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The Aspen Food & Wine Festival takes place every year in June. It's a weekend full of much wine and food (sometimes too much) with seminars by celebrity chefs and wine folks, grand tastings with wineries from around the world and all around imbibing by all. As one chef put it this year, this is the place where people use the term 'altitude sickness' instead of hangover. Luckily, after doing this a bit, I've learned that the key is pacing yourself. By doing this, I made it to the early seminars, enjoyed some morning runs and hit every grand tasting, where I discovered some cool producers and some even cooler packaging (which I'll report to you in a future post).
Champagne – One of those early 10am seminars covered Prestige Champagne. Prestige Champagne is the top cuvee of a Champagne house – often the best of the best. As expected, my favorite was Krug. Always said that if Champagne houses were sorority houses, I'd pledge Krug. I was also very impressed with the 1996 Pommery Cuvee Louise. The 1996 vintage was one of the best of the decade and the wine is still extremely fresh and bright, indicating the potential to age further. But the wine that most impressed me came from producer Alfred Gratien. The NV Alfred Gratien Cuvee Paradis Rose Brut was delicious! This brut rose is aged in bottle six years before release and production is under 20,000 cases/year. The nose showed raspberries & strawberries and the palate was full of bright fruit and crisp acidity. Yet the wine is medium to full bodied. This is definitely a food Champagne – would be perfect with salmon, roast chicken, or, as the panel recommended, BBQ! This prestige Champagne retails for about $130, one of the lower prices of the tasting. Later that evening, we tasted the Alfred Gratien Brut Rose NV. This was a lovely wine as well – not as complex as the Cuvee Paradis, but another great food wine and summer sipper (but not out of a plastic cup).
Grand Tastings – Four Grand Tastings, each only an hour and 45 minutes long, hundreds of booths = too little time to do it all! But I was able to do enough to find a couple of gems.
Hall Winery – I've long been a fan of Kathryn Hall Cabernet Sauvignon. While so many Cali Cabs are charging upwards of $150 a bottle, the Kathryn Hall sits at $70. It's a mix of sweet spice, black fruits and super smooth tannins. Very approachable now, this is a wine for those who like big, fruit-driven California Cabs. Plus, Kathryn Hall herself is gracious and lovely. The discovery wine at the table for me was the Hall 2005 Bergfeld Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon. Oh yeah, this was big & smooth. It looks like it's only available at the winery right now (though I'm looking into that) and retails for $100. I'd still pick the Kathryn Hall Cab, though, as it's got that great price tag and those sweet fruits & sweet spices – warms the soul…
Benziger – Yes, I've tasted Benziger before, and really enjoyed it. But I had not yet tasted the Signaterra brand… WOW. All these wines were really amazing. Benziger is 100% biodynamic, and while some practices may be slightly wacky, the wines are pretty incredible. The Sauvignon Blanc from Russian River is probably my new favorite SB from California. It's intense but elegant and so well balanced. The Pinot Noir is also delicious. But the Three Blocks, the Cabernet/Merlot blend, blew me away… This was fantastic. Big with great structure and layers of flavor. Complex. Love this line of wine. Stay tuned as these wines will be in stock shortly!
These are just some of my newer discoveries. A few consistent favorites:
Penley Estates – the Chertsey is a great Bordeaux blend, and the Hyland & Phoenix are excellent as usual – also great values!
Innocent Bystander – Great label, great wine, great value. Cool climate wines (from Yarra Valley) are some of my favorites.
d'Arenberg – I really do love just about every wine they make. Had a chance to taste the Dead Arm. Lives up to the standard – delicious.
Mulderbosch – Yes, love the Sauvignon Blanc, Rose & the whole line up.
Rhone Valley Wines – the trade organization was pouring quite a few, including D'Aqueria Tavel, Guigal Condrieu and Perrin Vinsobres.
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By Chris Wright
After doing battle with the Spanish taxman in the skies over Catalonia all week, Lionel Messi flitted to Senegal yesterday to dole out a few of his new anti-mosquito/anti-malaria bed nets that will hopefully save thousands of lives across Africa.
As well as Messi's seal of approval, the nets also have his screaming face on – which is nice…
Bringing new, slightly less yucky meaning to the term "Messi bedsheets".
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Scott Arniel observes Canucks prospects camp.
Screencap via Canucks.com.
All week long we've been evaluating how the likes of Dallas Eakins, Guy Boucher, John Stevens, Lindy Ruff and Dave Tippett might fit behind the Vancouver Canucks bench. Today we'll turn our attention to a coach who is currently employed by the organization: long-time American Hockey League benchboss Scott Arniel.
There was a time not too long ago when the former Manitoba Moose head coach was one of the hottest coaching prospects in hockey. Then he got the Columbus job and like a Russian sniper drafted by the Blue Jackets his "highly touted" status came to an abrupt halt. As we've argued previously, Arniel got a bit of a raw deal in Columbus, and I for one don't think the struggles of those inept Scott Howson clubs were necessarily the result of Arniel's coaching. Other closer observers, however, don't have quite such a charitable assessment.
Let's look into Arniel's resume and credentials after the jump.
The Resume
Of the potential coaches we've covered over this past week, none of them were as impactful at NHL level players as Scott Arniel was. Over a decade long NHL career Scott Arniel tallied nearly one-hundred and fifty goals and well north of three-hundred points as a two-way winger who occassionally played in the top-six. Arniel played for the Jets, Sabres and finally the Bruins in his career, before carrying on for several seasons in the IHL with the Houston Aeros, San Diego Gulls, Manitoba Moose and the Utah Grizzlies (great team names every one).
It was during a partial season with the Aeros, actually, that Scott Arniel got his first taste of coaching. When then Aeros assistant Dave Tippett was promoted during the 95-96 season, Arniel became a "player assistant coach" for the duration of that campaign. Thereafter he moved on to play for the Utah Grizzlies and the Manitoba Moose for a few years, and immediately joined the Manitoba Moose as an assistant coach upon his retirement (working under Randy Carlyle).
Arniel was an assistant with the Moose for two seasons, working under Carlyle for one season and under Stan Smyl the next. Following the 2001-02 season, Arniel found himself an NHL job running special teams for Lindy Ruff's Buffalo Sabres. The season before he arrived in Buffalo, the Sabres were a super elite penalty-killing team that struggled enormously on the power-play, and Arniel didn't much change that. The Scott Arniel run Sabres power-play capitalized on 14.4% of opportunities in Arniel's first season (with Alexei Zhitnik and Chris Gratton getting the majority of the club's power-play ice-time) and 15.5% in Arniel's second season (Stu Barnes was on Buffalo's second power-play unit that season… Seriously).
In Arniel's third season on the job an influx of young talent (Danny Briere, Maxim Afinogenov, and Brian Campbell) helped propel the conversion rate of Buffalo's power-play north of twenty percent for the first time in his tenure. Looks to me like Buffalo's power-play struggles while Arniel was in charge were largely personnel based, with his five-on-four unit humming when he was finally given some talent to work with. Buffalo's penatly-killing was dominant throughout Arniel's tenure as Buffalo's assistant coach in charge of special teams…
Following his third and most successful season as an NHL assistant coach, Scott Arniel tookover from Alain Vigneault – who was promoted to coach the Vancouver Canucks – behind the Manitoba Moose bench. Arniel's Moose clubs were largely veteran teams that leaned heavily on players like Curtis Genoway, Marco Rosa, Lee Goren and Brad Moran. The odd contribution from a young prospect – like Michael Grabner one year, or Sergei Shirokov one year, or Alex Edler one year – was more the exception than the rule.
Anyway Arniel's Moose were absurdly successful in the regular season, as Arniel amassed a 181-106-33 record as Manitoba's head coach. The Moose were less successful, generally speaking, in the playoffs under Arniel. Despite a run to the Calder Cup final in 2009, Arniel's playoff record as an AHL benchboss is just a tick above .500 at 24-23.
Following the 2009-10 season, Arniel was a hot commodity on the coaching market with everybody talking him up in much the same way they fawn over Dallas Eakins now. True story. Unfortunately for Arniel he landed with the Blue Jackets and we'll get into that more momentarily…
The Columbus Disaster
To call Arniel's tenure with the Blue Jackets an abject disaster might be putting it too kindly. But seriously, what rotten luck Arniel had in that job. It's really quite stupendous.
Columbus went from a 44.4% Fenwick team the season before Arniel tookover, to a 50.9% Fenwick team in his first season behind the bench (they were even better in score close situations). Unfortunately the team recieved .913 goaltending at even-strength, which is completely pathetic, and posted a -43 goal differential on the season. A plus possession team with a -43 goal differential! That's seriously messed up.
The next season, well, it was significantly worse. The Blue Jackets traded for Jeff Carter that summer, and he was never really happy about it as we all know. They were also without James Wisniewski, who was suspended forever during Shanahan's first swashbuckling, gutty preseason as chief NHL disciplinarian. The Blue Jackets won only one of their first eight contests and two of their first eleven games (losing four games in regulation by a single goal)…
Again, the Blue Jackets that season were a borderline positive possesion club (they were a positive possession club in score close situations, though perhaps that's because they were always down a goal). The real kicker was, surprise, the goaltending which was even worse than the season previous (.910 at even-strength in Columbus' first 41 games, Steve Mason posted an .898 save percentage at even-strength through twenty-four starts). The Blue Jackets had a PDO below 98 when Scott Arniel lost his job…
After the Blue Jackets fired Arniel their possession game went into the tank. But that summer they acquired Sergei Bobrovsky and lo and behold Todd Richards is a genius while Scott Arniel's reputation will take years to recover from the Columbus mess. So much of being a successful NHL coach is timing, and there's no worse timing than "being hired by a team that has invested in Steve Mason."
Not that Arniel's tenure in Columbus was perfect, by any means, but his teams certainly competed hard every night and were absolutely, inarguably, betrayed by sub-AHL caliber goaltending. One area of concern, I suppose, would be Arniel's relationship with young players – something Mike Gillis has said is a priority going forward. Obviously I'm not in the room, but there are a couple of red flags from Arniel's time in Columbus that are worth bringing up here.
The first is Derick Brassard, who lost his job in the Blue Jackets top-six in the fall of 2011. At one point, Brassard's agent Alan Walsh released a statement that just blasted Arniel:
"While I have tremendous respect for (general manager) Scott Howson and the rest of Columbus' management team, the situation regarding Derick Brassard has become untenable. The coach has a history of burying players and using them as scapegoats to mask his own lack of success on the ice. Derick has been singled out, almost from the very beginning of the season, to be the fall guy in case things don't go well. The Columbus organization cares about Derick and has been good to him, but at some point, one has to say, enough is enough."
Wow. Arniel was also in charge during Columbus' completely mystifying handling of Ryan Johansen during his rookie year.
Once again, I'll happily argue that Scott Arniel was dealt an unwinnable hand by Scott Howson in Columbus. At some point I hope he gets another shot at coaching in the National Hockey League because his Columbus clubs, by the underlying data, were way, way better than their results would suggest. That said there's also a reason that Arniel's name no longer comes up when a coach loses his job (outside of in Vancouver, of course, where he's employed as the head coach of the team's minor league affiliate and is mentioned as a candidate almost by default)…
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To get a better handle on Arniel's tenure in Columbus, we chatted with long time Columbus Dispatch beat writer Aaron Portzline. Aaron is one of the most well respected beat writers in the game, and has a very different view of Scott Arniel's tenure in Columbus than I do.
On how things started out well for Arniel and quickly went sideways exposing his lack of experience:
"It got off to a great start (for Arniel in Columbus). They were 14-6 in his first twenty games and I think the Blue Jackets thought that they had fixed their problems under previous coach Ken Hitchcock, and I think Scott Arniel felt that way as well.
I think he was a little overwhelmed this being his first job and not an easy situation to walk into. I think there was an absolutely critical error – and I blame this as much on Scott Howson for allowing it to take place as I do on the other Scott (Arniel) – but they surrounded Arniel with a bunch of assistant coaches who had never coached in the NHL before, or never had their current jobs in the NHL before.
So when the you know what hit the fan, there were a bunch of people who thought they knew what to do and how to get out of it, but no one who had ever done it before."
On my assessment that Arniel's Columbus teams were betrayed by woeful goaltending:
"Goaltending makes all coaches look good or bad. Steve Mason, obviously, his numbers were not good, he was not a good goaltender those two seasons. But there were a lot of nights where you'd watch that team play and think "Patrick Roy in his prime would not have a chance to win this game." The team was so discombobulated."
On Scott Arniel's record developing younger players:
"Arniel's ability to develop young players was one of the surprising and frustrating parts of his tenure for the Blue Jackets organization. They expected the young players to launch under Arniel, and I don't think he created for them a clear idea of what was expected, or the path to that. I think there was a sense of confusion a lot of times."
On whether Arniel was dealt an impossible hand in Columbus:
"If you look at the second year team and the talent that was on it – and you can pick apart some of those players – I mean Jeff Carter did not handle his time in Columbus well, and Rick Nash has been exposed in New York for what he was in Columbus as well (where it was easier to blame other people) in that he's a hard guy to find people to play with. But that was a really talented team, maybe it wasn't a playoff team, but there's no way it should've been a lost cause so quickly into that season."
Finally here's Aaron Portzline on whether Scott Arniel coaches an uptempo style:
"Arniel, especially in his second year, tried to play an uptempo style. You'll recall they added Jeff Carter in between his first and second year. So they had two forty goal scorers. This was a team that should've scored goals.
They started 0-7-1 and pretty much pulled the chute on playing a puck possession type game. That went out the window. Columbus was pushing up against the cap that year, and you don't spend that money to be a responsive, play it safe team. When you change your system two weeks into the season that's a tell-tale sign of a situation that's already lost."
Thanks to Aaron for taking the time to chat with us for this piece. Follow him on Twitter.
Coaching Profile Series:
- How do Coaching Changes Impact Players
- Coaching Candidate Profile: Guy Boucher
- Coaching Candidate Profile: Dave Tippett
- Not a Coaching Candidate Profile: Lindy Ruff
- Coaching Candidate Profile: Dallas Eakins
- Coaching Candidate Profile: John Stevens
- Candidates Emerge in Canucks Coaching Search


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A man arrested after a suspected bomb hoax on a UK-bound flight has been sectioned under the Mental Health Act, police said.
The 47-year-old from the North West was arrested by armed officers who greeted flight QR23 from Doha, Qatar, when it arrived at Manchester Airport yesterday, escorted by an RAF Typhoon jet.
Greater Manchester Police said today that he had been sectioned.
A spokesman said: "Following his arrest he was assessed by medical staff and again by a mental health team.
"He was subsequently sectioned to allow for a fuller assessment and appropriate treatment."
The alert was sparked by fears of "a possible device on board" but Greater Manchester Police pronounced the Airbus A330-300 clear after searching it.
Some of the 269 passengers on board the flight from the Gulf described seeing the fighter from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire come close to the civilian aircraft as it flew towards Manchester, with pictures and video posted online.
A passenger, Josh Hartley, live-tweeted the incident and took a photo of the Typhoon escort.
He said there were armed police outside the plane and uploaded a photo of fire engines gathered nearby.
Armed police outside the plane— Josh Hartley (@JoshHartley_) August 5, 2014
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Another passenger tweeted an image that appeared to show the person being removed.
Aurang Zeb, 60, who was returning from a holiday to his home in Bradford, said: "I thought there was something wrong because there was a jet flying so near."
He said the plane landed and was taken to an area well away from the terminal and other planes, where they waited for 45 minutes, then moved again closer to the terminal.
Mr Zeb added: "Then I saw all the police with guns. Lots of police everywhere.
"Kids were crying, some people looked very worried because of rumours there's a bomb on the plane."
Mr Zeb said two armed police then came on and removed the suspect passenger.
"They sat him up and said 'Put your hands up'. He did not say anything.
"People were still worried something might be on board.
"There was a rumour of a bomb on the plane so people are scared. Thank God for that not happening."
Passengers said two armed police arrested the suspect, who was ordered to put his hands on his head before being led away.
Indian Manju Geo, who was coming to the UK to visit family in Stoke, said: "At least two police came on and took one man off called Mr Roy.
"We were told he was writing some notes on the flight and the air hostess found that."
Manchester Airport said nine incoming flights had to be diverted to other airports, with five of these landing at Leeds Bradford Airport.
One of the flights that landed on time at Manchester once the emergency was over was the plane carrying Manchester United back from Florida, where the team has been engaged in a pre-season friendly tournament.
Last night, GMP chief superintendent John O'Hare said: "A 47-year-old man from the North West has been arrested on suspicion of making a bomb hoax and remains in police custody for questioning.
"A full search of the aircraft has now finished and nothing suspicious was found."


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|November 12, 1997
|Agency Addressed
|William O. Monroe, Director
Division of Accounting and Auditing
Office of Comptroller
|Salary Overpayment Refunds and Warrant Cancellations
Due to year end concerns and concerns raised about the direction we were heading regarding Salary Overpayments, we are NOT planning any changes to either of the subject processes until at least February 1998. This means that the Office of Comptroller, Cashier's Office, will continue to accept receipts for salary refunds until further notice is given, probably around February 1998.
The entire Cancellation and Adjustment component of our payroll system is being re-programmed due to year 2000 concerns. The new processes are planned to allow Agencies access to screens that will allow all Salary Refunds and Warrant Cancellations to be entered at the Agency. Although all processes are not described in detail at this time, it is known that it will be necessary to deposit salary refunds into an appropriate account at the agency level. However, it will not be necessary to transfer the funds to the Comptroller's Office as was described in a Draft memorandum recently disseminated.
Warrant Cancellations will also be handled at the Agency level. Concerns over internal controls over the warrants have not been worked out in detail but we are looking at having the Agency input as well as destroy canceled warrants.
Some other processes will be included in this re-programming effort. However, it is not known at this time how many of our requested enhancements will become a reality due to the tight time constraints on the year 2000 project. The Cancellation and Adjustment component of Payroll includes many things such as manual payrolls, noncash benefits, moving expense, tax refunds and tax collections. We will advise you when we have more details about what enhancements will become a reality.
We apologize if the draft memorandum regarding Salary Overpayment Refund
Processing caused any confusion or additional work on your behalf. However, any
work done to set up procedures for depositing these funds will not be wasted,
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Meaner than FictionSubmitted by Karen on July 27, 2011 - 4:56pm
Just where is justice in Australia hiding? This brilliant new collection of true crime stories takes us into the Australian courts of the 1980s and '90s, back in time to the goldfields of the 1860s, and out to the island nation of Nauru in 2006 to explore how the scales of justice are unbalanced. This is a world in which the innocent still get locked up and the guilty too often go free.


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JACKSON TOWNSHIP, OH (WOIO) - Outrage after a high school coach hid cameras inside the boys locker-room shower!
Jackson Township was rocked by the news Tuesday afternoon. Although, some say for years they suspected something was not right about this coach.
For 25 years, Jackson Township parents trusted coach Scott Studer, but police say he abused that trust and victimized countless boys.
"At the basketball banquet every year he'd break down and cry about his commitment to these kids. Little did we know he was video taping them," said Jon DuPont, concerned parent and Jackson Youth Basketball Association Commissioner.
The 46-year-old freshman basketball coach and high school Building Aide is being held at the Stark County Jail. He's accused of hiding a camera in the boys locker room and filming them in the shower, something parents say Studer mandated and participated in.
"These images to our knowledge at this point were not shared with others," said Jackson Police Chief Dave Zink.
The chief, however, couldn't explain why the United States Postal Service is involved. He said they only started investigating this morning, and it's part of a bigger child porn case.
Jackson PD says the secret periodic recordings went on for eight years, but some wonder if it goes even deeper.
"He had parties at his house. He had sleep-overs on numerous occasions," said DuPont.
"You always think -- there's something not right here" said Deb Cahoon.
On top of already feeling violated and betrayed, Jackson parents and players are bothered that the information first came to them through the media and not from the school.
"I was upset we weren't contacted by an administrator. My son is terribly upset. He's on the ninth grade team now," said parent Sylvera Greene.
Now anxious and angry parents want to know how and when the years worth of victims will be identified.
"Whose children are involved in this? We're not getting any answers," said Sharon Deagan.
Coach Struder has already resigned, and is facing eight state charges already. He'll likely face federal charges. Now the police department must sift through all the evidence gathered from his house to identify victims.
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Injury Update: Owens, Glenn and Everyone Else
With one more week to go before the Cowboys play their first playoff game, there is only one injury still lingering. Terrell Owens high ankle sprain is still healing. He isn't wearing the protective ankle boot anymore and he has begun light jogging. That's a great sign that Owens will be ready. He has always been a fast healer and tough player. I would bet that he will be ready for the game next weekend. He is expected to start full practice on Wednesday or Thursday, then we will know more.
Terry Glenn returned for the first time this season last weekend. He did not complete a pass and didn't stay in for the entire game. He practiced without pads this week and plans to resume drills by Wednesday.
Andre Gurode was very limited in practice this week with a left knee sprain. He missed the last two games of the year, and it showed. He is a huge part of the reason Romo was having such a great year. The pro bowl center could be ready for the game next weekend, right now he needs to rest and stay off his leg. He is day-to-day.
Safeties Pat Watkins and Keith Davis practiced this week and should be ready for the game. Terence Newman seems to be back on his feet and ready to go. Jay Ratliff who also missed the final game of the season is also well.
Although the Cowboys have great depth in many positions, I feel that a return of the two star receivers would increase the chance of excelling in the postseason. Not to say it couldn't be done without them, but seems a lot less likely. Owens had a nice year despite the way the season ended, and Glenn has waited all year to return. I predict a spectacular return by both of these shining stars, it could be the highlight of their careers!


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Root Beer Chronicle Continues: BundabergPosted by Fredric Koeppel under Root beer
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I came upon Bundaberg Root Beer at Fresh Market, and while it's expensive — $1.99 for a 12.7-ounce (375 milliliter) bottle — of course I could not resist trying a new brand. The company was founded in 1960 in Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, and is still owned and operated by the Fleming family. The company is primarily known for ginger beer, which it sells a ton of in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and other countries. Bundaberg's motto is the alliterative "Brewed to Be Better," and I'll say that this is not just a better but a superior root beer, with a shiny dark color, a mild blond head (you know, the foam) and good body. It's moderately rich and quite lively, offering a clean but sweet rooty essence and a hit of clove-anise-vanilla spiciness; a touch of light, bright fruitiness seems to come from sarsaparilla root, making this perhaps not a true root beer, but there are, after all, no hard and fast recipes for root beer; the multitude of choices makes it interesting. For some reason, this gets mixed reviews on root beer blogs — talk about fanatics! — but I liked it immensely. The company does a separate bottling of sarsaparilla.
Here's the ingredients list: Carbonated water, cane sugar, root beer brew (water, sugar, molasses, ginger root, sarsaparilla root, licorice root, vanilla bean and yeast), caramel color, citric acid, preservatives (potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate), antioxidant (asorbic acid), root beer flavor.
While I wish that Bundaberg Root Beer did not contain preservatives, the entry on this list that throws me is "root beer flavors." What the hell? Don't the flavors come from the previous constituents? And if not, or at least if not entirely, could we get an explanation of what "root beer flavors" are? Transparency, please, not evasion!


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Aug. 21, 1930 Jan, 19, 2008
Johnson County Memorial Gardens
11200 Metcalf Ave.
Overland Park, Johnson Co., Kansas
This is the spot to blog about all things related to cemeteries, whether it be care, monument research, questions, or to read what's going on with the Digital Cemetery Project at http://cemetery.cottonhills.com
I have never seen a url on a grave marker before! Very interesting!
Neither have I seen a URL on a grave stone. I also think that it is a great idea. Much better than having an electronic solar-powered tombstone that needs the batteries replaced every 2 years.


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September 20, 2004
Shrimp & Potato Boil
2 medium onions, halved and separated
4 garlic cloves
3 tablespoons salt
3 tablespoons Old Bay
3 tablespoons celery seeds
3 tablespoons whole coriander
3 tablespoons Whole peppercorns
3 tablespoons pickling spice
3 tablespoons red pepper flakes
3 tablespoons "Cajun" seasoning
2 Bay leaves
2 pounds small potatoes -we used red, blue and white baby varieties
2 ears fresh corn, shucked and broken in half
2 pounds unshelled medium shrimp, tail on
1/2 pound carrots, peeled- we used "rainbow" carrots (yellow, orange and red colored)
Bring a fair amount of water to a boil in a large pot, enough to cover all ingredients. Add onions, carrots, garlic, salt, and other spices. Reduce heat to a simmer; cover, and cook 10 minutes. Add potatoes to pot; return liquid to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, covered, until potatoes are almost tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Add corn; continue cooking 5 minutes more. Remove from heat. Stir in shrimp, submerging them completely. Cover, and let stand until shrimp are cooked through, about 3 minutes. We used a strainer to scoop out enough for each serving.
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I made this tonight for my family and we loved it - thanks!ReplyDelete
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Three people were injured when a van crashed into the Firestone Tire Center in the 700 block of Belair Road in Bel Air late Saturday morning, according to Bel Air Police.
Bel Air Police reported the driver of the van, Thomas Roper, of Edgewood, and two people inside the building when it was struck, Jan Wilson and Ricky Richards, both of Bel Air, were injured in the accident that was reported at 11:23 a.m.
Wilson, who was the most seriously injured of the three people hurt in the accident, was flown to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. She and Richards, who was initially taken to Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air before being transferred to Johns Hopkins Bayview, were inside the building when it was hit, according to Bel Air Police. The driver of the van, Roper, was also taken to Upper Chesapeake Medical Center.
All three were released from the hospital later Saturday.
Bel Air Police officers and members of the Bel Air Volunteer Fire Company gave aid to those who were injured and secured the scene. Harford County Sheriff's Office and Maryland State Police provided traffic control and additional support.
None of the injuries appeared to be life threatening, according to Bel Air Police.
Building inspectors from Harford County and the Town of Bel Air responded to inspect the building.


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