BISMARCK, N.D. – North Dakota counties that produce either coal or crude oil held seven of the top 10 spots in a statewide survey of average annual wages.
The counties that have lignite mining, power plants or oil have some of the best-paid workers in the state, Job Service North Dakota research analyst Michael Ziesch said Wednesday.
"Those are the powerful, high-paying jobs," he said.
Job Service figures show coal-rich Oliver County in west-central North Dakota retook first place in the study of average annual wages in 2009 among North Dakota's 53 counties. Sparsely populated Slope County, which had held the top spot because of a spike in oil development, slid to No. 3.
Statewide, the average annual wage last year was listed at $35,970, up from $35,075 in 2008 and $33,086 in 2007. Fourteen counties topped the statewide average last year, the same as 2008.
Oliver County, home to BNI Coal's Center Mine and Minnkota Power Cooperative's Milton R. Young Station, ranked first last year. The average annual wage rose to $60,202 from $50,403 in 2008.
The report lists Oliver County's average number of workers at 827 last year, up from 679 in 2008.
Job Service figures show Oliver County had ranked at the top of North Dakota wage surveys since at least 1993 but was surpassed in 2008 by Slope County, in the state's southwest corner. Ziesch said oil activity in Slope County since about 2004 has lifted it from near the bottom in average wages.
Slope County is among the nation's least populated counties. Ziesch said the county's average number of workers dropped from 206 in 2008 to 132 last year, as some drill rig workers likely moved on to other areas of the state's oil patch.
Ziesch said the small work forces in Slope and Oliver counties make the rankings volatile.
"Add a few high-paid employees and you can push the average," he said.
Mercer County, north of Oliver County, ranked No. 2 last year with an average annual wage of $52,384, the report said. It ranked fourth in 2008 with an average salary of $47,772. Its average number of workers jumped from 4,848 in 2008 to 5,252 last year, Ziesch said.
Mercer County is home to Basin Electric Power Cooperative's Leland Olds Station near Stanton. That plant and the Milton R. Young Station in Oliver County are both undergoing multiyear, $400 million upgrades, said Steve Van Dyke, a spokesman for Bismarck-based Partners for Affordable Energy, a coalition that supports coal-based electricity.
Van Dyke said the bump in wages and the influx of workers for the two counties likely comes from the plant upgrades.
Oliver, Mercer and McLean Counties are known as Coal Country because they are home to the state's four coal mines and six of the state's seven power plants.
Van Dyke's group says the average wage for people working at the seven power plants was more than $74,000 in 2008.
In McLean County, the average wage rose from $36,963 in 2008 to $42,027 last year, moving the county two spots to sixth, Job Service said. Wages in Williams County, in the heart of the booming oil patch in western North Dakota, dropped from $48,632 in 2008 to $47,027 last year, dropping it from third to fourth.
Ziesch said the average number of workers in Williams County increased from 12,850 in 2008 to 13,055 last year. Wages likely dipped with the downward swing of more than $100 in oil prices from 2008 to 2009, he said.
"The big players in the oil industry were probably a lot more generous with their employees in 2008 than 2009, Ziesch said.
Oil-rich McKenzie County moved from sixth to fifth as wages rose from $42,637 to $45,178, Job Service said. Sargent, Cass, Billings and Pembina counties rounded out the top 10.
Ziesch said Sargent County's average wage of $41,055 was anchored by Bobcat Co.'s manufacturing plant in Gwinner. Cass County, the state's most populous county, had an average wage of $38,443 in 2009, up from $37,911. Billings County, which has seen more oil activity, jumped 10 spots to No. 9 in 2009, with the average wage increasing from $32,537 to $37,296.
Pembina County in northeast North Dakota, home of Motor Coach Industries Inc.'s bus plant, ranked 12th in 2008 and was below the statewide average. Wages jumped from $34,994 in 2008 to $37,023 last year, ranking it 10th.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has boosted the number of agents in the border town of Pembina after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Ziesch said that has helped with increase the average wage in the county. Government employees in Pembina had an average wage of about $65,000 last year, he said.
GRAND ISLE, La. – A hundred days ago, shop owner Cherie Pete was getting ready for a busy summer serving ice cream and po-boys to hungry fishermen. Local official Billy Nungesser was planning his wedding. Environmental activist Enid Sisskin was preparing a speech about the dangers of offshore drilling.
Then the oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded off the coast of Louisiana, and in an instant, life along the Gulf Coast changed for good.
Pete spends her days worrying that the fishing industry may never recover. Nungesser has put his wedding on hold while he sits in meetings and argues with federal officials. And Sisskin continues to talk about the dangers of drilling — only now, people are listening.
The 100 days since the April 20 explosion have been a gut-wrenching time for folks who work, play and live along the Gulf Coast. The Gulf is a sanctuary for some, an employer for others, and now, a tragedy.
These are their stories.
The Restaurant Owners
A hundred days ago, business was booming at Barrios Seafood Restaurant in Golden Meadow, La., during Lent, when many of the Roman Catholics in south Louisiana forgo meat on Fridays or altogether. Customers were lined up for meals of crab, shrimp, fish and other seafood delivered hours after being pulled from the Gulf.
Alicia and Thomas Barrios believed their years of struggling to get the business going were finally paying off.
"We were saying, 'If business is this good now, just think what it will be like in the summer,'" Alicia Barrios said. "It was more money than we had ever made before in our lives."
They began sprucing up the restaurant, even adding a patio with visions of customers lingering there this summer. Then the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and the oil began filling the Gulf.
"I'd say about 50 percent of our business was tourist, and they stopped coming immediately," Alicia said. "Seafood got hard to get, the price went up and people are worried about eating it."
These days, Thomas Barrios is working in the Vessels of Opportunity program, helping BP clean up the spill. Alicia Barrios has had to lay off two of her employees and the adjacent market is only open two days a week.
She's also thinking about how to change the menu if the price of seafood keeps going up and it remains scarce.
"I guess we could start serving pasta and hamburgers," she said. "But I'm afraid to spend the money on a new sign and menus. To be honest, if it wasn't for the BP check, we'd already be closed."
The Sandwich Maker
A hundred days ago, Cherie Pete and her husband, Alfred, were expecting another steady stream of customers at the little store they used her life savings to build on the main road to Venice, La.
Everyone in town calls the 45-year-old mother of three "Maw" anyway, so she decided to name the place Maw's Sandwich and Snack Shop.
The store opened last year, attracting a devoted group of locals who came for po-boys and ice cream, plus weekenders who showed up from New Orleans in droves to rent campsites and charter fishing trips.
"And all of a sudden, we don't have them coming in," she said.
She's still doing decent business, still working 14 hour days, but it's not the same. Now most of her customers are contractors and cleanup workers.
"We've met people from all over the country, but it's not happy meetings. It's people coming in for work," she said. "It's not a typical exciting day at work for me any more, it's just another day at work."
Pete knows the business won't last when the cleanup ends.
"I'm just afraid the bottom is going to fall out," she says. "I'm not sure when. You don't know if it's today, or tomorrow or five years from now."
The Seafood Broker
A hundred days ago, Darlene Kimball was getting ready for a busy summer at her family's docks in Pass Christian, Miss., waiting for the buyers who would snap up hundreds of pounds of shrimp from the backs of boats, loading them into ice chests and hauling them back to giant freezers.
Now the place is empty, and the only boats she sees are the ones used by BP contractors cleaning up the spill.
Kimball's family has been in the Mississippi seafood industry since 1930, and she's never wanted to do anything else. But recently the 43-year-old had to do the unthinkable — draft a resume so she could look for another line of work.
"Everything's different," she said. "My life has gone from a fast-paced to nothing."
She misses the excitement of fishermen calling from the water announcing their latest haul, the awkward tourists trying to negotiate with boat captains for a piece of the catch. Most of all, maybe, she misses the sound of the seagulls circling the boats long before they come into town.
"There's nothing around me," she said. "My culture is gone, my livelihood is gone. What my grandfather and father have worked so hard to accomplish is in jeopardy."
A hundred days ago, Florida environmental activist Enid Sisskin was scanning through oil spill data from the Minerals Management Service, preparing a speech on the dangers of offshore drilling.
Then the rig exploded, and she ended up rewriting the entire thing. She even told a halfhearted joke, about how future discussions of offshore drilling would have to begin with "a noun, a verb and the words Deepwater Horizon."
But Sisskin, who teaches in the public health program at University of West Florida, hasn't laughed much these past 100 days. She lives in the coastal community of Gulf Breeze and has long been a vocal opponent of Gulf drilling rigs.
"There's a constant knot in the pit of my stomach," she said. "I'm afraid for the future. Are we going to come back? Are our waters going to be clean enough? Are we going to have the sea birds? Can we comfortably say to tourists, come on down and get in the water and eat the fish?"
She's been busy this summer, teaching classes and giving talks to groups on the effects of oil and dispersants on public health.
There is one thing she doesn't say in her speeches: I told you so.
"This is something I never ever wanted to be able to say," she said. "It's vindication, but what a horrible way to be vindicated."
The Tourism Mogul
A hundred days ago, Frank Besson was raking in money at the tourism empire he's built on Grand Isle, a spit of land along the coast where vacationers have flocked for decades. What started with his father's souvenir shop expanded to a daiquiri bar across the street and a restaurant next door.
On a good day, he used to make $1,600. The shop's take last Saturday, when the island hosted a benefit concert? A measly $28.18, he says, pointing to the day's receipt.
His little monopoly is in shambles these days. The restaurant, known for a homemade pecan glaze that's perfect for chicken fingers, is closed indefinitely. The daiquiri bar opens late each night to a trickle of customers. And most days you can find Besson inside his locked souvenir shop, watching a tiny TV.
The only thing that's keeping the business afloat, he said ruefully, is that BP leased two of his rental homes and signed a catering contract with his shuttered restaurant.
Besson, 61, is still optimistic that business will turn around and he'll be able to reopen his restaurant. But for now, he's found himself in an unusual position. He's actually hoping for a storm.
"We want some rough weather so we can disperse and dissolve some of that stuff," he said. "I hate to say it, and I never thought I would say that, but that's what we want."
The Local Official
A hundred days ago, Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser was busy with blueprints of fire stations, schools and community centers damaged during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and still in need of rebuilding. He was planning his wedding to his longtime fiance, which they postponed after the storm.
"I had a life," Nungesser says.
Now, his life looks like this: Endless meetings with the Coast Guard. Endless arguments with federal officials and BP workers. And countless media appearances — he's been on Anderson Cooper so often alongside fellow Cajun James Carville that the trio are like the holy trinity of nighttime cable TV.
The new fire stations, schools and community centers have been put on hold. He's seen his mother twice in the past few months — and she lives right in the coastal Louisiana parish. And then there's the matter of the wedding. That's not happening anytime soon, not until life calms down and the fight is over.
For now, he's got a war to wage. That's how he characterizes his region's fight against BP, the federal government, the oil.
"A hundred days later, I can't look you in the eye and tell you who's in charge," he said. "I would not want to go to war with this team. Looking back, it's very sad that a lot of marshes and wildlife could have been saved if the federal government and BP had just listened to local people."
A hundred days ago, the Rev. Mike Tran was busy ministering to his flock at the lone Catholic church on Grand Isle.
When he was first assigned, he dragged his feet. It was too small, too isolated and there was too little to do. Boy was he wrong.
He arrived in July 2005, weeks before Hurricane Katrina demolished much of the island. Parishioners at Our Lady of the Isle weathered that storm and the others that followed, but the spill has presented a new challenge. It threatens their way of life.
Church attendance has been cut in half. Weekly donations are down $1,000. Yet more people than ever are walking up the stilted church's stairs to seek food and money.
The morning after the rig explosion, Tran held a mass to honor the 11 victims. Most church members hadn't even heard the news.
The last three months have been a whirlwind of prayer, charity and counseling.
"People are constantly in fear," he said. "They like to work, not to rely on a business for help. They were able to go out on the Gulf whenever they wanted to feed their families. They were living a worry-free life, knowing that the Gulf would provide."
Foster reported from Golden Meadow and Lush from New Orleans.
MIAMI – Gulf beaches from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle have been closed or slapped with health warnings nearly 10 times more often this summer than last because of oil from BP's massive deepwater leak, according to a report Wednesday by a national environmental group.
While many beaches were spared, more than 2,200 closings, health advisories or notices were issued by state or local authorities through Tuesday because of oil from the nearly three-month-long spill. That compared with 237 closings and advisories in the same period last year, mainly due to bacteria or viruses in the water, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council's annual survey of beach water quality.
The NRDC report said the oil spill affected 49 of 253 beach segments it monitors in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. Texas beaches haven't had any advisories or closings so far.
Tar balls, oil sheen, globs of crude and petroleum smells have marred some beaches in the stretch since the disaster began with an April 20 drill rig explosion that killed 11 workers. BP finally capped the well July 15, a temporary measure until the gusher can be plugged underground, but government scientists estimate between 94 million and 184 million gallons of oil poured into the Gulf.
There has been no clear downward trend in warnings or closings since the cap stopped crude from pouring into the sea, the group said. Oil remains in the water and the incidence of beach landings goes up and down.
There is little distinction between closings and advisories because it's up to each state to determine whether they want to close a beach or issue a health advisory for swimmers and beachgoers, according to the study.
The organization typically studies bacteria and viruses at popular beaches. The health effects of oil can be similar: rashes, nausea and stomach ailments, said the organization's program director David Beckman. Oil also poses long-term neurological and reproduction risks.
"The visual image of seeing oil on a beach or smelling that kind of industrial oil at a place that you go to escape from the city to enjoy nature is really an assault on the senses," Beckman said.
Louisiana beaches were the hardest hit: 11 of the 28 monitored beach segments have been closed this year, with 793 combined days of closings compared to 180 advisory days this time last year.
In Alabama, there were 307 combined days of beach advisories, compared to no advisory days at this time last year. Gulf Shores Public Beach in Alabama was the only beach along the Gulf Coast to receive the organization's 5-star rating for water quality, based on 2009 data, but has been closed for 53 days due to the oil spill, according to the study.
Florida, which relies most on beachgoers to drive tourism dollars, had only 16 of its 180 beaches in the western part of the Panhandle impacted, resulting in 442 days of advisories. That compares to no advisory days for the same time last year.
Still, tourism officials as far south as Miami say they're losing business because of a public perception that oil is a threat, even though no crude has landed beyond the western Panhandle.
At least 60 percent of vacation spending in Florida during 2008 was in beachfront cities. Worried that reports of oil would scare tourists away, state officials are promoting interactive Web maps and Twitter feeds to show travelers — particularly those from overseas — how large the state is and how distant their destinations may be from the spill.
First Lady Michelle Obama walked barefoot along a Panhandle beach this month to encourage wary tourists to visit and she, the president and their two children are planning a Panhandle vacation next month.


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A drinking man was slapped in the face Monday in the Mission before two men stole his bicycle.
The 38-year-old man was at 26th and Mission streets around 4 p.m. when the unknown men attacked him, police said. One of them slapped him and both took his bike.
The victim then went to a local hospital complaining about pain to his eye.
No arrests have been made.

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The Center has issued a statement by Robert Greenstein on the new debt limit agreement. It opens:
The new debt ceiling agreement will achieve the essential goal of avoiding a potentially catastrophic default in the days ahead. But to say that the deal is likely to lead to highly unbalanced results would be an understatement. The deal places the nation on a disturbing policy course and sets what may become important precedents that are cause for serious concern.


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Land of the re-rising Sun
Japan waits for prime minister Shinzo Abe’s final step in the reform plan dubbed as ‘third arrow’ which will open up the protected farm and service sectors and take on vested interests in everything from construction to education. Pramit Pal Chaudhuri reports. Thumbs up for Tokyoworld Updated: May 21, 2013 02:43 IST
As economic downturns go, Japan’s has been remarkable for its length. This is a country that has struggled to grow for some 20 years. It says something about how much wealth it accumulated that it remains the world’s third largest economy. The question on everyone’s lips in Tokyo is whether Shinzo Abe, in his second round as Prime Minister, will be able to resurrect the first Asian economic miracle.
In the hushed interiors of the Hotel Okura in downtown Tokyo, bellboys and elevator maids give a thumbs up to Abe. “Occupancy is up,” they say. The latest economic statistics point to a growth rate of 3.5% in annualised terms. The stock market has soared, notionally driving up the wealth of the average household by 40%.
But the inefficiencies that hobble Japan are still evident: the foreign exchange booth uses four people when two would have been enough, the airport bus has five doing the job of one. Most importantly, capital investment has fallen for the fifth consecutive quarter. Japanese shoppers may be thronging the malls, but the captains of industry prefer to watch and wait.
Their caution is sensible. Abe uses the metaphor of “three arrows” for the swathes of reform he is planning. The first two were big and loud, but politically easy. These included a $109-billion fiscal stimulus and then persuading the central Bank of Japan to agree to doubling the money supply. These have been, as one of his aides noted “big bazookas rather than an arrow.” Japan, as a proportion of GDP, has carried out quantitative easing roughly three times greater than even the recent mammoth printing exercises of the US Federal Reserve. Unsurprisingly, this has meant people have fat wallets. But it has also driven Japan’s public debt to a staggering 220% of GDP.
Which is why industry waits. All of this has been done before by Abe’s predecessors. And the results have faded away. As India itself is learning, running up debt and printing money is like drinking heavily in a bar to get happy. The smiles last a night, but the hangover goes on and on. So everyone is waiting for the “third arrow” — the structural reforms of the economy that will mean opening up the protected farm and service sectors, taking on vested interests in everything from construction to education, and otherwise inflicting a fair amount of short-term pain. Further down the road, which even Abe avoids talking about, are even more sensitive topics like pension reform.
Abe’s accomplishment has been to inspire enough public confidence to make his reforms almost palatable. His aides say they were initially nervous when he began to talk about reforms. After all, he may have swept the general elections earlier this year but without control of the upper house of the Diet, which goes to the polls in late July, he won’t have the ability to convert his reform talk into legislative reality. But the Japanese public, wearied by decades of economic stagnation and increasingly worried by their country’s low-level entanglementss with China, are open to change.
When Abe declared Japan would begin talks to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a comprehensive trade pact being pushed by the US to isolate China, his government waited for a backlash. Joining the partnership would turn Japan’s heavily protected farm and service sectors inside-out. Instead, Abe’s poll ratings soared into the high 70s. Since then, the Japanese prime minister has proposed a new swathe of reforms every week. Polls show his Liberal Democratic Party and their allies will easily secure a majority of the 121 upper house seats which will come up for grabs in July.
It helps Abe has been a perpetual motion machine on two legs. He has travelled to nearly a dozen countries to boost exports: offering reactors to Turkey, taking sushi chefs to Moscow and otherwise making the case that Made in Japan is not dead yet. “Like riding a maglev train,” said a tired diplomat about having to keep up with the prime minister.
The prime minister has even signalled his support for unpopular policies. For example, he will have Japan’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission decide which of the dozens of reactors shut down after the Fukushima disaster should be reopened — even though a majority of Japanese want them closed forever. Senior officials of Tokyo Electric say as many as half the reactors may be restarted as a consequence. But none of this has dented Abe’s support. The Prime Minister has also made no bones about his intention to increase Japan’s military profile. “Abe is not unhappy that China is poking his country in the eye,” said an Indian diplomat as this makes remilitarisation an easier sell. Nonetheless, remilitarisation remains unpopular in Japan. But, again, it has not made a jot of difference to Abe’s ratings.
Economists say Abe’s enormous fiscal and debt blow-ups have in effect locked Japan into a path of radical reform. If he fails to fire the ‘third arrow,’ the Prime Minister may have doomed his country to a path of permanent decline. “It’s now or never,” said the head of a Japanese think tank. Commentators like Anatole Kaletsky believe Abe may have piled up the red ink to ensure his country has no choice. “We have to change the very metabolism of the Japanese economy,” admitted an official from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Abe’s vision is arresting. He speaks of making Tokyo “an Asian New York City” — a financial and cultural hub, he wants to double the number of tourists, make Japan easy for foreigners to visit. Some speak of the third big revolution in Japanese society: following Commodore Perry’s opening the country to the West in the 19th century and the US’s defeat and conquest after World War II. That may seem excessive. But his advisors say the appetite for even more change is increasing in the Abe government. “This will be a cabinet that will do several things, each of them the sort of policies that would have consumed the political capital of entire governments before.”
First Published: May 21, 2013 01:15 IST

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Various quite a while back, I read a book by Daryl Rutherford’s entitled, Why aren’t you rich? Wealth doesn’t simply apply to cash. One of the critical messages of this book is tracked down in his second rule –
We can’t get what we can’t acknowledge.
Never is that more evident than as we age. As a midlife lady, I have the decision to either deny where I am at (read that downfall), or acknowledge it and become really what my identity was constantly intended to be. This is genuinely the period of marvels, a chance to relinquish all decisions of ourselves and what is. Figuring out how to acknowledge what is fundamental to being cheerful.
A companion of mine, Deborah, assisted acim me with interpretting that considerably further by letting me know how she has started to rehearse acknowledgment – acknowledgment of others as they are – as well as acknowledgment of all that comes into our lives…
How frequently does somebody propose to work on something for yourself and you say, No, that is OK – I can do that?
Rather than saying THANK YOU….
Or on the other hand somebody accomplishes something WE could do without – they’re truly giving us a gift – in light of the fact that it can assist us with seeing something in OURSELVES that we truly need different…and in this way, they support our profound development – Again, we can be saying THANK YOU as opposed to hoping to fault.
The equivalent is valid about the things that are going on in our lives. When life gives us what has all the earmarks of being difficulties, we say, WHY ME? Or then again What did I foul up here?
It’s very unobtrusive however – – We so frequently go to fault as opposed to thanksgiving.
All things being equal, we need to figure out how to continuously be searching for and perceiving the gift in the experience.
What’s going on in your life at the present time?
How can you see it?
Is it something you need to END?
Something you need to GET RID OF?
— or on the other hand, would you say you are ready to SEE and ACCEPT the GIFT? It’s ALL GOD!
At the point when we are thankful for WHATEVER it is we have at the time, seeing the gold before us is more straightforward.
I’m not recommending we be thankful for things like Cancer – We are called upon to be appreciative IN all circumstances not FOR them!
How we face circumstances in life truly figures out what those circumstances can offer us.
What in your life would you say you are battling? The Course in Miracles tells us – – “What we oppose, continues.”
Assuming there is ANYTHING you are battling at present – as opposed to being GRATEFUL for it, I can guarantee you that you will drag out the anguish.
Appreciation for the current second permits us to relinquish the past. As a matter of fact, giving up is something we can do consistently.

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Japanese cuisine, when done well, has the ability to take you out of your comfort zone, and introduce you to new and interesting flavour combinations. Picking the right spot for a long lunch or romantic dinner can make all the difference when trying to impress a business partner or that special someone. A place that has embraced traditional Japanese style, with waitresses in kimonos and a décor of marble and hardwood, while adding their own modern twist, is Shiro.
Right in the middle of Central Park at the end of the Hay St Mall, Shiro has glass doors overlooking the park’s gardens and water fountain, and provides a tranquil escape from the bustling city. Inside groovy jazz meets zen Japanese themes, providing a relaxed dining experience.
Head chef Luke Lee thinks like an artist. His dishes are often inspired by picturesque landscapes, while capturing exciting flavour combinations. One stand out example of this is the soft-shelled crab, inspired by the landscape near Luke’s hometown.
The crabs in the dish represent tall mountains, surrounded by clouds of lotus chips above a forest of baby spinach and watermelon. Through the bottom of the dish runs a light, sweet and fresh wasabi soy sauce representing a river.
One of the dishes that intrigued me was the Omakase. This in Japanese phrase means “I’ll leave it to you”. Typically, if you order omakase at a sushi restaurant, the chef will present a series of dishes that start out light and progress to richer and more complex dishes.
At Shiro, the dish is designed to represent travelling inland from the ocean. It is presented elegantly with six bite-sized pieces, arranged in the order they are to be eaten in. The dish starts with a piece of fresh tuna sashimi that has come from deep in the ocean, and has been flavored with daikon (radish), green tea, sea salt and chives.
The next stage in our journey was made up of salmon, a fish caught in shallower water, with the addition of fresh cream that looks like the foam of a crashing wave. The salmon, flavoured with beetroot water and apple vinegar, leaves a light and sweet taste in your mouth.
The journey then takes us onto a beach that is represented by a freshly made crisp and salty biscuit that balances out the sweetness of the next two pieces.
We are now on land and can explore the two fruit delicacies Luke has created. The first was a crunchy ball of rockmelon cooked in tempura, followed by a ball of watermelon soaked in yuzu (a Japanese citrus fruit) juice.
Now we move past these tropical fruits and into the pasture where we find a succulent mouthful of beef, thinly sliced and wrapped up with seaweed around some white radish that really pops in your mouth with a juicy explosion of flavour.
The journey ended with a pile of avocado shaped into a mountain with tangy yuzu juice that cleanses your palate after the long journey it has just been taken on.
The next dish that caught my eye was the vegetarian sushi platter. I’m always interested in vegetarian dishes because I like to eat vegetarian food if it’s done well. Many of my friends are vegetarian, and it isn’t easy to find places where we can eat together. Shiro’s vegetable sushi selection includes avocado, poached asparagus, apple and seaw
eed salad. Between the tasty pieces you can cleanse your palate with fresh pickled ginger.
I recommend saving the best until last and ending with the shitake mushroom, marinated in teriyaki sauce and then grilled, giving it a strong sweet taste that bursts in your mouth.
The last savoury dish we tried was the wagyu beef and it was really special. Wagyu is Japanese for cow and although it doesn’t mean a specific breed of cow, it does refer to cattle that are genetically predisposed to extreme marbling and high a percentage of unsaturated fat. This gives the meat better flavour, tenderness and juiciness.
Wagyu beef is graded on a scale of 1-12 in Japan, and 1-9 in Australia. It is generally considered that good wagyu starts at 6. The wagyu beef at Shiro is 8/9+, which is the highest grade you will find in Australia. The dish was plated beautifully with the beef carefully sliced and placed on a bed of sautéed Japanese mushrooms.
On one side of the plate, around the beef was an assortment of condiments including a beetroot puree, a sweet potato mash, shitake mushrooms and green tea salt flakes to name a few. On the other side there were a number of palate cleansers to explore including a pumpkin puree, a seaweed salad, pickled ginger and Japanese cucumber with jalapeno salsa.
If you’ve still got room for something sweet after the meal, I can recommend the green tea ice cream, complete with pieces of biscuits mixed through it, giving a satisfying crunch with every mouthful.
Shiro’s wine list is extensive with local and international wines ranging in price between $35 and $225 per bottle, as well as beers and over 20 different sakes that the staff are willing and able to discuss at length.
Shiro’s has a lunch menu available on weekdays, and a dinner menu Monday through to Saturday. For a hearty meal expect to order three dishes (prices range between $11 and $89) or go for one of the set menus that range from $24 to $32.
While they can provide speedy service if you are limited by the length of your lunch hour, the real point of Shiro’s is the elegant ambience it provides for a good conversation over a delicious gradual meal.
By Floyd Holmes

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Your Community Context of Practice This is a 1000–1250 word narrative paper supported with reputable sources that describe the community in which you work, or would like to work, as a human services leader. As a human services leader, it is critical to understand the context of your practice. While your daily work may focus on activities within your organization, the organization is designed to serve a community. While communities can take many different forms, for this assignment, you are to focus on a geographic service area as your community—either at the city or county level. Once you identify and define the geographic service area, you need to describe your community—its characteristics, resources, needs, demographics, and history. To structure your narrative, you will need to highlight the significant events and trends that impact Talcott Parsons’ societal institutions: government, economy, religion, education, and family, as well as a newer institution of media. To complete this assignment, you will
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Haeahn Architecture won a competition to design Seoul’s Smart Work Center and Press Center at the site of the National Assembly Complex in Yeouido, according to ArchDaily.
The South Korean firm worked in collaboration with New-York-based H Architecture on the 23,750 sm concept. The building will have a low height, which will keep it hidden among trees but also provide views of the National Assembly building. A courtyard will be placed in the center of the structure.
The proposed building will contain:
- A press center with a briefing room and a broadcast facility
- A smart work center, which is a remote workplace for commuting government officials
- Supplementary offices
- Underground parking
- Other facilities that will include a restaurant, a banquet hall, and retail shops


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DC animation continues to knock another direct to video adaptation out of the park. Whether it’s the new animation style that looks gorgeous or the superb voice acting from its cast, Batman The Long Halloween has been the quintessential Batman animated film fans have been waiting for since Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.
Based on the iconic, 13-issue storyline from writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale, Batman: The Long Halloween takes place during Batman’s early days as the Caped Crusader. During that time, Bruce finds his footage as the world’s greatest detective while hot on the heels of a murderer who perpetrates a gruesome homicide in honor of every major holiday on the calendar.
The voice cast also features the late Naya Rivera (Catwoman), Katee Sackhoff (Poison Ivy), Titus Welliver (Carmine Falcone), David Dastmalchian (Calendar Man and The Penguin), Troy Baker (The Joker), Robin Atkin Downes (Scarecrow and Thomas Wayne), and John DiMaggio (Mad Hatter).
Batman The Long Halloween Part Two takes the story into much darker and action packed territory. The chase to find the Holiday Killer culminates in dramatic fashion. The emergence of Two-Face and Harvey Dent’s descent into madness takes center stage.
Josh Duhmael does some excellent voice acting here as his Two-Face sounds completely distinct and is reminiscent of the Two-Face from the old Batman The Animated Series. Naya Rivera (in her final performance) also brings a lot of depth and intensity to the role of Catwoman/Selina Kyle.
The overall flow of the story this time around is a lot more fast paced and throws some interesting twists and turns (for both fans of the original comic book and fans who just enjoy Batman animated films).
It’s a compelling and enthralling story adapted with love and performed with conviction. Taken together, both parts make for not merely one of the best Batman animated movies, but one of the best Batman movies, period.
HipsterZOMBIEJoint Experience highly recommends checking out Batman The Long Halloween Part Two.
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'F*** your grandmothers': French winger Ribery unleashes social media rant over $1K steak backlash
Bayern Munich's Franck Ribery has hit out at Twitter critics who castigated him after being photographed eating a $1,200 gold-covered steak while on holiday in Dubai, telling them that he "owes them nothing."
Ribery, who has long had a tetchy relationship with the media, ate the gold-covered Tomahawk steak presented to him by Nusr-et restaurant owner Nusret Gokc, better known as 'Salt Bae' for the 24-karat manner in which he seasons his meat.
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The meal costs a pricely £1,000 ($1,200) and after posting images to social media, Ribery received a backlash for his extravagance - prompting him to release a somewhat unconventional New Year's message via his social channels.
"For 2019, let’s dot the i’s and cross the t’s...," he wrote via translation. "Let’s start with the jealous, the haters, those only born because a condom had a hole in: f*** your mothers, your grandmothers and even your family tree. I owe you nothing.
"My success is, above all, thanks to God, me, and my loved ones who believed in me. For the others, you’re nothing but pebbles in my socks!”
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Ribery, who turns 36 in April, is rumored to be coming to the end of his time in the German city, with Bayern Munich boss Niko Kovac understood to be in the market for a replacement to the player who has spent more than a decade in the German's side's starting XI.
READ MORE: Bayern Munich ace Franck Ribery apologizes for slapping TV reporter following Dortmund defeat
Chelsea youngster Callum Hudson-Odoi and Timo Werner of RB Leipzig are said to be chief on Kovac's wishlist as he aims to infuse more youth into his squad.


10 Stunning Sports Cars That Are Virtually Indestructible
The first thing most people will think of when it comes to sports cars is reliability, or more precisely, the lack thereof. Next is practicality, but if you’re willing to put that aside and adopt a sports car as your second vehicle, all that’s left is fun, driver engagement and power, lots of power. What if it were possible to own and operate a sports car on a budget that you would typically allocate to a boring city car or the anti-sports car otherwise known as a crossover.
Technically it’s possible but you’ll have to choose wisely even if you get one of the cars on this list that’s not a sure thing you need to make sure it has a service record otherwise you end up with a project car that you may or may not want.
ten Chevrolet Corvette C4
Although when it was released it had an ultra-modern style, it also had a very simple V8 engine.
Like anything out of the 80s the electronics in it probably don’t work anymore but this V8 won’t let you down and even if you’re not mechanically inclined almost anyone will work on these engines.
9 Datsun 240Z
Prices have skyrocketed for these Japanese sports cars, but that’s mostly just a nod to their incredible longevity.
One thing you have to accept is the fact that all Japanese cars use thinner sheet metal, and these were made in a time before the rust protection was good, so if you see any rust, it may not be so indestructible.
8 Toyota Celica GT4
So many people are excited about the Supra these days, the old Celica is largely forgotten, and that’s a shame.
It was actually their sports car, the Supra was much more luxury oriented when it was a high performance all wheel drive racing machine. It’s also, shock, horror, a Toyota, so no matter how much you abuse the thing, it won’t let you down.
7 Ford Mustang 5.0
No one gives the Mustang fox body the time of day, but the 5.0-liter was actually a huge comeback to form after the dismal Mustang II malaise era.
It’s also fairly easy to maintain and as long as you get one that hasn’t been crashed or raced, you’ll have a fun, affordable car that has few rivals in terms of sheer power per dollar.
6 Porsche 911
After decades of refinement, Porsche had created the perfect everyday sports car in the early 90s.
It was this generation that also got the last of the truly special air-cooled engines, one for the purists, but due to their durability and desirability they are indeed unreasonably expensive.
5 Honda NSX
Somehow Honda was able to transfer its rock-solid reliability into a sports car, the NSX used to be one of the most underrated sports cars, but that’s no longer the case.
After decades of use, these sports cars have proven themselves by covering hundreds of thousands of trouble-free miles over the past two decades.
4 Nissan Skyline R32 GTR
While its so-called supercar-killing sibling, the 300ZX, provided no form of mechanical or electrical reliability, the R32 just did its job and dominated just about everything on road and track.
The RB26 inline-6 delivered incredible power and although it looked more or less like any other coupe in Japan, it could really keep pace with contemporary supercars. In the hands of tuners, they can do north of 1,000 horsepower.
3 Toyota Corolla AE86
A lot of noise is made about the Miata and its capabilities, in the real world the Miata is just a small car with a good power-to-weight ratio, and not much else really.
Toyota, on the other hand, took its front-wheel-drive Corolla, gave it a rear-wheel-drive setup, 50/50 weight distribution and one of the best DOHC engines to come from Japan. He is now recognized as the godfather of drifting and even if you punish these cars they remain perfect daily drivers.
2 Mercedes-Benz SLK 32 AMG
Although the 55 AMG has become quite popular, it is actually just a German muscle car, not really a sports car.
The 32 is a much better overall package and punches well above its weight, it’s also much more reliable and relatively affordable.
1 Porsche Boxster
After enduring a horrible start to life in its first two years with engine casting problems causing premature failures, Porsche had indeed solved all the problems by the mid-2000s.
This second generation Boxster was still 911 up to the A-pillar and offers incredible value on the used market, the 2.7-litre and 3.2-litre naturally aspirated engine options are pure six-cylinder fun flat.
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Spennymoor AAP priorities
AAP priorities would normally be decided by a public vote every two years; however, the ongoing pandemic has meant that over the last year we have had to focus on how we can support local communities deal with the impact of Coronavirus.
We are updating our Spennymoor Area Action Partnership on Facebook with any local information regarding the coronavirus. This includes changes to services or support in your area.
Over 2023/24 we will continue to offer support under the priority of 'Community Recovery'. We will also be keeping an eye out for any emerging issues that may need support. The AAP Board will look at this priority over the coming year and take action and allocate funding where appropriate.
It is hoped that priorities will be reviewed over the winter of 2023/24.
Priority Task Groups
We take actions on issues linked to our priorities. To do this, we have priority task groups. These groups are made up of board and forum members and representatives from relevant partner organisations.
At task group meetings, we identify and discuss issues linked to our priorities, and we consider project ideas and requests for funding linked to these issues. If we want to progress any project ideas, we then send them to the board for approval.
If you're interested in getting involved with one of the task and finish groups or would like to discuss an idea you may have for a project, contact us.


On the podcast, Da Vinci Global Consulting's Michael Beduze and AchieveNext's Tom Stewart delve into the issues impacting a family office's success.
Matt Talcoff, partner and national industry tax leader for RSM, joins GrowthTV to discuss the tax issues that family offices should be thinking about in 2021.
The first day of ACG's Fall Summit focused on the economic fallout of the elections, partnering with family offices and managing PE-backed companies.
Family offices are often spared the immediate impact of economic tumult, and early data suggests that this crisis will be no different.
If adopted, proposed changes to the accredited investor definition would clearly define the role family offices and their clients play in private markets.


GOP Rep Charlie Dent: The New ‘Litmus Test’ For Republicans Is Loyalty to Trump
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) December 24, 2017
One of President Donald Trump’s biggest critics from within the Republican Party stated that today’s GOP is now all about expressing loyalty to the president.
Speaking to ABC News’ Mary Bruce, Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) said that before Trump became president, the “litmus test” for Republicans revolved around ideological purity and conformity. In Dent’s opinion, however, that “litmus test has changed.”
“The issue is loyalty to the man — to the president,” the Pennsylvania lawmaker, who is retiring at the end of his term, explained. “For some, loyalty isn’t enough. You have to be angry and aggrieved.”
He concluded, “It’s not about ideology anymore. It’s about loyalty to the president.”
This isn’t a new statement from the retiring congressman. Back in September, Dent told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews the same thing, indicating that there was a fight within the party between party purists and pragmatists and that loyalty to Trump was being used as a litmus test.
Watch the clip above, via ABC News.
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Star power is the lifeblood of the NBA, usually the main reason to follow a team, or several, through the season’s long grind. During the Warriors’ five-year occupation of the NBA Finals, the stirring performances of Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Kevin Durant became a constant talking point for fans around the world.
Just lately, that star power has returned to a Golden State team that cascaded into oblivion. The purveyors wear street clothes, but they are instantly familiar. Curry and Thompson have become must-see sideline reporters in their guest appearances on the Warriors’ NBC Sports Bay Area telecasts, leaving fans crying out for more.

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POLICE are investigating possible election rules breaches by Batley and Spen Conservative candidate Imtiaz Ameen.
A complaint was made after hundreds of voters attended Mr Ameen’s campaign launch at the Al Hikmah Centre in Track Road, Batley, two weeks ago.
Following speeches from the candidate and guests who included Baroness Sayeeda Warsi and Batley and Spen Tory leader Coun Robert Light, a meal was apparently served.
Under strict election guidelines, there is an offence of ‘treating’ which goes beyond basic hospitality.
Det Insp Andy Leonard, of Kirklees District CID, said: “We have received an allegation of a potential treating offence at an election event in the Batley & Spen ward area.
“This report is being considered to establish whether any criminal offences have been committed which require further investigation.”
Coun Light said: “The Batley & Spen Conservative Association has not been contacted by the police but, if they do, we will fully cooperate with any enquiry as we are confident that any allegations of treating are totally spurious.”
Electoral Commission guidelines describe treating as providing food, drink, entertainment or provision to corruptly influence any voter to vote or refrain
In a separate development, a worshipper at a Batley mosque claims that Dewsbury businessman and former Labour party fixer Tahir ‘Terry’ Zaman has been canvassing Muslim voters with Tory candidate Ameen.
The man, who requested anonymity, said the pair had also visited several of his family members’ homes using the controversial ‘biradari’ Muslim convention – telling people it would be anti-Islamic not to vote for a fellow Muslim.
He said: “Mr Zaman has visited my house and others in my family with Mr Ameen. They spoke to my father and told him it would be against our religion not to vote for Mr Ameen.
“He told him to listen, to follow his heart and vote for a brother Muslim.”
The man said the same had happened at his mosque, Jame Masjid in Henry Street.
Imtiaz Ameen is a Dewsbury solicitor and former Dewsbury South Conservative councillor. In 2010 he stood unsuccessfully in the general election against former Home Secretary Jack Straw in Blackburn.
Mr Ameen did not respond to requests from The Press to comment on the allegations.


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Villa Monastero has been recognized as one of the most romantic locations in Italy by the US website La Dolce Vigna, specializing in the organization of wine tours in Italy, California, and Argentina.
Cheryl Rodewig wrote the article, award-winning journalist who writes for The Guardian, Fodor’s and other publications.
Villa Monastero, with the rich botanical Garden and the artworks preserved within the House Museum, has been selected among the most beautiful residences.
Villa Monastero is increasingly chosen by couples from all over the world for the celebration of ceremonies, wedding vows, and wedding photo shoots.
Villa Monastero is in this important ranking with other beautiful realities: Trauttmansdorff Castle in Trentino-Alto Adige, Miramare Castle in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Beautiful Island on Lake Maggiore, Garden of Ninfa and Villa d’Este in Lazio, Aragonese Castle and Villa Rufolo in Campania.


Thanks to the efforts of the National Gun Rights Examiner David Codrea, we have the memo that District of Columbia Police Chief Cathy Lanier had sent out to all officers of the Metropolitan Police Department regarding carrying a pistol, either open or concealed, within the District.
UPDATE: David Codrea, the National Gun Rights Examiner, has an updated “official teletype” message from Chief Cathy Lanier that provides further guidance to the officers of the Metropolitan Police Department regarding the lawful carry of firearms outside the home in DC. This message goes into much greater detail than the earlier one issued on Sunday. While the District has officially requested a stay of the decision by Judge Scullin, it has not yet been granted as of early this morning.
Reading through the teletype, it is important to note that it only applies to handguns. The carry of a long gun such as a rifle or shotgun outside the home is still prohibited.
Given the fluidity of the legal situation, I’d be very careful if I were carrying in DC as a non-resident or even as a resident. The motion for the stay could be granted at any time which would probably return things to what they were before the decision. Or to use the full Latin phrase, status quo ante bellum. And yes, it is a war for our rights.


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Get to Know Tiffany Boone, the Gorgeous Actress Who Plays Young Mia on Little Fires Everywhere
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Whether you have read the book by Celeste Ng or are simply captivated by Mia Warren’s backstory on Little Fires Everywhere, be ready for Tiffany Boone to do it justice. The stunning actress plays young Mia on the Hulu miniseries, and although we’ve only seen glimpses of her as Kerry Washington‘s younger self thus far, her past roles have us anxiously awaiting the emotional portrayal.
Most recently, Boone wowed on Jordan Peele‘s Hunters on Amazon Prime, where she plays Roxy Jones, a badass Nazi hunter with an unwavering need to protect her daughter and those she loves most (seen photographed below). Prior to being on the two hit shows, Boone starred as Jerrika on Showtime’s The Chi. She quit the show in November 2018 after accusing a costar of harassment, and although she called it a “risk,” it led her to the major shows on Prime and Hulu. She also previously appeared on Grey’s Anatomy and Southland and had a recurring role on The Following. She was in Beautiful Creatures and will star in George Clooney‘s The Midnight Sky, out later this year.
On Little Fires Everywhere, Hunters, and The Chi, Boone portrays strong women who go above and beyond to provide for the people closest to her. Whether it’s her daughter, her boyfriend, or her parents, her roles are compassionate and self-aware. As we learn more about Mia’s backstory on the highly anticipated Hulu series, we can’t wait to see how she brings the character’s complicated past to life. (And if you can’t wait for the episodes to air, check out spoilers about Mia’s past here.)
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It was earlier reported that Ravi Ojha's upcoming show on Zee TV
which is tentatively titled Khela would commence shooting on 14th January.
However our sources inform us that the shoot is finally expected to begin the shoot from the 10th of February 2013.
The show will have known names like Additi Gupta
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We also hear that the show is expected to go on air from 11th March 2013.
We tried calling Sanjeeda Sheikh but she remained unavailable for comment.
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Metal drumming legend and Brendon Small’s Galaktikon rhythm master Gene Hoglan is honored to announce that he will sit in with NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers house band, The 8G Band, from October 2 through October 5, 2017 as guest drummer. Hoglan joins the ranks of iconic drummers Abe Laboriel, Jr. (Paul McCartney), Brann Dailor (Mastodon), Vinnie Colaiuta (Frank Zappa, Joni Mitchell, Sting), Matt Cameron (Pearl Jam, Soundgarden), Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Danny Carey (Tool), Venzella Joy (Beyoncé) and others who have also held this position on the show.
Late Night with Seth Meyers airs on NBC weeknights at 12:35e/11:35c. Visit www.nbc.com/late-night-with-seth-meyers for additional airing information.
“Words cannot express how elated I am to have been invited to man the throne for the mighty 8G Band on Late Night with Seth Meyers in the first week of October. I’m really looking forward to this experience, and it’s an honor to be a part of such a fun show. Thank you to all who have helped put this together, you have my esteemed gratitude.”


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Now that Miss Bates has read Bliss Bennet’s second romance novel, she can place her in histrom-world with Rose Lerner, Cecilia Grant, and recent discovery Blythe Gifford. They all have the rare, and becoming rarer, ability to create main characters who reflect their times and are in turn uniquely, likably themselves. Their main characters’ constraints are not solely those of personality or circumstance, but political, economic, social, and/or gender strictures. Bennet creates creatures of their time and yet uniquely themselves, approachable and sympathetic to the reader. In her second Pennington romance, Bennet tells the story of Sibilla Pennington, sister to Rebel Without A Rogue‘s Kit Pennington. Like Lerner’s Lydia in True Pretenses, Bennet’s heroine is a young woman grieving her beloved father’s recent loss. Neither Lydia nor Sibilla were daddy’s-girls-spoiled-princesses. Their fathers’ love and acknowledgement allowed them the unique opportunity for women of their time, to lead lives of social and political purpose. Without their paternal lodestones, they’re adrift. Their only recourse is to place their political championing onto their reluctant brothers and make marriages of convenience to further their charitable causes. (more…)
Miss Bates approaches a new-to-her author, especially a self-published one, with trepidation. Witness? Her DNF posts. But Bliss Bennet is the writer of the Romance Novels For Feminists blog, which Miss B. reads and enjoys. And she was curious: what kind of a romance would a long-familiar blogger write? Given the blog content, will it be “feminist”? Though Miss Bates calls herself a feminist, she doesn’t read romance, or rather she doesn’t deliberately read romance because it carries a particular stance. She went into reading Bennet’s romance with these questions and departed, as she tapped the final page on her Kobo, not really caring how they were, or not, answered. Because she was completely swept up in the story.


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A decade ago, in 2010, Indira Chandrasekhar set up Out of Print to address a need she felt as a writer: a focused platform for the short story; a space for robust editorial discussions as well as one that would serve as a platform for discoveries—of newer facets of the form itself and of new writing. This commemorative volume hopes to capture something of that adventure. It is, thus, not a ‘best of’ volume, but one that speaks to the spirit of the magazine: its diversity of literary voices, its openness to experimentation, its focus on Indian-language publishing and its stand against mediocrity. Most crucially, of course, this is an ode to the short-story form, its ‘art of brevity and honesty’.
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Dr Indira Chandrasekhar is a scientist, a writer, a literary curator, and the founder and principal editor of Out of Print, one of the primary platforms for short fiction bearing a connection to the Indian subcontinent.As a fiction writer, she focuses on the short form, drawing deeply on her scientific experience working with the complex subtleties of biological macromolecules. Her fiction has appeared in anthologies and literary journals across the world.She co-edited the anthology, Pangea, Thames River Press, 2012, and a collection of her short stories, Polymorphism, was published by HarperCollins in 2017.
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Before exploring the interlayers in detail, it is important to understand the composition of laminated glass for balustrades. In most circumstances, in order to meet the necessary building regulations, a glass panel for a Frameless Glass balustrade will be composed of a 10mm toughened glass panel + a 1.5mm interlayer + another 10mm toughened glass panel. These 3 layers would be laminated and bonded together under a high temperature to form the finished product.
The 2 main types of interlayers are:
- Polyvinyl Butyral l (commonly known as PVB)
- Ionoplast, SentryGlas (commonly known as SGP).
PVB is by far the most commonly used and specified interlayer for a wide variety of applications in construction. This is primarily because it is a compliant and cost effective product. However, the newer SGP interlayer is marketed as a product that offers 5-times the tear strength and 100-times the rigidity of standard PVB. This means that in the unlikely event of both panes of toughened glass breaking then the SGP will, in most applications, hold the glass in an upright position. Comparatively, if both panels of glass smashed with a PVB interlayer (it is very important to understand that this is an extremely unlikely occurrence) then the interlayer would not hold the panel in an upright position.
The following chart compares the interlayers:
To illustrate the effect of these interlayers in more detail, the below video shows a 69 kg-m impact on a 12.7mm glass panel with a 1.52mm PVB interlayer and then a 0.89mm SGP interlayer:
Credit to Trosifol – www.trosifol.com/business/media/videos/balustrade-testing-videos/
BA Systems recommendations:
Whilst SGP offers obvious benefits, it is sometimes outside the budget of many projects. To ensure that laminated glass is as widely available as possible, we recommend that a PVB interlayer is adequate for most resedential, education, leisure and commercial projects. To verify this, we have conducted our own ‘swing-bag test’ using a XXkg weight on our typical B40 Frameless Glass balustrade. The product used is 21.5mm glass with a 1.5mm interlayer secured in an aluminium base channel. The result is that the balustrade integrity is not compromised and the barrier is effectively maintained.
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According to a new report from Bloomberg, the Pentagon is spending approximately $1 billion over the next several years for a variety of robots designed to complement combat troops on the modern battlefield.
In addition to scouting and explosives disposal, these new war robots will reportedly be able to perform more complex tasks, including surveillance missions, detection of chemical or nuclear agents, and even have the ability to transport soldiers’ rucksacks.
“Within five years, I have no doubt there will be robots in every Army formation,” said Bryan McVeigh, the Army’s project manager for force protection. He applauded the efforts of the Pentagon to field more than 800 robots over the past 18 months.
“We’re going from talking about robots to actually building and fielding programs,” he said. “This is an exciting time to be working on robots with the Army,” McVeigh added.
Bloomberg says the Pentagon has classified its robot platforms into light, medium and heavy categories.
Last month, the Army awarded a $429.1 million contract to two Massachusetts robotic defense companies, Endeavor Robotics and QinetiQ North America, for miniature size war robots weighing less than 25 pounds. Not too long ago, Endeavor Robotics was awarded two other contracts worth roughly $34 million from the Marine Corps for medium size robots.
Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System. (Source: QinetiQ)
In 4Q17, the Army awarded Endeavor a $158.5 million contract for 1,200 medium size war robots, called the Man-Transportable Robotic System (MTRS), Increment II, weighing around 165 pounds. Bloomberg said the MTRS is designed to detect “explosives as well as chemical, biological, radioactive and nuclear threats,” with a deployment date set for the second half of 2019.
Endeavor Robotics Product Overview. (Source: Endeavor Robotics)
“It’s a recognition that ground robots can do a lot more, and there’s a lot of capabilities that can and should be exploited,” said Sean Bielat, Endeavor’s chief executive officer. He points out “the dull, the dirty and the dangerous” infantry tasks are being supplemented by war robots.
The introduction of war robots onto the modern battlefield is undoubtedly intended to streamline tasks in combat situations for infantry troops, but the primary objective is to increase the survivability rate of America’s bravest warriors.
“The Army’s current approach is to field more inter-operable robots with a common chassis, allowing different sensors and payloads to be attached, along with standardized controllers for various platforms,” McVeigh explained to Bloomberg.
While Trump signed the record-setting defense spending bill earlier this year, Bloomberg says the addition of robots on the battlefield is geared towards affordability. “If we want to change payloads, then we can spend our money on changing the payloads and not having to change the whole system,” McVeigh said.
The Army will have a ramp-up period to field the use of its newer, more advanced robots; indications point to more than 2,500 of the medium and small robots will enter the modern battlefield in the next several years.
Line-up of QinetiQ robots. (Source: QinetiQ)
“Just strapping a conventional weapon onto a robot doesn’t necessarily give you that much” for ground troops, said Bielat, the Endeavor Robotics CEO. “There is occasional interest in weaponizing robots, but it’s not particularly strong interest. What is envisioned in these discussions is always man-in-the-loop, definitely not autonomous use of weapons.”
There are significant concerns about the rapid development and deployment of advanced robotic technologies on the battlefield, especially the use of autonomous weapon systems.
Last year, a group of the world’s leading AI researchers and humanitarian organizations warned about lethal autonomous weapons systems, or killer robots, that select and kill targets without human control. About two dozen countries have called for the ban on fully autonomous weapons, though the U.S. failed to join.
Killer robots are closer than you think
“It seems inevitable that technology is taking us to a point where countries will face the question of whether to delegate lethal decision-making to machines,” said Paul Scharre, a senior fellow and director of the technology and national security program at the Center for a New American Security.
Last August, Tesla’s Elon Musk and over 100 experts sent a letter to the United Nations demanding the organization ban lethal autonomous weapons.
“Once developed, lethal autonomous weapons will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend,” the letter warned. “These can be weapons of terror, weapons that despots and terrorists use against innocent populations, and weapons hacked to behave in undesirable ways.”
Peter W. Singer, a leading strategist on 21st-century warfare, chatted with Business Insider about the “the killer robots debate,” and said, “it sounds like science fiction, but it is a very real debate right now in international relations. There have been multiple UN meetings on this.”
As Singer put it, advanced robotic technologies have opened countless discussions about legal and ethical questions for which “we’re really not all that ready.”
“This really comes down to, who is responsible if something goes bad?” Singer said, explaining that this applies to everything from war robots to autonomous vehicles.
“We’re entering a new frontier of war and technology and it’s not quite clear if the laws are ready.”
It seems like the new frontier of war and technology is ushering in a “Terminator”-style dystopic evolution of warfare. It is inevitable that this new generation of weaponry could quickly make its way out of the military and into the hands of terrorist organizations. Nevertheless, with the Pentagon throwing billions of dollars at defense companies to manufacture war robots, we ask one simple question: what could go wrong?


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After breakfast, proceed to visit Kandy City, Peradeniya Botanical Garden and in evening Dance show.
Last ruled by King Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe – before it was brought under the British rule in 1815, Kandy – the World Heritage Site & last royal capital of Sri Lankan kings – crafts in array in culture, history and heritage in the minds of visitors across the globe. Experience an ancient Kandyan legacy engraved around its crown jewel, the temple of the sacred tooth relic of Lord Buddha.
A stroll across this small lakeside town – cradled among the misty hills – will feature the Kandy City Centre – bundled with latest and world class brands, bazaar, an arts & crafts centre, as well as gem museum & lapidary walk-in color as you glide through fresh fruits and vegetables in the Kandy market.
Peradeniya Botanical Garden
These stunning gardens were once reserved exclusively for Kandyan royalty. Today, even commoners are allowed in to enjoy the most impressive and largest (60 hectares) botanic gardens in Sri Lanka. Highlights include a fine collection of orchids, a stately avenue of royal palms, the extraordinary, aptly named cannonball fruit tree and 40m-hight Burma bamboo. Another big hit is the giant Javan fig tree on the great lawn, with its colossal central trunk and umbrella-like canopy of branches. Peradeniya is 6km from central Kandy.
Fine tube you’re evening by stepping to the beat of traditional music & drumming amplified by a cultural show enhancing the rich and vibrant culture of the Wonder of Asia, Sri Lanka.
On completion return to the hotel.
Dinner & overnight stay at hotel in Kandy.

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Don’t feed the trolls. You’ve heard this advice before, but how can anyone sit on their hands when the trolls are just so … wrong? When you encounter a rude and inaccurate comment, often the best bet is to ignore it altogether. But if you’re feeling inspired, you can look beyond the toxicity and aim for a productive outcome. The thing you ought not do, however, is take the bait and lock horns with the offender. That’s a certain path to a lose-lose situation.
What would you do if confronted with this comment?
The High Priest of Environmental Causes Al Gore was out promoting his waste of cellulose In January, 2006 – when promoting his Oscar-winning (yes, Oscar-winning) documentary, An Inconvenient Truth – Gore declared that unless we took “drastic measures” to reduce greenhouse gasses, the world would reach a “point of no return” in a mere ten years. He called it a “true planetary emergency.” Well, the ten years passed today, we’re still here, and the climate activists have postponed the apocalypse. Again.
Tracing the spread of the myth
This gem appeared among a volley of comments on the Facebook page of a science advocacy organization. But the text was not the work of the commenter.
Further searching revealed the origin of this snippet. By plugging parts of the quote into a search engine and comparing the dates of publication, it was possible to track the spread of this quote across the web. The original idea appeared to emerge from a climate denial blog. A few weeks later, the same sentiment resurfaced, with obviously similar wording, in an article in the National Review, a conservative publication. From there, the quote has been circulated widely by climate contrarians, and in some cases, spread by what appear to be fake social media accounts.
This small example shows how misinformation germinates within dubious sources like anti-science blogs, then spreads into sympathetic media, and gets shared and re-shared outward from there. Welcome to the disinformation age.
Rebuttal Strategy #1 – Correct the science
The myth is mean-spirited, for sure. But is it true? Not even close, according to Scott Denning, professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University. Denning’s faculty webpage details his expertise in carbon cycling and trace gas transport, but then offers an unusual credential: “takes special delight in engaging hostile audiences.”
Indeed, Denning has twice been a guest speaker at Heartland Institute conferences on climate change. Though he vehemently disagrees with Heartland’s stance on climate change, he reasons, “Ignoring climate contrarians has not made them go away.” Thus, he’s honed his methods to meaningfully engage people who dismiss climate science.
Denning’s first advice? Don’t fall into the trap of “fighting fire with fire.” Instead, he advises, “Find the nugget of a claim underneath the vitriol.”
It is not true that climate scientists predicted global catastrophe by 2018. Reading past the unhelpful tone, the logic behind this claim is as follows:
Premise 1: Emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases have continued and CO2 has continued to rise.
Premise 2: The consequences of the resulting warming so far aren’t all that bad.
Conclusion: Therefore global warming due to rising CO2 is not a problem and emissions can continue to rise without bound.
With the claim stripped of the inflammatory tone, it’s easy to examine in the light of day. The next step, says Denning, is to “dispatch with [the false claim] quickly and convincingly.”
The conclusion does not follow logically from the premises. CO2 and temperature have indeed continued to rise just as scientists predicted. Worse, the CO2 won’t go away when we eventually stop burning carbon, which is why the longer we wait, the more “drastic” measures we will have to take to avoid very serious damages to the world and our economy.
Denning explains, “I’m responding to the implication that there’s no urgency to reducing emissions. This is buried in the nastiness of the comment, but it’s the essence of the commenter’s message, so the thing we must refute.”
Inflammatory rhetoric intended to make you mad – so mad that you might not even catch the nonsensical claim. Denning describes it as “a multilayered trap,” because the comments are “personal, nasty, and inaccurate.”
The tone doesn’t make Denning shy away from addressing the comment, but it does shape the way he targets his rebuttal. “This kind of insulting rhetoric is precisely where we don’t want to go in the response.”
Strategy #2 – Expose the myth, misinformation, or fallacy
John Cook, research assistant professor at the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, likes to use “parallel arguments” to help dismantle pervasive myths. In other words, take away everything to do with climate change and look at a situation similar to the one in the myth. At that point, it’s easy to “expose the poor logic in misinformation,” says Cook. To make his message memorable, Cook captures the parallel argument in a cartoon and a short rebuttal.
This climate myth argues that we haven’t felt climate impacts yet so CO2 emissions are not a problem. This is like jumping from a height and commenting halfway down that you haven’t felt any impact yet so everything’s fine. We are committing actions now that will have consequences in the future.
And for the record, we are experiencing climate impacts now. Heat waves are getting hotter and more frequent, droughts are intensifying, and warmer oceans are fueling hurricanes.
This myth supposes that we’re waiting for an apocalypse to arrive. But one needn’t look very far to realize the impacts of climate change are already at our doorsteps.
Strategy #3 – Engage in dialogue
De-escalation is a common technique in conflict resolution. While this climate myth intentionally stokes antagonism, Karin Tamerius illustrates how to walk the conversation back to practical turf.
You know, I think the word “emergency” probably means different things to different people. What would it take for you to see pollution as a planetary emergency?
Tamerius is no stranger to controversy. In fact, she routinely poses difficult questions and wrangles with members of her SMART Politics Facebook community. All the while, she’s using her background in political psychology to help people communicate more effectively on the topics of the day.
Tamerius prefers to begin her engagement with a question. “I’m trying to redirect attention from the credibility of one person (Al Gore), to what this person believes,” she says. “If I can find out what matters to them, I can address those concerns specifically.”
By steering the conversation away from the arena of partisan politics, Tamerius hopes to uncover deeper understanding. “After determining how they define ’emergency,’ I would turn to finding out how close they think we are to an emergency now,” she says. In the face of copy/paste talking points, probing how someone knows something can bring the conversation to a more rational place.
“The best way to change this person’s mind about who climate activists are and what they stand for is through example,” she says. “Attacks should be ignored or sidestepped, not engaged.”
Strategy #4 – Be persuasive
Rachel Molloy, of Redmond, Washington, is an art director and a determined volunteer who seeks to advance climate policy. She’s currently dedicating her time to build support for a Washington state ballot initiative that would implement statewide carbon pricing. Meanwhile, she’s also volunteering with the Climate Reality Project Leadership Corps. From knocking on doors, to visiting schools, to responding to never-ending false claims on social media, Molloy tirelessly strives to help people understand the need for climate action. And she’s no stranger to the false narratives that surround climate change.
As she considers the Al Gore myth, Molloy quickly targets the claim that impacts have not occurred. “This is demonstrably incorrect,” she writes. She starts by leveraging the power of personal experiences.
We are seeing signs of widespread planetary problems. This summer offers plenty of evidence for that.
My daughters had to wear face masks for the first time just to play outside in the smoke and falling ash, as our wildfire costs ballooned over budget, and our air quality fell among the worst in the world.
She then proceeds to a larger scale:
The National Weather Service called Hurricane Florence “the storm of a lifetime” for the Carolinas, and recently Hurricane Harvey dropped “historic amounts of rainfall” of more than 60 inches. The storms are getting bigger and our USA record-keepers are exactly who is warning us on that.
When responding to misinformation on social media, Molloy always references credible sources. She selects some of those sources with an eye toward their potential resonance with her audience. For example, for fiscal conservatives who might be swayed by the rising price tag of climate change, she shares NOAA’s tally of weather and climate disasters.
Molloy keeps a “stockpile” of sources that are likely to be viewed as credible by conservatives: Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Exxon, and Chevron – all have supported taking action on climate change.
From Ronald Reagan to the 2017 Trump Administration National Climate Assessment … the science and the findings have been clear. Impacts from a warmer world are expensive and those costs are accelerating. 2017 just cost us +$300 billion, that’s some very expensive inaction, right here, right now.
Following a similar playbook as Dunning, Cook, and Tamerius, Molloy sidesteps the obvious attempts to drag the argument into the swamp. “Stay calm,” she advises. “I try to get the conversation back to credible sources and factual information at all times, and remain civil and patient throughout.”
Molloy understands that persuasion is a delicate balance, and she’s found that backing off the arguing and sharing some optimism about solutions can present an appealing détente. “Constantly be looking for that small offer of friendship or the crack in the door of someone willing to see that you are presenting a solid foundation that we can all stand on.”
The author is grateful to John Cook of George Mason University for his advice and recommendations on this project.
This series will continue to explore different facets of climate communication, while showcasing the voices of scientists, communicators, and everyday people.
Climate change science comeback strategies
‘In it for the money’
Al Gore said what?
How to identify people open to evidence about climate change
How to sort out good-faith questions about climate change


The Tacoma Police Department is committed to collaborating with community members to proactively identify and address public safety issues and concerns.
In 2015, in the midst of tensions around the United States between police officers and community members, the City of Tacoma launched Project PEACE, a proactive effort to improve relationships between the Tacoma Police Department and community members.
Following a successful series of Project PEACE conversations designed to build trust, relationships and understanding between community members and Tacoma Police Department officers, the City of Tacoma has since taken a number of steps to help create safer neighborhoods and foster a higher level of community engagement.
The focus is on these six key pillars.
Pillar 1: Build Trust and Legitimacy
Become more accessible, open, approachable, and transparent with all segments of our community
Pillar 2: Improve Policy and Oversight
Implement a body worn camera program
Pillar 3: Social Media
Greater use of social media to engage the community and help solve crimes
Pillar 4: Community Policing and Crime Reduction
Greater collaboration between TPD and citizens
Pillar 5: Enhance Training and Education
Increase officer awareness on institutional racism/implicit bias/cultural competency and de-escalation. Mental health trauma and crisis training
Pillar 6: Officer Wellness and Safety
Ensure the wellness and safety of our officers as it is critical not only to themselves, their co-workers, and the department but also to public safety


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When was 1080p introduced?
When was 1080p introduced?
Smartphones with 1080p FullHD display have been available on the market since 2012. As of late-2014, it is the standard for mid-range to high-end smartphones and many of the flagship devices of 2014 used even higher resolutions, either Quad HD (1440p) or Ultra HD (2160p) resolutions.
What was the first 1080p display?
April 19, 2006, Tokyo, Japan – Pioneer Corporation today announced the world’s first*1 50-inch 1920 X 1080 HD Plasma monitor employing new “HD P.U.R.E. *2 Black Panel”, which creates a 1080p native resolution with more than 2 million pixels on a 50-inch screen.
What was before 1080p?
From largest to smallest: 8K (tangerine), 4K Cinema in 1.78:1 aspect ratio (black); Ultra HD (white); 2K Cinema in 1.78:1 aspect ratio (green); Full HD 1080p (red); 720p (blue). 8K follows the same logic. If you’re talking about TVs, it’s twice the horizontal and vertical resolution of 4K TVs: 7,680×4,320.
Is 1080p the same as 2K?
A 1080p native resolution is 1920 pixels horizontally and 1080 pixels down vertically. 2K (also referred to as “1440p”, “Quad HD”, or “QHD”) is quite the upgrade to 1080p. A 2K native resolution is 2560 pixels horizontally and 1440 pixels vertically.
Is 1920×1080 full HD?
1080p, also known as Full HD or FHD (full high definition), is a very common display resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels….Common Monitor Resolutions.
|5K||5120 x 2880|
|WUXGA||1920 x 1200|
|1080p aka Full HD aka FHD||1920 x 1080|
|HD aka 720p||1280 x 720|
Is 720p 4K?
So 720p is actually a 1280 x 720 resolution, while 1080p is 1920 x 1080, and so on. 4K is a bit different- if it still followed the height rule, it would be called 2160p. (Many still call it that, since it’s accurate and follows the standard.) The higher the resolution, the sharper your image will be.
When was 1080p invented?
1080p was founded in 2013 by Richard MacFarlane , an eccentric New Zealander who moved to Vancouver on a whim. In three years, the label has rapidly grown from humble beginnings, with a cheeky aesthetic, an emphasis on digital art and a focus on cassettes.
When was the first HD broadcast?
HDTV sets became available in the U.S. in 1998 and broadcasts began around November 1998. The first public HDTV broadcast was of the launch of the space shuttle Discovery and John Glenn ‘s return to space; that broadcast was made possible in part by the Harris Corporation .
What is the difference between HD and FHD displays?
The difference between the various screen resolutions is shown in this list: HD: 720p image resolution (1,280 x 720 pixels – approx. 1 million total) Full HD (FHD): 1080p image resolution (1,920 x 1,080 pixels – approx. 2 million total) Quad HD (QHD): 1440p image resolution (2,560 x 1,440 pixels – approx. 4 million total) Ultra HD (UHD)/4K: 2160p image resolution (3,840 x 2,160 pixels – approx. 8 million total)
Are DVDs really 480p?
DVDs are 480i or 576i (at 60 or 50 fields per second). But they can store progressive 480p or 576p content (at 30/24 or 25 frames per second), and have some special flags and handling to do so.


Mechanical Engineering students team Velocity Racing, consisting of 35 students, 26 from Mechanical and 9 from the Electrical department participated in the 3rd Formula Green held in Kari Motor Speedway, Coimbatore representing PSG Institute of Technology and Applied Research. The All-India Level competition was held from 12th February to 16th February. Formula green is a formula electric race car design competition conducted by ISNEE ( Indian Society of New Era Engineers).
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Knee support promotes muscular balance in cases of patellar lateralisation
Genumedi PT is a knee support for patellar guidance. The product is exclusively to be used for the orthotic fitting of the knee and only on unbroken skin.
- Positive effect on the muscular structures that guide the patella to compensate for imbalance
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The compressive support promotes blood flow and, together with the integrated pad around the kneecap, creates a massaging effect that accelerates the reduction of swelling and bruising. The incorporated pad system lightly guides the kneecap. In addition, patella-guiding muscle structures in the thigh are positively influenced by the massage and the pressure of the pads, so that the guidance of the knee cap is improved. The strap can be used to individually adjust the pressure.
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