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Energy Infrastructure MLP Aims to Reduce Methane Emissions by 75%
Elle Caruso February 14, 2022
MPLX LP (NYSE: MPLX) has established a new 2030 target to reduce methane emissions intensity by 75% below 2016 levels.
The reduction target applies to MPLX's natural gas gathering and processing operations and represents an expansion of the company's existing 2025 target to reduce methane emissions intensity by 50% below 2016 levels, according to a statement from MLPX.
MPLX is a diversified, large-cap MLP that owns and operates midstream energy infrastructure and logistics assets and provides fuels distribution services. The company owns crude oil and natural gas gathering systems and pipelines as well as natural gas and NGL processing and fractionation facilities in key U.S. supply basins, among other operations, according to the firm.
MLPX is found in many portfolios offering exposure to energy infrastructure and MLPs. The energy company is a top five holding in the Alerian MLP ETF (AMLP) (9.74%) and a top 15 holding in the Alerian Energy Infrastructure ETF (ENFR) (3.74%).
MPLX has achieved an approximate 45% reduction in its methane emissions intensity toward its 2025 goal through its Focus on Methane program, a holistic approach to voluntarily reduce methane emissions intensity across MPLX's natural gas gathering and processing operations, according to a statement from the firm.
"Expanding on our methane target further reduces the carbon profile of our natural gas business and demonstrates our commitment to lead in sustainable energy," Michael J. Hennigan, MPLX chairman, president, and CEO, said in a statement. "As the energy industry evolves, we are positioning ourselves to continue delivering positive results in an energy-diverse future."
Many midstream companies have made ESG reporting a priority as they work to achieve environmental goals, with some companies, such as Enbridge Inc., tethering executive compensation to ESG goals.
Midstream companies have made strides in recent years to improve ESG reporting and environmental metrics, with a handful of names targeting net zero emissions by 2050, supporting the case for midstream as an ESG-conscious investment.
Notably, even as the world transitions towards net zero emissions, oil and natural gas will continue to remain relevant within the global energy mix for years to come, making up roughly 48% of total the energy supply in 2030 as renewable energy sources grow and the world transitions away from unsustainable energy sources, according to the Net Zero by 2050 Scenario published by the IEA.
Midstream companies will also play a significant role in achieving net zero emissions by 2050. A number of midstream companies are partnering with other energy companies to explore opportunities around hydrogen, carbon capture, and other initiatives related to the energy transition, according to Alerian.
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Totoi (în ) este un sat în comuna Sântimbru din județul Alba, Transilvania, România.

Date geologice

Pe teritoriul acestei localități se găsesc izvoare sărate.

Limbaj specific
În Totoi se vorbește "totoiana", sau "limba întoarsă", limbaj specific, în care cuvintele sunt formate prin intervertirea silabelor, asemeni verlan-ului francez. Spre deosebire de alte limbaje, totoiana este vorbită de toți locuitorii satului, mari și mici, în mod tradițional, fără ca originea să îi fie cunoscută.

Personalități
Gherontie (Gheorghe) Cotorea (născut în 1720 la Totoi, decedat în 1774 sau 1775, la Gherla), călugăr greco-catolic, cărturar român.

Legături externe
 Undeo tecido? Rebevo? - "totoiana", limbajul folosit de localnicii unui sat din Alba, 30 octombrie 2006, Evenimentul zilei

Totoi, Sântimbru

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package com.thinkaurelius.titan.diskstorage.cassandra;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Map;

import com.thinkaurelius.titan.diskstorage.BackendException;
import com.thinkaurelius.titan.diskstorage.configuration.Configuration;
import com.thinkaurelius.titan.diskstorage.configuration.ModifiableConfiguration;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
import com.thinkaurelius.titan.diskstorage.KeyColumnValueStoreTest;
import com.thinkaurelius.titan.diskstorage.keycolumnvalue.StoreFeatures;
import com.thinkaurelius.titan.testcategory.OrderedKeyStoreTests;
import com.thinkaurelius.titan.testcategory.UnorderedKeyStoreTests;

public abstract class AbstractCassandraStoreTest extends KeyColumnValueStoreTest {

    private static final Logger log =
            LoggerFactory.getLogger(AbstractCassandraStoreTest.class);
    private static final String TEST_CF_NAME = "testcf";
    private static final String DEFAULT_COMPRESSOR_PACKAGE = "org.apache.cassandra.io.compress";

    public abstract ModifiableConfiguration getBaseStorageConfiguration();

    public abstract AbstractCassandraStoreManager openStorageManager(Configuration c) throws BackendException;

    @Test
    @Category({ UnorderedKeyStoreTests.class })
    public void testUnorderedConfiguration() {
        if (!manager.getFeatures().hasUnorderedScan()) {
            log.warn(
                "Can't test key-unordered features on incompatible store.  "
                + "This warning could indicate reduced test coverage and "
                + "a broken JUnit configuration.  Skipping test {}.",
                name.getMethodName());
            return;
        }

        StoreFeatures features = manager.getFeatures();
        assertFalse(features.isKeyOrdered());
        assertFalse(features.hasLocalKeyPartition());
    }

    @Test
    @Category({ OrderedKeyStoreTests.class })
    public void testOrderedConfiguration() {
        if (!manager.getFeatures().hasOrderedScan()) {
            log.warn(
                "Can't test key-ordered features on incompatible store.  "
                + "This warning could indicate reduced test coverage and "
                + "a broken JUnit configuration.  Skipping test {}.",
                name.getMethodName());
            return;
        }

        StoreFeatures features = manager.getFeatures();
        assertTrue(features.isKeyOrdered());
    }

    @Test
    public void testDefaultCFCompressor() throws BackendException {

        final String cf = TEST_CF_NAME + "_snappy";

        AbstractCassandraStoreManager mgr = openStorageManager();

        mgr.openDatabase(cf);

        Map<String, String> defaultCfCompressionOps =
                new ImmutableMap.Builder<String, String>()
                .put("sstable_compression", DEFAULT_COMPRESSOR_PACKAGE + "." + AbstractCassandraStoreManager.CF_COMPRESSION_TYPE.getDefaultValue())
                .put("chunk_length_kb", "64")
                .build();

        assertEquals(defaultCfCompressionOps, mgr.getCompressionOptions(cf));
    }

    @Test
    public void testCustomCFCompressor() throws BackendException {

        final String cname = "DeflateCompressor";
        final int ckb = 128;
        final String cf = TEST_CF_NAME + "_gzip";

        ModifiableConfiguration config = getBaseStorageConfiguration();
        config.set(AbstractCassandraStoreManager.CF_COMPRESSION_TYPE,cname);
        config.set(AbstractCassandraStoreManager.CF_COMPRESSION_BLOCK_SIZE,ckb);

        AbstractCassandraStoreManager mgr = openStorageManager(config);

        // N.B.: clearStorage() truncates CFs but does not delete them
        mgr.openDatabase(cf);

        final Map<String, String> expected = ImmutableMap
                .<String, String> builder()
                .put("sstable_compression",
                        DEFAULT_COMPRESSOR_PACKAGE + "." + cname)
                .put("chunk_length_kb", String.valueOf(ckb)).build();

        assertEquals(expected, mgr.getCompressionOptions(cf));
    }

    @Test
    public void testDisableCFCompressor() throws BackendException {

        final String cf = TEST_CF_NAME + "_nocompress";

        ModifiableConfiguration config = getBaseStorageConfiguration();
        config.set(AbstractCassandraStoreManager.CF_COMPRESSION,false);
        AbstractCassandraStoreManager mgr = openStorageManager(config);

        // N.B.: clearStorage() truncates CFs but does not delete them
        mgr.openDatabase(cf);

        assertEquals(Collections.emptyMap(), mgr.getCompressionOptions(cf));
    }

    @Test
    public void testTTLSupported() throws Exception {
        StoreFeatures features = manager.getFeatures();
        assertTrue(features.hasCellTTL());
    }

    @Override
    public AbstractCassandraStoreManager openStorageManager() throws BackendException {
        return openStorageManager(getBaseStorageConfiguration());
    }
}

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You will laugh while inspiring you to find your passion and make your life an exciting adventure.
Adults of all ages identify with Caroline Corser's encouraging facts on aging
Life just gets better when you're pursuing your dreams.
Laughter and a positive attitude make it productive and fun.
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Inspiring stories about active boomers: Seniors who dare to make their lives interesting and fun
Caroline M. Corser, MA learned how to tell jokes at an early age from her father, whose barbershop was always full of customers eagerly anticipating his kidding and jokes.
Always eager to talk to anyone who would listen, she developed a love for performing when she suddenly found herself speaking at a junior high school assembly program. The praise Caroline received for her expressive voice and her reading of the story that day started her lifetime passion for the stage.
But like so many people, Caroline put aside her dreams and pursued a "practical career." Although she majored in speech and radio communications at Michigan State College., she also got a teaching credential and taught in junior high schools for several years.
Then after earning a master's degree in linguistics, she performed for captive audiences in community college English classes, lacing her grammar lessons with every humorous device she could concoct to help her students learn academic writing. Once retired from teaching, Caroline combined her sense of humor with her love of the stage and started speaking to local businesses, clubs, and charitable organizations about the joys and benefits of humor at work and at home.
When the growing baby boomer market caught Caroline's attention, she started reading studies and reports on the aging process. What Caroline learned about the unlimited possibilities for a long, healthy future excited her so that she could not wait to spread the word–to tell the world that you don't have to look forward to a future of decrepit helplessness, peering at life through a demented fog.
At age 71, Caroline is now fulfilling her dreams as a speaker and a writer. She calls herself a Cheerleader for Positive Lifestyles, and she uses her clever sense of humor to encourage baby boomers and seniors to make the most of their lives for the rest of their lives. She has written a guide book for finding your passion and pursuing your dreams, Three Cheers for the Good Years: You're Not an Antique, But That Rocking Chair Is, and she writes and publishes a free, monthly e-mail magazine, Great Lifestyles After Fifty. Caroline's speeches and workshops are filled with useful information, active participation, and lots of laughs, as she cheers her audiences on to find their passion and live life to its fullest.
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Q: Infinite loop when using scanf I am writing a C program that consists of a client and server communicating. In the client file, I use scanf("%79[0-9a-zA-z ]", message); (accept numbers, letters and space) to scan for inputs from the user to send to the server, however I am getting an infinite loop. Below is the portion of code where this is used:
 while(1)
    {
        printf("Enter message : ");
        scanf("%79[0-9a-zA-z ]", message);

    if( send(sock , message , strlen(message) , 0) < 0)
    {
        puts("Send failed");
        return 1;
    }

    //Receive a reply from the server
    if( recv(sock , server_reply , 2000 , 0) < 0)
    {
        puts("recv failed");
        break;
    }

    puts("Server reply :");
    //printf("\nServer reply : %s " ,server_reply);
    puts(server_reply);
}
exit(0);
close(sock);

The output consists of the "Enter message" and "server reply" consecutively.

A: Code needs to consume the new line @BLUEPIXY
while(1) {
    printf("Enter message : ");
    scanf("%79[0-9a-zA-z ]", message);

    // Now the \n needs to be read
    int ch = fgetc(stdin);
    ...
}

Better code would add checks
while(1) {
    printf("Enter message : ");
    fflush(stdout); // insure potentially buffered data is outputted

    if (scanf("%79[0-9a-zA-z ]", message) != 1) {
      puts("Nothing read");
      break;
    }

    int ch = fgetc(stdin);
    if (ch == `'\n') {
      ; // good: new line
    } else if (ch == EOF) {
      break; // no more input or input error
    } else {
      puts("Unexpected input");
      break;
    }
    ...
}

Even better code would use fgets()
char buf[81];
while (1) {
    printf("Enter message : ");
    fflush(stdout);

    if (fgets(buf, sizeof buf, stdin) == NULL) break;
    char ch;
    if (sscanf(buf, "%79[0-9a-zA-z ] %c", message, &ch) != 1) {
      puts("Nothing or too much read");
      break;
    }
    ...
}

A: Use
scanf("%79[0-9a-zA-z ]", &message);

instead of
scanf("%79[0-9a-zA-z ]", message);

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On the most perfect day in September, they said "I do" at The Osthoff Resort. Surrounded by their closest friends and family members, their entire day felt like one big, joyous party! Kelsey and Sean love to travel and they incorporated that love into their wedding details. They wrapped their invites in maps and their place cards were cute luggage tags shaped like suitcases! Each table was named after a different country too! Such a fun way to celebrate a wedding!
Congratulations Kelsey and Sean! Here's to a lifetime full of adventures, travel, and fun!
Kelsey and her girls are too cute!
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© Thomas Schütte, DACS 2019
Thomas Schütte born 1954
United Enemies
Resin, fabric, printed papers, string, tape, plaster, wood, glass and plastic
Displayed: 1910 x 260 x 260 mm
This is one of three sculptures in Tate collection (see Tate T07018 and T07019) which are part of a larger group collectively titled United Enemies 1993-4. Schütte made eighteen similar sculptures each comprising a pair of small male forms bound together and sealed under a glass dome mounted on a cylindrical pillar. He modeled the figures' heads by hand in coloured fimo, a modeling compound sold in toy shops. The bodies are stuffed rags swaddled on a tripod of doubled beechwood dowel sticks. Schütte bound them in pairs with masking tape and medical sticking plaster. Each couple stands on a shallow wooden plinth set on a tall section of terracotta-coloured plastic drainpipe. Some are trapped facing towards each other; others look away. The figures have bald heads and deeply incised features; their caricatured expressions are reminiscent of the 'character head' busts created in the late eighteenth century by Austrian baroque sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-93). The figures in this sculpture are wrapped in a single piece of pale blue knitted fabric, bound tightly around their individual bodies with a strip of red cotton cloth and a section of string. The taller figure has a blue and white marbled head with flecks of brown, red, green and yellow. His eyes are black and his lips are pink. Yellow and pink adhesive tape around his head resembles a skullcap or other minimal hat. The shorter figure, bound with his back to the front of his taller companion, has a red and white marbled head and a dramatically hooked nose. Schütte photographed the sculptures' heads and shoulders close up against a black background and under a bright light. He created a portfolio of ten offset lithographs in an edition of thirty-five from the photographs (see Tate P77752-P77761) subtitled 'A Play in Ten Scenes', referring to the theatre of public life. The sculptures were initially installed with the prints, resulting in disorientating disjunctions in scale.
Schütte began working on the United Enemies sculptures during a period spent in Rome where he had been awarded a grant to live and work. He was looking at classical sculpture, such as the Roman portraits of the Emperors housed in the Capitoline Museum. He has explained:
I was [in Rome] in 1992, the year there was this peaceful revolution in Italy where the heads of State and a lot of prominent people were being exposed and discredited and sent to jail. So the caricature and the satire was a reality ... The first big set of [United Enemies] was made in Rome. They are just sticks with a head on top and another stick that builds the shoulders. I used my own clothes to wrap them in and form the body. For me they were puppets and not related to classical art ... I disciplined myself to modeling each head for one hour only. They have no hair, so the face is more concentrated, more general.
(Quoted in Lingwood, p.29.)
Until the end of the 1980s Schütte's use of the human figure was mainly restricted to plastic dolls or silhouetted cut-outs in wood used ostensibly as scale referents in various kinds of models. Teppichmann (Carpet Man) 1988 (private collection, Madrid) and Mohr's Life 1988 (Flick Collection, Zürich) feature small figures made of hand-modeled fimo heads placed on a tripod of dowels sticks bound with old garments and string. Their expressions are inscrutable; they are emblematic portraits representing the ambivalences and absurdities of the artist's life. Schütte's move to Rome followed the installation of his group of terracotta figures, Die Fremden (The Strangers) 1992 (see Tate T07873) on the neo-classical façade of a building at Documenta IX in Kassel, Germany. Created in response to rising neo-fascism in Germany and questioning public attitudes towards the growing influx of immigrants, Die Fremden took a deliberately ambiguous political stance. By contrast, United Enemies constitutes an overt critique of the patriarchs of political life represented through the use of façade, a theme prevalent in Schütte's work. As bodiless heads on sticks, inextricably bound to each other in perpetuity, the puppet-figures in United Enemies evoke the masks which politicians may wear and the unwelcome alliances into which they may be forced by political circumstance or personal greed.
Neal Benezra, 'Thomas Schütte: Ironic Outdoor Monuments', Flash Art, January/February 1997, pp.80-3, reproduced p.80 in colour
Julian Heynen, James Lingwood, Angela Vettese, Thomas Schütte, London 1998, pp.26-9, 97, reproduced pp.28-9 and p.95 in colour
Thomas Schütte, exhibition catalogue, Sammlung Goetz, Munich 2001, pp.42 and 107, reproduced pp.10 and 56 in colour
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"He follows after his father and his uncle," K-State coach Bill Snyder said. "He really wants to do well. More importantly than that, he wants to do all the things that you have to do in order to perform well on and off the field."
With that type of family tree and natural talent on his side, coaches told Lockett to forget about redshirting near the end of August. They wanted him to see game action right away.
Eight games into his college career, it's easy to see why. Lockett is on his way to being a standout player himself. He has caught 15 passes for 214 yards and two touchdowns on top of returning two kickoffs for touchdowns. He is so respected throughout the Big 12 that Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops refused to kick to Lockett against the wind last week.
Looking back, coaches and fans aren't surprised. This is the third time Snyder has found success with a Lockett on the roster. Lockett, though, didn't see this coming. It wasn't until he put trust into his faith and his father's advice that he began having success.
"Even going into the season, the first thing I wanted to do was redshirt," Lockett said. "But when I got here, I was just like, 'I'm going to come out here, leave it in God's hands, and give it all I've got.'"
With Brodrick Smith and Sheldon Smith missing games for unspecified reasons, Lockett is a fixture in K-State's lineup. He will likely be in the running for freshman All-America honors at the end of the season.
"He's a great athlete and he does a good job at what he does," said defensive end Jordan Voelker. "He's a good role player already at the young age that he is. He just came in is doing his thing and is providing for this team."
His father and uncle wanted Lockett (5-foot-11, 170 pounds) to experience college football his own way and didn't tell him what to expect playing for Snyder. He says they didn't push him toward K-State in the recruiting process, either.
Now that he's there, he does turn to them for pointers, though. All three talk after every game.
"My dad observes the game. He knows the game. He's been on the field. So watching isn't a problem for him," Lockett said. "When I'm out there he sees everything and I'm pretty sure he'll tell me some of the things I need to work on this week in practice."
This week, coming off a 58-17 loss to Oklahoma, he will have plenty to focus on, including how to handle a homecoming game. A road trip to No. 3 Oklahoma State is Saturday, which will allow many of his friends and family to make the short drive to Stillwater and watch him play.
Lockett says he isn't worried about who will be in attendance. He is more concerned with how the Wildcats respond from their first loss.
"He's very proud of both his father and his uncle," Snyder said. "Certainly, he doesn't want to let them down and loves the opportunity to compete in the same environment as they did."
Quip of the week — OSU quarterback Brandon Weeden has been teased by several of his teammates and college football announcers this season because of his age. The 28-year old is one of the best, and oldest, players in the country. Bill Snyder, K-State's 72-year old coach, also had some fun with him on Tuesday.
When asked about Weeden, Snyder replied: "He's almost as old as I am."
Doerr honored — K-State punter Ryan Doerr is one of 54 candidates for the Ray Guy Award. Doerr is averaging 39.9 yards on 34 punts.
Thoughts on West Virginia — Snyder welcomed West Virginia to the Big 12 on Tuesday by praising the Mountaineers' program. But he isn't thrilled about making road trips to Morgantown, W.Va.
"I don't like to fly anyplace," Snyder said. "But I think it probably makes sense to have the additional team in the conference. West Virginia is a good team and a good school."
Secondary struggles — After analyzing K-State's loss to Oklahoma, in which Sooner quarterback Landry Jones picked apart the Wildcats for 505 passing yards and five touchdowns, Snyder blamed poor coverage for allowing most of the big plays.
"We played OK up front," Snyder said. "The biggest difficulty was in our second-and third-level defense, which was not as good as you like."
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Chris Klieman was always on top of preseason football polls at North Dakota State. Now he has low expectations with the Kansas State Wildcats in the Big 12. But he's approaching things the same way as always.
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THUNDER BAY – Business – Resolute Forest Products Inc. has reported a net loss of $2 million for the year ended December 31, 2012. This is a representation of $0.02 per share, on sales of $4.5 billion. This compares with net income of $41 million, or $0.42 per diluted share, on sales of $4.8 billion in the year ended December 31, 2011.
From waste-to-energy incinerators to a natural gas loading facility, there's lots of speculation regarding the end use of the former Woodfibre site. One thing's for sure: It's all good news for Squamish, says a forestry consultant. Last week, Western Forest Projects announced a tentative agreement to sell the 212 acres of waterfront land that used to be the site of a pulp mill and company town southwest of Squamish. The sale comes with conditions, environmental remediation being one of them, Western project and site manager Rick Kormendy told The Chief last week.
We are heading into a new decade of prosperity in the woods industry in this region. It has been a long time coming but with the signs on the horizon the central part of BC is on the cusp of some very interesting times. If we can obtain the amount of fibre that we will need in order to fill the markets that will come looking for our product, the rest should be a slam dunk. The US is expected to see a sharp increase in housing starts in the next 24 months. Add to that an already growing Chinese market.
The sawmills of three major Canadian lumber producers are expected to enjoy brisk orders this year, especially as housing markets in the United States perk up. West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd., Canfor Corp. and International Forest Products Ltd., which report their fourth-quarter results this week, have regained their swagger during the long road to recovery over the past four years. …Demand from China is expected to remain strong this year, helping keep prices at healthy levels for producers.
The current director of forestry at Södra has been appointed President of Södra Timber Since May last year, Håkan Svensson has been operating as both the Director of Forestry and the Acting President of Södra Timber. The Board of Directors has now decided to appoint Håkan Svensson as the President of Södra Timber. At the same time work will commence on recruiting a new Director of Forestry.
MONTREAL, – On Wednesday, February 14, the Forest Products Association of Canada and its partners will be releasing their landmark Construction Value Pathways initiative, exploring new and unique opportunities for the Canadian forest products industry to gain a larger share of the $8 trillion a year global construction market. The Construction Value Pathways project is groundbreaking market research that has identified key trends in the global construction industry and sets the forest products industry's sights on diversifying with more advanced products and pre-fabricated construction solutions of the highest environmental quality.
Woody Harrelson Says Making Paper from Trees Is 'Barbaric' — Is It?
In the pulp and paper industry there appears to be a renewed interest in "alternative fibers" for use in paper. One recent article on this subject included a photo of Woody Harrelson (actor) with a caption that proclaimed "making paper from trees is barbaric." With respect to Mr. Harrelson, I believe he has either been misquoted or is misinformed. To help advance this dialog I want to first clarify some terminology.
WoodLINKS USA and The Woodwork Career Alliance of North America (WCA) have combined forces to explore the prospect of merging these two organizations. This merger, subject to final approval by the Board of Directors for both organizations, will enable WoodLINKS USA members to become Education members of the Woodwork Career Alliance. The WCA has developed Industry recognized Skill Standards and a certification system for the Wood Industry.
Despite forming the mainstay of the construction of homes and buildings for centuries, the past fifty years has seen timber fall somewhat out of fashion in the UK, with masonry taking precedence. …Initiatives such as Part L of the Building Regulations and the Code for Sustainable Homes have set minimal environmental standards for the construction industry, and a new National Planning Policy Framework, introduced in March 2012, has assumed a presumption in favour of sustainable development.
OTTAWA – Far from the loud Parliament Hill battle between Conservatives and environmentalists, a group of forest industry executives and conservationists are quietly forging agreements that will permit an increase in logging while also protecting endangered caribou and fragile ecosystems. But they say they're being stymied by bureaucracy. "Our patience is wearing thin," said Anna Baggio, director of conservation planning for the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society.
A Forest Practices Board report into a landslide near Balfour in May 2011 makes several recommendations to prevent similar slides. The 15-page report, released Friday, looked at the Laird Creek slide which damaged the water supply to about 100 homes. It was caused by several factors, including logging by BC Timber Sales in the area a few years earlier. Water users asked the board to investigate whether a lack of professional diligence contributed to the slide.
Premier Kathleen Wynne has returned Thunder Bay Superior North MPP Michael Gravelle to his old job. Gravelle was appointed Minister of Northern Development and Mines in the new cabinet unveiled by Wynne on Monday. …In 2011, Gravelle was moved to the Ministry of Natural Resources. Wynne named Sault Ste. Marie MPP David Orazietti to succeed him in that position.
…President Obama's unconventional pick to lead the Interior Department — a former oil engineer and commercial banker who heads the consumer co-op Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) — represents an effort by the administration to defuse the partisan fight over conservation and energy. Jewell, who lacks the political experience of previous interior secretaries, will be challenged to rebuild a national consensus over protecting public lands.
The man in charge of resource management for 20 million acres of national forest land in California believes it's time the government and timber industry start doing a better job of working together. Speaking Thursday morning at the Sierra Cascade Logging Conference, Barnie Gyant, deputy regional forester for the Pacific Southwest Region of the U.S. Forest Service, said he knows government is not designed to move fast. But Gyant said he is committed to work in a more timely and efficient manner with the industry.
The Jan. 28 guest column by Julia Altemus was refreshing in her call for Montanans to move beyond the gridlock that often characterizes debate about forest management. As she says, "Just as Montana is made up of many parts, we are wired to work together and to help each other." That's why I join several conservation groups, hunting organizations, timber mills and loggers in supporting the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act sponsored in Congress by Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont.
For years, the tallest trees in the world have been cut down – its population decimated. Today, only a small fraction of the majestic trees remain, many of them protected in national parks. But a scientist is hoping to regrow the Redwoods, and reverse some of the damage. NBC's Kristen Dahlgren reports.
remote areas as wilderness, and we can guarantee logging in other areas.
Officials at the World Bank are forcefully rejecting a new internal evaluation that is highly critical of the institution's decade-long forest policy, expressing their "strong disagreement" with some assertions in the report. The assessment, written by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), the World Bank Group's auditor, warns that expectations for poverty reduction as envisioned in the bank's 2002 Forest Strategy "have not yet been met".
EDMONTON – Hay River businessman Brad Mapes hopes barges full of wood pellets will be moving down the Mackenzie River in a couple of years, wintering over in places like Inuvik and becoming riverside warehouses for fuel. In communities that now burn expensive diesel or propane, the pellets will mean savings of up to 50 per cent in fuel bills. And further south, the dozens of jobs created in harvesting the timber and processing it into pellets could help turn around the economy in settlements with virtually no employment opportunities.


For the purpose of this rug article, when we will be talking about semi antique rugs, we will be focusing on the Oriental and Persian rugs – not the more trendy and in demand vintage rugs such as the Scandinavian rugs and Moroccan rugs (just as examples).
While Merriam Webster defines the term "Semi Antique" as something being approximately 50 to 100 years old, in rugs, it may vary a bit.
Older carpets may be classified as being vintage, antique or semi antique rugs. Naturally, it is the actual age of the rug determines how it's defined.
As a general rule… A vintage rug is at least 30 years old but not older than 80. An antique rug is any rug that is at least 80 years old. So this leaves us with the semi antique rugs. For all intents and purposes, the semi antique rugs are loosely defined as being between 50 and 80 years old.
Most semi antique rugs available today were made in the early to middle part of the 20th century, from around the 1930's up to about 1950. During this time, the carpet industry experienced a reformation. Hand woven carpets fell out of fashion as less expensive carpets came flooding the market to meet the new depression and post depression market demands.
Machine made carpets and commercially woven rugs were suddenly available in every town, at significantly lower prices. Handmade carpets were still being made, but both weavers and manufacturers had to adapt to changing consumer demand by lowering the quality of the goods they produced in order to compete with the lower price point of the demand.
Despite being made with similar techniques, semi antique rugs, can be purchased for much less than their antique counterparts. Price points, especially for the majority of the semi antique Persian rugs, can be as much as 60% less. The primary reason for this price disparity is the approach to the actual production of the semi antique rugs vs the real antique rugs.
Once the demand tapered off for good quality rugs (around the same time that the great depression hit), rug weavers started shifting their approach to weaving these pieces. They started cutting production costs everywhere they could. in addition, they started shifting their design approach from producing uniquely designed rugs to creating more structured productions.
The semi antique rugs were the first to utilize a more production line approach to producing the rugs. By teaching weavers one rug design type, and having them sit there and crank out the same thing over and over again, in different rug sizes, the weavers were able to complete the rugs in less time.
When the producers of the semi antique rugs began shifting to larger more commercial weave or knotting, they reduced the time that the carpets were on the rug loom. The less time that people spent actually hand knotting the rugs (as in less knots per square inch or KPSI), the less the final produced rug would cost.
Just like with any other types of items, producers have a multitude of options to chose from as far as the materials they chose to utilize. In the rug industry, there are different grades of wool quality as well as dyes. For starters, the carpet dyes that many of the manufacturers used in the semi antique rug production were far less expensive and as a result, inferior to the older ones. Producers also started to skimp on the quality of the wool that they were buying. That is why many of the semi antique rugs tend to have more muddied colors and the wool is much more scruffy to the touch.
As far as quality of the design is concerned, the minute differences between antique and a semi antique rugs are insignificant. The best way to consider semi antique rugs would be as utilitarian objects more so than beautiful works of art. Since so many of them were woven in multiple sizes, with lower grade qualities of weave, wool and colors, they will be less expensive. When buying these rugs you should choose function over beauty. Do not spend a lot of money on Persian semi antique rugs and just use them till they wear out.
It is important to note that not all the semi antique carpets were inferiorly made. Though generally speaking, the vast majority of the semi antique rugs were more commercial, there were still good Oriental rugs woven during this period.
This rug blog about the Oriental and Persian semi antique rugs was published by Nazmiyal Rug Gallery in NYC.


Julian Adams, Ph.D., President of research and development at Infinity, gave an update on the DYNAMO study. She stated, "DYNAMO is our Phase-II monotherapy study designed to evaluate the safety and activity of duvelisib in approximately 120 patients with double refractory iNHL, and we are on track to report topline data from this study early in the third quarter. The primary endpoint is overall response rate."
120th patient enrolled in DYNAMO: In September, Infinity announced that the 120th patient had been enrolled in DYNAMO, a global, Phase 2 open-label, single-arm, monotherapy study of duvelisib (25 mg BID) in patients with iNHL whose disease is refractory to rituximab and to either chemotherapy or radioimmunotherapy. The primary endpoint is overall response rate. Topline data is anticipated in the third quarter of 2016, and Infinity anticipates the submission of global regulatory filings by the end of 2016. This enrollment milestone triggered an obligation for AbbVie Inc. to pay Infinity a $130 million payment. AbbVie is Infinity's global development and commercial partner for duvelisib in oncology.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. , Sept. 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: INFI) today announced that the 120th patient has been enrolled in DYNAMO™, a Phase 2 study in patients with refractory indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (iNHL) evaluating the safety and efficacy of duvelisib an oral, dual inhibitor of phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K)-delta and PI3K-gamma. This enrollment achievement triggers a $130 million milestone payment from AbbVie Inc. , Infinity's global development and commercialization partner for duvelisib in oncology. Infinity expects to report topline data from DYNAMO in the third quarter of 2016.
"The completion of patient enrollment in DYNAMO represents a significant milestone for Infinity," said Julian Adams, Ph.D., president, research and development at Infinity. "We are grateful for the support of the DYNAMO investigators, and most importantly the patients and their families, for their participation in this study. In addition, we would like to thank the Infinity and AbbVie teams for their hard work in ensuring completion of enrollment in this trial. We look forward to sharing topline DYNAMO data next year."
"The duvelisib development program underscores our commitment to developing innovative treatment options for patients with hematologic malignancies, and completing patient enrollment in DYNAMO represents an important step toward advancing the duvelisib program," stated Adelene Perkins, Infinity's president and chief executive officer. "Additionally, the milestone payment provides Infinity with important financial resources as we continue to execute on our strategic development plans as we work with AbbVie to bring duvelisib to patients. Very few therapeutic options exist for patients with relapsed/refractory indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and more oral therapies are needed."
DYNAMO is a global, Phase 2 open-label, single-arm, monotherapy study of duvelisib (25 mg BID) in 120 patients with iNHL whose disease is refractory to rituximab and to either chemotherapy or radioimmunotherapy. The primary endpoint is overall response rate.
NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 7, 2013-- Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: INFI) today announced updated Phase 1 data from an ongoing study of IPI-145, its oral inhibitor of phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K)-delta and PI3K-gamma, in patients with relapsed/refractory indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (iNHL), a potentially fatal hematologic malignancy (blood cancer). Data from the study showed that IPI-145 was clinically active, with an overall response rate of 73 percent, including three complete responses, among patients receiving IPI-145 dosed at ≤ 25 mg twice daily (BID). Data also showed that 53 percent of patients remained progression free for over one year. These data support DYNAMO, the ongoing Phase 2 study of IPI-145 in patients with refractory iNHL. These findings were presented today at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH).
Additionally, Infinity presented translational data showing that IPI-145 affects key signaling molecules in the tumor microenvironment, providing a potential mechanistic rationale underlying the clinical activity of IPI-145 observed in both iNHL and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 3, 2013-- Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: INFI) today announced updated Phase 1 data from an ongoing study of IPI-145, its potent, oral inhibitor of phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K)-delta and PI3K-gamma in patients with relapsed/refractory lymphoma, a group of potentially fatal hematologic malignancies, or blood cancers. Data from the study showed that IPI-145 was well tolerated and clinically active in patients with B-cell or T-cell lymphomas, including indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (iNHL), T-cell lymphoma, mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and Hodgkin lymphoma (HL). These findings were presented today at the 2013 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 14, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: INFI) today announced that DYNAMO™, a registration-focused Phase 2 monotherapy study evaluating the efficacy and safety of duvelisib, an investigational, oral, dual inhibitor of phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K)-delta and PI3K-gamma, in patients with refractory indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (iNHL) met its primary endpoint of overall response rate. In the study, duvelisib demonstrated an overall response rate (ORR) of 46 percent, all of which were partial responses, among 129 patients with iNHL. The majority of reported side effects were reversible and clinically manageable.
"While the DYNAMO study met its primary endpoint, we hoped that treatment with duvelisib as a monotherapy would have provided a larger clinical benefit for patients with advanced indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a difficult-to-treat disease," stated Adelene Perkins, president and chief executive officer at Infinity. "We plan to seek feedback from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to determine our next steps with respect to duvelisib in indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma."
In addition, Infinity and AbbVie are in ongoing, collaborative discussions to explore next steps for the parties' collaboration. Pending the resolution of these business discussions, AbbVie and Infinity have also agreed to pause the AbbVie-sponsored Phase 1b/2 study evaluating duvelisib in combination with venetoclax.
"This restructuring is a necessary step to preserve financial resources as we explore options for duvelisib and the advancement of IPI-549, our second clinical program," stated Adelene Perkins, president and chief executive officer. "These were very difficult decisions that were undertaken, and I would like to personally express my deep appreciation to the very talented and dedicated Citizen-Owners impacted by the restructuring for their tremendous contributions to Infinity."
Infinity expects to provide updated 2016 financial guidance following the resolution of these strategic activities. The previous financial guidance for 2016 should no longer be relied upon.
DYNAMO, a Phase 2 single-arm study, evaluated the efficacy and safety of duvelisib (25 mg twice daily) as a monotherapy in 129 patients with follicular lymphoma (n = 83), small lymphocytic lymphoma (n = 28) or marginal zone lymphoma (n = 18) whose disease has progressed and who are refractory to rituximab and to either chemotherapy or radioimmunotherapy. The primary endpoint of the study was overall response rate as assessed by an independent review committee.
In the study, the overall response rate was 46 percent, all of which were partial responses. The overall response rate was 41 percent among patients with follicular lymphoma, 68 percent among patients with small lymphocytic lymphoma and 33 percent among patients with marginal zone lymphoma.
In the overall study population, the majority of side effects were reversible and clinically manageable. The most common ≥ Grade 3 side effects that occurred in at least 10 percent of patients in the study were neutropenia (28 percent), diarrhea (15 percent), thrombocytopenia (13 percent) and anemia (12 percent). Twenty percent of patients experienced ≥ Grade 3 infection.
Infinity expects to submit data from the DYNAMO study for presentation at an upcoming scientific conference.
Infinity will host a conference call today, June 14, 2016, at 8:30 a.m. ET to discuss the duvelisib data, the restructuring and other corporate developments. A live webcast of the conference call can be accessed in the Investors/Media section of Infinity's website at www.infi.com. To participate in the conference call, please dial 1-877-316-5293 (domestic) and 1-631-291-4526 (international) five minutes prior to start time. The conference ID number is 33224813. An archived version of the webcast will be available on Infinity's website for 30 days.


Any restaurant on here could be visited for dinner and some for breakfast, but they are best seen as lunch stops.Their strengths are their soups, salads, sandwiches, desserts and flavored coffees and teas. These are restaurants where lunch has become an art form. Since their kitchens are not focused on preparing major entrees for the evening session, they pour all their focus into very creative, cutting edge variations on common lunch items. Since neighborhood executives and their staffs tend to eat lunch here, and many of them will eat at the same places every day, the menus tend to rotate daily or weekly, or else there is a basic menu with a blackboard of daily specials. The same caution applies to these luncheon stops as usually applies to dinnertime restaurants : they can get quite crowded during the noon hour. 11:30 or 1:00 is a much better time to go. Keep in mind that many of the regular restaurants in other sections are also fine places to go for lunch. These restaurants are grouped together here because they specialize in lunch.
If you're up for a short drive into the Blue Grass Backcountry, especially in the Spring or Fall, Graze is your place. You drive out Winchester Road past I-75, turn right onto Combs Ferry Road, and just across the Clark County line you come to the white frame building seen here. Graze does not use a menu. Food is harvested fresh from the surrounding fields every day and the menu will feature whatever's available. Graze calls it "Field To Fork." Obviously, Salads, Vegetables, Fruits, Cobblers, and Meats are specialties, and they make their own salad dressings. You can phone (859-745-0990) to see what's offered each day, and you might want to make a reservation, because Graze has grown very popular and as you can see from the photo is not large. For a Friday and Saturday night you should call by midweek. There's a small wine and beer list, but nothing on tap. We think their best entree is the fresh Bison on those days when it's available. But the Pork and Ribeye are also outstanding.
Jimmy Johns is a gourmet sandwich outlet boasting that they cut all meat and vegetables fresh right in front of you, bake their own bread each day, and apply everything, such as Grey Poupon, just before handing you the finished sandwich. They don't serve anything except sandwiches but they fix those so fast that if you weren't watching them you'd swear they had to be prepackaged. They have six SUBs, six Slims, 11 Giant Clubs, and their signature Gargantuan. If you're hungry we recommend that Gargantuan (salami, smoked ham, capicola, roast beef, turkey, provolone, onions, lettuce, tomato, Italian dressing on a homemade French bun). It could be considered Dinner in a Sandwich. If that seems a bit much, try the Italian Night Club (salami, capicola, smoked ham, hot peppers, provolone, lettuce, tomato, onion, mayo, Italian vinaigrette). The Vegetarian Sub contains provolone, avocado, alfalfa sprouts, cucumber, lettuce, tomato and mayo. Other modest offerings are the Bootlegger (beef, turkey, lettuce, tomato, mayo), Porker (applewood smoked ham, bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayo) and the Unwich, which has your choice of the sandwich meats or vegetables on a plate without the bread. Jimmy Johns has four Lexington locations : Waller Avenue, South Limestone (campus), East Main (downtown), and Tiverton Way.
Joseph Beth is America's largest singly owned bookstore. But there's also a very good restaurant inside. At left is the restaurant entrance from the bookstore. A large fireplace adds cheer to the paintings and books used for decor. Seating is in bad need of updating;upholstered benches, chairs and various sizes of tables looks like a random display from the 1960s. But the food is competitive with any lunch restaurant in the state, and it's a cozy stop for breakfast or dinner. Soup of the Day is likely to be Italian Vegetable or Potato Bacon. There are always two great daily Quiches, one meat and one vegetable, and the Vegetarian Greek Wrap (red onion, artichokes, tomato, olives, feta cheese, spinach and rosemary lemon aioli wrapped in a spinach tortilla) alone is worth stopping for. The six salads are outstanding, with the Turkey Cranberry Feta and Pear/Almond/ Raisen/ Bleu Cheese our favorite. JoBeth serves one of the outstanding Open Face Turkey Sandwiches in Lexington, and Spinach Artichoke Quesadilla (spinach, artichoke, parmesan, jack cheese, mandarin orange dip and sour cream grilled within a spinach tortilla) is very good. Their Vegetarian Chile is served mild with a side of hot sauce so you can flavor to taste. It's pretty rich without the sauce. Beverages include coffees, teas and smoothies. Forest Pie (rhubarb /apple/ peach/ cherry/ berry cobbler) and Peanut Butter Pie are great.
Josie's began as a carryout service, but is now a "diner" style breakfast and lunch operation. You can sit at an old horseshoe bar, in booths, or at old dining room tables. As purely a lunch stop, it may be the best in town. The classic combo is the Quiche of the Day served with either a cup of the Soup of the Day or a Classic Salad. The quiches and soups are great every day no matter what the flavor. The Josie's Whitefish Sandwich is either the best in town or a strong rival to Charlie's for that honor. If you're into burgers, you'll love either the Smoke House Burger (bacon, smoked cheddar, Makers Mark BBQ sauce and toasted onions) or the Spicy Burger (pepper jack cheese, fried jalapenos and Southwest ancho mayo). One of their popular items with locals is the Zesty Chicken Sandwich (grilled chicken breast topped with banana pepper rings and spicy pepper jack with lettuce and tomato). There's a Reuben, Hot Corn Beef and six kinds of Salads. In all there are 14 sandwiches, plus Grouper Fingers and Quesadillas. Chevy Chase Place, last business on the right rear, just before the Drug Store.
Lexington Diner has a new home on Lane Allen Road in the former Brasabana building. The menu is mostly the same. They serve Breakfast all day with favorites like Chicken & Waffles, five overstuffed Omelettes (especially the Smoked Gouda Omelette), Mexican Hot Chocolate, Buttermilk Biscuits, and the unique Breakfast Brown (chorizo, scrambled eggs, gravy, grilled tomatoes and baked cheddar). The Sunrise Burrito (scrambled eggs, bell peppers, chorizo, cheddar, guacamole, sour cream and pico de gallo) is the star of the show. For Lunch or Dinner, the Farmstead Salad is one of the best in town (turkey, ham, bacon, cucumbers, tomatoes, eggs, cheddar and mixed greens). But there's the Taco Salad (pulled chicken, red onion, tomato, cheddar, mixed greens, in a tortilla with pico, sour cream and guacamole), and a fine Chicken Quesadilla. Their Soup of the Day is always worth ordering. The Chili contains beef, chorizo and a shot glass of ale. There are five Burgers : Bourbon Burger, Jive (tomato, pickled onion, basil pesto, mozzarella, balsamic drizzle), Short Street (onion, provolone, bacon, chipotle aoli), Kilauea (steak, pineapple chutney, garlic aoli, pepper jack cheese, fried wonton strips) and the Traditional. We're big fans of their Hot Roast Beef Sandwich. There are also Nachos and Fish and Chips. Sides include red wine slaw, mustard potato salad, spiced apples and cheddar garlic fries. Try the dessert nachos and berry compote. The Diner is not open for dinner.
McAlister's Deli specializes in salads, sandwiches, soups and potatoes. The first McAlister's was in a converted gas station and this one echoes that with black and white tiles and a light, airy interior with high ceilings and plenty of windows. The best bargain is their Soup with Salad, Spud or Sandwich for $7. They offer four soups a day and they're all good. Of the salads, we like the Italian (black forest ham, salami, olives, roast red peppers, provolone, onions, cucumbers and tomatoes), Savannah (grilled chicken breast, cranberries, gorgonzola, honey roast almonds, tomatoes and cucumbers) and Southwest (grilled chicken breast, roast corn, poblano pepper relish, guacamole, cheddar jack cheese, tomatoes and tortilla chips). There are 33 Sandwiches (Club, Grilled, Classic and Hot) and eight Baked Potatoes. Choices include Muffaletta, Reuben, Memphian, Italian Submarine, Horseradish Roast Beef, and Orange Cranberry.. The four sandwiches which include Black Angus Roast Beef are all delicious, and Applewood Smoked Bacon shows up on seven others. The Veggie Club (avocado, cucumbers, roast red peppers, red onions, lettuce, tomatoes, sharp cheddar, Swiss, Parmesan and Peppercorn) is a vegetarian favorite.
Newk's is a an upscale fast casual restaurant with Richmond Road and Fayette Mall locations. Ambience is sleek and modern. You order off a wall menu and find a table, watch through the glass as they fix your order and the waitress brings your food. Newk's offers Salads, Soups, Pizzas, Sandwiches, Mac n Cheese and Dessert. There are no microwaves; everything is fixed fresh from raw ingredients in front of you. Salads are spectacular, with large bowls of five kinds of fresh lettuce and whatever other ingredients you specify (chicken, shrimp, tuna, avocado, steak, cheese, etc.). These may be the best Salads in town. Soups are also outstanding, offrered on rotation, with each one appearing 2-3 times a week and each day offering three choices. We like their Tomato Basil, Crawfish Pepperjack, Spinach & Feta, Seafood Provencal and Fire Roasted Tomato. Mac n Cheese options include Five Cheese and Pimento Bacon. Pizza lovers can try Spicy Shrimp, BBQ, Flame Grilled Chicken, Mediterranean, Veggie and Margherita. One nice touch is a Condiments Table with Cholla Sauce, Tabasco Sauce, etc. Beverages include Beer, Wine, Soft Drinks, Fruit Juice, Sparkling Waters, Coffee and very good Sweet Tea. Dessert can be Strawberry, Chocolate or Caramel Cake. They're very rich and delicious and make great take hone.
Noodles looks like a fast food outlet, but is a serious pasta, soup and salad restaurant. You order from the counter and they bring it to your table. Prices range from $6 per bowl of pasta to $5 per bowl of soup to $8 per large salad. Ice Tea is $2, Beer is $4 and Wine is $6. Kids (of all ages) who love Mac & Cheese can order either Wisconsin or BBQ versions. Adults will come back several times to sample various pasta choices : Bangkok Curry, Indonesian Peanut Saute, Tuscan Linguine, Pesto Cavatappi, Pad Thai, Japanese Pan Noodles, etc. Soups include Thai Curry, Tomato Basil Bisque and Chicken Noodle. Salads include Spinach & Fresh Fruit, Grilled Chicken Caesar, Chinese Chicken Chop and Pork Med. There are even a few Sandwiches : BBQ Pork, Mediterranean, Wisconsin Cheesesteak, and Chicken Caesar. You can order Beer, Wine or Iced Tea with your meal.
Old San Juan is a classic Cuban restaurant, run by a Cuban couple along with their daughter and son in law. It's a low key storefront with a Cuban grocery in the back, but the food is outstanding. This is an especially good lunch stop. You could order the Cuban sandwich (ham, swiss cheese, roast pork, mustard, pickles and their incredible homemade Cuban bread), or the Roast Pork Sandwich (pork, swiss cheese, lettuce, tomatoes on that same bread), or one of the other six sandwiches. You could easily become addicted to this bread. Sides include Black Beans & Rice, Fried Plantains, Beef Stuffed Potatoes or Chicken Croquettes. The Coffees here, especially the Cuban Expresso, are almost worth a stop in themselves. Milkshakes include the Pina Colado, Mango, Mamey, Guava, Tamarindo and Guanabana Shakes. Order the Medium, as these are pretty rich. The dinner menu includes Steak, Pork Chop, Ground Beef, Pulled Simmered Beef, Red Snapper, Shrimp, Chicken, Sausage With Onions & Cheese, and a Cuban Vegetarian Platter (black beans, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, onions & peppers). Ingredients are basic but their sauces, seasonings and dressings are special. Leave room for dessert. There's Cuban Flan, Tres Leches, Pastries and Quesitos, all quite rich. Leaving here you can't help but wonder how Mexican instead of Cuban food became so popular. This cuisine is much lighter and the tastes much more delicate.
Panera's is famous for drinks, soups, sandwiches and paninis. We like their Ginger Peach Tea, which we have tried and cannot duplicate anywhere else (so we just buy boxes from Panera). Of their soups, which we order in the bread bowl Puritan style, we like Creamy Tomato (pureed with red pepper and oregano in cream) and Garden (Swiss chard, cauliflower, zucchini, tomatoes, beans, peppers, barley, and basil pesto thoroughly pureed). The two salads we think lead the pack are the Mediterranean Salmon (chilled salmon, field greens, romaine, feta cheese, olives, oranges, almonds, red onions in honey tangerine vinaigrette dressing) and Fuji Apple Chicken (citrus herb chicken, field greens, romaine, tomatoes, red onions, pecans, Gorgonzola, apple in white balsamic apple vinaigrette). The Asiago Roast Beef and Mediterranean Veggie top a whole page of sandwiches.
Shakespeare's is in a beautifully restored 1890s building at the corner of Short and Broadway. It's only a block from Triangle Park and well worth the walk. The decor is an eclectic mix of frilly pink, purple, blue and turquoise. The menu is a 22 page extravaganza of British, European and Middle East. The first page consists of four $12 Breakfasts : American, British, Mediterranean and Healthy. The American, for example, includes eggs, grits, hash browns, sausage, bacon, toast, butter, jam, juice and coffee. There are also various orders of eggs (Smoked Salmon, Roast Potatoes, Hollandaise Sauce Folded Into Scrambled Eggs) and Crepes (Turkey & Cheese, Almond Caramel, etc.). Once you turn to the lunch and dinner menu, you find six kinds of Flatbread and five soups. We like their Tomato Soup with ginger and cream. You can pick from six Salads. Oddly, we like their Mediterranean Salad the best, but it is NOT a Mediterranean Salad. Of their Sandwiches, the Smoked Salmon stands out. Which brings you, way back on page 14, to the Entrees. There are some hard choices to make here, but we think their Red Snapper, Rack of Lamb and Baby Back Ribs are their best. It takes several pages to list all their exotic teas and coffees, beers, wines, bourbons, and mixed drinks. Outdoor seating is available in warm weather. More so than most restaurants, it will take many visits to sample all the nooks and corners of this menu.
Stella's is West of downtown in an old yellow frame house at 143 Jefferson (two blocks north of the viaduct). Stella's takes great pride in either raising or buying locally everything used in their kitchen. On their menu they list precisely where everything comes from : the meats, breads, eggs, cheeses, hand ground grits and flour, wines, all of it. Their $3 Soup Of The Day, $4 Salads and $3 desserts are always worth ordering, but the menu is really an All Star Sandwich roster. Many of them only exist here : Hummus & Tapenade, Apple & Bleu Cheese, Lentil Burger, Candy Bar Sandwich, Grilled Peanut Butter & Jelly, Brat Kraut & Swiss, Vegetarian Hot Brown, and Bagel & Lox. Some are common but just better here : Fried Green Tomato BLT, Reuben, Pimento Cheese, Lamb Burger, Hot Brown and Chicken Salad. Made with fresh picked local ingredients as they are, Stella's sides are pretty impressive : Tomato Aspic, Cole Slaw, Potato Salad, and Red Beans & Rice. Just about the only item on the menu originating outside the Central Blue Grass is the Smoked Salmon, but it makes a fine addition to any salad for $3. There are only a dozen tables inside, and over the noon hour they're usually full. You might consider coming earlier or later. Stella's opens at 10:30 daily, closing at 4 Mondays and Tuesdays and 9 the other days.
The Village Idiot is certainly a historic experience. The building dates from 1810. It was the original Lexington Post Office, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Converting it to a pub presented challenges, which they have solved very creatively. It's worth visiting just to see the building. The food, however, is unexpectedly good. This is a gastropub, a tavern with gourmet beers plus gourmet food. They've taken it seriously enough to hire two certified and experienced chefs and stock an impressive cellar of wines, spirits and beers. You can order cutting edge items : Pork Belly with sauce and kimchee, gourmet popcorn, Cheese Waffles, Scotch Eggs (hard boiled eggs deep fried in ground beef), Roast Brussels Sprouts (with bleu cheese, potatoes and onions), Smoked Trout, Sloppy Joes, Mussells, Seared Scallops and Country Ham. 307 Short Street. 381-9493. From the Hyatt, walk two blocks north on North Broadway, turn right on West Short Street, and look for the Village Idiot at the end of the block on your left.
Vinaigrette is a lunch stop specializing in Lexington's greatest Salads. There are 10 of them, plus a Soup of the Day and beverages (lemonade, tea and soft drinks). Our favorite is the Blue Grass Black Berry Salad. It includes Mixed Greens, Strawberries, Apple Chips, Red Onion, Pecans, Crumbled Feta, Blackberry Sorghum Dressing with an option to add Country Ham. The Kale Salad includes Kale, Quinoa, Sweet Potatoes, Parmesan Cheese, Dried Cranberries, Sunflower Seeds, Rice Noodles and Honey Balsamic Vinaigrette. The Vegan Power Salad is a tour de force : Mixed Greens, Cabbage, Quinoa, Chickpeas, Carrots, Cucumbers, Grape Tomatoes, Sweet Peppers, Roast Sunflower Seeds, Endamame, and a Creamy Lemon Vinaigrette. The list goes on : The Santorini, Chicken Taco, Orange Blossom, Tuscan, Chicken Salad, Acapulco Caesar, and BLT Deluze. You can ask for Blackberry Sorghum Vinaigrette, Bourbon Smoked Paprika Ranch, Chipotle Lime Caesar, Creamy Lemon Vinaigrette, Honey Orange Sesame Vinaigrette, Balsamic Vinegar, Pure Ranch, and Tuscan, Salsa or Honey Balsamic Vinaigrette. This North Broadway location is four doors up from West Main Street and Triangle Park.
At Wallace Station, lunch is almost an afterthought. The drive out from Lexington on Old Frankfort Pike takes you through some of the most beautiful backcountry in the state, past some of the world's most famous horse farms. In the Spring and Fall, the landscape is lush and green. In the Fall it's a riot of red, orange and yellow. But Wallace Station will quickly pull your mind back to Food. This is a great lunch stop. Their Whitesburg Soup Beans n Corn Bread is an old mountain classic which Chef Ouita has made into a gourmet item. On other days, their Creamy Chicken and Mushroom is just as good if not as famous. There are three Salads (Chicken/Tuna, Turkey/Ham, and Greek) and a Cole Slaw/Potato Salad combo. They're all good. Probably the stars of the lunch menu are the Big Brown and Inside Out. The Big Brown was designed to be Kentucky's finest burger. In addition to beef, it contains ham, bacon, tomato and white cheddar mornay. It's running mate is the Wally Burger, loaded with lettuce, tomato, red onion, pickles, and your choice of white cheddar, Swiss, pepper jack or provolone cheese. Over on the Hot Sandwich, the Inside Out is Outa's version of the beloved Hot Brown. It grills roast turkey, ham, tomato and white cheddar mornay cheese on homemade bread. Other sandwiches include a Veggie Cheese, Turkey Rachel, Tuna Melt, Reuben, Cuban, Grilled Turkey and Ham & Brie. There are eight Cold Sandwiches and a Wrap. Wallace's serves Fried Chicken every Monday night and Fried Catfish every Friday night. The Breakfast menu includes some delicious twists on old country favorites. The Hellarito includes sausage, two eggs, guacamole, chipotle, mayo, grilled onions, roast red peppers, grilled potatoes and tobasco sauce stuffed in a jumbo tortilla and grilled. Chef Ouita's Panini features scrambled eggs, creamy spinach, artichoke hearts, parmesan cheese and hollandaise butter.
Windy Corner is one of Central Kentucky's most charming lunch stops. It was a country store in the heart of horse farm country. This is not really the original building, but it's been totally rebuilt to match it as closely as possible. The floor is beautiful reclaimed planking and beadboard lines the walls. There's the same red metal roof and the big windows along the wall opposite this view. But you come for the food. They serve breakfast and dinner (which includes Shrimp & Grits), but their best menu is Lunch. Always take a cup of their Soup of the Day. There's a whole page of Po Boys, of which our favorites are Barbecue and Kentucky (both pulled pork). Chef Ouita's interpretation of this old standard evolves into a sort of Open Face Sandwich, with Fried Pickles and Bourbon Barrel Beer Cheese to liven it up. There's a good Fried Catfish Basket, which has as good a breading as you're going to find in the state, plus some outstanding Hush Puppies, Remoulade and Cream Cole Slaw. The Steamed Vegetable Basket includes locally raised Kale, Broccoli, Red Bliss Potatoes and Green Beans in olive oil and sea salt. There are three good burgers, made from local beef and served with either hot bourbon mustard or spicy peanut dressing. You can get wine, Peach Tea, Hazelnut Coffee or Ale 8 One. Desserts, mostly cookies, brownies or bars, are made in house or nearby from scratch.
Woodford Reserve Distillery in Woodford County started a restaurant to serve its customers as they concluded their tours. Recently it has become a full scale lunch restaurant, serving out on the porch every Tuesday through Saturday, May 1 through November 1, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. From Nov. 1 through April 30 they serve indoors in the facility shown at left. Their tour is considered by most to be the best on the Bourbon Trail, which includes all the other major distilleries in Kentucky. And there's a sampling of Bourbon at the end. But the food is also worth coming for. The picnic-style menu out on the porch includes multiple cold sandwiches (Santa Anita Club, Paige's Veggie Cheese, Old-Fashioned Country Ham, KT's Pimiento Cheese, PB&J), salads (Shady Lane Chicken Salad and a Greek salad), chips and desserts such as brownies, bon-bons and cookies. Inside during the Winter months, the menu is more traditional. Featured is the Inside Out, their version of the classic Hot Brown, and the Big Brown, their attempt at the greatest burger in Kentucky. The food is actually not made here but is prepared by Outia Michels and her staff at nearby Wallace Station. Since the Michels group has swept most culinary awards in recent years, that's a good thing. Woodford Reserve Distillery is on McCracken Lane outside Versailles. For anyone visiting in Central Kentucky, this is almost a Must Stop.


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The NMD_CS1, short for City Sock, fuses urban style with running technology. The slip-on Primeknit upper is rendered in a two-tone striped motif with veg tan panels on the medial side and a heel tab. It sits on a white Boost midsole with white EVA plugs with a white rubber outsole, and an embossed style code on the leather side panel finishes off the details.


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Election may be postponed, says electoral commission
Published on 16 Maggio 2017 in BreakingNews @en by Redazione
The elections, which had to be held originally before November, 2016, were postponed by the government, which said it requires more time to register the voters. According to an agreement concluded at the end of December, Joseph Kabila, agreed to leave the presidency after elections planned before the end of 2017. Experts considered that a second adjournment would risk to start a new wave of violent demonstrations: Last year dozens of people died after Joseph Kabila's refusal to leave the power at the end of its second mandate (the last one according to the Constitution), on December 19th. The president of CENI (an electoral Commission), Crow Nangaa, announced on Friday that the violence in the central province of Kasaï risked to compromise the integrity of the vote. The opponents of Kabila judge that the president intends to postpone the elections up to the organization of a referendum allowing him to run for a third term, an operation used by Paul Kagame in Rwanda too. Kabila denies these charges.
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2006 Travels June 28
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WEDNESDAY 28 JUNE LITCHFIELD
The day was routine.
The evening was livened up by the cutting of pilot S's hair, after the cafe had closed for the night.
The staff group and WOOFERS were sitting outside on the lawns after tea – a rare occurrence, because we usually all went our separate ways. But some of the ranger staff from the National Park had come to visit, for drinks, and a couple of the local people, who were involved with the art venture in the gallery rotunda, were also there. There were no guests in the safari camp and no diners. The gathering turned fairly raucous, fairly quickly!
S commented that he really needed a hair cut. John volunteered to do it, and went off to the van to get the gear I used to cut his hair.
John started the clipping process, by torchlight, but then local lady K got in on the act and finished it off, amidst much hilarity.
Fortunately, using clippers with a set length attachment, there wasn't too much that could go wrong.
It was a fun night.
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When speaking and writing in one's native tongue, cases are typically not thought of but are rather used instinctively. You just know that it's correct to say, "Andy's book" rather than "Andy book" when speaking of a book belonging to Andy. You also know that it is correct to speak of your sister as "her" rather than "it". The same conventions apply to Latin and eventually, after practice, the use of them will become as instinctive as those you are familiar with.
Latin has three genders, masculine, feminine, and neuter (and they are listed that way in the dictionary).
Feminine: Feminine words can typically be identified by an ending of –a. Nearly all first declension nouns are feminine.
Neuter: Neuter words can typically be identified by an ending of -um.
All of the above are 1st declension nouns but masculine!


Update: Two years ago I wrote this post about Bring Your Own Technology at our local school. I was just informed that the entire school has banned this policy. I doubt my letter was the what caused this change, but I'll never regret that I sent it to our principal.
I can only imagine the amount of issues personal devices caused at school, mainly because I'm living them out in my home. I'm so glad that they've made this decision… it's hard enough to teach students, let alone police devices. Let's hear it for normal (awkward) middle school!
Bottom Line – Stand up for what you believe in, write the letter, make the phone call. You may just be planting a seed for the future.
There is a new trend coming to schools in the United States, Bring Your Own Device – BYOD or Bring Your Own Technology – BYOT. Students are allowed to use their own devices in schools to enhance their own instruction. Schools are looking for a way to embrace technology and bring it more readily into the classroom. Many businesses tried to adopt this policy and it failed.
How do you feel about children bringing their own devices to school? It's called "BYOD in the classroom".
As a parent, educator, and the writer of Busy Kids Happy Mom, I wanted to bring awareness to BYOT or BYOD. While I am not against learning through technology, I am against addictive behaviors, distractions, more time on technology, cutting into learning time, and just the overall cost (device, data plan, insurance). I'm concerned because we are the first generation of educators and parents to invite the outside influence of technology (with no parameters) into our schools.
I'm pretty sure that children today don't need more technology time. Learning how to use it wisely and learning time management, yes. This is something I've been teaching at home. To ask an elementary teacher or several teachers in middle school and high school monitor my child's technology activity is too much.
This year I received a letter from my child's math teacher asking about "his" data plan. Needless to say, I made my own line and said "N/A, we do not feel he needs to be bringing a device like this to school." Then it progressed into teachers wanting to text us assignment updates and then the rumor that schools would be getting wifi access for students (2016 the school has accessible wifi). I felt that I needed to step up and share my thoughts with our principal.
I have below the letter we (my husband and I) sent to our child's middle school principal. I have changed all of the names and locations. If you would like to share this letter or copy it into an email, please feel free.
I am writing to express my concerns about the new initiative at our Middle School regarding "Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)" and WiFi access for students.
At Back To School night, my son's teachers indicated that personal mobile devices such as iPads, iPhones, etc. will be used in the classroom. It was also stated that this was a new BYOD effort at the middle school. We were asked by one of the teachers about our child's data plan for mobile devices. I have three main concerns about this and have listed them below. Most parents I have spoken to share these concerns.
1. Excessive Media Time and their effects.
Not all families will be able to afford devices, or choose not to provide devices for their children. The devices themselves are expensive, as well as the associated data plans. In my family, we are choosing to wait until high school to allow our son to carry his own device. (Recently this changed and we now allow him to take an iTouch to school on Fridays). We feel that it is important for our children to take responsibility of such an expensive device. We are not comfortable sending our child to school with a device that costs hundreds of dollars. Your school policy on electronic devices states that "The school is not responsible for any devices lost or stolen," but what about when you are asking students to carry expensive devices?
3. Interruption to the school day.
Overall, I feel that this new Bring Your Own Device initiative should be reconsidered. As a parent, it is difficult enough to monitor my child's "media diet" and set up "screen free" zones and times in our home. I also think it is unfair to require students and parents to provide their own devices and data plans. Not all of the schools in our county have adopted this BYOD policy. Please share why you feel this is necessary to have it at our school.
I did receive a response from our principal, he was supportive and understanding; however, I do feel his hands are tied. He has held two parent sessions where he now states that his own children will not be receiving devices until they are in high school.
The Principal also tells all incoming 6th grade parents that devices are not required, regardless of what your children tell you. They have devices in the school, they just don't have enough devices for every student.
I'm glad we expressed our concerns. We're willing to share our letter in hopes that it might help put into words some of the worries you may have too.
We didn't include additional thoughts on privacy (photos in the bathroom), theft, and the many different types of a devices that might come to school (teacher's nightmare). Thanks to Mr. Busy Kids, we were able to take my lengthy letter and make it more concise!
Since the publication of this post in the Fall of 2014, I have not heard anything positive come from taking devices to school.
Kids are taking them in the bathrooms where they are not monitored. Staying in bathroom stalls to be on their devices.
Risk of having device lost or stolen.
Kids taking pictures of their "friends" without consent and posting on social media.
Only positive: Kahoot! is fun to play as a test review.
Please feel free to comment below, this is a kind and caring community. Rude comments will be deleted.
What a wonderful letter! I am so glad you took the time to write it and share it with us. We don't have this policy yet. I hope it doesn't come here soon.
I hope it doesn't come your way either JDaniel4's mom. I think some school districts feel the need to pave the way, wish we weren't one of them.
This is the first time I hear of this. Our children's school actually has the opposite policy: no devices at school. If they are found, they are returned to parents only.
I totally agree with your letter. I am not anti- electronic devices( would actually fall in 'computer geek' category) but do no think children need them as much as some people may think.
I hope your voice gets heard. Bring back recess, let the kids see the outdoors!
Thanks Valerie! I think bring recess back is the best counter argument I've heard!
Thank you. This is something my county is considering for some schools. I totally agree with you and the points you made. I am additionally concerned about the social well being of students. If adults in conference rooms and lunch rooms are addicted to their phones that they no longer hold conversation, what will happen to children?


Bornstein, Hahn, and Suwalsky examined several competing explanations using path analysis, a statistical method used to determine whether or not a data set fits well with a previously specified causal model. Path analysis is not intended to prove a causal relationship (although it can disprove one), but it illuminates chains of influence (or the sequence in which several dependent variables may shape a dependent measure).
The study analyzed two longitudinal cohorts of children looking at developmental pathways between children's language skills and their behavioral adjustment in terms of internalizing (e.g., withdrawal, anxiety, self-consciousness, shyness) and externalizing (e.g., defiance, impulsivity, disruptiveness, aggression) behavior problems. The authors found strong evidence that weak early childhood language skills can predict later internalizing behavior problems.
The general cascading pattern observed in both cohorts indicated that language proficiency in early childhood affected behavioral adjustment in late childhood, which in turn contributed to behavioral adjustment in early adolescence. Framed in the positive, young children who are more competent verbally have fewer internalizing behavior problems later.
Links between language skills and behavior issues were documented, even after controlling for broad individual and family characteristics (i.e. poverty, nonverbal intelligence, aspects of mothers' and children's environments).
Importantly, "internalizing and externalizing behavior problems never predicted language." The latter is interesting because we often talk about how children's social-emotional development prepares them to be "ready to learn." These findings, however, suggest that learning itself – i.e., oral language development – helps to strengthen young children's socio-emotional development.
"But what is it about language that keeps some behavioral adjustment problems at bay?" – the authors ask.
Language is multidimensional, with receptive and expressive phonological, semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic components. We do not know exactly which language competencies or what about language competencies in early childhood keep behavioral adjustment problems at bay. This is a question for future research.
Finally, some of the study's limitations: (1) a small sample size; (2) some generalizability concerns due to the characteristics of the sample and; (3) the possibility that relevant child characteristics (such as temperament) were not considered by the models.
The study is important because it suggests that "programs aimed at improving child language may also promote their psychological wellbeing" and that "an early focus on language may therefore yield a high return on investment in strategically timed and targeted interventions designed to ameliorate or obviate behavioral problems."
Common sense would support the idea that language development helps improve psychological well-being. We've all witnessed a young child "talking herself through" a difficult situation (heck, adults do it too, though more often silently). Having greater language skills would enhance the child's ability to do this, whether the task is coping with disappointment, de-fusing a conflict, or finding a way to appreciate a peer.


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It works perfectly in Firefox but whenever I scroll in a Chromium-based browser it scrolls straight from the first section to the third. Any ideas for why this could happen?

A: Update: How does this work out for you?

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Stumbling upon Barbara's modern kitchen is indeed a revelation. It makes use of the best products whether it is natural wood or glazed tile to make the tiny room into an opulent boudoir, nothing else. Yet it is a modern kitchen with all the necessities being taken care of. From the polished wooden cabinetry to the walls and even the matching floor, it becomes quite impossible to take your eyes away from it. The play of colors contrasting and complementing the rich wood both in dark and light tones with the stark white, pale tan or even a rich golden yellow makes one swoon with ecstasy.


Twitter just made it easier for you to switch your home time line between the latest tweets and top tweets on your timeline — as long as you're using an iOS device.
Either we've entered an alternate reality where Twitter cares about its users or something good has actually happened online for a change: The social networking site is bringing back the option to view your timeline in reverse chronological order.
On iOS, if you'd like to switch from the top tweets view to a chronological one, all you have to do is tape the "sparkle" button at the top of the page (Twitter's description, not ours). When you do, the app will quickly make the switch. The idea is that you might want to view top tweets regularly, but in a situation like a breaking news event, you may want to switch temporarily to a chronological view.
If you'd rather have tweets show chronologically all the time, Twitter already has that feature available as a setting.
To change yours, tap your profile icon within the Twitter app and then select "Settings and Privacy" followed by "Content Preferences." Under the Timeline subheading, you'll see a listing for "Show me best tweets first," uncheck the box beside it to have tweets instead publish in chronological order.
That setting isn't as easy to switch on and off, but is available now for Android and iOS.


Persson, Kristin. Materials Data on H6PbCI3N (SG:9) by Materials Project. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.17188/1317043.
Persson, Kristin. Materials Data on H6PbCI3N (SG:9) by Materials Project. United States. doi:10.17188/1317043.


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Luce Social Club on Sky Arte. Design for television
Post by Simona Gentile
Naming, logo study and set design: these are the key elements of the project by Cappelli Identity Design studio for Luce Social Club, a cultural and cinematic TV show by Erma Productions, from March 6 on Sky Arte.
Go to Luce Social Club page on SKY Arte
MIBAC and SKY ARTE have turned to the independent production company ERMA Productions for the realization of a cultural programme called Luce Social Club, in which the universes of cinema, theater, and culture intersect.
The launch of the show required a completely new creative concept, including its name and logo and the creation of the studio sets. Cappelli Identity Design studio has been selected to take on this exciting challenge.
Working for the entertainment industry has been a completely new project for us, one that began a couple of years ago with the two wins at Cannes and the two in Venice and which, today, has made its way to Sky's studios.
These are the words of Emanuele Cappelli, Creative Director of Cappelli Identity Design in Rome, a design and strategic marketing studio which has already successfully curated the creative universe of the Italian Pavilion at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and the 2018 and 2019 Venice International Film Festival. Designing complex works with many different facets – such as visual communication projects that include logo study, scenography and visual identity graphic application – it is a meticulous and, yet, extremely stimulating work.
Such an extensive project as the one developed for the Luce Social Club programme requires months of planning, study, analysis, and constant challenges.This implies always looking for new and extraordinary material as well as creative solutions.
In order to achieve the perfect balance between functionality and aesthetics, we needed to summon all the skills of television, mass communication, entertainment, and beauty creators produced by the designers.
The audience must be driven into a vibrant, subtle and captivating world. A world that makes people dream by keeping them informed.
A multi-level project for Luce Social Club.
Producing a conceptual container that would present spaces, times and formats in a uniform yet always interesting way, immediately revolved around overcoming the most complex challenge. Namely, the question was how to create a scenic environment for a 36-episode programme that would be able to change each time it was broadcast, without ever repeating pre-existing elements, but instead enhancing the value of its contents.
Cappelli studio has found the solution in a versatile and light system, based on an adaptable and modular scenography, mostly expressed in black and white shades that can also be adjusted by lights. The panels provide a sense of unexpected mix and match that makes the scenic design changeable and effective with each episode of the programme.
Compared to classic bottom-up static structures, a set design based on movable, lightweight and versatile elements delivers a lot of scenic movement and lends itself to depths and perspectives different from time to time.
The technical design of the panels was further enriched by Giuseppe Cristiano creative inspiration. He is a storyboard artist and scriptwriter working in cinema and international advertising (here the interview published on L'Espresso). The meeting between Cristiano and Cappelli Studio soon sparked creativity, which then successfully resulted in the final set design for Luce Social Club.
Cristiano's illustrations stand out on the panels, on the seats and on the conference table inside the studio, thus becoming an essential part of the scenography. Those elements have been designed to be placed on physical and three-dimensional spaces, thereby increasing the perception of the setting and its depth.
The ever-changing space engages in dialogue with the culture of theater, cinema, and video games, hosting a rich cultural debate.
Luce Social Club: naming study.
Cappelli's studio decided to give this TV programme the name Luce Social Club, rendering the idea of an iridescent world of characters, famous phrases, and aesthetic places that become part of the scenography.
In Luce Social Club we find echoes of the Caribbean energy, rhythm, and colors. Even the choice of the font reflects this feeling: everyday life's neon and colors speak directly of damp streets, shop windows reflections, luminous signs, and smoky atmospheres of underground clubs full of humanity. Luce Social Club thus becomes a late-night event, a moment of confrontation between leading figures from the film industry along with the major creative and performing artists.
With this multi-level project, Cappelli studio has been able to combine scenography and design, while intersecting their multiple dimensions, reflections and nuances. Such as the interpretation of chromatic temperatures, the attention to lighting, the search for colors and urban settings, the modulation of the new and the changing.
Dynamism, versatility, and narration are not only the key elements for the realization of this project, but also the tools of the profession practiced by Cappelli Identity Design studio.
Sky Arte. Luce Social Club
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Brothers Nick and Giles English founded the Bremont Watch Company in 2002. Based in Henley-on-Thames, England, the company's aviation-themed watch collections include the ALT1-P Pilot, ALT1-WT World Timer, and Bremont Boeing, and the limited-edition Codebreaker, Wright Flyer, and Bremont Kingsman.
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The Norton premieres, a watch incorporating styling elements from Norton motorcycles.
The Supermarine Descent is introduced, a DLC coated marine watch.
Bremont wins 'Watch Brand of the Year' at the UK Jewelry Awards.


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