After touring sleep products showrooms at the quietly interesting High Point Market Oct. 22-26, we bring you this series of vignettes filled with some intriguing finds–from two-sided mattresses to pillows with springs.
Youth appeal The Natural Support juvenile collection from Hartford, Connecticut-based Gold Bond is a new innerspring group packed with premium components.
Mattress and futon manufacturer Gold Bond, with headquarters in Hartford, Connecticut, rolled out an innerspring juvenile collection called Natural Support. The beds use premium components. In addition to a durable spring unit, other components include high-resiliency foam, gel memory foam, latex and wrapped microcoils. Six low-profile mattresses are 8 inches thick, making them compliant with federal law on mattress heights for the top bunk bed. Two additional models have an 11-inch profile and are two-sided. Twin-size mattresses retail from $299 to $549; queens are from $749 to $899. The entire group is available in twin, full and queen.
The collection's styling strikes a playful note with a tape-edge in lime green. (Bright pink, purple and blue also are available.) The tape-edge color pops against the charcoal border with white stitching and the plush, white cotton knit panel. The panel fabric tells a health and hygiene story as it uses a percentage of "copper-infused" yarns.
Gold Bond drew foot traffic with social media-based giveaways. Retailers who followed the company on Facebook and Twitter earned the privilege of spinning a wheel at the showroom for the chance to win gold-wrapped chocolate bars, phone chargers, floor samples or 10% off a future order. Recipients of the chocolate bars also received a scratch-off ticket giving them the chance to win a premium Gold Bond futon.
Seeing double Vice President Paul Kahl of AW Industries Inc., a Serta licensee and major independent manufacturer based in Landover, Maryland, touted new Sleepwell two-sided collections at the company's first High Point showroom.
Major regional manufacturer AW Industries Inc., a Serta licensee, opened its first High Point Market showroom, which it filled with new, mostly two-sided mattresses under the company's proprietary Sleepwell brand.
The new Sleepwell Contourpedic Gold collection is made up of seven beds that use Leggett & Platt Inc.'s Verticoil Edge open, offset innerspring unit, and is paired with an all-wood foundation. The new step-up Sleepwell Platinum Hybrid Elite group is six models using a foam-encased, wrapped-coil core. The beds sit on a wood and steel-grid base that the company calls its Steel Semi-Flex Foundation.
Comfort-layer components include zoned, convoluted foam and gel memory foam. The collections are available in tight-top and pillow-top and three comfort levels. Prices for the Gold and Platinum beds open at $499 and top out at $1,099.
The beds' fabrics and trim carry through on the precious metal themes. Gold uses a golden-tan border inset with metallic-gold ribbon, and Platinum has silver-gray borders with shiny silver ribbon. The beds' knit panels are white with respective tan or silver accents.
Also new in the Sleepwell showroom were three one-sided, specialty-sleep models using gel memory foam and sporting a one-piece knit cover. These are expected to retail from $799 to $899.
Old and new Mebane, North Carolina-based Kingsdown Inc. pursues elegance with clean lines and traditional craftsmanship in the Vintage collection.
Kingsdown Inc., with headquarters in Mebane, North Carolina, tapped into traditional materials for its elegant five-bed Vintage collection. Ranging from 13 inches to 16 inches in height, Vintage mattresses use classic, natural ingredients such as cotton, silk and wool, combined with zoned, wrapped coils.
Covered in champagne-white Belgian damask fabrics that use a Kingsdown crown design on the panel, the collection also features unusual inverted seams, as well as hand tufting and an overstuffed, vertically quilted mattress border.
Mattresses in this collection retail between $1,799 and $3,999 and come in a tight-top, a pillow-top, two Euro-tops (one plush; one firm) and a box-top.
Kingsdown also launched modern, all-wood point-of-sale headboards inset with illuminated displays that can be programed for different models.
Price is right Newark, New Jersey-based Shifman Mattress Co. revamped the Quilted mattress line, the company's opening-price-point collection that uses signature Shifman components.
Luxury manufacturer Shifman Mattress Co., with headquarters in Newark, New Jersey, updated its opening Quilted collection with new fabrics, corner guards and labels—new aesthetics designed to make the beds stand out on retail floors.
Other features of the two-sided mattresses include white damask upholstery, up to 47 pounds of natural cotton in the top comfort layer, a heavy-duty Bonnell innerspring unit and what the company calls "real working box springs"—a wood and steel grid-top unit. Prices for the Quilted collection range from $799 to $2,250.
The company also unveiled a multipronged marketing strategy to enhance plans to broaden its distribution. With the help of a new advertising agency, Shifman launched a new website, ShifmanMattresses.com, that emphasizes dealers by providing an easy search function and dealer landing pages. It also has produced new sales literature, launched a multimedia co-op advertising strategy that includes search-engine marketing, and said it is building participation in a variety of social media channels.
While Shifman remains an exclusive premium mattress brand, the company aims to make its product line accessible to a wider swath, company executives explained.
Dealer-centric A new website for Shifman puts the focus on product and its retail partners.
"We have a wonderful story, and we want to tell it to consumers and expand our distribution throughout the country," said Tim Wade, Shifman national sales manager.
Room to move Malouf, based in Logan, Utah, debuted a 7,000-square-foot showroom in Market on Green.
Logan, Utah-based sleep accessories supplier Malouf expanded into a 7,000-square-foot showroom at Market on Green. With a concrete floor and overhead track lighting, the contemporary space had an open feel with plenty of room for in-store retail displays.
The company added the Five 5ided Ice Tech mattress protector, priced at $280. It features cool-to-the-touch fabric and protection from fluids, stains, dust mites and allergens.
Good night, sleep tight Malouf's Five 5ided Ice Tech mattress protector delivers a clean and cool sleep experience.
"The smiling, wide-eyed look that follows when someone feels its cooling effect for the first time is priceless," Douglas said.
Needlework craftsman Mark Clapton with Plymouth, England-based Vispring, stayed busy at the High Point Market showing passersby how the company hand-stitches its bespoke mattresses.
Ultra-premium mattress maker Vispring hosted two events at the fall High Point Market. One was a live demonstration of side stitching by expert craftsman Mark Clapton, who flew in from company headquarters in Plymouth, England, to demonstrate the level of detail and care that goes into each handmade Vispring bed.
Canine design Vispring invited designers to create pet beds for their best friends, and BedTimes captured some of the results on Instagram.
The second event was a champagne reception in celebration of a series of custom-designed pet beds. Vispring toasted seven well-known interior designers who created custom beds for their favorite pooches—ones that reflected each pup's personality. The results, on display at the Vispring showroom, ranged from enameled pagodas to minimalist Lucite boxes.
After the market, the chic dog beds were donated to Companion Animal Alliance, the adoption arm of the Baton Rouge Animal Shelter in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The shelter will auction off the beds at its annual Fur Ball to help raise funds that were greatly depleted following devastating flooding in the state.
Hidden zipper Norfolk, Virginia-based Paramount Sleep zips two twin XLs together in the A.H. Beard Classic collection to allow personalized comfort for couples.
Mattress manufacturer Paramount Sleep, with headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia, added a customizable king to the A.H. Beard Classic collection. Couples can now select their personal comfort in a twin XL and the two beds can be zipped together to make a king. Mattress rotation is simple as the two mattresses can be unzipped, turned and zipped back together on their opposite edges.
The bed features a host of high-end components, such as silk and wool fiber in the comfort layer, a zoned layer of Talalay latex in the bed's center third, the five-zone Quantus wrapped-coil unit and outer hand tufting. Its suggested retail is $2,000.
Lullaby and goodnight Mattress licensing group Therapedic International, based in Princeton, New Jersey, added a G-clef-emblazoned Jazz collection to its musically themed Bravura line.
Mattress licensing group Therapedic International, headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, continued bringing a musical flair to its latest line of mattresses. It extended the Bravura line, originally introduced at the Summer Las Vegas Market, with the hybrid Jazz collection. It's an adjustable base-friendly mattress with more than 1,000 pocketed coils topped with latex.
Mattress names are pulled from the works of George Gershwin—"Lullaby," "Summertime" and "Rhapsody in Blue." The mattresses are priced from $1,999 to $2,999.
Each is marked with a large taupe medallion in the center of the bed and a scalloped waterfall edge. If you look closely, you can see G clefs woven into the medallion.
The original classic rock-themed Bravura beds got a small cosmetic change on the border—black denotes memory foam and gray signifies latex.
Pillows with bounce Don Wingate, national account representative for Chicago-based Protect-A-Bed, holds a Zefiro innerspring pillow, standing next to the rolling floor-sample cart.
Chicago-based sleep products supplier Protect-A-Bed launched two innerspring pillows in three comforts to accommodate any sleep style.
Called Zefiro, the memory foam or fiber-fill pillows are handcrafted in Italy, at the former Soff-Art pillow plant acquired by Protect-A-Bed. Products are stocked and distributed out of Chicago.
Each pillow contains 60 fine-gauge pocket springs. Those wrapped with memory foam retail for $159. The fiber-fill version retails for $119. All have breathable cotton covers with colored piping and are available in queen size only. The piping color denotes the comfort level—soft, medium or firm.
Rolling pillow carts to hold four floor samples are free with qualifying orders.
Protect-A-Bed also added two mattress protectors to the Naturals collection. Both use the company's Miracle Membrane and have a flat knit fabric surface—one is a cotton knit; the other is a bamboo-viscose knit. Suggested retail for the cotton version is $90, and the bamboo-viscose protector is $100.
Topping it off Charlottesville, Virginia-based Savvy Rest launched a thick wool topper (left) and a lightweight, all-season duvet (right).
Savvy Rest, a natural and organic bedding producer, highlighted two fluffy, wool-filled toppers with a tack-and-jump quilt pattern. They debuted in Las Vegas but recently began shipping.
The natural wool version retails for $649; the organic topper is $849. Both have 100% certified organic, cotton sateen covers.
Savvy Rest also added a 1-inch, all-season duvet. Just like the new toppers, it has either natural wool fill ($479) or organic wool ($549).
Contemporary The new Oliver bed from Leggett & Platt Fashion Bed Group, with headquarters in Carthage, Missouri, offered styling and storage that would appeal to urbane city dwellers.
Most of the focus at Fashion Bed Group, part of Carthage, Missouri-based Leggett & Platt Inc., was on products that rolled out earlier in the year. A new wall of shelving was devoted to displaying slick, color-coded packaging for the company's large sleep accessories lineup, while the front of the showroom held displays of its easy-ship, e-commerce-friendly bases and frames.
Color-coded At Leggett & Platt's Fashion Bed Group, attractive sleep-accessories packaging was a central focus.
A new decorative bed stood out in the middle of the showroom. The platform Oliver bed retails for about $899, is upholstered in "gravel gray," and has a sleek, contemporary look and plenty of underbed storage with two large drawers.


To celebrate our current exhibition, 'Inspired by India' Wetpaint Gallery is hosting a performance of traditional Indian music and original songs by Tuyra on Saturday 6 April at 15.30.
Nicki Wells, the exceptionally gifted singer and songwriter behind TURYA, takes inspiration from Indian classical music, which she studied as a teenager. The name comes from Turiya, a Sanskrit word, meaning a state of pure consciousness, the silence one experiences after sound. This influence is echoed throughout her new single ´Falling´. Taken form her Nitin Sawhney produced debut album ´Ocean´, TURYA´s uniquely original sound fuses elements of Western folk, roots and pop with classical Indian foundations.
With influences rooted in her personal experiences, Nicki was born in South London, but grew up in the foothills of the Himalayas. TURYA's vocal and songwriting approach is a cultivated collection of melodies, combined with uniquely captivating, bittersweet and moving vocals. It´s these elements that have shaped her 'Ocean' album.
Singing primarily in English, TURYA´s music represents an artist who is vast in her range, and clear in her emotional appeal.
Tickets £5 available from the gallery. Limited number available.


Maersk Line has confirmed the "most likely" port of refuge for the fire-damaged Maersk Honam as Jebel Ali, Dubai – but it may be weeks before the ship can berth.
Which means it could be months before the surviving containers reach their original destination.
The ship was originally thought to be under tow for Mumbai, but according to AIS signals received from the salvage tugs, it is about to enter the Gulf of Oman.
The 15,262 teu ULCV caught fire on 6 March in the Arabian Sea en route to Mediterranean ports, claiming the lives of four seafarers with another presumed also lost.
The Maersk Honam was carrying 7,860 containers of consumer goods from Asia, many of high value, destined for most of the major retailers in the region.
In a statement, Maersk's 2M alliance partner, MSC, said that, "based on a limited amount of information to hand", it "reasonably expects" the containers stowed behind the ship's accommodation block "should be in sound condition".
However it added: "We must assume, based on the details to date, that most containers located in front of the accommodation area are damaged by fire, heat or the water used to fight the fire." Indeed, in previous containership fires, a significant percentage of the total claims came from damage caused by water.
The stowage plan of the ship will enable Maersk Line, MSC, HMM and Hamburg Süd to advise their customers of the likelihood of their cargo having survived the fire.
Despite the length of time before the ship will be declared safe to be discharged, MSC has urged its customers with insurance including a provision for general average to contact their insurers without delay.
However, under the law of force majeure, cargo owners could also be liable for the cost of relaying containers from Jebel Ali to their destination ports – although the respective carriers may organise the feeder operation free of charge.


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Day August 4, 2013
Touch Me Not!
August 4, 2013 August 4, 2013 mike cunningham	Leave a comment
Some six years ago, I wrote a piece on the astounding number of 'Untouchables', or Dalits, to give them their Indian title, in the country which proudly advertises itself as 'the largest Democracy in the world'. Largest, it may well be; but Democratic? No Way! Allow me to explain.
India is one of the world's most heavily-populated countries, being second only to China in numbers, but apart from the well-known political and public figures, there is little awareness amongst the wider public in how India governs itself, both in terms of religion, politics and social structure. The main religion in India is Hinduism, and the social structure which has emerged from this belief structure is the "Caste" system, whereby a religion is allowed to dictate that people are only allowed to do certain jobs, marry certain women, and even are dictated how they are treated after their deaths. For the upper circles, who are known as 'Brahmin', the professions are religious priests, political and military leaders; land owners are from the 'Kshatriya' caste, the vast majority of laborers, artisans and technicians are 'Shudra'; but the one "Caste" which is not well publicised or even acknowledged are the "Harijan", otherwise known as the Dalits, or "Untouchables". These people, sentenced by, and at birth, to be sewage workers, cleaners of filth and human refuse, number some twenty percent of the population, and in a country which prides itself upon it's democratic roots and government, it is indeed a strange commentary that one-fifth of it's population is barred from rising out of the sewers and into everyday life!
Although the actual discriminatory process against the 'Dalits' was outlawed by the first Independent Indian parliament, in practice this abuse of their ordinary rights as human beings has persisted, and in many areas grown stronger, as the ruling Hindu parties, whether in or out of power, all subscribe to the casual barring of some 220 million Indians from just about all state higher education, all technical education, most jobs which are not akin to the allegedly "unclean" tasks such as sewage workers or latrine cleaners. In many cafes or restaurants, separate glasses are kept for the Dalits, just in case a 'higher caste' person is defiled by contact with a "Dirty Dalit". One Dalit who managed to attain a higher education was severely beaten by his classmates for daring to achieve a higher marks than they did. A practice for certain 'higher-caste' people in earlier times was to actually send servants down a road to ensure that they would not be contaminated by a Dalit's gaze, never mind his presence.
One of the two most famous 'Untouchables' was Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, a mild-mannered but strong opponent of all discrimination, who was elected to the Constituent Assembly by the Bombay Legislature Congress Party. Dr Ambedkar joined Nehru's Cabinet. He became the First Law Minister of Independent India and helped write India's Constitution. His one regret was that he did not persuade Ghandi to support stronger anti-discrimination legislation, but his attempts were blocked by strong Hindu opposition. In his later years, he saw that opposition to the emancipation of his fellow 'Dalits' become further entrenched, despite the supposed end of discrimination.
The other political firebrand was one Kanshi Ram, who attempted to build his own political power base within the 'Dalit' community, and in fact managed to engineer the election of a Dalit woman, Mayawati, as chief minister in Uttar Pradesh, but has since accepted before his death that no one "Untouchable" organization is capable of coming to terms with the aspirations of a quarter-billion people!
So the next tactic of hundreds of thousands of Dalits is to convert to Buddhism; the thinking being that if they are no longer 'Dalit' in practice, they cannot be discriminated against, and it would be seen as doubly illegal for any to discriminate against a separate religion. They seem to have struck a nerve, because Hindi political parties in several Indian states are preparing legislation which would prevent any Hindu departing from their religion and accepting another God. Rajahstan and Madyha Pradesh have already introduced civil laws which would prevent any Dalit from leaving Hinduism without registering first with the state government, and Gujarat, a hardline Hindu state, is considering introducing a law which states that Buddhism is a version of Hinduism, so desperate are the traditional Hindu people to keep in servitude millions of their fellow countrymen.
So here we stand, in the second most populous country on Earth, with the prospect of 'affirmative action' as one political solution proposed for all commerce in India, where any factory, office or workshop would have to employ a percentage of 'Dalits' in order to comply with the law, when it is almost universally accepted that 'Quotas' never have, and never will, work. Why 'affirmative action'? Because it's a politician's dream, to lay the burden for their stupidity and cupidity on someone else's shoulders, because they couldn't or wouldn't grasp the thorny problem of stating, "No discrimination based on birth, color, belief or way of life is lawful, and thus shall not be allowed!" That is the solution, but it will be many years before the wider world sees an Indian "Untouchable" as a possible Prime Minister, if ever!
I write and recollect this post because, unknown to myself and probably 99% of the population of Great Britain, this disgusting philosophy is both resident and thriving in our cities and towns. According to an item broadcast at 01.30 minutes into the programme on today's 'Sunday' on BBC Radio 4, the Coalition Government has purposely delayed even publishing legislation covering 'Caste Discrimination' until after the next General Election. There are some one million Hindus resident in Great Britain, and in the past I have commented on the 'fact' that they seem to have merged into our British society with minimum difficulty, with the sole exception of changing our burial laws to allow their open-air cremations in accord with their own custom and religion. It now has emerged that some 400,000 Indians living in these Islands are discriminated on a daily basis because of their BIRTH, and hence because of the presumed 'Caste' and place in the rigid hierarchy of some weird religious writings, all of which, incidentally, were composed by, guess who? The Brahmins, otherwise known as the very top of the heap, and it is some 'heap', in daily Hindi life.
I listened to the weasel words of the Brahmin contributor to that Sunday Programme, and I could not help comparing my thoughts to those of the great Playwright and Author himself, when he wrote, "Firstly, lets kill all the lawyers'" Not, of course, because I wished that man evil, but because he spoke of the 'great complexity' of the problem; of the 'great difficulty' in removing this disgraceful, lunatic and truly hurtful religious discrimination from a large number of people who are suffering innumerable insults because of who their antecedents were some centuries ago!

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Sielzen
Published date 11th March 2020
Author Samuel Penn
We continue our Zweihänder adventure trying to determine why the personality of Baron Otterwild has changed to radically recently, and why he has thrown his wife the Lady Annette out of his household. Eva continues her story.
The morning after the funeral, we headed in the direction of Sielzen. It was a 20 mile trip across countryside that mostly consisted of woodland, interrupted by the occasional village. The villagers had all recently suffered under the Baron's heavy taxation, and few seemed particularly affluent at the moment.
We stopped at an inn for a mid-day meal, since Floquert especially seemed to be struggling with the travel. We had been hoping to make use of horses for this part of the journey, but the troubles at Tottenbach had squashed that plan.
The innkeeper here provided decent enough food and drink, and was also able to provide some information on the road ahead. There were bandits roaming the countryside, and again mention of trouble at the mine but no details as to exactly what.
When I mentioned the fire at Tottenbach, and the loss of the carriage house there, the innkeep was troubled, but also sensed an opportunity. He was willing to donate a few coins for me to write him a letter to a friend of his in Sielzen named Horice Walthrope, who may be able to profit from the disaster. Somewhat mercenary, but I suppose a practical way to look at it – rebuilding a new carriage service is something that is going to have to happen sooner or later.
We headed on and reached the city by nightfall just before the gates were due to close. It was a large, looming city, though neither Sharon nor Calthar were impressed by its defenses. Houses were built right up against the walls, and though a river ran past it, no moat protected it.
We were taxed on the gate, and our weapons peace bonded, though none were concerned about my walking staff. Given my skill at using it as a weapon, they were probably right. The city's buildings are mostly stone, though the poorer districts have a larger selection of wooden constructions. The actual docks are outside the city walls to the west, and there is some warehousing over the far side of the river.
We have found rest for the night at the Drumhead inn, where the food and drink isn't too bad and it provides us all with some much needed rest.
The following morning we each went our separate ways. Myself, I went to find the stable master Horice Walthrope that the innkeep had me take a letter for. He was a personable enough man, with a good selection of horses. Apparently there will be a horse race tomorrow just outside of the city walls. It may be an opportunity to find and meet some of the important people we have come here to investigate.
After blessing him, his house and his horses, I went to locate the church of the Witnesses. The lady Annette had said that Bishop Tremain had no love for the Baron, so I thought to take a quick look at the place. It was a fancy church, though heretical in its elevation of the saints to deific status alongside the God Emperor. Nevertheless, they are the closest to divine revelation that the people of this place have, so I made a donation anyway.
When we all met up again in the early afternoon, we were able to trade stories and make plans. Djarin had managed to obtain a large knife, which was short enough to not require peace bonding, as well as several jobs from those looking for help from mercenaries.
Calthar went to talk with Captain Sarkas, and report on what had happened at Tottenbach. He seemed somewhat upset at the needless destruction, and mentioned that he had a budget for hiring outsiders to perform jobs outside the usual remit of the city guard.
Floquert headed to the Green Dragon Inn to make contact with Victor Hoffman, but failed to actually determine whether he was the person we needed to speak to. He did agree to come back in the evening though for a meal, which may provide us with a second chance.
Floquert and myself spent the rest of the afternoon going through the journals of Isenbard Rullacher, to try and determine more about our possible contact. I make a bit of a breakthrough, and find what are possibly some code names repeated several times throughout the text. They may have come from a play, and Floquert remembered seeing some books at the Green Dragon, one of which may act as a code book. However, without more information we're stumped.
Our evening meal at the Green Dragon was most pleasant, though my initial clumsy attempts at trying to surreptitiously making contact with Victor Hoffman failed. Eventually, Djarin got fed up with all of us and just came out and said that we were working with Isenbard.
This got things moving, and after our meal he invited us through to the back room where we could have a bit of a private conversation. Victor though isn't entirely certain how much he can trust us, so he has given us a test to prove ourselves.
There is a foreign merchant, Ilias Svin, who has setup a business near the river near the Glassring. He arrived about 8-10 months ago, and has a large warehouse there which he uses for storing goods from his shipping business. It's possible that he also performs some smuggling on the side. He is quite wealthy, but Victor isn't quite sure exactly how wealthy or exactly what he is doing.
He would have us break into the warehouse and obtain a copy of his business records. I'm not sure I like this type of work, but it looks like we need to do it if we are to get Victor on our side. Without his help, we are unlikely to find out what is going on with Baron Otterwild.
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The Chateau de Pamplemousse is back under construction full-force on Phase 3, which means that coming up shortly you will be getting a lot of information on the progress of the Master Bedroom Suite, which is awfully exciting. At the moment the entire third floor has been demo-ed, and frankly, I think you are all probably fairly sick of seeing pictures of framing and insulation at this point, so I'll focus more on the design elements of the spaces as they come together, as well as some really major decisions regarding bathrooms! Oh, and an elevator. You know, like you do.
Winter has settled in full-force, polar vortex and all, which always turns my fancy to soups. And since, for me, soup is nearly always mostly an excuse to have a grilled cheese sandwich, I was very excited to get invited to the Second Annual Grilled Cheese Takedown hosted by TimeOut Chicago.
Those of you who know me, know that I am something of a grilled cheese obsessive. I adore them. One of my fondest memories of overnight camp involves the rare treat of "grilled cheese day", where endless platters of perfectly cut triangles of plotchy golden buttery crunchy white bread oozing brilliant orange american cheese came out of the kitchen as fast as we could eat them. And we could eat as much as we wanted, which for me, was probably eleventy million triangles.
A good grilled cheese is a thing of beauty. It is simple, three ingredients, bread, butter, cheese. It is elemental. Salty, savory, buttery, crunchy, gooey. It is delightful on its own, but the perfect vehicle for a soup dunking. When CS and I go to visit our pals in Maine, and he begins his personal quest for eating his weight daily in lobster, I go full tilt boogie into grilled cheese, because the only thing those lobster roll shacks make that is as good as their lobster rolls is grilled cheese. I think in part it is because they know the value of a perfectly toasted buttered piece of bread. I order them for lunch in endless delis and diners wherever I roam, and it is the first thing I check for on a room service menu.
I make them at home when I'm in need of comfort, or feeling poorly. And I have rules. White bread only. Don't care if it is my homemade sourdough or Japanese pullman loaf, Texas Toast or even Pepperidge Farm Extra Thin, white it must be. Good salted butter, this is not the place for blandness. Butter the bread itself, don't just melt it in the pan, that way you get the butter over every speck of the bread for optimal golden goodness. I know a lot of people swear by mayo instead of butter, but I find mayo adds a slight sweetness that I don't love, I stick with the original. Bread goes butter side down in a cold nonstick pan, and good quality American cheese slices go on top of the bread, and then the heat goes on low. One slice of cheese per piece of bread of thin or regular size, an extra slice of cheese if you are working with Texas Toast or other thick-cut breads, balance and ratio are key. By the time the bread heats up enough to get golden and crispy at the low temp, the cheese on top should be melted, if the bread is thicker, I will use a lid to help the melting along. Low and slow, you want really crispy and golden brown on the outside and fully melted within. Once everything is nice and melty I flip the top of the sandwich over onto the bottom and give the whole sandwich a flip or two just to ensure all the browning is the way I want it. NO PRESSING! This is not a panini. Remove from the pan to a wire rack, very important, since you worked hard to get it crispy, and don't want the bottom to steam and get soggy. Rest it for three minutes, like you would rest a piece of meat before carving, just to let the cheese tighten up the tiniest bit, otherwise it will run all out when you cut the sandwich in half. On the diagonal, because we are not heathens, and the pointy bits are the best for soup dunking. You're welcome.
Grilled cheese, done well, with some thought and the simplest ingredients is a perfect food.
Here is my personal takeaway from the Grilled Cheese Takedown.
These people make amazing sandwiches.
Truly, some of them were insanely delicious. Gayle's Best Ever Grilled Cheese, one of my staples from the Logan Square Farmers Market, makes a terrific grilled cheese with Wisconsin Butterkäse that I adore. Her offering today, her Italian version tasted like delicious pizza bread with pepperoni and subtle garlic spread. Dusek's blew us away with a three-cheese truffle bomb with frisee jam, that was an amazing mouthful of richness. South Water kitchen had a killer sandwich full of bacon and chicken tenders, Cheesie's Pub and Grub introduced us to duck bacon, of which we approve whole heartedly. Wyler Road took an interesting turn down mashup lane with their PB&J Grilled Cheese, which was sadly marred by the decision to use brie as the cheese. Brie is never good in a 'melted on a sandwich' application. You lose the nuance of the cheese, and amp up the off-taste and texture of the rind, bad combo. Same Day Café had a killer tomato soup, and was on their way to grilled cheese perfection, but the volume of rosemary in the sandwich took it to a Pine Sol place that was disappointing. Michael Jordan's Steak House was doing short rib grilled cheese with a caramelized onion jus, but the short rib was sort of randomly placed, some bites had none, some were all short rib, the cheese had no flavor at all, and the bread was thick and very dry. The dunk in the jus helped the dryness, but was such a salt bomb that it didn't save anything. Jerry's we had saved for last, due in no small part to their "kitchen sink" approach, which included bacon, cashew butter, mango chipotle jam, arugula, and god knows what else. It was freaking delicious. Shockingly so. The perfect last bite to a pretty overall yummy experience. Rekorderling's Premium Cider was pouring both their pear and passionfruit ciders, I preferred the passionfruit, CS preferred the pear, but weirdly, we both preferred the sips where we blended the two half and half! And we were very glad we went, a fun Sunday lunch adventure, so thanks to TimeOut for the invite.
But here is the thing. It wasn't grilled cheese. In fact, NONE of the sandwiches in the grilled cheese takedown, were, in my opinion, grilled cheese, with the exception of Same Day Cafe. They were, almost all of them, really good sandwiches. Sandwiches I would absolutely recommend to others as sandwiches, or even order myself. As long as I wasn't craving grilled cheese. Because the essential thing about the grilled cheese sandwich? IS THE CHEESE. Cheese takes the lead, it isn't a garnish or an add on or the support staff. Cheese is supposed to be the star. And today, we had a lot of yummy flavors, but almost none of them were cheese. We tasted bacon and jam and chicken and truffles and cashews and blueberries and garlic and pepperoni and tomato and delicious breads, but I couldn't tell you one cheese we really tasted, except for the ill-conceived brie for not fun or delicious reasons. And the one sandwich that technically was grilled cheese, the rosemary was all we tasted, we couldn't taste the cheese at all, which was sad, because they had the rest of it just right, the crispy buttery bread, the ooey gooey temp, nice and hot. Sigh.
There is a reason that chefs, when testing other chefs for possible employment, will ask them to make a plain omelette or roast a chicken. Because in those dishes, there is nowhere to hide. Simple ingredients require perfect technique and only a good palate for seasoning to make them sing. The minute you start tarting them up with a zillion other ingredients, you start masking the essential elements of what they are. Which can be absolutely delicious, but not pure. I am usually a more is more girl, just ask CS. If one is good, a dozen is better. If you are bored with your usual tablescape, try adding glass bowls with live betta fish in them. (yes, I actually did this for NYE, and yes it was awesomely cool, and yes, it is possible that I might have worked the PetSmart 14 day return policy on live fish to my advantage, and no, I am not ashamed).
I think in a competition like this, you should be going for the platonic ideal. Chili competitions, BBQ competitions, no one is making shocking changes to the basics, they have their own spice blends or rubs, the length of the cook or the wood they use to smoke things over, but the essentials are the same, and then the question is whose technique and details make them the best when compared side by side. Charming Suitor asked me on the walk to the hall from the car what my criteria were. I said this: crispy golden browned bread that is not dry, well-melted flavorful cheese that is not greasy, cheese the star of the show. Well seasoned, not too salty, not too bland. Should be delicious all on its own, but you should be able to imagine it tasting great when dunked in a variety of soups. Simple.
I loved many of the sandwiches I ate today. But I didn't vote for my favorite grilled cheese because I felt like I hadn't eaten any. So I announce that my personal winner for the Chicago Grilled Cheese Takedown was a sandwich that wasn't competing. The Four Moon Tavern, in my humble opinion, makes the best grilled cheese I have ever eaten, and that includes my own, to which I am fairly partial. They use a great large Italian style sliced white loaf, good butter, good American cheese, it gets great crunch on the outside, good chew on the crust, and awesome gooeyness in the middle and they make a spectacular homemade tomato soup for serious dunking. It is a really good size, filling and substantial. I crave them fortnightly. Gayle's Best Ever Grilled Cheese gets honorable mention, not for the yummy pizza bread bite of today, but for their traditional grilled cheese which I have eaten many a warm summer Sunday and find deeply satisfying, and if you spot her truck at a farmer's market near you, get in line for sure.
If you want a great sandwich, I can say that Jerry's, Duseks, and South Water Kitchen would be well worth checking out, they had my favorite bites of the day. But for grilled cheese? Head to Four Moon on the corner of Roscoe and Wolcott for a bit of gooey heaven. Tell them I sent you.
In the meantime, to all the hardworking chefs and great dining establishments who knocked it out today, congrats. It was a lot of fun and a lot of yummy. Even if it wasn't grilled cheese.


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Topping this list will be China, whose retail e-commerce sales will grow over 30 per cent to reach nearly $2 trillion in 2019. The second spot will be occupied by the USA, whose retail ecommerce market will reach $600.63 billion in sales. The UK sales will reach $137.08 billion while the retail ecommerce sales growth in Japan and South Korea will increase by 4.0 per cent and 11.1 per cent respectively.
The current share of each of these countries' is influenced by their growth in exports, as well as heavily entrenched methods for online payments—Alibaba with Alipay in China, Amazon with high credit card use in the US, and Rakuten with Rakuten Pay in Japan. Additionally, the continued expansion of luxury goods being sold online has played a supporting role.
Driven predominantly by increasing use of online shopping in rural areas and rising income, China, with 55.8 per cent, has the highest share of ecommerce retail sales worldwide. This is partly due to its large population (1.4 billion) and the explosive growth of middle class. The country's ecommerce landscape is dotted with powerful pure-play etailers like Alibaba and JD.com, as well as traditionally offline players such as Suning and Gome.
High-performing retail ecommerce categories like computer and consumer electronics as well as apparel and accessories drives growth in the US e-commerce market. This year, computer and consumer electronics will account for 21.7 per cent of total retail ecommerce sales. Apparel and accessories category will increase 20.4 per cent to $122.76 billion. By the end of the forecast period, computer/consumer electronics and apparel/accessories will reach $190.31 billion and $181.20 billion in sales, respectively.
The UK sales growth will be driven by Amazon's burgeoning presence in the country's neighboring markets. The platform's sales will ultimately benefit overall consumerism in the UK. Prime will be at the core of Amazon's European expansion. As per Periscope by McKinsey, more than half internet users in Italy, Germany and the UK have a Prime account as of July 2018.
With 4.0 per cent growth, Japan will be the smallest of the top five retail ecommerce markets, largely because of the country's slower domestic demand from its aging population. However, the country's increasing exports are likely to push retail e-commerce growth.
With domestic demand-based limitations similar to those in Japan, South Korea can expect continued growth in exports to its Southeast Asian neighbors. This will occur as incomes rise in these countries and buyers become more comfortable with online shopping.
Ecommerce will thus continue to represent higher and higher share of retail spending as rising incomes will to fuel online shoppers' appetite for more expensive goods.


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The Cosmic Shift So Far and Our Future on Earth and the Universe
October 22, 2018 Karla Damarelya 0 Opinions ancient myths, cosmic shift, extraterrestrials, galactic conflicts, galactic history, global healing, global shift, healing, interdimensional beings, Remembrance, spirituality
by Karla
Conscious remembrance of what once was an ancient myth
If you have payed close attention to the ancient myths and the illustrations that have accompanied such stories, you might have noticed the presence of beings that have shaped our collective path. Our understanding of such beings has shifted dramatically during the last decades. This is especially true for the generations of awakened souls who hold consciously the remembrance of long forgotten librettos.
As pieces of a Cosmic puzzle have arrived in the form of photonic emissions and other higher vibrational waves of awareness, we understand that there is truth in what once was seen as mythological folklore. Even in Sci-Fi there are hidden pieces of subconscious evolution of yet to be recalled species and spaces in vastness.
Within the awakened generations lies the pieces of extensive history that has, in one way or another, being brought to life through uncountable expressions on Earth. It is through your cultural expressions, institutions, technological advancements, ideologies and tastes that you have brought what you once had above and around, in other sectors of the Universe. This fact is still awaiting for the awakened ones to be understood even further as their veil of forgetfulness lifts.
You have forgotten how familiar you are with that which you once had outside of the physical limits of Earth. Yet, you remember when you are conscious in your dream states, or even in waking life as you open your inner senses to see what surrounds you. Then, you find once again the memories of those spaces, or the shapes and traits of those beings that you were part of, as a member of such species or that you knew as family and friends, or even as foes.
Your own stories follow you everywhere you go, whether you are aware of it or not. It is then in these early stages of awakening that, through your mental processes, your feelings, and even your beliefs, you slowly or abruptly remembered what took place a long time ago. How it affected you, determined your initial reactions to this major shift taking place.
The initial stages of the grand awakening
For the collective, in general terms, it was the nonconformity about how institutions have operated for so long. At individual level, dynamics around family, partnerships, jobs, friendships and other social structures have proven to be often dysfunctional. For such reason, solutions have been brought in fields like social sciences, environmental sciences and spirituality. Most important, the awareness of the depths of suffering have enabled the collective to reach higher levels of empathy.
As the forerunners woke up to the levels of existence beyond the material realms, awareness of the soul took shape in many forms. Through spiritual movements and social activism, ethical practices left as legacy by our ancestors and previous incarnations have been downloaded in physical. However, they still await to flourish completely once the collective is fully in shape to embrace them at their splendor. It will be a splendor never seen before in other spaces of Cosmos that have been inhabited by humanity in whichever form individuals incarnated previously.
The minorities, who are no longer minorities as before, woke up to their Cosmic journey so far and the deep levels of interconnectedness that exists between all individuals and All that Is beyond physical life. What once was seen as myth, as invisible, as unreachable, is now part of the lives of these groups. The beauty of the Light has incorporated in the minds of the awakened ones the remembrance and knowing of uncountable Cosmic species and worlds. The process of remembrance has happened consciously or subconsciously but it has condensed in one way or another in physical.
In the minds of most Earth humans, not too long ago, the beings of our collective stories where either unreachable, simply a bedtime story for a child, or a mere superstition. In the worst cases, through the stories told by others, certain beings were to be feared. These perceptions have changed dramatically as old dogmas and rigid fearful beliefs have been replaced by a new understanding of life in Cosmos in the minds of many.
Replacing survival, fear and domination for reverence for life and spirit
There is still much work to be done though. This work is part of the great shift that is taking place and will continue to reshape life on Earth and other sectors of Cosmos. As much darkness, not only from the trajectory of humanity on Earth, but also from our Cosmic history, has been uncovered and transmuted new codes are being manifested.
As the poison of survival and fear, from natural evolutionary processes and from fabricated atavism leave the energetic and physical arenas, values reshape the way we live and the way we interact with Earth and each other.
You might have asked yourself at some point why certain energies, beings, collectives, events and spaces where being brought to the forefront through key channelers and personal communications. Apparently, broken promises of prosperity, change, and merging of positive timelines and dimensions created the sense of suspicion and disappointment, especially around the date 21-12-12 and beyond.
Everything happened as it had to, in one way or another. These factors mentioned above were of utmost importance to be addressed and to be present these years for the simple reason of giving closure to ancestral Cosmic conflicts. By allowing the discomforts of the past to be felt, mostly at the emotional level, both off-world and Earth conflicts of the vault of experience could be released in ways you could not consciously understand. Remembrance is far from over. A large portion of these conflicts has already been healed through this collective effort. Another part is yet to be understood and recalled with greater depth.
Ancestral Cosmic wars, conflicts arising naturally from the differences among species and structural flaws becoming evident could be healed. The healing process has enabled the prevention of further negative outcomes to manifest. Things could have been much worse on Earth by now had it not been for the conscious and subconscious process of release.
Echoes of the past still plague our awareness, especially at the energetic level where people can see these energies as current conflicts. In reality, much of what is perceived as conflict in spiritual realms are the residual energies of what took place in physical. These energies are still waiting for humanity to embrace them with acceptance and forgiveness. Only then will they disappear and bring forth further levels of beauty and harmony in physical.
Life on Earth, as imbalanced and chaotic as it still seems to be, is much more balanced and diverse than what was experienced in the past in other sectors of Cosmos. Part of the discomforts experienced these decades has arisen through the awareness of conflicts provoked by once incompatible species and lack of firm values.
Ancient conflicts that took place eons ago in heavenly and hellish physical and non-physical realms, between angelic and demonic races, mammalian, bird, marine and reptilian societies, human and non-human species, organic and artificial intelligence, the ones who governed and the ones governed, and spiritual and material societies has reached an unprecedented level of healing not experienced before. The best and the worst of our Universal past has been brought forth to one single sphere of life: Earth.
The future of Earth and sectors of Cosmos
The extremes have been conciliated like never before on Earth, even if this does not seem to be the case. What was once fully idyllic or fully dreadful outside, has been replayed for final resolution and brought to a new balance, especially within ourselves. Blood shedding has turned to concern and proactive attitude for millions. Meanwhile, others who still reside in these lower levels of consciousness will follow over time. Millions will complete these harsh lessons and reincarnate to become part of the new consciousness. Others who are already awakened, will leave as many have already done so, and come back for something even better. Or they can choose to stay longer in holographic realities that emulate their old home worlds in physical.
Much will change over time as Science provides new answers for what was not understood or seen merely as incomplete assumptions and superstition. Technology will change the way humanity lives, bringing forth some of the best expressions from other Cosmic sectors and Earth civilizations like Atlantis.
Spirituality will take a new form that incorporates the knowledge on how matter affects the spiritual, in contrast with what your current spiritual movements tell you about the spiritual affecting matter, which is incomplete. Rigid dogmas will be replaced by higher spiritual knowledge and a different understanding of what the ancient masters brought to Earth. Less conflicts based on religious beliefs will manifest and new forms of cooperation will emerge among countries and races. Honesty will become the norm at some point.
Galactic and Universal conflicts will no longer affect the collective of Earth. Instead new paradigms in your institutions and other social structures will manifest as a result of the conscious or subconscious acceptance of long forgotten Cosmic paradigms that existed in physical in other star systems.
Rigid beliefs among the awakened communities will be uplifted even further removing the current struggles in relationships, including the relationship with those who held positions of power in other worlds and your current world in ancient civilizations, accelerating the healing process of the current ones in power.
Colonies within the solar system will be built and further space exploration will happen after the major changes take place on Earth. However, humanity must integrate first their own extraterrestrial past and become enlightened Cosmic humans before these long term plans for space exploration manifest without major conflicts.
The current people who have been spreading lies and distortions in relationship to humanity and alien life, including false new age teachings will be replaced. The notion that the current ET beings contacting humanity are mostly their own aspects coming from other timelines will be acknowledged. At this time, these false teachers are opening a portal in the consciousness of humanity to create false ET scenarios that enable people to open up to ancestral Galactic and Universal wounds and release them. You could say that there is a higher purpose in these lies being spread in order to replay many of these old wounds. Such distortions include the idea that reptilians walk among people in physical, unless in very rare cases a human can use consciously or unconsciously an ancestral reptilian aspect to shape-shift or a being without a physical body can materialize very briefly.
True ET contact taking place at this time is based mostly on the conscious contact with interdimensional beings that come from other timelines to become integrated into their current incarnated forms as Earth humans. Other forms of contact are replications of ancient events taking place on Earth between human beings, for several reasons. Cosmos is a vast playground, but humanity is not ready to reach other sectors of the Universal tapestry if a degree of collective healing is not reached. First, life on Earth must change and true values must be applied in order to become a global community based on unity and respect for diversity.
There is still much to behold, much inner work to be done and conscious effort to create the major shift. A global change cannot happen without conscious effort from many. Cosmic waves of energy are transforming humanity, but a lengthy process of assimilation must take place. Conscious integration of these energies is preferable over waiting for something to change in the outer. As many work on transmuting the old timelines, life on Earth and Cosmos heals. Perseverance leads to great rewards.
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Karla Damarelya
Karla Damarelya is an artist, healer and researcher in the area of natural resource management.
She began her awakening process through the vivid experiences of feeling and knowing the interconnectedness of individuals at the soul level since 2006 and the depth of harmony and disharmony in human relationships. Since then, having studied some basic healing methods, psychology and some notions from social and natural sciences, and amassed knowledge through her own spiritual practices, she has gained a greater understanding of the fundamental contribution of these disciplines and their deficiencies in trying to address individual and collective problems if we only approach them through the lenses of one or a few of these disciplines.
Instead, through a combination of disciplines she finds the inspiration to write about some of our ancient and modern individual and collective dilemmas, problems and lessons.
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18 Amazing Lifestyle Habits That Set Koreans Apart From the Rest of the Planet
The popularity of all Korean things, from fashion and film to music and cuisine, hasn't lost any steam. Because of this, many people want to find themselves in the Land of Morning Calm and see all these things with their own eyes.
At Bright Side, we realize that you can't just set everything aside and find yourself in a place you want to visit. But thanks to internet users, we can have a look at what life in South Korea is like.
Koreans can easily leave a bag or suitcase on a bench and go somewhere without worrying about its safety. There are also many unlocked cars. According to statistics, most of the lost items are returned to their owners in Korea, and every year the percentage of items returned to their owners is growing.
Apart from ordinary coffee shops, there are interesting venues there. For example, a library café, where you have to pay for the time spent reading a book, a café for photographers, where you can try out different lenses if you have a camera with you, and other venues like that.
A peculiar feature of the Korean metro is that the fare depends on the distance traveled.
Tourists can buy a Wi-Fi Egg at the airport or in a shop. They can also rent a telephone.
Korea Air has stickers to tell the cabin crew what to do when you're sleeping in flight.
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In Korea, women are only allowed to stay in a heated room after giving birth, even in summer they are not encouraged to use an air conditioner or a fan after childbirth. And they are told that they should only drink warm water. It's believed that the mother may develop unexplained joint and body aches after delivery.
Puppy kindergartens are becoming more and more popular in Korea. Every morning, owners bring their pets to the kindergarten and hand them to professional trainers who introduce their students to various commands, and also walk them in the fresh air.
Koreans rarely ask other people out, especially strangers. Many people find a match on blind dates organized by their mutual friends and sometimes by their parents. Many couples in Korea celebrate relationship anniversaries more than once a year. These include celebrating their 100th, 200th, or 1,000th day together.
In Korea, couples often don't wear wedding rings after they get married.
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Korean post offices provide reading glasses in case you forgot yours.
Many Korean bakeries include everything you need for your birthday cake: a spatula, matches, and candles.
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Children often go on various excursions. They pick strawberries, plant tomatoes, and get acquainted with the world around them.
Some Korean barbeque places have bags for customers to put their jackets and purses in to minimize the smell from absorbing into those items.
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In South Korea, it's very important not what you think of yourself, but what others think of you, including whether they consider you beautiful and slim.
Any resume should be accompanied by a photo. And the way you look in this photo can be decisive for an employer.
Often, Koreans do fat grafting which is transplanting their fat into their forehead and cheeks to make their face appear plump and smooth.
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They do unusual beauty procedures in Korean clinics, for example, the Snow White whitening injection meant for whitening the skin and removing pigmentation. They also inject fillers in the area of the nasal bridge and cheekbones.
Often Korean men and women ask for aegyo-sal — the small fatty deposits underneath the eyes.
Did you know about these peculiar Korean features? Would you want to adopt any of them? Tell us in the comments below.
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By John Kyle /	October 27, 2016
Today I created a song demo.
This is the first thing I've recorded in over a year. I did this because today I chose to focus on the most important thing instead of all the other things that surround it – the distractions, the doubting, the resistance, the messing about on Twitter, err… I mean music marketing.
I just went ahead and recorded some tracks in my noisy basement with people and dogs making noise above. I've lived here for months and told myself it was too loud down here and just not going to work for a home studio. Well, take a listen to this:
You can't tell my vocals weren't done in an isolation booth. The noise was at a level to just be lost in the mix, and in fact, may have added very subtle atmospherics to the mix.
My daughter has a guitar and has just been recording into her phone, and then putting tracks together on her laptop in Audacity, a free audio editor. Her songs sound great, and she's been more musically productive in the past month than I've been in the past two years.
I told her tonight she had inspired me to just make music, and not wait until conditions are "perfect," which they'll never be, until you just jump in and start creating. Creating something is perfectly awesome compares to doing nothing.
So many things keep us from doing the one thing we need to be focusing on, right now. For me, that's writing, recording and performing songs. But now that I've got that done, I feel OK with knocking off this post. If I had started working on a blog article earlier, I would never have recorded the demo you hear above.
Focus on the thing you want most. Me, I want to be a music artist. What about you?
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Home Cricket India Mayank Agarwal becomes first Indian to score 2000+ runs in a season...
Mayank Agarwal becomes first Indian to score 2000+ runs in a season of domestic cricket
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During the 2018 Vijay Hazare Trophy Final between Karnataka and Saurashtra, Karnataka batsman Mayank Agarwal scored a 79-ball 90-run knock and became the first Indian batsman to score over 2000 runs in a single season of Indian domestic cricket. The final match begun on Tuesday (27 Feb), and the toss was won by Saurashtra (captain: Cheteshwar Pujara), who chose to field, sending Karnataka (captain: Karun Nair) to bat first.
While Cheteshwar Pujara captained Saurashtra, Ravindra Jadeja and Jaydev Unadkat also featured for the side. On the other hand, Karnataka saw KL Rahul feature as a wicketkeeper-batsman, but the India opener got out on duck after getting run-out on his 3rd delivery.
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Mayank Agarwal breaks India's domestic cricket record in 2018 Vijay Hazare Trophy Final
Karnataka opening batsman Mayank Agarwal scored a 90 runs off 79 deliveries, and became the first Indian batsman to cross 2000 runs in a single season of India's domestic cricket (collectively in all domestic cricket tournaments).
Sachin Tendulkar had the previous best record in List A cricket
On the other hand, accounting for the 2018 Vijay Hazare Trophy alone, Mayank Agarwal scored 700+ runs, becoming the first Indian, again, to do so in a List A cricket tournament. The previous best record was Sachin Tendulkar's 673 runs in the ICC Cricket World Cup from 2003, which Mayank Agarwal broke with a hefty margin.
BCCI shares Mayank Agarwal's achievement
The Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) shared the 27-year-old Mayank Agarwal's magnificent feat on their Twitter account, and wrote, "Karnataka's @mayankcricket becomes the first batsman to score over 2000 runs in a single season in Indian domestic cricket."
The previous high scorers in a single season of India's domestic cricket were:
Shreyas Iyer – 1947 runs in 2015/16 season, Four centuries & 11 half-centuries.
Wasim Jaffer – 1907 runs in 2008/09 season, six centuries, nine half-centuries
A Sharma – 1894 runs in 1994/95 season, seven centuries & six half-centuries
Karnataka's @mayankcricket becomes the first batsman to score over 2000 runs in a single season in Indian domestic cricket. pic.twitter.com/38VQxSedeU
— BCCI Domestic (@BCCIdomestic) February 27, 2018
Mayank Agarwal in India's domestic season 2017/18
Mayank Agarwal's scoreline from his last 8 List A cricket matches reads; 90, 81, 140, 89, 102, 28, 84, and 109. That is three breathtaking centuries and four half-centuries.
Ranji Trophy – 1,160 runs at a strike rate of 105.45 (five centuries)
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy – 258 runs at a strike rate of 145.
Vijay Hazare Trophy – 700 runs at a strike rate of 100 (three centuries)
Here is Karnataka's scoreline from the Vijay Hazare Trophy final:
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April 12, 1946 (age 73)
Youngstown State University, Circle in the Square Theater School, Ohio University
Who Is Ed O'Neill?
Early Life & Football
Early Career as a Stage Actor
Ed O'Neill Biography
Actor Ed O'Neill is best known as the dad in TV sitcoms like 'Married... with Children' and 'Modern Family.'
Born on April 12, 1946, Ed O'Neill was a fine athlete, but failed to make it in pro football. He then decided to become an actor. After acting classes and roles on the stage, O'Neill was offered the role of Al Bundy in the FOX sitcom Married...with Children. The show ran for 11 seasons. O'Neill followed up with another sitcom turn on ABC's Modern Family.
O'Neill is married to actress and dancer Catherine Rusoff. The couple has two children, and currently resides in Los Angeles.
Actor Ed O'Neill was born on April 12, 1946, in Youngstown, Ohio, as the eldest of five children to working-class Irish Catholic parents Ruth Ann Quinlan and Edward O'Neill, Sr. To support the family, O'Neill's father hauled goods cross country as a truck driver and also held a job as a steelworker. O'Neill's mother was a local social worker.
Small in stature as a child, O'Neill skyrocketed to 6-feet 1-inch as a teenager and became an accomplished athlete at Ursuline High School. He particularly excelled at football, and landed a college scholarship to Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, based on his athletic abilities. At OU, O'Neill studied history, and showed an interest in the school's theater group. He spent more time, however, on sports and partying than he did on his studies. Frustrations with his coach didn't help matters, and by his sophomore year O'Neill had left OU. He headed back to his hometown to attend Youngstown State University his junior year, playing football as a defensive lineman, studying drama and continuing his pursuit of a history degree.
As graduation approached, O'Neill had hopes of becoming a professional linebacker for the National Football League. After receiving his bachelor's degree in 1969, O'Neill managed to land a tryout with Pennsylvania's pro-football team, the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was a 15th round draft-pick for the Steelers that year, but was cut during training camp. Crestfallen, O'Neill worked a series of odd jobs, including trucking, hotel work and time at the steel mill. Eventually, O'Neill turned back to his alma mater, Ursuline High School, to substitute teach social studies classes. It was during this time that he decided he wanted to try his hand at acting.
By 1972 O'Neill's acting ambitions were also looking pretty hopeless; he auditioned over and over for Youngstown theater productions, but rarely landed a speaking role. He headed to New York in 1977, supporting himself with his $1,700 in his savings account, the money he got from selling his car, and a job as a bus boy. When he wasn't working, he studied at New York's prestigious Circle in the Square Theatre School. O'Neill also frequented the Lincoln Center Library to listen to recordings of John Barrymore and Robert Shaw, and check out books on acting.
The work paid off in 1979, when he landed a role as the lead understudy in the Broadway play, Knockout. When the star walked off the production later that year, O'Neill was finally given a chance to shine onstage. The show earned him good reviews, and got him started in the industry.
O'Neill lived in Manhattan for the next 10 years, working regional theater and appearing in national commercial campaigns. Then in 1980, the stage actor was chosen for a co-starring role in the Al Pacino vehicle Cruising, as well as a supporting role in The Dogs of War. These roles gave O'Neill Hollywood exposure, helping him to appear in a succession of guest roles on TV series such as Miami Vice (1984-'89) and Spenser for Hire (1985-'88).
O'Neil also starred in a series of failed pilots during this time, including a show with Valerie Harper called Farrell for the People, and a starring role in a TV spin-off of the popular film The French Connection (1971) called Popeye Doyle (1986). But it was his starring role as Lenny in the Hartford, Connecticut, version of the play Of Mice and Men that would land the actor his biggest role to date.
'Married... With Children'
An executive for the FOX network, who happened to be in attendance during one of the O'Neill's performances as Lenny, asked the actor to audition for a role on a new sitcom at the network. The show, called Married... With Children, would focus on the lives of a blue collar, dysfunctional family living in Chicago. O'Neill auditioned for Al Bundy, the working-class father who spent his off-hours drinking beer, watching TV and reliving his glory days as a high school football hero. O'Neill landed the role and moved out to Los Angeles in 1987. That same year, Married... With Children hit the airwaves. It became an instant hit with viewers, and launched O'Neill into thousands of American households each week.
While O'Neill continued his successful run on Married, landing several Golden Globe nominations for his work on the show, he worked hard to differentiate himself from his do-nothing Al Bundy character through appearances in feature films. His turns in Dutch (1991), Wayne's World (1992) and Little Giants (1994), however, went almost unrecognized by fans. He returned to the theater as well, appearing in a production of David Mamet's Lakeboat in 1994.
'The Bone Collector,' 'Dragnet,' 'West Wing'
Married came to an end in 1997, after 11 successful seasons on FOX. As the show drew to a close, O'Neill began looking for new ways to stretch his acting abilities. He appeared in the big-screen detective drama The Spanish Prisoner (1997), as well as the thriller The Bone Collector (1999). He then returned to TV in the drama Big Apple (2001) and a remake of the successful crime drama Dragnet (2003), playing policemen in both shows. In 2004 O'Neill took a recurring role as Pennsylvania's incumbent governor on the political drama The West Wing to positive reviews.
'Modern Family'
In fall 2009, O'Neill returned to family comedy with ABC's Modern Family, a show about unconventional families. O'Neill played Jay Pritchett, a man newly remarried to a much younger woman. In addition to raising a young stepson, Pritchett also juggles relationships with his adult children and young grandchildren. The series has received warm praise, and O'Neill has received three Emmy Award nominations and won multiple SAG Awards for his work on the show.
In addition to starring on Modern Family, O'Neill has made guest appearances on such shows as Entourage and Family Guy. He has also been in demand as a voice actor. O'Neill has lent his gravelly vocals to such films as Wreck-It Ralph (2012), Finding Dory (2016) and Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018).
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Ed Sullivan was a journalist, producer and TV host known for his successful variety program 'The Ed Sullivan Show.'
Ed Gein was a notorious killer and grave robber. His activities inspired the creation of some of Hollywood's most infamous characters, including Norman Bates of 'Psycho.'
David Cassidy was a singer and actor best known for his starring role in the 1970s musical television series 'The Partridge Family.'
English artist Ed Sheeran is a Grammy-winning singer/songwriter known for hit songs like 'Thinking Out Loud,' 'Photograph,' 'Shape of You' and 'Perfect.'
Alec Baldwin has appeared in such as films 'Beetlejuice,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Departed,' and starred as Jack Donaghy on the TV sitcom '30 Rock.'
Doris Day was a singer and actress most popular in the 1950s and early-1960s. She starred in a television sitcom called 'The Doris Day Show' from 1968-1973.


This is a book which aims to overturn existing understandings of the origins and futures of the War on Terror for the purposes of International Relations theory. As the book shows, this is not a war in defence of the integrity of human life against an enemy defined simply by a contradictory will for the destruction of human life as commonly supposed by its liberal advocates. It is a war over the political constitution of life in which the limitations of liberal accounts of humanity are being put to the test if not rejected outright.


Xieng Khouang Province, the Province Plain of Jars is located 435 kilometers northeast of the Vientiane capital. Most of landscapes are steep mountains and green hills. The province has more than 249,000 citizens spread over an approximate area of 15,000 sq km. Xieng Khouang enjoys a remarkable geographical location and shares borders with Houaphanh, Luang Prabang, Vientiane and Bolikhamxay provinces, as well as an international border with Vietnam. This place has a long and rich history and diverse culture, in particular is home to numerous ethnic groups, including Thai Phuan, Hmong, khmu and Tai Dam. Also, Xieng Khouang is home to the Plain of Jars, the prehistoric stone megaliths which attract a large number of tourists from over the world to the province every year. This will be recognized a World Heritage Monument. Visiting the Plain of Jars is a serene inspiration. The Plain of Jars are found throughout the province in bunches of 300 jars at each location. There are many notable landmarks in the province. Moreover, this province offers a lot of interesting activities and adventure activities, so travelers can experience the local life and enjoy pleasant memories.
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Iranian Modern & Contemporary Exhibition & Symposium is held in Tokyo, March 2018 with Professor Arata Isozaki & Riichi Miyake.
from distinguished Iranian and Japanese architects designed for Iran which were not built due to the 1979 revolution will be introduced. In part three a few of the contemporary build projects of Iran in the four groups of Public projects (Icon), residential & office projects (In fill), Monad projects and (Unbuilt) highly developed projects will be introduced including the national library and academies of Iran by Hadi Mirmiran, and Tabriz SMP Tower by Bahram Shirdel.
After the exhibition in Tokyo, plans have been made to exhibit the program in Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz and Mashhad which hopefully with the completion and publication of the exhibition book and an examining paper from Toyo Ito, Arata Isozaki and Iranian researchers, will help to improve on the status of Iranian architecture.
Kandovan Cave Hotel, as the first Iranian boutique hotel, was designed and built by Tarh Va Afarinesh Architectural and Engineering consultants Company in 2006. Architect of the project is Shiva Aghababaei, who has design of some iconic hospitality projects including Safaieh Hotel in Yazd, Moheb Hospital in Tehran, Renovation of Kowsar Hotel in Isfahan, and Ibis – Novotel Cluster Hotel in IKIA in her professional background. Tarh Va Afarinesh is the first Iranian consultant involved in design and construction of ecotourism accommodation infrastructures. The company, established in 1997, has a successful track record of cooperation with international hospitality chains.


Samantha Jade unveiled the cute cover of "Up!" a couple of weeks but the pop diva finally dropped the Mario Marchetti-produced club anthem in full. And it's an absolute party-starter, which could explain why the Australian soccer team (nick-named the Socceroos) has adopted it as their theme song for the 2014 World Cup in Brasil.
"We own the night so let's turn it up until we reach the other side," coos the Aussie X Factor winner over summery synths that sound custom-made for an Ibiza sunset. There's definitely a touch of Jennifer Lopez's "Let's Get Loud" about the infectious anthem. Particularly the carnivale-tastic chorus, which finds Samantha singing "up up up!" a lot. Get pumped and listen after the jump.
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Asian Americans honored for their role in tech and innovation
October 13, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly
By Ruth Bayang
From left: Andy Liu, Jonathan Sposato, Harry Shum, Min Christ, Anthony Armada, Jeff Hattori, Christopher Kodama, and Geeman Yip. (Photo by George Liu/NWAW)
Ten Asian and Pacific Islander (API) Americans in the Greater Seattle Area were honored as "visionaries" by the Northwest Asian Weekly Foundation on Oct. 7, at the third annual Visionary Award Gala at Seattle's China Harbor Restaurant. This year's focus was "Asian Americans in Tech and Innovation."
Northwest Asian Weekly publisher Assunta Ng called the honorees "amazing leaders and innovators" who exemplify the entrepreneurial spirit and leadership, and urged the more than 300 attendees to cheer and clap, as she called out each of the individual's names.
The honorees were Naveen Jain, founder of Moon Express, BlueDot, Intelius, TalentWise and Infospace, Taylor Hoang, founder of the Ethnic Business Coalition, Geeman Yip, CEO of BitTitan, Jonathan Sposato, chairman of Geekwire.com, Anthony Armada, chief executive of Swedish Health Services, Andy Liu, CEO of BuddyTV, Min Christ, founder of the Global Incubation Center at Southport, Dr. Christopher Kodama, president of Multicare Connected Care, Jeff Hattori, CEO of Keiro Northwest, and Harry Shum, executive vice president of Microsoft's Artificial Intelligence and Research group.
Shum, a first generation immigrant, called the United States a great country, Seattle a great city, and Microsoft a great company. He said that no matter what industry you work in, you can achieve great things through hard work. "I just don't see any other way," he said. "Work hard, work smart, and a little bit of luck helps."
Shum, one of the highest ranking VP's at Microsoft, said of his new role, "The world is changing.
Everything will be different — our experience, the way we use computers. Like it or not, we'll be more connected." He said of Artificial Intelligence (AI), "It will help remind you of appointments, help you to be more prepared — anywhere you go, in the future, any display you see is going to be digital. You don't have to be carrying a lot of computing with you." Shum thinks connectedness is mostly a good thing, but we have to balance it with privacy and security concerns.
A people business
Christ, the only female honoree present at the event, was lauded for her ability to overcoming barriers, and building bridges and relationships, especially with immigrants from China who want to invest their money here.
The honorees, including Christ, were asked a question by emcee Sula Kim, KING 5 anchor, before receiving their award.
Christ emphasized the importance of having a good team to be successful.
Armada echoed a similar sentiment. He said one of the ingredients of success was to surround yourself with good people, and he took the time to honor his wife of 26 years. He also challenged attendees to take on some kind of coaching or mentoring role. He described it as exciting and intriguing, and an opportunity to share expertise and learn humility.
Sposato and Hattori hammered on fulfillment and providing fulfillment to people's lives, whether it be employees, clients, or the people you serve. "It's about people and relationships," said Hattori. "And you must have compassion."
Not just for kids
Technology is not something that comes to mind when one thinks of elder care. Hattori called technology a means to an end. He described how technology, like virtual glasses, can create life experiences for a senior who may not have the physical capabilities to do what they want. For example, someone in a wheelchair might want to visit her hometown of Yokohama. "She can't physically do it, but we can create that experience for her."
Hattori shared that his dream was to have one button that provides real-time, comprehensive information about a patient, so doctors can provide the best care possible. He invited anyone in the room who had a solution to meet with him at his table.
Catching an angel's eye
True grit is what Liu, one of Seattle's most prolific angel investors, looks for when evaluating a company or individual to invest in. "The unrelenting ability to keep running when everything and everybody is stacked up against you. [Entrepreneurs] are in it because they're passionate, they want to win, and they have something beyond themselves that they're trying to accomplish. They know it's a tough road but worth the journey."
Ruth can be reached at editor@nwasianweekly.com.
Filed Under: Features, Profiles, Community News, Technology Tagged With: 2016, VISIONARY 2016, VOL 35 NO 42 | OCTOBER 15 - OCTOBER 21