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Love Confession Volume 2 Chapter 2 part1
"Mister Leon! This will not do. Those who march on the path of tea do not cause trouble for a lady! That is not what a gentleman does!"
"I'm sorry, Mentor. However, I──I had my circ.u.mstances!"
The cafe no longer had any guests.
My mentor scolded me.
Anjie asked my mentor for help, and now I was being lectured. Normally, I would ignore what someone says while keeping a serious expression, but I took my mentor's words to heart.
I couldn't go against this person.
After all, my mentor was my teacher for tea before a teacher of the academy.
My mentor placed his hand on my shoulder.
"It must have been painful. It must have been hard. However, don't give up. Beyond is the path of a true gentleman──leading to the path of tea."
"──R, right, Mentor!"
The path of a gentleman seemed long and steep.
My mentor's words left a strong impression on me, and then I heard a sigh.
The adult woman was now sitting on chair with an exhausted face. By her sides sat Anjie and Livia, and they surrounded a round table.
I changed my ragged clothes while Daniel and Raymond left the cafe to get in touch with their friends for a fun party.
The irritating girls were pardoned by the queen and left the scene to run away. I engraved their faces into my mind. ──I definitely wouldn't forget them.
"It seems your discussion is over. So, is it okay if I speak next?"
My mentor straightened his back, adjusted his suit, and started acting like a waiter.
"In that case, let me prepare some tea. Mister Leon, may I borrow your tools?"
"Of course!"
I was delighted to have my mentor use the instruments and tea leaves of mine.
Leaving that aside, I was worried about how the queen seemed angry at me.
"Leon. I'm mad."
When the queen said that, I instantly went down on my knees and put my hands onto the floor.
"So you really were angry, I understand, but please spare my family at least! I, I don't care about what you do to me!"
Milaine became fl.u.s.tered once again when I took such an att.i.tude.
"Huh? No. T, that's not it. That's not what I'm talking about. Anjie, help!"
Once I saw Milaine seeking help from Anjie, who was sitting next to her, I understood that she wasn't really angry.
Well actually, I already knew that from the start, but I wanted to poke fun at her through my acting skills.
If the queen was genuinely angry, I would have been fleeing from the kingdom by now.
However, Anjie realized that I was acting.
"Milaine, he's teasing you. Leon's face is telling me that he knows you're not really angry."
When Milaine looked at me, I stuck my tongue out while resting a fist onto my head──a silly pose.
It seemed that she didn't take kindly to that, as she glared at me with a frighteningly cold gaze.
"How cheap. I misjudged you."
"My apologies!"
After I made a sincere apology, my mentor went towards Milaine to provide his services. I felt like my mentor could make a business out of preparing tea.
The fragrance was shocking.
Augh! It was made using the same tea leaves, and yet why was there this big of a difference?
It wasn't just a difference in fragrance.
As expected of my mentor.
"Queen, you wanted to travel incognito, but──"
"It's fine. To my disappointment, I can tell that what happened was due to the bullying going on. Leon, I came to make a complaint towards you. Not anything like a punishment, just some private talk."
──I suppose that I should have expected this.
The reason being that I had beaten up Julian.
His mother wouldn't forgive me for that.
Well Milaine was the queen──but in the game, she was a so-called enemy. As can be seen from her close relations.h.i.+p with Anjie, she was someone who would be hostile towards the protagonist, causing both her and Anjie to become the protagonist's enemies.
As expected for a game marketed towards women. The mother-in-laws were loathsome.
She was someone who didn't forgive the protagonist for having Julian fall in love with her. Saying this is obvious, but in the otome game, she was an opponent who tried to disrupt the relations.h.i.+p between the two.
It was a bit absurd. It was quite obvious to tell that she fit the template for a cruel person.
By the end, Milaine eventually recognized the protagonist.
That was caused by the protagonist gaining the position of a saint. The position of a saint had a very important religious meaning.
These explanations were just part of the overly-lackl.u.s.ter explanations in the game, though. There was no explanation for why a saint was so grand, but it was as if the protagonist was commended for doing a great service in the end.
The power of the protagonist herself was also pretty major, but to think that the power of saint was this immense.
I've gone off-topic. Well, I wonder what criticism Milaine had for me.
"Do tell."
"Alright. Well then──I'll first apologize for Julian. I'm sorry that you had to deal with that child's selfishness."
I didn't expect her to start with an apology.
She was quite courteous for someone supposedly evil.
"Even as his mother, I myself don't understand why things turned out like this. Though this may be improper to say, it's a relief that he at least has a lover who's from a viscount household. He hadn't cared for women when he was at the royal palace, so I didn't think that he would be this fixated on her."
Milaine stared right into my pupils.
It was as if her clear, blue eyes were about to devour me.
I then noticed something remarkable. ──This person was very beautiful.
When considering her behavior from just a while ago, I wouldn't believe that she were someone who was even in her thirties.
Actually, wasn't she pretty cute?!
"However, I cannot condone what happened in the duel. That fight was too harsh. Couldn't you have resolved it in a more peaceful way?"
I did think it was possible, but I didn't really care because I wanted to relieve my stress.
While making a timid face, I glanced at Livia and Anjie to ask for help. However, the two didn't pay attention.
The cause for that was probably the words the earl daughter said a while ago.
They both cast their eyes downward and didn't notice the eye contact I was making with them.
When I made a silent prayer in order to ask Luxon for help, I heard an electronic sound.
[Master doing things peacefully? Impossible. What does this person expect from my master?]
──What a heartless companion.
What a useless AI! It should've been more friendly towards me!
However, my silence was misunderstood by Milaine. She was wondering what I was thinking about when looking and Livia and Anjie.
"Oh, could it be because of that? How youthful you are~."
Just what kind of misunderstanding did she have, teasing me while making a smirk?
──Well, I kept on being silent since it was convenient.
"Leon, I think you know this, but you have many enemies in the royal palace. Many people had placed their expectations on Julian. Have you thought carefully about what you will do from now on?"
Let alone the royal palace, I had so many enemies within the academy.
Seriously, why did such a virtuous person like me have to suffer such an experience? Anyways, I suppose I would have enemies in the royal palace.
"Of course."
I pretended to be aware of it, but I was relying on Anjie's father for the matters of the royal palace. In the first place, I didn't want to show up in the royal palace, nor was I interested in being promoted.
If I had the choice, I would have liked being demoted instead.
So there were people who had expectations for Julian? They should've just given up and accept that they had misjudged. Really, they had poor discernment skills. After all, Julian incompetency was clear the moment he threw away Anjie and chose Marie.
He was disqualified from being the crown prince.
"I see. You're a capable child, aren't you. Perhaps if there was a child like you by Julian's side, he wouldn't have gone down an erroneous path."
I wondered about that. Marie would certainly have kept a distance if I were by his side. However, in that case, Livia might have gotten together with Julian for some game-like reason. In that case, Anjie would become her enemy.
Whether it be the right choice for the game or the right choice for reality──both were bothersome.
How troubling. If I were by his side, I have a feeling that I would have more troubles than what I had right now.
Though, there's no point in talking about hypothetical scenarios.
"I'm not going to change my stance."
"Is that so? So be it then, I have one other goal for today. Do help me with it."
"One other goal?"
"Since I came from a different country, I've never attended the academy. So, I want to have some memories about this academy~. You can help with that, right Leon? The academy greatly interests me. All of my female acquaintances have been talking about it in delight, and that makes me envious."
A woman in her thirties wanted memories of the academy while making a mischievous smile towards me?
Perhaps in my previous life, I would have showed respect to my elders with a smile.
However──that wasn't the case anymore.
I got up and grabbed Milaine's hand.
What beautiful hands she had.
Milaine voiced out as such in surprise.
"Sure thing. Let's make some memories at the academy. Milaine──please marry me!"
Milaine was fl.u.s.tered and had a red face.
Livia and Anjie got up from their chairs.
"Leon! What are you saying?!"
"Y, y──you! You're talking to the queen!"
As expected, my mentor was also surprised. Wasn't I amazing for making my mentor, a perfect gentleman, shocked?
"Mister Leon, I cannot laugh at such absurd jest!"
I knew this would happen. I was aware of what I was doing, but I wanted them to think carefully here.
What was the goal of going to the academy? Pursuit of knowledge? Wrong answer!
This is the academy from that otome game. There was only one goal! It was marriage! In other words, she must have wanted such memories. In that case, what I had to do was make a marriage proposal!
I wasn't being serious, but what could I do when she said that she wanted to make memories?
In other words, the queen wanted a confession of love! What a glorious deduction of mine. I'm amazing!
In addition, Milaine was very excellent when one saw her as a marriage partner. So she has given birth before? That's just proof that she could make children! n.o.bles wanted heirs anyways, so they would warmly welcome it! So she wasn't a virgin? Almost all of the girls in the academy weren't virgins anyways!
Other than in fantasies, there was no such thing as a virgin!
What about age? It's all good. Rather than teenage brutes who hadn't learned manners, a graceful cute woman in her thirties was better! I wanted to marry an actual human being!
This is what I came to understand through my academy life. I should stop having fantasies about girls already.
If I had to choose between the girls at the academy or Milaine, I would choose Milaine without hesitation!
Oh, wait. I intended this to be a joke, but was there really anyone as perfect as her?
"I like you! I love you!"
The words came out of my mouth before my mind could even process what I was saying.
"T, that's troubling. I, I'm already a older woman with a husband and kids."
"That doesn't matter. You're beautiful. Even if you have a family, I still like──gah!"
When I saw Milaine's cute blushed face and her eyes getting moist, I quickly felt something hit me in the back of the head.
Who was it?! I'll send them flying!
I turned around while thinking so and saw an enraged Julian.
His suit was in disorder, and the chest area was left unb.u.t.toned and wide open. His hair was also disheveled. It seemed that he was quite exhausted.
"Ah, your Highness."
As I said that, Julian raised a tray overhead.
"You've got some nerve to seduce someone's mother, Baltfault. It's unfortunate that I can't slice you up here."
He was genuinely angry.
I suppose that was natural, considering that I was. .h.i.tting on his mother right in front of his eyes.
Milaine was perplexed.
"T, that's not it, Julian. T, this is──"
"Mother, take your hands off of him! Baltfault, you too should release her!"
"Eh~I don't wanna."
Julian struck me in hatred.
I was sent flying away.
In a panic, Milaine tried rus.h.i.+ng over to me, but Julian grabbed her by the hand and left the cafe.
"Mother, this has gone on for long enough. Our cafe is right next to this one. I'd like to hear what you have to say for yourself once we're there. Good grief, why are you in this academy?"
I had a thought while seeing the two leave.
──Queen, I wonder if made a good memory for you at the academy?
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THE NEW MILLENNIUM PAPER AIRPLANE BOOK (Lá Fora… 67)
THE NEW MILLENNIUM PAPER AIRPLANE CONTEST by Klara Hobza is a multifaceted
artwork inspired by a historic paper airplane contest that took place in
1967 at the Great Hall in what is now the New York Hall of Science. Built
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The competition is open to the public, and participants are invited to fly
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You are invited to pre-register for the event online by October 28th, or in
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be addressed to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Fonte: Public Art Fund
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Well, I went up north full of hope for a sub-5hr marathon, and predictably, it didn't happen. The UK is in the middle of something of a heatwave, and we all know how me and heat mix; we don't.
So, we – myself and John, a friend with personal reasons for wanting to do a marathon – travelled up to Glasgow on Friday evening. We got to the flat we were staying in late-ish and went to find food after 10pm. We had some tasty tasty pizza, then as we were wandering back to the flat, I found a Scrabble tile. Just sitting there, on the pavement. I picked it up - I'm odd like that. It was an 'N'.
Only worth 1 point.
John joked, we should keep looking because if we found enough tiles, we could have a game.
Anyway, 50 yards or so further down the road, we found another tile. An 'R'.
Cool, game on, thinks us. Sure enough, not 15 feet away, another tile, face down. It's a 'U'. Now, bear in mind a couple of things here that you did not already know: John was in two minds about doing the race. He was not fit, though something of a natural athlete; he missed London because of injury, and was pretty sure, though not certain, he was going to run/walk the marathon in Edinburgh. He was determined to do something, in memory of his son Joel who died a couple of years ago aged just 19.
It may have been a message. You decide. But wait until the end before you decide, ok?
Next day, Saturday, we did very little. Went and bought a hat to run in (turned out to be a lifesaver), watched a lot of TV, ate a lot of food.
Sunday arrives and I'm up around 4am, eating breakfast. All part of the experiment; IBS med before brekkie, then do umpteen shits, them Imodium, then IBS meds just before the race and another Imodium if I have shat again. Well, that planned pattern was what happened.
When we're at the train station in Glasgow, at 7am, we both went to the loo; I was going to walk into a cubicle and John said, oddly, "Are you going in there, are you?"
"Erm... Yes. Why?"
"Because 5 is my lucky number!"
The cubicle was no.5, so I found another, and John had his lucky shit.
So, train to Edinburgh, find the start line, worry because it's already fucking baking hot, and decide well, I can only do what's in front of me.
We find our pens to begin - I'm right at the back (probably based on two disastrous London Marathons), John a pen ahead of me despite this being his first marathon. The race begins.
Beautiful course, out of Edinburgh and following a path along the estuary. Pretty, quiet, a light breeze; could have done with it being about 15 degrees cooler, but apart from that… The course eventually doubles back on itself, after a detour through a beautiful stately home and garden, and finished in Musselburgh.
I was fine, taking it gently, doing just shy of 11 minute miles, but honestly, not giving too much of a fuck. The heat was killing me, but I didn't even think about pausing to stop until about 17 miles. I hydrated well, I even ate - and no stomach problems. Not one. The only obstacle honestly was the heat. Great course, great race, shitty day to do it. Ok, it was only about 23 degrees, but still. Too hot for me, and plenty of people with more experience out there were struggling. I spoke to one couple afterward who were aiming for 4:30 and finished in 5:15; London last year, the heat added an hour to everyone's estimated/trained for times. Edinburgh seemed to be 45 minutes.
I enjoyed the race a lot, even the bits where I had to walk. I probably walked around four miles in total, maybe a bit more; hard to tell, those later miles seem awfully long.
Didn't see John though.
Anyway, finally, got to the finish line, massive sprint finish, legs nearly gave out at the end (hamstrings just disappeared!), but fucking well did it in what, for me, were very very tough conditions.
Afterward, I got my text message from the organisers with my time on - 5:27.23. A shit PB for sure, but still a PB. And maybe I'm just going to have to realise, I just ain't quick at all. Even if I train at 10 minute miles or less, I'm not racing at that. Though on the way around, I was thinking of doing only shorter races for the next year or so, and focussing on more speed, doing some track stuff, doing things I never ever do. And seeing where that takes me. In the last 13 months I have done three half marathons and three full marathons, and I'm really pleased with that. The times weren't great, I struggled a lot, but I finished everything and I realise now, there is pride to be found in that. Lots of it.
John got his text message too. And at this point, I think we realised there was something more going on here; more than a father broken up by the loss of his son and wanting to heal a little bit of that wound with a cathartic, emotional run; there was someone else there, and he wanted us to know.
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The first-time director Crispian Mills made his name in Britain fronting the psychedelic retro-rockers Kula Shaker, who briefly enjoyed mainstream success in the 1990s. But he also comes from strong cinematic stock as the grandson of stiff-upper-lip screen legend Sir John Mills, and son of actress Hayley Mills and acclaimed film director Roy Boulting. Sadly, it appears movie-making talent is not genetic, because this half-baked debut is unlikely to generate much commercial interest beyond Pegg's most devoted fans.
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Pegg plays Jack Nife, a former children's author whose life has descended into straggly-bearded paranoia and agoraphobia, partly due to the effects of researching a book on Victorian serial killers. A virtual prisoner in his untidy East London apartment, he begins to hallucinate murderous assailants and ghostly threats in every shadowy corner. There are promising echoes of Hitchcock's Psycho and Polanski's Repulsion in these scenes of creeping nocturnal dread, but Mills never manages to muster much dramatic tension beyond a few minor jolts and false alarms.
Reluctantly dragged into daylight for lunch with his literary agent, Jack learns that a Hollywood executive wants to meet to discuss buying the film rights to his book, a potential life saver for his ailing career. But the meeting requires him to visit his local laundrette, a key source of psychological trauma since being abandoned there by his mother in childhood. For reasons too groaningly contrived to explain, he also has a large kitchen knife stuck to his hand with super-strong glue.
The final act finds Jack chained up in the dingy laundrette basement, at the mercy of an unlikely serial killer connected to the Vietnamese mafia, which makes his overblown paranoia seem justified after all. This is all potentially rich material for a dark farce, but A Fantastic Fear of Everything somehow manages to botch almost every opportunity for both suspense and humour. The dialogue, heavily reliant on voiceover monologue, is only fitfully funny at best. Pegg is a skilled enough comedian to give these leaden lines a certain zing, but he cannot conceal a fatal lack of actual jokes.
Worse still, the plot is so implausible and illogical in places it almost feels like the cast are improvising on the spot. This becomes especially problematic during the final showdown with the killer, whose motives are so dramatically feeble that the film-makers eventually give up on him entirely, downgrading his grisly crimes into minor acts of vandalism. At no point do any of the characters appear to be in real jeopardy.
The screenplay is credited to Mills, although it is partly based on a recent novella by Bruce Robinson, Paranoia in the Launderette. Robinson has a cult following in British cinema as a director and screenwriter, largely on the strength of his autobiographical 1987 comedy Withnail and I. With its grubby London interiors, foulmouthed dialogue and shabby slacker protagonist, A Fantastic Fear of Everything seems to be aiming for a similar mix of scabrous surrealism and grimy humour. But it lacks the spiky wit, sharp observation or narrative drive to even inhabit the same ball park. No wonder Robinson's name does not appear in the credits.
A Fantastic Fear of Everything is not wholly without merit. Pegg is always an appealing screen presence, even in weak material, while the stop-motion animation sequences lend a certain hand-made charm to proceedings. Then again, director Paul King's low-budget 2009 feature Bunny and the Bull was a similarly dark British comedy about a housebound neurotic, complete with childlike animation elements, which displayed far more invention and wit. Bringing little honor to his illustrious family name, it is difficult to imagine Mills directing again after this self-indulgent shambles, which will forever remain a bizarre footnote on Pegg's otherwise mostly solid filmography.
Production companies: Indomina Productions, Keel Films, Pinewood Studios
Cast: Simon Pegg, Amara Karan, Claire Higgins, Paul Freeman
Directors: Crispian Mills, Chris Hopewell
Producers: Geraldine Patten, Crispian Mills
Executive Producers: Johnny Fewings, Jasbinder Singh Mann, Steve Norris, Simon Pegg, Mick Southworth
Writer: Crispian Mills
Music: Michael Price
Cinematography: Simon Chaudoir
Editor: Dan Roberts
Sales Agent: Universal
Rated 15 (UK), 100 minutes
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Narrative Matters: The Power of the Personal Essay in Health Policy
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The 293-page book, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, is a compilation of 46 essays drawn from the popular Narrative Matters section of Health Affairs, the nation's leading health policy journal. Since its inception in 1999, Narrative Matters has offered first-person accounts that illustrate the impact on real people of the health policy issues that are addressed in more academic form in the rest of the journal. Essays in Narrative Matters discuss a variety of topics, including sections on writing to change things, hard financial realities, patients' stories, disparity dilemmas, and practical ethics, among others.
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Mullan, F., Ficklen, E., & Rubin, K. (Eds.). (2006). Narrative matters: The power of the personal essay in health policy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.


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Paul Turner,
For Life Global
March 2016
Even if you dont celebrate Easter, its hard to ignore. Every time you walk into a mall, you probably see all the images of eggs, baby chickens, and bunnies. If you do celebrate Easter, you might have even bought some chocolate bunnies for your loved ones.
When I see those images, it reminds me that not all bunnies are as happy as the ones you see on chocolate.
But you can do something to change that.
Lucy, an angora rabbit, was bought by a school to satisfy their own curiosity. Unfortunately for Lucy, the school didnt do a very good job. They threw her in a cage, fed her the wrong food, and selfishly bred her for nine babies that the school then sold. They didnt just sell Lucys babies to just anyone thoughthe school sold them to be eaten or to be used to create the infamous angora wool.
If you dont know about angora wool, you should know its created from rabbit fur. The rabbits have their hair yanked out by humans until their skin is red and raw. The rabbits scream just like any person would, but the humans do not care. Once the fur has grown back after three months, the poor rabbits are subjected to this torture again. [Read A Look Inside the Angora Rabbit Fur Industry.]
No one deserves this cruel torture. You can help change the lives of abused and tortured bunnies today.
Lucy was eventually rescued from her lonely cage by a kind student at the school. She bathed Lucy and took her to the vet. But Lucy needed a new home, as she was too big to stay in her courageous rescuers small apartment.
So Lucy was brought to Julianas Animal Sanctuary, a farm in Colombia that rehabilitates animals in need. Of course Juliana would never say no to helping an animal, especially one as ignored and abused as Lucy was.
Juliana built her a proper enclosure where she has room to hop around with her new siblings and live as happily as every bunny should.
Images from Juliana's Animal Sanctuary
It is because of the support of their donors that Juliana is able to provide care for these beautiful animals who have already lived such hard lives. Thats why I am writing to you today.
As someone who supports Food for Life, I know you care about the safety and well-being of all living creatures. You have been so kind to us in the past, so I am hoping you can extend your kindness once more. Julianas sanctuary (their home) requires a lot of money to run and she desperately needs your support.
If you can afford it, please will you make a generous donation of $15 to help support the rehabilitation of animals who suffer at the hands of humans?
I understand you may not be able to give right now, especially if youve already spent a lot of money on the upcoming Easter holiday. But if you are able, a gift of $15, $25, or an incredibly generous $40 would make all the difference to animals like Lucy. We are grateful for any help you can kindly lend Julianas furry family. If you can donate, Ill make sure to pass on Lucys thanks :-)
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R-22 Dry Charge Systems After 2015
We received a question about the potential decline of the R22 Dry Charge units after the 2015 efficiency regulations go into effect and thought others might want to read about this topic.
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We received a question about the potential decline of the R22 Dry Charge units after the 2015 efficiency regulations go into effect and thought others might want to read about this topic.
While the prevalence of electronics continues to expand into nearly every aspect of our lives, the refrigeration and air conditioning industries have been slow to embed electronics in HVACR equipment. Unfortunately, the primary reasons for this reluctance can be attributed to a lack of awareness and education about the promise of electronically enabled systems.
For many OEMs, there is a fair amount of confusion surrounding the operation, maintenance and repair-ability of systems with embedded electronics. And among the consumer base, there's a general misunderstanding about the value that electronics bring versus their perceived risks and costs.
Our next MAKING SENSE webinar will address these apprehensions and make a compelling case for electronic connectivity and system communications in HVACR equipment. Join us via webinar or in the booth at the 2015 AHR Expo on January 26 in Chicago, as we explore the potential of electronics and facilitate a panel discussion from Emerson's lecture area in their booth, #5010, from 2–3 p.m. CST.
In this complimentary webinar, we'll explore the many advantages of embedded electronics, including:
In an industry faced with disruptive equipment failures, a declining number of qualified technicians and increased service costs, we think it's time to re-evaluate the many benefits of embedded electronics. With their tremendous untapped potential, electronics hold the promise of ushering in a new era of reliability in HVACR equipment.
The webinar will be led by Mike Murphy of The NEWS and include a list of distinguished panelists from a cross-section of our industry, including: John Wallace of Emerson Climate Technologies, Randall Amerine from AT&T, Paul Stalknecht of ACCA and George Hernandez from the U.S. Department of Energy.
We hope you'll join us via webinar or in the booth on January 26 from 2–3 p.m. CST from the AHR Expo show as we are making sense of embedded electronics.
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Neill Blomkamp's New Short Is A Little Bit ALIEN, A Little Bit THE THING
That sounds reductive, but the comparison's valid. Added bonus: short's definitely worth watching.
That sounds reductive, but the comparison's valid. Added bonus: short's definitely worth watching.
A funny short film about body image issues.
The jury prize winner at SXSW is now available online.
Watch a Slamdance comedy short about... rape?
Spoilers, if you're one of the terrible people who have not supported one of the year's best cinematic experiences.
The creeping terror of prudent actions!
Seriously, watch it. It's short and great.
Well, you'll have to see for yourself.
While the director is keeping details to himself on Chappie, we know it stars rap duo Die Antwoord and apparently a robot with bunny ears.
CATNIP: EGRESS TO OBLIVION? warns users of the powerful drug about possible dangerous side-effects.
Part of Fourth Wall's DARK WALL horror anthology.
A strange science fiction short where a cosmonaut's landing on one of Jupiter's moons has dire consequences for the Earth.


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A Wedding Planner Plans Her Own Wedding (Podcast)
Lauren Muise, Manager and Wedding Planner at The Essex Room in Essex, Massachusetts discusses planning her own wedding, including booking vendors, buying the dress, and sending save the dates and invites.
John Maher: Hi, I'm John Maher, and I'm here today with Lauren Muise, Manager and Wedding Planner at The Essex Room in Essex, Massachusetts. Today our topic is a wedding planner plans her own wedding. Welcome, Lauren.
Lauren Muise: Thanks for having me.
John: Sure, so Lauren, we talked actually last spring about the fact that you're engaged and you're obviously involved heavily in planning your own wedding, which is in September of this year. And so could you just give us a little update on how that's going and what's happened since we talked last spring?
Lauren: Yeah, so we definitely have been doing a lot of planning. We're kind of at a little bit of a lull right now, but we got engaged last New Year's Eve, so it's been just about over a year now.
John: Okay.
Lauren: We have been busy booking all of our vendors. I bought my wedding dress, and we just recently actually sent out save the dates, so things are rolling now, and we're getting a lot done.
John: You're about eight months away or so?
Lauren: Yeah.
John: Is that when you recommend getting those save the dates out?
Lauren: Yeah, I think, I mean, when I was doing my research it definitely said between like eight and 10 months. If you wait much longer, honestly I feel like they're kind of just an extra expense that you're spending, which doesn't really make sense because you're going to be sending your actual wedding invites out soon. So, they're definitely something you want to send like eight months at least beforehand. And then after that, your shower is going to be coming soon, so the word will get out otherwise. So, if you are going to do save the dates, I would do it between the eight- and 12-month mark.
John: Right, okay. Anything else that's sort of happened in the last nine months or so since we've talked?
Lauren: Well, I mean we've worked out our budgets, kind of, and we're trying to stick to it. The guest list was the big thing. We had to kind of narrow that down and really put pen to paper and figure out-
John: Right, because in order to send out those save the dates, obviously you have to know who you're inviting.
Lauren: Yeah, or at least the definites and then maybe later we can add a few. And we had an engagement party, which was really nice. It was small, just a little barbecue. We celebrated with close family and friends, and then we also did engagement photos, which was really nice. I actually won them at a bridal show, so-
John: That's fun.
Lauren: -for all you couples out there that are engaged, it actually is beneficial to go to all those shows you see around because you might get some free stuff out of it.
John: How long after you actually got engaged did you do those engagement photos?
Lauren: Let's see, I think we did them six months after, because we got engaged obviously on January 1st, so it was really, really cold out, so we wanted-
John: So you waited for the summer.
Lauren: Yeah, well spring, late spring. We wanted it to have a little bit of color out there.
John: Sure.
Lauren: And not to be freezing when we were outside. So, we waited a little while. But again, I guess it depends on how long your engagement is. We got engaged over a year ago, like I said, so our engagement really is almost two years, so we had a little bit of time to kind of get that off the checklist.
John: Did you use those engagement photos on your save the date cards?
Lauren: We did.
John: Yep, I've seen that.
Lauren: And they're posted all over my wedding websites and hung all around my apartment as well.
John: Nice. Do you have anybody else helping to plan your wedding? Do you have a wedding planner that you're working with, or are you just kind of doing it all yourself?
Lauren: I, for the most part, am doing it by myself. I think … obviously my fiance, I ask him a lot of questions. For the most part, he kind of was letting me do my own thing. When it comes to actually planning it, I definitely am doing it by myself. I didn't hire a planner per se, but obviously I'm throwing ideas off my sister Jen, who's my maid of honor, and of course my boss, Maureen Woodman. She's been doing weddings for a long time, so she's somebody that I rely a lot on for opinions.
John: Right, right. Any issues come up between you and your fiance in terms of making choices and things like that? I know when I was engaged to my wife, the issue came … I learned very quickly not to say, "Oh, I don't care about that."
Lauren: Yeah.
John: That that came up at the beginning where she would say, "Well, what do you want? Do you want this or that?" And I would say, "I don't care." And she was like, "What do you mean you don't care? It's your wedding." And I said, "Okay, let me rephrase that. It's not that I don't care, it's that I don't have a preference between one or the other, so if you have a preference you can go ahead and choose that one and it won't make a big difference to me." Have you had any issues with that?
Lauren: Wording is definitely key, I would say. Yeah, we've definitely had a few conversations that sound very similar to that. There haven't really been any big issues, I would say. I think picking the menu was where he kind of … definitely was a bit more interested in.
John: Yeah, a little more opinionated.
Lauren: Yeah, which was totally fine. I think … we are still eight months out, so a lot of the little decisions when it comes to timeline and decor, that aspect we're still kind of working on, so I'm sure there'll be a few more conversations in there. But for the most part, honestly, I've really enjoyed the experience. I think I might be a little spoiled again just because of the job that I actually do. I feel like I do have a good head on my shoulders when it comes to planning it, because I feel like I understand what it takes to plan a wedding in a budget-friendly and also realistic way. Some people just have no idea, because why would they if they had never hosted a wedding before? So, it can be a little bit of sticker shock and-
John: Right, they have big huge plans-
Lauren: Yeah.
John: I want this and this and this and this. And then they look at how much that's going to cost and they go, "Oh, wow."
Lauren: Yeah, I think it can be difficult, so I feel like overall I have really enjoyed the experience, because I feel like I've come at it with a level head and really knowing what I'm getting myself into.
John: Right, right, so what are some of the choices that you've made so far in regards to the wedding? Say, either in the last nine months or even since you've gotten engaged and why have you made those particular choices?
Lauren: I think booking the vendors was the biggest decision we've made, and setting a budget. Obviously when you get engaged, you have all these crazy ideas and it's … honestly the first thing that I did was … I mean, the thing that I used was Excel, which I know is kind of like old school, but I made a spreadsheet of all the vendors I know I needed and then maybe some extras that I hope I could afford. I put realistic numbers next to everything so I could see where it was going to hopefully end. And then I started doing the research on vendors because, like I said, people who aren't familiar with the industry, you could say, "I'm going to spend $500 on a DJ," and you can say that as long as you want, but are you really going to be able to find one that's only $500?
So, I think the biggest decision that we've made was setting a reasonable budget and then doing the work to find vendors that offered what we wanted at the price that we wanted. So I guess just finding the right value and people. I think we had to make decisions where okay, photographers are a little bit over the budget we were anticipating, where can we cut back? Honestly, winning that engagement photo session definitely helped because a lot of photographers have that built into their package, which is obviously great.
John: So you can tell the photographer, "Hey, I've already done my engagement photos and so you can maybe give me a discount on the cost or something."
Lauren: Yeah, and honestly that did help. It worked. I mean, a couple hundred dollars, but still all those pennies add up at the end of the day. So, I think it was important for us to find vendors that were around the budget we wanted as well as be clear about what our expectations were so that we could make sure that that value was there. Because some vendors were like, "Do you need this and do you need this?" And we were like, "Actually, no we don't." And they were actually flexible with the pricing a little bit, which really helped. I think going into it organized with our expectations and what we wanted and then actually finding the people and making decisions to secure the vendors, that was the biggest decision and choices we've had to make was booking the vendors, because if you go wildly off your budget at that point, you're going to no matter what be way over budget at the end of the day. So, I think that was definitely the biggest thing that we've done so far.
John: Okay, and then what else do you need to do? You're kind of coming up to the last stage here. You've got about eight months to go, as we said. What are some of the things that you still need to do as you go into this last few months?
Lauren: Yeah, so at this point, like I said, we have all of our professionals hired for the most part. I think, like I said, we're kind of in the weird lull of it, which I think a lot of couples hit, because after you book all your vendors, you have some time before you really have to start pulling the trigger on other things. I think the main thing now is actually figuring out what I want to do for decor and rentals. So, obviously we need chairs for the ceremony, you need chairs for the reception, you need to pick your centerpieces out, all that kind of stuff. So while we've been really, really great about staying on our budget when it comes to hiring vendors, I'm a little nervous about staying on the budget for actually purchasing decorations and that kind of stuff.
So, I think that's the next research that we're going to have to start doing is kind of seeing like, okay, where are the numbers actually going to fall for that? And I'm really excited because I feel like now it's becoming more real, now that we're within the year. My sisters are planning my shower, which I'm super excited about and the word on the street is that there's going to be a little bachelorette party, and Matt, my fiance, his guys are going to be planning a little trip for him too, so I think while those aren't per se things that I have to really be involved in the planning process, I'm super excited about that part of it because it kind of makes it all real.
John: Yeah, absolutely. Yep. When do you anticipate that this sort of little lull that you're in now is going to end? Is it about six months out that you'll really start with getting more involved in having to make some more decisions?
Lauren: Definitely. I think most couples within like six months out, and then hopefully they are feeling a little bit more finalized like three months before-
John: Right.
Lauren: -so that the last couple of months you're not feeling like you're running around, and those last months you're finalizing the invoices with your other vendors, so you don't want to be dealing with all these crazy payments with decor. You want to get that done ahead of time. For me, obviously I'm a wedding planner, so we are going to start getting super busy with our awesome weddings that are taking place here at The Essex Room. And we start to get busy in the second half of April, so I definitely want to kind of finalize things in the next few months on my end just so that I'm not worrying about things and I can put all my energy into our amazing couples that are booked here. So for me-
John: Right, because you're going to be so busy between April and September when your wedding is. That's going to be a busy time.
Lauren: All my energy is going to go into our couples here, which I'm super excited about. So, I don't want my wedding to come and me be stressed. I'd rather plan way ahead and get done the next month or two, or at least get rental orders placed and stuff so I don't have to think about it. We'll probably be, I guess, a little ahead of the game but we'll probably hit another lull because we'll have all that done in the next couple of months.
John: Right, yeah that's true.
Lauren: Like I said, all the different events are going to come up, so definitely when you hit the six-month mark, you are thinking wedding big time at that point and getting everything situated.
John: Are you anticipating in terms of the decorations going with any kind of a theme or anything like that? Have you had any thoughts on that?
Lauren: Our wedding is mid-September, so we're right on the cusp of fall there, so I think … we're getting married actually offsite at a venue that we've catered at before The Essex Room at Woodman's. It's called Pierce Farm. It's a place that you can bring in your own catering, which is really exciting, because obviously I wanted to incorporate Woodman's and The Essex Room in some way. It's a place that's very simple, like The Essex Room, so I kind of just plan on bringing in some glam and some flowers and some bright colors. So, no theme per se, but just like classic, elegant, I guess is kind of the vibe I'm going for, which I see all the time here at The Essex Room, which is really nice. I get a lot of inspiration from all the couples that we work with.
John: Great. Yeah, hopefully we'll be able to talk again, maybe after your wedding and get a little wrap up on how things went. That'd be fun.
Lauren: Yeah, hopefully it'll all be positive and happy thoughts. So far, it has been, so I'm sure it will be. I'm super, super excited.
John: All right, well that's great to talk to you about it, Lauren, and congratulations again on your engagement and good luck with the last eight months or so of your planning.
Lauren: Thank you so much.
John: For more information about weddings, you can visit The Essex Room website at essexroom.com or call (978) 768-7335.


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Recipe for 'Irish Barmbrack' by 'Loftus'
Barmbrack For Halloween
250g white flour
15g dried bakers yeast
50g white fine sugar
100mls warm milk
Half teaspoon of allspice or mixed cinnamon and nutmeg
Half teaspoon of salt
1 small egg
50g of unsalted butter
50g mixed peel
60g mixed raisins and sultanas
Soak the dried fruit overnight in weak tea
Warm the milk, stir in yeast and one teaspoon of sugar into two tablespoons of milk, let rise for 10min:
Melt butter and let cool.
Sift flour and spice salt into bowl, add rest of sugar.
Pour in rest of milk and yeast mixture as before.
Beat egg with fork, mix in butter, add to bowl, stir a little and knead mixture for 5min until the dough is elastic and no longer sticks to bowl.
Cover with a wet cloth and let rise for one hour in a warm place.
Dry the mixed fruit chop in small sections roll in a little flour add peel and mixed fruit and knead vigorously.
Butter a baking tin and spread the mixture evenly into it, leave to rise for 30min:
Heat oven to 200c bake for 25mins: then reduce temp: to 190c and bake just a little longer.
Let the Barmbrack rest for 15min: after taking out and extracting from tin. Allow to cool before cutting. Serve with butter.


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Fallout from the nauseating sexual harassment and misconduct allegations leveled against film and TV mogul Harvey Weinstein continues today, as Variety reports that Weinstein has taken an indefinite leave of absence from The Weinstein Co. His departure—which was originally announced yesterday—will be accompanied by an independent investigation into claims made in a damning New York Times story published yesterday. In a statement, the board of The Weinstein Co. says:
We strongly endorse Harvey Weinstein's already-announced decision to take an indefinite leave of absence from the Company, commencing today. As Harvey has said, it is important for him to get professional help for the problems he has acknowledged. Next steps will depend on Harvey's therapeutic progress, the outcome of the Board's independent investigation, and Harvey's own personal decisions.
Earlier today, Variety ran another story which said that the board of directors was weighing whether to terminate Weinstein, with the effort to remove him led by his brother and company co-founder Bob Weinstein and president and COO David Glasser, who say they are prepared to take over management of the company. That same story quotes anonymous sources within the company who say that Weinstein is blissfully ignorant of the dragging he is currently receivingon social media, because he "does not frequently use a computer." (What else would you expect from a guy who thinks "I grew up in the '70s" is a good excuse for demanding assistants massage him in the nude?)
In general, Weinstein's response to the charges only seems to have made things worse. Most recently, he picked up the phone and called Page Six, claiming that he's planning to sue The New York Times not because he denies all of the allegations against him, but because the paper only gave him 24 hours to respond to the claims. (They also misquoted the number of women with whom he's settled, he says.)
And despite Weinstein's attempts to draw attention away from his alleged behavior and onto his liberal politics—"I am going to need a place to channel [my] anger, so I've decided to give the NRA my full attention," he writes in his statement—Democrats are already distancing themselves from him. Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren have declared their intention to donate campaign contributions from Weinstein to charity, as have Al Franken, Chuck Schumer, and Kirsten Gillibrand. Earlier today, Democratic National Committee communications director Xochitl Hinojosa called the allegations "deeply troubling."


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O is for Overreacting
The other morning I was enjoying the few peaceful minutes where Caroline is napping and Little Evan is re-discovering all his toys (look! blocks! look! cars! look! empty yogurt container! omg I haven't seen these toys in forever! or at least 12 hours!) while I skim blogs and think about all the other, more productive stuff I should be doing when I felt a tug on my leg. It was Little Evan, holding one of his alphabet flashcards and pointing at it urgently.
"That's V, veeeeeeee, V for violin!" I said, "Violins play music!" and I signed music. He looked at it the picture on the card so intensely I started to get a little worried. Why is he so interested in that violin? Maybe he wants to play the violin. Maybe I should get him a violin and sign him up for lessons. Do they offer music lessons for 2 year olds? Of course they do. Wasn't Tiger Woods already golfing by 2? Am I stifling my child's musical genius because I haven't provided him with the world's tiniest violin and 12 hours a week of lessons and now I am the Worst Mother Ever and he will never live up to his potential???
I've been having some anxiety about Little Evan's development lately.
It's mostly just the age, I think. So much happens so fast in the first few years it's sometimes hard to remember the levels of normal can swing widely. Especially now that potty training is rampant among our 2-year old age group. It seems like SUCH an advanced skill, and one that requires so much parental involvement – at least for a while – that I worry I'm failing my child somehow by not doing more to encourage it.
I feel the same way about pretty much everything. Talking. Motor skills. Imagination. Socialization. Teaching him letters and numbers and colors and shapes and animals and please and thank you and no hitting and inside voices and hold mommy's hand in the parking lot. So far we have mastered…none of those. Not a one. There's so much responsibility it gets overwhelming and I just want to go lie down and take a nap.
Hey, at least Evan's good at that.
Tags: 23 months, little evan, milestones, potty training, toddlers, worrying


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College of Arts and Sciences Administration
Providing a comprehensive liberal arts education, the College of Arts and Sciences includes 21 academic departments and a variety of interdisciplinary programs offered through the Divisions of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences.
College of Arts & Sciences Organizational Chart
A&S Dean's Office Organizational Chart
A&S Advising Organizational Chart
See also: Structure and Divisions
Dean's Position Description
The Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences shall be responsible directly to the Executive Vice President and University Provost for the administration and efficient conduct of the educational programs of the College. The duties of the dean shall include the enforcement of policies and regulations adopted by the Board of Trustees, the President, the Provost, the University Faculty Senate, the University Assembly, and the Faculty Assembly of the College of Arts and Sciences. The dean shall be responsible for:
- Acting as the advocate for the College within the University and within the larger community;
- coordinating and integrating the work of the academic departments, and programs
- recommending a budget to the Provost;
- administering the approved budget;
- teaching and the improvement of instruction;
- recommending appointment, promotion, retention, and dismissal of faculty members;
- enrolling students; evaluating advanced standing credits; advising students; scheduling classes;
- providing such support as may be needed by college committees;
- supervising the conduct of students and appropriate student organizations;
- meeting or exceeding all compliance standards;
- writing the annual report of the College;
- and preparing other such documents as are required for the orderly administration of the College.
The dean shall also be responsible for all cooperative programs involving the College of Arts and Sciences and other units of the University. Within the framework of Chapter 6 of The Redbook, the dean shall have the power to discipline students for breach of academic conduct to the extent of suspension from the College.


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Klei Entertainment wasn't technically on the E3 show floor this year; instead, the company held private screenings above EA's expansive display area in partner booths. But it had one of the more impressive indie games of the show: Shank.
The 2D side-scroller is a throwback to beat 'em up games of the past (such as Streets of Rage 2), but with modern sensibilities. Besides slicing and dicing baddies with your blade (the default weapon), you have access to a shotgun, chainsaw, grenades, and numerous weapon combos that seamlessly flow as you mow down villains. Melee combat also includes grappling, and pouncing upon downed enemies to continue the assault.
Shank looks very much like a comic book come to life: The colors are bright and vibrant, and the all the characters, from the lowest level knife-fodder to the protagonist himself, are lovingly animated. It truly is a testament to what can be accomplished with 2D design and animation.
This downloadable XBLA, PSN, and PC title is slated to arrive late summer.


text: I'm delighted to write that my friend Jan Alexander has just received the 2009 RDS Forestry Merit award for her 20+ year contribution to Irish Forestry. Here she is pictured with Minister of State for Forestry, Tom Killeen at the award ceremony at Kilkenny Castle last thursday. Hurrah!! (Photos taken with my phone, apologies for…Read more Chair of Pro Silva Ireland, Jan Alexander, receives 2009 RDS Forestry Merit Award


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This post was originally published on News Cult in February 2018.
Starring: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, Oscar Isaac, Benedict Wong, David Gyasi
Director: Alex Garland
Running Time: 115 Minutes
Rating: R for Gator-Shark Attacks, Giant Bear Attacks, Swirling Intestines, and a Little Bit of Nookie
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Annihilation needs you to trust that sometimes disorientation can be good. Or at least, that it can be exciting. I will admit that disorientation does not necessarily work out so well for this film's characters. The relative safety afforded the audience in vicariously experiencing this vexing and dangerous journey makes secondhand disorientation easier to defend. But still, I think the message here is the same for both participants and observers: venturing into the confusion is how to make the spectacle happen.
Biology professor Lena (Natalie Portman) has been mourning the disappearance of her husband Kane (Oscar Isaac) ever since he took off for a highly classified military expedition a year ago, when suddenly he just reappears in their house one day. But Kane has essentially no memory of what happened, and it is clear soon enough that there is so much of his mission left to complete. So Lena is recruited by Dr. Ventress (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to join her and her team of scientists (Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny) to trek into Area X, the coastal location that Kane and many others have gotten lost in, and figure out what the hell is going on there.
I do not recall Annihilation specifying the exact geographical location of Area X. It is possible it did and I just missed it, which can happen when a film mentions a significant detail only briefly. But in this case it is appropriate that I would miss such a detail, whether or not it was actually omitted. Area X is surrounded by a liquidy substance, or perhaps "presence" is a better word, referred to as "a shimmer," which disorients anyone who approaches or moves through it. When Ventress and her crew first awake in the area, they seem to have immediately lost days, maybe even weeks. If we as an audience feel like we are missing just as many details as they are, then writer/director Alex Garland is probably pulling off what he set out to do. What awaits all of us is a world of wonders that can be explained by science, even though science says they should be impossible.
Flowers of clearly different species are growing on the same branches. The team is attacked by a gator with shark teeth. Plants in the shape of walking humans have sprung up. Eventually these ladies recognize their own blood and DNA swirling and transforming. These combinations are supposed to be fundamentally incompatible according to life as we know it. Lena's on-the-fly theorizing of this continuous mutation works as a sort of explanation of how mythical hybrid creatures or the monstrosities from genre films could come to exist if they were to exist in reality.
The crew confronts Area X and its inhabitants with a mix of paranoia, wonder, fatalism, and determination. Considering the constant transformation inherent to this setting, it could be argued that all or none or some indefinable combination of these approaches is the right plan of action. Appropriately, it is all rendered by a design and effects team inspiring awe on a thoroughly devastating scale. The lush greenery is both beautiful and explosive. The music, courtesy of Ben Salisbury and Portishead's Geoff Barrow, is unnerving and entrancing, including a set of reverberating notes that the trailer has already made famous. This intoxicating mix also offers up a series of killer set pieces, including a riff on The Thing's notorious blood test scene, but featuring the main animal from a creature feature imbued with the Freddy Krueger-style power to maintain the dying cries of its victims.
Annihilation hits that sci-fi sweet spot of a confusing, complicated premise that ultimately explains itself, but not in a way that betrays its intricacies or ambitions, or makes matters particularly comforting. This is visionary cinema, flourishing and fully realizing itself from glorious setup to perfect ending.
Annihilation is Recommended If You Like: The Thing, 2001, Fringe, Cronenbergian body horror, The design elements of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Mulholland Drive
Grade: 5 out of 5 Shimmers


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Three Lansing restaurants on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives
LANSING - Henry Meyer got his first call from "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" staff eight months ago.
The Food Network show had received a slew of comments from his customers at Eastside Fish Fry & Grill, the business he opened on Kalamazoo Street five years ago. They were interested, but not convinced yet, that his business could be ripe for a visit from host Guy Fieri.
Through the spring and summer Meyer, a 2003 Eastern High School graduate, took part in several phone interviews with the show's producers. He shared photos of the eatery's popular in-house seasoned chicken wings, talked about his recipes and back story.
"Every single interview you have with them they say, 'This doesn't mean anything. We're talking to a lot of places in the area,'" Meyer said.
So he stayed quiet about it, and waited.
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Last month Fieri and his staff spent two days with Meyer at Eastside Fish Fry & Grill. They also made stops at Lansing's Capital City BBQ, Old Town's Meat Southern B.B.Q. & Carnivore Cuisine and Delta Township's Zaytoon.
Starting Friday customers of all four and foodies alike can tune in to Food Network and watch the first of three "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" episodes featuring the four eateries over three shows.
Here's when to watch:
• Meat Southern B.B.Q. is first up, according to the network, at 9 p.m. Friday. The episode describes the eatery as "a righteous barbecue joint in Lansing, Mich. puttin' pork belly in a Reuben and smokin' up wings."
• Capital City BBQ and Zaytoon will both be featured next, on an episode airing Sept. 22 at 9 p.m. Fieri will be "diving into killer cuisine with international flair," according to the episode description.
• Eastside's segment will air at 9 p.m. Oct. 13. The episode description describes Meyer's business as "a funky joint frying up everything from wings to pig skins to chicken gizzards."
Zaytoon owner Samy Rashed said what will take minutes to air on Food Network took three days to film last month at his Elmwood Road restaurant.
"There's a lot that goes into it," he said. "I think we had 25 to 30 hours that went into the taping of it."
Was he nervous in front of the camera? A little, Rashed said, but Fieri made it easier.
"'Let's just talk and work.' That's what he said to me," he said.
A Zaytoon's menu staple, chicken shawarma, and some other favorites will be featured.
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Rashed said the experience was "phenomenal" and customer traffic at Zaytoon, popular for its fresh Lebanese cuisine menu, increased immediately after word got out about Fieri's visit. After it airs he expects that will continue.
"Guy's advice was 'be ready,'" Rashed said. "I don't know personally what to expect but I'm going to try and be prepared."
They'll start by hosting a viewing party on Sept. 22 at the restaurant. Yes, customers are invited.
Meyer said even though the Oct. 13 episode featuring Eastside Fish Fry & Grill is still a month away he's already started gear up for the aftermath.
The television opportunity makes him proud, he said. The business was his second chance after finishing a four-year stint in prison, where he served time for growing marijuana.
He "decided to try something I've never done" when he was released. The restaurant's chicken and fish is a local favorite.
"It's a developed passion," Meyer said. "It's a pride passion."
The show's visit "just speaks volumes to what we do here," he said
Staff will be ready when it airs, Meyer said.
"We want to keep our loyal customers and welcome new ones."
Contact Rachel Greco at (517) 528-2075 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @GrecoatLSJ.


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Smart from the Ground-up: or how to avoid smart Nimbyism through digital empowerment
Networks of connected sensors are arriving in cities. Stephen Hilton of Bristol Futures Global considers how to avoid "Smart Nimbyism" by equipping and empowering communities to be smart.
Imagine every street has a sensor box. As I write, there is one mounted on a lighting column outside your home, the Council installed it as part of a "Smart City" Initiative. You are not sure what it does but you think it has something to do with air pollution as this has been in the news. Your daughter shows you an App she has downloaded. One of her friends built it at something called a "Hackathon". What you see is alarming. For weeks, your home has been in the midst of an area of extreme air pollution; far worse, it appears, than the average for the rest of the city. Your instinct is to stay inside, lock the doors and windows and wrap scarves around the family's noses and mouths to filter the air. Will this, you wonder, actually do any good? You try Googling but the results don't tell you what to do. Feeling increasingly angry you call the Council and get through to the Head of Planning: they pick up...
This scenario is not very far fetched, except perhaps for the idea that the Head of Planning might answer their phone! Many cities are experimenting with Smart City initiatives involving connected sensor networks to monitor the urban environment. Until now, cities have deployed sensors only in a limited way. Cost has been a significant barrier. Sensors can be expensive to buy and connecting them to a digital network is an additional overhead. Consequently, sensors have often been stand alone, requiring a person to visit them to collect data manually - another overhead. Power supply has also been a barrier; lighting columns have limited power outlets and modifying them is yet another expense for cities to bear. All in all, the business case for wide scale deployment of accurate environmental sensors has just not stacked up - but this is set to change.
Innovation in the way sensors are designed and brought together into integrated arrays, along with standards for new low power, wide area networks, mean that every neighbourhood, street and even every home, can have access to affordable, high quality networked sensors. This is potentially a real game-changer.
The Array of Things
In Chicago, the Array of Things (AOT) project is 'instrumenting the city' to enable urban planners, residents, and researchers to monitor and examine Chicago's environment, including detecting trends and changes over time. The AOT nodes will initially measure temperature, barometric pressure, light, vibration, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, ozone, ambient sound intensity, pedestrian and vehicle traffic, and surface temperature. AoT will undergo upgrades with new sensors including wind, precipitation, and particles this year.
LoRaWAN is a Low Power Wide Area Network specification aimed at supporting the data communication requirements of sensors. LoRa networks are far cheaper to deploy than other communication technologies that are designed with larger data streams in mind. A handful of LoRa gateways can provide connectivity across a whole city, enabling sensors to be plugged-in and played without the need for complex local installation. When combined with improvements in battery technologies, which mean low power sensors can now last for years without the need for the battery to be replaced; the result is that large scale deployment of remote sensors is now within reach.
Like it or not, sensors are coming to cities and soon, Planners will have to decide what role to play. Simply allowing the Internet of Things to be imposed in communities is likely to be as problematic as ignoring it altogether. It is not too much of a leap to imagine extremely well informed citizens and community organisations using real-time sensor data to question or block proposed developments and demanding changes to existing infrastructure. So what can City Planners do to avoid such Smart Nimbyism? To find the answer, I believe we should look to my home city of Bristol and to the work of Knowle West Media Centre.
Knowle West Media Centre is located in one of the least advantaged parts of Bristol. For 20 years, the Media Centre has worked with the local community to use digital creativity and technology to build grass roots engagement. It is therefore unsurprising that a new approach to the Internet of Things and sensors has arisen out of the Centre's work.
Citizen Sensing
The Bristol Approach to Citizen Sensing moves the citizens' perspective to the front in determining how sensors and data are used in a community setting; building capacity and understanding at the very local level. The methodology is replicable and it should be applied broadly. The Knowle West Vision also goes one step further. Using 3D printing and rapid fabrication techniques – the aim is to skill and equip local "Makers" so they can help build the Smart City, creating genuine ownership and a stake in the future infrastructure of the Smart City.
Let's imagine this scenario.
You are invited to participate in a "Citizen Sensing" project. You aren't sure what this is but go along anyway as it sounds interesting. At a workshop, you talk with your neighbours and volunteers who know about technology and data, about the problems that your street faces. In this way, you contribute to the design of a sensor box that collects data about the things that people on the street want to know. The Council makes some suggestions too and all agree that air quality is important. Following the workshop, some people go on to learn new skills; coding, electronics and 3D printing, so that they can help build the sensors. The kids in the street decorate the box and even give it a nickname – "Windy" because, amongst other things, it records the weather. At first, everyone worries when Windy shows how bad the air quality is but a group gets together to discuss what changes they might make. It is agreed to set up a lift sharing scheme so that not everyone has to drive to work separately. The next step is to secure funding for an electric car club and charging points. Parents have started a walking bus so the kids can walk safely to and from school. There is even an attempt to coordinate online shopping deliveries through an innovative App that a local small business has developed. Windy has been programmed to recognise and count different types of vehicles, so can measure what progress is being made. Of course, some big things only the Council can do but the problems feel less scary because everyone is at least trying to sort them out together.
You are Head of Planning, let the phone ring because now is the time to stop and think about the future you are going to create by enabling communities to be smart - but on their own terms.
Stephen Hilton is a Fellow of the University of Bristol Cabot Institute and founder of Bristol Futures Global, a consultancy that supports cities, businesses and communities to be both Smart and Citizen-focused. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com. Twitter: @BristolFutures


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Tofu with hogao sauce
Hogao is a very popular sauce back home. People usually eat this sauce with steamed potatoes, yuca, patacones (or tostones), chicken or beef… In other words, you can eat it with anything you would like. My uncle has been living in the U.S. for 30 years, and when he would come to visit my grandma one of his first requests was Hogao. I remember my grandma used to make hogao almost every meal until I couldn't eat it anymore. Now, I just wish my grandma was around. That way I could eat as much hogao as I could and hang-out in the kitchen hearing her stories.
Hogao has lots of tomatoes, onions, and cumin. It is really easy to make and gives lots of flavor to everything you cook. I decided to make the hogao with tofu. Hogao is so flavorful that I thought it would go great with the delicate flavor of the tofu. This main dish is definitely in my favorite list and I hope it will make into your list as well!
16 Oz of Tofu
3 Oz of Tomato Paste
Reserved Juice from Diced Tomato Can
Olive oil (as needed)
1 Onion (Chopped)
14.5 Oz Can of Diced Tomatoes
2 Garlic Cloves (Minced)
1 1/2 Envelop of Sazon Goya
- Press the tofu for at least 10 minutes to extract the extra water.
- Dice the tofu in medium size cubes.
- Marinate the tofu by adding tomato paste and the reserved juice from the diced tomato can.
- Marinate the tofu for at least two hours or overnight.
- In a separate cooking pan, add olive oil, onion and cook for 5 minutes.
- Add diced tomatoes, garlic, and season goya. Mix all ingredients and cook for 10 minutes.
- Add the marinated tofu and cook for 15 minutes.
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This sounds yummy! I'm curious what the side dish is next to the tofu in the final picture?
Those are plantains. I will be posting the recipe today for that! Thanks so much for stopping by <3