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Greenridge Shopping Centre is a commercial building located at 524A Jelapang Road Singapore 671524 in District 23. Greenridge Shopping Centre is among the first shopping centres built in Bukit Panjang Town. It is located in the heart of Bukit Panjang New Town. It is a residential shopping mall serving the residents of Teck Whye, Choa Chu Kang and Upper Bukit Timah.
Greenridge Shopping Centre has anchor tenants such as Shop N Save and 7-Eleven (Supermarket and 24-hour convenience store), Kopitiam and Banquet (Chinese and Muslim Foodcourt) and KFC and Pizza Hut (Fast Food restaurant). It is mainly for F&B and Retail outlets Rental and sale.
This mini surburban retail and services complex has a supermarket, hair/beauty salons, foodcourts and eateries, as well as medical clinics.
PARKING RATES
Mon to Fri (Before 5 pm): $0.50/30min from 7am to 12pm, free parking from 12pm to 2pm, $0.50/30min from 2pm to 5pm
Mon to Fri (After 5 Pm): $1/entry from 5pm to 12am, $2/entry from 12am to 7am the following day
Saturday: Charges same as weekdays
Sunday and Public Holidays: $1.00/entry from 7am to 7am the following day
Commercial Building Location
Greenridge Shopping Centre is strategically located at 524A Jelapang Road Singapore 671524 in District 23. It is located at the North-western part of Singapore. Jelapang LRT stations is about 400 meters away. The nearest Mrt station is Bukit Panjang station which is 0.98 km away. Other nearby stations are Cashew and Choa Chu Kang Mrt stations. There are also several bus services nearby. Major expressways like BKE and KJE allow you to get to many places conveniently. Driving to Central Business District and Orchard Shopping District will take you about 20-25 minutes. It is seamlessly connected to the rest of Singapore saving commuters transport time.
Amenities around
There is nothing more energizing and exciting than reveling in the pulse of the city. There is a cluster of exciting amenities around here:
Malls: Nearby mega malls like Bukit Panjang Plaza, Fajar Shopping Centre, Lot One Shoppers' Mall and many more others which have a myriad of amenities like eateries, retail shops, supermarkets and banks. For more shopping, dining and entertainment purposes you can drive down to Orchard shopping district which is about 20 minutes' drive away.
Restaurants: For more dining options to satisfy your taste buds, head down to the restaurants along Jelebu Road, Dairy Farm Road and Woodlands Road.
Condominiums: There are also several prestigious residential buildings like Maysprings Condominium, Cashew Park Condominium, Eco Sanctuary, Espa, Hazel Park, Hillview Park and Mi Casa which are highly sought after by locals and expats.
Supermarkets: The nearest supermarkets are Prime Supermarket at 142 Teck Whye Lane, Sheng Siong supermarket at Ten Mile junction and NTUC Fairprice at Bukit Panjang Plaza.
Healthcare: For medical consult, General Practitioner clinics in the area, Woodlands Polyclinic, National University Hospital and Khoo Teck Phuat Hospital in the area to provide specialist healthcare services for you.
Education: There are few renowned local and international schools in the vicinity. The primary schools here include West View Primary School, Zhenghua Primary School, Greenridge Primary School and Bukit Panjang Primary School. The secondary schools nearby include Fajar Secondary School, Teck Whye Secondary School, Zhenghua Secondary School, Greenridge Secondary School and West View South Secondary School. Tertiary schools nearby include Pioneer Junior College.
Recreational facilities: There are many recreational facilities around here include Bukit Panjang Park, Bukit Panjang Community Centre, Bukit Panjang Library, Bukit Batok Golf Range, Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Bukit Batok Nature Park, Zhenghua Park and Warren Golf & Country Club.
Places of worship: For places of worship in this multi-racial and religion society, one can head to An Le Temple at 11 Senja Road, Chi Hock Keng Temple at 15 Fajar Road, Masjid Al-Iman at 10 Bukit Panjang Ring Road, Sri Murugan Hill Temple at 931 Upper Bukit Timah Road and Covenant Evangelical Free Church (Bukit Panjang) at 10 Jelapang Road.
Greenridge is definitely a highly sought after commercial building. There are a myriad of facilities in-house and nearby to cater for all your needs. For more details, please contact the relevant personnel.


I was in Montana the night we lost my sister.
But I was on my way home, too.
Montana was a bust in an I-accidentally-moved-in-with-a-male-stripper-who-gets-into-knife-fights kind of way.
Whereas with Brazil I had simply underestimated the impact of the third world on my heart.
Montana by way of Brazil was complicated.
So it's on a sense of disorientation that I blame a lot in that period of my life.
I made, among others, a huge geographic mistake. But I was trying to fix that.
Montana was hard, okay? And I really needed to leave. So, it's true, I took the first ride that showed up on the University message board.
A Southern boy going home for the holidays.
Who called to tell me he would be late. I quietly freaked out, afraid our departure would overlap with the stripper's return.
Because I didn't want to say goodbye.
Because I had a hard time with goodbyes.
Or just a hard time.
"Your sister had an accident," she said.
It was not the first time I heard those words.
They were an echo from my sister's life at 15, at 18, at 23.
My hand. On the counter.
The floor came up to meet me in spirals.
I came to with the taste of bile in my mouth, a fierce buzzing in my ears. It took me a minute.
The phone on the linoleum floor next to me. I put it to my face.
"I'm coming home," I told her.
From the skylight above I could see blowing snowflakes navigating the darkness. I rolled over on my side. Tried not to be sick.
Progressed to sitting with my back against the cupboard by the time the doorbell rang.
He entered. Montana beard. Sweet guy. Can't for the life of me remember his name, but he was obliged to fall in love with me, under the circumstances.
We were going to make a detour, he was going to take me home, he was going to meet my mother.
"Are you Delilah?" he asked.
I nodded, wiped my hair to the side with a flannel sleeve.
"…um, are you…is everything…" He looked around, as though this were a con and he were about to be attacked.
He knelt beside me, rugged boots.
Hosting me in my house. Nice.
I swallowed, tried to make a sound assessment of the situation.
He took my elbow and helped me up.
I rested my arm on the counter and put my face in it.
"Could you…will that fit in your car?" I raised my head and waved my hand to generally indicate the various suitcases and trunks sprawled down the hall.
He rubbed his hands together, thinking, I suppose.
I stood, finally. Took a heavy breath. Did my best to look him square on.
"I'm not usually like this," I told him.
"My sister…" I said again, but I kept on not finishing.
I squeezed my eyes shut, tight.
Poor guy. I'm sure this wasn't what he had in mind.
I meant to write a note to the stripper, but I didn't get to it. Later he would track me down and we would have one last fight. It wasn't nice, what I did. But six weeks had been more than enough of my life to him to give, it turned out.
One is only really given but a handful of days, in the end.
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You are a doll. I loved this.
i am not sure what inspired my getting to be called a doll, but i like it. and i am touched. thank you.
I don't know why I find your work so deliciously dangerous. I am scared of you. when I read you I immediately am drown into your purposeful web and I do like it so… keep on creating.
Until I feel you again!
this is such a fun and unexpected comment.
love the story again. and the photo actually – it weirdly makes me think of order and decay simultaneously.


Yet another study has come out that supports drinking regular coffee. In the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2006;83(5):1039-46), Dr. Lene Frost Andersen and colleagues studied the relationship between coffee drinking and diseases like cardiovascular disease, cancer (other than skin cancer), Parkinson's disease, gallstones, cirrhosis of the liver, and diabetes.
There have been conflicting studies about the effects of coffee-drinking on overall markers of inflammation as well as the function of the endothelium (the lining of the arteries). The theory is that inflammation can cause a lack of proper responsiveness of the artery as far as relaxation, as well as impairing its ability to respond to injury and inflammation.
A lot of the elderly patients in my practice have a problem that's common in the elderly: their blood pressure drops just after a meal. In some cases, this can cause them to actually pass out for a moment. In the past, this condition has been linked to higher risk of coronary events such as heart attack. Caffeinated beverage intake, on the other hand, has been linked in some studies to a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease.
There's a tremendous amount of research available on the benefits of drinking coffee. Much of that research has attributed its positive health effects on the large amounts of antioxidants it contains, regardless of whether that coffee is caffeinated or decaffeinated.
While there are some case when you might want to switch to decaf (like those with an enlarged prostate), caffeinated coffee may help prevent high blood pressure and improve markers of inflammation in those with diabetes.
One of the difficulties in measuring the effects of any specific substance on health is in knowing for sure how much of that substance has actually been consumed by a study participant. Questionnaires are helpful, as are food diaries, but the gold standard is measuring the substance's byproducts (its metabolites) that appear in an individual's blood or urine after consuming it.
A team at the National Institute of Health sought to identify some of coffee's metabolites, and along the way investigate what, if any links they might find between those metabolites and colon cancer (Am J Clin Nutr 2015;101:1000-11). Previous research into a possible link between coffee intake and colon cancer were inconclusive, but coffee is prepared in so many different ways that it is difficult to standardize intake: how do you compare drip coffee with espresso or eating chocolate-covered coffee beans with lattes? Identifying coffee's metabolites would help later research with that problem.
The researchers were able to identify coffee metabolites by using mass spectrometry and gas chromatography: to put it very simply, they found 29 metabolites, including 7 they had never seen before, that appeared in larger numbers in those who reported higher coffee intake, leading the team to conclude that those metabolites were indeed coffee metabolites.
When they compared the levels of those known and unknown coffee metabolites in those who developed colorectal cancers with those who did not, they found that two substances, theophylline and caffeine, were associated with a 25% and 19% reduction, respectively, in the risk of colorectal cancers as compared to those with the lowest levels of those metabolites. Two previously unknown metabolites were linked to 15% and 17% reduction in risk.
Three of the four metabolites linked to a lower risk of colorectal cancer appear in both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee; obviously caffeine only appears in caffeinated coffee.
There's no magic bullet in preventing cancer or other conditions, so we can't say "drink only caffeinated coffee and you'll avoid colon cancer." What you should take home here is that drinking coffee, caffeinated or otherwise, is one small thing you can do - one of many small things, including eating more fiber and avoiding processed meats, to name just two - as part of an overall healthy diet that will help you avoid cancers as well as heart disease, diabetes, and more.


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The Skylink bus service is on hand every 20 minutes to transport you from the airport to both Nottingham and Long Eaton, operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. There's also a link to Shepshed and Coalville, operating 7 days a week every hour between 5am to 11pm.
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East Midlands Parkway, Long Eaton, Nottingham and Derby stations are all located a short shuttle or taxi ride from the airport.
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In the last couple of years, tabletop gaming has become more popular. A lot of people don't have the space, budget or playing time for vast wargames involving hundreds of models, and smaller-scale, skirmish games have arisen to fill the gap. I thought I'd have a look at two such games: Carnevale, sold by TTCombat, and Frostgrave, produced by Osprey Games.
Carnevale is set in alternate 1790s Venice. A magical disaster has resulted a portal opening in the sky over Europe, causing earthquakes and eruptions. Water has swallowed much of the continent and strange creatures and powers have begun to manifest themselves in Venice itself. As the city regains its position of influence on the world stage, small warbands of around 5-8 characters per side fight for control of the streets. TTCombat also sells a range of miniatures and terrain to go with the rules.
Frostgrave has a much vaguer setting. In an unspecified fantasy land, a frozen city called Felstad has started to thaw out, and bands of adventurers compete to steal treasure from the ruins. Each player controls a wizard and his warband of about ten minions. While North Star Miniatures makes models especially for Frostgrave, players are encouraged to use whatever seems right. One game I saw featured a team of Warhammer demons battling against a group of Redwall-style mice!
It's also worth mentioning that Carnevale is a more adult game: the rules are more elaborate, and some of the backstory, which includes Lovecraft's Deep Ones and their unwholesome mating habits, isn't very child-friendly.
Frostgrave works on a simple, easy-to-follow system using twenty-sided dice (d20). The basic game isn't hard to pick up: extra strategic elements are provided by the magic system and the choice of spells. Players will find that their wizard (and apprentice, if they pick one) take up different roles depending on the spells they choose. Some wizards will be like a mobile gun turret, while others will provide assistance and healing to their henchmen. Frostgrave's most complex aspect is probably the creation of the warband before the game starts. Players can select minions from a fairly standard list of types (most are variants on marksman, swordsman or thief), and can choose their wizard's spells from a wide range of disciplines. Spell selection is quite time-consuming, but makes a big difference as to how the warband will play.
Frostgrave's real strength is its campaign rules. Wizards can gain experience between games and acquire new followers, equipment and even bases within the ruined city. It's designed for a tournament, like Necromunda or Mordheim, and benefits from multiple successive games. I've heard that Frostgrave's d20 system can lead to some rather random results, but I've not had a problem with this.
Carnevale has more complex rules than Frostgrave, but this is balanced out by having smaller warbands. However, once you've got the hang of it, they all make sense.
Carnevale does have rules for further games, but they are simpler than Frostgrave's. That said, the Carnevale rulebook provides several "stories" made up of linked games with an ongoing theme. Customisation of warbands is possible, but not to Frostgrave's extent. However, it's been out for less than a year, so it's quite likely that further supplements will add new rules and combatants.
Carnevale really benefits from its immersive setting. With its canals, gondolas and masked combatants, Venice makes a darkly magnificent backdrop, and the various factions fit the location perfectly. Further, the game encourages extensive use of the setting: characters can hurl their enemies into the water (and then drown them!) and bound across the rooftops with feats of parkour. There's something immensely satisfying in getting one of your guys to dispose of an enemy by jumping on his head from a great height or stunning him with a frying pan and shoving him into the canal.
Overall, both games are good fun and have good sets of rules (and some brilliant artwork). They both give gamers a chance to collect, paint and field entertaining warbands. Frostgrave has several expansions, and I would expect that Carnevale will get some add-ons too. Carnevale is a game for more experienced, probably older gamers. With its dark setting and more detailed rules, it feels more like a "wargamer's game". Frostgrave does have depth and sophistication, but is easier to pick up. Since they are both quite small-scale, a game of either will probably take about 1-2 hours. I would give both games 8/10.
Toby Frost Having discovered that he was never going to become Britain's top space pilot, Toby Frost started writing about space instead of visiting it. He is the author of the Space Captain Smith series and the Warhammer 40,000 novel Straken. He is currently working on a dark fantasy trilogy and contemplating the brave new world of self-publishing. You can find him on Twitter @isambardsmith.


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Trusting the Process
Elephants have the longest gestation period of all mammals. They carry their young for nearly two years before giving birth! That's a long procreation period. Yet elephants have the largest brains of any land animal and are highly intelligent creatures. The lengthy period in the womb is necessary to ensure that all the features of the elephant are fully developed before its eventual birth.
Pursuing a dream, also has a process that must take place before that dream is fulfilled. To write a best selling novel, takes meeting daily and weekly writing goals consistently for an extended period of time until that first draft is complete. Then there is the editing process to ensure that manuscript becomes ready for print. The dream doesn't happen overnight. Or else it wouldn't feel much like an achievement.
There has to be a process in place, that takes the dream from idea, to small but consistent progress made over a period of time, before we see the fulfillment of our plans. In the meantime, we have to do something that may test our patience and that's trusting the process. Trust the plans that we've wisely put together and be present in the middle stage. That can be a difficult thing to do, especially in this gotta-have-it-now society we live in. But its critical that we have the discipline it takes to show up, day in day out, with faith in the process of achieving the dream.


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The Salar people () are a Turkic ethnic minority of China who largely speak the Salar language, an Oghuz language. The Salar people numbered 130,607 people in the last census of 2010.

The Salars live mostly in the Qinghai-Gansu border region, on both sides of the Yellow River, namely in Xunhua Salar Autonomous County, Hualong Hui Autonomous County of Qinghai and the adjacent Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar Autonomous County of Gansu and in some parts of Henan and Shanxi. There are also Salars in Northern Xinjiang (in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture).

They are a patriarchal agricultural society and are predominantly Muslim.

Salars live in Gansu's Lintan County and Xining, Linxia County and Qinghai's Hualong Hui autonomous county and Xunhua Salar autonomous county.

History

Origin
According to Salar tradition and Chinese chronics, the Salars are the descendants of the Salur tribe, belonging to the Oghuz Turk tribe of the Western Turkic Khaganate. During the Tang dynasty, the Salur tribe dwelt within China's borders and lived since then in the Qinghai-Gansu border region. Over the centuries, they mixed with neighboring Tibetans, Hui, Han Chinese and Mongols, developing the distinctive modern Salar language and culture.

Islamic legend
According to a legend, two brothers Haraman and Ahman, possibly forefathers of the present day Salar tribe once lived in the Samarkand area. They were highly ranked at local Islamic mosques, which led to persecution from local rulers. The two brothers fled along with eighteen members of the tribe on a white camel with water, soil and a Quran before heading east. The group trekked through the northern route of the Tian Shan mountain ranges into the Jiayuguan pass and passing through the present day Suzhou District, Ganzhou District, Ningxia, Qinzhou District, Gangu County and eventually stopping at the present Xiahe County. Later, another forty people from Samarkand joined the group. The group passed through the southern route of the Tian Shan mountain ranges and entered Qinghai. They arrived at the present Guide County and twelve of them settled there.

The Koran, the two brothers brought on their journey to China is to this day still preserved in Xunhua at Jiezi Mosque. The Nanjing Museum has repaired the Koran to protect it from decay.

Ming dynasty
The Salar clan leaders voluntarily capitulated to the Ming dynasty around 1370. The chief of the four upper clans around this time was Han Baoyuan and the Ming government granted him office of centurion, it was at this time the people of his four clans took Han as their surname. The other chief Han Shanba of the four lower Salar clans got the same office from the Ming government and his clans were the ones who took Ma as their surname. The ethnogenesis of the Salar started from when they pledged allegiance to the Ming dynasty under their leader Han Bao. Han Bao's father was Omar and Omar's father was Haraman, who led the Salars on their journey from Central Asia to China.

After the Salars moved to Xunhua, they converted Tibetan women to Islam and the Tibetan women were taken as wives by Salar men. A Salar wedding ritual where grains and milk were scattered on a horse by the bride was influenced by Tibetans. After they moved into northern Tibet, the Salars originally practiced the same Gedimu (Gedem) variant of Sunni Islam as the Hui people and adopted Hui practices like using the Hui Jingtang Jiaoyu Islamic education during the Ming dynasty which derived from Yuan dynasty Arabic and Persian primers. One of the Salar primers was called "Book of Diverse Studies" (雜學本本 Zaxue Benben) in Chinese. The version of Sunni Islam practiced by Salars was greatly impacted by Salars marrying with Hui who had settled in Xunhua. The Hui introduced new Naqshbandi Sufi orders like Jahriyya and Khafiyya to the Salars and eventually these Sufi orders led to sectarian violence involving Qing soldiers (Han, Tibetans and Mongols) and the Sufis which included the Chinese Muslims (Salars and Hui). Ma Laichi brought the Khafiyya Naqshbandi order to the Salars and the Salars followed the Flowered mosque order (花寺門宦) of the Khafiyya. He preached silent dhikr and simplified Qur'an readings bringing the Arabic text Mingsha jing (明沙經, 明沙勒, 明沙爾 Minshar jing) to China.

Tibetan women were the original wives of the first Salars to arrive in the region as recorded in Salar oral history. The Tibetans agreed to let their Tibetan women marry Salar men after putting up several demands to accommodate cultural and religious differences. Hui and Salar intermarry due to cultural similarities and following the same Islamic religion. Older Salars married Tibetan women but younger Salars prefer marrying other Salars. Han and Salar mostly do not intermarry with each other unlike marriages of Tibetan women to Salar men. Salars, however, use Han surnames. Salar patrilineal clans are much more limited than Han patrilinial clans in how much they deal with culture, society or religion. Salar men often marry a lot of non-Salar women and they took Tibetan women as wives after migrating to Xunhua according to historical accounts and folk histories. Salars almost exclusively took non-Salar women as wives like Tibetan women while never giving Salar women to non-Salar men in marriage except for Hui men who were allowed to marry Salar women. As a result Salars are heavily mixed with other ethnicities.

Salars in Qinghai live on both banks of the Yellow river, south and north, the northern ones are called Hualong or Bayan Salars while the southern ones are called Xunhua Salars. The region north of the Yellow river is a mix of discontinuous Salar and Tibetan villages while the region south of the yellow river is solidly Salar with no gaps in between, since Hui and Salars pushed the Tibetans on the south region out earlier. Tibetan women who converted to Islam were taken as wives on both banks of the river by Salar men. The term for maternal uncle (ajiu) is used for Tibetans by Salars since the Salars have maternal Tibetan ancestry. Tibetans witness Salar life passages in Kewa, a Salar village and Tibetan butter tea is consumed by Salars there as well. Other Tibetan cultural influences like Salar houses having four corners with a white stone on them became part of Salar culture as long as they were not prohibited by Islam. Hui people started assimilating and intermarrying with Salars in Xunhua after migrating there from Hezhou in Gansu due to the Chinese Ming dynasty ruling the Xunhua Salars after 1370 and Hezhou officials governed Xunhua. Many Salars with the Ma surname appear to be of Hui descent since a lot of Salars now have the Ma surname while in the beginning the majority of Salars had the Han surname. Some example of Hezhou Hui who became Salars are the Chenjia (Chen family) and Majia (Ma family) villages in Altiuli where the Chen and Ma families are Salars who admit their Hui ancestry. Marriage ceremonies, funerals, birth rites and prayer were shared by both Salar and Hui as they intermarriaed and shared the same religion since more and more Hui moved into the Salar areas on both banks of the Yellow river. Many Hui women married Salar men and eventually it became far more popular for Hui and Salar to intermarry due to both being Muslims than to non-Muslim Han, Mongols and Tibetans. The Salar language and culture, however, was highly impacted in the 14th-16th centuries in their original ethnogenesis by marriage with Mongol and Tibetan non-Muslims with many loanwords and grammatical influence by Mongol and Tibetan in their language. Salars were multilingual in Salar and Mongol and then in Chinese and Tibetan as they trade extensively in the Ming, Qing and Republic of China periods on the yellow river in Ningxia and Lanzhou in Gansu.

Salars and Tibetans both use the term maternal uncle (ajiu in Salar and Chinese, azhang in Tibetan) to refer to each other, referring to the fact that Salars are descendants of Tibetan women marrying Salar men. After using these terms they often repeat the historical account how Tibetan women were married by 2,000 Salar men who were the First Salars to migrate to Qinghai. These terms illustrate that Salars were viewed separately from the Hui by Tibetans. According to legend, the marriages between Tibetan women and Salar men came after a compromise between demands by a Tibetan chief and the Salar migrants. The Salar say Wimdo valley was ruled by a Tibetan and he demanded the Salars follow 4 rules in order to marry Tibetan women. He asked them to install on their houses's four corners Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags, to pray with Tibetan Buddhist prayer wheels with the Buddhist mantra om mani padma hum and to bow before statues of Buddha. The Salars refused those demands saying they did not recite mantras or bow to statues since they believed in only one creator god and were Muslims. They compromised on the flags in houses by putting stones on their houses' corners instead of Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags. Some Tibetans do not differentiate between Salar and Hui due to their Islamic religion. In 1996, Wimdo township only had one Salar because Tibetans whined about the Muslim call to prayer and a mosque built in the area in the early 1990s so they kicked out most of the Salars from the region. Salars were bilingual in Salar and Tibetan due to intermarriage with Tibetan women and trading. It is far less likely for a Tibetan to speak Salar. Tibetan women in Xiahe also married Muslim men who came there as traders before the 1930s.

In Eastern Qinghai and Gansu, there were cases of Tibetan women who stayed in their Buddhist Lamaist religion while marrying Chinese Muslim men and they would have different sons who would be Buddhist and Muslims, the Buddhist sons became Lamas while the other sons were Muslims. Hui and Tibetans married Salars.

The Kargan Tibetans, who live next to the Salar, have mostly become Muslim due to the Salars. The Salar oral tradition recalls that it was around 1370 in which they came from Samarkand to China. The later Qing dynasty and Republic of China Salar General Han Youwen was born to a Tibetan woman named Ziliha (孜力哈) and a Salar father named Aema (阿額瑪).

The Salars were permitted an enormous amount of autonomy and self-rule by the Ming dynasty, which gave them command of taxes, military and the courts.

The Ming and Qing dynasties often mobilized Salars into their militaries as soldiers, with the Ming government recruiting them at 17 different times for service and the Qing government at five different times.

Qing dynasty
In the 1670s, the Kashgarian Sufi master Āfāq Khoja (and, possibly, his father Muhammad Yūsuf even earlier) preached among the Salars, introducing Sufism into their community. In the mid-18th century, one of Āfāq Khoja's spiritual descendants, Ma Laichi, spread his teaching, known as Khufiyya among the Salars, just as he did among their Chinese-speaking and Tibetan-speaking neighbors.

The Manchu Kangxi emperor incited anti-Muslim sentiment among the Mongols of Qinghai (Kokonor) in order to gain support against the Dzungar Oirat Mongol leader Galdan. Kangxi claimed that Chinese Muslims inside China such as Turkic Muslims in Qinghai (Kokonor) were plotting with Galdan, who he falsely claimed converted to Islam. Kangxi falsely claimed that Galdan had spurned and turned his back on Buddhism and the Dalai Lama and that he was plotting to install a Muslim as ruler of China after invading it in a conspiracy with Chinese Muslims. Kangxi also distrusted Muslims of Turfan and Hami.

Throughout the 1760s and 1770s, another Chinese Sufi master, Ma Mingxin, was spreading his version of Sufi teaching, known as Jahriyya throughout the Gansu province (which then included Salar's homeland in today's Qinghai). Many Salars became adherents of Jahriyya, or the "New Teaching", as the Qing government officials dubbed it (in opposition to the "Old Teaching", i.e. both the Khufiyya Sufi order and the non-Sufi Gedimu Islam). While the external differences between the Khufiyya and the Jahriyya would look comparatively trivial to an outsider (the two orders were most known for, respectively, the silent or vocal dhikr, i.e. invocation of the name of God), the conflict between their adherents often became violent.

Sectarian violence between the Jahriyya and Khufiyya broke out repeatedly until the major episode of violence in 1781. In 1781, the authorities, concerned with the spread of the "subversive" "New Teaching" among the Salars, whom they (perhaps unfairly) viewed as a fierce and troublesome lot, arrested Ma Mingxin and sent an expedition to the Salar community of Xunhua County to round up his supporters there. In the Jahriyya revolt sectarian violence between two suborders of the Naqshbandi Sufis, the Jahriyya Sufi Muslims and their rivals, the Khafiyya Sufi Muslims, led to a Jahriyya Sufi Muslim rebellion which the Qing dynasty in China crushed with the help of the Khafiyya Sufi Muslims.

The Jahriyya Salars of Xunhua, led by their ahong (imam) nicknamed Su Sishisan ("Su Forty-three", 苏四十三), responded by killing the government officials and destroying their task force at the place called Baizhuangzi and then rushed across the Hezhou region to the walls of Lanzhou, where Ma Mingxin was imprisoned. When the besieged officials brought Ma Mingxin, wearing chains, to the Lanzhou city wall, to show him to the rebels, Su's Salars at once showed respect and devotion to their imprisoned leaders. Scared officials took Ma down from the wall and beheaded him right away. Su's Salars tried attacking the Lanzhou city walls, but, not having any siege equipment, failed to penetrate into the walled city. The Salar fighters (whose strength at the time is estimated by historians to be in 1,000-2,000 range) then set up a fortified camp on a hill south of Lanzhou. Some Han Chinese, Hui and Dongxiang (Santa) joined the Salar in the rebellion against the Qing.

To deal with the rebels, Imperial Commissioners Agui and Heshen were sent to Lanzhou. Unable to dislodge the Salars from their fortified camp with his regular troops, Agui sent the "incompetent" Heshen back to Beijing and recruited Alashan Mongols and Southern Gansu Tibetans to aid the Lanzhou garrison. After a three months' siege of the rebel camp and cutting off the Salars' water supply, Agui's joint forces destroyed the Jahriya rebels; Su and all his fighters were all killed in the final battle. Overall, it is said that as much as 40% of their entire population was killed in the revolt.

As late as 1937, a folk ballad was still told by the Salars about the rebellion of 1781, and Su Sishisan suicidal decision to go to war against the Qing Empire.

The Qing government deported some of the Salar Jahriyya rebels to the Ili valley which is in modern-day Xinjiang. Today, a community of a few thousand Salars speaking a distinct dialect of Salar still live there. Salar migrants from Amdo (Qinghai) came to settle the region as religious exiles, migrants and as soldiers enlisted in the Qing army to fight rebels in Ili, often following the Hui. The distinctive dialect of the Ili Salar differs from the other Salar dialects because the neighboring Kazakh and Uyghur languages in Ili influenced it. The Ili Salar population numbers around 4,000 people. There have been instances of misunderstanding between speakers of Ili Salar and Qinghai Salar due to the divergence of the dialects. The differences between the two dialect result in a "clear isogloss".

In the 1880s-1890s, sectarian strife was rife in the Salar community of Xunhua again. This time, the conflict was among two factions of the Hua Si menhuan (order) of the Khufiyya and in 1895 the local Qing officials ended up siding with the reformist faction within the order. Although the factional conflict was evident not only in Salar Xunhua but in Hui Hezhou as well, the troops were first sent to Xunhua - which again precipitated a Salar rebellion, which spread to many Hui and Dongxiang communities of Gansu too. It turned into the Dungan Revolt (1895), which was crushed by a loyalist Hui army.

The Hui people, also known as the "white capped HuiHui", used incense during worship, while the Salar, also known as "black capped HuiHui", considered this to be a heathen ritual and denounced it.

Modern era

Salars served in general Dong Fuxiang's Kansu Braves army against the foreign western and Japanese Eight Nation Alliance in the Boxer rebellion. Other Muslims like Dongxiang, Bonan and Hui also served in the Kansu-Tibetan Braves.

Like other Muslims in China, the Salars served extensively in the Chinese military. It was said that they and the Dongxiang were given to "eating rations", a reference to military service.

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Salar troops and officers served in the Qinghai army of the Muslim general Ma Biao and they battled extensively in bloody battles against the Imperial Japanese Army in Henan province. In 1937, during the Battle of Beiping–Tianjin the Chinese government was notified by Muslim General Ma Bufang of the Ma clique that he was prepared to bring the fight to the Japanese in a telegram message. Immediately after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Ma Bufang arranged for a cavalry division under Ma Biao to be sent east to battle the Japanese. Salars made up the majority of the first cavalry division which was sent by Ma Bufang. The Qinghai Chinese, Salar, Chinese Muslim, Dongxiang and Tibetan troops Ma Biao led fought to the death against the Japanese or committed suicide refusing to be taken as prisoner. In September 1940, when the Japanese made an offensive against the Muslim Qinghai troops, they ambushed them and killed so many of them the Japanese soldiers that they were forced to retreat. The Japanese could not even pick up their dead, they instead cut an arm from their corpses limbs for cremation to send back to Japan. The Japanese did not dare make an offensive like that again.

Han Youwen, a Salar general in the National Revolutionary Army and member of the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party), directed the defense of the city of Xining during air raids by Japanese planes. Han survived an aerial bombardment by Japanese planes in Xining while he was being directed via telephone from Ma Bufang, who hid in an air raid shelter in a military barracks. The bombing resulted in human flesh splattering a Blue Sky with a White Sun flag and Han being buried in rubble. Han Youwen was dragged out of the rubble while bleeding and he managed to grab a machine gun while he was limping and fired back at the Japanese warplanes. He later defected to the Communist People's Liberation Army, serving in numerous military positions and as vice chairman of Xinjiang. He had led Chinese Muslim forces against Soviet and Mongol forces in the Pei-ta-shan Incident.

Culture

The Salar had their own unique kinship clanships. Matchmakers and parents arrange marriages among the Salar. The Salar are an entrepreneurial people, going into multiple businesses and industries. They practice agriculture and horticulture. They cultivate chili and pepper in their gardens. Buckwheat, millet, wheat and barley are among the crops they grow. Other important crops include melons, grapes, apples, apricots and walnuts. A few Salar raise livestock and the local timber industry is also another source of income for some villages.

Hui general Ma Fuxiang recruited Salars into his army, and said they moved to China since the Tang dynasty. His classification of them is in two groups, five inner clans, eight outer clans. Ma said the outer group speaks Tibetan, no longer knowing their native language. Salars only married other Salars. Uighurs have said that they were unable to understand the Salar language.

Ma and Han are the two most widespread names among the Salar. Ma is a Salar surname for the same reason it is a common Hui surname, Ma substitutes for Muhammad. The upper four clans of the Salar assumed the surname Han and lived west of Xunhua. One of these Salar surnamed Han was Han Yimu, a Salar officer who served under General Ma Bufang. He fought in the Kuomintang Islamic Insurgency in China (1950–1958), leading Salars in a revolt in 1952 and 1958. Ma Bufang, enlisted Salars as officers in his army by exclusively targeting Xunhua and Hualong as areas to draw officers from.

18.69 years was the average first marriage age for Salar women in 2000 while Tibetan women were married at 23.8 years on average in 1990.

Clothing
The typical clothing of the Salar is very similar to the Hui people in the region. The men are commonly bearded and dress in white shirts and white or black skullcaps. The traditional clothing for men is jackets and gowns. The young single women are accustomed to dressing in Chinese dress of bright colors. The married women utilize the traditional veil in white or black colors.

Music
Singing is part of Salar culture. A style of singing called Hua'er is shared among the Han, Hui, Salar and Tibetans in Qinghai province. They have a musical instrument called the Kouxuan. It is a string instrument manufactured in silver or in copper and only played by the women.

Language

The people of China and Salar themselves regard the Salar language as a Tujue language (Turk language) (突厥語言). The Salar language has two large dialect groups. The divergence is due to the fact that one branch in Xunhua county of Qinghai province and Gansu province was influenced by the Tibetan languages and Chinese and the other branch in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture by the Uyghur and Kazakh languages.

In the late 1990s, it was estimated that out of the some 89,000 Salars, around 60,000 spoke the Salar language.

Most Salar do not use any written script for the Salar language, instead they use Chinese characters for practical purposes. Salar serves as their spoken language, while Chinese serves as a both spoken and written language. Many of the current generation of Salars are fluent in Chinese and Tibetan.

The Salar language spoken in Amdo Tibet (Qinghai), has heavy Chinese and Tibetan influence. Although of Turkic origin, it's a mixed language today. Around 20% of the vocabulary is of Chinese origin and 10% is also of Tibetan origin. Morphological and syntactic structures have been fully borrowed from these latter languages. Yet, according to author William Safran, linguistic works published in China treat Salar as if it has few loanwords from these languages, omitting most Chinese and Tibetan features. The Salar use the Chinese writing system, though they have their own written language which, however, is used by very few people. Salar language has taken loans and influence from neighboring Chinese varieties. It is neighboring variants of Chinese which have loaned words to the Salar language. In Qinghai, many Salar men speak both the Qinghai dialect of Chinese and Salar. Rural Salars can speak Salar fluently while urban Salars often assimilate into the Chinese speaking Hui population.

In Ili Salar, the i and y high front vowels, when placed after an initial glides are spirantized with j transforming into ʝ. Qinghai and Ili Salar have mostly the same consonantal development.

Religion
Salars profess Sunni Islam (Hanafi Maturidites). In addition to their traditional places, they live in cities, mainly inhabited by other Muslims - Dungans. Islamic Education Received at Gaizi Mişit Madrasah in Jiezi Village.

Many Salar adhere to the Naqshbandi Sufi order, which spread throughout the region in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Genetics
The Y-DNA haplogroups and therefore the paternal genetic lineages of the Salar people, exhibit a mix of West Eurasian and East Asian haplogroups. Their maternal lineages are overwhelmingly East Asian. About 24–30% Y chromosomes of Salar belong to the East Asian specific haplogroup O3-M122, while the Central Asian, South Asian and European prevalent Y chromosomal lineage R-M17 comprises only 17%. Other Y-DNA haplogroups among the Salars are D1 and C3. Another study showed that the haplogroup O1b1a1a1b2 was also present in Salars.

An autosomal genetic study (Ma et al. 2021) estimated that West Eurasian-related admixture (represented by ancient Andronovo samples) among Salars was at ~9.1% to ~11.8%, with the remainder being dominant East Eurasian ancestry; might derive from "Yellow River Basin farmers" (YR_LBIA) or "Liao River farmers" (WLR_LN) at ~88.2 to ~90.9%. The study also showed that there is a close genetic affinity among ethnic minorities in Northwestern China (Uyghurs, Huis, Dongxiangs, Bonans, Yugurs and Salars) and that these cluster closely with other East Asian people, especially with other Chinese Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic speakers, indicating the probability of a shared recent common ancestor of "Altaic speakers".

Literature

Notes

References

External links

 The Salar ethnic minority (Chinese government site);
 Above also mirrored at:
 Hasan Bulent Paksoy'in Turk Tarihi posted by Salar people
 Arienne M. Dwyer: Salar Grammatical Sketch (PDF)
 Ma Wei, Ma Jianzhong, and Kevin Stuart, editors. 2001. Folklore of China's Islamic ` Nationality. Lewiston, Edwin Mellen.
 Ma Quanlin, Ma Wanxiang, and Ma Zhicheng (Kevin Stuart, editor). 1993. Salar Language Materials. Sino-Platonic Papers. Number 43.
 Ma Wei, Ma Jianzhong, and Kevin Stuart. 1999. The Xunhua Salar Wedding. Asian Folklore Studies 58:31-76. https://doi.org/10.2307/1178890; https://www.jstor.org/stable/1178890
 Ma Jianzhong and Kevin Stuart. 1996. 'Stone Camels and Clear Springs': The Salar's Samarkand Origins. Asian Folklore Studies. 55:2, 287-298. https://doi.org/10.2307/1178823; https://www.jstor.org/stable/1178823
 Han Deyan (translated by Ma Jianzhong and Kevin Stuart). 1999. The Salar Khazui System. Central Asiatic Journal 43 (2): 204-214. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41928197
 Feng Lide and Kevin Stuart. 1991. Ma Xueyi and Ma Chengjun. Salazu Fengsuzhi [Records of Salar Customs]; Han Fude, general editor. Salazu Minjian Gushi [Salar Folktales]; Han Fude, general editor. Minjian Geyao [Folk Songs]; and Han Fude, general editor. Minjian Yanyu [Folk Proverbs]. Asian Folklore Studies. 50:2, 371-373.

Ethnic groups officially recognized by China
Muslim communities of China

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Ахмет Баржаксин (1894, Жездинская волость Атбасарского уезда Акмолинской области — 1935, Омск) — казахский общественный деятель, фольклорист, переводчик.

Биография
Окончил Омский сельскохозяйственный институт (1922), Московский литературный институт (1926). Участвовал в создании культурно-просветительской организации «Бірлік». В апреле 1929 года был обвинён в подрыве авторитета партии и троцкизме, выслан в Западную Сибирь. В 1935 году расстрелян в Омске. В 1957 году посмертно реабилитирован.

Баржаксин оставил значительное литературное наследие. В 1913—1914 годах собрал и упорядочил 1710 казахских пословиц и поговорок, а в 1915 году впервые издал книгу «Мың бip мақал» («Тысяча и одна пословица») на казахском, русском языках. Его статьи и рассказы, посвященные вопросам просвещения, женского равноправия, печатались в газетах «Қазақ», «Алаш», «Сарыарқа», «Үш жүз», журнале «Айқап». Переводил повести Л. Н. Толстого.

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Фольклористы СССР
Фольклористы Казахстана
Переводчики СССР
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El estrés puede ser provocado por el trabajo, la escuela, los compañeros, familiares y la muerte de un pariente o amigo.

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Consecuencias
La persona que sufre de distrés puede sufrir de enfermedad cerebrovascular y otras como la cardiopatía isquémica. También se ve comprometida la capacidad física, como por ejemplo, fatiga, dolores de cabeza, disminución del deseo sexual, mareos, calambres, diarrea, náuseas, sequedad en la boca, palpitaciones, apneas, temblores, estreñimiento, entre muchas otras.

Entre los psíquicos está la falta de creatividad, comportamiento irracional, agresividad, inseguridad, falta de concentración, inflexibilidad, depresión, preocupación, impaciencia, entre otros.

Prevención
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Véase también

 Síndrome de fatiga crónica
 Trastorno por estrés postraumático
 Trastorno de ansiedad
 Trauma psíquico

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Enlaces externos

 Recognition and Alleviation of Pain and Distress in Laboratory Animals(1992), Institute for Laboratory Animal Research, National Research Council The National Academies Press

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Comedian Bob Marley couldn't stop being funny if he tried. Case in point: Marley begins a phone interview Tuesday with small talk about the unseasonable winter. So far, so good. But if you could look down the line, you'd spot a mischievous gleam in his eye.
The Maine native may joke about the weather, but he's here to stay. Last year, Marley moved back to Portland from California, where for 11 years, he chased the modern comic's dream, the network sitcom. That didn't happen, but he did hit the Hollywood trifecta – appearances on the Leno and Letterman shows, and a movie. Marley's 'Detective Greenly' role in "Boondock Saints" won him good critical notices.
Since returning to Maine, he's released a combo CD/DVD of his stand-up act. He's become a regular guest on radio stations from Washington, D.C. to Barre, Vermont. In December, he completed "Comedy Central Presents: Bob Marley" at Broadway's Hudson Theatre in New York City; the half-hour special airs February 2.
Much of his material comes from his home life, and Marley's favorite target is often himself. "It's kind of like at the end of the day, what else can go wrong with Bob? It puts the audience at ease," he says.
His wife took a bit of umbrage to the analogy. So now he's quick to point out , "I'm very happy with my small, perky television," adding praise for the fine chassis.
Marley considers himself lucky for the professional life he leads. If he ever does get a network deal, he'll try to film it in Maine. Whatever happens, he'll be a stand-up comic.


We all love the idea of having a facial, but for those of us with sensitive skin, salon facials can be a little abrasive and leave the skin feeling flushed and tender. Here in Bali it is easy enough to take advantage of the amazing tropical fruits available to make a simple 'at home' face mask. These are some of my favourites.
Before you start make sure you have cleaned your face, and to get the best results use an exfoliating scrub. I have to say I love the Pevonia scrubs, and I also find the Desa Seni bamboo honey face scrub is lovely and gentle. If you want to make your own scrub, mix one teaspoon of organic palm sugar with two tablespoons of warm water – this will help dissolve the granules, add one teaspoon of olive oil and mix into a paste, rub gently on the skin (make sure to be gentle when using any scrubs on your face as you dont want to tear the skin). Remove with a cloth soaked in warm water.
Using a tiny bit of olive oil to massage your face first will also enhance the effects of a facial. Start at the top of the forehead and move your fingers in small circular motions all the way down your face. Use a warm cloth placed over your face (no need to rub) to remove the oil before applying the face mask. And remember, Fresh is Best, so mix the ingredients right before you use them.
Few fruits evoke the tropics like the spiky hot pink dragon fruit, with its sweet luscious seed flecked flesh. Brimming with antioxidants, vitamin E which firms skin and reduces age spots, and collagen, which we all know is the mother of all skin care products , it also makes the perfect face mask. I suggest using half a dragon fruit – mashed with a few drops of vitamin E oil (or half a teaspoon of olive oil) and a teaspoon of honey. Apply to your face for at least 20 minutes, and enhance the pleasure of the experience by eating the rest of the dragon fruit while you wait.
Packed full of enzymes papaya works wonders on the digestive system, and is similarly therapeutic for the skin, helping to restore radiance and moisture. A homemade papaya mask is also wonderfully soothing on dry, tired skin.
Simply mash a slice of fresh papaya, add a teaspoon of honey and apply to your face (already cleansed of course) then lie back and relax for twenty minutes. Use a warm cloth to rinse away. If your skin is in need of exfoliation, add a teaspoon of oatmeal to the papaya, then gentle scrub your face before rinsing.
Rich in vitamins and unsaturated fats avocados make a creamy, highly nutritious face mask. You can use it alone, or add any number of ingredients to enhance the effect. Many recipes suggest you add lemon, but I find this a little astringent on my sensitive skin, I prefer to add something more calming, like yoghurt or honey – or as in this recipe – both! Just mash the avocado, add the yoghurt and honey and combine well, then smooth onto your skin for half an hour.
As well as being sweet and delicious, mangoes are full of vitamin A which is high in antioxidants so will help keep wrinkles at bay, and Vitamin C which is known to brighten the skin and boost radiance. Once again you can make a simple mask by mashing 1/4 of a mango with a teaspoon of honey. Alternatively try adding a cup of porridge oats which will turn it into a thicker paste. Apply to your face and neck – or your whole body and leave for half an hour, gently rub into the skin before rinsing with warm water.


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The impact Claims has on customer experience is going to be critical for insurers trying to create or maintain competitive advantage. In June, leading figures from the sector will come together in Chicago to reveal how they plan to unleash the power of Connected Claims in their organisations. As part of the lead up to Connected Claims USA, Sean Burgess (Chief Claims Officer, USAA) and Eric Brandt (Chief Customer Advocate, Esurance) will share a sneak peek of the most exciting two-day summit in the claims industry in an exclusive webinar with Insurance Nexus on Wednesday, April 17th at 10:30am, CT.
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First, let me state that both Blue and Dungeness crabs are worthwhile. These are not ghetto crabs, like I once ate in St. Petersburg outside a Rays' game until the fact that their flesh was black and oozing bothered me.
Blue and Dungeness are, along with Florida's stone crabs, the finest crabs America's Lower 48 have to offer. They're as good as the best crabs anywhere in the world, including zuwai gani in Hokkaido and king crabs in Alaska. Europe has world-class oysters, but it doesn't have crabs this good.
Blue crabs have more flavor; they're sweeter. But Dungeness crabs are much bigger, giving up bigger chunks of meat for less effort. Their size opens them up to some great San Francisco cooking techniques, including roasted with garlic or "drunken" in black bean sauce, whereas with blue crabs, the perfect method of steaming them with Old Bay or similar seasoning cannot be improved on.
Trash talking the other coast's crabs is like trash talking the other team's Harbaugh. There's more respect than disdain. This should make the annual Super Bowl bet between mayors fairly evenly matched; it's not like a bushel of crabs up against 5-way chili, cheese curds, or a sandwich with fries and coleslaw in it. I doubt that you'll find a crab lover in either Baltimore or San Francisco who wouldn't totally enjoy a meal of the other side's crab.
But there is one area where this match is one-sided, and that's the crab cake. The easy victor is surprising.
Baltimore has always been a blue-collar town. San Francisco has always been ambitious, often to the point of arrogance. SF is the city that fancies itself the center of the culinary world, whereas B-more is a place where the best crab meals are in bars with no wine list and a waitress who calls you "hon."
So if you were to name a city that tries to stretch crabmeat, to make a single crab serve dozens of patrons, you might guess the city of "The Corner" and "The Wire" and "Homicide: Life on the Streets." A city where getting by rather than getting angel investors has been the order of the day.
San Francisco does not understand the crab cake. The pathetic patties of breading with wisps of Dungeness served here are an affront to the crustacean. They're often served with sauce in an attempt to give them the flavor they lack. Why not just have a piece of deep-fried toast and some remoulade, and get a crab claw on the side? That would be tastier.
I've never understood this. It's like when San Francisco taquerias take a perfectly good Mexican street food, the burrito, and stuff it full of rice, avocados, sour cream and fire-roasted tofu so that it's a gut-busting starch bomb with little flavor from the supposed main ingredient. You'd think a wealthy, gourmet-friendly city like this would value freshness, flavor and purity over volume and price performance, but in certain areas, there's a blind spot, and crab cakes are one.
When I first moved to San Francisco, I quickly loved the softshell crabs. I don't know where they source them, and why they're a year-round product here even though crabs only molt during a very short, specific time (in Baltimore, soft shell crab season is less than a month long). But they're pretty good. I learned to love Dungeness crab and I eat plenty of it.
But crab cakes? At least some restaurant workers know what a disgrace they are here. Usually if a server recommends crab cakes to me, I'll just say, "I'm from Baltimore." Those who haven't been there will keep talking. Those who have will just say, "The salmon is good."
Spent a lot of time in Baltimore, now live in sf, and I totally agree.
Completely agree on the crab cakes. I like Dungeness crabs, but do miss the experience of sitting on a porch with a newspaper covered table, bushel of crabs and cold beer.
A couple of STEAMED not boiled dungie and a bottle of pinot blanc and I'm in heaven, but then I'm from the west coast, in my experience those blues, unless softshelled are more work than meat and who eats crab cakes when you can dig into the whole crab?
Truth up brother. I spent a good portion of my childhood in the DC area where Maryland style crabcakes rule. I don't know why I even bother ordering crab cakes on the west coast, but there is the occaisional instance when they're actually good. When I order crab cakes out here my wife often asks, "Why do you torture yourself? You know you're going to hate them."
Hate to say it...but the Super Bowl is in New Orleans. IMHO, best food in the country. But me blind in a restaurant and give me a menu and wine list. Only city I could be 100% certain I was in is New Oreleans. Sweetbreads, other organ meat, Oregon Pinot and Burgundy. I'd go any day of the week.
I won't go so far as best food in the country, but I have gone to New Orleans just to eat, drink and be merry. You feel too guilty to eat that heavy food anywhere else in the US. But New Orleans is a guilt-free zone.
Since you mentioned AK king crab, I have to say, if you didn't catch it yourself, you are eating a poor imitation. Fresh king crab is so good that butter defiles it.
All king crab in the lower 48 is pre- cooked and most likely frozen.


Acute back pain is a common problem which is frequently seen in emergency rooms. The goal of this chapter is to summarize the available data regarding appropriate imaging for common causes of acute back pain in pediatric and adult patients. Acute back pain in adults and children may be due to a myriad of causes, such as trauma, osteopenic fractures, disk herniation, spondylolysis/spondylolisthesis, cancer, and underlying infectious disease. Acute back pain in children may be due to spondylolysis/spondylolisthesis (most common), infection, and cancer, and a definitive diagnosis is not always found.


Leaves on the ground, the smell of firewood burning in the distance, and a chill in the air? Fall's here! And you know what that means, right? It's time for Conan and Mr. T to go pick some apples in honor of Fall foliage. Watch it RIGHT HERE.


Yes competency models ARE the solution to closing skill gaps for ALL learners because they customize a deep learning plan to each and every employees needs (identified skill gaps) .
Most sharing of key content is one size fits all, event based, so the sharer feels that they have done their due diligence.
Unfortunately, for the individual, the outcome for this approach, is at best, superficial, initial understanding, which will soon be forgotten (plus severe cognitive overload). Not only are you not empowering the learner with new needed information, you have done absolutely nothing to individually assess skill gaps and additionally empower the learner with a solution that individually works to advance, sustained, individual performance improvement.
For competency models to be effective and efficient and to empower individual learners with sustained performance improvement outcomes, they must include (1) individual learning to fluency, (2) individual adaptive learning, where successful application can be replicated in new and differing circumstances, and (3) ongoing individual, professional facilitation to permanently and positively change unproductive behaviors to productive behaviors.
Easier said than done, but professionally facilitated, educationally innovative technology, is available to ensure that sustained individual performance improvement outcomes, resulting from advanced individual competency, occurs.
In a perfect world, CEOs wouldn't have to worry about the skill gaps of their workforce – they would let the workforce own the closing of their gaps, even as those requirements change and become increasingly diverse.
If you're looking for a strategy that will inspire employees toward increased mastery in their current role, you're in luck! People are already intrinsically motivated toward mastery, autonomy/self-direction, and purpose.[ii] What you need is a road map for helping them get there.


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Ana, Bob and Cal were the sole directors and sole shareholders of Feet, Inc., a closely heldNew York corporation which owned and operated retail shoe stores. Ana, Bob, and Cal eachowned 75 shares in the company. On January 2, 2002, Ana, Bob and Cal signed a writtenshareholders†agreement which provided in pertinent part:Upon the death of any shareholder, Feet, Inc. shall, within sixty (60) days of receipt of awritten demand from a duly appointed estate representative, purchase the shares of thedeceased shareholder for $1,000 per share.When the agreement was signed, the three directors orally agreed that the buy backprovision would apply only if the corporation was making a profit.In addition to being a director of Feet, Inc., Ana was also a licensed real estate broker andthe sole director and shareholder of Anaâ€s Realty, Ltd., a New York corporation. In June2007, the directors of Feet, Inc., with Ana participating, voted to enter into a contract withAnaâ€s Realty, Ltd. Prior to the vote, Ana disclosed to Bob and Cal that she was the soleshareholder and director of Anaâ€s Realty, Ltd. The vote was two to one with Cal votingagainst the contract. The written contract provided that if Anaâ€s Realty, Ltd. located a storefor Feet Inc. to purchase, Anaâ€s Realty, Ltd. would receive the customary commission of sixper cent (6%) of the sales price when title closed. Ana soon found a desirable store at afavorable price, and in October 2007, Feet, Inc. purchased it.In November 2007, Ana sent a written purchase order to Sal, the president of Shoe Co., andordered 2,000 pairs of boots, to be delivered to the new store on or about December 1, 2007.The terms of the purchase order called for payment in full upon delivery.On December 1, 2007, Shoe Co. delivered 2,000 pairs of running shoes to Feet, Inc.â€s newstore. Ana immediately had the shoes placed in an unlocked storage shed on Feet, Inc.â€sproperty and notified Sal that she was rejecting the shoes. Sal told Ana that the shoes wouldbe picked up within the week. However, three days later the shoes were stolen, and Sal toldAna that he was holding Feet, Inc. responsible for the loss of the shoes.Cal died in December 2007. On February 1, 2008, Executor was duly appointed as theexecutor of Calâ€s estate. Executor gave Ana and Bob a written demand that Feet, Inc.purchase Calâ€s shares of stock pursuant to the written shareholders†agreement. Bob theninformed Executor that Feet Inc. had not made a profit for the past three years, andtherefore, the corporation would not buy back Calâ€s shares. Executor has confirmed thatFeet, Inc. has not made a profit for the past three years.(a) Is Feet, Inc. liable to Shoe Co. for the loss of the running shoes?(b) Was the contract between Feet, Inc. and Anaâ€s Realty, Ltd. voidable?(c) Is evidence of the oral agreement admissible in an action by Executor to enforce FeetInc.â€s obligation to purchase Calâ€s shares of stock under the written shareholders'agreement?
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Meguro (目黒区, Meguro-ku) is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. The English translation of its Japanese self-designation is Meguro City. The ward was founded on March 15, 1947.
Meguro is also used to refer to the area around Meguro Station, which is not located in Meguro ward, but in neighboring Shinagawa's Kamiōsaki district.
The Higashiyama shell mound in the north of the ward contains remains from the paleolithic, Jōmon, Yayoi, and Kofun periods.
The area now known as Meguro was formerly two towns, Meguro proper and Hibusuma, all parts of the former Ebara District of Musashi Province. The two were merged into a Meguro ward for Tokyo City in 1932 and since then the ward has remained with no alterations to its territory.
The name "Meguro", meaning "black eyes", derives from the Meguro Fudō (Black-eyed Fudō-myōō) of Ryūsenji. The Meguro Fudō was one of five Fudō-myōō statues placed at strategic points on the outskirts of Edo in the early seventeenth century by the abbot Tenkai, an advisor to Tokugawa Ieyasu, to provide protection for the new capital of the Tokugawa shogunate. Each statue had eyes of a different color. (Mejiro, a district in Toshima ward, is named for the white-eyed Fudō-myōō).
Four other special wards surround Meguro. They are Shibuya (to the northeast), Setagaya (to the west), Ōta (to the south), and Shinagawa (to the southeast).
Meguro ward government is led by the city assembly with 36 elected members with current terms from May 1, 2011 to April 30, 2015. The chairman of the council is Yoshiaki Ito. The mayor is Eiji Aoki, an independent. His term lasts until April 24, 2016.
Meguro Sky Garden, Ohashi Linear roof garden park spiraling 35 meters above street level covering the junction of two major expressways.
Note: Meguro Station (JR East, Tokyu Meguro Line, Tokyo Metro Namboku Line, Toei Mita Line) is in Shinagawa, not Meguro.
Note: Tokyo Gakugei University and Tokyo Metropolitan University were formerly in Meguro.
Public elementary and junior high schools are operated by the Meguro City Board of Education. Public high schools are operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education.
In addition the metropolis operates a consolidated junior and senior high school called Ōshūkan Secondary School.
Miyu Uehara, gravure idol, found dead in her Meguro apartment.
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Q: AngularJS - $scope does not bind to DOM I'm very new to Angular and as practice, I'm building a small website. On one of the pages, I want to be able to show the number of buttons have been clicked by data binding. For it, I have this controller
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As for the view, I have:
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You clicked {{actualTime}} minutes ago.

The controller is bound to the view via the $routeProvider.
Ideally, whenever I click on the button, {{actualTime}} value should be incremented. But it doesn't for some reason. As far as I know, it should be binded (as in two-way data binding) so there shouldn't have to be a function that will update the DOM. The console.log updates with the correct increments, but the DOM doesn't. Anyone wanna explain how this works? I've read answers here and most, if not all of them, are too technical sounding. A dumbed down explanation would really help. Thanks!

A: In you code you are not updating the variable 'actualTime' on every click.
You can update the variable in two ways
1) You can update it for every click with in the called function
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You clicked {{actualTime}} minutes ago.

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2) You can also update it using '$watch' also.
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Using $watch service  : You clicked {{actualTime2}} minutes ago.

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If you have a varible '$scope.actualTime' defined, then when ever the variable '$scope.actualTime' changes, assign its new value to '$scope.actualTime2'
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Sunni armed group controlling Mosul tries to evade US air strikes and Kurdish forces by turning to smaller units.
US airstrikes have hit targets near Mosul Dam in northern Iraq held by ISIL.
The US Central Command says the airstrikes aim to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces, and to protect American personnel and facilities.
But well-armed Islamic State fighters appear to be changing tactics slowing down the gains made by Kurdish peshmergas.
Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports from Gwer in northern Iraq.


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Parents welcomes CBSE move to introduce Sign Language & Braille as subjects
Education September 20, 2018
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)'s moves towards inclusion have been welcomed. The board has announced plans to introduce Indian Sign Language (ISL) and Braille as subjects in the school curriculum.
This is part of a draft policy that includes other measures like relaxation in attendance for children with disabilities and accessible infrastructure in schools.
At present, the system is that all students, regardless of what type of disability they have, must choose one of two subjects as their second language. This becomes a challenge for many of them. If sign language and Braille are introduced as options, this opens up new possibilities in the mainstream education system, say experts.
This is great news. Deaf people are now becoming visible in the education and employment sectors. This new scheme will benefit them a lot. Implementing this will be the biggest change to education system. Communication has always been hard for deaf students. This is a continuation of the RPWD 2016 Act. – Ruma Roka, Founder, Noida Deaf Society.
The CBSE has sent letters to states across the country regarding the implementation. There are strong chances that the Human Resource Department Ministry will take this up as a model for other education boards to follow!.
The CBSE has also talked about making teaching, learning and examinations accessible with the help of the latest technologies. It also plans to plans to introduce alternate sessions for children with locomotor disabilities who are unable to come to classrooms.
Sneha Murali from the Deaf Leaders Foundation in Coimbatore says this new measure is for the best. "Education to the heart is more effective than education to the mind, which can be experimental and skill-based. These new reforms have a full impact when its major focus is towards alternative methods. Introducing sign language and Braille will enhance their conversational skills and help them also enjoy holistic knowledge".
Kamna Mathur, a parent with a deaf child, says this is great step towards inclusion.
"My son struggled to find acceptance in a mainstream school because he was hard of hearing. Other students would make fun of him and he was ashamed of the fact that he had a hearing disability. Introducing sign language will be a major step towards changing such attitudes".
Implementation this will be a major challenge given that there are not enough sign language teachers in India. Also, many say that to truly build inclusion, the option to learn sign language and Braille should be offered to all students, regardless of disability. Nonetheless, the CBSE announcement is a significant step towards a larger attitudinal change.
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How can I minimize embarrassing dexterity problems?
Dexterity problems can include fumbling for bills, change, and credit cards at checkout counters. Staying at home is a great temptation when your symptoms are showing, but it only deprives you and your spouse or friends of the pleasure of each other's company. And it isolates you. The truth is that few people will even notice your symptoms. A bad tremor while making change is taken for a momentary rattling. Knocking over a glass at dinner? Spilled soup? It happens to everyone.
How can I minimize embarrassing dexterity problems such as fumbling for bills, change, and credit cards at checkout counters?
Some Parkinson's patients embark on an endless search for the perfect wallet, but the issue is not limited to money. Car keys, theater programs, church bulletins, a glass of wine, or a plate of food at a buffet -- worse yet, both a glass and a plate. Everyone drops things. It just happens more frequently with Parkinson's patients, who carry around this baggage of "disease" that seems to get a little heavier with each mishap.
Compensatory strategies can be helpful: A large wallet for easy access, counting change ahead of time, not using change, asking a friend to hold your drink while you steady a plate, etc. When you encounter a new problem, think about the best way to handle it the next time. And remember, dropping change is a symptom of your disease, not a reflection on your character. The more you are out and about, the more people will see you, and visibility means greater acceptance from others as well as increased confidence. Parkinson's disease doesn't have to be a prison.