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Finding Comfort and Escape in Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
A. Cerisse Cohen on the Lessons of a Great Bolognese
By A. Cerisse Cohen
Before the pandemic hit, I never cooked. So many other demands on my time—getting drinks with friends and colleagues, attending work-related events, going on dates—felt more important than spending hours in my windowless, cockroach nest of a Brooklyn kitchen, making food that probably wouldn't be as good as whatever I could purchase just down the street.
My attitude changed once restaurants closed and grocery trips began to feel treacherous. Along with so many others, I began cooking, trying to find lightness and some semblance of control as uncertainty, loss, and fears of illness dominated life in lockdown. I moved in with a partner, cooked for two. We broke up, I moved back into my apartment, cooked for one. Meanwhile, I prepared for a major move to Missoula, Montana, where I planned to attend graduate school. Within months, cooking had become the most stable element in my chaotic life.
Missoula, where I landed in August 2020, offered mountains, fresh air, and a new community. But interesting ingredients were hard to come by in this small, Western college town, and I pined for New York's vibrant culinary scene and for my days roaming the world as an itinerant art writer. So I bought a series of cookbooks, which nourished my burgeoning culinary education, transported me to new places, and fueled my long standing habit of buying printed matter to mitigate uncomfortable feelings (as far as coping mechanisms go, not the worst).
One of my acquisitions, Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking, proved especially helpful. Originally published in 1991, the book unites two previous volumes of Hazan's: The Classic Italian Cook Book and More Classic Italian Cooking (both published in the 1970s). These books, as well as Hazan's mid-century cooking classes in New York City, are widely credited with introducing real, regional Italian cooking to the United States.
This fall, Knopf published a 30th anniversary edition of the cookbook. In a new introductory essay, chef Lidia Bastianich notes Hazan's origins as a trained biologist and as a teacher—first of science, then of cooking. She writes: "As a scientist at heart, Marcella made it her mission to profess the truth—the real Italian cuisine—in all her recipes, lessons, and cookbooks. Her recipes are simple, delicious, and authentic, but, most important, they work."
This emphasis on truth and authenticity make Hazan's Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking more than a simple primer on a particular type of cuisine. Her singular voice rings throughout the text, her evocative anecdotes and personal revelations making the volume feel both personal and literary. Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking is part visceral travelog, part lyrical field guide: both for cooking and for generating warmth and sensuality at home.
Even the cookbook's layout offers a sense of comfort. The light green and yellow cover of my older edition features a crosshatched bowl with a floral, embossed design. Another bowl hovers above. Maroon lettering overlays the image, echoing the maroon lettering inside that introduces the title of each recipe. The cover of the 30th anniversary edition eliminates the bowl design, instead featuring colorful drawings of Hazan's favorite ingredients—an onion, garlic, herbs, a tomato. Across each edition, elegant simplicity reigns.
Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking is part visceral travelog, part lyrical field guide: both for cooking and for generating warmth and sensuality at home.
The same is true inside the book. Hazan often introduces her recipes with brief, evocative notes about their origins and flavor profiles. For instance, here's the entry for Sweet and Sour Tuna Steaks, Trapani Style: "Another savory item from Sicilian cooking's remarkable seafood repertory, this sliced fresh tuna is simple to do and wonderfully appetizing, its sweet and sour flavor a luscious blend that is neither cloying nor bitingly tart." Of the nine ingredients that follow, it's quite possible that you already have most in your pantry—you'll just need to procure fresh tuna from the market. The recipe consists of four steps, devoid of preciousness and requiring no fancy kitchen implements.
Yet while Hazan's ingredient lists and instructions are spare, lucid, and direct, her recipes themselves can be time-consuming. Layering flavors is integral to Hazan's methodology, and it can take minutes or hours to move from one step to the next. The cookbook starts with a list of "FUNDAMENTALS," which begin with the heading, "Where Flavor Starts." "Flavor, in Italian dishes, builds up from the bottom," Hazan writes. She describes "battuto," "a cut-up mixture of ingredients"; "soffritto," or what the battuto turns into once you sautée it; and "insaporire," which means "bestowing taste." This last technique requires the cook to add "principal ingredients" to the soffritto base, combining everything until flavor meaningfully coats all the ingredients.
Hazan believes that bad food is often the result of impatience. "An imperfectly executed soffritto"—in which the onion may be "merely stewed or incompletely sautéed," will impair flavor. About insaporire, she writes, like a teacher wagging her finger: "One can often trace the unsatisfying taste, the lameness of the dishes purporting to be Italian in style, to the reluctance of some cooks to execute this step thoroughly, to their failure to give it enough time over sufficient heat, or even to their skipping it altogether."
One chilly winter afternoon in Missoula, I cooked Hazan's famous bolognese meat sauce. Minimal, introductory information and a few tips precede the recipe. "Ragù, as the Bolognese call their celebrated meat sauce, is characterized by mellow, gentle, comfortable flavor that any cook can achieve by being careful about a few points," Hazan tells us. She suggests what type of meat to buy, when to add salt to the meat (immediately), what kind of pot works best ("earthenware is preferred in Bologna and by most cooks in Emilia-Romagna"), and—crucially—she instructs us to "cook the meat in milk before adding wine and tomatoes to protect it from the acidic bite of the latter."
Though the recipe itself includes just five simple steps, their order is crucial, and the recipe requires watching the sauce for three to four hours as you allow each layer of flavor to cook down. The bolognese recipe works in the manner of a perfect short story: The writer includes the simplest arrangement of just the right elements, allowing the language to somehow, magically, expand outward and reverberate far past its own contours. I spent hours moving between my couch, where I curled up to read a novel, and the stovetop, where I added elements to the pot, stirred, and tasted.
As the winter sun went down, I poured a glass of wine and further opened myself to the heady aromas filling my apartment. Butter, onion, celery, carrot, meat, milk, nutmeg, wine, and tomatoes blended together slowly, lovingly, playing off each other as they simmered. And when my friends arrived to share the meal with me, my apartment was fragrant, warm, and filled, I hope, with the care I'd put into the dish.
That intimate gathering around food, too, is part of Hazan's grand plan. "Food, whether simple or elaborate, is cooked in the style of the family," she writes. "There is no such thing as Italian haute cuisine because there are no high or low roads in Italian cooking. All roads lead to the home, to la cucina di casa—the only one that deserves to be called Italian cooking." And meal by meal, kitchen to kitchen (to occasional dive bar), my graduate school friends and their partners became my Missoula family.
Hazan helped me see that nourishing oneself, and sharing a family meal, is simply foundational. To privilege invention and labor outside the kitchen, but not inside it, is to play into patriarchal distinctions of value.
Hazan's celebratory conception of the kitchen, la cucina di casa, embraces the domesticity I'd rejected in New York: I'd been single and career-oriented for most of my twenties, averse to traditional notions of femininity and settling down. I'd lumped cooking into those categories. Yet Hazan helped me see that nourishing oneself, and sharing a family meal, is simply foundational. To privilege invention and labor outside the kitchen, but not inside it, is to play into patriarchal distinctions of value.
Hazan herself was a cook, an educator, and an incredible creative success. She remains influential for many contemporary cooks. Her adoration of the anchovy—"Of all the ingredients used in Italian cooking, none produces headier flavor than anchovies. It is an exceptionally adaptable flavor"—foreshadows the long reign of Alison Roman. Her careful ideas about layering flavors and her scientific approach to the kitchen find their echoes in the methodologies of Samin Nosrat (who, in her blurb for the new book, also credits Hazan with beginning her obsession with the bay leaf).
I was wrong, too, to think that cooking and poring over recipes might be confining. Hazan's writing, like any great book, allows the reader a sense of escape. Flip through her pages, and she'll transport you to Venice, Florence, Sicily, and back again.
Not long ago, in my kitchen in Los Angeles, where I recently relocated, I made Hazan's polenta shortcake with raisins, dried figs, and pine nuts. She introduces the recipe with a charming anecdote: "When James Beard sojourned in Venice many years ago, he was fascinated by this local specialty, whose nuts and dried fruits are redolent of imperial Venice's trading days with the Near East, and he asked me to provide this recipe."
I offered a slice of this dense, fennel-studded cake to a companion as we prepared another Hazan recipe—eggplant and ricotta sauce, Sicilian style—together. He skinned tomatoes and eggplant as I chopped onions and garlic. I hadn't read the recipe carefully beforehand, and it turned out we needed to steep the eggplant for an hour, "so that the salt can draw off most of its bitter juices."
I poured two glasses of the Sicilian wine my cooking partner brought over, and we moved between my couch and the kitchen, letting Hazan's guidance structure our evening. When it was time, the two of us patiently tenderized the eggplant, browned the onion, and sautéed the tomatoes. We indicated with each careful step how we might, ultimately, take care of each other.
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A. Cerisse Cohen received her MFA from the University of Montana. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, The Nation, and Artsy.
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At Clark Creative Group, we have a few traditions around the office to help keep the holiday spirit alive during the busy season. We have a fall food day where everyone makes their favorite dishes and we all sit together in the conference room and share a special meal. It's a great chance to try new things and learn which of our officemates has amazing culinary skills.
It's also office tradition that the newest employees have a bonding experience decorating the Christmas tree. Luckily our intern Nate is tall so he could hang the star! No ladder necessary! We also enjoy putting together a holiday card that involves strategic planning and creativity to be sure that it practically jumps out of your mailbox bursting with cheer and goodwill.
And lastly, our fearless leaders Melanie and Fred host a very special party for the whole team, working along with our office manager Pat, to make sure every detail is perfect. It's like the icing on the cake at the end of a very good year.
Our family started a new tradition about a dozen years ago. It's not a new game, but we all buy a white elephant gift and play a game of dice to win the gifts. With many siblings in the game, it gets loud and obnoxious, with stealing and shenanigans.
I love doing stockings with my family and gathering around to eat! And really, just hang out all in one place to chat. I am one of those people who really love to shop for gifts for others. I like putting thought into it for them.
When our kids were young, we made an annual trip to the Dodge House in Council Bluffs to see the rooms decorated with Christmas trees. We also watch these holiday movies; It's a Wonderful Life, White Christmas, Shop Around the Corner, Bishop's Wife.
My family has a few holiday traditions. We always have one present on Christmas Eve right before bed and then we have eggs benedict in the morning before we exchange gifts. We also watch football all day on January 1st.
My husband always makes delicious homemade cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning. Before we had kids, we put a lot of thought into the gift tags by making up creative names for each other. For example, To: Mrs.CrazyCatLadyBug From: Mr. Sassy McButterpants. Now that our house is filled with two little ones, ages 4 and 3, we are working on making some new traditions. This year, we welcomed our new elf, Harold Neigh-na to our home. My husband set up a camera to see if he could capture Harold flying away one night. With the use of an invisible string and some camera magic, the kids were blown away.
Watching Love Actually with mulled Hot Cider.
Well, I spend as much time as I can in December ingesting all the cheesy Christmas movies I can get my hands on, from TCM, Hallmark, ABC Family and Lifetime. It used to be how I got through my finals, but now I can't help myself. It sounds crazy, but I usually find at least one really good Christmas movie per year. Last year it was Window Wonderland on Hallmark.


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When we read the definitive account of the year 2020, the publisher in me wants a book that opens with the events of July 30th. You could pick any number of other days in this crazed year but I don't think you will find a single day that encapsulates everything.
At 9AM Eastern Time on that Thursday, the Commerce Department announced that the Gross Domestic Product dropped at a record 9.5% in the second quarter. That was coupled with the news of yet another week with over a million people filing for unemployment. They joined the 30 million that already had. At that point, the historical comparisons start to fail.
The economic impact will be just one effect that people will talk about when they talk about the year that COVID-19 hit. It would be hard for the writer to skip the 150,000 deaths in America due to the coronavirus. During his press conference that day, the President acknowledged the number and the loss of life. That writer might give other examples of the effects like the overall death rate in America and the fact that there were 190,000 more deaths in those prior five months than what's found in a normal year, eliminating some of the doubt sowed in whether COVID-19 was anything to worry about or how easily it could be fixed.
The writer would address the theme of doubt in 2020. At that same news conference, the President would answer questions about a tweet he sent out earlier in the day, just ahead of the GDP announcement.
With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history. It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???
Journalists would try to pick the right verb to describe what he was doing in the tweet. Was he floating the idea? Was he suggesting that election be delayed? Maybe it was all a smokescreen for the horrible economic news? Asked directly at the news conference if he proposed delaying the election, he would just cast doubt, saying mail-in balloting won't work. "Everyone knows it," the president said, "Smart people know it. Stupid people may not know it. And some people don't want to talk about it." The writer might cite all the states that already allowed mail-in ballots, the research that shows it helps neither political party, or the fact that studies showing fraud occurs at less than one in a million mail-in ballots, meaning in a typical election there would be fourteen ballots that were falsified . The writer also might introduce the concept of gaslighting or save it for a later chapter in the book, one based on the corrosive effects that confusion, misdirection, and suspicion had grown to have on American society.
In this imagined book, the author would also write about the national conversation about race in 2020. Pages would be devoted to the shootings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks. The announcement that Breonna Taylor would be appearing on the cover of O magazine, the first time Oprah herself would not, would also be mentioned as having taken place on that day—July 30th.
Portland, my hometown, I imagine would get a mention. The author would write about Black Lives Matter, the sixty nights of local protests, and the response that spun out of control when federal forces arrived. July 30th would again be shown important, because it was the day that federal law enforcement left the city of Portland and that night, peaceful demonstrations returned to the city.
And incredibly, that wasn't everything that happened that day.
In a day marked by economic strain, a pandemic, questions about an election, protests and even a rocket launch to Mars…in the state of Georgia, they were celebrating the life of Representative John Lewis. The writer would debate if the first chapter only be about the funeral, attended by three past presidents and many members of Congress. It would be easy to recount the speeches made about a man who fought his entire life for the rights of others and how all the speakers alluded to the divisiveness in the country. And how they also struck notes of hope and called for action. From the grave, Lewis called back, seeming to know the stories that would unfold that day.
"Ordinary people with extraordinary vision can redeem the soul of America by getting in what I call good trouble, necessary trouble. Voting and participating in the democratic process are key. The vote is the most powerful nonviolent change agent you have in a democratic society. You must use it because it is not guaranteed. You can lose it."
For this book, the rest of the year still needs to write itself, but July 30th, 2020 is a compelling opening. The events of that day show the past, the present, and the future all unfolding together. Whether we admit it or not, this weaving is happening all the time, and in rare moments the intertwining threads become a little more visible and we can see causes and effects in the complicated, myriad ways that the world reveals itself.
I hope someone writes this book; we all need more ways to make sense of what has happened this year.

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Joyce DiDonato leads the Met premiere of this Baroque black comedy, which finds fresh political charge with Sir David McVicar's modern update.
In the Met's first-ever performances of Agrippina, Handel's satire of sex and power politics, Sir David McVicar's provocative staging evokes a scandalous world in which the Roman Empire never fell but simply kept going right up to the present. Holding a distorted mirror to contemporary society (as Handel did when he staged this opera), the production presents the corrupt intrigues of the political classes, including the power-hungry title empress (Joyce DiDonato), a scheming seductress (Brenda Rae), a feckless teenager (Kate Lindsey), an ambitious officer (Iestyn Davies) and the emperor Claudius (Matthew Rose), on whose vacated throne Agrippina is determined to install her son. Renowned for his interpretations of the Baroque repertoire, Harry Bicket (who thrilled Hop audiences with last year's Semele) conducts.
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Tabell's Market Letter – February 03, 1961
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Walston &Co. Inc – – – – – FILE NEW YORK Members New Yo,'k Stock Exchange SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES PHILADELPHIA CHlCAGO OffiCES COAST TO COAST AND OVERSEAS TABEll'S MARKET lETTER February 3, 1961 The market 011tinllPrl Us upwlrd surge and, at the week's intra-day high of 657.2 in the Dow-Jones Industrials, was in the upper range of the 640 -660 supply area' where normal technical action would call for a consolidating phase before a testing of the August 1959-January 1960 double top at 685-688 is attempted. Despite the sharp rise in the last three months, there are no signs of an important top, except that the averages are meeting supply in this area. The Industrial average has held for five trading sessions in the 645-655 range and the inability of the market on Friday to move ahead despite the heavy volume of 5,210,000 sharoes is an indication that there is ,considerable 'stock for sal at this level. Whether the market can push through immediately without a technical corre t ion is open to question. However, longer-term breadth-of-the-market action continues th improvement which started in October and indicates that the advance from the October 1960 low of 565 still has quite a bit further to go from both a time and price point of view. In an advancing phase, a correction of about one-third of the previous advance is a normal technical sequence in order to correct a temporarily overbought pattern. A one-third correction of a 95-point advance from 565 to 660 would call for a dip to the 630-625 area. However, such a general market correction might have very little price effect on individual issues that are in an uptrend and attempting to take advantage of a technical dip of this nature might result only in a loss of position. It would seem wiser to concentrate on the action of individual issues rather than the averages at this stage of the market pattern, and to use current strength to lighten commitments in issues with unfavorable longer-term patterns and add to holdings in issues with a favorable outlook in the event of a market correction. The longer-term Industrial average indicates a probable penetration of the 685-688 high some 'm r this year. The present upside potential, from a technical t ' riting to be some- where level, with occasional tec . al cor ons along the line be- '2-' -, .– -, –fore thlS obJechve lS achleved. 'i-ei'- Most of – -' . ar c -, — owing above average action. The complete list was last publishe em 30th letter. Incidentally, Daystrom (30 3/8) was inadvertently that time, although it was included in the compilation w 0 e s m date with ratings, yields and comments,and available at your a t n rom has been showing below-average action re- cently and is near tr of 27 1/2. Conversion of the debentures and the ac- quisition of a new co pan s diluted per share earnings, but the long-term outlook is favorable and, techni , the stock appears to be building a base pattern that may take further time to com ete. Daystrom is primarily an electronic and electrical and atomic instrument producer with non-defense business expanding. As mentioned in last week's letter, the temporary dip in the aircrafts offered a buying opportunity and the issues mentioned recovered sharply with Boeing (40 1/4) , Rohr (21 1/4) and Thompson-Ramo (77 7/8) reaching new highs for the move. The only exception was Martin Co. (old-59 1/4,new when-issued 29 3/4) which sold down on the reasoning that the successful firing of the Minute Man, a solid fuel missile, would out- date the liquid fuel Titan. Technically, the stock has a possible 29-28 downside object- ive on the new stock and 58-56 on the old. There is good support at this level. Other issues in the group have a clearer pattern at the mOIIl,ent. One way of participatingin the missile and aircraft, and to a lesser eXtent, in the airlines,' is through National Aviation (28 1/4) , a closed-end investment trust listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Other issues in the recommended list that have not yet participated in the rise to any great extent include American Broadcasting (46 1/2), Caterpillar Tractor (32 3/4), Columbia Broadcasting (37 1/2), El Paso Natural Gas (28), Ford Motor (68 1/2), General Precision Equipment (61 7/8), Great Western Sugar (32 5/8), Holly Su ar (30 5/8), International Tel & Tel (48), Lone Star Gas (45 ,1/2), Panhandle Eastern Pi e Line (501/2), and United Artists (351/4). Dow-Jones Ind. 652.97 uow-Jones Rails 143.10 EDMUND W. TABELL WALSTON & CO.INC. 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'Revert' is not a synonym for 'get back to'. It is also not another word for 'set of changes'. So when you type, "I'll check with client and revert." or 'How many reverts does this quote include?" you are bastardising a perfectly innocent verb.
To clarify, 'revert' means go back to a previous state, condition or practice. As in, "He reverted to his native language." There is already a 'back' implied there, so 'revert back' is like saying 'chai tea' or 'ATM machine'; that is: wholly redundant.
And yet… The widespread mis-use of this verb for nefarious purposes infuriates me more than those who use 'loose' when they mean 'lose'. Because so many people use 'revert' incorrectly that those, like me, who have sleepless nights about misplaced apostrophes, are marginalised. We're old-fashioned. Picky. Pedantic.
My mother-in-law generally views me in this light. She, aside from having spawned my husband, is a Professor of Applied English Language Studies with a PhD in Linguistics. Her view is that languages evolve with use (and that I'm a purist).
However, she and I agree that, often, it's not the fittest of the language that survives. Evolution does not always mean progress. And eventually, the incorrect use of 'revert' will become standard (like 'literally'), unless we change how we use it now.
So please, please, please, for the continued peace of my editorial soul and, more importantly, for the future of the English language, I beg you: Use 'revert' properly.
*This post originally appeared in The Media magazine.


The latest examples came on Monday with the revelation from antivirus provider Trend Micro that at least two Android apps with as many as 50,000 downloads from Google Play were recently caught putting crypto miners inside a hidden browser window.
Last week, researchers from security firm Sucuri warned that at least 500 websites running the WordPress content management system alone had been hacked to run the Coinhive mining scripts. Sucuri said other Web platforms—including Magento, Joomla, and Drupal—are also being hacked in large numbers to run the Coinhive programming interface.
Earlier this month, political fact-checking site Politifact.com was found hosting Coinhive scripts in a way that exhausted 100 percent of visitors computing resources. A PolitiFact official told Ars the incident occurred when "an unidentified hacker attached a crypto mining script to the PolitiFact code base being stored on a cloud-based server." The code has since been removed and was active only when people had a politifact.com window open in their browser.
Coinhive presents its service as a way end users can support sites without viewing online ads, which are often criticized for containing malware that surreptitiously infects visitors with ransomware, password stealers, and other malicious wares. And in fairness, the service only consumes 100 percent of a visitor's computing resources when the Coinhive's interfaces are being abused. Still, Coinhive doesn't require third-party sites to tell visitors their computers and electricity are being consumed in exchange for visiting the site. Coinhive has also done nothing to prevent sites from abusing its programming interface in a way that completely drains visitors' resources.
Coinhive's massive Web audience isn't lost on other companies. Collin Mulliner, a security researcher and developer of TelStop, said he recently received an e-mail from a startup called Medsweb inviting him to integrate a Monero miner into his creation. "If your app is deployed on thousands/millions of devices, you can monetize it with monero mining and earn really huge income," the unsolicited e-mail stated. "We manage all the complexity of backend servers and mining operations and you get a really simple control panel to monitor your hashrate and earnings."
Malwarebytes noted that Coinhive recently introduced authedmine.com, a service that requires third-party sites received explicit permission of end users before using their computers to mine digital coins. But the antimalware provider went on to point out that coinhive.com remains active and continues to require no end-user notice at all. As the recent discovery of the Android apps and the more than 500 hacked websites makes clear, Coinhive continues to turn a blind eye to the abuse of its service in much the way adware providers did in the early 2000s.


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The programme is taught by staff from the Centre for Professional Ethics, the School of Law, as well as specialists in palliative and end-of-life care from the School of Nursing and Midwifery. The teaching staff have many years experience of teaching postgraduate courses to healthcare practitioners and those interested in ethical and legal issues in healthcare. Each student is assigned a personal tutor whom they can contact for help or advice at any time during the course.
Teaching staff also work at the forefront of research in medical ethics, which helps to give the course a contemporary edge. In the most recent 2014 REF, staff from Keele's Healthcare Law and Bioethics cluster who teach on the MA were part of Keele's Philosophy submission, which was ranked first in the country for its Impact work. The impact submission was based on work in the field of Biomedical ethics, with 80% of this work judged as being world-leading and the remaining 20% as being internationally excellent.
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C.R. Fladmark
The Gatekeeper's Son
C.R. Fladmark, author
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Children/Young Adult; Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror; (Market)
Junya's grandfather is a billionaire who keeps the secret to his success hidden in a heavily guarded safe. His mother is a martial artist who wields a razor-sharp katana—and seems to read his mind. And a mysterious girl in a Japanese school uniform can knock him over—literally—with just a look. What do they know that he doesn't? Junya's life takes a dangerous turn on his sixteenth birthday, when someone sets out to destroy not only the family's business empire—the one that he's set to inherit—but Junya himself. He's fighting for his life, and doesn't know who to trust. What has his family been keeping from him? Junya's journey takes him from the narrow streets of San Francisco to Japan, and through hidden portals to the top of the ancient Japanese Izumo Shinto shrine, to places where death and violence are a way of life. And in a mystical world he's never imagined, he finds his true destiny.
Bookworm for Kids
What a tense novel! There's big business intrigue, intense fighting scenes and a dash of Japanese mythology thrown in to give it just the right touch.
Although this is marked for the young adult audience, the plot is complex enough to grasp adult readers as well. Junya has just been marked as heir to a billion dollar company, but with it, he's getting more than he bargained for. The company has enemies who plan on bringing it down - strong ones. But this isn't his main concern. A mysterious Japanese girl who keeps popping up (and can fight better than any normal ninja) is already keeping Junya's hands full...not to mention the strange things that are happening to him. Suddenly, he can sense things and a power is growing inside of him.
The characters are very well done - serious and driven, but they let a little bit of the light side of life sneak in every now and then. The problems thrown at Junya are sometimes more than he can handle, despite his own growing strength. Even his oncoming powers aren't something he really embraces at first, and the reader gets to discover and questions things along with him. This made him sympathetic and easy to cheer for.
The plot is fast paced and well weaved. I really enjoyed the more mature feel of the business world in this; the author never talks down to the reader. The little spice of Japanese culture really adds a nice touch, and it's clear that the author knows what he's talking about. It weaves in so naturally.
Summed up, this is a great read for intrigue and fantasy fans. Once they dive into Junya's world, they won't want to leave.
The adventurous tale of one boy discovering his true destiny.
On his 16th birthday, James Edward Thompson, aka Junya, is literally knocked off his feet after spying a beautiful, mysterious Japanese girl sitting in the park across from his grandfather's mansion. Soon after, he is once again thrown for a loop when his billionaire grandfather announces that James will be the heir to the family business—a company his grandfather built from scratch and whose success is held as a deep, dark secret. Raised in a Japanese culture in the heart of San Francisco, James is used to his mother's little quirks, from her ninjalike skills in the dojo to her uncanny ability to always know what he's thinking. But when company insiders threaten his life, James realizes that his grandfather isn't the only one with something to hide. As the truth begins to unravel, James isn't sure whom to trust, and with the help of the mysterious girl in the park, he learns about strange worlds he never knew existed and power he never knew he had. Fladmark's freshman offering starts off strong and progresses at just the right tempo. Adept worldbuilding further enhances the storyline, while skillful character development—aside from an occasional hiccup in terms of voice and personality—creates intriguing, relatable characters with a variety of ages, abilities, and social stations. Additionally, the clear, accessible prose ably depicts not only the various cultures of contemporary San Francisco, but also the magical hidden lands of Japan and the dangerous Mojave Desert.
Filled with magic, mayhem, and intrigue, Fladmark's series is off to a solid start.


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Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.
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In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.
Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.
The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.
We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.


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Q: Problem with Microsoft fonts and facebook After I install Microsoft fonts, facebook font for the Persian content changes to Arial, which is a very bad font for Persian. This happens in both Chrome and Firefox. Here's the font family used by facebook: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif
The problem is: for English content, Verdana is selected, which is the right choice. But for Persian content, Arial is given first priority - that means if I remove Arial from the list, everything will be okay (Verdana is used).
If I uninstall Microsoft fonts, hence getting rid of Arial, sans-serif is used which makes things better, at the expense of changing font for English content as well.
Any ideas what is going on?

A: I have the same problem but with arabic, but i found a really excellent answer from :
"Florian Heinle
1,272618"
HE wrote :

"My answer assumes you did not have fonts like
  Tahoma, Arial, etc installed before and that this is happening in any
  browser. Facebook uses the following fonts mostly: Lucida
  Grande, Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-serif. Those are used in the order
  provided. If Lucida Grande is not available, it will use Tahoma, then
  Verdana, then Arial, then falls back to a default sans-serif font,
  most likely DejaVu Sans or Ubuntu. What likely happend was that with
  installing Windows fonts those became available to your browser for
  rendering Facebook. Does it bother you? You could install Lucida
  Grande to have Facebook show up as intended by Facebook.
  Alternatively, you could disallow websites from setting their own
  fonts and have all the sites fall back to Firefox' default fonts (and
  sizes) in Firefox' settings (contents, advanced in the fonts section,
  tick the box there)"

A: That sounds to me like a general issue with the particular site's CSS design and usability. It should be fixed by the site itself, not by the client or operating system that renders the site as defined.
If that's the case someone should tell the site owner or customer support that it's a bad idea to serve such CSS rules for certain languages.
In the meantime you could write your own Greasemonky script, removing Arial in the CSS rules where you don't want it. The following might be a good starting point:
// ==UserScript==
// @name        facebook
// @namespace   facebook
// @include     https://www.facebook.com/
// @version     1
// @grant       addGlobalStyle
// ==/UserScript==

function addGlobalStyle(css) {
    var head, style;
    head = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0];
    if (!head) { return; }
    style = document.createElement('style');
    style.type = 'text/css';
    style.innerHTML = css;
    head.appendChild(style);
}

addGlobalStyle('body { font-family: 'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,sans-serif ! important; }');

You could look at the elements in firebug and add more rule names after body in the script code by separating them with commas. (Please note that I don't use facebook.)

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McDonalds has amazing french fries and people just seem to love them. I do too. The problem here is among all other food items, people choose fries just like that. As an add on to the original menu that they choose.
Have you ever seen this? All your choices are almost identical to what you had last week and almost for a long period of time. You keep on ordering cheese burgers till you finally want to try something else and move on to another delicacy. I have seen people ask about a hundred other things while the nice lady at the counter keeps punching orders on the billing machine and then say, "Forget it, give me this". You either stick to the new one for a while or roll back to the original choice like a snap. Amazing how psyches can be!
Nothing special about McDonalds, you might say. But trust me. If you keep walking back to their store ordering french fries, MCD knows how to make you fall in love. Marketing brains that know how to make simple people like you and me keep munching on those fries, burgers, softies and what not while you keep blaming an occasional meal at their restaurant when someone points about the added luxury at your weight!
Can't resist you? I bet I can. After all you are a veggie!


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Domestic Box Office For May 2, 2007
Key:New This DayEstimated
1 2 Fracture $508,000 -6.3% -37.5% 2,443 $207 $22,596,000 13 New Line Cinema false true
2 1 Disturbia $496,487 -9.9% -29.3% 3,047 $162 $53,702,699 20 DreamWorks false false
3 3 Next $462,844 -13% - 2,725 $169 $8,662,596 6 Paramount Pictures false false
4 5 Hot Fuzz $372,000 -6.1% -18.6% 1,272 $292 $13,784,000 13 Rogue Pictures false true
5 4 The Invisible $353,107 -15.4% - 2,019 $174 $8,911,768 6 Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures false false
6 6 Blades of Glory $318,937 -4.3% -33.6% 3,056 $104 $109,037,585 34 DreamWorks false false
7 7 Vacancy $292,903 -11.1% -40.4% 2,551 $114 $14,720,674 13 Screen Gems false false
8 8 The Condemned $266,789 -16.1% - 2,310 $115 $4,710,493 6 Lionsgate false false
9 9 Meet the Robinsons $235,417 +1.4% -37.2% 2,461 $95 $89,064,308 34 Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures false false
10 10 In the Land of Women $192,100 -5.4% -35.4% 2,155 $89 $9,137,608 13 Warner Bros. false false
11 11 Perfect Stranger $186,186 -4.7% -45.3% 2,197 $84 $22,149,448 20 Revolution Studios false false
12 13 300 $143,416 +4.6% -33.6% 1,005 $142 $207,320,869 55 Warner Bros. false false
13 12 Are We Done Yet? $125,812 -10% -40.5% 2,701 $46 $44,272,513 29 Revolution Studios false false
14 14 Wild Hogs $123,149 +3.8% -35% 1,602 $76 $159,070,517 62 Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures false false
15 15 Kickin' It Old Skool $104,690 -10.3% - 1,816 $57 $2,829,364 6 Yari Film Group Releasing false false
16 16 The Reaping $74,369 -3.6% -49.7% 933 $79 $24,295,209 28 Warner Bros. false false
17 19 The Hoax $70,000 +6.1% -34.6% 981 $71 $6,422,000 27 Miramax false true
18 17 Shooter $68,432 -4.9% -46.9% 718 $95 $45,997,393 41 Paramount Pictures false false
19 18 Grindhouse $65,563 -2.7% -55.5% 618 $106 $24,097,342 27 - false false
20 20 The Namesake $62,964 +14.1% -5.4% 320 $196 $10,939,404 55 Fox Searchlight Pictures false false
21 21 Pathfinder $51,292 -6.6% -68.9% 782 $65 $9,596,946 20 Twentieth Century Fox false false
22 22 Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters $33,000 - -63.3% 363 $90 $5,365,000 20 First Look International false true
23 23 Deep Sea $28,658 +10% -16.9% 35 $818 $26,900,898 426 Warner Bros. false false
24 24 TMNT $25,551 -1.1% -54.6% 710 $35 $53,129,751 41 Warner Bros. false false
25 26 Year of the Dog $22,677 +0.4% +95.7% 131 $173 $694,829 20 Paramount Vantage false false
26 25 Redline $21,681 -12.5% -72.3% 610 $35 $6,752,391 20 Chicago Pictures false false
27 27 Firehouse Dog $20,065 -4.7% -67.7% 659 $30 $12,753,337 29 Twentieth Century Fox false false
28 28 Night at the Museum $14,259 -2.4% -28.5% 284 $50 $250,253,311 132 Twentieth Century Fox false false
29 29 Miss Potter $13,611 +18.1% +11.3% 102 $133 $2,590,022 125 - false false
30 - Waitress $10,526 - - 4 $2,631 $10,526 1 Fox Searchlight Pictures true false
31 30 Norbit $8,987 -6.9% -29.9% 220 $40 $95,350,256 83 DreamWorks false false
32 31 Zodiac $8,350 -0.8% +193.4% 177 $47 $33,072,484 62 Paramount Pictures false false
33 33 Music and Lyrics $6,949 +6.5% -32.9% 148 $46 $50,456,167 78 Warner Bros. false false
34 34 The Hills Have Eyes 2 $5,857 -2.9% -40.3% 149 $39 $20,524,672 41 Fox Atomic false false
35 32 Pan's Labyrinth $5,399 -17.8% -43.2% 67 $80 $37,476,858 125 Picturehouse false false
36 37 Happy Feet $3,063 +36.7% -16% 93 $32 $197,968,091 167 Warner Bros. false false
37 35 Wind Chill $2,693 -10.1% - 42 $64 $28,846 6 Revolution Studios false false
38 36 Journey from the Fall $2,363 +5.3% -32.8% 13 $181 $500,286 41 ImaginAsian Pictures false false
39 39 The Last King of Scotland $1,959 +9.4% -36.6% 21 $93 $17,583,593 218 Fox Searchlight Pictures false false
40 38 I Think I Love My Wife $1,888 -10% +18% 49 $38 $12,511,468 48 Fox Searchlight Pictures false false
41 40 Hannibal Rising $1,446 -4.2% -67.7% 57 $25 $27,663,152 83 - false false
42 41 Nomad: The Warrior $1,305 +13.7% +812.6% 51 $25 $70,435 48 The Weinstein Company false false
43 42 Black Snake Moan $878 +8.8% -50% 21 $41 $9,388,612 62 Paramount Vantage false false
44 43 Arthur and the Invisibles $440 -38.1% -53.4% 28 $15 $15,125,002 125 - false false
45 44 First Snow $222 -14.6% -84.9% 4 $55 $208,228 41 Yari Film Group Releasing false false


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The Girl On Justin Bieber's Yacht Reveals How It Was Onboard
What's the one thing you don't do after signing a non-disclosure agreement?
Yep, that's right, you don't talk about it. Ever! To the press in particular.
Thankfully, Nyssa Large has decided to ignore all of that and tell us what life is like on Justin Bieber's yacht.
You may be aware she was one of seven selected to climb aboard while he was docked in Melbourne.
Anyway, she's blabbed to the Herald Sun about what went on.
Only thing is… nothing went on.
But don't stop reading there, she does spill some beans.
So, what was HE like? Surely the question we all want to know the answer to…
"He was very polite, he was very respectful," she said.
"There was about seven of us and we just all sat around and had some drinks… had a good conversation.
"We talked about his concert, and what each of us do."
Sounds like Mr Bieber, famed for his pop-career but also his recent outbursts towards fans, has grown up a little.
Well, ish. Here he is only a few days ago telling a fan "you make me sick."
Credit: Herald Sun
He's "matured so much since his last tour," Nyssa explained.
"You can have a great conversation with him."
I've got a very strong feeling that Nyssa won't be invited to a second boat party
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Q: Scala Code not executing I am trying to execute the following scala code on Spark but due to some reason the function selective is not getting called
var lines = sc.textFile(inputPath+fileName,1)
val lines2 =lines.map(l=>selective(
func,List(2,3),List(1,26),l,";",0
))
lines2.toArray().foreach(l=>out.write(l))
.......

The selective function is defined as follows
def selective(f: (String,Boolean) => String , phoneFields: Seq[Int], codeFields: Seq[Int], in: String, delimiter:String, iMode:Int /* 0 for enc, 1 for dec */) :String =
        in.split(delimiter,-1).zipWithIndex
    .map {

      case (str, ix)
    if( phoneFields.contains(ix)||codeFields.contains(ix)) =>
        var output=f(str,codeFields.contains(ix))
        var sTemp=str+":"+output+"\n"
        if((iMode==0)&&codeFields.contains(ix)&&(str.compareTo("")!=0)  )
            CodeDictString+=sTemp
        else if(str.compareTo("")!=0)
            PhoneDictString+=sTemp

        output
      case other => other._1
    }.mkString(";").+("\n")

The println statement is not executing. Furthermore the function is not returning any thing.
sc is the spark context object

A: Are you running this in local mode or on a cluster?  The function passed to lines.map is evaluated by the Spark workers, so that println will appear in the worker's stdout logs if you're running on a cluster (these logs are viewable via Spark's web UI).

A: This function does not compile. The syntax
{
  some statement
  case ... => ...

is not valid. Case statements can only appear like this:
{
   case ... => ...
       ...
   case ... => ...
       ...
}

Since you obviously got something to compile, I bet there's a case statement before that println, and that case statement is not being selected.


The 2019 BMW X5M is there as an upgrade of currently effective crossover X5. Some buyers will never get enough energy and torque, and the brand-new X5M might change their mind. With small upgrades, the SUV will have the ability to add few more horses and pound-feet of torque. Aesthetically, the crossover is going to be practically the same as its predecessor. With additional features, owners can update the SUV. This is making the 2019 X5M very versatile and capable for any type of buyers.
Under the hood of the 2019 BMW X5M will be the same 4.4-liter twin-turbo drivetrain. This system is good for 567 hp in the present version. Nevertheless, the upcoming model will include 5-10 horses, and a comparable amount of torque. With the boost, the output ought to be around 560 pound-feet. Moreover, this will cause much better efficiency. First of all, it can drop the time required for sprint to 60 mph. The variation for 2019 season will be probably more detailed to 3.5 seconds, than to 4 sec. Top speed remains the same since the 2019 BMW X5M will be restricted to 155 miles per hour.
Besides the upgrade under the bonnet, the 2019 BMW X5M will also enhance overall look of the base model. Unique alloy wheels are 21-inchers on the base unit, and upper trims bring 22-inch rims. The standard for this type of vehicle are LED fog lights and xenon headlights. Inside we will see plenty of luxury and beauty. The brand-new BMW X5M also includes some advanced features that will enhance overall security. Parking help feature is going to make it simpler for the motorist. Also, lane departure caution could get an upgrade to some sort of an auto-drive system.
The luxurious crossover has a suitable price. A 6-digit cost reveals exactly what to get out of the SUV. The base model will bring the price simply above $100,000. Likewise, with the extra package, the cost will be closer to $110,000. Likewise, that will be the starting cost for its closest sibling BMW X6M. These two will share a lot of similar features and accessories.


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Q: Can an AIR application detect that computer went to sleep mode? I want to deal with shutdown and sleep. For shutdown, I can listen for the application exiting event. But how should I detect entering and leaving from sleep mode?

A: Unfortunately you can't post answers smaller than 30 characters. So, I just wanted to say:
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Raising an Equestrian
We talk to Youth Olympics Silver medallist Rachel McGregor's mum Jackie about raising her tough and talented equestrian daughter
At what age did Rachel first start riding and when did she own her first horse?
Rachel started riding at age 5 and at age 7, she got her first pony and we started at Pony Club. She won her first competition that same year and decided show jumping was the discipline she would follow.
Was she good at school?
What were her favourite subjects? Rachel was great at school, she loved it and was a very diligent child. Her favourite subjects were PE, English, art, music and science.
Was Rachel always committed to horse-riding?
Yes. There was never any nagging to train; more likely to be tears if the weather (or a broken ankle!) stopped her plans for competing.
Did she get stuck into the care of the horses or leave you to do it?
I used to do most of the 'workload' but she was always there on board, involved in the care of the ponies by the age of 10. She had two ponies and then by age 14, we always had a team of three. At age 15, she was onto horses and by age 16, she was being selected for young rider teams and she managed to secure sponsorship then too.
What's been the highlight of Rachel's career so far?
Being selected for the young rider team for Show Jumping to compete at the Youth Olympics held in Australia in January 2009. The team won Gold and Rachel also picked up the individual Silver medal. In February 2009, she had a serious injury and ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee; she strapped it up and three weeks later, won the Young Rider of the Year title at Horse of the Year Show.
Is horseriding a time-consuming hobby?
Yes, it's a very time-consuming hobby, it's a lifestyle really. There wasn't a lot of time for other hobbies when she was younger, although she did play netball and the flute.
At what age did you realise Rachel had real potential to go further?
By 12-years-old, it was apparent she had the drive and dedication, and with me behind her all the way, we were a real team.
Did the whole family have to become involved in the horse events since they took up so much time?
The whole family couldn't take too much of it - her brother wasn't too keen. However Charlotte, Rachel's younger sister, was born when Rachel was 11 and at 6-weeks-old was on 'the circuit' with us and has grown up totally involved. She is also a good little rider (she has 3 ponies) and comes to all the shows.
What's Rachel doing now?
Now at age 21, she lives in Cambridge and is a professional rider producing show jumpers and working with Thoroughbreds breaking and pre-training.
What aspects of her personality do you think helped her become so competitive and successful?
She is quite tough, especially on herself. She is her greatest critic, has steely determination and is a very humble person which makes her very popular amongst her peers – horses are great levelers.
What are the qualities you think are most important to instill in your children?
If you are dedicated, hardworking and want it badly enough, you will succeed.
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