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Recruitment and hiring processes are changing, and they are changing fast. Similar to how fast the internet changed public lives in the 1990's, elaborate internet tools such as social media, job boards, online diversity associations and job posting requirements are changing the lives of recruiters and Federal contractors right now. In turn, contractors have a lot of questions about how to keep pace with their recordkeeping policies and data collection processes to meet evolving Affirmative Action compliance requirements. read more
What is a test?
While we commonly think of tests as either a series of questions to be answered and scored or a set of actions to be performed and scored, from the EEO perspective, the definition of test is much broader. Any part of a selection procedure where candidates are considered and some are chosen, while others are not, is subject to the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (UGESP) (41 CFR 60-3) and, for all intents and purposes, are tests. read more
From the advent of the eight-factor analysis, availability analyses have been a central part of all federal affirmative action plans. The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) changed from an eight-factor analysis to a two-factor analysis (i.e. an analysis examining only external populations and internal populations that may be able to enter jobs) more than ten years ago. read more
By convention and practice (not by Executive Order, statute, regulation or guideline), OFCCP has never required covered federal contractors and subcontractors to prepare Affirmative Action Plans for minorities for their establishments in Hawaii or Puerto Rico. OFCCP has nonetheless always required federal contractors with establishments in Hawaii and Puerto Rico to create AAPs for Women. read more
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Facebook again allows violent videos, with caveat
Reversing a ban on graphic content, Facebook is again allowing users to post violent images or videos if the intent is to condemn, not glorify, the acts depicted, the BBC reported Monday.
The BBC was tipped off by a user who said that despite complaints from other members, Facebook had refused to delete a page showing a gruesome video clip -- reportedly recorded in Mexico -- of a masked man beheading a woman.
The social network began deleting visually graphic content n in May after child-protection advocates complained about videos showing decapitations. The Family Online Safety Institute said such disturbing images "crossed a line" and could potentially cause psychological damage among Facebook users, who can be as young as 13.
"We will remove instances of these videos that are reported to us while we evaluate our policy and approach to this type of content," Facebook said, according to a May 1 BBC report.
But the company quietly returned to its previous policy sometime after that, though exactly when is not clear. The company has stated its members had a right to show the "world in which we live."
"Facebook has long been a place where people turn to share their experiences, particularly when they're connected to controversial events on the ground, such as human rights abuses, acts of terrorism and other violent events," a Facebook spokesperson said Monday in response to the BBC report. "People share videos of these events on Facebook to condemn them. If they were being celebrated, or the actions in them encouraged, our approach would be different."
Facebook's terms of service state:
You will not post content that: is hate speech, threatening, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.
Here's its community standards regarding graphic content:
People use Facebook to share events through photos and videos. We understand that graphic imagery is a regular component of current events, but must balance the needs of a diverse community. Sharing any graphic content for sadistic pleasure is prohibited.
The Facebook spokesperson told CNET the company is seeking the best way for members to control the various content they encounter.
"Since some people object to graphic video of this nature, we are working to give people additional control over the content they see," the spokesperson said. "This may include warning them in advance that the image they are about to see contains graphic content."

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James Wolfe's New Novel Explores NCAA's Worst Nightmare: A Fixed Championship GameJames Wolfe's novel How to Rig the NCAA Basketball Championship for Fun and Profit provides an account of how a referee could decide the outcome of college basketball's crown jewel event and get away with that crime. Sadly, the basic premise is not far-fetched: since the infamous 1951 scandal involving 32 players at seven schools (including powerhouses CCNY and Kentucky) there has been at least one major NCAA basketball point shaving case per decade and while the previous incidents have involved players, not referees, it is certainly conceivable that a referee could be involved in such activity; just four years ago, former NBA referee Tim Donaghy pleaded guilty to providing information to mob-affiliated gamblers and although there is no evidence that he fixed games his case revealed how difficult it would be to detect point shaving and/or other illegal activity conducted by an unethical referee.
While it is realistic to propose that the NCAA Basketball Championship could be fixed by a referee, some aspects of the scenario presented in Wolfe's novel are implausible, most notably the amount of money wagered by Wolfe's crooked referee, Stanley Osborn: a $1,000,000 bet would immediately shift the line and attract the attention of the authorities no matter how cleverly that action was "balanced" by Osborn's bookie. The novel is written in first person style, with Osborn describing how he went from being a scrupulous referee to a referee who manipulated dozens of games prior to fixing the outcome of the NCAA Championship Game. Osborn tries to justify his conduct (to himself and to the reader) by describing at length the flaws and corruption that are an inherent part of the way that the NCAA administrates big-time college sports in general and Division I basketball in particular. Osborn's plan is to fix the NCAA Championship Game and then escape from the authorities by creating a new identity for himself so that he can live a life of luxury on a tropical island. Osborn is not entirely motivated by greed; once he has made his escape he plans to reveal to the media exactly how he pulled off this caper and thus force the NCAA to initiate various reforms. Again, it is possible that a referee could fix a game or at least shave points but it stretches credulity to suggest that a referee could fix the NCAA Championship Game and then just scoot off to a tropical island without experiencing any repercussions, let alone make a clean getaway while announcing to the world exactly who he is and how he pulled off such a monumental crime. I am also not convinced that anyone with the audacity and lack of ethics necessary to fix one of the world's biggest sporting events would feel such a burning desire to reveal to the world how he did this with the expressed intention of ultimately improving college sports; that is not a motive that I have ever seen attributed to anyone involved in the various point shaving scandals that have taken place in the past several decades.
One of the most important aspects of writing engaging fiction is to convince the reader to buy the premise and suspend disbelief. How to Rig the NCAA Basketball Championship for Fun and Profit presents a scenario that is a bit far-fetched from my perspective--and from a technical standpoint the text would have benefited from proofreading to eliminate several typographical mistakes and grammatical errors--but in spite of these flaws it is a light and entertaining read. The book concludes with a manifesto of sorts written by Osborn explaining how he got away with fixing games and proposing reforms to improve the NCAA's administration of college sports. Nothing groundbreaking is presented in this material but I do agree with the basic sentiment that the NCAA is to some degree inherently corrupt because it is supposedly a non-profit, education-oriented enterprise but in fact it is generating huge amounts of money by elevating sports over academics. It seems like nearly every day we learn of a new scandal taking place at a big NCAA program and money is often at the root of these problems; schools are either cheating in various ways to try to win more games and make more money or they are covering up misconduct by various athletes/coaches because those athletes/coaches can potentially generate huge amounts of revenue. Wolfe's novel is a well-intentioned plea for a reassessment of how the NCAA functions.
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Conservation and Environment in Costa Rica: Monthly Updates
Conservation in Costa Rica - Monthly Update April 2011
Mirador – Everyone who visits the Barra Honda National Park gets the chance to visit the Terciopelo Cave and also the Mirador Platform, one of the only points in the area where you can see an amazing 180 degree view of the landscape. Naturally a viewpoint made of wood in such an exposed position needs replacing after a few years so one of the jobs over the last month and a half has been pulling down the old platform and rebuilding it with new wood.
This has obviously been a tough job, those of you who remember the walk to the Mirador will know that a car can only get so close and the rest of the trip can only be done by walking! So we have been moving materials back and forth for a while now, carrying new wood to the platform, removing the old wood from the site, carrying nails, bolts, drills, saws, hammers and many other types of materials. Another thing that has been slowing us down is the strength of the wood, obviously we wanted to use something that wouldn't fall apart in a year so we chose a wood that was very dense and this actually caused us problems when it came to joining them together, every type of nail we used either bent or broke and being so far from a plug socket meant using battery powered drills which only have a limited life span and don't even have the same power of a normal drill...this meant some days we were only able to drill 15 holes and in total we probably drilled a few hundred holes!
But still we have progressed very well over the last few weeks and just before the end of the month we managed to get the roof back on so we only have a few more days to put the railings back on and the steps leading up to the platform. So soon we will have a nice new, stronger, better volunteer built platform.
April has been an interesting month with the weather as well, which as I have said many times before leads to direct changes with the results we get from our investigation projects. The end of the month has seen some pretty heavy rains, some higher temperatures, strong winds and very high humidity! The national weather observations have been suggesting that the rainy season might be starting early this year and the data we have been collecting is suggesting the same with 8cm of rain already falling in only a few hours this month!
The effect this has had in the forest has been amazing, with everything shooting back to life, leaves springing back to life, grass changing from brown to green and of course the down side if lots of mosquitoes. This has lead to some amazing results in our bat and camera projects, with many nights providing 10 -15 different species of bats in one session which is obviously incredibly interesting and with some results being very unusual. Some bats that shouldn't measure any bigger than 30mm are over this, some bats having different colours than they should and in one case a bat that seemed to have eaten more than his fair share of mosquitoes and was very very heavy!
We have also been seeing some great things during our early morning bird observations around the park, the other day we saw a pair of long tailed manikins doing their mating dance, and this is something that very few people are able to see in real life. We have seen some other amazing species over the last few weeks and these few occasions have really started to spike the interest of the volunteers in the park and we have all been walking around with a higher interest and understanding of the avian life flying around us during all of our activities!
Over the last few weeks we have been working a new barbeque and outside cooking area...one of the local ways of cooking many things has always been using fire wood and charcoal to cook beans, rice, meat, potatoes and anything else you can think of. We have created the barbeque with an area to keep fire wood dry during rain, an open grill, an area to use pots, an area to roast and of course an area to keep things warm.
We haven't quite finished this project yet, we've been working on this, the Mirador and the new cabin but with a few other tiny details to complete we will be able to use it this month and have a Barbeque party with sausages, burgers, fish and steak all cooked in many different ways!
During a few rest times over the last few months we have been looking at a new camera that we have for the park which can take 360 degree panoramic photos, so far we have managed to take a great 180 degree of the Mirador view and we are working on making some 360 degree views from many other parts of the park, the Mirador, the caves, the main camp, football field and many other areas so you can all revisit the park and see how things change throughout the years. Keep your eyes out on the website and I will try and see how we can share these photos online with you as soon as possible!
Finally I also want to mention that we have been giving many different talks during the last month explaining the details of certain things we have in the park and Costa Rica, Bats, Orchids, Forest Fires, Cloud forest and soon we will be giving talking on the many other subjects like Hummingbirds and of course the mammals, birds and butterflies of the park and Costa Rica!
Richard Munday
Conservation Coordinator
Barra Honda National Park
April 2011


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At the beginning of the year, I joined French Fridays with Dorie, and began cooking my way through Dorie Greenspan's Around My French Table. Although I don't participate every week, a majority of her recipes have been fabulous. I gravitate to unfamiliar and unique recipes, for the challenge and learning experience. Dorie's introduction to each recipe entertains and educates, and the recipes are sophisticated, yet approachable.
In February, we traveled to New Orleans. That trip, and another wonderful cookbook, John Besh's My New Orleans, inspired many wonderful dishes throughout the year. In May, I hosted The Daring Cooks' Gumbo Challenge. I mastered the art of roux, and fell in love with Drew's Chicken and Smoked Sausage Gumbo in the process.
|Best Gumbo - Drew's Chicken and Smoked Sausage Gumbo
Another winning recipe from My New Orleans is Beignets. After our early morning walks to Cafe Du Monde in New Orleans, famous for beignets and chicory coffee, we had to come home and recreate these pillowy doughnuts blanketed in powdered sugar. With a more modest dusting of powdered sugar, and John's decadent dunking sauces, I was ready to open my own beignet bakery in Coronado!
|Best Sunday Morning Treat - Beignets
In yet another fabulous cookbook, Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc at Home, Crispy Braised Chicken Thighs with Olives, Lemon and Fennel is a winner. The flavors in this one-pot dish are magnificent.
|Best Chicken - Crispy Braised Chicken Thighs
We discovered several sandwiches this year, and it was really tough deciding on a favorite between Donald Link's Fried Oyster and Bacon, Croque-Madames, and this Pork Schnitzel and Chipotle Sandwich. This one made the finals as one of the editors' choices in Saveur's Home Cook Sandwich Challenge, but didn't make it to the winner's circle.
|Best Sandwich - Pork Schnitzel and Chipotle Sandwich
We don't eat nearly enough salads, and I was thrilled to create this Salmon, Arugula and Couscous Salad, inspired by one on Il Fornaio's brunch menu. I developed a fondness for arugula this past year.
|Best Summer Salad - Salmon, Arugula and Couscous Salad
If you eat mostly salads throughout the year, you have permission to reward yourself with Walnut Turtle Pie, a signature dessert at Fleming's Prime Steakhouse. Chocolate heaven. This pie won out over Bobby Flay's Throwdown Pumpkin Pie for Thanksgiving this year (and Bobby's Pumpkin Pie is one of my most visited posts).
|Most Decadent Chocolate Dessert - Walnut Turtle Pie
While photographing one of many food and wine events we attended this year, we tasted our first Liege Waffle, made with Belgium Pearl Sugar. I was able to order the sugar from Get a Waff and tried a few different recipes at home. After mastering these, I was ready to add Liege Waffles to the menu, along with the beignets, at my Coronado bakery!
|Best Waffle - Liege Waffles
Getting back to French Fridays with Dorie, I looked through all the 30 or so recipes I've made from Around My French Table and decided this Tourteau de Chèvre deserves the highest recognition. I love that it's so unique and adaptable. The recipe provides the option of using a savory or sweet tart dough, depending on whether you plan to serve it with white wine as an aperitif, as a dessert with a drizzle of honey and fresh fruit, in the afternoon with tea, or in the morning with coffee.
|Best French Fridays with Dorie Recipe, so far - Tourteau de Chèvre
Speaking of unique - these Cherries as Olives were a surprise hit at one of our summer Concerts in the Park. These come from Chef José Andrés' Made in Spain cookbook. Fresh cherries are marinated in a mix of olive oil, orange and lemon juice and zest, garlic, rosemary, thyme, bay leaves, and sherry vinegar, with an optional sprinkling of Marcona almonds before serving. Please try these for your next party or picnic. They are addicting!
|Best Nibble - Cherries as Olives
One of our highlights of the year was getting to know several chefs. Chef Bernard Guillas (The Marine Room, La Jolla) is one of San Diego's most respected chefs. Recipes from his award-winning cookbook, Flying Pans, are often featured on The Marine Room's web page. I have a copy of the cookbook and love that there is a stunning photograph accompanying every recipe. It's nice to see how the chef wants his dish presented.
For Thanksgiving this year, I made Sylvie's Stuffed Turkey Breast Ballotine with Croissant Sausage Stuffing, Glazed Carrots, Cipollinis, and Apple Cider Gravy. If you're looking for an alternative to roasting a whole turkey, this dish is so impressive.
|Best Holiday Dinner - Slyvie's Stuffed Turkey Breast Ballotine
Much of the fabulous food we enjoyed this year was shared with friends and family, at some of our annual events and parties. If you've followed There's a Newf in My Soup, you know we spend our summer Sundays at Coronado's Concert in the Park. eCoronado named me the unofficial Top Chef of Concerts in the Park this year because our group puts out such incredible spreads of food. We always have a culinary theme, and Childhood Favorites was one of our most memorable concerts of the summer. Everyone shared a photo from their childhood for the blog post.
|Best Concert in the Park - Childhood Favorites
Photo of Alec's Grandma Rachael
John went over the top with our Annual Halloween Party. This year's theme was Pirates, and he transformed our yard into a movie set right out of Pirates of the Caribbean.
|Best Halloween Party Ever
Coronado Island Pirates Board the HMS Obsessed for a Halloween Sail
One of the funniest parties of the year was Alec's Rat Pack Party. Nina set up a little photo booth and the boys really got into posing in the Marilyn dress and wig! Many of the photos had to be censored from the blog, but this one of Kai and Alec, with my plate of cannoli, is classic.
|Funniest Party - Take the Cannoli, to Alec's Rat Pack Party
John and I work well together behind the camera, and the blog has opened a few doors this year. We've provided photography for several local food and wine events, cooking classes, and restaurants, and fly to Colorado next month to photograph a Relais & Châteaux guest ranch.
|Best Photo Shoot - Leroy's Kitchen + Lounge, Coronado
|Best Chef Photo - Chef Marco, Il Fornaio
My life would not be complete without plenty of pasta. We're regulars at Il Fornaio and are now considered family. We photographed two of Chef Marco's cooking classes (Risotto and Homemade Pasta), and attend the monthly Tuesday Night Tasting of the Festa Regionale Menu. This Spaghetti alla Lucana is from The Il Fornaio Pasta Book. Chef Marco moved to Seattle, and we miss him dearly.
|Best Pasta - Spaghetti alla Lucana
We continue to acquire beautiful copper cookware, and other blogalicious cookware, serveware, props, utensils, and tools. This copper Cataplana from Williams Sonoma is my favorite of the year. We also have the matching Couscoussier. I need to cook in these pieces a bit more in 2012.
|Best Cookware - Copper Cataplana
When you love pasta as much as I do, you must have a few artisanal pasta tools in your kitchen! I acquired these two, courtesy of Terry Mirri at Artisanal Pasta Tools, Sonoma, CA. Although I haven't made the time to use them often enough, they are very special (see my Playing with a New Kitchen Treasure and Feel Like Makin' Gnocchi posts featuring these tools).
|Best Pasta Tools - Corzetti Stamp
|Gnocchi/Garganelli Board
Although you may have caught me complaining about the electric stove we acquired when we moved in June, we are fortunate to be living in a beautiful home, with a lovely private courtyard off the dining room for entertaining, and a picturesque front yard. After all the drama we went through the first half of 2011 in the old house, moving was definitely the highlight of our year.
John bought us a gorgeous grill, and we devoured the best grilled lobster, ever. Never mind that it was the only grilled lobster we had all year, but John prepared and grilled it to perfection, and we were so happy to be sitting outside, soaking up warm afternoon sun, and sharing one of many wonderful times on our new patio.
|Best Lobster - Wolfgang Puck's Grilled Lobsters with Spicy Herbed Compound Butter
And finally, one last photo...the Best Bread of the year! Three loaves of Chocolate-Cinnamon Babka contain 5 sticks of butter and over 2 pounds of chocolate. I made these for Christmas, and the recipe can be found here, courtesy of Martha Stewart.
|Best Bread - Chocolate Cinnamon Babka
If you're still with me after this rather long recap of 2011, I want to thank you for reading and supporting There's a Newf in My Soup! We look forward to continuing our journey, wherever it may lead, and hope you'll come back to visit from time to time to see what we're cooking.
Eat well, drink only good wine, and have a very happy and healthy New Year.
-Denise, John & Dooley
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy, and to make plans.
- Ernest Hemingway


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Review of HIAA Keynote Lecture by Talin Grigor
The final keynote of the HIAA conference was delivered by Professor Talinn Grigor of University of California Davis Arts. Entitled 'Modernism as (a)Politics: Marginality and the Autotomizing Discourse on Architecture in Pahlavi Iran', Professor Grigor charted the pivotal involvement of architects from religious minority backgrounds in the construction of a new Iran during the 1930's to the 1960's. The talk began by setting the scene that surrounded the advent of Iranian involvement with Modernist architecture. Grigor introduced Gabriel Guévrékian (b.1892/1900 – d.1970), an architect of Armenian heritage who became instrumental in the Congrés International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) (founded in 1928 and disbanded in 1959) alongside Le Corbusier. CIAM's manifesto on architecture suggested an ambivalent relationship to the state: although there was a split between design and politics for many Modernist architects, there was an overriding belief that social problems could be remedied by urban planning and these mega projects needed the patronage of those in command of the state. In a political atmosphere where the Bauhaus met its end at the hands of the Nazis in 1933, architects needed to shape the nature of their relationship with power. As leaders of the Modernist movement dispersed to climes beyond Europe, Guévrékian accepted an invitation in 1933 from Reza Shah Pahlavi (r.1925-1941) to act as the chief architect who would erect a contemporary vision of Iran. This was a project that entailed superseding the ad-hoc quotations of Safavid (1501-1736) and Victorian decorative styles which comprised the urban schema of the previous Qajar dynasty (1785-1925) with a distinctly modern update.
Grigor then took the opportunity to posit the key questions which informed her research into the subject of this talk. Firstly, why, given the staunch nationalist prerogative of Reza Shah did the most eminent Modernists emerge from Iran's ethnic and religious minorities? And secondly, how did these figures come to pursue architecture in the first place, and then succeed in realizing the Pahlavi Modernist vision?
During the interwar years, those from Armenian, Christian, Zoroastrian, Jewish and Baha'i backgrounds came to serve as the pioneers of Iranian Modernism and built a secular vision for the country. Despite the homogenising policies of a new, burgeoning Pahlavi nationalism, marginality could be seen as a privilege: those on the periphery could enjoy both a degree of separation from the masses in belonging to a small community whilst taking a space on the international stage of Modernist architecture. This was also a process of integrating modernity into the larger Iranian polity. In an expansion on the structure of modernity laid out by Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (r.1848-1896), Modernism gestated in the schools which were set up for minority communities. Vartan Hovanessian, the second Modernist architect to return to Iran after having trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, set out on building an arts academy for Armenian girls to serve the needs of the arts and women's education. Institutions like this set the contemporary standards for architecture and attracted the attention of the Pahlavi cultural elite.
Meanwhile, Guévrékian worked to apply the Modernist aesthetic to all public structures. This new modernity was primarily articulated in the spaces of the bourgeoisie – spaces of middle class leisure, from swimming pools to cinemas such as the Metropole and the Diana that ushered in a new aesthetic. Innovation and interaction went hand in hand. The wealthiest families of Northern Tehran, however, interpreted Modernity though their own commissions, which created a clean minimalism of columns and dissected tiers that was informed by an enduring upper-class affection for the Neo-Classical. At the highest rung of society, imperial projects displayed an eclectic and revivalist style which borrowed from an inheritance of Qajar buildings, Sassanian motifs and Safavid conventions. Tehran's green and white marble palaces within the Sa'dabad complex displayed this fusion of old and new, whilst the likes of Karim Tehrarzadeh Behzad oversaw projects for the north façade of the parliament building and the mausoleum of Ferdowsi in Tus, north-eastern Iran in an imposing, monumental style.
The readiness of patronage, Iran's economic buoyancy and its rich social atmosphere made it the ideal soil in which to plant an idiosyncratic, localised Modernism. The likes of Hovanessian, Mohsen Forughi and Keyqabad Zafar tried to remain apolitical, tussling between an Avant Garde spirit and the parameters set out by official endorsement. In journals such as L'Architect, practitioners set out architecture as a solely technical endeavour. Many even went as far as refusing the residual attraction to historicism; the past was not seen as the direction in which to approach the future, with the motifs of lions and cows – as quoted from the capitals of the columns of Persepolis – being perched outside the building of Tehran's national bank being seen as implicit in "turning the capital into a zoo".
Grigor ended her erudite assessment of the Modernist project within Iran with a broader consideration of how it then fostered the emergence of an influential elite of intelligentsia 'from the margins' during the 1960s. Artists, architects and poets associated with minority populations in Iran, from Marcos Grigorian, Behjat Sadr and Forough Farrokhzad to Houshang Seyhoun, all emerged as the next generation who oversaw the future of Iran's modern incarnation, with women having a particularly pivotal role. Encompassing some thirty years of Iran's modern history, Grigor's talk considered Iranian Modernism in its capacity as a 'regional' phenomenon as per the principal theme of the 2016 HIAA biennial. Not only this, but it located its genesis within an even smaller social geography, that of those figures at 'the margins' who embraced a novel aesthetic project and tried to maintain its distinctly apolitical philosophy within what were hierarchical structures of patronage and a distinctly nationalistic administrative atmosphere.


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4 Awesome DIY Cocktail Recipes from Chicago's Yusho
Of the four cocktails that Alex Bachman poured for me on a recent Sunday afternoon, the Two Tribes took the longest to make. Prep time: just about two months.
Bachman is the bar manager and mastermind behind the drink menu at Yusho, the new Japanese yakitori restaurant in Logan Square helmed by Chef Matthias Merges, who for the past 14 years had been executive chef at the city's legendary and, alas, soon-to-shutter temple of fine dining, Charlie Trotter's.
Okay, I ought to clarify. Bachman stirred up a Two Tribes for me in about a minute's time, but the barrel-aged stone fruit bitters he uses to add layered complexity to this twist on an Old Fashioned takes him 57 days, give or take a day or so, to make from scratch. It's a telling statistic about Bachman's cocktail program: every ingredient that conceivably can be made in-house is made in-house.
If that's a point of pride for Bachman, and it sure should be, he doesn't let on; he communicates an infectious passion about the painstaking, thoughtful and hand-crafted nature of his drinks through an affable humility. Bachman, who is coming off a long stint of launching cocktail programs on the West Coast, has put together a broad and endlessly enticing debut menu for Yusho that pays homage to several classics (the Hemingway Daiquiri, the Negroni—to name just two) while also striving to break new ground.
Two Tribes
The Two Tribes ($8), made with Redemption rye whiskey and nutty Cardamaro, the Italian bitter apertif, is an Old Fashioned the way a bespoke suit is business attire. There's a decadent depth to the flavors of orange, apricot, and charred wood that turn up in this glass, thanks to the four to five dashes of Bachman's barrel-aged bitters. To sweeten the Two Tribes, Bachman uses a syrup he makes from palm sugar, which imparts a rounder, more caramelized sweetness than simple syrup made with refined sugar.
This recipe is for serious DIY'ers only, but it's worth the effort.
Baconian Cipher
Bachman named this drink in honor of architect Henry Bacon, who designed the Illinois Centennial Monument, the Doric column erected at the heart of Logan Square, as well as the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The Baconian Cipher ($11), he says, is his take on a Negroni: Herencia reposado tequila stands in for gin; Vermouth di Torino, by the makers of Cocchi Americano, is his chosen sweet vermouth; in lieu of Campari, Bachman employs Gran Classico Bitter, made in Switzerland by Tempus Fugit Spirits; and for a bright, spicy flourish, he shakes in a dash of rye-based tamarind bitters.
To garnish the Baconian Cipher, Bachman briefly grills a skewered and clove-studded orange peel on the restaurant's high-heat robata grill. This is one gorgeous drink, with luscious sweetness countered by deep, brooding and wonderfully complicated bitterness.
Pisco Punch
The refreshing Pisco Punch at Yusho blends Don Cesar Especial pisco, pineapple and coconut-infused sencha green tea, and a gomme syrup Bachman enhances with pineapple and umeboshi, pickled Japanese plums. It succeeds at being a light drink with big flavors.
Gin & Tonic
Just by color alone, it's apparent this Gin & Tonic ($8) is different. A base of malty, pinot noir-barrel-aged Ransom Old Tom gin lends Bachman's G.T. its blushing complexion. And by now you should have guessed that he also makes his own tonic syrup, a bracing, quinine-forward concoction that tastes the way tonic should, unlike most blunt and overly sweet commercial brands of tonic water. With its mix of bright citrus, sharp and honest tonic flavors, and robust Old Tom, Yusho's Gin & Tonic goes to show what a difference care can make.
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Emergency personnel focus on extinguishing a fire at a mobile home in east Price last Thursday morning.
The incident put a family out on the street and caused significant concern for nearby neighbors.
According to Price Fire Chief Kent Boyack, the June 26 blaze apparently started when a child was playing with matches or a lighter in the back room of the mobile home, located in Melody Estates.
'When I arrived, I asked if everyone was out and a young man pointed to another trailer and said 'My family is over there," indicated Boyack. 'Then I asked if he knew what started it and he told me.'
The first public safety dispatch came into the Price City Fire Department at 9:28 a.m.
The blaze quickly enveloped the structure and, by the time fire trucks arrived at the scene, flames were shooting out of nearly every window in the house.
Fire fighting personnel first attacked the flames through the front door and window. Then the crews started into the trailer from the back door of the structure.
The family waited at a nearby home until the members were sent to the county ambulance for treatment for smoke inhalation. A baby was apparently transported to the hospital by a grandfather for what also appeared to be a smoke inhalation problem.
The trailer was a rental unit at the park, owned by Joanne Wilson. The mobile home was a total loss due to fire, smoke and water damage.
Fire fighting crews battle to extinguish Thursday morning blaze in mobile home
Emergency personnel focus on extinguishing a fire at a mobile home in east Price last Thursday morning.


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By Solange Charas, Guest Blogger
As Kimberly Gladman explained in an earlier blog post (less turnover better performance), I recently conducted a study that showed a correlation between GMI's governance ratings and value creation at small and midsize public companies. My research also uncovered some intriguing new information about boardroom dynamics. The impetus for my research was the basic question: what makes good boards good and bad boards bad? This is a complex problem that includes many factors: the defined role of the board, clarity of objectives, resources available to address challenges, leadership ability of the Chairman or lead director are a few elements among a vast constellation of issues that define board quality. When it comes down to it, though, we can all agree that even if we bring the smartest, most well-connected people together, if they can't manage to work effectively as a group, then all is for naught.
In exploring what determines board quality, I conducted interviews with directors that focused, in part, on the nature of the dynamic amongst board members. It turns out that there is something quite powerful in the way directors speak to one another. One of the most powerful drivers of good/bad boards is managing conflict in the board room. My research revealed that there are two kinds of conflict present – cognitive conflict and affective conflict. Cognitive conflict is essential in generating value, whereas affective conflict destroys any chance of generating value. There are also two "realms" of the boardroom – front stage (the formal boardroom which is a stage for the dissemination of information and ratification) and back stage (committee meetings, informal dialogue between board members, working meetings) where the work actually gets done. The figure below distinguishes these two realms and their prominent communication/behavioral characteristics.
This brings us back to the question – what makes good boards good and bad boards bad? Our research showed that good boards had directors that clearly understood appropriate modes of behavior corresponding to each realm. In addition, good boards recognized affective conflict and addressed it, whereas bad boards recognized affective conflict, but were unwilling to address and resolve it. An explanation of the difference between cognitive and affective conflict makes clear why one is beneficial and one is harmful. Cognitive conflict is task-oriented, with a focus on how to get things done and achieves optimal results – the dialogue around cognitive conflict can sound like: "I don't think your idea will work, maybe we need to look at it a different way….have you thought of this?" Affective conflict, conversely, is emotionally-oriented and focused on personal differences or shortcomings between people – the dialogue around affective conflict can sound like: "I don't think you have good ideas and you don't understand the issue". This is a subtle but powerful distinction, as cognitive conflict addresses ideas or points of view with an opening for something creative, innovative and positive, whereas the affective conflict is a seeming attack on the capabilities and perspective of the individual – making this personal and limiting.
The bad news is that we're all human and no matter how experienced and professional we are, it's easy to allow affective conflict to seep into our conversations, especially when tensions are high, time is limited and there's a lot at stake. The good news is that for good boards, directors recognize when affective conflict rears its ugly head and they address it quickly and effectively. Bad boards recognize affective conflict as a mode of dialogue, but are not as proactive in addressing affective conflict, letting the negative effects fester.
In a future blog posting, I will expand on why affective conflict perpetuates on bad boards and the impact this has on overall board quality. I will also provide some helpful approaches to recognizing when affective conflict is permeating your board culture and what you can do to resolve affective conflict.
Solange Charas
PhDc, Case Western Reserve University
President, Charas Consulting, Inc.
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I started a thread on human genetics in the Technology and Gadgets thread and this one here is on plant genetics. Recent discoveries in the field of genetics are fascinating and I'm expecting that there will be a huge number of more and more monumental discoveries made this next year and in years to come!
Dr Albert and his colleagues said the genome of Amborella – a small understory tree or shrub endemic to the main island, Grande Terre, of New Caledonia in the South Pacific – provides conclusive evidence that the ancestor of all flowering plants, including Amborella, evolved following a 'genome doubling event' that occurred about 200 million years ago.
LINK: http://www.sci-news.com/genetics/science-genome-amborella-trichopoda-01631.html


text: Taking a gander at what the Pope was taken for a ride in this morning got us to thinking. Especially knowing what the main man from the Vatican takes out on parade days, we're interested to know what luxe ride you'd like to be taking down 1st Avenue in New York today. If you were the Pope, and rocking the white robes, what car would you prefer to be driven in? Would it be the bubble-top Popemobile of old, something more German military industrial complex, or something else?


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University residences
University residences in France are managed by regional student-service agencies, known as CROUS. The residences may be located on campus or in town. Spaces are made available according to stringent social criteria.
CROUS residences are the most affordable form of student housing. Monthly rents vary from €300 for a single room to €620 for a studio apartment. Most of the spaces allocated for international students are reserved for recipients of French government grants.
Many universities have reached agreements with CROUS to reserve rooms for international students participating in exchange programs, often under the umbrella of foreign assistance. Some institutions also reserve rooms for international students enrolled in the second year of a master's program or in a doctoral program. If you fall into any of those categories, you should ask your institution or the organization that manages your grant whether reserved housing is available.
Otherwise, your chances of finding a place in a CROUS building are slim. You may still wish to submit a request to CROUS after you arrive, as places sometimes open up in the course of the year.
Basic facts about university housing
Rent: €300 to €620 depending on the accommodation
Security deposit: One month's rent
Co-signer/guarantor: Students must have a guarantor residing in the European Union.
Temporary or short-term housing: No, rental contracts extend over 9 months (for a room) or 12 months (for a studio), except during the summer.
Pre-arrival rentals: Not possible.
Housing assistance (ALE): Possibly. International students are eligible to apply but are not assured of receiving benefits


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Calls increase to Impact 211 helpline as health care exchanges open
As the government shuts down, part of the nation's Affordable Care Act opens up.
The opening has Americans without health insurance asking lots of questions.
In between calls about local programs or housing, Impact 211 operator Dan Kratz and other operators at the Impact 211 helpline have been answering questions about the Affordable Care Act.
"It does kind of seem like they're ill-informed, but the phone numbers we're giving should help them," Kratz said.
The tally board in the 211 nerve center showed an increase of calls since the health care exchanges opened overnight.
"They started actually last night. We started seeing an increase in calls, and even before 7 a.m. this morning, we began seeing and increase," Impact 211 Program Director Bob Waite said.
The Associated Press reported online insurance marketplaces at the heart of the health care overhaul struggled to handle the volume of new consumers.
So far, the 211 center has handled the increase volume of calls, and that's with reinforcements on the way, thanks to a $99,000 grant from Milwaukee County.
"With that grant, we're going to be able to hire on additional staff specifically trained to handle calls and inquiries about their options available through the Affordable Care Act," Waite said.
Operators have been trained to direct consumers to local resources. They will get additional training to help with more complicated cases in coming weeks.
If you need help, you can call 211 for local advice or text your zip code to "txt 211." That's 898-211.


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Algorithm Improvement through Performance Measurement: Part 1
Algorithm Improvement through Performance Measurement: Part 2
Algorithm Improvement through Performance Measurement: Part 3
Algorithm Improvement through Performance Measurement: Part 4
Algorithm Improvement through Performance Measurement: Part 5
The In-place Hybrid MSD N-bit-Radix Sort I presented in In-place Hybrid N-bit-Radix Sort was developed as a combination of Radix Sort, Insertion Sort, and Counting Sort. This algorithm sorts arrays of integers (8, 16, 32, and 64-bit, unsigned and signed), and significantly outperforms STL sort(), which is a hybrid combination of QuickSort, Heap Sort, and Insertion Sort. In-place Hybrid MSD N-bit-Radix Sort algorithm uses a recursive Radix Sort technique based on the most-significant-digit (MSD). It sorts based on the MSD first, followed by the next digit and so on until all digits have been used for sorting. The algorithm has a nice property of being in-place (not requiring extra memory), but lacks being stable.
Stable algorithms resolve ties between array elements by placing the element that appeared first in the input array as first in the output array. Stability is not necessary when sorting only numbers, as it is impossible to differentiate the result which was sorted using a stable algorithm from one sorted using a non-stable algorithm. In this article, I develop and optimize a stable version of the MSD Radix Sort since stability is useful in cases of sorting other than only numbers.
Stable MSD Radix Sort Concept
The following discussion illustrates how an MSD Radix Sort works with decimal numbers. In this case, the radix is 10, and Decimal-Radix sorting is being performed (10-Radix Sort).
Three numbers start with a zero ( 07, 09, 01 ), four numbers start with a one (13, 15, 15, 19), three numbers start with a two (22, 28, 21 ), none start with a three, two numbers start with a four (45, 42).
Use an output array of equal size to the input array, and split it into bins that hold 3 elements, 4 elements, 3 elements, and 2 elements (as we just counted).
Place all numbers that started with zeros into the bin zero, all numbers that started with ones into the bin one, that started with twos into bin two, and so on.
Sort each of these bins based on the second digit
Create an output array of equal size for each input bin:
Place all numbers that have the second digit equal to a one in bin one, all numbers that have the second digit equal to two in bin two, and so on.
Assemble all of the bins together into a single sorted array
Note this procedure took two passes over all of the array elements: one pass for the left-most digit, and the second pass for the second digit; because each element was made of two digits in this example. The algorithm takes two passes over the entire array no matter how many elements are in the array to be sorted. Thus, run time is linear in order, times the number of digits in the elements -O( dn ), where d is the number of digits and n is the number of elements in the array.


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Gemius and AMI cooperation in Vietnam
Gemius signed a cooperation agreement with AMI, a Vietnamese research company. For Gemius, this is the first Asian country where they will offer their solutions.
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Is it really important how much time people spend on watching ads?
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Tori Spelling Spills Her Secrets
Tori Spelling has decided to spill her secrets to the world and I cannot be happier. I love Tori and her show...I'm glad that she's all good considering the way she grew up. (Besides we have the same name...SHHHHHH!!!)
Here are some of the juicy bits that have been spilled:
On 'Beverly Hills, 90210'
- I had an insta-crush on Brian Austin Green. Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth and I became friends ... I cheated on [my first boyfriend] by hooking up with my costar Brian. Brian was the only guy on the show my age. We had something going (or not going) over the years we worked together. We were always fighting, making up, having fun, and hating each other. We were just young.
Where Are They Now?
What are Spelling's '90210' pals up to these days? We've got the scoop on Jason Priestly, Shannen Doherty and the rest of the gang.
· '90210' Cast Then & Now
- The center of this high school clique was Shannen and Jennie. Shannen had everything, but she could be arrogant and carefree. Jennie was outspoken when she thought Shannen was out of line. Sometimes they got along, but there were explosions. Once, they got into a fistfight ... For the most part, the cast and crew functioned as a close family. And in the course of the ten years the show was on the air, everyone in the cast pretty much slept with everyone else. We all would laugh about it years later.
On Meeting Future Husband Dean McDermott
- I'd been instantly attracted to men before, but this was different. It was love at first sight. I fell so hard ... I thought that was adorable. Then I noticed he had a wedding ring. When someone asked, he pulled out photos of his children. And -- oh, yeah -- I had a husband too. It was fun to flirt, but I knew nothing would happen ... But: Dean and I went to a bar after dinner. And we spent the night at the Cartier Place. The following day when I woke up next to Dean, I had no regrets. Something was really wrong with my marriage. Not only because I slept with this guy—though that certainly wasn't a positive sign—but because I didn't regret it.
On Breaking the News About Dean to Husband Charlie Shanian
- I told him that I'd never been in love with him. I loved him and he'd been a friend to me, but I married him because he was a great guy, a guy who took care of me. Charlie didn't want to hear it. He kept saying, "Where's all this coming from? We have a perfect relationship." Then he turned to me. "Did you cheat on me?" I said yes. He said, "It was with Dean, wasn't it?" I said yes. He said, "I should have known."
On Plastic Surgery
- If knew the styles were going to be the way they are now, I wouldn't have gotten my boobs done in the '90s. The clothes now wear so much better when you're smaller. In the '90s it was all about big boobs in halter tops.
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About Time...
She Has Gone And Done It
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We have a winner! Drumroll please . . .
Sir Nelson is the top MOCker for this contest, with his "Holy Grail" topping the list:
"In his search for rare minifig shield torsos, Ben disgards the most sacred relic. Bruce and Nate look on...."
Congratulations to Nelson and all of the entrants. Honorable mentions, in no particular order, go to:
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Some RHQ plugins require access to some resources that are normally only readable by root or the respective owner. The example I am using here is the postgres plugin. This plugin needs access to
$PGDATA/postgresql.conf in order to show the configuration in the UI (and to possibly update it).
Unfortunately postgres requires this file to be owned by user postgres and only be read(-writable) by this user (mode 600) and the directory containing this file (
$PGDATA) is also required to be owned by user postgres and only be accessible by user postgres (mode 700).
One way to access the data it to run the RHQ agent as root and be done. But even if the agent does not do any harm, many admins don't feel comfortable with it - especially when using plugins from third parties that they don't have the source for. Or when using the script plugin, which can use shell scripts to do its work.
Luckily there is an easy way to get around this limitation: ACLs
ACL (access control lists) are a posix feature that is implemented in most (all) modern system these days. The way to set and query them are different unfortunately.
On Red HatEnterprise Linux (and Fedora and probably all other Linuxes) you can set them like this ('hrupp' is used as agent user):
postgres$ pwd
postgres$ setfacl -m u:hrupp:rw $PGDATA/postgresql.conf
postgres$ setfactl -m u:hrupp:x $PGDATA
ls shows that there are ACLs enabled:
root# ls -lsa
8 drwx--x---+ 13 postgres postgres 4096 Dec 21 14:04 .
24 -rw-rw----+ 1 postgres postgres 16872 Dec 17 12:11 postgresql.conf
See the little + in the perms? That indicates an active ACL. Those can be queried via getfacl:
root# getfacl .
# file: .
# owner: postgres
# group: postgres
root# getfacl postgresql.conf
# file: postgresql.conf
# owner: postgres
# group: postgres
Also remember that the mount options need to enable ACLs first.:
root# grep acl /etc/fstab
/dev/mapper/VG_data-data1 /var/db ext4 defaults,acl 1 3
On Mac OS X the command to see them in directory listings is '
ls -lea' (shown below). To set an ACL you can use
chmod (here 'hrupp' is used as agent user):
postgres$ pwd
postgres$ chmod +a "hrupp allow read,write" postgresql.conf
postgres$ ls -le postgresql.conf
-rw-------+ 1 postgres postgres 16759 Jul 22 2009 postgresql.conf
0: user:hrupp allow read,write
postgres$ chmod +a "hrupp allow execute" .
postgres$ ls -lea
drwx------+ 23 postgres postgres 782 Dec 30 15:00 .
0: user:hrupp allow search
-rw-------+ 1 postgres postgres 16759 Jul 22 2009 postgresql.conf
0: user:hrupp allow read,write
The '0:' tells us that this is the first acl on the file. If there were more acls set, they would be enumerated there as well and evaluated in order.
I have been told that recent Windows versions also support POSIX ACLs, so this should work there as well.
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Conservation and Environment in Nepal: Monthly Updates
Conservation in Nepal - Monthly Update - June-July 2014
This month we have been hard at work and even the onset of the monsoon season could not dampen our spirits. Volunteers and staff alike have been hard at work and we have started an exciting new herpetology project, continued our pioneering sensor camera research and been able to add some new birds to our ever growing species list. If that was not enough, volunteers had time to immerse themselves in some local culture with a colourful festival that we all enjoyed…..
Reptiles and amphibian survey
This is a new project that started in July. We try to catch the amphibians, by doing opportunistic and nocturnal surveys and setting up pitfall traps. We place the traps in an area where we think many of them will live, for example close to water. This way we found the Marbled cascade frog (Amolops marmoratus), but even when we don't find any animals, it is useful to us, "No data is still data". When we don't catch anything in a pitfall trap, we need to find out what the reason is. Also by moving the pitfall traps, we can collect more data. In the Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP) there were recorded 40 species of reptiles, among those 40 species we discovered 9 species so far in this month. For the amphibians, there were 27 species recorded, we have recorded 6 species in this month. All specimens are photographed closely to be identified to species level and then safely returned to where they were found.
Excitingly just last week local workers digging the foundations of a building uncovered a snake nest! Most of the eggs were destroyed unfortunately, although 4 eggs remained intact. From examination of the snake foetus inside we could see that the snakes were quite developed, they had eyes and were quite long. They did not have teeth though or an egg tooth which they use to break out of the egg when they are ready to hatch. From this we could tell that the eggs needed at least another couple of weeks before they could hatch. The four intact eggs that remained we took and are now trying to incubate ourselves in the hope they survive! If they hatch we will release them back into the wild.
Bird survey
We try to locate the birds by doing opportunistic search and using the MacKinnon method. This means that when we try to locate 10 different bird species in a site using call identification and sightings. When we have found the ten we move on to another site to find the next 10 species over there. There are 240 species recorded in the Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP) and two new ones were found since July, namely the Pied cuckoo (Clamator jacobinus) and the emerald dove (Chalcophaps indica). These new species were officially confirmed by our resident ornithologist Seejan Gyawali.
Mammal survey
For the mammal survey, we went out for a full day trek to place camera traps at an altitude of 2800 to 3000 meters. On the video, we saw some rare species like the common leopard (Panthera pardus) and the leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis). But 90% of the animals on the videos were buffaloes. In Nepal the buffalo has been domesticated for hundreds of years and are raised like cattle. This large number so far from the village is surprising and could be an indication that the herd size in the area should be reduced or at least stabilised. We also placed camera traps at an altitude of 1200 metres, were we found Sumatran Serow (Capricornis sumatraensis), barking deer (Muntiacus muntjak), large Indian civet (Viverra zibetha) and the Assamese macaque (Macaca assamensis). During the mammal surveying we also unfortunately encountered a poacher's trap which was probably left to trap barking deer a protected species in ACAP. The trap was given into the authorities in ACAP and they will eventually destroy it and try to find who owned it.
Discovery of dead leopard
Even more tragic was the discovery of a dead leopard. It was found about a 25 minute hike from the village behind the reservoir. It was a young female animal about 2 or 3 years old. It is unclear if she died from disease or poison. Although it was very upsetting to see such a creature dead it was very interesting to be so close to such an animal and be able to be so close to the top predator in the area. The carcass was removed by ACAP again and will be buried so that no one can profit from the death of the animal through its skin.
Nursery project
We also have a Nursery project where we grow our own organic vegetables. Mainly volunteers are involved from the beginning i.e. from preparing the nursery field to the harvesting or in distributing the small saplings to the local villagers. The saplings mainly include pumpkins, cabbages, cauliflowers, spinach and cucumbers. For this project, we own a greenhouse, where we grow all kinds of vegetables, like carrots and pumpkins. The vegetable saplings are given to the local farmers and, of course, we also enjoy eating from the organic vegetables from the garden.
Butterfly survey
This is an upcoming project for the end of July and September. Now it is still too wet and the butterflies are not fully developed yet. When the survey starts, we will try to catch the butterflies with a net, take a photo and identify them. Currently we have seen many different kinds of caterpillar in the area which is a good indication of a good survey season to follow!
Festival in the village
"Toh-tei" is a Gurung festival which is celebrated twice a year, once during the last Tuesday of the Nepali calendar's 5th Month and secondly on the last Tuesday of the Nepali calendar's 12th Month.
This festival is celebrated to free the village of evil spirits, protect the village from those evil spirits and for the goodness of the village and villagers.
During this festival, most of the participants dressed up in their traditional Gurung costumes and walk around the village with drums and other traditional musical instruments. The festival starts with the burning of the incense powder in the fire pot by the elder of the village. Afterwards the participants go around the village with the musical instruments playing. The festival is always concluded by the sacrifice of the rooster (the blood - believed to be given to the evil spirit) and the meat will be eaten by one particular section of the village each time.
Volunteers participated in the festival along with the villagers and had a quite fun time in experiencing the local culture and festival.
As we continue our hard work in the magnificent backdrop of the Nepalese Himalayas I look forward to bringing you more news from the mountains next time…..


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Hi, I am completly new to Classes in C++. I have been trying to create a simple class and have had all sorts of problems. I am following directions from my textbook and the code looks correct, I have tried searching online for answers to the compiler errors but nothing was helpfull.
I think the above errors are because I am unable to compile the MyObject.cpp file.Code:#include "MyObject.h" #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { int newAge=23; char newTitle= 'G'; /* Trying to initialize an object */ MyObject thing; /* Trying to use object methods */ thing.setAge(newAge); thing.setTitle(newTitle); /* Trying to access object variables */ cout<<"Age : "<< thing.getAge() <<endl; cout<<"Title : "<< thing.getTitle() <<endl; return(0); } ------------------------- Compiler Log: undefined reference to `MyObject::setAge(int)' undefined reference to `MyObject::setTitle(char)' undefined reference to `MyObject::getAge() const' undefined reference to `MyObject::getTitle() const'
I am not sure what this WinMain@16 error is all about.Code:#include "MyObject.h" #include <iostream> using namespace std; /* Sets the age of the Object */ void MyObject::setAge(int num) { if(num<0) age=1; else age=num; } /* Sets the title of the Object */ void MyObject::setTitle(char ch) { title=ch; } /* Returns the value in member var "age" */ int MyObject::getAge() const { return(age); } /* Returns the value in the member var. "title" */ char MyObject::getTitle() const { return(title); } -------------------------------- Compiler Log: Linking console executable: ... F:/CodeBlocks/.... undefined reference to `_WinMain@16' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Code:#ifndef MYOBJECT_H #define MYOBJECT_H class MyObject { private: int age; char title; public: void setAge(int); void setTitle(char); int getAge() const; char getTitle() const; }; #endif -------------------------------------- Compiler Log: Nothing to be done.
I have all 3 files in the same directory and I have no idea why the MyObject.cpp will not compile. I tried creating them as a project which resulted in similar errors. Any suggestions or anyone see what I am doing wrong? I am using Code::Blocks IDE and GCC compiler.


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Don't forget: as soon as the IU-Kentucky game ends Friday night, go to AssemblyCall.com/live for the latest episode of The Assembly Call. Andy, Ryan, and I will be there, as always, win or lose, with instant analysis and fan reaction.
Before you begin reading this, understand that I acknowledge how small the sample size is that I'm about to analyze. For this reason, I am quick not to make many predictive conclusions in this post.
But the main point I will make is a pretty simple one, so simple that I think even this little bit of anecdotal data can make it.
My one and only goal with this post is to assuage any fears IU fans might have (like the ones discussed here and that we discussed on our Indiana-Kentucky preview show) that playing in the Georgia Dome could negatively affect the Hoosiers' 3-point shooting.
It won't.
Oh sure, Indiana may well have an off shooting night from downtown Friday night. That could very well happen.
But based on the anecdotal evidence from five sets of NCAA Tournament games played at the Georgia Dome, if Indiana – a very, very good 3-point shooting team – does shoot poorly from 3-point range, it will not be the fault of the cavernous Georgia Dome and its ostensibly challenging shooting background.
Since most reasonable observers agree that Indiana probably needs to shoot well from 3-point range to beat Kentucky, like the Hoosiers did back in December (9 for 15), this seemed like a fun statistical jaunt to take. And since I like nerding out about these things, I decided to do just that.
A few quick notes
- In all, five sets of NCAA Tournament games have been played at the Georgia Dome: the 2002 and 2007 Final Fours, as well as the Regionals in 2001, 2004, and 2006. That provides a total of 15 games worth of data and 20 teams. I recognize that this isn't much to work with. Unfortunately, I did not have time to dig up all of the shooting numbers from the SEC tournaments that have been played there.
- I am only looking at 3-point shooting percentages here rather than 2-point shooting percentages or overall field goal percentages. Feel free to disagree, but I think the potential effects of a deep shooting background would show up more, or at least be easier to isolate, from 3-point percentages as opposed to overall field goal percentages. If anyone disagrees or wants my reasoning for this, feel free to comment and I'll explain.
- All data was ascertained from historical game box scores at ESPN.com and SI.com, as well as historical team stats from StatSheet.com. Here is the spreadsheet I used.
I have posted the data below if you'd like to reference it, but here is a summary of what the data shows:
1. Elite 3-point shooting teams turn in elite 3-point shooting performances at the Georgia Dome in the NCAA Tournament.
Out of the 20 teams that have played NCAA Tournament games in the Georgia Dome, four entered with a season 3-point field goal percentage of 40.0% or better. While 40% may seem like an arbitrary cutoff point, know that only eight out of 345 teams shot 40% or better from downtown this season. So only the elite of the elite typically hit that mark.
Of the six games these four sharp-shooting teams ended up participating in, five resulted in the elite 3-point shooting team shooting better than its season average:
- 2002 Indiana (41% season average): 8-13 and 10-23 in two Final Four games
- 2007 Florida (40.9%): 9-22 and 10-18 in two Final Four games
- 2001 Gonzaga (40.4%): 9-22 in one Regional Quarterfinal game
(Note: for those of you not quick with the math skills, 9-22 equates to 40.91%.)
The one team that didn't surpass its season average, 2002 Kansas (41.7%), only missed it by a smidgen (39.13%) and still made nine threes in the game.
For the record, these elite 3-point shooting teams went 3-3 in their Georgia Dome games.
Why is this important?
Indiana enters Friday night's game with a season 3-point percentage of 43.7%, which is a better season percentage than any other NCAA Tournament team has ever entered the Georgia Dome possessing. Unless the Hoosiers make fewer than eight 3-pointers or shoot below 39.13% from downtown, IU will have done something rather dubious that no other sharp-shooting NCAA Tournament team playing in the Georgia Dome has done.
Again, it could very well happen; but based on the anecdotal evidence, blaming a poor shooting night from 3-point range on playing an NCAA Tournament game in the Georgia Dome would be silly because it's never adversely affected really good 3-point shooting teams before.
If you're an Indiana fan, which is a likelihood if you're reading this, that should make you feel good…or at least assuage any fears you may have that our silky stroke from downtown will abandon us in the dome and that we are somehow at a strategic disadvantage because of it.
I think we all feel that Indiana will have a good chance to win if the Hoosiers can hit 8-10 3s and shoot at least 40% clip from behind the arc. This small sample size of anecdotal data suggests that we will.
Now we know what the arena-specific history suggests about IU's chances for a good shooting night from deep on Friday night, but how about for Kentucky?
2. Above average (but not elite) 3-point shooting teams tend to turn in below average 3-point shooting performances at the Georgia Dome in the NCAA Tournament.
The median 3-point percentage in college basketball this year was 34.0%, a number that eight teams actually ended up settling on. I'll use 2012 as a representative example of history and call any team that entered an NCAA Tournament game at the Georgia Dome with a season 3-point percentage above 34% but below 40% an "above average" 3-point shooting team.
For the record, Kentucky's season 3-point percentage of 37.5% is 47th this season, so they are in the upper 15% of college basketball teams this year. They aren't elite like Indiana is, but the Wildcats have still been pretty effective from downtown.
In all, 14 teams have entered an NCAA Tournament game at the Georgia Dome with a season 3-point shooting percentage between 34% and 40%. Scroll down if you want to see each team's individual performance by game, but the performances can be summarized thusly:
- 16 times out of a possible 20, the above average shooting team shot below its season average.
- 13 out of those 20 times, the above average shooting team shot below 33%.
- 13 out of the 20 times the above average 3-point shooting team made six or fewer 3s in a game.
This anecdotal analysis suggests that above average but not elite shooting teams tend to struggle a bit more than usual from downtown in the Georgia Dome in the NCAA Tournament, and they usually won't shoot and/or hit an inordinate amount of 3s in a single game. Exceptions to this are 2001 Penn State (13-33), 2006 Texas (10-26), and 2006 West Virginia (15-33).
What does this mean for Indiana?
We know that the Hoosiers tend to struggle defending the 3-point line, and we also know that they may have to play zone at some point during the game, which could lead to open 3s. If the history of above average but not elite 3-point shooting teams in the Georgia Dome holds, Kentucky will more than likely make a 3-pointer about once in every three shots. I think Indiana would happily live with that, all things considered.
This is probably a good time to note that this analysis does not in any way account for the effect the opposing defenses may have had on the 3-point field goal percentages in these Georgia Dome NCAA Tournament games. But since no less an authority than Ken Pomeroy considers offensive 3-point field goal percentage to essentially be a defense-free statistic, I'm okay with that.
So, let's quickly summarized what we've learned so far:
- Indiana fans shouldn't fear that the Georgia Dome will unduly hinder the Hoosiers' 3-point shooting.
- Indiana fans also shouldn't fear, based on the historical probability, that Kentucky will have anything more than just an average shooting night from the behind the arc.
Sure, this doesn't account for the myriad other variables that will determine who has more points at the end of 40 minutes, but 3-point shooting has been an important variable in many of Indiana's biggest wins this year. Thus, it's nice to at least know that nothing about the history of NCAA Tournament games in the Georgia Dome suggests that 3-point shooting will be any less or more of a factor than it would be anywhere else simply because it's a dome. If anything, the history of the arena tends to favor IU.
But does this really mean anything?
Let's go one level deeper…
3. Good 3-point shooting has not been especially predictive of success in NCAA Tournament games in the Georgia Dome.
The two worst 3-point shooting teams to play in an NCAA Tournament foursome at the Georgia Dome both won their foursome.
- In 2002, Maryland won the National Championship despite entering the Final Four with a season 3-point percentage of 33.9% and shooting just 30% over the two games.
- In 2006, LSU won the South Regional and went to the Final Four despite having a 32.4% season 3-point percentage and shooing a paltry 20% (5-25) over the two games.
The only time the best 3-point shooting team emerged victorious out of the Georgia Dome was the 2007 Final Four, when Florida won it all, thanks in large part of Lee Humphrey's sharp shooting.
Could Indiana be the next team to follow in Florida's footsteps as en elite 3-point shooting that emerges from a Georgia Dome foursome victorious?
Who knows.
But at least we all now know that it won't be the arena's fault if the Hoosiers do not.
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It doesn't matter how many times I read the words "baby dies in hot car." Every time, I get the same feeling, right in the center of my stomach, right below my belly button. My throat constricts, and tears prick at the corner of my eyes.
It's a feeling of horror, thinking about what kids like the 7-month-old who died in his father's pick-up truck in Sugar Land, Texas this week were feeling in those last moments. But it's fear too. Fear because of all the crimes against children, a young one forgotten in a car is the one most of us look at and say, "Oh God, that could have been me."
I could be the criminal.
I could be the monster.
Here are the sparse details of what happened in Texas this week: The dad took his older kids to school on Thursday morning. Then he went to a business conference. He returned home around 3:45 p.m. Sometime later, his wife called and asked how the kids were doing. That's when he rushed out to the truck, realizing his baby had been there all day.
Now let's read between the lines. I imagine a Dad rushing to get the kids to school, rushing to a conference. I imagine a Dad who was trying to do so many things for his family that he never managed to do any of them quite as well as he could.
Been there, haven't you? A few months ago my husband fell ill, really ill, to the point where he had to be rushed to the ER. But in the days before his hospital visit, he was so incapacitated that I acted as if a single parent. I took over the morning run to school in addition to my after-school duties. I fed. I bathed. I clothed. And I worked.
This is not to say I did anything extraordinary. It's my job, and my hat is off to all the single parents who juggle it all for much longer than a week. But when your schedule is changed, when you have extra duties piled on you, things fall through the cracks.
Most of us have never left a child in a hot car. But we all have that memory that haunts us. The tearful call from a hungry kindergartner whose lunch you forgot to pack, perhaps. The 11 p.m. dash to the pet store to buy a new goldfish because the last one succumbed to hunger while your kid was at camp.
It's a horror that there are babies dying in hot cars. But part of the horror is knowing that there is no one good way to make these tragedies go away.
What is that mistake that haunts you and makes you feel like you could have been this dad?
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