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Sometimes as I travel around the country Willie Nelson's song "On the Road Again" comes to mind. While driving my Hertz rental car and listening to Sirius radio, I have had a chance to survey the upper Midwest's agricultural landscape and visit with over 2,000 producers in the past few weeks. Here are some observations that are top of mind.
It is Dry
Driving through the Upper Midwest and observing the landscape reminds me so much of the Southwest with its dry topsoil and foliage. One producer in Minnesota who owns and rents heavy clay soil indicated that recent land work finds dry soil down nearly 10 ft! With nearly 60% of the nation in moderate or extreme drought conditions, it will be important to closely watch precipitation and weather conditions in production belts in North America and around the world. Back-to-back droughts would create extremes in prices and be a paradigm shifter, particular for our livestock industry.
Land, Land, Land!
The farmland market reminds me of the stock market and the urban and suburban real estate markets of a decade ago. How bad is this heated market? I was speaking at an American Legion hall in western Minnesota to an overflow crowd at an AgStar Financial Services Outlook event. An older gentleman between 75 and 80 years of age saw all the cars in the parking lot and decided to attend, thinking he had missed an opportunity for a possible land sale! Many individuals, typically those between 50 and 60 years of age who are flush with cash, are really wrestling with the issue of buying land as an investment. It is important to remember that land appreciation of 20-30% annually is not sustainable in the long run. If you do purchase land, is it consistent with your goals? Make sure that working capital reserves are maintained for the eventual correction.
Taxes, Taxes, Taxes!
Agricultural producers are very concerned about the government's ineptness and tax increases. A tax accountant who shared the program with me indicated that most of us can plan for a 10% increase in 2013 taxes on our cash flow projections. Deferred taxes are a tsunami waiting to happen as some of the depreciation bonuses are adjusted or possibly eliminated, and estate tax minimums may be reduced. The bottom line is that the taxman will come, and agriculture will be in the bull's-eye. I will be back throughout the winter to give you an update of life on the road.
Editor's note: Dave Kohl, Corn & Soybean Digest trends editor, is an ag economist specializing in business management and ag finance. He recently retired from Virginia Tech, but continues to conduct applied research and travel extensively in the U.S. and Canada, teaching ag and banking seminars and speaking to producer and agribusiness groups. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Hey ollie, I agree putting in a dog shower really has nothing to do with windsurfing or kiteboarding. I can see how it can build a relationship with the powers that be though.
From my experience dealing with parks in the bay area it seems that animals have much more rights than humans so giving in to the dog lobby can build a powerful partner.
I just wish we could get the bird people on our side. That way maybe they could open up some spots in the south bay. 100k acres of bay lands and millions of dollars of grants and they can't even allow a small area for windsports.

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After weeks of investigation, state executive councillor Datuk Abd Latif Bandi is finally brought to court to face 33 counts of graft. The land and housing scandal – one of Johor's biggest corruption cases – is however set to widen as graft busters warn of more suspects to be charged soon.
MACC expected to haul up more people in land and housing scandal
JOHOR BARU: One of the state's largest corruption scandals is about to get bigger as more people are expected to be hauled up to court in the coming weeks.
Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) deputy chief commissioner (operations) Datuk Azam Baki said they might be charged with the case involving Johor executive councillor Datuk Abd Latif Bandi either this month or next.
Among those to be charged, he said, were those who had been arrested previously.
However, he declined to reveal their names so as not to jeopardise MACC's investigation, saying that no VIPs were involved.
"We are in the midst of completing our probe with the Deputy Public Prosecutor before charging them in court soon," he told reporters after meeting MACC investigation director Datuk Simi Abd Ghani and Johor MACC director Datuk Azmi Alias here yesterday.
Azam said it was also possible for Abd Latif, who was jointly accused with property consultant Amir Shariffuddin Abd Raud of committing 33 counts of graft yesterday, to face another round of charges then.
It was reported that eight suspects, including Abd Latiff 's eldest son as well as his special officer, were nabbed by the MACC on Feb 24.
Anti-graft officers detained them after sifting through stacks of documents seized from the state government and developers.
They also seized luxury goods, including 21 cars such as Bentley, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche, five high-powered motorcycles and 150 handbags.
On its probe into the purchase of real estate in Australia by Mara Incorporated Sdn Bhd, Azam said MACC called up 24 witnesses and visited seven premises, including a law firm, the offices of both Mara Inc and an appraiser, and their associates.
"All related documents have also been seized. We have gathered more new information, and it is a continuous investigation from the previous case in 2015," he said.
"We need more time to complete this case as it involves another country.
"We have put in a request under a mutual legal assistance with the Australian AttorneyGeneral's office but have yet to receive any response.
"We will also prepare the documents to be sent to Australia," he said.
MACC had previously recorded the state- ment of suspended Mara chairman Tan Sri Annuar Musa over the same investigation.
Annuar also handed over several documents relevant to the case.
The issue came to light after Australian newspaper The Age claimed that several senior Mara officials and a former politician had spent millions of Malaysian Government funds to buy an apartment block, known as Dudley International House, in Melbourne
Azam said his officers were also in the midst of preparing a report into alleged match fixing by football players from the Malaysian Indian Sports Council-Malaysia Indian Football Association.
"We expect this case to be completed within two to three weeks after we hand over the report to the deputy public prosecutor for charging.
Source:The Star headline news
Slapped with 33 counts of graft
JOHOR BARU: State executive councillor Datuk Abd Latif Bandi has been charged in the Sessions Court here with 33 counts of graft, the earliest of which stretches back to just six months after he assumed office.
Abd Latif, 51, was sworn in to his post as Johor Housing and Local Government Committee chairman in 2013 and according to the list of charges, he allegedly abetted property consultant Amir Shariffuddin Abd Raud on Nov 13 that same year to convert bumiputra lots into non-bumiputra lots.
Yesterday, the court interpreter took about 15 minutes to read the list of charges to each of the accused in the case, considered one of the biggest corruption scandals in the state.
In total, Abd Latif is said to have abetted Amir, 44, to convert 1,480 houses.
He is also accused of helping to reduce the quantum of payment that developers had to contribute towards the Johor Housing Fund for converting these lots.
The offences, the last of which supposedly took place on Sept 13, 2016, involved payments of between RM100,000 and RM3.7mil.
Totalling some RM30.3mil, this involved development projects in Kota Masai, Tebrau, Kulai, Kempas, Nusajaya and Johor Baru.
Among the converted lots were apartments, double-storey terrace homes, cluster houses, cluster industrial lots, semi-Ds and bungalows.
Abd Latif was charged under Section 28 (1) (c) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Act for abetment, which was read together with Section 16 (a)(B) for accepting bribes.
Amir was charged with 33 counts under Section 16 (a)(B) for accepting bribes for himself and Abdul Latif.
Judge Mohd Fauzi Mohd Nasir set bail at RM2mil in one surety for each of the accused and ordered their passports to be surrendered until the trial was over. He also fixed May 23 for mention.
At press time, only Amir posted bail while Abd Latif, who was unable to raise the amount, was sent to the Ulu Choh detention centre.
Earlier, 15 minutes after Abd Latif and Amir were ushered into the packed courtroom, a defence lawyer stood up and asked for their "Lokap SPRM" orange T-shirts to be removed.
Both Abd Latif, who took time to hug and shake the hands of several people, and Amir then changed into long-sleeved shirts.
Abd Latif was represented by a six-man legal team led by Datuk Hasnal Rezua Merican while two lawyers, headed by Azrul Zulkifli Stork, stood for Amir.
The case was prosecuted by MACC director Datuk Masri Mohd Daud, with assistance from Raja Amir Nasruddin.
Source: The Star by Nelson Benjamin and Norbaiti phaharoradzi
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Thousands of smart vehicles are already being tested on our roads as part of an ambitious – and little known - effort to eradicate car crashes.
If you want to find the smartest drivers in the world, you need to head for the home of the US car industry. Just outside Detroit, lies the town of Ann Arbor, Michigan. The drivers there are not any more intelligent than other parts of the world, despite it being a famed college town. However, their cars are.
That's because the roads of Ann Arbor are now home to a fleet of several thousand cars that constantly "talk" to one another. The scheme, known as the Safety Pilot Model Deployment project, offers a potential blueprint for the future of road transport. Like many projects it aims to cut congestion and make the road network more efficient. But this vision of the future is missing one thing: crashes.
"The idea behind it is to improve safety by an order of magnitude," says Dr Peter Sweatman, director of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.
Although fatalities and serious injuries from road crashes have levelled off in the US, they still account for more than 32,000 deaths each year, according to the US department of Transportation. Worldwide, the World Health Organization estimates more than one million people are killed in road accidents every year.
"This is an attempt to categorically avoid crashes, by having very robust communication between vehicles," says Dr Sweatman.
The $22m project started in late 2011, but is on course to reach a major milestone in the coming days, when the project's 3,000th connected car will pull out on to the streets of Ann Arbor. Each is fitted with wireless devices to allow them to talk to each other and to other parts of the road infrastructure, such as traffic lights. The technology is known as 'Vehicle to Vehicle' (V2V) and 'Vehicle to Infrastructure' (V2I) communication and allows the driver to send and receive information to and from the environment around it.
'Real world experiment'
For example, the V2V allows the car to communicate with all other vehicles within a range of about 200m to 300m. They all share data such as their location, speed and direction, that is then assessed for safety risks, and if appropriate the driver is warned of any danger. For example, drivers will get an audible warning if they try to change lane with a car in their blind spot, or if the car in front of them brakes hard and the driver doesn't seem to notice. The car can also give warnings at blind corners and junctions that another vehicle is about to pull out. Because the communications are done by radio signals, they do not need direct line of sight, unlike a driver's eyes.
The V2I system can also communicate with other parts of the road and traffic infrastructure. For example, there are 29 intersections in Ann Arbor that have been instrumented, so that researchers can direct the lights in order to make the traffic move more efficiently.
"We're collecting data from these intersections, and that is being back-hauled to the city of Ann Arbor through their fibre optic network so we can collect data, and make sure the signals are all being received and processed correctly," Dr Sweatman explains.
To be clear, the technology fitted to the vehicles does not turn them into autonomous, self-driving cars, championed by the likes of Google, but they do represent an important step towards them.
"It's hard to see how you could have automatic vehicles without them being connected," says Dr Sweatman. "It's technically possible, but in terms of a realistic deployment autonomous vehicles will need to be connected."
Other vehicle interaction systems are in development, and what is learnt in this huge, real world, experiment will help inform the direction they take.
"This is fundamentally aimed at safety, but clearly with a platform like this you can create many other applications," says Dr Sweatman. "There are many other potential benefits in mobility, environment, emissions, energy efficiency."
For example, the team envisages a system that monitors the brakes of all of the cars. If the traffic management system detects that all of the cars are braking at the same spot, it could indicate a problem with the road that needs to be fixed by a maintenance crew
Alternatively, if for some reason there was an accident, the system could be used to immediately alert the emergency services, divert other drivers to alternative routes and ensure that the roads are clear for emergency vehicles.
Currently, the majority of the cars fitted with the technology are owned by residents of Ann Arbor, who have volunteered to join the programme. People take their cars in, just like a service visit at a dealership. It takes less than an hour to install the two antennas for GPS, one antenna for communications, the driver interface, and a black-box computer to link it all together.
So far, about two thirds of the drivers selected to take part in the trial are parents from Ann Arbor schools. They were deliberately chosen to ensure there are as many vehicle "interactions" as possible, because they tend to drive their kids around a lot, and tend to congregate in the same places. More than 60 vehicles, including buses and trucks, have also been donated by various car manufacturers.
"We believe that at any given time there will be 5 to 10% of these vehicles in the traffic stream," says Dr Sweatman.
However, this number could rise dramatically if the trial – which is currently due to run until 2013 – is successful. Then, the technology could be rolled out globally. With the ability to save thousands – perhaps millions - of lives, and reduce congestion and pollution at the same time, Ann Arbor could be the blueprint for the future.
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Yesterday, we reported on the critical 1,000-day window that begins with a woman's pregnancy and continues until a child is 2 years old. Today, we share examples of how ChildFund nutrition and health education programs are helping ensure that infants get a healthy start on life.
Honduras: With ChildFund assistance, community mothers have formed support groups to track children's growth monthly. When a child is not achieving growth benchmarks, the mothers respond quickly, changing nutrition practices or taking the child to a ChildFund-supported health hut for medical care. They are stopping undernutrition before it permanently affects children's health.
Kenya and Ethiopia: Malnourished children who are orphaned or otherwise vulnerable due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic receive food supplements through ChildFund initiatives funded by PEPFAR (the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief). Families receive support through home-based services, including regular home visits from community-based organizations and volunteers.
India and Indonesia: ChildFund works with mothers of moderately malnourished children to help them improve feeding practices through culturally sensitive programming provided in Positive Deviance/Hearth groups. The groups also provide preventive health education.
Senegal: During monthly sessions with mothers at health huts, ChildFund community health workers promote healthy growth among children 2 and under. Mothers of malnourished children receive intensive counseling and follow-up, and their children are referred to local health posts for medical treatment and food supplements. ChildFund Senegal leads a consortium of development organizations to provide these services throughout the country.
Bolivia: Working with the Bolivia Ministry of Health (MOH), ChildFund carefully monitors and supports children during their first two years of life to ensure normal growth and development. Community-based health workers visit mothers in their homes to reinforce effective feeding practices and to educate mothers about culturally appropriate development stimulation. The MOH provides medical care as well as food supplements and micro-nutrient "sprinkles" to malnourished children.
Ongoing research: ChildFund recently forged a partnership with the University of North Carolina's Gillings School of Global Public Health to improve the lives and health of vulnerable children from birth to age two. The Innovation Lab will develop and test an evidence-based program in two countries that can be scaled up globally. Peggy Bentley, Ph.D., nutrition professor and associate dean for global health at the school, will lead the program. Cyril Engmann, M.D., neonatologist in UNC School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics and adjunct assistant professor of maternal and child health at the public health school, is co-principal investigator for the lab. Additional faculty with expertise in safe water and sanitation, child development, injury and violence prevention, implementation science, curriculum development, breastfeeding and weaning, and monitoring and evaluation will contribute expertise.
Through these programs and more, ChildFund is keeping a close watch on children's first 1,000 days. Improving child nutrition is a critical component of the overall Millennium Development Goals to reverse poverty by 2015.


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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
31 comments:
- Free Range Anglican said...
Are those neckties???? Is this some sort of warped Father's Day liturgy? Will the incense be burned in my dad's old pipe then?
- November 16, 2010 at 6:07 PM
I am heartened to again see the traditional St. Cravat's Day alter display.
- November 16, 2010 at 6:58 PM
Goomba, you made me snort water through my nose.
- November 16, 2010 at 7:00 PM
- John & Terry said...
Are these the ties that bind?
- November 16, 2010 at 7:51 PM
- S said...
I can almost understand this if it were the work of some resourceful person of limited imagination at a tiny little church with no budget for altar furnishings.
But just look at that setting. Huge altar. Carved wood. Elegant flower arrangements. Organ pipes.
No, somebody clearly meant this to be Art.
- November 16, 2010 at 10:14 PM
This is what happens when the women's group does sell all their merchantise at the annual Christmas bazaar.
This year, buy it all. Don't leave anything on the tables. Don't store any leftovers in the church basement. Offer to buy all the unsold items as a lot. Haul it to the thrift store. But do not, I repeat do not, let the sewing circle get ahold of it. Thank you for your cooperation!
- November 16, 2010 at 10:46 PM
'Bind us together, Lord, bind us with TIES that cannot be broken'!
- November 17, 2010 at 7:08 AM
- X said...
At first I thought "That's pretty. What's the problem?". Then I clicked to enlarge the photo. GAUDY!!
- November 17, 2010 at 7:54 AM
"somebody clearly meant this to be Art." And they succeeded. It is a well designed "hanging" in that it reflects the shapes in the organ pipe reredos. It just isn't an altar frontal.
An additional feature is that it seems to be cutting the glare from light bulbs under the front edge.
Yuck! off2
- November 17, 2010 at 9:39 AM
- Mari said...
Remove white base and replace with darker color and it isn't THAT bad. Oh and remove that 1 guady tie, then it's fine.
- November 17, 2010 at 9:41 AM
Bad, bad, bad Father's Day tribute.
S - The presence of the pipe organ does not necessarily mean this church has much money to spend on anything. Think of all the big mainline churches that are nearly empty most Sunday mornings. The flower arrangeents in the photo suggest neither wealth nor artistic taste.
So sad.
- November 17, 2010 at 10:37 AM
- Paul Woodrum said...
The Father's Day Memorial Frontalet.
- November 17, 2010 at 12:04 PM
- MonkWerks said...
It looks photo-shoped to me.
- November 17, 2010 at 2:52 PM
- Cunjo said...
Impending Doom - There will be violence
This song expresses my emotionsin this particular moment...
- November 17, 2010 at 4:44 PM
It looks as if a whole load of unwanted Christmas presents from dads and uncles have been recycled here.
- November 18, 2010 at 10:14 AM
TEC continues its tradition of neutering males and builds frontals out of the trophies.
- November 18, 2010 at 5:54 PM
Nicky G., Please don't confuse the St. Cravat's day celebration with the Feast of St. Foulard!
- November 19, 2010 at 6:38 AM
I'm an artist and THIS AIN'T ART. Not in the liturgical sense (or any other sense, for that matter).
- November 19, 2010 at 3:29 PM
- Alexi said...
Maybe it's the Father's Day blessing of neckwear:
"Bless be the ties that bind..."
- November 19, 2010 at 9:36 PM
I want to see the one they made out of bow-ties.
- November 19, 2010 at 11:12 PM
This church must be surplus neckwear from a restaurant just outside Phoenix where neckties are illegal. The waitresses have a pair of scissors in one side of a double holster and a staple gun in the other side. If a man shows up in a tie, the waitress cuts it off and staples it to the wall or ceiling. Many a fine silk tie is waving in the breeze of those ceiling fans. Maybe once a year or so, they donate some of those ties to the church rummage sale where they have been recycled into this altar piece.
- November 20, 2010 at 4:57 PM
In the first sentence, strike the word, 'church'....
- November 20, 2010 at 4:59 PM
- Anthony S. "Tony" Layne said...
(Hobby Lobby + Goodwill) * complete lack of common sense and good taste = Craptastic altar cloth. What, me take the liturgy seriously?
- November 20, 2010 at 11:56 PM
Agree with the mention above: this looks a lot like Photoshop. The white edging appears too uniform across the varying light of the altar. The *real* issue with this is that it's conceivable to a bunch of readers that this could have happened. Yikes.
- November 22, 2010 at 11:24 AM
- Diego said...
GOOD GRIEF!! WHYYYY? I think this piece must be one of the most ridiculous you have posted so far. Thank you for it!!
If you're ever in Oxford, go the to a pub called the Bear, I think they got the fabric from there...
- November 22, 2010 at 4:06 PM
- Cantor Nikolaos said...
I would have a hard time taking seriously or respecting any clergy who allowed crap like this, but I've seen worse.
At least someone at some point in time had the good sense and thought singing to God is important enough to get a real pipe organ.
If they are going to do this modern crap, they might as well get an Allen POS and give the pipe organ to someone who needs it and cares enough about sacred music to not look for ways to cheapen it.
- December 4, 2010 at 12:19 AM
- Cantor Nikolaos said...
At least there was one point in time, when someone had the good sense to get a pipe organ and not a toaster.
Though, I can only imagine it will be silent if things keep going the way they are.
I really have seen worse, but I have also seen a lot better!
- December 9, 2010 at 4:41 PM
somewhere...there is an altar guild motherhen who is feeling far to crafty...and powerful.
- December 29, 2010 at 10:26 PM
- Raspberry Rabbit said...
There must be something wrong with me. I actually rather like that.
- January 24, 2011 at 6:26 PM
- Laurie Ryan said...
I served this church for several years. Yes, it's a real necktie piece. The designer is a young woman who chaired the Altar Guild and then took her toys and went home very shortly after this. The organ is a lovely Steiner-Reck with a wonderful stoplist perfectly planned for Anglican worship. The worship space is light and airy and I was always inspired when I walked in from the back of the nave. There is a small but extremely vocal Cursillo group there that wants to renew their campfire high each week during Communion. The church had been charismatic for a while until a new rector came and threw out the guitars and tamourines, renovated the worship space, installed the organ, and then left.
- January 30, 2011 at 9:57 PM
The parish posse should have throwed a Neck-tie party for that-there designer . . . .
- May 17, 2011 at 2:46 PM


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On 24 Nov 2003 22:06:58 -0800, rgregoryclark at yahoo.com (Robert Clark) wrote: >Has there been any investigation of the possibility that the origin of >the mitotic spindle really is due to electromagnetism? > Compare the image on this page: > >Media: Mitotic Spindle. >http://www.meta-library.net/media/mitspin-body.html > > To the first image on this page: > >Magnetism. >http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~physics/physics2/Formal_2001/BenWarren/formallab%25202.htm > There is no reason to believe magnetism is a mechanism just because the pictures look similar. Look at the electric field of a dipole http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/dipole.html to see the same thing. The similarty in shape is caused by processes which share some superficial similarities but major differences For the similarities, first, there are two separate "organizing centers": the spindle poles for mitosis, and the two poles of a magnetic or electric dipole. At each organizing center there is a tendency for lines to radiate from the center in all directions. In both the magnetic and the electric dipoles, the tendency is to radiate outward from one of the poles but to radiate inward into the other pole. The result is the spinde-shaped pattern of field lines. There really are strong parallels between the magnetic and the electric dipoles -- one pole radiates out, the other radiates in. Add the two together and you get the result. In the spindle, the process is very different. The spindle fibers radiate outward from both poles. Some of these, the astral fibers, always remain that way. These do not look at all like the magnetic or electric dipole lines but look more like a magnetic or electric monopole. Others meet (either by direct contact as in the polar fibers or by connecting to the same chromosome in the kinetochore fibers). These fibers tend to spread out from one pole and then rejoin at the other, and so sort of look like the field lines of the magnetic or electric dipole. Since the fibers that attach to the chromosomes are the "important" ones, they are the ones shown in all the diagrams. So in this case, the similarity is really superficial. However, the cause of science is always furthered by trying to find relationships between seemingly very different things -- so keep looking and keep asking!


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It's time again for Mixology Monday. If you're new to this, Mixology Monday is a thing we cocktail nerds do. Every month, a different blogger volunteers to host, picks a theme, and posts a round-up after everyone has weighed in. (My previous MxMo posts live here.)
Anyway, for installment 34, Craig, from Tiki Drinks & Indigo Firmaments has chosen the theme Spice. I'll let Craig describe what he's going for:
Spice should give you plenty of room to play – from the winter warmers of egg nog, wassail and mulled products to the strange and interesting infusions of pepper, ceubub, grains of paradise, nutmeg — what have you! I would like to stretch the traditional meanings of spice (as the bark, seed, nut or flowering part of a plant used for seasoning) to basically anything used for flavoring that isn't an herb. Salt? Go for it. Paprika? I'd love to see you try. I hear that cardamom is hot right now.
So, there ya go.
I thought about this one a lot. Mrs. Bitters and I do a lot of home cooking–well, she does most of it, but I get a few things in from time to time. And we use a lot of spices in our cooking. Last night, we were talking about this challenge. Jen suggested that I should flip through some of her cookbooks to find spice combos that might work with booze. She also reminded me that we had a pomegranate in our fridge. This led us to one of her Middle Eastern books, since pom is a staple in some Middle Eastern cuisines.
I found a recipe for cooking duck with walnuts, pomegranate, cinnamon, and a few other spices. The recipe reminded me of a drink I had at Hearth, in New York's East Village earlier this year. The drink was called the Jim Hogg, and it featured a pecan-infused rye. I've wanted to infuse nuts into whiskey since tasting that drink, and this recipe got my wheels turning.
I grabbed a bag of walnuts from the fridge, tossed a handful in a Mason jar, and threw in a couple of sticks of cinnamon. I added some whole rainbow and white peppercorns, not too many. Obviously, you need to finesse the pepper. I used whole corns; if you crush or grind them, you'll have an entirely too peppery drink. Finally, I added a strip of lemon peel. Zest would have been better, but I was winging all of this. Call it the mania of inspiration.
I poured five ounces of Old Overholt rye whiskey over this mess, sealed the jar, and shook it well. I stored it in the coldest, darkest place in the apartment and agitated it several times over the course of the 24 hours.
After infusing this stuff for 24 hours (probably too little time), I strained it. I decided to mix it with grenadine and lemon juice, and then realized this was a Ward Eight variation. Why not just go with that? A lot of drinks are nothing more than subtle variations of other drinks.
The results were fine, although probably underinfused. The drink carried hints of walnuts, cinnamon, and pepper, but only very vague hints. I think 48 – 72 hours of infusion would have been better.
Nevertheless, I present the Ward Cleaver, with the caveat that it needs tweaking. I'm working on a longer infusion with the same spices but in 101 proof Wild Turkey bourbon. The higher proof will draw out more of the flavor, and I'm going to let it go a little longer. Anyway, enough gab. Recipe follows.
Ward Cleaver
- 2 oz. rye, infused with walnuts, cinnamon, peppercorns, and lemon zest.
- 3/4 oz. lemon juice
- 1/2 oz. grenadine
- Dash Fee Brother's Barrel Aged Bitters
Shake ingredients over cracked ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish? You could go decorative with a cinnamon stick or a bit of walnut, or you could go for flavor by twisting on lemon peel. You could also get crazy! Pulverize a couple of walnuts, mix them with sugar, moisten the rim of your glass, and dip the rim in the walnut-sugar mixture. I would never do that, but maybe you'll want to.


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Patrick Stump can't recall which friend of his said it, or where exactly it happened. But when the frontman of Fall Out Boy was told nearly a decade ago — "probably in somebody's basement somewhere" — that his then-scrappy rock band sounded like it was aiming for the MTV request show "TRL," "I distinctly remember laughing and being, like, 'You have no idea how insanely unlikely that is,'" the singer said recently. "And then a year later …."
A year later Fall Out Boy played "TRL," an early stop on the group's journey from the suburban-Chicago punk scene to the major-league pop mainstream. Soon after came platinum albums, a Grammy nomination for best new artist and Top 40 radio hits like "Sugar, We're Goin Down" and "Dance, Dance."
"I look at pictures from those days, and there's an expression on all our faces," said bassist Pete Wentz, whose fame metastasized to tabloid-fixture proportions after he married (and subsequently divorced) Ashlee Simpson. "We're, like, 'I can't believe we're hanging out with rappers! This is awesome!'"
The awesomeness ended in 2009 when Stump, Wentz, guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley — all burnt out from nonstop touring — began a hiatus that many fans took to mean Fall Out Boy had broken up. In February, though, the band revealed that it was back, and its success now might be even more unlikely than it was the first time.
Last month Fall Out Boy's album "Save Rock and Roll," recorded in secrecy as the band's so-called emo sound gave way among listeners to electronic dance music, debuted at No. 1. And next week the band is to begin a sold-out tour scheduled to stop at L.A.'s Wiltern on June 13.
"I don't think any of us expected this to be the victory-lap return," Stump said, sitting with Wentz in a dressing room Monday at "The Tonight Show." On Saturday Fall Out Boy is set to follow up that late-night TV appearance with a gig at KIIS-FM's all-star Wango Tango concert at Home Depot Center. It'll be something of an outlier on a bill otherwise loaded with slick pop acts like Bruno Mars and will.i.am.
"I think we're the only ones that need to sound check," Wentz said with a laugh.
Yet in another remarkable twist, Fall Out Boy isn't alone at the top of the chart. The week before "Save Rock and Roll" made its impressive bow, the pop-punk band Paramore — another once-scrappy veteran of the Warped Tour — entered at No. 1 with a self-titled comeback effort of its own. It was enough to make you wonder, at least for a spell, if the idea of mainstream rock is not as endangered as it usually appears.
Unlike Fall Out Boy, Paramore never officially went dormant. But the group's future seemed uncertain after the departure in 2010 of guitarist Josh Farro and drummer Zac Farro, who wrote online about their creative and philosophical differences with Paramore's singer, Hayley Williams.
In an interview with her remaining bandmates — guitarist Taylor York and bassist Jeremy Davis — at the South by Southwest music conference in March, Williams described the dysfunction as the stuff of "soap opera" (a phrase she repeated onstage this month during a show at the Wiltern), and said that "communication, relationships — everything — is so much better now. We're just excited to be in Paramore."
The music makes that clear. Though it's still rooted in heavy guitars and galloping beats, "Paramore" greatly expands the band's sound with lush strings, buzzing keyboards and, in the appealingly headstrong "Ain't It Fun," gospel-style backing vocals that suggest Kelly Clarkson covering "Like a Prayer." (Less happily, the album also contains several irritating numbers in which Williams, who's never sung more powerfully, is accompanied by a ukulele.)
Fall Out Boy goes similarly widescreen on its record, which has pulsating disco grooves, stacked-harmony hair-metal singing and left-field guest spots by Elton John, Courtney Love and the rapper Big Sean — probably the first (and last) time those three artists will appear in such close proximity to one another.
At "The Tonight Show" Wentz said the album's scope simply reflects the band's ambition, which he admitted ran "super high" even when Stump was deflecting accusations of "TRL" dreams. But "Save Rock and Roll" and "Paramore" seem also like indications that each group's time out of the spotlight only increased its desire to be part of the conversation.
"I want what we're doing to be big on the level where it means something to people — where it means something culturally," Wentz said. "Not necessarily big in the sense that we have to have pyro in every song." He considered that for a moment. "Although that would be rad."
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Push/Pull module for WHMCS
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Develop a WHMCS module that allows users to push and pull active domains between users.
- Module verify existence of the other user account pull / push (input based upon client id or e-mail which should configurable by admin user);
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> After confirmation it sends out e-mail to receiver to accept;
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|Edward and Talitha Creed family on 1850 census, Cherokee County, North Carolina
I have found other trees online that link Talitha to the Moses Cockerham family of Surry, North Carolina, but there are no documents posted to prove that. I have searched for marriage and death records for "Talitha," "Telitha," and "Tabitha" and have found nothing.
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For the Magnapop album, see Mouthfeel (album).
Mouthfeel is a product's physical and chemical interaction in the mouth, an aspect of food rheology. It is used in many areas related to the testing and evaluating of foodstuffs, such as wine-tasting and rheology. It is evaluated from initial perception on the palate, to first bite, through mastication to swallowing and aftertaste. In wine-tasting, for example, mouthfeel is usually used with a modifier (big, sweet, tannic, chewy, etc.) to the general sensation of the wine in the mouth. Some people, however, use the traditional term texture. Mouthfeel is often related to a product's water activity, hard or crisp products having lower water activities and soft products having intermediate to high water activities.
Qualities perceived
- Cohesiveness: Degree to which the sample deforms before rupturing when biting with molars.
- Density: Compactness of cross section of the sample after biting completely through with the molars.
- Dryness: Degree to which the sample feels dry in the mouth.
- Fracturability: Force with which the sample crumbles, cracks or shatters. Fracturability encompasses crumbliness, crispiness, crunchiness and brittleness.
- Graininess: Degree to which a sample contains small grainy particles.
- Gumminess: Energy required to disintegrate a semi-solid food to a state ready for swallowing.
- Hardness: Force required to deform the product to given distance, i.e., force to compress between molars, bite through with incisors, compress between tongue and palate.
- Heaviness: Weight of product perceived when first placed on tongue.
- Moisture absorption: Amount of saliva absorbed by product.
- Moisture release: Amount of wetness/juiciness released from sample.
- Mouthcoating: Type and degree of coating in the mouth after mastication (for example, fat/oil).
- Roughness: Degree of abrasiveness of product's surface perceived by the tongue.
- Slipperiness: Degree to which the product slides over the tongue.
- Smoothness: Absence of any particles, lumps, bumps, etc., in the product.
- Uniformity: Degree to which the sample is even throughout; homogeneity.
- Uniformity of Bite: Evenness of force through bite.
- Uniformity of Chew: Degree to which the chewing characteristics of the product are even throughout mastication.
- Viscosity: Force required to draw a liquid from a spoon over the tongue.
- Wetness: Amount of moisture perceived on product's surface.
See also
Further reading
- Dollase, Jürgen, Geschmacksschule [engl.: Tasting School], 2005 Tre Tori, Wiesbaden, Germany (ISBN 3937963200). German-language textbook by a renowned food critic covering some, but not all of the above mentionend properties/mouthfeelings.
- Katz, E.E. and Labuza, T.P. (1981) Effect of water activity on the sensory crispness and mechanical deformation of snack food products. J. Food Sci. 46: 403–409
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War poet and soldier, Wilfred Owen, spent his holidays with family in Wimbledon, the composer of a musical celebrating his life has revealed.
Bullets and Daffodils, by Dean Johnson, sets many of Owen's most famous poems to contemporary music, narrated by the WWI writer and soldier Siegfried Sassoon.
The forthcoming production, which will appear at the New Wimbledon Theatre on Monday, June 9 and Tuesday, June 10, is timed to commemorate the centenary of WWI.
Mr Johnson, who composed the bio-musical, was amazed to discover Wimbledon had been an old haunt of Owen's while he was researching for the show.
He said: "Owen and myself share a Birkenhead education, and even attended the same school, but Wimbledon was another touchstone in his short life.
"His relatives the Gunstuns had a large house in Clement Road and Wilfred spent many Christmases there.
"His uncle John was a very successful butcher and also had a passion for photography.
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Siegfried Sassoon will be played by Mark Reed, son of Oliver Reed, another prominent Wimbledon family.
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"Just as he made the journey from Birkenhead, we will do the same and bring his timeless verse with us to where some of it may have been inspired."
Bullets and Daffodils; New Wimbledon Theatre, 93 The Broadway; Monday, June 9 and Tuesday, June 10; £13.20; atgtickets.com


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All of the girls on the show are young and just beginning their careers as models, so they have many years ahead of them to improve their public speaking and interview skills, but this was a very important lesson for all of them to understand what it means to land a major ad campaign and be the face of a brand -- personality.
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Last week Microsoft asked you to vote for which Windows Phone commercial from NFL Quarterback Cam Newton should air during the NFC Championship pre-game show. You had the choice of four endings to the commercial using a different catch phrase at the end.
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If you're the type who would rather tune in this Sunday, January 21st, during the pre-Game show and see which version won, don't stray any further. If you can't stand the anticipation, you can find the winning version after the break.
Still think they should have had a War Eagle version....
and your winning version is "Poundcake, French Fries"!
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Walter Charamza, who served as Newport Beach's first fulltime city attorney in the 1950s, will be remembered at a celebration of his life later this month.
Charamza died Dec. 19 at home in Newport Beach, his wife of 68 years and two dogs by his side. He was 91.
Friends and family remembered Charamza as a respected man with a strong ethical bearing — a "true member of the greatest generation," as former Newport Beach City Manager Robert Shelton put it.
"He was a strong-willed dispenser of justice — firm and straight-shooting," he said.
Born on a small farm in South Dakota, Charamza flew a B-24 bomber in World War II, then attended Occidental College and earned a law degree from UC Berkeley.
Before serving as Newport Beach's city attorney from 1957 to 1964, Charamza worked as assistant city attorney in Glendale.
In 1964, then-Gov. Pat Brown appointed Charamza as a judge in municipal court. Later, Gov. Ronald Reagan appointed him to the Orange County Superior Court bench.
His daughter, Susan Powell, said her father was loving and funny. Powell, who lives in Paradise Valley, Ariz., also recalled the long hours that came with his job.
"I remember him coming home and studying at night, making sure he knew exactly what was going on the next day," she said.
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"He and I and others did a great deal of camping in the Southwestern desert," he said. "He was a delightful companion in outdoor activities. He liked to waterski in Newport Harbor, in the upper bay."
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Josi leads Predators to OT win over StarsNHL.com @NHLdotcom
Not even a four-goal second period by the opposition could stop Roman Josi on Monday night.
The Nashville Predators' defenseman scored twice – including the game-winner 28 seconds into overtime – and added two assists to lead his club to a thrilling 5-4 win against the Dallas Stars at Bridgestone Arena.
"I just tried to get it to the net," Josi said. "I think the d-man tipped it."
Josi, 22, had three points through his first 19 appearances this season. His only multi-point game of the 2011-12 season came exactly 365 days ago, when he had two assists against the San Jose Sharks on Feb. 25, 2012.
"That must be in juniors – I didn't have one in my pro career yet," Josi said when asked if he could remember his last four-point performance. "It's great to get one."
"The last couple of games, he's played with a lot of jump," Nashville coach Barry Trotz said of Josi. "I think he's finding himself as a player in this League. He's very comfortable and he's playing in all situations and he's becoming a very important part of our team."
Mike Fisher, Craig Smith and Patric Hornqvist also scored goals for Nashville, which snapped a two-game skid and had dropped four of its past five. The last two losses had been shutouts, and the Predators ended a scoring drought at 133:43 after threatening the franchise-worst drought that reached 176:18 on Feb. 13 in an overtime win against the Sharks.
Matt Fraser and Reilly Smith scored 25 seconds apart within the first two minutes of the second, and Vernon Fiddler and Loui Eriksson added a power-play goal apiece for the Stars, who have lost three of their past four games. Michael Ryder had three assists.
Fisher tied it at 8:22 of the third when he got the puck as he skated into the Nashville zone, split a pair of Stars and beat Cristopher Nilstorp with a backhander. Nashville wound up outshooting the Stars 31-24, including 11-4 in the third.
"We just didn't have a good feel for the game after we were up 4-2," Stars coach Glen Gulutzan said. "We needed to stay disciplined after the double minor for high sticking (on Fisher). They are going to look for something on you. You can't give up a 5-on-3. You can't take that penalty. We just didn't have game feel. We let them in, and got them excited. We just needed to make sure we closed them out."
Smith ended Nashville's scoring drought when he snapped a shot from in front in a relatively quiet first period.
Dallas had scored at least three goals the previous nine straight games, and the Stars took a 2-1 lead as the rookie Fraser scored the first career goal on a slap shot from the left circle at 1:20.
Then Smith tipped the puck over goalie Pekka Rinne's left leg at 1:45 for a 2-1 lead.
"You dream about playing in the NHL, your first game and this was my second game," Fraser said. "I found the back of the net. I was really happy. It kind of puts a damper on the overall celebration since we lost the game, but hopefully there will be more to come."
Trotz immediately took his timeout, and the Predators responded when Josi tied it 2-2 with his slap shot near the blue line at 3:05.
The Predators were trying to kill a holding penalty on Martin Erat when the Stars drew a delayed penalty off a high-sticking by Fisher, and Fiddler, coming on as the extra attacker, scored on a slap shot at 7:29.
With Fisher drawing a double minor, the Stars' man advantage continued, and Erikkson scored with the puck redirected past Rinne by Josi at 9:21.
"It was just two missed blown coverages back-to-back," Trotz said. "It was a great response by the guys right after that. We got a goal right away and (then) we got it tied up."
The Predators trimmed the lead when they got 1:21 of a 5-on-3 after Eric Nystrom went to the box for fighting with a penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct. Then Fiddler got his own double minor for unsportsmanlike conduct and roughing. Nashville had only two seconds left when Hornqivst lifted a backhander over Nilstorp at 13:43 to pull the Predators within 4-3.
"We got a couple of big momentum goals and then in the third, Fish got it going," Hornqvist said. "We found a way to win. That's what a good team does."
Material from wire services and team media was used in this report.


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Boot Portable Live USB Linux on Older Hardware
Your Linux is Portable, But Where's the Port?Portable USB Linux distros are wonderful go-anywhere Linuxes for troubleshooting and repair. The catch is older hardware doesn't always support booting from a USB stick-- but there is a workaround called Plop Boot Manager
I don't usually offer my opinions on purely technical matters related to computers and systems, because I don't consider myself an especially technical person. On the other hand, when I come across something technical that makes a major improvement in my life at the computer, I do my best to advertise it to others. The latest item to perform that minor miracle for me has been the Plop Boot Manager, and the need arose when I first put a Linux distro on a thumb drive.
There is a lot to be said for the Linux-on-a-stick concept, a USB thumb drive with a bootable Linux distro on it. The small size of the system image many distros offer means that even a modest thumb drive can hold the image and still provide a healthy amount of space for the persistence you need to save your configuration and the work you do on it. Further, the capacity of thumb drives is increasing so fast that the largest now exceed the storage available on the 40 to 80GB hard drives that used to be regarded as the business standard. All the potential of a thumb drive distro can be put to work or installed on any computer that will boot from a thumb drive.
The fundamental problem is a straightforward matter of connectivity. The USB contains digital information which can handle the later stages of bootstrapping an operating system using the available resources of the old machine; the BIOS can access the firmware in the CMOS to supply the very first stage of the boot process; and the BIOS and the USB each use a language the other can understand. The problem is that there is just no way for the existing BIOS to accept input from the USB port.
As a relative newcomer to computers in general, my first response was to accept that condition as absolute. I knew just enough to be aware that a BIOS is not something to be dealt with casually. When you come right down to it, altering the BIOS is potentially the most dangerous activity you can do on a computer. Botching your GRUB boot loader is a real annoyance; losing your MBR requires major digital surgery; but a wrecked BIOS can render your motherboard useless.
- Skip Ahead
- 1. Your Linux is Portable, But Where's the Port?
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She is ageless in unusual ways even in her 40s: Her baby teeth never fell out. Her small face looks like an older child's. She still believes she is 15.
She is ageless in unusual ways even in her 40s: Her baby teeth never fell out. Her small face looks like an older child's. She still believes she is 15.
On a good day, Rhonda cracks jokes with her housemates in a tidy ranch house they call home on Normal Street.
Although it is a group home for people with disabilities and special needs, it is home for them.
On a bad day, Rhonda smacks herself in the face and cries out of frustration. But mostly she and her friends are happy.
Once living with family, or institutionalized, many people with mental health challenges and disabilities have been mainstreamed from stark, hospital-like facilities into neighborhood-based group homes like the one on Normal Street.
The Normal Street home is one of 22 group and personal-care homes operated by Fitzmaurice Community Services Inc. In all, the agency helps about 500 people through a variety of programs, said Elizabeth Koster, president and chief executive officer.
Her mother, Johanna Fitzmaurice, founded the company in 1966 in East Stroudsburg by taking in six men after an institution closed in White Haven.
"I was just ready to get married, but I lived there for about a year," said Koster, a former teacher. "About the same time, my father died, and that became my mother's goal — to help these folks."
After the first six clients got jobs and moved into their own places, Koster's mother took in more people with disabilities. The effort grew, and Fitzmaurice was born.
In 1976, Fitzmaurice opened its first group home in East Stroudsburg. Koster was on maternity leave from her teaching job.
"I helped her in that group home," she said. In 1978, when her mother died unexpectedly, Koster chose to quit teaching and help disabled people full time.
"I wanted to continue where she left off," Koster said. "I got attached. They depended on me."
Now, clients like Rhonda, who never lived in an institution but was given up by her birth parents as an infant and then adopted by a Jim Thorpe couple, are living lives to the fullest.
Rhonda's diagnosis can only be described as intellectually challenged, Koster said.
Rhonda and her friends attend work and daycare programs. They dance at parties, have boyfriends, gossip and visit their aging parents. They also enhance the lives of their families, friends and caregivers.
Rhonda, who lived with her family until 1998, when her parents were unable to care for her, shares the Normal Street house with three other women.
There is Linda, who always wants to answer the phone. There is Bobbie, who does not speak, just rocks back and forth. And Pam. She laughs at Rhonda's jokes and claps her hands over her mouth when Rhonda curses.
As a child, Rhonda stopped growing physically about age 10 or 11. Her one arm is contracted into a curl. Yet, she taught herself to play the piano using one hand without ever learning to read or write, or to read music.
During a recent visit, Rhonda talked about her boyfriend, who uses a wheelchair. She saw him at a party. "I'm gonna kiss him," said Rhonda.
Without missing a beat, Rhonda adds, "You're cute."
It is one of her many stock lines.
When asked how old she is, Rhonda always replies, "Fifteen."
In Rhonda's world, she never ages. Nor can she quite comprehend death.
Rhonda talks to herself.
"Where's Mom?" she asks.
She answers her own question.
"Mom's dead," she says and her lips curl down into a pout.
There were about a half million people in group homes in 2010 in the United States, according to the federal National Council on Disabilities.
Group homes offer a sense of family, Koster said. The agency also oversees some folks who live in their own apartments.
As evidence there is a sense of family, the Normal Street ladies finish each other's sentences. They eat dinner together, go to parades and shopping. And they celebrate holidays.
During the week they attend a day program at Developmental Education Services, a private, not-for-profit agency based in Stroudsburg unconnected to Fitzmaurice.
There, they watch movies, play games and just hang out. Like most people, they have experienced deaths, illness, hospitalizations.
"They need to get a chance to (have) a life in the community," Koster said. "Prior to 1966, most people with mental illness or a disability lived in facilities."
In each living situation, Fitzmaurice tries to match people who will get along. Some housemates meet at day programs. Others are paired up by disability or compatibility.
"This can be the optimal way to live if you need help," Koster said. "The ladies at Normal Street have made it their home."
The Normal Street group home is often staffed with students from East Stroudsburg University, interns and trained and skilled staff 24 hours a day, Koster said.
When Rhonda or another client acts out, such as hitting themselves, the staff quickly intervenes and redirects them.
After she hits herself, Rhonda is apologetic.
"Sorry, sorry," Rhonda says.
She reaches out her hand, blows a kiss into the air and wiggles her eyebrows up and down until Pam laughs again.
Rhonda, one of the Normal Street residents, is the adopted sister of Brenda Marks Fuller, who wrote this story. "Rhonda came to our family as an infant and has brought so much joy to our lives," Fuller said.


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Cocktail & Beer Ship in Budapest
Hungaria Koncert Ltd.
Saturday, 21 April 2018 from 16:00 to 17:30 (BST)
Event Details
There's no better way to explore the beauty of Budapest than cruising on the Danube while having a cold, refreshing drink! Enjoy an unforgettable afternoon cruise while discovering Budapest in a fun and relaxing way!
The 'Cocktail & Beer Ship' offers a unique experience with breathtaking views of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Budapest while you enjoy an ice cold Hungarian beer or a cocktail on our air-conditioned ship! (We have non-alcoholic options available)
One ticket includes a choice of two cocktails or three beers (0,5 l).
The cruise lasts 1 hour 40 mins, and our bar is open for further cocktails and other beverages at a fair price!
The coupons (given with your ticket) can be exchanged for 2 cocktails from below:
Pina Colada
Havana beach
Jamaica Sundaycocktail
Cape Cod
Sex on the beach
Blue Hawaiian
Fruit tingle
Bacardi Cola
Sea Breeze
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Meeting point: Danube Palace (Duna Palota), Zrínyi Street 5.
Meeting time: 15:30
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Danube Palace
Zrínyi Street 5
1051 Budapest
Saturday, 21 April 2018 from 16:00 to 17:30 (BST)
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Hungaria Koncert Ltd. is the leading event and tourist program organiser of Hungary, with more than 2.000 guaranteed programs organised annually. Since its inception in 1995, the company acquired great experience in serving the needs and desires of travellers with different demands and cultural background. Hungaria Koncert organises cultural concert programs and river cruises both for FIT clients and groups. Our main goal is to introduce our customers to the long and exciting history and enchanting culture of Hungary, through its various historical monuments, UNESCO sites and centuries-old dance and music heritage. We aim to give our guests an original Hungarian cultural experience, with instructive walking tours, a wide variety of unforgettable boat cruises and theatre shows, featuring classical music and folklore performances. We also provide special entry tickets and massages to the most famous and luxurious thermal spas of Budapest, private flights over the city, a large amount of tailor made program packages and excursions outside the capital.


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The Muckleshoot Indian Tribe is a federally recognized Indian tribe whose membership is composed of descendants of the Duwamish and Upper Puyallup people who inhabited Central Puget Sound for thousands of years before non-Indian settlement. The Tribe's name is derived from the native name for the prairie on which the Muckleshoot Reservation was established. Following the Reservation's establishment in 1857, the Tribe and its members came to be known as Muckleshoot, rather than by the historic tribal names of their Duwamish and Upper Puyallup ancestors. Today, the United States recognizes the Muckleshoot Tribe as a tribal successor to the Duwamish and Upper Puyallup bands from which the Tribe's membership descends.
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Michael never knows what to write in these little description areas. Should he say something witty to make people laugh and remember him or does he do something snarky like quoting Hamlet. Well whatever he writes here, it is just only a brief glimpse inside. Make your own choices, you'll stay if you want to.


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Davison County Jail Vote Questioned
MITCHELL - A vote to award a Davison County Jail security camera contract to the brother of the county commission chairman is raising conflict of interest questions.
Chairman John Claggett voted with other commissioners this past week to award a nearly $9,000 contract to Aurora Security Products of Letcher, a company owned by his brother, Paul. John Claggett did not abstain or mention the connection.
Claggett told the Daily Republic that the vote was an oversight and he was not aware that the contract involved his brother's company. He says he's recused himself in the past whenever his brother was involved.
Deputy State's Attorney Jim Taylor says he'll look into the matter.
Jail Administrator Don Radel says the county has a history of using equipment and services from the Claggett family.
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The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, begun in 1828 and completed in 1850, was an artificial waterway constructed along the Potomac River. It succeeded an earlier venture, led by George Washington, to improve navigation of the Potomac by constructing canals. The C & O was intended, as its name suggests, to connect the Chesapeake Bay to the Ohio River, but it never made it that far. Rough terrain, problems with acquiring a right-of-way, labor shortages, and too little capital consistently delayed work, and by the time the canal reached Cumberland, Maryland, about half-way to the Ohio, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad had diminished the need for a water route to the Ohio Valley. When the full canal opened in 1850, a boat traveling northwest from Washington, D.C. to Cumberland covered 184.5 miles and passed through 74 lift locks that elevated it 605 feet, enough to compensate for the Potomac's fall as the river flowed down to the bay. The C & O closed in 1924, but during its 75 years of operation it provided the Potomac River Valley a major commercial route.


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So... I have a question for your ladies. I realize most of you are probably digital crafters only and have never known the difference but I'd still appreciate any input/opinions on the topic.
I grew up like most of you, I'm sure with a journal of sorts... whether writing only as diary type or a scrapbook type with photos sort of thing through the 70's and early 80's. In the late 80's, early 90's I jumped in the deep end of traditional paper scrapbooking as we know it now. Of course that led to digital scrapping, mixed media arts and now art journaling.
So... all that to say... As artist in memory preservation whatever form that has taken for most of us. I have watched over the last 3-5 years the entire "local" market for art supplies deplete. What I mean by local isn't specifically to my town/city but to everyone's towns/cities. Almost every LSS I know of has went out of business. What we had left was pretty much Michaels, Hobby Lobby, AC Moore, Jo-Ann's and Archivers for scrapbook or other creative art products. I know there are a couple more like Blicks for artist, can't think of the others right now.
These are my thoughts... I'm concerned that the digital age (although it has brought about some AWESOME things I wouldn't want to do without) is bringing about a collapse of the tangible product and way of doing art. I realize the economy has played a huge role in some of this. But for example. I live in a state capital and I'm within driving range of 2-3 hours of 3 MAJOR city hubs Atlanta, GA; Charlotte, NC; Raleigh, NC and I also travel through several other MAJOR city hubs: Nashville, TN; Little Rock, AR; Birmingham, AL just to name and few and almost every single one of those places went from 10 LSS at least to ONE if they are lucky and most have NONE left. Not to mention that most of the AC Moores have went out of business and NOW Archivers, the ONLY major SB store will be closing ALL their doors by the middle-end of February. I also hear rumors that Hobby Lobby may not be far behind due to the legal battles of this insurance stuff. And all the other name brand stores have all MINIMIZED their stock and the type of products they carry to a very limited supply.
This is my question: Do you think that before long we will no longer have a physical artistic outlet? Do you think it will only be digital? Do you think the industry will every recover from the technological advances in the digital market? I quess overall I'm just curious where others think this is leading to?
Sorry so long... but I wanted to try to explain my thoughts as best I could. Please share your thoughts on the subject no matter how small you think it is as I'm really interested in others opinions.


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Checking in on… the Big WestPosted by Brian Goodman on January 3rd, 2011
Ryan ZumMallen, the RTC correspondent for the Big West, is the Executive Editor and a sportswriter for The Long Beach Post. You can also find him on Twitter at @RyanZumMallen.
A Look Back
The holiday season was a joyous one for the Big West Conference, as one team notched an unlikely win against a ranked opponent, another made a power move for first place and the rest are still in the hunt with the conference schedule just underway. The big guys are beginning to flex their muscles but the little guys have to feel that they're putting themselves in good position for a spoiler season.
POY Watch
Some interesting rising stars are making names for themselves, as UC Irvine's Darren Moore and Pacific's Sam Willard continue to show impressive performances. But UC Santa Barbara forwards James Nunnally and Orlando Johnson are still the most dominant individual players in the conference thus far, despite uncharacteristically horrid displays from both in a home loss to Long Beach State last week. Also in the mix are Long Beach juniors T.J. Robinson and Casper Ware, one of whom is averaging a double-double and the latter of which leads the Big West in both assists and steals. Given the chance, I would also pay to watch Lenny Daniel of Northridge and Orane Chin of Fullerton.
Power Rankings
- Long Beach State (7-8, 2-0): After a shellacking of conference favorite Santa Barbara to open Big West season play last week, and following that up with a convincing businesslike road victory over Cal Poly, the 49ers have moved into the driver's seat. Head coach Dan Monson & Co. must be riding high with four home games ahead of them. Even better, forward Larry Anderson returned from missing five games with a broken hand to score 25 points on 9-10 shooting in the UCSB win – to say nothing of the consistently dominant play of T.J. Robinson and Casper Ware. The sky is the limit for Long Beach, but that has always been their gift and curse as the 49ers have started out hot before only to fall to fatigue, over-reliance on their starters and – worst of all – hubris.
- UC Santa Barbara (7-5, 0-1): What to make of the Gauchos? The preseason favorites had been all but crowned conference champions when they played impressively throughout the preseason scheduled and topped it off with a huge win over then-#22 UNLV, on the road, no less. Nunnally was fantastic in that game and Johnson has looked like a probable candidate for back-to-back MVPs (though his scoring is down due to increased responsibilities). But in the home conference opener against their top competition on ESPNU last week, the two shot an abysmal 6-27 from the field. Then came a New Year's Eve victory. Against an NAIA team. At home. In overtime. Have the Gauchos lost their spurs? Or is this nothing to worry about? Road games against two of the conference's top contenders in UC Davis and Pacific this week will test their meddle.
- Pacific (8-6, 1-1): In Long Beach, we have a saying: "The Queen Mary would crumble into the sea if it weren't for the paint." This could be the University of Pacific's non-PC slogan, because if it weren't for the outstanding coaching schemes of skipper Bob Thomason, the Tigers would be without a paddle. This is a team that will succeed not on its individual talents, but because of the cohesive system that Thomason has perfected over decades that allows any player to step into it and be effective – provided he understands and executes his responsibilities. In short, I am saying that Pacific is not very talented but will be and will continue to be a very real contender for the conference championship for as long as Thomason wears orange. I really like the play of long-armed Sam Willard, but he is a product of the post-heavy Thomason style through and through. Tellingly, the Tigers are best on the inside, where their well-trained big men will out-fundamental anyone for position and rebounds, or pass out of double teams to deadeye shooters. Their Achilles is that sometimes the lack of talent is too much to overcome, as when they fell behind by 19 points at Fullerton last week only to fight back and lose at the buzzer. Come to play and you can beat the Tigers, but show up unprepared and the Thomasons will execute.
- Cal State Northridge (4-9, 1-1): A loss to Pacific but a win over UC Davis puts the Matadors right here, though this is probably temporary and over time they'll fall a few rungs down the Big West ladder. Lenny Daniel and Rashaun McLemore are a great one-two, but the deepest rotation in the conference is out of necessity, not luxury. Plenty of teams have two good players, and while they'll pull Northridge out of some jams, they won't be enough to overcome myriad deficiencies.
- UC Davis (6-8, 1-1): I still maintain that the Aggies are the conference's third-best team behind Long Beach and Santa Barbara, but they've shown it with neither their record nor their play. Forwards Mark Payne and Joe Harden are a coach's dream, but injuries and inconsistencies have been Davis' downfall. Point guard Todd Lowenthal has had back troubles and they'll need him to pick apart defenses. If he returns healthy, and the Aggies continue to shoot efficiently, no coach will want to face Davis in the conference tourney. They don't rebound well but they don't turn the ball over, either. It's give and take with this team, but in the Big West, you only need more positives than negatives.
- Cal State Fullerton (5-9, 1-1): They got shellacked against Davis but handled Pacific, for which they deserve sufficient credit. A four-game road swing will tell us a lot about this team, which currently figures to hang around the fifth or sixth seed before falling early in the conference tournament. They've got some nice players but are small on the inside – and the outside, for that matter – and are pretty consistently average in most categories. Prone to offensive explosions and defensive lapses, anything could happen but the trouble will be sustainably mistake-free basketball. The Titans have yet to prove that they're capable of that.
- UC Riverside (5-7, 1-1): The Highlanders are probably the Big West's best legitimate contender to play spoiler. They do not have the talent to win the conference or even earn a high seed, but I would not want to play them with anything on the line. Riverside rebounds very well despite limited size, and they shoot threes with the best. Guard and leading-scorer Javon Borum poured in 30 in the Irvine win, with Phil Martin and Kareem Nitoto playing consistently well this season, too. But beyond that, the production drops off. This is not their year, but still, I would not want to see the Highlanders in a darkened alley.
- UC Irvine (6-8, 0-1): People expected more from UC Irvine this season, and there is still time to right the ship, but with a four-game losing skid and their last win over an NAIA team, success is looking less likely with each missed rebound. Power forward Eric Wise was supposed to blossom into an MVP candidate this season but has instead shown that his past success was due to need rather than ability, as he's played second fiddle to guard Darren Moore all year. Wise has battled a nagging hip injury and the Anteaters hope to play better with him healthy, but a loss to Riverside makes you wonder. Fullerton at home and then a four-game road swing – I'll let you know when to start paying attention.
- Cal Poly (4-8, 0-1): Heaven only knows how the Mustangs have even made it this far. They played a laughable non-conference schedule and got beat up. Last in so many categories that I lost count at infinity. Ok, I jest. But Cal Poly is just not in the right frame to be playing at this level, and at this point their strategy is clearly to slow the game down as much as possible in hopes of keeping it close. When you're shooting .368 from the field, not even a 35-second shot clock is going to save you. Records will show that they have defeated Loyola Marymount, Hawaii and Pepperdine, and even gave then-#10 SDSU a run for their money, but how this was achieved is boggling. Because the Mustangs could legitimately go winless in the Big West this season, and no one would bat an eyelash.
Looking Ahead
As you can see, we've got several clear contenders mixed with a couple of explosive challengers and more than one dud. Within the conference, the things to watch are whether or not Long Beach can sustain their solid play, and whether or not the edges are beginning to fray around Santa Barbara. Plus, how several teams will deal with upcoming home or road swings this week. Taken all into consideration, what this means to the national basketball community is that the Big West is brewing a couple of teams that could post a threat to an unprepared No. 4 or even No. 3 seed. But in whole, an NCAA Tourney upset victory is unlikely and I'd invite you to sit back and watch the in-conference drama unfold because the Big West is certainly a fun place to watch varying styles of basketball. Isn't that what RTC is all about?