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CLEVELAND (CNS) — Joe Dawson is learning that there's a skill to cutting celery and it begins with how the chef's knife is held — not by the handle but firmly above the sharpened blade.
Using a rocking motion, he carefully practices cutting long stalks into 1/4-inch pieces, making sure to keep a good grip so the cuts are clean and without strings.
It's Dawson's first day learning knife skills at the nonprofit Edwins Leadership Restaurant Institute in Cleveland's Shaker Square, a vibrant mix of boutiques, banks and restaurants that bridges the city's largely poor east side with the monied eastern suburbs.
"It's challenging. It's challenging in a good way," Dawson, 44 and dressed in a traditional chef's white jacket, told Catholic News Service before the start of a mid-August shift at the French cuisine restaurant that trains former prison inmates for culinary careers.
Beginning in May, Dawson had been "in the front of the house" at Edwins, honing his hospitality skills by welcoming guests, serving meals and learning how to anticipate diners' needs. For the next three months, he'll be in back — meaning the kitchen — learning how to cook classic French dishes, pair wine with cheeses and move almost effortlessly among the dozen or so chefs-in-training in tight, almost chaotic surroundings.
Edwins — short for education wins — is a venture of Brandon Chrostowski, 38, a no-nonsense, hard-driving entrepreneur who saw a need to help people released from prison. He envisions eventually that Edwins will host the country's best culinary school and provide well-trained chefs and servers to the city's burgeoning local food scene.
It's people like Dawson whom Chrostowski sees as valuable assets to the community. Dawson returned home to Cleveland in April after spending 11 years in a West Virginia penitentiary following his conviction in connection with the death of a man he assaulted. Dawson said he was looking for a fresh start and Edwins is providing it.
Chrostowski explained to CNS that his undertaking is about giving people a second chance, like the one he received as an 18-year-old in his hometown of Detroit.
Chrostowski's story begins with his arrest for drug possession and fleeing police soon after high school graduation. He faced a 10-year prison sentence, but in court, the judge gave Chrostowski probation rather than time behind bars. He said the new chance he received is something that African-Americans and Latinos who enter the U.S. criminal justice system rarely get.
"First, it's about fair and equal opportunity regardless of your past," Chrostowski explained about his reason for helping people now out of prison. "When we take a student in here, we don't ask about previous offenses or education level. It's about moving forward. I was never looked upon in a different way when I was getting out of where I had to get out of.
To a certain extent, he added, Edwins is rooted in the biblical call for justice for people on society's margins. Chrostowski credited his grandmother for making sure he went to Mass on Sundays in Detroit after his arrest. He continues to practice the Catholic faith at Our Lady of Peace Parish in Cleveland with his wife, Catana, and their children, Leo, 3, and Lilly, 1. Chrostowski finds comfort in the Book of Genesis and its stories of beginnings.
Edwins welcomes students into its six-month program after thorough screening and an interview to determine their desire to succeed. Through August, 263 students will have completed the program with more than 95 percent finding employment and less than 2 percent recidivism.
One graduate has opened a restaurant, and another runs a food truck. Others work at well-known restaurants.
Students know Chrostowski, who often clocks 90 hours or more a week on the job, expects a lot from them. There are long hours, constant lessons to be learned and an expectation to study after work hours.
Students receive a stipend and program-provided housing at the "Edwins campus" nearby.
Clevelander Nicole Palmer, 31, is another Edwins student. She began working on in the kitchen when she started in the program in July. "It's going good," she said.
"I had no cooking experience. It's all hands-on. Hearing compliments from everybody makes me want to do more," added Palmer, who ended a 15-month prison sentence on a felony conviction in the spring.
The philosophy Chrostowski follows is simple: make sure people know when they are doing well and point out errors in a nonjudgmental way so people learn from their mistakes without feeling they will never succeed.
Chrostowski arrived in Cleveland 2008 after hearing that the city had the highest poverty rate in the country. He had worked for a decade learning the culinary trade under well-known mentors in New York, Chicago and France, and decided to bring to Ohio his dream to develop the best culinary school and best French restaurant in the country along with the desire to help others succeed. On Nov. 1, 2013, the restaurant opened.
Edwins encompasses more than the restaurant and culinary school. Chrostowski has established the Second Chance Life Skills Center two blocks south of Shaker Square. Four buildings are involved including two residences for students and a culinary library and recreation center. The fourth is being converted into a butcher shop.
The butcher shop, Chrostowski said, will include Edwins graduates while providing quality meats and healthy food at reasonable prices.
Funding for the venture comes from restaurant revenues, individual and corporate contributions and foundation grants. Several parishes also collaborate with the program by collecting money, books, clothing and household items to help graduates re-establish their lives.
Chrostowski recruits students often before they are released, teaching basic cooking skills in prisons.
Dawson learned about Edwins from an aunt before his release. He applied as soon as he returned home and was accepted. He told CNS he likes greeting guests and making sure their needs are met.
"I knew customer service," he said, "but I had no idea how to really cater to someone and anticipate what they need before they need it. It's how to become comfortable with the table, to listen to certain cues and just watch.
After being admitted into the program, students are required within a week or so to obtain state-issued identification card, a bank account, health insurance and a life plan. For many, it's the first time they have been able to accomplish so much in so little time.
"In 10 days if I threw you in a scenario where you kept winning, winning, wining, what happens then is that you get this more powerful 'yes.' That more powerful 'yes' is stronger than the temptation around you and you're more likely to say 'no' to this, 'no' to that. You're also building trust. That takes longer, but that's the winning part of this and this building of esteem," Chrostowski said.
When Dawson completes his training in November he will have a recommendation from the Edwins staff that he can carry to one of Cleveland's classy new restaurants or perhaps the new butcher shop. He wants to continue interacting with the people who come through the door.
With his new culinary experience, he hopes to have the perfect answer.


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No Photos on the Dance Floor!
Wolfgang Tillmans, Untitled, 2012, (detail) © Wolfgang Tillmans
Berlin 1989 – Today
"For me, a club is a big abstraction machine that constantly produces pictures. They're often on the edge of the visible, when the fog rises and you look up toward the ceiling and watch the lights. Intangible things shimmer and flicker through there."—Wolfgang Tillmans
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After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, clubs, bars, galleries, and studios began popping up everywhere, filling empty buildings, factories, and vacant lots with life. This young club and cultural scene became the driving force behind the city's rejuvenation, pointing the way for a new generation of young creatives. And while techno was not invented in Berlin, what was happening in the city during this period at events like Tekknozid and in clubs like Ufo, Tresor, and Planet can be seen as a kind of "big bang"—the inception of the last major youth culture movement in Europe to date. The visual and artistic approaches of Berlin's club life occupied a boundary zone at the intersection of video, film, projections, and music, offering for many aspiring artists new perspectives and spaces for communication, interaction, and celebration. At the turn of the millennium a new wave of clubs with parties that never seemed to stop drew increasing numbers of techno fans from around the world to the capital city, bringing new in influences to the city's sound—a process that continues to this day.
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The exhibition project No Photos on the Dance Floor! Berlin 1989—Today documents the history of Berlin's club scene since the fall of the Wall and brings that history to life in club nights at C/O Berlin. The exhibition was curated by guest curator Heiko Hoffmann, together with C/O Berlin's chief curator Felix Hoffmann, and includes works by Camille Blake, Tilman Brembs, Ben de Biel, Salvatore Di Gregorio, Martin Eberle, Matthias Fritsch, Dan Halter, Honey-Suckle Company, Erez Israeli, Romuald Karmakar, Steffen Köhn & Phillip Kaminiak, Anna-Lena Krause, Tilmann Künzel, Sven Marquardt & Marcel Dettmann, Marco Microbi, George Nebieridze, Alva Noto, Pfadfinderei, Daniel Pflumm, Mike Riemel Collection, Carolin Saage, Giovanna Silva, Wolfgang Tillmans, Lisa Wassmann, and Michael Wesely.
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Movie Review: Star Trek (2009)
Article by Nathan A. Thompson
Editor's Note: At the request of the original author, who worried their review might have been too glowing, a second opinion was written as a companion piece, and is posted at the bottom of this article.
Before I get into the new film, how about a little full disclosure -- I love Star Trek. I love the original series, Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise, not so much.
I love or like every film, save for Star Trek the Motion Picture, but Ye Gods, Man! Every franchise has its misfires. Star Trek just managed to have the most massive one first. Wrath of Khan is the high water mark for Trek films, and "All Good Things" the final episode of Next Generation has been my favorite bit of Trek, period.
So, how does the new film measure up? This was the most fun I've had at the theatre since I learned that trick where you cut a hole in the bottom of the popcorn bucket.
The Needs of the Many
The film begins by ripping a literal hole in the fabric of space-time, exploding the past and birthing the future with a heroic sacrifice for the greater good. And it never lets up. This film moves fast. There's no checking your watch, no wondering how much longer, no wondering when we're going to get to the "good part." You grin the whole time. You're eight years old again. It's wonderful.
Yes a huge part of the plot is time travel. Yes, it changes Star Trek continuity. No, I do not care. The filmmakers have managed to accomplish what has remained unattainable for much of Star Trek's forty years. This film will be embraced (for the most part) by Trekkies. But maybe more importantly, it is the first Trek film I've seen that could actually bring in new fans. People who've never seen or say they hate Star Trek can watch and love this movie.
I am, and always have been... your friend.
The young and relatively unknown actors had a ridiculously heavy burden on their shoulders. They were to play characters embedded brains of the sci-fi pop culture. William Shatner is Captain Kirk. Leonard Nimoy is Spock. How can anyone else play them? I think they found success by playing the characters, and not the previous actors who embodied them.
You don't look at Chris Pine and see Shatner. No melodramatic broken speech or pauses. But you do look at Chris Pine and see Kirk, his stance and carriage, his words, and actions. Pine and Shatner play the same character. They just bring different nuances to him. Watch Pine strut around the simulator, nonchalantly chomping an apple while cheating on the Kobayashi Maru and tell me that ain't classic Kirk.
Zachary Quinto's Spock plays on the conflict between Spock's human and Vulcan halves and pulls it off. Spock is several people's favorite original Trek character (*raises hand*) and after this film, he still might be. Quinto's Spock captures the icon of Spock without copying Nimoy's. And since Nimoy does appear in the film, I think Quinto probably had it worse than anyone else when it came to being compared to the original actor.
Ah, Bones. You learn where the nickname came from. It's hilarious and I won't ruin it. But I will say it's not an abbreviated version of "saw-bones." Karl Urban really did channel DeForest Kelly a few times, but it worked. He and the rest of the supporting crew members all have at least one moment where they shine. The fact that you're left wanting more from Scotty, Sulu, Uhura, and Chekhov is good thing. This film sets the stage for the crew. And Original Trek was always the Kirk and Spock show.
The plot of the film is pretty basic. Eric Bana plays a pissed off Romulan who goes back in time for some reason and blows stuff up. You find out why he's doing what he's doing and maybe empathize with him a little. I like that he's not quoting Shakespeare or Moby Dick. He's not a superman like Khan and he doesn't bring galactic military or political baggage. Nero's just a working class guy using the means at his disposal to enact revenge on those that he feels wronged him.
Kirk and Spock grow up as different men via very different means. They hate each other initially. But by the end their friendship occurs when they realize they need each other. Kirk depends on Spock's logic and intellect. Spock needs someone to do the stupid thing that wins the day no matter how little sense it makes.
Bottom line: The movie works. It's a damn blast and you should see it.
Can it be nitpicked? Sure. But I'm not going to because I'm not That Guy. That Guy is going to see this movie and bitch, bitch, bitch because it's what That Guy lives for. He feeds on pointing out every last detail and trivial bit of minutia that conflicts with preceding lore and continuity. That Guy is kind of a dick and no one likes him. So leave him be and set a course for your favorite mega-plex.
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A Second Opinon
by Mike Finkelstein
Star Trek had a huge mountain to climb. Even before they said the new film was a reboot of every part of the continuity (except for maybe Enterprise, but aside from the last season of that show, no Trekkie will really care about Enterprise), a new Star Trek film had to overcome the wreck that the franchise had become. One awful series, a mediocre series before that, and a series of movies that lessened in quality (barring First Contact, which wasn't even as good as some that had preceded it, but stands out as not as bad as anything directly around it).
In other words, the new Star Trek had to make us forget how awful recent Trek had been. Thankfully the new movie does this wonderfully. As Nathan said above, you'll go into the movie and be entertained, loving every second on screen, feeling like you did when you watched the Wrath of Kahn the first time and realized how awesome Star Trek could be on the big screen.
Star Trek (2009) is not without its flaws (some science is outright ignored, some characters don't have as much to do as they should), but it's a great movie regardless. If you have even a passing interest in Star Trek, sci-fi, or great adventure movies, you'll enjoy this movie.
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'The Rookie' in reel life
By Jeff Merron
Special to Page 2
As you probably know, the new baseball movie "The Rookie" is "based on a true story." As the star, Dennis Quaid, has said, "What makes this (movie) great is that all of it really happened."
Actor Dennis Quaid, right, is a bit older and smaller than the real-life Jim Morris.
And indeed, the movie gets a lot of the important stuff right. But in some places, as Bret Bloomquist wrote recently in Morris' hometown San Angelo Standard-Times, the movie "plays loose and easy with the truth."
How loose? How easy?
In reel life: Disney's version of life in the minors is rated "G."
In real life: Life in the minors is rated "R."
In reel life: Morris is played by the 47-year-old Quaid.
In real life: Morris was 35 when most of the events depicted in the movie happened. Believing Quaid is 35 is a stretch -- you've got to really suspend belief when you look at his face, which is as rumpled as Mick Jagger's. But Quaid gives a superb performance and is quite convincing on the mound, despite having no experience as a pitcher.
In reel life: Quaid is thin and clean-shaven.
In real life: Morris, circa 1999, was big and husky -- 6-foot-2, 225 pounds or so -- and wore a mustache flecked with gray.
Quaid does a fair impression of Morris' performance on the mound.
In reel life: Morris teaches and coaches at Big Lake High School.
In real life: Morris taught at Reagan County High School, which is in Big Lake. There is no "Big Lake High School" in Texas. Filmmakers probably liked the sound of "Big Lake," and might have wanted to avoid the political connotations of the name Reagan.
In reel life: Oil is so omnipresent in Big Lake that there's an oil pump out in front of the high school.
In real life: Morris' school does indeed have an oil pump in front.
In reel life: Much is made of the almost mythic importance of oil in Big Lake, with talk of the Santa Rita oil well.
In real life: Big Lake is, indeed, a town whose economy is based on oil. On May 28, 1923, a "gusher" at Santa Rita No. 1 started a boom -- more than 140 million barrels of oil came from the Big Lake oil field. Santa Rita No. 1, named the "Oil Well of the Century" by Texas Monthly, was productive until 1990. The University of Texas owned the land on which the oil was discovered, and the well has helped make the state university one of the country's richest.
In reel life: The 1-year-old in the movie is played by triplets.
In real life: The Morrises have three children, including a 1-year-old.
In reel life: The Big Lake Owls baseball team has only 10 players.
In real life: Morris writes in "The Rookie" that in 1999 Big Lake had 55 players try out for the team, "of whom 15 were legitimate varsity baseball players."
In the movie, Quaid's high school team had won just one game in each of its previous three seasons. In real life, they were coming off a 9-13 season.
In reel life: The story hinges on a promise -- if the hapless Owls "win district" and go to the state playoffs, Morris will go to a major-league tryout. Morris "reminds" his team they had only one win in each of the last three seasons.
In real life: Reagan dropped down to a division for smaller schools in 1999, and was coming off a 9-13 season, with the core of that team returning. The team won the District 1-2A championship, making the playoffs for the first time since 1993.
In reel life: Morris pulls his pickup off the side of the road near a speed display board. He throws a pitch past the board in order to measure its speed.
In real life: "That didn't happen," Quaid says. "But it could have happened." No, it couldn't have, a salesman at Stalker Radar, which sells roadside speed display signs, told me last week. A speed display board can measure anything that goes by in a straight line. However, a roadside board wouldn't pick up a baseball, unless its sensors were adjusted to pick up something that small.
In reel life: Morris has some difficulty deciding whether to leave Big Lake, where he lives and has lived since he was a boy, for a better, more lucrative job in Fort Worth. His wife, Lorri, also works at Big Lake as a counselor, although we only see her at the school in an early scene.
In real life: Because he didn't have a teaching certificate, Morris could no longer teach at Reagan County after 1999. He had to leave the job. And Morris never lived in Big Lake -- his home was 70 miles away, in the town where Lorri worked (and still works) in admissions at Angelo State University.
In reel life: Grass won't grow on the Owls' home field because deer are eating the seed that has been spread on the dry, dusty surface. In order to get the grass to grow, sympathetic locals drive the deer away by spreading human hair, collected from the local barbershop, all around the field, to scare away the deer, who presumably would be frightened by the scent. It works, and the grass grows.
In real life: There was grass on the field when Morris arrived in Big Lake, according to Roy Levario, the father of one of the real Owls. "Hey, we've got one of the nicest fields in West Texas," he recently told the Dallas Morning News.
Jim Morris was 0-0 with a 4.80 ERA and 13 strikeouts in 21 major-league games.
In his book, Morris does write of spending much time nurturing the field, saying it "looked like an abandoned tract gone to seed." He doesn't mention a problem with deer, but director John Lee Hancock told the USC Daily Trojan that the human hair scene really happened.
But could that have been why the field, within a few weeks, went from a desert-like surface to a lush, green one? "There's certainly no scientific data, or any anecdotal information, that it works," Janet Marinelli of the Brooklyn Botanical Garden told Entertainment Weekly.
In reel life: The Devil Rays hold an open tryout in San Angelo -- which, it appears from a road sign in the movie, is 97 miles from Big Lake.
In real life: San Angelo is 70 miles from Big Lake. But the tryout Morris attended was in Brownwood -- which is 97 miles from San Angelo.
In reel life: At the Devil Rays tryout, Morris shows up wearing blue jeans and pitches wearing blue jeans -- which is pretty much all he wears throughout the film, although he does don an Owls uni during games.
In real life: Morris, who'd been playing competitive softball for years, wore his softball pants while trying out. And, writes Kevin Sherrington in the Dallas Morning News, "Morris (usually) wore a coach's requisite windsuit, cap and Oakleys, hardly ever dressing like Dwight Yoakam."
In reel life: Morris, the last pitcher to take the mound at the tryout, throws 98 mph, and later he tells Lorri that the scouts thought something was wrong with their radar guns.
In real life: At the tryout, Morris did throw 12 straight at 98 mph, and the scouts did, indeed, double-check their radar guns.
In reel life: Morris returns home from the tryout the same day and there are already messages from the Devil Rays, saying they want another look.
In real life: The Devil Rays did leave many messages on Morris' answering machine that day.
In reel life: Morris pitches for the scouts again two days after his first tryout, this time in a downpour. He's on the mound, getting soaking wet, and still throws accurate heat.
In real life: It was raining hard on that day, but the Devil Rays had someone out on the mound with Morris, holding an umbrella over his head, and handing him dry balls to throw.
The movie didn't need to "speed up" Morris' actual journey to the majors. It really happened that fast.
In reel life: Morris goes from coaching high school baseball to Double-A ball to Triple-A ball to the majors all within the course of a few months.
In real life: This is one of the rare cases where a movie's "telescoped" time actually corresponds roughly to reality. Morris signed his contract in June 1999, went to "extended spring training" for two weeks to get in shape, played for Double-A Orlando for a week, joined the Bulls in late July, and was in the majors Sept. 19.
In reel life: When Morris arrives in Arlington after being called up, he enters the empty ballpark early with "Brooks," a teammate who'd been called up at the same time. This gives them time to register awe at The Ballpark at Arlington's towering arches and then enter the locker room and gaze in awe at jerseys reading "Canseco" and "Boggs" and "McGriff" on the back.
In real life: Morris, who was called up with Steve Cox, met the team at their hotel, and they all knew of his story and greeted him with enthusiasm. Both Wade Boggs and Fred McGriff hugged him when they met him, and Jose Canseco shook his hand. Morris took the team bus to the stadium.
In reel life: The team Morris coached -- and seemingly the entire town -- turns out for his debut at Arlington on Sept. 19, 1999. Team members post signs telling everyone to meet at 2 p.m., presumably to form a caravan going to Arlington.
In real life: In his book, Morris mentions a quiet celebration with his family after the game -- nothing about the Owls, or the whole town, greeting him. Making this scene even more unlikely is that Big Lake is 334 miles from Arlington and home games start at 7:05. So they would have had to drive real fast, had no trouble parking and found their seats awful quick to make it in time. But they didn't have to, because they were watching their former coach on TV. "My kids all knew about it," Morris told NPR's Weekend Edition recently. "They were all around the TV that night, and everybody was calling my cell phone and talking to me."
In reel life: Morris strikes out Royce Clayton, the only batter he faces in his debut, on three pitches.
In real life: Morris struck out Clayton on four pitches -- in his book, he writes that one was 96 mph and the other three were 98 mph. "Yeah, I know. It was four pitches in real life. It was three in the movie. But that was only because it would have been another minute," former Brewers pitcher Mark Ciardi, who produced the film, told ESPN's Jayson Stark. Hancock told the Daily Trojan that the problem was a practical one -- Clayton fouled off one of Morris' pitches in real life. "You could sit there all day long trying to get that," Hancock said.
In reel life: In an emotional scene after his debut in Arlington, Morris gives his dad the "game ball."
In real life: That's Hollywood. "I've still got the ball," Morris told Joe Henderson of the Tampa Bay Tribune.
In reel life: The film ends after Morris' first big-league appearance. After the fade to black, this sentence appears: "Jim Morris pitched in the major leagues for two seasons."
In real life: That's a bit of a stretch. Morris played a few weeks at the end of 1999 and made his last major-league appearance, against the Yankees, on May 9, 2000. He was invited to the Dodgers 2001 spring training camp but retired in late February, citing his continuing problems with tendinitis.
Morris played in the major leagues for seven or eight weeks, total.
Some, including Morris himself, question whether he would have made the majors if not for the "novelty" factor. As Morris progressed through the minors, there was already considerable national media coverage and talk of a Hollywood version of his story. In his book, Morris writes that he thought many others were more deserving to be added to the Devil Rays' expanded September roster, but his agent, Steve Canter, told him to hang tight. "The Devil Rays, Steve explained, were fast losing fans who'd lost interest in the losing team, and they needed a good story to tell," writes Morris.
To its credit, the movie raises the idea that Morris' promotion might have been a publicity stunt. But Devil Rays manager Larry Rothschild said it wasn't: "We didn't bring him up here because he's a good story. We brought him up because he's a left-hander with a good arm." While the good arm part was true, Morris had only pitched 23 innings for the Bulls, striking out 16 while piling up a 5.48 ERA.
So how did he do in the big leagues? He pitched 15 innings in 21 appearances, striking out 13 and walking nine. His major-league ERA was 4.80.
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Driven by customer demand and increasing competition, companies across the world are discovering that cheapest is not always best when it comes to purchasing decisions. But if not by price, how do they select their suppliers? We talk to Management and Marketing's Dr William Ho about issues in contemporary supply chain management.
Once, not so many years ago, the preferred approach to selecting a supplier was nice and simple - obtain three quotes and then choose the cheapest one.
But, over the past decade, there has been a change in philosophy, and price is no longer the driving factor it once was.
In today's supply management setting, everything matters – and companies are being forced to take a more holistic approach to their purchasing decisions in order to satisfy customer demand and remain competitive in an increasingly global marketplace.
From the quality of the product and the reputation and reliability of the supplier, to the environmental impact and potential risks that may prevent a product from being supplied, there are many issues to be considered.
But working out how to evaluate and assess these multiple criteria is complicated.
And that is where the Management and Marketing Department's Dr William Ho comes in.
Since 2010, Dr Ho has been among the leaders in the academic world with his research into the issues facing contemporary supply chain management.
So much so, that last month, the prestigious European Journal of Operational Research named an article written by Dr Ho as one of the 40 most influential it has published in the past 40 years.
The 2010 article, 'Multi-criteria decision-making approaches for supplier evaluation and selection: A literature review', was the journal's 'hottest article' for six consecutive years after its publication – leading to it being selected from more than 14,000 articles published since 1977 to mark the journal's 40th anniversary.
With a long-running interest in solving real-life problems for industry, Dr Ho first started working in the field of supply chain management when he joined the Aston Business School in Birmingham in 2005.
An engineer by background, the move in research focus from production planning to supply chain management, specifically strategic sourcing and supplier performance management, was akin to starting his PhD all over again.
But, it was from this process, that Dr Ho's future research agenda was set.
"I selected a topic that wasn't too far from my original research area," he says.
"But I needed to be familiar with it – so I sourced all 78 articles written on the topic between 2000-08 and reviewed them.
In the article, Dr Ho and his co-authors, Aston Business School colleagues Xiaowei Xu and Prasanta Dey, posited that the traditional cost-based approach to supplier evaluation and selection was not only no longer favoured, but that it no longer met contemporary supply needs.
The article gave academics and practitioners a more holistic understanding of the criteria and analytical approaches being used for supplier evaluation and selection.
From this initial research, Dr Ho, who joined the University of Melbourne in 2013, developed a framework to support effective supplier sourcing.
The framework integrates multiple stakeholders and perspectives, enabling companies to be more strategic when selecting suppliers.
Having successfully tested it in several leading companies in the United Kingdom, including car manufacturer Land Rover, and Britons Carpet, Dr Ho knows his framework makes supplier management a lot simpler.
"Companies need a way to effectively benchmark their suppliers based on different criteria, and this framework allows them to do that," he says.
He now includes the framework in the course he teaches students undertaking the Melbourne Business School's Master of Supply Chain Management and Master of Enterprise, enabling them to take it back and integrate it into the processes at their workplaces.
Dr Ho has also extended his research to particular criteria in the supply chain, specifically sustainability and risk management, collaborating with the Michigan State University's Professor Srinivas Talluri for part of this research.
When he published his original article in 2010, sustainability and risk were among the most lowly ranked evaluating criteria within a supply chain – coming in at 10th and 11th place after quality, delivery, service and manufacturing capability.
But, times have changed, and both are now increasingly important to supply chain management.
"Firms are under increasing pressure to minimise their environmental impact, and one way they can do this is through their supply chain," he says.
"But it can be difficult to source sustainable products, or to know how sustainable they are as this information may not be available, or may even be concealed.
"Companies are also paying a lot more attention to risk, especially after the recent supply chain disruptions impacted on the performance of companies.
"For example, the earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis in Japan in 2011 caused Toyota's production to drop by $40,000 – costing $72 million in profits per day.
Dr Ho said he was extremely grateful to not only the Faculty of Business and Economics, but also his wife and two sons for supporting his academic endeavours.


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Tommy Gainey' Wife Erin Joiner - Top 5 Facts!
Published Fri Dec 13 2019 By Travis
Being the wife of a professional athlete is not as glamorous as people think it is, being a wife of a professional athlete involves a lot of traveling, staying away from home and a lot of hotel rooms. But for Tommy Gainey's Wife Erin Joyner, it comes with the territory of being married to someone who is always on the go.
Tommy Gainey is a professional Golfer and got his PGA card in 2008. He made a lot of noise at the start of his career, and the reason for the player getting a lot of attention was because of his tendency to use two black wet-weather gloves while playing the game. Most Golf players only use one glove, but Tommy said he learned the two glove way from his father, and it just stuck with him.
But the reason Tommy Gainey is currently in the news is not because of his prowess with the aluminum clubs during Tee time; instead, he is making a lot of waves because the father of two was caught during a sting operation, trying to solicit a prostitute. This is also the reason why people want to know about the wife of the PGA player. So, here are five facts you should know about Tommy Gainey's wife, Erin Joiner.
5. Erin Joiner was the Vice-President of the PGA Tour Wives Association
It is a lonely life being at the road all the time, and most players are not making the big dough most famous players are making which allows them to maintain multiple houses throughout the PGA Tour circuit, most of the players are trying to make ends meet, and one of the problems of wives of the players is the fact they need to up and leave all the time.
So, in order to make all things seem like home for the family member of the players, the PGA Tour Wives Association was started, and for a little while, Erin Joiner was the Vice President of the association.
4. Erin Joiner and Tommy Gainey Got Married in 2010
Erin Joiner and Tommy Gainey got married in 2010.
Tommy Gainey was starting out in his career as a professional golfer in 2008 and making a real mark with a few wins and good paychecks, and while his career was thriving, Tommy Gainey was also looking to tee off his family life. Erin Joiner met Tommy Gainey soon after and dated for about two years, they got married in 2010, and they've been together of almost a decade.
3. She is Supportive of Her Husband's Career
Erin Joiner holds down the fort while Tommy goes off on tour.
Source: Great Golf Deals
When a husband or a wife is constantly on the go, there certainly appear some cracks in the relationship between the two people. It was not all glitz and glam, the life on the road, but Erin was there for the long haul, and she was always there for her husband, making sure he's got a support system at home so he can go and do what he does best on the course.
Also Read: Does Jane Slater Have a Husband? Details of Her Relationship History!
In an interview, Erin said, "I kind of go back to when we first met. You know, you meet a professional golfer, and you start traveling, so it's kind of cool." But after a while, she knew the reality of the whole thing and still wanted to be there, and build a family with Tommy.
2. Erin Joiner is the Proud Mother of Two Beautiful Kids
Erin Joiner is the mother of two kids she shares with her husband Tommy Gainey.
Source: oanow
In 2008, after the couple met, they started to live together, and she became pregnant with the couple's first child. The kids are also used to their father's constant traveling schedule, and their first child, a son, is right now 11 years old. Their second child is currently five years old, and Erin explained the difficulty of raising a family while also living out of suitcases.
1. Erin is yet to Address He Husband Tommy Gainey's Recent Arrest for Solicitation of a Prostitute
Erin, by all accounts, is an ideal wife any athlete would want to come home to, but it seems the love and care she provided to her husband was too much because of what happened recently in Florida while Tommy was on tour.
In a sting operation by Polk County Sheriff, which lasted six days and was code-named, "Operation Santa's Naughty List." Due to the sting operation, Tommy was caught on camera, offering a sex worker $60 for oral sex.
Also Read: Tom Brady States the Strip Mall Scene in 'Living with Yourself' is Not a Jab at Robert Craft
Tommy was arrested on 8 December 2019 and released on 9 December 2019 on a $500 bond. Over 120 people were arrested by the sting operation, and the Golf player was charged with a 1st-degree misdemeanor solicitation charge. The Golfer is yet to make a public statement, and so is his wife Erin, who is silent on all platforms about her husband's arrest.
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Tyler, The Creator has been nominated for two categories in this year's MTV Video Music Awards. The two categories that Tyler, The Creator is up for nomination are Video Of The Year and Best New Artist. In the Video Of The Year category, he's nominated against Adele, Beastie Boys, Bruno Mars, and Katy Perry. In the Best New Artist category, he's nominated against Big Sean, Foster The People, Kreayshawn, and Wiz Khalifa. Spread the word to vote for Tyler, The Creator as much as possible. We want to see him swagged out on stage, crying from happiness. Show some love and vote for Tyler in both categories.
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I love walking into a classroom with Spheros in my hands. The students, no matter what age, smile with excitement. These little ball robots have opened up so many possibilities. Students don't fear failure because Spheros offer a level of engagement like no other. And the beauty is you can use this little robot in any lesson, in any subject, and with any age.
For me, it all started in 2015 when I asked for a Sphero to use with my after-school Environmental Club. Our thought was to use the robot to create recycling videos for our school. It was amazing how swiftly my students learned the basics of coding. Then, together with my 6th grade ELA students we brainstormed a lesson that would relate to the book we were reading. They came up with the Sphero Hero challenge. Students started with questions and ways to solve the challenges they created. Students used problem-solving, critical thinking, and collaboration skills to answer their questions. It was an amazing experience for my students, and for me. The engagement level was astounding.
I was no longer the expert in the room because coding was new to me. They relied on trial and error, and on each other. You can see that lesson in the 'Code in Every Class' book by Kevin Brookhouser and Ria Megnan.
Sphero in every class for any topic. Your students will be engaged and will have a deeper understanding of the content when you get them creating and thinking critically with Spheros. Check out the ideas below to get started.
3. Nonfiction Text Exploration – Students often struggle with understanding the concepts in the text they are reading. Coding something that relates to the text will deepen their understanding. Sphero Hero Leah LaCrosse did this in her 8th grade science class by having students create a device for cleaning up garbage either in the water or in the sand. To foster understanding she used books and articles about recycling with her students. Students then coded the robot through their challenges.
Laurie Guyon is an Integration Specialist for Schuylerville Central Schools in New York. She is a Common Sense Educator, Google Educator, Apple Teacher, Buncee Ambassador, Seesaw Ambassador, Nearpod Educator and PioNear, Flipgrid Ambassador, Sphero Hero, EdTechTeam Teacher Leader and Blogger, Tynker Blue Ribbon Educator, Amazon Inspire Innovator, BreakoutEDU Authorized Trainer, Recap Pioneer, Osmo Ambassador, Screencastify Master Screencaster, and a member of the NYSCATE Social Media Team. Laurie was inducted into the Volunteer Hall of Fame for NYSCATE in 2017. She has presented at NERIC TechADay, NYSCATE, LIT, Apple Conference, Google Summits, and NYSMSA. She has taught workshops at Skidmore College on integrating technology in literacy and teaches classes with the Greater Capital District Teacher Center. Laurie is also currently enrolled in the SUNY Plattsburgh's School Building Leader CAS program.
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#54 & #124 Muiderslot (Muiden Castle)
Muiden, The Netherlands
1280 & 1370-1386
This is NOT an official Lego site
Muiderslot was originally built about 1280 by Floris V, Count of Holland and Zeeland from 1256 [at the age of 2!] to 1296. The castle was built to control boat traffic and level tolls at Ijsselmeer Harbor, at the convergence of the Vecht and Ijssel Rivers, an area previously controlled by the Bishops (also Princes) of Utrecht. His reign was highlighted by attacks on the Frisians, who had killed his father and still had his body, kindness to his peasants, and endless political shenanigans by his nobles, King Edward I of England and others. When Edward I switched his wool trade from Holland to Brabant, Floris switched sides to France. In a plot by Edward I and Guy of Flanders, Floris was captured while falconing by some of his own nobles in 1296, and taken to Muiderslot. A peasant mob came to rescue him, but he died of knife wounds as the nobles fled to the protection of the Bishops five days later. About 1300 the castle was razed by the same Bishops.
The current castle was rebuilt from 1370 to 1386 by Albert I, Duke of Bavaria and Count of Holland and Zeeland, following the original plan of the castle. However, Albert added the northeast wing, making the castle more residential. Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, lived in the castle while Governor of The Netherlands. Famed historian, poet and playwright P. C. Hooft based an artistic renaissance at Muiderslot when he lived there as Sheriff of Het Gooiland from 1613 until his death in 1647. After serving as a state prison in the late 18th century, the castle decayed to the point of demolition until it was saved by King Willem I in 1825. After 70 years of fundraising, the castle restored and now houses a Rijksmuseum. Note the lily-covered moat and earthen artillery bastions in the photo on the upper left.
Photos of the Lego Model
under construction in October 2008
Built November 1994
Southeast View
West Northwest View
Built November-December 2008
Southsouthwest View
Northnortheast View
Northeast View
Courtyard looking east
Courtyard looking north
Courtyard looking south
These are the plans for the smaller 1994 model. If you want to see
plans for the new model, just look below, as of October 9, 2017.
Lego Plan
Southeast Elevation Southwest Elevation Northeast Elevation
Southeast Section Southwest Section Detail Elevation
Thanks to the interest of Boudewijn Beijer of Groningen, here are my elevations
and two cross-sections for the 2008 model. The plan is too large for me to scan
and piece together, but anyone who might wish to reproduce this fine castle
should have no problem with what's below. Enjoy!
Southeast Elevation Southwest Elevation Northwest Elevation Northeast Elevation
Section looking northwest Section looking northeast
Other Muiderslot pages:
http://www.castles.nl/muid/muid.html
http://www.muiderslot.nl/
http://www.kasteleninnederland.com/kasteeldetails.php?id=70
Return to the main castle page.
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Roe Overreaching to Oppose All Things Obama?
Included in a Robert Houk column questioning U.S. Rep. Phil Roe's attack on new nutrition standards for school lunches – he calls them "overreaching" by the federal government – are several comments from letters to the Johnson City Press. He starts with this a poem from Joan Elliot of Unicoi.
Healthy school lunches
Seem a no-brainer.
Reducing fat and sugar
Couldn't be saner.
Phil, you epitomize
The politics of No!
Further commentary:
…Most of the folks we heard from last week say Roe is the one overreaching in his opposition to all things Obama. In this case the Republican congressman is challenging benchmarks from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for school lunch menus.
…Roe believes limits on caloric intake are not something Uncle Sam should be doing. He writes that one school official even told him that restricting calories will force lunchroom servers to count the number of tater tots they place on a student's tray. (What will the Stalinists in the Obama administration think of next?)
One reader has suggested that if a school system doesn't wnt to abide by the federal guidelines, it should give up the federal funds it receives and serve students whatever junk food it likes.
The tater tot controversy is ridiculous given what is at stake – the health and nutritional of Tennessee children. Earlier this month a report from the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that more than half the Americans in 39 states will be obese by 2030, with Tennessee predicted to be at the 63 percent obesity level.
…Left to their own devices, some school systems would serve nothing but the cheapest, prepackaged processed foods available. It's not that these school systems don't care about the health and well-being of their students. I think they do. They just don't know how to do it on a limited budget.
Maybe Roe – the fierce anti-taxer – can enlighten these food systems on how they can stretch their dollars while Roe – the doctor – can tell how to serve healthier tater tots.
Note: A previous post HERE. The newspaper also reprints a copy of Roe's guest column on the subject written for The Hill.
This entry was posted in Congress, education, Health Care and tagged lunch, nutrition, obesity, overreaching, Phil, Roe, school, Tennessee on October 2, 2012 by Tom Humphrey.
Conversation With a Governor Doing What He Wants to Do — Now that the Legislature Has Gone Away
At lunch one day last week, Gov. Bill Haslam decisively ordered the "redneck burrito," a pork-based specialty at the downtown restaurant that he later said was good but caused a bit of indigestion.
In an interview over lunch, the former Knoxville mayor indicated that the state Legislature may have had a similar effect during his first months as Tennessee's chief executive..
"Did my life change a whole lot since the Legislature left? Sure," he said. "The things I'm doing now are the things that I ran for governor to do."
He ran through a lengthy list of gubernatorial doings in the last 24 hours or so, ranging from a strategy session on education issues to dinner at the executive residence the previous evening with corporate executives considering Tennessee as an investment location. It was one of many such dinners he and his wife, Crissy, has hosted, he said.
Haslam said he was "absolutely astounded" at the number of potential corporate
investments in the pipeline when he took over from former Gov Phil Bredesen and the number has grown. He was almost as surprised, however, at the amount of state incentives or subsidies that the would-be investors want.
That has him contemplating development of a "measurable metric" for calculating whether the incentives granted by the state in any given case are worth the jobs that would be created. It seems the sort of businesslike, managerial thing that Haslam relishes.
This entry was posted in Bill Haslam and tagged Haslam, humphrey, interview, lunch on July 3, 2011 by Tom Humphrey.
Former News Sentinel Nashville bureau chief Tom Humphrey writes about Tennessee politics, state government and Legislature news.
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How Are Coin Collecting Patterns Changing?
Coin collecting habits, and the patterns with which we collect, have been constantly evolving over the decades. During the 1960s collecting was very much different than it is today, as it also differed from the 1940s, and the 1890s, or even the 2000s…right before the great recession. Incomes, sports and other entertainment, and even the monetary system are some of the underlying factors that influence the way people collect coins. But the most significant impact of late has been the great recession. Before that, it was the Internet during the 1990s, and before that, it was coin grading and encapsulation during the 1980s.
Lately, middle class collectors have greatly curtailed the way they collect. This is because of reduced, or even the loss of, incomes and the fear of losing incomes in the near future, as well as paying down debts. Middle class money has also been diverted away from collecting coins in the traditional ways – by dates and mintmarks – into purchasing bullion coins and bars. Profit potential is a great driver of the reasons most people collect coins; and being so closely related to coin collecting, accumulating gold and silver coins and bars, has had a great appeal for many middle class collectors. And it's worked out well for them. Prices for gold and silver bullion have been rising during the past few years, but this phenomenon has put a damper on traditional coin collecting by the middle class.
On the other end of the spectrum, on the level of the wealthy, coin collecting has been expanding during recent years. Again, the profit motive is a great driver of this segment of the market, but as the wealthy investor of today has become more interested in collecting coins for profit, this end has actually brought many wealthy investors to the point of enjoyment in collecting. This differs from past years, such as during the 1970s, when investors, en masse, were throwing money at the rare coin market to hedge against rapidly rising prices in the overall economy, not really caring about the coins they were buying. At that time, rare coins served as a great store of value asset, combating inflation, and that great influx of investor money, along with coin dealer profits from buying and selling bullion that were plowed into inventory, propelled prices for rare coins higher and higher within just a few short years.
That could happen again, as the great debt load our country has undertaken results in another round of high inflation in the near future. Funny thing…life goes on as normal for most people these days; and most, including Washington politicians, are oblivious to what some economists predict is imminent – runaway inflation, to temporarily curtail another financial meltdown, like we saw in 2008. Many of the sophisticated wealthy get it, and that's why they've sought out rare coins as one important investment alternative, to not only protect their purchasing power, as it's expected to deteriorate during the next several years, but to profit on top of that loss of value.
So what has all this done to change the patterns of coin collecting? This is really where the demand side of collecting as an investment is important – what will people be buying in several years time that will ultimately increase demand for particular rare coins and, hence, their price potential? One major trend has been moving away from traditional date and mintmark collecting, at all strata of the market, to collecting by design types. In some regards, this trend takes appeal away from some of the rare dates, and could possibly reduce the profit potential for some of those kinds of coins. As prices rise, fewer people can afford to collect them. And this is true for higher grades of some coin issues also.
This effect has been greatly felt in collecting gold coins, for example. One area that has been impacted, for instance, are Saint-Gaudens $20 gold coins in MS 64 and MS 65. Price premiums have fallen substantially for those coins during the past couple of years, especially as the price of gold bullion has risen so dramatically. Ultimately, who's going to collect them? Or is this really an investor-driven segment of the market? Probably. But, ultimately, collectors have to be the ones to drive demand for a coin investment to really work.
Typically, as prices rise over the long haul, collectors lower their expectations of grades they can afford, or want to buy. A good example of this is in the collecting of early silver dollars, struck between 1794 and 1803. Where some collectors used to go after Mint State coins, they are now going after About Uncirculated or Extremely Fine graded coins that exhibit just a little friction on their high points, or light wear. Several years ago, some accomplished collectors of this series just sold out and went into collecting other areas because prices rose too high for them.
Back on the other end of the spectrum, where collectors find coins in change, evolving collector trends have been obvious. Back in the 1960s collectors could still find silver coins in change, and often better dates. When the clad dimes and quarters were introduced, it changed forever the way average Americans collect coins. For many years after that, there was really nothing interesting to find in change, so the next generation of coin collectors didn't materialize. Finally, many years later, people had a much larger range of dates and mintmarks to once again pull from change, and interest began growing again, especially when the State Quarter program was introduced. Of course, the Internet and video gaming also had a huge impact in diverting young people away from collecting coins.
But ultimately, the Internet has helped the coin market flourish. It has given busy, sophisticated, wealthy investor/collectors a great resource to learn about and research coins. The Internet has also facilitated coin trading and the auction market. It has brought collectors together in online clubs and forums.
So, when you're planning out your collecting and investing endeavors in rare coins, these changing trends and collecting patterns are some of the considerations you might want to think about. Who will be the ultimate buyers of the coins you collect and invest in? What will make prices rise? These are probably questions that are in the back of most collectors' minds as collections are built. Virtually all coin collectors want to at least get their money back from the coins they buy, but most ultimately want to profit from their collecting endeavors. What thinking has gone into your coin collecting/investment plan?


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Virgil Gadson is a dancer, actor, choreographer, and educator from Philadelphia, PA.
Currently in New York City. Virgil has appeared on TV shows like "Americas Got Talent", MTV's "Americas Best Dance Crew", and placed as a finalist on Fox's Emmy nominated reality show "So You Think You Can Dance" Season 12. Commercials for Disney, Target, Samsung, Chase Bank, Rush Card and Timberland brand. Virgil was nominated for a Fred Astaire Award for his Broadway debut as a principal dancer/actor in the Tony nominated show "After Midnight" along side Dule Hill, Fantasia Barrino, Patti LaBelle, Tony Braxton, Babyface, K.D. Lang, and Vanessa Williams. In Philadelphia he attended Freedom Theater and became an alumnus of University of the Arts in 2008. At UArts he was able to integrate a broad spectrum of dance genres into his canon such as Modern, Jazz, Ballet and Tap; although Hip-Hop continues to be his specialty. Virgil is involved in outreach to dance communities locally and internationally, encouraging the importance of the history of dance as a tradition and sharing his knowledge and passion for dance with the world.


Bay Area's Chef Faz to offer catering only in the wake of construction and renovations at 1111 Broadway. The philanthropic restaurateur will close his landmark store 9/28/18. Mayor Libby Schaaf and Oakland Chamber CEO Barbara Leslie share regrets.
Landmark Restaurant Faz Oakland "Will Be Missed!"
Loss of event space is driving the hard decision to close Faz Oakland.
Having hosted six years of weddings, anniversaries, business events, birthdays, graduations, bat mitzvahs, bar mitzvahs, quinceañeras, family reunions and other celebrations at Faz Oakland, the Bay Area restaurant company regrets to announce as of September 28th, it will be closing due to landlord Broadway Franklin, LLC's renovations.
"Faz Oakland has been dear to my heart as we have had the opportunity to serve Oakland residents and people from around the world who were guests at the Marriott, right across the street, " said Chef Faz Poursohi, owner of Faz Restaurants and Catering. "The landlord's renovations and construction plans will result in the loss of our event space making the restaurant no longer financially viable."
"Faz Oakland grew into a landmark at 1111 Broadway," said Mayor Libby Schaaf. "For years, area businesses and residents appreciated the fine dining experience, unique ambiance, and accessibility of the restaurant, while local organizations benefited greatly from the philanthropic investments Chef Faz made in our nonprofit community."
"On behalf of our Chamber members and Oakland business leaders we are sorry to see FAZ closing its doors, said Barbara Leslie, President and CEO of the Oakland Chamber of Commerce. "We have spent many lunch hours and early evenings at FAZ, discussing politics, entertaining new Oakland businesses and meeting friends. On every occasion we were welcomed with warmth, unparalleled hospitality and great food. Thank you for your commitment to Oakland. We will miss you."
All the employees of Faz Oakland will be transferred to the other restaurant locations.
Although Faz Restaurant and Catering will not have a storefront in Oakland, it will still be available for catering in Oakland. Nearby locations include Faz Danville at 600 Hartz Avenue and Faz Bakery & Coffee Bar at 221 Hartz Avenue. Faz Pleasanton is conveniently located at the Sheraton Four Points Hotel, 5121 Hopyard Road and Faz Sunnyvale is also well located at the Sheraton Sunnyvale Hotel, 1108 N. Mathilda Avenue. Faz San Jose near tech giants, shopping, and homes, is located at 181 E. Tasman Drive.
In 2008, Chef Faz and restaurateur Chuck Frank bought the historic MacArthur Park Restaurant 27 University Avenue in Palo Alto, CA. Designed in 1918 by California's first female licensed architect, Julia Morgan, MacArthur Park Restaurant was originally a YWCA building that housed families visiting veterans after World War I.
Chef Faz' history began with MacArthur Park decades ago; In 1981, Frank recruited Chef Faz to MacArthur Park from Chicago's restaurant giant Lettuce Entertain You, Inc. founded by Rich Melman. The University of Illinois College of Engineering, Chef Faz' alma mater is what originally drew him to Chicago.
Growing up in Iran, loving food and cooking in his family's restaurants, Chef Faz was influenced to develop his restaurants with the concepts of "farm to fork" and "local and sustainable" cuisine long before the food industry trend. "Go to a farmer's market and smell the fresh herbs, grow or pick vegetables off the vine when you can. This is the inspiration behind cooking," Chef Faz has always believed. It is the philosophy on which he has based his success.
Oakland Faz Restaurant hours are 11:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. through Thursday, September 27th. The last day Friday, September 28th, the hours of operation will be 11 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
For more information about Faz Restaurants and Catering; Faz Bakery and Coffee Bar; and MacArthur Park, visit www.fazrestaurants.com. Oakland residents, contact Sandi Smith at 925.838.1430 or sandi@fazrestaurants for catering services. It's not too early to order catering for the upcoming holidays.


Talk to any teacher, and you'll soon realize something surprising: they're lonely. No, not in the typical sense of craving social relationships. Teachers are lonely in the sense that they do most of their jobs as the only adult in the room, without interaction or feedback from peers or coaches. Many educators crave genuine responses from experienced colleagues and administrators. It's one of the best ways to improve.
But of course, there's a massive roadblock preventing teachers from receiving consistent, ongoing feedback: time. With the many hats that teachers and administrators wear, it's often impossible for them to develop a collegial observation schedule. Furthermore, once teachers earn tenure, these observations become less and less frequent, leaving them to do more and more of their work with no feedback and no opportunities to share examples of what works with newer teachers.
Dr. P.J. Caposey knows that this is a problem, and is dedicated to solving it. He's the superintendent of Meridian Community USD 223 in Illinois, and also the author of Making Evaluation Meaningful: Transforming the Conversation to Transform Schools. "When I was a principal, evaluation was the best and worst thing that happened to me," said Caposey.
Leveraging the Danielson Framework led to a 20 percent turnover in teachers at the school. While Caposey was confident that the appropriate personnel decisions were made, the school's culture was compromised. "So now," he said, "I'm passionate about using evaluation the right way: to inspire teacher growth."
With that goal in mind, Dr. Caposey and his team recently started a pilot of video teacher observations using a platform called ADVANCEfeedback from Insight ADVANCE. The experience his district gained reveals five practical insights for other districts considering a similar solution.
1) Start small: Running a small pilot, as opposed to a building-wide or district-wide initiative, is an essential part of successfully implementing a cutting-edge program like this one. Finding teachers to participate in the pilot, though, may not be easy.
Instructional Coach Deanna Simpson is part of the teacher-evaluation committee at Meridian 223 and has been the leader of the pilot. After Dr. Caposey mentioned that the district had the opportunity to test out a video observation and feedback platform, Simpson and her committee brought the idea back to their individual schools, seeking teachers who were "already very reflective in their practice; they're not intimidated by a video [camera] being in there."
She eventually found a group of volunteers. Within the initial group, several teachers were already consistently reflecting on their teaching practice, and they looked forward to integrating video into their reflective practice. Another teacher took the idea even further, using the videos with students by asking them to reflect on their engagement in class.
2) Be clear on the purpose of videos: Context is key when it comes to institutional change within schools and districts, and given his history as a principal, Caposey was determined to use the pilot to empower teachers and principals. "If principals don't believe they're going to add value for the teacher, the process is over before it's begun," he said.
Among teachers, Simpson explained, "People wanted to know, 'What's the take on this? What's it really going to be used for?'" After discussions with both teachers and principals, the district decided that for the pilot, teachers' videos would not be tied to evaluations. Simpson also noted that some teachers were happy to use video for recording classes, realizing it could eventually limit potentially disruptive administrative observations. Simpson and Caposey made sure that teachers knew that their videos would be used to support the growth of their practice.
When deciding who would see the videos, Simpson said, "We don't even have principals in our pilot, because that way nobody has to question the intent of where this is heading." Self-reflection, as opposed to formal evaluations, is often the first stage of integrating video observations into a district.
3) Make sure all the tech talks to each other: Another logistical piece in any technology pilot is ensuring compatibility of and access to devices that participants use. At Meridian 223, teachers are using a variety of devices, from a single laptop or tablet to multiple devices capturing multiple angles. Insight ADVANCE allows multiple devices to capture video from the same sign-on simultaneously, and also offers a mobile app for iOS devices, so teachers can capture video with their phones.
4) Build a support system in advance: With any pilot program, challenges will arise with technology and implementation. The proactive step districts can take is to determine a plan of action for tracking and addressing these challenges. Simpson and the piloting teachers used a shared spreadsheet to provide each other with ad-hoc support.
5) Get permission from parents: When it comes to recording students, it's important to be very clear on privacy permissions in your district. Meridian 223, like many districts, uses a release form that determines if students can be featured in district media. According to Simpson, even though one student in a pilot class was not permitted to be filmed, the teacher was mindful of this situation and found it easy to work around it. Simpson emphasized the importance of teachers respecting a parent's choice to not have their child on camera.
A few months into their pilot experience, Simpson and Caposey have been impressed by the video-based collaboration among teachers. "The results came from the teachers who were brave enough to take a chance on something new during the last month of the school year," said Simpson. "The feedback among those teachers, although brief, provided insight into our practice and each other—and most importantly, added value to each other in the process."
"We have teachers driving their own sense of feedback," Caposey said. "I can't create change in anyone, but with video I can create conditions for change." As he considered the wider purpose of the pilot, he concluded, "Evaluation isn't to fix teachers, it's to help them grow. I don't want principals to spot something and say, 'Fix this.' I want them to ask, 'What happened there? What can we do to grow there?'"


Billing supervisors are responsible for the both the day-to-day billing processes of the institution, but also for their team of billing specialists. Billing departments may work internally within an organization, or to keep track of bills and accounts for financial institution patrons. For this position, most organizations require applicants to have a bachelor's degree, either in business or some aspect of the financial industry. Many universities offer billing certification programs. Obtaining one of these will set your application apart from the pool of applicants, as will involve, positive leadership roles.
Other skills should include integrity, the ability to multi-task, and a shrewd understanding of billing procedures. Because billing supervisors work closely with the money and accounts of bank or lending institution patrons, it is vitally important that they have a strong sense of right and wrong, and can quickly analyze situations for their veracity. As most positions in the financial sector require this, past position as a teller, a secretary, or a clerk may set an applicant ahead of others. An understanding of how financial institutions operate is always a bonus, and something that can only be obtained by working for an organization. Aside from knowledge of finances, past office experience is often very important to employers.
To gain an understanding of billing procedures, you can either enroll in a program that covers this topic, or work your way up through an institution. Consider that billing supervisors must be able to calculate totals quickly and accurately, investing in a simple accounting and tabulation course may be helpful.
Most universities offer courses to help individuals transition into leadership roles, as this experience may be new to some people. These courses may be general or may relate to the financial world specifically, depending on the school; either type of class will be beneficial. Understanding how to motivate and lead others is especially important in a billing department, where the routine may take over and wreak havoc on the efficiency. Classes in leadership, tabulation, and computers will all be helpful for becoming a billing supervisor.


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Q: canvas2html to jsPDF - Problem with handling the Promise I am using jsPDF to convert html block into PDF file. I go through my HTML and check if there is a text or an image. I use doc.text for texts and doc.addImage for images. I am having difficulty working with the response from canvasOutput = html2canvas(input) as it is a Promise. My code looks like this:
  for (const element of htmlData) {
    input = document.getElementById(element);
    var typ = input.innerHTML.substring(23, 27);

    if (typ == '<h3>') {
      doc.setFont(fontName, 'bold');
      writeText(input, h3_fontSize, 5);
    } else if (typ == '<h5>') {
      doc.setFont(fontName, 'bold');
      writeText(input, h5_fontSize, 3);
    } else if (typ == '<img') {
      var canvasOutput = html2canvas(input);
      canvasOutput.then((response) => {
        imgData = response.toDataURL('image/jpeg', 1.0);
        doc.addImage(imgData, 'PNG', left_edge_distance, position_mm, 100, 100);
      });
    }
  }

  doc.save('download.pdf');

The function writeText() contains the following code:
function writeText(input, fontSize, lineSpace) {
    doc.setFontSize(fontSize);
    var content = input.innerHTML.substring(27, input.innerHTML.length - 11);
    var splitText = doc.splitTextToSize(content, max_text_width);
    splitText.forEach((element) => {
      doc.text(element, left_edge_distance, position_mm);
      position_mm = position_mm + fontSize * pixelTrans + lineSpace;
    });
  }

The output file does not contain the image but when I copy the doc.save() inside the response function of the promise the image gets into my PDF.
My question is: How can I get the result of html2canvas out of the promise?

A: var allPromises = [];
for (const element of htmlData) {
  var input = document.getElementById(element);
  if (input.toLowerCase().startsWith('<img')) {
    allPromises.push(html2canvas(input));
  } else {
    allPromises.push(Promise.resolve(input));
  }
}

Promise.all(allPromises).then(response => {
  response.forEach(input => {
    if (input instanceof String) {
      doc.setFont(fontName, 'bold');
      var isH3 = input.toLowerCase().startsWith('<h3>');
      writeText(input, isH3 ? h3_fontSize : h5_fontSize, isH3 ? 5 : 3);
    } else {
      imgData = input.toDataURL('image/jpeg', 1.0);
      doc.addImage(imgData, 'PNG', left_edge_distance, position_mm, 100, 100);
    }
  });
  doc.save('download.pdf');
});

I would modify first block of code to above one and leave the rest as it is. I will explain here what it does:

*

*maintain an array of promises.

*loop and check if the input is image tag and store the returned promise to the array from html2Canvas()

*otherwise just store the resolved promise returning the input to the array for sake of maintaining order.

*run Promise.all() and iterate through each responses from the array of promises.

*if it is string, then write text otherwise add Image.

*finally, save it.

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News | Greenhouse Lighting and Systems Engineering | Working for more efficient and sustainable greenhouse production.
View March 2018 GLASE newsletter.
Greenhouse Lighting and Systems Engineering (GLASE) consortium brought together many of the major horticultural lighting companies in the United States on March 20, 2018. The purpose of the web meeting was to discuss how GLASE can accelerate the adoption of energy-efficient lighting technologies to expand the marketplace and to increase the profitability of controlled environment agriculture (CEA) facilities.
The GLASE consortium is developing a framework to support collaboration with lighting companies aimed to promote technology development and increase the adoption of horticultural lighting and control systems by CEA producers. Having identified lighting companies as the consortium's primary beneficiaries and CEA producers as target customers, GLASE will work with its industry members to demonstrate the benefits of energy-efficient technologies and expand the market for all segments of the CEA supply chain. This includes LED manufacturers, lighting, sensing and control companies, and CEA producers and service providers.
Meister Media Worldwide (Greenhouse Grower).
As a non-commercial organization, GLASE provides scientific-based data to demonstrate the applications and benefits of advanced greenhouse control systems and how it can increase CEA profitability margins.
Morgan Pattison, founder and president of Solid State Lighting Services Inc., says advancements in LED technology will have a major impact on the production of horticulture crops.
With a PhD in materials science from the University of California-Santa Barbara, Morgan Pattison has long believed that light emitting diodes (LEDs) were going to eventually dominate the illumination market. His thesis research advisor was Dr. Shuji Nakamura who invented the blue LED. Nakamura received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014 for his invention.
"Professor Nakamura was instrumental in showing me the importance of this technology and this put me in a good position to be involved with LED research," said Pattison.
Pattison started Solid State Lighting Services Inc. in 2008. The company, which focuses on LED lighting, provides technical consulting to other companies and organizations assisting in understanding how the technology of LEDs fits together.
"Our biggest and longest running client is the Department of Energy," Pattison said. "I operate as a contracted senior technical advisor to the DOE SSL Program. In that capacity, I do a lot of technology and scouting and looking for what is coming down the road in terms of applications for lighting. The LED technology platform continues to change what's possible with lighting and this opens up new applications for lighting.
Pattison works with the DOE to understand new components and materials that will advance the status of the technology and to determine promising R&D investment.
In January 2018, DOE released a horticultural lighting energy report, Energy Savings Potential of SSL in Horticultural Applications. Pattison, who was one of the coauthors of the report, said the publication addresses the energy implications for horticultural lighting and transitioning it from conventional sources to LEDs.
"I engage with horticultural experts in talks and meetings to try to connect them with my understanding of LED technologies so that they can make informed research decisions," he said. "There is a lot of information floating around about horticultural lighting. Because there are not a lot of defined characterization standards, it is more difficult to debunk some of the claims being made.
Pattison said as advancements are made in LED technology there could be an individualized LED light for each type of application.
"In the past there were only a handful of different bulbs," he said. "There weren't a lot of lighting technologies or options to choose from. In horticulture, generally speaking, growers are using high intensity discharge street lights to illuminate their crops. Most growers are still using street lights because right now that's what works best for them.
Pattison said improvements can also be made with the lighting fixtures and light distribution systems.
Pattison said another impact LED technology could have on horticulture is how greenhouses or any other growth environment are designed.
Pattison said LEDs could also revolutionize how plants are bred and grown.
Pattison said the transition to LED lighting has also forced everyone to rethink the change-out cycle for lighting products.
"We're moving away from having light bulbs at all because LEDs can last so long," he said. "The lifetime of lighting products, including horticultural products, is characterized based on how long it takes the output to depreciate by a certain amount. There are other reliability considerations. With general illumination, a light bulb may be good until it reaches 70 percent of its initial output because humans are very forgiving with light levels. But in horticulture if the light drops 70 percent, then plant growth drops 70 percent.
"There are different LEDs for horticulture. Red LEDs have different lifetime constraints than blue or white LEDs. Horticulture applications use more red LEDs and the LEDs can depreciate at different rates. The color could change to a less optimum level.
Solid State Lighting Services Inc., (805) 217-3878; info@sslsinc.com; sslsinc.com.
David Kuack is a freelance technical writer in Fort Worth, Texas; dkuack@gmail,com.
As a member of GLASE, EnSave Inc. will provide technical services and use its extensive data base of agriculture energy metrics to help growers improve their energy efficiency.
EnSave Inc. is an engineering and consulting firm focused primarily on energy efficiency and renewable energy for the agricultural sector. In operation since 1991, the company, which is headquartered in Richmond, Vt., works with agricultural producers nationwide, including greenhouse growers.
"We have about 300 data collectors who we use throughout the country to facilitate the programs and services that we offer," said Kyle Clark, vice president-business development at EnSave.
One of EnSave's core services is conducting energy audits, which are typically done through USDA-sponsored programs. One of the programs called the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is administered through USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The company also does energy audits and grant writing for USDA's Rural Energy for America Program.
Clark said greenhouse growers and farmers approach EnSave wanting to reduce their energy costs and looking for funding to conduct energy projects.
"The first step for most farms is having an energy audit done through the EQIP program," he said. "They can receive funding from USDA to do the audit. Conducting these audits, EnSave has to follow industry criteria established by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.
Clark said that greenhouse growers are eligible to participate in all of the same programs as farmers.
Clark said one of the primary reasons that greenhouse growers and farmers conduct energy audits is to try to reduce overhead costs.
"In some ag industries, like the greenhouse and poultry sectors, the margins are very tight, so anything that they can do to reduce operating expenses is going to be a big help," he said. "An even bigger motivator is the fact that an energy audit is required to access most federal financial assistance or incentive programs. For EQIP and REAP, both federal programs, a grower needs to have an energy audit conducted by a qualified third party in order to apply for that funding.
EnSave's membership in the Greenhouse Lighting and Systems Engineering (GLASE) consortium developed out of its relationship with NYSERDA. NYSERDA is providing $5 million to fund GLASE for seven years.
All of the audits that EnSave conducts track energy metrics associated with each farm and greenhouse. Data collected includes base-line energy usage information for heating, fuel usage, electricity usage and costs, number of lighting fixtures, type of fixtures, type of heaters, building construction, building size and building age.
Clark said using EnSave's data mining capabilities will enable the company to develop energy performance benchmarks that could be normalized on a per unit of production basis.
Clark said the work EnSave is doing with GLASE and CEE could lead to combining and disseminating information from these two organizations that are working toward similar goals.
"We also hope to provide services in terms of measurement and verification of new technologies as they are developed by the GLASE team. We do energy logging, which entails going out to a greenhouse or farm and measuring the electricity use in real time and analyzing the data. We would be a third-party tester or verifier of the performance of some of these new technologies.
View January 2018 GLASE newsletter.
How can you grow healthier crops with affordable lighting systems?
Horticulture doctoral student Jonathan Allred, center, leads a tour of Cornell greenhouses in November. Photo by R.J. Anderson / Cornell Cooperative Extension.
Indoor farming entrepreneurs and experts came to Cornell in early November with a goal: leverage the innovation at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to create viable businesses for local vegetables and produce grown indoors.
Known as controlled environment agriculture (CEA), the systems combine greenhouse environmental controls such as heating and lighting with hydroponic and soilless production, enabling year-round production of fresh vegetables. The process extends the growing season through a range of low-tech solutions – such as row covers and plastic-covered tunnels – to such high-tech solutions as fully automated glass greenhouses with computer controls and LED lights.
Led by Neil Mattson, director of Cornell CEA and associate professor in the School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell has become a world leader in CEA research. In early November, the Cornell CEA Advisory Council, which was formed in 2015 to expand the retail and food service markets for products grown using CEA, hosted on campus more than 80 entrepreneurs and stakeholders from across the Northeast to discuss the state of the indoor farming industry, urban agriculture, supermarket trends and new technology.
At the conference the group announced the formation of the Controlled Environment Agriculture Global Association, an organization to foster growth, understanding and sharing ideas related to controlled environment agriculture and associated industries.
Erico Mattos, executive director of the newly formed Greenhouse Lighting and Systems Engineering (GLASE) consortium, presented his vision to advance CEA by bringing together expertise from industry and academia to create solutions.
"The CEA Advisory Council meeting provided a great opportunity to connect with key players from the different segments of the CEA supply chain in New York. I was impressed with the quality and quantity of the ongoing initiatives in this area supported by Cornell University professors and staff members and the level of engagement from the industry members," Mattos said.
Mattos said private companies and public research from Cornell offer collaborative opportunities that can advance the CEA industry.
GLASE Executive Director Erico Mattos was one of the co-authors who received the American Society for Horticultural Sciences Outstanding Cross-Commodity Publication for papers published in 2016.
The award was given to the paper A Chlorophyll Fluorescence-based Biofeedback System to Control Photosynthetic Lighting in Controlled Environment Agriculture [J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 141(2):169–176] published in partnership with a team from the University of Georgia.
The announcement was made at the Award Ceremony during the Plenary Session at the 114th ASHS Annual Conference at the Hilton Waikoloa, Waikoloa, Hawaii on September 19th.


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    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>SplineX</title>

SplineX()

语法

Result = SplineX(#Spline)

概要

Returns the spline 'x' position in the world, after a ComputeSpline().

参数

#Spline

The spline to use.

返回值

Returns the spline point 'x' position in the world, after a ComputeSpline().

参阅

ComputeSpline(), SplineY(), SplineZ()

已支持操作系统
所有

<- SplinePointZ() - Spline Index - SplineY() ->


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Siah Siah-ye Sheykheh (, also Romanized as Sīāh Sīāh-ye Sheykheh; also known as Sheykheh, Siahsia, Sīā Sīā, and Sīā Sīā-ye Sheykheh) is a village in Howmeh-ye Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Eslamabad-e Gharb County, Kermanshah Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 224, in 52 families.

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Populated places in Eslamabad-e Gharb County

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More than ever, teachers are required to incorporate various components when planning for instruction. Now, as we prepare students to be "future ready" for jobs and skill sets yet-to-be-created, purposeful use of technology and applications are added to the mix. Join us to discover how this all fits together to make planning an ease. You will walk away with a concrete method to plan that will be helpful for instruction, but evaluation evidence, too!
Director of Curriculum and Instruction, follow me on Twitter at @hlhb13.


Who Are Your Favorite Musical Artists Or Composers? Why?
Years ago I went to the Montgomery Cinema (Princeton-area's artsy-farsty movie theater) by myself to see Tous les matins du monde, a biopic about French composer Marin Marais (1656-1728). It's a beautiful movie about a tragic love story, with Gerard Depardieu playing the old Marais and Depardieu's real-life son, Guillaume – who also met a tragic end – playing the young Marais.
I had to find more!
It was 1991, in the olden days before Google, so I sat through the credits and wrote down the musician's name, Jordi Savall, after which I headed to the Princeton U-Store (which back then had an excellent music department, curated by a professor from the Westminster Conservatory) and bought the movie soundtrack.
After that, I have spent thousands of hours listening to Early and Baroque music, in person, on CDs, iPod and YouTube, at every opportunity.
The effect of viola de gamba music on me is like that of catnip on a cat. Apparently I am not alone, since Savall himself, when he was a young cellist in his teens, heard an old neighbor play it, and dedicated his life to the research, interpretation and teaching of the art.
His research has defined the art. When he first started learning gamba nearly nobody played it. He essentially taught himself while taking lessons on phrasing and other aspects of interpretation from master cellists. Until he could play an authentic, original gamba, he found someone who could build him one. He still spends countless hours at the French national archives researching original folios from the court of Louis XIII to add to the repertoire.
Savall's work first was sponsored by a fellowship from the Fundación Juan March, but he has since created a family business. His late wife Monserrat Figueras sang, both his children play in his orchestra. He owns his recording label and is an impresario. Additionally, he is a professor of viola da gamba at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, when he succeeded his mentor, August Menzinger – his teacher in Switzerland when he and Ms Figueras moved to following the Juan March fellowship.
No matter how many times I've listened to that piece, it always knocks my socks off.
Savall brings to life the Medieval music repertoire.


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Bahmanabad-e Jadid (, also Romanized as Bahmanābād-e Jadīd; also known as Bahmanābād) is a village in Shaskuh Rural District, Central District, Zirkuh County, South Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,226, in 269 families.

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Populated places in Zirkuh County