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Knife-wielding robbers target two stores in Manchester
MANCHESTER — One store clerk had a knife put to her throat while an owner and clerk at another store fought off another knife-wielding robber with a shovel and a bat in two robberies Sunday in the city.
Police made an arrest in one of the incidents, but continue to search for the second robber.
The first robbery was at Cumberland Farms, 217 Union St., just after 9 a.m. Sunday.
The 41-year-old assistant manager told police a masked man entered the store, grabbed her and put a knife to her throat. He demanded money, and police said he got it from her register and also from a second register where a 54-year-old clerk was standing.
The assistant manager had red marks on her neck as a result of the attack, according to police.
The robber is described as a 6-foot tall white man wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, black pants, black boots and a black winter mask over his face. He had light-colored eyes and a deep voice with a heavy Boston accent.
The second robbery happened just after 1 p.m. at N&K Market, 374 Pearl St. The robber entered the store brandishing a knife and demanding money. He first pointed the knife at the 37-year-old clerk, but the employee broke free and ran to the back of the store where he grabbed a shovel to defend himself.
In the meantime, the robber turned his attention to the 44-year-old owner behind the counter. Police said the owner grabbed a bat from under the counter and swung it at the robber who fled the store empty-handed.
The owner and employee told police they noticed a yellow SUV in the area just before the robbery. Shortly afterward, Officer Lucas Hobbs spotted an SUV matching the description at Maple and Bridges streets and pulled it over. The passenger, identified by police as Jotnell St. Pierre, 19, of 416 Smyth Road, fit the description of the robber.
Based on further investigation, St. Pierre was linked to the robbery and arrested on charges of robbery and criminal threatening. Police said they recovered a large serrated bread knife, believed used in the robbery, from the SUV.
St. Pierre was charged with being a felon in possession of a deadly weapon.
St. Pierre was arraigned Monday in 9th Circuit Court, Manchester District Division, on felony charges of robbery, being a felon in possession of a deadly weapon and criminal threatening.
In requesting $50,000 cash/surety bail, a police prosecutor said St. Pierre was convicted in July in Hillsborough County Superior Court North of bail jumping. St. Pierre also has a robbery conviction.
Bail conditions include no contact with the store clerk and not going to the N&K Market. Because no plea can be entered to a felony charge in circuit court, a probable cause hearing was set for Dec. 23.
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Modulation of Inflammation during Infectious Diseases Caused by Intracellular Pathogens
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Infections caused by intracellular pathogens are a major cause of global morbidity and mortality. These pathogens live inside host cells, and their survival and propagation depends on their ability to modulate the cells where they are living in. Given that cellular innate and inflammatory barriers are normally programmed to destroy these parasites during infection, the ability of these pathogens in modulating these pathways is essential to understanding host-microbe interaction. Indeed, it is already well established that a strong inflammatory response is necessary to eliminate the intracellular pathogen. On the other hand, an aberrant or uncontrolled inflammatory and/or immune response can be deleterious by promoting excessive leukocyte recruitment, production of proinflammatory cytokines, chemokines, and other immunomodulators which are critical to increase damage of the host tissues which is often associated to worse disease outcome.
In the last decades, considerable progress has been made in regard to the understanding of host-pathogen interaction. This was achieved greatly due to a variety of studies using biochemical, molecular, immune, and cellular assays, in addition to models of knockout and transgenic mice. However, there is still a lot more to understand as some of the pathways involved in the host-pathogen interaction remain obscure.
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Dear Liz:
I am job-hunting, and I don't want to give my current supervisor's name as a reference. When I apply for positions, the application form asks for my current job details and my supervisor's name. But, of course, I don't want my supervisor to know I am job-hunting. We have a great relationship, but she would be very unhappy to know that I'm looking for a new job.
Also, most of my past references will give me great recommendations, but there is one manager from several years ago who never really took to me and vice-versa. He was not a great manager in my opinion, and I'd hate for him to be included as one of my references. Must I give this manager's name and contact information when I fill out job applications?
I do not want to spook prospective employers by saying, "By the way, this manager didn't like me," but I fear what he might say on a reference call.
Any advice for me?
– Clarence
Dear Clarence:
Your first question is easy. No prospective employer should require you to share your current manager's details when you're in a stealth job search. You can include the company name, and leave the manager information blank. It is reasonable for employers to ask for this information on their application forms so that applicants who have already left their past jobs can include it. But you, as a currently employed and under-the-radar job-seeker, aren't expected to share your current boss' contact info.
You will notify your boss that you've been job-hunting, but you'll do it after you've accepted an offer.
Now, for that boss back in the day who didn't see eye to eye with you – that's not so difficult either. You must provide a reference associated with each job you've held. Ideally, that reference is your own manager. But managers leave companies all the time, and you aren't responsible for ensuring that every single reference you provide is your own boss, much less your last boss on the time line, at every job you've held over the years.
It's more important to have a positive reference who will recommend you highly, even if that means that your reference will be a higher-level manager, a peer to your manager, or a manager you held at an earlier period on the job. So, you could put down the name of your boss' boss, when you next have the opportunity to fill out an application form.
You could also use a different manager in the company – maybe someone who supervised you at one time, before your not-so-wonderful manager took the reins. You could list a manager who has left the company. As long as the person was in a leadership position at your old employer, knows your work, and has positive things to say about you, he or she will make a good choice as a reference-giver.
Be sure to call up this person and prep him or her before that phone rings! It's always polite to ask a reference-giver for his or her permission to be included on your reference list. And, it doesn't hurt to refresh his or her memory about the things you've been doing since you saw one another, and a few specifics about the jobs you're pursuing now.
Like they say, networking is forever!
Liz Ryan is a former Fortune 500 VP, a 25-year HR veteran and an expert on careers and the new millennium workplace. An award-winning entrepreneur and workplace adviser, Ryan is author of "Happy About Online Networking" and founder of the global online community www.AskLizRyan.com. E-mail Ryan at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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This clam shell container is perfect for salads, desserts, and any other cold products. Because of its clear plastic structure, we can focus on presentation of our products, too.
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Legerdemain: The President's Secret Plan, the Bomb and What the French Never KnewLegerdemain is the true story of a young undercover operative for the U.S. Air Force during the Truman-Eisenhower Administrations who was sent on a mission to wrest French Morocco from the French colonial system and bring it into the American sphere of influence. The purpose was to insure Moroccan air bases for the Strategic Air Command which was vital for a retaliatory strike against the Soviet Union. The story underlines President Truman's disregard for French friendship and is willing to risk it for the sake of U.S. security. The disregard is further illustrated by the secret storage of atom bombs in French Morocco which was completely unknown to Charles DeGaulle, President of France. The story unveils the working of undercover operatives of Britains MI6, Israel's Mossad, America's CIA, France's Security Services, the Soviet Union's KGB as well as the French Foreign Legion set against the exotic backdrop of the alleyways, coffee houses and bathhouses of Casablanca, the exotic fairs of Marrakech, the settings of privilege in Cairo and the mountainside villages of Cypress. The author's experience also takes him through Berber villages in the Atlas Mountains and Foreign Legion outposts on the apron of the Sahara. Through it all, the author unfolds Islamic thinking of that period and sets it as a prelude to the affairs of the Twenty First Century. |
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A few key points about Kew Gardens: It is huge. It is impressive. It is not cheap.
Admission is £15 for adults. I balked at this a little but bit the bullet and went in, and I didn't feel as if I'd been ripped off. However, Kew is massive, and you're on your own for getting around. So you may have trouble packing it all in, depending on when you start out.
Kew does not consist of gardens simply for enjoying, like the other royal parks have (e.g., lots of nice roses and a fountain), although those do exist. The park (to me, it's a park) has numerous little greenhouses and other buildings and areas that showcase different plants from different climates (e.g., temperate, tropical, desert, alpine) and specialty plants, like water plants and carnivores. I wouldn't want to guess at how many genuses are covered, but each building includes hundreds of species, and it's very hard to process it all. The palm house's showcase piece is a cycad from the 1700s, still going strong. One part also has some fish on display, including a piranha.
There's an evolution hall that shows the different plants growing on earth at different points in history, which was neat. However, I must confess I didn't handle the treetop walkway well at all. I had trouble getting up because of injuries to my legs during the trip. When I got there, I found that the floor of the walkway is a metal grate, and you can see through the holes to the ground way, way below. So I hurried around it as fast as I could and went back down.
I ate lunch at the Orangerie, and it was quite good. I had a packaged sandwich, packaged salad, and a slice of bakewell tart.
I am personally interested in the world of fungi. Research into it occurs there, I gather. As far as I know, there was no official display of it, but then fungi can be very hard to cultivate.
In summary, I found it was worth visiting. If you have zero interest in walking around and looking at interesting plants, however, skip it. :-)- Family Travel
Breathe in at Kew Gardens
We spent a lovely, sunny, May bank holiday in Kew Gardens. We took the 1 1/2 hour train journey from home, which meant we could take advantage of the 2 for 1 entry offer.
It was our first time visiting the gardens and they had been recommended to us by a friend who has a season ticket. She finds it a great place to take the kids, who do not have to pay an entrance fee.
The gardens are huge and you would do very well and have to be incredibly fit, to get to see everything it has to offer in one day. We decided that we would take the advice of the park leaflet and concentrate on the highlights.
We entered the gardens at Victoria Gate at about 11:30 and first took a stroll around the Palm House, which is a huge Victorian glasshouse. We spent an hour in here and so it was time for sit down on one of the numerous park benches scattered liberally around and devour our packed lunch.
It was then off to the Waterlily House to admire the floating beauties, followed by the Princess of Wales Conservatory, with its prickly cactus plants.
We then off to climb amongst the tree tops. Kew has a spectacular treetop walkway. It's well worth the climb of 118 steps to get amongst the high branches.
We also took a walk around the Azalea Garden and the Rhododendron Dell and then onto the to the pagoda.
After a cup of tea and a cake, we stepped into another huge glasshouse called the Temperate House. This enormous greenhouse if full of all the plants you can think off.
All in all, we had a great day at Kew and will certainly be back again, when we can to see the rest of the gardens that we had missed.
Considering it was a bank holiday and there were plenty of people in the gardens it was still possible to find yourselves alone with the plants and the trees. This is a real place to let yourself breathe.- Eco-Tourism
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Kew Gardens.
Kew Gardens were founded in 1759 by Augusta; princess of Wales. In 1840 these were donated to the nation. These gardens are also a botanical research center.
Today they cover an area of 300 acres and are home of thousands of species of plants from all over the world. Inside the gardens there are also some glasshouses and some buildings ( Queen's Charlotte Cottage, the Holland House., the Mariane North Gallery...).- Family Travel
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London's most fabulous gardens
The 300 acres of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew ("Kew Gardens") is more than just a repository of botanical life - it is also of historical significance and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. For most people, though, it is just a simply wonderful outdoor space to visit. There is easily enough to do/see here over several hours. The Gardens has two iconic glasshouses built in the mid 1800s - the Palm House and the Temperate House - as well as a 10-storey Chinese pagoda constructed in 1762. It has many themed sections, including the largest bamboo collection in Europe. The garden and gift shop is also excellent. Admission cost GBP12.25 for adults and free for children under 17 years (2007 prices).
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Oriental gardens, tropical green houses, flowers
Kew Gardens is great place to visit if you like plants and gardens, otherwise, it's boring. There are a few indoor areas (glass houses) where you can stroll even when the weather isn't that great outdoors. The whole area covers over 300 acres and there are several different areas such as the Japanese, Mediterranean, bamboo, rock, rose, aquatic, azalea gardens.. One of the oldest green houses has tall banana plants and palm trees, hence it's called the Palm House. It is a rather tall building and it is over 160 years old, from the Victorian period.
Kew Gardens was inscribed on the Unesco list of World Heritage Sites in 2003.
Admission is pricey. Even before the closing time of the glass houses they still charge over £10.
Opening times vary. Usually it opens at 9.30am and closes before dusk. Check the website for more details.- Adventure Travel
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Kew Gardens and Palace
One of Britain's UNESCO World Heritage sites (since 2003), the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew still doesn't get as much attention as it deserves. The village of Kew developed when Henry VII built his palace at nearby Richmond and it needed services for all the new noble visitors sailing here, and it was in the 17th century that it started to take off with the grand landscape designing of the time and nobility and others aquiring various plots of land. One of these plots was owned by a Flemish immigrant who built what was to become known as the Dutch House, today Kew Palace, with a distinct Dutch architecture. It is a popular palace to visit when seeing Kew itself and was once the home of King George III and Queen Charlotte.
There has been a botanical garden at Kew since 1759 and a major reason for its success and international fame is of course Britain's history with an empire stretching around the World so that exotic plants were always brought back to London and gathered the best scientists. Even today, new things keeps coming in and there is a huge seed bank and various theme events. There is an awful lot of material about Kew's history and collections on the website below where you can also see what's going on at the time of your visit. I love just strolling around, popping into various greenhouses and looking at huge palms or odd orchids with the most bizarre forms.- Historical Travel
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Tranquil Oasis
Kew Gardens is a beautiful place. It consists of formal gardens, manicured lawns and botanical greenhouses.
One of the main attractions is the Palm House, a metal and glass greenhouse filled with tropical plants.
Each year in spring they have an orchid festival, which is well worth a look.
This is a fabulous place for all the family. Visit in spring to see all of the flowering bulbs all over the gardens.
In summer there are concerts and in winter they have an ice rink.- Arts and Culture
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Kew Gardens ~ spectacular and serene
After viewing Kew Palace, we hopped onto the little train that takes you around the Gardens.. we didn't have much time here (only an afternoon), so thought this would be the best way to view it.
It was super, except for the fact we had VERY noisy and disruptive kids behind us the whole trip. We battled to hear the commentary as a result. It cost us £3.50 each.
We saw a lot though and will go back and bring a picnic and do it properly. There are 300 acres to see after all!
The gardens are a mix of order and wildness it seems to me. They have formal landscaped sections, green houses and less cultivated areas.
The Chinese pagoda reaches high into the sky and is Kew's most recognisable feature.
Something that piqued my fancy was the Grass Garden. I have a deep love and fascination of paper, enjoy making it and using it to create. Inside the garden there are over 600 varieties of grasses from all over the world.
Next door is the Wood House, where they explain how to make paper and its origins. All very interesting!
On the little train we also drove quite close to the Thames River, where we could see people walking, playing ball and cycling. We think a picnic would go down well there! So, we will be back in summer!- Hiking and Walking
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Kew Palace ~ A Royal Affair
There are various entrances into Kew Gardens. We went in through the ornate gates on the Kew side.
The queues were long (It was Easter Sunday, apparently the BUSIEST day of the year for them) We queued outside for 40 minutes, then went in.
First stop, Kew Palace!
Kew Palace is absolutely beautiful. Stunning. Three floors have been opened to the public again after 10 years, after extensive renovation work.
It was built in 1631 and is where Queen Charlotte and their family lived. She loved it. She died in the house, in a chair.
This gives you an intimate glimpse into the Royal lives that once lived and loved here.
Entrance is £5 for adults and £3 for kids.- Hiking and Walking
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Impressive, very large, 1/8 of world's spieces
It is a large garden (of 112 ectars if I'm right) of land, with many amazing plants, there exists 1/8 of all world's spieces of plants.
You can have a picnic with friends, family or others.
Take the train tour if you want to go around the whole garden without being exhausted, you can even get on the train, get down at any stop, relax or have a picnic and than get again on train to continue the tour.- Eco-Tourism
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Royal Botanic Gardens
Plan a whole day for Kew Gardens, it's a great place for a picnic combined with an entertaining botany lesson. Beautiful buildings (incl. a pagoda!) and greenhouses surrounded by flowers, trees and plants of all sorts. At the time of my visit (1997) it claimed to be the world's largest plant collection and I think it still is. I went in October and the weather was great but even if it's nasty there is so much to see in the greenhouses. I particularly liked the Palm House and the rain forest section where the humidity was so high that my camera needed time to adjust. For me it was great to see how some plants really looked like when I had only seen the end products (coffee, cocoa, tea, vanilla, cinnamon...). I wondered how the New World explorers had felt when they first tried chocolate...
More pics coming soon- Jungle and Rain Forest
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Kew Gardens
Kew Gardens is a leading centre of botanical research, a training ground for professional gardeners, and a popular visitor attraction. The gardens are mostly quite informal, with a few more formal areas. There are extensive conservatories, a herbarium, and a library.
Kew is important as a repository of seeds; it has one of the most important seedbanks. With the Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium, they co-operate in the IPNI database to produce an authoritative source of information on the nomenclature of plants.- Theme Park Trips
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More than strictly for the birds
They were, however, one of the animals that seem to derive much benefit from the gardens as shown in the first picture. I specifically timed my visit to co-incide with the autumnal colours which were certainly there, if not in profusion.
I racked off half a dozen shots to get the opening one, just wanted to see that beak in the water, the others were just taken while I was meandering around in the lovely autumn sun, such a change from what I had experienced in the rest of the country.- Hiking and Walking
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Kew Gardens
This is a great day out. Tickets are 10 pounds for adults - children under 16 go free.
There is great accessibility for wheelchair users (tickets 7GBP, but their essential carers get in for free).
There is so much to see and do here - great place to take the kids with aerial walkways in the glass houses, marine displays and a special *botanical* play area called Climbers and Creepers an all weather facility with organised art activities.
For the adults there are the 19th Century glass houses, Rose Gardens, Arboretum, Temperate House, Princess of Wales Conservatory, and the Kew Explorer - There's more info and pics on my Kew page Kew Gardens
Take a picnic or have lunch in the coffee shop. A piece of cake and a coffee will set you back about 4GBP. -
Kew Gardens - the far side
Whilst at the Kew Gardens I had the fortune/misfortune (delete whichever is appropriate) to notice (hard not to when it's jammed in front of your eyes) the glass works of an American named Chihuly. Some felt it was "a unique relationship between gardens and glass". Others wondered what on earth the glass sculptor had done to con his way into this natural setting.
Personally, at times they grated on me, at other times (particularly in the Temperate House) I thought they were really neat.
Since I am personally committed to being in favour of giving any kind of art a go, though there have been glaring examples down through the years when I wish they had died before giving birth to such appalling works, I tolerated this impost on what I had expected to be a purely natural work by Mother Nature.
Apparently much of Chihuly's inspiration came from similar works in Finland where his team experimented by tossing glass into the river and letting it float downstream. Local children in boats gathered them up and apparently this was what inspired Chuhuly.
Children, leave them alone next time.
I didn't mind the Macchia or the Ikebana, the latter named after the stylised beauty of Japanese floral arrangements which Chihuly admired on visits to Japan. No, it was all the rubbish sitting in an otherwise pristine pool and a multitude of balls strung up next to one of the Gardens' showpieces, the Chilean palm, that I found at odds with my expectations.- Family Travel
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Koko Brown - Kona Brewing Co.
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3.78/5 rDev +4.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
12 ox bottle was poured into a pint glass.
Appearance: A one finger off white head was poured that reduced to a thin layer. It is an amber copper color with good clarity and vision of bubbles coming up through the glass. Spotty lacing on the glass as the beer was drank.
Smell: Sweet coconut, bready malts, caramel, and some nuttiness.
Taste: Sweet and nutty notes from the coconut, bready malts, some caramel, and a little chocolate.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied, a little chewy, medium to high carbonation, and a bit smooth too. Feels a little dry.
Overall: A nice brown ale. The coconut brings this up a few notches and add a good flavor to the beer.
Serving type: bottle
03-16-2014 03:21:18 | More by Flounder57
4/5 rDev +10.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
(best by Jan 20 2014 - it was about a month past that at time of consumption, yet had been chilled for months prior)
A: perfectly clear, tawny in color.... pearl-white sudsy foam, open-structured, medium bubbles, holds a cap.... love the bottle label design - reminds me a bit of some of Uinta's designs
S: beers like this (those with fancy, exotic or nontraditional ingredients) really aren't my thing, but this beer smells (relatively) damn fantastic.... a display of toasted aromas: coconut, hazelnut, amber malt(?)... the coconut doesn't smell artificial or like suntan oil, its inviting scent does fade noticeably after a few sips while, curiously, becoming more apparent in the taste...
T: the taste is good - doesn't quite live up to the promise of its scent.... bold toasted nut and grain flavors, kissed by coconut oil.... fair amount of hop bitterness and a mild, late hint of milk chocolate.... thankfully not sweet - they could've easily erred in that direction.... sure does have a nutty brown ale foundation, med-dark grains.... long-lasting toasty dry and bitter
M: not oily at all, only marginally smooth... probably could have a bit more body... actually, this is pretty darn dry with a bit of a bite.... it seems to approach medium-bodied, however, the dryness and carbonation (I do sense a club-soda like carbonic acid feel and taste) taper that off enough
O: a well-made, quaffable brew.... depth in flavor and body is unfortunately held back.... the one time I've had this on tap the flavors were more bold and the feel smooth and more fulfilling, so I suppose the carbonation in this particular bottle hurt it...
Serving type: bottle
03-11-2014 23:17:00 | More by Bouleboubier
3.39/5 rDev -6.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Bottled December 5th. Poured into a shaker pint. I enjoyed Big Wave a decent bit and thought I'd try another beer from Kona. $2 single.
Appearance: A completely filtered mahogany/ruby-black kind of color. Not much head on it, but a nice wall of lacing through most of the drink. Unfortunately, this is the best part about this brew.
Smell: Well, it smells like a coconut brown, but something about it seems slightly off? Artificial almost? It smells waxy or something along those lines. I've noticed some people say it smells nutty, and maybe it does, but it's still distinctively coconut at the same time. Pretty nice. Not bad. Intriguing. Just something a bit "off" about it.
Taste/feel: First thing I notice is the feel... super watery with a fairly mild carbonation. Very, very thin. The flavor is like the aroma with quite a lot of coconut. People say it's more in the background, but I pick up plenty of it. Slight roast from the malt, but it doesn't give off a particular sort of flavor. No coffee or chocolate, it just tastes like a roasted malt -- faintly. Not bitter nor sweet. Easy drinking to be sure.
Overall, Koko Brown is an average-at-best brown ale. If you like coconut, this would be a nice choice... especially on a very hot day, as it isn't at all heavy, and it would be easy to have a few. I'm not sure I'd buy it again, but I certainly wouldn't say no to a bottle or a pint. 3.5/5 overall just because I could see this being a solid choice on a hot summer day.
Serving type: bottle
03-11-2014 17:47:40 | More by Alextricity
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3.39/5 rDev -6.6%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
A: medium brown, virtually no head, a few white bubbles along the glass
S: bready malts, nuty, coconut
T: general nuty taste, mild toasted coconut, malty
M: medium, a little dry and bitter
Overall a good beer but nothing special. Wish the coconut stood out a little more and had more sweetness, seems more of a general roasted nut taste to me.
Serving type: bottle
03-08-2014 04:36:18 | More by BumpyAZ
Koko Brown from Kona Brewing Co.
out of 100
based on 981 ratings.


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Halloween Dream
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ROGER ROSENBLATT: Just when I thought I'd gotten over the terrors of last year's Halloween, I had a dream about this year's Halloween.
The dream was about presidential campaign 2000, a year away to be sure, but in full swing already. To my door came trick-or-treaters, each claiming to be candidate for President of the United States. Standing in my doorway, wearing no Halloween costumes but their normal outfits, was a wholly new group of candidates, each explaining why he or she would make a great American President. They were Jesse Ventura, Warren Beatty, Cybill Shepherd, Donald Trump, and Mr. Ed.
Of these folks, only Mr. Ed has not declared himself to be a candidate or possible candidate. But given the qualifications of the others, there is no reason that America could not have a draft horse in the race. Besides, I told you: This was a dream.
MR. ED: Hello. I'm Mr. Ed.
ROGER ROSENBLATT: I was scared, all right– not because I had anything in particular against any of these future Presidents. It simply was difficult to understand their stated positions on any of the issues. Jesse Ventura, for instance, began by telling me that religious people were weak- minded, then said that being weak-minded was good. And just when I started to point out a logical inconsistency there, he reacted very strangely. Warren Beatty seemed rational enough at first, but then he threw himself into the rap song from "Bulworth."
WARREN BEATTY: Yo Bank of America this table over here — Wells Fargo and Citibank you're really very dear.
ROGER ROSENBLATT: And immediately switched over to "Reds," where he was singing the communists' anthem "The Internationale"… (Assembly singing) a political blunder, if you ask me. The Donald was especially difficult to comprehend. Every time he explained why he would make the best President since Abraham Lincoln, he started talking about how rich he was and how he was the best real estate mogul New York had ever seen.
DONALD TRUMP: The city's the hottest city, and I'm the biggest developer in the hottest city in the world right now.
ROGER ROSENBLATT: Cybill Shepherd said nothing, really, but she is a blonde. Mr. Ed made the most horse sense, mainly because he seemed to be the only candidate who knew who he was.
MR. ED SONG: A horse is a horse of course, of course no-one can talk to a horse of course that is, of course unless the horse is the famous Mr. Ed.
ROGER ROSENBLATT: Halloween is a holiday when we are supposed to drive away our monsters, but in America, we seem to attract them. Last year, you remember, we had the Monica group showing up at the national front door. Tricking and treating were Monica herself, and Linda, and Lucien, and Monica's lawyer, William, and all the other lawyers, loud and soft, and other persons and spokespersons, and the many congressmen and women who took one side or another, and all the talk show hosts on cable. Knock, knock, knock.
Rant, rant, rant. It was all quite frightening, but nothing compared to a crowd of celebrities threatening to lead the free world. In my dream, I thought that all the trick-or-treaters had gone away, and I began to relax. But then more celebrities came, knocking, knocking, knocking.
There was Charles Barkley in shorts, who said that he wanted to be governor of Alabama. I asked him what he could do as a politician the Bill Bradley couldn't. Then came Jerry Springer, who wanted to be a U.S. Senator. "How would you keep the peace?" I asked him. The next guy was knocking so loudly, I thought the door would cave in. He said he wanted to be governor of California.
"Okay," I said, "how would you settle disputes?" (Gunshots) I was at the end of my tether. After Arnold left, I sat there trembling. I began to long for a qualified candidate, someone of high intelligence, impeccable character, who has the best interests of the country at heart, and is cute as a button besides. The night was howling. The moon was full. There was one more knocking at the door. I opened it.
And there, at last, was the candidate of my dreams — Roger Rosenblatt.


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In his own words: living with narcolepsy
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John, 50, learned he had narcolepsy 18 years ago. The North Carolina nurse's symptoms include cataplexy (a sudden loss of muscle tone), excessive daytime sleepiness, and microsleeps (short episodes of sleep during the day). The condition ended his military career and forced changes in many aspects of his life.
What was your first sign that something was wrong? What symptoms did you experience?
The first time, the dogs were jumping up on the screen door. I rushed to open the door, so they wouldn't damage the screen and found myself on the ground. I couldn't get up but was aware of the dogs licking my face. It didn't last but 30 seconds, but it was pretty scary. It didn't happen again for two months. That time, I was putting insulation in the attic, and it started to rain. I ran to move the insulation under cover and again, found myself on the ground. I was embarrassed but unhurt. I thought I was having seizures or maybe even had a brain tumor. Working nights, I felt tired, but everyone did.
What was the diagnosis experience like?
The first test the doctor ordered, an EEG, showed slowing in the temporal lobe. The doctor treated it like epilepsy. We tried three different drugs without success. I asked to be sent to a major medical center for a complete evaluation. The psychiatrist at the medical center sent me to a sleep center. I thought it was ludicrous. But the sleep latency test found early rapid eye movements, five times out of five. Three out of five makes the diagnosis of narcolepsy. They kept me for additional studies. The doctor told me the problem was solved. He said it was an unusual disorder, and as a nurse, I'd be able to help educate people about it. I was started on a stimulant, but within a month developed tolerance. And I was out of the Air Force. We moved to North Carolina to be near our parents.
What was your initial and then longer-term reaction to the diagnosis?
I was glad I knew what it was. I really thought I'd still be able to have a successful military career. But it didn't work out. I've been on unemployment three times. It's very demeaning and makes it hard to pay the mortgage. I am aware of my limitations and am able to work around them.
How is narcolepsy treated?
My neighbor saw a television program about an experimental treatment, and I traveled to Ohio to participate in the research. I now take Xyrem, an experimental drug containing gamma-hydroxybutyrate. It has controlled the cataplexy and allowed me to go back to work twice. This is a miracle drug. I also take Provigil (which promotes wakefulness), so I don't have to drink as much coffee.
In the past, I took stimulants, but they caused blood pressure and heart problems. I also was on an antidepressant for a while. It controlled the symptoms until my body developed tolerance. Then I had to take two to three week drug holidays and couldn't work. I'd have sleep paralysis and hallucinations and be on total disability. I also was on codeine for a period of time. The cataplexy was not as severe, and I could walk without falling.
Did you have to make any lifestyle or dietary changes in response to narcolepsy?
I've had to make many lifestyle changes. I had to give up my military career and change jobs. I only swim in shallow water. I'm still a heavy coffee drinker, just not three pots a day. I take regular naps, generally after lunch, around 4, and after supper. I can regulate when I need a nap. And by taking naps, I don't have to take as much medication. Since emotions can trigger cataplexy, I have to walk away from confrontational situations or I may fall over.
Did you seek any type of emotional support?
As soon as I was diagnosed, I contacted a national organization that no longer exists about a support group. When I moved, I formed a local support group. I joined Narcolepsy Network when it started. I try to educate people about the disorder and the importance of early diagnosis and effective treatment. Also after losing a nursing job after nine years, I needed a year of counseling to help me get over it.
Does narcolepsy have any impact on your family?
My wife is supportive. Due to sleepiness, I have missed time with my daughter as she grows up. Before I began on Xyrem, my parents were afraid to call. They didn't know if I'd be napping or irritable. We lost a lot of quality time.
What advice would you give to anyone living with narcolepsy?
Keep the faith. There's more research under way.
Interviews were conducted in the past and may not reflect current standards and practices in medicine. Talk to your doctor to learn more about how this condition is diagnosed and managed today and what treatment approaches are right for you.


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Finding And Mining Media Data In The Middle
Last week I attended a Roundtable Breakfast at the Paley Center with Google's Marissa Mayer. She mentioned a content-recommendation study at Carnegie Mellon that piqued my interest. The project, dubbed Elvis, had found that collaborative filtering -- aka recommendations -- is most effective and most interesting when it relies not on a largest-possible sample of participants, but on a midsize sample that allows for serendipity.
When a population of up to about 50 subjects used Elvis for music recommendations, the results were random and unreliable: The user whose profile best matched yours actually didn't share much in common with you. At the other end of the spectrum, with a too-large user set of 2500-plus, recommendations were uninteresting and predictable; you met your musical twin.
It was in the middle that things got interesting. The best collaborative-filtering algorithms, Mayer said, incorporate a stochastic element to provide a little randomness. It's what makes the PANDORA Internet Radio System, which I love, inspire such loyalty from its users.
It's in the middle of the continuum that things get interesting for media analytics as well.
Case in point: Just a few years ago, if you had a television spot you wanted to air, you didn't need to know much about your audience. What did the Ratings Book say? Were you targeting men or women? Older or younger?
Then a bit more sophistication was added. Gen X or Baby Boomers? Urban or suburban? And recently, a little bit more. Want women who like action movies? Now you can have them. But the decisions were still pretty simple, because your options remained fairly limited.
Like the Model T, you could get any color you wanted as long as it was black or white (or maybe now grey).
Not anymore. With the explosion of digital databases, we've gained the ability to slice and dice the data to find exactly the right consumer for a given product. But now just the opposite problem exists: the risk of paralysis by analysis. Too much data, too many choices. A veritable Tower of Babel.
So how do we provide a compelling media analytics solution to marketers who want to define and target niche populations and measure the results of their efforts?
Aim for the middle of that analytics continuum.
Give advertisers enough flexibility to customize their own solutions, but not so much that they become overwhelmed by the possibilities (no paralysis by analysis here) or put off by the blunt instruments of the past, the amorphous "women 18 to 49" and its equivalent segments. Guide them in thinking about the numbers, without defining their segments for them. And let them define their own segments in whatever way best supports their business, then leave the system and processes to do the rest.
All without eliminating the serendipity that will keep the analysts engaged and customers loyal.
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Unfortunately, this is the same date I moved off 2 large sections of the site into subdomains - so I am unsure if this somehow has something to do with that...
I don't think it has got anything to do with the subdomain spin off.But AFAIK, you have the perfect data for a pandalized site and what you have described is how it looks in pandalized sited that I had come across. i have one question to you. Are these metrics from Google Analytics?
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I had noticed this increase in direct traffic in one pandalized site, way back in March (around 7-10).These visitors would just come in and bounce off.I had raised a question on it in this forum and some pointed me towards sabotage using mechanical trunk. The reason why people referred me to sabotage via mech. trunk is because the visits were from countries all around the world and not limited to any identifiable region.
However, the direct visits dropped off after two weeks but then DT as as a % of overall traffic increased by 10% while SE traffic % dropped by 10% and it remained that way until July.It didn't stop there.All other metrics like bounce, avg. time on page were terribly screwed and it remains bad to this date - Nothing seem to help in improving them or restoring these metrics to what it was pre-panda.
This month I am seeing another fresh sabotage like increase in Direct traffic. The only guess I can make out of this is some force is acting to screw something (may be user engagement metrics).
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The uses of surveillance data include the description and comparison of disease patterns using the person, place, and time variables. In particular, examples of the use of the time variable can be found in the earliest known epidemiological studies. For example, in a report on the 1847 influenza epidemic in London, William Farr presented data collected by week and easily calculated the excess of mortality due to influenza in different periods of the year. (1)
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The global health reports published annually by international organizations such as the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) contain indicators that are not always consistent with the countries' official data. When discrepancies are significant, disagreements and disputes arise, especially when indicators relevant to policy-making, such as those related to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), are involved.
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