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Thick and juicy are not adjectives Hamburger Wagon owner Jack Sperry would use to describe his burgers. And he's proud of it.
And he should be because there is a deep line out front of his Miamisburg food cart at almost any time of the day, any day of the week. Most weekends, there are hundreds of customers who come hungry so they can scarf down as many as six or eight of the little sliders.
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"It's probably the most unique burger that you'll find anywhere," Sperry said. "It's so different, but it's one of those things — and not everyone likes it — but if you like it, it's one of those things you think about periodically and you crave it."
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Even with the tiny space it occupies, most of the time parked at 12 E. Central Ave., Hamburger Wagon has been a Miamisburg institution since 1913. As devastating as the Great Flood was to the Miami Valley, the famous, crunchy slider patties might not exist without the great natural disaster.
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"As Miamisburg was virtually under water, the Red Cross set up a tent city for the refugees at the top of Mound Hill. Sherman "Cocky" Porter, a Miamisburg resident, volunteered to help provide food for the flood victims and relief workers, according to Wagon's website. Utilizing a favorite family recipe, Porter began serving up hot, tasty hamburgers to everyone in the camp for many days.
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After the storm cleared and life along the Great Miami returned to normal, locals were asking Porter where his burgers went. So for about a nickel a piece, Porter began the Wagon tradition and started selling the sliders on Market Square, where the cart is still parked on Saturdays.
Over a century later, the ingredients, condiments or preparation of the burgers has not changed. The Hamburger Wagon is an indecisive person's dream come true. All you have to do is choose a single or double patty, $1.25 or $2.50, and the workers inside the steaming, savory wagon take care of the rest.
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The sizzle of the Wagon's cast iron skillet can be heard at the back of the food line. It's the very essence of what separates Hamburger Wagon burgers from the rest of the world. Fried in the burgers' own grease, patties are dropped in the moment the customer places an order. Some employees, Sperry said, have mastered cooking as many as 80 patties at once in the 20-inch skillet. It's the same method Porter used that got the river town hooked on the burgers, and it's not changed one bit.
All day long, customers pour in to gobble up the fried patties, the grease builds up and flavor is continuously added to the cast iron skillet. An experienced Wagon employee methodically presses each patty as it sizzles, creating the signature thin, almost crunchy patty. Contrast the savory beef with the fresh-as-could be onion and kick of dill, it makes for a one-of-a-kind bite.
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It's why Sperry said the Wagon will never use a grill or flat top like almost all other burger joints.
As one employee drops the raw patties into the bubbling pan, the other quickly plops down as many buns as there are patties, prepares them with onions cut moments before, one horizontally sliced dill pickle and then a quick shower of pepper and salt— in that order, every time.
Yes, there's always a perfectly portioned grease spot on the white paper bag the patties are handed over in, and it wouldn't be the same without it.


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White dwarf's impact on orbiting bodies
Recently the Kepler telescope in its study of white dwarfs detected the first planetary object transiting a white dwarf in the data from the K2 mission. It was consistent with earlier theories' prediction that a planetary object orbiting a white dwarf would slowly disintegrate. Why would a planetary object that is orbiting a white dwarf disintegrate? I read it here.
The original paper published in Nature (preprint): A Disintegrating Minor Planet Transiting a White Dwarf
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$\begingroup$ I would think that it is disintegrating because it orbits very close to the WD. 4½ hour period I think means about 1 million km from a one Solar mass WD. Mercury is about 50 times further from the Sun. That close, the gravitational pull is significantly larger on the side of the planet facing the WD than on the far side, ripping the planet apart. So I don't think it directly has anything to do with it being a WD instead of an active star. $\endgroup$ – LocalFluff Oct 23 '15 at 6:02
$\begingroup$ Actually Not just this planet but the relative effect on the planets after white dwarf conversion. What i want know is.is it just the gravity(relatively how much?) or some other forces acting on it. $\endgroup$ – r2_d2 Oct 23 '15 at 6:14
$\begingroup$ Here is the full text original peer reviewed article published in Nature cfa.harvard.edu/~avanderb/wd1145_017.pdf It will take me a while to read it. Check it out. $\endgroup$ – Aabaakawad Oct 23 '15 at 23:54
$\begingroup$ @LocalFluff see comment above. That link is to a preprint. $\endgroup$ – Aabaakawad Oct 24 '15 at 0:20
$\begingroup$ @Aabaakawad thank you for the link. I've only read part of it, but very informative. $\endgroup$ – userLTK Oct 24 '15 at 1:12
I think Aabaakawad's link gives a complete answer, but to give an astronomy for dummies answer, there's nothing about a white dwarf that causes a planet's orbit to decay at least, not directly. Your article (I've pulled quote below the caption):
Slowly the object will disintegrate, leaving a dusting of metals on the surface of the star.
That's only talking about this particular situation and there's a difference between disintegrate and decay. This planetoid is enormously close to the white dwarf. So close, that what we think of as normal white dwarf/planet dynamics (very cold) is no longer true. This planetoid is slowly being vaporized.
Looking at the orbital period of 4.5 hours (about 1948 orbital periods in 365.25 days). The orbital distance to orbital ratio relation is exponential to the power of 2/3 (this varies a bit due to eccentricity, but it's generally correct), so an orbital period 1948 times faster means about 156 times closer, and giving the white dwarf equal mass to our sun, that puts the planetoid at a bit under 1 million KM. If this white dwarf is lighter than the sun, the planetoid would need to be even closer. That's close to the Roche limit and would be inside it if the planetoid wasn't dense and rocky/metallic.
If we estimate the white dwarf to be about the size of the Earth, which is a common size given for white dwarfs, An Earth sized object from 1 million KM would be larger in the sky than the sun appears from Earth, and presumably quite a bit hotter than the surface of our sun too, so this isn't a tiny white dwarf in the sky from the perspective of the planetoid. It's a blazing furnace of a sun, so hot, it vaporizes metallic gas and dust off the surface of the planet.
The article mentions this (end of page 3), that Poynting-Robertson drag see here and here, and that may be a factor in any orbital decay in this scenario. The article is clear that there's a good deal of uncertainty on with that effect, and that only affects tiny particles, but enough tiny particles could create a drag over time. . . . (maybe). The general scenario with this orbit is a planet scorched and as a result, is losing material. It's likely the very high heat that's driving any orbital decay, not gravity.
Gravitational decay / orbital decay does happen, usually much more slowly. That's probably not what's happening here.
There are some interesting orbital effects that can happen when a main sequence star goes red dwarf and later when it creates a planetary nebula, significant increases in tidal forces due to the star's greater size in the first case and increased drag in the 2nd, but at the white dwarf stage, there's no significant orbital decay effects.
Why not Poynting Robertson drag and Orbital decay effect the planetoid when white dwarf was a star or even red giant? Is there any "interesting orbital effects" when a star undergoes red giant?.Can you update your answer to summarize the forces and their effect on the planetoid in each phase of the star. and also what do you mean by orbital decay? Does it have something to deal with the Roche limit.
OK, I think, having read more about it, Poynting-Robertson effect only matters when the orbiting objects are very small. I've linked it twice above, but the simple explanation is that objects in orbit move and so any light or debris from the sun hits the moving object at an angle, not direct on. If the object is small enough, this over time drives the dust and maybe grain of sand sized particles into the sun. This doesn't affect larger objects, so it's not really relevant to any planets or planetoids.
As far as "interesting red dwarf" effects. That really has to do with tides. Using the Moon/Earth example, the Moon creates tides on the Earth, a tidal bulge towards the Moon, but because the Earth Rotates faster than the Moon orbits, this tidal bulge is always ahead of the Moon and this creates a gravitational tug on the moon that pulls it away from the Earth - very slowly.
The same thing happens with planets around stars, but even more slowly, lets pretend it's just the Earth and the Sun - a 2 body system (in reality, with several planets it's much more complicated), but just Earth and sun, teh Earth creates a tidal bulge on the sun, the sun rotates ahead of the earth, this causes the earth to very slowly spiral away from the sun - so slowly that it might take a trillion years for the Earth to spiral away.
Now when the sun goes Red Giant, the sun is essentially the same mass but much more spread out and parts of it, much closer to the Earth and less gravitationally bound to the sun. This creates a far larger tidal tug. Also, as the sun expands it's orbital velocity drops, because orbital momentum is concerved, so when the Sun is Red Giant, the tidal bulge will be behind the Earth which drags it in towards the Sun. Due to the size and proximity of the Red Giant star, this draws the remaining near-by planets towards the sun fairly quickly, at least compared to main sequence stages which, provided the sun rotates faster than the planets orbit, has a much smaller outward tidal pressure on the planets.
And when the sun goes planetary nebula, any debris in the planet's path can also cause the planets to slow down slightly - the precise process there I'm less clear on, but in general, any orbital debris creates drag and can slow down a planet's orbit. This may be a key factor in the formation of hot jupiters, cause they can't form close to their suns but enough orbital debris can drive them in closer to their suns. (or planet to planet gravitational interactions can too).
That's the gist of the Sun-Planet orbital relation. When the sun is young, planets are mostly driven outwards, and young suns can have far greater solar flares and stronger solar wind. How much that effects the planets, I'm not sure.
During the Main sequence stage, stars tend to push planets outwards (unless they rotate very slowly, in which case the tidal effect is reversed), but this tidal effect is very small and very gradual.
During the Red Giant stage, stars tend to drag planets in wards, and I assume, during the planetary nebula stage as well. This effect is larger for closer planets.
You also asked about Orbital Decay - if you click on the link, there are examples of that. That probably gives a better explanation than I could. In general, Orbital decay happens very slowly unless you're talking Neutron Star or Black hole in which case the relativistic effects can cause orbital decay to happen quite fast. There's nothing about a white dwarf star that would cause faster than normal orbital decay but a white dwarf star would lose any tidal bulge tugging that a main sequence star has, so there would be essentially no tidal outwards pressure either which could in theory speed up decay cause you've lost a small outwards pressure but you would still have any debris or space dust clouds causing a small inwards pressure. (if that makes sense?)
That's my layman's explanation anyway.
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$\begingroup$ why not Poynting Robertson drag and Orbital decay effect the planetoid when white dwarf was a star or even red giant? Is there any "interesting orbital effects" when a star undergoes red giant?.Can you update your answer to summarize the forces and their effect on the planetoid in each phase of the star. $\endgroup$ – r2_d2 Oct 25 '15 at 7:58
$\begingroup$ and also what do you mean by orbital decay? Does it have something to deal with the Roche limit. $\endgroup$ – r2_d2 Oct 25 '15 at 7:59
$\begingroup$ @r2_d2 The Roche Limit is in a sense, just a boundary usually quite near the object being orbited. Orbital decay (or the opposite, orbital escape) can happen at any orbit, far outside the Roche limit or close to it. As to the effects at different stages of the star, I can give a summary, but not tonight. I also probably need to update what I said about Poynting-Robertson. Need to tidy that up a bit. $\endgroup$ – userLTK Oct 25 '15 at 8:08
Let's assume the white dwarf has a mass of $0.6 M_{\odot}$ (there's probably a more accurate value, but most white dwarfs are close to this...). With a period of 4.5 hours we can use Kepler's third law, assuming the planetary mass is negligible compared to the white dwarf, to infer an orbital radius of 0.0054 au ($8.1\times 10^{8}$ m).
The tidal forces this close to a white dwarf are very large. The Roche limit for the total tidal disintegration of a satellite, in synchronous rotation, held together only by its own gravity is roughly $$ d = 1.44 R_{WD} \left( \frac{\rho_{WD}}{\rho_p}\right)^{1/3},$$ where $R_{WD}$ is the radius of the white dwarf (similar to the radius of the Earth), $\rho_{WD}$ is the average density of the white dwarf (a few times $10^{9}$ kg/m$^3$) and $\rho_p$ the density of the planet (let's assume 5000 kg/m$^3$).
Thus $d \simeq 6 \times 10^{8}$ m and is very similar to the actual orbital radius of the planet. i.e. It will be tidally disintegrating.
I guess it will be an observational selection effect that such objects will be detected at the tidal breakup radius, since if they were further way they would not be disintegrating and would not be detected, and if they were closer they would have already disintegrated and wouldn't be seen!
EDIT: On reading the paper - the authors claim that these objects are not tidally disintegrating. In fact they argue that this must be debris from a rocky planet precisely because the density must be large enough to avoid tidal disintegration according to the formula above. However I find the whole discussion rather incoherent. They specifically talk about "disintegrating planetesimals" (note the tense) which are being evaporated in a Parker-type wind due to heating by the radiation from the white dwarf. I cannot see where they explain then how the planetesimals disintegrate.
$\begingroup$ why didnot this orbiting body disintegrate when white dwarf was a normal star? if we consider distance(Roche limit which applies to al celestial bodies) $\endgroup$ – r2_d2 Oct 24 '15 at 20:15
$\begingroup$ @r2_d2 I think you are correct that the Roche limit for the progenitor (e.g. a 2 solar mass main sequence star with a radius of $\sim 10^{9}$ m would be quite similar). Therefore we must conclude that the planet was not that close during the progenitor's main sequence lifetime. That is not surprising, since prior to becoming a white dwarf, the progenitor would have engulfed such a close-in planet during its red giant stages. In fact at $10^{9}$ m, such a planet would have been inside the main sequence star. $\endgroup$ – Rob Jeffries Oct 24 '15 at 20:35
$\begingroup$ So what could be the possible explanation for this. $\endgroup$ – r2_d2 Oct 24 '15 at 20:46
$\begingroup$ @r2_d2 Drag in the wind of the progenitor during the AGB phase perhaps. $\endgroup$ – Rob Jeffries Oct 24 '15 at 20:56
$\begingroup$ @r2_d2 The Nature paper suggests that mass loss from the AGB star causes planet migration outwards that can then lead to an instability and interaction between planets that projects a planet inwards towards the host star. The orbit is then circularised due to wind drag. $\endgroup$ – Rob Jeffries Oct 24 '15 at 21:12
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Workplace diversity is a broad and often contentious term to define fully. However, its abuses lead the United States Congress to pass Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1969, which created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and tasked it to implement the Act and the subsequent diversity laws, such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 and the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Historically, the acceptance of the diversity concept particularly among companies took years to grow. And EEOC's enforcement power came years after its establishment in 1969. Managing workplace diversity only gained favor Continue reading...
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The topic for this research is "What does the published research say about the impact of information technology on HR management: opportunities and challenges." This is a topic that helps us understand what good or bad information technology has had on HR management. There are opportunities and challenges that came with the introduction of information technology. People should be able to analyze them well and weigh the options to know if it has done harm or good in the HR management (Torres-Coronas, & Arias-Oliva, 2009).
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Is it more beneficial for a foster child to remain in the system until age 21, versus aging out at 18?
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My ideas on training revolve around ways of exercising that make you feel stronger physically, mentally and empowered emotionally. At the same time as going through routines it's ideal at times to be able to flow and obtain a release of serotonin and dopamine – those chemicals that naturally occur in the body and can make you feel good.
There are so many facets, energy systems and styles of training the body and in each of these aspects there are hours and hours of training required in order to become proficient. So to get out of the everyday routine of going to the office or to work and fitting in your workouts, at times look at exercise as getting back to nature.
One easy way many can do so is simply by taking a walk, walking on grass in a park for instance, hiking in woodlands, breathing the air and looking at trees. Recreational walking can easily relax you and get you away from being too mentally engaged i.e. entirely zoned into work, laptops and mobile phones.
The body and mind need play, movement and release. Meditation is another activity I give clients especially highly productive ones who are MD's and CEO's. Again this allows for relaxation and as a means of departure to leave the regular thinking box behind. Another thing meditation provides from an exercise perspective, especially the way I teach it is very good posture.
I believe you are not getting the benefits of your full intelligence and energy pathways if you're not breathing fully and diaphragmatically. The way to breathe diaphragmatically is deeply, slowly, in tune with your body from your abdomen all the way into your chest with an upright lower, middle and upper back. To put it simply my way of teaching meditation creates great posture, a strong back and lots of confidence.
Other ideas I have on exercise are about cardio especially running which seems rather unpopular in some quarters of the fitness world. I feel this is sad because the benefits of lymphatic and bowel movement, perspiration, blood flow, tuning into the body and activation of all muscles, joints and ligaments cannot be understated.
I firmly believe that a cardio session several times a week is hugely beneficial if you can fit it in. I cant always fit it in myself and I'm a trainer so I get that you may not be able to do it most days, but try to get in as many sessions as you can anywhere from 3 and above per week. All you need is a pair of trainers, appropriate clothing and a place to run. There are of course alternatives such as skipping, cycling or rowing etc. It can be whatever form of cardio you like but I would recommend a minimum of 30 minutes to a maximum of 45 minutes per session.
For strength, if you want truly strong, lean, powerful and buff arms, it's really simple… Do one arm assisted or unassisted pull ups for 5 reps and do 75-100 push ups in 5 sets either with added weight or simply using your bodyweight. In general push ups will help you get a stronger core, good shape and better endurance for many sports you play while improving general health and fitness.
I have found so many clients benefit by simply doing push ups and pull ups and you really can manipulate these two exercises for incredible arms, chest, back, shoulder and core muscles and even impact your legs by doing them.
For general health squats are absolutely essential and you can benefit from these exercises by doing very high to low reps and also by doing them from many different angles and positions as well as adding lunges in. Another thing I currently like is to mix squats and lunges using bodyweight only but transferring from as many different positions as I possibly can until it's unbearably hard. As ability increases you will be able to find more difficult but rewarding positions to get in and out of.
Bridges and sit ups are exercises that we do on a daily basis in smaller degrees that improve our flexibility and general well being. They are difficult to do for any sustained period of time at first but once you have progressed and are able to do them more easily your joints, ligaments, musculature and flexibility will all improve. You can either make the exercises easier using supports or you can make them harder by making it one sided, using one limb instead of 2 and thats where play and seriously hard yet enjoyable and beneficial training comes in.
Exercise can be fun, playful and rewarding. It can be testing but not monotonous. Capoeira, dance, gymnastics or even just playing around can really get your body to become alive and free as well as your mind. If this has inspired you to get active, get in touch with my personal trainer Westminster team and we can put a plan in place for you.


The Leading Edge Prize for Education Innovation award offered prizes to two programs, one looking to identify factors undermining academic performance and the other connecting attorneys and those needing assistance.
Law schools would do well to include some basic teaching of database management, knowledge management, data analytics and project management into their curriculum to better prepare future attorneys for the technological and operational side of the business.
Law schools have been slow to adopt online coursework, but giving students the opportunity to pursue a degree in part online could free-up time to create valuable interpersonal relationships out in the real world.


A sports company with its stores spread out having its foot print at various locations across the country has noticed mishandling of inventory by their employees at festive or during discount sale season.They also needed a system in which they could track the customer buying trend and help increase their loyalty with various promotional programs.
Stores selling clothes, accessories and other essentials do not have a track of customer Walk-ins. They are not able to track the customer's buying preference. There is lack of online visibility on the effect of various schemes run for customers inside the shop, whether they are working or not.
They do not have a tool to track customer Loyalty and inform their customers about new arrivals/schemes.
A Hand-held Device is installed inside the store & All customer that enroll are given a Magnetic swipe card with a unique id. Whenever the customer buys any product from the outlet, he earns reward points against his purchase. These reward points can be accumulated & redeemed at the outlet for future purchase.
Entire customer data along with their respective accumulated points & redeemed data is updated via GSM/GPRS or thru Wi-Fi/Ethernet to the central server.
Online connectivity to the server, Date wise report, Customer wise accumulated points report, Redeemed customer id wise reports, Sales report and Discount/Credit report against redeemed points.
It can be used during power failure as there is built-in battery. In areas where there is no connectivity, the system can be used in an offline mode and the data can later be updated onto the server.
It is an online tool to assess the customer buying trend/preferences. It helps increase the customer footfalls. Once registered, the same card can be used for redemption across all the other outlets/multiple outlets across the country. Customer Loyalty increases as he get points for every purchase. This gives him an incentive to shop more at the same store.
The customer purchasing behavior can be analyzed and can help identify and reward their most valuable customer on repeated purchase. Increase promotion effectiveness.
VISIONTEK POS can be used for billing along with Loyalty solution. All accruals/redemptions are updated online automatically.
The company has noticed a significant increase in the customer numbers and revenue. They are now able to keep track of the activities in every store across the country. They are very happy with our services and support and have established a long standing relationship with VISIONTEK.


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Online magazine Bustle doubles size in midtown south move
The online media company focused on millennial women will take two floors that Credit Suisse is vacating.
The online women's magazine Bustle is moving its office to 315 Park Ave. South.
The media company signed on for 34,100 square feet at the 20-story building owned by Columbia Property Trust, which recently began a $4 million renovation to upgrade the property's lobby and elevators, and make other improvements such as installing façade lighting to highlight the 1910-era building's architectural elements.
"We wanted to take a building that has the cool feel of midtown south and make it state-of-the-art," said Adam Popper, a senior vice president at Columbia Property Trust who manages the company's New York portfolio. "Meshing the two has been a differentiator for us."
The Atlanta-based landlord, which bought the building in January 2015 for a little more than $350 million, is aiming to fill a large vacancy that will open at the property in April 2017, when a lease with the Swiss bank Credit Suisse is due to expire. Bustle will take two of the nine floors that Credit Suisse will be leaving, the 11th and 12th floors.
Columbia Property Trust is renovating the 20-story building at 315 Park Ave. South.
Beyond that, Columbia Property Trust will have about 130,000 square feet of Credit Suisse's former space to lease. Asking rents at the property range from the high $80s to the $90s per square foot, depending on the floor.
The company has filled other openings in the building. It signed a roughly 40,000-square-foot lease with the gym Equinox, which earlier this year took the building's second and third floors as well as a portion of the fourth. It also completed a 34,844-square-foot lease with the hedge fund Winton Capital for the building's top two floors over the summer. Last year, Columbia leased a 17,000-square-foot full floor to the YouTube network Fullscreen Media.
"We have a good amount of momentum," Popper said.
Columbia Property Trust is also moving its New York office into about 7,000 square feet on the building's fourth floor.
Popper said the company has focused on leasing the building's space to single- and double-floor tenants in a range of industries to diversify the occupancy.
"You create a much more interesting work environment to have a mix of businesses from hedge funds to tech and media," Popper said. "We're trying to make sure we have a diversified tenant roster so we're less vulnerable to any one tenant or industry."
Bustle will relocate from 158 W. 27th St. midway through next year The firm is approximately doubling its size in the move.
Rory Murphy, a broker with Transwestern, represented Bustle in the deal.
David Berkey, Andrew Wiener and David Young, brokers with L&L Holding Co., worked with Popper to arrange the deal for Columbia Property Trust. Popper said he brought in L&L, which is primarily known as a landlord in the city, to help manage and lease up the property because of its expertise in owning and repositioning buildings.
"You have one shot to put your best foot forward and show the market that you are a good landlord and that you have a good building," Popper said. "Who could be better than a successful landlord like L&L to have as an adviser? You have to be humble enough to tap into people who have a lot of success and experience."
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Unterseeboot 78 ou U-78 a été le nom de plusieurs sous-marins allemands ou U-boot durant la Première et la Seconde Guerre mondiale:
L'Unterseeboot 78, de type UE I, sous-marin de la Kaiserliche Marine, a été lancé en 1916 durant la Première Guerre mondiale et qui a été coulé le .
Durant la première Guerre mondiale, l'Allemagne a possédé deux autres sous-marins avec un nom similaire:
UB-78, un sous-marin de type UB III, lancé en 1917 et qui a été coulé le .
UC-78, un sous-marin de type UC II, lancé en 1916 et qui a été coulé le .
L'Unterseeboot 78, un sous-marin de type VII.C, a été lancé en 1941 et a participé à la deuxième bataille de l'Atlantique durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et qui a été coulé le .

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Just-In: Crypto Mining To Receive "Special Attention" In Russia
Russia's Finance Ministry said an upcoming bill to regulate cryptocurrencies will pay "special attention" to mining, citing vast potential in the country for growing the activity. The bill, which was presented to the government in February, is expected to be finalized in the near future.
The comments come in the wake of several calls from Russian officials to promote the adoption of cryptocurrencies, in order to alleviate the pressure of strict economic sanctions. The United States and its allies have blocked Russia from most of the global financial system over its invasion of Ukraine.
The move saw inflation skyrocket in the country, while the ruble collapsed.
Mining a point of focus for Russian ministers
Russia's proposed bill still intends to ban the use of crypto as a payment option. But it will establish a comprehensive regulatory framework for investing in the space and promote activities such as mining.
While the finance ministry appeared to be unanimously in favor of industrialized crypto mining, there appeared to be some disparity over whether individuals should be allowed to mine from their homes.
We believe that it is necessary to concentrate on the development of industrial mining, but it probably does not make sense to ban household mining. In the near future, we will finalize our bill, which is already on the site of the government apparatus, and we will pay special attention to mining.
Alexei Yakovlev, deputy director of the Finance Ministry's financial policy department.
Yakovlev made the comments during a roundtable on crypto mining in Russia, news agency 1Prime reported. He also said that the proposed crypto bill will attempt to strike a balance by maximising economic feasibility, while minimizing risks from money laundering and other illegal activities in the space.
Russia a crypto powerhouse
Russia was poised to become a crypto hub before its invasion of Ukraine. The country's abundant energy resources, coupled with its cold climate, make it an ideal destination for mining crypto.
Russian crypto adoption had also surged in recent years, with a pre-war figure showing Russians held 12% of the world's total crypto, or roughly $240 billion.
But given that economic sanctions have blocked Moscow from the key technological imports needed for mining infrastructure, it is unclear how the country intends to become a mining hub under the current circumstances. Russia's central bank has also repeatedly called for a blanket ban on crypto.
With more than five years of experience covering global financial markets, Ambar intends to leverage this knowledge towards the rapidly expanding world of crypto and DeFi. His interest lies chiefly in finding how geopolitical developments can impact crypto markets, and what that could mean for your bitcoin holdings. When he isn't trawling through the web for the latest breaking news, you can find him playing videogames or watching Seinfeld reruns.
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5 Under 40 awards: Here's how to attend to celebrate the Class of 2019 winners
Tickets are on sale now for the celebration, which recognizes five business leaders who are making an impact in both their career and community.
5 Under 40 awards: Here's how to attend to celebrate the Class of 2019 winners Tickets are on sale now for the celebration, which recognizes five business leaders who are making an impact in both their career and community. Check out this story on sctimes.com: https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2020/01/01/sc-times-localiq-5-under-40-awards-tickets-jan-21/2734852001/
From Staff Reports Published 10:00 a.m. CT Jan. 1, 2020
Now that the new year is here and you're filling in your 2020 calendar with important events, make sure to include the 15th annual SC Times/LOCALiQ 5 Under 40 awards celebration set for Jan. 21 at 912 Regency Plaza.
Tickets are on sale now for the celebration, which recognizes five business leaders in Central Minnesota who are making an impact in both their career and community.
The Class of 2019 winners will be announced at www.sctimes.com Jan. 9-10 and in Times print editions the following week.
Year in review: Here are your 2019 Difference Makers
Doors open for the celebration at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21. The ceremony starts about 6 p.m. with complimentary hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar available throughout the event.
Tickets are just $10 plus handling fees.
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I think zucchini deserves an award for being the most versatile veggie (next to carrots). Okay, maybe we can just settle on giving it the most versatile SQUASH award. There we go!
Zucchini works well in a lot of savory recipes (tacos, pasta, my Balsamic-Dijon Roasted Veggies etc.) and also really well in sweet recipes (hellooooo ZUCCHINI BREAD). But, what you often forget is that zucchini also does super well hiding in recipes where you wouldn't expect it. You can add shredded zucchini to oatmeal, mash it up in your applesauce, or PUT IT IN A SMOOTHIE/ SMOOTHIE BOWL.
A backstory on this smoothie bowl: Last night, I remembered the sole zucchini I had leftover in my fridge after I went up to bed. As a promoter of minimal food waste, I obviously wanted to use this fine squash inhabiting my refrigerator. I had a grand zucchini smoothie- bowl idea pop into my mind for breakfast the next morning. I frantically yelled down to my mom from my bedroom: "MOM, CAN YOU PUT THE ZUCCHINI IN THE FREEZER FOR ME?!" Turns out I interrupted her weekly "This Is Us" addiction and she was slightly annoyed…whoops!
Anyway, I love zucchini in this smoothie bowl because it adds volume and a serving of veggies with little to zero flavor at all. Can a get a heck yeah for FIBER and VITAMINS?!
If you're looking for another breakfast recipe, check out my Leftover Apple Pie Overnight Oats.
This smoothie bowl is super yummy, and secretly has an entire zucchini inside!
Add ingredients to blender and blend on high till smooth. Add plant milk/ scrape sides if the blender needs some help getting everything going.
Top with whatever you desire! This would also taste great with a handful of granola, a sprinkle of chia seeds, and a drizzle of nut butter. (AKA go crazy with the toppings!!) Enjoy!


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Yara Shahidi Seems Perfect Because She Has To Be
If Yara Shahidi Seems Perfect, It's Because She Has To Be
The actress and activist reflects on the perils of being a poster child for Gen Z and, well, anything
Kathleen Newman-Bremang
Yara Shahidi is the voice of her generation. That sentence, or sentiments just like it, are repeated in almost every profile of Shahidi in the past few years. It tends to follow young famous women who we deem emblematic of a time and a place. A decade ago, it was Lena Dunham, whose Girls character Hannah Horvath declared it about herself —"I think I might be the voice of my generation. Or, at least, a voice of a generation" — and then neither she, nor Dunham, ever lived it down. Dunham never truly spoke for everyone, but as a polarizing purveyor of millennial stereotypes — spoiled, entitled, lazy — it did, for better or worse, become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Shahidi would never declare herself the voice of her generation. It's a designation she's not entirely comfortable with, but it's comforting to me, a Black millennial woman, that the spokesperson of the next generation is a proud half Iranian, half African-American young person with Shahidi's seeming grace and aptitude. She's the antidote to Dunham's brand of brash white feminism. If millennials were supposed to be selfish and disengaged, Gen-Z is supposed to be the opposite. Dunham proved that the "voice of a generation" title comes with immediate pressure and impossible expectations that Shahidi is hesitant to shoulder on her own.
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"I am so beyond grateful for the support," Shahidi tells me over the phone during a break from production. "But what I love so much about the collision between time and space that has happened right now is the fact that I am in no way the face of anything, because when I look at so many of my peers, there are people doing the same work, more work, different work than I am."
Reluctant or not, weeks after turning 19, Shahidi is the teen we (and maybe Hollywood, too) have been waiting for. She is what we hope Generation Z to be: informed, politically passionate, socially engaged, and actively working on specific issues to better the world, like voter turnout, gun control and immigration policies. She's also booked and busy: She's halfway through her freshman year at an Ivy League school, starring in the hit Freeform college comedy, black-ish spinoff Grown-ish (which was just renewed for a third season) and she's about to headline the spring blockbuster The Sun Is Also A Star, based on the beloved YA novel of the same name. She directed X for Refinery29's Shatterbox, a short film series spotlighting female storytellers, that premieres on International Women's Day on TNT. She's the new face of Bobbi Brown, and she even has her own Barbie.
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There's more. She co-founded Yara's Club, an online initiative to mentor high school students. She started Eighteenx18, a platform to encourage young people to vote, and her 18th birthday party was a literally a "voting party."
It's hard to know what 19-year-old has the time or attention span for all of this, and it raises questions about whether some of this is a performance; whether her wokeness is more "hashtag activism" than altruism. When I bring up a conventional notion that Gen-Zers are all talk no action to Shahidi, she gets defensive.
"Social media matters. Twitter matters, Instagram matters. Sometimes in fantastic ways, and sometimes in not-so-great ways. When you look at my peers on social media, a lot of them are doing other things outside of it." Shahidi namechecks Malala Yousafzai, LGBTQ+ rights activist and model Hunter Shafer, and Jaden Smith's recent efforts to provide water to Flint, MI, as examples of other young people stepping up beyond their online personas.
"Awareness is the first step. I now no longer have to be concerned with just the stories my newspaper is giving me, or CNN. I'm learning about iconic activists not through my school system, but through Twitter, through following this other person that I admire or am inspired by. It means that there's this new exchange of information happening."
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If Shahidi was running for Young Hollywood's Class of 2019 President, answers like that would have solidified her victory. She is like a politician. She says the right thing — the most impressive thing — all the time. She's given talks at summits and panels alongside Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama (who wrote her a recommendation for America's most prestigious university). Oprah Winfrey called her one of the "most profound 17-year-olds alive." She left both Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert in awe of her knowledge of public policy on their respective late-night shows. Shahidi talks like she's reciting an academic syllabus most of the time, in a professor-in-training prose that is popular among the Gen-Z set. These kids have never had to walk to an actual brick-and-mortar library look up a word in a dictionary, and it shows. They have a vocabulary at their fingertips. Shahidi's mic-drop moment on The Daily Show came when she talked about whether she'd ever enter politics.
"I describe my future as being policy-adjacent. I would like to be next to Capitol Hill but not on it," she said in a cadence that felt practiced, as if she was reciting poetry. "The major I'm doing at [school] is called social studies. It's an interdisciplinary, socio-economic, philosophy and anthropology major, and African-American studies as my second major." Cue raucous applause.
Shahidi's perceived perfection is by design. "I am, quite honestly, a tad bit of a perfectionist," she whispers this like it's a secret and not the most obvious thing about her. "I attempt to do things that I'd be proud looking back in four months." But I suspect it's more than that. Shahidi knows she doesn't have the luxury of partying with abandon. Frankly, Black women in Hollywood don't get the same chances to fail as their white counterparts. Regardless of race, women in Hollywood must tread carefully for the sake of their images — but if you're Black, there is no safety net. Black women have to deal with fewer jobs, higher expectations, and one shot to get it right. There are a few examples of reformed "bad girl" child stars, but they're all white. Think Miley Cyrus and Drew Barrymore. But Cosby Show star Lisa Bonet (who also came of age in college onscreen with A Different World) saw her career stall significantly in the '90s after posing nude in Rolling Stone and filming a sex scene opposite Mickey Rourke in Angel Heart. She was labeled a rebel with a bad attitude, and the roles dried up. In a rare interview last year, Bonet blamed "slim pickings." She may be back in the spotlight because of her husband or her daughter, but the hit to her career back then was undeniable.
With the era of the overshare over, it's not so hip to be problematic, especially for women of color. This is the generation that filters its entire life on social media. Of course, Shahidi is curating her own controlled and curated self-image, like all the non-famous Gen-Zers do every day on Instagram.
Are there things you can't get away with that your white peers can?
There's a pause on the other end of the line. Then hesitant laughter followed by, "Sure, yeah. A ton. I definitely do believe there's a culture which makes it harder to mess up or get back up once you've messed up." This is why Shahidi is careful about the settings she puts herself in.
"I am hyper aware of my surroundings at all times," she says, which is funny, since I'm hyper-aware of the publicist that is listening in on our call. But Shahidi claims her overall precaution comes more from her and less from her team. "I'd be lying if I didn't say I was hyper aware of what other people around me were doing. I'm never going to find myself in positions in which I genuinely regret what I'm doing." Shahidi calls this a "slightly paranoid" way to live, but she's gotten pretty good at extricating herself from compromising situations. "My favorite line is, 'Oh it's past my bedtime now.' And then I leave."
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While Shahidi was in Paris for Zendaya's unveiling of her collection with Tommy Hilfiger, Shahidi's Grown-ish co-star Luka Sabbat invited her out with some friends. "He's one of the only people I actually would've said yes to. I was like wait, I'm going out past 10 o'clock?" Shahidi said yes. She excitedly tells me about the group chat she's in with her other Grown-ish co-stars and how she was updating them throughout the rare night out.
"What's so funny was like, during the entire experience, I was just like, "Guys, I'm living Grown-ish!"
Partying aside, Shahidi and her Grownish character appear to be living parallel lives, albeit with different upbringings. Shahidi was born in Minneapolis, MN, but moved to California when she was 4. Raised by an African-American mother, a commercial actress, and Iranian-American father, a director who was also Prince's personal photographer, Shahidi calls the entertainment industry "a family affair." Her brother also acts, and her cousin is rapper Nas. Although Shahidi started acting at age 9 (her first role was starring opposite Eddie Murphy in Imagine That), she says that "I wasn't one of those kids who woke up and said, I want to be an actor." She says her real interest was in Renaissance art and nerding out over historical figures like novelist James Baldwin over One Direction. "I've always wanted to be a historian. For my tenth birthday party, I dressed up as an historian in a seersucker suit," she says with a laugh.
After Imagine That, Shahidi worked steadily, but her most memorable pre-Black-ish parts were playing Angelina Jolie's neighbor in the 2010 action thriller Salt, the daughter of a president on short-lived TV series First Family, and a young Olivia Pope on the third season of Scandal. In 2014, she landed her breakout role: Zoey Johnson on Black-ish. The comedy has been groundbreaking since the day it debuted for its ripped-from-the-headlines storylines that have tackled everything from the use of the N-word to police brutality and post-partum depression (It's also consistently funny, with crackling chemistry between Shahidi and all of her costars, including TV parents Tracee Ellis Ross and Anthony Anderson). Black-ish centers on Blackness, without apology, and Zoey, the eldest daughter is in the middle of it all. She's the most popular girl in school, and generally your average self-absorbed teenager. Zoey is not perfect, which is why she's so important. Before Zoey on Black-ish arrived in 2014, the last time we'd seen Black teenagers on primetime television was in the Nineties, so it was even more exceptional to see one that could be flawed, funny, and the quintessential pretty, popular high-school student. Shahidi's lightning-fast comedic timing and It-Girl appeal catapulted her into stardom. Then Black-ish creator Kenya Barris had an idea, based on his own daughter's college experience and A Different World — initially Bonet's own Cosby Show spinoff, set at a historically Black college.
Grown-ish follows Zoey as she embarks on her first years of college, an experience that parallels Shahidi's real life (Shahidi says feels like she's actually a sophomore at college because she already lived a season of Grown-ish). But where Shahidi is a politically-minded perfectionist, Zoey is a passionate kid learning about the world for the first time and making mistakes. Zoey is in some ways her alter-ego: It's through Zoey that Shahidi gets to explore the things she could never get away with in real life, like getting drunk and cheating on a chemistry exam.
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"I appreciate the ability to watch her grow and mess up. And this says nothing about her as a human, it says nothing about her possibilities. It just says something about, like, the fact that she's a 19-year-old young woman growing into this world."
Even though Zoey is one of the few characters of color like her on TV, Shahidi doesn't feel pressure to represent all Black teenagers, a pressure she says she feels more in person because of the stereotypical portrayals of blackness she grew up with.
"We want this spectrum of ourselves portrayed in every physical possible spiritual, mental, emotional way that is so much more than saying I am a brown woman, or I am a black woman on TV, but saying, I am a fraction of my community," she says. "In no way am I going to encapsulate my entire community. [Through Zoey], we are continuously undoing the works of how media, in particular, has been weaponized against minorities of any kind."
Shahidi says part of her confidence to speak her mind comes from "a pretty strong matriarch" of Black women in her family, including her mother, Keri, who she still refers to as "Mommy" (she's @chocolatemommyluv on Instagram). Keri Shahidi is rarely more than a few steps away from her daughter, something many teenagers might resent, but not Yara.
"Mommy and I are genuinely best friends, while she is still very much my parent," Shahidi says. "It helps that we're the same person in different bodies with just minor deviations." Shahidi vehemently denies that she and her mother ever fight, because "she is genuinely always right." I tell her that many young women her age would find that assertion baffling.
"I'm just pretty lucky with where I got dropped," she laughs.
Shahidi uses words like "lucky" and "grateful" a lot, a subtle way of checking her privilege. Indeed she doesn't shy away from conversations about privilege and subsequently colorism. Her name is thrown around often with Zendaya and Amandla Stenberg as examples of mixed-race actresses who owe some of their success to Hollywood's colorism problem; the argument is that they get roles actresses with darker complexions do not. Shahidi says she has "many privileges," and having lighter skin and 3C hair is one of them. She paraphrases activist Janaya Future Khan to define privilege as "not by what you have to go through, but what you haven't had to go through."
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"So many times in the conversation, [colorism is used] as a straight up denial of blackness," she says. "We use it as a denial of any sort of experience versus using it as an affirmation that there are things that I haven't had to go through, and the reason that I'm probably not aware of them is that I haven't had to go through them.," She adds: "Having a mother with the exact same face, but with different skin tones, has always made it a conversation in our family."
Those family conversations have also informed how Shahidi hopes to use her privilege.
"I realized that when my norms did not fit those of the world around me, it was time to change the world norms."
There are a few of Shahidi's norms that don't seem to fit, like her aversion to dating. Shahidi says she's just not interested. "It's never been a priority to me… I'm an Aquarius with a Scorpio rising, so my ability to detach is unprecedented," I have no idea what this means, but a laughing Shahidi expands. "I think so many times with teenage relationships it gets convoluted. I enjoy just having male friends first and foremost."
Next up, she'll fall in love with Riverdale's Charles Melton in The Sun Is Also A Star. It's a romance, but Shahidi would rather discuss the film's commentary on immigration. Shahidi plays Natasha, a young woman trying to save her family from deportation to Jamaica. "Being first generation on my father's side, the story of immigration is something that is undoubtedly tied to mine," she says of her Iranian roots. "There are times in which it's like, well, half of my family is from a country that is on the list of places that cannot come to the US."
In every role or beauty campaign that Shahidi takes, she's thinking about how to tie activism in with her art. As she gets ready to wrap up her first year at school, and leave behind the decade that has defined her, she's still coming to terms with being grown… ish.
"I still haven't processed that 20 is the year that comes after 19. Leaving my teens is very intimidating to me."
Then she reveals the most Yara Shahidi goal for the final year of her teens.
"I'm just trying to figure out how I can optimize my productivity."
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Texas group takes methodical approach
As a thriving 105-physician multispecialty practice with 12 offices, a 125,000-member patient base, and a profitable balance sheet in a stage 3 managed care market of about 900,000 citizens, Austin (TX) Regional Clinic seems to have it made. But practice leaders are focused on the future, not the present — a focus that necessitates some tough decisions and planning about capital needs.
It's clearly a sign of the times, as practice leaders around the country are considering a variety of options (see chart, p. 120). The process Austin Regional Clinic is undergoing in its search for capital offers some insights into the strategic planning methods groups can use to help determine the right approach for them. Physician's Managed Care Report will follow up with Austin Regional Clinic in six months to determine the practice's progress.
Austin Regional Clinic got to its present situation after terminating an exclusive relationship with Prudential Health Care of Austin with a late 1995 effective date (Prudential was not willing to let the clinic drop its exclusivity clause and contract with other health systems). The use of retained earnings and a line of credit helped the practice get through the loss of patients that resulted from that contract's termination. As of early this year, the practice had recovered, with an all-time-high patient base and contracts with five HMOs and 12 PPOs.
"It's such an interesting time for the medical world," says Norman H. Chenven, MD, CEO and president of the multispecialty group practice he helped found with two other physicians in 1980. "There's so much consolidation going on, so much money chasing money, so much volatility. It's almost as if we're in a random evolutionary expansion, with all sorts of strange hybrid and new species popping up. Somewhere down the line, 10 to 15 years from now, we'll know which ones are good enough to survive. But I don't believe there's anyone today with enough wisdom to anticipate how it's all going to play out."
Chenven and his partners knew they had to decide which path to take for the future, but they wanted their choice to be the result of a well-thought-out process — not a gamble. They took the following steps:
1. Selecting a strategic planning committee. The nine physician members of the committee comprise several Austin Regional Clinic board members, chiefs of services, and physicians representing a range of specialties and demographics. "We wanted to get input that was representative of the whole group," Chenven says.
2. Educating the committee about various options. The committee heard presentations from Austin Regional Clinic senior management regarding the group's current financial situation, met with two investment bankers who specialize in health care to discuss various financing options, and held discussions with potential partners, including representatives from hospital systems, other multispecialty practices in the community, publicly traded physician practice management (PPM) companies, and startup PPMs.
3. Defining objectives. The committee came up with these objectives:
• Creating a secure, satisfying, stable practice environment. "That's different from just obtaining the most dollars for your practice," Chenven notes.
• Maintaining a competitive compensation and benefits package for the practice's physicians and employees.
• Maintaining ongoing profitability.
• Obtaining, retaining, or growing whatever equity value it could. "The objective is stated that way to reflect flexibility; we want to be open to all possibilities," Chenven explains.
• Preserving as much physician control as possible in regard to both medical and business decisions.
4. Setting business goals to help meet these objectives. The practice targeted 25% to 30% market share as its goal (currently it provides care to about 17% of third-party reimbursed patients in the Austin market). "In order to grow to that size, we will need to add facilities and providers, merge or acquire some existing practices, grow and support our affiliated IPA and management service organization, and even expand our geographic access to some surrounding smaller communities," Chenven says.
5. Identifying a timetable and financial target. These goals don't come cheap. Practice leaders determined they would need to invest $15 million to $25 million during the next three years to help grow the practice. Chenven says they would like to execute the plan relatively rapidly to take advantage of their current relationships with payers and other medical groups due to their practice's reputation, as well as respond to the consolidation that is occurring among hospitals and payers. "We hope to have a definitive agreement [with a partner] by the first of 1998," he adds.
6. Beginning more serious discussions with potential partners or financiers. This is the stage Austin Regional currently is in. Because the practice has done so much planning, Chenven expects it to be a pretty short list — four to five groups at most.
Although the ultimate answer for Austin Regional Clinic remains to be seen, Chenven praises his group's leadership and is glad they took the time to think through the process carefully. "Some of the development people we deal with have tried to get us to shortcut the process. They say, 'let's do exclusive negotiations. You can trust us.' But each group needs to go through this process to decide what it is they really want," he says. "There are so many contingent events that can occur. The process sometimes feels more like white water rafting. You put your raft in and try to keep your raft off the rocks. If you can successfully negotiate all those dangerous spots in the river, you'll be okay in the end."
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