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According to a press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office, dated Sept. 28, 2012:
On 09-27-2012, approximately 2:45 p.m., Humboldt County Sheriff's Office received a call regarding a fight in progress in the area of Veterans Parks, the corner of Redwood Drive and Thomas Lane, Garberville. Two deputies responded to the scene arriving a few minutes later. Upon arriving at the scene a citizen pointed out a male walking northbound through the park, indicating he was the suspect causing the disturbance. Deputies saw the suspect, later identified as Justin Dalton Jones, 20 years old from Whittman, Arizona walking away from them quickly. Jones was yelling incoherently and walking into and across traffic on Redwood Drive, Garberville with no regard to traffic which had to stop suddenly to avoid hitting Jones. Deputies chased after Jones who walked onto a large concrete porch area of the Tiger Lily Bookstore, Redwood Drive, Garberville.
The deputies followed Jones into the patio area of the book store where they contacted him. Jones showed obvious signs of being under the influence of a controlled substance. Deputies attempted to calm Jones down, who was very agitated, was clenching his fists and was yelling unintelligibly words while pacing back and forth. When they thought they had calmed him down enough to take him into custody a deputy reached out and grabbed Jones' arm attempting to arrest him for being under the influence. Jones immediately pulled his arm away and began flailing both his arms, and charged the second deputy. The second deputy deployed a Taser on Jones, but the Taser had no effect. Jones continued to charge the second deputy and attacked him. Jones attempted to grab and pull the Taser away from the second deputy. Jones was tackled by the first deputy and both deputies and Jones went to the ground. They again attempted to Taser Jones, which still did not work. Deputies were finally able to place one handcuff on Jones who continued to fight with them. Jones then turned onto his back and grabbed one of the deputies in a bear hug fashion. Jones, who was wearing heavy boots, was kicking the other deputy in the chest and face. The citizen who initially pointed out Jones as the one causing the disturbance came to the deputy's aid by holding Jones feet. This allowed the deputy not being held in a bear hug to access his portable radio and call for emergency backup. Another citizen also came to the deputies' aid, and grabbed Jones around the neck in a choke hold fashion.
Jones girlfriend, Marie Burkhart, 21 years old from Costa Mesa , California, who was nearby watching came to Jones aid and started attacking the citizen who was holding Jones by the neck, trying to get him to let go of the one deputy. With assistance of the two citizens, the deputies were finally able to handcuff Jones. Four California Highway Patrol Cars arrived on scene about this time to assist. Burkhart was then arrested by one of the deputies with the assistance of a California Highway Patrol Officer for interfering with a police officer and being under influence of a controlled substance. She also resisted arrest when they attempted to take her into custody.
Meantime a crowd of nearly 40 people had gathered to watch what was occurring, and one subject in the crowd, identified as Robert Dale Irwin, 24 years old from San Jose, Ca. was taken into custody the California Highway Patrol on scene for attempting incite a riot and obstructing a police officer.
Both deputies received abrasions from the fight, but did not require medical treatment. Jones was transported to Redwood Memorial Hospital where he was medically cleared and treated for a small cut. He was then transported and booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility for assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest and being under the influence of a controlled substance. Jones admitted to ingesting LSD and told the deputies Burkhart also ingested LSD. Jones bail was set at $25,000.00. Burkhart was also booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility. She was released on her own recognizance.
Anyone with information for the Sheriffs Office regarding this case or related criminal activity is encouraged to call the Sheriffs Office at 707-445-7251 or the Sheriffs Office Crime Tip line at 707-268-2539.
Tune in to the Friday, Sept. 28, 2012 edition of the KMUD Local News at 6 pm for more information on this incident.
The photo to the left shows an injured Deputy and to the right shows suspect, Justin Dalton Jones.
The photos below show suspects Marie Burkhart on the left and Robert Dale Irwin on the right.


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After selling 4 million iPhone 4S units over its launch weekend Apple has moved the new phone to a reservation status at its stores.
Users can go to the "how to buy" page, reserve a phone after 9 p.m., and pick it up the next day at a store. Supplies are, reportedly, evaporating for walk-in stores.
Most likely it's a pure-play customer satisfaction move, guaranteeing a phone with a guaranteed reservation reduces frustration. If there are more than are reserved, walk-ins will likely still score a new phone.
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The green 1999 Honda Civic that police believe was the get-away vehicle used by the Tsarnaev brothers after the slaying of MIT Police Officer Sean Collier, is shown during the recent re-enactment of the crime by police.
BOSTON -- A 1999 green Honda Civic registered to the father of the alleged Boston Marathon bombers is emerging as a potential key piece of evidence in the investigation into the brutal April 18 murder of MIT police officer Sean Collier, law enforcement officials say.
Collier, 26, was shot multiple times in the head while sitting in his parked patrol car at about 10:30 p.m. that night, just 30 minutes before the end of his shift, police say. The next morning authorities said that 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan, committed the murder.
But there are no known witnesses to the shooting and so far, prosecutors at the Middlesex District Attorney's office, which has jurisdiction over the crime, have yet to bring charges in Collier's killing.
In recent days, police appear to be using the bullet-riddled Honda to try to build a murder case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Last week police towed the car -- recovered hours after the murder on the same street in Watertown where the Tsarnaev brothers allegedly engaged police in a bloody shootout and where Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed -- to Cambridge and then staged a re-enactment at the scene of the Collier murder, law enforcement officials tell NBC News.
One source who participated in the re-enactment said police drove the car to a spot near where Collier's body and squad car were found on an off-street plaza. They also drove it around a block of the MIT campus three times – raising the possibility, according to the source, that they could be trying to match the vehicle to surveillance camera footage from the night of the killing.
Newtown resident Mike Doucette speaks with NBC's Michael Isikoff about the violent shootout that occurred outside his Watertown, Mass., home, allegedly between authorities and the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.
It is unclear at this stage of the investigation whether authorities have recovered evidence linking a 9 mm Ruger handgun recovered at the scene of the Watertown shootout to Collier's murder, or whether they can prove who fired the weapon. That means placing the green Honda at the murder scene could prove crucial if prosecutors decide to charge Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with killing Collier.
Massachusetts motor vehicle records show that car was purchased on Aug. 29, 2010, and registered the next day to Anzor Tsarnaev, father of the two brothers, at the same Cambridge address where the Tsarnaev family lived. Anzor Tsarnaev, who ran a car mechanic business, later left the U.S. and now lives in Russia. (There has been no suggestion he was in any way involved in the events in Boston last month.
Several accounts have emerged since the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings, which authorities say were carried out by the Tsarnaev brothers, linking Dzhokhar to the Honda.
Gilberto Junior, who runs a Cambridge auto body shop two blocks from the Tsarnaev home, told NBC News that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev came by his store just a few weeks before the bombing, driving the green Honda.
Related: Boston carjack victim on narrow escape: 'God was with me'
New information about the role of Honda in the events that night, including being used to transport explosives, has also come in recent days from a Chinese national known as Danny, whose black Mercedes SUV allegedly was car-jacked by the Tsarnaevs in Cambridge shortly after the Collier murder.
Danny, who has asked that his real name not be used, said he has been questioned repeatedly by the FBI and local police. Portions of his account were cited in an FBI affidavit filed along with a federal criminal complaint last week charging Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with the Boston Marathon bombings.
In an interview with TODAY's Matt Lauer, Danny said Tuesday that Tamerlan Tsarnaev approached his parked car that night and, thinking that the stranger was asking directions, he rolled down his window.
Tsarnaev then reached through the window, opened the door, got in and demanded money, aiming a gun "right at my head," he said. He also asked Danny if he had heard about the Boston "explosion," according to his account, adding, "I did that and I just killed a police officer in Cambridge."
A man known as Danny, who was held captive in his own car by the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, tells TODAY's Matt Lauer he doesn't know why the pair didn't kill him and describes what he thought about to get him through the ordeal.
Danny said Tamerlan Tsarnaev ordered him to drive around the area, looking for an ATM machine, while another car followed them. Danny said the car following them was a "very light-color" Honda.
At one point, Danny recounted, Tamarlan Tsarnaev had him pull over on a street in Watertown, where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev got out of the Honda, transferred bags of material to the trunk of his Mercedes and then got in the backseat of the SUV. The Honda was left on a street in Watertown, he said.
The three men — with Tamarlan Tsarnaev now driving, Danny in the passenger seat and Dzhokhar in the back -- then drove back toward Cambridge. With the Mercedes running low on gas, Danny said, Tamerlan Tsarnaev pulled into a gas station that took cash only. When Tamerlan unlocked the doors to the car, Danny said he quickly unfastened his seatbelt and fled across the street to a Mobil station, where he immediately called 911.
Police were able to track the Mercedes using the car's GPS system and soon located the two brothers in Watertown, where they believe they may have planned to ditch the Mercedes – unload their explosives—and get back in their Honda to attempt their escape.
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5 Apps For The Lightweight Music Fan
By Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm.
For the type of music fan who grew up playing music, haunting record stores, hosting college radio shows, experimenting with file sharing, and then ultimately discovering the wide world of music apps, there has never been a better time to be a music fan.
We have more ways to discover music — and better ways to fulfill our obsessions with what we discover — than the music fans of any other era ever had (collecting that music is a different story).
The world is our oyster, and we hardcore music fans are the insatiable walrus.
This level of fandom is not for everyone, however. Some people don't obsess about new artists, old favorite albums, the latest reviews, and so on, for whatever reason. They might not even have a list of desert island discs, a favorite jam of the week – or even (gasp) a favorite band!
If, like gymnast McKayla Maroney and president Barack Obama pictured above, you're not too impressed by music (although the latter is a verified music fan), have no fear — the below apps are here to help. They don't even require you to pick an artist to just start some music playing already.
Disclaimer: These apps might also make sense for people who really like music, but just can't be bothered to pick some at the moment. However, they're just about perfect for those whose relationship with vibrating air is less than all consuming.
1. Songza
"I just like something I can dance to." "I like upbeat stuff for jogging." "Whatever my friends are into."
If this is how you approach music, Songza is perfect for you. The site — also available in app form — assembles handmade playlists from a large user base, and then filters them into useful categories. First, you pick the time (usually whatever time it currently is where you are), and then choose from a number of options like "working to a beat" or "keeping calm and mellow." In no time, you'll be listening to something that fits your parameters, even if you didn't read every article on Pitchfork this week.
2. Stereomood
Along the lines of Songza, Stereomood puts a simple, non-musical front end on the tens of millions of songs that we all have access to at just about any time. As the name suggests, you get a bunch of playlists sorted by mood — "in love," "sunny day," "sleepy," and so on. For added variety, you can sort these by Featured, Hot This Week, Popular, or Casual Vibes. Once you pick a playlist and find a song, you can continue your explorations by clicking one of the tags people have added to the song, checking out similar artists, or similar moods — or even people who are in a similar mood to yours.
3. Moodsnap
Billed as the "world's first image-based streaming music app," MoodSnap for iOS presents the world of music as a series of images. The one with the hand resting on a book in the sun is for reading; the one of the person waking up in bed is for the morning; the one with the couple appearing in close proximity in a relative state of undress is for, well, you get the idea. That's it, quite literally — you can't search by artist, genre, or anything else — just by image. However, each playlist is collaborative, so you can add your suggestions to any of the lists.
There is a catch; Moodsnap requires Spotify Premium, like all other Spotify iOS apps, so you have to like music enough to pay $10 a month for it.
4. YouTube
The above services are all for streaming radio. However, even people who aren't serious music fans know what they want to listen to. For these people, who would never consider dropping the cost of 2.5 lattes per month ($10) for instant access to most of the world's recorded music, a free option exists for on-demand: YouTube. It can compete with any on-demand subscription service in terms of catalog — actually, it's better in that regard, because it has subscription music holdouts like The Beatles and Thom Yorke's Atoms for Peace.
Yes, YouTube is a bit kluge-y for collecting music into playlists, but such a thing is possible. The biggest drawback to using it as an on-demand music service: If you turn your phone's screen off, the song stops. Also, if you want the best audio quality, you might have to increase the video quality.
5. Twitter #Music
Twitter #Music, the music app everyone loves to make a big deal out of, attack, analyze, learn from, and/or defend, offers a unique window into, well, the music on Twitter. It can be a powerful tool for the serious music fan — but for the person who doesn't really like music that much, it has much to offer, including a quick way to hear the superstars of the moment. And if you have the free desktop version of Spotify, you can run the whole thing there, so all the tracks play in full, for free.
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Can You Change the Taste of Your 'Sexual Mustard' by Eating Different Foods? — Ask Dr. Harry Fisch
Is it true that you can change the taste of your semen by eating different foods? My girlfriend complains that I don't taste good. -- Russell, 31, Lubbock, Texas
Semen normally tastes fairly sweet because it contains a sugar, fructose, that helps power sperm. But the flavor of semen can be affected by what a man eats or smokes.
If semen has a bitter flavor or strong odor, it could be because the guy is a smoker (of either cigarettes or marijuana), or because he's been drinking a lot of coffee or alcohol. It's also true that certain foods, such as asparagus and garlic, can give semen an off-flavor because they contain high levels of certain enzymes or elements. Semen might also taste bad if you have a low-grade urinary tract infection.
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While recognizing the limits of electoral politics, the movement has ousted two prosecutors–Anita Alvarez and Tim McGinty–and has more in its sights MORE
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Lipscomb University's Kelsey Cartwright earned the Softball Player of the Week honors from the Tennessee Sports Writers Association for her performances from March 3-9.
Kristen Sturdivant was named player of the week in the Atlantic Sun by College Sports Madness for her statistics during the same period.
Cartwright also received Atlantic Sun Conference Player of the Week honors for her performance during the same period.
Cartwright batted .500 (9-for-18) in five games for the Bisons, collecting six RBIs and four extra-base hits with a pair of home runs. The Joelton, Tenn., native went 3-for-4 with a triple, one run scored and two RBIs in the second game of a doubleheader against Ohio University.
She was 5-for-11 in a three-game series versus Florida Gulf Coast, including a solo homer in the first game of the series. Cartwright posted three hits with a double and home run and drove in three runs on the contest.
For the season she is batting .351 with three doubles, five homers, one triple and 20 RBI in 25 games. She leads the team with a .610 slugging percentage.
College Sports Madness named Sturdivant for her exceptional performance during the past week's action. College Sports Madness identifies the players who have made the greatest impact to their team from each conference and on a national basis each week.
Sturdivant's big hit of the week was a two-run home run in the sixth March 5 against Ohio University that proved to be a game-winner in a 2-1 decision.
For the season Sturdivant is batting .288. She leads the team in home runs with six and in RBI with 28. She also had four doubles. She is second on the team with a .589 slugging percentage.
The Purple and Gold will welcome Jacksonville University to Draper Diamond at Smith Stadium in a three-game series this Saturday and Sunday. A doubleheader is scheduled for Saturday at 1 p.m. Sunday's single game is at noon.


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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Whiskey Wednesday: Whiskey Ethics - The Freebie Game
Is this a problem? Well, the reviewers will tell you that it is most definitively not. They say that these freebies have absolutely no impact on their reviews. For the most part, I believe them. The big name reviewers in the industry strive for honesty. I can't imagine most of them purposefully bending scores so as not to offend those who provide their whiskey, but is there a subconscious tug on them when they review free whiskey? Most politicians will tell you, with just as much righteous indignation, that campaign contributions have no impact on their votes, but we don't seem so quick to give them the benefit of the doubt.
There are a number of arguments in favor of free whiskey for reviewers, many of which make some sense. First, the most prominent whiskey reviewers have a symbiotic relationship to the whiskey companies. The companies need them to review their whiskey as much as the reviewers need samples. This produces a balance of power that allows reviewers to review honestly without fearing that the companies will turn off the spigot of free whiskey. While this may be true for the biggest names in whiskey journalism, it certainly is not for the smaller players and bloggers, many of whom get the freebies as well. And even if this theory is true, does that make it ethical? Again, I analogize to food critics, the best of whom enjoy a similar symbiosis. A Manhattan restaurant could not afford to spurn the New York Times, but it would still raise enormous ethical questions if the Times critic accepted free meals.
Second, one could argue that whiskey samples are no different than the pre-publication editions of books or pre-release films that are sent to critics for review. Unlike a restaurant meal, those things can't be changed to suit the critics; it is what it is. But it seems as though whiskey may lie somewhere in between the restaurant meal and the pre-release novel. In a recent blog posting, John Hansell raised the issue of critics reviewing samples before they were completed for bottling, and there was at least one example of a company making changes to a whiskey after John tasted it (to John's great dismay). Along those lines, I've often wondered if reviewers sometimes get special, choice samples for review, particularly of single barrel offerings that can vary quite a bit from batch to batch. In the comments section of Hansell's post, Serge Valentin of WhiskyFun notes that he has received samples at higher abvs than the standard bottling, which is pretty scandalous. If critics aren't basing their reviews on the same whiskey available to consumers, that presents a huge issue not just of ethics but of the value of the reviews in general.
The third argument in favor of freebies is that it benefits us as whiskey consumers. It helps us to have professionals reviewing a wide range of whiskey, and most of them just couldn't do it if they had to pay for it all themselves. This very practical explanation is probably the strongest argument for freebies. I want to hear reviews of a wide range of whiskeys including those so expensive I would never even be able to dream of owning them. But does that negate any potential ethical issues around industry freebies?
Many bloggers disclose when they review free samples (which is legally required in the US), but is this enough? I appreciate knowing when someone reviews a free sample, but the practice is so widespread that I assume that nearly all major reviewers receive everything they sample for free.
I'm a minor blogger, so I don't bathe in the bath of free whiskey. I have received a small number of free whiskeys in the past (really small, like two or three), but I haven't reviewed them on the blog.
So what say you dear readers? Is it appropriate that the gears of whiskey journalism are greased with free samples? Is this a massive industry-wide ethical lapse, a necessary evil or simply the way business is done and not something that we should worry about? Would any major reviewer dare to say that they would no longer accept free samples? Should they?
22 comments:
- Greg said...
Sku - take a guess at what I think! :) I too poked a little at industry reviewers and while you were more diplomatic in your approach to the question, I think it's still a very valid observation. You know the blind tasting that's going on right now so my impression is that someone who put's up their hard earned money to purchase a whiskey, sample it and write about it has not loyalty to anything but their own palate. I would argue as hard as a industry reviewer might argue that there's no influence, I question that going to the point you made at the top of your post. As you've seen, 12 guys blind tasting a bourbon produces a much more realistic impression of the whiskey than a single reviewer tasting a free sample.
- April 19, 2011 at 6:47 PM
- sku said...
Thanks for your comments Greg. I definitely had your EWSB tasting in mind as I was writing this (and it may have been your theory that some reviewers get the honey of the honey single barrels). I'll probably do a more detailed write up of the tasting in a few weeks as well.
- April 19, 2011 at 7:29 PM
- Steffen said...
Paid trips to release events and paid trips to distilleries makes me very suspicious about reviews and opinions from whiskyjournalists
Especially when they praise products like it's the new god of the whiskyworld
- April 19, 2011 at 10:18 PM
- Chuck Cowdery said...
All a critic has is his or her credibility. Anyone who risks that for two free nights at the Frankfort Hampton Inn is an idiot and will be found out soon enough. Writing about whiskey, especially American whiskey, is just not a viable activity without the industry-provided samples and trips. The restaurant critic example is a poor one or, more to the point, a loaded one because it's the exception, not the rule. Paying for a few meals is pretty cheap integrity. The enthusiast magazines themselves are no different as they depend on the industry for advertising revenue. It comes down to the personal integrity of the individual and that is a very valid question. but it's not healthy for hobbyists to take cheap shots at professionals, smearing them with innuendo. In the hands of a credible commentator, samples and trips, and the access they represent, are good for the reader.
- April 20, 2011 at 10:56 AM
- sku said...
Thanks for your comments Chuck. I'm certainly not above the occasional cheap shot, but I'm not sure what you're referring to here. I thought the issue was worth raising so I raised it. The arguments I made defending free samples were not intended as straw man arguments. Indeed, I find several of them fairly convincing, but I still think the discussion is worthwhile, and it's not a bad thing to raise questions about these practices, even if they have benefits. And keep in mind, it's not only professional journalists who receive free samples, but lowly hobbyist bloggers as well.
- April 20, 2011 at 1:24 PM
- Jason Pyle said...
Sku, I think this is a great topic. Greg wrote a nice post also recently as he's noted. My response resulted in a 4900 character diatribe that exceeded Greg's posting limit. : ) I ended up emailing it to him directly so we could discuss, which we did. I'm rarely brief, but I'll try to be as brief as possible. I'm a "little guy" in the whiskey blogging world as you very well know, but I do a lot of reviewing and rating. So I thought I might just share my thoughts.
I buy 90+% of my review subjects with my own money. And I do it primarily because I love whiskey and I think I have a pretty darn good palate (pardon horn tooting). I couldn't even tell you how many reviews I've actually posted, much less the additional ones I do, but it's a reasonably high number. I'd venture to say 3-4 are from samples supplied by a distiller. Most recently I did a review that came from a sample. I rated it highly, it was fantastic, but not because it was a sample, but because it was just really great stuff.
But how do you know that I didn't rate it well because it was simply a sample? As I told Greg, I don't think you can know for sure. That's the million dollar question right there. However, what someone can do is check out what a reviewer does on a consistent basis. Have you tried something they reviewed highly and were rewarded with a good whiskey? Has this happened consistently? Are the "offs" few and far between? Did you agree with their assessment of whiskey you had tried before? Did you learn something about a whiskey or a distillery or a category? By watching a review did a noted aroma or flavor, that previously eluded you, resonate once it was mentioned. This is stuff that happens over time and builds trust.
I view these kinds of things as the only link I have to any sort of credibility with a visitor. Sure, perhaps here and there a visitor and I don't agree on a whiskey. It happens, it's a subjective topic (which is why Greg is correct - you know what you like better than anyone). The only way to really get a feel for a reviewer is through time and assessing them. I can't speak for the "big boys", but I just can't see how it's worth ruining credibility of the people that keep you in existence for a sample bottle of whiskey that's here this fall and next days news tomorrow. That isn't to say it's not happening.
And I also fail at "brief". Cheers!
- April 20, 2011 at 3:32 PM
- sku said...
Thanks for your always thoughtful comments Jason. I really don't think people intentionally alter reviews based on freebies. I worry more about a subtle, subconscious impact that goes not just into the content of a review but into the choice of whether or not to review.
It's probably even more relevant for us bloggers (damn hobbyists!) than for the professionals who get tons of samples and upon whom the industry depends for reviews.
- April 20, 2011 at 4:39 PM
I can see both sides of the issue. If the reviewer doesn't accept samples, much less whiskey will be reviewed and less information will be available to the public. If they allow their review to be swayed by the influence, no matter how unintentionally, no one comes out ahead.
I think the restaurant reviewer analogy holds up...a couple of meals a week in a large city can add up quickly, much like a couple of bottles of whiskey could.
Trips are a different story. They are essentially paid vacations that have more power to influence the reviewer while in the jaws of the distillery's PR department. Again, not necessarily bad, but with more potential to affect the outcome.
John Hansell, in a contentious blog post last year, announced that he'd no longer accept paid trips on behalf of distilleries. Still the only one I'm aware of who is this sensitive to the issue.
Me, I'd LOVE some free whiskey!
- April 20, 2011 at 8:40 PM
- Chuck Cowdery said...
You, Sku, and many others here are painting with a very broad brush and making an unhealthy distinction between 'big guys' and 'little guys' which is not really valid in the sense that there is very little actual difference. There is a difference between people who do it casually, as a hobby, and who therefore don't have very much at stake, and people who are trying to do it for a living.
I can assure you that everyone who tries to make a living at it struggles to do so. Whiskey writing is not a cushy job despite certain definite perks.
You also should concede that the 'problem,' such as it is, is entirely theoretical. There have been no allegations of actual conflicts of interests. I have never heard of the credibility or integrity of any significant whiskey writer being questioned.
Rather than discussing a potential problem where none actually exists, I'd rather discuss whiskey.
- April 20, 2011 at 10:38 PM
- Chuck Cowdery said...
Camper English has some interesting takes on this. The comments following are also interesting.
- April 20, 2011 at 10:39 PM
- Chuck Cowdery said...
And I regularly get accused of bias and unfairness from all sides, so I must be doing something right.
- April 20, 2011 at 10:44 PM
- sku said...
Chuck, I fully admit that the line between journalists and hobbyists, which you alluded to in your first post, gets blurry, but there are lines. There are people who are professional journalists and who write entirely in a commercial context (Jim Murray, John Hansell) and others who have no financial interest whatsoever in their whiskey writing (your truly). That being said, there are many people in between and there are high profile bloggers who have great influence without any financial or commercial interest.
I hope you're not taking this personally. I absolutely understand that whiskey writing is a thankless task, and I'm grateful for people like you who do it anyway. I wouldn't know squat about whiskey if I hadn't been tutored by you and people like you who take the time to write intelligently about whiskey.
As a blogger, this is an issue I think a lot about. Can we maintain our inegrity if we accept samples? Clearly, as Sam indicates above, others have thought about it as well, since John Hansell instituted a policy of no longer accepting distillery sponsored trips.
You're absolutely right that no one is being accused of any conflict. I had no intention of accusing anyone of anything. There is no one I'm secretly thinking of or trying to allude to who I think takes samples and alters his or her scores accordingly. That wasn't the point of the post.
I do think that this is an interesting question of journalistic ethics, and I think the intriguing comments by you and others show that it's something that whiskey writers are actively thinking about. And hey, if you can't engage in some philosophizing and navel gazing on a blog, then where can you?
- April 20, 2011 at 11:10 PM
Hi Steve et al., I think any kind of bias shows sooner or later. Also that there are many different kinds of bloggers and journalists (some being both) with different kinds of motivations that, in turn, translate into several kinds of codes of ethics. To each his own.
You can do a lot of things with a blog. Have fun, show off, try to find a job, do some PR, seek pocket money, advertise, drink for free... or just nothing.
In the end of the day, it all shows and it's all very fine.
Santé to all!
- April 21, 2011 at 1:57 AM
- Steffen said...
If a whisky is great, I reckon you will have to review it as great if you got it free :-)
I get suspicious when I see reviews or remarks about a whisky that are very positive and the reviewer are on paid trips and visits. Combined with trusted reviews from friends who says the products are crap. It doesnt take long to find out who are sources to trust and who are not. This will always be a personal thing who I like, but I actually think most bloggers and online reviewers are doing a great job
- April 21, 2011 at 2:12 AM
- Chuck Cowdery said...
"Can we maintain our inegrity if we accept samples?"
The question is not whether or not samples actually corrupt. A person whose integrity can be bought for the price of a bottle of whiskey has no integrity to begin with. The issue is whether or not accepting samples and other gratuities creates the appearance of a conflict and thus harms the perception of the writer by readers.
Having integrity is a matter of the individual's values, not of the temptations to which he or she is exposed. If you have integrity, the freebies are irrelevant. If you don't, you don't. The freebies have little to do with it either way. That's why I consider this a non-issue.
I accept samples, trips, and just about anything else anyone wants to give me, for which I promise absolutely nothing.
Most of the people who do this have the same policy I do. Let's exclude, without prejudice, people who aren't offered freebies. I know of very few people who refuse them and very few publications or other outlets that require their writers to refuse them, because I know of very few publications that will buy your whiskey and pay for your trips for you.
The Wall Street Journal is one that does. I can't name another.
As for John Hansell, he made the point that his decision was a personal one. The magazine he publishes has no policy regarding its writers accepting stuff. It doesn't pay travel or other expenses for its freelance contributors. He still accepts advance release samples.
I have never had a marketer or producer propose or even imply a quid pro quo. I've never had a marketer or producer cut me off or threaten to do so because I wasn't friendly enough. That's not how it works. They hope the freebies will get your attention. They hope that if you invest a couple days on a trip you'll try to get some value from it by writing something publishable. That's how it works.
On this subject I'm always reminded of what House Speaker Sam Rayburn said to Lyndon Johnson on the occasion of Johnson's election to the United States Senate. "Son, if you can't take their money, drink their whiskey, fuck their women, and still vote against them, then you have no business in the United States Senate."
- April 21, 2011 at 1:47 PM
- sku said...
Chuck, I thought I recalled you writing that you once were sent a several hundred dollar gift card from a distillery, and that you didn't keep the money (I think you said you gave it to charity). Clearly, if I'm remembering correctly, you are drawing lines here to. What was it about that gift that you thought went too far to the extent that you didn't feel like you could just pocket it?
- April 21, 2011 at 2:50 PM
- Greg said...
Steve, I'll be provocative yet again. What makes any industry reviewers palate any better than say yours, mine or Jasons? I would argue, it doesn't. Let me pick on John since he's very visible in the whiskey world. I've argued, as Jason pointed out, my palate tells me more than any reviewer will. Does John enjoy the same flavor components in a whiskey that I do? Maybe, maybe not. I'm posting on my own blog reviews done by a bunch of whiskey nerbs tasting in the blind. No other input expect the whiskey itself. It's not free, they had to pay for it and they have no idea what it is, not the distillery, age, mashbill or proof. I would say that a review done by John is less compelling than a review done by a group of folks tasting in the blind. By removing all external influence (freebie and label), the only thing you have left of what your palate tells you.
I'll add one final note and I hesitated adding it since I can't reveal the details. An industry reviewer was sent two samples to try and they were blind. The reviewer gave one sample high marks and the other low marks. This was done privately between the reviewer and the whiskey provider. Problem was, the two samples contained the same whiskey.
- April 21, 2011 at 7:03 PM
- Chuck Cowdery said...
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- April 21, 2011 at 8:22 PM
- Chuck Cowdery said...
Yes, I gave the $200 Visa gift card to charity and told the distillery not to do that again. They apologized and said it was done by mistake. The difference? The samples and trips help me do my job. The cash was a straight-up gift. Even though there was no quid pro quo you know there will be eventually. It's a problem that can be solved with common sense. No one needs to get on a high horse about it.
- April 21, 2011 at 8:25 PM
I love the smell of whiskey in the morning!!
I really don't take issue with folks getting free whiskey, trips or bourbon balls but I do struggle with why the top 2-3 whiskey reviewers don't do double blind tastings (as far as I know)?? This has always baffled me as double blind tastings would remove any question of bias in my mind. So what is the downside of double blind reviews?? I hear a lot of hemming and hawing when I ask the question of folks but have yet to get an answer that holds water..IMO
While I don't think any reviewer feels they are biased I sense they are, just like the rest of us. I tend to question the quality of a non - blind review when a financial interest exists between the whiskey producer and the reviewer. How many bad reviews can a reviewer toss out before the information stream from the producers begins to dry up? How many bad reviews have we actually seen from reviewers...? I sense most of them just don't get published...JMO however.
Taking a quick look at one of the major reviewer's ratings for American Whiskey one would find the following...
180 Reviews
13% rated 95+ Classic
36% rated 90+ Outstanding
25% rated 85+ Very Good
17% rated 80+ Good
8% rated 70+ Average
1% rated 60+ Below Average
One American whiskey out of 180 reviewed was rated below average. From my perspective I find it hard to believe that 49%, 89 whiskeys rated outstanding or better and 74% rated very good or better. Please note that this was just a quick observation, not a scientific study.
As a quick comparison a group of "hobbyists" I know of have tasted 38 whiskies, many of which appeared on the above professional reviewers list, and came to the following ratings-
95+ Classic 0%
90+ Outstanding 2%
85+ Very Good 39%
80+ Average 42%
70+ Fair - Poor 17%
So what is up here... the hobbyists don't know classic and outstanding whiskey when it hits them in the face?? Do the professionals skew the scores higher, cherry pick whiskey and just flat out toss out poor reviews?
I feel the real "professionals" provide tremendous value to those of us who are passionate about whiskey by providing information and education. On the other hand I have little faith in their ratings. All this talk about integrity and lack of bias is just talk....they know how to take the bias out... the question is why the reluctance to do it?
- April 23, 2011 at 11:26 AM
When you buy a new car, do you read consumer reports or the hundreds of other magazines that are supplied by the manufactures?
- April 29, 2011 at 1:38 PM
Recently came upon the issue yet again myself.
You've established your voice and your conviction. All the free whiskey can't change that. And any coverage of gratis booze will be done with your tried and true opinion. So I say: why not? Also I say: after 2 servings, offer freebies as give-aways to those more needy of free EtOH.
fussychicken: when I buy a new car, I test drive said car by myself. No one's letting me "test drive" Buffalo Trace single cask.
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To punch holes through the casing and concrete, and into the shale formation, a perf gun using multiple shaped charges is lowered and fired electrically. This operation, known as the wireline, begins at the toe and is done in increments of about 500 feet. Now the fun begins.
If you've had the opportunity to drive a car made before 1930, you know how much force it takes to apply the brakes, given the lever-and-cable system used to force the brake shoe against the drum. The hydraulic brake allowed the automobile operator to do what seems quite anti-intuitive. By stepping on the pedal attached to a lever that pushes a plunger, hundreds of pounds per square inch of pressure are produced in the hydraulic cylinder containing brake fluid. As if by magic this pressure is conveyed to each of the wheel cylinders, thereby "applying the brakes" with little strain on the driver.
Hydraulic fracturing uses the same principle, though in this case the brake pedal is a group of large-capacity, high-pressure, diesel-powered pumps. The brake fluid is akin to one million gallons of water treated with certain chemicals and sufficient proppants — usually sand or spherical ceramic materials — used to prop open perforations formed in the shale by the perf gun and enlarged by hydraulic fracturing. The "brake cylinders" are the fissures in the shale where the pumps transfer tremendous pressure, widening the cracks so gas can flow into the production casing.
After one section is fraced, workers plug it so hydraulic pressure can be concentrated in the next section. The process begins at the toe and moves toward the heel. The last step is to remove all plugs so that the remaining fracing fluid flows out. Crews install a six-foot Christmas tree, as the valves and blow-out protectors are called, something of an icon to all the ingenuity and effort that has taken place more than a mile below the surface. The well is now ready to produce clean, abundant energy without which our civilization would soon slide back into the days of human hardship and misery, with lives that are short and brutal.
The Shale Gas "Plays"
You may have noticed that the natural-gas drilling and production industry has its share of special expressions, such as fracing, proppants, and wireline. Another word for what most of us would call fields (as in "oil fields") is the play.
The first natural gas play was the Barnett Shale in north central Texas, where drilling began in 1981. Sixteen years of experimenting with the hydraulic fracturing process resulted in 404 minimally producing wells. As fracing was perfected and teamed with horizontal drilling in 2003, new wells were added by the thousands. Today, the Barnett Shale boasts about 13,000 producing wells.
The Bakken/Spanish/Three Forks Play located in Montana, North Dakota, and Saskatchewan (shown on the EIA map on page 12 as the Williston Basin) is currently the most active. Tiny Eagle Ford Play in south Texas along the Rio Grande runs a close second due to higher natural porosity than other formations. The huge Marcellus Play in the northeastern United States is third, but is a relatively untapped resource due to the unwillingness of the New York state government to allow its citizens to participate in selling what is unquestionably their property. Rounding out the top four is the Haynesville/Bossier/Cotton Valley Play in northwest Louisiana and east Texas.
Working in the Plays
The Fayetteville Play is a relatively small but active field supporting a booming shale industry in northern Arkansas. Andy and Brook Burton, co-owners of Trident Well Services, recently hosted TNA on a tour of several of its active drilling sites. Walking one of the sites, Andy Burton pointed out the 40 mil polyethylene sheet covering the active drilling area used to prevent any fluids leaking into the ground. It guides any spills or overflows to the cellar where they are contained until being pumped out and recycled. He noted the knee-high berms that keep liquids on the site in the event of accidental spills. Burton's company is primarily responsible for ensuring that trucks and the drilling rig itself are cleaned before moving to a new location and that the site will meet the white glove test of the most rabid environmentalist when moved into the production phase.
The crews go about their 12-hour workdays with military precision. Regular interactive safety meetings, protective gear, and computer-controlled drilling that gives advance warning before high-pressure venting have lowered the accident rate until oil and gas field work is no longer considered a form of industrial suicide. "Three or four years ago the emphasis was entirely on production," says Burton, "but today safety and environment concerns determine whether you maintain your MSA." His reference is to the coveted Master Service Agreement necessary for eligibility to work for major companies such as Southwest Energy and Chesapeake.
The Future of Fracing
Today, the Natural Gas Association estimates that 90 percent of wells drilled today use fracing as a means to increase production. This technology has, in about four years, changed the natural-gas production outlook from what some feared to be a tailing off of production, to what is now known as the shale gale.
Research is under way into re-fracing natural-gas wells and developing even more efficient technology. One interesting new fracing method pioneered by Canada-based Gasfrac Energy Services, Inc. uses gelled propane instead of water as the fracing fluid. Under high pressure, the gel is liquefied and carries the proppants into the shale formation. When pressure is released, the liquid returns to its normal gaseous state. Gasfrac claims that virtually 100 percent of the propane is recovered and that 80 percent of truck traffic to the drilling site is therefore eliminated.
The primary argument by those opposing this ingenious way of bringing a valuable product from formations a mile underground to the surface for our use and comfort is that this activity will contaminate near-surface aquifers. Somehow fracing fluid (known from personal contact to be as bland as dishwater) is going to migrate through 4,000 or more feet of rock, sand, and shale into an aquifer. Or drillers would somehow allow the valuable product they are selling to escape from high-pressure concrete-encased steel casing into a water well. But the whole process is very environmentally friendly, and it's getting even friendlier by the day.
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U.S. racing car driver and model Danica Patrick has filed for divorce from her husband of seven years.
She filed legal papers to end her marriage to physical therapist Paul Hospenthal on 3 January (13), stating she wouldn't be seeking spousal support and adding the couple had a prenuptial agreement.
The documents read: "My marriage is irretrievably broken and there is no reasonable prospect of reconciliation."
Patrick first announced news of their separation in November (12), writing in post on Facebook.com, "I am sad to inform my fans that after 7 years, Paul and I have decided to amicably end our marriage. This isn't easy for either of us, but mutually it has come to this. He has been an important person and friend in my life and that's how we will remain moving forward."


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The storm was nothing special. Its waves rocked the Norwegian Dawn just enough so that bartenders on the cruise ship turned to the usual palliative — free drinks.
Then, off the coast of Georgia, early on Saturday, April 16, 2005, a giant, seven-story wave appeared out of nowhere. It crashed into the bow, sent deck chairs flying, smashed windows, raced as high as the 10th deck, flooded 62 cabins, injured 4 passengers and sowed widespread fear and panic.
"The ship was like a cork in a bathtub," recalled Celestine Mcelhatton, a passenger who, along with 2,000 others, eventually made it back to Pier 88 on the Hudson River in Manhattan. Some vowed never to sail again.
Enormous waves that sweep the ocean are traditionally called rogue waves, implying that they have a kind of freakish rarity. Over the decades, skeptical oceanographers have doubted their existence and tended to lump them together with sightings of mermaids and sea monsters.
But scientists are now finding that these giants of the sea are far more common and destructive than once imagined, prompting a rush of new studies and research projects. The goals are to better tally them, understand why they form, explore the possibility of forecasts, and learn how to better protect ships, oil platforms and people.
The stakes are high. In the past two decades, freak waves are suspected of sinking dozens of big ships and taking hundreds of lives. The upshot is that the scientists feel a sense of urgency about the work and growing awe at their subjects.
"I never met, and hope I never will meet, such a monster," said Wolfgang Rosenthal, a German scientist who helped the European Space Agency pioneer the study of rogue waves by radar satellite. "They are more frequent than we expected."
Drawing on recent tallies and making tentative extrapolations, Dr. Rosenthal estimated that at any given moment 10 of the giants are churning through the world's oceans.
In size and reach these waves are quite different from earthquake-induced tsunamis, which form low, almost invisible mounds at sea before gaining height while crashing ashore. Rogue waves seldom, if ever, prowl close to land.
"We know these big waves cannot get into shallow water," said David W. Wang of the Naval Research Laboratory, the science arm of the Navy and Marine Corps. "That's a physical limitation."
By one definition, the titans of the sea rise to heights of at least 25 meters, or 82 feet, about the size of an eight-story building. Scientists have calculated their theoretical maximum at 198 feet — higher than the Statue of Liberty or the Capitol rotunda in Washington. So far, however, they have documented nothing that big. Large rogues seem to average around 100 feet.
Most waves, big and small alike, form when the wind blows across open water. The wind's force, duration and sweep determine the size of the swells, with big storms building their height. Waves of about 6 feet are common, though ones up to 30 or even 50 feet are considered unexceptional (though terrifying to people in even fairly large boats). As waves gain energy from the wind, they become steeper and the crests can break into whitecaps.
The trough preceding a rogue wave can be quite deep, what nautical lore calls a "hole in the sea." For anyone on a ship, it is a roller coaster plunge that can be disastrous.
Over the centuries, many accounts have told of monster waves that battered and sank ships. In 1933 in the North Pacific, the Navy oiler Ramapo encountered a huge wave. The crew, calm enough to triangulate from the ship's superstructure, estimated its height at 112 feet.
In 1966, the Italian cruise ship Michelangelo was steaming toward New York when a giant wave tore a hole in its superstructure, smashed heavy glass 80 feet above the waterline, and killed a crewman and two passengers. In 1978, the München, a German barge carrier, sank in the Atlantic. Surviving bits of twisted wreckage suggested that it surrendered to a wave of great force.
Despite such accounts, many oceanographers were skeptical. The human imagination tended to embellish, they said.
Moreover, bobbing ships were terrible reference points for trying to determine the size of onrushing objects with any kind of accuracy. Their mathematical models predicted that giant waves were statistical improbabilities that should arise once every 10,000 years or so.
That began to change on New Year's Day in 1995, when a rock-steady oil platform in the North Sea produced what was considered the first hard evidence of a rogue wave. The platform bore a laser designed to measure wave height.
During a furious storm, it registered an 84-foot giant.
Then, in February 2000, a British oceanographic research vessel fighting its way through a gale west of Scotland measured titans of up to 95 feet, "the largest waves ever recorded by scientific instruments," seven researchers wrote in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Once-skeptical scientists were soon holding conferences to discuss the findings and to design research strategies. A large meeting in Brest, France, in November 2000 attracted researchers from around the world.
It quickly became apparent that the big waves formed with some regularity in regions swept by powerful currents: the Agulhas off South Africa, the Kuroshio off Japan, and the Gulf Stream off the eastern United States, where the Norwegian Dawn got into trouble off Georgia. The Gulf Stream also flows through the Bermuda Triangle, famous for allegedly devouring large numbers of ships.
Dr. Bengt Fornberg, a mathematician at the University of Colorado who studies the giants, said the strong ocean currents appeared to focus waves "like a magnifying glass concentrates sunlight."
"It's the same idea," he said. "There are a few places in the world where there is a regular current, like a steady magnifying glass. In other places, the eddies come and go, and that makes the waves less predictable."
One way that rogue waves apparently form is when the strong currents meet winds and waves moving in the opposite direction, he said. The currents focus and concentrate sets of waves, shortening the distance between them and sending individual peaks higher. "That," Dr. Fornberg said in an interview, "makes for hot spots in a fairly predictable area."
A particularly threatening spot, he said, turned out to be where big oil tankers coming from the Middle East ride the Agulhas current around South Africa. There, the westward-flowing current meets prevailing easterly winds, at times disastrously.
"Three or four tankers a year there get badly damaged," Dr. Fornberg said. "That's one of the few places in the world where the phenomena is regular."
"With a big storm, you get lots of big waves," he added. "You have regular waves and then one or two giants. Then it's back to regular again."
The scientists who met at Brest in 2000, eager to track the phenomenon globally, laid plans to use radar satellites to conduct a census, calling it MaxWave.
They worked with the European Space Agency, which had lofted radar satellites in 1991 and 1995, as well as the German Aerospace Center and several other European research bodies. The radar beams were seen as potentially ideal for measuring the height of individual waves, based on the time it took the beams to bounce from orbit to the sea and back to space.
The MaxWave team, led by Dr. Rosenthal, examined three weeks of radar data and to its amazement discovered 10 giants, each at least 82 feet high. "We were quite successful," he said.
The team even tracked monster waves in a region of the South Atlantic where two cruise ships, the Bremen and the Caledonian Star, had come under assault.
Further confirmation with a different set of instruments came in September 2004 when Hurricane Ivan swept through the Gulf of Mexico.
It passed directly over six wave-tide gauges that the Naval Research Laboratory had deployed about 50 miles east of the Mississippi Delta. Dr. Wang and his colleagues analyzed the data and found to their surprise waves measuring more than 90 feet from trough to crest.
"We had no idea," Dr. Wang recalled. "It was the right time and the right place."
Already, the scientists said, naval architects and shipbuilders are discussing precautions. Some of the easiest are seen as increasing the strength of windows and hatch covers. But even the best physical protections may fail under assault by tons of roiling water, so the best precaution of all will be learning how to avoid the monsters in the first place.
Increasingly, scientists are focusing on better understanding how the big waves form and whether that knowledge can lead to accurate forecasts — a feat that, if achieved, may save hundreds of lives and many billions of dollars in lost commerce.
A suspected culprit, in addition to wind-current interactions, is the amplification that occurs when disparate trains of waves (perhaps emanating from different storms) come together. Such intersections are seen as sometimes canceling out waves, and other times making them higher and steeper.
Another birth ground is seen as choppy seas where several waves moving independently merge by chance. But scientists say a giant of that sort would live for no more than a few seconds or minutes, whereas some are suspected of lasting for hours and traveling long distances.
As for forecasts, oceanographers are focusing on the interplay of exceptionally strong winds and currents, especially in the Agulhas off South Africa.
Dr. Fornberg said that several years ago South African authorities began issuing predictions. "That's the only place the theory has succeeded," he said.
Dr. Rosenthal said that in the future the continued proliferation of radar satellites should create an opportunity to better understand not only the habitats of the giants but in theory also individual threats, bringing about a safer relationship between people and the sea.
"There will be warnings, maybe in 10 years," he said. "It should be possible."


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pert wrote:I've heard the argument that the Bukhari Hadith has been tampered with and is not legititmate and that Asmaa's age proves that Aisha was a teenager when she was married. What are your views?
pert wrote:I've heard the argument that the Bukhari Hadith has been tampered with and is not legititmate and that Asmaa's age proves that Aisha was a teenager when she was married. What are your views?
Here we go again. another cut-n-paste from our self-hating Jew, with utter ignorance of Islam.SAM wrote:WikiIslam: Meet the Editors.. Most of them from FFI
Sanitarium is an atheist feminist from Australia. She administered the site over several years and contributed heavily to female-related articles. She also wrote the "Islamic Prophecies" series, did the necessary research behind the "Revelational Circumstances of the Qur'an" series and recruited other editors such as Sahab.
Prophet Farside sometimes claims to be the founder of "Farsideology – the ultimate belief system." In reality, Farside is the original inspiration behind the site. He is the creator of the satirical "Farsideology" series on Islam and is one of the earliest editors of WikiIslam.
Natassia is a Christian. Her contributions to WikiIslam concentrated on Islam's history, its attitude towards women, and its treatment of minorities such as Christians and Jews.
Khalil is a former Sufi Muslim now atheist from the Middle East. He left Islam after witnessing a public, Shari'ah-sanctioned beheading. Although no longer a believer in the existence of gods, he retains a deep admiration for spiritual figures such as Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha. His contributions to WikiIslam focused on religious violence during Prophet Muhammad's lifetime and his relationship with his child-bride, Aisha. He also helped with Arabic analysis within various articles.
THHuxley is a Scientific Deist and a prolific online debater who often argues for the validity of evolutionary science over creationism. His work centers around the scientific field and so do his numerous contributions to WikiIslam. He once emailed Dr. William W. Hay concerning the infamous "This Is The Truth" video and received a prompt, personal reply informing him that Hay's beliefs had been misrepresented and his words cut and pasted out-of-context.
dear pr. By now we would know well enough about this SAM guy to realize - he is not a devout Muslim, who knows little about Islam. The very reason he writes little of his own, rather uses cut-n-paste.pr126 wrote:Well, thanks for the listing of the editors.
What about the Islamic sources quoted in the article? Are they inaccurate? Do you disagree?
I think you should refute those first instead of the listing of the editors.
Do you have more reliable sources?
Apparently not, or you would have provided your argument instead of a list of editors.
Wikiislam NOT the primary sources for Muslims...
SAM wrote:WikiIslam... The Anti-Islam website belong to Islamophobic
I am not a new member here. It was founded by Dr. Ali Sina, a FAKE Muslim who had never been born and raised as a Muslim from Iran who is currently in hiding and residing in Canada, and also the names of the editor are all long-standing members of FFI.
Wikiislam NOT the primary sources for Muslims...
As usual they are runner and spinner...pert wrote:Thiat discussion belongs on a different thread, stay on topic> I'm getting really f.cked off with the way these threads keep getting derailed
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I've heard the argument that the Bukhari Hadith has been tampered with and is not legititmate and that Asmaa's age proves that Aisha was a teenager when she was married. What are your views?
SAM wrote:You all the KAFIRS still failed to prove that Islam is a false religion. There are many women and men who are infidels, embraced Islam claims to have seen the light and believe that Islam is the only true religion. The story of Muhammad with Aisha will not destroy the religion of Islam, the Quran and Allah.
pert wrote:I am not convinced by the Asmaa's age argument and If Bukhari, Dawud and Muslim were forged then by whom and when?
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Apple's new maps suck. Everyone knows that. They especially stink in South Korea. For example, the Blue House, the country's executive office, is mixed up with a Chinese restaurant in a Seoul train station. This is among other misses, including overlooking the names of important mountains that everyone knows.
According to Livedoor, The Korean government is asking Apple to make the necessary corrections—and is going one step further by offering what exactly needs to be fixed.
The country's mountainous terrain is no doubt difficult to map, and there are bound to be blunders. Most likely, this isn't trolling! But given the recent legal spat between the two companies, I'm not entirely convinced this Samsung mistake was not...
Above is how Samsung's headquarters apparently appear in Apple Maps. Or how it doesn't appear, rather.
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Seegrid to Debut Automated GWS35 Walkie Stacker at MODEX 2014
Seegrid, the leading manufacturer of flexible AGVs, also known as robotic industrial trucks, will be officially launching its newest product at MODEX 2014 at booth #7317 in Atlanta, GA. The GWS35 is equipped with Seegrid's patented vision-guided autonomous navigation system and automatically transports palletized loads through manufacturing and distribution environments.
The pre-launch allows prospective customers to learn more about this newest product in Seegrid's suite of automation solutions; it is part of the company's commitment to make affordable automation available to everyone.
The revolutionary flexible GWS35 walkie stacker automatically picks, drops, stacks, and puts away loads up to 72 inches at a maximum load capacity of 3,500 pounds. The automated walkie stacker is used for automatic lane building or deep lane storage at dock and staging locations. The GWS35 is state-of-the-art yet simple to use. It does not require any additional infrastructure, costly expansion or redesign of a facility, or a specialized team of engineers to install, support, or operate the flexible vision-guided GWS35.
The vehicle offers fast and effective deployment within hours instead of weeks, has the ability to change routes quickly and easily, operates safely with workers and equipment, and provides the most operational flexibility for the automation of internal material flow in distribution and manufacturing facilities. The GWS35 rapidly reduces labor and operating costs while creating a lean, productive, and efficient operation.
John Hayes, Seegrid VP of Sales and Marketing, North America, states, "With the flexible GWS35 walkie stacker, we have expanded our traditional horizontal transportation line by adding a vehicle that allows for nearly all traditional AGV applications to be both simple and affordable. The flexible GWS35 addresses the market needs of an automated guided vehicle solution at a fraction of the cost."
Seegrid is proud to introduce the GWS35 at MODEX 2014. The flexible vision-guided GWS35 provides cost-effective initial investment and low total cost of ownership, while delivering affordable transport with a rapid payback.
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Seegrid Corporation provides simple, affordable, flexible vision-guided automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to the material handling industry. Seegrid robotic industrial trucks, flexible AGVs, are revolutionizing the movement of materials in manufacturing and distribution environments. Seegrid automated pallet trucks and tow tractors optimize workflow processes by increasing productivity and reducing costs, creating economic and operational advantages. Robotic industrial trucks deliver a rapid return on investment, improve facility safety, and reduce equipment and product damage. Seegrid recently received the 2013 Manufacturer of the Year award by the Pittsburgh Business Times, as well as the Gold Medal Award at the WBT Innovation Marketplace 2013 competitive event. Fast Company magazine named Seegrid as one of the Top 50 World's Most Innovative Company in 2013 and among the Top 10 World's Most Innovative Robotics Company in 2013. Follow Seegrid Corporation on Twitter at @Seegrid.


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For the full year, Zynga reported $1.28 billion in sales, up 12% year-over-year, as daily active users (DAUs) increased from 54 million in the fourth quarter of 2011 to 56 million at the end of 2012. DAUs decreased 6% sequentially from the third quarter to the fourth quarter.
Monthly active users (MAUs) increased from 240 million in the fourth quarter of 2011 to 298 million in the fourth quarter of 2012, up 24% year-over-year. MAUs were down 4% sequentially.
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Zynga ended 2012 with approximately $1.65 billion in cash and cash equivalents, unchanged from the third quarter. Zynga generated $19.8 million in cash flow from operations during the quarter, down from $164 million in the fourth-quarter of 2011. Free cash flow was $29.5 million for the fourth quarter of 2012 compared to $101.9 million for the fourth quarter of 2011.
For the first-quarter of 2013, Zynga said it expects revenue to be between $255 million and $265 million, losing between 4 cents and 2 cents a share. The company will hold a conference call at 5 P.M. EST to discuss the results.
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