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Southwest Indian Hopi Pueblo Pottery and Fine Art
The Hopi have lived on three mesas in northeastern Arizona for more than 1,000 years. Today they live in 12 separate villages on or below the three Mesas. The Hopi language is part of the Uto-Aztecan language group, one of the largest Native American Language groups. On First Mesa, a group of relative newcomers from the Rio Grande Tewa Pueblos speak the Tewa Language. One of these Hopi-Tewas is the famous potter Nampeyo. Along with her daughters Fannie Nampeyo, Nellie Douma and Annie Healing, she created some of the most beautiful pottery made at the time. The name Hopi is a shortened form of the Hopi word for themselves: Hopituh Shi-nu-mu ("The Peaceful People" or "Peaceful Little Ones"). The Hopi Dictionary gives the primary meaning of the word "Hopi" as: "behaving one, one who is mannered, civilized, peaceable, polite, who adheres to the Hopi way." Traditionally the Hopi are highly skilled farmers. They grow corn, beans, squash and melons. The Hopi also participate in the wider cash economy; a significant number of Hopi have mainstream jobs; others earn a living by creating high-quality Hopi art, notably the carving of Kachina dolls, the expert crafting of pottery, and the design and production of fine jewelry, especially sterling silver. Adobe Gallery features examples of fine Hopi pottery from the Nampeyo family as well as other Hopi potters. We carry Katsina carvings from carvers such as Otto Pentewa and Jimmy Kootshongsie as well as work by modern carver Kevin Pochoema. We also feature coiled baskets from Second Mesa and wicker plaques from First Mesa, fine silver overlay jewelry and paintings.
Above Image: This potter was staged by an unknown photographer at an unknown date. The Hopi Pueblo potter is identified as Tewingyinema. We are appreciative to Hopi-Tewa potter, Mark Tahbo, for sharing this photograph with us. The photograph was recently found in a burned out home at First Mesa.
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Okay, 2012 is now a fading memory and for me personally is not going to be going down as one of my favorites. In fact, shy of having my wonderful daughter with me and being blessed with an amazing girlfriend. The rest of the year pretty much sucked on a massive scale. Because of all this LIFE going on directly impacted my ability to geocache. In fact this was my worst year for Geocaching EVER. If it wasn't for my good friend DeBaere getting me out in the wild I wouldn't have any geocaches at all.
So enough bellyaching. 2013 is now here and it is time to get back in the groove. Time for a new start and look at our favorite game, sport and obsession. This year I am setting goals and posting them on my blog. I will also be letting you know about all the media for your entertainment and instructional needs. Shows like Geocaching World, The Geocaching Podcast and our brand new GeoSnippits Reboot Podcast and tutorial and videos. This and so much more will be coming your way so stay tuned!
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The 'transcendent' accomplishments of gymnast Simone Biles
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Penn United Technologies, Cabot, PA, is realigning its operations in Costa Rica to focus more on production activities such as assembly, rather than on producing precision tooling. Its main facility in Cabot will continue to support design and manufacture of tooling and stamping dies, as well as precision stampings, prototyping, machining, custom automated equipment and reel-to-reel electroplating.
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Saw an interesting post on Planet Ubuntu about whether Debian needs to be on Facebook.
Obviously a lot of people who like Linux are on Facebook, but when a large portion of the developed world is on there that's inevitable. Not that it means they are getting useful information about Linux. Whoever owns the Debian page is doing nothing with it. I've found it common that certain pages can have thousands or more people 'liking' them, but there's no involvement.
That said, there are many people for whom Facebook is the main thing they use on-line. They can see what their friends are up to and get updates from bands or other things they 'like' with none of that messy email or RSS stuff.
I'm on Facebook because enough people I know are on there to make it useful. I can reach them via it, e.g. with interesting links or automatically when I upload music I've made. They can respond there if they want without having to register on yet another site.
I don't think Facebook is perfect by a long shot. Lots of things about it annoy me and I think people who mostly use it are missing out on a lot, but for now I'll exploit it for all it can give me.
There are people working on more open alternatives suck as Diaspora, but a social site is of limited use without a critical mass of users and it's going to take a lot to get people to move away from Facebook. identi.ca is big enough to be useful, but I still use Twitter to reach others.


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I am the new owner of Tatanka - 1994 Freedom 40/40 sailing out of the Port of Rochester on Lake Ontario. The boat is rigged with a jib furler and what looks like about an 80% jib. The forestay as delivered is VERY loose. I was out last weekend and when the wind kicked up over twenty with 4'+ waves the furler and jib flopped around violently. I'm new to this rig - and am coming from a C&C 38 with rod rigging that was tuned like a guitar - so, does anyone have a recommendation for forestay tension? I want to be able to point optimally, but don't want to stress the mast. Any advise is appreciated...


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MADISON, Wis. — Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and the city's public works department will discuss the city's response to last week's blizzard that dumped up to 19 inches of snow in the city.
A meeting with the media is scheduled for Wednesday at 11 a.m.
Soglin said more than 175 pieces of public and private equipment were used to clear city streets during the storm. He said the city got to many residential streets first because they didn't want the snow to accumulate there.
The storm shut down Madison schools and Madison Metro bus service for two days.
Madison firefighters responded to at least 37 reports of downed power lines.
Thousands of homes were without power at some point during the storm and the cold, windy weather that followed it.
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Dell storage sales drooping while others thrust up
Compellent sales could be down
Dell's storage sales are down, reflecting lost EMC storage revenues and selling issues.
Aaron Rakers, a Dell-tracking financial analyst at Stifel Nicolaus, has looked at Dell's quarterly 10-Q statement to the SEC and uncovered a drooping sales trajectory in storage.
Dell's storage revenue for its latest quarter was $444 million, down from the prior quarter's $500 million and from the year-go quarter's $481 million. A big cause of this was declining sales of resold EMC kit, which was expected following the ending of that reseller relationship.
EMC kit sales totalled $21 million in the quarter, $40 million in the previous quarter and $140 million in the year-ago quarter. Sales of Dell's own Compellent, EqualLogic, Exanet file storage, Ocarina dedupe and DX6000 object arrays did not compensate for this.
Although revenues from Dell's own storage products grew 24 per cent year-on-year it was not enough. They accounted for 95 per cent of Dell's storage revenues, up from 71 per cent a year ago. Obviously there is a convincing growth trend but it isn't fast enough and needed to be $37 million higher just to match the year-ago quarter's revenues.
Rakers thinks there were sales execution issues in the most recent quarter, and that Compellent sales declined 8 per cent compared to the previous quarter. If true Dell will be very anxious to reverse that trend and compete more effectively against EMC's VNX/VNXe arrays and NetApp's FAS 2000s.
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It's not often that network TV shows have themes agricultural or aquacultural, so it was interesting that a recent episode of the NBC political drama, "The West Wing," had as its underlying issue the plight of the U.S. shrimp industry.
When you go into a restaurant and order a shrimp dish, you likely don't give a thought to its origin, but odds are pretty good the shrimp came from Thailand, Vietnam, or China. It's estimated that at as much as 75 percent to 90 percent of the shrimp consumed in the United States is of Asian origin, much of it commercially raised, often in environments that wouldn't be tolerated in this country.
Particularly hard hit by this growing wave of imports have been commercial shrimpers in the Gulf states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, who contend that the shrimp they catch is fresher, tastier, and meatier than the pond-grown stuff that's been shipped from half a world away.
Unfortunately for them, big distributors and processors have increasingly moved to imported shrimp, chiefly because of price and availability. All this has resulted in a great deal of political maneuvering on both sides, as portrayed on the TV show, while in the real world, the Bush administration in early December authorized an investigation into whether the flood of Asian imports constitutes dumping.
It is much the same battle U.S. catfish producers have already fought and that producers of vegetables, fruits, and other ag products are facing from the Far East.
Speaking of catfish, while in Savannah, Ga., recently, we dined at a restaurant owned by a TV cooking personality (after an hour and a half wait outside on the street). Although I have a long-time, built-in aversion to buffets (they're all basically high school cafeteria food), we opted for the buffet of "home style southern cooking."
Our local Western Sizzlin' has a far more extensive buffet at a third of the $16.99 per person at the lady chef's place. The food was OK, but it was still cafeteria stuff.
The piece de terriblé was (supposedly) catfish — scrawny, whole fish, about the size of two fingers. Each may have had about six bites of fish, but it was such a bony mess I quickly gave up in disgust. It may be the absolute worst excuse for catfish I have ever tried to eat anywhere. Whether it was domestic or imported, I haven't a clue, but I can only imagine the impression it makes on people from around the country who eat there, lured chiefly by the owner's TV persona.
Thirty-plus years in catfish country and hundreds of meals of exceptionally fine farm-raised fish, prepared in a myriad of delicious ways, have made me less than tolerant when it's poorly done.
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Buying and Customizing a 1988-1998 Chevy for Under $4,000
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Beginning a new truck project is rife with anticipation. It starts with agonizingly visualizing all the possible build styles, poring over catalogs of shiny new parts, and finally narrowing down the options into one final design. We then wait eagerly for the nondescript brown boxes to appear on our doorsteps, and tear into the contents like kids on Christmas morning. It's a euphoric sensation that never gets old.
In this case, our new project is an old friend. As the highly influential pickup credited with kick-starting the custom truck revolution, the '88-'98 Chevy C/K line has got to be the easiest truck on the market to modify—and the hardest to make stand out. The sheer amount of parts available to customize and rebuild this truck is astounding. As long as the frame is straight and the cab shell isn't damaged, every single part, inside and out, can be purchased through aftermarket suppliers. Being the number one truck in the custom scene also affords us a massive selection of cool accessories to build ours with. We will be doing our best to make sure this truck doesn't get lost in the pack.
This '89 Silverado has definitely seen better days, so it will be a long journey to reach the finish line, but we will persevere. This truck has spent its life wallowing around muddy farmland on the Central California coast for roughly 300,000 miles, so it's rusty and needs just about everything replaced. However, our vision of a clean and fast cruiser got the best of us, so we picked it up for a measly $1,500. Now, we get to look forward to driving a nearly new truck once it's completed, so there is a ray of light at the end of the tunnel. It may be hard to look at now, but it will be transformed into a sleek and sporty machine that will proudly walk the walk and talk the talk when we cross the finish line. We have dubbed this truck Project Rehab, since it's both being brought back from the dead and returning to the roots of the sport truck movement.
For the first stage of this project, we addressed the dilapidated factory suspension that made the truck completely unfit for use on public roads. We remedied this by replacing every wear item with new components from the local parts house and adding firmer urethane bushings from Energy Suspension. During the teardown and reinstallation process, a DJM 4-inch front and 6-inch rear lowering kit was added to give the C/K a new stance. Topping off the upgrades is a set of classic 18-inch Showwheels Streeter wheels and BFGoodrich tires. These simple upgrades made a drastic improvement to the truck's handling, and gave the old Chevy the perfect attitude for cruising the Southern California streets.
With a new DJM suspension, firmer Energy bushings, 18-inch wheels, and stickier tires, our Chevy is ready to carve corners with sport truck precision. Stay tuned to see how we transform Project Rehab from a beat-up farm truck into a clean and simple street machine.
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Forget legs or treads or wheels, everyone, because tomorrow's robots will traverse the earth on a thin film of slime, just like the humble snail. At least, that's MIT associate professor Anette Hosoi's vision of our robot future, and she has the "Robosnail" prototype to prove it. Since 2003, Hosoi and a revolving cadre of students have studied her terrarium full of more than 200 snails in an attempt to recreate their slimy way of locomotion in a robot. They've since got a working model together that can climb tree bark, walls, and—coming soon—perform invasive surgery procedures near you!
The Robosnail moves along various surfaces using moveable segments that ripple along a synthetic slime. Because the slime allows the robot to traverse vertical surfaces and even ceilings, Hosoi hopes to be able to deploy similar robots to adverse environments in the near future. It would be kind of like the slowest bomb sniffing or exploratory robot of all time, that can go anywhere, eventually.
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Ray Willsey, who coached Cal's football team amid campus unrest in the late 1960s, died Monday at his home in Hailey, Idaho, his daughter said.
He was 85.
"He loved his Cal days. Those are his fondest memories," said LeeAnn Willsey Fairfield.
Willsey played quarterback and defensive back for Cal for coach Pappy Waldorf in 1951 and '52, leading the Bears to a 26-0 Big Game victory over Stanford as a senior.
He coached his alma mater for eight seasons, compiling a 40-42-1 record, including 7-3-1 in 1968 during the height of the student-protest era on campus.
Willsey sometimes came home after practice having been exposed to tear gas that police used against protesters, his daughter recalled.
"Being able to keep the football program going during such a tumultuous time was a source of pride for him," LeeAnn Fairfield said.
"Recruiting was really tough. He would sit in the living room with parents and they would switch on the nightly news when he was trying to convince them to let him take their son."
The '68 team posted three shutout victories and held eight of 12 opponents to 12 points or less, its defensive unit earning the nickname "The Bear Minimum."
Former Oakland Tribune columnist Dave Newhouse, who interviewed Willsey by phone about that team last week, called it "one of the most remarkable coaching jobs you've ever seen. Parents didn't want to send their kids to Cal because of everything that was going on in Berkeley."
Willsey suffered from dementia late in the life, but still was active, his daughter said. He also owned a home in Palm Desert.
After graduating from Cal, Willsey played two seasons for the Edmonton Eskimos in the Canadian Football League. He then began his coaching career as an assistant under Darrell Royal at both Washington and Texas.
He was a co-head coach of the NFL's St. Louis Cardinals for two games in 1961 (winning both), and in '64 became the first Cal alum in 38 years to take over as the Bears' head coach.
Willsey returned to coach in the NFL in 1973 and from '78 through '84 was an assistant for the Raiders, part of Super Bowl victories both in Oakland and Los Angeles.
He was head coach of the London Monarchs in the World Football League in 1992 and served as an assistant for the Scottish Claymores of the WFL in 1996 at the age of 68.
In 2002, Willsey was honored by his alma mater with the Glenn T. Seaborg Award, given to a former Cal football player for his career accomplishments.
Willsey is survived by his partner of 30 years, Joanne May, daughters LeeAnn Willsey Fairfield, Janet Willsey Johnson and Louise Willsey Poole, and by five grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his former wife, Barbara Bigelow Willsey.
A memorial service is being planned for Berkeley sometime in the spring, his daughter said.
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We are kindly asking all organists and concert organisers from Gdańsk who hold concerts or know of concerts in Gdańsk which are not yet listed on our website to get in touch us and let us know the date, venue and any other available information.
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We are pleased to be releasing the article about the organs of St. Nicholas' church.
Furthermore we have also updated the discography sections of Oliwa cathedral and St. Mary's basilica. Also, the concert diary has been updated with the most recent information available to us.
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Here is a link to the first time I ever heard the word Jinn. It is a wonderful scene in the 1940 movie Thief of Bagdad, starring Sabu as the thief, and Rex Ingram as the Jinni (which is usually anglicized as "genie.")
Forward to about the 2:58 mark, as Sabu opens the bottle he finds on the beach, and listen as the Jinni materializes as smoke and says, "Two thousand years ago, King Solomon, master of the all the Jinn, imprisoned me in that bottle."
Then buy Master of the Jinn to read my own interpretation of the many Jinn legends :)
Ya Haqq!
PS: There is actually a legend that in Biblical times, the King of Arabia begged King Solomon to help in controlling a wicked and powerful Jinni, an Ifrit, that was wreaking havoc within his kingdom. King Solomon came and by the power of his seal ring, given to him by God to control the Jinn, imprisoned the wicked Jinni in a bottle, or oil lamp in some versions.


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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
The New Generation of Rye: Bulleit Rye
Rye whiskey is in a time of flux. It's probably more popular than it's been in a half century, but that popularity has positive and negative effects. On the plus side, there are new ryes coming out all the time. On the negative side, the stocks of aged rye are running low. Even standard expressions like Sazerac and Rittenhouse 100 go through periodic shortages and price increases. Meanwhile, Wild Turkey has announced that they are going to have shortages of their standard 101 proof rye for at least a year, which relates to their introduction of an 81 proof rye. Rye seems to be getting weaker, more expensive and harder to find.
To fill the rye gap, big companies have been coming out with new expressions. Beam recently released Knob Creek Rye, an extension of its popular Knob Creek line of bourbon, though it's not for sale in California yet.
Today, I'll sample another big rye. Bulleit Rye came out last year and seems to be seeing brisk sales. The Bulleit brand is owned by the drinks giant Diageo and the rye is distilled at Lawrenceburg Distillers Indiana (LDI) using their 95% rye mashbill.
Based on what I see on shelves at both bars and homes, it seems that those who can't find their rye of choice are increasingly grabbing for Bulleit, a familiar brand to those who enjoy the bourbon of the same name.
Affordably priced at around $20 ($19.99 at Trader Joe's), Bulleit Rye carries no age statement. It's priced to compete directly with the other popular ryes and seems to be popular with the cocktail crowd as well.
Bulleit Rye, 45% abv ($20)
The nose is pure LDI with loads of pine and green wood. The palate comes on sweet and piney, like a sugar coated pine cone, or what I imagine one would taste like anyway, having never dipped a pine cone in sugar and started munching on it. That first flavor burst is nice, but it doesn't hold up; the palate goes flat midway through, ending on a bitter note. The finish is mostly bitter but there is a pleasant cooking spice in the background, and eventually the bitterness recedes and you are left with the pleasant spice and a happy feeling.
This is a big fat rye, and being a 95% LDI rye, it's quite different in character from the Kentucky ryes that are in short supply. It's imperfect, but it's bold and spicy, and for $20, it's hard to beat if you need a solid rye for sipping or mixing.
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This whiskey has generated more conversation than any I've ever passed around. I like it quite a bit, and with WT 101 disappearing, it will probably become my go-to rye for the foreseeable future. Tom Bulleit claims that there'll be no shortages associated with this bottling. Good news.
- June 20, 2012 at 8:01 PM
- Jordan said...
I had a rather healthy glass of Bulleit rye yesterday evening and I have to agree with your assessment. It's definitely rye, but little else stands out about it. I guess more options are better, but given that the Rittenhouse shortage seems to be waning, Bulleit rye is in a tough place. It doesn't have as much character, but it can't compete on price. Especially here in Oregon where it's regularly $28, which is Sazerac and Russell's Reserve territory.
- June 20, 2012 at 8:40 PM
Though they are both likely from the same LDI mash bill, I prefer the Willett 3 YR Single Barrel rye over Bulleit in the ryes that I can actually get these days. Rye product has definitely been in short supply. Willett also comes in at a higher alcohol content for only a couple dollars more in this area. Like Jordan, Bulleit definitely does not sell for $20 in FL and is more like $28. Rittenhouse is still my preferred when I can get it. Have to rely on friends on family to bring it south.
- June 20, 2012 at 9:47 PM
In regards to value, I agree that this is a solid base whiskey, particularly for cocktails. I usually end up spending a little more (35ish) and get jefferson's 10 year, which has a great rye flavor with a fantastic sweeter influence from the extra age. I'm not sure how well circulated this release is though.
- June 20, 2012 at 10:23 PM
- Jordan said...
A big second on what Tom said. Once you get up around $30, it's worth paying the extra couple of dollars for Jefferson 10 Year. It blows every rye I've tried short of the BTAC ryes out of the water and it's less than half the price of those whiskies (when you can actually find them).
- June 20, 2012 at 11:09 PM
- SteveBM said...
Just had a few Bulliet ryes in the SkyClub at ATL yesterday. I'm not too fond of Bulliet bourbon but the rye has some characteristics that I like, grainy, floral, pleasant spice to name a few. I like your "piney" description too. It's usually $25 down here in the Miami area. Not bad. I tend to enjoy LDI bottlings, namely Redemption Rye and the Williet 3yr & 5yr.
Question - when Midwest Grain purchased LDI, did they keep the name LDI intact? Or should we all be referring to this producer as MGP?
- June 21, 2012 at 9:49 AM
Good point, SteveBM. When you try to go to the old LDI web site it routes you to the new MGP site.
- June 21, 2012 at 11:39 AM
It's no longer LDI. I have inside enough that I swore not to tell as I live nearby. All I can say is my personal buying... I will make sure to buy only pre-Midwest Grain whiskey as I focus strictly on quality and make up a very small percentage of the buying market.
- June 22, 2012 at 12:30 AM
Thanks. Will stock up on any Willett and such now, don't really drink that much of it, with what is in the distribution chain and will see how things with LDI/MGP products shake out down the road. Good information to know. May not mean any changes, however, one never knows.
- June 22, 2012 at 1:04 AM
- June 22, 2012 at 1:08 AM
why do LDI ryes differ so much from Kentucky ryes? is it this particular 95% rye mashbill or does the difference stem from distillation/aging differences?
- June 22, 2012 at 8:24 AM
Rye whiskey must be made from a mash of at least 51% rye. Far from the 95% mash used by LDI/MGP in this particular product. One of the reasons I prefer Rittenhouse over Willett, though I drink both. You can definitely notice the difference and influence on the final product in the quantity of rye used.
- June 23, 2012 at 2:13 AM
- sku said...
That's right. The main difference is mashbill. The Kentucky ryes are, for the most part, 51% rye, the rest corn, making the mashbill very similar to bourbon. LDI has several mashbills, but the 95% rye has far more rye and no corn, giving it a much spicier disposition.
- June 23, 2012 at 8:33 AM
- BMc said...
It should be noted that the LDI recipe was designed for blending. I love the Willetts and like the Bulleit rye quite a bit, but it's amusing that the big gap in the rye world is being filled by a watered down blending whiskey. It just happens to be world class, in my opinion.
The butterscotch notes in the 5 year Willett are reaaaaally nice. I'd love to have a 10-12 year LDI product to see what happens to all those forceful rye flavors over time, mixed with barrel influence.
- June 23, 2012 at 10:19 AM
- sku said...
BMc, the limited release High West 12 year old was a 12 year LDI 95% rye and it was superb. The rye was as strong as ever. That stuff has staying power.
- June 23, 2012 at 10:23 AM
KBD has a 6 Year Willett Rye at 110 proof and it is out of this world! If you get some fellers together, I could make a run down there for ya on the weekend before work. If it's not already sold out.
- June 24, 2012 at 1:43 AM
What sort of whiskey do you think that :LDI rye was to be blended into?
- June 24, 2012 at 9:37 PM
Does anyone have any idea what the mashbill for Rittenhouse is? What exactly is the "classic Pennsylvania style" rye that I see so many people refer to when speaking of rittenhouse? How does that style compare with Kentucky and LDI?
- June 26, 2012 at 5:04 PM
- sku said...
From what I understand (and maybe Sam K. will comment as he's the expert on this), the classic PA rye was a blend of malted and unmalted rye. By the twentieth century, it was unmalted rye with a small amount of malted barley, so really the LDI mashbill is quite similar.
Rittenhouse was formerly a PA rye, but now it is, of course, owned by Heaven Hill. I don't know that they have said for certain but I believe all of the KY ryes are around 51% rye with the rest corn and a bit of barley.
- June 26, 2012 at 6:57 PM
- BMc said...
Sam, I first read it here:
In that article Chuck states that it was created for Seagram's 7. I've read elsewhere that LDI, or the former LDI, still sold the rye to Diageo after they acquired the Seagram's label. If true, it could be in a ton of Canadian whiskeys.
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Belated good news for those of you who were disappointed in gay marriage's victories at the polls on election day: Those victories may have inadvertently saved the prohibitions on gay marriage in other states.
Usually, the justices are inclined to vote to hear a case if they disagree with the lower court ruling. The most conservative justices — Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. — almost certainly think the 9th Circuit's ruling was dubious. Scalia, for example, says the "equal protection" clause, added to the Constitution after the Civil War, aimed to stop racial discrimination and nothing more. He often insists the justices are not authorized to give a contemporary interpretation to phrases such as "equal protection."
If Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joins the other three, the conservatives would have the needed four votes to hear the Proposition 8 case.
They may hesitate. To form a majority, they would need Kennedy, the author of the court's two strongest gay rights rulings. His 2003 opinion struck down a Texas anti-sodomy law and said the state could not "demean" gays by treating them as second-class citizens. Five months later, the Massachusetts high court, citing Kennedy's opinion, became the first to rule that gays and lesbians had a right to marry.
There are actually a bunch of cases they could vote to take up, from Prop 8 to various DOMA challenges. Kennedy has written not one but two landmark opinions on gay rights so it's highly likely that he'll vote with the Court's liberals to form a majority if/when those issues finally land before them. In other words, how the Court will eventually rule is less of a mystery than whether they'll choose to intervene in this subject at all; Friday's vote on whether to grant cert and accept the cases is therefore momentous.
But wait. If you only need four votes to grant cert and if Kennedy's opinion that the Equal Protection Clause protects gay marriage is all but assured, then why don't the four liberals on the Court force the issue by voting to take the Prop 8 case? Answer: For the moment, it's bad strategy. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, February 2012:
At the time of Roe v. Wade, abortion was legal on request in four states, allowed under limited circumstances in about 16 others, and outlawed under nearly all circumstances in the other states, including Texas – where the Roe case originated.
Alluding to the persisting bitter debate over abortion, Ginsburg said the justices of that era could have delayed hearing any case like Roe while the state-by-state process evolved. Alternatively, she said, they could have struck down just the Texas law, which allowed abortions only to save a mother's life, without declaring a right to privacy that legalized the procedure nationwide.
"The court made a decision that made every abortion law in the country invalid, even the most liberal," Ginsburg said. "We'll never know whether I'm right or wrong … things might have turned out differently if the court had been more restrained."
"It's not that the judgment was wrong," she said of Roe, "but it moved too far too fast." Same logic here: If there's momentum for your side of the issue at the polls, why risk igniting a backlash by taking it out of voters' hands? The best thing gay-rights advocates can do to build popular acceptance of SSM is let it accrue democratic legitimacy. Some, in fact, have been warning Ted Olson and David Boies to knock it off with the court challenges for years in the interest of not judicially short-circuiting the process of public acceptance. If Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington had voted differently three weeks ago, those same advocates might have given up hope of winning at the polls and resigned themselves to court battles. Now, though, they know they can win — in some states. And the gay-rights supporters on the Court know it too. So maybe on Friday the conservative wing votes not to take the Prop 8 case because they suspect Kennedy will vote against them and maybe the liberal wing votes not to take the case because, following Ginsburg's logic, they don't want to taint SSM as something that was imposed by judicial fiat.
Two potential problems, though. First, the Ninth Circuit, which includes Idaho and Montana, has already ruled against Prop 8 and in favor of gay marriage, which means we're already seeing federal appellate courts hand down pro-SSM rulings to districts that presumably trend anti. It's true that the Ninth Circuit's decision was written narrowly, restricted to California presumably in hopes that that would leave the Supreme Court more inclined not to overturn it, but a federal district court in the Circuit's redder states might end up applying the case as precedent anyway. And even if they don't, some other appellate circuit is bound to force SCOTUS's hand eventually by issuing a more sweeping ruling on the subject. The Supremes can only hold back on this for so long before clarity from the top will be required. Second, at what point will "enough" democratic legitimacy accrue to SSM via victories at the polls before gay-rights advocates start pushing again for a constitutional ruling that will legalize it everywhere? Imagine if we end up with an even split among states, 25 apiece, with half banning gay marriage and half legalizing. A triumph of federalism! — except that, at that point, Olson and Boies or whoever's leading the charge will go back to the Court and claim that gay marriage is now widely accepted enough as a basic right that the 25 holdout states should be compelled under the Equal Protection Clause to legalize it too. In other words, the "democratic" strategy is really just a way of building up the legal case long-term for judicially imposed SSM. In that case, maybe SSM opponents should hope that the Court takes it up now. If Kennedy does as expected and sides with the liberals, traditionalists will at least have a new milestone of judicial usurpation to point to as a rallying point for political mobilization. Good lord, the politics of this are convoluted.
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1st Gear: Detroit Auto Show Has Best Opening Day In Five Years
The Detroit Auto Show opened with its strongest first day attendance in five years. "We are absolutely thrilled at today's turnout," said Bill Perkins, chairman, 2012 NAIAS, in a press release. "The week just keeps getting better and better, and we're so pleased to share all the excitement with so many people and families who joined us for opening day." Perkins said 92,106 people turned out for day one of the public show. Last year that number was only 86,622. Second day auto show attendance was even better — 102,918 attendees. Does this mean there's a resurgence in love of cars? No, it just means there's even less to do in Metro Detroit than ever before!
2nd Gear: Mercedes Gets In Trouble Over "Che" Guevara Image At CES
Daimler apologized Thursday for using an image of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara during a promotional presentation for Mercedes-Benz during a presentation by Dieter Zetsche, head of Mercedes, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday. It reproduced a famous Alberto Korda photo of Guevara, the Argentine communist who spearheaded the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power in Cuba. The photo became a symbol of communist revolutionary movements during the 1960s and '70s. But in place of the star that adorns Guevara's beret in the original, Mercedes affixed its corporate logo. Yeah, that's not just insensitive, it's stupid. But you know what? I actually think it was more insensitive that they used the image of the Statue of Liberty over to the left. The gal was French and Mercedes is German. Need I say more?
3rd Gear: Ford Still In Ranger Danger Over Death Of Compact Pickup Truck
The Detroit Free Press reminded us this weekend of the Ranger danger Ford's finding itself. Twice during the Detroit Auto Show press days, Ford executives were called to the carpet to defend their decision to kill the Ranger in the U.S. and Canada. Part of the reason the issue resurfaced is the same executives' buoyant predictions that a redesigned Ford Ranger for the rest of the world is going to be a great success. And this from an automaker that brags at every turn about how it has democratized more of its same cars across all markets. Read more about how Mark Fields and Jim Farley got into trouble here.
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Last week, Chrysler said it will expand its plant in Saltillo, Mexico, to assemble a Ram-branded version of the Fiat Ducato commercial van for North America. The revised Ducato will arrive in 2013. Anyone want to use Photoshop to take a stab at showing us what that might look like? I'll DM a Forza Motorsport 4 Jalopnik January Car Pack DLC code to the best results in the comments and then drop the winners into tomorrow's Morning Shift.
5th Gear: December North American Car Sales Were Pretty Awesome
So the last month of 2011 was pretty damn good in North America. Car and truck production in December rose 21% from a year earlier to 1,063,690 units, marking a record 26th straight year-over-year increase. The last time December output topped one million was 2006. Not too shabby. I mean, we're not China, but we'll do.
6th Gear: China Sales Grew A Weak-Ass 5% In 2011
And speaking of China, the number of cars sold in China doubled from 2008 to 2010 thanks to government tax incentives and subsidies to help out manufacturers. Now, it's hitting a bit of a roadblock with vehicle sales growing just 5% by volume in 2011, the slowest pace in a decade. That means foreign auto makers now will face two problems as they attempt to climb the mountain that is the largest nation on Earth: Not only are they less welcome in China, but they may soon have to deal with domestic rivals trying to export their surplus vehicles. Awesome. Got any Tang Hua? Nah, go Detroit Fish.
⏎ Marketers agree: Social media are a must. [Automotive News]
⏎ Camilo Pardo Hosts Designer's Party at his Bankle Building. [Curbed Detroit]
⏎ In many ways, this is the real Detroit motor show. [BBC]
⏎ Tesla Falls 19% After Executives Leave Before Electric Model S Debut. [Bloomberg]
⏎ Big-Dollar Estimates at Scottsdale. [New York Times]
⏎ Sergio gets a little advice on his little car. [Automotive News]
⏎ Lincoln faces different market. [Detroit Free Press]
⏎ A Buffet of Canny Tweaks in Hot Pursuit of Mileage. [New York Times]
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British Admiral Sir George Rodney, with 18 ships-of-the-line, engages an inferior Spanish squadron of 11 battleships commanded by Don Juan de Langara off the southwestern coast of Portugal at Cape St. Vincent, in what comes to be known as The Moonlight Battle. (Ships-of-the-line is the 18th century term for ships substantial enough to be used in a battle line, a tactic of war in which two lines of ships faced off against each other.) [History]
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It's a cool Sunday morning in the sandy scrub of North Florida, with dew still on the ground and the sun just getting up over the trees. It's 1847. Church is about to start, but it's nothing like what most of us would think of when we think of church today. There is no church building; there's only an arbor to shield the worshipers from the sun, a few crude benches, and a space at the front for the preacher. Moreover, the preacher arrives on his horse just before the service is to begin, because he does not live in the same community as his congregants. In fact, this is only one of half a dozen settlements he will visit in the course of a month.
This was the experience of worshipers who were ministered to by circuit riders, preachers who traveled from place to place offering religious services to settlers in far-flung corners of the Florida frontier. Sometimes called "saddlebag preachers," these ministers typically traveled on horseback or sometimes in a wagon if the roads permitted. The communities they served comprised a "circuit," sometimes with a permanent church headquarters in one of the larger towns. In the territorial and early statehood periods, with transportation difficult and communities spread far apart, circuit ministries were an efficient way of reaching the population. Circuit riding is particularly associated with the Methodist faith, although other denominations have used similar methods to reach their followers at various times.
The services at each station on the circuit might take place in a private home, a public building like the local courthouse, or under a "brush arbor," a humble and temporary shelter that could be erected and expanded quickly. Later, as many communities expanded and their families became more prosperous, permanent church buildings began replacing the temporary brush arbors of earlier years. Better roads also made it easier for families living far away from established churches to come into town to worship. Over time, the circuit rider began to disappear as ministers were appointed for individual churches.
The concept of open-air "camp meetings" and other religious services is still an attractive one for many, however, and modern versions still appear today. As a nod to the significance of this old Floridian tradition, several reenactments of a typical brush arbor church service have been performed at the annual Florida Folk Festival over the years.
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Within ten minutes of taking my seat by the bar at Hunk O'Mania, I was eye level with at least 15 different sets of pecs. Some were clad in the grey tank tops that belong to the waitstaff, working their way up to the main stage, and others in the black tanks that the dancers wear at this well-known New York male strip club. All of them seemed to be aware that I was a reporter. One of them introduced himself as Magnificent.
"What's your name?" asked pecs.
"Oh, that's my mother's name!"
Two of the dancers will say this to me before the show begins. Is that in a handbook? They also all do this thing where they take your hand and put it under their shirt to feel their six packs (at a certain point, I gain a Helen Keller-esque pec-Braille shorthand and am able to also discern some actual twelve packs). Also, most of them have weak handshakes. Intentional? Are these moves all from the handbook? Where is this handbook? Can I read it?
Another dancer informs me that an 82-year-old woman once drummed on his ass. (Get it, girl.)
Most of us are now familiar with the ups and downs of male stripping—drugs, sex, money, objectification, the camaraderie between dancers—artfully chronicled by Steven Soderbergh in "Magic Mike," but there are certain aural and olfactory cues you can't get from watching a movie. The pervasive smell of at least 25 different kinds of cologne, for example. (It took two showers the next day to wash it off of me.) At one point, I ask one of the dancers what he is wearing. He smiles. "Just, you know, a sensual smell."
One dancer, a James Deen lookalike, is a middle school teacher in Wayne, New Jersey by day. "Luckily, my kids are too young to come here," he adds, as if this isn't obvious.
"What did you teach them today?" I ask.
"Cell division."
The garrulous floor manager, with spiked hair and a body like a blazer-clad truck, comes over to introduce himself and offer a bottle of Champagne (I decline because I am Here For Work). He was a dancer at the club for eight years before he had a family and moved into the club administration. Soon, he declares, you might not have to stop at the ATM and break a 20 into singles before you attend Hunk'O'Mania—they plan on instituting in-house "Hunk Dollars," credit that one can apply to drinks and dances if one is so inclined.
Outside, a dancer named Mozart—his real name, he tells me—who was cut from tonight's show at the last minute, smokes a cigarette and works the door. He has dark eyes and slick black curls and looks, more or less, like a hybrid of a Ken doll and Aladdin.
Most of the men don't smoke, he tells me. It's not conducive to the insane amount of working out they have to do.
"So what are you expecting?" he asks me. "Something X-rated or something just raunchy?"
"I honestly have no idea."
"It's just fun, a little raunchy, nothing too serious. We really just try to give the women a good time."
Large groups of women, most of them dressed for clubbing and some obvious groups of bachelorettes, begin to fill out the rows of folding chairs. Meanwhile, the Hunk O'Mania dancers wait in the wings or in their dressing room, which they call their "castle." (As in "Yo, what are you doing back here? This is our castle." At which point this chastised reporter scurried back to her seat, drink in hand.)
On the way back to my chair, a dancer working the row of seated women casually ran his hand through my hair as I pass. I skip awkwardly back to my seat, flustered, and flag down one of the grey pecs.
"Yeahhhh, I'm gonna need that bottle."
The show begins an hour and a half later than it was billed to start, and every woman here is already shitfaced, including me. Their first routine is an exact copy of the "It's Raining Men" umbrella dance in "Magic Mike, albeit not as tightly choreographed. Immediately afterwards, as the women scream their approval, the announcer says into the mic, "And here's a little teaser for later."
Before I can get my bearings, the lights change, "Harlem Shake" comes on, and the whole tone of the room shifts into sex-club lite. Dancers lead women into barely-private corners of the room and—well, dry-hump them. There's really no other way to put it.
As a woman in the shadows directly in front of me grabs the ass of the dancer on top of her, I try not to look at them, but it seems impossible. I can feel myself turning bright red. Either my friend Mozart lied to me or my definition of "a little raunchy" is more like my mom's than I thought.
Some very helpful notes I took on the scene:
"grinding? Spanking? OMGGG whaaat"
A grey pec wanders around with electric blue Jell-O shots. Feeling way more like Charlotte York than I expected to, I notice that the couches are white. All things considered, is that really the best idea?
Half a bottle of Champagne later, the night has devolved into a semi-disorganized bacchanal, with a dancer holding a bachelorette upside down and effortlessly swinging her in the air like a baton. There is also an elaborate "Lion King" routine involving a lion head and not much else. That momentary baring of the dancers' muscular backsides (they turn their backs to us, pop their super-muscular butts out of their Speedos and pop them back in like pale, muscled woodland creatures) also becomes more frequent as the night wears on. (Easy $1s, I guess.)
At some point, about 15 routines and a few mixed drinks later, a shirtless Mozart slides over—really, as in he leads with his pelvis and, like, oozes over in a way that a different (or perhaps slightly drunker) woman might find appealing—and puts my hands on his lower back. Dollar bills wave out of his thong, a pervier version of flag football.
"So," he says. "How can you write about this without experiencing it?"
"Um," I stammer. "I don't have any cash."
Without missing a beat: "There's an ATM around the corner."
Something you should know if there's ever a male stripper gyrating between your legs and looking directly into your eyes—turning him down is kind of like having to tell Mrs. Henike from down the street that you don't have time to stop by for Snickerdoodles and milk after school. You really just don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.
"Sorry," I mumble, and he moves along, unfazed. The show ends, and I leave and go to Shake Shack.
The Verdict:
Subway ride: $2.50
Nervous pre-game drinks: $20
Ticket: $25 ($45 for VIP)
Experience: A grillion Hunk Dollars.
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Pamlico Community College was host to knights, tavern keepers and pirates Saturday as it hosted a Medieval and Renaissance Festival from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Pamlico Community College was host to knights, tavern keepers and pirates Saturday as it hosted a Medieval and Renaissance Festival from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
During the day, visitors were treated to mock battles, archery demonstrations, music and scenes from Shakespeare.
The event was organized by musical historian Simon Spaulding, whose husband and wife musical group, Tuppence, provided some of the day�s music.
Members of various Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) groups provided many of the demonstrations. The SCA is a national organization of re-enactors who portray people from about 900 AD to the Renaissance period. Among these was Laura Garcia � Katharine de la Vache when she is at an event � a member of the Ravencove group from Onslow County.
�I�m from 1377 England,� she said, going on to talk of her two �sons,� one away fighting a war and the other studying to be a cleric.
Her fictitious husband was a merchant who was never at the manor and her parents, sadly, had both died of a recent plague.
The Carteret-Craven group, known as the Shire of Cathanar, was represented by Kevin Smith who is a maker of long bows. It was longbowmen, he said, who delivered thousands of French into English hands at the Battle of Agincourt, he said, demonstrating the peculiar power of that English secret weapon of the Hundred Years� War.
The East Coast Pirate Crew is a group from Rocky Mount, a city whose relatively young age and inland location assures it of never having been a haunt of pirates. �Our mission is to tell how pirates really lived,� one member stated.
�For instance,� William Leonhardt, who was portraying a pirate captain for the day said, �no one ever walked the plank. That was an invention in Peter Pan.�
The New Bern Civic Theatre and John Grady and Friends provided several performances of short scenes from Shakespeare during the day while the event was concluded in the afternoon with period dance.


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