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| Ontario electoral district|
Kenora—Rainy River in relation to other electoral districts
|Provincial electoral district|
|Legislature||Legislative Assembly of Ontario|
|MPP|| ||Howard Hampton|
|Pop. density (per km²)||0.23|
|Census divisions||Kenora, Rainy River|
|Census subdivisions||Chapple, Dryden, Emo, Fort Frances, Kenora, Rainy River, Sioux Lookout|
- For the former federal electoral district, see Kenora—Rainy River
Kenora—Rainy River is a provincial electoral district (riding) in northwestern Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999. It was created from Kenora, most of Rainy River and part of Lake Nipigon. The boundaries of the new district corresponded with the Kenora—Rainy River federal riding, until it was abolished in 2003. The provincial riding will continue to exist.
The riding is represented by Howard Hampton, former leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party. The riding includes the western three quarters of Kenora District, the western three quarters of the Rainy River District and the northwest corner of the Thunder Bay District.
In 1996, Ontario was divided into the same electoral districts as those used for federal electoral purposes. They were redistributed whenever a readjustment took place at the federal level.
In 2005, legislation was passed by the Legislature to divide Ontario into 107 electoral districts, beginning with the next provincial election in 2007. The eleven northern electoral districts, including Kenora—Rainy River, are those defined for federal purposes in 1996, based on the 1991 census (except for a minor boundary adjustment). The 96 southern electoral districts are those defined for federal electoral purposes in 2003, based on the 2001 census. Without this legislation, the number of electoral districts in northern Ontario would have been reduced from eleven to ten.
- ^ Elections Ontario web site, “New Electoral Boundaries”

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For years Jeff Pucci and Richard Viard struggled to find a profitable formula for their company. Then -- eureka! -- they realized they could turn their money-losing brick-and-mortar into a well-funded dot-com. So far, it seems to be working
The jury is impaneled at the Newman Elementary School, ready to carry out its duty of analyzing the evidence. Paper fish with red stripes and green fins festoon one classroom wall. All the fish are grinning. So are the jurors. Susan Graham calls the proceedings to order: "All right, let's go." Five jurors, gathered around a table, begin playing a newfangled version of Monopoly that features a trip to the wilds of Alaska. A red-haired second-grader moves her piece, shaped like an igloo. What's this square? she wants to know. "Go to Jail" has been changed in this Monopoly game to "Go to Lunch." What a disappointment -- she'd like to see her classmates serve some time.
Four toys are spread out on tables in the classroom. One, a card game, has attracted no players. That's a bad sign. Graham scribbles a note to herself.
Graham, director of education for SmarterKids.com Inc., performs a critical task for her company, which sits on the edge of a busy highway in Needham, Mass., a few miles away from the school. With her staff of eight former teachers and a merchandising team, Graham evaluates kids' products and chooses those that SmarterKids.com will offer on its site, which sells educational toys, games, books, and software. Graham's group -- with the help of test labs of school kids, like this one -- chooses some toys and discards the boring ones and the ones that, for reasons not apparent to adult eyes, don't pass the demanding playtime criteria of, say, a seven-year-old. Most important, the group refuses toys that have no redeeming educational or developmental value. This focus on education, of course, eliminates many best-sellers with buzz. "No games -- nothing -- that blows anybody up," declares Graham definitively. You won't find Sega's Zombie Revenge on SmarterKids.com. No Furby, either. "The educational value is not substantial," says Graham. G.I. Joe patrols on Neptune, for all she knows.
Once they've made their choices, Graham and the rest of her crew spend from one to four hours with each product, rating it for fun, ease of use, and depth (how often a child will continue to play with the toy once the novelty has worn off). The idea behind these evaluations goes beyond that of a typical product review. These ratings, combined with other features on the site, are intended to help Web-surfing parents choose toys that meet the individual needs and tastes of their kids -- not just kids of the same age and gender.
That personalization, in a nutshell, is what separates SmarterKids.com from its much larger online competitors, which include big names like Toysrus.com, eToys Inc., and the ubiquitous Amazon.com Inc. On the SmarterKids.com site, parents can build individual learning profiles of their children, comprising their ages, grades, learning goals, and most effective learning styles -- linguistic, visual, physical, or musical, for example. In addition, children can take skills tests on the site -- tests through which parents can learn their kids' academic strengths and weaknesses. Those scores also are factored into the learning profiles.
From the profiles the company recommends products tailored to fit each child. Even leading terra firma educational retailers like Learning Express and Zany Brainy Inc. can't do that. "We reshuffle store shelves," says David Blohm, SmarterKids.com's CEO. "If you could go to a store and tell the clerk all about your child, and he could push a button and reshuffle the aisles and shelves to show only products for your child, that's what we do."
Blohm, 49, and his colleagues, cofounders Jeff Pucci, 39, and Richard Viard, 40, understand all too well the differences between what they can achieve on physical store shelves and what they can do in cyberspace, having struggled for years in the brick-and-mortar economy. For eight years the company, first under the name Virtual Entertainment Inc. and later Virtual Knowledge Inc., developed software that it sold in retail stores. It lost big money for the last five years. Only around Thanksgiving, 1998, did it awaken, utterly transformed from an old-economy company into a sexy Internet play soon to be valued at $63 million at its initial public offering. Investors didn't seem to care that at the time of its IPO, in November 1999, the company had just $1.1 million in sales for the previous nine months. They didn't seem to care that SmarterKids.com lost $14.1 million on those meager sales. (Adding in the three-month retail holiday season, the company finished 1999 with sales of $5.4 million and losses of $34.7 million.) And they didn't seem to care that for years Pucci, Viard, and Blohm had been unable to find the formula for a profitable educational company. Or so it appeared until they transformed their venture into SmarterKids.com, almost a decade after its founding.
As it is with many of the toys the SmarterKids' kids evaluate under the gaze of green and red fish, the jury is still out on SmarterKids.com itself, despite the success of its IPO. Until recently, investors tolerated losses in dot-coms that would send them stampeding for the exits in traditional retailing. What they had loved, even at dizzying valuations, were companies with great ideas that promised to attract millions of Web surfers; the profits could come later. Investors saw in SmarterKids.com something that seemed unusual in the toy market: the company's potential to leverage the Internet's power to build one-to-one, interactive relationships with customers. "Theirs is the only customized educational tool out there," says Liz Leonard, a senior analyst at Gomez Advisors Inc., an Internet-research company in Lincoln, Mass.
Will that be enough to win SmarterKids.com a place in the market, especially considering that it has drawn not a single breath of profitability since 1994? And will that be enough to make the cofounders' strategy -- of reinventing their company to take advantage of new technologies and trends -- finally pay off?
The transformation from traditional retail to E-commerce is a perilous one for the company. Virtually all the other online toy sellers feature much broader product offerings than SmarterKids.com does. For instance, eToys boasts more than 100,000 products to SmarterKids.com's 4,000. And the big toy sellers last Christmas generated two to three times more traffic to their sites than SmarterKids did. (See "Toy Traffic," below.)
Last November, when SmarterKids.com offered its shares to the public, ultimately raising $63 million, it told prospective investors it might burn through the money in a year. That's about how long Blohm, Pucci, and Viard have to show that their innovative idea has life.
"No games -- nothing -- that blows anybody up," declares Susan Graham definitively.
The founders of SmarterKids.com arrived at this juncture by the most circuitous of routes, re-creating their entire company, from strategic direction to corporate moniker, not once but twice. Jeff Pucci and Richard Viard both attended Boston's Berklee College of Music in the early 1980s. Viard, who had grown up 40 miles outside Paris, came to the United States for a semester and never left.
Although they went on to become entrepreneurs, neither founder quite left Berklee behind. Viard maintains a music studio in his basement, where he plays guitar, drums, and keyboard. Pucci, too, plays guitar -- his original songs. And he has an entrepreneurial drive that seems to need one more outlet beyond his busy dot-com; he cofounded and still keeps a hand in managing a small CD label, Curve of the Earth, that publishes the work of Boston musicians.
The two men didn't meet, however, until both landed in 1988 at Dr. T's Music Software, a Boston-area company that published software for musicians. It was a season of momentous change for the computer industry, for just coming to market was an exciting new generation of multimedia machines. Pucci and Viard talked about developing software that would bring music history alive, and multimedia provided their obvious avenue. Moonlighting, the two musicians created a CD-ROM that enabled people to listen to four centuries of great music while reading about the composers and the social and political developments that influenced them. In 1991 Dr. T's published their CD-ROM, called Composer Quest, and it became a kind of poster child for the capabilities of multimedia.
There was no home run for Jeff Pucci and Richard Viard as publishers. "No way to create real wealth," says Pucci.
Leaving Dr. T's and going out on their own later that year under the name of Virtual Entertainment, Pucci and Viard worked from a room in Viard's house and produced two more CD-ROMs, both children's educational products, that were published under a royalty arrangement by Opcode Systems Inc. The nature of the partners' collaboration was becoming clear. Viard loved the technology itself and took charge of all the important technical decisions and details. Pucci assumed the role of the technical neophyte; if a CD-ROM was easy enough for him to use, then it would be so for any customer. Meanwhile, Pucci focused on the creative end -- writing the text, obtaining the illustrations, and figuring out how everything fit together.
For three years their partnership was profitable, says Pucci, because they kept costs low by doing almost all the creative work themselves. And the publisher incurred the costs of sales and marketing. But Pucci quickly grasped that two developers working on their own could not leverage their skills into a bigger business. "There was no home run in it," says Pucci. "No way to create real wealth."
In 1994, Pucci and Viard, intent on creating and publishing CD-ROMs themselves, moved to an office in Needham and hired a handful of employees. For Pucci, shouldering the management responsibilities was no fun at all. "That was the highest level of stress in my life," he says. "I wasn't any good at it, and I didn't enjoy it. It was depressing."
In September 1995 they brought on David Blohm to run the company. Blohm had cofounded and run software company MathSoft Inc., which he had taken public in 1993. A year after the IPO, he had cut himself loose from MathSoft and was trying to raise money to start his own educational-software business. Besides sharing an interest in education with Pucci and Viard, Blohm brought to the founders the down-to-earth management skills they were missing.
With Blohm hired, the top management structure of the company was in place. Blohm would manage the daily operations and would use his extensive contacts for raising money. Free from day-to-day managing responsibilities, Pucci, the visionary, would serve as chief strategist, looking for new products to develop and ways to position the company in the marketplace. Viard would focus on the technology and on how to make the CD-ROMs easy for customers to use.
For Pucci, shouldering management responsibilities was no fun. "That was the highest level of stress in my life," he says.
The team quickly developed an approach to identifying opportunities that would serve the company well in the future. Pucci enjoyed nothing better than viewing the big picture, almost as if he were orbiting earth and looking down to find trends in the collage of business and society that portended demand for certain products. Blohm, feet planted on terra firma, scrutinized customer surveys and product-registration cards. Pragmatist and dreamer shared a strategy: they would identify a need and then develop a product to satisfy it. "Many companies have a cool idea chasing customers," says Blohm. "You get in trouble that way."
That thinking produced a hit in 1996. In late 1994 Pucci had noticed that a controversial book, The Bell Curve, by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, had generated interest in adult intelligence tests. Why not produce and sell an intelligence test for adults? Pucci suggested. The company published an adult IQ test on CD-ROM. "We shipped it, and it flew off the shelves," says Pucci. After that success, the company developed a full suite of self-assessment software.
Although it sold hundreds of thousands of CDs, the company became buried in losses. In 1996 it lost $1.6 million on sales of $1.2 million, and 1997 was little better. The CD-ROM market was a difficult place for anyone to make money, because so many competitors -- new companies, old-line publishers, and others -- were drawn to it. Some, like the Learning Co. and Knowledge Adventure Inc., fought for market share by slashing prices. Rebates were so generous that many products were effectively free. Meanwhile, national retailers such as Best Buy and CompUSA were charging sizable fees for shelf space. "The pricing pressure was tremendous," says Pucci. "Retailing got squashed." Trying to compete in that environment, Virtual Entertainment spent more than half of every dollar of revenues on marketing from 1994 to 1998.
Pucci remained upbeat, at least for a while. "It typically takes several years of losses before you see any profits," he says. "And I always thought that one of the categories we got into would be the one that would spike up for us."
Customers themselves signaled the next opportunity. When Blohm studied customers' software-registration cards, a surprise was waiting: many parents who had used the IQ tests asked for a similar test for their kids. The potential market seemed large. "The testing done in schools appeared to be obscure to parents," says Blohm.
The company responded by producing skills tests that measured achievement in math, reading, and spelling. To make the tests fun, Pucci and Viard combined the questions with multimedia enhancements. With these new CD-ROM products the company became a testing company for both parents and children. To reflect that academic turn, Virtual Entertainment changed its name to Virtual Knowledge in 1997.
New products, new name -- it made no difference to the bottom line. With price cutting still rampant, the company lost $3.3 million in 1998 on sales of $2.3 million.
By 1997, says Pucci, "I felt we were going to go under. We had little money in the bank. What were we going to do?"
The answer came as Pucci watched the Internet grow. What he saw was more and more content available at no cost on the Web. It seemed likely, he reasoned, that the CD-ROM market would be slammed yet again. "People wouldn't buy as much if they could get material for free online," he says. "The Internet's potential was huge. For us, it might be annihilating the business we were in. We were going to get wiped out."
On a Tuesday evening in September 1997 as Pucci drove home, the solution dawned on him. Once again, it was the result of coupling a broad vision of the market with attention to the details of customer feedback. Some parents had asked the company to recommend educational products after their children had taken the company's skills tests. Pucci's epiphany? "The parents could go to a site called SmarterKids.com," he remembers thinking. "We'll provide ways to diagnose kids' strengths and weaknesses and provide products for remediation."
The next day Pucci asked Viard to secure the domain name of smarterkids.com and then wrote a memo to the company's senior managers. (See "Pucci's Epiphany," below.) Pucci wrote that "it's just a matter of time before a true critical mass of Internet/online users emerges, and with it, in time, will emerge a viable business model or two, even for selling our sort of goods and services. ... Imagine doing a massive ad campaign down the road that has the term 'smarterkids.com' plastered everywhere. ... Just as Sylvan uses 'educate.com' for their URL, 'smarterkids.com' is more targeted, arguably more memorable, actually means something, and presumably, it's something that every parent wants. And it's something that we can deliver for a fee."
And that, essentially, was the idea: provide diagnostic skills tests free online, and earn the "fee" by selling a variety of products -- other companies' products -- that addressed the educational needs that the tests uncovered.
Within a few days, Pucci had met with the management team. Pucci made the case for the Internet. He recalls, "I said the only way to hit a home run with this business is to embrace the Internet fully."
This would be the company's most radical reinvention yet, from a 15-employee business that sold its own products, developing them a few at a time, to what today is a 110-employee dot-com that tries to capitalize on a huge market by selling hundreds of other people's products. From Pucci's perspective of watching for opportunities, it made sense: the market appeared immense, and with the Internet, the mechanism to reach it was finally available. (Americans bought some $28 billion worth of children's toys, games, books, and videos in 1999, according to Gomez Advisors. About $360 million of it went to online retailers, up from just $43 million a year earlier. Gomez predicts the toy market will climb to $33.6 billion in 2003, with online retailers taking a little more than $3 billion of that.)
But the company would play in another market with even greater potential: education. American parents spend $19 billion a year on educational games, books, and software, according to Thomas Weisel Partners LLC, a merchant-banking firm in San Francisco that assisted SmarterKids.com in a private placement in 1999.
Private industry sees many opportunities in the education groundswell. During the 1990s, for-profit education companies raised about $6 billion in private capital, a little more than half of that in 1999 alone, according to Eduventures.com LLC, an education-industry research and information-services company in Boston. Eduventures.com forecasts that in 2000 education companies will raise another $4 billion in private capital. Much of the money will go to ventures that deliver educational products and services online.
If success in electronic commerce requires a huge market, as many believe it does, then education is the real thing: the K12 market alone consists of 3.1 million teachers and 50 million parents, a growing number of whom are connected to the Internet. With many thousands of products of uncertain quality available for purchase, the opportunity could be enormous for a company like SmarterKids.com, which would rate products as well as match them to the needs of individual students.
It sounded like a good sell. But at first, raising money was difficult. Because at the end of 1998 the company was still selling CDs while positioning itself for the Internet, says Blohm, "it wasn't clear to investors what business the company was in. So we had to ditch the CD business. We realized we had to be a pure play in the Internet." The company didn't have much choice. "We were desperate at that time," says Pucci. "If we couldn't raise the money, I'm not sure how we could have continued with our Internet strategy."
The strategic decision to stop producing CD-ROMs worked. SmarterKids.com raised $2.1 million from a pool of individual investors, enough to develop the Web site.
In 1998 the company went on a flat-out sprint to open its doors before potential competitors could. To get the job done quickly, Blohm outsourced some key tasks. He forged a deal with the J.L. Hammett Co., a leading distributor of educational products to schools, to stock SmarterKids' inventory and fulfill customer orders. He hired an outside design team to create the Web site. Over a period of seven months the site took shape. At the same time, the company continued to raise money. Riding the wave of investor interest in E-commerce, it raised more than $33 million in private placements and venture capital over nine months.
As SmarterKids.com began selling other companies' products on its site, it sold off the remaining inventory of its CD-ROM testing products. By Christmas, 1998, SmarterKids.com had begun deriving all its revenues from selling third-party products online.
Pucci and his friends, in their third incarnation, had bet the company on electronic commerce.
If Pucci's idea has legs, the company may find out how strong they are by looking at a pilot program it's running in Michigan.
Parents there get personalized help for their children by going to a Web site called WeHelpKids.com. Operated by National Computer Systems Inc. (NCS), which scores the assessment tests for more than 30 million K12 students nationwide, the site provides a page where parents can type in the scores their children achieve on Michigan's standardized tests. In a few seconds parents are taken to the site of NCS's partner, SmarterKids.com, which suggests educational products appropriate to the student's assessment. If a student has a specific weakness in mathematics, for example, the parent can select from an array of products that are supposed to boost Tommy's ability in arithmetic.
Intriguing to many experts is the unique way that SmarterKids.com constructs a bridge connecting standardized test scores -- a source of confusion and worry for most parents -- to opportunities for learning. "The power of the Internet is that learning can be tied to individuals," says R. Keith Gay, a partner at Thomas Weisel Partners. "Assessment is the key to driving product purchases."
Until now, standardized tests have had limited benefits for students and parents. They're used chiefly for the purposes of ranking schools and school districts. "The assessment tests now aren't tied to anything prescriptive," says Gay. "It's like going to your doctor for cardiovascular tests and finding out how you rank in the county."
Blohm expects to add half a dozen states to the WeHelpKids.com site by the fall and others later, which will give SmarterKids.com access to many more of the 30 million children whose tests are processed by NCS. "This is the future," says Blohm. "Linking assessment with education is the Holy Grail of education, but it's not been easy to do."
The company's various attempts to create that link seem to be working -- at least, that is, when measured by the E-commerce metric of registered users (who, says Blohm, buy more products than casual visitors do). By the end of 1999, parents had entered more than 100,000 children's learning profiles into SmarterKids.com -- profiles that, not incidentally, provide valuable demographic information to the company.
Despite how useful the Web site may seem to parents, CEO Blohm must still find ways to get them to visit it in the first place. It's through the disproportionate marketing expenses typical of many E-commerce start-ups that SmarterKids.com could burn quickly through its $63 million: during the last quarter of 1999, it shelled out $18 million for marketing on sales of $4.3 million.
The company had rich fodder with which to create its marketing campaign: recommendations based on each child's needs make a strong selling point. The company sends as many as 20 million E-mail messages monthly to people who match the demographics of an average SmarterKids.com shopper. The target SmarterKids.com shopper is a woman, 25 to 49 years of age, with children ages 2 to 15, who works outside the home. In the brick-and-mortar world, a direct-mail campaign typically requires months to conclude. On the Internet, by contrast, a direct-mail campaign through E-mail produces results immediately. "Within minutes you get a response," says Blohm. "Within a day you know whether the list is working or not."
Whether the list works depends in large part on the company's home page, its most valuable real estate. Every inch must contribute to driving sales or otherwise satisfying customers. As many as eight spots on the home page change each week, in response to measurements of consumer interest. The company keeps running counts of how many times visitors hit each link on the home page, how they move through the site, and what links produce the most sales. "This is like putting a LoJack on every visitor and seeing where they go in the store," says Lisa Tanzer, vice-president of product management.
When an area of the home page isn't drawing interest, programmers replace it with something else. Tanzer has learned, for example, that products do best when they're positioned as both educational and fun. Featuring a product at the top of the page is better than putting it "below the fold," where customers must scroll down their screen to see it. Even more important than placement, however, is the size of the selection of products offered. Blohm says the company plans to expand its product offerings this year.
In the future, the company wants more parents to click through to its Parents Center, where it's adding features such as advice columns and practice tests. The idea is to increase "stickiness" -- the time a customer spends on the site, which translates into increased loyalty and repeat business.
It's here where the blend of Blohm's pragmatism and Pucci's ability to spot the next trend are at work once again. The two, watching the growing market for long-distance learning, have spotted a way to add services to the site -- services that could keep children and their parents coming back again and again and staying on the site longer. Soon, through partnerships or even acquisitions, they hope to sell enrichment courses and one-to-one tutoring. Mom's not home after school? Turn to the site for some live, on-the-spot help with homework. "Most parents are willing to spend money all day long if it will help their kids to improve," says Thomas Weisel partner Gay.
Pucci and his friends, in their third incarnation, had bet the company on electronic commerce.
At Newman Elementary School, a second-grader confides that she doesn't like a card game that she and several other children are playing. "It's kind of boring," she says. If the producers of the game were present, they would feel the dagger in their hearts.
"If we didn't reject products," says education director Susan Graham, "we wouldn't be doing our job. If it disseminates or perpetuates stereotypes, we reject it. We don't offer any Barbies." The teachers turn down 40% of the products they consider.
There is no such problem with the Monopoly game. Five kids are enthusiastically playing the game, including a girl with long brown hair who was virtually cleaned out in 15 minutes. A girl to her left has won all her money and controls the board with the confidence of the pretrial Bill Gates. Who knows -- maybe she'll start a dot-com company by seventh grade. "Monopoly is a good teaching tool," says Graham. "There are elements of math, accounting, reading, strategy, and problem solving."
Still, another five kids have decided not to test the fancy games at all. They've been playing over in a corner with plain wooden blocks -- blocks so nicked and scratched that they have probably been here as long as the school has been standing.
Just in case, SmarterKids offers wooden blocks on its Web site, too. Sans scratches.
Stephen D. Solomon is an associate professor of journalism at New York University, where he is director of the program in Business and Economic Reporting.
FROM: Jeff Pucci
SENT: Wednesday, September 24, 1997 6:46 PM
TO: Al Noyes; David Blohm; Steven Thomas
CC: Richard Viard
SUBJECT: Internet URL "smarterkids.com"
Yesterday I was contemplating our place in the Internet/online universe while driving home, and was trying to envision how things might evolve over the next several years.
It's become painfully apparent to me (as it has to y'all, I'm sure) that this "Internet deal" is not only here to stay, but is poised to completely supplant many a business model in a staggeringly diverse number of companies. The business that we're in -- delivering software content -- seems particularly vulnerable to drastic change.
I honestly feel that we have not "missed out" on any significant Internet-based business opportunities yet, at least up to the present. This opinion is based in large part to remaining cognizant of the fact that content-based software publishers like us have yet (to my knowledge) to generate sales over the Internet that represent even a meager 1% of overall revenues.
But it's feeling very much to me like it's just a matter of time before a true critical mass of Internet/online users emerges, and with it, in time, will emerge a viable business model or two, even for selling our sort of goods and services. The fact that the online universe is, for the first time, tangibly beginning to "steal" eyeballs away from various traditional media -- magazines, newspapers and television -- seems like hard evidence to me.
Although I earnestly expect that it'll take at least another 23 years minimum before we hit critical mass that is really meaningful for our kind of business -- in terms of revenue generating opportunities where you actually make substantial net commerce based sales projections that you realistically intend to meet -- the fact is that once you project beyond 9 months or so in Internet land, you simply just don't know.
What does it all mean? I guess I'm just suggesting that we maybe gradually endeavor to try a few things; ideas that may result from our meeting about it now and again over the next few months.
For example, today I had Rich contact T3 (our Internet architect partners) and secure the URL "smarterkids.com". Turns out that that URL is available, and the fee for securing it is very nominal, so we're getting it.
My thinking re that idea is as follows: Yes, the company name is Virtual Knowledge, and that's fine. But imagine doing a massive ad campaign down the road that has the term "smarterkids.com" plastered everywhere. You know, maybe even have full page ads that run for successive months in all sorts of publications that are simply an entirely black page with "smarterkids.com" in a 16-point white font. Pretty soon, you'd have some people with kids that are just dying of curiosity to just type that into their browser some evening. Because as we have learned, the toughest challenge is to somehow get people to your site. Then you've got to make the compelling pitch, of course, but that's a separate issue.
Just as Sylvan uses "educate.com" for their URL, "smarterkids.com" is more targeted, arguably more memorable, actually means something, and presumably, it's something that every parent wants. And it's something that we can deliver for a fee.
In December 1999, when toy buyers did most of their shopping for the year, SmarterKids.com fared decently against some hefty competition, attracting almost 2 million unique visitors. Media Metrix Inc., which measures Web-site traffic, defines unique visitors as "the estimated number of total users who visited the Web site once in the given month."
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In the summer, the French midfielder left Monaco for a fee of €40 million. The club had a very successful season, but the team was not able to win any trophies. The previous season, the team won the Champion League, but lost the Europa League.
Brahim’s departure was a big loss for the club, because he was one of the main players of the team. The Frenchman was one the main stars of Monaco, and he was also a good scorer.
In addition, the club had other players who were able to replace him, such as:
* Eden Hazard;
* Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang;
* Serge Gnabry.
The latter two players are already in the starting lineup of the Gunners.
Will the team be able to get into the Champions League zone?
The team is not the only one who is interested in signing the player. The Gunners are also in the race for the Europa Cup, but they are far from the top of the standings.
This season, Arsenal has a number of interesting transfers, but it is not yet clear which of them will be successful.
It is also worth noting that the team is very active in the transfer market, and it is ready to spend a lot of money. The team is able to buy good players for a very low price, so it is very important to evaluate the potential of the new acquisitions.
Who will replace Brahimi?
Brahimi is a very important player for the team, because the Frenchman is able not only to score, but also to create many chances for his teammates.
However, it is also important to consider the fact that the Frenchman has a contract with the Gunner, and the club is not going to give him a new contract.
So far, the players of Arsenal have a good chance of getting into the Europa league zone. The main problem of the club now is the lack of motivation, but this is not a problem for the Gunnlayers, because they are very active and always ready to improve their position.
They have already managed to improve it several times. So far, they are in the top 4 of the Europa zone, but there is still a long way to go.
Main Intrigues of Season in the Champions league
The season in the new Champions league format is very interesting for the fans. The competition is extremely intense, and many teams have already won the tournament.
There are a lot more interesting matches ahead, and this means that the season will be very intense, especially because the clubs have to fight for the title.
Of course, it’s not the first time that the Champions club tournament is held, but in the past few years, the clubs from the Old Continent have won it.
Last season, Real Madrid managed to win the tournament for the first and only time in its history. The Spanish team was able to beat Juventus in the final match, and won the trophy for the third time in a row.
Now, the Royal club is in the second position of the Champions’ league table, and they have a very good chance to win it for the fourth time in the last five years.
Among the main favorites of the season, there is no doubt about the fact, that the following teams will be the main competitors of Real Madrid:
1. Manchester City. The Citizens are in excellent shape and are ready to fight against any opponent.
2. Barcelona. The Catalans have been in the middle of the table for a long time, but now they are getting closer to Real Madrid.
3. PSG. The Parisians are a real team, and have a lot to prove in the tournament arena.
4. Bayern. The Munich team is a real contender for the champion title for the fifth time in six years. They have a great lineup, and are able to surprise the fans with the right game.
5. Juventus. The Bianconeri are in a very difficult situation, but their main competitors are not so strong.
6. Liverpool. The Merseysiders are in good shape, but are not at the same level as the previous season.
7. Manchester United. The Red Devils are in great shape, and will be able not to lose points in matches against their main rivals.
8. Chelsea. The Blues have a long bench, and can always rotate their players.
9. Tottenham. The Spurs are a team that has a good game, and is able win the Champions’ league.
10. Bayern Munich. The Bavarians are a good team, but not in the same league as the main rivals of the Royal team.
You can always follow the development of the matches on the website of sports statistics, where the information is updated in real time.
All the latest news from the Champions tournament
The Champions tournament is one of Europe’s most intense competitions. It is held every year, and clubs from all over the world are competing for the gold medals.
These are the main contenders for the victory of the trophy:
• Real Madrid;
These clubs are all very active, and their main goal is to win gold medals for the second time in their history.


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Polish Maj. Gen. Piotr Czerwinski took over leadership of the inernational coalition force in Iraq for Poland's final tour of duty there.
Czerwinski assumed control from Maj. Gen. Waldemar Skrzypczak in a ceremony attended by Poland's Prime Minister, Defense Minister and Foreign Minister at the Polish-led force's headquarters in the city of Diwaniyah. U.S. commander of coalition forces, Gen. George W. Casey and Iraqi local leaders also attended.
Poland, a staunch U.S. ally, participated in the invasion of Iraq and has commanded a multinational force there since September 2003. Poland's own 1,500 troops serving in the force are to be pulled out in early 2006. A small group of officers is expected to stay on to train the Iraqi military, the AP reports.
Several years ago, a prominent Indonesian businessman who now resides in Canada, insisted on meeting me in a back room of one of Jakarta's posh restaurants. An avid reader of mine, he 'had something urgent to tell me', after finding out that our paths were going to be crossing in this destroyed and hopelessly polluted Indonesian capital.
Presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak, who was accredited for the press conference by Vladimir Putin from Dozhd (Rain) television channel, asked Putin about competition at the coming election
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This article concentrates on French cultural history in the aftermath of the 1789 Revolution, the dismantling of the Old Regime’s private libraries that took place in the 1790s, and its effects on the nineteenth-century space of knowledge. Carefully tracing the process through which these libraries were “put in the hands of the Nation,” the article describes the immense difficulties the main actors involved in the dismantlement were faced with, as texts and documents had greatly deteriorated, were stolen, lost, or destroyed. At the same time, however, and throughout France, a tremendous number of the seized texts and documents were restored, cataloged, and sent to Paris. This body of written knowledge constitutes the collections and holdings that became available in the first public libraries that opened in France in the nineteenth century. From this standpoint, the dismantlement can be understood in terms of interplaying discontinuities, constancies, and transformations.

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The lineup for this year's Psycho Las Vegas has been rounded out, with Mastodon stomping in as the festival's final headlining act.
Prince surprised a Coachella crowd by performing Radiohead's "Creep." Then he spent seven years preventing people from seeing it.
We look at all of the major music festivals that will be taking place across the U.S. in 2017.
Organizers have revealed more than 70 of the artists who will descend on Chicago this September for Riot Fest.
The British rock duo Royal Blood will kick off a headlining U.S tour on June 2 to support their second album 'How Did We Get So Dark?'
New York experimental pop musicians Marco Benevento and Stuart Bogie, who leads the group Superhuman Happiness, talk about the inspiration behind their two-set Bowie tribute.
This year's Voodoo Experience boasts a lineup topped with appearances from Tool and Arcade Fire, among a host of other well-known acts.
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, tubocin, sinerdol, rimactan, rifadine, eremfat, rimycin and rifater. Rifampin is used for the treatment of neisseria meningitis as monotherapy but there may be development of resistance when the treatment is long for active infections. The medicine is also used for cholestatic pruritus, hansen’s disease and BCG-oma. Rifampin is also useful for prevention of infection among those who are close to patients of bacterial infection. For active infections, the medicine is used along with other antibiotics like isoniazid, ethanmbutol and others. The patient should take the medicine everyday continuously for several months. In case there is a gap or break, the risk of developing resistance increases. Since there is a chance of increased resistance, monotherapy of rifampin should not be prescribed and other antibiotics should be included in the therapy. The medicine is not used for the treatment of viral infections, cold, and flu.
Adverse effects of rifampin include hepatotoxicity, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, fever, breathlessness, respiratory problems, nausea, vomiting, flushing, pruritis, rashes, arthralgia, immunological reactions, red and watery eyes, malaise, flu symptoms, colored urine and tears, gastrointestinal disturbances. Some other side effects of the medicine are itching, headache, problem in concentration, heartburn, vision changes, dizziness, drowsiness, and confusion and muscle weakness, lack of coordination, behavior changes, and pain in the limbs. Women may have painful and irregular menstruation. Some serious side effects of the medicine are hives, fever, rashes, loss of appetite, pain and swelling in the joints, unusual tiredness, red skin spots, dark colored urine, yellow skin, and eyes, blisters and swelling. If the patient experiences any of these symptoms, he must call the doctor immediately. The medicine may cause permanent staining in the soft contact lenses. The medicine may cause liver disease but this is an infrequent effect.
In rare cases, rifadin may cause intestinal disorder, agitation, back pain, cough, hoarseness, dark urine, difficulty in swallowing, fainting, hostility, high blood pressure, lethargy, irritability, mental depression, pain, and difficulty in urination, weight gain, wheezing, light colored stools, increased thirst, fast heartbeat, bloody urine and stools and bleeding gums. The medicine decreases the effect of hormonal contraception. Breast-feeding should not be done while using rifampin as the medicine is excreted in breast milk. The medicine reduces the effectiveness of hormonal contraceptives. Therefore, women should use other form of contraceptives. When the medicine is used for a long time, it may cause oral thrush and yeast infection. If the patient has white patches near the mouth or vaginal discharge changes, he or she must consult a doctor. The patient should consult a doctor for the risks associated with the use of rifampin.
The patient should take rifampin with water on empty stomach, one hour before meals or two hours after the meal. In case there is nausea, the patient should avoid taking antacids with rifampin as this reduces the effectivesness of the medicine. If the patient wants to have antacids, he should take it after one hour of taking rifampin.


The annual celebration of the best of the borough – Bronx Week 2014 – is almost here.
This year’s Bronx Week, a celebration with roots going all the way back to 1971, will be an exciting celebration with numerous events taking place all throughout the borough from Thursday, May 8 to Sunday, May 18.
According to Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.’s office, Bronx Week is “a celebration of everything that makes the Bronx a great place to live, work and raise a family.”
As he does every year, Diaz will announce this year’s five inductees to The Bronx Walk of Fame at a press conference scheduled for Monday, May 5 at the Bronx County Courthouse.
The Bronx Walk of Fame is on the Grand Concourse outside the courthouse.
Previous years’ inductees include former Borough President and Congressman Herman Badillo, actor and screenwriter Chazz Palminteri, music group The Chiffons, actor Danny Aiello, boxer Jake LaMotta, singer Irene Cara, and many more notable people who are, or were originally from, the borough.
Each inductee gets a street sign with their name placed along the boulevard, and those signs are unveiled by the honorees in an event at on Sunday, May 18 at 11 a.m.
They will also receive awards at the Bronx Ball, an annual black-tie gala on Saturday, May 17 at Orchard Beach that is a major gathering of the borough’s business, arts, and civic leaders. For tickets, tables and advertising opportunities, please call (718) 590-2502.
Some Bronx Week 2014 highlights include:
•A Centenarian Celebration on Wednesday, May 7.
•The 16th Annual Bronx Bankers Breakfast on Friday, May 9.
•A Bronx Food and Farm Tour on Saturday, May 10.
•A Jose Feliciano concert on Saturday, May 10.
•Bronx Veterans Appreciation Breakfast on Monday, May 12.
•45th Precinct Community Council Breakfast on Wednesday, May 14.
•Bronx Week VIP art opening exhibit of Daniel Hauben’s works on Thursday, May 15.
•Bronx Health Link Bronx Health Expo on Friday, May 16.
•Montefiore’s 2014 Teddy Bear Hospital on Saturday, May 17.
Bronx Week is coordinated every year by the Borough President’s office, Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation, and Bronx Tourism Council.
A complete list of events, including dates, times and locations, will be posted at ilovethebronx.com


Governments come and go in India and the one city that is right in the centre of everything is Delhi, the capital city. Governments promise better infrastructure and allocate crores for roads and other civic amenities for Delhi. Though as a city we have progressed, we still haven’t gotten the roads built to handle the second most populous city in the world.
A study from Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) released report which said that about 16 people die and 58 are injured every hour in road accidents in India and among cities; Delhi tops the list with the number of fatal accidents among all cities at five deaths per day. These fatalities are caused by a number of reason but the neglect of the road is one the most important factors as mentioned in the report.
In India the responsibilities for road building and maintenance lies with the Central and state government. The administration of the national highway system is vested with the Ministry of State for Surface Transport in India and other state roads are preserved by the state public works departments. As far as the minor roads in the country are concerned they are up kept by the various districts, municipalities, and villages.
Delhi is a global city and it is burgeoning, expanding at the seams with new people coming into the city every day from each strata of society, so what we have is a lot of people and inadequate roads, there are various roads where work was started by the municipal corporation and just abandoned halfway through. Even the repair-work and potholes aren’t the worst thing about the roads, the most basic issue with Delhi roads pertain to how badly built they are, sometimes turning at a red light could be the most deadly thing you could do. There are blind spots in the road, intersections where one small slip and you could lose your life. There are roads that are connected to massive residential or industrial areas but are built in a manner that doesn’t reflect so.
A narrow road, which leads to bottlenecks, can be found in just about every part of the city. The ensuing traffic is something that nightmares are made of; an average citizen of Delhi spends half her/his day on the road, stuck in traffic. How can Delhi be a global city when our infrastructure screams otherwise?
Even footpaths of Delhi do not support carefree walking as they are encroached upon mostly by parked vehicles. Hence, the pedestrian is forced to walk on the carriageway and risk his life. At cross paths where there are no traffic signals, pedestrians have the right of way, but no one respects it. It is unfortunate that the government too has given emphasis only on motor transport and not to pedestrians.
However, one of the controversial stretches in the Capital – the BRT corridor – has yet to spell benefit for the commuters, with experts stating that it was a futile exercise as its present design serves no purpose whatsoever. Other being, the Potholes are major problems faced by commuters, causing a bumpy ride and even accidents, monsoon brings its own shower of problems, with water logging and traffic jams that last miles. Potholed roads are common place in the national capital. Every year after the monsoon several roads in Delhi tend to cave in and cause huge potholes. Reporters have come across a 28-feet wide pothole in east Delhi. The entire road had caved in and that was not the only crater but many causing huge problems for traffic. Rain or no rain, potholes have become a part of our daily commute and if there are complaints, some repair is done which basically serves as an eye wash. Now, Delhi has nearly 24,000 km of road including its main and internal roads.
While flyovers are a good tool for tackling urban traffic congestion problems, they are mindlessly planned in Delhi. The biggest problem is that these signal-free stretches are not part of a larger comprehensive plan detailing origin and destination of different vehicles. The other problem being single lane flyover like at Savitri cinema, Rao Tula Ram marg, etc. creating flyovers like these is not a solution because if speed increases, ultimately there is a jam somewhere and these flyovers become congested in no time. When compared to the roads and flyovers in the west that specifically have circular diversions and separate lanes for vehicles, Delhi fails miserably as getting stuck in traffic at every major red-light near flyovers, etc. are a very common scene.CSE claims that cities are designing roads to increase speed of motor vehicles but at the same time neglecting infrastructure and rights of walkers, cyclists and public transport users they cautioned saying “If road safety is compromised, cities cannot increase the share of sustainable modes such as walk, cycle and public transport for clean air and public health”.
The ranking of all these roads shows that on all the parameters, all the roads score from very poor to poor. None of the corridors appears in average, good, or best classes. Delhi roads deliver the most fatal accidents on the road in India and a global survey might put us in the top too. Studies have found that the young are most at risk for accidents , the age group of upto 24 constitutes 40 per cent of the victims, after the youth, the 25-65 bracket which is also the most economically viable age bracket are affected, as a developing nation, losing the youth is a huge cost to pay. The economic and emotional costs of these tragedies are huge.
To blame the government solely would be an error, as a country we have failed at several levels, corruption has been eating our country inside out, with contractors bribing officials and using sub par materials and then the officials poor implementation are all legs of the table that supports the breakdown of society and an entire city.
One step towards making roads safer is the new Motor Vehicle Bill that is being prepared, that may have a provision for road maintenance including filling potholes. Road owning agencies would be help accountable for failure to comply and if crashes happen due to bad road condition.
This bill is being prepared on the lines of United Kingdom’s Traffic Management Act, it may also make road offenses more severe, like increasing the fines and stronger penalties for speeding and drinking and driving.
This bill may reduce the accidents but changes have to happen at every level in the country, citizens have to be more proactive and ensure that they are taking every measure to drive safely. Studies have shown that even if 2%-3 % of the budget towards infrastructure is used for potholes as country we could have a smooth ride. That aside, the government needs to wake up and make getting licenses stricter, improve the infrastructure of the city; what Delhi needs is a solution to ease the bottlenecks that await them every day, we need flyovers and bigger roads in areas that sorely require some relief, an overhaul of the design of the city to ensure that turning at a red light isn’t the last thing we do, make sure the women feel safe and the young ones survive to witness the glorious life that awaits them. Let’s smoothen the road for Delhi to become a global city.
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Naperlou: You're saying that it's not a difficult task to share engineering and product data with a variety of systems? If so, that's surprising to me and contrary to what I have heard so often from both PLM vendors and PLM practitioners in both engineering and IT.
A core tenet of Autodesk's strategy with its PLM 360 is that the PLM-related applications or services--project management, costing, product portfolio management, engineering change orders, etc.--are cloud-based tools, but the actual product-related data (CAD models, requirements, drawings, etc.) are stored on-premise, in the Vault PDM system. But even if that scenario, it would be critical to sync up to other enterprise systems where data might be stored.
Beth, the idea of being able to interchange information with a variety of systems is an important one. For engineering and product data this is not a very daunting task. Tools like Jitterbit are great for easing the integration task. PLM does not rely on data with complex semantics, as you might have in a high speed transaction or control system. That makes it a more tractible problem, and brings one closer to the goal of having all the information you need to make product decisions.
A middle school team from Rochester, Mich., has again nabbed the grand prize in the annual international Future City Competition, which drew students from 37 regions of the United States, as well as from England and China.
The word “smart” is becoming the dumbest word around. It has been applied to almost every device and system in our homes. In addition to smartphones and smart meters, we now hear about smart clothing and smart shoes, smart lights, smart homes, smart buildings, and every trendy city today has its smart city project. Just because it has a computer inside and is connected to the Web, does not mean it is smart.
Are you being paid enough? Do you want a better job? According to a recent survey Manpower released just before Engineers Week, employers and engineers don't see eye-to-eye about the state of US engineers' skills and experience.
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NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) - The Interior Department is selling a new duck stamp envelope to raise money for conservation in the aftermath of the Gulf oil spill.
Duck stamps are more formally known as the Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation stamp. They are pictorial stamps that can be bought in order to help with wetland conservation. 98 cents of every dollar made goes to the purchase or lease of wetland habitat in protection for the National Wildlife Refuge System.
All migratory bird hunters must buy a duck stamp along with state licenses and permits.
The new duck stamp envelopes were unveiled Tuesday. They feature a silk rendering of a photograph of St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge on the Gulf Coast of Florida, as well as the 2010-2011 federal duck stamp.
They sell for $25, ten dollars more than a regular duck stamp. The extra ten dollars will be used to buy land for national wildlife refuges on the Gulf Coast.


After attending the European School of Varese, in Italy, he attended the University of Southampton to study particle physics. He won a DAAD scholarship to undertake a summer research internship at TU Berlin, Germany. In his final year, he moved to CERN, Geneva to do his Master's project on the Level-1 Trigger of the ATLAS experiment on the LHC. He has worked in the Laboratory of Hybrid Photonics in Southampton on the numerical solution of the Gross-Pitaevskii equations. He is now a member of the CDT, where his research interests are in computational fluid dynamics and the simulation of detonations.


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The findings point to a worrying convergence of anti-migration discourse across borders and to the potential spread of a right-wing populist bloc unified by fear of migration.
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The Cyprus Symphony Orchestra returns to the Rialto Theatre on May 20, having now the opportunity to welcome an increased number of viewers. Conducted by the renowned German maestro Wolfram Christ, Cyprus Symphony Orchestra will present a programme features music by romantic composers of Central Europe, bursting with emotion and drama.
Discovered in 1951, Antonín Dvořák’s Seven pieces for small orchestra, were composed back in 1867 to be performed during the interval of a drama production, as was the custom at the time at the Provisional Theatre in Prague. In them one soon discovers seven movements of gorgeous, surprising theatricality, as if written to accompany the play itself.
All fifteen violin concertos by the German composer Louis Spohr show great originality, vigour and a distinct melodic elegance. CySO’s concertmaster Wolfgang Schroeder will be interpreting Spohr’s Violin concerto nο. 8. Subtitled “in modo di scena cantante”, this concerto stands out by assigning to the violin the role of an opera character, much in the way of a dramatic opera scene, including characteristic recitative and aria style sections.
Full of optimism, bliss and exuberance, Antonín Dvořák’s Serenade for strings was written in 1875, during one of the happiest and most productive times of his life.
Antonín Dvořák: Seven pieces for small orchestra
Louis Spohr: Violin concerto no. 8 in A minor (in modo di scena cantante), op. 47
Antonín Dvořák: Serenade for strings in E major, op. 22
Soloist: Wolfgang Schroeder, violin I Conductor: Wolfram Christ
With the support of the Goethe–Institut Zypern
Supporters: Rialto Theatre, Limassol Municipality, Pafos Municipality
Rialto Theatre - Thursday, 20 May 2021 at 20:30
Rialto Box Office : 77 77 77 45 www.rialto.com.cy, Rialto App
Tickets: €12, €7 (18-26 yrs, pensioners), €5 (under 18)
The concert will also be presented in Paphos on 19/5 at the Markideio Municipal Theater & in Nicosia on 21/5, at the Pallas Theatre.


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Oneway: Hindeloopen to Vinkeveen via Amsterdam
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SOLD OUTAaron 2017 Red Blend
Featured in our Garagiste Wine of the Month Club
- Sand & Stone
- Paso Robles AVA
- Paso Robles AVA
- 53% Grenache, 35% Petite Sirah, 12% Syrah.
- 18 months in French oak
- Cases Produced
- Sweetness Level
- Unfined & Unfiltered
- Diet Friendly
- Low sugar, low carb, Keto, Paleo
The 2017 ‘Sand & Stone’ Red Blend is Aaron’s most vibrant cuvée due to the large portion of Grenache, one of his favorite grapes that thrives in the limestone soils of Paso Robles. Coupled with the powerful nature of Petite Sirah, this blend showcases how Aaron can bring together tremendous freshness and overall drinkability to a rather powerful wine.
From start to finish, this wine brims with pure, focused fruit, including dried strawberries, olallieberries, and black raspberries. Always floral and tremendously aromatic, it features plenty of spicy notes of white pepper, licorice and smoky oak along with a juicy, youthfully tannic finish. Enjoy!
Bucatini o Tagliatelle alla Matriciana Pasta
A deliciously authentic pasta dish that will transport you overseas, directly into a Italian family home. Pair this with a Red Blend wine from your recent wine subscription box.View Recipe
Greek Meatballs with Tzatziki
Syrah and lamb were made for each other. The structure of the Cabernet Sauvignon pairs nicely with lamb's richness. Enjoy with a Red Blend featured in your recent wine club shipment.View Recipe
Bobotie (ba-boor-tea) - the national dish of South Africa
A delicious mixture of curried meat and fruit with a creamy golden topping, not dissimilar to moussaka. Enjoy with your recent shipment of South African wines from the International Wine Club.View Recipe
Wine Braised Short Ribs
A perfect 'go-to' braised short ribs recipe that is great for entertaining as well as paired along side a bottle of Red Blend. Try enjoying it with a wine from your wine subscription box!View Recipe
Keller Coq Au Vin
Enjoy this recipe with a killer glass of Keller Estate "Casa" Red Blend from your latest monthly wine club delivery!View Recipe

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The Bryant is a 32-storey mixed-use tower building located on the south-west
corner of Bryant Park, a nine-acre public park in Midtown Manhattan. Surrounded by historic landmark buildings, it faces the New York Public Library to the north, and is situated near the celebrated Beaux-Arts style Knox Building to the east. The building comprises a hotel that extends to the 14th floor, with private residences above. These two components are served by two separate lobbies at street level, with two adjacent retail units animating the street front.
The building articulates three separate parts following the traditional tripartite composition of the New York tower: base, middle and crown. The base occupies the full width of the site and contains a double-height ground floor as well as the first four levels of the hotel. A decreased footprint, together with an increased floor-to- ceiling height for the hotel bar and lounge, mark the start of the central section. This set-back creates an outdoor terrace accessible to both hotel guests and residential tenants while maintaining the elevation pattern of alternating medium and high-rise buildings along 40th Street. The crown is established by double-height spaces for the two penthouses at the top of the tower.
Adhering to the conditions of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the façade relates to the historic buildings nearby, offering a contemporary interpretation. The concrete mix contains different aggregates identical to the stone varieties found in the neighbouring buildings’ masonry façades. These polished precast concrete slabs and columns follow a tectonic grid composition lending the building a classical appearance and firmly asserting its place within the streetscape.
The concrete building structure extends into the interior of the residences, reinforcing a sense of architectural substance and identity. Built-in furnishings conceal storage spaces and appliances while dividing the spaces, removing the need for partition walls, and allowing uninterrupted views around the perimeter. Floor-to- ceiling windows open on to Juliet balconies on the north and south façades for all residences, while the penthouses have double-height, colonnaded terraces with view over the city and park.


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HRW chides GOI on AFSPA
‘PM’s Call For Zero Tolerance Of Abuses Undercut By Zero Progress In Holding Abusers Responsible’
GK NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar, Jan 23: The Government of India has failed to hold rights violators accountable or to carry out effective policies to protect vulnerable communities during 2011, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2012.
The exhaustive report by the international body highlights that Government of India has failed to repeal the widely discredited Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in different states including Jammu and Kashmir, disregarding the recommendations of political leaders and advisers.
Regarding disclosures of unmarked mass graves in different parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Human Rights Watch said although the government has promised a thorough inquiry, a credible investigation is impossible without the cooperation of the army and federal paramilitary forces, which “hide behind the immunity provisions of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act and other laws.”
“The Indian government took few steps to prosecute abusive soldiers, undertake needed police reforms, or bring an end to torture,” said Brad Adams, Asia Director at Human Rights Watch. “Internationally, India missed opportunities to be a leader at the United Nations Security Council and Human Rights Council in protecting the rights of vulnerable people abroad,” the report said.
The report said violence in Jammu and Kashmir dropped “significantly” during 2011. The State Human Rights Commission’s investigation of 38 sites in north Kashmir and the discovery of 2,730 unmarked graves was a good first step for providing justice to the victims, it said.
While government of India maintains that most of the bodies are those of unidentified Pakistani militants, many Kashmiris believe that victims of fake “encounter killings” or enforced disappearances may also have been buried in those graves, the report said.
“The government should no longer allow the army to hide behind claims about troop morale or operational needs as an excuse for impunity,” it said.
The report said: “Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s call for ‘zero tolerance’ of abuses by the armed forces has been undercut by the near zero progress in holding the abusers responsible,” Adams said.
“The government ignored the urgent need for police reforms despite widespread complaints of torture and unlawful killings as well as deplorable working conditions for police personnel.”
Government of India, the report said belatedly addressed the epidemic of killings on the Indo-Bangladesh border by the Border Security Force (BSF). Although the government ordered restraint and provided rubber bullets to reduce casualties, there were continued reports of torture leading to deaths and other abuses by BSF soldiers. “No BSF soldiers have been prosecuted for the unlawful killings of over 900 Indians and Bangladeshis over the past decade,” the report reveals.
“While the government agrees that the Maoist movement is rooted in failed government policies and speaks of winning hearts and minds, it allows the security forces to commit abuses with impunity,” Adams said. “At the same time, the Maoists claim to speak for the marginalized yet punish anyone who might disagree with their violent methods.”
The government adopted long overdue measures to compensate rape victims and revised its medico-legal protocols to exclude the humiliating “finger” test to investigate rape cases, Human Rights Watch said. Yet the government did little to address the widespread problems of “honor killings,” dowry deaths, and sexual violence.
“Internationally, although India served on both the UN Security Council and Human Rights Council, it let opportunities pass to support independent, international investigations into conflict-related abuses in Sri Lanka and Burma. Instead of using these memberships to show leadership to protect human rights abroad, India remained silent on even the gravest abuses. While expressing concern about the increased violence in Syria, for example, New Delhi failed to support policies that would ease the suffering of the Syrian people,” the report said.
“India is now watched closely for signs of responsible global leadership,” Adams said. “Its silence on human rights violations by abusive regimes because of its reluctance to interfere in the so-called ‘internal affairs’ of other countries sits uncomfortably alongside its international human rights commitments and its self image as a rights-respecting nation.”
In its World Report 2012, Human Rights Watch assessed progress on human rights during the past year in more than 90 countries, including popular uprisings in the Arab world that few would have imagined. Given the violent forces resisting the “Arab Spring,” the international community has an important role to play in assisting the birth of rights-respecting democracies in the region, Human Rights Watch said in the report.
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How Much Salmon Is Safe To Eat Per Week – Cooked salmon helps you get more omega-3s and B vitamins, but you should choose the wild variety whenever you can.
Salmon is a source of protein for many people, and it’s clear why this fish stands out as a nutritional star: It’s unique in heart-healthy fats called omega-3 fatty acids.
How Much Salmon Is Safe To Eat Per Week
This fish is actually a great source of protein and can replace less healthy forms of nutrients on your plate like fatty beef or sausage. You’ll also find that salmon is rich in nutrients that support brain, heart, and bone health.
Smoked Salmon, Cream Cheese, And Capers Bagel Recipe
Salmon is one of the most popular seafood in the United States, surpassed only by canned shrimp and tuna. According to the US Geological Survey, there are several species of salmon, including Atlantic salmon and Pacific salmon, including chinook, coho, chum, sockeye and pink salmon.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries, Atlantic salmon are endangered, and commercial and recreational fishing for them is prohibited in the United States. For that reason, the Atlantic salmon you find in the supermarket is farm-raised.
It’s currently recommended that Americans eat two meals of fish per week, and salmon is a great way to anchor those meals.
A 3.5-ounce portion of cooked salmon equals one serving. A 3.5-ounce serving of cooked wild coho salmon contains:
Fresh Farmed Salmon Prices Tick Up; Bodes Well For Wild
Omega-3 fatty acids are a type of polyunsaturated fatty acid, and salmon is known to be a good source of them. These fats are essential because the body cannot make them on its own.
According to the Harvard Institute DH, omega-3 fats are a catalyst for the production of hormones that control blood clotting, inflammation, and the contraction and relaxation of artery walls. Chan School of Public Health. They also play a role in gene function.
Presumably because of these many functions, omega-3s help prevent heart disease and stroke, and help control rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and eczema. They have even been linked to protection against cancer and other conditions, the university says. However, more research is needed to confirm these links.
The omega-3 fats you find in seafood are EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid), while the type most commonly found in plants is called alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Salmon Nutrition Facts And Health Benefits
“Omega-3 fats, especially those found in animal sources like salmon, are very beneficial for heart health,” says Karen Conger, RD, a registered dietitian at UW Medicine. “Omega-3 fats in plants have to be converted into ALA, DHA and EPA, which is not a very efficient process – so you don’t get as much bang for your buck as you do with animal sources.”
Notably, large population-based studies have shown that consumption of boiled or steamed fish is strongly associated with reduced systemic vascular resistance and reduced incidence of coronary heart disease and heart failure, after a 2014 review in Thanafos.
How Much Salmon Can You Eat Each Week? As recommended by the American Heart Association (AHA), eating two portions of fish per week – particularly fatty types such as salmon, which are high in EPA and DHA – is associated with an increased risk of coronary and total mortality.
While fish oil supplements can be helpful, they can also cause side effects such as indigestion, loose stools, an increased risk of bleeding, or a weakened immune system if you take too much, according to the Mayo Clinic. Consult your healthcare provider if you want to take fish oil supplements and take blood thinners.
Poached Salmon Recipe
According to a September 2015 study in the Journal of Molecular Nutrition & Food Research, getting omega-3s from foods like fish can increase your body fat just as much as fish oil capsules.
Salmon is an excellent source of protein with only 23.5 grams per serving and 1.1 grams of saturated fat. The AHA recommends that only 5 to 6 percent of your daily calories come from saturated fat (about 13 grams per day).
Saturated fats are found in high amounts in foods such as lean beef, lamb, pork, skin and butter, and eating foods high in monounsaturated fats or polyunsaturated fats such as salmon can help lower your blood cholesterol levels.
“Although salmon is very high in fat, it’s low in saturated fat, so I consider it a lean protein,” says Conger. “That protein helps with muscle synthesis and muscle repair throughout the day.”
How Much Salmon Per Week Due To Mercury?
Salmon is a good source of complete protein, meaning it provides all the amino acids the body cannot make on its own. According to the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), our bodies need protein to build and maintain bones, muscles, and skin.
Between 10 percent and 35 percent of your daily calories should come from protein. While most Americans get enough protein, many can get it from healthier sources like salmon, according to the Ohio State University Extension.
Salmon provides an impressive array of B vitamins that play many important roles in your body. A 3.5oz serving of wild coho salmon provides:
According to the NLM, your body needs B vitamins to get or make energy from the food you eat and to make red blood cells.
Salmon Skin: Can You Eat It And Is It Good For You?
Animal proteins such as fish, poultry, eggs, dairy products, fortified cereals, and rich grain products provide B vitamins, as do plant foods such as leafy green vegetables and beans.
Deficiency of B12 and B6 in particular can lead to anemia. In fact, up to 20 percent of adults over age 50 may be deficient in vitamin B12, according to Harvard Health Publishing.
It can cause cognitive problems such as reduced thinking and reasoning or memory. Vitamin B12 is found naturally in animal products and the body cannot make it on its own.
B12 is essential for red blood cell formation and plays a role in proper nerve function and DNA production.
Is Smoked Salmon Healthy? Here’s What A Dietitian Says
Salmon contains more vitamin B-12 than beef, making it a good source of vitamin B12. A 3.5 ounce serving of wild coho salmon contains 208% of the DV.
Salmon contains several important nutrients that play a role in keeping your bones strong and fracture-free.
According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, adequate protein intake is important for bone health, and many older adults don’t get enough in their diets. Some research has found that omega-3-rich foods may have bone-boosting benefits, but more studies are needed to confirm this link.
Salmon provides calcium and vitamin D, which work together to support your bones. “By eating canned salmon with bones, you get more calcium,” says Conger. “Calcium absorption requires the vitamin D in salmon. Because vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin, salmon is a good source of it.”
The Smart Seafood Buying Guide
Up until age 30, your body builds new bone faster than old bone. Your bone mass peaks around age 30, and after that you lose slightly more bone mass than you gain.
Not getting enough calcium in your diet can lead to decreased bone density, early bone loss, and an increased risk of fractures, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Salmon provides 26 percent of the daily value of phosphorus, which is found in every cell in the body, but is mostly found in bones and teeth, according to the NLM. Its main function is to form bones and teeth. It works with B vitamins to help with kidney function, muscle contractions, normal heart rate and nerve signaling.
Because omega-3 fats play many roles throughout the body and brain, including building cell membranes, they can promote healthy brain cells and prevent brain degeneration, according to Harvard Health Publishing.
Should You Avoid Fish Because Of Mercury?
Seniors who ate at least one serving of seafood each week performed better on cognitive tests than those who ate less, a five-year observational study in the journal Neurology found in May 2016.
In particular, people with the APOE-ε4 gene variant, which raises the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, may benefit from eating omega-3 fats.
On the other hand, an August 2015 American Medical Association study of 3,000 adults found that fish oil pills did not appear to impair cognitive function.
A 3.5-ounce serving of salmon provides 69 percent of your daily value for selenium, an essential trace mineral that acts as an antioxidant.
How Long Does Cooked Salmon Keep In The Fridge?
Although rare, selenium deficiency may be associated with an age-related decline in brain function due to a decrease in the protective effect of selenium on cells, the NIH said.
Selenium’s brain benefits may be optimal at certain doses of the mineral. A November 2014 study in the journal Nutrition found that either too little or (slightly) too much selenium was associated with an increased risk of depressive symptoms and negative mood in young adults.
In addition, the high levels of B vitamins in salmon help prevent dementia and increase the production of neurotransmitters, chemicals that send messages from neurons in the brain to the rest of the body, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
The body does not store B vitamins, and not eating enough can increase the risk of cognitive decline
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If you want to get big bang for your buck on time, this card makes quite an impression with a small investment.
Begin with a piece of 12x12 paper and score from each outside edge. After the 3" scores are made, score 6" from each edge, stopping at the intersecting scoreline. Basically, just recreate the lines in this handy diagram:
Using a craft knife, acrylic grid ruler and cutting mat, add cuts where indicated on the solid lines in the diagram.
Next, just fold along the outer score lines to make "wings" for your card. Each wing will fold onto the 6x6" card base.
Lots of decorating potential here. In other words, you're going to feel like you have a never-ending number of 2.75x2.75" mini works of art to create along with a 6x6" panel for the inside. Fun stuff!
The 8.5x11" Club Stamp Print from Take Wing was a great decorative candidate with its four-quadrant graphic elements. It trims nicely into eight 2.75" squares . . . two each of four colors.
Just keep stamping and decorating away until you're happy with the nifty card!
The flaps will want to flop, so use a ribbon or some other clever device to hold the card together.
And now it's time to fly across the pond to the Netherlands and visit Hetty's blog, Craft Chaos! If you want to start at the beginning, head on over to Club Scrap Creates.
Before you go, leave a comment below and your name will be entered into a drawing for some fun goodies from Club Scrap! Is it your turn to be lucky this week?

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SILVER SPRING, Md. — The commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration is renewing calls for legislation to give the agency more authority to regulate pharmacy compounding.
In a blog post Friday, Margaret Hamburg wrote that while the FDA has inspected more than 30 compounding pharmacies and worked to inspect state-licensed pharmacies that produce sterile drug products, the agency's authority remained limited and was "not the right fit for FDA to provide appropriate and efficient oversight of this growing industry."
In the past week, Hamburg wrote, there were two recalls of sterile compounded and repackaged drug products due to contamination. In one case, five patients were diagnosed with serious eye infections after receiving doses of Genentech's Avastin (ddd) from a compounding pharmacy in Augusta, Ga. In another, fungus was found in bags of magnesium sulfate intravenous solution.
"There is a legitimate role for traditional pharmacy compounding," Hamburg wrote. "Every day, thousands of pharmacists practice traditional pharmacy compounding — mixing a drug in response to a valid prescription for an individual patient's need." These include liquids for patients who can't swallow pills, or medications made for patients allergic to certain ingredients.
But sterile compounding, Hamburg wrote, has evolved and "outgrown the law." Sterile compounding is a much more complex process and requires careful attention to sanitation. It generally involves medications designed for intravenous delivery.
Sterile compounding has received significant attention in recent months following a nationwide outbreak of fungal meningitis among patients who received injected steroids from the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass. An investigation of the NECC found widespread contamination, disregard for safety standards, and former employees of the pharmacy have said that it had essentially become a manufacturer. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 722 have become sick with the meningitis, and 50 have died.