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Demons dig deep, hold off New Orleans in SLC Tourney quarters
KATY, Texas – Northwestern State men's basketball coach Mike McConathy has preached "we not me" throughout the 2020-21 season.
His fourth-seeded Demons paid back his belief in that philosophy Thursday evening in the Southland Conference Tournament quarterfinals, using a plethora of key contributions to hang for an 82-79 win against fifth-seeded New Orleans at the Leonard E. Merrell Center.
"We played against an extremely difficult team to play," said McConathy, who improved to 19-9 in SLC Tournament games. "They are extremely athletic. They do a great job in so many areas offensively and defensively. I was proud of the guys because, at the end, when things got a little hairy and we didn't make some shots we needed to, we were able to have enough in us to hold onto the win. I'm really pleased with the effort of all the guys on the floor, on the bench, everywhere."
With the victory, the Demons (11-17) advance to Friday's 5 p.m. semifinal against top-seeded Nicholls, which swept the season series from Northwestern State. That game will air on ESPN+ and can be heard on 95.9 FM in Natchitoches. Free streaming audio also is available on www.NSUDemons.com and through the Northwestern State Athletics mobile app, which can be downloaded free for Apple and Android devices.
One year after seeing their tournament run halted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Demons broke quickly, building a 12-point lead less than eight minutes into the game.
Trenton Massner's corner 3-pointer put the Demons ahead 16-4 at the 12:13 mark of the first half, and it seemed NSU was poised to match its blowout victory against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi from a year ago.
However, the Privateers (10-15) whittled the lead to one before Carvell Teasett sank a key 3-pointer in the waning seconds of the first half to give NSU a four-point halftime edge.
It appeared New Orleans was in position to reprise its second-half surge from eight days ago when it scored 56 second-half points in a win against Northwestern State. UNO opened the second half on a 7-2 run, gaining a pair of one-point leads in the process.
Those were the lone leads the Privateers had in the game.
CJ Jones angled in a layup along the left baseline and turned it into a three-point play with 18:01 to play, putting the Demons ahead for good. Jones was one of eight Demons who scored at least five points, and he handed out a season-high seven assists.
In his past two games at the Merrell Center, Jones has handed out 12 assists and had a key three-point play in each game.
"CJ Jones did a great job," McConathy said. "CJ Jones had a great first game last year in the conference tournament before COVID shut us down. He came out with the same resolve today in the first half. The second half, we went with some different rotations. He understands what we need to do for this team to be successful."
Massner's early scoring binge, which included a trio of first-half 3-pointers, helped him notch his second straight 20-point game. It also opened things up for the Demons' bigs.
Larry Owens finished with 13 points and Jamaure Gregg added 11. That pair and Kendal Coleman grabbed 20 of Northwestern State's 37 rebounds as the Demons were plus-7 on the boards.
"Bigs play a lot better when you get them the ball early," said Massner, who shot 6 of 9 from the field. "When our guards hit shots – not just me but everybody else – it makes it easier for our bigs. Me getting hot early or anyone making shots early in a game is going to help us in the long run.
"On a personal level, last year when we played here, I didn't do a lot when we played. I was just trying to be aggressive and help my team in the best way I can."
After a relatively free-flowing first half, the Demons and Privateers combined to shoot 56 second-half free throws. The Demons hit just enough, missing three of four in the final 25 seconds to allow the Privateers to creep back in the game.
NSU led by seven after Owens split a pair of free throws with 33 seconds to play. Damion Rosser had a layup for two of his game-high 27 points before a pair of missed NSU free throws kept the Privateers alive.
Kimani Doughty sank a corner 3 to cut the lead to two with 12 seconds before Brian White (10 points) split a pair of free throws.
LaTerrance Reed's steal with 2 seconds left sealed the victory and put the Demons into the SLC tournament semifinals for the first time since 2015. It also improved the Demons to 6-0 in games decided by three points or less.
"We just had to stay together as a team," said Owens, who added two steals to his 13 points and seven rebounds. "We were breaking down, but one of us had to step up and say, 'Hey, we're good.' I say that to them all the time. Don't break down in this time. Stay focused. We're going to pull through."
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Work table at Summer camp including drills, hot glue guns, scissors and recycled materials.
While tinkering enthusiastically around with an imaginative apparatus, a kindergartener burned herself with the hot glue gun. I admit, after her proclamation of "ouch!" I jumped up to mediate the situation. About to go into protective "adult mode," she intercepted: "It's OK," she said calmly peeling off the bit of drying glue, "I just need some cold water." She went off to the sink deflecting any further help from me returning to her glue gun shortly after.
Set up at tables with bright colored papers, kindergarteners were cutting out fairly basic shapes to be used with another project. A boy was attempting to cut out a shape, but could not manipulate the scissors – nor could he move his hand holding the paper out of the way of the descending blades. Quite manipulative with other objects such as blocks and lego, this did not seem to be due to overall developmental progression. Rather he had no active time to learn to use sharp objects – even those designed specifically for children.
While accidents can and do occur, the girl with the glue gun was able to manage the situation in face of risk and some of its consequences, while the boy could not comprehend that his fingers should not be in the blades way (at least at the time). Even at young ages, the differences between exposure to risk seems apparent to me. Barry's article ends with the following statement: "If they don't have all that risk out there when the child is four, the adult isn't going to do that." While risk could still enter a child's life later on, it seems pretty clear, according to Thomas Weisner and other researchers, that the activities children engage in on a routine basis and are valued by their surrounding community shape their developmental pathways and the kinds of skills, capacities, and norms they will come to embody (See Weisner 1998, Rogoff 2003 for some examples on this discussion).
Is risk something that children really do need to experience in order to be able to face risk later on in their life?
Is risky play a concern cross-culturally?
What are cultural variations regarding risk as it is clear that it is not uniform?
Are the opportunities to struggle valuable for child development?
Is risk something children desire in their play?
What kinds of risk are there, and which are detrimental/beneficial/acknowledged…?
How does navigating risk relate to resilience?
What kinds of risky play already exist in the USA? The revival of risky play seems to be imported to the USA from Europe, but what evidence do we have that there is an absence of risky play in the broader USA?
There are undoubtedly many more questions to be considered. In order to begin a discussion in a risky play module, we will explore the relation of risky play to resilience. We hope that others will join in this discussion by exploring and expanding on the other questions presented above.
In discussing the relevance of risky play, Barry refers to experts claims of its usefulness for building resilience during child development. It is, however, not clear if this appropriation of resilience is in relation to a renewed interest in the concept, or if there is a long-standing relationship. In a brief review of earlier reports (see for example The Atlantic.com and NPR), resilience has no mention at all in the research that is presented. Rather, there is much offered regarding a shift in childhood culture and how we got to this place of plastic play equipment and how statistically not much has changed in terms of the rate of injuries and deaths between 1980 (when the tide began to turn toward a safe playground) and today. This opens up the question of why play has become a focus for operationalizing risk in child development and just how navigating risk in the playground relates to resilience.
Resilience has been a subject of focus for child development scholars for over 50 years resulting in a broad and varied understanding that has the propensity to problematize discussions. For purposes of the discussion centered on risky play, resilience is perhaps best understood "in terms of the fact or process of approximating valued outcomes in the face of risk or adversity" (Kaplan 2005, 41). In other words, the idea of risky play is that by adding risk to the daily activities of children on the playground there is a set of outcomes that can be anticipated and are valued. On the other hand, "resilience is best understood as a process that unfolds over the course of development" (Panter-Brick and Leckman 2013, 333), which suggests that risky play is only one part of what constitutes the building of resilience in the course of a child's development.
The effort of building resilience, it has been suggested, is ultimately focused on identifying the ways in which conditions of risk that children face are seen as a disruption to developmental processes (Felner 2005, 132). In the case of risky play, we are faced with an opposite correlate, where introducing conditions of risk are thought to promote – not disrupt – developmental processes. What stands out in Barry's article and the resilience research is a polemic contextual variation. The risky play culture has been born out of the idea that childhood culture has become too protective, so much so that children lack the requisite psychosocial tools from which to thrive as adults. Whereas, the focus of resilience literature has predominantly been on contextualizing existing risk and a lack of protection that is understood to be a part of the everyday lives of children.
So, how are risky play and resilience related? In the case of childhood culture, it serves to remind us that in all things there are extremes that can go too far and finding a healthy balance is necessary; one that underscores the need to remain "attentive to normative definitions of what matters for human well-being" (Panter-Brick 2014).
Barry, E., 2018. In Britain's Playgrounds, 'Bringing in Risk' to Build Resilience. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/world/europe/britain-playgrounds-risk.html.
Felner, R.D., 2005. Poverty in childhood and adolescence: a transactional-ecological approach to understanding and enhancing resilience in contexts of disadvantage and development risk. In: Goldstein S., Brooks R. (eds) Handbook of Resilience in Children. Springer, Boston, MA. Chapter 9, (pp. 125-148).
Kaplan, H.B., 2005. Understanding the concept of resilience. In: Goldstein S., Brooks R. (eds) Handbook of Resilience in Children. Springer, Boston, MA. Chapter 3, (pp. 39-47).
Panter-Brick, C., 2014. Health, risk, and resilience: Interdisciplinary concepts and applications. Annual Review of Anthropology, 43, pp.431-448.
Panter‐Brick, C. and Leckman, J.F., 2013. Editorial commentary: resilience in child development–interconnected pathways to wellbeing. Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, 54(4), pp.333-336.
Rogoff, Barbara. 2003. The Cultural Nature of Human Development. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Weisner, Thomas S. 1998. Human development, child well-being, and the cultural project of development. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 80, pp. 69-85.


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Heather Yakin
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GOSHEN - Before assailants dumped Michael Partridge in the snow on a Chester side street, prosecutors say, they beat him repeatedly with a bat, bound his hands and feet, threw him down a set of stairs and then, with his girlfriend at the wheel, drove him there from Goshen.
Partridge, 28, died from injuries to his head and body, Assistant District Attorney Julie Mohl told Judge Craig Brown on Thursday in Orange County Court during arraignment for four defendants on murder and manslaughter charges.
Robert Haskell, 55, Seth Pelsang, 30, and Timothy Smith, 37, all of Goshen, face charges of second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter. Courtney Clemenza, 32, of Chester, who prosecutors described as Partridge's girlfriend, faces a second-degree manslaughter charge.
All four defendants are charged with second-degree kidnapping and first-degree unlawful imprisonment, felonies. Haskell and Pelsang also face felony weapon and evidence-tampering counts, and Clemenza faces a misdemeanor child endangerment count.
The four defendants' lawyers entered not-guilty pleas for their clients.
About 6 p.m. on Dec. 18, Mohl told the judge, Partridge showed up at 32 Kipp Road in Goshen, where Haskell, Pelsang and Smith lived, and where Clemenza was visiting with her young child. Partridge fired a shotgun through the front door and went into the home and up the stairs after Haskell, Mohl said.
Haskell called for Smith, who grabbed Partridge in a bear hug from behind, taking him immediately to the ground, and Pelsang grabbed the shotgun and hid it in his bedroom, Mohl said.
Haskell grabbed a baseball bat and began beating Partridge in the head, body, legs and feet as Smith held him down, she said. Pelsang cut cords from two vacuum cleaners and used the cords to bind Partridge's hands and feet and Haskell continued the beating. At one point, Pelsang took the bat and struck Partridge, before Haskell took it back and resumed the assault, Mohl said.
"When he was done, Michael's body was tossed down stairs and then out into the snow," Mohl said.
Pelsang and Haskell used strips of bedsheet and duct tape to further bind Partridge's hands, and then put him in Clemenza's car, laid across the back seat Clemenza got behind the wheel, taking her child with her, Mohl said. Smith leaned into the car to punch Partridge, she said. Then Pelsang got in the passenger's seat and Haskell got in the back, where he sat on Partridge.
"Michael was in the back seat of that car asking for help," Mohl told the judge, "and instead, defendant Haskell continued to punch and kick Michael."
They drove to Chester, Mohl said, where instead of taking Partridge to his grandfather's home on Hudson Street, Haskell threw him out of the car on North Hudson, a side street.
"They left Michael alone, in the snow, with his feet and hands bound together," Mohl told the judge. He lay there for about 20 minutes, until a passer-by saw him on the roadside and called police, she said.
Mohl asked the judge to hold all four defendants without bail, as they've been held since their arrests in December, or to set high bail and bonds to ensure they return to court.
Lawyers Christopher Kleister and Randy Siper, representing Pelsang and Haskell, reserved their rights to argue for bail and will do so at upcoming bail hearings. Frank Mainiero represented Clemenza for arraignment on behalf of her lawyer, Joseph Benfante, and said he would leave bail arguments for Benfante.
Jamie Ferrara, representing Smith, argued that he and his client were trying to work out a plea deal when a notice of indictment was handed up last month. The majority of the conduct Mohl described was by Haskell and Pelsang, Ferrara argued, asking for bail of $50,000 cash $150,000 bond.
Brown ordered Haskell, Pelsang and Clemenza held without bail or bond, pending bail hearings. He set bail for Smith at $750,000 cash, $5 million insurance company bond or $6 million bond partially secured at 10 percent.

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This Is the Girl, But Who Is She?
This is Gila Golan.
However, this is also Zoshia Zavatski, Zusia Sobetzcki and Miriam Goldberg.
It's appropriate that I came across her photo in one of the L.A. Daily Mirror's "movieland mystery" photos — photographs of unidentified and sometimes unidentifiable VIPs of yesteryear. But even with the revelation that the beautiful brunette pictured was the Miss Israel-turn-actress who stared in Our Man Flint (which is the movie that Austin Powers was parodying more so than any one James Bond movie), the question lingers: Who is this woman?
Wikipedia lays it out: She was born in Poland around 1940. The exact date isn't known because she abandoned on the streets of Krakow, where she was found by a Catholic family who raised her as Zoshia Zavatski. Following the end of World War II, she eventually moved to Israel, where she took the name Zusia Sobetzcki, only to later become Miriam Goldberg. A magazine spread launched a modeling career, which ultimately won her the Miss Israel Crown in 1960. By that time, she'd changed her name a third time — to Gila Golan, "to prevent word getting back to her religiously conservative benefactors," according to Wikipedia — and it was Gila Golan who made her mainstream movie debut in the 1965 Vivien Leigh film Ship of Fools.
That's a lot of living to pack into the first twenty-five years of one life. And while I hate to impose a narrative into the life of a real, still-living person, I feel compelled to point out the strangeness in this woman, who never knew her biological family nor the name that family presumably gave her, going on to change her name three times and embark on a career as an actress, constantly taking on new names.
For the record, the character she played in Our Man Flint was named Gila, further collapsing the boundaries of who this woman was at any given point.
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Zoshia Zavatski and Zusia Sobetzcki are probably just different transliterations of the same basic name.
kidicarus222 10:58 AM
Is it just transliteration though? Or is it the difference between, say, Mary and Maria? Because there is a big difference in ditching one for the other.
And she's an investment banker now, but I suppose the arc of foundling ===> sixties hottie is a lot more interesting than the one of former Miss Israel ===> investment banker?
I get what you're saying, but that just wasn't the interesting part to me.
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How much longer will we import feeder cattle from Mexico?
Feeder cattle imports from both Mexico and Canada were down in 2016. Will the trend continue?
Last April, this column provided some focus on feeder cattle imports. The discussion noted that the focus on Mexico has become increasingly important, given increasing capability to both feed and process cattle. Those new capabilities result from SuKarne's investment in the beef industry in recent years. To that end, SuKarne's new beef operations in Mexico, with feeding capacity of nearly 300,000 head and a beef plant capable of processing more than 800,000 annually, have impacted feeder cattle imports making their way from Mexico into the U.S.
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A Walk Through the Newly Opened Tartine Manufactory
Co-founder Chad Robertson. Photo courtesy of Coffee Manufactory.
Magic loaves. Photo courtesy of Coffee Manufactory.
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Last Thursday, I walked up to the brand-new ~TARTINE MANUFACTORY~, the line snaking out of the building on day two, full of the many friends and fans of this unique San Francisco company made of some of our very best craftspeople. Tartine is one of our city's proudest culinary achievements, and now Chad Robertson and Elisabeth Prueitt and their talented team have the space they so deserve to do much more of their crafty magic. We're talking more than 5,000 square feet, flanking the Heath Ceramics factory, for everyone to stretch their wings and work comfortably and thrive (the conditions at the original bakery on Guerrero were cramped to say the least).
It's many things, but first, it's a production facility. A bakery. The massive German Heuft oven is right there, front and center. You'll be able to watch Robertson and his team of bakers, whether they're managing the loaves coming out of the oven or in the adjoining dough/fermentation room, purposefully built with plenty of windows so you can peek in. There is nothing but top-of-the-line equipment, and the team even has their own grain mills to make their own flours, so expect to see more fresh-milled loaves.
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There's a counter where you order, with a case full of tempting goods that are constantly being depleted, refreshed, and depleted again. (This is what happens when you have more than 600 people you're serving each day.) In the morning, there are items like Fontina, herb, and pepperoni biscuits, and the Danishes of your dreams, like arugula-hazelnut or ham, cheese, and mustard. There's poppy seed coffee cake and Liège waffles, and you'll note some of Prueitt's wheat-free magic in items like flax-apple muffins. Get up early for breakfast, served from 7am-11am. The savory team also offers a few delicious items including two egg sandwiches, toast (of course!), and coddled eggs with trout roe.
Lunch items and afternoon desserts come out at 11am, like the smaller-sized flatbread sandwiches ($12, salami and tapenade, or tomato and mozzarella with squash blossoms) as well as warm sandwiches like porchetta and salsa verde ($16) or a hearty ham and cheese ($12), which are both pretty substantial. (Savory chef Sam Goinsalvos, previously at Il Buco Alimentari in New York, makes a mean porchetta sandwich!) Salads range from Brentwood corn and green bean with Parmesan to Little Gem lettuce with a Caesar-like anchovy dressing (both $9). More goodies will be added in time, like Roman-style pizza, mmhmm. There are also items ready to go, so all you nearby KQED worker bees should be stoked.
Afternoon desserts include a rice pudding tart ($6.50), gateau Basque ($8), and there's even a wheat-free chocolate cake with raspberry and whipped cream. I have been happy to see the talented Alen Ramos and Carolyn Nugent (previously Quince and Cotogna) back in the mix, so to speak.
Dinner service will launch in time; there's also a bar in the corner, where you will find wine, beer, and low-ABV cocktails, plus shrub spritzes, housemade sodas, fresh juices, water kefir, and more. For now, there are beers by Regan Long from Local Brewing Co. on tap and a selection of a few wines for all-day consumption—the offerings will expand over the next few weeks as they ramp up for dinner service. I'm excited to see what wine director Vinny Eng has in store for us (he's also director of ops, so you can guess who is really bizzee right now). He is also working with beverage manager Ashley Miller, formerly of Plum and Haven (she is developing a menu of items with Liz Prueitt to incorporate the seasonal bounty of fruit and vegetables).
Launching in September is Prueitt's Tartine Cookies and Cream, which is going to be a dream ice cream counter, with a variety of offerings, including soft-serve. And gelato. And ice cream cakes. You can just imagine.
There is also a coffee bar, the Coffee Manufactory, which ended up revealing some very cool surprises. I was wondering who Tartine was going to partner with for their coffee after the Blue Bottle Coffee merger went south. And whaddya know, they applied their crafty sensibility to it and are roasting their own damn coffee. Of course. Chef-driven roasting, it's on.
I spent some time chatting with Devin Chapman, the director of coffee retail, who was formerly with Verve Coffee. Actually, a large part of the team was with Verve, including Chris Jordan, Verve's former CEO, who is COO of Coffee Manufactory, which is actually its own business. They plan to do wholesale business with some accounts, both here in SF and in LA, too, where Tartine is expanding. They will also collaborate with more chefs. (Chad and Liz were present on every cupping.)
The coffee is roasted at a co-roasting facility in Berkeley on a Loring coffee roaster, which uses indirect heat. They are doing three kinds: the 01 is espresso-focused and round, 02 filter is more fruity and floral, and 03 is origin-focused (presently 100 percent Ethiopia, Layo Teraga). You can buy a bag of the 01 for $15.50, the 02 for $15.25, and the 03 for $17.25.
There's also 00, their single-origin decaf, which, as Chapman puts it, is a nice departure from the usual hot dog water you find with decaf. Ha-ha.
The 01 espresso roast has soft, round flavors, and is balanced. Chapman tells me they are doing a longer-style pull and have dropped the pressure a bit to bring out the roundness while offering clarity of flavor. He also showed me this very cool tool they are using, the OCD: ONA Coffee Distributor—not only does it offer consistency, it's also much more sanitary. Cool. They are pulling shots off a Mavam, a handmade machine from Seattle.
As far as regular coffee, they are brewing the 02 on a ThermoPro G4—Chapman said he has been using a refractometer to carefully (read: obsessively) monitor the batches.
Chapman is working with Jeremy Brooks, director of coffee roasting, and Maja Vojnovic, director of sales and marketing, both formerly at Verve. He said their ethos is similar to what Tartine did with bread. They want to learn as much as possible, experiment, be excellent, and moreover, they want people to be happy with the product—this isn't an exercise in personal taste preferences and proclivities. Coffee service is at its own counter in the space, open Wed-Mon 7am-5pm. (Teas are from London-based Rare Tea Company.)
The room was designed by local architect Charles Hemminger, working with Los Angeles design firm Commune Design. It has 96 seats, with a variety of seating areas in the light-filled space. There are camel-toned leather-padded banquettes and booths (the leatherwork was done in the neighborhood), and the tables made of fir are so soft and beautiful—I love that there are some round tables too. The chairs were actually former school chairs and are hella cute.
You'll note the original fir beams (the building is 102 years old), and the woodwork at the bar by Peter Doolittle is beautiful (the team wanted to use as many local craftspeople as possible). A few additional design notes: the lighting is by Richard Lewis, the kitchen has Calacatta marble counters and (of course) is using Heath Ceramics for all the dishes. Even better: Heath created a special color, Tartine Teal, for the Manufactory. Gorg.
As for the original Tartine location at 600 Guerrero, expect a redesign to happen in 2017. In the fall, and leading up to and after the redesign, the original flagship will continue to offer iconic pastries and introduce new afternoon items into their repertoire.
The Manufactory team continues to evolve their offerings and will be closed on Tuesdays for recipe development, staff training, and to complete final touches to the three-year buildout.
Hours for now are Mon, Wed-Fri 7am-5pm and Sat-Sun 8am-5pm. Follow on Facebook and Instagram for updates as things continue to take shape. Congrats to the team for manifesting this massive undertaking and achievement! Keep on pushing! 595 Alabama St. at 18th St., 415-757-0007.
This Steak Is Juicy: Chef Claude Le-Tohic Partnering with Alexander's Steakhouse
Chef Claude Le-Tohic's guest chef visit at Alexander's Steakhouse in Taipei. Photo via Facebook.
After Joël Robuchon Las Vegas executive chef Claude Le-Tohic left the restaurant earlier this year, word was that he was going to be opening his own project in San Francisco. Mon dieu! I have been keeping tabs on the chef (read: social media stalking), and it looks like he's involved with … Alexander's Steakhouse!
He recently did a guest chef appearance at their location in Taipei, and when I asked if Le-Tohic is perhaps a part of Alexander's Steakhouse project coming to Union Square (the upcoming 165 O'Farrell Street project is supposed to have a fine dining component), all his publicist could confirm is: "I do not have any information on the Union Square project. I can, however, tell you that chef Claude Le Tohic is with the Alexander's Steakhouse team." And so the béchamel thickens. Stand by for more.
Alexander's Steakhouse on Aug 23, 2016
Coming Soon: The Starling, Johnny Doughnuts, Nute's, Split Bread on Polk, The Bird
One of Adam Tortosa's creations at Akiko's: caviar and potato chip sushi. Photo via Instagram.
Rice noodle and crispy pork belly tom yum from Nute's Noodle Nights. Photo via Facebook.
Split Bread's crispy chicken sandwich. Photo via Facebook.
Let's take a quick look at some upcoming projects, shall we?
After departing Russian Hill's 1760, opening chef Adam Tortosa went on to work at badass sushi HQ Akiko's while formulating plans for his next venture, which will be ~THE STARLING~, coming to Hayes Valley. Tortosa will be joining the SF wave of offering an omakase menu ($79), which will meld traditional Japanese technique and NorCal produce and seasonality (just look at this Santa Barbara uni topped with shiro dashi emulsified egg yolk). Turns out this move toward sushi isn't so left field, since his background includes an apprentice position under master sushi chef Katsu-ya Uechi. There will also be some small plates available.
According to The Starling's profile, it will have "hip-hop sensibilities." Whip whip whap. It's a tiny spot, with 10 seats at the sushi bar and 20 at tables. Look for a hopeful winter opening; it will be in a new building. 388 Fulton St. at Gough. [Via Eater.]
The same development/building is going to be getting an artisan-made doughnut and coffee shop, ~JOHNNY DOUGHNUTS~, from the Downtown San Rafael doughnut maker (which also has food trucks that visit SF). There will be both indoor and outdoor seating; look for an opening at the end of 2016. 388 Fulton St. at Gough.
Folks in Bernal should be excited that Nute Chulasuwan is taking over 903 Cortland, making her Nute's Noodle Nights pop-up a permanent thing. We'll keep you posted on the opening. [Via Scoop.] 903 Cortland Ave. at Folsom.
Russian Hill residents will soon see the former Le Petit Robert/La Boulange corner space opening in September as an all-day eatery, ~SPLIT BREAD~. The founders of Mixt (formerly Mixt Greens)—Andrew Swallow and Leslie and David Silverglide—are behind the café, which has two locations in SoMa. The cafés are more focused on lunch/sandwiches (hence the name). The plan for this location is breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with weekend brunch too.
It will offer cashless service, and guests will order at the table, instead of traditional table service. There will be 60-70 seats, outdoor seating, and a very easy takeout system too. Expect egg dishes and plenty of brunch favorites, burgers, salads, crispy chicken sandwiches, and some dinner entrées. Coffee service will be from Four Barrel Coffee, and there will be wine on tap and beer. [Via Hoodline and Eater.] 2300 Polk St. at Green.
Speaking of fried chicken sandwiches, Adriano Paganini (Beretta, Delarosa, Super Duper, Uno Dos Tacos, etc.) is launching his latest SF business, ~THE BIRD~. Based around fried chicken sandwiches made with local, free-range chicken, this SoMa eatery will be opening for lunch and dinner. It's due to open in a former Melt location in October. 15 New Montgomery St. at Market.
Tidbits: New Silver Star Deli, Mixt News, Mr. Holmes Kiosk Paused
A look at the chicken banh mi from New Silver Star Deli. Yelp photo by Albertino M.
The new look for Mixt (and shop on Kearny). Photo: © tablehopper.com.
Some news tidbits for you. The lunch crew who used to get their wonton soup at The Silver Star Deli have a new option: bahn mi and spring rolls and vermicelli bowls at ~NEW SILVER STAR DELI~. The new owners are also keeping things affordable: everything is $7.25 and under (here's the menu). 316 Pacific Ave. at Battery, 415-590-2257.
Downtown workers have probably taken note of the latest and airy ~MIXT~ (formerly Mixt Greens) location to open at 240 Kearny Street, the farthest west of the SF locations.
But here's something you may not know: Mixt is trying out a dinner promotion at their 70 Mission Street location. So for those of you who like to have a big salad for dinner, either at the shop or taking it to go, here's your opportunity. (Try one of their seasonal salads; I liked the peaches salad with roast pork loin.) You can swing by Monday through Thursday from 4pm-8pm for the later service. Since it's so close to a lot of transportation, it's pretty handy. Also, this Mixt location will continue to be open 10:30am-3pm (and is closed from 3-4pm), just so you know.
Remember when we broke the news about the ~MR. HOLMES BAKEHOUSE~ kiosk that opened just outside Workshop Cafe in the FiDi? Unfortunately, they hit a permitting snag, so the stand is on pause at the moment. Stand by for a hopeful reopening date soon. 180 Montgomery St. at Bush.
Since Pete Mrabe won't be opening his Posole project after all, the latest taker for the former Minako space will reportedly become a ~NAAN N CURRY~ very soon. Look for additions like tandoori burritos and burgers to the regular menu. [Via Mission Local.] 2154 Mission St. at Sycamore.
Closures: Market & Rye, Saha
The fried egg sandwich at Market & Rye. Photo via Facebook.
Potrero Hill residents are going to be losing ~MARKET & RYE~ at the end of August, after five years of business. Chef Ryan Scott is busy focusing on his new project opening in October, Finn Town—he just hired his chef de cuisine, Jason Raffin (previously Bin 38, Evvia in Palo Alto). Scott has other projects, too, including a new cookbook. The landlord is currently accepting applicants for potential new restaurants. 300 DeHaro St. at 16th St.
An ABC permit transfer reveals that after 11 years, ~SAHA~ in the Hotel Carlton has closed and will be replaced by something potentially called Love Crumbs. Saha owners Mohamed and Marmee Aboghanem are actually moving their restaurant to Berkeley, into the recently closed Herbivore location. Since Saha was enjoyable to many vegetarians, their new digs should hopefully be a smooth transition. 1075 Sutter St. at Larkin and 2451 Shattuck Ave. at Haste, Berkeley.
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Kseniya Bilous
Ice Dancing & different performing acts
Kseniya was born in 1989 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. She began skating when she was three years old and received training from Galina Vladimirovna Churilova between 1992 to 2004.
In 2005 Kseniya began performing with the 'Extraordinary Ice Circus Shangri-La' and has extensively traveled, visiting countries such as Uzbekistan, China, Australia, Belgium, Germany, United Arab Emirates and Korea.
Kseniya has many performing talents besides figure skating, including equilibrist on a monocycle, aerial kites, gymnastics and acrobatics.
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Pair Skating
Oleg was born in St Petersburg in 1984 and began skating at the age of four, From 1988-2000 he took part in many Junior International Competitions and in 2000, won the Cup of Russia.
During his professional career he skated with the "St Petersburg Ice Theatre" and was a soloist in their production of "The Wizard of Oz".
Oleg joined the Russian Ice Stars in 2007.
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Teams 365 #128: What Inspires You?
Our quote yesterday recognizes the importance of leaders inspiring their team. Today's quote comes from the Conversation Sparker Cards(TM) I've created for team leaders, trainers, coaches and other facilitators.
Where is the one place where you can go for inspiration.
As we know, creativity and innovation is often created in a place of inspriration, or even a place of pause. Creativity and innovation is muted when we are multi-tasking, operating in crisis mode or not switching off.
With the weekend coming up where can you tap into inspiration?


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Covid-19: The Expert View – the CFO's guide to coping with the crisis
Our chief financial officer tells us cash is king, HMRC isn't as scary as you think – and how to keep calm and lend on
To those outside the finance sector, £330bn sounds like a very large number indeed. But since the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, announced a package of support equivalent to 15% of GDP to help UK businesses struggling with the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic, companies have asked an increasing number of questions about how effective the measures will prove to be.
BOOST&Co's chief financial officer, Edd Hatfield, is one of the people at the sharp end – continuing with business as "normal", as the lender's activity continues uninterrupted, while also investigating which of the government's initiatives could provide the most valuable help. "Everyone is experiencing some sort of impact, and dealing with it isn't easy, but it's certainly interesting," he says.
Government must use specialist lenders
Hatfield's concern is for BOOST&Co's portfolio companies, not just the lender itself, and his key message is that the British Business Bank must receive further funding from the government, for specialist lenders to distribute to SMEs (a survey published by the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association on 26 March found that the impact of the crisis on 45% of respondents is already "very severe").
The Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) is being distributed by accredited lenders including major banks, but Hatfield observes that banks tend not to pass on cuts in interest rates; indeed, MPs have warned them not to profiteer from the crisis by charging excessive rates on loans (reportedly between 7% and 12%, compared with the Bank of England's base rate of 0.1%, a record low imposed by new governor Andrew Bailey earlier this month). "Funding banks is not the way to go, because they are self-interested; we learned this from the 2008 financial crisis," he says.
He argues that specialist lenders such as BOOST&Co are better placed to distribute funds because banks do not have "the appetite, the staff, the design or the means to get this money to the companies that need it". Large institutions have unsuitable systems and lack expertise in SMEs, whereas "we have the staff to make these deals and get this money into the workplace much more quickly. The only way to do this is through existing channels, using the infrastructure and relationships that have been built over time. That's why we're here," he says.
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BOOST&Co is not currently among the 40 accredited lenders providing CBILS. Our fastest way to provide funding is via receivables financing. Our funding partner Growth Lending Limited operates under three brands: GapCap Limited, for SMEs needing single invoice financing or invoice financing facilities up to £5m; KX Media Capital (formerly FastPay UK), for media companies requiring invoice financing facilities up to £10m; and BOOST&Co's accounts receivable product, for SMEs needing financing facilities of up to £15m.
These brands make their own decisions, but they are part of the same group and can all help with access to short-term financing (typically one to two weeks for simple facilities). Please contact Jack Trowbridge to discuss your options.
Log your calls and make a payment plan
Part of the frustration for companies in need of funding stems from the fact that a number of the government's schemes are open for applications but do not have confirmed timeframes for when the money will be received. For example, CBILS, which aims to provide facilities of up to £5m to UK SMEs, was announced in the chancellor's March budget, but cash is not expected to be available until April.
Given this gap, it's time to take the initiative, Hatfield says – particularly if you are struggling to get through to HMRC ("our accountants are phoning on behalf of five companies, with five phones on the table ringing at the same time", he says). His advice? "If you get cut off, keep a log of every time you called, how long it took and what happened. Meanwhile, work out how you're going to pay your liabilities over time and make your own payment plan. Then, when you get through to HMRC, you can work it out from there."
HMRC isn't as scary as you think
Having finally managed to speak to HMRC, Hatfield can offer reassurance in regard to its approach. "It was the easiest thing I've ever done in my life," he says. "They want to know when you're likely to be able to pay, but they're also aware that no one knows the answer to that. Anyone can have a payment holiday, as long as they have a legitimate reason, and the pandemic certainly provides that – but the crucial thing is that they want you to make a gesture, not to pay nothing.
"So the message is: no matter how long you're on hold for, call HMRC. They're not as scary as you think; they're so busy that they just want to put something on their system to note that they'll speak to you again in three months. It's good to have the discussion, and it's not a difficult one, so I think everyone should do it," he says.
Remember that cash is king – and be kind
Hatfield emphasises that "cash is king – that's crucial", echoing BOOST&Co principal Richard Hallett's advice for struggling companies to monitor their cash flow every day. "What's strange for an accountant is that your focus is normally on profits, but at the moment, that's not the biggest concern. This is the new mindset – cash is the only concern for all firms right now," Hatfield says. "Cash is everything because the one thing you have to do is pay your staff, and reassure them by paying them on time."
It is often said that a crisis brings out the best in people, but widespread panic-buying of toilet roll shows that it can also bring out the worst. Hatfield has spoken to a number of BOOST&Co's partners and suppliers since the UK went into lockdown, and cites two differing approaches to rented office space: one company offered to absorb the cost if he decided to stop paying for membership during the pandemic, but another insisted on continuing to charge for its services, even though using its building would contravene government guidelines.
"In a crisis, you learn which people will work with you and share the burden, and those are the people you want to continue to work with," Hatfield says. "But it works both ways: we need to be that type of positive, understanding company, too. We have to work with our portfolio companies and be even friendlier than usual to the ones who are struggling to pay us – and that's what we're doing," he says.
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Looking to the future, do the government's measures have the potential to mitigate the economic impacts of the crisis? "I think what they've already done has gone above and beyond," Hatfield says. "It's amazing how much money is available, but it's a tricky situation. The government has to make announcements about financial support to calm people's nerves, because if it doesn't, the result is chaos – a massive downward spiral in consumer confidence and an enormous crash. So, you have to allay people's fears, but I wouldn't like to be the one writing the legislation on it."
Of course, the public-health emergency is at the forefront of the UK's response to the coronavirus outbreak, but Hatfield is thinking positively about how lenders such as BOOST&Co can help British businesses in their hour of need. "We live in interesting times," he says. "It's an unprecedented situation, but you have to keep calm and lend on."
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Shephard, Chris
Exeter, England
A product of Exeter City's Centre of Excellence, Shephard signed his first professional deal for the club in June 2007.
He was at Exeter City, with the U-15's developement squad at the Centre of Excellence in 2003/04, and with the U-16's developement squad at the Centre of Excellence in 2004/05.
After playing youth football for Exmouth side, Brixington Blues, Shephard was a regular scorer for the Exeter City youth teams, and made a number of appearances for the reserves,
He made his first team debut as a substitute against Grimsby Town in October 2008.
He was loaned to Weston-Super-Mare in 2009-10 and then Salisbury City in March 2010. Shephard returned to Salisbury for a second spell on loan in February 2011.
Making his first League start against Stevenage in the opening game of the 2010-11 season, he netted his first senior goal three days later against Yeovil Town in the Carling Cup.
Finding first team opportunities limited in the following season, Shepherd joined Bath City on loan in January 2012.
Shepherd was released by the Grecians at the end of the 2011/12 season and joined Eastborne Borough. He played nearly 60 games for Eastborne, leaving them in 2014, to join Weymouth. In three seasons he made 96 apperances scoring 25 goals.
In the Summer of 2017, he joined Salisbury Town.
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Raven Software Employees are Walking Off
0	December 6, 2021 2:40 PM	by	Bobby Pashalidis
Raven Software is the studio behind Call of Duty: Warzone and late on Friday, a dozen quality assurance contract workers were let go from their positions at Activision Blizzard.
Today Raven QA, as a department, is demonstrating in protest of the layoffs on Friday. Raven QA's team is essential to the studio's day-to-day operations.
— ABetterABK 💙 ABK Workers Alliance (@ABetterABK) December 6, 2021
Today, employees are staging a walkout over the news. "The Raven QA team and other members of Raven's staff will be walking out with a singular demand," Raven Software employees tell the press. "Every member of the QA team, including those terminated on Friday, must be offered full-time positions."
An employee at Raven Software said the staff was told and promised a pay restructuring to increase wages. Instead, on Friday employees reveal they were being let go from their positions. Instead of meeting with contractors from December 3 to December 8, these employees were told they were being let go or promoted and those who are promoted get a $1.50/hour raise as well as benefits and bonuses. Those who weren't were let go. Many of these employees also had to wait over the weekend to learn which of the two categories they were in.
Raven's walkout is a statement that the twelve people let go deserve full-time jobs and wrote about it.
"In response to the events of Friday, the Raven QA team and other members of Raven's staff will be walking out with a singular demand: Every member of the QA team, including those terminated on Friday, must be offered full-time positions. Those participating in this demonstration do so with the continued success of the studio at the forefront of their mind.
The Raven QA department is essential to the day-to-day functioning of the studio as a whole. Terminating the contracts of high-performing testers in a time of consistent work and profit puts the health of the studio at risk. Additionally, these actions go directly against the positive culture that Raven has created over the years. The end goal of this walkout is to ensure the continued growth of Raven as a studio and to foster a positive community for everyone who works there."
In response, Activision Blizzard had this to say on the matter, "We are converting approximately 500 temporary workers to full-time employees in the coming months. Unfortunately, as part of this change, we also have notified 20 temporary workers across studios that their contracts would not be extended."
Activision Blizzard is currently facing multiple lawsuits from the government and employees. Each month has seen the situation go from bad to worse, most recently a report from the Wall Street Journal painted a picture of Bobby Kotick's blind eye to the ongoing happening at his company.
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by	Bobby Pashalidis	- Dec 6, 2021
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State Police charged a Middletown man with DUI after his vehicle ran off the road and hit a tree in the 2900 block of Schoolhouse Road in Londonderry Township at about 12:45 a.m. March 31.
Police upon arriving found Brian Scott Brennan, 53, of the 1000 block of Spruce Street, sitting in the driver's seat of his blue 2012 Chevrolet Silverado, according to arrest papers police filed with District Judge David Judy.
Brennan showed signs of being impaired from alcohol during field sobriety tests. A preliminary breath test also read positive for alcohol, police said. Brennan refused to submit to a blood test, police said.
Brennan was charged with DUI, disregarding a single lane of traffic, driving at safe speed, and careless driving. His preliminary hearing is set for April 29.
A Middletown man was charged with DUI after a borough police officer saw the man speeding and driving erratically through the Giant Food store parking lot at 450 E. Main St. at about 6:40 p.m. March 16.
William Redden Oliver Houck III, 21, of the first block of Peony Avenue, was pulled over in a 2015 black Dodge Dart sedan at the intersection of Conewago Street and Fair Avenue, police said in arrest papers filed with District Judge David Judy.
A probable cause search of Houck's car by police uncovered two sandwich bags containing suspected marijuana, and a glass pipe with burnt marijuana residue, police said.
A lab analysis of blood drawn from Houck at the county booking center showed he had the active ingredient of marijuana in his system at the time, police said.
Houck was charged with DUI, use/possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana, reckless driving, and driving and unregistered vehicle.
His preliminary hearing is set for April 29.
A Middletown man was charged with aggravated assault after borough police said he resisted arrest when they tried to pull him over on a traffic stop.
Police in arrest papers filed with District Judge David Judy said they began following a green 2002 Chevrolet Tahoe driven by Joseph Maneri, 52, of the 300 block of East High Street, after police said the vehicle was observed speeding eastbound on West Main Street at about 12:30 a.m. April 2.
Police followed the vehicle to Maneri's residence, where Maneri got out but refused to return to his vehicle, police said.
Police said Maneri resisted being handcuffed and at one point elbowed the arresting officer out of the way. The arresting officer said that Maneri showed signs of being impaired from alcohol.
A second police officer was needed to assist getting Maneri into the police car as he kept resisting arrest, police said. Maneri refused to submit to a blood test at the county booking center, police said.
Maneri was arraigned before Judy on April 2 and charged with aggravated assault, resisting arrest, DUI, obstruction of the administration of law/other government function, and driving an unregistered vehicle.
He was released after posting $5,000 bail through a bondsman. His preliminary hearing is set for April 15.
State Police charged an Elizabethtown man with DUI after police approached him while he was in his vehicle parked on the shoulder of Route 283 eastbound in Londonderry Township at 11:39 p.m. March 23.
Police in arrest papers filed with District Judge David Judy said that Scott Allen White, 48, of the 3500 block of Old Hershey Road, showed signs of being impaired from alcohol and could not successfully pass field sobriety tests given at the scene.
Police said White admitted to smoking "medical marijuana" before driving and had also snorted heroin earlier that day.
A search of White's vehicle uncovered five white colored bags containing heroin, four packages of Suboxone, 10 blue glassine bags containing heroin residue, and three hypodermic needles, police said.
White submitted to a blood draw at the county booking center. Lab results are pending, police said.
White is charged with DUI of a controlled substance, illegal parking on a bridge/tunnel, and driving under suspension. His preliminary hearing is set for April 29.
Middletown police charged a borough man after police say he hit a woman during a fight while he was intoxicated from alcohol, and then drove away.
Police in arrest papers said that James Edwin Dietz Jr., 45, of the first block of Caravan Court, pushed the woman onto a couch and smacked her across the chest. The dispute was reported at 8:15 p.m. March 28. The woman also suffered a small injury to the ring finger of her right hand, police said.
Dietz then fled the scene, driving off in a maroon Dodge Dakota, police said.
Dietz is charged with simple assault and harassment. He is awaiting setting of a preliminary hearing.
A Lancaster County man faces drug possession charges after police pulled him over for driving 91 mph eastbound on the Pennsylvania Turnpike at mile marker 251.4 in Londonderry Township at 8:02 p.m. March 15.
The posted speed where Kyle Ray Kohl, 18, of the 100 block of East Main Street, was driving a 2005 black Volvo sedan is 70, police said in arrest papers filed with District Judge David Judy.
Police searched the car after smelling marijuana. Police found a silver metal grinder and a red glass pipe. A bag containing about 48 grams of a substance that field tested positive for marijuana was found in the trunk, police said.
Kohl was charged with possession of a small amount of marijuana for personal use, two counts of use/possession of drug paraphernalia, and exceeding the posted speed by 21 mph. His preliminary hearing is set for May 13.
Middletown police charged a borough man after they said he assaulted another man in a fight in the 300 block of Ridge Avenue at 12:39 a.m. March 26.
Police in arrest papers filed with District Judge David Judy said that Walter Anthony Veiga II, 29, of the Ridge Avenue address, assaulted the man and stole his iPhone, medical marijuana, and vape pen.
The victim had visible signs of an assault on his hands and face, and possibly a broken rib, police said. An ambulance took him to the hospital.
Veiga was charged with simple assault, harassment, disorderly conduct, theft by unlawful taking, and public drunkenness. His preliminary hearing is set for April 29.


It is nice to look at the original grants on this project ($50,000), Original Grant for the Anne Frank project, I think that The Islands of Enlightenment project really went beyond what was expected of them. I like it when someone just takes the "bull by the horns" and runs with it, exceeding expectations.
Obviously Andrew Wheelock did just that!
What stands out for me?
1) I need a $50,000 - $100,000, not line-itemed, grant with me as the designated administrator/controller. When dealing with grants you learn the difference real quick between "line-itemed" and "not line-itemed," "not line-itemed" is sometimes called a block grant.
2) I especially like the linking of the Anne Frank project to the book, that you need to read the book before, and during, the immersion into the virtual world, I can see using that in a project, Introduction to Chicano/a Studies, with the Chicano/a representation in Comic Books if I could create a world for maybe four characters, representing possibly four stereotypes, and you could have the world divided into four parts, (kinda like Disneyland) and you could interact with the characters and get their point of view of how they were depicted and you would have to read the comic books.
3) This would also work for the Anthropology of Folklore[ class if you coupled it with say, video and books, of a folklore AND a fairytale, It is very difficult to get students to understand the difference between a fairytale and a folktale. If they could talk to the characters, see where they lived and read information regarding the story . . . take them on the journey of the story, they would understand the baseline differences.
How do others think these would work or how would it work in your classes?
Second Life allows for a fully immersive literary experience, something that has been missing from the teaching of reading and literature. Yes, imagination is all important, and it has served humanity well for centuries - BUT, Second Life and other virtual environments are now allowing us to take this experience to the next level. Required? Absolutely not. Desirable? Absolutely!
As an teacher of literature, I think the Anne Frank project can be modified to accomodate a wide range of different texts. It would be amazing to have my students build the world(s) themselves, but I know the cost would make the idea for my school district.
I have to admit, I'm struggling. Struggling to see how these wonderful experiences, both the rgMOOC and the Anne Frank site and the Islands of Enlightenment can fit into my courses. For one, I'm feeling tired already. Have been working so hard this summer and still have so far to go with 3DGL. I'm highly motivated to doing it though so I'm going to see it through in the hopes that kids will be excited this Fall.
So as far as something like these incredible experiences I can't imagine myself even thinking of undertaking anything even remotely that expansive unless I was part of a team with a nice grant, developers, designers, dreamers, gamers, teachers, etc. I would beta test anything that has physical science, environmental science, or life science aspects in my 6th and 8th grade classes in a heartbeat. Anything that looks like the rgMOOC course, the Anne Frank world, or the Islands of Enlightenment site excites me and would excite so many of my students that I would be crazy to miss an opportunity to bring that into my classroom.
Maybe that's why I'm feeling a bit low right now. Seeing all this great stuff makes me want it for my kids. Yet I can't have it. So I'm going to continue to focus on 3DGL for this coming year and if anything comes my way that's already developed that I can offer my kids I'm all over it! But I know my limitations and I cannot create or build anything like the Anne Frank world or a Science experience that reads like a mystery or like a problem needing to be solved. I'd love to be able to do that but I can't do it and certainly not alone. It would be cheap and kids would tire of it quickly if not be bored with it outright. And how many iterations of kids would it take before I had something worth having kids actually do?!?
So at this point I can't see how to adapt any of what I'm seeing into Science. Heck, I'm even struggling trying to find out how to use Minecraft in Science and that seems like the easiest one to integrate. The fact that the laws of physics don't apply really bothers me. I even heard today of a study that was done on ecosystems where a class cleared a natural place and built a town keeping track of the animals and how building impacted them. Personally, I don't trust the Minecraft world to simulate real life since it can't even simulate gravity correctly!
So I'd love to see how Science teachers are using these types of virtual environments cause I'm at a loss.
I totally know how you feel. No one could create something like the Anne Frank MOOC alone, even if they had all the right skills (and that's rare to find in one person). I find seeing these things slightly frustrating as well, because I'd love to work on something like this, but have rarely had the chance (and none of the stuff I worked on ever "made it"). Having funding and colleagues is a big part of being able to do something like this, and that's not always available for everyone.
I don't know if it's any good, but you might check out Games for Science. I found a bit back doing some random Google searches. While not as impressive as the Anne Frank MOOC, they do seem to take "real science" into consideration.
Something else you might consider is having your students *make* games about science. They probably won't be amazing games, but the students will have to learn the subject matter pretty thoroughly in order to make a game. There are a number of low-barrier-to-entry game making tools out there that you/students could learn pretty quickly. I like Scratch, and I have colleagues who've used this with elementary and middle school students.
Thanks, blueAppaloosa, I'll check out the Games for Science site. I have tried having kids create their own games and even with Scratch they don't have the perseverance to learn it enough to even create a basic animation. I had too many kids give up. I'll try again as an option instead of an assignment. Then those who are willing or already know a bit about Scratch can go for it.
I really enjoyed exploring the Anne Frank world. I has been a while since I read the book but I did find the experience of seeing the house and street "brought it to life". I have to admit by being a little put off by navigation problems when the camera was on the other side of the wall. Is that something we just live with or was I doing something wrong?
Parts that surprised me were the museum and reflection area. I found the museum exhibits more engaging than the Powerpoint slides that they basically were - they were spaced so that I felt like I was walking around a real museum. The reflection areas with candles I found quite moving. The reflections that the kids wrote felt as though they were more considered as a result of being attached to an actual candle.
As far as possibilities in my class (chemistry) go, I can imagine an application as a microscopic world that players could fly among the atoms in but if Anne Frank world cost $50k, I imagine a chemistry simulator would be prohibitively expensive.
I did too, read the book, saw the movie, you are correct navigation problems are just something we have to live with till programming gets more robust.
I think the spacing of the museum exhibits added to the feel of a real museum. I remember seeing the Titanic Exhibit in Denver as well as the King Tut Exhibit in San Francisco. In real life we are used to exhibits being spaced. It feels familiar to us.
Yes, I can see your chemistry class and flying among the atoms, and yes, expense holds us all back, I expect that there were a lot of what I call (think it is actually a term) "in kind" contributions, that is where other contribute not money but time, equipment, space, food, whatever isn't covered in the grant.
I work on contract for a game company that actually runs gaming camps, and even with a "discount" I couldn't get a game built. Trying to talk the president, and a friend of mine, into having some interns build a "Cultural Anthropology" game that I can use, no success so far. . .


When I entered the workforce in the '80s, impersonating men was the working women's rally call. We may not have stated it aloud but we sure did in our scarves tied in bows and shoulder pads. Unfortunately the image will forever be embedded in my mind.
Thankfully we have come a long way baby in our work fashion but we still have a way to go when it come to salaries. I knew this intellectually but it wasn't until a dinner with college friends that I truly grasped it viscerally. There we were, a group of professional women 20 odd years out of college and most with graduate degrees. Courageously one of my friends shared that she recently discovered a male colleague was making $30,000 more in salary than she. $30,000! We may hear the statistics of women earning 77 cents to every dollar men earn, but somehow it doesn't hit the gut quite the same as when a friend shares the painful experience. $30,000! That's half a year's college tuition. That's a car. That's the down payment for a home. That's an improved retirement since 401K limits and social security benefits are based on salary.
"Did anyone negotiate her salary?" I asked the group.
Almost two years later and I don't know if my friend ever negotiated a salary adjustment. We've let the personal aspect of the subject stay personal though it was the impetus for me to learn, write, coach, and advocate for women to actively negotiate their salaries. In the process I have learned that it is critical to start negotiating your salary with your first job. Young women who do not negotiate their salary can lose more than $500,000 during their career. Doesn't that make the $30,000 seem small?
The negotiation starts when a company posts a job without a salary. It continues with salary history and desired income questions.
Do NOT supply your salary history (leave blank or enter 0 if needed) or desired income (answer "competitive salary").
Research the market value of the job(s) you want before you apply. Salary.com and trade associations are great resources.
The initial salary offered is NEVER the highest amount available.
Show excitement for the job but continue the negotiation by stating the salary seems low based on the job's current market value.
And for us ladies, who are past our first job, remember it's never too late to learn a new trick. You too can use the same information for your next raise or new job.
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I LOVE what you have to say, here, Katie. I remember well those shoulder-padded blouses, those hideous bows, usually old-world polyester that disallowed perspiration as you sat there not negotiating your salary….


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Santa Lucía es una localidad del municipio de Ponferrada, situado en El Bierzo, en la provincia de León, (España).

Situación

Se encuentra situada en el Valle de Santa Lucía ,que forma parte del Valle del Oza, en la falda del pico de la Aquiana.

Población

En el INE de 2021 no tiene ningún habitante censado en la localidad.

Localidades de Valdueza
Localidades de Ponferrada
Despoblados de la provincia de León

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The Fo Guang Buddhist Temple of Boston (FGBTB) () is a branch of the Fo Guang Shan international  Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhist order. It is the first temple that Fo Guang Shan Temple established in Massachusetts.

In 1990 Ven. Hsin Ting and Hui Kai were invited by Boston Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to give Dharma talks and subsequently Venerable Hui Chuan was invited to give a talk on Humanistic Buddhism.  In 1997, Venerable Master Hsing Yun, the founder of FGBT Boston gave a public talk in Billerica with more than 300 people attended and from there they established the Buddha's Light International Association Boston sub-chapter.  In 1998 Fo Guang Shan Temple purchased a restaurant located on Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, in between Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to propagate Dharma in Boston. This place was name as the Fo Guang Shan Triple Buddha's Center (also known as Greater Boston Buddhist Cultural Center (International Buddhist Progress Society)) which in Chinese means the "Harvard, Fo Guang Shan and Buddha's Light Center" and the opening ceremony was held on January 3, 1999.  The center was operated as a teahouse and a bookstore, however, the center also includes all kind of interest classes including reading group, English meditation class, Children meditation class, and Dharma with Dinner session  etc.  The center services all range of local communities, especially the professors and students from Harvard University and MIT.  The center also had many interactions with the local Buddhist communities and religious groups.  Due to the growth of the members and also the limitation of the venue, in 2014 Fo Guang Buddhist Temple of Boston moved shifted to 711 Concord Ave, Cambridge, MA 01238.

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NyARToolkit5 for Java/Processing/C#/Unity was released!
NyARToolkit project is developing a vision-based Augmented reality library that based on ARToolKit.
Major products are ARToolKit compatible library that run on managed environment, such as Java / C #. In addition, the development environments of Unity or Processing package are published.
Current NyARToolkit libraries has the ARToolKit Professional(ARToolKit5) APIs.
Those softwares are be available at LGPLv3 . Some utilities are be available at the MIT license.
For Android by Norituna-san and Japan Android Users group.


Welcome to the official Web page for the Town of Pittsford. In this site you will be able to obtain a wide range of information about our community, our history and our government. It has been designed to provide information to individuals looking to move to Pittsford as well as provide a wide variety of information to our residents. We look forward to your feedback to help us with future changes and improvements to the site.
This Web site is part of the Pittsford Town Board's effort to provide open communication and access to information by our residents. Through this Web site, we will be able to provide you with direct access to information about issues and services at your leisure.


The yellow trace is the /CE signal on the WD1770 The purple trace is the z80 /RD signal. The blue trace is the WD1770's R/!W, high=read, low=write (so this is a read cycle).
So contrary to what I said previously, the /RD glitch does get as far as the WD1770, on my EP64 anyway.
Probably the old components need more time for recognize the signal changes. The Wiznet are modern and too fast then it is can react for this spikes.
Wow! It's been nearly 2 years since I first saw glitches on /RD, so here's an update with my current knowledge about it, finishing with a fix!
1. All EPs have some glitches on /RD but they are often too small to cause a problem. The glitches need to be >0.8V to cause a problem.
2. EP64s with ISSUE 4 PCBs are the worst offenders and often do not work with add-ons like the Microteam card.
3. zozo has seen a couple of ISSUE 6s which also do not work with add-ons.
4. Although /RD is the main glitchy signal, on a "bad" EP64 some other z80 signals glitch too, eg. /MREQ, /IORQ and even address lines.
5. Original EXDOS cards are better than most add-ons but even so some ISSUE 4s do not work with EXDOS cards.
6. Some EXDOS cards (~10% ?) have a glitch-suppressing resistor and capacitor on /RD going to the EPROM. This is a factory-fitted mod: they are all identical and professionally done. There are two revs of EXDOS PCBs: ISS 1 and ISS B and the mod has been seen on both versions. Maybe done when returned by the customer as "faulty"?
Yellow is the z80 /RD, cyan is after passing through a LS gate, and blue is after glicth suppression.
Here cyan is after passing through an HCT gate instead of LS.
Purple is EPNET's enable signal to the LS245 ie. it starts driving the EP's data bus.
What I have noticed is that the glitch seems to be caused by enabling the LS245! It always starts just after _CEN, and is always there as far as I have seen. Other EP /RD cycles, not to EPNET, have the glitch in various places within the /RD cycle, quite possibly just as they too start driving the data bus.
This is a particularly bad example, often I have seen 2 or 3 cycles of oscillations getting smaller each cycle.
*** The Fix ***I now have EPNET working fine on a "bad" ISSUE4 EP64, with one of its RAM segments in page 0 and an interrupt routine in ROM, so plenty of cycles!
I apply the same fix as the EXDOS mod, but to more than just /RD, and to everything on the card, not just the ROM. The fix is a resistor inline with the signal, followed by a capacitor to ground, forming a low-pass filter (who said this was digital electronics? ). The EXDOS fix uses a 75R resistor and a 220R capacitor, but as 75R is a strange value I have been using 100R and 220pF successfully.
So /RD and /WR first pass through a LS OR gate, then the de-glitching, and then another OR gate to ensure a sharp edge. This is passed to ROM, RAM, the network module, the Compact Flash interface and of course the '245.
There are two lots of memory decoding: one for I/O addresses and one for memory addresses. Rather than de-glitch every z80 signal there is one set of de-glitching on the output of each of the address decoders so that the /CS signals seen by everything on the card including the '245 is clean. Thus if there are glitches on the address lines this won't affect the '245 so won't cause more glitching, but might be seen by the memory. Hopefully by the end of the /RD cycle when the z80 samples the data bus the glitch will be over and the output stable - I think this is what the whole of the EP operation depends on!
My original problem long ago was that the network module saw 2 reads due to the glitch, but now both /RD and /CS is deglitched this does not happen.
As I used a higher value of resistor than the EXDOS mod, I thought I would see how low a value I could get away with. The answer: 0! Using no resistor, there is still a small glitch present but <0.8V.
But this means it would be easy to apply to other add-ons such as the Microteam card: it is far easier to just solder a capacitor to ground than to cut PCB tracks etc to put a resistor inline with the signal. So with my "bad" EP64 and a non-working Microteam card I tried a 220pF capacitor on /RD and it still did not work. I added another on /MREQ and then everything worked!
This isn't a great long-term solution because it is modifying the z80 signal itself, it really needs to pass through a buffer first. If 2 cards did this there would be 440pF on the signal...but experimentally I have had 1000pF AND 100R on /RD and it still worked! (at 4MHz anyway!). So for EPNET I am sticking with a resistor and capacitor. I do not yet know if it works at 8MHz or 10MHz.
It might even be possible to "fix" a "bad" EP64 this way but I haven't tried it on mine because a "bad" EP64 is useful to me for EPNET testing!
Bruce, did you try to use ferrite beads through the /RD line instead of the RC filter ?
No I didn't, I just copied the original EXDOS fix but applied it wider (ie. to more signals than just /RD, and to more components than just the ROM).
Would there likely to be an advantage over using a RC filter?
I think, it can be interesting to try them if the signals aren't delayed, but I do not have the knowledge.
To be honest talk of ferrite beads takes me out of my "comfort zone" - I would have no idea how to calculate the sort of value I need. But as they are cheap I might have a play for my own education. Thanks for the suggestion!
Impedance of ferrite bead grows with frequency.
We are interested in a frequency in the range of 1 to 2.5 MHz (for CPU clocked from 4 to 10 MHz).
As I wrote, I have not tried this solution yet. Need to do a trial.
Ferrite beads have two impedance values: for 25 and 100 MHz. If more steep growth then better.
Bruce! Where you added the capacitors to the MICROTEAM card? On the external (coming from the machine) RD/MREQ or on the internal signals (after the IC13A, IC12B)?
I added them on the external /RD and /MREQ - because it was temporary for me and this was an easy place (there is a suitable ground point right near where /RD comes in ). But a better permanent fix would be on the internal signals so you're not actually changing the EP's signals! Also you might need one on /IORQ if you're going to use the floppy interface - I was just trying it to see if it fixed the RAM test failures (it did!).
I will be very interested to know if it works for you!
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This is a complete siterip of all videos and picture sets featured on Madden's official website that was published year 2011! Year 2011 is a smaller rip, Madden has just re-designed her website and the old content from previous work was lost that's why there's not many videos in this siterip.
Madden use to look a lot different from what she does now, she's always been very fit but back in 2011 she looked fit and healthy! There's a total of 25 picture sets, 11 camshows and 13 high definition videos with Madden from year 2011 in this siterip.
Check the previews below, and keep your eyes peeled for our Madden year 2012 siterip coming soon! Enjoy!
By any chance will you post this soon?
Meet Madden Picture Sets & Videos Year 2016 Complete Siterip?


The River City Rodders Car Club is an organization of classic, street rod cars and trucks and original finds, from our community of Napoleon, Ohio and the surrounding area. We love to show off, brag and sometimes dazzle the eyes of many. We also love to restore, while preserving the beauty of some of the many vehicles that might be discarded. We as car enthusiasts enjoy the arts in different avenues, but all work together to preserve the past.
In this aspect the River City Rodders Car Club have a lot in common with the "Save the John L. Johnson Auditorium".
This worthwhile community center and performing arts facility is a huge part of Napoleon and its talented people.
We support and endorse this valuable project to save this historic auditorium, and to keep the arts alive.
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Questo elenco riporta i responsabili dell'amministrazione civica del comune di Campo Freddo (1797-1884) e di Campo Ligure (dal 1884 ad oggi) nella città metropolitana di Genova.

Campo Freddo

Repubblica Ligure (1797-1805)

Primo Impero francese (1805-1815)

Repubblica di Genova (1814-1814)

Feudo Imperiale di Campo Freddo (1814-1814)

Regno di Sardegna (1815-1861)

Regno d'Italia (1861-1946)

Campo Ligure

Regno d'Italia (1870-1946)

Repubblica Italiana (1946-oggi)

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Voci correlate
 Campo Ligure
 Sindaco (ordinamento italiano)
 Podestà (fascismo)
 Commissario prefettizio

Collegamenti esterni

Campo Ligure
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