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2012 saw a shift in wine retail
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Wine sales have been on a steady increase in Jamaica over the past few years. A number of factors contribute to this, including, but not limited to, a more informed wine consumer, importers carrying a wider range of 'better' wines, retailers improving how they merchandise the products. 2012 had some interesting moves and shifts in the space that will ultimately result in a different experience for the consumer.
Importation and Distribution
I have been on the bandwagon shouting loudly that local wine distributors should focus on importation and distribution of their products and leave the retailing to end customers to the supermarkets, retailers, bars, and restaurants. During 2012 we noticed that three organisations decided to explore vertical integration, causing some concern to their existing retail channels. From my research, this has been one of the key reasons why a stand-alone wine retail outlet has had difficulties keeping its doors open. A consumer who wants more than a few bottles, say a case or two, will bypass the wine retail establishment and go directly to the importer.
Forward Vertical integration
In business, vertical integration refers to the degree to which a firm owns its upstream suppliers and its downstream buyers. There are three varieties: backward (upstream) vertical integration, forward (downstream) vertical integration, and balanced (both upstream and downstream) vertical integration. In relation to the wine scene in Jamaica, this year saw three examples of forward vertical integration of sorts come to fruition: this is when an organisation controls distribution and retailers where its products are sold.
Select Brands acquired 1876 Wines.
In June, Select Brands acquired 1876 Wines — a wine importer and wine club organisation that has been in business since 2004. This now allows Select Brands to channel some of its premium brands directly into the hands of wine club members — end consumers. This also gave Select Brands some new brands from smaller producers that they did not have before.
The Wine Ranch opens The Wine Store
Wine Importer The Wine Ranch opened a retail store in Southdale Plaza called The Wine Store. This currently operates more like a retail wine shop and less like a wine bar. Patrons can, however, sample a range of wines for a small fee. For now they import 100 per cent of the wines they sell. The Wine Ranch organisation began business importing wines solely for one of Jamaica's boutique hotel chains.
CPJ Market opens its doors.
Montego Bay-based Caribbean Producers Jamaica(CPJ) Limited has opened a magnificent retail establishment in Kingston. The three-in-one concept consists of a deli, a full service bar — CRU and a retail store. Its main objective is to use the location to showcase all the products that they import under one roof. This forward vertical integration example has caused the most concern for its customers who are still wondering if there will be any impact when one of their main suppliers opens a retail store nearby.
Not new
Vertical Integration is not new. As a business student I have read the case studies of Carnegie steel in the 1800s all the way to present-day Microsoft and Apple. In our Jamaican vernacular, retailers will need to "wheel and come again", as some of the mom and pop stores had to do when the big box stores like Walmart, Barnes and Noble, Best Buy and Home Depot made their way across the USA.
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GET SET TO SQUAT The Fore Street public thrones.
To Portlanders, they're a familiar sight: out-of-town victims potty-dancing around town, pained expressions on their faces, one sip away from having polished off an iced coffee the size of a small child. The militant types tighten their sandal straps and pull their hair back, willing to trek to the nearest facility, dignity intact. Others may plead with hot-dog vendors for a paper cup to squat over, or stroll casually into an alleyway to personalize a brick wall.
The roughly 9 million visitors who will come to Portland this summer will leave not just with happy memories of a lovely city by the sea, with historic cobblestone and locally-brewed ales, say some local retailers: one of their strongest memories will be of exactly how badly they had to pee.
Local retailers say the lack of adequate public bathrooms is the top complaint of both business owners and their customers, and has been for years. But the City Council's passage last month of Portland's 2011 budget, which will raise the property tax 1 percent, close two library branches, and increase the cost of city trash bags, doesn't look promising to groups asking the city for funds, particularly those which involve toilets.
Though public bathrooms may not be a sexy topic at council meetings, they're important to a city like Portland, which depends on tourism as its leading industry.
Peter Erskine, who's owned Mexicali Blues on Moulton Street for 22 years, says a city that economically survives on an influx of cruise ships and tour buses and other visitors needs to do better at providing basic facilities. He says customers are constantly asking where the public restrooms are and recalls the "pained expression" on their faces when he tells them where to go.
"You're saying, 'Go to the parking garage' and they have this vacant look like 'What are you talking about?'" says Erskine. "It's embarrassing to have to say that. We really have very inadequate restroom facilities for a city of our size."
Mayor Nick Mavodones knows about the inadequacies. As operations manager at Casco Bay Lines, he says he sees plenty of tour buses dropping dozens of tourists at the ferry terminal — with no intention of riding anything other than a toilet seat before mounting the bus again.
"We see it at Casco Bay Lines all the time," he says. "It certainly would be beneficial if we had more" public bathrooms.
In addition to the ferry terminal, seasonal downtown restrooms are open from 8 am to 6:30 pm from Memorial Day to Labor Day at the Fore Street and Spring Street parking garages. Bathrooms at City Hall and the public library are available on Congress Street during business hours, and additional restrooms are scattered around the city, though out of reasonable walking distance for those walking around downtown and at risk of wetting their pants. (If you're in need, the Metro bus station on Valley Street and City Hall are other places to, um, go.)
But Erskine and some of his neighbors say those facilities don't meet the need that's existed for years. Erskine says the ferry terminal isn't central enough to the heart of the Old Port to relieve shoppers when the need arises, and telling them to walk to Congress Street isn't an option, especially for the elderly or young children doing a potty dance at their parents' feet.
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For the better part of the last 20 years, Tedros Menghistu has been a refugee, forced to flee his Red Sea homeland of Eritrea not once, but twice—first as a young man displaced by war in the early 1990s, and then as a professional journalist escaping political censorship and military conscription a decade later. Menghistu is also one of a handful of enterprising former professional journalists uprooted from
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Family: Centropomidae, Snooks view all from this family
Description The common snook (Centropomus undecimalis) is a species of marine fish in the family Centropomidae of the order Perciformes. This species is native to the coastal waters of the western Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, from southern Florida and Texas to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The oo can be pronounced as in either room or good.
One of the largest snooks, Centropomus undecimalis grows to a maximum overall length of 140 centimetres (4.6 ft) and a maximum recorded weight of 24 kilograms (53 lb; 3.8 st). Of typical centropomid form, it possesses drab coloration except for a distinctive black lateral line. It can also possess bright yellow pelvic and caudal fins, especially during spawn.
Occurring in shallow coastal waters (up to 20 metres (66 ft) depth), estuaries, and lagoons, the fish often enters fresh water. It is carnivorous, with a diet dominated by smaller fishes, and crustaceans such as shrimps, and occasionally crabs.
Warning The Snook should be handled carefully as the sharp gill covers can cause deep cuts.
Habitat Estuaries, tidal flats & salt marshes, Lakes & ponds, Ocean or bay shallows, Rivers & streams, Tidepools.
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Even by the relatively forgiving standards of Massachusetts politics, these are pretty disgraceful days. House Speaker Sal DiMasi and three of his associates are under criminal and ethics investigations relating to a large software contract and favorable legislation for companies for which DiMasi's pals were allegedly lobbying. John Rogers, House majority leader, has had to pay a $30,000 fine for campaign-finance violations relating to mortgage payments on a Falmouth beach house. Former state senator Jim Marzilli is facing charges of assaulting women, and was recently caught taking a junket to Germany when he was supposedly getting treatment for mental illness. He has resigned his seat, as has former state senator Dianne Wilkerson, who, after a career filled with transgressions and misdeeds, has now been charged in federal court with extortion.
The latest to join this list of scandal-plagued elected officials is City Councilor Chuck Turner, arrested last week and accused of accepting a $1000 bribe in connection with the Wilkerson investigation.
Our political officeholders — those who are suspected of some sort of wrongdoing, and those who have enabled or excused them — seem to have lost their common sense.
Their problems are threatening to stall the workings of local and state government — not because those already accused have been taken out of the game, but because so many other politicians are now frozen in fear and uncertainty over what these investigations will uncover.
This is no time for a leadership vacuum in the state legislature. We have very serious challenges to address, and significant recent turnover has produced a promising but inexperienced batch of officeholders. When the new legislative session begins in January, a quarter of all the state representatives, and nearly a quarter of the state senators, will have been in office for two years or less.
We need serious action and strong leadership — and a public trust that is unlikely to be given while so many questions remain unanswered. It would be nice to see our public officials demanding those answers — but that requires political courage, a quality clearly in low supply.
Which is why, for example, DiMasi can brush off the Ethics Commission's demands for documents — not to mention demands for explanations from the general public. Apparently DiMasi can thumb his nose at transparency and accountability, and still not fear losing his Speakership. This is both outrageous and pathetic.
To be fair, our elected officials find themselves in a thorny position. The Wilkerson and DiMasi scandals are now criminal investigations — both federal and state prosecutors are reportedly looking into dealings of DiMasi and his friends, while Wilkerson and Turner have been charged in federal court. That means subpoenas and serious consequences are involved. It also means that other officeholders honestly don't know what else those investigations might turn up.
It's not just the targeted individuals who are worried, though. Perfectly innocent officials are wondering how their actions will look if scrutinized in the wrong light. Others are afraid to be caught too close to the next person charged. As elected officials hunker down and wait to find out what will happen, how can any business get done?
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The Princeton University Orchestra will open its concert season at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.
The orchestra, conducted by Michael Pratt, will perform an all-Russian program, including Glinka's "Ruslan and Ludmila Overture" and Prokofiev's suite from the ballet "Le Pas d'Acier." The Department of Music and the Program in Theater and Dance will stage this ballet in the spring.
The concerts will feature Lauren Sarah Carpenter, who will perform the solo in Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1. Carpenter, a Princeton junior, has won numerous awards, including the University's 2004 concerto competition, and has performed throughout the United States and Europe.
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DoubleLine's Jeff Gundlach on Tuesday reiterated his bearish-ish stance on bonds heading into 2013.
"I would not be surprised to see some [upward] pressure on Treasury rates next year," Gundlach says, adding that he thinks U.S. interest rates may have bottomed. "We have to ratchet down our expectations for fixed income next year. I'm hoping to get 6% returns next year, and that involves some active management."
Gundlach calls the current zero-rate Fed policy "a thief that's comes in the night to rob investors," bringing unintended consequences. "Higher insurance premiums are almost guaranteed because insurance companies have not budgeted for such an extended low-income world," he says.
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Klezmerpalooza 2001, an intercollegiate festival of Klezmer music and dance, will take place at Chancellor Green Rotunda on Sunday, Feb. 25 at 3:00 p.m.
The Princeton Klez Dispensers present an afternoon of this exciting fusion of the old Eastern European style and American jazz. Some of today's finest young klezmer bands will be performing, while a professional Yiddish dance leader will lead the community in the celebration of youth and klezmer. Legendary pianist Pete Sokolow will open as guest artist.
The event is free with student ID and $10 for others.
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Native American writers topic of Binghamton University reading, October 14
Susan Deer Cloud and Elizabeth Tucker will read from Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community at 7 p.m. Monday, October 14, in the Susquehanna Room of the University Union on the Binghamton University campus. The event is free and open to the public.
The book, Sister Nations, is a collection of writings by Native American women writers. It features fiction, prose and poetry that celebrate the rich diversity of writing by Native American women today. Susan Deer Cloud, a graduate of Binghamton University, contributed a number of writings to the book, including "Her Pochontas" and "Doe Season." She teaches creative writing at the University. Deer Cloud will be joined by Tucker, associate professor of English at the University, who will read from her own writings about her Cherokee background.
The event will offer an open microphone opportunity for audience members to share experiences that celebrate the concept of community.
The reading is sponsored by Binghamton University's Multicultural Resource Center. For more information, call 607-777-4472.


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In the U.S., Osama bin Laden's killing by Navy Seals has brought celebrations and feelings of victory and justice. But the al-Qaeda leader's demise likely holds more media impact than real-life significance. While he remains an important symbol to some, his global relevance diminished long before his death.
In the Middle East, news of bin Laden's end came mostly with a whimper. The reaction has largely been ambivalence and even indifference. Yes, there are groups mourning and honoring him: Hamas's prime minister, Ismail Haniya, condemned the "assassination" and prayed bin Laden's soul would rest in peace, and an ex-Hezbollah chief, Sheikh Sobhi al-Tufayli, was quoted as mourning the al-Qaeda leader's demise. Others in the region, as elsewhere, have questioned whether his death is real.
Overall, an understated sense of good riddance prevails. Across the Middle East, students, shopkeepers and people on the streets have been dismissive of the news. Bin Laden's narrative of grievance and victimization feels more remote than ever today as Arabs seek to grab hold of their future.
Bin Laden's vision, if it can be called that, was for Muslims to achieve glory by restoring the Caliphate. He called for a return to some mythical 7th century golden era that in fact has very little appeal to the vast majority of Muslims. Yet the spectacular destruction wrought on 9/11, combined with his fiery anti-American hectoring, gave him a strong Q rating.
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He was great on television. The carefully cultivated images of his Spartan existence in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan, leading a successful insurgency against the Soviets and then long defying the U.S., were seared into Arab and Muslim minds. For a time, he became a 21st century Islamic Che Guevara, with telegenic appeal trumping ideology.
Al-Qaeda's mass killings of Muslims, however, exposed the organization as the murderous nihilists they are. The November 2005 bombing of a wedding party in Amman, the numerous attacks on Iraqis that left thousands dead, and indiscriminate al-Qaeda violence throughout Pakistan and other countries turned many against the movement.
The fact that bin Laden was found living in comfort rather than in some mountain hideout further undermines his ascetic image -- which peaked years ago, anyway. According to the Pew Arab polls, confidence in bin Laden among Muslims decreased in every country surveyed across the greater Middle East from 2003 to 2011. In several countries, majority approval in 2003 plunged to the teens or single digits by 2011.
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No country surveyed had a positive net change over those eight years. Even in the Palestinian territories, where approval was highest, the total change was from 72 percent confidence in 2003 to 34 percent in 2011.
Of course, it was the Middle East's (particularly Saudi Arabia's) many political and social discontents -- authoritarianism, lack of education, lack of job opportunities, lack of freedom -- that helped produce jihadism and al-Qaeda in the first place. Having rejected bin Laden's message, young people in the Arab world are seeking a new way forward.
Rather than advocating violence and pledging allegiance to a medieval code of sharia, leaders of the Arab Spring have called for democracy based on greater freedom, pluralism and opportunity.
In Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, women have been widely active in protest movements -- certainly a far cry from bin Laden's vision of keeping them in silent purdah. In Egypt, Christians and Muslims joined together in opposition to dictatorship, flatly repudiating bin Laden's Manichaean distinction between the righteous and the infidels.
Al-Qaeda can continue to pose a security threat, but it was never an alternative. Far from leading the Arab and Muslim worlds toward a clash of civilizations, bin Laden will become a footnote to the broader story of regional transformation.
Isobel Coleman is a senior fellow and director of the Civil Society, Markets and Democracy Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations.
This article appears in full on CFR.org by permission of its original publisher. It was originally available here.


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How do we define local art? It seems like a simple question, but immediately you start asking: Must it be made here? By artists who live here? Do you include art made by folks who live in, say, New York but teach at RISD? Or art made by people who grew up here? Or once lived here?
As a person who coined the term "yokelism" to talk about and support locally-made art, I find myself getting tripped up at times by the definitions. Different answers can have different effects. Do you define it narrowly, trying to support people who live here making art now? Are you trying to acknowledge a long legacy? Do you define it broadly to lay claim to and build off of all that energy?
"Locally Sourced" at Craftland (235 Westminster St, Providence, through October 19), which arrives as a complement and cheeky answer to "Locally Made," the RISD Museum's Rhode Island art extravaganza, tries out defining locally made as narrowly as possible by rounding up 14 local artists who make art from materials they find locally — a definition that for these smart alecks includes discovering them at their local art supply shop.
"Through their actions, these artists further strengthen the contemporary art landscape by supporting the local economy and establishing pride in the 'Made In Rhode Island' brand," writes curator Robert Stack of Providence's Yellow Peril Gallery.
Of course, the organizers note, the show is "a sort of pun, lovingly poking fun not only at shows like the current one at the RISD Museum, but also restaurants that use the farm-to-table movement almost to overkill in their PR."
So Babs Owen cuts out rings of paper and affixes them, floating like happy bubbles, atop photos of a jumping boy. "Photographs are printed on paper from Utrecht and collaged with cut pieces from the artist's Pawtucket-based mill studio," the exhibit checklist explains. "Model is artist's son, who was born at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island."
And Brooke Goldstein's Washed Up Collection is described as "10 vintage bottles, pencils from Jerry's Artarama, bottles from Savers, Seekonk Speedway Flea Market, AS220 Black Box Flea Market (Foo Fest), and assortment from artist + friends." Which means fun, folksy colored pencil drawings of ships — a paddlewheeler, a battleship, a submarine, a Viking ship, and a square-rigger of broken hearts — cut out and displayed in handsome glass bottles.
Tom West's The End of American Pop Art sculpture is a generic diet soda bottle that has spilled a big bronze foamy puddle across the floor — happily in the shape of a stretched out United States.
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Sudan: Local humanitarian capacity crucial
"I trained as a midwife to help my community," says Fatima, a volunteer community health worker at a clinic in Hammeida, rural Kassala state in eastern Sudan. Fatima's clinic is run by Talaweit, a Sudanese NGO. The clinic is the only primary health care facility for many miles.
Life is difficult in east Sudan. Land mines left over from the conflict that ended seven years ago mean some areas are still unsafe to farm. Many people lost land and livestock during the fighting, and this, combined with recurrent drought, makes it a challenge for families to make a living from the land.
The region has the highest malnutrition rates in the country. In Red Sea State, 28 per cent of people are considered malnourished, and this figure climbs above 40 per cent in some areas. A malnutrition rate of 15 per cent is the threshold for a critical situation.
Eastern Sudan is the location of one of the most protracted refugee crises in the world, placing further pressure on limited resources. There are more than 85,000 refugees in the region. Many are Eritreans who left to escape their country's strict national service requirements. Others are from Ethiopia, Somalia, and Chad.
To further complicate matters, in 2012 the Sudanese Government instructed some international NGOs to terminate eight projects in eastern Sudan as it had concerns about them and did not view them as good value for money. This saw the region's considerable humanitarian needs fall on the shoulders of local NGOs like Talaweit.
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The OCHA-managed Sudan Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF) is providing resources and advice to national organizations in eastern Sudan.
The CHF is a pooled fund supported by donors including the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Australia and Ireland. It provides early and predictable funding so that the humanitarian community can address needs on the ground as they arise. Since the start of this year, approximately USD $4 million has been allocated to support projects in eastern Sudan.
In June, an OCHA-led team travelled to Kassala, to meet with local organizations to better understand their needs and challenges. For Talaweit, one of the primary challenges lies in getting local communities to engage with them.
"It's difficult to get the community involved in identifying what they need," explains Hussein Salih, Talaweit's General Manager.
Volunteer Fatima echoes this sentiment. "It's not easy to encourage women to attend my antenatal trainings."
In response, OCHA put the Talaweit team in touch with AORD, another Sudanese NGO that works throughout the country and has experience in engaging with communities.
"By connecting new organizations with more experienced organizations who are successfully implementing community-based approaches, we are trying to transfer capacity and skills across organizations," says Alta Haggarty, Chief of the CHF in Sudan.
"Talaweit is really a model organization to us as they are so proactive in identifying challenges and about asking for help. They are doing great work and we are eager to support them," adds Gamal Gumaa, a member of the monitoring team and focal point for National NGOs at the fund.
Critical funding gaps remain
Even with strengthened capacity and funding support from the CHF, significant funding gaps remain in the region. Humanitarian organizations in east Sudan have only received 27 per cent of the funds they need for 2013. This makes the funding gap here even greater than that for Sudan overall, where 38 per cent of funding needs were received in the first six months of 2013.


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Though it does have the dubious distinction of being the setting for Hitchcock's 1963 thriller The Birds, it's Bodega Bay's rugged beauty that has everyone flocking to its windswept shores. The town's miles of sandy coves are separated by rocky bluffs—the headlands as jagged as puzzle pieces, with giant boulders strewn about in the churning surf.
A 90-minute drive north of San Francisco on Highway 1, past lazy sheep meadows and clapboard cattle ranches, this small fishing village charms with its sea-weathered candy shops and surf shacks welcoming visitors with hand-painted wooden signs.
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FULTON – Itawamba Community College head baseball coach Rick Collier has released the revamped schedule for the 2013 ICC Spring Break High School Baseball Tournament after inclement weather forced the postponement of Monday's play.
ICC will host a three-game event on Wednesday starting with Mantachie and Houston squaring off at 11:00 a.m. at Roy Cresap Field. Hamilton will take on Itawamba AHS at 1:15 before Mantachie and Itawamba AHS close out the day at 3:15.
For more information on ICC baseball, follow the Indians on Twitter (@LetsGoICC) or visit www.LetsGoICC.com.
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Itawamba Community College softball DH at Northwest Mississippi Community College scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed due to wet field conditions and will be played Thursday, March 14 at 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. in Senatobia.


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The new Model 1770A replaces the model 1720 dehumidifier. It features:
* Updated housing color
* New LED status and service indicator tells you when the unit is running normally, sampling, defrosting and when it is in need of service
Excess humidity in the air can cause homes to be smelly, musty and noticeably damp. Nobody wants to go there, play there, be there. Excess humidity can damage basement furniture and furnishings, cause wood to swell and fabric to rot. Stored items grow mildew and wall paneling peels. High basement humidity can lead to health threatening conditions too. Any basement with relative humidity regularly above 60% can become the perfect breeding ground for a variety of pathogens like mold, mildew and fungi.
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This unit appears to be well built and can support a number of different types of installation. My use is primarily to dehumidify a 1500sf finished basement. I had been using smaller units you can get at any of the big box stores, but they'd only last a couple of years and quit working plus they ran non stop and often couldn't maintain RH below 60%. The 1770A was fairly easy to install myself in my HVAC utility room where I was able to cut intake/exhaust ducts that connect to the unit with insulated flex duct. The utility room has a floor drain so I was able to drain the unit without the use of a pump. NOTE: this unit does require a dedicated 20 amp circuit. With my electric panels in the same utility room and room for additional circuits this was a pretty easy task to add another breaker and receptacle.
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I don't see how you can think this game is pay to win. Sure, there are some new commanders that you can buy, but those are simply the commanders that you get from pre-ordering. Wouldn't it be unfair if people that didn't pre-order not have the choice to get these commanders? If you think that these commanders give you an advantage, does this make CoH2 preorder-to-win?
The commanders themselves are not game-breaking at all. All the abilities are available in the free commanders. If you actually looked at them, none of them will make it pay-to-win.
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Even without connecting common ground it worked and i am wondering how this circuit worked!!!Having problem in it....
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Loxias's family is a wizarding family with an unknown last name; extant in the early eighteenth century.
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- Loxias - master of the Elder Wand after killing Barnabas Deverill; used it to lay waste of anyone who displeased him
- Loxias's mother - one of the many people who claimed to have finished Loxias off; history records more likely that either Arcus or Livius did it
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Open for Lunch, The Lodge at Chaa Creek
The sign on the right said The Lodge at Chaa Creek and Joe made the left turn and instantly we were on dirt road. Back to nature…love it! Travelers come from all over the world to escape from the hustle and bustle, unwind and explore living creatures like birds, wildlife and butterflies and smell the hundreds of species of plants in their natural environment.


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Looking for a dessert made using Betty Crocker® Gluten Free brownie mix? Then check out this chocolate brownie that's topped with coconut and pecan frosting.
Store opened packages of coconut tightly sealed in the refrigerator up to 6 months.
German chocolate did not originate in Germany. Instead, it is named for Englishman Sam German, who developed a sweet chocolate baking bar for the Massachusetts-based chocolate company where he was employed. "German's Sweet Chocolate" later became known as German sweet chocolate and led to the popularity of German chocolate cake.
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Noble acted the hell out of this episode, too. I thought he was great. Did you notice the change in his personality, when all the brain pieces were hooked up? Walter seemed to have more of an edge, and seemed darker.
Here's what's coming up, from TVOVERMIND.COM's Sam McPherson:
Wow. If you thought Fox had no more tricks up its sleeve, you're certainly wrong. They have quite a few tricks, it seems. THe question is: are they good tricks?
The trick I'm questioning is their January 11 block. Sure, they've moved the return of House back two weeks to this date, but they're also following up House will a new episode of Fringe instead of House's usual follow-up Lie to Me. Want to know why that's even stranger?
The new episode of Fringe won't be from season two.
No, we're not catching a glimpse of Fringe's future, but rather of its past. The January 11 episode of Fringe will be an outtake from season one. That's right an entire episode was nixed from the first season, and only now do they see fit to tell us.
Fringe did have a strangely short first season, with only twenty episodes. The original order was 22, but this was mysteriously cut back. This is obviously one of the two nixed hours. Is there perhaps a second episode that has been shielded from our eyes?
The content of the episode, titled "Unearthed," is unknown, but it is known to feature the recently deceased Charlie, who was killed in early season two by an otherworldly soldier. It'll be good to see Kirk Acevedo's familiar face back with the Fringe team.
That doesn't mean that there still aren't a lot of questions. Let me express my incredulity in bulleted form:
Why was this episode cut?
Who made the decision to cut it, FOX or the producers?
What story content was in this episode that we've missed out on?
Where was this episode supposed to fit in during the rest of the season (we can't know if it takes place immediately after the pilot or shortly before the season one finale)?
Why now?
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Martha Moore
Martha V. Moore, 97 of Westby, passed away Dec. 26, 2012 at Vernon Manor in Viroqua. Martha was born to Martin and Sophie (Anderson) Benrud of Cashton on December 9, 1915. Martha married William H. Moore at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Cashton on Oct. 10, 1935. They were farmers near rural Westby. Martha went back to school and became a school teacher. After retiring she loved working at Grandma's Attic and her church, making many quilts and working in the kitchen.
Martha is survived by her daughter Sharon (Loren) Olson of Westby; daughters-in-law, Mary Moore of Prairie City, Iowa and Carol Moore of Westby; grandsons: Robert (Julie) Moore of Indianada, IA, Randy (Ann) Moore of Tomah, Mark (Mari) Moore of Westby, Jamey (Laura) Moore of West Salem, Roger (Jody) Olson of Baldwin, Terry VanDerSluis of Prairie City; granddaughters: Kristi (Dennis) Pennel of Sparta, Dawn (Rudy) Jolovich of Cody, WY, Diane (Andy) Syring of Cody, WY Karen Routh of Colfax, and Becky Bruns of Fort Dodge; 16 great-grandchildren; eight great-great-grandchildren; one brother, Don (Jan) Benrud of Moose Lake, MN; one sister-in-law, Jean Matthews of Onalaska; two nieces and four nephews; other relatives and friends.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband William; three sons: Bruce, Allen and Kermit Moore; one daughter-in-law, Marcene Moore; one granddaughter, Rita (Moore) Oliphant; one brother James Benrud; and many beloved friends.
Blessed be our memory of Martha Moore.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, December 29, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. at Dell United Methodist Church, rural Westby. Pastor Karen Bankes will officiate with burial in the Dell Cemetery. Friends may call on Saturday after 10:00 a.m. at the church. The Vosseteig Funeral Home of Westby is serving the family.


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Water has always been my drink of choice, and lately I've found two super-powered kinds that go above and beyond basic hydration.
The first: La Croix.
La Croix is lightly-flavored carbonated water. It's not sweetened, so you don't have to worry about sugar or even artificial sweeteners. Because it's not sweet, the taste may throw you a bit at first – it's a bit odd at first to drink something lime, lemon, berry or coconut flavored that's not sweet. But it is SO GOOD – especially the lime, which is my current favorite. The carbonation makes it feel like a soda, but it's not. It's actually healthy.
La Croix can be found at both Kroger locations in Tupelo, and the Gloster St. Walmart.
The second: Avitae.
Avitae is caffeinated water. I know, I know, caffeine isn't all that healthy and you shouldn't drink much of it, but every once in a while you need a kick, and Avitae most definitely provides that. It is not flavored but instead comes in two doses: 90 mg (with a red label; about the same amount of caffeine in coffee) and 45 mg (with an orange label; about the same amount of caffeine in a diet soda).
The caffeine in the water is natural, and because that's all that's in there, your body breaks it down faster. I can't tell much of a caffeine rush when I drink sodas or coffee, but holy cow, I do with Avitae. Unless you just drink a whole lot of caffeine, I warn you not to drink a whole lot of Avitae quickly. I've drank the two doses either together or back to back and have almost made myself sick. Just one dose by itself is plenty, trust me.
The only place I've found Avitae is Papa V's in Tupelo.


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Extending our social media outreach, the City of Roseville has begun using Nextdoor, (nextdoor.com), a private social network for neighborhoods. Nextdoor is designed to foster neighbor-to-neighbor and citywide communication, help build stronger community ties and facilitate a virtual neighborhood watch.
Nextdoor is free to use. To sign up, go to nextdoor.com and enter your address. Nextdoor then verifies that you live within a neighborhood in Roseville. Information shared on Nextdoor is password protected and cannot be accessed by those outside your neighborhood or found on Google or other search engines. Members of each neighborhood self-manage their own Nextdoor site.
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She bought a cow bone as a treat for our 2.5 yo BLM. She was thinking he couldnt chew it, he wore it out. She is freaking that the splinters will hurt him. I told her hes fine and will be. Thoughts?
She bought a cow bone as a treat for our 2.5 yo BLM. She was thinking he couldnt chew it, he wore it out. She is freaking that the splinters will hurt him. I told her hes fine and will be. Thoughts?
I would not let him chew anything that splinters.
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unfortunately, she *could* be right.
Might want to give him a couple of peanut butter sandwiches. No need for jelly.
We used to give them, on my vet's suggestion, to my older dog who had a strange addiction to eating glass (light bulbs, christmas ornaments, etc) when he was young.
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Watch for blood in the stool. I found blood in my dog's stool and made a appointment with the Vet and she wanted a stool sample. Well the one I had they found a piece of bone that looked like a arrow head, which cut him up. He has not had a bone since.
Cow bones splinter? If so, then not good.
Where I live people dump deer parts. I had one of my dogs get a deer bone in kennel, later he stopped eating and drinking. Tooking him to the vet, they took xrays to find a bone had went thru his stomach, part of his lung and was rubbing on his heart. Had to take to the university or missouri. They were able to save him. $7000 dollars later.
No I would never let one of my dogs have bones.
The only cow bone I will give is a raw femur
The time you spend on earth with your dog is precious; enjoy it to your fullest
he seems fine...he only got about half through it and she took it away...didnt look like it was splintered...crossing my fingers
To ease your mind just watch and if he's eating and pooping he's fine. If he stops doing either it's off to the vet.
As others have said feed him some bread.
It's usually cooked bones that splinter. I don't but many give raw bones. Nylabones are pretty safe in my opinion. Just be sure and get a large one and throw it away as the dog chews it to smaller.
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"Field trials are not a game for good dogs. They're for great dogs with great training." E. Graham
Worst bone experience ever.....
Had my team over to the house for a BBQ. Must have had about 8-10 racks of ribs. I had parboiled the ribs before BBQ. So boiled bones splinter easier. Needless to say there was no sleeping that night, We thought she was bit by a snake or something (lived in Texas at the time) her entire tail and rear had almost doubled in size from the trauma..... About $400 and 12-16 bones later all was well. What a scare....never feed bones and I do everything to keep them from the dogs now.


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The web site of the 20th Chaos Communication Congress can now be considered 'open' for small values of 'open'. It would be nice to see some new faces there (as this will be my fifth congress in a row).
Those of you who "sprechen sie Deutsch" will find some interesting diaries from the 17C3 and 18C3 at fefe's web site. They a written in a colloquial style and don't even pretend to be written impartial.