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Ready to drink (RTD) tea and coffee is a substitute for carbonated drinks and is widely gaining popularity due to fast and busy lifestyles. RTD tea is especially preferred by consumers who are health conscious, while RTD coffee is perceived as an instant energy source. RTD tea and coffee are one of the most selling products worldwide. The RTD tea and coffee market has shown remarkable growth in recent years.
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Asia Pacific holds majority of the market share, closely followed by Europe. The demand for RTD tea and coffee is projected to increase in North America due to rising health consciousness and growing awareness about bad effects of carbonated drinks. The RTD tea and coffee market could be segmented into two major categories, on the basis of additives into: artificial sweeteners, preservatives, acidulants, flavors and nutraceuticals, on the basis of packaging and pricing segments into: pet bottle, glass bottle, and fountain/cartons and canned.
The RTD tea market could be segmented by types into: black tea, fruit and herbal based tea, green tea and oolong tea. The RTD coffee market could be segmented on the basis of ingredients into: Vitamin B, Yerba Mate, Guarana, Genseng, Acai Berry and Taurine. The global RTD tea and coffee market is further segmented by geography into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and rest of the world regions.
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The global RTD tea and coffee market is driven by factors such as growing health awareness and increasing per capita disposable income. The emerging smart advertising, marketing and strong positioning and rising functionalities of RTD tea and coffee will also act as drivers for the global RTD tea and coffee market.
Some of the factors inhibiting the growth of this market are rising prices of raw materials and increasing consumption of freshly ground coffee. Rising piracy will also limit the growth of this market.
Some of the key players dominating the global RTD tea and coffee market are Asahi Group Holdings Ltd., Starbucks Corporation, The Coca Cola Company, San Benedetto, Pepsico Inc., Monster Beverage Company, Hangzhou Wahaha group, Dr, Pepper Snapple Group, Ferolito Vultaggio and Sons, Japan Tobacco Inc. and Taisan Enterprise Co. Ltd.
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Ready for some more Jenelle Evans pregnancy news? The Teen Mom already has a baby name picked out. Yup, just one name. She's only just started her pregnancy, but Jenelle Evans says she already knows what she's having!
But wait a second; husband Courtland Rogers only just shared her six-week sonogram. How could she already know the gender of her baby? Believe it or not, I'm buying what Jenelle and her hubs are selling here.
Courtland told Radar magazine:
Jenelle says she feels really different this time being pregnant so she thinks she's having a girl ... Jenelle has morning sickness, back pain and muscle pain all the time.
So Jenelle just feels that she's having a girl? Yes, it's way too early to tell, and there's no way she should pin her hopes and dreams on something so unscientific, but even the Jenelle haters need to quiet down on this one.
She might be right.
More From The Stir: 'Teen Mom' Jenelle Evans' Baby Bump Photo Is Pregnancy Confirmation We've Been Waiting For
The Teen Mom 2 star is right there with hundreds of thousands of moms who will say they just "felt" that the baby in their belly was one gender or the other. Sometimes it's based on how they're carrying, sometimes it's the baby's heartbeat, and sometimes it's just something in your guts that you can't shake. My daughter crossed her legs during our sonogram, denying us a look-see at her girly parts, but still, I spent my pregnancy sure that I would be having a girl.
Unlike Jenelle, I didn't voice it (I thought people would think I was nuts), and we chose a boy name just in case.
She and Courtland, on the other hand, are thinking about naming their would-be daughter Audriana. Hopefully they have a boy name in there too, but then again, they might not need it.
What do you think? Is Jenelle crazy for already talking about having a girl when she's just over 6 weeks pregnant?
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Here's one thing the two presidential candidates agree on: the federal government's current fiscal course will lead to disaster.
They both even genuflect to the same starting point for a possible compromise: the 2010 proposal offered by former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and Erskine Bowles, President Clinton's former chief of staff.
"I think very highly of their recommendations," Mitt Romney said last spring.
"I'm still eager to reach an agreement based on [their] principles," President Obama said at the Democratic National Convention.
So does this mean the candidates agree on how to fix the budget? Hardly. They don't even really agree on the Simpson-Bowles proposal.
When Simpson and Bowles were looking for support in 2010, Obama and Romney were nowhere to be found. Obama greeted their proposal with little more than a perfunctory thank you, and he was the one who had named them co-chairmen of his budget commission. Romney was mostly silent on their report, but his running mate wasn't: Paul D. Ryan voted against the proposal as a member of the commission.
There's plenty of pain in the Simpson-Bowles proposal, of course; that's why it united the two parties in the House of Representatives in a rare moment of bipartisanship when they voted against endorsing it by a whopping 382 to 28.
The proposal would slash both domestic spending and defense spending, and raise taxes to boot. It would cut benefits for the elderly, veterans and government employees and impose a cap on future healthcare spending. And it would gradually raise the Social Security retirement age from 67 to 69.
Obama has proposed a budget plan with spending cuts, but they are far lower than the cuts Simpson and Bowles propose. Romney, who would cut domestic spending deeply, claims that his own tax proposal is similar to Simpson-Bowles, but it's not even close. Simpson and Bowles would increase taxes to raise federal revenue, but Romney has promised never to raise taxes.
And neither candidate has been courageous enough to suggest future cuts in Social Security benefits.
But let's give both candidates the benefit of the doubt and assume that they really do embrace the logic of Simpson-Bowles: that both sides must make painful concessions.
Which presidential candidate is most likely to succeed in forging a compromise?
I went to Simpson and Bowles themselves last week for an answer. They didn't make it easy.
"Neither candidate has been specific enough in telling the voters how they'd do it," said Simpson. "You're going to have to flip a coin."
"I will be voting for Mitt Romney. And Erskine will be voting for Barack Obama. And then we'll move on," he said.
Still, the two prophets of budget balancing framed their choices in ways that may help voters decide.
Simpson's case in favor of Romney boils down to this: "Romney knows how to govern. How do you learn better to govern than by being governor of Massachusetts, working with a Democratic legislature?" Obama, he said, "hasn't made the tough decisions."
Simpson isn't happy about Romney's refusal to increase tax revenue, and he wishes his candidate hadn't signed anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist's pledge that he'd never raise taxes. Nor does he like Romney's proposal to increase defense spending. "Our defense budget is already bigger than the next 15 countries combined," he said. "Who are we kidding?"
What about Bowles?
He says he supports Obama, largely because he thinks a second-term president has more freedom to compromise. "It's just common sense," argued Bowles. "A second-term president who is not running for reelection, who doesn't have to worry as much about what the base thinks, is more likely to do a deal."
On the other side, he said, "Gov. Romney has staked himself on no revenue increases to prove he's a real conservative. He said he wouldn't agree to $1 in revenue in exchange for $10 in spending cuts. It would be very difficult for him to move away from that." (The Simpson-Bowles proposal calls for $1 in revenue for every $3 in spending cuts.)
Still, Bowles says he isn't happy about big parts of Obama's platform. He thinks Obama doesn't cut future spending on healthcare deeply enough, and he doesn't agree with the president's proposal to raise tax rates on high-income taxpayers.
But he said Obama has convinced him that his commitment to solving the problem is real.
Fixing the federal budget is the most important domestic challenge facing the next president. And that makes one question crucial: Which candidate has the courage, backbone and skill to make a deal?
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Tennessee Sweeps UTC Netters
KNOXVILLE (GoMocs.com) --- The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's tennis team dropped a 7-0 dual at No. 27 Tennessee this afternoon. The Mocs were swept in eight matches today, falling to 4-2 on the season. The Lady Vols evened their record at 3-3 with the win.
Tennessee took the doubles point by winning at No. 2 and No. 3. Junior Claire Mulyadi and freshman Rachele Gazzola put up the best fight at No. 3, falling to Brittany Lindl and Ambika Pande 8-6.
Chattanooga lost all six matches in straight sets. Senior Alexa Flynn tried to mount a comeback at No. 3. She lost the first set for Victoria Olivarez 6-2. Flynn battled in the second frame before falling 7-5.
UTC is back in action on Thursday, Feb. 20, against Mercer. The Mocs host the Bears on the UTC Tennis Courts at 2:00 p.m. (E.S.T.) Live scoring is available on the women's tennis schedule page on GoMocs.com.
#27 Tennessee 7, Chattanooga 0
Feb 16, 2014 at Knoxville, Tenn. (Goodfriend Tennis Center)
Doubles competition
1. Joanna Henderson/Laurence Guevremont (TENN) vs. Kayla Jones/Kaylene Chadwell (UTC) - 7-4, unfinished
2. Eve Repic/Victoria Olivarez (TENN) def. Alexa Flynn/Kelsey Coots (UTC) - 8-2
3. Brittany Lindl/Ambika Pande (TENN) def. Rachele Gazzola/Claire Mulyadi (UTC) - 8-6
Singles competition
1. #63 Eve Repic (TENN) def. Kayla Jones (UTC) - 6-4, 6-2
2. Joanna Henderson (TENN) def. Kaylene Chadwell (UTC) - 6-3, 6-1
3. Victoria Olivarez (TENN) def. Alexa Flynn (UTC) - 6-2, 7-5
4. Laurence Guevremont (TENN) def. Kelsey Coots (UTC) - 6-2, 6-0
5. Brittany Lindl (TENN) def. Claire Mulyadi (UTC) - 6-0, 6-0
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Hero Mayor Corey Booker Rescues Woman From Fire
Newark mayor Corey Booker arrived home last night to find his neighbors' home on fire. His security detail, led by officer Alex Rodriguez, had preceded him home and had already gotten most of the residents out of the burning building.
But one more woman remained, and when Booker heard this, he insisted that he enter the house to rescue her.
At first, Rodriguez refused to let him take the risk. But Booker quickly convinced him it was necessary.
"[Booker] basically told me, 'This woman is going to die if we don't help her,' and what can I say to that?," Rodriguez told 'CBS This Morning.' "I let him go and without thinking twice, he just ran into the flames and rescued this young lady."
According to Booker, it was pretty harrowing rescue.
I actually wasn't thinking," the mayor said. "When I got there and couldn't find her in all the smoke, looked behind me and saw the kitchen really erupting with flames all over the ceiling, that's when I had very clear thoughts that I'm not going to get out of this place alive and got ... very religious."
But Booker was able to find her, and was also able to get her out of the home. For his hero turn, he was rewarded with smoke inhalation, a small burn on his hand and a brief trip to the hospital. The woman suffered second degree burns to her back but should make a full recovery.
Watch Booker and Rodriguez describe the amazing rescue below, in what could also double as the greatest campaign video ever.


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Mayor Don Wesely expressed support for the City Council's adoption of ambulance ordinances, as amended, to ensure independent medical oversight and measurable response time standards.
"Passage by the City Council clears the path for the Fire Department to formally implement emergency ambulance services as a core city service that eliminates duplication and inefficiency," the Mayor said. "When the Fire Department begins providing ambulance transport, the citizens of Lincoln can count on the professionalism and dedication that firefighters have shown during their 133 year of service to date."
The Mayor also stressed the amendments reached in discussions with the Lancaster County Medical Society and EMS, Inc. and others address the concerns they expressed at the hearing last week. The ordinance ensures independent medical oversight and guarantees that quality patient care will exist for the citizens of Lincoln.
The amendments presented to the Council that were adopted by individual vote today provide that:
"I am pleased that we have addressed the medical community concerns in the final ordinance. The changes adopted today demonstrate the value of a public hearing and the importance of public input," said the Mayor. "I have always been committed to independent medical oversight. The amendments once again reinforce my commitment to ensure independent medical oversight. With these ordinances in place, the citizens of Lincoln know that faster, cheaper and better ambulance service will be available to them."


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Get on the bus for a tour of Case's new products for 1999.
A tractor drawbar pin?
Seemed like an odd teaser to what Case Corporation was calling its 1998 Technology Tour, a traveling bus tour designed to give journalists a sneak peak at some of its products for 1999-among them, the new MX Series Magnum tractors and 1200 Series Advanced Seed Meter (ASM) planters. Wrapped in the tour were stops at Case's Farm One research facility, Technology Center and tractor plant. The drawbar pin arrived in a box with this invitation: "You know how tractors and implements connect at their simplest level. Now, Case is introducing new methods of linking tractors with implements with more power and new technologies. Interested?"
Come along on this tour and find out what Case is up to.
First stop: Farm One. The tour bus boarded in Chicago at 7:30 in the morning. The first stop is Farm One, Case's on-farm research facility covering 6,300 acres3,700 near Shabbona, IL, and an additional 2,600 near Quincy.
I step off the bus. "Any questions?" asks Mike Green, Farm One program manager. He explains that Farm One is a testing ground for everything from seed corn and mapping software to sprayers and harvesters. And not just Case stuff. Competitors' products, too.
Partners include major seed and chemical companies and universities.
He gives me a quick tour of some equipment being tested. There is a pull-type sprayer made by Europe-based Gem, now owned by Case. "Gem is known for its boom technology," he says.
We walk past a Patriot self-propelled sprayer, a former Tyler product, soon to be painted red to show it is now part of Case's crop care line.
Next, the new Case IH 1200 Series ASM planter. "You'll notice that Case went to individual hopper boxes on this planter," Green says. That's a switch from the central-fill concept it introduced more than a decade ago in its Early Riser planters. Green explains that the separate boxes allow independent control of seeding and fertilizer application.
It is time to head in to the machine shed. Jim Stoddart, vice president of Case's Advanced Farming Systems (AFS), is there to present the new generation of AFS, which includes Case's site-specific farming line.
"The new AFS systems will be simpler, more reliable and have more capabilities," Stoddart says.
In the past, for an implement to perform complex functions like varying seed rate, you would have needed an array of display monitors, wiring harnesses, switches and control boxes because everything had to be hard-wired, he explains. Now, all functions can be carried out with one touch-screen display. A single cord attaches the display to your tractor. "It's like plugging a phone into a jack," Stoddart says.
The technology behind it is called Controller Area Network (CAN). It's a network that allows different electronic devices to exchange information.
CAN was originally developed during the late 1980s for the automotive industry. Now it will be part of all Case IH equipment, starting with the AFS planters and air seeders.
Farmers will have two display options: Universal Display, which controls all base monitoring and implement functions, or Universal Display Plus, which ties in Global Positioning System (GPS) for variable-rate application of inputs.
The display can be removed and installed in other equipment, and it will automatically configure itself to that application. "It will transform what used to be a piece of iron into a data connection computer that is equivalent to a desktop PC mounted in the cab," Stoddart explains.
And, it will be easy to use, he says. "I could teach you how to run the planter in five minutes."
Case is already writing orders for the spring of 1999.
The new line of electronics will be tested on Farm One with the help of Midwest Consulting Service, an agronomic service Case purchased in 1996 to gain a better understanding of variability in yields.
Next stop: Technology Center. Located in Burr Ridge, IL, the Technology Center is where Case develops and tests product concepts.
Case has been using virtual reality in its design process since 1991. Engineers use computer simulations to refine concepts and designs on-screen, prior to building. It saves millions of dollars in development costs each year, according to Duane Tiede, vice president of functional engineering. "We can make a better tractor, faster."
Engineers used more than 200 such simulations to design and evaluate the new MX Series Magnum tractors.
Next, we tour the center's development labs and test cells. Among them: *A simulation lab, where a tractor was put on a rack and bounced to simulate bumpy field conditions. It tests what parts will crack, come loose or otherwise fail after 10,000 hrs. of field time. The test takes only 52 days because it runs continuously. *A heat test lab that simulates Arizona-type weather of 110F to test the cooling system. *A drivetrain test cell, in which a drivetrain is subjected to a test cycle that duplicates tractor speed and load in actual field conditions. "In the field, the tractor does true damage to drivetrain only 15 to 20 percent of the time," says Case technician Ken Nelson. "So in a test cell like this we can duplicate the life of a tractor in 3 to 4 months."
*A rapid prototyping lab that makes 3-D representations of complex prototype parts using layers of paper cut by lasers.
Case has more than 30 such labs, in which it has tested numerous products.
Next stop: Tractor plant. The next morning we tour the tractor plant in Racine, WI, where Maxxum and the new Magnum tractors are being built.
Case recently spent more than $100 million to renovate the facility from a single family to a mixed model production line to improve production. Common assemblies are built on line, and anything unique is built off line. Lines are sequenced so that the right parts meet up with the right tractor.
Tractors travel more than 1.5 miles of conveyor in total, and each one takes a day to build.
Last stop: Training Center. At 9:30, we transfer to Case's Training Center to see and hear about the new tractors, planters and sprayers to be introduced this fall. It seems like a lot to squeeze into the few hours remaining, which shows that Case is putting the focus on the technology leading up to these products.
Of the new products, the tractors harnessed the most attention. The new MX Series Magnum tractors are billed as the most technologically advanced yet user-friendly row-crop tractors in the world. Five models range in horsepower from 145 to 235. The largest, the MX270, is the largest MFD tractor in the industry.
"The application of technology and electronics control let us take these tractors to new levels. That's the story," says Les Pagel, product development director for large tractors.
He explains that the same CAN technology that was built into the new planters is also part of the new MX Series Magnum tractors. It centralizes multiple tractor functions so that they can be monitored and controlled from one touch-screen display in the cabthe same display used to control the planter.
"The AFS ties everything together so the tractor functions talk to each implement function," Pagel says. "The payoff comes in the form of more efficient planting, seeding or tilling." A single connector to the tractor plugs into diagnostic equipment to simplify repairs.
Suddenly, Case's drawbar pin analogy is making sense.
"Case is revolutionizing how tractors and implements work together," says John Garrison, general manager of Case Ag Systems. "It's no longer simply a drawbar pin and hydraulics that connect the two."
He says the MX Series Magnum tractor is the base power unit or host computer that will eventually hook up to all your implements to maximize productivity and lower input costs.
The tour ends with static displays of all the equipment and a chance to drive the tractors.
If you'd like to see the products for yourself or take a tour of the technology, the first public showing in the United States is September 12 through 20 at the Clay County Fair in Spencer, IA.
Contact Case Corporation, Dept. FIN, 700 State St., Racine, WI 53404, 414/636-6011.


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Paralympic Games
Last night sadly marked the end of London 2012. The Paralympics came to a close with Team GB coming third, behind China and Russia, with 120 medals in total, 34 of those were gold. Sarah Storey and David Weir both won the most amount of medals for Team GB, earning 4 each in their events.
The Olympics and Paralympics have been enjoyed by all and it appears that the whole of London as well as the UK have embraced the games, with all the support certainly adding to our success.
Coldplay, Rihanna and Jay-Z all played at the closing ceremony at the Olympic Park, marking the handover and lead up to Rio in 2016. We must say that Rihanna looked beautiful. Obviously she must be a big fan of Hydro Cleansing and our fleet!


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Seen This? The Rise of the Recap Writer
When episodes of popular television shows end, the deadline pressure begins for a legion of writers whose episodic recaps of shows have become a cornerstone of the industry. WSJ's John Jurgensen and Television Without Pity's Daniel Manu join Lunch Break. Photo: AMC.
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The Empire State Development Corp. needs to set clear performance standards to determine if its remaining four foreign offices are fulfilling their missions and bolstering New York's economy through overseas business and investment, according to an audit released today by state Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.
ESDC contracts with representatives who operate offices in foreign countries to provide services that help New York state businesses develop or expand export sales and attract foreign investments. Between April 1, 2010, and March 31, 2012, ESDC paid $2.7 million to seven foreign representatives for costs associated with operating 10 international offices. Due to budget constraints, ESDC recently closed its international offices in Mexico, Turkey and China, along with three offices in Australia, Brazil and Chile operated through the Council of Great Lakes Governors. ESDC currently has foreign representatives in the United Kingdom, Canada, Israel and South Africa.
"New York can profit from expanding business opportunities in foreign countries, but when budgets are tight, every dollar spent on these efforts has to pack an economic punch," DiNapoli said. "Improvements and greater consistency in monitoring how taxpayers' dollars are spent is needed. You can't measure improvement if you don't track how you're doing. Having significantly downsized its international presence, ESDC should now be able to focus its resources on more effectively overseeing and monitoring efforts to generate economic benefits with these offices."
DiNapoli's auditors found that performance reporting and monitoring efforts by ESDC were informal and ad-hoc. Although ESDC provided auditors with some information about specific international trade and investment successes, the information only spanned the most recent year. Furthermore, the information included data on performance results not mentioned in the contract requirements and appeared to have been created solely in response to auditor's requests.
Auditors found that some offices did not meet expected results, while others had few results recorded at all. For example, the Toronto office had projected export sales of $1.2 million, but only reported $175,000 in actual export sales. The Turkey office reported no export sales whatsoever.
ESDC officials told auditors that internal management reports created to document monitoring efforts were discontinued in late 2007 at the request of a deputy commissioner. Additionally, a document supplied to auditors outlining the International Division's 2011 accomplishments appeared to have been created specifically for auditors and included major successes for only a one-year period.
Following up on a 2011 review by DiNapoli's office, auditors found that ESDC has made significant improvements in managing payments to foreign representatives and correcting the deficiencies found a few years ago. The improvements include requiring adequate documentation, such as bank statements and vendor invoices, to support the expenses claimed by the foreign representatives.
DiNapoli recommended ESDC:
•Monitor the performance of foreign representatives to ensure that international offices are meeting contract requirements and are operating in ways that benefit New York companies and the state's economy.
•Ensure that foreign representatives are only reimbursed for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the operation of international offices.
ESDC officials generally agreed with the audit's findings and have begun implementing a new system designed to assist in data collection and reporting on international trade and investment attraction activities. Their response is included in the audit.


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CBS has taken promotion to a different level with the preview of the "Two and a Half Men" finale. "Charlie Harper is alive. Or is he?" the network teases.
The episode title seems to answer the question: "Of Course He's Dead – Part One and Part Two." The one-hour finale airs at 9 p.m. Feb. 19. But the notion that Charlie Sheen could return should help the ratings. CBS wasn't releasing the names of the guest cast.
This week, however, Alan (Jon Cryer) and Walden (Ashton Kutcher) sign their divorce papers at 9 p.m. Thursday. Michael Bolton, Maggie Lawson and Courtney Thorne-Smith are guest stars.
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Fifty years ago, on a hot day in late May, 21 tousled men and women stepped off a Greyhound bus and into the clamor of the Montgomery, Ala., bus depot. They called themselves the Freedom Riders, and for the previous few weeks, they had been hurtling by coach through the American South, from Washington, D.C., to Virginia; from Virginia to North Carolina; and from North Carolina over into Tennessee.
They were students, most of them, black and white, 20- and 30-somethings, schooled in the ways of nonviolent protest and encouraged by the recent success of the Greensboro, N.C., lunch counter sit-ins. Their aim was to test a Supreme Court ruling banning segregation at bus and railway stations – a ruling that had largely been greeted with a shrug by Southern officials.
The Freedom Riders left Washington on May 4, 1961, and planned to make New Orleans by May 17. They expected resistance. But they did not fully anticipate the sheer scale of the violence that would greet them upon their arrival in the Deep South: In Anniston, Ala., a gang of Klansmen set upon a Greyhound bus, slashing the tires and tossing gasoline through the open windows in an unsuccessful attempt to burn the Freedom Riders alive. In Birmingham, the Klan and the local police commissioner, Bull Connor, reached an accord whereby the Klan received 15 minutes to freely assault the Freedom Riders, without any police intervention. And in the capital city of Montgomery, the Freedom Riders walked through the doors of the bus depot and into the arms of a seething mob.
Dozens were injured, including several Freedom Riders, a few journalists, and John Seigenthaler, a Justice Department official dispatched, belatedly, to Alabama by Attorney General Robert Kennedy. An image of a battered Freedom Rider named Jim Zwerg, clad in a suit and tie, bleeding freely, became an iconic symbol of the Civil Rights Era. As did the Freedom Riders themselves: At a time when the federal government would have preferred to ignore the racial strife building in towns such as Montgomery, a small group of dedicated young people risked bodily harm to bring that conflict front and center.
Now, a half century after the Freedom Riders first arrived in this city, the Montgomery bus depot has been converted, with the help of the Alabama Historical Commission and historians, such as Raymond Arsenault, into the Freedom Rides Museum – a timely monument to a groundbreaking journey.
In fact, says Dr. Arsenault, the John Hope Franklin professor of Southern history at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, and the author of a critically acclaimed book on the Freedom Riders, it is no stretch to say that the protests in Alabama helped change the tone for the racial equality movement as a whole.
"It really took the struggle out of the courtroom, and into the streets – it helped convince other people that direct action was needed," Arsenault says. "Even today, people are still astonished by the physical and moral courage of the Freedom Riders."
Arsenault adds: "For us, in the 21st century, the idea that the Freedom Riders put their bodies on the line for a principle, it restores our faith in the idea of personal empowerment."
The Freedom Rides Museum is small and square – not much more than a single room. Unlike traditional museums, it is open just two days a week, Fridays and Saturdays, from noon to 4 in the afternoon. The first exhibition, which was unveiled at a grand opening in May, comprises original works from 15 artists, along with a "story" quilt devoted to the Freedom Riders, and a three-dimensional map displaying the path taken by the Freedom Riders. Still, the modest scale of the museum belies the intense behind-the-scenes struggle over the fate of the building itself.
Through the 1980s, the Greyhound station sat empty – sections were destroyed and carted away, or else incorporated into surrounding structures. Then in 1990, the city announced it would demolish the entire station to make way for a vast new courthouse.
"We were extremely worried that they were going to demolish the entire thing," says J. Mills Thornton, a professor of history at the University of Michigan and an early supporter of the Freedom Rides Museum. "It was highly, highly endangered. That worried us, because if you destroy this building, you destroy the context, and no one will get a sense of the events that occurred here."
Eventually, with the help of several Montgomery officials – among them federal district court Judge Myron Thompson – and the Alabama Historical Commission, the station was saved, mostly. The original facade remains, along with the door reserved for whites. (The "colored" entrance and the back corridors are gone.) But the real dynamism of the museum comes from the art within it – the installations, canvases, and sculptures, which give a vibrant face to the history of the movement.
"I want them not to forget. It comes down to that," says Kevin Cole, an artist based in Georgia. Mr. Cole donated an installation work to the Freedom Rides Museum depicting neckties – a reference to a "necktie party," or a lynching – and a map of the southern United States, decorated with black-and-white portraits of civil rights leaders. The pieces, dubbed "Colorless Dreams," are a reminder, Cole says. "I hope people will understand what actually occurred, and how far we've come. And how far we have to go."
Katherine Strause, an artist based in Arkansas, submitted several canvases to the museum, including a painting of the firebombing in Anniston. Ms. Strause says the work is "for all of us, to be reminded of how much we're capable of. I think it's really important, especially now, to revisit the idea of nonviolence," she adds. "Once in a while, these really smart people pop up, and they move society forward. People like this. I actually got to be there at the opening with a lot of the Freedom Riders. And it was such an honor to be a part of this. A small part. Because the museum is something bigger than about my work. It's really about their work."
In this way, the Freedom Rides Museum can be seen as part of a recent surge in memorials to the civil rights pioneers, which began in the early 1990s with the National Civil Rights Museum, in Memphis, Tenn. Since then, a National Voting Rights Museum was built in Selma, Ala.; a Civil Rights Institute went up in Albany, Ga.; and a National Historical Voting Rights Trail has been inaugurated on the long asphalt corridor between Selma and Montgomery. Meanwhile, in St. Augustine, Fla. – another major mecca of the Civil Rights Era – several groups are attempting to raise funds for a 12,000-square-foot Civil Rights Museum.
"There is a really big move afoot – a tremendous interest in getting this kind of commemoration," says Arsenault, the professor of history. Every year, Arsenault leads students on a tour of the South, and "every year," he says, "there is more to see. More monuments, more historical sites." That makes sense, he adds. "So many people today feel overwhelmed by the complexity of the social problems around them, by the state of the world, and they shrug their shoulders, and say, 'Well, what can I do?' And then we see these historical examples. And it inspires us."


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"Why don't you pull into my garage and tell me how that makes you feel?" Join the RoundAbout crew this week for another wild, wacky and mildly off-putting episode of the most God-damn stupendous podcast ever. This week we delve into the frightening inner workings of the human mind with the "Psy-Car-Logy" episode. On the docket: those crazy Dutch make bizarre concessions to panic-stricken people taking their driving test. "Isn't that weird?" A thief admits that stealing cars is a better high than meth. Who knew? And do airbags cause more harm than good? All that and more, plus Volvo has an embarrassing mishap during a safety demonstration which we discuss in our "Stupid Car Trick" segment. So skip your meds, restrain yourself or just do what the voices in your head have been whispering all along, listen to this week's installment of RoundAbout, the "Psy-Car-Logy" episode, but don't take my word for it.
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This is my response to a friend who assumed that because I am a small business owner with some strong views on personal responsibility and liberty that I was a Republican.
Ha! I'm no Republican. I neither believe in trickle-down, voodoo economics (supply-side stimulus), nor that a bronze-age fairy tale is the literal truth of the universe and the proper basis of a system of morality upon which many laws governing people's private lives should be passed… the only two solid planks in their platform. Oh yeah, and "Drill Baby, Drill" is about the dumbest thing I've ever heard, since the proof of global climate change is extensive and incontrovertible, and the urgency with which we must react by moving as rapidly as possible to carbon-neutral renewable energy doesn't leave room for the foot dragging of those in the pocket of Big Oil, if we hope to not poison ourselves and our entire planet. And, although I bought my first firearm at 9 years old, and have owned several over my life, I don't believe the second amendment should be used to justify private citizens owning assault weapons. I also believe we should place limits on handgun ownership. Countries with fewer guns have fewer gun-related homicides. Go figure. The NRA, and the Republicans they control, are way past the line on this issue justifiable by the twin arguments of hunting and home defense. I also think that the only way to fix our obviously broken health care system in this country is to adopt a single-payer model for basic health care, emergency room, check-ups, etcetera. Supplemental commercial health insurance, offered in a competitive national market (like car insurance), and subject to the normal anti-trust laws, should be available to individuals (with no employer obligation) to cover additional, extraordinary, or more extensive health care needs and costs. For-profit health care is directly at odds with patient well-being and since it bears a burden of having a profit margin (which are at record levels currently) at multiple levels (insurance company, medical practice, hospital, private ambulance service) the end costs to the consumer are dramatically inflated. That profit margin is a weight which will bring the whole shaky structure down if we continue on the current Republican-designed model, especially with our rapidly-aging, Baby Boomer-heavy, increasingly obese and diabetic, population. Also, unlike the majority of Republicans, I believe in the evolutionary explanation of the origin of species, even us humans. Why? Because the evidence for the Theory of Evolution is more extensive than that for the Theory of Gravity. They are both, in a non-scientific sense, facts, which is what the scientific word "theory" actually means in a lay sense, a subtlety that the uneducated and downright stupid Republicans don't seem to be capable of grasping. I don't believe that humans are somehow "special" in the history of the universe, or even this planet, although our accomplishments (global war, climate change, slavery, pollution, causing the extinction of numerous other species) speak for themselves, and that some Sky Daddy god created us in His image, not the other way around. I also believe that all Americans… Nay!… all humans, deserve to be treated equally under the law, be they black, white, male, female, straight, gay, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Sikh, or even, gasp, atheist, and that the best way to accomplish this is via a color-blind, strictly-secular government Of, By, and For the People, which is a belief that the Republicans, with their incessant attempts to destroy public education by injecting Creationism into Science classes, marginalize and disenfranchise gays, blacks, women, and other minorities, and otherwise making Of, By, and For ring hollow (e.g. Citizens United), clearly don't share with me. I think their "Shining City on a Hill" is populated by selfish shallow greedy racist holier-than-thou misogynist assholes, and overlooks a valley filled with the carcasses of the rest of us whose dead bodies they stepped over to make their fortunes. Basically, I think Reagan, with his outrageous levels of Defense spending (Which is the real root cause of our current economic woes because you can't run a wartime economy forever. It's guns or butter, not guns and butter), was a terrible president, and Ayn Rand, with her gratuitously laborious plots and complete disregard for the hard work and sacrifice of everyone in her stories but her protagonists, was neither a good author nor an honest philosopher. Frankly, they were both full of shit. I think Grover Norquist, while well intentioned, has an influence over the Republicans completely disproportionate to the complexity, accuracy, and maturity of the philosophy he promotes through his "Taxpayer Protection Pledge". I think the Moral Majority, Christian Coalition, Focus on the Family, and that ilk are, in fact, morally bankrupt, and have destroyed our political process and poisoned the national dialog on important issues with straw man arguments, false comparisons, and religion-based manipulation of their weak-minded Republican pawns in Congress. I think that the black-and-white view Republicans form of every issue from health care ("Socialism!") to foreign policy ("Axis of Evil", "You're either with us or against us") betrays a lack of sophistication of thought necessary to comprehend and deal with the problems facing the world today in a rational and effective way.
To review… Yahweh, American Exceptionalism, John Galt, Constitutionally-protected individual rights of corporations, "clean" coal, God-given index-beating profit margins, and supply-side stimulus are completely fictional, and a group of people like the Republicans, who display such a complete inability to differentiate fact from fiction, much like small children or the mentally retarded (clinical usage of the term), should not be considered as serious candidates for the post of County Dog Catcher, much less U.S. Congress and President of These United States.
No, not a Republican.
Nor a Democrat, although I think that Democratic policies in general cause far less damage to the Republic, and the people living in it, primarily because while there are legitimate arguments on both sides of most issues, the Democratic Party is today a centrist party, while the Republicans have been dragged further and further to the right by the loudest and most obnoxious among them, such as Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News (ha! "Journalists", forsooth), and other buffoons with little knowledge, understanding, or intelligence, no compassion for their fellow humans, and an iron-clad belief in the absolute evil of all things socialist, and the absolute good of all things profitable.


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TENA, Juan de Dios and SALAZAR, César. Explaining inflation and output volatility in chile: an empirical analysis of forty years. Cuad. Econ. [online]. 2008, vol.1Selected edition, pp. 0-0. ISSN 0121-4772.
This paper presents a data-oriented analysis of the effects of different kinds of economic shocks on Chilean output growth and inflation over the last 40 years. Two important results highlight the role of trade openness and countercyclical monetary policies to explain structural changes in the Chilean economy: (1) foreign shocks only explain 17% of the variability of output growth in the 1984-2006 period, whereas it used to account for 47.2% in 1966-1983; and (2) The relative importance of foreign shocks in explaining inflation volatility has become more important in the last twenty years.
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OSOYOOS, B.C. – A contained 50-acre blaze burning along Canada Highway 3 may mean smoke for residents of Oroville and Nighthawk on the U.S. side of the international border.
According to Canadian officials, the "aggressive" wildlife was reported about 5:30 p.m. Monday night near Richter Pass, just north of the border about six miles west of Osoyoos.
The fire is burning in sagebrush and grass, officials said, noting the fire was close to several homes Monday. Residents of six Kruger Mountain Road homes were evacuated.
"The fire is holding at 20 hectares (about 50 acres)," Kamloops Fire Centre spokeswoman Michaela Swan told Canadian news organizations late Monday night. "Crews made good work at establishing a guard around the fire."
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When we released our first Betas of the BlackBerry® 10 WebWorks™ SDK and Ripple Emulator at the BlackBerry 10 Jam conference in May, we spoke about our desire to bring frequent updates of these tools to you, our dedicated developer community. We want to keep fueling your creativity and desire to build the best BlackBerry 10 applications leading up to the official release. So, here is your next BlackBerry WebWorks and Ripple fix.
This update brings a few new APIs (and emulation thereof in Ripple) along with a host of fixes and a slight change to how we handle whitelisting of events.
First up is the addition of the blackberry.ui.dialog APIs that will be very familiar to existing BlackBerry WebWorks developers. This API provides two methods that allow you to launch asynchronous dialogs requesting feedback from the user. These dialogs leverage the standard system level dialogs so you can get a consistent look and feel for your application with the rest of the system. standardAskAsync provides a predefined set of buttons for your dialog, whereas customAskAsync allows you to customize the dialog buttons.
We have also added an API that, in conjunction with the standard HTML5 onLine API, will let you know just how connected you really are. The standard navigator.onLine property and online/offline events are supported to let you know if your application has connectivity in general. If you would like to know what type of connection you have and when the type of connection changes, check out our blackberry.connection.type property, and listen for the connectionchange event. This will tell you if you are on VPN, BlackBerry® Bridge™, WiFi®, etc.
Speaking of events, we have adjusted how these work slightly from the first release. In the initial beta, all events were defined in the blackberry.event namespace. Without getting into gory details, this proved to be somewhat inefficient on the final code size, so we have moved the event definitions into the namespace that contains the functionality related to that event – i.e. the battery events are now defined in the blackberry.system namespace. Note that you no longer need to whitelist blackberry.event, since it only has the add and remove listener functions (these will always be available to call), but you will have to whitelist any namespace that has an event you are specifically interested in. Please check out the API reference.
In terms of bug fixes, there are a couple of key ones that I want to call out. If you use a module loader, you can now also use BlackBerry WebWorks, hooray! In the first release, the last one included into your app would work but break the first. Now webworks.js and module loaders play nicely together.
In the first release, you also could not sign your application at the same time as enabling remote web inspector. You can now do this so you can test your application on secure devices without needing to worry about debug tokens. That said, be sure to turn off web inspector before you submit your application to the BlackBerry App World™ storefront. 😉
The team here at Research In Motion® (RIM®) is hard at work on the next Beta refresh, currently slated to land in early July. If you are really eager/curious/have lots of free time, feel free to check out our progress in GitHub, and let us know whether we are heading in the right direction on new features and APIs.
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For Tribe coach Callaway, family central at holidays
Indians pitching coach Mickey Callaway is entering his second season in Cleveland, and he might enter it in the new RV he got for Christmas. It's always a big family affair this time of year for the Callaways in Memphis, Tenn. He snuck away from all his relatives for a few minutes to answer some holiday-themed questions from MLB.com.
MLB.com: What are your plans for the holidays this year?
Indians pitching coach Mickey Callaway is entering his second season in Cleveland, and he might enter it in the new RV he got for Christmas. It's always a big family affair this time of year for the Callaways in Memphis, Tenn. He snuck away from all his relatives for a few minutes to answer some holiday-themed questions from MLB.com.
MLB.com: What are your plans for the holidays this year?
Callaway: All of my family lives here. My brother, my sister, and their families, and my parents, we all live within about a mile of each other. My grandparents, everybody has lived here. So we just hang out all throughout the holidays and spend time together.
MLB.com: Does your family have some traditions?
Callaway: In the past, we always went and celebrated with my whole family on Christmas Eve. We'd open presents from each other and then we'd all go home and open presents Christmas morning from Santa, and from our parents. That's what we've always done. We'd always have about 25 people at Thanksgiving and Christmas. We'd always go to both of my grandparents' houses on Christmas Eve. Now, we do the same thing, but my kids go to my parents' house.
MLB.com: It's probably both good and bad to have so much family so close.
Callaway: [laughing] Yeah, exactly. It's like the Barones from "Everybody loves Raymond."
MLB.com: What's Memphis like around Christmas? Do you get snow once in a while?
Callaway: We get snow maybe once every three or four years. Most of the time, if we get something, it's an ice storm, and those are no fun. We don't get much snow.
MLB.com: So you don't really get a white Christmas?
Callaway: No, I can't remember the last time we had a white Christmas. If we get any snow, it'll be right when we're leaving for Spring Training, it seems like.
MLB.com: Do you do much decorating at your house?
Callaway: Sometimes, sometimes not. It depends on how busy we've been. I remember one year, when I was playing in Asia, we never took our stuff down. We ended up leaving around January for Spring Training and then we just left it up, and we didn't get home until around Thanksgiving. So we just left it up all year.
MLB.com: Did your family decorate much when you were a kid?
Callaway: Yeah. We always had candy canes lining the sidewalk and we put lights up. I always liked the old, big-bulb, multi-colored Christmas lights. My mom's a big decorator, so she always has the house decorated. And most of my family collects these Charles Dickens ceramic little houses and towns. So we all do that. That's always a gift every Christmas in my family.
MLB.com: And a decade later you have an entire village?
Callaway: [laughing] Yeah, and then it's too much of a hassle to even put it out.
MLB.com: What about the Christmas tree? Does your family go fake, or do you get the real deal?
Callaway: We go fake. We've gone fake the last couple years. We went real before we had kids [two daughters], but it's easier to go fake now. Ours is pre-lit and everything.
MLB.com: Is there one present you received as a kid that really stands out for you to this day?
Callaway: I got this Cowboys football helmet when I was a little kid. I remember that being like the best present I ever got. It was from my parents, or maybe it was from Santa.
MLB.com: I'm sure Browns fans back in Cleveland will enjoy hearing about that one. How long did you believe in Santa, or do you remember when you started to think Santa might not be real?
Callaway: I was about 8. I can't remember exactly, but it was around then. Third or fourth grade, maybe. I heard everybody talking about it at school.
MLB.com: Santa is real, so I don't know what you're talking about. How many of his reindeer can you name?
Callaway: Rudolph. Donner. Blitzen. Cupid. Comet. What is that, five? That might be all of them. Four and then Rudolph leading them.
MLB.com: Do you have a favorite Christmas song?
Callaway: "White Christmas," by Bing Crosby. I always liked that movie, too. That's one of my favorite Christmas movies.
MLB.com: How good would you say you are at wrapping presents?
Callaway: I'm pretty good. My mom worked at a gift shop when I was little, so she was really good at it. I think I got it from her.
MLB.com: How would your family rate your gift-giving skills?
Callaway: Mediocre. I tend to fall back on gift cards now.
MLB.com: Do you have anything in particular on your list this year?
Callaway: I think I already got it. I bought a new RV, a big camper. So I think I'm done. But I always like hunting gear.
MLB.com: How big is this camper?
Callaway: It's 36 feet. It's a big one. If I can find a good campground in Cleveland, I might bring it up there and live in it.
Jordan Bastian is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Major League Bastian, and follow him on Twitter @MLBastian.


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This weeks Chopped Challenge dish came together via three things:
- The ingredients in my mystery basket
- My brothers need for a dessert to take to a holiday party
- My brothers lack of tolerance for gluten
The ingredients in this weeks mystery basket consisted of Oats from Muffet Bond, Raisins from Bill Bond, Apple Cider from Cinda Garrison and Coffee from Janna Carr.
Although dessert seemed a little too easy, once the gluten-free aspect was thrown in the mix, the dish became more of a challenge.
Gluten-free baking is somewhat difficult but I had done it once with his delicious gluten-free chocolate birthday cake, I knew I could do it again!
Chopped Challenge Thursday was also the perfect opportunity to make something amazingly unique for him to take to his holiday party!
After a couple of "sample cookies" to decide exactly how I wanted to incorporate the coffee and apple cider I came to the conclusion that my favorite cookie was the one that combined the ground coffee into the cookie dough and was filled with a gooey, delectable caramel apple center.
The final result of "Chopped Challenge Thursday" Week Seventeen: Gluten Free Oatmeal Raisin Coffee Cookies with Caramel Apple Filling
Ingredients (makes 15 cookies)
- 2 cups gluten-free flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground instant coffee
- ½ cup butter (softened)
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup & 1 tsp apple cider (separated)
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups oats
- ½ cup raisins
- ½ cup caramels
Begin by combining the flour, baking soda, cinnamon and coffee.
Next, cream together the butter and sugar. Then, beat in the eggs, vanilla and 1/4 cup apple cider. Add in the flour mixture and combine well.
Next, hand mix in the oats and raisins.
Melt the caramels in the microwave for 1 minute, remove and immediately whisk in 1 tsp apple cider. The mixture should be a very thick caramel sauce.
Now, to make the cookies, grab a ball of dough and make a "cave" in the middle. Then pour the caramel into its home, "the cave".
Wrap the dough around the caramel and place onto a cookie sheet.
Bake at 325° for 20-25 minutes.
Scrumptious is the perfect word to describe these cookies.
Don't just take my word for it, my Mom was eating the crumbs off the baking sheet (true story!)
And my brother just walked in with an empty container and said these cookies were the hit of the party!
No gluten AND scrumptious, I'd say that's one amazing cookie!
Well hello melted caramel goodness! Don't mind if I do 😉
♣ Vegetarian Option: This recipe is vegetarian.
♦ Gluten Free Option: This recipe is gluten-free.


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Bake 425
Bake 425 offers unique take and bake pizzas. We sell uncooked pizza to consumers to bake at home in their ovens. Bake 425 sells organic, natural pies with gourmet toppings. We are looking for a website that feels simple, organic and homey. For more info on the Take N' Bake concept, please view the attached files.
The Bake 425 website is focused towards our consumers. Some of those consumers are Mothers, who are looking to pick up dinner with little cleanup and cooking, and pizza lovers who like unique toppings and delicious pizza. We also cater to anyone looking for an easy organic pizza in the comfort of their own home.
This website should blow people away! This website is focused on attracting and selling new customers on the bake at home concept!
We would like to be provided everything we would need in a layered PSD to turn that into a full HTML/CSS based page. So, any unusual fonts or stock images used would need to be included.
We are open to any design that feels natural and organic but is also easy to use and professional. Simplicity is also a major factor.
The website must fit regular resolution/size Internet browsers.
Our logo should be represented in the header of the page, preferably on the left. We are open to other options. (Please see logo attached)
We like organic colors with the addition of maroon (like the ones on http://www.chipotle.com/ ).
We like a barn/country sketched out theme around the page, but are open to other ideas(like the ones on http://www.homeroom510.com, but this is not required )
We are interested in seeing a sketched out farm scene at the top of the page with fields and a barn.
Each page should have an organic feel with sketches and doodles (see http://www.chipotle.com/ ).
Please see the menu bar options in the attached file.
We need 3 drop dead amazing unique pages for Bake 425. The theme of the restaurant is organic and natural, and this should be stressed.
The first page is the home page. This should have the incorporation of product shots, information about our natural ingredients. This and all of the other pages should have an organic and natural feel. The user interface should be simple and easy to navigate. We would like the navigation on the top of the page.
The "Know Your Farmer" page should incorporate information about our partners who supply ingredients. The subcategories that should be linked here is partners, organic farming and locally sourced. We like the use of the notebook that is used on the Chipotle website. The user should immediately be able to see what we serve (natural and organic) and our partners. The organic and natural theme should continue on this page.
The "Take N'Bake" page should incorporate information about what Take N' Bake pizza is and its benefits. There should be a link or section for cooking instructions and ready when you are. Many consumers are new to Take N'Bake Pizza's so this page will be used to describe the benefits and other information. The user should immediately be able to understand the take and bake pizza concept. The organic and natural theme should continue on this page.
http://www.chipotle.com/ We love the feel of this webpage. We like the color scheme (brown and maroon) with the organic feel. We especially like the incorporation of the different color on the Food With Integrity page.
http://www.homeroom510.com We like the sketch feel around the edges around the edges of the page. We like how this page feels less commercial and is easy to navigate. The addition of the pencil and natural feel is a nice addition.
http://www.papamurphys.com We do not like the commercial feel of this page. The page is focused around the coupons and the navigation is too different. The picture in the background also makes it difficult to see the page.
http://www.organicpizzacompany.net/ Dislike the graphics of the page. Want a more modern and simple feel. The user interface also needs improvement.


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I know a lot of folks are looking for information on these rifles that Iron Clad is building... I've got about 700 rounds through mine so far (headed to the range again tomorrow for a few hundred more) and here's what I've found.
-Reliable. The rifle has had 0 malfunctions
-Accurate. As with most 74 type rifles, it's more accurate than most people think AKs can be. I've shot several 2'' groups at 100m with this rifle and 7N6 (to include the group in the video below)
-The CHF CL 1 in 8 RH twist barrel. As far as I know, these are the first US made CHF CL barrels out there. Not all ICA rifles come with these barrels but it's an 'upgrade' option they offer if you order direct from them (the other barrels they use are CL US made barrels from Curtis at akbuilder.com). According to the owner, they get the are sourced from MIL/LE supplier and then turned down in house by ICA.
-Gun Kote finish. I have several rifles with this finish and I really like it compared to other AK finishes on the market.
-The side folder stock locks up tight in both positions.
-Build on matching Bulgy parts kit.
-Cost. These rifles seem to go from between $700-$1100 depending on the options (milled/stamped receiver, Iron Wood or K-Var furniture, side rail/no side rail, CHF or standard US barrel, side folder vs standard stock, ect...)
-The receivers (both stamped and milled) are made in house by ICA so they offer the option for the buyer to pick their own serial number on the receiver. Not really a big deal but NoDak has stopped this option as far as I know so if it's something you're looking for they'll do it for you.
-The only one I can think of is the slight indent in the receiver I talk about in the video but it really isn't an issue to me but I know it will be for some.
-Availability. Like everyone else these days, ICA is backordered. I think the wait varies on the rifle you order but last I heard it was 8-12 weeks.
Here's the video where I do a little shooting, show and discuss the barrel, take the rifle down, shoot a group with some 7N6, and discuss my experience with ordering from ICA:


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Phillips Reprises SantaLand Diaries Tonight• December 3, 2008 Share:
Theater Professor James Phillips will take to the stage again this year in a reprise of his one-man show The SantaLand Diaries. Phillips will perform the hilarious take on the holidays Wednesday through Friday, December 10-12 at 8:00 p.m. in the Experimental Theater.
"I decided to do Santaland last year as a challenge for myself as an actor," said Phillips. "It had been a couple of years since I had done any scripted work and I had never tried a one-man show before. As an artist I think it's important to take risks and do things where you might fail."
Failure was never in the cards for author and commentator David Sedaris, who in 1992 as an unknown writer read his short story, The SantaLand Diaries, on National Public Radio's Morning Edition.
The mostly true tale of his adventures as Crumpet, a Macy's holiday Elf, was an instant success and made Sedaris a sought-after talent. Sedaris' original reading is still one of the most popular links on NPR's website.
"Sedaris has a wicked sense of humor that spares no one," said Phillips. "He attacks the entire notion of our commercialized Christmas season. Having the freedom to mock people and traditions held dear to most people makes the show great fun for me."
In 1996, Joe Mantello adapted the short story into monologue form. The play found immediate success and is now a staple of regional and community theatres. Phillips brought the laugh-until-you-cry hit to Wabash a year ago.
Tickets are free to the public, but reservations are encouraged due to limited seating. Contact the box office by email or phone (361-6411) to reserve your seats. A reminder, too, that The SantaLand Diaries has adult content and is not suitable for children.
Phillips enjoys the opportunity to do the one-man show, but says the character can at times be a little odd. "It's always interesting to go back to class the day after your students have seen you dressed as an elf," adds Phillips.


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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Monday that some state reports blaming Obamacare for sharply higher health insurance premiums next year were "factually incorrect."
Sebelius didn't say which states she was referring to, but her push-back comes after GOP-led states such as Ohio, Georgia and Indiana recently warned of large premium rate hikes next year due to the Affordable Care Act.
"Erroneous information is being advanced as if these are the final rates available in the marketplace and this is what consumers will be paying," Sebelius said Monday in a telephone briefing. "That's just not accurate."
State insurance officials in Ohio originally said the average individual premium proposed for 2014 was $420, up 88 percent from the 2013 average price as reported by the Society of Actuaries. Then earlier this week, they announced that the same coverage was actually about $332 a month.
A recent Obama administration analysis of prices in 11 states found that the lowest-cost "silver plan" – which covers 70 percent of medical costs – will cost an average of 18 percent less than the Congressional Budget Office had projected.
The administration is trying to jump-start its education and public awareness efforts for the Affordable Care Act despite a shortage of funds and persistent Republican resistance to the law, which was passed without GOP support.
On Monday, HHS launched a new Web page and graphic presentation to help explain Obamacare.
Though congressional Republicans won't provide more money for outreach and her department lost more than $15 billion in funding due to the budget cuts known as sequestration, Sebelius said the administration was meeting its commitments and would have the new insurance marketplaces ready for 2014 open enrollment, which begins Oct. 1.
Across the country, state officials and insurers are finalizing premium rates for the coverage that will be offered. The health care law's new consumer protections – such as guaranteed access to coverage for all and no spending limits on benefits – probably will increase premiums for young healthy people, while rates for older, sicker people very likely will fall.
Premium tax credits will help millions of low- and moderate-income individuals and families pay for coverage on the exchanges.
Sebelius said the department was relying on community organizations, nonprofits and religious groups to help spread the word about signing up.
Some 7 million people are expected to get coverage through the marketplaces, but many people still don't understand their responsibilities under the new health care law or how the marketplaces will work.
The administration's education push will hit a critical mass later this summer, Sebelius said, in an attempt to build public awareness just as the marketplaces open for enrollment.


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The location where we keep all our archival and other historical materials is officially called the Conference Depository. I have never cared for that name, and so I have begun to refer to it, unofficially, as the Historical Library and Archives. The reason for this is that a large part of our collections are monographs or other published materials. Even many of our records are not unique, archival records but published versions of various conferences and events. As a professional archivist and a researcher, I feel the knowledge that there is a substantial part of the collection that is published material and a substantial part that are official records or manuscript collections should be easily and quickly conveyed to the potential researcher in the name. This issue has not been addressed by the Commission on Archives and History because I have not brought it up, but I will sometime in the future.
When it comes right down to it, we have a collection of artifacts, art and objects. We really should be considered a heritage or history center to encompass all these physical pieces of our history. But that will wait.
My opinion as an individual, not representing anyone else.
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Bob Noland wrote:Tom, One of my favorite matches with steak recently was actually a Piedmonte Nebbiolo with a nearly 2 inch thick steak cooked in a fireplace at a great little place up the mountain from Arenzano in Italy. Normally I would probably follow the general rule of Cal Cab, Zin, or a hearty PN but you know I like to break all the traditional rules
Hi Bob,
Yeah, I know. Like the time had 3 ... well nevermind. I can definitely see nebbiolo going with steak. What I have more difficulty seeing is me affording a good Barolo with my steak.


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The morning of her wedding, Emily Johnston, 26, gazed up at the July sky from a window of the Churchill Pointe Inn on Hubbard Lake, Michigan. It was dark, stormy and altogether ominous. "It looked like it would pour any minute," she recalls. But as Emily, holding on to her father's arm, began her walk across the inn's lawn toward the altar, where her groom, David Rushing, 33, was waiting, the clouds suddenly parted and a bit of sun peeked through. Good thing, too—Emily had envisioned the entire wedding as a casual, sunny yellow outdoor celebration on the lake where she had spent summer vacations as a child. By the time she and David exchanged vows, the sun was shining for real. Says the bride, "Everyone was asking us later, 'How'd you pull that off?'"
After the ceremony, the wedding party, including the groom's daughters, junior bridesmaids Alexis, 10, and Hannah, 7, took a brief time-out on a pontoon boat that was piloted by Emily's Uncle Jeff. ("Who needed a limousine?" says the bride.) They circled the lake, sipping champagne, while, back on shore, 150 guests feasted on jumbo crab claws and bruschetta. Everything about the day echoed the couple's approach to romance. "David and I never really went on dates. Instead, we would just stay home and watch movies, laugh, and talk. We were so comfortable with each other, we wanted every guest to feel that way too—to kick back, relax, and enjoy." —Sheryl Berk
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Shoe Business: Emily provided a large basket of green, yellow, and white flip-flops on the dance floor for any potential aching feet. "People actually left wearing them. We found heels everywhere!"
For the Girls: The ring ceremony also included David's daughters. "We wanted them to take part in our vows," says Emily, "so after I promised to always be there for them, I placed a small ring on each girl's finger. It was a really special moment for all of us."
In Tune: Instead of a traditional recessional song, "which felt too uptight," the couple chose John Hiatt's "Have a Little Faith in Me." "We liked what it said about being there for someone, no matter how tough things get. It seemed to echo our vows: 'For better, for worse…'"
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