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Time seems to move a bit slower in the south of France. A generation of poets and songwriters have written about the natural beauty and relaxed culture of "the Midi". Dating back over 2,500 years, winemaking is an integral part of the south of France, with small vineyards spread across the entire region – to be explored and enjoyed.
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City of Lincoln
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Two Antelope Park monuments being restored through community donation program
Prominent Lincoln monuments "War and Victory " and "Pioneer Woman " are getting a facelift, thanks to voluntary donations collected through the "Lincoln Cares " program that allows LES customers to add one dollar to their bill each month for park improvements.
Perhaps most familiar to Lincolnites is "War and Victory, " a 25-foot cast-concrete monument located in Antelope Park just west of Auld Recreation Center. Sculpted in 1936, "War and Victory " was an art project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a program initiated during Franklin Roosevelt's presidency to create jobs and stimulate the economy during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
The monument has a six-foot soldier standing on each of the four sides – symbolizing the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Spanish American War and World War I – the four major conflicts experienced by the United States up to the 1930s. Looking down from atop the column is a figure representing victory.
The "Pioneer Woman " statue, also cast concrete, is located in the Memory Garden of Antelope Park, and faces east at 33rd and Melrose, just north of Sheridan Boulevard. Erected in 1935 by the Lincoln Women's Club, the statue honors all pioneer women of Nebraska.
"I'm thrilled to be able to watch again as our "Lincoln Cares" program helps bring another dream to fruition, " Mayor Seng said. "The generous donations contributed by 'Lincoln Cares' supporters are going a long way in helping ensure that our country's history will be preserved and cherished by the citizens of Lincoln and the generations to follow. "
Nationally known artist Ellis Luis Burman sculpted both monuments. After working for the WPA, Burman settled in California and became best known for his work in the film industry. His studio designed the masks used in "Phantom of the Opera " and "Planet of the Apes. " Burman, who died in 1974, also did "Smoke Signal " in Pioneers Park and "Rebecca at the Well, " formerly in Sunken Gardens.
The City contracted with Jensen Conservation Services of Omaha to clean and reset the surface, apply water repellent and masonry strengthener coatings and restore bronze plaques. Total cost for restoring both statues is estimated at $22,500. Jensen Conservation Services other projects have included artwork at Sheldon Art Gallery and the Sower at the State Capitol.
The restoration work, which began September 7 on "Pioneer Woman, " is now completed. Restoration will continue on "War and Liberty " until late November or early December, said Lynn Johnson, Director of Parks and Recreation.
"We are very fortunate to have Mayda and Robert Jensen do this work. They are very talented and have done similar projects across the country, " Johnson said. "In the past 10 years, there has been much interest in restoring these historic and significant pieces of public art. But it wasn't until 'Lincoln Cares' provided the money that we were able to accomplish it. "
"Lincoln Cares, " which started in February, 2003, gives LES customers the opportunity to voluntarily add one dollar each month to their LES bill for park improvements. Donations have been allocated to the Sunken Gardens Restoration Project; air conditioning for the Ager Indoor Playground and Bethany Park Shelter and scholarships for low-income youth to participate in park programs.
Beginning this year, LES customers who use automatic bank billing may also participate by calling LES at 475-4211 or accessing the necessary authorization forms on its web site at www.les.com. (click on community programs for the "Lincoln Cares " Program agreement).
For the second consecutive year, Lincoln Cares will receive corporate matching funds from TierOne Bank Foundation and World's Foremost Bank (Cabela's VISA Operation, which provide a 50-cent match for every dollar contributed (up to $30,000 each).
For more information on "Lincoln Cares, " contact the Lincoln Parks and Recreation Department at 441-8264 or visit the City web site at lincoln.ne.gov, keyword Cares.
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Just like the diverse islands on which they're found, there are hotels in Hawaii to cover every imaginable taste and budget. But of course, with sun, sand, and surf supplied in ample measure, beach resorts dominate here. You'll discover towering condominiums with spectacular sea views, extravagant 5-star hotels with exclusive beaches and world-class cuisine, and friendly Hawaii hotels where every evening is hula night. Many resorts on Hawaii's quieter islands offer discount rates, while boutique establishments provide uniquely tailored adventure vacations that you simply won't forget.
Things to see in Hawai'i
While the sunshine, brightly colored sands, and gentle ocean swell of most Hawaii beach resorts are hard to quit, there are other sights here that simply cannot be missed. One of the most popular is the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island. It includes the actively erupting Kilauea volcano, as well as an excellent museum and Volcano Art Center. The Na Pali Coast State Park is another spectacular park, showcasing the dramatic coastal cliffs of Kauai island. The evocative name of Pearl Harbor is etched into the American consciousness, and on Oahu you can visit museums that explain the events of that day in December 1941. The state's top-ranked visitor destination is the USS Arizona Memorial, dedicated to the valor shown by those who served in the Pacific. Lastly, a visit to the Polynesian Cultural Center, a living museum, reveals the true diversity of Pacific islands, covering 8 distinctive Polynesian cultures.
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Honolulu on Oahu is the most heavily populated city, with some of Hawaii's best beaches, and this is where most of the state's hotels are found. It's an ideal location for many Hawaii-bound vacation-goers, with accommodation and facilities to suit families, couples, and business travelers alike. Hotels on Hawaii's Big Island—with its dramatic scenery, wildlife, and outdoor activities—generally cater to a more adventurous crowd, but also include several mega-resorts, like the Kohala Coast and Kailua-Kona. The Valley Isle of Maui is a quieter island with several luxury resorts, while the smaller hotels and retreats of Kauai Island are perfect for exploring its amazing natural wonders.
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Flights from the U.S. mainland generally land at Honolulu Airport on Oahu, with direct nonstop flights available from most west coast cities. They take around 5-6 hours flying time, whereas flights from the east coast last 10-11 hours. If you're staying on one of the Neighbor Islands, you can catch inter-island flights from here to all the other Hawaii islands. There are also some direct flights available to Kona and Hilo on the Big Island, Lihue on Kauai, and Kahului on Maui.
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Consignments are a variation in the SAP Order to Cash cycle. Here is a brief summary ( followed by SAP practice questions ) of today's SAP Training class.
Summary : We have discussed the important of consignments and when exactly they are used. We have also discussed how exactly the accounting process works ( From a goods movement perspective ) and the unique aspects of consignments that make it different from regular sales.
Questions : Based on today's SAP SD Training class, please work on the following exercises.
Q. 1 – Describe in your own words how a consignment fill-up is different from a regular order ? ( Try to think of the following aspects – Accounting, Goods Ownership , Special stock vs unrestricted stock, Customer Premises vs the company's plant location etc )
Q.2 – Describe in your own words how a consignment issue is different from a regular sales order ?
Q.3 – Describe in your own words, how a consignment issue is different from a consignment fill-up ?
Q.4 – Why does the SAP Document # 35000000 in our SAP system not have an invoice ?
Q.5 – What is the movement type associated with the corresponding delivery for the Document number specified in Q.4 ?
Q.6 – Why is it that material Account Documents are not created for the PGI of the SAP delivery document # 80009740 ?
Q.7 – What is the total value of the SAP Order # 35000000 and why ?
Q.8 – Which field controls the pricing of SAP Line Item No. 10 in the SAP Sales Order Number in Q.7 ?
Q.9 – What kind of document is SAP Sales Order # 9103 ?
Q.10 – Why is the Picking Quantity zero in SAP Delivery # 80012651 ?
Q.11 – What are the different (COGS and Inventory Account) G/L Accounts corresponding to the Accounting document in SAP Delivery # 80012651 ?
COGS A/c – ?
Inventory A/c – ?
Q.12 – The deliveries related to only one of the following SAP sales documents need picking. Which one and why ?
Consignment Fill-up
Consignment Issue
Q.13 – Are physical goods in an SAP consignments Fill-up document type relevant for Availability check ? Give the procedure on how you found out the answer.
Scenario : Based on the Iron Ore scenario that we discussed today in the class, please create the following. Assuming iron ore is material M-01 and PC is the units ( in tons for example ), explain which document is necessary in each of the cases.
Q. 14 . Iron Ore company wants to dump 1000 tons at the factory premises.
Q. 15 – Factory wants to consume 100 tons today.
Q. 16 – Factory wants to return 5 tons ( because of the reasons discussed in the SAP SD Training class today )
Q.17 – The Iron Ore company wants to take away 50 tons for use elsewhere.
Q.18 – Create the corresponding sales documents in sap and write them down here.
Q.19. – Write down the stock situation (Here is how you can check the stock overview in SAP) in the plant where you have created the SAP sales document types in Q. 18 above ?
1. Unrestricted Use.
2. Customer Consignment.
Q.20 – Delivery the Sales documents you have created in Q.18 above
Q.21 – Write down the stock situation ( after answering Q. 20 ab0ve )
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Ezra Pound turns up five times in Peter Gay's big survey of the modern movement in literature and the arts, "Modernism: The Lure of Heresy"—once in connection with T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" (which Pound edited), once as the author of an anti-Semitic sentiment (one of many), and three times as the originator of the slogan "Make It New" (which suits the theme of Gay's account). Pound's poetry and criticism are not discussed; no reader of Gay's book would have any idea of what his importance or influence as a writer might be. Gay's is a commodious volume with a long reach, "From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond"; still, a handful of passing references seems a sharp decline in market value for a writer who was once the hero of a book called "The Pound Era."
Pound's aspirations for literature were grand. He believed that bad writing destroyed civilizations and that good writing could save them, and although he was an élitist about what counted as art and who mattered as an artist, he thought that literature could enhance the appreciation of life for everyone. He was vain and idiosyncratic, but he had no wish to be a prima donna. No doubt Eliot, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, H.D., Ernest Hemingway, Ford Madox Ford, and Marianne Moore would have produced interesting and innovative work whether they had known Pound or not, but Pound's attention and interventions helped their writing and sped their careers. He edited them, reviewed them, got them published in magazines he was associated with, and included them in anthologies he compiled; he introduced them to editors, to publishers, and to patrons; he gave them the benefit of his time, his learning, his money, and his old clothes. "A miracle of ebulliency, gusto, and help," Joyce called him. It's true that he was flamboyant, immodest, opinionated, tactless, a pinwheel of affectation; he made people crazy and he became crazy himself. Gertrude Stein's description of him is frequently invoked: "A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not." In his devotion to the modernist avant-garde, though, he was selfless. "A bombastic galleon, palpably bound to, or from, the Spanish Main," Wyndham Lewis wrote about meeting Pound. "Going on board, I discovered beneath its skull and cross-bones, intertwined with fleurs de lys and spattered with preposterous starspangled oddities, a heart of gold."
Pound's own work, on the other hand, has had a difficult reception. The "It" in "Make It New" is the Old—what is valuable in the culture of the past. A great deal of Pound's poetry therefore takes the form of translation, imitation, allusion, and quotation. He is trying to breathe life into a line of artistic and intellectual accomplishment, but it is a line of his own invention—a "tradition" that includes, among others, John Adams, Confucius, Flaubert, the Provençal troubadours, and Benito Mussolini. Not, prima facie, a canon. This means that to understand what Pound is doing you often need to have read the same writers, studied the same languages, and learned the same history that Pound read, studied, and learned (or rely on the commentary of a person who has). This is especially the case with the work on which he spent fifty-four years and staked his reputation, "The Cantos of Ezra Pound"—"a cryselephantine poem of immeasurable length," as he once described it. So it is very easy for the average underprepared reader to get Pound wrong, and he desperately did not want to be misunderstood. Opacity and ambiguity can be deliberate effects in modernist writing: sometimes the text goes dark, reference becomes uncertain, language aspires to the condition of music. In Pound's case, though, any obscurity is unintentional. Clarity is the essence of his aesthetic. He sometimes had to struggle against his own technique to achieve it.
There is another problem with Pound, which is that he was a Fascist. The term gets abused freely in discussions of modernist writers, a number of whom were reactionaries—Gay calls these "the anti-modern modernists"—and some of whom were anti-Semites, but very few of whom were actually Fascists. Pound is one of the very few. His obsession with the Jews (there are some anti-Semitic passages in his early prose, but nothing systematic) dates from his interest in the views of the founder of the Social Credit movement, Major C. H. Douglas, around 1920. (Social Credit was an economic reform movement aimed at the elimination of debt—hence Pound's attacks on usury and on Jews as moneylenders and financiers of wars, a classic type of anti-Semitism.) Pound's infatuation with Mussolini dates from a concert given by Olga Rudge, a violinist who was Pound's longtime mistress, at Mussolini's home, in 1927, where he came up with the idea of enlisting Mussolini as a patron of the avant-garde. Six years later, Pound had a private audience with Il Duce, at the Palazzo Venezia, in Rome, and presented him with a copy of "A Draft of XXX Cantos," which Mussolini graciously acknowledged with the remark "Ma questo è divertente" ("How amusing"). Pound concluded that Mussolini had an intuitive grasp of the significance of his poetry.
In 1941, Pound began delivering broadcasts from the Rome studios of Ente Italiana Audizione Radio, attacking the Jews, Roosevelt, and American intervention in the war. The broadcasts continued through the Allied invasion of Italy, in 1943. In 1944, he wrote two propagandistic cantos—which are known as the Italian Cantos, and which were for many years omitted from the New Directions edition of the complete "Cantos"—praising the Fascist fighting spirit. In 1945, he surrendered to American officials on a charge of treason and was imprisoned in an Army Disciplinary Training Center north of Pisa. He was brought to the United States, but, thanks to the intercession of friends and of Dr. Winfred Overholser, the superintendent of St. Elizabeths Hospital, in Washington, D.C., he was spared a trial, on psychiatric grounds (although he never received a specific diagnosis). He spent twelve years in St. Elizabeths, where he acquired a number of disciples, including John Kasper, a segregationist associated with the neo-Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell. In 1958, the indictment was dismissed and Pound returned to Italy. When he walked off the boat, in Naples, he gave the Fascist salute.
Pound's politics are not incidental to his achievement. Italian Fascism is integral to "The Cantos," and the section called "The Pisan Cantos," which Pound composed in the Army Disciplinary Training Center, at a time when he had every expectation of being executed, is, formally, an elegy occasioned by the death of Mussolini at the hands of Italian partisans ("Ben and la Clara a Milano / by the heels at Milano"). Like most classical elegies, it is as much about the poet as about the departed; it is suffused with memories, and spiked with anger at the indifference of the world. It won the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1949, and although the award was (and remains) controversial, "The Pisan Cantos" is the finest thing that Pound ever wrote. It's the one place in his work where his learning is fused with genuine personal feeling.
Parts of "The Pisan Cantos" have been read as a recantation:
"Master thyself, then others shall thee beare"
Pull down thy vanity
Thou art a beaten dog beneath the hail,
A swollen magpie in a fitful sun,
Half black half white
Nor knowst'ou wing from tail
Pull down thy vanity
How mean thy hates
Fostered in falsity,
Pull down thy vanity,
Rathe to destroy, niggard in charity,
Pull down thy vanity,
I say pull down.
This may sound repentant, but it is not the poet speaking to himself in the second person. The lines are addressed to the American Army ("Half black half white"): the prisoner is raging against his captors. Pound laments, but he does not regret. "The Pisan Cantos" is a Fascist poem without apologies.
A. David Moody does not deal with the political side of the Pound problem in the first volume of his biography, "Ezra Pound Poet: A Portrait of the Man and His Work" (Oxford; $47.95), because he takes us only to 1921, the year Pound left London, first for Paris and then for Rapallo, where he lived until he surrendered to the Americans. Pound was born in 1885, in Hailey, Idaho, a fact useful to English satirists, whose ridicule Pound abetted by occasionally speaking and writing in a kind of homemade cowboy/Yankee drawl. But Pound was not really a Westerner; he spent less than two years in Hailey, where his father, Homer, briefly registered mining claims. The family moved to New York and then to Wyncote, near Philadelphia, which is where Pound was reared and educated. Homer worked in the Philadelphia Mint; Pound's mother, Isabel, was a New Yorker. Pound spent two years at the University of Pennsylvania, then transferred to Hamilton College, graduating in 1905.
Pound came to Europe in 1908, when he was twenty-two, after getting kicked out of the graduate program at the University of Pennsylvania. (Later in his career, he several times applied to Penn to receive his doctorate on the basis of work published, but was turned down.) Pound resisted the philological approach to literature that he was taught at Penn, since philology considered itself a science and above critical judgment, and Pound was consumed with a passion for critical judgment. He thought that the whole purpose of studying the past was to discover the principles of good writing—"the search for sound criteria," he called it—and his early poetry is a kind of creative philology, consisting largely of promiscuously free translations and reanimations of the literature of half a dozen expired traditions: Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Provençal, medieval Italian, eighth-century Chinese, and fourteenth-century Japanese. (After decades of frustratingly under-edited New Directions reprints, virtually all of Pound's poetry and translations, apart from the "Cantos," are available in a single Library of America volume, expertly edited, with annotation, by Richard Sieburth.)
Moody's book is a biography more of the work than of the man. Pound's love affairs, friendships, and quarrels and the intellectual and artistic culture within which he operated are mentioned, but they're not endowed with much explanatory power. Moody treats Pound as a poet whose primary concern was writing poetry, and his pages are devoted mainly to patient, intelligent, and prudently sympathetic readings of the contents of the twenty-one books Pound produced between 1905 and 1920, beginning with "Hilda's Book," which he wrote for his girlfriend Hilda Doolittle (later the poet H.D.), and ending with the work he called his "farewell to London," the self-deprecating satire "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley." Given the enormous variety of Pound's production in this period, Moody's gloss is elegant: he thinks that Pound (with a little help from his friends) grounded poetry in the everyday. He did this in two ways. He campaigned, as a prolific and bumptious critic, against the aesthetes and the Symbolists—the avant-garde of the late nineteenth century. And he formulated an aesthetic that was intended to preserve poetry's privileged status, but without the Symbolist's mysticism or the aesthete's cult of the beautiful. Pound took the merely poetical out of poetry. He did not believe that (in the words of the preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray") "all art is quite useless." He thought that poetry had a kind of power. He believed, Moody says, "that 'the perfect rhythm joined to the perfect word' would energize the motor forces of emotion and will and illuminate the intelligence, and that the result would be more enlightened living."
"Direct treatment of the 'thing' " was the formula of the movement that Pound invented, in 1912: Imagism. In the Imagist model, the writer is a sculptor. Technique consists of chipping away everything superfluous in order to reveal the essential form within. "It took you ninety-seven words to do it," Pound is reported to have remarked to a young literary aspirant who had handed him a new poem. "I find it could have been managed in fifty-six." He claimed that his best-known short poem, "In a Station of the Metro," took a year and a half to write, and that he had cut it down from thirty lines:
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
The form "made new" here is, of course, the haiku: two images juxtaposed to evoke a sensation—in this case, according to Pound, the sensation of beauty. It's important to recognize, though, that the subject of the poem is not "these faces"; the subject is "the apparition." (Otherwise, the first three words would be superfluous, subject to the Imagist razor.) The faces are not what matters. What matters is the impression they make in the mind of a poet. That is where the work of association takes place. This is what poets do: they connect an everyday x with an unexpected y. "Apparition" also reminds us, as Hugh Kenner pointed out in "The Pound Era," that the poem takes place under the ground: the people are experienced as ghosts, the subway as a visit to the underworld. (Kenner thought that the association with petals alludes to the Persephone myth, the cycle of death and rebirth.)
When Pound abandoned Imagism, around 1914, he did so noisily, and in the name of another doctrine, which he (along with Wyndham Lewis) named Vorticism. The trope in a Vorticist poem is the Vortex—although, as Moody rightly says, a Vortex is just an Image by another name. The key notion now is energy. (Pound and Lewis had very much in mind Filippo Marinetti's Futurism, an artistic and literary movement that had a vogue in England shortly before the war. They affected to despise Marinetti as a showman, but they were, stylistically, his imitators.) "The vortex is the point of maximum energy," Pound explained in BLAST, the magazine that he and Lewis produced, and that ran for two issues. "All experience rushes into this vortex. . . . All the past that is vital, all the past that is capable of living into the future, is pregnant in the vortex, NOW." The cluster of associations triggered by the apparition of the faces—Odysseus' descent into Hades, Dante's visit to the Inferno, Persephone and Demeter—is present in the twentieth-century subway, but only for those who can see. "Swift perception of relations, hallmark of genius," Pound wrote.
As Moody concedes, somewhat reluctantly, not every reader is a genius, and this can lead, in Pound, to many conundrums. Moody spends several pages, for example, puzzling out the opening lines of Canto IV:
Palace in smoky light,
Troy but a heap of smouldering boundary stones,
ANAXIFORMINGES! Aurunculeia!
Hear me. Cadmus of Golden Prows!
Most readers will get the reference to Troy, but the rest is, well, Greek. Moody thinks that the palace in the first line is Agamemnon's (although there is nothing about "smoky light" that would make this necessary, and other commentators have seen an allusion to Euripides' play "The Trojan Women"). "ANAXIFORMINGES" is from a poem by Pindar; "Aurunculeia" is from a poem by Catullus; Cadmus was the brother of Europa and the founder of Thebes. Even with the allusions identified, there remains the question of what to make of this particular cluster. What about Troy, Agamemnon, Cadmus, and so on makes for significance? Moody works it out (something to do with cities, women, music, and ravishment), but, by the end, any notion of the "direct treatment of the 'thing' " has vanished. The perception of relations is anything but swift.
The seed of the trouble lies in what most people find the least problematic aspect of the Imagist aesthetic: the insistence on "the perfect word," le mot juste. This seems a promise to get language up to the level of experience: artifice and verbiage are shorn away, and words point directly to the objects they name. Language becomes transparent; we experience the world itself. "When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish," Pound wrote in 1915. This is a correspondence theory of language with a vengeance. We might doubt the promise by noting that in ordinary speech we repeat, retract, contradict, embellish, and digress continually in order to make our meaning more precise. No one likes to be required to answer a question yes or no, because things are never that simple. This is not because individual words are too weak; it's because they are too powerful. They can mean too many things. ("Palace in smoky light": could this be Buckingham Palace in the fog?) So we add more words, and embed our clauses in more clauses, in order to mute language, modify it, and reduce it to the modesty of our intentions. President Clinton was right: "is" does have many meanings, and we need to be allowed to explain the particular one we have in mind. In "The Cantos," Pound became the prisoner of his own technique, and he must have found his poem unfinishable (he never did end it) because he couldn't control the significances his images unleashed. "New Cantos form themselves out of schemes to make sense of old Cantos," the critic Daniel Albright has said, "so the story of ' The Cantos' comprises two intertwined stories, one concerning Pound's writing of the poem, the other concerning Pound's interpretations of what he had already written." The poem kept metastasizing meaning, a Vortex battening on itself.
"He was in his own way a hero of his culture, a genuine representative of both its more enlightened impulses and its self-destructive contradictions," Moody says about Pound. This seems fair. Pound was, in the end, a poet's poet—he looked like a poet—and, despite the shambles of his political beliefs and the limitations of his poetics, he does stand for something. His claims for literature were free of supernatural mystification, and he believed that the proper organization of language was supremely important. If you are a poet, or any serious kind of writer, you have to believe that, whether you think Pound's formula is workable or not. Getting the words right is, at a minimum, part of the therapy.
Pound was also, and by his own account, a failure.
That I lost my center
fighting the world.
The dreams clash
and are shattered—
that I tried to make a paradiso
he wrote in notes for the final cantos. Kenner's title was deliberately ironic: the point of "The Pound Era" is that a Pound era never happened. The hopes of the pre-war avant-garde, the artistic excitement of the years between 1908 and 1914, when the modernist movement spread throughout Europe, died in the trenches and the camps. "Dreams clash and are shattered": two wars of annihilation destroyed the aspirations of poets and painters to be the authors of an earthly paradise. Pound was, in a way, a war casualty, too; but he outlived almost all his literary and artistic contemporaries. He died in 1972, in Venice, at the age of eighty-seven. In his last years, he did not speak. ♦


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White to undergo season-ending Tommy John surgery
HOUSTON -- As expected, Astros right-hander Alex White is scheduled to undergo Tommy John surgery, likely within the next week. Houston general manager Jeff Luhnow said the procedure would be performed by Dr. James Andrews, who is based in Birmingham, Ala.
White injured the elbow pitching in an exhibition against the Cubs a week ago, and was placed on the 60-day disabled list, but he said it had been an issue for quite some time. He was examined by two team doctors, and Andrews confirmed the diagnosis after viewing the MRI.
"The opinion of all three doctors was the best course of action was to take care of it now, because there's a high likelihood it would get worse," Luhnow said.
White, 24, was acquired by the Astros from the Rockies in exchange for pitcher Wilton Lopez and Minor League pitcher Alex Gillingham on Dec. 4, 2012. White was 2-9 with a 5.51 ERA in 23 games last season (20 starts), but was 0-2 with a 3.51 ERA in his final 10 starts of the season.
Astros pitcher Philip Humber, who underwent Tommy John surgery in 2005, told White he will have to be patient during his recovery.
"It's a long process, and he's in good hands whoever he goes to," he said. "They've got it down to an exact science as far as the surgery goes. The most important part of it is the rehab, and if you can go through it and not have a setback, you can come back and not worry about that part of your arm again."


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Respected character actor Steve Buscemi says it's only in his "wildest" dreams that he saw himself as a leading man.
But that's just what Buscemi is in the new HBO series "Boardwalk Empire," set in Prohibition-era Atlantic City, N.J. Buscemi stars as a politician maneuvering his way through 1920s corruption, violence and romance.
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"Boardwalk Empire," starring Buscemi and Scottish actress Kelly Macdonald, debuts Sept. 19 on HBO with an episode directed by Martin Scorsese, who's an executive producer for the series.
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Paul Krugman on Carter and Reagan: Wrong Again
Measured in constant 2005 dollars, real federal revenues rose from $968.4 billion in 1970 to $1,197.6 billion in 1980 and to $1508.7 billion in 1990. In other words, the cumulative real revenue gain was 23.7% under the high and rising tax rates of the 1970s, and 26% under the dramatic reduction in tax rates of the 1980s.
Paul Krugman recently looked at these same figures through his logarithmic Kaleidoscope, and concluded that "the revenue track under Reagan . . . is exactly what you would expect to see if supply-side economics were just plain wrong: revenues are permanently reduced relative to what they would otherwise have been."
Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf was so awed by Krugman's creative artwork that he imagined "the theory that cuts would pay for themselves has proved altogether wrong."
Notice that Krugman starts his trend with 1970, which was a year of recession and falling revenue. If he had instead measured real revenue growth between the cyclical peaks of 1969 and 1979, the overall increase would have dropped to 19.5%. Note too that Krugman ends his trend with 1981 rather than 1980, while suggesting 1981 was part of the glorious Carter years:
The Carter years, contrary to legend, were not a period of economic stagnation and falling revenue because high tax rates were strangling the economy; there was a nasty recession starting in 1979, largely thanks to an oil shock, but overall growth was respectable.
The comment is strange. There was no recession in 1979, nasty or otherwise. And non-energy inflation topped 11 percent that year – before oil prices peaked in early 1980.
The continually accelerating inflation during the Carter years, 1977 to 1980, pushed more and more families into higher and higher tax brackets. It also resulted in brutal taxation of illusory, nominal capital gains and ephemeral inventory profits. As a percentage of GDP, federal taxes soared from 17.1% of GDP in 1976 to 19% in 1980 and 19.6% in 1981. Does that really look like a sustainable trend that President Reagan interrupted for no good reason?


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Unperturbed by blackouts and soaring prices in California and the recent collapse of Houston-based power trading giant Enron Corp., Texas plans to press ahead with electricity deregulation from Jan. 1.
Texas officials have consistently rejected any comparison with California and insist that the nation's second most populous state can make a success of deregulation.
"They prepared some two years to get ready for deregulation, and frankly, they were not ready," said Thomas Noel, chairman of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which is responsible for keeping the lights on in the Lone Star State.
"We studied the issue for seven years and went at it much more deliberately," Noel said.
Residential and commercial customers in Texas are now free to choose an electricity provider, much as they now choose their long-distance telephone service provider.
Prices charged by traditional electric utilities, which previously held a regional monopoly, have been frozen and competitors will be free to offer lower prices to win customers.
An electricity deregulation pilot program launched a few months ago showed that Texans appeared to be lukewarm about the idea of changing their electricity supplier, with less than 100,000 customers signing up out of some 250,000 eligible.
State officials are confident that the numbers of customers willing to switch will gradually rise. Implementation of the pilot program faced a series of delays because of technical glitches, but Noel said the system is now running smoothly and that there is also broad political support for the move to full-scale deregulation.
"At the last legislative oversight committee meeting, it was basically unanimous to move ahead. There were no people there arguing that we not move ahead," he said.
Cities such as San Antonio and Austin, that are served by municipally-owned utilities, have opted out of deregulation for the time being but Noel expects them to sign on within a year.
In the meantime the fight for customers will center on the Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth areas, which until now have been supplied exclusively by units of Reliant Energy Inc. and TXU Corp.
The introduction of a competitive retail market is the second and final phase of electricity deregulation in Texas after the wholesale market was opened up to competition under legislation that was passed in 1995. The wholesale market has operated without major problems since then.
Among other things, wholesale deregulation led to a boom in the construction of new power plants, leaving Texas with a hefty surplus over and above its requirements, in sharp contrast to the situation in California where tight power supplies were a key contributor to that state's power crisis.
With the California power crisis still fresh in many people's minds, electricity deregulation in Texas will be watched closely by the rest of the nation.
So far 23 states and the District of Columbia have moved to deregulate their retail power markets.


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What's the best way to spend $US28,000? I dunno! Probably something charity-related. But a noticeable way to spend $US28,000 is to group a bunch of iPads together and call them the biggest iPhone in the world.
You can visit this display yourself at London's St. Pancras International station, where it's being used to promote a new Lara Croft iPad game instead of to play the world's largest game of Angry Birds. Which itself seems pretty wasteful! [The Geek Engineer, Kotaku]


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SENIOR (2012): Went 1-3 with 1 2B, 1 BB, 1 RBI, and 1 R at Texas State … was 2-3 with an RBI and SF vs. Illinois-Chicago … blasted a home run and went 2-5 with 2 RBI and 1 R vs. Illinois-Chicago … knocked an RBI 2B, scored 1 R, drew 1 BB, and stole one base at San Jose State … had 2 RBI on two sacrifice flies vs. San Jose State … scored 2 R and added an RBI as part of a 3-5 game at Cal Poly … knocked a double and scored 1 R vs. Utah … blasted his second HR and went 3-4 with 2 RBI and 1 R vs. Lehigh … knocked in two runs at USD … went 3-4 with 1 RBI and 1 R at USD … homered and went 2-3 with 2 R vs. Portland … was 2-4 with 3 RBI and a HR vs. Fresno State … collected two hits at CSU Bakersfield and vs. Saint Mary's.
JUNIOR (2011): Appeared in 24 games, starting 13 contests...hit a pinch-hit-three-run homer to register his first hit of the season in the second game of a double header against Albany on Feb. 26 … went 1-4 as the starting DH against San Jose State (3/6)…had one at bat in a mid-week game against Cal on Mar. 8…started his third game of the season at DH against Utah (3/11)…hit by a pitch in a loss to Milwaukee (3/12)…picked up a RBI on a sacrifice against Utah on Mar. 13…entered the game as a pinch-hitter against UC Davis (3/13)… registered a hit in a mid-week game against Stanford while serving as the DH on Mar. 22…went 1-3 with a double in the series-opener against Brown on Mar. 26…started as the DH against Brown…entered as a pinch-hitter, tallying a RBI, and stayed in the game at first base (3/27)…started as the DH in the series-finale against Brown …provided a pinch-hit RBI against Cal Poly (4/12)…had at-bats in two of the three games against St. Mary's (Apr. 16 and Apr. 17)…pinch-hit in a home game against Stanford (4/19)…doubled in a pinch-hit appearance at USF on Apr. 21…started the DH against USF (Apr. 23)....started the final three games of the season at first base, amassing three hits at the plate and recording 22 putouts.
SOPHOMORE (2010): Started seven games, five times in left field and two others as the DH … made 20 more appearances off the bench, pinch-hitting 14 times … started twice in the season's opening weekend against Nevada (2/20 and 2/21), going 3-for-9 with a double an RBI and a run scored … had a pair of multiple-hits games, both early in the season, the first coming against Nevada (2/21) when he went 2-for-4 and again at Fresno State (3/9) when he hit two doubles and drove in two … had a four-game hitting streak from March 6 through 11 ... did not make a start during West Coast Conference play – his last start came in left field against Southern Illinois on March 14.
FRESHMAN (2009): WCC All-Freshman Team ... started 33 of Santa Clara's 53 games as the DH... Hit .299 and tied for fourth on the team with 22 RBI ... mostly hit 6th in the SCU lineup... hit .412 with RISP and .400 with runners on base ... ended the year on a nine-game hitting streak ... had eight doubles, one triple and scored 16 runs ...... made his first collegiate appearance as the designated hitter against URI (Feb. 21) ... had his first college hit, run and double against NC State (Feb. 22) ... made his first collegiate start in left field at San Jose State (Feb. 27) ... started as the DH in games three and four against Oregon (Mar. 7-8) ... registered his first two career RBIs against UC Davis (Mar. 11) ... went 2-for-2 in game three against Cornell (Mar. 15), with two runs, two RBIs and his first collegiate stolen base ... had a season-high three hits against LMU (Mar. 29) and vs. Long Beach State (Mar. 31) ... started in left field against San Diego (Apr. 4)... doubled and scored a run against Stanford (Apr. 15) ... scored the Broncos' lone run against USF (Apr. 18) ... hit is first collegiate triple and posted a season-high three RBIs against San Jose State (Apr. 29) and against SMC (May 10) ... scored one run in the season finale against then-No. 18 Cal Poly (May 18).
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2008 graduate of Aptos High School in Aptos, Calif. ... played for coaches Randy Kramer, Mark Eichorn and Matt King ... earned first-team all league honors in 2008 ... Aptos won league titles in 2007 and 2008 while finishing as the All-Central Coast Section (CCS) runners-up in 2007 ... also played basketball and earned first-team honors in 2007.
PERSONAL: Born in Santa Maria, Calif. ... parents are Andy and Donna Biancardi ... has three older brothers including twins Jeremy and Jason, and Ryan ... enjoys basketball, football and going to sporting events ... wants to graduate and be a successful businessman ... majoring in Marketing.


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If you buy an Audi it's probably coming over in a boat. If you buy a Lamborghini Aventador it's coming over in a cargo plane. Here's what it looks like packed up for transport.
This particular Lambo was spotted in Dubai, after just having come off of a plane. Apparently, there was a yellow Aventador nearby. Oh Dubai, you never disappoint when it comes to
ostentatious stunning displays of wealth.
The pallet this car is strapped onto looks a bit funky though, and we don't particularly like how the loaders strapped it down using its wheels (wouldn't it be better to put hooks on some part of the suspension, just in case the plane hit turbulence?).
Seeing an Aventador strapped to a platform like this one makes us dream of watching one shoved out of a C-130 and parachuting to the ground. But to do that, they'd need to get a 463L master pallet. Anyone have one laying around?


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The topology of petroleum occurrence is a further defeat for the argument ... of an exclusively organic or exclusively abiogenic origin for petroleum. If oil were either rising from primordial sources in the earth's interior or created in "oil windows" by catagenesis, the more mobile fractions would escape from the depths and be found more abundantly near the surface and less mobile fractions, low gravity oils, would be present at depth. Exactly the opposite is the norm. Methane gas, the most mobile hydrocarbon, is more abundant with depth, worldwide; and tars, the least mobile, are most abundant at and near the surface.
Working backwards through the above points, we can say that:
1. Topologies of hydrocarbon occurrences indicate that methane effuses from the interior, not petroleum; that
2. Topologies of hydrocarbon occurrences indicate that low-gravity oil is not generated at depth in oil windows; that
3. Methane beneficiates fossiliferous shales and peat deposits, creating oil shales and coal. Oil shales and coal do not generate methane; methane generates oil shales and coal; that
4. Bacteria and archaea in the outer crust strip hydrogen from methane progressively through condensates, high gravity oil, and low gravity oil, to bitumens; that
5. Hydrides of silicon and carbon along with intermetals rise into crustal levels where dissociation and oxidation liberate the heat of endogeny and deposit rock-forming minerals, and metal deposits, leaving only methane and hydrogen to effuse into the atmosphere; that
6. Nonmetal hydrides escaping from the interior of the primordial earth created a reducing atmosphere that was changed over to oxygen-rich by the loss of hydrogen to space; and that
7. The discovery that hydrogen nuclei under pressure penetrate atomic shells of metals, transmuting the metals to intermetals, densifying them, and fluidizing them, creates an entirely new geological picture of the earth's interior, of endogeny, and of the mode by which the crust was created.
Indalo wrote:The idea (I don't think this has yet been proven) that the world's oil fields are actually replenishing, is worth studying alongside the idea that the world's oil fields are depleting. I'm afraid the proof of the latter is overwhelming, whereas the proof of the former is negligable. The world's appetite for the black gold is currently so insatiable, that most of the known mega fields are in depletion: Cantarell, North Sea, Kuwait, and the debate rages about Saudi's Ghawar, particularly over statistics and various numerical interpretations. These fields are simply unable to produce as much as they did in their maximum capacity days, whether it be due to lack of investment in advanced technologies or lack of truth about initial estimates, whatever, they are simply not producing enough for the world's market.
I've been folllowing Peak Oil for a few years and I'm ready to entertain many different interpretations: it's an elite game, played the expense of the rest of us, it's a 'myth' created by (fill in the blank) it's a conspiracy theory etc. I would not like to see the EU fraternity swallow the 'oil fields are refilling from bellow' 'theory' purely because it also goes against the overwhelming data, just as I hope you do not ridicule the Global Warming theory (nb I did not say Anthropogenic Global Warming) simply because it has been shoved, arguably, 'unscientifically' down our throats. If you had been studying the numbers, reading the opinions, following the graphs of say, the past five years, you would accept the fact that the world is struggling right now to produce as much oil as the market demands. If the refilling from bellow theory is right, it really doesn't matter as it is not taking place quickly enough to save the world economic system from extreme and severe withdrawal symptoms as that economy is based ENTIRELY on an abundant and cheap flow of oil. I am very much against the doomerish view of a world filled with marauding zombie hordes caused by the sudden and complete melt down of the world economy because of a sudden and complete depletion of oil fields, but it is right in front of your face right now, that the ongoing depletion of previously reliable abundantly cheap fossil fuels is causing an economic crisis of proportions previously unseen, throughout the western World.
Indalo wrote:However, the problem with oil is clear, it's production, refinement and is controlled by maybe two dozen people in the world. Control and power is the problem. With these individuals attempting to silence all alternatives we have caused some of the worst disasters in history and slowed down the progress of all mankind.
Another 20 million barrels of oil a day by 2015? That would be truly remarkable, requiring huge expansions of oil sands and oil shale resources, vastly increased production out of Saudi Arabia, and the discovery of replacements for the sharply declining production in Mexico, Russia and the North Sea. And in the unlikely event that such an expansion did come to pass, as testimony two weeks ago by CERA's chairman Daniel Yergin observed, it's not going to be cheap. Not only are the newer, "unconventional" sources of oil inherently more expensive to develop, but the oil industry is facing severe shortages of manpower and equipment. Ramping up current supply by 25 percent in just ten years will cost a pretty penny.
Myth or Not..
It is toxic... and we need to find cleaner, more sustainable, and decentralized forms of energy...
Petroleum is the old paradigm... holding onto it will just limit us.
Let's re-steer this thread in the direction of a finding a direct and cogent EU Planetary Science connection with the original post or it looks to be heading south to the NIAMI forum.
It seems to me that recently I heard a report on the radio that said scientists had discovered an insect that, when feed on a particular diet, deficates petroleum. (Or maybe it was on another thread of this very forum.)bdw000 wrote:Gold's hypothesis is that bacteria deep down convert methane into more complex organics, eventually leading to crude oil. This seems very much within the realm of possibility, if a tad unlikely.
The oil and gas that fuels our homes and cars started out as living organisms that died, were compressed, and heated under heavy layers of sediments in the Earth's crust. Scientists have debated for years whether some of these hydrocarbons could also have been created deeper in the Earth and formed without organic matter. Now for the first time, scientists have found that ethane and heavier hydrocarbons can be synthesized under the pressure-temperature conditions of the upper mantle —the layer of Earth under the crust and on top of the core. The research was conducted by scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, with colleagues from Russia and Sweden, and is published in the July 26, advanced on-line issue of Nature Geoscience.
StefanR wrote:http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=20348#p20348
Going from there to the next link:The oil and gas that fuels our homes and cars started out as living organisms that died, were compressed, and heated under heavy layers of sediments in the Earth's crust. Scientists have debated for years whether some of these hydrocarbons could also have been created deeper in the Earth and formed without organic matter. Now for the first time, scientists have found that ethane and heavier hydrocarbons can be synthesized under the pressure-temperature conditions of the upper mantle —the layer of Earth under the crust and on top of the core. The research was conducted by scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, with colleagues from Russia and Sweden, and is published in the July 26, advanced on-line issue of Nature Geoscience.
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How to make homemade chipá: the best cheese bread recipe
Honestly, anyone who already knows me is well aware of the fact that I love all things food-related. I enjoy cooking, and I enjoy the fruits of my labor even more, as evidenced by my ample waistline. But my interest in food is not limited to its consumption. I take pleasure in reading and trying out recipes, learning new cooking techniques and discovering great places to dine out. I even belonged to a cooking club when I lived in Philadelphia (hello ladies!).
Before I left for Argentina, I promised my cooking club compatriots as well as other interested foodies that I would post recipes on my blog from time to time. So here I present to you the first recipe card for the file: chipá.
Chipá is a type of cheese bread most commonly prepared in the northern provinces of Argentina and Paraguay. The word "chipá" comes from Guaraní, the language of an indigenous group of the same name based in this region. I found an excellent description of these tasty rolls on the food blog The Traveler's Lunchbox:
"...these little breads are fundamentally different from the majority of cheese-bready things around the world in that they are naturally and completely gluten-free.... They're made entirely with tapioca starch (the fine, white powder extracted from cassava roots), which gives them a texture quite unlike anything else."
In northern Argentina and Paraguay, where the cheesy little rolls enjoy enormous popularity, vendors called chiperos walk the streets with large baskets of chipá for sale. The cries of the chipero are a familiar sound in these parts, and people flock to him to buy chipá to accompany their breakfast or as an afternoon snack.
Daniel's stepdad Tomás is a truck driver, and many years ago he was sent to make a delivery to the city of Clorinda, located in the Argentine province of Formosa just a stone's throw from Paraguay. Close to his final destination but feeling drowsy, Tomás stopped and parked his truck to get a little shut-eye. At roughly 3am he was awakened by the sound of someone knocking on the door of his truck. Slightly alarmed, he got up and peered out the window only to be met by the weathered but smiling face of a vendor asking, "¿Chipáaaa, señor?" I'll let you imagine what Tomás' response to that question was at 3am.
This recipe for chipá has been adapted from my friend Gabriel's blog, Live from Waterloo.
[Eggs, cheese and tapioca flour for the chipá]
4 cups tapioca flour
2 teaspoons salt
3 eggs, lightly beaten
1 stick butter, melted
3 cups shredded gouda or jack cheese [or the Argentine cheese pategrás]
1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese
milk, as needed [approx. ¾ to 1 cup]
Mix the tapioca flour and salt in a bowl, and make a well in the center. Add the eggs and melted butter. Mix thoroughly to incorporate. Add the cheeses and then gradually add milk as needed, until the dough begins to pull away from the sides of the bowl. Knead lightly to fully incorporate the ingredients. Let the dough rest in the refrigerator for 20 minutes, covered with a dish towel or plastic wrap.
Form the dough into balls about 1½ to 2 inches in diameter. Bake at 400ºF for approximately 20 minutes, or until the dough has puffed and the cheese bits have browned.
Chipá are best enjoyed straight from the oven, as they tend to harden as they cool.
[Fresh from the oven]
Chipá make a great accompaniment to mate or coffee. ¡Buen provecho!
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"Back again, back again, we've got Franklin D. Roosevelt back again, since Roosevelt's been re-elected moonshine liquor's been corrected, we've got legal wine, whiskey, beer and gin." —Recorded by Bill Cox in 1936
Happy New Year!
Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be so loud.
If you're suffering a bit this morning from too much New Year's Eve revelry and your head feels as though it was hit by a baseball bat and your stomach is churning like an Atlantic hurricane, you might want to consider skipping this column (I promise not to be offended), because it's about beer.
Want to win a beer in a bar bet?
The next time you're in your favorite tavern, pose this question: Who was John Leonard Barnitz and why should he should be a candidate for malt sainthood?
To the winner goes a free glass of beer.
Give up?
Raise a chilled mug to the memory and expertise of John Leonard Barnitz, a German immigrant who established the city's first brewery in 1748 at Hanover and Baltimore streets, near the Jones Falls.
Maureen O'Prey, a history professor at the Community College of Baltimore County, writes in her recently published book, "Brewing in Baltimore," that the Barmitz brewery was also "Baltimore's first manufacturing industry."
"The entire operation was run by hand with minimal equipment that included mash turns, a brew kettle, cooling pans and fermenting turns," she writes.
John Leonard Barnitz died in 1749, not long after opening the brewery, and his son carried on until he died in 1780.
O'Prey writes that the site "continued to be used as a brewery periodically over the next 200 years." and that by the turn of the century, Baltimore was officially a "beer town."
The golden age of Baltimore breweries was certainly the 19th century, when beers carrying names such as Seeger's, Bauernschmidt & Marr, Wiessner's, Odenwald & Joh's, F. Schneider, August Beck, Brehm's, W. Auer's, Darley Park, Eigenbrot, Globe Brewery and Maryland Brewing Co. decorated the city's landscape.
The author explained the popularity of beer as a national beverage. At the beginning of the 19th century, Americans consumed 30 gallons of alcohol per year, with 24 gallons being beer.
Some of the breweries added hotels, restaurants, taverns and even duckpin lanes on their grounds for the convenience of the thirsty.
O'Prey writes that by 1895, Bauernschmidt was the largest brewery in the city, producing 60,000 barrels per year.
She includes marvelous period advertising illustrations and photos that show the breweries in all their glory, with puffing smokestacks and horse-drawn wagons about to depart their yards to dispense their goods to saloons, hotels, restaurants and stores.
O'Prey has included some astonishing facts about Baltimore beers. She explained that the distinctive taste of the beer produced by Darley Park was a result of "Irish moss that was cooked in the mash kettle to clarify the beer."
Apparently the public clamored for it, because by the time the brewery was sold in 1889, 30,000 barrels a year were being downed by Baltimoreans.
Another great advance, which was a boon to the industry and resulted in the establishment of Crown Cork and Seal Co., was the invention in 1891 of the Crown Cork Bottle Closure. A metal cap affixed to bottles replaced the porcelain caps that were attached to a harp and then locked down on the bottle top.
The new technology allowed brewers to seal in all the flavor while stepping up production. The machines were foot-operated, and a brewery worker could cap 24 bottles per minute, O'Prey wrote.
She writes that Baltimore breweries largely escaped damage during the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 because they were on the outskirts of the city. One that did go up in flames was the former Brown's Brewery, which had become Claggett's Brewery by the time of the fire.
Dark days descended on the brewing and distilling industry not only in Maryland but across the nation when the Volstead Act became law in 1920.
Some of the local breweries that made their own malt held on by producing malt syrup for breakfast and other products.
The Great Drought was brought to a conclusion by a number of events, including the lawlessness that swept the nation during Prohibition, the loss of federal tax revenue on alcohol and the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, according to Daniel Okrent, whose excellent book on those not-so-dry years, "The Last Call," was published two years ago.
Moments after beer became legal again at 12:01 a.m. April 7, 1933, delivery trucks from the Globe Distillery began lumbering through the streets with the much-sought-after cargo destined for bars, restaurants and hotels.
One such destination was the Hotel Rennert, at Saratoga and Liberty streets.
At the invitation of the Rennert's manager, Paul S. Lake, H.L. Mencken, who had vigorously fought and had at every opportunity personally and flagrantly violated the Volstead Act, had been asked to have the first glass of "legal" beer in Baltimore.
I interviewed Lake, who had managed the hotel from 1920 to 1935, and he recalled the events of that evening.
He had invited Mencken to have a terrapin dinner at the hotel before the celebration when the clock struck midnight. Mencken said he had another obligation but would be there at the noble hour.
At 12:29 a.m., Sun editor and longtime friend Hamilton Owens and others watched as the Sage of Baltimore, pop-eyed with joy, said, "Here it goes."
After downing the malty beverage, he slammed the stein on the bar and said to the assembled, "Pretty good. Not bad at all."
O'Prey said it was a glass of Arrow Beer — "Arrow Beer, It Hits the Spot" — produced by the Globe Brewery, that Mencken downed with such relish.
O'Prey writes about beers a little closer to modern memory that flourished in Baltimore after repeal, such as National Premium, National Bohemian, Gunther's, Free State, American and Arrow Beer, and their sad demises.
She concludes with a chapter on craft beers produced by Hugh Sisson's Clipper City Brewing Co., Oliver's, the Brewer's Art and Bawlmer Craft Beers, which means that the tradition of brewing in Baltimore will continue.
There is more good news for beer lovers. National Premium will return to join its mate, National Boh, which came back last year.
"Tim Miller over in Easton promises it'll be back by Opening Day," said former Baltimore Sun food columnist
, who is writing a book, "Baltimore Beers: A History of Suds City," with Fells Point bartender Turkey Joe Trabert and Baltimore photographer-writer Jim Burger, who also had been on the staff of The Sun.
Kasper said the book, which is being published by History Press, will be available by Father's Day.
In a book laden with pictures, advertisements, beer ephemera and memorabilia, O'Prey assembles many arcane facts.
Did you know that Mary Pickersgill, who sewed the 30-by-42-foot flag that flew over Fort McHenry during the War of 1812, completed it on the floor of Brown's Brewery because it was too enormous to fit in her East Pratt Street home?
Go ahead. You can probably win a beer on that information, too!


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60 seconds with Rajeev de Mello: Asian bond boost from falling inflation
Rajeev De Mello, Head of Asian Fixed Income, looks at how falling inflation and a strong US dollar are impacting Asian bonds and currencies.
Falling inflation boosts Asian bond outlook
Our outlook for Asia in 2015 is one where generally bonds yields will continue to fall, so bond returns are going to be positive.
Inflation is going to be much lower, due to falling oil prices. That is positive for bonds because declining inflation usually leads to central bankers cutting interest rates.
Indeed, if we look at countries like India we have seen inflation rates reach levels that we haven't seen in decades.
Asian currencies resilient to dollar strength
There is concern on the currency side about the strengthening US dollar.
Generally Asian currencies have done well despite this, and in euro or sterling terms Asian currencies look interesting.


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The globe-trotting manhunt for National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has added another layer of international intrigue surrounding the secret spiller and his search for political asylum.
Weeks after he leaked documents detailing secret U.S. government data surveillance programs to the press, Snowden — who faces espionage charges — is seeking asylum abroad and safe passage to wherever he might find it. He fled Hong Kong, where he had been holed up for a month, on Sunday, and he is being aided in his search for asylum by advisors from WikiLeaks.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed Tuesday that Snowden was in the transit zone of a Moscow airport and said the country would not extradite him to the U.S. But he also said Snowden was free to leave and he hoped that would happen as soon as possible, The Associated Press reported.
The list of places Snowden could reportedly be headed has become a who's-who of countries with fractious relations with the U.S. Here is a run-down of the places Snowden has been and the places he could be headed.
Waipahu, Hawaii, U.S.:
Before Snowden's leaks made him a household name, the 29-year-old was living with his girlfriend outside Honolulu and working for the National Security Agency as an employee of contractor Booz Allen Hamilton — a job he told the South China Morning Post he took only in order to gain access to secret documents. The real estate agent for the couple's rented home told the Associated Press that Snowden and his girlfriend moved out of their house May 1.
Hong Kong, China:
Snowden first holed up in Hong Kong on May 20, according to The Guardian, and it was from his hotel room there that he leaked NSA documents to that British newspaper. Snowden told the paper that he chose Hong Kong as his home base for what he called the city's "spirited commitment to free speech and the right of political dissent."
The U.S. asked Hong Kong police to detain Snowden pending his possible extradition on espionage charges, but China allowed him to leave Sunday. Hong Kong officials said Washington's documentation in support of his extradition wasn't complete — a claim Washington denied, blasting the Chinese government for letting Snowden leave.
"This was a deliberate choice by the government to release a fugitive despite a valid arrest warrant, and that decision unquestionably has a negative impact on the U.S.-China relationship," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters Monday.
Moscow, Russia:
Snowden arrived in Moscow on Sunday after fleeing Hong Kong, where he had spent more than a month. Snowden had been expected Monday to board a flight to Havana on which he had booked a ticket, but the plane took off without him.
After Snowden failed to board that flight, the White House said Monday it believed Snowden was still in Moscow and urged the Kremlin to hand him over. "We continue to hope that the Russians will do the right thing," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told NBC News on Monday. Russia's foreign minister said Snowden had not crossed Russia's border, and Putin said the country would not extradite him to the U.S.
Russia had earlier offered to consider an asylum request from Snowden should he make one, although there is no indication Snowden would do so. Russia itself has no sterling reputation for free speech or for privacy from surveillance — or for press freedom, for that matter.
Havana, Cuba:
Snowden had been expected to board a Havana-bound Aeroflot flight out of Moscow on Monday, but the flight left without him — and with a host of journalists chasing him onboard. From Havana, he had been expected to travel on to Ecuador, which had promised to review his application for asylum. Snowden did not board that flight to Cuba, however. It is unclear why.
Snowden has requested asylum from and is believed to be heading to the small Andean nation, which has promised to review his application carefully. It was only last year that Ecuador began harboring another high-profile leaker: Snowden's own newfound shepherd, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who himself is holed up in Ecuador's embassy in London avoiding extradition on sexual assault charges.
Ecuador has an extradition treaty with the U.S., but it also allows exemptions for political asylum, BBC News noted. The country's populist leftist President Rafael Correa has been openly critical of Washington and nominally friendly to Snowden's cause — but his presidency is marred by its own ongoing battle with the country's news media, culminating with a controversial new law cracking down on press freedom.
Iceland and beyond:
Snowden had earlier this month told The Guardian that he might seek asylum in Iceland, citing what he described as its strong legacy of protecting privacy and press freedoms. However, Iceland isn't a totally safe bet. Its just-seated new government is a center-right one that is seen as more likely to seek a close relationship with Washington — and possibly less eager to rankle Washington by harboring somebody like Snowden.
On a conference call Monday, though, WikiLeaks spokesman and Icelandic journalist Kristinn Hrafnsson said that asylum for Snowden has been formally requested from Iceland. "Similar processes were carried out elsewhere," Hrafnsson said. He declined to specify where — but the saga of Snowden's search for asylum, and the U.S.'s search for him, were stlll criss-crossing the globe.


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Veterinarian Reviewed on February 28, 2012 by Paulina Nelega, RH
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Herbal Treatments for High Cholesterol
Are you now worried about the amount of cholesterol present in your body? Do you get tired easily, sweat a lot, and feels like an old man or woman? It might be a sign of having high cholesterol. There are lots of symptoms that you might feel and see when you have high cholesterol content inside your body. First is difficulty in breathing, this is because cholesterol blocks the veins in your arteries and weakens your heart. Another is you palpitate all the time even if there is no reason for this condition.
What are the factors that lead us from experiencing this high cholesterol? Foods that we eat are the biggest factor for this condition. If you are someone who loves fatty foods then you might be at risk. This is because fatty foods such as meat products possess high level of cholesterol and you might adapt it if you do not have control in eating these fatty foods. Foods that you can buy in fast food chains possess a huge amount of cholesterol too, because the oil they use is not as healthy as the one you use in your kitchen for cooking. Drinking too much coffee a day, drinking excessive alcohol and smoking may also lead you from having a high level of cholesterol in your blood, so what you need to do is try to minimize your intake of these latter things.
How are we going to lower down our cholesterol?
- You have to eat foods that are rich in Vitamin B. Example is liver, oats, potatoes, bananas, and legumes. This group of food is responsible for strengthening your immune system.
- Try to eat foods that are rich in fiber. Fiber can be seen in whole grains and some vegetables. It has been discovered that fiber traps cholesterol so that it could not run into our bloodstream.
- Garlic has a particular property that lowers the blood cholesterol in our body. It is better if you will eat raw garlic than buying garlic supplement capsules over the counter.
- Another effective herbal that lowers blood cholesterol is the soy beans.
- Vitamin C rich foods also help to slightly reduce blood cholesterol in our body. Drinking fresh fruit juice everyday or eating fresh fruits will help you maintain the desired cholesterol that your body needs.
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2) We act in a responsible manner. We don't do illegal things and we don't cause problems for the place we're meeting in. *Most* 2600 meetings are welcomed by the establishments we choose.
3) We meet on the first Friday of the month between 5 pm and 8 pm local time. While there will always be people who can't make this particular time, the same will hold true for *any* time or day chosen. By having all of the meetings on the same day, it makes it very easy to remember, opens up the possibility for inter-meeting communication, and really causes hell for the federal agencies who want to monitor everything we do. (A few meetings have slight variations on the meeting time - these are noted accordingly.)
4) While meetings are not limited to big cities, most of them take place in large metropolitan areas that are easily accessible.While it's convenient to have a meeting in your home town, we encourage people to go to meetings where they'll meet people from as wide an area as possible. So if there's a meeting within an hour or two of your town, go to that one rather than have two smaller meetings fairly close to each other. You always have the opportunity to get together with "home town hackers" any time you want.
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