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i've been on this planet for forty years and i'm no closer to understanding a single thing
I can relate a bit too well to the fictional Charlie Kaufman in Adaptation.. The awkwardness, the nervousness, always being stuck in my own head.
Laroche as well. His obsessions. His movings on.
And Susan Orlean. How she wishes she could end things as abruptly as Laroche is capable. How she wants to want something as much as "these people want flowers." This week two new episodes of The X-Files aired after more than a decade without. I used to have a copy of Mulder's I WANT TO BELIEVE poster on my wall... You can see it in this photo of my small, cluttered bedroom in circa June 2000.
The other X-Files poster there was signed by a few actors (including Gillian Anderson) and several of the writers of the show at a couple X-Files-specific conventions. Thinking about this conventions just now I found it interesting how I could waiver between different versions of myself in just one day. Awkward and alone through most of the day then happen to be in line with, as you might expect, someone with similar interests and similar affectations, and we strike up a conversation. We have a good time. Then we go our separate ways. Life as it was returns.
You can also see the stack of VCRs on my TV that I used before, you know, TV shows were regularly released on VHS or DVD or Netflix. I must've had hundreds of tapes. Now there are only several dozen left, ones with shows that never came out on tape or disc, or that I have been unable to find online.
Charlie just fantasized about the Caroline reading his script and marveling at his genius. I know that fantasy... Well, not the sex part of it. But that notion that you finish the thing you're writing--the poem, the essay, the short story, the novel, the screenplay... the comic strip, even... hell, even a simple little sketch scribbled on some random 3x5 card--and you want someone to see it, someone to see its brilliance--that's a feeling I've had so many times that I cannot count them. In retrospect, even right after that notion I just described, I could tell that some things I had written just were not that good. My novel DemonAngel Catharsis, for example, was full of awesome ideas and deliberately had no structure to it to ground its supernatural elements in the mundane details of real life, but it was a little too sprawling. A little too big. And, I've never been good at editing. I don't really rewrite. That's a big part of why the blog format works for me, I think. A blog entry doesn't need to be perfect. It doesn't need to be polished. It doesn't need structure. It can be perfect. It can be polished. It can have structure. But, those are secondary to it simply being an echo of the time and place and circumstance of its creation. Most of these entries are written as a movie plays nearby. If a movie is brand new and I saw it in the theater, then I write about it later at home, but mostly the circumstance of this... thing is that I have a movie I've seen (probably more than once) playing nearby and I write as it goes, like some stream of consciousness catalogue of my thoughts as it plays. Other times, it is like a two-hour research paper. Less structure than a proper academic paper but serving the same end.
Charlie just told Donald that he wrote himself into his script because he can't talk to Susan Orlean. He's enamored with her but cannot bring himself to talk to her. (Ultimately, Donald will stand in for him to go ask her some questions.) And, I mentioned my novel DemonAngel Catharsis above and I thought of a moment in that book, or the writing of it anyway. See, the main character was very much autobiographical, if I happened to have an angel and a demon attached to me. And, he had the same problems I did, the same antisocial behaviour. But, the story had him close to pairing up with a girl. And, there was this moment in writing the story where I decided to give him. something I didn't have in my own life. (I mean, aside from the demon and the angel and his eventual telepathic and telekinetic abilities.) I let him get the girl, as it were. I gave him a chance at happiness I didn't have at the time. With the supernatural stuff, as well, he had more of an obvious purpose to his life now that I had or expected to have. I was a college dropout with an office job but he got to be more than that.
I'd bend realities in other stories of mine--my screenplay Fugue that I mentioned yesterday, the novels The Empress of Time and Lion Horse Tree and the unfinished Song of Fellfaraway. But I would never write myself into a story. Not explicitly, anyway. I was always there in the characters, bits and pieces of me in them, bits and pieces of them in me. Briefly, I toyed with a veiled autobiographical story about me and the girlfriend I lived with for a few months in Tennessee and Arkansas. The characters were what TV Tropes would call us with the serial numbers filed off. But the ex husband that kept coming between us became here a ghost of a sort actively inciting us to arguments and what probably would have been a very violent climax had I gotten past the first few pages. What stopped me, actually, was that it wasn't autobiographical enough; I was trying to give her some of my traits and the fictional version of me some of her traits and that was ruining my ability to tell the story. Plus, there was far too much exposition in the opening. I just didn't like it.Too much of nothing, and not enough action. It needed some help from Robert McKee or Donald Kaufman.
(Actually, I've never read McKee. I've got some Syd Field books on screenwriting, but I never got around to McKee's Story. I'm more of a mind with Charlie than Donald; I don't write to rules or even principles. I just write. Of course, in recent years, I don't much write.
Fiction, at least.
I write a lot. A lot. I average well over a thousand words each day in this blog. Too long for a blog, by the way. Shorter entries mean more readers. It's a statistical fact. But, I a) don't care because I'm wordy or b) really like to self-sabotage or c) both.
I have a habit of writing things how they shouldn't be. <Fugue, for instance,, is about a girl who escaped into a fantasy world than escapes back into reality, but most of the action is conversation, dialogue. And, in the end, she breaks the frame of the film itself, and she refuses to participate any longer in a plot that causes her pain. It's a story that should be very action-oriented, but I ground it in a lot of talking. More like a stage play than a screenplay.
I wrote a stage play once that was very much structured like pieces of a novel, but a narrator telling the story of the action as she stands on stage rather than the audience seeing the action.
It's something more han me being eccentric or me having a habit of sabotaging myself.
At least, I hope so.)
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it raises all sorts of philosophical-type questions
i knew who i was
gimmicky bastard
i've been on this planet for forty years and i'm n...
good for you to get out of your head
it's self-indulgent. it's narcissistic. it's solip...
we're never anywhere but here
everything to lose
we'll print that story when we get it
people want an authority to tell them how to value...
you have to think like an american
that's what makes us americans
do you realize the shit storm that is about to hit...
me or everyone else
him as he is
like someone else's home
this love affair with fire
serious about the craft
my blog became my voice
reach out and empathize with other people
it was made now and it's about us
a machine that generates empathy
rey, these are your first steps
the end is built into the beginning
i don't know why i make it so complicated
this is everyone's experience
you can let go now, though
tell me about your day
i don't stay in hotels like this
every day was exactly the same
each person you speak to has had a day


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Windy City Horrorama Review: "Blood Paradise" Finds Struggling Author Fending Off a Psychotic Farming Family
By tastethemilkofchocula April 25, 2019
★★★ out of ★★★★★
Vintage Eurohorror and backwoods psycho horror elements are both at play in this tale of a high-society author who goes to rural Sweden to get her creative juices flowing again.
Directed by Patrick von Barkenberg
If Ingmar Bergman's Hour of the Wolf (1968) is your main frame of reference for Swedish horror, a new (mostly English language) entry from that country arrives with a decidedly more direct — and bloodier — approach than its enigmatic predecessor. Director Patrick von Barkenberg's Blood Paradise takes the concept of backwoods hillbilly horror and transfers it to a remote farm in that Scandinavian nation with intriguing, if sometimes mixed, results.
Robin Richards (Andréa Winter, who cowrote the screenplay with von Barkenberg, and who also produced, scored, did set design and costume supervision, and more!) is a formerly best-selling author whose Return to Blood Paradise sequel to her successful novel Blood Paradise bombed. Her agent insists that Robin needs to take a trip to a farm in rural Sweden to break her slump and write a successful new book. Robin reluctantly goes, and is greeted at the local train station by a self-proclaimed number one fan, Hans Bubi (Christer Cavallius),who also happens to be her chauffeur during her stay. He's a bit of an oddball and obviously smitten, but he turns out to be the least of her worries oh her trip.
Her lodging is in the home of Farmer Rolf (Rolf Brunnström), who just happens to be a psychotic killer who dresses in his deceased wife's bridal gown. He has a sister (Ingrid Hedström) who has her own psychological issues, as well.
Winter is terrific as the high-living, fashionable author who trudges through the countryside and fields in designer clothes and expensive, inappropriate shoes. She is especially solid in the first act, investing Robin with a snide, impatient personality through verbal and facial nuances. Once the author becomes a stranger in a strange land, though, things go the way of traditional horror routes, and what made Robin so naughtily engaging at first gets lost as she becomes a potential murder victim.
The rest of the cast isn't quite up to Winter's fine level, though. To be sure, it is a good thing that the supporting actors avoid going the over-the-top, scenery chewing route, but Brunnström's Farmer Rolf may be one of the most mild-mannered psychos in cinema, Hedström as his sister isn't far behind, and Cavallius's Bubi stays pretty even-tempered whether he is leering at an undressing Robin or getting caught fondling Robin's lingerie by his jealous wife Elsa (Ellinor Berglund, who shines in one of the more animated roles in the film).
Blood Paradise has an interesting feel to it. Though thoroughly modern, it has tinges of 1960s and 1970s Eurohorror, complete with eroticism and plenty of scenes with Winter in the buff. It seems that when Robin isn't wearing high-fashion ensembles, she prefers to be naked in the water, whether it be a bathtub or the local lake. The horror scenes with Farmer Rolf give off more of a 1980s slasher vibe. It's an interesting mix that works more often than not. The comic moments don't always land as well as intended, but more often than not, they are amusing.
Blood Paradise screens at Windy City Horrorama, which runs April 26–28 at the Davis Theater in Chicago, Illinois. It is worth seeking out as it continues its film festival run.
Review by Joseph Perry
Categories: ReviewsTags: Andrea Winter, Blood Paradise, Christer Cavallius, Ingrid Hedström, Patrick von Barkenberg, Rolf Brunnström, Swedish Horror, Windy City Horrorama
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Explore the collection database
Ede often described himself as a 'friend of artists', and much of his collection was acquired over five decades through these friendships. Moreover, in 1927 Jim purchased a substantial body of works by the French sculptor, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, who had been killed in World War I: 'A great quantity of his work was dumped in my office at the Tate.' Soon after, Nicholson and Wood introduced Ede to the work of St Ives fisherman-turned-painter Alfred Wallis. In the following decade he and Wallis exchanged numerous letters (some preserved in the Archive), and Jim acquired over one hundred of the artist's paintings and drawings.
During the years he and Helen spent abroad (1936-56), Jim did not acquire new work. However, once in Cambridge he actively resumed collecting. It was at this point that he became interested in new artists, including William Congdon, Italo Valenti and Elisabeth Vellacott.
Given the care devoted by Jim to the display of objects and artworks and to creating subtle 'conversations' between them, since his departure the House has been preserved virtually unchanged. Today many consider it a work of art in its own right.
Explore A Handful of Objects
Student Loan Picture Scheme
Brancusi's Bird in Space
In the short film above Assistant Curator Guy Haywood explores a photograph from the Kettle's Yard collection; Constantin Brancusi's 'Bird in Space'. The sculptor used photography as an integral part…
Wrestlers, boxers and a new Gaudier-Brzeska discovery!
The artist Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, whose work we are celebrating in our current exhibition NEW RHYTHMS, was inspired by many sports and by the strength and movement of athletes' bodies. In…
Work of the Week: Self-Portrait with Pipe
Our work of the week is Henri Gaudier-Brzeska's Self-Portrait with a Pipe, which you can see on show at New Rhythms at Harewood House, Leeds until 1 November. Gaudier regularly used…
Work of the week: Turning Form
Our work of the week is the drawing 'Turning Form' by Barbara Hepworth, currently only show in Horizons at the Jerwood Gallery. This drawing shares the title with one of…
Work of the Week: Opus 5 (aka The Constellations)
Our work of the week is Opus 5 (aka The Constellations) by Naum Gabo. This piece is currently on show as part of a three day art event at a transformed…
Work of the Week: Snowscape
Our work of the week is Ben Nicholson's 'Snowscape'. In the early 1920s Ben Nicholson and his wife Winifred spent the best part of three winters painting in the Swiss Alps.…
Work of the Week: Letters & Numbers
Our work of the week is Ben Nicholson's 'Letters and Numbers' from 1933 which will be on show at Variations on a Weekend Theme in North Cambridge next weekend. In…
Work of the Week: Flora in Calix Light
Our work of the week is 'Flora in Calix Light' by David Jones. We have leant several of our David Jones works, including this one, to David Jones: Vision and…
Work of the Week: Still Life with White Mug
Our work of the week 'Still Life with White Mug' by William Scott which is currently on show in Horizons at Jerwood Gallery. Still Life with White Mug illustrates the…
Work of the Week: Fireside
This week we've picked a cosy scene depicted by Winifred Nicholson, 'Fireside' from 1956. Below is a lovely description from Winifred about why she liked to have a picture in her…
Work of the Week: 1924 (Bertha No.2)
Our work of the week is '1924 (Bertha No.2)' by Ben Nicholson. This piece is currently on show in Beauty & Balance at the Fitzwilliam Museum. The title of the…
Work of the week: Conical Bowl
Our work of the week is Lucie Rie's Conical Bowl (1971) which is currently on show at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 'Being Modern'. Lucie Rie was one of the most…
Work of the week 1930 (plate, cup and jug)
Our work of the week is 1930 (plate, cup and jug) by Ben Nicholson which is currently on show in the Fitzwilliam Museum Beauty & Balance display. Ben Nicholson, talking…
Work of the Week: Dark Trees
Our work of the week is 'Dark Trees' by Alfred Wallis which is currently on display in 'The horizon is the point of no return: works by Georgie Grace and…
Work of the Week: Stage design for Diaghilev's ballet, Romeo and Juliet, 1925
Our work of the week is Christopher Wood's 'Stage design for Diaghilev's ballet Romeo and Juliet' (1925). This work is currently on show in Pure Romance: Art and the Romantic…
Work of the Week: Quia per Incarnati
Our work of the week is 'Quia per Incarnati', 1953 (circa) currently on show in David Jones: Vision and Memory at Pallant House Gallery. Jones began making his painted inscriptions…
Work of the Week: Maternity
Our work of the week is Maternity (1913) by the French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, depicting a mother embracing her child. This work is currently on show in Beauty & Balance…
Work of the Week: Land, Fish and Motor Vessel
Our work of the week is Alfred Wallis' 'Land, Fish and Motor Vessel', which is one of 12 Alfred Wallis paintings we've lent to The Shadow of the Avant-Garde Rousseau…
Work of the Week: Five Ships – Mount's Bay
Our work of the week is Five Ships – Mount's Bay (c.1928) by Alfred Wallis. This is one of five works from our collection that is explored in detail in…
Work of the Week: Group of Three Magical Stones
Our work of the week is 'Group of Three Magical Stones' by Barbara Hepworth. This work is currently on show at Cambridge University Library as part of The Horizon is…
Work of the Week: Garden Ornament 2
Our work of the week is Garden Ornament 2 (1914), by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. This work is on display in 'Beauty and Balance' at the Fitzwilliam Museum, if you haven't already…
Work of the Week: Disc
Our work of the week is Gregorio Vardanega's 'Disc' 1960, circa. Which is currently on show in The horizon is the point of no return, works by Georgie Grace and from…
Work of the Week: Message Obscure I
Our work of the week is William Scott's Message Obscure I which is now on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 'Being Modern'. For the first time the work will…
Work of the Week: Nr. 286; Pietra; Pierre
It's Italo Valenti's birthday today so our work of the week is his 'Nr. 286; Pietra; Pierre', 1964. Italo Valenti was born in on 29 April 1912 in Milan. In…
Work of the Week: Pastorale
Our work of the week is Pastorale (1969) by Barbara Hepworth, currently on show in Being Modern at the Fitzwilliam Museum. The print shares its name with an earlier sculpture…
Work of the Week: Khmer Buddha
Our work of the week is the Khmer Buddha, which has just gone on show in Kettle's Yard at the Hepworth Wakefield. This sculpture dates from the 13-14th century and…
Work of the Week: Trevaunance Cove, St Agnes
Our work of the week is 'Trevaunance Cove, St Agnes', n.d by Tony Giles, currently on show at the University Library as part of the display The Horizon is the…
Work of the Week: Vexilla Regis
Our work of the week is 'Vexilla Regis' by David Jones which will be on show in 'David Jones: Vision and Memory' at Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham from 12 March…


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Amuse, Dublin
We like a chef who is not just talented, but is doing something different, adding something new and interesting to the food scene and cooking food that shows a passion and care. Chef Conor Dempsey in Dublin's Amuse restaurant is a very skilled chef who is doing this.
The food in Amuse is using Asian flavours and ingredients, some dishes with a taste of Japanese, others with a touch of South-East Asia, but all with Dempsey's own interpretation. The cookery is ambitious, combining many, sometimes powerful, components on the plate. On most dishes, on the 8 course tasting menu, this is done with aplomb with the resulting dish delivering a complex, yet clean flavour. Hamachi with the fragrance and slight bitterness of bergamot, worked well with the slight heat from a horseradish yoghurt. Cod with a Kamebishi (3 year old fermented soy) sauce was another highlight - the richness of the sauce was cleverly contrasted with a sushi rice cream. The Kamebishi was more complex then a normal soy; deep umami, rich and slightly sweet, but it didn't overpower the fish. A serving of perfectly cooked Anjou pigeon with aubergine and kombucha (a fermented tea) was also another noteworthy dish.
A very clever dessert of passion fruit 'Tom Kha Gai' was another beautiful offering; sweet, but not overly, well textured and light. Tom Kha Gai is a coconut soup, a savoury dish we have had many times in Thailand, a strange name for a dessert then, but the flavours are reminiscent of the original. The menu also starts with many quirky amuse bouches, a pre-dessert and some good petit-fours. All of these are extras and not included in the 8 courses.
A couple of courses were a let down however. Guinea fowl with courgette and coconut did not work. Another was the final course, a door-stoppingly dense dark chocolate ganache, too heavy to end an 8 course meal, served with unpleasant soapy violet.
The food in Amuse is respectful to cuisine of Asia that inspire it and the produce that it uses. Some dishes have that deep, but delicate umami synonymous with Japan, while others blend the sweet, salty and bitter balance that is the trademark of food from South East Asia.
The 8 course tasting menu is €90, which may appear on the high side for Dublin, but when you consider the number of extras, the work involved in the menu and the quality of food, then it is actually very good value and feels generous. The service is friendly, informative with waiting staff taking an interest in the enjoyment of the diner.
In an industry where many restaurants are following trend, copying others, or looking for something that will sell to the masses, Conor Dempsey is, maybe bravely, choosing gastronomy and high end dining and you get the sense here that he is passionate about both. Since our last visit nearly a year ago the food has progressed and the dining room feels more comfortable, so it very encouraging to see a restaurant investing in the right things and it will be interesting to see if Amuse can continue to improve.
Amuse is a great addition to the Dublin food scene, serving fun, and clever food with some interesting Asian produce, delivered with skill and care by a talented chef. We certainly won't be leaving it a year to our next visit and, the fact we are eager to return, says a lot.
Casual Dining in Dublin
We have added our favourite casual dining restaurants in Dublin to our restaurant ratings list. When we find ourselves out shopping, meeting friends or family, looking for a good brunch or in town without a plan or a reservation these are the spots we look to in Dublin to fulfil our casual dining needs. For us, casual dining is subject to the same three criteria as any fine dining restaurant: food, service and value.
Pichet is a bistro-style restaurant, cooking consistently good and tasty food. A talented kitchen, led by Stephen Gibson, produces well executed, flavoursome, interesting and modern bistro food. The dining room gets busy, but is still quite spacious and comfortable and the service is friendly and engaging. The lunch and pre-theatre menus are particularly good value.
Another good value lunch and pre theatre menu is in Etto. Cooking rustic, wholesome, satisfying and well executed food with a focus on seasonal and local produce. The dining room is small, buzzy but intimate. A real care and a love of food and produce is evident in Etto and there is a lot to like about this place.
Soder + KO still feels like eating in a large old nightclub, despite claiming to be "Inspired by Scandinavian creativity" and the service is pretty poor. But behind all that the food is quite good and still has an authentic feel. In the wrong hands this food could so easily be a let down, but Chef Kwangi Chan has taken his fine dining experience and applied it to cooking food inspired by his native Hong Kong. The dim sum are good value and really delicious.
We are generally not fans of Sunday brunch as it is usually pretty poor, generic food and a way for average restaurants to get rid of stock left over from Saturday night. That was until Forest Avenue came along and started to do it the right way. A top Dublin restaurant by evening, it also serves a tasting brunch on Sunday which is definitely worth a visit. Reservation a few weeks in advance needed for this one.
Restaurant Round Up
Restaurant FortyOne, Dublin
We have always had a good meal in Restaurant FortyOne, in Dublin's Residence club. The cookery was good, the food was light, fresh and seasonal and it slowly but surely improved over the years. But our last meal, a 4 course tasting lunch, wasn't up to this standard. The first course of scallop, apple and tomato was boring, but still better than a second course of a courgette flower stuffed with prawns, which was so over seasoned all we could taste was salt - actually there was large pieces of salt to bite on. The other two courses were an improvement, the best being a perfectly nice serving of duck, cherries and foie gras. The meal did not feel generous, instead feeling just a little bit meagre. Restaurant FortyOne has a lot going for it; an elegant dining room in an old Georgian building overlooking Stephens Green and a talented chef in Graham Neville. But on this occasion the service did not live up to the dining room and the food was well below what Neville is capable of and we left disappointed and a just a little bit hungry.
Mulberry Garden, Dublin
We championed, over the last year or so, the food in Mulberry Garden and the progression it made under then head chef Tom Doyle. Doyle moved on near the start of this year and with him some of the momentum that the restaurant had gained over the previous year. Having a menu that changes weekly means the food will be very individual to the chef, so bringing in a new kitchen leader will mean a new take and a period of transition might be inevitable. Mulberry Garden is still cooking some good food and the occasional dish, such as poached Irish lobster, balanced well with an aromatic almond & garlic soup, still delivers a delightful treat. But others, such as hake with artichoke, fennel and potatoes, lack cohesion and feel more like individual components on a plate with nothing bringing them together. The food has lost its a bit of it's edge and its uniqueness and therefore it is not the great value it once was, especially now that the tasting menu has gone up to €70. The restaurant feels like it has taken a step back to where it was a couple of years ago, which in fairness, was probably to be expected, at least in the short term. Nevertheless, Mulberry Garden is still a very charming neighbourhood restaurant, cooking some very good dishes with seasonal Irish produce, supported by a warm and hospitable front of house team.
So, we have had two pieces of quite funny feedback recently criticizing us, among other things, for being anonymous. Now it turns out that this person (yes, they were probably from the same person) turned out to be more than a bit insulting, calling some restaurants that we have praised poisonous, accusing chefs of plagiarism, telling us our rating list was wrong, calling us idiots but worst of all questioning whether we actually ate in the restaurants we reviewed........you get the picture. An angry chap who took our site far more seriously than even we do, but it did provide us with a bit of amusement.
But it was the anonymity that really bothered them, the accusation being that we did this out of cowardice or to try and have, as he put it, 'dominion' over restaurants. Now I know most of our readers, well the few that we have, aren't as perturbed by this, or would ever be this bothered by the reviews of a couple of amateurs like us, but we thought we would explain our reasons for the anonymity and talk just a little bit more about us, just in case other people may think this is why we are doing it.
We are a couple, who don't work nor have ever worked in the restaurant industry, although we constantly wish we did as we sit in our 9 to 5 jobs thinking about our next meal or gastronomic adventure. We love food, we love restaurants. We are passionate about it and we travel the world for it as often as our bank balance and our annual leave allows.
We started The Greedy Couple to chronicle this, but also because we thought, in honesty, that our opinion would stand up to some other reviewers and that it could hold maybe hold a bit of relevance. We decided to be anonymous because we thought that this was missing in Ireland - it is done a lot in other countries. We think that it is helpful in writing unbiased reviews and we have no interest in getting any special attention in a restaurant. When known critics or food bloggers are in a restaurant they can sometimes get an extra bit of attention, which can impact reviews without even knowing it. So, we think being anonymous might be the best way to do reviews, but we may be wrong as there are a few who write good stuff and are known. The truth is our site could be more popular and maybe even have more readers if we weren't anonymous, so sometimes it can be a pain in the ass, but, for the moment at least, we think this is still the way want to do it.
Another decision we made is that we would try to not just review the meal, but try to review the whole restaurant and attempt to give an overall impression of it. We have tried to make our reviews, a reflection of our experience in each restaurant, a sort of account of what we felt while we were eating there - but at the end of the day they are just our opinions.
Also, we would actually welcome some real constructive feedback on what we are doing, right or wrong, good or bad.
Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud, Dublin
Restaurants have come and gone over the years, others have risen and fallen, but Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud has, for over 30 years, consistently been at the top of Irish food scene. Monsieur Patrick Guilbaud did for Ireland what the Roux brothers, when opening Le Gavroche, did for London; it brought fine dining French cuisine to the city. We recently returned for a lunch that showed that Guilbauds can still deliver a high quality experience.
The starters set the tone for the very good meal that followed. A light and refreshing salad of a tomato gel, gazpacho and mozzarella tasted like a field on summer's day, light, refreshing and aromatic, it was a truly excellent first course. A moreish dish of egg with peas, pea shoots and mushrooms was also delicious. The seasonality of the starters continued through the mains and the desserts.
The one thing that separates Guilbauds from most, nearly all in fact, other restaurants in Dublin is consistency. Sure they have a large brigade that helps them deliver and maintain this consistency, but that doesn't change the fact that when there are mistakes they are relatively small and never ruin a dish. On our main courses the pigeon would have benefited from being a bit pinker and the halibut may have been the very slightest bit over, but it did it only did a little to detract from the quality of the dishes. The pigeon served with cherries was a very elegant dish. The other main of halibut served with a sort of curried sauce was delicate and well balanced.
Desserts were visually impressive and technical, demonstrating great pasty work, but sadly perhaps a little style over substance. Strawberry tart with lovage ice cream looked like a 'picnic on a plate' with the ice-cream being the star, but the tart being a slight let down. "Cosmic apple", an array of apple in many forms was slightly muted on the palette, not delivering a refreshing tartness nor much sweetness, although the addition of pistachio added a nice different dimension to it.
The service was formal, but friendly and engaging, with the sommelier standing out for particular praise, passionately and knowledgeably recommending wines. For this standard of food and service the €55 3 course lunch is one of the best value meals in Dublin.
Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud is serving classical, but not outdated, elegant French food with seasonal Irish produce. Whilst restaurants continue to open in the city, many of them following trend or fashion, or looking for a niche, some will be edgier, more interesting or more progressive, some may even delight, but Guilbauds remains a stalwart and every city needs a restaurant like this. We are often asked to recommend a restaurant in Dublin and Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud is a restaurant we can suggest with confidence.


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We just received 5 of these displays, and are testing with our device with respect to EMI sensitivity. When our device is pulsed with 2kV spikes on the input power, the touch panel coughs up spurious touches.
Hoping there's register settings that can help increase the controllers input filtering without reducing sensitivity.
We've been looking at ID_G_THPEAK and ID_G_THCAL, although the registers have no real description on behavior.
If you have any suggestions for where to adjust, I'm all ears.


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import com.google.common.base.Strings;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;

import com.linecorp.armeria.server.docs.DocStringExtractor;

/**
 * {@link ThriftDocStringExtractor} is a DocString extractor for Thrift IDL JSON.
 *
 * <p>To include docstrings in {@link com.linecorp.armeria.server.docs.DocService} pages, use a recent
 * development version of the Thrift compiler (0.9.3 will not work) and compile your thrift files with 'json'
 * code generation and include the resulting json files in the classpath location
 * {@code META-INF/armeria/thrift}. The classpath location can be changed by setting the
 * {@code com.linecorp.armeria.thrift.jsonDir} system property.
 */
final class ThriftDocStringExtractor extends DocStringExtractor {

    private static final TypeReference<HashMap<String, Object>> JSON_VALUE_TYPE =
            new TypeReference<HashMap<String, Object>>() {};

    private static final String FQCN_DELIM = ".";

    private static final String DELIM = "/";

    ThriftDocStringExtractor() {
        super("META-INF/armeria/thrift", "com.linecorp.armeria.thrift.jsonDir");
    }

    @Override
    protected boolean acceptFile(String filename) {
        return filename.endsWith(".json");
    }

    /**
     * Gets the namespace key of names.
     * @param names name list.
     * @return merged key.
     */
    static String key(String... names) {
        return Stream.of(names).filter(s -> !Strings.isNullOrEmpty(s)).collect(Collectors.joining(DELIM));
    }

    @Override
    protected Map<String, String> getDocStringsFromFiles(Map<String, byte[]> files) {
        ImmutableMap.Builder<String, String> docStrings = ImmutableMap.builder();
        for (byte[] file : files.values()) {
            try {
                final Map<String, Object> json = new ObjectMapper().readValue(file, JSON_VALUE_TYPE);
                @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
                final Map<String, Object> namespaces =
                        (Map<String, Object>) json.getOrDefault("namespaces", ImmutableMap.of());
                final String packageName = (String) namespaces.get("java");
                json.forEach((key, children) -> {
                    if (children instanceof Collection) {
                        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
                        Collection<Object> castChildren = (Collection<Object>) children;
                        castChildren.forEach(
                                grandChild -> traverseChildren(docStrings, packageName, FQCN_DELIM,
                                                               grandChild));
                    }
                });
            } catch (IOException e) {
                throw new IllegalStateException(e);
            }
        }
        return docStrings.build();
    }

    private static void traverseChildren(ImmutableMap.Builder<String, String> docStrings, String prefix,
                                         String delimiter, Object node) {
        if (node instanceof Map) {
            @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
            final Map<String, Object> map = (Map<String, Object>) node;
            final String name = (String) map.get("name");
            final String doc = (String) map.get("doc");
            String childPrefix;
            if (name != null) {
                childPrefix = MoreObjects.firstNonNull(prefix, "") + delimiter + name;
                if (doc != null) {
                    docStrings.put(childPrefix, doc.trim());
                }
            } else {
                childPrefix = prefix;
            }
            map.forEach((key, value) -> traverseChildren(docStrings, childPrefix, DELIM, value));
        } else if (node instanceof Iterable) {
            @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
            final Iterable<Object> children = (Iterable<Object>) node;
            children.forEach(child -> traverseChildren(docStrings, prefix, DELIM, child));
        }
    }
}

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The fabulous people, food and places in South Florida. Hosts Johanna Gomez and Jen Herrera.
"Dancing With the Stars" Recap: Bristol Palin Assumes Mark Ballas Is "Bummed" to Be Her Partner
Plus, the highest scores yet (including the first 9.5) as 11 all-stars channel performances of seasons past and serve as artistic directors.
Published Oct 9, 2012 at 10:20 AM | Updated at 10:21 AM EDT on Oct 9, 2012
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"Dancing With the Stars" contestant Bristol Palin.
Living in the past is never a good idea--unless you're on one of these dance shows, apparently.
"Dancing With the Stars" tasked its 11 remaining all-stars with reinterpreting so-called iconic routines from seasons past, meaning dances harkening as far back as season one, a Carson Kressly cha-cha, a "Magic Mike" comparison and a battle between the brothers Chmerkovskiy were all on the menu for tonight.
And while ballroom redos sound like risky business, guess what? The scores soared--and the season's first 9.5 was given!
Joey Fatone and Kym Johnson were proud of their final dance
Or, at least the soars scored for the competitors who didn't kick off their rehearsals by accusing their partners of being disappointed to be dancing with them.
"I know you're bummed that you don't have Sabrina or Shawn," a dejected-sounding Bristol Palin told Mark Ballas as they rehashed last week's low score. (Maybe she doesn't remember that, though Mark won with Shawn Johnson, he got further with Bristol than he did with Sabrina Bryan.)
"What does Sabrina or Shawn have to do with this?" Mark wondered. "Why would you say that? What have I done to make you feel that way?"
Can you blame Bristol for being a little tense on the set of Dancing With the Stars?
According to Bristol, Mark didn't show up for rehearsal the other day, and the remembrance of that left her in tears as she accused him of being "not there."
"Can you not be like that? Come on, don't be like that," he tried to comfort her, but she got up and walked out of the rehearsal room before they at some point got it together and rehearsed for tonight's paso doble.
Which, good news for Bristol, Len Goodman called "easily [her] best dance." (She still finished up in last place, but her numbers did improve.)
Gilles is dancing through pain
Drew Lachey paid homage to fellow boy-bander Joey McIntyre's cha-cha and ended up being praised for his "power drill"-reminiscent booty.
"It worked for Channing Tatum, it's going to work for you," purred Bruno Tonioli.
After respectable showing (he should've done the worm!), the numbers started ticking upward, starting with Gilles Marini's three-8.5 twist on a tango Maks Chmerkovskiy (ultimately the most borrowed choreographer of the night) did with Erin Andrews.
Sabrina scored the first nine of the season last week
"Fifty Shades of Gilles," growled Bruno (ultimately, as always, the most quotable judge of the night).
Melissa Rycroft returned to front-runner form, earning a season-high 27 on her J.R. Martinez-originated samba, only to be joined at the top a little later by none other than Kelly Monaco, whose partner Val Chmerkovskiy couldn't pass up the opportunity to put his own stamp on brother Maks' paso doble wtih Laila Ali.
Sabrina also borrowed a page from Maks' paso doble playbook, the chapter titled "Mel B," but--and get this--the judges found her dancing exceptional, but Carrie Ann Inaba said Sabrina and Louis van Amstel "didn't bring anything new" to the routine.
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So. was Sabrina a little miffed perhaps when she earned the same score as Hlio Castroneves, who stumbled over Chelsie Hightower's dress during his Apolo Anton Ohno-inspired quickstep? (She'll never say, now will she?)
Apolo, meanwhile, earned himself one 9 with an homage to Gilles' "Fever" fox-trot, and fellow past champ Emmitt Smith earned his best marks yet with a pounding paso doble first danced by the guy he beat for the season-three mirror ball, Mario Lopez.
Shawn Johnson and Derek Hough closed the show with Hlio's famous banana-man quickstep--but with a trampoline! "One of the best dances I've seen, if not the best dance, in 15 seasons," Bruno raved of their rule-flouting (lifts, ya know?) routine.
Apolo talks Bristol: "It's all about controversy"
Here's how the leaderboard stacked up tonight:
Kelly Monaco &Val Chmerkovskiy: 27
Melissa Rycroft &Tony Dovolani: 27
Shawn Johnson &Derek Hough: 26.5
Apolo Anton Ohno &Karina Smirnoff: 25.5
Gilles Marini &Peta Murgatroyd: 25.5
Hlio Castroneves &Chelsie Hightower: 25.5
Sabrina Bryan &Louis van Amstel: 25.5
Emmitt Smith &Cheryl Burke: 25
Drew Lachey &Anna Trebunskaya: 24
Kirstie Alley &Maks Chmerkovskiy: 24
Bristol Palin &Mark Ballas: 22.5
There's a double elimination tomorrow, so this could spell the end for Bristol thinking Mark is bummed, but...you never know! Also, Paula Abdul will be a guest judge next Monday, when the all-stars pick out styles for each other.
Take a look at all the injured star dancers through the years


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Mikel Obi Retires From Professional Football
in International, News, Sports, Top Story, Trending
Former captain of the Super Eagles of Nigeria, John Mikel Obi, has announced his retirement from professional football.
Obi made the announcement on his official Instagram account Tuesday.
"There is a saying that "all good things must come to an end", and for my professional football career, that day is today.
"I look back at the past 20 years of my career, and I must say that I am very satisfied with all that I was able to achieve and more importantly the human it has helped shape.
"All of this would not have been possible without the unwavering support of my family, managers, clubs, coaches, teammates and most importantly my ever-loyal fans. You supported me through my highs and lows, even on days that I did not live up to your expectations. I say a big thank you.
"I will also like to encourage everyone who I may have inspired one way or the other in the course of my career to never give up on their dreams, for every time you think about quitting, remind yourself why you started.
"This is not goodbye, it's the start of another journey, another chapter of my life. I look forward to what the future holds and I hope you will walk with me. Thank you", Obi said.
The forward enjoyed enormous success during his 11-year stint at west London as he amassed a total of six goals and 13 assists in 372 appearances.
The 35-year-old won two Premier League titles, three FA Cup trophies, the 2007 League Cup and the 2013 Europa League.
He was also part of the Chelsea team that won the Champions League trophy for the first time in 2012.
On the international stage, Obi also recorded huge success, as he won the Africa Cup of Nations in 2013 with Nigeria.
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La ermita hospedería de San Pablo se sitúa en el término municipal de Albocácer (Provincia de Castellón, España), a unos 3 km de la villa, en el cruce de las carreteras de Torre de Embesora y de Villafranca del Cid. Se trata de una edificación de estilos medieval y barroco construida entre los siglos XVI y XVII, que amplió sus estancias en el .

La construcción de la ermita empezó en 1617. Es de una sola nave rectangular, de tres tramos sin capillas ni crucero, con interesante coro alto a los pies. Impacta por su sentido de la movilidad y su impresionismo, llevándonos a admirar una obra de arte que refleja el modo de vida y las preocupaciones de la población que habitó estas tierras hace miles de años.

A finales del , junto a la primitiva ermita, comenzó a levantarse la hospedería ampliada en el  por dos alas porticadas a los lados. La hospedería se articula alrededor de un patio central porticado (con salida al prado por portada de medio punto), con destacado alero trabajado en piedra, y desde el cual se accede tanto al templo como a la cocina, chimenea y antiguas cuadras. Por escalera en piedra de tradición gótico-valenciana se alcanzan las dependencias superiores, bien trabajadas en piedra labrada y techumbres de madera, donde se halla la sala de reuniones, decorada con pinturas murales monocromas del primer tercio del , que desarrollan escenas de la vida de San Pablo y otros temas complementarios y alegóricos.

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Bienes de interés cultural de la provincia de Castellón
Ermitas de la provincia de Castellón
Ermitas de la Comunidad Valenciana del siglo XVII
Albocácer
Arquitectura de 1617
Hospederías de España
Iglesias dedicadas a San Pablo

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On November 11th, Nintendo will be releasing the Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition. In a recent video from IGN, we get a better look at the system and its features.
The plug-and-play system will come with one controller which can be plugged into a Nintendo Wii Remote to play Nintendo Wii or Nintendo Wii U Virtual Console games. In addition, it will also come with a total of 30 games and multiple suspend points for each title, letting you save progress to continue later.
The Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition will release later this year on November 11th.
Read more stories about Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition on Siliconera.


FOLD was an exhibition of the Portfolio Exchange Circle of Print organized by Melanie Yazzi of the University of Colorado, Boulder. Both Blake and Hannah had two prints each in FOLD, which was exhibited at the 2011 IMPACT 7 Conference in Melbourne, Australia.
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FCS QB Prukop commits to Oregon over Bama
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FCS transfer QB Dakota Prukop chooses Oregon over Alabama
Chantel JenningsESPN Staff Writer
Covers the Pac-12
Graduate of the University of Michigan
Montana State quarterback Dakota Prukop has committed to Oregon and will be eligible to play immediately pending his GRE results and acceptance into one of Oregon's masters programs, he confirmed to ESPN.com.
"In the end that's where I felt I was going to fit best with the guys," Prukop told ESPN.com. "Being around those guys, those are guys I want to play with."
Dakota Prukop chooses Oregon because of Mark Helfrich
Prukop said he plans to take his GRE this week or next. If all goes smoothly, he will enroll at Oregon on Jan. 4. With the school on a semester system, Prukop would also have a chance to be admitted in the spring semester, which would get him on campus in time for spring practices with the Ducks.
The news, first reported by Fox Sports' Bruce Feldman, comes a few days after Prukop did a whirlwind trip, including two and a half days visiting the Ducks, followed by a red-eye flight to Alabama to visit with coach Nick Saban. Prukop was also being pursued by Michigan recently, but chose the Tuscaloosa trip over an Ann Arbor visit. He also considered Texas.
Dakota Prukop threw for 3,025 yards and 28 touchdowns and added 797 rushing yards and 11 rushing touchdowns this season as Montana State's quarterback. Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez/Bozeman Daily Chronicle via AP
Prukop will be the Ducks' second FCS transfer quarterback in as many seasons. Last year, Eastern Washington quarterback Vernon Adams transferred to Oregon. Adams' transfer timeline was vastly different, considering he didn't fully graduate from Eastern Washington until a few days into Oregon's fall camp. Prukop has already graduated with a degree in economics and will probably enroll in Eugene in early January, which would give him the full offseason and spring season with the Ducks.
Oregon has yet to hire an offensive coordinator to fill the spot vacated by Scott Frost, who left earlier this month to become the head coach at UCF. However, Oregon coach Mark Helfrich and passing game coordinator Matt Lubick told Prukop the offensive scheme wouldn't change with whatever hire the Ducks make.
At Montana State this past season, Prukop threw for 3,025 yards and 28 touchdowns and added 797 rushing yards and 11 rushing touchdowns. The Bobcats finished 5-6, the team's first losing record since the 2002 season.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.


I love these papers, but sometimes I forget to use them. I purchased both Cryogen White and Poison Ivory with some friends...from Cut Card Stock . I often think of ideas to use this beautiful, shimmery, iridescent paper, but today I actually did something about it. Some time ago I did a wedding card in white and ivory, and that provided the inspiration for doing this wintery card...in both ivory and white.
The card base is Poison Ivory. The first layer, in Cryogen White, is popped up, as is the image layer in Poison Ivory. The snowflake is stamped in SU! White and embossed in Iridescent Sparkle EP. The ribbon is SU! narrow white organdy. Hope you enjoy these pictures!
Just lovely, so simple and elegant! I bet the sparkle is terrific in real life.


The US needs a mindset shift away from defense jobs.
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The US economy is caught in a trap. That trap is the Department of Defense: an increasingly sticky wicket that relies on an annual, trillion-dollar redistribution of government-collected wealth. In fact, it's the biggest "big government" program on the planet, easily beating out China's People's Liberation Army in both size and cost. It is not only the "nation's largest employer," with 2.867 million people currently on the payroll, but it also provides government benefits to 2 million retirees and their family members. And it actively picks private sector winners by targeting billions of dollars to an elite group of profit-seeking contractors.
This belligerent cash machine has Uncle Sam caught in a strange cycle of taxpayer-funded dependence that may ultimately be the most expensive — and least productive — jobs program in human history.
The top five overall recipients collectively pulled in $109.5 billion in FY2016, and their cohorts consistently dominate the government's list of top 100 contractors. They reap this yearly largesse through a Rube-Goldberg-like system of influence peddlers, revolving doors and wasteful taxpayer-funded boondoggles. Finally, it is all justified by a deadly feedback loop of perpetual warfare that is predicated on a predictable supply of blowback.
But this belligerent cash machine doesn't just produce haphazard interventions and shady partnerships with a motley assortment of strongmen, proxies and frenemies. It also has Uncle Sam caught in a strange cycle of taxpayer-funded dependence that may ultimately be the most expensive — and least productive — jobs program in human history.
In less than 140 characters, Ambassador Meshal bin Hamad al-Thani exposed the trap that has Uncle Sam pouring $1 trillion each year into an economy of diminishing returns that can only be mitigated with ever more spending on weapons and more military interventions that destabilize more regions which, in turn, stokes more purchases of weapons both at home and abroad.
This direct government infusion of money into a massive, complex defense industry not only benefits corporations and shareholders, but also the employees who make the tanks, planes, bombs, helmets, shoes, epaulets, bandages, pre-packed meals and just about everything else that goes into maintaining the US's military might.
What Keynes did not advocate was the use of military spending to achieve increased economic activity.
British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) developed his eponymous macroeconomic ideas during the height of the Great Depression. Simply put, Keynesianism advocates government spending (often supported by profuse borrowing) to stimulate economic growth, to mitigate unemployment, or to simply stabilize economies and labor markets during the vicissitudes of capitalism's turbulent business cycles. Keynes advocated deficit spending to temper these swings and, most importantly, to stoke latent demand.
That emphasis on government intervention, along with Keynes's influence on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and on the New Deal made Keynesianism a primary post-war target of conservative activists, who believed it was tantamount to socialism.
In the past orthodox finance has regarded a war as the only legitimate excuse for creating employment by governmental expenditure. You, Mr. President, having cast off such fetters, are free to engage in the interests of peace and prosperity the technique which hitherto has only been allowed to serve the purposes of war and destruction.
Ironically, that "past orthodoxy" was exactly what the Reagan Revolution reinstated when it "defeated" Keynesianism in 1980.
Reagan replaced traditional Keynesianism with a weaponized version that tacitly embraced the idea of war as the only legitimate excuse for creating employment by governmental expenditure.
As an acolyte of Milton Friedman's neoliberal economics, Ronald Reagan famously said "government wasn't the solution, it was the problem." He also made radical cuts to "government," a.k.a. "the welfare state." But Reagan's enormous military build-up somehow avoided the dreaded "government" label, and thus, the cuts. In fact, in a Keynesian twist, borrowing skyrocketed to help fund military expansion under Reagan. Jobs were created in the ballooning defense industry, particularly in regional hubs like Southern California.
And while Keynesianism's harshest critics still deride it as "socialism" and "government intervention," rare is the fiscal fussbudget who attacks Uncle Sam's yearly reallocation of wealth to sustain the world's biggest government program. Equally as rare is the budgetary hawk who doesn't dip his or her beak into the deep, Keynesian pool of public funds when it comes time to fill-up the National Defense Authorization Act with tax dollars. For many members of Congress, a vote for a tank, a fighter jet or a base expansion is also a crucial vote to put money into their constituents' pockets.
3. Weapons and equipment purchases as a de facto pass-thru to contractors and companies to provide income to US workers.
In other words, these "liberal" analysts proposed laundering public funds through the defense budget and into the economy. Their ideas, of course, were not new; truth be told, that's what the defense budget has done for decades, thanks to a willingness to spread the wealth liberally.
The F-35 jet program is the ultimate avatar of military Keynesianism. The jet, produced by the giant military and security corporation Lockheed Martin, is a $406 billion plane that suffocates pilots, struggles with inclement weather, experienced engine fires and will cost over $1 trillion just to operate and support.
Yet boondoggles like the F-35 program amble through the budget process like unstoppable zombies that eat the brains of politicians and policymakers. While there's no doubt that millions of dollars in corporate lobbying play a huge part, that's not the only reason why projects like this happen. It's also the jobs, stupid. Just ask the commander-in-chief.
Initially, President Trump "slammed" Lockheed's beleaguered jet as "way, way behind schedule" and "many billions of dollars over budget." In response, Lockheed entered "renegotiations" to bring down the cost per plane. Lockheed's CEO promised that its "new" deal would "create 1,800 new jobs" in Texas. The F-35 already employed 38,900 Texans and, as the LA Times pointed out, its "supply chain touches 45 states." You see, it's all about supply chains. That explains the Qatari ambassador's tweet about the "60,000" jobs in "42" states after his nation purchased 36 F-15QAs. It also explains how a widely dispersed defense budget creates constituencies in congressional districts around the country.
As the Chicago Tribune reported, Georgia, California, Arizona and Florida join Texas in "playing the leading roles in testing and manufacturing" the F-35. And its impressive chain links "more than 1,250 domestic suppliers" who "produce thousands of components." Once Lockheed announced its unofficial deal to shave $728 million off the latest "batch" of 90, Trump again touted his specious role in securing more "jobs" … thanks to the F-35!
So, is this the reason why the F-35 is too big to fail? Is it really just about making planes? It certainly isn't a matter of military might. The US already dominates the skies, and the future of aerial combat is moving with increasing speed toward flying killer robots. At the same time, the need to deploy military power to ensure the steady flow of oil into US factories and automobiles continues to lose its importance. The US has become a net exporter of hydrocarbons, and the looming specter of "peak oil" has been replaced with the sunnier likelihood of "peak demand" — and that coming peak in the amount of oil the world market demands basically nullifies the leading rationale for 70 years of American empire.
Russia's total military budget is far less than the amount ($80 billion) Congress added onto this year's US military budget.
As renewable energy sources become not only cost competitive but also preferred, one wonders how long it will make sense to station the Fifth Fleet in Bahrain or to patrol the South China Sea to challenge China's claim on the oil-rich area. Yet, with the "Trump Build-Up" officially underway, the US is quintupling down on a model not only rooted in economically flaccid military Keynesianism, but also in a decrepit national security strategy that might itself be a boondoggle.
The US stands alone as a globe-spanning empire with 787 overseas bases, "lily pad" deployments and host country facilities in 88 nations and territories, according to the most recent accounting by scholar David Vine. At home, a Google Maps search reveals another 603 bases, depots, arsenals and assorted military facilities peppered around the 50 states. The US dominates the land, sea and skies, and is moving to dominate space.
This empire hasn't come cheap. A 2008 study by the Nuclear Threat Initiative put the price tag of "all military spending from 1940 through 1996" at a fulsome $18.7 trillion. Spending dropped by one third throughout the '90s, but according to a meta-study by the Council on Foreign Relations, "the U.S. share of global military spending only fell by six percentage points." So, despite two "low-points" in 1998 ($296.7 billion) and 1999 ($298.4 billion), the US maintained its significant advantage heading into the 21st century.
That advantage became grotesque as budgets ballooned to fight a globe-spanning "war on terror." In 2017, the US spent $611 billion on the defense budget alone, easily outspending the eight-biggest spenders combined. In 2018, spending will hit $700 billion. And, when war funding, nuclear weapons, intelligence operations, homeland security and veteran benefits are included, the real annual total for all "defense-related" spending regularly tops $1 trillion. All told, the US's "post-9/11 wars will total more than $5.6 trillion by the end of fiscal year 2018," according to the Costs of War Project.
On the other hand, Russia spent a mere $69.2 billion on its military in 2016, and that total dropped to $49.2 billion in 2017. So Russia's total military budget is far less than the amount ($80 billion) Congress added onto this year's US military budget. Meanwhile, China spent roughly one-quarter of what the US spent in 2017 with a budget of $151.43 billion. So, while China's government actively invests in supercomputing, AI, biotech and, most importantly, in a trillion-dollar "Belt and Road" program that's building infrastructure in other countries, the US pours money into a jobs program that doesn't produce consumer products, isn't rebuilding roads and bridges, isn't building a new electrical grid, nor alleviating crushing student debt.
They detailed how the US's systemic inequality is reflected in the undeniable fact that the job of fighting now falls disproportionately on Americans from rural communities and "less well-to-do" areas. Amazingly, the Army gets more soldiers from Alabama (population 4.8 million) than "from New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles combined" (population 25 million). Similarly, 40 percent of the Army comes from seven states of the Old South." This is a military drawn from those left behind by the emerging "Industry 4.0" economy in urban hubs. This is their one sure thing — courtesy of Uncle Sam.
What this means is that the US is straddled with an entitlement program that is as much of a "third rail" as Medicare and Social Security. Like those entitlements, sudden cuts mean direct and immediate pain for a lot of Americans who simply cannot afford it. It also means we have to finally admit that the defense budget is as much about jobs as it is national security.
And if we are truly honest with ourselves, we should admit that the wealth we all still share was built in no small part on the back of the military-industrial complex. There is a reason why 4.4 percent of the world's population so easily consumes a quarter of the world's resources. But now that model is atrophying. Soft power and symmetrical warfare are intersecting with technology to challenge the paradigm. And blowback from empire is draining vital capital.
So, what are the options now that the US finds itself stuck in this paradigmatic trap? There are three possible alternatives.
One is to simply slash the budget. The downside is that it will dislocate millions of people who rely directly and indirectly on defense spending. The upside is that it will force an immediate retreat from both empire and military Keynesianism. This also could stoke some economic growth if the half to three-quarters of a trillion in annual savings was "returned" to taxpayers in the form of a rebate check. Basically, Americans would finally get the "peace dividend" almost 30 years after the Cold War ended.
The second option is the post-WWII demobilization model. That influx of manpower was met with the GI Bill, tax breaks for new homeowners and investments in infrastructure. This is a truly Keynesian solution. Infrastructure jobs and educational subsidies would provide relief to Americans currently reliant on military Keynesianism for their livelihoods. The original GI Bill "returned $7 to the American economy for every $1 invested in the GI Bill," notes Jared Lyon of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families. And a study by Costs of War Project determined allocating resources to "clean energy and health care spending create 50 percent more jobs than the equivalent amount of spending on the military," and "education spending creates more than twice as many jobs" as defense spending.
Frankly, either of these two solutions is far better than the third option, which is to continue to misallocate hundreds of billions in precious capital away from the productive economy while wreaking havoc at home and abroad. And that's the ultimate no-win situation for a militarized economy that has manufactured its share of bloody, no-win situations since the end of World War II.
There are hundreds of billions of dollars in "defense" spending that aren't even counted in the Pentagon budget.
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I've been working my way through the French Pharmacy list that Gwyneth Paltrow made. You can find report #1 here and report #2 here. I've got four more products to tell you about today. Three are from the Goop list, and one is a recommendation from my friend, Caroline (it's my favorite!).
First up, Caudalie Premières Vendages. Gwyneth describes this as an excellent basic daily moisturizer and I fully agree. Though I actually don't use it daily, because I like to use a moisturizer with spf. But I've found this little tube perfect for travel! It's just the right size and comes in flexible packaging that won't shatter. I love applying a layer as a flight lands. It has a fresh, clean scent and leaves my skin with a not-too-shiny glow.
Next up, Embryolisse. I had a hard time tracking down this one because Embryolisse is the name for a whole product line, not a particular product. My pharmacist told me to try the Filaderme Crème.
Friends, it is wonderful stuff! It's the perfect layer under makeup. And though it's intended for daytime, I've had great luck using it at night, right before bed. My skin feels firm and healthy when I wake up. I can even skip my morning moisturizer if I'm in a hurry!
Gwyneth says Bioderma Crealine H20 Micelle Solution is "the BEST makeup remover" and I can see why she likes it so much. There's no need to rinse when you're done, and it gets every bit of make up off in a snap! It has made my end-of-day routine much more pleasant.
This one is my favorite on this post — and it's the least expensive! (I can't seem to find an English-website to link to this particular brand, but here's a similar product). It's called Eau de Bleuet, and my fabulous French friend, Caroline, brought me a bottle when Oscar's eyes were a bit swollen.
It soothed Oscar's eyes in a moment (you spray it on cotton pads and then let it rest on closed eyes), which was wonderful. But it's also proved amazing for tired, puffy eyes in the morning! I can't remember what I did without this. I use it frequently and make sure to fill a travel-size bottle with it whenever I have a trip.
One last note, it's been so encouraging to see that most of the products on the Goop list have become available in U.S. shops over the last year. I remember writing my first post, and I couldn't find U.S. links to anything! I've fallen in love with some of these products and I'm so glad I'll still be able to find them when we move back.
Have you tried anything on the Goop list? What did you think?
Just minutes ago I reading reviews on Sephora about the Caudalie Vinoperfect Serum! May have to get both now, although I, too, prefer a SPF moisturizer. What do you use?
You could check out my spf 20/toner on my site too. I super like it. I wear it every day. I'm still searching though. I'll look into these.
We drove through France last Summer with four kids and a tent, and each chemist I could get to, I checked for Goops list. Standing in those cool, quiet Meccas to good skin was the perfect antidote to the chaos (and fun!) of the trip. I found and really liked the Bioderma make-up remover (Perfect for camping!), and Avibon, which I use nightly now. Gwyneth did'nt mention the brand La Roche Posay and I would add their Nutritic 5% to her list. It's a fantastic moisturizer and great for around the eyes.
I am an eternal fan of Avibon since reading your blog post. I love the creaminess and the faint rose smell. It is such a treat to my skin.
I agree with Nuxe Huile Prodigeuse! Its great for the hair and smells lovely. I also really love the Darphin line. Everything they have is just lovely!
Gotta say I'm a huge fan of Bioderma. My husband actually told me about it and I've been hooked since! That's probably the one French product I use daily. And I'm spoiled living in France because it's available everywhere!
If you like Eau de Bleuet, you should try Klorane's Lotion Démaquillante Apaisante – an eye makeup remover with blueberry water, too! I've used it for years and there's no way I can ever buy another eye makeup remover!
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The Chef oven features a large capacity, so most family cooking needs can be met.
The separate grill is an Australian essential. It allows you to grill and bake at the same time whilst keeping different cooking smells and flavours separate.
The formed shelf supports and full flat oven door that can be dismantled, make Chef built-in ovens a breeze to keep clean.


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A rough translation from a Pali commentary… "If materials and/or tradespeople can possibly arrange to arrive at lunch time, then they will." Our new fridge has been long awaited. Yes, the meal was ready. It was being offered. The door bell rings. Three large men proceed to remove the old fridge. It was a graceful ballet of monks and men, bowls, bowing and beg-pardon. We managed to fit the anumodana chanting in – between the exit of the old and entry of the new. A little more shuffling and shunting, exuse us, sorry and it was in. Glorious – the meal – AND the new fridge.
We seem to have gotten these rolling again. Every Wednesday at teatime; 5pm. We will try and post the next one on the events calendar.
As you enter the basement – with your best socks and impunity to hand – more plastic wonders are in place to greet you. As part of 'Flood Control: phase I' we removed the old concrete tub. Yes, out with the old, and in with the new.
As I sit here writing I admire the roses on my desk – a gift from the local Welcome Lady. New to the district? She comes around and gives welcoming flowers and other gifts. I liked the one-sock… you take it into the store and swap it for a pair. What a delightful, hearty gesture. AK.


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Understanding how the Critical Path Method works at its core is essential to successful Construction Project Management. The very central engine that drives successful Construction Project Management is the Project Schedule, which is the mutually agreed-upon Project Execution Strategy for the Project Team. It is created, communicated, and implemented (as a key Project Management tool) using the Critical Path Method.
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When it comes to learning the Critical Path Method, once and for all … this website presents you with the broadest possible range of Learning Options. Surely, one of them will satisfy your crowded calendar, tight training budget, and personal need for continuing education.
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March 29, 2005 — Adobe announced plans for a photographers directory today. The new directory will be largely populated with photographers from the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), who is collaborating with Adobe on this project. The listing of professional photographers will be "accessible directly from within Adobe's creative professional products," stated today's Adobe press release.
The Adobe Photographers Directory will initially include professionals from the United States and will expand to other markets over time. The directory will allow designers to find photographers by geographic location or specialty and will include sample portfolio images. The ASMP has a directory very similar to this, but will differ from the Adobe version in that it will add more photographers and will provide access from future product offerings.
"Photoshop and Adobe Creative Suite have brought the digital image into the heart of creative workflows as our customers deliver compelling content to print media, the Web and emerging mobile platforms," said Bryan Lamkin, senior vice president of Digital Imaging and Digital Video at Adobe. "When creative professionals are searching for that perfect photograph that reflects their vision, they should be able to find it within the tools they rely on most. That's our goal with this directory."


Dig in to your favorite American meal at Washington County Playhouse in Hagerstown. You can also have Washington County Playhouse cater your next event.
For familiar food you're sure to love, head to Washington County Playhouse for American-style cuisine in Hagerstown. Washington County Playhouse's menu features tasty, vegan eats. Your group can sit comfortably at Washington County Playhouse, a local restaurant.
The parking lot near Washington County Playhouse will have you in and out in a jiffy.
Prices are reasonable, with a typical meal running under $30. No matter what type of American dish you're in the mood for, Washington County Playhouse has a great selection of dishes to choose from.
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Moreton Island is a pristine environment with a variety of habitats supporting some interesting and valuable species. It has wetland sites, the salt marsh, tidal flats, sandy beaches and lakes.
Moreton Bay and the sand islands provide a vital feeding and resting point for over 50,000 migratory waders making their annual journey from the Arctic and sub Arctic regions between September and April each year. The eastern curlew, the little tern and the grey tailed tattler are among some of the uncommon migratory birds dependent on the Bay environment during their non-breeding season. The Mirapool Lagoon area and the Heath Island area of Moreton Island are considered vital feeding and roosting sites for waders.
Over 180 species of birds have been recorded from the island including seabirds, waders, forest dependent birds and birds of prey. Thirty-one species of migratory birds have been recorded on Moreton Island. The pied oyster catcher and the red-capped plover are two of the more common resident waders of Moreton Island. The osprey which breeds on the island is considered regionally vulnerable in south-east Queensland.
The enjoyment of viewing such beauty is available for all who visit, all that is required is to open your eyes and take it all in. Be sure not to be laughed at by the friendly Kookaburra!


The Hon Malakai Tabar MP, Minister for Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology, Papua New Guinea.
The Honourable Malakai Tabar MP discussed the issues and challenges that Papua New Guinea is currently facing in the higher education sector, and the reforms underway.
In 2007, The Hon Malakai Tabar MP was elected Member of Parliament representing the Gazelle Open Electorate. During his first term in parliament he was in Opposition, and was appointed Shadow Minister for Agriculture and Livestock. In 2012, he joined the Goverment through the National Alliance Party and in 2014 he was appointed Minister for the Department of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (DHERST).


The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a framework for all countries to develop and implement roadmaps for sustainable development in all its dimensions. Agriculture contributes to many of the new SDGs and their Targets. SDG 2 on ending hunger, improving nutrition and achieving a more sustainable agriculture is among the most challenging ones to achieve. Transformative changes will be required in how food is consumed and produced. Nitrogen as the world's most important nutrient is a key currency for all that, requiring a full-chain approach to increase its overall efficiency and reducing its environmental impact. Agro-food systems in developed as well as developing countries need to become more precise in their management to achieve substantial increases in N use efficiency (NUE). A coherent, well-coordinated effort is needed for monitoring NUE at unprecedented levels of detail, using new sensing and data science technologies that are now becoming available. Many solutions exist, but they will require more investment as well as new ways of working to achieve faster and greater impact. Science should embrace an innovation culture, translating new ideas much faster into commercial technologies and actionable knowledge widely accessible to farmers and businesses along the whole nitrogen chain.


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Linda Thompson, Manager Linda has a long history with MHS! She was a veterinary technician for MHS when we were housed in the Jennie B. Powers Memorial Shelter building. There, Linda developed important programs to help us care better for the homeless animals. Today, she oversees all aspects of our Boarding and Dog Daycare programs. Her dedication, and love of animals shines through every interaction our customers have with her.
Deb Watson, Senior Boarding/Daycare Technician Deb has years of experience caring for a variety of animals. Her career has included animal health care as a veterinary technician and improving animal welfare as a visiting pet groomer. She is certified in Pet First Aid & CPR, in addition to being a trained dog care professional.
The staff at the Monadnock Humane Society Boarding and Daycare Facility bring years of animal care experience and professional training to their work with your pets. They regularly attend industry conferences and educational program to stay current on the best practices in animal care, behavior modification techniques, and animal psychology.
The picture below shows Linda Thompson helping a pet owner with a dog behavior problem that can be corrected with the proper leash. Linda lent the leash to the owner to "try before they buy" and committed to work with the dog on future daycare visits.


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The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on 30 July extended the mandate of the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) for another ten months, and agreed to reduce personnel to 20 626 by 28 February 2019.
The UNSC, in approving resolution 2431 (2018) cautioned against any further delay in lowering troop numbers beyond February 2019.
The Council also authorized the Mission to deploy a minimum 1,040 police personnel until 31 May 2019 and, setting out strategic objectives, to enable the gradual handover of security responsibilities to Somali security forces — contingent on their abilities, as well as progress on the political and security front — by December 2021.
Among Amisom's priority tasks is to reduce the threat posed by Al?Shabaab and other armed groups, including through targeted offensive operations, and to support Somali security forces during the ongoing political process.
Authorizing a reconfiguration of the Mission in favour of police personnel, the Council requested the African Union to submit a detailed plan, no later than 15 November, for reducing uniformed personnel, and along with the United Nations, to conduct a joint operational readiness assessment by 15 September to identify capacities and requirements within the authorized troop ceiling.
The Council went on to stress that Amisom's civilian component should focus on supporting the Mission's eventual drawdown, in line with the transition plan and the ultimate aim of Somali security forces taking the lead for security responsibility by December 2021. Welcoming the Secretary?General's plans for a technical review of the Mission by 31 January 2019, the Council reiterated its call for additional funding and technical assistance from new and existing donors.
Tekeda Alemu (Ethiopia), underscoring Amisom's indispensable role, thanked Council members for their flexibility and compromise in reaching a consensus. Emphasizing that much remains to be done in terms of post?conflict recovery and peacebuilding, he welcomed the resolution's emphasis on the Mission's civilian component, and stressed the importance of enhanced cooperation to better support an inclusive political process. He also welcomed its focus on the need to comprehensively assess the Mission and make recommendations on the gradual transition of security responsibilities to Somali authorities. Hopefully, he said, all decisions regarding the transition will be based on a close examination of the situation on the ground.
Abukar Dahir Osman (Somalia) welcomed the resolution's focus on Somalia's efforts to assume responsibility for its own security. Welcoming the latest developments in the protracted conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, he said Somalia will spare no effort in working towards a peaceful and prosperous future for the Horn of Africa region. Partnership will be crucial, particularly with donor and troop?contributing countries, in building a professional and inclusive security sector that enables Somalis to live free from the threat of Al?Shabaab.
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PG&E's supposedly real-time outage map, on their website, was nearly blank for San Francisco well over an hour into this morning's mass power outage — with the exception of a single reported outage in the Outer Sunset, as seen above — causing many to question why the utility would bother providing this tool at all. SFGate seized on the gaffe, and the outage map page now says across the top, "We are currently experiencing intermitent delays in updating the outage map. PG&E is aware of the large San Francisco power outage. We are currently working to resolve these issues."
The map itself is supposed to be updated every 15 minutes.
#SF Outage: 10k customers restored. Crews working safely & quickly as possible to restore more. Thank you for your patience.
Most concerning was that a substation on Larkin Street appeared to be on fire, and PG&E confirmed that there was a fire there around 9 a.m. this morning, as the Chronicle reports, however a spokesperson said "it was not yet clear whether the blaze was a cause of the blackout or the result of it."
The fire was reportedly under control as of 10:50 a.m.
You may recall that this same substation got knocked out during the December 2014 Rainpocalypse — a storm which now seems like child's play in comparison to a few we had this winter — killing the lights for roughly the same northern swath of town.
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Well, I FINALLY have a pair in my hands! After weeks of holding off and then being let down, a fine gent over at Crooked Tongues helped me out massively to secure a pair so I'm forever in his debt!
Anyway, I wrote a heads-up post over at The Drop Date so I'm just going to include that in here with a little extra, and as I've not actually had the chance to shoot them in detail so I'll use the shots from Crooked Tongues, and then my own on-foot shots.
For many of us, we've been eagerly awaiting the drop of the NEW BALANCE 997 reissue and now, we can finally welcome back this sheer classic! This follows on perfectly from last year when we were lucky enough to see the return of the 990, but that wasn't the only model that New Balance connoisseurs had been calling out for. Over the years, there had been continuous talk of NB bringing back the 997, but unfortunately, 'no' seemed to be a common answer and all rumours were quickly played down.
Well, where to start with this shoe? We've seen versions of the 997 in recent years, such as the 997.5, a subtle hybrid that consists of a 997 upper on a 998 midsole, but we've never seen the 997 reissued in its truest form, until now. The model that was first introduced back in the 90's looks ever so stunning, and we're sure that this pair will pull on the heartstrings of all NB fanatics!
Now for the details, and there's a good few to take note of. The 997 is US made as this stays true to the original, and this means that the shape is exquisite. It features a signature grey-on-grey upper consisting of pig-skin suede overlays, premium mesh underlays and sublime pebbled leather. This great use of pebbled leather is also featured on the tongue and the shoe is finished off with a clean leather inner lining, which certainly gives that premium feel. Also, last but not least, there is some 3M thrown in on the 'N' for good measure.
One of the most important components of the New Balance 997 is the striking midsole, which features a duo of densities; fused C-Cap within the Encap sole unit, and a refined heel support. As this shoe was all about comfort, aesthetics and technology, NB have upped the ante by including a triple density innersole and also added XAR-1000 rubber to the outsole for increased grip.
However, one thing that many have come to notice is the colour change to the rear of the midsole, a slightly darker colour than the OG but something that we can definitely put on the back burner to appreciate this stunning shoe.
I'm not going to say much else except link to an article from Matt Kyte (Twizm) for Sneakerfreaker and if you know Twizm, then you know that this is 10000% worth a read.