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He's a guarded and self-effacing man who dislikes talking about himself. He prefers to let the facts speak for themselves, not least through those PowerPoint presentations he's so fond of. For all his wealth, he's a thrifty fellow too. As we learned from an interview with The Wall Street Journal last week, he washes his Brooks Brothers non-iron shirts in his hotel room while on the campaign trail. And indubitably, the handsome and eternally preppy Mitt Romney is a Brooks Brothers kind of guy.
But this week, there will be no place for diffidence. For a decade at least, first covertly then overtly, Romney has been seeking the presidency. Now his hour has come. The Republican convention that opens tomorrow in Tampa will formally anoint him as the party's challenger to Barack Obama in November. And if he is to win the White House, he will have to begin talking about himself, starting with these four days in Florida.
This ought be Mitt Romney's moment. He is a proven manager, just the sort of practised hand on the tiller of the storm-tossed national economy that the country yearns for. But despite a modest improvement since his choice of the dynamic Paul Ryan as running mate, he still trails the President by a point or two in national polls and – more important – by a wider margin in most of the swing states that will decide the outcome in November. This weekend Intrade, the online betting site that has called the last two US elections almost exactly, gives the President a 57 per cent chance of re-election, against a 42 per cent chance for his opponent.
Romney has not had a good summer. He has never been much of a candidate. Stilted and awkward, he finds it hard to connect with voters, and often hits the wrong note despite one of the most tightly scripted campaigns imaginable. And he hasn't improved much since wrapping up the nomination in April.
There was the clunky, gaffe-strewn trip to Britain, Israel and Poland. More damaging was the curious listlessness that allowed the Obama camp to define Romney as the callous and greedy corporate vulture from Bain Capital, whose main goal is to ensure that he and his rich chums pay as little tax as possible. The controversy over Romney and his money blew up again last week with the publication of internal Bain documents detailing the complex investments of the private equity firm's founder, many of them held offshore.
Some problems can't be laid at the candidate's door: for instance, the row over the asinine remarks on rape by the Republican senatorial candidate Todd Akin that obliterated Romney's efforts to focus on the economy and spotlighted the unruly social conservative wing of the party.
And now there's a potential real hurricane that could appear in Tampa as an uninvited guest on Monday (though at time of writing Isaac was a tropical storm, whose precise track was not yet clear). The last time a hurricane happened in Tampa was in 1921, when Warren Harding occupied the White House and Florida was a swampy, steamy backwater with a mere six electoral votes. Today's Florida is the single most coveted swing state of all with 29 – a prize Republican organisers deemed worth the risk of Mother Nature's revenge.
In even closer proximity is Vice-President Joe Biden, who will be holding events in Tampa tomorrow and Tuesday as part of an unprecedented spoiler effort by the Obama campaign. As Republicans convene in the Tampa Bay Times Forum, the President will be touring three other battleground states – Iowa, Colorado and Virginia – while Michelle Obama makes a heavily advertised appearance on the top-rated David Letterman show. Gone are the days when the parties tacitly agreed not to steal each other's convention thunder, as in 1988 when then Vice-President George Bush Snr went fishing in Wyoming during the Democrats' do in Atlanta.
But despite the competition, Tampa offers Romney his best chance of making amends for his summer shortcomings. The audience could not be friendlier. Minutely choreographed, US conventions make our party conferences look like impromptu street brawls. The latter merely signal the annual British political rentrée; a convention is a quadrennial jamboree, part four-day "info-mercial", part coronation – one that marks the start of the sole period in the four-year presidential cycle, between convention and election, when the American party out of power has a formally designated leader in its presidential nominee.
The trick is to keep disruptive views and controversial characters out of sight and, hopefully, out of mind. Republican planners have not forgotten Pat Buchanan's "culture wars" speech – echoing many of the gripes of the strident social conservatives of today – at the 1992 convention, that badly damaged the party's efforts to present a moderate face. This time, no chances are being taken.
Ex-president George W Bush, toxic emblem of the last Republican administration, is not attending (although brother Jeb, Florida's former governor and still very popular in both state and party, is). Ron Paul, the cussed 77-year-old libertarian who challenged Romney in the primaries, will not speak or have his name put in nomination. The hope is that a fulsome video tribute will placate Paul's fanatical supporters. Sarah Palin has not been invited. Newt Gingrich, another former candidate and loosest cannon of them all, has been kicked into the long grass of convention-fringe workshops. As for Joe Arpaio, the celebrated Arizona sheriff whose anti-immigration views are too hot even for today's Republican party, he reportedly will be speaking to a gathering of like-minded delegates at the local zoo on Thursday.
But Christian conservative Rick Santorum, Romney's most troublesome opponent in the primaries, will have a major speaking slot – a sign, like the choice of Ryan, of how the candidate is trying to allay the doubts of the social right. Some kind of appearance is also promised for Donald Trump, in-house Republican carnival barker, vociferous "birther" and one self-promoter for whom Romney evidently does have a soft spot.
These, however, are sideshows. A brighter spotlight will be on the party's rising stars: a trio of governors, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Nikki Haley from South Carolina, and New Jersey's pugnacious, crowd-pleasing Chris Christie, who will deliver the keynote address, as well as Florida's own pin-up-boy senator, Marco Rubio. If Romney loses in November, all four will automatically be in the frame for 2016. But the brightest spotlight of all, of course, will be on Romney himself.
And a carefully selected part, at least, of his soul will be bared. Family and friends will tell not of Mitt the business automaton but of Mitt the human being. The most important "humaniser" will be Ann Romney, a far more engaging and effective campaigner than her husband. There had been a risk that her speech, scheduled for Monday, would not be carried live on the major networks that are carrying only one hour of live convention coverage on the final three evenings. But she will now have a prime-time slot on Tuesday. The big moment will be Romney's acceptance speech on Thursday. He's no great orator, but oddly, for once he does not need to be.
Acceptance speeches rarely hit the heights: who remembers the words of Obama, the supreme orator, at Denver football stadium in 2008? This moreover is a downbeat, often downright nasty election campaign, a "lesser-of-two-evils" choice between a president who has lost the mystical aura of four years ago and an opponent who singularly fails to enthuse.
Businessmen tend to be uncomfortable politicians. They lack natural empathy with voters, and find it hard to tolerate, let alone enjoy, the absurdities of campaigning. Romney is no exception. But his calculation is that American voters aren't in the mood for a romance, à la Kennedy 1960 or Obama 2008. This time, they're less interested in sparkle than in competence. They want a practical guy, he believes, a problem-solver who can make things work. "I know what it takes to turn around difficult situations," Romney told the WSJ. Or, as he put it before: "It's nice to be loved, but it's better to be respected."
His game plan from here on in is clear. First, he pulls off a successful convention. The Tea Party and the social conservatives don't rock the boat; the Republicans come across as a reasonable bunch. The Romney/Ryan ticket thus secures a durable bounce in the polls – not on the scale of the 16 per cent boost Bill Clinton achieved in 1992, to be sure, but this year just two or three points could be the difference between winning and losing. Then a blitz on the airwaves in the home stretch. The Republicans have been out-raising Obama all summer and have been sitting on much of the cash. According to one estimate, Romney is in a position to outspend his opponent two to one on TV ads over the final months. Will the plan work? Who knows. Even the risk-averse, super-organised Romney is at the mercy of unscripted events – starting this week with Isaac.
Convention at a glance
Venue Tampa Bay Times Forum in Florida, normally used for ice hockey or concerts. A recent $40m renovation gave it a 105-rank digital pipe organ to entertain the 20,000 who can comfortably fit inside.
Attendees Officially 2,286 delegates, plus up to 50,000 spectators, caterers, security, officials, media, etc. Ron Paul's supporters have also threatened to turn out in support of the Texan congressman, who technically remains a candidate.
Theme In an attempt to "highlight America's entrepreneurial strength" – and as a riposte to Barack Obama – the party has chosen the theme "We built it". The President said last month that government, not business, was responsible for creating jobs and an environment in which business could flourish.
Speakers The big one is Mitt Romney, who will attempt to win over a public still doubtful of his charms. His wife, Ann, has been drafted, while the keynote address will come from the New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie. Other headliners, such as the former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, reveal the party's concerns over its flagging appeal to female voters.
Resolutions The most controversial is a constitutional amendment outlawing abortion with no explicit exceptions for cases of rape or incest. A second is said to oppose Mr Obama in upholding a federal law that bars recognition of same-sex couples. And a third would ban consideration of foreign law in US courts: a measure aimed at the as-yet-unrealised prospect of Sharia playing a part in the US justice system.
History Florida is a key marginal, its chad-ridden vote in 2000 between George W Bush and Al Gore going all the way to the Supreme Court. Both times the Republicans came here for their convention, in 1968 and 1972, their candidate won the presidency.
Weather Meteorologists predict Hurricane Isaac will hit Florida the same day as the convention.
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Four years ago, the scientists at Swiss-based pharmaceutical brand Pentapharm—the keepers of a Brazilian snake farm used for medical testing—discovered a link between anti-aging and the paralysis-inducing properties of temple-viper venom. If the viper could send its victims into a permanent stupor with its venom, they reasoned, perhaps the same science could be used to tame crow's feet and forehead furrows. So they developed SYN-AKE, a topical synthetic tripeptide that mimics the protein in venom responsible for inhibiting neuromuscular activity. When applied to the skin, SYN-AKE relaxes the "frowning and grimacing" muscles that lead to deep wrinkles.
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We do not live in the past, but the past in us. — U.B. Phillips1
The vision of a Greater Separation of Powers is the idea that the great centers of power in modern society ought to be kept separate, and forbidden to combine with each other to dominate the others. That is what Michael Novak argues in his Spirit of Democratic Capitalism. There are three power sectors in modern society, political, economic, and moral/cultural, that have condensed out of the compact social order of pre-modern society. They are the basis of our freedom and our prosperity. But they are also dangerous and their powers need to be curbed. But how? The three powers need to be kept separate, just like the three branches of government, and prevented from combining to gang up on the other sector. Novak dug out the hidden goal towards which modern conservatism has been struggling towards since its emergence in the late 18th century in the revolt of Edmund Burke against the French Revolution and its rule of Reason. The great systematic powers of the modern world, the powers that have emancipated us from rural idiocy, but have also enslaved us with their dominations, the three power sectors of politics, economy, and moral culture: they must be kept separate.
We do not mean by conservatism, as the critics charge, an unreflecting tradition that follows without thought the "way" of the ancestors. Nor do we countenance it as a cynical defense of the ruling class and its privilege. Conservatism, ever since Burke, has been a self-conscious culture of tradition, that is, a culture that recognizes that, whatever we know, whatever we have learned, we still see through a glass darkly, and not face to face. We do not know what in our traditions is essential and what is dispensable. Conservatives only want to balance tradition, the unconscious accumulation of social expertise, the lifeworld of the taken-for-granted and the always already familiar, with an evolutionary process of consciously righting wrongs and adapting to changing times. Thus, a century before Freud "discovered" the unconscious, the First Conservative inaugurated a program that balanced conscious wisdom and unconscious "always already" instinct, founding human society upon the basis of the natural social bonds between man and man. And conservatives also experience themselves in a partnership between the past and the future: "a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are yet to be born."2
In a profound way, Edmund Burke's four great campaigns marked out for all of us already the program of modern conservatism. On America, he urged the folly of trying to rule that continent from Britain; on India, he championed the end of the ages-old warrior culture of imperial pillage and plunder with his ten year campaign to impeach Warren Hastings, the governor of Bengal; on Ireland, he championed the emancipation of Catholics; on France, he drove the first stake in the ground against the hegemony of reason and system. In homage to Burke let us take his four campaigns and rewind them into three strands of conservatism and illuminate each one.
First of all there is cultural conservatism, which finds its founding statement in Burke's declaration that we, the generation of the living, have a contract both with our dead ancestors and with generations yet unborn. Then there is so-called economic conservatism that begins with Adam Smith's declaration of the Invisible Hand, that there is a natural instinct for cooperation between people that directs them into socially beneficial actions even when they are merely seeking their own self-interest. Then there is the political conservatism that begins with Montesquieu's doctrine of the three branches of government and the separation of powers.
To identify these three strands of conservatism is to express the irony of its name and its program: for it is not really conservative at all. While cultural conservatism is certainly conservative it accepts that the past not fixed for all time, but merely a challenge to the living generation to honor its legacy and build a world that honors the sacrifices of the past. Economic conservatism is not really conservative all all, but a radical break with a past that took it for granted that all economic affairs required detailed top-down supervision to prevent a chaos of economic free-for-all, that the bosses needed to tell the workers what to do and when. Instead it recognizes that economic actions begin with the radical uncertainty of divining and serving other peoples' needs. And political conservatism is nothing if not radical in its faith in distributed power. It honors the natural aristocracy of talent and wisdom while deprecating the oligarchy of power.
The cultural strand begins with Burke and his jeremiad against the mechanical culture of the Age of Reason, its reduction of everything to Newtonian mechanics and "sophisters, economists, and calculators," and it continued in the 19th century with people like George Eliot, who argued for the dignity and the competence of ordinary people, from Adam Bede to Maggie Tulliver to Mary Garth and to Mirah Lapidoth. And that is to say nothing about the girl from rural Colorado, Thea Kronberg, in Willa Cather's The Song of the Lark. Today, after the convulsions of 20th century totalitarianism, we have sadder, wiser leftists like Jürgen Habermas sidling towards a mitigation of the power of system, the domination of reason, by balancing it with the intersubjectivity, the reciprocity of the communicative lifeworld. We have Berger and Neuhaus arguing for the dignity of authentic self-governing mediating structures between the individual and the mega-structures of big government and big corporations. We have Lawrence Cahoone and his Civil Society: The Conservative Meaning of Liberal Politics working out the way in which ordinary people can live and cooperate in dignity, equality and freedom. And there is Charles Taylor, a liberal Canadian philosopher, who makes a liberal case for a society that refines the modern moral order of freedom, equality, dignity, and expressive creativity into a blend that balances ordinary flourishing with a yearning for a higher meaning. It is not just conservatives that have rebelled against the culture of the mechanical life. The Romantics rebelled famously against the sterility of reason; after them the Young Hegelians developed the notion of the alienation of modern life and their rebellion thrives today in the expressionism, existentialism, and environmentalism of early 21st century culture.
The economic strand that begins with Adam Smith and his Invisible Hand was expanded with Ricardo's law of comparative advantage. Then in 1870 came the marginal revolution that resolved the apparent dichotomy between the idea of exchange value and intrinsic value. Then in 1920 Mises demonstrated the impossibility of economic calculation under socialism: without a market you cannot have prices, and without prices you cannot know the cost of anything. This, if anything, exploded the conceit of Marx that a market for labor represented an alienation of social labor. If by getting rid of capitalism you do not know what your labor is worth to others then how can you decide whether you are alienated or not? Finally Hayek showed the impossibility of bureaucratic centralism: the man in Washington cannot hope to out-think the millions of consumers and producers. The idea that only a wise ruler can negotiate the conflicts of a people is shown to be impossible. People do better negotiating with each other than through a political middle-man from the government; a Barnacle or a Stiltstocking knows only How Not to Do It.
If Adam Smith invented the Invisible Hand, Max Weber extended it with the notion of work as a calling, the Protestant Ethic that informed the spirit of capitalism; then he found that the whole urban western tradition had developed a culture that dissolved the age-old loyalty to kindred and legitimized the possibility of trusting strangers. In the western city, he argued, Christianity taught people to live as individuals and to extend trust beyond the boundaries of kindred towards anyone that could be trusted.3 The community of neighborhood, church, association and nation replaced the community of the kindred. You can see Weber's theory confirmed in the life of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali girl born into the ageless culture of clan and tribe. From clan daughter in Somalia she became against all odds an educated individual in Holland and an activist for women's rights as individuals.4 Then the Frankfurt School extended Heidegger's concern about domination into a critique of instrumental reason that looked forward in Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action to a move away from system and reason and towards conversation and negotiation of truth values as a basis of community. In the 21st century we have George Gilder reformulating the workings of capitalism in terms of the communications theory of Claude Shannon, that each economic innovation is an incident of surprise in a sea of noise.
The political strand that begins with Montesquieu's idea of the three branches of government, legislative, executive, and judicial, was implemented with astonishing success by James Madison in the US Constitution. It remains unequaled in its approach to the political problem: how do you give government enough power to fight enemies, foreign and domestic, yet not so much power that it can oppress its legitimate opponents? Yet its majority politics is critiqued by modern public choice theory. James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock showed in The Calculus of Consent that the only just basis of legislation is unanimous consent, for it forces the majority to pay the costs of the minority in order to get its support. The control of government power requires constant vigilance, and the 20th century ruling class betrayed the vision of the founders with the notion of a "living constitution," a construction that broadly licensed the ruling class, through its control of the judiciary and the culture, to amend the constitution without ratification by the people.
But now comes the task to combine the three strands into an integrated social philosophy, and that is where Michael Novak comes in. He extended the separation of powers doctrine from Montesquieu's rule about government to a philosophy about society as a whole, thus binding together the three strands of modern conservatism into a single rope. Differentiating society into three sectors, economic, political, and moral/cultural, he proposes what we have called here a Greater Separation of Powers. In this view the separation of church and state, specified in the First Amendment prohibition of an establishment of religion, is extended to the notion of a separation of powers between each of the three sectors: not just separation of church and state — the separation of political and moral/cultural power — but separation of economic and political power and separation of economic and moral/cultural power. Thus politics, economy, and culture are free to develop within their own sectors without subjection to the domination of a totalitarian combination of powers.
In Status Anxiety Alain de Botton rehearses the great moral stories that have been told about status, about rich and poor. Do the rich deserve to be rich, or are they crooks? Are the poor deservedly so, or are they held down by the evil rich? Let us rehearse here the stories about the government and the people that tell us the moral framework of modern conservatism.
First Story:
Government is force and force destroys society; you must limit government if you desire to reduce force and exploitation.
How do you limit force so that people are "forced" to solve their problems without force? You limit government with the political conservatism of Montesquieu and the founders. You hive government away from a corrupt condominium with the economic sector and the temptations of crony capitalism; you keep government away from leaking into the moral-cultural sector following the temptation of an established religion to force its moral vision upon others.
Second Story:
Politics is division and turns people against each other; you must limit political power if you want people to stop fighting each other and start cooperating.
Cultural conservatism teaches that it is religion and culture that teach cooperation and mutual assistance. Modern totalitarian secular religions, on the contrary, start with a declaration of irreconcilable differences that can only be resolved by force. Marxism must start with the notion that the workers are exploited and that nothing short of political revolution can fix it. Modern progressivism must start with the notion that certain groups are permanently marginalized and that they must fight the rest of society to get their rights. Unfortunately, their tactics confirm their faith in force. If you mobilize to fight a holy war against the bosses, chances are the bosses will organize to fight right back; if you organize the marginalized to fight for their rights against the racists, sexists and homophobes, you force racists, sexists, and homophobes to push back. Modern secular religions that campaign for a collapse of the separation between the sector of force and the sector of meaning must end up by creating a totalitarianism that enforces meaning with government coercion. Cultural conservatism teaches people to think first about what they can contribute to society and do something about it before they ask what society owes them.
Third Story:
System is domination and sets the powerful over the powerless; you must limit system to give the powerless a defense against power.
The authoritarian delusion implemented in the welfare state is that ordinary people just don't have the information, the knowledge to manage their own health care, to educate their own children, to buy safe and reliable products. Economic conservatism shows that they are wrong. The unconscious organism of the price "system" automatically selects desirable health plans that most people like; it automatically prefers schools that most people want to send their children to; it penalizes producers that sell defective products. This does not require that each individual possess encyclopedic information about all options; it merely demonstrates that the collective impact of millions of individual decisions based on partial knowledge adds up to a wealth of knowledge that a corps of policy analysts in Washington DC can never approach.
A world illuminated by this triple conservative vision is one where people can live independent and free under institutions that will protect freedom while encouraging social cooperation and punishing freeloading. With cultural conservatism the bonds of tribal loyalty are sundered and people are socialized within moral/cultural associations such as churches and mutual-benefit associations. With economic conservatism people are freed from the cramped limitations of the family economy and economically socialized to work that benefits the stranger. In political conservatism people are socialized for and protected by a state with powers limited to the essential tasks for which force is required.
Now all we need is the implementation. And that starts, after the horror of Obama, with persuading the American people to abandon the welfare state's Battle of the Benefits, the reduction of social life to a political scramble for entitlement loot, and in that act of renunciation transform America from its current shame as a robber band of Takers into a land that is first of all a society of Makers.
1Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, quoted by Thomas Sowell in Conquests and Cultures, Basic Books, 1998, p.3.
2Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Collier, 1937, p. 232.
3Max Weber, The City, Free Press, 1958, p. 100, 103.
4Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel, Free Press, 2007.
Christopher Chantrill blogs at www.americanmanifesto.org.
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or at least to alleviate the felt uneasiness.
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But I saw a man yesterday who knows a fellow who had it from a chappie
that said that Urquhart had been dipping himself a bit recklessly off the deep end.
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At first, we thought [the power of the West] was because you had more powerful guns than we had. Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next we focused on your economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity.
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[In the] higher Christian churches... they saunter through the liturgy like Mohawks along a string of scaffolding who have long since forgotten their danger. If God were to blast such a service to bits, the congregation would be, I believe, genuinely shocked. But in the low churches you expect it every minute.
Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm
Civil Societya complex welter of intermediate institutions, including businesses, voluntary associations, educational institutions, clubs, unions, media, charities, and churchesbuilds, in turn, on the family, the primary instrument by which people are socialized into their culture and given the skills that allow them to live in broader society and through which the values and knowledge of that society are transmitted across the generations.
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Conservatism is the philosophy of society. Its ethic is fraternity and its characteristic is authority the non-coercive social persuasion which operates in a family or a community. It says we should....
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When we received Christ, Phil added, all of a sudden we now had a rule book to go by, and when we had problems the preacher was right there to give us the answers.
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I mean three systems in one: a predominantly market economy; a polity respectful of the rights of the individual to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and a system of cultural institutions moved by ideals of liberty and justice for all.
In short, three dynamic and converging systems functioning as one: a democratic polity, an economy based on markets and incentives, and a moral-cultural system which is plural and, in the largest sense, liberal.
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There was nothing new about the Frankish drive to the east... [let] us recall that the continuance of their rule depended upon regular, successful, predatory warfare.
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We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.
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Paws Up was pleased to welcome the following distilleries for Montana Master Grillers 2016. The 2017 guest distilleries will be announced soon.
Dulce Vida Organic Tequilas
Dulce Vida produces the only 100-proof organic tequilas in the world. The company's tequilas, certified as 100 percent organic by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), are extremely drinkable and have praised as "hot and full of flavor . . . perfect straight up and in your favorite cocktail" by TEQUILA.net.
Although they are headquartered in Austin, Texas, Dulce Vida sources its tequila from the Los Altos highlands in the Tequila region of Mexico. This area is well known for producing larger, fruitier agave (ideal for tequila), because of the region's unique climate characteristics and its fresh air and clean soil. The organic agave ensures that Dulce Vida makes tequila the way tequila has always tasted best: pure and powerful and free of any additives. The tequila is distilled in Mexico as well.
In its short market tenure, Dulce Vida has quickly become a highly decorated and recognized craft tequila, lending to the company's claim to be the "Most Awarded Tequila" of all. Top honors have been earned from the San Francisco World Spirits Competition, the New York International Spirits Competition, the Los Angeles International Spirits Competition, the SIP Awards and TEQUILA.net. Dulce Vida has also garnered first place medals from several recognized packaging associations.
RoughStock Distillery
RoughStock Distillery of Bozeman, Montana, is another featured distillery at Montana Master Grillers, and Paws Up's appreciation for small-batch whiskeys is at an all-time high as a result. RoughStock became Montana's first legal distillery since Prohibition when it opened in 2009 and the first to make whiskey in Montana in more than 100 years. With the beautiful grain grown throughout Montana and the pure mountain snowmelt in the state's lakes, streams and rivers, it was a no-brainer that Montana was meant for making whiskey. Paws Up is overjoyed that RoughStock answered the call.
Tito's Handmade Vodka
Tito's Handmade Vodka will be a big part of Montana Master Grillers, and Paws Up couldn't be more excited about that. Not only is Tito's headquartered in Austin, Texas—a town known for its fabulous barbecue—Tito's is also produced at the oldest legal distillery in Texas. The founder and owner of Tito's, Tito Beveridge, came up with his award-winning recipe for vodka after years of experimentation and trial and error, and the company was literally built with his own hands (and his own money) from the ground up. Part of his goal was to make a vodka that was so smooth you could drink it straight, so the company utilized a process similar to that used to make high-end French cognacs and fine single-malt scotches. And that's still the process that Tito's uses today, producing vodka in small batches with old-fashioned pot stills and taste-testing every batch to make sure vodka lovers get the best vodka available. The process requires more skill and effort than others, but it's well worth it.


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on 19 January 2017 - 11:00 PM
Very Nice work
Thanks for sharing
Posted by diggy
on 17 October 2016 - 09:37 PM
Love the krait image......
Posted by diggy
on 14 April 2016 - 11:28 PM
I have used the SMC and have got some really good images which are tac sharp. The really difficult part is using this with the Nauticam super multiplier added to the SMC. Here are some images that have been taken with both stacked together. I was quite pleased with the bokeh kind of result. BUT NOT easy to use.
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on 11 March 2016 - 12:10 AM
Thoroughly enjoyed watching this Dustin. Lovely footage and work.
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on 11 March 2016 - 12:02 AM
I carry the housing(minus ports) and strobes in my laptop haversack. The camera's/lenses/video lights etc are in my lowepro hand carry cabin bag with rollers. The large dome, arms, 60mm and 100mm ports are in my checkin dive bag.
Posted by diggy
on 31 December 2015 - 12:06 AM
Beautiful editing and transitions from live to the actual painting.
Posted by diggy
on 29 April 2014 - 01:38 AM
Hi Ammar,
On a twilight/night dive, i forgot to open the strobe on the camera, which was inside the housing. Luckily had also attached two sola 2000 and shot some images with both on full power. There was some processing involved, but here are two examples. Unless u have some really powerful lights, i dont believe that video lights are really an option for still images. Though for stationary and slow moving subjects they may work. Increasing the ISO would help solve this problem, albeit not completely in my opinion.
The puffer was shot 1/100 @ f 4.5 ISO 100 and the frog fish 1/50 @ f 4.5 ISO 100
I had seen a guy in Phillipines shooting with two sola's 4000 lumen each with some nice results.
Hope this helps.
Posted by diggy
on 17 February 2014 - 11:05 PM
Beautiful Images..On my Bucket list !
Thanks for Sharing
Posted by diggy
on 07 April 2013 - 12:53 AM
I would suggest the smaller dome for the simple reason that its easier to maneuver while in and through the cage bars. The only issue is that with a smaller dome the strobes have to be closer together than the wider dome. BUT i guess you will be taking pictures sans the strobes and manually white balance. So go with the smaller one. I have not seen a herculean difference in images with both except that the smaller dome is better for CFWA pics.
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Blue Notes drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo's quartet with three of London's finest improvisers--Jason Yarde on sax, John Edwards on bass, and Alexander Hawkins on piano--in live studio recordings of exciting and impressive structured free improv.
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"Recorded live in studio following two ecstatically received concerts at Cafe Oto in London the legendary South African drummer Louis Moholo-Moholo demonstrates just why it is he's in the same class as Billy Higgins, Elvin Jones, Sunny Murray and Ed Blackwell in a generation of drummers who devised means of negotiating the new rhythmic freedoms of the 60s. This working quartet, featuring three of London's finest musicians, could well prove to be Louis' best band in a long career. As journalist Richard Williams says "...the listener is overwhelmed by the feeling that there might be no end to the beauty conjured by this extraordinary combination of musicians." Say no more. The album also marks the 40th anniversary of Ogun Records, an independent beacon to new music through dark times."-Ogun Records
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The grand canal shopping can really let you forget the time and makes you keep on window shopping. Of course there are many interesting things happening. Employed buskers are...
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Its nothing compared to original. Very small and the water was quite dirty with shopping bags and plastic bottles thrown... closes also earlier then expected. Shops are same as everywhere else. I wouldnt recommend paying money for canal boat experience.
Apart from the obvious tourist attraction of a gondola ride on the canals inside the Venetian hotel, there is also plenty to do in browsing through the shops alongside the canal. Shops, restaurants and bars of many varieties provide ampole interest and you can spend a long time just meandering around following the route of the canal.
The grand canal shopping can really let you forget the time and makes you keep on window shopping. Of course there are many interesting things happening. Employed buskers are everywhere to entertain the guests. Guest can purchase ticket for the Gondola ride. There are cafes and restaurants scattered around the grand canal for cup of coffee, a bit, or a...
You can get almost all the brands you want here all under the blue painted skies and in the comfort of a fully air conditioned area.
With its perpetual blue sky and 4 canals with gondolas on it, this place looks like Venice. Many shops around and we had some difficulties finding our way around there as it's quite huge ... The Grand Canal Shoppes is integrated to the Venitian hotel/casino. There are some nice restaurants there, it tool us quite some time to locate one...
The Grand Canal Shoppes is very famous place in The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel. There is a place that many visitors will come because it has a lot of shops and it is specialties. There is a long river in it and you can pay to set on the boat to see the whole shopping mall. There is a little...
My friend and I were going to watch a concert. Before we watched it, we thought it is still early and we decided to walk around Venetian. We both like the architecture there because it refers to Venice in Italy, which is extraordinary comparing to other hotels. Since it is an indoor shopping area, it is very comfortable and there...
The Grand Canal Shoppes is famous in Macau.It is located in Castella Street, Di Moda Street and San Luca Street on Level 3, Macau, China. The design of this shopping center is similar to the Venice.There is a small river and many shop along the river.This design attract many tourist. There are many kine of shops in it.Such as sports,...
The Venetian Shopping Center, it is the largest indoor shopping center in Macau. It is located on the third floor of the Venetian Macao Resort. It is collection of shopping malls, food outlets and three canals.
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Fresh off of a Best Feature win at last night's Gotham Awards, Moonrise Kingdom picked up more momentum as the awards season officially gets underway. This morning, the film picked up five Independent Spirit Award nominations including nods in best feature, best director (Wes Anderson), best supporting actor (Bruce Willis) as well as best screenplay and cinematography.
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Good honest pub grub. 2 of us had cumberland sausage and one had a veggie burger all plates demolished. Lovely setting reasonable prices and great service. Well worth a visit
Arrived at 7 it was busy but we got a table and were made to feel so welcome. Great service, generous portions of tasty food, thank you so much.
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We have an IPBoard 3.4.2 Forum being developed and I require a math plugin to be installed in the posting editor.
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Can you cross a Regal with a zonal. I wouldn't doubt tht scientists in a lab,
using embryo rescue techniques, could. But for the average Joe Gardener the
answer is no. The reason is that the parents of regals and the parents of
zonals are more distantly related. Not only do they have different basic
chromosome numbers, but they also have different chromosome sizes. However,
the plants in section Pelargonium, like P. citronellum, P.tomentosum, P.
capitatum, etc. all have the same basic chromosome number and size as regals.
Sorry I got side tracked. Back to the basic topic of hybridizing.
I use telephone cord wire to hold my label. I cut the wire into manageable
sized sections, maybe a foot in length, strip off a section of insulation,
and pull the three wires out. The wires are thin and also insulated and wrap
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Carla Alberghetti
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Carla Alberghetti (born 24 June 1939) is an actress and soprano singer.
Alberghetti made her singing debut at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in 1955, singing "Un bel di" from Puccini's Madama Butterfly.[1] In 1960 she appeared in a touring production of the musical Kismet[2] opposite baritone Gordon MacRae. Carla Alberghetti took over the role of Lili in Carnival from her older sister, Anna Maria Alberghetti, who had won a Tony Award as Best Actress (Musical) for the part, before it closed on Broadway in 1963, and took the show on the road,[3] starring opposite Ed Ames and Ray Danton.
- ^ Arlen, Walter (July 25, 1955). "Alberghettis Everywhere During Concert in Bowl" (fee required). Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
- ^ "Kismet Role Goes To Carla Alberghetti". Milwaukee Sentinel. September 25, 1960. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
- ^ Sheward, David (1994). It's a hit!: the back stage book of longest-running Broadway shows: 1884 to the present. Back Stage Books. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-8230-7636-9.
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Asked May 4 by
George Stephanopoulos
to name a single economist who supports her proposed gas tax holiday,
Hillary Clinton
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Bill Clinton
's Administration.
It was these mainstream economists who wholeheartedly supported NAFTA with as few restrictions as possible. They insisted that cutting the budget deficit was the nation's highest economic priority, even as the government generated enormous budget surpluses by the late 1990s. Instead of investing those surpluses in transportation, education or healthcare, Clinton passed them on to
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Hillary Clinton may well be a critic of some of these economic policies now, but she also apparently thinks the economists she knows–the ones who had her husband's ear–represent the totality of solid and relevant economic thought. In fact, many good economists have different views on trade and fiscal policies and cannot get a hearing. Mainstream economists and public policy analysts have produced very good research on the financial payoff from government investment in infrastructure and pre-K education. Some respected mainstream and many progressive economists have shown that high taxes and big government are not impediments to prosperity and may often contribute to it through sensible and needed social programs. Many economists have made intelligent, well-documented cases for the return of financial regulation. But these arguments go mostly unheeded.
In terms of integrity and capability, however, Bill Clinton's mainstream economists towered over Ronald Reagan's advisers, who had but one thing to say: cut taxes. That's what's distressing about Hillary Clinton's remarks. She actually sided with Reagan's heirs, like former Congressman
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Gelatin Rice Salad
4 Jun 2009
Gelatin Rice Salad is best served on crisp lettuce. This Gelatin Rice Salad combines the richness of gelatin with that of pineapple and whipped cream. Try adding this Gelatin Rice Salad to your party menu next time.
|Raspberry gelatin/Lime gelatin
|3 Ounce
|Boiling water
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Cooked rice
|2 Cup (32 tbs), drained and sweetened
|Crushed pineapple
|3⁄4 Can (7.5 oz), drained (1 small can)
|Whipped cream
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
Dissolve gelatin in boiling water.
Add rice.
Chill for 2 to 3 hours so rice will take up flavor of the gelatin.
Blend pineapple and whipped cream into gelatin mixture.
Serve on crisp lettuce.
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Difficulty Level:Easy
Course:Side Dish, Fruit Dessert
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Serving size
Calories 189 Calories from Fat 90
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 10 g15.4%
Saturated Fat 6.7 g33.3%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 41.4 mg13.8%
Sodium 9.8 mg0.4%
Total Carbohydrates 20 g6.7%
Dietary Fiber 0.37 g1.5%
Sugars 7 g
Protein 1 g2.9%
Vitamin A Vitamin C 4.7%
Calcium 1.9% Iron 3.6%
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Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 11:46:45 -0500
As you are a part of ours. Melody (and family) and I are both heading to
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could do that bus trip thing and see everyone's gardens!
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>Thank you to all for the kind words. I feel like I have been thru the
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> Still raining and temps down to 40 last night but, wow, the garden
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>but ..... I am replacing it with a Pagoda Dogwood which I talked with a
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