I hit a wall last week, figuratively speaking. I've been so utterly consumed with projects on my to-do list that I've neglected the basic necessities. You know, important stuff like sleep, food and time with friends. A person can only neglect that stuff for so long before she breaks down and calls her mama and cries. And by "a person," I mean me.
In hindsight, I've been trying to do way too much at once and I've been trying to do it all myself. Examples: applying for a trademark, installing my new light fixture, hemming and hanging curtains, redesigning this website, taking my dog to the vet three times a week, obsessively baking brownies, like, six times until they are just right, and, well, SEND HELP.
If there's ever a time to hunker down and work on some projects, though, it's during the depths of winter. Now that the weather is warming up and my to-do list has fewer ambitious projects on it, I'm ready to take it easy. For starters, I'm forcing myself to go to bed at a reasonable hour.
I also invited my friends over for girls' night last night. I made them this redeeming and restorative green soup, which our friend Tessa had made for us at a girls' night past. The recipe came highly recommended from her coworker. I liked it so much that I thought I'd share it with you all.
I'm well aware that this soup is mossy green and won't win any beauty pageants. However, I'm gonna do my best to sell you on this soup because it's truly delicious. Slow cooked, sweet caramelized onions contribute tons of flavor and balance out any bitterness present in the greens. A small amount of starchy arborio rice blended into the greens helps thicken up the soup and makes it a little creamy (without any cream). Finally, cayenne pepper and lemon really punch up the flavor.
If you've ever experienced kale belly, which is what I like to call that glowy, life-is-good feeling that emanates from your belly after you eat a bunch of kale salad—this soup does the trick, too. Maybe it's all the vitamin C.
There are a couple of ways to serve this soup. As a simple bisque, this soup would be a great side for a sandwich or avocado on toast (serving it with a salad might be a little redundant on the greens). If you want to turn it into a full meal, I suggest serving the soup on a bed of brown rice (I like basmati) with chickpeas. My friends and I really liked the chickpea addition, which adds both texture and protein.
You can also swirl a little olive oil on top to add some richness and up the satiety factor. Definitely sprinkle it with freshly ground black pepper and a squeeze of lemon juice. This soup is just crazy good and crazy good for you.
A super fresh and healthy soup filled with greens and seasoned with lemon juice and cayenne pepper. This recipe is vegan and gluten free. The soup requires some multitasking; you'll be caramelizing the onions in a skillet while you cook the rice and greens in a pot. If you're cooking additional rice as a garnish, you'll need one more pot on the stove (see notes for rice cooking instructions). Recipe yields 6 servings of about 1 ⅔ cup soup each.
First prepare the greens: Remove the ribs from the chard/kale and discard or save them for another recipe. Coarsely chop or tear the kale leaves. Trim any tough stems from the spinach/baby greens and roughly chop the leaves.
Caramelize the onions: Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onions and ¼ teaspoon salt. Cook, stirring frequently, until the onions begin to brown, about 5 minutes.
Reduce the heat to low, add 2 tablespoons water and cover the skillet (I used a baking sheet to cover mine). Cook until the onions are greatly reduced and have a deep caramel color, 25 to 30 minutes. Stir frequently while the pan is still hot and occasionally once the pan has cooled down (always recover the pan after stirring).
Cook the arborio rice: While the onions are cooking, combine the remaining 3 cups water and ¾ teaspoon salt in a soup pot or Dutch oven. Add rice and bring the water to a boil. Reduce heat to maintain a simmer, cover and cook for 15 minutes.
When the rice has cooked for 15 minutes, stir in the chard greens or kale. Return to a simmer; cover and cook for 10 minutes.
When the onions are caramelized, stir a little of the simmering liquid into them, then add the onion mixture to the rice along with the spinach/cooking greens, broth and cayenne. Return to a simmer, cover and cook, stirring once, until the spinach is tender but still bright green, about 5 minutes more.
Puree the soup in the pot with an immersion blender until perfectly smooth, or in a regular blender in batches (never fill your blender past the maximum fill line, and be careful with hot soup). Stir in 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Taste and add more lemon juice, sea salt or cayenne pepper, if desired. Garnish each bowl of soup with a drizzle of olive oil.
Divide the soup into bowls if you're serving it as a bisque, or serve in bowls over cooked rice and chickpeas for a more complete meal. Garnish soup with a swirl of olive oil if you'd like. Serve with lemon wedges and freshly ground black pepper on the side.
Adapted, not a whole lot, from Eating Well.
I used store-bought, washed baby greens for ease of preparation (more specifically, ¾ths of a giant container of OrganicGirl's Super Greens). Organic greens are always best because conventionally grown greens tend to absorb a lot of the pesticide used on their crops.
How to cook brown rice to serve with soup: Bring a large pot of water to boil on the stove. Rinse the rice (1 ½ to 2 cups should be plenty to go with the soup) in a fine mesh colander. Once the water is boiling, pour in the rice and give it a stir. Boil the rice for 30 minutes, then turn off the heat and drain the rice. Return the rice to the pot and cover the pot. Let the rice steam for 10 minutes. Remove the lid, fluff the rice with a fork and season with sea salt to taste.
Whoa, busy girl! Don't forget to take a nice little break :) Kale belly, haha, I think I know exactly what that is :D I hope things settle down for you soon. This soup looks perfect for de-stressing!
Kate, this is just the kind of meal I need in my life right now. Delicious, yet healthy and nourishing. I'm going to stop on my way home from work to pick up the goods to make this soup tonight. Can't wait! Take care of you!
Amanda, thank you! I hope you enjoyed the soup!
Cheryl, I hope you both love the soup! Cookie is finally done with therapy and she is almost back to 100 percent. Hydrotherapy really worked wonders for her! I hope your dog is feeling better now, too.
Thank you Kate for the lovely recipe. Cookie is so cute. Have a Sunny Day!
Thank you, Liz. Happy first day of spring!
Sometimes the perfect remedy is a good cry and a big bowl of soup!
Yes, I'd say that stuff is pretty important! Glad you got some time with some girlfriends. I definitely could use more time with girlfriends.
Totally important! I easily start to feel isolated since I work from home and I'm single. I have to be careful about that. I think you would enjoy this soup!
Ah, I think anyone who is at home for most of the day (single or married, kids or not) starts to feel isolated after a time! I try to get together with a friend at least once a week. Of course I have my kids to keep me company, but that doesn't totally ease the isolation factor of working from home.
True! It's always important to make plans with friends.
Kale belly is the real deal! :) I was struggling with these photos… weird green soup, diminishing natural light and my favorite lens stopped working (whyyy?) so I am glad that you like the photos! Thanks, Sophie.
Ohhh just what the doctor ordered. Everything you are doing is awesome… keep up the good work!!
I need some of this in my life right now. I feel like I have been eating way too many carbs and meats. I need some veggie love in my belly!
Wow- now that is a gorgeous moss green soup! Beauty pageant winner for sure. Don't sell her short. Love the addition of rice and especially the chickpeas because I could eat those plain all day everyday.
Thanks, Jessica! The rice and chickpeas are really complementary flavors and make for a much more filling soup. Hope you'll give it a try soon!
This soup is gorgeous to me. Sound delicious too!
This looks SO delicious! And healthy. I'm going to have to try this out.
This looks absolutely delicious! perfect fuel for hectic weeks. I am so impressed at you hemming your own curtains!
I think this soup is beautiful. I love that green colour.
Soup always seems magical to me. It just takes a few simple ingredients to produce something utterly wonderful! Pinned this one.
I'm glad you had a much-needed girls night with your friends! A little friend time can go a long way. I am going to need a big bowl of this soup after my birthday week ends! I love your idea of serving it with brown rice and chickpeas.
Thanks, Taylor! And happy birthday week!!!
i really love how this soup comes together here – all the ingredients and flavors, from the caramelized onions to the cayenne, seem to be super complimentary to one another. and yay for green soup, something bright and fresh for spring!
Thanks, Lindsey! It's amazing how how much more flavor onions have once they've been slow cooked and caramelized. I think you would love this soup. Happy first day of spring!
Your term "kale belly" cracks me up, but it exactly describes what happens after you eat it. This looks delicious!
Right?! If only all foods made me feel as good as kale does.
This looks so lush and just what I would love for lunch.
Cheers to taking it a little easier this spring. I can totally relate to tackling too many projects at once. Thank god for girlfriends and lovely soups like this. Stunning!
Hope you love it, Mia!
Hooray! Glad to hear it, Mia.
Kate, this looks like the most delicious way to take care of yourself I've seen all week! I know that "too much too fast" feeling, and I'm glad to hear you are trying to take it a little slower.
So if you figure out this whole trademark thing, you can share your secrets with me. I'll bake you cookies in exchange!
And you don't have to tell me twice to make this soup! I love the mossy green-ness.
I figured it out! First you have to make sure your brand name is copyrightable. Then you can look up a bunch of other food bloggers' trademarks to see how they filled out their trademark forms. You basically just have to pick the right category (google can tell you which one to pick for blogs) and write a one to two sentence summary of your business. It costs a few hundred dollars.
I want kale belly! This looks and sounds great. I've never had a green soup before, but you don't have to ask me twice. Pinning this now!
If soup can be redeeming, then I must try it right away. The way you describe it makes me want it in my life immediately!
Thank you, Erin. Moms are always good at telling us to get some sleep, huh? Hope you're well!
This looks delish! But is it really 14 cups of spinach??
Yep, 14 cups! It cooks down a ton. I used 3/4ths of one of those family-sized organic washed greens packages.
Kate, your recipes are so satisfying and healthy! I am not a true vegetarian but will often make one of your dishes weekly. I love anything with black beans and kale!
Anyway, if one did not want to take the time to carmelize the onions, would simply cooking them in olive oil maintain the basic flavor of the soup?
Hey Alison, thank you! I'm so glad you're enjoying the recipes. You could cook the onions for 5 minutes instead of going to the trouble of caramelizing them, but I do believe you'll miss out on some wonderfully complex and sweet flavors. Up to you!
Have you made this without adding the rice into the blender? This seems like an odd thing to do, to me. I've never tried!
No, I haven't tried that. Arborio rice is starchy, so by blending in the cooked arborio rice, it helps thicken the soup and make it creamier. You can omit it if you want, but I really think it improves the texture, and you can't even taste it.
The green soup is definitely redeemed for me. I love the recipe.
Love the idea of adding rice and chickpeas as a "side" to a soup!
You could put chicken on top if you'd like! I also think it would be very nice with a side of grilled fish.
I'm thinking a spicy, smokey sausage (pork, chicken, soy, etc), grilled and thinly sliced on top could also be a yummy protein addition!
I swear we are on the same brain wavelength. I was just dreaming up a soup full of pureed greens last week when I was feeling the need for Spring refresh BIG TIME. Then just days later you post this. Seriously?! So cool. Can't wait to try this.
Ever since this posted I have been dying to try this soup. I made it tonight and it was perfectly wonderful. I am already craving leftovers for lunch tomorrow!
I'm so glad you enjoyed the soup! Thanks for commenting!
I hope you are feeling better Kate. They always say you feel better when you cry in front of someone (or in your case, on the phone with someone).
I made this soup yesterday. I used brown rice because I didn't have brown arborio rice. I also added fresh cilantro, parsley and mint and it's delicious!
Sandra, thank you. I seem to be going through a bit of a rough patch lately. I'm so glad you enjoyed the soup. I bet the added herbs were lovely!
This soup was pretty good when I first served it, but I had to add a bit more seasoning for my tastes (extra garlic and cayenne, salt, some coriander, lots of lemon). It also quickly got 'filmy' when I removed it from the heat, and later in the fridge, though well-covered. I just tried to eat some tonight and it had gotten so gloppy and texturally weird that I couldn't finish it. Perhaps this isn't a great soup for leftovers?
Hey Sarah, I'm sorry the soup didn't turn out just write for you. This soup isn't as boldly flavored as most of my recipes, but I thought the caramelized onions add a lot of flavor. My soup never got filmy or gloppy so I'm a little baffled by that. My Blendtec blender is pretty great at blending soups smoothly. I wonder if your soup never got super smooth, so the particles separated? Not sure what else it could be.
I made this just now… and I was skeptical that a lot of not so cheap greens would go to waste into some disgusting concoction… BUT IT'S SO GOOD. Amazing. Thank you for sharing :) So excited for my kale belly.
I got home from a loooong weekend of having way too much fun with old college friends and was craving something healthy and homemade. I found this recipe and immediately went to the store to buy the ingredients. Loved it! I served with short grain brown rice and a extra squeeze or two of lemon juice. Delish!
That's great! Glad you enjoyed it!
I made this last night for an evening with friends, and – YUM! Thanks for the recipe!
Annette, so glad to hear that you and your friends enjoyed the soup!
Ooooh – Kale Belly in a good way? Sounds just like my Gluten Belly (which is not in a good way!) I have a lovely bunch of organic kale in my kitchen right now, that I have been wondering what to do with and. this will be my lunch today, thank you! I hope you get some more you/friend time over the Easter long weekend.
Thanks, Susan! Hope you loved the soup.
The first time I made this soup, I put it in my food processor, and it exploded all over me and all over my kitchen. I got some great disaster photos!……. But!!!!!!!!!!!!! The end result tasted great, so explosions aside I was pleased. The first time around I subed the rice and just put in chickpeas to add the thickness. Tonight I made the soup again and went with the brown rice, tried to play by the rules. No mess….. but honestly the chickpea thickener was much more to my liking, I guess I'm just not a fan of the flavor of rice but love chickpeas….. all together great super healthy soup. I always love new ways to eat tons of KALE! My fav! Thanks for the creation.
Oh no! I'm sorry the soup made a mess of your kitchen. Good idea to add chickpeas—that's easier, too. Some people don't love chickpeas (crazies!).
First of all, your recipes and your site is my go to. Thank you for helping me transition to a mostly plant based diet.
Second, I'm making this soup now and perhaps I'm just missing this, but I see that veggie broth is listed in the ingredient list, but I don't see where to use it in the instructions? In place of the water?
Hey Christianna, glad you found it! I'm delighted to hear that my blog is your go to. :) Thank you!
love this recipe, and the beautiful photos! I've made it twice now and the second time I simplified it a bit – I didn't bother with arborio rice, I just boiled the kale in a little less water, added the caramelised onions, broth and spinach, then blended it as instructed, and it tasted just as thick and delicious but required fewer stages. I also used cumin instead of cayenne pepper and that worked well. Thanks for the wonderful recipes!
I made this last night and it was so delicious! We ate it with baked halibut as our main course. Thank you for highlighting the recipe.
Scarlett, I'm so glad you enjoyed the soup! Sounds like a delicious meal.
First, I have to say that I love your blog and am constantly making your recipes- they are all devine and perfectly done! This particular one I had some trouble with, however. I couldn't see where to use the 4 cups of vegetable broth so I ended up blending it in with eveything at the end. Did I miss a step? I thought it needed something sweet at the end so I ended up reducing some red wine and adding at then end to the blended soup. It turned out delicious but I'm stumped on the broth part- let me know when you added this!
Thanks and I hope you had a nice weekend!!
Hey Courtney! I'm glad you enjoyed the soup. Your version sounds great. I specified to add the broth in step six but it would be easy to overlook that part. Sorry about that!
Glad you both enjoyed the soup! Yay.
This recipe looks delish! I just have a question about this instruction in your recipe.
What "simmering liquid" are you referring to? The liquid from the rice/kale/chard pot?
I pride myself on my soup-making skills. I love soups and I make them often.
Now to this soup: A M A Z I N G!
I was so blown away by the taste of this soup. Perhaps the risotto and onions? Or all the array of healthy, tasty greens? Perhaps just the combo. You have to try this soup. My husband LOVED it and he's not a fan of thick and hearty soups.
I made everything in one big pot. Cooked onions, then added arborio rice, then made a risotto then added more water when I added greens. Final step was to blend. Simple and nutritious with flavor over-load!
This is a keeper for sure. THANK YOU for a super recipe!!!!!
Thank you, Trish! So glad to hear that this soup gets your stamp of approval!
My doctor recently took me off all grains and told me to eat green veggie soups. Your recipe seems yummy, but I'm wondering if I can substitute something for the arborio rice?
Hi Dinah, that's a good question. I can't think of a replacement that isn't a carb/starch. I think you could just omit the rice completely. Your soup won't have quite the body that mine had, but I think it will still be great!
Also potatoes and carbs in general.
I'm off grains and fruit. What about quinoa or chick peas?
I think either would be great!
I made the soup with White Kidney Beans instead of rice. It is delish. I love the hint of lemon.
Thanks, Dinah! Glad to hear it!
I made this, but I added garlic, kept the rice on the side, and served with Flatbread. Also, I wasn't convinced that removing the stems (those are the "ribs", right?) was worth it, especially since it's all getting blended anyway.
Thanks for the idea, and great recipe. :) it tastes great!
Thanks, Tyler! Good point about the ribs.
Hi Kate! I've been following your blog for about a year and a half now, and I love it! I'm late to the game with this soup, but I'm planning on making it tonight!! One question — how well do leftovers keep? I'd hate for the soup to go to waste if I can't eat it fast enough!
Hi Kaitlyn, I'm sorry for my delay! I'd say this soup, and most soups, will keep well for about five days.
Great recipe, I had black cabbage so used instead of Kale. I rarely measure anything so the consistency was quite thick but I watered it down. I added too much Cayenne! So added cream to dull the burn. Fantastic soup, thanks for the inspiration.
Thanks, Liz! Glad it turned out well for you nonetheless!
I love, love, love this soup! I make this recipe regularly and eat the leftovers for several days. I almost always add sweet potato, as well. Just peel, cube, steam, and blend in! It adds even more smooth texture, great flavor and extra nutrients.
I love the chickpea addition and will try that this week. Thank you!
Thank you, Amy! Great idea to add sweet potato!
Thank you, Erin! Happy to hear it!
I made this today and it was easy and so tasty. I used kale and spinach.
I'm about to make this green soup and blow some minds. Quick question: Do you blend the rice together with the onion/greens in a blender??
I made this the other day over rice and chickpeas for dinner…it was amazing and sooo filling. I ate it plain for lunch the next day and it hit the spot again. Thanks so much for such a good recipe!
This recipe is absolutely delicious. It's a new favorite of mine! Thanks for sharing!
This is one of the best green soups I have ever had! Just fantastic! My very discerning husband and mother-in-law just love it. Thanks for sharing this beautiful and nourishing recipe.
However it is actually the best soup I've ever tasted and I've made it so many times. Sooo good!!
Wow! I just made this and I can't believe how creamy that little it if rice makes it!
I added 1.5 tsp ground turmeric at the cayenne phase, as well as 3 cloves garlic to the onion phase. I used the juice of a whole lemon and then once the soup was made added a cup of cooked lentil mix (freekah, lentils and beans).
My 2.5 year old son demanded some of what I was eating and has eaten a pretty decent bowl of it, too!
Going to portion his for work lunches – it's winter here in Australia and this is perfect.
I made this recipe as is (I was probably very liberal with the cayenne), and it is amazing! Served over brown rice/quinoa and chick peas and it's very filling/satisfying.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it, Chris! Thanks for letting me know.
Just wondering, do you have any suggestions for things other than Arborio rice that can be substituted to give the soup that nice creamy texture? I have some sweet potatoes and squash on hand and was wondering if some sort of puree of those might suffice.
I've been churning out tons of meaty dishes for my boys. Ugh! The nest is empty now. Grandma gets to cook and eat all the veggie meals she has lusted for. Your recipes = my bible now. Love your recipes. Life is good now. Hubby, not so gleeful but our Doctor scared him into compliance. He has actually admitted to liking most of your recipes. Many thanks from grandma Mo.
Such a delicious and healthy soup! Thank you :) I have never been disappointed in one of your recipes.
Really easy to make and unbelievably delicious. I was surprised by the earthiness of the flavor, which you can also play with using the lemon and paprika. Shared it with friends and they also loved it. Thank you!
You're welcome, Kristen! I hope your friends enjoy as much as you do.
Excellent recipe. I modified it slightly. Added an organic potato in lieu of rice. I also crushed a bite sized ginger piece and dunked it into the puree while warming the soup.
Very tasty! I keep trying green soups and haven't found one I was really excited to make again. Until this one. Even one of my kids liked it. I think next time I might add some split peas to make it a little heartier on its own, but I loved the cayenne kick (1/4 tsp) combined with the lemon (1 wedge extra per bowl). Thanks for the recipe!
You're welcome, Annette! I'm glad you found what you were looking for.
Would love to see nutritional information.
Hi, Erin– Unfortunately, I don't have nutritional info available for my recipes just yet. I'm looking for a solution, and will update about it once I find one. Thanks!
thank you for this delicious recipe, it was very nourishing and made me feel strong!
That's all I could hope for, Soraya!
Made this soup yesterday. This soup is simply fabulous. The cayenne and lemon are perfect! The drizzle of olive oil at the end makes it lucious. Thinking I need a bowl of this for breakfast!
I love the silkiness of this dish, too! Thanks, Joy.
One more great recipe! This soup is super easy to make, really healthy and most of all delicious. I doubled the recipe, threw in some minced garlic with the onions, extra cracked pepper and used collard greens instead of kale because that's what I had on hand. The lemon juice really brightens up the flavor. Thank you for a delicious dinner!
Thank you, Helayne! You are welcome. I appreciate the star review.
I have been making your recipe for a few years now, and wanted to finally send a 'thanks' your way :) The whole family enjoys it, most impressively, my son – now 13. We often reference 'that good feeling when you eat lots of kale' (kale belly!) Thank you for sharing, I'm so glad to have this in my arsenal of healthy but tasty meal options – especially after some serious holiday indulging!
I subbed some cauliflower rice for the arborio rice because it's what I had on hand (I'm sure quite different than what it should've been, but oh well) + also put in extra cayenne and lemon juice. Tasted great, especially with chickpeas – thanks!
Great! Thank you, Jordan for sharing and for your review.
We don't have to cook but we all love to have soup. We always want to try some new recipes of soup. This soup is very easy to cook and can be cooked instantly. I am trying this for sure!
I'm happy to hear it was easy for you and you liked it!
Do you think this recipe would do alright if I cooked it the day before and then reheated it in a crock pot?
Sure! I haven't tried it yet, but soup is usually a great option to reheat.
This soup has become a staple in my house. I always make mine with kale and spinach (and a little extra cayenne!).
I think what makes this recipe so such successful is the carmelized onions. Don't skip that step! Because even though it has just a few ingredients, this soup does not lack in flavor when made as directed.
To make it a meal, I usually serve with farro or bulgur and garbanzo beans. Hope you enjoy it too!
My husband and I love this soup! The caramelized onions are incredible. Sometimes we serve it over roasted cauliflower if we're out of chickpeas. Thanks for this awesome recipe!
Oh that sounds like a nice way to have it, Rachel! Thanks for sharing.
This is THE BEST soup ever! My dad and I have made is several times!
This soup makes me feel so energized and healthy. I used quinoa instead of rice and served it over chickpeas and it was delicious. Thank you!
Wonderful, Kristen! Thanks so much for sharing.
I made this tonight for dinner. I was soooo skeptical until the moment I tasted it. It is delicious and unique and refreshing. I kept going back for more due to its refreshing lemon taste and the mild after bite of cayenne. And it's guilt free!
I'm glad you made it! Thanks for sharing, Carrie.
Made this recipe last night and I am a huge fan. I had to leave out the arborio because I am lazy and didn't want to go to the grocery store. I also added a lot more cayenne, 3 table spoons of butter, lots of black pepper, and served with a dollop of ricotta cheese. Thanks, Kate! I am a huge fan. I will now work through all your soup recipes this winter.
I have to say, I was skeptical. But like you, Kate, I was in need of some intensely wholesome food. I just devoured my second bowl. This is seriously good soup. I can't believe how creamy it is. This'll become a staple in my house for sure. Thank you for all your amazing recipes!
I'm glad you tried it! Thanks for sharing, Leanne.


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New Project Lends To Downtown Dallas Living
By Jack Fink May 29, 2014 at 7:22 pm
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A look at the downtown Dallas skyline. (credit: Matt Goodman/KTVT/KTXA)
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Downtown Dallas is experiencing an apartment building boom. To see why, people need look no further than the Main Street Garden park, where people such as Shelsea Sanchez walk their dogs during their lunch hour. They work downtown, and now want to live there too.
"We wanted to live that city lifestyle, we don't have children yet so it was perfect for us," said Sanchez, who moved with her husband downtown last year. They're the residents developers have in mind for the first hotel-apartment building in downtown.
Crews are now converting the historic LTV Building at 1600 Pacific Avenue, built in 1964 into a 171 room Hilton Garden Inn and 186 luxury rental apartments. A one bedroom apartment with 700 square feet will start at $1800 a month. Rent for a two bedroom apartment with 1100 square feet will start at $2200 a month.
The hotel will be located on the fifth through fourteenth floor, and the apartments will be on the fifteenth through thirty-second floor. Pres Kabacoff's company, HRI Properties of New Orleans, is renovating the building.
"I'm excited about it," said Kabacoff.
Kabacoff said strong selling points include having DART rail and a park right outside the building.
"The future is to get out of the automobile. So if you can locate neighborhoods near transportation, that's what's good for the environment, and it's good for people because that's what they want."
The developer hopes to open the doors by the end of summer in 2015. It's a $67.5 million project. That includes $17.5 million raised from a tax increment financing district, which reinvests property taxes collected from the designated district. The money does not come from the city's general fund.
Mayor Mike Rawlings said this and similar projects, such s the one at the old Statler Hilton Hotel, are helping to transform downtown.
"We're right at the tipping point, ok. We're not over it yet, we still have a couple of more projects to be done, but when that happens, the cascade of growth is going to be coming in."
By the end of this year, 1500 apartment units will break ground or be under construction in downtown. "It is great to hear noise from construction crews in downtown Dallas, I love it," said Rawlings.
It may be hard to believe, but back in 1999, only 200 people lived in downtown. But according to Downtown Dallas, Inc., the population grew to 3,100 in 2005, then to 7,000 in 2010. About 8,500 people call downtown home now, and the city expects 10,000 people will leave in downtown within the next two years.
Just down the street from the new apartment building-hotel, the owners of Miguel's Cantina said they're thrilled about this new project, and the new apartments and offices going in right across the street at 1401 Elm Street.
"We're so excited, we're trying to revamp the menu, the look of the restaurant, we're hoping for a lot of updates and changes in the future with the people who are coming in," said Chantall Ojeda, who recently renewed their lease, as did Shelsea Sanchez and her husband.
"It's better than we expected," according to Sanchez.
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Гренадерська дивізія «Фюрер» () — піхотна дивізія Вермахту за часів Другої світової війни.

Історія
Гренадерська дивізія «Фюрер» була сформована 26 січня 1940 в Котбусі у III-му військовому окрузі () шляхом розгортання гренадерської бригади «Фюрер».

Райони бойових дій
 Арденни (січень — лютий 1945);
 Східна Німеччина, Австрія (лютий — травень 1945).

Командування

Командири
 генерал-майор Гельмут Медер () (26 січня — 1 лютого 1945);
 генерал-майор Еріх фон Гассенштайн () (1 лютого — 8 травня 1945).

Нагороджені дивізії
 Нагороджені дивізії

Див. також
 СС-команда ескорту фюрера
 Дивізія «Гроссдойчланд»
 Танкова дивізія «Клаузевіц»
 Дивізія охорони фюрера
 Штурм Берліна
 Братиславсько-Брновська операція

Посилання

Література
 Tessin, Georg (1979). Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939–1945, Band 7: Die Landstreitkräfte. Nr. 131–200. 2. Auflage. Osnabrück. ISBN 3-7648-1173-0.
 Burkhard Müller-Hillebrand: Das Heer 1933–1945. Entwicklung des organisatorischen Aufbaues. Vol.III: Der Zweifrontenkrieg. Das Heer vom Beginn des Feldzuges gegen die Sowjetunion bis zum Kriegsende. Mittler: Frankfurt am Main 1969, p. 286.
 Уильямсон, Гордон Элитные части вермахта. 1939–1945. — М.: Астрель, 2003. — 62 с. — 5000 экз. — ISBN 5-271-07215-0

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Піхотні дивізії Третього Рейху
Військові формування, засновані 1945
Військові формування, розформовані 1945

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All the Real Games Announced during Saturday's Devolver Digital Direct 2020 Presentation
By Joseph Stanichar | July 13, 2020 | 3:20pm
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Publisher Devolver Digital has been making digital press conferences since E3 2017, where its presenter had an audience member throw money at a computer, then put his hand inside the screen and take it out as a bloody, screaming mess. Since then, things have only gotten weirder.
Some have enjoyed watching Devolver's devolution into madness, while others have tired of its act and just want to know what games it's actually releasing. This article is for the latter crowd.
This year's presentation was basically a short film with ad breaks for its games, with its presenter having been put into a Matrix-style containment chamber. An "evil" presenter, Nina, now runs the show, hell-bent on manufacturing hype and getting announcements, regardless of their ethicacy or validity. It's all painfully self-aware and especially a criticism of this summer's saturation of digital conferences in the absence of E3, even though the presentation kind of adds to the problem it means to parody.
Here are the real games announced during the presentation, not counting the fake games, Getting Down with Bennett Foddy, Sonic Fox's Furry Fighters 4 and Pikmin 3 Battle Royale. Those, unfortunately, do not exist.
Developer: Flying Wild Hog
Release window: 2021
After the 1997 first-person shooter's reboot in 2013 and sequel in 2016, Shadow Warrior is becoming a trilogy. The trailer shows platforming segments and lots of blood.
Release date: Aug. 4
Platforms: Playstation 4, PC
What looks like the perfect kind of game for YouTubers, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout's premise is simple: It's a 60-player battle royale game where the last player to not fall off the platform wins. There are plenty of obstacles and platforming challenges to keep things interesting, especially with the game's intentionally floppy-looking physics.
Developer: Phobia Game Studio
Platforms: Xbox One, Switch, PC
Carrion is what Phobia Game Studio calls a "reverse horror game," where you're the beast hunting down its prey, not unlike the end of a certain game by Playdead Studios. The 2D sidescroller looks to aim for an odd type of catharsis after being hunted down in so many games, like Pac-Man chowing down on a power pellet and exacting his revenge on those terrified ghosts. The game also comes to Xbox Game Pass day and date of release on Xbox One.
Developer: Skeleton Crew Studio
Release window: Fall 2020, demo out now on PC
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, PC
Olija is the work of one person, Thomas Olsson, who has been at work on the game for years. The nearly-final product shows its main character wielding the "Harpoon of Legend," which he thrusts across a 2D plain at foes and targets. It has a minimalistic art style that somehow manages to convey dramatic scenes with its silent characters.
Developer: Croteam
Release window: August 2020 (Stadia, PC), 2021 (console)
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Stadia, PC
The fourth entry in the anything-but-serious Serious Sam series (try saying that five times fast), Serious Sam 4 carries on the tradition of shooting anything that moves. The game wears its Doom inspiration on its sleeve, for better or worse.
DevolverLand Expo
Release: Out now for free
No, this one actually isn't a joke. DevolverLand Expo is a real game, and it's out now on Steam. Marketed as a "marketing simulator," the game takes the entire presentation's self-awareness and compiles it into a self-aware first-person-shooter, complete with trailers and gameplay videos for other games. It's the next level of advertising in the future's future.
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How to Facebook Search for People without Logging In
Have you ever needed to Facebook search for people without logging in or search Facebook profiles without logging in?
Facebook is having around 1.5 billion active users which make it one of the best and biggest social media websites of the world. Nowadays, everyone uses Facebook and is having their profiles registered with the social media giant. You can search for anyone by entering their name and it will pop-up in front of you and will give you the option to add them as your friend or follow them.
A lot of people don't know but there are various options using which you can search Facebook profiles without logging in. This leaves the requirement of logging in to your account and then search for your friends on Facebook. This is the main reason that we have created this detailed guide "how to Facebook search for people without logging in" for you.
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Before explaining the multiple ways to finding people on facebook (facebook people search) without logging in, we would like to remind you that these methods are really helpful to find pretty much anything on Facebook such as find people on facebook, Facebook pages, Facebook group and much more. But in order to view their uploaded photos, interesting statuses, complete facebook profiles, and shared items, you will have to sign up for the facebook. And we guess, most of us know very well how to sign up for Facebook.
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Top 5 Methods to Facebook Search for People without Logging In
Method 1: Search on Google
Method 2: Use People Search on Facebook
Method 3: Using Social Searcher
Method 4: Use Facebook People Directory
Method 5: Use Browser Extensions
There are so many different methods for finding friends without signing up and today we are going to share the top 5 methods which will help you to search Facebook profiles without logging in.
It doesn't matter what you want to search on facebook without logging in, whether you want to find people on facebook by name, facebook search people by city, search someone on facebook by email address or search someone on facebook by mobile number. Just apply these below explained active methods and search facebook profiles without logging in. Here are how:
You can search pretty much anything using Google and you can also use Google to find people on Facebook by name or search Facebook profiles without logging in. All you need to do is use a search operator and you will be able to view Facebook profile without logging in.
Open Google.com on your web browser and the enter "sitename:facebook first name last name" (Don't add quotes). Change the first and last name in the query with the real names. Hit the enter key and you will be able to find people on Facebook by name. For the example:
This is the next method which makes to our guide of how to Facebook search for people without logging in. Facebook has started People search facility which will help you to view a Facebook profile without logging in.
Basically, Facebook people search is introduced to find people using people search and sign up to connect with them, see their full Profiles, share photos and more. To use this feature, all you have to do is open Facebook People Search or click on this link to open it. You will see a text field where you can enter name along with some alphabets. You can use alphabets for the Facebook search for friends without logging in.
Simply, enter the name of the person you want to in that given field and once you have entered, click on the search button present right next to the field. You will see results page with 10 names displayed. If you are not able to find the profile you were looking for you can enter other details like city, educational qualification or any other details you are having.
If you are not able to find the profile you were looking for, you can use Social Searcher (Social Searcher is a free social media search engine for all web, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Reddit, Flickr, Dailymotion and Vimeo Search without logging in.) as it will help in Facebook search for people without logging in.
If the person is not using Facebook they might be using other social networking websites. The social searcher will locate them on other social media profiles. Follow the steps shared below to use Social searcher and find out how to find someone on Facebook without signing up.
Step (1): First of all, you have to open Social Searcher on your computer. The tool will help you in finding out social media profiles.
Step (2): Once the website is opened, you will see a text field which you can use to find the profile you are looking for.
Step (3): Enter name of the person whose profile you are searching and hit the Enter key. That's it!
If you want to find people on Facebook by name or browse for your friends alphabetically by name then you can take help of Facebook Directory as it will help you in Facebook search for people without logging in.
At first, open Facebook Directory on your computer. Once you have opened the directory page, you will see a search field. You will see three tabs on this page saying places, pages, and people. Select any one out of these three options.
Type name of the person whose profile you want to search and then hit Enter. You will see search results on your computer from where you can find the facebook profile you were looking for.
We have shared 4 different methods to till now in our guide to how to find friends on Facebook without signing up, but if you are still not able to friend the profile of your friend you were looking for you can try this last method.
You can take help of a browser extension to find anyone on Facebook. These extensions will work with Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. You can download the extensions from the links shared below. Once you have downloaded them, they will get installed automatically.
Facebook – All-in-one Internet Search (Google Chrome)
Facebook – All-in-one Internet Search (Mozilla Firefox)
This is also one of the best ways to Facebook search for people without logging in. If you want a simple and fast solution for finding people on Facebook then using browser extension is the most helpful option for you.
We hope, now you know very well that how to Facebook search for people without logging in. So, these are the top 5 methods which make to our guide of how to search for someone on Facebook without logging in. Let us know using the comments section below – which method to search Facebook profiles without logging in or view Facebook profile without logging in worked best for you?
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After the post-incident precautions have been handled, the most appropriate recovery scenario must be chosen, in order to ensure highest rate of recovery success.
This article is intended to help users choose the best recovery solution for their particular disaster recovery scenario when using ApexSQL Recover, a SQL Server recovery tool capable of recovering deleted, dropped or truncated data and objects, roll back unwanted changes or even extract table structure and data directly from the database backups. Additionally, ApexSQL Recover can recover deleted BLOBs or even extract them from the live databases as blob files.
In this case, the Extract from database backup feature should be used for maximum results. This option enables the user to extract the data and/or structure only for the specific tables, instead of having to restore a full database backup on another location, and to extract from there, saving both time and space. Recovered data can be added to the new database or in the shape of the SQL Script for easier recovery process. Full step-by-step guide is available in this article.
ApexSQL Recover's full functionality is available only when a database is in the full recovery model. Since the simple recovery model doesn't guarantee that the information which ApexSQL Recover needs will be available, due to the fact that there are no transaction log entries since SQL Server overwrites information in the ldf to keep the disk space consumption at the minimum.
This leaves only the data in the MDF file as a source of information, and this data is also regularly overwritten by the SQL Server, and is hence not reliable and may already be gone. With all this in mind, recovery range is limited when working with databases with the simple recovery model.One thing to keep in mind is that it is essential switch the database into the offline mode immediately once the need for recovery is acknowledged in order to try and keep the recover source information in both ldf and mdf as complete as possible.
In case when a recovery from DELETE or DROP table operations is performed, ApexSQL Recover uses the data from the transaction log files (online, backup or detached) in order to perform a recovery. If the transaction log files are not available, the recovery can still be performed, since ApexSQL Recover will check if this data still exists in a database MDF file, since the SQL Server deletes data logically, immediately marking data as deleted, when in reality the data will be overwritten in the MDF file on the first appropriate occasion which can be after some hours, or even days in some cases. This fact makes post-incident actions described at the beginning extremely important and imperative to ensure decent recovery chances.
In order for ApexSQL Recover (and ApexSQL Log as well) to show/recover all transactions for a specific database, the recovery model of the database has to be set on 'full'. In case of recovery model being set to simple, the transaction log files will contain only a limited amount of data, and only a small chunk of the most recent operations will be available for auditing/recovery.
When an online transaction log file has been truncated, in order to be able to expect the full range of results, it is essential to provide a full chain of transaction log backups, so ApexSQL Recover (and ApexSQL Log as well) can create a historical recovery, and trace the history of the rows. This is especially important when recovering the UPDATE operations since each UPDATE has at least an INSERT statement as its predecessor, and data history can vary. If the full chain of transaction log backups is not available, the auditing/recovery results may be incomplete, with the UPDATE operations missing full details. Additionally, recovery process will have a decreased performance since the tools will have to perform an additional processing in an effort to create a full history when the transaction log chain is broken.


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Q: Zend custom form validator 'NOT FOUND' I am stuck in the follow situation. To check a url with zend_form, I have to add a custom validator. I try to add the custom validator named 'IsUrl.php' in;
What I do now
I add IsUrl.php to;
Library/Lib/Validate/

In my boodstrap:
protected function _initLibAutoload()
{
    $autoloader = new Zend_Application_Module_Autoloader(array(
            'namespace' => 'Lib',
            'basePath' => dirname(__FILE__),
            ));

    return $autoloader;
}

Test in Controller by;
$test = new Zend_Validate();
$test = new Lib_Validate_IsUrl();

Fatal error;
Fatal error: Class 'Lib_Validate_IsUrl' not found in

Thanks in advice.
With kind regards,
Nick

A: You will have to tell ZF, that you have custom validators :) You could adjust your bootstrap like this:
protected function _initValidators () {
    $autoloader = new Zend_Application_Module_Autoloader (array ('namespace' => '', 'basePath' => APPLICATION_PATH));
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With demand for healthier and more naturally sourced meat increasing, farmers have responded by turning back the clock.
by Brendan Christie
More and more, consumers and restaurants want to know what's in their food these days. It's about simpler ingredients, less processing and sourcing from suppliers who are closer. And it isn't surprising. Not only is naturally and locally sourced food better for you, as it can travel from farm to table without requiring additional preservatives, it also just tastes better. It's a trend that's seeing farms return to the way things were before volume was everything.
"We really try to provide complete transparency now," says Thornbury-based Grandview Farms' Matthew von Teichman. "We number every cut of every animal. We can tell the consumer who the mother and father were, how long the animal was on the farm, which fields it rotated into, and everything else about it. That kind of transparency is really several steps ahead of what the consumer is looking for right now, but it's where the consumer is going. They want to know if they eat a rib eye that the animal was treated properly, whether it was grass-fed, and if it was ever inoculated.
"It was a big cost to set up," he admits, "but it's the way I want to eat."
Grandview houses all of that information on its website. But do consumers really follow up? Every customer is different, von Teichman says, but they want to know that the farm knows. "Our focus is on trying to have every available answer."
Von Teichman says Grandview takes a much different approach to care and feeding than is currently the industry standard—and for a good reason. "If an animal has been in the feedlot and they have been eating concentrated corn," he says, "you get an omega ratio that is completely out of whack. It's contrary to what nature intended. Feedlot animals have way too much Omega-6 and way too little Omega-3. You really want those numbers more in balance—it makes for more digestible and better tasting beef, and it generally gives it way more nutrients. So, grass-fed animals like at Grandview and Rolling Meadow—our dairy company—have an omega profile that is off-the-charts good." (As an added benefit, von Teichman, who previously thought he was lactose-intolerant, found he could drink milk from the cows at Rolling Meadow without any problems.)
But it's also about the way the animals are treated throughout their lives—right up to the final moments. "Often in industrial meat, the animal is very stressed at slaughter," he says. "The solution is to pump additional hormones into their systems. But they're all revved up, and scared, and often you can taste that. It's off—it has an almost liver-like taste—and that's the additional hormones." Von Teichman says at Grandview cattle handlers walk the animals in, keeping them calm and feeding them so they are content.
Prince Edward Island's Food Island Partnership and Cattle Producers have created a similar environment for the care and wellbeing of its animals. When it comes to beef, the Food Island Partnership works with cattle producers, processors and the provincial government to set high standards for what is called Certified Island Beef. There are about 90 participants in the program, which dictates how the animals live, how they're treated, what they eat, where they are born and raised, and how much they can travel in their lifetime.
The cows might be PEI-born and bred, but it's more than having an unused passport. It's about being a true product of the land, and living symbiotically with it.
Not only do they graze on grass swept by clean ocean air, they also get grains and—of course—PEI potatoes. "There is a great holistic connection between cattle farming on PEI and the potato industry," says Food Island Partnership Program Officer Greg Pearce. The cows are fed potatoes and are grazed on the lands those potatoes are grown on.
"They fertilize the fields," he says. "They tread on it, they work it, and then in a few years time you end up putting a rotation of potatoes back into the area where the cattle have been grazing and you get these incredible crops. So, there is a symbiosis between the two industries that I would say is it is fairly unique to Canada."
Although it was a massive project to get off the ground, Pearce says it was a little easier to do it in PEI than it would have been in other provinces. "We could never keep up in commoditized beef," he says. "We could never have been the lowest cost provider. So what we have to do is make it better. We add value by growing and raising better beef and charging a little more for it."
Pearce says part of that small premium is a built-in 'fair trade' element—everyone who touches the animal, from birth to processing, gets a small percentage of the sale. "It's a sustainable farming model—but then there is this added element ensuring that the people who take the care and put the time and effort into raising a better product make a small amount more money.
"I'd love to see 200 programs like ours in Canada, because then you would have a true national impact and farm in a more sustainable manner."
The one problem Island Beef and Grandview Farms have in common is supply. For PEI, it's about keeping the supply of provincial cattle growing. In Ontario, it's about sourcing enough cattle that meet the high standards of the program. It's a slow building process.
"You can't feed the world on organic or grass-fed at the moment," says von Teichman. "But as we move towards utilizing our agricultural resources better, and stopping our reliance on fossil fuels and letting animals graze more, we'll find that the land is better used—you can put more animals on it, and you can utilize your resources better. But that takes time. It doesn't happen overnight.
"It's a de-evolution, really, because it's the way it used to be. It took quite a long time to get into this industrial farm system, but I don't think it is going to take that long to get off it and back to a little sanity—and impose some ethics when it comes to the way animals are treated."
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Appendix A: Summary of the Key Components of the JCPOA
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is a detailed, 159-page agreement with five annexes. Implementation schedules and enforcement options are also governed by UN Security Council Resolution 2231, adopted on July 20, 2015, and Iran's compliance with the JCPOA will be verified by the IAEA according to certain requirements set forth in the agreement.
The following is a summary of the timeline and key components of the multi-year agreement.
Timeline for Implementation
• Finalization Day: conclusion of the agreement on July 14, then Iran and the United States complete domestic review processes, Iran provides the IAEA with information necessary for the agency to complete its PMD investigation
• Adoption Day: 90 days after the passage of the UN Security Council Resolution endorsing the deal (July 20, 2015), afterward Iran and the P5+1 take steps (outlined below) to meet their commitments by implementation day
• Implementation Day: The IAEA certifies that Iran has taken the key steps to restrict its nuclear program and put in place increased monitoring, and the U.S., EU, and UN implement sanctions relief
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E-450 boards, HD6970X2s, and many more toys from Powercolor
Computex 2011: Plus the best logo of the show
Jun 13, 2011 by Charlie Demerjian
Powercolor had tons of things, from dual 6950s to remote video boxes at Computex. They were even showing off some unannounced CPUs and new product lines.
First up is the big stuff, the dual HD6870 boards we told you about a month ago are now nearing final form. Just to make sure that they had something new to show off, Powercolor also had a dual HD6970 as well. They are cunningly called the HD6870X2 and the HD6970X2, a product that is not the same as the highly binned out HD6990.
2X the X2s, 2X the fan … err fun
You may notice that both parts have asymmetrical fans, these are not simply repackaged reference designs, both are ground up new boards and coolers. Also take note of the massive heat pipes on the 6870X2, the 6970X2 has them too, but they are well hidden. You might also notice the 6970X2 has a stiffening plate up top, and three 8-pin power plugs. Can you say 525W capable?
The 6870X2 is said to cost around $449 retail, undercutting the GTX580 by a bit, and slapping it around for performance. Some benches show >30% more speed from the X2 but realistically expect only about 20% more than the top (non-explosive) NV card can muster. The 6970X2 is not a go for production yet, so don't expect it any time soon. What's not to love?
Two new HD6850 coolers
That brings us to two new 6850 designs from the boys (and girls) by the Acer building, a 1 slot and a passive design. I can't figure out why people would want a one slot 6850/1G, cooling isn't as good and noise is higher, but apparently there is a lot of demand. You can get one now if you want. You would be a lot better off with the passive 6850 to the left though, it may be more, umm, slotty, but it is definitely less noisy.
Logo of the show goes to TUL
Moving on to the new SSD line from TUL, Powercolor's parent company, you can get 55, 115, 240 and 480GB versions, all with Sandforce controllers. So far so good, until you turn the logo upside down. Errr. Still, it wins my vote for the best logo of Computex by a long shot.
E-450 boards look like E-350 boards
In the "Are you sure it is OK to show that?" department comes the E-450 based Brazos board. Not much to say here, take a current E-350 board, swap the CPU out with a C0 step version, and you gain a few more MHz and turbo. This is the step that enables tablets, the turbo is likely a side effect of fully debugged power management circuitry.
Quite unique fans
The new Vortex 2 cards from Powercolor have something that I haven't seen before, fans you can extend and angle. The two red fans push down if you don't have much room in your case, or twist and pull them for better airflow. In a twist that no one else has done, you can lock them at an angle, half in and half out, to angle the airflow in an optimal way for your case. They also pop out to clean the heatsink. Does it matter? I am not sure. Does it hurt? Nope. Is it unique? Definitely.
Last up is a little black box that has an HDMI and USB in, plus a twin with the same ports going out. They are called the Powercolor Wireless Media Center (WMC), a wireless HDMI link that is good for up to 30M range. Since it worked at Computex, it will probably work at your house, the RF noise is likely orders of magnitude less there.
While wireless HDMI is nothing unique, WMC has two nice features that few if any others have. It also passes USB, so you can have a keyboard/mouse/whatever at your TV with the PC on the other side of the building, no additional hardware needed. WMC can also pass 1080p in 3D, so 120FPS, something that most others are not capable of. No word on pricing or availability, but it was polished enough so that it probably won't be long.S|A
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BULAWAYO, Oct 12 2004 (IPS) - Zimbabwe's clothing manufacturers understand too well why Asian economies are often referred to as "tigers". With feline swiftness, low-priced imports from the East have cut a swathe through the local clothing, textile and footwear market.
The influx of Asian goods now ranks high on Zimbabwean manufacturers' list of worries – which also include triple-digit inflation, high interest rates, shrinking consumer demand and political instability.
"These goods are being dumped even in the rural areas. They come cheap, are of cheap quality and our wares cannot compete – especially with the Chinese types," says Justice Mashinti, who heads the National Employment Council for the clothing industry. The body provides a forum for unions and employers to negotiate wages, safety regulations and other matters.
In a dig at the perceived frailty of Asian imports, consumers have nick-named them "zhing-zhong".
However, suspicions about the quality of these goods have not prevented Zimbabweans from buying them. In a country grappling with 70 percent unemployment, affordable goods are invariably sought after.
Batteries, playing cards, toys, tooth brushes, nail varnish, electric irons and radios are among the bright assortment of Asian products available at stalls in flea markets across the country.
At Sekusile, a busy and crowded market in the southern city of Bulawayo, a trader called McDonald is hardly visible behind the rows of colourful ladies' underwear and the racks of men's shirts that are for sale. His own stall is bedecked with sports shoes and slippers that sell for a third to half the price of their local equivalents.
"I make up to 300,000 (Zimbabwean) dollars (about 40 United States dollars) a day," says the 25-year-old, who travels to neighbouring Botswana once a month to replenish his stock. Botswana, he adds, has many Asian shops offering a variety of products at low prices.
While Asian imports have traditionally been the preserve of flea markets, they are also making an appearance in the formal retail market. "We see shoes that we think are Chinese," says Mike Vernon, a local manufacturer of footwear.
Minimal import duties do little to stem the influx of Asian goods. "For many of these products duty is a ludicrous 100 (Zimbabwean) dollars (less than one U.S. dollar) per kilogramme (of clothing)," says economist Eric Bloch.
To save local jobs, the clothing industry union is spearheading a campaign to encourage Zimbabweans to buy domestically manufactured products.
The union plans a competition at the end of this month to showcase local fabrics and designs.
The Parliamentary Committee on Industry and International Trade also plans to investigate the sale of Asian goods, as acting chairman of the body Moses Mzila-Ndlovu says government policy on cheap imports is unclear.
"We are facing a crisis in our consumption of imported inferior goods without the government showing much comprehension," he notes.
IPS could not obtain comment from the Ministry of Industry and International Trade on the extent of Zimbabwe's dealings with Asian countries.
However, a commercial officer at the Chinese embassy in Harare who declined to be named said the trade balance between China and Zimbabwe was tipped in Zimbabwe's favour. This was due to the fact that tobacco exports from Zimbabwe accounted for 75 percent of the 200 million U.S. dollars in annual trade between the two countries.
Any effort to address the matter of Asian imports is likely to be complicated by the fact that Harare is pursuing stronger ties with the Asian bloc, this as relations with Western countries sour because of political differences.
Since the start of 2000, a controversial land redistribution programme, disputed parliamentary and presidential elections and widespread human rights abuses have put Zimbabwe at odds with former colonial power Britain, the United States and others.
Government's rapprochment with Asian states does appear to have yielded some benefit for the tourism sector, however, which has been hard hit by perceptions of political uncertainty in Zimbabwe.
Environment and Tourism Minister Francis Nhema says the number of Asian tourists is likely to rise by about 50 percent this year from 41,000 to 80,000, a figure that includes some 25,000 Chinese.


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Losing Weight: A Battle Against Fat And Biology : Shots - Health News Most people who lose weight end up gaining it back — and it's not just a matter of willpower. In fact, once we begin to shed those first few pounds, says one expert, "the biology really kicks in and tries to resist the weight loss."
Losing Weight: A Battle Against Fat And Biology
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One recent study found that people were able to burn up an extra 450 calories a day with one hour of moderate exercise. That can include walking briskly, biking or swimming.
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If you're among the two-thirds of Americans who are overweight, chances are you've had people tell you to just ease up on the eating and use a little self-control. It does, of course, boil down to "calories in, calories out."
But there's a lot more to it than that, according to obesity specialist Dr. Donna Ryan, associate director for clinical research at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La.
It's a popular misconception, she says, that losing weight is "strictly a matter of willpower." It's a gigantic task, she says, because not only do we move through an incredible buffet of food spread before us every day, but we also face a battle with our own biological responses.
It starts when we begin to shed those first few pounds. At that point, "the biology really kicks in and tries to resist the weight loss," she says.
Take 56-year-old Mary Grant, who's faced a lifetime battling fat, beginning in childhood, when her father humiliated her in front of the family by publicly weighing her every Saturday morning and insisted on her trying diet after diet.
In the end, Grant unsuccessfully tried "the grapefruit before every meal diet, Weight Watchers in the early days, when you had to eat chicken livers, the hard-boiled eggs and salad diet, the tomato soup diet, the cabbage soup diet, essentially anything," says Grant, "to get that weight off me."
But the weight did not "come off." It wasn't until after nursing school that Grant was successful in dropping 100 pounds after a medically supervised fast. Dramatic as that success was, it didn't last. Grant gained much of the weight back. Most people do, according to health experts.
And here's why:
When you begin to lose pounds, levels of the hormone leptin, which is produced by fat cells, begin to drop. That sends a message to the brain that the body's "fat storage" is shrinking. The brain perceives starvation is on the way and, in response, sends out messages to conserve energy and preserve calories. So, metabolism drops.
And then other brain signals tell the body it's "hungry," and it sends out hormones to stimulate the appetite. The combination of lowered metabolism and stimulated appetite equals a "double whammy," says Ryan. And that means the person who's lost weight can't consume as much food as the person who hasn't lost weight.
For example, if you weigh 230 pounds and lose 30 pounds, you cannot eat as much as an individual who has always weighed 200 pounds. You basically have a "caloric handicap," says Ryan. And depending on how much weight people lose, they may face a 300-, 400- or even 500-calorie a day handicap, meaning you have to consume that many fewer calories a day in order to maintain your weight loss.
This means no more grapefruit or cabbage soup diets: You need a diet you can stay on forever. For most people, that means high fiber, low fat and low sugar.
But you can fight back against a lowered metabolism. You can "kick" your metabolism back up by exercising every day. One recent study found people were able to burn up an extra 450 calories a day with one hour of moderate exercise.
It doesn't have to be vigorous jogging. You can walk briskly, bike or swim. Health experts recommend 30 minutes of moderate physical activity a day in order to reduce risk for heart disease. But obesity experts say if you want to lose or maintain weight, you have to double that and exercise at least one hour every day.
If obesity has touched your life, share your story with NPR and the Public Insight Network.


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Home » News » IN RADICAL SHIFT, GOP LEADERS ACTIVELY EMBRACE CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE
IN RADICAL SHIFT, GOP LEADERS ACTIVELY EMBRACE CATASTROPHIC CLIMATE CHANGE
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) at a Kentucky coal transport facility the final week before the 2014 midterm elections.
Over the past year, GOP leaders, driven by Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), have made a radical shift in the party's public position on climate change. They are now actively seeking to destroy a global climate deal.
In any other universe this would be a major news story. But I guess the mainstream media has become so jaded to what the Koch brothers and Tea Party have done to the Republican party at a national level, that this radical shift seems just like another dog-bites-man-story, albeit one where the wound is fatal.
In fact, for most of the past quarter-century, most of the GOP leadership has at least given lip service to the idea that global warming is a global problem that needs a global solution. Not only have they abandoned that public position, but they now apparently believe the role of the "exceptional" and "indispensable" nation is to actively work to undermine the world's best chance to save billions of people — including generations of Americans — from needless misery.
In its Monday piece, "GOP to attack climate pact at home and abroad," Politico reports:
"Top Republican lawmakers are planning a wide-ranging offensive — including outreach to foreign officials by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office — to undermine President Barack Obama's hopes of reaching an international climate change agreement that would cement his environmental legacy."
Let's set aside Politico's ridiculous framing, whereby the purpose of Obama's efforts to achieve a global climate treaty is strictly personal and political — to "cement his environmental legacy" — rather than what it in fact is, moral and science-based, to avert centuries of misery for billions of people. For Politico, such framing is a feature, not a bug.
What's radical is the nakedly immoral and self-destructive greed underlying McConnell's strategy, which includes one of his aides "informing foreign embassies about GOP plans to oppose Obama's strategy on global warming."
Consider that the Pope's recent climate encyclical expounded at great length on the immorality of global climate inaction. So the immorality of intentionally trying to thwart the first truly serious effort aimed at global action is far beyond immoral.
As recently as 2008, leading Republicans, including the party's presidential nominee John McCain, campaigned on national climate action. But the election of President Obama with large Democratic majorities in both the House and Senate made the possibility of national climate action far more real. So fossil fuel companies, the Koch brothers, and the like seriously ramped up efforts to block action, with a special focus on the Senate after the House passed a major climate bill in June 2009.
One of the arguments opponents of U.S. action have always used is that there will never be a global deal where developing countries like China will agree to limit emissions. In this argument, since China et al are responsible for most of the recent growth in carbon pollution, their refusal to act renders U.S. action pointless — or even worse, it might put put us at an economic disadvantage by making our carbon-intensive products more expensive.
Indeed, this "we can't do it without China" excuse became a mantra for party leaders, as this video shows:
As recently as June 2014, Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal editorialized against the EPA's Clean Power Plan this way:
Mr. Obama's logic seems to be that the U.S. should first set a moral example by imposing costs that reduce our prosperity. This will then inspire China (8.7 billion tons), which produces and consumes nearly as much coal as the rest of the world combined, to do the same to its 300 million people who still live on pennies a day. Good luck persuading Xi Jinping.
Be careful what you wish for, deniers! As Jonathan Chait points out, "The exact sequence Obama tried to bring about has, in fact, happened. China has done the thing conservatives insisted it would never do."
Last November, the Obama administration leveraged the Clean Power Plan (CPP), which cuts carbon pollution from the electric utility sector, to get Xi Jinping to announce China's game-changing commitment last year to peak CO2 emissions in 2030, "and to make best efforts to peak early."
McConnell immediately complained he was "particularly distressed" by this deal because it supposedly "requires the Chinese to do nothing at all for 16 years."
In fact, China had also pledged to double its carbon-free power capacity between 2015 to 2030, essentially building an entire new U.S. electrical grid, but one without CO2 emissions — which immediately gave the lie to the notion that the U.S. would some how suffer economically if we made the far smaller changes to our electrical grid needed to meet the EPA's CPP targets.
As if to directly rebuke McConnell, two weeks later the the Chinese announced that they would peak in coal consumption by 2020! By the spring it was clear that the Chinese would beat their coal and CO2 targets by several years.
McConnell apparently decided his crusade to persuade GOP governors to simply defy the new EPA standards and thereby block U.S. climate action wasn't enough. Team McConnell would have to actively try to persuade foreign leaders that the U.S. would not make good on its pledge. And so Politico reports that "a top policy aide to McConnell (R-Ky.) has had conversations with a select group of representatives from foreign embassies to make it clear that Republicans intend to fight Obama's climate agenda at every turn."
Yet, the deal poised to come out of Paris is exceedingly good from the United States' point of view, as I've discussed. "The U.S. climate plans are at the least ambitious end of what would be a fair contribution," as the independent analytical team at Climate Action Tracker put it — doubly so because we are the richest country in the world and the single biggest cumulative contributor of carbon pollution.
McConnell's actions end the pretense that the GOP leadership has any interest whatsoever in trying to globally address the gravest preventable threat America faces. As Chait notes, "The speed at which Republicans have changed from insisting other countries would never reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions to warning other countries not to do so — without a peep of protest from within the party or the conservative movement — says everything you need to know about the party's stance on climate change."
I'm not sure a major political leader has ever pursued a strategy that is so directly counter to the health and well-being of all Americans, their children, and the next 50 generations. The Pope ends his encyclical calling on God to "Enlighten those who possess power and money that they may avoid the sin of indifference, that they may love the common good, advance the weak, and care for this world in which we live. The poor and the earth are crying out."
If indifference to the dangers of climate inaction by the rich and powerful is a sin, how immoral is it for the rich and powerful to actively try to block the entire world from acting?
One final note, especially for international readers. No matter what McConnell does, the truth is that the United States will meet the CO2 targets President Obama has made. Indeed, I am certain this nation will surpass them. Why? As morally and scientifically urgent as the EPA's Clean Power Plan is now, that urgency is going to grow exponentially over the next few years, as global temperatures and extreme weather soar, and the dire nature of our situation becomes painfully obvious to more and more people.
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Take a recess with Poulenc
'Welcome back.'
It's always struck me as an odd greeting when live programmes on television, such as the evening news, open with this phrase after a thirty-second commercial break. 'I didn't go anywhere, actually, you're the ones who decided to leave, not me,' is the thought that often crosses my mind.
So I shall go with 'Hello again,' for I have been absent for a couple of months. Moving into a new house with no wi-fi for eight weeks has tested patience to near breaking point, but the thrill of finally having sound again has reinvigorated my urge to share music with you at a time when it is much needed. We seem to lurch from one shambles to another.
Amidst all this chaos, music is the one enduring constant. What else has the ability to take us out of ourselves, to allow us to inhabit another space away from whatever life throws at us, to silence world noise for a few moments, and hence to put everything else around us on hold? Drink and drugs may do it for some, but the full benefits we get from music come from dedicated and attentive listening, not merely hearing, thereby ensuring our willing surrender to it and the need to return for more.
And the need is very great just now, especially for an element of calm. Which is why I have turned to the French composer Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), a name which will be new to many, and might not be that well known to those it isn't. Despite his output being prodigious, Poulenc (pronounced Poolank) has struggled to earn the respect and coverage he deserves, possibly because much of his early work, notably his songs, is seen as light-hearted, even frivolous; a perception which his later religious, and more serious pieces, helped to reverse.
Coming from a prosperous family, Poulenc was not expected to follow a musical career, but his mother was a decent pianist and music was always in the house. Both parents died while Francis was a teenager, and it fell to his teacher, Ricardo Viñes, to encourage the young man to compose, in the first instance by introducing him to Georges Auric who became a life-long friend and mentor. During his musical development, Poulenc drew upon all sorts of composers for his inspiration, old and contemporary, but in the end there is definitely a style which you can pin down as his own: it is one which combines his love of simple melody – with a dash of brief quirkiness thrown in to the mix.
Simplistic it may be to say so, but it is, perhaps, a reflection of his anything-but-straightforward personal life. He proposed marriage to one lady, but the combination of her involvement with another man and her discovery that Poulenc was gay, was never likely to have her rushing into his arms. He did, nevertheless, father a girl elsewhere, who, in a precursor to the fictitious Wilson-Pike relationship in Dad's Army, grew up never knowing him to be her father. But his sexual predilictions were predominantly elsewhere and there were affairs aplenty.
Back to that style of tune and quirkiness. Here is the 2nd movement of his Concerto for Two Pianos. The whole piece can be seen as a combination of mild ridicule of the standard approach to concerto-writing with a reverence to those names he respected – Ravel, Stravinsky; and in this extract, Mozart. It's a lovely, simple Mozart tune, the Elvira Magdalene reference clear, with eerie Poulenc dissonances thrown in here and there, before returning to a gentle, if abrupt, conclusion. The man had a sense of humour, but that does not make his output lightweight: dig out his Organ Concerto with Strings and Timpani, it is rivetting.
There is no dialogue between one piano and the other here, you cannot really tell them apart. It is just a case of two are better than one. The sound and picture qualities are not the finest, but I have chosen it to show you the man himself at the keyboard, even if perhaps past his playing best.
So leave the chaos for five minutes and just let go.
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High school journalists assisting on statewide investigation of concussions
By Shasta Kearns Moore | April 18, 2018
If there's one thing adults just don't understand, it's probably the world and culture of high school.
So when we started talking about a series on head injuries in youth sports, we thought: "Why not ask student journalists to help?"
Last fall, project manager Lee van der Voo and I visited Portland-area classrooms to tell students about Rattled: Oregon's Concussion Discussion, ask for their input, and see if they wanted to contribute.
Sure enough, they did. And for many of them, the interest is personal.
After my presentation to one West Linn High School class, a student journalist asked how many of his classmates had suffered a concussion. The hands of about a third of the room went up.
Glenn Krake, the high school's journalism teacher, said two students took up the mantle of concussion-related stories. One is focusing on preventive measures and best practices. The other is looking at existing procedures and protocols in place at the suburban high school.
"They haven't published anything yet, but the seeds have certainly been sown, and they're having conversations to be sure," Krake said.
In October, van der Voo, managing director of Investigate West, presented at Fall Press Day, a combined effort of the University of Oregon and the Northwest Scholastic Press to provide students with a day of journalism workshops, contests and panels. Van der Voo introduced the Rattled project and talked about sports concussions.
She also joined me at a NextGen Media workshop for editors of high school newspapers at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism in downtown Portland. Called the Editor Leadership Summit, the class asked plenty of questions about public records and also received an overview of Rattled.
Anthony Whitten, who leads the summits, says the next group will start their coaching sessions June 16. We are hoping to invite them to join our concussion project, too.
Another part of Pamplin Media Group's youth outreach efforts is a "social video" that uses a series of slides to explain the project and invites students and other members of the public to participate. Watch and share it on Facebook.
We are still looking for high school students interested in sharing their stories or digging up the truth about concussion risk in their schools or on their teams. What about Rattled makes you curious?
Email shasta@portlandtribune.com if you want to get involved.
Shasta Kearns Moore is the education reporter for the Portland Tribune and leads technological newsroom innovations for Pamplin Media Group.
Rattled: Oregon's Concussion Discussion is a joint project of InvestigateWest, Pamplin Media Group and the Agora Journalism Center, made possible in part by grants from Meyer Memorial Trust and the Center for Cooperative Media. Researcher Mark G. Harmon from the Portland State University Criminology & Criminal Justice Department provided statistical review and analysis. The New York-based Solutions Journalism Network provided training in solutions-based techniques and support to participating journalists.
Components of this project, which will include video and audio files, charts and graphs, will be hosted online by both InvestigateWest (RattledInOregon.org) and the Portland Tribune.
Series will conduct first-ever analysis of high school sports concussions in Oregon
One in five American teens reports having suffered at least one concussion. For most students, it's a relatively tame tale: a headache, some rest, and then back to a normal routine.
But for others, it's a life-changing event. Reporters for Rattled: Oregon's Concussion Discussion compile unique data on concussion injury from 238 public schools in Oregon. This series examines what they learned.
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