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University of Cambridge
Soft Landscaping carried out to the entire centre, involving all top soiling and tree and shrub planting.
Works included the planting of many shrub areas, soiling and turfing to the Green Roof.
All trees and shrubs were contract grown for the scheme.
Project details
- Client
- Laing O'Rourke
- Value
- £300,000
- Landscape Architect
- Livingstone Eyre Associates


text: Dear "Psychedelic" Artists: It takes more than neon paint and a strategically placed black light to blow one's mind. Just ask Larry Carlson, visionary multi media artist! I would describe Carlson's work as Magritte and Dali's love child if such a child were conceived after the advent of Photoshop. Beautiful yet jarring, welcoming yet otherworldly, Carlson's work is a true feast for the eye.

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Author Notes: This recipe was inspired by a family favourite, and I have adapted an old recipe to make this cake gluten-free. It uses healthy almond and millet flours, also making it grain-free. Naturally sweetened with dates and a little honey, it is moist and deliciously dense.
After a few trials with these new flours, we were all happy to have our favourite back on our plates (warmed and nestled next to a generous scoop of vanilla-bean ice cream!)
Inspired by 'sticky date & oat cake' in 'the So Good cook book' by Sanitarium SoGood, Central Coast Printing, (2007). - KateAlice. —KateAlice.
Food52 Review: I imagine this could have been served at a lord's table in the 1400s. While its large dense crumb may seem more like that of a quick bread, the dates lend it the richness of cake and the drizzle of maple syrup adds the perfect last touch of sweetness. This cake's flavors are very well-balanced. Almond and millet flours weave gluten-free magic together for a final texture that will disappoint no one, gluten-free or otherwise. Dates are already so sweet that some desserts abuse them with added sugar but here, they sing. Note: I used 110g almond flour and 100g millet flour, which seemed just right. - Syronai —beyondcelery
Serves: 8
cups pitted dates, chopped
cup boiling water
teaspoon cream of tartar
teaspoon baking soda/bicarb soda
cup almond flour
cups millet flour
cup grapeseed oil
tablespoons honey
tablespoons maple syrup
- Preheat oven to 350 °F/175 °C. Line or grease either a 8-inch cake tin or a 9-inch by 4-inch loaf pan.
- Place the chopped dates and boiling water in a small saucepan. When it comes back to the boil, add the cream of tartar and baking soda; stir as it froths. Turn off the heat and set the saucepan aside
- In a large bowl, combine almond and millet flours (using a whisk or a fork is best)
- In a medium bowl, lightly beat the eggs, then add the grapeseed oil and honey
- Stir the wet ingredients into the dry
- Pour in the dates and use a wooden spoon to combine the mixture thoroughly
- Pour the batter into the cake tin or loaf pan
- Bake for around 40 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean
- While it is still warm, poke holes with a toothpick on top of the cake, and pour the maple syrup over the cake
- This recipe is a Community Pick!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Gluten-Free Baked Good
More Great Recipes:
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Battle of Verdun
From Conservapedia
In 1916, the Battle of Verdun between the French and Germans may have been the most demanding battle in world history. The struggle started when the Germans attacked Verdun, France, a city surrounded by a ring of underground forts. At least 220,000 soldiers died, and at least 480,000 were wounded in this 10-month struggle that accomplished next to nothing. At the end the front lines were in nearly the same locations as at the beginning.


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Typing !! followed by Enter will bring back and execute the last command (same as Ctrl+P followed by Enter).
2. Use Emacs-like shortcuts
Emacs-like shortcuts make use of the Ctrl and Alt keys, and the big advantage of navigating and manipulating text in a Bash prompt is that you won't have to move your fingers away from the typing position (to access the arrow keys, or the Home, Page Up and Page Down keys). Notice that most of those work well inside manual pages too, or when using the Nano editor, or the less and more pagers.
Ctrl+D - or EOF (end-of-file) will quit the current Bash session
Ctrl+P - bring back the last command executed
Ctrl+N - bring the next command executed
Ctrl+U - delete all from the cursor to the left
Ctrl+K - delete all from the cursor to the right
Ctrl+B - go back one character
Ctrl+F - go forward one character
Alt+B - go back one word
Alt+F - go forward one word
3. Make manual pages coloured
I think this tip is a productivity tip because once a manual page is shown coloured, it is easier, clearer to read. Just add the following inside the ~/.bashrc file, where ~ is your home directory (notice that each line starts with export):
export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\E[01;31m' # begin blinking
export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\E[01;38;5;74m' # begin bold
export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\E[0m' # end mode
export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\E[0m' # end standout-mode
export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\E[38;5;246m' # begin standout-mode - info box export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\E[0m' # end underline
export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\E[04;38;5;146m' # begin underline
Then, type:
source ~/.bashrc
And try any manual page (e.g. man bash). Here's how a coloured man page looks like using the presets above:
4. Use your own scripts
If you have basic knowledge of Bash scripting, you can create scripts and put them in a directory included in your $PATH. You can use something like ~/bin or ~/usr/bin, where ~ is your home directory.
5. Copy/paste using Shift+Insert
Although this one is not Bash-specific, it's very useful when you need to quickly copy/paste some text in your terminal. The same can be accomplished using the middle-click mouse button.
6. Use aliases
One of the powerful features of Bash is that it makes use of aliases. Those are usually short commands which perform some associated, longer command or commands. For example, to update and upgrade your Ubuntu installation you would type sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade, and to create an alias for it you would only have to add something like the following inside the ~/.bashrc file:
alias update='sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade'
Now, each time you type update, the command inside the single quotes will be executed.
Have some other tips that others may find useful? Please share them in the comments below.


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"Feeding a live goat to a hungry pack of Siberian Tigers at the Tiger Park in Harbin, China." -
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FORTY-THREE minutes into his "special live edition" with Charlie Sheen on Monday night, Piers Morgan finally got around to asking his guest a real question. Before that, Mr. Morgan and Mr. Sheen had mostly traded chuckles and anecdotes about multiday benders, inflated network salaries and meet-ups in Aspen, Colo. But then, after three commercial breaks, Mr. Morgan inquired, "Have you ever hit a woman?"
Two minutes later, with Mr. Morgan apparently satisfied with the actor's answer that no, women should be "hugged and caressed," that line of questioning was over.
That Mr. Morgan didn't press the issue of domestic violence shouldn't have come as any surprise. CBS executives, not to mention the millions of viewers of his "family" sitcom "Two and a Half Men," have consistently turned a blind eye toward Mr. Sheen's history of abusing women. Part of this, of course, is about money. The actor's F-18 of an id — to borrow a metaphor from Mr. Sheen himself — had long provided the show a steady stream of free publicity. It also helped make Mr. Sheen the highest-paid actor on television, at $1.2 million an episode.
Read entire article here.
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Three cheers for those that Booed Sheen off of the stage. But, in the next breath I have to say shame on them for paying for a ticket to attend the blubbering idiot speak in the first place. What did they expect to hear from him? More "tiger's blood" I suppose.
I'm proud to say I have never seen an episode of Two and a Half Men. Not that I'm shap enough to have known how much of a F-ing idiot he is so I guess I'm just lucky.
Lee always love your comments.
Charlie Sheen is going insane, literally. It could be the drugs or his acting life or a little bit of both but he is crazy. I watched his interview on the Today Show. They did a drug test on him and surprisingly, he passed.
And yes, he is an asshole. I've seen a few movies of his but I have never, and will never, watch "Two & a half Men." I don't understand how he is the highest paid t.v actor. Over a million per episode? His acting skills aren't even that great...
Violence is not the answer.


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Outreach: Community Involvement
Creativity, Action, and Service (CAS)
The IB Creativity, Action, and Service (CAS) program is a requirement for the IB Diploma and takes seriously the importance of life outside the world of school, providing a counterbalance to academic studies. Students are expected to be involved in CAS activities for the equivalent of at least three (3) hours each week during the two year IB Diploma Programme. Creativity is interpreted broadly to include a wide range of arts activities as well as the creativity students demonstrate in designing and implementing service projects. Action can include not only participation in individual and team sports but also taking part in expeditions and in local or international projects. Service encompasses a host of community and social service activities. Some examples include helping children with special needs, visiting hospitals, and working with the homeless. The CAS coordinator is responsible for helping students engage in, reflect on and sometimes find the right activity for them. A system of self-evaluation encourages students to reflect on the benefits of CAS participation to themselves and to others, and to evaluate the understanding and insights acquired.
Sturgis students describe some of their most meaningful CAS experiences in the following article: "CAS! Creativity, Action, Service" Sturgis Soundings Magazine, (Spring 2012).
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Author Notes: We entered our first chili cookoff years ago, and in our travels along the way we've not only tasted some amazing bowls of red, but met some amazing characters. Ormly Gumfudgin immediately comes to mind. Ormly was such a chili purist that he once physically attacked a Houston chef who put baked beans in his chili. The Texas Rangers came, and, according to reports, yelled at the chef.
I love everything about chili - its welcoming aroma, rich flavor, and soul-embracing warmth - but most of all, I love chili because it's meant to be shared with as many friends as possible!
Food52 Review: Like barbecue or chocolate chip cookies, chili has inspired many a debate. Connoisseurs know that there are as many versions as there are cooks who make it, but not all chili is created equal. Wssmom's Bowl of Red gives other contenders a run for their money. It's rich and smooth, with a creeping heat from homemade chili paste -- by far the most labor intensive part of the recipe, and it's really not that much work. The addition of a little bittersweet chocolate evokes the suppleness of a good mole, and the delicate beef cubes virtually melt in your mouth. We love that you don't brown the onions or garlic, but just throw them in with the seared meat and the broth to mellow and soften. We highly recommend a spritz of lime juice and a dollop of sour cream to finish it off. - A&M —The Editors
Serves: 6 hungry chiliheads
Chile Paste
2 ounces dried chile pepper pods, mostly New Mexico with a couple Guajillos tossed in
1 1/2 tablespoons bacon fat
3 pounds chuck (after trimming), neatly diced into 1/2 to 3/4-inch cubes (partially freeze the meat for easier dicing)
1/2 pound ground pork
lots of freshly-ground pepper
1 1/2 - 2 cups homemade beef or chicken broth
1 gigantic sweet onion (about one pound), diced
6 cloves garlic, minced
8-10 tablespoons premium commerical chili powder, such as Whole Foods or Gebhardt's
2 tablespoons ground cumin, toasted briefly
healthy pinch oregano
1 teaspoon Kosher salt
2 cups tomato sauce
1/2-ounce square bittersweet chocolate
Chili paste
2 tablespoons brown sugar
plenty of shredded cheddar, sour cream and lime wedges for serving
Chile Paste
- Wearing rubber gloves, stem and seed the chile pods and cover with near-boiling water. Let steep for 30 minutes, then pour off the water and puree the softened pods in a food processor until they form a paste. Pass through a sieve to remove skins and errant seeds. Set aside.
- First, pour yourself a shot of tequila and toast legendary chilihead Carroll Shelby, who founded the International Chili Society. Then, heat the bacon fat in a really big skillet, and working in batches, saute the beef and pork until no longer pink. Drain off the fat.
- Place the meat, along with several grinds of pepper, the onions and garlic, in your favorite chili pot and add 1 1/2 cups of the beef or chicken broth. Bring to a boil, lower to a simmer, and cover. Keep the lid on, and your hands off, for 90 minutes. In the meantime, read H. Allen Smith's brilliant article "Nobody Knows More About Chili Than I Do." (Here's a link: http://www.chilicookoff.com/history/history_started.asp)
- After 90 minutes, stir in the chili powder, cumin, oregano, salt, tomato sauce, chocolate and half the chile paste. Cover and cook for another half-hour or so. Chase away your guests, who will no doubt be hovering around, demanding to know when it's going to be ready.
- At this point, check for consistency. If it's too thin, scoop out the meat and reduce the sauce by bringing to a boil, and when you're happy with it, return the meat to the pot. Stir in the brown sugar. (If it's too thick, add some more of the broth.) Smack any guest who gets too close with a wooden spoon.
- Cook, uncovered, for 10 more minutes, and check for seasoning. You can add more salt, chili powder and cumin if you like, or more chile paste if you want to amp it up, or more brown sugar if you like it sweet and hot.
- When it looks as good as it smells, summon the troops and serve with a squeeze of lime and a dollop of sour cream. (But have some cheese on hand anyway for the die-hard cheddar lovers!)
- The Recipe You Want To Be Remembered For Contest Finalist!
- This recipe is a Community Pick!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Chili
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Chili Pepper Recipe
More Great Recipes:
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--Mr. Zero
P.S. It has 30 ads and is a total disaster. But at least it exists.
Oh my God I am so fucking dumb. I thought I saw a link to vol. 194, but I guess I was wrong. Sorry. Shit. Sorry.
In which issues concerning the profession of philosophy are
bitched griped about
What are you reading? I'm on the APA's website and it says JFP 194 will be published online only on May 16. What did you read that has only 30 jobs?
Hold on.
The email I got from Mike Morris of the APA reads:
"Jobs for Philosophers volume 194, to be published May 16, 2012, will be published online as JFP 194W. There will be no print edition. All ads scheduled for the print edition will appear online in JFP 194W. "
Yeah, I fucked this up pretty bad.
Can we have a thread dedicated to Nina Strohminger's epic review?
I echo Anon 12:15. Of all the scathing reviews I've seen, none is as scathing as this one.
(For those in the dark: http://prophilosophy.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/review-of-colin-mcginns-the-meaning-of-disgust/)
Where was that review published? It was awesome! Let's see if McGinn can take as good as he gives!
I'm confused by this ProPhilosophy WordPress blog. Is it an attempt to overtake Leiter? Who runs it?
2:36 - Forthcoming in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.
First off, love the new prophilosophy blog. Good luck!
Second, and off topic: about how many applications would a department receive for
(a) an AOS philosophy of language search, and
(b) an AOS metaphysics search?
Feedback from people who have actually served on search committees would be especially welcome.
Prophilosophy blog is being run by someone who is about to get sued given all the material he's stealing from Leiter's blog, and without even attribution.
@Anon 1106a. Depends on a bunch of factors, but we get about 300 for metaphysics and fewer, maybe 200 for language. Btw, these are terrible AOSs to have, far too competitive and impacted. For all the people talking about how hard to get a job in professional philosophy, the best thing you can do is pick marketable areas (e.g., applied ethics). Get hired, then do metaphysics/language.
Anon 11:06
The number of applicants would differ a bit according to what school was doing the search. I imagine the number could end up being anywhere between 170-700. The higher end is really speculation on my part.
While I have recently served on a search committee which included Philosophy of Language as an AOS, it was one of a few possible areas of specialization that were preferred for the position. As this opening was at a smaller Liberal Arts School (undergraduate department only), the number of applicants was, perhaps, significantly lower than those on the radar of every Leiterphile in the US.
Hi, love your blog. My spouse is a recent continentalist PhD from a ranked school. No matter how you try to spin it, these numbers suck. There are too many philosophers, not enough jobs, and no change likely until the baby boomers start to retire and die. Shouldn't you be looking for exit strategies? This is a sincere question since we have been working out our answer to this for the past few months.
"...no change likely until the baby boomers start to retire and die."
This idea has been floating around for decades and has come to nothing. Don't bank on there being a wave of retirements that expand job availability.
You know, we 'boomers' - I gather I am on the tail end - are thinking about/longing for retirement. However, casual references to our deaths are vulgar, at best.
If you boomers hadn't squandered the moral, political, and financial resources of the entire country -- perhaps the entire world -- perhaps I'd have some sympathy. Vulgar > evil.
Deaths occur constantly. (150,000 people die per day, according to the Internet.) It would be inconvenient to be solemn every time we refer to such a commonplace event.
"...no change likely until the baby boomers start to retire and die."
Or until the younglings find something else to do...and die.
I suggest that we start a new thread topic: When should job applicants have to finish the Ph.D. for hiring purposes? In this tight job market, my anecdotal sense is that more institutions want the Ph.D. in hand, at least for a few months, if not a few years, if they're to be a serious candidate for a position. But the Leiter thread on the same topic seems to suggest otherwise. Lots of ABDs are getting hired, who either defend the week before they start teaching or start teaching and then defend a few months later. The suggestion that job candidates be told they must finish the Ph.D. first is thought to put undue financial pressure on them, since after they defend they lose institutional funding. However, on teh positive side, it might reduce the size of job applicant pools.
"Or until the younglings find something else to do...and die."
Good like finding "younglings" to fund your retirement.
I may be a boomer, but at least I teach my students the division fallacy. I bet the majority of boomers in our profession have done a lot personally and politically to challenge the damage fellow money-grabbing boomers have done in moving to the Republithug party. There's a mindset here that is very troubling: that somehow I have a tenured job that younger people deserve by being just younger. If there were such a thing (as with rap), I'd challenge a lot of commentators here to a teach-off. Yeah, times are shitty for jobs, and I barely survived in the profession during such a time (early 80s), so I get that. But I didn't wish for people to die for my benefit. Jeez.
CTS is da person.
Off-topic, but has anyone else seen this ad?:
What exactly is "term-line"? Does this mean a non-tenure-track appointment?
I was on a search committee this year at a SLAC and the head of the search committee insisted that we only give serious consideration to candidates who already had the PhD in hand. I thought about posting this on Leiter's thread, but didn't want to embarrass myself or my school. It's clear that the best schools don't do this. If you really want to hire an experienced teacher, though, then it makes some sense.
Seems relevant to 7:36:
"But I didn't wish for people to die for my benefit."
What if they are "Republithugs"?
"When should job applicants have to finish the Ph.D. for hiring purposes?"
As with most questions about the market, the answer is "it depends." And the shitty thing is, you won't even know when it depends.
Since I've been at my university, we've hired multiple people. While in general we will consider advanced ABD who are close to finishing, this really depends on the search committee. I've been on a search where we all agreed to consider ABDs (and then hired one); I've been on a search where the other members of the committee insisted on someone who was already finished. If the pool of applicants is strong enough (and these days, it always is), a committee need not look at ABDs.
The only hard and fast answer I would give is this: you must be ready to defend before you start the job, if you are hired ABD. This is for a three reasons:
1. Your sanity. Trying to finish and defend a dissertation while starting a new job is a hell I wouldn't wish on anyone.
2. Your salary. In some cases (and this is the case at my university), we can hire you ABD but you cannot hold the rank of Assistant Professor until you complete the degree. So we would hire you as a lecturer, and you'd be "promoted" once you finish. But as a lecturer, you would make less money; also, the university would not be contributing to your retirement during that time. In the long run, these things matter.
3. Your tenure clock. At my university, your tenure clock starts the minute you start working for us (if hired for a tenure-track position). Some may say this is pretty unfair, but the way it works here is that if you are not finished, you become a lecture...but your tenure close is already running. You go up for tenure 6 years after you are hired, not 6 years after you defend. And the real bitch of it is that completing and defending your dissertation does not count toward tenure; because those are expected at the time of hire (and we effectively waived that to then hire you as a lecturer), they don't count toward your research requirements. So in your 2-year review, you'll be expected to finish your PhD *and* maintain an active research agenda to work toward tenure. (This goes back to my first point.) No, not all university systems are like this, but mine is. And we are not the only one.
OK, bets on how many NEW (not in the last web-only) jobs will get posted tomorrow?
I'll go for . . . 3 (but I'm hoping for 5).
@May 10, 8:37:
"If you boomers hadn't squandered the moral, political, and financial resources of the entire country -- perhaps the entire world -- perhaps I'd have some sympathy."
We ALL did all these terrible things?
"We ALL did all these terrible things?"
Certainly not. Just us tenure track faculty. :)
Plea for a new post on Nous and PPR:
Does anyone ever wonder whether Nous and PPR should both have different Editors (or what some call editors in chief)?
One day someone should do some fancy statistical analysis of connections to Brown or Rutgers (since Sosa became associated with Rutgers, which was before he became a regular professor there) and having a paper published in Nous or PPR?
How many of Sosa's students, and partners of Sosa's students, have had papers published in Nous and/or PPR?
Of course, to some extent, the system does indeed work - top programs like Brown and Rutgers educate their PhD graduates well enough for them to publish on the merits in top journals such as Nous and PPR. Nonetheless, I am surprised that no one has yet done a fancy statistical analysis (and the research required to dig up and piece together the relevant data) to show that students of Sosa, partners of students of Sosa (and perhaps students of Sosa's colleagues at Brown and Rutgers) have a wildly disproportionate and scandalous record of publication in Nous and PPR.
Is this clear (or at least seemingly suspicious) to anyone else? Does anyone strongly disagree? Could we please have a very carefully worded and detailed post on this matter?
So where's the new JFP post? Is it that depressing that it's not worth writing about?
JFP is better than I expected. Nothing I'll apply for, though. I am surprised at the lack of discussion.
"One day someone should do some fancy statistical analysis of connections to Brown or Rutgers (since Sosa became associated with Rutgers, which was before he became a regular professor there) and having a paper published in Nous or PPR?"
Good rule of thumb: if something is important to you, do the legwork. I'd be happy to read your results, but I don't care enough to do the work myself.
"One day someone should do some fancy statistical analysis of connections to Brown or Rutgers (since Sosa became associated with Rutgers, which was before he became a regular professor there) and having a paper published in Nous or PPR?"
Then do it. When you are done come back and tell us. Until then please stop making accusations that you are admitting are completely unsupported by reliable empirical evidence. Discussing the sense you have of unfairness at these journals is not worth doing.
So Leiter sent a cease and desist letter to that new professional philosophy blog: prophilosophy. Ah, with friends like these...
Conspiracy theory: ProPhilosophy is also written by Brian Leiter, created to stir up more controversy and thus page views.
Please draw attention to this wise comment. Thanks!
This is probably obvious, but I can't seem to find it ... Where is the JFP to be accessed on the APA website? I've logged in and can't seem to find it anywhere. Even a site-search doesn't turn it up.
(I'm resisting the urge to editorialize this query. I mean ... well, don't get me started.)
Members Only/Publications
Thanks, 8:45AM. I realize now that I wasn't finding it because I hadn't paid my dues for this year. Seems to me that, even if access is blocked for this reason, there should at least be a link indicating where the JFP would be found in the event that one were to pay her dues. But I digress ... Thanks.


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You can enter broker configuration properties from the command line when you start a broker, or afterward.
At startup time, you use the Broker utility (imqbrokerd) to start a broker instance. Using the command's -D option, you can specify any broker configuration property and its value; see Starting Brokers and Broker Utility for more information. If you start the broker as a Windows service, using the Service Administrator utility (imqsvcadmin), you use the -args option to specify startup configuration properties; see Service Administrator Utility.
You can also change certain broker configuration properties while a broker is running. To modify the configuration of a running broker, you use the Command utility's imqcmd update bkr command; see Updating Broker Properties and Broker Management.


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This past high school season was a tough one for the Gunn baseball program, as the Titans won only twice during a 30-game season and found themselves struggling in the tough SCVAL De Anza Division.
A trio of Gunn alums, however, hope to bring some respect to the program while competing for a championship this weekend.
Manager Greg Matson, pitcher Ricky Navarro and pitcher/infielder Graham Fisher are all members of a Palo Alto Oaks squad that just wrapped up its Western Baseball Association regular season with a 14-2 record, and are now set to host the five-team AABC West Regional tournament starting Friday.
"It's great having Gunn grads on the team," Oaks general manager Steve Espinoza said. "The Oaks have been here for 65 years and it's always nice to get (Gunn) guys joining us."
Matson and Navarro are veterans on this Oaks squad, having both graduated from Gunn in 2002. Matson has been a member of the Oaks' organization for the past 12 years, and been a player/manager of the team for the past three seasons.
"Being an older guy and having a full-time job, it's kind of a release for me every Sunday," Navarro said of what keeps him playing. "You don't have to worry about work, just play baseball. It brings me back to when I was 13, playing Babe Ruth. It's always good to have the Palo Alto name on your chest."
Fisher is a newcomer to the Oaks. He's back home for the summer after completing his first year playing baseball (and football) for Grinnell College in Iowa.
"Having Graham here is pretty special. It's good to have another true Palo Alto guy on the team," Navarro said. "We have a little more 'pop' in the lineup this year due to guys like Graham and some of the other players we've added."
"I'm primarily used as a pitcher in college . . . so it's nice to get to both hit and pitch here," added Fisher, whose teammates nicknamed him "Thor" for his power at the plate and his long blonde hair. "It's fun going out and playing America's pastime.
"This is a great organization. It gives quality semi-pro baseball to the people of Palo Alto. And, just giving opportunities to players like me and a bunch of other players who have graduated from college."
The Oaks' excellent regular-season record was no surprise to followers of the team, as the Oaks have built themselves into a dominating force in the Western Baseball Association. The Oaks have won eight of the past nine WBA championships, and won three consecutive AABC West Regional championships from 2010 to 2012.
Last season, the Oaks once again went to the championship game of the West Regional hosted in Sacramento, but lost to Easton Elite of Los Angeles in the finals.
With the tournament based in Palo Alto this weekend, the Oaks hope to use the familiar surroundings of their home field Baylands Athletic Center to their advantage.
"There is definitely extra incentive hosting the tournament," Navarro said. "When we host the tournament, we want to put on a show and win it. It's our home turf; we have to protect that."
The Oaks will be competing against four other teams from around California: the Easton Elite Dodgers and San Fernando Cardinals from Southern California, the Legends from the Sacramento area, and long-time rival Fontanetti's from San Jose.
The tournament consists of a double-elimination format with the championship game scheduled for Sunday at Baylands Athletic Center at 10 a.m. A challenge game, if needed, will be played at 2 p.m.
Much like previous Oaks squads that have had success in the tournament, the foundation for this year's team lies with its deep and talented pitching staff.
"You can never have enough arms," Matson said. "That's always a problem for teams, especially in tournaments like this."
Although the Oaks' rotation has not been set, Espinoza said that Brant Norlander and CJ Hillyer probably would be first in line to get starts, and mentioned Fisher and veteran Matt Campbell as other candidates to start a game in the tournament, as well. Navarro, meanwhile, is a solid arm out of the bullpen.
The Oaks have another incentive to bring home a regional championship this year, as Espinoza is retiring after 11 seasons running the Oaks.
"Steve's first year (as GM) was my first year. We've both grown together, learned the game and learned each other," Matson said. "It would be nice to take the West (title) and let Steve and some of the other veterans go out on a high note."
Another issue facing the Oaks is whether or not they would compete in the AABC World Series if they were to win the West Regional.
Last season the Oaks were planning to boycott the World Series if they made it, and the Oaks face similar financial troubles to fund a World Series trip this year.
Espinoza estimates it costs $6,000 a season to keep things running. The Oaks have to rent Baylands each weekend and the cost of umpires is $160 each game. Traveling is a whole different story with hotel and airfare costs. Espinoza said Easton Elite spent some $50,000 to attend last year's World Series in New York.
While Espinoza will be gone after this season, the fate of the team is still undecided.
For whatever lies ahead for the Oaks, Matson is proud of what the team accomplished over the past decade.
"Seeing how far the program has come from when we started and didn't even realize there was a tournament, to competing for the World Series every year, it's a good feeling," Matson said. "It's nice to have a team like Palo Alto where not a lot of people from outside the area even knew we had a competitive team, and to turn it into a perennial powerhouse . . . It's nice to set the goals that high."
The Oaks' first tournament game is against the Cardinals on Friday at Washington Park in Burlingame at 10 a.m. If they win that game, the Oaks would get an automatic bye to the third round on Saturday (4 p.m. at Baylands) due to the uneven number of teams entered in the tournament.
The championship game is Sunday at Baylands starting at 10 a.m. Should the undefeated team lose, a challenge game will follow at 2 p.m. At stake will be a trip to the AABC Stan Musial World Series from Aug. 6-10 in Farmingdale, N.Y.
For the Oaks, a regional title may be just as satisfying.


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Divya Upadhyay, friend and coordinator for MITWA News, encouraged me to sum up my typical week at work. Here's what I came up with…
As I settle down to write this article, I realize it's going to be hard to describe my "typical week" at work. The beauty of a week in the life of a technical communicator at my workplace is that there is no standard week. Every week is dynamic and brings with it new opportunities, challenges, and projects.
For starters, technical communicators are titled Content and Community Lead at my workplace, which implies that "conventional technical communication" forms only a fraction of our work responsibilities. The organization itself is called Community Help and Learning (CHL). Community Help is the guiding philosophy that documentation should be a curated body of content that leverages user community-created content just as seriously as it leverages conventional technical communication. As an organization, we are pretty focused on tracking how users are searching for and "consuming" the information that we create. Based on search and content-consumption patterns, we decide if a particular article in the documentation is "doing fine" or needs further improvement. This analytical engagement also empowers us to quickly identify the top issues that our customers are facing and drive those issues to closure.
Another core tenet of our organizational culture is multiplexing. While all content leads have their primary product assignments, most of us also work on additional projects and initiatives. We divide our time amongst these projects, constantly reworking our priorities. While that may sound like an awfully busy schedule to an outsider, most of us here would not have it any other way!
Here are some of the ground-level tasks I end up performing every week:
Meet colleagues: I engage regularly with my counterparts in the product engineering, customer service, and business intelligence roles. The discussions with the product engineering teams are largely centred on new features/enhancements and how to best create user assistance content around them. Discussions with the customer support organization, on the other hand, give me insight into the top issues that may require me to create troubleshooting/best practices articles or optimise already-published content. All of these interactions translate into a number of meetings through the week that we keep short and focused.
Also, since most of Adobe products are developed in an agile model, I attend a lot of product scrum meetings in addition to the CHL-level "stand up" scrum meetings every day.
Author content: For much of my working week, I plan and author content deliverables. When I author content, I strive to identify opportunities to represent concepts/procedures as graphics or instructional videos. Infographics, in particular, are an area of interest for me. Doc reviews happen in Adobe Acrobat and I work with the CHL production team to push documents live once they're ready. Unlike the traditional doc-publishing model aligned with product milestones, we post and update content around the year.
Amplify content: I blog pretty regularly and engage users through social networks/other channels throughout the week. At one level, this engagement helps me drive customers to high-impact content. It also lets me lend a willing ear to customer issues and work with product engineering to address them.
As part of content amplification, I also moderate and post articles to the relevant content community pages—for example, http://blogs.adobe.com/cqpost.
Optimize content: Content optimization involves using Web traffic/content consumption parameters to optimize the reach/effectiveness of key documentation articles. I also keep an eye on the channels — doc landing pages, forums, community pages, etc — through which customers are reaching high-impact content and ensure that I maintain my presence there.
To optimize my content, I rely on reports from my business intelligence counterparts as well as my own research. Over the years, I've strived to develop specific skills in this area, including an Adobe Certified Expert certification in SiteCatalyst.
Give product feedback: Internally, technical communicators are recognised as power users of several Adobe applications and suites. Therefore, I often find myself alpha or beta-testing software. My experience helps me suggest usability improvements, workflow tweaks, or even new features that end-users like me find useful. It's a privilege playing a part in the development of software that enables creative content creation and digital marketing initiatives all over the world.
Dream big: As an organization, we're involved in several initiatives beyond our core responsibilities. Some of us have a keen interest in text analytics and developing new methods to further human understanding of language. To that extent, we keep preparing, writing, and publishing IP deliverables. Like many of my colleagues, I also keep working on article ideas/papers for journals and conferences.
My workday, naturally, is also governed by my personal working style. Instead of "switching off" work at a particular hour, I tend to stay connected and work late into the evening. This pattern sometimes spills into the weekend as well. I usually prioritize tasks for the week ahead on Sunday evenings. My "to do" list (often an Evernote document) is flexible and has room for the surprises that the week may have in store. I also maintain a rolling list of long-term tasks essential to my professional growth. This list may include research topics, identified areas of learning, and often an audacious feature/product idea or two. As the week progresses, I ensure that I make some progress on these long-term "to do" items, however small that progress may be.
With that, I've pretty much summed up the exciting, challenging time I call my workweek. It offers me a lot of opportunities and little room for inertia. And that is the part I love about it!
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The clubhouse of the Farmington Country Club, located in Albemarle County, Virginia, is a historic building with a center section dating to the eighteenth century, and an octagonal east wing designed by Thomas Jefferson.
The land on which the house sits was originally acquired by Michael Holland in 1744 through a land grant from King George II. In 1758, the property was acquired by Francis Jerdone, who built the original residence sometime prior to 1780.[1] The center section of the clubhouse, once the original farmhouse, is a two-story, three-bay brick structure with a side-hall plan.[2]
In 1785, the property was purchased by George Divers, a friend of Thomas Jefferson. Divers asked Jefferson to design an addition to the original house, and in 1802 Jefferson's plan for an elongated, octagonal wing for the east side of the building was built.[3] The Jefferson addition featured a Tuscan portico and 'bull's-eye' windows.[4] The original floor-plan for the interior divided the space into two rooms of unequal size. However, in the mid-nineteenth century an additional floor-level was added.[5]
In 1927 the property was purchased by Farmington, Inc., and converted into a clubhouse for the newly founded Farmington Country Club. The interior of the east wing was subsequently converted into a single large space, and the original two-room floor-plan designed by Jefferson, as well as the second floor level added later, was removed. Since its conversion into the clubhouse, the building has received numerous additions.[6]
- ↑ The Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Calder Loth, ed. The Virginia Landmarks Register, 4th ed. (Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1999), 13.
- ↑ The Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
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The Indiana dune where a 6-year-old boy fell and became trapped for hours in crushing sand has been closed indefinitely, the National Park Service announced.
The closure of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore's Mount Baldy was extended to "bring in additional resources for the investigation of the hole that opened up on July 12," park officials said.
Nathan Woessner spent three-and-a-half hours trapped in the sand after he suddenly fell and remains in critical but stable condition, spokesman Matt Wood said Wednesday.
Doctors said Woessner remained under sedation this week and is breathing with a ventilator until his lungs can fully function. The breathing tube could be removed by the end of the week, Dr. Tracy Koogler said, and he'll likely be released from the hospital in 10-14 days.
The Park Service said evidence shows the hole may have been created by a long-buried tree that decomposed, leaving a void in the sand.
Officials plan to bring in ground-sensing equipment to look at under the dune and check for voids and other potential hazards.
"Park officials stress that the closure is being strictly enforced to protect the public," officials said.
The closure includes Mount Baldy, its parking lot, trails and beach area.


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This year's flat opening road stages of the Giro d'Italia have naturally favored the sprinters of the peloton, with Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) taking stage 2 and Wouter Weylandt (Quick Step) conquering stage 3. Not surprisingly, most of the major contenders' bikes have been geared more towards outright speed rather than light weight – at least for now.
Deep-section wheels have been the norm overall as aerodynamics has been a more important performance metric than mass thus far. Still, the occasionally blustery conditions – especially along the coast – have caused riders to temper those tendencies a bit, though, as we saw nothing deeper than 80mm (not a single Zipp 1080 in sight) and some smaller or lighter riders going with shallow-section wheels altogether.
Even stage 3 winner Weylandt went fairly conservative with FFWD's 50mm-deep F5, in the extra-stiff 'C' variant with a higher spoke count to better handle his 79kg (174lb) weight.
As has become customary these days, Cervélo TestTeam riders have also gone with aerodynamic frames, too, with nearly everyone on the sleek S3 with the notable exception of 2008 Tour de France winner Carlos Sastre who still prefers the softer ride of the R3-SL model – not that it matters much for him as he's generally well protected from the wind anyway.
Several Garmin-Transitions riders also played the aero frame card with Felt's speedy AR, which is largely based on the company's dedicated DA time trial platform. Most of those were spotted with either 40mm-deep Mavic Cosmic Carbone Ultimates or 52mm-deep Cosmic Carbone SLR tubulars (the latter still only available to the public in clincher form). Svein Tuft went all-in, though, with a set of Mavic's new 80mm-deep Cosmic 80 carbon tubulars.
Svein Tuft (Garmin-Transitions) set off towards Utrecht with Mavic's new 80mm-deep Cosmic 80 carbon tubulars.
At first glance, Footon-Servetto has followed suit as well having notably switched from last year's Fuji SL-1 to this year's SST model – presumably for aerodynamics if you believe the company's marketing claims but more likely because the new frame is simply stiffer and faster as few frame members appear to truly offer substantially lower drag.
As compared to the SL-1, the SST sports a tapered head tube, a wider bottom bracket shell with press-fit bearing cups, a bigger and internally ribbed down tube, and a relatively deep integrated seat mast that almost assuredly offers up a more solid pedaling platform than before. Claimed frame weight has even gone up a bit to nearly a full kilo but in these early days of the Giro, speed is king.


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On the occasion of International Migrants Day, I wanted to share my experience from the sixth Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) in Port Louis, Mauritius. I led the U.S. delegation of representatives from the Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Labor, and the United States Agency for International Development, where we met with other nations under the theme of "Enhancing the Human Development of Migrants and their Contribution to the Development of Communities and States."
The Forum was first established after the United Nations 2006 High Level Dialogue on Migration and Development as a voluntary, non-binding, government-led forum open to all UN members. Nearly 150 countries gather annually at the GFMD to constructively discuss migration and development-related topics outside of the political arena. While it might not sound inherently useful, governments use the forum to speak candidly about challenges, to learn from one another and build relationships with non-traditional allies.
Along with governments, the GFMD integrates nearly 200 international civil society organizations to participate in "Civil Society Days." In a dedicated session for civil society and government interaction, I facilitated a session on addressing the complex needs of unaccompanied migrant minors in border management.
In preparation for this session, I visited a shelter in Virginia which houses children who came to the United States without family. Hearing the stories of their perilous journeys spoke to the risks they were willing to take in pursuit of their dreams and often to escape violence in their home communities. Apprehended at the border, they had been transferred to special shelters, like the one I visited, within 72 hours in accordance with U.S. law, and would soon be released to family or other appropriate community care while their claims for immigration relief are considered. During the average 54-day stay at the shelter they receive health care, counseling, and attend classes. Their teachers told me they are so keen to learn they are always asking for extra homework.
While the sessions at GFMD are strictly off-the-record, I can report back that there was universal acceptance that protecting the lives and human rights of migrant children is an obligation of all States. It is crucial to protect children during proceedings and inform them of their rights in a way that they will understand, as well as provide adequate training for those who interact with them, whether border guards, police, or social workers.
While there is concern among policymakers that establishing a blanket welcome to children migrating without family would inadvertently create a pull factor leading to kids attempting dangerous journeys alone to other countries, the challenge lies in finding solutions that take the child's best interests into account within broader migration policy. While countries have the sovereign right and responsibility to decide whom to admit or exclude from their country, migration policy should include protection measures, and adhere to international humanitarian guidelines and conventions.
Events like the GFMD play an important role in providing an informal space to discuss challenges and best practices that can help shape humane discourse and policy on migration and development. We know from U.S. experiences that without the many contributions of migrants to our society and economy, our country would not be the great nation it is today. And we can always continue to learn from other countries about better ways and approaches for addressing migration and development challenges.
Related Content: Statement by Spokesperson Victoria Nuland on International Migrants Day, 2012


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24 Hour Fitness, INC. Assistant Operations Manager in Santa Cruz, California
LOCATION 1261 Soquel Avenue Santa Cruz CA 95062
At 24 Hour Fitness we are committed to our mission of helping people-team members and members alike-to become the best version of themselves. We've changed the landscape of the fitness industry and pioneered the concept that fitness can be accessible, affordable and a way of life for everyone. We're looking for committed and dedicated individuals to help grow our business, so that we can share the promise of 24 Hour Fitness with more people.
Description :
The Assistant Operations Manager (AOM) assists the General Manager (GM) or Operations Manager (OM) to ensure that the club delivers the best guest and member experience.
Responsible for communicating and upholding company standards and leading by example for delivering the 24 Hour Fitness Service Promise; manage a clean, friendly and well maintained club
Ensure that team members consistently execute the basics in punctuality, dress code compliance friendliness and cleanliness
Major emphasis is to support member retention by advocating for the best member experiences and operational processes in the club
Assist in the management of training, payroll budget and scheduling, policies and procedures, achieving service-based revenue goals and facilities maintenance
Responsible for assisting and directing members/guests, monitoring incoming inquiries and ensuring proper check in procedures are followed
This position directly or indirectly manages the following positions inside the club:
Service Representative (3-9)
Service Representative - Night (2-3)
Kid's Club Supervisor (1-2)
Kid's Club Attendant (2-7)
Group X Instructors
Essential Duties & Responsibilities :
Ensure that all club members are delivered a high member service experience
Proactively engage club member base, regularly greet and interact with members, and conduct member satisfaction surveys under company guidelines
Monitor club facilities for appearance and equipment and resolve or escalate issues that detract from the member experience
Ensure that systems procedures are accurately followed: proper POS procedure, desk set up, File Organization, Member Check-in, Computer Check-in, Telephone Inquiry, Guest Registration, Master Appointment Book, Cash Handling, Member ID Cards, Fitness Assessment scheduling, etc.
Review agreements and prepare daily paperwork for forwarding to agreement administration and cash control
Make daily banking deposits
Order and maintain all supplies
Supervise point-of-sales (POS) operations and file daily and weekly club revenue report
Responsible for proper inventory receiving and inventory control activities per company guidelines
Prepare inventory reports
Conduct weekly (or as-needed) meetings with direct reports to review performance and offer direction, motivation and guidance toward achieving individual and company goals
Answer all incoming inquiries and obtain appropriate information to direct/transfer calls/guests
Assists in the planning and implementation of promotions and merchandising
Ensure all team members are in proper uniform
Qualifications :
Must have 1-2 years' experience in customer service function. Retail environment preferred
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Frequently required to lift and/or move up to 45 lbs
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The noise level in the environment is occasionally loud
Extended workdays are a frequent occurrence, as are weekends and holidays as needed to support the business
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Marion ranked in top 'Bible-minded' areas
Staff writer
While flipping through an old church directory, Carl Helm noticed familiar faces.
"I know a lot of these people," the pastor of Marion Christian Church said. "There are ones that I don't recognize. But when I look at the name, I realize that they are the great-grand parents or grandparents of the people who are currently attending the church."
Across much of the South and Midwest, churches are seeing the exact same result: people who are raised in church are more likely to be "Bible-minded" and believe what the Bible says.
In fact, according to the Barna Group and The American Bible Society, 42 percent of Marion County's population is "churched," putting the area among the top 20 "Bible-minded" areas in the nation.
"It's a simple thing, but it's true," Helm said. "Bible-minded people come from Bible-minded churches. It has to do with our faith, our values. It's just how people are wired around here."
Helm said he has seen people go and come from his church, but in each case, it remains the same: If they grew up in church, they are most likely active in a church somewhere.
But, Helm said it saddens him to think about future generations, knowing that there is a good chance that those same beliefs and values will not be reflected in the next generation.
"The majority of kids nowadays didn't grow up in a Bible-believing church," he said.
"Their parents didn't encourage it — and so entertainment took priority. That's why we have so many churches today that are so focused on entertaining their congregation.
"They feel like they need to do something to make church more attractive, but they're doing more harm than good — so many churches today are not preaching the word of God, and it hurts them in the long-run."
Helm said he first saw this reality when he was a youth pastor, interning at a large church.
The church's youth group had a lot of members, but Helm saw that it was missing an important element: Bible study.
"The kids wanted to learn from God's word and that's exactly what we focused on," he said. "After all, it's all about God."
Too often, Helm said, churches today focus on the wrong thing: keeping people entertained, instead of feeding their souls.
"Kids today live in a different world," he said. "I would like to think that, given the choice, kids will always choose to come to church, but the fact is that the world is really appealing. There's television and video games — and church can't always compete with that."
Thinking back on his childhood, Helm said he appreciates that his parents made him go to church every Sunday — whether he wanted to or not.
"I don't know where I'd be if my family didn't instill those values in me," he said.
Now, as Helm looks forward, he sees the importance of ministry — perhaps now more than ever.
"We can't lose sight that it's all about God," he said. "We need to get back to the Bible. It's a powerful book. If you read it, it will change your life."
But, Helm said, he is often disheartened by the blatant disregard for God and the Bible.
"We have to turn back to Him," he said. "
There's nothing the devil wants more than to corrupt our youth with things like white magic, black magic, Ouija boards, etc.
There are so many anti-Christ things happening right now, it's only a matter of time before it will make way for the person, called the Anti-Christ, to come to power."
It is the rejection Biblical beliefs — caused, in part, by not attending a Bible-believing church — that Helm said eventually leads to moral decay.
"The reason that we're having a shooter kill innocent elementary school children isn't because he has psychiatric problems, although that might have something to do with it," he said. "It's because he had a moral problem, but people aren't willing to admit that either, because if they did, then they would have to do something about it."
Helm said the only solution is to return to the Christian principles that the country was founded upon. So, Helm said, he is going to do his best to preach Biblical truths every Sunday.
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Into the Woods with the Single Oak Project
- October 28, 2011 |
- By Jack Bettridge
such choices as small-batch, single-barrel, cask-strength, varied mash
bills and different yeast strains, nothing has compared with Bourbon
Present for diverse choices on the liquor store shelf. Now Buffalo Trace
invites drinkers to participate in Bourbon Future with the extra
complications of its Single Oak Project.
The always-experimental distillery (it brought us the first single-barrel Bourbon, Blanton's, when the facility was still called Ancient Age) has devised a tongue-teasing program for Bourbon lovers. Based on 96 specially selected oak trees with which are made 192 one-off Bourbon variations, the program asks the public to assess them all at www.singleoakproject.com over the coming years, with a view to creating a standard release that reflects consumer feedback.
The Buffalo Trace chief executive officer Mark Brown has said that he hopes the project will "lead us to the Holy Grail of Bourbon." Whatever happens, he added, "it has been a great ride trying." The Bourbons will appear in numbered bottles in a series of sixteen 12-bottle releases, one every three months, over the next four years, until all 192 variations have been marketed. The first wave went on sale in the May and the second is now available in stores. Predictably, there is not a lot available.
As the company prepares to make its third release in November, feedback has already fleshed out some front runners. Two wheat recipe Bourbons made in barrels fashioned from wood at the top end of the tree—barrels #61 and #127—are early favorites. Almost a thousand samplers have given feedback to the website, with the bulk of respondents coming from New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco. However, drinkers from 31 countries have weighed in.
A wide spectrum of variables define the experiment, but each barrel used comes from a single tree (instead of intermarrying staves obtained from different trees). The oaks were selected from the Missouri Ozarks in 1999 to reflect a variety of three grain widths from fine to coarse. Each was cut into top and bottom halves, and barrels were constructed separately from each (the top-half barrels requiring more staves and the bottom-half fewer). Furthermore, the staves were air dried in two groups, one for six months, one for 12.
Take a breath. It gets more complicated. The barrels were subjected to one of two different char levels to toast the inside. Half got a number three toast and the other half the standard Buffalo Trace number four toast, which takes 55 seconds.
When it came to the spirit going into the barrels, there were yet two more variables. Half was made from a more widely used rye-informed mashbill (that grain being mixed with a corn-dominant recipe and also including barley as a minority partner). The other half replaced the rye component with softer wheat. Moreover, the new-make spirit went into the barrels at two different alcohol levels: 105 and 125 proof.
And, just when you thought you thought you had your mind wrapped around the different permutations, you're asked to consider that the Bourbon was aged in different warehouse types: one with wooden ricks and one with concrete floors.
As the public is intended to participate in the assessment of these Bourbons, we will not post formal tasting notes that might obscure results. However, we will say that the current release of 12 is an elegant lot with a commonality of honey notes and some spices. After that they—we suppose as intended—branch out in a number of different directions with a panoply of tasting notes that seem to justify the painstaking variations in their creation.
Of course, the rye and wheat recipes might be expected to produce easily recognizable variations—and they do. But drinkers may well be surprised at how the other variables affect what would otherwise seem to be the very same Bourbon. However, the price tag of $46.35 per 375 milliliter bottle (half the standard size) and limited availability should keep most of us from exploring all 192 bottles.
After you do sample the different issues and report your assessment on the website, you'll be told what variations went into the particular Bourbon you drank. Happy hunting.


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Fremont police say they shot and killed a naked San Jose man who was chasing his wife while holding a knife Sunday night and refused officers' orders to drop the weapon.
The man has not yet been identified, though police say he is a 37-year-old San Jose resident.
At about 11 p.m., the wife's roommate called police to say the woman was being attacked by her husband, according to police. As officers arrived in the 4500 block of Central Avenue, they saw a woman fleeing the apartment and a naked man chasing her with a knife in his hand.
Fremont police say the officers demanded that the suspect stop and drop the knife, and when he refused they fired their weapons. The man was taken to a trauma center, where he was pronounced dead.
No officers were injured during the incident.
The officers involved in the shooting have 3 and 20 years' experience and have been placed on paid administrative leave per department policy, according to Fremont police.
The incident is being investigated jointly by the Fremont Police Department's Investigative Unit and the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.
Contact Mark Gomez at 408-920-5869. Follow him on Twitter @MarkMgomez.


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Given my now full-fledged obsession with modern embroidery and typography, I pretty much yelped when I saw these gorgeous embroidered business cards by designer Nina Gregier. She decided to create the textured cards in reference to her latest project – fuchsia embroidered type. One glance at that project and I fell in love with Nina's woven letters. They are so full of imagination, geometry and bold colour. Wow. The colours look amazing next to the black paper. Don't you wish more business cards were tactile and hand detailed? Even the back of the threads on the flipside of the card is beautiful. I will visit Nina's website regularly to see what handmade brilliance she dreams up next!
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Crashes took 37,133 lives in the U.S. in 2017.
By far the largest number of motor vehicle crash deaths are occupants of passenger vehicles including cars, minivans, pickups, SUVs and cargo/large passenger vans. The likelihood of crash death varies markedly among these vehicle types according to size. Small/light vehicles have less structure and size to absorb crash energy, so crash forces on occupants will be higher. People in lighter vehicles are at a disadvantage in collisions with heavier vehicles.
Kahane, C.J. 2003. Vehicle weight, fatality risk and crash compatibility of model year 1991-99 passenger cars and light trucks. Report no. DOT HS-809-662. Washington, DC: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Pickups and SUVs are proportionally more likely than cars to be in fatal single-vehicle crashes, especially rollovers. However, pickups and SUVs generally are heavier than cars, so occupant deaths in SUVs and pickups are less likely to occur in multiple-vehicle crashes.
The following facts are based on analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Transportation's Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and The Polk Company's National Vehicle Population Profile.
Passenger vehicle occupant deaths represented 66 percent of the 32,367 motor vehicle crash deaths in 2011.
A total of 21,347 passenger vehicle occupants died in 2011, 30 percent less than in 1975. However, as pickups and SUVs have become more popular, the distribution of vehicle types in fatal crashes has changed. Car occupant deaths have declined 51 percent since 1975, while pickup occupant deaths have risen 15 percent and SUV occupant deaths are 9 times as high.
A total of 15,512 passenger vehicle drivers died in 2011, 3 percent fewer than in 2010 and 20 percent fewer than in 1975. Fifty-nine percent of passenger vehicle driver deaths in 2011 were car drivers, 21 percent were pickup drivers, and 18 percent were SUV drivers.
Frontal impacts accounted for 41 percent of passenger vehicle occupant deaths in 2011. Side impacts accounted for another 25 percent of passenger vehicle occupant deaths.
Forty-five percent of car occupant deaths in 2011 occurred in single-vehicle crashes and 55 percent occurred in multiple-vehicle crashes. In contrast, single-vehicle crashes accounted for 63 percent of SUV occupant deaths and 64 percent of pickup occupant deaths.
Twenty-nine percent of passenger vehicle occupants killed in 2011 were younger than 25.
Seventy-three percent of passenger vehicle occupants killed in 2011 were drivers; 70 percent of these drivers were males.
Nine percent of passenger vehicle occupant deaths were in the second or third row; 26 percent of these were younger than 13.
Computing driver death rates per million registered passenger vehicles allows for comparisons of fatal crash risk across vehicle groups. The computed rates reflect the influence of vehicle designs plus their patterns of use and the demographics of their drivers. Driver death rates are based on 1-3-year-old vehicles only so as to minimize the effects of vehicle aging. Rates based on fewer than 120,000 vehicle registrations are considered unreliable and are not included.
Since 1978, the overall rates of driver and occupant deaths per million registered vehicles have declined across all passenger vehicle types. Declines in death rates have been largest for SUV occupants.
Historically, the rates of driver deaths per million registered vehicles have been higher for the smaller and lighter vehicles. This was true again in 2011, but the differences were less extreme than they used to be.
Overall, driver deaths per million registered passenger vehicles in 2011 were about the same for single and multiple vehicle crashes, but this pattern varied by vehicle type. Pickups had the highest number of deaths per registered vehicle in single-vehicle crashes (32 per million) and cars had the highest number of deaths per registered vehicle in multiple-vehicle crashes (24 per million). SUVs had the lowest number of deaths per registered vehicle both in single-vehicle crashes (8 per million) and in multiple-vehicle crashes (10 per million).
Frontal impacts accounted for 11 driver deaths per million registered passenger vehicles in multiple-vehicle crashes in 2011 compared with 5 deaths per million in side impacts and 1 death per million in rear impacts.
Frontal impacts accounted for 8 driver deaths per million registered passenger vehicles in single-vehicle crashes in 2011 compared with 3 deaths per million in side impacts and fewer than 1 death per million in rear impacts.
A vehicle is classified as rolling over if it tips onto its side or roof at any time during the crash. The rollover may occur subsequent to a frontal or side impact with another vehicle or a fixed object. Many rollovers occur after a vehicle leaves the roadway and may lead to occupants being ejected from the vehicle, increasing the likelihood of a fatality.
A total of 7,420 passenger vehicle occupants died in rollover crashes in 2011. Twenty-six percent of these did not involve any other impact.
Crashes in which a vehicle rolled over accounted for 35 percent of passenger vehicle occupant deaths in 2011 (55 percent of single-vehicle occupant crash deaths and 13 percent of multiple-vehicle occupant crash deaths).
Since 1978 pickups and SUVs have a consistently higher percentage of rollover deaths than cars.
More than three-fourths of fatal rollovers are single-vehicle crashes.
Deutermann, W. 2002. Characteristics of fatal rollover crashes. Report no. DOT HS-809-438. Washington, DC: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
A total of 6,133 passenger vehicle occupants died in single-vehicle rollover crashes in 2011, 4 percent less than in 2010 and 22 percent less than in 1978.
Single-vehicle rollover crashes accounted for 44 percent of occupant deaths in SUVs in 2011, compared with 39 percent of occupant deaths in pickups and 20 percent in cars.
Since 1978, driver death rates for single-vehicle rollover crashes have declined across all passenger vehicle types, particularly for SUVs. Single-vehicle crashes involving rollover accounted for 8 driver deaths per million registered passenger vehicles in 2011.
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April 16 (Reuters) - San Jose Earthquakes forward Alan Gordon was suspended three games and fined an undisclosed amount by Major League Soccer (MLS) on Tuesday for a homophobic comment he directed at an opponent.
Television cameras caught Gordon, who has since apologised for his comments, making an anti-gay slur to Portland Timbers midfielder Will Johnson during Sunday's game.
MLS Commissioner Don Garber said Gordon used "unacceptable and offensive language" and that he should attend diversity and sensitivity training.
"Major League Soccer stands against discrimination and prejudice of any kind and will not tolerate this type of behavior," Garber said in a statement.
"All of our players, staff and fans must remain committed to respect and dignity at all times."
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David M. Montero 11/3/2011 9:20:05 AMLooks yummy. Set the table - I'll be right over. Nicely done Susana! #1420283
Amalia Sylvia Arriaga Salinas 11/3/2011 9:26:45 AMExcellent entry to the MT Susana!,
JudyAnn Rector 11/3/2011 10:30:56 AMWell done, Susana!! #9781353
Susana Ms Heide 11/3/2011 11:58:19 AMThanks Dave, Amalia and JudyAnn!! Table is set! Anytime... Lol #9781483
Max Aureli 11/3/2011 3:01:07 PMOk... now what?? Your specs... Lens Type: Canon 50mm Natural Light Handheld... but ... what is the recipe, Susana? I can't eat a Natural Light!! LOL Ok that is very cool and yummy!!! #9781768
Susana Ms Heide 11/3/2011 3:06:14 PMYou crack me up Max!!! You don't even LIKE vegetables!! Red Bell Peppers, Yellow Bell Peppers, Green Bell Peppers, Onions, Olive oil and FIRE!! #9781773
Orsi 11/3/2011 5:33:39 PMAwesome MT!!!Love it!! #9782014
Leslie McLain 11/13/2011 4:15:02 PMVery creative and well done, Susana. #9802361
Robert Jensen 11/22/2011 12:19:21 PMNeat shot - I'm gonna have to try this! #9825270
Susana Ms Heide 12/3/2011 10:17:38 PMThank you Orsi, Leslie and Robert! Try the shot or the food? :o) #9846365
Christopher Budny 12/14/2011 5:13:30 PMTerrific finalist, Susana; congratulations! #9866502
JO ANN CLEVELAND 12/15/2011 6:23:58 PMCongratulations on this outstanding finalist Susan!
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Renee Doyle 12/16/2011 1:27:01 AMCreative and wonderful mt entry Susana!! Congratulations! #9870524
Elida Gutierrez 12/16/2011 12:28:54 PMLo que me sorprende muchisimo es que es 1/20 speed y hand held, WOW!!!
Great Work Susana y un pulso INCREIBLE!!!
La mayor de las suertes. #9871544
Michele Peterson 12/16/2011 4:39:08 PMCongratulations on your 2nd place win, Susana! Yummy!! #9872284
Christopher Budny 12/16/2011 5:00:26 PMServin' up a heapin' helpin' o' gold... congratulations once more! #9872364
Bob Cournoyer 12/16/2011 5:21:39 PMGood gold, Susana... :-) #9872404
Phyllis H. Burchett 12/16/2011 6:59:13 PMCongrats Susana on this "HOT" winner!!! #9872735
Val Feldman 12/16/2011 7:10:16 PMHot, indeed...and very, very creative thinking and brilliant execution! Wish I woulda "thunk" it but carrying it off as well as you...well, another matter entirely!!! :) :) Huge congratulations, Susana on a wonderful Gold Win! #9872761
Nikki McDonald 12/16/2011 7:34:35 PMBeautiful and delicious looking, Susana. Congratulations on the win. #9872840
Renee Doyle 12/16/2011 8:32:54 PMBIG congrats on this excellent winner Susana! #9872979
Patti Coblentz 12/16/2011 9:01:16 PMSuch a clever and creative image, Susanna..congratulations on your win! #9873035
Lorna Shutter 12/17/2011 7:52:15 AMWoo Hoo!!! CONGRATULATIONS on your 2nd Place Win for this unique and wonderful image!!!!! WTG, Susana!!! :)
Usman M. Bajwa 12/17/2011 8:12:58 AMHappy to see this bring Gold, Susana. Huge CONGRATZ!!!
Carla Capra 12/17/2011 9:09:04 AMCongratulations #9874057
Susana Ms Heide 12/17/2011 2:05:04 PMWow!! A wonderful surprise :0) Thanks BP and Thank you, my BP friends for all the sweet messages! #9874372
Katarina Mansson 12/20/2011 3:39:43 AMCongratulations on your tasty hot winner Susana! Clever and eyecatching as usual! #9878713
Merna L. Nobile 12/30/2011 11:26:57 AMWhat could be more important in life than to know in our hearts that in everything we have tried to do, we have done our very best?
Susana Ms Heide 1/3/2012 5:52:25 PMThanks so much Katta and Merna!!! Happy 2012 to you!!! #9900625
David M. Montero 1/12/2012 1:52:15 PMCatching up on my comments. You will be serving wine with diner, right? Congratulations on your finalist selection Susana!!! #9916788
David M. Montero 1/12/2012 1:54:05 PMOoops! Color me red. I meant Second Place selection! So sorry Susana for the slight. To make amends, I'll bring the wine. #9916789
Susana Ms Heide 1/21/2012 10:16:58 PMThanks a mil!! That's not a bad deal, Dave! I'm in! :o) #9934651
Brian Smyer 2/26/2012 7:14:28 PMAmazing picture. A well deserved winner. #10004794
Susana Ms Heide 2/27/2012 11:04:22 PMThank you very much Brian!! #10010045
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Category: MT Let's Eat
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