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Life / Food & Drink
Greek restaurant ranked amongst the world's best
The only Greek restaurant that made the prestigious list; 'We want our cuisine to activate the senses and spur emotions'
Theodora Maios
22 November 2016 3:50pm
For the fourth consecutive year, Athenian restaurant Funky Gourmet has been included in the list of the world's best fine dining restaurants according to TripAdvisor.
Based on reviews and opinions from travellers around the world, the restaurant, located in the ancient neighbourhood of Keramikos, was the only Greek fine dining business to make the prestigious list of Trip Advisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2016, with 884 reviews overall from international visitors.
Funky Gourmet opened its doors in 2009 and by 2012 chefs Georgianna Hiliadaki and Nikos Roussos were awarded with their first Michelin star, followed by two Michelin stars in 2014.
Blending gourmet food with innovative presentation within a relaxed yet modern environment, Funky Gourmet gives traditional dishes a contemporary twist using alternative creative tools that turn food into edible art.
According to its two chefs, "it's all about the taste and the visual pleasure that activates the senses, engaging the guests in a stimulating, exciting and unconventional way".
Neos Kosmos speaks to chef and co-owner Georgianna Hiliadaki about Greek cuisine, food evolution, experimenting with textures and tastes and turning food into fine art.
Georgianna Hiliadaki
How do you feel to be ranked among the best fine dining restaurants in the world?
We are very proud that our efforts have been rewarded and that Greek cuisine seems to have international appeal.
What attributes make a good restaurant, in your opinion?
A good restaurant is the one that honours its guests. In Funky Gourmet, we constantly thrive to produce a dining experience for the people that honour us with their presence. We want to provide them with top hospitality, food, ambience and service. The same effort we expend not only in Funky Gourmet, which is a two Michelin star restaurant but also in our other restaurant Opso in London, which is a more casual Greek place where one can enjoy Greek tapas − mezedes − in a more laid-back way.
Why do you think you were the only restaurant in Greece selected? What is it that you offer that makes your customers want to come back?
We offer, as the restaurant's name suggests, a funky and gourmet experience. We want our cuisine to activate the senses and spur emotions, a type of culinary experience that is like a theatre that you can eat! Our degustation menus also reflect our own point of view of a refined Greek cuisine influenced by local ingredients.
Funky Gourmet's take on the Greek salad.
With such a vast choice of classic Greek recipes and traditional food fare, what ideology and vision do you use to reinterpret these and how much experimentation is involved?
We get inspiration by many things, including our tradition and classic recipes, i.e. re-invention of the classic pastitsio dish or based on unique local products, such as the Greek bougatsa that we combine with white chocolate − an unusual combination that strangely enough works very well together!
Experimentation is a vital process in the creation of new dishes and the re-invention of classic ones. Sometimes experiments come successful easily but sometimes − actually most of the time − it takes a lot of effort and testing for a dish to appear on the menu.
Do you have a signature dish that you are particularly known for?
Our Greek salad is one of the signature dishes that never leaves our degustation menus. It's the traditional taste of a Greek salad, i.e. tomatoes, cucumbers, feta cheese, oregano, capers, but in the form of a white 'granita' sorbet!
How much has Greek cuisine evolved over the years?
Hopefully a lot and we would love to believe that we have contributed to this evolution even for a bit, by spreading the local cuisine and our point of view of modern Greek cooking.
Funky Gourmet's Tiramisu.
There seems to be an artistic approach to each dish. Are you a 'food artist' and where do you get your inspiration from?
We definitely look at food as an edible form of art! Aesthetics play an essential part in making a new dish. But we draw inspiration from everywhere and everything. For example, a new dish in our menu is Funky Gourmet 'ntolmas'. This plate was initially inspired by the classic Greek recipe but its presentation is very much influenced from the Scandinavian naturalite and aesthetics.
What types of wines do you stock in the restaurant and do you support Greek produce in food and wine?
We really appreciate the evolving Greek wine industry. Many local producers have presented very interesting wines of unique Greek varieties, such as white assyrtiko and red mavrotragano from Santorini or xinomavro from Naoussa region, or agiorgitiko from Peloponnese. But we love wine from many different regions of the world. Who can resist a French barrel-aged good Burgundy, or a full-bodied bin from California?
If you haven't had the chance to experience the incredible menu that Funky Gourmet has to offer and you are not planning a trip to Greece any time soon, you don't need to worry. Funky Gourmet is coming to Australia to be part of the OMG (Oh My Greek) Week Festival in Melbourne which will be hosted by our own Greek Australian chef, George Calombaris, from 21-26 November.
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Rub the brisket with the barbecue rub, pop into a plastic bag and leave overnight in the fridge.
To make the barbecue sauce, simply put all the ingredients in a blender and whizz until combined.Put into a saucepan, bring to the boil then simmer for 15 minutes.Cool and store in a sterilised jar.
Put the brisket into an ovenproof casserole dish and add the barbecue sauce and sufficient water to cover the meat. Bring to the boil and stir well to mix the sauce with the water.
Heat the oven to 150C, gas 2. Put the dish into the oven and leave for 5 hours. Give it a baste now and then.
Prepare the barbecue then push the coals to one side so you have indirect heat. Add the soaked chips. Take the meat out of the sauce and leave to smoke on the grill for around 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, bring the sauce to the boil and simmer for 15 minutes or until thickened. Serve with the sliced or pulled beef. You can eat it in a bun or serve with baked potatoes and a salad.
Leftovers are delicious made into a Thai-style salad.


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Athlete from South Ossetia went to Sweden to participate in the European Championship
Shot putter from Tskhinval Valeriy Kokoev with the national team of the Russian Federation went to the European Athletics Championship.
Russian specialists will assist in improving the South Ossetian legislation
In Tskhinvalhas been held a meeting of the Russian interdepartmental working group on improving the legislation of South Ossetia with heads of the ministries and governmental agencies of the Republic. The meeting discussed the current state of legislation in South Ossetia and developing of a plan of measures aimed at its improvement.
Aspects of the Foreign Policy of South Ossetia were discussed at the round table in Tskhinval
Topical issues of South Ossetia and its foreign policy aspects were discussed at the round table in Tskhinval, held at the Media Center "IR." The round table was attended by leaders of social organizations, political parties, members of parliament and the government, as well as the experts of the Media Center "IR."
Radion Pukhaev is awarded with a certificate of honor for consolidation of the Ossetian communities in Europe
Chairman of the Belgian Association «Renaissance Sandidzan» (Revival) Radion Pukhaev was awarded with a certificate of honor "For vigorous activity in preserving the traditions and culture of the peoples of Russia, as well as for selfless labour toconsolidate the Ossetian communities in Europe."
A native of South Ossetia will perform in the European Wrestling Championship
Athlete from South Ossetia Alain Zaseev who is a member of the national team of Ukraine will perform in the upcoming European Wrestling Championship.
Wrestler from South Ossetia won the second place at the World Cup - 2013
A native of South Ossetia Soslan Ramonov, a member of the national team of Russia won the silver medal of the tournament Freestyle Wrestling World Cup – 2013 held in Iran.
Russian diplomats once again assured the South Ossetian counterparts in the unconditional support of the statehood of South Ossetia by the Russian Federation
The Russian Federation will continue to support the statehood and sovereignty of the Republic of South Ossetia, regardless of the context of the Russian-Georgian relations. This has been stated by the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia at a recent meeting in Moscow with Foreign Minister of South Ossetia David Sanakoev, who arrived in the Russian capital on an official visit together with the RSO Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev.
Sergei Lavrov: Russia is ready to cooperate with Georgia, but "not at the cost of betrayal" of Abkhazia and South Ossetia
Russia is ready to expand ties with Georgia in different areas, but "not at the cost of betrayal" of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. This was stated by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking today at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
According to the Russian minister, "this will never happen."
Appeal to the Members of the Parliament of the Republic of South Ossetia
Esteemed Members of Parliament of the Republic of South Ossetia.
Since 1989, the Georgian leadership has been conducting the legal war against South Ossetia. Starting with the abolition by the Supreme Council of the GSSR of all laws and regulations adopted by the GSSR after 1921, with the elimination by the Supreme Council of the GSSR of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast the actions of the Georgian legislative authorities are focused on the legal destruction of South Ossetia, on the regulatory and legal justification of the genocide carried out against the people of South Ossetia by Georgia.
Media Review of Georgia:Georgia is in a mess because of the threat of new arrests, but the country does not think to abandon the course that led to its collapse
Georgia continues to dot the i's and cross the t's after the criminal governing by Eduard Shevardnadze and Saakashvili, who, along with Zviad Gamsakhurdia, distinguished themselves in the most scaled crimes and human rights violations.
"The family of a journalist Georgy Sanaya demands for a new investigation and will soon go to the prosecutor," - writes the Georgian publication "Georgia Online" February 24 in an article "Family of a journalist Georgy Sanaya is demanding re-investigation of the case."

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Some working dogs can benefit from a fish-based diet, particularly those with sensitivities to meat. Skinners Field & Trial Salmon & Rice contains salmon meat meal from a sustainable source, whole rice, naked oats and peas. It is formulated to give an excellent balance of Omega 3:6 fatty acids, which can help support your dog's immune system.
As a valuable source of energy and to maintain a healthy coat condition, it is also coated in sunflower oil.
Field & Trial Salmon & Rice also contains enhanced levels of Glucosamine and Chondroitin to help protect the joints of your dog.


FALMOUTH — Veterans Day is Saturday, Nov. 11, and area communities are observing several ways.
Thursday, Nov. 9, at 6:30 p.m. Falmouth Memorial Library welcomes William D. Adams, a Vietnam War veteran and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Adams will discuss the Vietnam War and the future of the arts and humanities in America.
Saturday at 11 a.m. a special ceremony will be held at the Veterans Memorial on Depot Road. In case of rain, the ceremony will be held at the adjacent American Legion Post.
Freeport will hold its second annual Veterans Day concert at 2 p.m. on Saturday at the First Parish Church with the Greater Freeport Community Chorus, the Volunteers Jazz Band and former Miss Maine Maddie Leslie. The suggested donation is $5.
In Cumberland, the historical society will hold an open house on Saturday, 8 a.m. to noon.
Yarmouth Town Hall and Community Services will be closed on Friday, Nov. 10, and Merrill Memorial Library will be closed both Friday and Saturday. The Transfer Station will be closed on Saturday, but open on Friday.
In North Yarmouth, a ceremony will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at Veterans Memorial Park, the corner of Route 9 and Parsonage Road. Town Hall will be closed Monday, Nov. 13.
Pownal town offices will also be closed Monday.


Even though holidays like Easter tend to always be about eating a specific animal-based food (like eggs or lamb), we know that it's definitely possible to create delicious and nutritious meals everyone in the family will enjoy! Don't believe us? Then check out the vegan easter recipes we collected for you below.
Holidays are the time of the year during which it's fine to eat a little richer food (depending on your health situation, of course). This is why almost every single recipe will contain at least some amount of vegetable oil or refined sugar.
As for the oil, you can just omit it in most cases, which is what we would do. It won't hurt your arteries very much to eat it a couple of times a year, though. If you'd like to know more about why we don't think it's a great idea to consume oils on a regular basis, see our extensive article here. You get to decide! Now, let's dive into the egg-less goodness.
This quinoa salad is a new spring edition with beautiful, crunchy greens and a satisfying fresh basil dressing. Simple to make, highly shareable and absolutely addictive! Green Evi packs a lot of veggies and delicious nutrients into one flavorful bowl for you.
How about a thick, creamy, and soul-warming vegetable pot pie? These are done in under one hour - including clean up time. It's up to you to either pick up some pie crust/biscuits from the store or make them from scratch.
These gluten-free and naturally sweetened lemon bars will be a huge hit! Nothing could be more refreshing and satisfying during springtime. With an oat crust and cashew/coconut filling, nobody will be able to resist this cheesecake-like goodness. Quick, hop on over to the Minimalist Baker for the recipe!
Can you believe that this recipe is completely eggless? Yes, this vegan masterpiece is a frittata (or quiche) made thick and creamy by using tofu, arrowroot, and a few more magic ingredients. And the crust is mainly just rice. Sounds awesome? Check it out!
Looking for something more quick and simple? This one pot fettuccine is deliciously creamy and only requires 5 minutes of prep time. We love that it's even low in fat and doesn't require any fancy ingredients. It's a must this spring!
The kids will love these eggless fruit baskets! Using only 3 ingredients (if you buy the puff pastry and soy yogurt at the store) and taking around 5 minutes to prep, you can definitely put this on the list for a quick last-minute Easter idea.
With all this green goodness, dishing up a spring soup like that will give you a huge boost of nutrients and deliciousness. The added cashew cream is definitely a bonus to this simple yet fantastic Easter recipe!
Should you be on a budget this time around, go for these cheap deviled potato "egg" bites. Using chickpeas, tahini, and turmeric as a filling, it's not only creamy and delicious but offers a lot of protein and some healthy fats. Awesome side dish or snack!
This one pot meal is our favorite choice this Easter! Comforting, chewy gnocchi with seasonal, fresh veggies work together in perfect harmony when it comes to taste and deliciousness. This dish also offers a light citrus note and is just overall one of a kind.
This curd is the real deal. It is slightly more white in color because there are no eggs, but the lemon flavor is 100% there. This dessert comes with a slight coconut flavor, isn't too sweet and can be eaten straight away or as a topping for your waffles or pancakes!
This delicious and super healthy recipe can be admired on one of our favorite blogs around the web! Ana's spring greens soup offers lots of powerful nutrients and antioxidants as well as a creamy texture from the coconut milk. We totally love the baked parsnip fries as a side, too!
Usually, potatoes are drenched in oil to make them crispy and chewy. But lo and behold, here's a healthy yet very delicious version of a no-oil hash brown patties recipe! If you want to make it super convenient, just use frozen hash browns, mix them with the other ingredients for around 5 minutes and off into the oven they go!
Would you believe that this creamy deliciousness is based on chickpeas? The water from this legume can be used to create a very similar texture compared to egg whites but without the nasties. This sweet treat is super crunchy and chewy, and we love the fresh strawberries on top.
Who doesn't love Italian food? This light and veggie-rich lasagna recipe could really hit the spot this year for your family gathering. Easier than it looks and using just 10 ingredients, this soul food cannot really go wrong. So if you have an hour to spare and want to make both your vegan and gluten-free guests happy, check out the recipe now.
This tasty dish is a lemony asparagus and mushroom pasta salad with lots of fresh parsley and green onion. Doesn't that sound really heavenly? It offers everything you're looking for in a spring or summer dish and perfectly combines filling starches with fresh seasonal veg and lemony deliciousness. Go get the recipe today and try it!
These vegan Superfood Berry Cashew Cream No-Bake Bars are naturally colored with fruit and vegetables! And they're so creamy nobody will ever know they're healthy and plant-based. Give this spring a nice colorful touch with this treat and watch your kids fall in love with nutritious food.
Who doesn't love fresh, colorful finger food? This easy and tasty crowd pleaser can be prepared within 15 minutes in advance so you'll have less stress right before your family gathering. They are perfect for get-togethers and will taste awesome to kids, vegans and meat-lovers alike!
Only 5 ingredients are required for this colorful and healthy snack. And you probably have most of them at home right now! Taking only 10 minutes to prepare, you can store them in the fridge for days and just have them on hand when needed. Try this sugar-free and oil-free goodness!
Last but definitely not least, we have this tasty low-fat pasta salad. Yes, pesto doesn't have to mean tons of oil or nuts! This recipe uses peas as a base, making it protein-rich and satisfying. You can enjoy it either warm or cold and prepare it withing 10-15 minutes.
What will you be making this Easter? Will you be trying any of these recipes or do you have your own plant-based go-tos? Let us know in the comments below.
It all looks so good, I am going to try several of these yummy recipes. Thank you so much. I will let you know how it goes.
Let us know which ones and if you liked them!


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NATO chief seeks to shore up unity as rows roil allies
by: LORNE COOK, Associated Press
U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. first lady Melania Trump arrive at Stansted Airport in England, Monday, Dec. 2, 2019. US President Donald Trump will join other NATO heads of state at Buckingham Palace in London on Tuesday to mark the NATO Alliance's 70th birthday. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
LONDON (AP) — With questions raised over NATO's credibility, the Western military alliance struggled to present a united front Tuesday as some of its biggest member countries traded barbs over their visions for the future.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg sought to shore up unity as leaders from across the 29-member trans-Atlantic alliance gathered in London to mark its 70th anniversary and to show that it is adapting to modern threats.
"NATO is the most successful alliance in history because we have been able to change when the world is changing," Stoltenberg said after talks with U.S. President Donald Trump.
"That is exactly what we are doing again," he said.
Though NATO has thousands of troops deployed in the Baltics and Poland to dissuade Russia from any military forays like those it launched in Ukraine and Georgia in the recent past, the strength of that military deterrent has been undermined by recent bickering among some leaders.
Ahead of the London summit, French President Emmanuel Macron alarmed his allies by lamenting the "brain death" of NATO, in part due to what he said was a lack of U.S. leadership, but also because of Turkey's invasion of northern Syria.
Trump has described Marcon's comments as "very, very nasty." Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suggested that it might be the French leader who is "brain dead." The spat comes as their host at the London summit, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, is otherwise engaged in a divisive election campaign.
Even Stoltenberg conceded that leaders "should never question the unity and the political willingness to stand together and to defend each other."
"The whole purpose of NATO is to preserve peace," he said. "It's to prevent conflict by sending a clear message to any potential adversary that if one ally is attacked it will trigger a response from the whole alliance."
Stoltenberg won support from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who said "the future for this alliance is bright."
"We've adjusted and adapted and stayed true to the original values that brought us together," Trudeau said.
He added that NATO's longevity since it was first established in 1949 to provide collective security for Europe against what was then the Soviet Union was down to the fact that "we've always had frank, real conversations."
Macron wants NATO to focus on strategic questions like who its enemies really are and how to improve ties with Russia rather than dither over defense spending.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte acknowledged that the French leader is right, but only to a point.
Referring to the challenges posed by Russia, or an emerging China, or even the need for Europe to play a bigger security role, Rutte said "these all require a fundamental rethink without losing the cornerstones of NATO."
But on the need for bigger military budgets — a favorite whip Trump uses to lash European allies and Canada — Rutte said: "We cannot have the U.S. shoulder all the burden."
The United States spends more on defense than all the other allies combined. No country owes Washington money, but NATO allies rely on U.S. transport and air support to conduct military operations.
After Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula in 2014, NATO countries halted their post-Cold War spending cuts and began increasing spending. They pledged to "move toward" spending 2% of their annual GDP on national defense by 2024.
Trump said much more needs to be done.
"You could make the case that they've been delinquent for 25-30 years," Trump said. The figure of 2%, he added, "is a very low number, it really should be 4."
Ian Lesser, Vice President of The German Marshall Fund of the United States think-tank, said the credibility of NATO's collective defense clause — known as Article 5 — must be discussed.
"It's sort of at the center of the debate," Lesser said. "No one wants to talk too much about it because they fear it will somehow erode the credibility or the reliance on it, but NATO is going to have to have that debate."
Zeke Miller in London, Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Daria Litvinova in Moscow and Darlene Superville in Washington contributed to this report.


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package org.javasimon.examples;

import org.javasimon.SimonManager;
import org.javasimon.Split;
import org.javasimon.clock.SimonClock;

/**
 * This example shows how different Clock sources for Splits affect the measured values.
 * Using {@link Split} with {@link SimonClock#CPU} is quick way to measure real CPU time (as real as it is for JVM).
 * <b>Obviously - one should not stop such a split in different thread than it was started, because
 * it may be based on timers/counters valid for a single thread.</b>
 */
public class ClockExample {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
		String stopwatchName = "stopwatch";

		Split cpuSplit = Split.start(SimonClock.CPU);
		Split systemSplit = Split.start();

		System.out.println("cpuSplit = " + cpuSplit);
		System.out.println("systemSplit = " + systemSplit);

		for (int loop = 0; loop < 10; loop++) {
			for (int i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) {
				SimonManager.getStopwatch(stopwatchName);
			}
			Thread.sleep(200); // this should cause roughly 200 ms difference on each loop
			System.out.println("\nAfter iteration #" + loop);
			System.out.println("cpuSplit = " + cpuSplit);
			System.out.println("systemSplit = " + systemSplit);
		}
	}
}

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David Lowenberg's relationship with WCP began when he was a Board Member of CarePoint Partners in Waud Capital Partners II. In 2010, WCP and Mr. Lowenberg partnered in an executive-led strategy that culminated in WCP's investment in Cordant Health Solutions (f/k/a Sterling Healthcare Holdings). Prior to joining WCP, Mr. Lowenberg was Chief Operating Officer of Express Scripts and President and Chief Executive Officer of its Curascript subsidiary. During his tenure at Express Scripts, the company's revenues grew from $150 million to nearly $20 billion. Earlier in his career, he worked as an executive with both local and state governments in Arizona, including serving as the Executive Director of the Arizona Welfare Department where he was appointed by the Governor of Arizona.
Mr. Lowenberg is currently the Chairman of the Board of Cordant Health Solutions and Pharmacy Partners, Executive Chairman of PSI Services and on the Board of The GI Alliance.
Mr. Lowenberg holds a Master's degree in Public Management from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He also has a Bachelor of Science in Public Administration from the University of Arizona.


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Jeff Yalden Welcomes Lona Sargent to The BOOM Podcast
July 20, 2017 by Roger Yale
In episode 6 of The BOOM Podcast, speaker and Amazon bestselling author Jeff Yalden welcomes certified personal trainer, health coach and fitness model Lona Sargent. Sargent spoke with Jeff from her home in Delray Beach, Florida, where after some struggles and personal revelations, her career is now thriving.
Yalden and Sargent share a connection, a personal trainer and friend named Brian Carl Story, who sadly succumbed to the disease of addiction last year. Sargent met Story after she moved to South Florida and made the decision to seek a personal trainer. Sargent grew up in Maine, and played sports there. When she first came to Delray Beach, she got into a cycle of drinking and the party scene – but realized that she could not continue like that. "I went and got a personal trainer," she said. "I sat down that day in LA Fitness, the head of all of the personal trainers there was like, 'I've got someone for you who will whip your ass into shape, and he pointed to Brian." From day one, Sargent said Story inspired her in so many ways, pushing her in her routine – and the pair became very close. Yalden said he watched Story's journey from when he got out of rehab to when he was getting really focused, losing weight and shredding. "I was just always inspired by his motivation and determination – and his presence. I followed him, and when he did his fitness competitions, I would send him a video. I just really fell in love with this guy," he said. When Sargent first started going to LA Fitness, she was still going out and drinking, but she would tell Story about what she was up to. He would constantly tell her that she needed to clean up her act. "He was just a really good friend to have – a great trainer, but he was like my therapist too. I came to him with all my problems and he always had the best advice. It wasn't just beating around the bush. He told me how it was, and I really respected him for that," she said. Even though she was doing regular workouts, Yalden suggested that she wasn't yet ready to bring the BOOM and make immediate change. But Story kept pushing and encouraging her.
"I had no confidence," she said. "He was trying to pound it into my head – 'you come in here and barely try and you look good. Can you imagine what you would look like if you pushed it and gave it your all?'" She never liked hearing it, and because she thought he was just being nice, she didn't really take it to heart. Story was Sargent's personal trainer for about a year. Little-by-little, he would confide in her about his own struggles with addiction. "He would just be very honest with me, and I thought the same way I could be honest with him. There is no judgement there ever. That just made me have more respect for him – to see where he was in such a short amount of time. He had come so far – so I really was inspired by him," she said. The plain fact is that we all have our own struggles and demons to overcome. "Everyone has them," Sargent said. "No one is perfect. You might look at someone and think that they have it all together, but they don't. Everyone has their struggles, and it's just really important that we all recognize that." Yalden is a big believer in transparency – especially in the journey to improvement.
"One of the things I often say is that, if you look in the mirror and you don't like the reflection – don't blame it on the mirror," he said. "The first place it starts is when you look in the mirror and you become truthful and real with that reflection." After a trip back home to Maine, where she said she went through a couple of traumatic things, Sargent finally had her BOOM moment when she went on a cruise after returning to Florida last summer. "I said to myself – OK – something's got to change. I can't just keep waking up every morning and feeling like there is something missing. I just was not happy with my life at all, and kept making the same horrible choices." On the last day of the cruise, Sargent logged on to Facebook and saw the tragic news that Brian Story had passed away. "I never had that feeling before, but after that I was like, 'alright – my life is changing from here on out. I felt like the only thing I had left of him was to do what he always said I could do." Lona brought the BOOM and prevailed. She is now someone to watch – an up-and-comer in health coaching and fitness modeling – empowering other women to bring their BOOM. "I like working with women in their 20s and 30s or 40s – and people who were just once in a good place and kind of lost it," she said. We've all been there – and that's a lot of my clientele – that's mainly who they are. Women like that. And I just help them to get their confidence back and uncover things that they never thought that they were capable of." And her future couldn't be brighter. "I changed my life and that feels great – but changing someone else's life is a feeling I never even knew existed. It's just surreal. Amazing." Listen to the full BOOM Podcast episode HERE. Check out Lona Sargent's YouTube channel HERE. Visit Lona's website HERE. Grab your copy of BOOM HERE. Click HERE to discover more about Jeff Yalden. Join the BOOM Nation Facebook Group HERE.
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Jeff Yalden on Mental Health, Suicide and Chris Cornell
Nobody will ever really know what prompted rock icon Chris Cornell to make the tragic final decision to end his own life on May 17. What we do know is that Cornell had just performed a sold-out Soundgarden concert in Detroit. The Daily Mail reported that he posed for photographs after the show and told fans that he would see them at the band's next scheduled performance in Columbus, Ohio a few days later. Cornell was found dead later that night in the bathroom of his suite at the MGM Grand Detroit, and medical examiners ruled that he died of suicide by hanging – but as soon as that news came out, his wife, Vicky Karayiannis, took exception to this – stating that side-effects of the prescription drug Ativan might have led him to suicidal thoughts. Cornell, a recovering addict, was prescribed Ativan to combat his anxiety. His wife said in a statement that when she spoke to him by telephone after the show, she noticed that he was slurring his words. He told her that he may have taken "an extra Ativan or two." According to family lawyer Kirk Pasich, the family will wait for toxicology results to see whether Ativan may have impaired Cornell's judgement before his death. Karayiannis said that she knew he loved their children and would not hurt them by intentionally taking his own life. We also know that Cornell suffered from bouts of depression and agoraphobia, which is defined by Merriam-Webster as "abnormal fear of being helpless in a situation from which escape may be difficult or embarrassing that is characterized initially often by panic or anticipatory anxiety and finally by the avoidance of open or public places." To the outside world, Chris Cornell had it all – a loving wife and children, a music career that helped change the face of rock 'n' roll – think Soundgarden, Audioslave and Temple of the Dog – and a reported net worth of $60 million. Does his death prove that money and fame are not buffers against mental illness and that suicide can creep into all lives and socioeconomic situations? Suicide prevention expert and mental health speaker Jeff Yalden said that mental illness is not prejudiced toward any specific group and can plague anybody, rich or poor. "For many of these people, work and careers can be a challenge, but mental illness is something that you can learn to live with and function properly – but you have to address it. For Chris Cornell, I don't know whether he addressed it. I'd be speculating," he said. Yalden said that, from watching Cornell's last performance, he appeared to be a shell. "He looked like had already checked out. It's very sad," he said. When somebody famous takes his or her life, the issue of suicide is brought into the spotlight – and Yalden has grieved with enough families to know that the issue is worsening. "I think suicides in general have been on the rise," he said. "When it's a rock star or a celebrity, I think the media sensationalizes it – and sometimes when you are a celebrity, your ego can get in the way of seeking help." In the case of Cornell, Yalden feels that there should have been people in his life that could have seen the signs. "Somebody could have worked with him to have balance and boundaries so we wouldn't be talking about this as we are now. His wife knew that he wasn't doing well. His bandmates have had to know that he wasn't himself. The problem is – if you are not looking for this, why would you see it. That's the problem with all suicides," he said. When the signs become obvious, that's the time for family and friends to take action. But sometimes the loss from suicide is indeed unexpected and seemingly inexplicable. Yalden said that the symptoms for suicide are very similar to that of depression, and he has a three-point theory about teen suicide:
I am alone.
I am a burden and a liability to other people.
I have the desire for suicide.
Put these symptoms together and you have a lethal or near-lethal attempt to take one's life. "Again, I am speculating – but I think the three-point theory is shown in all suicides," he said. "Obviously, Cornell was alone in his hotel room that night. Maybe he had been on the road a lot and was missing his family. He may have felt alone." As far as the burden component, in this case it might have felt like a burden to Cornell to continue to be the frontrunner for so many people – the lynchpin. "And there were so many people that idolized this guy and thought he was a legend – but the thing is, what good does that do if you don't think you are that good yourself," he said. Maybe he reached a point where he didn't think he was as good as he was." Another point of speculation is whether the Ativan caused him to think about self-harm. Side effects of the drug can include confusion, depression, thoughts of self-harm and suicidal ideation. There is also a disturbing trend recently reported on by NBC News about the upswing in middle-aged suicides. "Middle-aged suicide is becoming more and more problematic," said Yalden. "Many people ignore that they are struggling with mental illness and don't think they need help. Then they reach the point where – had they asked for help many years ago – they wouldn't be suicidal. It's just very sad." Yalden said the warning signs for adults are very similar to those of teens. "Listen. If you have five or more symptoms of depression that last more than two weeks without it going away, that right there means you have red flags that you need to have addressed." And it's OK to ask for help. "I got a new pair of eyeglasses. I don't know if the prescription is really working, so I have to go back and get my eyes rechecked. I'm not afraid to ask for that help. This is the same with mental illness. If we address mental illness, we could drastically cut down on our suicides." Yalden called Cornell's suicide very sad and unfortunate. "The bottom line is that if people saw the signs, they could have intervened and said something. They could have gotten him the help that he needed, even if that meant canceling some shows and taking a break." To discover more about Jeff, visit: www.jeffyalden.com. Jeff is stoked about his new book, BOOM! One Word to Instantly Inspire Action, Deliver Rewards, and Positively Affect Your Life Every Day! Preorder it here. To book Jeff for your school or event now, call 800-948-9289.
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DGAP-News: Linde Included in Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for 18th Consecutive Year
Nov 18 2020 12:27 GMT Source: EQS
DGAP-News: Linde plc / Key word(s): Sustainability
Linde Included in Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for 18th Consecutive Year
Linde Included in Dow Jones SustainabilityTM World Index for 18th Consecutive Year
Guildford, UK, November 18, 2020 - Linde (NYSE: LIN; FWB: LIN) has once again been recognized as a global leader in sustainability through its inclusion in the Dow Jones SustainabilityTM World Index (DJSI World) and DJSI North America. Linde is the only company in the chemical sector to be admitted in the DJSI World for eighteen consecutive years.
The DJSI World is a trusted benchmark for investors incorporating ESG factors into their decision-making. It identifies the top 10 percent of companies in each sector among the largest 2,500 companies in the S&P Global Broad Market Index. Companies are selected based on a detailed analysis of long-term economic, environmental and social criteria. Linde received a perfect score in the sector for several criteria including risk governance, codes of conduct, climate change strategy, water-related risks, employee development programs and philanthropic activities.
"Sustainability principles underpin the success of our company and are integral to everything we do on behalf of our stakeholders," said Steve Angel, Chief Executive Officer of Linde.
Linde helps its customers improve their environmental performance and reduce their carbon footprint. In addition to the DJSI World and DJSI North America, the company is a member of the FTSE4Good Index Series. Linde was awarded an A in MSCI's ESG Ratings assessment in June 2020, is included in the 100 Best Corporate Citizens 2020 and received Silver Class distinction in The Sustainability Yearbook 2020, published by S&P Global in collaboration with RobecoSAM.
More information about Linde's sustainable development priorities, targets and performance can be found online at: www.linde.com/about-linde/sustainable-development
About Linde
Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2019 sales of $28 billion (€25 billion). We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain and protect our planet.
The company serves a variety of end markets including chemicals & refining, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing and primary metals. Linde's industrial gases are used in countless applications, from life-saving oxygen for hospitals to high-purity & specialty gases for electronics manufacturing, hydrogen for clean fuels and much more. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer expansion, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.
For more information about the company and its products and services, please visit www.linde.com.
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Company: Linde plc
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Just because the holiday season is approaching, doesn't mean you're doomed to gain weight. Making a decision to maintain or lose weight during the holidays and stick to it. Make a few subtle changes to your lifestyle, especially your diet, to avoid unwanted weight gain this holiday season.
Make an effort to give away traditional holiday cookies instead of eating them, or alter your recipe to make cookies more nutritious. Sugar cookies, frosted cookies, fudge, and chocolate-cover pretzels are loaded with empty calories and sugar. Try healthier peanut butter protein cookie recipes, which contain eggs, egg whites, applesauce, oats, vanilla protein powder, baking stevia, salt, and baking soda.
Before heading out to your holiday gathering, drink lots of water to avoid overeating and unwanted weight gain. Drinking water before each meal helps you feel full and eat fewer calories, according to a study published in 2013 in "Australian Family Physician." Researchers who conducted this study found that drinking about 2 cups of water 30 minutes before meals enhances weight loss in overweight and obese adults. Drinking water with your meal instead of higher-calorie alternatives also helps cut back on calories.
Since protein helps fill you up and increases your body's energy expenditure, make sure to eat at least one high-protein food at each meal. Choose lean chicken, turkey, tofu, seitan, legumes, peas, nuts, seeds, egg whites, low-fat milk, plain Greek yogurt, reduced-fat cheese, or low-fat cottage cheese to boost your protein intake.
Eating breads and rolls can pack on calories and pounds. Instead, choose fiber-rich brown rice, quinoa, other whole grains, legumes, fruits, and vegetables — which are healthier carbohydrates packed with fiber. Fiber helps you feel full without it being fully digested or absorbed by your body, making it an excellent choice for healthy weight management.
While drinking alcoholic beverages is often a favorite holiday tradition, doing so boosts calories quickly. Shy away from mixing liquor with lemonade, juices, sodas, or other high-calorie sugary beverages. Eggnog often contains over 220 calories in just 1 cup. If you drink alcohol, mix liquor or wine with calorie-free diet soda, sparkling water, or club soda. If you're a beer drinker, choose light beer instead of regular beer.
When baking this holiday season, substitute high-calorie alternatives for low-calorie ingredients. For example, use light cream cheese instead of regular cream cheese, low-fat milk instead of whole milk, egg whites instead of whole eggs, and evaporated skim milk or fat-free half and half instead of cream. You can also substitute apple sauce, prune puree, or non-fat yogurt for half of the butter, shortening, or oil in recipes.
While heart-healthy fats found in plant-based oils, avocados, nuts, and seeds are perfectly fine to include in holiday meal plans, avoid high-fat meats, which are rich in saturated fat and contain extra calories. Choose turkey bacon or smoked turkey instead of regular bacon, pick extra-lean ground beef and make sure chicken and turkey is free from skin and breading.
While soups aren't off limits during the holidays, avoid cream-based soups because they're often higher in calories than broth soups. Choose broth-based vegetable, chicken, or turkey soups — which usually contain half the calories of cream-based soups — instead of cream of mushroom, cream of potato, or cream of chicken soups.
You can cut a significant number of calories during the holidays by skipping traditional gravies and vegetable dips. Instead, dip raw veggies in nonfat Greek yogurt and make a lower-calorie turkey gravy by combining fat-free turkey broth, flour, and seasonings.
Going for a walk after your holiday dinner is an excellent way to bond as a family and reduce your chance of weight gain. A study published in 2011 in "International Journal of General Medicine" found that going for a brisk 30-minute walk immediately after meals aids in weight loss.


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Dynaudio Focus 30 Active Loudspeaker System $3999 Review
January 27, 2023 § Leave a comment
https://www.soundstagehifi.com/index.php/reference-components/1748-recommended-reference-component-dynaudio-focus-30-active-loudspeaker-system
At the end of Gordon's exhaustive review, he concluded that the Focus 30 system "deepened" his "admiration for Dynaudio's active speakers," and that he was "won over by the Focus 30's transparent presentation, effortless dynamics, pinpoint imaging, and bass extension." Gordon added that he "loved the look of the speakers" in his living room, but the support for Dirac Live is "the clincher" when it comes recommending this speaker system to readers. Gordon's praise in his review earned the Focus 30 speaker system a Reviewers' Choice award at the time it was published—and that same praise has now earned it a Recommended Reference Component award. Suffice it to say, DSP-based active speakers have come of age for those who are serious about sound—and Dynaudio's Focus 30 has the features to optimize that sound, too.
Vermouth Audio Studio Monitor Loudspeakers $20,000 Review
Vermouth Audio Studio Monitor Loudspeakers
Suppose one decides to go with something that isn't as large as a floor-standing speaker but will deliver more volume and frequency extension than a stand-mounted mini-monitor. In that case, the Vermouth Studio Monitor is what you're looking for. In my listening room, it had enough internal volume to produce serious bass. The two 6.5 mid-woofers produced a transparent midrange that filled the room with sound with a prodigious soundstage. Its ribbon tweeter was remarkably extended and had a musical sound that, regardless of how loud I played the music, was never fatiguing.
I heartily recommend the Vermouth Studio Monitor. Its audition proved that it was a surprisingly good-looking and great-sounding speaker, which is well worth its asking price.
Rogue Audio Pharaoh II integrated amplifier $3995 Review
https://www.stereophile.com/content/rogue-audio-pharaoh-ii-integrated-amplifier
The headphone the Pharaoh liked best was Meze Audio's new $4000 Elite—an open-back, planar-magnetic design. Powered by the Pharaoh, the 32 ohm, 101dB/mW Elite delivered music with relaxed, pristine clarity. The Rogue–Elite pairing played Ledbetter live in Austin with an air of well-structured authority that said, "Who cares if the headphones cost as much as the amp? The sound is dang near perfect."
The headphone the Pharaoh II liked almost as much was Sony's $1799 MDR-Z1R, the closed-back I have used more than any other headphone since I reviewed it in GD16. Because they are so comfortable, durable, natural-sounding, and easy to drive, the 64 ohm, 100dB/mW Z1Rs have never stopped being my paint-splattered daily headset. They employ fast, 70mm magnesium domes that never hint that they're made of metal. Powered by the Pharaoh II, those domes sounded like they were made of paper: not too soft or hard, space and detail displayed with an appealing tube-like sheen. A recommendable match.
YG Acoustics Cairn Loudspeaker £9900 Review
https://www.hifinews.com/content/yg-acoustics-cairn-loudspeaker
In every way small but beautifully formed, the Cairns show all the benefits of their manufacturer's integration of extensive analysis and modelling in the design and manufacturing processes. They're precise without ever being clinical or sterile, and have a weight, depth and finesse that belies their compact dimensions. Few small standmounts will fill modestly proportioned rooms with such authority. They are little crackers!
SME Model 60 Turntable and VA Series Tonearm $71,000 Review
SME Model 60 Turntable and VA Series Tonearm
Clearly, it was a big deal for SME to produce a brand-new turntable intended to better the company founder's original, now-classic design. Challenge met. The new SME Model 60 with Series VA arm is an overwhelmingly successful upgrade to what was formerly the company's flagship Model 30. It achieves new SME greatness without forsaking the vision of founder Alastair Robertson-Aikman, who would surely appreciate both this new turntable/arm combo and where his company is headed.
That said, if you want a table that allows you to swap arms or carry a pair of them, the Model 60 isn't for you. Otherwise, if you've got $71,000 or a bit more for something blue or one of the other variants, you'd best check out the SME Model 60 before buying anything at or near the price point. The only remaining question is, who the hell really designed this thing?
Wilson Audio Specialties Alexia V loudspeaker $79,500 Review
https://www.stereophile.com/content/wilson-audio-specialties-alexia-v-loudspeaker
It's been quite the six months in Serinusland. First the Stromtank, then the Nordost QNet and QSource, and then one of the finest DACs I've been privileged to enjoy, the dCS Rossini Apex. I never fully appreciated how good each of those components is until Wilson Audio's new Alexia V loudspeaker let me hear so much more of what they can deliver.
All these changes and improvements can be summarized in one sentence: Assisted by first-rate amplification and source components, the Wilson Audio Specialties Alexia V presented the entirety of the musical argument more completely and satisfyingly than its predecessor did. And its predecessor was very fine.
The notion that the loudspeaker is the most important component in an audio system is hogwash, although that conversation may be more semantic than substantial. What's the point of being able to hear more of what your system can deliver if all you hear is more distortion or mediocrity?
Zesto Audio Eros 500 Select Class A Monoblocks $35,000 World Premier Review
World Premier – Zesto Audio Eros 500 Select Class A Monoblocks
I am at a loss for words to describe my excitement listening to the groundbreaking Eros 500 monoblocks. I was expecting excellence, but not ball-busting greatness. Plus, from all the worldwide tube manufacturers of note and history, it is Zesto Audio in Southern California that creates these masterpieces.
Congratulations to George Counnas and Zesto Audio for bringing to us, the audiophiles of the world, the best tube amplifier (and maybe any amplifier) ever. You must hear the Zesto Audio Eros 500 Select Class A monoblocks if you are even contemplating cost-is-no-object or high-end high-powered amplifiers for your system. These are the best amplifiers yet devised, in my humble opinion.
Schiit Audio Tyr monoblock power amplifier $3198 Review
https://www.stereophile.com/content/schiit-audio-tyr-monoblock-power-amplifier
While I described the audible differences I found between the Schiit Tyr and the two amplifiers with which I compared it, I must admit that these differences were relatively minor. I find it increasingly difficult to characterize the sounds of modern solid state amplifiers. Unlike many tube designs, which have a readily identifiable sonic character, solid state amplifiers are benefiting from a process of convergent evolution that pushes noise and distortion below audibility.
Schiit's Tyr is a perfect example of such a thoroughly modern amplifier. It offers high power, is not fazed by low impedances, sounded superb with the three pairs of loudspeakers that I used for this review, and is competitively priced. Strongly recommended
AVID Reference Three Loudspeaker £60,000 Review
https://www.hifinews.com/content/avid-reference-three-loudspeaker
The (Le) Concert Spirituel recording of Handel's 'The King Shall Rejoice' [Coronation Anthems; Alpha ALPHA868] sounded magnificent, complete with powerful drums and a fine unforced sense of live performance. There was nothing artificial or studio-y here, but instead a real impression of experiencing the music in a live space. It was a big, exuberant sound, but one with bags of detail to back it up, and those very 'Handel' vocal flourishes had a glorious ringing quality.
With the unusual instrumentation of Sachse's 'Concerto In F major' from Clare Farr's Loudmouthed Beauty recital [Lawo LWC1242, see p94] – bass trombone accompanied by church organ – the AVID Reference Threes delivered a persuasive impression of the two instruments in a church acoustic. Both the low-frequency power and harmonic richness of each was evoked, their notes ringing through the space. In the theme and variations of the third movement the effect was even more striking, with the extraordinary power of Farr's instrument holding its own against the mighty organ.
KEF Reference 5 Meta £17,500 Review
https://hifiplus.com/articles/kef-reference-5-meta-floorstanding-loudspeakers/
Back with solid state power and the Weather Station's mumblings on 'Marsh' and other tracks where it's not clear what is exactly being said but the feelings behind it are transparent in the hands of these KEFs. With an older favourite in Talk Talk's New Grass where the vocals are quiet but easy to follow and the nuances of the performance are clear thanks to the transparency on offer. These speakers are borderline explicit when it comes to detail resolution, they really drill down into whatever you put through them and deliver the musical treasure that other speakers fail to expose. It gets the micro dynamics, the differences between the volume of notes, spot on and this brings a variety and colour to subtle pieces that often gets lost. It does the macro too of course and I thoroughly enjoyed Led Zeppelin's 'Killing Floor' where they managed to give the bass a thickness that Metallica would have killed for, and were clearly attempting to emulate on the Black album
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In 2018, Canada marked its 150th anniversary with activities that brought us together to celebrate our history and to consider our bright future as a nation. Just months later, however, Canadians are confronted with an issue that goes to the very core of our understanding of what Canada is: are we one country, or thirteen?
This is not an academic question. The B.C. government's attempt to halt Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain Expansion project poses a direct challenge to the federal government's authority, undermines Canada's regulatory processes and divides our country along the Rocky Mountains.
Trans Mountain received federal approval after an extensive, rigorous, scientifically valid review with input from thousands of stakeholders. At the end of that process, Kinder Morgan accepted the numerous federal and provincial conditions imposed on the project. Despite all of this, and the federal government's stated position that Trans Mountain is in the national interest, it remains in limbo because the B.C. government says so, even though the province has no constitutional, legal or moral standing to do so.
This has forced the company, which has already invested over $1 billion in the expansion, to suspend the project at a time when it was ramping up to begin work this construction season. According to Kinder Morgan, that work would have resulted in spending of between $200 and $300 million per month.
"Every political party and every member of Parliament need to take a stand."
While that decision is bad news for the potential beneficiaries of that spending, including the taxpayers of B.C. and businesses across Canada, the company is perfectly justified in acting to protect the interest of its shareholders. Investors are right to question the worth of Canada's regulatory regime if, at the end of the process, a province can obstruct and overturn a federal decision because it disagrees.
Investment in Canada — both foreign and domestic — was already under severe pressure before these developments. Direct investment dropped by 26 per cent in 2017, and that was before the U.S. tax and regulatory reforms were fully in place. Just last week, RBC's chief executive, David McKay, warned that investment capital was fleeing Canada "in real time." As that money leaves Canada, it takes with it the jobs, the skills and the tax revenues that support Canadian government programs.
At the end of the day, however, this issue is about more than pipelines or tax revenues. It is about who speaks for Canada. What recent events have demonstrated is that provincial governments have neither the ability nor the desire to speak on behalf of Canadians as a whole. Only the government of Canada has a mandate to defend the national interest. It must leave no doubt of its determination to do precisely that.
We should all welcome the federal government's stated support for the Trans Mountain project. However, it now needs to move from words to action. This is particularly pressing given that Kinder Morgan has set a deadline of May 31st to decide if it will terminate the project.
Ottawa must take concrete steps to show leadership and resolve the standoff with B.C. On Sunday, the prime minister is scheduled to meet with the premiers of Alberta and B.C. in an attempt to reach agreement on moving forward in the national interest. He must make it clear that the government will work with all stakeholders to ensure that the environment is protected, but will neither be held up to ransom nor waver in its determination to get the job done.
Hopefully, he will succeed, but if there is no agreement, then the prime minister should meet with the leaders of the other political parties to inform them that, as his first action when Parliament resumes next week, he will present a motion to add the moral authority of Parliament for decisive action to the legal authority Ottawa already possesses.
Every political party and every member of Parliament needs to take a stand. When the nature of Confederation itself is in question, there should be no room for equivocation or dissembling.
At the same time, the government should spell out the other options — legal and financial — at its disposal to ensure the Trans Mountain expansion is built. Then it must make it clear to everyone that it has both the tools and the will to use them.
Almost a century-and-a-half ago, British Columbia's government insisted as a precondition of joining Canada that Ottawa build a railway to tie the province to the rest of the country. It understood that a real country had to be more than a collection of scattered settlements. We would only succeed if all regions could do business across provincial borders. It is both ironic and sad that B.C.'s current government sees fit to use legal manoeuvres that pull at the fabric of Confederation itself.
Resolving this impasse will not be easy. The short-term political risk of getting this wrong is something all political parties are almost certainly weighing carefully. But our country will be better for it if the government takes swift and resolute action.


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Q: Attaching chained methods to collections of elements in JavaScript This is—at least at the moment—purely experimentation, but I'm curious: is there a way to attach methods (via prototyping) to collections of elements? I've tested the following code:

a

b

c

At the moment, it works perfectly in Opera; just as would be expected, the _ method is being called on all of the div elements, and then eval()'ing the string passed to it onto each element in turn. Note that the _ method allows for chaining, and that's been demonstrated as well, calling _ to append the predicted x iterator variable to the innerHTML of each element.
Now, two questions...
First, is there a better way of going about this? I have for the longest wished I could just do document.getElementsByTagName('div').style.backgroundColor = "red";, but alas, it simply hasn't yet come to be. This is why I am doing this in the first place, and why I named the method so succinctly; I'm trying to emulate it as closely as possible.
Secondly, assuming this is a sane usage, how would I go about getting it to work in Firefox? That browser's equivalent of NodeList is HTMLCollection, but trying to prototype the latter simply doesn't succeed. Suggestions?

A: I've cooked up what I suppose could stay as a viable solution; is there anything fundamentally bad about using this method to chain-modify a collection of elements?

Usage:
divs = document.getElementsByTagName('div');
_(divs, ["style.color = 'red'", "innerHTML += x"]);

A: Here's a 'prettier' version (no eval, no globals, formal arguments, no fugly code inside strings) of what you need, not setting it on the prototype because that doesn't work for IE.
/**
 * Sets a property on each of the elements in the list
 * @param {NodeList} list
 * @param {string} prop The name of property to be set,
 *        e.g., 'style.backgroundColor', 'value'.
 * @param {mixed} value what to set the value to
 */
function setListProp( list, prop, value) {
    for (var i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
        setProp(list[i], prop, value);
    }
}

/**
 * Avoids the use of eval to set properties that may contain dots
 * Why avoid eval? eval is slow and could be dangerous if input comes from
 * an unsanitized source
 * @param {object} el object that will have its property set
 * @param {string} propName ('value', 'style.backgroundColor')
 * Example: setProp(node, 'style.backgroundColor', "#ddd");
 */
function setProp(el, propName, value) {
    var propList = propName.split('.');
    // Note we're not setting it to the last value in the property chain
    for (var i=0; i < propList.length - 1 ; i++) {
        el = el[propList[i]];
    }
    var lastProperty = propList[propList.length -1];
    el[lastProperty] = value;
}

Test Case
Go to google.com using Firefox, type the above code into the console, then type the following:
// Set tooltip on links
setListProp( document.getElementsByTagName('a'), 'title', 'YEAH it worked');

// Set bg to red on all links
setListProp( document.getElementsByTagName('a'), 'style.backgroundColor', '#f00');

UPDATE
My solution won't work if you want to be able to do += as you mentioned. The most elegant solution I think is to use a callback loop like the following.
/**
 * This exists in many libs and in newer versions of JS on Array's prototype
 * @param {Object[]} arr The array that we want to act on each element.
 *                   Does not work for sparse arrays
 * @param {Function} callback The function to be called for each element, it will be passed
 *        the element as its first argument, the index as the secibd
 */
function iterate(arr, callback) {
  for (var i=0,item; item=arr[i]; i++) {
    callback(item, i);
  }
}

Then you can call it like this
var as = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
iterate( as, function(el, index) {
  el.style.backgroundColor = 'red';
  el.innerHTML += "Whatever";
});

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A farmers' cooperative, also known as an agricultural cooperative, is a cooperative that is owned and managed by a group of farmers. The farmers in a cooperative usually pool resources to collectively purchase supplies or services needed on their individual farm, as well as market their products together to increase sales. As part of a cooperative, farmers not only own their individual farm, but also have a share in ownership and decision-making for the larger cooperative business.
Can Europe's Largest Dairy Cooperative Achieve Net Zero Carbon by 2050?


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Cash: man, myth, legend
Johnny Cash is cool. Johnny Cash is a rebel. Johnny Cash is
an American myth. Johnny Cash is back.
Forging through his fourth decade of recording, Cash has once
again fired boosters in his career no one would have guessed he
had. After hooking up with hip, young rock and rap producer Rick
Rubin and signing to the rock label American Recordings, Cash
turned out one of the most phenomenal albums of his career, 1994's
"American Recordings.''
This year, he's back with another expectations-breaker.
"Unchained'' finds the legendary Man in Black singing better than
ever before and covering everything from old Cash originals like
"Mean-Eyed Cat'' to songs by Beck and Soundgarden. Like Tony
Bennett, Cash has found himself a fatherly icon amongst the MTV
crowd.
"Unchained'' debuted this week at No. 26 on the Billboard
country chart. Not bad for a country artist of any era, but
particularly great for someone who's been counted out of the game
as many times as Cash has.
"I haven't had (a record) that high in a long time,'' Cash said
in an interview last week. "It feels good. It feels like the '50s
all over again.''
Cash was let go from Columbia Records in 1986 and moved to
Mercury, where things just didn't blossom like he expected. Once
free of Mercury, Cash wondered what path he would take next. That's
when Rubin called.
"Rick came looking for me,'' Cash said. "I was playing a show
in California, and he called my manager and asked if we could talk.
Once I found out who he was, I said, 'Why in the world would he be
interested in me?' And I asked him that. He said he knew my work
and that he wanted to sit me down, give me and microphone and a
guitar and let me sing everything I wanted, and then he'd find a
way to make an album out of it. We let the idea sit a while, and he
was still serious about it months later. He made me believe I could
do what I really wanted to do.''
See, even American legends need a little encouragement. Rubin's
devotion to the project convinced Cash to sign up, and the result
was "American Recordings,'' an astonishing guitar-and-voice affair
that revived Cash among his two generations of fans and added a
third — a new group of young admirers, lured by the vogue
"Unplugged'' nature of the record and by the historical awe that
surrounds the figure of Cash.
On "Unchained,'' which features Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
as the backing band, Cash keeps up his balancing act between the
old and new fans. For the longtime fans, he covers another Carter
Family tune ("Kneeling Drunkard's Plea'') and finishes a Cash
original that wasn't finished the first time he recorded it ("Mean
Eyed Cat''). For the new fans, Cash covers a couple of modern rock
pioneers and does so with the power and grace that has tamed all
musical influences around him these 40-odd years.
The new disc opens with "Rowboat,'' a plaintive love lament
written by the cutting edge's boy wonder, Beck.
"I used him as an opener a year and a half ago in L.A., and he
sang some Carter Family Appalachian things. He also sang 'Rowboat,'
and I really liked it,'' Cash said.
The Soundgarden cover, "Rusty Cage,'' didn't come to him so
easily. Rubin asked Cash if he'd heard the song; Cash said no, so
Rubin played him the Soundgarden album.
"Right away I said, 'That's not for me. No way. I can't record
that song.' But Rick said, 'What if we work up an arrangement that
feels comfortable for you,' and I thought about it. The lyrics
really fascinated me. It's like the Beat look at a love affair --
very mystical, interpret-it-your-own-way kind of lyrics. But I just
didn't think there was any way. They worked a long time, and it
worked out. Now it's my favorite song that I perform,'' Cash said.
The choice of new material is more than mere kow-towing to the
current hip couture, but Cash said it's nice to have more young
fans. The monumental legacy of Cash's career doesn't seem to be
daunting to the new fans, either, and Cash said there's really no
prerequisite for understanding his music.
"You know, the 'American Recordings' was really what I wanted
people to hear from me — just me and my guitar. That's why I like
any country artist.''
And what's next for this cornerstone of country music, and how
many more boosters does he have to fire in his career? For now,
Cash said he's just taking one show at a time, entertaining his
fans — from each generation — as his highest priority.
"I've been around twice now. This is my third time around,''
Cash said. "Everything else from now on is gravy.''


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So the general idea is that this week, we will all be sharing our ideas of what is bold, brave and new in photography in the last 10 years.
What's new then? There's new technology for making, distributing, printing, publishing, showing and selling photographs. Then there's the scale of new technology, so things can be bigger and bolder. Or there's old technology meets the new and you get massive cameras, or huge projecting and printing spaces.
There's the materiality of the photographic work; people who work with the physical aspects of a print or a negative or the digital and explore a theme or place through some kind of degradation and decay explore the interaction of the physicality of the photographic image with some element of the environment.
A shift in engagement with the subjects of photography also seems apparent, a blurring of boundaries and a mixing of voices which has resulted in some of the most demanding of photographic work.
New perspectives on the archive, on the history of the photography, on the author, on the voices of photography also seems apparent. There's an examination of the modified image and there are ways of shooting, of lighting, of moving equipment into places where that lighting rig, that lens, that film is rarely if ever used.
There's the recontextualisation of photography, of Google Street Views or computer screen shots. Which is really where I'll start. There is something of the one-liner about this kind of work. It's not really engaged with anything. It might take a lot of time, but essentially it's easy. It's navel-gazing type of stuff. Similarly, work that examines the materiality of the digital image, that blows it up till the pixels shine through is a bit of a one-trick pony.
But sometimes a whole load of one-liners can make up for a cracking dialogue; they can make ideas and blow them into places that the usual discourse doesn't quite have the energy to go. And that's where my first choice for this week's selections comes in.
Mishka Henner has a barrel-full of ideas that connect with new developments in the sourcing, production and distribution of work. He gets these ideas in his head, he researches them, he acts on them and he gets them out to a wider audience with as little fuss as possible. There is a touch of the one-liner about some of his work, but I like it for its directness, its simplicity and the way it offends the more Jurassic of sensibilities. His re-interpretation of Robert Franks classic, Les Americains, is a case in point. Henner erased details of the sacred images and titled it Less Americains. He published it on Blurb, watched it hit both the virtual and printed headlines, basked in the critical comments.
Less Americains wasn't a cash cow. It wasn't priced to be. Published on Blurb and retailing at £80 a copy! Nobody's going to buy that.
But who cares. That's not what it's all about. The fact that Less Americains cuts across so many photographic genres and touches on facial recognition, perceptive fields and the dynamics of visual memory. So for his chutzpah, for his energy, for being clever and rolling out the one-liners, let's hear it for Mishka Henner.
Read my article on Henner in the BJP here, and an earlier blog on Henner here.


Remember going to the video rental store? Sometimes Blockbuster could come up trumps. I love the convenience of Netflix but sometimes I miss just browsing. Thanks to browsing, I discovered Cold Comfort Farm in the "New Releases" section back in 1996 and rented it because I recognized Kate Beckinsale from Much Ado About Nothing and I already had a penchant for period pieces.
Cold Comfort Farm is a really good example of when a film adaptation works. I actually think I might like the movie better than the book! The most obvious reason why is the cast, which includes Joanna Lumley, Eileen Atkins, Rufus Sewell, Stephen Fry, and Ian McKellen. Cold Comfort Farm is wonderful fun (Joanna Lumley's character Mrs Smiley would tell me to say it's "amusing" instead of "fun") and still makes me laugh after at least a dozen viewings. I never get tired of watching Flora Poste (Kate Beckinsale) attempt to tidy up her appalling country relatives and evade the advances of Mr. Meyerburg (Stephen Fry), the libidinous Lawrentian.
This is the old and oversized, warm and extremely cuddly sweater of supper dishes. Isn't there just something supremely satisfying and enveloping about anything au gratin? I like that this recipe has lovely fresh green herbs, which lend a nice freshness.
Place a baking sheet in the middle of the oven and preheat to 375º Fahrenheit. Butter a large oval gratin dish and set aside. In a saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Add the chopped onion and cook until translucent, stirring occasionally and being careful to turn down the heat if the onions threaten to brown. Stir in the minced garlic and cook just until garlic is fragrant and remove pan from the heat.
Beat together the eggs and cream in a very large mixing bowl. Stir in the potatoes, half the cheese, all the herbs, and season with nutmeg, salt, and pepper. Add the onions and garlic and stir to combine. Pour mixture into prepared gratin dish and sprinkle the remaining cheese over the top. Place gratin on top of the baking sheet in the oven and bake for about 50 minutes, or until nicely browned.
Adapted from "Creamy Potato Gratin with Herbs" in Hilaire Walden, ed., Traditional British Cooking (London: Hermes House, 1997), 166.
You may know that Paul and I recently bought a house. During our move, we took a bunch of books over to the used bookstore and I happened to come across a copy of Diana Mosley: A Biography of the Glamorous Mitford Sister Who Became Hitler's Friend and Married the Leader of Britain's Fascists. Even though we were actually at the bookstore to reduce the number of books in our house, I had to have it. I love books about interwar socialites. I am a frivolous person.
I honestly didn't much sympathize with Diana (not just the politics, though goodness knows, those were unsympathetic enough) and none of the Mitfords emerge looking like very nice people. Did you know that Nancy Mitford actually supported Diana's wartime imprisonment? Not very sisterly behavior. However, liking the characters doesn't have to prevent one from liking a book. I really found the whole thing quite fascinating. I know the book is titled Diana Mosley but I could have gobbled up more about Diana's Mitford upbringing and her society role as the wife of Bryan Guinness. See? I definitely like the amusing, frivolous bits.
Aside from the facial features, the only other things the two had in common were fencing skills and marriages to blonde English socialites. Fairbanks's last wife was Sylvia Ashley, who had been married to Anthony Ashley-Cooper. She later married Clark Gable.
I chose this recipe because it seems like just the sort of thing one might be served at a country house--it would look much grander if the fish still had their heads. Being landlocked, we take what we can get.
This is a quite simple (and quick) way to cook fish. Be sure to get trout that still has its skin--the flour coating makes it crisp and delicious--which helps keep the flesh moist.
Sprinkle the trout (inside and outside) with a generous amount of salt. Cover and place in the refrigerator for an hour.
Mix the flour, salt, pepper, nutmeg, and mustard together in a shallow dish. Set aside. Wipe the interior and exterior of the trout well with a damp paper towel.
Dredge the trout in the seasoned flour and then fry in a large skillet in which the butter has been melted over medium-high heat. Cook the fish about 5 minutes per side, turning down the heat if the butter starts burning. The fish is ready as soon as the interior becomes opaque.
Place the cooked fish on warmed plates and pour the lemon juice into the hot pan. Stir into the butter and pour over the fish. Serve immediately with boiled potatoes and a green vegetable.
Adapted from Favourite New Forest Recipes.
I love Katharine Hepburn's brownie recipe. I tried a KH brownie for the first time a few years ago at the café at Watermark Books and keep an eye out for them every time I'm there. I finally decided to make some at home. I've been meaning to share my Katharine Hepburn brownies since this summer when I took them to an Occupy Wichita meeting and pot-luck dinner* (where they were gobbled) but hadn't gotten around to it until I was reminded by Jenny and her KH brownies post. Frankly, they're too good to waste on strangers. Keep them all to yourself. They're crisp on top and ridiculously gooey in the middle. It's how brownies are supposed to be, otherwise you've just got chocolate cake on the one hand or fudge on the other. I've made a slight alteration from Miss Hepburn's original recipe and subbed sprouted whole-wheat flour for the all-purpose. It's only 1/4 cup so you'd never notice, but I figure it makes them much healthier. Right? Am I right?
Preheat oven to 325˚ Fahrenheit. Grease an 8" x 8" pan, line with parchment paper, and then grease the parchment, as well. Set aside.
In a heavy-bottomed 2-quart saucepan over low heat, melt together the butter and chocolate, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon. As soon as most of the chocolate is melted, remove from the heat and continue stirring while the remaining chocolate melts.
Stir in the vanilla, sugar, and salt. Beat in the eggs then stir in the walnuts and then the flour. Pour into the prepared pan and even out with the back of the spoon. Bake about 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Cool brownies, in pan, on a cooling rack then cut into 9 squares. Enjoy!
Adapted from Saveur magazine's recipe.
I think the real-life Eleanor of Aquitaine was much more interesting than how she's portrayed in The Lion in Winter. I've had a soft spot for her since reading A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver as a pre-teen. If you'd like to know more about Eleanor, she's featured in the first episode of historian Helen Castor's She-Wolves: England's Early Queens, which is a nice rundown of medieval and Tudor political wrangling. I spent so much time studying British politics in school but I still get a kick out of it. I really like watching Parliamentary debates, too, especially when they get all heated and call each other things like "semi-house-trained polecat" and "pig's bladder on the end of a stick." Paul and I call each other those things all the time, typically with English accent and in a public place. Lord knows what the people at the hippie grocery store think of us.
I do love that between Netflix and my Amazon prime account, I can watch pretty much any British comedy or drama I want (just a few months later) but they need to get with it when it comes to educational programming. I'm tired of having to watch Lucy Worsley on YouTube! The last time we were in London we were flipping through channels and there was a guy who was getting paid to go around France and see how things were now compared with the write-up in an old guidebook. That is seriously my kind of television.
*What a disorganized mess! I say "dinner" but it was really just a few slices of watermelon, a very sad crudité platter, and a very very sad antipasti platter, if it could be called that. The contents of the "meat" and "cheese" appeared predominately petroleum-based. We were really only there for a film co-sponsored by the Sierra Club but the video quality was so bad that it gave me a migraine AND there was no air conditioning (it was 95 degrees!). I told Paul when we left that I wasn't surprised that conservatives seem to have the upper hand around here. Maybe it's just that they run the A/C?


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using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Text;
using Roslyn.Test.Utilities;
using Xunit;

namespace Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Editor.CSharp.UnitTests.Recommendations
{
    public class PragmaKeywordRecommenderTests : KeywordRecommenderTests
    {
        [Fact, Trait(Traits.Feature, Traits.Features.KeywordRecommending)]
        public async Task TestNotAtRoot_Interactive()
        {
            await VerifyAbsenceAsync(SourceCodeKind.Script,
@"$$");
        }

        [Fact, Trait(Traits.Feature, Traits.Features.KeywordRecommending)]
        public async Task TestNotAfterClass_Interactive()
        {
            await VerifyAbsenceAsync(SourceCodeKind.Script,
@"class C { }
$$");
        }

        [Fact, Trait(Traits.Feature, Traits.Features.KeywordRecommending)]
        public async Task TestNotAfterGlobalStatement_Interactive()
        {
            await VerifyAbsenceAsync(SourceCodeKind.Script,
@"System.Console.WriteLine();
$$");
        }

        [Fact, Trait(Traits.Feature, Traits.Features.KeywordRecommending)]
        public async Task TestNotAfterGlobalVariableDeclaration_Interactive()
        {
            await VerifyAbsenceAsync(SourceCodeKind.Script,
@"int i = 0;
$$");
        }

        [Fact, Trait(Traits.Feature, Traits.Features.KeywordRecommending)]
        public async Task TestNotInUsingAlias()
        {
            await VerifyAbsenceAsync(
@"using Foo = $$");
        }

        [Fact, Trait(Traits.Feature, Traits.Features.KeywordRecommending)]
        public async Task TestNotInEmptyStatement()
        {
            await VerifyAbsenceAsync(AddInsideMethod(
@"$$"));
        }

        [Fact, Trait(Traits.Feature, Traits.Features.KeywordRecommending)]
        public async Task TestAfterHash()
        {
            await VerifyKeywordAsync(
@"#$$");
        }

        [Fact, Trait(Traits.Feature, Traits.Features.KeywordRecommending)]
        public async Task TestAfterHashAndSpace()
        {
            await VerifyKeywordAsync(
@"# $$");
        }
    }
}


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