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We must embrace that and allow people, whether it’s a grandmother in China or her granddaughter in America, to express and define their own experiences of that cuisine. People who are passionate about their cultures and the foods that they make are what breathe new life into our traditions. The most exciting part about Chengdu’s food culture is how it is always changing. Gao: In my opinion, with every cuisine, the only way that it can thrive is if it evolves. We have big goals to become the first modern, high-quality, mainstream Chinese food brand and we’re just getting started on that journey.īastian: How does food play a role in keeping traditions alive and in pushing cultures forward? Each turn in the road led me to Fly By Jing-which by far has been my biggest challenge yet. For me, it’s when I feel comfortable that I know it’s time to make a change. I saw my corporate career as the place for me to learn as much as I could in preparation for eventually making the jump to my own venture. Gao: I always knew I wanted to start my own business. How do you know when it’s time for a pivot, and what have you learned from making major changes more than once? So in addition to selling directly to customers via the brand’s website, Fly By Jing is now available in more than 400 stores across the country, plus giant grocery retailers like Costco, Whole Foods, Wegmans and Sprouts.Bastian: You’ve taken several big career leaps, leaving your corporate career to start a restaurant, leaving that restaurant to start a pop-up dinner series, and pivoting that into a spice and condiment company. People have realized that it is not any different from Cholula or sriracha, and that it’s nothing to be scared of,” she says. “Because of that messaging and because of our active insistence on marketing our products that way why chili crisp has become such a popular condiment in the US. with local branding, Gao chose to use English lettering to make her products more accessible. And unlike several Asian pantry staples sold in the U.S. In addition to her bold neon branding that just begs to be Instagrammed, the jar and packets themselves have detailed instructions on how to use the items, and the brand’s website also features a wide range of recipes for more ideas. Gao’s secret sauce to success lies in her deep understanding of marketing foreign pantry staples to a largely American audience. Making Chinese Ingredients A Staple In American Cooking “We want to be the go-to source for the highest quality Chinese food in the world,” notes Gao, sharing plans of slowly expanding her product line to include a lot more condiments and pantry staples in the coming months. She also stocks premium pantry staples from local manufacturers like a 10-year aged black vinegar, 3-year-aged doubanjiang and preserved black beans to name a few. ![]() ![]() For anyone new to the joy of digging into a hot pot, all you need to do is stock up on dipping ingredients (noodles, tofu, meat, vegetables.you get the point) to create your very own delicious hot pot to share with friends and family. To prove that Fly By Jing is more than just a sauce brand, Gao has recently launched a Fire Hot Pot Base, the first all-natural soup base option available in the west. ![]() Real-time data is one of the keys to unlocking the hidden benefits of tracking time and can make a major difference in project planning and decision-making. Time tracking software provides real-time data, unlike manual timecards or employee time clocks. Here's what to look for when choosing a tool. Time tracking software solutions are a more elegant and powerful option. While it’s possible to track time in an Excelspreadsheet (we can even show you exactly how to do it), spreadsheets are a frustratingly manual (and not very scalable) way to handle tracking. ![]() Learn more Key features to look for in time-tracking software Measuring workloads compared to tasks, seeing who has the heaviest load, and identifying where the most time is spent helps the current project’s management and provides information to make future ones more efficient. Successful beginning-to-end project management is easier and more intuitive when an automated time tracker notes every team member’s work. Handling all aspects of a project well keeps it on track and on budget. This approach can dramatically increase a project’s profitability. Either way, time tracking tools can ensure you bill for every possible billable minute - but only those that should be invoiced to the client. Inaccurate or incomplete time reports can cause agencies to miss billable hours (or overbill the client). Accurate billing and invoicingĪgencies are responsible for serving their clients well, which means accurately billing them for work. An automatic time tracking solution takes the guesswork out of deciding if a certain task really did take as long as the team member says it did. This misinformation can keep you from addressing inefficiencies that could have built better processes. Unfortunately, team members who aren’t completely honest when clocking in and out on a time clock or filling out an employee timesheet can skew your data. It’s difficult to streamline processes and get your team to be more productive if you don’t have a clear picture of where they’re spending their time (imagine trying to drive to a new city without a GPS!) With time tracking software, agencies can pinpoint how long certain tasks take, which team members are the most productive, and which processes need to be tweaked. Tracking a team’s work hours offers several benefits to your agency and your clients. It’s just good business to know what your employees are spending their time doing, both for the short-term goals (the current project) and the long-term ones (the company’s profitability and growth). ~Peter Drucker, management consultant, educator, and author "Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed." Learn more Why time tracking will benefit your organization Even in poems that do not deal explicitly with love, Sappho often depicts herself as part of a world in which the emotional and/or erotic bonds between women take center stage. While the nature of Sappho's “circle” is still open to debate, contemporary scholars generally regard Sappho as connected in some way, formally or informally, to a group of women affiliated with one another through the bonds of friendship and love. ![]() We do know that Sappho wrote in the Aeolic dialect in a variety of meters and that her work covers a broad range of themes and concerns: romantic love, marriage, fellowship and community, myth and ritual, politics, and philosophical reflections on nobility and goodness.įor years, notions of Sappho as the head of a religious cult or as a teacher in a kind of finishing school for young aristocratic women dominated Sappho scholarship. ![]() At the very least, it seems likely that her wedding songs might have been performed by choruses. Unfortunately, there is not enough conclusive evidence to determine the context in which Sappho's songs were sung. But there is considerable disagreement among scholars about whether Sappho's poems were for solo or choral performance. Like other poetry of her day, Sappho's was composed primarily for oral performance. Much of the fascination about Sappho over the centuries has been fueled by the fact that she is a woman addressing many of her love poems to other women, that we know almost nothing about her life, and that, in modern times, her poems survive mostly in fragments. While two hundred fragments have been attributed to Sappho, only two complete poems and approximately forty fragments survive. Ancient sources state that she produced nine volumes of poetry. Born at the close of the seventh century BCE, Sappho was famously declared the “Tenth Muse” by Plato. Sappho was a Greek lyric poet from Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. ![]() Detail of Raphael’s Parnassus showing Sappho, 1509.(Wikimedia Commons) Country Turkey Street: FEVZ ÇAKMAK C BÖLÜNTÜ S.52 City: Merkez State/province/area: Bursa Phone number 224 2222584.
![]() That's how Tadamasa Goto made most of his money. But the modern Yakuza is a different animal, adding corporate takeovers, financial fraud and insider trading to their criminal portfolio." They run everything from the girls to the sex, to the drugs. What's also hard on the liver is the hedonistic lifestyle of the Yakuza.Īs she walked down the main street of Tokyo's entertainment and "red light" district, Logan explained, "This is traditional Yakuza turf. "The tattoos are so dense that it's very hard to sweat, which means when you can't get rid of the toxins in your body, that's also very hard on the liver," Adelstein explained. "Physically, the tattoos take their toll on your body," Logan remarked. ![]() Beneath his expensive suit, his body is a canvas, like many Yakuza, covered with intricate tattoos. ![]() He was introduced to "60 Minutes" by Jake Adelstein in downtown Tokyo. "Right now, we don't hide the fact that we're Yakuza," the anonymous Yakuza boss told Logan. And they are so much a part of Japanese culture, they parade openly. Many have ornate tattoos that often cover their entire body, marking them for life.īut unlike the Mafia in America, Yakuza don't hide their membership in the mob, because it's not illegal in Japan to be a member of organized crime. Tradition demands when a mistake is made, they chop off their own finger to atone and present the severed part to their boss. It's impossible to miss the mark of a Yakuza: severed fingers. The buildings go all up, all the time in Tokyo," Adelstein explained. So, you know, you're pouring a new building. They own a lot of construction companies. "Generally speaking, Yakuza get rid of bodies by dumping them in the foundations of buildings. And this will also help to keep the smartthings platform secure.īecause smartthings hubs should already have secure connections to the smartthings platform server, it might be easier to implement than implementing with ngrok or such third party thing. So if there’s any way to run the new smartapp (nodejs or whatever it migt be) in the smartthings hub, then we customers don’t need to care about managing ports and securities of their own server. I undetstand that it is because of all the hard work from smartthings team, but as an end user, install-and-forget is a big advantage of using groovy smartapp for me. What I like about groovy smartapp plus smartthings ide is that, I don’t have to be annoyed to maintain the service. I’m runnng ubuntu on my raspberry pi at home for managing RS485 connected IoT devices, but it is very annoying to keep it updated (all the security updates, etc…), or it would be hacked.Īlso raspberry pi uses SD card for main storage, which is far from being a stable primary storage, so that I’m always worried about when this SD card will be broken. Reference: Test Your Connected Service | SmartThings Developers Click on it and test its functionality.Your SmartApp will be listed near the bottom of the opened page.Here are some links to help you get started: Developer Documentation Developer Workspace Community Forums SmartThings Edge Device Drivers are the new method for integrating Hub Connected Devices into the SmartThings Platform. Navigate to the Automations tab, and tap on the compass icon (upper-right corner) This repo contains development code for SmartApps and Groovy DTHs (Dynamic Type Handlers).Your SmartThings app and Developer Workspace must be signed into the same account. SDK: GitHub - SmartThingsCommunity/smartapp-sdk-nodejs: Javascript/NodeJS SDK to create SmartThings SmartApps You will need a location prepared with at least one contact sensor and one or more light devices. I suggest having all of the required accounts created before getting started. In this tutorial we will use Glitch but you should be able to follow along with any express enabled node environment. SmartThings Account with at least one device Changes may still be made that are not backwardly compatible. ![]() This is the very first release of this SDK and should be considered a work in progress. The SmartThings Core SDK is a wrapper designed to simplify the use of the SmartThings REST API from JavaScript and TypeScript applications. SmartThings CoreSDK Javascript Tutorials Getting Started With CoreSDK JS ![]() ![]() The character in Skyrim is a blank slate, allowing for a lot more flexible story-telling opportunities. The existing lore of The Elder Scrolls runs incredibly deep. You possess the character's ability to wield magic and explore abstract concepts, while still maintaining a strong grounding in reality when it comes to tackling issues of the world's economy, creatures, and how people look and behave. It has a much more compelling offer to players and authors looking to make content for the game. Skyrim is, by virtue of being in a fantasy setting, a much more flexible stage for people to operate in. “This is just my opinion, but I've heard it expressed talking to other mod authors and friends over the years. So why is Skyrim so popular in the modding scene? I asked DylanJames, a freelance musician and music producer who is also the creator of several popular audio mods, namely Regional Sounds Expansion, Reverb Interior Sounds Expansion, and Acoustic Space Improvement Fixes. Skyrim Special Edition consistently ranks at the top of the popularity charts, and it doesn’t seem to be budging anytime soon, as it still outperforms a more recent Bethesda game, Fallout 4. Setting CourseĪnyone familiar with the Skyrim modding scene, or just modding in general, will have heard of Nexus Mods, as it’s one of the most active locations for the distribution of PC gaming mods. While asking about Skyrim’s longevity and Starfield’s potential in the modding space, three distinct factors seemed to be the most important: the setting of Skyrim, the continuing familiarity with the engine, and the modding community that keeps in constant contact. I spoke to several high-profile modders of Skyrim to better understand their community and their process, and came away with a prevailing theme: the modders keeping Skyrim alive might just be Starfield’s secret weapon. Check the Character Build Archives for additional details.But while the bespoke created content in Starfield looks promising, what really could give it limitless potential is the modding scene. Those who put the effort into producing quality builds will likely see their work rise quickly though the ranks. This group uses a ranking system based on the number of 'likes' each build receives from our members. Inside you'll find instructions on how to add your build to the archive. The character build archives is an invaluable tool that makes it much easier to find exactly the build you're looking for. ![]() Whether you're brand new to character building or just want some helpful guidance, let Ponty, the resident expert on character building, be your guide! We're always open to suggestions, so if you have any ideas at all on how to improve this group feel free to post it here. This place is an invaluable resource for those looking for fresh ideas for their next build. The place to discuss and share knowledge of game mechanics, tricks, and quirks for Skyrim or any other Elder Scrolls game. If you have tough questions regarding builds feel free to ask about it in this thread. This is where you can seek general gameplay advice, get assistance on fine-tuning your build, recommendations on what builds to play or simply ask any questions about the Character Building group in general. Below are some helpful links to get you started. We're family here, so make yourselves at home. So feel free to share your character builds from Skyrim (or any Elder Scrolls game), give constructive criticism and advice to others, and remember to like all your favorite builds. Welcome to The Skyforge Character Building Group, home to the best Skyrim builds on the web! Thanks in no small part to the great builders and supportive community. ![]() The clocks use a simple automatic DLS adjustment class which takes a table of start/end dates. As well as setting the date and time it configures the red/yellow bin cycle (or none) Pressing Set from time display goes to the configuration screen. Pressing Adj from time display cycles through the faces (including a pseudo-face which randomly cycles through faces). The sketch uses all but around 100 bytes of the Uno’s program storage space. ![]() There was a little program memory left, so I squeezed in a very simple Pong Clock, again using code from an earlier project. The look is based on this font Triangle ClockĪn adaptation of an eariler project with a triangulated irregular network (TIN) style face, more pretty colours. The LCD colours are appealing, so I experiment with coloured cubes. The LCD inspired me to add in some additional clock “faces”: The angles come from skipping every 4th row of the digit data, so it’s acos(3/4)=41°, close enough to 45°! The time digits change with a detailed 3-step animation (top flap at 41°, 90° and 131°). It’s alternate weeks and I keep forgetting (this display is optional). As a bonus, across the middle there’s a blinking/flipping colon and also a coloured digit indicating the number of days until I need to put out either the rubbish bin (red) or the recycling (yellow). The time is in big digits across the bottom. The main clock display is the day, date and month in smallish flip-style digits across the top of the LCD (landscape mode). So what’s in a margarita? Well, as you’ll see from the recipes below, ingredients can vary wildly depending on the type of margarita you’re making.īut for the standard, traditional margarita, you’ll find: In it, he says that the margarita is an evolution of the pre-prohibition era, Daisy cocktail.Ĭonsidering “margarita” is “daisy” in Spanish – the story checks out! The version that makes the most sense to me is the one told by David Wondrich in his fantastic cocktail book, Imbibe. Margarita Ingredients: What’s in a Margarita? The Pretentious Margarita.Ī margarita cocktail is a citrus tequila cocktail that no one really knows the exact origin of. No matter what margarita recipe you’re looking for? We’ve got you covered, so let’s stop wasting time and dig in. We’ll answer some of the most common margarita questions as well, like “what is the best tequila for a margarita” or “what is a cadillac margarita?” Looking for a complex sipper that you can enjoy while pretending to look out at a tropical view? We got you there too, and everywhere in between. Looking for a quick and easy blended margarita recipe for a group? We got you covered. They’re all very different and will appeal to different tastes and preferences. ![]() So in this post I’m going to share with you my favorite margarita recipes. It can hit the perfect combination of tart, salty, sweet, tangy, or even spicy to leave you with a cocktail that’s memorable and enjoyable to drink. The right margarita recipe is a magical thing. ![]() We’ve all had a margarita with that sugary mix and half a bottle of Jose Cuervo – while that can be fine….the margarita can (and should) be SO much better. Unfortunately, it’s also often one of the most poorly executed. Whether you like them tart, sweet, strong, weak, blended, on the rocks, flavored, or traditional lime – the margarita is one of the most versatile cocktails on the world. ![]() There are so many different types of margaritas out there, that no matter who you are, there’s going to be a variation for you. Is there a more universally loved cocktail out there? I’m not sure there is. |
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