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Review: Dashing Through the Snowbirds (Meg Langslow #32), by Donna Andrews
I received an ARC of this book from Net Galley. All opinions, etc., are my own.
I admit it. I wait anxiously for each new Donna Andrews book, and this was no exception. Dashing Through the Snowbirds is her 32nd Meg Langslow mystery, and opening it was like seeing an old friend after a hiatus.
It contains all the usual elements: Meg & her marvelous family and numerous friends, the residents of Caerphilly, the usual Christmas madness that overtakes the town, a murder, and three (count ’em!) mysteries to resolve. It also has enough easter eggs (n terms of jokes and name-checks) to keep her readers happy.
My only problem with this book is that I am now caught up on all of Meg’s adventures to date, and now have to go back into waiting for the next one. As my mom would have said, “This should be my biggest problem.”
This is the one bit of Christmas before Halloween that I wait for, and I think that once you enter Meg’s world, you will too.


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New York Burrito Company promises to offer lip-smacking food with an Indian twist. Get ready to fall in love with our 100% Vegetarian as well as Jain Mexican flavours that are as authentic as the ones you will get at any Mexican joint in New York. Continue reading This Burrito Restaurant Serves 100% Vegetarian and Jain Mexican Flavours!
Located in Gurgaon’s upmarket 32nd Milestone, THC – The House of Celeste is a progressive Indian restaurant that showcases a borderless cuisine with Indian elements. Continue reading The House of Celeste Reopens for Diners
Get ready to rejoice the festive fervor of Patiala in Pune as Courtyard by Marriott Pune Hinjewadi brings in Patiala House 2.0 from 14th to 19th January, 2020. To celebrate the traditional harvest festival with a gastronomical expedition of Punjab, Courtyard by Marriott, Pune Hinjewadi invites the foodies of the city to experience vibrant colors and authentic flavors with lip-smacking Punjabi food at MoMo Café. … Continue reading Celebrating Harvest Festival at Patiala House 2.0 at Courtyard by Marriott Pune Hinjewadi
As we turn the page on the year that has gone by, come and celebrate this New Year in desi style at Courtyard by Marriott Pune Hinjewadi. Discover a world of extraordinary moments and create memorable memories by raising a toast to 2020 with your friends and family. Bollywood Flashback: Head over to the perfect party destination in the heart of Hinjewadi and celebrate the … Continue reading Ring in 2020 at Courtyard by Marriott Pune Hinjewadi
Binge on to the rich aromatic Parsi delicacies at EarthPlate this whole month and reminisce the love for Parsi Food all over again.
Continue reading Gorge on to some scrumptious Parsi delights at the Cultures of Mumbai in Hotel Sahara Star
Raftaar – a newly opened high speed lounge & bar at Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi, is making its speedy entry in the world of food and beverage industry. Located at the Club Road, the place surely has the advantage to attract footfall at the lounge. The whole concept of the lounge and bar relies on speed so named Raftaar.
With action and power-packed ambience, the place is a complete gear of fine dining and clubbing with family and friends. The place is meant to indulge you into delicious food and drinks and makes you party all night with electronic dance music. Continue reading “Are You Ready for a Foodilicious Ride at Raftaar? | Delhi Restaurant Press Release”
Yauatcha, the dim-sum teahouse from London, is celebrating the popular Mid-Autumn Festival of China with the introduction of limited edition moon cakes from September 1st to September 30th, 2016 at their restaurant. Like most Chinese festivals, the Mid-Autumn Festival too has its dedicated delicacy, the moon cake, whose shape symbolises reunion and togetherness in the Chinese culture. Continue reading “Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival at Yauatcha with Limited Edition Moon Cakes”
Mix and Match Limited-Time New Smoke, Fire and Spice Menu Highlights Global, Ethnic Flavors
Hard Rock Cafe India is serving up a new menu, only till 30th September, that embraces the hottest global ethnic street flavors. The new menu, Smoke Fire Spice, draws inspiration from the spices, seasonings and sauces of popular street foods found around the world including Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Jay Singh, Co-Founder and Executive Director, JSM Corporation said, “The trend of fusing ethnic flavors creatively is widely gaining prominence today. The consumers in India have become extremely receptive to international flavors and have developed a great fondness towards it. Hard Rock Cafe’s Smoke, Fire & Spice menu, thus, aims to appease their evolving palates and showcase an array of the most popular global flavors to them. Also, as a country that devours grills, we are certain to take visitors on a culinary sojourn with the new festival.”
Continue reading “Hard Rock Cafe India Grills up Tantalizing International Flavours”
Niche Café restaurant, promoted by Mr. Suresh Kanchan, has recently launched its first outlet at Dahisar East in Mumbai. The authentically prepared Italian, Mexican, Continental cuisines at Niche Café will tickle the most discerning taste buds, making it a finest dining experience. The food is healthy, fresh and prepared with superior ingredients, pronounced creativity and complimented with prompt services. It is served on white cutlery to add to the hygiene. Continue reading “Experience the Taste of Italy at Niche Cafe in Mumbai”

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Perched on a plateau 500 vertical metres above the Upper Inntal Valley, close to the entrance to Kaunertal Valley, lies a village offering spectacular views: Fendels. Here at 1,350 metres above sea level visitors can marvel at the craggy mountains and lush valleys of the Tiroler Oberland.
The municipality has just 250 inhabitants, making it one of the smallest in Tirol. This is also reflected in its villages, which have managed to retain their original charm and character. In the local parish church visitors will find several examples of wood carving, a handicraft inextricably linked to the history of Fendels and its residents. Just outside the village is the "Fallender Bach", a spectacular 160m waterfall. A hike to this natural attraction can be easily combined with a stop at the Anton-Renk-Hütte hut. A cable car connecting Fendels to both the village of Ried on the valley floor and the Sattelklause ridge 400 metres further up the mountain makes it easy to get around throughout the year. In winter Fendels is home to a family-friendly ski resort with its own 4.5km toboggan run.

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A workshop on the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) measurements in weather and climate with emphasis on water vapor determination, was organized by the National Environmental Research Council's (NERC) Environmental Systems Science Centre (ESSC), at the University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, and took place there 29-31 August 2001. This paper gives a broad over-view and general background of the use of GPS data for weather and climate. It outlines the objectives of the workshop and presents ongoing national, regional, and international activities both for ground-based and satellite-based systems. This includes work in the United States, China, and Japan, and different European efforts, including activities under European Community programs. Data assimilation of GPS data for weather prediction and climate is discussed as are ways in which to develop GPS-based systems to become an integrated part of the World Weather Watch. This includes ways of systematically using GPS data from the international geodetic network for climate monitoring purposes.


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Tanner Sanders is one of the big-named prospects in the Pacific Northwest for the 2014 recruiting cycle and the Corvallis (Ore.) Crescent Valley athlete attended the Oregon State-Wisconsin game last weekend.
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To book your child’s appointment at Sheridan for mandatory COVID-19 testing on October 5th or 6th, please follow the steps below:
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The man who robbed a bank live on Facebook is charged, FBI says
The man accused of robbing a bank in Miami — and then giving away the loot while standing on the trunk of a car in front of a crowd in Miami Beach —will claim insanity at his trial, according to court records.
Circuit Court Judge Ursula Ungaro signed an order last month for psychiatrists or psychologists to examine Enrique Antonio Gámez and determine whether he may have been insane on the day in January when he allegedly stole $11,000 from the bank and then drove to South Beach where he threw the money in the air while atop the car trunk as the crowd rushed to pick up the falling dollar bills.
The judge’s order followed a motion by Gámez’s lawyer, Robert Erickson, in which he notified the court he intended to use an insanity defense at trial.
Erickson’s motion prompted Ungaro to issue her order.
The trial, which had been set for May 30, has been delayed until at least August.
This is the second time the court has tried to establish if Gámez is mentally fit to stand trial.
An initial medical examination concluded that Gámez, 35, was mentally fit for trial. He was arraigned and pleaded not guilty.
The case drew international attention because it unfolded on Ocean Drive in South Beach and was streamed live on social media.
It began when Gámez allegedly abducted the driver of a private taxi service and forced him to take him to the bank in Brickell’s financial sector south of downtown Miami, where he allegedly stole $11,000. Then, authorities say, Gámez ordered the driver to take him to South Beach.


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Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors, Manassas, Virginia, is being awarded a $10,415,473 cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-reimbursable contract modification for engineering services and associated support efforts for U.S. Navy submarine integrated submarine imaging systems (ISIS). ISIS provides mission-critical, all-weather, visual and electronic search, digital-image management, indication, warning, and platform architecture interface capabilities for Los Angeles-class, Seawolf-class, Ohio-class and Virginia-class submarines with potential for Trident-class and other submarines. ISIS rolls-up existing components and near-term capabilities; and provides a robust architecture for efficiently inserting future capabilities, including items leveraged from Virginia-class photonics program. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington DC, is the contracting activity.


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Slight Work - Wale
Feel So Close (Nero Remix) - Calvin Harris
Eyes Wide Open - Gotye
Heartbeat - Childish Gambino (this song never gets old to me)

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This is mark Joseph “young” blog entry #306, on the subject of Versers Refocused.
With permission of Valdron Inc I have previously completed publishing my first four novels, Verse Three, Chapter One: The First Multiverser Novel, Old Verses New, For Better or Verse, and Spy Verses, in serialized form on the web (those links will take you to the table of contents for each book). Along with each book there was also a series of web log posts looking at the writing process, the decisions and choices that delivered the final product; those posts are indexed with the chapters in the tables of contents pages. Now as I have posted the fifth, Garden of Versers, I am again offering a set of “behind the writings” insights. This “behind the writings” look may contain spoilers because it sometimes talks about my expectations for the futures of the characters and stories–although it sometimes raises ideas that were never pursued, as being written partially concurrently with the story it sometimes discusses where I thought it was headed. You might want to read the referenced chapters before reading this look at them. Links below (the section headings) will take you to the specific individual chapters being discussed, and there are (or will soon be) links on those pages to bring you back hopefully to the same point here.
There is also a section of the site, Multiverser Novel Support Pages, in which I have begun to place materials related to the novels beginning with character papers for the major characters, giving them at different stages as they move through the books.
This is the eighth mark Joseph “young” web log post covering this book, covering chapters 85 through 96. Previous web log posts covering this book include:
- Versers Reorient, the first twelve chapters of the book;
- Versers Resettle, chapters 13 through 24;
- Versers Reveal, chapters 25 through 36;
- Versers React, chapters 37 through 48;
- Versers in Action, chapters 49 through 60;
- Versers Relate, chapters 61 through 72;
- Versers Challenged, chapters 73 through 84.
History of the series, including the reason it started, the origins of character names and details, and many of the ideas, are in those earlier posts, and won’t be repeated here.
Quick links to discussions in this page:
Chapter 85, Hastings 159
Chapter 86, Brown 174
Chapter 87, Beam 23
Chapter 88, Hastings 160
Chapter 89, Kondor 150
Chapter 90, Beam 24
Chapter 91, Hastings 161
Chapter 92, Slade 150
Chapter 93, Beam 25
Chapter 94, Hastings 162
Chapter 95, Brown 175
Chapter 96, Beam 26
I was pushing to get through the recounting of the previous novels, and finally concluded it.
I had realized several chapters before that Lauren didn’t know the names of any of the people who took care of her, and that this was one of her problems, of forgetting that the people around her were real people and she should care about them. She hadn’t figured out yet why she was there, partly because she had been focused on getting out of there.
At this point my challenge was to put the clues in place without giving away the mystery. I’m not sure how successful I was; at this point it looks obvious to me, but then, I already know the solution.
I was well behind my outline when I reached this chapter, but it managed to go smoothly and cover more than I expected. I had already written most of the next two chapters, to give Kyler ideas, but the day I wrote this I had been feeling ill and lost a few hours, and it was late by the time I got this far, so I postponed the others to get more sleep.
The problem here is that her life is filled with inconsequential characters, but she can’t treat them like inconsequential people. That means I can’t just write them off with “he tells you his name”, because names matter. One of these people might become important; the problem is that she can’t know which one at this point, so they all have to be given equal importance in the text, and I have to burn through and remember a lot of names.
I was thinking that I hadn’t made my mystery tough enough, so I was trying to stretch the solution over several chapters. I’m not at all certain how to resolve the matter—whether there will be a rescue or whether the kidnapper will surrender. For the moment, though, the plot is still being examined.
I had been imagining this chapter from the moment Kyler had explained the dysfunctional ring, and had written a substantial part of it in notes as “this is where I think we’re headed here”. In the previous Beam chapter I had hinted but not actually stated that he put the dragon control ring on the finger on which he had worn his wedding band some years before, because I needed a reason why someone would remove it, and the new wedding ring was the obvious one.
As I recall, Sophia was something of a composite created by our collaboration. She had to be a redhead because that’s Beam’s weakness (mentioned previously), and she had to be a witch because we needed to give him a support team that had power before the end of the book and he already had a powerful psionicist and a demonstrably weak wizard, plus a superb fighter. She also had to have a strong personality, the kind who was going to fight with Beam but still love him.
I was looking for direction for Lauren, and what occurred to her is what occurred to me. I’m not yet sure how it’s going to work, but I’m going to lay some groundwork here.
Kyler and I had a discussion about whether Lauren’s identification of Jesus should be capitalized “the Son of God” or left in lower case, “the son of God”. The argument was that in this instance it was not a title or name but a descriptor, and so did not get capitalized.
I kept swithering about the raid, on the one hand thinking that this could be resolved without violence, on the other hand thinking that it was going to end badly for someone. At this point I decided on the raid, partly because I needed some good story and more action, partly because it was the best resolution I could find for the events to this point. I also decided who was going to die in that raid, and some of the aftermath.
One of the challenges of this chapter was putting the right words in the right mouths. I had to assume that Vashti was back with the entourage and therefore couldn’t say anything here; that means that the pieces of information about family and culture had to come from people who knew them, pieced together by the legal and logical knowledge of the others. More than once I started to write something and decided that someone else had to say it.
I had been thinking for quite a while that Derek has to ask Shella to tell Vashti what it would mean for her to marry him and become a verser, but I didn’t want to get into those details too deeply. I knew that it would be simple to have the actual conversation between the girls offstage, since neither of them are viewpoint characters. Putting the initial conversation between Derek and Shella offstage as well meant that I could return with Vashti talking about what impacted her from that discussion, without dealing with what she might or might not know otherwise.
I wrote most of this chapter months before, as the transition from the wedding to the new world, but I had to add material describing what was known of the new world. I had wanted it to be a place with enough technology that Beam could recharge the Pyronics 2000 and obtain some other high-tech weaponry, with a high psi bias so Bob would be back in form, and a flatlined mag bias so my new witch would be mostly useless. I tossed around a number of ideas, including the Titanic and another space ship of some sort, but settled on an automated mecha war zone. The bunker was a good starting place.
I had been worrying about how to get Lauren out of this world, but I almost abruptly figured out how to do it. I started working toward that here, as she shares the gospel with her caregivers.
The difficulty here was that I wanted to go directly to the interview with Bilhah, but I couldn’t get past the conversation about becoming a verser between Derek and Vashti.
I realized while I was in the middle of this that somewhere I had a resource for titles in different cultures; I just didn’t know whether Caliph was on it. It was, but the feminine forms weren’t, so I looked them up.
There were several things I wanted to accomplish in this world, mostly in terms of supplying Beam with needed equipment, also in creating the foundation of a relationship between him and Sophia. I wasn’t sure how I was going to do it all, but I decided to start with food.
This has been the eighth behind the writings look at Garden of Versers. If there is interest and continued support from readers we will endeavor to continue publishing the novel and these behind the writings posts for it.

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The Geierlay crossing a valley
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The Geierlay is a suspension bridge in the low mountain range of the Hunsrück in central Germany. It was opened in 2015. It has a span range of 360 metres (1,180 ft) and is up to 100 metres (330 ft) above ground. On both sides of the bridge are the villages of Mörsdorf and Sosberg. A stream named Mörsdorfer Bach runs through the valley below the bridge. The nearest city is Kastellaun 8 km eastwards. The state capital Mainz is 66 km towards east.
The bridge has a weight of 57 tons and can support 50 tons. It is a pedestrians only bridge and is open permanently without a fee for walking on the bridge. Twenty per cent of all visitors visiting the bridge do not cross it. The bridge site is within the Top 100 sightseeing destinations in Germany.
Swiss Engineer Hans Pfaffen designed the bridge with similarities to Nepalese suspension bridges.
- "Geierlay-Brücke im Hunsrück: Hängebrücke wird zum Touristenmagneten - FOCUS Online". Focus.de (in German). 2017-01-17. Retrieved 2017-05-24.
- "Hängeseilbrücke Geierlay". Kastellaun.de. Retrieved 2017-05-24.
- "HÄNGESEILBRÜCKE GEIERLAY : Fragen & Antworten" (PDF). Hunsruecktouristik.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-05-24.
- "Deutschland: Die längste Hängeseilbrücke der Republik - SPIEGEL ONLINE". Spiegel.de. 2016-11-07. Retrieved 2017-05-24.
- "Fakten & Technik - Hängeseilbrücke Geierlay". Geierlay.de. Retrieved 2017-05-24.
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FIBER LINKS AND FREQUENCY COMBS
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- Ecole de Physique - Les Houches
High Precision Physics using an Optical Fibre Link and Optical Frequency Comb
The French Optical Society (Société Francaise d’Optique) is happy to announce a new series of annual international thematic schools devoted to hot topics in optics and photonics, held every year at Les Houches School of Physics.
After more than 15 years of development, optical fiber links and optical frequency combs are now sufficiently mature to be spread and shared outside the time/frequency metrological institutes. The school follows on from the international development of optical fiber links and its objective is thus to broadcast among a wide community of physicist the possibilities of high precision measurement thanks to the optical fiber transfer of an optical frequency reference, coupled to a frequency comb. These setup enable any laboratory to access an ultrastable and accurate reference frequency which opens the way to high-precision experiments in a wide range of physical domain. In order to benefit from its metrological performance, the optical reference frequency disseminated by optical fiber links can then be transferred to a wide spectral range from RF to UV frequencies thanks to optical frequency combs. In addition, these combs are ideal tools for high-resolution atomic and molecular spectroscopy.
The attendants will learn both the basics, performance and limitations of these two tools and how to take advantage of them for high-precision measurements. The applications in sight concern for instance tests of fundamental physics, atomic and molecular high-resolution spectroscopy using either stabilized lasers or new spectroscopic methods, frequency transfer for radio astronomy and geodesy and novel applications concerning Earth observation.


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Gay marriage ruling galvanizes both sides
Decision by a California court allowing gay unions reflects a judiciary moving in one direction and legislatures in another.
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A California court's ruling that gay marriage is constitutional in the state has given new fodder to both sides waging one of the nation's most complex and emotional debates.
For supporters of gay marriage, the decision is a boost as they press their cause in other states. Opponents of gay marriage, meanwhile, have vowed to appeal this and other rulings, while also planning to take their case to state legislatures.
Indeed right now, the nation's courts and the legislatures, in general, have been deciding the legitimacy of gay marriage on opposite tracks. The courts have tended to rule in favor of gay couples, finding their rights are violated if they are not granted the same protections and responsibilities as heterosexuals. At the same, and often in response to such rulings, state legislatures, as well as popular referendums, have voted to ban gay unions, contending they are a threat to traditional marriage.
The intensity of the debate, combined with the relatively slow way in which it's being resolved, is reflective of the way the nation has dealt with controversial social issues in the past. For instance, supporters of gay marriage point out that it was two decades after a California court ruled a ban on interracial marriage unconstitutional that the US Supreme Court concurred, in 1967.
For supporters of gay marriage, the parallel with the civil rights movement is heartening. After all, it's been almost 15 years since the Hawaii Supreme Court first ruled in favor of gay marriage. Now lower courts in both New York and California have called on the civil rights battles of the past to justify their rulings in favor of gay marriage.
But opponents say that comparing gay marriage with the civil rights movement is comparing apples and oranges. They believe the rulings that forbade polygamy provide a better parallel.
Yet either way, scholars say past battles over deeply emotional social issues provide a good road map for at least understanding the current debate. "California is a bellwether state - it started the no-fault divorce revolution," says Bill Duncan, director of the Marriage Law Foundation in Provo, Utah, a legal-research nonprofit organization opposed to gay marriage. "We are watching it very carefully."
In Monday's ruling, San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer ruled that denying same-sex couples the right to marry violated the equal-protection clause. "Simply put, same-sex marriage cannot be prohibited solely because California has always done so before," the ruling continued.
The decision was a victory for advocates of gay marriage, in particular because of Judge Kramer's reliance on logic from previous civil rights cases.
"All of those prior issues were deemed to be incredibly divisive and intractable in their times, but eventually the country came to a consensus," says Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
Opponents have called the ruling "mind boggling" and an "attack on marriage." They argue that marriage is a unique institution that should be defined as solely between a man and a woman to protect the upbringing of children. They dismiss studies that have found that children do well as long as there are two loving parents, regardless of their gender. Instead, they point to studies that show children do best with both a father and a mother.
They've also pledged to fight in the California Legislature and others across the country to roll back court rulings in favor of same-sex marriages.
"Every time you have a judicial ruling, it lights a fire that fuels a locomotive on the legislative track," says Carrie Gordon Earll, spokeswoman for Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Advocates of gay marriage believe that time is on their side. While they acknowledge they've had setbacks on legislative fronts, they note that public opinion is now moving in favor or granting same-sex couples some rights. They also argue the legitimacy of same-sex unions in Massachusetts and Vermont will prove to be beacons for the whole nation.
"It's like showing the lie to the right-wing rhetoric," says Jon Davidson, legal director of Lambda, a gay-rights legal-defense fund. "Marriage has not ended, and civilization has not ended."
But opponents are just as adamant that their side will prevail. They note that more than a dozen other states are now considering banning gay marriage.
"I'm not arguing that the sky will fall tomorrow, but there will be subtle changes and messages that would be sent," says Mr. Duncan. "Those messages in the long run will not be helpful to our society."
Opponents have 60 days to appeal the California ruling.

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2009 Cannes – May 15 redcarpet fashion
Friday at the 62nd Cannes International Film Festival was marked by screening of two films, the in competition Bright Star and Un Certain Regard Precious.
Bright star starring English actor Ben Whishaw and Australian cutie dating Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, is about the love affair between poet John Keats, who died at the age of 25, and his young neighbor Fanny Brawne.
Abbie Cornish arrived at the screening in a beautiful purple tiered, pleated purple dress. She looked beautiful but was anyway overshadowed by Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria who dazzled the redcarpet in the ice blue Atelier Versace Spring 2009 gown with a shimmering train.
To look absolutely stunning she paired her look with her favorite Yves Saint Laurent platform slingbacks and her beloved accessory – a basketball player hubby Tony Parker who looked dapper cute in the black tux.
Alongside Bright Star Cannes guests could enjoy Precious starring Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz, Paul Patton, Mo’Nique and Gabourey Sidibe.
The film was honored the Best Drama award honored at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and stands all chances to win everybody’s heart here, at Cannes.
It tells a heartbreaking story of abuse, neglect and despair portraying life of the HIV-positive 16 year old New York girl who’s pregnant with her second child after being repeatedly sexually abused by her farther.
Mariah Carey looks unrecognizable in this film playing a so-not-glam social worker who tries to help the girl. Gabourey Sidibe playing Precious is absolutely stunning in the role, she’s really good, especially if we take into consideration it’s her first movie role ever.
Mariah Carey looked elegant at Precious photocall in the ivory dress that she changed for a black designer gown during the screening later that night.
Precious became Mariah’s fourth film in career and is actually the only one so far that’s worth watching at all.
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A Delicious Pot-au-feu
「Ohh, it sure is a feast today」
Ergys-san said happily as he looked at the dishes on the table.
In front of our eyes was a pot-au-feu[i] that is full of ingredients such as potatoes, carrots, sausages, cabbage and broccoli. A stir-fry made using vegetables and mushrooms with butter, fried chicken with herbs, and bread which was cut into bite-sized pieces with some creamy cheese on the side.
It’s no exaggeration to call this menu a feast. Just looking at it put a smile on my face.
「We have a new resident in this village starting today. It’s a celebration for that」
「Yeah. We’re celebrating tonight. Let me open a ten-year-old wine」
I slowly lowered my head and thanked them after listening to their heart-warming words.
I have already encountered such kind people all the way out here in no time. I am so deeply moved that tears almost came out.
Ergys-san got up from his seat in a hurry and left the room, and before long, he returned with a wine bottle in his hand. As he had a somewhat delightful look on his face, I really understood that he saved his best wine for last.
I accidently muttered out the brand of the wine.
「This wine was made at Aisha-chan’s place 」
Ah, right. Aisha is a grape farmer, and I see that she simply used the place of production as the wine’s brand name.
As Ergys-san is in the process of uncorking the wine, Fiona-san brought out four wine glasses without asking.
「Aisha-chan’s wine is smooth and easy to drink. Even though our Flora doesn’t really like wine, she still likes the wine that Aisha-chan makes」
Flora is softly hitting Fiona-san’s shoulders with her hands while looking downwards, seemingly embarrassed.
Hehh, I’m looking forward to this.
So, that straight-forward Aisha was the one who made this wine… Well, her personality and the grapes have nothing to do with each other.
The sound of the cork popping echoed in the room, then each of the wine glasses were filled to the brim with red wine. The rich aroma of grapes hung in the air.
「Well then, a toast to celebrate a new resident of the village, Aldo-san! 」
Matching the words of Ergys-san, each one of us lightly clinked our wine glasses together.
The unique, high pitch noise from clinking wine glasses together sounded in the room, and everyone brought their glasses to their mouths.
「Wow, this is easy to drink. It’s so smooth」
As expected from a ten-year-old wine, the taste has a mild sweetness.
The astringency is just right. If it’s like this, even people who don’t like the distinctive astringent taste of red wines can drink this.
「Was this to your liking? 」
「Yes, very much so」
I want to drink this every day.
「The cheese here was also made in this village. It totally goes well together with the wine」
Ergys-san might have sensed how much I liked this wine, so with a somewhat happy look, he recommended the cheese to go with it.
I quickly take some cheese as I was already drinking the red wine, so it would be a waste to not try the cheese out together with it like he said.
Then, I rubbed some of the creamy cheese onto a piece of bite-sized cut bread.
As the piece of bread got quickly covered in a thick layer of cheese, I put the mouth watering food into my mouth.
The taste of the cheese with a thickness that is just right spread in my mouth all at once.
Then, as I enjoy the taste of the cheese with a little chewing, I also take in the smooth wine.
The rich flavored wine and the cheese, with a smell and taste that’s just right, have the perfect affinity with each other.
「This goes so well together! 」
「I know, right? 」
Ergys-san answered me with a smile as he puts some cheese on a piece of bread and enjoys it with wine as well.
Flora and Fiona-san, who are sitting in front of me, seem to be eating the wine and cheese with good manners.
This combination of cheese and wine with the same place of origin has reminded me of something Kiel had said in the past. He said that if the distinct flavors of the wine and cheese go well with each other, they would not overlap and fight. Following his words, I feel like the combination of this wine and cheese goes so well together that it’s like a marriage.
I was not interested in wine at that time, so I can’t remember what else he said. However, I feel like I can drink any amount of glasses with this combo.
I continue to eat and drink before the cheese cools down, as it won’t taste as good when that happens.
In the middle of eating, I noticed there was cheese dripping down from Flora’s mouth due to it being too creamy, but I did not stare at her directly. I mean, I understood that she was embarrassed as her face was red already.
After that, eighty percent of the cheese was consumed, and I start with the huge pot-au-feu that is in front of me.
I cut the large potatoes into halves in a flash, and put them in my mouth.
It was properly seasoned with salt, pepper, and herbs. The flavor of the soup which was sucked in by the potatoes was the best. It gave the simple, steaming hot potatoes a nice highlight.
It was quite different from the simple pot-au-feu that was served in inns.
The spoon scooping the soup does not stop.
「This pot-au-fu is super delicious. You can even start your own restaurant」
「Ara, that’s good for you, Flora. The pot-au-feu you made is being greatly praised」
「T, Thank you very much」
Flora glanced at me with an upward gaze as she spoke.
Her face and ears are pure red as if she was really embarrassed. Her looks resemble Fiona-san but inside she’s more like the shy Ergys-san.
At the same time, I also have a taste of the carrots, cabbage, and broccoli.
According to Ergys-san, all these vegetables were grown in this village as well. The broccoli and carrots were personally grown by him.
They were sweeter than the other broccoli and carrots that I’ve ever eaten before, and they had a firm crunchiness to them.
So this is what freshly picked vegetables taste like, huh.
Since I am now having a taste of what fresh vegetables taste like, I want to grow my own crops more and more.
Then, I have a taste of the juicy sausages and bread dipped in soup.
I felt Flora glancing at me here and there as I ate the pot-au-feu, but she did not say anything to me.
I did not really mind it because she’s probably just observing if I was going to praise the food she made.
I was also in charge of cooking in my adventurer days, so I really know how that feels. It’s a happy feeling when you see other people savoring the meals you made yourself.
Ergys-san and Fiona-san were watching Flora with warm eyes as they took notice of her state. Although there was a silence, it was a pleasant silence without a hint of awkwardness.
Finishing the pot-au-feu, as I moved on to the fried chicken with herbs and the stir-fried mushrooms & vegetables, I noticed that Flora was fidgeting restlessly in front of me.
Even though she held a fork in her right hand, that hand isn’t moving at all. She looked at the empty pot-au-feu plate and then my face.
As one would expect, I have no idea as to what she wants.
Since my stomach isn’t bulged yet, maybe I should shamelessly ask for seconds. It was such a delicious pot-au-feu that I decided to ask for more.
When I opened my mouth to ask, Flora spoke to me.
「Um, would you like me to refill the pot-au-feu? 」
「Got it! 」
Flora, who asked timidly, showed a bright smile like a blooming flower as I hand her the plate.
She put away the fork in her hand, then she received the plate with both her hands and happily walked to the kitchen.
After that, she returned with a plate full of pot-au-feu for me.
「Here you go」
Seeing her so happy also brought a broad smile to my face, and she also shyly smiled in return.
Maybe she has gotten a bit more accustomed to me. We smiled to each other as we talked, and she also got to ask me some questions as well.
It feels like our distance had shrunk a little by having this dinner together. I’m sure she won’t have to run away the next time we meet.
After that, I had two more rounds of pot-au-feu.
[i] a soup based stew of french origin, somewhat popular in Japan


As everyone knows, UAV technology is widely available to practically anyone, and quite a few people have ideas for what to do with them. Many of the ideas are socially destructive, others are purely frivolous. (Snooping on your neighbor is equally frivolous and socially destructive.)
Military drones have shown the value of UAVs for surveillance, as they are supplanting satellite and crewed aircraft in many situations. Given this experience, it is easy to see that small drones should be useful for remote sensing and environmental monitoring—important and beneficial civilian surveillance tasks.
The WaterFly project from M.I.T. Senseable City Lab and the University of Toronto shows the basic idea in the UAE Drones for Good contest entry.
The basic idea is to use a swarm of inexpensive drones to observe and sample fresh water bodies, looking for bacterial blooms and other problems.
Current techniques include satellite and aircraft born sensors, buoys and boats. Discovering and tracking small, quickly developing phenomena requires much more intensive observation than in feasible with these rare and expensive resources.
Their demo shows two kinds of data collection, hyperspectral imaging of the surface, and sampling of surface water. The “swarm” flies together, the imager identifying targets in real time, and dispatching samplers to dip up samples for immediate analysis.
The swarm flies search patterns over the surveillance area, feeding data back to analysis and archiving software. (I assume the aircraft are remotely guided, though they are surely partly autonomous.) Observers can obtain data and reports from the datasystem. (The system appears to depend on wireless networking – which may be a challenge in the wild.)
This all looks really nice in the demo video, but how real is it?
Of course, this concept is limited to the water surface. Even if the imaging can detect aspects of the underwater environment, the dipper drones have no ability to sample beyond a few centimeters. The imaging probably requires sunlight and calm waters. A big storm is going to sweep these little guys away, for sure. Actually, even moderate winds will be a huge problem.
I’m not sure how much a given drone can cover per hour, I would guess that covering a significant body of water will require literally swarms. These systems are cheap enough that that is possible, but I have to wonder if their software is really prepared to handle 10,000 sampling droids at once, or a million. (There may also be issues with thousands of drones skimming over scenic and heavily used waterways.)
These limitations don’t mean that this isn’t a reasonable idea. This team has done a lot of good work to demonstrate all the key pieces from end to end. All I’m saying is that there is a lot of work to do to make this work for real.