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AWS Contracts
AWS Vacancies
The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 20 January 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Rank change year-on-year -1 +14 +21
Contract jobs citing AWS 6,931 9,084 6,623
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.24% 36.69% 36.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,808 6,536 4,889
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +2.38% +4.90% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 17 21
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -14.11% -2.07% -2.09%
% change year-on-year -14.89% +0.41% +5.70%
AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.
All Cloud Skills
Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 21,495 24,758 18,211
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year +18.57% -9.39% +1.64%
% change year-on-year +14.29% - -
Job postings citing AWS as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing AWS.
The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing AWS over the 6 months to 20 January 2020.
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS.
The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing AWS over the 6 months to 20 January 2020.
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the UK over the 6 months to 20 January 2020. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
England -1 6,411 £550 +4.76% 3,139
London +2 3,693 £553 +0.50% 1,521
UK excluding London +4 3,115 £500 - 1,840
North of England +3 914 £500 +0.10% 555
South East -5 670 £500 -4.76% 358
North West +5 510 £500 - 337
South West +2 415 £525 +5.00% 195
Midlands -3 404 £500 +5.26% 263
Scotland +14 322 £500 +5.26% 126
Yorkshire 0 308 £490 +8.89% 168
East of England +4 297 £500 - 245
West Midlands 0 266 £513 +2.50% 178
East Midlands -4 138 £460 +2.22% 84
North East -5 97 £428 -14.50% 50
Wales +4 94 £490 -6.67% 87
Northern Ireland +6 11 £475 +11.76% 12
For the 6 months to 20 January 2020, IT contractor jobs citing AWS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for AWS.
1 2,776 (40.05%) Azure
2 2,757 (39.78%) Agile Software Development
3 2,485 (35.85%) DevOps
4 2,040 (29.43%) Python
5 1,835 (26.48%) Java
6 1,613 (23.27%) Docker
7 1,409 (20.33%) Kubernetes
8 1,335 (19.26%) Terraform
9 1,301 (18.77%) Linux
10 1,291 (18.63%) Jenkins
11 1,261 (18.19%) Microservices
12 1,222 (17.63%) Web Services
13 1,217 (17.56%) Finance
14 1,134 (16.36%) SQL
15 1,133 (16.35%) GCP
16 1,060 (15.29%) Ansible
17 1,050 (15.15%) JavaScript
18 1,009 (14.56%) Security Cleared
21 867 (12.51%) Serverless
23 792 (11.43%) Node.js
25 760 (10.97%) Software Engineering
27 729 (10.52%) Migration
30 710 (10.24%) AWS Lambda
1 329 (4.75%) Apache Spark
2 315 (4.54%) Confluence
3 236 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
4 184 (2.65%) Apache
5 126 (1.82%) Tomcat
6 115 (1.66%) nginx
7 104 (1.50%) SharePoint
9 80 (1.15%) OpenStack
10 69 (1.00%) Cloud Foundry
11 62 (0.89%) JBoss
13 49 (0.71%) Skype for Business
14 48 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
15 45 (0.65%) MS Exchange
16 43 (0.62%) Jupyter
17 41 (0.59%) Jetty
18 40 (0.58%) SAS
19 34 (0.49%) CMS
3 26 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.13%) XMetaL
7 4 (0.058%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.043%) GNU Octave
8 3 (0.043%) InDesign
8 3 (0.043%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.029%) Adobe Premiere
9 2 (0.029%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 22 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.19%) PolarLake
4 12 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
4 12 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 11 (0.16%) Markit EDM
5 11 (0.16%) SAP ERP
6 8 (0.12%) assyst
6 8 (0.12%) Oracle BPM
7 7 (0.10%) Adobe Campaign
8 6 (0.087%) Distributed Ledger
8 6 (0.087%) Eikon
8 6 (0.087%) Oracle Cash Management
8 6 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.072%) Salesforce.com CRM
9 5 (0.072%) SAP S/4HANA
10 4 (0.058%) Oracle Applications
10 4 (0.058%) SAP CRM
10 4 (0.058%) SAP IS-U
2 1,133 (16.35%) GCP
3 867 (12.51%) Serverless
4 710 (10.24%) AWS Lambda
5 675 (9.74%) Amazon S3
6 584 (8.43%) Amazon EC2
7 569 (8.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 349 (5.04%) GitHub
9 326 (4.70%) PaaS
10 284 (4.10%) Office 365
10 284 (4.10%) SaaS
11 275 (3.97%) IaaS
12 269 (3.88%) Amazon SQS
13 262 (3.78%) OpenShift
14 192 (2.77%) Amazon ECS
15 180 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
16 177 (2.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 161 (2.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 143 (2.06%) Amazon Kinesis
19 136 (1.96%) Power Platform
1 302 (4.36%) Firewall
2 231 (3.33%) DNS
3 177 (2.55%) VPN
4 134 (1.93%) HTTP
5 132 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 113 (1.63%) DHCP
7 112 (1.62%) SSL
8 109 (1.57%) WAN
9 96 (1.39%) Network Security
11 68 (0.98%) Skype
12 66 (0.95%) LAN
13 65 (0.94%) Internet
14 63 (0.91%) Kerberos
16 42 (0.61%) FTP
18 32 (0.46%) NetScaler
19 29 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
20 26 (0.38%) NAS
1 529 (7.63%) Big Data
2 507 (7.31%) PostgreSQL
4 440 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
5 431 (6.22%) NoSQL
6 420 (6.06%) MySQL
7 372 (5.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 330 (4.76%) MongoDB
9 316 (4.56%) Amazon DynamoDB
10 303 (4.37%) Hadoop
11 265 (3.82%) Relational Database
12 239 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
13 215 (3.10%) Amazon Athena
14 170 (2.45%) Data Lake
15 136 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
15 136 (1.96%) Power BI
16 128 (1.85%) Redis
17 121 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
18 117 (1.69%) RDBMS
19 108 (1.56%) Apache Hive
1 1,291 (18.63%) Jenkins
3 586 (8.45%) JIRA
4 263 (3.79%) Maven
5 244 (3.52%) GitLab
6 184 (2.65%) Artifactory
7 166 (2.40%) JUnit
7 166 (2.40%) Selenium
8 161 (2.32%) SonarQube
9 148 (2.14%) Mockito
10 147 (2.12%) TeamCity
11 141 (2.03%) Cucumber
12 140 (2.02%) Bitbucket
13 130 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
14 106 (1.53%) CircleCI
15 105 (1.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 102 (1.47%) Travis CI
17 101 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
19 78 (1.13%) Team Foundation Server
1 1,217 (17.56%) Finance
2 501 (7.23%) Public Sector
3 345 (4.98%) Banking
4 313 (4.52%) Front Office
5 235 (3.39%) Retail
6 108 (1.56%) Marketing
7 100 (1.44%) Telecoms
11 39 (0.56%) Billing
12 36 (0.52%) Publishing
14 34 (0.49%) Electronics
15 33 (0.48%) Back Office
16 29 (0.42%) Legal
16 29 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
17 23 (0.33%) Financial Institution
18 21 (0.30%) Retail Banking
19 20 (0.29%) Advertising
1 2,033 (29.33%) Developer
2 1,089 (15.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 1,033 (14.90%) Architect
4 758 (10.94%) AWS Engineer
5 593 (8.56%) Java Developer
6 442 (6.38%) AWS DevOps
7 422 (6.09%) AWS Developer
9 360 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
10 358 (5.17%) Data Engineer
11 352 (5.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 281 (4.05%) AWS Architect
13 274 (3.95%) Cloud Architect
14 266 (3.84%) Solutions Architect
15 265 (3.82%) Consultant
16 239 (3.45%) Software Engineer
17 228 (3.29%) Python Developer
18 224 (3.23%) .NET Developer
19 222 (3.20%) Analyst
20 220 (3.17%) Python Engineer
1 1,222 (17.63%) Web Services
2 792 (11.43%) Node.js
3 662 (9.55%) .NET
5 517 (7.46%) AngularJS
6 487 (7.03%) Spring
8 350 (5.05%) HTML
9 348 (5.02%) CSS
10 341 (4.92%) RESTful
11 325 (4.69%) Kafka
12 310 (4.47%) Spring Boot
13 254 (3.66%) J2EE
14 214 (3.09%) .NET Core
15 208 (3.00%) JSON
16 189 (2.73%) SOAP
17 138 (1.99%) Redux
18 135 (1.95%) XML
20 133 (1.92%) Vue.js
1 515 (7.43%) Public Cloud
2 419 (6.05%) Greenfield Project
3 331 (4.78%) Data Centre
5 262 (3.78%) Fixed Income
6 233 (3.36%) Derivative
7 177 (2.55%) Cloud Native
8 146 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
9 145 (2.09%) Equities
10 136 (1.96%) User Experience
11 132 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 125 (1.80%) Algorithms
13 118 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
14 117 (1.69%) Hedge funds
15 100 (1.44%) Data Structures
16 88 (1.27%) Private Cloud
17 86 (1.24%) Mobile App
3 294 (4.24%) Windows Server
4 244 (3.52%) Unix
5 220 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 117 (1.69%) CentOS
7 114 (1.64%) Windows Server 2012
10 71 (1.02%) Windows 10
11 61 (0.88%) Android
13 35 (0.50%) Windows 7
14 28 (0.40%) Windows Server 2003
15 27 (0.39%) CoreOS
17 24 (0.35%) AIX
18 20 (0.29%) Mac OS X
19 19 (0.27%) VMS
20 16 (0.23%) Windows XP
3 1,261 (18.19%) Microservices
7 729 (10.52%) Migration
9 546 (7.88%) Analytics
10 531 (7.66%) Open Source
12 500 (7.21%) Configuration Management
13 493 (7.11%) Infrastructure as Code
14 404 (5.83%) BDD
15 382 (5.51%) Kanban
16 367 (5.30%) ETL
18 348 (5.02%) Problem-Solving
20 296 (4.27%) Continuous Delivery
3 1,134 (16.36%) SQL
4 1,050 (15.15%) JavaScript
5 590 (8.51%) C#
6 434 (6.26%) Bash Shell
7 381 (5.50%) PowerShell
8 373 (5.38%) Ruby
9 257 (3.71%) Java 8
10 239 (3.45%) Scala
11 238 (3.43%) Go
12 229 (3.30%) R
13 216 (3.12%) TypeScript
14 186 (2.68%) C++
15 169 (2.44%) PHP
16 161 (2.32%) Perl
17 133 (1.92%) Shell Script
18 88 (1.27%) ES6
19 85 (1.23%) C
20 67 (0.97%) Groovy
1 1,009 (14.56%) Security Cleared
3 246 (3.55%) Degree
4 203 (2.93%) AWS Certification
5 124 (1.79%) CISSP
7 95 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 81 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
10 61 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
11 55 (0.79%) MCSE
14 44 (0.63%) CCNA
15 33 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
17 29 (0.42%) RHCE
18 26 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 26 (0.38%) CISA
19 25 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
1 183 (2.64%) QA
2 133 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 70 (1.01%) PCI DSS
4 62 (0.89%) NIST
5 61 (0.88%) NCSC
6 60 (0.87%) GDPR
8 48 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 45 (0.65%) Data Quality
10 25 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 23 (0.33%) PMO
12 21 (0.30%) COBIT
13 16 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
14 11 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 10 (0.14%) ISO 20022
15 10 (0.14%) TARGET2
16 8 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27005
17 6 (0.087%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.087%) ISO 9000
18 5 (0.072%) GxP
2 399 (5.76%) Active Directory
3 337 (4.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 114 (1.64%) vSphere
5 110 (1.59%) Hyper-V
6 81 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
7 61 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
8 59 (0.85%) VMware NSX
9 54 (0.78%) Postfix
10 39 (0.56%) XenApp
11 34 (0.49%) HDFS
11 34 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
12 33 (0.48%) Xen
13 31 (0.45%) XenDesktop
14 18 (0.26%) VirtualBox
15 15 (0.22%) vCloud
16 14 (0.20%) Firmware
17 13 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
18 12 (0.17%) NFS
19 11 (0.16%) NDS
3 1,060 (15.29%) Ansible
4 575 (8.30%) Puppet
5 478 (6.90%) Opscode Chef
6 137 (1.98%) SCCM
7 134 (1.93%) Packer
8 95 (1.37%) Prometheus
9 71 (1.02%) Nagios
9 71 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
10 60 (0.87%) Salt
11 59 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
12 52 (0.75%) Kibana
13 45 (0.65%) Consul
14 38 (0.55%) Rancher
15 37 (0.53%) Hadoop YARN
16 35 (0.50%) vRealize
17 33 (0.48%) Istio
18 32 (0.46%) McAfee ePO
2 642 (9.26%) Google
3 526 (7.59%) VMware
4 422 (6.09%) Oracle
5 211 (3.04%) Splunk
6 204 (2.94%) Red Hat
7 200 (2.89%) Cisco
8 141 (2.03%) Citrix
9 133 (1.92%) Cloudera
9 133 (1.92%) IBM
10 126 (1.82%) Tableau
11 112 (1.62%) SAP
13 73 (1.05%) Informatica
14 65 (0.94%) Salesforce.com
14 65 (0.94%) Sybase
15 64 (0.92%) Talend
16 63 (0.91%) Hortonworks
18 58 (0.84%) McAfee
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Santa Rosa County opted Monday to amend its MYIP to drop funding for the Navarre Beach Marine Science Center's Gulf Coast Discovery Center and Milton's Quinn Street Marina in favor of water treatment plant upgrades in Navarre and Milton.
The Navarre Beach Marine Science Center will have to wait a little bit longer to develop its long-awaited Gulf Coast Discovery Center, with Santa Rosa County Commissioners on Monday voting to re-prioritize certain RESTORE funding from the center to instead go toward effluent water treatment plants in Navarre and Milton.
As part of amending its multi-year improvement plan, or MYIP, the board also voted to table plans for improving the Quinn Street marina in order to redirect funds for the treatment plants.
The move came after lengthy presentations from Charlene Mauro, the Navarre Beach Marine Science Center's director, and a representative for Caldwell Architects, which won the bid to design the center's master plan and programming.
The presentations for the new Gulf Coast Discovery Center included designs for new animal exhibits, visitor center, parking, classrooms, an outdoor amphitheater, salt marsh, teaching stations, pavilions, boardwalks, observation decks and more.
But the final design would cost $10.5 million, or nearly $8 million more than center leaders originally estimated the project would cost in 2016, when it first received a RESTORE grant for $265,000. The center has already spent $100,000 of that grant for the planning of the new facility.
The center went before commissioners Monday to increase its RESTORE funding request to $7 million, saying it could get the additional $3.5 million for exhibits through fundraising efforts. But commissioners weren't comfortable increasing the amount, saying there were other projects in the county that were more critical than the science center.
"I love the discovery center and I want to see something happen there, but when I put it next to water quality and infrastructure, those are where my priorities sit," District 4 Commissioner Dave Piech said at the meeting.
The other commissioners agreed, eventually directing county staff to amend the MYIP to begin the process of re-allocating RESTORE funding from the discovery center and the Quinn Street marina to the water treatment plants. The amended MYIP calls for around $5 million for the Navarre wastewater treatment plant and about $2 million for the water treatment plant in Milton.
Milton City Manager Randy Jorgensen attended the meeting and vouched for redirecting the funding from the marina to the wastewater treatment plant, saying the plant was a bigger priority for the city than the marina.
Using RESTORE money to fund part of the wastewater treatment facilities — which each have an estimated cost of $30 million — heightens the county's chance of getting state match funding for the wastewater projects.
Piech said he wanted to continue exploring ways to fund the discovery center, and it isn't out of the running for RESTORE funding in the future.
"The highest priority to me is to get the treated effluent out of the Santa Rosa Sound," Piech said. "Education is very important to me, my wife is a teacher. But when you have limited funds, you have to start looking at those priorities. I still want to work with the discovery center, but I look at things holistically."


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27 Iraqis Dead After Wave of Car Bombings in Baghdad
By Liz Fields Jul 19, 2014
At least 27 Iraqis are dead after a wave of car bombings across the capital of Baghdad on Saturday, in what police and medics describe as the city's deadliest day of aggression since Sunni Muslim insurgents launched an offensive across northern Iraq last month.
The series of five car bombs exploded in predominantly Shiite Muslim neighborhoods, beginning in Abu Dashir, where at least nine people, including four policemen, and 19 were injured when a suicide bomber crashed through a checkpoint in a car laden with explosives, officials said.
ISIS declares islamic caliphate in occupied parts of Iraq and Syria: Read more here.
The attack was followed in the afternoon by three successive car bombings within a time period of 10 minutes in the neighborhoods of Baiyaa, Jihad and Khazimiyah. At least 15 people died and 42 were wounded, police told the Associated Press.
The fifth bombing took place near a bus stop in the northern district of Khazimiyah, killing three and wounding 15, according to the unnamed police officials.
No groups claimed responsibility immediately following the bombings.
Iraq's capital has seen relatively few attacks since militants, led by the al-Qaeda-affiliated group the Islamic State, overran swathes of Iraq and declared an Islamic caliphate straddling Iraq and Syria in recent weeks.
The United Nations confirmed on Friday that over 5,500 civilians have been killed since January in the crossfire of intense fighting between parties divided along religious, ethnic and sectarian lines.
An introduction and field guide to the fighting in Iraq: Read more here.
Since insurgents began their campaign across the country's north, circling towards the capital and reaching within 45 miles of Baghdad, Iraqi military forces have pushed back, but are flailing under the pressure of a scattered army on the brink of collapse.
In some areas, Shiite militia, volunteers and ethnic Kurdish forces have stepped up to keep the Islamic State at bay and reclaim cities that have fallen into Sunni insurgent hands.
Saturday's bombings come three months after Iraq's parliamentary elections, and as interim caretaker Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki grapples to regain control of the military and form a working government in spite of hostility from opposing and allied forces.
Follow Liz Fields on Twitter: @lianzifields
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About my novel on our Second Exodus
Now available in ebook, please click HERE
Jewish Writer Reviews His Diary And a Wonderful Book Is Born. Review on my novel La Lente découverte de l'étrangeté
By Nancy Snipper
The Chronicle, West End Edition, Montréal
When Victor Teboul was a young boy, he began writing a diary. The time was 1956 when England, Israel and France began the protracted conflict against Egypt over the Suez Canal. At the age of 11, he witnessed his father being shut away in jail and the subsequent expulsion of his family, along with thousands of other Jewish families.
Still, he kept on writing in his diary. He stopped at the age of 18 when he came to Montreal.
"We ended up in France as refugees in a monastery near Grenoble. Then we moved to Paris, and lived there for six years," said Teboul, noting his family was given one week to get out of Alexandria when war broke out - a place that nurtured his cosmopolitan outlook and ebullient spirit.
"In Alexandria, my family spoke so many languages: Arabic, Greek, French, Italian - whatever suited the moment at hand. I had many Arab friends, a friend from Malta, friends from all over Europe. Alexandria was a mini world ", said the 57-year-old writer who went back to the city many years ago to visit the place that gave birth to his novel.
"Everything had changed. You could only hear Arabic on the streets; life wasn't at all the same."
In his latest work, La lente découverte de l'étrangeté (published by Les Intouchables), Teboul introduces Maurice, a young boy totally at peace with the world. Part of the book explores this young boy's love affair with the multitude of cultures and languages swimming around him in Alexandria. He feels a part of everything - until war whisks off his father and family, and Christmas Eve becomes the last one spent in Egypt.
The book takes place in Montreal, France and Alexandria, and it is a recollection revealed through diary form of the events leading up to this war, the aftermath and a new life in Montreal that centres on Teboul's family. It covers a period from 1950 to 1990.
Moreover, the book delves into a generational issue where son confronts father many years after the war. He also confronts his own emotional transformation from joy and tenderness towards his native land to sorrow for it.
Indeed, as events unfold and the boy ages, anger towards his passive father sets in, for Maurice wonders why his father never resisted being carted off to jail; nor did his father ever speak about the injustices the Jews suffered.
In fact, the novel starts with his 90-year-old father handing Maurice (now 40) his diary recovered from a stack of books the father is organizing in their Montreal home. He knows he's not long for this world, and wants his son to repossess his precious diary.
"The diary in the novel and the dialogue between the father and son is based on true events. My diary is three volumes; the book is only 177 pages," said Teboul, a cegep professor of French literature who still finds time to write. To date, he has authored six books, and is already working on another one that addresses the issue of immigrants and Canadian values.
"I've had to take a six month sabbatical to write La lente découverte de l'étrangeté, but it's a book whose story had to be told," he said. "I've received so many e-mails from people who appreciated reading a novel based on the plight of Egyptian Jews, and the French press reviews have been extremely supportive too."
Teboul possesses a Ph.D in French studies from the Université de Montréal, and was a former member of Conseil de Presse and Conseil Supérior de l'Éducation. He also wrote and hosted several radio series on Radio-Canada, one of which focused on Israel's 40th Anniversary.
"I have experienced many hardships, but there is no message in my novel. I don't want to tell people what to think. I want them to participate in the experience. In writing it, I wanted to find something beautiful to talk about, despite what's happening in the world. You have to have hope."
The Chronicle, West End Edition, Montréal, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2002, p.7.
For the French reviews please click on : Ce qu'on en dit
Voir aussi ...
Narrating a Diasporic Childhood around the Mediterranean in Victor Teboul's La lente découverte de l'étrangeté
Teboul sees Exile as a way to strengthen Jewish Identity


June 12, 2007 - Get ready to see the familiar yellow school bus in a new role this summer. Responding to youth and community concerns about safe transportation for young people wishing to attend out-of-school time programs, the Minneapolis Youth Coordinating Board is launching two You^th Are Here bus routes, one serving Near North/Camden communities and the other serving Phillips/Powderhorn communities.
Young people ages 9-18 will be able to ride the bus for free, getting on and off the bus at 10-11 destinations along the route. The buses are also intended to get more young people involved in youth program opportunities and enable programs to reach youth who previously may not have attended their program due to a lack of transportation.
The buses will be available Monday through Friday, June 18th - August 24th for youth ages 9-18. Buses will travel a circular route every 50 minutes from Noon to 8 PM, stopping at designated libraries, parks, and nonprofit organizations. The buses will be staffed at all times by a youth worker.
The bus is free, but registration is required. Registration forms and materials are available at all You^th Are Here bus sites (parks, libraries and non-profit organizations along the route). Downloadable registration forms, routes and more information flyers are available on the YCB website at www.ycb.org. Materials are available in English; Spanish, Hmong and Somali. Route schedules can be found on the YCB website.


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The Southerner
December 1Dec. 5 @ 8 am. Wrestling (Boys V) @ Sullivan Invite
December 1Dec. 3 @ 5:30 pm. Swimming & Diving (Co-ed @ Triangular (Boonville/PC)
Drew Foster is a sophomore at Gibson Southern High School. This is his first year as a journalist for "The Southerner." He is a sports reporter and specializes in football. Drew is a three-sport athlete who plays Titan football, basketball and baseball. He's a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the Beta Club. He likes hip-hop music and rap. Drew also likes to kick it back with some country as well. Drew watches sports most the time on T.V., but he likes to watch comedy shows as well, along with action, comedy and horror movies. For college sports, he is a fan of Indiana University and Notre Dame. Drew is also a fan of the Indianapolis Colts.
Drew Foster, Sports Reporter
Titans bow out of Sectional with Bosse loss (Story)
Seniors shed tears during Senior Night against the Lady Raiders (Story)
The Titans basketball took on county rivals, Princeton Tigers (Story)
The Student News Site of Gibson Southern High School
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DARK HORSE BRINGS ANOTHER "INKREDIBLE" ART BOOK TO SPLATOON FANS
by First Comics News on April 18, 2019 DARK HORSE BRINGS ANOTHER "INKREDIBLE" ART BOOK TO SPLATOON FANS2019-04-18T08:44:19-07:00 - News
"The Art of Splatoon 2™" Blasts into Shops on October 15, 2019
MILWAUKIE, Ore. (April 18, 2019)—Splat! Dark Horse is proud to bring Splatoon 2™ fans an amaze-ink behind-the-scenes look at the making of the award-winning game in The Art of Splatoon 2™! To the delight of fans around the world, Dark Horse and Nintendo® partnered on an English-language edition of The Art of Splatoon™ in July 2017.
The Art of Splatoon 2 is based on Nintendo's 2017's award-winning game for the Nintendo Switch™ system. In The Art of Splatoon 2, fans can dive into 384 pages of intense ink-splatting action through illustrations and rough designs of your favorite colorful characters, weapons, gear, locations, and maps. This book also features storyboards and other extras that are sure to make a splash with any fan of Splatoon 2.
The Art of Splatoon 2 goes on sale October 15, 2019. Pre-order this "ink-tastic" tome for $39.99 through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Things From Another World, and your local comic shop.
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[Coll:set] è il primo album in studio del gruppo giapponese D'espairsRay uscito il 29 giugno 2005.

Tracce
 "Infection" - 4:10
 "Dears" - 3:51
 "In Vain" - 4:15
 "Grudge" - 3:54
 "Tsuki no Kioku -Fallen-" (月の記憶 -fallen-?) - 5:19
 "Garnet" - 4:28
 "Abel to Cain" (アベルとカイン?) - 5:23
 "Fuyuu Shita Risou" (「浮遊した理想」?) - 4:26
 "Forbidden" - 4:47
 "Hai to Ame" (灰と雨?) - 5:15
 "Tainted World" - 5:15
 "[The World in a Cage]" - 2:42
 "Marry of the Blood -Bloody Minded Mix-" - 5:29
 "Born -White Stream Mix-" - 4:52

Collegamenti esterni

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package gxui

import (
	"github.com/google/gxui/math"
	"time"
)

type ToolTipCreator func(math.Point) Control

type toolTipTracker struct {
	creator      ToolTipCreator
	control      Control
	onEnterES    EventSubscription
	onExitES     EventSubscription
	onMoveES     EventSubscription
	lastPosition math.Point
}

type ToolTipController struct {
	driver        Driver
	timer         *time.Timer
	bubbleOverlay BubbleOverlay
	trackers      []*toolTipTracker
	showing       *toolTipTracker
}

func (c *ToolTipController) beginTimer(tracker *toolTipTracker, timeout time.Duration) {
	if c.timer != nil {
		c.timer.Stop()
		c.timer = nil
	}
	if timeout > 0 {
		c.timer = time.AfterFunc(timeout, func() {
			c.driver.Call(func() { c.showToolTipForTracker(tracker) })
		})
	} else {
		c.showToolTipForTracker(tracker)
	}
}

func (c *ToolTipController) showToolTipForTracker(tracker *toolTipTracker) {
	toolTip := tracker.creator(tracker.lastPosition)
	if toolTip != nil {
		at := TransformCoordinate(tracker.lastPosition, tracker.control, c.bubbleOverlay)
		c.ShowToolTip(toolTip, at)
		c.showing = tracker
	} else {
		c.hideToolTipForTracker(tracker)
	}
}

func (c *ToolTipController) hideToolTipForTracker(tracker *toolTipTracker) {
	if c.showing == tracker {
		c.bubbleOverlay.Hide()
		c.showing = nil
	}
}

func CreateToolTipController(bubbleOverlay BubbleOverlay, driver Driver) *ToolTipController {
	return &ToolTipController{
		driver:        driver,
		bubbleOverlay: bubbleOverlay,
	}
}

func (c *ToolTipController) AddToolTip(control Control, delaySeconds float32, creator ToolTipCreator) {
	tracker := &toolTipTracker{
		control: control,
		creator: creator,
	}
	duration := time.Duration(delaySeconds * float32(time.Second))
	bind := func() {
		tracker.onEnterES = control.OnMouseEnter(func(ev MouseEvent) {
			tracker.lastPosition = ev.Point
			c.beginTimer(tracker, duration)
		})
		tracker.onExitES = control.OnMouseExit(func(ev MouseEvent) {
			if c.timer != nil {
				c.timer.Stop()
				c.timer = nil
			}
			c.hideToolTipForTracker(tracker)
		})
		tracker.onMoveES = control.OnMouseMove(func(ev MouseEvent) {
			tracker.lastPosition = ev.Point
			c.beginTimer(tracker, duration)
		})
	}
	control.OnAttach(bind)
	control.OnDetach(func() {
		if c.timer != nil {
			c.timer.Stop()
			c.timer = nil
		}
		tracker.onEnterES.Unlisten()
		tracker.onExitES.Unlisten()
		tracker.onMoveES.Unlisten()
	})
	if control.Attached() {
		bind()
	}
}

func (c *ToolTipController) ShowToolTip(toolTip Control, at math.Point) {
	c.bubbleOverlay.Show(toolTip, at)
}

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Way back in March 2011 we ran a feature about British startups invading Silicon Valley. One of these startups was Conversocial, a platform that enables brands to manage interactions and engagement with customers via the gift of social media. And today, Conversocial announced a £2.95 million ($4.4 million) Series A2 funding round led by Octopus Investments.
The cash bounty will primarily go towards product development, talent acquisition and building Conversocial's presence in North America, after it launched a base in New York back in September last year following a $1.25 million funding round. Today's news takes Conversocial's total investments past the $7 million mark.
"The new investment allows us to innovate even faster to take social into the contact center, and meet the fast growing market demand," says Joshua March, CEO and founder of Conversocial.
Conversocial's social media management system helps brands plan updates and understand what type of content will resonate with fans and followers on social networks. Since it launched publicly in July 2010, the social CRM tool has been used by a host of retailers, including recent additions American Greetings, Barclaycard, GoDaddy, Hertz, JackThreads, and Sephora.
Conversocial says it has processed more than 300 million customer service interactions (up from 30 million in December 2011) across more than twenty countries, while its revenue has tripled over the past 12 months. It confidently predicts this trajectory will continue over the next year.
It's a chunky cash injection for sure, and should go some way towards helping continue pushing the likes of Radian6 – it's also good to see a UK/European company gaining traction in the States.
Meanwhile, check out our interview with March from 18 months ago, where he outlines his vision for infiltrating customer service centers.


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Jan de Bruine (Winschoten, 7 de fevereiro de 1907 - 4 de abril de 1983) foi um ginete holandês, especialista em saltos, medalhista olímpico.

Carreira
Jan de Bruine representou seu país nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 1936 e 1948, na qual conquistou a medalha de prata nos saltos por equipes. Em 1948 ele foi eliminado, ficando sem resultados.

Ginetes olímpicos dos Países Baixos
Ginetes nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 1936
Ginetes nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 1948
Medalhistas nos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 1936
Medalhistas olímpicos dos Países Baixos


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Tracking Dalvin Cook's pursuit of FSU football history
What's on deck, possible down the road, and unlikely.
By David Visser@DavidBVisser Sep 25, 2016, 9:00am EDT
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Logan Bowles-USA TODAY Sports
Anyone who visited the comments section following last week's iteration of this article can tell you that it was hardly a celebration of a player who will likely go down as the best at his position in Seminole history. But what a difference a week can make— along with a 20-point win, as opposed to a 43-point loss. Oh, and a personal best in yardage never hurts, either.
And that's exactly what the 'Noles and star running back Dalvin Cook pulled off, as the latter looked like his former self and went for a career-high 267 rushing yards. And the Miami native's monster afternoon against South Florida had a significant effect in moving him up in the FSU record books.
Let's commence with single-game numbers. Cook's 267 against USF is the second-highest rushing total ever at FSU, behind only Greg Allen's 322 in 1981 against Western Carolina. Third place? Yeah, that would also be Cook, who had a 266-yard game last year-- also against the Bulls, who must fall asleep counting sheep only to be awoken by visions of Cook running away. Cook has three of the top six single-game rushing totals in Florida State history, a claim no other player can make.
As far as season-long marks go, Cook already sits atop the yardage record, with 1,691 last year. Thanks to Saturday's numbers, Cook is now averaging 123.75 yards per game in 2016. So, to get to 1,691 from his current 495 yards, he'd need 9.66 more contests at his current clip. FSU has eight games left and, most likely, a bowl game, possibly more.
Cook finished one touchdown shy of Allen for the single-season rushing-TD record last year, which is 20. He's got four through four games, which, of course, projects him to finish with as many scores as games FSU plays. Not a lot of hope here, baring a flurry.
But on to the big boys: the career records, those marks that really define a program's history. Cook has 31 rushing TDs, having passed Devonta Freeman and Amp Lee, who have 30, on Saturday. That's good enough to give Cook third place. Catching Allen's 44 seems improbable. More likely may be catching Allen's career mark of four games with 200+ rushing yards; Cook now has three.
As far as 100-yard rushing games go, Cook tied Travis Minor for third this weekend, as both backs now have 14. Warrick Dunn leads the way, with 22. Consistency is the key here— you can't catch up in this category like you can with others.
Such as career yards, the all-time FSU record to which many are paying the most attention. Cook moved up that list against the Bulls, passing not only the 3,000-yard mark but also Larry Key to take over fourth, all-time, with 3,194 yards rushing. Next on the list is Minor, whose 3,218 appears poised to fall next weekend. Dunn's mark of 3,959 tops the list. Cook is 765 yards away from that honor, and given his YPG in '16, he'll need a little more than six games to get there given present projections, a massive swing from where we were at this time last week.
Of course, those projections change every week— but isn't that part of the fun? Speaking of fun, Cook could have a lot of it next week when the North Carolina Tar Heels visit Tallahassee. Their rushing defense has looked abysmal thus far.


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An elegant blend, showing impressive structure and balance.
Very deep crimson colour with deep crimson hue. Aroma of plum, spice and liquorice followed by a hint of cedar. The palate delivers good weight and balance with flavours of spice, stewed fruit and cedar followed by a hint of liquorice. Fine grained tannins. The Cabernet remains the dominant flavour component. Long aftertaste of white pepper.


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In the spirit of Valentine's Day, students in Spanish club were given the opportunity to create valentines cards for friends or family and to decorate sugar cookies using frosting and sprinkles. Spanish club participates in arts and crafts often. In the past, they've decorated rocks with positive messages as well as decorated sugar skulls for a "Day of the Dead" celebration.
The crafts are always based on holidays or events going on during the school year.
"My favorite craft was making a booklet at the beginning of the year to hang in our locker," junior Irvin Zamora.
Tony is a junior and a second year member of The Railroader yearbook staff. He is also a sprinter for the track and field team.


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Q: Regular Expressions: replace extra slashes/backslashes from a path I have a string which I would like to remove extra slashes following below criteria:

*

*If extra slashes are at the beginning of the string I want to remove them if there are more than 4 in a row. I want to replace them by 4 slashes.

*If extra slashes are not at the beginning but in other places of the string, I want to remove them and replace them by 2 slashes if there are more than 2 in a row.

So I have tried below without success:
string myPath = "/////this///is//an////absolute//path";

// below check if there are more than 4 slashes at the beginning. If so replace them by 4 slashes
string url  = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(myPath  , @"^(/+){4}", @"////");
// below check if there are extra slashes (more than 2) in other parts of string (excluding the beginning of the string). If so, replace them by 2 slashes.
url= System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(url, @"(/+){3}", @"//");

Example:
string = "/////this///is//an////absolute//path"

Expected url:
////this//is//and//absolute//path

Current url:
//this//is//and//absolute//path

Also I would like to do it in a single regex instead of split it in two statements and working in case of backslashes instead of slashes, for example, the same regular expression should be able to do it as well:
\\\\\this\\\is\\an\\\\absolute\\path

Expected:
\\\\this\\is\\an\\absolute\\path

Also It should be valid for below paths (with all slashes or backslashes):
c:\\\\\this\\\is\\an\\\\absolute\\path

Expected:
c:\\this\\is\\an\\absolute\\path

So there are cases where string comes with all slashes or all backslashes and I need it to work for both cases.

A: I suggest
Regex.Replace(text, @"^(([/\\])\2{3})\2+|([/\\])\3*", "$1$3$3")

See the regex demo. Details:

*

*^ - start of string

*(([/\\])\2{3}) - Group 1 capturing a / or \ captured into Group 2 and then matching the char captured into Group 2 three times

*\2+ - one or more occurrences of Group 2 value

*| - or

*([/\\])\3* - Group 3 capturing a / or \ and then matching zero or more (back)slashes.

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* State of Kuwait has a land area of 17,818 km2.
* The population of Kuwait is 3.6 million (June 2010).
* About 98% of population live within Kuwait Metropolitan Area, 810 km2 or 4.5% of total area.
* Kuwait is the only country in the world without natural lakes or rivers.
* Climate of Kuwait is dry, hot desert and annual evaporation far exceeds rainfall average of 125mm per year.
* Kuwait is part of a large regional desert situated at low altitude.
* Average temperature is 33°C, but drops as low as -3°C in January. Maximum temperature is 52°C.
* Annual rainfall is between 25 mm and 175 mm, most of this falling between October and March. Winter also brings fierce dust storms.
* The harsh climate and the rapid growth of demand on fresh water resources due to increasing urbanization and agricultural projects, leads to search for alternative sources of water.
* Population increase results in growing volumes of municipal wastewater. This leads to health and environmental problems if not treated properly.
* Kuwait is one of the highest consumer of fresh water in the world, the consumption of fresh water per capita is 500 liters per day. The fresh water is produced from desalination of sea water where the water production reached about one million cubic meters per day.
* Infrastructure for residential areas.
* Rain and sanitation networks and facilities.
* Various governmental facilities and buildings.
* Preparation of technical studies.
* Technical assistance to develop the facility.
* Construction of all projects related to the renewal of sewerage systems.
* Improving the performance of transfer stations and water treatment.
* Raising the efficiency of capacity of the networks to meet the rates of population growth.
* Raw domestic sewage consists of physical and chemical compounds, microbes and viruses.
* The physical compounds can be divided into 99.9% water and 0.1% solids (pollutants). The solids can be divided into dissolved solids (75% - 65%) and suspended solids (25% - 35%) which are 50% settle-able suspended solids and 50% non settle-able solids.
* The chemical compounds can be grouped into 30% inorganic compounds such as salts, metals, grit and sand.
* Remaining 70% are Organic Compounds such as fats, carbohydrates and proteins.
* The installed desalination capacity exceeds 3000 million m3 yearly.
* Representing about 50% of World's desalination capacity.
* Covers about 90% of the domestic/industrial demand.
* GCC capital investments for past two decades is us $ 16 billion.
* GCC needed investments for coming 20 years is about us $ 50 billion.
* Provides Majority Of Total Water Demand in GCC.
- Increase in the capital and operational cost.
- Available in different alternatives: Secondary, Tertiary, & RO.
* Various applications depending on treatment level.
- Primary treatment, which is based on physical operations such as screening, de-gritting and odour control.
- Secondary treatment, which is biological treatment using activated sludge and performed in bioreactors (aeration tanks) and classifiers.
- Tertiary treatment, which applies physical and chemical operations such as filtration and chlorination.
- RO treatment, which applies ultra and micro filtration using Reverse Osmosis.
- Sludge treatment, which applies physical and biological treatment operations such as thickeners and digesters (aerobic).
A. Replacement of decaying pipes (asbestos) with a better quality pipes that have longer life time which can reaches 50 years-and-over, so can resists the aggressive soil from outside and the highly polluted sewage from inside.
B. Replacing the old concrete manholes with new lined manholes which can resist the aggressive nature of the gases that emissions from the sewage.
1. Faster flow inside the pipe (self cleaning).
2. Deleting old lifting and pumping stations to reduce the operation , maintains and odor problems.
3. Constructing new 5 huge pumping stations which will replace the 57 old pumping stations and there related lifting stations.
1. Mishref PS – Serves areas to the south and east of the City centre and transfers sewage to Ardiya PS and on to Sulaibiya Sewage Treatment Plant (STP).
2. Riggae PS – Serves areas to the north and east of the city centre and also transfers to the Ardiya/Sulaibiya system.
3. Egaila PS – Serves the south of the Kuwait Municipal Area and transfers sewage to the Riqqa STP.
4. Jahra PS – Serves the Jahra catchment and will transfer sewage to Kabed STP.
* Agreement No. EF/S/121 Kuwait Sanitary Master Plan. This project will deliver a strategy for the development of Kuwait's sanitary system until 2045. The Master Plan will incorporate strategy related to the development of sewers, pumping stations and sewage treatment plants, as well as the interaction with final effluent distribution and sludge management.
* Agreement No. EF/S/83 Rehabilitation and Improvement of Sewerage and Infrastructure in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh, Phase 13.
Agreement No. EF/S/87 for Rehabilitation and Improvement of Sewerage and Infrastructure in Al-Andalus, Gernata, Sabah Al-Nasser Areas, Phase 15.
- Al Khiran & Wafra STP.
- Umm Al Hayman STP.
* Treatment capacity 65,000 m3/day now treating 120,000 m3/day.
* Sewage to be transferred to Kabed STP from 2011.
Treatment capacity 180,000 m3/day, currently receiving 220,000 m3/day. Under current Master Plan, sewage flows will be transferred to new Umm Al Hayman STP by 2015.
* Current treatment capacity of 27,000 m3/day and treating 20,000 m3/day.
* Under the current Master Plan this site will be expanded to treat up to 650,000 m3/day.
* Extensive Treated Sewage Effluent (TSE) network proposed for expanded works.
* Sulaibiya is the largest STP in the world that uses Reverse Osmosis (RO) technology as an advanced treatment for waste water.
* Treated wastewater produced is potable water quality standard and it treats 425,000 m3/day. The plant could be further expanded to treat a maximum of 600,000 m3/day.
The quality of treated wastewater used for irrigation in agriculture and landscaping falls within the standard limits laid down by Kuwait EPA and Kuwait MPW.
* Sulaibiya recycling plant is designed to comply with Kuwait EPA standards, that are in line with other agricultural water reuse standards such as USEPA standard.
* Product Water contains zero bacteria count.
* Product water contains lower levels of organics, solids and ammonia than those required by potable water standards.
* Treated wastewater (TSE) provides both moisture and nutrients for the growth of plants and other vegetation.
* Reuse of treated wastewater for irrigation and landscaping has proved to be an important and alternate source for irrigation and other uses in Kuwait.
* The volume of wastewater is estimated to be 70 to 80 per cent of the potable water consumption by the population.
* Treated wastewater is available to different standards in Kuwait; Tertiary & RO Product Water.
* Beautification all over Kuwait with Landscaping.
- Al Wafra Farms (RO) - (Crops).
- Al Abdally Farms (RO) - (Crops).
- Al Mutahida (Tertiary) - Alfalfa.
- Artificial lagoons: Um-Al Ramam Lake.
* Two Golf Courses, one built to International PGA Standards.
* New Umm Al Hayman STP procured through PPP.
* Ultimate capacity of new STP will be 650,000 m3/day.
* Cost of new Umm Al Hayman STP and related works is about KD 450 million (US$ 1.6 Billion).
* Related Works includes comprehensive TSE Network.
* Transaction Advisory Services being tendered now.
* New STP and TSE Network will be operational by 2015.
* Regular follow up of the complete sewerage system to assess the level of pollution and find the best solutions for environmental problems.
* Co-ordination with EPA regarding Environmental Problems related to sanitary sewers.
* Periodical monitoring on the emergency outlets of the storm water networks.
* Monitoring the quality of ground water to assess the level of pollution before discharge into storm network at new construction site till the dewatering is completed at those site.
* Injecting chemical or biological products in emergency cases with the help of the laboratory and environmental research section.
* Perform all necessary experiments and analyse results that are requested by the other sections of (EAD ) , sanitary administration sector.
* The State of Kuwait currently Reuses all its treated wastewater.
* Major new wastewater treatment plant is planned for Umm Al Hayman.
* Umm Al Hayman STP includes an extensive TSE network in the south in order to ensure total Reuse of all TSE produced.
* Private sector involvement in the delivery of Umm Al Hayman STP will be sought through PPP.
* We in the Ministry of Public Works, in cooperation with the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (through a memo- randum of understanding which was signed in 2010) we hope to achieve many of the projects that concern the country and its citizens (such as the full use of treated waste water and sludge, establishing Quota system for distrubuting the treated waste water).
Proceeding Of the Workshop on "Appropriate Waste water Reclamation and Reuse Technologies for Aride Environments"


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Sybrina Fulton: Trayvon Martin's Mom Speaks Out Against 'Stop-And-Frisk ' [VIDEO]
Sybrina Fulton, mother of slain Miami teenager Trayvon Martin, heavily critiqued New York's controversial Stop-and-Frisk laws in a Sunday appearance on Meet the Press.
Trayvon was 17-years-old on the night of February 26, 2012 when he was gunned down by former neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman, who said that the Black teen looked "suspicious" walking in a hoodie.
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"We know that Trayvon Martin was profiled for something that night, on February 26, 2012, and he had broken no law," said Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump, adding that it's a "slippery slope" to profile our children simply because of the color of their skin.
As previously reported by NewsOne, U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin ruled that the New York Police Department deliberately violated the civil rights of tens of thousands of New Yorkers with its Stop-and-Frisk policy, and an independent monitor is needed to oversee major changes.
Scheindlin cited Trayvon's death in the lengthy opinion last week that infuriated NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who vows to appeal.
New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, the architect of Stop-and-Frisk — and also on President Barack Obama's short list for secretary of Homeland Security — insists that the policy saves lives and the city risks a resurgence in crime if it is no longer in effect.
Kelly also insists that more Black people are stopped because more Black people commit crimes:
"You have to apply a formula of sorts. 'Do the stops comport with the description given by the victims of perpetrators of violent crime?' And our stops certainly do," Kelly said.
"Nobody wants to be stopped…we have engaged in a major training evolution for several years, focusing on these issues, to do these stops with courtesy, do them with respect," he added.
Fulton, of course, feels differently, saying, "You can't give people the authority — whether it's civilians or police officers — the right to just stop somebody because of the color of their skin."
See Meet the Press clip below:
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New Talent Annual 2015
Professor: Carin Goldberg / Student: Rachel Ake
Carin Goldberg
Rachel Ake
Jane Austen Classic Series Book Design
Design covers and interiors for a set of three Jane Austen books.
Jane Austen is my absolute favorite author. She wrote about heroines whose modern ideals completely defied all tradition at the time in the Romantic era. I wanted to explore the juxtaposition between her character's beliefs and society's beliefs by combining two unexpected visuals and started playing with collaging things to see what kind of tension could be created. Her characters also grow within the story to become the full-fledged heroines. I was drawn to use the same image, just with rearranged code, because I wanted to show the transition from fitting the mold of the classic to her modern "digital glitch" version. I used Gotham and Didot.
The project initially started in John Gall's book cover design class. Then when my portfolio teacher, Carin Goldberg, saw what I was working on she encouraged me to keep pushing and perfecting and playing with the idea. So I kept working to design the full jackets, slip case, interiors and an accompanying motion graphics piece. The two teachers often had opposite feedback, which helped me refine the project and hone in on the details. Professor Goldberg's reaction to the final result was fantastic.
ili@sva.edu
209 East 23rd St


Published on June 3rd 2013.
GORDO, as his very sensible readers will know by now, loves a proper breakfast.
Three years ago there were few really good places outside the main hotels, but after Gordo had spent many hours tirelessly campaigning for better breakfasts (It's down to you is it Gordo? Ed), more and more are appearing in the better establishments across our fair city.
The latest, and one which Gordo takes some personal pride in, is the offering at 47 King Street, opposite San Carlo, where the delightful Hymanson family has morphed a tea shop into an damn good restaurant with breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner menus.
Gordo was asked in to advise on how the restaurant could up its game, and, apart from the orange juice, the family have taken on his advice and are now delivering a first class proposition which includes a made-in-the-kitchen rosti on the full English.
This breakfast now comes in easily as one of the four best in town. It's a bargain too at £6.95.
White tablecloths as well. Lovely. Watch out for the orange juice mind you.


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Open a Honda car factory in Mexico
Honda de Mexico, SA de CV, (HDM), the business of manufacture and sale of Honda in Mexico, today announced that it will build a manufacturing plant economic subcompact vehicles intended to Mexican markets and North -American. Honda will invest about 800 million U.S. dollars in this plant whose operations are expected to start in 2014.
The plant is expected to employ 3,200 associates and has a maximum capacity of 200,000 units will occupy an area of 5.66 million square meters in Guanajuato, a suburb of Celaya, approximately 340 km to the east of the two plants already existing HDM El Salto, Jalisco, which manufactures automobiles, motorcycles and auto parts.
The new Honda plant will apply the same advanced manufacturing systems and highly efficient Honda to manufacture vehicles and engines. Thanks to the increased use of parts and materials locally produced and a local supply of parts, the new plant will provide customers with products of high quality at affordable price.
This plant will be the eighth Honda automobile in North America and its 10th assembly line. It will inflate in capital expenditures of Honda in North America to nearly 21 billion U.S. dollars. Honda employs more than 33,000 associates in North America. The production operations that relate to the automotive include two auto plants and an auto engine plant in Canada, four auto plants, two plants manufacturing automotive engines and two manufacturing plants in the United gearboxes States as well as the auto El Salto plant.
The new plant in Mexico will increase the capacity of Honda automobile production in North America 1.63 million units was 1.83 million units in 2014. In 2010, more than 94 percent of Honda and Acura vehicles and light trucks sold in Canada were manufactured in North America as it was the case for 87 percent of vehicles sold in the United States.
"With a growing demand for economical vehicle, the Honda plant will have better meet the needs of customers in North America who are looking for this type of vehicle" Tetsuo Iwamura stated sir, president of American Honda Motor Co., Inc. Chief Main operations for Honda North America.
"This new facility will consolidate the business affairs of Honda in North America by allowing it to respond more flexibly from the same area to changing market conditions. "
In North America, Honda produces general models like the Civic, Accord and CR-V even intended as light trucks to a region particularly as Odyssey and Pilot. The smallest automobile currently produced by Honda in North America is the compact Honda Civic manufactured in Honda assembly plants in Ontario and Indiana.
In addition to the new car plant in Mexico, Honda recently unveiled its plans to increase its production has several of its plants in Canada and the United States:
The factory Honda one of Canada manufactures the Civic Sedan, Civic cutting, cutting the Civic Si and Civic Si sedan return in September has operations in two shifts. In May, the plant includes its two shifts into one to face a supply problem to pieces as a result of the earthquake in Japan.
In the United States, the Honda plant in Greensburg, Indiana, which makes the Civic sedan and the Civic Natural Gas vehicle, will add a second shift in October of this year.
The auto plant in Marysville, Ohio, that manufactures the Accord sedans and cuts Agreement even the Acura TL, introduce new production has two shifts on its chain number 1 at the end of 2011, returning to the the first time since January 2009 has two full production shifts.
Honda is committed significant way to reduce the environmental impact of its plant in Mexico. The plant will employ methods HDM peak emission reduction and its power consumption with the goal of becoming a plant has "no set discharge." Honda already owns 10 factories with no formatting discharge in North America, four others, including two existing plants in Mexico, working with virtually no set discharge.
In addition, each of the major Honda plants in North America complies with international environmental standards ISO 14001 except the new auto plant in Indiana currently working to obtain this certification.
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We are going to rent some shop space from one of our landlords this year. It is mostly full of old farm equipment, but there is enough room in it to store our straight cut header, which is pretty much all we want to store in it anyways. What would be a reasonable price to pay for a year? I don't really know anyone in the area that rents cold storage so can't ask around.
I give a $100 dollars a month for shed space. I've got my grain platform and my corn head there on header wagons plus I store a tractor and planter in there.
Thanks guys. Have just been trying to set a fair price. We have rented this land for 30ish years and the shop doesn't get used, just for some stuff the land lords grandfather kept. It doesn't have a very high roof and only has room for one header. I think 500 bucks a year would keep them happy, otherwise it just gets unused and they didn't seem to concerned about getting a lot for it.


Although the characters in The Hideout are imaginary, the Elgin Bible Church is a real place where I attended after graduating from college. I returned several years ago and took these pictures. You can visit The Elgin Bible Church at 1580 E. Chicago Street (Rt 19), Elgin, Illinois 60120. The name has recently been changed to New Life Elgin. You can find more information at www.elginbiblechurch.org.
The foyer to the auditorium.
The closet in the foyer where Zach hid.
The auditorium. Behind the screen is the cross.
The long hallway with the library at the end.
The cribs in the nursery where Karen didn't want to sleep.
The back door and the stairs to the choir loft.
The cross in the baptistry.
The lawn where the kids played out the back door.
The sidewalk where the kids walked past the car dealerships.


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Preparatory Environmental Review (PER) or GAP Analysis:
A preparatory environmental review is an investigative exercise,a structured piece of detective work, which identifies all of the organization's environmental aspects. Preparatory environment review is not mandatory and cannot be audited during the assessment and yet, if it is not performed, the whole environmental management system may not be soundly based.It is suggested that an organization with no pre-existing environmental management system should establish its current position, with regard to the environment, by a review An organization may have a clear vision of where it would like to be in terms of future environmental performance. Unless 'snapshot' of current performance is undertaken, the organization may act in an unfocused manner and not achieve this goal. So unless an organization knows where it is now with regard to its interaction with the environment, it may not be able to move in the correct direction in controlling and minimizing its environmental impacts. It is only after performing a preparatory environmental review that a meaningful environmental policy, with proper and relevant objectives and targets, can be set out. The preparatory environmental review may not be an auditable item on the external auditor's checklist but, by examining the review, the auditor will get a measure of the environmental competence of the organization and an indication of the level of understanding of environmental issues by the organization. In short, a level of confidence will be gained which can only assist in the smooth conduct of the assessment process. If an organization decides to undertake this preparatory review, there are two options open:
Perform the preparatory environmental review using internally available resources.
Perform the preparatory environmental review using external consultants.
These options are considered below.
Internally available resources
Performing the preparatory environmental review using internally available resources has its merits in that the organization can use personnel experienced in the operations of its processes and, of some importance,costs can be somewhat better controlled.Several options exist for this approach. One option is to send out questionnaires to each department head, requiring those individuals in charge to complete a series of questions, including, for example:
What materials are used
What quantities of materials are used
How much energy is used
The amount and type of waste streams
Possible emergency situations
Abnormal situations (frequency of start-ups and shut-downs, maintenance, breakdowns and incidents)
Any history of 'out of the ordinary' incidents
Any areas of training required
This will form a meaningful exercise by establishing the baseline to work from after analysis by management. Possible flaws in this approach are that staff employed to perform this task may not have the necessary expertise to carry out a meaningful review. Infact Careful review of the answers in these completed questionnaires will indicate the level of training required in the personnel completing them. Management tools such as 'brainstorming', although they are of value, will not give the same answers as hard data collection and some investigative detective work. On occasions, organizations have made the mistake of basing their preparatory review on environmental projects that are currently up and running. The rationale is that if such projects are current, then they must be important, must focus on the significant environmental impacts of the organization and, therefore, must be a sound basis to start from.
Unfortunately, although such projects may have been started with the best of intentions, they may be based upon previous initiatives (for example, a project that was topical at the time, or a project that looked easy to fulfil). The project may have been used to give credence to an individual or the organization during a marketing initiative at that time. Or again, it may have been a project which tied in with everyone's work schedules and was easy to manage, and with which everyone was comfortable because of the feeling that 'they were doing something for the environment'. Such projects may well have been reducing environmental impacts and this is no reason to abandon them. Unfortunately, because of the haphazard nature and methodology of such projects they will, in all likelihood, not be focusing on significant impacts – fundamental to ISO 14001 philosophy. It is essential if following this option that at least one senior manager in the organization has environmental expertise. If the expertise is not available within the organization, suitable existing staff might be trained by external consultants.
External environmental consultants
Quite often the individual chosen to lead the environmental management team and implement ISO 14001 is the quality assurance manager. The reasons for this choice are not always valid. Those quality assurance managers who have taken on this task invariably perform well, but usually after a painful and steep learning curve. Just because the two Standards, ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 are now very much aligned, ISO 9001 implementing experience may not bridge the shortfall in the required environmental knowledge required by the individual tasked with implementing ISO 14001. There are of course commonalities between quality systems and environmental systems and a quality manager will certainly be comfortable in the areas of operating to documented management systems: the concept of objectives and targets and continuous improvement; the requirement for self-policing (auditing); the value of reviews; and a corrective and preventive action system to allow improvements to occur. But this does not necessarily equip the manager in question with the knowledge and skills in environmental issues required for ISO 14001. That said, the requirement for in-depth environmental knowledge from within the organization need not be onerous, and much of course depends upon the complexity of the organization's environmental aspects. However, to commence from a standing start into the complex world of environmental issues and perform a meaningful preparatory review is something not to be undertaken lightly. In such cases, the organization is well advised to use the services of an consultant and ask them to perform a preparatory review prior to ISO 14001 implementation. A well-executed preparatory environmental review will generate a 'specification' for the organization in the form of a report setting out very clearly what steps are required. This will form the foundation for deriving a meaningful environmental policy and developing a robust EMS, capable of demonstrating environmental performance improvement. A typical format of a preparatory review is outlined below.
Steps to take – a checklist approach for a PER
The approach taken in PER should considers four key areas:
Legislative and regulatory requirements
Identification of significant environmental aspects
Examination of existing environmental practices and procedures
Assessment of previous incidents
Legislative and regulatory compliance
A fundamental requirement of ISO 14001 is that the organization complies with environmental law as a minimum standard. The review should identify which areas of the organization are covered by which laws. Any areas where there are breaches of legislation should be set as priority action areas.
Typical questions to ask are:
a) Is all existing legislation and other requirements being adhered to? Invariably there will be legislation relating to pollution or contamination of the three mediums air, land and water. Thus:
Air emissions: If there is an authorized process, are the requirements for measuring, monitoring and recording being complied with?
Solid waste to land: Is a waste management licence required for the site? If solid waste is taken away to landfill, do the operators of the landfill site have a licence? Does it cover the particular waste that is being removed? Does the carrier of the waste need a licence?
Water: Is there any groundwater extracted on site? Is a licence required for this? Is any effluent discharged to streams, rivers, local authority sewage systems? Is a licence to discharge required? If so, are the conditions being met?
Other requirements: For example, does the site have any obligations to comply with any town and country planning consents or building regulations?
b) Is there any forthcoming legislation which may affect the business? For example, there may be legislation in the draft stage that, if enacted, could put the organization under heavy financial strain to comply. Therefore some investigative work is required.
c) Have there been previous incidents of breaches of legislation? Has the organization been prosecuted for any breach of environmental legislation? This may point to areas of weakness in the management system.
Evaluation of significant environmental aspects
An examination of an organization's environmental aspects is a key requirement of an EMS because unless all are identified, a potentially significant impact may be overlooked.Thus the use of a checklist plus an identification of the inputs and outputs of processes will be invaluable. Using an input–output type of diagram can assist in quantifying amounts of raw materials being used, energy consumption, levels of waste, etc. The input–output diagram could be performed for each office, each department or each process as appropriate.
Input-output diagram for a fruit juice bottling plant
There are many aspects to environmental management within an organization, especially management commitment. Such commitment is demonstrated in the environmental policy and documented procedures which are necessary to ensure such policies are known, understood and followed throughout the organization. The checklist illustrates the scope of the documented management system that needs to be in place, with some typical records that need to be retained to demonstrate a minimum level of an EMS.
The preparatory environmental review should also include an assessment of previous incidents – under both abnormal and emergency situations.
Abnormal conditions generally include unexpected events and startup and shut-down of continuous processes.
Emergency conditions include fires, floods, chemical spillage and fugitive emissions of gases.
Therefore, typical questions to ask are:
Has a formalized risk assessment been carried out?
Are there emergency plans in place – especially concerning a major spillage or fire?
Are staff trained in operating to such plans?
The outcome of the inputs and outputs exercise and the review checklist can be in the form of a report to the senior management of the organization.
The preparatory environmental review report
Preparatory Environmental Review Report Executive Summary
P=priority
C=possibility of environmental complaints
G=best or good practice
P- Comply with the requirements of the coating process permit.
P- Maintain documented monitoring requirements of visual and of factory survey as required by the permit to operate.
P- Compile register of legislative and regulatory requirements.
C- Continue to research and review potential use of alternative coating processes to reduce VOC emissions by using water-based paints and inks.
C- Develop codes of practice for sub-contractors arriving on site for the proposed extension to the factory to reduce fugitive dust emissions.
G- Monitor and control external noise emissions and intrusive lighting as appropriate, to reduce disturbance to adjacent sensitive amenity areas.
Discharges:
P- Ensure continual compliance with trade effluent consents to discharge.
C- Determine the precise route and discharge outfall of the surface water drainage system in order to establish if there is a pathway for solvent spillages from the main chemical stores.
C- Ensure that all site drains are mapped and covers to the surface water and foul sewer are painted different colours to aid identification.
G- Carry out regular inspection and maintenance of surface water interceptors and draw up an operational control to manage this.
Waste management:
P- Monitor and ensure regulatory compliance with regard to maximum allowable storage requirements of dry wastes.
P- Ensure all waste disposal facilities are appropriately licensed.
G- Clearly label all waste collection areas to assist in the segregation of waste.
Storage facilities:
P- Establish whether bunds at the tank farm have 110% capacity.
G- Provide adequate labelling of hazardous raw material stores.
G- Investigate feasibility of storing chemical drums under cover to prevent water ingress and reduction of risk of damage by vandals.
G- Perform regular inspections and maintenance of bulk storage tanks.
G- Perform an energy audit and draw up measures for heat conservation in warehouses.
G- Limit the variety of packaging used to facilitate easier segregation of waste.
P- Increase the environmental awareness of key suppliers through questionnaires and assistance with ISO 14001 implementation where appropriate.
G- Provide customers with environmental performance criteria of finished products; increase their understanding of their duty to inform end users of the safe and appropriate disposal at end of life of products.
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Faculty of Arts and Science
2019 Dean's Awards for Excellence
Staff, faculty and research chairs shine at the Dean's Awards for Excellence
By Elisabeth Faure
Source: Faculty of Arts and Science
Back row, left - right: Alexandre Morin, Mircea Mandache, Gavin Taylor, Christopher Brett, Brandon Helfield Front row, left - right: Sylvain David, Krist Beyers-Heinlein, Sheri Kuit, Sylvia Kairouz, Dean André Roy, Mihaela Iordanova, Aasiq Kachroo, Alicia Piekny, and Richard Courtemanche
Staff, faculty and research chairs shine at the Dean's Award for Excellence
On Tuesday, November 26, members of the Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS) gathered at Loyola campus to applaud the winners of the annual Dean's Awards for Excellence.
"It is truly an honour to be awarded the Dean's Award for Excellence in Service by a Staff Member!" said honoree Sheri Kuit, department administrator, Sociology and Anthropology.
"To be recognized by members of the Concordia community, who I have the utmost respect for, is an amazing feeling."
Dean André Roy (left), Roy, Sheri Kuit, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Fellow staff member Mircea Mandache, graduate program assistant for the departments of Journalism and Communication Studies, was also honoured for excellence in service.
"I always felt fortunate to work in the Departments of Journalism and Communication Studies and being nominated and receiving this award is a reaffirmation of how great this community is. Having great students and amazing faculty and colleagues made managing the six graduate programs possible."
Dean André Roy and Mircea Mandache, Department of Communication Studies, Department of Journalism
The awards had traditionally been given to staff and faculty alone, but in 2015, Faculty of Arts and Science Dean André Roy made the decision to include more members of the FAS community.
"Early on in my mandate, I decided to expand the traditional Staff and Faculty Awards to include new Chairs, and other faculty who have earned distinction over the past year," said Roy.
"So, now we have the Dean's Excellence Awards each year. With so much excellence in our community, there's a lot to celebrate! This evening is always one of the highlights of my year. Each of the honorees has contributed something special to our shared project, and it is wonderful to gather and recognize their achievements together."
Dean André Roy and Alexandre J.S. Morin, Department of Psychology
Alexandre J.S. Morin, who joined the Department of Psychology in January of 2017, earned an award for Excellence in Scholarship (Senior)."Concordia University feels like an oasis where all forms of diversity are not only welcome, but celebrated," said Morin.
"High-caliber research is truly supported and valued. Being nominated for this award is for me a form of recognition of having made the right decision in joining this University, and an immense encouragement to keep on doing what I do best."
The awards offered Roy a chance to thank the FAS people who have made his tenure as Dean so memorable. Roy will end his term in the summer of 2020.
"This being my last year as Dean , I can honestly say that it is the people in our faculty who have most impressed me over the last six years," he said.
"I look forward to seeing what all of tonight's honorees will be doing in the years to come!"
The Honorees
Dean's Award for Excellence in Service by Staff
Sheri Kuit, Department Administrator, Sociology and Anthropology
Mircea Mandache, Graduate Program Assistant, Department of Communication Studies and Department of Journalism
Dean's Award for Excellence in Service by Faculty
Richard Courtemanche, Department of Health, Kinesiology and Applied Physiology
Gavin Taylor, Department of History
Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching
Sylvain David, Département d'Études françaises
Sylvia Kairouz, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Dean's Award for Excellence in Scholarship – Junior
Mihaela Iordanova, Department of Psychology
Fenwick McKelvey, Department of Communication Studies
Excellence in Scholarship – Mid-career
Krista Byers-Heinlein, Department of Psychology
Christopher Brett, Department of Biology
Dean's Award for Excellence in Scholarship – Senior
Alexandre J.S. Morin, Department of Psychology
Concordia University Research Chairs
Linda Booij, Department of Psychology
Concordia University Research Chair Tier 2, Eating Disorders
Alisa Piekny, Department of Biology
Concordia University Research Chair ,Tier 2, Cancer Cell Biology
Jason Camlot, Department of English
Concordia University Research Chair, Tier 1, Literature and Sound Studies
Brandon Helfield, Joint appointment, Department of Physics and Department of Biology
Canada Research Chair Tier 2, Molecular Biophysics in Human Health
Canada Research Chair Tier 2, Behavioural Neuroscience)
Aashiq Kachroo, Department of Biology
Canada Research Chair Tier 2, Synthetic Biology
General interest awards accolades


Stranraer boss Brian Reid has completed the double signing of Luciano Nequecaur and Jamie McCluskey.
Nequecaur, a 23-year-old striker, makes the move after previously playing in Argentina while winger McCluskey can count Hibernian, Dundee, Forfar and Morton among his former clubs.
Stranraer's next match in Ladbrokes League 1 is at home to Stenhousemuir on Saturday.


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Misfortune, sadness, loss, melancholy, hopelessness, politics and love affect us all.
So much so that once set to music by a twelve stringed guitar it became a part of UNESCO's world heritage. The origins of Fado (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈfaðu]) meaning "destiny" or "fate" likely started as an oral tradition without lyrics or music. At some point it was set to music played on an "English guitar" which had come to Portugal in the 1750ies and after modifications became a "Portuguese guitar". It was sung in brothels and watering holes of Lisbon's Alfama district frequented by sailors, dock- and other blue collar workers. Originally shunned by established poets, aristocracy and nobility the myth based on the 19th century forbidden love story between Count Vimioso and Maria Severa Onofriana a Roma prostitute with a voice may have bridged the gap between the social classes. By the early 20th century famous poems were set to music and the singing tradition became upwards mobile introduced in music halls, on film and recorded.
The 1926 military coup introduced censorship and improvisation was stripped out as censors must approve of shows before going public. Ergo the political commentary and songs about civil inequalities all but disappeared from public view. Yet the genres popularity grew and a National competition of singers began in 1953 and is still going annually. As the military rule came to an end in 1974 Fado lost some appeal as it had seen as a tool during the dictatorship. However it revived and in 1998 got its own museum quay side in Alfama.
It was the museum which organized the tour we embarked on this Friday evening. With our bums firmly on the stone steps of one of the many stairs in the hilly district the performance began. The "fadista" and the two guitarists took us through the melodic ups and downs of the song. That we understood nothing of the words didn't matter. As locals came out on the street it became a true sing-a-long. After that the applauses died down Andreia our English speaking guide took us along for a walk through the neighbourhood and stopped here and there to tell the history and share folklore.
We stopped at another set of steps and the performers took tune. As the words and tones bounced between the stone walls windows opened and residents joined in singing along and keeping the beat. It was a true joy to see the engagement of the many local women who Oooohhheed and Aaaahhhed in all the right places. Needless to say the performers were rewarded with raucous applauses before we all moved on again. As Andreia continued to educate the group we passed by numerous small venues advertising Fado performances with the night's dinner. The third performance was presented on Plaza España where in front of the pink Fado museum the crowd quickly grew to three four deep and ended the tour on a high note, us wanting more.
To get it we visited the Museum which tells the history on film, in pictures, shows the cultural influences and exhibits the instruments used. A wide selection of samples can be enjoyed in a listening room through headsets.
Now what remained was to select one of the restaurants offering nightly performances. We settled on "A Baiuca" loosely translated "a low-level eating establishment" ironically enough with a minimum consumption of twenty-five Euros per person, is just such a hole in the wall offering Fado nightly. Here of the "vadio" variant meaning that anyone who feels compelled can air their lungs. Luckily the wiser of us two hade made a reservation and we squeezed in at a tiny table whilst olives, bread and cheese landed in front of us without a word. As it was not complementary we limited our intake and picked a main off the menu. The food lived up to the name as did the house wine of the box variety. Not even the entertainment started off well as the first singer did not impress. However we were saved from the tourist trap as the evening continued and the quality of the singers grew. In a break a few hours later as we thought that we had our fill and asked to pay for the evening we were encouraged to hang around a bit longer. The reason soon became evident as the owner Henrique Gascon, a burly man took to the "stage" (a corner of the restaurant) and entertained the jam packed restaurant. Even if we did not remember the food his "rubato" had rubbed off and echoed out in the alley as we walked back to the hotel.
Fado Museum: Largo do Chafariz de Dentro, N.º 1, www.museudofado.pt/
Restaurant: "A Baiuca", Rua de São Miguel, 20, Alfama Phone: 21 886 7284


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Hope 2011 is treating you swell. It has been a great winter so far for the Southside CSA. We have had 2 great Winter Share distributions. The fresh pea shoots are heaven sent, the frozen tomatoes, broccoli, & corn add the most fabulous touch to my seasonal stews, and don't even get me started about the frozen raspberries and blueberries. Beyond brilliant. And our Broken Stove Beer share has its first distribution this upcoming Monday. Homebrew hurrah!
Dec 2010 Winter Sun Share.
Of course, the Winter (Sun) Share & MimoMex Eggs have made us nostalgic for the sunny days of eating berries in the backyard while plotting something wicked for the BBQ.
Our farmers will need to sell more eggs, especially as the weather gets warmer. Yup, that's right folks. The focus on the farm has turned to Spring planting and plans for warmer weather. The chickens start laying more eggs as the temps creep back above freezing. Because there are not as many year round greenmarkets, our farmer needs a market for his eggs. To that end, we want to add another egg share distribution starting in March. Stay tuned for sign up details coming Sun Jan 23rd.
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