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my husband worked for a big company and was vested into the company after 10 years. He died 7 years ago. When and how do I go about collecting the money he would get every month? Am I entitled to it? Also, the company has now merged with another company. I don't know what to do. I was told he has to be 65 years old to collect and that is not until May 2013. I don't understand, please help. Thank You.
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It really depends on the provisions of the pension. You need to contact the Human Relations/Benefits Department of the company that took over your husband's employer.
Most defined benefit pension plans only provide survivor coverage if your husband elected that coverage when determining how he wanted his benefits paid.
I recommend you write a letter to the Vice-President of Human Relations and/or benefits, explain the situation, ask for the status of your husband's vested pension benefit. Also, request the Summary Plan Description of the pension plan and the paperwork necessary to apply for benefits.
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My name is Aaron Gouveia, and my wife makes more money than I do.
Wait. This isn't a support group for losers? Are you sure? Because after reading Hanna Rosin's Slate column about "breadwinner wives," I just assumed it was my lot in life to huddle with the growing number of financially castrated husbands whose pitiful paychecks are causing marital strife.
Rosin started off with an interesting topic, which she approached evenhandedly, citing census data and Pew Research Center surveys. And as a member of the 22 percent of American marriages in which husbands make less than their wives, I was intrigued to learn more.
Until Rosin's article took a very wrong turn and inexplicably careened off a cliff.
Some couples seem to ease into the dynamic naturally—the woman is a born workaholic and the man lives at a slower pace, picking up contract work, savoring his afternoon coffee. One mother at our preschool can't stop bragging about her stay-at-home husband—although I am still startled by the sight of him hanging around the school, helping the teachers make handprint T-shirts.
It's the word "startled" that really threw me. I re-read it several times to see if I was just being oversensitive, but each time I went back it leaped out even more. Quite frankly, its use here is baffling: I can't fathom any scenario in which a father taking a positive and active role in his kids' lives could be construed as a bad thing, not to mention alarming or frightening.
Rosin goes on to talk about the women she knows in her life who are currently dealing with this issue.
One woman I know never seems to run out of ways to call her husband, who works as a part-time airline mechanic, a loser. Another complains about the small things: Why does he spend all her money on dress socks if he hasn't had a job interview in over a year and why does he have to subscribe to every damned sports channel and why will he never clean up after himself? In a couple of cases I know of, the disparity never felt natural and the couple got divorced.
Let's keep the recession in mind. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, seven out of 10 workers who lost their jobs are men. So wouldn't it stand to reason this guy should consider himself damn lucky to have any job at all? Not to mention the man is an airline mechanic, which is a highly trained and specialized field. It hardly sounds "lazy."
But even more confounding is why Rosin even bothered to include the husband who allegedly doesn't know how to clean up after himself. Isn't this a story about income disparity? What does his level of cleanliness have to do with this? Rosin's last comment that these people are getting divorced really strikes me as no surprise—I wouldn't want to be married to someone constantly calling me a loser either. But that has more to do with civility and respect, and less about the marital wage gap.
Truthfully I was disappointed to see this coming from the intelligent and forward-thinking folks at Slate's DoubleX blog. Suppose I had written, "One father at our preschool can't stop bragging about his working wife—although I am still startled by the sight of her hanging around the office, helping to broker multi-million-dollar business deals." I have to believe I would've been taken to task. And rightfully so.
I'll admit, I had issues with the fact that my wife out-earned me at one point by approximately $40,000 a year. But she works in finance and my heart and soul is in print journalism, a notoriously low-paying field. And after a while, she showed me that what I lack in the paycheck department I make up for in other areas. I'm the communicator, the social director, and the primary caretaker of our son. I still work full-time, but I cook most of the meals and perform the majority of chores—because those things are just as important as a padded wallet, if not more so.
In the end I realized it doesn't matter if I make less money than she does. And while the issue caused some arguments, it was never something that was going to threaten our marriage. If two people break up because of something so arbitrary, I'd argue that their relationship had far more problems than an income disparity.
But I guess the important thing is that I don't show up at my son's school. I wouldn't want to startle anyone.
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"I have to sleep, Dr. Conrad, I have these rehearsals to perform." That's what Dr. Conrad Murray told investigators Michael Jackson said to him in the early morning hours of June 25th, 2009. Hours later, Jackson was dead.
In what's been the most anticipated evidence in the trial, the prosecution played the jury Dr. Murray's 2-hour interview with LAPD detectives, recorded 2 days after MJ died.
Murray told detectives he arrived at Jackson's rented mansion at 12:50 AM on June 25, and headed straight to Michael's room to wait for him to come home after rehearsals. According to Murray, Jackson arrived at 1:05 am saying he was tired and fatigued. Murray rubbed a cream on Michael's body to treat his Vitiligo ... then gave Michael a 10 mg Valium pill. Michael couldn't sleep, so Murray says he then gave him 2 mg of the anti-anxiety drug, Lorazepam.
Jackson complained he still couldn't fall asleep, so Murray gave him 2 mg of the sedative Midazolam around 2am. MJ remained awake. Dr. Murray said he suggested turning down the music in the room ... and meditation. Murray said Michael "reluctantly" closed his eyes, finally dozing off around 3:15 am, only to reawaken at 4:00 am.
At 4:30 am Murray said Michael said, "I have to sleep, Dr. Conrad, I have to sleep." Murray gave MJ another 2 mg of Lorazepam. Again, according to Dr. Murray, Michael couldn't sleep. Jackson was still wide awake at 7:30 am, so Dr. Murray administered another 2 mg of Midazolam, yet Michael remained awake and complaining that he was going to have to cancel the "This is It" tour.
Murray said Michael began to beg for his "milk," the slang for Propofol. Murray agreed to give him 25 mg of the powerful sedative around 10:50 am, slowly infused over 3 to 4 minutes. Murray said Michael finally fell asleep around 11 am.
Dr. Murray said he monitored Michael long enough until he felt comfortable to leave the room, that's when Murray told the detectives that he went to the bathroom and was gone for about two minutes.
Murray said when he came back, he found Michael not breathing with an accelerated pulse. Murray said he began mouth to mouth on Michael, and then chest compressions with one hand. Murray said he couldn't take Michael off the bed to a harder surface, so he improvised by placing his left hand under the body. Murray said while he was giving compressions, he called MJ's assistant on his cell. He said didn't ask the assistant to call 911 because he was busy giving CPR. Murray also told detectives he didn't call 9-1-1 himself because he didn't know the zip code for Michael's house.
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Murray said he gave Michael Propofol every night for 30 days, except for three when he was trying to "wean him off." Murray insisted that in the three days before Michael's death he was trying to wean him off "milk," giving MJ more Lorazepam and Diazepam to bring down the Propofol. Murray said two nights before MJ's death, he had given him no Propofol and thought he was "onto something."
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Modern wireless routers or wireless repeaters, such as the FRITZ!Box 7590 or FRITZ!Repeater 1750E, make the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency band available at the same time. Wireless devices that support both frequency bands decide themselves which frequency to use for a connection. However, wireless devices do not always make the best choice. With band steering, routers and repeaters can determine which frequency band is more suitable for individual wireless devices and automatically steer them to the more suitable one.
Low frequencies can penetrate obstacles such as walls, metallic objects, or objects containing water more easily, which is why the 2.4 GHz frequency band has a greater range. The 5 GHz frequency band, on the other hand, offers more speed near a wireless router since a wider frequency spectrum can be used there, allowing more data to be transmitted in the same amount of time.
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text: Dunedin - Mistakes and silly errors in handling and decision making by both sides dominated much of New Zealand's 21-11 victory over South Africa on Saturday that left the All Blacks on the verge of winning the inaugural Rugby Championship. The All Blacks scored two tries, from fullback Israel Dagg and replacement scrumhalf Aaron Smith, while flyhalf Aaron Cruden slotted three penalties and a conversion to keep the world champions unbeaten in the competition. Springboks wing Bryan Habana scored a brilliant individual try early in the second half to take his South African try-scoring record to 43, while Morne Steyn and his replacement Johan Goosen added a penalty each. The All Blacks have attempted to play the game at extreme pace under coach Steve Hansen, with backs and forwards linking and keeping the ball alive at every opportunity. While two back door flick passes from players being tackled set up Dagg's first-half try under the roof in Dunedin, more often than not those passes were being spilled. The All Blacks also did not present the ball accurately at the breakdown for the second successive week, causing problems for first Piri Weepu then Smith, while they were also guilty of hanging on to it too long and incurring the wrath of referee George Clancy. "When we go back and review (the match), there were a number of what we call avoidable penalties," Hansen said. "We made some fairly average mistakes at times. "(But) we did some fairly decent things as well and the opposition weren't going to go away and they came to play. "They brought a great attitude and physicality and when you get a Springboks side like that, they're hard to play." The young Springboks side will also have plenty to work on before they host Australia in two weeks' time, relying again on a one-dimensional kicking game from flyhalf Steyn to put pressure on the All Blacks inside their own territory. The tactic, dull as it might be and infuriating to the near capacity crowd expecting a running display of rugby, was effective with Clancy awarding the visitors numerous penalties. However, Steyn and inside centre Frans Steyn combined to miss five shots at goal in the first half while Goosen missed a penalty in the second as the Springboks left a possible 20 points from kicks out on the field. The Springboks also blew a certain try early in the match when Habana was unmarked 15 metres from the line only for the final pass to go behind him and into touch, leaving the exasperated right winger glowering at his team-mates. "We can probably look at some real opportunities and that is one area we can learn from the All Blacks, they had one or two opportunities and made the most of it," Habana said. "We have to learn form that. We can't continue to use the excuse that we're a young side. Guys like myself, Jean (de Villiers), Ruan Pienaar, Frans Steyn, have been there for a while. "We know what we expect from a clash with New Zealand and we let ourselves down. "We fight hard but you can't keep making the same mistakes. As a team, this loss will hurt us pretty bad. "We need to take a good look at ourselves. We have to learn from these experiences but we can't continuing learning, we have to do it (on the field)."


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Since 1976, the U.S. beef industry has lost more than 25% of its market share to competing proteins. One major contributor, many industry experts feel, is a lack of consistency and quality in beef products due to the commodity-style marketing that dominates the beef industry. That declining market share also affects the livelihood of beef producers as declining demand saps profit potential, particularly of the most vulnerable segment - the cow-calf producer.
To counter both the quality problem and the profitability issue, beef producers are increasingly banding together in an effort to produce a better product more efficiently at a greater profit and for a price based on the product's value. That vehicle is the beef marketing alliance.
What Is An Alliance? Basically, a beef marketing alliance is a cooperative arrangement between various sectors of the industry. In a sense, it approximates the vertical integration structure that has brought more consumer-friendly products and efficiency to the pork and poultry industries, but retains the independence of operators in each beef production segment.
Cow-calf producers, for instance, can share genetics and pool their cattle for added marketing clout. A feedlot owner can set up an alliance with producers, a processor and a retailer and guarantee that certain qualities will exist in their cattle.
Producers in such systems can retain ownership on all or part of their cattle and potentially gain greater rewards in such a value-based system. The producers and feedlot owners benefit by receiving higher prices for their products, while processors and retailers profit from the premium quality and uniform products.
A new wrinkle this year is the advent of the producer-owned beef cooperative. U.S. Premium Beef of Kansas City, MO, began processing cattle in December 1997, for instance, and essentially takes beef from conception to consumer.
"An alliance is an alliance whether you're talking beef or consumer goods," says Jim Kendrick, a marketing specialist at the University of Nebraska. "When Wal-Mart buys socks they deal directly with the manufacturer. If red socks aren't selling and blue socks are, that information is passed back and the manufacturer produces more blue socks and fewer reds."
The supply and demand swings, and the financial peaks and valleys are removed for both the manufacturer and retailer, Kendrick explains. Information is passed through the alliance so that the involved parties are all working toward providing what the consumer wants. Wal-Mart and the manufacturer both profit from the streamlined distribution system, and consumers get the quality and service they want at prices they consider fair.
In the beef industry, the idea is to change the system from one where cattle are purchased and sold for an average price, to a system where better-quality cattle are bought for a premium and sold for what their quality indicates they're worth, says Mike Miller, analyst at Cattle-Fax.
"All our price discovery today starts with the fed-cattle market and mostly what we do is price almost all the fed cattle that are sold on an average price," Miller says. "Good pens of cattle might bring more than poorer pens but the difference isn't enough to send a strong message about quality to the industry.
"Alliances are saying: 'Some cattle are better than others and so they're worth more. We're willing to pay you to produce that better product,' " Miller says.
That value-based system isn't dominant yet, Miller adds, but as alliances grow and attract more producers and cattle, all operating under a system of premiums and discounts based on individual animal quality, the overall quality of cattle being produced in the U.S. will improve.
The more these quality products come on the market, the worse it becomes for producers selling a commodity product, says Harlan Ritchie of Michigan State University. Under a commodity system, higher-quality animals are mixed with the poorer ones. As those better carcasses are identified and skimmed off, the poorer ones will likewise be identified and devalued.
Alliance participants basically shoot for specific quality targets set by that particular alliance. Participants are paid according to how they measure up to those targets. Practically all alliances pay on a grid basis, where a base price is determined from the cash market. Cattle hitting the target get the base price, those exceeding the target get more. Those falling short are discounted.
"The discounts are always bigger than the premiums and they can be severe," Miller says. "For the most part, if a producer can hit 50-55 percent Choice grade, he'll probably get by. If your cattle grade 70 percent Choice and 70 percent Yield Grade 1 and 2s, you'd have a hard time finding a grid that your cattle wouldn't work on," he says.
What's In It For Producers? * First and foremost is the carcass and performance data on cattle sent through the alliance. "Over time, this data will become increasingly important to you as a cow-calf producer. I think in the very near future, cattle buyers are going to demand this information, particularly if they're selling on some sort of grid themselves," Miller says.
* Secondly, in almost all cases, alliance participants have the opportunity to sell on some sort of a grid basis. For producers who feel they have higher quality cattle, a grid system will reward that quality.
* And, in most cases, retained ownership financing is available through one of the participating feedlots in the alliance. Some alliances, however, provide this service themselves, and producers still receive the performance and carcass data.
Producers who will most benefit from participating in an alliance, Miller says, are those who have an idea of how their cattle measure up. If a producer has never retained ownership or collected carcass data, they're operating from a distinct disadvantage.
Producers, Miller says, must also be realistic in their expectations of what an alliance will do for them and how much of a premium they can achieve selling through such a system.
"Some people will do very well. In most cases, with the right kind of cattle, you could make a $10-15 per head premium to what you would get on the live market. In some cases, it could sure be more than that," he says.
There Are Tradeoffs A higher price doesn't always mean a higher profit. If longer feeding is needed to reach a certain endpoint, a premium could be lost with the increased inefficiency.
"There is an opportunity through alliances for more premiums, but there's also an opportunity for bigger discounts," he says.
In addition, some "natural" programs pay more, but the production costs are higher due to the requirement that no antibiotics or implants be used.
The net effect of alliances, believes Michigan State's Harlan Ritchie, will result in four specification beef markets.
* A high-quality market calling for mid-Choice and higher.
* A high-Select to low-Choice grade but still with acceptable tenderness.
* A lean, heavily muscled product, largely in the Select grade, but again with acceptable tenderness.
* And, a "natural" or organic market, which will remain the smallest.
All other beef produced, says the Extension beef specialist and professor of animal science, will go into the commodity market.
Those producing solely for this commodity market, Ritchie says, will find limited options. Contract production similar to that in the hog industry where independent operators grow or finish hogs according to stipulated genetics, management and inputs, could become commonplace for this sector.
"Fifteen years down the road, I would not want to have the commodity market as my only option. Now's the time to begin to get your house in order," he says.
Harlan Hughes, Extension livestock economist at North Dakota State University, agrees about limited options for producers without a good knowledge of their cattle.
"The beef industry I see coming, and very shortly, will be totally data driven. We're moving away from just running cows to managing cows. That means having the performance, feedlot and carcass data to manage by the numbers rather than by gut feelings."
Producers without performance data on their cattle, Hughes believes, will have a much tougher time turning a profit. "Cost of production will be the only way these people will be able to compete because there will be a price differential between commodity and specification beef," he says.
Getting Started To get started, Cattle-Fax's Miller reiterates the importance of gathering performance data, studying it and then investigating the various alliances available to see which program's targets best fit your cattle.
Producers without any history on their cattle should retain ownership on a representative number of calves from their herd and collect feedlot performance and carcass data on them, Miller advises. This doesn't have to necessarily be done through an alliance, but the information is a must if a producer ever intends to send all his cattle through an alliance with any degree of confidence as to success, he says.
At this point, feeders can truly begin to educate customers about the value of uniform cattle with carcass data and price received. Whether or not that customer eventually joins an alliance is up to him, but it's likely you'll have started him on the road to improving herd genetics.
"And, just because you have a certain breed doesn't necessarily mean you should be selling in that breed's alliance. There are so many alliances and programs out there today that if you're having trouble fitting your cattle to a certain program or a certain grid, go find another one. You should be able to find something that will work for you," Miller says.
He also suggests looking at the fees charged by an alliance. Almost all of them have a fee to offset data collection and distribution. Then, there are the requirements and costs of special cattle handling, such as specific preconditioning requirements, etc.
"In certain cases, participants are required to feed their calves at a certain feedlot. It can be a problem if you're located in California and you have to ship your cattle to Kansas," Miller says.
Crunch the numbers. Will the costs of an alliance be offset by the quality of your cattle? Only your data will tell you.
Are Alliances Here To Stay? In any successful venture, those that get on early reap the most reward. They also take on the greatest risk. In 1985, Maverick Ranch Beef faced 50 competitors in the specialty branded beef market. Ten years later, Maverick is one of only five survivors. The washout likely won't be as severe with beef marketing alliances, but some won't make it, says North Dakota's Hughes. He's convinced value-based marketing in some form is here to stay and will continue to grow.
"Alliances are here to stay," Hughes says. "We'll continue to see growth, but it might slow as this current cattle cycle strengthens." Hughes predicts that 30% of all cattle will be in some sort of a value-based marketing system within five years, 50% in 10 years.
Those are estimates that Michigan State's Ritchie finds very plausible. "We're going to see all sorts of different shapes and forms developing in this industry," Ritchie says. "This is a tremendously exciting time for the beef industry. Alliances are one big wake-up call."
Wayne Purcell of the Research Institute on Livestock Pricing at Virginia Tech believes that beef alliances could control as many as 4-5 million head of cattle within a few years. While he sees it as a positive result for quality and a more consumer-oriented product, it bodes negatively for those producers not in the value-based loop.
Indeed, many industry experts predict that in the future there will be two distinct beef markets. One will be verified, quality-controlled cattle with a known source, animal health history and feedlot and carcass performance histories, which will sell for a premium. The other will be cattle without documentation that will become a discounted market.
"Chance favors those who are prepared," the renowned scientist Louis Pasteur once said. In the case of value-based marketing, that characterization seems particularly apropos. Knowing what kind of cattle you're producing, even if you don't participate in alliances, will be an essential component for survival in the U.S. beef industry of the future.


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OSAGE CITY—Two winners in the Christmas on Us promotion stepped forward to claim $50 in scrip money, but eight $50 instant prizes remain to be won, before the final drawings Dec. 19 at Osage City High School auditorium.
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See pages 9-11 of this week's Herald-Chronicle to find hidden ticket numbers in the ads and a complete list of rules.
Through the Christmas on Us giveaway, Osage County merchants are making sure that shopping at home pays. For every $10 spent at participating merchants, shoppers get a ticket. Those who don't buy, or who are just looking, can get a free ticket each week by stopping by The Herald-Chronicle's office. No purchase is necessary to win.
You must be present at the grand prize drawing to win, and the scrip money is only good at participating merchants. It is simple to win but tough to decide where to spend the winnings with the 30 merchants participating in the county-wide contest.
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|2011-09-28, 15:03
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The One Eyed King
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Lurking Up Ahead
We need something funny now...
EDIT2: problem solved... video I wanted you all to see I saved on my pc a while ago... very funny IMHO http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CP05BJUS
Edit: Other video I was looking for seems to have been taken down... , so switching gears for Nalu fans
Erza rocks video...
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|2011-09-29, 08:19
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Greece
Age: 22
I asked for the topic , and here is mine ... Freed Tribute , sorry for the mirror ... It looked Great with the subs (i took parts where they say special things but unfortunatly i had to mirror it so it can play) .. Anyway , my Freed Tribute
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Welcome back to the epic Hausgemacht interview. In part 2, I ask Ian Smiley and Mike McCaw how they got their start building, selling, and reselling distilling equipment. Ian's up first, so enjoy:
Ian Smiley: I have always been fascinated and intensely interested in the making of beverage alcohol in general and in particular, distilling. I even had little experimental stills that I made when I was a teenager.
And as the years went on, after I had gotten out of the university and things like that and got settled in to a job, I started getting into home brewing and winemaking. And then I got into some fairly advanced distilling processes, almost as an extension of the brewing and winemaking hobby. But I found that there was a significant lack of information.
I could look up in encyclopedias, I could look up how distilleries advertised, how they did their things, but there wasn't a lot of solid how-to information, so I got into experimenting very heavily and for years I experimented and developed processes that emulated the commercial processes. I solved the problems and actually got some good process going.
I learned how to make much better stills than I had been making before and eventually I got active on the Internet, and I started getting so many emails that I was pumping out multiple seven, eight, ten, eleven page emails every day, and I got to the point where I was saving the emails in a Draft folder where people would ask familiar questions and I would take out a ten-page email and just tweak it into the response and send it out.
And at that point, I decided to write a book because I realized I am in effect writing a book in bits and pieces and giving the information away, and I developed a website to sell the book. And then on my website, I started selling other distilling equipment.
I had a partner named John Stone. He's dead now, but we made a glass still together, and we were selling the glass still. And eventually, I got to know the Amphora Society—the Mikes, as they're called in the world—and they had the PDA-1, which in my opinion is the best hobby still you can buy out there. And I got into selling those, and those were selling well.
Further to that, I became involved with Brewhaus America, in Fort Worth, Texas. And they have a reflux still that they sell. A very popular style of still, but in my opinion, not an optimum technology. But I must say that that type of reflux still is probably the singularly most popular design of still among home distillers. So now that I'm the Canadian distributor of the Brewhaus line of products in general—Brewhaus and Gert Strand—I am now selling the Brewhaus Essential Extractor as they call it.
Dietsch: Yeah, I saw some of that equipment on your site earlier. Now, Mike, do you mind answering that question, too? How did you get involved in building and distributing distillation equipment?
Mike McCaw: I've been operating for the past 20 years as a process-optimization scientist for a big manufacturing company. I'm not a chemical engineer by background, but I've sort of become one through experience.
I used to be a brewer of pretty significant proportions. I would have five or six different things on tap, in my basement, at any one time. But I tended to like my beers big and chewy. And as I aged I started to have to watch my blood sugar a little bit, so I pretty much had to quit brewing those beers because if I brewed them I'd drink them. I don't get invited to nearly as many parties anymore.
Anyway, at about the time I realized I was going to have to give up the brewing—I really enjoyed the process and had done a lot of work on processing it. I did all my brewing from grain, had a pretty sophisticated process down, and enjoyed running the process and tinkering with it.
So at that point, I was casting about for, gee, what can I do? And I remembered having read the Foxfire books a number of years previously and one of them—I forget which one it is now—is basically devoted to bootlegging arts from the Appalachian region from back around the turn of the century. So I pulled that out and read it, and as I was rereading it, I said, "No, I couldn't practice this. This is too big and covert." I suddenly had a flash–this would have been about 1998, I guess—"Gee, I ought to see what's out there on the Internet."
So I went out and did some Internet searching and came across this little book called How to Make Your Own Gin and Vodka. And John Stone and Mike Nixon were the authors of that. So I downloaded a copy for five dollars and read it; it was interesting, but it was a little, "Build exactly this, and do exactly this, and you'll turn out alcohol." And the process part was pretty interesting, but their fermentation technology stunk.
So I wrote the two authors and said, basically, "Gee, I liked your little book, but as a brewer of 15 years' experience, I've gotta tell you guys that the fermentation process you give isn't going to work the way you say it will." And I got a rather terse note back from one author, saying, "I'm a Ph.D. chemist, shut up and do what I tell you." And got a note back from the other one, saying, "Tell me more, I'm hearing from our customers this doesn't work."
So, at any rate, that started an Internet conversation, and six to eight months later, Mike Nixon proposed that we write a new book. And I said, "Yeah." I was honored but I didn't want to do just another version of "Do exactly this…". So we spent the next two years writing The Compleat Distiller. And I don't know if you've seen that book or not, but it really digs down into the science and somewhat into the art of distilling, but tries to give the person who reads it the tools they would need to actually design an optimal still for themselves, should they choose to do so.
Dietsch: So it's not so much a recipe book or a follow-these-instructions-and-you-will-get-this-product as much as it is an introduction to the theory and science behind the art of distilling?
McCaw: Right, we have a couple of chapters on the same things for the fermentation process, and we cover distilling in the broad sense, so it's distilling of essential oils, it's steam distillation, but 80 percent of the book is devoted to distilling to make alcohol, but it is a general text on the whole subject. And that book is now in its fifth printing and second edition.
But somewhere after a couple of years of selling the book, we started to get a lot of calls back from people, saying, "Yeah, I liked it, but I don't have the time or skills to design and make my own." And we designed the PDA-1 and started to sell that…. We call the PDA-1 a laboratory-scale still, and then designed the PDA-2, which we call a pilot-scale still, which would be pilot scale for a real commercial distillery, but is actually an ideal start-out size for somebody setting up a microdistillery. And that's something that's starting to sweep the country right now just like microbreweries did about 20 years ago.
In fact it turned out that my primary interest is in designing and tweaking the design of the equipment. For me, watching a still run is a lot like watching paint dry. I'm much happier down in the workshop tweaking the designs. There's so many different aspects to a hobby like this. Some people get involved for economic reasons, some people get involved for quality reasons, some people just want the biggest and best equipment in their basement.
Dietsch: As fascinated as I was by reading the description of building a still in Matt's book, I'm a person who can barely put together a coffee table that I picked up from Ikea. So the idea of building something like that at home is extremely intimidating. Do you find that that's the case with a lot of your customers?
McCaw: With some. I don't know a lot, because I think most of the people who come and buy the book are people who feel handy are looking to see, What does it take to do this?
We certainly get hits on our website from people who will state flat out, I do not work with my hands. I say, Okay, fine. And those are the people that we design the equipment for, those who want the highest quality and either don't have the interest or the time in making it.
But in both the home brewing community and in the distilling community that we've served with our business, I divide people into three broad categories, and I'm sure there's more, or you could divide it up differently, but there's one group of hobbyists who really are all about economics. And in home brewing I would say these are the British brewers, where beer is expensive, it's highly taxed, and if you read the British brewing websites, almost all the recipes involve copious amounts of sugar because what they're really trying to do is make beer cheaper. In the States, it was all about making a quality product that at the time you couldn't buy in the store. So recipes were all about malt and people were spending a lot more money on equipment. But so there's the pure economic person and they're not our customer because they don't want to spend up for a high-quality still; they're all about, What can I do the cheapest?
Then there's the group that I call the tinkerers, and I would probably put myself in that group. These are the people who are primarily interested in the equipment and the process and they're always tweaking their equipment and trying to make it better. Frequently they get caught up in the wrong cycle and instead of making it better they get caught up in making it bigger and faster. So if you scan the Yahoo distillers groups' archives, you find all sorts of messages from people saying, "Gee, I've been doing this for six months, and suddenly I find that I've got 50 gallons of vodka in my basement. What am I going to do with it?"
And then there are the people who are really into and all about trying to make a better quality product. And some of them will tinker and build their own and some want to just buy the equipment, but they're focused on the product and not the process. That's just the way I see it dividing out.
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text: Konstantin Kudin wrote: >--- Joe Landman <landman at scalableinformatics.com> wrote: > > > >>> It is unlikely that one can gain much speed from going to 64 bits, >>> >>> >>but >> >> >>>the support for larger memory and unlimited scratch files is very >>>worthwhile in itself. >>> >>> >>I have seen in md43, moldy, and a few others, about 20-30% under gcc >>recompilation with -m64 on Opteron. For informatics codes it was >>about the same. >> >> > > Well, bioinformatics codes presumably run mostly integer operations. >This is very different from heavy floating point calculations in G03 >which are double precision in all architectures and run with >approximately the same speed regardless of 32/64 bitness. > > md43 and moldy are molecular dynamics codes. I had been thinking of running some tests with GAMESS, or some other codes just so I have a sense of how electronic structure codes do on the system. For computationally intensive codes, going to 64 bits on the Opteron gets you a) double the number of general purpose registers, b) double the number of SSE registers. This means that the optimizer, if it is dealing with a heavy register pressure code, can do a better job of scheduling the resources. It also means that some codes may be able to leverage more instructions in flight per cycle because of resource availability. The address space is also flat as compared to the segmented space of the 32 bit mode. It is most definitely not a simple case of there being just a 32 vs 64 bit address space. That advantage is there, but it is not the only one. One of the interesting side effects of the NUMA systems has to do with memory bandwidth per CPU as you increase the number of CPUs in a node. For a correctly populated system (e.g. memory evenly distributed among the CPUs), each CPU has full bandwidth to its local memory, and an additional latency hop to remote memory on the same node. If you stack all the memory on a single CPU (as I have seen many folks do, then run benchmarks, and report their results), you share memory bandwidth. In this case, you get the sort of results we see occasionally reported here. Similar results occur if you have a kernel (say an ancient one like 2.4.18) that doesn't know much about NUMA and related scheduling. > > > >>Your mileage will vary of course, but I expect with Gaussian and >>others that >>overflow memory, the overall system design will be as important (if >>not more so) >>to the overall performance than the CPU architecture, unless you can >>somehow >>isolate the computation to never spill to disk. >> >> > > With G03, some types of jobs will mostly be compute bound, and others >will be mostly I/O bound. This is reasonably trivial to predict >beforehand. I've tested jobs which were compute bound because testing >the other side of the equation is more difficult due to more factors. > > For I/O bound jobs a box with loads of RAM and fast sequential I/O is >the best. Something like dual-quad Opteron with 16-32Gb of RAM and 2-4 >ATA disks with RAID0 (striping) is a good choice these days. > > :) I might suggest the 3ware folks for their controllers. Just pick your file systems and stripe width carefully. Joe


text: Los Angeles - Michael Phelps will put the finishing touches on his glittering Olympic career in London, where the swimming superstar says he has nothing left to prove - but plenty to achieve."I don't think anything he could do or not do could change his legacy," longtime coach Bob Bowman said. "He's the greatest Olympian of all time today. He will be after this summer."That's the title Phelps seized four years ago in Beijing, where his stunning sweep of eight gold medals in eight events gave him a career tally of 14 gold medals - the most of any Olympian - and two bronze.Phelps won't try to replicate his Beijing feat in London, where it's far from guaranteed that a seven-event slate will yield seven golds.For Phelps, however, London is about putting a final gloss on a career that has seen him mature from a restless kid who found an outlet for his energy in the water to a cross-over star with all the trappings of modern celebrity."I just want to go out and challenge myself," Phelps said. "There are things that I want to do, and from a competitive part of my career I don't have a very big window to be able to accomplish them."Just what those goals are Phelps is keeping to himself, but a peek at the record book offers a few clues.His four individual events in London -- the 100m and 200m butterfly and 200m and 400m individual medleys -- all offer him a chance at a third straight Olympic gold.No male swimmer has won the same Olympic event at three successive Games, although two women - Dawn Fraser and Krisztina Egerszegi - have done it.Phelps also has a chance to surpass Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina's record 18 career Olympic medals, amassed from 1956-1964.For a time after Beijing, it wasn't clear if Phelps would get serious shot at those milestones.A tabloid photo fracas in 2009, when a British paper ran a picture of him with a marijuana pipe, created an outcry that him reconsidering his plans to continue swimming through 2012.Even after his mind was made up, Phelps found himself paying the price for his indecision and lack of motivation in training as rivals such as US team-mate Ryan Lochte surged to the top of the sport in 2010 and 2011."Two years after Beijing, it was pretty clear that I wasn't doing everything that I could do," said Phelps, who believes he and Bowman have made up for lost time well enough for him to make an impact in London.Certainly Phelps has overcome adversity and negative publicity before.After winning six gold medals and two bronze at the 2004 Athens Olympics he weathered controversy over an underage drink-driving charge. And he soldiered on after a broken wrist disrupted his preparations for Beijing.In some ways, the upheaval and unexpected defeats of the past few years have removed the pressure for perfection and given Phelps time to look back at the entire arc of his Olympic career.That started in 2000, when he made the team for Sydney at 15 and finished fifth in the 200m butterfly.Bowman recalled that Phelps headed out to race in Sydney without properly tying his swim suit."I was obviously not all together, I wasn't fully engaged in everything that I was doing," Phelps recalled of his first Games.Then came Athens, where talk of matching Mark Spitz's record of seven golds at one Games had begun but Phelps was more interested in testing himself against heavyweights Pieter van den Hoogenband and Ian Thorpe in the 200m free, a race that yielded bronze."I wanted to get in there with the best - and we kind of learned that I could juggle a bunch of different things," he said.In Beijing, Phelps recalled, "everything had to be perfect," giving him little time to appreciate his own accomplishment."It's a bunch more relaxed, laid back," Phelps said of his preparations for London, although the famously intense racer still clearly has his sights on gold."There is no need to put yourself out there if you don't know if you can really do it," he said.


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The Results Are In! Congressional and State Election Breakdown
November 9, 2012
What an election! Tuesday saw victories across the board that could signify a change in the tide of HIV/AIDS in the United States. However, the fight to ensure the best quality of life for people living with HIV/AIDS won't be without struggle. Here's a breakdown of some of the major victories and challenges we can expect as a result of Tuesday's election:
The Democrats gained two seats and will maintain control of the Senate with a likely 55 seat majority (Independents Bernie Sanders (VT) and Angus King (ME) are likely to caucus with Democrats), while the Republicans lost two seats and will hold 45 seats in the new Congress. This election saw multiple contentious tossup races go to Democrats. Here are some of the key Democratic victories from that night:
House of Representatives
All 435 seats in the House were up for grabs Tuesday night, and Republicans will maintain control into the next Congress. In the election, Democrats gained four seats for a total of 194, while Republicans lost three seats for a total of 233 but will maintain a majority. Eight seats are currently still undecided. In the current Congress, Republicans have a majority of 240 seats, Democrats currently have 190 seats and there are five vacancies. It takes at least 218 seats to make up a majority.
One truly historical outcome is that, the majority of Democrats in the House will not be white men. Instead, come January, the Democrats in the House will be comprised mostly of women and minorities. AIDS United hopes this change will lead to more allies in the House, as HIV/AIDS in the United States disproportionally affects young men and women of color.
State Legislatures
The importance of the state elections this year cannot be stressed enough. With President Obama's reelection, implementation of the Affordable Care Act will move forward, and the states will play a large role in Medicaid expansion and the creation of health insurance exchanges in 2014. Six Democrats and four Republicans won their races for governor, and Democrats took control of eight state legislative chambers.
"Interestingly, the two parties will share legislative control (i.e. one Republican chamber and one Democratic chamber) in only three states. Therefore, bipartisan agreements regarding Medicaid expansion and health insurance exchanges will be difficult." Furthermore, this election saw all state legislatures in the South turn Republican, while state legislatures in the Northeast and the West Coast are now almost purely Democratic. Many Republicans have voiced their opposition to the Affordable Care Act, meaning that achieving Medicaid expansion and establishing health insurance exchanges in the South could be extremely difficult given the new political makeup. However, the South continues to see a concentration of HIV/AIDS and rising infection rates! It is imperative that all states, especially those in the South, achieve some sort of compromise on these issues in order to provide the best possible care to people living with HIV/AIDS.
Melissa Donze is a Zamora fellow.
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Cyprus bail-in was the grand experiment of money confiscation and coincided with the great smash of Gold. A lot of people have forgotten about this blue print for action and Gold manipulation has helped to disguise the real connections. Jim Sinclair reminds us about all these interconnections and the main factors in the chain of Debt, US Dollar and Gold.
Market Price Discovery And The New Normal: No Taper And US Dollar Goes Up With Gold Being Smashed Down Again GLD, MUX, TNR.v, GDX
GATA: Bill Murphy - The Andrew Maguire Saga Continues: Gold And Silver Markets Manipulations"Somebody is getting very desperate with physical Gold flowing to China and COMEX and LBMA vaults running on fumes. System knows how to dilute the real message, but we are talking here not just about one of the wistleblowers or his credibility - we are talking about Gold and Silver Market Manipulations.
"We will ask our rhetorical question again: after LIBOR fraud, FOREX manipulations, Energy market rigging, Mortgage scam and Pension looting - Is The Gold Manipulation To Be Admitted Next?"
We have very timely the latest entry on the GATA website on this subject to share."
We have very timely the latest entry on the GATA website on this subject to share."
Gold COMEX Claims Per Deliverable Ounce Rises Above 55 at These Prices GLD, MUX, TNR.v, GDX
" Jesse reports about the ongoing Game of Musical Chairs in the Western Fractional Reserve Gold System with manipulated LBMA and COMEX Gold markets. With China taking now all physical delivery from the system the entire Western Gold market is under enormous pressure.
We found it very positive that with more unleashed attacks on Gold - in order to redeem physical Gold from GLD ETF holdings - it is more and more difficult for Gold market manipulators to keep it under $1300. Physical demand is pushing the price right back up. Goldman Sachs clients are not doing very well if they Sold their gold below $1300 following the House Gold Sell Call. This week we had a very impressive breakout in Gold, Silver and Gold & Silver mining stocks."


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The fight against hunger is close to our heart at Ambit Cares. That's why we work hard to operate with transparency and share the successes that you've helped make possible. The Ambit Cares 2017 Annual Report details the past year's highlights, projects and achievements, and shows the impact we've had in the communities where we live and work.
We're thankful for our supporters who've partnered alongside us in communities across the country. Their willingness to give helps us further our mission of changing the lives of those who face hunger in America.
We're proud to share our Ambit Cares 2017 Annual Report so you can see the progress we've made in our second full year.
While we've made great strides, there's still more to do. We look forward to achieving even more in the fight against hunger as we move into 2018.


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Darrin Benhart is Deputy Comptroller for Supervision Risk Management at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
In this role, Mr. Benhart serves as chair of the OCC's National Risk Committee, which is charged with identifying primary and emerging areas of risk to the federal banking system and ensuring that the risks are communicated throughout the agency and to the industry. Mr. Benhart oversees a team that identifies, monitors, develops, and presents reports on existing and emerging risks and serves as a centralized risk analysis unit within the OCC. He assumed this role in October 2014.
Mr. Benhart previously served as Deputy Comptroller for Credit and Market Risk. In that role, he was a principal advisor on risks facing the banking system and set policies for the Commercial and Retail Credit Policy units.
Since joining the agency in 1992, Mr. Benhart has served in a variety of policy, technical and managerial roles, primarily as a field examiner. In these roles, he directed credit related OCC supervisory activities and managed a staff of resident credit examiners in the commercial and retail credit areas in many of the agency's largest banks.
Mr. Benhart received his undergraduate degree in business administration with an emphasis in finance from the University of Northern Iowa and is a Commissioned National Bank Examiner.


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Mikkel Lindhard needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 320 designs submitted by 75 freelance designers.
We produce jewelries from our own design and are inspired by different cultures around the world, the upcoming product line is from the norse mythology and the next could be inspired from the mayans.
We will sell the product by home-sale and our web-shop.
Women between the ages of 30 - 65
The logo will be used for both print catalogs and web.
We like simple & clean.
Not too many colors.
We have a slogan that we would like to have incorporated in the design:
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In the case of this second hand American Eagle tote, everything was perfect for what I needed. From the color to the shape and the size, it was just a matter of concealing the words.
Making the flowers:
*I cut circles out of contrast fabrics in varying sizes, generally ranging from 2" to 4". If you want, you can use some type of circle template to draw the circles on the fabric before cutting, but I like the look of the flowers that come out a little oblong, so I just went straight to the cutting.
After making lots and lots of flowers I just hand sewed them onto the tote in a cascading pattern, trying to conceal the stitch marks as much as possible.
By the time everything was sewn into place it seemed way too pretty for those crappy looking straps, so as a final touch I cut them off and replaced them with strips cut from this old leather belt. Huge improvement!


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