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From Mayor Frank Jones:
I am seeking re-election as mayor of Manassas Park.
As a federal civil servant, the Hatch Act requires that I run as an independent. As a result, I was required to obtain signatures on a candidate's petition (to be qualified as a candidate, the signatures of at least 125 registered Manassas Park voters must be collected on the petition.)
I have obtained the required signatures, turned them in to the registrar, the signatures have been validated and I have been certified as eligible to run. The deadline for candidate petition submission to the registrar was 7 p.m. (Tuesday); as of that deadline, no one else had submitted the paperwork for the position of mayor, so I believe I will be running unopposed.
My decision to seek re-election was based on several factors. First, I believe the city has weathered the tough economic times in stable, sound condition.
We have been able to sustain critical local government services to all our citizens, have successfully offset reductions in funding provided to the city by both the commonwealth and federal governments for mandated programs which were not reduced or suspended, have met all the mandates for new and expanded programs by the commonwealth and federal governments, have provided expanded opportunities for citizens through the new community center and have seen continued improvement in specific department programs—full re-accreditation of the police department, strong progress toward accreditation by the fire department, unique recreation opportunities and programs at parks and rec.
I want to assure that the quality of service is sustained and improved. Second, we have been required to make some tough decisions—tax rate, sewer and water rate, storm water management fee—to sustain critical operations.
As the economy begins to recover, I want to assure that we are careful to manage our fiscal resources and provide relief to our tax payers.
Third, the city has the potential to see significant growth and development in the next few years. I want to ensure that growth and development is in line with the city's comprehensive plan, that it fosters the growth of business and retail-generated revenue to relieve the homeowner tax burden.
Fourth, the city is well positioned to work with existing business owners, to support their growth and to assist in making any modernization or business expansion opportunities a reality.
We recently enacted measures to incentivize business placement, growth and development in Manassas Park, aligned to the city's comprehensive plan.
These are only a few of the reasons I want to continue to serve the citizens of Manassas Park.
Last year, Manassas Park was selected as one of the top 100 small cities by CNN's Money—I want Manassas Park to be recognized for all the good things that make us a unique community. At this past weekend's high school graduation ceremony, the student speakers referred frequently to our small size and the closeness of the community—the magic that allows us to know each other and have a closeness that other communities cannot reach.
I believe it is critically important for all our residents to feel at home in Manassas Park and to treasure what that means. We must keep working to ensure that our streets remain safe, that no one has to be afraid of unsavory elements, that these unsavory characters know to stay away from Manassas Park— they are not welcome here.
My service to Manassas Park started in 1991 when I was selected to serve on our school board. Two years later, I was selected to serve as school board chairman and continued to do so until I was elected mayor eight years ago.
In that time, our community has made significant strides and improvements, but we have a lot yet to do. I want to be a participant in moving the city forward, in developing City Center, in establishing a much more sound retail base for the city, in sustaining and improving city services and in reducing the cost to today's homeowners and business owners.


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Why I Gave Away My Wedding Dress
Pretty soon after my wedding I started to wonder what I was supposed to do with my wedding dress. It wasn't the kind of thing I could wear to a Christmas party. Some people, I knew, had their dresses "preserved" by a dry cleaner, a kind of textile embalming. I didn't think my dress would take too well to that.
And even if it did, what was I "preserving" it for? No one else in my family or close circle of friends was likely to wear it. It was too distinctive. And, if I'm being honest, I realize that not everyone sees the appeal of a dress that walks so fine a line between "swan" and "chicken".
I also think that wedding dresses have their moments. I don't know a single women around my age who wore her mother's dress. Our mothers' dresses may be beautiful, but they look old-fashioned. As a generation raised to be independent, each of us wants to do her own thing. I won't kid myself into thinking my hypothetical daughters will be any different. I probably wouldn't want them to be.
I knew I could sell the dress on e-bay, but it felt weird to put a price tag on so sentimental an object. I also doubted I'd get much for it. The dress was easily the most expensive dress I've ever owned, but even so the price was fairly modest (some people spend more on their cell phones). Some friends suggested re-purposing it into another kind of object. I joked that I could probably turn it into a down pillow just by turning it inside out. But that felt weird, too. It was a dress. A special dress. I didn't want it to be anything else.
I hung onto it without too much serious examination until our one-year anniversary (moving it across the country twice—carefully). Then I started to worry about the dress aging. I really didn't want to unzip its garment bag one day and have it not be beautiful. To me, that would be much sadder than having it not be there at all.
So, I went into research mode. There are more than 2 million weddings in the US every year. What are people doing with all these dresses? After much searching and thinking, I found what seemed to me to be the perfect solution: a charity called Brides Against Breast Cancer. BABC collects donated wedding gowns, sells them (at a discount) in a nation-wide tour, and uses the money to grant wishes for women with metastasized breast cancer.
I loved the idea that my wedding dress would be another person's wedding dress. I so loved wearing it and it made me really happy to think about someone else feeling the same way. The fact that it would be someone who might not otherwise be able to afford the dress of their dreams just made it sweeter. I could also imagine this other wearer preserving the dress for her daughter or granddaughter, making it into something new, or watching it age as she did. Wedding dresses are treasured objects and I knew my dress would be in good hands with Bride #2.
And then there is the money it would bring in, the wishes it would help grant. I spent a lot of time on BABC's website reading about the work that they do (and, yes, crying a fair bit). The women they help are so strong and grateful. And their wishes are so humble. One woman asked for a video camera so she could tape a message to her yet-unborn grandchild. Another woman asked for a plane ticket so she could properly say good-bye to her mother. These seem like such basic things: the ability to be remembered, or to say good-bye. It hadn't occurred to me that some people wouldn't have them. After spending some time reading their letters, it was obvious to me what I'd do with my dress. It seemed so fitting and perfect and clear and...inevitable, really.
I could make this a much longer story if I included the six months it took for my sweet, sentimental husband to be ready to let it go, or how I almost gave the dress to him instead. I could tell you what it felt like to put the dress on one last time, in the middle of our crappy apartment in Pittsburgh, barefoot, my hair undone.
I could also write about finding a box just the right size and packing the dress away. The walk to the post office. Watching the box disappear behind the counter. But the only important thing to say is how good it felt.
Yesterday I sent the dress away. Today I looked at some wedding pictures. Seeing the dress in them, I didn't feel sad or wistful. Instead, I thought about my dress's future, where it will go, what it will do. Now, it's even more beautiful to me.
Talking to Little Girls
Today, for the first time ever, I have a piece of writing in a newspaper! Long live print media! My article is called "Chatting with Princess Wannabe" and it's in today's edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The article is a response to Lisa Bloom's Huffington Post piece, "How to Talk to Little Girls". In her article, Bloom gives very specific advice about how one should (and should not) talk to little girls. I loved her article and felt so inspired by her account of talking to a young girl about books that I couldn't wait to try her advice.
It didn't go quite as well for me as it did for her... Read it here!
Stripped & PANK "Science & Fiction" Special Issue
Happy New Year! Here are a couple of literary things to help you start 2012 off right!
First, there's a new anthology out called Stripped: A Collection of Anonymous Flash. I've got a story in it, alongside Sherrie Flick, Randall Brown, Michael Martone, Roxane Gay, Devan Goldstein, Kathy Fish, Ethel Rohan, J Bradley, Amber Sparks, Nicole Monaghan (who also edited the collection) and far too many other fantastic writers for me to list here.
I can't tell you which story is mine, because all of the pieces have been "stripped" of their bylines, forcing the reader to confront them without knowing anything about their authors. Because each story is, to some extent, about gender, the result is an interesting guessing game that brings to mind The Guardian's V.S. Naipaul test. I'm very much looking forward to getting my copy and puzzling over who wrote what. For the curious, the stories will all be matched to their authors in one year and the information made available here, on Nicole's webpage. Cool, right?
Second, there's a new Special Issue of PANK Magazine live today. It's the Science & Fiction Issue, guest edited by myself and my partner in crime, Devan Goldstein. We were flooded with submissions pretty much right out of the gate. It does my heart good to know that so many writers are interested in writing about science. Needless to say, we read many more brilliant pieces than we could fit into one issue, but we're so happy with the final product. There are great stories and poems by Sal Pane, Benjamin Nash, Jess Stoner and Garrett Ashley, among others. I'll be re-reading it many times, I'm sure. I hope you'll read and enjoy it, too.

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2014 BUICK ENCLAVE: Buick's Enclave has become the industry's best-selling three-row luxury crossover and the model that's reintroduced Buick to a new generation of luxury customers. New features for the 2014 model year include camera-based Forward Collision Alert and Lane Departure Warning, along with SiriusXM Tune Select and text-to-voice features added to Buick's IntelliLink infotainment system's capabilities. Also, a pair of USB ports has been added to the rear of the center console to charge phones and other electronic devices. Enclave's eight passenger cabin contains upgraded materials and the industry's first front center air bag system. Once again, Enclave can be ordered with either front-wheel drive, or with all-wheel drive. Even with all-aboard, Enclave offers 23.3 cubic feet of cargo space behind the third row. When second and third rows are flat, there is a maximum of 115.2 cubic feet of cargo space available behind the front row of seats. All 2013 Enclaves come equipped with a 3.6-liter direct injected V-6 with variable valve timing and a healthy 288 horsepower. Monochromatic paint schemes accented with chrome contribute to the luxury crossover's premium appearance, along with large 18-, 19- and 20-inch wheel designs. Combined with the standard electronically-controlled six-speed automatic transmission, and when properly equipped the powertrain can tow up to 4,500 pounds.
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Linear actuators are widely used in several manufacturing process. The design and make of this component is truly world class. We at Progressive Automations manufacture high-end linear actuators for industrial and commercial purposes. Linear actuators has its own advantages, read more to know how they can be beneficial to you.1. To reduce human effort and stress use of actuators in automated devices does the job.
2. These actuators are fully flexible and have the capacity to withstand pressure. Installing these actuators in rugged and off weather products is easily possible.
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Small World Nursery was started in August 1996 by King's Church who owns the Schofield Centre. It is part of an ongoing vision to partner with the Local Authority to meet needs in the Charnwood Community. Our aim is to support families in the important task of raising their children and "helping little people to develop and grow".
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Overview of the Undergraduate Communication Thesis
The thesis is a two semester course for Communication majors. It is undertaken and
completed during the senior year. During the first semester students write a research
proposal that includes a literature review and detailed methodology. During the
second semester students conduct data collection and analysis and write a complete
thesis describing this work. Students work with two professors throughout the course,
a designated faculty supervisor and a thesis seminar supervisor. Students are required
to attend the thesis seminar both semesters. Students receive one advanced course
credit toward the Communication major for each semester completed.
General Requirements:
1) Students writing Honors or ComPS theses are required to design and conduct a
primary research study in the communication field.
Literature reviews without original research will not be accepted. Documentary films
may be accepted under certain circumstances and will be
evaluated on a case by case basis. (Students interested in completing
a documentary film thesis must obtain written certification from their faculty supervisor
that they have the required technological and editing skills
needed prior to enrollment in the thesis course.)
2) The thesis is original work not completed in a previous course or undertaken
in a current course outside the thesis seminar. In some
cases, the thesis may continue work initiated in an Independent Study or in Communication
395. Prior written approval by both thesis supervisors is
required to ensure that an appropriate amount of new research is conducted
for the thesis.
3) Studies may be quantitative (e.g., surveys, experiments, content analyses) or
qualitative (e.g., interviews, focus groups, textual analyses
of magazines, TV shows, speeches, etc.).
Copies of previous theses are available for review in the Annenberg library.
Eligibility for the Thesis:
Annenberg offers two undergraduate thesis options with different eligibility requirements:
1) Honors Thesis Eligibility
2) ComPS Capstone Thesis Eligibility
Enrollment in the ComPS Capstone Thesis Seminar or the Honors Thesis Seminar
Requirements for enrollment in the First Semester Seminar (Comm 494):
1) Meet the eligibility requirements listed above.
2) Identify a faculty member willing to supervise the thesis.
3) Submit a research topic statement approved and signed by the designated faculty
supervisor (not the thesis seminar supervisor) by September
15, 2014. Failure to submit a research topic statement approved by a designated
faculty supervisor will prevent enrollment in the thesis
Prepared in consultation with the designated faculty supervisor, the research topic
statement is approximately 3-5 pages long. It includes:
Successful Completion of the First Semester Seminar
During proposal and thesis preparation, students will work jointly with the designated
faculty supervisor and the seminar supervisor.
Requirements for enrollment in the Second Semester Seminar (Comm 495 or 499):
1) A completed thesis proposal signed by both thesis supervisors.
2) Honors students must continue to maintain a 3.5 cumulative GPA and obtain a grade
of B+ or higher in the first semester seminar.
3) ComPS thesis students must continue with the ComPS designation. Those who drop
out of the ComPS program are not eligible to continue with
the second semester unless they meet Honors thesis requirements.
1) Students will complete the thesis on a schedule specified by the thesis seminar
supervisor. Every thesis must have four main components:
2) There are no page requirements for the thesis. Formatting requirements will be
distributed in the thesis seminar.
3) A thesis is not complete until all necessary revisions have been made, and both
thesis supervisors have signed off on the final draft.
Additional Requirements:
To successfully complete the thesis, students must also:
Thesis Awards
The Annenberg School offers two thesis awards at graduation. Honors thesis students
are eligible for the George Gerbner Award. ComPS Capstone thesis students
are eligible for the Communication and Public Service (Eisenhower) Award.
ComPS students who are also Honors students are eligible for both awards.
Students who submit their completed thesis on or before the final completion date
set by the department are eligible to be nominated for these awards.
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Florida electric worker helping residents affected by Sandy beaten and brutalized in New York
Lakeland, FL, United States (4E) – A 34-year-old electric lineman from Lakeland, Florida who travelled to New York to help restore power to an area devastated by Superstorm Sandy, was severely beaten by a stranger Friday night.
According to reports, John Applewhite, a lineman for Lakeland Electric, went to New York with 24 co-workers to assist in repairing the power system and he returned home with a broken jaw, a busted cheekbone and facial fractures.
He was admitted at the Lakeland Regional Medical Center
Applewhite, who suffered severe injuries that he was flown back to Tampa, said he was attacked outside a restaurant in East Hempstead.
The victim recalled a man in a black BMW suddenly screaming at him and meeting him halfway to where the Lakeland Electric truck was parked.
He said the man stepped out "and just as I got within arm's reach, he decked me."
"It was tense up there, it really was," added Applewhite. "But never did we did we have a reason to think anything like this would happen."
Applewhite revealed he does not know why he was attacked or by whom.
Nobody got the attacker's license plate because there was no power in the area where the incident happened.
A co-worker, who attempted to stop the man, was bitten in his finger and had to be treated at a hospital.
Applewhite is scheduled for surgery Tuesday morning. Surgeons will place two metal plates into his face and his jaw would be wired shut for more than four weeks.
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The Roundhouse Connector Trail is Open!
The Roundhouse Connector is now open! This hiking only trail boasts beautiful views and oportunities for wildlife encounters. It connects the Bald Mountain Trail to the Roundhouse Restaurant and Gondola, with a 14 minute hike over 0.7 miles of Bald Mountain. Definitely worth the visit! (This trail is a hiking only trail, no bikes please.)
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Togethia Media Services - Read the Blog about this trip:blog.togethia.tv/?p=1177
The Road to Romania Episode 2 of 3
Join Jap Performance Parts' Sajid Moghal and Walton Smith, along with Kyouto Drift in an exclusive three part mini-series to the Drift Grand Prix in Bucharest, Romania. Do either team have what it takes to be the best in Europe?
Next Episode - Wednesday 23rd November!
Narrated By Mark Henderson
Executive Producer: Peter Farrow
Filmed : Tim Fare Matthews, Pete Farrow, Mark Henderson, Alex Manning
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Mixers & Blenders
Ross Mixing Expands Manufacturing Plant in FloridaDecember 7, 2009
Ross Industries Inc. has announced the approval to expand its Ross Mixing Inc. manufacturing plant in Port St. Lucie, FL. The expansion will add nearly 12,000 sq ft to the existing building. The new total enclosed manufacturing space at this location will increase to approximately 45,000 sq ft....comment
Caccamo Named Director of Sales & Marketing for B&P Process EquipmentSeptember 16, 2009
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Mixing & Blending Spotlight - June 09May 26, 2009
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Internet-Based Educational Tool Helps Select Mixer DesignsMarch 2, 2009
Marion Mixers Inc. has launched an online industrial mixer tool that will begin the mixer selection process for processors across the globe. Manufacturers in the food, chemical, plastics, and mineral industries will now be able to utilize the Build-A-Mixer (BAM) tool to quickly identify the correct...comment
Sanitary Rotary Batch MixerMarch 2, 2009
The 700-TH-40-SS sanitary rotary batch mixer gently blends batches of ingredients in parts down to one per million with 100% uniformity in less than three minutes. The mixer evacuates 100% of the batch and sanitizes rapidly with no tools. It has a usable capacity of 40 cu ft and is equally...comment
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Ribbon Blenders The unit shown is a 515-cu-ft working capacity model constructed in stainless steel. This blender is driven by a 200-hp drive and includes a jacket for heating or cooling of the product. The blender is also designed for internal pressure operation. Blenders from ½ to 515-cu...comment
Implications with Overblending of Bulk SolidsFebruary 24, 2009
Eric P. Maynard Mixing and blending processes with bulk solids are routinely carried out in all types of industrial applications. In order to be cost-competitive, blending equipment should have fast blend times (to reduce bottlenecks), batch size flexibility, easy-to-clean features, and...comment
Selecting the Appropriate Powder BlenderFebruary 24, 2009
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" HP Workstation z200 - CMT - 1 x Xeon X3450 / 2.66 GHz - RAM 4 GB - HDD 1 x 500 GB - DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM - no graphics - Gigabit Ethernet - Windows 7 Pro / XP Pro downgrade - Monitor : none "
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The HP Z200 Is a decent desktop PC. I have on which I use constantly for work. I run a number of systems off it including CRM tools, office, and order loading tools. Over the past year whilst I have had it has coped with running all of this along with fast internet access (although this is aided with my fast broadband). The processor is what makes it a reliable business work machine; running off an intel Core i.5. I also downloaded a racing game on the machine that runs perfectly without any hiccups.
It comes in a standard black and looks just like a standard desktop so nothing particulary eye pleasing sticks out.
Dust can appear at the front of the machine but this is easily blown away.
Over time I have noticed the machine becomes loader which can be quite irritating when trying to do work and concentrate.
It is very easy to use and similar to many other desktops. This allows you to plug in and get straight on with your work.
All in all though I would consider this machine as ideal for anyone who needs to work from home dealing with buying and selling.
Workstation power-hungry but on a PC budget? The HP Z200 Workstation offers workstation-class productivity with advanced memory, graphics, and storage, plus application certification and next-generation processors.
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|HP Workstation z200 - Xeon X3450 2.66 GHz - Monitor : none.
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|Cache Memory:
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|Cache Per Processor:
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|Graphics Controller:
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|Gigabit LAN
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Sometimes I encounter blog posts which have a long list of pingbacks and trackbacks in their comment section. I am not sure if visitors find them useful but personally I wish the blog owners would keep these to themselves instead of making them public and "polluting" the comments section. Specially more useless when every blog post has pingbacks from the same sources. It seems for some blogging software this feature is on by default and the blog owner doesn't know or doesn't care to turn it off. When I came across these linkbacks I feel like it's someone repeating themselves. It's the same text over and over again. Maybe the blog owner wants to tell us about how many sites link to his site. Why does he think we really care about this? Usability… not so great.
When one goes to a web page they don't see a long list of sites which link to the web page so why do some people think it's OK to do this for blog posts? If I want to find which sites link to a web page, Google can provide this information.
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I have sent some requests to join some LinkedIn groups and they have been waiting for approval for weeks. I am going to announce that these group owners are being inconsiderate. If you are a group owner who doesn't bother to look at these join requests, why are you moderating these requests then? Make the group public or delegate the approval process to someone who does have some time. I bring this problem up because LinkedIn allows a certain number of join requests before they block you from more group join requests. So now I have this queue of requests waiting for these group owners' approval. If there wasn't this limitation of requests, I wouldn't have mind but now I am just going to delete some requests to open up the queue and some of these group owners deserve my wrath for wasting my time!
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These were very chocolately, and, the way mine turned out, somewhat more crunchy and less melt-in-your-mouth. But, this was the PERFECT recipe for baking with young children. The dough was easy to work with , and my kids (5 and 7 years old) were able to roll out the dough and cut out the cookie cutter forms without much trouble at all. We made them for Santa - hope he likes them tonight!
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These cookies was great!! I baked both the chocolate and vanilla variations and everyone at home and work loved them!
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The Chihuahuas were the only team in the organization that managed to get a victory tonight. Keyvius Sampson tossed a gem while Jonathan Galvez reached base after every one of his plate appearances. Hitting Prospect of the Day: Jonathan Galvez Pitching Prospect of the Day: Keyvius Sampson El Paso Chihuahuas 6, Sacramento River Cats 2 Brooks Conrad – 2B: 2-5, 2B, RBI, 2 Runs...
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At first glance it might not look like Keyvius Sampson and Rymer Liriano have much in common. A right handed pitcher and right fielder, respectively, their tracks up the prospect ranks would not normally be compared and their eventual promotion to the major league level would not seem to coincide. But there is more in common than you might expect. Both born in 1991, Liriano was signed...
Padres Spring Roster Moves Continue
The Padres made another round of cuts this morning as the team optioned 4 more players out of the big-league camp to drop their Spring Training roster down to 52. The biggest announcements to come out of today's move include optioning RHP Keyvius Sampson to the Triple-A El Paso Chihuahuas and outfielder Rymer Liriano to the Double-A San Antonio Missions. Also moved down to minor...
Padres Get 40-Man Roster to 40 Men
It's that time of year where major leagues clubs have to make decisions on who they want the protect from being taken in the Rule 5 Draft. And the Padres made some hard choices today. Added were starting pitchers Josh Johnson, Donn Roach, Keyvius Sampson, and Juan Oramas. Keyvius Sampson (Photo courtesy of madfriars.com) Gone are 2B Dean Anna, relief pitchers Brad Brach, Miles...
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Texas League Pitcher of the Year
Summary: The Missions claimed the Texas League championship for the second time in three years, largely on the back of the circuits best pitching staff. San Antonio pitchers gave up fewer hits, homers and runs than any team in the league. The team got equally fantastic contributions from starters and relievers alike all season long, with 10 different pitchers getting to double-digits...
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MadFriars' Daily Farm Report: August 4
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Floyd County Board of Health Meeting
April 4, 2008, 10:00 a.m.
Meeting was called to order at 10:00 a.m. in the Board of Supervisors office on April 4, 2008.
Attending: Pat McDonnell, Barb Quam (by telephone), Lisa Kapler (by telephone),
Bruce Dietrich (by telephone)
Absent: Galen Hicok
Barb Quam moved to approve the agenda. Second by Lisa Kapler. Motion carried.
Barb Quam motioned to hire Gail Arjes as the Public Health Administrator at a
recommended starting salary between $46,000 and $48,000 with the Board of Supervisor determining the final salary and the position contingent on Gail continuing to work on bachelors' degree in nursing and a performance and salary review in six months from the starting date with the Board of Health and the Board of Supervisors. Seconded by Lisa Kapler. Motion carried.
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Health Center
Stomach Virus Could Trigger CFS
Other Conditions Lead to CFS continued...
Specimens from 165 CFS patients and 34 people without the disorder were tested, and Chia found evidence of possible chronic infection in 82% of the CFS patients and 20% of the well patients.
Though the findings must be verified, Chia says they suggest a strong association between possible chronic infection with enterovirus and chronic fatigue syndrome.
"Although finding a chronic infection in the stomach may not directly prove a similar infection in the brain, muscle, or heart, it opens up a new direction in the research for this elusive disease," he writes in the latest online edition of the Journal of Clinical Pathology.
Specifically, he says endoscopy could prove to be a relatively simple test to confirm persistence of enterovirus infection in CFS patients, as well as a way of following responses to antiviral treatments.
Chronic Fatigue and Immune Disorder Syndrome Association of America president Kimberly McCleary says CFS has turned out to be a much more complex illness than anyone could have predicted.
"It is unlikely that we are ever going to find just one bug to explain all cases of CFS," she says.
She points to recent research from Australia finding that three very different infections result in a CFS-like condition in 12% of cases.
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This magical 2-hour scenic cruise explores beautiful, sheltered Akaroa Harbour. You'll be cruising on the Black Cat inside an extinct volcanic crater offering spectacular scenery, featuring towering volcanic cliffs and rock formations. One of the main highlights of this cruise is your chance to see the unique endangered Hector's Dolphins at play, and the rare Little Blue Penguin as well as other marine birdlife. Your skipper knows the region like the back of his hand, and will entertain you with fascinating historical facts about Banks Peninsula, as well as pointing out the "must see" highlights of the trip. Black Cat offers one of Akaroa and Christchurch's best attractions, and our boat the Black Cat is the largest cruise boat on Akaroa Harbour, giving you unforgettable views of the wildlife and Pacific Ocean.
Akaroa is a quaint French inspired seaside village just a 90 minute scenic drive from Christchurch. It's a very popular destination with locals from Christchurch and visitors to New Zealand, offering an easy Christchurch based sightseeing trip or romantic getaway for weekends or longer stays. Akaroa has many wonderful boutique bed & breakfast accommodation options as well as hotels, motels and backpacker hostels to suit all budgets. There are also many fabulous cafes, restaurants and shops to browse, a great little movie theatre and plenty of on the water activities to enjoy.
Getting to the village is easy, with a number of companies offering transport from Christchurch to Akaroa.
About Black Cat Cruises
Black Cat Cruises started from very humble beginnings in 1985 with the launch of the Akaroa Harbour Cruise. Dolphin Swimming was introduced in 1990 and the company further expanded in 1999 with the introduction of ferry services to Diamond Harbour and Quail & Ripapa Islands. We also offer Charter cruises and private dinner cruises which makes us a great option as a Christchurch function venue. The company has grown to become the largest tourism operator in the Banks Peninsula region and we have been recognized nationally and internationally with numerous tourism and eco-tourism awards, including the Supreme Award at the New Zealand Tourism Awards.


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THG Artist of the Week: Mikey Waxby Hilton Hater at . Comments
THG is excited to present our first-ever Artist of the Week.
Readers, agents and music reps often contact our site and ask us to promote their friends or clients. We've always heard them out, but didn't feel as though any of the recommendations were worthy of this feature... until now.
Meet Mikey Wax.
A New York native and Vanderbilt University graduate, Wax released his first album in November 2008. It debuted at number-46 on the iTunes U.S. top 100 pop albums chart.
Since then, Wax has released a six-song EP ("For Better or Worse") and opened for such acts as Howie Day, Ryan Cabrera, Graham Colton and Marcy Playground. His single "In Case I Go Again" was featured on an episode of The Ghost Whisperer last month.
Wax also released his third CD in April 2010. You can actually download it for free at MikeyWax.com. We strongly urge readers to do so.
Wax will be performing in Boston and Philadelphia this summer. He's an artist on the rise, one people should keep their eyes (and ears, especially) on.
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For those genuinely interested in learning a few facts about climate change, a new report prepared for the World Bank by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics, is a good place to start. It's a lengthy report that examines implications of future warming on not just environmental systems but societal systems as well. It is an excellent synthesis of up to date peer reviewed science and has some well modelled most likely future scenarios as well. The most impressive thing about this report is that it is written so non scientific people can grasp the information. I have put a link to the report in my climate change section and a more direct link is here. Please take the time to download this report and read it….or if you score highly on the Worrall scale, write it off as "watermelon" nonsense without bothering to read it but be sure to comment on it.
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The report made both the ABC and The Age, that was about it
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Reply by Denise Scanlan (W6.5) yesterday
Well it seems the bankers are getting worried so they have put out an alarmist article in The Age.
The World Bank has warned the planet is on track to warm by four degrees Celsius this century – causing increasingly extreme heat waves, lower crop yields and rising sea levels – unless significant action is taken to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
In a major report released ahead of the year-end United Nations climate summit in Qatar, the bank says changes associated with four degrees of warming would have dramatic and devastating effects on all parts of the world, including Australia, but that the poor would be most vulnerable.
Scientists say global warming must be kept within two degrees of pre-industrial temperatures to give the world the best chance of avoiding the worst impacts of climate change.
Denier comment of the day JONova W7
"Newby probably thinks skeptics deny the "basic physics" when that's never been the case. She apparently doesn't know the models she relies use dubious assumptions to amplify the basic physics into a catastrophe. She hasn't done her research. If she had, she'd know the debate is not about the physics, but about the feedbacks"


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Nokia N9
From mobile software to hardware, as Nokia announced the launch of the N9.
The smartphone is the first and probably only device Nokia will make runing the MeeGo operating system, after committing its OS future to Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 earlier this year.
For a full look at the device and its specs, see Nokia unveils N9 - its first MeeGo smartphone.
Photo: Nokia
Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service using tablets
Mobile hardware also came in to play as Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service showed off some of the tablet computers it is using to better prepare firefighters for tackling blazes and other call-outs.
Firefighters in the service use terminals to pinpoint the location of fires and other incidents, and to learn about potential hazards - such as gas cannisters near a blaze or information on a chemical that has been spilled.
Pictured is a firefighter using mapping software on a mobile data terminal, which allows the crew to access information on the location of ongoing incidents.
To find out more about how Hampshire uses tablet technology to help it tackle fires, check out Fighting fire with tablet technology.
Photo: Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service
HP TouchPad tablet
Tablets also featured on silicon.com last month when editor Steve Ranger got a hands-on with HP's soon-to-launch TouchPad device.
The TouchPad tablet runs the Linux-based webOS and is aimed squarely at the business market.
For more on the TouchPad, as well as the Palm3 smartphone, see HP TouchPad tablet turns up the enterprise heat on Apple's iPad.
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You guys. Please. Please please please. Please stop sending me 3/4/5 page advice questions about boys every single time I do an honesty hour. Especially anonymously. I simply don't have the time or the interest to read through dozens of the same exact questions only with different wordings. I'm really trying not to be rude, and I don't answer most of them in the hopes that people will get the hint, but it doesn't seem to be working. So please. Just take this advice. It works for everything.
- If you like someone, tell them.
- If they like you back, date them.
- If they don't like you, forget them.
- If they treat you right, love them.
- If they treat you badly, leave them.
- If you don't know their true feelings, ask them.
- If they wronged you, fuck 'em.
- If they ditch you, ditch them.
- If they leave you, remember that someone out there is made just for you and will find their way in to your life when the time is right. Everything happens for a reason.
There is absolutely no reason that these tips should not work. Being afraid to ask a guy out is silly. He's a person just like you're a person and people like people and people date people and life is fucking short so grab it by the balls and then grab him by the balls and live the absolute fuck out of your one and only life.
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Children's Vaccines Health Center
New Childhood Vaccine Recommendations for a New Year
Jan. 4, 2000 (Atlanta) -- Childhood vaccine recommendations for the U.S. in the year 2000 bring several major changes, but few surprises. The annual advisory is a joint effort of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).
"People should know that immunization ranks right up there with the greatest achievements of the 20th century," Michael Gerber, MD, FAAP, a member of the AAP committee on infectious diseases, tells WebMD. "We have eliminated smallpox, are on the verge of eliminating polio, and can eliminate measles and other killer diseases. Because of the success of vaccination, people no longer realize how awful whooping cough or Haemophilus influenzaemeningitis can be. People need to remember that the benefits far outweigh the risks of vaccination."
The 2000 immunization schedule has three major changes: it recommends complete replacement of oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) with inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV); it advises routine childhood hepatitis A virus (HAV) vaccination in 11 states; and it advises continued suspension of rotavirus vaccination.
A bigger change may come later in the year when experts anticipate FDA approval of a pneumococcal vaccine capable of preventing a common cause of bacterial meningitis and pneumonia as well as bloodstream infections.
Roger Burr, MD, MPH, a medical epidemiologist at the CDC's National Immunization Program in Atlanta, tells WebMD that the most important difference this year is the change to an all-IPV schedule. The IPV contains an inactivated virus as opposed to a live virus.
ACIP chairman John F. Modlin, MD, agrees. "The change to inactivated vaccine is part of a natural progression of policy that has been taking place over the past several years," he tells WebMD. "We have had two vaccines. The oral vaccine is live, and can cause very rare cases of poliomyelitis. Because the threat of polio is diminishing on a worldwide basis, it is now considered prudent to use the inactivated vaccine."
From 1962 until the mid-1990s, the U.S. relied entirely on the oral poliovirus vaccine. Because this live vaccine replicates just like virulent polio, it could actually spread and extend vaccine coverage in areas where relatively few people actually received the vaccine -- a phenomenon called backdoor immunity.
"In communities where vaccine acceptance rates were very low, it was considered a real advantage," says Modlin, professor of pediatrics at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, N.H. "OPV was used for very valid public health reasons. But now the very small risk from IPV outweighs that benefit."
In 1997, the AAP/ACIP/AAFP recommended a change in policy to two doses of IPV followed by two doses of OPV. The Y2K recommendations thus represent further evolution of this change. Modlin says, "IPV confers excellent protection against polio. ... It's a judgement call [over which vaccine to use]; there aren't any strong data to help you one way or the other. But we haven't seen polio in this country for 20 years. I think it's a very good change."


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AWeber Email Marketing Tips
Make Yourself Memorable: Branding Your Email Campaign
Dr. Jeffrey Lant popularized the rule of seven for advertisers: It takes seven interactions with your brand for a customer to remember you and make a purchase.
It's easy to adapt this principle to your email marketing by branding your campaign. Every interaction you have with your email subscribers should stay consistent with the rest of your online presence to reinforce your brand identity.
Let me introduce email marketing's rule of 6 – the six places where your branding can shine through in your campaign!
Thank You Pages
The thank you page, where new subscribers land when they sign up to your list, is your campaign's launch pad before landing in the inbox. It's easy to use a default thank you page, but your customers get a more consistent experience when you take the time to design your own.
Keep your thank you page design consistent with the rest of your site by using the same colors, fonts and your company logo. Using the default page that AWeber provides is fine, but designing a page that stays true to your brand is better.
Whole Foods designed their thank you page to look just like the rest of their site, right down to the fonts and link colors. A thank you page that's in line with the rest of your site design presents your brand cohesively from the start.
Sender, Subject, Snippet
Your customers need to recognize you the moment you show up in the inbox. Cover all your bases with the 3 S's: sender name, subject line and snippet.
Establish your brand in the inbox from the start by using your company name as your sender or "from" name. That way, subscribers will know exactly who they're interacting with before they even open your message.
Brand your subject line with either your company's name or the name of your newsletter. Lonny Magazine brands their subject lines with their name:
…while Yoga Journal takes the second approach with their company name as the sender and the subject line reflecting their newsletter.
The third "S" is your snippet, the first line of text that shows up in the inbox preview right after your subject line in some email clients. This email from online retailer Giggle demonstrates how the snippet text looks in Gmail:
Giggle takes the snippet opportunity to include their brand name, tag line and additional information about the message content. Use your snippet to brand your message similarly and always keep it consistent.
Message Body
There are plenty of considerations when it comes to branding the message itself. Your template, your logo and the font you choose can all create a strong representation of your company in the inbox.
Livingsocial plays up these elements in their daily deal emails:
Livingsocial's branding makes their emails unmistakeable:
- They use the same colors as their web site
- They stick to the same fonts
- They lay out their email template to reflect their site's layout
- They use the same button designs and colors
- They place their logo at the top (which you can do just as easily!)
Keep the same considerations in mind when choosing or designing your email template. If you choose a pre-made template, select one that reflects the theme of your web site or a color scheme that complements your logo. The more consistently your company presents itself online, the better your customers will recognize and trust you.
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Customers appreciate a company that pays attention to details. Carry your branding through to the last campaign detail – your unsubscribe page.
An unbranded unsubscribe page feels jarring and impersonal. Imagine clicking through a designed and branded email and landing on an unsubscribe page that looks like this:
Where was I again? Whose emails am I opting out of? Which company is this? I'm a little lost.
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…plus the content I'm opting out of. The simple addition of the logo and reference to the email content provide a better customer service experience and a good reflection of their brand.
If you're using AWeber, you can add your logo and descriptions of your mailing lists with the "Personalize Your List" option on the "List Settings" page. Upload your logo in the "Company Branding" section. We'll host your logo and add it to your unsubscribe page for you.
Take advice from Copyblogger's unsubscribe page by uploading your logo and including a clear description of the list your customers are unsubscribing from. They're a customer of ours, so if you use AWeber, your additions will look similar to this example.
Sure, you don't want them to leave. But let them leave on a good note with the extra step of branding your unsubscribe page if they're leaving anyway.
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Some great tips and a timely reminder of what I have been meaning to do for a long time, namely get a template for my newsletter that matches my site and includes a Facebook and Twitter share button.11/8/2011 11:04 am
Love the examples here.
Your link to the snippets page is broken
http://www.aweber.com/blog/email-marketing/do-you-use-snippets-for-more-opens11/8/2011 12:28 pm
Thanks for the heads up, Joshua! The link is fixed now.11/8/2011 1:03 pm
Thanks for clarifying this and showing us how to tie it all together! I can and will really use this!11/8/2011 1:39 pm
Pretty good points you raised in this post! I studied advertising back in college and this is one of my subject. Branding is important because it is your advantage to your competitor. It is you, introducing who you are as a brand to your consumers. Then the next goal is making them familiar of who you are! In a typical brand awareness goal, you want your brand to be on the top of the mind when they buy products or avail services related to your brand.11/8/2011 4:57 pm
I like the bit about branding your unsubscribe page. It's not hard to do and it may just get your subscriber to change their mind (assuming you've branded yourself well in other places).11/10/2011 2:31 am
HUGE on branding throughout marketing. You do it for everything else – why wouldn't you do it for your web correspondence as well?11/10/2011 2:13 pm
Articles like this are one of the many reasons I love Aweber! This is great because we all know branding is important, so you spend just a little time setting up why it's important and then give simple ways to do it in your email campaigns. Thanks!11/21/2011 3:08 pm
Branding is important, as everyone knows. Thank you for the example of the unsubscribe page. At first I thought, why? But upon further thought I feel that the attention to detail that leads you to brand your unsubscribe page will carry over into more important pages/correspondence and ultimately pay off.11/27/2011 1:39 pm
Excellent info here! It does make me want to ask, though, if Aweber will consider upgrading its email template system. I strongly prefer Aweber because of its analytics, support, and ease of web-form creation; however, compared to some of your competitors, the templates have a real "90s" kind of look to them.
But if anyone has any suggestions about how to get some hip looking email templates, I'm all ears.12/11/2011 10:19 pm
Hi Scott,
Some of the templates in our system are a little older, but our designers are always working on newer, better ones. They're open to requests, too! If you have a certain design in mind, let us know and we'll pass your request on to our design team.12/12/2011 10:00 am
Rebekah, thank you for these concrete examples of how to include my brand in the subject line as well. I never thought of that!2/1/2012 3:12 pm


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What does the cosmos want?!?!?!?
I know this topic is not meant for a web-text-conversation, that it´s deeply existential and answers are probably only perceivable through feeling rather then thought, but perhaps we could try anyway, and explore the semantics of it together. Cosmic revelations are definitely worth sharing :)
Kevin Kelly talks about the tendency of cosmos to evolve into higher levels of organization and increase in exotropy. Cosmic technology, "particles" or whatever it is, evolves on a trajectory towards higher levels of order, increased beauty and information richness, basically continuing until matter comes alive to contemplate it´s own existence... So... There´s a question that keeps echoing in me: Why???!? What IS is the cosmos WANTS?!?!?
Why are YOU here? Not your body, YOU... The YOU that exists in souls/minds/connectomes across four degrees of separation. (Only counting human minds...)
What does the cosmos want? Why is the cosmos? Why are WE here?
EDIT: There are semantics on this subject all over google, but we could discuss it anyway, perhaps we will accomplish some novelty... :)
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Aug 27 2012: We can realize a basic law in the working of the universe. It does not want to evolve into higher levels or want to express itself by it. It simply interacts within and possibly without. This interaction then creates the forms that we experience in our cosmos, these forms than carrying on the interaction. The reason for higher levels of forms is the basic law of the universe, which is: If it can be (exist) than let it be. Some of the forms of the universe that are fragile in nature (meaning without high maintenance they would not be, like living things) need to evolve other vise they can't keep up with other forms that are do change. If the interaction between matter and form and the environment permits the existence of sad forms then these forms indeed will exist. But these forms are affecting their very own environment and trough this effect they are causing advantages and disadvantages for themselves and for others. If any form is capable of existing in this cycle, than it will. If not, than it will perish. As the situation is always changing because of the participants in it, for some forms the existence is only possible by evolving into "higher" forms. So there are no wants and needs of the universe, just a simple law. If any form or matter can exist, than it will. The very reason for why human beings are asking the question why? Is coming from our own perspective. If we would not have a why as a species (human), we would not exist. We do everything for a purpose. We eat because without it we would die. We mate, work, drink etc… because without all of our functions we would not exist. We seek purpose in everything because of it. And we tend to apply the same reasoning to everything there is. The very ability to even be able to ask the question who am I and what is my or the universe purpose is the proof of the basic law. We can ask this question, because we CAN. If we would not be able to ask we would not be homo sapience but would be something else.
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The service is just now entering beta testing, and Google invited interested mobile operators to get a private meeting for a briefing on the offering at Mobile World Congress. Interested operators can fill out a form to request a meeting.
AdSense for mobile search is a Google-hosted solution, which means users will experience the same speed, reliability and innovation that theyve come to expect from Google, said Yury Pinsky, product manager on the Google mobile team, in the blog post. And even though the results pages are served by Google, the pages can be cobranded with publishers logos and linked back to their sites.
Google originally moved AdSense to mobile last year, with a focus on allowing publishers to put text ads on their mobile Web sites.
As it did on the desktop where a good portion of its search traffic is actually purchased from partners, such as Firefox and others Google is trying to cover all its mobile bases. Its Android operating system provides its most robust platform; almost all of the content on that device, from Gmail to YouTube to Google Maps and more, can not only be augmented with ads but provide information about users that can be leveraged to better customize advertising.
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well, this article reminded me of a few things that are gonna make horde-alliance tensions high yet again...... what with deathwing using goblins as his slaves, the alliance is gonna start thinking that the whole horde is in on helping him when they take goblins into their ranks, wonder if blizz was thinking this when they came up with the new races for cata or not.
I think that the Alliance is intelligent enough to remember that the goblins are not a unified political body, and will work for *anyone* who pays them enough. The Steamwheedle Cartel is neutral, the Bilgewater Cartel will be working for the Horde. Goblins as a species are not affected by the fact that some of them work for Deathwing.


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Communities all over the world have come together in support of tsunami victims, their families, and their countries. I am happy to be taking part in a special effort by food and wine bloggers to contribute to these relief efforts. Several of the most respected and prominent food bloggers on the Internet have assembled the following menu of recipes (or in my case wine pairings) which we are providing to our readership to stimulate charitable donations (and good eating). I encourage you to take and use these recipes, drink the suggested wines, and more importantly, donate to a worthy cause. Details on my suggested wine follow below the menu.
This sake is classified as Junmai-Ginjo (one step below the finest class of sakes, Dai-Gingjo), which means that a significant portion (40%) of the rough exterior of the rice kernels were polished away before being fermented. The higher the grade of sake, the more of the kernel must be polished away before fermentation.
This is also a Nigori, or unfiltered sake, which means that it is milky or cloudy in appearance (hence the name) due to the presence of rice gluten, which are basically the lees, or the leftover bits of rice from the fermentation process. Normally, just like in grape winemaking, the sake is racked or filtered to remove this sediment, but in the case of Nigori sake, it is left in the brew, adding a slightly sweet glycerin quality to the final flavor.
Rihaku Shuzo sake brewery has been in business since 1882. It took its current name in 1928, deciding that the wandering poet Rihaku (also known as Li Po) would be a good moniker and perhaps source of inspiration. Rihaku was an itinerant poet famous for imbibing before inscribing. He was known to say "I drink a bottle, and can write 100 poems."
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A pale milky white in the glass with hints of blue, this sake has a light fresh aroma of wet wood and spring flowers. In the mouth its slightly sweet flavors that evoke Asian pears, jasmine, and rainwater. It finishes clean without much heat, and very aromatically.
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This light, slightly sweet sake is one of the few things that can match a diversity of flavors from the Indian spices of the Samosas to the fresh vegetables of the Summer Rolls, to the savory and spicy chutney that accompanies the Khari Poori. It is generally a good match for Asian cuisine that proves difficult to pair with most wines.
Overall Score: 8.5/9
How Much?: $28 per 720ml, $15 per 300ml
You can purchase this sake from various Internet merchants. It can also relatively well distributed in the US. Look for it anyplace you know that sells sake.
What a lovely sake pairing and notes Alder! And thanks again for the technical help! :-)
Excellent. If I have one regret from Japan, it's not trying nealry enough sake (but I did try). Nigiri sake is especially nice in winter for the same reason stouts are.
If you haven't got it already, could I recommend "The Insider's Guide to Sake" by Philip Harper. He's an ex-pat British sake brewer in Japan.
May we all write a thousand poems. Thanks for your invaluable work with the tech aspects.
I'd like to recommend Beau Timken's True Sake store in San Francisco. He has an amazing selection of great sakes, including the legendary "Koshi no Kanbai" from Niigata. You can check him out at www.truesake.com Cheers, Geoff
Thanks Geoff. I haven't been! What a travesty. I will go immediately.
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Wine and Food Festival, May 14-19
Billings' own Wine and Food Festival includes events, cooking demonstrations and competitions. You even have the chance to judge the Iron Chef Competition by buying a raffle ticket to be a guest judge. One of the highlights of the festival is the Iron Chef Competition, which will pit Billings' finest chefs against each other. Talented chefs from all over Montana will give an education in the Home Cooking School series during this week. Tickets range from $75 to $150 depending on the event. You can buy tickets here.
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The world's shortest man is just 27 inches tall. We should mention he is also 24 years old.
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The Colombian may not have gained an inch since he was 2 years old, but his reign as the world's "shortest" will only last until October.
That's when Khagendra Thapa Magar (pictured above), a 17-year-old from Nepal, will celebrate his birthday.
He will become a man. And take the title at just 22 inches tall.
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If falling asleep while loading up on undies isn't evidence enough that demand is seriously high for silly world records, this battle of the short people cements it.
A member of the Dwarf Association of Nepal, Magar has been lobbying hard for this gig. He tried in 2006 through the association, but that's when Guinness dug up a birth certificate.
By some reports, Magar was born Oct. 4, 1992. By others, Hernandez will get an extra 10 days -- Magar's been said to have been born on Oct. 14.
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Don't you mean vertically challenged Jeanne? LMAO!!! I know because I, too, am vertically challenged. Maybe Edward can take my motto. I'm not short, I'm fun-sized!! :P
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