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I Dream of Irons
Last dream of the night/morning:
I'm in a vast hospital/hotel (it changes, from time to time) lobby where friends and family of the late Greg Irons have gathered to commemorate his life and work. I've been privileged with an invite, and sit cross-legged behind Greg's brother Mark [who, in real life, I've never met or had word one with]. Something is odd, though, in that I don't see Tom Veitch at the gathering, and odder still, Mark seems to be only 21 or 22 years old, his long blonde hair tied back into a ponytail. Odder yet, the event seems to be videotaped by an invisible camera crew, and is focused on a large plasma-screen monitor projecting non-existent clips from some fictionalized version of Greg's life: his cameo in a Katherine Hepburn movie, with voiceover comments by Hepburn, for instance, which simply makes no sense to me. Still, Greg's family seems to be OK with this, so I button my lip and keep watching/waiting for whatever comes next. For some reason, the arrangements in which we sit keeps being changed, but nothing -- including emergency room entry of accident victims, or a skirmish of some kind in the hotel lobby -- seems to deter the steady stream of filmclips being shown, all of which seem increasingly suspect to me: surely, Greg was never filmed dining with Bogart?
Why dream about Greg after all these years?
The last dreams I had involving Irons -- who was and is, BTW, one of the "big four" of my artistic heroes whose work prompted my own career/life path -- were in 1990. Those were prompted by Tom Veitch offering the possibility of publishing his last collaboration with Greg, "Flenk's Last Tattoo," in Taboo if I could possibly complete the inks from Greg's pencils/roughs. Though I wrestled with the pages (via vellum overlays, working from oversized photocopies Tom had loaned me), I wasn't up to the awesome proposition, and was in fact visited in a series of disturbing dreams by Greg -- whom I had never met in life -- which added to my nervousness about even touching something Greg had created. Greg was a benevolent presence in those dreams, but I was and remain in awe of all he had accomplished. I froze as surely as I would have asked to complete a Ray Harryhausen model, or ink a page pencilled by Sam Glanzman or Joe Kubert (there, now you've got all four heroes named); in the end, I called Tom and gracefully declined.
Though Greg and I never met, we did correspond, briefly, and brothers Tom and Rick had driven me to Greg's cabin somewhere near Stimson Beach in November of 1978 in hopes of my meeting him. Alas, Greg wasn't home -- so I left a note, and a humble sketch, and a few weeks later Greg reciprocated with a color skull sketch and a kind letter in response. This near-meeting was a highlight (along with our visit to Gary Arlington's legendary comic shop) of a marvelous but strange trip to San Francisco during which I almost smashed my skull like an eggshell leaping onto a cable car with portfolio in one hand; a trip strangely framed one the one hand by the breaking front-page news of Rev. Jim Jones's Guyana mass suicide/massacre on our first day in the city, and on the other as Tom was driving us to the airport by news of a "high-speed car chase" in downtown San Fran -- which, it turned out, was the police's pursuit of Dan White after his assassination of Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, "The Mayor of Castro Street." Ah, the '70s.
But why am I dreaming of Greg and his family this morning, after all these years?
It's all thanks to my purchase this week of
You Call This Art? via PaneltoPanel.net,
I'm devouring the first-ever English-language bio/retrospective of Greg Irons seminal underground comix creations and career, from childhood to rock posters, from comix to coloring books, from Medicine Ball Caravan movie cameo to tattoo artist extraordinaire. Though the cover is an embarrassment (fusing one of Greg's autobiographical Gregor the Purple-ass Baboon portraits with framing elements from Legion of Charlies imagery), the book is fantastic and incredibly comprehensive, and highly recommended. I'll be writing more about this here this week, but don't wait on me -- order your copy pronto!
More good news on The Bissette Collection at HUIE Library on the splendid Henderson State University campus, with more updates (and pix, soon!) to follow.
As noted many times here, Lea Ann Alexander is the goddess-like supervisor/head honcho/"She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed" of this project, working closely over the past two years with Hope Warner to make sense of the vast array of scripts, manuscripts, books, art, toys, doodads and dollops of weirdness that comprise my papers. They're getting some help this coming semester:
Lea Ann writes, "We are adding a Special Collections work-study student this fall. His name is Rhys Mounger, a wonderful young man from Plano, Texas who worked with Hope on the collection on a volunteer basis all last spring. We are elated to be able to pay him for it this semester. Rhys is a member of the campus Comics Club. (Actually, our first assignment for him will be to organize, preserve, and file the magazines donated by Jean-Marc [Lofficier])..."
Good news, that! Welcome aboard, Rhys, and I hope to meet you someday face to face -- maybe over cards at Lea Ann's or Randy's digs. Continuing:
"We have achieved online access to the first little box inventory. It took a couple of days for the Google spider to index it, but it works like a dream. Hope just completed her Ektron training, so additional completed box inventories should start popping up soon.
Next up on the website: listings of staff and a how-to guide for searching.... Lots of smiles around here with this shiny permission to use university webspace for the inventories...now you can see progress rather than merely hear about it. Soon we'll have enough on the webpage to start being of use to researchers. It's all good!"
Indeed, it is, and I'll announce the online access to the collection once it's up and running. In the meantime, feel free to click on over to
the Bissette Collection site
if you haven't already (the link is forever in the menu of links at right), and see you tomorrow...


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Views at the Joggins Fossil Cliffs at sunset. The Cliff is one of the few sites of significant fossil discoveries in Nova Scotia, where a man accidentally made the biggest discovery ever this week.
A Nova Scotia man out for a casual beach stroll has stumbled upon what's being described as one of the most significant fossil discoveries in the province's history.
Patrick Keating and his dog, Kitty, were walking along the Northumberland Shore in early July when they came across a rib cage, backbone and the partial sail belonging to an extinct, sail-back reptile — the first discovery of its kind in Nova Scotia.
"It wasn't fully exposed, but five or six of the ribs, which are sort of white in colour, were exposed through the mud in the bank of the shore and they caught my eye as I glanced around," Keating said Thursday at the unveiling of the fossils at the Museum of Natural History in Halifax.
"When I detached it from the mud, I realized it was almost like a carcass-shaped, fossilized skeleton. It was exciting to me."
Mr. Keating took the fossil home, cleaned it up and showed it to a few people. Since his brother's children are younger, Mr. Keating suggested his sibling take the kids and the discovery to the museum to find out what it was.
"They were virtually beside themselves, calling it an extraordinarily significant find," Mr. Keating said of museum staff.
A family visit to the same spot a week later yielded another rare find: the skull from the creature, which experts believe lived some 290 million to 305 million years ago.
The discovery will be on display at the museum for two weeks starting Saturday.
Deborah Skilliter, the museum's curator of geology, said the fossils have opened a window into the ancient world and staff will now work to learn more about the reptile's life and death.
She estimated the Keatings discovered about 45 per cent of the reptile's fossilized remains.
"This one we think is a juvenile, a baby, so about two to three feet in length, tip to tail, and 30 to 40 pounds," she said.
"But some of these guys could grow up to 4.7 metres in length and up to 300 pounds. So they were the top predators of their time. Some were meat eaters, some were vegetarians.
"We have to do some preparation work to reveal more of the teeth, but right now it looks like this little guy was a carnivore."
The provincial government said paleontologists knew the reptiles existed in the area because footprints were found in 1994 in Nova Scotia's Colchester County.
A spokesman for the Heritage Department said the exact location of Keating's fossil find isn't being disclosed in order to protect the site and any future discoveries.
The government said a rare, fossilized dragonfly wing has already been discovered at the site since the other fossils were found.
Nova Scotia is renowned for its rich fossil deposits.
The province's fossil cliffs at Joggins, where tidal action continually uncovers fossilized plants and trees, is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site.


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Poetic License? Why Cops Can't Control Times Square's Creepy Characters
When meeting the costumed characters at Disney World, tourists often get hugged. When meeting the costumed characters in Times Square,
By Jordyn Taylor • 04/11/13 5:51pm
Watch out for Cookie Monster… (Getty Images)
When meeting the costumed characters at Disney World, tourists often get hugged. When meeting the costumed characters in Times Square, tourists often get harassed.
If you've traipsed the flashy, crowded sidewalks of Times Square in the past year, you've seen them: Cookie Monsters; Elmos; SpongeBobs; Dora the Explorers—(kind of creepy looking) costumed characters who pose for photos with tourists in exchange for tips.
But lately, these characters have been anything but cuddly. Take last Sunday, for example, when Osvaldo Quiroz-Lopez—dressed up as Cookie Monster—reportedly shoved a two-year-old boy and shouted at his mother when the latter didn't tip fast enough. Other reports from the past year tell stories of characters punching, cursing, and inappropriately groping customers.
NYPD Sgt. Ed Mullins, President of the Sergeant Benevolent Association (S.B.A.), wants to do something about it. His solution? Requiring the costumed characters to get licensed. "Let them get licenses and let the city council pass a law that allows us to enforce the law and summons people," Mr. Mullins told Gothamist. "Let them submit their fingerprints. They're dealing with kids, they're taking pictures with tourists. It's a reflection on New York."
Under Mr. Mullins's vision, the characters would be treated like food vendors, and would be taxed on their profits. "If you license them, we have accountability for their tax revenue," he said to Gothamist. "You know, let them pay with their tax stamp."
But despite Mr. Mullins's ideas, controlling these Cookie Monsters won't be as easy as ABC. Members of city government have stressed the difficulty of classifying the costumed creatures—Are they street performers? Are they vendors, of a sort?—and henceforth, the difficulty of finding a law to regulate their behavior.
"There are anti-mask laws, but you need at least two people working together," City Councilmember Peter Vallone told Gothamist. "There are 'blocking the sidewalk' laws but they're difficult to enforce in this situation. They claim they're street performers and don't need licensing."
The complicated issue reached the ears of Mayor Bloomberg, who seems to see no clear solution.
"We have tried at various times to regulate people who dress up and then get you to take a picture with your kid and then demand money or harass you in other ways," said Mayor Bloomberg, according to The New York Post. In regards to the characters earning money, the mayor said, "It's not against the law. So I'm sorry. Maybe it should be."
Until regulations are passed, we suggest you steer clear of the Times Square characters. Trust us—you don't want to be around when SpongeBob drops his squarepants.
Filed Under: Entertainment, Cookie Monster, costumed characters, Sesame Street, Times Square
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Littlemill Distillery has long laid claim to an extensive and fascinating history, but new historic documentary evidence unearthed from the archives now conclusively proves that it was the oldest licensed whisky distillery in Scotland.
Additionally, in 1772 accommodation was built next door to the distillery to house the Excise officers who represented the King – and ensured any distillation was duly recorded and the relevant taxes calculated and paid. This suggests that something was already afoot onsite before 1772 and cements Littlemill's position as Scotland's first and oldest licensed whisky distillery.
Brothers George and Archibald Buchanan – the original owners of Littlemill – were trailblazers for the rich tradition of Scottish whisky production, and Littlemill continued to lead the industry for over two centuries. Notably, it was one of the first distilleries to have a female licensee, Jane MacGregor, in 1823. Later, in 1931, under the stewardship of the American Duncan Thomas, Littlemill was at the forefront of still innovation with technical designs that could create three styles of single malts from full-bodied to light.
Whisky production at Littlemill, situated in Bowling on the banks of the River Clyde near Glasgow, continued until the distillery fell silent in 1994 and was subsequently destroyed by fire in 2004, never to produce a drop again.
Loch Lomond Group launched the Littlemill 40-Year-Old Celestial Edition (46.8% ABV) in late 2018, the oldest expression ever to be released from the lost Littlemill distillery. This rare release celebrates the life's work of Littlemill owner Duncan Thomas and represents the culmination of his knowledge and experience, capturing the essence of his pioneering distilling process. Littlemill 40-year-old was recently scored at an impressive 90/100 by whisky expert Dave Broom on scotchwhisky.com.
Only 250 bottles of this precious liquid have been produced, each displayed in a stunning presentation box capturing the exact map of the night sky seen above Littlemill Distillery on the night the spirit was barrelled.
The latest addition to the Littlemill range will be released in September 2019. Littlemill 29-year-old (RRP £2,500; 47.3% ABV) is the third release from the Private Cellar Collection, comprising only 600 bottles which will be released across the world.
The liquid is contained within a bespoke Glencairn crystal decanter etched with an illustration of the River Clyde and a silver star signifying the Littlemill distillery's location. The decanter is accompanied in its beautifully crafted presentation box by a 5cl miniature of the liquid, a piece of an original Littlemill cask, and a booklet sharing the fascinating history of the Littlemill distillery and tasting notes from Master Distiller Michael Henry.
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Quikskoop™: Taco Cantina
January 6, 2015 Rian Farisa	Leave a comment
For unknown reason since time immemorial, these eyes of mine have always been the adept scout for spotting hidden restaurants. Well, to tell you the truth, Taco Cantina is not that hidden but its micro size might put it that way. Even so, its colorful presentation will surely help anyone to spot it in the end, which is cute by the way.
As I entered, everything was washed in orange and the tiles that they use felt like they were bought from a famous tilemaker in Solo. Colorful and in pattern, but perhaps too simple. The furnishing is simple and retains the feel of a food truck or cantina to be exact with the name. High dining tables with classic tools for around 30 Latin music lovers at best can be accommodated here at Taco Cantina.
The food comprises of casual stuff you will mostly found in Mexican food trucks, found on other parts as well in Jakarta. I have always been under impression that Mexican food is a bit more expensive. Is it always like that or not, well you guys surely can help me here.
I actually enjoyed the food a lot as I had a small taco with great complements from the cheese, the pico de gallo, and the guacamole. My wife also enjoyed her small fajitas but it was all very small sih for almost 90,000 rupiahs alongside two drinks. But anyway and honestly, I enjoyed it a lot. The taste feels quite original, the meat quite fulfilling and all was well-made.
So if you happen to pass the western part of Tebet where restaurants are sprawling here, you'll find in-between them a small cantina and that's where you might want to stop and enjoy your petite Mexican treat once in a while.
TACO CANTINA
Halal-friendly
Jalan Tebet Barat Dalam no. 29, Jakarta – Indonesia
T: +62.21.9900.9909
Daily, 11am – 10pm
Modern Mexican Kitchen at Bengawan, Keraton at The Plaza
July 31, 2014 Rian Farisa	Leave a comment
Perhaps some of you remember how sensational the last year's Mexican treat by Chef Lamberto Valdez, back in Bengawan – Keraton at The Plaza. It was a delightful 10 course lunch where the chef personally oversaw and shared us his two cents about Mexican food. From start to finish, we were made astonished for the full five hours and thanks also to the great company, it was probably one of the memorable lunches that I ever had.
To settle in first with how Mexican it was, you can check my last year's posts here and here.
As time went by, apparently, Chef Lamberto Valdez was promoted as the Culinary Director of the Starwoods hotels in Indonesia – CMIIW. I was actually met him personally and accidentally, during a breakfast last month in Sheraton Bandung and I was utterly impressed that for a local hotel, Sheraton Bandung has added interesting elements in the menu that you may not find anywhere else. Of course, leaving his marks, Chef Lamberto shared his Mexican flairs as well there.
However, what made me feel even gleeful is the fact that Bengawan of Keraton at The Plaza has finally fully incorporated these Mexicano flairs as well in the menu. From the daily serving of Mexican treats in one corner for buffet lunch and dinner, the restaurant also provides a full range menu and dedicated selections for the brisk, business lunch for IDR 150K.
Sopa de tortilla
During one of those bloggers meetings, I had a really good lunch reenactment moments with Chef Lamberto's meals and I started of course with his famed sopa de tortilla, creamy and crunchy but at the same time but one might want to steer away from the Mexican chili if you're not ready, otherwise it would be a really 'good' surprise!
The highlight of the meals came from the finest guacamole in Jakarta, thanks to the beautiful concoction and of course, because of the use of Hass avocadoes – 'the wagyu of avocadoes' as I often tell everyone about how majestic these creatures are. I simply asked for more and more of guacamole to appease my cravings alongside the sour cream and the tomato salsa.
For the main course, I finally got to meet delicious selections for quesadilla that involved chicken and beef steak with it or the fajitas with hanger steak. But perhaps, what I was actually curious about are the tacos. For Indonesians, perhaps it would be best to have the usual flour tortilla because of the familiar taste but if you want to try the real Mexican – then the corn tortilla is the answer.
Despite the authenticity, you might experience a bit dryness and bitterness with the taste, which I cannot offer you the peer-to-peer comparison to you as of this moment. On a lighter note, the meat selections were actually excellent and rich in flavor as well. You can choose from carne asada, the chicken, the lamb birria, or the vegetarian course for this one.
Choco-flan
Cinnamon Sugar Churros
To seal the deal, the choco-flan never fail to satisfy me, but I'd definitely recommend you to try Chef Lamberto's take of churros complemented with three great sauces of goat's milk caramel, white chocolate sauce, and the mango compote. It's a modern touch of Mexican I must say but when you see the track record of the chef, you'd really want to give it a good try and of course, we need more Mexican food as well in town. Thanks to Bengawan, we all have something new to try and to talk about!
Menu details for Modern Mexican Kitchen >> here
BENGAWAN
Halal-friendly (ask if there's alcohol or pork incorporated with the dishes)
Keraton at The Plaza
Jalan MH Thamrin 15, Jakarta – Indonesia
Everyday, all-day dining
Spend: IDR 150,000++ / person for Business Lunch
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Viva Mexico! – A Mexican Cuisine Extravaganza by Chef Lamberto Valdez (Part 2)
June 25, 2013 Rian Farisa	Leave a comment
The continuation of Chef Lamberto Valdez' wonderful interpretations of Mexican cuisine keeps getting better and better. On the last post – Viva Mexico! – A Mexican Cuisine Extravaganza by Chef Lamberto Valdez (Part 1) – I wrote about the chef and his colorful openers consisted of guacamole, ceviche, and the Aztecs traditional soup. So without further due, let's get on with the main course!
Well, entering the main course, I have to admit that I had no clue at all about it. For me (and many people, I bet), Mexican food is all about guacamole, tacos, quesadillas, or even Tex-Mex stuffs have always been thought as pure representation of Mexico. Now, after this encounter, I realize that Mexican cuisine is more than that and Chef Valdez taught us all about it eloquently.
We started with crepes filled with lobster meat. While that may not be Mexican, but Chef Valdez actually wanted us to know about their proud tradition in making mole sauce as the accompaniment of the crepes. The making of this signature sauce is often made into competition back in Mexico and it's a complex process by using a lot of ingredients while also took a long time. Well, it kind of reminds me of Minangnese does it with its dishes but of course, this one's different.
Lobster Crepes with Mole
Mole may use up to 25 – 30 ingredients and that involves cacao and dried chilies. The result after 5 hours of painstaking process, it's not only silky and savory but has that sweet, thick elements came from cacao. It's just fascinating, especially when you know that it may be originated since thousands of years ago back in the times of Aztecs or Mayans and it uses chocolate, a native ingredient unknown to many parts of the world back then. You really have to imagine it combined with the crepes filled with Canadian lobsters, arugula, and feta cheese. Mamma mia!
Next we have the Carne Asada, or the hanger steak grilled to medium degree a la Mexico! First, the meat has to be marinated first using sauce made from garlic, onions, and other traditional herbs, making it a tad more acidic. After grilled, the steak then served with a green sauce or what they call as 'poblano' – a mixture of green bell pepper, garlic, and cilantro. The accompaniment was a well-presented mashed sweet cassava, garnished with cherry tomatoes and Guajillo chilies. Needless to say, it was the ultimate part of the whole deal!
Camarones al Ajillo
Let's head next for the grilled shrimps with chipotle sauce over fried rice. While that may sound simple, the process of making the fried rice was actually a bit complex. Chef Valdez told us that he had to do several procedures to make the fried rice right. First he had to make the rice green (I feel like Mexicans really love green color after all as seen from their national flag) by mixing them with cilantro, parsley, poblano sauce, jalapeno, and chicken stock. Then to reach the desired size, which is relatively bigger than our normal rice, he had to gone through frying and steaming first before served. Well well, it's interesting as well as delicious. So you got the whole Mexican style by just having this dish – the poblano, jalapeno, and chipotle. Rich!
Huachinango a la Veracruzana
The last bastion of the main course came from the red snapper done in Veracruz style, the coastal old town where the Spanish first colonized Central America. That's also the very reason why this dish has a Spanish influence as seen from the red rice. The huachinango or red snapper was seared lightly and drown in style with Hass avocado puree which was really delicious, topped with black olives, green olives, and capers. These gave the snapper a complex flavor of buttery thickness came from avocado puree, unique flavors from olives and capers, and the juicy salmon as the main star. The Spanish part came with the red rice, fried with tomato sauce for the color. Majestic!
As for the closure, this talented chef who's also excelled in English and French, presented us with both Chocoflan and the eclectic chewy Churros with caramel sauce and jackfruit compote. What a way to finish the lovely lunch and although I really wanted to stay a bit longer, it was already almost 5 pm and gotta rush back home to beat the traffic!
Well, Chef Valdez presented us with what I call as a brilliant way to promote his country's tourism. Back then I had a jealousy over a friend who had her time enjoying Yucatan beach or at how people adore Acapulco and so on, but now I have more confidence to really travel there one day and discover more than just Tex-Mex.
Thank you Chef Valdez, until I see you someday soon at Westin Ubud!
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It's quite common here that sometimes we know better about European or Japanese food rather than our own cuisine. No matter how cliché that may be, there are also two regional cuisines that we don't really know much here in Indonesia. They came from Central America – mostly represented by Mexican cuisine, and the rest came from South America. I had small affairs with Colombian and Ecuadorian previously, but Mexican? Well, people would easily point either Chili's or Amigos here in Jakarta or the current trending Taco Local, locally handcrafted by my tutor Mr Sebastian Subakti for Mexican.
As for the rest? Nobody really know or even care much about it compared with those mainstream cuisines. But after I met Chef Lamberto Valdez, I really had to let myself bedazzled with his culinary genius! How could I not? A wonderful ten course of Mexican cuisine tailored by the Chef personally with the added bonus of immense knowledge about the background of each one of these beauties. Hats off, Chef!
Chef Lamberto Valdez
With his immense background in cooking for over 25 years, Mr Valdez appears young and dedicated. I can see through his conviction even before the lunch back in Bengawan – Keraton at The Plaza, Jakarta a month ago. He explained to me about his dishes he were about to present for us – totaling 10 majestic course, and he gave me some clues about it, during which I had to greet some friends I met there and he had to pause his explanations each time for a while, but that didn't stop him from telling me more about his creations. I like that attitude!
Grew up in Acapulco, a place where people dream to be although Mr Valdez said there's nothing special about it, the chef then went for a long-term culinary adventure back in the US after he had finished his apprenticeship. He's climbing up to the top with Le Meridien, J.W. Marriott, and Sheraton. He was even cooking for prestigious personalities during his tenure back in The Ritz Carlton Florida. From there, his long affair with Starwood group started and lasts until now. Started from W Hotel in Doha, he worked alongside Jean-Georges and chosen by Alain Ducasse to oversee an important project. Now, he's stationed in Westin Ubud – Bali and loaned to Keraton at The Plaza to showcase his talents temporarily.
Viva Mexico! last month was designed to introduce people with the richness of Mexican cuisine and a seasoned chef was assigned as the vanguard for this long standing heritage back since the Aztecs ruled the country. Let us fast forward to the first dish and also the beginning of a very long, engaging, and yet joyous lunch I've ever had in my whole life. Well, it lasted for almost 5 hours!
Classic Tortilla Soup
First was the Classic Tortilla Soup, thick and fresh, done in Aztec style and that means traditional. Corn, tortilla, chicken, tomato, cilantro, zucchini, and avocado all blended nicely. I happened to foolishly bite the whole Serrano chili (if I'm not mistaken with the species) and I had that burning sensation where my face became a bit sweaty and my glasses became foggy. So embarrassing but nobody saw it!
Guacamole with Tortilla chips
Secondly, Chef Valdez graciously presented us with the legendary guacamole done in two ways – first traditionally and the other one infused with chipotle (dried jalapeño). What made it so good, especially when you dip it with tortilla, was because of the high quality Hass avocado. Grown mostly in The States, Hass avocado was a variant of avocado found by a modest postman back in the beginning of 20th century and was originally ignored by people. Not until years later people then realized the mistake and it became one of the best avocado variants in the whole world plus it's also one of the most expensive. Its buttery texture was just rich and Chef Valdez made it so right that I cannot let both of these green beauties gone wasted. By the way, Chef Valdez loves to add goat cheese in his dishes and this guacamole was one of them. He said it was a classic add-on for Mexican cuisine.
Stuffed Bellpepper with Alaskan King Crab
Next we got a really pretty dish. It's a Ortega bell pepper, roasted with skins peeled and seeds removed, then filled with roasted fresh corns, Alaskan king crab, and goat cheese. The bell pepper itself was covered with egg whites and then pan-fried lightly. Salsa sauce was used as the dressing and there you go, a very heartwarming dish but light and appetizing. The bell pepper was not spicy at all and I just love the juicy texture combined with crab and corns.
Trio of Ceviche
For the fourth course, Chef Valdez prepared a dish not really originated from Mexico. It's the Peruvian pride of Trio de Ceviche done in three ways – salmon with coconut, ginger, and lime juice; shrimps with lemon juice, red onions, cilantro, and lime juice; then tuna with yuzu, ginger, and lemongrass. Well, this trio came in colorful and inviting but I'd still go with the original version – which was the one with shrimps. The Japanese cuisine inspired tuna and the salmon with coconut were nevertheless, intriguing.
In the next post, I will tell you more about the surprising creations of Chef Lamberto Valdez in three main courses plus two desserts. Oh my, that was so indulging and I gotta let you know that I drool (literally) while writing about this piece. Stay tune!


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The in-game band Broken Tide was struggling until it replaced two of its members, at which point the group became a huge success. While this situation could happen to many bands, it is possibly a reference to how The Beatles replaced their original drummer Pete Best with Ringo Starr and then achieved incredible success.
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When Eads' son was diagnosed with cancer, he retired earlier than he expected to tend to him. His son eventually died.
During these difficulties, Eads put his loans into multiple forbearances, which are temporary postponements of payments, during which interest accrues. The 71-year-old man now owes more than $60,000, more than double what he originally borrowed.
He and his wife now live off around $2,600 a month between both of their Social Security checks and a small pension he receives from his 20-year career as a chemist for the government.
Because he's enrolled in an income-driven repayment plan — which caps his monthly payments at a percentage of his income, he's not responsible for paying anything right now.
And when you're plagued by these issues and cannot work, disability insurance can help you bridge the pay funding gap.
You may be tempted to overlook disability coverage for another reason: cost.
Disability insurance is often more expensive than term life insurance, according to financial advisor Tom West, partner at Signature Estate & Investment Advisors, which leads many to neglect the coverage.
Yet when planning for clients, West said he actually puts disability coverage high on the list of priorities.
"The probability of missing six to nine months of work because of a car accident or a broken ankle is so much exponentially higher than dying prematurely for a lot of folks who are in their younger years," West said.
Long-term disability, which ordinarily kicks in after three to six months, typically costs 1 to 3 percent of a worker's annual salary, according to Policygenius.
Booking, which owns Europe's Booking.com and U.S. businesses including Priceline and Kayak, said on Monday that it shelled out $1.3 billion on "performance marketing" in the quarter, up from $1.2 billion a year earlier. That spending was "primarily related to the use of online search engines (primarily Google)," and other online services, according to Booking.
Google is such a critical piece of Booking's advertising budget because so many travelers search for trips with terms like "flight to New York" or "hotel in London." Booking is competing for that highly valued traffic with Expedia, TripAdvisor, Trivago and even Google's own services.
Mark Mahaney, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets, estimates that "north of 80%" of Booking's performance marketing expense goes to Google. That would equal over $1 billion and account for more than 3.6 percent of Google's total third-quarter advertising revenue.
But it's a complicated relationship.
As Booking has continued to bolster its yearly spend with Google, it's increasingly found itself in the position of being both a big customer and a competitor.
For example, Booking is vying for traffic with Google Flights and Google Hotels, which are known as metasearch products, meaning they aggregate data from online travel agencies like Priceline or Expedia, and then direct users to those and other sites to book their trips. A Google search for "flight from San Francisco to Chicago," brings up another Google page that lets the user type in dates and times.
In its most recent quarterly report, Booking mentions Google 52 times and highlights the risk of relying on Google for a "significant portion" of its traffic and bookings.
Facebook's head of policy, Joel Kaplan, was sitting in the U.S. Senate gallery Thursday behind Judge Brett Kavanaugh as he responded to allegations of sexual misbehavior when he was in high school.
Kaplan attended in a personal capacity as a friend of Kavanaugh's, according to a Facebook spokesperson. Both Kavanaugh and Kaplan worked for President George W. Bush.
It's a sensitive time for Facebook and the company's relationship with Washington, D.C., following the problems the platform faced ahead of the 2016 presidential election. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made multiple trips to the Capitol to testify in front of Congress, and a number of legislators have called for the company to be regulated.
The dollar is on a tear, and that means one thing: pack your bags.
The DXY U.S. dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of currencies, surged to year-to-date highs through August. That makes it relatively less expensive to travel to even the most far-flung destinations around the world.
At the same time, international airfares have also come down slightly making it even easier to stretch your budget on a vacation abroad.
So dust off your passport, here are the top trips to consider, according to the travel pros.
Workers in the U.S. took an average 17.2 vacation days in 2017, the highest level in seven years, CNBC reports. However, 52 percent of Americans still did not use their vacation days, based on research by U.S. Travel Association's Project: Time Off. A record 658 million vacation days went unused.
Given that research shows travel can bring happiness and make you more productive, this year, take advantage of your paid time off.
To help you maximize all your vacation time, here are five affordable and easy trips in the U.S. you can take for a quick getaway this fall to use three to five vacation days.
If you live in a big city, you've probably heard this question: Why own a car when you can just use a ride-hailing service?
It turns out that thinking you can save money that way may be another urban legend.
AAA compared how much you will pay for both in 20 U.S. cities.
It turns out that the average cost to own a car is $7,321 per year not including parking charges, or $10,049 with parking charges.
Those tallies are based on owning a medium sedan, plus additional costs like gas and insurance. The calculation was also based on driving 10,841 miles annually.
By contrast, ride-hailing services cost $20,118 per year to cover that same distance. That calculation includes the usage of a rental car for longer trips. The average driver takes 2.1 road trips per year, according to AAA.
Those costs do vary by city. Here is a breakdown of how much you stand to pay for ride-hailing based on where you live.
Uber first added e-bikes to its app in February, and acquired the bike-sharing company Jump for about $200m in April. Jump bikes are available in eight US cities, including New York, Washington and Denver, and are soon launching in Berlin.
Mr Khosrowshahi, who joined Uber a year ago, has also struck deals with Lime, an electric scooter company, and Masabi, a London-based app that provides mobile ticketing for public transport, with the aim of building what he calls an "urban mobility platform".
Besides transport, Uber has diversified into other business areas from food delivery to freight brokerage. He said no single product would serve the $6 trillion global mobility market and that the "ultimate competition" for Uber was car ownership, which it would try to disrupt in any way possible. He admitted that Uber makes less money from a bike ride than from the same journey in a car, but said he expected that impact to be offset if customers used the app for more journeys more regularly, an effect the company has already seen with cyclists in San Francisco.
Mr Khosrowshahi acknowledged that Uber drivers would feel the pinch from potential passengers opting for bikes, but said over the longer term, drivers would benefit from a higher proportion of more lucrative longer rides — and less congested roads.


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All my life, I'd believed that cheddar cheese was orange.
It was orange! That's how you distinguished it from mozzarella.
That was a fact, beyond the shadow of a doubt. Mozzarella cheese came in big white slabs, and cheddar cheese came in big orange ones. Even kids knew that.
Living in other countries teaches you many things—different languages, customs, cuisines—but I never expected the color of cheese to be one of them.
But after years of living overseas, I started to see that the foods I'd taken for granted in America were, in fact, in a class of their own … a class in which artificial colors, preservatives, and a long shelf life crowned the winners.
The color of the foods we eat isn't something we think about a lot. We know how food should look. Milk is white, bananas are yellow, yams are orange, and so forth. We take color for granted.
But the food industry doesn't.
It thinks about the color of food ALL the time.
Why do you think Cheetos are so orange? Or Skittle candies so rainbow? Why do you think they never used to make blue M&Ms?
The color of foods plays an important part in how appetizing they are.
Bright colors make food fun. No wonder so many of our snack foods come in eye-popping shades. Warm tones, like orange and red, make food more appetizing than cool hues like blue or purple.
Colors that intense can't be found in Mother Nature. They're made in the laboratory. Each shade is tested extensively before being marketed to consumers.
Surely there's nothing wrong with helping food look its best. Orange cheese, white cheese, what's the difference?
The issue isn't the color. It's how the color is made.
Food colorings can be made in two ways. They can be made naturally from organic sources, or they can be made artificially in the lab.
Artificial colors are cheaper to produce, easier to customize to a specific hue, and have a longer shelf life. No wonder food manufacturers love them!
Few remember it now, but back in 1976 M&M discontinued the red version of their candy for a decade, due to health concerns over the most popular red food coloring at the time, Red No. 2.
In fact, food dyes have become such a source of concern in the European Union that in 2010 the EU banned artificial colorings in foods intended for infants or young children.
The candy jars in the local sweet shops didn't go gray overnight. European candy is still a rainbow of colors. It's just that those colors are derived from natural sources, like carotenoids and chlorophyll. Consumers don't notice the difference.
The EU feels so strongly about the issue that artificially-colored food imported from the US must carry a warning label.
I was browsing the aisles of the local supermarket in Sussex, England when I made a thrilling discovering. There in their foreign foods aisle—sandwiched between the Irish and Jamaican food—was an American section!
It sold such exotic delicacies as Aunt Jemima syrup, Crisco shortening, Lucky Charms, and Butterfinger bars.
May have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children?
My beloved American food—this gift my country shared with the world—carried a sticker of shame.
The breakfast cereal boxes were just as bad. Every single one contained a label warning European consumers about a potential adverse effect on children.
These were cereals marketed to children. Why weren't these labels required in my own country?
I left the supermarket stunned, clutching a box of Reese's Puffs to my chest.
I loved American breakfast cereal, and yet I'd had no idea. I'd thought the only problem was the high sugar content. How could any parent knowingly feed this stuff to their child again?
Then I started talking to people.
I met American mothers who couldn't feed those cereals to their children. Not out of some position of moral authority, but because their children's behavior was adversely affected. Just as the EU label predicted.
If it's doing that to our children, what is it doing to us?
Like most American mothers, I'm always reaching for the cheddar cheese when it comes to making meals. Cheese makes everything taste better.
But what's in that cheese?
Cheese is made from milk. Milk is white. Therefore, all cheese is white, unless something has been added to it … like mold in the case of blue cheese, or a food dye (usually annatto, which has also been linked to hyperactivity in children) in the case of cheddar.
European cheddar cheese is as white as milk. It's gorgeous.
So why can't our cheddar free itself from orange expectations?
It turns out I didn't have to worry about confusing cheddar for mozzarella in foreign grocery stores after all. European mozzarella comes in a little ball, surrounded with a water or brine solution.
These days, I do my part. I hunt for the dye-free "white" cheddar. I look for the "no artificial colors" label. Little by little, as customers change, food manufacturers will, too. You don't need a chemistry lab to make a rainbow.


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The Benedetti Foundation announces new Baroque virtual sessions
From 26 September to 2 October the Benedetti Foundation is offering virtual and live online sessions to all musicians interested in experiencing the world of Baroque music
Saffron Walden Session © Sara Platt
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The Benedetti Foundation has announced its latest project, 'Baroque Virtual Sessions' taking place from 26 September to 2 October.
The sessions will be led by a team of international Baroque specialists including Rachel Podger (violin), Clifton Harrison (viola), David Watkin (cello), and Carina Cosgrave (double bass).
The Baroque sessions will be split into three events, including live online sessions on 1 and 2 October. From Monday 26 to Friday 30, the Benedetti Foundation's website and social media platforms will becoming filled with short participation and information videos from the experts, with cellist David Watkins hosting part 2 of the Discovering Baroque series on the foundation's YouTube channel.
The live online sessions over Zoom will be a chance for participants to meet the experts in a series of hour-long sessions exploring the energetic and revolutionary world of baroque music through the experts' own instruments. Participants have the option to join the Zoom sessions live or watch later as sessions will be recorded and available to watch for three months.
Nicola Benedetti said: 'Enter into this world with us and you won't look back. The more you hear and experience and learn, the more you are desperate to know. This music can unlock a freedom inside of us. I have experienced it myself and I am desperate for everyone else to experience that too. I really hope you will join our incredible team of Baroque musicians to discover more about this joyous music.'
The Benedetti Foundation prides itself on being accessible to all with many of the events free for all participants. The live online sessions cost £15 but there is the opportunity to apply for a bursary to cover the cost for those most in need. Registration is open until Friday 30 September via the link.
The Benedetti Foundation was established in 2019 by violinist and music educator Nicola Benedetti with the aim to deliver transformative experiences through mass music education and unite those who believe music is integral to life's education.
Read: All for one: Nicola Benedetti
Read: In the Green Room: Interview with Nicola Benedetti
Read: Violinist Nicola Benedetti to receive honorary fellowship
Concert review: Nicola Benedetti (violin) Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Maxim Emelyanychev
David Kettle attends the world premiere of James MacMillan's Violin Concerto no.2 at Perth Concert Hall on 28 September 2022
Toronto Symphony Orchestra announces five new string appointments
Ahead of its centenary, the orchestra has appointed a new principal violist and expanded the cello section by a third
New York Philharmonic appoints three new violinists
The three violinists mark the first post-pandemic appointments
The violinist and conductor will begin the role in October 2023


Linden-hornbeam oak forests in Grabove ravine can be regarded as the easternmost outpost of the massive distribution of the hornbeam in Ukraine. The material for this paper was collected in Belenschina Village (Piatikhatskyi District, Dnepropetrovsk Region) since May to June 2009 using pitfall traps. Glass jars of 0,5 liter volume containing 2 % formalin served as pitfall traps. There are 524 trap-days were spent and 402 specimens were collected. A total 18 spider species from 9 families are recorded. This result does not reflect the actual species richness in Grabove ravine. There is a need to take further research to complete the spider species list. Maximal species richness and abundance characterize families Lycosidae (5 species, 84,1 % specimens) and Thomisidae (3 species, 7,3 % specimens). The largest number of spider species was recorded in the lower third of the southern slope (11 species), the largest value of dynamic density was in the middle third of the southern slope (154,4 specimens/100 trap-days). The minimal species richness (5 species) was found in the middle third of the northern slope. The lowest values of dynamic density were recorded in the lower third of the northern slope (39,4 specimens/100 trap-days).
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Polchaninova, N. Yu., & Prokopenko, E. V. (2013). Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement N0.2. M.: KMK Scientific Press Ltd., 1-268.
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Underwater Archeology
Kozak boat discovered in Dnipro River
In Underwater Archeology
By Tetyana Boychenko and Roman Feshchenko - Kyiv Post
Archaeologists retrieved a rare treasure in November from the bottom of Ukraine's Dnipro River near the city of Zaporizhya.
After raging wars some 300 years ago, a Kozak (Cossack) boat rested, waiting to be discovered under water off Ukraine's largest island and historical stronghold Khortytsya.
Historians regale in the new finding, claiming it to be the only well-preserved artifact of 18th century Ukrainian shipbuilding. Sediment apparently helped preserve much of the boat's structure, making it much more than a retrieved pile of wood.
The story of Ukraine's first freedom fighters, which can be traced behind the water-soaked beams and masts, is what makes this find truly special.
The boat is like a time capsule representing an important part of Ukraine's history. Historians think the boat participated in the 1735-1739 Russian war against the Turks and most likely was part of the Dnipro Flotilla.
It was discovered at Zaporizka Sich, a fort compound established by Ukrainian Kozak warriors in the 16th century on the Dnipro islands.
It was a place where enslaved peasants could find shelter and join the free-spirited warriors. Fighting Turks, Poles and Russians in different times, this group of Ukrainian diehards eventually grew into a strong republic – a prototype of the independent Ukrainian state.
The reason for unleashing the war in which the boat allegedly took part were numerous attacks by Crimean Tatars, the Ottoman Empire vassals, against left-bank Ukraine, which was then controlled by the Russian Empire.
The war was also a part of Russia's campaign to gain access to the Black Sea.
Cossack vessels were the main force to resist Turkish galleys in the Black Sea.
With a capacity to carry up to 40 people on board, it is 17 meters long and 3.4 meters wide.
Kozak boat Dnipro River Ukraine city of Zaporizhya Khortytsya Black Sea


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It is too large. What I have done is only change the abi configuration in build.gragle.
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There is a additional requirement that the so libraries should not be compressed by set android:extractNativeLibs="false" in Manifest.xml
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Manufacturers are notorious for prolonging the use of their legacy systems. Similar to those of us with automobiles that somehow keep running with only a few hundred dollars in annual repair costs, it is hard to change. However, unlike automobiles, continued legacy system usage can thwart progress and potential growth.


In keeping with our long tradition of supporting the region's unique cultural heritage, we announced the 2018 Essex Heritage Partnership Grant Program recipients at our spring meeting in Saugus on April 5. Over the next year, the 12 grant recipients will be working to implement a diverse range of educational, interpretive, and preservation projects throughout Boston's North Shore and the Merrimack Valley.
Lowell's Boat Shop in Amesbury, will be carrying out urgent and emergency projects including the structural repair, stabilization, and shoring of facility footings and foundation piers, which are being eroded and causing the building to sag. Funding from the Essex Heritage grant program will enable Lowell's Boat Shop to construct a proper footing that would mitigate erosion and allow them to slowly return the structure back to level and set it on a foundation pier that will be permanently stable.
Based on a successful 2017 pilot program intended to augment a lack of local history in the school curriculum until 3rd grade or even high school, Andover Historical Society will be offering "Discovering my Neighborhood," in which students will examine objects, photographs, and maps that tell the story of their neighborhood and the town. Students will be able to consider how Andover has changed, how it stayed the same, and how it might change in the future. The program will be tailored to each neighborhood, the historical development of Andover being reflected in its five school districts.
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Taking place September 3rd in the historic Campagnone Common, Partnership Grant funding will be used to make possible The Bread and Roses Labor Day Heritage Festival, a unique event commemorating the Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912, now known world-wide as the Bread and Roses Strike. The free, family-oriented event that hosts the city's many community organizations, educational workshops, and discussions on historical and contemporary issues aims to bridge the relationship between the immigrants of the past and present by revealing common struggle through music, theater, dance, food, art, historical tours, presentations, and family activities. Historical interpretation occurs through guided trolley tours, walking tours, at talks and discussions at the Lawrence History Live! tent, and by exhibitors in our History and Labor area.
With the goal of maintaining and protecting the 1768 Jeremiah Lee Mansion, the Marblehead Museum will be working to continue re-stabilizing the 20 front windows of the building using a durable putty to seal the glass to the frames and secure all framing members, effectively protecting the mansion and sealing out the elements. The two-to-four week long project will be carried out this summer, proactively preventing the glass from coming loose from the frames, and moisture being allowed to continue damaging the internal plaster and floors.
The Middleton Stream Team with utilize their Essex Heritage grant in order to construct an unpaved walking path in the Henry Tragert Town Common, along which they will place unobtrusive interpretive signage displaying short narratives on the natural and historical significance of the area.
The Historical Society of Old Newbury will use their partnership grant to update their current museum, which was last updated in 1995 and was victim to unfortunate water damage. Partnering with five local schools to offer new programming, the museum will be turning its focus to its collections and exhibits relating to the American Revolution and Civil War to provide deeper interpretation of these two major conflicts that figure prominently in local history. The update will also ensure that these events are well-represented by the museum's collections, and align with the curricular interests of local school groups by paying special attention to the events effects on a local level.
Theater in the Open will utilize an Essex Heritage grant to engage a qualified contractor to repair the roof and help to replace the exterior shingles of the Maudslay Gatekeeper's House garage and garden, designed by William Gibbons Rantoul and built in 1903. The garage and garden are both highly visible from the road, making a big impact on the appearance of the Gatekeeper's House to all visitors to Maudslay State Park. This spring, visitors will also see a completely restored entrance porch to the main house and significant improvement to the grounds.
Thacher Island Association will replace the original c. 1850, 220-foot granite and wooden timber walkway to provide safe and easy access for the public to visit the lighthouse. This walkway has been there since 1854 but was destroyed sometime in the 1930's. Besides its usefulness it has also been an iconic signature of the island's profile for over 80 years. The walkway provided access from the keepers house to the lighthouse, and the rebuilt walkway will serve the same function for visitors to the lighthouse once the island is reopened to the public next year.
Arriving in Salem from Curacao in 1798, John Redmond took up living quarters in an apartment at Hamilton Hall, serving as its caretaker upon its completion in 1805. Working as a barber, caterer, and restauranteur, Redmond became the preferred caterer and provisioner for all social events at the Hall, and over time he came to be known as "principal restauranteur" in Salem, and his family went on to be active in the early abolitionist movement. Hamilton Hall will use their partnership grant to develop inclusive narrative content about John Redmond's life and the role that he played in Salem and Hamilton Hall's early history, complemented by visual interpretive aids to broaden their reach to better reflect the culture and population of Salem.
Originally built in 1683 and largely unaltered, the wood frame edifice of the Parson Joseph Capen House is a well-known icon arguably ranking among the most architecturally significant structures in the Essex National Heritage Area and is considered by many authorities to be one the finest extant examples of Colonial Era architecture anywhere. The Topsfield Historical Society will use their Essex Heritage grant to replace deteriorating clapboarding of various materials – including oak, pine and cedar – and prevent damage to and decay of the structure caused by allowing moisture to penetrate the frame.
Using their partnership grant from Essex Heritage, the Wenham Museum will create an interactive exhibit devoted to Col. Timothy Pickering's life in Wenham, his impact on agriculture, and his role in founding the Essex Agricultural Society, as well as improving the museum's Pickering Library. As the Topsfield Fair marks its 200th anniversary, the Town of Wenham also celebrates its 375th anniversary and the Wenham Museum its 95th anniversary. To highlight an important and often overlooked facet of local history, the museum seeks to install this exhibition on Col. Timothy Pickering, whose legacy is common to all of these entities, this year. In the exhibit, visitors will see historic Pickering Family textiles, such as a crest and wedding coat. Correspondence, reproductions of portraits, a family tree, visual interpretations of agricultural "best practices," and text relating to the founding of the Essex Agricultural Society will also be included.
The Essex Heritage Partnership Grant Program is a matching grant program created to foster and support the stewardship activities of municipalities and organizations that share Essex Heritage's mission to preserve and enhance the historic, cultural and natural resources of the Essex National Heritage Area (Essex County). Impacting many in the region, the 20-year old program has invested more than $1.5 million in support of the region's nationally significant heritage.


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Barty scored the biggest win of her career with a surprise 3-6 6-4 6-3 success over former French Open champion, Garbine Muguruza, and Kvitova is into her first grass-court final in three years after her semi-final opponent, Lucie Safarova, retired after just eight games.
In the first match of the day on Centre Court, the all-Czech affair between Fed Cup teammates Kvitova and Safarova ended in disappointing circumstances.
It had been a taxing route through to the last four for Safarova – whose quarter-final match with Daria Gavrilova took three hours to complete – and a thigh strain put an end to her hopes of winning an 8th career title.
Kvitova won seven of the eight games played before Safarova called it quits. The two-time Wimbledon champion, in just her second tournament back after being stabbed in the hand last December, was in excellent form before the contest was halted.
After her win, the 27-year-old said: "I'm sorry for her [Safarova] that she's unhealthy, and I hope she will be better soon. I'm happy that I'm in the final, but the way I am going in is a bit weird. The hand is good, which is the best news which I can have, and I am not feeling any pain.
"I am happy that I am able to show good tennis here. I played four matches already, so it's a good record and good preparation for the final."
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The second semi-final between Barty and Muguruza was an entertaining duel. The Spaniard made a bright start and she dropped just five points behind her serve as she comfortably claimed the opener by six games to three.
The Australian had never defeated a top 20 player however she stuck to her task and began to reduce the deficit. Barty upped the pace on her forehand and her wicked backhand slice inflicted significant damage as she restored parity on the scoreboard.
Barty maintained her high level of play in the decider and she stormed into a 5-1 lead. Muguruza continued to scrap and she won a couple more games before the unassuming Australian fired a backhand winner down the line to reach her first grass-court final.
"It's really cool to be in the final." said Barty. "It was nice to come out here and execute what we wanted to do – and to come away with the win is a bonus. For me it's important to use my slice on the grass. I love coming out here and slicing away and getting purchase off the court, so today which was really pleasing."
In the first semi-final at the Mallorca Open, Julia Görges defeated Catherine Bellis 6-1 6-1 in just 59 minutes. The German will play Anastasija Sevastova, who defeated Caroline Garcia 6-4 6-2.
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No sistema operacional Linux, LinuxThreads foi uma implementação parcial do POSIX Threads que foi substituída pelo Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL).

O LinuxThreads possui vários problemas devido à implementação, que utilizou a chamada clone para criar um novo processo que compartilhasse o mesmo espaço de endereçamento que o processo pai. Por exemplo, threads possuíam diferentes identificadores de processos o que causa problemas para os tratadores de sinal; LinuxThreads usou os sinais SIGUSR1 e SIGUSR2 para coordenação entre threads, tornando estes sinais indisponíveis aos programas.

Para melhorar a situação, dois novos projetos foram iniciados para desenvolver um substituto: Next Generation POSIX Threads (NGPT) e o Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL). Este último foi o vencedor e é distribuído com a maior parte dos sistemas Linux. LinuxThreads ainda pode ser visto em sistemas em produção, particularmente os que utilizam a versão 2.4 ou inferior do núcleo Linux, dado que os requisitos para executar o NPTL foram adicionados apenas na versão 2.6 do linux.

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Pałac Lubomirskich – pałac znajdujący się przy placu Żelaznej Bramy 10 w Warszawie.

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W XVIII wieku rodzina Radziwiłłów kupiła północne tereny podwarszawskiego miasteczka Wielopole. Przed 1712 wybudowała tam swoją posiadłość. W 1730 r. pałac należał już do architekta Jana Zygmunta Deybla. W 1760 w pałacu zaczęła się przebudowa w stylu późnobarokowym, lecz nie została zakończona. Pracami remontowymi kierował Jakub Fontana.

W 1790 r. rezydencję z przylegającymi terenami kupił Aleksander Lubomirski. W latach 1791–1793 pałac przebudowano w stylu klasycystycznym według projektu Jakuba Hempla. Między innymi została dodana kolumnada, składająca się z 10 potężnych kolumn oraz piętrowe oficyny od podwórza i piętro w korpusie głównym. W latach 90. XVIII wieku w pałacu mieszkała m.in. Rozalia Lubomirska, żona Aleksandra Lubomirskiego, jedyna Polka ścięta na gilotynie w czasie Wielkiej Rewolucji Francuskiej.

W 1816 r. córka Aleksandra Lubomirskiego sprzedała pałac generałowi Izydorowi Krasińskiemu. W latach 1828–1834 pałac był własnością rządu Królestwa Polskiego mieszcząc urzędy i lazaret podczas powstania listopadowego. W 1834 r. posiadłość kupił finansista Abraham Simon Cohen. W tym okresie często przebudowywano pałac, aby mógł przynosić jak największe zyski. Umieszczono tu sklepy, stragany i małe mieszkania, a handlowy charakter budynku spotęgowało wybudowanie Gościnnego Dworu, w 1841 roku. W 1858, właścicielem budynku został Icek Blass z Góry Kalwarii. W pałacu urządzono "sale wiedeńskie", gdzie odbywały się publiczne potańcówki. Prawdopodobnie w 1872 na piętrze pałacu powstała synagoga, która funkcjonowała tam do 1940.

Nieremontowany pałac, przez wiek XIX i początki XX wieku podupadał. W 1928 Wacław Moszkowski przekształcił pałac na kamienicę i podwyższył o jedno piętro, niszcząc jego zabytkowy charakter.

W 1938 budowlę kupił Urząd Miasta Warszawy i wówczas podjęto decyzję o renowacji. Do realizacji planów nie doszło ze względu na wybuch II wojny światowej. Już w pierwszych dniach wojny doszło do zniszczenia pałacu. Podczas oblężenia Warszawy we wrześniu 1939 r. Niemcy spalili budowlę.

Po wojnie pałac odbudowano. W latach 1947–1950 pod kierunkiem Tadeusza Żurowskiego prowadzono prace budowlane, pałac odbudowywano kierując się klasycystycznym projektem Jakuba Hempla.

W 1970 zdecydowano o przesunięciu pałacu z pierwotnego miejsca w taki sposób, aby zasłonił Halę Gwardii, a jego kolumnada zamknęła perspektywę głównej alei Ogrodu Saskiego. Pomysłodawcą operacji był Marian Spychalski, a opracował ją Aleksander Mostowski. Operacja obrotu trwała półtora miesiąca, od 30 marca do 18 maja 1970. Pałac odcięto od murów i fundamentów i na specjalnych kratownicach, po torach, powoli przesuwano na wyznaczone miejsce. W efekcie budowlę z powodzeniem obrócono o 74 stopnie. Część kratownic i podtorza (belki obrzeżne) została pod pałacem.

W 1985 przed pałacem wzniesiono monumentalny pomnik Poległym w Służbie i Obronie Polski Ludowej autorstwa Jana Bohdana Chmielewskiego, nazywany przez warszawiaków "pomnikiem utrwalaczy" lub "ubeliskiem". Monument rozebrano w 1991 r.

16 listopada 2010 r. przed pałacem Lubomirskich odsłonięto Pomnik Tadeusza Kościuszki ufundowany przez bank Citi Handlowy. Pomnik jest repliką pomnika autorstwa Antoniego Popiela, odsłoniętego w Waszyngtonie 9 maja 1910 r.

Obecnie w pałacu swoje siedziby mają Business Centre Club, Centrum Prasowe Pałac Lubomirskich oraz Uczelnia Warszawska im. Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie.

Na fasadzie budynku (od strony wschodniej) znajduje się odsłonięta w marcu 1952 r.  tablica upamiętniająca obrzucenie 15 sierpnia 1943 granatami przez oddział Gwardii Ludowej tramwaju z hitlerowcami.

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Michael Gerson: With Clinton, Democrats may be coronating a wounded queen
Michael Gerson
The most surprising revelation in recent presidential polling is not that Donald Trump has low favorability in key states — a welcome indicator of national sanity — but rather that Hillary Clinton's numbers are almost as bad. Put another way: A vacuous, gaffe-prone, xenophobic, conspiracy-minded reality television star whose nomination, by most accounts, would destroy the GOP has about the same approval ratings in Colorado and Iowa as the prohibitive favorite for the Democratic nomination.
A recognition begins to dawn: Democrats may be coronating a wounded queen.
Horse race polling conducted early in a presidential contest means very little, as President Fred Thompson and President Howard Dean can attest. But while early polls are not predictive of outcomes, they can be indicative of weaknesses. In a recent CNN/ORC poll, 57 percent of adults did not consider Clinton honest and trustworthy. According to an AP-Gfk poll, only 31 percent of likely voters think the word "honest" describes Clinton well. And in a recent Quinnipiac poll of key states, 59 percent of Iowa voters, 55 percent of Virginia voters and 62 percent of Colorado voters did not believe that Clinton is honest and trustworthy.
Clinton's response? "People should, and do, trust me." A statement not particularly worthy of trust.
One of the lively debates among conservatives over the last several months has been: Is Clinton a strong candidate or a weak one? I have been on the "strong" side. She is knowledgeable, tough, experienced and certainly imaginable as president. She has almost managed the remarkable achievement of clearing the Democratic field through a perception of her own inevitability and a reputation for remembering disloyalty.
But arguments on the "weak" side are getting stronger. Since her video announcement in April, perceptions of Clinton's character and leadership have worsened — which is not really the purpose of a campaign. Her vulnerability on the populist left — Sen. Bernie Sanders is supported by a majority of white Democratic liberals — has shifted Clinton's candidacy decisively to the left. And the candidate looks as comfortable in this overcorrection as Mitt Romney did in his "severely conservative" phase.
And then there are the emails — at least the ones that haven't been erased at her own discretion. Congressional investigations and referrals to the Justice Department "related to the potential compromise of classified information" will continue to be untieable loose ends. Clinton will find it impossible to contend she has nothing to hide while hiding her personal server from forensic scrutiny. (One imagines it is stored somewhere in the warehouse at the end of "Raiders of the Lost Ark.")
Clinton asserts she has violated no rules or laws. This brings back so many memories. During the Clinton era, rules were not generally violated; they were skirted, reinterpreted, navigated, twisted, kneaded and massaged. Americans always cut Bill Clinton slack, giving him the benefit of many doubts. Hillary Clinton — lacking most of her husband's preternatural political skills — may not have the same luxury.
Senior Democrats are seeing what the rest of us see — a Clinton campaign that is burning money and losing ground. At what point do party leaders begin a panicked search for alternatives? Not yet. But when? "When public sentiment consistently falls in this [polling] category," a former Democratic official told me. "When people say enough is enough and can't deal with the Clinton psychodrama anymore. They (both Clintons) feel this is the normal condition."
This former official thinks that Clinton has the month of August to right her listing campaign. If that doesn't happen, Vice President Joe Biden's colorful trial balloon may rise. And when a candidate's main argument is inevitability — as Clinton's is — doubts are a crack in the ice that quickly spreads.
I'll admit, I am still not convinced that Clinton is a weak candidate, at least for her party's nomination. Biden, for all his dizzy charm, is less imaginable as president than Clinton. Also, she has a wicked inside political game. Nearly half of the Democratic congressional delegation has endorsed her. Her campaign has effectively courted the key Democratic interest groups. And, harder to quantify, Clinton has generated a network of loyalty by being a thoughtful, caring person in private. As we saw in 2008, she is most attractive as a politician when she is most vulnerable.
If adversity reveals a different side to Clinton — currently masked by the candidate's own wooden style — it could strengthen her candidacy. This challenge, while not expected so early, was inevitable. The test is either useful, or politically fatal.
Email Michael Gerson at michaelgerson@washpost.com.


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