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The championship match of the 2010 FIRST Robot Competition is starting soon. Many teams have fallen and many robots have fallen apart. But now it's just the best student-made bots of the lot, battling for all the glory. Watch inside!
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We'll be back on Monday with a close-up look at the winning robots. I had a blast watching the competition today, and, if you tuned in, you saw just how bright our engineering future looks. These kids simply radiated excitement at the FRC championship today. Dean Kamen pledged to push the FIRST program harder than ever this coming year, with the hope of getting young people across the nation hooked on science and technology.
6.44: And that's all she wrote! Congrats to all the teams who participated, and especially Team 67, Team 177, and Team 294, the big winners.
6.42: RED ALLIANCE WINS! 16-13! New World Champions!
The red team double-hangs to victory:
6.41: Ah tie game!
6.40: Blue's off to an early lead!
6.38: Oh yes! Finals match 2 about to start. If the Red Alliance wins, they're the champions!
6.35: 10 indicators you need a break from Breakway!: (omissions due to my fingers not being fast enough)
10. On the census form, you listed your primary residence as your robot build site.
8. You are lobbying your Congressional representative to vote no for health care until robots are covered.
6. You think if World Cup Soccer was played with 12 balls, Americans might actually watch it (huge applause, here).
4. You get in trouble in PE class for trying to hang from other kids who are doing pull ups.
2. Your parents are furious because you put red and blue interchangeable bumpers on the minivan.
1. You love Atlanta, but you are already scoping out hotels in St. Louis! (apparently this is the site of next year's competition).
6:34: Black Eyed Peas bumping on the speakers. It wouldn't be a 2010 robotics competition without them, after all.
6:31:"Being the new kid on the block isn't easy" – congrats to team Innovators Robotics, winners of the Rookie of the Year award.
6:30: Creed's playing! (over the PA, not live.)
6:27: The creativity award, by Xerox, is next. NOT the copycat award, mind you. It goes to team Las Guerillas, from Bloomfield Hills, MI, for their 10 pound aluminium bot.
6:26: Oh this is cool, though – the woman from Johnson and Johnson is telling a story about how team Ice Cubed busted a criminal who stole a FIRST robot.
6:25: The Gracious Professional award, presented by Johnson and Johnson, for teams with "grace and humility". Robots know no humility, Johnson and Johnson! Don't let Wall-E fool you!
6:22: Hmmm, one of the seven teams sponsored by Motorola was called the "Space Cookies".
6:21: The Red Alliance wins the first finals match 16-14! That was close.
6.20: Oh I like this big yellow pyramid bot.
6.19: The Superbowl of Smarts, the announcer calls it. It's true – watching these youngster-made machines is pretty inspiring stuff.
6.18: A Michigan squad on both teams! We win no matter what!
6.17:The announcer is doing a handstand. Things are getting wacky. Atmosphere at the Georgia Dome seems electric.
6.15:TIME FOR THE FINALS. I've been waiting all day for this!
6.14: Engineering Excellence award goes to team Patriotics, from Ontario. Theirs is definitely one of the sleeker looking bots of the bunch.
6.07: Time for the special judges award. They're giving it to the Ridgeview Academy Rambotics, the "best dressed team in Atlanta". The team is, in fact, very well dressed, operating their bot in full bow-tie get-up.
6.06: Red Alliance wins! They will play in the championship.
6.05: I hear "I like to move it, move it," in the background at the Georgia Dome. That can only mean that the championship is drawing near.
6.00: Ooh, tie-breaker semi-final match.
5.54: These bots are not so polite. Lots of smashing into each other.
5.53: So this is pretty hectic, but I think this is how these games work: The first 20 seconds or so are left for autonomous robot soccer, where the bots just seek out the balls on their own and try to score. Then the students are allowed to control their bots with joysticks.
5.52: This announcer has an excellent hold on the recent history of FIRST robotics championships. He knows the history of every single team that's still left, and there's not a single teleprompter in sight.
5.50: The last semi-final match is here!
5.48: The industrial design award goes to team Killer Bees from Auburn Hills, MI. I'm noticing that a disproportionate amount of these teams hail from Michigan, my home state. Why is that, I wonder? We have a disproportionate amount of militias, too, as you may know.
5.47: Impressive animations, to be sure. But I want some robot soccer action!
5.44: WHOA, winners of the AutoDesk design awards get iPads!
5.43: The fact that high school students made all these robots is really pretty amazing. I can't make some of the more complicated LEGO sets.
5.41: Liveblogging is stressful. I don't know how Chen does it.
5.40: Geez, these games go fast. Blink and you miss them. Semi Final 1, Match 2 just ended and the Blue Alliance won 22 – 14.
5.37: The announcer just said that team O.P. Robotics from Ontario Canada "owns Canada". Next year some Canadian teams are going to come hard.
5.36: So it seems like all of these team are perennial favourites. A lot of World Champs back again to fight for the FIRST crown in 2010. Watch here if you're not already.
5.35: Oh boy, it's about to go down! Semi Final 1, Match 2
5.32: The Dedalus Project team, hailing from California, just won the imagery award for the prettiest bot.
5.28: A little video on the idea behind the FIRST logo at the moment. If you missed the video explaining this year's challenge – it's an elaborate combination of soccer and robot gymnastics – you can catch up with this video:
5.26: Here's a rap song about FIRST and the joys of robotics, called "Dream It, Design It, Build It", that you can listen to to pump yourself up for the final match. Nice production values!
5.25: The quarter-final matches have drawn to a close, and Dean Kamen, the founder of FIRST (and inventor of the Segway), is giving away some awards before the final showdown.
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Liberty Women's Soccer Head Coach Jessica Hain was recently inducted into the North Carolina Soccer Hall of Fame (NCSHOF) as a member of the 1995 US Youth Soccer Under-18 national championship team, the 1977 Raleigh Spartans. "It was surprising and humbling to be honored in the North Carolina Soccer Hall of Fame," Hain stated. "God has mighty ways of using us to share Himself with others if we are willing. I pray that I'm always willing to speak of His great name on every platform He places me!" After capturing their first Southern Region (III) Championship in the summer of 1995, Hain and the Spartans made the trek to West Palm Beach, Fla., where they had the tall task of squaring off with two previous national championship teams. The Spartans won its semifinals matchup, 4-3, before winning in the finals on penalty kicks to bring home North Carolina's first-ever youth soccer national title. In addition to the induction, Hain and her teammates are also the second team to be to be recognized on the NCSHOF National Champions Hall of Honor. Hain enters her sixth season as head coach of the Lady Flames, earning Big South Coach of the Year honors in 2009. This past season, Hain led Liberty to its best start in program history, while coaching four players who earned Big South postseason honors – Lauren Stell (all-conference first team), Karen Blocker (all-conference second team), Jaime Bouffard (all-freshman) and Brittany Aanderud (all-freshman).
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Director Muazzam Beg will unveil the first look of his film "Munna Bhai, Sallu Bhai", said to be inspired by Salman Khan and Sanjay Dutt's lives, on "Dabangg" star's birthday.
Salman will turn 48 on Dec 27 and the cast and crew of the film have arranged a cake cutting ceremony at Bandra's Gaiety Galaxy.
"When we started shooting in Ajmer, people on sets would ask me if we would also celebrate Salman's birthday. I said yes and here we are, all geared up for it," Beg said in a statement without confirming the superstar's presence at the function.
"We want to celebrate the day with the actor's die-hard fans and also take the opportunity to unveil the first look of the film," he added.
During the shooting of the film in Jaipur and Ajmer, some of Salman's fans had requested Beg to pass on their birthday wishes to the superstar.
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Although the neckband took a while to adjust to make sure you weren't choking yourself or so loose you looked like your neck was probably made of heat shrink tubing, remember this sort of equipment are very personal as they are not designed for a standardized use which is what the Bowmans or the Liberator headsets are for. Once the adjustments were made, the neckband sat very comfortable around the neck with a slight pressure from the metallic transponders pushing in towards your neck. One concern at first with regards to the acoustic tubing was that it would be at the wrong length to coil round the back of your ear. IASUS have given a connective tube for you to solve this problem. Cut off the excess coil and connect the two bits of tube together and now you've got this at the perfect length, GENIUS! Surprising not every head set you get for radios that include an acoustic coil come with this, it is so simple yet so effective.
The purpose of this test is to show the clarity of the neckband, its adaptors and the radio. Considering it is all the same brand and is on its recommended items list, we expected it to work pretty well.
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We managed to convince one of the office clerks to wear this under his shirt and tie and walk to the local sandwich store to get the lunch specials for the rest of the department. To our surprise the clarity of the throat mic had given the message back to the office with the exact amount that everybody is supposed to pay, so clear that it was as if the cashier was telling you that right in front of you.
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Hebrew-Aramaic term originally designating only the assembly at Jerusalem that constituted the highest political magistracy of the country. It was derived from the Greek συνέδριον. Josephus uses συνέδριον for the first time in connection with the decree of the Roman governor of Syria, Gabinius (57
In the Talmudic sources the "Great" Sanhedrin at Jerusalem is so called in contradistinction to other bodies designated by that name; and it was generally assumed that this Great Sanhedrin was identical with the Sanhedrin at Jerusalem which is mentioned in the non-Talmudic sources, in the Gospels, and in Josephus. The accounts in the two different sets of sources referring to the Sanhedrin, however, differ materially in their main characteristics. The Great Sanhedrin is designated in the Talmudic sources as "Sanhedrin Gedolah hayoshebet be-lishkat ha-gazit" = "the Great Sanhedrin which sits in the hall of hewn stone"(Sifra, Wayiḳra, ed. Weiss, 19a). The mention of "sanhedrin" without the epithet "gedolah" (Yer. Sanh. i. 19c) seems to presuppose another body than the Great Sanhedrin that met in the hall of hewn stone. For neither Josephus nor the Gospels in speaking of the Sanhedrin report any of its decisions or discussions referring to the priests or to the Temple service, or touching in any way upon the religious law, but they refer to the Sanhedrin exclusively in matters connected with legal procedure, verdicts, and decrees of a political nature; whereas the Sanhedrin in the hall of hewn stone dealt, according to the Talmudic sources, with questions relating to the Temple, the priesthood, the sacrifices, and matters of a kindred nature. Adolf Büchler assumes indeed that there were in Jerusalem two magistracies which were entirely different in character and functions and which officiated side by side at the same time. That to which the Gospels and Josephus refer was the highest political authority, and at the same time the supreme court; this alone was empowered to deal with criminal cases and to impose the sentence of capital punishment. The other, sitting in the hall of hewn stone, was the highest court dealing with the religious law, being in charge also of the religious instruction of the people (Sanh. xi. 2-4).I. The Political Sanhedrin: The Gerusia.
This body was undoubtedly much older than the term "sanhedrin." Accounts referring to the history of the pre-Maccabean time represent a magistracy at the head of the people, which body was designated Gerusia. In 203 Antiochus the Great wrote a letter to the Jews in which he expressed his satisfaction that they had given him a friendly reception at Jerusalem, and had even come to meet him with the senate (γερουσία; "Ant." xii. 3, § 3). Antiochus V. also greeted the gerusia in a letter to the Jewish people. This gerusia, which stood at the head of the people, was the body that was subsequently called "sanhedrin." The date and the manner of its origin can not now be determined. Josephus calls it either συνέδριον or βουλή, and its members πρεσβΎτεροι (="elders," i.e.,
The meetings took place in one of the chambers of the Temple in order that the discussions and decrees might thereby be invested with greater religious authority. According to a passage in the Mekilta (Mishpaṭim, 4 [ed. Weiss, p. 87a]), the Sanhedrin, which was empowered to pass the sentence of capital punishment, sat "in the vicinity of the altar," i.e., in one of the chambers of the inner court of the Temple. It was called "the hall of the βουλευταί" because the latter sat there. Subsequently it was called "lishkat parhedrin" = "the hall of the πρόεδροι" (Yoma 8b). In this hall there was also a private room for the high priest (Yoma 10a; Tosef., Yoma, i. 2). The βουλευταί or the πρόεδροι assembled in this private room (comp. Matt. xxvi. 57; Mark xiv. 63) before they met in the hall.
The Sanhedrin did not, however, always retain this place of meeting; for, according to Josephus, the βουλή was in the vicinity of the xystus ("B. J." v. 4, § 2), hence beyond the Temple mount, or, according to Schürer (l.c. ii. 211), on it, though not within the inner court. In the last years of the Jewish state, therefore, to which the account in Josephus must be referred, the Sanhedrin left its original seat, being compelled to do so perhaps by the Pharisees, who, on gaining the upper hand, would not permit the secular Sanhedrin to sit in the sanctuary. Indeed, while the Sanhedrin still sat in the Temple, it was decreed that a mezuzah was to be placed in the hall of the πρόεδροι. This was not required in any of the other apartments of the Temple; and R. Judah b. Ila'i, who was otherwise thoroughly informed as to the earlier institutions of the Temple, was unable to assign a reason for the decree (Yoma 10a). It may be explained only on the assumption that it was intended to secularize the sittings of this Sanhedrin. It may have been for the same reason that the body was subsequently excluded entirely from the Temple, inasmuch as the latter and its apartments were intended for the cult and matters connected with it, while the discussions and decrees of this Sanhedrin were political and secular in nature.Functions and Position.
The extant references to the Sanhedrin are not sufficient to give an exact and detailed idea of its functions and of the position which it occupied. It is certain, however, that the extent of its power varied at different times, and that the sphere of its functions was restricted in various ways by the Roman government. One of these restrictions was Gabinius' above-mentioned division of the Jewish territory into five provinces, each with a sanhedrin of its own, whereby the authority and the functions of the Sanhedrin of Jerusalem were materially diminished. Its power was insignificant under Herod and Archelaus. After the death of these rulers its authority again increased, the internal government of the country being largely in its hands. It administered the criminal law, and had independent powers of police, and hence the right to make arrests through its own officers of justice. It was also empowered to judge cases that did not involve the death penalty, only capital cases requiring the confirmation of the procurator.
The high priest, who from the time of Simeon wasalso the head of the state, officiated as president of the Sanhedrin. He bore the title "nasi" (prince), because the reins of government were actually held by him. Subsequently, when they were transferred to other hands, the high priest retained the title of nasi as president of the Sanhedrin. The powers of the latter official were restricted under the procurators, without whose permission the body could not be convened ("Ant." xx. 9, § 1). This Sanhedrin, since it was a political authority, ceased to exist when the Jewish state perished with the destruction of Jerusalem (70
This body, which met in the hall of hewn stone and was called also "the Great Bet Din" or simply "the Bet Din in the hall of hewn stone" (Tosef., Hor. i. 3; Tosef., Soṭah, ix. 1; Yer. Sanh. i. 19c), was invested with the highest religious authority. According to Talmudic tradition it originated in the Mosaic period, the seventy elders who were associated with Moses in the government of Israel at his request (Num. xi. 4-31) forming together with him the first Sanhedrin (Sanh. i. 6). The institution is said to have existed without interruption from that time onward (comp. Yer. Sanh. i. 18b, where, in a comment on Jer. lii. 24 et seq. and II Kings xxv. 18 et seq., it is said that Nebuzar-adan brought the Great Sanhedrin to Riblah before Nebuchadnezzar); but the fact that no passage whatever in the pre-exilic books of the Bible refers to this institution seems to indicate that it was not introduced before the time of the Second Temple. Originally it was probably not a regularly constituted authority, but merely a synod which convened on special occasions for the purpose of deliberating on important questions or of issuing regulations referring to religious life. The first assembly of this nature was that held under Ezra and Nehemiah (Neh. viii.-x.), which was called "the Great Synagogue" ("Keneset ha-Gedolah") in Jewish scholastic tradition. Subsequently, at a date which can not be definitely determined, this occasional assembly was replaced by a standing body. The latter, which was called "Sanhedrin" or "Bet Din," was regarded as the continuation of the synods which had previously been convened only occasionally.Influence of the Pharisees.
It further appears from Ab. i. 2-4 that the Great Bet Din was regarded as a continuation of the Keneset ha-Gedolah; for the so-called "zugot" who were at the head of the Great Bet Din are named after the men of the Great Synagogue, which was regarded as the precursor of the Great Bet Din. This explains why the latter is sometimes called also "synagogue" (
According to R. Jose b. Ḥalafta, the members of the Great Bet Din were required to possess the following qualifications: scholarship, modesty, and popularity among their fellow men (Tosef., Ḥag. ii. 9; Sanh. 88b). According to an interpretation in Sifre, Num. 92 (ed. Friedmann, p. 25b), they had also to be strong and courageous. Only such were eligible, moreover, as had filled three offices of gradually increasing dignity, namely, those of local judge, and member successively of two magistracies at Jerusalem (Jose b. Ḥalafta, l.c.). R. Johanan, a Palestinian amora of the third century, enumerates the qualifications of the members of the Sanhedrin as follows: they must be tall, of imposing appearance, and of advanced age; and they must be learned and must understand foreign languages as well as some of the arts of the necromancer (Sanh. 19a).Functions and Authority.
The hall of hewn stone ("lishkat ha-gazit") in which the bet din sat was situated on the southern side of the inner court of the Temple (Mid. v. 4). It was used for ritual purposes also, the priests drawing lots there for the daily service of the sacrifices, and also reciting the "Shema'" there (Tamid ii., end, to iii., beginning; iv., end, to v., beginning). The larger part of the hall was on the site of the court of laymen. There were two entrances: one from the court of the priests, which was used by the latter; the other in the Water gate, used by the laity. The Great Bet Din sat daily, except on the Sabbath and on feast-days, between the morning and evening sacrifices (Tosef., Sanh. vii. 1). On the Sabbath and on feast-days, on which there were no meetings in the hall of hewn stone, the members of the bet din assembled in the schoolhouse on the Temple mount (ib.). According to the accounts given in the Talmudic sources, the Great Bet Din had the following functions, which it exercised in part as a body and in part through committees of its members: It had supervision over the Temple service, which was required to be conducted in conformity with theLaw and according to Pharisaic interpretation. It decided which priests should perform the Temple service (Mid., end). It supervised especially important ritual acts, as the service on the Day of Atonement (Yoma i. 3). It had in charge the burning of the Red Heifer and the preparation of the water of purification (Tosef., Sanh. iii. 4). When the body of a murdered person was found, members of the Great Bet Din had to take the necessary measurements in order to determine which city, as being the nearest to the place of the murder, was to bring the sacrifice of atonement (Soṭah ix. 1; Tosef., Sanh. iii. 4; comp. Soṭah 44b-45a). It had also to decide as to the harvest tithes (Peah ii. 6). It sat in judgment on women suspected of adultery, and sentenced them to drink the bitter water (Soṭah i. 4; see Ordeal). It arranged the calendar (R. H. ii. 5 et seq.), and provided correct copies of the Torah roll for the king, and probably for the Temple also (Tosef., Sanh. iv. 4; Yer. Sanh. ii. 20c). In general it decided all (doubtful questions relating to the religious law (Sanh. 88b) and rendered the final decision in regard to the sentence of the teacher who promulgated opinions contradicting the traditional interpretation of the Law ("zaḳen mamreh"; Sanh. xi. 2-4; see Elder, Rebellious).The "Zugot."
Two persons were at the head of the bet din: one, the actual president with the title "nasi"; the other, the second president or vice-president, who bore the title "ab bet din" (father of the court). The existence of these two offices is well authenticated from the time following the Hadrianic persecution. R. Johanan (3d cent.) says that in the college which was regarded as the continuation of the Great Bet Din in the hall of hewn stone R. Nathan officiated as second president ("ab bet din") side by side with R. Simeon b. Gamaliel II., who was president ("nasi"; Hor. 13b). In a mishnah (Ḥag. ii. 2) five pairs of scholars are enumerated who were at the head of the Great Bet Din at the time of the Second Temple; and it is stated that one of each pair was nasi and the other ab bet din. These five pairs of scholars, who collectively are also designated "zugot" (Peah ii. 6), were at the same time the most prominent representatives of the tradition (Ab. i. 1 et seq.) and at the head of the Pharisaic school. There is therefore no reason to doubt the statement that from the time the bet din came under Pharisaic influence these Pharisaic teachers stood at its head. The fact that the high priest had formerly been the president of this bet din explains why there were two presidents. Since the high priest was probably frequently prevented from presiding at the meetings, or was perhaps not competent to do so, another officer had to be chosen who should be the actual director of the body. The double office was retained when, with the growing influence of the Pharisees, the nasi of the bet din was a scribe and no longer the high priest. The title "nasi," which the president of the bet din bore, may have originated at the time when the high priest—the real prince and the head of the state—acted as president. The following reason also may have determined the retention of the title, even after the high priest no longer officiated as president: The bet din, which, as shown above, was called also
Business at the meetings of the bet din was transacted according to a certain order. Reliable traditions describing the procedure and the balloting have been preserved in the Mishnah; but it is impossible to distinguish between the regulations obtaining in the bet din at the time of the Second Temple and those obtaining in the school of Jabneh, which was regarded as a continuation of the Sanhedrin. The following are some of these regulations: The members of the bet din sat in a semicircle in order that they might see one another (Sanh. iv. 2; Tosef., Sanh. viii. 1). The president sat in the center (Tosef., l.c.). Two secretaries recorded the various opinions expressed by the members; according to one tradition there were three secretaries (Sanh. l.c.). When a question was raised and a member of the college declared that he was in possession of a tradition according to which the question might be decided, such tradition was decisive. When no member knew of any tradition relating to the question at issue, discussion followed and a ballot was taken (Tosef., Sanh. vii. 1). Three rows of scholars sat in front of the bet din, and filled vacancies in the latter when necessary (Sanh. iv. 4; Tosef., Sanh. viii. 2). This regulation, however, refers only to the school of Jamnia and not to the bet din of the time of the Second Temple; for only such men were appointed to membership in the latter as had previously sat in less important bodies.
After the destruction of the Temple at Jerusalem and the downwall of the Jewish state, the Academy of Jabneh was organized as the supreme religious authority, being therefore regarded as the continuation of the Great Bet Din in the hall of hewn stone. The later Jewish academies under the presidency of the patriarchs of the family of Hillel—hence, down to the end of the fourth century—were also regarded as the continuation of that institution (this is the meaning of the sentence "The bet din of the hall of hewn stone went on ten journeys until it finally settled at Tiberias"; R. H. 31a, b); they accordingly retained its organization, and the president bore the title of nasi, the second president officiating side by side with him as ab bet din.
- Schürer, Gesch. ii. 188-189, where the literature on the subject is given;
- Jacob Reifmann, Sanhedrin, Berdychev, 1888;
- Bacher, art. Sanhedrin, in Hastings, Dict. Bible;
- Adolf Büchler, Das Synhedrium in Jerusalem und das Grosse Bet Din in der Quaderkammer des Jerusalemischen Tempels, Vienna, 1902, the chief source for the view given above.


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Essentially, there are two main types of whisky – malt whisky and grain whisky.
Malt whisky is distilled from malted barley in a pot still. This is a batch process, which yields relatively small quantities. This type of whisky tends to be labelled with the name of the distillery and a statement about the age of the spirit. Malting is a time-consuming process that transforms complex sugars in the barley into simple sugars that dissolve in water. This sugar-water (worts) is used to feed the yeasts that produce alcohol in a mixture called a wash. The wash is fed into the still and eventually becomes whisky.
Grain whisky is distilled in a column still and can be made from a number of grains (malted and un-malted), sometimes including some barley. Column stills are commonly used for large-scale commercial production and they are responsible for producing the vast majority of whisky that is sold worldwide.
Whisky is subject to certain regulations. In the UK a whisky must have been aged for a minimum of three years. In addition to an ageing requirement, whisky is labelled under different categories:
- A Single Malt Whisky is a malt whisky from a single distillery.
- A Single Grain Whisky is a whisky from a single grain distillery.
- A combination of malt whiskies from different distilleries is a known as Blended Malt.
- A blend of both types of whisky (no matter the proportions) is a Blended Whisky.
Sometimes a whisky carries a statement about the age of the whisky in the bottle. This statement denotes the age of the youngest whisky used in that release. Whiskies of different ages and from different barrels are used to try and keep a well-known product (such as "Highland Park 12 Year Old") consistent from one year to the next.
Occasionally, the contents of a single barrel are released as a "single cask" bottling and smaller batches can be made from specific casks. Ideally, the colour of whisky is extracted from the wood in which it's aged. In practice, the colour is often adjusted with caramel and one can usually assume this is the case unless stated otherwise on the label. Chemicals formed during the manufacture of caramel additives also have important flavour characteristics – some are identical to chemicals released when oak is toasted. In addition to colouring, most whisky is filtered to remove natural compounds that make the spirit look oily when water is added and cloudy when it's cold.
The casks used for ageing whisky tend to be old Bourbon barrels. This is because Bourbon (a type of American whisky made from grain and distilled in a variety of ways) must be matured in new oak barrels. Once the Bourbon distillers have used these barrels once they are sold on to distillers of other spirits who use them to add character and complexity their own spirits. Whisky distillers also use barrels that have previously contained fortified and other wines, in order to add character to their spirit.
Although Scotland is the most famous region for whisky distillation, there are whiskies from around the world. Our own selection includes whiskies from India, England, Wales, Japan, Ireland, Sweden and New Zealand.
A special mention of peat: A key part of malting grains is drying grains. Before other forms of fuel became more common, malting barley in Scotland was dried in kilns fed with solid peat. The smoke from this fuel rose and left particulate matter in the grain that would make it through to the distillate, giving it a characteristic flavour. These days grain of different peating levels is available to purchase (very few distilleries malt any grain on site) and used to make spirit in places as far flung as Goa and Yoichi in Japan.Hide Description
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A Pareto plot is an enhanced bar chart. It comes in useful for deciding which bars in your bar chart are important. To see this, take a look at some made up DVD sales data.
set.seed(1234) dvd_names <- c("Toy Tales 3", "The Dusk Saga: Black Out", "Urban Coitus 2", "Dragon Training for Dummies", "Germination", "Fe Man 2", "Harold The Wizard", "Embodiment", "Alice in Elysium", "The Disposables", "Burpee 3", "The Morning After") n_products <- length(dvd_names) dvd_sales <- data.frame( product = dvd_names, value = rlnorm(n_products) ^ 2 ) library(ggplot2) bar_chart <- ggplot(dvd_sales, aes(product, value)) + geom_bar() + xlab("") + ylab("Sales value") + opts(axis.text.x=theme_text(angle=20, hjust=1)) bar_chart
The "importance" of each bar is given by its height, so we can make the plot easier to interpret by simply sorting the bars from largest to smallest.
ordered_dvd_sales <- dvd_sales ordered_dvd_sales$product <- with(ordered_dvd_sales, reorder(product, -value)) ordered_bar_chart <- bar_chart %+% ordered_dvd_sales ordered_bar_chart
Suppose you need to describe what you've been selling to your boss. You don't want to list every DVD because bosses have short attention spans and get confused easily. To make it easy for the boss, you can tell him which films make up 90% of sales. (Or some other percentage — if your catalogue is much bigger then a smaller percentage may be more realistic.)
To find 90% of sales, we need a cumulative total of the sales values. Due to a technicality of
ggplot2, since bars use a categorical scale but lines require a numeric scale, we also need to convert the x values to be numeric. This function fortifies our dataset with the requisite columns.
fortify_pareto_data <- function(data, xvar, yvar) { for(v in c(xvar, yvar)) { if(!(v %in% colnames(data))) { stop(sQuote(v), " is not a column of the dataset") } } o <- order(data[, yvar], decreasing = TRUE) data <- data[o, ] data[, xvar] <- factor(data[, xvar], levels = data[, xvar]) data[, yvar] <- as.numeric(data[, yvar]) data$.cumulative.y <- cumsum(data[, yvar]) data$.numeric.x <- as.numeric(data[, xvar]) data } #Convert sales to fraction of sales fractional_dvd_sales <- dvd_sales total_sales <- sum(fractional_dvd_sales$value) fractional_dvd_sales$value <- fractional_dvd_sales$value / total_sales #Now add columns for Pareto plot fortified_dvd_sales <- fortify_pareto_data(fractional_dvd_sales, "product", "value") pareto_plot <- bar_chart %+% fortified_dvd_sales + geom_line(aes(.numeric.x, .cumulative.y)) + ylab("Percentage of sales") + scale_y_continuous(formatter = "percent") pareto_plot
To see which DVDs constitute 90% of sales, read across from 90% on the y-axis until you hit the cumulative total line. Now read down until you hit the x-axis, and all the DVDs to the left of that point constitute your "important" set. In this case, you'd be telling your boss that 90% of sales come from "Urban Coitus 2″, "Fe Man 2″, "Germination" and "The Dusk Saga: Black Out".
And there you have it: a Pareto plot. These plots are useful whenever you need to reduce the number of categories of data. As well as these businessy examples, they are great for things like principal component analysis and factor analysis where you need to reduce the number of components/factors.
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In what is now the fourth largest bull market on record, investors — advisors included — are clamoring for alpha, or excess investment return.
But according to Francis Kinniry Jr., principal of Vanguard's investment strategy group, most — advisors again included — are looking in the wrong place, and would do well to look in the mirror for their lack of success.
Kinniry put it much more politely than that in an interview with ThinkAdvisor at ETF.com's annual Inside ETFs conference in Hollywood, Fla.
He used language such as "pro-cyclical behavior," which is a polite way of saying chasing returns, but his logic is unassailable:
If numerous studies confirm that investors buy late in a bull market and sell after the crash, and if 80% of mutual fund and ETF assets are advisor-managed, that means that advisors are a big part of the problem.
But Vanguard has a solution, called Advisor's Alpha — a term it trademarked after first publishing research in 2001 about how advisors can add value through relationship-oriented services rather than through hard-to-deliver promises about investment return.
"Advisor's Alpha is a process or philosophy for how advisors could move the value proposition away from the traditional value proposition" of outperforming an investor's asset allocation, Kinniry says.
"So if the average return for a 60-40 stock-bond portfolio were 8%, I would try to make 8% into 9.5%," he continues. "That is very difficult to accomplish … We think it would be better for advisors to focus on the area where they can add real value instead of trying to outperform a passive benchmark."
Kinniry knows whereof he speaks because he lived it as an advisor and based his early research on advisor's alpha on that experience.
As a newly minted MBA and CFA, Kinniry joined a high-end RIA with $500 million under management catering to institutional and high-net-worth families where the minimum account size was $5 million. The firm's largest client invested $100 million with the firm and the median account size was $12 million.
Yet most advisors, whose clients have more modest account sizes, will be interested to know that Kinniry and his colleagues — far from seeking 9.5% when the market was returning 8% — would explicitly say something like: "If the market is returning 7%, we'll probably get you 6%."
That calculation was based on portfolios that were 50% indexed, so with the asset manager's low fee and the RIA's 50 basis points (accounts were so large that they didn't need a high fee to be profitable, Kinniry points out), a 6% return was realistic and obviated the need to take on large risks in the hopes of achieving market-beating returns.
Kinniry and his partners stressed instead the value of the estate planning, succcession planning, trust planning and the overall "deep relationships" formed with clients, helping wealthy families, for example, in advising the next generation on how to deal responsibly with money rather than coast on trust funds.
Kinniry says client retention was extremely high, and in case advisors are wondering about investors concluding they can directly invest in an index fund on their own, the Vanuard exec says there is no cause of worry.
He cites research from Greenwich, Spectrem and others saying there is very little crossover between advised investors and direct investors. "People don't tend to switch religions too often," he says by way of analogy.
Kinniry says the advisor's alpha approach pays off particularly well for doctors, lawyers and other highly analytical people who are most prone to shooting themselves in the foot financially.
That is because behavioral biases mislead such investors, who are capable of studying market history but drawing the wrong conclusions. The best hip surgeons don't vary so much year after year, but the investments are subject to cyclicality.
He cites the example of a distinguished doctor he knows who today is extremely grateful for the 1% asset management fee he pays because of his history of blowing himself up through these sort of behavioral biases.
Kinniry and his team put out steady research, since 2001, on the various ways advisors can add advisor's alpha, with efforts to quantify each component.
For example, "the dollar weight of return of investors…who stayed with the policy portfolio — we've shown that value to be about 150 basis points."
That sort of finding is especially meaningful today at a time when the market is up over 200% from its recent bottom, yet investor returns are far more modest, since scared investors remained wedded to bonds through May 2013, Kinniry says.
"Today a lot of investors are demanding to have high equity share … calling advisors every day saying 'Equities look great; bonds — what am I gonna get 0, 1, 2%?' We're not market forecasters but valuations look stretched," he says, suggesting that advisors should be selling stocks and buying bonds today just as they should have done in the late '90s.
Regardless of investors' asset allocation, advisors should help them stay the course.
That, Kinniry says, is really what advisors are getting paid for. Just as a nutritionist wouldn't accept her patient's request for Big Macs, advisors should resist irrational investment preferences.
"Disagreeing with clients who are paying you can be challenge: 'If I don't take money out of market, they're going to fire me.'" he says. "But if you're not going to act as their fiduciary and go 'against' them, they don't need you."
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"A growing economy that creates good middle-class jobs — that must be our North Star," Obama said.
President Barack Obama, seeking to put the prosperity and promise of the middle class at the heart of his second-term agenda, called on Congress on Tuesday night to raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour, saying that would lift millions out of poverty and energize the economy.
In a State of the Union address that fleshed out the populist themes of his inauguration speech last month, Obama declared it was "our generation's task" to "reignite the true engine of America's economic growth — a rising, thriving middle class."
"A growing economy that creates good middle-class jobs — that must be our North Star," he said. "Every day, we should ask ourselves three questions as a nation: How do we attract more jobs to our shores? How do we equip our people with the skills to do those jobs? And how do we make sure that hard work leads to a decent living?"
The increase in the minimum wage — from its current $7.25 an hour — was the most tangible of a raft of initiatives laid out by the president, from education to energy, which Obama said would accelerate the nation's economic recovery by helping those in the broad middle class.
Raising the minimum wage, which the White House said would affect at least 15 million workers, also holds political appeal for the younger Americans, struggling workers and labor groups, all of which were important to Obama's re-election victory.
Speaking to a divided Congress, with many Republicans still smarting from his electoral victory last November, Obama declared, "Together, we have cleared away the rubble of crisis, and say with renewed confidence that the state of our union is stronger."
He urged lawmakers to act on immigration, climate change, the nation's fiscal woes, and above all, gun violence, offering an emotional appeal that drew heavily on recent tragedies like the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn. If they do not move, he said, he will use his executive authority to enact his own measures.
Obama also spoke darkly of the consequences of a failure to reach a budget deal, which would set off automatic spending cuts on the military and other government programs.
"These sudden, harsh, arbitrary cuts would jeopardize our military readiness," he said, describing them as a "really bad idea."
Republicans rejected Obama's activism, saying it would inevitably translate into higher taxes and an overweening government role, strangling growth and deepening the nation's fiscal hole.
But in selecting Sen. Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American from Florida, to deliver their party's official rebuttal, Republicans implicitly acknowledged the damage they had suffered at the polls from their hard line stance on immigration.
In a speech dominated by domestic issues, Obama admonished North Korea a day after it tested a nuclear weapon, rattling its Pacific Rim neighbors. He warned the country's reclusive government that it faced further isolation, swift retaliation, and a United States bent on improving its own missile defense systems.
But as new threats erupted, old threats, Obama said, were receding. He announced, for example, that 34,000 troops would return home from Afghanistan by this time next year. That withdrawal, representing half the current U.S. force, underlined his resolve to wind down the second war of his presidency as quickly as he did the one in Iraq.
Obama was not trying to match the lofty tone of his inauguration speech, but the address was clearly intended to be its workmanlike companion. In place of his ringing call for a more equitable society was a package of proposals — some requiring legislation; others merely an executive order — that constitute a blueprint for the remainder of his presidency.
Among the proposals was a $1 billion investment to create 15 institutes to develop new manufacturing technologies, building on the success of a pilot project in Youngstown, Ohio. He said he would use oil and gas royalties from federal lands to pay for research in clean energy technology that would wean cars and truck off oil. And he recycled a proposal to help homeowners refinance their mortgages at lower rates.
The most impassioned parts of the speech echoed those that Obama delivered on the west front of the Capitol three weeks ago.
"It is our unfinished task to restore the basic bargain that built this country," Obama said. "The idea that if you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or who you love."
"It is our unfinished task to make sure that this government works on behalf of the many, and not just the few," he said. "That it encourages free enterprise, rewards individual initiative, and opens the doors of opportunity to every child across this great nation of ours."
Children loomed large at this State of the Union. Among the guests were survivors of the Newtown shooting and the parents of Hadiya Pendleton, the 15-year-old high school majorette whose shooting death in Chicago has become an emblem of the grim toll of gun violence.
Gesturing to Hadiya Pendleton's parents, Obama said: "They deserve a vote. Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote."
In another sign of the election's lingering shadow, Obama was creating a bipartisan commission to investigate voting irregularities that led to long lines at polling sites in November. The commission will be led by the chief counsel of the Obama presidential campaign, Robert Bauer, and a legal adviser to Mitt Romney's campaign, Ben Ginsberg.
On trade policy, the president said that the United States and the European Union were ready to begin negotiations on a comprehensive trade treaty. That came after a report submitted earlier in the day concluded that the gaps between the two sides were narrow enough to put a deal within reach.
Obama also revisited one of his signature initiatives: a pledge to reduce the size of the nation's nuclear stockpiles in negotiations with Russia.


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What can schools do to stop bullying? What's the best way to say sorry?
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The school can complain to the child's parents and, send notices to tell their child to stop bullying. The best way to say sorry is to appreciate to his/her.
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Some one bullying me but she did not say me sorry becauces she is naughty . but i say bullying is not good . i said," if you bully, your parents will scold you". But she doesnt care.She said , ''i don't care''.So i told her mother but she even told my best friend to bully me.So my friend said ok but i tell my friend' mom ,my friend was very sorry then she told me sorry. the bully slap my forehead with pencil , i am really pain then i tell teacher teacher scolded her.
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THE Sydney to Hobart yacht race is rarely short of drama, but this year the controversy began even before the start in Sydney Harbour yesterday.
Grant Wharington, the owner-skipper of supermaxi Wild Thing, had the wind taken out of his sails when he was told by officials his boat was unable to take it place in the field because the necessary paperwork spelling out recent changes to the vessel's configuration had not been lodged in time.
Wharington was furious, saying, "I don't know if there is any kind of conspiracy going on, but unfortunately this particular race director (Tim Cox) seems to be a serial offender of trying to get big boats out of the race."
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Maybe I should make three more and make it into a wall hanging.
That's actually sounding appealing to me.
I'll surprise you. Suggestions are welcome.
(It was a fun British weekend here. When I wasn't running kids late to birthday parties, or celebrating my Dad's and my Grandma's birthdays while people were simultaneously watching the Super Bowl, or on the phone with Poison Control because we weren't sure how much toilet bowl cleaner my poor 5-year-old splashed into his eye. Life is not dull.)


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The KOffice team is happy to bring you the first bugfix package that builds upon the successful 1.3 version, adding even more enhanced OpenOffice.org import and export filters, improved spellchecking with ispell, fixes in hyphenation and many more. See the release notes and the complete list of changes.
Maybe this will change Klaus Knoppers mind.
I bet against this. Better convince him to include the KDE-fied OpenOffice.org version.
Klaus is very KDE-friendly. He cares for his distro to be *usable* and mainstream. That's why he defaults the desktop to KDE. That's why he chooses OpenOffice, if *space reasons* only allow for one office suite.
If you followed the pre-decision debate on the [email protected] mailing list, you'd have seen that he likes KOffice very much for its lightweight footprint and its uniq ability to *edit PDFs* as compared to the memory hog of OpenOffice.
KOffice will be back on the LinuxTag edition of Knoppix for sure -- because this will again be a DVD ;-)
Aah, DVD!
When can I bittorrent that?
ArkLinux has it and it looks great. But ArkLinux also has the most recent version of KOffice too of course ;)
ArkLinux surely is one of the best (future) choices when it comes to single-user Linux (harddrive) installations, but for that they better get their version of the 2.6 kernel integrated and move from xfree86 to fd.o or atleast x.org. ;-)
The fd.o and X.org stuff is technically inferior at the moment since it it just an old rebranded XFree86. At the moment you are better of the the Real Thing (R) ;)
with Kernel 2.6 there aren't`many issue seen anymore and it is available through the Ark Update services.
No contributed binaries? Where are you SuSE KDE devels? :)
Ooops, I didn't notice the 1.3 in that URL. Sorry.
The binary packages for 1.3.1 on SuSE are being uploaded right now.
Already there, thanks!! :)
hi there,
i wonder if i need internationalization files, couldn't fnd any german ones at suse. well, i dont ight much, but it would be nice if the menu would be in the same langiage as all my other apps, or am i missing something?
The noarch/ directory?
/nocrach has nothing for koficce 1.3.1:
here neither:
so i am a little lost. could you please provide me with a link? thx!
Well, I bascially just wanted to say how much I appreciate the hard work koffice developers have done. I've made a half a dozen school papers with kword during this spring, and I've been really happy with it. I really have. And I've done all my little spredsheets ( financial, weight watchers points, etc. ) with kspread for more than a year now, and it too had worked like a charm for me.
I think koffice is seriously ready for the prime time, well worthy competitor to OO.org and MS Office. All KDE users using other office pakages right now should at least try koffice, it might actually surprise you!
Actually, I did it yesterday again. I wanted to import a table from PDF to KSpread, that means from clipboard with space delimiters. That worked very well. But as soon as I started to edit any cell the contents of every second row was automatically deleted. No reverse option with 'Undo' - even worse. Some cells reappeared, but even more were deleted. Funny feature.
I also tried to import the clipboard contents to a table in KWord, but I didn't figure out how wo let it make a table out of it. Moreover, I couldn't find any option like 'insert table' or similar at all in the menu.
After I managed the import to KSpread I wanted to transfer the table to openoffice - no chance. if you copy the contents into the clipboard it does it in a format that can not be read by any app except vi.
These and more experiences with sudden crashes at longer datarows (who needs a spread app that can only handle less than 100 rows without crashing?) or totally unusefull diagram output formats I gave totally up with KOffice. Sorry. What a prime time.
I don't think there's much point in being sarcastic (it sounds like that) but I agree with what you're saying. Hopefully you file a bug report for each problem you find, and the programmers will fix them when they can - otherwise you're just pi**ing in the wind.
If KOffice stabilized around its existing functionality and became *rock* solid with no quirks in selecting and displaying data, it would have a useful, if limited, niche in the market place.
Unfortunately each time I've tried to use it seriously, I've also found it unstable and quirky, and quickly gone back to the unlovely OO which is horrible but works. To be fair, I've also found Abiword and Gnumeric to be less than reliable (Gnumeric shows promise though).
I don't think there's a solution to this, but I hope the developers take time out to do a serious code review when they start the OASIS integration stuff.
Hopefully this new release improves stability, but there's no way the earlier releases could be used in a business environment - all IMHO of course, but I think that's the reality ATM.
No, there was no code review before starting the whole change to OASIS.
In my opinion, it has more sense to try to fix things after the changes to OASIS and Qt4 are done than before that. (Of course it would be different if KOffice 1.3.x could be fixed in the process, but it has little chance, as we need the available manpower on the developer version.)
And of course having more volunteers to have more manpower would help too...
Have a nice day!
Fair enough - it's far easier to criticise than actually do it! And it's not a criticism as much as frustration at a project that hasn't quite got things right so far IMHO.
> And of course having more volunteers to have more manpower would help too...
Of course :) If you need some perl code I can help, but I get the feeling that's unlikely!
There are some Perl code in KOffice (as in KDE). Mostly it is to help to extract the user visible strings that are to be translated.
Also there are a few scripts in kdesdk/scripts that might need some polishing.
Have a nice day!
OK, I'm more than happy to have a look at them.
Could you point me in the right direction for downloading the code - I presume I need to grab the CVS sources but havn't done this before.
The documentation about anonymous CVS is at:
If you want to look at KOffice, you have to download the koffice module. (It can be compiled on KDE 3.2.x too.) It is explained how to build the module in: http://www.koffice.org/download/source.php
As for the kdesdk module, it would work only with KDE CVS HEAD but for the scripts, it is not much important.
What you could work on is the script kdesdk/scripts/extractrc . That is the main script for extracting the strings to translate from XML files. One detail that could be made better is that all options (for example --tag ) are tested one after another. It should be tested first if the option starts with -- to speed up for normal files as parameters. (There are other possible changes to that file, including one which could replace the private variant of this script that is in KOffice.)
For further information or your first changes/patch on a file, please contact me directly: mailto:[email protected]
Have a nice day!
I'm not sure what went wrong for you, but I'm regularly using a spreadsheet table with thousands of rows in kspread without problem.
The clipboard-based conversions are not implemented, we have many more conversion possibilities in the import/export filter, i.e. you have more chances of getting conversions to work if you go via files. But from a PDF???
I've been using it for some time (since 1.2), for my normal homework - some papers, some small graphs. I dont use the features OO offers me, although I'm a bit annoyed by the bad table-features. but overall, 1.3 is good enough for me. I whouldnt say it beats OO or m$O in features, but it sure beats them for me - it can do whatever I need, so that's enough...
I used OOo for writing my dissertation. There is no way I could have used koffice, since the documents need to shared/edited in the windows world. I am eagerly awaiting koffice 2.0, with native OOo format. If the documents in koffice render *exactly* as OOo (tables, figures, equations, drawings, etc.), then probably all the kde users using OOo can switch to the koffice.
The updated changelog is now online, including the missing changes for the OOImpress and OOCalc filters.
Have a nice day!


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York County students plan trip to honor Korean War Veterans
Honor bus trip will take veterans to DC memorial
You can study history in school, or you can live it.
"I love hearing the stories of veterans and people who have done amazing things in their lives," said Lizzie Wiley, a junior at Northeastern High School.
At Northeastern High School, a group of Bobcats is planning one very special field trip.
"It's like a lot of behind the scenes stuff right now, getting us excited for it," said Brie Wise, junior at Northeastern.
Eight students and one teacher are planning an honor bus trip which will take 60 Korean War Veterans to Washington, D.C., to visit the Korean War Memorial and other Washington landmarks. The trip will conclude in York County with a banquet to say thanks.
"I hope we provide a sense that the younger generation does want to try to understand what they went through and we do support them and we think they should be recognized for their service," said Hope Andrews, a junior at Northeastern.
For most of the veterans on this trip, it will be their first time seeing the Korean War Memorial, and it comes at no cost to them because, as these kids will tell you, these vets have already paid their price.
"I think they think most kids don't care what they did, that they don't care about history, but we're showing them that we actually do care," said Wise.
"It's just amazing, that's all I can say. Just to be able to provide that opportunity for them, just to know they are appreciated, that's the reward," said Duane Swartz, history teacher at Northeastern.
Local businesses and VFWs have paid for the trip. 2013 marks 60 years since the end of the Korean War, and these students hope a trip like this can keep these stories alive.
"You know they're only going to be here for a certain amount of time, and listening to what they have to say is going to bring their memories back to life and ignoring it will only make them disappear," said Wiley.
And that's a history lesson that will stand the test of time. The honor bus trip is planned for April 20. There are only a few seats left for Korean War veterans, but Swartz and his students are already planning another trip next fall.


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What would you do if you had an extra $1,000? We put that question to our Kiplinger.com visitors, and they told us by a wide margin—65% to 17%—that they'd be more likely to put it toward their kids' or grandkids' college fund than to donate it to charity. They're slightly more likely to invest it in the stock market than to stash it in a savings account or CD (46% to 41%). Given a choice between paying off debt or building a retirement fund, they'd go after the debt—56% to 31%. And if they wanted to splurge, they'd much rather go on vacation than shop—62% to 18%.
What really impressed me was the range of responses when people were asked to fill in their own ideas. A number of them had charitable impulses: "I'd like to throw a party in the children's wing of a local hospital," said Jasmine Ho of Somerset, N.J. Leonard from Detroit said simply, "I'd give it to my brother."
Tina Barry of Garfield Heights, Ohio, was torn between the practical and the frivolous. "The realistic side of me would stock up on groceries, fill my gas tank, purchase some much-needed clothes for my family and bank the rest for emergencies. But the frivolous side would love to get her hair done, take a beach trip, redo her backyard and replace some carpet."
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Seems like a lot of people are buying the 815 for the ease of priming. In fact people are upgrading their 809's with the 815 impeller.
If the head conditions are a concern, then getting the 815 pump is recommended. If this situation only has a total of 5' elevation change, then the 809HS pump should be OK.


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After displaying nerves of steel and amazing skill, Shane Hendershot was crowned champion in the Senior division at the Grand National Turkey Calling Championships in Nashville, Feb. 19.
Hendershot, from Zanesville, Ohio, also won the Senior division in 2007.
"It feels even better this time than it did when I won in 2007," said Hendershot. "I started practicing two months earlier than normal this year. I've changed some things up with my calling and taken some chances with difficult turkey sounds. I like to go big or go home and this year it worked."
Each year, the National Wild Turkey Federation hosts the Grand National Turkey Calling Championships during the NWTF National Convention and Sport Show. Dozens of the world's best adult and youth turkey callers gather to test their skills in front of a panel of expert judges.
"When we call the name of a new grand national champion, the atmosphere in the room in electric," said George C. Thornton, NWTF CEO. "It takes a special talent and years of practice to master the sounds of a wild turkey. To become a champion on our stage is the most prestigious honor a turkey caller can achieve."
This year, champions were crowned in 10 divisions at the 35th annual NWTF convention, which was sponsored by MidwayUSA and housed at the Opryland Resort and Convention Center.
In the Senior division, sponsored by Wild Turkey Bourbon, callers imitate the yelps, cackles, and clucks of a wild turkey hen. Overall, the winners from each division competed for their share of more than $25,000 in cash and prizes.
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