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Making education accessible to everyone: The #AugurReview has much to commend it
by Hema Tank
The London Institute of Banking & Finance
The recent HEPI Annual Conference (13 June), covered a lot of topics including the Augur Review of post-18 education, funding and how universities can 'future-proof'.
Of course there is a great deal of uncertainty about what may be implemented following the Augur review, as this will depend on government.
In our view the recommendations have much to commend them. Some may say they don't go far enough, but, if adopted, they could represent a major step forward for the future of post-18 education.
They help to join up the different pathways between school leavers, students in further or higher education and 'mature' learners (24+).
They should enable more flexible learning, including part-time and modular approaches, which would really help to bring lifelong learning to life.
In our view this approach makes education accessible for everyone, whatever their stage of life or previous educational experience.
We particularly support the proposed introduction of a Lifelong Learning Account. It's a critical piece of the jigsaw that previously had a few holes in terms of educational access and opportunity, in particular for older adults.
You may think that's a strange statement for a university, but, as many of you will know, we provide education for all stages of people's lives. That starts at school, with our GCSE and A Level equivalent qualifications in personal finance, progressing to our undergraduate and postgraduate finance qualifications and then into our professional qualifications which cover many aspects of careers in the finance sector. We work closely with the financial services sector at all these stages.
Employers in our sector (the finance industry) need different ways to upskill and re-skill their staff, to help them adapt to an increasingly digital environment and fast-changing customer needs.
They are also looking to diversify their workforces. So, as well as taking university graduates, they are starting to establish degree-level apprenticeships with us, along with supporting their workers in taking professional qualifications – such as in banking, investment and regulated advice.
So a lot happens in the finance sector, with employer support. But giving individuals the option of taking control of their future careers by being able to work and study independently, with support from the government, would also be a big step forward in increasing access to careers in the sector.
Staged awards would also help to support that, although we recognise this can pose challenges for the HE sector. We support them in principle (and practice), as they open up more opportunities and allow more flexibility for individuals, but there does need to be more detail behind their use to make sure this approach also works for the sector.
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There's a lot to work through with these proposals – including, of course, the funding to make sure that it's a 'level playing field' for all. We'll be watching and waiting for the government's response. But in the meantime, this report, in our view, is a very helpful leap in the right direction.
Hema Tank is the Associate Dean of The London Institute of Banking & Finance
About The London Institute of Banking & Finance: A university providing under-graduate and post-graduate degree courses for students aiming to pursue a career in banking, investment and finance. Career advice and skills are integral to our programmes. We also work with the industry to provide degree-level apprenticeships and provide accredited professional qualifications for the finance sector, helping people throughout their careers.
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Elisabeth Marie Simpson és un personatge fictici de la sèrie animada de televisió, Els Simpsons. L'origen del seu nom ve de la germana del creador de la sèrie, Matt Groening.

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Elizabeth Marie Simpson és la filla mitjana. És rossa, la forma del seu cabell és com una estrella de vuit puntes, és baixa, el color de la seva pell és groc. Té una cara simpàtica i molt desperta, els seus ulls són rodons, blancs amb dos punts al mig. Les seves orelles són petites. Tot i tenir només 8 anys es pot definir com una "nena adulta". Lisa té un coeficient d'intel·ligència de 159, el que fa que sigui una de les persones més llestes de Springfield. D'altra banda, hi ha aspectes en què continua sent una criatura, com ara el seu amor pels ponis i per la seva nina.
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Malauradament, la intel·ligència té un preu i Lisa és la protagonista de la tragèdia dins la comèdia. Tot i ser una nena brillant està infravalorada. Tanmateix, la superioritat de la Lisa la fa incòmoda i, com a conseqüència, està marginada. Això fa que se senti insegura i necessiti sentir l'aprovació de la gent. A més, sempre surt desil·lusionada de les seves empreses morals a causa de la corrupció i l'abúlia de la societat. Tot plegat, contribueix a ferir més i més la seva fràgil sensibilitat i la converteix en la "nena més trista de 2n grau", com ella afirma en un blues de saxo extraordinari a "Trista Lisa".

Lisa és un exemple clar de l'amor-odi que provoca la intel·lectualitat: sembla lògic que els més preparats facin de guia, però a resta no li agrada sentir-se conduïda. La Lisa és necessària per l'equilibri psicològic de la família i és un punt d'ajuda fins i tot per als seus pares, tot i que poques vegades és escoltada.

Doblatge
La veu original en anglès és de Yeardley Smith. A Espanya, el doblatge és realitzat per Isacha Mengíbar. A Llatinoamèrica el treball era fet per la mexicana Patricia Acevedo, fins a la temporada 16 quan va ser substituïda per Alexia Solís. La veu de la sèrie en català és doblada per Núria Mediavilla.

Edat
Lisa Simpson té 8 anys. Segons el seu germà, Bart Simpson, ell és dos anys i 38 dies major que ella (el dia del seu aniversari és el mateix dia que el de Hitler; així va dir el seu pare Homer Simpson). Segons la sèrie, Lisa va néixer en l'any 1984 però el personatge, com qualsevol altre de la sèrie, no canvia d'edat.

Una curiositat és que quan els Simpsons van a la casa de platja dels Flanders perquè Ned és fet jutge, llavors Marge els proposa a Bart i Lisa que duguin un amic, Lisa li comenta a Marge que ella no té amics i la seva mare li diu que "ha de ser ella mateixa"; quan Marge surt, Lisa murmura "Sí clar, he estat jo mateixa durant 6 anys i no tinc un sol amic", per la qual cosa Lisa no ha tingut un amic des dels 2 anys. En altres ocasions se l'ha vist parlant amb altres nenes en forma d'"amigues", encara que elles no la consideren així.

Vestimenta diària
Lisa sempre va vestida de la mateixa manera, com tots els personatges de la sèrie. La seva vestimenta consisteix en un vestit vermell (o potser taronja) sense mànigues ni tirants, sabates vermelles i un collaret de perles blanc.

En un capítol havia d'anar disfressada d'un estat, però no va tenir suport de Marge que està en un casino (i s'havia ofert per a fer-lo). Homer li fa la disfressa, però Lisa sembla un hotdog aixafat i gris.

Per a anar a l'església utilitza un vestit rosa, d'un model molt diferent del que quotidianament utilitza, sabates roses i una trossa en el cap del mateix color.

Popularitat
Lisa és la filla mitjana dels Simpson, el seu pare és el Homer Simpson i la seva mare Marge Simpson, i els seus germans són Bart i Maggie. El personatge no és dels més populars a la sèrie tot i que és un dels principals protagonistes, sobretot perquè és presentada com una saberuda. No obstant això, molts cops es mostra la seva intel·ligència, i encara que moltes vegades ella és companya de les trapelleries del seu germà gran, amb qui se l'ha vist planejant en innombrables ocasions bromes pesades, moltes d'elles contra el seu pare, no és una característica seva sinó del seu germà.

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Q: What is the fastest way to empty a list in Python? What is the fastest way to empty a list in Python?
Is clear() the fastest?
Also, what is the most memory efficient way of doing it?
I heard Reinitializing the list won't clear it, but let GarbageCleaner delete the actual contents based on the remaining references.
Which way would be the fastest, and if possible most memory efficient?

A: ls.clear(), del ls[:], and ls[:]=[] are all identical in their performance:
$ python3 -m timeit -n 1000 "ls=list(range(10000)); ls.clear()"
1000 loops, best of 5: 219 usec per loop

$ python3 -m timeit -n 1000 "ls=list(range(10000)); del ls[:]"
1000 loops, best of 5: 215 usec per loop

$ python3 -m timeit -n 1000 "ls=list(range(10000)); ls[:]=[]"
1000 loops, best of 5: 218 usec per loop

I agree with the others that if you need to even think about these kinds of micro-optimizations you're using the wrong language.
I would always just use ls.clear() since that's the most obvious, most readable, and cleanest way imo.

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Reported cybersecurity incidents have reached a record high, according to Cert NZ's latest quarterly report.
From July 1 to September 30, the cybersecurity agency received more than 2600 incident reports from individuals and businesses; the highest number to date and a 33 per cent increase on the second quarter. The reported, direct financial loss was at $6.4m (the average quarterly loss, based on 14 quarters, was $3.6m.)
Attacks circulated by email were among the most commonly reported incidents. In particular, a variation of malicious software, or malware, called Emotet, which is spread through email links or attachments, was responsible for a 34 per cent increase in malware reports on the previous quarter.
In a statement, Cert NZ's director Rob Pope said the figures weren't surprising given the recent spate of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, ransomware and online scams.
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In September, a wave of cyberattacks exposed worrying vulnerabilities in some of New Zealand's key institutions. Most notably, for six days, the nation's stock exchange – where tens of millions of dollars in shares are traded each working day – was laid low by the attacks.
Most of the DDoS attacks were volumetric attacks, meaning they worked by overloading websites with more traffic than they're able to manage.
"These incidents serve as a wakeup call for Kiwis to tighten up their online security," Pope said.
He encouraged New Zealanders to update their operating systems and software, ensure they use long, strong and unique passwords, and install antivirus software.
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It's been a bad year for cyber attacks in New Zealand, with attacks in September halting the country's stock exchange
Of the reported incidents which provided a financial loss value, 13 were over $100,000.
Five involved the unauthorised transfer of money as a result of businesses having their email accounts compromised. Two related to "a new job or business opportunity" and the remaining related to scams including cryptocurrency, investment, fake lottery or prizes, and romance scams.
The finance and insurance sector accounted for 60 per cent of reports about incidents affecting organisations.
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Security experts are warning shoppers to keep an eye out for holiday season scams.
The Domain Name Commission along with InternetNZ built a fake webshop to help Kiwis spot signs of dodgy e-commerce.
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2020 Stanley Cup odds: Find out where the Dallas Stars stand as hockey nears potential return
The NHL settled on a 24-team postseason format earlier this week.
Stanley Cup keeper Howie Borrow (center) and Lauren Montgomery (right) of Allied Global Marketing set up the Stanley Cup outside American Airlines Center before Game 6 of the first round of Stanley Cup Playoffs between the Dallas Stars and the Nashville Predators on Monday, April 22, 2019 in Dallas.(Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer)
5:04 PM on May 27, 2020 CDT
The NHL's regular season is over and the chase for the Stanley Cup is on if hockey returns this summer.
The league settled on a 24-team postseason format this week after the coronavirus shut down sports back in March.
The top four teams in the Eastern and Western Conferences get byes into the final 16 except for a handful of round-robin games to determine seeding. That's Boston, Tampa Bay, Washington and Philadelphia in the East and St. Louis, Colorado, Vegas and Dallas in the West.
The top seeds would face the winners of eight opening-round, best-of-five series.
In a difficult-to-predict return to hockey, the Stars find themselves on the favorable side of the betting odds in the unique playoff format. However, Dallas' odds have actually dropped a touch from earlier in the season.
Here's a look at every NHL team's odds of lifting the Stanley Cup, courtesy of www.betonline.ag:
2020 Stanley Cup odds (as of 5/27)
Boston Bruins 13/2
Tampa Bay Lightning 13/2
Colorado Avalanche 7/1
Philadelphia Flyers 8/1
Vegas Golden Knights 8/1
St. Louis Blues 12/1
Pittsburgh Penguins 15/1
Washington Capitals 15/1
Dallas Stars 18/1
Nashville Predators 20/1
Edmonton Oilers 25/1
Toronto Maple Leafs 25/1
Vancouver Canucks 40/1
Arizona Coyotes 50/1
Calgary Flames 50/1
Carolina Hurricanes 50/1
Minnesota Wild 60/1
New York Islanders 60/1
New York Rangers 60/1
Columbus Blue Jackets 66/1
Chicago Blackhawks 66/1
Florida Panthers 66/1
Montreal Canadiens 66/1
Winnipeg Jets 66/1
The Associated Press contributed to this post.
Stars' previous odds
All-Star break: 14/1
2019 offseason: 28/1
Related: Stars gain playoff berth in new NHL format, road to Stanley Cup could go through Dallas
Find more Stars stories from The Dallas Morning News here.
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Strategic Implications
of Causal Mapping in
Strategy Analysis and
Douglas L. Micklich
Illinois State University, USA
The formulation and implementation of effective strategy at every level within an
organization requires that those involved in the process have not only a good overall
understanding of the present situation, but also an understanding of the underlying
cause and effect relationships which underpin strategy at those levels. This includes
understanding the interactions, which occur between the levels of strategy in an
organization as well as the benefits of a firm's executive information system. Using
various mapping techniques, e.g., concept mapping, cognitive mapping, causal mapping,
we investigate the factors that made WorldCom, Inc., a one-time leader in the
telecommunications industry, implode and find itself fighting in courts for its very
The strategy formulation process for an organization can be described as consisting of
the integration of three perspectives of strategy: corporate, business, and functional
(Hax, 1996). The process begins at the uppermost level of an organization, usually with
the Board of Directors at the corporate level, and in conjunction with executive
management, down through the business level, and finally ending at the functional/
operational level. Corporate strategy deals with decisions that by their nature should be
addressed with the fullest scope encompassing the overall firm. Business strategy aims
at obtaining superior financial performance by seeking a competitive positioning that
allows the business to have a sustainable advantage over the firm's competitors.
Functional strategies not only consolidate the functional requirements demanded by the
corporate and business strategies, but also constitute the repositories of the ultimate
capabilities needed to develop the unique competencies of the firm. According to Hax
(1996), strategy formulation for the organization is intended to frame all of the key
strategic issues of the firm through a sequential involvement of the corporate, business
and functional perspectives. The strategy formulation process can also be extended to
exist within these perspectives as resources and systems are marshaled to implement that
chosen strategy.
When beginning to formulate the overall strategy, concept/cognitive mapping can be
used to develop a general understanding of the relationship that exists both between
these perspectives/levels of the organization and within these perspectives. Within each
level we can use causal mapping to help identify cause and effect relationships that can
exist due to various courses of action or of inaction. By looking at these cause and effect
relationships that exist among the elements at each level for a given situation, changes
in the formulation of strategy (how these elements are used) can be undertaken to correct
any unwanted (negative) consequences of a chosen strategy.
In this respect, we use the mapping technique approach to accomplish two objectives.
The first is to frame the firm's situations and the elements that surround it. The second
is to pinpoint the deficiencies by looking at specific cause and effects and determine a
course of action that would correct those deficiencies and allow for the proper allocation
of resources throughout the firm.
We begin by first framing the firm's situation and the elements surrounding that
situation. We accomplish this by introducing the skills and concepts required in
analyzing and formulating a firm's strategy through its various levels. The skills
introduced and developed are those of synthesis and analysis. These skills are important
both in decomposing strategy into its basic elements and in understanding the relationship
that exists between these elements. The concepts introduced are those of Critical
Success Factors and Critical Value Activities. These concepts are relative to competitive
conditions that exist and issues of the existence of organizational silos as they relate to
structure. These skills are important to the development of a general understanding of
the circumstances surrounding a given firm's situation and the cause and effect
relationships that exist among the levels of strategy from the corporate level through the
functional level. Introduced, also, are the concepts of information symmetry and
dependence and an explanation how they affect the structural and reporting relationships
of the firm and the implementation of strategy through structure.
From here, we go onto our second objective, which is to see where strategy went awry
and to be able to diagnose the situation and determine a course of action which would
correct any deficiencies and allow for a reallocation of resources. Beginning with an issue
in narrative form, and using the concepts and skills, we can identify at the lowest possible
level, the point where the problem resides. This is accomplished by using as an example
WorldCom, Inc., (see Case in Point at the end of the chapter), where perceptions of these
general relationships as well as the specific cause and effect relationships at the various
levels will be shown.
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Teen mom murder: Alleged killer heads to court
By Courteney Stuart | stuart@readthehook.com
Published online Thursday Dec 9th, 2004
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Relatives of a former private school student whose life ended in a Charlottesville trailer park had hoped to find justice in a court case on December 9, but at press time lawyers for the case said the preliminary hearing for the teen's alleged killer was likely to be delayed until the new year.
A former student at the Covenant School, 18-year-old Azlee Keller Hickman was found dead nine months ago in a Carlton Avenue mobile home. Although an autopsy revealed signs of strangulation, and Hickman's March 13 death was ruled the City's first homicide of 2004, no arrests or suspects were immediately announced.
It wasn't until late August, when new eyewitness testimony surfaced, that police arrested and charged William Franklin "Billy" Marshall Jr. with second-degree murder. The 38-year-old tow-truck driver had been a friend of the victim.
"We believed he was involved all along," says Azlee's aunt, Lisa Hickman, who is married to local developer Tom Hickman.
Marshall's attorney, Charles Weber, says his client will plead not guilty when his preliminary hearing takes place, likely in January.
Azlee's father, Henry Hickman, lives in Glenmore, an east-of-town subdivision where house prices often reach seven figures. The teen's well-to-do background raises the question: How did a life with such promise end in a trailer park?
The victim's aunt says another tragedy– the death of Azlee's beloved stepmother, Sarah, several years earlier– set her niece on a downward spiral.
"Life was not easy after Sarah died," says Lisa Hickman. Although Azlee remained a "very thoughtful" teen who always remembered her cousins' birthdays with small gifts, she began running with a wilder– and older– crowd, including the 38-year-old Marshall.
By 17, Azlee had dropped out of Covenant, a private Christian academy, and in September 2003, she gave birth to a baby girl. She and the child were living in the Carlton Avenue trailer with the father of her baby, another tow-truck driver Hickman declines to name.
Having a baby, though difficult for a teenager, proved to be a positive turning point for her niece, says Hickman.
"That was her calling," she says. "She just loved being a mother, loved that little girl."
Determined to turn her life around, Azlee completed a pharmacy training program and secured a full-time job at the Barracks Road CVS, winning friends among her coworkers.
"She was a sweet girl," says one employee who requested anonymity because the store's policy prohibits employees from speaking to the press. "We all miss her."
While Azlee enjoyed her CVS job, Hickman says, she was planning to continue her education and wanted to become a Certified Nursing Assistant.
"She was just determined to pull herself up," Hickman says. "She realized she had people who loved her."
In fact, Hickman says, Azlee had been planning to move out of the trailer on the day following her death.
Commonwealth's attorney Dave Chapman declined comment on the specifics of the case, and Detective Jim Mooney– whom Hickman praises as "working tirelessly on the case"– did not return the Hook's calls.
The family hopes the trial will help bring some closure, says Hickman, who's putting together an album to help Azlee's daughter remember her mother.
"We miss her a lot," she says.
Azlee Hickman in a school photo taken her junior year
Photo courtesy Hickman family
William Franklin Marshall is charged with second degree murder in Azlee Hickman's death.
Courtesy Charlottesville police


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Astronauts, baseball stars, pilots and foreign presidents. Firefighters, peacemakers and military veterans. Individuals and groups of tens, hundreds and thousands.
They've all been honored with a New York City ticker tape parade. And on Wednesday morning, the 207th installment of this jubilant tradition will celebrate the U.S. women's national soccer team and its fourth FIFA Women's World Cup Championship.
The ticker tape parades preceding Wednesday's celebration offer a telling look at people and events that have captivated America over the past 133 years.
"We learn best by looking squarely at history," said Andy Breslau, senior vice president of the Alliance for Downtown New York, whose organization keeps records of the parades and the people they honored.
Ticker tape parade history began spontaneously during the Statue of Liberty dedication in October 1886, when office workers threw ticker tape out their windows and onto parade-goers below.
Ticker tape, thin strips of paper used for early electronic printing of stock market quotes and baseball scores, is so called because of the ticking sound the machines produced. West Orange resident Thomas Edison invented the original ticker tape machine, patenting it in 1869, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Beginning with that Statue of Liberty celebration, office trash became confetti, asonlookers often threw entire spools of tape down on parade honorees. Ticker tape became obsolete in the 1960s, but the tradition of showering celebrated figures with paper still thrives.
The parades wind through Lower Broadway, in the city's Financial District, ending at City Hall. The area is known as the Canyon of Heroes, and the Downtown Alliance in 2003 installed granite sidewalk markers commemorating each parade.
The most recent ticker tape parade — in June 2015 — also honored the U.S. women's soccer team for a FIFA World Cup win. It was the first time a ticker tape parade honored an all-female athletics team; the women's team wasn't recognized when it won the same championship in 1999 and 2003.
Two-time honorees such as the women's soccer team are rare. And no team has broken the New York Yankees' seven-parade ticker tape record, established between 1977 and 2009 as the team racked up World Series championships.
The frequency of ticker tape parades has thinned since their popularity peaked between 1945 and 1965. They became political tools: Of the 130 parades during this period, nearly half honored visiting heads of state.
During the height of their prevalence, some parades entertaining foreign leaders may have transpired with subtle influence from the U.S. State Department, although the New York City Mayor's Office sanctions the events, Breslau said.
"None of us were in the room, but one can look at it through the politics of the Cold War," Breslau said.
Just six U.S. presidents have received the honor, though not usually during their administrations, according to Downtown Alliance records. In 1889, the second-ever ticker tape parade celebrated the centennial of George Washington's inauguration. Teddy Roosevelt was honored in 1910, a year after his presidency ended; Harry Truman was honored as a sitting president in 1945.
Dwight D. Eisenhower remains the only U.S. president honored twice — first in 1945, for his World War II military leadership, and again in 1960, alongside Richard Nixon, that year's Republican presidential nominee and sitting vice president. John F. Kennedy also enjoyed a parade in 1960, when he was the Democrats' presidential nominee.
Though a sweeping majority of the parades were staged for politicians, military heroes and sports champions, a few honorees are outliers, such as Juilliard School alumnus Van Cliburn, the sole musician distinguished with a ticker tape parade.
The pianist in 1958 won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition — an American virtuoso in Moscow during the Cold War. Cliburn was, as TIME magazine put it, "The Texan Who Conquered Russia."
But not all who earned a paper-strip spotlight maintained their esteemed reputations. Honorees might, "years later, reveal themselves to be disreputable," Breslau said.
One such controversial figure was Charles Lindbergh, whose 1927 solo, non-stop trans-Atlantic flight earned him one of New York's most extravagant ticker tape parades. But a decade later, the pilot accepted a Nazi medal, and his image was dismantled by his anti-Semitic and pro-fascist views.
Henri Philippe Pétain enjoyed ticker tape honors in 1931, as the marshal of France. Although Pétain was lauded as a World War I hero, he led France to collaborate with Nazi Germany during World War II, and he eventually was sentenced to death.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2017 said the city would review symbols of hate on city property after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. He tweeted, "The commemoration for Nazi collaborator Philippe Pétain in the Canyon of Heroes will be one of the first we remove."
De Blasio later revisited his position, and the Downtown Alliance partnered with the Museum of the City of New York to release a description of each parade, addressing discrepancies in honorees' reputations, Breslau said.
"We can't erase the fact that there was a parade," Breslau said. "The long lens of history reveals interesting things."
"It's a challenge," he said. "History is never simple."


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A server brings a dish out for guests to try. Attendees were treated to various dishes from barbeque to ice cream.
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Cajun Fried Shrimp sit under a heat lamp. There were a plethora of different foods and deserts for attendees.
A Houston High School student prepares strawberry shortcake for guests. The new culinary institute will allow hospitality majors to pursue a more expansive culinary focus at the UofM.
A tiger statue wearing a chef hat sits in the hallway at the new culinary institute. The school will have multiple programs to train for different culinary roles.
Culinary institute open house provides a taste of new program
The University of Memphis held the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new culinary facility in Cordova. The property allows for a more expansive culinary focus for hospitality majors at the UofM.
Antonio Scott, SGA President, said the new culinary facility provides the UofM with a new path to expand on.
"It's a sign that the university is growing," Scott said. "For us to be in a city known for its barbecue and its wide array of food choices, it makes sense that the city's university has a culinary institute. Today is a special day not only for students here but for our entire Memphis community as well."
Scott said the institute would not have been possible without the Kemmons-Wilson family and the university staff.
"All credit is to the amazing Kem Wilson family and the amazing professionals at the university," Scott said. "Whether it be in the school of hospitality and resort management, marketing or communications, there are a lot of folks that deserve credit. I was not one of them, so I'll give credit where credit is due. They did an absolutely phenomenal job to know that this is going to be and advancement in our campus, and I think the city is going to definitely grow from it."
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January 25, 2019 — After nearly six years of legal battles, Hughes Hubbard and the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) achieved relief for more than 60,000 low-income New Yorkers who were the victims of an alleged fraudulent debt collection scheme.
On Jan. 11, the chief administrative judge of the New York courts signed an administrative order to initiate a mass vacatur of judgments improperly obtained by a New Jersey debt collector and its law firm over alleged AT&T Wireless debts. The mass vacatur was achieved through an innovative procedural strategy that HHR and NYLAG developed in collaboration with the New York courts, and is believed to be the first of its kind.
The mass vacatur follows a $3.9 million settlement resolving a class-action lawsuit against Asta Funding, one of the nation's largest debt buyers; its subsidiary Palisades Collection, which brought thousands of consumer actions on Asta's behalf over the debts; and Pressler & Pressler, counsel to Asta Funding and the firm that litigated the actions.
The mass vacatur will pave the way for all class members, who have already received their share of the $3.9 million, to have their credit cleared.
HHR and NYLAG filed the initial action in June 2013 on behalf of four putative class representatives who alleged that the defendants violated federal and state laws by fraudulently obtaining and enforcing judgments against low-income New Yorkers, extracting millions of dollars that the defendants could never prove were owed to them.
The complaint alleged that defendants obtained judgments by filing mass-generated and baseless verified complaints, retaining process-serving agencies known to engage in "sewer service" to avoid notifying consumers of the lawsuits filed against them, and securing entry of default judgments based on fraudulent affidavits.
After HHR and NYLAG defeated a motion to compel the four representatives to submit their claims to arbitration in late 2013, defendants reached a settlement with the plaintiffs and the initial action was dismissed without barring members of the putative class from filing a new lawsuit on the same claims.
In April 2014, HHR and NYLAG filed a new action on behalf of three new representative plaintiffs, and defeated another motion by defendants to compel arbitration in March 2015. The parties reached a global settlement in principle in May 2016, and filed it in federal court in September 2017 as part of a motion for preliminary approval. A New York federal judge granted final approval of the settlement in April 2018.
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What To Feed Hedgehogs & The Danger Of Too Many Mealworms!
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I know this subject has been covered many times before, but it seems that the message is still not getting through. Rescue centres up and down the country are seeing increasing numbers of their prickly patients with metabolic bone disease, which is linked to feeding large amounts of mealworms. Metabolic bone disease is a very distressing condition which basically robs their bones of calcium and leaves them so weak that they are barely able to stand up. In an attempt to re-educate people into cutting back on the mealworms and feeding them a balanced diet, Lynda who runs our local rescue has written this excellent article. It is quite lengthy, but well worth reading to the end.
Sorry the writing is a bit small, but it was the only way I could get it all on here. If you click on each one it will make it bigger.
Very good article. Interesting that fish cat/dog food is actually ok. It is very useful to hear from someone who really knows what they are talking about. Thanks for passing this on.
Thank you for attaching this article. It's my first year of feeding hedgehogs in the garden & have been giving them a mixture of hedgehog food, & dog food but also quite a few mealworms. I will be taking your advice & keep the hogs healthy.
Thanks Penny, excellent article and helpful with the cat problem too. I read some articles on bone disease and it sounded very painful and took a lot of treatment and recovery time to rehabilitate.
Ours won't touch wet food tried dog and cat in several flavours – stopped the mealworms, we're feeding a mix of hedgehog and cat biscuits. Didn't know why no fish food just read as others that it wasn't suitable but to be fair ours do go a rummaging round the pond so they may be getting pond life from in there in the summer (no fish in there though).
Our hogs aren't interested in the wet pet food either (only the dam cats!). The only time they will eat it is running up towards hibernation. It's good to know that the fish flavours or oils are not a problem; I've spent ages studying the ingredients in supermarkets trying to find biscuits without them in. Hedgehogs are good swimmers, so I suppose if you think about it, they would be more likely to come across a fish for supper rather than a chicken or a cow!
I know that hedgehogs are partial to a few mealworms, but recent events have shown just how addicted they are. I only ever put around half a dozen on top of their cat biscuits; my theory is that if there is a chance of a mealworm the hedgehogs will still keep coming and then eat the nutritious biscuits as well.
We recently made a new hedgehog hole in a gate which backs onto a footpath and in order to let the hogs know that is was there sprinkled a few mealworms around it. The first night one lucky hog discovered them and scoffed the lot. Up until that point the hogs didn't usually start to arrive until around 10.30pm. The following evening the same hog was there looking for them at 9.00pm before I had even put any out! Since then more hogs have been arriving early and last night three hogs were spotted on camera looking for the extra mealworms. A reliable camera has been trained on the new access hole and as yet no hedgehogs have used it, they are all making their way to the far corner of the garden past four dishes of cat biscuits and back just to find the extra mealworms!
Are we talking about live or freeze dried mealworms here? I though the live ones were full of goodness.
Both. It is to do with the Calcium Phosphorous ratio. Please read the article above. Added to that, hedgehogs, and more so, the hoglets, can apparently get a bit addicted to them and not want to eat anything else. This would just compound the problem. A few included with a balanced diet are probably ok, but presenting large quantities of, only, mealworms to hedgehogs is not good news for them. Perhaps one of the very best things we can do for hedgehogs is to try to improve their habitat for them so they can find their own wild food. This would consist of a variety of things.
I know there has been some publicity recently about mealworms or insects generally as a source of protein for humans, but I don't think anyone is suggesting that humans should eat them to the exclusion of anything else. Before you say it, I know what we provide is only supposed to be supplementary feeding for hedgehogs, but that doesn't mean that we can't make it as nutritionally good for them as we can.
Useful information here, thanks. Will be reigning in the mealworms from now on, and have just ordered a bag of Ark Original Hedgehog Food. Our visitor loves the mealworms which we have been lavishly putting out for him, and tends not to eat all the biscuits we leave. He is going to be one disappointed little fella from now on.
If you have trouble with stopping mealworms completely in one go, try mixing a very few in with the other food and reduce them gradually. Several other people have tried this and managed to stop the mealworms completely fairly quickly. Hope you manage to persuade him to eat some more nutritious food before he hibernates. Good luck.


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I hear this morning that it's Shakespeare's 450th birthday. It's officially celebrated tomorrow (April 23) but the actual date isn't known – only that he was baptised on April 26, an event that usually occurred within days of birth. People are being asked, on the morning news program, to tweet in their favourite Shakespeare quote. I'm not a tweeter, so I'm suggesting here the quote above, from Henry IV part 2, as a reminder of the grave dangers of mediaeval politics, when the uneasiness was as much about one's mortality as one's political standing – in spite of the divine right of kings to rule over the canaille.
Thankfully in our more secular age, that uneasiness is more often reserved for football managers.
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what does curiosity actually mean?
Robert Hooke, star of the early Royal Society
You might say that Philip Ball has performed a curious task with his book, Curiosity. He's taken this term, which we moderns might take for granted, and examined what intellectuals and the public have made of it down through the ages – with a particular focus on that wobbly symbol of the seventeenth century British scientific enlightenment, the Royal Society. I've been spending a bit of time in the seventeenth century lately, what with Dava Sobel's book on the struggle to measure longitude, Matthew Cobb's book on the untangling of the problem of eggs and sperm and conception, not to mention Bill Bryson's lively treatment of Hooke, Leeuwenhoek and cells and protozoa in A Short History of Nearly Everything.
That century, with some of its most interesting actors, including Francis Bacon, René Descartes, William Harvey, Jan Swammerdam, Nicolas Steno, Johann Komensky (aka Comenius), Samuel Butler, Thomas Hobbes, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Thomas Shadwell, Margaret Cavendish and Isaac Newton, represented a great testing period for science and its reception by the public. Curiosity has always had its enemies, and still does, as evidenced by some Papal pronouncements of recent years, but in earlier, more universally religious times, knowledge and its pursuit were treated with great wariness and suspicion, a suspicion sanctioned by the Biblical tale of the fall. The Catholic Church had risen to a position of great power in the west, though the revolting Lutherans, Anglicans, Calvinists and their ilk had spoiled the party somewhat, and England in particular, having grown in pride and prosperity during the Elizabethan period, was flexing its muscles and exercising its grey matter in exciting new ways. The sense of renovation was captured by the versatile Bacon, with works like the Novum Organum (New Method), The New Atlantis and The Advancement of Learning.
In the past I've described curiosity and scepticism as the twin pillars of the scientific mindset, but they're really more like a pair of essential forces that interact and modify each other. Scepticism without curiosity is just pure negativity and nihilism, curiosity without scepticism is directionless and naive.
But perhaps that's overly glib. What, if any, are the limits of curiosity, and when is it a bad thing? It killed the cat, after all.
The word derives from the Latin 'cura', meaning care. Think of the word 'curator'. However, if you think of one of the most curious works of the ancients, Pliny the Elder's Natural History, you'd have to say, from a modern perspective, that little care was taken to separate truth from fiction in his massive and sometimes bizarre collection of curios. This sort of unfiltered inclusivity in collecting 'facts' and stories goes back at least to Herodotus, the 'father of lies' as well as of history, and it goes forward to medieval bestiaries and herbaria. These collections of the weird and wonderful were, of course, not intended to be scientific in the modern sense. The term 'science' wasn't in currency and no clear scientific methodologies had been elaborated. As to curiosity, it certainly wasn't a fixed term, and after the political establishment of Christianity, it was more often than not seen in a negative light. 'We want no curious disputation after possessing [i.e. accepting the truth of] Jesus Christ', wrote Tertullian in the early Christian days. Another early Christian, Lactantius [c240-c320], explained that the reason Adam and Eve were created last was so that they'd remain forever ignorant of how their god created everything else. That was how it was intended to be. Modern creationists follow this tradition – God did it, we don't know how and we don't really care.
Fast forward to Francis Bacon, who still, in the early 17th century, had to contend with the view of curiosity as a sinful extravagance, a view that had dominated Europe for almost a millennium and a half. Bacon had quite a pragmatic, almost business-like view of curiosity as a tool to benefit humanity. The 'cabinet of curiosities' was becoming well established in his time, and Bacon advised all monarchs, indeed all rich and powerful men, to maintain one, well sorted and labelled, as if to do so would be magically empowering. The problem with these cabinets, though, was that there was little understanding about the relations between entities and articles. That's to say, there was little that was modernly scientific about them. Their objects were largely unrelated rarities and oddities, having only one thing in common, that they were 'curious'. Bacon recognised that this wouldn't quite do, and tried to point a way forward. He didn't entirely succeed, but – small steps.
Ball's book is at pains to correct, or at least provide nuance to, the standard view of Bacon as initiator of and father-figure to the British scientific enlightenment. In fact, Bacon may have been a Rosicrucian, and his utopian New Atlantis describes a more or less priestly caste of technical experts, living and working in Solomon's House, and keeping their arts and knowledge largely under wraps, like the alchemists and mages of earlier generations. Bacon, with his government connections and his obvious ambition to be benefited by as well as benefiting the state, was concerned to harness knowledge to productivity and profit, and those who see science largely as a coercion of nature have cursed him for it ever since. Mining and metallurgy, engineering and manufacturing were his first subjects, but he also imagined great changes in agriculture – the breeding of plants, fruits and flowers, as well as animals, to create 'super-organisms', in and out of season, for our benefit and delight. The art and science of the kitchens of Solomon's House produces superior dishes, as well as wines and other beverages, and printing and textiles have advanced greatly, with new fabrics, papers, dyes and machinery. Even the weather is subject to manipulation, with rain, snow and sunshine under the control of the savants. The details of all these advancements are kept vague of course, (and here's where Bacon's insistence on 'secret knowledge' plays to his advantage, a point not sufficiently noted by Ball in his need to connect Bacon with the the alchemist-magicians of the past) but what is represented here is promise, a faith in human ingenuity to improve on the products of the natural world.
In focusing on all these benefits, Bacon manages largely to sidestep the religious aversion to curiosity as a form of intellectual avarice. However, Bacon and his more curious compatriots were never too far from the magical dark arts. Few intellectuals of this period, for example, would have dismissed alchemy out of hand, in spite of Chaucer's delicious mockery of it over 200 years before, or Ben Jonson's more contemporaneous take in The Alchemist. What differentiated Bacon was an interest in system, however vaguely adumbrated, and a harnessing of this system to the interests of the state.
Bacon tried to interest James I in a state sponsored proto-scientific institution, but this got nowhere, largely because he couldn't devise anything like a practical program for such an entity, but a generation or two after his death, after a civil war, a brief republic and a restoration, the Royal Society was formed under the more or less indifferent patronage of Charles II. Bacon was seen as its guiding spirit, and there was an expectation, or hope, that its members would be virtuosi, a term then in currency. As Ball explains:
The virtuoso was 'a rational artist in all things'… meaning the arts as well as the sciences, pursued methodically with a scientist's understanding of perspective, anatomy and so forth. (It is after all in the arts that the epithet 'virtuoso' survives today.) The virtuoso was permitted, indeed expected, to indulge pure curiosity: to pry into any aspect of nature or art, no matter how trivial, for the sake of knowing. There was no sense that this impulse need be harnessed and disciplined by anything resembling a systematic program, or by an attempt to generalise from particulars to overarching theories.
Charles II, in spite of having some scientific pretensions, paid scant attention to his own Society, and neglected to fund it. What was perhaps worse for the Society was his amused approval of a hit play of the time, Thomas Shadwell's The Virtuoso, which satirized the Society through its central character, Sir Nicholas Gimcrack. The play, as well as many criticisms of the Society's practices by the likes of the philosopher Thomas Hobbes and the aristocratic Margaret Cavendish (Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne), presented another kind of negativity vis-a-vis unbridled curiosity, more modern, if not more pointed than the old religious objections.
The play-goer first encounters Sir Nicholas Gimcrack lying on a table making swimming motions. He tells his visitors that he's learning to swim, but they are dubious about his method. His response:
I content myself with the speculative part of swimming; I care not for the practick. I seldom bring anything to use; tis not my way. Knowledge is my ultimate end.
This was the updated criticism. Pointless observations and experiments, leading nowhere and of no practical use. Gimcrack appears to have been based on Robert Hooke, one of the Royal Society's most brilliant members, who was suitably enraged on viewing the play. Shadwell mocked Hooke's prized invention, the air pump, intended to create a vacuum for the purpose of observing objects inserted into it, and he presented a jaundiced view of Gimcrack, through the dialogue of his niece, as 'a sot that has spent two thousand pounds in microscopes to find out the nature of eels in vinegar, mites in a cheese, and the blue of plums.' These were all examined in Hooke's ground-breaking and breath-taking work Micrographia.
Most of Shadwell's mockery hasn't stood the test of time, but he was far from the only one who targeted the practices and the approach of the Society and of 'virtuosi', sometimes with humour, sometimes with indignation. Their criticisms are worth examining, both for what they reveal of the era, and for their occasional relevance today. Many of them seem totally misplaced – mocking the 'weighing of air', which they naturally saw as the weighing of nothing, or the examining, through the newish tool the microscope, of a gnat's leg. It should be recalled that Hooke, through his microscopic investigations, was the first to highlight and to name the individual cell. Yet it was a common criticism of the era, due largely to the ignorance of the interconnectedness of all things that the scientifically literate now take for granted, that these explorations were simply time-wasting dilettantism. The philosophical curmudgeon Thomas Hobbes, for example, firmly believed that experiments couldn't produce significant truths about the world. It seems that the general public, who didn't have access to such things, saw microscopes and telescopes as magical devices which didn't so much reveal new worlds as to create them. If they couldn't be verified with one's own eyes, how could these visions be trusted? And there was the old religious argument that we weren't meant to see them, that we should keep to our god-given limitations.
Generally speaking, as Ball describes it, though the criticisms and misgivings weren't so clearly religious as they had been, they centred on a suspicion about unrestrained curiosity and questioning, which might lead to an undermining of the social order (a big issue after the recent upheavals in England), and to atheism (they were on the money with that one). They had a big impact on the Royal Society, which struggled to survive in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It's worth noting too, that the later eighteenth century Enlightenment on the continent was much more political and social than scientific.
But rather than try to analyse these criticisms, I'll provide a rich sample of them, without comment. None of them are 'representative', but together they give a flavour of the times, or of the more conservative feeling of the time.
[Is there] anything more Absurd and Impertinent than a Man who has so great a concern upon his Hands as the Preparing for Eternity, all busy and taken up with Quadrants, and Telescopes, Furnaces, Syphons and Air-pumps?
John Norris, Reflections on the conduct of human life, 1690
Through worlds unnumber'd though the God be known,
'Tis ours to trace him only in our own….
The bliss of man (could pride that blessing find)
Is not to act or think beyond mankind;
No powers of body or of soul to share,
But what his nature and his state can bear.
Why has not a man a microscopic eye?
For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n,
T'inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? …
Then say not man's imperfect, Heav'n in fault;
Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought:
His knowledge measur'd to his state and place,
His time a moment, and a point his space.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man
There are some men whose heads are so oddly turned this way, that though they are utter strangers to the common occurrences of life, they are able to discover the sex of a cockle, or describe the generation of a mite, in all its circumstances. They are so little versed in the world, that they scarce know a horse from an ox; but at the same time will tell you, with a great deal of gravity, that a flea is a rhinoceros, and a snail an hermaphrodite.
… the mind of man… is capable of much higher contemplations [and] should not be altogether fixed upon such mean and disproportionate objects.
Joseph Addison, The Tatler, 1710
But could Experimental Philosophers find out more beneficial Arts then our Fore-fathers have done, either for the better increase of Vegetables and brute Animals to nourish our bodies, or better and commodious contrivances in the Art of Architecture to build us houses… it would not onely be worth their labour, but of as much praise as could be given to them: But as Boys that play with watry Bubbles, or fling Dust into each others Eyes, or make a Hobby-horse of Snow, are worthy of reproof rather then praise, for wasting their time with useless sports; so those that addict themselves to unprofitable Arts, spend more time then they reap benefit thereby… they will never be able to spin Silk, Thred, or Wool, &c. from loose Atomes; neither will Weavers weave a Web of Light from the Sun's Rays, nor an Architect build an House of the bubbles of Water and Air… and if a Painter should draw a Lowse as big as a Crab, and of that shape as the Microscope presents, can any body imagine that a Beggar would believe it to be true? but if he did, what advantage would it be to the Beggar? for it doth neither instruct him how to avoid breeding them, or how to catch them, or to hinder them from biting.
[Inventors of telescopes etc] have done the world more injury than benefit; for this art has intoxicated so many men's brains, and wholly employed their thoughts and bodily actions about phenomena, or the exterior figures of objects, as all better arts and studies are laid aside.
Margaret Cavendish, Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, 1666
[A virtuoso is one who] has abandoned the society of men for that of Insects, Worms, Grubbs, Maggots, Flies, Moths, Locusts, Beetles, Spiders, Grasshoppers, Snails, Lizards and Tortoises….
To what purpose is it, that these Gentlemen ransack all Parts both of Earth and Sea to procure these Triffles?… I know that the desire of knowledge, and the discovery of things yet unknown is the pretence; but what Knowledge is it? What Discoveries do we owe to their Labours? It is only the discovery of some few unheeded Varieties of Plants, Shells, or Insects, unheeded only because useless; and the knowledge, they boast so much of, is no more than a Register of their Names and Marks of Distinction only.
Mary Astell, The character of a virtuoso, 1696
There are many other such comments, very various, some attempting to be witty, others indignant or contemptuous, and some quite astute – the Royal Society did have more than its share of dabblers and dilettantes, and was far from being simply 'open to talents' – but for the most parts the criticisms haven't dated well. You won't see The Virtuoso in your local playhouse in the near future. Wide-ranging curiosity, mixed with a big dose of scepticism and critical analysis of what the contemporary knowledge provides, has proved itself many times over in the development of scientific theory and an ever-expanding world view, taking us very far from the supposedly 'better arts and studies' the seventeenth century pundits thought we should be occupied by, but also making us realize that the science that has flowed from curiosity has mightily informed those 'better arts and studies', which can be perhaps best summarized by the four Kantian questions, Who are we? What do we know? What should we do? and What can we hope for?
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Features: 1. Hand-painted or hand carved by talented artisans. 2. All gourds belong to the squash family, and select from dried gourds. 3. It was used as wine bottle in the old days, or it can be cut in half and used as a ladle to scoop up water. 4. Since gourds are naturally grown, the sizes vary from 2 to 30 inches high.


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White Plains gets more electric vehicle charging stations, electric garbage truck in the future
White Plains has become a leader within the county in utilizing electric vehicles. The city added 5 new stations this year.
White Plains gets more electric vehicle charging stations, electric garbage truck in the future White Plains has become a leader within the county in utilizing electric vehicles. The city added 5 new stations this year. Check out this story on lohud.com: https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/white-plains/2019/09/11/white-plains-electric-vehicles-charging-stations/2285344001/
Isabel Keane, Rockland/Westchester Journal News Published 2:02 p.m. ET Sept. 11, 2019
WHITE PLAINS - Charging your electric car is getting a little easier in the city.
Five new electric vehicle charging stations have been erected in White Plains, bringing the total number of stations to 25.
White Plains has acted as a leader in offering this kind of technology to the public since 2012, when the city's first electric car charging station was installed at the TransCenter.
Two of the new EV charging stations are located at the Shapham Place parking lot and three are within the Chester Maple garage. The 25 EV charging stations in White Plains are located in publicly accessible lots and garages, Senior Advisor to the Mayor Karen Pasquale said.
Mayor Tom Roach demonstrates how to use an electric car charger at the Lyon Place municipal garage in White Plains. (Photo: Tania Savayan/The Journal News)
The White Plains Library also will be receiving three more chargers this coming fall.
The five newest additions and the three that will be installed this fall are being funded through a state Department of Environmental Conservation grant, Pasquale said.
White Plains will also be the first city in New York to get an electric garbage truck, Mayor Tom Roach said at a Sept. 3 Common Council meeting. The city will most likely not get the truck until the end of next year, Roach said.
One of two electric car charging stations at the Lyon Place municipal garage in White Plains. (Photo: Tania Savayan/The Journal News)
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The electric garbage truck would be the 10th electric vehicle operated by the city. The White Plains school district has five electric school buses. The city will receive $185,000 from the state for the electric garbage truck, which will replace one of the older trucks currently in use.
"We're on the forefront, and we're looking forward to seeing this come into use," Roach said.
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Café Paris and Bar Le Lion, before that Bar Centrale, Le Paquebot and Atlas – Rainer Wendt is responsible for many of the places where we like to pass our time in Hamburg.
Again and again he's opened eateries that reveal not only his attitude towards life but are also instrumental in forming Hamburg's culinary cityscape. In fact, he's just opened his newest restaurant.
Rainer Wendt's entrance into the restaurant business was pure chance. He was working as a craftsman in Veddel, an industrial area by the Elbe bridges, when a friend passed on the contact to Bar Centrale, which had just gone up for sale. Rainer wanted out of his job, and together with two others he snatched it up. The word "chance" comes up a lot in a talk with him. It was chance that he discovered French cuisine, it was chance that brought him the former slaughterhouse for Café Paris. But just as important as chance seems to be his steady desire for something new.
Since he was 22, Rainer Wendt has opened a new location every seven years – the number is, of course, chance. "It is strangely never difficult for me to separate from a space. I just no longer go to the location. I'm the type of person who is very much forward focused." His newly opened space: L'Atelier, a room for experimental food concepts, is based on the principles of large international cities. Once more, at the core of the idea is to create something he himself would be interested in.
As we discuss with Rainer, he shares the main lessons he's procured through each venture in his career.
This portrait is part of Companion Magazine, a project developed by FvF for 25hours Hotels.
Thank you Rainer for sharing your noteworthy experiences with us!
Find all our other portraits from Hamburg and make sure to stop by Rainer's Café Paris when you're in town, a favorite spot of FvF guest Onur Elci.
If this sparked your culinary ambitions, head over to our FvF Cooks series for some inspiration.