“Hungover today, sorry!” Laidback Tsukuba cafe gives hilarious reasons for frequent closings
Mike
Tsukuba is a small, planned city nestled in the mountains of Ibaraki, which has a reputation for being a pretty chilled out place to live. The small population size and abundance of surrounding nature give the city a slow-paced, laid back feeling compared to the bustle of major cities like Tokyo, Yokohama and Osaka.We hear there are also a lot of great places to eat in Tsukuba, provided your restaurant or cafe of choice isn’t closed for the day because they couldn’t decide on the day’s menu items or the manager has a hangover.
March 2014 archive
Mar 22 2014
Random Japan
Mar 22 2014
Health and Fitness News
Welcome to the Health and Fitness News, a weekly diary which is cross-posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette. It is open for discussion about health related issues including diet, exercise, health and health care issues, as well as, tips on what you can do when there is a medical emergency. Also an opportunity to share and exchange your favorite healthy recipes.
Questions are encouraged and I will answer to the best of my ability. If I can’t, I will try to steer you in the right direction. Naturally, I cannot give individual medical advice for personal health issues. I can give you information about medical conditions and the current treatments available.
You can now find past Health and Fitness News diaries here and on the right hand side of the Front Page.
I had already decided that this week I would play around with breakfast grains when I noticed that food manufacturers are also coming up with new ideas. I rarely look at the breakfast cereals on the shelves in the supermarket or at Trader Joe’s, as it’s easier and cheaper for me to put together my own combos. But this week, as I reached for a container of steel-cut oats, I noticed several prepared mixes of grains and seeds like oats, quinoa and flax, mostly for hot cereal, that I hadn’t seen before. [..]
When I’m planning on porridge for breakfast on a weekday morning I begin the process the night before. I pour boiling water over the grains and cover the bowl with a plate. The next morning all I need to do is heat the mixture in the microwave for two to four minutes. I might also grate in some apple, but basically, hot cereal made this way requires no more fuss than a bowl of cold cereal with milk.
This sweet and grainy polenta makes a delicious brunch dish.
Rolled Oats With Amaranth Seeds, Maple Syrup and Apple
Amaranth and apple contribute texture and sweetness to this morning bowl.
Steel-Cut Oats With Amaranth Seeds, Chia Seeds and Blueberries
Amaranth and chia seeds pump up the nutritional content of this sweet and hearty morning bowl.
Oatmeal and Teff With Cinnamon and Dried Fruit
Cinnamon and dried fruit sweeten this oatmeal/teff mix.
These fragrant Middle Eastern wheat berries can be stirred into yogurt or eaten on their own.
Mar 21 2014
March Madness 2014: Men’s Round of 64 Day 2 Evening
Network | Time | Seed | School | Record | Seed | School | Record | Region |
TBS | 6:55 | 8 | Memphis | (23 – 9) | 9 | George Washington | (24 – 8) | East |
CBS | 7:10 | 1 | Wichita State | (34 – 0) | 16 | Cal Poly | (14 – 19) | MidWest |
TNT | 7:20 | 6 | N. Carolina | (23 – 9) | 11 | Providence | (23 – 11) | East |
truTV | 7:27 | 5 | Virginia Commonwealth | (26 – 8) | 12 | Stephen Austin | (31 – 2) | South |
TBS | 9:25 | 1 | Virginia | (28 – 6) | 16 | Coastal Carolina | (21 – 12) | East |
CBS | 9:40 | 8 | Kentucky | (24 – 10) | 9 | Kansas State | (20 – 12) | MidWest |
TNT | 9:50 | 3 | Iowa State | (26 – 7) | 14 | N.C. Central | (28 – 5) | East |
truTV | 9:57 | 4 | UCLA | (26 – 8) | 13 | Tulsa | (21 – 12) | South |
Mar 21 2014
Out of Arkansas
I’ve shared before that I was teaching at a university in Arkansas when I transitioned. The University of Central Arkansas is located in Conway, about 35 miles north of Little Rock on I-40.
I can’t say it was a good place to transition…but looking back, I wonder if there was anyplace that would have been good to transition in 1992.
Anyway, we left there in 2000 and moved to New Jersey.That meant I went from a tenured faculty member at UCA to teaching as an adjunct in mathematics at Montclair State University and as an adjunct in Computer Information Systems at Bloomfield College. Fortunately I was offered a tenure-track position at Bloomfield at the end of the first year, which I accepted…even though I had no background in computer programming.
But I taught myself the languages I needed to be able to teach and gained tenure in CIS in 2006. I moved back to teaching mathematics three years ago.
Anyway…enough about me. There are three news stories out of Arkansas I would like to share.
Mar 21 2014
March Madness 2014: Men’s Round of 64 Day 2 Afternoon
Last Night’s Results-
Seed | School | Record | Seed | School | Record | Score | Region |
6 | Ohio State | (25 – 10) | 11 | * Dayton | (24 – 10) | (59 – 60) | South |
2 | * Wisconsin | (27 – 7) | 15 | American | (20 – 13) | (75 – 35) | West |
8 | Colorado | (16 – 17) | 9 | * Pittsburgh | (26 – 9) | (48 – 77) | South |
5 | Cincinnati | (27 – 7) | 12 | * Harvard | (27 – 4) | (57 – 61) | East |
3 | * Syracuse | (28 – 5) | 14 | W. Michigan | (23 – 10) | (77 – 53) | South |
7 | * Oregon | (24 – 9) | 10 | BYU | (23 – 12) | (87 – 68) | West |
1 | * Florida | (33 – 2) | 16 | Albany | (19 – 15) | (67 – 55) | South |
4 | * Michigan State | (27 – 8) | 13 | Delaware | (25 – 10) | (93 – 78) | East |
7 | * Connecticut | (27 – 8) | 10 | Saint Joe’s | (24 – 10) | (89 – 81) OT | East |
2 | * Michigan | (26 – 8) | 15 | Wofford | (20 – 13) | (57 – 40) | MidWest |
5 | * Saint Louis | (27 – 6) | 12 | N.C. State | (22 – 14) | (83 – 80) OT | MidWest |
5 | Oklahoma | (23 – 10) | 12 | * N. Dakota State | (26 – 6) | (75 – 80) OT | West |
2 | * Villanova | (29 – 4) | 15 | Milwaukee | (21 – 14) | (73 – 53) | East |
7 | * Texas | (24 – 10) | 10 | Arizona State | (21 – 12) | (87 – 85) | MidWest |
4 | * Louisville | (30 – 5) | 13 | Manhattan | (25 – 8) | (71 – 64) | MidWest |
4 | * San Diego St. | (30 – 4) | 13 | New Mexico St. | (25 – 10) | (73 – 69) OT | West |
Today’s Schedule-
Network | Time | Seed | School | Record | Seed | School | Record | Region |
CBS | 12:15 | 3 | Duke | (26 – 8) | 14 | Mercer | (26 – 8) | MidWest |
truTV | 12:40 | 6 | Baylor | (24 – 11) | 11 | Nebraska | (19 – 12) | West |
TBS | 1:40 | 7 | New Mexico | (27 – 6) | 10 | Stanford | (21 – 12) | South |
TNT | 2:10 | 1 | Arizona | (30 – 4) | 16 | Weber State | (19 – 11) | West |
CBS | 2:45 | 6 | UMass | (24 – 8) | 11 | Tennessee | (22 – 12) | MidWest |
truTV | 3:10 | 3 | Creighton | (26 – 7) | 14 | UL-Lafayette | (23 – 11) | West |
TBS | 4:10 | 2 | Kansas | (24 – 9) | 15 | E. Kentucky | (24 – 9) | South |
TNT | 4:40 | 8 | Gonzaga | (28 – 6) | 9 | Oklahoma State | (21 – 12) | West |
Mar 21 2014
On This Day In History March 21
Cross posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette
This is your morning Open Thread. Pour your favorite beverage and review the past and comment on the future.
Find the past “On This Day in History” here.
March 21 is the 80th day of the year (81st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 285 days remaining until the end of the year.
March 21st is the common date of the March equinox (although astronomically the equinox is more likely to fall on March 20 in all but the most easterly longitudes). In astrology, the day of the equinox is the first full day of the sign of Aries. It is also the traditional first day of the astrological year.
On this day in 1804, the Napoleonic Code approved in France.
After four years of debate and planning, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte enacts a new legal framework for France, known as the “Napoleonic Code.” The civil code gave post-revolutionary France its first coherent set of laws concerning property, colonial affairs, the family, and individual rights.
In 1800, General Napoleon Bonaparte, as the new dictator of France, began the arduous task of revising France’s outdated and muddled legal system. He established a special commission, led by J.J. Cambaceres, which met more than 80 times to discuss the revolutionary legal revisions, and Napoleon presided over nearly half of these sessions. In March 1804, the Napoleonic Code was finally approved.
The Napoleonic Code, or Code Napoléon (originally, the Code civil des Français), is the French civil code, established under Napoléon I in 1804. The code forbade privileges based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and specified that government jobs go to the most qualified. It was drafted rapidly by a commission of four eminent jurists and entered into force on March 21, 1804. The Napoleonic Code was not the first legal code to be established in a European country with a civil legal system, it was preceded by the Codex Maximilianeus bavaricus civilis (Bavaria, 1756), the Allgemeines Landrecht (Prussia, 1794) and the West Galician Code, (Galicia, then part of Austria, 1797). It was, however, the first modern legal code to be adopted with a pan-European scope and it strongly influenced the law of many of the countries formed during and after the Napoleonic Wars. The Code, with its stress on clearly written and accessible law, was a major step in replacing the previous patchwork of feudal laws. Historian Robert Holtman regards it as one of the few documents that have influenced the whole world.
The preliminary article of the Code established certain important provisions regarding the rule of law. Laws could be applied only if they had been duly promulgated, and only if they had been published officially (including provisions for publishing delays, given the means of communication available at the time); thus no secret laws were authorized. It prohibited ex post facto laws (i.e., laws that apply to events that occurred before them). The code also prohibited judges from refusing justice on grounds of insufficiency of the law-therefore encouraging them to interpret the law. On the other hand, it prohibited judges from passing general judgments of a legislative value (see above).
With regard to family, the Code established the supremacy of the husband with respect to the wife and children; this was the general legal situation in Europe at the time. It did, however, allow divorce on liberal basis compared to other European countries, including divorce by mutual consent.
Mar 20 2014
March Madness 2014: Men’s Round of 64 Day 1 Evening
Network | Time | Seed | School | Record | Seed | School | Record | Region |
TBS | 6:55 | 7 | Connecticut | (26 – 8) | 10 | Saint Joe’s | (24 – 9) | East |
CBS | 7:10 | 2 | Michigan | (25 – 8) | 15 | Wofford | (20 – 12) | MidWest |
TNT | 7:20 | 5 | Saint Louis | (26 – 6) | 12 | N.C. State | (22 – 13) | MidWest |
truTV | 7:27 | 5 | Oklahoma | (23 – 9) | 12 | N. Dakota State | (25 – 6) | West |
TBS | 9:25 | 2 | Villanova | (28 – 4) | 15 | Milwaukee | (21 – 13) | East |
CBS | 9:40 | 7 | Texas | (23 – 10) | 10 | Arizona State | (21 – 11) | MidWest |
TNT | 9:50 | 4 | Louisville | (29 – 5) | 13 | Manhattan | (25 – 7) | MidWest |
truTV | 9:57 | 4 | San Diego St. | (29 – 4) | 13 | New Mexico St. | (25 – 9) | West |
Mar 20 2014
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Mar 20 2014
How We Can Take Back the Internet
Transcript can be read here
Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, is not a partisan issue, but requires a fundamental rethink of the role of the internet in our lives – and the laws that protect it. “Your rights matter,” he says, “because you never know when you’re going to need them.” Chris Anderson interviews, with special guest Tim Berners-Lee.