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Rail Trails In Kawartha Lakes
The City of Kawartha Lakes, which incorporates Lindsay and the surrounding area, sits at the cross-roads of two major rail trails in Ontario. Travelling east to west across the entire region, the Great Trail, known locally as the Kawartha Trans Canada Trail intersects the Victoria Rail Trail, which runs north to south and offers plenty of trail riding for those looking to take bike trips in the heart of Ontario's cottage country.
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CPJ Update
January 14, 2005
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists
Covering a tragedy
Significant humanitarian and journalistic challenges have emerged in the aftermath of the December tsunami that devastated south Asia, claiming 110,000 lives in Indonesia alone.
The Indonesian government has imposed restrictions on journalists trying to cover the hardest-hit area, the province of Aceh. Officials say that foreign journalists and aid workers must report their movements and seek military accompaniment when traveling outside of the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, or the town of Meulaboh.
The rules mean a return, in part, to the severe restrictions that have limited coverage of the ongoing civil conflict in Aceh. "Unrestricted access to information is absolutely crucial during this relief effort," CPJ Executive Director Ann Cooper said in statement we issued Thursday. "The world has been moved by Aceh's terrible plight and has a deep interest in keeping abreast of the assistance efforts."
We are seeking a meeting with the country's U.S. ambassador in an effort to overturn these deeply troubling limitations. Following on a news alert we issued this week describing the new restrictions, we are sending a letter today to Indonesian officials.
To read our news alert: http://www.cpj.org/news/2005/Indonesia13jan05na.html
To read our letter to Ambassador Soemadi D.M. Brotodiningrat: http://www.cpj.org/protests/05ltrs/Indonesia14jan05pl.html
And helping our colleagues
In Banda Aceh, the victims included many journalists who have reported courageously for years amid the violent civil war. Dozens of staff members of Serambi Indonesia, Aceh's only daily newspaper, are missing or dead.
The paper, widely praised for its coverage of the region's separatist rebellion, has been menaced by both rebels and government security forces. The staff's commitment was demonstrated yet again in early January: Despite the tragedy and its terrible toll on the staff, Serambi Indonesia published a special edition with the help of colleagues in Lhokseumawe, Aceh's second-largest city.
CPJ has started a fund to aid Indonesian journalists and their families. All donations will be sent directly to journalists and press organizations in Indonesia. To donate, contact Elisabeth Witchel, CPJ's journalist assistance coordinator, at [email protected].
Murder top cause of work deaths
Even in a year dominated by war, murder is still the leading cause of work-related deaths for journalists worldwide, our annual analysis has found. Thirty-six of the 56 journalists who died in the line of duty in 2004 were murdered, continuing a long-term trend documented by CPJ. And once again, most of the journalists killed around the world were local reporters, photographers, editors, and camera operators covering events in their own countries. Nine of the 56 journalists killed were foreign correspondents. One, Paul Klebnikov of Forbes Russia, was American.
In Iraq, where crossfire was the leading cause of death among journalists, at least nine of the 23 journalists killed were deliberately targeted.
As we reported in December, the 2004 death toll is the highest in a decade. The deadliest year for journalists since CPJ began compiling detailed statistics was 1994, when 66 journalists were killed, mostly in Algeria, Rwanda, and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
To read more: http://www.cpj.org/news/2005/USA03jan05na.html
New year, new attacks
Two weeks into the New Year, we have documented several serious attacks on the press:
In Colombia, gunmen killed a veteran radio host on January 11 in the city of Cúcuta. We are investigating the murder to determine whether it was related to his journalism. Colombia has long been a dangerous place for journalists, although in 2004 no journalist was killed for his or her work in Colombia for the first time in at least a decade.
To read more: http://www.cpj.org/news/2005/Colombia11jan05na.html
French journalist Florence Aubenas and her translator are believed to have been kidnapped in Iraq, President Ghazi al-Yawar said this week. The two, who went missing on January 5, would be the first members of the press to be kidnapped in Iraq in 2005. Twenty-two journalists were abducted in the country last year, when CPJ named Iraq the world's most dangerous place for journalists. We continue to investigate Aubenas' disappearance.
To read our original report on their disappearance: http://www.cpj.org/news/2005/iraq10jan05na.html
The government of Zimbabwe continues to clamp down on the press. On January 10, President Robert Mugabe signed into law a measure that sets prison terms of up to two years for any journalist found working without government accreditation. Mugabe's government has passed several restrictive laws aimed at stifling Zimbabwe's ever-dwindling independent press corps.
To read more: http://www.cpj.org/news/2005/zimbabwe10jan05na.html
A Palestinian cameraman was shot in Gaza on January 2, allegedly by Israeli Defense Forces. Majdi al-Arabid, on assignment for Israel's Channel 10 TV, was shot in the stomach near Beit Lahia while reporting on IDF operations against Palestinians suspected of firing rockets into Israel. The IDF says it is investigating the shooting. But Channel 10 reporter Sholmi Eldar, a witness who was filming at the time, says the army had not yet contacted him about his footage. At least seven journalists have been killed in the Occupied Territories since 2000, all by Israeli gunfire. Few if any of these cases have been seriously investigated or publicly accounted for.
To read CPJ's letter to the IDF: http://www.cpj.org/protests/05ltrs/Israel05jan05pl.html
Development news
CPJ closed out the calendar year on a high note, receiving its final $500,000 payment of the Knight Foundation's $2.5 million challenge grant which was the lead gift for CPJ's endowment campaign.

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text: A new study by University of Pennsylvania researchers suggests that a good night's sleep and a good diet go hand in hand, but it also contains some perplexing data that raises more questions than it answers."I can't tell people what to do yet," said Michael Grandner, a psychologist and sleep researcher at Penn's Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology. The study he led, published online in the journal Appetite, examined the relationship between how much and what people ate and how long they slept. Eventually Grandner hopes to show whether changing your diet will make you sleep better or whether spending more time in bed will help you eat better. "This is kind of the first step," he said. Previous studies have shown that hunger for high-fat, high-carbohydrate foods increased when sleep was restricted. People who sleep less than the "normal" seven to eight hours a night also are at higher risk for obesity, diabetes, and heart and mental health problems. The risk increases the less people sleep, Grandner said. Sleeping too much is also associated with poor physical and mental health. Using self-reported data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, the Penn team compared the diets of very short sleepers (less than five hours a night), short sleepers (five to six hours a night) and long sleepers (more than nine hours) with normal sleepers. Some results were surprising. The very short sleepers, who were the heaviest, didn't eat the most calories. That was the short sleepers. Possible explanations, Grandner said, are that very short sleepers underreported how much they were eating or that lack of sleep "fundamentally disrupts the way the body regulates energy." The normal sleepers had the most varied diets and managed not to eat less of any important nutrients than the other groups in the process. The very short sleepers had the least varied diets. Grandner expected clear patterns from very short to short to normal to long sleeping. But that often was not the case. The very short and short sleepers sometimes looked quite different. Grandner, who has been studying short sleepers in the lab, found that interesting. He thinks risks for short sleepers are mixed and that they should be studied separately. How were the diets different? The very short sleepers reported drinking less water and eating fewer foods rich in lycopene (from tomatoes and fruits) and carbohydrates. The short sleepers consumed less vitamin C, water, and selenium (this is in nuts, meat, and shellfish) and more lutein (found in green leafy vegetables). The longer sleepers consumed less carbohydrates and more alcohol. Caffeine intake wasn't a significant factor. For now, Grandner said, the important message is that "sleep is critical for health. We know this." So is diet, and the two are connected. Somehow. Grandner said this region is particularly rich in sleep experts who can help. "If someone's having trouble sleeping," he said, "they shouldn't ignore it." Contact staff writer Stacey Burling at 215-854-4944 or firstname.lastname@example.com. (c)2013 The Philadelphia Inquirer Visit The Philadelphia Inquirer at www.philly.com Distributed by MCT Information Services


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Prayer looms large in the Holy Land. Jews, Christians and Muslims alike understand that the struggle for the Holy Land is spiritual warfare.
The Jewish people ask the God of Israel for His blessings each day and Palestinian Muslims pray five times a day to Allah. Both peoples pray for health, prosperity and protection and intercede for their respective nations. Christians who call on the name of Jesus fall somewhere in the middle: Those who take the promises of the Bible literally stand with Israel; those who do not tend to side with the Palestinians.
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Accreditation Status
Cañada College is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, an institutional accrediting body recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and the U.S. Department of Education.
The most recent letter of accreditation affirmation was received by the college from the ACCJC on February 3, 2017.
Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges
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Complaint Policy
The Commission can and does respond to complaints regarding allegations of conditions at affiliated institutions that raise significant questions about the institution's compliance with the standards expected of an accredited institution. Students and members of the public who desire to file a formal complaint to the Commission about Cañada College should become familiar with the requirements for doing so prior to contacting the Commission. Please see the Complaint Process and Complaint Policy at www.accjc.org/complaint-policy.
The Office of Private Postsecondary Education also approves Cañada College to offer courses to U.S. Veterans for collection of veterans' benefits.
Radiologic Technology Program
Cañada College's Radiologic Technology Program is also accredited by:
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Microsoft has filed a motion to stay an injunction imposed by a federal court which threatens to halt sales of some versions of its ubiquitous Office Word application. In a filing with the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC, Microsoft also asked for an expedited review of its appeal against the ruling, arguing that the injunction could cause "irreparable harm" to the software giant's business and to its partners while also saying that "major public disruption" will result if Word 2010 has to be redesigned. If upheld, the injunction wouldn't stop existing users from using Word, but it could prevent Redmond from selling Word 2003 or Word 2007, and would require the company to significantly tweak Word 2010, which is slated for the first half of next year.
"Microsoft filed a motion with the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to seek an expedited review of its appeal and to stay the permanent injunction while the appeal is pending," a Microsoft spokesperson told Ars. "These filings are not unusual in patent cases. As we've maintained throughout this process, we believe the evidence clearly demonstrates that we do not infringe and that the i4i patent is invalid. We look forward to filing our appeal and to Court of Appeals review."
Last week,
a federal court in the patent litigation wonderland of eastern Texas
issued an injunction that gave Microsoft 60 days to stop shipping any
recent version of Word, based on a patent that was found to cover the
XML formatting used by the software. Microsoft's move here is an obvious attempt to buy time. The ruling, which followed one from May 2009 where Microsoft was found to be infringing one of the patents, was in favor of a Canadian company by the name of i4i. Word 2003 and Word 2007 both overstep i4i's patent by using extensible markup language (XML) for encoding and customizing XML in a specific way (US Patent No. 5,787,449).


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Some bad durable goods orders data gave markets a scare. But the sentiment readings sent the bears running.
First, the scoreboard:
Dow: 13,005.1, +23.6, +0.1% S&P 500: 1,372.1, +4.5, +0.3% NASDAQ: 2,986.7, +20.6, +0.6%
And now, the top stories:
- So, this morning's durable goods report got the bears excited, but only briefly. In January, durable goods orders unexpectedly fell 4.0 percent to $206.1 billion. Economists were expecting the metric to fall by only 1.0 percent. This was the worst monthly decline in three years. Excluding transportation, orders fell 3.2 percent, which also fell short of economists expectation for no change. Computer and related electronic products saw surprising weakness, falling 10.1 percent month-on-month. Click Here For The Best And Worst Economists Of 2011 >
- According to the Case-Shiller index, home prices fell 0.5 percent in December, which was worse than the 0.4 percent expected by economists. For the full year, prices fell 4.0 percent. Detroit was the only market reporting a gain during the year, climbing 0.5 percent. So, are we witnessing a triple dip? Robert Reich calls housing the rotting core of the recovery >
- Consumer confidence surged to 70.8 in February, smashing economists' expectation for a modest increase to 63.0. This was the highest reading since February of 2011. "And, despite further increases in gas prices, [consumers] are more optimistic about the short-term outlook for the economy, job prospects, and their financial situation," wrote the Conference Board's Lynn Franco.
- Another big bullish read on the economy came from the Richmond Fed. The region's manufacturing activity index jumped to 20, crushing economists' expectations for a more modest increase to 14. GOLDMAN: Here's What The Biggest Industrial Companies Are Telling Us About The Economy >
- Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny reportedly said Ireland would have a referendum to ratify the European fiscal compact. The Next 8 Most Nerve-Wracking Dates In Europe >
- And it's official. Apple will unveil its iPad 3 on March 7 in San Francisco. So, go ahead and throw out your iPad 1 or 2.
- Anyway, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 13,000 for the first time since May 19, 2008. What's next? 12,000 or 14,000.
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'Noises Off' at Burien Actors Theatre starts Feb. 21; 'funniest farce ever written'
Burien Actors Theatre (formerly Burien Little Theatre) will be presenting the comedy "Noises Off" – called "the funniest farce ever written" – starting Feb. 21 and running through March 23 at the former Staples location at 14907 4th Ave SW.
"Noises Off" is a manic comedy that whisks you backstage to flubbed lines, false entrances and a million laughs, as a troupe of oddball actors takes their terrible show, a sex comedy titled "Nothing On," out on the road.
"Noises Off" will leave you in stitches the entire evening.
The show is suitable for ages 13-plus due to occasional adult language.
Ticket prices range from $7 to $20. Check out special opening weekend ticket deals. All deals and discounts are exclusive of each other. For tickets or other information, go online to www.burienactorstheatre.org or call 206-242-5180.
Burien Actors Theatre regular performance space is undergoing repairs for the damage caused by the December 10, 2014 fire, with completion anticipated sometime in April.
Marc "Mok" Moser is stage directing the show. Also featured are the diverse acting talents of:
- Kevin Finney (Selsdon/Burglar)
- Phillip Keiman (Lloyd)
- Thomas Maier (Frederick/Philip)
- Helen Roundhill (Brooke/Vicki)
- Natalie Schmidt (Poppy)
- Jessica Stepka (Belinda/Flavia)
- Christian Ver (Garry/Roger)
- Steve West (Tim)
- Rochelle Wyatt (Dotty/Mrs. Clackett)
As much a character in the show as the actors is the Noises Off set designed by Albie Clementi.
Exciting live theater has been a tradition in Burien since 1955. Incorporated in 1980 as Burien Little Theatre, Burien Actors Theatre (BAT) has been a leading producer of quality live theater serving residents of the Seattle and south Puget Sound areas.
Burien Actors Theatre gives audiences an intriguing and invigorating theatre experience with unusual and fantastical productions they can't get on a DVD or see anywhere else. The company's mission is to treat audiences to productions of the highest artistic integrity that excite, engage and involve both the local and expanding theatrical communities in the Puget Sound region.
BAT is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) entity and operates on revenue from ticket sales, donations, grants, sponsorships and volunteers.
Tickets at the Box Office:
- General: $20
- Senior/Student: $17
- OPENING NIGHT: Only on Feb. 21, get $5 off each ticket in the purchase if you bring your "favorite" sardine recipe. Good only for purchases at the door.
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- SEVEN DOLLAR SUNDAY: Only on Feb. 23, all tickets are just $7.00! Remember, Sunday is a matinee performance only.
- Dinner and a Show Package: This package includes a two-course meal at Mark Restaurant & Bar plus a ticket to the show; cost is $35 per person. Contact the Mark at 206-241-6275.


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For our BlackBerry® business customers in the U.S. and Canada (excluding Quebec): From now until December 31st 2011, you have the opportunity to receive one BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet free whenyou purchase two BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablets from an authorized Value Added Reseller. Additionally, you'll have the choice of three qualifying accessories to go with each BlackBerry PlayBook tablet (you must choose the same accessory for all three tablets) as a bonus. To take advantage of this offer, head over to an authorized Value Added Reseller and read on for more details. (Terms and conditions apply.)
The Accessories
No BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is complete without its friends – and by friends, I mean a black leather sleeve, charging pod, and a 6 foot high-speed HDMI cable. As mentioned above, when you take advantage of this offer, you'll have the choice of a single accessory to accompany all three of your new BlackBerry PlayBook tablets, free of charge.
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Guidelines for the Hiring Process (updated 2019)
Revised by the AHA Professional Division and approved by AHA Council, January 56, 2019.
In an effort to better serve members of the AHA, and to promote the highest standards of professional conduct in the hiring process, we provide these guidelines for search committees and job candidates.
General Criteria
- Most job discrimination is illegal. Interviewing and hiring should be based solely on professional criteria. Interviewers should not ask questions about a candidate's marital status or family, race or national origin, disability, age, sex, gender, gender expression, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Candidates may, however, volunteer such information in the course of their own inquiries about the hiring institution, although this sort of discussion is usually more appropriate during an on-campus interview than in the preliminary stages of a candidacy.
- All positions for historians should be advertised in the job ads section of Perspectives on History or the online AHA Career Center. If hiring institutions intend to interview at the AHA annual meeting, they should make every effort to advertise in the Perspectives issues for the fall months.
- Advertisements for positions should contain specific information regarding qualifications and clear indication as to whether a position has actually been authorized or is contingent upon budgetary or other administrative considerations.
- Candidates should seek interviews only for those jobs for which they are qualified, and under no circumstances should they misrepresent their training or their qualifications. To do otherwise is unprofessional and wastes the time and energy of everyone concerned.
- Positions should, absent extenuating circumstances, be advertised for a period of at least six weeks.
- All applications and inquiries for a position should be acknowledged promptly and courteously (within two weeks of receipt, if possible), and each applicant should be informed as to the initial action on the application or inquiry. No final decision should be made without considering all applications received before the closing date. Advertisements that list closing dates should consider all applications received by that date, and applications for positions should be accepted for at least six weeks after the initial announcement date.
- At all stages of a search, affirmative action/equal opportunity guidelines should be respected.
- As candidates are eliminated, they should be notified promptly and courteously. Some hiring institutions notify all candidates when their search is completed. Unsuccessful candidates may wish to ask how their chances might have been improved. Hiring institutions often respond helpfully to such inquiries but they are not obliged to disclose the reasoning leading to their ultimate choices.
- Hiring committees are encouraged to request reference letters only from those candidates who have passed the initial screening i.e. at the stage requesting additional materials, or before video conference / AHA interviews. Given the current academic job market, having applicants provide letters of recommendation only after the initial screening stage can reduce stress and unnecessary paperwork for candidates, letter-writers, and hiring committees.
Interviews at the AHA Annual Meeting
- Search committees that schedule conference interviews beforehand should provide ample notice to applicants. Ideally, applicants should be notified of a conference interview more than 21 days in advance to allow them to take advantage of less expensive air fares and preregistration rates.
- All participants in an interview should be prompt, efficient, and courteous. Job candidates should bring a sufficient supply of CVs and writing implements to the meeting.
- Interviews should take place on time, and candidates should be allowed enough time in interviews to develop their candidacies in some depth. This means that interviewers have to watch the time carefully, and try to avoid departing from the schedule they have established. It also means that job candidates should not schedule interviews too close together. Appointments often run over the allotted times.
- Interviews should proceed in a manner that respects the professional and personal integrity of candidates and interviewers. Whenever possible, interviewing committees should include male and female representation.
- Interviews should take place in a professional setting. The AHA strongly urges institutions interviewing at the AHA annual meeting to use the facilities provided through the Job Center.
- The AHA considers it unacceptable to record or videotape any employment interview activity that takes place in conjunction with the annual meeting.
Beginning with the 2000 annual meeting in Chicago, the AHA has made special arrangements with institutions conducting interviews outside of designated Job Center facilities. For more details, please see "Privately Arranged Suite Information" on the Job Center web page.
The AHA discourages holding interviews in hotel bedrooms. If an interviewer thinks it is necessary to use a facility outside the Job Center, the Association strongly advises that a parlor—rather than a sleeping—room be used, and that a third person always be present in the room with the candidate. Interviewers using facilities outside the Job Center bear sole responsibility for establishing an appropriate professional atmosphere and should take special care to ensure that all interviews are conducted courteously and in a proper and professional manner.
If for any reason the interviewers choose not to take advantage of the AHA facilities, they should be specific when making other arrangements. Let the candidates know when, where, and with whom they will be meeting. Provide this information to the Job Center staff, who will then make it available to candidates.
The following resources are also available:
- The AHA job advertising policy
- The AHA Statement on Standards of Professional Conduct
- The AHA statement, "Best Practices on Spousal/Partner Hiring"


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Webbed Toes Scholarship Essays
Everyone is normal until you get to know them. Then, "the weird" comes out. By fully embracing your weird factor, you could land yourself some serious scholarship money to help pay your college tuition. From paranormal activity to the Klingon dialect, we're spreading the weird with our top 15 weird scholarships.
Writers of the Future Contest
L. Ron Hubbard wasn't just the founder of Scientology, he was a brilliant science fiction author. His scholarship, the Writers of the Future Contest, aims to provide budding science fiction authors the opportunity to get some exposure in the field. Every three months, an award of $1,000, $750 or $500 is distributed to a winner, and each year, one recipient receives a grand prize scholarship worth $5,000.
For full details, visit the scholarship website: Writers of the Future Contest
American Fire Sprinkler Association Scholarship
Want to light a fire under your college tuition bill? Check out the American Fire Sprinkler Association Scholarship. This scholarship, for $2,000, is awarded to five high school graduates. After reading about fire sprinklers, applicants are required to answer a ten-question, open-book quiz on their benefits.
For full details, visit the scholarship website: American Fire Sprinkler Association Scholarship
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Michigan Llama Association Scholarship
A llama could be your ticket to paying for textbooks—how weird is that? The Michigan Llama Association Scholarship aims to offset some of the college costs by awarding one member, or the child of a member, a $500 scholarship. The award can be renewed up to three times during the recipient's higher education career.
For full details, visit the scholarship website: Michigan Llama Association Scholarship
AACT's John Kitt Memorial Scholarship
Do you have a sweet tooth? If so, we found the most scrumptious scholarship for you. Sponsored by the American Association of Candy Technologists, the John Kitt Memorial Scholarship is available to college sophomores, juniors and seniors who have demonstrated an interest in confectionery technology.
Applicants must also attend an accredited college or university, be majoring in food science or a related field and have at least a 3.0 GPA.
For full details, visit the scholarship website: AACT's John Kitt Memorial Scholarship
National Marbles Tournament Scholarship
This scholarship sets out to test your marble skills—and no, we're not talking about tests to your sanity. The National Marbles Tournament Scholarship requires those with mad marble skills to compete against other "mibsters" (marble shooters) in a four-day tournament in Wildwood, New Jersey. There are many winners, picking up scholarships that range anywhere from $1,000 to $2,000.
For full details, visit the scholarship website: National Marbles Tournament Scholarship
Chick and Sophie Major Memorial Duck Calling Contest
Your friends may tease that you're a modern-day Snow White, but you can't help that you can talk to animals! Now, your practiced quirk will finally pay off in the Chick and Sophie Major Memorial Duck Calling Contest. Four prizes are given away each year at the contest that takes place around Thanksgiving. The winning duck whisperer brings home a scholarship worth $2,000.
For full details, visit the scholarship website: Chick and Sophie Major Memorial Duck Calling Contest
Star Trek Double Whammy: The Kor Memorial Scholarship and Starfleet Academy Scholarship
At the foundation of the Kor Memorial Scholarship is the encouragement of foreign language study. While knowledge of the Klingon language is not required, it definitely wins you bonus points with the scholarship selection committee. The recipient of the $500 scholarship is announced each year at the KLI conference, or qep'a' in Klingon.
For full details, visit the scholarship website: Kor Memorial Scholarship
The Starfleet Academy Scholarship is open to all members of the Starfleet Academy enrolled in an accredited college, university or technical program. Scholarships of $500 are awarded to many applicants. All applicants must be in "good standing" at the academy and are required to be a member for at least a year before applying.
For full details, visit the scholarship website: Starfleet Academy Scholarship
Tall Clubs International Scholarship
Despite a general public misconception, not every tall person can play basketball. If chances of an athletic scholarship are slim to none, try the Tall Clubs International Scholarship. Female applicants must be at least 5'10" while male applicants should be at least 6'2". The tallest winner is Dave R., who stretches 7'3". And no, he does not play basketball.
For full details, visit the scholarship website: Tall Clubs International Scholarship
Excellence in Predicting the Future Award
The Excellence in Predicting the Future Award is for those students that excel in stock market predictions. Applicants compete in the Prediction Market, and the student with the greatest value by the marked deadline takes home $400. A scholarship is awarded every two months.
For full details, visit the scholarship website: Excellence in Predicting the Future Award
"Stuck at Prom" Scholarship
Sure, you may get quizzical looks when you walk into prom dressed in duct tape—but it's worth it for the $3,000 scholarship. Each individual in the couple will win a scholarship for the best duct tape apparel creation, and outfits are judged on workmanship, originality, use of color, accessories and amount of duct tape used.
For full details, visit the scholarship website: "Stuck at Prom" Scholarship
Society of Vacuum Coaters Foundation Scholarship
Ok, we don't even know what vacuum coating is—so it definitely ranks up there in "weird niches." But if it's your niche, rock on—you could win a scholarship worth over $2,500. And the odds are pretty good! Last year, there were only 20 applicants. To qualify, students must be enrolled in a vacuum coating accredited program, and past winners are encouraged to apply again.
For full details, visit the scholarship website: Society of Vacuum Coaters Foundation Scholarship
Collegiate Inventors Competition
Since you were a kid, you've been tinkering and taking innovation to the next level. The Collegiate Inventors Competition seeks to recognize those students who are thinking outside of the box. Each year, 12 graduate and undergraduate finalists receive an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington D.C. to reveal their invention to a panel of judges. The top graduate winner receives a scholarship worth $15,000 while the top undergraduate inventor receives $10,000.
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AUSTIN – Could an endorsement from a sitting statewide Republican hurt a member of the same party running to succeed that endorser?
Comptroller candidates Mike Collier, a Houston Democrat, and state Rep. Harvey Hilderbran, R-Kerrville, say so.
Texas Comptroller Susan Combs endorsed state Sen. Glenn Hegar Friday and the Katy Republican's opponents have pounced, citing the move as a Hegar endorsement of the "status quo" rather than support of his credentials from the person he is campaigning to succeed.
Collier, a Houston businessman and accountant and the only Democrat in the race so far, posted a jab at Combs to his Facebook Tuesday after sending a fundraising email out over the weekend citing Combs' endorsement. Combs has been criticized – even making it onto Texas Monthly's 10 Worst Legislators list – for the least accurate estimate of the state's revenue since the 1970′s.
Hilderbran did not miss a beat, either. His campaign sent a response statement within minutes of the announcement.
"This election is about the future, not the past. The important fact is not that Susan Combs has endorsed Glenn Hegar, but that Glenn Hegar has endorsed Susan Combs' record," Hilderbran wrote. "I respect Susan Combs for her service to the state, but her record has come up short in many areas. Part of the reason I am running is to make significant, specific improvements in the Comptroller's office. I'll take steps to protect taxpayers, improve customer service and implement a Texas Taxpayers' Bill of Rights. That's why I'm running. Glenn Hegar is running to continue the status quo."


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Every week we'll bring you all the inactives from the early games in one post, constantly updated with the latest information. So check back often to see the full list as it becomes available.
Seahawks at Falcons
Seahawks: RB Derrick Coleman, C Max Unger, DT Jordan Hill, DE Red Bryant, S Jeron Johnson, DE Benson Mayowa, T Breno Giacomini
Falcons: RB Josh Vaughn, S Kemal Ishmael, LB Thomas Howard, G Harland Gunn, OT Sam Baker, WR Brian Robiskie, DE Cliff Matthews
Bengals at Ravens
Bengals: LB Rey Maualuga, DT Devon Still, LB Michael Boley, TE Jermaine Gresham, T Tanner Hawkinson, CB Chris Lewis-Harris, C Trevor Robinson
Ravens: CB Asa Jackson, S Omar Brown, RB Bernard Scott, C Ryan Jensen, WR Brandon Stokley, LB John Simon, DT Brandon Williams
Lions at Bears
Lions: WR Nate Burleson, DE Ziggy Ansah, CB Bill Bentley, T Corey Hilliard, QB Kellen Moore, RB Mikel Leshoure, OL Leroy Harris.
Bears: LB Lance Briggs, LS Patrick Mannelly, DT Jay Ratliff, QB Jordan Palmer, T Jonathan Scott, G James Brown, DE Shea McClellin
Eagles at Packers
Eagles: QB Michael Vick, CB Bradley Fletcher, LB Jake Knott, T Matt Tobin, T Dennis Kelly, WR B.J. Cunningham, RB Matthew Tucker
Packers: QB Aaron Rodgers, WR Chris Harper, CB James Nixon, LB Andy Mulumba, T Derek Sherrod, DE Josh Boyd, DE C.J. Wilson
Rams at Colts
Rams: G Harvey Dahl, TE Lance Kendricks, QB Brady Quinn, T Mike Person, G/C Barrett Jones, RB Daryl Richardson, DE Gerald Rivers
Colts: CB Greg Toler, DT Josh Chapman, CB Josh Gordy, S Delano Howell, TE Weslye Saunders, LB Cam Johnson, OL Khaled Holmes
Raiders at Giants
Raiders: S Tyvon Branch, CB D.J. Hayden, RB Darren McFadden, T Tony Pashos, T Matt McCants, WR Juron Criner, LB Kaluka Maiava
Giants: CB Corey Webster, QB Ryan Nassib, TE Adrien Robinson, CB Jayron Hosley, RB Brandon Jacobs, OL Dallas Reynolds, DT Markus Kuhn
Bills at Steelers
Bills: QB Jeff Tuel, WR Robert Woods, CB Justin Rogers, RB Ronnie Wingo, DB Brandon Smith, LB Ty Powell, OL Antoine McClain.
Steelers: QB Landry Jones, WR Derek Moye, CB DeMarcus Van Dyke, TE Rich Gordon, LB Kion Wilson, LB Chris Carter, NT Hebron Fangupo
Jaguars at Titans
Jaguars: QB Ricky Stanzi, G Will Rackley, LB Nathan Stupar, WR Stephen Williams, WR Kerry Taylor, DE Andre Branch, CB Jamell Fleming
Titans: LB Moise Fokou, QB Rusty Smith, CB Tommie Campbell, LB Zac Diles, OL Pat McQuistan, T David Stewart, DE Lavar Edwards


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Punching holes in hot rods
It's been said before but it's worth repeating, real hot rods have louvers. Those little raised slots are the perfect example of form following function.
From the earliest days of the automobile louvers have been used to vent hot air from the engine compartment and when hot rodders began making more heat under the hood the answer was more louvers. But there were other reasons to ventilate a rod's sheetmetal—in some cases it was to let air out, in others to let it in.
Along with their practical purpose, louvers also provide visual impact and consequently how they look is important—the arrangement, or layout, is critical to their appearance. We're not about to say there is a right and wrong way to do it, but rather provide food for thought. A case in point is the ventilated nose of Tom Medley's '40 Ford. The creator of Hot Rod's Stroker McGurk, former editor of Rod & Custom, and one of those responsible for the first R&C Street Rod Nationals in Peoria, Illinois, in 1970, he's been a hot rodder longer than most of us have been alive.
While so much of what is done to a hot rod is subjective, Medley's longevity gives him a unique, historical perspective on traditional techniques and his artist's sense of style also comes into play. Those elements certainly had an impact when Kent Fuller punched the hood of Medley's coupe. The duo agreed that when louvers are in a straight line on a tapered hood it gives the illusion that they come closer together in the rear, sort of like the vanishing point in a drawing. Their approach was to gradually spread the rows of louvers further apart toward the back of the hood. In addition, while the lines of louvers are angled, the back edges, or the openings of the louvers, are aligned and 90 degrees to the hood's centerline.
As most of our readers now know, Medley's coupe was heavily damaged in a fire that reduced the garage it was in to ashes. By all practical standards the '40 was a write-off, but lots of Medley's friends came to the rescue and Randy Clark of Hot Rods and Custom stuff pulled off what many thought was impractical, to say the least, and damn near impossible, to be brutally honest.
Every effort was made to reconstruct the coupe exactly as it had been, including the hood Medley was so proud of. Like most things there's more than one way to lay out louvers and what Medley and Fuller did, and Clark recreated, was complicated and time-consuming. We think the results certainly justify the effort.


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The Lafourche Parish Council is trying to figure out what to do with a 50-year-old building that some council members believe has historical value.
The Lafourche Parish Council is trying to figure out what to do with a 50-year-old building that some council members believe has historical value.
The Old Galliano Courthouse Annex was first used in the 1950s as a government complex.
"It has sentimental value to me," Councilman Aaron Caillouet said. "In high school I had some involvement in politics. Back then, that was everything for south Lafourche. The assessor was there, the sheriff was there, the court was there. If for any reason there is a possibility that we could salvage it and use it for something, we should."
Lorraine said he doesn't think the parish should sell the property because of its perceived sentimental value.
"That building has been there for 50 years. ... We can fix it and use it as a historic building," Lorraine said.
"Why sell it, are we broke?" he added.
Councilman Daniel Lorraine said the building isn't in deplorable condition, and he plans to add an amendment to the proposed budget to repair and upgrade the building.
In 2010, Lorraine said he tried to set aside money to renovate the building, but nothing was done.
In September, the parish administration proposed an ordinance to sell the annex. Councilman Phillip Gouaux put the ordinance on the agenda, but the legislation failed to receive a second motion and died. Lorraine said this is because other council members feel as he does — that the parish can profit from restoring the building.
Caillouet said he didn't second the motion because he felt it was the council's duty to determine if it was cost effective to renovate the building.
Parish President Charlotte Randolph said she has spoken with the Sheriff's Office about using the building, but it isn't interested.
Randolph said she hasn't heard any feasible suggestions.
"We have no money to support a museum. I don't know of any use for this building. I hope someone from the public may offer some advice or some suggestions to us," she said.
Lorraine has expressed interest in turning the building into a museum of parish history.
"We can have pictures of all of the previous parish presidents, and we can highlight moments in parish history," Lorraine said.
The building can also be used as a public meeting space, Lorraine said.
"We can rent it out to different groups to do different things. That building has been there since I was a kid. I'm not going to let somebody sell it," Lorraine said.
The building was closed in 2006 after 17th Judicial District judges ruled it had declining use and physical condition, inadequate security and an inordinate operating cost.
"In recent years the court has not used the Galliano courthouse as frequently as in the past for various reasons, including scheduling conflicts with lawyers and litigants from the south Lafourche area," the court order read.
The building's usefulness declined when the parish relocated several annex offices, including those of voter registrar, district attorney and the Coastal Zone Management Department.
The move was not popular at the time.
"For us, (the building) is more symbolic. That courtroom has been in use for 30 to 40 years," former Golden Meadow resident Carl Chauvin said in 2006.
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Raganwald says:
Shipping software on time was and is a very hard problem. Actually, there are two hard problems involved. The first is knowing how to plan and manage development. The second is convincing stake holders that your plan is optimal and that any interference on their part—be it feature creep, dictating overtime, advancing the ship date, whatever—will make things worse. Please don't consider the second part as me just trying to make a funny to capture your interest. It is a very hard problem in the real world.
There's a great book called Ship It! which is my favorite resource for this general problem. I prefer to focus on infrastructure, rather than management. I really don't know how to plan a project, not in any official sense, but I do know how to set up a project so that developers can work at their maximum possible productivity while ensuring their mistakes have the minimum possible consequences.
The specific subset of the problem emphasized here, though, is a pretty thorny one. It can range from a minor hurdle to a towering obstacle. It's essentially a political problem. It'll depend on your reputation, your luck, your organization's culture, and, in a few Dilbert-office cases, the personal day-to-day emotional lives and whims of the stakeholders in question. Developing a plan which really is optimal and really can't be improved by interference from stakeholders outside the project is definitely a less nebulous problem than convincing such stakeholders that you've done it, once you actually have.
The only book I know that really addresses these topics is Machiavelli's The Prince, which I haven't read since high school. (And of course the entire Dilbert ouevre.)
I do, at least, know one very good, very simple way to convince your superiors in an organization that your plan is golden: establish a kickass track record somewhere else, and if they question your plans, simply refuse to even discuss it. The downside to this method is that it basically draws a line in the sand, which makes it crazy overkill in most cases. The more subtle art of building buy-in from your stakeholders isn't really documented anywhere, but I'll agree with Raganwald, it's important, and it's far from effortless.
It's really a more general problem: how do you manage a team of people who speak one language, while working for a team of people who speak another? There's an ancient saying in Latin which means "Translators are traitors." It comes from the fact that the two words, in Latin, are nearly identical, but there's a modern equivalent. You've seen it if you watched the first season of "The Sopranos," when Tony Soprano sat down in his daughter's college and looked up to see the words of Nathaniel Hawthorne behind him:
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Programmers should avoid modeling their social skills in the workplace on Tony Soprano's methods of dealing with stakeholders, co-workers, and competitors. But the essential problem, of being able to speak in business terms to business people and technical terms to technical people, is a problem which challenges anybody who puts one foot in each world. After a while, you wonder which world is home.
Planning for software requires equal parts planning for artists, in that you have to accomodate bursts of creativity offset by periods of no progress where people think about problems in the shower; planning in the usual corporate sense, in that you have to get people together and make sure they understand each other; and planning in the style of building a house, in that different kinds of interoperating systems will be built, by different kinds of people, and also in that a project without version control and automated testing is as secure as a house built without a foundation. Finally, once you meet all these requirements, you then need to defend your delicate balance from people who love to poke Jenga towers to see what they'll do.
I think the best thing to do in the event of Jenga-poking is to assume it will happen, and plan accordingly. I recently started on a project which had no version control. The first thing I did, I downloaded all the code and got someone to set up a Subversion repository. Literally a few days later, the entire system hit a hardware failure, and my manual backup was the only copy of the code we had access to. I hadn't anticipated that; I just saw the absence of version control and went on autopilot. It's just reflex - you see a system without version control, you add version control. Like spotting dirty dishes in the sink, you know what to do and it doesn't take long. Preparing for Jenga-pokers and their mischief should probably be as automatic and as reflexive. Expect interference, and have a recovery system in place for when it occurs.
What that recovery system should actually be, though, I don't know. That's the real question.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - In honor of the 17th Annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day, Santa Clara University's Department of Athletics & Recreation hosted a variety of activities for young fans this past weekend.
The celebration was highlighted by "Be a Buddy Night" at the Santa Clara Women's Basketball game vs. Gonzaga on Saturday night. More than 40 young fans were paired up with female athletes from Santa Clara's nine Division I women's sports teams.
These new friends enjoyed watching Santa Clara defeat Gonzaga by a score of 65-41, to move into a tie for first place midway through the West Coast Conference season.
Bronco Women's Basketball fans also enjoyed a free youth clinic put on by the Santa Clara women's basketball team on Sunday morning. More than 60 young fans were in attendance.
The Bronco Women's Basketball team with travel to Southern California to face San Diego, Loyola Marymount and Pepperdine before returning home for their final two home contests of the season. Catch the Broncos on Thursday, Feb. 20 when they will face San Francisco at 7 p.m. Join us for "Senior Day" on Saturday, Feb. 22 at 2 p.m. when the Broncos will face rival Saint Mary's.
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Japan Sets New Feed-In Tariffs For Renewables; 50¢ per kWh For Solar
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Pinning its hopes on a sustainable recovery from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan's Upper House of the Diet has enacted feed-in tariffs that take effect July 1, 2012 requiring utilities to purchase electricity generated by commercially available sources of renewable energy for a set price and period.
Reuters reports a ruling party lawmakers "expects" the tariff for solar photovoltaic / electric systems to start at the equivalent of 50 cents per kilowatt-hour. The tariff for win energy is to start at the equivalent of 25 cents per kilowatt hour. Anything close to those levels virtually assures Japan will catapult up the global ranks of active renewable energy economies after lagging behind leaders German, Italy, China and Ontario, Canada.
These tariffs could represent a sea-change in energy policy in Japan that almost certainly would not have occurred were it not for the Fukushima nuclear disaster triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and resulting tsunami which crippled the multiple reactor complex earlier this year. Most importantly, responsibility for the new tariff system was not assigned to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, or METI.
There are numerous reports that high-ranking officials throughout the Japanese government, along with influential members of the public, lost trust in METI because of its now-faulty response to Fukushima and resulting over-reliance on nuclear at the expense of renewables.
Japan is aiming for 30 gigawatts of new renewable generation within 10 years. Cost recovery will come via surcharges to ratepayers with reductions for heavy industrial users and ratepayers affected by the tsunami.
The tariff schedules are to be reviewed every three years and therein lies some political risk if officials opt to curtail the program and hamstring it with burdensome rules.
Feed-in tariff advocates such as Paul Gipe have expressed hope that Japan's move could provide impetus for similar laws in U.S. and other parts of Canada. But this is not an apples-to-apples comparison. The U.S. solar industry have been quick to caution against over-reacting. Nuclear plants on the eastern U.S. survived a two closely-watched tests when a 5.8 Richter Scale earthquake forced some reactors in the U.S. mid-Atlantic offline as a safety precaution. This past weekend, reactors there and in the Northeast U.S. appeared to have passed additional tests posed by Hurricane Irene.
As with all feed-in tariff regimes, it will be interesting to see to what extent Japan invokes any "domestic content" requirements on the equipment installed to generated this clean electricity.
Japan once was the world's leader in solar PV technology. But it has been trumped by Germany and China. Japanese companies no doubt are anxious to catch up. Whether companies based in Germany, China, the U.S. and elsewhere have roughly equal access by mid-2012 remains to be seen.
According to Gipe, Japan installed about 1,000 MW of solar PV in 2010. Germany installed more than seven times as much, and Italy installed more than twice as much. And Japan's population is 1.6 times greater than that of Germany and more than twice as large as that of Italy.
That would add over 12 percent to Japan's total generation capacity before the nuclear disaster of 240,000 MW.
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Wellington Partners Announces First Closing of New Life Science Fund With $91 Million
The new fund has attracted investors from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Benelux, France, the UK, the US and the Middle East. Among the main investors in Wellington Partners IV Life Science are the European Investment Fund (EIF), LfA Foerderbank Bayern, Austria Wirtschaftsservice GmbH and several large family offices. Despite the challenging financial environment, investors have been convinced by the opportunity to benefit from participation in companies developing highly innovative products in a major growth market as well as by the excellent track record of the Wellington Partners life science investment team.
Wellington Partners was an early investor in Swiss-based listed pharma player Actelion and in mtm laboratories, a German diagnostics company focusing on cervical cancer screening, which was acquired by Roche in 2011 for up to € 190 million. The active portfolio comprises a number of highly promising life science companies, including: immatics, a leading therapeutic cancer vaccines company with a broad clinical pipeline, including a renal cell cancer vaccine already in phase III clinical development; invendo medical, which received FDA approval for its disposable colonoscope earlier this year; Oxford Immunotec, a diagnostics company marketing its blood test for latent TB infection globally, thereby addressing a blockbuster market; and Symetis, which is currently launching a highly innovative second-generation minimally invasive heart valve. In light of these success stories many existing investors also participated in the new fund and increased their commitments.
Dr. Rainer Strohmenger, General Partner at Wellington Partners, explains: "This first closing of our new, larger fund in a challenging financial environment is a big success and reflects the strength of our team and our approach to investment in this complex market. Numerous renowned investors are trusting in our ability to create value by selectively investing in the most promising and innovative private life science companies in Europe. The market environment is highly favorable because a majority of investors are currently neglecting this segment despite the fact that the life science market will be one of the most important growth drivers in the coming years. This has led to a scarcity of capital, moderate entry valuations and hence the opportunity to generate outstanding returns for those investors who are willing to act anti-cyclically. This strategy has been pursued by Wellington Partners highly successfully for many years."
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Since 1998, Wellington Partners has invested in more than 100 companies, including publicly listed firms like Actelion, Evolva, Wavelight (acquired by Alcon) and Xing as well as privately held companies like AyoxxA, Grandis (acquired by Novartis), immatics, implanet, invendo medical, mtm laboratories (acquired by Roche), Oxagen, Oxford Immunotec, Quanta, Sapiens, Sensimed, Supersonic Imagine, Symetis and Spotify. For further information, please visit www.wellington-partners.com.
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Our objective is to educate researchers and graduate students about the fundamentals of cell and molecular biomechanics, and to provide an intense learning experience, and to facilitate interactions among engineers, biologists and clinicians. The goals are to help train a new generation of researchers with in-depth knowledge of mechanics and biology and to help engineers and biologists apply biomechanical approaches in biomolecular, cellular, tissue-level, animal model studies.
We are interested in how information regulating gene expression is encoded, transmitted, and interpreted. In addressing this question, we focus on a signaling pathway, conserved from insects to humans, that has evolved a rich array of variations adaptive to diverse functions in development and defense. We are investigating both mechanism and adaptations in the fruit fly, where we can readily generate mutations that disrupt pathway function, monitor and manipulate gene activity, and map out regulatory circuitry using molecular, biochemical, and bioinformatic techniques.
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Monday, June 6, 2011
Tales of the Cocktail: Preemptive Strike (Part 3)
Next up in this series of pre-Tales dispatches is a brief Q &A with Wayne Curtis. Wayne is a freelance journalist who has written for many fine periodicals including The New York Times, Saveur, The Atlantic and Travel+Leisure. However, booze geeks likely know him best as the author of And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the World in Ten Cocktails.
This year Wayne will be heading up the presentation "Beyond Punch: Colonial American Drinks and How to Mix Them", and he graciously let me pepper him with questions concerning this period in American drinking.
You wrote in And a Bottle of Rum that rum played a big part in the drinking scene during the early days of the US. What were some of the other things people were drinking at that time?
Mostly cider, lots of beer, and whiskey was starting to come in, but it remained hampered by transportation issues (no trains or canals from beyond the Appalachians until nearly the mid-19th century). Rum was cheap and easy to find in port cities since there was lots of trade between the 26 British colonies (of which 13 elected to break off and declare independence.)
Could you briefly describe the role alcohol played in the day-to-day life of the average person in colonial America? For example, was it common to consume alcohol with every meal? Was it mainly consumed recreationally and socially?
Beverage alcohol was medicine, provider of comfort, salve, healer of all ills including chilblains. You had some in the morning to start your day properly, then you had some more spirit when you took a lunch break, and there was no better way to cement the bonds of friendship and catch up on the news than having a slug of rum or cider at night at the tavern.
What is an example of a popular alcoholic beverage that could be found in a pub/tavern during this time period?
Punch, of course -- taverns almost always had punch bowls and ladles and cups. But tavern owners were creative and mixed up what they had to create potions that would distinguish them from their competition. Shrubs were popular -- this was a way of preserving berries or stone fruits into the winter by soaking them in vinegar. Pour out a little of that, add sugar, some rum, and you could turn a dark February evening into a taste of summer. Which was sort of a remarkable thing in an era before refrigeration and air-express shipping.
How much distilling was done at home vs. commercially?
Home distilling was far more common then than now -- because if you lived on an isolated farm, you had to make most everything you needed. So small stovetop contraptions would provide a bit. And rural folks knew other tricks, like leaving a pail of hard cider out in the barn during the winter, and then scraping off and discarding the ice periodically, which would increase the proof and result in a sort of crude applejack. (Water freezes before alcohol.) In the cities, with the proliferation of taverns and distillers, there was less home-distillation. Remember that in New England alone, there were something like 160 commercial rum distilleries cranking out product on the eve of the American Revolution. You didn't have to go far to find a tot of rum, especially in the seaboard cities.
Were the drinking habits of the wealthy markedly different from the poor?
Everybody drank, and heartily, but the rich drank better, of course. They could afford imported Madeira and port to mix in their punches. And they would drink rums from the West Indies, which most contemporary accounts suggest tasted far better than the rums made in New England.
What types of drinking vessels were the most commonly used (glass, metal, earthenware, etc.) and what drinks were traditionally served in them?
Glass was favored by the upper crust -- elegant punch glasses and the like were more expensive to obtain, and when you had them you took good care of them. Otherwise, it was whatever you had on hand -- be it pewter mugs or crude earthenware or more refined ceramic tankards, or sipping out of the ladle. You'd find a real mix of vessels around the colony, with the poorer imbibers obviously using the cheaper earthenware.
Were there any drink ingredients or preparations being used at that time that we would find surprising today?
Flip is most surprising -- it was made by mixing up rum, beer, and a sweetener like molasses in a pitcher, then stirring it with a piece of iron that had been heated to red-hot in a fireplace. The mess would foam up and sputter, and the end product had a distinctive taste... strangely, a bit like Starbucks coffee, from all the grains in the beer being burned.
"Beyond Punch: Colonial American Drinks and How to Mix Them" happens from 10:00 to 11:30 am July 21 in the Queen Anne Ballroom at the Hotel Monteleone. Go here to purchase tickets.
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Question is, is there any hard evicence? The article in the thread-starting post is very vague on what's been really done. Not that I think it's not plausible, on the contrary.
C-Span Online Broadcast Interrupted by Russian TV Feed
They cheekily leave the most likely explanation till the 2nd to last paragraph, still funny though.
"C-Spans newsroom monitors many other news channels for breaking news, including domestic networks like CBS and CNN, and various international networks. Its statement suggested that a routing error had caused the RT feed it regularly monitors to be broadcast accidentally."
Blaming Trump's election on a few smart Russians ignores the contribution of 60 million moronic Americans.
^^ that's not fair, actually, most of them aren't morons. many may truly believe but many are also misguided, uninformed, misled, preoccupied with the trivial distractions/spin, etc. the ny times has an interview with women explaining why they voted for trump and it's still puzzling (if not infuriating) to hear from their own mouths about the things they feel are important and other factors they completely overlook or dismiss.
Yeah, it's easy to take the high ground and dismiss people as idiots, but you have to consider the sheer density and omnipresence of bullshit information - I don't mean fake news as such, just extremely biased or otherwise lousy 'news' sources and professional opinion-havers - and the fact that none of us get to choose the family/community/area we're born into.
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imagine if this were to happen:
1. russians hack DNC email and give them to assange.
2. assange helps trump campaign by releasing DNC emails.
3. trump wins election.
4. assange says he will agree to US extradition if chelsea manning is released
5. obama commutes chelsea manning's sentence.
6. trump sworn in as president.
7. assange extradited to the US.
8. trump administration refuses to press charges against assange.
some or all of this might be fiction, of course. but funny how things (could) work out.
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Thats precisely how it did happen (except perhaps for the Manning bit). Assange agreed to meet the Swedish prosecutor a couple of days after the election. He acted as an intermediary for Russian hack info so he could get out of jail via Trump.
So... A senior member of Putin's Kleptocracy and likely source for the Steele Russian dossier found dead under mysterious circumstances.
total nonsense. i believe assange and craig murray over the predictable russia-blaming democrats wishing to excuse their catastrophic loss. the 'hacker' was a democrat party insider and the (poorly guarded) emails had zero exposure in the media, not enough to influence the outcome. what did the democrats in was their unlikeable candidate and sycophantic media, plus a very determined and hard working rival.
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no one said the wikileaks emails won the election for trump. i said they helped the trump campaign, which they surely did. and i was speculating (a bit factiously, at that) on the potential quid pro quo between the trump campaign and assange. wasn't rehashing clinton's campaign or making excuses.
Russia had a role. Comey had a role. DNC corruption had a role. Hillary's appalling campaign and history had a role. Trump's populist message had a role.
The emails had huge exposure. With all due respect bruno, have you been living in a cave for the last year?
right, i do think their impact was minor given the very little exposure they received in u.s. and global media. they did vindicate trump, but given the anti-trump onslaught the impact was likely nil beyond his circle. all i saw was constant anti-trump propaganda which perhaps made people weary enough to eventually cast the vote for him.
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