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A Family, Beauty, Health and Lifestyle Blog
Does your little one hate brushing their teeth? When my son, Braxton (now ten years old) was a toddler, there was nothing he hated more than brushing his teeth. It got to the point that I would have to lay him on his back and pin him down, using the opportunity of his screaming to get the dang toothbrush in his mouth. He sounded like a wounded chimpanzee, and I felt horrible having to practically wrestle with my baby to give his teeth a good cleaning.
Thankfully, a doctor who is also a Mommy, developed a unique and fun way to make teeth brushing fun for kids! It is called The Brushies.
The Brushies is the world's first finger puppet toothbrush for infants and toddlers. The book and puppet system makes a once challenging daily routine fun, setting kids up with a healthy habit for life and turning what's often a battle of wills into a beautiful bonding routine.
With dental decay topping the charts as the number one chronic childhood condition in the world today, the two doctor moms behind The Brushies took it upon themselves to drill a dent in this unhealthy epidemic and make brushing fun for all.
What it is: The Brushies is an adorable set of finger puppets that have gentle bristles that are perfect for a baby's and toddler's little mouths. Each Brushies finger puppet is a cute little character that your child will love. The Brushies helps your child feel more at ease with brushing their teeth. You can purchase the finger puppet toothbrushes individually, or in a set that comes with a fun story book.
You can't go wrong with Willa the Whale, Momo the Monkey, Pinky the Pig, or Chomps the Dino! You can add a little bit of toothpaste, or just use water at first, until your child is accustomed to the feel of the brush in their mouth.
Fun Fact: Can you believe that it is recommended to start brushing baby's teeth (or just their gums) at 4 weeks old?
To find out more about The Brushies, or to purchase go to: https://thebrushies.com
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Seattle-based shoegaze/post-punk/dream rock collective Nostalgist – comprised of Asa Eisenhardt and his cohorts in music – has been dazzling crowds since 2012 and, with the release of new music and their journey only gets brighter from here. March's Disaffection gave us even more reason to keep our eyes peeled for live performances, its raw sound and instrumentals often giving us chills.
Check out the new album in its entirety below, as well as a quick interview with frontman Asa Eisenhardt about it all.
While writing music, has there ever been a time where you have experienced a severe case of writer's block? How did you resolve it?
Yeah, constantly. If I have enough time I'll just try to play through it as best I can– let my mind wander and hope for the best. I might also try working from a basic theory concept as well, like chord inversions, where relevant. In the bigger picture, as with most songwriters, I just make sure to write down and/or record whatever idea I'm working on as it might click into place at a later point. This question has reminded me to consult Eno's Oblique Strategies cards more often.
During your time as an artist, have you been able to accomplish your goals or are you still working towards them?
Ideally, in my mind, it's both: taking stock of and expressing gratitude for one's opportunities and accomplishments while also keeping steady sights on the proverbial road and goals ahead.
When you are touring and performing on different stages, how do you pass the time?
We've only done one tour, which was down the West Coast about 3 years ago. In transit, time was passed with pretty standard stuff like conversation and listening to music. During venue downtime, I'm usually doing vocal warmups and/or trying to get in a good headspace.
Apart from music, what would you say your true passion is?
I have a number of other interests, but music is absolutely my true passion.
What can your current and future fans expect from you before the end of the year? Is there any exciting news that you can share with us?
I'm slowly figuring out a remix release. One of them is finished, a few others are in a nebulous state and some are still yet to be determined. These will be complete reinventions using the componentry of a certain track on our new MLP. I've also acquired multitrack audio from our record show for a possible live album of some manner, but haven't listened back in a proper studio environment yet.
Performance-wise, we're playing two local shows this summer — a serious goth banger on July 5th with Nox Novacula (Seattle goth 'n' roll that's taken the city by force in just a handful of months) and Twin Tribes (synthy jams, on tour from New Jersey). The other one is August 2nd and we'll be revealing more about that one as the date approaches.
Is there one thing that inspires your music, or is there a wide variety of things that help you come up with the lyrics and accompanying music?
I've taken to the phrase "love and lack thereof" as being the central inspiration/subject matter. Film always plays a role as well, usually in how I mentally envision the imagery I'm trying to capture with words or atmosphere. In the first few years, that always meant classic noir, but I've branched out a bit. Really, it's anything I can aesthetically repurpose. For instance, the cover still of our new record comes from L'Avventura. I stumbled across it on the internet and the vibe I got from it, along with the water imagery capturing an identical and ubiquitous lyrical element I often refer to, was so immediately perfect for these songs. While I enjoyed the film, I found it to be a bit different than what I was expecting. Presented alone, however I still love what the image does.
Additionally, I do have clinical depression, and while I am almost always a happy, goofy individual, things can sometimes be difficult. Once I bounce back from these periods and have time to reflect, I can often lyrically channel those feelings in a healthy way. I'm definitely drawing on my own experiences and filtering them through the aesthetics and influences I hold near and dear, but I also try to keep things just vague enough so other people can relate or maybe project them onto the song to their own cathartic end.
Has there been anyone in particular that has helped get you to where you are today?
Broadly speaking, I'd say a large number of people have, including past and present bandmates, my encouraging parents, and so forth. But to be more specific, in terms of magnitude, Evan Foster's mentorship from both a musical and production standpoint has been unquantifiably beneficial– without him, this band would be nothing. Similarly, all four members of Agalloch were supportive from the getgo, not least of which Aesop. His guest drumming on the new record put some serious fire underneath the songs, and set a standard for the future.
Keep up with Nostalgist here.
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text: In March 2011 I launched the Super Strumps project at the WOW Festival at The Southbank Centre, a collaboration with writer Syd Moore.It is a project that explores the debate around female stereotypes and re-presents these as strong, humorous images and text in the form of a Trumps style card game. This game forms the basis of workshops and events that raises questions about how much control we have over the way we are perceived and how we might want to change that by reclaiming the simplistic labels projected on to us by mass media. We aim to take these workshops into schools and the workplace to challenge the effects of negative language. The project crosses over into my own practice through my use of female archetypes as motifs: historic, mythical, literary, psychoanalytic. We are currently developing a range of merchandise to expand the project commercially.


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One of the unfortunate side effects of being part of a Digital World, is that there is a need to label everything. You might question this, saying one always used adjectives to qualify and describe stuff.
And there is a difference. The domain of the adjectives is more personal, local, subjective, and open to random useful change. Like milk, that boils, sometimes splits, curdles, aggregates, even gets hung up , and becomes paneer without making a song and a dance about it.
Labels is something more global. Someone decides what can be called cheese, and you comply, varieties/definitions/parameters et al, without worrying whether you really need it. At some point you start believing in labels. And forget that things were just fine before that.
Like with the label SAHM. Otherwise read as Stay-At-Home Mom.
In a boring digital world, this means someone who alternates between cooking, cleaning, child-managing, official picker-up of stuff around the house, catering to whims and fancies, visitors, advising relatives, and then stresses out at the lack of intellectual pursuits and what is called "me time" . (All these things are again labels, that mean something specific. Intellectual pursuits defined by your professional training, and "me time" could be anything from stationery cycling , reading, writing, gym , singing, socializing, et al)
In my time, my mother was what you would call a SAHM. Thankfully she couldn't be bothered by nomenclatures. She was a post grad from Columbia University (1948) in Food, Nutrition and Child Development, and was in her element as a SAHM, despite assorted obstacles in her path by those , who had very narrow views about things.
She learned to drive a car, so as to be useful when my father was posted away from home in his transferable job. At a time when bread was becoming ultra fashionable at breakfast time, (with people mindlessly devouring it slathered with butter and sugar), her kids had fresh moong dal khichdi, sometimes bhakri, with poha papad and ghee along with a small glass of fresh orange juice, for which she would drive once a week to the big mandi to source her juice walla oranges, to the great delight of the vendors. As someone who never tasted an egg in her life, she ensured that her kids had occasional omelettes with loads of dhaniya etc, and a lot of her effort was directed towards sourcing hand pounded rice, so necessary in our B-12 deprived vegetarian diets. I remember the Khadi Village shops would sell this rice, and after they stopped, she had a threshing "hole" installed in our garage, and two old people would periodically come and do the slow manual dehusking of paddy she sourced and purchased from admiring farmers on the outskirts of the city..
All this was just part of what she did. She and my father played badminton and tennis on weekends, in a plot in our colony, with our neighbors. No special clothes, sarees tucked in , Bata canvas shoes, sometimes barefoot, and as soon as it was possible, we children started on our own regular sports in school and out of it. One of my most abiding unforgettable memories is that of doing 30 suryanamaskars everyday, till I was 13, without which breakfast strictly, did not happen.
She could do everything she asked us to do.
When I started learning swimming, and gave the usual fake excuses, she got determinedly into the water, in her ancient swimming suit, and I quietly followed suit, soon doing deep water jumps etc. All of us soon learned cycling (which she already knew) and eventually cycled daily to school for miles. She was part of the group that often ran behind us, as we tottered on the bikes, pedalling on for dear life, during the learning days..
This wasn't all. She thought school was only part of what our brains attempted. And so we learned music, musical instruments, calligraphy with reeds, and there was even a guy who came to teach sanskrit shlokas , because we went to English Medium schools, and she felt we shouldn't miss out on those. There was never a running down of any cultures or religions.
The purpose of writing this is not to eulogize her. Nothing would be enough.
But the purpose is to show, how you do not need to fit, in labels defined by society , as a Mom. SAHM or otherwise. You could have me-time, us-time or just time.
You have your own education, possibly in a unique filed. You continue to learn. Your education is not over. No one can be allowed to define your levels of expertise. Your general life education is something you need to realize. Your children are unique in the sense that you can guage their capabilities and guide them uniquely at various ages, and instill confidence in them. Young kids often pick up different languages very fast below the age of 5. Simply playing with different kids everyday. Encouraging your kid to be bilingual or even trilingual is a great achievement.
Sometimes you find that you have inherent teaching abilities. You do not need a job to prove anything to anyone. Creating games for your kids as they play with friends at a very young age, could be your forte. This is no less, and perhaps much more than doing something for someone, so he/she can make money out of it.
I have , at various times, been employed, unemployed, and now retired, but thanks to a general awareness of being gifted a wide education by my parents, frustration and disillusionment has never been an issue. It has been a continuing education all the way.
Being a Mom, SAH or otherwise, is many things. Which do not need labels. It is a smooth analogue sliding into one or more roles, innovatively, as per your needs .
Sometimes it even improves your sense of humor.
When I decided to take early voluntary retirement to attend to my father , and the kids education requirements, someone asked me , "What do you do the whole day, now that you are home? . Dont you get bored ? "
This required the taking of a deep breath , to cool down.
I told them , "I do nothing. Take naps in the afternoon. "
Later, with the daughter into serious swimming, I did get into the pool myself to renew my aquaintance with the sport. Waiting for her workouts to get over, I was once sitting next to the wife a a very highly educated person, in the viewing gallery, where she had stopped by during her evening outing.
"Kya aap ko yeh sab pehenke swimming karnemein kuch sharam nahi lagti?" was what her biggest worry was.
Once again a deep breath. And then I let go .
"Kya hain na, jab mein yeh sab pehenti hoon na, tab khudko Madhuri Dixit samjhti hoon aur Pani mein jati hoon swimming karne....."
I cannot describe her expression in response to that.
Like I said, it improves your sense of humor.
And so to hell with labels like SAHM. Discard the labels.
Be a HFM (Have Fun Mom).


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Today my son Imenigi is a few weeks from sixth birthday, yesterday when he came in from school, he said to me that he had his first tooth pulled and he gave it to me to save it for him. The tooth thing draws my attention for many reasons, for the most part, the biological changes that are beginning to take place. On the other hand, an "educational institution" is going to be my son's other home, "his school", a place where some of us also have lost our first tooth.
Today, is the dawn of a new day, today is another opportunity for us to take a serious look at the condition of the educational system that our children are exposed to, each and everyone one of us can draw our own conclusion as to who is suffering the consequence.
I would like to get back to the issue at hand, is there such a thing called "Garifuna Reality"? As a Garifuna Teacher, It is important for me to acknowledge that a True Teacher is not the one with the most knowledge, but one who causes the most others to have knowledge.
I would like the reader to feel free and tell me what is on your mind!!
Lubara Huya.


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Senior Vice President, Booking & Engagement Management
David started in the theatrical booking field back in 1998, when he began working with his wonderful colleagues, Steven Schnepp and Temah Higgins (and, later, Kent McIngvale and Jenny Bates), at AWA Touring Services. Since then he has been involved with the booking and engagement management of many Broadway tours. One of his most valued experiences was helping take Les Miserables to China and Korea during the summer of 2002. A writer, journalist, and historian, David has authored the books Automats, Taxi Dances and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan's Lost Places of Leisure and Ladies of Soul. He has appeared in an episode of the NBC TV show, "Who Do You Think You Are," working with Rashida Jones, and also hosted and associate produced the short film, "The Original Swing Street" for PBS Thirteen. He holds an MA in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University, and gives frequent lectures and walking tours related to NYC history and culture. email@example.com


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In their own words:
'Skip' Sherbak – rail man, boxer, sailor, TV repair shop owner
Westsider John "Skip" Sherbak, 75, has led the classic definition of a colorful life. The following, interview, taped inside Skip's house in the
Midland area, touches on aspects of a life that included working on the old Midland Terminal Railway, professional boxing, underage bartending,
serving in the Korean War, raising his brother's three children after he was killed in a car accident, living in the house his carpenter father (also
named John Sherbak) built in 1926, and running his TV repair business (Skip's Mountain TV) for the past 50 years.
Q. You worked for the railroad from 1947 to '49?
A. Yeah. They made me (section) foreman cause I could read and write. I'd fill out the timecards. I knew nothing about the damn railroad, more or less.
Q. You'd gotten your education at Midland and West Junior High?
A. I went to Main High, too. Palmer. It was the only high school in those days. That's where I got into electronics. All the GIs were coming back, and Main had a vocational school. We had welding and electronics and stuff. If you went to school, you could go to vocational school.
Q. You had a family background in the railroad business, right?
A. My uncle was a foreman down here then, and my dad had been a bridge and building foreman.
Q. Did you ever hear any good stories about the old days?
A. Art Stanker in Cripple Creek told me about the gold mine up there (in Cripple Creek). If you wanted to go to work in there, you had to give your wages to the foreman.
A. Why?
Q. They were high-grading. They were stealing gold out of there. When they'd go to work, they'd haul gold out in their pockets and everything else, (like their) lunch boxes. The only way you'd get to work there was to turn your check over to the foreman.
Q. So you'd get paid by how much you could carry out rather than your paycheck?
A. The foreman would look the other way when you left, see? He was supposed to search everything. Q. As a section foreman for the Midland Terminal Railroad, what kind of work did you do?
A. Repaired track.
Q. You repaired track in all kinds of weather? Any good snowstorms?
A. Oh, hell, we got big snowstorms. Three or four feet of snow… Repair jobs went on usually because there was a train wreck.
Q. Were you ever in a train wreck?
A. No.
Q. But they had them pretty frequently?
A. Oh, all the time.
Q. What was usually the problem? Would the track be bad?
A. Yeah. Them trains, when one of them tipped, they'd bring in these steam shovels and lift it back up and set it down on the ground. Then they'd jack it up and we'd lay track underneath it, then take the track back and hook it up to the main line. Then we'd drag the train back over there and tear all that up and tie the track back together… I made 53 cents, I think it was, and when I made foreman I got 62 cents an hour.
Q. How many guys did you have working for you?
A. Oh, 8 or 10. (In town) you could work for the Midland Railroad, Golden Cycle, Broadmoor, city or Yellow Cab. That was it. There was no place else.
Q. I guess they didn't have Fort Carson yet.
A. That's where we used to go rabbit hunting.
Q. Did you ever compare notes with your dad (who worked for the railroad from 1926-42)? What kinds of things would he tell you?
A. About hauling the gold from Golden Cycle. They got all the gold out and put it in bricks and put it in the back of the wagons with donkeys and take it down there to the Midland Railroad and load it on a railroad car there and then it would go up to the mint in Denver. A guy they hired to run the mill there, he came out of college someplace, and he went up there and told them (owners) how to take twice the gold out of the stuff, but he wanted some money out of it and they told him to go to hell. So in three years he retired and bought a ranch in Wyoming. And he still turned in the same amount of gold. He was in charge of it. But the other gold went home with him. They was always stealing gold. Them cars, when they'd have a washout, up in Cripple Creek during the night or something, they'd hold it up, and then they'd change the cars and put the low grade ore instead of the high-grade. High-grade - there was a lot of gold in there.
Q. How did you feel on the last day of the railroad (Feb. 19, 1949)?
A. Not happy. It was how everyone felt. We were out of work. A big employer was out of business. I was down there in the yard, and I was supposed to start tearing track out, and I said "I'm quitting."
Q. It just wasn't -
A. I didn't want to. My whole family had worked on it.
Q. You were in Golden Gloves. What kind of a fighter were you?
A. About sixth in the state at one time. [Shows pictures, trophies and clippings of himself as a boxer in the lightweight division - 135 pounds - in the late 1940s.]
Q. So you were doing this while you were working on the railroad?
A. That's right. Back then I'd get, like, $100, $150 a fight. I'd work for two weeks (on the railroad) for $50. That was good money back then… Our boxing club was run by Whitey Bolton. He just died here a couple of years ago. He was a chef over in Manitou. You know where the police station is in Manitou? That used to be our training place.
Q. [Reading from a clipping about a Sherbak knockout] "Smith was still out long after the count of 10 had been given."
A. I got worried. They'd usually come out of it in a few minutes. A doctor was there. You like to fight, but you don't want to hurt nobody.
Q. Did you ever figure out what your record was overall, how many wins and losses?
A. I don't know if I kept track of it or not. I don't think so.
Q. But you won more than you lost?
A. Oh, yeah. I probably had 70-80 fights.
Q. Did you get in fights on the railroad?
A. Oh yeah. Sure. We'd get off work, all us young guys. There was about 10 bars on the Westside.
Q. In Old Colorado City?
A. Yeah. (One time we went) up there and the roadmaster said you better get a crew to go up (to fix a washout). My uncle (Ed Sherbak) was a foreman and he said, "No problem, I'll go pick them up at the bar." So he goes to the bar, and there was about 10 guys in there and he loaded them up and they staggered aboard the train. That guy said, "You're going to use all them drunks?" And my uncle said, 'They'll be sober by the time we get to the washout." You could always get a crew to go to work. All you had to do was go up to the bar. I was tending bar when I was 16.
Q. Tending bar?
A. Tending bar (at Red's Bar, a beer-only place). That's when I was boxing. Crews would come back and I'd have a black eye or something. I had a birth certificate which I changed. A cop came in one day and said (to Red, the bar owner), "Are you sure that guy's 21?" And Red said, "I don't know; he's got a birth certificate." And the cop said OK. Back then they didn't check you that much… I was bouncing too.
Q. At 135 pounds?
A. Uh-huh. I could take care of the drunks. I'd throw them out on the sidewalk, and then if they came back in we usually had a fight, and we'd call the cops. But if it was a regular customer or something, I'd put them on a cot till they sobered up.
Q. When you were in the Navy (1950-54), were you involved in the Korean War?
A. Oh, yeah. We made from Yokosuka, Japan and went up the Korean coast. They sent a couple of tin cans in there, destroyers, and they'd shoot at them. So we (in the heavy cruiser Quincy) set way out in the ocean and the tin cans would make a run in there and they (the North Koreans) would start shooting and they (the destroyers) would radio the direction of it and we'd shoot over them and blow the hell out of it.
Q. How long were you over there?
A. About a year. [He was stationed in San Diego for about three years before that.] When I got married (to Louise in October 1952), and I filled out my papers, they said, 'You shouldn't be on shore duty. You should be on sea duty." So they put me right on sea duty. If I hadn't gotten married, I'd have probably spent four years in the San Diego harbor.
[Louise walks in, Skip asks her a question about their marriage, and she notes they were married in Las Vegas.]
Q. Is there a story behind that?
A. Yeah. She got her divorce in Las Vegas, too.
Louise: We got married in a little, small hotel. We didn't have any money so we played bingo. We couldn't play the slots.
Q. What you did mostly in the Navy was electrician work?
A. Yes.
Q. When did you start your TV business?
A. I used to own part of Tower TV. I sold that out years ago. I had Skip's TV on South Tejon, right across from KVOR. KKTV had just come on then.
Q. When would that have been?
A. 1954-55. They didn't have color TV then, just black and white. TV didn't come on till noon, and went out about 7- 8 o'clock at night. I had one of the first color TVs in town. There was no color TV here, so we put up an antenna and got a snowy picture out of Denver. Q. You've stayed up with the changes all through the years?
A. I've never been out of it. If you just got into it, you'd get lost.
Q. But you still keep your business going, still taking customers?
A. High definition and all that stuff. I've got three sets out there (in his shop) that got butchered in other shops. I told them what was wrong (with one of them), and that it was screwed up. An engineer from Samsung asked me if I wanted to be a service station for them, and I said no, I don't want that much business. But they said you will do special work, there's plenty of money in it, and I said, "Oh yeah," so they want me to repair some of the sets that got screwed up in other shops.
Q. (On the subject of retirement)
A. I quit working once and it drove me crazy. I've got to do something. I don't know anybody who's retired and don't do nothing. My uncle quit Golden Cycle and he died in six months. Another uncle retired, and in about a year he was dead. And I'm 75.
Q. So you figure you better keep working?
A. The last time I went to the doctor, he said, "You still working?" I said yeah. He said "Keep at it. Don't quit."
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Judicial review - Recently Asked Questions
The following is a set of Recently Asked Questions (RAQs) from local officials about the Real Property Tax Law. It is essentially a distillation of selected e-mail exchanges, with each answer representing an informal expression of our reading of the law that was then in effect. We must emphasize that the answers they contain are purely advisory, may not be equated to formal Opinions of Counsel, and should not be construed to be binding in any way. Assessors and other local officials seeking definitive legal advice should consult their municipal attorneys.
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|On 9/19/2013, we received a question involving a parcel that was split and sold on May 3, 2013. There is a building on the property that will be demolished this fall. One third of the property was split off as a "highway taking." That portion runs through the building, which was standing on taxable status still and remains intact. The remainder of the lot and building are still owned privately. The private owner suggests she should only pay taxes on the land as this building is going to be torn down and NYS DOT owns the other one third of it. The question is whether the value of the building should be disregarded when the apportionment is done.
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Varcoe: Low oil prices further cloud premier s soggy Stampede breakfast
|calgaryherald.com 11 Jul 2017 at 08:05
Another premier's Stampede breakfast, another rain cloud hovered over Rachel Notley as she spoke to reporters at McDougall Centre.
Like last year's event, the premier's annual coffee-and-pancake gathering was marred by rain falling on Monday morning.
But a different kind of cloud — low oil prices — also loomed over the breakfast, as benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude sank to US$43.65 a barrel in trading during the day, before closing at $44.40.
Alberta has received a string of positive economic reports in recent weeks, from improving job numbers and rising retail sales to stronger housing starts. These are all reasons to feel optimistic.
Yet slumping oil prices continue to rain on the NDP's parade as it celebrates a third Stampede since taking power.
If weak oil prices persist, it threatens to slow the recovery and blow a bigger hole in the province's projected $10.3-billion deficit this year.
"Right now we are keeping a close eye on it. We know that the price goes up and down, we're fully aware of that and we plan for that," Notley said as rain pelted the crowd.
"We have laid out a responsible and careful plan to (balance the) budget at around 2023. And we know that's where we have to get."
The premier's unwavering optimism comes just a few days after another credit rating agency sounded a warning about the state of the province's finances and its growing debt levels.
DBRS said Friday it was maintaining the province's AA (high) credit rating, but changing Alberta's outlook to negative from stable.
The agency said the province continues to add on debt at a fast rate and "the province has yet to provide a credible plan to restore balance."
The Notley government posted a $10.8-billion deficit last year, the largest in Alberta's history, and overall debt levels now top $33 billion.
DBRS vice-president Travis Shaw said Monday the province is seeing signs of a turnaround. For instance, Alberta is projecting economic growth of 2.6 per cent this year.
Yet, he noted higher-than-expected oil prices and strong investment income last year didn't translate into a smaller deficit, only additional government spending.
"Certainly, the direction of oil prices is going to continue to have a big bearing on Alberta's economic fortunes," Shaw added.
"As long as prices stay at these levels, we're not expecting a significant pick up in terms of investment activity that would contribute to some more meaningful growth."
In his spring budget, Finance Minister Joe Ceci forecast oil prices would average US$55 a barrel for this fiscal year, rising to $59 next year and $68 in 2019-2020.
These estimates now seem overly optimistic.
Since May, oil markets have slid from $50 a barrel, with concerns focused on oil inventory levels, rising U.S. shale output, as well as production growth in Libya and Nigeria.
The short-term drop in oil prices will impact provincial revenues this year, putting more pressure on the government to reach its own deficit target.
But the bigger concern is in the outer years, when the province's forecast is for much higher prices — prices that are supposed to help whittle the mammoth deficit down to a mere $7.2 billion by 2019-2020.
At the premier's breakfast, Ceci said he's concerned about eroding oil prices, but pointed out the government has a $500-million financial cushion built into its budget projections.
"Everybody in Alberta knows it's a volatile resource and you don't want to bet the whole farm on it. That's why we risk adjusted it," he said.
But it's not just government revenues squeezed by low energy prices; it could also affect oilpatch capital spending later this year.
Alberta producers ramped up drilling by 114 per cent during the first four months of the year, but there's a risk investment levels will slip if low prices persist.
Last week, AltaCorp Capital lowered its oil price outlook by $6.50 a barrel to average $49.50 this year, and down to $52.50 a barrel in 2018.
Data from ARC Energy Research Institute indicates if oil prices remain in the low US$40-a-barrel range for the rest of 2017, it will crimp industry cash flow by 15 per cent this year and capital spending by $4 billion.
In turn, the number of wells drilled would decline by 740 to 4,425.
"If we continue to have $43-$44 by the end of September, it will definitely impact the winter drilling season," said Peter Tertzakian, ARC Energy Research Institute executive director.
"The end of the third quarter is going to be a pivotal moment for the industry as it makes its decision about winter drilling and what it sees into 2018."
Of course, the recent oil price downturn could be reversed if OPEC takes additional action to prop up the market or if U.S. oil inventory levels drop more rapidly than expected.
As Calgarians know only too well, oil prices can be as fickle as rain falling on a soggy Stampede breakfast.
Just ask Alberta's premier.


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1. Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Jameis Winston, QB, Florida State
Winston, as did Marcus Mariota, bucked the recent trend of the top quarterback prospects deciding not to throw at the Combine and he did throw and if anything, it only secured his hold on the top overall pick from before. Yes he ran a slow 40 but that is not as much a part of his game as it is for Mariota but what was important was that he reportedly interviewed well. It would be a surprise to me if the top pick in April would not be Winston at this point.
2. Tennessee Titans - Marcus Mariota, QB, Oregon
The Titans had an opportunity at the Combine to affirm their commitment to Zach Mettenberger at quarterback but both coach Ken Whisenhunt and GM Ruston Webster did not seem all that convinced in him as their future. Now I doubt that they would pass on Mariota, who has some work to do in developing his pocket passing game but he has all the physical tools (size, arm, mobility) that you want out of your franchise quarterback.
3. Jacksonville Jaguars - Leonard Williams, DT, USC
Even as the Jaguars have gotten some decent production out of the defensive tackle position, Williams seems like a prospect that coach Gus Bradley would be hard-pressed to pass up on. Williams also has the versatility that would allow Bradley to move him all over the defensive line and the skill-set to play both the tackle and end positions. His combination of strength, quickness and motor could make him unstoppable down the line.
4. Oakland Raiders - Kevin White, WR, West Virginia
One of the big winners at the Combine was Kevin White. White, who was an afterthought a couple of years ago, appears to have jumped to the top of crop at his position with a strong Combine performance showcasing better than expected speed as well as his impressive size. The Raiders need to build the supporting cast around young quarterback Derek Carr and using this draft pick to take White would make a lot of sense.
5. Washington - Dante Fowler, DE/OLB, Florida
You can never have too many pass rushers in the NFL and Washington could find themselves having to replace a pretty good one as Brian Orakpo will be a free agent. It is not certain what kind of defense new coordinator Joe Barry will run in Landover but it probably will be a scheme that will features some multiple elements, ideal for a versatile talent like Fowler. The speedy and physical Fowler seemingly lived in opposing backfields these past two years in Gainesville.
6. New York Jets - Amari Cooper, WR, Alabama
I think it is safe to say that the Jets would be ecstatic should Cooper by available at this juncture. Todd Bowles and his new team have issues to sort out on the offensive end, particularly at quarterback but also at the receiver position where the team does not have much in the form of weapons. Cooper should be able to make an impact right away and while he is not huge, he has the skill-set to be a no. 1 wideout.
7. Chicago Bears - Danny Shelton, DT, Washington
Shelton moves surprisingly well for somebody of his size and he is very tough to block one-on-one, and with a strong performance at the Senior Bowl has seen his stock rise. He projects to be an excellent fit as a nose tackle in a 3-4 scheme and should be able to make an immediate impact at the position as the Bears, under new defensive coordinator Vic Fangio, are likely to move to a 3-4 defense.
8. Atlanta Falcons - Randy Gregory, DE/OLB, Nebraska
It is looking like all but a formality that Seahawks defensive coordinator Dan Quinn will be the new head coach of the Falcons and look for him to bring a whole new defensive mindset to a team that has been a mess on that side of the ball. Regardless of the defensive scheme, the pass rush is going to have to improve and therefore, the team would love for Gregory to fall to him. Gregory is not that big but he is tremendously athletic and excels at pressuring quarterbacks off the edge.
9. New York Giants - Shane Ray, DE, Missouri
The Giants rode a dominant defensive line to their two Super Bowl championships under Tom Coughlin but if Jason Pierre-Paul leaves as a free agent this offseason, the Giants will have a need for a dominant pass rusher. Ray would probably be the best player on the board and he would certainly bring an upgrade to the pass rusher. The Mizzou prospect will have to get stronger but his athleticism off the edge is tremendous.
10. St. Louis Rams - Brandon Scherff, T, Iowa
St. Louis is a club that has invested many picks and money on their offensive line but they may still have a hole at the right tackle position should Joseph Barksdale leave via free agency. Scherff is a mauler that could also play other positions on the offensive line and he can help the Rams improve their running game as well.
11. Minnesota Vikings - DeVante Parker, WR, Louisville
With Teddy Bridgewater now the man in the Twin Cities, why not fill the need for more offensive weapons by bringing in a guy that Bridgewater is familiar with in Parker? Parker already is a really good route-runner, has excellent size and good hands. He also is one of those sneaky fast wideouts and what Bridgewater will love is that he is an excellent red zone target.
12. Cleveland Browns - Andrus Peat, T, Stanford
It looks like Cleveland will be a club that will focus early in the draft on both of their lines . The Browns do already have a good offensive line but the weak spot is right tackle Mitchell Schwartz and he can be upgraded upon. Peat is a little raw and his tape is not all that impressive but there is no question that he has a high upside. He also has the ideal size and athleticism to excel on the edge of the offensive line and can turn into a very good left tackle down the line.
13. New Orleans Saints - Vic Beasley, DE/OLB, Clemson
The Saints have not been all that great defensively in recent years but it really hit the fan in 2014 as they fell to the 31st overall ranking, and this was after an aggressive offseason aimed at improving the defense. New Orleans would certainly love to upgrade their pass rush and they have a number of options here. Beasley is not all that long but he has more than enough quickness to get off the edge and push the pocket.
14. Miami Dolphins - Trae Waynes, CB, Michigan State
The Dolphins brought in Brent Grimes and Cortland Finnegan last offseason and while Grimes did work out as he had a nice season, Finnegan was absolutely awful. They could use an upgrade over him as well as some youth at the position. Waynes is the top cornerback on the board and he is an aggressive playmaker with the ideal size you look for in a corner.
15. San Francisco 49ers - Dorial Green-Beckham, WR, Oklahoma
Colin Kaepernick clearly stagnated in his development in 2014, even going backwards at times. It will be key for Jim Tomsula to get more out of his quarterback and one way the team could try to do it is by upgrading a feeble receiving corps. Green-Beckham comes with his fair share of risk as he has a number of off-field questions (getting kicked off the Missouri team was not a great sign), but with the amount of talent he has, it could be a worthwhile roll of the dice for a front office that has taken their risks on players before.
16. Houston Texans - Landon Collins, S, Alabama
Collins is the top defensive back in this draft and he is a player that can play either safety spot. He has the size and strength to play in the box but he can also be that center fielder that the Texans could use. Houston drafted D.J. Swearinger only a couple of years ago but he has not been a free safety kind of player as he is more suited to hitting hard and playing in the box. Collins should be able to complement him better than the holdovers did.
17. San Diego Chargers - T.J. Clemmings, T, Pittsburgh
Philip Rivers had a strong 2014 season, even generated some MVP buzz early, but he is not getting any younger and his lack of mobility could leave him as a bit of a sitting duck at times. King Dunlap and D.J. Fluker are solid tackles but both are better in the run game. Bringing in a raw talent like Clemmings can help their line as he could fine his craft in the interior before bouncing back outside. Clemmings is very athletic and long which should help him in pass protection.
18. Kansas City Chiefs - Jaelen Strong, WR, Arizona State
It really is unbelievable that the Chiefs had zero receiving touchdowns from their wideouts during the 2014 season. While Alex Smith and his mediocre arm plays a key role in that, what also has to factor in is that the Chiefs' receiving corps is far from impressive. Strong should be good in the red zone thanks to his size and his good hands. The ASU prospect is also deceptively quick.
19. Cleveland Browns (from Buffalo) - Bud Dupree, DE/OLB, Kentucky
Mike Pettine is a very good defensive coach and I think he would certainly like to see more production from the Cleveland pass rush. Jabaal Sheard is a free agent, Paul Kruger is not a big sack guy and Barkevious Mingo has been a disappointment at the end as well. Dupree still is raw but not only is extremely athletic, he was one of the elite pass rushers in the SEC, which by no means is a small feat.
20. Philadelphia Eagles - Jalen Collins, CB, LSU
With Chip Kelly now calling the personnel shots in Philadelphia, will he be privy to making a bold move up the draft board to select his former quarterback in Eugene, Marcus Mariota? You certainly could not rule it out but in the meantime, they could also use an upgrade at the cornerback position given how much the Philadelphia pass defense struggled last season. Collins has ideal size and he can run, which he showed amid a strong Combine performance, plus we know that LSU has groomed some solid defensive backs.
21. Cincinnati Bengals - Ereck Flowers, DE, Miami (FL)
22. Pittsburgh Steelers - Kevin Johnson, CB, Wake Forest
The Steelers will have a new lieutenant running the defense after the franchise parted ways with the venerable Dick LeBeau, replacing him with linebackers coach Keith Butler. The pass rush was good as always but the secondary really looked like a mess at times and could certainly use an overhaul. Johnson would seem to be a very good fit in the Pittsburgh defensive scheme as he has the cover skills to play both zone and man.
23. Detroit Lions - Eddie Goldman, DT, Florida State
Nick Fairley and Ndamukong Suh, a favorite of Packers fans, are both hitting the free agent market this offseason and one is likely to leave. That will leave void at a key spot for what was a fantastic Detroit defense under first-year coordinator Teryl Austin. Goldman may never be a double-digit sack guy but he has a nice combination of strength and quickness for a big guy. He is an excellent run stuffer and had a really nice season in Tallahassee.
24. Arizona Cardinals - Eli Harold, DE/OLB, Virginia
The Cardinals will certainly miss defensive coordinator Todd Bowles as he excelled at building strong, aggressive defenses even his unit was depleted by injuries. For a team with a strong secondary, upgrading an average pass rush could make the Arizona defense even more dangerous. Harold is likely limited to a 3-4 scheme due to his size and he could still use some more polish as he is raw but he is very athletic, which he showed at the Combine, and excelled at getting into the backfield at Virginia.
25. Carolina Panthers - La'el Collins, T, LSU
Cam Newton showed off plenty of toughness this season as he took a beating at times. His offensive line did perform as a unit much better down the stretch but was an abject trainwreck early in the season. A guy like Collins who can play both inside and outside would be useful. He will need to develop his pass protection skills but he is ready to maul in the run game at an NFL level.
26. Baltimore Ravens - Marcus Peters, CB, Washington
Considering he got kicked off the Washington team back in November after issues with assistant coaches, one can easily see why teams would skittish with Peters. But there is no question that the kid is talented, perhaps the most talented corner in this draft class. Baltimore has taken chances on problem guys before, plus their secondary could really use somebody with the cover skills like what Peters brings to the table.
27. Dallas Cowboys - Malcom Brown, DT, Texas
Rod Marinelli did a tremendous job with a defense that seemingly lacked in talent, and also struggled to pressure opposing quarterbacks. But smoke and mirrors can only go so far, as well as having the team leader in sacks having only six. Marinelli will also surely look for some upgrades at the defensive tackle spot and that is where Brown enters. Brown will a guy that Marinelli can move around the line due to his quickness and he should be able to help stuff the run with his size.
28. Denver Broncos - Maxx Williams, TE, Minnesota
There are a lot of questions as to whether star tight end Julius Thomas will return to the Broncos with him being a free agent. Compounding the money issues is Demaryious Thomas also being a free agent. Should the team not be able to bring back the former Thomas, look for them to utilize their first round pick on the talented Williams. This Golden Gopher has the skill-set you like from a tight end with his hands and athleticism.
29. Indianapolis Colts - Shaq Thompson, LB, Washington
Thompson may be a bit of a tweener in the NFL like he was for the Huskies where he played some safety and some linebacker (not to mention some running back as well) but he is an exciting playmaker regardless of where he plays. For a team that could use some more depth and playmaking ability at the linebacker spot as well as filling a need at safety, Thompson could be a useful weapon.
30. Green Bay Packers - Benardrick McKinney, LB, Mississippi State
The Packers battled inconsistent play from their linebackers in their 3-4 defense, even having to slide Clay Matthews to the middle to patch things up. They could use some playmaking abilities in the interior of the linebacking unit and a real thumper like McKinney could certainly be useful. The Clanga product will bring some youth and athleticism to the Packer defense.
31. Seattle Seahawks - Sammie Coates, WR, Auburn
Seattle does have some decent players at the receiver position, led by Doug Baldwin, but that said it is far from a dangerous unit. Look for the Seahawks to look into wideouts at the bottom of the first round, if not later, in order to make Russell Wilson more dangerous. The team loves to take athletic projects and certainly Coates would apply. He needs to work on his route-running and needs to improve his hands but he has excellent speed, good size and has the athleticism to make circus catches.
32. New England Patriots - Cameron Erving, C, G, T, Florida State
The Super Bowl champions were able to find a lot of success last season even as their offensive line struggled at times. We know of the Patriots' fondness for versatile guys and this FSU product certainly fits that mantra as he played every position along the offensive line in Tallahassee. He performed much better when he played in the interior of the line but his athleticism could happen play just about anywhere.
Check out the WalterFootball mock draft database for even more mocks.


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I suppose they say, once you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Indeed they are right, because now I have a ROM programmer, I couldn't stop pulling
teeth chips just to dump them. Aside from motherboard BIOS chips, the next major peripheral to have removable ROM chips is usually the graphic card. I'm not sure exactly why, as I've never upgraded a ROM on a graphic card by exchanging chips as many of the cards that featured this were not particularly sophisticated by today's standards (i.e. PCI/ISA 2D boards with rudimentary VGA/SVGA framebuffer modes and limited 3D capability if you were lucky). The only time I've upgraded BIOSes was for modern Nvidia cards with NVflash for compatibility or overclocking. Regardless, I trawled through my collection, which includes some of the cards pictured in this old post of mine, and dumped the ROMs for examination.
Diamond Stealth SE PCI
The first patient to undergo a ROM dump was the Diamond Multimedia Stealth SE PCI. As far as I remember, this was a relatively popular card based on the S3 Trio32 chipset. In my collection, I found two different ROM revisions – 1.01 and 1.02. I decided to start my adventures by looking at the version 1.02 ROM.
Looking at the ROM header, we can confirm the dump was correct, and it is dated 05/01/95 (American format, possibly). It starts with 0x55AA magic number, probably to signify a "bootable" ROM, so it starts and prints the banner message which tells you all about the card and its BIOS. It also has "IBM " at 0x1E, which we will see later, is probably a requirement for IBM BIOS compatibility.
Anyhow, lets rummage for interesting things. First, I took the data and expanded each bit to 8 bits, producing a 512 x 512 image which sequentially shows the bits, MSB first, horizontally across, from top to bottom.
Many times, code comes up as noise, but the periodic patterns themselves hide something more … basic, and at least, to me, relatively interesting. Because VGA cards have text modes (e.g. what you see in native MS-DOS), they have a ROM based character generator with the fonts stored in ROM tables. How can we see the bitmapped fonts?
A little data juggling is required. I drew this by hand because … well, it's just easier. But the idea is simple – since the ROM is byte width, it's not likely that any character is made of any less than 8-bits wide. The issue is to "stack" each byte with the consecutive byte for a given number of rows to form the character. This would give you an impractically long image, so with a little more thought, we can preserve the 512 x 512 aspect by putting 64 characters across.
The program that combines the two functions I have called stride8x16, and can be rebuilt to handle different character heights. Again, the code is hacky, but I did it in 10 minutes …
#include <stdio.h> #define HEIGHT 16 #define WIDTH 64 #define ROMSIZE 32768 #define ROWS (int)ROMSIZE/(WIDTH*HEIGHT) #define OFFSET 0 // Offset allows for tuning of byte offset for alignment purposes // by Gough Lui (goughlui.com April 2016) int main (void) { int tempcount=0; int base=0; int row=0; int romdata[ROMSIZE]={0}; int mask=0x80; while (tempcount<ROMSIZE) { romdata[tempcount]=getchar(); tempcount = tempcount+1; } tempcount=0; while(row<ROWS) { while(base<HEIGHT) { while(tempcount<WIDTH) { while(mask) { if(romdata[(base+(tempcount*HEIGHT)+(row*WIDTH*HEIGHT)+OFFSET)%ROMSIZE]&mask) { printf("%c",0xFF); } else { printf("%c",0x00); } mask=mask>>1; } tempcount=tempcount+1; mask=0x80; } tempcount=0; base=base+1; } base=0; row=row+1; } return(0); }
Running the same data through there, we get a clear image of the characters in the 8×16 and coincidentally, 8×8 table as 8 is a multiple of 16:
We can see there are slanted fragments of characters, as they are not 8×8 or 8×16, but rather, 8×14. Rebuilding the program and running it through allows us to see the 8×14 table:
Pretty neat. There is some other periodicity I can see in the ROM which isn't clearly visible as a bitmap, but due to my lack of knowledge of x86 machine code, and no great desire to try and master it right now, I'd have to suspect that they could be character pointer tables, hence the periodicity in the data as they are adjacent addresses.
STB PowerGraph 64
This was an S3 Trio64V+ based card, and interestingly, it has a BIOS version 1.8 that has acknowledgements for Phoenix Technologies, better known as a motherboard BIOS supplier, in addition to S3 and STB.
It is dated 12/10/1995, probably American date. Looking at it sequentially, it is slightly different with the font tables stored differently, and more "random noise" code area with less periodicity.
Stacking the bytes 16 high gives us the following image, clearly showing the font tables.
ExpertColor DSV3325DX S3 Trio VirgeDX
Another card based on an S3 Trio family chipset, so lets take a peek in the version 1.01.03 375 EDO M70 BIOS:
This one is dated later, 23rd June 1997.
The resulting data is as follows, as usual, the font tables are similar, and the code is somewhat different.
Matrox MGA-IMP+P
Switching vendors entirely, lets take a look at the only removable Matrox ROM I have.
It has quite a lot of text in the header section of the ROM, which gives away that it is version 4.0 with references to Matrox Electronic Systems and LSI Logic Corporation.
Compared with the other ROMs, this one has a large patch near the beginning that has a pattern to it. I wonder if this is a pointer table, or some bit-mapped logo which I haven't discovered the h/w parameters or encoding for.
SiS 6326 AGP PCI card
By now, you're probably getting a little bored of this, but this is where things start getting a little interesting. The SiS card is an odd one, as it's an "AGP" branded chipset on a PCI bus. It has a date of 2nd Feburay 1999 and is version 1.26.
Looking at the ROM sequentially, it looks like any other:
But once we stack characters, we discover a little easter egg:
The end portion of the ROM has a custom character based bitmap logo. The actual logo is 10 characters wide by three lines tall. This is probably used for the sign-on message on booting the VGA BIOS.
TPO-32PCIV Tseng Labs ET4000-W32P
This was one of Tseng's later efforts, which was the beginning of the end for Tseng in the graphic accelerator market. This card's BIOS was version 8.00 and is dated 17th May 1995. It differs from the others because it doesn't have the IBM string where we would expect it for IBM graphics compatibility, but yet the card works … so maybe the BIOS in most clones aren't as picky about having "IBM ".
Tseng's ROM looks similar to the others visually.
But stacking characters for this ROM required using the offset feature in my code because the beginning of the font table was about half-a-character in (5 bytes), whereas most of the others were a multiple of 16 or "close enough". There also seems to be a little bit of free room at the end.
UMC ISA 85C408AF SuperVGA
I kept the chip from this card, but tossed the card because it was stripey with a likely soldered DRAM failure which I didn't have any tools to attempt a repair at the time. This one gives us a good clue as to the IBM string, clearly stating it was needed for compatibility reasons. I suppose, in the ISA days when many of the PCs were genuine IBM, this may have been necessary to ensure their product worked.
The BIOS is version 1.04 dated 29th September 1993, this time with acknowledgement to Award Software, another company popularly known for supplying motherboard BIOS code.
This BIOS seems to have a strange "break" in the font table area with a blank patch of unprogrammed area, suggesting maybe there is a hardware "glitch" which needs them to store the tables this way, or maybe it optimizes their pointer calculations. I don't know for sure.
Here, we see the same characters we have come to expect. As I didn't use the offset to align the characters, they are slightly rotated upward.
What's the Difference?
I suppose the fact is that of cards with a identical chipset, using a BIOS from another card is potentially possible. Depending on the features and the construction of the card, it may even be possible to unlock features of certain chips by changing the BIOS, just as some overclockers have done in the past. In fact, nowadays, many graphic cards use BIOSes which are very similar to or identical to the reference BIOS with tweaks to timings to cater for different memory, clock-speed, and voltage control features. The BIOS can affect compatibility with computers, so I suspect newer versions may fix certain bugs.
One difference that was spotted was subtle differences in font table characters. This would manifest itself in slight differences how screens containing these characters would look across different cards.
For example, comparing the Tseng and Diamond character sets, we can see some one-pixel differences, and something strange with the = sign as well.
A similar result is had when comparing the Diamond and Matrox character sets. Within the same chipset, the font tables were generally the same though.
However, that being said, it dawned upon me that the exchangeable VGA BIOS could actually serve an important purpose. As early computing was mostly done in the console, and prior to the advent of Unicode which is a godsend for languages other than English, displaying different characters in a different code-page in text mode required a different font table. I suppose a different ROM BIOS could be supplied with custom fonts or symbols pre-loaded on it to make it "default" rather than requiring the font tables to be loaded into RAM and selected.
Given that I'm no computer scientist, I approached the examination of the VGA ROM BIOS with a more artistic intent to look at the bits visually, which led me to actually find the bit-mapped font tables. I suppose that's something better than just leaving a few ROM dump files on the hard disk.


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On Thursday, 17 November I had the fortunate pleasure of attending the 3rd Nedbank Green Wine Awards function at the Mount Nelson.
Nedbank is the apt sponsor of these awards as they were recently announced as the first carbon neutral bank.
The awards have found a happy new home at Getaway Magazine after Ramsay Media decided to no longer produce Wine Magazine. According to Getaway Editor in Chief, Cameron Ewart-Smith, this is a perfect match as the new home for the awards. He stated that the Getaway readers were environmentally conscious and were the perfect target market for green wines.
My favourite wine at the awards was the Waverley Hills Semillon Sauvignon Blanc 2010 that is a beautiful light, crisp and affordable introduction for the general consumer to a white Bordeaux Blend. The wine has a very low 12.9% alcohol and gained a 4-star rating from the 3-man panel headed by Christian Eedes. (Read more about the controversial topic of how many judges are enough from Edo Heyns on his blog at www.wineland.co.za)
Christian made the comment that three years earlier he said that he hoped that one day the awards would no longer be necessary once everyone adopted bio-dynamic farming methods. This dream might not seem feasible now with the current economic conditions making organic farming even more risky but it might also not be too far away.
On the same day that the awards took place the South African Government forged support for a "green accord" that is aimed at creating 300 000 green jobs within the next ten years. Many of the proposed jobs are also set to be created in the agricultural sector.
The only sad thing about the day was the fact that the entries and number of producers were significantly down from the previous two years. This is quite a sad state for the industry as we should be supporting awards like this one that highlight niche markets. And we should all try to support farming methods that promote a sustainable future.
We could all take a page from Mahatma Ghandi's book of wisdom, "be the change you want to see in the world".
This article was first published as a blog post on WINE.CO.ZA, please click here to see the original article.


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The history of craps might date back to the time of the Crusades in the 12th and 13th centuries. The French knights who went to the Holy Land to fight Islam brought back many influences, including algebra, new poetic styles, and lost Greco-Roman writings. Apparently, gambling on dice games might have been one influence. The French quickly added their own complicated rules to the game, making it their own.
The game received its name from the French word "crapaud", which means "toad". Early dice shooters are thought to have crouched like a toad when playing the game, much like they do in television and movie depictions of back-alley craps games. The tales of the game's origin in the Crusades could be apocryphal, though, because craps might have come from other antecedents.
Dice games have existed for thousands of years. For instance, a form of backgammon is thought to have been played in the Burnt City of Iran as early as 3000 B.C. While the Hebrew practice of casting lots was not (normally) a form of gambling, the Biblical depiction of Roman soldiers casting lots for the dead Jesus's clothes certainly reminds one of gambling.
The English dice game "Hazard" might well be the progenitor of craps. Hazard is mentioned in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, which was written in the 1370s or 1380s. The English and the French were locked in the Hundred Years War at the time, as the English kings sought to control half (or more) of the Kingdom of France. Americans forget how close England and France are, and therefore how much influence each has had on the culture of the other. Paris and London are a little over 200 miles apart.
With the intricate diplomacy of the times and soldiers frequently changing sides in the conflicts, in the earlier days, Hazard might well have influenced the French to create their own dice game. Later in its history, Hazard certainly played a key role in the development of craps.
In England in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries, Hazard became a popular game with the English-speaking peoples. Bernard de Marigny, a French-Creole nobleman living in the French-controlled Mississippi River Valley, visited England and learned to play Hazard.
De Marigny, whose full name was Jean-Bernard Xavier Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville, borrowed a number of ideas from the English dice game and simplified those concepts into modern craps. He brought the game to New Orleans, where it first gained the name "crapaud".
During World War II, a street-version of craps became a popular game among American soldiers. The G.I.s often did not have a proper surface to shoot their dice on, so they used Army blankets for their rolls.
Players often did not have a solid back wall for bouncing the dice as is proper in casinos versions, so this is when the first dice control methods are known to have been used. The first of these was called the "army blanket roll". To this day, dice control methods in craps are controversial. Some respected experts say they are real, while others remain skeptical.
After the war, craps became a casino game in destination spots like Las Vegas and Monte Carlo. Soldiers were familiar with the game, in an era of affluence, Americans began to take their vacations in Sin City. By the 1950s, all Las Vegas casinos had their own craps tables. Over the course of the next generation, the traditional craps bets were added to the game.
Craps became popular, because it encouraged camaraderie among gamblers. Also, dice shooting is a naturally exciting form of gambling, due to the wild swings and quick game resolution. Even better, among the games with no distinguishable mathematical strategies to learn, craps has some of the best odds from a player's perspective. Only the need to provide four staff members to a craps table kept the game from being featured more often in casinos across the United States–and around the globe.
When Internet gambling began to develop, online craps was one of the first games offered. With a random number generator and basic computer graphics, designers could simulate the roll of the dice. One big problem existed with online casino craps, though.
Craps is best enjoyed as a community game. Playing alongside a number of other colorful characters, sharing the ups and downs of gambling, is how dice is meant to be enjoyed. Online craps simply could not reproduce that experience in the early stages of development. As graphics, gameplay, and online interfaces have improved, the ability to have conversations though instant messages developed. Some players still wanted the old game played on the Internet, though.
Live dealer craps finally restored the game to its original look and feel. These days, players can enjoy real craps streamed live from a gambling studio via the same live streaming technology used for Netflix and Hulu videos.
Also, mobile craps applications exist which allow players to gamble using their Android smartphones, iPhones, and iPad tablet computers. Simply go to a mobile casino and click on the appropriate craps apps link. This takes you to Android Marketplace or iTunes or some other appropriate downloadable apps page.


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Perusing some of Philip Larkin's poems again, I started reading more about him via Google Books and found this quote, which I really liked.
"The real trouble with me is my relations with illusion & reality. Illusion is poetry, art, love, belief, confidence, and is what you are enthusiastic about. Reality is daily work, illness, death, money, sex, one's actions independent of one's beliefs or fancies, and is impossible to be enthusiastic about."
He also said: "Joy impregnates, sorrow brings forth; perhaps that is the explanation" ...on how his muse demanded that he be in a constant state of privation to be able to write. Or put another way, he said: "life, personally is unhappy: imperssonally it is happy."
Leave you with these lovely lines from Larkin's rather depressing poem, Aubade, which has been lauded as Larkin's almost perfect poem:
Leave you with these lovely lines from Larkin's rather depressing poem, Aubade, which has been lauded as Larkin's almost perfect poem:
And so it stays just on the edge of vision,A small unfocused blur, a standing chillThat slows each impulse down to indecision.Most things may never happen: this one will,And realisation of it rages outIn furnace-fear when we are caught withoutPeople or drink. Courage is no good:It means not scaring others. Being braveLets no one off the grave.Death is no different whined at than withstood.


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- Anonymous said...
Depending on how your property was developed, that central area is very likely PUBLIC property and open to anyone. It's a favorite con by developers to get special allowances on height by the local government in exchange for public parking spaces or open areas, but then put up a security guard to try to discourage the public from actually using what's rightfully theirs.
- 30/3/10
- Anonymous said...
Hi Patrick,
In the condo unit, members elect trustees and they handle condo fees also making the decisions; the manager listens to the trustees. You will be a very good candidate for the position of trustee who can take good care of the unit. Apartment is another story; the tenants are all under the mercy of the owner. The owner makes decisions and the manager who is hired by the owner carries out the orders from the owner. The tenants have less power than the owner of a condo unit that is my understanding, unfortunately.
The play ground may be classified as public place that I don't know. If not, one solution is that the owner could lock up the play ground and give keys to those who have the right to use it. Most of the security guards are those retired old man who are trying to earn the minimum wedge. Certainly they hate to get involved with the local youths who may be Yakuzas as seen in the Monga movie. There were several cases of the incidents that security guards who have been severely beaten up by the youths and have to be hospitalized.
We have lived through one room apartment, run down condo, and finally bought a dream house of our own in the past. What you are facing today is nothing but experiences of life. Many years from now, you may feel funny that you were so mad at these incidents; after all it is part of the life experiences one has to go through.
Have a good day and enjoy the spring time in the beautiful Paradise named Formosa while you can.
- 30/3/10
- Patrick Cowsill said...
Yes, I can't get a straight answer from the security guard. "Depending on how your property was developed, that central area is very likely PUBLIC property and open to anyone."
Where would I be able to find out if it's public or private? Does Taiwan have laws against loitering? Drinking in public? I remember once being in an Internet cafe at around midnight and the cops came in and started checking ID. They were looking for minors out past curfew.
What is the curfew for minors in Taipei? I should have asked.
Of course, the problem would've been solved by simply turning on the light. But the security company is always looking for ways to scrimp.
- 30/3/10
- Terry J. Benzie said...
I believe that if the commons area is included in your contract (i.e. you pay for 50 ping, which includes a 45 ping living area and 5 ping public area), then the commons' area is private as you own it. However, if it is a "bonus", is was likely developed as a public area.
A few months ago I was in a private office building in Taipei City that had an obviously disturbed woman come in and hurl obscenities at most people walking by. The guards said they had called the police but said that the lobby was a public space (it had a Starbucks and small seating area in it) and unless she hit somebody, she was breaking no laws. They said they could only stop her from going to the elevator shafts, as that was the private property of the tenants.
Security guards seem to come under a wide-array of competence but you do seem to have drawn the short stick in your apartment.
- 4/4/10
- Patrick Cowsill said...
"The guards said they had called the police but said that the lobby was a public space (it had a Starbucks and small seating area in it) and unless she hit somebody, she was breaking no laws."
LOL, I'm all for freedom of speech.
The night guard at my friend's apartment is an ex-cop, a no-nonsense kind of individual that has even banged on the door of his squabbling neighbors' place and told them to "shut up." This is exactly the kind of guy I want to pay my monthly dues to.
- 5/4/10
- The Baron said...
Dunno what's worse: your tea-sipping muppets or my my non-existent ones.
I pay NT$1800-odd for a permanently open front door and no discernable maintenance.
An affable enough tailor in an adjoining shop does poke his head in now and then but my son would probably tun him over. He, as you know, is six.
- 6/4/10
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- 8/6/10
- security crowd control said...
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- 22/6/10
- MJ Klein said...
Patrick, i wonder if you could get some others to withhold that fee for a month to see what happens. just to get the manager's attention. of course, the more people that withhold the fee, the better.
- 3/9/10
- Patrick Cowsill said...
"Patrick, i wonder if you could get some others to withhold that fee for a month to see what happens. just to get the manager's attention. of course, the more people that withhold the fee, the better."
My brother-in-law is using my parking lot. They'll just harass him, and he doesn't really have it in him to fight back should I do that.
- 20/2/11
- Anonymous said...
I can tell you why "people who are such chicken**** want to become Security Guards".
They don't. Cheapskates and small minded morons in management positions contract security out to the lowest bidder. That means Security companies are forced to underbid each other. That drives contract rates down. Lower contract rates drives down Officer pay.
Pray tell, how many smart, experienced, hardened professionals do you know willing to work for minimum wage? Please, PLEASE send them to me, I'll hire them in a heartbeat.
Until then, bug the people with the fat wallets to increase the budget for Security and see what happens, rather than complaining about the people just trying to scrape by on crap wages in return for a ridiculous amount of responsibility.
- 3/4/12
- Patrick Cowsill said...
I have complained to the management, on numerous occasions. I also complained about my fees going up. I don't want security at all. They don't do anything for us but we can't get rid of them.
- 9/4/12
- Patrick Cowsill said...
I really can't stress how unhappy I am with the situation. My buddy has an apartment of the same size. His building comes with a swimming pool (meaning they have to hire a lifeguard), a weight room, an indoor playground, a games room (billiards tables, etc.) and a library. We have a meeting room with one ping pong table and one treadmill. Yet we pay double in security fees. My fees for the treadmill and ping pong table plus a bunch of guards that do nothing are at NT$2000 a month.
- 10/4/12
- Patrick Cowsill said...
I've forgotten a very important component. We have to take out our own garbage. Since I can't get home in time, I pay an extra NT$300 a month for an old lady to come over and do that. My buddy at NT$1000 has this service.
Why would we not have garbage services at NT$2000 a month? I complained to a city bureau about this. The management team said they had solved the problem, so the city said "case closed." Then the management team changed hands (we still had the same guards, but with new uniforms which I am sure we paid for). And they started to harass the old lady which they found to "solve the problem."
- 10/4/12
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- 25/3/14
- Anonymous said...
How much are the individual security guards paid? What tools do they have at their disposal? If complaints arise from them being too strict will you or the company back them up? I work in a Mall as security for the time being. I have seen everything from stabbings, to fights, thefts, loitering etc.. I'm paid less then 30,000$ a year, work odd shifts (night/days, holidays etc..) have no tools at my disposal and have the most incompetent administration as well as supervisor. I kick teenagers out, my boss lets them in the next day saying they are calm now (we have an eviction procedure for re-occurring offenders) which he fails to use. Now I'm all for competence but you get what you pay for. No way will I risk my safety or well being for a company which will not back me in situations where physical harm may happen. No vests, no secondary tools, no cuffs, yet I am supposed to arrest these individuals on my own, sometimes alone at night with just my bare hands? People come to expect way too much from security for the bullshit pay we are getting. You want it all, perfect client services, super quick and efficient "police" like qualities as well as paramedic level competence. I've seen it all when it comes to Security, no matter how well you work, the clients are never satisfied. They want to squeeze every penny out of the department. If someone complains security was too harsh in his operations you get fired.
If you get one of those hardcore guards and he decided to physically kick out a teenager and potentially harm him doing so will you put your credibility and face value on the line in court for said guard? I highly doubt it.
- 22/4/14
- Patrick Cowsill said...
I don't think they are paid much. In Taiwan, they're often retirees (this seems to be the case in my building). As they are old, they don't really pose much of a threat to teenagers. That is one of the problems.
- 27/4/14
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- ¾ cup chopped tomato
- ½ cup chopped fresh parsley
- ¼ cup chopped fresh mint leaves
- ¼ cup sliced green onions
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ¼ cup lemon juice
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp freshly ground black pepper
- Combine rice, cucumber, tomato, parsley, mint, green onions, olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper in large bowl. Toss well and chill.
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Calories 200
Calories from Fat 89 (44%)
(15%)Total Fat 10g
(7%)Saturated Fat 1g
Polyunsaturated Fat 1g
Monounsaturated Fat 7g
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(9%)Sodium 204mg
(5%)Potassium 177mg
Total Carbohydrate 25g
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