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(This 2011 special report was shortlisted for an investigative journalism award in the community newspaper category by Canadian Association of Journalists)
By Gagandeep Ghuman
Published: Sept 2011
During the Great Fire of Rome, they say, the powerful Roman emperor Nero played the lyre, watching contently as the city he ruled burnt down to ashes.
It would be extravagant to talk of Nero and his Rome while talking of Squamish and its council.
An expert audit report ignored by he council shows the community needs to ask some serious questions on fire safety and thinking that goes into decision-making behind the closed doors of the District of Squamish.
A fire audit was completed in Squamish by Fire Underwriters Survey (FUS), a national organisation that represents more than 85 per cent of the private sector and casualty insurers in Canada. FUS reports are regarded as an authority by both the fire services and insurance industries. They have a dual purpose: To provide insurance companies information to base their premiums on and to advise municipalities on the deficiencies in their fire departments and recommend improvements.
Commissioned in 2006, and presented to the council in January 2009, the FUS audit made one red-inked “critical” recommendation to the council: Improve staffing levels at the fire department.
The audit found Squamish Fire Rescue deficient in its staffing.
“The Squamish Fire Department is 82 per cent deficient with regard to available fire forces, the most significant deficiency within the fire insurance grading,” said the report. It also warned that the insurance premiums in the community might go up if more fire fighters were not added to the Squamish Fire Rescue.
“If the staffing level of the Squamish Fire Rescue department remains at the same level, the fire insurance grading of the community will be negatively affected,” said the report.
Now, say, you had this report and you had the power to change things, what would you want to do? Hire a few fire fighters so that the community is safe and insurance rates don’t go up for the constituents?
Guess what happened in Squamish? The exact opposite.
Six months later, as if in defiance of the report of the fire survey, the District of Squamish decided to lay off one fire fighter position in May 2009. So why did the council decide to get rid of one fire fighter position, especially after a “critical” recommendation by a nonpartisan fire audit to hire more fire fighters?
“CAO’s recommendation,” was Mayor Greg Gardner’s answer.
Coun. Corinne Lonsdale, too, laid the responsibility with former CAO Kim Anema, saying the council doesn’t “dream up” recommendations.
“He’s the guy we pay the big bucks to come to us with recommendations, to research, to know, and so that’s what he came to us with and we accepted it,” she said.
Anema charged he had to make the decision under duress since it was strongly demanded by the council that he brought forward a 4 per cent reduction in budgets. Anema also said he was away in Edmonton when the council decided the position would be cut.
“Mayor and Council, wholly of their own accord enacted the 4 per cent tax reduction, including the elimination of the fire fighter position,” Anema claimed in an email. “I was shocked but their deed was done, completely independent of my participation. Cuts that yielded a 4 per cent reduction in taxes were DEMANDED.”
Even if Anema indeed favoured the layoff, doesn’t the final decision to accept a staff suggestion rest with the council? Coun. Lonsdale agreed, saying the position was cut by the council after much deliberation. She did not, however, expand on what discussions preceded such a serious decision.
Curiously, she said the council decided to accept the cuts because the fire chief didn’t oppose them.
“We didn’t accept it blindly, but it seemed at least that the fire chief of the day didn’t say something at that time. He was in front of us too and he didn’t dispute it,” she said. But former fire chief Ray Saurette strongly denied he ever recommended the cuts.
”At no point did I recommend that a fire fighter be laid off or a position eliminated,” Saurette said.
He said he was hoping to speak on the cut during the budget process, but the opportunity was never provided. He said he was concerned about the recommendation, since the fire audit had asked the council to hire more people, not to lay them off.
Squamish councillors might be able to pass the buck to the officials on the layoff, but they can’t play ping-pong on one fact: Squamish has exactly the same number of fire fighters today as it had in 1992.
In 1992, there was a fire chief, a deputy fire chief and four career fire fighters, working with about 60 valiant volunteers. An additional fire fighter was hired in 2001, but it was the same position that was eliminated in 2009, bringing the number of fire fighters to the same level as 1992.
Even though the number of fire fighters pas stayed the same, the population has increased. Since 1992, the Squamish population has expanded to 18,000 from 12,000. New developments have mushroomed all over the town, from Quest University to Garibaldi Village, from condos to townhouses. As would be expected with the increase in population and construction of more buildings, the call volume to the fire department also increased. In 1992, the fire department responded to roughly 257 calls; in 2009, the number was 535.
The pool of this town’s committed volunteers is also shrinking: The number of volunteers has gone down from 60 to 43, according to information provided by the current fire chief, Tom Easterbrook, although he said a fall recruitment was planned.
When asked if more than a year later, the layoff of the fire fighter affected the department in any possible way, Easterbrook said he was watching. “Well, let’s just say that I’m waiting and seeing and working on it. I’m keeping an eye on things and I’m working on it. That’s all I can say at this time.” he said.
A few days later, he admitted that with the population increase and development that Squamish had seen over the past few years, it won’t be long before Squamish would need more fire fighters:
“We will undergo a core review, and we will look at long-term staffing patterns soon,” he said.
Coun. Lonsdale said she would have to dig up the exact number for the volunteer fire fighters, but insisted that the Squamish Fire Rescue was doing a good job of protecting Squamish citizens.
“I don’t know the exact numbers but we have ample, we have a lot of volunteers, may be its close to 60, but I’m not sure,” she said.
The community, which includes scores of valiant volunteers, who give their time and endanger their lives, should know this: Since the past 18 years, the call volume has doubled; the population has increased by 50 per cent; development, too, has nearly doubled over this time – and the fire department still stands exactly where it was in term of numbers!
According to the National Fire Protection Association, an international not-for-profit organisation with headquarters in Massachusetts, U.S., ideal response time to a fire is four to six minutes. Michael Hurley of the British Columbia Professional Fire Fighter Association said a fire response longer than six minutes wasn’t a very effective response.
”After the first five minutes, a burning fire doubles every 30 seconds,” Hurley said, succinctly underscoring the need for rapid-fire response.
An increase in response time has been a matter of concern for Squamish Fire Department, according to its own 2007 report available on the District of Squamish website.
The Squamish Fire Rescue’s average response time was seven minutes and 30 seconds in 2007. In 2009, it increased to 10 minutes. “It was around 10 minutes and because we respond outside Squamish, the average time can get a little bit high,” Easterbrook said.
But didn’t fire department respond to calls outside Squamish in 2007 when the response time was less?
After a few days of the initial interview, Easterbrook called back to say ten minutes was a rough estimate. He said that 10 minutes was the number of minutes it would take for the volunteer fire fighters to come on the scene.
The response time for the professional fire fighters was lower, he said. The response times, he also added, were a very complex issue that needed a detailed study.
But Coun. Lonsdale assured that there was no cause to worry about response times.
“I think our response times are good today as they were a year before that and the year before that. We are doing fine that way,” she said.
She also said the average response time can seem high because the Squamish Fire Rescue had to answer calls on Highway 99 and to the communities of Britannia Beach and Furry Creek, which also increased the average response times.
However, the fire department responded to calls on Highway 99 and outside communities even in 2007. So what led to the response time increase by three-and-a-half minutes, an eternity if your house is burning ? Other councilors didn’t seem as enthusiastic to talk about the issue. Coun. Bryan Raiser said he knew that the layoff was a result of the “budget recommendation by the fire chief”.
An automated response came from Coun. Rob Kirkham saying he was away on vacation, while Coun. Lalli said he wasn’t available for the time the interviews were conducted. Coun. Patricia Heintzman said that Squamish had a really strong volunteer fire fighter force, who were trained enough to handle fire-safety issues.
Coun. Doug Race suggested talking to the mayor, who sent a one-line response before flying to China. “Fire department is functioning very well,” wrote Mayor Greg Gardner. The fire chief seemed to downplay the very importance of the audit itself. He said it was just one indicator of how well the fire department was.
“It’s useful tool, but it’s not something that you use to build the fire department around. It was never meant to be the definitive guide to build the fire department,” he said.
Michael Currie won’t be surprised. Currie, one of the directors of FUS, said municipalities most often shy away from investing in their fire department. Since an investment in fire department means an increase in taxes, it can be an unpopular decision which politicians don’t want to implement.
“It’s simply because of politics. When I speak to municipalities, they will say if we invest in fire department, our fire grading will increase and that’s going to improve the rates, but what’s that going to do for the municipalities? They say you are not doing anything for us,” he said.
He said most Canadians believe there’s some common public standard that operates for fire and water services, but that’s not the case.
“There’s no standard level. It depends on what level of fire protection and water services they need to supply. It’s determined by the choice of local municipalities,” he said.
If it all boils down to a matter of choice, then it’s fair to ask: If the District of Squamish can hire new people, pay hundreds of thousand towards SSC debt, pay half-a-million dollars to buy a restaurant, choose to go on a China trip, and give the staff handsome raises, can it not hire a fire fighter?
Or perhaps, in this case, the questions should be: Was it necessary to get rid of a fire fighter right after a survey screamed at the top of its voice to hire more fire fighters?
Get an answer. Or you could be talking of Squamish and Rome in the same breath.


Transor Filter CEO, Irv Kaage, announced new promotions at the company’s corporate headquarters located in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. Phil Stackpoole has been named vice president of sales, and Shannon Goodman has been promoted to vice president of administration.
Stackpoole joined the company in 2008 in a sales capacity and rose to the position of national account executive prior to his promotion. He continues to manage company interaction with large international manufacturers located in the US along with others in the cutting tool field.
Goodman’s promotion is from the position of office manager/assistant to the president to VP of Administration. She has been an integral part of the organization as she is involved with sales, logistics, HR and financial matters, said Kaage.
“Both of these individuals have been instrumental in Transor’s sustained growth both domestically and internationally,” said Kaage. “They will continue to play key roles as Transor continues to expand both here in the US and through our offices in Latin America and Asia.”
For more information on Transor Filter USA, visit www.transorfilter.com or phone 847-640-0273.
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Even though it’s been a long time since BlackBerry was considered one of the world’s biggest smartphone manufacturers, BlackBerry is not ready to give up yet. The tech giant has recently launched BlackBerry KEY2 in Europe and the smartphone is now getting its first update. The update sports the ABM374 build number and it’s currently rolling out in North America. With that said, today we are going to cover everything there is to know about the latest update.
BlackBerry KEY2 ABM374 Update
As previously mentioned, the new update is currently available only to BlackBerry KEY2 users who live in North America. However, the update is surely going to arrive in Europe during the upcoming weeks.
Nonetheless, this is a small maintenance update that improves the user experience of the smartphone by adding bug fixes, software tweaks and updated square icons from Google.
How to Get the Update
BlackBerry is rolling out the update OTA (over the air) which means that BlackBerry KEY2 users should keep a close eye on their notifications panel because the update should pop up any minute now. However, the update can also be manually triggered by following the next steps: Settings – System – System Updates – Check For Updates.
BlackBerry KEY2 is a powerful smartphone that ships with a 4.5-inches IPS LCD display. The panel is coated in Corning Gorilla Glass 3 for added protection and it features a pixel density of 434 ppi. Leaving the display aside, the smartphone’s true power hides under the hood.
BlackBerry KEY2 is fueled by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 processor that clocks at 2.2GHz. Furthermore, the processor is paired with an Adreno 512 graphics processing unit and 6GB of RAM. The last thing that we need to mention about BlackBerry KEY2 is the fact that it is equipped with 64GB/128GB of internal storage space that can be expanded up to 256GB via microSD.


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This class will focus on the problem of promoting efficient provision of public goods and services, paying particular attention to the challenge of delivering public services in developing nations. We will survey the recent academic literature, covering a variety of research methods including traditional data analysis, and laboratory and field experiments. Students taking this class should be familiar with economics and basic statistical analysis.
The course will be divided into three interrelated subject areas. In the first block, we will examine what type of individuals are attracted to careers in the public sector, and explore the subtleties of providing bureaucrats with the proper incentives. In the second block, we will devote ourselves to the specific problem of corruption - i.e. when public sector workers distort the social objective of the public institution in exchange for private gain. In the last block, we will take a political-economy approach to examine issues pertaining to the delivery of public services in developing nations.
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The Palouse region of Eastern Washington state has been called the “American Tuscany” for its many similarities to the Italian relative. Rolling hills and rich farmland are seen from horizon to horizon in this fertile landscape. European-Americans first started settling this area around 1874, and Lewis and Clark first encountered the Palouse native Americans in October of 1805, estimating a population of around 1600. The Palouse Indians were also called the Palus.
Today, a variety of grains are grown here, including both wheat and barley. According to 2009 estimates from the Washington Grain Alliance, approximately 72% of the wheat grown in this region was of the common white variety, with Whitman County as the largest producer in the state.
Spring melts the snow-covered hills and transforms the area into rolling fields of green. Some have indicated that under the right lighting conditions, the Palouse as seen from near the top of Steptoe Butte, looks like God’s golf course. The summer brings temperatures into the 100’s, turning the wheat from green to its yellowish-tan color as it approaches the harvest season, which is typically in the last months of July and occasionally into early August.
With over a hundred-year history of the region, there are many aging and historic structures to be seen in addition to the beautiful fields of wheat. One could drive hundreds of miles on the dusty farming roads and still not see all there is to see here. Old family graveyards, collapsing farmhouses, and aging barns are a common sight. Occasionally a dust storm will blow into the area from the winds. The combination of a layer of dust and the setting sun can produce images that are quite pleasing to the eye. Thunderstorms are not uncommon and can produce some dramatic farmland scenes in the right light, such as in the bottom photo which I took on a particularly hot August day where thunderstorms had been forecast.

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Underwater endoscopic mucosal resection for superficial nonampullary duodenal adenomasTRIAL REGISTRATION: Single-center, prospective, cohort study UMIN000018710 at http://www.umin.ac.jp.
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Background and study aim Underwater endoscopic mucosal resection (UEMR) was recently developed in a Western country. A prospective cohort study to investigate the effectiveness of UEMR was conducted in patients with small superficial nonampullary duodenal adenomas.
Patients and methods Patients with duodenal adenomas ≤ 20 mm were enrolled. After the duodenal lumen had been filled with physiological saline, UEMR was performed without submucosal injection. Endoclip closure was attempted for all mucosal defects after UEMR. Follow-up endoscopy with biopsy was performed 3 months later. The primary end point was the complete resection rate, defined as neither endoscopic nor histological residue of adenoma at the follow-up endoscopy.
Results 30 patients with 31 lesions were enrolled. The mean (SD) tumor size was 12.0 mm (7.3). The complete resection rate was 97 % (90 % confidence interval, 87 % – 99 %). The en bloc resection rate was 87 %. All mucosal defects were successfully closed by endoclips. No adverse events occurred except for one case of mild aspiration pneumonia.
Conclusions UEMR is efficacious for the treatment of small duodenal adenomas, but further large-scale trials are warranted to confirm these results.
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- 3 Maruoka D, Arai M, Kishimoto T. et al. Clinical outcomes of endoscopic resection for nonampullary duodenal high-grade dysplasia and intramucosal carcinoma. Endoscopy 2013; 45: 138-141
- 4 Apel D, Jakobs R, Spiethoff A. et al. Follow-up after endoscopic snare resection of duodenal adenomas. Endoscopy 2005; 37: 444-448
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- 6 Abbass R, Rigaux J, Al-Kawas FH. Nonampullary duodenal polyps: characteristics and endoscopic management. Gastrointest Endosc 2010; 71: 754-759
- 7 Klein A, Nayyar D, Bahin FF. et al. Endoscopic mucosal resection of large and giant lateral spreading lesions of the duodenum: success, adverse events, and long-term outcomes. Gastrointest Endosc 2016; 84: 688-696
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Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 Announced with Snapdragon 820, 9.7-inch Super AMOLED QXGA display – Finally Samsung has officially announced Galaxy Tab S3 at MWC 2017 Event In Barcelona. It comes with a 9.7-inch Super AMOLED QXGA screen, is powered by a quad-core Snapdragon 820 SoC and runs on Android 7.0 Nougat. It has quad-stereo speakers tuned by AKG by HARMAN and comes with an enhanced S Pen.
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There is a book cover and a keyboard cover. Through magnetic connector at the bottom of the tablet are connected. Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 comes in Black and Silver colors and is priced at 679 Euros (US$ 717 / Rs. 47,785 Roughly.) for the WiFi variant and the LTE variant costs 769 Euros (US$ 812 / Rs. 54120 Roughly.) in Europe. It will be released in the coming weeks.
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This is somewhat tongue-in-cheek. I mean, I really do want to have an exchange going here. I think the NaNo experience has been moving in the wrong direction in that National Novel Editing Month was cancelled, and they have now launched ScriptFrenzy. The only good I see coming out of ScriptFrenzy is the wider circulation of proper script format.
Well, if anyone is interested, my program is to: 1. Do some work on this puppy (my 2004 novel) everyday. 2. Finish the manuscript 3. Prepare a query 4. Get some crits on the query material 5. Shop it to some agents
Anyone else who is interested in also doing this feel free to reply here or email me.
well I am looking for a group with those same types of goals in mind, I think.
My addition to your goals would be to have weekly or even bi-weekly crits of a portion of the material we write. Nothing too strenuous on us, nothing so large as to take away from our time writing our own material. But I just am a newish writer. I've been writing for ten years or so, but not seriously, not with any intention of getting published. Now I am... I want to know if what Im writing has any chance of that. And if not, why not. Let me know if this is an addition you would be okay with?
Im writing a novel. Ive been working on it, mileu, and backstory, for a long time. I decided it was time to just write it. Now I just want to make sure I am writing it in a way that is good enough to be published. I don't need a lot of crit work, I don't think, but I would like to have a little. I work on it almost everyday... but I don't turn out material very fast.
BTW I have no idea what NaNo is. Excuse me for my ignorance, I was just curious as to what the heck it is.
As a Nano survivor and winner last year this type of group is exactly what I was looking for when I signed up here. The Cleveland group pretty much dissolves till next October so having more frequent contact with others working on their novels will help motivate me a lot. I need to get cracking on my mess so I have some work to share.

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Evaluating changes in groundwater storage during the 2015-2018 drought in the Western Cape using GRACE data
The frequency, intensity, and duration of droughts are increasing globally, putting severe pressure on water supply systems worldwide. The Western Cape Province suffered from a period of severe water shortages that began around January 2015 and lasted until about July 2018. During this recent drought, there was a forced reduction in water use, predominantly from the agricultural sector. Citizens also reduced water use and increasingly tapped into groundwater for their needs irrespective of whether the hydrogeology was considered favourable or not.


I know what it’s like to be a woman. I know what it’s like to be African-American. I also know, because I grew up in segregated Mississippi and because access to public restrooms has been a divisive issue long before now, what it’s like to be barred from public restrooms and even doctor’s offices because of my skin color.
Having said that, I’ve been struggling with the on-going debate over which public restrooms transgender people and those who are gender-nonconforming should be allowed to use.
It's the Obama administration's view that homosexual, bisexual and transgender individuals should be afforded equal treatment under the law. And in keeping with that, the U.S. Justice and Education departments last month told schools they must allow transgender students access to school restrooms "consistent with their gender identity."
Several states, notably North Carolina, Georgia and my home state of Mississippi, are challenging that ruling.
So I asked Raquel who is right?
“The president,” she said. “If you identify as a woman, you should be using the woman’s restroom. I think the fear of trans people or people pretending to be trans to get into restrooms to assault women and children is bunk. I think transgender people are being used as pawns to halt societal progress. I think a lot of conservative people are not happy about our country becoming more inclusive of marginalized individuals, and I think that a lot of this is a backlash to marriage equality and portrayals of transgender people in the media and in general this feeling of privileged people losing their grip on how everyone lives.”
Raquel is 25 and has thought long and hard about this. Her opinion is the difference between me and so-called experts spouting off about an issue and someone who has actually walked in those shoes.
I’ve read stories about that time when women joining the labor force for the first time had to fight to get employers to provide restrooms in workplaces that had historically been dominated by men; about how in the 1980s, advocates for Americans with disabilities finally began making progress in their quest for equal access to public accommodations.
I easily relate to those issues as I’m sure many of us do, but there’s much I don’t understand about being transgender. It’s why I wanted to talk to Raquel, to hear her story.
She remembers people telling her as a child that she was “feminine for a boy,” and they called her slurs like “sissy,” treated her like an outcast.
“For a long time, I thought I was gay,” she said. “I liked boys, but I never felt like that fit completely.”
She often wished she were a girl and, in her dreams, that’s who she was. No matter how hard her dad tried, and he tried a lot, she didn’t fit any stereotypical male role. She wasn’t interested in sports. She didn’t act like a boy, and she felt discomfort being referred to as a boy.
“That didn’t really feel right for me so with that and growing up in a very Catholic, Southern black household, it was a struggle to be so different,” she said. “Neither my mom nor my dad had this language or means to try to understand or give me space to grow the way I needed. There’s no fault because I also didn’t have that language.”
For one thing, the word “transgender” wasn’t mainstream in the ’90s and certainly not here in the South where Raquel grew up with her two older siblings.
Despite their differences, she and her father were able to forge a meaningful relationship until his death in 2011.
“When he died, it was difficult because I felt like I wanted to prove to him I could make it being myself,” she said. “I wanted him to see me blossom into the person I wanted to be, but it also freed me to understand how short life is and how important it was for me to live my life on my terms.”
By December of that year, Raquel realized she needed therapy to figure out her feelings. With the help of her mother, she was able to retrace her history. She recalled secretly playing with her mother’s makeup and sharing with her mom that she didn’t feel like a boy.
And so in 2012, after she met other transgender people at the University of Georgia, she realized that people who really cared about her would take the time to understand and support her decision to live life authentically.
“I started using different pronouns and different names, trying it out to see if it worked, how it felt,” she said. “Eventually I found ‘Raquel.’”
She finally embraced her truth, but she didn’t know how to move forward. She considered having surgery to fully transition, but she was on the fence. Then she traveled to Milan, Italy, for a social media marketing internship, she retreated back into the closet because it was easier and safer.
But inside she was more determined to be herself. As soon as she returned home, she sent a detailed email to her mother and siblings. She was done hiding and decided to start the physical transition with or without their support.
On July 6, and with her mother’s blessings, she began hormonal treatments.
“My body started changing. The way I felt changed,” she said. “It didn’t matter people didn’t understand. I felt more real. I felt more at home, emboldened to be outspoken and stronger in my convictions.”
She was at the University of Georgia pursuing a degree in journalism when she used the women’s bathroom for the first time. She worried someone would yell at her to get out but nothing happened.
“I did what I needed to do and left,” she said.
After graduating in 2013, Raquel spent a year working at the Walton Tribune. She has spent the last three mostly as a writer and activist, speaking out on issues of race, social justice and gender.
Her life has gotten easier. She moves through society with more confidence, no longer feeling she has to hide who she really is. At the same, she can’t help being concerned about all the things that come with being black, being woman and being transgender.
“I have spent my entire life being called things I wasn’t and being talked to in damaging ways,” she said. “I am not about to let what people say or do keep me from being my authentic self.”
I spent nearly two hours with Raquel and I still struggle to understand her journey. But maybe that’s OK. Maybe at the end of the day what really matters is I was able to connect with the human underneath the label.


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Grinding ball consumption in cement mills. Grinding energy was approximately per cent of the ball mill and the drying capabilities allowed direct processing of materials of up to per cent moisture content the main energy issue was the high power consumption of mill fans, with pressure drops of mbar not uncommon with high nozzle ring velocities gtms and internal mill.Executing the operation, in the shift, of Raw Mill, Kiln, Cement Coal Mills and auxiliaries’ equipment from the Central Control Room (CCR) Coaching and Training of CCR operators to execute operational initiatives for increasing production and reducing cost of production. Achieving optimum fuel efficiency, power consumption and.Dec 02, 2019 This operation typically consumes somewhere between 30 to 50 kWh per tonne of cement produced, and is the single largest point of consumption of electrical power in the process.At the beginning stage when vertical roller mill was adopted to cement manufacturing, mill gas circulation fan and dust collection fan are required and their power consumption was larger. Descriptions The conventional process gas flow of the mill grinding system generally consists of vertical roller mill with separator, cyclone, mill.

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State Rep. Jack O’Malley, of Lake Ann, today said findings from the state Auditor General show a key arm of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration made crucial and costly errors implementing a federal program.
The Auditor General examined the state’s Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) process, including application and eligibility criteria that was not federally compliant. The state’s Unemployment Insurance Agency paid roughly $3.9 billion in improper benefits after including the incorrect criteria and continued to include it on its pandemic assistance application for nine months after it was first warned by the U.S. Department of Labor.
The report disclosed that a variety of actions and inaction by UIA senior leadership during COVID-19 contributed to a problematic “tone at the top” and corresponding mistakes.
“This agency was a rudderless ship, and unfortunately a lack of leadership trickled down to people who had been put out of work and were just trying to get benefits they needed to get by,” O’Malley said. “With this report, we now have a staggering sum that was paid out improperly.
“When Gov. Whitmer made the decision to take away livelihoods, a robust and efficient system was needed to make sure people could still pay bills and put food on the table. That didn’t happen, and many people across Michigan bore the brunt of this ineffectiveness and incompetence. As the report clearly states – this starts at the top.”
O’Malley has examined UIA’s response and effectiveness during each of his legislative terms in the Michigan House. He served on the Joint Select Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic during the 2019-20 term as the agency attempted to process millions of unemployment claims following executive orders in response to the pandemic. He currently serves on the House Oversight Committee, which recently met with newly appointed UIA director Julia Dale.
The audit report, which is the first of a series on UIA’s actions and effectiveness during COVID-19, found that from March 15, 2020 through Sept. 27 of this year, the agency paid nearly $39 billion in total unemployment insurance claims from 5.4 million claims and just over 3.4 million claimants. The PUA claims are included in the total figures.
“I am committed to improving the agency going forward. Performance audits and hearings will help in this area because we can hear what the agency is planning to do to improve and see if they’re actually taking corrective actions,” O’Malley said. “UIA’s effectiveness is something I hear a ton about, and I am staying on this to make sure we have an efficient, service-driven product going forward.”
By state Rep. Jack O’Malley of Lake Ann Each holiday we celebrate in our country holds special significance and meaning. It’s what makes them different from all the other days. Thanksgiving has always been a favorite of mine. It signifies enjoying a good meal with loved ones and saying thank you for all the blessings […]
Advancing legislation makes renewed commitment to shipping industry A plan from state Rep. Jack O’Malley charting a course for investment into Michigan maritime commerce was overwhelmingly approved recently by the Michigan House. House Bill 5291 would establish a Port Facility Improvement Grant program for the expansion and creation of public and private ports within the […]
Rep. O’Malley talks about House Bill 5190, which would modify the Michigan Merit Curriculum to include successful completion of a half-credit course in personal finance as a graduation requirement. Currently, students must take two full credits of a language other than English to graduate. The bill would adjust this requirement to 1½ credits in conjunction […]
Rep. O’Malley talks about House passage this week of his HB 5291, which would establish a Maritime Authority with the Michigan Department of Transportation. Rep. O’Malley says the plan will help 36 ports across Michigan draw down grant dollars and help create jobs.

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Early work on a 3D model for an older character design. At one point there was the idea of doing an Unreal Engine 4 based game. It made it about as far as this headless model you see here. Not for lack of experience with UE4. Just lack of time and day job obligations.

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Turning through old images can instill feelings of nostalgia, but it also can evoke disappointment and frustration when you will no longer remember the people, details and emotions behind them.
Scrapbooks allow you to not only preserve photos and memorabilia, but to capture the feelings behind your valuable memories.
Assembling together a scrapbooking could appear like a daunting project, in particular when you first look at the boxes and piles of unsorted photos. Joy Macdonell, education overseer at EK Success, a scrapbooking company, gives the following tips.
* Purchase the basic tools. To begin with, purchase adhesive, a paper clipper, scissors, pens, paper and albums. Herma brand glue is recommended, as is the Zig Memory System type of pens. Always buy stuff with the keywords “acid-free, ” “photo-safe” and “lignin-free” to make sure the best quality.
* Set up your pictures. Sort your pictures by theme, occasion, year or people, and store in an acid-free picture box with tab partitioning. Write all the vital details on the behind of the images with a photo labeling pen.
* Choose the pictures. Choose the pictures that best demonstrate the theme of your page. Store the others. A newbie should aim to have about 3 pictures per page.
* Drew the layout and determine the colours. Sketch how you want your page elements to be arranged and use temporary glue so you could move things around. Also, choose coordinating colors that match the hues in your photos.
* Crop and mat the images. Crop your images to eliminate superfluous detail. Then design a simple mat, about a quarter-inch wide on all sides, to put under the photos so they stand out on the page.
* Embellish the page. Add life to the page using stickers, creative lettering or other 3-D embellishments. Begin simple; you desire your images to be the key focus.
* Write diary entries. This is certainly the most crucial scrapbook aspect since it conveys the details and feelings regarding that moment, which may be neglected with time. To make journal writing easy, write bullet points to highlight the primary events.
* Take a class. Although these pointers will assist you in starting out, take classes to really hone your skills.
Some folks that are interested in scrapbooking art get their training from scrapbooking classes in Sacramento California but it may be very expensive. Fortunately there are affordable ways to learn the art of professional scrapbooking in CA.


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Simple, Humane Solutions for Complex Behavioral Problems
Reactive dog and puppy training for Baltimore area dogs and guardians.
Is Your Dog or Puppy’s Behavior Causing You Stress?
Whether your new puppy is a little more than you counted on or your 4-legged best friend is struggling with fear or reactivity – it can be overwhelming and exhausting. Sometimes you need a little help learning how to help your puppy or dog become the best version of themselves. Pawsitive Behavior Solutions can provide it!
How We Help
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Is your dog frozen in fear or growling, barking, and lunging at dogs or people? Are they spooked by noise or guarding resources? Are you afraid of what your dog may do?
We can help you both live a more peaceful life together.
Do you live outside of our coverage area? Does your reactive or fearful dog get stressed out leaving the house or unable to learn around new people?
Our virtual training options make training as stress-free as possible for you and your furry companion.
Do you want a puppy who’ll grow up to love people, enjoy dogs, gladly give up their favorite stuff, and relax when left alone?
We’ll help build a positive foundation for them to grow into a happy, confident adult dog!
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Our goal is to provide clients with simple, humane solutions to complex behavioral challenges while strengthening their bond with their dog. The most up-to-date research on dog training tells us that by reading our dog’s body language and motivating them with food and fun games, we can overcome behavioral challenges while building stronger bonds. These are the tools we use to help clients develop the confidence they need to guide their dogs and regain peace in their homes. We’d love to help you do the same.
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Cybersecurity Strategies for SMEs in the Nordic Baltic Region
Keywords:Cybersecurity, Small and Medium Sized Companies (SMEs), Nordic Baltic Region, NIST Framework, Change Management
Cybercrime has become the most widespread kind of economic fraud and is a serious challenge for businesses around the world. The topic of this paper is how SMEs in the Nordic Baltic Region should face this challenge. Possible technical and organisational tasks to be performed by SMEs in order to ensure cybersecurity of their business are analysed. The paper looks at the different types of hackers and their motives. On this background, current cyberthreats and corresponding security measures are presented. It is concluded that awareness, training, and financial incentives are all important elements in defining a cybersecurity strategy for SMEs. The paper is based on research made in the DINNOCAP project funded by EU regional funds.
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‘They brutalized his brother who committed suicide. Now he’s back to exact revenge, and settle some old scores.
Dark Endings is a short film that is also a template for a feature film project. To this end the scenes are short but impactful and move the story forward, and the dialogue and story line provide clues on the back story and prior relationships and complex motivations and inter-relationships of the characters.
The film is a cross-genre that blends the crime-thriller-violence with an undercurrent of racialized violence, and told from the ethnic characters’ POV.
The character of Casanova is perhaps the most complex, a young mob-prince with a chip on his shoulder and something to prove: he goes way beyond his mob-boss mother’s command and sadistically rapes his sister’s boyfriend. Casanova’s rage is partly motivated by the ethnicity of his victim and his brother, and the past relationship history between the victim’s brother and his mother. The mob-boss mother is perhaps motivated by her own past relationship in ordering the break-up. This past relationship may also explain the protagonist’s choice in his vengeance to kill the daughter and leave the mother alive, so as to more deeply hurt the mother.
The violent rape and revenge scenes are visceral without being gratuitous and reflect the intensity and motivating emotions of the perpetrators and the victims. The fight scenes where the brother inflicts revenge are choreographed with a brutal military variation of combat jiu-jitsu techniques, which reflects the brother-character’s implied back story.
The musical score reflects the emotional intensity of the characters and the dangerous events and outcomes, as well as the poignancy of the characters. The finale of the film reflects the poignancy of the protagonist who will live with the memory of the innocent woman he killed to exact revenge on her mother.


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Citrix Systems revenue rises 19 pct
Jan 30 (Reuters) - Business software maker Citrix Systems Inc reported a 19 percent rise in quarterly revenue on higher product and license revenue.
Citrix's net income rose to $114 million, or 60 cents per share in the quarter ended Dec. 31, from $109 million, or 58 cents per share, a year earlier.
Revenue rose to $740 million.
Shares were up 8 percent in extended trading, after closing at $66.98 on Wednesday on the Nasdaq.
- Merkel says tightening Ukraine-Russian border is key to peace deal |
- Ferguson protest march marks two weeks since police shooting |
- Gaza gunmen execute 'collaborators'; mortar kills Israeli boy |
- U.S. hostage rescuers dropped from night sky: Syria activist
- Islamist militants on rise in Austria: government

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Last week I had the opportunity to attend the first TEDWomen conference in Washington, DC. Over the past two decades I’ve attended at many women-centered forums, but this was the most intense and wide-ranging, attracting around 600 overwhelmingly female delegates and 50 mainly female speakers. True, most speakers and participants were American, but we also heard the voices of inspirational women from around the world who are creating and making change. In our own way, we all participated in the conversation, and an incredible collective conversation it was.
The driving force behind this event, Pat Mitchell, I heard described last year as a woman’s woman. She’s also a feminist’s feminist who has been a mentor and role model to me and I suspect hundreds of other women over her celebrated career as a journalist.
We listened to women tell about their struggles and stories, like a mother-daughter doctor team from Somalia; National Geographic filmmakers Beverly and Derek Joubert; India’s top cop Kiran Bedi; the ‘man-box’ originator Tony Parker; environmental commentator Naomi Klein; patient capital pioneer Jacqueline Novogratz; Phyllis Rodriguez, who lost her son in the World Trade Center on September 11 and Aicha El-Wafi, mother of Zacarias Moussaoui, who is serving a life sentence without parole for conspiring to kill US citizens; surprise speaker Hilary Clinton; and concluding presenter, the irrepressible, extraordinary Eve Ensler.
Former Canadian politician, UN Ambassador and UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa Steven Lewis, who I had never heard speak before, delivered an impassioned, blistering attack on the UN for failing women in terms of violence, rape, HIV/AIDS and other critical issues.
Wow, I thought, there’s another form of violence that no one’s talking about – it’s silent, visible as wispy black smoke and it stinks – it’s kerosene. Brought to us by oil companies, and the entire energy supply is virtually entirely men even down to the local kerosene sellers, this highly flammable fossil fuel is largely unregulated in the developing world. Kerosene or paraffin, as it’s also known, violates a woman’s eyes and lungs (made much worse if she is HIV positive or has TB). According to the World Bank, 780 million women and children inhale fumes equivalent to smoke from two packs of cigarettes a day. Two-thirds of lung cancer victims in developing countries are women.
When I was in Kenya’s Maasailand earlier in the year, I asked 90 rural kerosene-dependent women how many had suffered burns on themselves or their children and at least 20 women raised their hands. A few told stories of fires that cost them dearly, including the lives of a loved one. Some shared how their children had ingested kerosene believing it to be water.
If ‘fuel–based violence’ impacted men in the same way, something would have been done by now to ensure the poorest had some form of access to modern energy. But because women in Africa so often have only a small voice — or none at all — millions are suffering scratchy blood shot eyes, acute respiratory illness, asthma, chronic bronchitis and even pulmonary disease. It’s time we all step up and help poor women everywhere access clean energy.
So thank you, Stephen Lewis, for giving me an additional frame in which to encase the deadly consequences of kerosene usage. And thanks to all the wonderful people who staged such a powerful
two days and who gave so openly of themselves.
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Researchers from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) have led a new study, which shows that we can expect much larger sea-level rise by 2150 than previously thought. The researchers have included both historical observations of sea level and the changes predicted by the UN's climate panel, IPCC, in their latest report on the consequences of climate change, and focused on four Danish cities: Copenhagen, Aarhus, Esbjerg and Hirtshals.
”Our research shows that if we continue in the climate scenario with the highest emissions of greenhouse gases – defined by the IPCC as SSP5-8.5 – we can expect sea level changes of 123 cm at Esbjerg, 117 cm at Copenhagen, 115 cm at Aarhus and 99 cm at Hirtshals by 2150,” says William Colgan, Senior Researcher at GEUS and lead-author of the study. He continues:
”However, if we meet or exceed the ambitions of the Paris Climate Agreement and move to the climate scenario with the lowest emissions of greenhouse gases – defined by the IPCC as SSP1-1.9 – we can expect sea level changes of between 29 and 55 cm across the four cities based on our current knowledge.”
According to the researchers behind the study, the wide span in the expected sea level rise under the different climate scenarios underline the potentially great effect it will still have to implement climate mitigation measures.
Extreme sea-level events will be more common
The researchers have also studied the impact that changes in the average sea level could have locally in the case of extreme water-level events, for example storm flooding. At Aarhus, a 100-year extreme sea-level event – i.e. an extreme event which statistically only occurs once every 100 years - has been estimated as +163 cm above mean sea level. However, as sea levels around Denmark rise, such extreme events are expected to occur far more often.
”In a high-emission scenario, the extreme sea-level events that currently occur every 100 years, will occur every 1 to 5 years by the year 2100,” says William Colgan.
Expected sea level is rising as scientific understanding develops
The new study also reviews previously published prognoses for sea-level rise in Denmark and found that the best estimate, for planning purposes, of sea-level rise at Copenhagen increased 50 cm during the last two decades.
“Information on sea-level rise changes all the time - among other things, because the science develops, and climate models become more sophisticated. Newer results generally show increases in expected sea-level rise. This indicates that there is a continual need for updated sea-level prognoses using real and up-to-date information and to make these prognoses applicable to local interests,” says Kristian K. Kjeldsen, Senior Researcher at GEUS and co-author of the study.


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Know the basics
What is ear infection?
Ear infection often occurs when a cold, throat infection, or allergy attack and causes fluid to become trapped in the middle ear. This condition is frequently painful because of the inflammation and the buildup of fluids.
It can be managed by reducing your risk factors. Please discuss with your doctor for further information.
Know the symptoms
What are the symptoms of ear infection?
In adults, the common symptoms include:
- An earache (either a sharp, sudden pain or a dull, continuous pain);
- A sharp stabbing pain with immediate warm drainage from the ear canal;
- A feeling of fullness in the ear;
- Muffled hearing;
- Ear drainage.
In children, the common symptoms include:
- Tugging at the ear;
- Poor sleep;
- Irritability, restlessness;
- Ear drainage;
- Diminished appetite;
- Crying at night when lying down.
Most ear infections do not cause long-term complications. However, frequent or persistent infections and persistent fluid buildup can result in some serious complications including impaired hearing speech or developmental delays, spread of infection, tearing of the eardrum.
There may be some symptoms not listed above. If you have any concerns about a symptom, please consult your doctor.
When should I see my doctor?
If you have any signs or symptoms listed above or have any questions, please consult with your doctor. Everyone’s body acts differently. It is always best to discuss with your doctor what is best for your situation.
Know the causes
What are the causes of ear infection?
Ear infections occur when one of your Eustachian tubes becomes swollen or blocked and fluid builds up in your middle ear. Eustachian tubes are small tubes that run from each ear directly to the back of the throat. The causes of Eustachian tube blockage include:
- Sinus infections;
- Tobacco smoking;
- Infected or swollen adenoids;
- Excess mucus.
Know the risk factors
Who is at risk of ear infection?
Risk factors for ear infections include:
- Children between the ages of 6 months and 2 years;
- Group child care;
- Bottle feeding;
- Seasonal factors, especially during the fall and winter;
- Poor air quality.
Understand the diagnosis & treatment
The information provided is not a substitute for any medical advice. ALWAYS consult with your doctor for more information.
How is ear infection diagnosed?
Your doctor diagnoses an ear infection or another condition based on the symptoms you describe and an exam. Also, the doctor will likely use a lighted instrument (an otoscope) to look at the ears, throat and nasal passage.
This instrument is often the only specialized tool that a doctor needs to make a diagnosis of an ear infection. This is used to look in the ear and judge whether there is fluid behind the eardrum.
If the diagnosis does not provide enough information, your doctor may perform other diagnostic tests, such as:
- Tympanometry. This test measures the movement of the eardrum. The device quantifies how well the eardrum moves and provides an indirect measure of pressure within the middle ear.
- Acoustic reflectometry. This test measures how much sound emitted from a device is reflected back from the eardrum, an indirect measure of fluids in the middle ear.
- Tympanocentesis. These tests to determine the infectious agent in the fluid may be beneficial if an infection has not responded well to previous treatments.
If your child has had persistent ear infections or persistent fluid buildup in the middle ear, your doctor may refer you to a hearing specialist (audiologist), speech therapist or developmental therapist for tests of hearing, speech skills, language comprehension or developmental abilities.
How is ear infection treated?
The goal of treatment for most doctors is to rid the middle ear of infection before more serious complications set in. Treatment usually involves eliminating the causes of the ear infection and killing any invading bacteria in the Eustachian tube.
Medicine for ear infections
Amoxicillin is the antibiotic of choice for treating bacterial ear infections as it is highly effective. A single course of amoxicillin can usually knock out an ear infection in seven to 10 days. In addition, you are not recommended to use aspirin and tonsillectomy for the treatment.
Lifestyle changes & Home remedies
How can ear infections be prevented?
These tips can help you to reduce the risk of ear infection:
- Often wash your hands;
- Avoiding overly crowded areas;
- Forgoing pacifiers with infants and small children;
- Breastfeeding infants;
- Avoiding secondhand smoke;
- Keeping immunizations up-to-date.
If you have any questions, please consult with your doctor to better understand the best solution for you.
Hello Health Group does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Understanding Ear Infection – Symptoms. http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/ear-infection/understanding-otitis-media-symptoms. Accessed September 4th, 2016.
Understanding Ear Infections: Diagnosis and Treatment. http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/ear-infection/understanding-otitis-media-treatment. Accessed September 4th, 2016.
Ear infection (middle ear). http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/ear-infections/home/ovc-20199482. Accessed September 4th, 2016.
Ear Infections. http://www.healthline.com/health/ear-infections#Overview1. Accessed September 4th, 2016.
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June 29, 2010 > Artist Erik Holland demonstrates acrylic painting
Artist Erik Holland demonstrates acrylic painting
Submitted By Lucinda Bender
The Fremont Art Association (FAA) is pleased to announce their July guest artist, Erik Holland. His specialties as a painter include landscapes and old buildings. Holland will demonstrate acrylic painting at the FAA Gallery on Wednesday, July 7 at 7 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.
Holland is a painter, cartoonist and teacher. He has had a one-man show every year since 2000 in the Reno area and strives for a certain "sparkle" to his loose, boldly executed paintings. Holland is working on a line of note cards that will celebrate an old building from every town in the state of Nevada as well as the wild parts of Northern California. His paintings have won many awards including a Professional Artists grant from Sierra Arts, a Best of Show at Faces and Places 2006 and several awards from the Nevada Artists Association.
Holland has also painted several murals in Alaska and in Nevada and recently completed a Wheeler Peak mural on the Elmcrest Elementary School building in Reno. He exhibits his work at the Co-op Gallery and Catherine Bouwer Fine Art Gallery in Reno, and at Vigil's Collection in Nevada City. Holland also draws cartoons for several Nevada publications, including the Nevada Rancher, the Sparks Tribune, the Record-Courier, Petfolio, and the Nevada Observer. He teaches art at Rainshadow Charter High School, as well as with Sierra Arts and Very Special Arts.
For more information, please visit www.FremontArtAssociation.org.
Wednesday, July 7
Fremont Art Association Gallery
37659 Niles Boulevard, Fremont


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Black industrial table lamp is not commonly used in most houses. Whether this is consciously done or not, it is not considered appropriate in most places. Even with clothes black is very rarely worn by women even though it is a very good color and tends to bring out the color of the eyes. It is just that the color black has been associated with bad things for so long that it is a little difficult to change now.
The same thing applies to black lamps although there is always the added reason that black tends to absorb light instead of reflecting it making black a bad choice for lamps. However, if used properly black lamps can be a very useful tool to obtain a certain effect. For example if your living room is a little on the larger side, you will have to get a really big chandelier or something that is equally impressive for it to have the impact that you desire. If on the other hand you get a black crystal chandelier that does not have any shades, even a relatively simple one that is much smaller will give you a contrast to the plain expanse of the ceiling.
If you want to have a lamp on your dining table putting in a small black industrial table lamp is a good idea because this lamp is more for decorative purposes than any lighting need. Usually the table cloth as well as the cutlery will be light colored and a black industrial table lamp will provide some much needed contrast. A black lamp may not be very useful as a bed lamp, but is very effective as a night light. It gives a very intimate atmosphere that no other kind of light will be able to recreate.


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Temps to Cool Down Early this Week, Rise at the End, Cool for the Weekend
The fire-friendly Red Flag was lifted last night as Southern California expects a small break from the hot temperatures of last week. "Basically what we're expecting early this week is a trough of low pressure to move arcross the West Coast, and as a result what that will do for us is cool our temperatures and an increase in our onshore winds from the sea, bringing the marine layer.. and cooling our temperatures significantly," explained David Sweet, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
By Thursday and continuing into Friday, Sweet said Santa Ana winds could pick up again, drying us out and warming us up again. However, the heat should not be as intense as last week.


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The noodle markets are back! I was really looking forward to making multiple visits this year since I didn’t get to sample much when I was working at the markets last year. With a ridiculously impressive line-up including some newcomers (Hello, Devon!) and the promise of seeing the inflatable lucky cat, Jeff, Rob and myself make our way on the first Friday a.k.a. the second night of the markets.
Devon Cafe and Devon on Danks are some of the most popular cafes in Sydney but this is their first time having a stall at the Night Noodle Markets. The Devon team had been sneakily posting photos on their Instagram as previews of what they would be serving. Surprisingly enough, the sundae was what caught my eye despite being more of a savoury than sweets person. A promise of sweetcorn ice cream, reminiscent of ais krim potong childhoods plus all of my favourite parfait toppings meant this was something I knew I just had to try. This was even my first stop of the night as I began to reverse eat my way through starting with dessert than dinner.
I absolutely loved Devon’s sundae. As Sydney currently wades itself through a gluttony sea of soft serve, this is one that actually stands out to me. The flavours are, in the simplest way possible, real. It sounds silly to say but I’m pretty tired of that sickeningly sweet artificial aftertaste that accompanies a lot of flavours available in Sydney. I’d previously had Devon’s miso ice cream and it remains consistent in this interpretation, a subtle saltiness that’s kind of like a toned down salted caramel. The sweetcorn flavour is such a delight and pairs beautifully with the miso as well. As expected the cornflakes (buried under the soft serve) are good too for the added texture as are the adzuki beans for a soft chew. I appreciated the pipette of lime syrup, I think it helped cut through a dessert that could have been too creamy. But weirdly enough, my cup didn’t come with any burnt butter popcorn. With all of these typically savoury elements being incorporated here, maybe it’s not too much of a surprise that main course-eater me fell in love with miso corny.
Another dish I’ve also had before at their Danks dinners is the belacan chicken wing. It’s a great little addition to the menu and a good way to stand out from every other stall that is also doing deep fried poultry. I love the tanginess of the sauce but being a not-so-huge fan of fried chicken (Rob ordered this) I doubt I would come back. Still if you’re the kind of girl who chases a mouthful of Arisun chicken with a chunk of Hot Star, definitely give Devon’s wings a try. They’re different.
I’m a big fan of Harajuku gyoza so it’s a little sad for me that they don’t offer any other savoury dumpling options besides pork but Rob makes quick work of this.
Hoy Pinoy needs no introduction and is ubiquitous with sentences like ‘the best thing to eat at the Sydney Night Noodle Markets!’. I don’t do pork but these chicken skewers we got from the Hoy Pinoy cart suit me more than fine. The sticky banana mustard that coats their tender chicken is a recipe worth millions. Absolutely incredible, do they sell these in a bottle that I can suckle on before going to bed? While I do wish the flavour of the sauce permeated throughout the chicken, I understand the logistical impossibility of marinating all of their chicken for hours when their queues are one of the longest at Hyde Park.
Jeff arrives a little bit later than us and makes a beeline for Hoy Pinoy’s main stall where the roast pigs on a spit are. For whatever reason, he’s thoroughly disappointed with this one. His claim is that the meat is a little flavourless and cold, surprising considering what a spectacle it is watching them cook it for hours. It probably has everything to do that these are all put aside next to the cash register, exposed to the elements of wind. The rice goes without him saying, you can see that it’s quite glucky indiciating that it’s overcooked and soft.
It’s a pretty windy evening that we went for our visit which may have worked against a number of vendors. Everybody Loves Ramen’s is one of them. The original RFC was a David Chang/Lucky Peach recipe one which has legends shrouding it. Jeff highly looked forward to sampling this interpretation for it but we found that the flavours fell a bit flat. It didn’t taste too different from normal fried chicken and although visible ramen chunks were in the batter, I couldn’t discern any umami from ramen MSG flavouring. It’s not bad, don’t get me wrong, but it’s just not very good and even less so when cold.
Another from the same store which had gotten so much hype on social media. This we received immediately after we paid, which leads me to believe they were all pre-prepared. I don’t have too many issues with that except that once again the food was cold. This really interferes with the taste because flavours are less pronounced. Even worse are the tacos which are crunchy in some small parts but mostly chewy. This was probably the most disappointing dish we ordered so far but I was more frustrated at myself for following a gimmicky trend on Instagram. Would not recommend.
I didn’t have any of the alcohol which I heard was strangely bad (strange because Singleton whiskey is supposed to be quite good) but the cookie was super! So super I almost succeeded in stealing Jeff’s.. but anyway. The cookie is a mix of Singleton whiskey and maple syrup. Sweetness from the maple is pronounced with just a hint of smokiness from the alcohol. I’d recommend if you love chewy cookies as opposed to harder, crustier ones though. Biting into this the middle isn’t cooked through and is quite basically just cookie dough. Just depends on how you like your cookies.
The markets are always a bit of fun and it’s important to remember you’re paying part for food and part for ambience. I don’t regret going even though there were quite a lot more misses than hits this year. However I don’t think I’ll be going back except maybe for a sugar hit from Devon.

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In April of 1939, Modern Mystic magazine commissioned Henry Miller to write a piece about the work of psychoanalyst E. Graham Howe.
In the piece, Miller’s critique of his subject’s ethos is a springboard for his own broader commentary on the universality of the human condition.
In Miller’s words: “The art of living is based on rhythm — on give and take, ebb and flow, light and dark, life and death. By acceptance of all aspects of life, good and bad, right and wrong, yours and mine, the static, defensive life, which is what most people are cursed with, is converted into a dance, ‘the dance of life,’ metamorphosis. One can dance to sorrow or to joy; one can even dance abstractly. … But the point is that, by the mere act of dancing, the elements which compose it are transformed; the dance is an end in itself, just like life. The acceptance of the situation, any situation, brings about a flow, a rhythmic impulse towards self-expression. To relax is, of course, the first thing a dancer has to learn. It is also the first thing a patient has to learn when he confronts the analyst. It is the first thing anyone has to learn in order to live. It is extremely difficult, because it means surrender, full surrender.”


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Andy Mineo had plenty to be happy about last year. The success of the song “You Can’t Stop Me” alone would be enough for any young rapper to be pleased with. But, like many in the rap game today, Mineo lives up to that track in that he doesn’t seem to stop, ever. Last week he dropped a new album, II: The Sword and it’s pretty fantastic.
Mineo has the ability to actually belt out some R&B magic alongside rapping, and he does so all over this release with ease. While the record splits the track into two songs, “Almost There” offers up Mineo doing his thing like no one else and it works. On “Friends” Mineo sticks to his hip hop roots and the familiar sound is just as welcomed as the different touches he places elsewhere. You could say the same about the nutty beat on “Crazy” where Mineo drops science on the mic, occasionally offering up more verse than rhymes. Though the closer “Shame” featuring Josh Garrels shows how far ahead of the curve Mineo really is. The gospel tuned track sticks in your head while Mineo gives a narrative that feels deeply personal and deep.
II: The Sword is available to stream on all streaming sites, or can be purchased on all digital store fronts. Andy Mineo will be on the Better Late Than Never tour with Lecrae from September 27 at Knitting Factory in Spokane through November 11 at Intersection in Grand Rapids. A complete list of Andy Mineo’s tour dates can be found here.
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The Gunpoets w/ Stone Cold Miracle and SammusAges 16+ Only
Age policy: 16+ with ID / under 16 with a parent or guardian
Off the beaten path, nestled in the deep gorges of Ithaca, New York, there are whisperings of a musical revolution in the air. The streets are abuzz as the cutting edge new school hip hop sound of The Gunpoets takes the scene by storm. Heavy bass, hard hitting drums, silky smooth keys and sexy guitar licks sweep audiences away as listeners find their bodies unable to resist the explosive rhythms. Add turntables and a microphone? Well, let's just say they won’t know what hit ‘em. With partner in rhyme Jayhigh by his side, front man Rising Sun owns the stage and captivates the crowd at every twist and turn. To witness The Gunpoets in action is to see live rap music at its best! Their display of passion and energy is indeed a sight to behold. Powerful, positive, peaceful and at times political, they can work fans into a frenzy with one song and seduce them into a trance with the next. The Gunpoets seamlessly fuse hip hop with pop, rock, soul and funk to bring the world their own unique flavor. They have all the ingredients. Their recipe? Music with a message that inspires and uplifts the heart and soul. The Gunpoets have shared the stage with artists and bands such as Arrested Development, Talib Kweli, Midnite, John Brown’s Body, Donna the Buffalo, Sim Redmond Band, and many more. They recently released their highly anticipated sophomore LP, "Come With Us", an album stuffed to the rafters with catchy tunes and cleverly crafted rhymes that showcases the bands versatility and musicianship. In 2010, their debut album "Shoot the Stars" won several local music awards, as well as the hearts of fans around the world. Whether they're on the road rocking crowds or in the lab working on their latest concoctions, they're making music around the clock and loving every minute of it.


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Mechanical – 8-day movement – Bell strike on whole hours
Very fine and detailed copper skeleton clock under a beautiful glass bell jar. The skeleton clock is in the shape of the Notre Dame of Paris, and was made and signed by Hermle Germany for the Franklin Mint Collection of 1990. The clapper movement strikes a bell on whole hours. The winding key will be included. The bell jar rests on 3 copper supports mounted on the mahogany base. The glass bell jar and this wonderful, copper clock are in top condition, the movement runs very well and on time. Height is 29 cm, diameter is 20.5 cm.
This lot will be very well packaged and shipped registered. Can also be picked up in Zutphen, the Netherlands, by appointment.
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Research Team Sets Out For Islands of Four Mountains
The Islands of the Four Mountains as seen from the International Space Station in 2013.
Arctic oil spills likely to spread across borders: study
The Frontier Discoverer drilling rig is shown at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, in 2007. Oil spills in the Beaufort Sea would persist longer and travel farther while trapped in sea ice, according to a study released today by the World Wildlife Fund of Canada.
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Musher's homestead destroyed in wildfire: Former Iditarod and Yukon Quest musher Dave Olesen lost his home in one of the many wildfires burning in Canada's Northwest Territories, the CBC reported .
The Forgotten Internment
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Nice work on the map! Really enjoying the nostalgia factor, and the flow and layout of the map lends itself nicely to the pace of DA. As far as suggestions/complaints go, I personally would like to see the outdoor area get the axe. While it can be useful at times and provides nice access to the upper levels of the main map structures, the outdoor section feels almost like you've gone outside the bounds of the actual map. In fact the first time I played I thought I had clipped outside the playable area when I got to the outside portion.
I've also noticed that something in the maps brushes/textures is causing texture errors for me on all weapons, including those held by other players. Guessing this could be a result of the decompile. Other than that, keep up the good work man

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