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Mad Brewers Noir Stout - Malt Shovel Brewery
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2.5/5 rDev -31.1%
05-21-2013 17:09:52 | More by pin
4.1/5 rDev +12.9%
Bottle: big brown longneck bottle, funky and distinguishing label per the Mad Brewers norm.
Appearance: super jet-black with a limited head, reasonable lacing.
Aroma: coffee, dark fruits, chocolate, cloves, raisins, burnt caramel.
Taste: quite sweet - licorice, dark fruits, port, spice, blackcurrant, cloves, coffee, chocolate.
Aftertaste: still good. Flavours are blended well.
Mouth feel: low-to-mid carbonation and a medium, smooth body. Carries and backs up the flavours well.
Overall: quite expensive, but really, really nice beer. One to enjoy every now and then - though I could go through a few in one sitting, Only thing holding me back from having it more regularly is the price.
07-07-2012 02:30:03 | More by SmashPants
Ontario (Canada)
2.9/5 rDev -20.1%
Bottle from a Supermarket in Melbourne. Best before May 2012. From notes.
A - Poured black with a film of head, decent carbonatio nand no lace or retention.
S - Cola, roasted notes. Quite a strong chocolate note.
T - Cola, chocolate, a little roasty. Cola was pretty strong.
M - Good carbonation, medium to full body and a sweet chocolatey finish.
O/D - Meh. A little weak. No licorice to speak of. For the style it's not worth looking for.
03-09-2012 03:05:27 | More by tbeckett
3.5/5 rDev -3.6%
12-27-2011 22:16:28 | More by MenInVen
New York
3.7/5 rDev +1.9%
[Licorice root is an ingredient of this beer (indicated on the side of the bottle)]
Appearance - Dark ruby, medium carbonation, no head retention
Smell - Coffee, dark fruits, chocolate, cloves, raisins, burnt caramel, alcohol presence
Taste - Licorice, dark fruits, port, spice, blackcurrant, cloves, coffee, chocolate
Mouthfeel - Coats the mouth with a kind of immiscible grease (similar to licorice); Good body; Light carbonation; Tangy finish
Drinkability - Drinkable, light for 7% ABV; Still sits heavy on stomach; Few pints
Overall - Good beer, well balanced, interesting; If you don't like licorice stay away;
12-08-2011 13:58:25 | More by davidfoley
3.68/5 rDev +1.4%
Nearly black with a red tinge and a lightly tanned thin creamy head. Leaves some nice lacing down the glass.
Certainly has a licorice spice smell to it. A bit of light chocolate sort of a toned down youngs. Not much more than that really.
Super creamy texture. Very mellow and smooth for 7% abv. Licorice and spice are quite minimal in the taste. Though not big on roast or coffee it still has a nice pillowy chocolate and light spice that is quite appealing. The large bottle is probably about the right size as any more might get overly sweet and heavy. As it is, it's quite an enjoyable and interesting stout. A good one to introduce people to the style if already interested in the finer things.
**previous review on tap 10-21-2010 score 3.78**
Half pint at squires bounty in Hobart.
Looks enticing in the glass. Thin tan head over a lightish dark stout. Dim lighting in the restaurant but still able to see some hints of red through e glass. Low carbonation.
Nice aroma of sweet caramel malt and a bit of roast. Light hint of licorice adds some complexity. Very nice.
Taste misses a bit of the kick expected of a biggish stout. Would like to see the grain bill but guessing heavy on the light to medium crystal and light on any roast, chocolate or black malt. While it misses some of that dry highly roasted malt character it isn't cloyingly sweet. Really well balanced considering the hop character is quite low.
11-28-2011 05:02:11 | More by joecast
4/5 rDev +10.2%
11-21-2011 02:37:07 | More by mungus
3.73/5 rDev +2.8%
Drank from my Duvel Tulip
A - Poured a dark blackish colour with a two fingered tanned head that looks very creamy before it disappears to leave a thin film.
S - Get big chocolate & caramel hit up front with a little like burnt coffee.
T - Get the chocolate and caramel roasted sweet malts with definite liquorice and coffee shining through with the finish.
M - medium body with light/medium carbonation
O - I would definately recommend this one. By no means up there with a good RIS but an enjoyable beer and with the big chocolate and liquorice flavours it is smooth and easy to drink.
11-05-2011 14:22:23 | More by PolarBear3
3.73/5 rDev +2.8%
Best before 16/5/2012
a) Very dark brown -> black. Faint garnet hint at the edges. Fluffy, lacy beige head.
s) Mocha/drak chocolate & roasted grain. Perhaps a hint of cherry, maybe a touch of ash.
t) Initial sweet stout experience, plus hazelnut & chocolate. Lingers into an ash note, with a firm licorice powder character. It's a bit like a maraschino-centered chocolate.
m) Smooth, medium bodied.
d) To me, a nice sweet stout; doesn't strike me as being "imperial". The licorice is a suitable and balanced addition.
09-17-2011 01:33:09 | More by vancurly
4.22/5 rDev +16.3%
I found this to be a very enjoyable drink.
What stood out for me was the underlying tones of not just liquorice but the raspberry liquorice that can be bought.
It was not too sweet , but avoided any unpleasant roated burnt offerings.
The 7.4%ABV was well masked which for me is a big plus
08-24-2011 06:48:51 | More by jarmby1711
3.28/5 rDev -9.6%
Pours black with a large, tan head. Nose shows roasty, bready and grainy malt. Not much going on. Some coffee. Flavours are rather sweet, quite sugary. Nice roasty character, although it seems pretty watery. You have to search a bit for the liquorice (well apart from the sugary character).
08-18-2011 00:11:48 | More by CrazyDavros
4.18/5 rDev +15.2%
A- No surprises here. Almost black with a head that retains itself well. I like what I see.
S- The roasted malts are easily detectable. Nice dark fruit/ coffee aroma with notes of cocoa.
T- This beer is dominated by coffee-esque roasted malts. The dark fruit/chocolate flavours make for a pleasant afterthought and this seems to get sweeter as it warms. Lovely.
M- Straight up, I think this is a little too fizzy. However, it has a nice medium to thick body which clings to your tongue. Hard to judge.. The fizziness certainly holds it back from being fantastic but it is still pretty good in this area.
O- Exactly what I wanted. This beer is a good sipping beer with a Nice mix of flavours. The only fathomable complaint is the effervescence which I feel detracts from an otherwise wonderful brew.
08-08-2011 13:12:15 | More by aeolianshredhead
3.48/5 rDev -4.1%
Bomber poured into a tulip.
Very dark brown with a finger of moderately-dense mocha coloured head. Decent lace trail around the circumference.
Nose is milder than expected and rather sweet and fruity. There's cola, licquorice, musk, and a sort of dusky woodiness. A healthy dose of caramel malts but very little roast character. Seems to be on the verge of offering more, but doesn't.
Taste is odd. Sarsparilla, aniseed, boiled candy and chocolate cream biscuits, with a weird tart edge to it.
Rather thin for 7%. Lacks viscosity for a RIS and is noticeably astringent on the mid-palate.
Can't really get my head around what this is trying to do. Tartness aside, I quite like the aroma and flavour profile, but the watery mouthfeel seems like a poor medium for displaying it.
07-14-2011 10:35:47 | More by spicelab
3.43/5 rDev -5.5%
A very safe RIS. Nice and dark with ample head and good lacing.
The nose is fine but a bit of a let-down. I was really hoping for some obvious licorice notes but they're pretty hard to spot, as in you probably wouldn't find any if you weren't looking. Flavours are dry and roasty. Not much of that heavy chcocolate milk vibe you often get with an RIS.
Overall, it'a decent, well made stout but as an Imperial stout and a beer boasting of licorice root ingredients it is a slight let down.
06-29-2011 07:53:46 | More by juju7
3.95/5 rDev +8.8%
640 ML poured into a globe glass
A-- Poured a dark cola color and settled black with a few touches of ruby at the bottom of the glass. Nice reverse cascading light brown head that built to two fingers before receding leaving ABV legs in the process. Good head retention on this.
S-- At first it was mostly chocolate and Carmel, once it warmed the Liquorice root really came alive and sort of pushed aside the chocolate and Carmel smells.
T-- Chocolate, Carmel and licorice. Fresh licorice really. Smooth but slightly acidic.
M-- Smooth, very smooth tasting. Touches of chocolate and Carmel sweetness in the front, followed by more licorice in the mid and finishes with a odd but good milk chocolate/ acidic/ sweet finish. Slightly high carbonation but it makes up for it in smoothness. Not heavy at all, a little thin at times but the flavor profile really does this well
O-- Not really a RIS, more like a plain old stout or sweet stout but a good one. Well hidden ABV at 7%. Like that this is a smooth, easy to drink stout with a lot of flavors and character.
06-16-2011 15:48:07 | More by mulder1010
3.98/5 rDev +9.6%
Poured black as tar. No light getting through this one. Had a nice foamy/frothy head which left a good deal of lacing down the glass.Smells of dark chocolate, caramel and aniseed. Very nice aromas.It tastes just like it smells, of chocolate, aniseed and caramel but with a hint of coffee. Nicely carbonated and well bodied mouthfeel. I quite like this and would buy again. Shared the bottle with my father and his comment was 'one of the better stouts I've had in a while' and he's not easy to please when it comes to stout.
06-16-2011 10:36:02 | More by madvoice
3.5/5 rDev -3.6%
Pours the darkest cola hue with average carbonation that leaves behind a tanned two finger fast vanishing head and settles to a layer and a rim of lacing,smell is liquorice,dark coffee,aniseed and roasted malts,the mouthfeel is light-medium bodied well carbonated and has tastes of liquorice firstly followed by some roasted malts,bitter dark coffee,a touch of bitterweet dark chocolate and finished off with a touch of dark fruity hops and on first couple of sips a nice hit of alcoholic warmth and overall its good for its price but not enough boundaries pushed for me in this one as its a pretty straight forward stout and guys you are sposed to be the Mad Brewers come on cheers.
06-13-2011 06:53:50 | More by ADZA
3.4/5 rDev -6.3%
Pours black, with, erm, not much head, thats being polite, which fades quickly.
The nose is very restrained. Very. Mrs heygeebee described the smell as 'bitter' which I think is the least descriptive she has ever been!!!!
Taste is anothe matter. Wonderful sweet malts, chocolate, coffee and burnt flavours dominate the mid-palate, and the sweetness lingers. Licorice comes thru later, but mild.
Carbonation? Hmmmph - almost flat. Light in the mouth as well.
Overall? I think the 'Mad' Brewers are about 1% delusional. Thats it. Not a special brew, but one that has promise. Shame about the nose and carbonation, the taste is a treat. I have never rated a beer all over the place like this one before.
Might get one more for the cellar, given the ABV...
06-11-2011 08:57:43 | More by heygeebee
3.28/5 rDev -9.6%
Light roast aroma. Slightly tart.
Black colour with a foamy tan head. Great lacing. The head dissipates fairly quickly to a patchy foam.
Sweet and malty with plenty of fruity esters. There is a bare hint of roast in the flavour. Empty finish.
Medium-light body with moderate carbonation. The carbonation feels a touch prickly.
It's a drinkable stout but that's it. It could do with a bit of beefing up and for a stout brewed with liquorice the herb doesn't really come through.
10-30-2010 13:02:06 | More by dgilks
3.88/5 rDev +6.9%
On tap at the Local Taphouse Darlinghurst.
Very dark brown, not close enough to black, with a filmy but very fine head of light beige. Thin body, which may account for the fact that there's very little lacing. Still, looks pretty decent.
Roasty nose, but subtle and subdued. Hints of light chocolate and toasted grains, with a bit of bready roundness. Not bad. Certainly a true stout nose, if not one that punches me with its force.
Taste is smooth, with almost a dichotomy on the palate. There's plenty of roasted, slightly astingent bitterness, but there's this light and sweet chocolate and caramel flavour sitting above that at the same time, but completely disconnected from it. I can feel it on the palate too, as though the two flavours are connecting with different parts of my tongue. It adds depth to the palate but in an unusual way, as if the full gamut of flavours are not being represented. It's tremendously interesting though.
Nice brew, is it the addition of the liquorice root that gives it such a strange break on the palate?. Whatever causes it, the brew is tasty and drinkable though.
09-28-2010 02:51:21 | More by lacqueredmouse
3.78/5 rDev +4.1%
Drank on Tap at Norfolk Hotel, Fremantle.
They poured it so cold I had to sit it in the sun for 20 minutes to warm it up !
A - Pours a nice deep ebony colour with a large bubbled, tanned head that dies quickly.
S - A bit of roasted nuts and sweet liquorice.
T - Roastiness and dark chocolate with a hint of wheat and coffee, finishes with a lingering liquorice taste that is quite moorish.
M - Slightly under body for a RIS and over carbonated.
D - The TEN20 commenroative is still the standout Mad Brewer brew to date but having said that it's still a big improvement on the Raspberry wheat and Orchard Ale which were quite awful. Not a true RIS but does have some interesting characteristics to make it worth a try.
From the Bottle 04/06/2011
A - Pours a Nice dark Ebony colour with a tanned head that dies all to quickly.
S - Little bit of herb and licorice but mainly malt.
T - Plenty of malts, and some coffee on the finish. The licorice is there in the middle but not powerful enough.
M - Medium to full body and low to medium carbonation. A bit watery for an RIS
O - Not as good as last year as I remember the licorice being much more present.
Only a C+ for the effort in the bottle.
09-07-2010 04:25:32 | More by eric5bellies
Mad Brewers Noir Stout from Malt Shovel Brewery
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They have a great chemistry and hearing Florian and Stann give their perspectives on fights helped relate the action on the screen to what the fighters were experiencing. It's those small discussions that helped improve a product that's often misunderstood by the casual fan.
From my couch, I didn't notice any slip ups with the overall production. This was about as perfect of a network debut as Fox and the UFC could have hoped for. The fights were entertaining and the entire production staff, from the cameramen to the folks in the truck, ensured that everyone at home got the best viewing experience.
Honestly, I look forward to UFC Fight Night 27 in two weeks. The UFC raised the standard for combat sports production tonight. Now they just need to keep finding ways to improve on it.

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Just wondering if anyone has tried these bars??
Cold Fusion
Quick Specs:
Calories 130-140
Protein 10-11 grams
Fat 0-2.5 grams
100% Antioxidant A, C, E? Yes
I saw them on the food network and everyone said they tasted great! I'm going to see if I can find some at my grocey store.
Doesn't list Carbs though :-0
all it is... a popcicle with added protein =\
You say that like it's a bad thing! Sounds yummy.Originally Posted by ryuage
Height: 5'7"
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Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick. Bruce Lee
its not a bad thing... but im sure the price doesnt justify what you can do if you made it yourself... look at the ingredients. sugar flavored water with added protein
did they forget to include the info on the sugar content on purpose? theres 80 calories missing there..
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i just go for the safeway select ice cream...fat free and no sugar added. ends up being about 90 cals per 1/2 cup, only 4g sugar and 0fat. there's like 22g carbs but if only 4 are sugar its all good.
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A Colorado woman was impaled by a light pole after she crashed because she was texting and driving.
Donald Borders will spend the rest of his life in prison for a 2003 rape and murder.
Just after 5 p.m. Monday, Donald Borders was found guilty on all charges related to the 2003 rape and murder of 79-year-old Margaret Tessneer.
Borders was convicted of first degree murder, first degree rape, and felony breaking & entering.
Tuesday, Borders was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the first-degree murder conviction. He was also sentenced to 10-12 months for the felony breaking and entering conviction. That time will be served concurrently with the life in prison.
Tessneer's granddaughter addressed Borders in court.
"I pray that you will turn away from your evil ways, and I pray that you will be truly sorry for what you did," she said.
Borders' family spoke to reporters after the sentencing.
"We love people and we're not a violent family and Jesus is in us, and he keeps us going, we've been through things before, but God we know is in charge of our life and that gives us the strength to go on," said Ella Wilson, Borders' aunt.
The jury heard passionate closing arguments from both sides before spending three hours deliberating. Borders did not show emotion as the judge read the jury's verdicts. Tessneer's family hugged each other and quietly wiped away tears.
The crux of the case rested on whether or not the DNA evidence was enough to convict Borders. It was.
The judge will sentence Borders at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. Borders could face life in prison.
Throughout the trial, prosecutor Sally Kirby-Turner relied heavily on DNA evidence.
On Thursday, three DNA experts from the State Bureau of Investigation testified that Borders' DNA taken from a cigarette butt and cheek swab matched the DNA profile of semen found at the scene of Tessneer's murder.
Defense attorney David Teddy tried to raise doubt over the credibility of the three experts who testified.
He pointed out that SBI agent Russ Holly reported a blood sample tested positive in a prior rape case in Cleveland county, but failed to report a follow up test showed negative results.
He also pointed out that two DNA experts who handled the DNA in 2004 failed a state certification exam implemented in 2011. A new law requires all SBI analysts to be certified.
Last week, Kirby-Turner described how Tessneer was found by her daughter lying in her bed.
The phone lines were cut, and the front door was open.
She showed a picture of Tessneer taken by police after her death. A family member in the courtroom sobbed quietly.
Kirby-Turner told jurors DNA from a sperm sample on Tessneer's body later matched the DNA profile of Borders from a cigarette police obtained in 2009. He was arrested six years after the alleged murder when a new detective reopened the case.
But Defense attorney, David Teddy, told jurors the evidence in Tessneer's home was contaminated by law enforcement. He said to this day, her cause of death is not listed as a homicide.
He asked jurors not to be blinded by science.
Tuesday, the Forensic Pathologist who examined Tessneer took the stand. He reports to the Medical Examiner, who took the stand just a few minutes later.
The Defense Attorney pointed out the initial autopsy listed an undetermined cause of death. The Pathologist said he has always been reasonably sure Tessneer died from suffocation.
A Gaston County Police officer and an SBI agent also took the stand Tuesday. They told the court how they collected DNA evidence from Borders without his knowledge when he was arrested for an unrelated assault on a female charge in 2009.
A police officer asked Borders if he wanted to smoke before heading to jail. Borders said yes and proceeded to smoke a cigarette while handcuffed with his hands in the front. The officer then offered to dispose of the cigarette, took it out of Border's mouth, extinguished it, and slipped it into a plastic bag as evidence.
Wednesday, several witnesses for the prosecution took the stand, including an agent with the State Bureau of Investigation, a Shelby Police Officer, a nurse, and a crime lab expert.
Witnesses spoke about evidence gathering, DNA testing and storage, evidence found at the scene, and DNA analysis.
The defense moved to suppress evidence from the suspect DNA kit on the grounds it was collected before Borders had representation. The judge denied that motion.
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On Top Of Vinjeronden (2044m)
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The World > Europe > Norway > Nationaal Park Rondane
Vinjeronden is one of the ten mountain in Rondane over 2,000 metres. It lies on the border of the three municipalites Dovre, Folldal and Sel, and in the counties Oppland and Hedmark.
The mountain is easily accessed by hiking from the cabin Rondvassbu (DNT), on the way from Rondvassbu to Rondeslottet, the highest mountain in Rondane.
The mountain is named after the poet and writer Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, for the last element see Rondane.
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Rondeslottet (2178m) is the highest mountain in the Rondane mountain range and is also the highest mo...
You'll pass Illmanntjønnen, a small lake in the Rondane, when you follow the DNT track from Rondvassb...
The Langglupbekken stream runs between two of the highest mountains in the Rondane, Rondslottet (2178...
Bjørnhollia lies south in the Rondane range, with its sheltered valleys and splendid scenery. The lod...
You'll pass Musvolkampen, a small mountain in the Rondane, when you follow the DNT track from Straumb...
Following the DNT track from Straumbu to Bjørnhollia the first steep climb goes up Gjermundstjønna, t...
Norway's first national park.
The Rondane massif towers impressively over wide, lichen-covered mountain plateaus. In the south, the visitor is met by a tranquil landscape of gently rounded peaks. But these mountains also conceal deep valleys and precipitous mountainsides, especiallyin the north and in the east. The high mountain terrain is sparse and rocky, and dominated by lichen and heather. Here, wild reindeer have lived for thousands of years. You can find traces of traps, settlements and other cultural relics associated with hunting wild reindeer throughout Rondane. Nowadays the national park is one of Europe's last remaining refuges of the original wild reindeer.
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From Directorate for Nature Management.
|Hedmark and Oppland, Norway
|Nearest city
|963 km2 (238,000 acres)
|21 December 1962
|Governing body
|Directorate for Nature Management
Rondane National Park is the oldest national park in Norway, established on 21 December 1962. The park contains ten peaks above 2,000 metres (6,560 ft), with the highest being Rondeslottet at an altitude of 2,178 m (7,146 ft). The park is an important habitat for herds of wild reindeer.
The park was extended in 2003, and now covers an area of 963 km2 (372 sq mi) in the counties Oppland and Hedmark. Rondane lies just to the east of Gudbrandsdal and two other mountain areas, Dovre and Jotunheimen are nearby.
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The Winter Brew Fest is presented by The Brew 105.9 and The Oregonian, and you can taste some of the NW's best microbrews! Everybody's Brewing, Double Mountain, Laurelwood, Widmer and Full Sail will be sampling their microbrews, and Mt. Hood Winery, Hood River Ciderworks and Naked Winery will be sampling as well. It's 21 and over, and the $12 entry includes a glass mug and 4 chits. Extra script can be purchased at $1 per 3oz sample. World's Finest will also be performing from 1-5 PM.
There will a bus leaving at 10 AM from the Hood River News parking lot, and departing Mt. Hood Meadows at 5 PM. There are a limited number of spots available on a first come, first served basis. Guests can board the bus as early as 9:30 AM, The round-trip cost is $10, and it's a great option if you're looking for safe transportation to BrewFest!
Join us in the Vertical Restaurant from 12-5 PM, and make a toast to a great season!
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Congratulations go out from BallinEurope today to a quartet of national Cup holders in Real Madrid, Beşiktaş Milangaz, Chalon-sur-Saone and Montepaschi Siena. The former three victories are set to be particularly noted in club annals: Real ended a 19-year drought while Beşiktaş and Chalon both bagged their first-ever championships in their respective national cup tournaments after each were runners-up in 2011. Below run game wraps and highlight clips.
In Spain, Madrid won their first Spanish Cup since Arvydas Sabonis was on the team with a convincing 92-74 victory over FC Barcelona on the Blaugrana home court. Twenty-three was the magic number for Los Blancos, as Madrid took its 23rd such title behind 23 points from tournament MVP Sergio Llull. An extrapolation from the Liga Endesa's official site goes something like the following.


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At Oxford HealthCare, we continually strive to deliver the highest quality services that meet the individualized needs of clients of all ages and their families. Whether you or a loved one needs a little assistance to maintain an active lifestyle or help to be able to remain at home, we offer information on and deliver more services than any other agency in southwest Missouri.
Oxford can provide as much or as little care as needed ranging from a few hours a week to round-the-clock care. Oxford can:
- Assist individuals of all ages who need help to stay at home
- Help seniors maintain an active lifestyle
- Provide assistance and peace-of-mind for caregivers who can't be there all the time
- Provide follow-up care for a person coming home from the hospital
- Monitor vital signs and other health information daily with a telemonitoring system exclusive to Oxford
- Provide Lifeline medical alert services which are monitored locally
- Provide Hospice care for patients and families facing a terminal illness
- Provide one-on-one care in a hospital or nursing home
We are committed to keeping pace with the ever-changing health care environment to ensure our clients will always receive the care they deserve. Oxford takes the lead in home health care technology and has been recognized locally, regionally and nationally for our programs.
In addition to providing a full range of services to help someone remain at home, Oxford also provides information on other community services that are available as well. One call to Oxford puts you in touch with any and all facets of home care.
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Friends University Workshops to Teach Teachers New Skills
Adults laugh only 15 times a day. Preschoolers laugh 450 times a day. There is so much a teacher can still learn. Workshops can give teachers the opportunity to refresh, re-certify or learn a new skill, even if that new skill is how to put more laughter, joy and humor in their life.
Meeting the needs of busy educators, Friends University will be offering a number of spring workshops to address the needs of PreK-12 teachers across a number of content areas. Spring workshops will be available beginning Jan. 23, 2010, on the Wichita campus and Jan. 29, 2010, at the Lenexa Education Center.
These insightful workshops will cover topics at the Lenexa site such as stress reduction and stress elimination techniques, an in-depth study of the causes of disruptive student behavior, how to energize existing math and reading curriculum, classroom management strategies, the changing classroom demographics, instructional strategies for students at all learning levels, the changing sociological factors affecting education, and finding humor in the classroom and in life. A number of Denny Dey workshops are also being offered beginning Feb. 6.
Wichita is offering workshops with topics such as how to use PowerPoint; the life, times and enduring legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder; behavior supports and strategies; art journals for teachers; understanding what motivates writers; using digital storytelling to learn any subject; SMART Boards; working with special needs children in an inclusive classroom; and how to organize the classroom, lesson plans and life. Denny Dey will also present a "Useful Picture Books" workshop Jan. 23 and Jan. 30.
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Kalita Point Waterfront Upscale Retreat in Lake Livingston
- bedrooms 3
- baths 2
- sleeps 10
- pool no
- hot tub no
- pets allowed yes
- type House
- community Kalita Point
rates (USD)
/ night
$ 1,500 - $ 3,200 / week
$ 11,111 - $ 11,111 / month
vacation rental description
Beautiful one story (no stairs) Upscale and fully Updated Lake HOME that has a large wide open feel on a quiet peninsula and on the lake. Lakefront property is on a safe and secluded cove connected to the large part of the lake with access only 50 yards from the cove by waterway. The home sits on a private culdesac road. Free high speed wifi and Directv included. The home boasts floor to ceiling (cathedral celing) windows facing the lake. Boat launch is two driveways down (private boat launch). Smaller boats (up to 25 feet and pontoon boats - See picture of boat parked in cove.) can be parked at the house bulkhead for easy access to the backyard and house. The cove actually provides a small beach (6 - 8 FT of sand) for the little ones with adult supervision.
All condiments, spices and starter sets of paper plates, paper towels, toilet paper, matches, and WOOD for the firepit. I supply usually enough to last a weekend. For stays that are longer you will need to probably purchase additional supplies.
Awesome fishing spots in and around this peninsula.
house rental amenities
Large granite Island kitchen surrounded with bar stools opens to sliding glass doors which lead to the deck, backyard and lake view. Kitchen has all ceramic dishes/plates, glasses including wine goblets, and cookware/pots/pans, glass casserole dishes and bakeware tins, flatware etc. There are enough full settings of plates/bowls/flatware for 10 plus people. An additional electric roasting cooker that can be placed outside to keep the house cool in summer (cooks a 18 lb turkey or roast, prime rib) and Large crockpot, daddy fryer are also available. Formal Dining room table with dry-cleaned linens are avaiable for an extra set up fee upon request.
Entire house, top to bottom is sanitized after each stay (ALL towels, blankets, sheets, pillows, mattress covers remote controls, door handles, fridge condiment bottles, light switches, toaster handles, cabinet knobs...... and anything a human hand/foot etc can touch is cleaned with either bleach or germ killing agents) after every stay. Carpets shampooed and couch steam cleaned, ceiling fans etc done once a month. Cleaning takes an entire 10 plus hours so check out time is usually enforced so that the entire house can be sanitized. Each bed has a shower liner on the mattress (which gets bleached and cleaned each time), then a blanket, then mattress cover, then bottom sheet, top sheet, blanket and lastly a comforter. All dishes/pots/pans/glasses/glassware/flatware are removed from cabinets and sanitized as well in the kitchen after each stay. ALL hardwood and tile floors are steam cleaned everytime. Baths/showers/sinks/toilets are bleached. Front load washer is bleach cleaned on clean cycle and dryer wiped out. Bath matts/throw rugs/kitchen towels/hot pads etc are all sanitized. I stress all of this because the labor is intense but well worth the guests' peace of mind.
You will experience the best, most peaceful night's sleep on fine high thread count sheets and cozy blankets. The two master bedroom beds are high end pillowtop mattresses purchased at luxury furniture stores. The primary master has large flat panel 42" tv, the second master has a large 32" flat panel HDTV and receiver, as does the Living room with 42: DVR/Directv access for viewing enjoyment. The house is completely wired for HDTV, with the exception of the third bedroom. Each sink is fully stocked with luxury handsoap with sanitizer and lotion pump bottles and bathrooms have shampoo, rinse and soap with plentiful towels for each guest.
Although you need to bring your own groceries, the basics such as Pam, Olive oil, aluminum foil, baggies, garbage bags, limited paper goods (towels, paper plates, party cups), coffee, sugar, tea, and basic condiments like salt, squeeze bottles of ketchup, mayo and mustard, Worstesire sauce and spices etc are provided.
Full sized (front load) washer and dryer with special HE detergent and softener are provided to ensure efficiency of each wash.
Grills and patio furniture are on the deck and ready for relaxing while enjoying the lakeview under the shades of the exquisite pines. The backyard is completely fenced for kids and small pets (with additional pet fee for pets). A hammock under the shaded pine trees is perfect for a quiet rest. A ceramic firepit is also provided for marshmallows and hot dogs over a fire.
There is additional parking (approx 60 feet long and 15 feet wide) next to the large garage if an RV needs accommodation. Parking for parties will accomodate at least 5 cars (without boats). There is plenty of boat and trailer parking as well.
Separate (Two Zones) for central AC/heat and water heaters for both sides of the house. Two Master suites. One (includes shower, double vanity bath, and toilet) is directly off the living room for one zone. The other side of the house has the second master and has its own thermostat with separate bathroom a few feet away in the hall. Kitchen, third bedroom and guest bath have new and separate central ac/heat and water heater for customized comfort. Full size front load high efficiency washer and dryer.
Third bedroom has one double bed and another with two twin bed pillowtop mattresses with a TV that has a Wii game set up for the kiddos to play.
There are 10 actual sleeping spaces, not including the Living room sectional which accomodates two additional people. There is 1 double bed, 2 twin bed mattresses and 1 queen sleeper sofa bed near the fireplace, 1 queen bed in second master, and 1 king bed in the main master. I have all the sheets, blankets, towels, pillows etc. Penwaugh Marina directly faces back yard on the cove and has easy access for any marina needs to include live minnows, bait, fishing tackle, gas, boat parking etc.
The cove is magnificent for younger ones as well as adults to frolick and float in. The water is usually one to two feet deep with sandy bottom but gradually increases to 10 feet in the middle of the cove. Floats can easily be anchored or tied to the bulkhead with easy access from the backyard. (As of Aug 1, 2013 the lower water provides about 6 to 8 FT of beach then gradually gets deeper, but can still accommodate boat parking easily).
Corner market at entrance of the Kalita point peninsula carries most basic grocery needs such as sodas, bread, breakfast foods, and gas and other typical corner store items.
activities and attractions in Lake Livingston Texas
The many and varied facets of the Lake Livingston, Texas area. Covering more than 93,000 acres, Lake Livingston is the second largest lake completely in Texas and is located only 80 miles north of Houston, and 175 miles from Dallas. Lake Livingston, San Jacinto County and neighboring Polk County offer an abundance of recreational activities. including fishing, skiing, sailing and boating. Native game fish include black bass, white bass, catfish, stripers, blue gill and crappie. In addition to water related activities, the area offers a great selection of campgrounds, RV parks, marinas, lodging and dining facilities and there are many opportunities for commercial and residential development.
vacation rental rates
No long term rentals (more than 2 weeks) - special exceptions - may be accepted.
***** Please note: this is a Full 3 bedroom house with 10 actual bed sleeping spaces including all luxury sheets, fully stocked high-end island kitchen, cookware, and higher-end furniture, garage access and waterfront access with deck, grills, etc. If your party is for 4, 6, 8 or 10 people please keep in mind the rate is not going to be the minimum of $250. This is a luxury house on a SECLUDED part of a lake/cove where your boat can be kept in the water on the bulkhead/beach. Home is NOT A HOTEL and not comparable to hotels/motels. To house 10 people in a hotel with NO kitchen or amenities on a highwway would cost at minimum $68.00 to $100 per couple per night (or $500.00)-very conservatively.***per Night.
$250 per night is the minimum for two people. Rates increase about $25 per person per night.
Minimum stay is two nights.
Holiday weekends (3 night minimum stay).
Pet fee of $40 per pet is required - no exceptions. The sanitizing for hair, drool etc is very costly.
Cleaning fee is $100 (up to 4 people) and $150 (5 plus people)
No more than 10 people will be allowed to stay overnight.
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---- — MT. VERNON – A trio of goal scorers and solid defense led the Lady Rams soccer team to a 3-0 Saturday win over Harrisburg.
Both teams dealt with windy conditions throughout the game.
"When it's blowing this hard, it's a big disadvantage to go into it," Mt. Vernon coach Jeff Harrison said. "It can almost be a little bit of a disadvantage with it at your back because the ball carries away from you so fast."
Taylor McGowen delivered a stunning goal from nearly half field for Mt. Vernon's final score of the game.
With 11:21 left in the game, the central defender cracked her shot from inside the half field circle. The blast flew on a line and over the Harrisburg goalie.
"It was straight as an arrow," Harrison said. "It was brilliant."
Both teams struggled to produce goal scoring chances in a scoreless opening half.
Mt. Vernon produced one of its best opportunities 25 minutes into action. A ball was pushed behind the Harrisburg defense, setting striker Whitney Warner up for a breakaway. She dribbled into the penalty area, but her shot was stopped. The rebound bounded away, but the Harrisburg keeper pounced on the ball.
"I knew scoring into the wind was going to be tough," Harrison said.
After halftime, it didn't take long for the Lady Rams to strike. Mt. Vernon won a corner kick, giving the consistently dangerous Sydney Crews a chance to create. Crews curled a ball into the near post, and it snuck past everyone into the net.
Ten minutes later Mollee Sager provided the Lady Rams with another goal when she put a shot away into the side netting.
"That's her job," Harrison said. "If she's going to score goals as a midfielder, it's going to be doing things like that. It's going to be hustle plays."
Paisley Stewart finished with three saves in goal for Mt. Vernon.
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Led under the direction of Dr. John Stallsmith, choir members entertained their audience by singing Christmas hits such as "Noel," "Peace, Peace, Peace" and "White Christmas." Stallsmith gave brief history trivia before each song, along with each song's composer and/or singer. The choir will continue to have scheduled performances up to Dec. 15.
After saying the collect and pledge, members heard reports from the treasurer and committee chairpersons. Treasurer Charlotte Elkins told members that after making a deposit and writing a check, the association had an ending balance of $2,069.76. Melza McElrath, who heads the membership committee, shared the association's total membership, which consists of 147 members. WCERA President Gail Alexander encouraged those in attendance to try and talk with educators who are either retired or soon-to-be retired to see if they would be interested in joining the educator retiree group.
"The stronger we are in force, the more we can get done," Alexander said.
Peggy Hudson, the legislative chairperson for WCERA, said she would be attending an advocacy meeting Monday, Dec. 9, in Cullman and invited present members to go and attend the meeting with her.
"We're going to need all the help we can get," Hudson said. "Insurance rates will probably go up in October. They [insurance rates] will continue until next October — that's the beginning of the year for the state, but the rates will probably go up then because we've got a $600 million shortage."
"We've got a hard year ahead of us folks. The legislative session will begin Jan. 14 this year and if some of you have noticed in the news, Gov. Bentley did say he was going to work for a raise for the active members. Retirees, I haven't heard anything about us," Alexander said "and the rumor that I have heard, and Jane [Roberts] may have heard this from Montgomery, is they're working on maybe discontinuing providing insurance for us.
"... If you're called upon to make phone calls and you don't know which representative is yours, just call them all. They'll get tired of hearing us maybe ... and do something for us."
S.K.I.P (Satisfying Kids Improves Performance) is a statewide community service project. Under that heading, the Walker County association participates by helping the Backyard Blessings organization. Backyard Blessings founder Leneda Jones said they currently are in need of juice boxes and pudding cups for local school children. Alexander said Jones told her that the organization goes through 400 juice boxes a week. Alexander proposed a request for money to be taken up during each WCERA meeting, which is held once a month every other month throughout the year, where they can donate the money to Backyard Blessings so Jones can buy the items in bulk.
Alexander encouraged members to continue volunteering and working on community service hours. She also recognized WCERA member Charles Dean who is in charge of getting volunteers to read to the HeadStart classes at local elementary schools throughout the county. The volunteer reading program is sponsored through the Salvation Army in Jasper. Currently, the members are visiting and reading at the following schools: Carbon Hill and Lupton, Gail Alexander and Joe Briggs; Cordova classes 1 and 2, Wanda Spears and Sherri Brown; Curry, Pat Spears; Oakman, Jan Tubbs; Parrish, Bud Seals; Sipsey, Patsy Gilbert; T.S. Boyd, Jeanette Sherer; Valley, Jane Roberts, Vanessa Evans and Patsy Gilbert; and Sumiton, Jane Roberts and Jackie Guin.
The next WCERA meeting will be Feb. 6, at 10 a.m. in the Community Health Systems Activities Center in downtown Jasper.


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Ferrum College is known as a four year, liberal arts institution nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but the College has taken many forms over the years.
"We've had a great evolution starting as a training school, two year institution, four year institution – We've really grown as the country's grown in terms of its appreciation of higher education," said College President Dr. Jennifer L. Braaten.
A lot can happen in 100 years, and that's certainly true here at Ferrum College. Today's students might be surprised to learn that their fellow alumni in the early years did a lot of manual labor like milking cows and breaking rocks.
That's right, breaking rocks.
Roddy Moore is the executive director of the Blue Ridge Institute. "Every student worked, male or female," explains Moore.
Moore is also an expert on the history of the College, which he says is located where it is simply because there was a train station at Ferrum. And, for a couple of years, he says, it wasn't a college at all.
"It started as an elementary and high school and it was to educate the mountain youth, because there wasn't a lot of secondary and elementary schools through the mountains," said Moore.
At that time, the College's first President, Dr. Benjamin Beckham traveled the region in a model T, recruiting donors and students.
That's why a Model T donated by Lanier Frantz will be the centerpiece of a new exhibit at the Institute celebrating the College's Centennial.
From those early, manual labor years…
Moore: "Students were here and they worked and at that time they were more accustomed to doing physical labor … most of these kids were rural and they realized it helped pay for their education…"
Moore credits Braaten, as being one of the college's three pivotal presidents, (Along with Beckham and Dr. Ralph Arthur) thanks to the enormous growth the college has seen in her decade of leadership, which includes bringing enrollment to about 15-hundred students.
"I think to be able to say we've doubled enrollment, we've built buildings, and we've renovated every building on campus, save one or two," said Braaten who gave credit to a dedicated staff, faculty and alumni.
In the 50's and 60's when then-president Dr. Ralph Arthur, added residence halls and academic buildings across campus and kept the college from closing. … while legendary football coach Hank Norton put Ferrum on the map by taking the Panthers to four National Championships … To more modern times, when community colleges forced junior colleges to become four year institutions…
Ferrum has always adapted with the same, basic philosophy, that ties back to its motto, "Not self, but others."
"People hire Ferrum graduates and say they know how to work. They understand citizenship, which is important. They understand being multi-cultural, a civility and giving back," said Braaten.
Ferrum will celebrate with extensive Homecoming Festivities on the weekend of October 4th.
Note: WSLS News Anchor John Carlin served as Ferrum College's Director of Public Relations from 2009-2012.
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A fantastic introduction to leading trad in North Carolina.
The first pitch of this is actually on (below) the Circus Wall, and serves as the most common approach to Zoo View and Bimbo's Bulge. Start directly below the Crow's Nest.
Nuts, cams to #3, tricams for horizontals are nice but not required. Gear anchors for both pitches. Pack plenty of long slings and extend your placements, especially on the first pitch.


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Get ready for a brand-new WWE fan experience when WrestleMania Axxess takes over IZOD Center in East Rutherford, N.J., from Thursday, April 4, to Sunday, April 7.
Duke Castiglione previews the event on Good Day New York.
This year, the WWE Universe will get unprecedented access to meet their favorite WWE Superstars, Divas and Legends, with more matches than ever before and interactive activities all throughout the arena! This is one event WWE fans of all ages will want to be part of!
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This route may be overlooked much too often! The dihedral below the overhang protects very well, much better than it appears from the ground. Start by climbing up a green face directly under the dihedral, climb up and right to reach the base of the dihedral. You can get gear here about 15 ft up. Once you reach the dihedral, stem your way up it to reach the overhang. Pull the overhang and use finger locks and small face holds to gain a stance below a short section of hand crack (crux). From here, continue straight up the face on jugs and clean rock to reach the shuts.
This route begins below an overhang with orange rock and a left facing dihedral below it. Start about 20 ft to the left of Remission.
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The special edition of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 Judgment Day thriller, The Birds (available on DVD), carries not only various production notes, cut scenes from the script, storyboard sketches, trailers, other promotional footage, Tippi Hedren's screen tests--with actor Martin Balsam, and with Hitchcock's off-camera voice directing and kidding around--but also an eighty-minute documentary that goes into enormous and fascinating detail about how this technically most difficult picture was made 48 years ago. Long before computer generated images were even dreamed of, Hitchcock conceived a production so challenging that he himself knew never to raise the issue, "Can it be done?" Because, he told me at the time, "Then it would never have been made. Any technician would have said 'impossible.' So I didn't ever bring that up, I simply said, 'Here's what we're going to do.'"
I happened to be in Los Angeles for a while in 1962 while Hitch was shooting The Birds and visited his set one of the days they were doing the sequence in which a couple of hundred live sparrows come down the chimney into the Rod Taylor character's living room. The whole area had been netted in with plastic sheets so the little birds couldn't get off the actual room-set. The actors--Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, and 12-year-old Veronica Cartwright--were, of course, to react in terror to this invasion. The bird wranglers essentially poured the birds down the chimney chute and into the fireplace but, although the actors ran about in proper fright, the small birds seemed more terrified themselves than threatening. Rather than attacking, they flew around trying to find a way out. Hitchcock, extraordinarily calm and cheerful, called out "Cut!" and told the actors to "slip out" of the set so the wranglers could begin the arduous and time-consuming task of trying to recapture all the birds for another take.
Eventually, the sequence had to be enhanced in a big way through the special Disney animation process Hitchcock used for the entire picture--the best way at that time to do the sort of multiple image-combinations required. Since there were some 371 trick shots in the final work, the job was extremely daunting and laborious. The concluding shot in the film--a lone car driving away through a landscape dominated by hundreds of birds in ominous waiting--required 32 separate images which had to be melded seamlessly together. All these amazing technical feats-- excellently defined and explained in the fine documentary by Laurent Bouzereau--with today's computers would not be especially troublesome. That Hitchcock had the vision, and the patience, remains enormously impressive.
After making the two biggest popular successes of his long career--North by Northwest (1959) and Psycho (1960; see Picture of the Week 10/31/10)--Hitchcock could essentially do whatever the hell he wanted. The studio, therefore, did not insist on big stars for The Birds, the idea being that Hitchcock–-already a household name as a director, now also the host of his own popular TV series for over six years–-was the star, and the picture's subject matter itself would be enough to guarantee the box office. Also, because of his crack production team's awesome expertise and his own experience and ingenuity, the film was not a wildly expensive picture. Nevertheless, The Birds was not one of the Master's greatest hits, nor was it received with much critical excitement.
In retrospect, the film marked the start of a general decline in Hitchcock's fortunes, and he only made five more pictures before his death in 1980--just one of them, Frenzy (1972), rated with high marks. The irony was that not only did the opening of The Birds kick off the first U.S. Hitchcock retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art (I organized it and wrote the accompanying monograph, The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock), but four years later Francois Truffaut's classic interview book altered forever the critical downplaying of the director and elevated him to the pantheon, where he has remained and increasingly dominated ever since. He remains today the most famous film director in picture history.
Overall, while The Birds is by no means my favorite Hitchcock, it remains a visually striking work and one that has noticeably influenced a great many filmmakers. When I asked Hitch what he felt the movie was really about, he answered, "Generally speaking, that people are too complacent..." With the essentially inconsequential nature of the characters and the somewhat comedic quality of the beginning, Hitchcock said, he meant "To epitomize the fripperies of people, the lightness with which they live, their lack of concern about the fact that nature can turn on them." To me, it has always seemed like the director's way of saying that no matter what we may do, Mother Earth somehow would eventually have her revenge.
The recent hurricanes and earthquakes and tsunamis the world over, the generally terrible air, all the other obvious results of global warming, only prove how prescient, metaphorically speaking, Hitchcock really was nearly half a century ago. Having predicted with Psycho the death of the heroine, the drastic downgrading of women in film, the killing of the feminine principle, he naturally would next destroy the world that has wrought such an outrage. (More on Hitchcock, The 39 Steps, Picture of the Week 7/20/11.)
Esoth | September 28, 2011 8:41 AM
Late on this, but "The Birds" is among my favorite Hitchcock films. The ambiguity, the unexplainable, palpable strangeness that has an apocolyptic vibe. . . . and its just birds! And the sequence of the attack at the gas station that culminates in a sudden and dramatic switch in persepctive, from the on-the-ground horror to a vastly distant, almost silent altitude from the skies far above, made my hair stand on edge.
Christopher Stilley | September 16, 2011 4:34 AM
I love that you have this rather slow hypnotic rather interesting triangle thing going with Tippi Hedren,Rod Taylor and Suzanne Pleshette and then out of nowhere for no reason,its about Birds!..lots and lots of Birds!.No premonition at all that something THIS big is going to happen and spiral out of control to the end..Its like a guy running in out of nowhere and throwing up all over a Douglas Sirk love scene.
Dan Luft | September 16, 2011 3:53 AM
I always thought that Psycho was about the death of genre conventions. First it was a stolen money story, then a private detective story and each convention dies to unwarranted violence.
The Birds just felt like it was about anarchy and a world where people can't see a pathway to control. The world that is becoming less knowable.
Batur Güney | September 16, 2011 1:14 AM
It's still the only major Hitchcock film that I have not bought on DVD. The original release you mentioned is now close to a decade old so it's fair to think that it's time for a new Blu Ray release. As fas as I know only North by Northwest and Psycho have been released on the new format. Is it too much to demand Universal to make it the third Hitchcock on Blu Ray with a sparkling new remaster? Since the film is the last commercial hit the director had, I think it merits a Blu Ray release. Should I wait even more or go and finally buy the DVD? Huge dilemma... :)
Jesse L | September 15, 2011 4:52 AM
The Birds remains a favorite for me simply because all the elements of filmmaking that are on display show what can be done without a lot of money or computer effects. The acting is top-notch and the little touches (the lovebirds swerving with Melanie's car, the drunk in the cafe saying "It's the end of the world!" [How right he is, metaphorically]) make this a pleasure to watch. Of course, I could watch Suzanne Pleshette read a shopping list and fall madly in love with her. As a filmmaker myself, I always appreciate what Hitchcock was able to do technically. This picture maybe shows that more than any of his others.


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Pollster New Year
by Jason Williams, Sat Dec 31, 2011 at 05:11:08 PM EST
A look back at 2011 in polls with Gallup's Year in Review. Some highlights:
January -
- The majority of Americans begin the new year with the expectation that 2011will be better than 2010.
- With the GOP Republican field undetermined, Mike Huckabee is the best liked and Sarah Palin is the most recognized of the potential contenders.
May -
- For the first time in Gallup history, a majority of Americans (53%) support legal gay marriage.
June -
- Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann enters the Republican race tied with Herman Cain for the highest Positive Intensity Score of any GOP candidate Gallup tracks.
- Americans express historically low confidence in most U.S. institutions.
August -
- Americans' satisfaction with the way things are going in the U.S. falls back to 11%, the lowest level since December 2008.
- Three in 10 U.S. workers fear being laid off, nearing the high seen in 2009.
October -
- Gallup's employment tracking reveals that 30% of 18- to 29-year-olds in the U.S. are underemployed.
- An increasing number of Egyptians say they are "finding it very difficult" to get by on their current income.
Nate Silver lines up FiveThirtyEight's hit's and misses of the year.
At the Crystal Ball, Sabato takes to the YouTube for 2012 and Abramowitz reminds everyone that no, again, just like every other year, 2012 won't see and anti-incumbent wave. So what are voters thinking then? "Meh" and "Go Packers!"
And finally, per tradition, polling on the first GOP candidates in Iowa is all over the place, but Mark Blumenthal says there's one last "one to watch" of 2011:
On New Year's Eve exactly four years ago, the Des Moines Register released its final poll of Iowa caucus-goers and turned the political world upside down.
While the newspaper's final Iowa Caucus poll of 2011, set to be published Saturday night at 7 p.m. Central Time (8 p.m. Eastern Time), may not confound the conventional wisdom this time, it is among the most eagerly anticipated political polls of the season for good reason. The Register has a hard-earned reputation for accuracy grounded in the fundamentals of survey research: Assume as little as possible about the likely caucus-goers, and let the voters speak for themselves.
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After reading some scary reports about the carcinogenic chemicals in hair dyes—not to mention living through some MAJOR dye-induced damage a few years back—I was super-eager to try INOA.
It's a new, ammonia-free, in-salon permanent colour system by L'Oréal Professionnel (INOA is short from Innovation No Ammonia).
Now some salons DO use no-ammonia colours already—but the difference with this one is that it's permanent (not a demi), provides 100 percent gray coverage, and it doesn't damage or dry out your hair.
I gave it a try a few weeks ago at Toronto's Taz Hair. (By the way, if you're looking for a new colourist, I've been seeing Joanna for a few years now and she is amazing.)
Anyway, INOA was basically my last hurrah (I think) with all-over permanent colour. On the recommendation of my new favourite hair guy Charles Baker Strahan, I've decided to go back to my lightish brown base with blonde highlights. So I got Joanna to use INOA to colour-correct the non-highlighted pieces, in order to take out my previous reddish tint.
The dye takes a bit longer than most to mix up because it's oil-based, but that's also what makes it safe even on sensitive scalps. Not only does it give off ZERO odour (you know how most hair salons have that noxious ammonia scent, right?), it also won't burn or irritate. My hair has been feeling silky-soft ever since—and from what I can tell beneath the highlights, the colour looks great.
Expect to pay a little bit more (about $15 or so) than you would with a regular dye. And understand that it's by no means 100 percent natural—although it's definitely a step in the right direction.
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Canonical announced that Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop and Server Editions, codenamed Maverick Meerkat, are now available in beta form. Here's the list of new features the Meekat has to offer:
Ubuntu 10.10 is built on GNOME 2.31 desktop environment and includes dconf and gsettings API.
The Ubuntu Software Center gets a facelift that includes Featured and What's New views. The Ubuntu Software Center also features improved package description view, and easier access to the package installation history.
Ubuntu One, Canonical's cloud-based backup and storage service, is further integrated into Ubuntu 10.10 via an improved sign-in and sign-up process. Ubuntu One also features Nautilus improvements that improve folder sync preferences and improved sync speeds.
Shotwell is now the default photo manager and Gwibber has been updated to support Twitter's new OAuth authorization system.
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Lately I've been seeing the resurgence of a trend that emerged a few years ago but then fell by the wayside: Offering consumers a list of personas to choose from when shopping an e-commerce site.
It's an interesting marketing tactic that might help take some of the guesswork out of personalization. It also can give a shopper a sense of ownership of her e-commerce experience—enabling her to get involved and tell a retailer the types of items, cross-sells and up-sells she actually might be interested in purchasing.
Take Organize.com's site. In its She hub, shoppers can choose from a list of female personas: The Career Girl offers wall calendars and planners; The Mom, a babysitter checklist; and Girl's Night Out, wine glasses and fun party games.
Neiman Marcus uses personas with its StyleRadar feature. Updated weekly, StyleRadar offers a dozen or so types of people, personas in essence, that shoppers can subscribe to and then shop from, comment on and receive e-mail updates from. For example, shoppers can choose Indie Chic as well as a city, such as Chicago or Dallas, as a persona.
Personalization vendors and web site operators have used a behind-the-scenes version of this tactic for years, choosing personas on behalf of customers based on their web browsing or shopping behavior. Some build a profile for customers based on their actions as individuals on an e-commerce site. Others create profiles based on the activity of all shoppers, then base suggestions on the profile the shopper seems to fit into given her current behavior.
But why not ask shoppers to define themselves? Personas seem to be a straightforward way of presenting higher-converting, more relevant recommendations and to get shoppers involved.
I presume many of you reading this are thinking that it is one thing to gather data from individuals' personas but that acting on that data adds a whole other set of complexities. I realize it may take work to centralize the data and create a way to make it useful. But, if it is going to give you extremely accurate (what can be more accurate than a shopper telling you what she is interested in?) information about what a shopper wants to buy, isn't the result with the effort?
A travel site's auto personalization system may see a visitor is looking at sunny beach destinations and show them a slew of tropical islands, but if a consumer can choose a Honeymooners or Just Married persona, the site can offer resorts with Honeymoon suites, special extras and discounts for couples and even upsell with activites for newlyweds. Another site might recognize a consumer is looking at wine glasses and show her martini glasses and other types of stemware. But if that shopper chooses the Girl's Night Out persona, it would know to market fun table settings and party platters as well.
After all, there's a lot more to a Girl's Night Out than wine glasses—and all the required gear could amount to many sales for e-retailers.
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Patricia M. Speck, DNSc, APN, FNP-BC, DF-IAFN, FAAFS, FAAN graduated from UTHSC College of Nursing with a BSN in 1982, an MSN in 1985 and a DNSc in 2005 in Public Health Nursing with an emphasis in forensic nursing, SANE program and practice evaluation. She joined the faculty in 2006 as Assistant Professor in the Forensic Nursing DNP Option. In 2007, she became the DNP Public Health Nursing Option Coordinator, educator, preceptor and advisor and was granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor July 2010. Dr. Speck is an internationally recognized family nurse practitioner expert in advanced practice forensic nursing of sexual and domestic assault and abuse in all developmental ages and stages. She has over 30 years of clinical practice experience, maintains an active faculty practice that includes disadvantaged under- and never-served forensic populations in Memphis TN. Dr. Speck has consulted nationally and internationally in Africa, Eurasia and South America. She has research interest in the effects of violence and trauma on individuals and populations, practice and policy development, program evaluation and capacity building, education and violence prevention initiatives. Dr. Speck holds memberships, has held offices in a number of local, regional and national organizations. She is a Fellow in the prestigious American Academy of Nursing. She is a Distinguished Fellow in the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) and Fellow in the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) the 11th registered nurse in the 60-year AAFS history. She has published professionally, lectures internationally, and honored with over 20 local, national and International awards. She provides expert advice to a number of government and not-for-profit organizations and is the only nurse asked to speak at the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Sexual Violence Research Workshop in June 2008. She is an invited lecturer at the NIJ Annual Conference in June 2009, and she compiled the research portfolio for the NIJ on telehealth and delivery of sexual assault forensic services in 2012. She was awarded an R01 from the Department of Justice to study Post Coital DNA Recovery. She has had numerous other grants to support education of SANE/SAFE and SARTs. She is one of 3 primary authors of the ANAs (2009) Forensic Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice. Her SANE Program Evaluation Questionnaire (SPEQ ©) has been adapted to support Department of Justice IAFN Technical Assistance to SARTs nationally. She was an invited expert by the International Justice Mission through Paz y Esperanza in Huánuco and Lima, Peru to consult with representatives from government institutions and community organizations to assist in their efforts to address child sexual abuse, trafficking and domestic violence. Dr. Speck was President of the International Association of Forensic Nurses (2004-5), the Chair of the Family Violence Prevention Forum of the American Public Health Association (2011-3), and currently serves as a member or officer on the Board of Directors of several local community organizations that prevent and/or respond to interpersonal violence and its aftermath.
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Rashad Evans Asking For A Fight With Jon Jones And Lyoto Machida On The Same Night.
That broad is as dumb as rat gross, no wonder Rashad gets along with her.
I cant stand this chick. I dont know why, she doesnt come off professionally to me though. Im not even thinking about the rampage things either. Shes always buddy buddy with the interviewee
With the way she was starin at him. I think he could have Cavemaned her right into bathroom for a quickie!!! This chick was ON IT!!!
This bitch tokes on fighter dick
Rashad was lookin to tombstone that pigmy-marmoset
She wants more than just an interview….
Ariel is the only legit professional interviewer in the ufc… But even him lately has gotten too moochie with the fighters… Until the UFC gets more professional coverage it will continue to be seen as a WWE freak show by lots of people.
I was thinking you guys were to hard on the woman until I watched some of it. Man that is horrible.
Just because a woman is semi-attractive, generally hyper, and happy to be interviewing professional MMA fighters doesn't mean she wants to F*** all of them or is a whore. After all, I've heard the camera man is her husband. Perhaps it's just all the horny young men who are watching these videos that need to get laid.
Why doesn't she just mount him..bad interview.
Chemistry. They have it.
She seems to flirt with most guys she interviews.
She's funny lookin'!
she was once a correspondent for mtv news back in the day
She is like this with every interview.
Blackzillion!?? What? This guy is such a effing hack, he's bad for the sport. Huge tool, wish Rampage beat his ass!
I'm with Joseph on this one. I'm sensing a lot of sexual frustration and seeing comments that project the glaring insecurity of many users. She is not my favorite interviewer, but think about it, damn near every interviewer is somewhat annoying, it comes with the desire to do that job. Very few journalists, in sports or elsewhere, are able to get away with firing hardball questions all the time, because nobody wants to take part in those kind of interviews.
Has no one ever seen a Karen Bryant interview before? She's just a fun woman. Grow up you mongoloids. Also I never understood the hate for Rashad. He seems very real and genuine. Hope he gets to face Machida or alternatively that he is the one to hand J. Jones his first loss.
getting knocked out twice in one night is not the way to go Rashad
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Checked her bio; it says she is half-owner of MMAHEAT. The cameraman could be her husband, who knows? I sort of like her interviews: they put the fighter at ease and get him talking. If the fighter is dumb enough to think he can tap into that, then he's more likely to open his trap and give us a good interview. Why do you think all female reporters are hot? Well, most of them, anyways…
I think they both did a good job. Clear and intelligent. There's nothing wrong with some friendliness – it opens up the answers. But she's listening to the answers and engaging. Unlike others who just go through a list of questions without really processing what a fighter says.
Honestly, I'm not a big fan of hers but it was a decent interview and her interviews "do" get the fighters to talk more than they normally do. She also is held in high regard by them–can drink to the cows come home and they genuinely like doing interviews with her. I dont think it has anything to do with her knocking anyone's wood. And Rashad was joking bout the two in one night–actually one of his lightest fun interviews to date.
WOW you guys are really hating on that girl lol I have a lot of women and she can be one. Me and my guys read this and wonder If your all Fat and Girl-less?
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Several Charlottesville agencies are collaborating in April in an effort to involve the entire community in preventing child abuse and neglect.
Experts from almost 10 different Charlottesville groups have been planning Child Abuse Prevention Month for the past year to keep children safe and guarantee a stronger future.
Every 83 minutes a child is abused or neglected. Every 10 days one of those children dies. These are just some of this year's statistics released by the Virginia Coalition for Child Abuse Prevention.
"It is much higher than anyone would want to think about," said Carol Fox, project leader with Safe Schools/Healthy Students.
In an effort to change the trends, Charlottesville area organizations are coming together to try to end child abuse.
"For any child who is abused, their life is forever altered," Fox said. "And although we can provide numerous services to them, to help them be successful in life, their life is altered."
Treatment specialists through the Children, Youth, and Family Services' Victims of Child Abuse program say patience and persistence are key to prevention.
"It's important to remember that with issues that are so serious and so difficult as child abuse that it can take a while so it can certainly be a process of positive growth and positive change but amazingly we do see that," said Katie Anne Padalino, a treatment specialist in the Victims of Child Abuse Program.
Change that counselors say will only happen through collaboration within the community.
"Child abuse is a community-wide problem and it's going to take a community-wide effort to make progress and succeed in actually preventing child abuse," Padalino said.
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Orlando Dotts, 19, of the 2700 block of Jones Street, was arrested at 2:31 p.m. Friday on a charge of driving on a suspended license.
n Antonio Rayford, 41, of the 1700 block of South 15th Street, was arrested at 11:54 p.m. Friday on a charge of violation of an order of protection.
n Diamante Carpenter, 20, of the 700 block of 19th Street, was arrested at 1:19 a.m. Sunday on a charge of driving without ever having been issued a license.
n Brandy Shaw, 28, of Wayne City, was arrested at 4:54 a.m. Sunday on charges of DUI and leaving the scene of an accident.
n Tony Feggins, 20, of the 2200 block of Casey Avenue, was arrested at 5:07 a.m. Sunday on a charge of driving on a suspended license.
n James Lomax, 22, of the 600 block of South 18th Street, was arrested at 8:31 p.m. Sunday on a charge of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
A male caller told police at 7:05 a.m. Friday there was a busted side door at his business in the 2400 block of Broadway.
n A female caller reported to police at 8:11 a.m. Friday her purse was stolen from her car while it was parked in the 400 block of North Street.
n Police responded to a report of a business burglary at 8:17 a.m. Friday in the 200 block of Main Street.
n A man told police at 2:04 p.m. Friday his sister had battered him. The incident occurred in the 600 block of South 22nd Street.
n A woman told police at 5:52 p.m. Friday a man burglarized her vehicle and ran away. The incident took place in the 1700 block of Conger Avenue.
n A resident reported to police at 8:01 p.m. Friday his home in the 300 block of Castleton Avenue was burglarized. A TV and DVD player were reported stolen.
n Church members reported to police at 8:04 p.m. Saturday finding damage related to weapons being discharged at a church in the 1300 block of South Ninth Street.
n Multiple callers reported hearing gunshots at 1:13 a.m. Sunday in the 1000 block of South 25th Street. No injuries were reported.
n A subject reported at 3:08 p.m. Sunday a domestic violence incident in the 700 block of Lamar Avenue. A male perpetrator had reportedly struck a pregnant female, according to the call received. However, officers were unable to locate anyone involved in a dispute.
A female caller told police at 12:41 p.m. Friday five checks were missing from her checkbook. The woman lives in the 1900 block of Lake Street.
n A man reported to police at 5:38 p.m. Friday his debit card was stolen. The victim lives in the 1000 block of South 17th Street.
n A woman told police at 12:37 a.m. Saturday her pit bull was stolen by a man known to her. The incident took place in the 900 block of Wescott Street.
n A subject reported to police at 4:48 p.m. Saturday a tablet was stolen from a porch in the unit block of Beech Drive.
n A man told police at 5:14 p.m. Saturday some items were missing from his residence in the 600 block of South 15th Street.
n A subject informed police two male juveniles may have stolen Halloween candy from carts sitting in front of a store in the 400 block of Broadway.
n A female employee told police at 10:37 a.m. Sunday a drive-off had occurred at a gas station in the 100 block of South 44th Street. A total of $39.50 in gasoline was stolen.
n A woman told police at 11:27 a.m. Sunday a male suspect stole two to three packs of cigarettes from a store in the 600 block of Salem Road.
n A woman requested an officer at 6:15 p.m. Sunday after a man stole her purse in the 800 block of South 17th Street.
n A man told police at 8:19 p.m. Sunday two male juveniles had entered his truck and stole his wallet. The incident took place in the 900 block of South 20th Street.
Authorities responded to a possible structure fire at 5:28 a.m. Sunday in the 1600 block of South Ninth Street. Residents had reported smelling something burning. Firefighters located burning wiring in an attic area and the fire was extinguished. No injuries were reported.
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Linda Smart, 23, of the 16500 block of North Illinois Highway 37, was arrested at 9:11 a.m. Friday on a charge of violation of bail bond.
n Loyd Finley, 71, of Salem, was arrested at 6:39 p.m. Friday on charges of bringing cannabis into a penal institution and violation of bail bond.
n Steven Houseworth, 26, of Carbondale, was arrested at 11:43 a.m. Friday on a charge of violation of bail bond.
n Rebecca Jones, 19, of Ina was arrested at 2:19 p.m. Friday on a charge of domestic battery/physical contact.
n Matthew Wilson, 20, of Ina was arrested at 2:26 p.m. Friday on a charge of domestic battery/physical contact.
n Jesse Allen, 26, of the 900 block of Ellis Drive, was arrested at 11:09 p.m. Friday on a charge of criminal trespass to residence.
n Savannah Penland, 19, of Woodlawn, was arrested at 3:56 p.m. Saturday, on a charge of theft.
n Camille Darden, 23, of Centralia, was arrested at 5:16 a.m. Sunday on a charge of driving under the influence.
n Darnell Maxey, 20, of the 1700 block of South 12th Street, was arrested at 6:21 a.m. Sunday on charges of unlawful use of a weapon, possession of a firearm, possession of a firearm without a valid FOID card and resistance to an officer.
A woman reported to police at 9:34 p.m. Friday a home invasion had taken place at her residence in the 15800 block of East Fairfield Road. She told authorities a man unknown to her had entered her home. The perpetrator may have been schizophrenic and off his medication, the police logs state.
Authorities responded to a report of a pick-up truck on fire at 8:26 p.m. Sunday on Interstate 64, westbound between Mt. Vernon and Woodlawn. Police found no one with the vehicle and it had no license plates.


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John Hartwell Smith arranged to meet with what he believed to be an underage girl for sex, according to investigators.
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