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Oh no, Steph!
russell tried to play a different game the second time around because he knew after tc in samoa that he had not received a single vote. so he switched it up a little. russell parvati and danielle will face off against boston rob courtney and sandra, coach and jerri will let them duke it out with no interferance. thus staying silent and not interferring. tyson will try to play both sides and will regret it
I thought Stephanie got screwed by an idol!
natalie and russhole are f2 and russell gets no votes, so hes frustrated , because he thinks everyone should have respected his game and make him the winner, but their all mad.. once they get to ponderosa one after the other and compare stories they become the friends that they couldnt be while playing the game and gang up on russhole. history will repeat itself again in S20, russhole tells them all hes there only for the title he doesnt need the money, but they refuse to stroke his ego and will not give him what he wants, thus not recieving any votes. when the game was all over russell was treated like he had the swineflu no one wanted to talk touch or even be around him. they even had to seperate him from colby, rupert and jt after a huge altercation. they feared for russells safety, these survivor were out for blood.
Russell begins the chain of events that take JT down, he begins the 'tricking". Parvati, Sandra, Jerri, Danielle all have a part in taking him out. It will be fun.Jerri is actually in the minority alliance in the start of the Villains Tribe. So, there you go. More on this during filming, including something that made me go LMFAO!So, you all now know:Boston Rob starts of on Majority alliance.Jerri starts of on Minority alliance.Yet, the minority makes F4, the majority is the 8th person to go home.
boston rob and his alliance get blindsided bad by the danielle alliance. coach was said to be the target and thats what they all thought, they retaliated by writting down russels name , no idols get played. coach does not go home on a count that he promised to rob and russell never to write their names down so he stays neutral, danielles alliance use this info and take out rob who thought coach was on his side and would vote with them to oust russell , but coach decided not to take sides against russell or rob. coach thinks everythings honky dorry, but danielles alliance doesnt forget how coach wouldnt pick their side and after rob is gone coach goes next! hard lesson learned so jerri moves quick not to make the same coach blunder since all her people are now gone (randy, tyson and coach)
If NONE of them are played by Russell, which doesn't sound like him, then I can only think Exile Island goes into play and Russell was never Exiled.Gosh I really should stop getting curious by these spoilers.
I just find it hard to believe that 4 idols played and Russell plays none of them. If there's no EI, maybe he kept the one(s) he found or gave the idols he found to people for strategic reasons.
If J.T. is going to be bitter at anyone it should be Parvati - shes the one who is responsible for zapping him with 2 idols at 1 tribal council. For those who think it was something that Russell H got his hands on 3 idols on 19 - just wait till 20 - you aint seen nothing yet!
And there you have it! You go Katy. You put it together. The minority alliance is Randy/Tyson/Coach/Jerri.Parvati/Russell/Danielle/Sandra/Courtney/Boston Rob team up to get rid of them, notice how they go one after the other.Then Coach F**ks it up for Boston Rob, and they turn on him. To only target Coach next anyway.Boston Rob/Courtney/Sandra are tight thou. And Sandra/Parvati agreed to look out for one another as winners. And to tell leach other everything, and if the others name comes up, to let the other know.The End=)
Although Russell doesn't find all the idols next season, he finds more than anyone else.
Candice, Amanda, Cirie, James get along great. JT/Rupert are annoying ******s. Stephenie is offered a spot in the foursome group, she declines. They target her and Tom W. Sugar stands out, and isn't too liked=(
jerri was thought to have colby rupert and coach in the bag if she made it to the end! colby and rupert stayed heroes till the end! russell turns danielle against her own alliance, saving rupert one more day! rupert than picks a fight with sandra in an attempt to save himself again! russell defends candice, and the girls in his alliance dont like this, candice makes it know that russell has promised her f2. the girls go against russell and vote off candice .
Unfortunately I think the vote on 20 is a runaway vote and if it is - its a shame mostly for Parv because she played her *** off again.
Soo...Another female wins a season with past players in it? Great... (First we have Amber of All-Stars, Danni of Guatemala, with Steph & BJ as the past players, Parvati in Micronesia, & NOW THIS?) I feel bad for the men, always being pushed down in seasons like these. And I'm reading the spoilers now because of the rumor of a S21! YAY!
By the way, Russell does not lose because of a bitter jury. In S20, he makes at least TWO ginormous mistakes. In an interview he gave the other night, it's in one of the Sucks threads, a lady asks him if he'd change anything about his game this season (Samoa). He responds with something like, "Well, in THIS season I wouldn't have changed anything." Knowing what he does in S20, he knows that he made errors. I don't think he'll be playing the "I should have won card" in May.
I heard that Jerri posted some very...interesting things about Russell on her Facebook page today.They pretty much solidified that she did not vote for him.
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Businessman Charles Lollar to run for Maryland governor
Newburg resident to make official announcement at St. Mary's College
Charles Lollar, a Charles County businessman who described himself as a tea party candidate when he ran for Congress in 2010, is planning to seek the Republican nomination for governor in Maryland.
Lollar announced his intentions in an email to supporters Thursday night. The Newburg resident has scheduled an official announcement to kick off his campaign Sept. 3 at St. Mary's College.
Lollar, 42, cited a variety of tax increases that have been backed by Gov. Martin O'Malley and passed by the Democrat-controlled Legislature in recent years as one of the main reasons he is running.
Lollar said: "The question is: Why would we not want to change what's going on in Maryland?"
Lollar, a Marine Corps reservist, has set Sept. 5 for a fundraising effort.
"We currently have an 'Achieve the Dream' money bomb website, so on Sept. 5 we will be ready and grateful to receive your campaign donations," Lollar said in the email. "In short, we need all of you as we begin this journey to change the state of Maryland and thus make our nation a better place for our children and grandchildren."
In 2010, Lollar won the GOP nomination to challenge Rep. Steny Hoyer. But the No. 2 House Democrat won the race with 64 percent of the vote to Lollar's 35 percent.
Two other candidates have already entered the race for the GOP nomination. They are Harford County Executive David Craig and Anne Arundel County Delagate Ron George.
Blaine Young, president of the Board of County Commissioners in Frederick, said Friday he has scheduled an Aug. 24 announcement about his intentions.
Meanwhile, two other Republicans have said they may run for governor: Michael Steele, the former Republican National Committee chairman and former lieutenant governor, and Larry Hogan.
Maryland's primary is scheduled for June 24. Maryland primaries generally have been held in September, and the change in scheduling has helped prompt candidates to enter the race earlier than usual.
On the Democratic side, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown is running to try to succeed Gov. Martin O'Malley, who is term limited. Delegate Heather Mizeur of Montgomery County also is running, while Attorney General Doug Gansler is expected to announce his gubernatorial bid next month.

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Why Okta CEO Todd McKinnon Likes Having Salesforce.com as a Competitor
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff is a few hours away from taking the stage at his company's huge Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, which appears to have taken over the city. Last night, I happened to drive by City Hall, and saw that an area outside it had been converted into a huge stage that will accommodate, among other things, a performance by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, marking the first shot in a sort of battle of the early-'90s rock bands between Salesforce and Oracle.
There's another drama playing out ahead of Benioff's keynote, concerning what he may or may not say about a series of features and services called Chatterbox that Salesforce is launching. Last week, Benioff surprised a lot of people by declaring at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference that he was gearing up to launch services that would compete with Box, the enterprise cloud file-sharing and collaboration service, and also with Okta, a cloud identity-management service.
Aaron Levie, Box's CEO, said he had seen the service coming for a few months now, and that it was, in a sense, inevitable. Salesforce's Chatter social enterprise service would in time need a robust file-sharing capability built into it, anyway.
Since then, I've checked in with Todd McKinnon, CEO of Okta. His reaction was pretty close to that of Levie's. He has known that it was coming for awhile, and Salesforce had to do it anyway. "Salesforce is realizing that, with the cloud and a mobile work force, managing the identity layer is a key part of it," McKinnon told me Monday. "They finally woke up to it. It's a little unnerving when someone as big as Salesforce gets into your space, but it makes it clear to our customers and partners that this is a big deal we're working on, so in that sense, it's a big validation."
With so many companies adopting cloud services and creating accounts for employees on all of them, McKinnon left Salesforce, where he had headed up its engineering efforts, to start Okta. The service gathers up all those cloud account credentials and passwords and creates a single sign-on for all of them, making them easy to manage. Salesforce.com is one of the 1,351 services it works with. Others include Box, Google Apps, NetSuite, Workday and Microsoft's Windows Azure.
McKinnon takes some encouragement from the data he sees courtesy of his own service. Offering a service for unified sign-ons makes Okta sort of a barometer for the cloud ecosystem, he says. Chatter, Salesforce's social service, is more or less central to Salesforce's efforts to unify its many offerings, and is the company's answer to services like Jive and Yammer that have sought to make the process of collaborating within a company a little more akin to using Facebook.
Salesforce's promotion of Chatter helped Jive and Yammer seem more legitimate. "Salesforce put all this money and effort behind Chatter, but it didn't kill Yammer or Jive, it only accelerated their business," McKinnon said. Jive IPO'd last year, and Yammer was acquired by Microsoft for $1.2 billion over the summer. "Once Salesforce comes out with its identity management product, I think more people will look at us."
So, how much of a competitive threat does McKinnon see from Salesforce? Some, but announcements aren't products. And there's the rub. Salesforce, McKinnon says, has a habit of making big announcements from the stage at Dreamforce, and then not following up, or at least not following up to the extent that the pronouncements from the keynote stage would seem to imply. "Salesforce is in many ways a marketing-driven company," he says. "We'll have to see how they execute. The real proof will be in how they follow up this Dreamforce announcement."


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Barack Obama has confirmed for the first time that US drones have been used to target individuals in Pakistan, the Telegraph reports.
In a chat with web users on Google+ and YouTube, Obama discussed for the first time the covert drone program that has dramatically escalated under the Obama administration. Previously the administration refused to discuss the strikes publicly.
Talking down the estimated civilian casualties as a result of the strikes, Obama said: "I want to make sure the people understand actually drones have not caused a huge number of civilian casualties. For the most part they have been very precise, precision strikes against Al-Qaeda and their affiliates, and we're very careful in terms of how it's been applied."
The New America Foundation think tank in Washington says drone strikes in Pakistan have killed between 1,715 and 2,680 people in the past eight years, while the Bureau of Investigative Journalism estimates between 2,386 and 3,015 people have been killed including between 391 and 780 civilians and around 175 children killed. It is not known whether Obama is accepting these civilian death counts as not being a "huge number" or whether his own administration has much lower estimated death counts. Either way, human rights campaigners have expressed deep concern over increased use of drone strikes.
Obama has increased drone strikes since he came into presidency. The Telegraph has a video of Obama discussing the drone strikes for the first time.
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- Obama Confirms Drone Strikes in Pakistan – Voice of America (voanews.com)
- Civilian Deaths Due to Drones Are Not Many, Obama Says – New York Times (nytimes.com)
- Barack Obama admits US drone strikes on Pakistan (telegraph.co.uk)
- With its deadly drones, the US is fighting a coward's war | George Monbiot (guardian.co.uk)


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The evening was quite elegant at Seagar's Oct. 4 when most locals attending the New Orleans-style cabaret performance by Jeremy Davenport for Sinfonia dressed to the nines for the concert, champagne reception and dinner of surf and turf. Joe Bonanno, Chuck and Shirley Simpson, Lynn and Steve Dugas, Georgeen Newell and Ken Golden, Kay and Steve Crawford, John Stasko, Demetrius Fuller and Michael Dobson, Tim Krueger, Amber Wiebe, Ron Adams, Lorre and Bob James, Steve Barber, Nancy and John Cottle, Jennifer Howard, Lynn Wesson, Carol Rankin, Lydia Smith, John and Michelle Russell, Scott Russell, and Brian and Kathy Haugen were some who turned out, and some even got up and danced.
John Russell, Scott Russell, and Demetrius Fuller hosted a meet-the-artist reception for Jeremy Davenport at the Burnt Pine home of Scott Russell the night prior. Michelle Russell, John Stasko, Peggy Brown, Demetrius Fuller, Michael Dobson, Nancy and John Cottle, Kate Kelly, Lydia Smith, Tim Krueger, Amber Wiebe, Cory and Hillary Fosdyck, Joe Bonanno, Ron Adams, Lynn and Steve Dugas, Chuck and Shirley Simpson attended.
The Cultural Arts Alliance held a "thank you party" for its volunteers and supporters at Hibiscus House Oct. 2. David and Judi Bludworth, Sarah and Bill Sullivan, Keen and Kim Polakoff, Laura Granberry, Susan and Buz Livingston, Carol Dickson, Dorothy Starbuck, Nina and Garrett Horn, Denny and Carol Wenrick were some who attended.
Last weekend was another gorgeous one at this place we know as paradise. I saw Jim and Brenda Radtke on the beach. Jim's son, Jimmy, and his girlfriend are visiting.
The Seaside yard sale last Saturday was a hot one. I saw Michelle Fillingim, Adam Shiland, Sharon Thompson, Barbara Rowan, Dorothy Starbuck, Brandon Babineaux, and Lynn Nesmith there.
The Pastel Society has accepted a painting of Women's Art Network member Marie Jackson into its juried art show. Congratulations to her.
Bett Appell now has two paintings in a furniture/design gallery in Chicago, right across from The Mart.
John Cork's story on James Bond was picked up by CNN.
A segment for the show "Emeril's Florida" coming out in January on The Cooking Channel was filmed on Bud & Alley�s roof deck this week with the restaurant�s Chef David Bishop cooking with Lagasse.
Shirley Simpson just returned from Jackson, Miss.�s New Stage Theatre where she did a new two-act version of "Gracie" that was a sell out.
Garrett and Jeanette Miller took their annual golf vacation this week.
Meg Nelson and Ken Vogel went to Charlotte.
Suzette DeJarnette went to Atlanta.
Laura Cox visited New Orleans.
Tracy and Kevin Louthain are back from their trip to Jamaica.
"Welcome home" to Keith and RoseAnn Knight, and Jim and Kathy Shepherd.
Lynn Nesmith spent some time working in Atlanta this week.
Wish a "happy birthday" today to Realtor/chef Johnny Earles, yoga-lady Heidi Ellis, Zumba lady Pam Flow, and Lisa Reaves.
Tomorrow to coffee-lady Cheri Peebles, photographer Manny Chavez, and Pastor Toy Arnett.
Monday to florist Russ Barley, and celebrity Chef Emeril Lagasse.
Tuesday to David Smith, fireman David Swift, and Ali Barrett.
Wednesday to Joann Saucier.
Thursday to Annie Lockamy.
And Friday to Magnolia House's Nancy Veldman, photographer Michael Granberry, turtle lady Beth Coppedge, and Realtor Karen Wagner.
Deborah Wheeler is the arts and entertainment writer for The Walton Sun. She may be reached at 654-8443, 687-1239, or email email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @WaltonSunDeb. Her Party Line column appears weekly in The Sun.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is planning a high-level effort to reassure Americans about the privacy and security of the information submitted under the new health care law, hoping to blunt complaints from Republican opponents that enough isn't being done to protect consumer data.
Attorney General Eric Holder, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Federal Trade Commission chairwoman Edith Ramirez and other federal and state officials are set to meet Wednesday at the White House to discuss security measures designed to keep scammers and identity thieves from taking advantage of what could be millions of Americans attempting to enroll for health coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) starting in October.
The law's Republican opponents, including Florida Gov. Rick Scott, have recently warned of lax security in relaying personal information such as Social Security numbers, birth dates and income statements, as people sign up under what many call "Obamacare."
Attorneys general in 13 states sent a letter to Sebelius last month questioning whether there will be enough protection of consumer data in the program, and Republicans from around the country have questioned the system's security and privacy safeguards.
The White House meeting, which will be followed by events later in the week at the Justice Department and at the Federal Trade Commission, is designed to reassure Americans that their personal information will be safe and to publicize ways to report criminal activity.
White House officials plan to unveil a toll-free telephone number (800-318-2596, TTY 855-889-4325) that will connect consumers to a federal call center for reporting fraud or attempted identity theft under the new health care law. They also plan to promote several other initiatives, including a new computer system that will verify Americans' identities to prevent taxpayer-funded subsidies from going to criminals.
On Oct. 1, millions of people without access to job-based health care will be able to enroll online through new state insurance markets for coverage effective at the start of next year.
Adding millions more people to the health care system is bound to create new opportunities for identity thieves and scam artists. In Chicago, one advocate said that legitimate door-to-door outreach to inform people about the Affordable Care Act may open up opportunities for swindlers.
"I don't know how we're going to distinguish between legitimate outreach and scams," said Erin Weir of AgeOptions, suburban Cook County's lead agency on aging. "I am being told that legitimate people will have IDs and badges. But a savvy scam artist could mimic something like that."
Federal health officials say they've worked with personal information in the Medicare and Medicaid programs for decades and note the new technology infrastructure was designed to meet federal and health care industry standards for data security.
Kennedy reported from Miami. Associated Press writer Carla K. Johnson in Chicago contributed to this report.
See also:
- Former SSA chief doubts exchange hub readiness
- Panel told PPACA implementation on track
- IRS completes exchange disclosure regs


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When writing his novels, Nicholas Sparks aims to write a story that feels real and evokes genuine emotion.
When writing his novels, Nicholas Sparks aims to write a story that feels real and evokes genuine emotion.
The acclaimed author and Trent Woods resident soon will unveil his 18th novel � �The Longest Ride.�
The book will be available Tuesday � the day he kicks off a book-signing tour at 8 a.m. at Target in New Bern.
�It comes down to I hope they enjoy the novel,� Sparks said. �I write them because I want people to read them, enjoy them and remember them.�
�The Longest Ride� is the newest Sparks� novel since �The Best of Me� appeared in 2011.
And it�s his first attempt at a dual love story.
The story documents two couples, ages apart, from western North Carolina. Not knowing each other, their lives cross paths in a surprising ending.
�It�s a story of two distinct couples � Ira and Ruth � and there is this love story that spans decades,� Sparks said. �I think an ending that surprises the reader is the best kind of ending for any particular story. It�s important because that makes for a very memorable story.�
Luke is a bull rider, living on a ranch in King. He meets Sophia, a sorority girl at Wake Forest University.
They are two people with a polarity of characteristics.
Sparks� inspiration for Luke, and the rodeo and life on a ranch, was based on his brother-in-law, Bob.
�My sister, she�s deceased. She passed away 13 years ago. She was married to a guy named Bob. Bob lives on a ranch,� Sparks said. �The ranch in �The Longest Ride� is that ranch, right to the pumpkins, the Christmas trees, the number of cattle right down to the horse named Horse, and his dog was named Dog.
�Sophia, like most of the female characters I have created, she is inspired by my wife in many ways � intelligence, humor, kindness, loyalty, generosity,� he said.
On the other side, there is Ira Levinson, who, while faced with adversity, can�t help but recall his memories of his late wife Ruth, who had a passion for artwork.
�Sophia and Luke are very real characters. So are Ira and Ruth,� Sparks said. �They have the same hopes and fears and dreams that everyone has.�
While writing �The Longest Ride,� Sparks researched and studied every aspect of artwork, rodeos, bull riding, maintaining a ranch and sorority life.
It took him three months to create the concept before beginning to write it.
�What I wanted to do was write the story where you really appreciated the distinct love story of these two couples,� Sparks said. �Hopefully, the reader will wonder how on Earth these stories are going to intersect and what�s going to happen in the end.�
Sparks wrote most of �The Longest Ride� with western North Carolina in mind, but he includes portions from the eastern part of the state.
�This state has so much variety, from the coast to the mountains to the Piedmont,� Sparks said. �I write about small town life, so I am very happy writing my novels here.�
Sparks sold his story to Fox, and the movie for �The Longest Ride� is expected to be released in early 2015. Sparks is a producer for the movie.
Sparks always kicks off his book-signing tours in New Bern to give back to the town he lives in.
�New Bern was very instrumental in my career, in many ways,� Sparks said. �I wrote �The Notebook� while I was here. I set �The Notebook� in New Bern, and much of the scenes in �The Notebook� were drawn from my life when I was living on Brices Creek.
�New Bern had a very good turnout in my first signing and I live here,� he said. �I try to be involved in the community, and this is my chance to do my best and get them all signed.�
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On its way from downtown to Mount Baker, this well-used route happens to pass SOIL gallery. And SOIL gallery just so happens to be hosting an exhibit by former Sound Transit artist-in-residence Christian French, also known as Transitman.
Here's how Transitman describes his project:
A meditation on the power of choice, and the ramifications of its exercise, this project expresses some of my assumptions about the hidden capacities we all have to make a difference in the world. Every act has infinite consequence. Even a simple choice like how you commute. We have the power to shape the world through our thought, speech or actions. Awakening to this potential is both liberating and unnerving. If you truly believed that you could save the world, would you do what it would take? Even if it meant walking around town in brightly colored Spandex? Careful how you answer…
And here's Transitman:
Finally, a superhero a bus chick can get behind! (No Batmobiles necessary.) Seriously, judging from his website, this is a thoughtful and interesting (not to mention talented) person. The exhibit opens tonight (First Thursday) and runs through June 3rd. Go see this, people!


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Flight combat fans get ready, Namco's port of the critically acclaimed Ace Combat: Skies of Deception is approaching at mach speed and headed for an explosive landing (?) in App Store territory this winter. Appbank have taken a look at a development version whose pristine graphics according to some, eclipse the PSP version. It will sport accelerometer/touch controls, loads of explosions, and anime.
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It came without warning during the hottest years of the Cold War, a surprise incursion from the Soviet bloc. But rather than ICBMs dropping from the skies over Washington or Red Army tanks flooding into Western Europe, this engagement came in the form of booze—specifically, vodka, the colorless spirit as synonymous with Russia as balalaikas and borscht that, in the 1950s and '60s, was suddenly everywhere.
The invasion was swift and stunning: in 1950, only 40,000 cases of vodka were sold in the United States; by 1955, that number was up to 4 million. As William Grimes noted in Straight Up or On the Rocks, a history of drinks in America, sales of vodka exceeded those of the once-mighty gin in 1967, and in 1976, vodka surpassed whiskey to become the country's biggest-selling spirit. Today, while sales of super-premium brands have been slugged by the economic downturn, vodka still reigns supreme, and according to the Distilled Spirits Council, it regularly accounts for around a quarter of all spirits sales in the United States.
For the last half-century, vodka has been an unstoppable force behind the bar, but in some corners of the drinks world, resentment has been building in recent years. Many mixology blogs and online forums dismiss vodka as flavorless; some sneeringly disdain the crystal-clear spirit, placing its epicurean value on par with that of a Hostess cupcake and its cultural contribution on the same level as a Jonas Brothers CD. Last April, these grumblings came to a head when the Wall Street Journal proclaimed in its spirits column, "Vodka is passé."
Wait … really? As eager as some might be to see the spirit fall from prominence, vodka's obituary, as the saying goes, was premature. Today some craft bartenders are taking a calm, measured look at vodka and determining how it can fit into the world of creative cocktails. "For me it started as devil's advocacy," says Jeremy J F Thompson, former head bartender at The Raines Law Room in New York who now works as a brand ambassador for Russian Standard Vodka. "I used to be of the school of thought that vodka was only good for cleaning your apron or disinfecting a wound," he says. "But my wife and in-laws are Russian, and I've spent a good deal of time drinking vodka in Russia and the Ukraine. That experience opened up vodka in a cultural way for me."
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A simple combination of ethyl alcohol and water, vodka is largely defined by what it doesn't have—color and, technically, aroma and flavor. But just as nature abhors a vacuum, vodka resists total anonymity, and minute differences in texture, viscosity and flavor among brands make the spirit more diverse than it might appear at first glance.
Consumed for at least 600 years in Eastern and Northern Europe, vodka can be made from anything that can be fermented and distilled. Classically made from rye, wheat or potatoes, vodka is flexible, and today it is made from ingredients ranging from grapes and oranges to milk and honey. Distilled to a very high proof, which eliminates virtually all of the properties that contribute flavor to other styles of spirit, vodka is then filtered, diluted with water to a drinkable strength and bottled.
A relative novelty in the U.S. until the 1950s, vodka quickly became popular when served in drinks such as the Moscow Mule, a mixture of vodka and ginger beer served in special copper mugs, as well as the Bloody Mary and the Kangaroo—a drink now more commonly known as the vodka martini. Embraced by the Hollywood set and memorably imbibed by James Bond, vodka was initially seen as exotic, suave and stylish. But if timing is everything, vodka's ascendance in some ways couldn't have happened at a worse time. Rising to prominence during an era that marked a culinary low point in America, vodka had the misfortune of taking command of the spirits world during the decades that were also culturally defined by roller disco, Def Leppard and unironic mullets.
Easily masked by other ingredients, vodka became the virtually flavorless fuel in massively popular drinks such as the White Russian, the Kamikaze and, more recently, the Sour Apple Martini—drinks that became especially popular among younger, inexperienced drinkers, who could consume feloniously large quantities of Mind Erasers without tasting anything more than sweet liqueurs or juice.
Not surprisingly, these party-hearty drinks receive a chilly reception among many contemporary craft bartenders, and Thompson says they're the biggest reason many hold a grudge against vodka. In his opinion, the anti-vodka bias has little to do with the spirit itself, arguing that while vodka has taken some wrong turns, it's still possible to appreciate the spirit and to use it creatively. "We don't want to throw out the baby with the bathwater," he says. "These drinks are the bathwater—the baby is the spirit, and that is what we should hold onto."
Gateway to Craft Cocktails
As a quick glance at any liquor store's lineup will prove, vodka is not only the biggest selling spirit in the country, but is also represented by dozens of brands, with many of the more expensive vodkas packaged in elaborate designer-crafted bottles. Unfortunately, a vodka's package may have little relation to the product inside, and in the rush to promote new vodkas, some marketers make misleading or nonsensical claims about brands, boasting about the number of times they've been distilled—a figure of questionable relevance that's open to creative interpretation—or the imaginative ways in which the vodka has been filtered.
Perhaps more than any other spirit, vodka's identity has been shaped by marketing, and while that's led to some spectacular success stories in the spirits industry, it's also contributed to the sense of ill-will among many craft bartenders. At Employees Only, a New York bar that's popular among the city's bar and restaurant workers, bar manager Robert Krueger says that vodka may not be the most exciting spirit to work with for some bartenders, but he describes the backlash against vodka as an overreaction and says the spirit can play an integral role in creative bars—for example, it can help first-time customers become more comfortable with the whole craft-cocktail experience. "You can open up the world of cocktails to a customer who's prepared to drink only vodka."
In Austin, Texas, bartender and "Tipsy Texan" blogger David Alan agrees. "Taking an antagonistic attitude to something people drink a lot of is not a good way to further the movement," says Alan, noting that at Annie's, the craft-cocktail bar he recently managed, most customers were vodka drinkers and would have felt out of place in a bar that didn't stock the spirit. "Having a good vodka cocktail [on the menu] is kind of a gateway to get people to trust you, and then you can introduce them to other things."
Vodka's cocktail history—or, more appropriately, its relative lack of one—has also worked against it among bartenders who prize drinks that have a heritage stretching back a century or more. While Thompson has found a handful of vodka cocktail recipes from the early 20th century—the earliest known reference to a vodka cocktail is from a 1905 newspaper article about the visit of a Russian diplomatic delegation (unfortunately the drink's name and recipe are lost to time)—vodka didn't really hit its stride as a cocktail ingredient until the last half of the 20th century.
Some of the earliest—and, to some bartenders, most appealing—vodka cocktails use the spirit's neutrality as a stage for strong-flavored ingredients, such as bitter Italian amari or French herbal liqueurs. "Vodka is spreading out the flavors and adding neutrality in a very functional way, giving the rest of the flavors a broader surface to play on," Thompson says. "The neutrality opens it up, like putting a tincture into water." Examples include the Gypsy, a drink dating to the 1930s in which vodka helps soften the full flavor of Bénédictine; the Drink Without a Name, a Cointreau- and Chartreuse-laden contemporary classic sometimes also called the Harrington; the Carnaval Room, a 1940s drink of vodka accented with dry vermouth and tangerine liqueur; and the Staraya Modnaya, a drink created by Thompson that features the savory flavors of fresh dill and Bénédictine or kummel, a caraway liqueur that's popular in Russia. Krueger says the Vesper—the James Bond martini variation introduced by Ian Fleming in Casino Royale—works in the same way, with the vodka giving the flavors of gin and Lillet room to breathe.
Another type of drink that puts vodka to good use is that in which vodka is used to magnify flavors, especially those of delicate herbal or floral ingredients that might be obscured by fuller-flavored spirits. "Alcohol and sugar are both flavor amplifiers," says H. Joseph Ehrmann, owner of Elixir in San Francisco and ambassador for Square One Vodka. Ehrmann points out that much of the contemporary cocktail culture, especially in California, uses fresh fruit and other produce, and that vodka is a natural fit for these types of drinks. "Say you're combining three fruits, an herb and a syrup," he says. "If you've diversified your ingredients and play them off each other, then throw a well-made vodka on top of that, the flavor just explodes."
These bartenders also challenge the notion that vodka loses all of its character the moment it encounters another cocktail ingredient. "When you're serving something like a vodka martini and you throw some Lillet or French vermouth and a dash of orange bitters in there, the quality of that vodka is important," Thompson says. "Three things are relevant: the mouthfeel, the burn (this can be a positive thing, such as with a rye vodka) and the aftertaste—that's really where a vodka comes out, in the finish."
Ultimately vodka's future in craft cocktails depends not only on what distillers can do in terms of creating interesting, well-made spirits, but on what bartenders do in terms of setting aside their preconceived notions and approaching vodka for what it has to offer. "We know vodka is there," says Thompson. "But at the end of the day there has to be a more constructive and creative approach than just ignoring it."


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Le Holy Crap, or whatever they say over in France when something cool happens. A new clip, or le clip, has come out for the French film "The Horde" and is available for your viewing pleasure below. The movie focuses on a group of criminals who find themselves trapped in a condemned building which just happens to be home to a horde of flesh eating monsters. I don't know what the group says when the creature busts into the room but I like to think it's something along the lines of, "Oh no it is a creature, he has come to take our baguettes and cheese! Here, give him Donnie and try to save the wine." Maybe not, I don't know I took German in High School.
"The Horde" will be released next month in France and should find its way into the US shortly after.


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Will New York, Illinois or North Carolina be the next state to leap into the shale gas revolution? And how strictly will California regulate drillers who want to tap a shale oil deposit far bigger than those in Texas and North Dakota?
Those are among the big questions this year as state lawmakers across the country debate hydraulic fracturing proposals. "Fracking" -- injecting water, sand and chemicals into underground rock to release the oil and natural gas trapped inside -- has sent U.S. energy production surging and pumped billions into state coffers. But the practice also has sparked feverish protest from environmentalists concerned about its impact on water and air.
Last year, looking to balance those interests, legislators in at least 24 states proposed more than 130 bills related to fracking. This year, there has been no slowdown in legislation or controversy. Some lawmakers want to open up their states to fracking, while others hope to impose moratoriums. In some states there are proposals to slightly alter current fracking rules, while others are contemplating wholesale changes.
All told, some 31 states sit atop significant shale deposits that the new technology has made increasingly accessible to oil and gas drillers.
New York
For months, New York has been poised to open its lucrative deposits of Marcellus and Utica shale to drillers. But a draft proposal to overturn the state's four-year moratorium on fracking stoked a heated debate, and Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo has repeatedly postponed a final decision. This month, the state Department of Health asked for several more weeks to complete its review. If the department finds no issues with the original proposal, the state will issue permits.
"Science, not emotion, will determine the outcome," said Joseph Martins, New York's environmental commissioner.
If the moratorium is lifted, state legislators are ready with more than 20 bills dealing with a range of topics, including taxes, wastewater disposal, the chemical composition of fracking fluid and studies of faults near drilling sites. Additionally, some legislators have proposed new moratoriums.
Illinois Representative John Bradley, a Democrat, has proposed fracking regulations that likely would be the strictest in the country. The state currently allows the practice, but oil and gas developers have been waiting to see what lawmakers hash out in Springfield before tapping Southern Illinois' rich New Albany shale.
Bradley's legislation, which energy producers and health and environmental advocates helped craft, would closely regulate the drilling process and storage of wastewater, ban underground diesel injection and impose stricter limits on methane emissions than federal regulators. It would also require a greater level of chemical disclosure than most states impose.
Environmentalists have cheered a provision that mandates the testing of nearby wells before drilling, providing baseline data that could help resolve disputes over who is to blame for pollution discovered later. Few states have such a requirement, leaving many pollution cases unresolved. Wyoming, the site of a high-profile case in the tiny town of Pavillion, is another state considering adding the requirement. In 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency concluded that fracking probably caused underground water pollution in Pavillion.
Illinois will also consider a moratorium on fracking, which environmentalists would most prefer. But the tide appears to be shifting towards Bradley's bill, which Democratic Governor Pat Quinn has called "good news for Southern Illinois and our entire state's economy."
"This legislation has the potential to bring thousands of jobs to Southern Illinois, while also ensuring that Illinois has the nation's strongest environmental protections," Quinn said.
Meanwhile, emotions are high in California, where drillers have yet to tap the 1,750-square-mile Monterey Shale, a hard-to-get-to deposit representing about two-thirds of the total resource in the U.S. Now, as companies looking to strike it big buy up mineral rights and drill test wells, state regulators and lawmakers are looking to adopt new regulations before a potential rush.
Drillers are already doing some fracking in California, the country's fourth-leading oil producer, but it's hard to say how much, because energy companies operating there aren't required to report their drilling methods.
A range of rules proposed by the state's oil and gas commission would end that lack of clarity, but environment groups say the draft rules, which don't require baseline water testing or limit methane releases, would fail to protect water quality or quality in already-smoggy California.
"They're very inadequate for protecting public health and the environment," says Andrew Grinberg, who focuses on fracking for the San Francisco-based group Clean Water Action.
Grinberg says he hopes lawmakers, who have proposed several regulations of their own, will fill in what he sees as major gaps.
State regulators, as they gather public input, have insisted their draft is not set in stone.
North Carolina
Experts aren't sure how much natural gas North Carolina's shale holds. Estimates have varied widely, from those initially predicting it equals the state's 40-year demand, to more recent estimates slicing it to five years.
Meanwhile, North Carolina is undertaking a major regulatory effort. The state Senate may take up legislation this week that would end the state's moratorium on fracking and allow a commission to begin issuing permits by 2015 -- right after the state finishes up an impact study.
That effort is likely to succeed in the Republican-controlled legislature, and Republican Governor Pat McCrory has said he supports fracking.


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Rangers - 012 000 031 - 7 11 0 Red Sox - 001 803 00x - 12 16 1Less than 24 hours after getting only two guys to first base in nine innings, the Red Sox topped that by loading the bases with two outs in the first inning. Although they did not score, they did rack up 16 hits (more than in all but seven games this year) and 12 runs before the day was done, including an eight-run, 13-batter, 37-minute fourth inning.
multiple incidents of clubhouse vomiting" yesterday, capped that eight-run uprising with a grand slam; it began with a single from Josh Reddick and a game-tying home run from Jarrod Saltalamacchia. It was the seventh time this season the Sox have scored eight runs in an inning.
If you see a highlight of Crawford's slam, watch for the bullpen cop lazily twirling his finger like an umpire signaling "home run" even as David Murphy tracks the ball to the fence.
Before the fourth, the day had been fairly frustrating for Boston. Bedard (6-5-3-4-6, 101) was not initially sharp - 62 pitches in the first three innings - and the Sox had left six men on base (including two at third and two at second) in the first three innings.
Reddick had the first four-hit game (4-for-4, 3 runs) of his career (though he also was hit in the left hand with a pitch in his final PA). Mike Aviles came off the bench in the fourth inning when Jed Lowrie left with a sore shoulder and went 2-for-3, playing both shortstop and right field. Dustin Pedroia put the game on ice (12-3) in the sixth with a three-run double.
The thread was also good for numerous puns when Mark Hamburger was pitching for the Rangers.
allanThe Yankees beat the Blue Jays 6-4, so Boston remains 0.5 GB.
The Rangers have to play ketchup and I relish having this guy in the game.
He had some cheese, as it turns out
I'd like to see a Red Sox player say "nice buns" to Hamburger as he passes him walking off the field
Hamburger has a reputation for being a hot dog.
How's this guy's slider?
Salty grimaced on that one.
His pitching coach is sometimes known as Hamburger Helper.
Can we get McDonald to pinch-hit?
Jac in the box.
Another whopper inning.
Hamburger is not very happy (meal) about that inning.
We really did the old In N Out on that poor guy
When he makes an error, do they rule it E-coli?
Colby Lewis / Erik Bedard
Ellsbury, CFGame thread here; Blue Jays/Yankees at 1 PM.
Pedroia, 2B
Gonzalez, 1B
Youkilis, 3B
Ortiz, DH
Lowrie, SS
Crawford, LF
Reddick, RF
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
Beautiful Hawaii.....Well, Usually.
Imagine this...You've been saving your money for many years to take that once in a lifetime trip to Hawaii and upon arrival, you are faced with dark, angry, overcast skies. I'm sure that with the passing of each rainy day you would be trying to convince yourself that there would most certainly be blue skies tomorrow. After all, this is Hawaii, right? I'm sure our recent visitors are still shaking their heads in disbelief and cursing their most unfortunate circumstances that they have visited during such an extended period of lousy weather.
The photo above was snapped on Sunday afternoon from my patio. Where's the sun you ask? Well, let me assure you that it's under there somewhere. Notice the tiny blue patch of sky peeking from between the clouds. Tiny snippets of blue sky made intermittent visits throughout the day. Ah...it's sure to clear up by late noon, you enthusiastically say. Well, if it's anything like yesterday or the day before or the day before that, it likely isn't going to happen.
From time to time we go through periods like this. The downside is that the tourists probably won't get that fabulous tan that they told everyone back home they would. The upside is that they probably won't go back home looking like an overcooked lobster either. If you have ever had the opportunity to people watch at the Honolulu International Airport, you'd know exactly what I mean. Tourists step off of the plane looking like normal human beings. Hawaii sends most of them back home looking like bright red lobsters. I kid you not! The only advice I have to offer while vacationing here is to use a sunscreen with a high SPF level and to plan your vacation during the summer months. The weather is usually the most stable then and you will be sure to go back home sporting a beautiful shade of red, err, I mean tan.
As you can see, I continue to have pinwheels on my mind. I squeezed in a little time to put together a quick pinwheel project. I used the extra fused fabric from the wall pocket to make teeny tiny pinwheels for little girl's hair elastics. Of course, I'm sure the little ones would appreciate much prettier patterns and brighter colors. I think that the experiment was a success and I probably will be making more very soon.
I hope you all had a very fun-filled, creative weekend. Tell me about your weekend if you have the time. I love hearing from you.
**EDITED TO SAY: Who woulda thunk it, when darkness turned to light, lo and behold, blue skies reign over Hawaii once again. I guess I was starting to feel the effects of the dreary weather we've been having lately, hence today's post. LOL**
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8 comments:
- sweetiepie said...
Lettie, what a cute idea with the pinwheels hair elastics! I envy your creativity.
My daughter had her 33rd birthday on Sunday, so we spent the day together. We started with breakfast, did some shopping, had some lunch, then returned home for cake. It was a fun day. Joyce in Iowa
- Mon Apr 14, 09:30:00 AM 2008
Nice to hear from you! It sounds like you spent a lovely weekend with a very special person in your life. Please wish your daughter a Happy Belated Birthday from me!
- Mon Apr 14, 11:05:00 AM 2008
- Sue Cahill said...
Someday I will make it to Hawaii and I won't care if it is gloomy and rains each day. Just to visit new places is a thrill for me.
My weekend consisted of visiting, Saturday driving one and a half hours to see my son's new apartment and eat at a fantastic rib place.
Sunday we met a friend to walk, with our goofy basset hound, around a park in Buffalo NY. Then off to the nursing home to visit my MIL, then off for another walk with the dog in Niagara Falls, Ontario. We love to go to Canada, its only 10 minutes from my house!
So I'm still tired from the walking and feeling a nap coming on.
- Mon Apr 14, 11:45:00 AM 2008
- Netter said...
Ah, blue skies...yep, I had almost forgotten what they looked like. Today I is lovely, chilly but bright and blue with barely a cloud in the sky.
As for the Lobster issue. Yes, I will be the first announce that I tend to be the lobster. I however, wear lots of high SPF sunscreen, but it doesn't help much. What can I say...I was born a red head...and even though my hair has darkened to a funny blondish brown, the fair skin has not changed one bit. People are so amaized at how easily I burn. I like to remind them how much worse it would have been if I wouldn't have coated my body a million times with sun block and kept to the shade most of the day.
Enjoy your blue skies while they last!
- Mon Apr 14, 11:48:00 AM 2008
- annemarie said...
Oh how I love to visit Hawaii someday - beautiful place. Your pinwheels are wonderful. Anne from TX
- Mon Apr 14, 11:53:00 AM 2008
- Nerm said...
Hi Lettie-I've only been to Hawaii once but the weather was just what you'd expect-perfect! I didn't succumb to being a lobster, so it was a happy time. Love the little ponytail holders. Luv, Nerm
- Mon Apr 14, 01:13:00 PM 2008
- Rowena said...
We had some pretty lousy weather for the past week but today it's looking partial sunny. Finally. Watching Magnum P.I. this morning (and he sounds even sexier dubbed in italian!) was a nice picker-upper though!
As to your inquiry on the slippers...Sally pretty much answered that one! Can you imagine if they named a slipper-shaped bread Slippahs in Hawaii? LOL!
- Mon Apr 14, 11:13:00 PM 2008
- Cheryl said...
I think maybe us So Cal peoples have stolen your beautiful Hawaii weather. We have been in the 90's for a few days now!! Cute pinwheel
elastic bands!!
- Mon Apr 14, 11:22:00 PM 2008


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As mountains go, Cerro Armazones may not be much to look at. Standing 3,000 metres (9,800 feet) tall, it is a shapeless reddish dust heap in Chile's hot and arid Atacama Desert. The only sign of life is a dirt road zig-zagging all the way to the top.
But for astronomers like Joe Liske, this is arguably the world's most interesting mountain right now, and not just because in the next few months more than 100 tonnes of dynamite will blow off its top to create a flat platform. By the early 2020s, that platform will become home to the biggest-ever eye on the sky, the E-ELT, or European Extremely Large Telescope.
With a mirror that is 39 metres (128ft) in diameter, the E-ELT will dwarf all existing optical telescopes – and those planned to appear in the next decade or two. And it won't just bring plenty of life to this corner of the Atacama. The hope is that it will also help spot life out in the vastness of space.
In the past decade alone, astronomers have been discovering planets outside our solar system, or exoplanets, with astonishing speed. We now have identified nearly a thousand. Most are much bigger than Earth and almost certainly Jupiter-like gas giants, making making them quite unlikely for hosting life. None has so far been confirmed to bear life – even single-cell organisms – but some of these planets seem to be distinctly rocky and Earth-like: Kepler-62e, Gliese-581g and Kepler-22b, to name but a few.
"The quest for Earth-like exoplanets, and ultimately life on such planets, is one of the great frontiers of science, perhaps the last big piece in the puzzle of how we, humans, fit into the big picture," says Liske, who works at the European Southern Observatory, an organisation that already operates a number of telescopes in the Chilean desert.
Two of the more high-profile planet hunters have hit rocky ground in recent months, however. The French-led Corot spacecraft, launched in 2006, greatly outlived its original two-and-a-half year mission of spotting terrestrial-sized exoplanets, but in November 2012, it suffered a computer malfunction, which made it impossible to send any data back to Earth. In June 2013, the French Space Agency announced it would switch the satellite off and let it burn up as it re-enters the atmosphere – the usual fate of our mechanical helpers in space.
Nasa's $600 million space observatory Kepler, launched in 2009, has also been crippled recently. Kepler has helped spot thousands of potential exoplanets – over 130 of which have been confirmed – but two of its four reaction wheels that control the telescope's direction have failed in recent months, and at least three are necessary to point it in the right direction. Kepler completed its primary mission in November 2012, and there are still thousands of candidates to sift through, but this month Nasa conceded that Kepler will no longer be able to search for exoplanets.
Thankfully, more planet-hunting missions are on the way, which will continue and even extend upon their legacy. Missions like the E-ELT, which Liske says "will completely revolutionise the exoplanet field."
Size matters
To be considered a "habitable" world, a planet has to be similar to Earth in size, rocky, and located in the so-called Goldilocks zone – an area of space around a parent star that is not too cold or too hot, but just right to support liquid water. Since these planets are expected to be small and faint compared to their sun, spotting them is tricky with existing ground-based optical telescopes.
"It's like trying to see the light from a feeble little LED 10cm away from a stadium floodlight, from a distance of 200km," says Liske.
To tell a parent star and a potentially habitable planet apart, astronomers need incredibly sharp, high-resolution pictures. The bigger the mirror, the sharper the image a telescope can capture, and the dimmer the objects it can detect. Hence it takes an extremely large telescope to try to spot any planets that may support alien life many light years away.
Currently, the world's largest ground-based optical telescope is Gran Telescopio Canarias in the Canary Islands, Spain, with a mirror of 10.4m (34.1ft) in diameter. Then there are Keck 1 and Keck 2 in Hawaii, each sporting a 10m (32.8ft) mirror. "With the E-ELT, we believe that we will be able to directly see exoplanets similar to Earth out to a distance of about 20 light years," says Liske.
The closest potentially habitable planet is about seven light years away, according to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. So if aliens there are as eager to spot us as we are them, by the time the E-ELT opens in the early 2020s, they would be receiving light from Earth from today. To them, Armazones would still look intact.
Mirror image
While astronomers wait for the E-ELT to be constructed, other telescopes are busy scanning the skies for far-away worlds. About an hour's dusty and boulder-strewn drive away from Armazones is another telescope, whose four huge towers resemble some kind of factory rather than a scientific facility. It is the VLT – or Very Large Telescope, composed of four individual 8.2m (26.9ft) mirrors – based at Cerro Paranal, another mountain in the Atacama shorn of its top.
The VLT's mirrors may not hold any size records but in 2004, it spotted the first exoplanet to be observed directly, 2M1207b, approximately 170 light-years from Earth in the constellation Centaurus. Since then, the VLT has discovered several worlds outside the Solar System, with the help of an instrument called NACO.
NACO is part of the VLT's adaptive optics (AO) system, and the Keck Observatory in Hawaii uses a similar system. The technology corrects for the blurriness caused by turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere that makes stars twinkle but gives astronomers headaches. NACO cancels out the turbulence, producing images as sharp as if snapped in space.
But even with these adaptive optics tools, existing ground-based telescopes can only "see" planets bigger than Jupiter – gas giants that orbit their parent stars at a huge distance. The next-generation of AO instruments, Sphere for the VLT and Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) for the Gemini Telescope in Chile "will blow NACO and Keck AO away", according to Bruce Macintosh, an astronomer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. But while GPI and Sphere will make it possible to spot exoplanets of similar size to Jupiter – even these will still be too big to be considered habitable.
That's why astronomers put so much hope in the coming generation of optical giants. Besides the E-ELT, two other observatories have recently been given the go-ahead: the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) in Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, and the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
The GMT will have seven 8.4m (27.6ft) mirrors, arranged like flower petals. Together they will make up a primary mirror 24.5m (80.4ft) in diameter. The TMT will have a segmented 30m (98.4ft) mirror consisting of 492 small individual hexagonal mirrors, each 1.4m (4.6ft) across. E-ELT, GMT and TMT will all be equipped with tools for exoplanet search, and are expected to be able to peer so deep into the universe so that they could take direct images of relatively small Earth-like worlds some 20-or-so light-years away.
Defying gravity
But they won't be the only ones on the hunt. Telescopes can produce much clearer images in space, free from our turbulent atmosphere. The Hubble Space Telescope has been circling Earth since 1990 and has spotted a few planets – and also helped determine what some extra-solar worlds are probably made of. But Hubble's 2.4m (7.9ft) mirror is too small to see planets smaller than Jupiter, says Matt Mountain, the director of the Space Telescope Science Institute at Nasa. Hubble's planned successor, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) – set to go into orbit around 2018 – is expected to do much more.
Equipped with a 6.5-metre (21ft) diameter mirror, JWST will have a variety of tasks, among them the search for planets orbiting nearby stars. It will work in the infrared spectrum, which will allow it to "probe down to smaller planetary sizes than Hubble, to roughly two-to-three times larger than Earth, more Neptune-scale planets," says Mountain.
The telescope will aim to find out whether these extra-solar worlds are so-called "super-Earths" – rocky planets that could potentially be habitable – or miniature versions of Neptune, unable to support life. Using an instrument called a coronagraph, JWST will try to determine whether a planet has an atmosphere, and – for the first time – analyse it by examining the spectrum of the light coming from the planet.
Elements and molecules in an atmosphere, such as water and oxygen, have specific signatures in the spectrum, giving us an idea about its composition and the likelihood that there is liquid water present – and hence life, says Avi Loeb, Chair of the Astronomy department at Harvard University.
Spotting water and oxygen would be just the start, though, says Liske. "If you found things like water, oxygen, CO, methane, in the right amounts, that would be a strong hint [of life]. Then of course there would be lots of investigations into whether such a combination of elements could be produced by non-biological processes," he says. "If we are ever in the situation where we've convinced ourselves that we've found life, then the question would be 'what kind of life'? If we're lucky we may be able to say something about the exoplanet's surface: is it all water? Any signs of vegetation? That sort of thing could come in principle from either ground or space-based telescopes."
Sic transit gloria
As exciting as the plans for direct imaging are, most exoplanets are still found using indirect techniques – such as detecting a wobble in the position of the star that indicates it is being pulled slightly towards an orbiting planet, or a method called "transiting", in which planets are identified by the tiny dip in brightness caused when they pass in front of its star. Transiting was used to great success by Kepler, but the method doesn't allow us to calculate a planet's mass – a critical factor in determining its density and hence its rockiness. To determine the mass, another instrument enters the stage – a spectrograph.
One such device, the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (Harps), is mounted on a 3.6m- (11.8ft-) mirror telescope at La Silla, another one of ESO's observatories in the Atacama. It studies space bodies by recording how a planet's gravity makes its parent star appear to vibrate as it rotates around it. It can use that vibration to detect new planets, but has also been used to learn more about known exoplanets. It determined that an exoplanet discovered by Corot in September 2009 some 500 light-years away and dubbed Corot-7b had a rocky surface and a mass only five times of our Earth. This would make it a likely habitable candidate if it wasn't for its proximity to its parent star – the planet lies only 2.5 million km (1.6 million miles) away from it, which is just 1/23rd of the distance from the Sun to Mercury.
"By far the most powerful combination right now is the combination of transit detections and Doppler spectroscopy, which gives you both the mass and radius of the planet, so you can start to say what it's made of," says Macintosh. "Unfortunately, this combination has been hard to do for many of the most interesting cases, because the odds that any single planet discovered by Doppler will also transit are very low, and the huge numbers of transit planets discovered by Kepler are all orbiting relatively faint stars – because Kepler was designed to look at faint stars." The worlds discovered by Kepler are also thousands of light-years away – totally inaccessible to direct imaging, so it is impossible to determine whether or not any of them host life.
But one more player is set to emerge soon. In April this year, Nasa gave the go-ahead to another space-based mission that will work similar to Kepler, but can discern planets around bright nearby stars: Tess, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
Due to launch in 2017, when Tess finds a potentially habitable planet, just as with Kepler, other tools will come into play to find out more about them, to determine whether they are super-earths or micro-Neptunes. "The big ground-based telescopes can work with it and do the spectroscopy," says Macintosh. "And if Tess [finds] a habitable planet around a very nearby star, you can then use the James Webb Space Telescope to measure the composition of its atmosphere."
But to really find a habitable Earth-twin orbiting a star just like our Sun, we will have to go to space, he adds – with a giant telescope fully designed for planet hunting and equipped with a mirror of eight metres or more. That won't happen any time soon – but Nasa is already thinking about a future JWST replacement, called the Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope (ATLAST), a space telescope with a 8-to-16m mirror that would be 2,000 times more light-sensitive than Hubble. If all goes according to plan, ATLAST could be launched between 2025 and 2035.
The fact that there have been few good candidates for planets that host life found so far should not discourage the searchers. The data already collected suggests that there are about 100 billion planetary systems in our galaxy alone, says Mountain. So there are plenty of places left to look, as and when we find the tools for the task.
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Cerro Armazones in Chile's Atacama Desert is the site for the European Extremely Large Telescope, which will be the world's largest telescope. (Copyright: Science Photo Library)
Cerro Armazones in Chile's Atacama Desert is the site for the European Extremely Large Telescope, which will be the world's largest telescope. (Copyright: Science Photo Library)
The 39-metre E-ELT will dwarf existing optical telescopes, and the hope is that this will help spot Earth-like planets beyond our galaxy. (Copyright: European Southern Observatory)
(Copyright: European Southern Observatory)
Nasa said it is retiring its prolific Kepler space telescope from planet-hunting duties. So far Kepler has confirmed 135 planets beyond our Solar System. (Copyright: Nasa)
Nasa said it is retiring its prolific Kepler space telescope from planet-hunting duties. So far Kepler has confirmed 135 planets beyond our Solar System. (Copyright: Nasa)
In 2011, Kepler-22b was the first Earth-sized planet that Kepler confirmed orbited in a "habitable zone" of a star like our Sun. (Copyright: Nasa)
In 2011, Kepler-22b was the first Earth-sized planet that Kepler confirmed orbited in a "habitable zone" of a star like our Sun. (Copyright: Nasa)
Earlier this year, astronomers said they had discovered the two most Earth-like planets so far - Kepler-62e (foreground) and Kepler-62f (morning star). (Copyright: Nasa)
Earlier this year, astronomers said they had discovered the two most Earth-like planets so far - Kepler-62e (foreground) and Kepler-62f (morning star). (Copyright: Nasa)
E-ELT's mirror is three times the diameter of Keck 1 and Keck 2 in Hawaii, so the hope it will spot Earth-like planets up to 20 light years away. (Copyright: Science Photo Library)
E-ELT's mirror is three times the diameter of Keck 1 and Keck 2 in Hawaii, so the hope it will spot Earth-like planets up to 20 light years away. (Copyright: Science Photo Library)
The VLT or Very Large Telescope, also in Chile, was the first to observe an exoplanet directly, around 170 light-years from Earth.
The VLT or Very Large Telescope, also in Chile, was the first to observe an exoplanet directly, around 170 light-years from Earth.
Another observatory being built is the Giant Magellan Telescope, which will have 10 times greater resolution than the Hubble Space Telescope (Copyright: Giant Magellan Telescope)
Another observatory being built is the Giant Magellan Telescope, which will have 10 times greater resolution than the Hubble Space Telescope (Copyright: Giant Magellan Telescope)
The James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to Hubble that is set to go into orbit around 2018, will search for planets orbiting nearby stars. (Copyright: Nasa)
The James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to Hubble that is set to go into orbit around 2018, will search for planets orbiting nearby stars. (Copyright: Nasa)
In April this year, Nasa said it will launch Tess, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which will track planets in a similar manner to Kepler. (Copyright: Tess)
In April this year, Nasa said it will launch Tess, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which will track planets in a similar manner to Kepler. (Copyright: Tess)


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Food giant KFC its owner Yum Brands and mega conglomerate Kraft Brands Monday denounced a newsletter by an Inland Empire GOP women's club depicting Sen. Barack Obama on a phony food stamp with a bucket of KFC chicken, a slab of ribs, a pitcher of Kool-Aid and a slice of watermelon.
In exclusive written statements to the Black Voice News, KFC and Kraft Foods which owns Kool-Aid demanded that the Chaffey Community Republican Women Federation responsible for distributing the degrading material immediately cease and desist from further use or distribution of materials containing KFC and Kool-Aid images.
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"The actions by this group are a disparagement of KFC and the company reserves all rights to protect its trademarks and brand image against uses such as this."
Kraft Foods has requested immediate removal of the Kool-Aid pitchman image from the organization's newsletter.
"We do not condone their use of our trademark to promote their agenda and we have requested any public apology the organization makes acknowledges Kraft was unaware of and is strongly opposed to this use," Kraft spokesman Bridget A. MacConnell
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The swift action by KFC and Kraft comes in the wake of international fall-out over the disparaging illustration.
The GOP newsletter Trumpeter, which was sent to about 200 members and associates of the group, has drawn worldwide condemnation from the Republican Party, members of the Inland political group, elected officials, Democrats and others as racist.
Under intense pressure the group's president Diane Fedele has agreed to resign and says she plans to send a letter of apology to her members and to make a public apology at the club's meeting this week. Fedele did not respond to an interview request Monday morning seeking reaction to the latest developments.
She accepted responsibility for the October publication, which she created. The illustration was something she said she downloaded from a chain of e-mails and decided to re-print it. She said she wanted to deride a comment Obama made over the summer about how as an African American he "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
Fedele told The Press Enterprise which first aired the story on its website she does not associate the those food items with stereotypes about African-Americans.
"It was just food. It didn't mean anything else. It was strictly an attempt to point out the outrageousness of his statement."
She said she also wasn't trying to make a statement linking Obama and food stamps, although her introductory text to the illustration makes a clear association between Obama and food stamps.
Shelia Raines, an African American member of the club, was the first person to complain to Fedele several days after no one in the organization took offense to the illustration.
"I was appalled. I had to take a stand," explained Raines. "I had an hour long phone conversation with Fedele (whom I don't believe is a racist). She didn't get it. She has yet to apologize to me. She failed to see the implication of her actions, the unbelievable hurt she has caused, Sen. Obama, African-Americans and others."
Raines of San Bernardino, said she is disappointed that for several days no one in the club raised objection to the depiction. In a BVN interview Friday Raines said she cried after reading the newsletter and feels an incredible sense of betrayal and sadness.
"I haven't slept for days and will probably seek medical attention."
She acknowledged that this is not the first incident involving Fedele that raised a question of objectionable behavior. "Usually I'd let it run off my shoulder. This time she went too far."
She said while many Republican Party officials have taken swift action to condemn the material, still others have admonished her for 'going to the media'.
"Some members felt that the matter should have been handled internally." She said she has worked tirelessly to bring other minorities under the Republican tent and now feels betrayed.
Political and news Web sites around the world last week linked to The Press Enterprise's online story about the controversy, which sparked widespread debate, blog comments,
phone calls and thousands of e-mails.
The depiction prompted condemnation from Acquanetta Warren, a Fontana council member and another African-American member of the organization, which is known in the Inland community for its philanthropy and voter registration efforts.
"This is wrong. This does not reflect our principles and values," said Warren who has received more than 1200 e-mails causing her computer account to crash. Warren who is regional vice chairwomen for the California Republican Party and served as a Republican delegate to the national convention in September said the illustration tarnishes the good work of the organization.
"Most of these ladies are volunteers who put country first. They really care and are not racist."
California Republican Party chairman Ron Nehring denounced the newsletter in a written statement Thursday and again during an address to Federation members Saturday.
"Any material that invokes issues, related to race is absolutely unacceptable."
Sen. Bob Dutton, R-Rancho Cucamonga and Assemblyman Bill Emmerson, R-Redlands both up for reelection, condemned the newsletter after the controversial illustration was circulated around the Internet.
Nehring also denounced material posted on the Sacramento County Republican Party website. The Sacramento Bee printed an image it said was captured from the site that depicted Obama in a turban next to Osama bin Laden. It said: "The difference between Osama and Obama is just a little B.S." The site also encouraged members to "Waterboard Barack Obama," a reference to a torture technique. The Sacramento County party removed the material Tuesday and fired its web administrator responsible for site content.
The Obama campaign declined to comment. It's the campaign's policy to not address such attacks, said Gabriel Sanchez, a California spokesman for the campaign.


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Oh yeah! Graeme Rocher and Marc Palmer have done an excellent job creating the Reference Documentation for the Grails Framework for version 1.0-RC1 (check it out http://grails.org/doc/RC1/). This will be familiar to anyone that has referenced Java's API javadocs like I have for so many years.
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