From Thoreau's Walden to Tim Winton's Dirt Music, writers everywhere have always been in love with the land. But in a new anthology of essays, A Place on Earth, editor Mark Tredinnick doesn't shy away from a grand ambition: to kickstart a new genre - an Australian "literature of place".
Use the term "nature writing" in Australia, says Blue Mountains author Mark Tredinnick, and you're generally met with a puzzled expression. Booksellers, for example, are confused about where to put a book of essays about nature – in the travel section, perhaps? Or history? Whereas in North America, Tredinnick claims, the tradition of the poetic, personal essay about place is a long and solid one. Beginning with Montaigne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and poet Emily Dickinson, and practised now in the writings of Barry Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams, Peter Matthiessen and many others like them, the nature essay, or 'place writing', is as established a genre in the US and Canada as crime fiction.
This difference in literature between two countries of arguably similar scales and settlement histories, is what drew Tredinnick to compile A Place on Earth – and, he hopes, to give more than a gentle nudge to the rise of the genre in this country.
All the essays are by either Australian or North American writers, a deliberate choice by Tredinnick, whose idea for the collection arose from a nature writers' symposium he attended at Harvard University in 2000.
"North America has been home, since Thoreau, to a rich literature dedicated to bringing places – landscapes and the people and other beings who inhabit them – to a second life in the imagination of readers," he writes in the book's introduction. And seems true that many of the American pieces in the anthology seem to possess more of an assurance, a confidence in their literary home, than those of some Australian writers.
Tredinnick attributes the lack of an Australian tradition of this kind to many factors, which he explores in the introduction. One is that while Australia has always had a prolific poetry focused on the land and particular places, it has not, until very recently, embraced the personal, poetic essay – which he sees as the natural home of place writing.
But not all the Australians in the collection share Tredinnick's opinions on the way this writing should be described, and where it fits into the literary canon. IN fact, some seem to have no view of it at all – they are interested in the content, not the context, of what they do.
Eric Rolls, whose piece My Places is a gentle meditation of how different birds connect him psychically to the different places he's lived ("Birds define my places," he says), disagrees that the essay is king in nature writing. He describes himself as "a poet and a writer of imaginative prose about whatever demands to be written".
"It is imperative to write what one knows best, so six of my 20 books deal with nature since I was in close touch with the soil and everything connected with it during 45 years as a farmer.
"An essay is more accessible to the majority than poetry but I see no other reason why an essay should be considered the most suitable form for writing about place. Fiction, provided it is not didactic (that ruins any story), might be more suitable," he says.
Patrice Newell, author of The Olive Grove and more recently The River, is skeptical about the nomenclature.
But he does agree on the natural fit of the essay with this subject matter, whatever it's called.
Hay agrees, too, that an Australian tradition of nature writing has been lacking to date - but adds some clarifying points.
Until I read this collection, I admit the term 'nature writing' set off in me a suspicion that I was about to be lectured on environmental degradation. Happily, almost none of the pieces gave me that feeling as I read, even though the writers are clearly deeply concerned about these issues. But is eco-activism a part of the tradition? And if so, how do these writers avoid the sanctimony of the kind of enviro-bore we've all encountered at dinner parties?Tredinnick believes there is a definite connection between creating a literature of place, and creating a practical sympathy for the land.
Tredinnick sees the writers' restraint and literary skill as the key here – they avoid lecturing because they share the instinct of every good poet or novelist to show, rather than tell.
"The writers in this collection have a lyric sensibility; it would be completely naff to any of them to find themselves going too far into a finger-waving, 'we-must-avoid-this' mode. Clearly there's an earnestness behind their work, a kind of grief just held in check. But it's the holding in check that counts," he says.
In talking with writers about this literature – and in reading the pieces, which often have a meditative, contemplative tone - I have been struck by the transcendent quality of the language they use. Which leads me to wonder if there is some kind of spirituality inherent in this work.
Tredinnick doesn't believe the work is overtly spiritual, which he would see as falling into the New Age grab-bag of religious fashion. But he concedes there's something deep and somewhat elusive at work in this literature.


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Amicus Briefs in Support of Sequenom's Petition for Rehearing En Banc: Amarantus Bioscience Holdings, Personalis, Inc., and Population Diagnostics, Inc.
Earlier this summer, in Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v. Sequenom, Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the District Court for the Northern District of California granting summary judgment of invalidity of the asserted claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,258,540 (see "Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v. Sequenom, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2015)"). Last month, Sequenom filed a petition for rehearing en banc, arguing that the panel's decision in June was inconsistent with the Supreme Court's decisions in Diamond v. Diehr, 450 U.S. 175 (1981), Mayo v. Prometheus Laboratories, 132 S. Ct. 1289 (2012), and Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, 133 S. Ct. 2107 (2013), and that the panel's decision poses a threat to patent protection in multiple fields of invention. On August 27, twelve amicus curiae briefs were filed in support of Sequenom's petition for rehearing en banc. Over the next few weeks, Patent Docs will examine these amicus briefs. Today, we review the brief submitted by Amarantus Bioscience Holdings, Personalis, Inc., and Population Diagnostics, Inc.
In the brief's Statement of Interest, the amici state that they are companies that "discover and provide diagnostic tests that use exomes, genomes, and genetic biomarkers" and that their "ability [] to attract investment and to continue operations depends on ensuring that claims to such tests recite patentable subject matter." From its website, Amarantus is "a publicly traded biotechnology company focused on developing therapeutic products with the potential for orphan drug designation in the areas of neurology, psychiatry, ophthalmology and regenerative medicine, and diagnostics in neurology." Personalis describes itself as a company that "provides researchers and clinicians accurate DNA sequencing and interpretation of human exomes and genomes" and that "support[s] researchers engaging in case-control, family-based, or proband-only genomic studies of disease, pharmacogenomics, and cancer." The Population Diagnostics website characterizes the company's activities as "accelerating the delivery of personalized medicine diagnostic and therapeutic products to enable safe, low-cost, and more effective healthcare for patients."
The brief argues that the panel decision deprives the district courts and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office of the guidance it should get from the Federal Circuit. According to the brief, the Supreme Court has consistently held that claims must be considered as a whole, and that not doing so (which the brief contends was the flaw in the panel's decision) leads to "arbitrary and inconsistent results." Specifically, the brief states that the Federal Circuit, as "the only Federal appeals court for patents" has an opportunity that it should not forego to provide "workable" guidance in properly applying § 101 of the Patent Act. Such guidance should promulgate "a flexible, workable framework" within prevailing Supreme Court precedent, particularly under Mayo v. Prometheus and Alice v. CLS Bank. And such guidance, according to these amici, rests on the principle that "claims be construed as a whole before validity is determined."
In this regard, the brief interprets the Supreme Court's language in setting forth the framework in the Alice case as requiring the "claims as a whole" analysis. This standard finds support in the brief in language from Parker v. Flook and Diamond v. Diehr (an argument with some force, in view of the diametrically opposed precedential history of these cases). The advantage of performing the Alice analysis based on the claims as a whole, according to these amici, is that it "produces a flexible, workable analysis that allows for fact-driven, nuanced decisions of patent-subject matter eligibility [by e]mploying ordinary claim construction."
Failure to perform the Alice analysis based on considering the claims as a whole, in contrast, results in a "lack of consistency" that the amici urge the Court to cure en banc. The consequences of this lack of predictability harms "parties trying to obtain and defend good patents, harms parties trying to invalidate bad patents, and harms innovation in large technology sectors including personalized medicine, diagnostics, and software." The brief mentions the relaxation of the standard of requiring claim construction as set forth in the Court's en banc decision in In re Bilski to a more recent panel decision eschewing this requirement in Bancorp Servs., L.L.C. v. Sun Life Assurance Co., 687 F.3d 1266, 1273 (Fed. Cir. 2012). But "[u]ntethering claim validity from claim construction leaves the courts (and the USPTO) without any predictable constraints on how the determination will be conducted," the amici argue. And as a consequence, the panel in this case (as well as the panel in the Bancorp case and perhaps others) have contravened the statute (35 U.S.C. § 112(b)) and prior precedent (In re Hiniker, 150 F.3d 1362, 1369 (Fed. Cir. 1998)) in adopting this relaxed standard of performing the § 101 analysis without considering the claims as a whole.
As a result, the amici argue, the courts and PTO have improperly applied the first step in the Alice framework, wherein rather than determining whether the claims are "directed to" a judicial exception to patent eligibility instead they have merely determined whether an exception is present in the claim. This argument is supported by a quote from the panel decision in this case, where the amici argue the panel improperly applied the Alice test at least with regard to claim 25; specifically comparing:
[T]he asserted claims of the '540 patent are directed to a multistep method that starts with cffDNA . . . a naturally occurring non-cellular fetal DNA that circulates freely in the blood stream of a pregnant woman. See, e.g., '540 patent claims 1, 24, 25. . . . The method ends with paternally inherited cffDNA, which is also a natural phenomenon. The method therefore begins and ends with a natural phenomenon. Thus, the claims are directed to matter that is naturally occurring. Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v. Sequenom, Inc., 788 F.3d 1371, 1376 (Fed. Cir. 2015).
with the claim language:
[M]ethod for performing a prenatal diagnosis on a maternal blood sample [comprising] . . . [A] obtaining a non-cellular fraction of the blood sample [B] amplifying a paternally inherited nucleic acid from the non-cellular fraction and [C] performing nucleic acid analysis on the amplified nucleic acid to detect paternablly inhereited fetal nucleic acid [italics in the brief].
From this the amici contend that "[c]learly, claim 25 includes in it numerous limitations, i.e., [A]-[C], that do not start and end with the same product," in support of their argument that the panel misapplied the Alice framework in arriving at its conclusion of patent ineligibility for Sequenom's claims. The panel's misapplication of the test "opens a Pandora's box" because it "abstracts the claimed invention to a general concept in a way that is unprecedented for claim construction."
These amici further argue that the Federal Circuit has "addressed similar improper abstraction" in other areas of patent law and focused its analysis on the claims and specification. In this section, the brief makes an analogy with how the Federal Circuit has applied the obviousness analysis in design patent law, where the Court has prohibited just the type of abstraction the amici find the panel employed in this case. Here, in contrast, the brief asserts that the panel has succumbed to "excessive abstraction" in applying the analytical framework set forth in Alice with regard to the first prong of the analysis, and in doing so has rendered the second step a "foregone conclusion."
The amici then provide their views on the proper application of the patent eligibility analysis:
To avoid untethered abstraction, courts and the USPTO should consider: (i) the claims as a whole, (ii) in light of the specification, (iii) from the perspective of a skilled artisan, as well as (iv) the problem being solved by, (v) and the state of the art at the time of, the claimed invention.
The brief concludes with a discussion of the practical effects of this abstraction regarding the first step of the Alice test, wherein the search for the elusive "something more" in Justice Breyer's Mayo opinion permits courts and the PTO to dismiss affirmatively recited claim limitations as being "merely conventional" (as occurred in both the District Court and panel decisions in this case). Here the brief contrasts the way the panel applied these steps in Sequenom's claims with how the panel (using the same framework) could have (or rather, would have) applied the Alice test to the claims in the Diehr opinion. And as other amici have done, the consequence is that this panel would have declared the Diehr claims to be patent ineligible, in clear contradiction of the Supreme Court's decision that Diehr's claims recited patent-eligible subject matter.
These amici were represented by Maya Skubatch, Richard Torczon, Charles J. Andres, Jr. and Gideon A. Schor, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
For additional information regarding this topic, please see:
• "Amicus Briefs in Support of Sequenom's Petition for Rehearing En Banc: Coalition for 21st Century Medicine," September 14, 2015
• "Amicus Briefs in Support of Sequenom's Petition for Rehearing En Banc: IPO," September 8, 2015
• "Amicus Briefs in Support of Sequenom's Petition for Rehearing En Banc: Professors Lefstin and Menell," September 6, 2015
• "Amicus Briefs in Support of Sequenom's Petition for Rehearing En Banc: 23 Law Professors," September 3, 2015
• "Amici Support Sequenom's Petition for Rehearing En Banc," August 28, 2015
• "Sequenom Requests Rehearing En Banc," August 18, 2015
• "Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v. Sequenom, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2015), June 22, 2015


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Infection and hospitalization rates in late July were five and 29 times higher respectively among unvaccinated people in Los Angeles County than the fully vaccinated, according to a new report out Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Why it matters: Hospitals and state health officials have been warning that the spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations mostly comprises of unvaccinated adults.
The big picture: Still, the data, which shows one-fourth of L.A. infections were from vaccinations, coincides with another CDC report out Tuesday that also shows the waning vaccine effectiveness against the Delta variant.
CDC looked at a cohort of frontline health care workers and vaccine effectiveness had gone down to 66%, independent of time since vaccination.
Last week, the agency released initial reports on vaccine effectiveness including one on adults in New York with vaccine effectiveness declined from about 92% in early May to nearly 80% by late July.
Between the lines: The two datasets out Tuesday add to the emerging evidence that protection from COVID-19 shots decreases over time.
By the numbers: Among the 43,127 COVID infections in Los Angeles County, between May 1 and July 25, about 25% were fully vaccinated, about 3% were partially vaccinated and about 71% were unvaccinated, the report shows.
Fully vaccinated people with COVID-19 were also less likely to be hospitalized than unvaccinated people.
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Among the unvaccinated, nearly 8% were hospitalized, 1.5% were in an ICU and .5% on a ventilator.
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Did you know who invented the principle of competition among students? It was Marcus Verrius Flaccus, a Roman teacher who was famous in the late 1st century BC and had used this technique as an educational aid.
As the demands of the society changed, its culture changed, and consequently, its educational practices. There is no doubt that education is the secret key to human success and the roots of education lie in competition. Competitive exams for school students sit at the core of the Indian education system. The gateways to some of the best courses and institutes in the country, they are indeed an unbiased way of choosing worthy applicants without the risk of peddling, favouritism or cultural influences.
In this article, we are going to list out the most important competitive exams for school students for classes 8th, 9th and 10th.
To make it simpler, here's a quick look at the exhaustive competitive exams for school students, before we get started with the details. Enjoy reading this informative piece, guys.
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Competitive Exams for School Students (Class 8, 9 and 10)
1. National Talent Search Examination or NTSE
A national-level examination cum scholarship program, it is one of most prestigious competitive exams for school students. NTSE's genuine endeavour is to identify students who have high academic talent and exceptional intellectual ability. The students who qualify for this two-tier exam receive cash scholarship for the complete academic year.
For more information, check out their official website.
Subjects: Science, Mathematics, Social Science, Mental Ability and General Awareness
Conducting Body: National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)
2. National Level Science Talent Search Exam or NLSTSE
This diagnostic test identifies talented students from classes II to XII. What's unique about these exams? They include interesting questions that require thinking, not simply recalling as per the traditional techniques. NSTSE provides a detailed skill-wise feedback, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of students.
Subjects: Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, General Questions
Conducting Body: Unified Council
3. Indian National Olympiad (INO)
Financially supported by the Government of India, Olympiads involve a five-stage procedure. The first stage of the Indian National Olympiad is NSE (National Standard Examination), which is held for each subject and is overseen and organized entirely by the Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT). However, all the remaining four stages are conducted by HBCSE.
The five stages are:
Stage I: National Standard Examination (NSE)
Stage II: Indian National Olympiad
Stage III: Orientation cum Selection Camp (OCSC)
Stage IV: Pre-departure Training Camp (PDT)
Stage V: Participation in International Olympiad
Subjects: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Astronomy and Junior Science
Conducting Body: Jointly conducted by Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT) & Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE)
4. Science Olympiad Foundation
This non-profit organization established by leading academicians, scientists and media personalities conducts competitive exam for students of classes I to XII. The foundation organises separate exams for subjects like Computer (National Cyber Olympiad), Maths (International Maths Olympiad), Science (National Science Olympiad) and English (International English Olympiad).
Subjects: Science, mathematics, computer education, English, sports and professional courses
Conducting Body: Science Olympiad Foundation
For such entrance exams, NCERT Solutions are recommended study material. Download NCERT Solutions for Class 5 to 12 here.
5. GeoGenius
Isn't it surprising that many students can't even locate India on a blank map of the world? So, GeoGenius has embarked on a mission to spark student interest in Geography and increase public awareness about it. Students from Class II to XII are eligible for these exams. Geography Olympiad; however, does not provide an entry to the International Geography Olympiad, which is conducted separately.
6. Silverzone Olympiads
Silverzone Foundation is an NGO, which aims at promoting competitive awareness of academics in school children in India and abroad. It is conducted for classes I to XII in various subjects and ensures that the students succeed not only on professional or career counts but also on social parameters. These exams also develop creative thinking and enhance problem-solving skills
Subject: Computer, Mathematics, Science and English Language
Conducted body: Silverzone Foundation.
For more information, check out their official website
7. National Interactive Maths Olympiad or NIMO
With a vision to remove the fear of maths from students' minds, this national-level exam is for students of classes V to XII. It tests their mathematical skills and mental ability. NIMO promises to make math more fun by introducing interactive activities like interactive Olympiad, workshops, and seminars.
Subjects: Math
Conducting Body: Eduheal Foundation
8. National Biotechnology Olympiad or NBO
This particular exam comprises of 50 questions for 50 marks and allows I to XII students from all streams to participate. Besides annual e-newspapers, its Biotechno Activity Books & Work Books have been widely appreciated by schools. It wants to inspire the younger generation to enhance their knowledge about Biotechnology issues and create awareness among them.
9. Asset (Assessment of Scholastic Skills Through Educational Testing)
A scientifically-designed, skill-based assessment test, it breaks free from the concept of rote learning. Meant for students of classes III-X, it measures how well have children understood the underlying school syllabus These exams are based on the CBSE, ICSE, IGCSE, and state board's curriculum.
Subjects: English, Mathematics and Science (Social Studies and Hindi – Optional)
Conducting Body: Educational Initiatives Pvt. Ltd.
10. Kishore Vigyan Protsahan Yojana or KVPY
It is a national level competitive exam in Basic Sciences and conducted by the Department of Science and Technology for students of classes XI and XII. The selected students become eligible for admission to the five-year integrated MS program at the Indian Institute for Science Education and Research. The objective of the program is to identify students with talent and aptitude for research.
Subject: Basic Science
Conducting Body: Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India
11. International Olympiad of English Language (iOEL)
The International Olympiad of English Language (iOEL), a test of competence and knowledge in the English Language, is held annually at the national and international levels based on the syllabus prescribed by the CBSE/ICSE and the State Boards. ESEL recommends the competition for each and every student who is studying the English Language as their subject in the school. A student between class 1st to 12th can participate in iOEL through his/her school only. The language medium is English.
Subject: English
Conducting Body: CBSE/ICSE and the State Boards
12. SKGKO – SmartKid General Knowledge Olympiad
The Smart Kid General Knowledge Olympiad, a test of competence and proficiency in General Knowledge, (based on subjects like History, Geography, General Science, Current affairs and sport etc.) is held annually at the national level. It is based on the syllabus prescribed by CBSE/ICSE and the State Boards. It is meant for the students of classes 1-10.
Subject: History, Geography, General Science, Current Affairs and Sports.
For more information, check here
13. iSSO – International Social Studies Olympiad
The International Social Studies Olympiad, a test of competence and proficiency in History, Geography and Civics, is held annually at the National and International levels. It is based on the syllabus prescribed by CBSE/ICSE and the State Boards.
Subject: History, Geography and Civics
14. The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO)
IMO (International Math Olympiad) exam is a scholarship exam organized by the prestigious Science Olympiad Foundation (SOF) for the students of class 1 to 12. The Math Olympiad exam aims at identifying and promoting mathematical abilities in the school-going students across India and abroad. Its first-stage exam is conducted in the school premises, and successful students can appear for the city, state, national and international-level examination. Good scholarships, awards, medals and certificates are presented to students based on their rankings at various levels.
Subject: Maths
Well, the season of competitive exams is just around the corner, and we know you are doing all you can to crack them. All these tests are designed to check your knowledge in particular sections. Hope this post on competitive exams for school students helped you with the information you were looking for.
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Oakland Is Getting a Stylish New Bar That Pairs Craft Cocktails With Asian Desserts
Viridian will open in the former Plum Bar space in early February
by Luke Tsai Jan 23, 2020, 2:22pm PST
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A spread of cocktails and desserts
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Over the past decade, Oakland has built up a craft cocktail scene that can toe to toe with any other city in the Bay — an entire galaxy of bars and restaurants where you can find delicious, meticulously prepared craft cocktails and fancy food. Going out for a nice dinner and cocktails is, of course, a time-honored tradition at this point. But what about going out for cocktails and dessert — Asian-inspired, dim sum-adjacent desserts, to be more specific?
The team behind Viridian, an ambitious new cocktail spot coming to the former Plum Bar space at 2216 Broadway in Uptown Oakland, is betting that that precise combination — craft cocktails and Asian desserts — might be the next big thing.
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Expected to open in the next couple of weeks, the bar started out as a pop-up collaboration between bar director William Tsui (previously the bar director at Michelin-starred Lazy Bear) and operations manager Raymond Gee (Noodle Theory Provisions), childhood friends who grew up together in Oakland. About four years ago, the two started toying with the idea of opening a place that served cocktails and dim sum, nearly landing a spot in Oakland Chinatown at that time. This past fall, as Tsui recalls, when their real estate broker told them that the Plum Bar spot was available, right in the heart of Uptown Oakland, their response was pretty straightforward: "Fuck yeah."
Now, along with fellow co-owner Jeremy Chiu (Shinmai), they've assembled a fairly star-studded team that includes GM Alison Kwan (of 1885 Britomart in Auckland, New Zealand) and executive chef Amanda Hoang, who was most recently the pastry chef at Palo Alto's Bird Dog. Alice Kim, who was the pastry sous chef at Lazy Bear, also consulted on the food menu.
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The bar promises to be stylish, with a design aesthetic that Tsui says is inspired by the highly atmospheric films of Wong Kar-wai and the cover art of 90s R&B albums. It will mostly be a standing bar, like a cocktail party, with a smaller section of stools and tables in the back. "The main idea that we want to convey is that it's fun, unpretentious, and comfortable," Gee says.
Here in the Bay Area, Viridian's closest analogue is probably Moongate Lounge, Brandon Jew's upstairs cocktail lounge, which opened in San Francisco Chinatown last year with a menu of gorgeous cocktails and California-inflected interpretations of classic dim sum. It appears that Viridian — which has done a pop-up at Moongate, and also hired Jew and his wife Anna Lee to design their space — will be likeminded in its distinctly Asian-American aesthetic and dim sum inspiration. But the bar's outsize focus on sweets is fairly unique in the Bay Area cocktail bar scene.
Tsui explains that the inspiration for the concept came, in part, out of a desire to eliminate food waste. "Working in fine dining, there's a lot of waste," Tsui says. "You use the most perfect part of the fruit, and then you throw the rest away. The goal here is to use all of the byproducts." Since the bar would be using a lot of fruit to make cocktails, there was a lot more overlap of ingredients for desserts than there were for savory dishes.
As a result, Hoang's menu will only have three savory items: a take on chicken nuggets with the flavor profile of Chinese salt-and-pepper fried chicken wings; a version of the steamed barbecue pork buns that are ubiquitous at dim sum parlors; and, essentially, Parker House rolls slathered in housemade chili-crisp garlic butter.
Rum po tat (Portuguese egg tarts)
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The sweet side of the menu, on the other hand, will be much longer and more wide-ranging, including both dim sum–type snacks as well as more elaborate plated desserts. There will be a take on Portuguese egg tarts, with an extra-flaky crust Hoang says is similar to what you'd find on a kouign amann. There are "leaky sand buns," like the dim sum-style egg lava buns, but the custard inside is made with salted duck egg yolks to give it a sandy texture. Plated desserts range from a banana cream pie that incorporates pandan in the custard and a toasted coconut whipped cream, to a cake that alternates between layers of chocolate blackout cake and black sesame pudding, served with a quenelle of frozen yogurt for good measure.
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At its heart, though, Viridian will be a cocktail bar first and foremost, more than it is a restaurant or even a dessert spot. One of its challenges, Tsui explains, is that the most common complaint that people have about cocktails to begin with is that they're too sweet. With a bar that serves mostly desserts on the food side, that becomes even a more prominent issue, so Tsui says the biggest thing he's aiming for is balance — that, and bold, heavy-handed flavors that will actually be able to compete with the sweets.
And because the food menu is so dessert-heavy, Tsui says he thought it would be "really hilarious" to have a cocktail menu that reads savory. Many of the drinks are named after classic Chinese dishes: There's the Honey Walnut Ron, a rum cocktail made with walnuts, white sesame, honey, and blood orange. The Tomato Beef is made with tomato water, mezcal, and pink peppercorns. And the ESL is actually a play on a Brandy Alexander, which is a dessert cocktail to begin with.
Tsui says he plans to incorporate some Southeast Asian flavors into some of the cocktails as well. Gee and Hoang both come from families who are ethnic Chinese but hail from Vietnam, and they'd love to highlight that specific cultural niche as well.
"We wanted to create culture in Oakland that is still from Oakland," Tsui says.
Viridian is currently on schedule to open in early February. It will be open Monday through Thursday, 4 p.m.–midnight, and Fridays and Saturdays, 4 p.m.–2 a.m. See the opening food and beverage menus below:
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Thanks a lot for wanting to contribute translations. I just made you a translator. There are still quite a lot of messages marked for translation which are not translated (see the stats for es). The reason why a lot of pages are not marked for translation is that the docu is currently being reworked completely. However datatypes and configuration parameters are mostly ready to go. So I will prioritize creating the translation template. After that was done you could work your way through them if you like.
One thing that is even more a priority is to translate the system messages. There are still a lot to be done on translatewiki.net. See here. Moreover related semantic extensions are lacking translations, too. Doing them will be very much appreciated, too.
Thank you to you for granted me the permissions! Yes, there is a lot of pages marked for translations but no translated. I check and translate it bit by bit as the time allows me. I am agree with your way to work, I will prioritize the translation template and the pages marked. If I check some page that could be marked and translated because possibly it will never have important changes, I will do it too.
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The individual semantic extensions for translating the system messages can be chosen from the dropdown menu on this page, so yes there is a centralized website to do so. This one uses the same translating system as this wiki and most of the other websites running MediaWiki.


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Sony Shows Off the First Smartphone Camera with ISO 51200
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Not content with creating low-light monsters in the world of interchangeable lens cameras, Sony has created a new smartphone dual camera that can shoot photos at a whopping ISO 51200 and videos at ISO 12800.
The technology is being showcased at the 2018 Mobile World Congress, which kicked off yesterday.
"At Sony, we know how important a sophisticated camera is in a smartphone, so we have continued to push the boundaries of what is possible," the company says. "With a newly developed dual camera and Sony's newly developed fusion image signal processor which makes real-time processing possible, it allows image capture in extremely dark conditions."
"Ultra-high sensitivity will allow users to take brighter images with less noise and less blur" with low-light abilities that are currently only possible with interchangeable lens cameras.
Here's an example Sony made on the difference between what the human eye can see at ISO 1600 and what its new dual camera can capture in video at ISO 12800:
Sony also showed off how ISO 51200 photos can "see the unseen", capturing scenes where the human eye can only see mostly darkness:
You can watch the brief sneak peek for yourself at 20m53s into this 24.5-minute press conference:
No word yet on when we might see these dual cameras show up on a Sony smartphone.


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Vietnamese tech firm FPT has picked up a majority stake of US-based consultancy Intellinet in a deal worth up to $50 million.
In a move to expand its offerings, FPT Corp, which is one of Vietnam's largest tech firms operating in the ICT services, retail, telecommunications and education sectors, has bought a 90 percent stake in the US-based tech-focused management consulting firm Intellinet – in a base-line deal worth $30 million and up to $50 million depending on performance.
With a current staff of around 150 advisors across five offices in the US, and 2017 revenues of $30 million, Intellinet will be able to tap into FTP's established global network, which includes a headcount of 32,000 employees with nearly 14,000 tech specialists providing services in 33 countries – generating revenues of nearly $2 billion, while FTP will be able to expand its suite of complementary services to include expertise in strategy and management consulting – as well as open a larger gateway to the US; it's second-largest software market.
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The Horned Frogs entered Saturday's game at No.6 Oklahoma State undefeated and ranked No. 16, but they were 12.5-13-point underdogs.
TCU turned that low expectation to their favor in a game that will likely move them into the top ten in the AP poll, as they played keep away and forced four turnovers that led to a 44-31 victory in Stillwater.
Some other advantages for the Horned Frogs were its ground game that saw Darius Anderson post career-bests with his 26 carries, which resulted in 160 yards rushing and three touchdowns, including the final 42-yard touchdown that put the game on ice for TCU. Anderson's three scores gave him six rushing touchdowns on the season, the most of the team.
TCU running back Sewo Olonilua also contributed to the Horned Frogs 137-yard edge in rushing yards with 38 yards on nine carries, including another touchdown from one yard out, which was his third of the season. The Horned Frog's hyper-effective ground game was just one of the main factors that allowed TCU to hold onto the football for more than OSU, 39:04 for TCU and 20:56 for OSU.
That running game allowed TCU to continue doing what they've done better than any other team in the country, which is move the chains on third down. They entered the game leading the nation on third-down conversions, moving the sticks at a 65.8 percent clip. During the game they had success on third down as they were 11-of-18 (61.1 percent) on third-down conversions.
Another reason was the efficient play of TCU quarterback Kenny Hill who completed 22 of his 33 passes for 228 yards, a touchdown and an interception. Hill was eight of eleven passing on third down against the Cowboys, and he picked up the first down through the air on those plays seven times.
The final piece that factored into the significant time of possessions edge was the way TCU's defense played, forcing OSU star quarterback Mason Rudolph into three turnovers, a couple of interceptions and a fumble.


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Bungee Jump
Pam Withers (author)
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers ISBN: 9781459812178
Thirteen-year-old Chris and his family are setting up a bungee jump in his backyard. It's a real large-scale bungee jump off a bridge that connects his backyard to a small island owned by his family. Not only is it going to be the coolest attraction around, but it also provides Chris with an opportunity to watch a real engineer in action. Chris would be excited about it if things didn't keep going wrong. The rumors of hauntings on the island, once the site of a hospital for children with leprosy, are getting out of control. And there are mysterious mishaps on the bridge. Chris worries that all of these problems will keep customers away. And if the bungee jump isn't a success, his family will lose everything.
Tangled in the Rainforest
Gerry Bailey (author)
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427175441
Alone in the rainforest, Joe is suddenly caught in a tropical storm. He uses his science skills to observe the habitat around him to build shelter, find food, and search for help.
Dry in the Desert
Will Joe be able to survive in the hot, scorching desert? In this exciting survival story, readers journey along with Joe as he searches for water and runs into a desert tribe.
How to Write an Adventure Story
Natalie Hyde (author)
Adventure stories are exciting stories that take readers on a journey out of the ordinary and into the dangerous unknown. This action-packed book introduces young writers to the elements of an adventure story and provides fun ideas for writing a daring tale of ones own!
Alone in the Arctic
When separated from his fellow scientists on the ice in the Arctic, Joe must learn how to survive in the harsh climate. Joe builds an igloo, goes ice fishing, and makes a few animal friends in this engaging title.
Stranded on an Island
After a freak wave maroons Joe on a deserted island, he investigates the food chain of the island's ecosystem. He learns to gather food and build shelter, copying other living things and using whatever materials he can find on the island.
Swept Away by the Storm
Adrift in heavy seas after a hurricane, Joe finds his boat pulled by strong currents and winds. He follows a flock of birds and discovers other sea creatures moving in the same direction toward some rocks. Can Joes science skills help him to survive?
Trapped on the Rock
Separated from his science team on a mountain after a landslide, Joe is in no hurry to get back. The slide has carried a wealth of fossils with it for him to study! Joe examines these and the mountain terrain to learn how the mountains formed and figure out how old they are.
Caching In
Kristin Butcher (author)
Eric and Chris are avid geocachers who stumble into a very strange search for a series of geocaches. At first they are merely curious, but as the stakes rise and the challenges become more trying, the boys get truly hooked. Convinced they are indeed on the trail of treasure, they become consumed with the search, and though their quest tests their strength, intelligence, courage and even their friendship, they don't give up.
Becky Citra (author)
Robin can hardly wait for her cousin April and her Aunty Liz to come to the ranch for Christmas. When a devastating car accident sends Aunty Liz to the hospital for several months, Robin can't help but be overjoyed to learn that April will live with Robin and her family while her mother is recuperating. But April has changed, and Robin must deal with April's growing anger and resentment at being forced to leave her injured mother and her life in the city. Then Robin's little sister, Molly, disappears during a blizzard, and Robin and April's friendship faces the ultimate test.
Behind the Sorcerer's Cloak
Andrea Spalding (author)
The four volumes of Andrea Spalding's Summer of Magic Quartet are among her most exciting work. The White Horse Talisman was nominated for the Silver Birch, Hackmatack and Manitoba Readers' Choice Awards. Dance of the Stones was also a Silver Birch nominee. Heart of the Hill left one of her four characters in grave danger. Now, in Behind the Sorcerer's Cloak, as the Dark Being discovers our planet and takes one of the children hostage, the others must restore the balance between light and dark, but at what cost? Book 4 in the series.
Catla and the Vikings
Mary Elizabeth Nelson (author)
In the fall of 1066, a thirteen-year-old Anglo-Saxon girl named Catla watches from afar as Viking raiders burn her village and imprison her family and the other villagers. No one sees her as she flees toward Aigber, the closest village, praying the people there will help. Catla must ignore her terror as she makes her way to the standing stones, a place of refuge, where she meets Sven, an older boy from her village. Together, they continue toward Aigber and are able to alert the village of the coming peril. Catla and Sven rally the villagers of Aigber, and with Catla's help, a plan is put in place that will save both villages from the Nord-devils.
Cougar Cove
Julie Lawson (author)
Eleven-year-old Sam's first visit to the remote west coast of Vancouver Island is nothing like she'd expected. Her older cousins tease "the city kid" mercilessly, when they're not ignoring her altogether. She often finds herself left to her own devices. Still, the woods and beaches around Brackenwood Point offer plenty of room to explore. Then, one day, Sam comes face-to-face with a wild cougar and her two cubs, and her summer vacation suddenly gets much more exciting.
Sara Leach (author)
Twelve-year-old Tabitha is less than thrilled when her parents send her on a hiking trip with her cousins, Ashley and Cedar, and her Aunt Tess. For one thing, she's not much of a hiker. And she's pretty sure her cousins hate her. But even Ashley can't blame Tabitha for everything that goes wrong: the weather turns ugly, a bear comes into the cabin, Ashley and Tess are injured and Max, the family's beloved dog, disappears. When rescue finally arrives, Tabitha realizes that she is no longer the timid, out-of-shape girl she used to be. She's become strong, resourceful and brave in the face of adversity-no matter what form it takes.
Flight From Bear Canyon
Anita Daher (author)
In this sequel to "Flight from Big Tangle," Kaylee is furious about being left to spend the summer with a girl her own age, Jaz, and Jaz's uncle, Jack. All she wants is time alone with her dog, Sausage. Things change quickly, though, when Jack is injured after his helicopter goes down near a group of grizzly bears. Kaylee and Jaz must team up to save him, and Kaylee finds herself once again at the controls of a plane.
Dalen and Gole - Scandal in Port Angus
Mike Deas (author)
With seconds to the finish line, Dalen and Gole lead the distant world of Budap's annual Junior-Jet Race. Suddenly they are overtaken. Left behind in a cloud of mysterious purple exhaust, they realize something doesn't add up. Looking for clues, the two friends uncover a tunnel that leads them to Earth. They arrive in Port Angus, once a lively west coast fishing community. The fishing industry is dying, and Dalen and Gole find themselves embroiled in a sinister plot to steal fish and send them to Budap. Pursued by government agents and angry aliens, Dalen and Gole are in a race against time to save both their own distant world and the fishing community of Port Angus.
Wildcat Run
Sonya Bates (author), Kasia Charko (illustrator)
Jake, Tommy and Lexie are on a ski trip. In an attempt to squeeze one last run in for the day, the kids head out on their own to ski down Easy Street. But Lexie and Jake convince Tommy to try Wildcat Run instead. Wildcat Run presents the young skiers with more than they expect, including a cougar sighting. When Lexie has a bad fall, the kids are left stranded on the hill in the fading daylight. Will they be rescued or will they have to spend the night alone on the mountain with a cougar?
Adventures at Camp Lots-o-Fun
Marilyn Helmer (author), Mike Deas (illustrator)
Bad weather, bugs and boredom -- DJ and the boys in Camp Lots-o-Fun's cabin six are starting to call it Camp Not-so-Fun. To make matters worse, one of the boys has it in for DJ. But DJ isn't about to let that bother him. His lively imagination and wit ensure there's never a dull moment. A bear in the woods, monsters in the lake and a hermit's ghost make for a week at summer camp that none of the boys in cabin six will soon forget.
Smuggler's Cave
Jake and his younger brother Tommy are visiting family at a beach house on the coast. Having already lost a race to his cousin Lexie, Jake can't resist a second chance at victory when she challenges him again. Only this time it's a boat race-to the legendary Smuggler's Cave and back. The ocean is deep and choppy, and the boat is harder to control than Jake thought it would be. When he and Tommy reach Smuggler's Cave, the unthinkable happens. The boat capsizes, and they are swept into the cave. Lexie comes to their rescue, but the rising tide prevents them from escaping, and the three of them soon realize they are trapped.
Soccer Sabotage: A Graphic Guide Adventure
Liam O'Donnell (author), Michael Deas (illustrator)
Nadia is playing for her local soccer team, and they have made it all the way to the national tournament - against some very determined opposition. Unfortunately, Nadia's challenges don't just come from her opponents but from her teammates as well. After their coach is injured in a suspicious accident and the threats against the team mount, it is up to Nadia and her younger brother Devin to pull the team together and take a run at the championship.
Food Fight: A Graphic Guide Adventure
While Devin and Nadia spend summer vacation at a university camp for little kids Nadia as a counselor and Devin as an unwilling participant—their mother's research project is vandalized and her motives are questioned. Devin, Nadia and Simon stumble upon shady characters, corporate conspiracy and a plot to take over the nation's food supply with genetically modified fertilizer.
Jacqueline Pearce (author), Leanne Franson (illustrator)
Tom loves running through cow fields with his best friend, Peggy, and his dog, Amos-especially when he's pretending to be his favorite radio hero, the Lone Ranger. But when Tom learns the nearby Fraser River is about to flood, he may have to become a real-life hero and help save his family's herd of dairy cows. This story is based on real events that happened in the farming community of Agassiz during the Fraser River flood of 1948.
M109A6 Paladins
Publisher: Bellwether Media Inc. ISBN: 9781612110837
The M109A6 Paladin is a large, mobile howitzer. It can fire rounds several miles to support ground forces. Readers will learn about the features that make the Paladin successful, how it performs on the battlefield, and common Paladin missions.
Denny Von Finn
Roller coasters offer riders high speeds and thrilling drops! The fastest roller coasters can reach speeds over 100 miles per hour! Eager students will plunge into learning about how roller coasters offer fast, sky-high thrills.
The Summer of the Marco Polo
Lynn Manuel (author), Kasia Charko (illustrator)
In the summer of 1883 a famous clipper ship ran aground off the coast of Prince Edward Island near the home of a young girl named Lucy Maud Montgomery. Lucy Maud, who became one of Canada's most beloved writers, wrote about the grand adventure in her journals and reflected on it years later in her notebooks. The town of Cavendish was transformed by the presence of the crew, and the ship's captain stayed with Lucy Maud and her strait-laced grandparents. Lynn Manuel has taken Lucy Maud's memories and shaped them into a story that will transfix and enchant readers.
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