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A Cigar Lover's Poker Lounge
Though cigar smoking ought to be synonymous with Las Vegas, the city has become increasingly unfriendly to us lovers of Montes, Fuentes and Cohibas. Increasing numbers of blackjack tables seem to be deemed nonsmoking, while others, where you get attitude before the end of your cigar is clipped, might as well be. And forget about lighting up at a poker table or anywhere in the room. All of that adds up to make the September 13 opening of the Hard Rock's Poker Lounge (a combination card room and bar) a step in the right direction.
While it's verboten to smoke at the tables there, adjacent to the poker room is the bar, which provides a welcome addition to the Vegas cigar scene. Picking up on the macho decor of the poker room, it's all wood-toned walls and tobacco-brown leather.
Though the drink selection is simply OK (the top shelf offers Macallan 12 year, but not the 18), people-watching here is second to none: parades of attractive women, wearing only-in-Vegas outfits that sometimes seem incomplete, continually pass by.
The open-walled bar is a cozy room, outfitted with comfortable club chairs that provide perfect perches from which to enjoy a cigar after dinner, or while waiting for a seat at the Texas Hold'em table. Flat-screen TVs play sporting events around the clock and a sports-betting kiosk keeps you in action all night long.
The poker room itself, which is the raison d'etre for the Lounge, elevates the breed. After all, even the nicest poker rooms in Vegas tend to feel a bit utilitarian.
Not so at the Hard Rock, where the clubby design is well conceived (albeit with iconic photos of Billy Bob Thornton, Willie Nelson and David Bowie hanging on the shiny wood-paneled walls) and the room is laid out to provide plenty of space between tables. This latter feature adds a relaxed sense of airiness, and the whole place is illuminated via ceiling-high light fixtures in the shape of drums.
That the low-stakes no-limit games in this new room seem to attract lots of tourists, who are less than great players, doesn't hurt either.

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You can file this under the category labeled bizarre. Yu Kobayashi is a Japanese actress that is best known for her voice, which has appeared in video games such as Ar tonelico III, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon and the feature film adaptation of Animal Crossing. What's bizarre is that she decided to create some scribbles that look like they came from someone who was high on acid. And the worst part is that this isn't a joke product, Kobayashi is actually selling her design in tote and T-Shirt form. If you're crazy enough to be even remotely interested in this, then you deserve to spend the $63 that it will cost you to own these two products.
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In a little-noticed outcome of President Obama's Affordable Care Act, jails and prisons around the country are beginning to sign up inmates for health insurance under the law, taking advantage of the expansion of Medicaid that allows states to extend coverage to single and childless adults — a major part of the prison population.
State and counties are enrolling inmates for two main reasons. Although Medicaid does not cover standard health care for inmates, it can pay for their hospital stays beyond 24 hours — meaning states can transfer millions of dollars of obligations to the federal government.
But the most important benefit of the program, corrections officials say, is that inmates who are enrolled in Medicaid while in jail or prison can have coverage after they get out. People coming out of jail or prison have disproportionately high rates of chronic diseases, especially mental illness and addictive disorders. Few, however, have insurance, and many would qualify for Medicaid under the income test for the program — 138 percent of the poverty line — in the 25 states that have elected to expand their programs.
Health care experts estimate that up to 35 percent of those newly eligible for Medicaid under Mr. Obama's health care law are people with histories of criminal justice system involvement, including jail and prison inmates and those on parole or probation.
"For those newly covered, it will open up treatment doors for them" and potentially save money in the long run by reducing recidivism, said Dr. Fred Osher, director of health systems and services policy for the Council of State Governments Justice Center.
He added that a 2009 study in Washington State found that low-income adults who received treatment for addiction had significantly fewer arrests than those who were untreated.
In Chicago, inmates at the Cook County Jail are being enrolled in Medicaid under the health care law as part of the intake process after they are arrested; the county has submitted more than 4,000 applications for inmates since Jan. 1.
In Colorado, state prisoners are being signed up when they need extended hospitalization; 93 applications for inmates and 149 for parolees have been submitted so far.
In the Portland area, more than 1,200 inmates have been enrolled through the state exchange, Cover Oregon, while Delaware and Illinois expect to start soon.
Devon Campbell-Williams, an inmate serving time for assault in the Multnomah County Inverness Jail in Portland, Ore., applied for Medicaid in January with the help of an eligibility worker hired by the county to enroll inmates. When he gets out of jail in May, he said, he will have health insurance for the first time, coverage that will allow him to get treatment for his ankle, which he broke in 2007 and has been bothered by ever since.
"It's going to mean a lot," Mr. Campbell-Williams said, adding that in the past, "I just went to the hospital, that was really about it."
Opponents of the Affordable Care Act say that expanding Medicaid has further burdened an already overburdened program, and that allowing enrollment of inmates only worsens the problem. They also contend that while shifting inmate health care costs to the federal government may help states' budgets, it will deepen the federal deficit. And they assert that allowing newly released inmates to receive Medicaid could present new public relations problems for the Affordable Care Act.
"There can be little doubt that it would be controversial if it was widely understood that a substantial proportion of the Medicaid expansion that taxpayers are funding would be directed toward convicted criminals," said Avik Roy, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative policy group.
Language in the health care law also allows private insurance plans purchased through state exchanges to cover health care for people who are in jail awaiting trial, even in states that have not expanded Medicaid. But few prisoners have incomes high enough to afford the plans, even with federal subsidies, and most state and county correction systems are not yet set up to benefit from that coverage.
In the past, states and counties have paid for almost all the health care services provided to jail and prison inmates, who are guaranteed such care under the Eighth Amendment. According to a report by the Pew Charitable Trusts, 44 states spent $6.5 billion on prison health care in 2008. In Ohio, health care for prisoners cost $225 million in 2010 and accounted for 20 percent of the state's corrections budget. Extended hospital stays — treatment for cancer or heart attacks or lengthy psychiatric hospitalizations, for example — are particularly expensive.
Stuart Hudson, managing director of health care for Ohio's Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, said his department, which plans to start enrolling inmates in Medicaid when they have been in the hospital for 24 hours, expects to save $18 million a year through the practice, "although it's hard to know for sure, because there's other eligibility factors we have to keep in mind."
Nancy Griffith, Multnomah County's director of corrections health, said the county expected to save an estimated $1 million annually in hospital expenses by enrolling eligible inmates and passing the costs to the federal government.
More money could be saved over the long term, she added, if connecting newly released inmates to services helps to keep them out of jail and reduces visits to emergency rooms, the most expensive form of care.
"The ability for us to be able to call up a treatment provider and say, 'We have this person we want to refer to you and guess what, you can actually get payment now,' changes the lives of these people," Ms. Griffith said.
Rick Raemisch, executive director of Colorado's Department of Corrections, said that billing Medicaid for hospital care would save "several million dollars" each year. But as important, he said, was the chance to coordinate care for prisoners after their release.
About 70 percent of prison inmates in the state have problems with addiction, he said, and 34 percent suffer from mental illness.
Without health coverage, inmates leave prison with 30 days' worth of medication and are then mostly left to their own devices.
"If they go off their medication, oftentimes it can once again lead to more criminal activity," Mr. Raemisch said. "So by keeping them medicated and keeping them mentally healthy, it really helps us in our re-entry efforts."
It costs far more to keep an inmate in prison than to provide treatment outside. Yet most health care experts agree that health coverage alone is not enough to keep chronic offenders on track.
As essential as health insurance is for people trying to put together their lives after being incarcerated, the challenge of getting them into treatment, when they often did not have housing or jobs, was "a whole other kettle of fish," said Bradley Brockmann, executive director of the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights in Providence, R.I. He is an author on articles in a collection on the topic in the March issue of The Journal of Health Affairs.
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San Juan County Coroner Keri Metzler identified the man Friday as 52-year-old Howard Scotland, of Cheyenne, Wyo.
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I've been traveling a lot lately, and every time I fly back into Chattanooga after a few days away, I have the same reaction upon catching a bird's-eye view of the mountains I call home. I lean my forehead against the window and tears fill my eyes as Mindy Smith's "Tennessee" plays softly in my mind. I'm so blessed to live in Appalachia.
My friend David—who many of you will recognize as the "cool and understated" philosopher who supplied one of the best quotes of my book on page 223—loves Appalachia too and is passionate about protecting its natural beauty and its inhabitants. Those with ears, please hear.
Allen Johnson of Christians for the Mountains was arrested last Monday alongside NASA climatologist James Hansen and 113 others for an act of civil disobedience protesting mountaintop removal coal mining. The civil disobedience was only one part of a larger protest event, Appalachia Rising, which had the support and involvement of other Christian organizations, like Restoring Eden, and even more Christian individuals, like myself.
Why? Why should mountaintop removal be an issue for Christians? Among the many answers that come to mind, these two stand out: mountaintop removal involves the oppression of the poor and the wanton destruction of nature.
The destructive exploitation of nature is almost always tied to the oppression of people. The destruction of the Amazon rainforest, for example, involves a great deal of brutal and illegal slavery. C. S. Lewis once said that man's celebrated power over nature "turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument." This is especially true for mountaintop removal (MTR), which is committed primarily in the mountains of West Virginia and Kentucky. The Appalachian "coalfields," despite generations of mining this fossil fuel, remain some of the poorest places in the country. And the local culture, which has remarkably resisted homogenization, remains an object prejudice—the brunt of our jokes. Poverty and prejudice work in tandem to keep our mountain neighbors vulnerable.
The psychological trauma of losing the mountain you've lived, played and prayed on is considerable, and many Appalachians are grieving for a homeland destroyed. But the psychological harm is only the beginning. When rain falls on an MTR site, the forest and soils that once absorbed it are nowhere to be found. The now frequent catastrophic flooding in the towns below has destroyed many homes and taken several lives. The mining process produces a waste known as coal slurry which is impounded behind earthen dams in the valleys of the former mountains. This slurry leaches into the ground water, poisoning the wells and streams for miles around. Streams and faucets run black, and most of those affected have no other source of water. Many have died from this poisoning and countless others suffer its effects. The air quality in the surrounding valleys may be just as toxic. Rocks flying off the blast sites or otherwise dislodged in the removal process have also harmed nearby residents, including three-year-old Jeremy Davidson who was crushed to death in his bed by a half-ton boulder.
Sometimes the earthen damns that hold this slurry break. In Martin county Kentucky in 2000, three-hundred million gallons of toxic coal slurry spilled out into the adjacent streams and rivers. There are hundreds of these slurry impoundments threatening communities across the country. A rallying point for the fight against MTR has been Marsh Fork Elementary, which sits immediately below an enormous slurry impoundment.
The Martin county spill was thirty times as large as the Exxon Valdez spill, but Massey energy was fined only $5,600. Most of the time, the coal companies successfully avoid taking any responsibility for the poisoning and flooding they cause. Those who would fight them in court can find precious few lawyers in the region not already employed by the coal companies. Larry Gibson, who has held onto his family home on Kayford Mountain in West Virginia despite the total destruction of the mountain all around him, speaks out frequently against the coal industry. His house is also frequently shot at. He is routinely and violently harassed by miners, who have killed his dogs and run through his family cemetery with a bulldozer. But when Larry calls the police, they don't come. Sheriffs and judges are elected, and in rural West Virginia, coal does the electing. The rights, privileges and protections you enjoy as an American are not extended to the residents of the Appalachian coalfields. They lack the wealth to fight back, so your electricity is bought on their backs.
Biblical injunctions to defend the poor are plentiful, but there are also injunctions against the destruction of nature per se. Jewish ethicists speak of the principle of bal tashchit, which means "do not destroy." It comes from Deuteronomy 20:19-20:
When you besiege a city for a long time, making war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them. You may eat from them, but you shall not cut them down. Are the trees in the field human, that they should be besieged by you? Only the trees that you know are not trees for food you may destroy and cut down, that you may build siegeworks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls. (ESV)
According to the passage, not even military objectives can justify the destruction of the natural resources which sustain human community, nor any more destruction of wild (non-fruiting) nature than is essential to those ends. This principle has been applied in Jewish ethics to the unnecessary destruction of anything living or otherwise of value.
MTR unnecessarily destroys whole forests and watersheds which have sustained human communities in abundance for millennia. The most biodiverse forests in the country, with more freshwater than any other temperate ecosystem, are being totally and utterly destroyed for an amount of electricity measured in hours. These are some of the best places in the land, sought out by tourists from the rest of the world for the beauty of the mountains and rivers.
The coal industry says it is providing the flat land necessary for further economic development, but it is questionable whether the sites will ever be inhabitable at all. It is always cheaper to destroy than to restore. The years and dollars it would take to remediate the groundwater alone are boggling to consider.
God creates a beautiful, bountiful nature and gives us the privilege of living in it as stewards. But if there is any lesson to be taken from the parables of Jesus, it is that God holds his stewards accountable. Those who steal, kill and destroy show us by their actions whose children they are. If we sit idly by the destruction of God's earth and God's people at the altar of Mammon, and if we silently benefit from the cheap coal thereby procured, woe is us, for we have forsaken the gospel.
Further resources:
A member of the Earth Quaker Action Team reflects on his arrest on Monday
I Love Mountains: for all things against MTR
The Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale: full of great resources on the link between faith and nature
Dr. David Henderson teaches environmental philosophy at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC. He thanks God that there is no coal under the mountain he lives on.
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Our Philadelphia Eagles play the home opener against the Baltimore Ravens in a slugfest and the Eagles come out on top, banged and bruised, but winners. This leads the Eagles to be 2-0 on the season, and sitting at the top of the NFC East Division. We saw the team pick itself up and continue to fight the entire game, despite more turnovers that would have done most other teams in on the day. To make it even better, the team fought from a deficit in the fourth quarter to take the lead late, and the Defense once again did a phenomenal job to keep the Ravens Offense from scoring. Unfortunately the Eagles lose center Jason Kelce for the year when he tore is knee's MCL and partially tore his ACL. He will surely be missed on the Offense.
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I guess my life's not so bad. I haven't done an Anne Hathaway or a Brit-ney. Ever. My lady parts haven't ever been introduced to the world that way. Not yet, anyway. I even had a c-section; no human being has even luged down that tunnel. But who knows what I'll do to get more blog or Twitter followers! Seriously, Anne, gurllfriend. Please wear undies or keep your legs together–or both. Pull-eaze. Have you ever done the "look in the mirror" thing to get in touch with your femaleness? Ick.
Actually, it was a disaster coming and going. I thought Rachael Zoe was her stylist. Was Rach too busy at QVC to care about that important deet? Who put that parachute on her back? It was a Tom Ford gown and he designed the bondage shoes, too. They say he used vegan leather. Are you telling me a poor carrot or a poor eggplant died so Anne could have a pair of shoes?
So…you might remember a while back when all the planets were aligned for me and I got the vintage Valentino and that handbag, and I was skipping through my days throwing a little enchanted fairy dust to the right and to the left, la la la. Well, it all came to a crashing halt.
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President Graça attends Asian Confederation Congress
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, October 3, 2013 – The Asian Confederation Congress got underway today in Dubai with the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) President Dr Ary S. Graça F° attending as guest of honour.
In his address, Dr Graça spoke of the importance of the development and innovation in the sport of volleyball in the region.
In July, the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) opened its new offices in Tokyo following a decision made by FIVB Board Members, in particular FIVB President Dr. Ary S. Graca F°, "To build and add value to continental confederations and national federations initiatives by applying FIVB's resources, to ensure that the sport receives positive global perception."
Also present at the Congress in Dubai were H.H. Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan (Minister of Culture, Youth & Community Development and President of the General Authority of Youth & Sports Welfare) and H.H. Sheikh Tala Al-Fahad Al-Sabah (on behalf of Sheikh Ahmad Al Fahad AL-Sabah President of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC).
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Some non-Catholic parents of our Confirmation preparation class who attended the lessons were touched by the grace and healing of the sacrament.
I suspect they too want to experience the peace of forgiveness in their hearts. I would love to hear your response to their question: Can a non-Catholic go to Confession?
Yes, anyone can go to Confession to receive spiritual help. There are certainly many benefits of facing one's sinfulness and taking responsibility for it, even from a human point of view. Acknowledging one's weakness to another human being recognizes that all humans are weak and helps facilitate growth in human relationships.
Even the confession of lesser sins, as the Catholic Catechism says: "helps form our conscience, fight against evil tendencies, let ourselves be healed by Christ and progress in the life of the Spirit" (#1783).
Priests are in a good position to give spiritual advice and guidance for they have been trained in moral theology and spirituality, and have experience guiding people. They can, therefore, help individuals see the path to God more clearly.
Today's phenomenon in the media where people are baring their souls for all the world to see is, however, of questionable benefit.
I'd like to go beyond the confines of your particular question since the emphasis in Church regulations is on the reception of Communion. The real issue is: can everyone receive sacramental absolution from the priest?
Confession, like Communion, is the reception of a sacrament which is for those accepting the fullness of Church teaching. Therefore, normally the sacraments in the Church are for Catholics.
There are two exceptions. The first is indicated in the appendix to the Introduction to the Rite for the Christian Initiation of Adults, norm 9.
Those who have been baptized in a Protestant church and become Catholic at the Easter Vigil where they will receive Communion and Confirmation are encouraged to go to Confession and receive absolution prior to becoming Catholic. However, they are to inform the priest hearing their Confession about their situation.
The other exception is indicated in the Code of Canon Law n. 44, section 4. The person must be in some grave need but unable to access a member of her or his own community.
The request must be made spontaneously by the person who is suitably disposed and shows that he or she shares the faith of the Catholic Church regarding the Eucharist. Although this refers explicitly to receiving Communion, it would likely apply to Confession as well.
Several documents have been issued on this matter. The instruction issued by the Secretariat for Christian Unity was followed by the 1972 and 1973 documents which served to clarify particular cases when other Christians may be admitted to Communion. The basic rules remain the same (1973 Note Interpreting the Instruction on Admitting other Christians to Eucharistic Communion in the Catholic Church).
Other exceptions are possible, especially for those deprived of spiritual help for a long period of time. It is left to the local bishop to examine these exceptional cases and make concrete decisions. Since each case is to be examined individually, it would not be applicable to a group generally.
Your question is timely for Catholics too. All of us need to look at our understanding and practice of our faith. Do we fully appreciate the great treasure available through the Church in the Mass and the sacraments which follow us from birth to death?
All the sacraments bring the free gift of God's grace into our lives. The Mass and reception of Christ in the Eucharist bring us nourishment and growth in the love of God. Confession brings peace and healing to those who receive it in faith.
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So I drove about 10 miles into town and had rear brakes, pulled up to a stop light and the pedal bottomed out. There is no back pressure other than springs. Pumped several times with no change
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Fagus grandifolia (American beech or North American beech) is the species of beech tree native to the eastern United States and Canada. The genus name Fagus is Latin for "beech", and the species name grandifolia comes from grandis "large" and folium "leaf".
The American beech is native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southern Ontario in southeastern Canada, west to Wisconsin and south to eastern Texas and northern Florida in the United States.
Trees in the southern half of the range are sometimes distinguished as a variety, F. grandifolia var. caroliniana, but this is not considered distinct in the Flora of North America. The Mexican beech (Fagus mexicana), native to the mountains of central Mexico, is closely related, and is sometimes treated as a subspecies of American beech, but more often as a distinct species. If The only Fagus species found in the Western Hemisphere (assuming F. mexicana is treated as a subspecies), F. grandifolia is believed to have spanned the width of the North American continent all the way to the Pacific coast before the last ice age.
It is a deciduous tree growing to 20–35 m (66–115 ft) tall, with smooth, silver-gray bark. The leaves are dark green, simple and sparsely-toothed with small teeth that terminate each vein, 6–12 cm (2.4–4.7 in) long (rarely 15 centimetres (5.9 in)), with a short petiole. The winter twigs are distinctive among North American trees, being long and slender (15–20 mm (0.59–0.79 in) by 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in)) with two rows of overlapping scales on the buds. Beech buds are distinctly thin and long, resembling cigars; this characteristic makes beech trees relatively easy to identify. The tree is monoecious, with flowers of both sexes on the same tree. The fruit is a small, sharply-angled nut, borne in pairs in a soft-spined, four-lobed husk. It has two ways of reproducing: one is through the usual dispersal of seedlings, and the other is through root sprouts. This is where the tree will have smaller trees growing out of its roots in different locations.[1]
The American beech is a shade-tolerant species, favoring shade more than other trees, commonly found in forests in the final stage of succession. Ecological succession is essentially the process of forests changing their composition through time; it is a pattern of events often observed on disturbed sites.[2] Although sometimes found in pure stands, it is more often associated with sugar maple (forming the beech-maple climax community), yellow birch, and Eastern hemlock, typically on moist well drained slopes and rich bottomlands. Near its southern limit, it often shares canopy dominance with Southern Magnolia. Although it has a reputation for slow growth (sometimes only 13 feet in 20 years), rich soil and ample moisture will greatly speed the process up. Much like sugar maple, American beech is picky about growing conditions, favoring a well-watered, but also well-drained spot and is intolerant of urban pollution, salt, and soil compaction. It also casts dense shade and has an extensive network of shallow, fibrous surface roots that make gardening underneath it almost impossible. Because American beech needs plenty of moisture and rich soil to thrive, it naturally occurs in bottomland forests. Early settlers often looked for beeches as a sign of a good potential place to clear the forest for farming.
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Beech bark disease has become a major killer of beech trees in the Northeastern United States. This disease occurs when the beech scale insect, Cryptococcus fagisuga, attacks the bark, creating a wound that is then infected by one of two different species of fungi in the genus Nectria. This causes a canker to develop and the tree is eventually killed.
Beech blight aphids colonize branches of the tree, but without serious harm to otherwise healthy trees. Below these colonies, deposits of sooty mold develop caused by the fungus Scorias spongiosa growing saprophytically on the honeydew the insects exude. This is also harmless to the trees.[3]
American beech is an important tree in forestry. The wood is heavy, hard, tough and strong, and until the advent of power tools in the 20th century, lumbering beech trees were often left uncut to grow. As a result, many areas today still have extensive groves of old beeches that would not otherwise occur. Today, the wood is harvested for uses such as flooring, containers, furniture, handles and woodenware.
Like European beech bark, the American beech bark is smooth and uniform, making it an attraction for vandals to carve names, dates, gang symbols, and other material into its surface.[4] One such beech tree in Louisville, Kentucky, in what is now the southern part of Iroquois Park, bore the legend "D. Boone kilt a bar" and the year in the late 18th century. This carving was first reported in the 19th century, but is believed to have not been produced by Boone since he was an educated man who would not have written something so semi-literate. The beech finally fell over in 1916 during a storm; its age was estimated at around 325 years. Its trunk is now on display at The Filson Historical Society.
It is sometimes planted as an ornamental tree, but even within its native area, it is planted much less often than the European beech. Although American beech can handle hotter climates,[5] its European variant is faster-growing and more pollution-tolerant, in addition to being easier to propagate.
American beech can take up to 40 years to begin producing seeds. Large crops are produced by 60 years and the tree's total lifespan may be up to 300 years. The fruit is a triangle-shaped shell containing 2-3 nuts inside, but many of them do not fill in, especially on solitary trees. Beech nuts are edible to humans, although too small to be commercially valuable.
The mast (crop of nuts) from American beech provides food for numerous species of animals. Among vertebrates alone, these include ruffed grouse, wild turkeys, raccoons, red/gray foxes, white-tailed deer, rabbits, squirrels, opossums, pheasants, black bears, porcupines, and humans. For lepidopteran caterpillars feeding on American beech, see list of Lepidoptera that feed on beeches. Beech nuts were one of the primary foods of the now-extinct passenger pigeon; the clearing of beech and oak forests are pointed to as one of the major factors that may have contributed to the bird's extinction.[6]
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With two types of carbohydrate to provide energy, five essential minerals to help you avoid cramp and the addition of protein and caffeine, Powerbar Isomax energy drink is a very effective all-in-one package.
Let's look at the key ingredients one by one.
First, the carbs. This Powerbar Isomax drink includes both glucose and fructose, a combination that Powerbar's marketing team call 'C2MAX'. Why the two types? Because the amount of glucose you can convert to energy is normally limited to around 60g per hour, but fructose enters the bloodstream by a different mechanism, which means you can increase this amount. The end result is more energy (the Powerbar website claims up to 55% extra), which helps you go faster or further, or just go the same speed and distance more easily.
Next, the minerals. Powerbar make much of Isomax containing five minerals: sodium, potassium, magnesium, chloride and calcium. What do they do? They replace the essential minerals or electrolytes in your body that you lose via perspiration when cycling, and this is claimed to help you avoid cramp. Sodium, potassium and magnesium are commonly found in mineral/electrolyte drinks from other brands, but PowerBar Isomax adds chloride and calcium, and claims to be 'the first sports drink on the market to provide the body with all five main electrolytes ... in the ratio lost through sweat.'
Then we come onto the protein, which PowerBar dubs 'PeptoPro'. Why is this added? Because several studies show that protein helps the body take on carbohydrate and more easily convert it to energy. This doesn't necessarily mean you go any faster, but it does mean you can keep going for longer. The studies vary in their opinions on the best ratio of carb to protein, and also when the benefits of protein kick in, although most agree it's after about two hours of exertion. (So for short rides, protein is generally not needed.) In a serving of Isomax, carb makes up 83% and protein just 6%, giving a carb:protein ratio of around 15:1 which is quite low compared to the mix in other brands.
And finally, to finish, a dash of caffeine. This is here for three main reasons: 1. Because (to put it in layman's terms) caffeine helps carbohydrate work better, meaning you get a little extra - and totally legal - energy boost. 2. Because it helps focus the mind. That's why many of us pick up an Americano on the way to the office, but it's also very useful when you need to focus in a sporting environment. 3. Because caffeine acts as a pain-killer, ideal for those times when you've been hanging on to wheels or giving it stick at the front and now with 10 miles to go everything hurts because it's all just so damn hard. In a 50g serving of Isomax, there's 70mg of caffeine.
So there you go. Two sorts of carb, five minerals, plus protein and caffeine. That's a big bundle of ingredients in PowerBar Isomax, each one with a different aim. So does this product work?
I've used this drink on a couple of long training rides, and it definitely works for me. My preferred technique for long rides is to use a carb-only drink in my first bottle, so I started drinking the Isomax in my second bottle (both bottles 750ml) – combined with my usual array of gels and bars. I found the carb-protein drink mix kept me going in the second half of the ride with a good sustained supply of energy, while the minerals also seemed to help me avoid the cramps I sometimes get in my calves after about 70 miles of hard pounding. To be honest, I didn't notice the effects of caffeine in this drink mix (which may be because I'm more accustomed to getting my hit from caffeine enhanced gel in the last part of a long ride). But while I was obviously tired in the final few miles, I felt comfortable and my brain was still in gear.
So PowerBar Isomax works for me, but will it work for you? That depends. For a start, if you mainly ride shorter races and sportives, or if you tend not to push yourself too hard, then this type of energy product is not essential. But if you're doing road-races, long time trials or just like to crack on in a 100-mile sportive, then I'd recommend Isomax as well worth trying.
This Isomax drink is available in just one flavour: Blood Orange. It was certainly blood orange in colour, but the taste was very mild, and neither sweet, sharp or sticky – similar to PowerBar Isoactive in that regard. If you don't like the strong taste of some other energy drinks, then the mild flavour of Isomax will be a good thing. On the other hand, if you need a tasty drink to encourage you to keep hydrating, this mild flavour may not be so useful.
PowerBar Isomax is available in various quantities: a big 1200g tub of powder (making 12 litres of drink at the recommend levels of 50g per 500ml) costs £23.49 on the PowerBar website. The same amount of powder in a pack of 20 sachets (each 50g) is 27.80; and a pack of five sachets is £6.95. This product is also available at bike/sport shops and at the usual on-line stores. It's not cheap when compared to carb-only sports drink-mix powders, but it's fair value when compared to similar carb-and-protein products from other brands.
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Make and model: PowerBar Isomax High Performance Sports Drink
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Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
This is an energy drink power which you mix with water in the bottles on your bike. According to Powerbar, you can use it during events and for carb-loading beforehand.
The Powerbar website says this about Isomax:
"... the first sports drink on the market to provide the body with all 5 main electrolytes (Sodium, Chloride, Potassium, Magnesium and Calcium) in the ratio lost through sweat.
Delivers fast hydration through its isotonic formulation and industry leading 5 Electrolytes mix. Including 840mg per litre of the key electrolyte, sodium, this is one of the highest amounts on the market.
The C2MAX carb mix contains a special ratio of glucose and fructose sources. Consumed regularly during exercise, this mix can increase the amount of energy to muscles by as much as 55%.
Contains 70mg caffeine to boost mental focus and alertness.
Contains no artificial flavours, colours or preservatives.
3750mg of very fast acting PeptoPro protein hydrolysate allows you to perform longer by delaying the onset of fatigue. It also kick starts your recovery."
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
The Powerbar website lists the ingredients as:
"Glucose, fructose, maltodextrin, casein hydrolysate (from milk) (7,5%), minerals (sodium citrates, sodium chloride, calcium gluconate, potassiumc hloride, magnesium citrates, calcium lactate), citric acid, flavouring, safflower concentrate, beetroot juice powder, caffeine, anticaking agent (silicon dioxide). May contain traces of gluten, egg, soy and nuts."
The PowerBar website also includes some nutritional information. A 50g serving of powder (the recommended amount to add to 500ml of water) gives 756KJ or 178 Kcal of energy, consisting of 41g of carb and 3g of protein. There's virtually no fibre or fat. The proportion minerals per 50g serving are quoted as: sodium 0.4g; chloride 315mg; potassium 80mg; calcium 60mg; magnesium 20mg.
Performance is very impressive. I haven't used this stuff in a 100-mile sportive yet, but based on performance in long training rides, I definitely will. I'll fill my first bottle with carb-only drink and second bottle with Isomax in the usual way. Compared to training rides, I tend to drink more during sportives (because there are feed stations to provide top-ups) so I'll also carry a couple of sachets of Isomax to refill bottles on the way.
Isomax drink mix is available in a big tub or in 50g sachets - very handy for tucking in the back pocket and adding water bottles during a ride.
Isomax is not cheap, but it's fair value when compared to similar carb-and-protein products from other brands.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
Overall this product performs very well indeed. The mix of carb, protein, minerals and caffeine is just what you need on a long hard ride.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Mile taste. All-in-one mix of carb, protein, minerals and caffeine.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
There's a possibility that the carb:protein ratio may be too low for my personal preference (in the past, I've used products with a higher protein component and they've been fine too), but I won't know for sure until I've used this drink mix 'for real' in a long hard sportive.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes
Would you consider buying the product? Yes
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes
Anything further to say about the product in conclusion?
As with any energy or nutrition product, you should test Isomax in training before using it in a race or sportive. Riders have different levels of need and tolerance, especially when it comes to stuff such as sodium and caffeine, so you need to be sure the amounts in this drink are right for you.
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Age: 51 Height: 5ft 10 / 178cm Weight: 11 stone / 70kg
I usually ride: an old Marin Alp, or an old steel classic My best bike is: an old Giant Cadex (can you see a theme here?)
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: A few times a week I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: touring, club rides, sportives, general fitness riding,


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The Surface tablet and a Harmon Kardon home-theater receiver top the list of what holiday shoppers are scouting for as the 2012 holiday season kicks off. PriceGrabber CEO Steve Krenzer joins The News Hub to discuss how shoppers can capitalize on the season's best deals. Photo: Getty Images.
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How to Craft Incredible Dialogue (a #StorySocial recap)
Are you looking to spend dedicated time each week engaging with an awesome group of fellow writers?
Look no further than the #StorySocial chat. I host this hour-long Twitter event every Wednesday at 9pm Eastern with writers from around the world, and it's an absolute blast. This week, we talked about crafting incredible dialogue. Missed out? Catch all the highlights from this week's chat in the recap below!
(If you have trouble viewing the embedded chat below, you may need to update your browser. You can also click here to view the recap over on my Wakelet feed.)
Did you enjoy this recap of Wednesday's #StorySocial chat? If so, consider this your formal invitation to join us for next week's conversation. Click here for more info. I would love for you to take part!


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Thursday, 20 June 2013 20:30
Published in Filmography
This documentary investigates the transformation of the Kaleiçi neighborhood in Edirne, Turkey. Kurds, Jews, Roma, Turks, Bulgarians, Greeks and Armenians have shared this space for centuries.
The director interviews the past and present occupants of this very old ever-changing community. Nostalgia, disenchantment, sense of community, Diaspora and economic development are the recurring motifs in this documentary.


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Ricky Gervais' 'Derek' Puts Laughs in a Nursing Home
By Austin O'Connor , September 11, 2013 06:38 PM
The global success of The Office gave Ricky Gervais carte blanche to follow his creative whims. In the 12 years since then he has served as a scorched-earth host at the Golden Globes and produced a hilarious podcast series, The Ricky Gervais Show. His TV programs Extras and Life's Too Short (both aired stateside on HBO) have been classic Gervais: alternately funny and mean-spirited.
His newest TV series, Derek, begins streaming its entire first season on Netflix on Thursday. Much about the show will be familiar to Gervais fans. Like The Office, it's shot documentary-style, with characters often breaking the fourth wall to address the camera.
Derek is also set in a workplace - but it's a workplace rarely seen on TV.
The action unfolds at an assisted-living facility called Broad Hill, where Gervais plays a gentle, possibly mentally handicapped (Gervais has been dodgy about this point) 49-year-old factotum who loves animals and reality television. When the show premiered in the U.K. last winter, that premise was met with dread: Would the setup be merely an excuse to poke fun at the aging and disadvantaged?
The concern was understandable - see Gervais CV above - but misplaced. While far from perfect, Derek is an odd, sometimes beautiful little show with a sincere affection for its simple-minded main character and a genuine appreciation for older people.
It's also quite funny, but the laughs often sneak up on you. There's a story being told here; it just happens to be a sweetly comic one.
Okay, so sometimes Derek is a little too sweet. Gervais, who wrote and directed, relies a bit too heavily on a treacly, swirling piano soundtrack, and the show's seven-episode first season includes more montages set to Coldplay songs than should be legal. But even those work fairly well, and some of the syrup is offset by Derek's coworker Dougie - a bitter, easily inflamed janitor played by Gervais pal Karl Pilkington.
And - tone shift ahead - for all its lightness, the show is realistic about its setting: A Broad Hill resident dies in nearly every episode, robbing the kindhearted Derek of yet another friend.
Gervais, now 52, plays Derek as a jut-jawed mumbler, his eyes constantly darting from side to side. At first that portrayal feels gimmicky. But dang if it doesn't grow on you - just like the show itself. Credit the comic for taking a chance: Derek is as far from David Brent - the imbecilic blowhard Gervais played on The Office - as you can get.
Given the patronizing way so many older characters appear in TV comedy these days, a show that treats the aged as real people - their wisdom and experience to be prized, not mocked - is a rare gem indeed. In Derek, Gervais, the king of cringe comedy, has created a funny show that's deadly serious about the power of kindness.
The first season of Derek begins streaming to Netflix subscribers on Thursday. A second season has already been ordered.
If you watch Derek, let @austinjoconnor know what you thought of it!