* Currencies' attempt to come back is foiled!
"Ian Telfer, chairman of Goldcorp Inc., is the latest industry magnate to predict the world has reached "peak gold," saying that from here on out, mine production will continue to decline because all the major deposits have been discovered.
Of course, I just made that up, but I swear I can here them saying that! HA!
Yesterday, the Aussie dollar (A$) slipped below 75-cents, but that didn't last too long, as Aussie employment printed last night and was much stronger than expected, and that got the ball rolling for the A$, which is back above 75-cents again this morning.
The U.S. Data Cupboard yesterday saw Industrial Production, led by mining, beat the expectations in April. But Capacity Utilization slipped lower, so it was as my dad used to say, "6 of one and half a dozen of the other"… Today's Cupboard has the Leading Indicators, and the Philly Index (manufacturing for that region)… And while Leading Indicators should be viewed with more intensity, neither of these two will move the markets if they print wildly up or down.
To recap… The dollar buying took a pause for the cause yesterday, and overnight the currencies attempted a coup only to be beaten back by the dollar. Gold lost 10-cents yesterday but is down $3 in the early morning trading today, and Chuck prints a quote about "peak Gold"… Aussie employment beat the expectations, and the price of Oil is up to a $72 handle this morning!
Or, here's your snippet: "Many Americans cite leading a stress-free life and having "peace of mind" as their personal definition of wealth. That doesn't sound too money-centric on the face of it—until you consider that money, or specifically the lack of it, is a major source of stress.
Chuck Again… It's about what you do with your money, folks… And that "net worth" thing is very important!
That's it for today… I've talked about my writing desk and the pictures I have tacked up so I can see them as I write each day… I noticed a picture today that was new to the arrangement. Kathy snuck a picture of me, with long hair on the wall… I cringed when I saw it… I sure was a lot "smaller" in size back in the day! I'm going to hide that picture! Well, I think that I'm going to get together with some former colleagues tomorrow for Happy Hour, that should be fun seeing everyone again. I haven't seen a lot of them since my "retirement party" last year. So, I've got that going for me this weekend… Johnny Rivers takes us to the finish line today with his song: Secret Agent Man… I hope you have a Tub Thumpin' Thursday, and that your Friday tomorrow is Fantastico! But please, always remember to Be Good To Yourself!
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Dishin' the Dirt: Johnny Chan of Sing Yin Cantonese Dining
Dishin' the Dirt
By The Loop HK Staff | September 7th, 2020
At the helm of Sing Yin Cantonese Dining at the W Hong Kong, Executive Chinese Chef Johnny Chan is constantly looking to elevate the Cantonese dining experience. Food has long been part of Chan's life – his culinary journey began at home, as he helped to cook for his younger siblings while his parents were at work.
Since his arrival in Hong Kong, Chan's worked in some of the city's most famous Chinese restaurants and even helped a particularly well-known fine-dining eatery gain Michelin star status. Now, he's brought over 30 years of experience to bear on the restaurant's recently launched Exquisite Delights set menu. We spoke to Chan about his East-meets-West approach to cooking and his determination to innovate in line with current food trends.
How did you get into food and cooking?
When I was small, my mum was taking care of everything at home. As the eldest son, I was responsible for helping out and looking after my siblings. This marked the beginning of my journey with food. I assisted my mom with food preparation at home and had so much fun with that.
When I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, the food industry was just starting to thrive. Being a chef was quite common among my peers, and so I got into the industry as an apprentice chef.
What training did you do to become a chef?
Not much official training was needed. As an apprentice, I assisted the chefs and learned my cooking skills from them. I learned through observation, taking note of every detail; any spare time I had, I practised. I also acquired some culinary skills myself and got to know more about food and its characteristics while dining out and discussing food with others.
What do you think are the most important attributes for a chef?
Patience and perseverance. You have to stay in a hot, stuffy kitchen for long hours with burning hot woks. Taste is also important. You have to enhance your skills by identifying the tastes and matching the food you have in mind. You also have to stay focused on what you're doing to ensure the food is properly managed.
Most importantly, you have to have a passion for food and cooking. You have to love what you're doing and overcome many hurdles on your way to becoming a good chef.
What makes a good dish?
A good dish should be tasty with an appealing presentation. The ingredients have to be fresh and handled with exquisite cooking skills to ensure a quality dish.
What influences your cooking style?
Throughout my journey as a chef, my superiors have influenced my cooking style. By learning from my masters and observing their ways of cooking, I developed my style; my personal food preference and experience also had an influence.
Trends are also important in my cooking style. I change my style with reference to the prevailing trends, including healthy dishes, innovative ingredients, and incorporating special food items and cooking methods in my dishes. Chefs have to learn from current trends and explore more possibilities.
What's your process for creating a dish?
The first step is to choose the ingredients based on seasonality. After deciding the main ingredients, I will figure out different combinations to match with the theme and think of suitable cooking methods. Once I've got the initial creation, our team will try and comment on it so we can revise and improve; we repeat the whole process until we create a satisfying dish.
What do you consider to be the standout moments of your career?
Of course, guests' appreciation and compliments are the most satisfying moments for me.
However, there was a time I was asked to create a new menu for a luncheon for general managers from various prestigious hotels in just one day. The task was challenging as I had to create an extraordinary menu within one day, and we have to ensure the menu could go beyond the guests' expectation. So our team, including myself, worked very hard on the menu, from sourcing to cooking, we did not compromise any detail, despite the limited time.
At last, we managed to get the menu sorted. It was praised by every general manager and they even wrote thank you letters to show their appreciation. It was very rewarding. I am also glad to have a good team of chefs with me, who put in a lot of effort and worked together as a great team. So, I would regard this as the standout moment of my career.
Chinese cooking is very different from Western cooking. What skills do you think are necessary to become a successful Chinese chef?
A successful Chinese chef must be a good team player. Compared to Western cooking, Chinese cooking involves much more teamwork as each dish requires different cooking processes; chefs have to work closely and communicate well. Thus, maintaining good relationships within the team is essential to become a successful Chinese chef.
Another necessary skill is physical strength. As Chinese cuisine emphasizes Wok Hei (鑊氣), a Chinese chef has to hold a wok and other cooking apparatus from time to time, which requires physical strength.
You've cooked at several prestigious restaurants, including Michelin-starred eateries. What did you learn from these experiences?
I would say I have learned their meticulous attitude. The master chefs at [my previous Michelin-starred restaurant] were very demanding and strict – every chef had good self-discipline, and they always paid attention to every single detail, from selecting ingredients to plating. By working there, I know their success is a result of their discipline and meticulously; I've also trained myself and my team to be meticulous.
You've just launched a new signature tasting menu at Sing Yin. How did you go about creating this?
I tried to create an innovative menu with new ingredient combinations and tastes. I wanted to incorporate the ideas of Western cuisine into this menu by cooking Western ingredients in a Chinese style. That's why I created dishes like braised lobster soup with bird's nest and seafood, and sautéed Australian Wagyu beef with wild mushroom and black truffle sauce in a crispy bun.
The idea came from the trend of fusion cuisine. It took a lot of repeated trials and recipe amendments before we finally finished the menu. Chefs from different hotels and restaurants meet regularly to exchange ideas and talk about food trends and the preferences of our guests; it's a great way for us to brainstorm new ideas and create new dishes and menus.
What do you hope guests will take away from their experience at Sing Yin?
I hope guests will enjoy their experience at Sing Yin Cantonese Dining – not just our food, but also their interactions with our talent. I always personally greet the guests and interact with them, listen to them, and review our menu and service in order to make their experience more memorable and delightful.
I also hope guests at Sing Yin Cantonese Dining have a feeling of being at home. I want them to feel like they can have any dish they want. Guests should feel free to approach us for special dishes, such as something from their hometown cuisine – we'll try our best to cook those dishes. We always want to go beyond our guests' expectations and welcome them back as old friends when they return.
A Dishin' the Dirt profile.
Sing Yin Cantonese Dining
W Hong Kong

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Thanks also to you for your very relaxed & welcoming approach.


I arrived at Ren Fest at 10:05, just in time to hear the King order the gates of Revel Grove open. I just wandered and window shopped for about forty-five minutes. I got a couple of good pictures of King Henry and the dancers but nothing else much happened until I got to Unicorn Strings. There I bought a new book, Big and Easy Songbook, and spent some time chatting with Gene about Harley and dogs in general. Ashley, the new girl, asked me to teach her to play Amazing Grace, which is the only song I play reasonably well on the psaltery. I did, but she's having trouble with playing three notes as one. She'll get it soon, I'm sure. Gene is a great teacher. I hope they don't mind me hanging out there. It keeps me from getting lonely or bored when I'm there all alone for nine hours a day.
Gene told me about a book he recommends, Pattern Recognition by William Gibson, so I pulled out my Blackberry and ordered it from Amazon. I would have gotten the other one he recommended, but it was too expensive, so I just emailed the name to myself and put a hold on it at the library when I got home tonight.
While I was there, I got out my psaltery and played until my hips started to hurt. Then I sat down on the bench across from them and Princess Anne, King Henry's new prospective wife, stopped to listen to me! I get really fumblefingered when someone is listening but I managed to make it through Amazing Grace with only a couple of mistakes. She was very gracious and it was fun to be part of the show for just a few minutes. It's funny, I know these guys and gals are just normal people playing parts, but (maybe it's my history in that online roleplaying game) but I can't treat royalty like commoners. I have even met King Henry out of character and know his real name, but to me, at Ren Fest at least, he is the king. It wouldn't be nearly as much fun if he weren't.
After a while I packed up my psaltery and walked down to get chicken on a stick for lunch and watched the Rat Man show while I ate. He is so corny and funny and shameless. I wandered toward the Globe Theatre, picking up a couple of pewter trinkets and then chatting about writing with the guy at the chair store. I sat outside of Bullseye and played for a few minutes before making my way to the Globe Theatre. I watched lots of shows today, and my back is hurting from the backless benches, but the shows were all good. I was glad to see that the regular "Other Guy" from Bloody Drama Comedy Show is back. I like him a lot, not as much as Bob, but that's a given. Shakespeare Skum was in rare form today, something about the heat probably. Then, I hadn't planned on watching the Washington Revels, but they sort of guilted us into staying after Shakespeare Skum, and I'm glad because they were good.
I have been tempted to cheat on my diet this weekend, but have not done so. I had a few too many almonds today, but nothing else that I shouldn't have. I was tempted a few times, either by smells or by habits from last year, but I resisted and I am so proud of myself. I really hope to lose weight this fest, rather than gaining like I did last year.
I ended my day at Unicorn Strings, picking up my new book which I hadn't wanted to carry. Gene tells me that he is designing a new version of his psaltery, using CAD and computers to do the cutting. I don't understand it all, but I can't wait to see the results.
Unfortunately, I realized as I was talking to Gene that somewhere after the Globe Theatre and before Unicorn Strings I had managed to lose my purple and green flogger. I went to lost and found, but it wasn't there. I am losing way too much this year, which is odd because I didn't lose much of anything last year, just a pin and a pendant. I can't really replace this thing, because Leather Rose doesn't make those anymore. It's not like I NEED a whip, it's just a prop for my garb, but it was one of my favorite parts of my look. Bummer.
Tomorrow I leave on a corporate jet to visit the Xerox offices with my boss. Ooer! Don't I feel important. I guess I'd better get some sleep. Only five more days until I can go back to Fest!
Oooooooooooooo, corporate jet even! Wow, you've hit the big time!
AND ... I sure hope the titmouse and other rat things you mentioned aren't real ... poor little things, getting mauled by that mean dog Harley.


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Peers criticise Government over Channel 4 privatisation proposals
The Government should have waited to consult on the future of Channel 4 until they had set out a vision for public service broadcasting, a report has said.
A report by the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee published on Friday says the Government did not "take the right approach" when they declared privatisation was their preferred option.
Lord Gilbert chairman of the committee, said: "It is difficult to reach a conclusive view on the ownership of Channel 4 without understanding the future public service broadcasting landscape."
The report, entitled The Future Of Channel 4, said the debate about the future of the TV broadcaster has been "a binary one" between privatisation and the status quo.
"It should instead start by establishing our ambitions for Channel 4 before considering how best they can be realised," the report said.
The committee said both risks and opportunities must be "weighed up", with much depending on how willing the Government is to protect Channel 4's public service remit and its contribution to the creative industries as part of any potential sale.
The committee was reportedly "surprised" that in both written and oral evidence, when asked to describe any potential benefits of privatisation along with potential risks, Channel 4 Corporation (C4C) "described only risks".
Lord Gilbert said: "We welcome the Government's and Channel 4's sincerity in seeking the strongest future for the brand. However, the board of Channel 4 should be open to all possibilities for achieving this, including privatisation.
"Likewise, it would be remiss of the Government not to consider possible reforms which might make Channel 4 more sustainable without a change of ownership."
The report added that privatisation's main benefit would be increased investment in programming, content partnerships and technology through access to capital, enabling Channel 4 to diversify its revenues, enhance its sustainability and be more ambitious internationally.
However, privatisation is not the only way in which Channel 4 could access capital, the report added.
The committee recommends that, regardless of ownership, Channel 4's role in supporting small, medium, diverse and regional production companies should be strengthened, while ensuring that the interests of large, established production companies do not take precedence over the channel's sustainability.
Lord Gilbert added: "The Government's upcoming White Paper must justify its decision on Channel 4's ownership in relation to a clear and compelling vision for the future of public service broadcasting."
White papers are policy documents produced by the Government that set out their proposals for future legislation, and may include a draft version of a Bill that is being planned. Standard UK
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"We're all right, boy." My voice was rough and my throat was so dry swallowing made me cough.
Of course not. I didn't want to see her!
No, I hadn't made her up. She had really been there. The fresh-breeze-and-crushed-leaf fragrance of the Water Garden thickened the air. I wasn't imagining the scent. The same fragrance lingered every time she appeared.
I shoved my glasses back into place as the drumming of the helicopter engine became a roar. Its shadow flitted across the ground. Then the silver and blue chopper dropped like the rock I'd tossed into the pond.
My phone buzzed. I grabbed it and read the incoming text, but Uncle Everett hadn't sent the message. I ignored that text and sent one to Uncle Everett. He didn't answer, so I called him. As his voice mail picked up, my phone beeped the low battery warning and disconnected me.
My stomach cramped as if I'd eaten a poisonous mushroom. Was Uncle Everett in danger? Was that what the ghost had been trying to tell me?
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Digital water technology: a secret weapon in the fight against Covid-19?
In June, the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) reported SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection in urban wastewaters collected between February and April 2020 in areas of high (Milan) and low (Rome) epidemic circulation, according to clinical data. The fact that wastewater retains this trace material was not new in itself since similar studies had already reported the detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater in The Netherlands, France, USA, and Australia. Later on, a retrospective study by ISS performed on sewage samples collected between October 2019 and February 2020, found that –SARS-CoV-2 was already circulating in northern Italy at the end of 2019 (mid December) – two months before Italy's first confirmed case in February. This study demonstrated the potential of environmental surveillance as an early warning system able of alerting public health authorities to the presence of an outbreak in a specific population.
The case is an evidence of the potential of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) to serve as early warning and monitoring of trends of endemic diseases. As Susanna Murtas of the ISS explains: "This environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 is based on the detection of viral RNA excreted by individuals affected by Covid-19 – regardless of whether or not they have symptoms – in wastewater samples that can be taken from different points of the sewer network of urban neighbourhoods, airports, places of residence and care or work environments." As these virus traces are likely to be inactive, there is little danger that wastewater poses an infection risk. It does, however, provide valuable information on where and to what extent outbreaks are occurring at an early stage. "WBE allows you to better target urban areas where further clinical investigation should be done," explains Francesco Fatone, professor of chemical environmental engineering at northern Italian university UNIVPM. "So you can identify hotspots in advance before the virus has spread too much. The next step for the research is to develop fast and reliable sensors to do this on a bigger scale."
Sewage samples found that SARS-CoV-2 was already circulating in northern Italy at the end of 2019 – two months before Italy's first confirmed case in February.
Both ISS and UNIVPM are partners in the EU Horizon 2020 digital-water.city (DWC) research project. A central objective of the DWC research is to support public health by leveraging digital technology in urban water infrastructures – at the 'digital-health-water nexus'. "Information from water quality can support the protection and safeguarding of public health," points out Mr Fatone, "and we believe there is scope to increase much further this link between water, health and digitalisation." A major area of innovation is the use of connected sensors to measure key parameters in the water infrastructure: sensors can capture data on everything from the presence of faecal bacteria indicators to the risk of sewer overflow events, transmitting this information to central platforms to inform early warning systems. Combined with the latest developments in AI, machine learning and predictive analytics, data captured across the water network can also feed into forecast models and decision-support systems.
Working with partners in Milan, Berlin and Sofia, UNIVPM is coordinating the DWC work that uses these technologies to deliver public health benefits. These include possible solutions for monitoring the quality of urban bathing water – sensors for real-time in-situ measurement of bacteria and a machine-learning-based early warning system – as well as low-cost temperature sensors for real-time detection of combined sewer overflow events. In collaboration with ISS, UNIVPM is also developing a specific early warning system for the safe reuse of treated wastewater for agricultural irrigation in Peschiera Borromeo wastewater treatment plant, just outside Milan, linked to a Water Quality Integrated Platform (WQIP), a decision support tool. Fed with online data from sensors and meters installed in the plant, the platform will process this data using machine-learning to support quantitative and qualitative risk analysis for treated water destined for reuse in agricultural applications.
If it will be possible to realize the solution, it could offer significant public health benefits, as Ms Murtas explains: "An efficient rapid alert system in a wastewater treatment system guarantees the consistency of the treated wastewater – that is, that the treated wastewater maintains over time the quality requirements that make it suitable for reuse in compliance with European regulations." If the system flags any biological, chemical, physical or radiological hazard, the wastewater is sent for unloading rather than for reuse. "This means that we could guarantee safe treated wastewater for agricultural use, as well as safe food products and the safety of operators in the sector and local residents," she concludes.
While WBE is not directly a focus of the DWC project, technologies like these have the potential to support research on monitoring the evolution of epidemics such as COVID-19 – and to provide near-real-time early-warning information to health authorities about local infection hotspots. By highlighting possible emergence or re-emergence of the virus in a particular locality, this could help authorities to intervene with additional clinical measures to limit new outbreaks. With studies at ISS ongoing in this area, it seems certain that research at the digital-water-health nexus will play a vital role in improving public health in our cities over the years to come.
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Did Abbas really shoot himself in the foot?
Now after losing the dramatic vote by gaining only eight of the required nine member votes, an angry Abbas has now declared that he will apply for membership in the International Criminal Court in The Hague with the intention of pressing war crime charges against Israel. But Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu has responded by saying this is a two-edged sword - it is Abbas who will have to explain why the Palestinians have launched thousands of rockets and mortars at Israeli civilians from Gaza, which Israel actually evacuated some eight years ago!
By going to the Security Council and following it up with the ICC gambit, Abbas has signaled he has no intention, despite the prodding of America, to ever resume peace negotiations with Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Add to this Hamas terrorism that has killed and maimed thousands of Israeli civilians. Moreover, Abbas has refused repeatedly to renew negotiations with Israel, and has opted for launching a diplomatic war which has now ended in the resounding Palestinian defeat of his diplomatic intifada against the Jewish state. Even Hamas, his Palestinian rivals in Gaza, whom Abbas also represents, has hauled Abbas over the coals for his UN failure.
But this is not the end of the story. By going to the Security Council and following it up with the ICC gambit, Abbas has signaled he has no intention, despite the prodding of America, to ever resume peace negotiations with Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Obviously Abbas was aware that a crucial election campaign is now being waged in Israel that will likely determine if Netanyahu will form a new Right wing government that opposes the two state solution, or whether a Left wing Labor coalition will come to power that will seek a fair compromise that includes a Palestinian state living in peace alongside a secure Israel. But Abbas has ignored this possibility and actually lent Netanyahu a hand by signaling to the Israeli voters that the Palestinian leader prefers an imposed solution on the Jewish state. What Netanyahu calls an 'international diktat' that will ride roughshod over Israel's justified security needs.
And this why the Obama administration opposed the Palestinian diplomatic moves, and persuaded Australia to also vote against, and five other states to abstain: United Kingdom, South Korea, Nigeria, Rwanda and Lithuania. (Netanyahu went out of his way to thank Rwanda and Nigeria (which is also the target of Islamist terrorism by the brutal Boko Haram).
"It is an escalatory step that will not achieve any of the outcomes most Palestinians have long hoped to see for their people."
But it remains to be seen whether even Abbas is prepared to negotiate rather than curtail his current drive for an imposed agreement. Consider this: two Israeli leaders, Ehud Barak at Camp David 2000 and later Ehud Olmert, went the extra mile and offered the Palestinians, first Yasser Arafat and then Abbas himself, a far reaching deal that even partitioned Jerusalem and a withdrawal from nearly all the West Bank. However, both Palestinian leaders rejected the offers that included a clause about the finality of any future claims by either side. In other words, a final peace similar to the peace accords the Jewish state signed with Egypt and Jordan. Clearly no Israeli government is going to accept the return of hundreds of thousands potentially even millions of Palestinian refugees to the Jewish state. In other words, any future Israeli peace offer even from a Left wing government will not give up more than Barak and Olmert did in the past.
Likud party members have selected the Party's list of candidates that will now be presented to Israeli voters for the March 17th general election. Israeli voters cast one ballot in favor of the party list they choose. Usually the party that gets the most votes is called upon by the State President to form the new coalition government. It turns out the new Likud list is simply a reshuffle of the outgoing Knesset Members with no new faces to attract voters. In the last election Likud ran on a joint ticket with Lieberman and wound up with only 18 MKs in the 120 member parliament. If the same Likudniks are running again, this does not auger well for the electoral attractiveness of the Likud party.
... in the current campaign the cost of living and soaring housing prices have so far dominated. Although Netanyahu has called the new old list 'superb', there is not a single candidate who has anything new on the economy.
Moreover, in the current campaign the cost of living and soaring housing prices have so far dominated. Although Netanyahu has called the new old list 'superb', there is not a single candidate who has anything new on the economy. Although Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon successfully conducted the Gaza war last summer, the Likud will be vulnerable in the economic debate. Particularly since former Likud cabinet minister Moshe Kahlon is very popular for his slashing the cost of cell phone usage. But Kahlon quit the Likud to form his own party, charging the Likud has sold out the middle class and low income earners.
On the Palestinian issue, Labor's Yitzhak Herzog and Tzipi Livni have lambasted the new Likud list as the same Right wing extremists who have weakened Israel in the international area and eroded Israel's standing. Herzog has promised a 'new economic deal' and a greater piece of the pie for the middle class and low income earners. Livni, who conducted contacts with the Palestinians in the outgoing government, has charged that the new Likud list will reject any attempt to break the diplomatic log-jam with the Palestinians. And in her words, when Israelis go to the polls they will have to decide whether they want to live in a Jewish state or a bi-national state with the Palestinians.
1. Binyamin Netanyahu has said he favors a two state solution with Palestinians, however the top candidates (and the rest) on the Likud list are opposed to the founding of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza.
So even if Netanyahu forms the new government and tries to negotiate a two state solution, his own Likud party would torpedo it. It is a fact the Likud party institutions have never passed a resolution in support of Netanyahu's professed support for a two state solution. The new Likud list guarantees they never will.


I've been programming computers, doing mathematics, and learning languages since childhood. My invented languages (none of which is anywhere near finished, but I can say a few sentences) include the language families Borogoni (Filofonecian, Azarian, Melonian, Gratye, �nt�bamshi, etc.) and Pihaki (Pigaic, Ubnadck, and an assortment of Seligamine dialects), both of which are vaguely similar to Indo-European, and Weniti (Wanian, Fonrati, and others unnamed) which is completely different (it's agglutinative, the head of a phrase is always at the end, and a noun can take multiple case endings). When I found Lojban, it resonated with some ideas I already had about languages.
I was born in New York, grew up in California and Ohio, and have been in North Carolina for a number of years.
I am an unabashed creationist and think that the influence of cladistics on taxonomy has gone too far. Often I go to the library and study taxonomy, trying to remember which fishes have scales and figure out which birds are clean as well as their orders and families. (Anyone got a good reference for plant taxonomy? The Internet) Although I believe that man is a special creation of God, I believe equally strongly that taxonomically he belongs next to the great apes.
Pierre Abbat has often gone by the name phma.


Tarek Atrissi Design developed for Georgetown University in Qatar a logo design and the basic guidelines for their corporate identity. The logo design for the school of foreign services in Qatar presented the challenges of having a very long bilingual name, which required to maintain the identity of the international mother brand while creating a subtle local flavor unique to the school campus in Doha. The final wordmark created with classic Arabic Calligraphy the Arabic name of "Georgetown University", while the rest of the wordmark was created in a well selected mix of Latin and Arabic typefaces. A specific color palette was defined for the Qatar campus, and the rest of the design applications such as the signage design used occasionally the seal of Georgetown University.


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Range-wide phylogeography of Blanding's Turtle [Emys (= Emydoidea) blandingii]
Mark A. Jordan, Purdue University
Victoria Mumaw, Purdue University
Natalie Millspaw, Purdue University
Stephen W. Mockford, Acadia University
Fredric J. Janzen, Iowa State UniversityFollow
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Documentation of intraspecific genetic lineages and their evolutionary history can provide insight for current and future conservation and management actions. The Blanding's Turtle, Emys (=Emydoidea) blandingii, is a long-lived species with a relatively narrow latitudinal distribution centered around the Great Lakes, but extending from Nebraska to Nova Scotia. It is listed as endangered or threatened throughout most of its range mainly due to habitat loss. Microsatellite loci have been predominantly used to test and generate hypotheses concerning the number of evolutionarily significant units and the history of lineage diversification in this species. Here we describe haplotypes from two mitochondrial and three nuclear loci generated from 32 localities across the species' range to provide an additional perspective on these hypotheses. Haplotype and nucleotide diversity were low in both sets of loci, with mitochondrial polymorphism comparable to the lowest found in any North American freshwater turtle. Spatial analyses of population differentiation supported the presence of two lineages with a boundary in eastern Ontario that is roughly associated with the Appalachian Mountains as proposed by Mockford et al (2007). We suggest that the low diversity in these loci is likely related to periodic range contractions and expansions associated with glacial cycles and that the two lineages recovered result from a deeper history of diversification. Our results further support previously identified evolutionary significant units and help to reconcile population structure found at smaller spatial scales, outcomes that will better inform conservation decision making for the species.
This is a manuscript of an article published as Jordan, Mark A., Victoria Mumaw, Natalie Millspaw, Stephen W. Mockford, and Fredric J. Janzen. "Range-wide phylogeography of Blanding's Turtle [Emys (= Emydoidea) blandingii]." Conservation Genetics (2019). doi: 10.1007/s10592-018-01140-6. Posted with permission.
Jordan, Mark A.; Mumaw, Victoria; Millspaw, Natalie; Mockford, Stephen W.; and Janzen, Fredric J., "Range-wide phylogeography of Blanding's Turtle [Emys (= Emydoidea) blandingii]" (2019). Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology Publications. 323.
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She made nine saves in the two games.
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Dolinino (, ) ist ein Ort in der russischen Oblast Kaliningrad. Er gehört zur kommunalen Selbstverwaltungseinheit Stadtkreis Tschernjachowsk im Rajon Tschernjachowsk.

Geografische Lage
Dolinino liegt knapp zehn Kilometer südöstlich von Tschernjachowsk und etwa zwei Kilometer nordwestlich von Krasnopoljanskoje nördlich der Föderalstraße A 229 in einer Flussschleife der Angrapa.

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Vor 1945 war dieser Ort ein Wohnplatz, der zur Gemeinde Groß Gaudischkehmen gehörte. Dieser wurde im Jahr 1947 als eigenständiger Ort offenbar nach dem russischen Wort dolina für Tal mit der Bezeichnung Dolinino versehen. Gleichzeitig wurde der Ort in den Dorfsowjet Krasnopoljanski selski Sowet im Rajon Tschernjachowsk eingeordnet. Von 2008 bis 2015 gehörte Dolinino zur Landgemeinde Swobodnenskoje selskoje posselenije und seither zum Stadtkreis Tschernjachowsk.

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James A. Banister Company
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n 1845, Isaac Banister joined forces with his son, James Albert Banister, to become expert shoemakers whose legacy of quality endures to this day. Across the globe at the most esteemed juried events, the James A. Banister Company consistently earned gold medals for producing the finest men's shoes in the entire world. Imagine one company having such a distinction nowadays! At fairs and exhibitions located in the world's grandest cities, including exhibitions in: Vienna, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Chicago, Paris, Buffalo, St. Louis and Portland, shoes made by The House of Banister took home the highest available awards in multiple categories. The James A. Banister Company brought honor to the city of Newark, New Jersey, to the United States of America, and to the world-at-large with its extensive offerings of exquisitely-crafted men's shoes. The impact of the James A. Banister Company on America's history is a rich and an invaluable one.
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My name is Arthur W Banister, the oldest surviving member of the Banister family that founded the Banister Shoe Company. The company was apparently incorporated by my Great Grandfather, James A Banister sometime in the 1850's; however, his father, Isaac Banister, had been making shoes for select customers since about 1830. From the beginning, the focus was on quality, as evidenced by the ads published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. My Grandfather, Arthur C Banister, apparently took over the business in the early 1900's from his father, who died in 1906. The business was voluntarily dissolved on 20 August 1930, probably because my Grandfather was in poor health (he died in 1933). Contributing factors may have been the business outlook in the 1930's and my father's (James H Banister) lack of interest in pursuing it. The Banister shoe name was purchased and repurchased several times, but to the best of my knowledge, no real Banister shoes have been manufactured since 1930.
One of my daughters, Eva Banister, has developed an interest in securing several pairs of Banister shoes and has found numerous ads for Banister shoes from various sources. She may be able to provide additional info if anyone's interested.
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The 1930s brought unemployment and deprivation. Many American men were no longer able to outfit themselves in fine attire as they tried desperately to provide for themselves and for their families. These factors, as well as a perfect storm of company-closing conditions, proved to be more than even the finest of shoemakers could weather. Although The Great American Depression (1929 – 1939) and the death of its namesake ultimately spelled the demise of the James A. Banister Company, the name of Banister and its association with the world's finest shoes endures to this day.
In the early 1930s (exact date unknown), Stetson Shoes purchased the James A. Banister Company (1845-1930). Three classic American companies were in operation during concurrent years - Banister Shoes, Stetson Shoes and Stetson Hats. Stetson Shoes (1885-1973) was founded by Ezra Hersey Stetson and Arthur Clifton Heald. Its production was based in South Weymouth, Massachusetts. Stetson Hats (1865-1970) was founded by John B. (Batterson) Stetson Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Thus, the James A. Banister Company was the eldest of these three esteemed establishments.
With the purchase by Stetson Shoes, Banister shoe production was relocated to South Weymouth, Massachusetts, where its building stands to this day. In the Massachusetts factory, Stetson produced its own brand of shoes as well, although not surprisingly, the Banister shoe line was of higher quality and sold at a more substantial price. Fortunately, both the final Banister "manufactory" on Orange Street in Newark, New Jersey, and the Stetson Shoe factory in South Weymouth, Massachusetts, have been preserved - to the great delight of many. It's no wonder Stetson chose to buy the James A. Banister Company for the latter's association with quality.
Sadly, Stetson Shoes succumbed to many of the same forces that shutter even the finest of companies, the James A. Banister Company of shoe crafters notwithstanding. Today, there is a revival in the high-end shoe manufacturing community that is exciting and innovative. Many contemporary shoemakers respectfully pay homage to traditional handicraft shoemaking, for which the James A. Banister Company wrote the proverbial manual.
Please join your host, Eva Banister, as we take a look back at the dreams of a father, his son and their family - my family - and the company they built together. The discerning eye may notice that in all of the advertisements for the James A. Banister Company, the Original Banister Shoes, there are beautiful images of father, Isaac, and son, James A., admiring one another. Truer examples
of love, respect, and devotion would be difficult to find.
Welcome to a great-great-granddaughter's view of the James A. Banister Shoe Company, whose golden history gives us a glimpse into America at its finest, from 1845 - 1930. It is a look back at The House of Banister - those founding fathers who devoted their lives to duty, and whose sterling integrity runs through the veins of the Banister family descendants to this day.
In 2012, Arthur Williams Banister (great-grandson of James A.) provided a personal recollection of The Original Banister Shoes:
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"A Kiss to Build a Dream On" is a song composed by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby and Oscar Hammerstein II.  In 1935, Kalmar and Ruby wrote a song called "Moonlight on the Meadow" for the Marx Brothers film A Night at the Opera (1935) but the song was not used. Hammerstein later adapted the lyrics to be "A Kiss to Build a Dream On" and it was recorded by Louis Armstrong in 1951.

It was also performed by Armstrong as well as by Mickey Rooney with William Demarest, by Sally Forrest, and by Kay Brown (virtually the entire cast performed part or all of the song) in the 1951 film The Strip, and was a sort of recurring theme in the film. The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1951 but lost out to "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening".

Other recordings
Another popular recording was made by one of The Strip film's guest-stars, Monica Lewis, and in early 1952, the version by Hugo Winterhalter and his Orchestra, with vocalist Johnny Parker, made it to the Pop 20 chart in the United States.
Bing Crosby recorded it for his radio show in 1951 and it was later included in the deluxe, 22-track version of the album Songs I Wish I Had Sung the First Time Around.
Sung by Richard Chamberlain, the song gained considerable exposure due to it being on the B-side of his 1962 hit, "Theme from Dr. Kildare (Three Stars Will Shine Tonight)".
k.d. lang's version was included on the album A Wonderful World (2002).
Rod Stewart covered the song for his 2004 album, Stardust: the Great American Songbook 3.
Deana Martin recorded the song and it was released on her album, Volare in 2009 by Big Fish Records.

In popular culture
 An instrumental version is heard in the background in the 1950 film Mister 880 at the 21:39.
 The version of Hugo Winterhalter and his orchestra is played twice in the flashbacks scenes of Mexican 1965 short film Tajimara, the first story included in the feature film Los Bienamados.
 The song was featured in the soundtrack of the 1993 film Sleepless In Seattle and the 1951 film The Strip.
 It was played as a background track during Yuri and Ava's party in the 2005 film Lord of War.
 It was featured in the introductory sequence of the 1998 video game Fallout 2.
 It was featured in episode 2 of the 2014 TV series Grantchester.
 The Bollywood picture Parineeta has a song based on the original tune called "Kaisi Paheli Zindagani".
 It was featured as Jenny's favorite song in The Cry of the Owl.
 It plays in the background in season one, episode 4 of the television series Sex Education.
 Amber Rubarth released a live binaural version on "Sessions from the 17th Ward" (2012) featuring Dave Eggar.

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Jazz songs
Louis Armstrong songs
Songs with lyrics by Bert Kalmar
Songs with music by Harry Ruby
1935 songs
Songs with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Songs about dreams
Songs about kissing


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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced this week that it filed a request for antitrust immunity with the U.S. Department of Transportation to allow airlines to discuss options to maintain connectivity to Venezuela in light of the Venezuelan government's continuing refusal to release US$3.8 billion in airline funds.
Air connectivity in Venezuela has been severely impacted as a result of the government's actions. In Venezuela, international airline capacity is down 61% from its peak in 2013, says the Association.
"The economic situation in Venezuela is grave. And it will be made worse if airlines cannot maintain connectivity as the blocked-funds issue drags on. Despite years of effort by IATA and its members to resolve the issue, there has been little action by the Venezuelan government. We are now asking the U.S. government to approve anti-trust immunity for discussions among airlines focused on maintaining connectivity while the blocked funds crisis persists. This is an escalation of the industry's efforts to find a solution to this untenable situation," said Alexandre de Juniac, IATA's Director General and CEO.
The request arose because current U.S. laws prohibit competing companies to discuss pricing issues. Juniac clarifies the industry's position:
"To be clear, the intention is not to do anything that is anti-competitive. On the contrary, our member airlines seek to explore a global solution allowing them to keep Venezuela connected to the world and do business normally in a country that is not meeting its international obligations," said de Juniac.
Venezuela's refusal to allow repatriation of airline revenues contravenes its obligations under international agreements. Many bilateral air service agreements, for example, include provisions that require the timely repatriation of revenues to the home country of the air carrier. Bilateral investment treaties to which Venezuela is a party contain similar obligations.
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Since 2003, Venezuela has operated a currency control system which prevents foreign airlines from repatriating their funds without government approval. By 2013, approvals to repatriate funds from Venezuela were not keeping pace with the amount of funds requiring repatriation and significant airline revenue accumulated in Venezuela. The situation became critical in 2015 when only one request to repatriate funds was approved. There has been only one approval in 2016. Airline funds blocked in Venezuela now total some $3.8 billion.
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