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EA's "major titles" for FY14 using Frostbite 3 won't be for Wii U
During its call to investors last night, EA mentioned more than once it was working on 11 "major titles" slated for release during its fiscal year 2014 which use its Frostbite 3 engine, including Battlefield 4. However, the firm isn't planning on shipping any Star Wars title in FY14 and none of the releases using […]
EA drops gun licensing deals - but keeps the guns
Electronic Arts has revealed plans to ditch gun licensing deals from its games – but will continue to feature well-known weaponry in their titles without paying gun manufacturers.
DRM is a "failed dead end", says EA executive
EA Labels boss Frank Gibeau says DRM isn't something EA is interested in anymore, and therefore not the reason SimCity has an always-on Internet requirement.
Battlefield: new game will launch next year, says EA
Battlefield was highlighted as a big winner for EA during the publisher's investor call last night – we covered the entire report here. We also reported that Medal of Honor: Warfighter's poor performance has resulted in it being dropped from rotation, leaving space for a more Battlefield titles. Last night, EA confirmed that a new […]
EA Q2: FIFA sells 7.4 million, MoH: Warfighter "below expectations"
EA posted a loss and decreased revenue in Q2 FY2013, which CEO John Riccitiello blamed largely on disappointing sales of Medal of Honor: Warfighter.
Dishonored vs EA's Gibeau: a win for new IP
Dishonored has received rave reviews from the majority, despite claims that launching new IP late in the cycle is a mistake. The comments of some execs are defeatist at best and actively damaging at worst, says Dave Cook.
EA's focus is on Origin and the importance of change
Frank Gibeau, Head of Development at EA, says the future of the company is with its online Origin system.
BioWare owns its "creative culture," is free to make new IPs, says Gibeau
Frank Gibeau has said the firm backs BioWare on whatever creative endeavor it sets upon, whether it's a new IP or another entry in the Mass Effect series.
EA's Gibeau: "We know what gouging is"
EA Labels boss Frank Gibeau has said the publisher doesn't want to "gouge" or "screw" customers, but has crossed the line "a number of times" before pulling back.
C&C: Generals 2 will have a single-player mode
Command & Conquer: Generals 2 will have a single-player experience, because EA Labels boss Frank Gibeau knows players want one.
EA's Gibeau: free-to-play and sub-based titles can coexist
EA labels president Frank Gibeau believes subscription-based games are here to stay in some capacity, but it depends on the the type of game being developed.
Gibeau: "I still passionately believe in single-player games"
EA Labels boss Frank Gibeau has clarified earlier comments about not green lighting single-player games, re-establishing the publisher's support for the solo experience.
Frank Gibeau - "I have not green lit one game to be developed as a single player experience"
EA Labels president Frank Gibeau believes the firm is "better positioned for success," and at serving consumers than other companies which he considers "marooned on one platform."
EA warns, 'releasing new IP this late in console cycle is a mistake'
President of EA Labels Frank Gibeau has warned that launching new IP so late in the current console cycle is a mistake, and that developers should be using this time to hone their existing products.Just don't tell that to Dishonored studio Arkane Frank.
EA's Gibeau expects PS4 and next-Xbox to hit retail "in about a year's time"
EA Labels president Frank Gibeau believes Sony and Microsoft will release the next set of consoles "in about a year's time."
PopCap lay-offs addressed "duplicative" roles, shift to mobile focus - Gibeau
PopCap's lay-offs are part of the studio's integration with EA, according to EA Labels boss Frank Gibeau, and also part of the publisher's new focus on mobile gaming.
EA labels president has "seen both" PS4 and next-Xbox
EA labels president Frank Gibeau has decided to tease the masses by stating he has already laid eyes on the next-generation of consoles from Microsoft and Sony.
EA labels president Frank Gibeau to provide introductory keynote to gamescom 2012
EA has announced labels president Frank Gibeau will open gamescom with a talk regarding the "change in the landscape of the video game industry." He will also discuss why the titles coming out in the next four years will "have nothing to do with those of today." Gibeau will also address topics such as the […]
EA wants Medal of Honor and Battlefield to be different
EA is keen to cater to different audiences with Medal of Honor and Battlefield, according to Labels boss Frank Gibeau.
Mirror's Edge 2 is "on the list," says EA labels boss
As if the firm hasn't said this enough already, a sequel to Mirror's Edge is "on the list" of things to do at EA, according to labels president Frank Gibeau. The reason it's taking so long to get to market, let alone me announced, has to do more with "how and when" the series will […]
Frank Gibeau latest
Gibeau: "I still passionately believe in single-player games"
Frank Gibeau – "I have not green lit one game to be developed as a single player experience"
EA warns, 'releasing new IP this late in console cycle is a mistake'
EA's Gibeau expects PS4 and next-Xbox to hit retail "in about a year's time"
PopCap lay-offs addressed "duplicative" roles, shift to mobile focus – Gibeau
EA labels president Frank Gibeau to provide introductory keynote to gamescom 2012
EA says it would "love" to be the publishing partner for a Reckoning sequel
"Inevitable" that EA become an "100% digital company", says Gibeau
EA considering adding Battlefield Premium-style service to more properties
EA's not trying to alienate Dead Space 3 fans with changes, but it has to be "broadly appealing"
Syndicate's retail failure hasn't soured EA on reboots, says Gibeau
EA weighing up three to five new IPs for next-generation hardware
EA's Gibeau: E3 2012 the "opening act of the next-gen cycle shift"
Quick Quotes: SWTOR release date "definitely tied to the beta"
Gibeau: 'Hard to conceive' of what next-gen hardware might do
EA adds BioWare as full label, Moore and Gibeau in new roles


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London writer Emma Donoghue's story-telling skills are in fine form in her new, quick-paced novel, Akin. Donoghue fans won't be disappointed as the author of 2010's best-selling chronicle, Room, pens another page-turner.
Book review: Donoghue's engaging characters surprised by kinship in Akin
London writer Emma Donoghue's story-telling skills are in fine form in her new, quick-paced novel, Akin. Donoghue fans won't be disappointed as the author of 2010's best-selling chronicle, Room, pens another page-turner.
In Akin, kinship itself, in all its intriguing possibilities, is viewed through the forced pairing of an eighty-year-old widower and his 11-year-old grand-nephew and through the fraught events of a week long trip to the south of France.
When the book opens, in New York City, a frantic social worker is checking "kinship resources" for adolescent Michael Young, a boy bereft of any committed caregiver. The child's father, a handsome wastrel whose irresponsible behaviour has sparked family friction, is dead of a drug overdose. Michael's mother has almost three years yet to serve on a drug trafficking offence largely the fault of the boy's father. As a result, Michael had been living with his maternal grandmother, who has just died.
The novel's central character is Noah Selvaggio, a retired university professor, who is about to fly to Nice, the city of his birth and early childhood, to mark his 80th birthday and to try to ferret out the mysterious circumstances of his mother's two year sojourn in German-occupied Nice during the Second World War.
His plans have been made, his bags are packed and his trip, timed to coincide with the French carnival season, cannot be delayed. Noah has never met his young nephew and is appalled when the social worker, desperate to make find a placement, suggests the boy, grandson of Noah's late sister, accompany the professor on his visit to France. Although reluctant and feeling out of his depth, Noah agrees to take charge of the child. Two days remain and a scramble ensues for a passport for the boy.
Not surprisingly, the stage is set for a whirlwind, chaos-crammed visit to a city in the midst of celebration, a city dimly recollected by the elderly professor and rudely scorned by the petulant, hard-to-please boy. It places the jet-lagged pair in situations both poignant and hilarious as Noah and his nephew remain at odds with where and with whom they find themselves. And always in Noah's mind is the sardonic voice of his late wife, Joan, who provides a more measured perspective on Noah's bout with parenthood.
Although Donoghue's lively tale has many attractions, its most appealing is the repartee between uncle and nephew, crisp, peevish exchanges which underscore the gulfs which exist between generations, gulfs which cannot be bridged easily. Michael is technologically savvy, while Noah is a novice. Noah constantly corrects Michael's grammar, but the boy, who addresses his uncle as "dude," refuses to rise to the bait.
Noah savours French food (mussels, terrine de fois gras, salade Nicoise), menu choices scoffed at by Michael, who insists on burgers, fries and pizza, not that French variations on these favourites meet with his approval.
While Noah may insist he can only carry on a conversation with the boy by resorting to the vulgar or the macabre, the resulting banter moves the action along with Donoghue's trademark aplomb. Still, Noah is hard pressed. After another day of sparring, he decides he cannot handle another argument. "It was the repetition that appalled him: the stop-and-start, petty Whac-a-Mole wrangling that died down and flared up over and over."
Donoghue is good, too, with atmosphere. She captures, with well chosen detail, the present day commercial aura of Nice with its array of international restaurants, casinos, ornate architecture and topless sunbathers: "A city full of shiny goods, families laughing on patios at ten o'clock at night. Nothing boarded up or burned out, rusting or crunching underfoot, no screeches of sirens." The ambiguity surrounding the city's checkered history during the Second World War ties in with Noah's search into his mother's murky past, a probe which might be aided by Michael's computer expertise.
Donoghue's sparkling story is both inventive and thought-provoking. Its two engaging characters, whom events have placed in too-close proximity and whose brush with kinship has startled both, remain with the reader when the book is finished. Familial connection, even when held at arm's length, may not be as remote as assumed, and first steps, although tentative, seem possible. As a rumination on kinship and on its capacity to change outcomes, the book is convincing. Donoghue's brisk, entertaining narrative voice comes through in the novel in spades, as uncle and nephew find their way to unexpected accommodation.
Akin takes its place alongside such stellar Donoghue fiction as Room, shortlisted for the Booker, Giller and Orange Prizes and of such well-received historical sagas as Slammerkin and The Sealed Letter. Her work also includes novels Frog Music and The Wonder, the short story collection Touchy Subjects and two stories for young readers, The Lotterys Plus One and The Lottereys More Or Less.
Nancy Schiefer is a London freelance writer.


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Britain marked Queen Elizabeth II's 91st birthday on Friday with gun salutes, as the monarch herself enjoyed a family day and a trip to the races.
The queen, who owns and breeds racehorses, was spotted smiling broadly and chatting animatedly Friday with jockeys and staff at Newbury Racecourse, not far from her Windsor Castle home.
She visited the racecourse with daughter Princess Anne and sat in the royal box to watch her thoroughbred Maths Prize run; it finished fifth.
U.S. & World
There were also official celebrations in London, where a troop of the Royal Horse Artillery rode horse-and-gun carriages past Buckingham Palace before staging a 41-gun salute in Hyde Park at noon.
Outside the palace, a band of guardsmen in scarlet tunics and bearskin hats played "Happy Birthday" during the Changing of the Guard ceremony.
And at the centuries-old Tower of London, there was a second salute with 62 guns.
The queen is Britain's oldest and longest-reigning monarch, having become queen on Feb. 6, 1952. She is also the world's longest-reigning living monarch since the death of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej last year.
Elizabeth also has an official birthday, marked in June — when the British weather is better — with the "Trooping the Color" military parade.
Here's a look at some more milestones and numbers related to the queen:
- Elizabeth has reigned for 65 years and 75 days. On September 9, 2015, she became Britain's longest-reigning monarch, passing her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria.
- She has had 13 British prime ministers serve during her reign, from Winston Churchill to Theresa May.
- She has met 12 U.S. presidents, from Herbert Hoover (after he left office) to Barack Obama, more than a quarter of all the U.S. presidents since Independence. She is due to host President Donald Trump for a state visit later this year.
- She has traveled more than 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) on official trips, visiting 106 countries.
- She has visited Canada 22 times —the largest number of trips to any nation.
- She has four children, eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
- She has cut back on her official duties in the last few years, but Elizabeth still conducted 332 official engagements in 2016.


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Anyone in good health can compete in a marathon, but being able to cross the finish line requires months of training and preparation. And training the mind to stay focused, confident and positive is just as important as training the body. The American Council on Exercise's top 10 tips for completing a marathon will help make the 26.2-mile journey a positive and thrilling experience for those who are willing to give it their all for the first time or for the 10th time.
- Get in shape
Give yourself at least 12 weeks to get in shape and run the marathon. You want to be sure that your muscles and tendons are ready to handle the added stress of a high-volume running program.
- Slowly increase your mileage
When the time comes to start adding longer runs, start with a 6- to 8-mile run and slowly increase by no more than 10 to 15 percent each week.
- Vary your training
Once you have a strong base of aerobic fitness, use interval training and hill runs to increase your speed, strength and endurance. Just be sure to follow a speed or hill day with a lighter training day or a rest day.
- Slow down for distance runs
It is more important that you get used to the time on your feet and get your body prepared to go the distance than to worry about your pace on your long runs. Your pace on distance runs should be 30 seconds to two minutes slower than your average training pace.
- Rest
Giving your body enough time to recover from long, hard runs is just as important as the training itself. The 24- to 48-hour time period between runs is when your body repairs and replenishes your muscles and when strength gains are made.
- Wear proper running shoes
A runner's foot hits the ground around 1,500 times per mile while absorbing two-and-a-half to three times your body weight with each step. Support your feet with appropriate shoes, and replace your shoes at least once every 300 miles.
- Dress appropriately for the weather
Dress in layers, and choose clothing and socks that wick away moisture and keep your skin dry.
- Practice your diet
Fueling before, during and after your run is essential for preventing unwanted pit stops and bonking (hitting the wall) from a lack of energy. Race day is not the time to try something new, so figure out ahead of time what foods and fluids work best for you.
- Stay hydrated
Start every training run well-hydrated and try to consume 6 to 8 ounces of water or a sports drink containing electrolytes every 10 to 15 minutes if possible.
- Stay focused and positive
Always run with a relaxed and positive mind set. Focus on your goal for that day and how good you will feel when you complete it.


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Dear Annie: Several months ago, my husband and I moved to the Ozarks after falling in love with the area. We left behind a lot of dear friends and the life we had known for 25 years, but we are quite happy here.
The only sadness is my brother. He and his wife still live in the town we left. When I told him we were moving out of state, he said we shouldn't because of our health issues. Yet when I had two major surgeries, he never once bothered to drive the five minutes to the hospital or come by my house afterward. He is retired and sits around the house watching TV. He never offered to help us pack for the move or assist in driving our truck, and I really wanted him to see our new home.
In the nine months we have lived here, my brother has not called one time. I phoned on his birthday and for holidays. Each time, he said he was "thinking of calling." My husband and I have no children. My brother is my only family. He told me a few years ago that he is depressed. I am sure it began when his best friend died. He did get medication from his doctor, but it obviously did little good.
I am hurt that my big brother has written me off. We never got together much when we lived in the same town, but at least he would call once in a while and come by for coffee on occasion.
I have decided that the next move is up to him. My husband has been supportive, but even he does not know how badly I am hurting. He doesn't have any siblings. I know of nothing that will make my brother call me, so I can only sit here and hope. Any suggestions? — Hurting Little Sis in Branson, Missouri
Dear Hurting: You are expecting a great deal from a brother who apparently suffers from depression and has never been particularly good at staying in touch. He may believe you abandoned him by moving away. In most sibling relationships, one sibling is better at maintaining ties. It's your choice whether to continue to initiate contact, but we hope you will. We think he misses you, even though he doesn't show it the way you'd like.
Dear Annie: "Concerned Old Man in West Hills" doesn't understand why it is rude to tell his niece that she is fat. I have a different perspective. If the niece was a slim girl up to a point and then started to pack on the pounds, she may have been sexually abused. The weight is an unconscious attempt to appear less attractive.
I was abused when I was 7 years old. I gained weight and wore shape-blurring clothing because I wanted to be invisible. My family members labeled me lazy and said I didn't care about my appearance. Every bite of food came with scrutiny from tablemates. I knew I was an embarrassment to my family.
If you see this sort of transformation in a close friend or family member, be kind. If you can do so in a gentle way, ask us why we seem to be sad and withdrawn. — Grandma Whose Inner Child Is Shattered
Dear Grandma: Thank you for mentioning this possibility. Many abused children, both male and female, react by "hiding" themselves in this way. We hope family and friends will pay attention to these changes and see what's really going on.
Dear Annie: Your response to "Bob in North Carolina" hit the target dead center. It's a shame that so many of the young women with whom I work do not see themselves in this light. They flaunt their sexuality instead of their know-how in the work environment. What a shame people still think like this. — Proud of Who I Am, Not What I Show
This Classic Annie's Mailbox column was originally published in 2014. To find out more about Classic Annie's Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit Creators Syndicate at www.creators.com.


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Master Bob O'Farrell
Jeffry Avenue
Jamaica, L.I.
Dear Bob:
Isn't this a beautiful picture of a French madamselle. I've received your photo that ma sent to me you surely do look great. I have been in the line and have been through quite a lot. Best of luck and love to you all, I am.
Uncle Joe
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If spacetime is "quantized" (discrete), then any equation of motion compatible with the Lorentz transformations is necessarily non-local. I will present evidence that this sort of nonlocality survives on length scales much greater than Planckian, yielding for example a nonlocal effective wave-equation for a scalar field propagating on an underlying causal set. Nonlocality of our effective field theories may thus provide a characteristic signature of quantum gravity.


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Is the New Droid Ad Anti-Women and Anti-Gay or Just Plain Idiotic? Actually, All Three!
What in the world can one make of the new ad for the Droid, the Motorola (MOT) smartphone with Google (GOOG) Android software on the Verizon Wireless (VZ) network, which apparently put out this commercial?
Here's what: It aggressively calls the Apple (AAPL) iPhone a dumb blonde and then a prissy dude in need of a beatdown.
Let's put it this way: The 30-second clip makes Glenn Beck look like Gloria Steinem and Adam Lambert combined!
Earlier advertising for the Droid has been clearly aimed at the he-man demographic, with a beer-commercial tone and a growly-voiced announcer.
So what? That's marketing 101. But this one–titled "Pretty"–goes entirely too far.
"Should a phone be pretty?" it begins, using an odd series of images that is packed full of random misogyny. "Should it be a tiara-wearing, digitally clueless beauty pageant queen?"
Then comes all the manly imagery–a racehorse, a powerfully pointed Scud missile, bananas and buzzsaws to represent the Droid. A surging missile, as well as several creamy explosions too. Get it?
And let's not forget the bunch of fey, effeminately-dressed mannequins, with one getting bashed with an ink-filled ball thrown by some tough masked thug with the line, "Is it a precious porcelain figurine of a phone?"
Then back to anti-women name-calling, saying an iPhone is a "princess," unlike the Droid, "a phone that trades hair-do for can-do."
It is true that sometime a phone ad is just a phone ad–but, in this case, sometimes it's just appalling. It would be funny, if it weren't so mean-spirited.
But, please, you be the judge of the video of the television commercial, which is on Verizon Wireless' YouTube site:


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HacPDX II – More Hacking!
July 7, 2011
HacPDX II is set for July 22-24, 2011 (Friday – Sunday)! Be sure to register or else, exactly like HacPDX 1, you might not get network access.
I hope to spend most of my time working on Hackage (see here and here) with other interested Haskellers both locally and via IRC (#hacpdx on freenode). Still, I might sqeeze in some time for my seemingly never-complete side projects… we'll see!
Hope to see you there!


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Yours truly – Neil Flagg, President and Founder of Sports Poster Warehouse – will be appearing on WGR550 Sports Radio's The Hobby this Saturday morning (May 23, 2009 at 8:00am). Hosted by Mike Schoop of Buffalo's top-rated drive-time show Schoop & The Bulldog, The Hobby is a fantastic hour of radio focusing exclusively on the world of sports collectibles. We'll be discussing the history of the sports poster, and sports posters in general from a collector's perspective.
You can listen live on WGR's streaming audio feed linked here. A day or two after the show, an archived audio file will be available here on The Hobby's Web Site. A highly recommended, very entertaining show for those interested in sports collectibles!
For fans of the show, we're offering a free shipping discount code – a $5.75 discount off orders of $20.00 or greater, expiring July 4, 2009 ($5.75 is the price of standard shipping fee for the Continental USA). Use discount code WGRHOBBY-FREESHIP.


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Lift Uplift
- 1 Project Name
- 2 Proposer
- 3 Summary
- 4 What Will Be Done
- 5 What Areas in the Space Will This Affect
- 6 Who Will Be Doing It
- 7 Why This Will Be Good
- 8 Why This Will Be Bad
- 9 How Long Will It Take
- 10 In A Fantastic World, What Extra Budget Would You Like
- 11 Are There Any Other PFAs This Would Work Well With
- 12 Are There Any Other PFAs This Would Contradict
Project Name[edit]
Lift Uplift
Jarrod Hicks
Open up the elevator lobby and create a better experience for Noisebridge users who use the elevator
What Will Be Done[edit]
Please see the drawings for further clarification.
File:Noisebridge - Sheet - A506 - EZ AV and LIFT UPLIFT.pdf
Remove some of the partition walls on the south east, south, and south west sides of the elevator lobby. The doors on these walls will also be removed. The light switch will be moved, bonus points for installing a motion sensor. Leave the wall containing the electrical box intact. After the demo work, the remaining walls will be repaired, cleaned, and painted.
What Areas in the Space Will This Affect[edit]
Elevator Lobby and Hackitorium
Who Will Be Doing It[edit]
Jarrod Hicks and/or any other volunteers.
Why This Will Be Good[edit]
The elevator lobby is a dark dead space within Noisebridge. It is unwelcoming and often full of obstacles for those that need to use the elevator. As an entrance to Noisebridge, it should be improved. Demolishing some of the walls will open it up and connect it to the rest of the entrance and the hackitorium.
Why This Will Be Bad[edit]
Demolishing the walls and doors will create trash.
How Long Will It Take[edit]
Demolition would probably be a solid days work. The clean up and repair another week. This could be done while Noisebridge is open.
In A Fantastic World, What Extra Budget Would You Like[edit]
Money for repair materials, paint, and a motion sensor for the lighting.
Are There Any Other PFAs This Would Work Well With[edit]
Are There Any Other PFAs This Would Contradict[edit]


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Black wood abacus. A section of the right edge is missing at the back, allowing the panel to slide. Used by the donor's father at his store.
Black wood abacus. A section of the right edge is missing at the back, allowing the panel to slide. Used by the donor's father at his store.
Abacus, a calculator used by Chinese immigrants as an aid in counting. This one is made of dark wood.
Rusted metal numbers "825." Each number has four small holes in the metal for affixing the number. The number is probably from an adjoining building by the Chinese Benevolent Association building at 824 Agnes Street. This latter locati...
This wooden address plate measures 8 by 33 cm. The numbers "824" are cut vertically into the wood and painted yellow. There are two nail holes, one on either end.
Photographs of the Chinese Benevolent Society drill team and a banner for the Chinese Benevolent Society.
Rev. Shiu items. A blue book of moral sayings (four words per line, in Chinese); a green softcover book, English from left, Chinese from right (back of book); and loose slips of paper inside.
Documents including head tax certificate of Tee Lee Sing Kan; bylaws of Chinese Old Man's Home in Chinese and English; Kwong on Wo balance sheets on letterhead; directors list; and other Chinese documents.
Round woven basket with three red tassels on top, a Chinese coin, and a red plastic loop handle. The basket is a dark brown colour. The basket contains three plastic bags with no numbered items. The bags contain the following: strips of lace trimm...
Large wicker basket/suitcase with a handle. The suitcase has a dark brown border, with strips of light brown decorating, leather patching on the corners. "CC Shiu" is written in black on one side; on the other in the label holder is &q...
Faded purple round squat basket and lid. There are bead handles on the lid and a bow decoration. The handle is on the centre and has Chinese characters.
First Peoples' basketry bottle. Basketry is woven around the bottle, on the diagonal and patterned with contrasting colour basketry. It is 18 cm tall. The top diameter is 5.5 cm. Made for souvenir trade? The bottle is a Chinese imported Ta ...
Small square ink block tin with no lid. It is 4.7 by 4.7 cm. In the tin, there is a lump of black material, etched with several things including some Chinese characters and part of the words "Hong Kong" and "No. 28 (?)"
Silk Chinese blue blouse with double breast overlapping front and side closure. There are five side toggles, two are in groups of two, with two at the collar, and two at the breast corner. Has been treated with moth balls.
Silk Chinese-style blouse, light blue with an occasional floral spot in the silk and fancy toggle style closures. It has black piping detail near the edge. The underside overlapping front panel has a handkerchief pocket. Treated with moth balls.
Chinese language book called "Tung Wah Coffin Home & The Global Charity Network: selected archives source materials" by Ming Yip. Pages 216-217 have New Westminster content.
Small-sized New Testament in Chinese, from the Reverend C. C. Shiu.
Clear glass bottle with a black lid and a red label. The label has Chinese characters and the English text "POISON" and "Kwong Chai Tong."
Small glass medicine bottle with broken neck. Located at 822 Carnarvon Street, possibly a New Westminster Chinatown item.
Dark green glass bottle with two horseshoes embossed on side and Chinese characters around the bottom.
Porcelain bowl rim shard. It has a blue tint with dark blue decoration.
Small decorated Chinese porcelain 'rice' bowl.
Decorated Chinese porcelain serving bowl (medium).
Ceramic bowl. The bowl has large relief figures across the face, with two Chinese men. The man on left is in green robes, the man on the right in blue. Both are bald with long trailing horn-like hair; the man in blue has a branch in his hands go...
Small decorated Chinese porcelain 'rice' bowl.
Bowl fragment. It is blue on grey and has a blue back, Chinese style.


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Singer Solange Knowles says there is no ill feeling over her infamous elevator bust-up with her rapper brother-in-law Jay-Z, insisting: "We are all good."
The pair hit headlines in May when surveillance footage emerged showing Knowles lashing out at her sister Beyonce's husband as they left a party at a New York hotel.
Beyonce later issued a statement insisting her husband and sister "each assume their share of responsibility for what has occurred," and now Solange has spoken out to reveal the famous family has moved on from the scandal.
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New York City Police Foundation Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly recently announced that his agency, in conjunction with the Department of Defense, has been working for the past three years to develop scanner technology that could detect concealed firearms.
The technology would show officers weapons hidden under clothing using a technology similar to infrared imaging, detecting radiation that human bodies naturally emit. Because that radiation cannot travel through metal, hidden weapons will be revealed when the flow of energy is blocked.
Though this technology is still in its testing phase, concerns have already arisen. Some fear that such scanners would cause police to arrest people for carrying an iPod or other harmless metal device if the image on the scanner is not clear enough. Civil Liberties groups have expressed privacy concerns about such technology, fearing that law-abiding civilians will be subject to unwarranted pat-downs.
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Another vote for Jetboil.
Another vote for Jetboil.
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I just got a "Pocket Stove" sold at Aerostitch for 16$. Now how can you get any better/simpler? Its a fuel tab type stove and very primatively designed. Much like the old and still around Sterno fold up stoves, but! This thing boils 16oz of water in 2 minutes and 32oz in less than 5, all by tablet fuel source. Now, I have others and carry my JetBoil still, but this tiny efficient, almost unreal small and easy to carry anywhere on the bike is my second and maybe even my first choice. German made and so very minimalist kinda packing unit. Each tablet burns way hot for about 12 minutes and savable if not used up. This is by FAR the easiest cooker I have ever found and now joins my fleet of stoves. Randy
REI has a pocket stove for $10.50 and Target has one for $10.99.
R1200RT. Previous K1200RS, K1200LT, R80RT, R100R, R75/5
I posted earlier about using a Coleman dual fuel stove that burns tank gas. I'll add to that the fact that we travel generally on the bikes for four to five months every summer. We travel mostly in the west, often camp for several days at an out of the way location, and almost never go to cities of any size unless we absolutely have to. When my 20 plus year old Coleman stove failed I got a cheap single burner stove that uses standard hardware store propane cylinders. Those I could find at even small country hardware stores. For the way and places we travel a specialized canister for a stove just isn't practical from a logistics standpoint.
For folks who are out for a few days who can haul a canister or two some of the newer stoves are perfect but for how, where, and how long we travel gas from the bike is the practical way to go.
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For a low cost alternative to jetboil check out this at Amazon.com "Ultralight Backpacking Canister Camp Stove with Piezo Ignition 3.9oz!" $8.42 inc shipping.
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I've really been thinking about the new Bio-lite stove http://www.biolitestove.com/
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As you can see it goes from barely any flame to "Saturn V".
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All I see is a facebook secure video notice.
Should be good to go now. had to adjust privacy settings on the video.
[QUOTE=Downs;864984]As you can see it goes from barely any flame to "Saturn V".
That looks like a great stove for the price. One question maybe you can answer. It appears that the flame is rather concentrated so I was wondering if you had experience using it with something larger than a cup or coffee pot... in other words how might it work with a frying pan or pot? Does it heat evenly or just create a hot spot in the middle?
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Rumor: Andrea Bargnani considering Virtus Roma?
Virtus Roma owner: "We have been talking with Andrea Bargnani. In my opinion, if he decides to play in Italy, he will sign just with us (Bargnani was born and grew up in Roma).
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: European clubs are loving the lockout.
The best squads in Greece, Italy, Spain, and Turkey are free to flirt with the best NBA players who are without jobs.
This means free publicity.
For weeks, executives with Virtus Bologna have been 'negotiating' with Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant.
These executives have no issue discussing negotiations with the press, while Bryant's representative, Rob Pelinka, has had little to say.
Now the head suit with Virtus Roma is telling anyone who will listen that in his opinion they'll land Andrea Bargani.
Perhaps they will. Perhaps they won't.
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Facebook offers services that demand mobile payments, but there are middleman cutting into the profits.
With additional reporting by Apurva Chaudhary in Mumbai
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- It's never easy getting paid. And in this grinding global mobile economy, it's especially not easy for Facebook (:FB) to get paid.
This year, the social media giant announced it would offer other countries, including India, the ability to pay to promote a post. Already well-known to American users, pay-to-promote, at least when I tried it, is where Facebookers cough up a couple of bucks -- in my case, $8 -- to get more folks to see one's Facebook stuff.
Life-changing it was not, but at least I paid for something on Facebook. And investors are betting that between these and other paying services some real money will really flow Mark Zuckerberg's way. Overseas markets such as India look particularly lucrative. There are 60 million some-odd Facebookers in India, according to SocialBakers, a Czech Republic-based social media search measurement firm, and these users live in a country with $1.8 trillion in GDP for 2011 that should grow in the 7% range this year, according to the World Bank.
It all seems so rosy, but of course it's the digital age. So it's not. Break down the nitty-gritty of Facebook offering -- and getting payment for -- a service in an emerging economy such as India's and it gets very clear very fast that Mr. Zuckerberg will have a lot of hungry mouths to feed before he ever sees a dime.
It's crowded in here
At first blush, how Facebook does business in India is how it does business here in the U.S. Harish Krishnan, who blogs about social media for BlogAdda, one of India's largest blogger communities, and who uses Facebook heavily to market and communicate from Mumbai, explained via email to me how Facebook's paid service works in his home country.
Users are prompted -- just like they are in the U.S. -- with an offer to promote a post for a fee. To explain, he included a screenshot of what an average Indian Facebook user, in this case Ravi Sethia, faced when trying to pay to promote a post on India's Facebook service back in September.
What happens, Krishnan told me, is that as services such as Facebook try to charge fees, something very un-American happens: All sorts of third parties flock in seeking a cut of the action.
"A lot of mobile carriers have included Facebook as a value-added service to incite more users," he said. "But there is a difference in the charges based on the mode of payment."
You can see Krishnan's point right there at the bottom of the screenshot he sent me; users can either pay 99 rupees to promote a post if that cost is baked into a users' mobile phone charges; or 30 cents -- that's just 16 rupees -- if they use PayPal, a credit card or other service such as Western Union (:WU) to pay Facebook.
Is this some sort of scam? I wondered. Absolutely not, I was told.
What's happening is most Facebook users in India are mobile users. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India says a full 908 million Indians, out of a total population of 1.2 billion, rely on their mobile phones to communicate, compared with 33 million with wireline access.
The problem is, of course, mobile phones don't take cash. They must rely on electronic means to top up and, in turn, a networked banking system that essentially does not exist in India. According to the New America Foundation, despite a major government-sponsored effort to promote a modern bank infrastructure, only half of Indians have access to banking facilities. Indians rely mostly on a hodgepodge of third-party methods to buy stuff with phones. They include operations such as Obopay, YES Bank, Paymate and Paytm, just to name a few.
Each of which seek a cut of every dollar they touch -- which makes it darn tough for Indian consumers to do business with Web-based services such as Facebook.
When Apurva Chaudhary, who works with me from Mumbai, tested what it would take to order a promoted post, she was faced with the same choice of 99 rupees for a cellphone-based payment or 19 rupees if she paid with something called MOLpoints. This is yet another payment system created by a Malaysia-based commerce company called MOL -- which is used heavily by online gamers, among others.
For MOL, Facebook is a nonentity. And it showed.
As hard as she tried to get MOL to take her her 19 rupees to give to Facebook, it would not work. Apparently, her service provider was not properly supported. Customer support did not return calls. Carriers for customer service and public relations did not return calls. There is no support number for Facebook in India.
"It's like Facebook doesn't want my money," she told me in frustration.
The wrong side of the 80/20 split
This leads investors smack dab into yet more dark territory for global Web-based services. Sure, Facebook hopes it will do business in fast-growing markets such as India. The problem is, the infrastructure it relies on here in the U.S. is not in place overseas. That means almost wherever it turns, third parties must enable functionality, which take a fat piece of the action and raises the complexity. This all puts Facebook's already razor-thin margins even more at risk.
Sure Facebook figuring out how to get paid here in the US will be tough. But how this company figures out how to get paid in disorganized global markets will be that much tougher.
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Samsung Rumored to Switch to Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 for Galaxy S IV
Samsung Rumored to Switch to Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 for Galaxy S IV
The top of the line Galaxy S IV has been rumored to be be equipped with a 1.8GHz 8-core Exynos 5 Octa processor and a 4.99-inch 1080p full HD display. Having been reliant on its own Exynos processors for its smartphones in the recent years, it's quite shocking to hear the latest updates with regards to Samsung's choice of chipset for the S IV - the company has been now rumored to choose to rely on a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor for its upcoming Galaxy phone. With the new eight-core Exynos 5 Octa processor announced at the recent CES, it was only natural to conclude that the S IV will be relying on that instead.
However, a new report by Digital Times has stated otherwise - since the "Exynos 5 Octa and other ARM Cortex-A15 Exynos chips are experiencing power consumption issues and temperature problems", Samsung might be forced to rely on Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset instead.
BGR - "The company previously used a Snapdragon S4 processor in select Galaxy S III models and recent benchmarks pointed towards a Qualcomm CPU in the Galaxy S IV. The flagship smartphone will reportedly be equipped with a quad-core Snapdragon 600 chipset, the same processor found in the newly announced HTC One."
If these rumors ring true, the Galaxy S IV will be the third device thus far fitted with the Qualcomm quad-core Snapdragon 600 chipset, right after the the refreshed 5.5-inch LG Optimus G and earlier-mentioned HTC One. The Android smartphone is also believed to feature a 13-megapixel rear camera, 2GB of RAM, 4G LTE connectivity, and wireless charging capabilities.
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Corey Patterson CF
Juan Castro SS
Ken Griffey Jr. RF
Brandon Phillips 2B
Adam Dunn LF
Edwin Encarnacion 3B
Scott Hatteberg 1B
Paul Bako C
Johnny Cueto PI am working hard not to over-react, but that looks like a potential opening day line-up, and it has Castro in it. And batting second.Tigers:
Renteria, SS
Polanco, P, 2B
Guillen, 1B
Ordonez, RF
Cabrera, 3B
Jones, J, LF
Raburn, CF
Sardinha, C
Rogers, P
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The private equity investor J. Christopher Flowers used to be friends with Jon S. Corzine, whom he picked to run MF Global. They were both partners in Goldman Sachs, where the latter was also co-CEO. But the $47.8 million loss that Mr. Flowers's company could suffer on the brokerage's bankruptcy has strained relations between the two, the Wall Street Journal reported late last week.
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Marriott hotels go for Mobile Check-in
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The idea of checking into your hotel via smartphone is no smashing news to the travel market. Nevertheless, good realizations are rare to find. A good approach is the app of hotel group Marriott , which enables users to easily and quickly check into their hotel room before they have even entered the lobby.
Marriott Reward members can check-in mobile from the afternoon of the day before their arrival. Therefore, users will receive a push message on their mobile device. Subsequently, guests inform the hotel via mobile device what time they expect to arrive. As soon as the room is ready another push notification will be sent. On arrival at the hotel the keycard for the room can conveniently be picked up at a special mobile desktop. Thus, users of the app avoid long waiting queues for check-in at the hotel lobby.
Until today the feature is available for 31 Marriott hotels in the United States and Canada. 294 hotels are planned to follow within this summer.
We think the Marriot Mobile app mobile check-in is a smart approach and wonder when other hotels will follow the practice.
The Mobile Marriott App is available for iPhone and Android devices.
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People Workspace, Tree View
While working on my file, I saw, what looked to be, a duplicate person, David Ridgely Howard. I selected the first appearance of him, and see that there is a link to his father, and from his father to his Grandfather, John E Howard. In the right panel, there wasn't any way to compare the two David Ridgely Howard's. Except, at the bottom of the Right Hand Column is a Customize View options.
When I click on that link, a Customize View window opens. What I want to display is the Person ID number. That way, I can tell the difference between the two, guessing that I will need to Merge this duplicate entry.
I selected Person ID from the Left Panel, and click on the Right pointing arrow. That will put the Person ID into the Right Panel.
I change the person that I think is the duplicate with the same result, but wanted to show the Family View chart. No Person ID Reason: I haven't turned it on yet, in the file, in FTM2014.
In the Tools Menu, selecting the Preferences Tab, put a check mark in the Use individual reference numbers. In this case, I am only going to be using Numbers Only.
Going back to the People Workspace, Tree View, the hi-lighted person now has a Person ID number. David Ridgely Howard Person ID of 8663 This entry is selected but has the more complete relationship, to both of his parents.
Selecting the 2nd entry, the Person ID is 8279. You will see that this entry is only attached to his father.
Going back to Person ID 8663, clicking on Tools, then Merge Two Specific Individuals is the task I want to do. I want the data from Person ID 8279 merged INTO Person ID 8663
As with all merging, you are offered to back up your file. Note the "Don't show" again, I do NOT put a check mark. I want to be asked every time. Other users may choose not to. I want the option to see this window. Clicking Yes
I am going to Back Up onto my External Drive. Selecting Custom Directory, I have already chosen my G Drive, which is my Family Tree Maker Back Up drive, and I have selected a specific Folder on that Drive. Each of my Family Files has a Folder, and each back up for that file is in that specific folder, on the External Drive.
After the file is backed up, a screen is presented where I select the person I want to Merge into the selected person.
Note that I can see the Per ID of 8279, which is the right person, as shown above.
We are then presented with the normal Individual Merge Screen. The default was "Alternate". That means that the Merge will Add an Alternate name in the Person View.
Looking at the Right and Left hand entry, they are the SAME. I don't want that so, I use the Pull Down menu in the upper right corner of that screen and select Discard.
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One thousand to one. As ratios go, this one's pretty fierce. It's also roughly the ratio of the number of small-scale distilleries scattered across New York at the state's 19th-century peak to the number that existed in New York less than 10 years ago.
One thousand to one would also have been the likely odds of New York's distilling industry ever bouncing back, had you wished to place a bet on such a thing in 1920, after the Volstead Act shuttered the state's last legal distilleries. But some people are attracted to long odds, and when that happens, something that seemed less than possible can suddenly appear inevitable. As the old slogan for the New York State Lottery put it, "All You Need is a Dollar and a Dream"—a dollar doesn't go quite so far nowadays, but a dream? That still counts for something.
"My personal ambition and fantasy, ever since I was 14 years old, is simply to produce something," says Allen Katz, a partner in Brooklyn's New York Distilling, one of the newest distilleries to open in New York. "Some of us write books or paint pictures, but I'm not good at either of those. So my passion led me to distilling." Katz and partners including Tom Potter—who sparked New York's brewing boom when he opened Brooklyn Brewery in 1987—leapt fully into the DIY fray in 2010, when they released two new gins to a thirsty city, part of a flash flood of locally produced, small-scale spirits that is washing across the state on a scale that New York hasn't experienced since before Prohibition.
A little more than a century ago, New York distilleries produced oceans of whiskey, lakes of apple brandy and deep wells of other spirits made from the fruit that grew in the Hudson Valley and downstate orchards, and grain from the rich soil in west-central New York. Industry consolidation followed by Prohibition turned off the taps by 1920, and New Yorkers thirsty for (legal) local liquor often had little choice but to go dry. This all started to change in 2002, when state laws regulating distilling began to loosen; in 2007, the trickle of New York whiskey and vodka became a geyser, when the New York Farm Distillery Law lowered the financial bar for beginning distillers (provided they source at least half of their raw material from New York), and allowed qualified distillers to open tasting rooms and sell spirits right from the distillery.
There are now around 30 craft distilleries in New York; almost all are less than four years old, most less than two, and new startups appear with such frequency that any exact count is almost immediately obsolete. Today, New York's new distillers are engaging in a complex blend of reinvention and innovation: many seek to explore New York's bibulous heritage by making whiskeys from heirloom varieties of grain, or fruit brandies in styles rarely seen in the past century, or distinctive styles of gin that reflect New York's inimitable culture and history; others are tinkering with entirely novel styles of spirits. Wiped out by the temperance movement and still virtually nonexistent only a decade ago, the Empire State's craft distillers are emphatically striking back.
Uptown Brown
"There was a time before Prohibition when every small town had a distillery," says Ralph Erenzo, co-owner of Tuthilltown Spirits, a distillery in the Hudson Valley hamlet of Gardiner. From the earliest colonial days well into the 1800s, distilling was a way for farmers to preserve excess fruit and grain, as well as to—in economist parlance—produce a value-added commodity. "If the bottom dropped out of the corn or the grain market, you could convert your grain to alcohol, which reduced the volume considerably," Erenzo says.
When Tuthilltown opened its doors in 2004, it was one of the first of New York's contemporary crop of craft distillers. Using apples from area orchards, Erenzo and partner Brian Lee distilled an apple-based vodka; the Hudson line of whiskeys soon followed, with bourbons made from local corn and a Manhattan Rye that added a fresh spin to a venerable style of spirit. In 2009, Tuthilltown's Hudson line of whiskeys—packaged in squat, wax-capped bottles that were an increasingly familiar sight in cocktail bars—had become so popular that Tuthilltown entered a distribution and marketing agreement with liquor giant William Grant, giving the New York-made spirit a spot on the global stage.
This deal made Tuthilltown a craft-distiller success story; Erenzo's now working to see that other New York distillers have the same opportunities, lobbying for changes in the state's laws and tax codes that will make it easier for New York's farm communities to once again add liquid value to their crops. "How many apples are thrown away or left to rot in the field each year? That could be made into vodka or brandy, and those could be sold on a farmstand shelf," he says. "Our goal is to get more farms involved by hooking them up with a local distillery to make whiskey or another spirit that they can sell at a farm market. It's an enormous way to raise revenue for farmers, and increase tax revenue for New York."
Rye whiskey is made from the hardy cold-weather grain well suited for New York's climate, and was first distilled in the then-frontier region by Scottish settlers in the 18th century; it remained the cornerstone spirit for New York distilleries for more than 100 years. This historic connection—not to mention the availability of New York-grown grain, and the burgeoning demand for rye whiskey among fans of craft cocktails—has made rye an attractive spirit for many New York distillers.
"I'm a culture and history buff, and the idea of reclaiming part of our regional or state history was really appealing," Katz says. New York Distilling is making rye whiskey using varieties of rye that were common in New York in the 19th century; the first bottles should be available next year (a Rock & Rye liqueur, made with younger whiskey, may be released later this year).
Much of New York's rye is grown in and around the Finger Lakes region in west-central New York. At Finger Lakes Distilling, Brian McKenzie and Thomas Earl McKenzie (the distillery partners are unrelated) use grain grown directly across the lake to make McKenzie Rye Whiskey. Using a 300-gallon Holstein pot still, the distillers make more than a dozen different spirits, ranging from vodka and grappa to cherry and blueberry liqueurs, and featuring whiskeys including a bourbon and a corn whiskey, and an Irish-style pot-still whiskey made from a mixture of malted and unmalted barley.
True to the farm-distiller ethos, the McKenzies source almost everything from local farms. "Ninety percent of what we use is grown right here in the Finger Lakes," says Brian McKenzie. "We work with 25 to 30 farms for grain, grapes and all kinds of local fruit." This local connection continues even after the spirits have been distilled; McKenzie Rye finishes its aging in casks that previously held a sherry-style fortified wine from a local winery, and the bourbon is finished in casks that recently held local Chardonnay.
Rye is also likely to be the first whiskey produced at Coppersea Distillery in the Hudson Valley. Coppersea's owners Michael Kinstlick and Angus MacDonald are taking the whiskey-as-history angle to heart. When the distillery opens later this year, the approach will be as 19th century as possible, without modern conveniences such as plastics or mechanical pumps, and the rye and corn whiskeys will be made from heirloom varietals and single-farm grain as much as possible. The goal is to maintain a historically authentic approach that could result in a style of spirit familiar to New York's horse-and-buggy era inhabitants. "I would hope that when we're in production, if I were to have the people working the stills trade their American Apparel t-shirts for sack suits and bowler hats, there'd be nothing abo
ut this to suggest it's the 21st century," MacDonald says.
While rye whiskey is integral to New York's liquid heritage, bourbon and corn whiskey are also flowing. In a 325-square-foot Williamsburg loft, Kings County Distillery produces an unaged corn whiskey and a one-year-aged bourbon, made in miniscule batches using five 8-gallon stills (the distillery is relocating to a 7,000-square-foot space in the Brooklyn Navy Yard this year, and production capacity will likewise increase). For owners Colin Spoelman and David Haskell, the distillery started as a not-quite-legal hobby at home, and corn whiskey and bourbon have special significance for Spoelman, a Kentucky native. "I didn't come to distilling to start a business, necessarily," Spoelman says. "I was discovering my lost Kentucky heritage." Though the distillery is still in its infancy and Spoelman and Haskell have kept their day jobs, Kings County's spirits have whiskey drinkers talking: the simple flasks of bourbon are carried at whiskey-savvy bars, such as Brooklyn's Char No. 4 and the Brandy Library in Manhattan, and its corn whiskey was awarded "best in category" by the American Distilling Institute.
In the Clear
Gin is historically a European spirit, developed by the Dutch and refined by the British using continental ingredients. Many American distillers have rolled the dice on gin in recent years, making Western interpretations, with mixed results; now, New York distillers are placing their own New World touch on this Old World spirit.
New York Distillery's first two products were gins: Perry's Tot and Dorothy Parker. An American-style gin, Dorothy Parker has a botanical blend that includes elderberries and dried hibiscus. Named for Matthew Perry, commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard in the 1840s, Perry's Tot is a 114-proof "Navy Strength" gin; this strength and style of spirit was long synonymous with the British Royal Navy, and Perry's Tot is the first American interpretation of a navy-strength gin, flavored with ingredients including grapefruit and star anise, and distilled with wildflower honey from upstate New York. "We're in Brooklyn, a stone's throw from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and we thought we could tell a fun story of connecting the heritage of the navy in New York to the heritage of England," Katz says. As an additional nod to history, and to a once-lost category of spirits, New York Distilling plans to introduce an Old Tom gin in the future.
Other New York distillers are taking their own approaches to gin; former bond trader Brad Estabrooke founded Breuckelen Distilling and introduced its eponymous gin (now called Glorious Gin) in 2010. Distilled from New York-grown wheat and flavored with juniper, rosemary, ginger and grapefruit, the gin has a malty character that hints at the genever style of spirit. (Breuckelen also makes whiskeys from New York–grown wheat, rye and corn, as well as barrel-aged gin.) Finger Lakes Distilling makes a London dry–style gin with touches of cucumber and cloves, and in the Hudson Valley foothills, Warwick Valley Winery and Distillery makes a rustic gin flavored with fresh citrus rind, giving it a bold flavor of fruit and spice.
Warwick Valley functioned as a winery and cidery before starting up its still in 2002. Apple and pear brandies were among the first of its products, a range that now includes a black-currant cordial, a sour cherry liqueur and a bourbon that may be ready for release later this year. Distillery co-owner Jeremy Kidde says the demand for New York apple brandy and other fruit spirits was slight when they started; that's changing, as drinkers explore more local options and as additional distillers start releasing fruit-based spirits, such as Tuthilltown's upcoming aged apple brandy made from venerable varietals of cider apples; the robust applejack and pear brandy from Harvest Spirits in Columbia County; and the barrel-aged peach brandy in development by Dutch's Spirits in Dutchess County. "I remember going to liquor stores in New York City when we first started and asking if they wanted to try our apple brandy," Kidde says. "They'd say, 'Oh, it's from New York?' And they pooh-poohed it, because they only wanted a French product. Now, their eyes light up and they say, 'I've gotta try that!' "
Local Motion
New York is the nation's creative capital, and some startup distillers are introducing spirits unlike anything else found in the bar. "There are very few 'new' products on the market; so many of the new spirits you see are variations on the same thing," says Jackie Summers, who with his partners, Timothy Kealey and Alan Camlet, operate the distillery Jack from Brooklyn.
Summers hopes to release their first spirit, Sorel, early this year, a preparation inspired by a traditional homemade infusion from islands such as Trinidad and Jamaica. Made with a base of New York–made neutral wheat spirit, Sorel is distilled with hibiscus, ginger, nutmeg, cassia and clove, and sweetened with cane sugar; the result is a deep-red spirit with a warm balance of spice and fruit. Sorel will be followed by Maju, a spirit inspired by a traditional drink from the Dominican Republic, in which herbs and barks are cured with red wine, then fortified with rum and softened with honey. "We want to do things that not everyone else is doing," Summers says. "There's absolutely nobody else making this kind of thing, and we want to keep that distinction."
The Dominican Republic is both inspiration and source for another Brooklyn-based distiller, Cacao Prieto. Owned by Daniel Prieto Preston, Cacao Prieto takes cacao beans grown on Preston's family's farm in the Dominican Republic and ferments them under tightly controlled conditions. The resulting liquid is collected and distilled into a kind of cacao brandy. After macerating more cacao in the spirit and redistilling it, the spirit then ages in oak. "There are lots of chocolate liqueurs, but those are made from alkalized cocoa powder mixed with fat and spirit—it's basically a Yoo-Hoo plus vodka," Preston says. "What we have is a true spirit: it has the viscosity of vodka, it's not thick and syrupy, but the aroma is a big, dark-chocolate fragrance, and the taste has these bitter nuances, with a lot of complexity."
Some of New York's new spirits fit cleanly into the state's liquid tradition; others are distinct characters in a city and state that prizes individuality. Either way, it's a good time to be drinking in New York. "Our clientele is interested in whiskey, and when they see something local, they can identify with it and are prone to try it," says Marcel Simoneau, co-owner of Noorman's Kil in Williamsburg.
A Brooklyn bar specializing in whiskey, Noorman's Kil counts Kings County Distillery and other new whiskey and gin producers as neighbors; Simoneau says that local connection is sometimes all that's needed for a guest to try a new spirit. "People seem to identify with stuff from Brooklyn, and from the region," he says. "They come to the bar, and they get to see what's going on in New York."


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A Vegan-Friendly Rice Burger at Ni Japanese Delicacies
A new sandwich every day.
If you're looking for a tastier alternative to the standard black bean veggie burger, just wander through the Essex Street Market until you stumble upon the hodgepodge stall that is Ni Japanese Delicacies. In this tiny temple to vegetarian and macrobiotic Japanese food you'll find the Forbidden Rice Burger ($10).
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Instead of the usual patty made of mashed-up veggies and legumes, proprietor Saori Numata forms a pillow of black rice mixed with organic maitake mushrooms, carrots, and kale, with a smattering of white beans for creaminess. It's topped with a generous heap of baby arugula, pickled sweet pepper, and vegan herb mayo. A buttery brioche bun, carried straight from Pain d'Avignon next door, holds the burger together. If you want it vegan, you can substitute sprouted bread.
The rice is reminiscent of Thai black sticky rice commonly served for dessert, but here it's sugar-free and has a texture more akin to sushi rice. The patty's flavor is mild, and I could have used more of it to stand up to the bun, but the arugula and mayo keep it interesting, wholesome without tasting too much like health food.


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A Magnificent Fight
The Battle for Wake Island
Soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese land-based bombers pounded Wake Island, the American advanced base that was key to the U.S. Navy's strategy in the Pacific. Throughout the next two weeks, the Wake Island garrison survived nearly daily bombings and repulsed the first Japanese attempt to take the atoll. The determined defenders provided a badly needed lift to ...
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Surviving the bomb blast under his Humvee was a hard-won fight for Andy Robinson. But two years later, filling the life he fought so hard to have was turning out to be another challenge.
"When I got hurt, three guys got killed," says Mr. Robinson, who was partially paralyzed in the June 2006 attack in western Iraq. He told himself, "You better shut up and better not complain.... No matter how bad the injury is, [you] got a second chance so enjoy it, live it."
Living, for Robinson, meant a long series of surgeries, physical therapy, and learning to use a wheelchair. It also meant deciding how to view his future. Was it over? Or just a beginning? A counterintelligence specialist used to high-intensity training and deployments, he desperately needed a mission.
"I've reached the end of the Internet," he'd periodically shout to his wife, Sara, through their Oceanside home as he tapped on a computer trying to pass the time. They were finally in a house, not a hospital room, and together for long stretches for the first time in their marriage of barely two years.
But as the months drifted by, the quarters began to feel a little too close. Just getting ready and out of the house took hours. His natural intensity and energy had nothing to pour itself into but frustration and tension.
"We had more arguments and tiffs because he had nothing to do," says Sara. "He needs a focus and a purpose and something to work on. He wants to help people."
Then Robinson came out to cheer for his marine buddy Greg Jones, called "Stitch," in a bike race in October 2007, and he was intrigued by the handcyclists zipping by. Stitch was already interested in helping injured athletes and he'd connected with Team Semper Fi, a group of injured marines who are endurance athletes, founded and funded by the nonprofit Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund.
He passed along the name to Robinson, who soon was volunteering at the group's office on the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base. The organization also bought Robinson a handcycle, and in the first days of this new year, Robinson found a new beginning.
"It was like the hardest thing I've done since being injured. It was fun to be able to move fast," says Robinson, lighting up as he recounts the thrill of that first, hour-long ride with Stitch on the back roads of Camp Pendleton. "Before, to feel a breeze, I would just have to sit there and wait for a breeze."
Now, he makes his own slipstream.
Then the team needed a new manager, and Robinson didn't hesitate to take the job.
"It's made our lives so much better," says Sara. "He's doing his thing and I'm doing my thing. It's a lot more normal."
Now, he spends long days working on recruiting, finding events for the athletes to participate in, and arranging the logistics to get them there. He also works out on the gym equipment in his garage, where a racing handcycle hangs from the ceiling and a leisure handcycle is parked next to his car.
Team Semper Fi's use of sports as mental and emotional rehabilitation is part of a wider community of such groups, including the US Paralympic movement. A division of the US Olympic Committee, the Paralympic movement originated from a rehabilitation program for wounded World War II veterans, according to the group's website, and it now has a dedicated veterans' program, partnering with Team Semper Fi.
Navy Corpsman Derek McGinnis, a founding member of Team Semper Fi, lost part of a leg and sustained other injuries when a car bomb slammed into his vehicle in the Iraqi city of Fallujah during a major battle in November 2004.
His wife, Andrea, dropped everything at their home in Hawaii to be at his bedside in Bethesda, Md. The Fund helped out with some of the many expenses associated with devoting the family's attention to Mr. McGinnis's survival and recovery.
As he slowly recovered, McGinnis learned of the group's support, carving a deep well of gratitude within him. As summer 2005 arrived, a few people with the fund said they planned to run in the Marine Corps Marathon that November.They asked him to join them.
His response was an unequivocal "Hell, yeah! I can't wait!" He saw it as his chance to draw from that well of support and to give back to the group. Then an unexpected round of surgeries sidelined him from the race. The disappointment was staggering, but it also hardened McGinnis's resolve to run the following year.
As soon as he was able, he began strength training. Then came the prosthetic designed for running.
"It took me forever to figure it out, but they never gave up," says McGinnis of the therapists who coached him. Eventually he was out there running with active-duty GIs.
He also started vigorous swimming workouts. A pool is the only place he doesn't need an adaptive device. He and several buddies made it to the Marine Corps Marathon's 10-kilometer race, and soon after Team Semper Fi was born. Now, almost two years later, he's run so many races and triathlons he's lost count.
"You don't want to bring any of that anxiety or issues [associated with injuries] home," he says. So "you work it out" in training.
He keeps an intense six-day-a-week schedule of workouts, around work with the American Pain Foundation and helping his wife raise their two young boys, whom he calls "my little motivators."
Now the elite athlete wants to improve his ability to bike up hills. Everyone else can stand up on their pedals for leverage. McGinnis starts to explain that he can't stand up on the bike, then pauses.
"I don't mean to say 'I can't,' " he says, then rephrases. "I'm having a hard time standing up on the bike."
Robinson says he expects the team, just two years old, to send athletes to the Paralympics or Iron Man competitions one day.
"When I was riding my handcycle, they weren't looking at me like, 'He's messed up.' They look at you with a lot of respect," says Robinson.
That's something Kathryn Rizzo understands well. Her injuries aren't immediately apparent, but she spent months trying to hide their effects, fearing others might look at her differently.
After suffering head injuries during her deployment in Iraq, she had to work twice as hard when she returned so no one would notice she struggled with memory problems and feelings of distrust and anxiety.
But when the problems became too much for her to hide, she was given a medical discharge, ending her plan for a lifelong career in the Marines. When she was faced with losing the only community and career she had known for years and entering a foreign civilian world, her future looked to her like a black hole.
When she learned about Team Semper Fi, Ms. Rizzo joined up. And now, even though her injury has altered her equilibrium, causing her to frequently lose balance and fall off her bike, she keeps training. She participated in a triathlon in New Jersey in May, and she sees a life ahead of her with purpose, surrounded by marines like her.
"Even though we're not protecting the country, we're still serving," says Robinson. "We were injured in the war and we can still lead normal lives, and exceptional lives for a lot of us."


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IÂ have three suggestions for parents concerning money:
1. Keep your children from being spoiled rich jerks.Â
If your child grows up with substantial money, note that money can bring power and security, but it also can bring insecurity. People who are rich never know if someone likes them for who they are or for their money. Many develop the attitude that everyone wants something from them, and they are often right.
There are some steps to making sure that money does not warp them.
First, don't let them have it all at once. Most people spend a lifetime gathering significant wealth. Getting too much, too young, does not give a person the proper perspective.
Second, make sure they understand it is not easy to come by. Earning money, rather than having it given to them, is a good way for them to find out what other people do to feed themselves.
Third, make sure they know money can do good things. Too many people with inherited wealth spend it trying to impress other people with inherited wealth.
Fourth, don't let them think in terms of a big inheritance. I have seen many young people waste their lives waiting for a rich relative to die and leave them a big lump sum.
And fifth, be a good role model. If you give money to charity, your children probably will too. If you volunteer to do things in the community, your children will follow your lead.
If you want to teach your children not to be spoiled, rich jerks, don't act like one yourself.
2. They don't teach your children much about money in college.Â
There are three things a college graduate should know about money: How to make it, how to keep it and how to use it to develop a lifestyle that will ensure long-term happiness.
Employers hire employees to help them make more money. They are not interested in accommodating a graduate's personal desires unless that somehow happens to coincide with adding to the bottom line.
Graduates need to sell the employers – they don't need to sell the graduates.
Which leads to another topic: How to keep the money you make.
The days of lifetime employment are over. Corporations and government entities come in and cut thousands of jobs on a whim. They will invent a computer or robot that does your job.
In order to get through that period, you need to be financially independent.
I keep running into the same type of college graduates. They have big credit card debts, student loans outstanding, payments on cars they're upside-down on and looking to buy their first home.
Before buying a brand new car or a house, the focus needs to be on paying down debt and getting some savings in the bank.
Somewhere I read that a person's financial style is set by age 27. If a person is a spender at 20, he may get over it by 30. If he is a spender at 30, he probably will be for the rest of his life.
The years after college are the time to be "reborn,†in a financial sense.
3. When it comes to children, play the hand that is dealt to you.
My father was a professional gambler. When faced with any kind of crisis, he would say, "You have to play the hand that is dealt you.â€
In my career as a structured settlement consultant, a number of my clients have been brain injured or special needs children. The parents, almost universally, step up to the plate and do what they need to do to make it better for their children.
Being the parent of a special needs child is one of the toughest jobs in the world. It is a lifelong assignment. You don't ship the child out the door at age 18. Or 30. Or 50. Or ever.
The parents are involved until the day they die.
I've dealt with hundreds of parents of special needs children. They take the hand that is dealt to them. And turn that hand into aces.
Any child, especially a special needs child, forces parents to understand there is a world beyond themselves.
Having a special needs child could be a burden or a blessing. Parents with healthy children can deal with issues like drugs, substance abuse and children who grow up to be selfish, lazy and unmotivated.
I've seen a lot of people who thought they had a winning hand with healthy children, but wind up "busting out.†To raise a special needs child requires a degree of unselfishness and level-headedness that the average person doesn't have.
Parents of a special child understand that you play the hand that was dealt to you.
A pretty good philosophy for all of us.
Don McNay, CLU, ChFC, MSFS, CSSC is a bestselling author and expert on what to do when you win the lottery. His latest book,  Life Lessons Learned From The Lottery, will be available on Kindle on Nov. 10.


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PASADENA, Calif., April 1 (UPI) -- NASA says earth science researchers flew an unmanned aerial vehicle into the sulfur dioxide plume of a Costa Rican volcano to study its chemical environment.
The scientists launched 10 flights of small electric aircraft, equipped with cameras and sensors, into the volcanic plume of the Turrialba Volcano near San Jose, Costa Rico, the space agency reported Monday.
The project is intended to improve remote-sensing capabilities of satellites and computer models of volcanic activity, researchers said.
"It is very difficult to gather data from within volcanic eruption columns and plumes because updraft wind speeds are very high and high ash concentrations can quickly destroy aircraft engines," said researcher David Pieri from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
"Such flight environments can be very dangerous to manned aircraft. Volcanic eruption plumes may stretch for miles from a summit vent and detached ash clouds can drift hundreds to thousands of miles from an eruption site."
The Dragon Eye UAVs, formerly used by the U.S. Marine Corps, used in the study weigh 5.9 pounds, have a 3.75-foot wingspan and utilize twin electric engines that ingest little contaminated air, the researchers said.
"This project is great example of how unmanned aircraft can be used for beneficial civilian purposes -- in this case for better understanding Earth system processes and the impact of volcanism on our atmosphere, said Matthew Fladeland of NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.
"By taking these retired military tools, we can very efficiently and effectively collect measurements that improve NASA satellite data and aviation safety."