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Tag Archives: tomatoes
Pickled Cherry Tomatoes
There's a lot of recipes out there for pickled cherry tomatoes, although most are the quick variety adding vinegar, rather than fermented. And I definitely am shooting for fermented! Of all the recipes I saw, I saw various spices or … Continue reading
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Too Soon For Vacation's End
So, tomorrow it is back to work. I suppose it's always too soon. Pain I dislike yellow-jackets. It's simple, really. After over 5 hours, by thumb on my right hand is still throbbing. After getting home from a lunch meeting, … Continue reading
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A garden, a date, and upcoming fun
Tonight, I made an excellent pasta dish loosely based on a recipe on allrecipes.com. I had some Andouille sausage, and a whole bunch of vegetables from our garden. Using some tomato (different colored varieties), some bell peppers (red and green) from … Continue reading
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Catching Up
I haven't posted since the 8th!? Well, that is no indication that things aren't happening, of course. Besides for the normal – work, reading, and the like, I have begun putting in a trellis for my new muscadines and have been regularly … Continue reading
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Selling my 1995 NA Mazda Miata with 176K on the chassis and ~100k on engine which has good compression.
It has a bell engineering begi-s turbo kit installed with a garrett GT2554 turbo.
Clean title, has CARB certification for turbo kit for street registration in California. This was a national level autocross car at one point in its life, and at another point was even signed by Tom Matano himself.
Many upgrades/modifications throughout the car, will list below:
Remove front baby teeth
alumicore splitter/bottom plate
begi intercooler
all aluminum high capacity radiator with shroud and 2 fans
begi coolant reroute with custom egr tube
ev14 650cc fuel injectors
Toyota style Coil-On-Plugs with custom hold down bracket
iridium spark plugs
Tein monoflex coilovers 10/7kg, pillowball top mounts
racing beat hollow front antiroll bar, 949racing endlinks
slotted/crossdrilled rotors, OEM pads front, Hawk HP+ rear
autokonexion +30mm width front fenders fiberglass
XXR 526 17x9 +35 wheels
Toyo R1R 245/35R17 tires
mazda motorsports engine mounts
begi-s turbo kit with garrett GT2554 turbo
largest size oil drain fitting for turbo
oil filter sandwhich plate to provide an oil feed for the turbo
manual boost controller
electronic boost controller(not installed)
inconel turbo studs with resbond and stage 8 locking nuts
custom downpipe bracing
F1 stage 3 clutch kit
braided clutch cable eliminating loop
racing beat aluminum lightweight flywheel
short shifter with pivot point changed
3" shifter extender
delrin shifter end cup
Momo race 340mm steering wheel
50mm steering wheel spacer
Innovate MTX-L air/fuel gauge wideband
Sunpro vacuum/boost gauge
radio/speaker delete
both airbags removed with garage star plugins to eliminate dash warning light
kirkey 41700 drag race seats with red covers, drivers side bolted to floor, passenger side on OEM rails
MSPNP2 version 1(15 pin serial)
snugtop bolted in with garage star mounts(cracks in glass)
harddog Hardcore Double Diagonal rollbar with harness bar(not yet installed)
rolled and pulled rear fenders
magnaflow 332006 catalytic converter 2.50"
magnaflow 12579 muffler 3"
full boar jst140 4" exhaust tip
torsen type 2 diff with delrin bushings(not yet installed)
no rear antiroll bar
rear babyteeth removed
Asking $7000obo


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Amazon's inaugural Prime Day began as a midsummer salute to the company's 20 years in 2015 and has since grown into a gargantuan multiday mega sale to rival any other shopping extravaganza.
"Amazon Prime Day is Cyber Monday meets Black Friday meets Boxing Day in July," says Sara Skirboll, consumer expert with RetailMeNot.
This year, the "2-day parade of epic deals" officially gets underway at 3 a.m. EST Monday and runs for 48 hours. The member-exclusive online shopping event will feature a flurry of fleeting deals across most departments — electronics, home, apparel, toys and more.
The e-commerce giant's self-conceived consumer holiday pulled in an estimated $4.19 billion last year, according to Internet Retailer, an e-commerce trade group, more than double the $2 billion they bagged in 2017. That's some serious coin so expect competitors to clamor for a slice of that profitable pie with tempting sales.
"Yes, Prime Day is an Amazon-exclusive event, but competitors are eager to tap into the wallets of shoppers who are already online that day looking to spend," says Skirboll. "Last year, RetailMeNot noted 200 retailers getting in on the Prime Day action."
Target plans to lure shoppers with "Deal Days" sales on Monday and Tuesday, directly coinciding with Prime Day. They plan to offer 40% off select furniture and 30% off small appliances and cookware, as well as deals on toys, bedding, apparel and more. E-commerce rival eBay is hosting a "Crash Sale day," a snarky jab at the site issues that Amazon endured during 2018's Prime Day. Walmart plans to offer thousands of special buys online during an online sale that begins Sunday and runs through Wednesday.
Snatching the Prime Day deals does require a little prep work. Most bargains remain under wraps until they go live, ramping up consumer anticipation. Select offers are already available. Here are some hacks to help you maximize savings during the two-day mega sale. (If you're not enrolled in Prime, don't bail just yet. There are tips to help you take advantage of the bonanza of bargains sans membership.)
Be a member. You will not be able to shop Amazon's Prime Day sale without an Amazon Prime membership. To participate in Prime Day, you need to be a Prime member in good standing. If you haven't already done so, you can sign up for a free 30-day trial at amazon.com/primeday. A full-year membership is $119 annually. Shoppers with an EBT or Medicaid card can join for $5.99 a month. Students with an ".edu" email can get a free six-month Prime membership trial.
Share benefits. Join Amazon Household and share Prime benefits and digital content at no cost with members of your household. Two adults and up to four teens and four child profiles may link in a Household.
Download the Amazon app. View deals days before they go live and set alerts. You'll actually be able to "Watch" an item you may want to buy and be notified when the deal goes live. The app is probably the best tool to guarantee that you do not miss a deal.
Let Alexa do some of the legwork. Shop with your Alexa-powered device if you have one, so you can take advantage of Alexa-exclusive deals.
Prep your account. Plug in all pertinent information in advance, including billing/shipping address and payment options. Make sure your cart is empty before you shop, and clear your browser's cache to avoid any issues at checkout. Enabling 1-Click Ordering will help you instantly nab vanishing offers, though this feature isn't always available on Lightning Deals — a promotion with a limited number of discount offers
Add items to your list and/or cart before they go live. Add items you're interested in buying to your List and get notified if they go on sale. Coveted Lightning Deals will launch every five minutes, and Amazon will promote future offers before they go live. If you're tempted by an "upcoming" Lightning Deal, add it to your cart in advance. Once the deal is live, check out.
More ways to save:
Get a $10 Amazon credit when you sign into the Amazon app for the first time and another $10 Amazon credit after your first in-app purchase.
Install Amazon Assistant on your desktop to not only receive updates on items you're watching but also a coupon good for $10 off a $50 purchase.
Earn $10 bonus when you load $100 or more to your Amazon Gift Card balance for the first time.
Spend $10 or more in a single purchase at Whole Foods now through Tuesday and you'll receive a $10 credit to use on Prime Day.
Kohl's now accepts Amazon returns:
The department store chain will now pack, label and ship your Amazon returns for free.
It's a pretty simple process:
1. Begin your return with Amazon's online return center
2. Select the Kohl's dropoff option
3. Amazon will email you a QR code
4. Bring the item(s) you're returning to a participating Kohl's store and show the QR code on your smartphone to a Kohl's associate
5. You're done
For more information, visit kohls.com/feature/amazon


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We got our first snow this weekend and I just love it! It makes it feel so Christmasy. And since I've already been in full on Christmas mode making up for last year (see previous post), baking tons, watching lots of Christmas movies and listening to lots of Christmas music, it justs adds even more. The girls and I were all snuggled in our flannel pj's looking out the window at the falling snow and all the neighborhood Christmas lights (Paul, too, minus the flannel pjs). It was awesome.
In other news, it seems the girls have officially dropped to just one nap a day. I guess that's ok, because at least it's a pretty long one instead of the 20 minute naps they used to take. In addition, they've been sleeping in a little later, which is great, but then they end up staying up later, too, which is not so great. But they've been sick again (HOW do they get all these colds when they're not even in daycare? That's three since August!) so they've been waking up a few times during the night (usually within two hours of going to sleep, so it's not too bad. It's not like I'm getting up several times throughout the whole night) which contributes to their sleeping later, I think. So now instead of getting up around 7:00, they've been getting up at 8:00 or 8:30. This morning was the first morning in a year and a half or so (since before getting pregnant or at least early in the pregnancy) that I woke up fully rested. I was ready to get up and not just getting up because the babies woke up! It felt SO good!
This new routine, though, has thrown me for a loop. Their new nap time (11:00 or 12:00 to 1:00 or 2:00) overlaps their normal lunch time, so I'm trying to figure out if I should feed them lunch a little earlier and then put them down, or just feed them a late lunch and move their dinner time back a bit. I was just feeding them lunch when they got up at 1:00 or 1:30 or whenever, but the last few days they've slept in even later (8:30 today) so breakfast, nap, lunch--everything gets pushed back. Today Olivia took an extra long nap from 11:45 to 3:15 so I didn't give her lunch at all, just a bottle when she woke up, since it was so close to dinner time. I guess we'll iron it out once they get over this cold, start sleeping better at night and settle into a more consistent routine again.
Lastly, Olivia has finally pulled herself up! She's now all caught up to Kayley. Next stop: walking! Yikes!


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From Chris' Weather Center blog:
Monthly Archives: January 2018
A milder pattern develops
Good Saturday, everyone. Milder weather continues to work into the region, and it might bring some showers along for the ride. This kicks off an overall milder pattern that is likely to carry us through much of the rest of … Continue reading
A milder weekend begins
Good Friday to one and all. Milder winds are kicking in as we say goodbye to the bitterly cold pattern that we've been in for most of the winter. As temps start to climb, rain chances start to show up … Continue reading
A slow thaw ahead
Good Thursday to one and all. Temps continue to run well below normal, but that's about to change in the coming days. A slow thaw is on the way this weekend, and that is likely to kick off a milder … Continue reading
From bitter cold to a slow thaw
Good Wednesday to one and all. We are dealing with another bitterly cold day across Kentucky, but we will slowly climb out of the deep freeze later this week and the weekend. Morning temps are within a few degrees of … Continue reading
Winter storm warning
Good Tuesday, everyone. A winter storm warning is out for much of Central Kentucky through the afternoon, with a winter weather advisory out for eastern parts of the state. We might see Eastern Kentucky upgraded to a warning soon, … Continue reading
Tracking snow and bitter cold
Good Tuesday, everyone. Our arctic front continues to slowly press across the region, bringing a band of snow and bitter cold. This snow band means business, creating snow-covered roads for many Here's a breakdown: Light snow continues to press across … Continue reading
Winter weather advisory
Good Monday, everyone. We have rounds of snow moving across the region on this MLK holiday. The snows will cause slick travel, as another round of bitterly cold air presses in behind an arctic front. A Winter weather advisory is … Continue reading
Arctic front on the way
Good Sunday to one and all. Frigid temps have settled back into the bluegrass state, with another surge of bitterly cold air on the way. This air comes behind an arctic front slamming in here Monday night and Tuesday. Our … Continue reading
Winter storm moves away
Good Saturday, everyone. Our winter storm is pulling on out of town, leaving behind snow and ice covered roads to start the weekend. Frigid temps are following in behind this system, with bitterly cold air on the way in the … Continue reading
Tracking the winter storm
Good Friday to one and all. After back-to-back record highs, a winter storm is moving across Kentucky, bringing significant amounts of snow and ice. This will lead to some nasty travel conditions as the day wears on. Here's a breakdown … Continue reading


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The Chicago Sun-Times reports that following a prolonged absence from Congress for medical reasons and mushrooming legal battles, U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. may not return to his position.
Congress met Tuesday but U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was a no-show, a continued absence from his official duties that began June 10.
Several political sources close to Jackson told the Chicago Sun-Times Wednesday they no longer believe this is temporary — they do not expect Jackson to return to his position.
That's after Jackson checked in and out of Mayo Clinic for bipolar depression as well as a revelation that he is under federal investigation, attempting to negotiate a plea deal and has hired one of the highest profile attorneys in Chicago — onetime U.S. attorney Dan Webb.
Still, members of the Illinois delegation did not bring up his name Wednesday when Democrats met on the first day of a lame-duck session.
"It's hard to imagine him coming back at this point but I suppose anything's possible," said U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill). "I think that this will be coming to a head very soon, it's just my hunch as this is playing out… I'll leave it to the voters of the district to figure out how that happens. I do think this will be coming to a head soon."
Read more at the Chicago Sun-Times.


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Liverpool's university district: 6 things students should do
Hoping to study in Liverpool? Good thinking. This lively and vibrant city is brimming with things to see and do for students.
Best of all? Loads of them are within walking distance of both the University of Liverpool, and Liverpool John Moores University.
Here's our pick of the 7 best things to do in and around the uni district.
1. Get snap happy in the Georgian Quarter
The Georgian Quarter is one of the most aesthetically pleasing parts of Liverpool, and it's right on your doorstep as a student.
There's an abundance of top restaurants and plenty of elegant Georgian houses to take pictures of as part of your architectural adventure.
If you're after that Insta-perfect picture, head to the top of the Liverpool Cathedral and you'll enjoy a panoramic view of the city.
If you end up in living in popular student area Islington - at Liberty Park or Liberty Prospect Point - then you might just spot your residence too.
2. Go on a ghost tour
What's better than exploring Liverpool's Knowledge Quarter by day? Exploring it by night, of course!
Shiverpool's Historic Ghost Tours are award-winning, taking place year-round on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays - but they're especially fun on Halloween.
Learn about the horrors and history of Hope Street, before heading home satisfyingly spooked.
3. Celebrate New Year in Chinatown
Chinatown is super close to the university district, and it's a great place to find some authentic food to eat.
Chinese New Year 2019 takes place in February, and the celebrations are out of this world. Trust us; you won't want to miss out - it's a treat for the senses, and your social media accounts.
The Chinatown Gate is just a nine-minute walk from Liverpool John Moores University, beyond which you'll find some great Chinese restaurants.
If you stay at Liberty Atlantic Point, you'll be able to reach Chinatown in just 12 minutes by hopping on bus from Juvenal Street.
4. Drink cocktails in a secret bar
The thrill of being invited to something exclusive is hard to beat.
At speakeasy-style bar 81LTD on Seel Street, you can text a secret number to book an appointment to be granted access to the bar, where you'll be asked for a code word before entry.
It's a little fancy, but that's perfect if you're celebrating a special occasion.
Better yet, the bar is less than 15 minutes' walk from both universities, wedged between the Knowledge Quarter and Ropewalks.
5. Go to the Electrik Warehouse
Good news – legendary club, Krazyhouse has been revitalised and reopened as Electrik Warehouse.
Be sure to head on down and don't miss the student night 'Medication' on Friday nights.
The club is just east of the University of Liverpool, towards the city centre - or just a 13-minute walk from Liberty Gardens.
6. Watch a play at Everyman Theatre
At the Everyman Theatre in the Georgian Quarter, you can benefit from super-cheap tickets to a range of new and classic plays.
Anyone aged between 14 and 25, in addition to LJMU students, can save even more with the YEP membership, meaning you'll have access to £5 tickets and 10% off food and drink.
If you live at Liberty Park during your student days, you'll be just a 14-minute walk away from the theatre. Get in!
Looking for student accommodation in Liverpool? Find out more about Liberty Living's 4 residences here.
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Management consultant and film producer Robert Croucher of Hawthorn Road, Crouch End has been jailed for 20 weeks for kicking an Uber driver outside exclusive private members' club Raffles in Chelsea.
In sentencing, magistrate Sandra Blandford told him, "You kicked Mr Mohammad Hussein a number of times while he was on the floor, and one of those kicks was to the head."
Mr Croucher, who is Managing Director of business consultants Hatton & Berkeley and Executive Producer of Them & Us Films, told the court, "This will destroy my life, I am the director of a company, and everyone would lose their jobs."
Croucher, 35, attacked Mr Hussein when he refused to drive he and his partner home.
The driver said, "A lady got into the cab, a man threw his bag in. I refused because I got scared because the gentlemen suddenly got angry, something happened between them and he harshly slammed the door. I got out to open the door, and then the gentlemen took the keys from through the window. He then slapped me. I was begging for my keys and he suddenly pushed me on the pavement. He kicked me in several parts of my body and head. I went to hospital where I stayed for four hours."
Magistrates were shown footage of the incident recorded by a member of staff at Raffles. Croucher admitted assault by beating, but denied kicking Mr Hussain.


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Day 5 of 24 days to XMAS and this is concentrated wisdom at its best. These interviews are your all time favorites (in no particular order). Enjoy diving in again and checking Imaging from all over the world, from the US to Oz, Russia to Malaysia, Canada to the UAE and of course from Germany […]
Posts Tagged 'oz'
24 Days Of Xmas – Day 5: The Top 10 Interviews of all time !Posted: 5th December 2018 by benztownbranding in Interviews
Tags: 89.0 RTL, Abu Dhabi Media Group, Albert To, ashley bard, Australia, Benni Wellmann, benztown, benztownimaging, benztownradio, Capital FM, capital tv, capital xtra, chris davis, chris longman, dan hill, Dan Hunt, Dom Nero, ed rummins, europa plus, Halle, Hot 97, imaging, iron imager, Jaxson McLennan, John Masecar, KIIS, KiSS 92.5, Melissa Alger, Miami, Mike Santos, oz, Radio, radio 1, Radio 2, radioimaging, REVOLUTION, Rhys Messenger, richard boffin, RTL, sam wickens, sergey zelentsov, Skinny D, UA, Vish B
Andy's Fiver Friday #127 – POWAIRful Dynamics, Goodbye to Science's Brightest Star and See You at Radiodays in Vienna!Posted: 16th March 2018 by benztownbranding in Uncategorized
Tags: 2018, Benztown Radio, compressor, hotac, imaging, Layering, Legend, Mix, Music, oz, plugIN, Radio, Radiodays Europe, RIP, Samples, speaker, speakers, speech, turbulence, Vipology
Finally got back to the office this week in great anticipation of Radiodays in Vienna next week – as to celebrating another Golden Era of Radio! See you guys there!!!
How to launch a brand new Morning Show in Sydney and move houses the same time – Enter Darcy Milne!Posted: 23rd January 2015 by benztownbranding in General
Tags: 2day FM, 2dayFM, Austereo, benztown, benztownbranding, benztownradio, Dan & Maz, Darcy Milne, Hit 104.1, KIIS, oz, radio imaging, radio production, southerncross, Sydney
Darcy reached out to me a few weeks ago as my good mate Konsky put him into my direction. We started the convo and it turns out, that he is the new Chris Davis, which means he is the new morning show Imaging guy for 2dayFM in Sydney. He has worked along side Chris and Konsky […]
Get an Imaging Superstar or The Nic Kelly Files!Posted: 23rd May 2011 by benztownbranding in General
Tags: Adobe, adobe audition, adobe audition beatmixing, Australia, beatmatch, beatmatching, beatmix, Beatmixing, Mike Santos, Nic Kelly, oz
Nic Kelly from Oz. Right, there was this 15 year old self marketing imaging genius. In my opinion, Nic is one of the guys, who will rock the imaging scene in the future. I know no guy having his age, who has the same skill set and industry connections. There are great imaging guys, who […]
An Imaging Legend, a VO Artist and the craziest TV AD ever – Meet the one and only MMMs Sidey!Posted: 20th April 2011 by benztownbranding in General, Interviews
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The Special NIA court here Thursday adjourned the hearing in the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case to March 18 due to an ongoing strike by local lawyers.
Special Judge Jagdeep Singh deferred the hearing because of the strike, NIA counsel Rajan Malhotra said. "We were not allowed to enter the court complex by the protesting advocates," said Malhotra, adding the matter was adjourned to March 18.
The NIA was expected to file a response in the case to an application seeking permission to allow deposition of Pakistani witnesses in the trial.
Local lawyers went on an indefinite strike on March 12 in protest against a judicial officier's alleged misbehaviour with an advocate. The lawyer or the protest is not connected to the Samjhauta blast case.
READ | Samjhauta case order delayed, daughter of Pakistani victim wants to come and depose
The special NIA court on March 11 had deferred its verdict in the case to Thursday after one Rahila Wakil, the daughter of blast victim and Pakistani national Muhammad Wakil, moved an application under Section 311 CrPC. In the application, she claimed that no proper summons were sent to 13 Pakistani witnesses. Taking her plea on record, the court had issued a notice to NIA seeking its response.
The blast in Samjhauta Express near Panipat on February 18, 2007, had ripped apart two coaches, killing 68 people, including 43 Pakistani nationals.
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Archive for October 2013
Youth Group
Youth Group for high school age teens meets twice a month on Mondays, from 7pm to 8:30pm. All high school youth are welcome! Next meeting is November 4. We meet in the Church Hall for pizza, prayer and fun! For more information, please click here or pickup a flyer at the entrances of the church.Read More
For 27 years, HomeFront has been porviding free home repair assistance to neighbors in need. Applications for the May 2014 repair season must be received by November 15, 2013. Contact HomeFront at 1-800-887-HOPE(4673) or www.homefrontprogram.org for further information.Read More
Volunteers Needed!
St. Joseph's Center (Manor) welcomes day time volunteers. We need assistance with transporting residents to various in-house appointments and activities. If you have some extra time and are looking for volunteer work, please call the Coordinator of Volunteer Services, Sharon Lockshier, at 203-220-2823, Tuesday—Thursday, 8 am until 4 pm.Read More
Veteran's Day Mass
The Fourth Annual Veterans' Day Mass and Ceremony will take place at St. Margaret Shrine, 2539 Park Avenue, Bridgeport, on Monday, November 11, beginning at 8:15 am.Read More
Day of Prayer on Friday, Nov. 1st
Friday, November 1 is All Saints Day, and is a Holy Day of obligation. Our Mass is at 7:30 am. Friday is also the First Friday of the Month and is a Day of Prayer in the parish. The Blessed Sacra- ment will be in exposition after the 7:30am Mass until 12noon. Please consider spending…Read More
Stop by St. Anthony's on Halloween
Dear Parishioners, Last year at this time, we were days away from Hurricane Sandy wreaking havoc along the Eastern coast. Power outages. Flooding. Destruction of homes and property. A year later and most have been able to rebuild and move on. You might remember, too, that she also wiped the celebration of Halloween off the…Read More
Nother brick in the wall!
Dear Parishioners, Remember Pink Floyd's The Wall? The album came out in 1979 and was in everyone's record collection (hey, remember records?) within a year. I guess you could say it's a concept album that makes a sociopolitical statement about war and violence in the world. During live concerts of The Wall, the stage crew…Read More
Holy Family Retreat Center Nov. 1-3
Holy Family Retreat Centerwill hold a retreat for men on November 1-3. For more information, please visit www.holyfamilyretreat.org or phone 860-760-9705.Read More
New Paradigm Theatre Group Performs Oct. 26th
Our New Paradigm Theatre friends are back! Join us on Saturday, October 26, at 7pm for dinner and a show in the parish hall when the NPT will present….. Hooray for Hollywood! The New Paradigm Theatre is a non-profit group of professional Broadway actors who raise funds for other non-profit groups. The beneficiary of this performance…Read More
New Blue of Yale to Perform on Oct. 27th
The St. Anthony Music Series begins the season by hosting, The New Blue of Yale. Founded in 1969, the same year Yale University first admitted undergraduate women, this a cappella group is the oldest women's organization of of any kind on the campus. They have toured the country and the world, producing 6 CDs to…Read More
Blood Pressure Screening
Parish nurses will be available to check blood pressure this weekend after the 6pm Mass on Saturday and the 8am and10am Mass on Sunday. Stop into the sacristy on the left side of the front of the church and take advantage of this painless and possibly life-saving measure.Read More
Catholic School Open Houses
Open House—for several schools in the area: St. Thomas Kindergarten and Pre-K Open House St Thomas Aquinas School, Fairfield on Sunday Oct. 20, 10am to 12noon Notre Dame High School, Fairfield On Sunday, Oct 20, 2:30pm Convent of the Sacred Heart, Greenwich Upper School (9-12) Wednesday, Oct. 23, 6:30pm All grades (k-12) Saturday, Nov. 2,…Read More


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K.C. Cole is one of the better science writers – who is surely choosing better sources for her texts than almost all other writers about physics – and she just published a new text in the Quanta Magazine:
The Simple Idea Behind Einstein's Greatest DiscoveriesThe title is friendly towards symmetries, as you can see, and many parts of her text try to suggest details about the importance of symmetry in the 20th and 21st century physics. The subtitle is unfriendly, however:
Lurking behind Einstein's theory of gravity and our modern understanding of particle physics is the deceptively simple idea of symmetry. But physicists are beginning to question whether focusing on symmetry is still as productive as it once was.I concluded that the real intended story is that the symmetries are no longer considered as fundamental as they used to be. And I think that such a statement would be correct – although this transition wasn't really taking place in 2019 but rather in the 1990s or 1980s. However, I don't think that the body of Cole's article actually contains evidence that a rational reader could consider a justification of her subtitle.
OK, her article touches many topics related to symmetries: special relativity and the Lorentz invariance, beauty of equations according to Dirac, general relativity and its vaguely suggested connection with symmetries, Emmy Noether, global symmetries vs gauge symmetries, gauge symmetries' being redundancies, spontaneously broken symmetry as a non-symmetry of solutions when the equations are symmetric, and many other topics.
But each of these topics is sketched or mentioned so superficially (and she jumps from one topic to another so quickly) that I find it inconceivable that someone could actually understand any of these insights, even partially, after having read the article. To be more precise, I haven't been persuaded that the writer actually understands any of these things herself. Like how the Lorentz symmetry acts in special relativity. Or what the spontaneous symmetry breaking does in physics.
Or what Emmy Noether is actually famous for. Cole seems to promote partly wrong statements, such as that Noether has linked the energy conservation in GR to the symmetry exchanging reference frames. Well, the relevant symmetry transformation related to the energy conservation law is a time translation, not really something that we consider "switching between reference frames". On top of that, these coordinate-changing symmetries are just redundancies (local symmetries) in GR, so there's no general [total] energy conservation law in generic spacetimes of GR! So the sentence seems to be defective at so many levels that I concluded that it can't be a bunch of coincidences. The writer must really fail to understand how it works.
Despite this big uncertainty about the understanding of anything by the writer, the writer nevertheless feels confident enough to present the far-reaching conclusions such as "the symmetry isn't as productive as it used to be". Is that statement right, a rational reader must ask? Can the communication of such feelings – and they're really feelings, not conclusions of any rational analysis – be helpful to direct readers' searching for his own understanding? I just doubt it.
Does it make sense for a youngster interested in physics to read articles about symmetry that are written by someone who doesn't actually understand any of the stuff at a level recognizable to the experts? My answer is No.
In the past, good popular writing about science was sort of analogous to textbooks that actually try to train someone so that he really understands the stuff and may become a professional. Popular books – e.g. Martin Gardner's books about relativity – were more playful, slower, using some stories, but the basic goal was the same as the goal of the textbooks.
I think it is no longer the case. Articles such as Cole's don't actually want to teach anything to anybody and they can't even persuade the experts that the writer actually understands what she is writing about. Articles such as Cole's are communicating some feelings and some predetermined, intrinsically political conclusions that the readers are expected to parrot. The reader should simply take it as a fact – because it's written by a person widely called a "science writer" – that symmetry used to be very productive but it is no longer the case. It's too bad because it has very little to do with science and the scientific method of changing collective or individual opinions about anything. The word "science" is just being stolen for something that is no longer "science".
OK, where are the places of the body that show that practitioners no longer consider symmetry productive? Here is the first one, I think:
There has been, in particle physics, this prejudice that symmetry is at the root of our description of nature.Right. I would agree with Justin Khoury. It's been a pillar of some faith, some armchair physicists still look at the things in this way, and real experts generally believe that this complete obsession with symmetries is wrong today. And Khoury has used a relatively hostile word "prejudice" for what used to be the status quo.
Well, it may have been a prejudice. But you could also call it a "lore". I think that Khoury wouldn't protest if the word "lore" had been used instead of "prejudice". It doesn't really make any difference for a physicist – but for journalists like K.C. Cole who are obsessed with feelings, the difference between "prejudice" and "lore" could be substantial. The special relativity is built from the Poincaré symmetry, GR is built from the diffeomorphism symmetry, the Standard Model may be built from the \(SU(3)\times SU(2)\times U(1)\) gauge symmetry, and so on. That was a picture of the past – a reason why physicists tended to consider the symmetry primary.
We no longer see it in this way – because symmetries may be emergent, accidental, flexible, appearing, disappearing, and gauge symmetries aren't real physical symmetries because they're redundancies that depend on the chosen description of physics – but Cole hasn't really explained why. She doesn't really explain why the gauge symmetry is just a redundancy. She doesn't explain how the descriptions with different gauge symmetries may be dual to each other, how they may be gauge-fixed or deformed to each other on the moduli space, and so on. So the reader is just expected to mindlessly copy, without any real evidence, the opinion of K.C. Cole that "symmetry is no longer as productive as it used to be" although there is no real justification of that assertion in the article. If we don't count some negatively sounding words without sentences, such as "prejudice" in someone's quote, and indeed, we shouldn't pay attention to those.
That's bad. Whether the reader understands one thing or another about symmetry has some limited importance but there is something more important at stake. For a reader to be scientifically literate, he just shouldn't accept assertions that aren't justified by any evidence. This kind of "skepticism" or "caution" is an essential prerequisite for the scientific thinking about anything. And this article is an example where the principle fails. If the reader behaves rationally, the article won't really move him by a micron. It's a useless article. A necessary condition for the article to actually move someone's ideas somewhere is that he blindly believes what he reads. And that's a deviation from the scientific discourse that is much more devastating than a misunderstanding of one technicality involving the notion of symmetry or another.
Well, there are two more segments in the article that could be claimed to be "the evidence that the importance of symmetry has dropped":
Over the past several decades, some physicists have begun to question whether focusing on symmetry is still as productive as it used to be. New particles predicted by theories based on symmetries haven't appeared in experiments as hoped, and the Higgs boson that was detected was far too light to fit into any known symmetrical scheme. Symmetry hasn't yet helped to explain why gravity is so weak, why the vacuum energy is so small, or why dark matter remains transparent.The only problem is that these assertions are mostly wrong. The new particles haven't shown up in experiments so far and there has never been any universally enough accepted prediction of a whole framework – as opposed to particular competing models that make lots of assumptions – that some new particles should have shown up by now. All the predictions assuming naturalness are probabilistic predictions that have never guaranteed and could never guarantee the discovery of anything. Supersymmetric particles remain the most well-motivated possible particles in new physics.
At the same time, symmetry-based reasoning predicted a slew of things that haven't shown up in any experiments, including the "supersymmetric" particles that could have served as the cosmos's missing dark matter and explained why gravity is so weak compared to electromagnetism and all the other forces.
Nothing has qualitatively changed. It has always been known that supersymmetry and perhaps other symmetries relating the Higgs boson to something else etc. have to be broken. And all these qualitative things remain true and promising possibilities. In particular, it's comparably likely to the probability of the 1990s that the weakness of gravity or the smallness of the cosmological constant has an explanation in which symmetries play an important role. The lightness or stability of the dark matter probably depends on some new symmetry, too. These possibilities have not been ruled out or falsified, at least not if one uses the scientific definitions of these verbs.
Symmetries still play many roles in all of that – and they unavoidably appear in newly proposed explanations of observations in physics. Supersymmetry is a symmetry, or a Grassmannian generalization of Lie algebras. Also, symmetries surely do explain why dark matter is transparent, whatever it is. Dark matter is dark because it doesn't interact with the electromagnetic field and it doesn't interact with the electromagnetic field because its pieces are electrically neutral – i.e. invariant under the electromagnetic \(U(1)\) symmetry transformations! K.C. Cole is basically saying that the notion of symmetry is being expelled from the reasoning about all these questions but it's obviously complete nonsense. It will never be expelled because these are settled connections and explanations and the symmetry will never lose its role in those explanations. The only thing that is happening is that there may be a deeper explanation of these known things where the symmetries aren't among the most fundamental concepts.
The statement that "symmetries don't explain why dark matter is transparent" is either wrong or vacuous and no real expert would make such a statement. (I just picked an example but the same criticism applies to many other propositions in Cole's article.) But in the genre such as K.C. Cole's article, it's just fine to write such wrong statements because the political spirit is consistent with the main message she wants to convey. She wants to convey the view that symmetry has deteriorated in recent years or decades – which is really a feeling, not a fact – and she thinks that given this goal, anything "negative" may be or should be written about symmetries. Whether the statements are actually correct doesn't have to be verified.
So she isn't really teaching any physics – the primary reason is that she probably doesn't understand any. But even if I remain slightly uncertain about this proposition, there are just way too many hints in the article that it's a material written by and for "humanities" types, for people interested in feelings, grievances, entitlements, and identity politics, not for the "natural science" types who care about equations, experiments, mathematical proofs, and facts.
What are the signs that this belongs to the "humanities" genre? One of the traits that are innocent but they drive me up the wall is the permanent attribution of some elementary statements to physicists. So she has communicated with five main physicists: Stephon Alexander, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Mark Trodden, Justin Khoury, and David Kaiser (a part-time historian). Sorry if I overlooked someone.
In her article, you find 4 quotes of the type "Alexander said this or that". "Trodden said this or that" about 5 times, "Dijkgraaf said this or that" 4 times, "Khoury said something" 3 times, and "Kaiser said something" 6 times. That's 22 similar quotes in total. You know, people may have different opinions but most of science just isn't about some idiosyncratic opinions. Physics is an objective natural science. And most of the stuff she talks about really is some physics that has been settled for 50 years – and in very many cases, over 100 years.
Most of the 22 quotes end up being similar to
"If that weren't the case [the Cosmos is uniform at cosmological scales, a manifestation of a symmetry], cosmology would be a big mess," Khoury said.Do you understand why I am angry about that? It just doesn't matter at all that it was Khoury who said it. Every competent cosmologist could say – and has said – a sentence that is nearly equivalent. If the Universe were inhomogeneous at the cosmological scales, we couldn't design neat FRW Ansätze for the cosmological evolution and we would have to study "where we exactly live" because the phenomena we observe around the Solar System would heavily depend on our special place in the Universe. Are we close to some "center of the Universe" or far from it? Those things would matter. But there's no real "center of the real Universe" where we live so cosmology may avoid these questions and the research of cosmology is cleaner. We may study the whole Universe by observations made from the Earth and we may extrapolate most of the conclusions to the whole Universe, too. Thank God.
Khoury knows it. But I assure you that Dijkgraaf, Alexander, Trodden, your humble correspondent, maybe Kaiser, and everyone else who got a well-deserved good grade in a cosmology graduate course knows these things, too. The first problem with the attribution is that lots of laymen who read Cole's article will conclude e.g. that Justin Khoury is the guy who discovered that the Universe was uniform, or that the uniformity was important, or that it was related to symmetries. Just to be sure, he didn't discover either. To make things worse, I haven't even been persuaded that Cole herself understands that Khoury didn't discover either!
But there's a more general problem resulting from the attribution. It's about the spirit of science.
You know, technically, it may be right that Khoury said this or that, Trodden said this or that, Dijkgraaf said this or that, and Alexander said this or that. But by making these assertions that are attributed to somebody, K.C. Cole implicitly also says something else, namely that it matters who said it. But this implicit assertion is completely incorrect. In science, it doesn't matter who made one proposition or another. In physics, black lives don't matter and white lives don't matter, either. Also, men don't matter. Let alone women. Natural science isn't about humans or personal opinions. It's about objective evidence that is accessible to everybody with a sufficient intelligence, integrity, attention, background, and patience. It's just not true that everything is personal. The number of correct theories of relativity or the correct interpretations of quantum mechanics is fewer than 26, the number of genders. The only thing that is equal to the number of genders is the spacetime dimension of bosonic string theory. ;-) Even the number of genders is really lower than those people assume but I don't want to make my text controversial by suggesting that there exist men and women! ;-)
So she doesn't really explain any of the points about the importance of symmetries – or the decline of that importance – at least not quite correctly. But she does explain something that surely affects many readers. And the influence is harmful. She conveys the totally wrong lesson that it matters who made a proposition in physics. She is helping to brainwash the readers into thinking – or failing to think – in analogy with the brain-insufficient practitioners of the humanities. People who want to mindlessly parrot and who are just choosing their allies in an ad hominem way, to share the grievances with them. People who don't give a damn about evidence, logical arguments, equations, or observations. At most, they say that they care about the evidence etc., because it "sounds nice", but they're lying because in practice, they are using something completely different to decide what they should root for etc.
That's why I think that the net effect of articles such as this K.C. Cole's text is negative and because K.C. Cole's article is still one of the best popular texts about physics that are appearing in (almost) mass media these days, it seems obvious that the net contribution of the science writers as an occupation to mankind's scientific literacy is unquestionably negative. They're really helping mankind to evolve towards Idiocracy. Maybe some other journalists are even more harmful but that doesn't imply that the current science journalists have a positive sign.
You might suggest that there's a simple "legitimate" explanation why she attributes mostly elementary statements to the 5 physicists 22 times. She isn't a real authority. So it's right for her to "report what the authorities say" which is why the statements are more authoritative once the physicists endorsing them are named. But if that's so, I would like to know the name of the physicist who has recommended the far-reaching and controversial summary in the subtitle, or any of the wrong statements such as "symmetry hasn't helped to explain why dark matter is transparent". It seems she is making the text look more authoritative by attributing some (sensible) statements to physicists, but the most important statements are wrong, unattributed, and the reader is supposed to overlook it.
This mess is unavoidable in the "humanities" type of science journalism. You know, if one writes good popular science, one doesn't need to refer to the authorities. It's just good, the smart readers see it, and some experts who read the popular stuff will see it, too. Martin Gardner – to continue with an example I mentioned above – was primarily keen on recreational mathematics. He was no professional physics researcher, ever. But he just understood special relativity well. He wrote popular books about it where he didn't need to refer to "authoritative" sources because the real authority came from the arguments that made sense because he actually understood the stuff.
These days, journalists and popular writers generally understand nothing and their writing doesn't make much sense beyond the universal templates that they have learned in their journalism courses which is why they have to build on obnoxious appeals to authorities and why their texts unavoidably end up being misleading political tirades. Many of them openly disagree with the thesis that science is about the evidence, about the arguments' making sense, not about authorities (many people claiming to be science journalists are even willing to support insane clichés about the formidable 97% consensus and similar things). That's a simple way to see that the ideas and especially the methodologies they are trying to spread have very little to do with science. They're mostly abusing the word because it has earned quite some capital and they find it useful to be parasites on the good name of science. But the capital wasn't earned by these journalists or their type of "work" at all.


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You may have seen an article on here earlier in the year celebrating the opening of affordable homes provided by Rentplus in Plympton.
On Friday, I joined Tamar Housing and Rentplus in Sparkwell where they launched a new development of rent to buy homes for more first time buyers.
The official opening at Blacklands Close at Fairway Gardens, is on part of the former Welbeck Manor Sparkwell Golf Course, and developed by Blue Cedar Homes in partnership with Classic Builders.
Steve Collins, Chief Executive of Rentplus, said: "Our latest development in the South Hams in partnership with Tamar Housing, Sparkwell Parish and South Hams District Councils, underlines the local need for affordable homes in Plymouth and across the South West region," he said.
The new homes comprise a mix of properties, and marks Rentplus' second scheme in the South Hams. This latest development is part of our ambitious plans in delivering our unique housing model of over 5000 affordable homes across the country by 2020, said Mr Collins.
Eleven, of the twenty-three new properties in Sparkwell are affordable homes that includes houses and bungalows and 12 private sale homes.
The first Tamar Housing residents have been given their keys with the first Rentplus homes due to be occupied later this month, said Mr Collins.
25-year-old, single Mum Jessica Collins and her 4-month old baby are one of the first residents to move into Fairway Gardens.
Miss Collins said: "I was born and brought up in the area and very excited that I'm getting the chance to rent in my own affordable home, and this is a dream come true - and I still can't believe it," she said.
I was thrilled to attend the latest Rentplus and Tamar Housing development in Sparkwell that is spacious and beautiful. These affordable homes are giving young people the chance to live in communities they have grown up in. The sooner the Rentplus model is rolled out throughout the UK, the better for the coming generation.


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Impulse Pictures is proud to present THE NIKKATSU FILMS COLLECTION, a continuing series of critically acclaimed, classic "eroductions" designed to shock and titillate fans of Japanese erotic cinema.
Darling young Miki's marital happiness is shattered when her honeymoon is interrupted by a couple of ruffians who assault her husband and violate her. So embarrassed by this, Miki's husband forces her to leave and never come back. Now feeling lost and suicidal, Miki encounters Priest Xavier, who convinces her to come with him and be taken under the wing of his flock of nuns, led by Sister Maria. But as Miki settles in, she soon learns that things aren't as they first appeared… These nuns are part of a secret club for local sinners – a bacchanal where Miki, as the new girl, is to be sold off to the highest bidder who can then do whatever he wants with her. Miki's love interest sees this as it happens – but will he be able to save her? Following in the genre of nunsploitation Nikkatsu explored to equal panache in NUN STORY: FRUSTRATION IN BLACK, NUN'S DIARY: CONFESSION will leave its mark!
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Dear Parents/Guardians/Teachers,
Our first day of PCLS went pretty well, considering how many new and returning students registered and made class changes that Sunday. The teachers, students, and parents have shared positive feedback regarding the start of this school year. Thank you for all your help and cooperation!! Most of the staff will be in the cafeteria (campus center) this Sunday if you need help with anything.
As a reminder, language class is 2:30-4:15, with a 5 minute break in between. Culture class is 4:20-5:00. Particularly for new and younger students, it is helpful if parents can walk their children from the language class to the culture class at 4:15. Also, if your child needs to leave school during the class, please inform the teacher or TA.
Due to the limited classroom seating (16-18 seats in most rooms) and some big classes with 20 students and above, we need to make the following classroom changes this week. This is not finalized yet as registration and class trials are still ongoing. We'll keep parents informed on the weekly newsletter. However, the teachers and the staff are making decisions in the best interest of our students. We apologize for any inconvenience these changes may cause and really appreciate your understanding.
Language Classroom change:
Adults Class => #224
Traditional 2 => #202
Culture Classroom Change:
Chinese Brush Painting => #205
Painting and Drawing => #224
Beginner Chess => #232
Basketball => Lower Level Mathey Gym
Yo-Yo => Main Level Basketball gym. In the event that the Main Level Basketball gym becomes unavailable, it will take place in Gymateria.
Messages from the Academic Director, Molly Yang:
* During the first few weeks of Chinese school, parents may help their younger children with homework. If parents want to switch their children to a different class, please talk to the Academic Director first. The last day for language class switching is 9/23.
* Taiwanese Conversation Class (台語課)
$80 per person, $120 per family
30 Sessions, 9/10/18 – 5/12/19 (No class 2/3/19 Chinese New Year)
Sunday 1:45 – 2:25 pm (40 mins) in room 224
Instructor: Yachuan Chuo 卓雅娟老師 (email@example.com)
To enroll:
* We are happy to announce that the combined class is back to two classes: CSL8 will be taught by Mrs. Potter. Traditional 8 will be taught by Ms. Yu. Mrs. Potter taught CSL7 last year; she is dedicated, passionate, and engaging. Ms. Yu is our prior Academic Director with years of teaching experience.
Messages from the Culture Director, Ya-ping Su:
This Sunday 9/16 is the last day for students who want to switch culture classes to do so. However, changes need to be approved by the Culture Director first. Most of the culture classes are not accepting new students except the following with very few spots left: Craft, Er-Hu, Calligraphy, Homework Club, Basketball, Painting and Drawing, Yoga, Chinese Brush Painting and Chinese Yo-Yo.
If your child is enrolled in Chinese Knotting, Chinese Brush Painting or Crafts, and you have not paid the $20 material fee yet, please bring an envelope labeled with your child's name with a $20 check (payable to PCLS) to class this week. Material fees are non-refundable. It is imperative that this fee is collected so the teachers can provide the needed materials.
For those that are new to Yo-Yo, you may purchase a taibolo from www.taibolo-usa.com. We are also looking for YoYo donations. If you would like to donate, please bring Yo-Yo(s) to the YoYo class location. There will be a parent (Stella Tsai) there accepting donations.
Messages from Princeton Day School:
Please be sure to follow PDS regulations regarding parking. $200 tickets will be given to anyone failing to observe the regulations. Please respect the law and park only in authorized locations.
No running inside the school: please be sure to tell your child(ren) to walk in the school. PDS has asked us not to run in the facility to prevent any injuries.
Doors and Windows: please remember to close all windows when the class is over. Please do not open the entrance doors to the outside in the lower gym area.
*** IMPORTANT: food may be consumed ONLY in the Campus Center (cafeteria) so that spills are confined to the tile floor in the Cafeteria. PDS has two renovated areas and they are quite strict about this policy. ***
Messages from the PTA, Shao-Ching Cheng:
If you have not signed up for parent duties, there are still a few slots available. Please use the following link: https://www.signupgenius.com/
If anyone is interested and the weather cooperates, there will be pickup Ga-Ga games in the PDS playground area Ga-Ga pit (the octagonal structure between the basketball court and the soccer field) from 5:00 to 5:30 pm.
Parents need to stay with their child(ren) if they want to play in the playground after school.
3 Food Vendors this week:
* 2:00 台灣小吃 (Taiwanese snack and bento box)
* 2:00 Stella's bubble tea AND sweet soup (銀耳蓮子湯 & 紅豆湯), Mochi (麻糬)、taro cake (芋頭糕)
* 3:00-4:30 阿忠滷味 (Master Huang) from Flushing will provide tasty braised dishes for PCLS families. Please pick up your pre-order and pay cash by 4:30.
Remember!! Support our food vendors as a portion of their proceeds are given back to the school.
Justine Hsieh 謝嘉文
Princeton Chinese Language School, Principal


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So before I went away, I prepared a few things to sew in case my insomnia kicks in. I normally have the internet to kill off my brain cells, but alas it has to stay home. Anyway, here's what I hope to have made up by the time I get home!
Panda Series Keychains - these seem really popular!
Rainbow Plush! I love this, and lots of you do too!
Yes, doesn't seem a lot actually. But it's the little things that help out a lot, especially when it comes to backstocking items!


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Official Rules of Fort Greene Park
Dogs are allowed off-leash in Fort Greene Park from 9:00 pm until 9:00 am. Please take responsibility for your dog's actions, by
Picking up after your dog. It is the law ($1,000 fine for violation) and it's also just plain considerate!
Leashing your dog between the hours of 9:00 am and 9:00 pm. There is a $100 fine for violation of this law, which is in effect year-round.
Not letting your dog play in the tennis courts. Dog nails scratch the surface
Not letting them dig holes. Holes create a nasty trip hazard. If it happens, please try to fill it
Remaining near your dog when off-leash
Do not allow your dog off-leash unless you have trained it to recall.
Please (gently) let someone know if their dog has pooped and they did not see it. Dogs generally make one poop per park visit. Please pay attention!
Don't throw a ball for your dog across paths, especially on weekdays when people are walking to work
Rotate the areas in which you let your dog play off-leash. The park lawns are fragile and we can help by rotating our dogs to less stressed areas of the park
Be attentive with your unneutered dog. Some unneutered males are aggressive, or provoke aggression in other dogs. Females in heat should not be brought into the park, even leashed.
What To Do During a Dog Fight
First, be sure it was a fight. Dogs are not people, and they communicate differently. If a dog rushes your dog or barks at it, but does not bite it, it is not a fight. Your best bet would be to avoid each other in the park.
That said, dog fights happen. Always pay close attention to your dog when it is off-leash in case there is an aggression incident. But also be mindful there is always assumed risk when entering any off-leash area.
If there is an issue or a fight, once the animals are separated, treat the occurrence like an auto accident.
Was any person or animal hurt? Determine if an emergency veterinary or hospital visit is needed. The two closest emergency veterinary clinics are Blue Pearl (718 596-0099) and VERG (718 522-9400). The Brooklyn Hospital Center is the closest hospital (adjacent to the park)
Get documentation. Get the dog owner's name and number; dog license and rabies tag numbers (both required by NYC Board of Health); and pictures, especially if an owner does not want to give information.
Note the facts. Was it harmless play turned aggressive, or did one dog attack another for no apparent reason? (Remember it might not be apparent to you, but it may have been to the dogs.) Observe dog control methods. Was the owner paying attention? How did the owner handle their dog?
What was the situation? Was one dog on a leash? Dogs on leashes should be respected, otherwise they would not be on a leash. A common situation is for off-leash animals to provoke leashed animals for fun, then the leashed dog responds aggressively. Pay attention and show respect for leashed dogs during off-leash hours.
Once the situation settles down, if it is unclear which dog was the aggressor, leash both dogs as quickly as possible. If a bite has already occurred, exchange the required NYC Board of Health license and rabies tag documentation, plus name and contact information.
Please note that neither PUPS nor the park director has law enforcement authority and therefore, do not intervene, investigate, or otherwise get involved in these matters. It is advised that dog owners work things out between themselves.
If you still want to report an aggressive animal, you can file a report with the NYPD or the city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which will work in coordination with the NYCACC.


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Since we're about a month out from Halloween, I thought I'd make it a little easier to incorporate some wonderful fictional dishes into your holiday fare. Additional suggestions are more than welcome! Snacks Meatrolls – Pumpkin Pasties … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Fictional Beverages
I've got a list going of various fictional beverages. Most of these are drinks I'll definitely try out sooner or later; I'm trying to focus mostly on books (sorry, no Romulan Ale!), and would love your suggestions, if I've left out any awesome drinks!
The List:
Blue Milk, from Star Wars
Islington's Wine & Serpentine's Restorative, from Gaiman's Neverwhere
Wonka's Buttercup Tea
Dickens' Christmas Punch
Other Mother's Hot Chocolate, from Coraline
Anne of Green Gables: Currant Wine, Raspberry Cordial
Chocolatl, from the Golden Compass
Fleegix, from Alan Mendolsohn, Boy from Mars
Harry Potter: Pumpkin Juice, Nettle Wine, Firewhiskey, Gillywater
Ent-draught, from LotR
Alice's Potions for Growing and Shrinking
Pan Galactic Gargleblaster
Austershalin Brandy, from Gentlemen Bastards series
Klah, from the Dragonrider series
Ambrosia, from Battlestar Galactica
Grog, from Monkey Island
Blackbriar Mead from Skyrim
Pumpkin Pasties – Harry Potter
"Anything from the cart, dearies?" –Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by JK Rowling Thoughts: I had a pretty clear idea of what my version of Pumpkin Pasties should be. And now that it's autumn, there was simply no resisting … Continue reading
Shortbread Gears
Thoughts: I saw this cookie press over the summer, and just couldn't resist. These finished shortbread rounds, despite being a very crumbly dough, come out moist and wonderful. I am partial to cardamom, but you can tweak them with whatever … Continue reading
A Flight of Sorrows
For those of you biding your time until the next season of Game of Thrones, I've got a great snack to help keep your appetite whetted. It's a collection of essays revolving around A Song of Ice and Fire, … Continue reading
Fictional Brewing!
In honor of a successful move to a new apartment, and the unpacking of the kitchen, I'm set to brew again! In addition to brewing something from Game of Thrones, I'd love to explore more boozy goodness from other … Continue reading
Lamb Stew with Dried Plums – The Hunger Games
"Before I can stop him, he's out in the rain, then handing something in to me. A silver parachute attached to a basket. I rip it open at once and inside there's a feast– fresh rolls, goat cheese, apples, and … Continue reading


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The Grand Sturdy 450 AC Variotop®. A 500 feeling on a 13-metre yacht
Is that a Linssen 500 AC Variotop®? That's a logical question if you see the new 450 AC Variotop® approaching in the distance. The similarity with our top model is striking, both inside and outside. The differences can be summed up as follows: 2.70 metres in the total length and only 2 metres in the hull length. That's the biggest difference compared with the 500.
Virtual interior tour
Interior layout
Linssen Grand Sturdy 450 AC Variotop®
Basic specifications
|Basic specifications
|450 AC Variotop
L.O.A. x beam x draft:
|± 13,75 x 4,65 x 1,20 m
|Minimum air draft:
|± 3,49 m
|Headroom FC/saloon/AC/Steering saloon:
|± 2,00 / 1,98 / 1,98 / 2,00 m
|B (sea)
|Tank capacity
|± 2x 750 ltr diesel fuel
± 720 ltr water
± 550 ltr holding tank
|± 22.500 kg /
± 22,5 m3
|2x 5 cil. Volvo Penta Diesel,
Type D3-110
2x 82 kW (110 HP)
There are, of course, differences between the new Linssen 450 AC Variotop® and the 500 AC Variotop®. But the DNA of both Grand Sturdy models is identical. We made a very deliberate choice to use the 500 as a basis when we started designing the 450. With a length of 13.75 metres and a width of 4.65 metres, the 450 is shorter and narrower. However, these are the perfect dimensions for applying our Variotop® concept. The 450 will be the smallest member of our Variotop® series and that will remain so in the future.
Superyacht without crew
When you hear the word 'superyacht', you immediately think of the large luxury yachts that can be admired in Monaco. But if we forget the huge dimensions and just look at the level of luxury, we have no hesitation in designating our 450 AC Variotop® as a 'superyacht'. With a length of 'only' 13.75 metres, the 450 is an extremely flexible boat that is easy to handle. Just by yourself, without any crew. The length-width ratio of this latest Linssen is perfect for sailing on European inland waterways. It is a generally accepted size, so that you will be welcome in all marinas.
Stress-free from the north to the south of France
Many boating enthusiasts and yacht owners have it high on their bucket list: 'taking the shortcut' from the Netherlands to the Mediterranean. And rightly so. It is a fantastic experience, particularly with a Linssen, to sail from north to south through a splendid system of canals and more than 225 locks. From the Meuse to the Canal de l'Est (Branche Nord), Canal de l'Est (Branche Sud), Petite Saône, Saône and Rhône. Thanks to its ideal dimensions, you can make this voyage with the new 450 comfortably and entirely stress-free. That is the big advantage of downsizing: your sailing area is extended. The 450 means living the high life in France, free and without a care.
Variotop® concept
What is there more to tell about our patented in-house developed Variotop® concept? In the luxury pleasure craft market up to 16 metres, there had been nothing to compare with it for more than twenty-five years. The introduction of our Grand Sturdy 450 AC Variotop® means that this one-touch folding roof is also available to anyone who is satisfied with a yacht of 13.75 metres.
We at Linssen were thinking long ago that uniting the interior and exterior helmsman's position at a single location would yield a huge amount of space. We found this central location on deck. By creating the Variotop® wheelhouse concept, we opened up the world to boating enthusiasts, both literally and metaphorically. The Variotop® that we are now fitting to the 450 is undoubtedly the best Variotop® that we have created in our 70-year history.
Extra space inside, extra space outside
The Variotop®, isn't that a sort of sliding roof? Not really. In the case of our 45.0 Sedan, you can opt for an electric sliding roof. It's great to allow fresh air into your interior, but it cannot be compared with the Variotop®. That is because the Variotop® can be opened and folded back completely, which creates a huge outdoor space on the aft deck. And all this happens at the touch of a button. Within a few seconds you are standing in the open air steering your 450 from a flybridge. If you close the Variotop®, you are creating extra space inside with a lot of privacy. The perfect spot for a good book and/or a decent glass of wine.
Pure luxury under the Variotop®
It's hardly surprising that the Variotop® wheelhouse includes the word 'house'. It is a high-quality finished space that has everything you need. An elegant helmsman's position with all the required instruments. A helmsman's bench for two persons that can be adjusted electrically in height and depth. A compact wet bar with a washbasin and fridge and extra benches for your passengers. At this location on deck you can experience the great outdoors. Variotop® open, helmsman's bench raised, head in the wind and enjoy. Even on a late autumn day, you can still enjoy the final rays of the sun with the doors closed and the central heating on.
Centre Line Traffic
If you examine the artist's impressions carefully, you will discover a difference on deck with the Linssen 500 AC Variotop®. The 500 has two off-centre steps on the aft of the yacht, while the 450 – just like the 40.0 AC and 45.0 AC – is equipped with Centre Line Traffic. Or to put it another way, a single and comfortable passageway to gain the maximum space from the slightly shorter aft deck.
No skimping on quality
'Nothing is left to be desired regarding the standard features', is what we wrote in the introduction to the Grand Sturdy 500 AC Variotop® in November 2017. We can now repeat those words without hesitation when introducing the 450 AC Variotop®.
The styling, equipment, choice of materials and finishing are all of Linssen level. As is customary and just as you would expect.
Normally speaking, copying is out of the question at Linssen, but in this case we have duplicated some of the aspects of our Linssen 500. That is exceptional and unusual if you go from a 15-metre yacht to a 13-metre yacht. But at Linssen, we make no concessions when it comes to quality. You can see that in the saloon with the saloon bench and table, in the spacious galley with all equipment you will need and in the L-dinette with functional dining table for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
If there's one characteristic of the 450 AC Variotop® that stands out, it is the spacious guestroom that has been created in the forward compartment. You seldom see such space on a yacht of this size. In this case too, we closely examined the design of our 500 AC Variotop®. Consequently, the 450 is an extremely pleasant boat for sailing with guests for a short or longer period.
This latest Linssen offers a great deal of comfort to two couples or parents with children. The guestroom includes a large double bed surrounded by a lot of storage space, a separate shower and a separate toilet space. All this is completely divided off from the other compartments, so that privacy is guaranteed.
The master state bedroom for the captain-owner is located in the aft cabin. These even more spacious sleeping quarters include a broad double bed. The master state bedroom has access to your own wet room with electric toilet, washbasin and shower. Here too there is plenty of cupboard space and, as the icing on the cake, a lounge/office corner for two people. The passageway from the aft cabin to the saloon contains even more storage space. This is also the ideal place to fit extras such as a second fridge.
More similarities
There are also many parallels between the 450 and the 500 under water and 'under the bonnet'. For instance, the engine room (including two Volvo Penta engines) and the low-noise propulsion concept are identical and the green LIPPCON® (Linssen Integrated Propulsion and Power Configuration) system ensures the power management on board by means of smart energy management and a low-noise generator. This means you can use the bow and stern thruster freely and navigate the narrowest passages without problem on your 450 AC Variotop®.
The Softchine Prestressed Hull (SPH®) hull shape that we developed for the 500 is also the hull shape for the 450. This new hull construction forms the basis for the excellent sailing characteristics. During sailing you feel less resistance, you hear less noise and you use less fuel.
Price list
|Variotop® series
|excl. VAT
|incl. 16% VAT*
|incl. 21% VAT
|Grand Sturdy 450 AC Variotop® Twin
|€ 837.000
|€ 970.900
|€ 1.012.800
|Grand Sturdy 480 AC Variotop® Twin
|€ 996.000
|€ 1.155.400
|€ 1.205.200
|Grand Sturdy 500 AC Variotop® Twin
|€ 1.210.000
|€ 1.403.600
|€ 1.464.100
Maasbracht, 01.07.2020 SE&O
* From 1 July - 31 Decmber 2020 - 16% MwSt for Germany only. Valid only for delivery and full payment in 2020. Delivery from 01.01.2021: 19% MwSt.
All our offers are free of obligation. We reserve all rights relating to price and product modifications, changes to interior and exterior drawings, equipment tables and basic data, as well as any textual errors. Images, colours, descriptions and data relating to dimensions, characteristics, etc. are approximations and will not bind our company. The prices for all models in the Linssen Grand Sturdy Series include the three-year Linssen Yachts guarantee plan and a complete delivery package consisting of: full fuel tank(s), commissioning, testing, adjustment and regulation of built-in accessories and navigation equipment, complete testing programme, comprehensive technical instruction and trial sailing during the handover at the boatyard, a set of on-board documents, including a detailed owner's manual, technical explanation and diagrams, complete sailing inventory, reserve parts package, paintwork retouching pens, chemical toilet liquid and spare light bulbs. You can obtain detailed information about all Linssen yachts at our boatyard or from your Linssen Yachts representative.


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The teacher plans learning activities that align with instructional goals and support student learning. Instructional planning must show a structure. Selection of materials and activities must support student learning relative to the district's curricula.
Learning Activities
Common Curriculum - a free online lesson planning tool that aligns with CCSS.
Instructional Activity Design
Unit Planning
Other Resources
Learning Activities
- Learning activities designed and/or selected are suitable for diverse learners and support the instructional goals.
- Activities reflect a common target for students to master but are adapted to meet the needs of the individual students.
- Activities and tasks are designed to engage all students in cognitive activity.
- Activities require students to think and problem solve, provide choice and initiative in how the student might demonstrate knowledge, and provide for depth rather than breadth.
- All materials and resources are suitable for the students and support the stated instructional goals of the lesson.
- Materials and resources support cognitive engagement.
- The teacher ensures that activities and tasks support meaningful learning.
- When appropriate and possible, the teacher uses technology to enhance the learning experience.
- When students are working independently or in groups, students may select and/or adapt materials to be used during learning.
- The teacher creates instructional groups that are varied, appropriate to student learning, and meet instructional goals.
- When appropriate, students are encouraged to have input into constructing the groups.
- The lesson structure is coherent, meaning that it moves from easy to hard and/or simple to complex over the course of the learning sequence.
- The teacher plans time allocations that are reasonable, including planning to accommodate the diverse student needs in the class.
- The lesson has a beginning, middle, and end.
- Time and opportunities for closure and reflection are included.
- Unit Organizers (that exhibit...1. Coherence (methods, materials, assessments all work together); 2. Variety of instructional activities and methods; 3. Problem-based learning; 4. Student choice; 5. Higher order thinking activities
- Curriculum Maps
- Alignment Guides
- Implementation Guides
- Lesson Plans
- Chart of Demonstrated Skills
- Curriculum Committee Notes
- Misconceptions Noted and Addressed
- Spreadsheets of Testing Data
- Learning activities sequenced and connected within the lesson or unit plan
- Plan that includes variety of instructional groupings and instructional materials
- Use of resources related to standards
- Instructional plan that is tied to learning standards
- Plan that includes tech resources
- Plan that includes guiding/essential questions
- Materials or lesson plans that show planning for differentiation
- Print-out of a complete Curriculum Companion module/lesson plan
- Maximum use of Instructional Time (Bell-to-Bell)
- Multi-Modal Instruction
- Use of Technology
- Connection of Previous Lesson to Today's Lesson
- Tiered Interventions
- By the end of the 1st quarter, 100% of my learning activities in a unit plan will be suitable to students or to the instructional outcomes as demonstrated by formative and summative assessments.
- By the end of the year, I will move my students by at least one DOK Level to ensure that my students are being engaged in meaningful learning. I will monitor that movement by documenting teacher-created activities.
- Before each unit, I will use student data to design and chunk lessons that include formative assessments to check student understanding.
- I will utilize instructional materials and resources to enhance instruction ___ times per quarter/semester. I will document this use in my lesson plans.
- I will utilize instructional grouping _____ times per quarter/semester. I will document grouping in my lesson plans.
- By quarter ____ I will develop ___unit organizer(s) to guide classroom instruction. Unit organizers will be included in my lesson plans.
- When developing your long-range plan for the unit of study, did you make sure that instruction is coherent by planning purposeful activities, selecting appropriate materials and student groups?
- Does your unit plan have a well-defined structure consisting of individual activities that support the whole, reasonable time allocation for activities, and opportunities for students to engage in reflection and closure?
- Do the topics of the unit plan connect with each other and allow students to explore the subject from many different angles to understand the relationship of the parts to the whole?
- Do the individual lessons within the unit of study have a coherent structure with a logical sequence of activities that progress student learning from easier to harder?
- Do the instructional activities align with the instructional outcomes of the lesson?
- Do the activities challenge students to be cognitively active, emphasize thinking, permit student choice, and encourage depth rather than breadth?
- What content understanding do you want students to learn from this activity?
- Why are these materials and resources appropriate to the learning needs of your students?
- How will you monitor and analyze the success of this activity/lesson?
Common Curriculum - a free online lesson planning tool that aligns with CCSS.
Instructional Activity Design
- https://www.cmu.edu/teaching/resources/Teaching/CourseDesign/TeacherAssessment/Knowl-CogProcDimension.pdf
- https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00728556/document
- http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/bloom.html
- http://www.aps.edu/re/documents/resources/Webbs_DOK_Guide.pdf
Unit Planning
- https://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/blogs/edutopia-finley-planning-curric-unit.pdf
- http://www.ascd.org/publications/newsletters/education-update/oct11/vol53/num10/How-To-Plan-Effective-Lessons.aspx
Other Resources
- Fiction/Non-fiction mentor text, podcasts, video, web support
- English- http://www.doe.virginia.gov/instruction/english/high/
- Instructional Grouping-http://educationnorthwest.org/sites/default/files/InstructionalGrouping.pdf
- Lesson Plan Template- https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8&safe=active#q=danielson%20lesson%20plan%20template%20pdf&safe=active
- Unit Organizers- https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8&safe=active#q=secondary%20unit%20organizers&safe=active


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Think of Murrieta, and the dreaded phrase "bedroom community" comes to mind.
Worse yet, some consider it a bedroom community for a place that is basically a bedroom community itself, Temecula.
Then you meet Bruce Coleman and Kimberly Davidson and you think: If anybody can get this economy hopping, it's these two.
Ask Coleman for some numbers about the local economy and he'll email you three pages, starting with the advisory that he "relentlessly" tells Murrieta's story.
As for Davidson, she's so into the place that she is the chamber of commerce's citizen of the year and has the city and chamber logos tattooed on her ankle.
Coleman, the city's economic development director, was hired in 2008 to get Murrieta going. Davidson, the city's business development manager, joined him a few months later.
They bring an energy that's 24/7. Coleman responded to an email at 6 a.m. on a Sunday ("That's really not early," he insists), and Davidson says local business owners know they can get answers from her via Facebook messages quickly, even at 10 p.m. on a Saturday night.
Coleman races around Southern California to as many networking events as he can. On a recent Wednesday, he handed out 50 business cards at an industrial and office park conference in La Jolla, then he was at a technology event that night in Irvine.
"We are very often the only city government there," he says.
Yet despite the energy, there's no getting around this fact: About two-thirds of Murrieta's workforce heads out of town for work, thus that 'bedroom community' label. But they're good jobs: Coleman says Murrieta's average family income is more than $100,000 a year.
The trick, just like it's been throughout Southwest Riverside County since I moved here in 1988, is to put that well-paid talent to work here. After more than a quarter century, you wonder if it'll ever happen.
Then you hear about Coleman's ideas for technology, health care and higher education and you see why he received the chamber's visionary award.
Coleman's says cities can choose their tomorrow and Murrieta has "deliberately chosen to plan for its future as a higher end business center, rather than just accepting any new development which may be proposed."
This focus on quality vs. quantity is evident in the health care industry with the opening of the Loma Linda University hospital locally and Kaiser's plans to open a hospital here. The city also has Rancho Springs Medical Center. These and other health care businesses either moving here or expanding demonstrate "Murrieta is becoming the regional hub for the area," Coleman says.
As for technology jobs, they proliferate in places with lots of higher education. Despite hopeful talk, Southwest Riverside County still doesn't have a four-year university based here.
Coleman and Davidson aren't denying the obvious. They're just saying that Azusa Pacific has a satellite campus here; UC Riverside and Cal State San Marcos aren't that far away, Mt. San Jacinto is growing and Murrieta's K-12 schools are focusing more on technology.
In other words, if anybody can sell the notion that Murrieta is going to attract more higher education, that quality jobs will one day be the norm in the town, that Murrieta really is the future of Southern California as the city tagline boasts, it's the man who's on the job relentlessly and the woman whose zeal is tattooed on her ankle.
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I've been having a blast working on all the projects for Paper Crafting World. Besides the bi-weekly challenges, there will be daily projects in December, and I signed up for three of them! So that's what I've been working on, but I won't be able to show you them until the scheduled times. SO!
I made a quick "last minute gift" to enter in Creative Cutter Room's Last Minute Challenge. It's a little note pad using the
cherries from Hello Kitty Greetings. Years ago, I found a huge block of 3 x 3 paper in a rainbow of colors at Staples in their clearance bin. I still had some left – notably the green and pink – so I alternated them for this note pad.