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NEW YORK -- Dallas Keuchel was able to take no satisfaction from pitching perhaps one of his best games of the season Thursday afternoon.
Keuchel, with the exception of a three-batter stretch in the second inning, mowed through the Yankees for eight innings en route to his American League-leading fifth complete game of the season. Yanks starter Brandon McCarthy was even better.View Full Game Coverage
NEW YORK -- Dallas Keuchel was able to take no satisfaction from pitching perhaps one of his best games of the season Thursday afternoon.
Keuchel, with the exception of a three-batter stretch in the second inning, mowed through the Yankees for eight innings en route to his American League-leading fifth complete game of the season. Yanks starter Brandon McCarthy was even better.View Full Game Coverage
McCarthy, who was beaten by Keuchel and the Astros on June 11 while he was with the D-backs, threw his ninth career complete game by spinning a four-hit shutout as the Yankees avoided the sweep with a 3-0 win at Yankee Stadium.
"I feel like I pitched just as good as McCarthy, but he was better today," Keuchel said.
Keuchel's five complete games, two of which have come in losing efforts, are the most in a season by an Astros lefty since Mike Hampton had seven in 1997.
"Keuchel was outstanding," manager Bo Porter said. "Just the one inning there, and they were able to put some balls in places where we couldn't defend them. To their credit, they were able to put up a three-spot. Dallas Keuchel, don't take anything away from him."
Neither Keuchel nor McCarthy walked a batter, which helped lead to a fast game time of 2 hours, 7 minutes -- the shortest of the season for the Astros and the shortest nine-inning Yankees home game since 1996.
McCarthy (5-2 with New York, 8-12 overall), making his eighth start since being traded to the Yankees, used 107 pitches to throw his fourth career shutout.
"He was exactly what we needed," Yankees third baseman Chase Headley said. "That team played us tough this year, and after we put up some runs, it was great for him to come out and really dominate the game."
The Yankees' rally in the second began when Mark Teixeira rolled a single through a huge hole on the right side of the infield that was left vacated by second baseman Jose Altuve, who shifted to the other side of the base. Martin Prado then reached out to hit a pitch that was nearly in the dirt and poked it into left-center, hustling into second base to put runners at second and third.
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"It was just a bad sequence," Keuchel said. "Teixeira hit a ball through the shift, and I thought Prado hit a pretty good pitch of mine, and Headley got his first hit on an outer-half fastball since he's been a Yankee. I couldn't ask for any better pitches, so that's just the quality of those guys, and they beat me the second inning."
Keuchel sent down 20 of the final 23 batters he faced.
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The Astros' best chance to get to McCarthy came in the seventh, when Chris Carter -- whose game-winning homer in the ninth inning Tuesday was his only hit in his previous 16 at-bats -- led off with a single. He was erased on a fielder's choice by Dexter Fowler, who would have scored on a Marc Krauss hit to right had it not bounced over the wall for a ground-rule double.
"With Dexter running, and when he gets those long legs going, he's going to score from first a lot of the times," Krauss said. "It's just one of those plays where the short porch cost you there, possibly. It's something you can't really worry about. I was able to keep it fair and try to get something going, but McCarthy made some good pitches to get out of it a couple of times today when we did have something going."
McCarthy struck out Jon Singleton and got Carlos Corporan to fly out and went on to retire the final eight batters he faced.
"He was on his game, to say the least," Krauss said. "Talking with other guys, he just didn't throw the ball over the middle of the plate. All the pitches I saw were either on the outside corner or inside corner or just off. He did a good job of locating, and when pitchers can locate -- and he has two good pitches, his sinker and cutter -- it's going to make it tough on the hitters, which it was for me today."
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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Britons are famed for their love of curry and, over the years, the country's taste for South Asian food has evolved into a unique blend of cuisine specially created for British palates.
Brick Lane Curry Festival offers hot traditional food as well as milder Anglo-Indian classics.
Nowhere is this more apparent than at the so-called 'curry mile' in London's Brick Lane, which this week celebrates what is billed as "the only curry festival in Europe."
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Today, the area around Brick Lane is known as 'Banglatown,' referring to the large Bangladeshi community which arrived in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century.
The community and especially the new businesses have transformed London's East End, which was traditionally the heart of Britain's working class, whose cuisine of jellied eels and cockles, is far removed from the spicy dishes that are popular in the area today. See images from the festival »
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The melting pot has also helped define the Indo-British cuisine, as some unique dishes have been created which adapt traditional Bangladeshi cuisine to Britain's passion for spices.
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"All the world is a stage" from As you like it. Often quoted, in the French translation at least.
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The Merchant of Venice: Act 2, Sc.7, line 65.
Prince of Morocco
All that glisters is not gold.
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That puny Eagnas floating clamp with the huge spring is not better than a clamp off a $1100-1300 machine. Look at the number of teeth, the width of the jaw, and the actual lever mechanism.
One's built to last, the other one is made in China.
So far I'm really leaning towards the klippermate. Great price, small foot print, a good starter machine to learn on, good customer service and gets good reviews. I'm just stringing for myself perhaps a couple of times a month at most. I can also sell and purchase something more sophisticated once I learn how to string and will have a better understanding of what to look for. Drop weights don't seem to need calibration but coach V, do you get good accuracy on tension?
Oh, and have you strung your woody with the klippernate?
I get perfect tension. Derek D & I Did a test on tension and stringing ability. MY tension with the Klippermate was right on the money at 58lbs and the Prince eos which is a $1100 was off by 1lbs. klippermate won using a tension meter. prince eos won on speed. i have not strung a wood on a klippermate but it would not matter it would be the same as stringing on my gamma x-es.
Well, if you are looking for a beginner stringer, it is a learning machine. But it depends what quality you want.
If you want to string more than two racquets a day on weekends, Klippermate is a no. If you want to be able to do hybrids, Klippermate is a no. If you want to be sure your racquet's hoop is not distorted over time, Klippermate is a no.
If you want to do an oil change with cheap tools, it can be done cheap with an crescent wrench and a vise grip. It might take you a long time, and you might make a mess of things. Same thing. Who knows, you might do well with coarse tools and be speedy. It's up to you. hehe
Seriously Tim, did you put on horns and grab a pitch fork before you wrote that? Yes, its defintely for a novice and someone trying to learn. However I checked every forum and review I could find and people really like the little stringer that can. Some of them have years stringing under their belt and admit, no bells and whistles but reliable, accurate and easy to learn on. Haven't see a single complaint of a distorted hoop or cracked racquet while stringing or after. A few people said the clamps do slip once in a while but you just need to clean well with cotton swabs and rubbing alcohol and good as new. Why in the world can't I hybrid? people do hybrids with it. I'd love a super dooper like your stringer but I wanna learn first.
Seriously not. Well, you asked for my opinion and that is my opinion. I certainly don't change my opinion to suit yours or V. I don't hate the Klippermate, but I would never use it on my own racquets knowing what I know. Would you set a broken arm on a splint or a cast?
Well, let me clarify. You will often times come up short with the cross if you buy two 40 ft packs (one poly/ one cross). Because the string has to be wound around the wheel, you need extra length. You may come up short and then you will have to buy another pack to make up for it.
All I suggest is to spend two hundred more for something you won't have to resell. I see many Gamma X-2 and Klippermates sold on Craigslist for 60-90 bucks. Should tell you something indirectly.
In all honesty, the part of me that wants the cooler stringer wants the Alpha Panasonic DC plus. I also looked at your Prince NEOS and does get rave reviews. I just thought the klippermate pays for itself in 4 or 5 string jobs. About what I need to get a clue. Even if I sell it for $50 after a year, I'm still ahead. It is the analytical side of me. But of course I want to hybrid because thats my racquet stringing choice. In fact, if I can't hybrid then yes, that would make the stringer redundant for me. So you're saying I won't run into this problem with the alpha?
The Alpha Pioneer DC Plus has a linear gripper, unlike the Gamma with its cam roller or the Klippermate with its non ratcheting black wheel. Takes far less extra string length per pull and you will have to surely only buy 2 packs of 40 ft string.
Alpha is built with heavy grade steel. Plus, their customer service is second to none.
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The recording dates for Bernstein's Brahms are identified as "1-3 August 1973," so it is unclear whether or not they are composite performances made over the course of two or three days. I suspect that they are, because the same audience members seem to be wearing the same clothes in both symphonies, and Bernstein's podium has a rug draped over it in some shots – to muffle the impact of his athletic conducting style? – but not in others.
Bernstein recorded Brahms' four symphonies with the New York Philharmonic, and again with the Vienna Philharmonic (live) in the 1980s. EuroArts's booklet writer David Gutman unkindly uses the present performance of the Third Symphony as a cudgel with which to beat the later one from Vienna, which he calls "a rather self-indulgent dawdle." Even in 1973, Bernstein's Brahms was hardly a model of lean and flowing objectivity. The last movement of the First Symphony requires 18:13 here, and the first movement of the Third requires 14:19. (Granted, Bernstein observes repeat signs.) Even when tempos are not objectively slow, they feel that way, given the thickness and the weight of the Israel Philharmonic's sound. The interpretations are portentous and swoony. The one word that came to my mind in connection with these performances was "obvious," in the sense that Bernstein crashes through doors that already are open. It drives the audience wild, but it's neither insightful nor subtle. Interestingly, the movement one expects Bernstein to feast upon – the Poco Allegretto from the Third – is played almost briskly here (5:47), and without exaggerated expression. I suspect this is because Bernstein "dawdles" over the second movement so much that it is artistically unfeasible not to conduct the third with significantly more animation. If I am giving the impression that I dislike these performances, that is not true. There's a place in my universe for big-band, big-boned Brahms played with more splendor than subtlety, and plenty of moans and groans. It's just that I wouldn't want to live with these performances exclusively. Also, the Israeli players (particularly the brass) are not quite on the same level as their counterparts in New York and Vienna.
The stereo sound-stage is not wide, and the sound is not ideally balanced, but it still has a lot of oomph. Humphrey Burton's direction is unfussy, and it gives both the members of the orchestra and Bernstein equal time. The images, originally shot to 35mm, are still crisp and clear. The screen format is 4:3.
It is easier and safer to recommend the Bruckner DVD. Again, Bernstein made commercial recordings of Bruckner's Ninth in New York (for Sony) and in Vienna (for Deutsche Grammophon). The latter performance has received much acclaim, and the present DVD is a contemporary that audio-only recording. At this point in his life, Bernstein was in precarious health, and it is not unreasonable to suggest that he must have taken this symphony – one of the classical repertoire's most devastating confrontations with mortality – quite personally. The conductor's characteristic charisma still is present, but it has been put to the service of Bruckner's music without equivocation, particularly in the second and third movements. The second movement is played slowly (12:33) and Bernstein thereby emphasizes its cruel implacability. The third movement (29:00) alternates between nostalgia and anger, and as the movement draws to a close – after Bruckner's shocking climax – one feels that Bernstein is not offering eternal rest on behalf of the composer, but instead something equally final but less comforting. The Vienna Philharmonic plays gorgeously throughout. Again, given the recording dates (February 29 – March 2, 1990), one assumes that minor performance faults were edited out and corrected.
Humphrey Burton is the director here as well, and his work is similarly self-effacing and balanced. Minor artifacts reveal that the source is film, not tape. Otherwise, the image (4:3) is good – I am a little surprised it is not better – and the sound is excellent. The DVD had tracking difficulties on one of my players, but it was fine on the other one.
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Boating Accident in Oklahoma Claims a Local Resident's Life
A boating accident on Grand Lake in Northeastern Oklahoma has claimed two lives including a Texarkana resident.
Authorities say William "Trey" Varner III of Texarkana, Arkansas was one of the two victims in the lake accident Tuesday afternoon in Oklahoma. Officials say several others on board were injured when the boat rammed into the back of a house boat around 5:30 yesterday.
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The most popular web browsers detect and block phishing attacks at least 90 percent of the time with Google's Chrome marginally the best performer, an NSS Labs report has found.
The testing firm pitted Google Chrome 21, Mozilla Firefox 15, Apple Safari 5 and Internet Explorer 10 (on Windows 8) against 2,291 unique phishing URLs in a realtime test, finding that Chrome reached a 94 percent catch rate over a ten-day period.
Internet Explorer 10 (the only browser not to use Google's SafeBrowsing API) came second on 92 percent, Safari third on 91 percent with Firefox in last place on 90 percent.
Conclusion: the browsers are very similar in their basic ability to block phishing sites and hugely improved on the pretty poor performance - around 47 percent - found to afflict the same browsers during a similar assessment by NSS Labs in 2009.
They did vary far more when it came to the average time to block URLs, with Firefox and Safari hitting 79.2 percent and 76.9 percent respectively for 'zero hour' detection of phishing attacks leaving IE10 and Chrome lagging on only 55.9 percent and 53.2 percent.
Second conclusion: while browsers are nearly identical in their ability to spot phishing URLs, some take longer to reach that performance than others. Firefox was also the quickest to add a phishing site to its block list, doing so in 2.35 hours compared to over five hours for the others.
Three of the four, Firefox, Chrome and Safari, use Google's SafeBrowsing API while IE10 uses Microsoft's own SmartScreen.
"Looking back to 2009 when the best browser blocked 83% and the worst a mere 2%, it is obvious that all of the tested vendors have made significant strides in their abilities to block phishing attacks," note the researchers.
"Going forward, the challenge will be to bring down the response time, especially for targeted brands with the largest consumer bases."
The firm makes clear that phishing websites are only one of the malevolent forces that browsers must defend against; a fuller picture must also take into account of threats such as drive-by malware.
NSS Labs carried out such a test in October and found much less impressive results for some browsers.
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Susie Wolff eyes F1 super license
Susie Wolff has vowed to continue her "step by step" progress towards the F1 grid.
Last year just a development driver, Williams has ramped up the 30-year-old Scot's programme for 2013, and earlier this month she was bestowed the honour of debuting the new FW35 during an aerodynamic test.
Revealing that Bernie Ecclestone is "massively pushing" for a woman to join the exclusively-male grid in the near future, Wolff said her next goal is to obtain an FIA super license.
That is the mandatory credential to be allowed to drive during a grand prix weekend, including holding the status as an official stand-in 'reserve' driver.
"Things are going well," Wolff, whose husband is the Mercedes shareholder and boss Toto Wolff, said.
"I think we are going step by step and, of course, the next step will be to get my super license," she is quoted by Brazil's Totalrace.
"I don't want to come out and just say 'Yes, I want to be on the grid next year'," insisted Wolff.
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I have mixed reviews on cataclysm. I think streamlined leveling is awesome and I love the changes that they have made with a lot of classes. There is a ton of new content and I enjoyed both of the new races (although Worgen much more so than Goblin). The 80-85 stuff is somewhat hit and miss but fun in general, I enjoy Hyjal, Uldum and some general questlines, but I prefer the Wrath model of AOE AOE AOE, things go faster and seem more fun (just being honest).
There are a few things I didnt care for (aside from having to CC in dungeons). No change to moonkin form. I think its awesome that trolls can be druids. Worgen, meh, I'd have prefered shammy for them. So these new troll druids can turn into a bat while flying, awesome. But keep the same ridiculous retarded owlkin thing form as any other druid. Couldn't healers have stayed as trees and DPS show off their ossum l00tz? Or maybe they could have an armed serpent caster form like the dude from zuldrak (or is it DTK, I get them confused, and no wow wiki here at work).
On the class note, some things are different, some are the same. Paladin seems mostly the same. I have zero desire to level a hunter. I rolled a Goblin rogue, and since doing so have gotten him to around level 20 while leveling 3 different warriors to 60, 80 (although he started at 72), and 74 (that one was from level 1). Needless to say, I just don't find rogue to be that fun. But warrior is ZOMFG AWESOME!!! Since switching to arms, I dunno if it is something blizz did recently or what, but I am loving warrior. Fury was fun when they had massive self healing, once that got nerfed, I thought not so much. Arms lately I just LOOOOVE. One thing I find interesting. I've been speccing into blood and thunder in my arms builds. It seems to me that it would A) be an AOE DPS increase that is useful for instances and soloing and B) be at least as good a use for those points as anything else.
Another thing I've planned on doing is soloing some instances. Now I know I could re-spec my paladin and do this pretty easily. But I am going to try it on my warrior. And maybe a bear druid. Its pretty easy to get health pools of over 100k in cataclysm. I regularly take down chillmaw solo on my paladin and its not hard at all. I've heard of people soloing wrath raids solo. I want to try a few wrath solo heroics. My warrior is a draenei so he has a built in self heal and I'll be sure to bring food and bandaids. I'll be using a build that includes Field Dressing, Blood Craze, and Impending Victory so I should be self healing a decent amount.
Mainly Cataclysm has brought me back to what I enjoy doing most: leveling alts. I am loving warrior and will probably push him straight to 85, after that, then what? I have a couple characters sitting at 82 (shammy and priest), I have a couple characters just sitting (warlock and druid), I have 85's I'm not motivated to do much with (paladin, mage, and DK), and the aforementioned Goblin Rogue who I'm considering deleting.
Well that's about enough rambling for one afternoon. Peace out.
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- thedoctor said...
good to hear that the expansion plays into exactly what you want out of the game.
I played the expansion and got what I wanted out of it as well, high level raiding. However, once we had 100% of the normal mode content on farm...i cancelled my account. Too much work.
On a personal note....If you do not get a twitter account, I might have to start harassing you mentally and physically.
- May 23, 2011 at 3:10 AM
- Ruhtra said...
I love how you approach the game man. I find my Rogue much more fun than my Warrior. That being said I am finding my Warrior to be a lot more fun than in previous expansions. Weird huh?
On the thought of soloing, just do it. Don't think about it, just go in there with axe-a-swinging! Seriously, I have been soling a ton of stuff on Ru (as a tank, but that is a secret!) and loving it. I am th best level 85 Prot Paladin you can get for anything level 79 and lower. Well, there was that one zerg the other week I tanked, but that was out of wanting to torture everyone who wanted a drake!
Also, good to see you back on the blog sir. Now I have one more thing to do while I too am sitting around doing noting, or dreaming of doing nothing at least.
Also, I think I am in for tomorrow at the bar. The wife has given the green light and may even come out with me. Dear God! I just wrote a shit ton on your post!
@ thedoctor: Dude harass his ass! Who wouldn't love a daily dose of Fish on the Twit?
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The Cuban government has agreed to purchase 100,000 metric tons of U.S. rough rice and 30,000 metric tons of milled rice. The rough rice is slated for delivery in September, October and November and the milled rice in January 2006.
Pedro Alvarez, chairman and chief executive officer of ALIMPORT, the Cuban government agency that handles sales and purchases of agricultural products, announced the sale during a press conference with members of a USA Rice Federation delegation visiting Havana on Aug. 26.
"The contracts will be finalized in the next few days," said Alvarez. "With these purchases, our imports of U.S. rice will exceed those of last year." (U.S. shippers have sold 90,000 metric tons of rice to Cuba so far this year, according to USA Rice Federation officials. Last year's sales totalled 200,000 metric tons.)
USA Rice Federation Chairman Lee Adams thanked Alvarez for the purchases and for ALIMPORT's "continued willingness to work with U.S. rice. We appreciate not just these sales but the continued friendship and cooperation we are enjoying with the Cuban government."
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Selena Gomez to perform at the MTV Movie Awards!
While she might have to wait until next year to find out if her work in "Spring Breakers" is Golden Popcorn-worthy, Selena Gomez will be on hand for the 2013 MTV Movie Awards to perform her new single "Come & Get It" live on Sunday, April 14.
"It is my first performance back as a musician," she told MTV News about the Movie Awards gig. "I'm so nervous! I think it's really cool, 'cause I got to take a year off of music and really be a part of great movies and work with great people, so I thought it would be perfect that I kind of go into music again through MTV and then the Movie Awards. So I thought it would be appropriate. I'm so stoked!"
The tune was penned by Ester Dean and Stargate, who also produced the track, and will debut April 8 on "On Air With Ryan Seacrest" just days before she takes the stage at the Movie Awards.
"This is the hardest I've ever worked on any album I've ever done. I recorded about 23 songs, and I picked 11. So we put all the album together, and I really wanted it to be a different level for me," she said. "So I think for the performance, I'm going to try to do things that nobody's ever really seen from me before and kind of take it to the next level. So hopefully I'll do a good job."
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In a somewhat bizarre interview with The Times Online, Nancy Smith (head of the Sims division at EA) said that " in light of the popularity of virtual worlds ... the Sims may soon become a multi-player game". The article fails to mention the failed experiment of The Sims Online, later rebranded to "EA-Land" and scheduled for closure in August. But Smith talks of potential new (and old) modes for online play:
Ms Smith was adamant, however, that The Sims would not break wholly with its past, and would continue to require players to buy and install software on their machines before being able to play. Some virtual worlds, such as Club Penguin and Habbo Hotel, can be played entirely within a web browser ....
The Sims franchise would also continue to explore new revenue models that have become associated with virtual worlds, she said, including sponsorship and the sale of 'virtual goods', as on the fashion-focused virtual world for teens, Stardoll.com.
It's a really odd interview in light of the online element that already fell flat on its face; maybe second time will be the charm for the Sims?
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There are numbers of Thai restaurant in Bangkok that I would highly recommend, both Thai restaurant in luxurious Thai traditional house in a Fine Dining type and Thai restaurant in a relaxing ambience. All of these restaurants offer the real Thai taste, enjoyed by Thai people who have Thai dishes in daily life, not the tasted which have been altered to please the foreigners' tongue.
Siam Wisdom
The first has just been newly opened recently during last Songkran festival, Siam Wisdom. It presents Thai dishes wisdom, in a real original Thai taste. The service and ambience of Fine Dining are exactly the same as the star quality restaurants in Europe. People would say "wow" with many elaborate garnished dishes that are so tempting to taste when they visit Siam Wisdom.
Siam Wisdom is located in Soi Sawasdee or Soi Sukhumvit 31, section 4, same as Oasis Spa. The founders are Chef Choompol Chaengprai, the famous Thai cuisine chef from Iron Chef Thailand, who grew up and accumulated experience at a famous Thai restaurant called Sanguansri, Shakrit Yamnam, a famous actor and a TV host of Iron Chef Thailand who loves the art of gastronomy and many other friends.
The concept of Siam Wisdom I admire is Chef Choompol's will to select only high quality regional ingredients in Thailand to prepare world class dishes. Outlandish ingredients like truffle mushroom or Alaskan crab would never appear in the menu. The recommended ones must be red ant eggs, citron, local vegetables, regional snake-headed fish found in the rice field, river prawn. These ingredients are considered extremely fine for Thai dishes. If there are some ingredients that were not available in Thailand before. Only the ingredients which can be produced in Thailand nowadays will be selected, such as caviar from sturgeon, chocolate and beef.
The menu will be adjusted by season. The best ingredients available in each season will be on the list, just like high class restaurants in France and Japan. The new seasonal menu is officially fixed by the date of The Emerald Buddha garment changing
The menu is separated into three sets of menu, from Ancient, hundred year-old recipes that are very rare to find, Classical, which are loved by the Thais and people around the world to Innovative set menu with elaborate creation and gimmick.
In summer, I would suggest to come around at lunchtime and order the menu which I consider a favourite signature dish here, "Ka nom Jeen Nam Prik, rice noodles with bean curry. It is full of taste with a pleasant smell. The curry is super creamy, mixed with golden peanuts white leg shrimp, bergamot juice, citron juice, bergamot oil mixed with dry chilly, fresh and creamy coconut milk and genuine coconut sugar. Vermicelli really impress me since it's an original fomented rice noodles, recipe from Nakornrajasima, the northeastern province of Thailand, eaten with or crispy fried vegetable and fried dry chili.
Rice noodles eaten with powdered shrimp sand pineapple slices is another dish for summertime as well, it's seasoned with grilled curry fish ball from clown knife fish mixed with king mackerel. Before trying, add lemon juice, sugar and chilly in fish sauce. Even fish sauce is directly delivered from the factory.
Of course, another must-have dish in summer is rice in ice water. Water totally gave a wonderful smell by jasmine and bread flower, which are organic and domestic-planted. Side dishes that cannot be missed out is a crispy sweet radish fried in sugar, green pepper stuffed with shrimp and premium kurobuta pork, homemade sweet sliced pork from premium tender loin pork, fried small shrimp paste balls from Klong Kone small shrimp paste is stirred with grilled cat fish, finger root, galangal, lemon grass and bergamot for six hours and onion stuffed with big snake headed fish to become more crispy.
Ancient set menu is served by courses, I suggest powdered fish sausage, powdered fish is seasoned with various herbs that gives wonderful aromatic scent and soft taste, citron and pickled garlic these ingredients are wrapped in Indian coral tree leaves and wildbetal leafbush leaves, eaten with a Thai style sausage grilled in a brazier smoked with crispy and dry coconut. Thai spicy sauce, an ancient recipe of dipping, the sauce is fine and creamy with small shrimp paste in an original type from the northeast which contains the mixture of dory fish fomented in salt and pineapple, eaten with a big river prawn or giant freshwater prawn in a medium cook.
Many optional dishes in ancient set are also available, for example, Thai crispy pancakes with river prawn stuff. Cassod leaf curry with grilled beef (or grilled kurobuta pork), salted beef in coconut milk curry with a sweet taste from entrails, bael leaf and celery juice and a very stylish dessert like honey popped rice and crispy rice ice cream.
Or you might select the classic set ( 1 person can try 8 dishes, 1 dessert and four little pieces of sweet called Petit Four) The must have are crab meat and wildbetal leafbush leaf with curry paste (of course it must be a homemade recipe by Siam Wisdom) mixed with sheatfish and add freshly streamed horse crab meat and also domestic fowl satay, curried fish cake, buffalo meat massa man curry (must try!), spicy prawn soup with young coconut.
The most spectacular and exotic one must be the Innovative set, consists of 6 courses. The most creative menu of this set is spicy vegetable and prawn soup in a universal look, with a whole piece of snake-headed fish on a coulis pumpkin that is boiled and smashed with butter and spicy vegetable and prawn soup so it becomes a chewing soup. Another are savoury crab meat stuffed with red ant eggs, a summer selection, a Thai style soufflé from musk melon in coconut milk eaten with fresh musk melon topped with sweet musk melon sauce and popped rice, Somtam or cucurbit salad with caviar from great quality sturgeon from Doi Inthanon Royal Project and a fried duck drumstick confit with fried red chili curry sauce.
Khun Shakrit is responsible of Thai style appetizer and snacks at "Taitoon Bar" on the ground floor, such as, the Spanish has tapas, a snack menu so Khun Shakrit also has 'Thaipas' like frog drumstick with banana blossom and garlic, Tubtim Siam spicy pomelo salad with lemongrass and spicy beef salad with cheese and taco in Mexican style.
It is recommended to call for a reservation at 0-2260-7811-2. Citibank Credit Card member, Siam Wisdom restaurant 15% discount on dinner set menu (May 1 – Oct 31'14).
Chon at The Siam Hotel
The next place is also a premium one. This restaurant is called "Chon" which means a spoon at The Siam Hotel. The decoration is neat and fine in antique style but not too old-fashioned, decorated with pieces of antique collection in a teak wood Thai traditional house that is over a century old and was once visited by many world renown visitors such as a former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. And a famous Hollywood star who was one of James Bond 007, Roger Moore.
This Thai house is located by The Chao Phraya River, in a classic ambience which has become a place for young people to hang out. It is impressive that they take their parents and family to enjoy the atmosphere and wonderful taste of original full-flavoured Thai dishes, which is not too spicy, appropriate for the Thais and foreign guests again.
The direction to The Siam Hotel, from Rajavithee Road, just skip crossing the Krungthon (or Sanghi) bridge and make a u-turn under the bridge then turn left to Khao Road all along the one way road. The Siam Hotel is on the left side before reaching Sukhothai Palace.
The signature Thai dish that you should not miss is grilled beef with northeastern style dipping sauce from a mild Australian rib eye called Black Angus , grilled in a charcoal brazier until it's scented and seasoned with a real Thai taste of northeastern style dipping sauce. And also a short name menu, spare ribs which is tender and full-flavoured. It is cooked in many steps, simmer the ribs in pork stock. And the important ingredient for the scent ad taste is honey from longan flower. When the guests order this dish, it will be grilled again and topped with rich sauce.
The next dish is crab meat and wildbetal leafbush leaf curry scented with a rich taste of wildbetal leafbush leaves but not too hot and spicy, added with a spoonful pieces of crab that you can enjoy with no need to go down to the south. Spicy fried butterfish offers a luscious piece of butterfish with finely seasoned taste. Decrease a spicy taste with fried Thai morning glory with chilly. Differently from other restaurants that normally use Chinese morning glory. A thick stem of Thai morning glory will not subside when frying it. So it is still delicious and crispy.
There are also many appetizer available, for example, spicy pomelo salad in a clear sauce without coconut milk mixed with roasted coconut, boiled water chestnut, cashew nut and fried onion and garlic, spicy glass noodles salad with big sea shrimps, spicy duck salad with a crispy fried duck skin and fried galangal, lemongrass and bergamot leaves. And also one dish menu like beef and chicken spicy curry noodles, Pad Thai noodles with shrimps, even basic dishes like papaya salad and grilled chicken. End with a stylish Thai dessert, coconut milk ice cream with Thai custard cake and mango sago.
Chon Restaurant is a brilliant place for those who love giving an amazing experience to their love ones. It is opened daily from 11 AM to 11 PM. On Friday to Sunday, reservation in advance is required by calling 0-2206-6999. Otherwise, there's a chance that you might not experience a genuine Thai taste according to a full reservation.
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Miss Siam at Huchang Heritage Hotel Bangkok
The next restaurant is simply decorated in a contemporary Thai design, located by the pool and beautiful garden at Huachang Heritage Hotel, Phayathai Road by Huachang Bridge in Pathumwan District, Miss Siam Restaurant. The name is derived from the species of Thai waterlily that is beautiful and internationally popular from The International Waterlilly Contest in 2007, held by International Waterlily and Water Gardening Society (IWGS )
Here at Miss Siam, they mainly focus on original full-flavoured taste of genuine Thai recipe like local Thai dishes in regional area. The foreigners will exactly experience the real original hot and spicy taste of Thai cuisine.
The proof of real Thai recipe is shrimp paste chili sauce and fried mackerel, in ancient recipe by mixing the chili pasted seasoned with sea salt instead of fish sauce. The shrimp pasted from Chumpon is selected to burn in order to cut out the bad taste before making the chili paste, then mix the juice from stale orange (sounds unsavoury, but it's a juice from oranges that have been kept for a longer period) , bring more sauer taste with sliced solanum and season with lemon juice. Mackerel from Mae Klong is a perfect combination. And the additional exotic dish included is hot basil fried in coconut milk , just chew a bird-chili after this and you will get sweat from a spicy delight!
Another delicious menu of real Thai taste is crab meat in coconut milk sauce and crispy fish, with aromatic mild coconut milk from a real squeezed coconut and add more aroma with smashed lemongrass.
If you like an elaborate and selective dishes, try ordering a set menu "The Chaba"(650++) with its slogan, fine taste of full-flavoured dishes in a full option. Let's start with appetizer like crispy Thai noodles that is really crispy in the way I like, not just a sticky noodles, it is mixed with citron sauce and other aromatic ingredient and traditional Thai mouth-watering dishes, chicken stuffing in egg tart which is made as a neatly filled omelet in a form of checker board, and vegetarian golden bag with lotus seed filling.
Continue with main course dishes from the "Chaba" Thai set, spicy prawns soup with a strong taste of soup from prawn shells. Thai papaya salad with peanut in sugar coat, eaten with grilled chicken seasoned with yellow turmeric with a side dish, rice noodle with garlic oil and beef massa man curry, thumbs up for its delicious taste. The secret is to simmer curry in a low heat from white charcoal and add more taste with ginger. Lower the degree of spiciness with stir-fried mushroom with oyster sauce, stir-fried glass noodle with crab meat and deep fried fish cake. End the set menu of "Chaba" with special Thai dessert of golden banana in coconut milk.
There are many also many dishes of ancient recipe available to try, such as a set of snack called Miss Siam consists of shrimp and crab spring roll, beef pork and chicken satay. And also stuffed taro root, which flour must be kneaded when taro root is hot, then add coconut milk, lime water and salt, a stuffing is stir-fried paste from river prawn in a brass pan, beef curry with bird-chili from homemade curry paste, a hot basil is added to make it taste stronger, spicy grilled beef salad with grapes from tender Australian beef and fried snapper topped with sweet, sour and hot sauce from freshly squeezed pineapple juice. Traditional Thai dessert are deletable imitation fruits, steamed whole pumpkin with coconut custard eaten with fresh coconut ice cream including various toppings to add.
You are invited to try the genuinely hot and spicy taste of Thai dishes at Miss Siam. Open daily from 10.30 AM – 11 .30 PM. To make a reservation please call 02-217 0777. Exclusive promotion for Citibank Credit Card member, get 15% discount on A La Carte menu food only (Now – Nov 30'14).
When we talk about a real Thai cuisine restaurant opened at a real royal residence offers various contemporary menu of snacks, main dishes including famous cake and dessert in a cozy relaxing ambience for everyone with affordable price. Yes, I am talking about Kalpapruek which I raise my both hands for.
Kalpapruek was firstly established in 1976 in a royal residence called Wang Pramuan owned by His Serence Highness Prince Bhisadej Rajani on Pramuan Road, Silom near Bangkok Christian College School. Her Ladyship Datchareerat Ratchani (or Khun Ying Lek) was the first person who trained the chef intensively and the owner of secret recipe from traditional court attendant at the beginning.
The place is spacious with a large parking area. The seats are available both indoor and outside at the garden. Don't be shy to come and take a seat alone since there are many delicious one dish menus available to choose.
One special thing is that there is a daily special menu each day in a week. My favourite is a Tuesday menu, papaya salad with steamed rice and chicken curry eaten with sweet sliced pork. Special menu on Wednesday is rice noodles with bean curry , Rice noodles in fish curry sauce with vegetables on Friday and crispy pancake stuffed with seasoned dry shrimp on Sunday. Moreover, a Monday special is Indian curry noodles, on Thursday is rice with shrimp paste sauce and on Saturday is beef and chicken mataba. It is noticeable that all daily special menus are exotic ones.
Appetizer dishes here are outstanding, for example, steamed Chinese pudding Or jui guoi made of jasmine rice flour (self-mashed and milled) topped with stir-fried sweet radish, minced pork and crab meat, with salty , sauer and sweet taste of black sauce and fried radish cake which is also made of jasmine rice flour but no radish mixed in this recipe, fried with egg and bean sprouts. It's a simple but delicious menu.
The other must-have one-dish and course menus are Roti served with green beef and bird-chili curry which has been a famous dish for a long time, with crispy fried roti and aromatic bird-chili curry, pork can be substituted for non-beef eaters. Red curry roast duck or domestic fowl or even roti made of condensed milk are also optional. For red curry chicken, there is also very delicious red curry chicken served with rice noodles and the next is my favorite dish I have to order every time, beef tongue stew served with rice, the large piece of tongue is served in a very creamy tomato stew sauce and another popular dish, delicious Pad Thai sticky noodles with shrimp.
Or you might order elaborate exotic chili paste menus. Let's start with salted black olive chili sauce, with aromatic salted black olive seasoned with salty and sweet tasted, served with crackling, sweeten pork and boiled vegetables, aromatic bergamot chili paste which is seasoned with bergamot juice instead of lime, add raw mango with boiled shrimp topping for all the sour, salty and sweet taste served with fried mackerel and crispy cat fish. Including a set of spicy beef and tomato dip and Chiangmai typical young chili paste served with northern Thai sausage, fried pork, crispy pork crackling and hot sticky rice.
We cannot end the story of Kalpapruek without talking about chocolate fudge cake since an original recipe of chocolate fudge cake was born here (70 Baht per piece and 800 Baht per one pound). The light texture of cake topped with soft and sweet chocolate fudge makes it so irresistible. More bestselling cakes and desserts are carrot cake, genua coffee cake, orange cake, blueberry pie, coffee raisin and éclair in vanilla, coffee and chocolate flavors.
I must say that these are only some of all the food and dessert menus at Kalpapruek. You should prove it by yourself. Kalpapruek on Pramuan Road is opened daily from 8 AM to 6 PM. All the menus are available at 11 AM. It is closed at 3 PM on Sunday. The telephone number is 0-2236-4338.
The other branches of Kalpapreuk are at 7 Floor, Central World Plaza (Tel. 0-2-613-1359), The 1st floor of Mercury Ville building at Chidlom (Tel. 0-2658-5565) and By Kalpapreuk at Cristal Design Center (CDC) Phase 2(Tel.0-2102-2459). Visit Kalpapruek near your place, but if you would like to enjoy an original ambience, head to the first branch on Pramuan Road.
Siam Wisdom
Location 66 Soi Sawasdee, Sukhumvit 31 Section 4, Klongto Nua, Wattana, Bangkok 10110
Telephone 0-2260-7811-2
Open hours 12.00 - 14.30 and 18.00 - 22.30 (Friday to Saturday 23.00) daily
Note The menu is changed season by season, hot season, rainy season and cold season
Chon at The Siam Hotel
Location The Siam Hotel, Khao Road, Vajira hospital, Dusit, Bangkok 10300
Telephone 02-206-6999
Open hours 11.00 -23.00 daily (Last Order at 22.30 )
Miss Siam at Huchang Heritage Hotel Bangkok
Location 400 Huachang Bridge , Phayathai Road, pathumwan, Bangkok 10330
Telephone 0-2217-0777
Open hours 10.30 - 22.30 daily
Location 27 Pramuan Road, Silom , Bangrak , Bangkok 10500
Telephone 02-236 4335, 02-236-4338
Open hours 08.00 - 18.00 daily (close at 15.00 on Sunday)


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Welcome to the NFL Santonio!......lol I knew I liked McFadden for a reason.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06217/711363-66.stmHolmes was dropped in his tracks by second-year cornerback Bryant McFadden,even though there was supposed to be no tackling.
Reid, on the other hand, sprinted deep past two confused rookie safeties to catch a 55-yard touchdown pass from Charlie Batch that ended the 2-minute drill and closed the day's activities.
"I guess it all depends on what side you're looking at," coach Bill Cowher said. "I wasn't applauding the blown assignment on that last play, which went for a touchdown. I guess every play's making somebody happy."
McFadden said his hit on Holmes was not a welcoming moment for the prized rookie near the end of his first week of training camp.
"Just livening up practice a little bit, nothing major though," McFadden said.
"I'm just making sure I'm practicing my craft and make sure he's practicing his craft. For me to be good, I need to get the best out of him and vice versa."


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No. 91,418
In the Matter of the Marriage of
Social Security retirement benefits paid to the subject children should be allowed as a credit against court-ordered child support payments.
Appeal from Pottawatomie District Court; WILLIAM F. LYLE, JR., judge. Opinion filed August 13, 2004. Reversed and remanded with directions.
Robert J. Martin, appellant pro se.
No appearance by the appellee.
Before ELLIOTT, P.J., PIERRON and GREENE, JJ.
PIERRON, J.: Robert James Martin appeals from district court's denial of a motion to apply his retirement Social Security benefit payments in satisfaction of child support payments. We reverse and remand.
Robert and Ruth Ann Martin married on December 22, 1973. At the time of their marriage, Robert was 40 years old and Ruth Ann was 23 years old. Eight children were born of the marriage.
Ruth Ann filed for divorce September 27, 1994, on grounds of incompatibility. Based upon the parties' agreement, the district court granted Ruth Ann's request for joint legal custody and primary physical custody of the seven minor children.
The district court determined child support at a monthly rate that would decrease when each child was no longer a minor and no longer in high school. The court ordered support payments to be made through the Clerk of the District Court, Pottawatomie County Courthouse, Support Division, Westmoreland, Kansas. The court further ordered: "Any payments of child support not made in accordance with this provision shall be presumptively disallowed."
It is unclear from the record when Robert retired, but he began receiving Social Security retirement benefits sometime in 1999 or 2000. At this time there were four minor children who each received a monthly Social Security payment of $45, for a total of $180, based on Robert's retirement. Ruth Ann, as physical custodial parent, received the minor children's payments.
In an October 2001 journal entry, the district court modified the child support based on an agreement approved by both parties that, inter alia, recognized the children's $180 monthly payments based on Robert's retirement benefits as a downward adjustment of Robert's net parental child support obligation.
In August 2003, the district court again modified child support downward because one child had turned 18 and graduated from high school. As a result, Robert's future monthly child support obligations were based on three minor children in Ruth Ann's custody.
In its order, the district court granted a downward adjustment of $94 for "Visitation Adjustment," but denied Robert's request for a downward adjustment of $234 for "Overall Financial Condition." It is not clear from the record how Robert derived the figure of $234. However, it appears this amount represented some fraction of Social Security benefits received by the children after the divorce and after Robert retired. Similarly, the court's reason for denial is unclear from the record:
"But here it looks like what I have done in the past is I've added those [Social Security payments] into the income and included that in the income. This other--And I guess in effect that's really what was going on with Judge Klinginsmith, that direct payment should be recognized as a downward adjustment, in effect, a downward adjustment if you recognize his income to the other party and that increases their share, not very much. I think we're all aware of that. It doesn't take much money or much difference how much money the custodian makes, it's how much money you can put on the noncustodial parent's side that really determines what's done with these calculations of the guidelines."
In October 2003, the district court denied Robert's motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, requesting the court grant the $234 downward adjustment.
"'The standard of appellate review applicable to an appeal from a trial court's order determining the amount of child support is whether the trial court abused its discretion. [Citation omitted.] Judicial discretion is abused when action is arbitrary, fanciful, or unreasonable, which is another way of saying discretion is abused when no reasonable person would take the view adopted by the trial court. [Citation omitted.]' [Citation omitted.]" In re Marriage of McNeely, 15 Kan. App. 2d 762, 768, 815 P.2d 1125, rev. denied 249 Kan. 776 (1991).
The Court of Appeals will reverse a trial court's ruling on child support only when the trial court has abused its discretion. In re Marriage of Emerson, 18 Kan. App. 2d 277, 278, 850 P.2d 942 (1993).
This precise issue is one of first impression in Kansas. As discussed below, courts in Kansas have ruled on child support cases related to Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits and other governmental benefits, but not on child support obligations satisfied by retirement benefits. Under the Social Security Act, separate titles give rise to a difference between the two. See 42 U.S.C. §§ 402, 1381 (2000).
In the instant case, the district court made apparently conflicting rulings on whether a divorced father's Social Security retirement benefits could be used to make a downward adjustment in the father's "Overall Financial Condition" category (on child support worksheets) and be credited as child support payments. Therefore, the question is whether Social Security retirement benefits may be applied as a credit against court-ordered child support obligations. We believe they should.
The Kansas Child Support Guidelines (Guidelines) govern child support issues. In re Marriage of Callaghan, 19 Kan. App. 2d 335, 336, 869 P.2d 240 (1994). In a divorce order, child support provides for the needs of a child. Administrative Order No. 128, Kansas Child Support Guidelines, § II. A (2003 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 99). Child support ordered by a final divorce decree may be modified under appropriate circumstances, but the modified order operates prospectively. Ediger v. Ediger, 206 Kan. 447, 455, 479 P.2d 823 (1971).
The Social Security system contains provisions for the payment of support monies to children such as those involved in this case.
"Every individual who (1) is a fully insured individual . . . (2) has attained age 62, and (3) has filed application for [retirement] insurance benefits . . . shall be entitled to [retirement] insurance benefit[s] for each month." 42 U.S.C. § 402(a) (2000). "Every child . . . of an individual entitled to [retirement] or disability insurance benefits . . . shall be entitled to a child's insurance benefit for each month." 42 U.S.C. § 402(d). Robert receives retirement benefits, and his minor children receive children's insurance benefits.
Other jurisdictions are divided on the issue of Social Security benefits being credited toward child support payments. Some have concluded children's insurance benefits may be credited against child support obligations. Lopez v. Lopez, 125 Ariz. 309, 311, 609 P.2d 579, reh. denied, rev. denied (1980) (retirement Social Security payments received by wife and children to be credited against husband's support obligations); Cash v. Cash, 234 Ark. 603, 607, 353 S.W.2d 348 (1962) (Social Security benefits received by child after father retired at age 65, pursuant to mandatory retirement policy of employer, relieved father of weekly support payments); McClaskey v. McClaskey, 543 S.W.2d 832, 834-35 (Mo. App. 1976) (use of retirement Social Security payments to satisfy child support merely changes the manner of payment, not the nature of the funds).
In Andler v. Andler, 217 Kan. 538, 544, 538 P.2d 649 (1975), the Kansas Supreme Court ruled on SSI being credited toward satisfaction of child support payments:
"[W]here a father who has been ordered to make child support payments becomes totally and permanently disabled, and unconditional Social Security payments for the benefit of the minor children are paid to the divorced mother, the father is entitled to credit for such payments by the government against his liability for child support under the divorce decree."
The Andler court outlined two reasons in its decision. One, "[b]ecause of the unconditional nature of Social Security disability and old age benefits, other courts have held they constitute a satisfaction of a child support order when paid to the divorced mother for the benefit of the minor children. [Citations omitted.]" 217 Kan at 544. Two, the court looked to Koons v. Koons, 190 Kan. 65, 67, 372 P.2d 62 (1962), and military allotments as persuasive analogy. In Koons, the court found that even though allotment benefits were not made under the divorce decree but instead made under federal statutes and Army regulations, the divorced father should receive credit as child support payments.
Andler was later narrowly construed "as being limited to social security disability payments and military allotments which are specifically mentioned in the [Andler] opinion." Emerson, 18 Kan. App. 2d. at 281.
Emerson dealt with SSI benefits paid to a disabled child whose parents divorced. The trial court refused to order the child's incarcerated father to pay child support because the child received SSI payments. However, this court found that because of the nature of SSI payments, when a child receives SSI, it is not a factor in the amount of child support under the guidelines. 18 Kan. App. 2d at 282. Benefits being received by a minor child can neither be claimed as a credit toward the payment of court-ordered child support, nor used as a ground to modify an earlier award of support. 18 Kan. App. 2d at 283.
Somewhat similarly, a later decision held that benefits received by a child from a deceased biological father could not be claimed by an adoptive father as a credit toward court-ordered child support where the payments were not unconditional and not directly traceable to the obligor father. In re Marriage of Beacham, 19 Kan. App. 2d 271, 274, 867 P.2d 1071 (1994). This court reasoned a duty to support a child cannot be relieved because of payments received by a child not attributable to the parent who is seeking relief. 19 Kan. App. 2d at 274-75.
In Keller v. Guernsey, 227 Kan. 480, 487, 608 P.2d 896 (1980), the court ruled that welfare benefits paid by Kansas or another state cannot be counted by a parent against his or her child support obligation. As Justice Holmes noted: "To argue that a parent's duty of support may depend upon which taxpayers are burdened with the responsibility absent such support, justifies no further comment by this court." As the Keller court noted earlier: "Such argument is not only fallacious but fellifluous."
Other courts have not permitted children's insurance benefits to be used as a credit against child support obligations when the payments were based on disability. Matter of Estate of Patterson, 167 Ariz. 168, 174, 805 P.2d 401 (1991) (father not entitled to credit where children would have been entitled to receive the benefits regardless of divorce and the children's benefits do not decrease the father's own income); Thompson v. Thompson, 254 Ark. 881, 883-84, 496 S.W.2d 425 (1973) (disabled veteran's benefits represent a specialty item used only under specified circumstances and cannot be credited toward child support payments); Fowler v. Fowler, 156 Conn. 569, 573-74, 244 A.2d 375 (1968) (where father did not provide court-ordered support for more than 5 years and children began receiving benefits upon father's disability, court found factual situation justified payments to divorced wife not allowable as a credit against arrearage in fulfilment of payment).
Kansas cases discuss the difference between Social Security disability benefits and Social Security retirement benefits. See generally Wishon v. Cossman, 268 Kan. 99, 107, 991 P.2d 415 (1999), modified on denial of rehearing January 13, 2000; Green v. City of Wichita, 26 Kan. App. 2d 53, 977 P.2d 283, rev. denied 267 Kan. 888 (1999). However, we have been unable to locate a Kansas case that denies or allows credit based upon Social Security retirement benefit payments.
Law and common sense seem to dictate that the reasoning in McClaskey should prevail; the manner of the payment is irrelevant, the nature of the funds is the same. 543 S.W.2d at 834.
From the foregoing, we believe Social Security retirement benefits should be allowed as a credit against court-ordered child support payments. Even though Robert did not petition the court to recognize such payments in the 1995 divorce decree, his change in financial circumstances, based on his retirement, qualifies as a recognized change of circumstance under the Guidelines. Therefore, the district court should have given consideration to applying the children's retirement benefits as a downward adjustment and a prospective credit against Robert's child support payments.
Reversed and remanded with directions.