Keep your windows sparkling and beautiful with window steam cleaning services in Elmhurst, NY. Over time, debris can start to build up on your windows, leaving them dingy, cloudy and uninviting. One of the fastest, most effective ways to clean and sanitize these glass surfaces is with the power of steam.
Windows have a way of getting dirty, even inside your Elmhurst home or business. It doesn't matter if you have a mansion, a modest flat or a thriving business enterprise. Hands that touch the windows leave behind grease and unattractive fingerprints. Dust floats through the air and starts to collect on the glass. Particles from cooking can become airborne, drifting through your home or restaurant and settling on the glass windows. Soot from candles and moisture from boiling teakettles can migrate to these glass surfaces, leaving them looking dull and unkempt. Glass isn't as smooth as you might think. Close examination shows that a sheet of glass actually has tiny variations, valleys and peaks. The imperfections in glass provide a perfect landing pad for microscopic debris that floats through the air in your home.
Despite how easily windows can get dirty, it is worth the effort to keep them clean and shining. Windows that are sparkling clean allow the sunshine to flow into the room, brightening the entire area. The view outside your home or business will be more welcoming and beautiful when dirt and grime aren't coating the window. A clean window will make the entire room look a little cleaner, brighter and more welcoming. As important as this may be for homeowners, it's vital for commercial business owners.
The most efficient way to clean windows, steam will effectively remove grease from dirty hands and germs that float through the air when people cough or sneeze. The powerful steam leaves the glass sparkling without any streaks to detract from the beauty of your windows. Eliminating any mold or mildew around the frame, the glass will be sparkling clean. Steam works with the power of hot water and as a result, there are no dangerous chemicals involved in the process. There will not be any fumes to upset your customers or make you sneeze, and there won't be any chemical residue left to cause streaking.
Window blinds are essential for controlling light and providing privacy, but they are notorious for holding dust and dirt. Difficult to clean manually, a steam cleaner can leave them looking like new. Dust won't be able to hide from the power of steam, allowing any build-up to be cleared away completely. An appropriate cleaning method for vertical and horizontal blinds, steam cleaning will work on wood, aluminum, vinyl, plastic and even fabric blinds.
If your Elmhurst windows are looking dull and tired, trust 1st Class Cleaning to make them sparkle and shine again. From the corners of the frame to the blinds covering your windows, we will make sure that your windows are clean, shining and ready to provide you with a glorious view of the world. Contact us today at www.1stclasscleaningnyc.com to schedule a Window Steam Cleaning Services in Elmhurst,NY.
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Clouding: What is Stopping Your Business from Switching to the Cloud?
By Lenildo Morais, Project Manager | June 27, 2019
Many companies are still reluctant when it comes to getting their IT infrastructures fully online. But what is are the biggest things preventing businesses from moving to the cloud today? Is it uptime, security, privacy or the challenge of migrating current infrastructure to the cloud? For some, it's all of these.
Will my operational continuity be guaranteed?
By losing direct control over the maintenance of their servers, companies are concerned about the continuity of their activities. However, continuity is one of the most important reasons to switch to a cloud environment.
By storing data on multiple servers in different data centers and even in different regions, the availability will be much better than when using your own servers. If a server, a complete data center, or the Internet connection in the office fails, work may continue at home or through mobile networks because the data is available elsewhere. In addition, a system that is in the cloud will be able to cope better with peak times.
Is my data secure?
With the right cloud provider, companies no longer have to worry about data security because guarantees are offered through multiple security certificates. Along with this assurance, the necessary tools, such as machine learning to protect data in cutting-edge cloud environments against external attacks are also offered. Rules and policies can be determined by the companies themselves.
Is a journey to the cloud compliant with privacy legislation, such as GDPR?
GDPR legislation means that customer data must be protected and verified. Many outdated internal ERP systems do not have sufficiently advanced security to comply with this new privacy legislation. But, data is well protected by cloud providers. In addition, there are several tools that help manage the data and its access, which is a key factor in GDPR regulations.
The journey to the cloud not only makes businesses align with legislation, but also provides the tools needed to comply with regulations with much less effort, time and cost, compared to their own on-premises ERP systems.
Will migrating legacy systems to the cloud be a problem?
Most companies still have integrated applications in an on-premises data center. Upgrading legacy systems is very labor intensive, especially when upgrades and fixes conflict with extensions and system-specific features. Most companies work with types of ERP systems they would like to replace. Clouding means these systems must be migrated, a task that scares many companies.
The journey to the cloud will certainly require a lot of effort but, with the help of the right tools, a company can determine the best approach and model for transferring all legacy applications to the cloud.
By working with a trusted partner who creates a customized solution for digital transformation, the journey to the cloud will become a success story. Once the change to ERP in the cloud has been made, a company can constantly update the system with the latest versions and extensions that are always delivered as part of the service from the ERP vendor.
Why should companies opt for Cloud Computing?
Technology has been transforming the corporate world at a pace never seen before. Among the most recent relevant advancements, cloud computing has been gaining ground among traditional and well-respected enterprises around the world. But why should the business world adopt this computing model?
Greater Security – A company with a physical server has to invest heavily in the data security, and security updates should be closely monitored by the IT staff. Cloud computing vendors have state-of-the-art security certifications and system updates happen automatically (especially in SaaS (News - Alert) and PaaS).
Profit Increase – With an integrated, optimized system, companies realize increases in profits. The operational efficiency of the business allows for several integrations with banks and partners and the results are soon felt in the company's refenue streams and profit margins.
System Flexibility – The goal of every business is to grow. With the development of the business, the number of data and processes increases in the network. With a private server, the company will have to expand its system, which generates expenses and takes up physical space. A cloud-based system has the flexibility that many companies need because of the sheer volume of data. This versatility makes companies feel more free and autonomous in managing their data in the cloud.
Constant Updates – Keeping an up-to-date data system is often a challenge for internal IT teams. With cloud computing, the automation of upgrades delivers increased efficiency allowing IT teams to focus on other core operational tasks.
Simple and fast journey to the Cloud
Today, with the many cloud options, the big challenge for companies and IT leaders is to find out what is the most appropriate cloud for their businesses and, in paticular, how to adapt this technology to positively impact their companies. That's why it's important to have a company specializing in cloud computing – a Cloud Broker – so the migration to the cloud is quiet and secure and allows business to start realizing the benefits of cloud computing as quickly as possible.
The opportunities delivered by cloud-based solutions and cloud migration strategies will be among the fetaured topics of conversation at ITEXPO 2020, taking place February 12-14, 2020, and many of the other components of the TechSuperShow, including MSP Expo and SD-WAN Expo. Register today for the lowest rates, and if you would like to share your cloud migration experiences with other attendees, we'd love to hear from you.

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New Delhi [India], December 4 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Delhi High Court order that had declined Enforcement Directorate's (ED) plea seeking the revocation of approver status granted to Rajiv Saxena in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper case.
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New Delhi [India], September 25 (ANI): A Delhi court on Friday took cognizance of the supplementary chargesheet filed against alleged middleman Christian Michel, businessman Rajeev Saxena and others in connection with the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam case.
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12 Stones bio, timeline, discography, pics & more
12 Stones photo 2007
12 Stones Biography
Hailing from the rural town of Mandeville, a small suburb just north of New Orleans, Louisiana USA, this Alternative-Rock outfit was formed in 2000 by vocalist Paul McCoy, guitarist Eric Weaver, bassist Kevin Dorr and drummer Aaron Gainer.
Though comprised of four guys all under the age of twenty, 12 Stones recorded a demo which began to circulate quickly among fans and major record labels, thus resulting in a record deal with Wind-up Records who released their eponymous debut full-length disc in April 2002. The record became a top 10 hit on the U.S. Billboard's Christian Albums chart and crept into the Billboard 200. The first single "Broken" displayed the energy of this young guys receiving significant airplay on alt-Rock radio; it was followed by two further excellent singles: "The Way I Feel" and "Crash". Over the next two years the group sold over 300,000 copies of their first album, largely through touring with the likes of Creed and 3 Doors Down and word-of-mouth.
Paul McCoy had a guest appearance on Evanescence's transatlantic hit single "Bring Me To Life", duetting with Amy Lee.
In early 2004, Dorr left the band and guitar player Greg Trammell joined in time for the recording of the group's second effort, "Potter's Field", which was released in August the same year. It peaked at #29 on The Billboard Top 200 chart and included the singles "Photograph" and "Far Away", the latter of which hit the top 40 of The Mainstream Rock Tracks.
Operating as a five-piece unit with the addition of rhythm guitarist Justin Rimer, 12 Stones issued its third studio record, "Anthem For The Underdog", in August 2007; the CD debuted at #53 on The Billboard 200 spawning three Hot Mainstream Rock top 30 hits "Lie To Me", the title-track and "Adrenaline".
Three years later the band put out a stop gap release called "The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday", a 5-song EP which featured the Active Rock top 30 hit "We Are One", a fist-pumping ode to the men and women of America's military. This was the final release for Wind-up Records.
In early 2011, 12 Stones signed a new record deal with Executive Music Group. In June of that same year, the group, now comprised of McCoy, Weaver, Rimer and two newcomers, Brad Reynolds on bass and Michael McManus on drums released a single called "Bulletproof" which was expected to feature on their fourth full album. The disc, initially titled "Only Human", saw the light of day in May 2012 ultimately retitled "Beneath The Scars", it just squeaked into the The Billboard 200 but hit #6 on The Top Christian Albums chart producing two Active Rock top 40 hits in "Psycho" and "Infected" as well as a Christian Rock #1 smash with "Worlds Collide". In the meantime rhythm guitarist Justin Rimer left the band, drummer Aaron Gainer returned to the fold and bass player Will Reed replaced Reynolds.
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I'm in the process of decorating our house for Christmas. The tree is such a central piece of our decorating, but years ago (7 to be exact) we brought a delightful boy home called Woody (our first boy dog) in September and that following Christmas we went out and bought our tree, set it up and decorated it. And Woody promptly went over, lifted his leg and relieved himself — on our Christmas tree. Needless to say I was speechless and completely unaccustomed to the habits of boy dogs.
Then the following February we brought Ellie home as a 7-week-old puppy. She was soooo cute, but spent all of her waking hours putting things in her mouth. She didn't grow out of that until she was about 2, so when Christmas rolled around the next year, we decided we needed a tree that was out of reach for both of the dogs. We have a small table top tree that did the trick and that we still use, but I miss how a room feels with a larger tree.
I saw this pin on Pinterest and followed the link. Unfortunately the link is just a photograph, but it's a good picture and I was able to figure out what they did. We have a lot of trees and a lot of good sized tree branches so I saved a few and cut them up today. I shared in an earlier post that we discovered that Ellie likes to help in the yard by catching dirt. I found out today she also likes catching sawdust. She's a weird dog!
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Karen Johanne Klint (født 6. oktober 1947 i Hemmerslev) var folketingsmedlem for Socialdemokraterne for Vejle Amtskreds fra 11. marts 1998 og for Vejle Sydkredsen (Sydjyllands Storkreds) fra 13. november 2007.

Karen Klint valgte i 2018 ikke at genopstille ved det næste folketingsvalg.

Karen Klint er datter af husmand Chr. Regnar Jensen og Inger Klint Jensen.

Realeksamen. Socialpædagog 1970. Merkonom i personaleledelse Handelsskolen, Vejle. Etårig videreuddannelse Socialpædagogisk Højskole, Gedved.

Omsorgsassistent og afdelingsleder 1970-80 Forsorgscentret i Bregning, pædagogisk konsulent 1980-87, stedfortræder i voksen- & handicapafdelingen Vejle Amt 1988-93. Årskursus 1993-94. Konstitueret centerleder Sønderparken, Hornsyld, 1994-98.

Medlem af Børkop Byråd 1978-80 og Vejle Byråd 1986-98. Medlem af Kommuneforeningen i Vejle Amt 1990-94. Medlem af Socialdemokratiets bestyrelse Bredballe fra 1994. Medlem af bestyrelsen for Jelling Statsseminarium 1990-98 og medlem af bestyrelsen på Vejle Fjord, center for hjerneskadede fra 2000.

Medlem af hovedbestyrelsen for Åndssvageforsorgens Personaleforbund 1976-79 og hovedbestyrelsen for Danmarks Skolebiblioteks Forening 1990-98. Formand for Social Udviklings Fond (SUF) 1995-98.

Partiets kandidat i Vejle-Jellingkredsen 1998.

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 DRs politiske profil for Karen J. Klint

Tidligere folketingsmedlemmer fra Socialdemokraterne
Folketingsmedlemmer i 2000'erne
Folketingsmedlemmer i 2010'erne
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Q: Remove public from URL in Laravel 9 using .htaccess on shared hosting/CPanel hosting I am trying to host a Laravel 9 application on a Cpanel shared host. However, the application keeps returning the below error even when I try to access https://example.com/public. Also below is my .htaccess file at the root; it used to work perfectly with Laravel 8 but is not working anymore. My problem is I want to access my application just using the domain without /public or /public.index.php (e.g., example.com).

Internal server error 500

.htaccess
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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^public
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You are missing the slash prefix on the CondPattern !^public, so this condition will always be successful and repeatedly rewrite the request, potentially causing a rewrite loop (ie. 500 error).
It should be like this instead:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/public($|/)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]

HOWEVER, you should also have another .htaccess file with mod_rewrite directives in the /public subdirectory that manages the routing through your Laravel app, and this should prevent a rewrite-loop.

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Joshua Free Publishing Imprint representing Mardukite Research Organization
It is very possible that you have never personally heard of Joshua Free before—and yet millions of people have enjoyed medias, music and motion pictures strongly influenced by his invisible hand. Known worldwide in the underground occult scene, Joshua Free is a prolific author of over two dozen books on ancient history, esoteric archaeology, alternative mysticism, practical occultism, and NexGen Systemology. He has been involved with practical Earth magic since he was 12, starting with his first initiation into Pheryllt Druidism by Douglas Monroe in 1995 as "Merlyn Stone" and holds an honorary position of "Bard of the Twelfth Chair" at "New Forest Centre for Magickal Studies." He founded the modern "Mardukite" movement in 2008, and is the presiding Director of the "Mardukite Research Organization," conceiving development of their most famous literary contribution: "Necronomicon: The Anunnaki Bible" and research volumes composing the "Mardukite Core." An advanced division of the organization, the "NexGen Systemological Society" (NSS), later formed underground in 2011
JOSHUA FREE began participating in his planetary mission by receiving 'unofficial' personal apprenticeships from individual mentors who were, themselves, members (active or preexisting) of the Illuminati, Rosicrucians, Freemasons, Catholic Mystics, Christian Gnostics, Buddhist Monks, Freezone Earth (Independent Scientology), the Dragon Court / Dragon Society, Theosophical Society, Aurum Solis, the GD (Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn), the O.T.O. (Ordo Templi Orientis) and A.A. (Argentium Astrum) among others.
At the age of 12, JOSHUA FREE was officially initiated into the Pheryllt Druid tradition (based on the work of Douglas Monroe) and then began leading his own Druid-styled organization at 13. The following year he was installed to the 'third degree' of Celtic Wicca. In the mid-1990′s, he was even heralded the youngest initiate to join the "Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids" (OBOD), a large international organization based in England that New Age (Druidic) authors frequently cite.
While in high school during the late-1990′s, JOSHUA FREE maintained leadership (under the name "Merlyn Stone") of a small esoteric mystical-magical experimental research group, the "Elven Fellowship Circle of Magick" (EFCOM), which met both in private and publicly in Washington Park (Denver, Colorado) from 1998 through 2000. Considered a prodigious youth among growing Rocky Mountain New Age Scene, he wrote many underground manifestos on various 'New Age' topics using the pseudonym "Merlyn Stone" while still a teenager — one of the first and most famous being the Sorcerer's Handbook that has reached thousands of readers and is currently celebrating its 20th Anniversary in 2018!
JOSHUA FREE quickly became a controversial underground occult figure (as author Merlyn Stone) that advocated radically diverse approaches to Druidic Philosophy & Metaphysics — including active participation with the New Forest "Pheryllt" group of his primary Druidic mentor, Douglas Monroe, for which he was unseated from all positions (particularly OBOD) and disappeared from public view — all while still a teenager in the 1990's!
Although now best known for his work on Sumerians, the Anunnaki and Babylonian Tradition for the "Mardukites", JOSHUA FREE's work on the Secret Dragon (Elven) Legacy and modern PHERYLLT Druid Tradition is also paramount. In addition to his own collected works anthology — THE DRUID COMPLEAT — his writing has even been used for the third volume completing the classic bestselling 'Merlyn' trilogy by Douglas Monroe: "The Deepteachings of Merlyn", in 2011.
Before returning to mainstream view in 2008 (nearly a decade later) via the internet, JOSHUA FREE had already spent fifteen years intensely exploring esoteric sects of society, underground counter-culture and contemporary academia. Following an individualized path, preferring personal apprenticeships over direct membership in certain groups and organizations, his all-encompassing 'Universalist' pursuit is to unify the knowledge and potential of the 'human condition' experiencing life in the "metaphysical universe". The literary cornerstone of this effort, consolidated and released in 2008 as ARCANUM: THE GREAT MAGICAL ARCANUM, not only earned him an honorary position in the "Ordo Lapsit Exillis" from Tracy R. Twyman and then as a companionate to the true revival "Dragon Court" of (the now 'late') Nicholas de Vere — JOSHUA FREE has also contributed to the rise of his own revolutionary 'Next Generation' (NexGen) underground movement…
On the Summer Solstice of 2008, JOSHUA FREE founded the inception of the modern "Mardukite" movement — currently in its tenth active year of operation, with extensive literary materials now in print. In Spring of 2011, he co-founded the "Systemology" division (Systemological Society) of the "Mardukite Research Organization." Drawn from the truth of the most ancient spiritual technologies on the planet!
JOSHUA FREE (known as "Nabu" to the Mardukites) is currently the author of over 30 books on wide-spanning subjects. He has personally published over 100 unique editions of his work for the Mardukite movement in addition to providing expert private third-party consultation and materials preparation for independent media publication for others — making him personally responsible for over 200 different books independently published from varying authors since 2008.
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Mr. Corso on August 21, 2016 at 6:30 am said:
Mr. Free
I just wanted to say "Hello" and Thank You for your interest in "The Nine Gates" My father was Bob Corso ….I am NOT Lucas or Dean. My name is Sean…but not spelled S E A N ….Most CANNOT spell my FIRST name ….they try,,,and after a great number of years NOONE has been able. Mr, Depp and I share the same birthday. And his character and I share the same interests in a lot of ways. The events in the movie are another subject. Many areas of Romans Movie reflect my life in this time…lol. Art imitates Life …so it is said. I'm still not certain if the world is ready for my "Nine Gates THROUGH A Kingdom of Shadows" . As it rests now… on my left since 1988.
Feel free to reach out… I'm here.
Sincerely ,,,,,Mr.Corso
aka..Zir Laiad 999
GateKeeper on February 25, 2019 at 11:27 pm said:
Master Free,
I have psychically been led down the rabbit hole to you and the information you are sharing. I received psychic information a couple years back that i am GateKeeper. Two years later I'm disocveeing what this is. Thank you for sharing the ancient knowledge and Information. I would love some assistance in guidance to what material will help me remember more about my purpose and service. I just purchased the 10th anniversary Necronomicon and studying it. I would be honored to be in communication with you as I have many mystical things occurring. Infinite blessings your way
Thomas Lucifer Kien on June 1, 2020 at 2:52 pm said:
Hello Joshua,
Your work has helped ma a lot and it's keep helping me along the way that I'm travelling in the unseen. I was always going on my own even though I've been a member of the HOtGD I've left unsatisfied with the teachings of never ending disturbance from the source and dwelling in not working methods (basically a club of readers and talkers unfortunately). After I've continued to study on my own I was always attract to the source, and that's how I've found your works. I'm practicing magic for about 15 years now and I'll continue till the end of my days. I'd like to know more of Mardukite movement and possibly join the order.
Please contact me know through the email.
T.L. Kien
Drake Magus on November 19, 2020 at 6:34 am said:
Hi Nabu. I've known of the existence of your mission since mid 2000's. I never read any of your books. In fact I've come and gone to your websites very infrequently over the years. But there was always something pulling me back. Today I've had an epiphane of sorts. I've always been interested in the topics you've written about and yet I've never read any of your works. You see I believe there is a Divine Plan or Universal Plan. The Universe has a plan. A path. We can use our free will to deviate from that path but it will only bring us sorrow. But if we embrace the Divine Plan and reliquish our free will then only good can come from it. There was an Eden. A paradise. It's a Sumerian legend based on truth. The lesson is this as I have just stated: either we submit to the Divine Plan and reap the benefits, relinquishing our free will OR we eat from the tree that was not meant for us to eat (a test of free will and it's consequences) and we pay dearly because we deviated from the Divine Plan. There is Order and Disorder in the Universe; following the Divine Plan brings order. What does that have to do with my being pulled back to things that I chose to disregard; your mission for example. I look back now even to when I was young and all my interests point to one thing. I am now revisting all those interests. I see a Divine Plan in all of it. I don't know if your mission can contribute to my purpose in life but I can no longer ignore it. I know you said that your mission is not popular but it's a start. It has to start somewhere. Your work may not be in vain. I say this because of this epiphane I've had recently. Everything happens for a reason and a purpose. We cannot deviate from what the Universe has planned for us no matter how hard we try; we always return to Eden. I cannot say with certainty if the Universe is pointing me in the direction of your work. No one knows the will of God but God. I can only watch out for the clues presented to me from the Divine Source as I understand it. I see sending you this message as a test: if anything I've just said interests you then I know I must be close to the path. If not then disregard this message.


Before you jump in with both feet and negotiate price, how do you know that you've prepared for success? Understand the difference between the "what" and "whys" when you negotiate on price. Prepare questions to better understand how to achieve an optimal negotiated outcome that includes your price.
Two sisters have a single orange. Like two well raised sisters, they decide to divide the orange in half. One sister takes the orange, peels the fruit, takes the rind and cuts it up for use to flavour a pie crust. The other sister takes the fruit, eats it, and tosses the rind into the trash.
These two sisters focused on the "what" and compromised without asking the most primary question in negotiating: "Why do you want that?" The consequence is that each sister only got half as much as they might, had they stopped and asked that question. With some sales price negotiation training, each sister would have learned to ask the pivotal questions.
Look at it another way: The "What" is the sales price, contract, job, etc. upon which you have decided. The "Why" is the motivation which caused you to make that decision. Quite a few negotiators make the error of thinking what they want is logical, transparent and important to everyone. A request from the other party for anything else causes the negotiation to deteriorate from solving a problem to arguing about positions.
A sales representative for a manufacturing company is making a call on a customer. The customer utilises a part from the manufacturer to produce their finished product. The sales representative has been designated with renewing the contract and getting an 8% price increase.
The sales representative talks the situation over with the manufacturer. The manufacturing executive advises the sales representative. "This is an item with a small profit margin, and you are only one of three companies that makes this product for us, nationally. If you are going to increase your prices, you are out and we are going to give your business to one or both of the other two companies. They have already indicated that they will not be raising pricing, this year." This is "What". Price appears to be the main issue for the buyer and seller to negotiate.
The sales representative queried the executive, "I am charged with getting the increase. What would you do if you were in my shoes?" This is inviting the executive buyer to step into the sales person's world, and will hopefully result in the buying executive starting to understand the salesman's "Why". He asked the question to ascertain more about what is really driving the price issue.
Suddenly, it is not the cost, but market share and survival that are the issues. The "why" opens up a brand new arena to guide price negotiations.
The sales representative returned back to his office and met with the engineers, sharing with them what he had learned. The customer is losing market share while other people are making a better product and their competitors are agreeing to zero increase in the next year. They went to work on the "why".
The engineers were able to redesign their piece of the product, and saved 15% off the price of manufacturing. The result was they were able to come back and successfully negotiate a new improved product at a lower cost, at an increased margin. This enabled the sales representative to negotiate price in a way that retained his business, but he was able to get an exclusive contract, eliminating his competition.
The sales representative had two choices in his talks with the manufacturer. One was to begin to negotiate sales price, defend, fight, convince, force the issue. The second was to ask questions while learning more about the interests behind the price position. What was learned was that it was market share, competition, and possibly design and technology, more than simply "everyone else agreed to no price increases, so if you don't, then you're out." This totally changed the approach to successfully negotiating an agreement. It is important to note that there were several "whys" behind the "what" of price.
Before you start to ask questions, understand where you are going. Randomly fired questions, without logic, makes the other party feel as if they are being interrogated and it raises tension.
Ask for permission to ask them questions.
This maintains safety and lowers the tension for the other party. They want to assist you.
These two techniques are valuable in helping a negotiator better understand the reason why the other party wants something at a particular price point.
When we are talking with another person, we receive communication from three basic sources. These are words, voice tone, and body language.
The best negotiators are not necessarily the best speakers. They are the best listeners. They are listening for the reasons why the other party is asking such as needs, wants, or they demand something. And they are listening for all the "whys", not just one. Because they are looking for the common ground from which a successful negotiation can be built. They are also seeking the interests that the other party may have that are not being met, that may get in the way of successfully solving the problem.
Selective listening: listen to everything, then select out the relevant information.
Responsive: making eye contact with the speaker two thirds of the time, taking notes, "I see", "Tell me more about that".
As writer Stephen Covey said in his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, "Seek first to understand, then to be understood." The other party will pay attention to you and work with you if they feel you understand their needs.
Typically, when two parties meet to negotiate price, there is an underlying desire to achieve an agreement. Also, many times the "what's" are diametrically opposed. For example, in a labour negotiation the union desires to get the best price for the members. Management prefers to protect the company. However, each needs the other (no company no jobs, no employees no company), so the effort to uncover the common "whys" will reveal that, in reality, they both want the same thing. Simply put, employees being paid fairly working in a healthy company.
When the "whys" are examined, generally price negotiation common ground is found. These also can be significant in helping solve the sales price problem creatively. Why the purchaser wants something may never have occurred to the sales professional. In fact, it may make the account manager seem as difficult, if not irrational. Many times, not only does this get the buyer and seller working to negotiate the price problem rather than each other, but it can BE the solution. It uncovers the unsaid things that prevent successfully negotiated sales price deals.
Getting the "whys" handled for both parties is the reason we negotiate.
David A.Wachtel is the president of Hautacam Consulting, Inc.


Applying a voltage across a ferroelectric material can switch ferroelectric domains below the Curie temperature, but near the Curie temperature an applied voltage can drive the ferroelectric phase transition itself. Driving and undriving such phase transitions produces large thermal changes known as electrocaloric effects, and these could be exploited for cooling applications. We study a range of electrocaloric materials, using a range of measurement protocols, in this rapidly growing area.


superdumb supervillain: Protect-a-Bub this summer!
Protect-a-Bub makes all sorts of cool stuff to protect kids from the harsh rays of the sun or the cold chill of winter. From sun protective swimwear to stroller accessories, sunglasses, and hats, Protect-a-Bub has your kid covered!
The "Paint Your Own" UPF50+ Sun Hat is a craft project as well as protective gear. The floppy white bucket hat comes with brushes and paints, ready to be customized by little artists.
The UPF 50+ Classic Single, Twin, Tandem & Triple Stroller Sunshade Attachment fits most strollers and provides improved sun protection while retaining full air circulation.
Use code protect4spring for 10% off your Protect-a-Bub online purchase!
The sun hat is such a cute idea; my girlfriends little girl refuses to wear a sun hat and yet I can imagine how spending an afternoon (or at least 10 minutes) creating her own may entice her into wearing it.
I may just go check it out; thanks!


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Neocons have time for reunion
The man crowned by Tommy Franks as "the dumbest \[expletive\] guy on the planet" just made the dumbest \[expletive\] speech on the planet.
Doug Feith, the former Rummy gofer who drove the neocon plan to get us into Iraq, and then dawdled without a plan as Iraq crashed into chaos, was the headliner at a reunion meeting of the woolly-headed hawks Monday night at the American Enterprise Institute.
The room was packed as the former No.3 at the Pentagon, previewing his upcoming book, "War and Decision," conceded that the case could be made that "mistakes were made." His former boss, Paul Wolfowitz, and the former Pentagon adviser Richard Perle sat supportively in the front row.
But he wasn't self-flagellating. He was simply trying to put an egghead gloss on his Humpty Dumpty mishegoss.
"At the end of the day, here we are, and as of now there's a reasonable chance that the country is going to remain united," he said. Not quite the original boast of democracy cascading through the Middle East.
Feith also inanely noted that his personal view was that his de-Baathification policy -- which created a huge, angry pool of unemployed men that fueled the insurgency -- "was not basically a big error. It's been criticized very severely. I think there actually was a lot of good thought that went into the de-Baathification policy." It just spiraled out of hand, he said. Mistakes were made.
He thinks everything would have been fine if America had not lingered so long in Iraq. If only Paul Bremer and the generals had just turned Iraq over to the slippery con man Feith wanted to put in charge, Ahmad Chalabi.
Asked about getting tough with Iran and Syria, Feith offered this incandescent insight: "As we all know, the president said he's The Decider. That actually is quite a profound point. The president is The Decider, and the main thing he decides about is risk."
He noted that in battles through American history, "the military fights better over time." This from a guy who sent our military into Iraq without the right armor, the right force numbers or the right counterinsurgency training.
"A strategic alliance of the ousted Baathists and foreign jihadists was something that our intelligence community did not anticipate," he said, continuing to spread the blame.
But the intelligence community didn't miss it. The neocons tried to scrub out that sort of analysis, knowing it would make the war harder to sell.
Classified reports prepared for President Bush in January 2003 by the National Intelligence Council warned that rogue elements of Saddam's government could hook up with existing terrorist groups to wage guerrilla warfare.
In "Fiasco," Tom Ricks wrote that Feith's Pentagon office was dubbed the "black hole" of policy by generals watching him drop the ball.
"People working for Feith complained that he would spend hours tweaking their memos, carefully mulling minor points of grammar," Ricks wrote. "A Joint Staff officer recalled angrily that at one point troops sat on a runway for hours, waiting to leave the United States on a mission, while he quibbled about commas in the deployment order."
Jay Garner, America's first viceroy in Iraq, deemed him "incredibly dangerous" and said his "electrons aren't connected."
Feith's disdain for diplomacy and his credo that weakness invites aggression were shaped, Ricks reported, by personal history: "Like Wolfowitz, Feith came from a family devastated by the Holocaust. His father lost both parents, three brothers and four sisters to the Nazis."
Feith told Jeffrey Goldberg in The New Yorker, "My family got wiped out by Hitler, and ... all this stuff about working things out -- well, talking to Hitler to resolve the problem didn't make any sense to me. The kind of people who put bumper stickers on their car that declare that 'War is not the answer,' are they making a serious comment? What's the answer to Pearl Harbor? What's the answer to the Holocaust?"
What's the answer to bin Laden? According to Feith, it was an attack on an unrelated dictator. He oversaw the Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group, whose mission was to amp up links between Saddam and al-Qaida.
It defies reason, but there are still some who think the chuckleheads who orchestrated the Iraq misadventure have wisdom to impart.
The Pentagon neocons dumped Condi Rice out of the loop. Yet, according to Newsweek's Mike Isikoff, Condi has now offered Wolfie a job. It wasn't enough that he trashed Iraq and the World Bank. (He's still larking around town with Shaha, the sweetheart he gave the sweetheart deal to.)
Condi wants Wolfie to advise her on nuclear proliferation and WMD as part of a State Department panel that has access to highly classified intelligence.
Once you've helped distort WMD intelligence to trick the country into war, shouldn't you be banned for life from ever having another top-level government post concerning WMD?
Online: nytimes.com/opinion


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Delta has hospitals across US down to their last ICU beds
by Bloomberg August 10, 2021 August 10, 2021
Medics wearing special suits to protect against coronavirus stand next to a patient with coronavirus at the City hospital No. 52 for coronavirus patients in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, June 17, 2021. Credit: Denis Grishkin / Moscow News Agency via AP
Hospitals across the U.S. are parceling out beds for COVID patients, hunting for doctors and nurses as the delta variant sweeps coast to coast.
The disease is outstripping any mitigation measures. In a few states, the unvaccinated are entering intensive care at rates matching the winter wave. The vaccinated are coming to realize that a sweet summer of release may have been a fantasy, as they again calculate the risks of working, seeing relatives and circulating in society.
Delta's march began in the U.S. in the Ozarks and South, in states and regions with low vaccination rates. But the surge has shown that even the best vaccinated areas still don't have enough immunity against the easy-spreading variant.
In Texas, where only half the population is vaccinated, Governor Greg Abbott on Monday asked hospitals to postpone surgeries and ordered the health department to seek help from doctors and nurses from other states. The governor, a Republican, didn't lift his order banning government entities from requiring masks and social distancing.
Many experts believe the delta wave will crest without last year's mortality: The vaccinated can get infected but are vastly less likely to die. Hospitalizations in highly vaccinated areas are increasing relatively slowly. Still, those waves are just beginning, and infections can take weeks to send people to the ICU.
In any case, it's clear the pandemic isn't done with America, and decidedly so in places where residents have shunned shots or resisted the renewal of mask mandates and other public-health measures.
In Washington state, cases in the Benton-Franklin Health District started rising almost a month ago, and there are no signs of slowing, said Malvina Goodwin, an employee with the agency. The district is hiring people so it can add lanes to the community testing site; about 800 people a day are coming.
In Benton County, 51 percent of the population has received at least one dose and 42 percent in Franklin County, compared with about 65 percent statewide, according to the CDC. About half of all ICU beds in Benton are in use by COVID-19 patients, up about 7 percentage points in the past week. That's a level similar to Mississippi's.
Across the country, officials reported alarmingly small numbers of open intensive-care beds. In at least one state, they could be counted with fingers: Eight, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson announced. "We saw the largest single-day increase in hospitalizations and have eclipsed our previous high of COVID hospitalizations," he wrote in a tweet.
Health workers in Texas and nearby states have struggled with a lack of intensive-care beds, said Rhiana Ireland, an emergency-room doctor who is herself struggling with what she believes is a breakthrough case.
Ireland described spending hours unsuccessfully trying to find a bed for a 22-year-old southeast Texas patient, hunting as far away as Colorado, North Dakota and Montana. All she could provide him was oxygen and steroids because her hospital lacks remdesivir or monoclonal antibodies.
"I know what he needs, but I can't do it," she said.
Ireland said she and her colleagues are not only exhausted, but frustrated by knowing that vaccines could have headed off the new surge. "It feels like this is worse" than December, Ireland said as she coughed and struggled to breathe, using an inhaler.
Nationwide, hospital utilization is expected to rise further in coming weeks, according to projections from the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, and there are already too few people to care for patients.
"There is a significant nursing shortage," said Carlos Javier Cardenas, a doctor who is chairman of the board of DHR Health in Texas's Rio Grande Valley. "Our first round of COVID decimated the ability of us to staff appropriately and adequately across the country. We're feeling it in south Texas just like they're feeling it in Louisiana."
States including Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida — where the surge started — are cautionary tales.
In Florida, adult intensive-care unit occupancy has soared to 5,804; that's a more than seven-fold increase just since mid-July, with some hospitals converting conference rooms and cafeterias into patient areas. Florida has an overall vaccination rate close to the national average, though some counties resemble the laggard Deep South.
The U.S. was bound to see an increase in cases among vaccinated people and communities, with delta spreading via increased travel and large gatherings, said Bertha Hidalgo, associate professor in the epidemiology department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Truly stopping transmission would require about 90 percent vaccination, impossible to achieve, because children under 12 aren't eligible for a shot, said Ajay Sethi, an associate professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin.
The delta variant is exposing the limits of the vaccines. While they're extremely good at preventing serious illness and death, they are less good at preventing infection. People who have been immunized and infected may spread the virus, and most places in the U.S. no longer require masks.Even so, this wave shouldn't be as dire as previous ones, thanks to the vaccines, said Robert Kim-Farley, a professor of epidemiology and community health sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles."Although we may see cases occurring, we're not going to see the same level of hospitalizations or deaths that occurred at the time of the viral tsunami, with back-to-back holidays" last Thanksgiving and Christmas, he said.
Some of the most vulnerable people are now more protected. About 90 percent of Americans 65 and older have received at least one shot, according to CDC data.
Models show the surge should peak in the third week of August and deaths will start declining later in September, said Ali Mokdad, a professor with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. By then, more people should receive protection whether through vaccination or natural infection."Like a fire runs out of wood, you run out of people to infect," he said.
There is still plenty of fuel.
"We are seeing sometimes entire families come in," said Cardenas. "You know, a lot of our families in South Texas are multi-generational households."
Most patients are under 50, he said, and most haven't gotten their shots."
"The take-home message, for god's sake please get vaccinated," Cardenas said. "Do it for yourself, do it for your neighbor, do it for your abuela, your abuelito, your tio and your tia, your whole family, all the people who you love and care about."
Angelica LaVito, Jonathan Levin and Francesca Maglione, Bloomberg News
Tagged: coronavirus, delta variant, national news
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BREAKING: I'll shock those who want to bring down my govt – Buhari
Ahmad Adebowale 1 June 2021
President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to shock those bent on destroying his government.
He said attacks across the nation were targeted to show his administration has failed.
He spoke on Tuesday while he received briefing from Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, on series of attacks on facilities of the electoral body round the country.
He said: "I receive daily security reports on the attacks, and it is very clear that those behind them want this administration to fail.
"Insecurity in Nigeria is now mentioned all over the world. All the people who want power, whoever they are, you wonder what they really want. Whoever wants the destruction of the system will soon have the shock of their lives. We've given them enough time."
We will construct overhead bridge in Ogbomoso before 2023— Makinde
Human parts dealer arrested by Amotekun in Ibadan


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We went down to the HAM radio swapmeet in Los Angeles and stopped at each of the three beachside campgrounds on the way home. Every one of them is full. We are not camping this weekend.
What is irritating, is driving by one and seeing all the empty spots, but they are reserved. There had to be at least 20 empty spots and a Saturday. I understand that some people would never get camping sites without a reservation system, BUT it sure is open to abuse. If money is not a problem you can reserve spots just because you may go camping and just forfeit your reserservation fee when you do not go.
I talked with one camper whose relative reserves 6 spaces whether they are camping or not and whether they need them or not. They do in just in case they have enough friends and family who want to go camping on some weekend.
OK, the good news is that we work for ourselves and can declare any days of the week, "the weekend". We can camp on Tuesday and Wednesday if we choose. We just have to work Saturday and Sunday to make up for it.
One vendor had boxes of new household items for $1 This is supposed to be electronics only swapmeet. They let some get away with other stuff and they stop some from selling non-electronics. Anyway, we bought a couple scrub brushes with bristles about 8 inches long and 2 inches wide with 1 inch bristles. These are very handy to keep in your car and in the entry to your RV.
We live at the beach and these brushes are great for cleaning sand off of shoes before you get back in the car. For the motorhome, they are great for cleaning dirt, grass and other debris off of shoes before tracking it in on the carpet.
Yes, we have a on the ground shoe brush by the entry and it works great for light dirt. When you really have dirt caked in the tracks of sports type (tennis shoes) shoes hand scrubbing it out is the only way to get it all.
Another answer in the RV is just to remove your shoes when you enter.


The theme this week is apparently things that I have eaten at restaurants that I miss a whole lot, since this one, like the mussels, is just that. This whipped feta used to be on the menu at Tavern Road, which is a favorite of my girl gang.
This is a snack, really - excellent with a glass of wine and rounds out a cheese plate beautifully, but I would be lying if I didn't say it is also great on toast for breakfast, and absolutely has stood in for dinner on more than one occasion. It is also incredibly easy, as long as you have a food processor. If not, a blender would probably work.
I would say it only takes two ingredients, but it is best, by a long shot, served with honey, so I am going to say this is a three-ingredient snack. My favorite thing to eat it on is these delicious local english muffins toasted with butter (shout out to Stone & Skillet!) but I also love it on toasted slices of baguette, or spooned right into my mouth.
It is SO HOT, and it's Friday, and you are going to want snacks with your cooling beverage of choice tonight when you get out of work. I suggest this. I don't think you will be disappointed.
Just a note, I love goat's milk feta for this, I to love the flavor. I can get Vermont Creamery Goat's Milk Feta at my Whole Foods, so if you are in New England, keep an eye out! I am sure sheep's feta would be delicious to, I just can't personally vouch for it.
Put the feta and the cream cheese in a food processor, and process it until it is combined very smooth. It will probably take longer than you think (and even longer if the cheeses are cold!) Drizzle with honey, and serve with your favorite bread, toast or cracker for serving.
I mean, it's not a whole year, so it's not the longest I've ever been away...do they make trophies for that?
It's certainly not that I haven't been cooking, and it's certainly not that I haven't been eating, but most of my cooking is done for others, and most of my eating is done either over the sink as quickly as possible, or on the couch with the plate balanced on my chest whilst I am barely upright or awake. No one wants to read about that.
Every once in a while though, the mood strikes, and this time, I am hanging on with both hands, or however you hang on to moods, in the hopes that one post means two posts means regular posts. I make no promises!
For my triumphant return, I made mussels. Mussels are so great because they are so quick, and so versatile, and exciting enough to feel kind of fancy, despite very little effort. These particular mussels are based on a dish that used to be on the Neptune Oyster menu. My honey badgers LOVED these, and since Neptune switched up the menu, we've missed them a lot. I actually can't remember if the menu version had coconut milk in there, but I will add it to anything I can, so mine do.
Farmed mussels, which is what you will typically find in stores, are super easy to clean and prep. If you need a tutorial or reminder, here is a great one. Once that is done, the rest is just a bit of knife work and watching a pot do its thing. These are most certainly a week night meal, or fun enough to make for company, because they will be impressed!
What I am watching: How many times can I watch 30 Rock before I should be embarrassed about it? I watched The Keepers on Netflix which was riveting and GLOW which was very enjoyable. My cousin points out that I am at least five years behind the rest of the tv watching population at all times, so I am just starting The Americans, but I am pretty excited about it.
What else I have been up to: I went to Montréal and I loved it. I loved the city, I love traveling by myself, and I REALLY loved Joe Beef, where I got to eat, TWICE. Who even am I? I've also been spending time with my best friend Charlie the dog, and trying to make myself into a runner again. I have a half marathon to do in October, and I am not doing this one without training (again.) I am trying to learn about wine (more than just that I like it) trying to improve my photography skills, and reading a whole lot.
What I have not been doing: Blogging, working out regularly, colluding with a foreign government. Some of those things, I hope to change.
What I am excited about: CUBA! Shan and I are celebrating 20 years of cracking each other up with a trip to Cuba. I have purchased caftans. It is gonna be great.
Make sure your mussels and cleaned and debearded, and set aside.
Heat canola oil over medium heat in a high-sided skillet or sauce pan. Add the garlic, ginger and minced scallions and cook, stirring frequently, until aromatics are soft, 2-3 minutes. Add wine and simmer until reduced by half, 3-4 minutes. Add chicken stock and simmer and reduce buy half again, 5-6 minutes.
Add mussels to broth and cover. Mussels will open quickly, as they do, remove them to a bowl. When all mussels are open, set them aside as you finish the broth.
Stir red curry paste, fish sauce and soy sauce in to the broth, and simmer for a minute to allow the flavors to come together. Stir in coconut milk, simmer for a moment, then stir in juice from half a lime, and taste, adding the juice from the rest of the lime if you like it really limey! Add mussels back into the pan and toss into the broth to coat and heat the mussels.
Sometimes you reeeally think you know a person, and then they move home after five years in the wilds of the west, and you discover that your youngest sister has a real affinity for pasta salad. You never stop learning, I guess.
I don't think I've ever posted a recipe for pasta salad, unless you count the World Famous Sesame Noodles (I do not) and suddenly here is the second in as many months, if you count the couscous salad (I do.) October is kind of a weird time for pasta salad, they generally say "picnic or bust" to me, but Sister is home! She likes pasta salad! So pasta salad we will eat. This particular pasta salad is my version of one that is sold at a small lunch place in NH, near my new brother's family. It might be perfect. It is mayo based, but isn't goopy or heavy, and it has pickles in it, which are a welcome addition to most things. We had it for lunch one day up there, I decided to recreate it immediately, and I have made it several times since. Twice this weekend, as a matter of fact. I was feeding the motley crew that had gathered to help move Sister and her hubs in to their new house, and the first time I made it I didn't cook the pasta quite enough, so I had to make it again. (The first batch eventually softened up, so I ate it all. Myself.) As it turns out, I didn't take pictures of either batch this weekend, so I have to make it AGAIN for all of you. Good thing the sister lives close by so I can drop the bulk of this batch off at her house. If I don't eat it all first.
You can save this for the summer, or you can throw caution to the wind and make it now. Pasta salad doesn't just have to be for the warm weather. Pasta salad, all year round! Get wild, you funky little flowers, you.
Cook pasta in salted water to al dente per package instructions.
While the pasta is cooking, mix the mayo, pickle juice, hot sauce, garlic (pro tip: use a pinch of the salt to help mash it to a fine paste) and shallot in a large bowl and stir to combine. Taste and add salt and pepper as needed. When the pasta is cooked, drain and rinse the pasta and add to the bowl with the pickle and cucumber. Toss the pasta and dressing together and then taste again for salt and pepper. Enjoy!
Lamb has never really been my jam, if you will. I would never order it in a restaurant or anything, and it was fine when my dad would grill it at Easter (no knock on my dad, it was the lamb that was the problem, not the prep, everyone else loved it.) Those little lamb chops that people LOVE that come around on trays at parties and make people go nuts? Pass. So whatever in the world possessed me to make lamb meatballs one day is beyond me. I am so glad I did though, because I enjoyed my first attempt enough to keep futzing with the recipe, and now I LOVE these. Like LOVE them. And other people do too. A client told me they are the best meatballs he has ever had, so there you have it.
I have been making these for ages, but my delay in sharing is in NO WAY indicative of how much I like them. In fact, I do believe these will be one of my favorite things to end up on this here blog. The meatballs can stand on their own - I have put them in a pita with some tzatziki and feta and been quite pleased with myself - but this preparation is really something special. The harissa in this sauce really makes them sing. They are spicy and rich and flavorful and super filling. These are really perfect for this incoming cooler weather, and since I feel like mixing my metaphors, they are sturdy in the best way, but they don't lack a sense of adventure. The sweet perfumy-ness of Jasmine rice is a really great foil for these; farro, orzo or even toast would also be excellent.
Fall really is the best, it is sunny and gorgeous and perfect for sleeping, and most importantly, it makes me want to cook. I want to make cookies and pasta and roasts, I want to have people over every night, and I want to go camping. This weather makes me want to feed people, so come on over, I'll make you meatballs.
I have spent ALL DAY fighting with internet providers on the phone. It is a racket. I am moving to the woods.
Seester is officially a MA resident and I am PUMPED. Everyone is back on the east coast and all is right with the world.
I miss my four-legged roommate. I don't even know who I am any more.
It has come to our attention recently that Shan and I are celebrating TWENTY YEARS of being friends next August, so we are planning a vacation somewhere fabulous. I have the best bestie. We are open to suggestions. It should involve a beach. Or a spa. Or amazing food.
Heat oil in heavy frying pan over medium heat, and fry the meatballs, in batches if necessary, turning frequently, until browned and crispy on the outside. (They will likely not be cooked through.) Remove browned meatballs to a plate and reserve cooking oil in the pan to make sauce.
Place the meatball pan over medium low heat and add diced onion and minced garlic and cook, stirring frequently until softened, 2-4 minutes, depending how hot the pan is. Add tomato paste and harissa, raise heat to medium, and cook the mixture, stirring constantly, while the tomato paste and harissa caramelizes, 2-3 minutes. Whisk in chicken stock and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to maintain a simmer, and let the chicken stock reduce to about one cup, stirring frequently, about 5-6 minutes. Stir in coconut milk and whisk to combine. Bring mixture to a simmer and add the meatballs. Cook meatballs in the sauce about five minutes. Add chickpeas, and cook five more minutes until sauce is reduced, flavors combine and meatballs are cooked through to your liking. Taste for salt and pepper, and serve sauce over rice or base of your choice!
I am into sauces lately, it seems.
This is another versatile one that I find myself using for all sorts of things, from salmon to lamb. For parties I will poach a side of salmon and serve it cold, with this along side. With lamb meatballs I will just pile this right on top or shove both in a pita with some feta cheese and tomatoes. Or I will sauté some chickpeas and kale with some harissa, fry an egg, and dollop tzatziki on top of the whole thing for breakfast. It's, rich, creamy, garlicky and refreshing and feels like it might actually be good for you. It adds richness, tempers heat, and adds an herby flair. It's a work horse.
Tzatziki is Greek in origin and goes really nicely on a crudite platter, a meze plate or a summer buffet. Or eat it with a spoon if you want. Because I do. I make sure to use full fat yogurt here. When it comes to yogurt, sometimes it doesn't matter, but for tzatziki, it definitely does. Plus you are already using sour cream, so why not go all out? There are a ton of recipes for this out on the webs, and you can even buy it pre-made in the store (but it is really easy to make, so don't do that) but I get raves about this one. People love it. It might be the full fat yogurt.
It is super easy. It takes about 30 minutes start to finish, and about two-thirds of that time is waiting for cucumbers to drain, so you really have no excuse. Easy, easy easy. I think the "hardest" thing is mashing the garlic and the waiting. You do want to wait though, because the better you drain that bad boy, the richer the sauce will be.
Tzatziki is delicious. Make it.
OK here goes: In re: Trump. If his latest appalling scandal, his "locker room talk" from back in 2005, his use of p***y, has put you over edge, but the appalling things he has said about Mexicans, Muslims or women in the past hadn't yet, welcome to the other side, but I have questions for you. Sadly, I have worked most of my adult life with privileged men, and what he said surprises me NOT AT ALL. In fact, I am surprised so many people are surprised that (some) men talk like that. I am appalled, grossed out, and sad, but not surprised. It's a real bummer to hear it out loud instead of just imagining its being said when you leave the room, but I am not surprised. BUT LET ME BE CLEAR. What he said? What he described? THAT'S SEXUAL ASSAULT. It's not flirting, it's not making a move, it's not fun and games, it's SEXUAL ASSAULT. I am appalled but not surprised. Lastly, to the men that are upset/appalled/grossed out because you have daughters, sisters or moms, I would like you to take some time getting upset/appalled/grossed out because he is talking about actual human women that are actual human people in their own right, not because he is talking about someone who could have some relationship to you, a man. If it takes having a mom/sister/daughter to think about women has having agency and dignity, you need to take some time.
1. I was at the RMV last Friday afternoon and it is a hellscape. But it sure does make me appreciate the app that let me edit this page while I was sitting there. Yay technology! Making tortured wastelands productive since Al Gore invented the interwebs.
2. I made lobster Rangoon the other night and they were delicious, but the filling pocket blew up like a balloon when I fried them, and I realized that was probably a result of all the water in the filling turning to steam, so now I have to figure out how to avoid that. My favorite takeout places don't seem to have that problem.
4. WHO WAS EVER LAUGHING??? No but seriously you guys, seriously. What is happening.
5. What I am reading: Notorious RBG. And tonight I am going to see Anthony Bourdain, and I have actually never read Kitchen Confidential. I sort of assume that will change after I see him speak.
6. What I am listening to: My Favorite Murder Podcast, The Ezra Klein Show Podcast, what ever is on my brother in law's iPod that is currently the only thing I can play on my living room speaker.
7. Where I am eating: At home, mostly, or at the incredibly delicious Brewer's Fork, which is where seester is working.
8. My dog best friend is moving out today and I am really sad. I might like dogs now, don't @ me.
Shred the cucumber in a food processor or on a box grater. Place in a fine sieve and top with 1 tsp of the kosher salt. Let sit for at least 20 minutes to drain. While the cucumber is draining, using the side of a kitchen knife, smash the clove of garlic and mash with 1/4 tsp kosher salt to a fine paste.
Mix the garlic in a bowl with the lemon juice. Add the sour cream and yogurt and mix well. Mix in dill and stir to combine. Press any extra juice out of the drained cucumbers, and add them to the mix. Stir well and add the pepper and any any additional salt to taste.
Well howdy and welcome to my new home! I am so so excited you (and I) are here. I have been thinking about and plotting and building this space for almost a year, but I was just a little stuck (and cooking, I was doing a lot of cooking too.) Things are a bit different than they were when I was "regularly" blogging last, but I hope to get back to it much more often. I love it. It's a different kind of creativity than cooking and it also forces me to cook for myself sometimes, instead of just for clients, which I forget to do when I am busy. For anyone new to this space, I hope it conveys how much I love to cook for other people, and I hope you love the blog as much as I do. For those I have neglected, I am so glad to see you again. Welcome back!
I am sitting here, watching Parks & Rec (always and forever watching P&R, anytime, anywhere) trying, trying to write something worthy of more than a year away from here, and I am coming up short. So instead of anything wildly profound or exceptionally witty, and instead of a laundry list of all of the things I have been doing instead of blogging, I will just get right to the recipes, and hope that the more I type, the more I have to type.
The first picture of Kale Chermoula in my computer photo files is from August 18th of last year. Based on that data point alone, you won't believe that I have been really very excited to tell you about this, but indeed, I have. I use this ALL the time. I have, for the most part, had a jar of this in my fridge since that fateful day in August, and I have piled it on top of everything from chicken to octopus with stupendous results. It tastes green and fresh and it has depth and heat and it feels virtuous even though it is something like 50% olive oil. It's part condiment, part sauce and part side dish and I just love it so much.
I'm not kidding when I say it is great with everything. I particularly love it with harissa, and it is also really wonderful with honey, which really complements the herby freshness of the chermoula. It can be a marinade for shrimp or fish on the grill, tossed with pasta like basil pesto, or used to make a weeknight roasted chicken or plain scrambled eggs feel just a little more exciting.
Kale Chermoula might just be your new best friend. At the very least, you are going to want to invite it to dinner several times a week. Just make it, trust me. After all this time away, would I come back and steer you wrong?
What I am reading: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, and my back issues of Lucky Peach.
I won a Vitamix at the Cherry Bombe Jubilee in April and oh man it was the best day ever. That machine really is something. I am amassing quite the collection of kitchen equipment. If the robots ever become sentient and rise up, I am toast.
I have discovered Bob's Burgers and it is amazing. I am not sure which character is my favorite, I just love them all so much.
I am training for another half marathon. It's going...about as you'd expect, which is just barely.
Place kale, parsley, cilantro, garlic, salt, cumin and cayenne in bowl of food processor and turn processor on. Run the processor until the ingredients are finely minced, stopping and scraping the bowl when necessary. Turn the processor back on and drizzle the olive oil through the feed tube until the mixture is a loose paste.
AND...because you have been SO patient...BONUS RECIPE!!!
While the wings are cooking, mix together the chermoula and olive oil so the sauce is looser and can be drizzled on the wings.
Meanwhile, mix the harissa, butter and honey in a small saucepan over medium-low heat, whisking as the butter melts to combine the ingredients. When the sauce is hot and combined and the wings are cooked, toss the harissa mixture and wings in a large bowl until the wings are well coated.
Place the wings on a plate and drizzle the chermoula over the top. These are SO GOOD, and if possible are just as good leftover and cold the next day.


Build your dream home on this beautiful 2.56 acre property that is near the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta Park property. Absolutely breathtaking views of the Sandia Mountains. It is already partially fenced and is near an Albuquerque bike path trail. Lot may be further subdivided into additional lots of not less than 0.5 acres provided all requirements of the covenants and governmental authorities are met.


Maps and borders notwithstanding, some places are best described as "gaps"--places with repeatedly contested boundaries that are wedged in between other places that have clear boundaries. This book explores an iconic example of this in the contemporary Western imagination: the Balkans. Drawing on richly detailed ethnographic research around the Greek-Albanian border, Sarah Green focuses her groundbreaking analysis on the ambiguities of never quite resolving where or what places are. One consequence for some Greek peoples in this border area is a seeming lack of distinction--but in a distinctly "Balkan" way. In gaps (which are never empty), marginality is, in contrast with conventional understandings, not a matter of difference and separation--it is a lack thereof.
Notes from the Balkans represents the first ethnographic approach to exploring "the Balkans" as an ideological concept. Green argues that, rather than representing a tension between "West" and "East," the Balkans makes such oppositions ambiguous. This kind of marginality means that such places and peoples can hardly engage with "multiculturalism." Moreover, the region's ambiguity threatens clear, modernist distinctions. The violence so closely associated with the region can therefore be seen as part of continual attempts to resolve the ambiguities by imposing fixed separations. And every time this fails, the region is once again defined as a place that will continually proliferate such dangerous ambiguity, and could spread it somewhere else.


Review: "IBM SPSS Modeler - Complete analytics tool"
IBM SPSS Modeler is extensively used by our data analytics team. It is used for customer analytics to formulate and understand retention and engagement metrics, and used to analyze our CRM. It gives us a good amount of insights that help us to with easy and quick decision making. The business people use it for business problems and they don't have to have technical understanding.
The model formulation from large amount of structured and unstructured data is commendable.
It has a beautiful and intuitive new UI.
The manual is very easy to understand. Hence, reduces the on boarding.
The natural language processing (NLP) needs improvement.
Already present integrations to other IBM products is poor.
There are many things like Text analytics which are only available in gold edition.
It is hard for a non-tech person to implement advanced modelling which requires Python, R.
If your analytics is research oriented, coming with cases and hypothesis, and you have the sound technical knowledge of Programming which is used in data mining (Python, R), then this tool will give you a huge advantage irrespective of whether you have structured or unstructured data. However, if your organization doesn't have the data to work upon, this product won't be able to help you further.
User Review: "IBM SPSS Modeler, a vendor perspective"
Our company has 20+ years of developing solutions based on SPSS tools, one of them is IBM SPSS Modeler. In our experience, we have seen companies using Modeler across the whole organization to support critical business process. The versatility of the tool and easy deployment make it a first choice in organizations from Government to Retail, Finance, and Academics. Being able to reduce churn, to retain customers, forecast sales and inventory stock all within a friendly and powerful user interface is something that customers are really looking forward when it comes to accelerating ROI.
GUI is really well accomplished and friendly, almost everyone with little investment in training can take advantage of the tool.
Escalability, you can grow your investment in licensing according to your actual needs, from an annual authorized user, to perpetual concurrent and Big Data and Machine Learning capabilities.
Open Sorce Ready: take leverage of all your developments made in R or Python and deployment all over the organization even with the user who isn´t used to code.
Some Analyses aren't there out of the box but can be added through open languages like R and Python.
Modeler is well suited for Retail, Credit Scoring, Telcos, Government. And less suited when it comes to transactional environments.
IBM SPSS Modeler Review: "Good for all"
It is presently being used to develop a predictive model and to also carry out some statistical analyses. It makes it easier for employees who are statistically or mathematically oriented to learn and use the software for various modeling exercises and assignments. It makes visualization of the modeling process to observe and follow. It is also compatible with available architectural facilities.
Data preparation and data presentation.
Preparing staging tables and platforms for other applications.
Statistical data analysis, including data manipulation and migration.
IBM SPSS Modeler is a predictive analytics platform that helps users build accurate predictive models quickly and deliver predictive intelligence to individuals, groups, systems, and enterprises. With an intuitive interface and drag-and-drop features, the software is designed to be easy to use with the goal of enabling everyone from business users to data scientists to uncover valuable insights quickly.
What products and services are prospects likely to purchase together?
Which insurance claims have a high probability of fraud?
Which machines on the assembly line are likely to fail?
Where do we need to deploy additional law enforcement resources?
How can we select the right applicants for the right roles?
Use a single run to test multiple modeling methods, compare results and select which model to deploy. Quickly choose the best performing algorithm based on model performance.Explore geographic data, such as latitude and longitude, postal codes and addresses. Combine it with current and historical data for better insights and predictive accuracy.Capture key concepts, themes, sentiments and trends by analyzing unstructured text data. Uncover insights in web activity, blog content, customer feedback, emails and social media comments.Use R, Python, Spark, Hadoop and other open source technologies to amplify the power of your analytics. Extend and complement these technologies for more advanced analytics while you keep control.
IBM SPSS Modeler Personal enables users to design and build predictive models right from the desktop. IBM SPSS Modeler Professional extends SPSS Modeler Personal with enterprise-scale in-database mining, SQL pushback, collaboration and deployment, champion/challenger, A/B testing, and more. IBM SPSS Modeler Premium extends SPSS Modeler Professional by including unstructured data analysis with integrated, natural language text and entity and social network analytics. IBM SPSS Modeler Gold extends SPSS Modeler Premium with the ability to build and deploy predictive models directly into the business process to aid in decision making. This is achieved with Decision Management which combines predictive analytics with rules, scoring, and optimization to deliver recommended actions at the point of impact.