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4 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 25 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
We are a major global manufacturer of quality microscopes. We produce high tech microscopes and medical equipment that are used routinely in research and pathology laboratories.
Researchers and Pathologists in Australia and New Zealand
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Introducing the new BX3 microscope
• Exceptional ergonomic design and outstanding optical performance
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• Record and share microscope magnification and setting information automatically for comparing, measuring and scaling images
• Handy exposure button making it possible for researchers to capture digital images without taking their hands off the microscope
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• Unique motion sensor that detects when users step away from the instrument automatically turning off the lamp
• Both the BX43 and BX53 offer an optional new condenser that accommodates magnifications from 2 x to 100 x without requiring a swing top lens
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The BX3 has the brand new telescopic head and motion sensor which competitors don't have this feature.
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• Artwork for email campaign
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Informative, exciting, new, hype
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• For more information please call 1300 132 992 (Aust.) or 0508 6596787 (NZ)


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NEW YORK, NY - 08/09/2018 — Luxury, Neuro Human Branding® expert, and host of the Fix My Brand With Ali Craig® (Http://fixmybrandwithalicraig.com), Ali Craig(http://alicraig.com) is traveling across the United States in Season 2 of this hit reality TV show ( (launching September 19th 2018 Roku, Amazon Fire, Android TV, and Apple Tv's Brandpreuner™ Network) to fix the heartbeat of the modern economy- the entrepreneur.
"Entrepreneurs are like no other business," Craig says. "It isn't just about selling a product or a service, it is about selling the experience, the relationship, and speaking to the social stories that hold the hearts and subconscious minds of our audiences."
And it is these fledgling brands that must be designed as much for their audiences as it is for their authors if they are going to break the statistics and make bank.
Having fixed countless brands over the last 20 years and worked with hundreds of more entrepreneurs, founders, and startups, Ali Craig knows that she needs to do something radical to get these brands and their founders back on track. Because in this age of social media where everyone's a critic as well as an instant expert- your business and audience can boom or backfire overnight.
If Ali Craig has any hope of saving these brands and transforming these businesses, she will have to get these entrepreneurs to embrace the experience they are really selling and escape the mindset that all that they are is just an offer.
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It looks like the quintessential English Country church with a couple of yew trees and a carpet of wildflowers between the higgledy piggledy gravestones.
The blossom from a flowering cherry floated in the breeze and drifted across the grass like fine snow or confetti.
A cheeky squirrel hopped up on one of the gravestones and watched me while I was taking photos .
Another view through the graveyard to the church. A church has been on the site since the 12th century [there is a Saxon font inside the church ] and local legend says that the site was initially consecrated by St Boniface in the 8th century.
Parish registers date back to the 1500s so there is definitely a long history of religious worship here.
The building itself has been rebuilt repeatedly; most recently after being largely destroyed in 1943 by aerial bombing.
Sadly, around 26 people died in the bombing raid on the church -at least 21 sunday school children and a couple of sunday school teachers.
The churchyard has a very peaceful atmosphere despite its tragic history.
This is the church's lychgate -originally a lychgate was a roofed gate which protected the pallbearers and coffin from the elements while waiting to be formally received into consecrated ground by the parish priest.


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Tooth Becoming More Crooked
My daughter has had braces for a year and four months, and her teeth are pretty much all straight, except for her top front left one(central incisor). This tooth is slightly pushed up and back and was pushed back even more with the last visit four weeks ago. I am unsure if this is the tooth itself as she had a 3 way removable expander from general dentist that didn`t work (no retention) then palatal expander that did NOT make any space between teeth after 20 turns before braces this time. The braces are still scheduled were scheduled to come off in December but the tooth has become more pushed back each visit. I took her in for a check because the teeth were sensitive and the ortho states that she had a light wire put on due to her second molars being bracketed at the last appointment. Should this be making her front tooth significantly more crooked that before braces? Could the multiple (removable and fixed expansion) somehow have damaged the roots or periodontal ligament? Is there any way to get this checked? Her orthodontist has made several mistakes on friends and does not try to correct during the treatment–he just tells everyone this is a risk of treatement after its over and the damage is done. Since the tooth has become worse, should I be worried or do teeth become significantly worse toward the end of treatment before fine tuning is done (per the orthodontist)? Also, he has now backed up the date for the braces to come off to indefinitely even though this is the only crooked tooth right now. Is it normal for this tooth to be getting pushed more into the gum and back at this late stage in the treatment? The other orthodontist in this area just states the teeth take time to become straight and I need to finish treatment with this ortho so I don`t think another ortho will give me a second opinion.
Well I too would be concerned. However if the orthodontist stepped back to a lighter wire to correct second molar placement, this could be the problem in that the wire in the front is not strong enough to hold the anterior tooth in position. As he returns to a heavier wire this should correct the problem.Do not push the finish date because the tooth needs to be held in correct position for a while. Also when it comes time for retainers make sure your daughter complies well.
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I love buying clothes online, so much so that shopping locally has lost its fun. I can't find anything interesting to get in my local shopping malls!
I have been visiting Modcloth often to look at their dresses. I have bought one before but had to return it because the size didn't fit. I chose a medium. I hate returning clothes because I have to pay for postage which costs about $25. I must say though, Modcloth refunded me immediately upon receiving my returns.
I picked these two dresses. I paid about $10 for shipping.
USD$44.99. SGD $63. I bought a size S and it fits me perfectly! The colour is downright gorgeous and the cutting makes me look slim.
USD $64.99. SGD $91. I am still in my summer mood! I was a little disappointed with the fabric. It felt kinda flimsy as compared to the first dress. The colours are also more muted as compared to the picture. The size S fits me well and overall it is still a very cute dress though I don't feel that it is worth the price I paid.
Overall Modcloth is a reliable online shop, I love their unique dresses best. I wish prices were cheaper though. Their size charts aren't exactly the most reliable but if you happen to get your perfect fit, the dresses do not disappoint.
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What's so hot about the Cara Delevigne Bag Collection?
Well, we have seen Mulberry doing collaborations before like the newest Tessa Collection, which is priced lower than their classic bags. Then we have observed how Mulberry chew their iconic bags and then turned them into shoulder bags or Bayswater double totes. But what I love the most about the Cara Delevigne Collection is the newest back packs which are quilted.
Ever since around Chanel introduced their graffiti backpack line, we've seen how trendy they become. And the choices are increasing, Prada just released their 'soft backpacks' and Balenciaga their very own 'Le Dix Backpack'. Cara's version is just a bit different, elegant, mixing with the elements of Mulberry.
And if you love quilted bags (you will know this by checking your previous purchases), and in combination with, that you are actively seeking for a backpack to match your casual outfit, then this should be added to your list as 'to be considered'. It's well worth it.
This is the second ad campaign that Cara shoots for Mulberry, it gives a good idea of how to combine her bags with chic dresses and pumps.
The Cara Delevigne Collection will be launched in September, the price will be between £895 and £2,500.


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InterVideo, Inc., a leader in digital media software technology and PC/CE convergence; and its partner Ulead Systems, Inc., an industry leader in video, image and DVD software, demonstrated VC1 decoding and content navigation from a HD DVD sample drive and disc provided by NEC at the HD DVD Promotion Group Seminar.
During the seminar presentation company officials demonstrated the performance of InterVideo's WinDVD HD interactive content playback as well as new features and capabilities for Ulead's DVD MovieFactory content authoring and production software. HD DVDPG attendees were shown examples of how the products could be incorporated into barebone systems, TV tuners and bundled with notebook computers to deliver rich interactive high-definition video content production and playback.


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Summer 1998. First love. A child's first love.
Day 8: A song that reminds you of your "first love"
Aerosmith – I Don't Want to Miss a Thing
Wow. These are getting harder. A song that reminds you of a best friend. That assumes you have best friends. Or a best friend. I can't say that I've had a best friend in about seven years. I am a chronic friend-dropper. I don't mean to, but usually my depression will make me fade away for a while, they get tired of trying to draw me out and eventually stop trying. Once I'm back on my feet, my depression or my personality or my introversion or my whatever don't allow me to really reach out again. I have friends from college that I miss tremendously that I haven't tried to reconnect with. My most recent bestie was enough like me that we kinda understood each other and each other's behavior, so we were pretty forgiving and able to pick things up where they'd left off. Then I moved 600 miles away from her and that link was stretched too thin. We visit every couple of years, but it's not like it used to be. How could it be?
Regardless of all that, she loves her some Dimebag.
Day 6: A song that reminds you of a best friend
Pantera – Walk
I know, I know, I'm late. No huge surprise to any of you that know me. And if you don't know me, I'll tell you: It's no huge surprise.
Anyway, onto songs that get stuck in our heads. I mean, I could use any number of songs. Call Me Maybe is always especially sticky. Lana Del Rey stays with me whenever I see the couple commercials that are using her songs. Crushcrushcrush channels my teen angst and latches on pretty often. About a year and a half ago, Keane's Spiraling was firmly planted in my brain for months. If you know children's songs, I find Mr. Sun to be very tenacious. Six or eight months ago it was Young the Giant and Foster the People. I don't think I can say that one song comes back over and over as time goes on, at least I can' t think of one right now that does.
But the song that sticks with me lately is one that find myself emotionally connected to. If you follow me on Plurk, I've spammed you with it over the last couple months. It speaks strongly enough to me that I end up with tears in my eyes every time I hear it.
Day 5: A song that is often stuck in your head
ZZ Ward – Last Love Song
We were never the marrying type, oh no,
We won't buy dishes or stained glass lights, oh no,
For a table we'll never sit at,
In the house that we won't ever get,
I won't wake up and pick out your tie, oh no,
You won't come home and kiss me at night, oh no,
We won't lie in this king bed for two,
Say goodbye to us saying "I dos,"
No more white picket fences,
No more lace veils or vows,
No more "You're the only one" 'cause that's all done with now,
This is the last love song I'll ever write for you,
This is the last love song I'll ever write for you,
Take these roses and this Jameson, oh no,
Find a subway that I can sit in, oh no,
Buy a one-way out of this city,
Everything that I need, got it with me,
No more white picket fences,
No more lace veils or vows,
No more "You're the only one" 'cause that's all done with now,
This is the last love song I'll ever write for you,
This is the last love song I'll ever write for you,
All these notes and all these words,
Are all that's left in me,
Bend these pages, count my woes,
One last song to set me free,
No more white picket fences,
No more lace veils or vows,
No more "You're the only one" 'cause that's all done with now,
This is the last love song I'll ever write for you,
This is the last love song I'll ever write for you,
This is the last love song I'll ever write for you,
This is the last love song I'll ever write for you, oh.
This one has been a little harder for me than the last few days. I've managed to procrastinate long enough that the day is mostly over. Part of the difficulty is that I don't have a music catalog that I can scroll through and look for a song that sticks out for each particular prompt. I don't use iTunes, I don't have an iPod. So I have to think of songs off the top of my head.
But here's the thing about me: I don't really get wound up. I don't really get that sort of angry or stressed or heightened that I need to be calmed down from. That's one of the things about me that make it really difficult to be me. I don't get that stressed or angry, but I also don't get that excited or happy. Anyway, I went ahead and chose a song that I listen to pretty often that I do find calming.
Day 4 – A song that calms you down
The National – Bloodbuzz Ohio
Day 3: A song that reminds you of your parents
For my amazing, yet tone-deaf mother, who used to sing this to me as a newborn in the NICU.
Roberta Flack – The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
And for my loving, misunderstood father, who never knew this song was always about him.
Mike and the Mechanics – In the Living Years
So. Looks like there's a blog/Tumblr/Plurk/interwebz challenge going around: 25 Songs, 25 Days. It's a simple challenge about music. Sometimes it's as basic as what you're listening to at the moment, some are more meaningful and ask for a song and association to a person or event.
I'm not sure why it's come up several times recently, but I've found myself saying things like, "I'm really glad I'm not an audiophile" or "I'm glad I'm not a music snob" or "I don't really listen to music that much." The first two are definitely true, the third turns out to be less true than I thought.
I am not an audiophile. I don't need to adjust my car's audio system for different types of music, I don't need my music downloads to be of a certain quality. I'm happy if I can understand the lyrics and the speakers aren't blown out.
I am not a music snob. If I like it, I like it. I don't need it to be new or old or unknown or popular or of a certain genre. I don't need it to be anything. I need it to make my ears happy, and even better, I need it to touch me. So when you listen to music with me, you're going to hear Carly Rae Jepsen and Andrew Lloyd Weber and Volbeat and The Civil Wars and Lady Gaga and The Infamous Stringdusters and god knows what else. AND YOU'RE GOING TO LIKE IT. No, not that last part, not really. I don't care if you don't like it. I like it.
I don't listen to music that much. That one… is less true. Honestly, I have nothing playing in my house right now, the only things I hear are my typing and the dog snuffling around in her bed. I often drive all the way to work in the morning without turning the radio on. But while I don't listen to it as often as some people do, it's still important to me. It's still an important element of my life.
All of that came together in my head when I thought about doing this challenge. Originally, I said, "Nahhhh, I'm not into music enough to do that," but I really do have a soundtrack that plays when my life flashes before my eyes. I have songs that are linked with time frames, with places, with people, with events. I have songs that I rely on to bring me up, to cradle me when I'm down, to give me release when I need it. Music is a part of my life, even when it doesn't get acknowledged that much.
But, today, and for the next 24 days, we're going to acknowledge it.
Day 1: A song from your childhood.
For this song I'm choosing Mike and the Mechanics' In the Living Years. I can remember being out in my father's garage with my sister, pretending that we were little baby greasemonkeys right along with him. I can remember our lofty attempts at helping him by fetching wrenches and rags often evolved into drawing summer landscapes with chalk on the concrete floor. I can remember the incessant teasing and the fighting that my sister and I used to do. I can remember my millwright father, looking like a dark-haired version of Harley Davidson Santa, a man who should be listening to Charlie Daniels or Steppenwolf, listening to smooth jazz instead. I can remember that in between Boney James and Andreas Vollenweider, a few "popular" songs would play on his favorite radio station. One of the songs was In the Living Years. I can remember that, on occasion, he would tell my sister and me to listen to that song and realize that we would be devastated if anything ever happened to the other. This little life lesson, this emotional tidbit from a very stoic man has stuck with me for my whole life. So maybe not a very childlike one, but this is a song that makes me think of my childhood.
(It also will reappear on day three, so I apologize for the repeat in advance.)


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Becoming a parent can be a daunting endeavor, full of many "firsts." But before first words and steps, come first foods. So who do new parents turn to most for advice about the best baby food/formula to buy for the first time? The short answer is: family and friends. Forty-four percent of global respondents say they learned about baby food from loved ones, and nearly four-in-10 global respondents (38%) say that recommendations from friends and family had the most influence on their purchase decisions.
But consumers don't just rely on their circles of friends and family; recommendations from health experts are also highly influential. Thirty-six percent of global respondents say they learned about foods/formula from a baby health expert, and 34% say these opinions influenced their purchase decisions.
Regionally, recommendations from health care experts top the list of most influential information sources in Latin America, cited by 42% of respondents, while their influence is significantly below average in North America, cited by only 18%.
"Marketers must prove their value to not only the shopper but to a broader network of trusted sources," said Liz Buchanan, director, Global Professional Services, Nielsen. "Product endorsements from doctors, hospitals and health care professionals can hold tremendous clout with parents. As a parent's first introduction to baby food/formula is often from these trusted advisors, aligning offerings with affiliations can provide an instant gateway to first-time users. But quality and good customer service will keep customers coming back."
TV ads are also an important source of information, but their influence on decision-making is notably lower. One-third of consumers say they learned about baby foods through a TV ad, but less than one-quarter (23%) say this source influenced purchasing, a 10-percentage point difference. The use of TV ads to learn about new products and to influence purchasing decisions is well below the global average in Europe (22% use, 13% say they're influential) and North America (20% and 13%, respectively).
Similar gaps between the percentage that use a source to learn about a product versus use a source to influence purchase decisions also exist for the other sources included in the survey. For example, the presence of a product on store shelves is a key source of awareness for nearly one-third of global respondents (30%)—including 36% in North America, where it's the most commonly cited source—yet only 17% globally say it influenced their purchase decision.
Other findings include:
For more detail and insight, download Nielsen's Global Baby Care Report.
The Nielsen Global Baby Care Survey was conducted Feb. 23 - March 13, 2015, and polled online respondents in 60 countries who have made a baby care purchase in the past five years throughout Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and North America. The sample has quotas based on age and sex for each country based on its Internet users and is weighted to be representative of Internet consumers. It has a margin of error of ±0.6%. This Nielsen survey is based only on the behavior of respondents with online access. Internet penetration rates vary by country. Nielsen uses a minimum reporting standard of 60% Internet penetration or an online population of 10 million for survey inclusion. The Nielsen Global Survey, which includes the Global Consumer Confidence Index, was established in 2005.


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7 Quick Ways to Calm Down
Anxiety zappers that can rescue you from daily stresses
By Therese J. Borchard
I'm easily overwhelmed. When my kids' exuberant screams reach a decibel level my ears can't tolerate, when Chuck E., the life-size "rat" at the pizza place, starts doing his jig while flashing arcade lights blind me, or when I open my email to find 100 messages--I feel a meltdown coming on. Which is why I came up with seven quick ways to calm myself down.
I turn to these when I don't have time to call my mom and hear her tell me, "Everything is going to be fine." They keep me centered and grounded for as long as possible, and they help me relax my body even during those times when screaming kids and dancing life-size rats converge.
Additional resources:
The Brilliant Book of Calm: Down to Earth Ideas for Finding Inner Peace in a Chaotic World (52 Brilliant Ideas)
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Daily Relaxer: Relax Your Body, Calm Your Mind, & Refresh Your Spirit
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Peter Barnfield
Year: 2018
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
First Pasture Price: £14.95
Status: Available
Peter Barnfield's latest 'Memories' book features a selection of journeys taken between 1961 and 1964 in rural Wales. South and Mid Wales are the regions featured within the book and largely covers lines that are no longer available to rail passengers.
This nostalgic book includes a superb collection of Peter's own photographs of the routes.


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In this ongoing series, we ask executives, entrepreneurs and business leaders about mistakes that have shaped their business philosophy.
Koel Thomae
Australian ex-pat Koel Thomae co-founded Noosa Yoghurt with Colorado dairy farmer Rob Graves in 2010. She loved the yogurt she ate at a small corner shop in Australia so much that she persuaded the family to share their recipe so she could bring it to the United States. Noosa Yoghurt is now sold in most major grocery chains across the country.
The Mistake:
Rob and I were complete strangers going into business together. We never wrote a business plan, we never really talked about strategy. We just wanted to make delicious yogurt. We were really just focused on our backyard in 2010 when we launched. Then we got a meeting in 2011 with a retailer out east. That turned into a very expensive mistake, and ultimately pulling ourselves off the shelves.
There were a myriad of factors as to why it didn't work. We had zero brand awareness at the time when we looked at our supply chain. We still had a very short shelf life. We were shipping our products halfway across the country to a retailer that was not super focused on supporting emerging brands. So it was all these factors that made us pull out.
It was a $100,000 mistake, which is a lot of money no matter what, but [especially] for an emerging brand. We hadn't taken any outside investments; we still weren't paying ourselves any salary. We [also] hit that roadblock of still getting to know your business partner. There were just a lot of moving parts. Fortunately, it was an early lesson. A very expensive lesson, but it didn't sink us financially.
It made us stop and think, "Maybe we do actually need to have a strategy. How do we do this and move forward?" If we had stepped back a few years earlier when we were starting the business and actually sat down and said, "OK, if this has legs outside of being a Colorado brand, what would that look like?" We just never had that conversation.
For me personally, it was my life savings going into this business.
The Lesson:
Don't always say yes to every opportunity. Very quickly we realized that not every opportunity is the right opportunity based on where you are in the life cycle of your business. We [decided] that we were going to grow this business in more of a regional way. [We realized that] if we did get the opportunity to work with a national retailer, we had to be really smart about whether we had the capacity.
I don't kid myself, I know that so many businesses are not successful the first time around. Not to discount how much hard work Rob and I put into our business, but for us it feels like a home run. We have created this national brand that really has resonated with consumers on such a passionate level. We both mentor other people and other emerging businesses and realized that [it's hard]. There's personal investments and your own time.
For me personally, it was my life savings going into this business. It's interesting, there are some entrepreneurs that want to raise money and get paid a salary. And I sure wouldn't invest in that entrepreneur because I want to see somebody that's willing to take that risk, who's willing to put their blood, sweat and tears into it because that's what I did. I just don't think everybody has that level of drive, passion and risk. ... You have to have that grit, as an entrepreneur, to see it through.
Follow Noosa Yoghurt on Twitter at @noosayoghurt
Photo courtesy of Koel Thomae


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Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne was arrested in connection to alleged firearms found in baggage at the Salt Lake City airport, reports FOX13Now.
The weapon in question is a Glock 23 .40 caliber handgun containing 12 rounds, none of which were chambered.
He denied knowing the gun was in his bag, the report says.
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Another girl from the class, Mariah Williams, says:
"I don't remember the story we were reading — was it about pigs? But I'll always remember watching his face turn red. He got really serious all of a sudden. But I was clueless. I was just 7. I'm just glad he didn't get up and leave, because then I would have been more scared and confused."Do these kids know how much people have abused Bush over the years for what, to them, was the care he took? Yes.
One thing the students would like to tell Bush's critics — like liberal filmmaker Michael Moore, whose 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 911 disparaged Bush for lingering almost 10 minutes with the students after getting word that two planes had crashed into the World Trade Center — is that they think the President did the right thing. "I think he was trying to keep everybody calm, starting with us," says Guerrero. Dubrocq agrees: "I think he was trying to protect us." Booker Principal Gwendolyn Tose-Rigell, who died in 2007, later insisted, "I don't think anyone could have handled it better. What would it have served if [Bush] had jumped out of his chair and ran out of the room?


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March 31, 2011
Santa Barbara, Calif. - Entering Thursday night's match against No. 12 UC San Diego, the eight-ranked Gauchos needed just one win in their final six matches to secure a spot in the MPSF postseason tournament. UCSB did not waste any time at all, dropping the Tritons in straight sets to clinch a spot in the playoffs for the first time since 2007, when they advanced all the way to the semifinals before falling to top-ranked Pepperdine. Game scores for tonights match were 25-17, 25-19, 25-17. With the win, the Gauchos improved to an overall record of 13-10 with a 10-7 conference record. The Gauchos are now 8-2 in matches following a loss. UC San Diego dropped to 8-17, with a 4-14 conference record.
Since UCSB has not reached the postseason since 2007, the playoff berth was the first for practically everyone involved in the program. "It's been the goal since day one," said Head Coach Rick McLaughlin, who came within one game of reaching the playoffs last year in his second season as head coach. "To miss out on the playoffs by one game last year made us want it that much more." The players echoed McLaughlin's sentiments, as senior outside hitter Jeff Menzel said "we should have been there the last three years, but it's good to be there this year."
The match itself was probably not even as close as the scores would indicate, as UC San Diego struggled without senior setter Phil Bannan, their leader in both assists and service aces. The Gauchos spread out their attack over the match, as three Gauchos finished tied for the team lead with seven: senior outside hitter Jeff Menzel, sophomore middle blocker Dylan Davis, and senior middle blocker Scott Slaughter.
For the match, the Gauchos held the Tritons to a lowly .075 hitting percentage, including a team-high .182 clip on 8 kills from Shane Veiga.
UCSB won the first set on the back of two long service rallies from senior oposite Cullen Irons. Though he recorded just a single ace on the night, Irons made it difficult for the Tritons to pass his serves to setter Mike Brunsting. UCSD hit just .034 as a team for the set, while UCSB also received strong games from Slaughter, who recorded three of his four blocks in the first frame, and senior libero Andy McGuire, who accumulated four of his nine total digs in the first set.
In the second set, the game became a little more fluid, as both teams recorded their highest hitting percentages in the second set- UC San Diego at .350 and UCSB at .579. That .579 clip from UCSB also included an 89% conversion rate on sideout points. Dylan Davis had five of his seven kills in the second game, while senior setter Vince Devany had 14 of his 37 assists in the second set.
The third set was all the Gauchos, as they never once relinquished the lead they established on the first point. Senior outside hitter, who came in to relieve Irons, recorded six kills in the set, the highest amount of kills recorded in a single set by any player in the match. Freshman middle blocker Evan Licht chipped in another four in the decisive set.
Though he did not have a poor match by any means, Jeff Menzel had a season-low seven kills- which broke a streak of 14 straight matches in which he reached double digit kills. "I'm not worried about the kills," said Jeff, "we played well as a team and we got the win, which is all that matters." The match was also just the second time all season that the Gauchos have failed to have any player reach 10 or more kills, the other time at Long Beach State on Jan. 18.
The Gauchos turn to host UC Irvine on Friday night, Apr. 1. UCSB lies just a half game ahead of UC Irvine for fourth place, and home court advantage in the first round of the MPSF playoffs, in the conference standings.
To purchase tickets, please call (805) 893-UCSB, visit the Ticket Office located inside the Intercollegiate Athletics building on campus or buy online and print at home by clicking here.
The Intercollegiate Athletics Ticket Office has two parking spaces adjacent to the building and is now open on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., making it easier than ever for fans to purchase tickets. The two parking spots, designated specifically for the Ticket Office, are also available during weekday hours, which are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The Gaucho Fund, launched as part of the Dare to Be Great strategic plan, is UCSB Athletics' annual giving program to provide vital funding support for scholarships, academic success and leadership development for Gaucho student-athletes. The Gaucho Fund is the anchor to the Dare to Be Great campaign.
Gauchos Clinch Playoff Spot With Win Over Tritons
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" ...I may be thinking about this wrong, but let's go with this - DC 30 with 6 rolls required before 2 failures. Assuming a +15, you have a 50% chance of a success per roll and a 50% chance of failure. So what's the chance you'll fail before you make it? Let's just go with the stats of what it would be if you got to roll all 6 no matter what, which is approx. 25%. The SAME thing could be accomplished by having someone with a +15 roll against a DC35..." Anonymous Friend.I just couldn't help myself from chiming in when I read this. Skill challenges in 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons are not easily reduced to equivalent single-roll "skill checks". They are more aptly represented by a collection of negative binomial distributions. This is likely technobabble to many of you, but suffice it to say that skill challenges represent a slight modification of well known type of probability distribution. Negative binomial distributions are usually those that describe a situation where you want to measure the probability of X number of successes before you reach Y number of failures given a probability of success P. The "slight modification" comes in because you are also considering that you might get all your successes before having any, or only some, of your failures.
I used Google Spreadsheet's bionomial normal distribution function to make these calculations by summing three distributions together that each had a different threshold for failure (0, 1, or 2 failures) like this:
=NEGBINOMDIST(X,N,P)+NEGBINOMDIST(Y,N,P)+NEGBINOMDIST(Z,N,P)where N is the number of successes needed, X, Y, or Z are the number of failures observed (0, 1 or 2), and P is the probability of success for the skill checks.
So, in the table below I have outlined the probability of success for a skill challenge that requires N number of successes before 3 failures. Across the top of the table you can see the actual d20 die roll needed for the success, and along the left you can see the total number of successes needed for the entire skill challenge to be a success. I'm also assuming that three-failures always represents failure of the skill challenge as a whole. Of course, this is still a simplification because I'm also assuming that the all the rolls would have the same DC - which of course is rarely the case. The table is also incomplete, but it gives you the general idea: skill challenges quickly become very hard as the complexity increases.
Use the above table to give yourself a rule of thumb when designing skill challenges. What's important to realize is that Complexity 5 skill challenges (i.e. 12 successes before 3 failures) are extremely hard even when needing very low rolls. I have no doubt that this is the reason why the DCs for skill challenges were made to be so low after the 4th Edition Errata was released for the Dungeon Masters Guide. I also believe this is a point many DMs miss.
Hopefully this post has shed some light on why the difficultly of skill challenges can be tricky to guage, and possibly helped a few folks in the meantime.


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Friday, April 24, 2009
To be perfectly honest, we don't love "The Reeling", the lead single off of Passion Pit's forthcoming Manners, but that's really only because we've been spoiled by the rest of the tracks compiled on their amazing debut full length. The recently unveiled video, on the other hand, is most definitely something to write home about. Perhaps the finest music video we've seen all year, the clip was directed by the Humble collective and filmed at the Delancey, also known as the LES home to our infamous (not really) Neon Gold parties. The video finds the band flanked by girls way too hot for them to feasibly be hanging out with and immersed in a world of distressed, animated paper as Michael belts out the chorus of his most vulnerable anthem from behind a mask of paper mache and torn up gig flyers. Deep, bro.
Regardless of your stance on "The Reeling" you should probably go ahead and start getting extremely excited about the otherworldly pleasures in store for you on their debut LP, out on Frenchkiss Records and Columbia UK next month. Let's just put it this way, if "Little Secrets" doesn't light up the airwaves as this summer's "Electric Feel", then frankly we don't know what will. Here's a hot-shit remix the dudes dropped for touring pals Ra Ra Riot to ease the wait.
MP3: "Ghost Under Rocks" (Passion Pit Mix) - Ra Ra Riot
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Labels: mgmt, music video, neon gold, passion pit, ra ra riot
6 comments:
- Dude said...
oh damn passion pit is remixing now? this is legit.
- April 24, 2009 at 4:16 PM
- Jared said...
This video reminds me of the album cover for Zero 7's 'The Garden'. I like.
- April 25, 2009 at 1:27 AM
- Nicky said...
wow moths wings is my favorite song
- April 27, 2009 at 4:38 PM
- Anonymous said...
Why does your site look cooler than mine. All the photomographs are balanced etc. *face ilke thunder*
- April 28, 2009 at 4:11 AM
- Neon Gold said...
Because Blogger recognizes that I am indeed cooler than you Marina and thus renders my layout to reflect that.
- April 28, 2009 at 2:00 PM
- Nicky said...
dude after hearing little secrets and moths wings, Manners is going to be soo much better than i even expected.
- April 29, 2009 at 12:44 PM
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The summer's still young, but I'd lay odds that no elaborately choreographed action spectacle this year will provide me with anything like the hit of pure pleasure I got from watching Cameron Diaz shove a corn dog into the mouth of a mustard bottle in Bad Teacher. Taken as a whole, the movie is appallingly sloppy, leaving discarded subplots hanging like the fringe on worn cutoffs, and its attempts at off-color humor are woefully inept. But while Bad Teacher's fart jokes wouldn't shock a five-year-old, there's something genuinely transgressive about the sheer slovenliness of Diaz's character, the extent to which she's willing to lay waste to her movie-star image. As she chomped down on that corn dog, pushing a half-chewed bite to the front of her mouth before swallowing it down, I felt a little thrilled, as if I'd been witness to some rare astrophysical event.
But depending on whom you ask, Bad Teacher has problems, and they're bigger than simple plot inconsistency. In a blog post titled "You Want Raunchy Comedy Starring Women? Be Careful What You Wish For," L.A. Weekly Film Editor Karina Longworth argued that that Bad Teacher is a movie in which "a 'strong woman' means a lazy, lying, scheming, slutty, and obstinately materialistic one… whose delusions are essentially validated by narrative resolution." In other words, Bad Teacher is bad for women.
I don't agree with Longworth's reading of Bad Teacher—for one thing, I don't see any way in which her character is presented as a "strong woman," and for another, I don't think the film's conclusion validates her delusion. Diaz's endless string of deception and manipulations does bring down her main rival, a goody-two-shoes colleague played by Lucy Punch, but Diaz's strategy is enabled by the fact that, underneath Punch's chirpy exterior, her character is just as vain and deluded as Diaz's. And while seeking a millionaire, Diaz gets involved with Jason Segel, a cheerily cynical kindred-spirit gym teacher who shares both her outlook and her relative poverty.
But rather than defend Bad Teacher—since I agree with Longworth's underlying point that, political ramifications aside, it isn't a particularly good movie—it's worth asking why the larger question even comes up. The success of movies like Old School and The Hangover have spawned their share of "Guys are back!" think-pieces, and Judd Apatow's blend of edgy humor and outright sentiment certainly sent ripples through the movie industry, since nothing makes Hollywood sit up and take notice like a movie that costs little and makes a ton of money. But in neither case was there much hand-wringing over whether their success or potential failure might advance or retard the progress of movies aimed at a primarily male audience.
Bad Teacher, by contrast, is just the latest movie to get caught up in an ongoing debate about expanding the boundaries of the traditional female-centered romantic comedy. The success of Bridesmaids, which as Longworth points out, has raked in more at the box office than any Apatow-related project since Knocked Up, seems to vindicate the theory that there's an audience—or, if you like, a market—for movies in which women discuss their feelings between bouts of explosive diarrhea and drug-induced hysteria. (It's worth noting, though, that the now-infamous sequence in which two woman disgorge the remnants of an unsavory Brazilian lunch in the bathroom of an upscale bridal shop involves two characters, played by Melissa McCarthy and Wendy McLendon-Covey, who serve mainly as comic relief. Maya Rudolph's character shits in the street, but she does it unseen, beneath a wedding dress.)
But Bridesmaids has run into trouble, too. In a post at indieWIRE, Lisa Rosman took the film to task for pasting "standard poop-n-puke frat gags" over a "Cathy comic plot." But regardless of its qualities—and I'd submit there's nothing "standard" about a movie in which two women mock the goofy appearance of male genitalia—Bridesmaids is indisputably a more complicated animal than Bad Teacher, a black-comic broadside in which everyone—man, woman, and seventh-grade student—is revealed to be some kind of a freak, jerk, or weirdo.
It's true that Diaz's character in Bad Teacher embodies some of the worst misogynist stereotypes: She's a vain, manipulative gold-digger who uses her killer body and forked tongue to bend men to her will, and regards other people only as obstacles between her and the nearest sugar daddy. But she's also a drunk, a slob, and a slacker, characteristics that don't speak well of her, but do set her apart from the stereotypical dragon lady.
Diaz is a beautiful woman; one of the surest gauges of her Bad Teacher character's madness is her conviction that the only way for her to snare a wealthy mate is to procure a giant pair of fake breasts. (So we don't miss the joke, the movie throws in a gratuitous scene of Diaz manhandling a sample pair attached to an alarmingly tan woman.) But her career has been distinguished by a willingness to get her hands dirty, to use her physical attractiveness as the premise for a joke rather than a mere object for the camera's gaze. She shares with her Charlie's Angels co-star Drew Barrymore a willingness to beat herself up onscreen, and not in the Oscar-grubbing manner of Hilary Swank or Halle Berry. The way Barrymore's roller-derby brute grins through the blood streaming down her face in Whip It, or the relish with which Diaz plays the symptoms of a wicked hangover in Bad Teacher, offers a contagious sense of liberation. They're powerful Hollywood actresses (and, in Barrymore's case, a producer/director) leveraging their clout on the opposite of vanity projects.
Longworth aptly references Tad Friend's New Yorker profile of Anna Faris, in which veteran movie executive Stacey Snider observes, "In my experience, girls' revealing themselves as candid and raunchy doesn't appeal to guys at all, and girls aren't that into it, either." The problem with that perspective, which like most industry axioms, is an impenetrable mixture of experience and unexamined prejudice, is that it forecloses a vast landscape of potential stories and characters. If everyone thought that way, we'd never have seen great comic turns like Faris in Smiley Face, or Jessica Hynes in the first series of Spaced, or Pamela Adlon on Lucky Louie.
Sexual desirability—the fact that, as agent says of Faris in that New Yorker piece, "guys want to nail her"—is still the yardstick by which Hollywood actresses are measured. Bridesmaids opens with Kristen Wiig in her skivvies, as if to show viewers that the Saturday Night Live performer specializing in loopy grotesques still has a body to die for. Appearing alongside Bad Teacher is a Maxim portfolio posing Diaz stripped and glistening in a variety of hypersexualized riffs on the movie's setting. (It's worth noting that the movie's car-wash scene is significantly less sultry than its lad-mag counterpart.) Reading the critiques of Bad Teacher, it's as though some people think Diaz is solely responsible for upholding the image of American women, but she isn't the Sidney Poitier of hot blonde chicks. Surely there are enough female stars that a few of them can sporadically take on qualities that are cruel, selfish, even—shudder—unattractive. Perhaps Bridesmaids' box-office take and Bad Teacher's promising opening weekend are indicators that audiences aren't as squeamish as Hollywood thinks. Maybe we're ready to accept that women have bodily functions, and that they can be at least as crass and filthy, even as ugly, as men—partly because it advances the cause of feminism, but mostly because it's funny.


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Northwest Wine
Long Shadows' great winemakers bring focus on Washington
After a long and successful career running Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, Allen Shoup retired as CEO of Washington's largest wine producer.
But the visionary leader was far from finished. In 2003, he launched Long Shadows Vintners, a Walla Walla winery that acts as the umbrella organization for several small producers -- all co-owned by some of the world's top winemakers.
Shoup enlisted such luminaries as Randy Dunn (Napa Valley), John Duval (Australia), Armin Diel (Germany) and Michel Rolland (France) as part of the project, and he brought in Frenchman Gilles Nicault as his resident winemaker.
Today, Long Shadows is a collection of seven boutique wineries, and Nicault works with each of the winemakers, who make their wines using Washington grapes.
Shoup also put together a group that purchased Wallula Vineyards, now known as The Benches. It's a dramatic vineyard overlooking the Columbia River in the eastern Horse Heaven Hills. While it provides much of the fruit for Long Shadows, Nicault relies on grapes from many vineyards throughout the vast Columbia Valley.
Here are a few of the newest releases from Long Shadows, which has tasting rooms near Walla Walla and in Woodinville. Ask for them at your favorite wine merchant or contact Long Shadows directly. Many of the wines are highly collectible and can be a little difficult to track down.
Pirouette 2011 Red Wine, Columbia Valley, $55: This Bordeaux-style collaboration from Philippe Melka and Agustin Huneeus, Sr. of Quintessa fame is arguably the best to date, featuring a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Cabernet Franc and Malbec. Aromas of brown sugar and cocoa powder lead to blackberry, dark plum and dark strawberry to go along with smoky toast. It's long and silky with dark cherry, boysenberry and chocolate, backed by blueberry acidity. (14.9 percent alcohol)
Feather 2011 Cabernet Sauvignon, Columbia Valley, $60: Napa Valley star Randy Dunn, who helped Caymus become famous, combines a bit of hedonism with aging potential in this Cab. The nose of blackstrap molasses, brown sugar, cigar box, crushed herbs and moist earth give way to flavors of blackberry and cassis, followed by fine-grained plum skin tannins and a bold rush of cherry pie acidity. (14.2 percent alcohol)
Sequel 2011 Syrah, Columbia Valley, $50: John Duval, long the magician behind Australia's most famous wine, Penfolds Grange, produces perhaps his finest release to date for Long Shadows. Hints of sizzling ham, blackberry, plum, black cherry and blueberry in the nose also show his balanced of oak with a note of a cup of Americano sprinkled with cinnamon. The entry is rich and thick with a great profile of black cherry, blackberry and black currant flavors. Moderate, yet refined chocolaty tannins and blueberry acidity allow for a finish of graphite and black olive. (14.8 percent alcohol)
Pedestal 2011 Merlot, Columbia Valley, $60: French rockstar winemaker Michel Rolland's perennial project for the Long Shadows Vintners program remains focused on Merlot (87 percent) with Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot. The dark nose of fresh-ground coffee leads to dusty blackberry, plum, black currant, pink peppercorns and minerality. The classic grip of Washington Merlot shows itself early before the midpalate turns creamy with black cherry, blackberry and cassis, while the finish brings a stream of dark chocolate. (14.8 percent alcohol)
Julia's Dazzle 2013 Pinot Grigio Ros, Horse Heaven Hills, $16: A remarkable nose of strawberry shortcake, kiwi fruit and peach taffy gives way to flavors of nectarine, white strawberry and honeydew melon, while the texture rolls in the mouth as the acidity stays just ahead of the residual sugar (0.85 percent). In less than five years, Julia's Dazzle -- a tribute to Shoup's granddaughter -- has become one of the most widely produced ross in the Northwest. Look for this bowling-pin bottle in restaurants or ask your local wine merchant. (13.7 percent alcohol)
Eric Degerman and Andy Perdue run Great Northwest Wine, a news and information company.


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It is my pleasure to serve as the Russellville Junior High School Principal. I am beginning my eighth year at RJHS and 24th year in education. I feel extremely privileged to be part of a school district with such high expectations for our teachers and students. I am a member of the Arkansas Association of Educational Administrators, Arkansas Safe Schools Association, and the Arkansas Activities Association.
At Russellville Junior High School, our main goal is to provide a positive and safe learning environment in which all students can succeed. We have a rigorous curriculum which challenges students to develop higher level thinking skills. Our caring faculty sets an example for the students as life-long learners. We encourage and welcome parents and community members to be involved in the educational process.
I see my job as an opportunity to encourage, empower, and equip all Russellville Junior High School students to be successful scholars and citizens. My wife Karen is the media specialist at Center Valley Elementary. We have three sons, Landon, Kregan, and Bryson.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham said it best.
Talking about the challenges the next secretary of defense will confront, Graham, a South Carolina Republican, warned that he will face "a world on fire."
So true, and the Middle East along with the larger Islamic world are the perfect demonstration. When have we ever seen such widespread turmoil, destruction and death as we are witnessing right now?
Every day we hear about the continuing violence in Syria, Pakistan, Mali, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Nigeria and elsewhere. Overlooked now is the fact that, until recently, many of those nations were ruled by dictators. The world was jubilant, myself included, when several of them lost power in the Arab Spring.
But hard as it may be to admit today, Saddam Hussein, Hosni Mubarak, Muammar Qaddafi, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and others did maintain policies that were effective - though often cruel - in keeping ethnic, religious and social divisions under control.
Look at Iraq right now. In recent days, tens of thousands of Iraqis have been staging massive demonstrations against Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government. Some journalists and politicians are calling this Iraq's Arab Spring.
But that's not the situation at all. The demonstrators are Sunni; Mailki's government is Shiite. That's Iraq's principal ethnic fault line, one that has existed since the state was born. On Sunday, four car bombs in Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad killed at least 21 people and wounded 125 more. And Maliki complains, probably correctly, that the demonstrators are upset only because they no longer control the government.
And what about Egypt, now home to rampaging protests and demonstrations almost every day? Here, too, we are looking at a religious-social divide. While the Mubarak government held power, the Muslim Brotherhood won support among the masses by providing food and social services. Now the country is riven by conflict between Brotherhood supporters and secular urbanites.
And in Tunisia, where the Arab Spring began in 2010, the nation is falling back into chaos after the murder early this month of Chokri Belaid, an opposition politician who was shot dead as he was leaving his house. Belaid had been a leading critic of the Islamist-led government. Tens of thousands took to the streets again, laying bare that state's political-social fault line.
Before the revolution just over two years ago, Tunisia had been a bastion of Arab secularism, enforced by Ben Ali. Now Islamists dominate the government, and the leader of Ennahda, the state's Islamic party, blamed "the French model of secularism" for the new violence. Tunisia was a French colony until the mid-20th century.
At the same, all of this instability in so many nations has given Islamic extremism room to spread like malignant cancer cells. Look at what has happened in northern Mali, where French troops drove out extremists, only to find that they have left behind a guerrilla war between Islamist and secular Malians.
In Syria, members of al Nusra, an Islamic terror group, are flooding into rebel-controlled areas and actually slaughtering secular rebels. And of course, who can forget the killing of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi, Libya, last fall - and the raid in Algeria that left at least 38 hostages dead? Algeria fought a bloody war against Islamists 20 years ago and has maintained a repressive government since. But obviously the religious-ethnic divisions have not faded away.
What do we take from all of this?
All of these countries were led by men who actively repressed their nations' social and religious divisions. But after the invasion of Iraq and the Arab Spring revolutions, those divisions sprang up once again in full force. Repressing them for all those years did not extinguish them.
The problem now is: In each state a leader representing one side or the other has taken power - Shiites in Iraq, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Islamists in Tunisia and Libya.
Is there any solution? None that the West can impose. But soon enough, perhaps, the people of these states will realize that they need a technocrat government, one that concentrates its efforts on economic development and social equality - and doesn't try to promote the interests of one ethnic or religious group over another.
Facing governments that hold a broad popular mandate, Islamic extremists will find it difficult to attract followers. Instability is the extremist's friend.
Until that day comes, that part of world is fated to remain "on fire" -- the needs of its people totally ignored as self-interested leaders fight to keep their sect in power.
Joel Brinkley is the Hearst professional in residence at Stanford University and a Pulitzer Prize-winning former correspondent for The New York Times.


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Prism Skylabs raises $7.5 million
Prism Skylabs has raised another $7.5 milliion in funding, the company announced today. Here's a link to the story. I've put a call into founder Steve Russell, (also founder of 3VR) and expect I'll get a chance to speak to him in the next few day. Prism Skylabs, which offers a cloud service that "leverages data from existing video surveillance cameras to unlock information on customer patterns, trends and behaviors", was launched just before ASIS 2012. Here's an ssnTVnews video interview I did with Steve Russell at ASIS 2012, where he talks about the company, and its first investment round ($1.5 million from the SV Angel, Yuri Milner, Eric Schmidt, Aaron Patzer, Brad Garlinghouse, CrunchFund and others)


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Last week, the Trillium Brewing Company opened its doors at 369 Congress St., in the Fort Point neighborhood, joining the nearby Harpoon Brewery as one of Boston's only two breweries.
After years of twists and turns and licensing and permitting issues, the second brewery in Boston has opened its doors.
Last week, the Trillium Brewing Company opened its doors at 369 Congress St., in the Fort Point neighborhood, joining the nearby Harpoon Brewery as one of Boston's only two breweries.
Founded by J.C. Tetreault and his wife, Esther, the small brewery began by selling growlers of its beers, and on Thursday the flagship beer, Trillium, debuted at the Publick House and Monk's Cell in Brookline.
Tetreault's idea about founding their brewery is similar to many brewers, Tetreault said.
"I started like a lot of guys in the current wave of new craft breweries, in that I'm a homebrewer," said Tetreault. "I fell in love with beer first and then I fell in love with making beer. I quickly found that all of my free time was reading and practicing to make myself better at it."
The name of the brewery, "Trillium," was inspired by a North American wildflower found in woodlands.
"It's very unique in symmetry and balance, what we strive for our beers to be," said Tetreault. "We're trying to reach that in our farmhouse ales."
On Saturday, I stopped in at the new brewery in Boston to check it out. It's relatively easy to find, although the entrance is on the side of the building, rather than the front, so make sure to look for the sign.
The brewery itself is small, but Tetreault makes use of all the space they have. Due to the low ceilings, the brewery features a lot of custom equipment. They also used repurposed equipment, mostly dairy equipment, now used to brew beer.
Currently, the brewery only sells growlers of beers, as well as shirts and glasses. Currently there are no beer samples offered, but Tetreault is hoping to change that.
Despite every other brewery in the state, including Harpoon, being allowed to offer samples of its beers, the city will not allow Trillium to provide samples to customers.
"An inspector felt we needed to have a bathroom," said Tetreault. "They equated offering samples to consumption."
Tetreault said many liquor stores do beer tastings without a public bathroom, as do other types of businesses, so he said there has to be a way to do it. They are asking patrons to sign a petition to get the city to allow them to offer samples.
However, after trying Trillium's first beer, also named Trillium, I'm going to recommend that you buy a growler of the beer and bring it home to try it.
The Trillium is a wonderful farmhouse beer, brewed with a portions of raw wheat, malted wheat and Pilsner malt. It is phenomenal - it stands up with some of the best beers brewed in Massachusetts. It's dry and easy to drink, with wonderfully spicy flavors and a nice hop kick on the finish.
"There is not much in it, just Pilsner and wheat (malt - the layers and layers of complexity really arise from the mix of the different brewer's yeast," said Tetreault. "It's got quite a depth of character, but it's easy to enjoy if you're not a beer geek. It has a soft-pillowy mouth feel, but it's pretty aggressively hopped for the style."
Trillium has three other beers planned, the Pot & Kettle oatmeal porter, the Fort Point Pale Ale and Wakerobin, a rye beer.
Due to space restrictions, Tetreault said he plans to release each of the beers one month apart. He also hopes to start bottling his beers in a month and a half or so, and they will be available in 750 ml bottles.
I can't wait to try them all.
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Mary Ellen Macuen, 50, of Worcester was running a bar and raising a daughter when she became addicted to opioids. The self-described dance mom managed to keep it together for a while, until after 20 years of abusing painkillers she couldn't take the lies, stealing and not being able to get out of bed without pills anymore.
After getting arrested and finally committing to treatment at Spectrum Health Systems in Worcester, Ms. Macuen has been clean since June 6, 2009.
Ms. Macuen has gone back to school, earned her associate degree at Quinsigamond Community College, and is studying for her bachelor's degree in urban studies and communication at Worcester State University.
She continues to work full time as a bartender, volunteers in a hunger program, tutors, and works her recovery program at Spectrum Health Systems.
Ms. Macuen was 24 the first time she used opioids, when she was prescribed Vicodin after having her wisdom teeth removed. She couldn't take them because the pills were too large, so her doctor switched her to Percocet.
That initial experience with pills didn't do much for Ms. Macuen.
But then she had another procedure that came with a post-op Percocet prescription.
"I was diagnosed with some skin cancer I had to have removed and was given another prescription and realized, 'Wow, this is what they stole pills for,' " she said.
Getting extra Percocet was never a problem. Ms. Macuen owned a bar and she said dealers were in all the time. She learned of other places to get pills, too.
She said: "There was one doctor I remember they told me to go to. He worked out of a three-decker. You went in, you sat in a waiting room with hundreds of people.
"When you went in, you got your name on a prescription paper. You'd hand him the prescription. He had a mask on, so you never saw what he looked like. He wrote out the prescription and walked out. Wouldn't say a word."
There were other sources for drugs as well.
"There were so many little old ladies out there selling their pills. I'd go to this high-rise. I probably had five ladies over the age of 75 I would buy from. They knew the price, they knew how to sell them. They got them every month. They didn't take them.
"One lady I knew, it would help pay her bills. So there was always that justification, 'Gee, I'm helping out the little old lady by buying her pills so she can get milk and bread this month.'"
Ms. Macuen said she got a prescription from her doctor, too, for seven years, telling him she had headaches.
She recalled that the 85 Percocets she'd get prescribed each month would be gone in two or three days, leaving her to find illicit sources until the next prescription. But she didn't want to risk losing her prescription by pushing the doctor too far by claiming her pills had been lost or stolen.
Ms. Macuen said: "My disease got pretty bad. At one point I was probably doing up to 25 pills a day.
"I think with the Percs, before you got to the point where you took so many, you could still function. I was a functioning addict, but I couldn't get out of bed without them.
"The withdrawal was horrible. In order to get up before noon I'd have to have six or seven pills."
The pills dictated pretty much all aspects of Ms. Macuen's life, including family travel.
"I had to go to a dance competition for a weekend and I'd be away. I had to make sure I'd have enough so when I came home the next day I'd be able to unpack my suitcases," she said. "I remember we took a trip to Florida and I came home two days early because I ran out of pills.
"It's overwhelming. You justify every aspect of them � until you're just to the point where they just run you."
The expense of buying Percocet for $4 to $6 a pill added up quickly, too.
"I was paying double what my mortgage was in pills," she said.
A run-in with the law after she stole money off an employer's credit card forced Ms. Macuen to finally face her addiction.
"I had a daughter. The cost was horrible ... everything about it was horrible ... the constant lying, stealing.
"I worked two jobs (to get the pills). If I knew someone who would have a prescription, I'd go over there and take some out of their cabinets. I would pawn all my jewelry.
"I finally got to the point where I had to make a choice: Either I was going to become an outright thief or stop taking pills.
After Ms. Macuen got arrested, her probation officer told her to clean up or go to jail.
"I was the dance mom. It was embarrassing," she said.
"I came to same-day treatment here (at Spectrum). It was a Thursday morning and I was the very first person here. They open the doors at 5:30 a.m. We got here at 3:30 a.m., got our number and went to Denny's and had a cup of coffee and waited for them to open.
"I went to 90 meetings (Narcotics Anonymous) in 90 days. And that was huge."
Ms. Macuen said her counselor at Spectrum was relentless in pushing her to go back to college and set new goals. She still goes to an NA meeting a week as she works her recovery program.
"In the beginning, I'm not going to say it wasn't hard. You have to meet a whole new group of people, a whole 'nother life," she said. "You've just got to get other priorities. I used to spend that much time looking for pills. You might as well spend that time doing something right."
Ms. Macuen said facing addiction to prescription painkillers was not like most other abused substances because pills are a legitimate � even healthy � part of our culture.
"I think pills are a lot different. I think you can kind of function with them still. They're not frowned upon, they're not looked at as illegal. They're not looked at like, 'Oh you're a drunk or a crackhead,' " she said.
"For me, I would make an excuse: Oh, I can get them from the doctor. It's almost like you try to justify it and make a reason for why it's OK."
And pills are everywhere.
"The hardest thing with the pills� I would drive by a CVS or a Walgreen and see that prescription bottle on that sign. With heroin, you don't see it. With pills, it's like an alcoholic driving by the package store," she said.
Nearly five years into her recovery, Ms. Macuen said her life has turned around.
"I was fortunate enough not to lose my home, not lose my child. Now I can pay my bills, I'm not worried about having my lights shut off. I can face my family. I don't have to lie."
She added: "Now when I have dental work I won't even take an Aleve. Ten years ago I would have been all over it, calling for more."
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A new River North bakery serving cakes, pastries, tarts and other goodies opened its doors in early February. Fabcakes (714 N Wells St. 312-397-3300) is helmed by Fabiola Tyrawa, a baking enthusiast-turned-business owner whom the bakery is named after.
Tyrawa, who is from Poland, doesn't have a standard menu of treats but puts out pastries inspired by available ingredients and the seasons. Favorites include heart-shaped red velvet cupcakes with mascarpone cheese and croissants stuffed with goat cheese and fig or brie and cherry. You'll find fresh fruit incorporated into nearly every menu item, typical of Polish baking. This lighter take on desserts means you'll often find yogurt instead of heavy cream and other naturally sweetened treats.
"Sometimes I don't follow recipes; I'll just follow my heart," said Tyrawa, who has been baking for more than 10 years.
Inside this family-run spot (Tyrawa's niece is the manager and her stepson is the barista) you'll find quaint, European-style decor such as vintage gold ceilings, plush red curtains and black-and-white checkered flooring. There are spacious tables for those looking to grab some Ipsento coffee or hot tea from Rare Tea Cellar and use the free wifi. Flavored coffee drinks go beyond the standard with house-made syrups in flavors such as fig-white pepper, lavender or white chocolate-raspberry.
Fabcakes is open Monday through Friday from 7 a.m.-6 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m.-6 p.m.


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The U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate gathered on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, January 6, for the start of the 111th Congress. Both chambers convened with a serious emphasis on how to fix the economy and a new and expanded tax credits targeting the middle class.
In fact, Senate Democrats unveiled their legislative agenda for the 111th Congress which includes several tax credits aimed at providing relief to working families as well as measures to expand health care for Americans. At the top of the legislative list is stabilizing the housing and credit markets in order to help jumpstart the economy. The Senate is also making an omnibus federal lands bill a top priority this session.
Committee assignments have yet to be official, as both chambers are still waiting for some seats to be finalized. In the Senate, a Minnesota and an Illinois seat remain vacant as Senators determine what official documents are necessary to seat Al Franken from Minnesota and Roland Burris from Illinois. On the House side, one seat has yet to be filled. Illinois Representative Rahm Emanuel vacated his seat to become President-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff. The seat is reported to be filled by special election in April.
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Eleven minutes remained in the third period Friday night when Seth Jones slipped into the home dressing room, grabbed a quick shower and headed to the airport. He took a redeye from Portland to Atlanta and arrived early Saturday, hopped a connecting flight and landed in Buffalo about 10:15 a.m.
The circuitous route across the Lower 48, all too familiar for people bound for Buffalo, was an appropriate course for the fresh-faced, 18-year-old defenseman. Jones has learned there is no direct path to an NHL arena. The map is usually dotted with unexpected stops interrupting a maze of squiggly lines in a picture not always clear.
Too amped from his game Friday and too amped for his game Saturday, Jones dozed off for only about 90 minutes of his 3,200-mile journey. Still, he was determined to place a checkmark next to an important item on his agenda: The inaugural All-American Prospects Game in First Niagara Center. He made the trip worthwhile.
"It really has been," Jones said. "The fans were great tonight. We had about 5,500. It was awesome. You could really feel the energy. Most of the players know each other and play with each other. They were going at it. Everyone was hitting each other like it was a playoff game. It was really fun."
Nice kid, Seth Jones. He scored the second goal Saturday night on a slap shot from inside the blue line to help Team McClanahan to a 5-2 victory over Team Housley.
You might not know much about Jones. He's just your run-of-the-mill, Plano, Texas-born, African-American son of a professional basketball player who was introduced to hockey in Colorado, blossomed in his native state, attended high school in Michigan and ended up in Portland on his road to the NHL.
Jones is one of the top prospects in North America, but chances are you know more about his father. Popeye Jones played for six teams, including the Dallas Mavericks twice, over 11 seasons in the NBA. He crisscrossed the country as a player and is now an assistant coach for the Brooklyn Nets.
Popeye was playing in Denver during the 1999-00 season when his son, 5 years old at the time, took an interest in hockey. Popeye Jones, on the advice of Avalanche captain Joe Sakic, first signed up Seth for figure skating. A year later, Seth played youth hockey and was hooked. He never played organized hoops.
"It kind of took off from there,'' he said.
Within four years, Jones' name was on player-to-watch lists in Denver. He drew the attention of Tony Granato, who was coaching the Avalanche. Granato marveled the first time he was Jones over how the kid handled himself. Jones was 10.
"He was always very mature and poised,'' Granato, now a Penguins assistant, said Saturday. "And he was a really good athlete. I had no idea what point he would rank nationally, but I knew he would be a really good player. I knew he would be a college player someday and, then, who knows?"
We'll find out soon enough.
Jones could be the first pick overall in the NHL in June. Canadian forward Nathan McKinnon, known as the next Sidney Crosby - the next Next One - could be taken ahead of him. Jones is certain to be selected long before his father was taken in the NBA draft. Popeye was picked 41st overall in 1992.
Looking back, Seth had an ideal situation. Popeye knew little about hockey and didn't interfere with his son's coaches. Instead, he passed along values that were universal in all sports: maximum effort, selflessness, listening, learning and competing. His son kept growing, improving, pushing, achieving and believing.
"The kid is a player," Granato said. "He could play in our league real soon. He has to continue to develop but his maturity, how he thinks the game, physically, he'll be a top one or two pick next year, and he'll be in the NHL in 12 months."
Five years ago, Jones moved to Dallas. Two years ago, he moved to Ann Arbor, Mich., while playing in the U.S. developmental program. He considered accepting a full scholarship to the University of North Dakota before his decision to play Canadian junior made him ineligible.
His final destination remained unchanged. Jones is 6-foot-4 and 210 pounds, a smooth skater and right-handed shooter, a combination that has left scouts salivating over him for two-plus years. Add his off-ice maturity - he carries himself like a veteran - and he looks like a can't-miss defenseman.
"Just a great athlete and built for today's game,'' said former Sabres defenseman Phil Housley, who this year will coach the U.S. world junior team. "He's big, strong, physical, great defensively, has a good stick, makes an excellent first pass out of the zone and plays in all situations. He's the most well-rounded player [in the country]."
Jones missed the world junior championships last year with an injury but is a virtual lock this year, if he stays healthy. For now, he's settling into the Western Hockey League with Portland. He's taking the proper steps along the way. The latest was Saturday.
Grab a map, draw a straight line from Portland to Atlanta and connect one from Atlanta to Buffalo, and the picture becomes clear. You'll find a giant checkmark even though in hockey, as in life, things often appear to be backward.
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posted 03.20.2014Celebrating black history at Antioch Baptist Church
The participants at Saturday's Black History Program at Antioch Baptist Church in Saluda came forward for benediction and, in doing so, perhaps unknowingly formed a cross. The program was sponsored by the Middlesex County NAACP Unit 7091.
posted 02.27.2014The Beatles: Music that changed the world
This Sunday, February 9, at 8 p.m. marks the moment 50 years ago when The Beatles performed live on The Ed Sullivan Show. In a country of 190 million, an estimated 73 million people witnessed the electrifying event.
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Snowmageddon 2014. Click through for some frozen landscapes around Middlesex County. Stay warm!
posted 01.30.2014River Rivalry Holiday Tournament
Lancaster High School hosted the day-long invitational on December 28. Play started in the morning with the middle school teams, continued in the afternoon with junior varsity games and concluded that evening with the varsity competition, when Lancaster picked up a dual victory. The LHS boys downed MHS, 60-40, and the Lady Devils beat the Lady Chargers, 51-46.
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This actually came at the end of the 99-yard fumble recovery we showed you last night, and raises a greater paradox than Schrödinger's cat: how do you decapitate a mascot that is only a head? Darwin Cook tried his damndest with a clothesline on Obie, the anthropomorphic Orange Bowl orange.
Everyone survived, though several bystanders were briefly squirted in the eye with that mist that comes out whenever you cut an orange.
Cook and Obie met on the field after the game and shared a hug.
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CRS: Radio Free Asia: Background, Funding, and Policy Issues, July 21, 1999
From WikiLeaks
About this CRS report
This document was obtained by Wikileaks from the United States Congressional Research Service.
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Individual members of Congress will release specific CRS reports if they believe it to assist them politically, but CRS archives as a whole are firewalled from public access.
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Wikileaks release: February 2, 2009
Publisher: United States Congressional Research Service
Title: Radio Free Asia: Background, Funding, and Policy Issues
CRS report number: 97-52
Author(s): Susan B. Epstein, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
Date: July 21, 1999
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- In response to some Asian countries' human rights violations and to promote democracy in countries such as China and North Korea, the Administration and the 103rd Congress agreed that the United States should increase broadcasting to this part of the world. For FY2000, the President's budget request for Radio Free Asia and the Senate appropriation (S. 1217) are $23 million. On October 1, 1999, as a result of the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998, the Broadcasting Board of Governors will become an independent agency in order to maintain its journalistic integrity while the rest of USIA will merge into the Department of State.
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Legislation introduced to award Medal of Honor to Father Kapaun
WICHITA — Sens. Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran introduced a bill today to award Father Emil Kapaun, a Kansas war hero, the Medal of Honor for acts of valor in the Korean War.
Rep. Mike Pompeo, R- Wichita, introduced a companion bill in the House of Representatives.
"Father Kapaun was by all accounts an American hero," Roberts said in a statement. "Taken prisoner at the Battle of Unsan, Father Kapaun served his soldiers by escaping to steal food from nearby farms to bring back to starving prisoners. He cared for sick soldiers, washed them, shared his food with them, and inspired them with his unfailing faith and acts of generosity until his death as a prisoner in May 1951.
"His selfless actions are certainly deserving of the Medal of Honor."
Kapaun was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions in Korea. In 2009, former Congressman Todd Tiahrt called for a review of Kapaun's record.
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See all of the report data, coverage and analysis of the May 10 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates and Crop Production reports.
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Gulke Breaks Down Today's WASDE Report
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Farm Journal's Chip Flory and Brian Grete of Pro Farmer explain the implications of today's USDA Supply and Demand report.
Look for a $4 Harvest Price on Corn
New-crop corn production of 14.14 billion bushels will surpass last year's output by 31% despite delayed planting that has already cut yield potential significantly.
Corn Tumbles as U.S. Sees Rebound From Drought
Corn futures tumbled, heading for the biggest weekly loss in more than a month, after USDA said U.S. inventories will double as farms produce the biggest crop ever.
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Film producer Stacey Sher and musician Kerry Brown have listed their house in the Beverly Crest area at $5.795 million.
Originally designed by Wallace Neff, the 1948 house was once the home of actress Julie Andrews and director Blake Edwards and later remodeled. The 1.61-acre site includes a 7,800-square-foot main house, a 2,480-square-foot guesthouse, a separate building with a bathroom, a tennis court, a basketball court, a swimming pool and waterfalls.
The living space features beamed ceilings, stained-glass windows, brick, stonework, mahogany doors and six fireplaces. There are five bedrooms, five bathrooms, a screening room, a den and a gym in the main house. The four-bedroom, three-bathroom guesthouse contains living and dining rooms, a kitchen, a den, an office and recording studio space.
Among artists who have recorded at the studio are Courtney Love, Ziggy Marley and the Strawberry Alarm Clock. It has also been the site of music recorded for the films "P.S. I Love You" (2007) and "Death to Smoochy" (2002).
Sher, 49, is in New Orleans working on Quentin Tarantino's upcoming movie, "Django Unchained." Her production credits include "Pulp Fiction" (1994), "Erin Brockovich" (2000) — for which she shared an Oscar nomination — and the series "Reno 911!" (2004-09).
Kerry, 48, has played drums with the groups Catherine, the Smashing Pumpkins and Spirits in the Sky. His music editor and production credits include "Along Came Polly" (2004) and the series "Jessica Simpson: The Price of Beauty" (2010).
Rick Chimienti of Prudential's Beverly Hills office is the listing agent.