape became sacred sites, to be seen only by initiated men.
The Dreaming The dreamtime continues on as 'the dreaming' in the spiritual lives of the Aboriginal people today. Every Aboriginal person has a dreaming; which particular dreaming depends on which dreamtime ancestor or totemic species they are descended from (i.e which ancestor's footprints were stepped on by their pregnant mother as her baby first kicked, which is known as 'spirit conception'.). So if an Aboriginal person tells you they have a honey ant dreaming, he means his totem is honey ant or he's a member of the honey ant clan. Any species can be a dreaming, including plants – and elements too.
Songlines Each totemic ancestor, while travelling and singing the country into existence, was thought to have scattered his song – it's words and musical notes – along the line of his footprints. These tracks became known as songlines or 'dreaming tracks'. If descendents know their song, they know their dreaming track and could always find their way across country without trespassing on another's territory or dreaming. These songlines criss-cross the whole of Australia; some are short, others traverse thousands of kilometres, through language and family groups. In the latter case, the lyrics of the song will change with the language, but the melody and rhythyms are recognisable to anyone with its particular dreaming. The songs are passed through generations without ever changing a word or a note, so that every man will forever know the boundaries of his land and always find his brothers – the people who share his dreaming. Aboriginal people don't believe country exists until it is seen and sung. And if a land is unsung – if its songs have been forgotten, it is dead land. To allow that to happen is the worst of all possible crimes, the avoidance of which is the central aim of Aboriginal spiritual life.
Sacred Sites Each songline is dotted with sacred sites, which are features of the landscape that hold a story of the dreamtime. For instance, a sandhill may be a resting lizard, or a waterhole might be where the lizard drank – or whatever the words or cadence of a song tells you. The distance between sacred sites is made up of stretches of song.
Walkabout To avoid the atrocity of unsung lands, Aboriginal men make ritual journeys, or go walkabout. This is not an excuse for bludging off work but a rite of passage in which adolescent males walk and live in their dreaming country for up to 6 months, unravelling the encrypted meanings of their dreaming tracks, recreating the creation and learning to keep the land the way it was and the way it should be. Older males go walkabout to spread messages between peoples, finding 'family' and to trade resources, gifts or ideas. In theory, a man could sing his way across Australia within his own terrirory so long as he knows the right tune. To sing the country over and over is to keep it fresh and alive.
Corroborees or the correct Aboriginal term, Caribberies, are another way the Aboriginal people keep the stories and songs of the Dreaming alive. They are like festivals of dance and song, held at night and commemorating something in the form of a ceremony. They can be public or private depending on the nature of the ceremony. Some, like initiations (where scary things happen to young men, not approriate for me to discuss) – are sacred and open to a select few. Others, like when the Elders decide it is time to sing a Songline in its entirety, can be more open. Musical instruments are used, costumes and body paint to help animate the dreamtime stories.
Aboriginal Elders are the older people, who possess the wisdom, spirit and skills to keep the stories told, the songs sung and the country as it shoud be. They are responsible for the teaching of such knowledge to younger generations, and to make decisions when it comes to their country. In most cases the elders make themselves accessible for consultation.
So this new understanding (which only touches on the complexity of it all) got me wondering about Port Douglas and just whose Songline I had stepped on or crossed (a crime once punishable with a good old spearing), whose traditional ownership I'd imposed my hooligan children on and whether a sleeping cockatoo has been decimated to make way for our hotel and it's 'lagoon' pool (complete with bleached sand imported from Stradbroke Island) by which I have sat my arse and sipped caprioskas (a sugary vodka delight not to be confused with the rummy mojito or Cuban highball).
I popped into an art gallery selling Aboringinal paintings and the grumpy bloke in there told me the closest clan would be the Kuku Yalangi, but that Port Douglas itself 'doesn't have much significance'. Ok so I had a name at last but what does 'doesn't have much significance' mean? Am I holidaying on unsung lands? I left the bloke to his grumps and resorted to my ever-reliable mate Google.
In Google land I found that the land where Port Douglas was settled (by Sugar farmers and Gold miners in 1877) is known to be a meeting place between three Aboriginal groups and is significant in its connections to the wider countries and past Elders. It was a place of judgment, reverence, memorial and diplomacy (so big raspberries to you grumpy-gallery-man). I also found that an 'Indignenous Cultural Heritage Assessment of Port Douglas', commissioned in 2009 by the Cairns Coucil recommended that in accordance with the Aboriginal Cultural heritage Act of 2003, interpretive plaques should be placed at Port's significant sites, including Four Mile Beach, Flagstaff Hill, Rex Smead Park, the Sugar Wharf and at the site of the Sheraton Mirage.
So with my baby on my back (in the way, I fancied like the wanker that I can be, of the Kuku Yalangi women through the centuries – except maybe they didn't worry about the colour of their baby carrier matching their attire), I walked to the sites in search of plaques. At Rex Smead park I found that Rex Smead was a port Douglas councillor, not a strapping, muscular warrior of shimmering black (of course not, with a name like Smead). At Four Mile beach I found a sign saying "Jalun – Aboriginal for sea" and that was it. Flagstaff Hill, said to be a sacred site on the Rainbow Python Songline, had nothing but a few real estate signs and some deflated balloons hanging sadly from a ghost gum (deeply symbolic thought I morosly). I went and bought an $8 milkshake (!) and delved into Safari on my I-Phone. Turns out Port Douglas is thought – by the Aboriginal community – to be cursed. They don't visit there much and surely never buy houses there in case the curse causes sickness. The bad spirits are especially prolific on the South end of the beach and at the Mirage Resort. Evidently good old Skasey dug up a burial site, displaced bones, disgruntled the spirits and then denied everything. He died a pretty horrible death if we are to believe his wheezy claims of illness. And today, the Mirage is a sad, empty shell of a place with beautiful grounds and no one to show them to. It is about to be redeveloped under new ownership and Kuku Yalanji Elders have approached the new owner to talk about popping up some plaques to ackowledge the burial ground – they say this will put the spirits to rest and help break the curse. They are yet to hear back but jeez , I hope they do. I walked around the place feeling uneasy and won't rush back. And now my baby has a tummy bug damn you Skase. Bring on the plaques.
I did get some plaque satisfaction when I eventually got to Mossman Gorge. Here, the Kuku Yalanji are well and trully recognised, and all over the place. We passed an Aboriginal settlement, which I passed feeling all hyper-sensitive and songliney. On the Kuku Yalanji cultural tour I was fair bucked off my high horse by an affable, half Irish half Aboriginal tour guide called Rodney who cheerfully told us that the Dutch used rainforest cedar to build boats, and that we should all move forward.
Sorry Rodney, you almost had me but I'm not convinced; you were doing your job – very well, but the old bloke who gave the bird and a death-stare to a passing car in Mossman was more believable.
We've said sorry to the stolen generations (Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander children removed from their families without evidence of negelct or abuse). We've voided Terra Nullius – the idea that there is land that belongs to no one, leaving it open for settlement, which is why the English saw fit to park their arses over here in Australia. And in 1992, thanks to Eddie Mabo from the Torres Straight Islands, Native Title legislation was passed, enabling "the recognition by Australian law that some Indigenous people have rights and interests to their land that come from their traditional laws and customs" (there are now 500 or so native title claims in process).
But the truth is, our Aboriginal people and Torres Straight Islanders (around 2.5% of our population) are living in shamefully poor conditions. Their standard of living, while white Australia is ranked 4th on the UN scale, comes it at 103rd. Unemployment is high, their health is generally shithouse and so is their education. So, while the grand gestures are moving and meaningful, I think we need more than warm fuzzies.
Great wiitrng and great pictures TR… And I agre with the concept of art that you presented… :)To more "dreams"!
Thank you Star! I love that photo. I took it on our beach and the footprint looks all inside out – strange but good.
Meg, thank you for sharing your writing. Your Songlines vibrate well with my own tune and I hope could will do the same with many other New Australians from the first fleet to the latest arrivals by plane or boat. We all need to appreciate the depth of the original culture which was intimately connected with the land we all call home now. I think for the true reconciliation we need all heal out brains, our primitive reactivities with a common vision for the future. I would like to share your writing with others who might get inspiration from the white australian finding proper tracks to embrace black fellow's spirit.


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Cloudland Canyon is by far the most gorgeous state park that I have been to in Georgia. I took Friday to go hiking a few of the trails with my father and had to bring my camera. Located on the western edge of Lookout Mountain, the park straddles a deep gorge cut into the mountain by Sitton Gulch Creek. Two waterfalls cascade over layers of sandstone and shale into pools below, with their flow depending on recent rains. There are six main trails within the park; Bear Creek Backcountry Trail, a 2 mile Backcountry Trail, the Overlook Trail, West Rim Loop Trail, Sitton Gulch Trail and the Waterfalls Trail. We hiked down the Waterfalls Trail and connected a short way onto Sitton Gulch Trail. There is a combination gravel/dirt/mud path that leads down multiple staircases leading you from the rim and down into the base of the canyon. It was awesome!
Cloudland Canyon State Park on the western side of Lookout Mountain in Rising Fawn, Georgia on Friday, March 15, 2013.


Nicola is off galavanting so The Right Honourable Kerri French, Woodley parkrun ED, steps into her shoes. Kerri tells us about the first blind Run Director at Woodley whilst Danny gets back to running at Winchester parkrun. They announce another member of the 'Cowell Collective', wonder about a Tesco Clubcard and interview Paul 'Peej' Graham, the Bushy Juniors parkrun Event Director.
Shawty had them apple bottom jeans, boots with the fur. This week's show is also shawt. Nicola went to the Rotherham inaugural and was a big kid whilst Danny scanned tokens and hobnobbed at Beckton parkrun. There is also news of another record global parkrun turnout, two more 250 Club members and an amazing age grading.
Another record breaking attendance weekend in parkrunworld! Nicola wore some tinkly bells at Peter Pan parkrun in Hull whilst Danny was leaning on a crutch at Brighton & Hove parkrun looking after position tokens. They also bring you a pair of great emails and an interview with parkrun Ladies World Record holder Justina Heslop.
Nicola ran around a floppy three-leafed clover at Thetford parkrun, Danny went to Old Deer parkrun as well as Bushy Juniors parkrun alongside Chrissie Wellington and there are interviews with Paul 'Peej' Graham, Clive Tilley and Darren Davison plus parkrun Poland's Country Manager Jacob Fedorowicz.
"The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey". Nicola appeased the appeals for her presence at Sheringham parkrun, going there with the Potter Clan but left hubby Ben behind whilst he did his 100th parkrun at Leeds, meanwhile Danny went overseas to the Isle of Wight. They also bring you an interview with Hanley parkrun's Event Director Tommy Hill.
Nicola 'Vomit Face' Forwood made snow angels at Leeds parkrun whilst Danny ran at the non-snowy Pymmes parkrun v2.0. They highlight Wondiye Fikre Indelbu, interview Kerry Noble, talk tweets and fish for five stars.
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Knowing me Danny Norman, knowing you Nicola Forwood. This week Nicola flew over to Concord parkrun and sets Danny off on one about the Longest parkrun, whilst Danny tells us about going to Norfolk where he ran a PW at Carla 'Bug In Mar Ar!' Potter's inaugural Mulbarton parkrun. They also talk French, about Morgan Freeman and speak Grumpy Cat-ese.
Nicola went to Leeds. Again. Danny went to Oak Hill parkrun. Again. But for the first time in 19 months. They announce a new inaugural parkrun record attendance, bring you an interview with Anita Afonso and appeal for potw's.
A smaller but perfectly formed show this week. Nicola has a poorly foot so volunteered at Leeds parkrun and Danny chose toughness with a trip to Lloyd parkrun in Croydon. They talk about Harlem Shaking, 250 Club octogenarians and parkrun tattoos plus bring you an interview with a parkrun pioneer.
This week Nicola went to sunny Scunny (Scunthorpe) parkrun and ran a comeback PB, Danny revisited Gunnersbury parkrun and they bicker like fighting siblings as usual. The interview is with the parkrun passionate Jaz Bangerh and they ask for your help with data entry!
This week Nicola went to Temple Newsam parkrun and took part in a little panto, Danny went to Bushy parkrun to celebrate David Rowe becoming a 250 Club member then got trapped in the car park and Nicola calls Danny a scumbag. David and Sharon Rowe are this week's (last minute) interviewees, Danny and Nicola talk about Athlete IDs and define what is 'A Nerd Thing".
The parkrun weather fairies have got back to their rightful duties and given us better conditions on parkrunday once more! This meant Nicola could go back on tour to the inaugural Hillsborough parkrun in Sheffield and Danny arrived way too early in Chelmsford for their third parkrun event. They bring you the interview with blind parkrunner Simon Webb and Nicola gets a scolding for forgetting to log her Jantastic runs!
This week Nicola had a right falling out with the parkrun weather fairies who prevented her having a parkrunday, whilst Danny took along one of his best friends to take part in his first parkrun at the inaugural Walthamstow parkrun. Danny also spoils for a fight with all of Yorkshire, they celebrate Southern Hemisphere attendance records and they interview 'The Work Experience Lad' Finlay Hood.
Did it snow in the UK? Well, Danny 'Dave' Norman didn't notice as he was in Ireland running at Malahide parkrun where it was snow free whilst Nicola gave it some welly around Leeds parkrun in the snow. Danny gives a speech on the 'run not a race' ethos and the Junior January interview is with 'The Awesomeness That Is Megan Eliza Stott'.
This week Nicola went splishing through a giant puddle at Burnage parkrun, Danny went squelching through mud at Harrow Lodge parkrun and all whilst parkrun neared the 30,000 runner mark. They extrapolate numbers for the future of parkrun, welcome the first Junior into the 250 Club and this week's interview is with Ben Gibbons, the first Junior into the 100 Club.
Into 2013 we go! Tales of New Years Day doubles, stats ahoy and record breaking attendance figures all over. Nicola went to Conkers and Leeds parkrun, Danny to Bushy and Kingston. They bring you news of Jo Pavey at Killerton, Kurt Fearnley at Newy parkrun and an interview with Aamir Murtaza. Plus some great Tweets of the Week.


The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Arizona over SB1070, the state's controversial anti-immigration law.
The lawsuit contends the law, which allows state police officers to ask about a person's immigration status, is unconstitutional. The Obama administration says SB1070 will interfere with federal and local law enforcement efforts and harm public safety.
"The Constitution and the federal immigration laws do not permit the development of a patchwork of state and local immigration policies throughout the country," the complaint stated.
The Tohono O'odham Nation, the Navajo Nation and the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona oppose the law. They say it interferes with their sovereignty and will lead to discrimination against tribal members who might resemble people from other countries.