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Peel, remove the seeds and roughly chop the pumpkin or butternut squash. Beat the eggs.
- 1 Heat the oven to 200°C/180°C fan/gas 6.
- 2 Arrange the pumpkin in a single layer on a large baking tray.
- 3 Drizzle over the maple syrup and sprinkle with the spices, then cover tightly with foil.
- 4 Bake for 40 minutes or until tender to the touch with a knife.
- 5 Meanwhile, on a lightly floured surface, roll out the pastry to the thickness of a pound coin and use to line a 22cm loose-bottomed, fluted flan tin, leaving 1cm of pastry hanging over the edge of the tin.
- 6 Prick the base with a fork and chill for 10 minutes or until firm to the touch.
- 7 Line the pastry with baking paper, fill with baking beans, and bake for 15 minutes.
- 8 Remove the beans and paper, and return to the oven for 5 minutes or until light golden brown.
- 9 Trim the excess pastry with a small sharp knife while it is still warm, then set aside to cool.
- 10 Remove the pumpkin from the oven.
- 11 Put 600g cooked pumpkin, plus the juices, into a food processer.
- 12 Leave to cool for 5 minutes, then add the eggs, bourbon and cream, and whizz until smooth.
- 13 Pour into the prepared pastry case, and place on a baking sheet.
- 14 Reduce the oven temperature to 180°C/160°C/gas 4 and bake for 45 minutes.
- 15 Meanwhile, dry fry the pecans in a large frying pan until just turning golden, tip out and set aside.
- 16 Cook the caster sugar in the frying pan over a medium heat, shaking the pan but not stirring, until it has melted and turned light golden.
- 17 Add 1 tbsp water and swirl to mix with the melted sugar.
- 18 Add the toasted pecans and shake the pan to coat them.
- 19 Tip onto a lightly oiled baking sheet and leave to cool.
- 20 Remove the pie from the oven and leave to cool for 5 minutes in the tin.
- 21 Transfer to a serving plate and leave to cool.
- 22 Once cool, top with the caramelised pecans.
- 23 Serve with ice cream, custard or a little double cream
1 Review
Lack of clear instructions regarding pie baking (in or out of the baking tin), scramble-egg like texture of the filling and not sweet enough either. A little bit time consuming and disappointing...
- Average per serving
- Calories 519.0kCal
- Fat37.7g
- Saturated16.7g
- Salt0.38g
- Carbohydrates36.1
- Sugar16.9g
- Protein7.5g
- Fibre2.9g


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Today here at Save Vs. Rant, we hope to give you an introduction to DMing with 10 pieces of advice applicable to virtually any game. We call it – DMing 101!
10 points, a quick review:
1. Remember: You're Here to Have Fun
Having fun and running a game are not mutually exclusive. Some gamers perfer to run games to playing a character, but in the ideal game, both roles are – and should be – enjoyable.
2. Know the Rules
You don't need to be the foremost expert in the game. You don't need to know every rule by heart. You don't need to be an encyclopedia of spells and powers. But you DO need to know the game. You need to proficient – you need to know what is possible within the constraints of the game.
3. Make It About the Player Characters
Outside of a few niche games with bizarre premises, your players characters are the main characters of the story. They should be the ones in charge – they should be the dynamic elements of the story. Their actions should matter and they should influence the world and story.
4. Don't Forget to Plan
Know the beats of your story. Know where things are going and what is possible within your setting. It's ok to improvise. In fact, the right sort of preparation can enhance your improvisational opportunities. Knowing what monsters synergize well.
5. Have Good Time Management
It is ok to for your game to have a lead in and lead out. Most gaming groups are comprised of friends, who enjoy talking, spending time together and generally hanging out. Knowing how your group spends their time and what their pacing is can be important and gives you the ability to plan and prepare correctly, without getting over your head or breaking in the middle of something.
6. Don't Be Afraid to Let the Players Be Powerful
We play games, in part to live out fantasies. Most games are about larger than life situations and amazing heroes. In games with larger than life realities, it is alright to escalate the challenges. Adventurers outgrow wolves and goblins and find themselves fighting dragons and demons. Vampires gain powers and go from challenging the Prince of the City to overpowering global conspiracies.
7. Talk With Your Players
This really cannot be stressed enough. If your players are disappointed or bored, you need to know that in order to address the issue. Knowing what kind of character your players want to play, what kind of story they want to go through and what kind of challenges they want to overcome is crucial to running a good game. The focus of your game might even change session to session. Players may very well want to experience variety in their game, and you can facilitate that if you're aware of this.
8. Keep Good Notes
If your game isn't a one-off, you're going to have some history to your game. Even if it is a one-off, it might be necessary to jot a few notes as you go to ensure that you keep things straight. Obsidian Portal and Roll20 are excellent tools for tracking this on your computer, but honestly a Word or notepad file is sufficient. Notebooks are the classic method, of course, and simple non-digital tools work fine if that's your style. Enlisting the players' aid in this effort is a legitimate strategy as well, and helps keep them engaged.
Keep It Simple, Stupid! This is a great slogan for the starting DM, and a solid one for even the seasoned veteran. Overthinking and over-planning are common pitfalls for DMs, who so often forget that the player characters will always throw a wrench in your plans, and that's ok. That's something you should both be prepared for, and be prepared to be surprised by, and knowing when to keep things to a workable frame and when to truly flesh things out is an art that comes with practice. More often than not, keeping things simple and not sweating the small stuff is the best approach.
10. Don't Be a Dick!
There is never a reason to be a dick. There may be characters in your game that are dicks. Terrible things may happen to the player characters. The game world may be cold, cruel and dark. Prejudice, evil and cruelty might run rampant. But you as a DM – as a person – never need to be a dick. Even if your game is a dark horror game, be mindful of your players' limits. Be mindful of what causes them genuine distress and pain. You play games to have fun, and hurting your friends' feelings and traumatizing them is not how you have fun. Sometimes, pushing the limits and playing dark or disturbing fantasy is the fun, but be sure everyone is on board for that sort of thing.
Like any skill, DMing isn't something that you become a master of overnight, nor, though, is it something that should overwhelm and intimidate you. Keeping your first forays into running a game manageable is important to your success, and having a good idea of what to expect will go a long way towards keeping the experience enjoyable for both you and your players.

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The Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
It is a small country with the capital is Hanoi.
Vietnam has got 57 provinces and 4 central cities.
The biggest city in my country is Hochiminh City and then is Hanoi
Vietnam is located in Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand,
Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea, alongside China, Laos and Cambodia.
Vietnam is a small country with 329,560 sq km. It has a long coastline with
3,444 km (excludes islands).
Vietnam has got multiform climate with tropical in South, monsoonal in
North with hot, rainy season in mid-May to mid-Sept, dry season in mid-Oct
to mid-March.
Vietnam also has got multiform terrain with low, flat delta in South and North
central highlands, hilly, mountainous in far North and Northwest.
We have got many natural resources such as phosphates, coals, manganese,
bauxite, chromate, offshore oil and gas deposits, forests, hydropower...
Vietnam is a small country but it has got a big population with 78,773,873 (July 2000). Nowadays, Vietnam has got significant progression in controlling the population development with the population growth rate is 1.49% (2000 est.).
The age structure: 0-14 years : 33%
15-64 years:62%
65 and over years : 5%
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.06 males/female
15-64 years: 0.95 males/female
65 years and over: 0.66 males/female
total population: 0.97 males/female
Sine 1995, 93.7% from 15 years and over can read and write.
The main language is used in Vietnam is Viet Language
(Vietnamese) with the writing system is Quoc Ngu Characters
which were based on Roman alphabet. Vietnam is a country
in which there are many Ethnic groups. At present, there are
54 different ethnic minority groups inhabiting Vietnam. The Kinh
people (or Viets) account for nearly 90% of Vietnam total population
Major ethnic minority groups include Tay, Muong, Thai, Cham, Khmer...
Vietnam is a country in which there are many different religion groups. Located in Southeastern Asia bordering with China and under the influence of India Buddhism, so the main religion in Vietnam is Buddhism. Beside Buddhism are Confucianism, Taoism, Christianity, Cao Dai, Hoa Hao.
Here you can see some pictures of Vietnamese traditional music, painting and water puppet.
Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam with the area is about 918.46 sq km and the population is about 2,688,000. Hanoi is the second largest city in Vietnam and It is the center of the triangular basin of the Red River. From 1010 It was named Thang Long, and in the beginning of 18th Century it was named Hanoi.
Hanoi is well-known with its old beauty and its food. Traveling around Hanoi especially at night you can see the beauty of old streets in the center of Hanoi and you can try some typical food. The most popular food in Hanoi is Pho and Streamed rolled rice
Best Time To Visit Vietnam
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Why? The different weather patterns from the North to the South of Vietnam give each month in the year an advantage.
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Walkerman is an Adventure Game/Visual Novel about hunting supernatural creatures. Each creature obeys a unique set of rules which must be exploited in order to defeat them, in a fashion similar to the old folk tales about vampires and garlic, or werewolves and silver bullets. Each act of Walkerman centers on a creature and the process of investigating it. Players will study the monster in order to ascertain its weaknesses, gather the necessary items, and then confront it in battle. Combat takes place on an isometric, pseudo-board game in which the player selects actions from a list of options. These battle sequences have multiple solutions, depending on the player's collected items and their knowledge of the monster. Players also steer the protagonist through his personal life in a similar fashion: deciding whom to trust, where to borrow money, etc which alters how the story progresses.
Prologue: The Thing in the Weald
Jorgen, a nineteen year-old serf, has just embarked upon a peculiar career: monster hunting. As a walkerman, he will tour the streets and alleyways at night, battling supernatural creatures that emerge when the sun goes down. But before he can reach the city-state of Midgard, a chance encounter will send him spiraling headlong into a world beyond light and reason...
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Jorgen's arrival in Midgard is marked by suspicious characters, perilous nights, and the all-pervading smell of a civilization in decay. Both ostracized and incensed by his countrymen, he raises his standard in the world's loneliest revolution...
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My grandfather passed away this morning! He was 94 and it was time. My grandmother died almost five years ago. I have such good memories. They lived on a farm in north Louisiana, about two hours from where we lived and I loved spending time with them. For me, those were the "good ole days". They didn't have indoor plumbing til I was in high school, they didn't have a phone, they had one old black and white TV with an antenna that received one channel on a good weather day. Hopefully Saturday night wasn't cloudy so they could pick up Lawrence Welk! They had cows, chickens, pigs, a humongous garden. They lived on a dirt road with no air conditioning so the windows were open 10 months out of the year. Louisiana with no air conditioning can be pretty miserable. Their vehicles were stick shift with no air conditioning and no radio. They went to bed early and were up before daylight.
Sounds like torture, huh? Why did I love those times and why would I go back to them? There were no computers, no video games, kids didn't run the roads all day. Time was spent working hard, socializing with the family and friends. Neighbors were far away but people stayed in the same place forever and they were true friends . . not just passing acquaintances. We have so many distractions and I feel we're missing out on way more than we're gaining with our "modern conveniences".
They ate real food . . at home, 3 meals a day. They NEVER went out to eat. Most of the food had been grown on their farm and it was GOOD! Fresh chicken, fresh veggies, the milk fresh out of the cow was pretty bad though!
Sometimes on Saturday afternoon, we would ride over the Sabine River into Texas (about a 10 mile ride I think but it seemed much farther because it was a trip that was rarely taken) and go to Ivy Morris' grocery store to get ice cream.
On Tuesdays, they ALWAYS went to town because it was double U. S. Green Stamp day at the grocery store.
Those days are gone forever . . never to be known again by our offspring.
Pop and Nannie, I loved you dearly. Thanks for the memories!


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Morris students become Blue Planet Defenders
One of the last programs funded by the Five Star and Urban Waters Grant may be one of the most impactful.
Especially in a place called the River Region.
On Oct. 29, the Montgomery Clean City Commission (MCCC) and Alabama Clean Water Partnership (ACWP) joined forces at T.S. Morris Elementary School to kick off a six-month educational program for 5th-graders.
The program is called the Blue Planet Defenders environmental club, and the focus is to inform the students about water, the water cycle and the harmful effects of water pollution.
Morris Elementary science teacher Tamisha Stewart said it's important to inform children about pollution early, especially in a place known for its creeks and rivers.
"The youth is the next generation," Stewart said. "If they know how to take care of the environment it'll be better. It's good for them to understand this and take care of the environment."
In the first session, led by Ashley Henderson of the AWCP, students learned about the water cycle and the local watersheds.
Henderson described the watershed as a type of natural funnel created by the land that allows water to flow into storm drains, creeks and rivers. If pollution is swept into the mix, it's hard to reverse the damage.
"We hope the kids understand how important the rivers and streams in this area are," Henderson said. "We just take those things for granted. We also hope they change behaviors for themselves and others as far as not littering."
With five sessions left, one per month, the students are not only going to build a model of a watershed, but they're going to see how easy it is for pollution to mix in with the water.
MCCC Director Susan Carmichael is also a leader in the program and said the watershed project will help the students see just how far pollution goes.
"They will build their watershed out of clay. Then we'll let it dry and the next session, they will actually pollute their watershed," Carmichael said. "Then we'll give them squirt bottles of water and we'll see how all the pollution and all the chemicals we're putting on our lawns… if you have a good rain all of that washes down into the storm drain. Where does the storm drain go? It eventually washes out into the creeks and the Alabama River. There are fish in that water, and we eat those fish. We want to keep it as clean as possible."
The models the students will build can be seen as representations of local watersheds including the Genetta Watershed that feeds water into the Catoma Creek and the Alabama River.
The Fairview Environmental Park was built to filter the water before it enters Catoma Creek, and Montgomery Community Economic Development Coordinator Clare Watson has used grant funds to show local children and adults exactly how it works.
"A big part of our activities have been trying to connect the community to what the park does, because it's a working park that is filtering storm water and cleaning storm water before it ends up in the Alabama River," Watson said. "I think a lot of people didn't understand that."
Montgomery received the grant in July 2014, and it's set to end this December. In that time, the grant, funded in part by Alabama Power, has supplied the trees and signage at Fairview Environmental Park as well as rain barrel workshops and educational outreach such as the Blue Planet Defenders.
The first Blue Planet Defenders club was implemented at E.D. Nixon Elementary School last year, and that program is now teacher-led and will continue to inform students about the dangers of pollution.
Although the grant is ending in December and cannot be renewed, neither the Blue Planet Defenders, nor their knowledge, will be lost.
Morris' Blue Planet Defenders will also continue next year. For now, Stewart said her class is already looking forward to the next session.
After the last session in April, Watson said this year's program will end with a trip to the environmental park.
"This has been a great opportunity to link to wonderful, environmental, educational non-profits in Montgomery with schools and some adult neighborhood organizations in West Montgomery that are located in the Genetta Watershed," Watson said.


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Maria Grazia Gavini
The artisan
Eye-catching coloured glazed ceramics, vari-shaped pearls that tempt the observer to touch, combine and choose, are the unique creations of the multi-faceted ceramist Maria Grazia Gavini with her Monili di Mag. After studying at the Art School of Sassari, she chose ceramics as her expressive medium, investigating and experimenting different stylistic solutions and colours that are a tribute to the charismatic nature of the island, which she masters in her vibrant, glazed surfaces. Maria Grazia Gavini is dedicated to crafting her elegant, bright objects in the workshop, which she set up in 2008 in Assemini - a village renowned for its vivid tradition of ceramic craftsmanship - prompted by her own creative world with distinguishing artistic features and sophisticated skill. She displays her works at the main regional fairs dedicated to the local excellences of this craft.
The collection
The production of this ceramist features a rich collection of jewels in which pearls, finely crafted one at a time, are combined in inspiring and ever-changing different formal and chromatic compositions. In addition to her most known jewellery collection, she produces a line of decorative items, large plates, vases and bowls where shapes and colours are always chosen so as to convey harmonious dynamism with a pictorial trait.
The technique
Maria Grazia mainly crafts refractory clay, experimenting novel colour effects with other types of earth. In her continuous experimentation she uses various techniques ranging from plate shaping, "a colombino" shaping and manual plastic molding with subsequent engravings and additions. Decorations are realised with slip, enamels and crystals according to fine colour rendering that is evocative of the colours of the island.
More details on the Mediterranean Crafts Archive
To get to know the territory, the techniques and the tools, visit the relevant section.
Where to find them
Telefono: +39 335 623 8921


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Anonymous A Woman in Berlin (1st English edn 1954; new translation Virago 2005)
Then I... came across [Aeschylus'] The Persians, which, with its lamentations of the vanquished, seems well suited to our defeat. But in reality it's not. Our German calamity has a bitter taste - of repulsion, sickness, insanity, unlike anything in history. The radio just broadcast another concentration camp report. The most horrific thing is the order and the thrift: millions of human beings as fertilizer, mattress-stuffing, soft soap, felt mats - Aeschylus never saw anything like that.
One can see why doubts were cast on the authenticity of this polished memoir of events surrounding the fall of Berlin from the 20th of April to the 22nd of June 1945. It is indeed polished – but who wouldn't tart up their diary for publication, for Heaven's sake? Moreover, the anonymous author is suspected to be a female journalist; that is, a professional writer. She also speaks some Russian, which lends her another level of access to her experience (for instance, she is able to get some work translating). But it is the content which seemed to concern the doubters most. Why would a woman offer such a blatant account of her multiple rapes at the hands of the Russian invaders and her attempts to achieve a compromise that will keep her alive ("sexual collaboration for survival", as Antony Beevor aptly phrases it)?
He gave me a little notebook, a German-Russian dictionary for soldiers, assuring me he could get hold of some more. I've looked it over; it has a lot of very useful words like 'bacon', 'flour', 'salt'. Some other important words are missing, however, like 'fear' and 'basement'. Also the word for 'dead'... which I find myself reaching for quite often in recent conversations.
This is not a coy memoir, by any means. It is shocking and, despite its polish – or perhaps the polish serves to highlight the rawness of the events? – it is emotionally raw. The horror in the text is often evoked less by the narrator's terrible plight (she maintains an extraordinary level of coolness, even calculation) but by the appalling events overtaking those around her.
...out of the male beasts I've seen these past few days, he's the most bearable, the best of the lot. Moreover, I can actually control him... I can actually talk with the major. Which still isn't an answer to the question of whether I should now call myself a whore, since I am essentially living off my body, trading it for something to eat... It goes against my nature, it wounds my self-esteem, destroys my pride- and physically it makes me miserable.
Starvation, suicide, sexual assault – this is a difficult read: "We washed our sheets so my bed is freshly made - a much needed change after all those booted guests."
One aspect I found particular intriguing was how the victims of these multiple and multiplied sexual assaults (Beevor offers the figures of between 95,000 to 130,000 woman in Berlin and an estimated 2 million in Germany) supported each other by talking about their trauma and comparing notes (that is a harsh-sounding phrase, I know, but that is what it is: "In answer to the standard question, 'How often did they...?'") The moment their menfolk returned from the front, all discussion became verboten and their trauma became internalised, unspeakable and shaming. The double standard is at work here – revictimising the victims for their apparent cooperation in their violation, although it saved their lives. There is presumably an element in this shaming of the shame of the men who could not protect them. Or who have, perhaps, been behaving similarly in other conquered lands?
All my feelings seem dead, except for the drive to live. They shall not destroy me.
This book makes you ask yourself what you would be prepared to do to survive.
In the queue at the pump one woman told me how her neighbour reacted when the Russians fell on her in her basement. He simply shouted, 'Well why don't you just go with them, you're putting all of us in danger!' A minor footnote to the Decline of the West.
What moral compromises are you willing to make for, e.g., one square meal when you and your household are starving? At what point does your own survival require you to sacrifice another? This memoir provides some frank and brutal answers.
Rating: 10/10.
If you liked this… I'm slowly reading Antony Beevor's Berlin: The Downfall 1945. Beevor wrote the excellent introduction to A Woman in Berlin and includes some information on the purported author.


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Rochelle & Mike Sullivan
First Date: May 1986 to the movies
Wedding Date: March 11, 1995
Venue: Columbia Interfaith Center
Jewish Wedding: May 26, 2013
Location: Beth Israel Congregation
Residence: Eldersburg
Favorite Activity: Cooking together
Before Rochelle Jacobs and Mike Sullivan married at the Interfaith Center in Columbia in March 1995, they had talked extensively about the future, ultimately agreeing to keep a Jewish home and raise a Jewish family.
Erin's birth in May 1996, Mike said, was the start of his "Jewish journey."
Mike, an Irish Christian, honored the matriarchal lineage and the fact that their support system was in Baltimore, not North Carolina with his family. Erin's baby naming was held at Oseh Shalom in Laurel, where they lived in the early years of their marriage, and after Abby joined the family in February 2000, they joined B'nai Shalom in Olney.
But it wasn't until they moved to Eldersburg in 2003 and joined Beth Shalom Congregation that his journey really began. Beth Shalom is a very "inclusive" interfaith synagogue, and he felt comfortable.
After Rochelle became involved with the Federation of Jewish Men's Club's Keruv initiative, Mike was intrigued. He began working with an interfaith group through the FJMC and felt very included there as well.
"I found out a lot of interfaith families were struggling with their identities, not just [with] Judaism, but [with] raising Jewish families," said Mike, 52, an audio engineer for Maryland Sound.
In 2011, while Rochelle was in Israel on a trip sponsored by the Macks Center for Jewish Education, Mike was in California facilitating an interfaith breakout session for a federation convention. Someone asked him why, as he was raising Jewish children and participating in Jewish services, he wasn't "Jewish yet."
That got him thinking. "It would really be a wonderful thing if I was," he thought. "I'm already living the life."
When Rochelle returned to town, Mike told her he wanted to be Jewish, and he wanted to get remarried as a Jew.
"I had never thought about it," said Rochelle, 45, a high school teacher. "He was so involved in Judaism, it didn't matter."
Mike realized it went deeper than that, and he contacted Rabbi Jay Goldstein at Beth Israel Congregation in Owings Mills. He took the Introduction to Judaism course through the Board of Rabbis, and on Sept. 6, 2012, he was officially converted at the Mikvah.
At Abby's bat mitzvah in April, Mike gave the d'var Torah, and on May 26, they were married in a Jewish ceremony. They stood under a chuppah Rochelle's father brought back from Israel, and their 50 guests joined them afterward for a champagne toast and cookies.
Mike surprised Rochelle with a diamond anniversary band.
"We did it for each other, not for anybody else," said Rochelle. "Neither of us realized it until somebody else said it. I love him for him — he was always so giving and willing to raise our children Jewish."
Their relationship also centers on support for each other and helping each other along their journeys.


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If you're in need of some serious 'you time' it may well be the perfect time to take a break. But not just any old break…consider instead a wellness break, a rapidly growing trend in getaways that leave you feeling refreshed from the inside out. Combine getting away from it all with healthy eating, exercise and some special wellness treats and we promise you your holiday will feel like two. Here's how to plan your very own nourishing wellness break:
Those in the Know Choose Cornwall
Many people believe they need to jet off to tropical destinations to truly unwind, though those who have been to Cornwall know this isn't true. It's much cheaper to get to than the Caribbean and has all the right ingredients; sea air, space to relax and plenty of opportunity to be free from the pressures of everyday life. Even the fact that it can be a little harder to get phone signal makes it ideal for switching off from home and work and getting down to some time for yourself!
Here are four things you should do whilst your there:
1. Treat Yourself to a Massage
Massage is a wonderful way to nurture your wellbeing and there are many great places to indulge in this treat for the body in Cornwall. Our favourites are the Lava Shell Massage at the Budock Vean Hotel near Falmouth (£70 for 1hr 10 mins) and the Calm, Ground & Unwind treatment at the Scarlet Hotel near Newquay (£125 for 1hr 15 mins). Both offer you divine treatments in stunning locations, where you can take a walk on the beach afterwards or simply relax at the hotel spa.
2. Join a Beach Yoga Class
Yoga is no longer just for those seeking a more spiritual path in life- it's great for anyone who wants to be more flexible, stronger and a have calmer mind. In fact, the benefits have now been made so clear now that even Prince Charles and Camilla do it! Use your holiday to enjoy some yoga and if you can join a beach class as going through the poses outdoors adds another level to how good you'll feel afterwards.
3. Get Your Surf On!
Not only is surfing great fun but its brilliant for getting your heart pumping too, which is an essential ingredient for any wellness break. Whilst paddling through the waves you'll get a great all body work-out and better still, you'll hardly notice it as you'll be having so much fun! If you haven't surfed before try signing up to a lesson with a surf school who will be able to lend you all the kit and get you started.
4. Feast on Vegan Food
Wildebeest Cafe in the pretty seaside town on Falmouth is the ideal place to head to when you have excised your body and taken some headspace outdoors. They serve up fresh, home-cooked vegan food all day, with dishes such as Raw Pad Thai with toasted peanuts and Butternut squash Laksa with flat rice noodles, mange tout + beansprouts. In fact they even do vegan cocktails to, so allow yourself to indulge a little. A little of what you fancy is good for the soul after all.


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Components are going to be the way to do things in Angular 2, but I've got plenty of apps that are still using Angular 1.x, so to make my code more re-usable (and to prepare for the eventual move to 2.x), I've been reworking my code to use components. Not only that, but it seems that Angular 1.x will be around at least until the traffic to the Angular 2.x site has reached more than 50% (over the site for Angular 1.x).
The basics
Components are defined much like directives, but instead use a name and a definition object that defines what happens in the component:
angular.module("myApp") .component("myComponent",{ bindings: { varName: '<', // indicates input mode, or data coming from outside the component varName: '@', // indicates that the element will be an attribute varName: '&', // indicates the element will be a function varName: '=' // indicates that we need two way data binding for this model }, // you can also use controllerAs to access this model in the bindings controller: function() { // the default to access the model is $ctrl, // but with controllerAs you can name it something more recognizable }, template: '
This is a template
', // or use templateURL to define a particular template });
That defines the basics of a component, and with a component, anything we define inside the controller portion of the definition object is available to us just as it would be in a standard .controller() definition. For simple components, that is all you need. For more complex components, there are a few other built in methods that allow you to make sure the component won't instantiate until all data-bindings are available ($onInit), or to keep track when models change ($onChanges), or to release event handlers and external resources ($onDestroy).
Example from one of my longest running projects (which I'm currently re-coding in Angular):
(function () { 'use strict'; angular .module('bcpApp.daily_office') .component('bibleReading', { bindings: { type: "@", value: "<" }, controllerAs: 'br', controller: function($scope, $http, $stateParams, dataService ,$log) { var vm = this; var reading_type = null; if(vm.type == 'old_testament') { vm.reading_type = 'Old Testament'; } else if (vm.type == 'new_testament') { vm.reading_type = 'New Testament'; } else if (vm.type == 'gospel') { vm.reading_type = 'Gospel'; } }, templateUrl: 'public/templates/daily_office/html/bible_reading.html' }); })();
And the template that gets referenced:

The {{br.reading_type}} Reading

  Reader: A Reading (Lesson) from: {{reading.reference}}
   Reader: A Reading from the Gospel according to St. {{reading.book_name}}
  [ (  {{reading.first_chapter}} {{reading.second_chapter}} {{reading.chapter}} ( [ {{v.verse}} {{v.text}} ) ]  ] )
—AND—

—OR—

And finally, the component call in the main app:

 <bible-reading type="old_testament" value="do_readings.references.do_readings.ot"> </bible-reading>
The main thing here is that the type attribute is a string, which is why the component references it as a string in the bindings section. The value attribute is an array of objects that get passed from the main controller of the page that pulls in the component, and that is why the bindings reference it with the '<' as that indicates that it is data coming from outside the component itself.
There is a considerably more in depth view of components in Angular 1.5 by Todd Motto, who actually works for Google, so I refer you to his site for really getting a handle on components.


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Do you live with someone who snores? If so, you might suspect sleep apnea, a condition caused by repeated closures of the upper airway during sleep. While not everyone who snores has sleep apnea, the disorder affects up to 17 percent of the population and over time can lead to other serious health problems, including high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke.
Until recently, confirming a diagnosis of sleep apnea required a monitored overnight stay in a sleep center, such as the one at Virginia Mason. Now thanks to better technology and improved criteria for patient selection, the overnight sleep test can be completed at home. The best candidates for at-home testing include overweight patients with loud snoring who may also suffer from high blood pressure or diabetes, and whose partners have observed apnea episodes in the past.
If a Virginia Mason Sleep Disorders Center physician determines a home test is appropriate, the patient receives instructions on how to use a sleep apnea testing device. The simple device records data while the patient sleeps, which can then be returned to the sleep center or any Virginia Mason regional clinic for analysis.
"Since we started in September, we have seen a lot of patients who would never have come for a test if they couldn't do it at home," says William DePaso, MD, medical director, VM Sleep Disorders Center. "This is a big advantage for patients because it breaks down a huge barrier for getting care for a disease that is linked to weight gain, diabetes, fibromyalgia and worse, to say nothing of being tired every day."
Sleep medicine consultative services are provided at Virginia Mason's Seattle Main Campus, as well as clinics in Bellevue, Issaquah, Federal Way, Kirkland, Winslow and Lynnwood. Sleep testing is performed in Seattle. For more information or to schedule an appointment, call (206) 625-7180.


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Failure to perform a timely Cesarean section surgery is one of the most common forms of medical negligence that gives rise to birth injury lawsuits. There are many situations where birth complications arise due to the fault of no one. Medical professionals cannot control every aspect of a delivery, and for countless reasons a delivery may not go exactly as expected. However, our Illinois birth injury attorneys know that while doctors cannot prevent all complications, they still need to act appropriately to limit the consequences of the unforeseeable complications. When they fail in that regard it may be medical malpractice.
Birth Injury Lawsuit
For example, WBAL News reported this week on the end of a lawsuit filed by a family claiming that they did not receive adequate care during the birth of their son. According to the report the woman went into birth in March of 2010 at her home. Like a growing number of other families, the couple wanted to have the birth at home with a midwife. The delivery went well at first, but complications soon developed. It wasn't long before the couple realized that they needed to go to the hospital.
The mother described the toll that the process took. She explained, "It was a real nightmare for me. I was in the second stage of labor. I was pushing involuntarily. My body just wanted to get the baby out. The contractions were overwhelming. I was exhausted. It was a very hard time for us."
The couple expected to have an emergency C-section as they arrived at the hospital because of the complications that posed risks both to the baby and the mother. However, the doctor at the facility did not order an emergency procedure right away. Instead, the mother toiled away for another two hours before the C-section was actually performed. By that time the child had suffered a serious birth injury. Now two years old, he suffers from severe developmental disabilities that will require expensive care throughout his life.
The family contacted a medical malpractice attorney and a medical malpractice lawsuit was filed about eleven months after the birth. The case eventually went to trial which lasted three weeks. The jury returned a verdict in the family's favor in the amount of $55 million. However, the hospital says it plans to appeal, and so the final resolution in the case will come sometime in the future.
Delayed Care
As this case demonstrates, improper medical care takes many forms. In the context of pregnancy, labor, and delivery, often the problems are related not to overt actions that harm a patient but actions that were not performed (or performed too slowly). Medical malpractice, like all negligence suits, involves comparison of the conduct of the individuals in a specific case with that of a reasonable person in the same situation. WIth professional negligence, that "reasonable person" is another similar professional. That is why these cases involve testimony from expert witness to help explain what is reasonable in any given situation depending on the facts.
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A book meme I took from Rob Kitchin's The View from the Blue House. I've largely answered in relation to non-academic reading…
The book I'm currently reading? Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
The last book I finished? Thaisa Frank, Heidegger's Glasses
The next book I want to read? If it arrives in time, the one immediately below; if not, probably Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra
The last book I bought? Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery
The last book I was given? Rob Sullivan, Geography Speaks: Performative Aspects of Geography. Thanks Rob.
Which was the last book you borrowed from the library? Ok, this is where I have to go to academic stuff: The preface to Leibniz' Novissima Sinica
What is the most recent e-book you read? H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness
What was the last translated book you read? Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories
What was the first book you read this year? Wu Ming, Manituana
Which book is at the top of your Christmas list? Michel Houellebecq, The Map and the Territory (well, that's the first novel in my Amazon wish list)
Which so-far unpublished book are you most looking forward to reading? In non-academic stuff this is difficult – I'm not that great at keeping up with what's coming out. I am waiting for the paperbacks of China Miéville, Embassytown and Haruki Murakami's 1Q84. In academic stuff – it will be good to have Peter Gratton's The State of Sovereignty and Marieke de Goede's Speculative Security out.


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Kansas DUI Defense Lawyer Answers Frequently Asked Questions about BACs
In Kansas, a motorist can be charged with driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) if his or her blood alcohol concentration, or BAC, is .08 or more. The BAC is a method used primarily by law enforcement to measure the amount of alcohol in a person's body. If you plan to have one or more alcoholic beverages and operate a motor vehicle thereafter, then you owe it to yourself to become familiar with the facts regarding BAC. The following are some of the most frequently asked questions motorists have about BAC:
How is BAC tested?
The most commonly used test by police officers at the scene to measure a motorist's BAC is a breath test or "Breathalyzer." BAC can also be determined through a blood test.
How many drinks does it take to reach a .08 BAC?
Unfortunately there is not a certain number of drinks that a person can ingest and still fall within the legal BAC limit to safely operate a motor vehicle. This is in part due to the fact that every person metabolizes alcohol differently.
What factors can impact a person's BAC?
A person's weight, percentage of body fat and even gender can all factor into how a drink can affect a person's BAC. For example, a 5 foot, 100 pound woman will have a higher BAC after one drink than a 6 foot, 240 pound man after the same drink. Food can also affect how a person processes alcohol. A person who has eaten a large dinner of spaghetti and meatballs before having a drink will have a lower BAC than if that same person has an empty stomach. This is why it strongly recommended that if you plan to drink you should not do so on an empty stomach. You also want to drink slowly to keep your BAC down. A person who sips a glass of wine over a period of an hour will have a lower BAC than if that same person took a shot of alcohol even though both have the same amount of alcohol.
What if anything can lower a person's BAC?
Sometimes a person finds him or herself in a position where he or she is intoxicated and wants to "sober up" in order to drive home. Unfortunately, there is nothing a person can do to lower his or her BAC. The human body simply needs time to process the alcohol. Things like drinking a cup of coffee or taking a cold shower may make an intoxicated person feel more sober, but the truth of the matter is, such actions will not lower his or her BAC.
Will a person with a .08 BAC feel drunk?
The answer to this question is, it depends. Unfortunately, not everyone with a .08 BAC will know that they are legally unable to drive. Often a side of effect of intoxication is not being able to recognize impairment. Remember that regardless of whether a person feels drunk or in any way impaired to drive, driving with a BAC of .08 or higher is illegal.
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Sasikumar, Geetha and Krishnamoorthy, M (2010) Faecal indicators and sanitary water quality of shellfish harvesting environment influences of seasonal monsoon and river runoff. Indian Journal of Marine Science, 39 (3). pp. 434-444.
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Incidence of faecal coliforms in shell fish harvesting areas of the southern coastal district of Karnataka was examined for evaluating the sanitary quality in relation to the seasonal monsoon and river runoff. Faecal coliforms counts in seawater, mussel tissue and sediments were highest in monsoon.Geometric mean for FC in seawater was below 14 MPN/100 ml, standard set for approved area under NSSP classification during fishing seasons, bu the 90th percentile were higher. The tissue E.coli levels complied with the EC Directive standard under the catagory A, during mussel fishing season commencing in October in the two mussel beds. MPN FC levels were strongly influenced by the seasonal variations in precipitation and river runoff. During the fishing seasons in pre monsoon and post monsoon months.\, the levels were below the limits.
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New Photos Tease Spider-Man: Homecoming's First Trailer
It's starting to feel very likely that we'll be seeing the first trailer for Jon Watts' Spider-Man: Homecoming well before it's scheduled to arrive. As you no doubt know by now, it's set to premiere alongside Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which touches down in theatres on December 16th. And while that may very well be the case, we've got a feeling it'll be here a lot sooner than that.
Why, you ask? Well, there's a few reasons. For one, that's how these things usually work. When a trailer is scheduled to premiere in theatres alongside a film, it often hits the web a few days in advance. But aside from that, a portion of the trailer was shown off today at Brazil's CCXP and reactions and photos from it are already making their way online.
This morning, we got a mini description of the clip from a Twitter user and now, the social networking site is the bearer of good news once again, as another user has brought us a few photos from what appears to be that clip which was shown to audiences at CCXP. You can check them out in the gallery above, but they match up with what we heard this morning, which is that one of the scenes fans got to see at the convention involved Peter Parker (Tom Holland) receiving a suit upgrade in a metal briefcase – which is exactly what the photos above show.
Now, these could just be taken from the set, but either way, they're yet another new look at the film, which up to this point has been shrouded in so much secrecy that we'll take whatever we can get. Regardless of where these new shots are from, it's clear that they depict the scene that was shown at CCXP, and could indicate that Marvel is getting ready to drop the trailer very soon. It may not be today, but definitely keep your eyes peeled over the weekend.
Starring Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Zendaya, Donald Glover, Jacob Batalon, Laura Harrier, Tony Revolori, Tyne Daly, Bokeem Woodbine, Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr., among many others, Marvel's Spider-Man: Homecoming will swing into theatres on July 7th, 2017.


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I made a couple of bowls over the weekend. One is Carrara Bianco marble, the other is a really nice piece of Welsh slate. These were both inspired by an exhibition at the SCVA (Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts) called FIJI, Art and Life in the Pacific. Among this incredible collection of artefacts (the largest collection ever shown) were some lovely bowls.
My bowls are more chunky, especially the legs on the Welsh slate one. As slate is a laminated material, I couldn't make them thinner without risking them snapping off. This one showed amazing colour when rubbed. Here's a few pictures…..


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Date of Birth: 24th November, 1944.
Address: 10th N. S. ROAD, JVPD SCHEME, Bombay- 400049
Education: Post Graduate in Fine Arts.
Debut Film: "Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe" (Marathi)
"Baaton Baaton Mein" (Hindi)
Film Awards: Best Movie Awards for the film "Akriet"
Mini Biography
Amol Palekar was born in a Maharashtrian Saraswat Brahmin family. He
attended Sir J. J. School of art in Bombay. Amol Palekar started his
acting career with the Marathi experimental stage with Satyadev Dubey.
Later he established his own group "Aniket". Amol Palekar
introduced street theatre in Maharashtra.
Amol made his debut in films with noted Marathi film "Shantata!
Court Chalu Aahe" directed by Satyadev Dubey. He was cast by Basu
Chatterjee in the movie "Rajnigandha", which led to many other
such roles in middle-class comedies often directed by Chatterjee or
Hrishikesh Mukherjee such as "Golmaal", "Chhoti Si Baat"
and "Naram Garam". Amol Palekar turned from acting to film
direction with the Marathi film "Aakriet". Since then he has
directed many films which include "Ankahi", "Thodasa
Rumani Ho Jaye", "Bangarwadi", "Daayraa", "Anahat",
"Kairee", "Dhyaas Parva". His movie "Paheli"
was India's official entry for the Oscar Awards in 2006 but did not make
it to the final nominations.
Aks, Teesra Kaun?, Baat Ban Jaye, Ankahee, Jhoothi, Khamosh, Tarang,
Pyaasi Aankhen, Rang Birangi, Damaad, Jeevan Dhaara, Olangal, Shriman
Shrimati, Chehre Pe Chehra, Naram Garam, Agni Pareeksha, Akriet,
Sameera, Apne Paraye, Aanchal, Baaton Baaton Mein, Do Ladke Dono Kadke,
Golmaal, Jeena Yahan, Meri Biwi Ki Shaadi, Solva Sawan, Agar, Bhumika,
Gharaonda, Kanneshwara Rama, Safed Jhoot, Taxi Taxi, Chitchor, Chhoti Si
Baat, Jeevana Jyoti, Rajnigandha and Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe.


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We mentioned earlier that if you were interested in a 3D tour of the venues for the NCAA Tournament, then you should use Google Earth. For those sports lovers who just want to keep up-to-date with all the latest March Madness 2010 scores and news, then CBS is offering an iPhone or iPod Touch app for just $10.
This application is perfect for those who cannot be near a TV while one of the 32 matches is going on, as you will be able to watch each game direct on the handset. For those who love college basketball, then you have to agree that this is a small price to pay. Get more details on this app from NetWorkWorld.
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Detail from mural painted outside a high school in San Francisco. Somewhat to my amazement, it has survived without being defaced for several months.
Good news for California gays today -- forces aiming to qualify initiatives to ban gay marriage have backed off for the moment. The "ProtectMarriage.com" set, a Focus on the Family front group, collected only half the signatures it would have needed to get its measure on the June 2006 primary ballot. Another lot, "VoteYesMarriage.com," this one a front for Lou Sheldon's "Traditional Values Coalition," didn't even get to the signature gathering stage. Both vow to come back and maybe they will, but for the moment, things are going well for the forces of tolerance.
On gay marriage, the longer it takes opponents to get organized, the weaker they will get. The San Francisco marriages celebrated in 2004; the passage of a gay marriage bill by the legislature in 2005 (vetoed by Schwarzenegger); the decision by a state court saying the California constitution forbids discrimination against gay marriage (now on appeal); and the numerous legal gay marriages in Massachusetts and many parts of Europe -- all these developments have helped indifferent voters become used to the idea that the sky won't fall if the queers get married. Current polling is very encouraging:
Time is on the side of gay marriage.
Since the passage of [the anti-gay marriage statute] Proposition 22, [Mark] Baldassare, [research director of the Public Policy Institute of California] said, Californians appear to have gradually softened their views on same-sex marriage.
In 2000, polls showed that only 38% of likely voters in California supported same-sex marriage. But a poll this August showed 46% supporting it and 46% opposing. Among all California adults, 44% favored same-sex marriage and 48% opposed it, he said.
The leaders who have worked to organize Equality California, the gay campaign to defeat the marriage bans, warn that this setback for the reactionaries may be temporary. And the anti-gay folks do vow that they'll raise the money to get their initiative on the November ballot. But if they do, they'll be running into some complicating, countervailing California Republican politics.
Governor Arnold certainly does not want a gay marriage vote in November. He is struggling to win back centrist independents and conservative Democrats whose support he frittered away in the last year. At the same time he needs California's extremely conservative Neanderthal Republicans. Having to declare for or against gay marriage is the last thing he needs in a difficult re-election.
Crucially, Attorney General Bill Lockyer has determined (and his interpretation would be part of the ballot language) that both the proposed initiatives would roll back existing domestic partnership law. Proponents of the measure that is not yet out for signature collection say their law would have no such legal effect. But the AG's description will give opponents a strong handle against it.
As I've explored before, the AG's role in describing initiative measures makes it crucial that progressive Californians pay attention to who is running for this second tier statewide office. Lockyer is termed out in 2006. There are two declared Democratic candidates for the post: former Governor and Oakland mayor, Jerry Brown and Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo. Presumably Brown would be at least somewhat sympathetic to gay civil rights, though his Oakland tenure has not been exactly progressive. Delgadillo's campaign web site promotes his law enforcement credentials and makes no mention of his civil rights record. The candidate will be determined in a June primary. The Republican candidate is State Sen. Chuck Poochigian of Fresno, almost certainly no friend of inclusive gay rights.
Supporters of marriage rights for gays need to press all the AG candidates to express clear positions on their understanding of how such a reform might be accomplished and generally get them on record in anticipation of battles to come.


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We're hoping that social media will be a tool that will help to accelerate the spread of this 9 minute short film.
The first thing put on my plate when I arrived at my desk was to help put the finishing touches on the site that had to be outsourced to a development company that costs the ministry a pretty penny.
As I checked off the boxes of making text-changes to the site (not as easy as one would think), I noticed that one of the key portions of the site — the "Share This Site with a Friend" did not display properly on any mobile device if it was in a landscape setting (wider than it is tall). This could be a huge problem! With our key audience browsing more and more on mobile devices, this could end up being somewhere in the ballpark of 10-25% of our audience that was locked out of our key method of spreading the message!
It took me a few days to figure out exactly what the problem was and to fix it, but it works now. It may not be a the largest of issues, but those hours may just lead to a few hundred more people considering what it means to have eternal life.


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I had dinner at a popular chain restaurant the other night and the hostess, an attractive young Asian woman, greeted us by apologizing for her lack of ability in English. She is obviously a recent arrival, like thousands of others in the hospitality industry. I wouldn't have given it a second thought, were it not for the stories that are coming to light almost daily about problems and abuses of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in Canada.
Brothers Classic Grill and Pizza in Weyburn grabbed the spotlight when it was revealed that a female employee with 28 years of experience had been let go and replaced by a temporary import. The real stories are a bit more complicated than the teary faces that show up on the National news, but the damage has been done. It's now left to Employment Minister Jason Kenney to huff and puff about Ottawa's policy of 'zero tolerance' if investigations reveal that employers are guilty of fraud under the program. It will be a huge surprise if any charges are ever laid.
There are more than 300,000 foreign workers holding jobs in Canada. A tiny percentage of those people work in food and hospitality, but they are very noticeable. The prairies in particular are short of experienced workers in many sectors. It has been repeatedly identified as one of the major factors limiting economic growth in the region.
This should have been a tremendous opportunity for an ambitious politician like Jason Kenney. Historically, most of the poor and huddled masses who have come to Canada since the dawn of 20th century have ended up voting Liberal. Indeed the Temporary Foreign Worker program began under the Liberals. Stephen Harper challenged his young Alberta colleague to make the Conservatives a different kind of political umbrella for new Canadians.
There is work to be done to change the optics Jason.
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[pullquote cite="" type="left, right"][amazon text=Amazon&template=carousel&chan=That Film Guy&asin=B000IMVMFM][/pullquote] In 1989, James O'Barr released a comic book series called The Crow which he wrote as a way of coping with the death of his girlfriend at the hands of drunk driver. In 1993 work began on a film adaptation of the story, directed by Alex Proyas and starring Brandon Lee, the son of legendary martial arts icon Bruce Lee. During the the final weeks of shooting a tragic accident on set resulted in the fatal shooting of Lee, which caused a hasty reshuffling of the films scenes and plot. The film was finally released in 1994 and dedicated to the memory of Brandon Lee. In the same way that The Dark Knight received a lot of press because of the death of star Heath Ledger, The Crow found the run-in to its launch clouded by the events surrounding Lee's death.
On the eve of their wedding day, a woman is beaten and raped, while her guitarist fiance Eric Draven (Lee) is stabbed, shot and thrown out of a window to his death and Shelly herself later dies. One year later, a crow taps on Eric's gravestone and he rises up through the earth, impervious to harm and invincible. He dresses himself in dark Gothic attire, with faux harlequin face paint and sets off to avenge both his and Shelly's deaths.
The Crow is a simple revenge plot with little to no characterisation and the majority of the film is sold on the style and atmosphere. The plot, simplistic as it is, never stops for long enough for you to realise the problems with it and leaves you almost breathless with adrenaline. Proyas, now better known for Will Smith vehicle I, Robot, brings a moody and melancholy griminess to the city in the film which overpowers every scene. While this is a case of style over substance, the style is so sleek and engaging that you really don't mind that it's shallower than a puddle as you're guided through the events in an almost dream-like state.
The Crow will forever be remembered for the death of its main star, but serves as an excellent epitaph to a career cut short by tragedy, and the theft of someone with real potential. Lee's performance is excellent, although it might have something to do with the events surrounding the film. His presence permeates throughout and it's tough not to wonder what kind of career he would've had, were it not for the accident on set.


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The idea for Safe Group, a new Los Angeles company that's developed a mobile app to track and verify a user's sexual health, started on the Playa at Burning Man.
The company's chief executive and co-founder Ken Mayer was dating someone at the time who demanded to see the results of a recent STD test before agreeing to have sex.
"I thought, 'Wouldn't it be cool if there was an app where I could pull in my test records and we could show them from the phone?'" Mayer tells me.
He discussed the idea with his paramour and their friend (and later co-founder) Lauren Weiniger, the founder of a social impact and entrepreneurship organization in Atlanta called GrowthCity, during their days at Black Rock City.
The relationship didn't last, but the idea that was seeded on that late summer night in 2015 took root and eventually became Safe.
Now the company is readying for a major public launch at the Sundance Film Festival next year and enrolling people in a beta test thanks to $1.2 million in seed funding from Rivet Capital and a group of powerful individual investors and the addition of chief technology officer (and co-founder), Raj Jhaveri.
In the two years since the official formation of the company, Weiniger and Mayer went through several rounds of feasibility studies, and began untangling the incredibly complicated knots of red tape that kept patient medical records, insurers, health care providers and diagnostics companies from being able to effectively communicate with each other.
"We essentially had to build out a national healthcare company with physicians who are licensed across 50 states," he said.
What Weiniger and Mayer have built (with help from Jhaveri over the last three months) is an integrated health care service that includes a network of physicians who can order tests that are covered by insurance plans; a direct connection to diagnostics and testing companies to offer the lowest cost for testing at any location in the U.S.; and that's all in an app that adheres to the security standards of electronic health records and medical communications required by the government.
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"Our plan is to use the STD verification as kind of a hook to collect a large user base of tech-savvy, health conscious people who will be the early adopters of this healthcare 2.0," Mayer tells me.
The feat required some clever structuring of the various moving parts of Safe's business, Weiniger said. There's a physician-owned healthcare company called Safe Health made up of a network of physicians that the Safe Group brought together. That company has pledged its equity to Safe Group, which acts as a holding company and runs the app and technology side of the business.
Safe Group has also partnered with Quest Diagnostics and Lab Corp. so that test results are automatically uploaded into the app and so that anyone can get tested whether they have insurance or not.
Weiniger sees the main selling points for Safe as the ability to get tested anywhere with or without a doctor's consultation at the lowest price possible and import that information into the app. "The biggest selling point about the app is that users can import their STD test results from anywhere. So any doctor, clinic or lab — whether they were tested through Safe or not," Weiniger wrote to me.
The app will import the results of anyone's last STD test, all a user has to do is put in the state where they were last tested, and the name of their doctor, clinic, or lab. The app will show the date and number of days, weeks, or months since someone's last STD test.
The reason why Safe Group built out its healthcare company was to ensure that people covered by insurance would only have to pay their co-pay after filling out a short questionnaire, which replaces a physician's consultation. Insurance companies require that a charge prove medical necessity, and the tele-medical consult provides that. For folks without insurance, the charge to get tested is $99.
"We have their most private information and we can start adding in features that make sense," Weiniger said. "We want to end the spread of STDs in our lifetime. it's the idea of putting it in people's positive self interest. You can have an active prescription and reminders to take the pill… testing becomes the future and that becomes managed in the app… it's a massive need and a massive market."
Beyond that, the app will become an integrated source for all sorts of diagnostic tests and patient health records going forward, the company claims.
"Initially we're prescribing the STD testing. The physicians… once the results come into our EHR…they then issue a positive or negative diagnosis. The physician will call the patient and prescribe treatment… And we will also be doing the treatment side… but not at the beginning," said Mayer.
Eventually, Safe would also like to manage an online pharmacy that could distribute medication for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (initially) but expand into other areas of health.
"Initially we're going out and really positioning the company as a sexual health company," Mayer reiterated. "Coming out with public outreach campaigns to get people to get tested and know their status and then getting to know the sexual health status of their partners before engaging in any risky activity [but] we plan to branch that out into fertility and erectile dysfunction."
That broad vision attracted Jhaveri, a serial entrepreneur himself, to join the team. "It was the aspect of the future of gamification in terms of having these different types of badges and the aspect of how it evolves and takes telemedicine to the next level of medicine itself," Jhaveri said.
A healthcare advisor to General Catalyst Partners and IBM Watson's clinical oncology group, as well as a technical founder of multiple startups, Jhaveri noted that there were a number of telemedicine companies on the market but the way in which Safe was using sexual health as its point of entry was novel and its integrations were impressive.
"The way Safe has done it is all synchronized," Jhaveri said. "It's more seamless and a lot more user friendly… It's enabling users with more functionality that's traditionally been kept for physicians."


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Business Briefs: March 18, 2012
Your Telephone Man's Charles Haupt visits NJ
St. Augustine's Charles Haupt recently visited Whippany, N.J., home to the national headquarters of Suburban Propane. Haupt's company, Your Telephone Man, was invited there to present a unique telecommunications solution for their call center and nearly 400 customer service centers.
Suburban invests heavily in providing excellent customer service, however they are having difficulty overcoming several technical hurdles. Fortunately, Haupt has a solution that will virtually connect their many locations around the country, integrating them into one cohesive and organized unit.
"The fun part," said Haupt, "was showing them their entire communications platform can be upgraded nationwide, and they will end up spending about half of what they are now."
The technology Haupt presented to Suburban was that of Star2Star's Constellation Network, the first of its kind. It is capable of providing a nationwide intelligent VoIP call routing network.
Brooke Wilson joins The Bailey Group
Brooke Wilson, a St. Augustine native, graduated summa cum laude from Stetson University with a major in Finance and a minor in Management. She brings two years of financial services experience with her to the Bailey Group. Her previous experience includes pension plan design and implementation, performance analysis and reporting, and asset servicing customer service. Brooke is a Life, Health, and Variable Annuities agent and would like to pursue the Certified Employee Benefits Specialist (CEBS) designation in the future. She is highly focused on customer service and is dedicated to serving all aspects of client needs. Brooke currently serves as an Account Executive on the Large Group team.
FCTC welcomes administrator Leon Mungin
First Coast Technical College announces Leon Mungin has joined the staff as Instructional Support/Adult Education Coordinator.
Mungin has completed his Masters Degree in Educational Leadership, comes to FCTC from Forrest High School in Duval County where he taught science, mentored/tutored students and coordinated their evening Adult and Community Education department. Before his education career, Mr Mungin was in the Coast Guard.
"As Mr. Mungin enthusiastically joins the FCTC team in this important position, FCTC looks forward to his leadership role," said Christine Cothron, FCTC president.
Children's Museum hires projects manager
The Board of Directors of the Children's Museum of St. Johns Inc. has hired Greg Nagel as Capital Projects Manager. As the Museum moves towards its purchase and renovation of the Dow Museum of Historic Houses site in downtown St. Augustine, Nagel will manage site renovations and will work with the Exhibits Committee and nationally recognized children's museum consultants to develop and construct the museum's interactive experiences. Acting as liaison between museum leadership and architects, contractors, and regulatory agencies, he will report to Susan Connor, the Museum's Acting Executive Director, and the Board of Directors.
"Greg brings hands-on knowledge of respected children's museums to this role. Combined with his passion for science education and programming, he adds a distinctive skill set to CMSJ's leadership team," said Ben Platt, president of CMSJ's board of directors.
Karen Palmer joins Coldwell Banker
Coldwell Banker Premier Properties welcomes Karen Palmer to the family. With more than 35 years of experience in the real estate business, Karen's expertise will be vital in expanding the company's market share in the growing Northwest quadrant of St. Johns County, specifically including the neighborhoods surrounding the World Golf Village, Palencia and Nocatee communities.
Palmer is a certified mentor for Buffini & Company's Peak Producers training program with extensive leadership training on her resume. She is also an active member of the Northeast Florida Association of Realtors Global Business Council.
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