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Kevin Gomez, co-founder of ReasonablEconomics, joins Kenzi in the Bahamas at an economics conference to talk about how economics explains why a little sea breeze leads to lighter wallets.
George Stigler: Information is Power
It is July 4th weekend coming up. Woohoo! Some of you will be traveling and doing some mini vacations somewhere. I don't know about my plans for the 4th just yet, but I know that I am going to try and head out somewhere. As long as I escape the nation's capital on the nation's … Continue reading George Stigler: Information is Power


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This large, well-tended holiday apartment with beautiful furnishing and a large balcony is situated in a serene, sunny location in Pfunds in Tyrol. Smoking is not permitted. The apartment is surrounded by meadows and an outdoor swimming pool is located just 200 metres away in Pfunds. The town centre is at a walkable distance. Pfunds has a lot of activities such as high rope course, horse riding and mountain bike tours and is also the centre of canyoneering and rafting. Enjoy a hearty hike through one of the four romantic valleys bordering the house and enjoy local food in the mountain huts that await the guests. You can also take the hikers' buses to reach the mountain pastures. There are also hiking trails that facilitate the usage of children's strollers.

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Considering all that has been published here concerning the concept of the actor based reality, an immediate thought occured to the author: can we therefore thoroughly rely on any account recorded as accepted history, or is the nature of history thoroughly subjective, open to radical interpretation?
One has a confession to make.
As some loyal readers may by now have surmised, the author has always harbored an affinity for history. From the time of one's earliest memories, the epic stories of larger than life characters discovered in history books, whether infamous or benevolent, completely enraptured one's imagination.
The story of the Battle of Hastings in 1066 contains all the elements utilized to hook the human mind's fascination for intriguing and even salacious details – sex, romance, political intrigue, and epic displays of confrontational violence – all the elements of a well scripted and epic Hollywood melodrama.
Additionally, the story of the Battle of Hastings seemed comparable to those indelible stories encountered upon the pages of great literature, a wondrous tale inhabited by vividly drawn characters, filled with colorful glimpses of not only what it may have been like to experience another time and place, but perhaps even deeper and dramatic insights into human nature.
However, as impressionable youth advanced into adulthood, one began to increasingly contemplate: did any of these historical accounts, no matter how engaging, truly reflect an objective rendering of the truth?
Or, generally speaking, were the established accounts of human history, and specifically of the Battle of Hastings, merely a consensus of conspitratorial lies among those in positions of so-called authority and those belonging to reputations of scholarly renown?
Better still, are history's tales of warriors, kings, and nobles maneuvering for power while fighting on blood soaked battlefields merely romantic, fabricated cover stories concealing a deeper truth? Continue reading "History and the lies agreed upon"


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-Breathing Becomes Easier from This Week Onwards!
When you are 34 weeks pregnant, the baby in your womb becomes stronger in order to face the challenges of a new and not so protected world. You will become heavier and you will also notice that the baby is disturbed by the ultrasound lights and even by your heartburn.
As your weight is growing, so is the weight of the baby. Your little one is not exactly little anymore and it becomes more and more prepared to meet the outside world.
Your baby these days is busy in depositing the fat to offer fullness to the body. This week involves some changes in you and your developing unborn baby.
34th week of pregnancy symptoms and physical changes that occur in your body
Weight shift
The big change that you observe during the 34th week of pregnancy is the notable weight shift.
By this time your baby is situated in your pelvis; so that you will find yourself walking as carrying a watermelon between your legs.
The pregnancy diet will need to be slightly changed during this week. You will have to break your food intake in 6-7 snacks a day to prevent heartburn.
Your navel may become increasingly sensitive during this week; so if the sensation is bothering, make sure you protect it.
Easier to breathe
From this week onwards, breathing will become little bit easy because your lungs are not compressed. But with this position, you will continue to suffer from frequent urination.
Feeling itchy
You will observe some itchy red bumps on your belly when you are 34 weeks pregnant. If you feel itchy all over the body, then call your care provider because this can be a liver problem.
Bacteria screening
During your next prenatal visit, ask your physician to conduct the Group B Streptococci test. This is a common bacteria screening.
Though you may have strong immune system, your little baby is very much susceptible to health conditions like pneumonia, blood infection and meningitis; so the screening is essential in pregnancy week 34.
Control your pre-birth anxiety
If you are first time pregnant, then at this moment you tend to think very much about labor and delivery. You will get lot of questions in your mind like will you give birth safely? Will the pain be moderate or more than you can bear? How long will the labor period drag on for? And so on.
Studies suggest that the duration of the labor and the pain are very much related to the level of maternal anxiety regarding the process of giving birth.
Experiencing the physical stress can be translated into the uterine muscle tension that can lead to the contractions being more painful.
Anxiety and stress cause the production of catecholamines in your blood. This substance decreases the release of oxytocin; so the labor cannot proceed as rapidly as it might otherwise.
Prenatal exercise needs to be adjusted
In this week, the purpose of prenatal training and pregnancy yoga is to help you relax and have a smooth birth. It is recommended to continue the exercises planned for this week because muscle training will help a great deal in the baby's delivery.
During 34 weeks pregnancy, hip pain is a constant problem. The production of increased levels of hormones during pregnancy makes the connective tissues in your body to soften and loosen up. Joints present in between the bone of your pelvis become more relaxed and cause the hip pain.
Be careful not to fall
Many women experience 34 weeks pregnant symptoms like prone to fall and lose balance due to the instability of their joints. This is why you need to be careful when going out or doing housework.
You will feel that even standing for few minutes is very uncomfortable and tiring. A careful checkup of the cervix is very important at this time.
Changes that occur in the fetus when you are 34 weeks pregnant
By this week, your 34 week fetus is about the size of 19.8 inches long and weighs up to 5 pounds. Your baby is trying to completely act as a newborn now. The baby's hair continues to grow and the fingernails and toe nails are completely developed. When you are in week 34 pregnancy you baby even starts to blink its eyes.
Position change
This week, the baby will move into your pelvis. With the weight shift, your baby is most likely out of the breech position. With the 34 weeks pregnant ultrasound, you can see the baby's head on your pelvic bone. Also, you will feel the baby's kicks in your diaphragm.
Internal changes continue
Your baby's liver is now capable of processing certain amount of waste. The 'vernix' coating on your baby's skin will become thicker and 'lanugo' hair will be completely gone by this week.
Antibodies from your own blood start to being transferred to your baby. Your baby has immunity to fight against mild infections now.
More breathing exercise
The baby's lungs are completely developed and they produce a substance called 'surfactant' that helps the exchange of oxygen in the lungs. The baby exercises breathing amniotic fluid and his or her lungs prepare for oxygen processing through the increased surfactant secretion.
If you give birth now, your baby will not be in any danger but it will need to be monitored a few days inside a medical facility.
Relaxation techniques to reduce stress in 34 weeks pregnancy
Knowing some relaxation techniques will help in reducing anxiety and stress:
Try for a visualization technique. During the last 3 weeks of pregnancy, visualize yourself giving birth to your baby. Imagine that your baby is in the perfect position for the safe birth. Feel that your baby is moving through the birth canal easily with each contraction.
Massage and breathing
Try for a massage with the help of your partner. Massage will greatly help you alleviate stress and perception of pain during labor. A form of patterned breathing or abdominal breathing is very important and it can be very relaxing as well. Try to perform progressive relaxation.
Consider meditation and remember that the psychological communication with your baby is very active during the last weeks of pregnancy.
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Ahead of Bihar polls, Nitish Kumar announces JDU's '7 point plan'
11 October, 2020 | Priyanka Sharma
In the run up to Bihar Polls 2020, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday announced JDU's 7 point plan for the state's development and making it self-reliant. The plan is in continuation with ...
Ahead of the Bihar Assembly elections, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday announced Janata Dal United's (JDU's) "7 Nischay part-2" plan for the State's development and making it self-reliant in the coming years. Kumar said the "7 Nischay part-2" is in continuation with the earlier set of promises made to the public during the ongoing National Democratic Alliance (NDA) rule in the State.
The CM's tweet enlists the promises, which include imparting technical education to the youth and promoting entrepreneurship, made to the people of the state. Creating a centre for excellence for promoting quality of training in ITI and polytechnic institutions, setting up district wise mega-skill centres for giving job oriented training, tool rooms and training centres in each division and a new department for skill development and entrepreneurship will also be set up.
The government will also provide 50 per cent grants, up to a maximum of Rs 3 lakhs, for setting up a new business and on loans of up to Rs 7 lakhs, grants of seven per cent will be given by the government. Apart from this, for female empowerment, Kumar announced that females passing Class 12 exams will be given Rs 25,000 each, and Rs 50,000 each for passing Graduation as financial help.
The government will also provide a maximum of Rs 5 lakhs, 50 per cent of project cost, as grant, apart from providing interest-free loans on up to Rs 5 lakhs. Kumar also promises to increase the participation of women in local administration, police, and in district-level offices, among others through reservations.
Farmers will get water for their crops in their fields, "in every possible manner", as per the promises while every village will get solar-street lights, and solid and liquid waste management plants, along with maintenance and carrying out all projects, including tap water to every house, and building toilets, will be carried out.
Moreover, it also contains promises of creating facilities in the city areas and building roads across the length and breadth of the state to boost connectivity. Improving healthcare facilities for the people also occupies a position in the JDU's agenda.
"Serving the people is our dharma (duty). I thank you all for allowing me to serve Bihar. I have confidence that with your cooperation and blessings we will set 7 Nischay part-2 into motion to make the state's development reach new heights and make an efficient and self-reliant Bihar," read Kumar's tweet (roughly translated from Hindi).
Earlier on Wednesday, the Bihar CM had released the list of 115 candidates for the Bihar polls. Interestingly, the party has denied tickets to 11 of its sitting MLAs while accomodating turncoats. JDU has been allotted 122 seats and BJP has got 121 seats for Bihar Assembly polls.
JDU has given seven seats to Jitan Ram Manjhi-led HAM from its 122 seats while the BJP gave 11 seats to Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) from its share of 121 seats. The four parties are also likely to release a joint manifesto soon.
Elections to the 243-seat Bihar assembly will be held in three phases–October 28, November 3, and 7, and the counting of votes will take place on November 10.


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How a Young Kid Fell in Love with a Game
April 19, 2017, 10:48 p.m.
Finding your passion can feel impossible at times. I mean, a passion is something that you love to the point that you don't ever get bored of it and a lot of people don't quite know what that is for them. The thing that everybody needs to understand is that you don't need to know what your passion is by a certain time; you just have to continue to try new things and put yourself out there until you've found it.
Personally, I found my passion pretty early on. Over a decade later, I can still remember falling in love with baseball by watching David Wright clobber balls at the 2006 Home Run Derby. The next day, in Hollywood fashion, Wright sent another homer over the wall in the All-Star game and I was hooked. Unfortunately, the Mets' devastating loss in the championship that same year will probably be engrained in my memory for the rest of my life, but those things happened when I was 8 years old and I still vividly remember them to this day. Whether I was captivated by David Wright's mammoth homers or feeling like I got my soul ripped out of my chest while watching the Mets lose the biggest game of the year, I knew that I'd found my passion: Sports, and more specifically baseball (and, as I'd find later, football as well). But, that's the thing, a passion makes you feel something that very few other things – if any – can make you feel. Once you've found that thing that makes your blood pump and excites you just from thinking about it, there's no question. You know you're passionate about it.
That being said, the most vital thing to do is put yourself out there, because I also remember being 6 years old and asking my Dad if I could turn off the Jets game so I could play my GameCube. At the time, I didn't care who scored a touchdown and had no idea that David Wright even existed, I just wanted to play Super Smash Bros. and call it a day, but eventually I started going to games with my Dad and actually paid attention to what was going on. Since then, I've never looked back. Honestly, I could play baseball and football all day and night and be the happiest kid in the world. Admittedly, that's why I find myself counting down the days for winter to turn to spring every year. For most people, spring means warmer weather and flowers, but for me spring is baseball season.
That's a passion – my passion – and there's no question in my mind, because I could spend hours reading stats and articles on the Mets' next move and feel like it's only been a few minutes. To me, there's something so intense about the matchup between a pitcher and a batter, almost like a duel, because one has to lose and one has to come out on top – and they decide which is which. Truthfully, I think it's that competition and incessant desire to improve yourself so that you can come out on top that makes me love baseball – and sports in general – so much. As the saying goes, time flies when you're having fun and that's exactly what your passion should be for you. Find that thing that makes hours feel like minutes.
– Devin
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The Best Gaming Gift Ideas for Dad This Father's Day
The Best Gaming Gifts For Dad
With Father's Day fast approaching, it's time to start thinking about gift ideas for dad. Finding the perfect Father's Day gift can be one of the trickiest things to do. Fortunately, PlayStation has got you covered with an abundance of games-related products that will make the perfect gift this Father's Day. From DUALSHOCK®4 Controllers and top of the line consoles to incredible first-party exclusives and undeniable classic games, enhance your dad's gaming experience this Father's Day.
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text: Underwater photography by Jessi Kingan, Beneath The Surface Photography. Photographs are from Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles; Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras; and Iceland, including Silfra and Atlantic Ocean diving. Underwater photography subjects include marine macro life, including shrimps, hermit crabs, and arrow crabs, as well as wide-angle seascape shots, sea turtles, and divers. Equipment used is Canon 500D with Canon 17-55 lens for macro underwater photography with and without macro diopters and Tamron 10-24 for wide angle underwater photography. Ikelite housing and single DS161 strobe. All images copyright Jessi Kingan 2012-2013.


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Nature is undoubtedly one of the major themes of interior design: man has always searched for a way to import references to the natural context into his habitat. In recent years design has made a forceful shift towards a speculative trend regarding nature, also investigating it on a molecular level, through fractal structures, or on a biological level, with the use of fungi and bacteria as agents of production of objects. While the latter is a relatively recent development, the desire of man to mark out his territory with proofs of his conquest of the surrounding world is a matter of ancient history.
In anthropological terms, in fact, the space of man is by definition one that has been removed from the violence of nature, its dangers and its weather, a protected shelter that was the motivation behind the primitive hut so aptly analyzed by Joseph Rykwert in his famous essay On Adam's House in Paradise (1972).
At the same time, immediately after the creation of a safe haven, the necessity arises for man to mark out domestic territory with furnishings and objects that convey the memory of nature, almost bearing witness to human control over it. Be they trophies or souvenirs, the references to external nature are always there in the history of human dwelling, like signs of conquest. Heads and skins of animals represent the triumph of man over nature like a sign of victory, ever since the battle took place on (more or less) equal terms.
Wallpaper and tapestries were made to convey the illusion of being outside even in a sheltered environment, granting the aesthetic enjoyment of nature without the need to submit to its physical trials. The entire theory of gardens, starting with our famous "giardino all'italiana", is a form of botanical collecting, gathering nature under the rule of an artificial design, the outcome of a human mind that governs the spontaneous growth of vegetation.
Gilles Clément, the great theorist and scholar of the garden and the landscape, says: "The first garden is a fenced enclosure. We need to protect the precious asset of the garden; the vegetables, the fruit, then the flowers, the animals, the art of living, that which with the passing of time will continue to seem 'best' to us" (G. Clément, "A Brief History of the Garden").
In this analysis, choosing the best and preserving it in an enclosure separated from the chaos of nature becomes a form of cosmological organization that moves parallel to the creation of the symbolic universe of the stable dwelling of man. The nature that is enclosed in the home is therefore a precise reference, which can be ascribed to the need for decoration only if we acknowledge the presence of one of the most primordial and authentic instincts of human awareness.
Contemporary design has come up with its own response to each of these exercises of taming of nature. Starting with the projects of the Radical groups, between nature and artifice, the idea has been to demonstrate an open dilemma, a contradiction in terms. The use of artificial materials that reprise the motifs and themes of nature like animal skins (see the Safari sofa by Archizoom) and botanical references (the big piece of sod of the Pratone by Gruppo Strum) can be seen as a way of asserting that nothing more real and spontaneous can exist than the human need to import pieces of nature into the domestic setting through a selective, artificial act.
We find a lot less ideology and more of a magical, poetic dimension in the natural reaction objects of Tord Boontje. His furnishings often suggest botanical forms, but the mediation of rational appropriation becomes an obligatory passage: his blossoms become viral, invading the forms of classic typologies, disrupting them, transforming seats and lamps into clusters of leaves and flowers that are the shadow of their natural counterparts, often colorless, white, aseptic silhouettes, with the perfection of laser cutting. In substance, a pale natural souvenir imported into the domestic environment.
Today Cristina Celestino is also playing with a personal interpretation of this anthropological desire to tame nature, with seats that seem to spring from giant leaves, or surfaces that suggest the geometric arrangements of Italian gardens. Simone Crestani creates tributes to tamed nature that are apparently fragile in their glassy essence, but are strong in terms of the selected subjects: busts of stags and bonsai are, by definition, trophies of man's actions on animals and plants, conserving the power of a sense of conflict.
The great return of botanical and zoological decorative motifs can be seen as a banal direction of tastes, but also as a way of restoring contact, through a purely aesthetic act, with a nature that becomes increasingly virtual due to our immersion in the world of technology. Demonstrations of playful wit of this variety can be seen in the drones of Marcello Pirovano, which reconstruct shapes of parts of insects or birds in a ploy of pure aesthetic pleasure that embodies a desire to 'naturalize' technology.
Not to mention the most fascinating of all the mythical creatures invented by man to replace natural compositions with his own mental artifice: the chimera, a being formed by the sum of parts of living things, conveying a sense of sublime terror. As can be seen in the image of a botched laboratory experiment of the Hybridism collection by the Campana brothers, reminding us of just how many gray areas exist in the mediation between natural and artificial.
In every biomorphic or phytomorphic reference seen in the artifacts created by man, this gap appears above all in the essence of creation. Paul Valéry, in his Eupalinos, offers a peerless summary: "The objects created by man are owed to the acts of a thought. (...) Nature, in its own work, does not distinguish details from the whole, but appears simultaneously all over the place, binding itself to itself" (P. Valéry, Eupalinos: or, The Architect, 1921).


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Iodomethane; Cancellation Order for Pesticide Registrations and Label Amendment, 3417-3418 [2013-00732]Download as PDF
[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 11 (Wednesday, January 16, 2013)] [Notices] [Pages 3417-3418] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2013-00732] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0252; FRL-9375-9] Iodomethane; Cancellation Order for Pesticide Registrations and Label Amendment AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: This notice announces EPA's order for the cancellation, voluntarily requested by the registrant and accepted by the Agency, of products containing iodomethane, pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). This cancellation order follows a November 21, 2012 Federal Register Notice of Receipt of Request from the registrant listed in Table 3 of Unit II. to voluntarily cancel all these product registrations and to amend the technical/manufacturing- use label. These are the last products containing this pesticide registered for use in the United States. In the November 21, 2012 notice, EPA indicated that it would issue an order implementing the cancellations and amendment, unless the Agency received substantive comments within the 30-day comment period that would merit its further review of these requests. The Agency received one comment on the notice, but it did not merit further review of the requests. Further, the registrant did not withdraw their request. Accordingly, EPA hereby issues this order granting the requested cancellations and amendment. Any distribution, sale, or use of the products subject to this cancellation order is permitted only in accordance with the terms of this order, including any existing stocks provisions. DATES: The cancellations of the end-use product registration are effective December 31, 2012. The cancellation of the technical product is effective December 1, 2015. The amendment to the technical label is effective January 1, 2013. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrea Mojica, Pesticide Re- Evaluation Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (703) 308-0122; fax number: (703) 308-8090; email address: firstname.lastname@example.com. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. General Information A. Does this action apply to me? This action is directed to the public in general, and may be of interest to a wide range of stakeholders including environmental, human health, and agricultural advocates; the chemical industry; pesticide users; and members of the public interested in the sale, distribution, or use of pesticides. Since others also may be interested, the Agency has not attempted to describe all the specific entities that may be affected by this action. B. How can I get copies of this document and other related information? The docket for this action, identified by docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0252, is available at https://www.regulations.gov or at the Office of Pesticide Programs Regulatory Public Docket (OPP Docket) in the Environmental Protection Agency Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West Bldg., Rm. 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001. The Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the OPP Docket is (703) 305- 5805. Please review the visitor instructions and additional information about the docket available at https://www.epa.gov/dockets. II. What action is the agency taking? This notice announces the cancellation(s) and label amendment of the products listed in Tables 1 and 2, as requested by the registrant of these products, which are registered under FIFRA section 3. These registrations are listed in sequence by registration number in Tables 1 and 2 of this unit. Table 1--Iodomethane Product Cancellations ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EPA Registration No. Product name ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 66330-43............................. Midas 98:2. 66330-44............................. Iodomethane Technical. 66330-57............................. Midas 50:50. 66330-58............................. Midas EC Bronze. 66330-59............................. Midas 33:67. 66330-60............................. Midas EC Gold. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Table 2--Iodomethane Product Registration Amendments ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EPA Registration No. Product name ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 66330-44............................. Iodomethane Technical. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Table 3 of this unit includes the name and address of record for the registrant of the products in Tables 1 and 2 of this unit. Table 3--Registrants of Cancelled and Amended Products ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EPA Company No. Company name and address ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 66330................................ Arysta LifeScience North America, 15401 Weston Parkway, Suite 150, Cary, NC 27513. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ III. Summary of Public Comments Received and Agency Response to Comments During the public comment period provided, EPA received one comment in response to the November 21, 2012 Federal Register notice announcing the Agency's receipt of the request for voluntary cancellation of the products listed in Table 1of Unit 2, and the label amendment of the product listed in Table 2 of Unit II. The Pesticide Action Network International (PAN) expressed support for the proposed cancellations. However, PAN also requested that EPA prohibit the use of the iodemethane technical product in the U.S. to formulate products for export. In the November 21, 2012 notice, EPA referenced a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the technical registrant for iodomethane and EPA. One provision of the MOA requires Arysta to voluntarily amend its technical product label to only allow sale and distribution for export purposes after January 1, 2013. Section 17 of FIFRA (7 U.S.C. 136o), and EPA regulations at 40 CFR part 168 Subpart D have specific requirements that apply to the export of unregistered pesticide, but these provisions do not provide EPA with authority to ban the export of pesticides registered under Section 3 of FIFRA, or cancelled pesticides. For these reasons, the Agency does not believe that the comment submitted by PAN merits further review or a denial of the requests for voluntary cancellation and a label amendment. IV. Cancellation Order Pursuant to FIFRA section 6(f), EPA hereby approves the requested cancellations and label amendment of [[Page 3418]] the iodomethane registrations identified in Tables 1 and 2 of Unit II. Accordingly, the Agency hereby orders that the product registrations identified in Tables 1 and 2 of Unit II. are canceled and the product registration identified in Table 2 of Unit II. is amended. The effective date of the cancellation for the following products that are subject of this notice, EPA Registration Numbers 66330-43, 66330-57, 66330-58, 66330-59 and 66330-60, is December 31, 2012. The effective date of the cancellation for EPA Registration Number 66330-44 is December 1, 2015. Any distribution, sale, or use of existing stocks of the products identified in Tables 1 and 2 of Unit II. in a manner inconsistent with any of the provisions for disposition of existing stocks set forth in Unit VI. will be a violation of FIFRA. Within 30 days of the date of publication of this order, Arysta shall send the following documents by certified mail, return receipt requested, to every person who purchased any such product directly from Arysta since December 31, 2011; and to every retailer known to Arysta to have sold any end-use product since December 31, 2011: A letter that identifies or indicates: 1. The iodomethane product(s) that were purchased and the dates of such purchase. 2. That any distribution or sale of Arysta's end-use iodomethane products will be unlawful under FIFRA after December 31, 2012. 3. That Arysta's end-use iodomethane products in users' possession may not be used after December 31, 2012. 4. That after December 31, 2012, all remaining existing stocks of Arysta's iodomethane end-use products must be disposed of in accordance with all applicable state and Federal laws or returned to Arysta; and a hard copy of the actual cancellation order as published in the Federal Register. V. What is the agency's authority for taking this action? Section 6(f)(1) of FIFRA provides that a registrant of a pesticide product may at any time request that any of its pesticide registrations be canceled or amended to terminate one or more uses. FIFRA further provides that, before acting on the request, EPA must publish a notice of receipt of any such request in the Federal Register. Thereafter, following the public comment period, the EPA Administrator may approve such a request. The notice of receipt for this action was published for comment on November 21, 2012 (77 FR 69840) (FRL-9370-2). The comment period closed on December 21, 2012. VI. Provisions for Disposition of Existing Stocks Existing stocks are those stocks of registered pesticide products which are currently in the United States and which were packaged, labeled, and released for shipment prior to the effective date of the action. The existing stocks provision for the products subject to this order is as follows. As of December 1, 2015, all sale and distribution of existing stocks of Arysta's iodomethane technical/manufacturing-use product, EPA Reg. No. 66330-44, by Arysta shall be prohibited unless the sale or distribution is for proper disposal or is solely for purposes of export consistent with the requirements of section 17 of FIFRA. As of December 31, 2012, Arysta is prohibited from distributing or selling existing stocks of end-use products, EPA Registration Nos. 66330-43, 66330-57, 66330-58, 66330-59 and 66330-60 unless the sale or distribution is for proper disposal, or is solely for export consistent with the requirements of FIFRA section 17; persons other than Arysta are prohibited from distributing or selling existing stocks of Arysta's end-use products, EPA Registration Number 66330-43, 66330-57, 66330-58, 66330-59 and 66330-60, unless the sale or distribution is for proper disposal, return to Arysta, or is intended solely for export consistent with the requirements of FIFRA section 17; and no person may use any existing stocks of any of Arysta's end-use products EPA Registration Numbers. 66330-43, 66330-57, 66330-58, 66330-59 and 66330-60. List of Subjects Environmental protection, Pesticides and pests. Dated: December 28, 2012. Richard P. 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Dear Parents, Alumni, Faculty, Administrators, and Falcon Supporters,
We would like to encourage all to join the Hanford Falcon Booster Club, a non-profit 501c(3) organization, for the 2016-17 school year. The Falcon Boosters are organized to provide financial support to the Hanford High School (HHS) student-athletes. Last year's membership support enabled the Falcon Boosters to support projects across the HHS campus, which included new pads at the HHS fast pitch softball fields, a new Falcon Banner for the Cheerleaders to hold up to announce Athletes starting there game and helping to award $4,000 college scholarships for the Bill Knirck Memorial Scholarship.
To accomplish more of these efforts, your generosity and support are needed. In 2015-2016 school year, the Sports Boosters are working towards improving storage and concession facilities for the softball program. In addition, the Boosters will cover State Tournament expenses not included in the Associated Student Body (ASB) budget, plaques and trophies for athletic teams, senior recognition nights, and operating the concessions stands with half the proceeds going to HHS clubs and activities. The Falcon Boosters are truly a "school" oriented organization as represented by their actions and donations.
The mechanisms to raise these funds are through our annual membership dues; the Falcon Classic Golf Tournament that is held at the Horn Rapids Golf Course; Silent Auctions; working at the Benton-Franklin County Fair and Rodeo; Concessions operations; Basketball Pop Shoots; and 50/50 Raffles. Booster members receive discounts on these events along with discounted merchandise. Please sign up and join us for a great time and visit our Falcon Boosters web site at www.hanfordfalconboosters.com for up to date Falcon schedules and results. Thank you and GO FALCONS!!
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Cindy-Mei, who until recently had been Agent Winter, C.I.A. – that's Colonial Intelligence Agency – had been one of their best agents… that is, until they threw her out for coming to work in a dress.
Cindy-Mei, who until recently had been Agent Winter, C.I.A. – that's Colonial Intelligence Agency – had been one of their best agents… that is, until they threw her out for coming to work in a dress.
Sometimes not knowing is best…
A collection of compelling science fiction stories that might just also be… STRANGELY COMPELLING.
It's the rare example of a book with something to offer to aspiring game developers, game scholars, and everyday fans alike." Professor Jess Morrissette, Ph.D, Creator, The Video Game Soda Machine Project
You have entered a reality which is not all that it seems. A world different from your own, yet somehow strangely familiar..
A non fictional commentary on the philosophy of belief, as seen through the eyes of the modern day Christian.
"Always entertaining analysis of Uwe Boll's work and career." – Mark A. Altman, Writer/Producer, Free Enterprise
The best and brightest in independent horror, collected here and now for your reading pleasure!
Revenge. Getting even. Fighting back. Whatever it's called, it's supposed to warrant two graves – or at least, that's how one old saying went – usually, in the case of mere mortal Human beings. In the case of the Human race as a whole, it was less about that and more about survival.
Ghosts. Hauntings. Disembodied voices. Malicious entities that make it their goal to destroy their victims utterly. The things that go bump in the night… They're real.
Time marches on for all of us. Childhood. Growing up. Romance. Sorrow. Heartbreak. Melancholy. Marriage. Divorce. Death. Work – always work.
What happens when a popular Facebook event to storm Area 51 actually happens?
The penultimate picks of petrifying prose from a plethora of poignant producers of powerful putrefaction.
A poetry collection by Christina Engela.
Can a boy who doesn't exist love a real girl?
Of all the starships in the Terran Space Fleet, the I.S.S. Mercury is probably the unluckiest ship in history. Not once, not twice, but many times over, the same hapless crew – give or take a few dozen casualties – on a supposed voyage of deep space exploration, stumble into the weird, wake the creepy and trip over the downright terrifying and possibly even supernatural…
The Time Saving Agency liked having fresh agents on the job, who had a clear mind and steady hand. After all, time travel wasn't for the faint of heart. The pay was good enough, but as Johnathan Scrooby decided long ago – even if he didn't get paid for it, the thrill alone was payment enough! Then again, the TSA realized they couldn't afford to have disgruntled employees with the power of God at their fingertips, so the pay was very, very good indeed!


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Amendments on Nov. 2 ballot could bring big changes to state
On Nov. 2, Florida voters will decide on six proposed changes to the Florida Constitution that could alter the way campaigns for statewide office are funded and prohibit politicians from manipulating legislative district lines to their advantage, among other proposals.
The six constitutional amendments will appear on the ballot along with a non-binding statewide referendum.
But because of standards set by the Florida Supreme Court, the language used on the ballot often makes it difficult to understand what an amendment is proposing.
"The language has to be less than 75 words and explanatory of everything (the amendment) does and be approved by the Supreme Court," said Jon Mills, a University of Florida law professor.
If it's not in the title, "it would be considered deceptive. The Supreme Court has taken several initiatives off the ballot for being misleading," he said.
Nonetheless, initiatives and constitutional amendments are one of the people's rights and one that should be taken seriously, Mills said.
"They are there permanently," Mills said. "Putting something in the constitution is hard, and getting it out is even harder."
There are several ways a constitutional amendment gets on the ballot.
The most common method by which state constitutional amendments are proposed is a joint resolution agreed to by three-fifths of the membership of each house of the Legislature.
Another way is through the Constitutional Revision Commission, a 36-member body appointed every 20 years by the governor, speaker of the House, president of the Senate, chief justice of the Supreme Court and the attorney general to propose amendments to the constitution that then are voted on by residents.
Residents also may place an amendment on the ballot after filing a copy of the proposed amendment signed by 8 percent of the number of voters in the previous presidential election. Signatures must come from voters in one-half of the congressional districts in the state. Residents have four years to gather signatures.
Other methods include constitutional conventions called for by residents and the Taxation and Budget Reform Commission, which meets every 10 years.
This year, three of the six amendments — Amendments 4, 5 and 6 — were placed on the ballot by residents.
All other amendments, as well as a non-binding referendum question, were proposed by members of the Florida Legislature.
Here is a summary of the proposed changes, including analysis provided by the Florida League of Women Voters:
Constitutional Amendment 1 proposes to repeal the provision in the state constitution that requires public financing of campaigns of candidates for elective statewide office who agree to campaign spending limits.
In 2005, the Florida Legislature dramatically increased the spending limits by more than 300 percent, distorting the original purpose of the public financing system, which was to hold down the cost of campaigns.
In 2010, those voluntary spending limits are $24.9 million in the gubernatorial race and $12.5 million for other Cabinet races. Candidates for governor and four Cabinet offices received a total of $11 million in public money to finance campaigns in the last statewide election in 2006. The Legislature could reduce the spending limits but have thus far refused to do so.
If approved, this amendment would end campaign financing that requires expenditure of public monies beginning in the 2014 election cycle. It would increase the influence of special interests in elections and reduce the number of candidates who can afford to run for office. It also would eliminate what some believe is one of the most significant campaign finance reforms in Florida history. Some believe that passage of Amendment 1 would end limits on campaign spending that infringe on the First Amendment right to freedom of speech.
Constitutional Amendment 2 would require the Legislature to provide an additional homestead property tax exemption by law for members of the U.S. military or military reserves, the U.S. Coast Guard or its reserves, or the Florida National Guard who receive a homestead exemption and were deployed in the previous year on active duty outside the continental U.S., Alaska, or Hawaii in support of military operations designated by the Legislature.
The amendment is scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2011
The Revenue Estimating Conference estimates this proposal would have reduced receipts statewide by approximately $13 million if it had been in effect in fiscal year 2009-2010, assuming current millage rates.
If approved, this amendment would reduce property taxes for military personnel, limit local property tax revenues statewide and place a limitation on revenue in the Florida Constitution, where it will be difficult to modify or remove.
Constitutional Amendment 4 would establish that before a local government may adopt a new comprehensive land use plan, or amend a comprehensive land use plan, the proposed plan or amendment shall be subject to a vote of the electors of the local government by referendum, following preparation by the local planning agency, consideration by the governing body and notice.
Comprehensive plans are blueprints that cities and counties use to define how the lands in local communities may be developed. This amendment would require voter approval of development proposals that conflict with already established comprehensive land use plans.
If approved, this amendment would change the current land use planning system to require citizen referendums on comprehensive plan changes; reduce the authority of local elected officials for comprehensive land use plan adoption and change; and entail extra cost for referendum elections and could slow the comprehensive land use process.
It also would introduce the potential for political advertising to influence referendum voting on land use decisions.
Constitutional Amendment 5 proposes to place standards in the constitution that would prohibit politicians from manipulating state legislative district lines to favor incumbents or a particular political party. It also would prohibit the drawing of districts that reduce the ability of minorities to equally participate in the political process. It would require that districts be compact and have geographical boundaries.
If approved, this amendment would set nonpolitical standards for redistricting; reduce gerrymandering, the drawing of districts for political purposes; protect the ability of minority voters to participate in the political process; likely increase competition within elections; and could lead to filing of litigation in implementing the provisions.
Constitutional Amendment 6 is identical to Constitutional Amendment 5 except that it deals with U.S. Congressional districts. It proposes to place standards for the Legislature that would prohibit politicians from manipulating district lines to favor incumbents or a particular political party. It also would prohibit the drawing of districts that reduce the ability of minorities to equally participate in the political process. It would require that districts be compact and have community-based (geographical) boundaries.
If approved, this amendment also would set non-political standards for redistricting; reduce gerrymandering, the drawing of districts for political purposes; protect the ability of minority voters to participate in the political process; likely increase competition within elections; and could lead to filing of litigation in implementing the provisions.
Constitutional Amendment 8 would amend the constitution to increase permissible classroom sizes.
Current class size limits were passed in 2002 by 52 percent of Florida voters. These limits set caps on a class-by-class basis. The current limits are being phased in and took full effect in August 2010. The state estimates it has spent about $16 billion since 2002 to implement the class-size limits. An additional $2.9 billion is proposed for the 2010-2011 school year to meet the current limits.
The proposed amendment would ease the existing class-size limits in the constitution by changing the maximum number of students allowed in the classroom.
Sen. Don Gaetz, R-Destin, and Rep. Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, sponsored the resolution to place this amendment on the ballot, and they argue the current class-size limits are too inflexible and cost the state too much. The Florida Education Association opposes the amendment, and the teachers union is calling on the state to fulfill the constitutional mandate approved by voters in 2002.
If approved, this amendment would provide more flexibility in meeting class-size requirements; allow limits to be increased (by no more than five) on the maximum number of students in a class; and provide more local control of teacher-student ratios.
A Non-binding Referendum Balancing the Federal Budget.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the national debt in 2011 will reach $15.5 trillion. The rapid rise of the national debt since 2000 was caused by the expense of foreign wars, tax cuts, structural debt and recent bailout and economic stimulus packages. The Legislature proposed this nonbinding referendum to allow Floridians to send a message to Washington.
While Florida, like 48 other states, must balance their budgets annually, it is noteworthy that the state's recent budget was balanced largely using federal stimulus monies.
A vote for this referendum would send a message that Floridians would like a balanced federal budget with no new taxes.
A vote against this referendum would suggest that the Legislature needs to be more specific as to where the federal budget will be cut.


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Even after decades of civil rights activism, the Southern sentiment of paternalism and discrimination has never really died, particularly in a few geographically remote pockets. There is one such Florida locale 40 miles west of West Palm Beach in the swampy Palm Beach County city of Belle Glade. Here the Old South may be aged, but some say it's still alive, thriving even, as an ingrained part of this isolated town's culture. A handful of residents, however, are in federal court attempting to bring Dixie down once and for all.
"I thought it was the Old South, and I'll tell you I had a couple of graduate students working with me who said the same thing," observes Richard Scher, a political science professor and Southern historian at the University of Florida, who plowed through 100 years' worth of minutes from Belle Glade City Commission and housing authority meetings on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union. "I had the distinct impression that the clock had stopped in about 1950, and Belle Glade was stuck there."
Perhaps no one knows this pre-civil rights era mentality better than Albert Peterson, one of roughly 1600 farm workers who live in a low-income housing project called Okeechobee Center, which is located on the outskirts of town. Three years ago Peterson, along with several neighbors and black city leaders, filed a lawsuit against the city in the U.S. District Court. The suit alleges the City of Belle Glade has discriminated against the mostly black Okeechobee residents by repeatedly refusing to annex the project. Last year, a federal court judge ruled that the court doesn't have the authority to force the city to annex property. But the plaintiffs have appealed and expect to have a decision within the next 60 days. The decision could herald a turning point in Belle Glade politics. If the court rules in the plaintiff's favor and forces the city to annex the housing project, it could also mean the end of the city's white-dominated power structure.
The 50-year-old Okeechobee project is a circular maze of pastel-colored brick and concrete houses, which are completely unadorned by landscaping, decorative fixtures, or architectural design. But the houses are safe, adequately constructed, inexpensive, and therefore attractive places to live for the residents who can afford the $83-a-week rent for a four-bedroom home. But because the project happens to be located immediately outside the Belle Glade city limits, Peterson and his neighbors may neither vote nor run for city office. Worse yet the housing project, which is almost exclusively rented by blacks, is owned and managed by the Belle Glade Housing Authority, a seven-member board, which is almost exclusively white and is appointed by the five Belle Glade city commissioners.
The authority board is comprised of wealthy landowners who employ the Okeechobee residents as farm laborers. The board decides how much rent to charge Okeechobee residents, how to provide them with sewage, and how to maintain the homes. The city, meanwhile, determines the amount of each resident's monthly water bill. Two years ago the city decided to continue its tradition of placing a walloping 50 percent surcharge on water customers who live outside the city. Dave Wood, the city finance director, said he could find no record of the city's original decision to tack on the surcharge, but he indicated the charge is based on basic finances. In simplest terms, he says, it costs 50 percent more to send water outside the city.
Peterson grumbles about the preposterous rate hikes, but, like his neighbors on the outskirts, he mails his check to the city. Of course he can complain at city commission meetings. And he often does. But why should commissioners listen? Peterson is not a resident. So he can't vote in city elections.
One recent evening, as the sun set over the sugar cane fields and no-see-ums swirled in the muggy Lake Okeechobee air, Peterson, still in work clothes that smelled of earth and sweat, offered a brief lesson in how politics have worked in Belle Glade for as long as he can remember: "It's all about keeping power," explains Peterson. "They know it would be a big shift if this was to be put inside the city limits. It's about control."
Belle Glade has roughly 5000 voters, divided along racial and geographic lines. As of March, for only the third time in Belle Glade history, two black members sit on the five-person city commission. There have never been three. If the residents win the suit and the three-member panel of judges forces Belle Glade to annex the development, 900 black voters will be added to the mix. Okeechobee residents, Peterson reasons, can elect city commissioners who will appoint housing authority members who keep residents' interests in mind.
"You ever hear that old saying 'taxation without representation?' he asks rhetorically. "It's the same kind of concept."
It's been that way since 1947, when the authority board of trustees was established, ten years after the federal government paid for the construction of the Okeechobee Center along with a second project for white farm workers called Osceola. By 1960 Okeechobee had become notorious, a putrid symbol for what was wrong with America's farming industry, when CBS broadcast the classic Edward R. Murrow documentary "Harvest of Shame." The program chronicled the lives of Belle Glade farmers and migrant workers and showed footage of children in disease-ridden, rat-infested camps on the Okeechobee property.
A year later residents of Osceola, the all-white camp, decided they wanted police protection from the City of Belle Glade and requested annexation. The city unanimously approved the request. According to the lawsuit, Belle Glade annexed more than 85 parcels of white-owned land during the next three decades. But even as the housing authority brought Okeechobee to livable standards, the city ignored requests for annexation and forced residents there to pay for city services. To the well-entrenched city politicians -- even those who have been in politics since the days of "Harvest of Shame" -- the residents' plight is of little concern.
"The housing authority was not created as a corporation for the benefit of the tenants," asserts the city's attorney, John Baker, a 36-year Belle Glade resident with a Southern accent and down-home drawl.
Besides, even if the city wanted to annex the land it couldn't, notes Mayor Steve Weeks. The property adds nothing to the city tax rolls, and annexation would cost the city several hundred thousand dollars because the city would have to provide police protection. The mayor also contends that state law, which requires that annexed land border the town, prohibits the Okeechobee annexation. Residents insist the land borders Belle Glade, the city argues it does not, and the matter will be decided in court.
But even assuming the validity of Weeks' arguments, he and Belle Glade's powers that be have already convinced themselves that Okeechobee residents have adequate representation. As Weeks points out, state law requires at least one member of the seven-person authority board to be a project resident.
And this person is... ?
"I believe... it's a lady," Weeks stammered after rattling off the names of five other board members. "Ask Fritz. I'd be guessing."
Fritz -- Fritz Stein, that is -- is a lifelong Belle Glade resident and farm owner, a vice president on the board of the powerful Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida, and a member of the Belle Glade Housing Authority board since 1967. He refused to comment for this story.
The tenant representative, however, is 59-year-old Mildred Thornton, a retired farm worker and also a lifelong Belle Glade resident. Thornton believes she does a fine job representing Okeechobee residents, although she has no particular experience qualifying her to serve on the board.
Thornton joined the board in 1987, when the then-mayor of Belle Glade knocked on her door and invited her. Until that day she had never even met the mayor. And as he banged on her front door that afternoon, she had no idea who he was. Thornton's evident lack of political expertise and savvy has led at least one political observer to question her ability to fight for Okeechobee rights.
"She just sits there," observes Peterson. "I told her she could be the most powerful person on the board because you have the people behind you. She told me, 'I don't know what's going on half the time.' Those are her words. What kind of representation is that?"
For his part, however, Weeks is convinced that Okeechobee residents are well represented by the authority and by Thornton, whose name he could not recall. "I think the people who are on that board look out for the people in the housing development," Weeks insists. "And they do a darn good job.


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Crushing on Kalsada's Coffees
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I found out about Kalsada Coffee by chance at EDSA BDG. I had just popped in one afternoon to buy a bag of coffee beans, no particular kind, and Lacy and Roderick, half of Kalsada's team of four, were there at the bar. We had a short conversation and was able to try this particular type of bean they had just roasted; prepared by hand drip. And it was lovely. Medium bodied with a natural hint of sweetness.
I've been getting bags quite regularly from Kalsada ever since. My favorite of which they carry is what they label Auntie Domisa. Consisting of Typica, a varietal of arabica that was brought from Ethiopia and has not had the chance for much mutation. "Therefore, while it is a fairly common varietal, it has a cleaner taste than some of the hybrids that we have found in the Philippines. This clean character in the cup is especially true on a farm like the Domisa Family farm, as it has primarily Typica trees, instead of a mix of different flavors from different varietals," says Lacy.
It's profile? Notes of muscovado, caramel and toffee with this slight acidity. A very balanced cup. As you may notice in the picture above, they do a light to medium roast which allows the character of the beans to come forward. As opposed to the usual very dark roast they do locally which only heightens the bitter notes and hides the beans' actual flavors.
My next favorite would be the Auntie Doris. Consisting of Red Bourbon and has a more earthy, woody character. Less innate sweetness with a pleasant citrus-like acidity.
Interesting to point out that these beans come from neighbor farms in Benguet. And were handpicked by the Kalsada team from hundreds of other farms. Usually what happens is that different type of beans are mixed together in a blend and the good beans get lost with the not so good ones. Kalsada now gives us the opportunity to enjoy these high quality beans; allowed to shine on their own.
As one can infer, Kalsada is a roastery that aims to push Philippine specialty coffee. For me it makes a lot of sense to support them as they not only want the business to grow but also help out the farmers directly in order to produce a better product at the end of the day. "Our next goal is to develop community washing stations that would benefit the local economy, pay farmers more for higher quality coffee, and make processing coffee much more efficient. Instead of farmers processing each bean by hand, we would build co-op structures to allow the community to share technology, training, and knowledge," Lacy explains.
I'm not one to complicate my life with all these machines and gadgets to make my coffee. I pretty much just have a hand grinder and a metal mesh drip filter (no fussing with paper cones) to make an enjoyable cup every morning. But knowing how these beans were sourced in relatively small batches from the most remote locations, harvested by hand, roasted exactingly, supporting Filipino farmers along the way, not only explains why it tastes better but actually makes you feel better to drink it as well.
To learn more about Kalsada Coffee and the work they do check their website here.
Kalsada carries jars and larger bags of beans at, I think, very competitive prices. To order you can email: email@example.com
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The Glenmorangie Cask Masters is an innovative concept whereby the consumer becomes fully immersed in the creation of a brand new whisky. So far individuals have voted for their favourite cask of three – with Manzanilla beating off competition from Grand Cru Burgundy and Grand Cru Bordeaux, and the name – with Taghta (Gaelic for chosen) being favoured from a short list of three. Future stages in the design process will see enthusiasts chose elements of the photography and even the launch city!
Tonight though was all about the packaging, which is why I found myself at Moët Hennessys' offices in London on an early December evening. We were greeted and treated to a Glenmorangie Zest on arrival; a signature cocktail made with Glenmornangie 10 Year Old. It was a lovely start to the evening, and a cocktail I feel fairly confident about recreating at home. It was fresh and really highlighted the spirit at the heart of it.
Boutique design agency Butterflycannon have produced the packaging, and we were led through the journey and process they have followed by the very engaging founder of the agency – Jon Davis. Jon took the time to talk us through the steps he went through in creating the three concepts that are now up for the public vote. It was fascinating to see the detail and the little touches that may be otherwise missed if you just picked the bottle up off the shelf, and at the wider level what influenced the design. I had a lovely chat with him over some cocktails later and it was great to see that the images and photos that the public have uploaded as an element of this phase have really led and influenced the final designs – Butterflycannon have been guided by what you have submitted and the end results are very classy and well I have my favourite but I'm not going to influence you here.
It was then time to try the whisky. This is the first time I have tried the chosen cask – Cask C, and I was pleased to discover that it was a fine spirit. On the nose it is peppery and rich, much like a sumptuous Christmas Cake with a touch of treacle toffee on top. The palate was spicy and peppery with a hint of tarragon before it became sweet and hot. And the finish was long and hot. With hindsight too you can appreciate how the whisky itself has influenced the final packaging design; there are elements of the flavour and colour that I can see drawn out in the cartons.
The fun didn't stop there; Callooh Calley – the ninth best cocktail bar in the world no less – were on hand to create two fabulous, and dare I say off the wall cocktails, with the Manzanilla whisky. It was explained that the key to creating amazing cocktails is to understand the base spirit and its flavour, and then use a maximum of 4-5 ingredients to show it off. One ingredient should nail the flavour of the base spirit then the others should be treated as mere modifiers.
First up was an aperitif that used 50ml of Glenmorangie Manzanilla, 50ml homemade toasted pineapple shrub with thyme, 20ml sherried vinegar, 20ml sweetener and 15ml Cynar. The result was superb. The whisky came through strongly, the pineapple notes were immense and there was a delightful pepper prick right at the back of the mouth on the finish.
If I'm truly honest I was a little apprehensive about the second cocktail as it was based around bananas which I detest. This time we were given a digestif made up of 50ml Glenmorangie Manzanilla, homemade smoked bananas and honey milk, and 30ml aromatised wine. On first nosing it smelt like smoked milk and as Serena said was almost Ardbeg like which was surprising. While I preferred the first cocktail I would certainly have this one again, it was creamy, smoky and not too bananary, and it still allowed the spiciness of the spirit to come through.
All that remains for this stage of the adventure then, is for you (and me) to go online and vote for our favourite packaging design in the hope that the one we select wins the vote! They all look good, but I'll be particularly happy if my preference comes out top! As if you needed any further incentive to vote; but it may be of interest to know that one of the voters will receive a brand new Apple iMac. The chosen packaging will be revealed on 7 January, with voting closing on 6 January 2014.
Thanks to Moët Hennessy for inviting me, and I look forward to the next stage of the journey before the product is launched in autumn 2014. It was also great to meet some familiar whisky faces and some new ones. Also, as a side note, keep an eye out on the blog as we'll soon be reviewing the two casks that didn't make it this time – the Burgundy and Bordeaux.


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If you love delightful tales of friendship, cattiness and yarn then today is your lucky day! Allow us to happily present to you new release picture book Cat Knit by Jacob Grant, and provided to us by PanMacmillan Australia for review. Here's the blurb from Goodreads:
Cat and Yarn are the best of friends. They have so much fun playing together, the two are inseparable.
Until the day Girl takes Yarn away.
When Yarn Returns, he is completely changed, no longer Cat's bright and rolly friend. Cat is mad!
Soon, Cat begins to miss his best friend, and he just might realize that a little change isn't so bad after all.
It's no secret that we are big fans of yarn and its related fibre-crafted products around the shelf, and when yarn is combined with a cute, grumpy-faced cat that looks a little like one of the cats in the dwelling, you can be sure that we will be big fans of the result. Here's a little side by side pic for comparison about our prior claim:
Twinnies, or what?!
Cat, unsurprisingly, is friends with Yarn. They play together in all sorts of hilarious ways (read: sledding), they snuggle up together and are generally as happy as a cat and an inanimate object could be. When Girl takes yarn away and returns him completely changed however, Cat isn't in love with the arrangement. What follows is a struggle between wanting things back the way they were and finding good use for yarn's new form and function. But it isn't all bad. After all, where there's one ball of yarn, there might be more!
This book was a lot of fun and the mini-fleshlings particularly enjoyed the various moods of Cat, played out via his facial expressions. I particularly liked the machinations of Girl, which are known in the wider world as "knitting", and was quite comforted by the fact that clearly Mad Martha isn't the only one who pores over yarn catalogues with such undivided attention. The ending is a great laugh, featuring more in the way of catty expressions of displeasure, and a very nifty bobble hat indeed. The overall message of the book is that a change in the personality of one's friend need not mean the end of a friendship, and that such changes can be just what is needed at that point in time.
The edition of the book that we received came with a dust jacket featuring the image above, and as we are incurable dust-jacket removers, we were able to uncover the delightful design on the hardback cover.
I will admit to having a yearning to own an ugly Christmas jumper, probably due to the fact that I will never have the opportunity to wear one unless I move to a shelf in the Northern Hemisphere for at least one Christmas, so this design tickled me pink.
I would recommend Cat Knit to anyone who (a) has a cat or (b) is able to laugh at cats, which, let's admit it, is every human alive. Having received the thumbs up of approval from the mini-fleshlings in this dwelling, I can also say that it has passed the giggle road test for reading aloud to little ones. It's even inspired me to ask Mad Martha to crochet me an ugly Christmas jumper of my own…which I will then attempt to force onto the cat (pictured above).
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Apple is likely to introduce its mobile ad platform Thursday at its iPhone developer event, say sources familiar with the company's plans. Expect to hear a loud cheer from Google, Apple's former ally and current competitor.
Why would Google applaud the entrance of a new advertising rival? Because Google is trying to convince federal regulators that it has advertising rivals so that it can proceed with its $750 million purchase of AdMob. That deal is being held up for review by the Federal Trade Commission, and there have been consistent murmurs from Washington that the purchase could be in jeopardy.
Apple's plan to get into mobile advertising has been apparent since early January when the company purchased Quattro Wireless for $275 million. Like AdMob, Quattro specializes in ads that run within apps. That's a tiny market now, but it's expected to grow along with the booming app economy, pushed by the mobile platforms Apple and Google are promoting.
Sources say Apple will discuss its plans to create an ad network for its developers at its Thursday event. I assume, but don't know, that the company also plans to make its network available to developers on rival platforms, like Google's Android. I also assume that if Google gets its AdMob deal approved, it will open that network to Apple's developers-even if either side wanted to make its ad play an exclusive one, shutting out rivals would be a red flag for regulators.
In the meantime, Google has been going out of its way to highlight Apple's mobile ad moves. Two days after the Quattro news broke, Google wrote a blog post applauding the move.
Last month, when MediaPost wrote a story speculating about Apple's mobile ad plans-the publication dubbed the platform "iAd," but I'm not sure that Apple intends to go with that name-Google sent reporters an e-mail link to the story. "If true, it would be more evidence of how competitive and quickly-evolving the mobile ad space is," wrote Adam Kovacevich, a manager at the company's public affairs group.
One problem for Google is that you can argue that the company already has a dominant position in the existing mobile ads business-the one that isn't dependent on smartphone apps. That's largely because mobile is now a default option when advertisers buy keywords on the search giant's AdWords system. One industry observer I talked to guesstimates that those ads alone will generate $300 million for Google this year.
I followed up with Kovacevich on Tuesday and asked him how Apple's move would affect the chances of the AdMob deal. Give him credit for consistency-here's his response:
"While we're continuing to work with the FTC, there is overwhelming evidence that mobile advertising will remain competitive after this deal closes. Mobile app advertising is less than two years old, there are more than a dozen mobile ad networks, app developers and advertisers routinely use multiple networks, and the leading mobile app platform, Apple, is now entering the mobile ad space as well."


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'Mudbound' Review: Epic Drama on Poverty, Race and Family Is 'Stunning Achievement'
A fiercely intimate epic about poverty, racism, violence and a divided America, Mudbound scorchingly reflects the Trump era without being a part of it. The film reps a new career high for director Dee Rees, whose remarkable 2011 debut feature Pariah is a semi-autobiographical deep dive into a black girl's struggles with coming out. Since 2015's Bessie, was made for HBO and not released in theaters, this period drama is officially only Rees' second feature. Such are the tribulations of being young, gifted, black, female and gay in a Hollywood ruled by a white male hierarchy. I don't know if the movie will help change things. But it sure as hell should.
Set in hard-times Mississippi just before, during and after World War II and based on a 2008 novel by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound focuses on two poor families: one white farmers (the McAllans); the other black sharecroppers (the Jacksons) who work the former's land. Rees and cowriter Virgil Williams co-opt the novel's device of having six characters – three from each family – narrate their stories. Hap Jackson (Rob Morgan) and his wife Florence (Mary J. Blige) are left with more work when their son, Ronsel (Straight Outta Compton's Jason Mitchell), ships off to war as part of all-black Tank Battalion.
Henry McAllan (the excellent Jason Clarke) and his wife, Laura (Carey Mulligan), also suffer a setback when his brother, Jamie (Garrett Hedlund), becomes a war pilot. Mulligan beautifully captures Laura's sense of having no place in a world where her brother-in-law shows her more care and attention than her husband. With Jamie gone, Laura must cope with her volatile husband, who seethes with resentment against black workers who "threaten" his livelihood. And then there's Henry's Klan-member daddy (Better Call Saul's Jonathan Banks), whose bigotry is so rampant you can see it from space. Of course, violence erupts.
Still, Mudbound finds its center and its heart in the tale of Ronsel and Jamie, who both return from home from battle as victims of PTSD, though no one had a word for it in the 1940s. The two form a bond that their respective circles can't condone, much less understand. Hedlund cuts to the core of Jamie's trauma, and Mitchell gives the film's most shattering performance as a soldier who fell in love with a German woman and found equality in the army – something that is totally denied to him back home.
How Rees interlocks the threads of the story and the interior voices that give it life represents a stunning achievement. And she gets indelible, in-depth performances from the actors. A special word here about Blige, the thundering soul singer and R&B artist who imbues Florence with such grit and radiant grace that she should be on everyone's Oscar list for Best Supporting Actress. The director and her cinematographer Rachel Morrison do wonders with the elements that batter the people of every race and social class in the Delta. But it's the storm raging inside these characters that rivets our attention and makes Mudbound a film that grabs you and won't let go.


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Madras HC Grants Bail to Convicted Rapist For Mediation With The Survivor
On Tuesday, the Madras High Court referred a rape case to its mediation centre; the convict had been sentenced to 7 years' imprisonment. The Judge, P Devadass, declared that "The victim-girl has become the mother of a child. But as on date, she is nobody's wife. So, she is an unwed mother. Now there is a big question mark looming large before the girl as well as her child, who is completely innocent."
The Judge granted the accused interim bail on the condition that he will try to reach a mediated agreement with the victim. The Court ordered the advocates of both sides to assist in the mediation process.
Earlier, the accused had offered to marry the victim, now the mother of his child. "Now the said case is proceeding towards a happy conclusion," Justice Devadass said. The victim, however, is shocked over the Court's decision. She told reporters that she was neither ready to talk to the convict or mediate with him
This case has sparked a raging debate in the country over the High Court's powers and the morality of what the judge did. A former Delhi High Court judge called the judgement "illegal and unethical"
The fact that a court of law is okay with a scenario where a convicted rapist can walk free without punishment is horrifying. The rapist was found guilty, he deserves punishment – it's as simple as that. A Court-suggested mediation brings into the picture various other problems like bribing the victim with money, force by the accused etc. But in the end the argument is plain and simple: if convicted, the person should be punished for the crime he or she commits. If this is encouraged it would have the worst kind of impact on rape laws in our country.
The conclusion that people can draw from the "mediation" approach is this: being a single mother is not okay, but it's okay for a child to have a rapist as his/her father, or it's okay for a rape victim to marry the rapist. Not only is this case an example of rape not been taken seriously enough by the legal establishment, it also reflects the (still) patriarchal nature of Indian society where an unwed mother is considered a bigger problem than a convicted rapist.


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For some people the thought of reality is too much to cope with. They hide themselves from it by ignoring it and pretending it is not there. Thailand as a country more or less on a regular basis ignores reality. Failed policies or other practices that have had a negative effect on the Thai people as a whole are ignored and not addressed, and that simply causes worsening of the situation.
A fugitive on the run can not afford to ignore their surroundings or behavior. They must constantly work to blend in and not appear to be unusual. Body language and reactions to situations that do not match others around them simply causes people to pay closer attention out of curiosity at first. If instinctual alarm bells go off that curiosity is followed by deeper investigation, and that quickly leads to an arrest of the fugitive.
In the case of Thailand and its well known sex industry, trying to ignore that it exists and scolding others for publicly pointing it out in a parody such as was done on a late night comedy program from the USA "Saturday Night Live", the Thai government intervened. Although the parody was essentially true and depicted behaviors of Americans and not Thais, it was disturbing enough that the Thai Government got involved and said make it go away. There was no addressing that Thailand's thriving sex industry is essentially a product of Thai culture. Point of note it was the Ministry of Thai Culture that lodged the complaint.
Even the Thais admit that their education system is in need of a major refit. However it is the Thais that are not seeking political power that are making that statement. Keeping the Thai people generally uneducated is essentially keeping voting cattle for election days. However with a country full of can't do people, they will eventually be bypassed by every other country in the region, and they are already closer to the bottom of the list than the top. So by lowering the passing grade, they can say they are educated, when the reality is far from that. The result is Thailand is passed over time and time again by companies because of the lack of can do thinkers.
The education system is in such a depleted state, a recent news article came right out and said the workers in the Thai government do not have what it takes to properly run the government, so as taught in school, the standard is lowered. At some point Thailand will need to out source to foreigners with the knowhow. So when that embarrassing day comes it will be interesting to watch some Thais insist on doing things the Thai way and possibly defeat the entire effort of bringing in foreigners with the knowhow. Watching that unfold will be on par with trying to bring an end to corruption.
In the case of finding help for this there is a need to understand how therapy works, and that is to face the eye of the storm. Facing up to what is being ignored is key to therapy. So unfortunately as with so many, they must hit rock bottom before they are committed to facing reality and making the necessary changes to change the reality they fear and want to ignore. The fugitive must do their time in jail, the behavior of the people must change to remove the spark that sends people into the sex trade. Also there must be acceptance that you can only go so far in lowering the standard before complete collapse of the country.
Unfortunately this reality check is something else that people will want to ignore.


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Calvin Harris ft. Big Sean - Open Wide
- Artist: Calvin Harris
- Track: Open Wide
- Feat. Big Sean
- Producer: Calvin Harris
- Album: Motion
Open Wide, Booth readers; Calvin Harris is about to cram his latest single right down your throat. OK, on second thought, that sounds kinda wrong, and you can probably get away with listening to this jam with your mouth closed, so long as your ears are ready to experience some absolutely ferocious bass. Here, the Scottish DJ and producer's synth boardwork slowly builds to a pulse-pounding chorus as guest spitter Big Sean mixes recollections of past breakups and relationship woes with miscellaneous freakiness. As a bonus for the rap nerds, Harris seasons his beat with that iconic Funky President "Hey!" An unknown director's action-packed visuals accompany the cut. Like what you're hearing? Well, you're in luck; pre-order the headliner's Motion LP in advance of its November 4, release, and you'll receive Open Wide as an instant download!
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Are you planning to have a new tattoo on your body? Paying attention to your tattoo fonts is important as paying attention to your tattoo designs. Now a days, tattoos are style symbol and people use to get that somewhere on the body to express their style. With advancement of technology, we have now tell the tattoo artists to go for a particular and peculiar font , and get assured of the results.
Tattoo fonts is a collection of great free tattoo fonts with with edgy styles. You have probably seen some of these fonts used on popular tattoo's. Collection of most popular free to download fonts for tattoos. This free tattoo fonts collection also offers useful content and a huge collection of TrueType face and OpenType font families categorized in alphabetical order.
1. Feathergraphy Decoration Font
2. Ink In The Meat Font
3. VTC Tribal Regular
4. VTC-TribalThreeFree
5. VTC Bad Tattoo Hand One
6. Dirty and Classic
7. Argel Font
8. Blackletter
9. Chocolate Dealer Font
10. Bleeding Cowboys Font
11. Tattoo Fonts
12. MCR Tattoo Fonts
13. Delinquente Demo Font
14. The Dreamer Font
15. Tattooz 1
16. Tattoo Ink
17. Tattooed Sailor
18. Rose Tattoo Font
19. Shaman
20. Lupus Blight
Out of the list above, which is the most appealing font for tattoos as per your observation? Share your thoughts about the best font for a tattoo through comment system.


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Story of Redemption 1.1 - Love and Creation, "In the Beginning" (wi... from James Nored on Vimeo.
TESTIMONIAL FROM HEARING IMPAIRED COUPLE on STORY OF REDEMPTION w/SUB-TITLES -
Dennis and I were speechless! "Wow!" was all Dennis managed to say!
For me, the fact that I could VIVDLY understand your message without any trouble left me very excited and so deeply touched in my heart. There is nothing I can say. Even "thank you" is such a pale comparison to how I felt watching the video, COMPLETELY understanding everything you said, and the personal message you delivered with the powerful, unique ways God worked through you, James.
Dennis and I watched the video via my iPhone while waiting at an exchange/return customer service department at a store this morning. Our eyes remained transfixed on the screen, totally oblivious to people sitting around us, without concern whatsoever about whether or not the sound on the iPhone was audible for anyone else around us who probably could hear the video.
Thank you SO, SO, SO much!!! Not only is the subtitled feature going to be helpful for those who were born deaf and whose primary language is sign language, the but also for a much wider audience with varying degrees of hearing loss, young and old alike, whether they sign or not.
We are very excited about this!
- Dennis and Cindi Cesone, Hearing Impaired Couple, Fairfax Church of Christ
The Story of Redemption is an evangelistic Bible study series designed to lead seekers to faith and strengthen the faith of believers, professionally filmed in Israel and the U.S.
Do you know of deaf or hearing impaired people or church ministries? If so, please pass this on!
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Thank you, Ron! I appreciate the encouragement. It was great getting together with you and Patrick. What a blessing you guys are to the kingdom!
This is really super, James. It is done so well and I'm confident would encourage a person, a seeker, to start thinking more seriously about origins and the questions posed in the video. I'm praying that God will get the product of your ministry into many hands and will be used by Him in a powerful way for His Kingdom and His glory. <>/p>


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A Business Owner's Policy (BOP) is insurance that typically combines both business property and general liability insurance into one in order to protect businesses from risks such as fires or theft. Coverage may be sold into one policy or package or can be sold individually. A business can add to the basic policy to and customize a policy to tailor their needs of the company. It is a safe way to protect your business from the unexpected, especially if you own property.
What BOP Typically Covers:
General Liability-protects a business from a person claiming bodily injury from your business.
Property-Liability - protects your business from property damage. This will cover all equipment and furniture in the business and is good for up to 5 office locations.
Business Income/Interruption Insurance- protects your business from income loss due to unexpected interruption of operations such as a fire.
Additional Coverage You Can Add:
- Cyber Insurance
What Is Not Covered:
- Professional Liability
- Workers' Compensation


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A TV, feature film and comic book writer, Madeleine is the winner of the Sloan Fellowship for screenwriting, and the Gold Aurora and Bronze Telly for a PSA produced by Women In Film. She also won numerous awards while completing the UCLA MFA Program in Screenwriting. Having run a number of successful crowdfunding campaigns for her comic, Boston Metaphysical Society, Madeleine has taught a crowdfunding class for independent creators at Pulp Fiction Books in Culver City as well as guest lecturing at Scriptwriters Network and Dreamworks Animation. She has also published the book, Kickstarter for the Independent Creator.
Boston Metaphysical Society webcomic is the recipient of an HONORABLE MENTION at the 2013 GEEKIE AWARDS and was nominated for BEST COMIC/GRAPHIC NOVEL at the 2014 GEEKIE AWARDS. The comic has also been nominated for a 2012 Airship Award as well as a 2013, 2014 and a 2015 Steampunk Chronicle Reader's Choice Award. Her novella, Steampunk Rat, was also nominated for a 2013 Steampunk Chronicle Reader's Choice Award.
Finally we discuss her journey, latest kickstarter project for the upcoming Boston Metaphysical Society: Ghosts and Demons which ends on February 21st. It has been funded and is now currently unlocking Stretch Goals! Don't miss your chance on also owning the very first BMS coloring book. Continuing the support as well for Women In Horror Month.
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text: Never played an instrument in my life and this is so fun and easy to learn! It's simple to pick up and practice for a few minutes on a busy day but you can also get lost playing it for hours! It has a happy beautiful tune and such a classic look to it. If you're considering, I recommend kala!


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P.J. Savoy scored 20 points, making five 3-pointers, and Trent Forrest added 13 points as No. 17 Florida State opened the season with an 81-60 victory over Florida on Tuesday.
Terance Mann had nine points and a team-high nine rebounds for the Seminoles, who shot 11 of 20 from 3-point range and beat Florida for a fifth straight time. They led 31-20 at the half and never looked back, using an aggressive defense to stifle the Gators.
Florida State nearly secured the most lopsided victory in a rivalry that dates to 1951. The largest prior rout for the Seminoles was an 88-63 win in December 1969.
Deaundrae Ballard scored 13 points off the bench and heralded freshman Andrew Nembhard had 12 points for Florida, which shot just 19 of 53 from the floor. The Gators went 6 of 24 on 3-point attempts.
Florida had won 27 straight season openers but was outmatched from the start Tuesday. The Gators trailed by double digits the majority of the game.
Florida State shot 23 of 48 from the floor.
Florida: The Gators never found an offensive rhythm early, committing eight turnovers and scoring just 20 first-half points on 6 of 25 shooting (24 percent). Hudson (eight points) and Nembhard (six points) provided the majority of the early scoring. Florida needs to find more consistent scoring from multiple starters.
Florida State: The Seminoles played four guards most of the night as they began the season without star forward Phil Cofer, who led the team with 12.8 points per game last season but is out indefinitely with a foot injury. Every other scholarship player scored as Florida State emptied the bench in the rout.
The Gators look to pick up their first win when they play host to Charleston Southern on Friday.
The Seminoles play at Tulane on Sunday.
Source: The Associated Press