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Curriculum and Concentration
The Communication Program at the Kenan-Flagler Business School prepares students to write and speak in the fast-paced business world. To this end, the Program offers business majors opportunities to practice and improve these skills.
Management Communication - BUSI401
A writing- and speaking- intensive course, Management and Corporate Communication emphasizes efficient, effective, persuasive, and professional communication within business contexts. Students learn and apply best practices for standard business documents and presentations, including content selection and development, organization, design, accessibility, conciseness, clarity, tone, and delivery. With this foundation, students learn to make informed choices, think critically, and tailor communication according to audience, purpose, and desired outcome.
Management Communication: Hybrid - BUSI401
The hybrid sections of BUSI401 combine the traditional face-to-face academic classroom experience with distance learning technology. Like all sections of BUSI401, the writing- and speaking-intensive course emphasizes professional communication; however, the hybrid sections provide students the opportunity to experience and practice communication in a virtual organization as well as in the classroom. Select sessions of the course are electronically mediated using the following technologies: video conferencing; teleconferencing; web collaboration software; on-line chats and discussion forums; and email.
Applied Improv - BUSI524
This course focuses on improving "soft" skills such as presenting, expressiveness, and interviewing by using the principles and techniques of improvisational theater. Participants explore creativity, adaptation, awareness, self-confidence, risk-taking, physicality, intuition, and teamwork. Each class meeting focuses on aspects of improv and how they relate to business.
Advanced Business Presentations - BUSI499
A speaking intensive course, Advanced Business Presentations is grounded in argument, persuasion, and visual rhetoric to give students the skills they need to develop winning presentations. Students in the course learn strategies to help their messages "stick" with their audiences. In addition, students learn how to develop slide decks designed for the boardroom as well as for advanced media devices. The course emphasizes efficiency, and students learn ways to decrease the time required to prepare a slide deck and how to best prepare for and effectively deliver short-turnaround presentations. (Prereq: BUSI401)
Honors Research Proposal - BUSI691H
Open (by permission) to senior business administration majors with 3.5 minimum cumulative grade average, the Honors Research Proposal course prepares students for writing an honors thesis. Students learn business research techniques and develop individual proposals for business research. Successful proposals may advance to honors thesis research and writing (BUSI 692H).
Intercultural Communication - BUSI 490-035
Developing patterns of respectful intercultural communication is an increasingly important goal for the growth of business across the globe. Because English is typically the common language in business negotiations, Americans often neglect to understand important cultural and nonverbal messages that are important in effective business dealings. This intercultural business communication class will examine interesting and problematic issues surrounding cross-cultural communication, help students understand the complexity and variety of cultures, and teach communication strategies for success in conducting business across diverse cultures. One of the favorite class assignments relates to each student becoming an "expert" on a different country and sharing the information in poster sessions.
Gender at Work - BUSI 490-034
Using a discussion-based, seminar-style, participatory format, from personal, organizational, leadership, and communication perspectives, we'll analyze workplace gender topics. To help you become a more sophisticated leader and to help your organization address gender-related topics, you'll learn to think critically about gender. This class equally includes all people in conversations about gender, not just women. Topics include: gender and gender socialization; the history of gender at work; workplace legislation; gender myths, perceptions, and stereotypes; recruiting, supporting, and retaining diverse leaders; dysfunctional politics and practices; work-life balance and politics; and functional policies and initiatives.
Leadership Communication - BUSI 490-053
This elective provides undergraduate students an opportunity benchmark their individual communication skills—leadership, interpersonal, and presentation—and apply practical strategies to ratchet up the skills they need to refine. Course topics may include selections from the following list: relationship challenges, crisis communication, colleague and employee coaching (giving feedback), planning/leading skills for virtual and in-person meetings, diversity communication skills, mentoring, interpersonal dynamics, self-concept in small group settings, listening and responding skills, nonverbal communication skills, and conflict management. Ideally suited for students who want to heighten their sense of self-awareness in various interpersonal settings and upgrade their effectiveness in dealing with individuals or small groups.
Executive MBA
Business Writing - MBA804w
MBA804w introduces students to rhetorical patterns and principles that help them write more quickly and clearly. More specifically, students gain insights into how to:
- Organize and write business messages.
- Design documents with high 'skim value.'
- Construct effective paragraphs and sentences that show rhetorical relationships.
- Apply style techniques that result in efficient prose.
- Punctuate for clarity.
Business Presentations - MBA804p
EMBA 804 Evening and Weekend (Presentation Skills)
You'll refine your presentation skills in EMBA-E 804 by developing and delivering a presentation twice to a small group and receiving individualized feedback on your delivery skills, your message organization, and your slide deck design. Each small group of 5-6 students will meet twice for three hours with a skilled presentation coach.
Professional Communication for Accountants - MAC775
In this course, you'll focus intently on refining your professional communication skills by way of focusing on the following objectives:
- Heighten your versatility and sense of self-awareness in relationships
- Manage others' impressions of your professionalism, confidence, and credibility
- Apply best practices strategies to creating and delivering presentations
- Craft efficient and direct memos and letters
- Leverage sage use of electronic communication tools and online presence
To this end, you'll write four messages and engage in three presentations. No mid-term and no final exam. Quality class participation and regular attendance are critical for success in this course.
Applied Improv - MAC825
This course focuses on improving "soft" skills such as presenting, expressiveness, and interviewing by using the principles and techniques of improvisational theater. Participants explore creativity, adaptation, awareness, self-confidence, risk-taking, physicality, intuition, and teamwork. Each class meeting focuses on aspects of improv and how they relate to business.
Success in the U.S. Part 1 - MAC898A
This course provides international, non-native English speaking students the opportunity to refine their communication skills and learn about communication norms and best practices in U.S. culture. Part 1 of this course (898A) will focus primarily on the job search and helping students to communicate confidently and effectively with recruiters during networking events and interviews. Students will receive a mentor (Accounting professionals from the Big 4 firms) and will have many opportunities to practice communicating with their mentors and mock recruiters in both formal and informal settings.
Success in the U.S. Part 2 - MAC898B
Also for international students, this course follows 898A, delving deeper into American culture, particularly business/corporate culture. Students will refine their written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills with a focus on succeeding in the U.S. workplace. We'll also visit several accounting firms to learn firsthand how corporate cultures in the U.S. may differ from that of their home countries. As a result of this course, students will be equipped with the skills and confidence to communicate effectively with managers, colleagues, and clients.
Management Communication: Presentation Skills - MBA803/804
This course, required of all MBA students, emphasizes presentation skills for a general business audience. Work begins with baseline presentations, and the course continues through both planned and impromptu presentations during which students receive and consider feedback from their professor, their peers, and their own self-assessments. With an eye toward presentation best-practices, the course covers issues of organization and persuasion, effective delivery (maintaining executive presence, engaging your audience and handling Q&A, integrating PowerPoint slides, visuals, handouts and notes), and targeting each speaker's individual style and success.
Applied Improv - MBA825
This course focuses on improving "soft" skills such as presenting, expressiveness, and interviewing by using the principles and techniques of improvisational theater. Participants explore creativity, adaptation, awareness, self-confidence, risk-taking, physicality, intuition, and teamwork. Each class meeting focuses on aspects of improv and how they relate to business.
Communication for Developing Leaders - MBA840J
In this course, you'll focus intently on refining your own leadership communication skills, including the following:
- Effectively and efficiently plan and facilitate meetings
- Heighten your sense of self-awareness in relationship to others
- Manage audience perception of your professionalism and credibility
- Explore virtual meeting technologies
- Build consensus and apply advocacy techniques
- Negotiate diversity issues from a communication perspective
- Hone skills to deliver and receive quality feedback
To this end, you'll write three memos, participate in three meetings, and deliver thoughtful, substantive feedback to colleagues after each of these meetings. No mid-term. No final exam. Quality class participation and regular attendance are critical for success in this course.
Advanced Business Writing - MBA803A
This fast-paced elective introduces you to rhetorical patterns that help you write more quickly and clearly. To customize the course to your needs, you will receive feedback on current writing patterns based on a baseline writing assignment, and then, where needed, you will learn how to adjust those patterns to reflect best practices. NOTE: This course requires a strong command of English.
Course Deliverables include three short quizzes to demonstrate mastery of concepts, three in-class speed writing exercises, and three short business messages (up to one page each). You can also expect to complete various in-class exercises.
Business Communication - MBA804C
MBA 804C is a required business communication course for all MBA@UNC students. The course introduces students to best practices in business writing and business speaking. Students in the course learn to organize and write informative, negative, and persuasive business messages that are designed to have high "skim value." Key themes of the course are efficiency and effectiveness, and both writing and speaking assignments are designed to help students best focus materials to meet the needs of their audiences. Presentation assignments emphasize developing a clear structure; incorporating stories, visuals, logic, and emotion; integrating slides and handouts; and delivering information with a natural confidence.
One MBA
Management Communication: Writing Skills - MBA803
OneMBA (MBA 803) This course, required of all OneMBA students, focuses on best practices in business writing. Using a rhetorically grounded framework, the course explores how readers respond to the choices writers make and identifies best practices along the way. Specific areas addressed include: organization, accessibility, conciseness, clarity, tone, and page design. Students are encouraged to employ effective communication strategies to enhance their personal brands.
Management Communication: Presentation Skills - MBA804
OneMBA (MBA 804) MBA804 is a required course for all OneMBA students that focuses on business presentation best practices. Using a rhetorically grounded framework, the course explores how audiences respond to the choices presenters make and identifies best practices along the way. Specific areas addressed include:
- Selecting content
- Organizing material strategically
- Helping audience members listen efficiently
- Incorporating storytelling into presentations
- Designing effective visual aids
- Developing a polished presentation style
Other Courses
Effective Presentation Skills - GRAD704
Limited to graduate students across the UNC curriculum, this course teaches students how to create dynamic presentations for the academy. Topics include audience analysis, delivery techniques, message organization, and visuals design.
What our Students Say about Communication at Kenan-Flagler
"Management Communication is unequivocally the most valuable course offered to undergraduates at Kenan-Flagler. Whether interviewing with a future employer, drafting a memo for a senior partner, or making a sales presentation to a potential client, your quality of work will be defined foremost by your ability to communicate. The lessons learned in Management Communication enable you to communicate in an organized, concise, and appealing manner. Regardless of your future career path, you'll discover that mastering the art of communication will immediately distance you from peers."
Craig Schauer, BSBA '05
Financial Analyst, Edgeview Partners
"The Management Communication course provided me with advanced communication strategies that are essential in today's business world. I learned to streamline content to improve the impact of my written documents and enhanced my persuasive ability by learning to target my message to the specific audience. Management Communication gave me the tools I needed to set myself apart from others in my internship."
Michael Schmidt, MBA '07
Senior Marketing Associate, Eli Lilly & Company
"The Kenan-Flagler Management Communication course has been invaluable to me as a consultant. The presentation skills gained and the insights on focusing your message in a concise manner are aspects of the course I use everyday!"
Alan Hart, MBA '05
Senior Manager, CMG Partners
"Thanks to what I learned in the Management Communication course, I've become a far more confident and convincing presenter. The skills I gained have helped me in my classes, interviews, and work presentations alike."
Adam Josephson, MBA '07


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But only on the below step the query gets struck for longer time. I m trying to identify the concurrent step in the explain plan. But i could not find there.
"We do a SUM step to aggregate from Spool 9681 (Last Use) by way of an all-rows scan. Aggregate Intermediate Results are computed globally, then placed in Spool 9708."
Can you please explain the reason for the delay in the step . Do we have any remedy for the same ?
You haven't given us a lot of info to go on.
This explain text presumably comes from Viewpoint - the high spool numbers almost certainly mean it has been grabbed from TD using a monitor call. To match this to a 'normal' explain plan you should:
- in the full explain text that you get from VP find the lowest spool file number. [A]
- find the lowest numbered spool file in the 'normal' explain plan [B]
- assume the two spool files found above are the same spool file
Let's say [A] = 9650 and [B] = 1
In that case, spool 9681 from your plan fragment is probably: (9681 - 9650) + 1 = 32
Similarly, spool 9708 in your fragment is probably: (9708 - 9650) + 1 = 59
That will hopefully allow you to match this step to the one in a 'normal' explain plan.
Why that step is taking a long time is another matter.
It's doing an "all rows scan" of a spool 9681. How many rows in that spool file? How many AMPs on your system?
It's doing an aggregation. How unique are the column value(s) in the GROUP BY clause? How long are those columns?
If you start with the above we might be able to help you some more.
I identified the issue. There were many group by columns in the view in a report query which hampered the performance.
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Battle of the Roses
Three shots tell the tale of war. From the gate of a rose garden, the camera sees a tilted pram with a doll in it, and beyond this the ruins of the town.
This is partially adduced from The Third Man. Roley develops it. The mad occupant of the garden is a young woman who fears to leave it, her family was wiped out in a night. She is carried off by Sgt. Saunders in a German offensive, and walks back next morning with the birdcage from King of Hearts. A down-angle sees her across the bridge in the main street and tilts up from the cobblestones to include an abandoned tank and the ruins as before.
Finally, the squad pulls out, leaving her in the miraculously undamaged garden ("Heaven protects the innocent") with her gramophone and an old servant. Saunders' farewell is handled in alternating closeups after she has stepped through the gate to present him with a rose ("special unit citation," he tells Lt. Hanley, "battle of the roses"). The soldiers go up the street and around a corner where they are lost to view, the camera tilts down slowly along the cobblestones to the pram and doll directly beneath it.
The wildly-filmed street fighting in the opening scene is disordered and costly, the Germans withdraw for a counterattack.
The Double or Nothing
The Rat Patrol
Moffitt is about to be shot as a spy. Roley has a POV as the jeeps burst through the padlocked gate of this desert camp, and another as they leave with a captured German captain.
The brass have worked out an arrangement with the Germans for exchanging prisoners, this is to be the first. The captain makes a fuss and is killed, inadvertently. Troy puts on his uniform.
Col. Voss is queried by a subordinate, why so much trouble "to wipe out a splinter group of two jeeps?" Injured Moffitt learns of the trap from a German doctor, tries to escape by taking a hostage, collapses.
He limps out to the meeting place and collapses again, onto Troy's shoulders (here and during his escape attempt, more POV work from Roley, with a distorting lens). The jeeps lay down a smokescreen and get away, greatly vexing Col. Voss.
Moffitt in a medical tent is tended by a blonde nurse in khaki overalls and scarf. "He suffers so nicely," Sgt. Troy remarks. "Fortune favors the brave," says Sgt. Moffitt, who begins the raid alone at night in the enemy camp, wearing a German officer's uniform to open a safe and remove a document. "I was ordered to take this document," he says in German when surprised. "Nonsense," says his adversary likewise, "you're a spy."
The Trial by Fire Raid
The Rat Patrol
An elaborate, well-filmed raid on a train being loaded with ammo and fuel at a train depot. Hauptmann Dietrich is a mild taskmaster, the impoverished Arabs are being paid for the work, an unrelenting corporal is ordered not only to allow an Arab woman to go to the fountain for water so that her father may have a drink in the hot sun, but to escort her there. A rest period is ordered aboard the train.
Sgt. Troy is persuaded to give the civilians a chance. "My people pray always for the Allies to liberate, and now you do not liberate." Her father will not budge, he too has prayed, Allied bombers have disenchanted him.
Troy is captured, the woman and her father are questioned. A daring move sends her to the train, her father in the general alarm joins her to set the charge and is killed.
The American flag replaces the swastika, the old man is buried "dishonorably", Troy picks up Dietrich's Iron Cross from the street and hands it to the woman.
The Hide and Go Seek
The Rat Patrol
Hauptmann Dietrich accomplishes the feat of capturing a British general's young son fishing on the seacoast. The boy is to be traded for the return of "the foremost general in the desert campaign", whose absence might alarm the German public, and whose location is not known. The colonel in charge of this operation wonders what Hitler will think, Dietrich replies, "must we always second-guess Hitler?"
The boy is guarded by Petrushka's Moor with two kittens made to butt heads in playful war. A rabbit's foot is mocked and dangled, "you English have a queer notion of luck!" A ship sank with mother and brother aboard, the boy is unable to speak having seen this, "conversion hysteria" say the doctors.
Roley has a continuous tracking shot follow the progress of a commando raid along the front of several outbuildings where guards must be overcome, the camera veers off for a wider view and cranes up as the patrol begins to cross a stone bridge.
On the return, the rabbit's foot is dropped and must be sought at the bridge, where the boy utters a cry to warn Troy fallen back in search of him. The boy's captor dies, "you're gonna be doing a lot of screaming from now on," says Sgt. Troy with a smile.
The Pipeline to
Disaster Raid
The Rat Patrol
The Germans have laid an oil pipeline under the desert, according to a half-mad British general rescued in the desert under the guns of an enemy column. His map coordinates don't pan out, Moffett knows a likely place. Mutiny, the general calls it.
Dehydration and sunstroke are the least of the general's infirmities, when he collapses it's because of an abdominal wound he's kept bandaged. It's to the hospital or to the pipeline.
They find it near Egyptian statues away from bedrock, per Moffitt's suggestion, and light fuses. Hitchcock is wounded.
"War is hell," quotes Sgt. Troy, leaving the private in good spirits with a pretty nurse alone.
The Cardinal
Mission: Impossible
The last defense against a would-be dictator is neutralized with a double ready to pronounce for the takeover.
The Impossible Missions Force make him very sick, then drop Phelps and Cinnamon providentially as doctor and nurse at the monastery gates. They do a rush job for the afternoon speech.
Rollin is an old friend and visiting prelate shocked at the fraud, therefore entombed alive in a sarcophagus he opens with his cross, a convertible jackscrew. Thence he brings tunneling Barney and Willy to the next room where they break through the wall, remove the impostor from his oxygen tent and substitute the cardinal, who shortly denounces the instigator as a "liar, traitor and murderer."
The Test Case
Mission: Impossible
An entrepreneur with the adverse party has a meningitis cheaper than H-bombs. Cinnamon as a journalist named Engstrom offers him $500,000 for it in a typewritten document which at the turn of a pen becomes his biography.
Rollin is the title character, a "specimen" political prisoner introduced to fake his own death under observation. The viral gas is replaced with one that induces symptoms, and this is projected into the observation room.
"I would have dug a little deeper," says the security chief examining the transformed bio. A crucial image divides the screen between a microphone with a loose wire and a gas balloon.
Roley's direction is akin to Katzin's, editing scenes in a handheld camera with zoom, focus-pulling and a swath of jump-cuts at a moment of crisis.
Mission: Impossible
A revolutionary cadre runs an underground cell with hired muscle, financing its operations by robbing banks, one of a number of such cells under the supervision of a man who is the target of the mission.
The IM Force infiltrate the cell and stage a robbery. It goes badly, a police chase sends the group on the lam in a well-to-do house. The owners are at a dog show with their pet Afghan hound, Genghis.
Radio communications to the leader cannot be monitored by Barney even at close range, because this overall leader is a mere fiction devised to palliate the authority of the cell leader, who is arrested.
An unusual teleplay in its comic overtones, to match an unusual mission. "I spent six years in Folsom once," says a hood, "because I thought a stolen car would get me around a police roadblock. It didn't." Paris and Grace introduce themselves as the well-to-do couple with an oil portrait of their Afghans in the den.
The door of the vault is blown across the room toward the camera in a careful appreciation of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Mission: Impossible
A waylaid shipment of jewels is locked in a briefcase handcuffed to the wrist of a well-dressed man anchored just off the bottom a few hundred yards from shore. One scuba diver knows the place, and an entrepreneur tortures him for it in anticipation of a deal for the jewels.
Barney extricates the scuba diver and passes himself off as an insurance investigator. Casey floats a diamond to bait the trap, and Phelps is a sporting diver who also knows the spot.
The complex operation has Barney on shore monitoring Phelps on the entrepreneur's boat, the scuba diver underwater and Willy following him.
The deal is set for Phelps' seaside apartment. When the money man arrives, the police close the net.
A prime role for Jeremy Slate as the scruffy, bearded frogman out for the big score, whose caginess contrasts with the interestingly calculating entrepreneur of Fritz Weaver.
Witness Within
The Sixth Sense
The unconscious nature of inspiration is likened to a neurosis, for purposes of demonstration, and for clarity's sake this in turn is related as a crime story.
A psychic impression in the womb so detailed that with the aid of a mandala and meditation Dr. Rhodes can read the inscription inside a gold pocket watch.
The girl's father was framed for murdering an extortionist of shop owners. Years later, she has visions of being attacked in her home, the place smashed, no-one is there, no damage is done.
Her blind mother fought off the man, whose name is traced by Dr. Rhodes. A ticking sound precedes the visions, he follows it to the watch, lost and buried outside the house. The girl's scream averts his murder, the prisoner is released to his wife and daughter.
Once Upon a Chilling
The Sixth Sense
The head of a cryogenics institute has died in a fall, his frozen body appears in a vision to the sensitive he hired before his death, and who refused his love.
His portrait on the wall provokes another vision, he climbs the stairs and then falls or is pushed. Was it his wife, who lives in the house? It was the young man who replaced him as head of the institute, pursued into the freezing chamber by the initial apparition.
Roley has a splitter lens for a multiple image of the vision ascending the stairs, which is remotely like The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake in a way. The continuous blue light of the chamber is a great effect, and the dislocated cooling tubes dancing in the air amid the pursuit.
A great memory of The Frozen Dead, "preserving beauty and love in the future."
Mission: Impossible
A characteristic theme from Hamlet abstracted from the series, reduced to an essence and greatly intensified thereby.
A hit man and chess master (Alex Cord) is induced to believe he's murdered several people in fits of uncontrolled rage, with no contracts, including his brother (Peter Breck).
Eventually he contacts his boss. The password for a meeting is the final move of a famous chess match known not to the bigwig in the backseat but to his driver.
Satan's Triangle
William Read Woodfield describes a mystery at sea, disentangles it from its moorings of superstitious awe, then explodes the rationalization as a diabolical ploy, all to present a Coast Guardsman adrift off Miami as a threat to shipping.
Roley films it all, corpse in bursted hatch, priest hanging dead from the mast, levitating sport fisherman also dead in the aft cabin of a yacht called Requite.
Hawaii Five-O
A dead mobster returns from a plane crash to claim his turf.
Roley at his most amazing.


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The Lonely Hearts Club and Chapel Street Precinct have joined forces once
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Because being a lady isn't all about long lunches and wine, some of us love nothing
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Dixon Elementary archery team qualifies for world tournament
Dixon Elementary's archery team has qualified to compete in the National Archery in Schools world tournament to be held in July in Orlando, Fla.
The team placed seventh out of 180 elementary schools at the NASP national championship in Louisville earlier this month. Dixon's Colby Lewis placed 15th individually in the elementary boys' division.
The 31-member team is in its third year at Dixon. The 3,209 points scored at the national tournament were its highest total ever and this is its first time to qualify for the world tournament.
Coach Faye Hussong said archery helps instill greater focus and self-esteem in students and is a good outlet for those who don't gravitate to more traditional sports. "We found out that it encompasses everything the other types of athletics don't do," Hussong said.
The Dixon team won the Alma Bryant regional tournament in February for the second straight year and then placed second in the elementary school division a the NASP Alabama state championship, also for the second straight year. Ian Crosswhite and Lilly Steiner placed first individually in their respective divisions at the state tournament.
Thirteen members of the team also qualified as Academic Archers, with all As and Bs.
A couple of fundraisers have been scheduled to help the team with its expenses in traveling to the world tournament. On May 30, the Lighthouse Restaurant will donate a percentage of its proceeds to the team, and team members will wait tables that night. The team will also benefit from an event at Dreamland Skate Center on June 8.


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The Story behind IPA is an interesting one. To understand IPA we first have to understand the hop, the rest will fall into place after we discuss the preservative nature of hops. Hops are composed of two major acids. Alpha Acid, and Beta Acid. Alpha acid is slightly responsible for preventing bacterial growth in the beer, such as bacteria that comes from lactic acid. Alpha acid is also responsible for adding the bitter component to beer. The beta acid does not add initial bitterness but does aid in the fermentation and aging of the beer adding the bitter components slowly over time. What does Alpha acid in hops have to do with IPA? Alcohol and hops(becuase of the alpha acid) preserve beer. Alcohol provides an unfavorable environment for microbial action, and the isohumulone content of the hops inhibits the growth of bacteria such as Lactobacillus. Thus, high alcohol content, in German export beers, for example, and high hopping rate, as in India pale ale, could protect beer from the souring associated with long storage times.
This brings forth another question, why do we need to preserve the beer anyway? The answer is simple. In the early 17th century there was beer, and a lot of it. A lot was in the form of Pale Ale, a term coined by the use of pale malt and back then a lot less bitter then the pale ales of today. The actual story is quite long so I'll simplify it for you. George Hodgson of the Bow Brewery, on the Middlesex-Essex border, was the go-to guy for the East India Trading company for all their beer needs, be it exporting or consumption for British troops stationed in India. The East India Trading company noticed that Hodgson's liberally hopped pale ale seemed to make the trip down around Africa a little bit better than the less hopped lower alcohol version of Pale Ale at the time. The trading company noticed this and asked him to up the ante, he did, and the well-preserved India Pale Ale was born. This is the most common story, however, doing a little digging I found that there may have been a little more politics in this history that we think. It turns out that the EITC chose the Bow brewery because of its location as well as his liberal credit terms, and that his October beer and Porter were also Highly in demand in India as well, which both seemed to survive the trip, according to record, quite well. So whats the real story? Who knows? What we do know is that hops add a lot of bitterness and help preserve the beer. I know I like the romance of it all, additionally I love the beer and I really love making it.
Interview With Rocky Patel
Recently, I had the rare, and wonderful opportunity to sit down with a new icon in the cigar business, a man that made it possible for small, independent, non-cuban individuals to blend and make premium cigars. A man who broke the limits of cigar marketing, and a man that everyone who has ever smoked a cigar knows, a man that believes in his product and travels 300 days a year to have face to face time with his customers. The story of a high power LA attorney that left it all behind on a dream ….Rocky Patel
TB: Thank you for letting us Interview you, I know you're a busy man
RP: Not a problem
TB: Lets talk about Indian Tabac and how you got started in this whole cigar industry
Why did you even get into the industry?
RP: Essentially I was practicing law in LA, and when we were on the set, during lighting and sound, all the actors were smoking, so naturally I kinda started smoking. I knew a friend in Honduras was making cigars, who was looking for someone to join up with him in the company, so he made the cigars and I came up with all the creative marketing and packaging. Then I ended up doing a bunch of dinners for Schwarzenegger's restaurant called Schatzi on Main in Santa Monica, pretty soon I had a bunch of celebrities in La smoking the cigars, it became a cool cult cigar in LA. Then I finally got out on the road and started introducing it to people and started liking the business but didn't know that much about it eventually bought my partner out, and realized I really needed to learn about the business so I went Honduras and Nicaragua Dominican Republic. Spent a lot of time asking a lot of dumb questions, really learning from the farm up, farming the caring the fermentation sucking in all the knowledge I could from the top cigar makers and see what they were doing right and see what they were doing wrong and I really fell in love with it I made hundreds and hundreds of blends educating my palate so I could tell the difference between Nicaragua Honduras and The Dominican Republic, and just absolutely fell in love, everyone said "you'll never make it this is the kind of business that is handed down through generations" you've gotta be that and you've gotta be Cuban, and that kinda got my antlers up and got me even more fired up, I'm gonna try to show them that I can succeed in this business.
TB : Cool, I was talking to my dad about you, he's been in the cigar business for 35 years and he said that the most respected he's ever felt, is when you used to call on him yourself. How important do you think that was in getting your brand off the ground, how important do you think that was to the success of Rocky Patel
RP: Important, you know the thing about Indian Tabac is we had other people making our cigars for us and we always had inconsistency in the blends, they wouldn't ferment the filler properly, wrapper properly they would change the binder on you because short supply the construction was rushed they weren't selective on choosing the best wrapper, it was always one issue after the other, even though the blends were incredible I didn't have direct control over the all the raw materials and construction. And so we had a lot of issues when I finally got complete control over all the curing, fermentation and manufacturing, that's when I decided it was time to put my name on the cigar because I could guarantee the consistency and the quality of every single cigar, that's when I knew wed be successful because I knew I had a good palate and we were making some amazing blends with a lot of flavor and a lot of character, a lot of flavor and at the same time they were great, elegant and well balanced.
TB: What have you noticed the difference between the cigar industry of the early 90's and Today is? I feel like we are inline for another boom.
RP: I'm not necessarily sure we are in another boom. The difference is the "following". In the early 90s it was cool to smoke cigars, everyone was smoking and the quality of the cigars was very very very poor. There was not enough good leaf around and people were rushing the curing and fermentation of the tobacco, the construction was not as nice there were a lot of issues at that time with the quality both in flavor & construction , taste & consistency. I think at the time also people made more linear cigar there was really not a lot of character, flavor certainly not rich and full bodied cigars because there wasn't ample Ligero either. Now I think now, as manufactures, we have educated the consumer. I spend a lot of time on the road talking, bring them down to the factories, we have opened there minds and educated them just like the wine industry educated their consumers. Same thing has happened for us. We have gone out and found seeds of different origin tobaccos from different parts of the world , we are growing into unique countries and finding unique tobacco with a lot more character a lot more diversity in flavor profile richer, fuller cigars, cigars in different shapes sizes and wrappers, I am always seeking to make a cigar that has character, that hasn't been on the market before your getting better cigars as far as the construction , the quality, the curing, fermentation everything about it is much much better and superior than it was in the 90's , better cigars at a better price than ever before in history
TB: I think that, speaking on the level of quality. I think that of all the good things you do the Java is awesome product. I think that because there is not a lot of premium flavored cigars. I don't smoke flavored cigars, My Dad and I will smoke a Java for breakfast in the morning. We went out to Napa, and smoked them every morning. What do you think about bringing an actual premium flavor to the market, how did it go? What was the process, they are way different than anything else on the market
RP: When we started this with Drew Estate my main concern was that the cigar was to be a complete premium cigar, that had a little infusion of coffee, vanilla and chocolate, and now of course we have the Java Mint which has a little infusion of coffee, vanilla, chocolate, and mint. We really sought out to make a total premium cigar so that someone who is smoking a Decade could turn around and smoke a Java and find the construction impeccable, the fermentation perfect and the curing perfect, and at the same time get that little hint of that infusion of flavor. We worked for two and half years until we perfected it and got it right. So, your right the Java is a great premium cigar you can smoke it in the morning, smoke it after dessert or a great meal. It works everytime
TB: The new mints are really good I really like those
RP: Yea
TB: That was a good call
RP: Thanks
TB: Switching gears real quick, I went to school for wine, and wine is really my passion , and I noticed that there was a wine that really got me into wine . Is there a cigar like that for you? Is there a cigar that you had, and you were like wow! This cigar will change my life forever.
RP: As far my own cigar, when I blended the Decade and had that blend I was completely taken back by it, it was after I had made like 127 different blends and when I actually got too it I was like, wow that's pretty amazing. I enjoy the Padron Anniversary . Years ago it wowed me and I thought that it was a cigar that impressed me very much. I've come across other blends that we made like the Edge blend it also wowed me, I thought it had a unique taste profile that no other cigars ever had before. Those are the types of cigars that blow me away
TB: Lets talk about the Decade. What about that cigar makes it so special ?
RP: I think the Decade, like the Edge, we don't tell anyone what the filler is, but we use filler from a particular country in the world that no one else uses. That makes it unique in flavor we have a very very high priming of Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper, very dark, very oily that adds to a lot of the flavor. That tobacco has been aged for 17 years its gone through extreme fermentation which makes it very clean, elegant and well balanced, and the beauty about the decade is it delivers so much flavor at the same time its so balanced on the palate.
TB: think its one of the best cigars I've ever had personally
RP: Thank You
TB: We recently had an event at Havana House, our store, it was our best event to date, and I think partly because of the accessories we were able to give to our customers. We had the decade humidors, rocky lighters, wooden cigars and other things.
What do you think is next for Rocky Accessories and do you think its crucial to selling your products
RP: We are coming out with the Rocky Patel Luxury Lifestyle Collection, we are trying to be innovative, its ironic that you asked me this because just yesterday we sat down and were looking at different versions and samples of some unique humidors. We are going to go back to some really classic antique style humidors, and retro style ashtrays, classic antiquey stuff. We are pushing back time again into what old cigars used to look like, what old humidors used to look like, because everything now is so modern, we are pushing the envelope on that side. Our clothing line that we came out with has been very successful so far. We are looking to expand on that and do some innovative stuff on that. I'm always looking to push the boundaries and bring to the cigar consumer stuff that they enjoy and is not always cigar related. We are also looking at our own wine, we were just in Argentina visiting wineries interviewing people, and we are looking at some wines in California.
TB: Well that will be awesome
RP: Yes
TB: Last question. How do you feel about being in the retail industry now? You have your own lounge now, how's that going for you? Do you enjoy it?
RP:I really enjoy it I spend a lot of time there. The unique thing about "Burn" is that it really is an experience. When you go to "Burn" you feel that you're transcended into a journey. You can't tell if you're in Cuba or India. It has fun architecture, lifestyle, comfort, wine, spirits we have the best of everything there. It has a wow factor and I wanted to make sure we did it right because, you know most lounges look like a library, and I wanted to show people that with cigars you can have a fun, lively, real experience. We have live music every night and I enjoy that we carry some of the finest cigars in the world, and people from all over the world come and see us, and its cool so I want to make cigars more fun, its not an old boring thing were you just sit around on a couch. I guess I made it more exciting lively exciting experience, and hopefully we can spread this to other cities around the world.
TB: Well I think your doing a great job, Ive always loved your product, My Dad has always loved your product and we are proud to have it in our stores.
RP: Thank You
TB: I really appreciate your time
RP: Anytime, tell your Dad I Said hello
TB: Talk to you later
RP: Goodbye
Hops, IBU formulas, and Alpha Acid, Infograph style
This is a greeeat Infographic poster for those that are getting into homebrew, as well as for those that have been at it for a while. You can print it and put it in your la-bor-a-tory for reference while making your recipes and deciding what hops to use as well as were they stand on the bitterness scale. It also gives you origin and some notes on each varietal. Enjoy
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Exhibition from Turkey at 1st London Design Biennial
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Held from 7-27 September 2016 under the theme 'Utopia by Design', the inaugural London Design Biennial will be held at Somerset House and bring together installations and exhibitions from up to 40 countries. The biennial will be produced by the team who created the London Design Festival such as Sir John Sorrel (President), Dr. Christopher Turner (Director) and Ben Evans (Executive Director).
Embracing a national representation model, the London Design Biennale will bring together installations from up to 40 countries and Turkey's contribution will be coordinated by The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV). The Foundation has formed a Selecting Committee, under the leadership of artist and communication advisor Paul McMillen, with the participation of Koleksiyon's furniture designer and brand director Koray Malhan, and architect Zehra Uçar. The committee invited internationally renowned multidisciplinary design studio Autoban. Founded by Seyhan Özdemir and Sefer Çağlar in 2003, Autoban is an Istanbul-based multi-disciplinary studio working across architecture and interiors, product and experiential design, with a portfolio that demonstrates their unique design approach on both local and international scale.
For its inaugural year, the London Design Biennale invites participating countries to explore the theme, 'Utopia by Design'. 2016 marks the 500th anniversary of the publication of Sir Thomas More's classic, Utopia (1516), a work of political philosophy that describes a fictional country and the ethnography of its contented inhabitants. Occupying the whole of the Somerset House site, the first ever London Design Biennale will bring together the world's most exciting and innovative designers and will be a stage for debate, discussion and collaboration. Interrogating the history of the utopian idea and exploring the role of design in solving some of humanity's most pressing issues, the London Design Biennale will be a laboratory of ideas that might contribute to making the world a better place.


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Mundane and Plural
Trauma tends to paralysis. The traumatized are struck, as in shock, into inaction in a posture of wordless gaping. After great pain, as we know, a formal feeling comes. The nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. Or, as another theorist of disaster, Maurice Blanchot, has written,
We feel that there cannot be any experience of the disaster, even if we were to understand disaster to be the ultimate experience. This is one of its features: it impoverishes all experience, withdraws from experience all authenticity; it keeps its vigil only when night watches without watching over anything.
Blanchot knows firsthand what it is to die and become alive again. In his miniature, post-traumatic memoir of the firing squad, The Instant of My Death, he tries to write, "feeling of extraordinary lightness ... sovereign elation," when the guns were lowered and the squad "moved away." At this moment of doubleness — "Dead — immortal" — he realizes that he cannot "try to analyze." And then aftermath. Just so, the ecstatic dissolves. To be standing beside himself, or away from himself, out of himself, ex stasis, is also to be standing for himself merely. Mundane and plural: "As if the death outside of him could only henceforth collide with the death in him."
An unarmed Missourian, Michael Brown, was shot to death on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, by a fellow Missourian and police officer, Darren Wilson. Mundane and plural. Please understand me: no individual death is mundane. Brown's death is tragic and criminal, like Walter Scott's — who was shot in the back three times by a South Carolina police officer, Michael Slager — and thus plural, many times over. The recurrent and persisting horror of police shootings of unarmed people, young people, people of color, young men, the history of our country's worst horror and abiding shame that ranges from castration to lynching, one-at-a-time brutality as well as civil war — all our uncivil wars — is so recurrent and persisting as to appear mundane, the unmatched horror of seeing and living with brutality long settled into horrible habit and sanctioned, as it were, by the state, by the very state of things. In Brown's case, the resulting response ranged from outrage — on all sides — to riots to calls-to-action, even to poetry. Yet I could not then write a poem. I have, since, written specifically about Ferguson, but like many, I imagine, the trauma, and anger, and sorrow are also finding themselves articulated, as Emily Dickinson said, at a slant.
What I did, on the night of the first riot, was not riot but read. I turned to two poems: Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and something by Gwendolyn Brooks I had read many years before and not since.
Riot is a poem and a book. A tiny book in three parts, a three-part poem totaling fourteen pages of print. It is a work markedly different from Brooks's famous earlier works. It is not typically part of the Brooks canon — I mean those anthologizable, more easily teachable poems. "The Bean Eaters," "We Real Cool," the rich portraits and populated neighborhoods of Bronzeville with their old relatives and crazy women, their children of the poor, their gay chaps and pooh-poohing preachers, established her reputation so quickly that her second book, Annie Allen, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1950. She was the first black poet (she preferred this designation to African American) to win that prize. Here are the opening lines of Riot:
John Cabot, out of Wilma, once a Wycliffe,all whitebluerose below his golden hair,wrapped richly in right linen and right wool,almost forgot his Jaguar and Lake Bluff;almost forgot Grandtully (which is TheBest Thing That Ever Happened To Scotch); almostforgot the sculpture at the Richard Grayand Distelheim; the kidney pie at Maxim's,the Grenadine de Boeuf at Maison Henri.Because the Negroes were coming down the street.Because the Poor were sweaty and unpretty(not like Two Dainty Negroes in Winnetka)and they were coming toward him in rough ranks.In seas. In windsweep. They were black and loud.And not detainable. And not discreet.
What just happened here? Where are we? John Cabot? Who? Gone are many characteristics of Brooks's earlier work: a fairly overt exterior narrative and linear chronology; a fixed or stable speaker, an individual "persona" in fact, with a voice lifted out of a Chicago South Side neighborhood and into (as she said) a "small second-floor apartment at the corner." Gone are the distinct and distinctly drawn characters, the jazzy mood, the ballad and sermon and blues intonations of her earlier poems. What we have instead is an intense, interiorized, self-referential work that feels more fragmented than complete, more cubist, more elliptical, more postmodernist than finished or tidily coherent. Its references seem social though they are uncontextualized and unexplained; and it leads into the poem's second section whose primary "strength ... is how it uses collage," to cite a colloquium from Jacket2. What just happened here, in fact, is a riot.
Martin Luther King Jr. authorizes the poem with his opening assertion-epigraph that "A riot is the language of the unheard." And although the poem does not confirm — rather it assumes this circumstance, as it assumes our complicity in knowing (and in fact we can't not know what we know) — the triggering event is King's assassination, on April 4, 1968, and the aftermath riots in Chicago, the West Side, or "race riots" in a city infamous for race riots, including the 1919 riots which featured heavily militarized police and thirty-eight deaths. The poem begins in the aftershock of trauma and seems to describe the fear and apparently, or likely, the death of one John Cabot, he of the "golden hair."
Jasper Bernes, Joshua Clover, and Juliana Spahr call this a "revisionary ... even aspirational, history." Though the sources vary slightly, they all agree that nine to eleven people died in the riots, and all were black. So who is John Cabot? A fiction, a figment, a straw figure? We know the name from history books, if we look. John Cabot — Giovanni Caboto — under commission from Henry VII, explored swaths of this continent in 1497, claiming North America for England, one of the first colonial appropriations of the new world. And we know John Cabot, according to the Jacket2 critics, as the "name of an original Boston Brahmin, about whose family it is said and this is good old Boston ... where the Lowells talk only to Cabots, and the Cabots talk only to God." We know our John Cabot is indeed talking to God, or "any handy angel," praying in horror: "Don't let It touch me! the blackness! Lord!" He sees the "windsweep" of Negroes coming down the street. He is grossed out by them. But "Gross. Gross" may describe his own appetite too, his outsized hunger for kidney pie and Grenadine de Boeuf, as for the other opulent aspects of his lifestyle, perhaps faux-European: fancy cars, fine clothes, rarified Scotch whiskey (though Grandtully is actually a cheap after-dinner liqueur as well as a Scottish village, pronounced grantly). As he lived, he seems — this sacrificial J.C. — to "die expensively today," burning like the body of another holy martyr, John Wycliffe. Here is the poem's second half:
Gross. Gross. "Que tu es grossier!" John Cabotitched instantly beneath the nourished whitethat told his story of glory to the World."Don't let It touch me! the blackness! Lord!" hewhispered to any handy angel in the sky.But, in a thrilling announcement, on It droveand breathed on him: and touched him. In that breaththe fume of pig foot, chitterling and cheap chili,malign, mocked John. And, in terrific touch, oldaverted doubt jerked forward decently,cried, "Cabot! John! You are a desperate man,and the desperate die expensively today."John Cabot went down in the smoke and fireand broken glass and blood, and he cried "Lord!Forgive these nigguhs that know not what they do."
Aftermath: The poem seems to embody a tactic Brooks herself deliciously called "verse journalism": "I've always thought of myself as a reporter." But then, again, who is John Cabot? Is he not fictive rather than real? Does Brooks not seem empowered to imagine as well as document? Throughout Riot her poetic grows ever more complex and multiple, as even here, in this first section, her point of view is a superimposition, one on another, shared, plural, blended, yet also capable of, one-at-a-time, sympathy, culpability, and indictment.
Aftermath: Riot exists forcefully as an artful expression of chaos, the first coming-into-words utterance after a stunned stupor of assassination. Riot sounds like rage. But it exists with equal force and fixity as an expression of the poet's confidence, her profound risk-taking, as she grows and develops. It's not that Brooks is turning away from her earlier poetic self; rather, she is becoming her later self, more fierce if more elliptical. In 1967 she attended the second Black Writers' Conference at Fisk University. The first conference, 1966 — in the aftermath of the Watts riots, the assassinations of Malcolm X and Medgar Evers — called for a new black writing, affiliated with the Black Arts Movement. In Riot we see Brooks helping to shape this aesthetic. We also see her opting out of a number of mainstream or established aspects: her celebrated signature idiom, her finesse with traditional prosody and form. (If this first part of Riot is loose pentameter, or at least in deca- and hendecasyllabic lines — like the King quote, in fact — the subsequent sections eschew such formalism, as Carl Phillips's essay in this issue examines.) Elizabeth Alexander says about Brooks's early work that she is "nothing short of a technical virtuoso" with an impressive formal range of "sonnets, ballads, spirituals, blues, full and off-rhymes."
Brooks also opts out of other aspects of fame. Riot is Brooks's first book after she decided to leave Harper & Row and invest, as it were, with a black publisher — in this case Broadside Press, which Dudley Randall founded in 1965 and ran out of his spare bedroom and, later, a church basement in Detroit. That is, Brooks shifts her own cultural capital from New York to the Midwest, from a white board of trustees to "community publishing," in a decision James Sullivan calls a "profoundly anti-economic move." It's one thing to write black, to "maketh a brand new Black," and a further one to say "I couldn't possibly think of going back to any white publisher. I'll always be with a black publisher."
It's true that Brooks later expressed some doubt about Riot. Perhaps it was, she said, too meditative. But what she calls meditative may be the powerful interiority of her new style. Certainly, it is not serene, it is not self-contained or self-reflective, it is not in its mood or method contemplative. It is powerfully dramatic, performed by a shifting cast of voices and not a single monologist; it is powerfully narrative, though its narrative field is highly elliptical, inferential, and as fluid as a photographic multiple exposure.
Aftermath: an unarmed citizen, Abraham Lincoln, was shot to death on April 14, 1865 (he died the next morning), in Washington, DC, by a fellow citizen, the famous actor John Wilkes Booth. The Civil War stands as a kind of sustained traumatizing riot, fought in the nation's own backyards and neighborhoods; and Walt Whitman's great poem, the lilac poem, stands as elegy not just for the martyred Lincoln, not just for the legions of sacrificed war dead, but for the ideal notion of perfectibility, democracy's promising dream of equality and fairness. It was a riot of race, economics, and power. To express his grief, but also to enact a sympathetic martyrdom, Whitman dies, too, in his poem, his unsurpassed eloquence erased by horror and disillusionment. The great poet of the people retreats to a dismal inhuman swamp, giving himself over to grief. "Dead — Immortal," says Blanchot. In this same double trope, Whitman is reborn in the song of the hermit thrush, who tutors him in nature's forgiving and regenerative process. It is, we appreciate, one of the great acts of transcendental imagination. I'm sure that's why I turned to it when the riots began. And why I turned to Brooks? If Whitman's poem is a masterpiece of transcendence, Brooks's is a masterpiece of something else entirely. She does not transcend, does not rise remade, reunified, or reinvented out of the erasures of history and nature; not for her the intimate or egotistical sublime. Computer scientists have a term, when they include one document (or let's say one point of view, or voice, or tactic) inside or alongside another one: transclusion. Not to go beyond, but to reach beyond to include the other, or other things: textual blending, reaching out of, to attain the multiple. Transclusion is to carry from one thing to another, to overlay, not to go beyond, but to remain, enlarged. So this is the claim I make for Gwendolyn Brooks's later art. It is a transclusive art.
For Whitman, the figure of Lincoln stood as a figurehead, the ideal representative man — to use Emerson's term — a leader born straight out of the natural environment of the new world. Martin Luther King Jr. holds a similar esteem and position here in Brooks's post-romantic, post-naturalist vision. But for us, of course, Michael Brown is not a heroic elected politician, a president, a revered leader of a church, nor a civil rights movement. He was and is, like us, more mundane; like us, plural. Yet in this way, he is also a representative man. Neither hero nor antihero. But now, like Walter Scott, like Freddie Gray, and so many more, one of many. Blanchot again is useful in his reminder: "This self is merely a formal necessity; it simply serves to allow the infinite relation of Self to Other."
I know this one thing for certain. No one of us now — no one stunned self or Self — can supply a sufficient vision, a sufficient artwork, capable of addressing, representing, and correcting the horror of inequity, inequality, and human violence. This was Whitman's realization, too, and it nearly killed him. It is what Kazim Ali points to when he writes: "When we think of a unified or singular American identity, we lose the chance to truly understand our selves and one another." The really traumatic question is both plural and mundane. That question is, together, do we stand a chance?
Though he is known primarily as a poet of the Midwest, David Baker was born in Bangor, Maine in 1954. He spent his childhood in Missouri and attended Central Missouri State University before receiving his PhD from the University of Utah. He has won fellowships and awards from the Poetry...
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Colonel Oscar F. Moore of Portsmouth, Ohio
Col. Oscar F. Moore, who represented Adams County as a part of the seventh Ohio senatorial district in the fiftieth general assembly, and its first senator under the constitution of 1851, was born January 27, 1817, near Steubenville, the son of James H. Moore and his wife, Sarah Stull. His maternal grandfather, Daniel Stull, was a captain in the Revolutionary War. He graduated at Washington College, Pennsylvania, in the class of 1836. He began the study of law immediately, under D. L. Collier, then mayor of Steubenville. He attended one session of the Cincinnati Law School, and was admitted to practice by the Supreme Court at Steubenville, October, 1838.
In April, 1839, he located at Portsmouth, in the practice of the law, and continued to reside there the remainder of his life. In 1850 he was elected as a Whig to represent Lawrence and Scioto counties in the house of representatives in the last session under the constitution of 1802. He participated in the senatorial election in which Benjamin F. Wade was elected to the United States senate. In 1851 he was elected to the state senate, as stated at the opening of this sketch. He had as associates in the house, Col. J. R. Cockerill, of Adams County, and Hon. Wells A. Hutchins, of Scioto. In 1854 he was elected to the thirty-fourth congress as a Whig, representing the tenth district, composed of Scioto, Pike, Ross, Jackson, and Lawrence. On July 23, 1861, he entered the 33d O. V. I., as its lieutenant colonel. He was promoted colonel of the regiment July 16, 1862. At the battle of Perryville, October 8, 1862, he was wounded, captured, and paroled. He remained at home until February, 1863, when he was exchanged. He commanded his regiment in the two days' fight at Chickamauga, where the regiment met with heavy loss in killed and wounded. He served on court martials at Nashville, Tenn., in 1863 and in 1864, until July 20, 1864, when he resigned.
In politics he was a Whig until the dissolution of that party, when he was a member of the American party during its existence. After its dissolution, he went to the Democratic party, in which he remained during his life.
On September 19, 1843, he was married to Martha B., daughter of Hon. Thomas B. Scott, of Chillicothe. He had two daughters, the eldest of whom he named Clay for the idol of his party, Henry Clay. She married Mr. George O. Newman in 1866. His second daughter, Kate, is the wife of Hon. James W. Newman.
As was said of him by the leading member of the bar in his county, and who practiced with him for over forty years:
"He was a man who had many warm friends, of liberal views, of a kind, charitable nature, and who scarcely ever expressed a harsh remark or used an unkind word to others. His life in this respect was a lesson of the broadest charity. As a lawyer, he had a wide reputation, and will long be remembered in southern Ohio. He was in active practice at the Portsmouth bar for over forty years, a period longer than any other member has served; his ability was of the very highest order, and as adapted to the varied practice in the different courts, both state and federal, whether before court or jury, and whether relating to cases at law or in equity or to criminal practice, he had but few equals. He seldom made mistakes in the management of a case. Perhaps the most striking feature of his mind was the faculty of clear discrimination, which enabled him, with care and facility, to sift authorities quoted against him and explain the facts of a case so as to avoid legal principles, supposed by an opponent to be conclusive against him. He had a keen relish for a "close case," full of surprises by the disclosure of unexpected evidence which took the case out of the line of preparation marked out by opposing counsel.
"No one could have passed through so many years with so large a practice and sustained more friendly relations to other members of the bar. He was never known to have a serious difficulty or misunderstanding with any member of the bar. Being actuated by a high sense of honor and courtesy toward his brethren of the profession, he was always able to reconcile matters of mistake or misunderstanding so as to leave no ground of complaint. Through the kindness and generosity of his nature, he was disposed to make large allowance for the errors and infirmities of his fellow men, and always strongly—perhaps too strongly-—leaned to the side of mercy."
He died at Waverly, Ohio, June 24, 1885, in active practice, and while attending the circuit court at that place. He was seized with a severe chill while in the court room, went to sleep the next night, feeling better, but never awoke.
"A History of Adams County, Ohio", Nelson Wiley Evans, Emmons B. Stivers, 1900, West union Ohio pgs 266-268
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Following two years of negotiations, approval has been given for renovations to the Goat Hill Park golf course in Oceanside, California.
The Goat Hill Partners LLC group has received approval from the Oceanside City Council to take over operations and carry out the improvements at the 18-hole course.
GCA spoke to John Ashworth, the man behind the renowned golf apparel and footwear company Linksoul Golf and head of Goat Hill Partners LLC, to find out what the future holds for the course.
"Basically, me and some friends saved a really cool working class muni from getting paved over," he said. "Now the plan is to put a little elbow grease and love in and turn it into a very cool place to play and a safe haven for kids. We are the home of the North County Junior Golf Association and plan to have a caddie academy much like the one at Common Ground in Denver."
Ashworth has brought in architect Tom Doak to oversee the planned improvements to the Goat Hill Park course.
"I've been friends with Tom Doak and his crew for many years," Ashworth said. "When I decided to take this on I knew the course needed a bit of a face lift in some areas. So I called Tom and his guys to see if they might lend a hand. I hope some time this winter we can make a few changes and slight renovations."
Ashworth confirmed that the routing would not be altered, but that a couple of the greens would be reworked and 'minor tweaks' would be carried out to many holes.
He also described Goat Hill Park as a 'very sporty' par 66, 5,000 yard layout, and that the upcoming work would include the conversion of one of the par four holes into a par three, thus changing the course's par to 65.
The recent drought in California has meant the group behind the project are in the process of developing a turf reduction programme, which will involve taking on a centre line fairway concept, similar to that seen at Pinehurst #2 for last year's US Open.
The course first opened as a nine-hole facility in 1952 as Center City Golf Course. The course was redesigned and redeveloped by Ludwig Keehn in the early 1990s, who helped create an 18-hole short course at the site.
Goat Hill Park became protected 'public land' in the 1980s, meaning no redevelopment could take place without the consent of a vote of the public. A recent town meeting saw the local community and golfing public unite to stop redevelopments of the land and restore the course. Ashworth and his team are now looking to turn their vision for Goat Hill Park into a reality.
"This is just the type of facility we need in this country – a place for kids, beginners and the working class that's affordable and fun and not intimidating," added Ashworth. "We have an uphill battle because the course was fairly neglected over the past few years and in order to get back to sustainability and profitability, we are in the process of raising money to make the necessary changes and enhancements to the course."
The course will remain open for play while improvements are carried out.


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Description: Joseph Warner rhinestone hinged clamper bracelet; domes made from alternating rows of aqua and black diamond (gray) rhinestones radiate out from the top center of the bracelet into half-domes across the top. The band is covered with larger black diamond rhinestones between rows of aqua rhinestones. Hinged at the bottom, the opening at the top is cleverly hidden underneath the center dome. Attributed Joseph Warner, Signed brooch with identical design shown in the 'Warner' category, item #130538.
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First off, I have a confession. I have been trying to write a blog post for months. My buddy Wiltz has single handedly carried the blog and I thank him all the time for it. I have tried multiple times to put together a post (both today and a few times in the past) and somehow I've talked myself out of it. They say something about that being the true inner voice and that's what makes a good writer. Great. My inner voice is a writer that talks himself out of writing.
I honestly have no idea what it takes to be a good writer, and I guess that's why I've been frozen in fear. I mean, it's not every day a man gets an audience. For that reason I freeze up because I want to be very careful with the words I put out here. And my grammar isn't perfect. (lol?)
So who am I? I am a very passionate person whose love of technology has taken him quite far in life. I enjoy playing with new tech and I plan to discuss a lot of that in further detail in future blog posts. But I digress.
I am the sole owner of Computer Doctor & Phone Surgeons in Hattiesburg. It's my life's work. Where we work hard every day to make sure our clients receive top notch service. I've fixed thousands of devices in my lifetime. I've saved countless businesses from failure and lost profits. I've worked on computers that operated million-dollar machinery. I've helped mothers recover baby photos from their dead iPhones. I've helped older clients learn how to use their smart phone or computer. I've unhacked phones. I've repaired telephone systems. I just recently learned how to program a digital sign. And I just got my Drone Pilot license. I take my job very seriously and I spend a great deal of my time listening to audio books or reading about self improvement or business. If you're a frequent listener to the show, you know that I also like to write poems.
I'm dead set on succeeding and taking on new challenges in life. That's how I got this far: by staying focused on where I was going.
I am a solution oriented person and that's why I love doing this show. Because I create solutions for our listeners. I help keep our audience safe from scams and flim-flam. I have been working with computers all my life and I love helping others. I believe in contribution. And that's why I do it. Because I want to give back for all I've been blessed with.
So I look forward to telling you all about new tech, warning you when it's time to update due to security holes, and helping simplify the mysterious world of tech. I feel like I should've been able to post this 8 months ago when I started. But better late than never!
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Who are CarCliq?
Carcliq.co.uk is the revolutionary new website for all aspects of buying, selling and talking about cars. Combining a mix of key features such as stock advertising, discussion forums, extensive national marketing campaigns to drive footfall and dedicated account management to name a few, they are committed to helping you generate real commercial results.
Carcliq.co.uk is privately owned by Jo and Antony Lewis. Antony has worked in the motor trade for over 30 years and developed CarCliq after becoming increasingly frustrated with the poor service, price hikes and operational weaknesses offered by other classifieds companies. CarCliq is backed by a six figure investment and a team of people passionate about lending an exceptional service to the industry.
Why CarCliq?
- FREE unlimited stock advertising until the end of January 2013
- 'Car alert' service notifies buyers when their specified model is listed
- Dedicated account management team to ensure that you maximise every sale
- The forums allow dealers, buyers and enthusiasts to communicate with each other
- You can create your own forum at no charge, to communicate with potential customers
- You and your customers will be entered into one of four prize draws just by registering to the site
- They will promote your dealership via a national marketing campaign – at no cost to you!
The marketing campaign
- In order to increase awareness and footfall, their nationwide marketing activity is now underway and will continue throughout the whole of 2013, commencing with a promotional campaign in over 200 Sainsbury's, Homebase and Wickes stores. Additionally during January, they will have an advertising campaign in 22 motorway service stations which will promote you to millions of drivers.
- Between January and March, all users registering to the site will be entered into a free draw to win an iPad, supported by literature which can be handed to the customer whilst they are in the showroom. From March until the end of the year, they will be running additional draws with a similar prize value.
- CarCliq are also investing in an extensive Google pay-per-click (PPC) campaign that will drive traffic to their website. This includes targeting specific keywords and geographic locations, to attract genuine buyers.
- Dealers will be promoted through social media including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Having only unveiled their site to the motor trade a handful of weeks ago, CarCliq have already had an enormous response with thousands of cars currently being listed for sale, and the launch has been covered by several trade websites and publications with enthusiasm. Their unique approach covers all bases by encouraging motorists onto the site, promoting the dealerships and providing one hub which connects the dots of the buying, selling and owning chain. To register simply visit www.carcliq.co.uk or contact Laurence Davidson on 01923 438119 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Mark your calendars! Registration for the 2018 Cheeky Schoolie Tournament will open Monday, January 29. The tournament itself will take place Saturday, May 19th on Cape Cod, MA.
The largest fly fishing only tournament in the world, the Schoolie Tournament remains a low barrier to entry, grass roots style event designed to encourage the interest in and growth of saltwater fly fishing and to welcome our hard working schoolie stripers to their summer vacation home on Cape Cod, MA. Anglers of all experience levels are encouraged to attend 2018's tournament to vie for thousands of dollars of prizes, and catch schoolie stripers!
To learn more about the event and to read last year's recap, visit the Schoolie Tournament Webpage.
North Point Brands, LLC
DBA Cheeky Fishing & Wingo Belts
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Autumn Gift Market
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- 07 October, 2017
- Northamptonshire
We invite you to join us at Braunston Village Hall on the 7th of October for our 'Autumn Gift Market'.
Showcasing a number of exhibitors with a variety of handcrafted products and gifts. From artists to textile design and everything in between, there is something for everyone, and if you feel a little thirsty after all that shopping we have our pop-up Tea Room with a choice of light refreshments.
Would you like the opportunity to exhibit at this event?
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