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Rachael vs. Guy Celebrity Cook-Off Season 3 Episode 5 Recap
We're coming down to the wire here, folks...there's only one more episode after this one, and I can't be more pleased. Ok, I'd be more pleased if this week's episode were the final episode. I used to like this show, but back when it seemed to be an actual cooking competition between somewhat inept celebrities. Now it seems more like a contest to determine who can best follow Rachael's or Guy's instructions. Bah.
This week, the celebs are in Coney Island. The weather looks magnificent, but there is a surprising dearth of non-Food Network persons wandering around the boardwalk. I can't believe that the network has such clout they can clear a town for their use. Or maybe Coney Island is in a serious, serious slump.
Anyhoo...there are two challenges again this week, one of which involves running a hot dog cart.
Florence Henderson says this has been a dream of hers, and it's hard to tell whether she's telling the truth or if the pain killers that she's taking for her broken foot are a little on the strong side. Perhaps life after the Brady Bunch and Wessonality has been a bit slow. But first, before the celebs get to serve up delectable meaty treats that have been floating in a tank of greasy water, there's a french fry challenge, the winner of which gets an extra ten minutes for hot doggery.
The teams head to their respective big-ass trailers, which seem even more over-sized and unnecessary when one considers that Team Rachael only has two players. Penn Jillette thinks he might make disco fries, which are french fries covered with cheese and gravy. Sounds like a sog-fest to me. Rachael wants Penn to amp up the fries by making French onion gravy. She also gives this sound advice: "don't over-cheese, don't under-cheese."
Perhaps walking cheese-fest Guy Fieri should take that advice to heart.
Florence wants to make "everything bagel" fries, coated with garlic, onion, poppy seeds, etc. Rachael is down with that.
Over to Trailer Guy. Herschel mutters something about "Famous 34 Gravy Fries." Vanilla Ice will make "Buffalo-style Ninja sticks." Apparently Buffalo, New York is rife with ninjas. Who knew? He also does a little rhyme, "gonna open your eyes and give you a surprise." By this, I assume he means that they'll be so spicy, diners will have some painful eliminations afterward.
Tiffany wants to represent Noo York by making Italian fries topped with cold cuts and whatnot. She's calling them "Yo, Yo, Yo" fries. Does that seem somewhat inappropriate to you, too?
The celebs don't have to cut the fries, they only have to cook the Ore-Ida crinkle cuts provided to them and top them with the slop of their choosing. Flo's having a problem getting her topping to stick to her fries, and Rachael makes her start over. Tiffany is having "meat issues," because she wasn't provided with the pro-SHOOT she wanted. Instead, she cooks up some hot Italian sausage, which, personally, I think would work better. Herschel decides to top his fries with a fried egg, but he ends up mangling and overcooking the poor thing.
Amanda Freitag is the Special Guest Celebrity Chef Judge this week. I watch her hug Guy and I think to myself, "he must stink." Cheap cologne or sweat, either or both. They judge the fries. Vanilla Ice's "ninja" fries are too spicy. Herschel's egg should be runny. Penn's has too much Swiss cheese (he over-cheesed). Flo's are clever and delicious, but the toppings are still falling off. This leaves Tiffany, whose fries are tasty enough to get her the win, and an extra 10 minutes in the wienerfest.
She's calling her dog a "Jamaican Hottie," which I suppose is better than her original name, "Ganja Dog." She's wrapping her tube steak in bacon, and making a pineapple and mango salsa to top it. None of that sounds Jamaican, particularly the bacon. But it's got Jerk seasoning, so of course it's authentic! In any case, Tiffany uses her extra ten minutes to make the salsa, while the other celebs champ at the bit to get started.
Flo wants to make a Kosher deli dog in honor of her friend Judy Gold. (The everything bagel fries may well have been in her honor as well). She's rolling her pups in yellow mustard and pastrami before topping them with slaw and home-made Russian dressing. I want one.
Herschel is making an "All-American" dog, topping his with a baseball, apple pies, and a tiny Chevrolet.
Penn is doing what he calls a New England breakfast with a carny trash touch: a bacon-wrapped pancake-battered dog on a stick with a side of maple syrup. Rachael wants him to taste the dog without the syrup, to get an idea of how well his batter is working. She thinks it needs salt, despite the bacon. Penn's not budging; he wants the dog to be dipped into the syrup, not eaten dry. When Rachael tries this, she's happy, and Penn feels vindicated. Carny trash know their corn dogs!
Vanilla Ice is vegetarian, and mercifully he's not going to inflict commercial tofu hot dogs on the unsuspecting crowds. Have you ever tried one of those things? They taste like smoked band-aids. Instead, he's taking logs of tofu, wrapping them in egg roll skins, and giving them a quick deep fry. And they are as bland as shit. As has become customary, Guy makes him throw out his first batch and try again. Despite their blandness, Vanilla is calling them his "crispy kung fu veggie dawgs." What happened to Ninja? or Voodoo?
Amanda Freitag is trotted out again to judge the dogs. Between the judges and the diners on the boardwalk, we hear that Penn's dog is "heavy" and "has too much going on." Everybody loves Flo's dog, and Guy calls her a "gangster," which is one of the more ridiculous things he's ever said. And this is a man who built his career on saying ridiculous things. Herschel's dog is also too busy, and the Chevy's tires are a bit chewy. Tiffany's dog may not be particularly Jamaican, but the salsa is tasty and everyone seems to enjoy it. Finally, Vanilla's flavorless tofu blobs are, well, flavorless.
Freitag has no choice but to name Team Rachael as the winner this week, because she's only got two players and both need to go to the finale. Florence is named the MVP, which earns $2500 for City of Hope. Vanilla Ice is clearly the weak link this week, so he's told to pack his collection of hot sauces and rhymes and leave.
Next week: Finale!
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A very important part of your general marketing, since for almost anyone their audience can be found and reached online with ease.
This Monday we wrote that the first step of online success is knowing what you want to achieve. Setting your goals.
And so today we are going to talk about your goals.
First up, the importance of goals. Because I can see you thinking 'Why would I need goals?. I just want online success.' But what is online success?
Goals help you decide what you want to achieve, when, and how. It gives you accountability, not only to yourself but also to those around you who know about goals. Goals make dreams reachable. As long as you don't have a goal, the dream is just a wish with no way of getting there.
Therefore goals need to be achievable. There is no point in saying 'I want to be rich tomorrow'. That is not a goal that is attainable. You could be very lucky and win the jackpot tomorrow but that still wouldn't make it a goal. Buying the lotteryticket today would be your goal. Because if you wouldn't buy the ticket, there is no way you could win that lottery jackpot tomorrow.
You could decide on one or more of those goals. Do remember that every one of these will have multiple smaller goals so if you don't want to start to big, start with only 1 goal. You can always expand later on.
For me online success right now would mean getting a bigger list of potential clients and getting more clients.
So now that I know what I want to achieve there are smaller goals that match that.
But those goals are still vague.
For both the subgoals as the bigger goal it is important to make them SMART. This stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-related.
This would be specific: I do mention what I want in a specific way. It is measurable: since I know the amount of clients I had on the first of October and I can see how many I have on the 31st of December I know if I achieved the 10% increase. It is achievable & realistic: I didn't decide to want 1000% more clients, which would be insane. This is something I can achieve if I work for it. And it is time-related: I gave a time window in which this needed to happen.
I would love to hear your SMART goals in the comments. What do you want to achieve, when and how?


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Blazers win awards at Montgomery Area Science Fair
March 19, 2008, midnight | By Kevin Teng | 11 years, 10 months ago
Senior named runner-up for Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
After submitting reports of their own scientific research over the past year, 10 Blazers were awarded at the science fair this weekend. Projects were judged on March 15, and the awards ceremony was held on March 16 at Gaithersburg high school. Most of the awards were issued by ScienceMONTGOMERY, an Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) affiliated regional fair; other awards were given by community and corporate sponsors.
Awards from ScienceMONTGOMERY were given to the top students in 12 different categories , ranging from Biochemistry to Physics. Winners in each category received $50 for third place, $100 for second place and $200 for first place. Team and group projects were judged against each other within each category, based on several judging criteria by professionals in each field. A final evaluation of all participants in all categories was made to select the top projects of the entire Science Fair. Senior Louis Wasserman, previously a finalist in both the Intel Science Talent Search (STS) and the Siemens Westinghouse competition was named a runner up for the ISEF fair, to be held in Atlanta later this year, according to the fair web site .
Community sponsors also issued awards to outstanding students based on their own criteria. Depending on the sponsor, prizes varied from certificates to cash.
Blazer who was Runner-Up/Alternate for the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair ($100) - Louis Wasserman
Blazers who won category awards:
3rd Place - Milano Tesfaye, Betelhem Taye
3rd Place - William Paintsil
2nd Place - Jacob Hurwitz
1st Place - Louis Wasserman
Honorable Mention - Olivia Bozik, Areeb Quasem
3rd Place - Simthana Islam and Eden Yilma
2nd Place - Yang Yang
2nd Place - David Tao, Alisa Lu
3rd Place - Boris Vassilev
Sponsored awards:
Association for Computing Machinery - Louis Wasserman, Jacob Hurwitz, William Paintsil
Central Intelligence Agency - Louis Wasserman, Jacob Hurwitz, Boris Vassilev
Graduate Women in Science - Jacob Hurwitz, Yang Yang
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1st Place ($300) - Louis Wasserman
Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award ($200) - Louis Wasserman
Optical Society of America - Boris Vassilev
Sigma Xi 1st Place - Yang Yang
U.S. Army Honorable Mention - Louis Wasserman, Jacob Hurwitz, Melissa Truong, Alisa Lu; 2nd Place - David Tao
Note: Alisa Lu is a SCO staff writer, Boris Vassilev is a SCO Entertainment Editor and Online/Print Coordinator, and Louis Wasserman is a SCO Senior Technical Staff and Chief Copy Editor
Kevin Teng. There are some things in which people believe. Some people believe in other people. I believe in meatloaf. I believe that we all should have fun eating whatever meatloaf we want to eat. Sorry, that was "Harold and Kumar"-esque. Life is pretty good because I'm ... More »

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The perfect Sunday | Life's Conundrum - Eat to Live or Live to Eat?
What a great way to spend my Sunday – warm 20 degree sunshine and the family around me. It started off with taking Ansh and Lola for their weekly swimming lessons followed by a trip to the local park where both enjoyed riding their bikes and generally running around. Both behaved for a change and ate their lunch without a fuss. Anna and I then proceeded to clean the barbecue which has not seen much action in over a year and prepped for the evening meal. Out of the blue, Ansh said he felt like having some tomato soup for dinner. I thoroughly enjoyed making him a batch of fresh tomato soup and grilling some portabello mushrooms and trout for our dinner. For all my vegetarian friends and family the mushrooms are a great addition to your barbecue repertoire and you can have fun tinkering with the various topping combinations.
Heat a pan and add olive oil to it. First add the garlic and saute for 30 seconds before adding the onion, celery and sprig onion. Saute over medium heat for 2-3 minutes before adding the carrots. Continue sauteing for another couple of minutes before adding chopped tomatoes. Bring to a boil and then add stock cube and about 1 cup of water. Allow to cook for 10 minutes before adding the fresh basil. Blitz the liquid in a blender and bring it back to the boil before adding almond milk and a knob of butter. Adjust the seasoning and serve hot.
I don't have exact measures for this recipe but can share with you how I make it. Skin the portabello mushroom before adding the seasonings. Sprinkle a pinch of mixed herbs, crushed red chilies and some garlic salt. Drizzle some balsamic vinegar and good olive oil and grill on the barbecue for 15-20 minutes. Alternatively you can repeat the first step with the dry ingredients and add some lemon juice and butter instead of the vinegar and oil.
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Luis Suarez has been outstanding amongst other strikers on the planet over the most recent couple of years, however, this season, things haven't gone well for him. However, the Uruguayan has uncovered why he's told one of his teammates off this season.
Sometime in the distant past, Barcelona's MSN frightened the total hell out of the greater part of the defences in world football. Now it's been split up and it has left Luis Suarez fumbling, even if Lionel Messi is proceeding with his form.
Neymar clearly left Barcelona for PSG for an absurd £198 million in the summer and afterwards with MSN reduced to MS the S has apparently failed with Luis Suarez having 'only' scored three times in eight La Liga starts.
That has left Messi to pick up the pieces alone. Admittedly, it's not the worst player to leave all the weight to. In any case, the La Liga pioneers can't depend on their superstar all season on the off chance that they are to stay top.
In spite of his poor shape, Suarez was still observed berating partner Gerard Deulofeu amid a match and in a meeting with SPORT, the striker clarified why he was uncovering the previous Everton player, saying:
"He is a player with experience. He has played in big leagues and what he has to do is listen to advice, not just from forwards, but from the manager. He is doing that and he's learning. He's not the only player I've given a ticking-off to. We all do it. People tell me off, too!"
Suarez was inquired as to whether he felt that the change from Luis Enrique to Ernesto Valverde as manager was the purpose behind his lack of form and the former Ajax man stated, "That's the least of it. Obviously, when there's a player like Ney, it is different.
"But it's not the manager who asks me to play there [on the left], I go there because I see there's no one there. The manager knows where I can perform, what my position is and where I feel comfortable. If I go the the left, it's because I see space, not because of the system."
Also, he insisted he's not on edge about his form adding, "I don't think there's been any anxiety. Anxious would be to have the ball and try to beat five players. In that sense, I'm calm.
"I remember a play against Malaga when Sergi Roberto gave me the ball and before shooting I was laughing because I knew I was going to miss, due to the moment I'm going through. In another moment, I'd have caught it wrong and it would have gone in. I know that when one goes in, a lot more will start to go in."
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Arsenal & Liverpool To Make Move For Real Madrid Star
Arsenal and Liverpool aren't just going to fight it out for a place in the best four, this season, at least if the current reports leaving Spain end up being right. The two Premier League teams are both believed to be peering toward a move for Real Madrid goalkeeper Keylor Navas. Diario Gol has detailed,
Lionel Messi Was Considering A Move To The CSL
According to some reports in Spain Lionel Messi was considering a big money move to the Chinese Super League just a couple of months back
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Luke Shaw has routinely felt the rage of current supervisor Jose Mourinho; however, his previous manager Mauricio Pochettino criticising him may come as a shock.


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The Home Care Service of NSW (HCS) manages, administers and delivers in-home support services to frail older people and people with a disability and their carers, to help them live independently in their own homes and communities.
The HCS delivers services to more than 52,000 clients a year and is the largest single provider of home and community care services in NSW. There are 43 Home Care branches delivering services to clients across the state. This includes eight specialised Aboriginal Home Care branches which offer a wide range of services to help Aboriginal people live independently.
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I focused on the 5k distance during the fall and spent December continuing to build my base mileage. By the end of December, I was up to about 20-25 miles per week. Anissa designed a training plan for me that began 14 weeks before the race. The idea was that it would basically be a 12-week plan but have some wiggle room in case anything interfered with my training (spoiler alert, things interfered).
This training cycle peaked just over 30 miles per week and included at least one workout per week. I also mixed in some weight training, yoga, and rehab/prehab exercises when I could. There were a couple of times when I was sick or Clementine was and it interfered with my training. I missed a 10-mile progression run pretty close to the week of the race, which I was kind of disappointed about. Luckily I was able to work around that anyway though.
I drove down to Toledo on Saturday to pick up my race packet and check out the expo. Then on Sunday morning, I arrived with only about 20 minutes to spare. I really wanted to get there like an hour early, but sometimes things don't go according to plan. I drank a whole bottle of water on the drive down and I had to go to the bathroom before I could get into the starting corral. Unfortunately, so did 200 other people! I waited in line for a while, then finally had a turn to get into a port-a-potty. I ran to the starting line while the national anthem was being sung. Talk about cutting it close!
The crowd support at the race was amazing! I was having so much fun that I had a smile on my face for at least the first 9 miles. I was planning to run at a pace of 8:00/mile but was actually going a little too fast. My first 7 miles were all under 8 minutes per mile. I could see that I was going too fast, but I felt pretty good and kept getting pumped up when I saw my sister and her husband cheering me on. And I got excited when I ran past the various course entertainment.
I knew that the long stretch along Dorr St toward the end of the race (miles 10-12) would be tricky. It was close to the end and crowds were shifting over to stadium to see the finish, so the crowd support was a little thinner at that point. Also, that is such a long, straight, and slightly uphill stretch of road! It felt like it was going on forever.
After I made the turn onto Douglas Rd, I caught up with the 1:45 pacing team. This was two guys who were passing a sign back and forth and calling out encouragement along the run. Their support helped me find the motivation to pick up my pace for the last 2 miles.
The finish line was in the Glass Bowl stadium, where the University of Toledo football team plays. It was pretty exciting to go around the corner, up the ramp, and through the entrance into the stadium. There was an announcer who called out people's names (I heard my name!) as they crossed the finish. In the post-race party, I had pizza, a cookie, and some fruit, I had a short massage (omg, so perfect), and found out my results.
I got a little carried away with the excitement of the event, so I want to run another half pretty soon with a more clear racing strategy. The Probility Ann Arbor Marathon is coming up in a few weeks and has a half-marathon option. I think I'll do this one with a stricter control on 8:00/mile pacing.
After that, a 2-week break and then the beginning of marathon training!
After purchasing a used BOB Revolution jogging stroller in August 2017, I used it pretty regularly for the next 4 months. My daughter and I have learned to embrace whatever weather we are having (within reason — we ditched our run pretty quickly when it was less than 20 degrees and windy this winter). I love being able to go outside with a purpose and a buddy.
In October, I used a fleece elephant Halloween costume as a warm layer for the little girl. She loved that thing! Actually, she can and still does wear it sometimes. You can see in these pictures that we had to add more and more layers as fall segued into winter. First there's the elephant costume and a blanket, then we added a hat to keep her ears warm and a second blanket to keep the wind off, then we upgraded to a puffy pink snowsuit.
I use the hashtag #fitmom in a lot of my Instagram posts. Rather than amplify the insurmountable pressure women experience to *do it all,* I want to build women up.
My interpretation of being "fit" is that I want to do activities that I enjoy and that help me be the best version of myself — for my own happiness and for the happiness of my family. If I need a good amount of physical activity each week (or every day) to feel good about myself, that isn't about comparing myself to other people. That's about being active, experiencing those exercise-induced endorphins, and being a stronger person because of it.
Personal moment here… I have been treated for a bit of depression in my past. Luckily I was able to catch the signs and get myself into therapy within a few months and stay proactive about it (ha, as much as you can when you're talking about depression). I have several close family members who struggle with depression every day, so I had a good idea of what could happen if I let things slip any further out of my control. Anyway, I bring this up to illustrate how exercise plays into my treatment. It was incredibly helpful for me to be able to speak to a mental health professional about my concerns and to come to a plan for keeping my mood balanced. For me, this plan includes goal setting, exercise, and a lot of compassion for myself when I mess up. Running is my anti-depressant right now.
Pole dancing surprisingly does wonders for my self esteem. When I'm feeling self-conscious about my thighs, my stomach, or any other area, an hour of pole will bring my mood back up. It's hard not to lift yourself out of a funk when you are literally lifting yourself up! I gain such an appreciation for how my body works when I practice coordinated spins, climbs, and inversions on the pole.
In a similar vein, when I go for a run first thing in the morning, it's hard to let anything else throughout the day bring me down. I've already done something for myself that is productive, good for me, and fun! It helps me find the energy to get through everything else being a stay-at-home mom brings. (I have some opinions about that term, but I'll get to that later.) Plus, just like with pole dancing, it's hard to feel down about myself when I am able to physically conquer the goals I set out for myself.
A #fitmom doesn't have to be an athlete. She can be a mom who picks up her kid when they cry, a mom who is strong enough to be the emotional backbone of her family, a mom who juggles her own self-care with the needs of her kids. I am a #fitmom, and I invite other moms to identify their strengths and fitness too.


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Alex Padilla Sworn In As California's First Latino SenatorAfter now-President Joe Biden and now-Vice President Kamala Harris won the 2020 Presidential Election, Gov. Gavin Newsom chose Alex Padilla to represent California in the U.S. Senate.
LA City Hall Overrun By Rats
Rains, staff cuts blamed January 10, 2011 at 4:47 pm
Filed Under:City Hall, Los Angeles, politics, Rats
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — It's no secret that City Hall has its share of vermin, but up until now it was mostly limited to the two-legged variety.
Not anymore, says KNX 1070's Claudi Peschuitta. https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14984641/2011/01/01-10-11-rats-1.mp3
While there is no shortage of theories seeking to explain the infestation — ranging from leftover food to budget cuts — city officials say it's the recent rainy weather that has brought out the rats.
The situation has reportedly deteriorated to the point that officials have purchased electronic devices known as "rat zappers" designed to trap and kill the rodents.
Some workers have suggested recent staffing cuts combined with a rainy December have contributed to the surge.
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Louise Hoffsten
Louise Hoffsten is a swedish blues and rock singer. Born in the small Swedish town Linköping and with a jazz trumpet playing father, Gunnar Hoffsten, she was on to music early.Her career started as singer in the popular Swedish band Clas yngström & Sky High in the mid 80's. After she left Sky High she started her solo career.Supported by one of Sweden's most popular rock band at the time, Wilmer X, she released her debut album 1987, Genom Eld och Vatten. This was rewarded as the best debut album that year. She continued recording blues rock albums in swedish for some years.
Louise Hoffsten Albums (4)
Rhythm & Blonde (2006)
Hit Me with Your Lovething
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When the Blue Is Gone
All About Numbers
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Planned 'shut down' set for tomorrow
DOWN TRODDEN: Residents being beaten up by police (photos: Newsday Zimbabwe)
Zimbabwe's capital, Harare was yesterday rocked by violent protests as different pressure groups prepare for what they have called, 'Shut down Zimbabwe' set for tomorrow.
The shut-down was mooted on social media through a campaign named #ThisFlag started by a clergyman, Pastor Evan Mawarire.
In a video statement, also aired by Zimbabwe's largest private daily newspaper, News Day, Mawarire urged his fellow countrymen to stay indoors tomorrow in protest over government's failure to deal with corruption, create jobs and stabilize the economy.
"Don't go to work, don't send children to school, we are making a stand. Let us save our country, we can't continue to let it burn," he said.
The shut down has also received backing from the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) led by Morgan Tsvangirai.
WAR ZONE: Riot police in combat (pic: Newsday)
In a press conference on Monday, its spokesperson, Obert Gutu said: "As a party we urge all our members to join any legitimate demonstration that is meant to bring pressure to this regime," he said.
Meanwhile police have warned that they will deal severely with those inciting and engaging in violence.
During yesterday's protests which were triggered by commuter omnibus drivers and touts, protesting against numerous roadblocks on the road where they said police are demanding hefty bribes, several people were randomly beaten up by police in various parts of Harare.
However one police officer had a taste of his own medicine when residents in one the areas turned on him and gave him a thorough beating.
FED UP: A protester steps on a riot police officer's helmet in Epworth, just outside Harare, minutes after demonstrators attacked the officer and disrobed him.
The 'naked' officer was later rushed to hospital as residents had disrobed him.
Today several schools are reported to have closed as teachers downed tools over unpaid salaries from last month.
Chaos in Harare comes hardly a week after a warehouse belonging to Zimbabwe Revenue Authority was burnt down in Beitbridge by people protesting over government's decision to ban importation of various goods including foodstuffs, furniture and agricultural inputs.


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Coseano is een gemeente in de Italiaanse provincie Udine (regio Friuli-Venezia Giulia) en telt 2237 inwoners (31-12-2004). De oppervlakte bedraagt 23,9 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 96 inwoners per km².

De volgende frazioni maken deel uit van de gemeente: Barazzetto, Cisterna, Coseanetto, Maseris, Nogaredo.

Demografie
Coseano telt ongeveer 879 huishoudens. Het aantal inwoners steeg in de periode 1991-2001 met 0,4% volgens cijfers uit de tienjaarlijkse volkstellingen van ISTAT.

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Winner? Loser! Loser? Winner!
The UK has been gripped by the general election over the last week, somewhat surprisingly when it appeared that the electorate was completely battered by a spate of recent polls: The Scottish Independence referendum; the 2015 general election; the EU referendum; then the somewhat unnecessary call for a stronger mandate to bolster Theresa May's negotiating hand for our exit from the EU. Yet, on Friday as I prepared to go for work, there was an indication that the world of politics may never be the same again as the results indicated a hung parliament and a good number of seats gained by the Labour Party, including mine in Croydon Central. Seven weeks ago there was a tacit understanding, promoted by almost all mainstream media, that Labour faced annihilation and that Jeremy Corbyn would be personally responsible for the wipe-out at the ballot box. However, on that morning commentators and a large proportion of the Parliamentary Labour Party had to admit just how wrong they'd been; though Labour didn't get more seats than the Tories it was widely recognised that in overseeing a net gain of 32 seats, including positive results in Conservative heartlands such as Canterbury and Kensington, Corbyn had emerged as the biggest winner of the previous night.
Croydon Central. Photo: Chris Gorman www.standard.co.uk
At the start of the campaign, the contradictory behaviour of May, parroting that she was 'strong and stable' while embarking on a series of damaging U-turns seemed to be sufficient to dispel any vestiges of interest in politics in all but the politicians themselves, numbed as we were by the inane slogans of a political class which frequently put itself before the constituents. The gap in the polls between the two main parties was running at over 20 points, leading to the conclusion that May was calling the election, already with a working majority, for simple political gain. Despite the backing of media moguls and big business, however much money was thrown at the Tory campaign it was insufficient to hide May's innate deficiencies. Badly advised and playing to vested interests, and projecting many of the damning qualities she accused the Labour leadership of possessing, her presidential-style campaign came unstuck with her refusal to debate head-to-head, the catalogue of changes in policy, a lack of empathy towards struggling working people, plus her dismal record as Home Secretary as she sought to pin the blame for the murderous attacks in Manchester and London on 'terrorist sympathisers' leading the opposition.
Meanwhile, Corbyn did what he does best; take his campaigning style out around the UK. Helped by the most socialist manifesto for a generation, one which had been agreed by the PLP, he sent out a message of hope and a rejection of seven years of failed neo-liberal economics. If anything, the manifesto was a little too cautious for me but I understood that the Labour document would undergo more forensic scrutiny than anything produced by the incumbents; fortunately for Labour, the Tories relied on their (entirely unwarranted) reputation for sensible fiscal management and didn't bother to properly cost their programme, thus revealing a deep disdain for the voting public. The trend for the poll gap to close in some surveys, attributed to Corbyn's message of hope to the young, was also dismissed as being of little concern because of the perceived notion that young people wouldn't bother to turn out to vote.
The other misplaced presumption was that UKIP votes, even those from former Labour supporters would end up with Conservative candidates. This worried many prospective Labour MPs in the north, in Wales and the Midlands where they believed that Corbyn was responsible for alienating voters. What I already knew and what people saw following the announcement of the election, was that when seen outside of the bear-pit of the House of Commons with its turn-off adversarial politics, a game Corbyn was unhappy playing, he went down very well with thousands of people all around the country and, when reported on the news outside the prism of normal parliamentary coverage, millions more could hear his message of hope and positivity and witness his inclusivity. It became obvious, rather quickly, that he wasn't a monster with fringe ideas dedicated to destroying the UK but quite the opposite; he wanted a fairer system where those who could afford to, paid a bit more tax and through investment, wealth was better distributed and services were resumed for the benefit of all.
I became politically active when Andrew Lansley proposed his Health and Social Care Bill after the formation of the coalition government in 2010. This was something that didn't even feature in the Conservative manifesto at the time but, because of its swift introduction, it had evidently been pre-planned and I could see that it spelt out the certain break-up of the NHS. Over the following years I marched, sat down in the middle of Westminster Bridge for an hour or two and made connections with like-minded individuals. The highlight of this time was giving a short address to a crowded Central Hall, Westminster, about the threat of privatisation in the NHS. I'd just organised a 'Hands Around St Thomas' Hospital' event, held opposite Parliament during some of the most dreadful spring weather imaginable and Jeremy Corbyn was one of the only MPs to attend; then, when I'd given my speech, John McDonnell approached me to say how much he enjoyed what I'd said.
The drift towards an acceptance that austerity was the only possible answer to the global crash of 2008 was simply the will of large corporations who wanted to carry on as normal. Politicians, possibly fearing the wrath of vested interests, went along with this because the alternative narrative required a shift to economics proposed by the left and a refutation of centrist social democracy so ironically, it was Labour who saved neo-liberalism. The coalition inherited an economy that had begun to shows signs of recovery but, following the dogma that decried the requirement for any form of state control, they imposed a wage cap on the public sector and began a series of cuts to services which hit the poor, the ill and the young while cementing the lifestyle of the top earners. The downward pressure on wages of already low-earners in an economy dominated by the service industries provided one of the sources of anti-immigrant sentiment; another was a chronic shortage of appropriate housing stock. No one in a position of power had the will to challenge the causes of this tension because this too would have upset the orthodoxy. Instead, we witnessed the return of slum landlords and an increase in top-end properties bought by foreign investors who never set foot in their purchases; the divide between haves and have nots got ever wider and resentment simmered in former industrial heartlands, stoked by the multimillionaire proprietors of The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express and The DailyTelegraph and the people ignored by Westminster.
This election result changed all that. Originally deeply despairing of the Labour leadership, fuelled by the difference in opinion of the members and the PLP, The Guardian came round to supporting Labour following the publication of their manifesto. The contrast between Labour and Conservative became quite stark: positivity vs. fear and negativity; concern for social justice vs. conceited indifference and, crucially; discipline vs. chaos. Even after the exit poll at 10pm on Thursday there were still some Labour MPs who doubted. Of the imagined carnage, they only lost five seats but gained 37; the Conservatives lost 33 seats and gained 20, losing the parliamentary majority they held before the election. May's Brexit-election gamble backfired spectacularly. Winner? Hardly!
Jeremy Corbyn may be an unorthodox leader but his sincerity and willingness to listen in a world where shouting loudest (including electronically) and acting strong were formerly seen as important traits, has enabled him to rewrite the rules. Brexit may have been a tussle between the Conservatives and an irrelevant UKIP but 40% of the voting public had much more to worry about and Labour has the best answers to their problems. I'm looking forward to the Conservative-DUP deal coming unstuck – bring on the next general election!
Filed under: Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, progressive rock, Labour Party, politics, The Guardian, prog rock, Theresa May, #GE2017, general election, Sarah Jones, Croydon Central, DUP, neo liberalism, The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The Daily Telegraph, housing shortage, PLP, hung parliament, social democracy, global crash, Health and Social Care Bill, Andrew Lansley, Hands around St Thomas', human chain, strong and stable, terrorist sympathisers, Westminster, big business, slum landlords, wage restraint, cuts, Conservative party, UKIP, NHS, vested interests, prog, immigration, public sector
I remember the UK joining the EEC in 1973 better than I remember the last time the UK took place in a European referendum on the 5th June 1975. During an Art lesson at the time we joined the Common Market, we were given the task of illustrating the event and though my family quite happily discussed issues that laid the foundation for my own political awakening, I don't recall how they voted in the 1975 plebiscite.
The first half of 1975 was relatively quiet for releases from major progressive rock acts. In April Camel released Music Inspired by the Snow Goose and Hatfield and the North released The Rotter's Club the previous month but it wasn't until late summer into autumn that the floodgates opened and Caravan finally managed to get an album in the charts with Cunning Stunts; Gentle Giant released the accessible Free Hand; Quiet Sun put out the phenomenal, off-beat Mainstream; Pink Floyd returned from hiatus with Wish You Were Here; Jethro Tull released the under-rated Minstrel in the Gallery; Steve Hackett embarked on his first solo venture, albeit with help from a number of his band mates, Voyage of the Acolyte; Van der Graaf Generator mark II announced their reformation with Godbluff; Chris Squire became the first of the Yes alumni to release a solo album during their break from band duties with Fish out of Water; and Vangelis, who had sparked our interest because of headlines linking him with Yes after the departure of Rick Wakeman in 1974, put out Heaven and Hell. Focus rounded off the year with Mother Focus, a departure from the symphonic prog of Hamburger Concerto, veering into pop and funk territory, considered by many to be disappointingly sub-standard.
With the exception of Wish You Were Here and Fish out of Water, I didn't buy any of the albums listed above at the time of their release due to a combination of lack of funds and a lack of willingness to take a punt when I'd only heard excerpts on the radio. I've yet to commit to a copy of Cunning Stunts. When I did buy an LP it was catching up with a release from earlier in the progressive rock timeline, including the compilation Yesterdays which really counts as the first Yes retrospective, no doubt issued (in February 1975) to maintain interest in the group as they all took time off to explore solo ventures. I thought it was a decent way of acquiring some of their early material, plus a muscular, prog version of Simon and Garfunkel's America, for half the price of the first two studio albums. Another two albums that I did buy when they first came out were Rubycon by Tangerine Dream and Rick Wakeman's Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, from March and April 1975 respectively. I hadn't bought Journey to the Centre of the Earth, having been put off by the vocals but I thought the singing on Arthur was better and Wakeman's song writing had improved, though not to the standard of the musical vignettes on the entirely instrumental The Six Wives of Henry VIII. Also, as much as I approved of Jules Verne's proto-science fiction, I was much more familiar with Arthurian legends. Rubycon continued on from where Phaedra had left off and at the time I was very much in favour of keyboard-drenched sojourns into outer and inner space and the amorphous washes from Tangerine Dream, coupled with the sequencer pulses weaving and morphing in and out of the synthesizer, organ and Mellotron drones chimed with my interest in sonic exploration.
Whereas I'd heard of bands like Amon Düül, Kraftwerk and, thanks to the marketing gurus at Virgin Records selling The Faust Tapes for 49p, Faust, of all the German bands I only really liked Tangerine Dream; that was until late summer when Triumvirat released Spartacus and, after hearing March to the Eternal City on Alan Freeman's radio show, I went out and bought the album. Whereas most of the album is stylistically analogous to Emerson, Lake and Palmer's Karn Evil 9, March to the Eternal City hints of ELP but is obviously Triumvirat. This is the best track on the album thanks to the lyrics which sound as though they could be telling some future tale, "they carry missile and spear", like a storyline from the comic strip The Trigan Empire; the other words are a bit schoolboy-ish and naive.
It was early in 1975 was when I discovered Premiata Forneria Marcon (PFM) when friend Bill Burford bought Chocolate Kings and live cut Cook, and a Europe-wide take on the progressive rock super-genre began to reveal itself with other musicians and bands joining the movement, one that still seemed very much rooted in the original ideals. This time of progressive rock coincided with the death of Franco in Spain and the beginning of the transition to democracy and Greece only emerged from a military junta the previous year, 1974.
Fast forward to 2016 and Europe seems to be doing its best to tear itself apart. Southern states have been most badly affected by austerity and though it's been easy for those in power to deflect the blame from the banks that caused the financial crisis in 2008, it has resulted in an abandonment of belief in the political system. Those on the Right blame immigration for their economic outlook while those on the Left decry inflexible centrists for imposing austerity on their countries. So far, the far Right have been kept from power but the frightening prospect of Golden Dawn in Greece, a violent party that took third place in elections in 2015 or France's Marine Le Pen or, even more recently, of Norbert Hofer from the Freedom Party who was narrowly defeated by the socialist Alexander Van der Bellen in this year's Austrian Presidential election, being elected to run their country is a serious cause for concern because their insular point of view and populist nationalism is a breeding ground for hatred and violence and threatens genuine democracy through clamping down on freedom of speech. Our very own UKIP operates under the guise of respectability but a series of interventions by party officials shows how nasty they really are, trading on fear, lies and the politics of hatred. Wars in Africa and the Middle East have created a massive migrant crisis as refugees risk their lives in the flight from their own countries towards what they believe to be the safety of the West, landing in Italy and Greece, creating perfect conditions for the rise of anti-immigrant sympathies.
It seems to me that the UK referendum on our membership of the EU, a political gamble by David Cameron that was always destined to fail, has been reduced to the level of a playground brawl with each side calling each other names and, despite those who wish to remain talking up doom scenarios and those who wish to leave having no idea of how the country will fare outside of the EU, this has become a referendum on immigration. Those in favour of leaving imagine they are going to take control of our borders. Could they remind themselves how many Syrian refugees the UK has taken in? That was 1,602 at the end of March this year. What an amazing response to a humanitarian crisis! According to Nigel Farage, controlling immigration is restricting the movement of Europeans into the UK complaining of the stress placed upon housing, jobs and the NHS but allowing an undisclosed number of Commonwealth citizens to come to the UK. It's hard to believe he can get away with such hypocrisy but the 24 hour media cover concentrates on 'blue on blue' attacks and making up non-stories about Jeremy Corbyn.
It would be nice if someone broadcast the message that it's not immigrants who put strain on public services, but ideological austerity and the deliberate dogmatic shrinking of the State. No one has said there's not enough room in the country. There aren't enough hospital beds, teachers and affordable houses or public transport because this government, and those before, have pursued policies of enriching the few and penalising those on low and middle incomes, welcoming foreign investment in luxury developments but leaving flats empty, under-occupied and pushing house prices beyond the means of a major proportion of the population, slashing the salaries of healthcare workers and teachers through public-sector pay freezes and pension changes and forcing low paid private sector employees into zero hour contracts. Please don't think that education, health, housing, jobs and transport would be better if we leave the EU – those advocating leave are equally responsible for the state of the country with their private healthcare directorships and money secreted away in tax havens.
Progressive rock espoused the benefits of external influences and embraced the nascent green movement. I'm not suggesting that there's nothing wrong with the EU but the UK will not be able to face up to global challenges like climate change on its own. This means the abandonment of austerity and offering more, better targeted training and rejecting xenophobia. Let's do it with help from our EU partners.
Filed under: Jeremy Corbyn, Hatfield and the North, progressive rock, Italy, Steve Hackett, America, Karn Evil 9, Voyage of the Acolyte, Jethro Tull, Chris Squire, Yes, Caravan, Van der Graaf Generator, prog rock, Wish You Were Here, Camel, Minstrel in the Gallery, Tangerine Dream, Rubycon, Vangelis, Hamburger Concerto, Phaedra, Mainstream, The Snow Goose, Virgin Records, Pink Floyd, Mother Focus, Yesterdays, Triumvirat, Spartacus, March to the Eternal City, refugees, democracy, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Fish out of Water, Focus, Faust, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Rick Wakeman, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Cook, Cunning Stunts, Gentle Giant, Free Hand, Godbluff, The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, UKIP, NHS, prog, PFM, EEC referendum, EU referendum, The Rotter's Club, Heaven and Hell, Simon and Garfunkel, Jules Verne, Amon Duul, Kraftwerk, The Trigan Empire, Chocolate Kings, Greece, Spain, Franco, Marine Le Pen, Norbert Hofer, Golden Dawn, Alexander Van der Bellen, immigration, healthcare workers, teachers, public sector, commonwealth, house prices, transport, schools, global warming, Quiet Sun
Scottish Independence, Englishness and Prog
By ProgBlog, Oct 2 2014 08:31PM
September's referendum for independence for Scotland energised political debate north of the border and late in proceedings, dragged pro-union UK political party leaders and other leading Westminster MPs beyond Hadrian's Wall to shore up their flagging 'No' campaign. The temptation to vote 'yes' was spurred not because of a nationalistic hatred of the English but a distrust and dislike of a system that allowed a Conservative-led coalition to impose laws that affect Scotland despite the Tories being wiped out from there in the 1997 general election and only having one current MP. A sizeable minority voted for full self-determination but there were evident doubts about the economy and currency should Scotland have become independent. Though it would have been really good to see Trident kicked out, the loss of jobs would have been somewhat detrimental.
Despite being a single-issue campaign, it was great to see how successful the referendum was in getting the electorate engaged, especially with younger voters (the voting age was reduced to 16) because of the effect the result would have on future generations. This connection with politics has been sadly missing for a long time and the reasons are multifactorial: The selection of MPs from a metropolitan elite; the rightward drift and the blurring of political identity; the expenses scandal; the planned 9% pay rise for MPs compared to a long-running public sector pay freeze or 1% rise, itself denied to many; the insidious effect of commercial lobbying and the post-parliament jobs.
The compromise between Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Tories, designed by Gordon Brown, was to offer greater powers to Holyrood. The reaction of English Conservative MPs was predictable and a greater degree of devolution in Scotland was coupled with devolved powers in the rest of the UK; English-only votes for English matters, a sop to English nationalism that was intended to outflank UKIP and cause Labour problems.
There are some left-wing commentators who are brave enough to point out the requirement to accept the notion of 'Englishness'. This doesn't have to be viewed as a nationalistic concept, the preserve of the politically far-right or the insular UKIP (who are nearly as far right) and it's not represented by John Redwood's cricket ball; Englishness is amorphous and it should be celebrated. It's not a reaction against immigration or immigrants, it's partly made up from the exact opposite and the Left needs to help everyone see the issue from this other angle; the mixture that is England is a result of migration, would-be invasion and settlement and, more than that, an acceptance of those who have been persecuted, making Englishness an acceptance and celebration of diversity. In socio-economic terms, nationalistic elements blame immigrants for taking the jobs of English people, stirring racial hatred and sowing fear in unskilled or low-paid workers who are most likely to be in threatened jobs. This deliberate lie needs to be cut out and exposed because it's the unwillingness to pay a living wage that has forced down wages. The lack of an organised workforce, after a Thatcher policy carried on after 1997 by Blair, effectively cuts off any form of resistance to this strategy and as globalisation took off in the 80s, multinationals moved their operations around the world to take advantage of cheap labour in an attempt to squeeze out more profit. Decimating the UK industrial base and then spending North Sea oil revenues on social security payments for masses of unemployed was economic incompetence but somehow Thatcher got away with it, fighting a war over Las Malvinas, gerrymandering and plugging into the 'greed is good' creed that she claimed, probably knowing it was a lie, would create trickle-down wealth. This is the source of UK inequality that has led to the safety net of social security being rebranded as 'benefit' and the unemployed stigmatised as 'skivers', a narrative that conveniently ignores the true cause of the global crash in 2008 and one that is blind to the suffering caused by austerity because the super-rich, whose greed precipitated the financial meltdown, have just got richer over the past six years. Gideon Osborne's speech to the Tory party conference this week shows exactly how little he cares about the low-paid. The Tories, fearing that the rise of UKIP will prevent them from gaining a parliamentary majority, have developed a language of hatred aimed at the unemployed, the low-paid, people with disabilities, minority groups and immigrants. I find that behaviour obscene; a behaviour that shrinks away from fairness for political expediency. The creation of the welfare state and the NHS, funded by taxation, was a major step in reducing the gulf between the poor and the wealthy, an act of decency and 'the right thing to do'; fairness and decency are also included in the formula for 'Englishness'.
Progressive rock is something that has a strong association with Englishness. Geographically, prog was a largely English phenomenon but one that was outward-looking, absorbing influences from around the world; European classical music, Eastern music, jazz and (to a lesser extent) blues from America, all mixed in with traditional English folk music. This eclectic blend sometimes attempted to reconcile different world philosophies (Tales from Topographic Oceans) and frequently borrowed from world literature. It arose from psychedelia which in the UK was itself founded on a mixture of sources, from Marvel comics to EE Cummings, Lewis Carroll, Kenneth Grahame and Tolkien. The association of psychedelia with the peace movement and environmental awareness also spilled over into prog, providing grand themes based on the inclusiveness of the global village. It's quite fitting that ELP should record Jerusalem and that Mont Campbell of Egg should be the grandson of composer Martin Shaw, not simply because of the imagery of northern hills and a green and pleasant land but because of the influence, cited by many of the protagonists, of church music on the musicians. Though religious belief has declined in the UK over the last half-century, the Church of England still retains undue power in our national affairs, with 26 unelected bishops sitting in the House of Lords.
The inclusion of the sea shanty Wreck on Gentle Giant's Acquiring the Taste may have been influenced by their formative years in Portsmouth but this isn't a paean to England's historic nautical supremacy, something that would be boastful and nationalistic, it's another slice of Englishness as it updates traditional folk. A number of commentators have analysed the relationship between Englishness and progressive rock, how and why it came about, but there's no simple answer. It's a combination of embedded culture and emerging culture in association with scientific, technological and medical advances; an increasing awareness of our place in time and space, of the futility of wars and the consequences of environmental destruction. Prog emerged as the music of a generation that was willing to reflect and engage; a positive force. That's my kind of Englishness.
Filed under: Englishness, England, Scottish independence, referendum, UKIP, Conservative party, Tories, NHS, Thatcher, Blair, George Osborne, illegal war, financial crash, nationalism, prog


Hey, it's February, who isn't thinking about college football?
Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher says he is going to interview coaching candidates to fill James Coley's vacancy next week.
Pitt and Florida State could open the 2013 season.
Mark Bradley of The AJC stirs it up, asking, "When, if ever, will Georgia Tech again beat UGA?"
Maryland recruit Taivon Jacobs talks about flipping to the Terps.
Miami says of the 10,000 drug tests performed on student-athletes, zero have tested positive for steroids.
The UNC Board of Governors remained skeptical that academic fraud could only be pinned on two people in the African studies department.
North Carolina coach Larry Fedora focused on speed, athleticism and versatility in his recruiting class.
Notre Dame won't join the ACC until the fall of 2014.
Virginia's secondary is getting an influx of talented defensive backs.
How Wake Forest offensive lineman Cameron Gardner evolved into a football player.
PJ Batten ended up at Syracuse after flirting with Duke.


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Q: How to debug in WooCommerce 3+ I am creating a custom shipping method for Woocommerce using this tutorial https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/shipping-method-api/ but I am having issues debugging. Whenever shipping methods get updated by user, Woocommerce calls calculate shipping. I have overridden this function with the following.
public function calculate_shipping( $package ) {
    // This is where you'll add your rates
    $rate = array(
      'idea' => $this->id,
      'label' => $this->title,
      'cost' => '90.00',
      'calc_tax' => 'per_item'
    );
    echo "<script>console.log('Calculating shipping');</script>";
    $this->add_rate($rate);
  }

In the end I have a fairly complex way of calculating the "cost" but I have no way of debugging it because that echo line produces no output in the chrome console. Any ideas what is going on here?
Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

A: First Creat PHP helper function
 function console_output($data) {
 $output = $data;
if (is_array($output))
    $output = implode(',', $output);

  echo "<script>console.log('Debug Objects: " . $output . "' );</script>";
 }

Then you can use it like this:
public function calculate_shipping( $package ) {
// This is where you'll add your rates
$rate = array(
  'idea' => $this->id,
  'label' => $this->title,
  'cost' => '90.00',
  'calc_tax' => 'per_item'
     );
   console_output("Calculating shipping");
    $this->add_rate($rate);
   }

This will create an output like this:
  Debug Objects: Calculating shipping

A:
As this is a background process on server side, don't use javascript.

1). WC Logs and the WC_Logger Class in WooCommerce for better debugging
To access the results of the log easily from the dashboard, you can log to a WC logger rather than the error log.
You can access error logs by going to WooCommerce > System Status > Logs.
Then you will be able to choose  and "view"the error log file you need, giving you the debugging details that you need. Error logs are also located in the /wc-logs folder within your site install.
Running a stack trace on a caught exception (example):
// Log any exceptions to a WC logger
$log = new WC_Logger();
$log_entry = print_r( $e, true );
$log_entry .= 'Exception Trace: ' . print_r( $e->getTraceAsString(), true );
$log->log( 'new-woocommerce-log-name', $log_entry );

Notes:

*

*WC_Logger methods have been updated since WooCommerce 3: So logging can be grouped by context and severity.

*Use WC_Logger log() method instead of add() method  due to upcoming deprecation (thanks to @Vizz85).

For example:
$logger = wc_get_logger();
$logger->debug( 'debug message', array( 'source' => 'my-extension' ) );

Related:

*

*Develop WooCommerce blog (january 2017): Improved logging in WooCommerce 3

*Documentation on the WC_Logger available methods

2). Debugging with WordPress WP_DEBUG Log (as an alternative)
a) First edit your wp-config.php file adding the following lines to enable debug (if these are already defined, edit the values):
define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false );

As errors are logged, they should appear in wp-content/debug.log. You can open this file in a text editor.
b) On your code: Use the following (where $variable is the variable to be displayed in the error log:
error_log( print_r( $variable, true ) );

Now you will get the data for debugging.

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Adversities, Neurodevelopment & New Interventions
By: Johnny Kung
On March 28, 2019, CIFAR, in partnership with the Aga Khan Foundation Canada and the International Development Research Centre, convened a roundtable to explore our understanding of the impact of multiple early adversities on child development and health as well as opportunities for driving more effective interventions. Attendees included Fellows from CIFAR's program in Child & Brain Development as well as thought leaders from across the international development sector, including government ministries and international development organizations.
Discussions at the roundtable focused on a major question: how early adversity impacts children's health and development over the life course. Through brief primer talks and moderated discussions, the group explored several types of adversity that are prevalent in low/middle-resource global settings (including malnutrition and toxic stress), how these adversities interact with one another, implications for developing new research methods, and opportunities for prevention and early intervention. Key insights that emerged during the day included the importance of multi-dimensional intervention programs that address multiple adversities; the role of relationships as a buffer against stress; the possibilities for personalized intervention created by advances in brain measurements and other biological assessments; and the crucial need for more exchange between researchers and practitioners to build intervention programs that work for communities with different contexts and needs. This initial conversation laid the groundwork for future collaborations, working groups and joint discussions between participants and the broader development community, and provided directions for research and practice in the field of adversity and child development.
Impacted Stakeholders
International development organizations (including intergovernmental organizations and funders)
Humanitarian NGOs
Frontline childhood development workers
Diagnostics developers
Implementation researchers
Knowledge from neuroscience research (such as how adversities shape the trajectory of brain development, or how functional measures of the brain might indicate "latent risk" that has not yet manifested behaviourally) can contribute to an understanding of when, or how best, intervention programs can be implemented to maximize impact on child development. At the same time, there are gaps and opportunities where practitioners, with their on-the-ground experience, can contribute their knowledge.
Different adversities often co-occur and interact. Interventions should not be made in isolation, but rather, developing multi-dimensional intervention programs that address multiple risks will be more effective.
"Protect the buffering unit": Social relationships can be a protective factor against stress, but are also imperiled by adversities. Fortifying relationships can therefore have a positive effect on children's growth and development. More broadly, building long-term relationships between researchers/practitioners and communities, and between frontline workers and their supervisors, are crucial for the success of intervention programs.
"What works, for whom, under what conditions": To ensure the success and relevance of intervention programs, it is important to take cultural, political and other contexts into account. This could entail partnering with different family or community players. Another emerging area of research is how different children have differing sensitivities to the same environmental stresses, which could inform why some children benefit less than others from the same interventions and how this may be mitigated.
"Second chance in second decade": Recent research suggests that there is a second "sensitive period" during adolescence, when there is the possibility of "recalibration" of certain cognitive and socioemotional skills. This suggests a need, as well as opportunity, to address adversities beyond early childhood.
Advances in biological assessments, such as physiological biomarkers, genetic scores, or brain measurements, may facilitate the development of personalized interventions tailored to individual variation and symptom profile. More affordable and portable neuroimaging equipment (such as electroencephalograms or near-infrared spectroscopy) may allow for real-time monitoring and intervention in low-resource settings.
Priorities and Next Steps
Two-way exchange between researchers and practitioners will be crucial for building intervention programs that work for communities with different contexts and needs.
Different sectors in both research and practice need further collaboration to understand how early childhood adversities synergize, and how to structure intervention programs to effectively target multiple adversities (e.g., which components to prioritize, how to "layer-in" elements into existing programs, etc.).
There is a great need for funding more implementation research, to reconcile recommendations based on research results from pilot studies in more controlled environments with what is feasible for scaled-up programs in uncontrollable real-world settings.
Roundtable Participants
Frances Aboud, McGill University
Amina Abubakar, Aga Khan University
Robert Armstrong, Aga Khan University
Theresa Betancourt, Boston College School of Social Work
Margaret Biggs, International Development Research Centre / Queen's University
Zahra Boodhwani, Global Affairs Canada
Molly Buckley, Aga Khan Foundation Canada
Michelle Cruickshank, Grand Challenges Canada
Tracey Evans, Aga Khan Foundation Canada
Elizabeth Grant, Aga Khan Foundation USA
Megan Gunnar, University of Minnesota / CIFAR
Ely Harasawa, Ministry of Citizenship, Government of Brazil
Celia Hsiao, LEGO Foundation
Rob Hughes, Children's Investment Fund Foundation
Montasser Kamal, International Development Research Centre
Vesna Kutlesic, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Stephen Lye, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Qamar Mahmood, International Development Research Centre
Steve Mason, Aga Khan Foundation Canada
Charles Nelson, Harvard Medical School / CIFAR
Fe Nogra-Abog, Plan International Canada National Office
Kieran O'Donnell, McGill University / CIFAR
Shawn Powers, World Bank
Rommy Rios Nuñez, Baltazar and Nicolas Foundation
Ioanna Sahas Martin, Global Affairs Canada
Chiara Servili, World Health Organization
Sweta Shah, Aga Khan Foundation
Sadaf Shallwani, Firelight Foundation
Khalil Shariff, Aga Khan Foundation Canada
Melanie Swan, Plan International
Asrat Dibaba Tolossa, World Vision Canada
Mark Wade, Harvard Medical School
Alice Wuermli, New York University
Mary Young, China Development Research Foundation
Aisha Yousafzai, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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Largest family style Apartment of over 500 sqm of living space with 5 bedrooms all with their own bathrooms-the main with a huge bathtub, large open plan central lounge/family room areas with large screen TV and DVD, iPod dock for all of your music, spacious sofas and lounges, dining table for all the family, central fully equipped kitchen area including full sized fridge, and washing machine/dryer, two outdoor terraces, BBQ and private plunge pool. Second, third, fourth and fifth bedrooms can be configured as either King or twin beds.
This apartment is perfect for large family groups and will make for a very memorable holiday. 1 only available –for up to 10 persons.


The "Pink Cloud Process" is about creating a natural and organic state of well-being. It's a set-point for all the powerful and positive truths of you.
I don't see myself as a survivor. I see myself as ever evolving – every life experience contributes to the betterment of me and thereby those I touch. That's how I see you. That's why I have created a way to offer you the same freedom to Be-Come.
BE: to exist – I am. COME: to move forward – moving forward.
(1) 90 minute session followed by (3) 60 minute sessions with 4 Extensive Fact Finding -Truth Telling – Discovery Assessments.
An exploration fueled by curiosity and a safe space to dig deep and explore.
Holds the promise of rich information used to create awareness and clarity.
Includes three distinctive keys that seem simple enough but unlocks hidden truths, limited beliefs, and what really matters to you.
By the end of the assessment series you will have obtained great wisdom giving you the confidence to move forward with truth and conviction. No matter what your goal.
Taking all the rich information derived from I AM you begin with the ending of PHASE ONE – you will forecast what you really want – your hopes, dreams, and goals with decisiveness and confidence.
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A regular check-in on all systems (1) hour session each month. Review, Revise, Resume.
You are now enjoying the freedom from self-medicating, numbing life, checking out, overusing or misusing food and/or alcohol. Or simply focused and Pink Cloud driven for achievement.
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Networking can be worse than a trip to the dentist. It can be awkward, uncomfortable, and not worth the time it took to get there, if you're not sure about the what's, why's, and how's.
Can you guess what a couple of the key ingredients are to successful networking? You got it! Courage and confidence.
One of my very first networking experience was being held at a funeral home and there must have been 150 people in attendance. Okay, so I walk in and instantly overwhelmed at all the people and thinking, I'm suppose to do what exactly? Yep, that was the tape playing over and over in my head. What am I doing here!
Wait…it gets worse. The emcee calls the attention of the room through a microphone and asks us to find a seat. I find a seat and so thankful that I don't have to wander about anymore pretending like I know what I was doing. But, being the quick study that I am, I quickly realized to my horror, that that microphone was going to each member of the crowd to do an introduction. Can you imagine? My heart was beating so fast. How fitting to drop dead of humiliation, at a networking event, in a funeral home. I felt paralyzed and was truly shocked as I heard words form from my mouth into the microphone.
I survived. It didn't have to be like that and lucky for you, you can learn from my years of painful and awkward, trial and error, networking adventures.
I recently wrote an article 5 Simple Ways to Build a Powerful Network and it has been selected to be circulated inside the main Biznik articles section! Biznik, an online social network for entrepreneurs and a great resource for connections, collaborations, and business development information. I highly recommend reading for newbie and veteran networkers who want to build a strong and powerful network.
It all comes back to developing courage and confidence to be and do YOU!
It takes some time to get there, but it's in you!


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Galerie Youn was originally founded in 2012 as an online gallery called Flying Rooster Contemporary Projects (also known as Projets contemporains Flying Rooster). In May 2013, however, in the heart of the Mile End area of Montreal, Galerie Youn became an architecturally stimulating two-floor loft space with 13-foot ceilings and hardwood floors. It is divided into 4 individual and intimate levels and includes a window display/stage and office area. Galerie Youn is a charming, cozy and contemporary addition to the boulevard St. Laurent and the Mile End area.
Galerie Youn focuses on building bridges between local, national and international emerging to mid-career contemporary artists. The gallery participates in international art fairs and gallery exhibitions and represents more than twenty artists from around the world. It is scheduled to exhibit various solo and group shows every year.
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The present study aimed at exploring the relations between body mass index (BMI) and stature and testicular cancer in a huge Norwegian cohort with measured height and weight. Height and weight were measured in 600,000 Norwegian men aged 14–44 years during 1963–2001. Results from parts of the study cohort have been reported previously. During follow-up, 1,357 testicular cancers were registered. Relative risks (RRs) of testicular cancer were estimated using Cox proportional hazards regression. The risk of testicular cancer decreased with adult BMI. Compared with men with normal BMI, overweight and obese men had a relative risk of cancer of 0.89 (95% CI: 0.77–1.03) and 0.83 (95% CI: 0.58–1.17). The relative risk of testicular cancer per unit increase in BMI was 0.97 (95% CI: 0.95–1.00). The risk of testicular cancer was not associated with adolescent BMI. A moderate increase in risk of seminomas was seen with increasing adult height. Compared with men with height 170–79 cm, men with height 180 cm and above had a relative risk of 1.17 (95% CI: 1.00–1.37).
We are grateful to those who during almost 40 years collected the data used in the present study. These are persons connected to the former National Health Screening Service, The Nord-Trøndelag Health Survey (HUNT), The Hordaland Health Survey (HUSK) and The Tromsø Study.


Youth unemployment is a big policy issue in Kenya and in other developing countries. Even though governments have increased their expenditures in areas relating to human capital development, many educated youths are finding it difficult to secure employment. The main objective of this study was to empirically analyze the factors explaining why some youths are unemployed, or underemployed, while others are able to secure full employment, as well as to determine the role of education and training in explaining youth unemployment.
The study uses a multivariate analysis to analyze the factors that influence the youth to be either employed, unemployed or underemployed. The main data source is the Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey (KIHBS) 2005 / 2006.
The study finds a 'diploma disease', meaning that university-level education and training have become important amongst candidates to secure jobs that are not traditionally associated with high levels of education, due to the abundance of highly educated unemployed candidates. Other important findings include the gendered nature of youth unemployment and that open unemployment – or unemployment that can be seen and counted – is more of an urban phenomenon than rural. The study recommends innovations in the education system to make learning relevant for the job market, mainstream gender in employment policies and pursuing policies that stimulate economic growth and job creation.