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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (April 3, 2012) – Meetings with four teams inside the top 50 of last season's final RPI – including a home match against perennial ACC powerhouse and 2007 national champion Wake Forest – highlight the 2012 men's soccer schedule which ETSU head coach Scott Calabrese released on Tuesday.
Including the Oct. 9 game at Summers-Taylor Stadium against Wake Forest, the Bucs are slated to host eight regular season games and two preseason exhibitions. ETSU's regular season schedule also includes 10 road games, including its first trip to Lexington, Ky., on Sept. 19 to take on the Kentucky Wildcats.
In total, ETSU's 2012 schedule includes games against four teams from the 2011 NCAA Tournament field – Florida Gulf Coast, Furman, Wake Forest and UAB – who all ended the season inside the RPI top 50. UAB also checked in at No. 21 in the final NSCAA Coaches Poll after earning the 11-seed and falling to eventual national runner up UNC Charlotte in the NCAA's second round.
The remainder of ETSU's tough schedule contains five additional teams inside the top 100 of the 2011 final RPI – Appalachian State, UNC Greensboro, Davidson, Kentucky and A-Sun rival Stetson.
"The 2012 schedule is probably the most challenging we have ever put together," said Calabrese, who will enter his fifth season as head of the Buccaneer men's soccer program. "When you look at the non-conference portion, you're looking at teams that are typically in the top 25 and are consistently strong. The College of Charleston, UNC Greensboro, UAB, Kentucky, Furman, as well as Wake Forest, are all very well respected programs with strong traditions of success, and it will be a way for us to really challenge ourselves during the non-conference season."
ETSU begins the preseason on Aug. 14 when it welcomes Milligan in the Bucs' first of two home exhibitions. Four days later, ETSU plays its final friendly when the College of Charleston visits Johnson City, Tenn., to wrap up the preseason.
The regular season gets underway Aug. 24 when ETSU looks to avenge last year's, 1-0, late-season, double overtime loss to Appalachian State. It will be the fourth all-time meeting between the two squads, and ETSU's first visit to Boone, N.C., since defeating the Moutaineers, 1-0, in overtime on Nov. 2, 2010.
The Bucs kickoff the home season on Aug. 28 in a rematch of last season's double overtime thriller against UNC Greensboro. In last year's meeting, ETSU earned its first ever win over a nationally ranked opponent when Alesi Osorio (Austin, Texas) broke a scoreless game with 43 seconds remaining at the UNCG Soccer Stadium to give the Bucs a, 1-0, victory.
"Greensboro is a great program with a tradition of success," Calabrese said. "We got our first win over a nationally ranked team when we beat them last year, and I'm sure they will have extra motivation to come here to play us. We'll have to be prepared and ready to play when Greensboro comes to town."
After hitting the road for an Aug. 31 battle with Presbyterian, ETSU returns home on Sept. 2 for a matchup against a potentially, nationally ranked squad in UAB. The Blazers went 13-5-3 last year and ended the 2011 season at No. 21 in the final NSCAA Coaches Poll. UAB also finished at No. 17 in the final RPI, which is the strongest of all the teams ETSU is scheduled to face in 2012.
ETSU ends its mini-home stand on Sept. 8 with its first game against Radford since Sept. 11, 2009. It will be the Bucs third all-time meeting with the Highlanders, in a series which is currently at 1-1-0.
The Buccaneers' next four games all come on the road in meetings with Davidson (Sept. 15), Kentucky (Sept. 19), Winthrop (Sept. 22) and Furman (Sept. 27). ETSU played its first all-time meeting against Davidson last year, defeating the Wildcats, 3-2, courtesy of an 87th minute goal by David Geno (Kingsport, Tenn.). ETSU then heads for its first meeting with a second group of Wildcats as it takes on four-time NCAA Tournament participant, Kentucky. UK's best postseason finish came in its Sweet 16 run during the 2000 season.
The second half of ETSU's four-game road trip contains two opponents off the Bucs' original 2011 schedule. Last year, ETSU was supposed to face Winthrop in Rock Hill, S.C., but never made the journey due to inclement weather throughout the day, and the two sides agreed to cancel the match. ETSU will then travel to Greenville, S.C., to conclude the road swing in its third all-time meeting with Furman. Last season, the Bucs and Paladins squared off at Summers-Taylor Stadium with ETSU ranked No. 22 by Soccer America, while Furman was ranked No. 25 in the NSCAA Coaches Poll and No. 23 in Soccer America. Through two overtimes, the match ended in a, 0-0, draw.
When ETSU returns home, it will be to start the Atlantic Sun portion of the season with three-consecutive home matches against Mercer (Sept. 30), North Florida (Oct. 5) and Jacksonville (Oct. 7). Against the three squads during the 2011 regular season, ETSU went a combined 1-2-0 with its lone victory coming in thrilling fashion at North Florida. With ETSU holding a 0-2 A-Sun record at the time after opening the conference season with losses to Belmont and Lipscomb, the Bucs trailed UNF, 2-1, with under two minutes to play, but were saved by an Aaron Schoenfeld (Knoxville, Tenn.) penalty kick with 1:52 remaining. In overtime, Theo Yang (Lilburn, Ga.) broke through in the 101st minute to save ETSU from a potentially catastrophic 0-3 start.
"When you get to conference it's always a battle, and that has to be the focus for our team," Calabrese said. "When you look at our conference schedule, last year we put ourselves in a difficult situation early on where we didn't amass the amount of points we wanted to. It really came down to a critical game against USC Upstate at the end of the year where we had to win or would have been eliminated from the A-Sun Tournament."
Perhaps ETSU's highest profile game of the season follows its first three A-Sun contests, when the Bucs step back out of conference to welcome in Wake Forest. The game will be the last of ETSU's four-consecutive home contests, and the Bucs' first ever meeting with the Demon Deacons. In Wake Forest's prestigious men's soccer history, the Demon Deacons have made four College Cup appearances including a 2007 national championship. The last time Wake Forest made the College Cup was in 2009, when it lost in the national semifinal, 2-1, to eventual national champion Virginia. The Demon Deacons also made the College Cup in 2008 as the No. 1 overall seed, falling to eventual national champion North Carolina, 1-0, in Frisco, Texas.
"We always try to a host a big game from a prestigious university, and in this case Wake Forest is going to come play us on Oct. 9," Calabrese said. "Wake [Forest], a powerhouse in the ACC, will be a really good test for us and a great game for our fans to get excited about here at home."
The A-Sun schedule resumes on Oct. 13 when ETSU looks to exact some revenge at Lipscomb after losing to the Bison, 2-1, at Summers-Taylor Stadium last year. The loss dropped ETSU to 0-2 in conference play at the time after having been disciplined with three red cards in the conference opening loss at Belmont. Last year's game against Lipscomb was also the last time ETSU was nationally ranked, coming in at No. 24 in the NSCAA Coaches Poll and No. 22 in Soccer America.
ETSU's final home game of the regular season comes Oct. 19 in its first meeting with the A-Sun's newest member, Northern Kentucky. The Norse men's soccer program enjoyed much success at the Division II level, earning a No. 1 national ranking through several seasons including a national championship title in 2010.
Closing out ETSU's regular season schedule are three-consecutive road matches against defending conference tournament champion Florida Gulf Coast (Oct. 26), Stetson (Oct. 28) and USC Upstate (Nov. 3). After defeating FGCU, 2-1, in the 2011 regular season, the Bucs were bitten in the A-Sun Championship final by an 89th minute goal from Scott Harrison, and were turned away in the dying seconds when Yianni Sarris headed out a sure equalizer.
On its way to the final, ETSU had to play what could be considered its greatest game in its four-year history. Against Stetson in the A-Sun semifinal, ETSU went down 2-0 in the opening 6:38, and came all the way back to take a 3-2 lead with 2:12 to play before surrendering an own goal in the final minute to force overtime. After two scoreless overtime periods, Ryan Coulter (Dublin, Ireland) saved ETSU's season in the penalty shootout with a stop in the fifth round which would have won Stetson the game, and the final save in the eighth round to send ETSU to the championship final.
For the third year in a row, ETSU is scheduled to battle USC Upstate in the final game of the A-Sun season. Last year's meeting was as crucial a game as possible, with ETSU needing a win to advance to the A-Sun Tournament and doing so with two goals in the final 16 minutes after trailing the Spartans, 1-0.
"Again this year, we are seeing Upstate at the very end," Calabrese said. "Typically that last day of the conference season is always a critical day where teams are trying to scrape their way in or earn the highest possible seed. As we saw last year, this will definitely be an important date for us."
The 2012 Atlantic Sun Championship is scheduled for Nov. 7-11.
For more information on ETSU men's soccer, please visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's soccer links.


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DeLaval has more than 15 years of experience successfully combining its expertise in milk production with the day-to-day knowledge of managing dealerships and serving dairy producers. According to DeLaval, Wisconsin's 1.7 million dairy cows make the state a very attractive place to expand its dealership business.
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Modern Dairy Systems LLC was founded in 2001 by Dan Rasmussen and Steve Lamers. The business will continue to offer dairy producers DeLaval milking equipment, installation services and 24/7 maintenance from its six locations in Wisconsin: Brussels, Elkhart Lake, Ellisville, Gresham, Kaukauna and Oconto Falls.
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Syrian opposition activists hope that the shockwave of Egypt and Tunisia's mass uprisings, which have shaken the Arab world, will begin to reverberate in Syria, with calls for a "day of rage" Friday throughout the country.
But analysts believe opponents of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad face a daunting struggle in replicating the street revolutions that so far have toppled one head of state in Tunisia and left another teetering on the edge in Egypt.
"We have been surprised before in this crisis, but my sense is that it's unlikely we will see large, large, large groups of people coming together because the security services will be intimidating people, arresting people, keeping a very tight lid," says Nadim Houry, Lebanon representative of Human Rights Watch (HRW), a New York-based watchdog.
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The seismic upheavals in Tunisia and Egypt have triggered unrest elsewhere in the Arab world, particularly in Yemen and Jordan. Syria, ruled by the Baath Party since 1963 and the Assad family since 1970, also seems at first glance potentially vulnerable. It shares some passing similarities with Tunisia and Egypt, particularly economic hardship – rising prices, unemployment, poverty, and the cancellation of subsidies on basic commodities.
Yet there are also critical differences, which may lessen chances of a Tunisia-style revolution taking hold. Perhaps chief among them are the sectarian divisions within Syria. Such divisions, if unleashed by protests, could cause bloodshed and chaos similar to the experiences of Lebanon and Iraq in recent years.
"The cautionary tales of its neighbors to the east and west – Iraq and Lebanon – have only reinforced Syrian anxieties about the dangers of weakening the central government in a country with a mixed sectarian and ethnic population," says Elias Muhanna, author of the influential Qifa Nabki blog.
Syria's population is predominantly Sunni, but the backbone of the regime is drawn from the minority Alawite community, an offshoot of the Shiite sect. The marginalized Kurdish population is also a potent factor in the country's sectarian and ethnic composition.
Intimidation, repression discourages opposition
Syrian activists have used Facebook and Twitter to spread the word in the past week, calling for protests and demonstrations on Friday and Saturday. Although Facebook has been blocked in Syria since November 2007, many Syrians use proxy servers to sidestep the ban. President Assad himself has a Facebook page.
"The storm against tyranny and monopoly must come to Syria," says a statement released by the Popular Movement for Change in Syria. "Don't be afraid and know the government does not have a choice but to listen to your voice when millions will demonstrate in the streets."
The prediction of "millions" taking to the streets in the next two days seems overly optimistic judging from the small number of protestors who held a recent series of gatherings in Damascus in support of the Egyptian uprising.
Some 200 people turned up for a candlelit vigil outside the Egyptian embassy in Damascus on Sunday. According to Mr. Houry of Human Rights Watch, Syrian security officers also were present, taking photographs of the demonstrators and demanding to see the identification cards of some attendants. That security presence appears to have had a chilling effect on the demonstrators, as fewer numbers attended subsequent gatherings.
On Wednesday, the police stayed away, but some 20 men turned up to harass the protestors, questioning their motives, and accusing them of serving outside powers, says Houry, who is in regular contact with the activists. Another gathering was scheduled for Thursday afternoon to protest against Syria's two cellular phone services, Syriatel and MTN Syria, which are regularly criticized for their high tariffs, the second highest in the Arab world. Rami Makhlouf, Assad's cousin, is the majority shareholder of Syriatel, Syria's largest private corporation, which fuels accusations of cronyism.
Anti-regime demonstrations in Syria are rare due to rigid state control and a fractured opposition. The strongest opposition to the the 48-year-rule of the Baath Party in Syria have been from the Islamists of the Muslim Brotherhood and Syrian Kurds who live mainly in the northeast adjacent to Syria's borders with Turkey and Iraq.
A rebellion by the Muslim Brotherhood in the late 1970s was ruthlessly crushed in 1982. The organization remains banned in Syria and its leaders live in exile. The Kurds have demonstrated for greater rights on several occasions. The most recent uprising, in 2004, was heavily suppressed and followed by a campaign of arrest and imprisonment of Kurdish activists.
"Authorities continued to broadly violate the civil and political rights of its citizens, arresting political and human rights activists, censoring websites, detaining bloggers, and imposing travel bans," said a report on Syria's human rights policy in 2010 released by Human Rights Watch last week.
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When Assad succeeded his father, Hafez, in 2000, many Syrians expected a process of political liberalization to follow. But changes have been slow, with the focus on gradual economic reforms rather than political freedoms.
The traumatic and bloody developments in the region over the past decade also have done little to hasten a speedier transition. Syria's backing of anti-Israel resistance movements, such as Lebanon's militant Shiite group Hezbollah and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, as well as its long-standing strategic relationship with Iran, placed it at odds with the US. The US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the mass demonstrations in Beirut two years later, which led to Syria pulling its troops from Lebanon, further isolated Damascus and placed it on the defensive.
Still, unlike the leaders of Egypt and Tunisia, no one can accuse Assad of being a lackey of the West, which gives him a degree of credibility in the eyes of many Syrians and Arabs of other countries. Furthermore, his relative youth (he is 45 years old) stands in marked contrast to many of the ossified kings and presidents elsewhere in the Arab world.
"By successfully supporting Lebanese and Palestinian resistance movements and by opening Syria's borders to over a million Iraqi refugees, Assad helped boost Syria's sense of national pride," says Camille Alexandre Otrakji, a Syrian blogger and author of www.creativesyria.com, a web forum for Syrian culture and politics. "Mubarak, the president of the largest Arab country, humiliated his proud people by consistently appearing to be nothing more than an American and Israeli puppet."
Still, Andrew Tabler, a Syria specialist with the pro-Israel Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said that support for anti-Israel groups and standing up to the US, "doesn't work well where the regime is weakest: skyrocketing corruption and lack of reforms."
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Peter Welch for Congress
In the race between Democrat Peter Welch and Republican Martha Rainville for Vermont's lone seat in Congress, one issue is paramount: Do Vermonters want to enable President George Bush to maintain control of both the House and Senate, or will they cast a vote to place an appropriate check on this president's radical and disastrous agenda? If voters want Bush to "stay the course� on domestic issues and foreign affairs, then a vote for Rainville will help assure that path. If voters want a change in the nation's direction and a check on the president, then a vote for Peter Welch is critical.Control of the U.S. House is so central to this election that it outweighs all other considerations. This newspaper's concerns with the Bush administration's mismanagement of our national resources and damage done to our international prestige over the past five years are well known to our readers (and those long-standing concerns, we might add, have largely been validated), so we won't belabor the mounting perils that would face the nation if Bush is allowed to reign two more years with a rubber-stamp Congress.Equally important, however, is the poor performance of this Republican-led Congress, not to mention the scandals the Republican majority has brought upon itself. The latest incident with Rep. Bob Foley, R-Fla., is only on the nation's radar screen because of the blatant hypocrisy of the crime when he was chair of a committee to protect our country's children, and, more importantly, because the Republican leadership — that pious lot that were holier-than-thou in 1998 — were caught covering up the incident and leaving Foley in power even though they knew of his tendency to prey on male pages. Shameful and disgraceful.More importantly, in our opinion, has been the tone this Congress has set for the past six years. Big business has had a free hand in profiting at our government coffers, run roughshod over environmental protections, dictated labor issues, ghost-written tax and energy policies to benefit the wealthiest few, pushed free trade at the expense of American workers and possibly to the detriment of America's long-term industrial capability, and created a culture of profiteering with little respect to the public good. (International Paper's bottom-line decision to burn tires at its Ticonderoga plant despite knowledge that it would not meet state-of-the-art pollution control standards is just one example.) Rather, today's politics reward corporate greed and the buying of political influence. The result has been the scandalous fall of Enron (close buddies to George Bush), WorldCom and several others; along with the stain of corporate lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who has pled guilty to three felony charges of fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials, and has implicated several GOP congressmen.Similarly, this Republican Congress has encouraged a culture of political expediency where the ends justify the means — a morally bankrupt premise. This has been a Congress that allowed and encouraged Tom DeLay to gerrymander the state of Texas to an absurd degree to ensure Republican control. It's a Congress that passed the Patriot Act without adequate safeguards to protect Americans' individual privacy and protection from a heavy-handed government. And it's a Congress that has allowed this president to revamp this nation's constitutional rights in times of war, so that Americans now observe fewer freedoms than other Western nations and condone the torture of prisoners.As well as scandal-ridden and misguided, this Republican Congress has been inept. Well-known Washington Post political analyst David Broder — a moderate by almost any historical standard — recently said of this Congress that it had "worked fewer days — and accomplished less — than any Congress in recent history, and much of its routine work on spending bills was postponed until after the election. The legacy of what it left undone — especially in the fiscal area — will damage future generations long after the memories of DeLay and Foley and their follies have vanished.�Or consider this assessment of Congress, as reported by Broder, by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: "The 109th Congress took our already large projected budget deficits and passed legislation that will make them larger. The legislation increased deficits from 2005 through 2011 by $452 billion. Moreover, the budget deterioration over the past six fiscal years — 2000 to 2006 — is the largest deterioration for any six-year period in the past half-century.�Why, Vermonters must ask themselves, would Americans want to permit Bush and his Republican-dominated Congress to continue control of the nation when they have failed so miserably on so many fronts?•••••While breaking the Republicans' control of Congress is the most critical issue in this race, a vote for Peter Welch is also a vote for experience, knowledge and know-how. To be an effective representative, one first has to know the issues thoroughly and to know how the legislative process works. Welch has a wealth of experience on legislative issues and process, and he knows where he stands on the issues.He's against Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy, was opposed to the war in Iraq from the start and maintains that the open-ended presence of American troops there has become a "provocative element� in the violence. A timeline, therefore, should be developed to get American troops out of the Iraqi conflict as soon as possible, while shoring up rapid response forces for neighboring allies. He's against privatizing Social Security, would reform Medicare Part D for simplicity and fiscal responsibility, and end the oil-industry give-away and put that money — around $7 billion in the past five years — into renewable energy development. He'd push for National Guard parity by giving the Guard's chief the rank of four-star general and elevate the Guard to membership on the Joint Chiefs of Staff so the Guard isn't shortchanged in budget, staffing and strategy decisions. He'd renew the nation's commitment to environmental stewardship and he'd work to support family farms in Vermont and across the nation, noting that the decision to strip $1.5 billion out of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Bill denied $100 million in grants to Vermont farmers and is another example of how the president and this Republican-led Congress "fails to know how government can work on behalf of its citizens to take our country in the right direction. We must have an energy policy that lowers and stabilizes energy costs and we must have an agricultural policy that supports family farms.�On each issue, and there are dozens more, Welch's views are articulate, informed and offer a thoughtful approach to addressing the problem.While Rainville's career in the military is impressive and her political intentions sincere, she is a newcomer to politics and that inexperience has been demonstrated several times in the campaign. While a few bobbles might be expected, the plagiarizing of political talking points on the issues speaks volumes about her lack of knowledge. Her recent criticism of our involvement in the Iraq War is also a classic flip-flop — having been a loyal supporter of Bush's decision to invade Iraq without a peep of protest for the past few years — and makes one question her integrity on this issue. On those issues that she has been clear about, she solidly supports Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy and opposed creation of more wilderness in the Green Mountain National Forest — both of which are stands the vast majority of Vermonters oppose. On too many other issues, she talks in platitudes and — unknowingly or not — maintains she would be an independent force in Congress even though not a single savvy person in the state believes that would be so.Most importantly, a vote for Democrat Peter Welch offers Vermonters the best hope for change on the national scene, and the opportunity to restore many of the values that have been eroded by Bush and this Republican-led Congress.Angelo S. Lynn


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GlassFish OSE 3.1 is out with WebSocket support included
By now you likely know that we released 3.1 of GlassFish today. It's all over twitter with much of the jubilation around the return of clustering and HA support. But closer to my own heart is the inclusion, finally, of websockets support. I've blogged about it before, so I won't go in to too many details here. But this is the first actual release of GlassFish to feature support for it which I'm personally pretty excited about. Some caveats still apply, however. WebSockets are an exciting new technology but still remain under active development. The version of the specification shipped with GlassFish 3.1 is the -76 version which is rather old by now. It is still, as of this writing at least, the version supported by most of the browsers that support websockets. So the good news is that apps you write today should work with most of the browsers out there. As the specification evolves, however, browsers will begin to support newer versions of the specification and the GlassFish code will no longer work.
In the grizzly source tree, I have implemented support for the -05 version of the specification (with work started on the -06 version) for the 1.9 tree (which ships with GlassFish). Should you find yourself needing newer support, I have written a simple bash script that will do that heavy lifting for you. The script below needs to be run from the glassfish3/glassfish/modules directory. In addition, you'll need to specify the version of grizzly you'd like to upgrade to. The -05/-06 support will be present in 1.9.33 release coming up soon.
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MILPITAS, CALIFORNIA, Dec. 15, 2008 - SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today announced temporary cuts to its Flash wafer production in its joint-venture manufacturing facilities in Yokkaichi, Japan. Production in Fab 3 and Fab 4 will be temporarily halted from December 31 to January 12. Following this shut-down, joint venture production will resume at approximately 70 percent of current capacity. The duration and extent of this reduction in fab output will depend upon market conditions. These steps will result in higher wafer cost due to underutilization of capacity; however, they are expected to better align SanDisk's captive output in 2009 with the projected demand in the current global economic slowdown.
SanDisk also indicated that it is continuing to work with Toshiba on definitive agreements to restructure the manufacturing joint ventures and expects to sign these agreements in the first quarter of calendar year 2009. A non-binding memorandum of understanding regarding selling a portion of the capacity from the joint ventures to Toshiba was originally announced on October 20, 2008.
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From the ars article:
"This is the same technology the armed forces use to help soldiers kill the enemy. All we're saying is, 'Don't sell it to kids,'" he told The San Jose Mercury News in 2008.
So it turns out he knew what he was talking about after all!
At first I thought it was just because I look like Dave Grohl that everyone was coming up to me, but the questions were all about where to find 8TPI 3" lag bolts, gluten-free Portland cement, interior latex matte polka-dot paint, and not a single autograph request. Then I realised I'd worn an orange T-shirt when I went to Home Depot.
It's just like that, only in reverse.
The hat design seems to be a copy of a traditional Icelandic style, but with ugly 1970s colours. Isn't it illegal under the DMCA to make false claims?
To propose amendments to the US constitution, a joint resolution from the House and Senate must pass with a two-thirds supermajority in each.
To ratify an amendment, three-fourths of the state legislatures must approve it.
And that's not touching the House & Senate rules which prevent most minority (˝ total members - 1) attempts to legislate, rules which can be changed pretty much at the Speakers' whims.
I wonder if Reykjavík's Mayor Jón Gnarr and his Best Party will either get directly involved in Iceland's national politics or support/endorse the Pirates.
> I'm certainly not allowing someone without engineering qualifications to design my hospital.
But you're rather vociferously against hair salon licensing. So where exactly do you draw that line? Or are you going to go with the "I know what porn is when I see it" line of non-reasoning?
This'll be fun. The Dutch Parliament stated downloading will remain legal and the Supreme Court has already ruled that linking itself cannot infringe on copyright, way back in the XS4ALL case.
How about you give up all the crappy Google translations and ask the people here (among whom sufficient language skills exist to cover most foreign stories covered here) to translate properly? There's an opportunity for you to personally demonstrate CwF/RtB, perhaps even shelling out a few bucks (or Amazon list fulfillment) for the more prolific?
Bonus to you for asking for some legal summaries and why decisions make sense in the local, non-US context (Germany's privacy laws come to mind).
Not after posting after the resolution was already known and leaving the sensationalist bullshit up for hours.
Oh noes! You called me a troll! So you probably don't realise that Mike's posted stories I've submitted.
You're totally cool with Mike sacrificing his integrity for page views. I don't really give a shit about his SEO and constant self-referential links. That's the game. But what does bother me is the bullshit sensationalism he resorts to and his utter unwillingness to accept that the EU has different laws, just like US states have different laws.
Feel free to be a boot-licking sycophant. It does me no harm. But know that if you dare make a claim about me I will respond. You toady.
So what? They're still making legal claims which have no basis in law. The letter asserts rights the company doesn't have.
The only thing this C&D shows is that the lawyer has read Techdirt or Groklaw. There is no legal case, not even a "trade dress" claim. Not only was no trademark infringed upon, the basic design is a part of popular culture, something the letter admits.
But the sheep here, just like at reddit and /. and everywhere else, are lining up to say how great the company sending out baseless C&Ds is, not understanding the law nor even that "Jack Daniel Distillery, Lem Motlow Prop, Inc." is the company name because Lem was playing games when he registered the company but that it's actually owned by one of the largest US booze consortiums. They also don't realise that JD today is nothing like JD of decades past, the recipe having been changed drastically twice, once to knock the alcohol down to the standard 43% and a second time in the '90s to "tune" the flavour to give it more mass appeal.
The "superpriemium" Single Barrel version tasted almost the same as the stuff in the 1950-something bottle of JD I once had.
That's twice today.
Can you explain why you have left out the part
Two reasons:
1) This is yet another sensationalist item designed to attract views.
2) European countries are not the US and have different legal systems, something Mike loves when it's in line with his opinions and something he doesn't understand when not.
He can bitch and moan about the WSJ all he wants. At the end of the day he's no better.
> and you think that if the guy wins the case... the US entertainment industries wont be on that EU ruling like flies on shit, do you?
Europe. Is. Not. The. US. Get it through your noggin. We don't give a flying fuck what the US entertainment industry thinks or wants. That's how we keep blocking and repealing most of the Hollywood-written legislation they manage to occasionally get through.
> grow up!!
Such a convinciong, perhaps even bulletproof argument from someone whose writing style shows himself to be not yet half my age. Truly I have been schooled.
Why do you insist on describing EU and other non-US legal systems and actions in US terms? There are different precedents, concepts, federal-like limitations and legal codifications over here.
Neij and the lawyers are working within the Swedish and EU systems, using existing laws and definitions to handle a case over here what a District Court in the US might be hearing in which a lower court overstepped its boundaries &/or failed to take into account overriding legal concerns & conditions.
Ads masquerading as content. Because the SEO-gaming internal and self-referential links aren't bad enough.
Obama more than once mentioned his cred as a professor of Constitutional law. And now he has a job which not only should test this knowledge but also allows him to tailgate on the (unconstitutional) idea of executive orders, none of which he'll actually issue to fix shit? Can someone please fill in the the blank spots for me?
You just get those checks out to the Milne & Tezuka families, the Grimm heirs and the State of Bavaria (Germany) and we can discuss this further.
How Much Of That Will Go To Artists?The bullshit artists on the board and in the legal department? Most of it.
This from the man whose own presidential bid was torpedoed by his own "reuse" of a Neil Kinnock speech.


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Lets just get the Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings comparison out of the way.
Good, now we can listen more deeply. After all, Pharis & Jason Romero are artists unto themselves instrument makers, songwriters, pickers extraordinaire. These two clearly have as much adoration and natural talent for the traditions of American folk music as they do for the intrinsic musicality of their two voices.
Fresh from a win at the Canadian Folk Music Awards (they won New/Emerging Artist of the Year), theyve got a sophomore album ready (Long Gone Out West Blues), which wanders deeper into their craft. Like a path through the woods, you think you know where youre headed until you to hear the running water. Then come the lonely songs.
There can be a desperation in singing lonely songs something quiet, sad, and seething. But, when the Romeros sing, theres more of a letting go. Youre not peering into the mind of a songwriter; youre witnessing the release of some long-clenched story or emotion. Though these are all beautifully composed, well-considered songs, theres a sense that the music is coming more from the spur of the moment the newness of the emotion than from the channeling spirit you might witness with Welch & Rawlings. For example, when Pharis comes in on Wild Bill Jones, its like she was listening to this confession then joined in out of urgent solidarity.
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Running from 15th – 17th June, London will kick start the Menswear calendar with a showcase of British brands and businesses embedded in a cultural programme. London Collections: Men is a development of the Men's day at London Fashion Week which has grown in stature and content despite sitting outside of the traditional menswear calendar. This new showcase will emphasise both the creative and commercial importance of Britain's brands and emerging talent as well as the rich cultural landscape that contributes to the inspiration and success of this sector.
The majority of brands and designers who participate in the Men's day at London Fashion Week will be contributing to the showcase. London's emerging talent showcases MAN, NEWGEN MEN sponsored by Topman and Fashion Forward will support the UK's most innovative new talents to show during this period. Iconic British designers such as Margaret Howell, heritage brands such as Aquascutum and Savile Row tailors such as Richard James and E. Tautz will join London Collections: Men to show the breadth of British menswear.
Dylan Jones, chair of the Fashion 2012 Menswear Committee will be at helm of these plans, drawing together a committee of influential figures within the Menswear industry initially including Christopher Bailey; David Furnish; David Walker-Smith, Selfridges; David Walliams; Elizabeth Saltzman; Gordon Richardson, TOPMAN; Jo Levin, GQ; Jeremy Langmead, MR PORTER; Marigay McKee, Harrods; Simon Fuller; Tim Blanks, Style.com; Tinie Tempah; Tom Ford and The Mayor's Office.
Harold Tillman, CBE Chairman of British Fashion Council said "The menswear industry has been growing from strength to strength in past years and this is true testament to this, London Collections: Men will not only be a showcase for brands and designers but will form a cross cultural programme creating a festival for Menswear in what will be a truly exciting year for the UK. I would like to thank Dylan Jones as Chair of the newly formed Fashion 2012 Menswear committee and all of the members, designers and brands involved in making this work."
Dylan Jones, Editor GQ and Chair of Fashion 2012 Menswear Committee said "This is a fabulous initiative, and one that will undoubtedly draw even more attention towards London this year. Whether you're involved in sport, fashion, media, retail, entertainment or tech, or indeed any industry, London is the place to be in 2012."
Gordon Richardson, Design Director, TOPMAN said "No longer shoe horned into one condensed hectic day, the newly established London Menswear Collections, over 3 glorious days now has the space to breathe, flourish and generate the buzz that will put its talented rising men's fashion stars firmly on the international fashion map."
Jeremy Langmead, Editor in Chief, MR PORTER said "MR PORTER is looking forward to working with the BFC on this exciting new project that aims to give Britain's talented menswear designers and tailors the showcase they deserve. The menswear industry is experiencing huge growth right now and this makes both supporting home-grown talent, and feeding the worldwide appetite for innovative and expertly-made stylish men's clothes, essential. We look forward to creating a number of engaging ways that MR PORTER can help spread the word across all its content platforms during the London Collections."
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[Update 1: clarifies Harris Interactive data set] Mortgage-holding homeowners that owe more than their homes are worth show a greater tendency toward delinquency behavior, according to a recent Fannie Mae (FNM) housing survey of more than 3,400 Americans. A separate poll recently found that 24% of mortgage borrowers believe they are underwater. Although Fannie found that two-thirds of survey respondents prefer owning a home to renting -- even in the face of economic challenge and the downturn in housing prices -- the mentality of strategic default is spreading. A contagion effect within communities is leading borrowers to consider default as an acceptable option in the face of financial hardship, Fannie found. Both delinquent and current mortgage borrowers are more than twice as likely to have seriously considered stopping payment if they know someone who has already defaulted. Despite a growing acceptance of strategic default on the community level, thinking about walking away and actually walking away are separate events, according to Kathleen Day, a representative at the Center for Responsible Lending. "From everything we know, no one defaults if they could possibly stay in their homes," she tells HousingWire. "We just don't see people responsibly walking away. It's people who are at the end of their economic rope." Nevertheless, according to the Fannie survey results, underwater borrowers are both more likely to be delinquent and to have considered default: But industry fears of strategic default may be overblown, as nearly nine in 10 Americans and more than seven in 10 delinquent borrowers believe it is unacceptable to stop making mortgage payments altogether. Fannie found that only 39% of delinquent borrowers and 9% of underwater borrowers have seriously considered stopping payment. "The public also strongly believes in the importance of upholding the financial commitment involved in buying and owning a home, even during these challenging times when home values have fallen," said Fannie president and CEO Mike Williams, in a statement. Slightly more than half (53%) of respondents to Fannie's survey believe homeowners bear the responsibility for taking out loans they cannot afford. But 58% of delinquent borrowers believe the mortgage lender is to blame, since the lenders "know better what people can afford and should help guide people." Optimism for a brighter economic future in 2011 is also building, as Fannie found that 44% of all respondents and 63% of delinquent mortgage borrowers expect their financial situation to improve next year. "Consumers … are rebalancing their attitudes toward housing and homeownership by adopting a more realistic, long- term approach, and are less willing to take risks," said Doug Duncan, Fannie chief economist. "This focus on sustainable housing is better for the economy, better for the housing market and better for America's families." Despite the brighter outlook, many mortgage-holding Americans are still facing significant financial difficulty. An online poll of 2,320 people, conducted in the first week of March, by market research firm Harris Interactive found more than two-thirds (69%) have an outstanding mortgage. And of that number, one in nine borrowers (11%) report having "a great deal of difficulty" paying off their mortgages. Another 18% are having "some difficulty." Out of the survey respondents who have mortgages, 24% believe they are underwater, owing more on their mortgages than their homes are worth. Of those that claim to be underwater, 26% are having "a great deal of difficulty" and 23% are having "some difficulty" paying their mortgages. Additionally, of those that believe they are underwater, 42% are "very concerned" and another 38% are "somewhat concerned" about not having enough income to cover their costs. "These findings underline the very large number of people whose homes are worth less than their outstanding mortgages and even larger numbers who are worried about covering their costs and expenses generally," Harris Interactive said in the poll results. If the percentages are converted into numbers, approximately 27m adults believe they are 'under water' – that their houses are worth less than their mortgage debts." Write to Diana Golobay. Disclosure: the author holds no relevant investment positons.


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A new growing season starts, and a garden grows with it.
The community garden at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Laura Street in Kinston has grown in small steps since its inception in the summer of 2011, but advances are being made.
A grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture led to the establishment of an orchard over the fall, which will be expected to provide fruit � and nuts � as the year moves along.
Pointing out the trees Saturday, Jessica Seymour of Common Ground ENC said the orchard should provide pecans, peaches, figs, apples and pears.
�It�s for people to grow their own healthy foods and not be concerned with spending money on fresh produce that may be outside of their budget,� Seymour said. �This is an inexpensive way to supplement your weekly grocery bill, with something very inexpensive.�
With a $3,000 grant from the popular toy company Lego, Common Ground intends to install several bee hives. It�s one of the goals of the project to be environmentally sustainable while serving as a place for childhood education.
�We�ll be taking that Lego grant to build two or three bee hives, and of course that�s another great piece of teaching about science education,� Common Ground Executive Director Lee Albritton said. �It�s teaching kids about pollinating insects, and also gives them a chance to produce some honey to sell, because we�re very much into social enterprise, which means generating revenue, generating profits so we can reinvest in our goals.�
Also working on the property Saturday were members of Kinston Department of Public Safety Explorer Post 1033, cleaning up the area next to Laura Street and assisting in new planting at the garden.
�I enjoy it because, for one, it�s a better way for us to come around and help out the community, and we�re actually helping in the community by planting crops like fruit and things like that,� Post 1033 member Charnetta Sutton said. �And for people who are staying right here, close to Common Ground, they�re able to come and get fresh fruit and vegetables.�
A labor-intensive part of the job of cleaning up the site is clearing the area of trash and debris.
�It�s pretty good for somebody to come clean it up, instead of people throwing the trash out here and leaving it,� Post 1033 member Portrate Stokes said. �It helps the environment, so, somebody has to do it. I guess we�re just the people to do it right now.�
Before the 1999 flood, before the property was a mobile home park, it was a dumping ground. So in addition to litter, the soil turns up the refuse of years past. An area next to the garden was being developed for a run-off area.
�This is a swell that we tilled up, and once we get it cleaned out, we�re going to open up a real, open ditch where water can run,� Albritton said. �Because, this is low land and this is a place for water to go. In the meantime, they�re picking up glass, brick and metal.�
Broken soft drink bottles, engine pistons and a small pistol were among the items needed to be cleared.
Over the weekend, strawberries were going in near ready-to-harvest Brussels sprouts and flowers and greens meant to treat the soil over the winter. But soon, plots will open up as other produce are ready to plant.
�In the spring, we intend to plant the typical vegetables that we grow around here � squash, zucchini, corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, okra,� Seymour said.
People from the surrounding neighborhood and general area are being sought to tend plots in the garden � personal plots are available at $15 a piece � and to assist with the community efforts, of which gardeners can take home a portion of the bounty at harvest time.
Brian Jones of Common Ground said it provided a nice place for friendly competition for civic groups, and for older generations to impart their knowledge to younger gardeners.
�Our goal for spring is to get people out here,� Jones said. �This garden is for you to come share with us. You can plant what you like, and we can even provide it.�
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|2012-05-26, 05:01
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Gundam Age - Character Discussion - Kio Asuno
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|2012-07-17, 16:19
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Apparently doing one particular thing that is similar to another particular thing another character in the franchise did makes you that character. Who would have known that Kio's desire to do things his own way and be his own man seperate from his father and grandfather would forever make him another character from a completely seperate timeline in the eyes of the franchises fans. Sorry there Kio boy....
|2012-07-18, 00:10
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|2012-07-30, 09:01
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Kio may have found his own way of fighting, but not his resolve. That is the reason he always yell "We should stop fighting."
There are still 7-9 episodes for character development. I wish he could be more like Banagher than Kira.
|2012-07-30, 10:33
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It toke +/-30 episodes of character development for Kira to finally come to the conclusion that war sucks and that he didn't particularly enjoy killing people if he can avoid it. Kio on the other hand is like kid who watched a anti-war movie for the first time and comes to the conclusion that war is bad and we should all stop fighting.
|2012-07-30, 15:15
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|2012-07-30, 15:30
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The only ones who did were Cagalii in Destiny (only toward Orb, but still unsuccessfully) and Lacus (more successful after major losses in both camps).
One difference people forget between Kio and Kira is that Kira's way of fighting is less to do with stopping the war and more to do with a personal realization that he doesn't think of either side as outright enemies that needed to be killed, for the most part.
But still, people do reject Kira's interference, just not his disarming policy.
Note that people, for the most part, do not seem to outright disagree with Kio's disarming policy either (except probably for Flit), although I haven't seen the latest episode.
They reject his desire that they stop fighting, just like the Orb soldiers did to Cagalli.
So, in this case, the comparison with Kira, I feel, is misguided.
|2012-07-30, 22:01
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What I meant is how the character is loved by fans Sorry for the confusion.
Kira is being bashed left to right on different communities.
Banagher, on the other hand, is being bashed on Episode 4 because of his pacifism, but is praised on Episode 5 due to a good character development.
What I want for Kio is pull something that will let him be remembered as one great protagonist.
|2012-07-31, 08:06
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btw, why do you care about Kio's popularity? Apparently everyone hates Age, but that doesn't bother you, dose it? So why care about Kio's popularity?
|2012-07-31, 08:13
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I only care how the series would end. If Kio would do the same thing (shouting and defending) until the end of the series, then he will be labeled as the worst Gundam protagonist, which is very bad for the whole series.
And if I'm rooting for someone, it will be Asemu, not Kio.
|2012-07-31, 09:10
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Other than being a kind Person Kio doesn't really have anything in common with Kira. Can anyone think of anything else?
Now that we are talking about this, isn't Kio more like Lacus then Kira? She is the only one I can remember who tried to reason with her enemies on the battlefield while she is fighting them.
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|2012-07-31, 15:23
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I didn't say Kio is Kira. Like as I said, I was talking about the perception of there characters.
I like Kio, but with 2 episodes of Kio convincing two girls to stop war without actually doing something is not really good. No comparisons from me for Kira here.
We have yet to see Kio's defining moment, but I really feel there will be.
|2012-08-06, 02:53
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So yeah after thinking about it a bit more I'm starting to cool on Kio's whole part in this a show little but too, but for slightly different reasons than a lot of others. It's not the oft heard bit about how he's stupid for trying to follow his own path in putting an end to the fight like so many people take offense too, his naivete is well within the consistency of his character so far, what my main problem is is that he's kind of just been cycling through the same defining events over and over thus successively dulling their impact. By comparison both Flit and Asemu had more deliberate and linear development and a variety of different influences that shaped them into what they are, but so far all of the events that have influenced Kio have involved the tragic and totally preventable death of someone he sympathized with despite his best efforts to find a way to save them. First it was Shanalua, then it was Lu, and now it's been Spriggan. While that's all well and good and I honestly have no issue with the ideas being presented themselves, it feels like it's getting a little worn and that now after the third time Kio just hasn't made any progress towards being a more interesting protagonist. Twice I could have accepted with the third time being the charm, but three times is getting a touch reptitive and redundant.
Compare that to say Banagher Links from Unicorn who learned from the mistakes he made during the incident with Loni and applied them to helping Zinnerman rescue Marida from the Banshee while Kio has failed three times now and it honestly does become fair to say that it's a little disappointing. I still don't think it's too late for Kio to develop more, but this has to be the one that does it, no more of the same storyline, it's definitely time to take a different approach cause things aren't working and whether he realizes that now may actually play a part in whether I end up lending a little more credence to the idea that the writing for Kio has been sub par. I hope that's the angle they're going with even though I think it's already taken longer than it should by about 1 attempt.
|2012-08-06, 18:08
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I don't understand where the hate comes from. It's not as if Kira was the first character to ever adopt a rule of not killing his enemies. People love Batman, and he too doesn't kill his enemies, regardless of who they are and what they've done, from common street thugs to outright murdering rapists. The popularity of the Nolan trilogy is huge, and I've yet to hear people complain that Bruce is a moron for not killing so and so and having a "stupid" rule about killing etc. Must be a thing with Gundam, the protagonists in this franchise are held to a lower standard it seems, they have to give in to revenge and be a killing machine to be likeable. It's no wonder Flit is so beloved and Kio is hated.
|2012-08-06, 18:17
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I'm guessing you only know of the Tim Burton series?
Batman's no-kill policy stems from the comics which Nolan stayed faithful to and it's because his parents were shot.
Or a simplier reason would be the same as any other superhero. If they were to kill the guy then they'd be guilty of first-degree murder. It's why Wonder Woman was wanted because she snapped a guy's neck or Spider-man for seemingly killing a guy. And why Batman was on the run because he took the blame for Harvey's murder and such.
For Kio....I'm pretty sure most people are annoyed with the fact he's crying and whining about understanding each other while fighting when that's not the reason behind the fighting to begin with.
|2012-08-06, 21:09
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Kio will probably become better in the end though now I want to strangle that guy. The AGE-FX is pretty much wasted on him.
Why the heck this brat got state-of-art suit while Asemu and Flit stuck with their old suits?
Anyway, I'll blame this on AGE's 3 Generation concept. The main character's character development pretty much reset every arc. We have to see the main character being 'lame' before they become badass again. Which is very annoying since the previous main character who have reached "badass" state is still around.
This is the case with Kio here, IMO Flit and Asemu overshadow Kio and make him look bad in comparison. Flit also overshadow Asemu in Gen 2 until Asemu become his own man.
|2012-08-06, 21:48
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Kio's main problem right now is that he's not strong enough. He has the means (AGE-FX) to do what he wants, but he's still a weak pilot. He saw with Girard that some people just aren't going to listen to him when they can just beat him up. Zeheart isn't gonna be talked down, and seems to be getting an upgade in the form of Legilis...Kio will need to improve and fast because right now he can't even overpower a novice pilot like Fram. If he wants to save people, he's going to have to overpower them and then do his speech. It's much easier to convince people when they're stuck in a floating head rather than a fully functioning suit.
|2012-09-05, 20:34
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I know people are giving Kio a lot of flake because of his resent actions but please look at the bigger picture Kio is not a real soldier. He's a kid who Flit trained/conditioned with video games to fight what he believed to be monsters and he was all for it at first, however Kio wasn't prepared for a more complexed problem of realizing there are people in these mobile suits.
In a way it was Flit whose partly at fault for the way Kio has turned out. Now that Kio sees that his Grandpa isn't really the nice righteous old man he thought he was he's confused and without proper guidance this no kill plan was the best thing he could come up with on his own.
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Reform Cocktail.
1 Dash Orange Bitters. (Angostura Orange bitters)
1/3 French Vermouth. (3/4 oz Noilly Prat Original Dry)
2/3 Sherry. (1 1/2 oz Bodega Dios Baco Amontillado Sherry)
Stir (I stirred) well and strain into cocktail glass. Add a (Luxardo!) cherry.
When I made this, I thought, "this is tasty, but boy it could use some booze."
So I redid it again, using the equal parts model of the Affinity.
1 Dash Orange Bitters
3/4 oz Sazerac Straight Rye Whiskey
3/4 oz Noilly Prat Original Dry
3/4 oz Bodega Dios Baco Amontillado Sherry
Stir, strain, cocktail glass.
Wow! That is interesting! The whole thing comes across amazingly floral, not at all like I think of Rye Whiskey Cocktails. In fact, I think this might be the first Rye Whiskey and Dry Vermouth Cocktail I've made that I've truly enjoyed!
Of course that does mean I should think up a new name. Maybe "Reformed Cocktail"?
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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Gluten-free Potato-free Pattypan Squash Latke Fritter Recipe
Here at our house the pattypan squash are taking over the garden! It turns out that I am bad at harvesting vegetables in a timely fashion, and so I blink and suddenly our pickling cucumbers are the size of my arm, and the pattypan are monster-sized. So, here at the House of Yum we've been eating pattypan squash daily. Being me I can't just eat it plain. God forbid I steam the stuff. I have to try and make it taste completely different each and every time I cook it. I've made pattypan chips (delicious), a pattypan "tart" crust, pattypan un-hash-browns and these wonderful and extremely easy fritters. I like pattypan so much more than zucchini, which is a good thing when it shows up in every meal. This recipe can be made with normal, farmer's market sized pattypan, or the starchier home-grown monster pattypan. And best of all, for those of you with potato allergies, aged pattypan is an excellent substitute for grated potato! Toddler Yum has been skeptical of some of my pattypan creations, but she happily chomped on these. Enjoy! And I will try very hard NOT to make this the Book of Pattypan… although I have a few more interesting recipes that I might just have to share with you.
Other fun squash recipes from my gluten-free friends:
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Elana has Butternut Squash Fries Recipe
Alta shares a Curried Acorn Squash Soup
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Nancy has a Summer Squash Bean Soup
Melissa has a Spicy Squash Salad Recipe
Stephanie has a Crockpot Butternut Squash Recipe
Pattypan Squash Latke Fritter Recipee
4 cups (about 1 1/2 lbs) large pattypan squash (5 inch or larger in diameter)
3 eggs, whisked together
1/2 cup almond meal (Trader Joes or homemade ground whole almonds with skin)
1/2 cup almond flour (I used Honeyville. You could probably substitute Almond meal OR homemade ground blanched almonds)
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. seasoning blend
1/2 tsp. herbamare or your favorite salt
2 tbsp. Grapeseed oil or other high-heat tolerant oil
Cut off top with stem and peel your *overgrown pattypan squash. You can slice off any skin that is difficult to reach with a peeler. Slice into large pieces that will fit into a food processor chute and run through the large hole grater. The ideal method for draining your grated pattypan is to press it in a potato ricer. The grated pattypan is too big to go through the holes, but some liquid will come out the holes and you can also drain it off the top of the ricer cup. Empty the drained grated squash onto a clean kitchen towel and repeat until all of your squash has been pressed. Fold up in your towel and press any additional moisture out.
Place your grated, drained pattypan squash into a large bowl. Fold your eggs into the squash. Add your almond meal, almond flour, baking powder and seasonings including salt. Fold together until you have a batter.
Heat 1 or 2 tablespoons of your oil in a large skillet on medium-high. Form golf-sized balls of the batter in your hands and flatten patties into the oil in the pan. Fry until golden brown and then turn. Remove onto a large plate and reserve. You will have to make several batches to use up all the batter.
Delicious as-is or with your favorite sauce!
I have not tested this, but if using a regular petite pattypan, you shouldn't have to peel it. However, a petite pattypan probably has more water content so you may have to add more meal and/or flour.
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NEW ORLEANS – The Lipscomb men's and women's track and field squads have been honored by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association for their academic accomplishments during the 2013 season.
The men's squad finished the spring semester with a 3.30 GPA, placing them 12th in the nation.
Sporting a 3.41 GPA, the women's squad finished 22nd overall.
"I have mixed emotions about this," Bill Taylor, director of cross country and track and field, said. "On one side we have achieved national academic honors every season I have been here. We lead the Atlantic Sun in GPA and both teams are in the top 25 of the entire nation. On the other side, I truly expect more. Finishing 12th and 22nd respectively is a down year for us academically.
"I know that might sound a bit harsh. Our goals are to achieve excellence, top of the nation excellence in every aspect of our program. We expect to win a national championship soon. We expect to serve the world through service and mission trips. We expect to grow our athletes and develop them as people. We also expect to be the best in the nation academically."
The men's squad was the only A-Sun team represented while the women's team was the highest of five schools represented.
"We could sit back after winning the A-Sun and say we've accomplished enough," Taylor said. "I will never do that. Likewise, we could sit back and say we are always a top-25 team academically every year, so that's good enough.
"The men have been the top team in the nation during my time here, and the women have been as high as second. Most years we have been getting both the men and the women in the top five at the same time. So we know we can do that every year."
Individually, the Purple and Gold had two athletes honored. Rising senior's Tucker Peabody and Dani Walker were named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Track and Field team after being stellar on the track and achieving success in the classroom.
"I'm happy for Tucker and Dani," Taylor said. "I know they will continue to strive for individual academic success. With our team rising in athletic performance, I'm sure we will have a lot more individuals earn All-Academic honors this coming year and the years beyond."


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Watercolorist Patricia Nash and oil painter Judy S. Purcell exhibit colorful paintings of flowers, Colorado landscapes, birds and other outdoor subjects through July 31 at the James H. Larue Library in Highlands Ranch. Artworks are displayed on the first and second floors. Gardener and oil painter Purcell paints the flowers she grows in her Highlands Ranch garden, while Nash says she "is drawn to our national, state, regional and historic parks, where landscapes, plants, animals and cultural artifacts are preserved for our enjoyment." Open during library hours. The library is at 9292 S. Ridgeline Blvd., adjacent to Civic Green Park. Open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, noon to 5 p.m. Sundays.
Outdoor concerts
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• Lone Tree Arts Center's "Tunes on the Terrace" has started and tickets are available at 720-509-1000. See programs: LoneTreeArtsCenter.org.
• Summer concerts on the lawn at the Littleton Museum, 6028 S. Gallup St., Littleton, will be on Wednesdays through July. Music at 7 p.m., food trucks at 5:30 p.m. Concerts are free. On June 20, the Michael Friedman Band will perform R&B, contemporary jazz vocals. 303-795-3950.
• Englewood's Sounds of Summer Series presents music at 6:30 p.m. on Thursdays (except July 5). Food trucks. Englewood Amphitheatre, 1000 Englewood Parkway (behind the Englewood Civic Center, at the base of the stairs from the light rail platform). Tonight, June 14: Chris Daniels and the Kings with blues, funk and jam. June 21: Boogie Machine, 70s disco. Concerts free.
• Summer at the Center Series at the Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Bring a picnic. July 6: "Mozart Under Moonlight" (Colorado Symphony). Tickets (lawn and seated under cover): arvadacenter.org. Through Aug. 25.
Bob Gray exhibit
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Reminder to artists
Entries for the 2018 "Kaleidoscope Juried Exhibition" will be accepted (actual artwork) on June 30 from 9-11 a.m. at the Colorado Gallery of the Arts, Arapahoe Community College, Littleton campus, 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton. Jurying will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. the same day. Unaccepted work pickup 1-3 p.m. same day. Fee $10 per entry — no limit on number of entries. Exact cash only. Volunteers: If you volunteer from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on June 30, you may submit four works free. Ceramics, drawing, jewelry, glass, metals, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and woodworking. Juror is ACC Art Department chair Angela Faris Belt. Closing reception August 3, 5-7 p.m. Exhibit July 2 to Aug. 3.
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"Into the Woods" by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim is Phamaly Theatre Company's Summer 2018 performance from July 12 to Aug. 5 at the Space Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Champa streets. Christy Montour Larson is director. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $29, except July 14, Big Night. 303-893-4100. For July 14 tickets, contact Phamaly.org. 10 and over.
Benchmark Theatre
"The Arsonists," by Jacqueline Goldfinger will open June 22, running through July 21 at 8 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays; 6 p.m. Sundays. (No performance July 6.) Tickets: $30/$20. Benchmark Theatre, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood. (Formerly The Edge Theater). Benchmarktheatre.com, firstname.lastname@example.com. A play with music.
Audubon Nature Center
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Performance Now
"The Secret Garden," based on the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, will be performed by Highlands Ranch-based Performance Now Theatre Company from June 15 to July 1, at the Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, Lakewood. Performances: 7:30 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays; 2 p.m. Saturdays, Sundays. Tickets: $20-$36: 303-987-7845, performancenow.org.
Art at college
The Arapahoe Community College Workforce and Community Programs' Annual Student and Instructor Art Exhibition, "Spectrum," runs through June 21 at the Colorado Gallery of the Arts at ACC, Littleton Campus, 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive. Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. Closing reception: June 21, 5-7 p.m. Music by Scherzando Strings. Light refreshments.
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