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ta panta (the many) as the partial, to study, to investigate the hen as the holistic
Ultimate presupposition: Is there a problem sitting there waiting to be solved, or is there no problem sitting there, waiting to be solved? Waiting to be solved, a transfer epithet? Presupposition?Whereby does a question, alternating between two alternatives, collect to itself the name presupposition? Why do we want to name this matter, that of the question, is there a problem sitting there, waiting to be solved, or is there no problem there, waiting to be solved?, presupposition? A presupposition, an assumption, a hastening to take hold of what is close by, of what is there already in its clarity, and yet questionable. And yet subject to reflection. Only in that we reflect do we come to the name, and the name, having unlocked its object, is what we question.
Let the matter stand for the moment. What does the question ask? It asks about knowledge, is there knowledge, or, is there no knowledge? Again, it asks about intelligibility, is there intelligibility, or is there no intelligibility? This latter paraphrase, seems itself to be all but unintelligible. How could there be, even now, as we read these words, no intelligibility? Does this intelligibility hold long enough to pronounce a sentence, and then give out? Has something partially been grasped, but not the whole? One sentence, this one, but not the entire essay? The essay might be flawed, it might have been put down quite stupidly, and not hold together. Then, it is intelligible that a part, a sentence, can be understood, while the whole, which depends on the things being properly put together, might be nonsensical.
Why does the partial lead to the demand for the holistic? Is it I who drive my wits to the matter of knowledge or does this which is waiting-to-be-solved in some way attract me? Is the attraction seated in the groin, in the stomach, in the heart or in the head? Whence was it decided that what attracts must call out and then connect to what hears? But, what we know of those things that attract, from our partial knowledge of what is close by, is that they call in distinctive ways. Is intelligibility, then, such a great thing that it is not like the things that call forth, each in their own peculiar manner? Is knowledge supposed to be some kind of generic for this or that partial understanding? If there were no intelligibility, and so no knowledge, would we lose, utterly, the interpretation of things, and stand with vague eyes before everything? Would this be a questioning? But then it is impossible to understand how the questioner would reflect and get to the word questioning.
Questioning is not at all like that! It is not some falling into a chasm. Rather in questioning we question what we already intuit with the most clarity. What is nearby is easily understood. If I dont know what something is I soon ask, what is that thing, and what is it for, and how does one use it? And then I am soon made to understand and at once I am done with that, only reflecting that I a have learned a bit, as one goes on doing every day. If only, again, tomorrow, I might be so productive. But wouldnt questioning be something horrible, and useless, and even indefensible from an ordinary sense of what is appropriate? Because this questioning would not be a learning more in a productive manner, about the partial bits that I come across every day.
Questioning is not a mere othering of the problem of the philosopher, namely that of the intelligibility of the whole, rather it depends on the growing through the problem of the intelligibility of the whole, which brings it to arrive at the closeness of what is partial and nearby as the sight of the work of thinking. And this thinking notes the basis of what is most clear in its understanding as what it can not keep to. What is peculiar is the admixture of intelligibility in the things that are close and unusual stupefaction with respect to what is distant. The situation herein situated can be serious if and only if it is necessary, presumably by the force of historical facticity, and not a theoretical construct which might have been available at any old time.
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Lenska Papich is Tourism New Zealand's International Media Manager who also happens to like jumping off/out of things...
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Safe hands. They rest calmly, reassuringly on my shoulders while the plane's engine whines into its climb. My sister provides the entertainment for us in the back – it's kind of like the naughty kids in the back seat of the bus, except we are grown up, in skydiving gear, stacked into a little aeroplane and joking about sex. It's amazing what you talk about when confronted with the reality of leaping out of a plane at 15,000ft.
The ribald conversation continues as does the constant gradient of the plane. The view is breathtaking and getting much wider, things on the ground are getting mighty small. I'm still smiling, but as we climb ever higher, my stomach starts to churn like the plane's engines.
But those safe hands still rest on my shoulders. Those hands have done this over 20,000 times and they seem reassuringly still attached to a very tall very relaxed Serbian jump master's body. The same body I'm about to be strapped to and hurled out of a plane with at 200 clicks.
As the plane plateaus I'm a little quieter. It's the 10,000ft drop off point. A few people disappear out the now open door – seemingly to be seen again on the ground below. The engine kicks in again and the plane reassumes its climbing position – 5,000 ft to go. I'm very quiet. Safe hands. They are still there, thank god.
My ears start to pop and we seem to be chugging into the cloudy heavens – the tops of the Remarks are far below. Safe hands have started clipping me to him, putting on my funny little jump cap and my goggles. Can't say I'm not relieved. Clip, clip, clip that part's important!
I'm a silent stupidly smiling little rag doll – looking at the open chasm that is the door that we seem to be sliding towards. My photographer climbs out into the screaming wind and hangs there happily - all so he can get good shots for me. Shots which later tell me that I wasn't really smiling so much as looking on with a very open mouth – I think the word for it is gaping.
You are supposed to put your head on your jump master's shoulder, your legs under the plane and make like a banana. I'm not sure if I was very banana like. Just a little rag doll in safe hands hanging out of an aeroplane.
Then I'm falling, dropping. Fast. And it's out of this world. Safe hands tap me, I don't respond. There they are again reminding me of this world. That's right arms up, assume the banana. And the cameraman is there too – we're having a party in the sky whilst falling at 200kms per hour.
I can't close my mouth, I give up trying I'm too excited. The wind speed is phenomenal lashing me in the face as we fall, fall, fall through it freely for a whole 60 seconds. We are still above the mountains or thereabouts when Mr Serbia decides it's time to slow down. Goodbye cameraman we seem to stop dead in the sky. The screaming wind ceases, my harness grabs (thank god) and my legs fly up. Then we are floating, drifting, flying in stunning silence – Queenstown splayed out below putting on a very nice show.
It's like someone has flicked a switch and decided 'right it's time for part two'. It's so quiet and still incredibly high. We drift over towards the mountains and away again, sightseeing at its best. I just relax and absorb it all, the effortless feel of gliding through the air. I don't want it to stop I'm at peace.
We do a few fancy turns but the safe hands seem to understand that I'm keen to hang around for a bit. Even so the landmarks are getting closer, the geographic perspective offered from above reducing. My universal view is in decline but at least I'm still flying.
And then we are landing. Easy. Feet up. Feet down. I'm on the ground.
The cameraman is waiting. Big smile. Old safe hands knows what to do. And we are walking back to the base – walking – how odd. I thank safe hands – he's off to do it all over again with some other brave soul. I'm almost reluctant to part with him. He does this every day, me I feel a weird sense of attachment to the giant Serbian who just literally had my life in his hands and handled it with absolute care. I shake my head, there must be a name for it, some weird attachment syndrome born of risking your life with a complete stranger.
Fleeting obsessions dealt with I float out of NZONE. For days I am on top of the world – parts of me still in the sky. Every moment is relived – assisted by the photos and video. This is the best thing I've ever done. I would pay three times the advertised rate for the experience so good, so professional so incredible was it. I feel brave. Proud. Revived. Do it – you are in safe hands with NZONE.

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We actually think Nichols did an outstanding job, and appeared to be enjoying what she was doing—at least compared to the past several months of ESPN reporting that encroached the border of reluctance and outright loathing. For once, she seemed relaxed; when your network cohort is the flamboyant Craig Sager, a more placid tone is always appreciated.


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text: At about 2015z, here is what I am seeing on ISS and PCSAT: ISS is doing well on 9600 baud on 145.825. A nice amount of activity. Looking at the live downlink on www.ariss.net it is easy to see that we do have some good 9600 baud Igates passing the 9600 baud data into the APRS system. Over the last 4 hours I see these IGates: qAS,KD8CAO-7 qAR,K7MT-1: qAR,K7OFT-10: qAS,PA3GUO: qAR,ST2NH: qAS,DF9CP: qAR,PD0RKC: After 7 years, PCSAT is not waking up as bright and chipper as before. For the third day, we got control, but this time, she did make it through a full orbit. Last telemetry packet was T#212 or 212 minutes of uptime. We have DIGI OFF while it recharges. BUT, as of this writing, we have not seen anything on its web page downlink for over 4 hours. Either we do not have enough Igates on 145.825 1200 baud, or it has crashed again. It is easy to see on http://pcsat.aprs.org. If the telemetry number is above 90 then it has run a full orbit since the last re-start. When we change the callsign from NODIGI back to PCSAT-1, then it will be open for digipeating. Details on www.aprs.org/pcsat.html When PCSAT returns to user service, please review the user-service-agreement on www.aprs.org/pcsat/contract.txt particularly we do not want to see any unattended beacons cluttering up the ISS/PCSAT channel on 145.825. Let the live users communicate. If any dual-hop opportunities arise, the best PATH to use is VIA ARISS,ARISS since both satellites support that alias, and both satellites will do their callsign-substitution if successful. The normal APRS path of WIDE2-2 will also work, but last time I tried it, the RS0ISS did not insert it's callsign, so you had no proof that it went via ISS. SO use ARISS,ARISS for possible two hops. Best place to look is at AOS on the west coast (if the one person in Hawaii is actually transmitting) and at LOS on the east coast if the geometery of a conjunction will get to Europe. Bob, WB4APR


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Annual to tree
Leaves basal or cauline, alternate, opposite, or whorled, generally simple and toothed (to pinnately compound); stipules 0 or generally deciduous
Inflorescence: spike, raceme, panicle, or flowers solitary in axils; bracted
Flower generally bisexual, generally radial, opening at dawn or dusk; hypanthium sometimes prolonged beyond ovary (measured from ovary tip to sepal base); sepals generally 4(27); petals generally 4 (or as many as sepals, rarely 0), often "fading" darker; stamens generally 4 or 8(2), anthers 2-chambered, opening lengthwise, pollen generally interconnected by threads; ovary inferior, chambers generally 4 (sometimes becoming 1), placentas axile or parietal, ovules 1many per chamber, style 1, stigma 4-lobed (or lobes as many as sepals), club-shaped, or hemispheric
Fruit: capsule, loculicidal (sometimes berry or indehiscent and nut-like)
Seeds sometimes winged or hair-tufted
Genera in family: 15 genera, ± 650 species: worldwide, especially w North America; many cultivated (Clarkia, Epilobium, Fuchsia, Gaura, Oenothera )
Reference: [Munz 1965 North America Fl II 5:1278]
Annual, perennial herb, from taproot or lateral roots
Leaves basal, cauline, or both, alternate, simple to 2-pinnate
Inflorescence bracted; spike, raceme, or flowers solitary in axils
Flower radial, generally opening at dawn (rarely at dusk); sepals 4, reflexed (sometimes 23 remaining adherent); petals 4, yellow, white, lavender, often with darker basal spots, generally fading purplish or reddish; stamens (4)8, longer ones opposite sepals, anthers generally attached at middle (or base), pollen grains 3-angled except in polyploid taxa (visible with hand lens); ovary chambers 4, stigma ± head-like or hemispheric, generally > anthers and cross-pollinated (or ± = anthers and self-pollinated)
Fruit straight to coiled, generally sessile
Seeds in 12 rows per chamber
Species in genus: 62 species: w North America (especially CA-FP), 1 South America
Etymology: (L.A. von Chamisso, French-born German botanist, 17811838)
Reference: [Raven 1969 Contr US Natl Herb 37:161396]
Polyploidy and self-pollination have predominated in evolution of genus. Previously included in Oenothera (" O." in synonyms).
Annual; hairs ± dense, spreading
Stem ± 0
Leaf 1098 mm, linear to narrowly lanceolate or narrowly oblanceolate, entire or weakly and minutely serrate
Flower nodding; hypanthium 1.63.2 mm, closed by fleshy disk; sepals 4.58 mm; petals 518 mm, yellow; anthers attached at base; sterile tip of ovary 645 mm
Fruit 48 mm, 4-angled (4-winged near tip), leathery, tardily dehiscent
Seeds 1.22 mm, papillate, tan with brown spots
Chromosomes: 2n=14
Ecology: Open or shrubby slopes, generally clay soils, grasslands, oak and Joshua-tree woodlands
Elevation: < 800 m.
Bioregional distribution: Northwestern California, Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada Foothills, Great Central Valley, Central Western California, Western Transverse Ranges
Distribution outside California: sw Oregon, Baja California
Synonyms: O. g. Hook. & Arn


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Pirates make Minors trade, designate Jones
The Pirates have made a minor move -- and a major decision.
The Bucs on Monday dealt Minor League outfielder Alex Dickerson to the San Diego Padres for outfielder Jaff Decker and right-hander Miles Mikolas.
The Pirates have made a minor move -- and a major decision.
The Bucs on Monday dealt Minor League outfielder Alex Dickerson to the San Diego Padres for outfielder Jaff Decker and right-hander Miles Mikolas.
With both newcomers immediately being targeted for a 40-man roster at full capacity, two trims had to be made -- and Garrett Jones was designated for assignment, along with right-hander Kyle McPherson.
Jones, the popular and powerful first baseman-outfielder, was already a prime candidate to not be tendered a contract at next Monday's deadline. So in that regard, the decision to DFA was a mere technicality for the 32-year-old left-handed hitter, priced by service time out of the Pirates' range.
"Garrett is a victim of the arbitration process," Pittsburgh general manager Neal Huntington said. "His salary would be predetermined by comparable performances on the market, and we expected it to rise to a level we're not comfortable with. We had already decided to trade or non-tender him."
The DFA process still leaves the Pirates with a 10-day window to work out a trade for Jones, who is eligible for salary arbitration for the third time, and a year ago negotiated a contract for $4.5 million.
In 4 1/2 seasons with the Pirates, Jones totaled 100 home runs and 325 RBIs while batting .256 in 677 games. He had 15 homers and 51 RBIs last season, when he was displaced at both of his defensive positions in September by the acquisitions of right fielder Marlon Byrd and first baseman Justin Morneau.
McPherson, 26, was a candidate for the Pirates' rotation in Spring Training, but he came down with an elbow injury that led to Tommy John surgery on July 10.
Dickerson, 23, the Eastern League Rookie of the Year in 2013 after batting .288 with 17 homers and 68 RBIs for Double-A Altoona, ironically is another player in Jones' mold: A lefty-hitting first baseman-right fielder.
With Gregory Polanco their prime outfield prospect on the horizon, the Pirates were willing to swap Dickerson for two players who provide depth for anticipated future moves to come.
Mikolas, 25, made a solid Major League debut with the Padres in 2012, and last season ranked as one of the top closers in the offensive-oriented Pacific Coast League. At Triple-A Tucson, he had 26 saves in 54 appearances, allowing 22 earned runs in 61 innings.
Decker, 23, joins the Pirates' cache of former No. 1 Draft picks. A supplemental selection (No. 42 overall) in the 2008 First-Year Player Draft, Decker has stalled in the Minors after starting his pro career by being named the top player in his league the first two years.
In six Minor League seasons, Decker, a 5-foot-10, 190-pound left-handed batter, has hit .268 with good gap power. Despite a modest total of only 71 home runs, he has a career OPS of .858, thanks to the plate discipline reflected by an on-base percentage of .402.
"He commands the strike zone well and sprays the ball," Huntington said. "Both players add depth. They have a chance to make the club on April 1, or if not, help us at some point this season."
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer.


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Ode to Martin Luther
Your scholarly Ninety-five theses challenged a lost papal church.
You wielded the sword and divided the marrow from the bone exposing that no godly treasures could be sold.
Disputation on selling indulgences, inner spiritual repentance, true sorrow over sin not mere external sacramental confession. Repent and believe.
You revealed anew salvation to be received as a free gift of God's grace through faith alone in Christ Jesus alone not by works.
Heavenly treasures sprang forth, a fountain of forgiveness. Paid in full. Sacrificial love. Victory over sin and death. New nature birthing into a new life yielding spiritual fruits. A changed heart.
Bible final authority. Translated for the common man. Read. The truth shall set you free indeed.


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3 Reasons Why Google Glass Will Be Successful
Googleis making its Google Glass available to the public for the first time. The product gives users the ability to easily communicate via pictures. It also provides access to a vast amount of data. The tech company has been hard at work advancing the new product. The enormous prospects in the wearables market, Google's focus on the mass-market audience, and the efforts of third-party app developers should deliver the company a commercial success.
Prospects in the wearable tech market
Though the wearable device market is still in a nascent stage, it is expanding at a fast rate. To benefit from the market, Google has been partnering with other companies. It recently partnered with Luxottica to give a much-needed touch of class to Google Glass. IDC predicted that global shipments of wearable computing devices are expected to triple in 2014 to more than 19 million units. Google's partnerships will enable the company to make a product that can take market share in wearables.
Potential appeal to the mass-market audience
One of the objectives of Google Glass is to provide users with the ability to easily communicate via pictures. Google is doing this to increase the product's appeal to the mass-market audience. All signs continue to indicate that the market is big. IHS Research predicts shipments of smart glasses may rise to as high as 6.6 million units in 2016, up from just 50,000 in 2012. Google will gain an important source of revenue if Google Glass becomes popular with its targeted market.
Third-party app developers
The real promise of Google Glass lies in the imagination of app developers working in numerous fields. Before Google made the product available to the public, developers had been tapped to test it. Recently, Pristine Eyesight streamed a real-time audio to the device for doctors. The process will allow health professionals to work with simple voice commands. With such developments, Google can make a big impact in health care and other sectors. Juniper Research revealed that global wearable smart glasses shipments will reach 10 million per year by 2018, compared to an estimated 87,000 in 2014.
Microsoft seems determined to benefit from the coming wearable tech market. The Wall Street Journal reported the company is prototyping an eyeglass technology similar to Google Glass. Though Microsoft hasn't pushed the product to the market, it if most likely it will do so. Another research firm, Deloitte, expects smart glasses to account for more than 66% of wearable tech sales this year.
Samsung is another company that has an eye on driving its revenue growth though wearables. The company released its Galaxy Gear smartwatch and is working on the next version of the product. Samsung sees the wearables market as a dependable source of revenue in the near future. BI Intelligence forecasts a $12 billion market for wearable devices by 2018.
Foolish takeaway
The global market for wearable devices will grow substantially over the next few years. Google hopes to profit in the market through Google Glass and other products. The enormous potential in the market, together with Google's focus on creating a product with mass appeal, and the efforts of third-party developers will enable the company to achieve its objectives.
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As mandated by the State of California, the City of Berkeley adopted building standards for the control of fire in local wildland-urban interface areas. The regulations, adopting the State codes and continuing Berkeley's existing protections, apply to those parcels currently in Fire Zone 3 and in a slightly expanded Fire Zone 2. On January 1, 2011, the Berkeley City Council adopted the new State standards along with local amendments to continue the compatible existing requirements. The revised Chapter 7A of the Berkeley Building Code and R327 of the Berkeley Residential Code, which addresses construction standards in the designated areas, were adopted as Berkeley Municipal Code Sections 19.28.030 and 19.28.040. Building permits applications filed after January 1, 2011 must comply with these standards.
Go to the following links for more information:
Map of Berkeley Fire Zones (.pdf)
To check if your parcel is in a Fire Zone, visit the Parcel Conditions Page.
City Council Report on Adoption (.pdf)
Berkeley Municipal Code (BMC)
Office of the State Fire Marshall Wildland Urban Interface Products:http://osfm.fire.ca.gov/strucfireengineer/pdf/bml/wuiproducts.pdf


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Also known as Phantom Love, the French/Japanese co-production L'Empire de la Passion follows famed Japanese director Nagisa Oshima's multinational production, the chilling and erotic In the Realm of the Senses, which was banned in several countries and was disqualified from appearing at the Cannes Film Festival. This straightforward Japanese murder-mystery and ghost story, unlike that previous movie, does not focus on eroticism but concerns the aftermath of passion and the fruits of crime. In the story, based on an 1895 incident in rural Japan, Seki (Kazuko Yoshiyuki), a beautiful peasant woman, and her young lover Toyoji (Tatsuya Fuji), conspire to murder her husband when their erotic games get out of hand. After getting the husband drunk, the two lovers kill him and throw his body down an abandoned well, claiming that he has gone to do business in Tokyo. In order to avoid suspicion, the two only see each other seldom. In the meantime, Seki begins seeing visions of her husband, and her grown stepdaughter has dreams of him. Guilt consumes both of them, and their nemesis, in the form of a bumbling police inspector sent to investigate an unrelated murder, pursues them.
Print provided by Janus Films.
Directed by Nagisa Oshima.
Japan. 105minutes. 35mm Film.
1978. Color. Japanese with English Subtitles.


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Are swollen lymph nodes an indication of cancer?
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
Can you get a pretty good indication of whether a child might have lymphoma or a neuroblastoma from blood work? If a child has symptoms (swollen nodes-several and large, increasing in size). Would the blood work always show irregular if they had a Cancer that involves the Lymph nodes or could they still have a cancer with normal blood work?
I really appreciate your attention to this matter.
Amit Maity, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
First, of all, swollen nodes in a child may not represent cancer. There are many other conditions, including a wide variety of infections, that can cause enlarged nodes. Therefore, one should should not jump to the conclusion that this has to be cancer.
To answer your question, blood work alone may not distinguish lymphoma from neuroblastoma. First of all, it is possible to have either disease with completely normal blood work of the type that is normally ordered. A CBC (complete blood count) is likely to be normal in either disease unless the bone marrow has been infiltrated. Serum electrolytes such as sodium, potassium, chloride, etc. are unlikely to be abnormal in either disease. There is a serum chemistry marker called LDH (lactate dehydrogenase) that can be elevated in either disease. This is thought to correlate with tumor burden. However, if it is normal, this does not rule out lymphoma or neuroblastoma. A high LDH level is not even specific for cancer since many other medical conditions can elevate this marker. There is another serum chemistry marker called ferritin that is often elevated in neuroblastoma, but not typically in lymphoma. This particular marker is not one that would be routinely ordered by a physician. If the serum ferritin is extremely high in a young child with neck nodes, this would be more suggestive of neuroblastoma than lymphoma. However, a normal serum ferritin does not rule out neuroblastoma. Conversely there are other medical conditions that could cause an elevation in ferritin.
There is another test would suggest neuroblastoma over lymphoma, but this is not a blood test . Rather it is a measurement of urinary catecholamines. These are chemicals that are secreted in large amounts by neuroblastoma cells and spill over into the urine. However, again there are caveats since other conditions may increase these.
Because of all these subtleties and complexities, the interpretation of these test results is best left up to someone who has expertise in this area. The only way to be absolutely be certain about a diagnosis is to perform a biopsy of the nodes. If these nodes persist and there is a high index of suspicion that they are not simply reactive lymph nodes from a benign infection such as a sore throat, then this is what eventually needs to be done.


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Gladys D. Harvey, 92, Wabash, died at 9:55 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, at Wabash County Hospital.
She was born Nov. 5, 1920 in Elnora, to Charles and May (Hastings) Dove. Gladys married Garl C. Harvey in Wabash, on June 2, 1962; he died July 5, 1975. Having a grandmother, two sisters, and now five nieces who are teachers, education has been foremost in her life. She was a graduate of Indiana University and the Indiana State Teachers College. Mrs. Harvey taught in public schools in Elnora, LaPorte Co., and West Lafayette schools before coming to Wabash in 1946. She came as the Wabash High School Librarian, where she retired in 1986. She had served during WWII as the civil service librarian at a Naval Air Base in Corpus Christi, Texas. She also taught summer school at Manchester College, was interim librarian at the Wabash Carnegie Library, and more recently taught 20 years at Ivy Tech College in Wabash.
A member of the Wabash First United Methodist Church, she was also a volunteer at the Honeywell Center since its opening. She has been the board secretary for eight years for the Wabash County Historical Museum. As a genealogist, she did research for persons coast to coast, and in Europe. She also volunteered for the Red Cross Bloodmobile. In addition she served on the board and as a president of the Woman's Clubhouse.
Mrs. Harvey is survived by the following nieces and nephews, Janice Pielemeier and Shannon Pielemeier, both of New Albany, Rob Dove, Crista Dove Carroll, Terry Dove, and Cathy Dove Gingerich, all of Elnora, Tamra Dove Beckman, Washington, Ind., James Long, North Judson, Carol Ann Stallions, Martinsville, Jackie Dove Phillips, Smithfield, Va., Dean Pielemeier, Mitchell, Karen Miller, Melrose, Mass., Phyllis Dove Shepard, South Bend, Cheryl Dove Hennebruck, Hanson, Ky., Jay Pielemeier. Paoli, Thomas Dove and Roland Dove. She was preceded in death by three brothers, Harold, Donald, and Gilbert Dove, and three sisters, Jeanette Dove Pielemeier, Ruth Dove Miller, and Edith Dove Long.
Funeral services were held at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service, 1241 Manchester Ave., Wabash on Saturday, April 20, Rev. Kurt Freeman officiated. Burial followed in Friends Cemetery, Wabash.
Preferred memorial is Wabash High School Library.
The memorial guest book for Gladys may be signed at www.grandstaff-hentgen.com.


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Accounting Research
Issued by the Committee on Accounting Procedure, American Institute of Accountants, 270 Madison Avenue, New York 16, N. Y.
Copyright 1941 by American Institute of Accountants
No. 9
Report of Committee on Terminology
THE MEMBERS of the committee on accounting procedure have read and approved this report of the committee on terminology for presentation to the Council and for publication, but the statements herein contained are not to be regarded as formal pronouncements of the committee on accounting procedure.
At its May meeting the Council of the Institute received the report, and authorized its publication as a research bulletin.
To THE COUNCIL OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ACCOUNTANTS:
GENTLEMEN: Definition of "Accounting"
Of the topics discussed in earlier reports of the committee, its defini-tion of the term "accounting"1 has provoked the most notice. Several suggestions have been received, chiefly to the effect that the definition should be made more explicit by mention of other details of account-ing. The committee for the most part agrees with the substance of the suggestions made, but questions the desirability of writing its defini-tions in terms which, while they may sharpen the presentation, yet may also limit the scope of the term unduly. One suggestion, however, has seemed deserving of consideration, and that is to mention in the definition the interpretative aspect of the accountant's work. The committee's definition might therefore be amended to read:
Accounting is the art of recording, classifying and summarizing in a significant manner and in terms of money, transactions and events which are, in part at least, of a financial character, and interpreting the results thereof.
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MOSCOW, April 5 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel will question Russian President Vladimir Putin about inspections of non-governmental organizations in Russia, officials said.
Putin was scheduled to travel to Germany for talks with Merkel Sunday and Monday.
Both German and Russian officials said Merkel will ask him about the unannounced inspections, which have been conducted across Russia and have affected some German NGOs, RIA Novosti reported.
German officials have said the inspections are impairing relations between the two nations.
"I don't know how sharp the nature of the exchange of opinions will be but you know what the mood is ahead of the visit, and it is clear the chancellor will raise the issue of NGO inspections," Russian presidential aide Yury Shashkov told RIA Novosti Friday.
Russian activists say the inspections, which began in February, are intended to scare NGOs into complying with a controversial law that labels them as foreign agents.
Putin said last week the inspections were "routine measures linked to the desire of the law enforcement agencies to bring the activities of organizations in line with the law."


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Obama warns Assad on chemical weapons
President Obama warns the Syrian leader not to use chemical weapons against his people.
President Obama warned Syrian dictator Bashar Assad on Monday that the use of chemical weapons is "totally unacceptable," and he will be punished if they are deployed against rebel forces.
"The world is watching," Obama said of Assad during a Washington symposium on nuclear non-proliferation. "If you make the tragic mistake of using these weapons, there will be consequences, and you will be held accountable."
He added: "We simply cannot allow the 21st century to be darkened by the worst weapons of the 20th century."
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has issued a similar warning to Assad's government.
The warnings come as U.S. officials report that intelligence agencies have detected a movement of chemical weapon components in Syria in recent days.
Addressing the unrest in Syria, Obama said: "We will continue to support the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people -- engaging with the opposition ... providing them with the humanitarian aid, and working for a transition to a Syria that's free of the Assad regime."
Obama made the comments during remarks at the annual Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) symposium at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C.
It is the 20th anniversary of the program designed to track down nuclear weapons and nuclear materials that were unsecured at the end of the Cold War. Obama paid particular tribute to the two leaders who developed the program: Outgoing Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and retired Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., calling them the very definition of visionaries.
"They look at the world and see what's missing," Obama said. "So they set out to fill the gap."


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Dem plan: Watch the GOP implode
Democratic operatives were just as surprised as everyone else by Eric Cantor's defeat — but now they're trying to figure out how to make the most of it.
The early thinking: Stay out of the GOP's way.
Story Continued Below
Virginia's 7th Congressional District probably isn't going their way, regardless of the Republican candidate switch. But operatives planning for the midterms believe they can turn Tuesday's surprising tea party resurgence into something much bigger.
( Also on POLITICO: The downside of ambition)
They see the attention to the defeat as another cut at the House Republicans as extremists, a new way to highlight congressional dysfunction, a chance to pump more GOP distrust into the Latino voters Democrats are hoping to turn out in force in November, an argument that Republicans are in much worse shape than they've purported to be.
Of course, Democrats have seemed to seize the momentum many times before, only to lose it — though never worse than when the buoyancy of winning on the shutdown immediately disappeared into the Obamacare website launch.
But on this one, they feel like Republicans are doing the work for them.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama weighs in on Cantor loss)
There wasn't a Cantor-based strategy session Wednesday with White House political director David Simas, and there isn't one planned. Staffers at the various Democratic campaign committees spent the day reveling in the results and chattering about it among themselves, but not in any formal way.
Party operatives think they can count on at least two weeks of Republicans languishing, until June 24. That's when Chris McDaniel will be looking to bring down Sen. Thad Cochran in the Mississippi GOP run-off, while in the Colorado gubernatorial primary, voters will pick between two former House Republicans: Tom Tancredo, the anti-immigration reform leader who's ahead in the polls and Bob Beauprez, whom Cantor endorsed.
And all the while, House Republicans will be twisting through their own internal fight ahead of the June 19 majority leader election.
( Also on POLITICO: Right clamors for leadership seat)
"At a certain point, Republicans will need a hand" making problems for themselves, said one Democratic strategist working on the midterms. "That moment is not now."
Neither Obama nor any House or Senate candidate is likely to say either Cantor's name or Brat's much between now and November — the president on Wednesday referred only to "an interesting election" at a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee fundraiser Wednesday night, launching into a defense of what he insisted were the still-alive chances of immigration reform.
"At a certain point issues are important enough to fight for. My argument about yesterday's election is not that there was too little politics — there was too little conviction about what was right," Obama said.
( Also on POLITICO: The GOP's habit of eating its own)
After all, strategists don't expect most voters knew there was a primary in Virginia this week — or will care what the results were by next month, let alone by the fall.
But they do think the conversation Cantor's loss sparked in the coverage has helped feed a larger sense of Republican extremism and obstructionism.
"Dave Brat is not a brand. The Republican lurch to the right is a brand," said Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel (D-N.Y.). "The Brat win is Exhibit A in our argument, but there are lots of exhibits to our argument. It accelerates the GOP's move to the right."
"Cantor lost because he wasn't extreme enough, and that's the direction of the Republican Party," said Stephanie Cutter, Obama's deputy campaign manager in 2012. "These larger narratives of the party getting pulled to the right is something the Republicans need to be worried about."
Until about 7:40 p.m. on Tuesday, the conventional wisdom had been that the Republican establishment had gotten the tea party under control, and the focus was on Obama's problems. The election had been cast as a referendum on the president. Now, Democrats say they think they've got fodder to make the argument that November will be a referendum on Washington: The president is still a big part of that — but Cantor's loss should be a reminder that Republicans are, too.


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Kerry Fox and James Dreyfus Star Noël Coward's IN THE VORTEX, Now thru March 2
The Rose Theatre Kingston presents Noël Coward's The Vortex, playing from tonight, 7 February - 2 March. The show will star Kerry Fox and James Dreyfus and will be directed by Stephen Unwin.
Described as 'un peu shocking', The Vortex was a huge success when first seen in 1924. The relationship between the decadent, drug-addicted Nicky Lancaster and his flamboyant mother, Florence, still packs an extraordinary punch.
Florence Lancaster is played by Kerry Fox, whose film credits include 'An Angel at My Table', 'Shallow Grave', 'Bright Star and 'Intimacy'. Most recently she has appeared in Jonathan Teplitzky's 'Burning Man', Iain Softley's 'Trap for Cinderella', PJ Hogan's 'Mental' and Andrew Adamson's 'Mister Pip' in which she plays Hugh Laurie's wife. She was last on the London stage in Toby Frow's production of Speaking in Tongues. Earlier this year she appeared in the Sydney Theatre Company production of Face to Face, an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's film of the same name.
David Dawson plays Nicky Lancaster. David was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Olivier Awards 2008 for his performance of Smike in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, and for Best Supporting Actor at the 2010 Whatsonstage Theatregoers Choice Awards for his performance as Gethin Price in Comedians at the Lyric Hammersmith. Currently filming 'Peaky Blinders' for Tiger Aspect, his recent television appearances includes 'Henry IV parts 1 and 2', 'Dancing on The Edge' 'Parade's End', 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood" and 'Luther'.
James Dreyfus plays Pauncefort Quentin. James's London recent theatre credits include Breakfast at Tiffany's, Amongst Friends, The Common Pursuit at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Michael Frayn's Donkey's Years and the Emcee in Cabaret. He was first known for his roles in the BBC TV comedy series' 'Gimme Gimme Gimme' and 'The Thin Blue Line'. Recent TV includes 'Mount Pleasant', 'Shameless', 'Midsomer Murders', Whitechapel', 'Double Time' (in which he played both leading roles) and 'He Kills Coppers'.
In association with Kingston University.
IN THE VORTEX runs from tonight, 7 February - Saturday 2 March on Monday - Saturday at 7.30 pm; Thursday & Saturday matinees, 2.30pm (excl. 7 February) with Press Night: Wednesday 13 February, 7pm. Ticket prices range from £12 - £40; pit cushions £8. The Box Office may be reached at 08444 821 556; you may also purchase tickets at www.rosetheatrekingston.org (bkg fee).


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looking for the Foote family of Massachusetts, NYC, and Florida
Specifically looking for the descendants of Arthur Longworth Foote, born 1880 Mass. who married Theresa Agnes Dunn. 1879-1940.
Thier children: William, Alden W., Charles, Arthur.
Arthur Foote (1907-1976) married Theresa. Their children were: Kenneth, "Kenny;" Arthur, Robert T.
I would be interested also in the parents of Arthur Longworth Foote.
looking for the Williams family of upstate NY; Clinton Co.
I am interested in the family of Hezekiah A. Williams, b: 1830 Canada; d: 1903 Clinton Co, NY. Who married Emily Clay 1829-1895 NY
Their children,all born in NY. Clinton Co.
.Warren S.
.Elric or Elrick
.Orwille W.
.Daniel H.
I am interested in all of their descendants.
looking for the Wiggins family of Georgetown, S.C.
I am interested in all Wiggins family members of S.C., specifically in or near Georgetown.
A direct ancestor of mine would be Stacy B. Wiggins: 1853-1905 S.C., who married Meary E. (Julia) Saunders. b: 1854
Their children were: Hannah, Thomas, Jennie L., George S, Fillmore, Gertrude.
The parents of Stacy B. Wiggins: Benjamin Wiggins 1829-1870, S.C. who married Hannah Shaw 1831-1896.
looking for the Plaisted family of New Hampshire and New York State
I am interested in any and all Plaisted family members of New York. Specifically, those that can be traced back to Ford Plaisted, b: 1775 N.H. d: 1853 Onondaga Co, NY. He married Salling Cummings b: 1780 N.H. d: 1854 Onondaga Co, NY.
They had four children: Hiram, William F., Daniel, Martin. All were born in Vermont.
I would specifically be interested in Hiram Plaisted and family. He married Clarissa Handford. Their children: David, Norman, James H., Lydia, Flora, Horace, Magdaline, Lucellia, Charity, Adaline.
looking for the William Dunn family of NYC and Brooklyn
I am interested in the families of William Dunn and Maurice Dunn; both are brothers.
William Joseph Dunn: 1852-1894 N.Y. who married Ella, or Nellie Rickard 1858-1859 They had eight children: William, Ella, Theresa, Francis, Mamie, Maurice, Harry, Arthur.
Thier child, William Garfield Dunn is my grandfather: 1881-1951 N.Y.
who married Caroline "Carrie" Williams b: 1885 NY. They became divorced or separated. Their child was: Marjorie Williams Dunn.
looking for family of Grassinger of Philadelphia
I am looking for all and any information on the following Grassinger family in Philly: Joseph Max Grassinger (1830-1897) and wife, Gertrude (Muth). (1830-1900)
They had two children: .Joseph Max Grassinger, jr. b: 1853, who married Francis Hougate b: 1850
.Martin Grassinger 1856-1919, whose first marriage was to Mary Cressey. (1850-1908) His second marriage was to Elizabeth Young. They moved to NYC and had four children. Martin Grassinger changed his name to David Martin. (He was married to the two women at the same time...bigamist)
I am interested in all and any of the Grassingers of Philly and their descendants.
looking for Brooks of New York and Texas
I am looking specifically for Arnold Brooks, born 1835, N.Y. d: 1912 Dallas, Texas; buried in Paris, Texas. He married Mary E. Craddock.
They had six children, and I am interested in all of them and their descendants. Their children were: Helen B. Brooks, born Nevada,- who married Herbert W. Bradley, and lived in Oregon.
.Mary Brooks, born Kansas- married Whitcher Scott
.Ada Dexter Brooks married- Johnson W. Hale
.Maude E. Brooks b: Texas
.Ina Brooks born Texas
.Ettie A. Brooks, Born Texas
I am also interested in the parents of Arnold Dexter Brooks. His parents weere: Enoch Books, born 1812 N.Y. d: 1878 N.Y. He married Julia Ann Young. (also called Francis or Fanny) Their home by 1870 was in Phoenix, Oswego Co; New York.
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Friday, May 28, 2010
Follow Friday: TransylvanianDutch
He tackles various issues in the genealogy community, covers technology aspects, online tools, and local history and genealogy resources, writes a weekly post on genealogy articles and blog posts of interest (Weekly Genealogy Picks), delves into some of his other interests, and, oh yeah, includes musings on miscellaneous subjects as well. I especially enjoy the poetry and miscellaneous subjects; they demonstrate something I believe about geneabloggers as a group: they are people with quite a wide range of interests and talents.
You should not be missing this blog. It has something for everyone.
This Week
The author of Nolichucky Roots poses some interesting questions about racial and ethnic identity and family responses to revelations from research (including DNA) in "Teeter Tottering through Genealogy."
In "Is The Way To A Geneablogger's Heart Through Their Vanity?" footnoteMaven looks into the maneuvering behind the recent MyHeritage.com awards.
At Rainy Day Genealogy Readings Jennifer addresses the question of "When is military service not military service?" in "Topics in Research – the Veteran Who Never Served." We get a view into the interesting story of the 56th Illinois Infantry, aka the Mechanic Fusileers, Camp Douglas, the notorious prisoner of war camp near Chicago, and one man's fight to have his status as a Civil War veteran restored.
At Blind Pig & The Acorn, Tipper has announced a new series: Music in Appalachia. I can't wait!
Some exciting and wonderful news at Mary's Musings: check out "Little Girl Lost – Tracie L. Post" and "Little Girl Lost Lost FOUND (A Success Story)."
Gini at Ginisology has had a great genealogy breakthough with some wonderful help from Thomas MacEntee. Read her post "Webex, Thomas, and Finding Hans~" to find out some outstanding cooperative genealogy was done!
Two of our GeneaBloggers have started new blogs: Joan at Roots'n'Leaves has started Roots'n'Leaves – Letters of Ralph Jabez McPherson and Carol at Reflections from the Fence has started Reflection's Flora and Fauna.
Many thanks to Lisa Swanson Ellam at The Faces of My Family for featuring Greta's Genealogy Bog this Follow Friday!
Wishes for good health to Ruth Coker Burks at last2cu for recovery from a stroke.
This week I started following these blogs:
Brumley Branches Genealogy
Heritage Zen:
It's all about Genealogy Books
Journey's Past
Potato Roots
Sharing a Slice of Life
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Thanx for the shout out. I really enjoy your Friday Follow posts, I am finding so many new (to me) wonderful blogs!ReplyDelete
John - You are very welcome. I learn so much from your blog and enjoy the perspective you bring to the subjects you cover.ReplyDelete
Carol - Glad you enjoy these; I do the same with some of the other lists, such as Apple's and Randy's - have found some great blogs I didn't know about this way!ReplyDelete
Thank you Greta!! I'm thrilled that you're excited about the spotlight-makes me feel like it'll all be alright : )ReplyDelete
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Small gestures rather than grand conspiracies are what Peter Landesman went looking for when he decided to write and direct the film "Parkland," about the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's Nov. 22, 1963, assassination. Starting with Vincent Bugliosi's nonfiction book "Four Days in November," he turned his journalist's eye to the seldom-examined trove of banal facts surrounding the days in Dallas experienced by players on the periphery of history.
"The JFK assassination theories are nonsense," Landesman insists. "It's like proving the existence of God. It's circular. Yes, the theories are entertaining. But they are such a distraction from what is much more interesting and important: which is the truth."
Indeed, as the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's death nears, Parkland's facts-and-just-the-facts approach is particularly compelling to a contemporary audience accustomed to the investigatory rigor of "NCIS"-style police and medical procedurals.
We see Secret Service and Dallas police fight for possession of Kennedy's body, a situation that ultimately resolves itself without a timely autopsy. Doctors in Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital, for which the movie is named, mistake a bullet wound for a tracheostoma. And FBI agent James Hosty, depicted as a conspirator in the president's assassination in Oliver Stone's "JFK," is a lowly government bureaucrat ordered to destroy evidence to avoid a public relations nightmare over the department's investigatory handling of Lee Harvey Oswald.
By contemporary standards, the aftermath of Kennedy's assassination was a series of mundane but cumulatively significant screw-ups.
"These were all professional men, all doing the best they could," Landesman says in his office at Hollywood's Jim Henson Co. studio. "There were no procedures like there are now for these types of situations. From a security perspective alone, the idea that a presidential motorcade would drive under 20,000 unguarded windows is unheard-of now. Back in the '60s, no one with any medical training rode in ambulances. It was just the drivers. When Lee Harvey Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby, he would likely have survived had he received medical attention while being transported to the hospital."
Landesman put in three years of research digging up such details, including flying to Kansas to meet with former FBI agent Hosty shortly before his death.
"He lived in an anonymous, sad little apartment," remembers Landesman. "He was the victim of a great injustice. It wasn't a big conspiracy. The reason Hosty destroyed the Oswald papers was mundane ass covering. He got shipped of to Siberia, while the boss who ordered him to do it, Gordon Shanklin, went on to have the FBI building in Dallas named after him."
"Parkland" was originally conceived of as an eight- to 10-hour HBO miniseries that would have devoted significant time to story arcs like Hosty's. After the network pulled out, Landesman turned the project into a feature that examined the visceral experience of Kennedy's death.
"I had to turn it into a one-act play. That kind of architecture is better to give an audience the experience of the actual event. They sit there stunned and shocked as if they know what it was like that weekend. Instead of a historical piece, there's something very present tense about it that you couldn't do in a miniseries."
In a particularly compelling scene, Jackie Kennedy, played in understated fashion by Kat Steffens, slowly steps into a chaotic trauma room and quietly delivers a piece of her husband's brain to an attending nurse.
Landesman says his producers hired a Washington crisis consulting firm to help deal with any potential backlash over the film's gore.
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"Parkland" received mixed reviews upon its American release this month. Landesman, recently returned from a screening at the London Film Festival, says the film has played much better overseas.
"European fascination with JFK is as big but different," he says. "Americans remain distractingly obsessed with seeing him through the prism of murder-mystery conspiracy theories. Europeans see him as a celebrity — a fallen idol."
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Veteran killed in Texas spent childhood in Burns
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Before Chris Kyle was the most accomplished sniper in U.S. military history, before he was a bestselling author, before he started helping veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, he was a boy playing on his grandmother's farm in Burns with Jason Callahan and other local children.
Although it was only a few times, Burns City Clerk Carol Callahan remembers Kyle being funny but respectful. He would emphasize his Texas twang for a laugh.
The roughhousing on the Joyce Kyle farm was an omen for Chris's activities in high school — bull riding and rodeo — but not necessarily an affinity for military leadership.
Callahan said she is as shocked as anyone else that Chris Kyle survived four tours of duty in Iraq, where he was a marked man by insurgents, but was killed by a man he was trying to help Feb. 2 on a gun range near Midlothian, Texas.
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(rī)1 Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey
Review: (rī)1 Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey 77/100
a review by Chip Dykstra (Aka Arctic Wolf)
Posted on October 9, 2011
(rī)1™ (pronounced rye one) Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey is a rye whiskey produced by Beam Global Spirits. It is a blend of several different straight rye whiskeys of differing ages (minimum 4 years). It is bottled at 45 % alcohol by volume bringing a little more zip to the palate than a lower proof spirit.
I was gifted a bottle recently when my oldest son traveled to Boston and decided to pick me up something that I wouldn't find here in Alberta. I decided that a review of this spirit here on my website would be a fun exercise.
In the Bottle 4/5
With the permission of the Beam Global team here in Alberta I borrowed the bottle shot (J-Peg) of (rī)1™ Rye Whiskey shown to the left. I like the bottle, but I am not enamoured with the label. Beam Global advertises this straight rye whiskey as an ultra-premium whiskey, but the label says bottom shelf to me. I guess they are trying to be sleek and minimalistic. The bottle captures that feel, the label does not.
In the Glass 8.5/10
I poured out a small sample of the (rī)1™ into my glencairn glass and began my review with a good look at the whiskey. It is a golden spirit which is consistent with a straight whiskey which has spent at least four years in new oak barrels. I gave my glass a tilt and a slow swirl and discovered a moderately heavy sheen on the inside of the glass which gave up medium-sized legs that ran back slowly down into the whiskey. Again this is consistent with my expectations.
The nose from the glass is full of wood and rye spice. The woody notes are manifesting themselves as banana peel which has a certain astringent spiciness similar to the sharpness of Appleton Reserve Rum. Dry rye grain notes are evident, which adds to that spicy flair, although I also sense some honeycomb in the breezes as well. Fresh sap filled pine planks are being cut somewhere in the background and green grassy tobacco smells well up as well.
The nose is very complex with woody oak, spicy rye, and sweet honeycomb and toffee. If you wait for it light baking spices finally arrive giving me an indication that allowing this whiskey to breathe will be a good thing.
In the Mouth 46/50
The initial entry into the mouth is a little rough. Fresh cut oak planks have imparted a some sharp sap flavours into the rye. There is a nice dose of vanilla, and some sweet honeycomb and punky toffee, but they seem to sit beside these sappy notes and do not serve to temper them. The rye spice seems a little lost in the sharp oak tannins, and my feeling is that this rye will be better served in a cocktail than neat or on the rocks.
In all, we seem to have a straight rye whiskey which displays some of the harsher aspects of fresh American white oak. This is spicy and sharp, and the whiskey certainly would have benefited from a longer period of aging to smooth and temper the bite. It is a pity that the complexity I noticed on the nose was to a degree lost in the woody sap flavours of the whiskey.
In the Throat 11/15
The finish is sharp and uncomfortable. There is a lot of hot spice, and a disconcerting burn in the throat. The sappy flavour of the fresh oak continues to heat the mouth well after the whiskey is consumed, and although some welcome flavours of caramel and honeycomb accompany the exit, the astringency of the whiskey dominates the finish.
The Afterburn 7.5/10
I discovered that I could not enjoy the (rī)1™ Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey on its own, as the sharpness of the whisky and the astringent flavours of the oak tannins defeated me. I did find however, that when I mixed the whiskey with ginger-ale and with cola that the transformation in the glass was remarkable. (rī)1™ makes a nice spicy Horse's Neck, and a pretty good Buckeroo.
You may read some of my other Whisky Reviews (click the link) if you wish to have some comparative reviews.
Suggested Recipes
If you take the a typical whiskey and cola highball, and add bitters, it becomes a Buckeroo, and although the Buckeroo is typically made with bourbon, it tastes just as good with Rye Whiskey.
1 1/2 oz (rī)1™ Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey
dash Angostura Bitters
Slice of Lime for garnish
Build in a tall glass with ice
Complete with Cola
Garnish with a lime slice
Horses Neck
2 oz (rī)1™ Kentucky Straight Rye Whiskey
4 to 8 oz Ginger Ale
Cracked Ice
peel from one lemon.
Place a spiral of lemon peel in a highball glass
Fill the glass halfway with cracked ice.
Add the rye whiskey
Add the ginger ale.
Enjoy !
The name "Horses Neck" apparently stems from the curvature of the lemon peel spiral which is reminiscent of a horses neck, or so I have been told. The drink should be allowed to sit a few minutes before consumption to allow the oils from the lemon peel to be soaked into the ginger ale!
As always you may interpret the scores I provide as follows.
0-25 A spirit with a rating this low would actually kill you.
26-49 Depending upon your fortitude you might actually survive this.
50 -59 You are safe to drink this…but you shouldn't.
60-69 Substandard swill which you may offer to people you do not want to see again.
70-74 Now we have a fair mixing rum or whisky. Accept this but make sure it is mixed into a cocktail.
75-79 You may begin to serve this to friends, again probably still cocktail territory.
80-84 We begin to enjoy this spirit neat or on the rocks. (I will still primarily mix cocktails)
85-89 Excellent for sipping or for mixing!
90-94 Definitely a primary sipping spirit, in fact you may want to hoard this for yourself.
95-97.5 The Cream of the Crop
98+ I haven't met this bottle yet…but I want to.
Very loosely we may put my scores into terms that you may be more familiar with on a Gold, Silver, and Bronze medal scale as follows:
70 – 79.5 Bronze Medal (Recommended only as a mixer)
80 – 89.5 Silver Medal (Recommended for sipping and or a high quality mixer)
90 – 95 Gold Medal (Highly recommended for sipping and for sublime cocktails.)
95.5+ Platinum Award (Highest Recommendation)