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Despite increasing public support (as well as a number of executive mandates) publishing public data in a machine-readable format is not as simple as pressing the "publish" button. Why? Equally important as exposing the information itself is fostering a vibrant developer ecosystem around it. By making the publishing agency, not the public, responsible for making information immediately useful, government can lower the barriers associated with consuming its data and introduce additional citizen services at little to no cost to the agency.
1. Garbage in, garbage out. Good, clean data may be surprisingly difficult to come by, especially when working with government systems that have been coupled together over decades. Data standards and conventions change, mechanisms of data collection evolve, and the data itself may be interpreted differently as new policies are introduced. As a result consistent practices, like naming conventions or data formats, often go overlooked. Where practical, take steps to normalize the data prior to release, rather than pushing the responsibility off to be inefficiently repeated by each application individually.
2. Eat your own dog food. When organizations consume the products they create, they empirically deliver better, more reliable, and more innovative products. You'd never seek to buy a car from a dealer that's never driven one, yet we often expect the public to build applications based on APIs (Application Programming Interfaces – how computers talk to one another) published by organizations that have never had to consume their own data. Rather than solving the same problem twice, start by exposing all relevant data through public APIs and then work backward to build internal applications that rely on those externally facing data feeds.
3. Data as a citizen service. It is tempting to try and meet open data benchmarks, at least on face, by publishing snapshots of large datasets. Yet multi-gigabyte database exports do little to encourage external development, especially when such data-dumps are delayed and infrequent. Imagine the usefulness of a Facebook feed that showed your friends' activity from last month. Datasets should be directly exposed so that the public has access to live, real-time data, either in its entirety, or through proper access controls. This not only allows agencies to deliver more useful information, but also reduces the need to store the same data in multiple formats and in multiple locations.
4. Curate discrete pieces of data. APIs are most useful when they do the heavy lifting for those consuming them, especially in terms of sifting through large amounts of data. In practical terms that means returning data to the most discrete level possible, be it a single row, rather than merely returning a subset of the dataset, or even returning a single cell. Seemingly obvious but often overlooked, a query for the broadband speeds at a given address, for example, should return only the data relating to that address, not the entire city or even state-wide dataset. By allowing developers to query the data directly that means they will need less development time on their end, and thus a higher likelihood that an application will be built.
5. Serve data in multiple formats. When providing a service, whether you are a waiter or a CIO, "the customer is always right." In the context of APIs, that means you need to return the information in the developers' native tongue, not the server's. For some languages, heavyweight methods like XML may make sense, for others, especially mobile applications, JSON or JSONP may be preferred. Be prepared to return data in multiple formats, even as those formats continue to evolve.
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That's some good stuff. Getting to "open data" the right (and useful) way isn't going to be easy. I like your use of the keyword "dogfooding," by the way.
Would offer that 2. Eat your own dog food, will in fact drive the others toward the point where the data will become meaningful to the "customer"
Great post - I also think important to look at where there is demand. Heard an interesting presentation from FixYourStreets founder who as he builds citizen apps he looks at google search trends to see where the real pain point is for citizens. For example, for our jobs.govloop.com we are building on USAJOBS data - government jobs data is really popular with folks. Just like if building an API, a company would spend a lot of time figuring out what fields people really want
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At the seat of the European Parliament in Brussels, the researchers for the project Multicultural Autonomy: a necessary condition for sustainable development, have recently made public the preliminary results of a two and a half year study in six countries of Latin America: Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil.
In coordination with the Austrian Ludwig Boltzman Institute for Contemporary Research on Latin America, this eurolatinamerican study presents a collective effort to reveal the mechanisms and characteristics regarding autonomy within indigenous communities, both theoretically as well as from the perspective of the people concerned. Some of the researchers are committed to indigenous issues beyond strict academic interest and, as in the case of the Kunas from Panama, they are also members of the groups researched.
The conference, also presented by Centro Tricontinental, Lovaina-la-Nueva, and parliament representative MarÃa Luisa Bergaz Conesa, gave opportunity to discuss the essential platform which will govern research work based on the concept of autonomy, which is conceived, from the perspective of Latin America, as a process of resistance utilized by ethnic groups that have been neglected and denied, and intend to recover and strengthen their identity reclaiming their culture, their practice of collective law and organizing the political and administrative framework pertaining jurisdiction, capability, levels of application and proper material basis. We must consider that a true claim of autonomy includes the application of law, the protection of the land and the ultimate transformation of society as well as the State.
Autonomous events must be regarded in a holistic manner; that is, considering the political, economic and cultural context, autonomy means more than mere law. The legal constitutional foundation of community is a starting point, rather than a result.
Autonomies represent a permanent process of long term learning and negotiation where the assurance of continuity and development begets the construction of the autonomic entity and the acknowledgment of a valid audience.
In the face of lack of political determination from the State and other sources of economic power, autonomic entities propose negotiations by means of struggle or congregation, in accordance with their allegiance to indigenous peoples. Once again we find that autonomy is not given, but conquered. Those autonomic entities, in their common denominators, bring about diverse manifestations (the Sindicato in Bolivia, the Conaie in Ecuador, the EZLN in Mexico and the Congreso Kuna in Panama).
Autonomies facilitate self-determined communities to create and promote traditional ways of political interaction with other segments of the constituency and a harmonic rapport with nature. In this sense, whenever the autonomic entity carries a democratizing intent, the autonomic movement will strengthen its representation and its consensus.
Another thesis presented suggests that autonomies reiterate ethnic and national identity which complement and advocate the State's democratic reform while maintaining its unity. They also provide means of pacification for armed conflict once the State agrees to migrate towards autonomy. Therefore, autonomy creates a higher level of political involvement within a national and institutional context.
The usual obstacles to achieving autonomy are militarism, the doctrine of national security, racism, exclusion, extreme poverty, structural adjustment policies, and the neoliberal planning which seeks to appropriate the natural resources which belong to indigenous communities. There are specific cases, as in Brazil, where territorial autonomy represents a necessary condition in order to manage biodiversity in an intelligent, sustainable way.
International cooperation with indigenous communities was also discussed, particularly regarding the European Union, and it was agreed that there is a gap between theory and its implementation. The cooperation addresses the effort to end poverty and modernizing the State without taking into account people's habits, lifestyles and development. Also, when the State tends to decentralize, it usually concentrates on incorporation, regardless of the separate levels and practices of political articulation within the local and regional indigenous communities.
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Schools on song for 'Big Christmas Sing' (From Herald Series)
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7:00am Monday 3rd December 2012 in News By Fran Bardsley
Buy this photo Children at St Francis Primary School, Cowley, get into the Christmas spirit. Picture: OX55932 Damian Halliwell
HUNDREDS of children from across Oxfordshire are preparing to take to the stage for the Big Christmas Sing.
For the past five years, schools across the county have come together to sing their hearts out for the event, a Christmas fundraiser for Christian Aid.
This year, more than 400 youngsters from 17 primary schools will take part in the event at Oxford Town Hall, St Aldate's, tomorrow and Wednesday .
Each school will have their own section, before a massed choir finale of Tree of Light and Good Time Christmas performed by all the children.
Among those taking part will be 34 children in Years Three to Six at St Francis Primary School, Horspath Road, Cowley, Oxford.
It is the third year the school has been part of the concert.
Music co-ordinator Lucy Sineman said: "Just being able to stand in front of a massive audience and be able to share what they have been doing, rather than just stood in a classroom singing, is a great reward for their hard work. The children are really excited and looking forward to getting into the Christmas spirit."
She said it was particularly good for children who were good at music but not so strong in other areas of the curriculum to get their chance to shine.
Since the event began, it has raised more than £5,000 for Christian Aid.
Music will be co-ordinated by Liz Stock of the Oxfordshire County Music Service, and Christian Aid's Jessica Hall will compere.
Parents, family, and friends will make up the audience, and there are still a limited number of tickets on sale.
Oxfordshire County Council cabinet member Melinda Tilley said: "This is the fifth year we have worked in partnership with Christian Aid to promote this event.
"The Town Hall is a lovely venue for it. Places were in great demand and sadly we were unable to accommodate all the schools who wanted to attend."
Joining the choir from St Francis will be youngsters from Bayards Hill, St Andrews, Sandhills, All Saints, Windmill, Orchard Meadow and St Michael's primary schools in Oxford, plus West Kidlington, Buckland, Shellingford, Watlington, Beckley, Manor School in Didcot, William Fletcher in Yarnton, South Moreton School and St Edmund's in Abingdon.
Christian Aid regional co-ordinator Sarah Clay said: "The Big Christmas Sing is a great occasion for all the family and we're very excited to be running it over two nights again this year.
"With all the hard work the children have put in, we are sure it will be a fantastic festive concert, and it will also raise money for a very worthy cause."
- A few tickets – at £4 for adults and £2 for children – are still available by calling 01865 740000.
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Blackburn Cathedral Court development due for completion by Christmas
11:00am Saturday 24th November 2012 in News
ANOTHER piece of Blackburn town centre's regeneration jigsaw is poised for completion by Christmas.
Cathedral Court - luxury residential and student accommodation and retail development around 'Margo Towers' - will be finished with a new 92-vehicle car park in time for the seasonal shopping rush.
Developers BGSA took over the project, started by Blackburn businesswoman and the Telegraph columnist Margo Grimshaw in 2010.
This month Market Street Lane will be re-opened, following the completion of Cathedral Court, including the construction of 42 vehicle Pay and Display Public Car Park, and a 50 vehicle underground Contract Car Park on a site originally earmarked for a hotel.
The news follows the subsmission of the planning application for the new Cathedral Quarter, the go-ahead for the new bus station on Ainsworth Street, and Debenhams in The Mall announcing a major New Year refurbishment.
Negotiations between Blackburn with Darwen council, Thwaites and Sainsbury's about a major superstore on the old market and Star Brewery sites continue next month.
BGSA director Sheldon Cohen said "This boarded up building site, which was for so long a reminder of the recession, has now been transformed into a fully occupied residential development, with retail shops, together with public and contract car parking.
"Completed entirely with private funding, luxury apartments in The Tower were let earlier in the year, whilst apartments in The Gatehouse and The Keep were recently fully let to students, in a partnership arrangement with Blackburn College.
"Originally designed for private ownership, the student accommodation is ideally located for students because it is close to the college, the Mall and the town's transport hubs.
"This will undoubtedly benefit many local traders, from coffee shops and takeaways to fashion and convenience stores.
"Further residential and possibly even a hotel development are being considered for the future.
"We have already rented the largest of the four retail spaces and further details will be announced shortly."
Council deputy chief executive Andrew Lightfoot said: "This is excellent news for the town centre. BGSA have done well to compete this development in difficult economic conditions."
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Joey99 wrote:I totally disagree about it being a truly dreadful place to grow up in on the 80's...it was probably at its best then before the rot set in.
I guess a lot of people will moan about this. The fact is though that Blackburn is slowly improving...becoming less of a ****-hole year on year. It was a truly dreadful place to grow up in in the 80's
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Joey99 wrote:No not crime (was too early in the morning for that lol) I agree the Mall, with its brown tiles was an absolute eyesore but we had some great shops & places to eat in the 80's. Decent pubs, not over run with takeaways etc...not so now obviously but the town did have an identity then & people did spend leisure time in town not just shopping time.
Hmmm. I was talking about the grimness of the buildings/shopping centre etc. Crime (I think thats what ur referring to) has risen everywhere I think
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San Francisco supervisor Scott Weiner on what clubs mean to our community
By Supervisor Scott Weiner
OPINION We all know the cultural benefits of nightlife. It's fun. We get to meet people — friends, lovers, and all the rest. We build community. We hear great music. We dance. We spend time outside on our streets. For LGBT people, we meet other LGBTs and keep our community strong. The list goes on: Without a strong entertainment scene, including bars, clubs, live music venues, arts venues, night-time restaurants, and street fairs, our city would be a less interesting and less diverse place.
But the undisputed cultural importance of nightlife isn't the whole story. Nightlife is a significant economic contributor to San Francisco. It creates jobs, particularly for working-class and young people. It generates tax revenue that helps fund Muni, health clinics, and parks. It allows creative entrepreneurs to start businesses. It generates tourism. It draws foot traffic into neighborhoods to the benefit of other neighborhood businesses.
This is all pretty intuitive. Yet, as a city, we've never actually measured the economic impact of our nightlife scene. One of my first acts a member of the Board of Supervisors was to request the city economist to conduct an economic impact study doing just that.
The study is almost done, and we already have a few preliminary results. Nightlife in San Francisco generates $4.2 billion a year in spending, with $1 billion of that amount coming from bars, clubs, performance venues, and art spaces. Some 48,000 people are employed in nightlife businesses, and these businesses contribute $55 million a year in local taxes. On March 5, we'll announce the full results of the study at a hearing of the Land Use and Economic Development Committee.
This data will help us make smart public policy around nightlife. In the past, those decisions frequently have been driven by anecdote and over-reaction to isolated events. Trouble near a small number of nightclubs? The city responds by making it difficult for all nightclubs to operate, even those with excellent safety records and despite the dramatic improvement in the Entertainment Commission's oversight. Or, the city goes even further and proposes requiring all clubs, even small ones, to scan ID cards of everyone who enters. (That proposal, thankfully, was roundly rejected.)
When we make these decisions, we should do so with a full understanding not just of the downsides of nightlife but of the positives, including cultural and economic benefits.
Entertainment is under pressure in San Francisco. There are neighborhoods with significant friction between housing and nightlife. Some of that friction results from a small number of problem venues. Other times, a good venue is jeopardized for simply conducting its business within the limits of San Francisco law — for example, a single neighbor got Slim's shut down for a few weeks for noise, despite the club's compliance with our noise ordinance.
We also continue to have bizarre Planning Code restrictions that undermine entertainment, such as the Mission Alcohol Special Use District, which makes it difficult or impossible to start creative new businesses in the Mission if alcohol is involved. This provision almost prevented a new bowling alley from locating at 17th and South Van Ness. Similarly, some are concerned that the Western SoMa Plan, as currently written, will undermine nightlife on 11th Street by surrounding clubs with new housing and by reducing the number of venues.
A thriving nightlife scene is key to our city's cultural identity and economic future. Now that we have the data on its benefits, we can take a more balanced and thoughtful approach.
Supervisor Scott Wiener represents District 8 on the Board of Supervisors. The March 5 hearing will start with a noon rally on the steps of City Hall followed by the hearing at 1 p.m. in City Hall Room 263.
As someone who came to San Francisco partially because of its legacy as world-class cultural innovator i'm truly heartened to see all of the great work that is being done to preserve and even enrich nightlife in our city. We are lucky to live in a city where entertainment and community are so intertwined. As a member of the nightlife community i've seen firsthand the ability of parties and clubs to raise crucial funds for institutions like Lyon Martin Health Services and the Stop AIDS Project to name a few. San Francisco has a history of nightlife coexisting with neighbors and with continued dialogue on both sides i'm certain that this relationship can be further strengthened. Thanks to Supervisor Wiener for spearheading efforts to show the impact that San Francisco nightlife has on small businesses, workers and the city coffers.
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Supervisor Wiener should let "some" people know that the Western SoMa planning process tried very hard to come up with recommendations for nighttime entertainment that are a net gain for the entertainment industry but also take into account neighborhood concerns and make room for the growth of entertainment in the context of a complete neighborhood. No other planning process in recent memory has even bothered to try.
CMAC (and certain entertainment commissioners) ignored six years worth of effort by the Western SoMa Task Force, hoping to bypass the community process, in order to get their way through old-fashioned lobbying and calling in political favors.
In terms of "surrounding clubs with new housing," there's only one opportunity site on 11th Street that might pose any threat to nearby clubs and this developer is well on his way to final approval of an as-of-right project. Housing has been fully permitted there for more than twenty years. The Western SoMa Plan, if adopted soon, would impose some serious sound attenuation requirements on the project. "Reducing the number of venues?" There is absolutely no truth to this assertion.
Jim Meko, chair
Western SoMa Citizens Planning Task Force
I'm tired of driving to Berkeley to visit a gay bathhouse. Why should gays have to leave the city just to get a room with a lock and a door, some privacy and sex with another man? The sex clubs of San Francisco are tired venues subject to monitoring, telling gay men they can't be trusted.
Just like Michael Petrelis' endless obsession with the gay flag in the Castro and the controversy over whether transsexuals are real "wimmin" or not.
As someone who is trying to open a bar in a location which has historically been a bar for the last 40 years, but still getting push back from the city officials and SFPD, I want to urge the city, board of supervisors and SFPD to wake up and take this study seriously. Not all bars are places of problems. Not all businesses are run badly. There need to be checks and balances in place to weed out the problem businesses. But, an entire industry cannot be blacklisted because of a few bad apples.
San Francisco needs to once again reclaim it's lost fame of having a vibrant and fun and safe nightlife.
Will make this short. Remember Winterland, see Winterland, see NIMBY, see people who live and work somewhere else and have to put up with noise.
Economic growth is dependent upon two human behavoirs on how one spends available personal capital resources ----which for the most of us comes from our income paychecks. One is that supply must meet demand in both products and services. Two, and what is less known, is the velocity, or time cycles in which capital exchange from point ' A ' to point ' B '. In simple terms is how momey goes from one pock to another.
The aspect of nightlife entertainment and its central importance is that this socio-cultural sector's activities in the velocity of capital exchanges is equual to similar velocity rates found on Wall Street exchanges; they both having similar anxieties over the flow of capitsal and growh expectations or the loss of. None the less, nightlife entertainment is more stable as at its centered are the core of performers, and services who are fighting their own fears of impending poverty, and who are more dependent upon public approval as a result than the stock brockesr. More importantly, the ability if this sector to raise local socio-cultural aspirations are far more significant to local economies than which exist upon the national scene. Just look at both the Hip Hop culture as well as more recent the economic mini-booms following the economic impact trail of " Lady GaGa' - where local dress shops and restaurant sales are increased after each stop on her present concert tours.
It is the activities and the crtical aspects of economic velocity rates which becomes far greater in their acceleration rates which is the national leading factor for economic growth within nightlife entertainnent than Wall Street; this is very visable within the urban setting, and extremely observable in poverty urban settings where the triggers are found within the Hip Hop cultures. Some how the velocity rates which flows from Wall Street are immediately slowed or halted when their profits are held in holding reserves-where the mass of capital is allowed to attract higher interests rates of loans.
What should peek your interests is that once in history this was the very fundementals being imployed by King Louis XIV in his full development of his royal court, and developing France into the leading cultural capital of Europe - which its nightlife entertainment still maintains the traditions of Intrernational Cultural Leadership - even under circumstance when France was bankrupt, or under Nazi occupaiion, IE, Fashions, Cafes, and The Ballet. It is how which leads one to focus on wha triggers increases in velocity rates..
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Many a dog and dog owner are inseparable pals and with the pooch population in the United States at 75 million and growing, it should come as no surprise that it isn't just Labrador Retrievers and other time-honored water dogs climbing into boats these days. Dogs can be seen taking in the sun and spray on all manner of sail and powerboats, and adapting just fine.
But pet owners shouldn't assume that because dogs can swim that their particular dog is an adequate swimmer, or that it has the good sense not to chase that sea gull over the side. Dogs are "hard-wired" to chase and swimming ability varies from breed to breed. Many with low body fat, like Greyhounds, may have trouble staying afloat. Breeds with short legs and long bodies can swim but may tire quickly. Overboard, a dog can become disoriented and suffer the same hazards from coldwater immersion as humans.
A trusted friend in trouble can pose a danger for the owner too. Every year, the U.S. Coast Guard logs reports of dog owners who drown trying to rescue their pet from deep water. Also, the bigger the dog, the harder it is to haul them back into the boat, and a large dog, wet and thrashing, can easily pull a would-be rescuer overboard.
So before bringing the family pet along on a boating excursion, ask yourself this: How well does the dog swim? How cold is the water? How long will it take to turn the boat around to retrieve the dog if it falls overboard? Will the dog be easy to spot in the water? How will it get back into the boat?
Fortunately for dog owners, the same technological advancements that have resulted in specialized life jackets for every on-the-water human activity now enable boaters to extend a similar measure of safety to their pets.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- If you ask Yankees manager Joe Girardi and right-hander A.J. Burnett, nothing happened Saturday night, and they have no issue with one another.
But that did not stop Burnett's apparent comments toward Girardi as he walked off the mound after he was removed in the second inning from dominating the manager's pregame meeting with reporters.
Girardi was asked during the session what he hypothetically would do if a player did have the type of reaction that Burnett appeared to have toward Girardi taking him out of the game.
"If a pitcher says that in reference to you taking him out, yeah, I think that's out of line," Girardi said. "But, a) I didn't hear it, the only reason I heard it was people saw it on the broadcast, and, b) I didn't think it was directed at me. I mean, I specifically asked out there, 'Was that a good pitch to Mauer?'"
Adding to the situation was the fact that Burnett went directly into the clubhouse after being taken out of the game, and Girardi went in shortly thereafter. Burnett said he went in just to put his stuff in his locker and came straight back out, while Girardi went in to take another look at Burnett's pitch to Mauer.
According to Burnett, the two never crossed paths. But they did talk later after Girardi was told what Burnett appeared to have said to him.
"Yeah, because I never heard him say a word when I was on the mound," Girardi said. "I was told about it because it was aired on the TV a few times, and I asked him, and I wanted to know what was up. He said he was talking about the pitch, he thought he threw strike three to Joe Mauer."
Girardi said he is still confident in Burnett's ability on the mound, but he also said that they need Burnett to have a "bounce-back start" on Friday against the Orioles.
As for where Burnett stands among the six starters, Girardi will address that when the time comes for the Yankees to go back to a five-man rotation.
One thing Girardi made clear, though, was that he does not want to talk about this Burnett situation any longer.
"If everyone knew and believed in their heart that he was talking about the pitch, would we be talking about this?" Girardi asked. "So your belief is that he wasn't talking about it, and that's why we're talking about it. So you're not taking his word, and to me, that's dangerous."
Laffey odd man out on A-Rod's return
MINNEAPOLIS -- With the Yankees activating Alex Rodriguez from the disabled list on Sunday, recently acquired lefty Aaron Laffey was the odd man out, as he was optioned to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
Laffey made his debut for the Yankees on Saturday night, tossing three innings and allowing two runs on five hits.
"He's a guy that we believe can help us against left-handers as we move forward here," Girardi said. "He's not going to be able to throw for a couple days anyway."
Laffey will likely return to the Yankees when the rosters expand on Sept. 1. Until then, they would like him to work on a few things in Triple-A.
"I think left-handers are important for him to be consistent [against]," Girardi said. "He was consistent in getting left-handers out until the last month or so, or month and a half. So, get back to doing that."
Jordan Schelling is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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2008 Sparkling WineThis sparkler is a blend of Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Blanc from grapes grown on the Leelanau Peninsula. Made in a brut style it is excellent as an aperitif but versatile enough to be paired with a multitude of foods.
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Aging Potential:
Sparkling wines when consumed young show fresh crisp qualities. When cellared properly this wine unfolds with creamy toastiness and will easily last five to ten years.
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Sparkling wine is sensational with smoky or salty appetizers like cheese straws, roasted pecans or smoked salmon. An excellent accompaniment for brunch, it goes well with any egg dish. This sparkler is also wonderful with oysters and other shellfish. Many pair sparkling wine with Chinese and Thai dishes. It is the classic dessert wine.
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This is the first release of a true brut style bubbly. Utilizing significant volumes of Pinot Noir in the blend gives the wine great depth of flavor and length on the palate.
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Our pediatrician told us that we should wait until 6 weeks to take him to crowded places where he might be oohed and ahhed, such as church, grocery stores, restaurants, etc. However, he did tell us that if we needed to go out to any of those places, then to go during a time of day/week when they would not be so busy and he would likely be just fine.
Also, the doctor said going outside to well-ventilated places was great, as well. So when he was one week old, we went to the local botanical gardens and enjoyed a nice long and easy walk. We have also gone out for lunch but went to a place that had outside seating and we went just after the lunch rush was finished. The temperatures have been fantastic here so that has not been an issue.
We did a quick target run for groceries and a few needs at 10 days old. I carried her in the sling and didn't let anyone look or touch. I also didn't touch anything, I told DH what to get.
We then we out at 14 days - DH last day home - we went to the park, lunch, and for ice cream. Had her in the stroller and let a few people peek in but no touching allowed.
We went to target at 2 weeks, I had to GET OUT! Since then we've gone to a few restaurants, the grocery store, and garden ridge pottery. Only one person asked to see him, he wasn't even covered she was just trying to be nice instead of creeping on my baby, lol. I think most people don't approach me because my "natural face" is kinda mean looking, or so my 7th grade students tell me.
I'm going to take him to my school to visit co-workers around 6 weeks. Our pedi said going places isn't a big deal but for really crowded places (like the school or church where lots of people are going to want to touch him) to wait until he's around 6 weeks.


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Program Areas
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Research Interests
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- Asian Americans in Education
Dr. Poon's research interests include racial inequalities in college access, Asian Americans, and affirmative action. A nationally recognized scholar on college access policies and Asian Americans in education, she has been cited in numerous media outlets and served as a keynote speaker at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education (NCORE) in 2013 and at the Jesuit Conference on Diversity and Equity in 2014. In 2014, the American College Personnel Association recognized Dr. Poon with a prestigious Emerging Scholar award.
A second generation Asian American daughter of immigrants, Dr. Poon has always been passionate about combating inequalities in education through community empowerment for social justice. She has been involved in research, institutional development, community organizing and advocacy for racial equity in education for more than two decades. Dr. Poon was a key advocate for the establishment of the federal Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI) minority serving institution designation. Currently, she serves as an elected officer of the Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans (REAPA) Special Interest Group in AERA, a founding research fellow of the Asian American & Pacific Islander Research Coalition (ARC), and a research advisory committee member of the National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education (CARE).
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Old Blarney Barleywine - Moylan's Brewery
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Ratings: 315 | Reviews: 236 | Display Reviews Only:
Reviews by StoneBrewFanatic:
4.13/5 rDev +7.3%
A - Pours copper in color with just about a finger of head, pretty good retention and excellent lacing.
S - Caramel malts and hops prevail, some dark fruit, citrus, and just a touch of alcohol.
T - Really a fantastic tasting barlywine, huge caramel malts and excellent hops, nice sweetness, dark fruits, brown sugar, great bitter sweet finish.
M - Pretty sticky, medium to heavy in body, well balanced.
D - Rather bold, not sure I could handle more than one bomber, but really good all around, I am pleased!
10-20-2010 03:27:40 | More by StoneBrewFanatic
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North Carolina
4.25/5 rDev +10.4%
Pours a rich copper with a creamy one finger head that that settles nicely leaving some light lace,deep intese fruity aromas with some underlying but very noticeable pine.Wow a big flavorful barleywine very Pacific coast piney and resiny upfront with a big fruity alcolholic finish the alcohol really hits.Just a sublime creamy mouthfeel and pretty slick going down the hatch and it warms the insides.Wow truley and awesome big brew a night cap that cant be beat.
12-28-2004 01:51:26 | More by oberon
4.45/5 rDev +15.6%
Appearance Extremely thick and cloudy orange-brown in color with a beautiful head that went down slowly and laced the glass.
Smell Nice sherry-laced malt aroma with a complex hop compliment. I can pick up a prickle of pine along with some fairly big citrus notes.
Taste This has a luscious malt character. The sherry is present but steps back a bit, replaced by refined table sugar and an assortment of fruits. Grapefruit, cranberry, grape, and a splash of orange, among others. There are also some good citrus hops in here, making this one a balanced brew indeed.
The thing that makes this for me though is the refinement of the flavors. Everything is even-keeled. All the flavors mix together perfectly. This is less an in-your-face extreme BW than it is a class act.
Mouthfeel Impeccable! Of the bit BWs that Ive had (Fish Tale, JW Lees, Hog Heaven, Gnarly Wine, Bigfoot, Old Guardian/Crustacean, etc) this is the smoothest. This one is full-bodied yet smooth as silk. Excellent!
Drinkability If you want to introduce a friend to big Barley Wines, start him off with this one. This went down like Courtney Love at a rock concert. Awesome!
Comments Hard to believe that this is 10.0 ABV. Great job from Moylans, and also to mickeymac for care packaging me this bottle that I otherwise would never find in a NW store. The good will and thoughtful nature of the BA family never ceases to amaze me.
11-21-2003 04:36:40 | More by RoyalT
2.85/5 rDev -26%
22 oz bottle. Pours a clear copper with a creamy off white head that retains well and laces the glass.
The aroma is VERY subdued - some caramel and cola with a little hoppy alcohol.
The flavor is sweet sugary caramel with a big abrasive tarrry alcoholic hop finish that lingers in the aftertaste. The mouthfeel is medium bodied and slightly watery.
Overall, this is an unbalanced mess. It mellows out as I drink though. I managed to finish the bomber.
10-22-2008 05:15:23 | More by Beaver13
New York
4.08/5 rDev +6%
22 ouncer bomber bottle, provides no freshness/vintage indication. Pours a shade of rich, dark honey almond, with a dark tan thin head and leaving just slight, fine lacing. Nose here is vinious and of some dark maple syrup. Rich, thick and flavorful Bwine, notes of honey, maple, sweet malts, with a moderate taste of hops in the finish. Mellow, smooth and worthy brew.
05-20-2006 17:44:51 | More by Billolick
4.28/5 rDev +11.2%
Opened 22oz bomber, poured into Snifter glass.
At 55º Forms nice large bubbly head which dissipates to a ring of lace around top of glass. Color is a nice amber brown,
Smell is of a sweet caramel, Dark fruits, slight hops. Taste follows through with the same somewhat sweet profile. Very nice finish, has an understated "big wine" taste that makes me long for a good slab of steak or some wild game. I think this would go well with Whale also.
Finish is nice, not bad on after taste, really nice body. Alcohol and bubbles are just right for a 10%er, really drinkable, granted, 1 bottle is more than enough...
02-17-2008 11:47:08 | More by mattster
4.1/5 rDev +6.5%
Bottle of unknown age obtained recently. Pours a dark amber with a thin head. Has a subtle smell of malt with a hint of booze. Taste is not overwhleming but it has a nice balanced taste of malt with some piney hops. It is very drinkable for the ABV of 10%. Solid American barleywine.
02-04-2007 02:56:19 | More by SkinnyElvis
3.7/5 rDev -3.9%
Pours reddish brown with an oily head. Viscous-looking. The aroma is awful, like a malty low-tide. The taste more than makes up for it. Heavy and sweet with malts and caramel. The hops eventually fight through in the end. Overall, it tastes like this beer should be aged before bottled.
12-10-2008 22:11:13 | More by magictrokini
West Virginia
4.53/5 rDev +17.7%
Appearance: This massive beer pours a beautifully hazed mahogany amber tone topped by a conservative tan head beautiful small etched even lacing very fine but concentrically formed. Aroma: Sticky and juicy layers of hops with the barleywine malts very rich malt treat forming the base to be topped with copious amounts of piney west coast hops glazed with caramel or butterscotch very rich and warming good for the olfactories. Taste: Challenging complex tones but oh so rich and fulfilling juicy sweetness to the hop and malt combo wow this is good stuff the pine cone like hop tone dominates just enough doesn't overbear the palate. Creamy tones rush between the pauses of the bursts of the rediculous amount of malt and powerful hop presence very good stuff. Mouthfeel: Full bodied rich syrupy hop resin filled creamy fluffiness great profile big ass beer from california. Drinkability: The alcohol presence isn't overbearing toward the flavor but I bet after a big bottle of this one it hits you pretty decently, so it all depends how you judge the drinkability I judge it on the basis that if I could I would have bottle after bottle this beer seems like the one I would go for if I were in the mood for a full bodied lucious barley wine, I think it's amazing.
10-23-2003 16:57:57 | More by WVbeergeek
3.5/5 rDev -9.1%
01-03-2012 18:34:34 | More by jpbebeau
4/5 rDev +3.9%
Bottle purchased from Green's on Ponce in Atlanta.
Pours a hazy dark copper color with a 1.5-finger off-white head. The head recedes into a patchy layer on top leaving solid lacing.
Smells of sticky caramel malts with hints of toffee and larger amounts of hops - mostly pine but with some leafy notes.
Tastes similar to how it smells. Somewhat muted caramel malt flavors kick things off and gains hints of toffee and butterscotch shortly afterward. Midway through the sip mild hop flavors join in - mostly earthy notes composed of pine and herbal flavors - and intensify through to a solidly bitter ending.
Mouthfeel is good. It's got a nice thickness with grainy carbonation.
Drinkability is good. I finished my glass without a problem and could have another.
Overall I thought this was a solid barleywine but I was hoping for a bit more after being a very big fan of Moylan's other beers. Nothing exceptional but nothing bad, worth a shot.
02-14-2010 00:33:06 | More by glid02
3.28/5 rDev -14.8%
Undated 22 oz. bomber.
Poured a deep, deep amber with a healthy tan colored head that last...lasts...and finally melts to thick sticky lacing.
Aroma is toasted malt, canied apples, raisens and alcohol.
Taste not as sweet as the smell...alcohol gets in the way...sweet toasted malts, coffee and heavy fruits (apples, prunes, raisens grapes) make their presence felt but always fighting the alcohol.
Aftertaste not as sweet as I expect from a barleywine and without the hoppiness of Bigfoot...very drying and definate alcohol.
A decent barleywine, but not my favorite and this kind of beer I like to savor, so I'll pass on getting another one. Not sure if I'll finish this bomber...I have a 12 oz 2005 Bigfoot chilling just in case.
05-28-2006 02:21:57 | More by IntriqKen
4.03/5 rDev +4.7%
Pours a deep rich clear ruby with a giant head. The head lasts forever leaving great lacing. The smell is strong with dark fruit, alcohol and bread yeast. The taste is rich and creamy with hops, dark fruit, and a "bisquity" flavor. A b/w with more hops than other's. Not bad,but different. The m/f is heavy with all flavors mixing well. A good beer,maybe too hoppy,but still worth a try.
12-25-2006 01:34:53 | More by jmz62565
New York
4.15/5 rDev +7.8%
Bomber into a Thomas Hardy's snifter. Another cool but not overdone label, as far as graphics go, with lots of information and interesting color combinations.
Appearance: On the lighter side for a barley wine, with less amber darkness than I expected and more cherry red, with nice bubbles floating up, and more lacing left on the glass from the fairly fast dissipating than great head retention.
Smell: Much going on here. Bitter chocolate, stale coffee, mild tobacco, earthiness, burnt and roasted malt, brown sugar, hints of charcoal, bitter grapefruit, and dark bread crust. Kind of avoids one side of too sweet and malty or too bitter and hoppy for a nice balance of a pretty singular barleywine if you ask me.
Taste: I guess mostly what I'm a bit confused about is the odd bitterness that still happens even after it warms to room temperature. Too green perhaps? I'm not sure. The flavors in the nose come through well, but there's an odd meld of either rooty, earthy bitterness, maybe coupled with some grapefruit rind, but it seems oddly overpowering, especially over the flavors of the malt, which start to come through and then get kind of pushed back down. I just wish the flavors were able to get their way instead of having to fight through the bitterness. Yet it still doesn't remind me of a really hoppy American style in that way. I'm not sure if this making sense. Maybe it IS just a really hoppy ass barleywine and I'm not seeing it as that, wanting more malt flavors, as I usually do. At first, however, regardless, there are the nice hints of dark brown sugar, coffee, caramel, chocolate, tobacco, and earthiness, which does make it pleasant before the onslaught of peculiar bitterness.
Mouthfeel: Slightly creamy and a little chewy with more of a medium than heavy body, surprisingly.
Drinkability: This is such a rich, complex, and easy-going brew, especially when it warms to room temperature, but there's that bitterness I can't put my finger on. This will certainly be a bottle I'll get to cellar if I can, but it's certainly worth checking out, and I'm glad I did. As I said before, I'll be trying as many of Moylan's brews as I can get my hands on.
04-01-2008 05:50:30 | More by asabreed
North Carolina
4.08/5 rDev +6%
Been sitting on top of this one awhile, figured it was time to release the liquid from its prison. After the pour, a classic-looking barleywine sits in the snifter: candy-apple red turned to rust; bountiful off-white head (which disappears under all that alcoholic weight to a scummy skim and a crown); small lace splats 'n' splotches.
Nose is somewhat subdued, considering the style and ABV. There's a layer of alcohol over everything else--the vanilla, the toffee, the spruce tips, the cherry/fig/raisin. Sherry-like.
The aroma apparently doesn't give up all the beer's secrets, as it's a somewhat different beast on the tongue. Not sure how old it is...I held onto it for several months at least (a record for me, maybe), yet it still feels pretty green, hops-wise. It's mingled nicely, though, with the sherry-like alcohol and beastly toffee/caramel malt. There are flashes of dark fruits too, but it's mostly the alcohol and hops that dominate right now (right into the finish, too, which is pretty dry, as barleywines go). I'm sure further aging what bring out what appears to be a pretty interesting malt character.
The mouthfeel is slippery, buttery, round, with the perfect amount of carbonation--not too much, not too little. Were it creamier and a little thicker, it would be a perfect "5."
As said, I'll bet this would do even better with some aging. I guess here's where I make another plea for mandatory "bottled on" dating. Would be a great help to us beer consumers who give a crap about those kinds of things. As with all Moylan's stuff I've had so far, I'd definitely buy this again.
05-18-2010 21:54:20 | More by Metalmonk
Ontario (Canada)
3.9/5 rDev +1.3%
On-tap at Port Carlsbad Pizza Port. Taste great on-tap for a barleywine. Reddish amber with white crowning head. White lace. Hoppy all the way through. Meal in a bottle not requiring food. Noteable yeastiness. Good carbonation, Well malted and Balanced.Medium mouthfeel.
02-12-2007 05:06:46 | More by Sammy
3.93/5 rDev +2.1%
Poured from a 22oz bomber into my snifter.
Sienna body which glows a rust/orange-red when held to the light. Bleary but fairly clear. Very thin off-white head which recedes to a faint skin and a tiny collar. Very oily legs with a smattering of tiny sandy lacing which seems to simply evaporate.
Slightly musty and spicy aromatics with dried fruit, cloves, and honey. Esters suggest persimmon and perhaps a faint touch of vanilla.
Deep, toasty malt, very earthy and peppery with a hint of carbon. Bitterness ramps up mid-palate, but the hop flavors never really surface over the intensity of nearly charred sweet malt and barley grain. Very dry almost burnt finish surrounded by light fruit notes. Somewhat unusual, but enjoyable.
Velvety, medium-bodied, and a little chewy. Mild astringency and fairly low carbonation. ABV is very well hidden and sneaks up on you.
A little one-note, and surprisingly dry - but worth a try if you're in the mood for a slightly different take on the style.
04-06-2010 03:49:47 | More by augustgarage
North Carolina
3.98/5 rDev +3.4%
Thanks to jtd1969 for bringing this to the Barleywine tasting.
A - clear amber with a soft, short-lived head
S - bread, sugar, faint hops, alcohol
T - bread, sugar, alcohol, faint dark fruit, some chocolate
M - full bodied, well carbonated, warm
This is a solid beer with solid flavor. It's rich, sweet, bitter, and a tad boozy. I enjoyed it, but I did wish it was a bit more malt with some caramel. With all the Barleywines out there, I'm not sure I'll be having this again.
10-20-2012 12:24:51 | More by tdm168
4.5/5 rDev +16.9%
Moylan's Old Blarney pours a very hazy deep chestnut body with orange highlights beneath a creamy yellow-tan head that holds well and leaves some nice lacing about the glass.
The nose offers a sweet caramel maltiness with a good whiff of fruit (apple, tangerine, peach, coconut) from the yeast and hops and alcohol. Some delicately piney hops also make their way through.
The mouthfeel is superbly smooth and pillowy-soft with a moderate carbonation and very full, dextrinous body.
In the flavor, piney/citrusy hops and fruit greet you upfront before the malt delivers its rich, caramel nougat and light toffee notes. A solid bitterness and splash of spicy alcohol crashes through and leads to a lingering, dry, bitter, and spicy finish with some residual fruit, piney hops, and a touch of caramel-drizzled maltiness.
It's full, to be sure, and nicely rounded. An excellent example of the west coast style American barleywine!
06-29-2005 23:16:03 | More by NeroFiddled
Ontario (Canada)
4.33/5 rDev +12.5%
This pours with an off-white whipped cream head, over hazy amber liquid. Intense malty nose with dark fruit notes as well. Taste is smooth mouthfeel with a superp blend of heavy duty malt mixed with restrained but ever present hop bitterness, fading into a long, long malty finish. This one helluva 10% ass-kicking beer!
07-06-2002 21:40:18 | More by beerluvr
3.95/5 rDev +2.6%
Pours caramel/orange with 3+ fingers of sand colored head. Murked up a bit at the end of the bottle. Good head retention & above average lacing
S: Breadyness & caramel, plus some piney hops & some booze as this warmed
T: Huge piney hops & a bit of breadyness up front. More piney & grapefruit hops, cakeyness with more caramel, plus a touch of grainyness as this warms. Finishes with some tangerine hops, a touch of honey malt, piney & lemony hops & a bit of dryness. This got better the warmer it was
MF: Chewy & creamy, skews hoppy like you'd expect
Drinks a little slow, but If you like your Barley Wines big & hoppy, this is your huckleberry
03-05-2008 05:46:42 | More by russpowell
Rhode Island
3.2/5 rDev -16.9%
Originally reviewed on May 4, 2006. 22 Oz Bottle. Clear ruddied sienna poour, with a tan foam head. All I can reach out of the aroma is a distant waft of an Ecto Cooler juice box, seriously. I would have scored much lower on aroma, if it hadnt been a memory evoker of my Ghostbuster days. Flavor is a week, dusky sweet malt, with caramel and bananas, then a fairly strong rush of hops, but they dont really play the role they should, for me at least. Theyre distant and amalgamated into a consistent one dimensional hop presentation, mostly in a lemongrasseqsue style. Smack of lemon zest. Palate seems heavily watery to me, but I will admit that it seemed to hide the alcohol extremely well, especially for a 10% that doesnt seem to have too much depth. Some toffee lingers.
12-09-2006 22:23:08 | More by CharlesDarwin
3.8/5 rDev -1.3%
Poured a deep dirty copper color with a big thick tan head, very nice retention with some minor lacing.
Smell was suprisingly light for such a big beer with some mild hop notes and a touch of brown sugar.
Taste is sweet upfront with a big blast of molasses, brown sugar, and toasted grains, but as it lingers the hops take over with a huge hit of bitter juniper, mint and grapefruit. Flavor is complex and lingers for quite a bit.
Mouthfeel is ultra thick and oily and you can feel the 10% abv on your tongue.
Not to bad, a bit on the bitter and hoppy side this fresh will be interesting to revisit after a couple years.
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Hear me now. This beers rating in no way reflects how good it actually is. As a nightcap, it poured a deep brown mahogany color, with a very active head. Slightly piney, with hints of chocolate. Tops for its style in taste. A virtual cornucopia of flavors. Chocolate, orange, rye bread, grapes, hops, malt, bitter, sweet, dry, and the list goes on.
Absolutely one of the best American Barely wines out there.
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Old Blarney Barleywine from Moylan's Brewery
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Just a brief note that in between periods tonight, I'll be doing a couple of interviews.
During the first period intermission, I'll be on with Scotty Wazz and company on the Faceoff Hockey Show and during the second intermission I'll be joining Michael Dell and Jerry Fairish on the LCS Hockey radio show.
I'll basically be giving them an idea of what the atmosphere is like inside Mellon Arena and throughout Pittsburgh. I'm just hoping I get into town with a enough time to check out the city before puck drop.
This is all tentative of course pending good reception inside Mellon Arena.
May 28, 2008
On the Air Tonight...
Posted by Sean Leahy at 5/28/2008 01:05:00 PM
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2 comments:
- Stevens8204 said...
You should be able to get pretty decent reception but expect the occasional fluctuations in reception.
Good luck!
- May 28, 2008 at 1:13 PM
- JonnyP said...
Thanks for coming on the show last night ... the arena looked like it had tremendous atmosphere. I hope work is treating you right today, lol.
- May 29, 2008 at 7:37 AM
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New Orleans -- New Orleans East will soon be home to a new Walmart, and residents there say as time passes, they continue to see signs of recovery from Hurricane Katrina. Local realtors hope new development will draw more homeowners to the area.
Joan Heisser is a real estate agent whose been selling homes since 1977. While she's seen a lot change in New Orleans East over the years, she says right now is an exciting time for the community. "I get calls every day from people who are living out of state, that want to come back to New Orleans and want to live in New Orleans East," said Heisser.
Bullard Avenue is just one area experiencing new growth. Big Lots opened just last month and residents are hearing more retail shops and businesses are on their way. Heisser thinks the availability of more amenities is a big incentive for people looking for a bang for their buck. Heisser explains, "Lots of land mass in New Orleans East, we have great housing stock and you get more for your dollar."
But some residents say the progress is too slow and should've happened years ago. Resident Jerry Tolbert says, "Those places weren't here when I came back, 2006."
Darryl Lutcher adds, "Katrina was back in 2005. We're just now getting a major, it's not even here yet, they're building a Walmart on Bullard but it's 2013. The people in the East needing groceries had to go to Chalmette or Metairie or Mid-City to find groceries."
Joan Heisser feels the same frustration but predicts if homeowners can withstand the wait, they'll be rewarded. "Hopefully in the near future, once the hospital is completed, we'll see more and more developments which will automatically increase our property values," said Heisser.
It's welcome news to folks who've withstood the damage brought by Hurricane Katrina, and returned to the only place they call home.
The new hospital being constructed in the East will sit on the site of the former Methodist hospital. It's expected to be completed by next spring.
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SALE Men's Hockey Club saw their first team stay well clear in their division after a 6-2 romp at Colwyn Bay.
George Sterlini set Sale on the victory trail with the opening goal on five minutes and they were 3-0 to the good at the break with Lyndon Hessing and Mark Holmes.
Sale assured the win with a fourth from man of the match Lewis Shaw minutes after the restart and although Colwyn Bay grabbed two consolation goals the Sale six-hit was completed by Ben Smith and Danny Pratt.
Sale seconds avenged two big defeats by Winnington Park with a 4-2 success.
Scoring before the break for Sale were Jon Jordan and Scott Raftery and although Park levelled at 2-2 Adam Brady and goal machine Ian Ellis struck for a welcome Sale win with the man of the match being Phil Langridge to leave Sale three points off second place.
Sale thirds lost their unbeaten record in emphatic style crashing 6-2 at Macclesfield with the Sale consolations coming from Savio Martins and Nick Buchanan but Sale are still three points clear at the top of their division.
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Now that the trade has taken place, and it appears we will need to fill our roster with some Free Agents, here is a list of what we have to work with. Much like the draft, it will depend on what you feel our biggest need is to determine who we look at in free agency. I believe we need an upgrade at the SF and C position. I believe bringing back Kaman would be our best option at the C. I also think bringing back Carl Landry would be a big help to the team. If Landry is too expensive, I wouldn't mind going after Brandon Bass back to the Big Easy. The SF is a bit tricky, because there isn't much to look at in free agency. The guys at the 3 position who I like in the draft, such as Moe Harkless, will likely be too high to take at 10. I also don't feel there are any centers worth taking at 10, besides Drummond if he slides.
I have heard some on the boards mention that we shouldn't go after free agents, and don't take a "win now" approach. I think this is both short-sighted and foolish. If you clarify that by saying we shouldn't take on lengthy, expensive contracts, then yes it makes sense. But we need to add some players to fill holes and add depth for a couple seasons. And just because we are young does not mean we should not look to win, as long as it is not at the expense of developing our young players.
So here is a list of the FA. At the bottom is the Restricted players and guys with a team/player option for the season, since I don't feel we need to get in bidding wars for those players. I also left some names off the list, such as Mickell Gladness of Golden State, because I can't see us pursuing those players.
Point Guard
Steve Nash, Phoenix Suns
Raymond Felton, Portland Trail Blazers
Kirk Hinrich, Atlanta Hawks
Jason Kidd, Dallas Mavericks
Andre Miller, Denver Nuggets
Chauncey Billups, L.A. Clippers
Jason Terry, Dallas Mavericks
Leandro Barbosa, Indiana Pacers
Goran Dragic, Houston Rockets
Derek Fisher, Oklahoma City Thunder
Randy Foye, L.A. Clippers
Jonny Flynn, Portland Trail Blazers
Keyon Dooling, Boston Celtics
Jeremy Lin, New York Knicks
Sundiata Gaines, Brooklyn Nets
A.J. Price, Indiana Pacers
Baron Davis, New York Knicks
John Lucas, Chicago Bulls
Jannero Pargo, Atlanta Hawks
Delonte West, Dallas Mavericks
Carldell Johnson, New Orleans Hornets
Ronnie Price, Phoenix Suns
T.J. Ford, Golden State Warriors
Roger Mason, Washington Wizards
Manny Harris, Cleveland Cavaliers
Patty Mills, San Antonio Spurs
Jerome Dyson, New Orleans Hornets
Shooting Guard
Ray Allen, Boston Celtics
Landry Fields, New York Knicks
Carlos Delfino, Milwaukee Bucks
Nick Young, L.A. Clippers
Louis Williams, Philadelphia 76ers
Mickael Pietrus, Boston Celtics
DeShawn Stevenson, Brooklyn Nets
C.J. Miles, Utah Jazz
Shannon Brown, Phoenix Suns
Josh Howard, Utah Jazz
Gerald Green, Brooklyn Nets
Terrence Williams, Sacramento Kings
Jodie Meeks, Philadelphia 76ers
Marco Belinelli, New Orleans Hornets
Matt Carroll, Charlotte Bobcats
Alonzo Gee, Cleveland Cavaliers
Danny Green, San Antonio Spurs
Tracy McGrady, Atlanta Hawks
Jerry Stackhouse, Atlanta Hawks
Willie Green, Atlanta Hawks
Jason Kapono, Cleveland Cavaliers
Marquis Daniels, Boston Celtics
Sasha Pavlovic, Boston Celtics
Anthony Parker, Cleveland Cavaliers
Keith Bogans, Brooklyn Nets
Michael Redd, Phoenix Suns
Small Forward
Gerald Wallace, Brooklyn Nets
Grant Hill, Phoenix Suns
Sam Young, Philadelphia 76ers
Matt Barnes, L.A. Lakers
Andres Nocioni, Philadelphia 76ers
Anthony Tolliver, Minnesota Timberwolves
Bill Walker, New York Knicks
Devin Ebanks, L.A. Lakers *
Jeremy Evans, Utah Jazz
Derrick Brown, Charlotte Bobcats *
DaJuan Summers, New Orleans Hornets
Steve Novak, New York Knicks
Power Forward
Kevin Garnett, Boston Celtics
Tim Duncan, San Antonio Spurs
Brandon Bass, Boston Celtics
Kris Humphries, Brooklyn Nets
Kenyon Martin, L.A. Clippers
Carl Landry, New Orleans Hornets
Elton Brand, Philadelphia 76ers
Renaldo Balkman, New York Knicks
Ronny Turiaf, Miami HEAT
Troy Murphy, L.A. Lakers
Boris Diaw, San Antonio Spurs
Chris Wilcox, Boston Celtics
Ersan Ilyasova, Milwaukee Bucks
Louis Amundson, Indiana Pacers
Jordan Hill, L.A. Lakers
Craig Brackins, Phildelphia 76ers
Chris Johnson, New Orleans Hornets
Brian Cook, Washington Wizards
Ian Mahinmi, Dallas Mavericks
Vladimir Radmanovic, Atlanta Hawks
Brian Cardinal, Dallas Mavericks
Yi Jianlian, Dallas Mavericks
Reggie Evans, L.A. Clippers
Lavoy Allen, Philadelphia 76ers *
Lance Thomas, New Orleans Hornets *
Chris Kaman, New Orleans Hornets
Marcus Camby, Houston Rockets
Spencer Hawes, Philadelphia 76ers
Aaron Gray, Toronto Raptors
Jermaine O'Neal, Boston Celtics
Nazr Mohammed, Oklahoma City Thunder
Omer Asik, Chicago Bulls *
Ben Wallace, Detroit Pistons
Hamed Haddadi, Memphis Grizzlies
Mehmet Okur, Portland Trail Blazers
Greg Stiemsma, Boston Celtics *
Daniel Orton, Orlando Magic
Hasheem Thabeet, Portland Trail Blazers
Ryan Hollins, Boston Celtics
Jason Collins, Atlanta Hawks
Joel Przybilla, Portland Trail Blazers
Eddy Curry, Miami HEAT
Greg Oden, Portland Trail Blazers
Mikki Moore, Golden State Warriors
Dan Gadzuric, New York Knicks
Restricted or Team/Player Option
Robin Lopez, Phoenix Suns ($4.0 million Qualifying Offer)
JaVale McGee, Denver Nuggets ($3.5 million Qualifying Offer)
Brook Lopez, Brooklyn Nets ($4.2 million Qualifying Offer)
Roy Hibbert, Indiana Pacers ($3.7 million Qualifying Offer)
Jason Maxiell, Detroit Pistons ($5.0 million)
Darrell Arthur, Memphis Grizzlies ($3.0 million Qualifying Offer)
Ryan Anderson, Orlando Magic ($3.2 million Qualifying Offer)
Marreese Speights, Memphis Grizzlies ($3.8 million Qualifying Offer)
Jason Thompson, Sacramento Kings ($4.1 million Qualifying Offer)
J.J. Hickson, Portland Trail Blazers ($3.4 million Qualifying Offer)
Michael Beasley, Minnesota Timberwolves ($8.2 million Qualifying Offer)
Dahntay Jones, Indiana Pacers ($2.9 million)
Chase Budinger, Houston Rockets ($0.9 million)
Jeff Green, Boston Celtics ($7.2 million Qualifying Offer)
Nic Batum, Portland Trail Blazers ($3.2 million Qualifying Offer)
Brandon Rush, Golden State Warriors ($4.1 million Qualifying Offer)
Rudy Fernandez, Denver Nuggets ($3.2 million Qualifying Offer)
Courtney Lee, Houston Rockets ($3.2 million Qualifying Offer)
J.R Smith, New York Knicks ($2.6 million)
Jamal Crawford, Portland Trail Blazers ($5.2 million)
O.J. Mayo, Memphis Grizzlies ($7.4 million Qualifying Offer)
Eric Gordon, New Orleans Hornets ($5.1 million Qualifying Offer)
Jamaal Tinsley, Utah Jazz ($1.3 million)
Ramon Sessions, L.A. Lakers ($4.6 million)
Mo Williams, L.A. Clippers ($8.5 million)
Jerryd Bayless, Toronto Raptors ($4.2 million Qualifying Offer)
Jordan Farmar, Brooklyn Nets ($4.3 million)
George Hill, Indiana Pacers ($3.1 million Qualifying Offer)
D.J. Augustin, Charlotte Bobcats ($4.4 million Qualifying Offer)
Jameer Nelson, Orlando Magic ($7.8 million)
Aaron Brooks, Phoenix Suns ($3.0 million Qualifying Offer)
Deron Williams, Brooklyn Nets ($17.8 million)
PG: Jack/Vasquez
SG: Gordon/Henry
SF: Aminu
PF: Davis/Ayon
C: Smith
A few names I wouldn't mind looking at are Gerald Green, Nick Young, Deshawn Stevenson, and Matt Barnes. Young could be a nice shooter off the bench. The other 3 have potential to play the 2 and 3, provide solid defense, and possibly at a bargain price.
Possible Depth:
PG: Jack/Vasquez
SG: Gordon/Henry
SF: Aminu/(G. Green/M. Barnes)
PF: Davis/ (Landry/Bass)/Ayon
C: Kaman/Smith
And don't forget our 10 and 47 pick, who could potentially be a starter and good role player.
Again, I'm not looking at free agency as a long term solution. But if we can get some guys for a reasonable price at 1-2 year contracts, I think we can be a playoff team this season, with potential for more in the years to follow.


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This year, some noteworthy people in the tech industry attended, like Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and kinda-sorta-Facebook founders the Winklevoss twins.
Moskowitz wrote a long think-piece for Medium about it.
So what do these techies do at Burning Man?
Here are some of the highlights:
- Last year, Mark Zuckerberg helicoptered in, just for a day, and helped make grilled cheese sandwiches.
- This year, Moskovitz and the Winklevoss twins hugged.
- Tyler Winklevoss took his shirt off.
- One year, Moskovitz paid an assistant to help him.


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When I was looking over my schedule for the next month, I was a little bit shocked. I've got mileage ranging from 60-70 for three of the weeks, long tempo runs, mile repeats, and longer long runs. I just ran a marathon.. can't a girl get a break? Then it hit me. My next big race, the Eugene Women's Half Marathon, is already less than two months away. Which means I've got to put the hard work in now!
It feels a little bit crazy to jump back into training (it's been 2.5 weeks since the marathon), but on the upside, I do have a nice long break worked into my schedule after the Eugene Women's Half. My husband and I are planning a 10 day trip to Iceland in September to celebrate our 5th year anniversary. Our actual anniversary date is tomorrow. Yay!
So yesterday, I set out for my first big workout, which was an 8 mile progression run starting at marathon pace, 7:23, and finishing at 10K pace, 6:19.
The first four miles weren't so bad. I went through in 7:20, 7:15, 7:10, 7:00. I felt sort of comfortable, though I do remember thinking that even if I just maintained my current pace, it would make for a pretty hard eight miles. Running 6:xx seemed unimaginable.
After the fourth mile lap beeped on my Garmin, I picked up the pace a little more. Even though it was just a small change of pace from 7:00 to sub-7:00, there was a big difference in difficulty. I could feel my breathing starting to get a bit more labored. The fifth mile went by in 6:50.
Since I had three miles left, I figured I could try to go for 6:40, 6:30, 6:20. During the sixth mile, every time I glanced down at my watch, it read that I was going too slow. I felt like I had to run so fast in the last quarter mile to make up the time. It worked though- 6:36 for mile six!
After that I just did what I could to maintain pace, while picking it up a smidge more toward the second half of the mile. It almost worked- 6:32 for the seventh mile.
One more mile! I was hurting at this point and my breathing was getting out of control. There were lots of little turns plus a small hill, and I felt like I had to work extra hard to even maintain the 6:30ish pace. I tried to pretend I was in the last mile of a 10K. I pretended that the same woman that tried to pass me at the end of the Vancouver Marathon was trying to pass me again. I sprinted toward my building like a mad woman until my watch finally chirped to signal my eighth and final lap. 6:20!
Happy Independence Day, Loopheads!
Way to finish that progression!!!!! I'm tired and sore just reading your mileage for the next few weeks. Happy Anniversary!
Life's a little better when we run.
Awesome and congrats.
Rock on and keep on running.
Rock on and keep on running.....
Good start to your training.
Happy anniversary! Iceland... wow! Exotic! You haven't lost a step from what I recall. Good luck with the remainder of your training.
Most limitations are self made.
Wow! So fast! Nice progression run.
Have a Happy Anniversary! Iceland sounds really amazing!
I love me the progression runs! Nice job hitting those times!
And Happy Anniversary!
You did great on that workout! Happy Anniversary!
Nice workout!!
I got a little out of breath reading about that run. Way to get it done.
Happy anniversary!
I love it how you were imagining scenarios to get you through the last mile. I find myself doing the same thing.
Fantastic! You rocked that run! Congrats on another year of marriage!
In sum: nice run, congrats on the anniversary, and have fun planning the trip!
Summer training after a marathon. Woof duh! Iceland has been my dream since I got into photography. An awesome place for an anniversary!
Pics of Iceland when you get back are needed. Way to bust out the progression!!!!
My head is on fire
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After all they are mine...


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You don't know what you have until it's gone.
That's really true when it comes to tearing down historic buildings. And that's why the work of the NORLA Preservation Project is so important. It's a new non-profit working to save historic structures in Shreveport.
Their first project is to acquire and rehabilitate six shotgun houses on Peabody street. The homes had been scheduled to be demolished but not anymore. They will now be saved for future generations.
There are many examples of old, historic buildings and homes in our area that have been saved and are still in use today. Unfortunately, there are other examples like Governor Huey Long's first Shreveport home that have been torn down and lost forever.
That's why we should encourage and support groups in our communities that are working to save our past.
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Neb. ethanol plant idled because of corn costs
HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) _ Almost one-third of Nebraska's 24 ethanol plants have been shut down because of the current high corn prices make it unprofitable to keep running them.
The Ag Processing Inc. cooperative said Friday that it had shut down its 55-million-gallon-a-year plant in Hastings.
The Grand Island Independent reports (http://bit.ly/YN3E22 ) this is the seventh ethanol plant in the state that has shut down.
Nebraska Ethanol Board administrator Todd Sneller says a number of ethanol plants nationwide have been idled because of the high corn prices and dwindling profit margins.
But he says many of the plants that remain open are maxing out production to help meet demand. Sneller says ethanol plants can better withstand high corn prices if there is strong demand for their distillers grain as feed in the area.
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The essential link in any safety system
To meet the many different needs encountered in the field, there is a wide selection of connectors. Based on its shape, size, opening capacity or locking system, each product is destined for a specific use.
Connectors are made of aluminum or steel and are designed for two distinct uses:
- aluminum: Used on harnesses, at the ends of lanyards or for temporary anchors. Their low weight eases progression while their alloy ensures an optimal weight-to-strength ratio.
- steel: Heavier than their aluminum counterparts, they are better adapted to more difficult conditions. These connectors are mainly used for fixed anchors or for connecting to metal structures.
To guarantee optimal efficiency, all aluminum Petzl carabiners use the Keylock system: the body / gate interface does not have a hook that could snag on anchors, ropes, harnesses, etc.
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Versatile symmetrical shape specially adapted for devices with wide side plates (FIXE pulley, ASCENSION rope clamps, etc.).
Asymmetrical shape allows easy connection and good positioning of the device along the length of the axis.
Asymmetrical shape has a wide opening and a large capacity for connection.
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Auto-locking system with lock indicator
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- The red band provides a visual warning when the carabiner is unlocked
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It was an informational meeting about plans to install toll lanes on I-77. Some residents say the discussion was one way.
"The one thing that upsets me was that public officials have done nothing to get feedback from citizens" says Tim Scott, who attended the meeting last night in Mooresville.
State transportation officials say the Lake Norman Regional Transportation Commission held the meeting Wednesday night in Mooresville. Some drivers say they weren't being heard.
"Not willing to address people's questions" says Vallee Vuvak. "It was clear that they were just trying to sell us something."
Most drivers say they want to see I-77 widened. Officials with the N.C. Department of Transportation say to pay for the project, they want to install toll lanes in the area between north of Uptown and exit 36 in Mooresville.
Vuvak and others don't want toll lanes.
"I'm against it because our tax money goes to pay for these roads and it's the responsibility of N.C D-O-T and our government to manage the budget so they can pay for the roads."
Scott, a Cornelius resident, says "they're pushing this program and tolls are not the answer.
Opponents of the project say they're taking their opposition to Raleigh to meet with the Speaker of the House.
"Hell no. Hell no we don't want the tolls," says Scott.
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