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Before our second Coffee with Ron, I asked you to share questions you wanted me to ask Ron. And boy did you respond. I got more than 80 questions/comments for Ron. I asked many of them, and sent the rest to his staff for them to answer. Here's the first in a series answers to those questions.
When is the CTA store reopening? (From Rhiakell.) The CTA announced today they are outsourcing the former Gift Express program to Image Exchange, who is running CTAGifts.com. The Tribune reported:
In the deal with Image Exchange Inc., a New York company, the CTA will be paid royalties based on a percentage of sales, officials said. The royalties will be 10 percent the first year and 12 percent in subsequent years, officials said. "This is not a huge revenue source, but we are not overlooking any source of raising funds," said CTA President Ron Huberman.
When three-tracking is over, will the Purple Line return to being routed around the inner Loop? (From Paul.) Simple answer: Yes, said Huberman. The three-tracking will end before the end of this year.
Will the CTA please start using their Twitter account to announce system problem? Will the CTA please update their website and/or Twitter account QUICKLY when there is a customer alert? (From Bryan.) In this case, it's CTA Tattler and my brother Dan who stepped up and created the Twitter account -- ctatweet -- with help from Harper Reed. The CTA contributes alert information through our Upoc group, and we port that over to Twitter. So all you have to do is monitor the Twitter ctatweet feed or check the site.
"I recommend permanently shuttering the Wellington Brown Line stop." (From the Doc.) Won't happen. Ron said the stop will reopen as scheduled by Dec. 31, 2009.
More to come. . . .


text: Sure, and I do believe there are commodity chips with larger L2 caches, too. Which means some CPU's could perform better in a dual setup whereas other CPU's will perform better in a single setup. The plot thickens. :) -----Original Message----- From: Eugene Leitl [mailto:Eugene.Leitl at lrz.uni-muenchen.de] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 1:30 PM To: Dominic Wu Cc: Beowulf at beowulf.org Subject: RE: FYI: superlinear speedups in GROMACS (fwd) On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Dominic Wu wrote: > Would not a single CPU with a larger L2 cache solve the problem better then? Caches are very expensive due to chip yield reasons (bad die yield goes up exponentially with die size). In fact, it would make sense to drop cache from dies, and go for embedded memory instead, which also removes lots of other overhead, such as branch prediction and pipelining, plus allows to go to very broad on-die buses and hence naturally foster VLIW and SIMD. However, as COTS consumers we're bound to what the market gives us. Hopefully, Blue Gene architectures and embedded memory in general will find its way into mainstream PCs and hence clusters.

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Pennsylvania State Police say a 97-year-old woman was killed in what appears to be a home invasion and robbery in Luzerne County.
WATCH: Women Get Into Black Friday Stun Gun Fight
Troopers identified the victim as Gertrude Price of Nanticoke.
Investigators said the elderly woman was discovered around 10 a.m. Friday by family members, who came to check on her when she wasn't answering the phone.
Police say Price last spoke to her family around 10:20 p.m. Thursday and neighbors noticed that her house lights were on around 11 p.m. that night.
Neighbors told police it was highly unusual for Price to be up that late so investigators suspect the crime happened late Thanksgiving night. Investigators suspect the assailant entered the home through a basement window.
An autopsy will be conducted Saturday. Authorities declined to provide additional details.


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Between 1942 and 1964 millions of Mexicans came to the United States as guest workers, authorized by a set of bilateral agreements. Beginning in late 2005, a coalition of academic scholars and public historians from Brown University's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, the Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History (NMAH), and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University came together to launch an effort to gather the stories of those workers. This unprecedented project resulted in the collection of oral histories, documents, and images over the course of five years. It involved not only scholars but also a host of local community groups that enabled the partners to surface previously hidden materials that were unlikely to make it into traditional archival collections. The collection and dissemination process was facilitated by the creation of the , an open-access website that allowed the project partners to simultaneously build the collections from widely dispersed locations as they worked to document the lives and experiences of those workers.
The Bracero History Archive serves as the primary repository for the stories, documents, and artifacts associated with the migrant laborers from Mexico who came to the United States under the auspices of the more than 4.6 million contracts issued during the years of the Mexican Farm Labor Program. As such, it is an important complement to the established scholarship on the program. At the same time, the site serves as a model of how to undertake and complete a distributed collecting project that builds upon important community relationships. This combination of scholarly value and methodological innovation was essential to ensuring the funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access that made the project possible. In recent years, the project has proven important for contemporary work on the Mexican Farm Labor Program, and it has contributed to enhancing our understanding of migration, citizenship, nationalism, agriculture, labor practices, race relations, gender, sexuality, the family, visual culture, and the Cold War era.
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Depending on which country you live in, if you bought an airline ticket lately you may have saved a life without even knowing it. A number of countries have implemented a small airfare tax (also referred to as the "solidarity tax") to raise funds to fight three of the world's deadliest diseases: HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis. In France, for example, air travelers pay an additional €1 in tax on domestic tickets and if in business class, €10. With aid falling, innovative finance mechanisms, such as microdonations, will be crucial in solving serious global problems. As quoted in a recent article in the Financial Times, Philippe Douste-Blazy, the man behind the airfare tax (also the former French Minister of Foreign Affairs), says that "certain sectors have benefited enormously from globalization: financial transactions, tourism and mobile phones. We need to tax an economic activity that's only done by the rich, and tax it so lightly that nobody will notice." He says the additional tax travelers pay is "absolutely painless!"
It's interesting that governments have to intervene to make citizens donate such a "painless" amount; although, had the traveler been given the option to donate before purchasing a ticket, the chance of him/her doing so may not be so great. Questions will be asked such as: "Will this truly help the sick and poor?" "Is this a gimmick?" The minutes are ticking. In the end, the traveler just wants to buy the ticket. Trust and effort may be determining factors, even if the amount is "painlessly" small. The beauty of the airfare tax is that the customer doesn't have to make any "tough" decisions, because the government has done it for us. The amount is small, barely noticeable, and can save lives.
Douste-Blazy's idea of airfare tax came about in 2006 while on an airplane (ironically) with France's President Chirac and Brazil's President Lula discussing ways to increase western aid to developing countries. Their conversation resulted in UNITAID, an international drug purchasing agency, launched in 2006 by the governments of Brazil, Chile, France, Norway and the United Kingdom. UNITAID buys large volumes of lifesaving drugs on the cheap from pharmaceutical manufacturers, which brings the prices of drugs down, and encourages the medical industry to invest in research and development for better and new medicines with high-volume production. Through innovative spending, those in need are receiving better medicines, delivered faster and at lower cost.
From 2006 to 2011, UNITAID raised $2.2 billion, with 70% generated from the airfare tax. The agency's website provides a detailed review of results as well as an interactive map with projects and the amount spent on medical products around the world. UNITAID supplies 93 countries with treatments and supports 8 out of 10 children on AIDS treatment globally. Moreover, the agency has invested $200 million in Tuberculosis treatments and has distributed over 20 million quality bed nets have been distributed to prevent the spread of Malaria. (See UNITAID's Thank You Campaign)
Today, there are 29 countries contributing to UNITAID in the form of tax and regular donations. The following countries have implemented the airfare tax: Chile, France, Madagascar, Mauritius, Niger, and the Republic of Korea. Norway also contributes, but through parts of a different air tax. The following graphic shows the amount of tax applied in three countries and its contribution to saving lives.
Progress towards getting other countries to implement the tax seems a bit slow. In an interview with UNITAID's Executive Director Denis Broun, talking about the potential of India joining, he says that arguments against the airfare tax are "absolutely bogus. It has no impact on government budgets, airline traffic or the economy." In the case of India, he points out that the airfare tax would be a win-win situation for the country. First of all, Indian patients will benefit and since most of the drugs UNITAID buys are from the Indian pharmaceutical industry, it will go back into the economy. While the Indian airline industry is suffering a high debt, the country has the fastest growing air passenger market with 61 million people travelling in 2011. Imagine if they implemented the tax!
So what's next for UNITAID? While lobbying other countries to join the initiative, they are also pursuing an extension of the tax to financial transactions. Just last month, 11 Euro zone countries agreed to implement a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) as a way to protect governments and consumers from future financial crises. France implemented the FTT in August this year, and will commit a small percentage of the revenues from the tax to development. When addressing the UN General Assembly in September, French President Hollande praised UNITAID and called on other countries to implement innovative finance mechanisms, such as the FTT. He said, "This would be a beautiful example of what I call the globalization of solidarity."
While "solidarity taxes" provide predictable and sustainable revenue streams for aid (and the health sector specifically through UNITAID), one can't help but wonder if this will impact countries' overall aid budgets, or aid to other development sectors. Also, what about other global initiatives, will they be competing for funds? Nevertheless, UNITAID has proved that "painless" microdonations on the quiet are effective and is making an impact in fighting the world's deadliest diseases. And what is truly fascinating is what the success of the method says about human beings and human behavior. I will explore this further in my next blog post.
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Utah Gov. Gary Herbert stands by his decision against signing a proposed agreement with Nevada for sharing groundwater under the Snake Valley, an agricultural region straddling the state line.
That's according to a top aide, Mike Mower, speaking Tuesday before the State Water Development Commission.
But that doesn't mean Herbert is not interested in reaching an accord with Nevada. Rather he hopes to negotiate a new deal acceptable to Snake Valley residents, who stand the most to lose if the Southern Nevada Water Authority starts pumping groundwater for export to Las Vegas.
The agreement as currently worded allocates more water than is truly available and does not divide the water equitably, said Mower, himself a member of the commission.
At its last meeting a month ago, the commission had voted to ask the governor to reconsider his refusal to sign the water-sharing agreement with Nevada.
"Absent an agreement, Nevada could take action that would allow the transfer of Utah water to Nevada without any Utah involvement or oversight," the commission wrote in a May 31 letter to Herbert. "Without protections provided in the agreement, negative environmental impacts could affect the entire state, not just the Snake Valley area."
However, Las Vegas is years away from being in any position to pump Snake Valley's groundwater.
"SNWA has no water rights or a right of way for a pipeline there. Even if they had the water rights they don't have any way to get them out of there. We have some time here," said Steve Erickson, coordinator for the Great Basin Water Network, which opposes the Las Vegas groundwater pumping schemes.
In other business, Utah water managers predicted dire economic consequences if the state fails to build the Lake Powell Pipeline, the proposed 138-mile conduit to move 86,000 acre feet of water to St. George, and other water development projects.
"I want to make sure my kids and grandkids' futures are protected. I don't feel an obligation to send that water [downstream] to California, Arizona, Nevada or Mexico," said Ron Thompson, general manager for the Washington County Water Conservancy District.
"We are moving in the right direction, our per-capita [daily] use is about 110 gallons. We are supporting 8 million visitors and a university of 10,000 students," Thompson said. "Conservation is important, but it will not get us through the 21st century without additional supply."
His answer is the controversial pipeline, expected to cost $1.5 billion. It would pull water from the overtapped Colorado River where it stored in Lake Powell behind Glen Canyon Dam and pipe it to Sand Hollow Reservoir, disgorging 4,000 acre feet in Kane County along the way.
Thompson's remarks were quickly challenged by conservationists who were not permitted to address the commission.
"Utah is not running out of water. For the second meeting in a row this committee refused to take one second of public input while discussing indebting Utahns with billions and billions of dollars," Zach Frankel, executive director of the Utah Rivers Council, said outside the meeting.
He noted that St. George's per capita water use is really 328 gallons, citing Washington County's own figures.
Commissioners, however, appeared convinced that the Lake Powell Pipeline and other major projects must be built. But no one could offer acceptable ideas on how to finance them. Bond markets aren't interested in funding projects that have a decades-long horizon for revenue generation and Utah's political climate is not keen on raising taxes, water rates or impact fees.


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Natural Remedies for High Blood Pressure, my friend, Rebecca Kendall Sherratt York, from Facebook, offered these suggestions.
If any of you have comments about these items, please share what you know or have experienced.
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My husband got a warning six months ago, that his cholesterol and blood pressure were too high. Test results from yesterday show that everything was back to healthy levels, with no more than a change of diet.
Our food consists of about 80 % of vegetables and fruit, the rest is nuts, olive oil, fat fish, eggs and dark chocolate.
Another help against high blood pressure: your pets!
Good news on the normal cholesterol with diet and exercise for your husband. I like the part about dark chocolate and pets!
Without doing many of the suggested remedies, my BP would be off the charts! It's hereditary. I still have to take lisinopril, despite my diet and exercise, meditation and garlic! Maybe I need a pet.
The sodium/potassium ratio in one's diet is linked to blood pressure and the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Blood pressure as low as possible is beneficial as long as it isn't causing symptoms.
Vegetables have lots of potassium, and the DASH diet for hypertension is semi-vegan - high in fruits and veg's and low in animal food.
I eat a vegan diet without added salt, and my dietary sodium/potassium ratio is about 1/15! My blood pressure has been as low as 90/60, although I'm in my 50's. By comparison, the dietary sodium/potassium ratio of the average American is about 5/4, and an increase in blood pressure with age is considered normal. However, it isn't necessary with a low-salt diet. Also, I've read that blood pressure increase can be irreversible, so it's better to prevent it!
There's a lot of sodium in processed foods; it's very hard to have a low-sodium diet if a lot of it is processed.
Since adding sodium is a cheap way to make foods attractive, people get used to more and more salt in their food and there's a sort of inflation in salt content by food companies and restaurants.
A couple years ago I was hospitalised at the Veterans Administration over another matter; they did a cholesterol test and decided that I was running cholesterol through my blood vessels, not blood.
After I got out of the hospital, I was required to return to the outpatient clinic, where when the doc told me I needed to go on a cholesterol-lowering statin drug, and I asked him about both dietary methods of lowering cholesterol and the fact my epilepsy drug (phenobarbital) affects all medications I take (causing much higher concentrations, slower elimination, and potential liver damage from some), he told me "If you don't take this you'll die."
I asked for another opinion, he refused. I left, and he actually screamed the "You'll die" argument across his waiting room.
After stopping by patient advocacy to report him for violating my privacy, I went home and set up a second appointment with a private doctor. He had to repeat all the tests (and the VA wouldn't pay for it, all of it had to come out of my own pocket including the doctor's visits because the VA already determined a course of action so disapproved payment).
After confirming the VA's tests (cholesterol way too high), I asked him about dietary control. (He was aware of my phenobarbital problem as he was my wife's physician), specifically the Mayo Clinic's diet.
He pointed out the biggest problem with dietary control of cholesterol is sticking to the diet. Most people actually "cheat," and as such aren't really following the diet.
He was also aware that for several years I had taken another drug (an MAOI) which has extremely restrictive dietary requirements (much tougher than a low cholesterol diet and the penalty for cheating on an MAOI diet can be a sudden gruesome death) and had no trouble sticking to that diet, so he was of the opinion the Mayo Clinic diet would be no trouble for me. His only requirement was that he wished to monitor my cholesterol over several months to ensure it was working (as there are cases where even strict dietary control does not work).
Fair enough for me. Unfortunately the VA stuck me with the cost of all the tests and doctor's visits (so much for military medical benefits).
And lo! The cholesterol level gradually dropped. Over the last year (now living in a new state), the VA is scratching its collective heads, wondering how I could have refused the statins and yet have my cholesterol drop to the normal range.
The real issue about dietary control of cholesterol is you cannot cheat, you have to stick to the diet, no matter how much you hate the idea. Cheating on such a diet is like the idea of being a little bit pregnant. You are either on such a diet, or you are not.
Did I give up high cholesterol foods? No. They are still in my diet (as the Mayo Clinic's diet does allow them). I don't overdo it.
Such a diet is actually a lifestyle change. If you are not willing to make such a change every day, then the diet method won't work. In my case I was already familiar with restrictive dietary requirements (due to my former medications).
Though I am in my mid-fifties, my blood pressure is well within the normal range (I am also underweight, not overweight). I am not sure if the Mayo Clinic's low cholesterol diet will have any effect on blood pressure, as I wasn't looking for that when I was searching for alternative solutions to statin drugs.
A big problem with special diets is social pressure - who you go to parties with, who you date, who you marry. Food has so many interpersonal aspects. If one is vegan, does that mean only going to vegan parties, only dating vegans - if so, why should one structure one's life around veganity? That would be awfully restrictive. Similarly for being gluten-free or having a lot of food allergies or trying to eat very healthy.
I'm used to not eating what other people are eating, I don't find it to be a big deal. But for many people, being included socially by eating what other people eat is a big deal. The friendliness of sharing food might be instinctive. Likely in all cultures, eating the same food together is a socially-bonding thing, and eating different food is somewhat off-putting.
It's a big part of the excess-weight problem. Our whole food culture makes it difficult for people to eat in a way that promotes thinness or health.
James, thank you for your insightful information. It is encouraging to know an option and your description makes it sound very possible. Does your family eat any differently now that you have had such an outstanding outcome?
We eat more vegetables and less meat. Not no meat. Not even no high-fat meat. Just less.
Bear in mind I live in a place county where there are fifteen hundred people and half a million cattle. This is definitely beef country.
Part of the secret is my wife is an excellent cook, thus she can whip up meals that are interesting, delicious, and naturally low in cholesterol.
The issue of my high cholesterol was first discovered four years ago. It is simply a matter of getting educated about both cholesterol and saturated fat (the latter of which can appear in vegetables too). Palm oil and coconut oil for example are about as bad (maybe worse) than butter.
Those two items appear in lots of prepackaged foods, and advertising is not very helpful (low cholesterol does not mean low saturated fat). There is also no regulation for the phrase "low cholesterol." That is pretty much left up to the advertiser. You have to look at what's in the box, and what's on the nutrition panel.
At first that meant a lot of long shopping trips (reading everything). Now not so much, plus since we live in a simpler time and place now, there aren't sixty million different products jumping out of the supermarket shelves screaming for attention (buy me).
But it doesn't mean we eat a bland diet. Just about all herbs and spices have no cholesterol.
Thankfully herbs an spices have no cholesterol. I don't use any processed foods, cooking everything from scratch, nor do I use canned fruits or vegetables. When my budget gets a little thin, I make popcorn without salt or fat and that seems to fill up the empty places. Thanks for your information and I will use the suggestions all of you make. Thanks.
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And now, the end of my Leviathan conversation with Mike McCaw, Matthew Rowley, and Ian Smiley. Part 1 is available here, and Part 2 can be found here. I had a great time talking to these guys, and I expect the Hausgemacht panel to be engaging and informative.
Michael Dietsch: Now, Mike and Ian, do you find that home brewing and home winemaking is sort of a gateway drug for home distilling? Do people start off as brewers and winemakers and then become distillers?
Ian Smiley: Yes, I find a lot of my customers are that. Now, my book Making Pure Corn Whiskey is focused on making whiskey and vodka and other flavored spirits, so a lot of people who have been making what they call artisan beers, or making excellent product all-grain beers, or making excellent wines now want to move into distilling. They're looking to do it properly, and they're looking to do it for high quality, that this is often a segue that has come from the brewing and winemaking. In a manner of speaking, that's how I started myself.
I do find, in answer to one of the questions you asked Mike earlier, is I see a lot of customers who really don't feel too hands on with making the equipment, they don't want to experiment with it, they don't want to go through the phases of having equipment that doesn't work very well, they often want to just buy, get it made, get it perfected right from the outset, and move forward like that so they can produce the excellent product because they are pursuing excellence.
So, in summary, to answer your question, yes in my business, I do have a lot of customers that come through the brewing and winemaking venue.
Mike McCaw: I'd say that it's probably more than half. Where I especially see, though, people with no experience is people that are wanting to get in to the business end of distilling. So we get a lot of contacts from people saying they'd like to buy a PDA-2 and they want to set up a microdistillery because they've run the numbers on the back of an envelope and it looks like a hugely profitable business to be in. But they've got zero brewing or distilling experience. So those are actually my biggest challenge.
Dietsch: How does that wind up working out for them? Do they get started and then realize they're in over their heads?
McCaw: No, what I usually do is gently dissuade them. What I do is I send them a big questionnaire to fill out, trying to make them think about the scale of what they're proposing to do and frequently they haven't thought at all about the whole front end.
If you're going to be producing, say, 20 cases of vodka a day, you need to be fermenting several hundred gallons of grain-based or grape-based or sugar-based wash to process into that every day. And just the scale of the operation is much bigger and much more intense labor than they've usually thought and a large number of them simply drop out when they realize that. But much better to cull at the front end than have them spend several thousand dollars on equipment and then discover they can't handle it.
Dietsch: That might be why a number of professional brewers, like Fritz Maytag, start a brewery and then a distillery—because he already has experience running equipment and working at that scale. They don't have that naïve expectation that they can just start this without any sort of experience.
McCaw: Right. There's one other aspect, at least in the States, which is that onerous process of getting a license. I've worked with people that I've sold the equipment to, for their fully legal microdistilleries, and it did in fact take them two and a half years to get all their licensing in order. But if you already hold a Federal license, as a winery or brewery, they already know you, they don't have to redo the background checks, and you can get the additional stamp on your license to distill usually in a matter of a few months.
Smiley: I can add to this. I'm a member of the American Distilling Institute, and I go to their conference each year, and I have a lot of give and take with them. More than 50 percent of the membership are actual start-up, small microdistilleries, and one of the things that's become quite fashionable among them is to contract a microbrewer or a small or medium-sized brewery to make the wash for them. For example, there was Stranahan's in Colorado who makes an American straight malt whiskey; they've got a brewery making their mash for them. I think they're now starting to make their own, but one good way to get started is to contact a professional brewer to make your wash.
McCay: Sure, that reduces your capital costs a lot, too.
Matt Rowley: I see Charbay has been doing that in California. Although they're charging $250 a bottle for their whiskey, which is a bit steep.
Dietsch: Now, Matt, to pull you back into this for a moment, you're not manufacturing stills or that kind of thing, but how did you get interested in this?
Rowley: I was kind of tickled, listening to Mike and Ian talk, because we've never really talked about how we got started. Beer, for me, was the gateway beverage, again. I was in college, I was about 19 years old when I started making my own beers. I also liked big, heavy things—y'know, I did Irish reds, I did stouts. Back in the day, Coke still came in 16-oz. glass bottles, so I had my bathtub filled with bleach and water and Coke bottles. Then I got to really liking this a lot.
I was at a Derby Day party when I was maybe 20 or 21 and had some applejack made by the host of the party. No, not made by him, but by his family, who he claimed had been apple-cookin' for ten generations or so, and it was fantastic. I had had some really bad moonshine before and been around stuff that from the smell of it I didn't want to try, but this stuff was great.
So I started looking into it a little bit more. And this was 1990, 1989, something like that. There really wasn't a whole lot of reliable information out there. Like Ian said, you could look in encyclopedias, and I remember the Foxfire book, the first one, from when I was a kid.
But the first thing I got that was specifically about moonshining was a guy giving directions, and his still was, well, you take two pressure cookers and you cut the top off one and the bottom off the other and you arc-weld them together and that point, I went, "No. No, I'm not going to be that guy. I'm going to kill myself if I do that. Or blow up the house."
So I became interested in it more from an academic and historian point of view. I trained as an anthropologist and have been a museum curator, so my angle has been, sort of the stories about the people who are making it and why they're doing it and sort of seeing how it differs primarily within the United States, but by extension you're taking that back to, okay, why is the tenor of distilling and distillers different in Appalachia than it is in Washington State. Those are the sorts of answers that I like to find out about—why people are doing what they're doing.
Camper English, from the San Francisco Chronicle, was doing an article last summer, and he asked me if I could put him in touch with some of the distillers I knew in San Francisco, and the guys I knew didn't really want to talk to him. So I said, okay, here's sort of my trick to finding distillers is to talk to craft brewers. Or go to bars where the bartenders are really known for doing exceptional cocktails. Because especially among the craft brewers, without exception, they either are distilling themselves or they know someone who is.
And that really is the clear pattern to me is to see that Ian and Mike both started with beer, I started with beer. It seems like beer just leads you to think in the direction of whiskey. Especially if you're thinking about putting out a really quality product, and you think, "Okay, I'm happy with my beers, I've done some great stuff, and re-created old styles, I've got the Belgian beers down pat. What can I do with turning this into a whiskey?"
McCaw: It's the new frontier, yeah.
Rowley: That's one of the reasons that, because my own personal interest is more of a sort of anthropologist/historian take on this, as a distiller as well, when Ann [Tuennerman] originally asked me to do a presentation, I was really happy to do that, but I thought, I'm not the only voice out there in distilling, and it would be disingenuous to pretend that I am, so that's why I reached out and asked Mike and Ian if they'd be interested too, because I thought, between the three of us we can probably give a pretty balanced view of what the scene is like out there today.
Hausgemacht takes place Thursday, July 17, from 4:30 to 6:00 pm at the Hotel Monteleone. Tickets may be purchased here.


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The Ford Model T was really only remarkable because it was produced in such large numbers. Painted just one color (black!) and available with only the most basic of options, the Model T was a very humble vehicle built en masse. Today, America lacks such simple, basic transportation…but over in India automakers are producing a new generation of cars that harken back to the era of the Model T both in simplicity and broad appeal.Read more


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KARACHI, Pakistan — A man armed with a gun and grenades attacked a school in southern Pakistan during a prize distribution ceremony on Saturday, killing its principal and wounding six children before fleeing.
Police officer Masir Mehmood said the attacker struck as dozens of children were gathered outside at their private school in Karachi to receive the results of their annual exam.
TV showed panicked relatives of the wounded children, who were between the ages of 8 and 10, crying outside the school in the port city's Ittehad Town neighborhood.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Another police officer, Asif Ijaz Sheikh, said the slain principal was a local leader of the Awami National Party (ANP). He said police were still investigating the identity of the attacker, who threw two grenades and then opened fire on Khan and children who were standing near him.
Karachi has been the scene of scores of bomb and gun attacks in recent years, most blamed on militants.
Gangs controlled by various groups, including the city's two main political parties the Muttahida Quami Movement and the ANP, have also been blamed for targeted killings of their rivals.
The MQM primarily represents the Urdu-speaking descendants of those who came to Karachi from India soon after the birth of Pakistan. The group's main rival, the ANP, represents ethnic Pashtuns from Pakistan's northwest.


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Having traveled in Vietnam, my husband and I are devotees of the wonderful food from that part of the world.
Short of a trip across the ocean, Orange County residents are in a perfect place to enjoy Vietnamese cuisine. We have the privilege and gastronomic delight of residing within a few miles of the largest population of Vietnamese outside of Vietnam. According to the 2011 census, about 189,000 Vietnamese-Americans live in Orange County.
If you have never tasted pho, summer rolls or vermicelli noodle salad, just to name a few popular dishes, you have a great treat in store.
As a bonus, Vietnamese food is considered one of the healthiest cuisines in the world with its emphasis on fresh ingredients, vegetables and herbs, and minimal use of oil.
Recently, we had the pleasure of dining at Hue Oi in Fountain Valley. The restaurant recently moved to a new location and is modern and very attractive, by far the prettiest Vietnamese place we've encountered.
The front is all glass, the floors are lovely striated gray tile, the walls are mustard yellow and the ceiling is black. Comfortable booths are finished in dark purple leather, tabletops are black faux stone and the walls are adorned with black and white photos of Vietnam.
Although our waiters were barely fluent in English, they were very nice, and the owner was a delightful and charming lady with a wonderful smile who helped us negotiate the menu. She and her husband are the cooks as well.
We began with wonderful summer rolls. These consist of thin rice noodles, slices of grilled pork, lettuce, bean sprouts, pickled carrots, cilantro and mint leaves, all wrapped in rice paper and served with a light lime fish sauce for dipping. CNN lists this classic Vietnamese dish as No. 30 among the world's 50 best foods. We heartily agree.
Another appetizer that we really liked was the deep-fried chicken wings. These had been marinated in fish sauce, seasoned with ground red pepper and garlic and then lightly floured and fried. They had a very crispy exterior, and the chicken was moist and juicy with lots of flavor
Soups are a big part of Vietnamese cuisine and are often a meal by themselves. We selected one from the Special Hue Dishes column. Although we are big fans of pho (rice noodle soup), we wanted to try something more exotic, so we chose the Bun Bo Hue, a traditional noodle soup with beef shank, pig's leg, "pork quiche" and cooked blood pudding in a rich meaty broth with Vietnamese greens on the side.
Nothing in the bowl resembled quiche. We added basil leaves, cilantro and some hot sauce to the mélange and dug into the thick noodles and delicious broth. We discovered thin strips of beef and a piece of bone with meat on it, as well as a piece of pork on a bone surrounded with fat.
All were good except the layer of fat, which was rubbery and not appetizing. We do like blood pudding, but floating in the bowl was a rather dark maroon cube of congealed blood with the texture of firm tofu. It was tasteless.
Bun Tom Nuong is a warm rice noodle salad with grilled shrimp, lettuce, carrots, bean sprouts, cucumber, basil, cilantro and mint, all dressed in a spicy lime fish sauce. Ground roasted peanuts topped the dish. We like to toss everything together for a wonderful combination of textures and flavors. The grilled shrimp were very fresh and tasted particularly juicy.
We wanted to try the toffee flan for dessert but were told the restaurant was out of it, so we opted for the grass jelly with coconut milk. The grass jelly is like cubes of translucent black Jell-O flavored with the stalks and leaves of a mint-like herb. These floated in a tall ice cream soda glass filled with a sweet coconut milk — refreshing, but next time we will go for the flan.
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Rice plates: $6.25 to $10.50
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The Girl and Boy Scouts foster values in kids by helping them master basic tasks. Over the decades, these organizations have wisely updated the skills they teach to reflect the needs of the modern world. While starting a fire with a couple of sticks or engaging in community work are all great things for kids, learning how to get into the multi-billion dollar video game industry might prove to be very valuable as well.
Last month, the Boy Scouts unveiled a Game Design merit badge that awards scouts for achievements in both analog and digital game design. And now the Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles (GSGLA) have introduced a video game design patch specifically aimed at STEM-aligned video game design.
The GSGLA has teamed up with Women In Games International (WIGI) to encourage girls to become part of the video game industry. As reported by GirlGamer, scouts will earn the patch via achievements in Gamestar Mechanic, a video game design education system aimed at kids. E-Line, the publisher behind Gamestar has agreed to work with WIGI to create a version of the system specifically tailored to the Girl Scout patch requirements.
The male-dominated video game industry could certainly stand to be more inclusive. Fortunately, as history as shown time and again, when we start encouraging and educating girls as a young age, things can begin to change very fast.
This story, "Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles unveil video game design badge" was originally published by TechHive.


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When I get old and can barely take care of myself, Im not going into a nursing home. If I die from falling, O well! At least I didnt spend my last years around a bunch of control freak nurses telling me what to do all day, with a crappy dorm room full of medical shit, and eating in this crappy cafeteria eating mush.
by jerry121878 June 10, 2011
1.) probably the worse place on the planet to ever work at, that is if you are a c.n.a. it is run by the r.n. and those godawful l.p.n.'s who think they are so intelligent because they pass oral meds all day long.2.) A place where you will come home with shit on your uniform because some nasty ass son of a bitch decided to shit on you 3.)also employs many street niggers who think they are the 'shit' and act as if they own the place. On top of that, they hate any white employee who actually has a future and didn't get knocked up at 13. 4.) A godforsaken hellhole 5.) A place where not one c.n.a. can be found, because those worthless employees flee the scene in a moment's notice in order to get their 3-hr cigarette break.
If you just got your c.n.a. license, don't ever work at a nursing home, unless you want to be disrespected 24/7 by the worthless nurses who are not capable of working anywhere else.
by krh90 September 27, 2009
Bill: I am about to die so I paid $10,000 to live in a nursing home.
Nils: You Special Special boy!
Nils: You Special Special boy!
by HeRR! January 04, 2004
A place where there are no toilets, becuase everyone craps in their pants. Also, one of the funniest places to set off a fire alarm.
Grandson: "Dad, what's that smell."
Father: "I think grandpa crapped in his pants again."
Grandson: "Let's send him to a nursing home."
Grandpa: "I'm old."
Father: "I think grandpa crapped in his pants again."
Grandson: "Let's send him to a nursing home."
Grandpa: "I'm old."
by William Stephens May 14, 2006
A place where sick old people are ground up and made into hot dog meat.
"Grampa, if you don't shut your mouth, we're going to send you to the nursing home."
by newothegreat September 04, 2003
A place where the elderly have to have their butts wiped everyday by some poor CNA and where they listen to lame background music while playing bingo on "activity day."
When my mom gets old enough, Im putting her in a nursing home, fo sho!!!
by laurenbobauren April 19, 2009
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Yo dude's U can pick more pockets in a nursing home than on the streets of Los Angles.
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They need all the help they can get. Vans will be supplying the volunteers with trash bags, gloves, hats and t-shirts.
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When: 9 a.m.-12 p.m. August. 15th.
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LOS ANGELES — Thundering chants of U-C-I and B-Y-U perhaps might have faded under a more resonant echoes of Dy-Nas-Ty Saturday night as the UC Irvine men's volleyball team earned its second straight NCAA championship and its fourth in seven seasons.
The No. 2-seeded Anteaters (25-7), who had lost their first two meetings to the top-seeded Cougars (26-5) this season, exploded for a 25-23, 25-22, 26-24 victory in the title match in front of 6,295 at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion, as well as a national television audience on ESPNU.
The victory cements UCI's status as the preeminent program in the land, a thought almost laughable more than a decade ago, when the program became fully funded for the first time in terms of allowable scholarships.
Senior All-American outside hitter Kevin Tillie, junior Final Four MVP Connor Hughes, and sophomore opposite Zack La Cavera had 11 kills each to lead the Anteaters, who posted a .383 attack percentage, 109 points better than BYU.
Tillie joined Hughes and senior setter Chris Austin (43 assists) on the all-tournament team for the second straight year, while sophomore All-American libero Michael Brinkley (eight digs Saturday) and sophomore All-American middle blocker Collin Mehring (seven kills with a ,600 percentage and two block assists) were also all-tournament choices.
And while Hughes, chosen to start for the first time in seven matches , earned the top individual honor, junior middle blocker Scott Kevorken (six of his seven kills in the final two sets and six of his 11 block assists in the final set) may have come up biggest of all when the Anteaters needed him most.
UCI rallied from an 11-4 deficit in Game 2 and overcame a 24-21 margin to score the final five points in Game 3 to clinch their 14th sweep of the season.
UCI, which becomes the first team to win back-to-back NCAA titles since UCLA in 1995-96, is also the first team to put together consecutive title-match sweeps since UCLA managed it in 1982-83.
"This whole season has been planned around figuring out a way to beat BYU and I'm really proud of all the guys for capitalizing and executing what I think was a great collective game plan by our staff," UCI first-year head coach David Kniffin said. "We were able to find a couple chinks in the armor tonight. There's not many with a team like BYU and we are able to exploit that."
Kniffin spread the credit around, but agreed that Hughes' play, perhaps more than it was all season, was key to the victory. He also said Austin set his best match all season and credited the patience and discipline of both middle blockers.
"We wanted to see what Connor had and Connor has been great in big moments," Kniffin said of his decision to start the Costa Mesa resident. "There is something about his confidence and poise. And, based on the matchups that I thought we had tonight, I thought it was appropriate to have Connor on the court."
Said Hughes: "I'm just so excited. In these types of moments throughout my whole career, I just really try to be in the moment."
UCI limited BYU freshman All-American opposite Ben Patch to seven kills and a .901 hitting percentage. Patch had a school-record 35 kills in a five-set win at UCI on March 1.
BYU junior All-American outside hitter Taylor Sander had 20 kills and hit .308 to lead the Cougars, who lost for the first time in seven matches and only the second time in the last 20.
"It's so hard to get this far into the season and not come out with the win," Sander said. "[The Anteaters] just showed up tonight and we were caught off guard. Hats off to them; they played a wonderful match."
UCI, which is now 25-0 in matches in which it has a better hitting percentage than its opponent, posted a 17-6 lead in total blocks and a 3-2 edge in aces.
"I was surprised that they blocked 17 balls," BYU Coach Chris McGown said. "That's unreal. "We never really found our momentum, defensively or offensively and they ran a nice offense that was well-distributed."
Kniffin was noncommittal when asked what this meant in terms of discussion of a dynasty.
"Gosh, I'm a rookie at this, so I don't know what it means for the university," Kniffin said. "[Former chancellor Ralph] Cicerone used to talk about UCI as this sleeping giant, and this hidden gem in Orange County. But we are a very special institution that still flies under the radar in every facet; athletics and academics. And so for us to be a piece of maybe bringing a little notoriety to the school is exciting for me. I don't know if we've elevated us to any status. I think all we're doing is making people aware of the status UC Irvine has already had."


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I just broke Rule #10 two days ago, so I guess I really AM that obnoxious Facebook friend. But at least I didn't post about how my boss is a pervy wanker—only to have him leave me a comment on my status reminding me that I'd friended him ... and oh yeah, not to bother coming in tomorrow.
We all have our own rules for what is and isn't okay to post on Facebook (me, I have a thing about spaghetti-faced baby photos, but I fully admit that's my own personal problem). But some Facebook gaffes go above and beyond the call of duty when it comes to breaching etiquette. Whether it's an honest mistake, a thread gone wrong, or a joke taken way (WAY) too far, some people have lived to regret their statuses. Thankfully, that's what screen captures are for. So these horribawesome Facebook fails can be shared FOREVER AND EVER, AMEN.
Check out this collection of some of the most hilarious/cringeworthy Facebook goofs of all time:
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From April 28th to July 30th, 2016, Galerie m will be featuring two works by Jan Wawrzyniak (b. 1971 in Leipzig). In his third solo show since beginning his collaboration with Galerie m ten years ago, the Berlin-based artist continues to abide by his rigorous principles: the exclusive use of charcoal and primed canvas to focus on exploring space and spatial perception. In the current exhibition, he creates a compelling installation out of only two works.
The wall always plays a vital role in Wawrzyniak's works, as backdrop and as a specific level in the installations. The two canvases in the work Niche from 2015 are completely blackened with charcoal and placed in a corner of the room at right angles to one another. The flat canvas becomes a three-dimensional object here, with the wall serving as base for the drawing and thus becoming at once a part of the work and its frame. Despite the supposed opacity of the color black, here it opens up for the viewer an imaginary new space that seems to lead like a deep tunnel to a further level in the virtual image space. The effect is as though the exhibition space were expanded by a wall leading to another dimension: rather than remaining a mere flat panel on the wall, the work Niche has a palpable impact on the space and thus takes on the qualities of a sculptural installation.
This impression is strengthened further by the second work in the exhibition, Framed Priming (2016). This work is three times as deep at the upper edge as it is below, thus markedly protruding into the space. The angled surface in front is left white but all the edges except for the lower, flatter side are blackened with charcoal.
Here, the drawing on primed canvas even more strongly verges on a three-dimensional object, no longer assignable to any one genre. The spatial and yet planar perception evoked by the artist's earlier two-dimensional works transitions here into real space.
Both of the works on display toy with the viewer's perception of space. They are juxtaposed in the FEATURE exhibition in such a way that they can be appraised in isolation and yet also enter into an exciting dialogue.


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Star Trek: Nemesis is the tenth full length feature film in the Star Trek franchise and fourth set in the TNG era. It is easily the worst of the ten films, even sinking beneath Star Trek V: The Voyage Home for sheer awfulness and stupidity.
Mike Wong summarizes this turd far better than I ever could
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Every year, State Farm releases their top ten worst states for deer vehicle collisions. The 2010 list held no surprises with West Virginia in the number one slot for the fourth year in a row. Drivers in West Virginia face a 1 in 42 chance of hitting a deer sometime in the next 12 months. The list is perennially dominated by Midwestern states, including Iowa, Michigan, the Dakotas, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Montana, Pennsylvania and Arkansas – also states with abundant white tail deer – are also there.
America has had a long standing love affair with cars. Ninety five percent of American households have at least one car and we spend about 20 percent of our income on transportation. We've built more than four million miles of roads, providing us with unprecedented access and mobility. But our mobility comes with a price, for both people and wildlife. Wildlife vehicle collisions claim the lives of 200 Americans and result in 29,000 human injuries every year. Recent estimates indicate between 725,000 and 1,500,000 animals are struck on our roads annually and when we include smaller species such as amphibians and reptiles, the body count goes up to a million vertebrates a day.
Roadkill is nothing new, but statistics show the numbers are increasing dramatically. While the number of auto accidents has remained steady, the number of wildlife vehicle collisions has increased by 50 percent over the last decade. The miles traveled by U.S. motorists increased just two percent in five years, but the number of deer vehicle collisions jumped 20 percent in that same time period. Wildlife-vehicle collisions now represent one out of every 20 reported motor vehicle collisions, and they occur every 26 seconds.
Wildlife vehicle collisions put a dent in our wallets too. The average property damage cost of each accident is $3,103. When you add in the loss of work and medical costs, those numbers rise even higher. The Western Transportation Institute estimated a collision with a deer costs an average $7890, while an elk hit costs $17,100 and a moose hit costs a whopping $28,100. Add to that the costs of law enforcement, emergency services, road maintenance crews and wildlife management personnel and the total annual cost associated with wildlife vehicle collisions is nearly $8.4 billion.
Are wildlife vehicle collisions a necessary evil? As long as there are cars on the road, we may never completely eliminate accidents, but we can take measures to reduce the frequency and severity. Just like many of our roads now include guard rails to prevent cars from veering off, we can include structures to allow wildlife to move safely across the landscape without endangering passing motorists. Wildlife underpasses and overpasses allow animals to get where they need to go by passing under or over highways without entering the right of way. Some transportation agencies have begun building wildlife crossings but we have a long way to go before it is standard practice.
Congress can help state transportation agencies make that transition by adding wildlife-friendly provisions in the upcoming highway bill reauthorization. With the midterm elections behind us, many believe the highway bill is one of the few bipartisan efforts with a chance for success in a contentious Congress. As luck would have it, two of the State Farm top ten states have congressional delegates in key positions on the committees in charge of reauthorizing the highway bill. Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) chairs the Environment and Public Works committee and Congressman Nick Rahall (D-WV-3rd) is expected to claim the ranking member position on the House committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. They have a tremendous opportunity to help their states and American motorists across the country by instituting policy changes to reduce wildlife vehicle collisions and avert a crash course with wildlife.


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Danny Davis could provide no better tribute to his fallen Frend Kevin Pearce than the one he conjured under the sunny Sierra skies at the first of the two consecutive 2010 Grand Prix Olympic Qualifiers at Mammoth Mountain, CA. When the scores were tabulated and podium announced what went down in Main Park on Wednesday January 6th, 2010 will forever be entrenched in the annals of halfpipe history.
Despite the hyperbole surrounding the consequential double cork and whether or not it is too "extreme" a majority of the riders in Wednesday's finals included the game-changing trick in their halfpipe routines and all of them emerged at the end of the day unscathed and stoked. Unfortunately unqualified pundits like ABC News consultant Christine Brennan weren't onsite to witness this firsthand. Of course such a logical move, albeit after the fact, wouldn't further their misguided agenda to ban the move.
For those of you who don't know what I am talking about, let me give you a quick explanation. Washington Redskins reporter and USA Today sports blogger Christine Brennan appeared alongside this author on a recent network TV broadcast discussing the controversial phenomena that is the double cork and the unfortunate events of last week which left Kevin Pearce hospitalized with a serious injury. While it is a fact that Kevin Pearce was attempting a double cork when he fell and received head trauma, the ensuing commentary on the subject by the supposed snowboarding "expert" Christine Brennan is tabloid-esque in its use of haphazard assertions. While I agree with Christine Brennan's past critiques of the IOC, I can't find evidence that qualifies her to speak on matters of snowboarding and the double cork. Who knows if she even snowboards! It should be stated for the record that double corks in their many forms have been a part of halfpipe snowboarding for over a decade and have been performed hundreds if not thousands of times by dozens of riders. While they all are risky maneuvers and my statement that a serious injury occurring because of a miscalculation during an attempt was inevitable, I hardly feel the risk is such that action need to be taken to curtail this progression. On Wednesday alone three dozen double corks were performed with no ill consequences.
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Now back to the story at hand, which deals with what has been described by many as the best halfpipe contest in history. The action was certainly intense right from the start. Frenchman Mathieu Crepel was the first to drop in during the finals and set down a frontside double cork on his debut hit, insuring that anyone who followed would have to be on their game if they wanted to have a chance at a solid result. Other finalists executing the 2x cork, though finishing farther back in the field, were Greg Bretz, Brennan Swanson, Matt Ladley and Jeff Batchelor. Finishing in fifth was everyone's favorite journeyman Elijah Teter. Elijah once again excelled with his uncommon style and uncanny knack for switch technicality. The pinnacle of his performance was his final hit of the day, which was a switch alley-oop Teter Toss about twelve feet above the lip, leaving the announcers scrambling for words to explain the stunt. Fourth place was achieved by none other than the Tiny Dancer out of Ohio, Louie Vito. Vito's second run which began with his version of the frontside double cork was mired by an unfortunate ass check on his second hit. Despite this potentially speed scrubbing fall, Louie still mustered the momentum to pull a 1260 on the third hit! His best score of the day matched that of third place finisher Scotty Lago, yet once the lesser of the duo's two run scores were taken into account the Live Free Or Die slayer from Seabrook, NH, Scotty Lago, was awarded the third spot on the podium. Scotty's blend of traditional style and signature lead shoulder spinning is what set him apart from the field. Rather than appeasing others who seem hellbent on making halfpipe riding an overly agro endeavor, Scotty stood apart with triple overhead methods and off axis frontside 900's holding his grabs longer than most and incorporating multiple pokes and tweaks whenever possible.
There is no mistaking the dominant force that is Shaun White and as we've come to expect on Wednesday it was once again him versus the rest of the field. Shaun's back to back double cork combo, while high scoring, wasn't enough to give him the lead after the first of two runs and it was apparent that he would need a third double to seal the deal. Few doubted that the most dominant halfpipe rider our sport has ever known and the victor of the first Grand Prix qualifier a month earlier at Copper Mtn., Colorado could still achieve a win, yet once Danny Davis set down his stellar second run Shaun definitely felt the heat. Had White stuck his final hit, an elusive double Mctwist, he would most assuredly achieved the W but such wasn't the case. Not only did Shaun falter on the double Mctwist but he nearly entered the tranny head first. Managing to get his board underneath him in the clutch was a feat in and of itself but emerging unscathed isn't enough for snowboarding's fiercest competitor, and neither is second place. Though highly unlikely, there is still a chance that White, with both a first and a second place finish so far in this qualifying series, won't make the Vancouver Olympic team so expect White to head into the second of the two Mammoth events with renewed vigor.
Though he emerged from the first run on top, Danny Davis took to his second and final appearance with a go for broke approach that would pay off in the end. Starting his run with the cab ten double cork that took him to victory three weeks earlier in Breckenridge, Davis increased both his amplitude and degree of difficulty with each successive hit, culminating with a double cork combo to finish his second run. Danny followed up his frontside 1080 double cork with a move that has never been executed in halfpipe competition to date. That move was a variation of the alley-oop double chuck first introduced to Olympic competition in 2002 by Mike Michalchuck. Danny Davis updated this trick by throwing it switch and in turn winning an event that won't be forgotten anytime soon. This result puts Davis in a good position to make the Olympic team and this reporter is one of many who couldn't be more stoked to have this stoney shred represent us come February. This performance was dedicated to Kevin Pearce and though Kev wasn't onsite in body he was in Mammoth in spirit and I believe most assuredly satisfied with Danny's display.
Stay tuned to Snowboardermag.com for coverage of what will surely be another stellar show in the second Olympic halfpipe qualifier beginning Friday.
Here's how it all boiled down:
Mens Halfpipe Finals
1. Danny Davis, Detroit, MI, 49.20
2. Shaun White, Carlsbad, CA, 46.20
3. Scotty Lago, Seabrook, NH, 45.00
4. Louie Vito, Sandy, UT, 45.00
5. Elijah Teter, South Lake Tahoe, CA, 44.90
6. Greg Bretz, Mammoth Mountain, CA, 44.50
7. Jeff Bachelor, Canada, 43.50
8. Mathieu Crepel, France, 43.00
9. JJ Thomas, Golden, CO, 41.30
10. Jack Mitrani, Mammoth Mountain, CA, 40.30
Womens Halfpipe Finals
1. Kelly Clark, Mt. Snow, VT, 48.40
2. Hannah Teter, Belmont, VT, 45.20
3. Holly Crawford, Australia, 44.40
4. Gretchen Bleiler, Aspen, CO, 42.50
5. Elena Hight, South Lake Tahoe, CA, 42.40
6. Maddy Schaffrick, Steamboat Springs, CO, 38.70
7. Ellery Hollingsworth, Stratton, VT, 31.00
8. Clair Bidez, Minturn, CO, 39.90


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Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood are forever linked not by their blonde hair or their cosmetic contracts or their country tunes, but by those Forbes lists! The duo both appear on Forbes' recently released Top Earning Women in Music list.
Swift placed second on the overall list, behind only Lady Gaga, who topped it. Swift's combined earnings totaled around $45 million, courtesy of her mega-successful, guest-list littered 'Speak Now' tour, the album of the same name, her 'Wonderstruck' fragrance, her CoverGirl contract and more.
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There are worse lists they could be on, right? Such as those "What was she thinking?" fashion columns in tabloids. In all seriousness, it's certainly good (and lucrative) to be Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood. Congrats to both ladies for having terrific years on the financial fronts and for making another Forbes list.


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WELLINGTON, New Zealand – In a reversal, Mike Tyson has been denied entry to the country whose indigenous Maori people he says inspired his facial tattoo.
New Zealand authorities on Wednesday cancelled an entry visa for the former heavyweight boxing champion and convicted rapist, days after the prime minister spoke out against his planned visit.
The Las Vegas celebrity had earlier been granted an exemption to New Zealand immigration rules to speak at a November charitable event, "Day of the Champions." Tyson's 1992 rape conviction would have normally made him ineligible to enter the country.
Speaking to the APNZ news agency this week before his visa was canceled, Tyson said his tattoo was inspired by New Zealand's indigenous Maori culture. In pre-European times, many Maori wore elaborate facial tattoos as a sign of their status in their tribe. Some Maori today who identify strongly with their traditional culture get similar tattoos.
"Other than that I've never heard of Maori people so I'm looking forward to come down there and see them," he told the agency.
Associate Immigration Minister Kate Wilkinson said in a statement Wednesday that the original decision to let Tyson enter was "a finely balanced call" and that the charity that would have benefited from his visit had now withdrawn its support.
Prime Minister John Key spoke out against the planned visit this week, questioning the decision by immigration authorities and saying he personally disapproved.
Before his visa was cancelled, Tyson told APNZ: "Fortunately, I am coming to New Zealand and there's nothing they can do about it and I'm so sorry, I'm sorry they feel disappointed and I'm just living my life."


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GLENDALE — Ryan Halamicek has met Nolan Ryan and played catch with Bob Feller, a pair of Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitchers, in Arizona.
Halamicek, 7, came to Glendale on Tuesday night prepared to meet another former big league pitcher. Except this proved to be something different for the Wrightwood resident, who stood in line to meet and greet Jim Abbott, a longtime major leaguer who was born without a right hand.
Donning an Angels cap and jersey, Ryan and his father, Kevin, had some baseball cards and Abbott's recently published book, "Imperfect: An Improbable Life," signed by Abbott during an autograph session at Barnes & Noble at the Americana at Brand. As an added bonus, Abbott took a couple of minutes to play catch with the younger Halamicek with Abbott showing him how he pitched and fielded a ball.
"I'm real lucky I could play catch with him," Halamicek said. "I wasn't expecting it and it means a lot to do that."
A phenom from the University of Michigan, Abbott, now 44, was drafted in the first round in 1988 (eighth overall) by the California Angels. He went 87-108 with a 4.25 earned-run average with the Angels, New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox and Milwaukee Brewers between 1989-99.
As a rookie, Abbott became an immediate fan favorite from coast to coast. When he prepared to pitch, Abbott would rest a right-handed thrower's glove on the end of his forearm. After throwing the ball, he would slip his hand into the glove in time to field a ball that a two-handed pitcher would be able to grab. Abbott would then remove the glove by placing it between his right forearm and torso, slip his hand out of the glove, and remove the ball from the glove to begin a fielding play. It was a routine he practiced and perfected as a child while playing catch with his father in Flint, Mich.
Abbott's benchmark moment came Sept. 4, 1993, when he pitched a no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians at Yankee Stadium. He was mobbed by his teammates, which included Don Mattingly, Wade Boggs, Bernie Williams and his catcher, Matt Nokes, near the pitcher's mound and showered with applause from the crowd.
Almost 20 years later, the memories still burn bright for the affable Abbott, whose autobiography, co-authored by veteran baseball writer Tim Brown, captured the images of that afternoon on the mound and also chronicled his childhood and the obstacles he had to overcome to enjoy a lengthy career.
"That was an unbelievable day," said Abbott, who appeared in 263 games and struck out 888 in 1,674 innings. "There was the thrill of counting down the outs after the sixth inning.
"With this book, I wanted to pay tribute to the people who took their time to help me out. It blows me away 13 years [after retiring]. I wanted to be the best that I could possibly be out there on the field."
Abbott's book tour has stretched from New York to Chicago to Glendale, with stops along the way in Michigan since early April. He's been busy greeting fans — including some who never saw him perform — for nearly two months.
Abbott, whose best season came in 1991, when he went 18-11 with a 2.89 ERA and finished third in the American League Cy Young Award balloting behind Roger Clemens and Scott Erickson, said the idea of writing a book was hatched about two years ago.
"I get a lot of people who still approach me about the no-hitter," said Abbott, who won a gold medal with the 1988 United States Olympic baseball team. "I met Tim Brown and he said there's a very good story to tell about the no-hitter and my career.
"There's inspiration and you talk about the successes and failures that you've gone through. It's been a great experience."
About 100 autograph seekers snaked through the line on the store's second floor. Pictures were taken with Abbott with some of the fans sharing their moments watching him pitch.
Bill Fanning made the trek to Glendale after missing a similar Abbott signing session in Fullerton on Saturday.
"I remember him pitching and he's pretty cool," said Fanning, an Orange resident who had a copy of the 283-page book signed so he could send it to his brother-in-law in Texas. "You get to hear some inspiring stories and get the author's autograph."
Bill Xanthos of La Quinta attended the signing session to meet the former Wolverine.
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I gave a lecture last Saturday on researching the enslaved at the Montgomery County Historical Society. I had a great time. My relatives
seen in the picture that heads this blog are Prathers and they are from Montgomery County, Maryland. During the research for that lecture, I
reviewed some of my research and found new information as well.
I found a lot of Montgomery County Runaway Ads online through the Maryland State Archives' Legacy of Slavery webpage. This database is jam packed. One night I stayed up until 1 am just looking at Runaway Ads, which I've discussed here before and have a particular fascination with. Here are some of my observations from perusing the various ads:
1) Slaveowners knew a surprising amount of information about their slaves' families. These also speak to the extended kinship communities that slaves formed:
This one even names the slave's father:
Some of the ads demonstrate that slaves had surnames they were known by, although certainly many didn't print them in the ads. I think it's interesting that they say "he calls himself":
There are also common themes of the slaveowner's belief that the escaped slaves were headed to Philadelphia and also that they were aided or had free papers from a free negro. Maryland had over 83, 000 freed blacks by 1860 and these show the slaveowners high level of distrust of them:
This one must have been the most popular slave in Maryland!:
Evidence abounds of the violence slaveowners exerted to hold slavery in place. This man received a burn on his face "for his villainy":
This one's back is "very much cut for his rogueness":
In this one (like the others), I felt myself rooting for the "gang of six." They made it all the Pennsylvania, and the slaveholder derisively mentions the "abolition magistrate" that let them go:
Runaway Ads all by themselves explode several myths of the slaveowner's mind, such as:
1) the slaves did not form the emotional attachments to their family in the same way that whites did. This was the one they often used to defend the buying and selling of human beings. If that were so, why is it that so many slaves escape and are headed back to their wives, parents, etc.?
2) that the natural state for negroes was slavery; they needed white caretakers; that they were happiest this way. If so, why do so many run away again and again, even when the odds were overwhelmingly against them? Why do they run away even when they already wore the marks of painful physical punishment?
I'll end with one that took my breath away. It's a little harder to read than the others, but it describes Susan, a runaway who was"far advanced in pregnancy":
What must have happened to Susan to take off on a journey that would almost certainly fail, especially in her state? I imagine it must have been something horrific.
This was what slavery was everyday, and I never forget that.