Once you get to explore Italy, you will definitely want to discover their fabulous cuisine. You might also want to know that cooking and sharing food in Italy is no less than a way of life, whether it is at home with friends, in a humble trattoria or in a fine-dining restaurant. Wherever it's eaten, it's always based around fresh, seasonal produce, which is the main reason that it's so hard to talk about "Italian food" as a single entity. In fact, Italian food varies widely by region – and even village to village – and according to the time of the year. More precisely, the northern Italian food centers around butter, meat, potatoes, pork, Parmigiano and other types of cheeses, while southern cooking is more focused on olive oil, tomatoes, eggplant, capers and fresh fish.
Above all, Italians believe in simplicity and respect for good products, so some of the most beloved dishes comprise just a few simple ingredients, carefully selected and served at their prime. Cheese and wine are a major part of the cuisine, as is coffee, particularly espresso. It is said that every great Italian dish has only three ingredients and while that's often not true, you won't find complicated dishes in most of the country's family restaurants. Instead of complex combinations of ingredients or fussy processes, Italians choose, instead, to use the best fresh ingredients they can find.
Basilicata is well known for its rich agricultural traditions. Olives, flavorful vegetables and legumes are cultivated in Basilicata, including Sarconi beans and Senise pepper. Lagane is the regional pasta dish that dates back to the Roman period and it's made with chickpeas, soft bread, walnuts and beans. The base of all the sauces is made from garlic, olive oil and peperoncino, to which vegetables or meats may be added. Soups are also popular in this region. Minestra Maritata is a soup with both meat and vegetables, whereas Acquasale is made entirely with hot water, bread, onions, tomatoes, garlic, oil and salt. Fish caught off the two coasts are used in a number of recipes, or conserved in salt and oil. Anchovies, tuna, sardines and salt cod are all popular down south. Lamb meat is used in many traditional recipes. Pork sausages are common in Basilicata, including Lucanica, Soppressata and Pezzenta, which combines pork, lamb and veal meat. Mostacciolo is Basilicata's popular dessert, made with vino cotto, or cooked wine, honey, almonds and flour. Another popular treat is called Cuccia, a pastry made with cooked wheat, like the Neapolitan pastiera. We shall not forget about the good wine, that is why you should not skip a glass of Aglianico or Aleatico, the most important wines from Basilicata.
The delicious local cuisine of Basilicata must be your first choice once you start exploring this impressive culinary trip. You will find a variety of restaurants and eateries across this region. From upmarket restaurants (ristorante) to the more frequently found cafes (osteria and Trattoria), eating out is one of the most memorable experiences in Basilicata. Here are the top restaurants where you can taste the real feeling of eating in the Italian way.
This restaurant is such an amazing place, in so many ways. Situated inside of a cave, this beautiful restaurant has a breath-taking design, with lovely and unique sculptures. The staff is absolutely friendly and the food is amazing. On arrival, you will be given a glass of the local wine and a gift, according to the time of your visit. Every detail from the floor, to the art and the food, is carefully considered and perfectly executed. Enjoy your stay here and take a look at our food recommendations!
If you are looking for a perfect experience with a fantastic service, this is the place you are searching for. Here you will be able to taste different types of tortelli, local products like ricotta and a lot of delicious desserts. All the meals are nicely presented and garnished, which will offer you the possibility to enjoy a successful meal.
It is said that there is no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza. Make your dream come true and don't miss the chance of eating a true Italian pizza, at the best restaurants in Basilicata. Here are our recommendations.
With a lot of great flavours, delicious ingredients, a lovely atmosphere and a friendly staff, this is the place where you will find the best pizza in Basilicata. Try to sit at a table on the little terrace from the back of this restaurant, because the view is absolutely amazing.
If you are looking for a good pizza, or a take away one, this is the perfect place for you! This place is incredibly busy and getting a table is quite hard. But once you do, the pizza is excellent. They put quite a lot of toppings on the pizza and a generous amount of cheese. The crust is awesome and it's freshly baked in the stone oven.
Italian seafood recipes are full of flavours, very satisfying and so hard to ignore. Seafood is consumed all over the world, but in Italy and especially in Basilicata the recipes are so unique and tasty, all the ingredients are fresh and well prepared, which will leave you amazed.
In the modern section of Matera, this recently renovated restaurant boasts modernism, with a wonderful decor, careful lighting, flawless and professional services. The several courses that you will get to try will leave you with such deep impressions and still hungrily recalling. You will be welcomed here by a very friendly hostess who is going to guide you through the menu, explaining the local specialties and the ingredients used.
Looking for the perfect dinner? Then choose Osteria al Casale for authentic and wonderful meals based on seafood. The service here is exceptional and you will definitely feel as if you are in your own home. Take a sit outside and enjoy the mesmerizing view and the relaxing ambiance.
At the end of your culinary journey take your time to join an organised food tour in order to learn a lot more about the Italian food culture. At the end of your meals order un caffe (espresso) and try to drink it at the bar; always eat pizza with your hands and don't forget to ask for slices of focaccia with different sauces. Order wine and enjoy the best of what Basilicata has to offer to each and every tourist.
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When I love something, I want all my friends to know about it, and, when possible, I want to share it. If you despise paper-pencil assessments, then you have to try this . . . In fact, I love it so much, I want you to try it for FREE! Let me explain!
Hide and Seek is one of my best weapons for infusing recognition skills with fun. It's such a simple concept and my students NEVER ever tire of it. I mean . . . there are days when I'm like, "Seriously! You want to play this game–again!" And I always hear "YES." It's a wonderful problem to have because once they learn the game, you can change up the skills, tier it to differentiate based on readiness and because your sweet kiddos know and love the game, it becomes a super independent station activity.
My August/Back To School Letters and Numbers Editions of this Hide and Seek game are perfect for teaching the game. With visual activity cue cards like the one below and a couple of times playing, this game becomes so independent. It's a familiar choice in my math and Daily 5 stations.
Once that happens, then the activity also becomes a great way to do those initial assessments that help you gauge your students' letter recognition at the beginning of the year. You know, when you're scrambling to get pre-assessments done so you can get your activities differentiated while collecting data for your administrator? It can be a bit overwhelming, can't it? Well, Hide and Seek, with a little help from one of my favorite assessment tools, makes collecting data easy for you and engaging and fun for your students.
One of the beauties of Hide and Seek is that you can use it for a myriad of skills. Seriously! I have hide and seek sets for sight words . . .
ten frames . . .
tens and ones . . .
You name it, there's a Hide and Seek for that.
And they are super simple to differentiate. I just place the cards in color-coded pencil bags and my students know exactly which set if right for them.
The game works like this . . . Place the small playing cards in Target sized pocket chart. (I love those little pocket charts.) The readiness level of your kinders will determine how many cards you use and, in the case of numbers, whether you put them in randomly or in order.
I include several hiding playing pieces in these sets, but I would use only one if I only had 10 numbers or so in use. As you increase the number of playing cards, you will want to add hiding pieces. So while one person is hiding the card or cards behind the playing cards, the other players have turned their backs and are hiding their eyes, because anyone who has ever been in kindergarten knows that 'no sneaky peaky spying' is the rule. Once the card(s) has been hidden, players turn around and take turns trying to guess where the card is hidden.
They can't just point and say 'that one' though. They are required to say the letter. The student that finds the card (or locates the most cards) is the winner and gets to hide the card next. And maybe it's just my students, but if I just change the theme from month to month . . . it becomes a completely different game for them. So yes, I have a bundle of the same skilled Hide and Seek games that I change out every month. Just that little bit of effort to change out the theme keeps the game fresh and exciting.
Here's another way I use Hide and Seek for assessing. If you ever wander into my classroom, you will find me with an iPad or my phone in hand. I promise you, I'm not shopping Amazon, I'm using ESGI to assess my kids on the fly. The thing I love about ESGI is that it is quick, easy and it saves me tons of time. An even greater bonus regarding ESGI though is that I can see where my students are at any given time. I know exactly which letters they are missing.
So if I am working with a small group, I can take that information and place those letters (or another skill) in my pocket chart and use the hiding piece to assess their progress on those skills they are still missing.
ESGI has these amazing resources that you can use to keep parents in the know, as well. Whenever you need to, you basically hit a button and print off a parent letter for your entire class indicating which letters, numbers, sight words . . . whatever their child is missing. Want to send home some flash cards to help parents work with their children at home? Yep, it does that too.
And here's the best part . . . I'm giving you a chance to get your hands on ESGI so you can try it, too! By signing up with ESGI and using my DifferKinder code, you're going to get 60 days free plus a $40 coupon. If, after 60 days you love it, and have to have it, well use that $40 to make it happen. I'm going to tell you, it is going to make the first 60 days of school so amazing for you.
Do me a favor, just try it. I promise you won't regret it. I'll be back over the next several weeks to give you some more assessment tips. It used to be my greatest struggle to find the time it takes and the process of collecting paper and recording data . . . but I don't have that problem anymore.
If you'd like to find out more about Hide and Seek games available in every conceivable skill, click HERE to get to my store.
If you'd like to try a free, numbers edition, pictured above, just click on the Start Your Engines picture below. It's an easy downloadable Google Document.
To sign up for your FREE trial of ESGI just click on the picture below. You will get your 60-day trial, plus be entered to win 1 of 10 Amazon gift cards worth $50, or 1 valued at $500.
I can't tell you how much you're going to love this. I literally walk to my specials with iPad in hand and while I'm waiting for the gym doors to open, I'm assessing Ball Words and collecting data. Who wouldn't love that!
Thank you for this wonderful lesson. I have used similar lessons in my classroom and my students like yours always want to play this over and over again. I loved the way you differentiated instruction and all the visuals you included. That you for giving us a freebie. Your other ones will go on my Wish List which I hate to say is a mile long. Have a wonderful summer. Thank you for sharing your wonderful talent with all of us.
If I sign up for the 60 day trial can I postpone the start day to the first day of classes? If not, will the offer still be active in September?
LOVE your great materials!! Thanks for always coming up with something new and useable!!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this idea!! Assessments get so hard and tedious but this game sounds great!! I'm definitely going to give it a try!
Love the Start Your Engines # Recognition Game! Thanks so much! I am already an ESGI user and appreciate all your post about it. You are one of the reasons I signed up for ESGI a few years ago! Thanks for ALL you do to help teachers!
Thank you so much for the game! I have all your morning work stations and this will be a great addition.
I love the idea of the Hide and Seek games for making recognition and review fun.
Thanks for the great activity! This will be great to quickly assess my First graders at the beginning of the year. I will also be able to use this during intervention for my striving students.
Thanks for the activity. I will surely try this Hide and Seek game with my kiddos!
This is wonderful! My students have loved your Hide and Seek games!
Thank you for the freebie! As soon as I catch up from all of the spending I've been doing,  I can't wait to try some of the other games. I love games that students already know how to do, that can also be adapted to other skills!
My Kinders LOVE the hide and seek games! They are so easy to differentiate. After we have played a few times they can even play in small groups. I have used ESGI for a year and a half and love it. It gives so much great data my school to purchased it for our grade team!
I love the hide and seek activity and absolutely love all your products!! I am excited to use them in my classroom. I have been using ESGI since it first came out and it just keeps getting better! Thank you for sharing your brilliant ideas!
My students love these activities! I have used these for our math stations last year, and it was always a favorite and a good one they could independently work at.
This sounds like a great way to keep plugging away at data collection in a fun game. I'd love to try ESGI with my struggling readers.
I love the Start Your Engines counting activity. I know the kinders that I work with will love these. Thanks for the freebie!
I love this activity and can't wait to use it with ESGI. Thank you!
This looks really fun for kids and me. I'm looking forward to using this activity with my students. I think this is an incredible idea using a fun game that kids enjoy to reinforce standards.
I am excited to try out the Start your Engine and other Hide and Seek activities. These are new to me but I know my kiddos are going to LOVE them. Thanks so much for sharing your creative ideas with us.
I love the Start Your Engines Activity! I can't wait to use it soon with my Kindergartners! Thank you!!!
My students love the hide and seek games and I love all the variety.
Thanks for the Start Your Engined freebie. I think the beauty of these games is not only are they engaging, but they seem easy to implement. I've been thinking about ESGI, and I think I'm ready to try it out next week, after school starts. It's not cheap, but if it's going to make assessments easier for me, sign me up!
I can't wait to use this non pencil assessment for my kiddos! They will have so much fun they won't even know it's an assessment! That's a win win in my books!
I love these games! So do my students. I started using ESGI last year and it is a game changer. I want to try some of your ideas from this post to help with assessing. Thank you!!
I love this resource! Being that I am teaching kindergarten for the first time this school year, this resource will be a great way for students to understand numbers, work on fluency, as well as engagement!!
I am so excited to try the hide and seek games with my kinders! They will love the hands-on fun and it will make assessments so much better! Thank you for sharing!
This game looks so fun! I think this will make my students really excited to learn their numbers or any sight learning subject.
OMG, such a great resource. Little kiddos need to get up and move around to stay engaged. You've provided such a variety of activities that will keep them motivated. The graphics are also so inviting. Thanks for sharing!
Love the versatility of this activity and the special cards, like "out of gas" that come with it! I can see my students having a ton of fun with this!
I think my students will love the Start Your Engines assessment. When students think they are playing a game, they are more engaged in the activity. I can't wait to use it with my kinders this coming school year. Thanks again for sharing another great product!
I love all of these! I want them all! And I can't wait to try out ESGI this year!
I'm going to use this idea for spelling practice for my 3rd graders. I can also use it for sight words and centers.
Game-based testing is so much more fun than pencil and paper. Thank you for creating a great selection of assessments.
Love your work!! I really like using your products for my centers!! I've never had a student complain or don't show interest when I use your activities! !
My students were very motivated when we used a hide and seek activity for sight word recognition. We did it whole group, but I love the idea of using it and in a small group or center. This way you can truly adapt it to the working level of your students. Thanks fir the great resource!
Wow, this looks fantastic. Thank you for sharing the Start Your Engines freebie. I love to teach with hands-on, fun, game learning material. Children love it too and respond with enthusiasm. They don't realize they are learning so much. What children learn with pleasure they retain.
Wow, thank you. I can't wait to use these with my kinders this year!
Thank you for the freebie! These look like fun and I can't wat to try them.
Your ideas are always so helpful and engaging for my students! I also love using ESGI for quixck and easy assessments. It is so helpful when we do our state KIDS assessment too!
My kinders love the hide and seek games. Thanks for the Start Your Engines freebie!
I love that you store these in pencil bags. So clever. My kinder love ANYTHING in a pocket chart. Thanks for the new idea. We w8ll be playing hide and seek this year.
I love the hide and seek games. I started using them last year with my K students. I will be buying the bundles. Continue making great K resources.
Super lovely idea to encourage students to be thrilled about learning. Thanks!
WOW! This is fabulous! I am new to teaching in a K-1 multi-age classroom, and I love all your posts, pictures and suggestions for differentiated learning. I have set my classroom up based on your version of Daily 5. I am truly enjoying setting up and decorating my room, finishing up my curriculum planning, and lessons and activities. Thanks to you, I feel that much more prepared. I am grateful for you :)!
Hey, super lovely activity! Thanks for sharing it with us, I know kids will be thrilled about it.
What great ideas in Start your Engine. Thanks for a wonderful resource for my 3-5 year old special needs students.
Start your engines is an amazing number recognition and sequencing activity that my young 5 year olds will love in TK. I'm excited to use it this year! I started using the fine motor morning bins this past year and the kids loved them. Thanks.
I can't wait to us Star your engines for number recognition and sequencing in my TK class. My young 5 year olds will love this. Thanks for all your great ideas!
Wow! These are great ideas to get children excited and engaged right away!!! Thanks for sharing!!!!
Old dogs can still learn new tricks! Thank you for this great idea to use play for learning and assessment!
I can't wait to get started with Hide and Seek games in my classrrom. I just know my class will love playing the games and I will love that they are practicing different skills!
Wow!!! Love these Hide and Seek sets. I'm also going to try this ESGI, seems so easy!
Thank you for the post! I purchased a few beginning of the year Hide and Seek games and look forward to growing this center.
One question, what does the partner who hid the special cards do while the partner guesses? Are they interacting or watching until it is their turn to guess? Thank you! This center is fun and brilliant!
I downloded the numbers hide and seek last year and it was their favorite game! We played it as a whole group filler when we had 5 minutes to kill and it really helped improve their number id! I can't wait to purchase the one for letters!!
Hide and Seek games are so much fun! I love how the kids are learning in a playful way!
The hide and seek games are a favorite in my classroom too! Thanks for the freebie and information about ESGI. I just might have to try it out!
What a quick, easy, and fun way to play to learn for everyone!!! Thank you!!!
I love the Start Your Engine activity, and all of the others as well. Totally in love with the concept!!
Thank you for the "Start Your Engines" freebie! Prepping for school now (we start in September) so I have to head on over to the TpT sale and prioritize your products on my wish list– math stations, morning work stations, sight word bundles, write the room bundles, YIKES, this is difficult! Thank you for all you do to support teachers!
How creative!! Love how they can simply be stored and pencil pouches. Realizing how simple the assessment piece is too is icing on the cake! Wanting to give this a try!
Hide and Seek would be a great game when you need a quick filler as well! Children love anything that has "mystery" to it.
This is a great activity to keep my students engaged and for me to see what needs to be the focus for future lessons. Thank you!
I love that you can play so many games with one set of cards. Thanks for the freebie! I found out yesterday that I'm finally getting my own classroom, and I plan to incorporate a lot of your ideas and amazing products in my kindergarten classroom. I'm so excited!
My kids love hide amd seek games too! Thank you for the freebie!!
My kids love Hide and Seek. I've used it with both kindergarteners and first graders and they beg to play again and again.
What a simple, yet great idea! I'm new to the kindergarten world, but this seems like an easy-to-implement station that is enjoyable, yet educational. Can't wait to try it out!
I just downloaded the Racing Cars numbers cards. Even though I teach math in middle school, my students with math deficiencies love play games. These cards can be used with higher level math skills by removing a few, or asking students to finish a sequence starting with a random card with a higher number, choosing a card at random and asking them to figure out an operation to get to that answer, etc.
I love this idea! I'm always looking for year-long centers and this seems like a really good one.
This seems like a fantastic idea for an ongoing center!
Love how you find a way to make learning fun!!!
I love the idea of the Hide and Seek games for all skills. I could see my students being engaged and having fun while practicing their sight words. Thank you for sharing how you use them in your classroom!
Creative, quick, and seems engaging. Love the hide and seek game! I will have to check out ESGI for assessments too! Thanks!
Love the Hide and Seek idea!
I can't wait to use this in my classroom.
The students will love the graphics that are on the hide and seek games! Thanks for sharing!
I am excited to use the Hide and Seek game in my classroom! I am always looking for fun ways to practice skills/concepts without having to use paper/pencil activities!
This is such an innovative idea! I love how your resource corresponds to ESGI! Our school is going to be signing up this year for ESGI. I will have to pass your code along to our admins. Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
Thanks a ton. Remember, there is a $40 coupon when you use my code.
Thanks for a fun game! Can't wait to see it in action in my centers!
My kids love this game too! Thanks for the freebie!
I love these games. I'm excited that there are so many different styles to choose from.
Love this game, thanks for the freebie!
I love this idea. I have a lot of old pocket charts that I'm not using. This is such a simple activity that can be applied multiple ways throughout the year.. Can't wait to try it with the kids.
My students love anything that seems like a game. I've looked at these in your TPT store before and can't wait to try it out. Thanks!!
I love the Start Your Engines number recognition activities! Thanks for sharing them.
Great freebie! Good resource for beginning of the year struggling firsties!
My kindergartners love playing Hide and Seek! I love the flexibility to target specific academic skills while they practice turn taking and listening skills. Win win!
Thank you for sharing a great way to assess that is fun and engaging and does not require a large amount of time. Thank you for the freebie to get started.
I love the start your engines counting activity!
Thank you so much for keeping us teachers encouraged with your excitement! Thanks for including a freebie to help us as well!
When I taught kindergarten, my kids lived hide and seek games, and my PreK kids love them too. It is one of our favorite transition time activities.
I LOVE your hide and seek games!! They are so fun and the kiddos don't even realize that they are mastering number and letter identification and more! I am all about a hands on, fun approach, to assessment so they don't get stressed out or frustrated! Thank you so much for the freebie!
Love all your Hide and Seek games. My students beg for a new one each month. I use them in Stations and during our morning meeting activity time. Thank you for creating such valuable resources.
Great idea! Love the no paper pencil activities that keep kids engaged. Thanks!
Thank you for these ideas and free download to get started. My students love Hide and Seek. It's nice to get more options for Math Stations.
I am so excited to get to purchase your Hide and Seek bundle. Thanks for all of the great tips on storing and organizing these games too. I love all of your centers and morning work ideas. I don't know how to balance it all, but this is all awesome.
I love these hide and seek activities!
I am a pre-k teacher and hate paper pencil assessments.
i love that this is like a game and is super simple. I will be trying it in my classroom this year.
I love your morning work tubs! I can't wait to try this free math assessment! I'm so glad I found your blog; it has been very beneficial for my Kindergartners.
I absolutely love the simplicity of this idea!! Can't wait to try it in my accelerated pre-school class!
Sweet! Hide and Seek Games are the best for easy assessment and independent work stations.
I love your resources! I have up to 50 students because I teach half day. Is there a way to manage 2 classes in ESGI?
I believe so. You can send them a note and they can help you out.
Great Activity! I'm doing a sports theme this year so I can't wait to use your "Start Your Engines" station for number recognition.
I love your resources and so do my k-kids! I will be trying the trial ESGI. I want to present this to our curriculum dept. Finally something that is K appropriate!
I love all of your hide and seek activities and so do the kids! Thanks for sharing this freebie- it will be great having something all set for September!
I am such a huge fan of your blog! I am looking forward to implementing your Morning work stations this year and can not wait! Thank you for the freebie assessment, I will definitely be using these this year…so much more appropriate!
This is such a great way to differentiate. I love all the ready made ideas of how to use these cards. The ideas can also be used for many other activities. I also like how it will be more appealing to the boys. This is awesome and a great idea for my kids that need the extra intervention.
I love all of your activities!!
This is a great idea and resource!
Love this idea. I can't wait to implement. I have two small standing pocket charts I haven't known what to do with. Now I do!!
I love the number assessment! I'm really hoping it speaks to the boys in my room as they are always a little more difficult to assess! Thanks!
I love it all! Thank you for creating and sharing!
Great resource that makes learning fun! Thanks for sharing!
Such a fun activity! I know my students will love to play! Thank you for your continued ideas and resources.
I love all of your resources!
This is so amazing! I can't wait to try it. It would be interesting for the letter ones for students to have to say a word that starts with that letter or the letter sound instead of just the letter name.
I can't wait to try this. It would be interesting to have the students say the letter sound or a word that starts with a letter instead of just the letter name.
Can't wait to try "Start Your Engines." Anything that makes learning fun and easy.
Looking forward to using the hide and seek activity with my students! Thank you for the resources!
Thanks for helping us gear up for another year of Kindergarten! I begin next Wednesday! My kinders will love this!
I love the Hide and Seek games! I've used similar games but never thought of the many ways to differentiate one game. Thanks for the freebie!
Thank you so much for the freebie. I've got my eye on a few more…:) I'm really interested in ESGI…it's been stewing around in my head for a while!
I love this and can't wait to use it in my classroom. I have two of your other activities in my TPT basket. I am also signing up for the ESGI. I have heard great things about it. I want to work smarter not harder this year. Thanks for your products.
Thank you! This will be my first year teaching kindergarten and I love discovering new activities that do not include worksheets!
I love this idea because it can be used to practice any skill! I can't wait to include it as one of my whole group and individual practice rotations!!
I love this idea because it can be used to practice any skill!!! I can't wait to include it in my whole group and individual practice rotations! Thank you!!
I absolutely love your sight! I get so many great ideas from it and my kids have so much fun learning! Esgi has also transformed how kinder can analyze data and in turn transformed how we target skills in our small groups and assess for report cards. Thank you so much for posting such amazing resources for us to easily implement!!
These are my kids absolute favorite "learning" games!


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No-one automatically knows how to talk to an addict. Although people who have lived and worked with addicts may have discovered ways to talk to an addict, it is always difficult because of the confusion addiction creates in the addict, and in those around them. Add the shock of discovering a loved one is an addict, and you have a recipe for poor communication. But there are ways of communicating with an addict that produce better outcomes than we might expect.
Communicating with an addict can be especially hard if you have been supporting the person's addiction by enabling them to continue with their addictive behaviour. Addicts can make this worse by denial and lying to you. Making changes in the way that you interact with the addict will put an end to enabling, while still showing you care about the person.
Show you care through your behaviour – always act with kindness and compassion. This is the elusive secret ingredient to successful interaction with an addict.
Whether they are a loved one or just an addict you need to communicate with, a person with an addiction is more likely to confide in you about what is really going on for them if you listen without interrupting or criticizing. Even if you do not agree with their behaviour, addictions happen for a reason.
Whenever you are with an addict, communicate through your actions as well as your words. Remain consistent in your message, so that they don't misunderstand what it is you want or expect of them. For example, don't say you think your partner has a drinking problem, and then share a bottle of wine over dinner.
Addicts can be very unpredictable in their words and behaviour, but setting a good example can help to turn this around. Be predictable in your words and actions whenever you are around an addict - surprises are stressful, and stress feeds addiction.
Let an addict know that you still love or care about them, no matter how severe their addiction. If this is not true or possible, at least that you have their best interests at heart, whether or not they get help. This doesn't mean you will put up with anything, however. Let the addict know what you won't put up with, and don't be scared to set limits and follow through to show you aren't simply making empty threats or psychologically punishing the addict.
Let the addict know that you are willing to support them in changing, for example, by coming with them to family or couples counselling. Although your motivation for change may be higher than the addict's motivation for change, this may start to shift once the addict starts to benefit from counselling and realizes that you are also willing to look at yourself and make changes, too.
Although you should be absolutely clear and firm about what is unacceptable in an addict's behaviour - for example, underage drinking or using drugs in your house, you can be flexible in how the addict makes these important changes. Offer to help in ways that they would like, without dictating what must be done. As long as you get the same outcome, and no harm is caused by the addict's own strategy for change, let them do it their way.
Addicts often feel ashamed of their addiction and fear of being reported to the police or another authority may be one of the biggest obstacles to addicts seeking help. Offer to find and share information on where to get help. If the addict declines, focus instead on getting help for yourself. As well as helping you to cope with the situation, seeing you get help and improving your mood and functioning can be inspiring to the addict, as they see that change is possible.
If an addict seems unwilling to change, and you feel you cannot keep on living with them while they are engaging in their addiction, gently let them know. Counselling can be a good place to do this. As long as an addict does not know how much their behavior bothers you, they have no reason to change.
Elizabeth Hartney, PhD, is a psychologist with extensive experience in research, practice and teaching in the field of addictions and concurrent disorders.


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Show Rundown: October 24, 2018
Bubba the Love Sponge Calls in to Tell Howard He Needs to Crack Down on the Stern Show Staff
"You've got to be a little more heavy-handed," the veteran radio host says
Brent Hatley and Bubba the Love Sponge in 2005 Photo: The Howard Stern Show
After hearing Benjy Bronk take a jab at Howard on the air Wednesday morning, Bubba the Love Sponge called in to tell the King of All Media he needs to crack down on his staff and give them more discipline.
"You've got to be a little more heavy-handed," the veteran radio host told Howard.
Bubba is no stranger to creative punishments as Brent Hatley, who used to work for him, attested.
Brent recalled one particularly brutal sentence he received after making a mistake in preparing Bubba's guest notes. "The next day I had to swim across this lake that we had out back and he stood up on a stand with a high-powered paintball gun with frozen paintballs in it," he said. "I had welts. I even got hit at the top of my eye."
While the experience did not seem pleasant, there was one upside. "I've got to thank Bubba. When I hired Brent, he was fully housebroken," Howard joked. "Seriously Brent, you're like the most delightful employee and guy to work with."
Other punishments Bubba's staffers endured over the years have involved an in-studio "torture rack," fire ants on the testicles, a Tony Soprano-style wiffle bat beating, and a shed of horrors the staff equated to the movie "Saw."
"I love Brent like my brother, but … you gotta sometimes break a guy down, even a Marine," Bubba told Howard.
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Lamborghini Espada
A Series III Espada
1217 made[1]
Italy: Sant'Agata Bolognese
Marcello Gandini at Bertone[2]
Grand tourer
2-door coupé
Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive
3.9 L Lamborghini V12
3-speed TorqueFlite automatic
1,860 mm (73.2 in)
1,630 kg (3,594 lb)
The Lamborghini Espada is a station wagon made by Lamborghini. It was made from 1968 to 1978. There were three generations of the Espada. These generations were known as Series I, Series II, and Series III.
1.1 Series I
1.2 Series II
1.3 Series III
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The Lamborghini Espada was designed by Marcello Gandini in 1967.[1]
The Espada is a four-seater grand-touring car. It was initially sold at the same time as the Islero and the mid-engine Miura. The Espada and the Islero both replaced the 400 GT.[3]
Three different series of the Espada were made. These were the S1 (1968–1970), the S2 (1970–1972) and the S3 (1972–1978). Each series was an update from the last, with changes such as more horsepower and a redesigned interior. Overall, 1,217 Espadas were made.[3][4]
Series I[change | change source]
A Series I Espada
The Espada was launched at the 1968 Geneva Motor Show, alongside the Islero.[3] The Espada was equipped with a 3,929 cc (240 cu in) Lamborghini V12 engine, which was based off the one used in the 400 GT 2+2. The engine was rated at 325 hp (242 kW; 330 PS) in the series I cars.[3][5][1] 186 Series I Espadas were made before January 1970.[1]
Series II[change | change source]
At the 1970 Brussels Motor Show, Lamborghini revealed the Series II version of the Espada.[4] The power output of the Espada increased to 350 hp (261 kW; 355 PS)[1] due to a higher 10.7:1 compression ratio.[3] The brakes were changed to vented Girling discs instead of solid discs. CV joints were now used on the rear half-shafts.[4] Lamborghini made 575 of the Series II Espadas,[1] which was the most of any series of Espada.
Series III[change | change source]
The Series III Espada was launched in 1972.[3] It was fitted with wider Pirelli Cinturato 215/70WR15 CN12 tyres. The front grille now had a square instead of hexagonal mesh. A sunroof was also made an option for the Series III.[4]
The 350 hp (261 kW; 355 PS) engine was carried over from the Series II Espada. Power steering by ZF and air conditioning were now standard. In 1974, a Chrysler Torqueflite 3 speed automatic transmission became available as an option.[4]
From 1975, large impact bumpers had to be installed to meet United States safety requirements. Other changes had to be made for the car to meet US laws. Some people consider these later US-spec cars to be a separate fourth series of the Espada.[4]
Engine and transmission[change | change source]
The Espada used an updated version of the 400 GT's 4.0 liter V12 engine. The engine produced 325 hp (242 kW; 330 PS) horsepower in the Series I Espada, and 350 hp (261 kW; 355 PS) in the Series II and III Espadas.[3] The engine was paired to a five-speed manual transmission, with a three-speed Chrysler-built automatic transmission as an option for the Series III Espada.[5]
Lamborghini Islero
Lamborghini 400 GT
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↑ "Designer". ajovalo.net. Retrieved 2012-02-08.
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Marchet, Jean-François (1985). Lamborghini Espada & the 4-seaters : 350GT, 400GT, Islero, Jarama, Marzal, Espada. London: Osprey. ISBN 0-85045-592-8. OCLC 12806744.
↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Lyons, Pete (1988). The Complete Book of Lamborghini. New York: Beekman House. pp. 106–122. OCLC 18937830.
↑ 5.0 5.1 Borel, Jean-Marc (1981). Lamborghini. Bolognese (BO), Italia: Lamborghini. pp. 61–67. ISBN 2-903652-00-7. OCLC 9458867.
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import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

/**
 * This class represents queue capacities for a given partition
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@XmlRootElement
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public class PartitionQueueCapacitiesInfo {
  private String partitionName;

  private float capacity;
  private float usedCapacity;
  private float maxCapacity = 100;
  private float absoluteCapacity;
  private float absoluteUsedCapacity;
  private float absoluteMaxCapacity  = 100;
  private Float maxAMLimitPercentage;

  public PartitionQueueCapacitiesInfo() {
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  public PartitionQueueCapacitiesInfo(String partitionName, float capacity,
      float usedCapacity, float maxCapacity, float absCapacity,
      float absUsedCapacity, float absMaxCapacity, Float maxAMLimitPercentage) {
    super();
    this.partitionName = partitionName;
    this.capacity = capacity;
    this.usedCapacity = usedCapacity;
    this.maxCapacity = maxCapacity;
    this.absoluteCapacity = absCapacity;
    this.absoluteUsedCapacity = absUsedCapacity;
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    this.maxAMLimitPercentage = maxAMLimitPercentage;
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    return capacity;
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    this.usedCapacity = usedCapacity;
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    return maxCapacity;
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  public void setMaxCapacity(float maxCapacity) {
    this.maxCapacity = maxCapacity;
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  public String getPartitionName() {
    return partitionName;
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    this.partitionName = partitionName;
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  public float getAbsoluteCapacity() {
    return absoluteCapacity;
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    this.absoluteCapacity = absoluteCapacity;
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  public float getAbsoluteUsedCapacity() {
    return absoluteUsedCapacity;
  }

  public void setAbsoluteUsedCapacity(float absoluteUsedCapacity) {
    this.absoluteUsedCapacity = absoluteUsedCapacity;
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  public float getAbsoluteMaxCapacity() {
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    return maxAMLimitPercentage;
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It's official! (Or sort of official.) Life in another galaxy most probably does exist. But don't take my word for it. Check out the latest discoveries by NASA.
As of yesterday, May 11, 2016, NASA scientists have verified the existence of 1,284 new exoplanets that were discovered by the Kepler telescope.
What is an 'exoplanet', you ask? Apparently it is a planet that orbits around its own sun and stars outside of our solar system. NASA, using the Kepler telescope, has now discovered 1, 284 of them!
This research began in around 2009 and since then Kepler has identified some 4000 potential planets. The problem, however, was that scientists always needed to do more research to discover whether or not these were actually planets. Until now, those potential planets had been verified by ground-based measurements (which were slow and less effective) in order to ensure that what the telescope saw was actually a planet and not an 'impostor.' An 'impostor' could be another object, such as a small star. So the research was tricky, and manually verifying these planets took a really long time.
Now, a new method has been created by one Dr. Timothy Morton, a Princeton research scholar.
Morton's method is based on previous techniques. However, Morton's computation is fully automated — therefore the team only spends a few minutes on each planetary candidate. According to Dr. Morton's research, the probability of the 1,284 planets being 'real' is greater than 99 percent.
Imagine it! Twelve hundred new planets are out there, all in a completely different solar system! But the news gets even better.
In this group of validated planets, NASA reports that nearly 550 could be "rocky planets like Earth." Of those 550 planets, 9 of them orbit in the habitable zone of their own sun. The distance between those planets and their suns would allow each planet a surface temperature to host liquid water.
Nine planets. In another galaxy. WITH WATER. Water is, as we know, the main source of life!
Ironic, isn't it? Just when we lose David Bowie, NASA makes a startling discovery that would have pleased Ziggy Stardust and his Spiders from Mars very much.
It gets better. NASA further states that astronomers also now know of 21 additional exoplanets that are less than twice the size of Earth, and also may have some of the conditions for life, the same as Earth!


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Steve Baer is Managing Partner of Code and Theory's Brand Design Group. He launched the group in 2012, which counts among its digital AOR clients Dr Pepper Snapple Group and L'Oreal. Prior to launching the Brand Design Group, Steve built and led the Creative Strategy discipline across the agency, which consists of a blend of product and brand strategists, and visual and UX designers. This team remains at the heart of the company's creative process today. In 2013, he was named to Business Insider's list of the "30 Most Creative People in Social Media Marketing." Before Code and Theory, Steve served as Senior Director at TBWA Chiat / Day and Managing Director at Fullsix London. He started his career at Y&R New York in 1997.
Adam Berger is a strategic brand builder who brings his passion for marketing to Facebook's Creative Solutions team. Most notably, he has co-developed and leads Facebook's Publishing Garage program, a intensive two-day client/agency work session that enables brands to build idea driven publishing systems rooted in measurable business objectives. This widely successful program has attracted over 120 of the world's most revered brands and has been hosted in virtually every corner of the globe. Continuing to drive even more momentum, Adam is involved in building Facebook's next big engagement approach, Anthology. He has also worked on client projects for Coca-Cola, P&G, Budweiser, Diageo, Capital One, Citibank, AT&T, and more.
Jacob Ellenberg is the Director of Integrated Content for Dark Rye, an online magazine of Whole Foods Market. With a background in creating multi-media storytelling platforms, data mining, and organizational development, Jacob looks for ways to inspire cultural transformation through storytelling and commerce. He has been a serial entrepreneur and holds B.A. degree from New York University in Organizational Behavior, Narrative Theory, and Mysticism.
Vanessa Holden is the Creative Director of West Elm and is responsible for all facets of the brand's identity and experience online, in the West Elm catalog, and in more than 50 stores around the world. Vanessa has focused on the art of storytelling through images and words throughout her diverse career in publishing and design. Prior to West Elm she was the SVP and Editor-in-Chief of Martha Stewart Living and has worked on various publications and brands including Martha Stewart Weddings, Real Simple, Marie Claire (Australia) and was the co-founder of Donna Hay Magazine in Australia.
Eurie Kim is a Principal at Forerunner Ventures, a San Francisco based micro VC fund focused on partnering with ambitious entrepreneurs who are tackling the challenges and opportunities of today's rapidly evolving digital commerce landscape. Over the past 10 years, Eurie has evaluated and aided a wide variety of companies in their quest to define business models, identify target markets, and overcome operational and competitive challenges to drive growth. Representative investments in the Forerunner portfolio include: Birchbox, Bonobos, Dollar Shave Club, Joor, Trendabl, Wanelo, Wantful and Warby Parker.
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John Poisson is a designer and four-time entrepreneur with 20 years experience as a leader in film, consumer electronics, social media and retail. He is Founder and CEO of Wantful, a leading online specialty retailer focused on gift giving. John previously founded Tiny Pictures, acquired by Shutterfly; led mobile media design at Sony in Tokyo; and founded two of Canada's largest visual effects studios. He studied cinematography at Boston University, where he later served as Adjunct Professor.
Shane Snow is a technology journalist and Chief Creative Officer of Contently, a New York-based media company whose mission is to empower journalists and brands to connect and tell stories. Shane's writing has appeared in Wired Magazine, Fast Company, The Washington Post, and Advertising Age.
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As followers of Jesus, we're part of bringing healing and wholeness to a broken world. But how do we do that? Jesus looked upon the harassed and helpless crowd and felt compassion for them. He told us to proclaim the Good News and use our gifts to bring hope and healing into a broken and hurting world.
The Kingdom of God on Earth is limited only by the unwillingness of God's people to repent.
The biggest predictor of happiness and fulfillment overall in life is Love. Compassion starts with taking a risk to love; treating others like they matter to God.
We begin our series by debunking some of the myths around mental health. As a community of faith we particularly want to deal with the bad theology that Christians sometimes adopt towards mental illness. We can blame the person, we treat them as if something is wrong with their faith, we avoid the conversation, etc. Paul gives us a better way in 2 Cor. 1 as we consider that our caring is rooted in Christ and that He comforts us (He may not "cure" us) and we comfort one another.
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The Trinidad and Tobago Carnival is an annual event celebrated on the Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago is the most significant event on the islands' cultural and tourism calendar, with numerous cultural events leading up to the street parade on Carnival Monday and Tuesday. It is said that if the islanders are not celebrating it, then they are preparing for it, while reminiscing about the past year's festival. The heart of the musical celebration has been calypso. In recently times, soca has replaced calypso as the most celebrated type of music. Costumes, stick fighting and limbo competitions are also important components of the festival.
Spain and England at different times both claimed Trinidad as their colonies. Under British rule, the French settled in Trinidad, bringing with them their slaves, customs, and culture. By 1797, 14,000 French settlers came to live in Trinidad, consisting of about 2,000 whites and 12,000 slaves. Most of the native peoples (often called the Amerindians) who were the first people to live in Trinidad, died from forced labour and illness.
Carnival was introduced to Trinidad around 1785, as the French settlers began to arrive. The tradition caught on quickly, and fancy balls were held where the wealthy planters put on masks, wigs, and beautiful dresses and danced long into the night. The use of masks had special meaning for the slaves, because for many African peoples, masking is widely used in their rituals for the dead. Obviously banned from the masked balls of the French, the slaves would hold their own little carnivals in their backyards -- using their own rituals and folklore, but also imitating their masters' behaviour at the masked balls.
Today, carnival in Trinidad is like a mirror that reflects the faces the many immigrants who have come to this island nation from Europe, Africa, India, and China. African, Asian, and American Indian influences have been particularly strong.
Carnival arts offers a dynamic tool for self-expression and exploration, a tool to seek out our roots, a tool to develop new forms of looking at the world and its cultures, and finally, a tool to unite the world, to discover what we all have in common, and to celebrate what makes us different.


I'm trying to make a custom action editor.
I want to change a string field to appear as a Popup that I generate from a file.
My problem is that the inspector class changes this string field value and this field must not be seen in the action inspector.
I have "HideInInspector" attribute but PlayMaker seems that ignores it.
If I change the field to be a property it seems that it doesn't store the value correctly (doesn't get serialized).
Can you post what you have so far?
Yes, it was the first thing I did. I read the release notes and it was a link to that example.
The second one is the variable to store the value.
The third one is the "EditorGUILayout.PopupField" that I generate from a file. When I change the value on this field it write it on the first field.
Another question, why there is no "OnDisable" or "OnDestroy" like the Unity Editor class?
Because I need to do some stuff when the action editor it's destroyed.
If you need to hide a field, don't use DrawDefaultInspector.
Use EditField(fieldName); to draw each field you want to show.
Or you could go even lower level and just use EditorGUI controls directly.
There is no way to manually draw the variable controls though.
These use cases didn't come up in the beta.
Can you post the action you're trying to build an editor for?
Instead of using "DrawDefaultInspector" I replaced it for "EditField("text")" because it's the only field that I wanted to appear on the inspector.
But I really need a "OnDestroy", please!!
Interested to know the use case for OnDestroy as well.
I really need a "OnDestroy", please!!
Can't you just put the actions you want it to do before it runs the destroy? Or encase it in a wrapper and destroy the child while the wrapper runs the on destroy actions?
I'm always talking about code that I want to execute in the action editor, not the action itself.
CustomActionEditor has OnDisable in 1.6.1 (coming soon).
I would second on the ability to hide a variable from inspector when using DrawDefaultInspector.
There are times when I want specific control for public variables, either that or allow serializing non-public variables.
I agree this would be useful.


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CJEU on the implications of its Judgment in Pula Parking: Joined cases C-267/19 and C-323/19, Parking / Interplastics
May 20, 2020 /2 Comments/in News /by Krzysztof Pacula
Preliminary question and its context
In its Judgment of 7 May 2020, delivered in the joined cases C-267/19 and C-323/19 without Advocate General's Opinion, the Court of Justice provides some further guidance on the implications of its previous case law and most notably of the Judgment in the case C-551/15, Pula Parking ('Judgment in Pula Parking').
Just as in the case that led to Judgment in Pula Parking, the requests for a preliminary ruling in the cases in question were lodged in the context of the proceedings on the oppositions to the writs of execution. Put succinctly: under the Croatian law, a notary issues a writ of execution based on an 'authentic document'. The party against whom enforcement is sought may lodge an opposition to that writ. The court to which the opposition is transferred has jurisdiction to set aside the writ and to annul the measures taken so far. The procedure continues according to the rules applicable to cases of opposition to a payment order.
By way of background, in Judgment in Pula Parking, the Court held, inter alia, that '[the Brussels I bis Regulation] must be interpreted as meaning that, in Croatia, notaries, acting within the framework of the powers conferred on them by national law in enforcement proceedings based on an "authentic document", do not fall within the concept of "court" within the meaning of that [Regulation]'.
The referring court in the present cases indicates that Judgment in Pula Parking receives various interpretation on the national level. It seems that the reading of this Judgment according to which it relates exclusively to enforcement proceedings conducted against a party being a natural person and national of another EU Member State prevails in the Croatian case law.
However, for the referring court, that reading of Judgment in Pula Parking establishes a discriminatory difference in the way in which the Brussels I bis Regulation is applied in Croatia. The referring court seems to understand that Judgment as implying that, in its Member State, notaries are not entitled to issue writs of execution based on an 'authentic document' and therefore, the fact that they continue to do so, is at odds with the Regulation.
In view of those explanations, at paragraph 42 the Court clarifies that it understands the request for a preliminary ruling as concerning the question whether Article 18 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and Article 47 of the Charter preclude national legislation entitling the Croatian notaries to issue the writs of execution on the basis of the 'authentic documents', which, in light of Judgment in Pula Parking, will not be recognized and/or enforced in other Member States under the scheme of the Brussels I bis Regulation.
Consideration of the question referred and what can be learned from it
At paragraph 43 the Court reaffirms that the writs of execution issued by the Croatian notaries would not benefit from the scheme of the Regulation when it comes to their recognition and/or enforcement. At paragraph 44, the Court reminds that Judgment in Pula Parking does not imply, however, that the Brussels I bis Regulation prevents the notaries from issuing the writs of execution. The references to Judgment in Pula Parking pave the way for the conclusion that neither Article 18 of the TFUE (paragraph 45), nor Article 47 of the Charter (paragraph 53) preclude national legislation entitling the notaries to issue the writs of execution which do not benefit from the recognition/enforcement scheme of the Regulation.
Incidentally, given that according to Judgment in Pula Parking the notaries do not fall within the concept of 'court' within the meaning of the Brussels I bis Regulation, paragraph 43 seems to imply that a writ of execution based on a 'authentic document' would not be recognized and/or enforced as 'judgment' within the meaning of Article 2(a) of the Regulation.
Neither the joined cases in question, nor the case that led to Judgment in Pula Parking offered an opportunity to address the question whether a writ of execution issued by a notary could be enforced under the scheme of the Brussels I bis Regulation as an 'authentic instrument' in the sense of Article 2(c) of the Regulation. In any case, an 'authentic document' on which a writ of execution is based cannot, in my view, be automatically placed on the same footing as such 'authentic instrument'. Therefore, a writ of execution would not necessarily have to be an 'authentic instrument' based on an 'authentic instrument'.
For the sake of completeness, AG Bot touched upon a somehow similar question in the context of the Regulation No 805/2004 (Regulation on European Enforcement Order for uncontested claims) in his Opinion in the case C-484/15, Zulfikarpaši. At points 45 to 49, he considered that a writ of execution is not an 'authentic instrument' within the meaning of Article 3(1) of that Regulation because the writ does not concern an uncontested claim. That argumentation is in line with the interpretation that the Court presented in its Judgment in that case and in particular at its paragraph 55. However, such argumentation could most probably not be directly transposed to the Brussels I bis Regulation as this Regulation does not confine its scope solely to uncontested claims.
It is also worth noticing that the Judgment of 7 May 2020 makes a point that exceeds the scope of the inquiry on the implications of Judgment in Pula Parking for the Croatian legal system. At paragraphs 33 et seq., in the part of the Judgment of 7 May 2020 relating to the jurisdiction of the Court, the criteria set in Article 3(1) of the Regulation no 1896/2006 (Regulation on European Order for Payment) in order to define a 'cross-border case' within the meaning of that Regulation are referred to in order to establish the existence of an international element that is necessary for the Brussels I bis Regulation to become applicable to a specific case.
The requests for a preliminary ruling in the cases in question can be consulted here and here. For numerous linguistic versions of the Judgment see here (no English version yet).
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J Fitchen says:
Thanks for the interesting post. I agree that an 'authentic document' that is enforceable domestically in the 'Member State of origin' does not necessarily equate with an Authentic Instrument under the Brussels Ia Regulation (etc.): such authentic instruments tend to require consent to the enforcement of a civil and commercial obligation by the person who becomes subsequently the authentic instrument debtor.
Krzysztof Pacula says:
Thank you! That is a very interesting point about the consent to the enforcement of a civil and commercial obligation being a requirement of an 'authentic instrument' under the EU PIL regulations.
Would you agree that the 'authenticity' (understood here as a concept of EU law requiring independent interpretation) of an instrument should relate to such consent?
Moreover, I guess that if one does not exclude that an 'authentic instrument' can be 'issued' (as opposed to 'drafted') within some kind of proceedings, the requirement in question might be useful to distinguish 'judgments' from 'authentic instruments' (of course the instances when the debtor admits the claim remain problematic but at least some other issues relating to 'authentic instruments' issued within the court proceedings could be solved).
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Combine pork belly, green shallots, coriander, ginger, oyster sauce, light soy,sherry, brown sugar and sesame oil together in a food processor, and process until finely chopped. Add prawn meat and pulse until just combined.
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About Porter
About 30 miles northeast of Houston, Porter is a community perfect for families and those who love the outdoors. If you've ever seen the 1950s show Trackdown, then the name Porter will be familiar! The western series was set in a fictionalized version of Porter.
The History of Porter
Named after James Porter, a sawmill owner and early settler of the area in the late 1800s, Porter has remained an unincorporated community since then.
Since it's not a city or town, Montgomery County handles all of Porter's administrative needs.
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By John Caldbick
With advances in the smelting and working of steel, riveted and welded geometric shapes could be constructed that distributed the various forces to which a bridge is subjected, adding great strength and allowing them to become longer than previously possible. Steel-truss bridges first appeared in the United States in the 1840s. Between about 1870 and the mid-1920s, truss bridges were the most common type built in this country, and dozens of variations on the basic theme were devised. These designs were often developed by engineers working for railroad companies, which needed bridges capable of carrying very heavy loads.
The Puyallup Avenue Bridge incorporates three different truss styles. The westernmost truss section, located in Tacoma, is a 193-foot-long Baltimore petit truss, a variation of the basic Pratt truss with additional diagonal members in the lower sections of the superstructure. The three, linked central spans that cross the river itself, each 252 feet long, are all Pennsylvania petit trusses, a modification of a Pratt-truss design, with additional diagonal members and a parabolic, as opposed to straight, top chord (the topmost horizontal members of the supporting superstructure). The eastern truss segment, located in Fife, is a Warren truss, with bracing that forms alternately inverted equilateral-triangle-shaped spaces along its 114-foot length. It is slightly modified from the "pure" Warren form by the addition of vertical members within each triangular section.
Much of the impetus to build a highway running the length of America's West Coast from the Canadian to the Mexican borders came not from government, but from automobile enthusiasts in the three states the road would travel through -- Washington, Oregon, and California. Although The New York Times credits A. E. Todd of Victoria, British Columbia, with first publicizing the idea, success has many fathers, and a number of other early auto visionaries worked to make the Pacific Highway a reality.
In Washington state, the government was notably slow to embrace the inevitable dominance of motor vehicles, but as early as 1899 private citizens, notably Samuel Hill (1857-1931), son-in-law of railroad magnate James J. Hill (1838-1916), joined together to form the Washington State Good Roads Association. It was organized to promote, as its name states, the construction by government of "good roads." Hill envisioned "a highway built through British Columbia down our own coastline, clear to Mexico and it's going to be a hard surfaced road" ("Samuel Hill celebrates ... ").
In 1910 a more specialized group, the Pacific Highway Association of North America, was formed in Seattle for "the promotion of the construction of an international highway along the Pacific Coast from Canada to Mexico" ("Autoists Organize Highway Association"). In that same year, Washington Highway Department Commissioner H. L. Bowlby (later to become chief engineer of the Oregon Department of Highways), spent $40,000 on a preliminary survey for the proposed route, and officials in Oregon and California soon followed suit.
Despite this early enthusiasm, finishing the entire Pacific Highway proved a prodigious slog. Work with the ultimate goal in mind started in 1913, and ten years later Oregon finished its portion of the road, becoming the first state west of the Mississippi to have a paved highway running its entire length. In many places, the Puyallup River crossing being one, bridges were completed before the roads that they would serve were paved and opened. There does not seem to be a specific date recorded when the entire Pacific Highway was deemed "complete," but segments were still being added and joined together well into the late 1920s. In fact, the Puyallup Avenue Bridge sat unused for more than eight months while paving was finished on the Pacific Highway between Seattle and Tacoma.
The Puyallup Avenue Bridge (also known as the Eells Street Bridge and the Puyallup River Bridge) was designed by engineers of the Washington State Highway Department. The prime contract for its construction was awarded to Grant Smith and Company of Seattle, and the Federal government financed a little more than one-half the $665,000 cost. One condition of federal aid was that all materials used in the construction be made in America. The Wallace Equipment Company of Seattle was selected to fabricate the steel used on the project, including the various components of the truss sections of the span and the heavy girders that supported the reinforced-concrete roadway.
Preliminary work began with site preparation in the late months of 1925. A central plant was established on the banks of the Puyallup River near the construction site. Material barged down from Seattle, including the span's structural steel, was offloaded here. Concrete to be used to build the bridge's approaches was mixed here as well, fed into buckets, then hauled by a small locomotive to the construction site, where the buckets were lifted by crane and their contents poured into prepared forms.
Among the first components of the bridge to be built were the concrete piers that would support the approaches on either side of the river. Protective cofferdams were constructed to permit work in areas invaded by the river's waters. Holes for pier footings were then excavated with clamshell buckets, forms built, and concrete poured.
The designers and builders of the Puyallup Avenue Bridge faced three major obstacles -- the Puyallup River itself, dikes built along the shore for flood control, and railroad tracks that ran roughly parallel to the river on either side. To cross these obstacles three variations of the truss-style bridge were used. These were linked to surface streets and to each other by sections made of reinforced-concrete.
Steel for the primary girders and truss sections of the Puyallup Avenue Bridge began arriving from Seattle by barge in March, 1926. Temporary wooden falsework was put in place to provide support while the concrete piers and steel truss segments were built. Men worked on both sides of the river, simultaneously preparing the east and west approaches to the main portion of the bridge.
Approaching from the west (Tacoma) side of the Puyallup River, a sloped concrete approach leads to a 193-foot-long Baltimore petit truss, a variation of the basic Pratt truss with additional diagonal members in the lower sections of the superstructure that add strength. The style was invented in 1871 by engineers for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and "petit" refers to the shorter additional bracing that is used. This section of the bridge carries traffic over railroad tracks that serve the industrial area of Tacoma that lies south of Commencement Bay.
Railroad tracks and dikes on the east (Fife) side of the Puyallup River are crossed by a Warren truss span with bracing that forms alternately inverted equilateral-triangle-shaped spaces along its 114-foot length. It differs from the "pure" form of the Warren truss only by the addition of vertical support members bisecting the triangular sections. This portion of the bridge is connected to the central span by a short concrete section of roadway and to the city of Fife by a long, reinforced-concrete ramp that terminates near the intersection of Eells Street and Milwaukee Way.
Building over water can be difficult and dangerous. Before work began on the construction of the three central sections of the Puyallup Avenue Bridge, a total of four massive concrete piers were poured to support the structure -- one on each shore and two embedded in the Puyallup River itself. Because the river is shallow at the site and thus impassable to sizeable vessels, the bridge could be built as a fixed span, with no need for sections that could be raised or pivoted to allow for boat traffic to pass.
On construction drawings, the five truss sections of the bridge were labeled (moving from east to west) A, B, C, D, and E. "A" is the Warren truss on the Fife side of the river, "E" is the Baltimore petit truss on the Tacoma side, and "B," "C," and "D" are the three linked Pennsylvania petit truss segments that pass over the river.
Construction of the three central spans began on the west (Tacoma) side of the river, with Span D. Wooden falsework was build out over the river, the large longitudinal bottom girders supporting the bridge deck were put in place in sections, and the rest of the truss framework built in stages atop them. These main girders provide the primary support for the roadbed and, tied directly to the bridge's steel superstructure, become an integral part of the truss design. The entire truss "unit" -- bottom, sides, and top -- all linked together by welds and/or riveting, distributes the weight of the bridge itself (the dead load), the weight of the traffic thereon and the stresses it creates (the live load), and the lateral and vertical forces (called static and dynamic loads) caused by the wind. Expansion joints at set intervals were installed to permit minor changes in the bridge's length caused by seasonal temperature variations.
When Span D was substantially complete, the builders moved on to Span C, extending girders between the two mid-river piers, then erecting the sides and tops of the truss structure. In this gradual way, the workers progressed across the river form west to east. Span B was last, and when it was completed the preparations for paving these three segments could begin.
Contemporary photographs indicate that each of the three center truss sections of the bridge took about six weeks to construct. When the last was done, the Puyallup Avenue Bridge, while not quite complete, spanned the river from shore to shore. All that was left to do was removing the falsework, final paving, and minor detail work.
Among the last tasks for the bridge builders was the pouring of the roadway over the river and the final finishing of the bridge's curbing, sidewalks, and concrete railings. A latticework of steel reinforcing bar was laid down over the bottom chords of the central span and concrete poured from buckets maneuvered by large cranes.
Special attention was given to the railings, which the designers had specified should be smooth and have a finished look. The forms used to make them were made of high quality, tongue-and-groove boards, which were oiled before the concrete was poured to insure clean removal of the forms and a smooth surface on the railings.
All the major work on the Puyallup Avenue Bridge was completed by January, 1927, two months ahead of schedule and within budget. A dedication ceremony was held on the center span on January 8, 1927. However, significant stretches of the Pacific Highway between Seattle and Tacoma remained unpaved, and the bridge would not open to traffic until this was substantially completed more than eight months later.
When complete, the Puyallup Avenue Bridge was 2,833 feet long, with a 36-foot-wide roadway and five-foot pedestrian walkways on either side. It was, for its time, a graceful structure, with the long concrete approaches on either side leading to the three intricate central truss spans. The workmanship was excellent and the materials of the highest quality. The bridge was built to last, and lasted it has, for over 85 years (as of 2013).
But time and the elements have taken their toll. Steel has rusted, concrete has cracked, and in recent years restrictive load limits for the bridge have been necessary. Repairs and maintenance have become ever more costly, and the need for a robust commercial arterial across the Puyallup River, with direct access to Tacoma's industrial area and port facilities, has taken on increased importance as the area has grown far beyond what it was in 1928.
The City of Tacoma, which now owns the bridge and is responsible for its maintenance, has for several years been preparing for its eventual replacement. Although not all the funding is yet in place (2013), planning is well along. Replacing the entire span at once (at an estimated cost of $38 million, almost exactly 50 times the original price tag) has been deemed not feasible, and current proposals call for a three-step process, with the western portion of the bridge up to the first Pennsylvania petit truss section due to be replaced with a modern and striking looking cable-stayed span. In later years the rest of the bridge will be dismantled and replaced, bringing to an end a piece of Pacific Highway history that will by then have provided nearly a century of service.
The Puyallup Avenue Bridge in Pierce County crosses the Puyallup River and links Tacoma to the small city of Fife to its east. It was opened in 1927 as one of the last Washington segments of the famed Pacific Highway, which eventually ran unbroken from British Columbia to the Mexican border. As of 2013, the bridge had been in constant use for over 85 years. Linked by sections of reinforced concrete, Its five steel-truss spans cross dikes, railroad lines, and the Puyallup River and are part of a still-important arterial freight corridor that serves Tacoma's port and industrial areas.
Aerial view, Puyallup Avenue Bridge (center) over Puyallup River linking Tacoma and Fife (left), Pacific Highway, 1958
Courtesy Tacoma Public Library, Richards Studio Collection (A113921-8)
Caravan Bridge over Meles River, Turkey, built ca. 850 BCE
Alcantara Bridge, Roman stone-arch span, Spain, built ca. 105 BCE
Photo by Dantila, Courtesy Wikimedia Commons
"The Pacific Highway," The New York Times, July 10, 1921 (http://www.nytimes.com/); "Autoists Organize Highway Association," The Seattle Times, September 20, 1910, p. 9; HistoryLink.org Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History, "Samuel Hill celebrates international peace and dedicates the Pacific Highway at Blaine on July 4, 1915" (by Richard Clark), and "Puyallup Avenue Bridge" (by John Caldbick), and "Politicians, officials, and members of the public dedicate Pacific Highway's Puyallup Avenue Bridge linking Tacoma and Fife on January 8, 1927" (by John Caldbick), http://www.historylink.org/ (accessed August 11-13, 2013).
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AngloGold Ashanti Limited's Sadiola Gold Plant Fully Certified Under International Cyanide Management Code
The International Cyanide Management Institute (ICMI) announced today that AngloGold Ashanti Limited's Sadiola Gold Plant in Mali has been certified as fully compliant with the International Cyanide Management Code (Code).
The Sadiola Gold Plant had been found in substantial compliance with the Code and was conditionally certified in November 2009, and its Corrective Action Plan was posted on the ICMI web site. In April 2010, ICMI received and posted a Partial Completion Report from an independent professional third-party auditor, along with an extension of the operation's original date for completion of the remaining item. ICMI now has received and accepted a report from an independent professional third-party auditor verifying that the remaining item has been corrected and the operation is fully compliant with the Code. The auditor's Final Completion Report is available on the web site at http://cyanidecode.org/signatory_anglogold.php and the previous Partial Completion Report has been removed. The Sadiola Gold Plant must be re-audited every three years to evaluate its continuing compliance with the Code.
The Code is a voluntary industry program for companies involved in the production of gold using cyanide and companies producing and transporting this cyanide. It was developed under the aegis of the United Nations Environment Programme by a multi-stakeholder Steering Committee. The Code is intended to complement an operation's existing obligation to comply with the applicable laws and regulations of the political jurisdictions in which the operation is located.
ICMI has been established to administer the Code, promote its adoption, evaluate its implementation, and manage the certification process. A detailed list of the operations covered by signatory companies' applications, along with the full text of the Code and its implementing and administrative documents, are available at www.cyanidecode.org.


Transient acantholytic dermatosis (Grover disease) is not an uncommon condition, but, surprisingly, it was not thoroughly characterized until Grover did so in 1970.  While generally accepted to be a benign, self-limited disorder, it is often persistent and difficult to manage; hence, the description of transient is misleading.  The presentation can be subtle, or it may closely resemble other pruritic dermatoses. A high index of suspicion for this disease is necessary if the diagnosis is to be made correctly. Furthermore, the histologic features of transient acantholytic dermatosis (Grover disease) closely resemble those of several other conditions that are clinically distinct, which may add to potential diagnostic confusion.
Exact numbers regarding the prevalence of transient acantholytic dermatosis (Grover disease) are not available. Because of the clinical similarities with other entities and variable histopathologic findings, the disease is underdiagnosed in nondermatologic settings and probably underdiagnosed overall.
Transient acantholytic dermatosis (Grover disease) most commonly affects middle-aged white men, although it may be seen in other ethnic groups, such as Hispanics and blacks.
Men are affected three times more often than women.
Transient acantholytic dermatosis (Grover disease) most commonly affects middle-aged men; however, it has been in reported in children.
Generally, transient acantholytic dermatosis (Grover disease) is a self-limited disorder that resolves over weeks to months, but it can be persistent and may repeatedly recur for years.
Transient acantholytic dermatosis (Grover disease) is not curable, and the cause is unknown. Although the symptoms can frequently be controlled, some cases are refractory to treatment and difficult to manage.
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A 54-year-old man with a pruritic eruption on the trunk. Notice the slight lichenification and significant erythema from rubbing that is localized to the central part of the torso. Also note the red-brown papules in the abdominal region.
Close-up view of the abdominal area of a patient with a pruritic eruption on the trunk. Multiple, small, discrete, red-brown papules characteristic of Grover disease are present.
Histopathology of Darier-type Grover disease. A focus of acantholytic dyskeratosis is present in the epidermis with slight epithelial hyperplasia and hyperkeratosis, a sign of rubbing as a consequence of the pruritic nature of the disease (hematoxylin and eosin, original magnification X40).
Higher magnification reveals the acantholytic dyskeratosis to better advantage. Note the corps ronds and grains (hematoxylin and eosin, original magnification X400).
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