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A conservative House Republican and his allies held a brief press conference on Wednesday to make clear that they will not be voting with House Speaker John Boehner on the "Plan B" bill that Boehner has presented as a fallback if "fiscal cliff" negotiations fail.}
Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kansas, said he objected to the "tax increases" in the bill, adding that millions are "troubled" by proposals that don't square with "clear conservative, clear Republican principles."
He added that Republicans who vote for the bill despite signing a pledge not to raise taxes "would certainly deserve primary opposition."
Roughly one hour earlier, Boehner had stated that the "Plan B" proposal, which would extend the Bush-era income tax rates on income under $1 million, will pass the House tomorrow. "Then the president will have a decision to make," Boehner told reporters. "He can call on the Senate Democrats to pass that bill or he can be responsible for the largest tax increase in American history." The president has vowed to veto the bill if it comes to his desk.}
As recently as this weekend, Boehner aides were predicting a "fiscal cliff" deal could be reached by midweek. But today, they acknowledge, the pace of talks has slowed. The aides argue that this is because, in the words of one aide, the White House is in standby mode, "waiting, hoping, praying" that Boehner can't muster up the votes tomorrow to pass "Plan B."
Republican aides insist they have counted the votes in their conference and have the votes they need to pass Plan B tomorrow - even though some Republicans are upset about casting a vote for a bill that can be interpreted as allowing tax rates to rise on some people.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday afternoon that the bill won't get any Democratic support - and thus won't pass. "The 'Plan B' will not pass as a result of Democratic votes," she told reporters. If no Democrats back the bill, Boehner can only afford to lose about 20 Republican votes.
It helps him that Grover Norquist's group, Americans for Tax Reform, put out a statement saying that Wednesday saying that "Plan B" does not break the no-tax pledge because it "contains no tax increases of any kind." But the other big anti-tax group, Club for Growth, put out a statement urging members to vote no on "Plan B," because it "increases tax rates for those making over $1 million while also raising taxes on capital gains and dividends."
A top Republican aide argues passing "Plan B" will inoculate Republicans from accusations that they are to blame if the nation goes over the cliff. "The president's perceived leverage is that he can blame us if something doesn't come together. But if we've already passed legislation, you remove that leverage," said the aide. Polls show that a majority of Americans will blame both parties if the nation goes over the cliff, though the public is more likely to back the president than House Republicans.
As Mr. Obama acknowledged Wednesday, the two sides are several billion dollars apart. Republican aides contend that when you take out "gimmicks, interest, and new stimulus spending," the president's offer contains $1.3 trillion in new revenue and $850 billion in cuts. "We need to get to one-to-one....that's a balanced approach," said one aide.
- Obama: GOP keeps "finding ways to say no" on "fiscal cliff"
- White House vows veto of GOP's "Plan B" bill
A top Democratic aide said that negotiations are "not in a good place, and haven't been in a good place since Monday." (Republicans are somewhat more optimistic, saying that talks have "slowed a little" but are still moving along). "My understanding is that the two sides haven't spoken since Monday," Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., asserted in a news conference Wednesday.
The Democratic aide said Boehner's "Plan B" has "poisoned the well a bit" and is a "waste of time that will blow up in his face" if it doesn't pass the House tomorrow.
The Democratic aide said the most likely scenario is that members go home for Christmas with no deal, take a breather, and come back and work something out. "Odds are that we are not going to have something for Christmas...these things can change with a phone call, but it's not my sense that that is imminent," said the aide.
The Senate has already passed its own "Plan B" - a bill extending the Bush-era tax rates for income under $250,000 per year, which matches Mr. Obama's campaign promises. Even if Boehner's "Plan B" passes tomorrow, Democrats argue that theirs is the more viable backup plan, since the president has issued a veto threat on Boehner's bill. Boehner, meanwhile, is holding a second vote tomorrow on a bill that is essentially the Senate plan, to show it cannot pass the House because House Republicans will not agree to raise tax rates on income over $250,000.
GOP aides tell CBS News that the original plans are now in flux, and they may change their strategy to ensure they enough votes for the tax package raising rates on income over $1 million tomorrow.
They may offer a separate package of spending cuts to give members chance to make clear they are still committed to cutting spending in a separate package. They may also drop the second vote on the Senate plan, since some members would rather not take that vote.
CBS News' Jill Jackson, Jake Miller and Brian Montopoli contributed to this report.


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The office manager of Centerfield Elementary School is charged with stealing a drug similar to Ritalin from a student.
Shelly Marie Settle, 43, of La Grange, is charged with narcotics theft and endangering the welfare of a minor. According to police, Settle allegedly removed 10 dexmthylphenidate pills from a student's prescription bottle and replaced the pills with baby aspirin on Monday afternoon.
Dexmthylphenidate, like Ritalin, is a Schedule II narcotic commonly prescribed for children and adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
The drug stimulates the central nervous system with effects more potent than caffeine. It has a calming effect on hyperactive children and a focusing effect on those with ADHD.
School officials store students' medication in a locked cabinet, and Settle is a keyholder with regular access to it.
According to police reports, Settle consumed the pills. Oldham County Police arrested Settle at the school shortly before 5 p.m. Wednesday.
She posted a $2,500 unsecured bond at the Oldham County Jail and has since been released.
Settle will be arraigned at 9 a.m. Dec. 14 in Oldham district court.
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I'm on the lookout for really simple & easy meals for the summer. For this one, you just throw these ingredients into the crockpot. A jar of chili sauce & a jar of grape jelly. Mix them together & then add frozen turkey meatballs. Cook on low for 2-5 hours.
They can be served over rice or egg noodles.
I have the most awesome, crockpot, you guys. It is hunter green & has a beautiful ivy motif on the side. It is lovely. I chickened out on showing you a photo of it. But it works & truly that's all that matters to me. :)
Now, I realize that these meatballs are not the most nutritious. I skipped out or serving them with rice or noodles because we are trying to cut back our carbs around here. I couldn't pass up these beautiful vegetables though when I saw them on my weekly shopping trip to Fresh & Easy. So I heated them up & called it good!
Do you have any go to summer meals that are easy to prepare & that everybody in the family will eat?


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So I was going to make a booking yesterday using Avios points and I signed into my wife's account (because I can't remember which account is hers and which is mine, and it doesn't really matter since you can combine the points), and I was ever-so-slightly surprised to see that there were exactly 0 miles in the account. This was surprising because previously there were 105,000 points in that account, and I don't remember spending 105,000 points on any trips.
I go to investigate.
Me (to wife): Do you remember getting an email, or a letter, or a call or some form of communication from British Airways that your points were expiring?
Wife: No.
Me: No you don't remember, or no you didn't get one?
Wife: I didn't get one. I get stuff all the time. I don't remember. I thought you took care of this stuff.
I return to the screen and see that sure enough there's a notation that in January 105,000 miles expired and they're now gone, and I'm starting to sweat and I'm trying very hard not to swear (not at anyone, mind you, but just in general), and Scarlett walks in to the office:
Scarlett: Hi daddy. Want to see a magic trick?
Me: Um. What?
Scarlett: Want to see a magic trick?
Me: (Hyper-aware of the "Cats in the cradle and the silver spoon…" situation where I'm too busy for my kids until I later discover that they're too busy for me…) Um, I'm kinda busy, but I'm happy to see it. Oh wait, did you make my Avios points disappear?
Scarlett: What?
Me: Nothing, show me the trick.
Scarlett: What are Avios points?
Me: They're frequent flyer miles. It's nothing, I was joking. Show me the trick.
Scarlett: Why are they called points if they're frequent flyer miles?
Me: It doesn't matter.
(She shows me the trick)
I call British Airways and according to the lovely woman on the phone, who had a British accent that makes everything seem more pleasant, they will re-deposit the points (for free!) and that I'll then have 3 months to have some activity in the account to extend the expiration date. I can just move some points between my account and my wife's, and everything will once again be right with the world.
Moral: Sometimes you just have to ask to get what you want.
Moral 2: No matter how annoyed I am, it's always better to watch the magic trick.


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Ah, I'm glad we continue to remain good at foreseeing all kinds of unforeseen problems and dealing with them;-)Hi Raman, We dropped namespace prefixed event names from XML Events 2 a while back, because we suspected this might happen. The last editors draft says, in section 6, 'Naming Event Types' [1]: This specification does not normatively specify how language designers should name events (i.e., the values used in the event attribute). However, future versions of DOM Events are likely to allow namespaced event names, so language designers are advised not to use the colon character ":" in event names. Regards, Mark [1] <http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2008/ED-xml-events-20081223/#section-event-naming> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:35 PM, T.V Raman <email@example.com> wrote: > > suspect will break XML events since they may be dropping support > for namespaced events 2009-09-08: The WebApps Working Group has published a new Working Draft of > DOM Level 3 Events, a generic platform- and language-neutral event system > which allows registration of event handlers, describes event flow through > a tree structure, and provides basic contextual information for each > event. DOM3 Events introduces an advanced text and keyboard event model, > including composition events for input-method editors and other > internationalization issues. > http://www.w3.org/News/2009#item157 > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-DOM-Level-3-Events-20090908/ > > Worth a review, with respect to XML Events 2. > > Steven > > -- > Best Regards, > --raman > > Title: $(˙> Email: $(˙> WWW: $(˙> Google: tv+raman > GTalk: $(˙> PGP: $(˙> > > -- Mark Birbeck, webBackplane firstname.lastname@example.com http://webBackplane.com/mark-birbeck webBackplane is a trading name of Backplane Ltd. (company number 05972288, registered office: 2nd Floor, 69/85 Tabernacle Street, London, EC2A 4RR) -- Best Regards, --raman Title: Research Scientist Email: email@example.com WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ Google: tv+raman GTalk: firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.ascReceived on Wednesday, 16 September 2009 23:43:30 UTC
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WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) -- Three U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents are being investigated for allegedly hiring prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia, congressional officials said.
The source said House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King, R-N.Y., and committee investigators were "aware of this for some time," CNN reported Tuesday.
Three senators contacted by CNN confirmed the investigation of the DEA agents. Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said senators learned about the inquiry about a week ago but were asked not to discuss it until the agents were removed from Colombia.
News about the investigation follows the prostitution scandal involving U.S. military and Secret Service agents who were sent to Colombia in April in advance of President Obama's trip to the Summit of the Americas. Several Secret Service members have been dismissed.
"Not good," said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, the ranking Republican on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which met Wednesday to hear testimony from Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan.
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DEA spokesman Rusty Payne said the Justice Department's inspector general is investigating, CNN reported.
"The Drug Enforcement Administration was provided information from the Secret Service unrelated to the Cartagena hotel Secret Service incident, which DEA immediately followed up on, making DEA employees available to be interviewed by the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General," Payne said. "DEA takes allegations of misconduct very seriously and will take appropriate personnel action, if warranted, upon the conclusion of the OIG investigation."
Collins and another senator told CNN one other Secret Service agent came forward recently and volunteered to his superiors that he paid a prostitute while in Colombia in advance of President Obama's recent trip. An aide to Collins said the Secret Service told her office the agent said he thought he was paying for a massage, not for a prostitute.


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bestfightstory wrote:I have been granted a premature release for hard work and good behavior. Still plenty of pain to sort and suffer through, but it will be nice to be back in the town where I grew up and watching the Hawks with my bro, dad and ma.
On a side note; I received a request from a producer of the Mitch in the morning show to come on and do an interview on Seattle radio next week. Haven't yet responded.
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Wine, in moderate amounts, can be very helpful to our health.
All alcohol has been found to help boost High-density lipoprotein (HDL) or "good cholesterol" but more exclusively to wine, especially red wine, is the concentration of antioxidants that come with each serving.
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Research has indicated that moderate intake of red wine can be beneficial to the heart health. The cardioprotective effect has been attributed to antioxidants present in the skin and seeds of red grapes.
It is believed the antioxidants, called flavonoids, reduce the risk of coronary heart disease in three ways by:
- reducing production of low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol (also know as the "bad" cholesterol)
- boosting high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol (the "good" cholesterol), and
- reducing blood clotting.Researchers at the University of California, at Davis have found the highest concentrations of flavonoids in Cabernet Sauvignon, followed closely by Petit Syrah and Pinot Noir.
Wine could preserve your memory. When researchers gave memory quizzes to women in their 70s, those who drank one drink or more every day scored much better than those who drank less or not at all. Wine helps prevent clots and reduce blood vessel inflammation, both of which have been linked to cognitive decline and heart disease, explains Tedd Goldfinger, DO, of the University of Arizona School of Medicine. Alcohol also seems to raise HDL, the so-called good cholesterol, which helps unclog your arteries.
These are just a few of the benefits and the warnings from/about drinking wine. See the related links below to find out more about the beneficial factors of drinking wine. In moderation 😀
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I would like to modify the start bias values for the Dutch in Civilization 5 Gods and Kings however I cannot find the path to the XML file that determines the start bias.
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however I cannot seem to find the dutch XML file! I understand the risks inherent to modding so I will create a copy of any modded files in case my game becomes erratic.
I would like to change the start bias values so that I can spawn next to the ocean, and next to flood plains so that I can construct polders and a large navy. xD


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The director of Swampspace Gallery in the Miami Design District announced today that Swampspace will present a special exhibition to coincide with Art Basel Miami Beach. Aptly titled "100 Years of Artitude 1913-2013 Pataphysics for Dummies" the installation is a centennial celebration of the artistic development of craft and culture. Not since the ArmoryShow of 1913 have esthetic seismographs detected such considerable tremors and creative rumblings emanating from fecund minds. With an amalgamation of historical artifacts and the metaphysical, Swampspace spirals into the subjectivity of experienced reality; the inseparability of past, present, and future; and the power of language as a pataphor for attitudes in art market nihilism, truth of contradictions and exceptions.
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The railways of Kent have a long and illustrious history and in this programme, which includes full commentary, we chart three classic branch lines, Westerham, Hawkhurst and Allhallows on Sea. The Westerham branch left the main line at Dunton Green, only 20 miles from Charing Cross. Each of the stations, Chevening Halt, Brasted and Westerham are shown with vintage cine film and many archive photographs.
We then move on to the Hawkhurst line, a picturesque rural byway. Again each of the stations at Paddock Wood, Horsmonden, Goudhurst, Cranbrook and Hawkhurst are seen through vintage photographs and cine film. Hop pickers specials from London as well as school trains helped to create the unique flavour that could be found on this branch which could boast the famous Colonel Stephens as its engineer.
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Origin Story
Ed left Sears, Roebuck in August 1908, and the card he sent to Emma from South Bend, Indiana, shortly afterward indicates that he was preparing for some new enterprise or engaged in making contacts or purchases for his partnership with Dentzer. Dated September 15, 1908, the card was addressed to Emma at 197 Park Avenue. It reads: "This isn't a half bad little town. Haven't accomplished much yet. Not even my lunch -- 12:15 p.m." On the same date he sent little Joan a card containing one word: "Google."
--Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Man Who Invented Tarzan by Irwin Porges, Brigham Young University Press, 1975, page 104


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The Hop Brief: Russian River Brewing Co.'s Pliny the Elder
Enjoyed on 9/15/2010
Brewery: Russian River Brewing Co.
Location: Santa Rosa, CA
Beer: Pliny the Elder
Web: www.russianriverbrewing.com
Presentation: 16.9 oz. – Brown Glass Bottle – Capped
Vintage: 2010
Style: American Style Imperial India Pale Ale
Barrel: N/A
Hops: N/A
Malt: N/A
Commercial Description:
Pliny the Elder was a Roman naturalist, scholar, historian, traveler, officer, and writer. Although not considered his most important work, Pliny and his contemporaries created the botanical name for hops, "lupus Salictarius", meaning wolf among scrubs." Hops at that time grew wild among willows, much like a wolf in the forest. Later the current botanical name, Humulus Lupulus, was adopted. Pliny died in 79 AD while observing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. He was immortalized by his nephew, Pliny the Younger, who continued his uncle's legacy by documenting much of what he observed during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Pliny the Elder, the beer, is brewed with 40% more malt and over twice the amount of hops as compared to our already hoppy IPA.
Beer Advocate: A+ (4.55)
Rate Beer: 100 (4.24)
Timperial's Notes:
beeradvocate.com recently posted their 2010 "Top Beers on Planet Earth". At the time of that list's release Beer Blotter felt obliged to lend their opinion on the extremely interesting phenomena surrounding it, but alas, time did not allow. Seeing that the beer to be reviewed here is the controversial number 1 on said list, we will take this opportunity to toss out a few thoughts.
First, the background. I believe that this list comes out every year and is essentially beeradvocate.com's version on ratebeer.com's The Best Beers in the World (overall), or possibly The Top Widely Distributed Beers. These lists are always created exclusively with the use of the reviews of the website's users. That being said, no matter what you may think of the results, they are the will of the people.
I personally prefer ratebeer's Best in the World list over BA's Top Beers list because I feel it gives credit to beers that, yes, may be very rare, but most likely taste the best, or are the most complex. BA's list seems to have been compiled only with beers that have been reviewed by roughly 1,000 users, or have roughly 1,000 total reviews. This, however, makes the list much more accessible to the masses. A decent majority of the beers on the list have a sizable distribution.
For us Seattleites, the only breweries represented in the list that don't distribute to our state are Founder's, Bell's, Three Floyds, Troegs, Great Lakes, Brooklyn, and Smuttynose. That's really not that bad. 7 out of 44 breweries. Of course, none of those 44 breweries are from WA, but we kinda already knew that would happen. Tell me what WA beer deserves to be on the list, but before you answer, ask yourself what that beer's distribution looks like. When you weigh quality with the number of mouths that get to taste it, you will begin to realize why our state is never represented.
I had planned on doing some serious analysis of the list, but it seems that Jay Brooks over at Brookston Beer Bulletin did most of the heavy lifting for me. Check out the stats here.
Now, to number 1 on the list. Pliny. This is insane! Don't get me wrong, Pliny is an amazing double IPA. I'd drink it everyday for the rest of my life if I had to and I'd be quite happy. Vinnie Cilurzo is truly a hero of mine, but…there should never, ever be an IPA in the number one spot on a list like this. IPAs lack depth and complexity. The number 1 spot should be reserved for a beer that has so many layers and nuances that you struggle to describe it. Even my beloved imperial stout, though unarguably complex, doesn't have the depth of some of the greatest Belgian ales. This is why I will never argue with the ratebeer perennial champion Westy 12. Now that is a worthy beer for number 1 on planet Earth. But, Westy 12 is very rare and therefore has no place on this list. Rochefort 10 on the other hand, found in the number 3 position on the list, should be on top in my opinion. Anyone who has ever had this beer knows a little something about speechless.
But, I deeply digress. This article is about hops and Pliny has plenty of it. Wherever Pliny should end up on this list, or any other list for that matter, is up for debate; but what surely is not up for debate is if it should be on the list, or any other list for that matter. There is absolutely no doubt that this is one of the world's best hoppy beers and I'm ecstatic to be drinking it tonight.
The filling of my pint glass is no easy task. A huge, rocky head arises of a just off-white, nearly yellow hue. It takes a while to fizzle down into beer, so you can imagine the pains it took to hold patiently. In fact, I failed. Refusing to wait, I slurped up a big, prickly mouthful of foam that seemed a microcosm of the taste experience soon to come. Immediately evaporating like a pinch of cotton candy between my lips, waves of citrus and pine span past me in fractions of a second before a stern slap of bitterness stung my senses.
Before even one liquid sip made it to my mouth, I felt as though I had climbed just slightly too far up a pine tree, became fearfully stuck, then became the target of a potato gun loaded with citrus. I'm taking it square in the jaw with propelled fruit and hanging on to the sharp, sappy branches of my captor with all that I have. It sounds like a nightmare, and to the bitter bewildered, it just may be, but to The Hop Brief, it's an extreme sport. We do it for the love of the thrill.
The head eventually settles to a white wisp and ring. Surprisingly, the lacing is a bit subdued. After such a thick head on the pour and the sweetness expected from such a big brew, I presumed there would be much more stickage. The color is also a bit unexpected, a pale, cloudy amber. Pale enough that I would have projected a lighter brew before me. The most striking attribute of all, gathered with the eye, is the level of cloudiness. Actually, I hesitate to even use the word cloudy, though it seems an appropriate adjective for beers with suspended yeast. Here we have some serious floaters! My mind tells me that it's hop shrapnel, and I like the thought of that. Maybe I can chew some hop as I drink some hop.
The nose is very pleasant to this IPA lover. There is a slight sting in the nostrils from the multi-tiered potency. Many facets of potent lupulin resins (pine and citrus, as mentioned earlier), backed with a potent booze factor. The biscuity malts that break through add a complexity and balance that is an invaluable sidekick. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a dash of wheat in the grain bill. That may also be a factor in the color and cloudiness. Fruitcake… and no, I'm not talking about you… in the nose. There is a slight but noticeable sweetness in the scent that brings me relief.
The mouthfeel is spot on for the style. Fairly low but present carbonation, smooth and slick with sweetness… I'm not rushing to swallow.
The flavor is pretty fantastic. No shit, right? The taste experience begins with an onslaught of bitterness, which I generally am opposed to, but after the bitter sensing portions of the tongue relax (or are desensitized, I'm not sure which), it's all so right. An exhale through the nose stirs up all of the crucial hop flavors that were prefaced in the nose. BIG earthy pine (trapped in a tree), grapefruit, pumello, bitter orange (potato gun shooting citrus); it's all there and wiping about the mouth like a swirl-and-spin of hop-flavored paint, coating every corner of the mouth with aromatic arts.
The malts are like the cool, smooth looking guy that just strolls through the bonkers house party with no worry in the world. He puts it all into perspective, making all the hopped-up party animals look like riotous ne'er-do-wells who will never grow up to do anything with their lives. In this particular case, we all know that those hopped-up animals turn out to forever change American brewing, but don't tell that to the malty fellow, he is still cool as ice. You may have picked up on my IPA desires by now, but if not, I NEED BALANCE! Get a little heavy on the malt bill, leave behind some unfermentable sugars, arrest fermentation, do whatever you have to do to massage my sweet tooth. This brew gives it a little stroke, and I'm near bliss.
For me, the aftertaste is the peak of excellence as far as PTE is concerned. All the flavors coalesce into a sweet song in the key of sturm und drang. Extremes in emotion mingle. Stabbing, pungent bitterness leads into soothing, relaxing sacchariferousness. There is very little dryness at all and, though I so badly want another sip, I really don't need it. The flavors just keep going and going. All is right in the world.
With PTE, the sweetness is desperately close to perfect for me, but falls just short. I can actually feel the tension within me. I want so badly for it to be perfect, but no. Lest we not forget though, it's a rare occasion when I even discuss the possibility of perfection in a beer, of any style, and that is why Pliny the Elder is a legend in both history and beer.
Color/Head/Retention [maximum of 1.00 point possible]: 0.79
Odor [maximum of 2.00 points possible]: 1.86
Carbonation/Mouthfeel [maximum of 1.00 point possible]: 0.99
Hop Flavor [maximum of 3.00 points possible]: 2.94
Malt Flavor/Balance [maximum of 2.00 points possible]: 1.88
Finish/Aftertaste [maximum of 1.00 point possible]: 0.99


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In search of the most elusive force in all of marketing
If you're somebody with something to sell and no deep pockets for million-bucks-a-minute advertising blitzes, buzz is for you. Buzz is busy talk, the CNN of the street. It's hugely influential. Buzz is not merely onomatopoeic; it's a big-time, no-nonsense force. Once it's on the move, buzz is potent and widespread and lawless, which of course makes it irresistible. Brisk and a little unstable, buzz is a weather system that whirls into, and eventually out of, your life. Buzz is the Tornado Alley of communication.
Buzz needs an igniter--a circumstance, a surprise, a shortage, an inside scoop, a juicy tidbit, the right timing, a giveaway, even some ambiguity. The most celebrated igniter in our midst is Oprah, as both Texas cattle ranchers and booksellers can attest.
Buzz travels on the thrum of conversation; it's what large numbers of people can't stop talking about. More than anything else, word of mouth stokes buzz and keeps it alive. Like a faraway radio station, buzz can be faint and fuzzy and tricky to tune in. Ironically, that limitation only adds to its persuasive allure: the just-out-of-reach quality that characterizes buzz--especially incipient buzz, which requires that you chase the story--holds people in thrall. The key question for owners of growing companies is whether you can produce buzz by scheming and planning and plotting and contriving, or if you just have to wait to get lucky. I'd argue that cleverness and ingenuity catalyze buzz better than good fortune does, though the combo of all three is a humdinger. So let's turn our attention to the real-world rules that govern buzz and to how you can go about cultivating it and putting it to work.
For me, one of the best examples of the art and science of this whole process is the story of how southwestern cuisine took hold, as described by Patricia Sharpe in the February 1996 Texas Monthly. The beginnings of the southwestern buzz date back to the mid-1980s, when a handful of ambitious young chefs in Texas and California were experimenting with the local cuisine.
In Dallas, a group of seven chefs started meeting for dinner--potluck, of course--at which they cooked for one another and concocted ways to get noticed. One of them, Anne Greer, had an innate understanding of public relations, and it was she who made sure that Dallas Times Herald writer Michael Bauer was invited to one of those showcase meals. The first time the phrase "new southwestern cuisine" is believed to have appeared in print was on August 7, 1983, in an article by Bauer. Now the group had a bona fide brand name for their imaginative fare, and that, too, was a big help. Naming anything assigns it an identity and supplies an easy conversational handle.
Over the next several years, the chefs cooked for anybody who'd do a story. But while a handle and some smartly planned publicity can be the foundation for buzz, in this case the final igniter was very good timing.
The '80s, you may remember, saw a boom in the popularity of exotic food from Asia, Mexico, and Europe. Southwestern dishes, with their anchos, habaneros, and cilantro, were ideally suited to the gastronomic zeitgeist. Plus, people were just in the mood for new tastes. Thus the new southwestern cuisine became international fare.
Heather Howitt credits timing with helping to create buzz around her product, Oregon Chai, as well. Chai is a spicy, milky, intensely sweet tea that's been made for aeons in India and Russia and the Middle East. Chai first appeared stateside during the 1960s at ashrams and communes; by the 1980s it was featured on some restaurant menus and at some western coffee carts. In 1994, Howitt founded Oregon Chai Inc., in Portland, Oreg.
Although Howitt made use of traditional marketing and the time-tested handing out of free samples to create buzz around Oregon Chai, she also thinks its popularity was aided by the latte wave. Oregon Chai's revenues have rocketed from around $200,000 in 1995 to $2.8 million in 1997.
If anyone knows the formula for igniting megabuzz, one would expect it to be moviemakers. Hollywood and buzz have always been thick as thieves. Good buzz--a brew of rumor, hype, and enthusiastic reviews--opens movies with a bang. Bad buzz shuts them down faster than a vice cop on a raid, which is why studio suits and horn-rimmed statisticians spend so much time scrutinizing early audience reactions to a rough cut, to see where people tripped on the story line or find out if they noticed the costumes or liked the star. Of course, the studios pump heavenly sums into promoting their newest screen gems. (The advertising largesse for show biz puts it in a class by itself, except maybe for cars and Coke.) But independent, grassroots buzz does a better, more persuasive job for a song. It's all in the allure of the inside scoop.
Here's an example of how well it works: Last summer the biggest theater in my hometown got rid of a huge Titanic pop-up display in the lobby that you had to walk around to get to the popcorn. So that was a bad omen. There goes Titanic, we said, a real flopperoo, another Waterworld. But last summer I hadn't heard about Harry Jay Knowles, a self-described geeky guy in Austin, Tex., who runs a Web site called the Ain't It Cool Network, which, he says, covers "all stages of development of the films that you and I look forward to."
Knowles's Web site collects and publishes daily primo insider movie buzz: "Gossip/Rumor that'll make ya slobber!!!" "Star Wars Prequel Spoilers!!! Stay away if ya don't wanna know!!!" No "studio line" to salute or to "cloud our judgment," as Knowles puts it, just good old unleavened buzz, still warm from the oven. (Check it out for yourself at www.aint-it-cool-news.com.) Punctuation purists, beware: everything there is festooned with multitudes of exclamation points. That Harry, he's always so up!
Make no mistake, for all his punctuational excess, Knowles has really got the goods--and it sends movie moguls around the bend because they'd just as soon keep things extremely hush-hush until they're good and ready. But no such luck. A battalion of loyal undercover snoops (who file reports under goofy fake names like "the Swede") leak the cinematic scuttlebutt straight from soundstages and obscure film festivals and rough-cut test screenings and early script run-throughs, and Knowles tells all.
So around the time that 3-D model vanished from my West Coast moviehouse, raves--raves!!!--started to roll in from 23 of Knowles's spies who had just wangled their way into a rough-cut screening of Titanic outside Minneapolis. Those unauthorized reviews produced authoritative Internet buzz ("This movie's not the dog you heard it was") that attracted more and more attention as it spread, accelerando. People noticed. By autumn, you could sense the shift was nearly complete: before it had even opened, Titanic had gone from washout to once-in-a-couple-of-decades classic, on a par with Gone with the Wind, if you believe the review that ultimately ran in the New York Times. Thanks to Knowles's gang, underground buzz triggered the one thing all the studio money in the world couldn't--big momentum--and Titanic began its amazing rise. (Interestingly, the Web site Students Online has a section called StreetSpeak, which tracks language used by mostly teens and preteens. One of the new words on its list is titanical, meaning something really good.)
Now I should mention that if Titanic had been a real turkey, raves wouldn't have amounted to much (and surely would have compromised the reviewers' credibility), because buzz does not lie. It is its duty to be honest, a stalwart in a crowd of hucksters. Pseudobuzz, on the other hand, bites off more than it can chew and is easy to spot because it creates dissonance. Something's off somewhere: think of any gushy over-the-top PR, a customers-come-first campaign in the commercial-airline business, a line like "I didn't inhale." Real buzz has that familiar ring of truth. It clicks.
Every would-be buzzmeister has to learn when to let buzz grow by itself and when to step in and give it a nudge. Consider the Dancing Baby, a weird, surreal-looking animated infant that cha-chaed its way into TV-land last January by showing up in two episodes of Fox's hit series Ally McBeal. The boogying baby was one of 12 characters introduced two years ago by Kinetix, located in San Francisco, a multimedia division of Autodesk Inc., which is headquartered in San Rafael, Calif. (With revenues of $617 million, Autodesk is the fifth-largest software company in the world.) "It was a simple tutorial for our customers," says Kinetix general manager Jim Guerard, who tapped bargain-priced freelance talent from a three-person company called Unreal Pictures, in Palo Alto, Calif., to imagine and design the characters.
About six months later Kinetix got wind of E-mail floating around with the Dancing Baby clip attached. "Users modified the files," Guerard says, "and shipped them around the Web to their friends," and that's how David E. Kelley, the creator, producer, and writer of Ally McBeal, got onto it. It was perfect for an episode in which lawyer McBeal (played by Calista Flockhart) worries about her biological clock.
Baby buzz has been a godsend for Kinetix, which has sought to raise its profile, especially in the entertainment community. Guerard says the bopping bambino has built brand awareness and visibility with minimal cash. Hits to the Kinetix Web site have surged, as has traffic to the best unofficial Dancing Baby site, run by Seattle high school student Rob Sheridan. Merchandising is likely (you can already get a Dancing Baby screen saver), with more clips to follow this year.
Kinetix was quick to realize that customers created their own kind of baby love, and the company wisely capitalized on that. To do otherwise--to attempt to build buzz by force--would have killed it. Instead, Kinetix made it easy as pie to copy the digital baby file, modify it, and pass it on. Only when the baby bombination was clearly audible did the company start to put together some PR, in case the craze continued and people wanted to know more.
There's another commonsense principle at work here. If you give stuff away as fast as you can, you whip up interest, which is the down payment buzz requires. It always surprises me how businesspeople devote so much time to building barriers to entry when they'd be so much smarter to let it rip!
Creative giveaways are practically a credo for Little Earth Productions, a $3-million Pittsburgh-based company that recycles license plates, bottle caps, and street signs and turns them into belts, bags, and datebooks. With an assist from an agent or two, Little Earth's just plain cool products have made guest appearances on TV shows like Home Improvement, prime-time exposure that didn't hurt the company's sales. But some of Little Earth's other marketing maneuvers to create buzz are more backyard.
When a Pittsburgh woman was crowned Miss Pennsylvania this year, Little Earth sent her a fleet of their "Cyclone" purses, shoulder bags made from old license plates. Miss Pennsylvania kept the one made from Pennsylvania plates, and she gave those made from other states' plates to her sister contestants in the Miss USA pageant. Little Earth was betting on those Cyclones to see plenty of shutter action in the media frenzy that preceded the March pageant.
Little Earth cofounder Ava DeMarco says that "donating products is great because it gets your company's name out, and"--here's the voice of a with-it business owner--"it can be expensed."
A big honking wave of positive buzz can't be beat, but bad buzz can breed incredible operational problems. When that happens, company owners have to switch from an igniter mind-set to an extinguisher mind-set. America Online teetered (but didn't fall) when it promised a service it couldn't deliver. Intel's flawed Pentium chip had every tech expert going for a while there, but it recovered nicely--so well, in fact, that CEO Andy Grove landed gracefully on the cover of Time last December as Man of the Year. And Johnson & Johnson's superb response to its Tylenol crisis virtually defines corporate responsibility.
For some, though, bad buzz can mean wipe-out city, or pretty close to it. In October 1996 the worst kind of crisis erupted at Odwalla, the California fresh-juice company. Outbreaks of E. coli infection were linked to its unpasteurized apple-based drinks, and the overwhelming buzz was that the company was gone for good. There was no way this West Coast favorite could win back the public's trust, or that's how the buzz was running.
To its credit, Odwalla acted quickly and with compassion, skill, and honesty: it voluntarily recalled products, fixed the problem, and made hefty investments in safety. It also covered all medical expenses for people who had become ill from drinking an Odwalla product. Through an 800 number, a new Web site, and daily in-store updates, Odwalla kept information flowing. Sales plummeted by 90% after the recall, but today, at $53 million, they're just about back to where they were before the crisis.
The way to love anything, the English journalist and author G.K. Chesterton once said, is to realize that it might be lost. A keen anxiety about fading youth has sent people of a certain age clamoring for newfangled life-extending nutrients like melatonin (cures jet lag), saw palmetto extract (shrinks an enlarged prostate), bilberry extract (regenerates the retina), and SAMe (combats aging and depression). The fear of being on the verge of extinction can be very good for buzz.
Scarcity even helps to explain the mania for Beanie Babies, those pint-sized understuffed avatars of buzz. If you've ever once been the object of that squinchy stare of Squealer the Pig or Patti the Platypus, you know all too well how loopy it makes you feel, especially if there happens to be a kid collector nearby. Yet Ty Inc., the suburban Chicago company that produces Beanies, does no advertising. All the same, from 1996 to 1997, Ty's sales were out of this world, growing more than 2,000%. They've climbed higher since, and the company's growth is projected to be even more dramatic this year.
Ty has an ingenious custom of "retiring" a number of its plushy critters every year. As any collector will tell you, the rarer something is, the more valuable it becomes. Super-hard-to-find retirees can fetch more than $1,000 each; few things can get Beanie devotees off their butts faster than, say, the breaking news that Bumble the Bee is about to buzz off (and it did, in 1996). The company keeps such a snug lid on which special Beanie is about to be yanked that grown-up fanciers have built their own complexly structured networks aimed at tapping into early Beanie Baby buzz. Ty's own Web site averages more than 20,000 hits every day. That's smart marketing--is it ever!--but it's also basic psychology. People go nutso for what they cannot have: Brownies. Butter. Beanie Babies.
Certain controversial situations are a kiln for buzz: agitated debates (abortion, flag burning, medical marijuana); touchy subjects (adultery, ethics). The collision of strongly held points of view is talk radio's stock in trade: Dr. Laura stands for moral character, and the devil take the hindmost.
Great teachers have always used the collision of strongly held points of view to full advantage; so have great preachers. Josh Hunt is a Baptist missionary's kid who grew up to be a pastor himself. In his line of work, he knew that more people gave up on traditional church services than flocked to them. The problem, Hunt figured, was profound boredom. "Too many churches make people yawn," he says. There had to be a better way to do church.
There was. Hunt, as associate pastor, wanted what he now calls a Wow! church, and he thought one way to get it was to "leave people dangling a little bit," to leave something to the imagination, "the way Jesus did." So Hunt advocated sermons that intentionally left things open to interpretation, a clever and engaging tactic that's old as the hills, and it worked: it ignited buzz because it gave people something to talk about, a reason to come back the next Sunday and renew the debate. If every question is answered, what's to discuss? "The teachings of Jesus beg explanation," Hunt says. "Whatever else he was, Jesus was a master of buzz." Even as other churches withered, the congregation at Hunt's church in Las Cruces, N. Mex., tripled over 11 years.
Knowing that style is as important as substance, Hunt reinterpreted the look and feel of church. He started a popular Saturday-evening service. To accompany certain services, Hunt chose jazzed-up music that had been written within the past 10 years--music that people liked and remembered, hummed and talked about. He treated guests respectfully and never embarrassed newcomers the way so many other churches did (albeit inadvertently) by making them stand and introduce themselves to the assembled throng. The choicest parking was reserved for visitors.
Last year Hunt (who has published three books about growing churches and Sunday-school classes) moved to Lubbock to launch 2020 Vision, his own consulting practice. His goal is to help southern Baptists create enough buzz to boost Sunday-school attendance to 20 million by the year 2020.
Whether it's jet-propelled or delicately pollinated, buzz is a business owner's best friend, provided you can keep up. Me, I'm high on recliners at the moment. Only certain recliners, not like the yucky gaff-taped model you see every week on Frasier, or the kind that looks like a puffy parka on steroids. I believe I speak for women everywhere when I say, "So what if it's cushy, it's ug-lee!"
Of course, I used to think Hush Puppies were dorky, and now they're just the coolest shoes around. (I have four pairs, bush league compared with real fanatics.) But recliners. Action Lane makes a leather club-chair style that I swear would fool anybody into thinking it couldn't recline to save its soul. Not only does it recline (in a fraction of the space the old models required), but it's so sleek, it actually won a design award, and you know what that can do for buzz. So now women like me are buzzing that these aren't our dads' recliners. Plus the ubiquity of home theaters and the relentless march of baby boomers toward old age is also pushing demand. Action Lane, located in Tupelo, Miss., reported record sales last year.
I've picked up some other current buzz bits while doing this story, and I'll pass them on now: Women and fly-fishing. Celebs (Richard Gere, Diane Keaton, Kelly Klein) who assemble photographs into gorgeous coffee-table books. London. Bilbao. Sydney. Anything from Levenger, the paper-and-pen company for people who love to write and read. El NiÑo. On-line grocery shopping. The smoothie--that yogurty concoction of decades past--is making a comeback, so I hear. Vitaceuticals. Uncommon pets, like sugar gliders and flying squirrels and hedgehogs. Clever packaging that makes you go "Wow!" (The company that makes Teton Glacier Potato Vodka promoted the product by sending out Idaho potatoes wrapped in gold foil with Teton Glacier labels affixed to them.) Brand names. Tofu. Ostrich fillets. Tequilas sold like single-malt scotches and beers made like champagnes. Bilingualism. Anything that's simple and beautifully designed: OXO vegetable peelers and can openers, Braun coffee makers, Odwalla's delivery vans. Shoulder pads for women, thankfully, are still way, way out.
The main thing to understand is that buzz is always going somewhere. If you try to stop it, buzz grows stronger. You can launch it from nothing, by giving stuff away and by using a spokesperson to seed conversational clouds. If your ear is good enough, you can pick up on the prevailing buzz and build on it. When it moves on--and it will--something new takes its place: a hot movie, a favorite food, a new buzzword. Sometimes big-time buzz even comes roaring back again, after a couple of dormant decades: miniskirts, fondue, that hideous lime-green color that just screams '70s, Saturday Night Live (when it was funny), minimalism.
One thing I can say with total confidence is that buzz is way, way more fun than any other act of communication. It's rebellious and contagious. You're in for a heck of a ride.
Nancy K. Austin is the coauthor, with Tom Peters, of A Passion for Excellence.
Research assistance for this piece was provided by Mike Hofman.
Read the companion piece " The Buzz Factory" by Nancy K. Austin in the May 1998 Inc.
How The Dancing Baby Got its Buzz
Step 1
In 1996, Unreal Pictures works with Kinetix to develop an animation-software package, Character Studio. Staffers design a demo character, a baby who dances.
Step 2
Animator and 3-D artist Ron Lussier refines the baby and shows it to coworkers in fall 1996. Someone sends the baby to a friend as an E-mail attachment.
Step 3
Like a chain letter, the baby E-mail is continually forwarded, through the end of 1996 and early 1997. Music has been added to the image.
Step 4
Web sites devoted to the Dancing Baby proliferate. In summer 1997, the New York Times's on-line CyberTimes runs a story on it.
Step 5
The baby appears in a January 1998 episode of TV comedy Ally McBeal. When McBeal wins two Golden Globes, the baby clip is shown. Kinetix garners a slew of press.
Buzz Through The Decades
VW Beetles
Timothy Leary
troll dolls
love beads
Rubik's Cubes
electronic calculators
sensitivity training
Volvo station wagons
mood rings
platform shoes
Cabbage Patch dolls
total quality management
The One Minute Manager
premium ice cream
Trivial Pursuit
Beanie Babies
bottled water
VW Beetles
Martha Stewart


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Latest News
Al Qaida disavows jihadist group fighting in Syria, Iraq
Al Qaida's central command publicly has disowned its Iraqi affiliate over that group's brutal activities in Syria in an unprecedented break that analysts say may weaken the Syrian insurgency and impact al Qaida's operations across the Middle East.
In a statement posted on jihadist forums late Sunday, al Qaida leader Ayman al Zawahiri and other commanders formally declared the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, not an al Qaida affiliate over its defiance of an order last year to limit its operations to Iraq and to leave operations in Syria to the official al Qaida affiliate there, the Nusra Front.
"ISIS is not a branch of al Qaida and we have no organizational relationship with it," Zawahiri's statement said. As a result, it added, al Qaida is no longer responsible for the "actions and behaviors" of ISIS, which has been fighting a bloody campaign against other rebel groups in Syria while imposing strict Islamic law on the parts of Syria it controls, often executing people it finds to be insufficiently pious.
Experts on al Qaida offered a variety of interpretations on the importance of Zawahiri's statement. Some said it was likely to be closely watched by al Qaida affiliates in other parts of the world; if ISIS survives the expulsion and continues to hold onto its positions inside Syria, it likely will mean that central al Qaida's ability to command their operations will have collapsed.
"If ISIS succeeds without being part of al Qaida, it could create a competing center of jihadist power," said Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow who studies al Qaida for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. "It's possible that it will dim al Qaida's brand as well as al Qaida's fundraising."
The break with ISIS could also work out to be a boon for U.S. counterterrorism efforts by opening up "the possibility of the most serious internal fighting – I mean violent fighting – al Qaida has faced," said Seth Jones, an associate director of RAND Corp.'s International Security and Defense Policy Center who's worked closely with U.S. Special Forces Command.
"The good news angle is that this is essentially fratricide," he said. "It's al Qaida fighting itself now, and there's no better way to fight an organization than for it to begin fighting within itself."
But other analysts were more cautious, warning that ISIS pushed from Syria could turn its wrath on that country's neighbors, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. The group already has claimed deadly bombings in Lebanon and Turkey.
The State Department also saw little upside to an ISIS defeat if it served only to strengthen the Nusra Front, which the United States declared a terrorist organization in December 2012.
"The fact to remember here is that both ISIS and al Nusra are designated terrorist organizations," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Monday. "Yes, they've been fighting each other for months, but that doesn't change our view of both of those groups."
ISIS declared its existence last April, saying it was a merger of the Nusra Front and an Iraqi group, the Islamic State of Iraq. But the leader of the Nusra Front objected to the merger and appealed to Zawahiri to intervene, which the al Qaida leader did in June, telling ISIS to leave Syria to Nusra.
Nevertheless, ISIS became an integral part of rebel military actions against Syrian government positions and was even praised by U.S.-allied rebel forces for its role in rebel seizures of Syrian military bases.
But it also angered local Syrian communities as its members pressed to enforce radical notions of Islamic law, including summary executions, at the same time it began kidnapping and killing the leaders of other rebel groups, including Nusra.
On Jan. 3, other rebel groups revolted against ISIS, expelling it in bloody fighting from parts of northern Syria. In the month since, hundreds of rebels have been killed in the internecine conflict as ISIS fought to hold onto areas it controlled and to recapture the areas it had lost.
In his statement, Zawahiri called that internal fighting a "catastrophe" and called on "all those who have religion" to put an end to the fighting.
The Iraq branch of al Qaida has been problematic for the central command for years. Its founder, Jordanian militant Abu Musab al Zarqawi, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in 2006, also was reprimanded by al Qaida leaders for his group's killing of civilians and Shiite Muslims, tactics that were costing the group support among Iraqis.
Back then, however, the disagreement was handled quietly through private correspondence; the matter only became public when documents were leaked or intercepted. And Zarqawi's disobedience never reached the point of a formal split, unlike that of the current ISIS chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
"They don't respond to direction well. Like Zarqawi, there's a lot of disagreement over tactic and strategy," said Christopher Swift, an adjunct professor of national security studies at Georgetown University who advises U.S. officials on counterterrorism strategy. Swift will testify before U.S. lawmakers this week on national security implications of al Qaida's transformation.
Swift said that since al Qaida founder Osama bin Laden was killed in a U.S raid in Pakistan in 2011, Zawahiri has tried to remake the organization from one that focused on dramatic high-profile attacks to one that, learning from the missteps in Iraq, is more grassroots and attuned to local sensibilities. That's why Zawahiri "didn't want to touch ISIS" after it had earned a reputation for attacking and undermining fellow rebels on the Syrian battlefield.
"The whole movement has said, 'We're going to rebrand global jihad through local insurgencies, and we need to have better relations with the people we're fighting next to," Swift said.
Zawahiri made reference to that rebranding in his statement, referring to previous al Qaida publications that called for its adherent "to get rid of behaviors that will harm the jihad" and "distancing from any behavior that will result in oppressing a mujahid or a Muslim or a non-Muslim."
The Zawahiri statement made clear that al Qaida still considers the Nusra Front to be its ideological representative in Syria. Nusra was founded by Syrian veterans of al Qaida's campaign against the United States presence in Iraq.
How Nusra will view Zawahiri's rejection of ISIS also will be a key factor. The two groups had worked together closely on military issues, and even though ISIS in recent months had killed Nusra commanders, Nusra negotiated cease-fires in the most recent fighting that allowed ISIS units to withdraw with their weapons.
And ISIS remains a potent force in Syria. While it's been pushed from most of its bases in Idlib province by other rebel groups, it remains active in Aleppo province and continues to control the province of Raqaa, in the far-eastern desert with convenient supply lines to Iraq.
It also has begun to target other rebel factions with relentless suicide attacks, including at least 20 in January alone.
On Saturday, a suicide bomber killed a top commander and 25 others from Tawid al Jihad, a rival rebel group, and on Sunday a suicide bomber assassinated a top official and 15 of his men from Ahrar al Sham, a conservative rebel group, some of whose top officials are members of al Qaida.
Meanwhile, ISIS gunmen in the city of Homs reportedly assassinated an official from yet another militia, Suqor al Sham, on Sunday.


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Witnesses Recount Fatal Apartment Fire in Sioux Falls
SIOUX FALLS - One of two people who tried to help save a Sioux Falls woman and a toddler who ended up dying in an apartment fire called the woman a "true hero."
Fifty-four-year-old Warren Vick was driving to work Tuesday when he saw smoke coming out of a Sioux Falls apartment.
Twenty-nine-year-old Sulmi Guerra Sandoval and 2-year-old Eli Galicia died in the apartment fire, but not before Guerra-Sandoval lowered three children to Vick out a second-story window.
A second passerby, Cullen Dossett, arrived as Vick was placing the third child on the ground. Vick lifted Dossett up toward the window and at one point, held Guerra Sandoval's hands.
Dossett tells The Argus Leader that her hand slipped out of his.
He says, "The terror on her face will haunt me forever."
A fund has been set up for the victims. KELO-TV reports that donations can be made at CorTrust Bank in Sioux Falls or at the Calvary Chapel.
Checks can be made payable to the "Fire Victim's Fund."
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By Canada I have always been fascinated.
All that snow and acquiescing.
All that emptiness, all those butterflies
marshalled into an army of peace.
Moving north away from me
Canada has no border, away
like the state its northern border
withers into the skydome. In a world
full of mistrust and self-medication
I have always hated Canada.
It makes me feel like I'm shouting
at a child for letting a handful
of pine needles run through his fist.
Canada gets along with everyone
while I hang, a dark cloud
above the schoolyard. I know
we need war, all the skirmishes
to keep our borders where
we have placed them, all
the migration, all the difference.
Just like Canada the Dalai Lama
is now in Canada, and everyone
is fascinated. When they come
to visit me, no one ever leaves me
saying, the most touching thing
about him is he's so human.
Or, I was really glad to hear
so many positive ideas regardless
of the consequences expressed.
Or I could drink a case of you.
No one has ever pedaled
every inch of thousands of roads
through me to raise awareness
for my struggle for autonomy.
I have pity but no respect for others,
which is not compassion, just ordinary
love based on attitudes towards myself.
I wonder how long I can endure.
In Canada the leaves are falling.
When they do each one rustles
maybe to the white tailed deer
of sadness, and it's clear
that whole country does not exist
to make me feel crappy
like a candelabra hanging
above the prison world,
condemned to freely glow.


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Everybody gives massive Alabama nose tackle Terrence Cody credit for saving the Crimson Tide's undefeated season when he blocked two field goals in the fourth quarter of a 12-10 win against Tennessee.
Cody credits Leigh Tiffin, according to USA Today.
And why not? Tiffin, the Tide's senior All-America placekicker, had all of Alabama's points that day on field goals from 38, 50, 22 and 49 yards.
Tiffin has had a handful of days like that in his career, even a career-high five field goals against Mississippi this season, scoring 16 of Alabama's 22 points.
But he has never had a signature, legend-making kick the likes of the 46-yarder Hunter Lawrence, his Texas counterpart in Thursday's BCS title game, booted as time expired to give the Longhorns a 13-12 victory against Nebraska in the Big 12 championship game.
Heck, he hasn't even made the most famous kick in his family.
That would belong to his father, Van Tiffin, an All-America kicker at Alabama in the mid-1980s who will forever live in Tide lore for his last-second 52-yard field goal that beat archrival Auburn 25-23 in 1985. Van is the son of Bob Tiffin, founder of Tiffin Motor Homes Inc., Red Bay, Ala.
Tiffin hopes for a similar experience Thursday night in the Rose Bowl. It's not that he doesn't want quarterback Greg McElroy and running back Mark Ingram to convert third downs. But there's a part of him that roots for fourth down.
"I think you're in a bad situation if you want the offense to convert every time," Tiffin says. "If you don't want to go out there, you've already lost."
Alabama hasn't lost this season, and Tiffin has rarely missed. He's made 29 of 33 field goals. He's Alabama's career leader in field goals (82) and points (378). With two field goals against Texas, he could tie the Bowl Subdivision season record of 31. The FBS career record is 87.
Tiffin was a finalist for the Lou Groza Award for best placekicker, losing out to UCLA's Kai Forbath, and he talked to Forbath recently about kicking in the Rose Bowl, UCLA's home stadium.
"He says it's a great place to kick," Tiffin says.
If a long kick in the waning seconds is to determine the national title, Tiffin says he's ready. He takes his mind-set from Nick Saban, Alabama's famously focused coach.
"He talks about blocking out the clutter," Tiffin says. "You can't be worried about what some fan is going to say if you miss it."
But he knows there are few fans like Alabama fans. They still idolize his father. They don't forget heroes — or goats.
Tiffin has been more hero than goat, but few 'Bama fans have forgotten his freshman meltdown in 2006, when he was subbing for injured kicker Jamie Christensen and, in a game against Arkansas, missed three field goals and an extra point in a 24-23 loss.
"That (stunk)," he says. "But that's all a part of it."
That game shook the freshman's confidence. Three years later, he's rock solid.
"Coach Saban says to approach my job like an assassin, and I like that analogy," he says. "You might only get one chance. You might wait all game to get it."


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Castaway 2
******* AGI GameSave Updated*******
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- Recipe Book added which will store craft combinations you have learned for reference. (this will be empty to begin with since the game was not tracking this before)
- You can now buy/sell multiple items at a time
- Forge quests can now be completed if user crafted item before accepting the quest. Item must be in your inventory.
- Fixed issue with pet marker sometimes staying still in mini-map
-Max weight will increase slightly when hero gains a level
Castaway 2 takes the very popular, award winning Castaway game to a whole new level! Stranded on a mysterious island, it is up to you to find a way off. Embark on a journey that takes you through vast terrains and unique environments, completing quests and battling huge bosses. Train pets, as they fight by your side using their unique skills and abilities. Discover and unlock rare items and equipment, using the brand new crafting system.
We have listened carefully to the community, and have taken their suggestions from Castaway 1 very seriously. Here are just a few of the features in Castaway 2:
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- nearly 100 different quests
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On up the hill is the Goldstone. This is what left an impression on my 6 year old mind that stuck with me all these years.
What was left of it in 2006
Another view of the mill.
Red Lion dates back to about 1875 when gold was discovered. A mill was built by the Red Lion Company in the late 1890's. Another mill was constructed in the early 1900's. Nearly 200 men worked in the two mills. The population of Red Lion reached about 500.*Submitted by: Kevin Heaney
The Red Lion Strike was made in the late 1880's. By 1890, there was a*
mine and a stamp mill at th site. The property was leased to the*
"Walkers of Philipsburg" in October of 1890. A 'six foot vein*
of gold' was discovered by the Walkers. The vein, and surrounding ore,*
was plentiful enough to run the mill at Red Lion, night and day, for six*
months. The publicity surrounding the Walkers' discovery led to the*
discovery of four additional mines - the 'Hannah;' 'Modoc;' 'American*
Flag;' and the ' Golden Eagle.' The Red Lion mining camp, run by the*
Golden Eagle Company, came into being at the turn of the century. The*
years of 19021908 were the most productive years in the Red Lion area.*
A 3,800 foot tramway was built to connect the mines to the mill. The*
'Hannah' mine produced gold, iron and copper. The mines were played out*
by 1913.
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Please click here for the Graduate Program in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Thank you for your interest in UCLA's Minor in the History of Science and Medicine, based in the Department of History. If you wish to sign up for the minor, or if you have further questions, please e-mail Paul Padilla, Undergraduate Advisor to set up an appointment.
The history of science and medicine takes as its subject matter the ideas, practices, and people concerned with knowledge of the physical and biological universe. It links up with physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, and medicine by using tools of historical analysis to explore the development, significance, and impact of these sciences from their origins in Europe to all other parts of the globe.
The minor at UCLA aims to give undergraduates majoring in fields other than history the opportunity to pursue a rigorous program of analysis of the historical dimensions of science and medicine. For students thinking of pursuing a career in science or medicine, studying the historical and cultural embedding of scientific disciplines can contribute to students' understanding of their undergraduate major field and of themselves as practitioners of science or medicine. For all students, studying the role of science and medicine in culture and society contributes to the ability to think critically about how science does and should function.
Requirements for the minor include three lower-division and five upper-division courses.
The lower-division requirement is designed to give the student a broad base in time and space for understanding the development of science and medicine, while still allowing some choice of topics. Some students might have a particular interest in the ideas and techniques of physics and mathematics; others might be more drawn towards medicine and its social interactions. These courses are medium-sized lecture classes with discussion sections led by TAs. Students in good academic standing (2.0 grade-point average), who have completed 45 units, may declare the minor anytime after they have completed one of the lower-division courses. Please note that all seven lower-division courses that can count for the minor also carry GE credit in Social Sciences C1 (Historical Analysis), or Social Sciences C2 (Social Analysis), or Humanities. It is thus possible for a student to satisfy the requirement of three lower-division courses for the minor, and also have these courses count as three courses to satisfy GE requirements.
The upper-division requirement of five courses allows students to choose from an array of more focused classes. These courses are usually smaller, with 10 – 45 students. In upper-division history classes, students may give oral reports, engage in the discussion and analysis of historical scholarship, and do individual research projects. Some of these classes will be seminars, limited in enrollment to 15 and usually requiring a longer research paper or interpretive essay. Students in the minor are required to take one such course with a research paper as a way of refining critical skills and developing talents of analysis and argument. Alternatively, the research paper may, with the approval of History Department undergraduate advisor, or the appropriate faculty member in the course, be written in conjunction with an upper-division lecture class or an independent study course (History 197). In addition to the extensive resources of the Young Research Library, students carrying out such research can draw on the world-class holdings of rare books and first editions in the History and Special Collections Division of the Biomedical Library.
The minor in History of Science and Medicine is designed for students who wish to augment their major, perhaps in one of the sciences, with a series of courses that analyze the historical growth, impact, and significance of science and medicine in western and world culture. The minor consists of a choice of lower-division courses that expose the student to overviews of science and medicine over long time periods or approached with specific thematic concerns.
Upper-division courses offer smaller, more focused classes that explore crucial episodes or areas with a more rigorous and sophisticated content and methodology. To enter the minor, a student must be in good academic standing (2.0 grade-point average), must have completed 45 units and at least one lower-division course in the history of science or medicine for a grade, and must file a petition at the office of the History Department undergraduate advisor in Bunche Hall.
Lower-division requirement: 3 courses from among the following:
- History 3A. Introduction to the History of Science: The Scientific Revolution
- History 3B. Introduction to the History of Science: Science from Newton to Darwin
- History 3C. Introduction to the History of Science: Science Since 1870
- History 3D. The History of Medicine
- History 2B. Social Knowledge and Social Power
- History 2D. Science, Magic and Religion: 1600 to the Present
- Philosophy 8. Introduction to the Philosophy of Science.
Upper-division requirements: 5 courses from among the following:
- Any course in the sequence History 179A-C, 180A-C or 191I
- Any upper division Honors Collegium course with history of science or history of medicine content
- Anthropology 182
- Anthropology 183
- Neurobiology/Medical History M169
- Philosophy 124
- Physiological Science/Neurobiology Ml68
Students may also petition to have other relevant courses, including those from other departments, applied toward the upper-division requirements of the minor.
At least one of the upper-division courses, to be selected and approved in consultation with the undergraduate advisor for the minor, must involve writing a research or interpretative paper of significant length and intellectual content.
Only one course applied toward the student's major may also be applied toward this minor. One course may be taken P/NP; the others must be taken for letter grades, with an overall C (2.0) average or better. Transfer credit for courses may be subject to departmental approval. Successful completion of the minor is indicated on the transcript and diploma.
The faculty teaching in the minor is one of international distinction. The core members of the group, who offer more than one course in the history of science and medicine per year, are designated in the following list with * . The list also contains a brief description of each faculty member's research interests.
- Emily Abel (Health Services/School of Public Health, Professor): public health and care- giving in 19th- and 20th-century America
- Joel Braslow (Psychiatry and History, Associate Professor): psychiatry in 20th-century America
- Soraya de Chadarevian* (History, Professor): history of 20th-century biology, especially molecular biology and genetics
- Robert Frank, Jr.* (Neurobiology/Medical History and History, Professor): history of medicine; the laboratory medical sciences, especially physiology, in the 19th and 20th centuries; history of the neurosciences; disease and its historical effects; historical demography
- Margaret Jacob* (History, Professor): the scientific revolution in its cultural, social, and economic significance; science, religion, and magic
- Theodore M. Porter* (History, Professor): physical sciences since the enlightenment; statistics and quantification in history; social sciences in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Mary Terrall* (History, Associate Professor): the scientific revolution of the l6th-l8th centuries; science and the Enlightenment; science and gender
- Sharon Traweek* (History and Women's Studies, Associate Professor): physical sciences and "Big Science" in the 20th century, especially accelerators; cultural anthropology of science and technology; science and technology in modem Japan; science, technology and colonialization; science, technology and gender
- M. Norton Wise* (History, Professor): physical sciences, especially physics, in the 19th and 20th centuries; use of mathematics in physics; cultural impact of physics
This permanent faculty is also frequently supplemented by visiting scholars who teach courses within the minor.
The group of historians of science and medicine at UCLA brings guest speakers to campus for lectures and symposia on a regular basis. The History of Science Colloquium takes place most Monday afternoons and the UCLA Program in Medical Classics hosts well-known speakers on a variety of medically related topics once a month. The Southern California Colloquium in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology, sponsors occasional all-day conferences on special themes. Undergraduates who are minoring in the history of science and medicine are welcome to attend these events.
In addition, the History Department offers the Franklin D. Murphy, M.D. Prize for the best undergraduate paper related to the history of medicine.


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Number: 01707 773352
Call type: Unknown
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Number: 01622 826801
Call type: Scam
Rating: -2
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