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Each year, about 2-1/2 weeks before Mardi Gras, the Krewe of Driftwood parades through the neighborhood. Groups of neighbors put together "block" or "street" floats, or invite their family to ride along in floats pulled behind trucks. Many decorate a trailer pulled behind a truck. A decorated boat (on the trailer) or two have been seen as a float, or even decorate the bed of a pick-up truck and load the kids in. Each year, the parade has a theme and judges vote on the best floats. If you've never been, it is like a neighborhood wide block party.
As you travel through the streets of Driftwood this Mardi Gras season, pay close attention to the flags that you see hanging from some of houses in our neighborhood. Every year the King and Queen of the Krewe of Driftwood are presented with a flag in honor of their being selected to reign over the parade. These are the people who have contributed greatly to making our neighborhood the great place that it is today. The Kings and Queens are chosen based upon the contributions they have made not only to Driftwood but also to the community at large. We have had Queens and Kings who were Boy Scout Leaders and Girl Scout Moms, Church volunteers, School Moms and School Volunteers. Although some have moved away, many still live in the neighborhood and are still contributing by serving on various boards and coaching at the playground. These men and women have helped keep the traditions of this neighborhood alive and growing and to they we say "Thank You!"


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This week's lookbook, "After Hours," has a different feel than others we've done recently. Shot in New York City by Guy Aroch, the lookbook features model Ashley Smith in a hotel room overlooking the city lights at night. Rich textures like velvet, fringe, beading, and a subtle shine make for a dark, moody look and a girl who is ready to take on the night. The images bring to mind brisk evenings, throwing on a jacket over a short, flirty skirt with tights and heels, and dancing down twinkling streets to the warmth of wherever that night is taking you… Here's a closer look at two of my favorite outfits from the lookbook — one more girly, and one for the tomboy in me!
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No. 15 Michigan 62, No. 21 Wisconsin 75
The Wolverines have taken care of business on the road this season, notching wins in Madison, East Lansing and Columbus; on Sunday, Michigan's season became about defending its home court.
The No. 21 Wisconsin Badgers rolled into Ann Arbor this afternoon with a three-game winning streak, on the heels of a 1-5 stretch. Wisconsin's defense tightened up after that brutal stretch and, lo and behold, the Badgers got back on the winning track.
However, winning at home (or on the road against a team like Illinois) is a different animal from winning in Ann Arbor against the team tied for the top spot in the conference standings.
The Badgers clearly came ready to play, as they jumped out to an early 12-2 lead, paced by a pair of threes from Josh Gasser. The script was a little different this time around; this time, the Badgers were the ones shooting the lights out early in the game.
Meanwhile, Michigan struggled on the offensive end, with just seven points by the second media timeout. Also, as is Wisconsin's defensive style, the Wolverines didn't have a single three-point attempt to their name by that point in the game.
Michigan had no answer for Frank Kaminsky on the block and the slashing Sam Dekker, either. The Badgers are by no means a great offensive rebounding team --in fact, Bo Ryan de-emphasizes it in favor of getting back on defense-- but UW had six offensive boards through 11 minutes or so of play. If the Wolverines couldn't find a way to clean up on the glass and toughen up on the block, it appeared as if the Badgers were poised to upset them in Ann Arbor.
Michigan continued to take the long twos Wisconsin routinely offers, but, unlike the matchup in Madison, the Wolverines couldn't connect. More importantly, the Badgers consistently held Michigan to one-and-done.
With UW dominating every aspect of the game in the first half, the Wolverines might have been lucky to be down "just" 34-19 at the break.


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Internet Society advocates for increased access
GABORONE, (CAJ News) -THE Internet Society (IS) has called for the adoption of policies and frameworks that expand access and create greater demand for the internet in Africa.
The organization, at the ongoing fourth annual Africa Internet Summit (AIS) in Gaborone, Botswana, IS urged policymakers to grasp the opportunity offered by the expansion and growth of the internet across the continent.
IS is thus advocating for greater collaboration by all internet decision-makers in creating an accessible and trusted internet that benefits all Africans.
"Africa sits at a tipping point for Internet expansion and the continent is poised to help drive growth of the global Internet. But to make the opportunities for social and economic gains a reality, it is paramount that the right policies are in place," explains Dawit Bekele, Africa Regional Bureau Director for the IS.
"Policymakers have a critical role to play in creating an environment that enables investment in Internet infrastructure and ensures that the Internet is used to address Africa's development challenges," he added.
AIS started on Sunday and is set to run until June 10.
Kathy Brown, President and CEO of the IS is leading a delegation from the organisation.
She said increased connectivity brought with it a new generation of digital entrepreneurs.
"We want to encourage and inspire others by highlighting women who have overcome barriers and paved the way forward for the Internet in Africa," said Brown.
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Makers of OxyContin, Percocet sued by U.S. governments over opioid crisis
TheStar.com – News/World – Besieged by the worst epidemic in American history, states including Ohio and Missouri are attempting to turn Big Pharma into the new Big Tobacco.
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WASHINGTON—So many babies are being born dependent on opioids that the local hospital opened a special unit for them. So many people with addictions are getting arrested that the local jail has had to turn away would-be inmates.
And Barry Staubus keeps getting those miserable emails.
Whenever an autopsy is done in Sullivan County, in northeast Tennessee, the report is sent to the district attorney. So Staubus has been inundated with forensic accounts of tragedies he can't prosecute anyone for: drug overdoses, suicides by people on drugs, death by diseases caused by drug use.
Staubus has spent years going after drug dealers. Fed up with the "culture of drug dependence, dysfunction and death" infecting the Appalachian community where he grew up, he is now aiming higher.
In June, Staubus and two colleagues from nearby counties announced that they were suing drug manufacturers — specifically, the corporations behind legal painkillers OxyContin, Percocet, Opana and a generic oxycodone.
Their suit is part of a wave of litigation against pharmaceutical companies by states, counties and local prosecutors besieged by the worst addiction crisis in American history.
The goal: turn Big Pharma into the new Big Tobacco.
Accused of deceiving the public about the addiction risk of cigarettes, tobacco giants agreed in 1998 to pay more than $200 billion toward the government costs of providing health-care to smokers.
Pharmaceutical companies have now been sued by the attorneys general of Ohio, Missouri, Mississippi and Oklahoma, plus counties in such states as California and New York.
More lawsuits are probably coming.
Opioid overdoses killed 33,000 people in the U.S. in 2015, about three times the number of gun homicides. The intensity of the crisis, and likely the fact that many of the victims are white middle-class suburbanites with political clout, has produced a bipartisan shift in perceptions of addiction.
Even political figures in conservative areas — like Sullivan County, where Donald Trump got 76 per cent of the vote — have moved away from castigating addicts and moved toward searching for systemic causes and solutions.
Staubus's suit argues that the opioid epidemic was produced by a "fraudulent scheme" by Purdue Pharma, Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals and Endo Pharmaceuticals "to mislead doctors and the public about the need for, and addictive nature of, opioid drugs."
"They put millions of dollars into advertising. They put lots of sales forces out there. And they supported legislation that made this stuff far more available than it was before. And it's not enough to say, 'Well, people misused it,' " Staubus said. "When you put way too many drugs, for way too many bad reasons, into way too many people's hands, prescribed by way too many people, you get what we have in our area, which is an epidemic."
Public health experts agree that legal painkillers have been central to a crisis best known for its heroin component. The majority of heroin users started with prescription opioids, which in the 1990s and 2000s became much more widely prescribed than in the past.
And one of the primary targets of the suits has already admitted to fraudulent behaviour. OxyContin maker Purdue pleaded guilty to a criminal felony in 2007, agreeing to a $600-million settlement and admitting that it inaccurately promoted the product — between 1995 and 2001 — as less prone to be abused than other drugs.
But experts say the current lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies will be harder to win than the slam-dunk case against their tobacco counterparts.
"The drug companies are not utterly defenceless. There are issues they can raise, and they're pretty good at it," said Richard Ausness, a University of Kentucky law professor who has studied opioid suits.
Prescription opioids can be used safely and for good health reasons. U.S. government health regulators studied and endorsed the prescription opioids. And there are, in most cases, medical professionals in between the pharmaceutical companies and the end user.
"Unlike tobacco companies, our products are medicines approved by FDA, prescribed by doctors, and dispensed by pharmacists, as treatments for patients suffering pain," Purdue said in an email, adding that the company "vigorously" denies the allegations and is "committed to working collaboratively to find solutions" to the opioid crisis.
Endo, the maker of Percocet and Opana, declined to comment on litigation. "Our top priorities include patient safety and ensuring that patients with chronic pain have access to safe and effective therapeutic options," the company said.
Ausness said the weaknesses of the lawsuits may never be exposed in court. Such suits are often filed with the intention of shaming optics-conscious companies into a settlement.
"Once the defendants are sufficiently demonized," Ausness said, "a lot of problems disappear. Courts just don't like them and juries don't like them, and the plaintiffs win the public relations battle."
In Dutchess County in southeastern New York, the number of overdose deaths more than doubled between 2005 and 2016, from 24 to 63. The county is spending millions on a new 24-hour "stabilization centre" to help people dealing with addiction or mental illness.
"I think the magnitude of loss, and the size, scale and scope of the crisis, demands that we hold every party responsible. Government at my level is taking responsibility, and we believe that those who engaged in what clearly were deceptive practices and pressure should take some responsibility as well," said Dutchess Executive Marcus Molinaro, who announced his county's lawsuit in June.
"What are our options but have them participate in financing the response?"
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Invest NI Helps Local Company Become a Blooming Success
Belfast based A&K Landscape Retail Ltd are set to become a blooming success with the help of Invest Northern Ireland.
The company, run by husband and wife team Ally and Kyle Gallagher, provides a popular landscape design service but has recently diversified into the production of a new 'luxury planter' product range under the brand name "LANDSCAPE-stuff for the garden", as part of an investment of £164,000 to develop the business.
As part of their on-going marketing strategy Ally and Kyle took part in the Urban Gardens Show, with support from Invest NI, which helped them to secure a number of lucrative new contracts and brought them to the attention of the BBC who have used their planters in a backdrop at the Chelsea Flower Show.
Invest NI recently gave the A&K Landscape Retail Ltd marketing support and assistance as part of the company's investment programme, which has necessitated that Ally and Kyle move to larger premises in the Gasworks, Belfast.
Commenting on their recent success Maurice Patterson, manager of Invest NI's eastern local office said:
"A&K Landscape Retail Ltd is an example of a budding local company who by cleverly diversifying their product range and seizing all marketing opportunities open to them have been able to secure some high profile clients.
"Already they have built a good reputation in what is a competitive industry and are seeing their business begin to blossom," he continued.
Speaking on the recent growth of his company Kyle Gallagher said:
"The Urban Gardens Show gave us the exposure we needed to build up a client base outside of Northern Ireland. I firmly believe that big exhibitions like these are vitally important to help small businesses like ours grow and develop."
"The advice and support we have received from Invest NI has also helped us immeasurably, they have given us the confidence to move forward and start exporting our products across the UK," he continued.


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Just arrived back from a week on a mountain lake where the elevation was about 4800′. We were going fishing for Kokane, which is a land locked Sockeye Salmon. They are very good eating and this lake is know for it's Kokane. There is also Huge Lake Trout here but those can be down to 150′ I figured that it would be chilly but not in the least except there was a small front coming up from the South and was forcast to be around up there in a couple days, maybe a slight chance of rain. The first day we checked in, found our camp spot and took the camper off, pluged in,put up the canopy over the table and unloaded the firewood that we brought from the house(we are trying to get rid of extra wood from cutting down a couple of junk trees where we needed to build an extra shed for a workplace) and went to launch the boat. Since never launching from there before and knowing that this lake is very deep, maybe 250′ in some places we didn't realize that the boat launch right at the resort was real shallow right where you have to launch and you need to get the boat right in the middle and back out straight into deeper water……NOW we know, as right after the boat comes off the trailer, its only 2′ and we drug on the bottom. Daddy-o was a little concerned because the boat is new and of course didn't want any problems but all was well and we found our moorage and parked. It usually takes us a few hours to accomplish all this and by that time it's beer time……since we know what we are fishing for(we have a bunch of lures that are known to work for these) but have never fished for them yet, we wonder down to the store at the resort and check to see what they have hanging on the wall (every lake can be different). Sure enough , we have most of it………we think….
The next morning we sleep in and get out on the lake about 10am………Nothing! everybody else is at the fish cleaning station and had scads of fish…..so later in the afternoon, I go back in the log cabin store with picknik tables out front for all the hikers that come off the Pacific Crest Trail, and get talking to one of the guys that work there and he steers me to the right lures. Small , bright orange, or pink lures that we don't happen to have along. And he said you have to be out on the lake by 5 or 5:30 because they only bite for a couple hours and they then disappear?????
OKAY…….its still dark out and we need a flashlite to get to the lake as I see a few small lites in some of the RV's which means people are shuffeling around, getting up to get to there boats and out on the lake. As we come onto the pier, I can see just a glimpse of twightlight and am thinking this should be about right…..The stern cover comes off and folds up fine while Daddy-o starts the big motor and the little one for warming up. Around 50 degrees out so we are dressed pretty warm but I didn't bring my good ol standby, down wintercoat and no gloves……dang………(we hardly ever go fishing that early). As we back out , it's getting more light out and about three boats are already out there. Now , this lake is very deep , and the fish on the fishfinder say about 60-75′ so once we get trolling at a slow enough speed, we drop our line down (about 8 oz. of weight) and watch the line counter saying, 20-30-40-50-60-74′, stop the bail quickly and we look at each other and say" Whose going to get the first one?" It's not long and one of us gets one ……..pretty nice fish too . They run about 12″-14″ or so and really like to jump off just before getting in the boat! That day we got 6, the next day , we got 22, the next day, we got 26…… we were tired and needed a day off by that time but was soooo much fun.
early morning, about 5″30am light busting thru with fog on the lake
morning coming tru resort and snow capped mountains
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh the catch after cleaning…..(that's a bunch to clean!)
our camp while there I do dishes outside
Daddy-o getting campfire ready for supper…………….just the right temp…
Supper Resort and lake
Happy Trails!!!


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Atmospheric hotels of Russia
►Practicalities ► Accommodation ► Atmospheric hotels of Russia
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia inherited a terrible hotel infrastructure. During the crisis of the 1990s these hotels were used less and less and gradually deteriorated. The cleanliness level went down and cockroaches moved in, the furniture and bathroom equipment was in need of restoration and of course the quality of service did not progress to the level expected in the post-Soviet years. In short, foreign guests were far from impressed by the range of hotels on offer, although for some it no doubt added to the exoticness of a trip to Russia!
However now the picture is completely different. The economic boom of the 2000s saw the establishment of private hotels, although the level of service here still left a bit to be desired as the new owners had little experience of the hospitality trade. It was only by the 2010s that modern, well-designed and comfortable hotels were becoming widespread in Russia and today it is possible to find a good hotel of a high standard in most large Russia cities and popular tourist destinations.
In this respect we have prepared a list of some of the most interesting hotels in the country which have a special atmosphere, whether due to their concept, or to their location or the building in which they are situation.
Famous sights located nearby:
- Valaam island
- city of Sortavala
- Ruskeala mountain park
- Pellotsary island
Pine trees, a massive lake, rocky landscapes and fresh air – all this is awaiting you around the Dacha Vintera Park-Hotel. The hotel has 24 rooms, six two-storey town-houses and five cottages with a fireplace, sauna and a view of the bay, all of which harmoniously fit in with the surrounding landscape and even complement it.
Gustav Vinter, after whom the hotel is named, was a famous doctor who opened the first radiology department in Finland.
He had a passion for holidays in the nature with games in the fresh air, sailing on Lake Lagoda and having picnics in the forest. He also had an interest for landscape gardening which he studied in Italy. He applied these skills in his own dacha which is now a museum. These passions are shared by the creators of the hotel which is located close to the museum.
The severe northern architecture, the natural materials and the amazing views can't help but make an impression so that you will want to return.
Famous sights located nearby:
- Astrakhan Kremlin and Dormition Cathedral
- Volga Delta
- Batu's Saray
This mansion dating from 1868 with a view of the Astrakhan Kremlin was once owned by one of the richest families in the city – the Khlebnikov merchants. This is demonstrated by the fact that each of the bricks is marked by the symbol "Бр.Х." standing for the Russian for the Khlebnikov Brothers. The house was later used as a polyclinic but then abandoned until 2005 when it was bought by the father of architect Anna Lesik. After eight years of restoration work the architectural monument was reborn by Anna Lesnik and her husband and now it is one of the best 3* hotels in Astrakhan.
It has practically been restored to its original appearance: the iron entrance gates, the moulding, the brickwork, the oven, the doors and even wooden wardrobes featuring the family coat of arms have all been laboriously restored. The owners also live at the hotel, having built their own residence in the loft of the building.
The hotel offers the standard services for 3* hotels - standard rooms, semi-luxurious and luxurious, which are designed in a classical style with calm tones. In the morning you will wake to the bells of the Dormition Cathedral which is located on the other side of the road in the Astrakhan Kremlin – the main sight in the city.
Famous sights located nearby:
- Pavlovsk Palace
- Catherine's Palace
- St Petersburg
This unique hotel is located in an actual castle built on the orders of Emperor Paul I. The Pavlovsk Bastion, or the Great Folly of Paul as it is also known, was built between 1795 and 1797 on the site of the Mariental small hunting house.
The castle consists of a two-storey pentagonal structure with an inner courtyard and two oval towers. It is surrounded by earthen fortifications consisting of bastions, ravelins, lunettes and flèches. The castle also had an artillery of 28 weapons and was included on the military register of fortresses of the Russian Empire.
By the 21st century the castle was in a sorry state. However luckily it caught the attention of the famous Russian philanthropist Sergey Gutsait. Full repairs works were carried out on the building, and where possible restoration work was performed.
As a result a boutique-hotel with 22 individually designed rooms in an old-English style was created where guests can relax in the atmosphere of a mediaeval castle. The price of a room start at USD 200 for one night with breakfast.
Famous sights located nearby:
- Levitan Museum
- Kostroma
- Ivanovo
Plyos is a Golden Ring city which is somewhat less popular than Suzdal or Yaroslavl, mainly due to its location. However it is certainly worth visiting thanks to its picturesque surroundings on seven hills on the bank of the River Volga.
The small city once had intentions of becoming an elite dacha resort for Muscovites, and then a tourist hotspot on the Golding Ring, but now it is more than content with being a charming and peaceful city with occasionally holds summer festivals and receives its fair share of visitors. There are only a few small hotels here, and the most famous of them is Chastny Visit, which incidentally is also one of the most expensive hotels on the whole of the Golden Ring route.
The hotel is a whole complex for guests consisting of several small Russian-style wooden houses. The oldest house here was built in 1886. All rooms are fitted out in a rich, dacha-inspired Russian Revival style.
The hotel's windows open out onto a spectacular view of the River Volga and the hills of Plyos. Another of the main reasons for visiting this hotel is its restaurant. Here you can try real homemade Russian food served as a course of meals. The owner, Yelena Manenan, opened this hotel with her French husband and French influences can also be seen here.
Many representatives of Russian high-society have stayed here, including Dmitry Medvedev and his wife, who have a dacha located near to Plyos. The price of the most expensive room here is USD 500 per night which is what you would pay for a room at a 5* hotel in the centre of Moscow.
Famous sights located nearby:
- Vologda Kremlin
- Kirillov
- Ferapontovo Monastery
Vologda is famous for its wooden architecture and Hotel Biblioteka follows these traditions by being located in a wooden mansion complete with carved wooden-lace window frames. But the best is waiting for you inside as the interiors of the rooms are created based on world literature.
If you are a fan of Dostoevsky you can stay in The Gambler room with a concise interior with pastel tones, if you like Alice in Wonderland you can take the fantastical room in the attic, or if The Arabian Nights is more to your liking then the glittering and delicate room based on the stories is for you.
The hotel is small with just 10 rooms, but it also has a gastropub, a banya and a book shop which are all open to the public. There are books all over the place and it is possible even to swap books with your own.
Famous sights located nearby:
- Dubna
- Second tallest Lenin monument.
Once a pioneers' camp (the Soviet equivalent of the Scouts) was situated here where children from Moscow would come to spend their summer. After the camp was closed, the territory was bought up and the Art Veretievo festival began being held here.
Now it is a country hotel which recreates the atmosphere of a Soviet pioneers' camp, but for adults. It consists of several houses where up to 100 guests can be accommodated. The houses bear the same names as a camp would – such as Leaders House, Pioneers House, Club House. Each were designed by famous designers and artists.
Dotted around the territory of the estate are many art installations – Pioneers' Alley with typical sculptures found in a pioneers' camp alongside an alternative monument of Pushkin; standing next to fir trees are some fantastical pieces, while in other places there are wooden silhouettes.
It is a great place to come to to escape from Moscow and immerse yourself in a world of art and nature. You can swim in the river here, have a barbeque, relax in the banya, row a boat or just unwind reading a book in the forest accompanied by birdsong.
Famous sights located nearby:
- Annunciation Cathedral
This hotel is located in a historical building dating from 1826 which has retained the atmosphere and decoration of that period.
The hotel's centrepiece is the hearth which is decorated with 19th century tiles made at the Bergengeym Ceramic Factory and surrounded by old wooden beams.
The hotel claims to be the first designer hotel in Russia. It has 40 rooms which are equipped with modern technology and provide a high level of comfort. The hotel's exterior has a fairy tale feel – with beautiful windows on beige walls, bright blue shutters and playful drain pipes.
All this creates a harmonious appearance welcoming you into the modern fairy tale atmosphere of the hotel.
The Rossia Sanatorium of the Soviet of Ministers of the USSR is how this hotel was known in its former life when it was a place of rest for the Soviet elite, including popular actors and singers. It was even visited by Yury Gagarin, the first man in space.
In 2006 it was refurbished (Paco Rabanne and designers to Queen Beatrice of the Netherlands Suzanne Loggere and Patrick Brugman had a hand in such process) and became a luxurious boutique hotel.
One of the best features of the hotel, apart from the extravagant splendour, is its own 15-hectare sub-tropical park with giant maple trees, magnolias, oleanders, rhododendrons, orchards and vegetable patches where vegetables and herbs are grown for the hotel's restaurant. In fact the park is so large that guests are transported on golf-carts and get to the beach by lift.
Unsurprisingly the hotel is now one of the most expensive in Russia – a room can cost you up to USD 3,000 a night with breakfast.
From the warm shores of the Black Sea in Sochi to a communal room in St Petersburg on the bank of the River Moika. The Soul Kitchen Hostel is located in the centre in the Lipin tenement building which dates from 1863. It was used in several scenes of the Master and Margarita film as well as in several series.
The interiors were restored and decorated in a way to retain the feel of a Soviet communal flat. Original details have also been preserved – for example mouldings on the ceilings, fireplaces and ovens, wallpaper and the original doors have been turned into computer desks.
The hostel has both communal rooms and individual en suite rooms. It may still be a hostel but the prices here are understandably higher than at the more ordinary hostels found in Russia's Northern Capital.
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Practically all cities in Russia will have at least one hotel, but hotel standards vary from region to region. It is also true that a three-star hotel in a big city like St Petersburg is likely to be worse than a three-star hotel in a small provincial city such as Yelabuga.
Along with hotels there are big range of other form of accommodation in Russia - hostels, guest houses, apartments, sanatorium and holiday houses. These accommodation is normally cheapper than hotels, and the level of comfort is usually lower, there are some exceptions though.


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Abstract: Social network is a platform for people share their ideals, to meet new friends and to reconnect with old friends. Social networking sites offer people new and varied ways to communicate via the internet, whether through their PC or their mobile phone. Examples include MySpace, Facebook, Skype etec. They allow people to easily and simply create their own online page or profile and to construct and display an online network of contacts, often called 'friends'. Users of these sites can communicate via their profile both with their 'friends' and with people outside their list of contacts. With SNS it is easy to communicate with your classmate, discuss class assignment and even submit project to your lecturer, watch videos, make comment on your friend page etc. This study will focus on the effect of SNS on student academic performance, using GAU as a case study. What are student using SNS for, does it affect their studies, or help them to learn easily. This project will talk about the history of SNS, development and the users of SNS especially by student and lecturers in communicating with colleague and student as well. A 15 question personally administered questionnaire was designed and sent to about 50 students from different country and department in GAU.
Keywords: Social Networking, E-learning, Communication, Academic Performance, Social Media.
1.1 Introduction
Since the introduction of social network sites years ago, to communicate with friends and family has been easy once you have access to internet. The internet has given us the ability to connect with people from around the globe with a few clicks of a button. And you can easily send information to a friend or get information. Social network sites (SNSs) such as MySpace, Facebook, Youtube, Skype etc, have attracted millions of users, many of whom have integrated these sites into their daily practices. People consume a lot of time on this sites uploading or downloading, getting information concerning their career or academic work. People are always online every second, chatting with friends, watching online movies, doing research. Social site has become an habit for some people, they find it difficult to study for one hour without login to one network site. Some people have become very smart because of the information they get from this sites, why some have become very poor academically, because it easy to get almost any materials for school assignment.
1.2. The Early Years of SNS
Social networking began in 1978 with the Bulletin Board System (or BBS.) The BBS was hosted on personal computers, requiring that users dial in through the modem of the host computer, exchanging information over phone lines with other users. This was the first system that allowed users to sign in and interact with each other, although it was quite slow since only one user could be logged in at a time. Later in the year, the very first copies of web browsers were distributed using the bulletin board Usenet. Usenet was created by Jim Ellis and Tom Truscott, and it allowed users to post news articles or posts, which were referred to as "news". The difference between Usenet and other BBS and forums was that it didn't have a dedicated administrator or central server. There are modern forums that use the same idea as Usenet today, including Yahoo! Groups and Google Groups. The first version of instant messaging came about in 1988 with Internet Relay Chat (IRC). IRC was Unix-based, limiting access to most people. It was used for link and file sharing, and generally keeping in touch with one another.1
The first meaningful social network site is SixDegrees.com, it was launched in 1997. It was the SNS that allowed users to create profiles, list their Friends and, beginning in 1998, surf the Friends lists. Each of these features existed in some form before SixDegrees, of course. Profiles existed on most major dating sites and many community sites. AIM and ICQ buddy lists supported lists of Friends, although those Friends were not visible to others. Classmates.com allowed people to affiliate with their high school or college and surf the network for others who were also affiliated, but users could not create profiles or list Friends until years later. SixDegrees was the first to combine these features. SixDegrees promoted itself as a tool to help people connect with and send messages to others. While SixDegrees attracted millions of users, it failed to become a sustainable business and, in 2000, the service closed. Looking back, its founder believes that SixDegrees was simply ahead of its time (A. Weinreich, personal communication, July 11, 2007). While people were already flocking to the Internet, most did not have extended networks of friends who were online. Early adopters complained that there was little to do after accepting Friend requests, and most users were not interested in meeting strangers. From 1997 to 2001, a number of community tools began supporting various combinations of profiles and publicly articulated Friends. AsianAvenue, BlackPlanet, and MiGente allowed users to create personal, professional, and dating profiles—users could identify Friends on their personal profiles without seeking approval for those connections (O. Wasow, personal communication, August 16, 2007). Likewise, shortly after its launch in 1999, LiveJournal listed one‐directional connections on user pages. LiveJournal's creator suspects that he fashioned these Friends after instant messaging buddy lists (B. Fitzpatrick, personal communication, June 15, 2007)—on LiveJournal, people mark others as Friends to follow their journals and manage privacy settings. The Korean virtual worlds site Cyworld was started in 1999 and added SNS features in 2001, independent of these other sites (see Kim & Yun, this issue). Likewise, when the Swedish web community LunarStorm refashioned itself as an SNS in 2000, it contained Friends lists, guestbooks, and diary pages (D. Skog, 2007).
The next wave of SNSs began when Ryze.com was launched in 2001 to help people leverage their business networks. Ryze's founder reports that he first introduced the site to his friends primarily members of the San Francisco business and technology community, including the entrepreneurs and investors behind many future SNSs (A. Scott, personal communication, June 14, 2007). In particular, the people behind Ryze, Tribe.net, LinkedIn, and Friendster were tightly entwined personally and professionally. They believed that they could support each other without competing (Festa, 2003). In the end, Ryze never acquired mass popularity, Tribe.net grew to attract a passionate niche user base, LinkedIn became a powerful business service, and Friendster became the most significant, if only as "one of the biggest disappointments in Internet history".
1.3. What is a social networking site?
"Social" as the word sounds is deals with the way will communicate in our society, in which you meet and spend time with other people. Network is the connection of parts together to allow movement or communication with other parts. Social networking is the connection of friends or family together which allow you to communicate easily. With social networking sites you can have a long chain of friends you can chat or share information or ideal with. According to Boyd & Ellison (2008), "SNS can be defined as web-based services that allow individuals to construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system". At the most basic level social networking sites allow users to set up online profiles or personal homepages, and develop an online social network. The profile page functions as the user's own webpage and includes profile information ranging from their date of birth, gender, religion, politics and hometown, to their favourite films, books quotes and what they like doing in their spare time. In addition to profile information, users can design the appearance of their page, and add content such as photos, video clips and music files.
2.1. Literature Review
When talking of about communication, scholars have always made emphasis, that "communication is the essence of science" (Garvey, 1979), and that "without communication there would no science (Lacy & Bush, 1983, p.193). this means that communication is one of the basic tools to human science.
The increased use of Social Networking Websites has become a global phenomenon in the past few years. What started out as a hobby for some computer literate people has become a social norm and way of life for people around the globe (Boyd, 2007). Teenagers and youth especially student have embraced these sites as a way to connect with their friend and make new once, share information, photos of their activities such as birthday, photo with friend in class etc, and showcase their social lives.
With the increase of technology used for communicating with the spread of the Internet, "Social Networking" has become an activity that is done primarily on the Internet, with sites like MySpace, Face book, Skype, etc (Coyle et al., 2008).
Many people especially student spend a lot of time on this site creating profile, updating or doing research concerning their career or academic work, while some just use it to chat with friends, post latest pictures of event they attended, e.g., Young et al., 2009, have examined their profiles to determine why and to what extent they are keen on posting their entire identity, sharing pictures and videos, and indicating their religious affiliations, marital status, and political orientations on the internet. These users interact with others, exchange information about their interests, raise discussions about new topics, follows news about specific topics on different Social Networking Sites.
With the advent of social network it has become easy to get information on nearly every issue around the globe. Before now it is not easy getting information, you need to buy newspaper, stay close to your TV set or radio to get information. Internet has change everything and social network has made it more flexible (lewis. 2008). According to the questionnaire used for this project, everybody who answered the questionnaire has access to the internet, and they are connected to one social network.
2.2. Social Network and the users
The issue of whether social networking helps or hurts a student's academic performance is often depend on the larger issues identified with the overall use of SNS (e.g., its psychological effects; individual self-discipline and self-regulation concerns; human adaptability concerns). The benefit of using SNS includes: It create room for creativity among individuals, encouraging greater social interaction via electronic mediums; it provides greater access to information and information sources; it give individuals a sense of belonging among users of the same SNS; reduces barriers to group interaction and communications such as distance and social/economic status; and increasing the technological competency levels of frequent users of social media (Zwart, Lindsay, Henderson, & Phillips, 2011).
Internet usage has grown rapidly over the last few years. Users are able to build a network of connections that they can display as a list of friends. These friends may be people they have never met before in their life or people they only know or have met in real life. Most people have more friends on social network than they do in real life. It is important to note that the term 'friend', as used on a social networking site, is different from the way we approach it in the real life. In this project we will use the term as it is used on a social networking site.
The use of SNS is very common today. Facebook alone has over 750 million members, Twitter having over 177 million tweet per day, and about 3 billion people view Youtube each passing day. (Chen, & Bryer, 2012). The use of social networking sites has been repeatedly found to be the highest among those between the ages of 18-29 (Rainie, 2011); while the fastest growing segment utilizing SNSs since 2008 has been among those age 35 and older (Hampton, Sessions-Goulet, Rainie, & Purcell, 2011, p. 8). Approximately 61% of teens age 12-17 utilize SNSs to send messages to their friends on a regular basis (Lenhart, 2009). Overall, it has been found that women use SNS more than men to communicate and exchange information (Hampton, Sessions-Goulet, Rainie, & Purcell, 2011). The research carried out for this project female responded more than male.
So what this study will look at is the effect or impact of social network on student, does it affect their studies negatively or it help in increasing their performance academically.
2.3 Effect of Social Network on Academic performance
Sound Quality education produces productive students who lead to the prosperity of their respective educational institution and subsequently are proved as strong contributors to the national well-being. Tuckman (1975) defined performance as the apparent demonstration of understanding, concepts, skills, ideas and knowledge of a person and proposed that grades clearly depict the performance of a student. Hence, their academic performance must be managed efficiently keeping in view all the factors that can positively or negatively affect their educational performance. Use of technology such as internet is one of the most important factors that can influence educational performance of students positively or adversely. Shah et al. (2001) proposed that student users are affected by the internet and this impact is determined by the type of internet usage. They are positively affected by the informative use of internet while having drastic impact of recreational use of internet on them. Also, Oskouei (2010) proposed that internet is advantageous to both students and teachers if used as a tool of knowledge creation and dissemination. The effect of SNS usage will depend on the type of SNS the student is using, if student uses the internet for the purpose of leisure activity that interferes with academic, it will affect the student academic performance negatively.
The University of New Hampshire agrees, and believes that current college students grew up in the technology era and social networking is now just a part of a student's daily routine. Their research show that '63% of heavy users received high grades, compared to 65% of light users' (U of NH, 2009). The University of New Hampshire said that a majority of students use social networking for social connections and entertainment, but are also using it for education and professional reasons. Kirschnera revealed that students who multi-task between social networking sites and homework are likely to have 20% lower grades than a student who does not have a social networking site in visual range. Kirschnera believes that even running a social networking site on the background on a student's PC while studying or doing homework could lower a student's grade. He believes that "the problem is that most people have Facebook or other social networking sites, their e-mails and maybe instant messaging constantly running in the background while they are carrying out their tasks" (Enriquez, 2010).
American Educational Research Association conducted a research and it was declared on its annual conference in San Diego, California (2009) that SNSs users study less and generated lower grades eventually (21stcenturyscholar.org). Similarly, Banquil et al. (2009) found a continuing drop of grades among student users of social networking sites. However, many researchers also found a positive association between use of internet and SNS and academic performance of the student users. Students, using internet frequently, scored higher on reading skills test and had higher grades as well (Linda et al., 2006).
3.1. Research Methods
The research was conducted using questionnaire, which was distributed to about 50 GAU students, both undergraduate and postgraduate student alike. Out of the 50 questionnaire that was sent 48 were answered and returned, and two were not returned. 55% of the respondents are male while 45% are female. The respondent are from 10 different country's of the world.
3.2. Population
The main targets for this project are the students of Girne American University (http://www.gau.edu.tr), North Cyprus.
3.3. Objectives of the project
v To discover how the students of GAU, North Cyprus are using the social networking sites?
v To determine how the social networking sites can be used as a platform for educational learning for GAU student
3.4. Findings and Discussion
From the sample of 50 student it shows that all the student who answered the questionnaire uses more than one of the social network site provided in the questionnaire. From the result, it shows student uses more of Facebook, Skype and Youtube, while Wikipedia, Google+ and Linkedin are the least used among the respondent. Out of the 50 respondent 57% are male while 43% are female.
Student have access to the internet in the school environment. In cafeteria's, Library, Cybrary and some strategic spot. There are also internet facilities in the dormitory for both male and female. Student are well exposed to internet, though the mode of teaching is classroom instruction and a marker board. For student to check their result be it mid-term result or semester exams result, student will need to use the internet. The school have a platform which is the E-learning. For student to access they will need to get a password which will enable them to access. Apart from check result you can also use to get materials for writing project or thesis, such as journals etc.
Below is the analysis of the questionnaire used for the study:
RQ. Primary use of social network sites?
About 48% of the respondent uses SNS for downloading of music, posting of photos and chatting, while about 52% uses SNS for research, submitting of assignment and articles. This shows that more student use SNS for academic work rather than for just leisure.
RQ. Friends in SNS compared to real life
62% of the respondent has more friends on SNS than they do in real life, while 38% says they have more friends in real life, and also says that all the friends they have on SNS they know in real life.
RQ. Social network help in getting materials for assignment
Most of the student agrees on the fact that SNS help them academically in getting educational materials for their assignment and project work. With the help of the internet it is almost possible to get any kind of subject material at your disposal. It becomes easier for GAU student, because the school have provided the enable environment for student to access the internet with ease. With the these facilities available student can do research.
RQ. Expressing your ideals and feelings on SNS
About 57% of the student thinks that SNS is not a good platform to express your feelings and ideals. They believe in real life interaction, face to face. Where they can see the expression on the face of the person they are talking to, while 43% of the respondent thinks otherwise. They think SNS is a good platform to express your ideals or feelings. Some students are crowd shy or they think that their ideal is not good enough and feels they may be embarrassed by the lecturer or fellow student may laugh at them. So they believe expressing it through SNS will help them avoid any form of embarrassment, and also be able to express their mind.
RQ. Does SNS affect in writing and speaking in everyday life?
About 58% of the respondent says that SNS does affect the way they communicate to people both in speaking and in writing, while 42% says SNS does not affect them in speaking or in writing. If we take a proper look at it, the way we communicate in SNS especially in writing, we write in short form and most of the words used are slang. This could affect in spelling words.
RQ. Studying time
About 50% says social network sites does not affect their study time, while the other 50% says the social networking sites affect their study time. Especially when they want to study that is when someone will send them a message . so, if you have planned to study for 3 hours and you chat for say 45 minutes, your time of study has already be cut short by 30 minutes, and if it continues like that it will lead to low grade.
RQ. SNS effective tool for e-learning
85% of the respondent believes that social networking sites is an effective tool for e-learning, while 14% thinks otherwise, and 1% did not respond to the question. Student who support , thinks that with SNS one can easily submit assignment, without necessary going to meet lecturer face to face. Student can interact with other student on a particular subject and share ideals.
A large response from the student shows that student are using SNS to do various things such as writing of class assignment, checking of result and other related group and social activities. At first it will be easy to predict that too much use of SNS might have adverse impact on academic performance of student in GAU, but the result did not imply the same. It shows that student is managing the time they spend on the use SNS, and to make sure it does not affect their academic performance. Students are exposed to the internet and they are not shy in using it for research and career activities, to upgrade their academic knowledge, and GAU has putting in place internet facilities that will help student achieve their academic goals. From the response of the student a large percentage prefer the method of submitting assignment online. This is one of the way GAU has improved in E-learning. Every lecturer has an e-mail address which they give to student, not only to submit assignment or project but also to ask question on subject student are not clear with.
Findings suggested that despite spending time on the use of internet or on SNS, students are still efficient enough for their studies, they do not face any difficulty in meeting their studies requirements.
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Jack Sawtelle Blanton (December 7, 1927 - December 28, 2013) was an American oil industry executive, civic leader and philanthropist.
He was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, the son of William N. Blanton (June 23, 1890 – November 27, 1967) and Louise G. Wynn (September 21, 1898 – July 5, 1989). Blanton was raised in Houston, Texas, where his father was general manager of the chamber of commerce. After attending Lamar High School, Blanton earned a B.A. at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) in 1947 with a double major in government and history, and an L.L.B. at UT Law School in 1950.
That same year, Blanton went to work for Eddy C. Scurlock at Scurlock Oil Company in the Division Order Department. He rose through the company ranks to become its president in 1958, and eventually CEO and chairman in 1983,[1] a year after the company was sold to Ashland Oil. He retired from his position in 1988 to become the president of Eddy Refining Company, his current job.[2]
He has had three wives. Blanton was married to Laura Lee Scurlock (June 4, 1928 – August 6, 1999), daughter of Eddy C. Scurlock; the Laura Lee Blanton Building at Southern Methodist University is named for her. On October 14, 2000, he and Lucinda B. Bailey (November 4, 1934 – March 2, 2002) were married. He and Virginia "Ginger" Nelson were married on November 30, 2002. He and Laura Lee Scurlock Blanton had three children, Elizabeth Louise Blanton (born February 1, 1951); Jack Sawtelle Blanton, Jr. (born July 28, 1953); and Eddy Scurlock Blanton (born May 25, 1955).
Blanton has been a civic leader in Houston, where he served as the chairman of the board of Houston Endowment Inc. He also served on the boards of the Methodist Hospital Healthcare System, the Texas Medical Center, the Houston Zoo, and the Jesse H. Jones School of Management at Rice University, among many others. From 1985–1991, he was a Regent of the University of Texas, appointed by Governor White. He served as chairman from 1987–1989. During this time, Blanton had a hand in influencing the Texas Legislature to support more generously the University of Texas System.
During the oil and real estate crises of the 1980s, Blanton served as chairman of the Greater Houston Chamber of Commerce, where he notably helped resolve conflict with effective communication and good working relations.
In 1997, the University of Texas at Austin renamed its art museum the Blanton Museum of Art in his honor after receiving a $12 million donation from Houston Endowment Inc.
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Presentation of EC Regulation 1896/2006
Toolkit on the European Order for Payment: Presentation of EC Regulation 1896/2006
1. Source
The information contained in the European Judicial Atlas are currently migrating towards the European e-Justice Portal.
From March 2016, most of the information will be only available on the Europea, e-Justice Portal.
European e-Justice Portal
European Judicial Atlas in Civil matters
The regulation
2. Introduction: Creation of a genuine European civil procedure
Purpose of the Regulation
Recital 6 explains the purposes of the Regulation by stating: "
The swift and efficient recovery of outstanding debts over which no legal controversy exists is of paramount importance for economic operators in the European Union, as late payments constitute a major reason for insolvency threatening the survival of businesses, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises, and resulting in numerous job losses.
As long as the content of domestic laws and their efficiency vary significantly from a Member State to another, there is a need to set up a European law that would guarantee identical conditions to all the debtors and the creditors throughout the European Union.
Complementary and optional nature of the Regulation
Article 1,3 of the Regulation states that "
This Regulation shall not prevent a claimant from pursuing a claim within the meaning of Article 4 by making use of another procedure available under the law of a Member State or under Community law.
The claimant, when he fulfils conditions to obtain a European order for payment can also resort to domestic procedures to recover his debt or resort to domestic order of payment of his own country. In such a case, he will not benefit directly from a European title. He has to claim in the country that issued the decision for a certificate according to the
EC Regulation 805/2004
, or according to the
EU Regulation 1215/2012
, so called Brussels I a.
Moreover, the claimant still has the possibility according to article 11,3 of the Regulation to apply for a European Order for Payment or to any other procedure of the domestic law of a Member State.
This is explained in Recital 10 of the Regulation that states "
The procedure established by this Regulation should serve as an additional and optional means for the claimant, who remains free to resort to a procedure provided for by national law. Accordingly, this Regulation neither replaces nor harmonises the existing mechanisms for the recovery of uncontested claims under national law.
Cost of the procedure
Article 25 explains in its first paragraph the order of magnitude "
The combined court fees of a European order for payment procedure and of the ordinary civil proceedings that ensue in the event of a statement of opposition to a European order for payment in a Member State shall not exceed the court fees of ordinary civil proceedings without a preceding European order for payment procedure in that Member State.
The Regulation gives an explanation of court fees in its second paragraph: "
court fees shall comprise fees and charges to be paid to the court, the amount of which is fixed in accordance with national law
3. Object
To simplify, to speed up, to reduce the cost
These are the goals of the regulation that are mentioned in its first article. The idea is to simplify, to speed up and to reduce the cost of litigations in cross-border disputes concerning uncontested pecuniary claims by creating a European order for payment procedure. The wording of article 4 of the EC regulation 1896/2006 also makes it obvious as it states: "
The European order for payment procedure shall be established for the collection of pecuniary claims for a specific amount that have fallen due at the time when the application for a European order for payment is submitted.
To ensure free movements of orders of payment
The Regulation also aims to ensure free movements of orders of payment among Member States by creating minimum standards. The respect of these standards makes intermediary procedures prior to execution or recognition in the State of execution unnecessary.
4. Scope
Member States
According to article 69 of the Treaty of the European Union, the Regulation does not apply directly to Denmark, The United Kingdom and Ireland.
However, as stated in Recital 31 of the EC Regulation 1896/2006, The United Kingdom and Ireland expressed their wish to participate in the adoption and application of the Regulation, in accordance with article 3 of the Protocol Annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty establishing the European Community.
Denmark is thus the only Member State in which the Regulation is not applicable.
Scope rationae materiae
The subjects dealt with in the EC Regulation 1896/2006 are listed in its article 2.
It states: "
This Regulation shall apply to civil and commercial matters in cross-border cases, whatever the nature of the court or tribunal. It shall not extend, in particular, to revenue, customs or administrative matters or the liability of the State for acts and omissions in the exercise of State authority ('acta iure imperii')
This article is almost a complete replica of article 2 of the EC regulation 805/2004, which deals with the scope of this text. But, this provision differs from the EU Regulation 1215/2012, which does not exclude acta jure imperii.
Some subjects are explicitly excluded from the scope of the Regulation: rights in property arising out of a matrimonial relationship, wills and succession, bankruptcy, proceedings relating to the winding-up of insolvent companies or other legal persons, judicial arrangements, compositions and analogous proceedings. Are also excluded: claims arising from non-contractual obligations, unless they have been the subject of an agreement between the parties or there has been an admission of debt, or they relate to liquidated debts arising from joint ownership of property.
The EC Regulation 1896/2006 does not explicitly exclude arbitration from its scope while it is excluded from the scope of the EC Regulation 805/2004. Arbitration can be considered as de facto excluded from the scope of the EC Regulation 1896/2006.
Cross-borders situations
Unlike the EC Regulation 805/2004 concerning European Enforcement Order, the Regulation concerning European order for payment procedure is only applicable to cross-borders disputes.
The Regulation explains in it article 3 that as cross-borders dispute is a dispute "
in which at least one of the parties is domiciled or habitually resident in a Member State other than the Member State of the court seised
The Regulation does not give any definition of the notion of "habitual residence" which can lead to legal uncertainty.
5. Competence
Jurisdiction is dealt with in article 6 of the Regulation.
The 1st paragraph specifies that jurisdiction is determined according to the applicable rules of the European Union, especially, the EU Regulation 1215/2012 (so-called Brussels I a).
Specificities for the consumer
According to article 6.2 of the Regulation, when the defendant is a consumer who concluded a contract "
for a purpose which can be regarded as being outside his trade or profession
", only the courts of the Member State where he is domiciled according to article 62 of the EU Regulation 1215/2015 have jurisdictions.
The Regulation is stricter than the EU Regulation 1215/2012 that allows minor exemptions to this principle.
6. Where to find the documents?
The European Commission established the
European Judicial Atlas in civil matters
which provides to citizen and practitioner an easy access to important practical information for judicial cooperation in civil matters.
The site is accessible in 22 of the 24 official languages of the European Union (Cratian and Danish are missing)
For a direct access to the information on the Regulation:
The left column gives access to the following information:
Courts with jurisdiction
Courts for reviews
Communication of members States
Forms 1 to 7 available on the European e-Justice Portal)
The information contained in the European Judicial Atlas are currently migrating towards the
European e-Justice Portal
From March 2016, most of the information will be only available on the e-Justice Portal.
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Beer's No. 1 Super Fan
Dave Gausepohl has Visited More Than 3,400 Breweries and May Get a Trademark for 'Beer Dave'
Beer Dave pulls a can of Uinta Trader Session IPA out of his cooler, flips it upside down, looks around and shakes his head.
"Need a church key," he says, heading off to borrow one.
Opening it from the top, using the tab Uinta thoughtfully provided, is not an option. Church key—a device otherwise known as a beer can opener—in hand, he pops two triangular holes in the bottom and fills a glass. This is how beer can collectors do it. And Dave Gausepohl, more often simply called Beer Dave, is a collector of all things beer. Beer Dave is also a beer tourist who has visited more than 3,400 American breweries. Beer Dave brewed beer for a living before he began selling beer for a living. Beer Dave's various hobbies and jobs look much like a Venn diagram, independent but intersecting.
"This was good," he says on another June day, en route to his home outside Cincinnati after visiting White Squirrel Brewery in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He took a picture of the front, as he always does; drank pints of two of the house beers on tap; toured the brewhouse; and bought a glass with the brewery's logo on it. The guest taps included two beers that he represents as specialty beer manager for Heidelberg Distributing in Kentucky. "So I got to call on an account," he says.
It was the 3,375th brewery he visited since his father took him to the Geo. Wiedemann Brewery in Newport, Kentucky, in 1977. He was 12 years old and had already been collecting cans for three years. He has about 15,000 now, just a small portion of his collection of roughly three quarters of a million brewery-related items.
"Not Haydockian," Beer Dave says, referring to his friends and sometimes traveling companions, Herb and Helen Haydock, who have acquired two lifetimes' worth of breweriana.
The numbers are something beyond impressive, but they are not how Beer Dave became Beer Dave. When he went to work as the specialty beer buyer for the Party Source, a package store, in Bellevue, Kentucky, in 1995, the store already had a wine buyer by the name of Dave. The office manager suggested he take the name Beer Dave, and two days later a Beer Dave name tag arrived. Friends in his various circles had no problem embracing it.
He already owned the name, but a few years ago a collecting friend, Don Johnston, decided he and others would trademark Beer Dave™ for him. That got put on hold when Johnston became ill, and eventually died. Now Johnston's son, a trademark and patent attorney, has resumed the process to acquire the mark, because it was important to his father. "It's not like I'm going to put a circle after it when I sign my name," Beer Dave says. (He, thankfully, does not speak of himself in the third person.)
What mattered is that it was important to Johnston. "He was like a second father to me," Beer Dave says. "The hobby means a lot to me," which is why he wrote a column about beer collectibles for this magazine for five years. "The hobby is my family."
He treats every gathering of collectors like a reunion. "Hey, how are you, Anne?" he asks on the first Saturday in June, offering her something from a carefully packed cooler that contains both interesting cans and interesting beers. He'd been on the road before dawn to drive five hours to Swap-O-Rama just outside of St. Louis. "How you doing, Charley?" he says, starting a conversation about an upcoming event. "I'll help you in any way, shape or form."
After a Brewery Collectibles Club of America (BCCA) board meeting, his cooler becomes a natural gathering spot. He knows who is more likely to want to try an IPA and who prefers cider. He often also knows what special cans they are looking for.
"You've got to see this," he says at mid-afternoon, heading around the corner where a large pile of beer cans sits that will soon be under attack. This is called a "can dump." BCCA members donate cans that they are tired of hauling around, then all who want to wade in to grab whatever catches their eye. He should have said, "You've got to hear this," because cans bouncing off of each other create an eerie metallic chirping sound. "There aren't going to be any $500 jewels, but maybe you'll find something that is a little bit better than a can you have, an upgrade. Or maybe a placeholder," he says, excusing himself when he spots a can—from Rahr Green Bay Brewing Co.—he'll end up taking home with him.
His collection includes half a hand-decorated wooden crate from New Albion Brewing. He particularly treasures it because Don Barkley, who had worked at New Albion and then helped start Mendocino Brewing, gave the crate to Beer Dave and Herb Haydock when they visited Mendocino in 1991. Gausepohl and Haydock carefully pulled the nails from it to split it into two parts. They have a deal that the first to die bequeaths his half to the other.
"Now you have a brewery starting up, they don't have nearly the things to go through that (New Albion founder) Jack McAuliffe did," Beer Dave says. "They say, 'Oh, how am I going to pick a wholesaler?' How about when nobody wanted your beer?"
Beer Dave's boyish looks—accentuated by an impish turn of the mouth when he delivers a pun he is particularly proud of—would fool most carneys, but he turned 50 last December, and it has been more than 40 years since one of his sisters, Sally, handed him an empty 7-ounce can of Pabst that put him in the middle of this Venn diagram.
The range of his experience is evident on a Friday evening in May. He sits on one side of the expansive patio of Lexington's newest brewery, Ethereal Brewing, choosing a spot where he can take it all in. The brewery is located on a former distillery campus, and there is plenty of space for other businesses to fill in around it. Owner John Bishop—who earlier simply identified himself as the father of one of the brewers—is busy rounding up empty glasses. Beer Dave has seen "the dad" chip in plenty of times, but this still makes him smile.
"Belgian (style) beer in Lexington. Who would have thought it?" he says, soon talking about the lagers from Blue Stallion Brewing, then a collaboration beer from Country Boy Brewing and West Sixth Brewing released earlier in the day, kicking off Lexington Beer Week. He is people watching.
"There's another dad," he says.
"You'd see them at Country Boy."
"Not them."
Of course Beer Dave has been there. That's why he's Beer Dave. Well, one of the reasons.
Stan Hieronymus
Stan Hieronymus has known Beer Dave since before he was Beer Dave. He met Dave and Daniel Bradford, then publisher of All About Beer Magazine, on the same weekend in 1993. The three still haven't run out of beer things to talk about.
Nice article David. You've got your hands busy now-a-days…we've seen a lot during our tenure in the business. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Outstanding! A pleasure to read and enjoy.
Dave is a fantastic guy with an extensive data base of knowledge known as "his brain". Clearly deserves all that comes with the title "Beer Dave". Just awesome!!
I used to work with Dave at Oldenberg Brewery in the nineties. Nice to see he continued on that path.
I was there also!
Woop woop, thanks for the shout out to White Squirrel and glad Dave enjoyed his visit!
Beer Dave and I have been personal friends and associates for many years now. I first met him in 1996. We are both past employees of the now defunct premier microbrewery of the midwest, Oldenberg Brewing Co., Ft Mitchell, KY. I always get a kick out of his beer puns and quips. He must have a million of 'em. I remember his part in Beer Camp at Oldenberg, known as "Stump the Beer Geek". He always had an answer for ANY question. You were never quite sure whether he actually knew that much about beer related stuff or not. I never saw an answer challenged. Quite a Guy! I stlll have a list of US Breweries he gave me back when he had only visited just over 2000. For those who haven't had the distinct pleasure of meeting Beer Dave, you don't know what your missing!
An outstanding hobby to be sure! And Beer Dave gets to be in the business! A match made in heaven…
I have known Beer Dave for quite a few years. My real name is Patti but Beer Dave gave me the name Ms. Jackson. My hubby & I ADORE him.
Dave, you hit the bigtime! I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that face on the newsletter preview.
See you at the next Heidelberg beer show!
Seth Brewer
Wine+Market, Enoteca
Great profile on Beer Dave. A true friend and gentleman. Dave and I have had some fun times talking about beer and breweries. Beer Dave is a walking, talking beer encyclopedia and he remembers faces and names better than anyone I know.
I actually met Dave at a brewery (Birmingham Brewing Co.) when we happened to pop in for a tour at the same time. Then he slept on my hotel room floor for three nights during CANvention! Great guy!
Great Article about Dave. I've never met him but have heard a lot about him from his brother. Thanks for the Rhinegeist! The next time you come up to visit him…we'll all have to hit some breweries!!
New brewery opening in Blue Ash this Fri., Dec. 30 run by 4 local guys, called Queen City Brewery- check it out


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The Six Million Dollar Man: Season 6 has been announced by Dynamite Entertainment.
The comic book will pick up directly after the events of the final episode of the television show, and coincide with its 40th anniversary.
The Six Million Dollar Man: Season 6 is written by James Kuhoric, with interior artwork by Juan Antonio Ramirez and a cover design by Alex Ross.
Maskatron, a character created for the Kenner-produced toy range that tied in with the show, will serve as the villain in the comic.
"When deciding what event would be compelling to fans of the show, it seemed that delivering the sixth season was ideal," said Dynamite head Nick Barrucci. "We wanted to build on the mythos, and to do that, we felt that there had to be new villains.
"In discussions, we contemplated - why not bring into the series a villain whom fans would know from the toys, even though he wasn't in the TV series? Why not have a villain who could be The Joker to Steve Austin's Batman, or Doctor Octopus to his Spider-Man? How to push the envelope? And I have to say, Jim took Alex's idea and ran with it.
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Pagan ( Salish' Scimitar Devil His Due) takes Winners dog again for a 4 point major and then went on to take BOW at the Saluki Specialty last weekend! Not bad from the puppy class!! He is just starting out and has only shown at a few shows but is already well on his way to his AKC Championship. You can read more about him on his blog http://salishscimitarpagan.blogspot.com
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Congratulations Pagan!!
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Goodbye Gambler
I was set on keeping Gambler for myself but a wonderful home came along and Gambler is now with a new owner (though Moonsong Chinooks has kept co ownership and breeding rights). He is being trained as a mobility assistance and service dog. His temperament is perfect for it and he settled in quite well. He likes being an only dog and getting all the attention- he is a huge cuddler like his dad Brett and is a 'people dog' versus a 'dogs dog' We will miss him around the house, especially his sister Bianca.
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Goodbye Kaltag
Bownstone Iditarod Trail Song (Kaltag) has found a new home with one of my co workers who also owns Bagheera from my Jungle Book litter. Kaltag, aka Kole, is going to be kept intact for breeding and showing. The family are avid hikers, campers, and snowboarders so he will be out and about often. He is a very good natured, bold boy but is the epitome of turn on and turn off. I will have to say he was the easiest puppy I ever had- in the house he was a lazy lump but when we went out he was in the pool, down the trail, and shooting all over.
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Sunday, June 6, 2010
Frontier litter
At the very end of April, Frontier Chinooks had a beautiful litter of 7 puppies. Sadly, 2 of the puppies did not make it but the remaining 5 pups are wonderful, tawny pups with phenominal coats and nice heads. These pics were taken when the pups were 4 weeks old. Connie Jones of WoodsRunner Chinooks flew out to visit and she walked us through a puppy eval while she was here.
Miss Orange shows off her plush coat and nice color
Miss Rainbow and Mr. Red
Mr Red is a very dark tawny. He will retain a nice mask and dark guard hairs
Mr Red is a very dark tawny. He will retain a nice mask and dark guard hairs
Miss Blue (L) and Miss Yellow (R)
Miss yellow
Miss Yellow showing off her other end...she almost blends in with the bed
Miss Rainbow (l) and Miss Yellow (r)
Miss Rainbow
Miss Rainbow
Miss Orange
Puppies zonk out after a long day of visiting
Lilah looks over her new brood
Frontier pups at a few days old
parents of the new Frontier Litter CH SpringCreek Lambeau Leap (Brett) and CH Moonsong Halona Delilah (Lilah)
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New addition
Moonsong Chinooks is pleased to have Brownstone Itidarod Trail Song - Kaltag/Kole- join our pack. He comes from the Brownstone litter of Moonsong Cedar River Touchdown x Lighthouse Tillamook Rock. Kole will stay with me for a while until a permanent show/breeding home can be found for him. You can see him on his own blog: http://brownstonekaltag.blogspot.com
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Puppies are Here!!
Moonsong Cedar River Touchdown gave birth to 8 puppies on Sunday, March 14th. Sadly one puppy did not make it but 5 girls and 2 boys are enjoying life at Brownstone Chinooks. You can see more on their blog http://brownstonechinooks.blogspot.com/
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Breeding Accomplished!!
Brownstone Chinooks and Moonsong Chinooks are happy to announce the breeding between Moonsong Cedar River Touchdown and Lighthouse Tillamook Rock (Dakota). I was planning on breeding Dakota to my girl Alsea but one of Alsea's littermates had a major health issue crop up and I decided to wait and to make sure Alsea and her other littermates stayed healthy. She is only 3 and can wait for her turn. Cedar is co owned by Moonsong Chinooks and resides with Kay Lee Brown of Brownstone Chinooks. She was looking for a mate and is a half sister to Alsea so it was decided Dakota will be the perfect match. Cedar has excellent movement and a calm biddible temperament. Dakota had a nice head, great substance, and an exuberant friendly disposition. I am really looking forward to these puppies!!!! Brownstone Chinooks has a blog http://brownstonechinooks.blogspot.com/2010/02/first-blog.html
Cedar hanging out with the Moonsong pack hours before her 'date' with Dakota
Cedar hanging out with the Moonsong pack hours before her 'date' with Dakota
He is also very Handsome
This is Cedar's dad Brett and her sister Rosie. I am keeping my finger's crossed that we get pups that combine Brett and Dakota- should be some Chinook!
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