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Zucchini Pancakes and Creamed Corn
Creamed corn topped with zucchini pancakes and a tomato
and avocado salad simply dressed with lime juice, salt, & pepper.
When Summer rolls around, the bounty of fresh vegetables available increases, particularly for those who frequent farmers' markets. Even supermarket shoppers find goodies like fresh corn, peaches, and melons, that while available all year round, are more plentiful in the warmer months (and are more likely to have been grown somewhere in the same hemisphere).
If it's hot outside, I'm less apt to want to mess around with cooking or eating meat and more inclined to attempt making an interesting meal out of produce. Like zucchini, which is everywhere. A few weeks ago, I spotted a monster-sized specimen on the sidewalk next to the local community garden. Fred Flintstone could have used it as a club, it was so hefty. Whoever picked it up probably fed their family for a week with it. For this recipe, I chose to use much smaller squash, but heck, if you have some giants lurking in your backyard garden, by all means put them to use! These pancakes borrow heavily from Polish placki, usually made with potatoes, with the delightful addition of fresh herbs.
As for creamed corn, I have never met anyone who eats the gloppy, overly-sweet, canned version voluntarily. Fresh creamed corn is another animal entirely, with better texture and flavor. I tried to make it a little leaner than most recipes that add a ton of heavy cream by cooking the corn in light milk, and adding some half and half at the end for flavor. It's thick and not too rich, almost like fresh corn grits, but chunkier.
3 medium zucchini, peeled and grated (about 5 cups grated zucchini)
3 tablespoons chopped fresh herbs (basil, oregano, parsley, cilantro, etc.)
1 tablespoon chopped green onion
Place the zucchini into a colander set over a bowl. Add the salt and toss well. Allow the zucchini to drain for about 30 minutes. Place the zucchini in a clean tea towel and squeeze out just about all of the moisture. You should have about 1.5 - 2 cups of zucchini after this process.
Place zucchini in a bowl and beat in eggs. Stir in flour; the batter will be extremely thick. Stir in herbs and green onion.
Heat a tablespoon of oil in a large saute pan. Drop the zucchini mixture into the oil by heaping tablespoonfuls, spreading slightly into a pancake shape. Cook over medium-high heat until browned on bottom, then flip and brown on the other side. Remove fritters from pan to a paper-towel-lined plate to drain. Sprinkle with salt while still hot.
Cook fritters in batches until all batter has been used up. Don't crowd the pan - make only 3 or 4 at a time, and replenish oil as necessary. Serve hot or at room temperature.
Creamed Corn
6 ears fresh corn
2 tablespoons yellow cornmeal
1/2 cup half and half
Holding each ear upright in the middle of a large bowl, cut the kernels from the corn with a sharp knife. Also run the back of your knife along each ear to scrape out any pulp and milk that might remain.
Add corn and pulp to a dutch oven or large saucepan and add a pinch of salt, the sugar, and milk. Cook over low heat until the corn is tender and much of the milk evaporates, about 40 minutes. For a creamier corn, use an immersion blender to partially puree it, but if you don't mind the chunks, leave as is. Sprinkle the cornmeal onto the corn, using a whisk to combine well. Raise the heat, add the half and half and cook for a few minutes to warm through. Season with freshly ground black pepper.
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Labels: corn, pancakes, squash, summer, vegetables, vegetarian, zucchini
Mason Dixon Master Chef Tournament Round 2
July 28, 2012 - Jessup, MD - The Mason Dixon Master Chef Tournament kicks-off Round 2 this week with only eight of the original 16 chefs remaining in the field and two outstanding matches lined up.
Monday, July 30th will be the much anticipated battle of two top Baltimore restaurants, Barracudas Bar & Grill with Chef/Owner Billy Hughes competing, and Roy's Baltimore with Chef Patrick "Opie" Crooks.
Tuesday, July 31st will be the rematch of Chef Jeff Keeney of Catering by Jeff versus Chef Melissa Fordham of Gourmet Again. These two chefs used to work together at The Harryman House and competed in the 2010 Mason Dixon Master Chef Tournament that eliminated Chef Keeney, so he is out to prove his skills. Both teams will be using proteins from sponsor Holly Poultry for "Battle of the Chicken".
Rounds two will continue on August 13th and 14th with the following line-up:
Monday, August 13th
SoBo Café, Balitmore – Chef Timothy Dyson
Iron Bridge Wine Company, Columbia – Chef Chris Lewis
Tuesday, August 14th
Newton's Table, Bethesda – Chef Luis Echeverria
Mie N Yu, Georgetown– Chef R.L. Boyd
Chefs are required to prepare original appetizer, entrée, and dessert creations in an hour for three expert judges and up to 28 'Guest Judges'. Final dishes are scored on presentation, creativity and taste, with only one chef from each match advancing to the next round.
Guests are invited to stand right across from chefs to witness the skills and techniques up close and interact with the chefs as they compete. A few guests will even be selected to taste and judge the chefs' entrée creations alongside the expert judges and "Judging Experience" ticket holders.
In addition, guests arriving in time for Happy Hour (6-7pm) will enjoy complementary appetizers and wine tasting, as well as 2-for-1 drinks.
Advance Tickets*:
$25 for general admission (includes tax)
$45 for judging experience (includes tax) - these ticketholders taste the chefs' creations
Available for purchase at: www.masondixonmasterchef.com
*Tickets must be purchased in advance for the above pricing. $30/ $50 at the door.
When & Where:
The competition is now over half-way completed, remaining dates include:
July 30, 31
August 13, 14, 20, 21
September 10 – Final Championship Match
6:00 p.m. – Happy Hour (2-for-1 drinks, free appetizers and free wine tasting)
6:30 p.m. – Cold Prep Begins
7:00 p.m. – Chef Competition
8:00pm – Judging Begins
Blobs Park Bavarian Biergarten
8024 Max Blobs Park Road
Celebrate local cuisine and local talent while supporting an important cause. Ten percent of net proceeds will go to Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland, a nonprofit organization that delivers nutritious meals, personal contact and related services to homebound individuals. www.mealsonwheelsmd.org
Labels: Mason Dixon Master Chef Tournament
Summery Couscous Salad
This summer, we planted four kinds of mini tomatoes and one larger yellow tomato, and a plethora of herbs (Greek oregano, Thai, purple, and sweet basil, lemon balm, tarragon, and thyme to go with the perennial chives and mint). Despite the heat and relative lack of rain, everything's been growing like crazy and I find myself harvesting a pint of tomatoes a couple times a week.
I'm not complaining!
One can only eat so many Caprese salads, so the basil and tomatoes need to be put to other uses. I found some tri-color pearl couscous at Shop Rite recently and thought it would make a nice variation on a pasta salad. It was also a good way to use up some of the garden's bounty.
Couscous Salad
1.5 tablespoons grainy mustard
1 cup pearl or Israeli couscous, cooked according to package directions
3 tablespoons chopped fresh herbs (dill, basil, parsley, mint) plus more for garnish
1/2 pint tiny tomatoes, sliced
3 tablespoons roughly chopped pistachios
1 tablespoon finely chopped green onion
In a medium bowl, stir together the mustard, honey, lime juice, and 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Add the couscous and mix well. Season with salt and pepper, and add more olive oil if the consistency seems dry. Stir in fresh herbs, sliced tomatoes, cucumber, pistachio and green onion. Chill before serving. Add more salt and pepper if needed.
Labels: herbs, pasta salad, salad, vegetables
Earth, Wood, & Fire
Has anyone noticed that Baltimore is becoming a pizza town? Mighty fine pies are now available at Bagby's, Chazz, Joe Squared, Iggie's, Two Boots, Toss, and more. The newest kid on the block is Earth, Wood, & Fire, which opened in May. They have a lot more than pizza, so we grabbed our friend Melinda for a whirlwind tour of their menu.
The space is large and airy, with a very minimalist, vaguely industrial decor. I say "vaguely" because one has to look up at the ceiling to see the exposed ductwork; the Seussian arrangement of twisted pipes seems to be the only ornamentation in the main dining room. EW&F must have been eagerly awaited, because early on a Saturday evening, the place was packed, mostly with families. Toddlers abounded, and the place was loud. So...you are forewarned.
Despite the general din, we didn't have trouble communicating across the table and soon selected a representative dish or three from each category on the menu.
At the moment, two soups are on offer. We tried the spicy sausage and black bean soup. The sausage must have been finely crumbled, because I didn't notice it. The soup was otherwise spicy as advertised and pretty good. We thought the flatbread accompaniment was a nice touch.
From the ubiquitous "small plates" section of the menu, we sampled the "Grilled Jumbo Asparagus with Shiitake Bacon and Caramelized Shallot." The asparagus was far from jumbo, but we loved the grilled flavor of the perfectly-cooked spears. The jumble of mushrooms and shallots punched up the flavor with elements of sweet and salty.
Another choice from the small plates menu was the "Josper-roasted" sea scallops. The "Josper" is a charcoal broiler oven, which is not to be confused with the coal-fired oven that the restaurant uses for their pizza. I was a little disappointed that we only got three scallops because I've been craving scallops for months now and have yet to be completely satisfied. Not to mention that I had to share. These were simply dressed with olive oil and lemon juice and nicely done. I would have liked more.
We were intrigued by the description of this bruschetta-like small plate, billed as "Focaccia with Goat Cheese, Fire-Roasted Peppers, and Eggplant Nectar." What the heck is eggplant nectar? Sounds like something that hummingbirds might eat. In reality, it was a baba ganoush-like spread. The bread clearly wasn't foccacia (it might have been "focaccia"), more like a thick baguette, but the combination of goat cheese, peppers, and that eggplant stuff was flavorful. However, we think you should save your carb allowance for the pizza.
Pizzas come in 10" and 14" sizes with lots of DIY toppings and a few custom combinations. The one we tried, the Bianco, was a white pie (ricotta, romano, mozz, no sauce) topped with Gulf shrimp and garlic chips. It was garlic-licious in a big way. We loved the crust, which was quite thin. Rather than venturing into cracker-ville like so many thin crusts are wont to do, EW&F's coal-fired oven produced one with a nice chew and crisp bits of char here and there. Despite having so much other food on the table (we're not done yet!) we scarfed down this 14" baby.
That's right - we also tried one of the burgers. The "Frog & the Redneck" sounded tempting with its combo of brie, fried green tomatoes, and Southern ham, but we instead opted for the Monterey, which included avocado, tomato, Monterey jack, and crispy Serrano ham. It turned out to be a rather meek-flavored combination that was largely overpowered by the pickle slices. The burger itself, however, cooked in that Josper oven, was juicy, moist, meaty, and overall delish. The side of "Josper" fries (regular and sweet potato were also choices) were a bit too thick-cut for my taste, but Mr Minx snarfled them up without complaint.
We also tried the Lorenzo salad, a flavorful combination of arugula, Belgian endive, Gorgonzola, red seedless grapes, and toasted macadamia nuts in a lemon vinaigrette. The salads are available in two sizes and can be topped with any of the myriad pizza add-ons for an extra charge. Those add-ons are categorized as "standard" and "deluxe," but none of them are quite standard (capers? roasted fennel? arugula? not standard).
Our enormous feast was quite filling, so we passed on dessert. I'd have eaten more scallops though. Maybe I can finagle to get them on a pizza next time. And oh, there will be a next time. Six big thumbs up for EW&F.
Earth Wood & Fire
1407 Clarkview Road
earthwoodfire.com
Labels: Baltimore, Baltimore restaurant, Burgers, pizza, vegetables
Time Machine Chefs
Should I recap this nonsense?
"TIME MACHINE CHEFS" WILL TRANSPORT VIEWERS TO A WONDROUS WORLD
OF FOOD, COMPETITION AND DIFFERENT HISTORICAL ERAS, AS POPULAR CHEFS
COMPETE FOR THE TITLE OF "THE GREATEST CHEF IN HISTORY"
Chefs Art Smith, Chris Cosentino, Ilan Hall and Jill Davie Star in
"Time Machine Chefs," Thursday, August 16 on ABC
Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a chef in 1416 A.D., or to cook in a medieval castle for kings and queens during the Tudor era? Well fasten your seatbelts and prepare for a journey through time when "Time Machine Chefs" blasts off, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16 (9:00-10:00 p.m., ET) on ABC. With no modern appliances, amenities, running water or electricity, four popular chefs must create culinary masterpieces -- and impress three esteemed judges -- with only basic kitchen equipment, their imaginations and craftsmanship. Only one chef will be crowned The Greatest Chef in History.
The judging table consists of chef, restaurateur and cookbook author Nancy Silverton, Dave Arnold of the French Culinary Institute in New York City, and chef and cookbook author Silvena Rowe of Quince in London's May Fair Hotel.
The "Time Machine Chefs" are:
Chef Art Smith is executive chef and co-owner of Table fifty-two in Chicago and Art and Soul in Washington, DC, as well as Southern Art and LYFE Kitchen restaurants. In 2012 Chef Smith opened his latest restaurant, Joanne's, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, with Lady Gaga's parents, Joseph and Cynthia Germanotta. In 1997 he became the personal chef to Oprah Winfrey, a position he held for 10 years. Chef Smith has made numerous television appearances, including Bravo's "Top Chef Masters" and Food Network's "Iron Chef America." He is also the author of three award-winning cookbooks.
Chef Chris Cosentino has been executive chef of Incanto in San Francisco since 2002 and is co-owner of Boccalone, an artisanal salumeria. Chef Cosentino has worked at a number of notable restaurants, including Red Sage in Washington, DC, Rubicon, Chez Panisse, Belon and Redwood Park. He debuted his first cookbook, Beginnings: My Way to Start a Meal, in 2012 from Olive Press media.
Chef Ilan Hall is best known to television viewers as the winner of Season Two of Bravo's "Top Chef." Chef Hall trained at Italy's Lorenzo de Medici Apicus Program and at the Culinary Institute of America. He is owner and executive chef of The Gorbals in Los Angeles, CA.
Chef Jill Davie is a private chef in California. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and UC Santa Cruz, Chef Davie has served as Chef de Cuisine at Josie Restaurant in Los Angeles. In August of 2006, she won the grand prize of $10,000 on Food Network's "Hot Chefs: South Beach" competition and was a contestant on "The Next Iron Chef" in 2007. Chef Davie has appeared on numerous television programs and is currently a partner and head chef at Venice Beach Wines.
Labels: Art Smith, Chris Cosentino, Ilan Hall, Time Machine Chefs
Choice Bites 7.24.2012
Taco Bell has revamped part of its menu with Chipotle-style burritos and whatnot designed by America's Next Great Restaurant and Top Chef Masters' chef Lorena Garcia. Nice try, but apparently it's not that good. Still, it's probably really tasty to those folks who routinely choose the dog food of Taco Bell over Chipotle.
Grub Street has a short but amusing interview with BFFs Tony Bourdain and Eric Ripert. Ripert has a new "show" on YouTube - watch the promo here.
Speaking of Bourdain, his wife is an animal. I wouldn't want to run into her in a well-lit alley, much less a dark one.
And speaking of animals, McDonald's employees in Paris are nuts. Beware what kind of eyeglasses you wear in their stores or you may be assaulted.
Labels: Bourdain, choice bites, Eric Ripert, Top Chef Masters
Next Food Network Star Season 8 Finale
For nearly an hour last night, the Food Network kept us in suspense as to the winner of this competition, and so I'll do the same thing here in this post. I guarantee you will be in a state of suspense for the entire 3.5 seconds you stay on this page, wondering "where the hell is the funny?"
Essentially, this episode was the usual "reunion" special that follows some reality shows like Project Runway and Top Chef. And that's ok - for the most part, I enjoy watching blooper reels and the like. Unfortunately, the Food Network takes itself too damn seriously. There wasn't all that much fun to be had in this show.
All fifteen Wannabes and the three mentors gathered together to rehash old times. The Star Challenge this week: sit through an endless series of pointless montages. Since I can't embed the video for some reason (or, I can embed it but it won't play) go watch this first, for a laugh.
Back? Wasn't that fun? Sorry if non-South Park fans were offended in any way (not really). The first montage we're treated to tells the story of the season in about 90 seconds. Ok - we're done. Can we go now? Who's the winner?? But no...another montage reveals the intense rivalry between teams. Apparently Team Bobby had something against preternaturally perky Emily Ellyn, Queen of re-purposed meatloaf. In one clip, Nikki informs us that "Begins with an E ends with a 'Y are you here?'" is annoying. In another, Justin says Team Bobby was comprised of bullies, but we know he meant Nikki. Who was also annoying.
A bit later, Susie tells the restless crowd that 4.5 million votes came in and she knows everyone is waiting for the verdict but... they'll have to wait longer. Bitch. Not only will there be a long commercial break first, but rather than come out and announce the winner at that time, they're going to name the one finalist who didn't quite cut the mustard with the voters. And that was...
But first, a word from our sponsor.
And now they get rid of one finalist: Martie. Mr Minx calls bullshit. He doesn't believe for one second that she received the least amount of votes, not by a longshot, but that the Network just wanted to get the field down to one finalist from each mentor, as was the original plan. He thinks that they'll give her a show on the Cooking Channel. I think he's probably right.
We then find out that an anonymous survey was sent to the Wannbes, asking questions like, "who was the most competitive?" (Nikki)
"who was the cockiest?" (Malcolm)
and "who was the oddest couple?" (Martie and Justin). How very high school.
There's a montage about the mentors, "like we've never seen them before." We did see Alton pick on Giada here and there during the season, but apparently he and Bobby did it incessantly off-camera as well. At one point, Alton quips that there should be a Giada See-and-Say toy that says things like "ree GOT a." Heh.
Another montage reveals the secrets of the Shrine of the Glowing Vagina. Well, no secrets, really, but that Tushface and Susie felt some real power when they were in there. The estrogen levels in the "Pitch Room" were out of control. They also had some disagreements about who to eliminate now and again.
Another segment allowed the Wannabes to ask Tushface and Susie questions. Judson takes the opportunity to ask if they would take back the "BS artist" comment and Susie says she wishes she had said it to him earlier. Nikki whined that they were hard on her, and Tushface wishes he had been harder on everyone.
[insert dick joke here]
Looking back at past seasons, Tushface and Susie had been much tougher on the contestants, and old eliminations were somewhat uncomfortable to watch. This year they were all nicey-nice, which of course is a big bore.
Then we got montages of the three finalists. First Justin, then Michele, then Yvan.
And about 100 commercials later...
Brooke Johnson, Queen Bee of the Food Network, trots out to announce the winner. She doesn't seem particularly thrilled, or maybe she's been hitting the Scotch and Valium bar set up to help the non-winners drown their sorrows after the show. She announces that the winner's show will debut in the Fall, and will be produced by his or her mentor.
A large portrait on the wall of shame (along with Rachael Ray and Guy Fieri), originally bearing a humongous question mark, is now behind a curtain. The curtain is removed to reveal the winner:
Justin Warner. No kidding. I'm shocked that the Food Network's audience has such good taste. But then I remember back to season three when Amy Finley won. She was a mild-mannered gal, chosen as the winner by the home audience, perhaps as backlash against the season 2 winner, Guy Fieri. I think the Network really wanted bigmouth Rory Schepisi to win it, and boy were they surprised that America wasn't into her. The following season, they discontinued the home vote so something like this couldn't happen again.
America has been into Justin since at least week 3, as he's had the most votes on the FN site since about then. It's no surprise that he won this thing, at least not to us.
Congratulations, Justin! Please don't let them turn you into a douche.
Labels: Alton Brown, Bobby Flay, Food Network, fumetti, fumetto, Giada DeLaurentiis, humor, parody, The Next Food Network Star
Pesto Mac
I had leftover roast chicken. I had pesto. I wanted to make something interesting, inspirational. Fabulous at the very least. Something worth blogging about. But my brain just wasn't cooperating. I almost made a risotto, only I didn't have any short-grain rice. I did have a box of cavatappi, that fun spiral pasta that's like a conga line of elbow macaroni, and realized there was plenty of cheese in the fridge, so my lazy brain went there.
Mac and cheese. But with pesto and chicken. Not exactly a life-changing dinner, but it was very good, and rather easy. I used Alton Brown's Stove Top Mac recipe as a guideline, switched up some quantities, and added sauteed onions for more flavor. You could skip the onions to make an even quicker version.
Macaroni with Pesto and Chicken (adapted from Alton Brown's Stove Top Mac-n-Cheese)
1 cup onion, chopped
1 pound cavatappi
2 5-oz cans evaporated milk
6 ounces milk
1/2 teaspoon hot sauce
Fresh black pepper
16 ounces shredded cheese (we like a combination of sharp cheddar, Swiss, and pepper Jack)
3/4 cup pesto (home-made or store-bought)
1 1/2 cups chopped cooked chicken
Handful of fresh basil leaves, roughly torn
Cook onion in olive oil over medium heat until very soft and starting to brown around the edges, about 8 minutes. Set aside.
Cook the pasta to al dente, according to package directions. Drain water, return pasta to pot, and add butter.
Whisk together the eggs, milks, hot sauce, salt, pepper, and mustard. Stir into the pasta and add the cheese, the onions, and the pesto. Cook over medium heat until cheese melts and pasta is well coated. Stir in chicken and fresh basil and taste for seasoning, adding additional salt and pepper if necessary.
Labels: chicken, macaroni and cheese, pesto
What's in Your Pantry?
I'm doing research for an upcoming project and thought I'd get input from my readers. If you'd be so kind as to leave your answers in the comments, I'd be ever so grateful.
What are the most indispensable ingredients in your home pantry? Things that you always like to keep on hand? And when I say "pantry" I am also including fridge and freezer.
Labels: pantry
Whatever Happened to Aaron McCargo, Jr?
In a couple of days, we're going to find out who won this year's Food Network Star competition (my money's on Justin Warner), which got me to thinking - what happened to Aaron McCargo, Jr., the dude who beat out the much more interesting Adam Gertler and Lisa Garza back in 2008? Anyone know?
Labels: Aaron McCargo, Food Network, fumetti, fumetto, humor, parody, The Next Food Network Star
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Thai-style Crab Cakes
Pho Towson & Bar


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Safari Park Charging Forward For Rhino Conservation
All the money raised during the week will go to the conservation of endangered rhinos.
The Rhino Conservation Evening includes a talk from Save the Rhino International.
Guests of the Rhino Conservation Evening will get to meet the Indian rhinos.
Guests donating to the ParkÕs JustGiving page, will be entered into a prize draw for a special VIP Rhino experience.
There will be chance to ÔMeet the KeeperÕ at daily talks during Rhino Week.
The Park has been very successful breeding southern white rhino, with three calves in three years.
The Park is also home to southern white rhino including white rhino calf, Granville.
The Park is home to two species of rhino, including Indian or greater one-horned rhino.
There will be opportunities to meet the ParkÕs Indian rhino, during Rhino Week.
West Midland Safari Park is hosting a special Rhino Week for May half term, to raise money for Save the Rhino International.
Evesham Editorial	16th May, 2019 Updated: 5th Aug, 2019
West Midland Safari Park will be hosting a special fundraising week during May half term, dedicated to the conservation of endangered rhinos.
Rhino Week will run from 25 May to 2 June and guests will be able to take part in a whole host of fun activities, whilst learning some interesting rhino facts and helping to raise funds for Save the Rhino International (SRI).
There will also be the chance to meet the Park's Indian (also known as greater one-horned) rhinos, during an exclusive Rhino Conservation Evening on 30 May. Michaela Butorova and Jack Bedford, SRI's Partnerships Manager and Fundraising Officer, will be giving a fascinating talk about the plight of rhinos and the important work the charity does to save these endangered animals.
Following the talk, guests will be taken to the Indian Rhino House to meet and feed the Park's three charismatic Indian rhinos, Rap, Seto and Sunanda.
Research and Conservation Officer, Katie McDonald, said, "Rhino conservation is more important than ever at the moment. Levels of poaching of rhino for their horns are at high levels and the amount of habitat available to rhinos is shrinking. Dedicated conservation organisations, such as Save the Rhino International, are working to prevent the worldwide population of rhinos from decreasing overall.
She continued, "Many different measures combined – employing anti-poaching rangers, running breeding sanctuaries, protecting habitat and educating people to stop them purchasing rhino horn – are making a positive difference. However, it really is make or break time. Two of the five species of rhino – Javan and Sumatran rhino, have wild populations with fewer than 80 individuals. Once numbers are down this low a single disease outbreak could result in extinction.
"769 rhinos were killed by poachers in South Africa alone last year. Everyone who cares about wildlife wants to stop the cruelty to animals and the threats to the species. This is why we are asking our guests to help to support two important rhino conservation projects, through fundraising for Save the Rhino International, during Rhino Week."
During the week-long event, guests will be able to visit a Rhino Information Station where they can see some rhino artefacts, find out what the Park's rhinos eat, learn about the eleven rhinos at the Park and enter a competition to win a cuddly toy rhino.
There will also be a photo competition where guests can compare their height with white rhinos Ailsa and Granville, then post it on the Park's Facebook page for a chance to win a Safari Park Family Annual Pass.
Additionally, people can even get involved with the fundraising from the comfort of their own sofa by visiting www.wmsp.co.uk/rhinofund. Everyone who donates £5 or more to the Park's JustGiving page, will be entered into a draw to win a 'Money can't buy VIP Rhino Experience'.
Rhino Week activities are included as part of the standard admission charge of £24.00 for adults, £19.00 for children aged 3-15 and £22.00 for concessions. Children under the age of three are free of charge. Admission includes a Free Return Ticket. Adventure Theme Park rides are charged extra.
Tickets for the Rhino Conservation Evening are £40 for the talk and to meet the Indian Rhinos, or attend just the talk for £5. Visit http://www.wmsp.co.uk/wmsp-events/rhino-week and follow the link for the 'Save the Rhino Evening'. Profits from ticket sales, donations, competitions and all the funds raised during Rhino Week will go directly to Save the Rhino International.
Further information and tickets are available from the Park's website or by telephone 01299 402114. Find out more on the Safari Park's official Facebook page.
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The University Hospital Galway (UHG) campus measures approximately 16.75 ha and is located in the northwest suburbs of Galway City.
The development comprises, inter alia, the demolition of the existing Psychiatric Unit and existing link corridor to the Paediatric Unit and the construction of a 3 No. storey Radiation Oncology centre and an enclosed single storey pedestrian ground floor level link connecting both the existing ward block to the east and the existing Paediatric Unit to the west to the proposed Radiation Oncology centre, and associated elevational alterations.
The development also included the reconfiguration of an existing public car park to the north of the proposed building; provision of a new patient car park west of the proposed building to provide 38 No. new car parking spaces (including 3 No. accessible spaces), access / egress barriers and associated set-down area.
Phase 1 of the National Plan comprised the construction of radiotherapy centres in Dublin at St James's Hospital and Beaumont Hospital. Phase 2 will comprise centres in UHG and Cork University Hospital (CUH) (TPA has also acted as Agents for the CUH for the Planning Application).
Tom Phillips + Associates (TPA) provided town planning services to the client, working closely with the scheme Architects, MCA Architects.
Galway City Council previously granted outline planning permission for a Radiation Oncology Centre on the subject site in 2010. That Permission expired. However, the subject Application sought "full" planning permission for the Radiation Oncology Centre.
TPA provided strategic planning advice to the Applicant and Design Team and served as the Agent for the Planning Application.
Planning permission was granted on 12th August 2015.


Siguro bored na bored na kayo dito sa blog. Kaya eto may cheezmax ako sa inyo. Tungkol ito sa isang manager of operations sa isang kalapitang call center. Let's just call her "Miss MO". Itong si Miss MO ay minsang naghu-huddle sa kanyang mga team members at nagbitaw pa ng salita na, "look at our "neighbor", magsasara na ang account. It's good that we are here! We are in a stable company!"
After a few months, nagresign na si Miss MO at lilipat na sa "neighbor" call center. Ironically, si "neighbor" call center ay lumalaki... in fact hindi naman nagsara ang account nito. Kaya good luck Miss MO! At least nakuha mo na ang AVP position sa nila-it la-it mo na call center. I'm sure magkikita kita din tayo dahil taga dito ako!
That's how this industry is. You whistle to work knowing your client is happy with the service you are giving and seeks to renew for another year only to find out that said client said they need to close shop.
That's what you get when you work in an industry whose performance is tied to the economies of its clientele.
Now wonder many are willing to leave the industry after a few years even if it means opting for a path to underemployment.
BTW, how did you guys spend your BPO-exempted holiday last Monday?
@lj -haha... Alam mu ba... Mr. Mo didnt make it. he had his interview the other day.


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Return of the Yokai
Original image of Amabie. Photo courtesy of Main Library, Kyoto UniversityClick to enlarge image
One of the cool parts about moving to a new city or a new state or a new country is that you notice all the fascinating things about a place that is just normal for people who have been there for a long time. When Chris Carlier moved from England to Japan in 2002, there was one thing that he couldn't help but notice: the mascots. (Update: the 99pi store now has masks featuring Amabié, the legendary yokai!)
Mascots from the local Japanese cities and towns surrounding Yokota Air Base, Japan (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Christopher Marasky)
In the US, mascots are used to pump up crowds at sporting events, or for traumatizing generations of children at Chuck E. Cheese, but in Japan it's different. There are mascots for towns, aquariums, dentists' offices, even prisons. There are mascots in cities that tell people not to litter or remind them to be quiet on the train. Everything has a mascot and anything can be a mascot. As Chris Carlier adjusted to his new life in Tokyo, he started snapping photos of all these mascots he was coming across, and Carlier's hobby has since morphed into a wildly popular twitter account called Mondo Mascots.
Usually, these costumed mascots are out interacting with the world, waving to tourists or opening supermarkets — but like the rest of us, they've recently had to spend a lot of time indoors. One mascot was making quarantine workout videos for people stuck at home; another posted photo after photo of himself just staring blankly into space. Around mid-March, there was something kind of odd and very meta happening on the Mondo Mascots twitter feed. Some of the more well-known mascots were adding all these new flourishes on top of the regular mascot costumes. They were all wearing long, flowing blue wigs, colorful fish scales, and a beak. It was like all these different mascots were channeling the same mythical character. It was a mythical character called Amabié: a 174-year-old creature that has recently become the unexpected hero of the COVID era in Japan.
Amabie is a mythical Japanese mermaid-like creature, with long hair, three legs, and a beak, who is said to cure people of viruses when they see pictures of her. So lots of mascots (like Kapal and Kumamon, below) have been dressing as Amabie. pic.twitter.com/evlcx6ewNE
— Mondo Mascots (@mondomascots) March 20, 2020
A Talisman Against Plague
Throughout the 19th century, cholera epidemics were sweeping the world, and Japan was hit especially hard. Wave after wave of outbreaks devastated the country over the course of several decades. At the time, very little was known about the disease and how to fight it.
Disposal of the dead, under police supervision during a cholera epidemic in Japan. Reproduction of drawing by Meisenbach after C. Fripp. Iconographic Collections
According to a news story of the era, Amabié was spotted off the coast of Southwestern Japan in 1846. For several nights in a row, villagers could see a mysterious light radiating off the coast towards the sea. One night, an officer was sent to investigate the source. He followed the light toward the water until he was greeted by a strange looking creature who appeared out of the sea. It had the beak of a bird, long locks of human-like hair, a body covered in scales, and three legs with webbed feet. The creature said its name was Amabié. It predicted a bountiful harvest for the next six years and told the officer that if plague should ever ravage these lands again, show an image of it to the people and it would protect them from harm. The story of Amabié was written in a newspaper of the time and nearly forgotten.
Original image of Amabié. Photo courtesy of Main Library, Kyoto University
In February of 2020, Amabié's story emerged again when a Japanese artist tweeted his own rendition of Amabié calling it a "new coronavirus countermeasure." Since then, Amabié has gone viral, with thousands of people posting their own artwork of Amabié, hoping it will protect the world from the virus.
Drew ana #amabie as an #AnimalCrossing villager. #AMABIEchallenge pic.twitter.com/cIwckxOyE0
— tobyalonzo (@foreveralonzo93) March 26, 2020
Superstitions With Personalities
Amabié is a creature from Japanese legend — what's called a yokai. "Yokai are monsters from Japanese folklore," explains Matt Alt, "and they've been part of the oral storytelling tradition here in Japan since before Japan has been Japan … they're basically like superstitions with personalities." Alt is a writer based in Tokyo and co-author of the book Yokai Attack! The Japanese Monster Survival Guide. Such figures "are characterizations of natural phenomena or unexplained phenomena," elaborates the book's co-author, Hiroko Yoda.
Ukiyo-e print of a Yokai, by Atosimatu.
Yokai is a pretty broad term that includes everything from shape-shifting demons to cuddly animal-like creatures as well as spirited inanimate objects and ghosts. But mostly, yokai are supernatural manifestations of the unknown. If you don't have a way to explain an unexplainable phenomenon, you can blame it on a yokai. Occasionally they take the form of benevolent "guardian angels", but while some yokai are completely innocuous, more often than not they're malevolent beings associated with a specific place— like regional ghosts or the troll that lives under a particular bridge.
Everything is Alive
The first yokai stories were told in the 8th century, but you can see the traces of yokai that stem thousands of years back to Japan's native religion of Shintoism. Shinto is so tightly woven into the fabric of Japanese society that it's difficult to separate where the religion ends and Japanese culture begins. "Modern-day Japanese people [don't] realize Shinto is our culture's basis," explains Izumi Hasegawa, head priest at Shinto Shrine of Shusse Inari in America. For Hasegawa, it is in fact "not a religion" but rather "more like a way of living — culture, tradition, custom," a belief system that venerates millions of deities called kami that live all around us and impact daily life. Kami reside within everything … the trees and the wind, even your iPhone. "You have this belief system in which nearly anything can be a receptacle for a deity or a soul. And many of those kami are actually personifications," says Matt Alt, "That world view … that belief system of polytheism and animism is the soil from which yokai emerged."
Amaterasu, one of the central kami in the Shinto faith
An Encyclopedia of Yokai
In the beginning, tales of "spirit monsters" varied drastically from region to region and were passed on as verbal stories with no real visual form attached. A kappa water goblin from the south might be described totally differently from a kappa from the north. That all changed during the Edo Period which took place between 1603-1868. This period was a time of political stability and economic growth for Japan, during which the publishing industry started really taking off, and books became the primary sources of entertainment.
Kappa yokai from the Hyakkai-Zukan (circa 1737)
One of the most popular types of books was the encyclopedia, and in 1776 an artist named Toriyama Sekien illustrated and published his own version of an encyclopedia filled with different yokai called The Illustrated Night Parade of a Hundred Demons. This was an important moment for yokai as a folkloric tradition because up until this point, these stories had been mostly told orally and varied widely from region to region. When Sekien created his encyclopedia of yokai, it codified what these monsters looked like in Japan's national imagination and yokai became a part of pop culture. "He was the first person to really start putting images to these fairy tales and superstitions and folklore creatures that had only been talked about up until that point," says Alt, "And when that book became a surprise bestseller, it essentially cemented the image of a lot of yokai in place."
Yamawaro (山童) depicted by Toriyama Sekien
A tengu yokai depicted by Toriyama Sekien
In part because of Sekien's encyclopedia, stories about yokai flourished during the Edo Period, both as entertainment and as a way of explaining the many unknowns of the world. In lieu of scientific information, yokai could be seen as the cause of unexplainable phenomenon. As Hiroko Yoda explains, "Today, we have science to explain [things like a] plague," but at the time, there wasn't much medical information, so yokai played an explanatory role instead.
The Ghostbuster
Mythical creatures like Amabié played an important societal role within Japan in the 1800s. But by the turn of the 20th century, Japan's relationship with its Yokai began to shift because of a man named Inoue Enryo. Inoue was an academic and philosopher who didn't find comfort in yokai at all and actually made it his mission to displace them from the Japanese psyche for good.
Inoue Enryo 1858-1919
Inoue was born towards the end of the Edo Period right as Japan was going through a transition called the Meiji Restoration. For hundreds of years, Japan had isolated itself from the rest of the world, but as the country began opening up, leaders wanted to compete with Western countries in terms of science, technology, and military power. Inoue saw yokai and other superstition as a crutch holding back the nation. If Japan was going to become a world power, it needed to actively embrace modernity. He felt that so as long as people clung to superstition to explain away the unknown, Japan would never reach its full potential. He ended up traveling around the country debunking yokai stories and urban legends.
Ukiyoe depicting ballroom dancing at the Rokumeikan, Tokyo, Japan, 1888.
Inoue became a sort of ghostbuster. He created his own area of research called "Yokaigaku" or "Yokai Studies" and used scientific experimentation to explain away the phenomena that yokai were previously attributed to. But it didn't just stop at yokai — a lot of local customs and traditions were quashed during this time. "I think that movement went too far," says Hiroko Yoda. "Our local beliefs [were] totally killed by modernization." And even though Inoue earned the reputation as a debunker, it's actually thanks to him that we know as much as we do about yokai. Inoue was an incredibly thorough researcher and kept meticulous notes. His work has been really helpful for people who study folklore.
Garden of Philosophy, Tetsugakudo Park established by Inoue Enryo. Photo by Carbonium (CC BY 3.0)
Inoue didn't necessarily reject all mystery — in fact, he was fascinated by the great mysteries of life, what he called "true mysteries." True mysteries were the absolute unknowable things that humans can never be explained no matter how much we learn, like the secrets at the core of human existence. But he was a Buddhist and a scholar, and just didn't think stories about monsters fell into that category. "He didn't deny all possibilities of mystery," says Michael Dylan Foster, professor of Japanese at UC Davis, but did believe "most of the mysteries that we see — most of the Yokai — can be explained away. But there are those that can't be explained away and those are what we have to find."
Out of the Shadows Again
For years yokai existed in this nebulous space. Their stories weren't entirely forgotten, but they were suppressed in the name of rationality and progress. It wasn't until after WWII that yokai crept out of the shadows and back into the public imagination again. In postwar Japan, when the country was recovering from the war, manga and cheap comic books became an increasingly popular form of entertainment. Mizuki Shigeru was an artist and animator who was also a folklorist with a strong affinity for yokai. In 1960 Mizuki created a manga series called Kitarō of the Graveyard which was eventually turned into a hugely popular animated series called GeGeGe no Kitarō.
The plot centers around a young ghost boy named Kitarō who keeps the peace between the world of yokai and the world of mortals and his companions are all different yokai. Mizuki used this series as a platform to propel yokai back into the Japanese mainstream. "When I was a kid, I saw the animation and I grew up with it. It was huge and popular," remembers Hiroko Yoda. "Many of the yokai are based on the old yokai—he brought them back."
Mascots for a Bygone Era
Since Mizuki's reintroduction, yokai have been a constant presence in Japanese pop culture. There has been reboot after reboot of Kitaro over the decades, as well as incredibly popular franchises like Yokai Watch which is introducing newer generations to yokai. And these monsters are all over the cultural exports that people in the West love. You can see the dark whimsical undercurrents of yokai in the work of Haruki Murakami, or the animation of Hayao Miyazaki, even Pokemon!
Japan can sometimes seem to have a reputation as a place filled with many odd and original characters, but Matt Alt believes that once you take the time to trace its history, it doesn't seem odd at all. "A lot of times foreigners come here and they see this and they're just blown away by the sheer amount of super cute characters running around on the streets of Japan … and then they mistake it for it being kind of infantile or childish. But in reality, the roots of that character and mascot culture can be found in the yokai who are sort of mascots for a bygone era."
Mizuki Shigeru, the man who revived yokai in the 20th century, was concerned about whether there was enough room for yokai in modern society. They're products of an older era — one that relied on faith and superstition rather than science and technology, and so one would think that the more we learn, the less space there is for yokai. But Michael Dylan Foster doesn't think that's the case. Foster says that yokai have been a part of popular imagination, and will remain a part of popular imagination in one form or another. "The need for explaining mystery never disappears once we scientifically explain it," he asserts. Instead, "it just moves on to something further along … something deeper. And there's still that that mystery needing to be explained. So in other words, yokai themselves will never go away."
So if you're feeling anxious about the pandemic these days… go ahead and draw a picture of an Amabié, and put in your window for everyone to see. It's not going to stop the virus, but why not have a yokai around the house? You might just feel a little bit better.
Minha #amabie vai ser fofa.
Espero que eu consiga terminar até amanhã ♥ #amabiechallenge pic.twitter.com/2ZYHbuEFqp
— 👹 Koiistar — Karininha🌻 (@koiistar) June 13, 2020
This episode is supported by the Bagri Foundation. Based in London, UK, and led by three generations of the Bagri family, the team and trustees share a spirit of curiosity. Through a diverse arts program, the Foundation celebrates extraordinary talent from across Asia and the diaspora, and encourages artistic dialogue between cultures and disciplines. Their mission is to support unique, unexpected ideas that weave traditional Asian culture with contemporary thinking.
Learn more at bagrifoundation.org.
Producer Vivian Le spoke with Matt Alt and Hiroko Yoda, authors of Yokai Attack! The Japanese Monster Survival Guide; Izumi Hasegawa, Head Priest at Shinto Shrine of Shusse Inari in America; Michael Dylan Foster, Professor of Japanese at UC Davis; Chris Carlier, creator of Mondo Mascots. Also, Amabié face masks are now available at the 99pi store, with proceeds going to charity!
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Great episode! I'm one of the creators of a PC game (The Wind and Wilting Blossom) set in the Heian period of Japan that includes a lot of folklore and yokai, so this episode/article scratched a great itch.
yokai.com is a great resource if you want to learn more about specific creatures.
I'm strangely fascinated by the whole "Hello Kitty is not a cat" thing. I wonder if there is an analogy to American iconography. I'll pose it as a question about Disney characters: "Is Goofy a dog?" Goofy talks, walks on two feet (never four), and wears clothes. He has doglike features, but he is not like Pluto, the character who walks on four feet, does not wear clothes, and does not use language. Is the Goofy vs. Pluto distinction useful in understanding what people steeped in Japanese culture mean when they say that Hello Kitty is not a cat?
Coorhagon
I also immediately thought about the Goofy/Pluto example. But there are tons of anthropomorphic animals in film, cartoons and videogames. It just seems like in the USA we just think of Goofy and Pluto as dogs (even though they are clearly different) where in Japan they actually have a word that makes a distinction between them. Also it seems with many American anthropomorphic characters there is a backstory on why they can talk or walk on two legs. Like they where covered in toxic ooze (TMNT) or they are under a spell or a curse (the candle and tea pot from Beauty and the Beast), where in Japanese media they just exist.
Joel Rosen
This explains so much.
There's a book by Donald Norman, one of the gods of user experience design that bumps up against this topic
https://www.nngroup.com/books/turn-signals-are-the-facial-expressions-of-auto/
Brock T.I. Penner
I've lived in Japan for the last fourteen years. About the whole thing with Kitty-chan being a girl and not a cat, I feel there was one influence that was being overlooked. The Japanese love, love, LOVE making things more complicated than they need to be. Hello Kitty isn't that complicated, but the people at Sanrio live and breath this emotionless totem day in, day out. The only way to not be driven mad by the Kafkaesque complexity is to give it the thought it's due—none at all.
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Should we all get Amabie masks? Apparently they're available… https://www.etsy.com/market/amabie
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Q: Dart: Code design for interface to construct objects from HTTP requests I'm trying to implement an abstract base class for objects that will be parsed from HTTP calls. The goals is to create a CachedFuture<T> class that, when accessed, makes an HTTP call to get the object and caches the result.
My inclination was to implement the classes as follows:
class HTTPGetable<T extends HTTPGetable<T>> {
  static Future<T> httpGet(int id);
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class CachedFuture<T extends HTTPGetable<T>> {
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The intuition here is that there are a lot of objects with "pointers" to other objects in the database on the backend. It doesn't make sense to follow every pointer when constructing objects to return in the HttpRequest, so my intent is to wrap "pointers" in this CachedFuture class.
This should enable someone to "follow" one of these "pointers" without ever having to worry about caching the http request or about the specifics of constructing that request. Hopefully this provides another level of abstraction for the user of the class so they can right code that's agnostic to what's going on under the hood.
However, static interfaces aren't in Dart, so this pattern doesn't work. My intuition is that this is a sign I should be using a different pattern instead of trying to force my way.
httpGet is basically a factory method, but the functionality of CachedFuture needs a way to look up the factory from the type, so I don't immediately see a good way to implement a true factory either.
Could anyone recommend a good programming pattern for solving this? I imagine it's a pretty common usecase for both http requests and database requests.
Update: The best workaround I've found is to do different "factories" to httpGet each T, then use reflection to look up the appropriate factory. However, as the description sounds, this seems pretty convoluted & error prone, so I'm still convinced that there's almost certainly a better pattern to use.

A: Can't you just create the abstract class CachedFuture along the lines of what you wrote, with an abstract method httpGet(int id) to be implemented by the subclass?
If there is only ever one instance of an object of type <T extends CachedFuture> then you could consider making the subclass a Singleton.
Apologies if I misunderstood your question!

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What is Share Capital?
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Type of share capital
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A company's authorised share capital is a capital which is accepted from the investors of the corporation by issuing shares that are listed in the firm's official documents in known as authorised share capital. It is also known as Nominal Capital or Registered Capital.
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Bois Neuf es una sección de comuna que forma parte de la comuna haitiana de Terre-Neuve.

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Los datos demográficos contemplados en este gráfico de la sección de comuna de Bois Neuf son estimaciones que se han cogido para los años 2009,2012 y 2015 de la página del Instituto Haitiano de Estadística e Informática (IHSI).

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The Professorship for Science and Technology Policy (Prof. Ruth Müller) hosted an evening of discussion on the topic of internalization and scientific careers on November 20th.
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Nonprofit school for children with hearing loss expands in Roseville
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Northern Voices teacher Elizabeth Rogers works with two soon-to-be graduates of the school's preschool program, Ava (Left) and Sammy, both 5. (Joshua Nielsen/Review)
Northern Voices co-founder Penny Johnson (left) and Discovery Room teacher Angie Schnellman celebrate the school's 15th year with some of its students. (submitted photo)
New, integrative preschool program to benefit hard of hearing and hearing children alike
Northern Voices in Roseville, a nonprofit school and daycare center focusing on listening and spoken language, provides a unique learning experience for young children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
And in the school's preschool, some children's speech seems more advanced than the typical 5-year-old's.
"What color are you coloring the roof of the house?" a curious little girl asks the boy across from her. "I'm coloring the roof blue," he says.
Ava and Sammy, both five, were busy coloring at a table under the watchful eye of their teacher Elizabeth Rogers. The two soon-to-be graduates of the preschool program are both deaf, but you would never know that talking to them. Each spoke in complete sentences, and pronounced nearly every word flawlessly.
In another room, a small group of three- and four-year-old students listen carefully as their teacher Angie Schnellman reads them a book, reacting in unison as she instructs them to touch their toes or wave their hands along with the story. The kids follow along as giggles of excitement fill the room.
Northern Voices in its 15th year
Since 1999, Northern Voices has been helping children who are deaf or have hearing loss, ages 18 months to 5 years old, learn to effectively listen and communicate through spoken language. The school averages about 35 students per year, some of which attend full-time, and others a couple of days a week.
Students at the school, located in St. Michael's Lutheran Church, use either cochlear implants or hearing aids. Over time, through specialized teaching methods, students are able to develop the same language skills as their hearing peers. About 10 children typically graduate from the preschool program every year, and enroll in traditional kindergarten classes.
Northern Voices Director Erin Loavenbruck says the closest schools with similar programs are in Chicago and St. Louis, so Northern Voices has helped young children develop their language and listening skills from as far away as Wisconsin and North Dakota. Out of state families might stay in the area for extended periods of time in order for their child to attend programming.
Schnellman says some parents who first bring their children to Northern Voices are unsure what their child's future will look like.
"You see a lot of parents worried, especially with first time parents, who are just trying to learn to be parents, let alone parents with a child with special needs."
She says those anxieties subside soon after parents tour the facility and see how happy and interactive all the children in the school are.
Schnellman has taught at the school since it opened nearly 15 years ago and has seen kids come in as a toddlers and return for alumni events as happy, confident teenagers and young adults.
"It's been great to be able to see our kids accomplish all of the things they have dreamed about, and their parents have dreamed for them since they were born," she says.
Benefits for non-hearing and hearing children alike
This year the school has expanded to offer an integrative school program for both hearing and hard of hearing youngsters, ages 3 to 5.
"Adding this program for hearing children opens up a really high quality preschool program to other children in our area," Loavenbruck says.
Highly trained teachers with bachelor's and/or master's degrees staff Northern Voices, including speech-language pathologists, teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing and specialists in early childhood education.
The school has small class sizes with low teacher to student ratios, so kids are able to get specialized one-on-one attention from teachers to help with their language and literacy skills -- the school's area of expertise and focus.
Loavenbruck says Northern Voices teachers help children to constantly improve their spoken language and listening skills through early intervention and personalized instruction. Students learn these skills in a fun and supportive environment, she says.
"We have an amazing group of highly trained and dedicated teachers, who are creative, practice flexibility and patience and bring out the potential that they see in all of our kids," she says.
In addition to attending a high quality preschool with specialized instruction and small class sizes, children with hearing loss and hearing children will also benefit from learning alongside one another.
"The kids' interaction helps with their social development," Loavenbruck explains. "Parents love it; they want their kids to be mainstream learners. It brings a lot of benefits to kids with hearing loss and for hearing kids, because they have the chance to be around each other."
Loavenbruck says there are currently three hearing children whose parents have signed them up for the integrated preschool program, leaving room for seven more kids this year.
In addition to the integrated preschool program, Northern Voices offers infant and toddler programs for babies and toddlers from 3 months to 18 months old with hearing loss.
The hours for the preschool program are from 6:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The school has open enrollment throughout the year. For more information or to tour the facility, contact director Erin Loavenbruck at 651-639-2535.
Joshua Nielsen can be reached at jnielsen@lillienews.com or 651-748-7824.


After a routine follow up CT scan two years after my initial diagnosis of Hodgkin's Lymphoma, I had what the doctors were almost certain was a recurrence. After they did a biopsy on the lymph nodes near my pancreas, it turned out to be Malignant Insulinoma. After dealing with borderline, to high calcium all through treatment for the Hodgkin's, things started to make sense to my Oncologist, who believed, at that point that I had MEN1. He then sent me to see a local endocrinologist who immediately referred me to Dr. Odorisio at the University of Iowa.
My Wife and I flew down to Iowa in November of 2007, where I was told I would need a Whipple. I returned to Iowa right after Christmas, and had my Whipple done on January 5th. I am now a diabetic following the surgery, and still have some episodic hypoglycemia, but not to the extent that I did prior to surgery. I also have stable disease, and have been stable ever since the surgery.
Because I have family and friends in Southern California, and I knew that Dr. Yeh at UCLA was very well regarded in the MEN1 community, I decided that it made financial and practical sense to continue my treatment there, with Dr. Odorisio's approval. In 2009, Dr. Yeh performed the first parathyroidectomy, with forearm graft on me. I then, had to have a second surgery, as the last parathyroid was a bit elusive the first go around, in December of 2013. My calcium levels were in the normal ranges for the first time in who knows how long up until recently. So it looks like I'm looking at my third surgery here in the fairly near future, but at least it's just the graft this time!
After the second surgery, I wanted to see what damage the high calcium was to my bones, and I wish I would have sooner, as I have severe osteoporosis at the ripe old age of 39.
As it turns out, I was the first person in our family to be properly diagnosed, but my father, uncle, and my grandfather all passed away seemingly from complications arising from MEN1. Both my brother, and one cousin also have MEN1 issues. So far, I'm the only one who had Insulinoma.
In 2009, I was also diagnosed with Melanoma, however that was able to be excised and I am considered cured of that as well. My dermatologist did say that he has heard of correlations between MEN1 and Melanoma, and seeing how my dad had it as well, I wouldn't be surprised if that were true.
I continue to be followed closely by my local Oncologist, my Primary care physician, as well as my yearly to semi-yearly trips to UCLA.
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At SERVPRO of North Laredo, our families and our community are what matter the most. Therefore, SERVPRO of North Laredo helped sponsor and participated at The Laredo Rotary Club 1st Annual Bowling Tournament, in which the proceeds were donated to local scholarships. In this picture, you can see our SERVPRO awesome crew team, composed of Joe, Ruby and Luis!
SERVPRO of North Laredo actively participates in all of The Laredo Rotary Club activities. Here, we helped sponsor and participated at The Laredo Rotary Club 1st Annual Bowling Tournament, in which the proceeds were donated to local scholarships. In this picture, you can see Anna and Sandra with The Laredo Rotary Club president Rogelio Trevino.
At SERVPRO of North Laredo, our families and our community are what matter the most. A community in which their members have received a higher education is a community that will thrive. Therefore, SERVPRO of North Laredo helped sponsor and participated at The Laredo Rotary Club 1st Annual Bowling Tournament, in which the proceeds were donated to local scholarships.
At SERVPRO of North Laredo, our families and our community are what matter the most. A community in which their members have received a higher education is a community that will thrive. Therefore, SERVPRO of North Laredo helped sponsor and participated at The Laredo Rotary Club 1st Annual Bowling Tournament, in which the proceeds were donated to local scholarships. In this picture, you can see our SERVPRO family with their own families.
SERVPRO of North Laredo added a box truck to our team. Is not only the expertise of our SERVPRO team that determines our excellent service. The quality of our equipment is equally important.
SERVPRO of North Laredo was invited to participate in the Real Deal radio show to talk about property mitigation and remediation. Thanks to realtor and radio talk show host Victor Serna, we shared knowledge about real state and proper ways to keep up one's property.
SERVPRO of North Laredo is committed to provide the best possible service to every customer. That is why we ensure our team has the knowledge and resources required to meet our goal.


CARY, N.C. — The U.S. Women's National Team followed up a dominant 6-0 victory over Mexico in the opening match of the 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship with an even more impressive match against Panama, coming one step closer to punching a ticket to the 2019 FIFA World Cup in France.
The 5-0 win came behind a strong night from Carli Lloyd, who led the U.S. with a hat trick. Coach Jill Ellis made significant changes to the starting lineup as she started only two of the same 11 players that faced Mexico on Thursday with Abby Dahlkemper and Julie Ertz keeping their positions as repeat starters. Since the U.S. will play five games in less than two weeks, Ellis is keeping the bigger picture in mind and wanted to give other players a chance to play.
Similar to the Americans' first game of the tournament, they wasted little time getting on the board with a big play from Sam Mewis, who used her height to her advantage as she found the back of the net by heading the ball off the corner.
From there, in a span of just 10 minutes, the USWNT put up three more points (two from Lloyd and one from Christen Press), all of which were unanswered by Panama in the first half as the U.S. took the lead 4-0 going into the break.
Out of the half, Lloyd continued to shine as she added another goal for the U.S. (her 105th goal for the USWNT) in a much slower second half. Mallory Pugh added her first of the tournament in the 73rd minute to close out the victory and give the U.S. its 11th goal of the tournament. The defense did its job — allowing only four shot attempts, compared to the Americans' 35.
With Sunday's victory, the U.S. hasn't conceded a single goal in any of their last eight World Cup qualifying games dating back to 2011, winning all eight games while scoring fewer than three goals just once.
The U.S., top ranked in the world, has one more game in Cary against Trinidad and Tobago on Wednesday before heading to Texas for the semifinals as the team edges closer to securing its spot for the 2019 FIFA World Cup championship.


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2014 "Andrew Ginzel's List," Two Coats of Paint. January 14, 2014. Web.
2014 Smith, Jessica. "New Exhibit at Hotel Indigo and GMOA." Flagpole. January 8, 2014. Web.
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2008 "People are talking about travel." Vogue. February 2008.
2008 "Best resorts under the sun." CNN Money. March 2008.
2008 "World's top new 136 hotels."Conde Nast Traveler. May 2008.
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2003 "Bennett House, House of the Month." Architectural Record. May 2003.
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Posted By: Editoron: March 30, 2018 9:31 am In: Business and Community, The Broader Picture, UncategorizedNo Comments
PelotonPosts is a monthly interview with a member of PelotonLabs, a co-working space in Portland's West End with a mission to connect and encourage people stepping out of traditional modes of employment. This month, Peloton's founder Liz Trice caught up with artist and entrepreneur Tom Ryan, who is helping to start a peer-to-peer marketplace for guided outdoor adventures called Back40.
Tom Ryan & Back40
Who else is on your team?
Henry Gilbert, who is the founder and a friend of mine. He comes from a background in education and community agriculture. We've been working on it for the better part of four or five months and are hoping to launch it by spring of this year. We're currently spreading the word to potential guides and adventurers.
Your background is as an artist, is this a technically difficult platform to make?
We've been able to customize some existing software platforms. There have been some difficult elements, and there are some elements for which we've looked to outside help. It's the most complicated web project I've worked on.
Have you gotten any support from the entrepreneurial community? Where are you meeting people?
We've gotten a lot of advice from tourism and guide associations, and also people in the tech world. We've met a lot of people through Peloton, and Henry worked at a charter school in the mid-coast and has met people through educational associations. We're working with $25,000 in early funding to really help us improve our product and get the word out.
If someone is a guide and wants to offer an adventure on your site, what should they do? Do they have to be a registered Maine guide?
They can dream up any kind of adventure they want to offer, and we'll handle booking and payment for that adventure. They need to have whatever licensing is required to carry out their offering. In some cases, they may need to be a Maine Guide, but we hope to work with all kinds of people. Right now, they should contact us or sign up for our mailing list at back40adventures.com.
How big do you hope this will get?
We're starting with Maine, but hope to keep expanding our reach. The number one goal currently is to onboard a lot of hosts, and ensure that our hosts and trips are high quality.
AirBnB has started to offer trips, but not in Maine yet – is that scary?
No, we're empowered by that. AirBnb and a lot of other companies are focused on big cities and urban experiences, so we see it as an opportunity to focus on rural and outdoor adventures, and to support the economy in smaller communities.
There's a small cluster of adventure travel professionals at Peloton – has that been helpful?
Yeah. We talked with Sam Frankel, who heads the Maine Association of Sea Kayak Guides and has been very helpful, and have talked with Ryan Linn who makes a hiking guide app. We're looking forward to talking to more folks.
You came to Peloton as a freelancer originally, how has your experience changed?
Yes, I came here as a freelancer, and this job came originally as a freelance gig. I'm still doing some gigs on the side. Peloton has given me a space to foster the relationships I've made through networking – whether it's a room to meet in, or a community of entrepreneurs to work with. When customers work with me, they tap into a whole network of people through Peloton. A space like this provides a place to foster the connections I've already made and turn them into long-term relationships.
What do you need now? How should people contact you?
We're always looking for more connections to the outdoor industry. People can email Henry at henry@back40adventures.com.
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Music video and commercial production in Toronto, ON.
Wood & Wires is a boutique production company and creative collective located in Toronto. We specialize in creating short-form content from commercials and branded content, to music videos, live sessions, documentaries, EPKs and more.
Founded by director & cinematographer Adrian Vieni in 2011, Wood & Wires is dedicated to creating unique and compelling content across all platforms, both in Toronto and worldwide.


- Saturday Night Live (39x21/s39e21), Andy Samberg/St. Vincent [Descargas directas: 1, 2, 3 ó 4] [Torrents] [Subtítulos] [NBC].
- Orphan Black (2x05/s02e05), Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est [+] [+] [+] [+] [+] [BBC america/SPACE].
- Da Vinci's Demons (2x09/s02e09) [+] [+] [Starz].
- Comedy Bang! Bang! (3x02/s03e02) [+] [IFC].
- Spooksville (1x22/s01e22) [+] [HUB].
- Casualty (28x37/s28e37) [+] [+] [+] [BBC One].
- Britain's Got Talent (8x06/s08e06) [+] [itv].
- Britain's Got More Talent (8x06/s08e06) [+] [itv].
- The Gods of Wheat Street (1x06/s01x06) [+] [+] [+] [ABC1].


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import Ember from 'ember'
import computed, {alias, readOnly} from 'ember-computed-decorators'
import layout from 'ember-frost-bunsen/templates/components/frost-bunsen-input-password'

const {get, merge} = Ember

export default AbstractInput.extend({
  // == Component Properties ===================================================

  classNames: [
    'frost-bunsen-input-password',
    'frost-field'
  ],

  layout,

  // == State Properties =======================================================

  getDefaultProps () {
    return {
      required: false,
      revealed: false,
      showErrorMessage: false
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  // == Computed Properties ====================================================

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    return merge({revealable: true}, options)
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Just purchased and installed LE.
Every .gig file seems to play one octave up.
In other words, the Sacred_Scenes_For_Scoring demo sounds like chipmunks singing and the Rickenbacker I can\'t get to the lowest registers.
PII, 233, 64 (soon to be 128) mg ram, Layla and SBLive.
seems to be a problem with your samplerate settings. Are you clocking external with 88.2/96 kHz?
So everything is cool with Giga LE.
However now I\'ve lost Layla completely in Cakewalk. The Layla ports show up but no actual playback of existing audio data and am unable to get any signal into Cakewalk.
Try freeing up outputs 1&2 so they are accessible in Cakewalk. In the Config\\output tab in GigaSampler, choose a different pair of outputs for the GigaSampler channels and uncheck the enable checkbox for 1&2. Thay may help the Cakewalk situation. For some reason, Cakewalk wants to have 1&2 in order to work with the Echo cards.
I tried all combinations of in and out ports.
If I have to upgrade to the full GigaSampler I would, because I need this all to work together and at this point it is not.
am very happy you are willing to post here and try to help me out. If you would like I can move our correspondence over to NemeSys tech support, whichever will work the best to get this resolved. I\'m losing a lot of valuable time here.
If you get the 1.61 GigaSampler, that will fix the direct sound check box problem. You will then be able to use the GigaSampler and also have the checkbox enabled and use Cakewalk better. 1.61 is the same as 1.6 but it addresses this problem and one other.
After that, feel free to contact us at tech support. Sergio will take care of you.


Dr. Lee L'Clerc is a Lecturer at the University of Guelph and at the University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.
This work examines how, in the interaction between text and image, the pictorial becomes contextualized to serve the purpose of the text. It shows how the pictorial serves as source of knowledge that generates new meanings and broadens the reading perspective of the novels. The goal is to eschew an approach that would analyze works of art according to the intentions of the artist or would produce a "proper" contextualization of works of art. the text includes ten black and white photos.


In a globalized world , travellers want to explore new places living their experience as a local. Research in this field has produced several apps that allow a deeper discovery of the destination and the Italian daily Corriere della Sera has identified 10 innovative apps that can help Italian tourists abroad and foreigners in Italy feel almost "locals".
Musement Consierge App works as a real digital concierge, you can bring wherever you need to. This original tool provides users with tips on what to do in a specific venue, according to their preferences. For instance, assuming that someone is in Barcelona and loves local food, the app will advice on where to go to eat an excellent paella. The service of instant messaging in 7 languages connects users to real concierges all over the world.
Like a Local includes 208 advices and tours offered by locals to tourists in several cities. Similarly, Trip for Real offers the chance to book online a number of activities, guided tours in cities like Paris and Lisbon, with a very convenient price.
VizEat allows "social eating" with locals, who decide to transform their kitchens into restaurants. The same does Eatwith in 150 cities in the world, from Moscow to Tel Aviv and Tokyo.
Meetup allows people sharing the same interests to gather in different places around the globe and Partywithlocal counts more than 20.000 users willing to go to the restaurant, to the disco, to a concert or for a drink with locals. UrbanBuddy connects via chat travellers to locals able to provide reliable hints on what should not be missed in a specific place.
Finally, Withlocals connects tourists with locals willing to be hosts and guides while with Couchsurfing travellers are welcome to sleep on the locals' couch for free.
Undoubtedly, these apps represent the new frontier for travelling in the 21st century to be shared by the most adventurous ones.


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All prospective members must read and agree to these terms & conditions.
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Our membership is an annual subscription billed monthly. The billing date is the 1st of every month. Your first payment will be prorated based on the number of days left in the current billing period. Payments can set-up through Paypal. All memberships are subject to a $5 signup fee and HST. Your membership will be activated immediately upon payment.
You can downgrade, upgrade or cancel your membership subscription at any time from 'My Account'. If you cancel, your membership will be set to expire at the end of your current billing period. We will not refund any subscription fees already paid. Membership subscriptions do not automatically renew at the end of the subscription period. Please contact info@juncyards.ca if you have any questions or issues regarding your membership subscription.
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ArtYards and JuncYards offers its members access to dedicated studio space in an open studio environment, with both short and long-term rental options. We are dedicated to creating an environment that encourages collaborative creation, meaningful connections, growth, and cultural exchange between emerging and established artists.
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Studios are rented on a 'first come, first served' basis and are subject to availability. Members should come prepared with their own necessary art materials.
Studio rentals include: 24/7 Secure Access (via Kisi App), Utilities, Free WiFi, Storage, Public Washroom, Lounge/Common Area, Free Parking
For Basic & Plus members, studio rental payments are made in full at the time of booking. Payments can be made with PayPal and are subject to HST.
To be eligible for a full refund, cancellations must be made no less than 24 hours prior to the occupancy date. Late cancellations will not be eligible for a refund. Please contact info@juncyards.ca to cancel bookings. If a membership has expired or has been terminated, any bookings associated with the membership will be canceled and a refund will be provided.
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Studio space can be used for but not limited to – painting, multimedia, photography, sculpture, garment making and more. We strive to always provide a clean, safe environment for its members but make no special guarantees as to said studios functionality or suitability to members' purposes.
Members will have 24/7 access to their studio. Members will be granted mobile access credentials through the Kisi App to gain access to the building with their mobile device. Members are not permitted to give access to other individuals with their mobile access credentials.
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ArtYards is a shared studio space that encourages collaborative work. Each member is responsible for the security and safety of all their belongings in the space. The member is solely responsible for carrying their own liability insurance necessary to cover any and all costs due to possible loss, damage, or theft. ArtYards and its owners/managers accept no responsibility for any loss, theft, or damage to artwork or property belonging to a member.
Members in connection with ArtYards shall indemnify ArtYards and its owners/managers against all claims arising from any accident, injury, or damage whatsoever, however caused, to any person or to any property occurring during the membership term on or about the demised premises, and against all expenses, counsel fees, and liabilities incurred in connection with any such claim or any action or proceeding brought thereon.
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We require that all members respect and show proper usage of the facilities and equipment. It is the member's responsibility to know and apply safety rules, guidelines and procedures.
Members must be considerate and respectful of other occupants, their space, health, sanity, and property. Disruptive behavior such as loud music, excessive visitors, improper use of equipment, and failure to keep space clean will not be tolerated.
No open flames at any time, including but not limited to candles, torches, and incense (except when otherwise approved).
No toxic, harmful and strong odor chemicals other than paints may be used at any time (except when otherwise approved).
No smoking or illegal drug use allowed anywhere inside the building.
Subletting of the studio is not allowed.
Visitors are permitted but we ask that you keep them to a minimum. Members are solely responsible for their visitors and they must remain under the member's supervision.
Members must pick up after themselves and/or their visitors when using the studio, especially in common areas. Dispose of trash, materials, and paints properly.
Members must return all equipment, studio, and furniture in the condition it was provided and immediately notify ArtYards or JuncYards of any damage, failure, or change.
Members are responsible for reimbursing ArtYards or JuncYards for any broken or damaged property caused by the member and/or member's party.
By purchasing an ArtYards or JuncYards membership, the applicant acknowledges that he/she has read and agreed to all the terms, conditions, and agreements of becoming a member. ArtYards and JuncYards have the right to revoke the membership and/or studio rental contract of any member in violation of conduct or the agreement at any time.


Posting some new profile pages. We're getting further into territory where the biographical information is incomplete. As always, if you have information that would enhance any of our pages please contact us.
For today: Goetz, VR Harris, Hanrahan, Fischer, Hawkins, DE Smith and Wadsworth, all of 335; Powell and Robertson, 336; Macfarlane, Harrington, GG Ross, Seaman, Schnell and Slone of 334.
EG Allen, 334; SM Anderson, 334; Beatie, 335; Chick, 336; Claus, 334; Draughan, 335 and BK Greene, 335; D Young, 335; S Young, 336; Willis, 335; Wilhoit, 336; Sprague, 334; Cole, 334; TA Underwood, 334; WF Underwood, 335.
This brings the total of new profile pages added since 16 September to 69.
Ayres, 336; Bradley, 336; Cavallo, 336; Castle, 334; Garbey, 335; Godwin, 335: Holske, 335; Iden, 335; Russell, 335; Shapleigh, 335; HC Smith, 336 and RG Patterson, 335. Updated Creamer, 335.