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On a recent Friday night at the tony No. 9 Park, bartender Ted Kilpatrick fumbled in his pockets. He couldn't find the wine key he was looking for, so he grabbed a shaker tin and used it to pop the cap on a hefty bottle of Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout. A bartender cracking open a beer shouldn't be a noteworthy moment — but this was. With focus and precision, Kilpatrick poured some of the mighty brew into a highball glass bearing a potent mix of spirits.
To many, this act might be a sacrilege. Or just nonsense. What's a bartender at a high-end establishment doing mixing beer and spirits? (Eew!) To the cocktail purist, this might seem like a misstep akin to wearing a Red Sox cap in the Bronx. To the beer purist, something as complex as imperial stout is a work of craftsmanship worth savoring on its own, like a single malt Scotch or a vintage Bordeaux. But Kilpatrick's creation, the Mad Monk Fizz, is a work of craftsmanship in its own right: a dense, burly formula of spicy Rittenhouse Rye, funky Old Monk Rum, sweet Zirbenz Stone Pine Liqueur, Tahitian vanilla, and a whole egg, finished with the stout. It's rich and dry, with roasty, dark-chocolate notes.
Pick up a cocktail list in any bar and the variables are legion: shaken or stirred, white spirits or aged, up or on the rocks, bourbon or rum or tequila or vodka. Mention of stout or lager? Not so much. But a movement is afoot. Bartenders are adding brews to their ingredient lists, harnessing beer's assorted qualities to introduce effervescence, enhance aromatics, modify mouthfeel, and boost the body of a cocktail. And while not all beverage experts are convinced, many are happy to innovate in this way.
"We always consider the classics, but we want to progress," says Kilpatrick, who is also the bar manager. While mixing beer and liquor willy-nilly is a recipe for disaster, Kilpatrick demonstrates that, when done right, it can yield intriguing results. "Beer as a base won't work," he explains. "That would bastardize everything. Whereas if you use it as a modifier, it's beautiful. It can echo something in the drink. It can accent a high point. . . . Or, if it's used as a fizzing agent instead of wine or soda, it adds layers of flavor to the drink instead of something blank or flavorless."
Translation: why pair a black cocktail dress with black pumps when you could kick things up a notch with polka-dot platform sandals? Functionality is fine, but eccentricity is often better. Consider another one of Kilpatrick's inventions: the Zimmermann Telegram. It evolved from the Morning Glory, a drink popular in the late 19th century, made with Scotch, a tiny bit of absinthe, lemon, sugar, and egg whites. It's finished with soda water to give it some snap, and the fizz of the soda lightens the intensity of the Scotch. But Kilpatrick took a different approach for his Zimmermann Telegram.
"It peaks too early if it's just soda," he explains. "The Scotch needs something bigger to finish it. It's traditionally finished with soda, but I found that it worked with a hefeweizen." That led him to try switching some of the other ingredients. Swap out Scotch; add mezcal. And tequila. Get rid of the soda, and bring in a Belgian beer, Houblon Chouffe Dobbelen IPA Tripel. Protein in the egg amplifies the yeastiness of the Belgian brew, making for a decadent, formidable head.
At Local 149 in South Boston, beery effervescence serves a different purpose. Bar manager and bartender John Mayer uses a hoppy pale ale to give his cocktail a bit of sparkle and lift its aromatics. "I'm always thinking about aroma," says Mayer. "In cocktails in general, there's not always a lot of aroma going on. It's common to add lemon oil or orange peels, or top it with something like mezcal, to bring it all to the nose."
But he employs another method for his creation Prison Nickname, which incorporates Pimm's No. 1, crème de cassis, and a touch of lemon juice. He tops this with Ommegang Belgian-style Pale Ale and a spritz of Branca Menta, a variety of Fernet-Branca, the notoriously heady, extremely polarizing Italian digestif. Mayer uses it as an alternative to the common mint sprig.
"In wine and beer, aroma is everything. It adds so much to the flavor experience," explains Mayer. "Beer is carbonated, and having the proper head gives it terrific aroma. Carbonation propels aroma molecules into the air. Cocktails — not so much. They're served ice-cold."
Forward-thinking though Mayer may seem, he is quick to note that he's merely sticking to tradition.
"What we as Americans have done is take ingredients that, for whatever reason, taste good and combine them with other ingredients," says Mayer. While, say, the Italians may be satisfied drinking amari and grappa on their own, creative combinations are part of America's cocktail culture. "It's the American way to take worldwide spirits, and recently American spirits, and make cocktails out of them. Same thing happens in the beer world. As long as you have drinkers who like individual liquids, spirits, wine, and beer are going to make their way into cocktails."
In fact, mixing beer with other ingredients has been a norm in some regions for a long time. The Michelada, for instance, is a brawny blend of tomato juice, lime juice, and assorted sauces and spices, like Worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, Tabasco, salt, and pepper, all mixed into a pale Mexican lager like Corona. Try walking a block in Mexico City without finding a bar that serves them. In Germany it's long been routine to add raspberry syrup to the sour wheat beer Berliner Weisse. And there are as many variations on the shandy (aka shandygaff), a blend of beer and something bubbly, as there are wine regions in Europe: in Italy the Bicicletta combines beer and classic Italian soda; in many Latin American countries they reach for Fanta; and in Japan it's beer and cola.
Drinks like that have helped some skeptics, like noted beer writer Lew Bryson, come to terms with the growing trend among mixologists.
"My initial reaction was, why bother? I like beer. I like cocktails. I don't know why you would do that," says Bryson. "Most mixes as I've known them would knock the beer-ness out of beer and take away what I like about it. At the same time, I've drank the stuff. Occasionally I'll make myself a shandy, or do the Michelada thing when I'm in Mexico. I don't hate them and wanna blow them up with dynamite, but I've never had one that blew me away."
Other beer authorities express a more reluctant acceptance.
"I can't say I've ever had any experience with having a good beer cocktail, but nor have I actively sought it out," says Will Meyers, the highly awarded brewmaster at Cambridge Brewing Company. "I'm familiar with the fact that they exist, especially because the beers I make require blending a lot of things to make a finished product, and I know other people enjoy blending other things."
He admits, however, to having used beer in a mixed drink on a lark. At an Extreme Beer Fest one year, he made beer Bloody Marys, mixing his Big Man Ale, a winter IPA that's robust and malty and aggressively hopped, with spiced tomato juice and homemade pickled vegetables.
"People liked it so much we had it on our brunch menu for a while," he says. "It was delicious, but it also seemed silly."
Perhaps. But Noon Inthasuwan will make any agnostic a believer. The bar manager and bartender at Moksa in Cambridge loves vermouth, fortified wine flavored with aromatic herbs. Inthasuwan finds that wines add a mouthfeel to a cocktail that you just can't get from high-proof spirits. If wine's lower alcohol content can have a useful effect, she figured, why not try beer? Especially in the summer months.
Or better yet, why not wine and beer? Enter: the Irish Dragon. In it, she blends robust Spanish ruby port, a bright Italian digestif called Cocchi Barolo Chinato, and Murphy's Irish Stout. (If only all international gatherings yielded such spectacular effects. Take notes, United Nations.) The drink has a rich roastiness thanks to the stout, offset by raisiny and ripe-cherry fruitiness.
There are other reasons why bartenders are using beer as they develop drinks. Some employ it as a stand-in for a spirit. Jason Goodwin, another bartender at Local 149, used beer to craft a variation on the Prospect Park, a dark, stirred rye whiskey drink with Aperol, Punt e Mes vermouth, and Luxardo Maraschino liqueur. Substituting a smoked rye beer for the whiskey gives the drink body and blasts it with a gust of smoke.
Of course, no trend is official until a brigade of ironic practitioners unleashes a witty sneak attack. Witness the cocktail list at Trina's Starlite Lounge. Here you'll find five drinks that list "BLL" among the ingredients. No, it's not the newest house-made vermouth or artisanal Latin American spirit made from the nectar of an obscure stone fruit. It's a beer — a popular one, in fact. You've probably seen an empty bottle of it littering your sidewalk if you live anywhere in the vicinity of a college campus. Need us to spell it out? "BLL" stands for Bud Light Lime.
"The cocktail revolution is strong in Boston. I'm proudly in the thick of it, but it can get a little bit stuffy," says Beau Sturm, bartender and co-owner of Trina's. "Our mainstay is serious cocktails, but what we really want to do in spring and summer is put some levity on the list, to move away from that really scholastic attitude toward cocktails."
"Also, they're delicious," he continues. "If you're an open-minded cocktail enthusiast and you taste it with your eyes closed, you'll never know Bud Light Lime is in there."
Among the BLL-laden results at Trina's is Jackie's Packie, a nod to those spoofy "Real Housewives of South Boston" videos — it's a Tom Collins with a light beery fizz. The Somerville Cup #2.1 is a spin on the Pimm's Cup, a quintessential summer sip. And the Framingham Mojito has BLL folded in at the end instead of soda water.
In many ways, the use of what Sturm refers to as a "lawnmower/beach beer" in a serious cocktail echoes the foodie trend whereby chefs give comfort food a classy makeover. If chefs can gussy up mac 'n' cheese with truffle oil, or if a high-end establishment like Clio can deliver an upscale twist on ramen, why can't a lawnmower beer find its way into a well-crafted cocktail?
"We're providing what customers want," says Sturm. "Last year it was derivatives of Old Fashioneds that sold. Now that's shifting. People are going out and wanna have fun again. Mixologists are responding to that."
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Yes, yesss, y'all -- the rumors on TMZ are true. "Jersey Shore" will be shooting its fourth season in ITALY! According to an official hot-off-the-press release from our employer, the entire cast and crew of MTV's wildly popular hit show will be trading in their shot-filled road trips to Seaside Heights for a sure-to-be mini bottle-laden plane ride to their homeland.
While "Jersey Shore" is a popular program internationally, there are bound to be plenty of people oblivious to "The Situation" and his colorful cronies, as well as the circus of debauchery they bring with them to every locale. Who knows how the OGs of Italy will react to our self-proclaimed guidos and guidettes? Luckily, Vinny's got some relatives (wait, there's more of them?!) who'll be nearby to offer up heaps of comfort food and some guidance on the cultural ways of "the old country."
The show is slated to film in spring 2011 and air later on this year.
"While the stateside 'Jersey Shore' locales have become iconic for our audience, it's really the constantly evolving dynamic among the cast that keeps them coming back each season, and Europe is a fresh spin on a show that continues to reach new heights for us," said Chris Linn, executive vice president of programming and head of production for MTV. "The cast is headed to the birthplace of the culture they love and live by. We can't wait to see what erupts as a result."
Thank you, MTV, for supplying Remote Control with endless "Jersey Shore" scoops. And thank you, as always, to the cast for simply being you. Let's all raise a glass of RonRon Juice Chianti and say together now: Salute!
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Is George W. Bush a war criminal for deliberately violating the Geneva Conventions? Can he be prosecuted when he leaves office on January 20, 2009? The answers are found in Michael Haas's George W. Bush, War Criminal? The Bush Administration's Liability for 269 War Crimes, which documents 269 war crimes and assesses the culpability of Bush and his administration.
The author, Michael Haas, has written more than thirty books, most recently International (2008). A well-known political scientist, he played a key role in stopping American funding of the Khmer Rouge. His book exposing Singapore's many human rights violations is banned in that authoritarian country.
The Foreword to the book is written by former Nuremberg prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz.
The following chapters delineate 269 war crimes:
1) A President Without a Good Lawyer
President George W. Bush is ambitious but not a lawyer, so he relies on legal advice. The attorneys on which he has relied have been widely criticized as lacking the competence and wisdom to provide sound advice. Bush has preferred to "kick ass" (in his words) rather than listen to the legal fine points.
2) Crimes of Aggression
The concept of "just war" developed from the writings of Saint Augustine and others into international agreements prohibiting aggressive war. The primary war crime is to wage war without UN approval. There are five other crimes against peace, including propaganda for war, all violated by Bush.
3) Crimes Committed in the Conduct of War
Abraham Lincoln promulgated a code of warfare that served as a basis for the Red Cross Convention, the Hague Conventions, and the Geneva Conventions. Nevertheless, Bush and his commanding generals have allowed 36 violations of these and other international agreements.
4) Crimes Committed in the Treatment of Prisoners
Although General Tommy Franks ordered troops in Afghanistan and Iraq to follow the Geneva Conventions whenever they encountered enemy personnel, he was quickly countermanded by Bush. The "gloves came off," and thousands were improperly treated. Some 175 war crimes have been committed, many captured on film, within American-run prisons in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantánamo—and in secret prisons.
5) Crimes Committed in the Postwar Occupations
Whereas the postwar military occupation of Afghanistan was brief, the expected scenario for postwar Iraq did not materialize. Iraq was governed by L. Paul Bremer, who claimed direct authority from President Bush in proclaiming "I am the law," and another 52 war crimes have been committed.
6) Tribunals for War Crimes Prosecution
American and international law provides the basis for lawsuits, but sitting presidents cannot be brought to court on criminal offenses. Some cases have already been filed in Europe. This chapter will indicate which tribunals have been and could be used for trials as well as the statutory and treaty basis. Penalties under the law are identified.
7) The Bush Administrations' War Crimes Liability
President Bush is directly responsible for some but not every war crime identified in the analysis, so an assessment is made of his culpability for each specific violation as well as members of his Cabinet, top military brass, field commanders, and field personnel. The ramifications of both suing and not suing Bush are complex. Arguments pro and con are reviewed. A truth commission is proposed.


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Is Hot Lake haunted?
One La Grande family got to see for itself last weekend.
Brenda Jackson, her sons, Ian and Jeff Clark, and Jeffs girlfriend, Sarah Lathrop, were given a rare opportunity to explore the ruined Hot Lake Hotel after nightfall as part of a Fox Family Channel project for its show Scariest Places on Earth.
Rumors of ghostly activity have enveloped Hot Lake like the haze from its steamy springs since shortly after the establishment shut its doors as a rest home in 1974.
The ghost stories, true or not, were enough to attract a visit from Triage Entertainment, which produces segments for Scariest Places on Earth.
The late-evening Fox Family Channel show combines documentary-style facts and testimonies with reality segments of adult families spending time after dark in supposedly haunted sites around the world.
Producer Mike Burns said that he first became aware of Hot Lake, nine miles south of La Grande, through the Internet.
Through Hot Lake historian Shirley Peters, Burns arranged for several local couples and families to audition Friday afternoon with Triage Entertainments Tom Kramer and Matt Karchesky, an independent film-maker from
La Grande and associate producer for the project.
Sara Collins and Janelle Collier of Elgin made up one of eight groups that auditioned.
Collins, who said she believes in ghosts to a point, was enthusiastic about the possibility of exploring Hot Lake.
I think it would be exciting, she said.
Maybe I just want to see for myself if things are real.
The crew interviewed former owners, recent caretakers and others for background information on the spooky history of the Hot Lake hauntings.
They also spoke with Peters in an interview at the Elgin Opera House, which she and her husband own, and filmed the theaters antique piano.
Saturday afternoon, Kramer took three groups, including Collins and Collier, on a tour through the old building, guided by a caretaker.
Collier recalled that the daytime tour was more interesting than eerie.
It really is a neat old place, she said, admitting, it would have been scarier at night.
In daylight, she said, the famous bloodstains were a really icky brown, and looked more like mold from the areas excessive humidity than like blood.
Only one of the three groups would return that night for a seance with a well-known Tri-Cities psychic and experience firsthand Hot Lakes alleged after-hours activity.
It was hard to choose, said Kramer, who says he picked Jackson and her family because they demonstrated the most dynamics.
Kramer, Karchesky and their cameramen met the family and the guest psychic just before sunset at the site.
The group sat in the gazebo for a seance at 8:30 p.m. to get into the ghost world, according to Ian Clark.
After that, they entered the building, armed with only flashlights, candles and night-vision cameras.
As the psychic gave readings of spiritual activity in various rooms, the group experienced firsthand some of the hotels famous noises, including footsteps, a slamming door in the surgery area and a distant elevator bell.
At one point, according to Kramer, Jackson fell and swore someone or something pushed her down.
Both Kramer and Karchesky reported experiencing eerie sensations during their time inside. Karchesky describes their overall observations as hearing, sensing and feeling no sightings.
Before midnight, the group was out of the hotel.
Everybody was ready to go. Theyd had enough, said Kramer.
There was no way anyone was going to spend the night.
Several days after his experience, Clark was skeptical, believing that any unexplainable phenomena had been rigged.
Karchesky, however, insists, There were no tricks.
To assure the authenticity of the experience, moreover, he even arranged for police assistance to secure the area from the danger of meddling interlopers during filming.
There were definitely some really freaky moments, said Karchesky.
Kramer also found the haunted hotel convincing.
Im not a firm believer, but I dont have an explanation for some things, he said.
He strongly recommended curious people not visit the hotel.
Its an evil place.
As for Jacksons family: It was super fun, said Clark.
Kramer has since returned to California with last weekends film footage for editing.
While the date for Hot Lakes Scariest Places segment has not been finalized, Burns projected that it will probably air sometime around Halloween.


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"The Walking Dead" shuffled the chess board a little bit with "Clear," the episode that saw Rick, Michonne and Carl return to the Grimes' hometown. In addition to the bonding between Rick and Michonne, the AMC series also brought back Morgan (Lennie James), a character not seen since the first episode of Season 1.
But Morgan's been through a lot since Rick last saw him. In fact, this meeting served as a little bit of a wake-up call for Rick and his fading sanity.
"We really wanted to frame this episode as Rick encountering this twisted mirror version of his possible future self," series executive producer and comic co-creator Robert Kirkman told The Hollywood Reporter. "In Morgan, we wanted him to see, 'Oh, this is the path I'm going down. This is where I'm going to end up if I keep behaving the way I'm behaving.' Hopefully these are lessons that he will keep in the back of his mind during the coming conflicts with the Governor."
While it did open his eyes a bit, Rick's troubled times are not quite over. "Seeing that is like a mirror held up to him of where he could potentially go," series star Andrew Lincoln told TVGuide.com. Believe it or not, executive producer Gale Anne Hurd promised the character hasn't hit rock bottom yet. "It's coming soon. It will be how his actions have affected someone he loves," she told TVGuide.com.
According to James (Morgan), there had been plans to have his character return earlier than at the end of Season 3. However, Kirkman said at this time, the story was right. "Lennie's fantastic. I've got to hand it to him. He was such an integral piece of the pilot, which made people invest in this show so quickly," Kirkman told EW. "To have him back as Morgan is really cool. But I ought to say he's really playing a completely different character and doing completely different things in this episode and is just as amazing doing it. So it was a lot of fun having him back and also having him do things that were so different from what he had done before."
Besides reintroducing Morgan, the trip back to Kings County also served as a way for Rick to get to know Michonne a little better.
"[W]e're going to have Rick and Michonne and Carl in a somewhat closer position now that they've bonded over this trip. They're going to get back into the prison and start preparing for the coming conflict with the Governor," Kirkman told EW. "So we get right back into that. And we've only got a few episodes left to our finale. So there's going to be some pretty explosive things happening pretty quickly."
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@ComcastCares Speaks Out
Battelle interviews Frank Eliason, the voice of @ComcastCares at Searchblog.
@ComcastCares is a Twitter-based customer service channel that's part listening beacon — Comcast tracks mentions of their brand by Twitter users — and part real-time help desk. As much as actually helping individuals improve their Comcast experiences, though, @ComcastCares has become an emissary of goodwill across the 5-plus-million member Twitterverse: Taking disgruntled (and influential, well-followed) Comcast customers, make them happy, and have that conversation out in the public, for all Twitter users to see.
"I've been following Frank's work on Twitter for a while, it seemed he was always listening to what folks were saying, and when folks (inevitably) ranted about Comcast service, he jumped in, and almost always seemed to fix the problem. Then it happened to me, in October, my service started acting deeply flaky, and I complained about it.
"I quickly got a response, and when I moved to a new place last month, he helped again. Then just this weekend, my new Internet service started acting flaky again, and in ten minutes, Frank had assessed the problem and helped me fix it, calmly, intelligently, and in the grammar natural to social media…."
That last phrase, to me, is the most important. If your customers are expressing their discontent in social media environments, bid for their forgiveness in those same social media environments, using the language and grammar of social media natives.
To see @ComcastCares in action, here's how it worked for Guy Kawasaki and his 32,000 followers.
To see what happened to a brand that opted not to engage with disgruntled customers in the social media settings where they made their complaints, check out the Motrin Moms dust up.
UPDATE: I Twittered Battelle's interview with @ComcastCares:
Six minutes later (on a Saturday afternoon), @ComcastCares Twittered me back:
Chalk up another fan, @ComcastCares! Now I'm off to Twitter all about it.


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To legally ride a motorcycle in Rhode Island, state law requires successful completion of a Motorcycle Rider Safety Course. Anyone seeking to obtain a motorcycle license must successfully complete a 16.5-hour training program. This program is composed of six-and-a-half hours of lectures and two five-hour riding ranges. CCRI provides all training motorcycles.
It is illegal in Rhode Island to ride a motorcycle without a motorcycle license or permit: DO NOT ride your motorcycle to classes or ranges.
There are specific and stringent safety requirements of the Motorcycle Safety Program that must be followed. It is mandatory that all students bring the following to:
Remember, you must dress according to the weather conditions. For colder months, dress in layers. During warmer months, long sleeve T-shirts or button-downs are acceptable. Five hours outdoors on bikes can be very uncomfortable if you are not dressed for the conditions.
Failure to bring the appropriate items/gear to the range, failure to appear without notice and/or failure to arrive on time will result in your having to reschedule and pay a range rescheduling fee of $60.
Our goal is for you to complete the course in a timely fashion according to your chosen schedule. If, however, you do not complete all hours (16.5) successfully within the program year in which you begin, you must reregister, pay full course fees and take the entire class in the next year. There are no exceptions.
Each student must successfully pass a written exam at the second lecture and a riding skills test at the second range session. Failure of the written exam will result in rescheduling and retesting at a later date. Failure to pass the riding skills test may result in rescheduling into the entire motorcycle safety program. Your rider coach will advise you as to the best and safest course of action to meet your individual needs.
Motorcycle rider coaches are certified and trained to provide you with the best training available; however, it is not uncommon for a student to have difficulty in meeting all standards of safety after the first attempt. For this reason students will be allowed to retake the first range ($60 fee). The student will be rescheduled to another range as soon as possible, based on the recommendation of the instructor. A second failure of range one may result in rescheduling into the entire motorcycle safety program.
Your certificate of completion is valid for six months. You must visit the DMV to apply for your permit within that time frame. If your certificate expires, you may be eligible for recertification upon successful completion of a riding skills test. Eligibility is determined by the length of time from the date of your original completion. If it is within one year, you will be scheduled to take a riding skills test and earn a new certificate of completion. There is a fee ($60) for the riding skills retest.
If you are younger than 18, you must complete the 'Minor Release Agreement' form and possess an operator's license (full or provisional). The 'Minor Release Agreement' form must be submitted at the time of registration.
Payment in full, $125 (Rhode Island residents) or $225 (out-of-state residents), must be made at the time of registration.
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6 April 2017
Highlands and Islands Labour MSP Rhoda Grant said she was extremely disappointed about the Bank of Scotland's Highland closure list and would be taking it up with bank chiefs asking for a change of heart.
"I could see the writing on the wall in 2015 when the bank ploughed ahead with reducing hours at its Bonar Bridge, Helmsdale and Dornoch branches against the local community's wishes," she said.
"It is another nail in the coffin for rural services and rural jobs and I am extremely disappointed.
"No doubt the bank will say it will be investing in digital services but many elderly customers do not like internet banking and particularly with so many scams doing the rounds, many people like to talk to bank staff face-to-face.
"And, many areas still have woeful Broadband connectivity.
"It really highlights the lack of investment that the big banks are making in the Highlands. It's really a poor show."
The branches listed are :
Beauly, Highland
Bonar Bridge, Highland
Dornoch, Highland
Fortrose, Highland
Helmsdale, Highland
Kingussie, Highland
Lairg, Highland


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WhenMay 16, 2012
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
WhereRose Lehrman Arts Center, Harrisburg Area Community College
Harrisburg, PA
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As part of Market Square Concerts 30th Anniversary Celebration, soprano Sarah Wolfson and pianist Lydia Brown will give three world premieres of song settings of poetry by MSC Founder Lucy Miller Murray by Jeremy, Paul Moravec, and Jake Heggie. New MSC co-directors Peter Sirotin and Ya-Ting Chang also perform music by Brahms and Ravel. Tickets are available at marketsquareconcerts.org.


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Deadmau5 has released new music and deleted his social media accounts following a rant about Justin Bieber, according to reports.
The Canadian DJ posted a video on Thursday (17Dec15), slating Bieber for allegedly not writing any of the songs on his new album Purpose.
Editors at DailyMail.com report the DJ said in the clip on Twitter.com, "I can accept that his album is probably good. What I'm mad about is that none of this is (his)... What did you do? Oh, you sang on it. Well, you know, I can credit you for having to be able to hold a pitch on two syllables throughout an entire 75-minute album."
Deadmau5, real name Joel Zimmerman, then deleted the tweets, and wrote in a post on his Facebook.com page, "F*** 'social media'. The only thing it's useful for is promoting, advertising, and more advertising. As far as being a human being on social media, forget about it. You're just another number we can all add into our little follower count, that ultimately adds up to NOTHING I require to make music."
He then uploaded two new tracks, titled 00001 and 00002, before deleting both his Twitter and Facebook accounts on Friday (18Dec15), according to editors at NME.com.
Last week (ends13Dec15), the DJ was hospitalized following a lymph node infection. He told his fans on Instagram.com that he snuck out of the medical facility to play a gig for Red Bull in Miami, Florida and then returned for more treatment.
Deadmau5 later revealed he was discharged to recover at home, and wrote, "Back home. Everything is groovy..."


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Dark, techy and heavy drum and bass is what defines Maniatics. It has been more than 5 years of dedication and hard work since the Seville based trio formed by Antonio, Javier and Alvaro, started to share their love for music. Together, they have developed a unique and original sound alongside a high quality output that has led them to have more than 20 references on Beatport so far. On early 2016, their EP "Wifly" released on Maztek's Subculture Records topped many DnB charts, being the most sold EP ever in the label.
Since the D&B don A.M.C. discovered Maniatics and signed them to his label Titan Records in late 2016, they have already put out a number of filthy releases including the EP "Rock This Place / The Beast", which was top 10 on Beatport DnB Chart, and "Clenching Hands / Humans Vampires" for Kosen Production among others.
With their recent success and their signing to Titan, 2017 is set to be a very promising year for Maniatics.
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THE TRAGEDIES of recent weeks include the abduction of 6-year-old Regina Armstrong of Orlando.
One of the thousands of fliers given out by numerous community members shows Regina and a composite drawing of her abductor. Evidently it was a copy of the original, but with one difference: it contained the McDonald's golden arches logo at the bottom.
I commend McDonald's for the posters, but is it necessary to exploit the misery of this family?
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I've been offered a new job and submitted my formal resignation on Friday (all amicable). I'm on 13 weeks notice which takes me into 11th May.
New company are happy to wait but I did advise it may be negotiable.
Current company asking if I want to work my 3 months and do the new company want me any earlier. I'm happy to do so to be honest but open to earlier. I 'think' it may be in my current company's best interest for me to go before end of March (end of financial year). If I was to go before then at their request would I be entitled to my full 13 weeks notice pay? Due to Easter, I wouldn't be able to start the following week so don't want to go without pay. Any earlier may be a struggle due to being away 22-27 March.
Any thoughts? Just want to ensure I don't have a period where I'm not paid. I suppose I'm only thinking this based on a perception of them wanting to me to leave before FY end.
Also - I have a company car. If I leave earlier, would I be entitled to any monies for giving this up before the end of my notice? I'll be carless for a period (new car order)


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Note by the Bill Team on Competition Law and the BBC
The Committee has asked to what extent the BBC is exempt from the Chapter I and II prohibitions under the Competition Act 1998 by virtue of the general exemption. We assume the reference is to the exclusion in paragraph 4 of Schedule 3 to the Act, for undertakings entrusted with the operation of services of general economic interest or having the character of a revenue-producing monopoly.
As a general point, the impact of the BBC's activities on competition within the UK fall within the ambit of the Competition Act to the extent that it is acting as an "undertaking". It would be for the relevant competition authority to consider, case by case, whether in carrying out a particular activity the BBC was acting as an undertaking, that is to say, engaged in an economic activity. For all commercial activities it clearly would be. However, there is EC jurisprudence which would support the view that public service broadcasting may also be regarded as an economic activity for these purposes.
The relevant competition authority is at present the Office of Fair Trading. The Bill would give OFCOM concurrent powers under the Competition Act, in respect of the communications sector. In common with current practice with respect to other sectoral regulators who have such concurrent powers, the general principle would be that OFCOM will deal with cases in the communications sector. The OFT would however retain power to enforce competition law in that sector if it is better placed to do so.
The effect of the Act is very broadly to prohibit agreements which restrict or distort competition (Chapter I), and to prohibit abuse of a dominant position (Chapter II). OFCOM will have powers in relation to the communications sector to investigate such anti-competitive activities and to take enforcement action where necessary, including the levying of fines where appropriate.
It is possible that the public service broadcasting functions of the BBC might fall within the scope of the exclusion in Schedule 3, paragraph 4, though this has not been established in any case decided by the OFT to date. Even if the exclusion were found to apply to particular functions of the BBC, however, the general prohibitions of the Act would still apply to the BBC's conduct, except to the extent that enforcement of the Act would obstruct the performance of these functions. It would not therefore be the case that the exclusion would take the performance of these tasks entirely outside the scope of the Act. Rather it provides a safe harbour for cases where there is no way in which a specific task assigned by government to an undertaking could otherwise be performed without infringing the Act. The extent to which the BBC's conduct was covered by the exclusion would have to be investigated by OFCOM (or the OFT if better placed), taking full account of all the facts relevant to the particular case or complaint under investigation.
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Discussion in 'The Edge of the Forum' started by Man18, Jun 13, 2008.
Lynsey Bartilson is hot IMO and so is Megyn Price.
I don't know who's who but I have to say the mum is a milf but her daughter is a bit.. meh.
I thought I was the only one that watched this show.


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After college, Lauri served as an officer in the U.S. Navy stationed in Edzell, Scotland. During her 4-year tenure as a Supply Corps officer she was responsible for conducting numerous leadership and management training seminars. After resigning her commission she attended Loyola University Chicago where she received a Masters Degree in Human Resources and co-taught a class on the economics of risk management. Lauri then worked as the Director of Human Resources at Midwestern University for several years before leaving the workforce to care for her young children. In May, 2007 Lauri received her Waldorf Teaching Certificate from the Arcturus Rudolf Steiner Teacher Training Program and is currently a class teacher at CWS. Lauri is also the very proud mother of four children attending the Chicago Waldorf School.


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Happy New Year! And another alcohol free January.
We had a such a lovely new year. Turtle, my gorgeous niece, made the most amazing cocktails, we had a scrummy dinner cooked by my very clever sister in law (the sweet potato and chorizo was a revelation), and then Sam, Charlie, Jackson and even, hilariously, my brother IJ and I had a mad dancing competition on the Wii. A fab time. It ended with champagne and cuddles with velvet nosed doggies on squishy sofas watching the New Year fireworks on the telly. I couldn't have been happier.
Last year at this time I vowed to be completely alcohol free in January. I've got to be honest, it was tough, but I DID end January feeling amazing (and a whole 8lb lighter – without even trying!). I also said I'd never do it again (and I got a special edition bottle of Bombay Sapphire for Christmas – sob…), but here we are again after two back to back holidays during which I overindulged in both the food AND the booze, and then Christmas and its associated gluttony. And frankly, after my disgusting behaviour on Christmas Eve (there was singing. And I don't even remember going to bed), I probably owe it to my liver to give it a holiday.
Sometimes an intervention needs to be take place for anyone whose drinking has got out of control before it's too late.
If you'd like to join me – and my friends Laura, Dellers, NotSupermum and, I think Rachael (yes Rach?) – doing alcohol-free January, do let me know (or tweet me @englishmum).
Bring it on, then, 2013, I'm ready and raring to go!