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---- — ANDERSON — For the past few weeks, Troy Taylor has spent a lot of time working out with Gary McGhee.
And the two former high school rivals make an odd pair on the basketball court.
McGhee was well-established as a Highland junior when Taylor first emerged on the local hoops scene as a freshman at Anderson in the fall of 2005. McGhee took The Herald Bulletin Boys Basketball Player of the Year honors in 2007, and Taylor followed with back-to-back awards in 2008 and 2009.
On the surface, the two share little else in common.
The former Scots center, who played at the University of Pittsburgh before beginning a professional career overseas, stands 6-foot-10 and is listed at 250 pounds. Taylor, who finished his career at the University of Evansville in March, is 10 inches shorter and 66 pounds lighter.
But that doesn't stop Taylor from playing defense against McGhee in the post during their 1-on-1 practice sessions.
"I'm not as big as he is," Taylor said. "But I try to push him around and be physical, like someone who would guard him at the next level."
And therein lies the reason for this pairing.
As mismatched as the Scots' big man and the Indians' guard might seem at first glance, they share an unbreakable bond.
Both men believe they will one day play in the NBA, and they're willing to do whatever it takes to make that dream a reality.
For Taylor, these days, that means working on his game 12 to 14 hours a day. When he's not muscling up against McGhee, he often can be found in a pick-up game with Anderson High School assistant coach Jovan McGraw and anyone else competitive enough to take the floor.
"It's old fashioned Anderson High School basketball," Taylor said, comparing the impromptu games to the battles he waged during his summer days with the Indians. "It's a rugged style. We really don't call any fouls."
Taylor isn't looking for handouts on or off the court.
He had two more rebounds (250) than points scored during his senior season at Evansville and finished with the exact same 6.9 per game average in each category. He also dished out 3.9 assists per game and made 48 steals, increasing the latter total by two over his junior season.
Even in high school — where he led the Indians in scoring and rebounding and helped the team win a sectional championship in his senior year — Taylor has rarely been interested in flash.
He's a player who delights in the details.
At Evansville, he made his name as a rebounder. And his voice rarely carries more excitement than it does when he relates a story about opposing Missouri Valley Conference coaches changing their game plans to incorporate a way to block him out.
"I try to keep everything tip-top," he said, noting he's not focusing on any single skill during his workouts. "I need to find a way to separate myself."
Taylor has been talking to agents since his college career ended, and he's open to all kinds of paths for the next step in his career. His eyes were opened a bit when he heard the kind of money McGhee is pulling down overseas, and he has no problem taking that route if necessary.
But the ultimate goal remains the NBA.
McGhee took another step toward that dream Sunday when he joined the Golden State Warriors' Summer League team in Las Vegas. NBA teams use the league as a kind of tryout, mixing young free agents from outside the league with last month's draft picks.
Taylor will join McGhee in Vegas next weekend but in a different capacity. He'll take part in a showcase with other players who went undrafted this year, working out in front of scouts not just from the NBA but from leagues around the globe.
"I kinda knew from the jump as long as I stayed focused, kept my faith, stayed motivated and kept my head on straight, the opportunities would be there," Taylor said.
He's enjoyed returning to Anderson after missing so many family events over the past four years. But his heart remains on the hardwood.
One way or another, a professional career awaits.
"It's just a blessing, really, to have the opportunity to play," Taylor said. "Not everybody has these opportunities. I've just got to take them when they're there."


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Fibre Channel over Ethernet
FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) is the newest storage networking protocol of the bunch. Ratified as a standard in June of last year, FCoE is the Fibre Channel community's answer to the benefits of iSCSI. Like iSCSI, FCoE uses standard multipurpose Ethernet networks to connect servers with storage. Unlike iSCSI, it does not run over TCP/IP -- it is its own Ethernet protocol occupying a space next to IP in the OSI model.
This differential is important to understand as it has both good and bad results. The good is that, even though FCoE runs over the same general-purpose switches that iSCSI does, it experiences significantly lower end-to-end latency due to the fact that the TCP/IP header doesn't need to be created and interpreted. The bad is that it cannot be routed over a TCP/IP WAN. Like FC, FCoE can only run over a local network and requires a bridge to connect to a remote fabric.
On the server side, most FCoE implementations make use of 10Gbps Ethernet FCoE CNAs (Converged Network Adapters), which can both act as network adapters and FCoE HBAs -- offloading the work of talking to storage similar to the way that FC HBAs do. This is an important point as the requirement for a separate FC HBA was often a good reason to avoid FC altogether. As time goes on, servers may commonly ship with FCoE-capable CNAs built in, essentially removing this as a cost factor entirely.
FCoE's primary benefits can be realized when it is implemented as an extension of a pre-existing Fiber Channel network. Despite having a different physical transport mechanism, which requires a few extra steps to implement, FCoE can use the same management tools as FC, and much of the experience gained in operating an FC fabric can be applied to its configuration and maintenance.
Putting it all together
There's no doubt that the debate between FC and iSCSI will continue to rage. Both architectures are great for certain tasks. However, saying that FC is good for enterprise while iSCSI is good for SMB is no longer an acceptable answer. The availability of FCoE goes a long way toward eating into iSCSI's cost and convergence argument while the increasing prevalence of 10Gbps Ethernet and increasing server CPU performance eats into FC's performance argument.
Whatever technology you decide to implement for your organization, try not to get sucked into the religious war and do your homework before you buy. You may be surprised by what you find.
This article, "Fibre Channel vs. iSCSI: The war continues," originally appeared at InfoWorld.com. Read more of Matt Prigge's Information Overload blog and follow the latest developments in data storage and information management at InfoWorld.com.


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I've asked the same thing of people from Los Angeles, St. Louis and Atlanta. Amsterdam, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, Tokyo and Mexico City. I've asked them what it means to come from an Olympic city. The answer is usually, "Oh yeah…that's right…" or "Wait, when were the Olympics in St. Louis?"
You get a different answer when it's the Winter Olympics. It takes an altogether unique place to host the Winter Games. It requires a place with at least a burgeoning if not venerated history at previous Olympiads, an infrastructure developed enough to support media centers, transportation, accommodation and security concerns, a proximity to world class mountain terrain, a citizenry willing to risk financial struggle for the mercurial possibility of global prestige and reinvestment, and a commitment to an uncertain future of figuring out what to do with these bobsled tracks and ski jumps. To meet the increasingly ridiculous needs of the Winter Olympics requires a distinct kind of place and people.
I grew up in Salt Lake City during the decade-long campaign to secure the Games. At the time, it seemed inevitable, almost a birthright, even arrogantly so. The campaign chewed up much of the discourse on the Wasatch Front in the early 90's on every level, from the capitol building to the ski lodge, from the nightly news to the church parking lot. The purpose, the very identity of the city changed entirely once the IOC announced our name in 1995.
Once the 2-week bender is over, and after the 2-year hangover (hopefully) abates, that identity defines any Winter Games city, for good, bad or indifferent.
As unthinkable as it sounds today, when Squaw Valley was awarded the 1960 games, it had one chairlift, one full-time resident and one fairly indelicate name. Its owner Alex Cushing placed his bid as something of a publicity stunt for his new resort, which had only been open for 6 years. Almost single-handedly, he wrangled the games away from Europe's pet choice Innsbruck with snake oil, chutzpah and a purportedly awesome scale model. Those 1960 Games performed something of a miracle. They opened up Lake Tahoe, the Sierra Nevadas, California and, to a degree, the western United States to the world of winter sports. 50 years later, Lake Tahoe has the highest concentration of ski resorts in North America, and mulling another bid for the Games.
Fun fact: because so few nations fielded a bobsled team, Squaw Valley didn't even bother building a track. It was the only Winter Olympics without a bobsled competition.
After famously hosting two Olympics without winning a single gold medal at either of them, Canada won a record 14 golds in 2010 in Vancouver, largely due to the winter sport facilities built and maintained because of the '88 Games in Calgary. Previously considered by many to be the cowtown capital of Alberta oil country, Calgary parlayed shrewd promotional and broadcast deals into a post-Games surplus that allowed the region to reinvent itself as a nexus of winter sports dedicated to the training and development of Canadian athletes, who've increased their medal count in each successive Olympics.
It's a bit soon to consider Vancouver itself, but the immediate legacy is mixed. While the slopes of Whistler-Blackcomb are packed and suburban Richmond has seen its fortunes improve, the Vancouver games had the bad luck of landing in the middle of a recession. The lux Olympic Village became the Village at False Creek condo boondoggle, where hundreds of millions in real estate debt landed in taxpayers' laps. Even Pixar couldn't make a go of it.
Before 2006, Turin was a city known primarily for the waning fortunes of its imploding Fiat auto industry and its debunked town shroud. Like Vancouver, Turin's legacy is also in flux. The Olympics boosted tourism and slowed its economic decline, and Juventus sits atop Serie A, but cost overruns left the city with millions in debt.
Fun fact: ice hockey made its Olympic debut in the 1920 Summer Olympics. (The Winter Olympics didn't begin until 1924.)
When the '92 Games were awarded to Albertville, they weren't really awarded to Albertville, but to the nearby Savoie Alps, to the alpine meccas of Courchevel, Méribel and Val d'Isere. While these areas boomed with the added Olympic development, Albertville (which only hosted a third of the events) was mired in over $60 million in net loss and exists now as a slightly smudgy industrial city sitting in the shadow of its tonier neighbors in the surrounding mountains.
An hour southwest of Albertville is the 1968 host city Grenoble. It's grown into a city with a strong economy, encompassing a thriving academic population and tech quarter. The '68 Games provided the needed infrastructure to kickstart this, but like Albertville, Grenoble has little collective Olympic nostalgia. Like Albertville, many of its Olympic facilities have been replaced or repurposed. There are even rumors that its cauldron was missing for years.
Then there's Nagano. No one will ever know how much Nagano spent simply on bidding for the '98 Games, because all the financial records and accounting files were deliberately burned. You heard me: deliberately burned. Under the direct order of Sumikazu Yamaguchi, a senior committee member. Nagano quickly descended into recession after the Games, with infrastructure and maintenance costs sorely underestimated. The Nagano Shinkansen bullet train was built to shuttle people from Tokyo to Nagano in as few as 80 minutes. Unfortunately, this allows skiers to head right back home after the last run instead of staying in Nagano, further sapping its local economy.
The most emotionally resonant Winter Olympic city for many Americans has to be Lake Placid. When we think of Lake Placid, we think of the Miracle on Ice and Eric Heiden, a crucible where the U.S. symbolically won the Cold War. In truth, the 1980 Games were a nightmare of logistical problems on almost every front: transportation shortfalls, accommodation shortages, ticketing kerfuffles. This village of some 2,000 people was saddled with millions of dollars of deficit and needed a bailout from the state of New York to avoid bankruptcy.
Yet the Olympics are an intractable part of the town's DNA. Many people don't even realize that Lake Placid's hosted the Games twice. While most of its tourists arrive in the summer, it's an epicenter of winter sports training and competition with unparalleled facilities and a populace determined to maintain its history.
Fun fact: the Olympic Village from the 1980 Games is now FCI Ray Brook, a medium-security prison.
And it's not a little sad to realize that Lake Placid will never host the Winter Olympics again (unless it's somehow tossed into an unwieldy, multinational blanket bid with Ottawa or Montreal or something). Nor will any of the sites of the Games' first decades. The logistical, technological and economic needs of the Winter Games have sprawled and trebled to such a scope that former Winter Games hosts St. Moritz, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Squaw Valley and Albertville have been folded into larger Olympic bids of Graubünden, Munich, Venice, Reno/Tahoe and Annecy, respectively.
There is one Winter Olympic city whose legacy is surely the most poignant.
A friend of mine recently visited Sarajevo. She describes a rebuilding, religiously diverse city with a vibrant, friendly downtown quarter whose residents don't want to fall victim to inertia, who don't want to live in a mausoleum city. Many of its people aren't forthcoming with their memories of the 4-year Siege of Sarajevo, but the Olympics remain a source of pride, albeit a bittersweet pride. The '84 Games, which actually made some $10 million in revenue, afforded its citizens a glimpse of an economic, cultural and spiritual future that wouldn't have existed without the Olympics. Instead, just 8 years later, the city was a smoking ruin.
Today, there's precious little money to redevelop the city's core infrastructure, let alone the bullet-riddled husks of the Olympic monuments and venues. A visit to Olympic Park is a sobering affair. The Igman Olympic Jumps never hosted another World Cup ski jumping event before going to rot. Serbian fighters literally drilled high-vantage artillery batteries and sniper nests into the bobsled track at Trebević. Today the track is a weed-riven canvas for graffiti artists.
Last summer, despite the fact that the U.S. soccer team was in town for friendly with Bosnia and Herzegovina, my friend was virtually the only tourist in the city. Its people were visibly surprised to meet an American making the effort to travel there. Almost 20 years have passed since the Bosnian War ended, yet Sarajevo is still wanting for visitors. Those visitors Sarajevo does attract inexorably visit within the context of the suffering it endured during the war. Yet when I asked her if she would go back, she said, "I would go back in a heartbeat. It's utterly beautiful, despite its history."
Which brings us to Sochi.
As next month's games approach, it's remarkable how comparatively little ink has been spent on sport itself. Instead, what we've heard is more troubling and alarmist than any Olympics in recent memory. Sharing space with the fear-mongering tales of "black widows", "Putin's games" and the "Ring of Steel" are the ubiquitous reports that $50 billion will have been spent on it before it's over, more than any Olympics, winter or summer, in history, more than the 2012 redevelopment of East London, more than the operatic pageantry of Beijing, more than all 21 previous Winter Olympics combined.
Russian coffers have been drained, its resources diverted and dissipated. Two dozen men have died during the unprecedented construction. Lifelong citizens have been forcibly evicted, relocated and deported. This doesn't even consider the widespread condemnation of Russia's anti-LGBT legislation, the separatist insurgents in Dagestan, Abkhazia and Chechnya who have threatened direct terrorist action against the games themselves (who've already take credit for suicide bombings in nearby Volgograd that took 34 lives last month), or the palm trees growing outside Fisht Stadium. It's a popular parlor game to predict how the sky will fall on supposedly ill-prepared host cities, but the facts are there: the 2014 Winter Olympics are happening in a subtropical seaside city, in a country with an official policy of homophobia, on the rim of a conflict zone.
What will happen during and/or after the Sochi Olympics is pure conjecture. The depth of corruption and final tally of embezzlement may never be truly known. It has the 2018 FIFA World Cup in its future, but that future is an uneasy one. At the risk of being alarmist myself, it's not difficult to draw a few parallels between Sochi and Sarajevo.
I'll always feel hometown proud of the Salt Lake City Games, despite the infamous bidding scandal, the infamous pairs skating scandal, and even the inevitable stray Osmond or two. Salt Lake City spent decades with a chip on its shoulder, smiling through its inferiority complex while laboring mightily to make the city something other than the butt of the nation's polygamy jokes. The city and its mountains have prospered. Athletes and locals train in its white elephants (well played, $40 million legacy fund). The Winter Olympics aren't easy. They're bound fundamentally to a sense of place, of mountains and weather, in closer congress with nature than the Summer Games. When you have that pride of place, you share it with Albertville and Grenoble, Sarajevo and Sochi. And your hope is that it holds much longer than those two weeks in February.
Fun fact: the first Olympics held in the United States occurred in 1904.
In St. Louis.
This post was written by Mark Larson of ScoreBig.com.


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Patients at Miami-Dade's safety net public hospitals are staying longer on average than they were a year ago, driving up labor costs and dragging down profits, according to Jackson Health System administrators addressing Thursday's meeting of the Public Health Trust that oversees the system.
"A higher length of stay drives a higher cost per case,'' said Mark Knight, chief financial officer of Jackson Health System. "Longer length of stay equals less profit.''
As patients stay longer and profits dwindle, Knight said, staffing levels and employee overtime have increased.
"That is creating a negative effect on our bottom line because we are not realizing incremental net revenue to cover those incremental costs.''
The higher costs and lower profits are draining resources from the financially struggling system, which seems headed toward a financial recovery after losing more than $300 million over a three-year period, and nearly going bankrupt about a year ago.
Jackson administrators said they will reconvene a task force of physicians, nurses and hospital executives to find ways to reduce patient stays.
Hospital administrators also intend to lower labor costs by reducing employee overtime, shifting nurses and physicians to areas of greater need, and "flexing down'' the hours of part-time employees, said Carlos Migoya, chief executive.
In a memo to Trust members issued Monday, Migoya reported that Jackson has had modest budget surpluses for the first half of the year compared to the same period last year.
But he warned that long patient stays remain a challenge, and he hinted at staff reductions, stating that certain divisions within the hospital are "staffed above our productivity standards.''
Jackson administrators cut the equivalent of 1,100 full time positions about a year ago, but Migoya emphasized that the newest cost-reduction strategy would not include significant layoffs.
"These are staffing changes,'' he said, "not necessarily reductions.''
Migoya said he shifted a group of nurses from the pediatric unit to other divisions within the main hospital because pediatrics was not as busy. The hospital also has hired a new director of labor productivity, Knight told the board.
Another issue dragging down hospital revenues is that many long-term patients on Medicaid have exceeded their annual fixed benefit for inpatient stays, which is 45 days.
In fiscal 2012, Knight said, Jackson saw $25 million in exhausted benefit denials from Medicaid.
But many of these financial challenges can be traced back to lengthy patient stays.
Jackson patients are staying an average of seven days at the hospital, compared to an average of four days per patient at other local community hospitals, Knight said.
The number of patients staying longer than 30 days has increased by 50 percent over last year, Knight told the board, and the number of patients staying longer than 120 days has doubled. He did not provide raw numbers.
Knight said many patients are staying longer than necessary because the hospital cannot discharge them safely to a nursing home or family members.
Nursing homes are full, he said, and some patients have felony criminal records and cannot be placed in group settings.
Still others are undocumented immigrants with no means of returning to their country of origin, he said.
Jackson offers to pay airfare for patients who are undocumented immigrants, Knight said. But hospital administrators also are working with embassies to locate patients' family members in their home countries and expedite their return.
Another part of the reason patients are staying longer at Jackson is due to the nature of the hospital's services, said Marcos Lapciuc, chairman of the Trust.
Jackson's trauma center, burn unit and transplant services all provide care that leans toward long-term stays.
"If we take a look at the business lines that we do, we are almost by definition trauma and transplant heavily skewed,'' Lapciuc said. "We are going to continue to see longer lengths of stay. We are going to continue to see inefficiencies... because of the nature of our business.''
Joe Arriola, a Trust member, echoed Lapciuc's concerns, and said that Jackson has been unable to plan long term for the types of services that patients demand — cardiology, pulmonology — because of the hospital's financial struggles.
"If we don't change, if we don't start selling what people want to buy, we are going to be stuck with what we don't want, which is this long-term care, the very complex cases and all that,'' Arriola said. "Long term care, we can't survive with that. On the contrary, we will sink quickly.''
In other business, Trust members attended a meeting of the Miami-Dade County Commission, which was considering a request from Jackson to build a helipad at its satellite hospital in South Miami-Dade. Commissioners approved the helipad unanimously. Jackson officials applied for the helipad in anticipation of opening a trauma center at Jackson South should state legislators allow more trauma centers in the state.


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3.75/5 rDev +14%
03-09-2014 03:30:28 | More by Buckeye_Bill
3.91/5 rDev +18.8%
War is dark, almost brown-red, with lots of ruby flaring in the light. The head takes some work to keep down; the fat brown pillow takes several minutes before it levels out at two fingers. Once there, it's massively dense and practically solid, leaving webby lace that drops to patching about 1/3 of the way through.
While seemingly one-dimensional, the nose really does have fantastic smoke to it. It's campfire, all wood with no charcoal but just a little char and only the slightest tang in it.
With warming, I get a little black pepper sort of spiciness with a little bit of something bready and a ghost of a soapy note to the hops.
The taste carries the smoke over well but with a little more tang, char and bitterness, particularly into the finish. There's some bread to the malts, including leaf, grass, and the aforementioned soapiness.
The body is simulataneously crisp and fluffy but not too heavy in a medium body.
02-12-2014 22:12:28 | More by Brenden
3.5/5 rDev +6.4%
01-13-2014 15:08:17 | More by tommy5
3/5 rDev -8.8%
12-18-2013 18:31:02 | More by fellowrs
3.25/5 rDev -1.2%
09-30-2013 03:05:03 | More by C_Roetting
3.7/5 rDev +12.5%
12oz brown bottle with no freshness date.
Great head retention, deep rusty reddish amber hue. Deep smokiness, bread malt, mild spice, hint of alcohol, toasted grain and a mild nuttiness show a pretty complex nose. Superb smoothness, medium bodied. Lots of smoke but no cloying, woody, toasted bread, faint dried fruit, spice, balancing hop character, dried grass, clean, smoky toasty drying finish.
While the deep smokiness may take away from the drinkability a bit it does entice me to still sip ... just not quaff. Either way, pretty damn good.
08-21-2013 01:21:09 | More by Jason
3.5/5 rDev +6.4%
07-29-2013 16:51:06 | More by NW2285
3.76/5 rDev +14.3%
A: Ruby brown color, fairly cloudy. Pours with a very thin, off-white head that maintains throughout. Little to no lacing.
S: Extremely smoky. The aroma reminds me a lot of the Rogue Voodoo Doughnut Bacon Maple Ale, only without the maple sweetness. Lots of malt and woody notes come through here.
T: The best part of the beer is the first taste, when you experience all the smokiness from the nose. The flavors fall off pretty drastically as you swallow, leaving you with a pretty standar, red ale finish. Maybe slightly more robust.
M: Medium body, more in the front than the back.
O: The taste never lives up to the scent. The nose of the beer promises a rich, complex experience that the flavor never delivers on. And despite that very brief, initial smokiness, this beer lacks any truly distinct qualities. The malt profile could be a bit fuller, and the smoky wood notes needs to linger throughout more.
04-21-2013 18:31:55 | More by BeerNotes
3.81/5 rDev +15.8%
12 ounce bottle
Served in a nonic pint glass
A - It is dark amber with lighter amber highlights. A normal pour yielded a large, creamy, tan head that lingers for a while.
S - The obvious first impression is smoke. At first I thought it reminded me of liquid smoke, but it transformed to more of a campfire smell. Some sweet caramel malt is in there too if you look hard emough.
T - My initial impression was that it was too smoky. After it warms, it is an enjoyable beer. The smokiness mellows and allows the characteristics of the Irish ale to come through.
M - It is medium bodied with a creamy texture.
O - I thought this beer was going to be a smoky turd. It turned out to be satisfying. I think the key is to let it warm. It was definitely better up around cellar temperature.
03-26-2013 00:57:00 | More by buschbeer
4.11/5 rDev +24.9%
A - Really nice deep crimson body, ample tan head. But the head goes away.
S - Smoky, meaty, earthy...It's a really nice smoke profile, and I like smoke, so I like this smell.
T - Lots of smoke, the same biting sweetness that is in famine, somewhat fruity, but this is subdued, and the moderately complex smoky profile really dominates. If you like smoke, this is good. A bitterness helps too.
M - A nice hearty mouthfeel. It doesn't feel war-like, but perhaps more like the beer you'd want while taking a break from war...I dunno.
O - this is a legitimately solid smoked beer, in my opinion. But you have to like smoke.
02-01-2013 05:13:03 | More by ColdPoncho
3.25/5 rDev -1.2%
01-29-2013 12:54:27 | More by crytion
3.41/5 rDev +3.6%
Thanks Richard and Alanna, for bringing me this brew!
A: Light tan as it pours, in the glass the color is a nice dark cherry brown, with a tan head. Looks nice.
S: Nice smoked scent. Slightly sweet, with a good dose of campfire, and smoked meat. There is a nice baked bread smell coming through as well. Sometimes I think cherry smoked malt can come off a little cloying, but that is not the case here.
T: Some good toasted malt and bread notes.. The smoked malt adds a nice nuance to the flavor, and doesn't overpower the brew. There is a slight spice note from the rye, with a crisp bitterness lingering in the background. I like all the flavors this has going, but I wish it had just a little more behind it. The smokiness is good, but the beer as a whole comes off a little watery.
M: Soft feel, high carbonation level, and fine in size.
O: Overall decent, but for a beer named war, I thought it would have a little more backing it up. Nice flavor, I just wish it was amped up a bit. This is more of a skirmish, not a war.
01-19-2013 02:54:00 | More by Beejay
4.25/5 rDev +29.2%
01-05-2013 13:52:53 | More by Lukass
1/5 rDev -69.6%
01-01-2013 17:32:39 | More by Lipsntoes
New York
3.63/5 rDev +10.3%
A: The beer is clear very dark amber in color and has a light amount of visible carbonation. It poured with a quarter finger high beige head that died down a bit, leaving only a small hole in the center of the layer of bubbles covering the surface.
S: There are light to moderate aromas of smoky malts in the nose; these get a little stronger as the beer warms up.
T: Like the smell, the taste has smoky flavors along with notes of the red ale. Hints of tea are noticeable in the finish.
M: It feels medium-bodied on the palate and has a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: This beer has a nice amount of smoky flavors in the taste but these are quite balanced and don't overpower the beer.
12-24-2012 21:17:52 | More by metter98
2/5 rDev -39.2%
12-22-2012 02:44:46 | More by meanmutt
3/5 rDev -8.8%
12-09-2012 21:56:36 | More by rheimbro
3.5/5 rDev +6.4%
12-08-2012 14:35:40 | More by SDG1070
2.5/5 rDev -24%
10-13-2012 17:02:33 | More by jaidenjb
2/5 rDev -39.2%
09-25-2012 15:22:18 | More by Caterwaul
2.45/5 rDev -25.5%
Poured into an E&J Cask & Cream glass on 9/11/12 (one doesn't go to war without one's E&J)
The appearance is a deep brown, like a dark tobacco shared amongst warriors; strangely, it's rather clear, though the color is dulled. A tan, one and a half finger head drops slowly, becoming dense along the way. Retention is remains a strong enforcement with lace shielding half the glassy battle garb.
The aromatics portend much calamity and strife, with rumors of cocoa, band aid, molasses, dark bread, tea leaves and caramel. The whole is an unexpected trio of gritty, toasty and sugary - the basis of an unholy alliance. Fire builds slowly before sending up billows of smoke as flames warm the night air.
Indeed, the rumors prove true. Riders come through waves of smoke, armed with dry rye bread, earthen hops and stale, crushed tea leaves as caramel, dirt and moss detritus are ripped up and flung upon them in the throes of battle. Alas, the riders are carried upon compromised horses; weak and frail of body, distracted by nerves and bucking with frantic agitation.
As conflict turns to struggle and then to subdued resistance, War likewise tips from tumultuous to defiant and then to defeated weariness. Nevertheless, no matter the hardship, trial and cost, War will be seen through until the end.
09-13-2012 02:15:08 | More by Ryan011235
3.75/5 rDev +14%
08-30-2012 23:31:46 | More by bmoney
4/5 rDev +21.6%
08-21-2012 03:28:06 | More by a74gent
3.95/5 rDev +20.1%
12 ounce bottle. Served in a mug, the beer pours a clear reddish-brown color with an inch light tan head. Head retention and lacing are both good. Aroma is mostly smoky, it smells like smoked malt/meats, along with a little bit of wood. Taste is similar to the aroma, the brew tastes mostly like smoked malt/meats, and some caramel and a little bit of rye spicyness. Mouthfeel/body is light/medium, it's smooth and easy to drink. It's also well carbonated. Overall I liked this brew, I think it's worth a try. $2.99 a bottle.
08-16-2012 22:26:59 | More by bluejacket74
3.33/5 rDev +1.2%
A - pours a medium brown that is very clear. A two finger rocky, khaki colored head forms and disappears quickly. When help up to solid lighting it appears a very deep mahagony color.
S - smokey, malty, waxy, caramel, acrid. Reminds me a tad of the bacon smokiness aroma found inVoodoo Maple- and it makes me a little nervous.
T - wow, tons of tobacco flavor and smoke. Reminds me of a mix of the wax lips I had at Halloween as a kid and a big old Skoal. Not sure how they smoked this, but its an odd smoke I've not had in a beer before. Raw squash. Malty if you can find it under the smoke.
M - medium bodied. Slightly drying.
D - Low for me. The tobacco is too much for me to enjoy.
Overall, interesting beer and I'm glad I tried it but the smoke takes a turn I can't appreciate. I hope the Brewmasters Reserve series takes a turn for the better on the next release.
07-25-2012 03:30:03 | More by beesy
War from Rivertown Brewing Co.
78 out of 100 based on 26 ratings.


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Beach Condo with Spectacular Oceanfront Views in Satellite Beach
- bedrooms 2
- baths 2
- sleeps 4
- pool yes
- hot tub no
- pets allowed no
- type Condo
- community Buccaneer
- rates (USD) $ 2,000 - $ 2,600 / month
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This 6th floor unit at 607 North has 1370 sq.ft. of living area, principally with tile flooring, and is centrally heated and air conditioned. All rooms have ceiling fans. Since recently purchased, the unit has been extensively updated and tastefully decorated.
The large living room, with a separate dining area, has a flat screen TV with cable and WiFi, which can be viewed from a 2-seated power-reclining leather console sofa or from either of two matching upholstered armchairs.
The kitchen has tiled countertops and contains a refrigerator, range, dishwasher and disposal, as well as a microwave, toaster oven, and toaster. All cooking utensils, silverware, dishes and glasses are provided.
The master bedroom contains a king-size platform bed with two flexible wall lamps and a large flat screen TV. The second bedroom has a queen-size bed. Both bedrooms have comfortable chairs, ample closet space, and private bathrooms. All bedding, washcloths and towels are provided.
The screened balcony is accessible from either the living room area or the master bedroom from which are spectacular views of the ocean and grounds. The balcony contains cushioned wicker furniture and a dinette with chairs.
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condo rental amenities
The property is secured by key entry to garage, pool area, private beach, and tennis court. The common area includes heated pool, gas grill, outside shower, bathrooms, private showers, saunas, and a clubhouse with a full kitchen. There is ample outside parking space to the building. Shopping carts are available to carry multiple packages up the elevator to your floor.
activities and attractions in Satellite Beach Atlantic Coast Central
- Disney World, Sea World, Universal Studios, and many other major attractions in Orlando are only one hour away.
- Cape Canaveral is a major cruise port and is less than an hour away. Charter boats are also available.
- Kennedy Space Center (near Cape Canaveral)
- King Center for the Performing Arts in Melbourne, featuring headliners, stage shows, etc.
- Ron Jon Surf Shop, Cocoa Beach
- Cocoa Beach Pier has restaurants and entertainment
- Community theaters with musicals, dramas, etc.
- Brevard Zoo
- All shopping close by; malls, small boutiques, grocery, and drugstores
- Swimming, surfing, boogie boarding, kayaking, and skim boarding.
- Many golf and tennis facilities nearby
vacation rental rates
$2,000--$2600 monthly $2000 rate applies to Nov. and Dec. 2013
All utility charges and cleaning fees are included in the rental rate. State and County taxes totaling 11% will be added to the monthly rental fee.
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KSP D.A.R.E. Program Re-Accredited By National Group
Date of News Release: 08/30/2011
(Frankfort, Ky.) -- D.A.R.E. America (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) has re-accredited the Kentucky State Police as the official D.A.R.E. Training Center for the anti-drug and violence program in Kentucky. The program is a police-officer-led series of classroom lessons that teach children from kindergarten through 12th grade how to resist peer pressure and live productive drug and violence-free lives.
"The Kentucky State Police is to be commended for the dedication it has shown in shouldering the responsibility of managing and maintaining the Kentucky State D.A.R.E. Officer Training," wrote Scott Gilliam, director of training for D.A.R.E America, after a recent evaluation.
Charlie Parsons, president and CEO of the organization, praised KSP's "daily commitment" to the faithful replication of the D.A.R.E. training model and the concern for the officers they teach. "The children we all serve are the ultimate beneficiaries of their effort," he added.
Last year, 13,427 fifth and sixth grade students and 3,000 seventh and eighth grade students in Kentucky participated in D.A.R.E. programs. Four thousand kindergarten through fourth grade students received at least one 20-minute lesson.
KSP has trained approximately 1,400 law enforcement officers from Kentucky and 26 other states as D.A.R.E. instructors since the late 1980s. Currently, there are 80 officers in the state certified to teach the program to elementary and middle school students in 36 county school systems.
D.A.R.E. officer training consists of 80 hours of instruction during a two -week period. Topics of study include classroom management and presentation skills; elementary and middle school learning theory; alcohol, tobacco, drug, violence and bullying resistance information and school visitations for hands-on teaching experience.
"D.A.R.E. goes beyond traditional drug abuse and violence prevention programs," notes Bruce Olin, state D.A.R.E. coordinator and a retired state trooper. "It gives children the skills needed to recognize and resist the subtle and overt pressures that cause them to experiment with drugs or become involved in gangs or violent activities."
According to the U.S. Dept. of Justice, the program benefits local communities by:
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Summer Pilsner Fusion - Element Brewing Company
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Ratings: 47 | Reviews: 18 | Display Reviews Only:
Reviews by glid02:
4.05/5 rDev +4.4%
Bottle shared by Mark – much obliged!
Pours a hazy golden color with a white head that leaves solid lacing.
Smells of crisp pilsner malts with good amounts of light citrus and earthy hops and light hints of oats. Also present are mild amounts of floral hops.
Tastes similar to how it smells. Smooth pilsner malts up front are joined quickly by light herbal and citrus hops. Midway through heavier earthy hops come into before mild oat flavors sweeten things up a bit, fading into a mildly bitter ending. Mouthfeel is very good, with a nice thickness and grainy carbonation.
Overall this was a really interesting beer, the thickness was somewhat expected but still foreign, even in an imperial pilsner. Worth a shot.
08-25-2011 16:33:05 | More by glid02
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4/5 rDev +3.1%
From BeerAdvocate magazine Issue #67 (August 2012):
LOOK: Clear amber hue, high-reaching froth
SMELL: Spicy, mealy, dried grass, yeast, wildflowers, clean alcohol
TASTE: Medium bodied, creamy, peppery alcohol, warming, clean, grainy, grassy, bitter, herbal, bread, yeast, faint taffy, bitter, drying finish
A massive lager, being an "Oatmeal Pilsner" really rounds this brew out. While the malt backbone puts on quite a show, we had selfishly hoped that the hops would have been dialed up a tad more, which would have pushed this beer into a beer for the gods. We guess our palates can live with just great.
12-12-2013 16:12:55 | More by BeerAdvocate
4.25/5 rDev +9.5%
07-11-2012 02:01:14 | More by Jason
3.5/5 rDev -9.8%
08-18-2014 03:29:35 | More by stereosforgeeks
New Jersey
3/5 rDev -22.7%
06-18-2014 03:48:09 | More by The_Craft_Deviant_Rob
5/5 rDev +28.9%
I like some of these new styles where ale type hops are added to a pilsner. The solely Hallertau Hersbrucker influence is also a great new approach.
I got a short glass of this in my local bar. The beer was a hazy, straw color. There was a couple fingers of very white head on top. The foam was very rocky.
The smell was kind of different. It was kind of flowery off the top. I got some sweetness, and the bouquet had fruitiness. I didn't expect this blend of smells.
The flavor was HUGEt. I would say that this would fit in on a warm spring day. The blend of flavors were very interesting. I feel like I get some white grape. It was almost like a soft kiwi. On the back end I got some strong malty goodness.
This is a very good beer. It was a different experience from any other beer I have had.
Serving type: on-tap Blind Pig
08-22-2012 15:57:48 | More by ComputerBeer
New York
4.5/5 rDev +16%
08-09-2013 01:50:02 | More by BeerPunk1312
3.5/5 rDev -9.8%
SPF pours golden brown with a fairly large foamy head.
On the nose I get a sort of lemon and sweet smelling mix. A hint of banana also.
The taste is bitter but also sweet. There is almost a banana bread taste to it, with a bit of honey.
Overall this is an interesting beer, and quite tasty!
06-04-2012 23:20:53 | More by Ommy
4.6/5 rDev +18.6%
This is a great summer beer. A Pilsner based on Oatmeal grain. A nice combination. Refreshing and smooth. Just a little more bitter than a hefeweizen. For a seasonal it really puts a lot of other beers to shame.
Pour is more like a Belgium Beer (say Duval). If you don't tilt you will get a lot of head. It settles down quickly and smells delightful.
Overall a very successful beer. To bad it is not sold in Texas.
07-02-2012 03:31:25 | More by Opportunivore
3.25/5 rDev -16.2%
06-10-2014 02:11:37 | More by wilsonmatt
4.01/5 rDev +3.4%
The beer pours a white, bubbly, and frothy head that takes a while to dissipate and leaves quite a bit of very nice lacing on the walls of the glass. The beer itself is a clear brown with orange notes. The beer is also a little bit hazy but that's most likely due to the temperature difference between the beer and the glass. The smell has strong honey and graham cracker notes mixed with a bit of light oatmeal. The hops are a little bit buried beneath the other notes but provide a nice base with its bitter and grassy notes. The taste is a bit stronger with the hop notes and the oatmeal as well as the sweeter honey and oat notes are weaker. However, the mix is much better than in the smell because it's no longer so sweet. Additionally, there is a slight alcohol taste that is very faint and barely noticeable. The mouthfeel is medium bodied but on the thicker side and very light on the carbonation despite the good head retention. Overall, a very good beer that is worth getting if you haven't done so. Despite the odd pairing, the combination actually works very well in how one note offsets the other and prevents it from becoming too overwhelming.
06-21-2014 17:26:11 | More by HattedClassic
4.18/5 rDev +7.7%
750ml bottle purchased at Atkins Farm, Hadley, MA. Cool informative paper wrap, corked and caged.
Poured into a glass stein, formed a 2 1/2" eggshell head over the slightly cloudy golden amber brew. Pillowy head holds height for awhile, bubbles popping balanced by bubbles generated, with chunky sticky lace. Aroma is lemony and crisp, with an undercurrent of sweetness.
Taste begins sweet and earthy, spicy and citrus in the middle, with a lightly crisp close. Mouthfeel is soft over the tongue and smooth, and drinkability is very nice. Not as Sazz-heavy as I would expect from a Double Pils, but just an enjoyable brew.
08-19-2011 23:55:25 | More by ppoitras
New York
4/5 rDev +3.1%
07-02-2013 04:59:05 | More by BKBassist
Rhode Island
3.75/5 rDev -3.4%
07-14-2014 15:04:45 | More by Shawnspl
3.73/5 rDev -3.9%
SPF pours an opaque honey yellow, with a thick, frothy head on top. The foam dissolves very slowly and leaves behind a coating of lace on the glass.
The aroma is light with notes of lemon citrus and pale malt. A touch of flowers is also detected.
Each sip of this medium bodied beer is soft, creamy with mild carbonation. The flavor is nicely balanced between sweet pale malt and citrus hops. It begins with bread and pale malt before lemon citrus and flower notes (rose or lavender I'd guess) move in. The hop/flower flavors are not very strong. It finishes mildly bitter and dry. Once gone the bread and citrus notes linger on the palate.
This is a well balanced beer with a great mouthfeel. Easy to drink for nearly 9% abv.
10-23-2011 00:40:41 | More by WanderingFool
4/5 rDev +3.1%
08-18-2013 23:36:45 | More by smb71481
4/5 rDev +3.1%
01-15-2014 15:10:49 | More by Eindacor_DS
Quebec (Canada)
4/5 rDev +3.1%
08-25-2012 14:05:23 | More by oldp0rt
4.83/5 rDev +24.5%
Pours a bright golden color with a tight white head. Non stop cascade of tiny bubbles rise from the bottom of the glass. Smells sweet, slightly caramel and dough like. Malty sweet taste, very crisp and then a lingering warm alcohol finish. Very enjoyable on a dreary summer eve.
07-27-2013 00:21:54 | More by kaelingirl
4.75/5 rDev +22.4%
09-19-2013 00:35:06 | More by TripelMark
2.5/5 rDev -35.6%
09-04-2012 22:30:42 | More by DelicateDelirium
Rhode Island
4/5 rDev +3.1%
07-10-2014 16:53:13 | More by Triglycerides
4/5 rDev +3.1%
10-09-2012 20:11:21 | More by ComRock12
Rhode Island
1/5 rDev -74.2%
05-31-2014 21:19:48 | More by SenorHops
3.84/5 rDev -1%
Fresh 2014 batch, just released. Bottle 872.
A: Pours a lightly hazy amber. Lots of very fine carbonation. Tall and frothy/fizzy tan head. Good head retention with a nice slow fade. Almost no lacing at all.
S: Lots of grass and light apple cider. Light fruity alcohol.
T: Taste is a lot stronger than the aroma. Big, big grassy notes up front. Light floral notes, lavender-like at times. Grainy oatmeal and that sharp, crisp pilsner malt backing it all up in the middle and finish. A bit of sulphur from that pilsner malt in fact. Light bitterness in the finish with more grass and some of that dry apple cider flavor kicking around.
M: Medium-heavy, sharp and crisp.
O: Basically a super pilsner. Very strong pilsner malt and grassy hops plus the grainy oatmeal for complexity. Decent bitterness for a pilsner too, but of course this not an IPA or something. Bright and sharp, tasty but I think I'm more of a fan of the lighter, more sessionable pilsners.
05-31-2014 05:21:58 | More by Dope
Summer Pilsner Fusion from Element Brewing Company
87 out of 100 based on 47 ratings.


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6 plays that mattered most:
A breakdown of Duke's 38-20 victory over N.C. State.
Boone's big throw
• Score: Duke 0, N.C. State 0, early first quarter.
• Situation: Duke ball, 1st-and-10 at its 21.
• The play: In shotgun formation, Anthony Boone faked a handoff. The play-action allowed Boone time to set up and Jamison Crowder, on the outside, to run a go route past Juston Burris. The deep pass went for 75 yards to N.C. State's 4. Duke scored on the next play, when Boone faked another handoff on a zone read and ran in untouched.
• Why it mattered: Boone struggled in his previous start, throwing four interceptions against Virginia Tech. He rebounded on Duke's first drive with the longest completion of his career.
4th-down gamble backfires again
• Score: Duke 7, N.C. State 0, about 10:00 left in second quarter.
• Situation: N.C. State ball, 4th-and-1 at its 26.
• The play: After calling a timeout, Wolfpack coach Dave Doeren had running quarterback Brandon Mitchell on the bench as Pete Thomas handed off to Shadrach Thornton, who was hit behind the line of scrimmage for no gain. Duke took over at the 26.
• Why it mattered: Last week, Doeren tried a fake punt on a fourth down deep in N.C. State's territory. It didn't work, and North Carolina used the short field to score the go-ahead points. Saturday, Doeren gambled and lost again. This time, his defense bailed him out and held Duke to a field goal.
Smith's return gives Wolfpack life
• Score: Duke 10, N.C. State 3, 7:30 left in third quarter.
• Situation: Duke punting, 4th-and-10 at its 25.
• The play: Will Monday's punt traveled 48 yards. Rashard Smith caught it at his 27 and quickly found an opening up the middle. Smith weaved through several Blue Devils and raced toward the sideline for a 73-yard tying touchdown.
• Why it mattered: N.C. State needed a jolt and got it when Smith scored on a punt return for the second time this season. The touchdown was sandwiched by two Niklas Sade field goals, part of N.C. State's 13-0 run.
Duke's Edwards answers from 100 yards
• Score: N.C. State 13, Duke 10, 3:57 left in third quarter.
• Situation: N.C. State kicking off after taking its first lead on Sade's 24-yard field goal.
• The play: DeVon Edwards caught the kickoff with one foot in his end zone. Duke created a seam in the middle, and Edwards found it. One Wolfpack defender dived at him, but nobody else had a legitimate chance. Edwards outran the kicker to complete a 100-yard touchdown return.
• Why it mattered: N.C. State scored 13 consecutive points to take the lead and momentum. It had shut down Duke's offense, allowing just one field goal and intercepting Boone three times after that opening drive. Edwards erased all of that with the second-longest kickoff return for a touchdown in Duke history.
Mitchell strikes back
• Score: Duke 17, N.C. State 13, 6:50 left in fourth quarter.
• Situation: N.C. State ball, 3rd-and-10 at N.C. State 20.
• The play: A go route to Quinton Payton on the left sideline. Mitchell, swapping with Pete Thomas, had just thrown two incompletions, but he connected with Payton on a deep ball. Payton shook off a tackle attempt and jogged into the end zone for an 80-yard touchdown.
• Why it mattered: The Wolfpack's passing game struggled. Mitchell provided the one bright spot when he found Payton for a go-ahead score. The lead didn't last long, however.
Edwards' Pick-6 combo
• Score: Duke 24, N.C. State 20, 3:30 left in fourth quarter.
• Situation: N.C. State ball, 1st-and-10 at N.C. State 25.
• The plays: Edwards, who returned a kickoff for a score earlier, intercepted two consecutive passes and returned both for touchdowns late in a 26-second span. He tipped and intercepted a Mitchell pass for a 25-yard touchdown, then after Duke kicked off, he intercepted Thomas' pass and returned that 45 yards for his third score.
• Why they mattered: It was still a one-possession game when Edwards returned the first interception for a touchdown to push Duke's lead to 31-20. The second one sealed Duke's first winning season since 1994.
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GEORGETOWN, Del. - Melvin Morse, the former Delaware pediatrician, accused of waterboarding his step-daughter, was back in court on Tuesday morning.
The day began with a defense witness testifying about Melvin Morse's punishment of his step-daughter and ended with Morse answering similar questions. A receptionist at his former job in Delaware said she saw Morse make the alleged victim stand as a punishment for misbehaving, but unlike other testimony, she said she did not see it as unkind or cruel.The night the young girl ran away from home, Morse claimed he told her, "you're going to be punished like you've never been punished before. You'll have to clean your room."
It's a statement he says prosecutors edited and took out of context.
During Tuesday afternoon's cross examination, prosecution spent hours showing jurors more than a dozen videos and photos. The photos show the young girl standing against a wall, looking distressed and even crying. One picture of interest: the word "shame" taped to girl's stomach. The image, Morse says, he wasn't sure if he or his wife Pauline took.
As for the alleged waterboarding incidents, the 60-year-old still claims he simply washed the girls hair in the kitchen. In a video played in court, the alleged victim's younger sister said to Child Advocacy Center investigators, "Dad cleans her hair by waterboarding."
Asked what that meant, the girl said, "he puts water on my sisters hair in the kitchen sink."
Earlier in the day, Melvin Morse denies slapping his step daughter so hard that she flipped over a table, an alleged incident which resulted in a Division of Family Services investigation.
Prosecution played an exert of a previously played conversation with detectives during the morning the young girl ran away from Morse's home. In the video, Morse admitted to slapping his step daughter. In court, Morse claimed the comment was made in general and that he in fact did slap his step daughter "more than once" but not as a result of the incident.
Before recess, the state questioned Morse about allegedly dragging the young girl inside the home by the ankles. Morse said she was not dragged on concrete steps.
"I was careless, " he said. " I did pull her out of the car roughly, carelessly."
During cross examination, prosecution repeatedly questioned Morse's parenting techniques and supposed punishment of his step daughter. The 60-year-old was shown pictures he took of the young girl standing against a wall, which Morse said was a punishment for the girl.
In the pictures, the now 12-year-old appeared sad or upset, one picture had tears dripping down her face.
Morse said, "I'm ashamed [of taking and keeping the pictures]."
In the beginning of the cross examination, prosecution showed copies of a notebook, which entailed a point system for reward and punishment. Entries included "asks appropriately for help, plus 5 points" and "blaming her actions on Dad, negative 3 points". Also, a level system was written about where the girl would be in terms of standing. Nothing was written for levels 4 and 5 which Morse says was due to never enacting and "never a thought out idea."
Morse says he and his wife never used the point system and was only written as apart of a Strengthening Families program to learn how to deal with discipline.


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|"Stable Day" to be held March 23
Cross Winds Farm is hosting the annual "Stable Day" on Saturday, March 23. It will begin at 9 a.m.
Coggins, health certificates, yearly exams, vaccines, and basic medical procedures will all be completed. No farm call charge. Pricing will reflect donations to Speak Up For Horses rescue organization.
The even is conveniently located just 20 minutes off I-75 and 20 minutes south of Alexandria off US 27.
Each horse brought will enter you in for a chance to win a horse gift basket.
K&M Feed & Tack will have a booth set up. Farrier Remington Leach will be on hand for questions and work. Remington Leach and Dr. Glaza will also hold a round-table discussion.
Please contact Licking Valley Veterinary Services with the number of horses that will be brought and the vaccines that are needed by March 16. Check the website for the available vaccines at www.lickingvalleyvet.com or call 859-472-4141.
The event will last until all horses who have ordered are seen. Walk-ons will get vaccines only after those who have been ordered are there.
Directions: From US 27 take Hwy 22 West. Go 4.4 miles to private gravel road on right. Event is at the large barn on left. Room for trailers. From I-75 take Hwy 22 towards Falmouth for a total of nine miles to private gravel road on left (one mile past Goforth). The event is at the large barn on the left.


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If the country goes over the "fiscal cliff," how will your paycheck be affected? With just one day to go before fiscal cliff deadline, employees and employers are left to wonder what impact the lack of a tax legislation agreement between the White House and Congress will have.
Employees will notice an immediate reduction in take home pay due to the expiration of the 4.2 percent Social Security tax rate on Dec. 31. The tax rate will revert to 6.2 percent in 2013.
Other changes may not be noticeable for a few weeks.
In the short term, the IRS will allow employers to continue withholding at the 2012 rates. However, should those rates change due to a failure in negotiations in Washington, any deficit in collection will be made up later in the year, CNBC reports.
See here how the the impending fiscal cliff could impact the commercial real estate markets across the country, including metro Atlanta.
You might also be interested in reading:
- 'Taxmageddon': $500 Billion Tax Increase Approaching
A Tax Policy Center (TPC) analysis predicts taxes will rise by an average of $3,500 per household -- or $500 billion overall in 2013 -- if the existing tax cuts are allowed to expire.
Almost 90 percent of Americans would experience a tax increase, the TPC report states. Most of that increase would be a direct result of the expiration of the temporary cut in Social Security taxes and the end of the 2001 and 2003 Bush-era tax cuts.
"Average marginal tax rates would increase by 5 percentage points on labor income, by 7 points on capital gains, and by more than 20 points on dividends," the report warns.
Another potential problem for tens of millions of taxpayers is the failure of Congress to pass a "patch" for the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). The AMT was initially passed to make sure higher income earners paid their "fair" share of taxes. The problem lies in the fact that the income level at which the AMT comes into play has never been indexed for inflation. Instead, Congress regularly passes a "patch" to keep the AMT in line with its original intent. The last patch expired on Dec. 31, 2011. If Congress does not act in time for the 2012 tax filing season, the Tax Institute at H&R Block estimates a family earning $85,000 with two children in college could go from a tax refund of $1,056 to owing $1,400.
But wait, there's more bad news for your bottom line.
Numerous tax breaks are set to expire if no action is taken and several other new taxes related to the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) are set to go into effect:
- A new medical device tax will impose a 2.3 percent excise tax on every medical device valued over $100. As the American for Tax Reform website explains, "In addition to killing small business jobs and impacting research and development budgets, this will increase the cost of your health care – making everything from pacemakers to artificial hips more expensive."
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) will be capped at $2,500. The Americans for Tax Reform website notes this cap will be "particularly cruel and onerous" for parents of special needs children who currently take advantage of the unlimited FSA to fund special needs education expenses.
- The Obamacare investment surtax will result in the capital gains rate increasing from 15 to 23.8 percent in 2013 and the dividends tax will rise from 15 to 43.3 percent.
- The threshold for medical itemized deductions will increase from expenses exceeding 7.5 percent of adjusted gross income to 10 percent of adjusted gross income.
- The Medicare payroll tax will increase from 2.9 to 3.8 percent for all wages and profits exceeding $200,000 for individuals and $250,000 for married couples.
While the impact on family budgets could be profound, the broader economic implications are also cause for concern. ABC News reports the spending cuts and tax increases could, "stifle the US economic recovery and send the country back into recession, spelling bad news for the global economy as well."
Do you think political leaders will be able to reach an agreement in time to avert a fiscal disaster? Let us know in the comments.


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CATEGORIES Animation, Music & Musicals, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Casting, Deals, Disney, Remakes and Sequels, Movies, CinematicalDisney is awfully good at depreciating the value of its animated classics. Sometimes it makes useless sequels to films, as in Bambi II and The Lion King 1½. Other times it produces live-action remakes, such as 101 Dalmatians. Now, it is going a little too far. Not only will there be a live-action version of The Sorcerer's Apprentice, but it may well star Nicolas Cage, who is so far only confirmed as a producer.
Of course, The Sorcerer's Apprentice is much older than the segment of Disney's Fantasia. The story goes back 210 years to a poem by Goethe called Der Zauberlehrling. But most people these days are more familiar with the Mickey Mouse version set to Paul Dukas' symphonic poem L'apprenti-sorcier (itself an adaptation of the Goethe). The animated sequence is so popular that it was even reused for the sorta-sequel Fantasia 2000. Obviously most viewers of this new film are going to be thinking about Mickey while watching Cage. That can't be good.
To make matters even worse, it is difficult to imagine the story -- a lazy sorcerer's apprentice misuses his magic by giving life to a broomstick -- being enough to fill a feature-length film. Apparently Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal have completed a script, but none of its details have yet been revealed. Anyway, it must be possible because a straight-to-video version of Goethe's tale was made in 2002 with Kelly LeBrock (interestingly enough, Weird Science has some of the same themes).


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A Council Rock graduate lost her son in Friday's school shooting in Connecticut.
Fran Lobis-Wheeler's son, Benjamin, 6, died in the attack, according to sources. Lobis-Wheeler is a member of Council Rock's class of 1985.
According to a story from New Haven-based News 8, Lobis-Wheeler and her husband, David, had recently moved to Newtown, CT from New York City. The story says their son Nate, also a student at Sandy Hook, survived the attack.
A memorial page, Friends of Benjamin Wheeler, has been set up on Facebook.


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