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MACON, Ga. – Sophomore Courtney Corradetti (Oceanside, Calif./Vista HS) became the first FGCU women's cross country runner to earn a spot on the Atlantic Sun Academic All-Conference team announced by the league office Monday.
"This honor is well-deserved for Courtney," head coach Cassandra Goodson said. "She works hard to shine both in the classroom and on the course, and embodies what FGCU strives for in a student-athlete. I am very proud of her ability to lead the team at a young age and can't wait to watch her progress in the coming seasons."
Holding a perfect 4.0 GPA, the accounting major was the third athlete named to the team and is one of only two sophomores listed.
Appearing in all six races this season and all six races the team competed in during her rookie season, Corradetti has proved to be one of the Eagles top runners after just two years. Holding two of the season's top times, Corradetti was the third FGCU runner to cross the finish line in four of this season's races.
Highlighting Corradetti's second season was her third-place overall finish in the Westminster Academy Collegiate Invite posting a 12:30.45 in the 3500m race, the second-fastest time in program history. Racing the Mountain Dew Invite 6k in a season-best 23:57.56, Corradetti placed 92nd out of 270 runners while posting the fifth-fastest time the Eagles saw this season. Finishing 38th at A-Sun Championships, Corradetti clocked a season-best 19:49.05 in the 5k.
The only other member of the FGCU cross country teams to earn Academic All-Conference honors was Argeo Cruz (Immokalee, Fla./Immokalee HS), who was tabbed one of three unanimous selections to the 2011 inaugural team.
Tessa Hoefle (Lipscomb) - 4.00, Sr.
Jessica Palmer (ETSU) - 3.78, Jr.
Courtney Corradetti (FGCU) - 4.00, So.
Svenja Meyer (Jacksonville) - 3.89, Sr.
Claire Bohrer (Kennesaw State) - 4.00, So.
Kaitlyn Llewellyn (Lipscomb) - 4.00, Jr.
Kelly Johnson (N. Kentucky) - 3.92, Sr.
Scholar Athlete of the Year: Tessa Hoefle, Lipscomb
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Fort Bragg has released the name of the soldier who died Monday when his parachute did not deploy.
Army Col. Darron Wright, of Mesquite, Texas, died while conducting a standard MC-6 parachute jump at Fort Bragg's Sicily Drop Zone. Wright was the Corps Assistant chief of Staff
"We are deeply saddened," said Lt. Gen. Joe Anderson, commander of XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg. "Our thoughts and prayers are with his family."
Col. Kevin Arata said Wright was doing a jump to "maintain his proficiency." To maintain that proficiency, a jump is required every 90 days.
Following Wright's death, the XVIII Airborne Corps suspended the use of the MC-6 parachutes across the Corps and its subordinate units.
The Corps first began jumping MC-6 parachutes in July 2010. However, the parachute Wright used in this particular exercise is not routinely used by his unit, reported the Associated Press.
Wright, 46, graduated from the University of North Texas in 1991 and received his commissioned as an infantry officer through the Reserve Officers' Training Corps.
Wright's death is the first in a parachute training accident in two years. He is survived by his wife and children.
In a related accident, Staff Sgt. Jamal Clay died on June 25, 2011 when he fell 800 feet to his death during a training jump at Fort Bragg's Sicily Drop Zone.
Clay was a member of the 82nd Airborne Division. Officials said he died using one of the Army's newest parachutes.
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Update, 1:54 p.m.
According to Connecticut Light & Power, 431 customers (11 percent) remain without power in Redding and 508 customers (13 percent) remain without power in Weston.
United Illuminating is reporting that 66 customers (2.3 percent) remain without power in Easton.
Update, 11:45 a.m.
According to Redding Police Chief Douglas Fuchs, Newtown Turnpike is closed at Sandfordtown Road.
With 574 and 560 customers without power respectively, Redding and Weston are still 14 percent in the dark, according to the Connecticut Light & Power outage map.
United Illuminating is reporting that 90 of its 2,876 customers—3.13 percent—are currently without power.
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A powerful storm that moved through the state last night has left thousands across Connecticut without power Thursday morning.
According to the Connecticut Light & Power outage map, currently 574 of 3,898 customers in Redding are without power; 558 of 3,808 customers in Weston are without power as well. Both figures represent 14 percent outage rates.
According to United Illuminating, 187 of 2,876 customers are without power in Easton, representing 6.5 percent.
Schools were delayed this morning. Redding and Easton schools experienced 90-minute delays, while Weston schools weere delayed for two hours.
Metro-North is also directing New Haven Line customers traveling eastbound to Noroton Heights, Darien, Rowayton, East Norwalk, Westport and Greens Farms that they must take a train to Southport then get a westbound train to get access to these stations due to wire issues in the area.


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New studio offers fitness for the whole family
It's a business plan they believe makes sense, and as they open their joint venture the owners of USA Karate and Platinum Yoga and Fitness hope it's one that succeeds. USA Karate and Platinum Yoga will open a joint facility in Rosemount that will offer martial arts training...
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Construction work is scheduled to start in November on an addition that will add more than 13,000 square feet of space and eight new classrooms at the rapidly growing Parkview Elementary School. The Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School Board reviewed plans on Monday for a project...
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50 years ago From the Aug. 20, 1964 edition of the Dakota County Tribune County declared a drought area A.T. Schaffer, chairman of the Dakota County ASC, announced Monday that Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman has declared Dakota county a drought area. This...
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August 11 Prostitution,13500 block of Carbury Way Property damage. 10 block of 155th St. E. Financial transaction card fraud, 2800 block of 138th St. Warrant, 10 block of Upper 138th St. W. Domestic assault, 4400 block of 152nd St. Assist other agency, 2800 block of 145th St. Vandalism,...
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A corridor study will evaluate the merits of Akron Avenue becoming a north-south arterial roadway to support growth and development. Rosemount has partnered with Dakota County and Inver Grove Heights to fund the study. As development continues on the eastern side of the Rosemount,...
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The Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District is making plans for a new, more central bus garage it expects will eventually save it $500,000 per year in transportation costs. The current district bus facility is located in Rosemount, at the southern edge of the district....
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Construction work on Bacardi Avenue will be delayed until next spring due to poor soil conditions. City engineer Phil Olson said the wet silt in the area has prevent the contractor from obtaining good soil density. As the construction season draws to a close, Olson said it was...
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Dakota County Sheriff's will improve electronic crimes unit
With all the advances computers and cell phones have made in our lives, it turns out the devices also provide a lot of opportunities for criminals. "Phones and computers are really good ways to commit crimes," said Tim Leslie, Dakota County Sheriff's Department Chief Deputy. ...
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With the flip of a coin, Alba Nowlin won the last spot on the November ballot over fellow city council candidate Jamal Abdulahi. The Rosemount City Council met early Aug. 15 to canvas the primary election results. The primary was held Aug. 12 and whittled down the city council...
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Fundraising run is back for second tour
In its inaugural year, the Warrior 196 Memorial 5K raised enough money to distribute four $1,000 scholarships to high school students in Independent School District 196. For organizer Joel Kiekbusch, that was a great way to honor the five students from District 196 who have...
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Post-paralysis, normal has a new meaning
Michelle Scheuerlein is a woman with grit. On July 8, the owner of Rosemount Floral was paralyzed from the waist down and her attitude in facing the injury reflects that. On that July day, Scheuerlein was helping a neighbor with a damaged tree. She was clearing a broken branch...
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New Rosemount police chief Mitchell Scott is excited to start his job. Although he hasn't been sworn in yet, Scott has been out and about meeting Rosemount residents. "I'm chomping at the bit," said Scott. Scott will be sworn in Aug. 19 at the Rosemount City Council...
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Our cabin was small but well appointed and in a great spot on the ship. Our cabin steward and his assistant were excellent. We took advantage of the beverage program and saved a several hundred dollars in bar bills on this cruise. If they ever offer it again, I'm in. We've been on 102 cruises and the food on this one was better than any cruise in the last 15 years. The food on our cruise last year on Royal Caribbean was pretty awful. Considering they own Celebrity, we were more than pleasantly surprised at the quality and variety offered. That goes for the buffets, the main dining room and the specialty restaurants.
Embarkation and disembarkation were hassle-free.
The only thing that I didn't like was the port of Roatan. It is a definite must-miss on any future cruises. Cozumel was fine as usual. Also, the comedian on the first night was pretty bad. He was one of those comics that bullied the audience into laughing or he would come off the stage and embarass those who didn't laugh. He should be banned from the cruise industry. Probably would do better as a Customs agent.
All in all it exceeded our expectations and we have already booked another celebrity cruise.


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Jim & Deb Chagares are nationally acclaimed Professional Photographers from Richmond, Indiana. They opened their portrait and commercial studio in Richmond, Indiana in 1988. Jim and Deb have met the standards of excellence set by the Professional Photographers of America, and have both been awarded the Master of Photography Degree in recognition of superior photographic competence, demonstrated through success in photographic competition, advanced education, and service to the profession. Jim and Deb have also been awarded the Photographic Craftsman Degree. This degree is in recognition of their service to the photographic profession as orators, authors and mentors. Jim has also earned the Master of Electronic Imaging Degree.


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University Of Tennessee At Chattanooga To Host Football Clinic
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - Some of the nation's most successful collegiate football coaches and student-athletes will be on hand when the NCAA conducts a free youth clinic on Saturday, December 18, at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The clinic will be held at Maclellan Gymnasium from 8 a.m. to noon. A total of 500 participants are expected to attend the clinic.
The clinics are a part of the NCAA Youth Education through Sports (YES) program and are being conducted in conjunction with the 1999 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship.
Each year, YES clinics, held at selected NCAA championships, provide a free program to nearly 10,000 youth ages 10 to 18 who engage in fun and challenging sports-skill, life-skill and conditioning sessions conducted by top collegiate coaches and student-athletes. The clinic will provide youth programming which focuses on participant development and the student-athlete mentoring program. YES clinic participants will have the opportunity to discuss with student-athletes topics such as academics and goal-setting. These special presentations will be specifically geared to the ages of the participants. YES is another way that coaches and student-athletes share the NCAA's commitment to challenging young people to strive for higher levels of achievement in both athletics and academics.
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The 1999 Division I-AA Football Championship will be held December 18 at 2 p.m. est., at W. Max Finley Stadium, Davenport Field, in Chattanooga, Tennessee.


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Food service at the prestigious members-only 1818 Club located on the top floor of the Gwinnett County Chamber of Commerce in Duluth was halted for a few hours Thursday (Jan. 31) after the dining club failed its food inspection, and its food service permit was suspended.
1818 Club Manager Jeff Campione reported Friday, Feb. 1, that the club was reinspected three hours after the suspension at its request. "We have a health score of 100 hanging on the wall right now," he said. Food service resumed at the club Thursday following the improved score.
Also, the traditional late-night after party hosted at 1818 Club following the annual Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce Dinner at the Gwinnett Center Feb. 1 was scheduled to occur at the club as planned.
Food inspections are conducted regularly by environmental health specialists from the Gwinnett, Newton and Rockdale County Departments of Health.
The food service inspector gave the 1818 Club a 67-U score when it was inspected Jan. 31 based on multiple violations.
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AS THE Premier league's giants get ready for battle in the FA Cup, Winchester's teams are invited to a less glamorous contest.
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Thank you for viewing this charming vacation rental online. We strive to accommodate all people and guests. We are pleased to host all future guests large and small with various needs & desires. We are partnered with TRAVELWISE INTERNATIONAL Inc. "a Full Service Travel Agency for over 21 years" to bring you the absolute best hospitality that the Washington DC Area has to offer you.
Built in the 1960's & modernized in 2007-present, this home features up to four relaxing and entertaining levels near the brand new upscale National Harbor Waterfront hotel development that features over 1900 + square feet of clean rooms, new linens, fresh soft white towels and clean beds waiting for you , your family, loved ones, co-workers and/or business associates. All Four levels of this awesome split-level designed single family home are offered and available. This home has 4 full, freshly painted bedrooms with one twin bed (In the 4th Bedroom, optional) 2 queen beds, 2 full beds and 1 single bed. Dining and Living rooms and are fully furnished.
Kitchen and Dining room on the same level with ceramic tiles & walkout to ultra private, ivy-gated backyard with in-ground swimming pool area and California Rustic painted & stained finish on the large wood deck. (Great South Facing-Sunset Views!)
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Ultra private ivy covered gated backyard with Swimming pool
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The nation's financial system is in the middle of a colossal crisis caused by massive fraud, idiocy, and greed at the upper reaches of the banking, insurance, and real estate industries. The arch-plutocratic Bush administration and Federal Reserve propose to "solve" the crisis by orchestrating a massive taxpayer bailout granting stupendous rewards to the leading perpetrators. The Paulson-Bernanke plan to buy up $700 billion worth of bad, overpriced mortgage assets takes the venerable corporate principle of "socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor" (privatization of reward and socialization of risk) to grotesque new levels.
Compensating gross business misconduct on a spectacular scale, it would be what former Wall Street economist Michael Hudson called "the largest and worst giveaway since a corrupt Congress gave land grants to the railroad barons a century and a half ago. If it goes through, it will shape the coming century by giving finance unprecedented power over debtors – homebuyers, industry, state and local government, and the federal governmentas well" [1]
As former presidential candidate and progressive Democrat Dennis Kucinich notes, "The double standard is stunning; their profits are their profits, but their losses are our losses." Further: "the same corporate interests that profited from the closing of U.S. factories, the movement of millions of jobs out of America, the off-shoring of profits, the out-sourcing of workers, the crushing of pension funds, the knocking down of wages, the cancellation of health care benefits, the sub-prime lending are now rushing to Washington to get money to protect themselves" [2].
On the front page of the New York Times today (I am writing on Thursday, September 25th), a reporter notes a grave concern among "many ordinary Americans" – that the profound difficulty involved in determining the real value of "troubled investments" could "result in the government's buying them for more than they will ever be worth, a step that would benefit financial institutions at taxpayers' expense." Times reporter Vikas Bajaj notes that "each one of these investments is tied to thousands of individual mortgages, and many of those loans are going bad as the housing market has worsened." Bajaj quotes a leading bond portfolio manager who reports that "we are not going to know what the right price is for years." [3]
But while precise valuation waits, it is a sure bet that the government's purchasing price will be well above fair market value. Asset inflation (along with asset-stripping) is what this latest late-capitalist boom and bust drama – the "mother of all bubbles" (Glen Ford) – is all about [4].
Is it any wonder that the Bush administration's scheme to rescue predatory high finance at a price that could fund Society Security for four decades evokes widespread fear and loathing across the
How interesting that the supposed "populist" "maverick" John McCain and the alleged left "progressive" Barack Obama have taken a painfully cautious, wary, and vague approach to the epic financial meltdown and the Paulson-Bernake giveaway. These two would-be leaders of "We the People" have watched the historic financial debate with super-careful reserve. They have responded with few if any meaningful differences between them, consistent with the "post-ideological" Obama's request for the open economic ignoramus McCain to join him in issuing a joint statement and with McCain's call to suspend the first presidential debate so that "our national leaders" might "come together at a time of crisis."
Both candidates have called for "greater oversight," for "limits" on executive pay at bailed out firms, and for "ensuring that taxpayers benefit" from whatever emerges. Both have agreed to meet with Bush to forge a Wall Street "rescue bill" because, as both Obama and Bush declare – in Obama's word's yesterday, anticipating Bush's televised statement on the financial crisis last night – the "the risk of doing nothing is economic catastrophe" [6].
Neither of the two business party contenders has called for a moratorium on foreclosures or for writing down the mortgage debt of millions of families facing expropriation. Neither has demanded a public ownership stake in recused firms or the tough re-regulation, disciplining, and political (and campaign finance) neutralization of the finance, insurance, and real estate (FIRE) sector's owners and managers. Neither has called for transferring funds from the giant, bloated (but sacrosanct_ "defense" (Empire) budget to support current and would-be homeowners, renters, workers and to stabilize markets poisoned by junk mortgages and other related toxic financial instruments.
"National eeaders?" The only presidential candidates speaking forthrightly and urgently against the proposed Wall Street giveaway have been Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney, and Bob Barr. They are banned from the presidential debates, even as McCain threatens not to show up for the first one. They have been preemptively exiled from serious consideration in the corporate-crafted narrow-spectrum electoral extravaganza.
The two "mainstream" candidates' cowardly response to the latest spectacular state-capitalist financial fiasco is a result of six basic factors.
First, neither of them wants to be seen as sticking their foot in their mouth on a major but complex issue that changes from one day to the next in accord with shifting markets, polls, and political winds. This is a close race (absurdly enough given the transparent danger and idiocy of the McCain-Palin ticket and the Republican Party's recent record) and one mistaken comment could cost the election.
Second, while both candidates (even the painfully isolated McCain) are sharply aware (that many voters hate Bush's bailout, they also know that officeholders and candidates who oppose the plan risk blame if deepening economic calamity is seen to have resulted from "congressional inaction." As William Greider notes, "Wall Street has put a gun to the head of the politicians and said, 'Give us the money – right now – or take the blame for what follows'"[7].
DEFECIT v. HOPE"
Third, the major hike in federal debt that is certain to result from a "rescue" plan does not fit well with either of the candidates' campaign promises. The giant public expenditures certain to occur in a likely Wall Street bailout works against McCain's call to extend Bush's tax cuts for the rich. They also challenge Obama's call for "middle class tax cuts" and his promise to increase public subsidies for health care, education, renewable energy, retirement savings, and other priorities. Obama is already talking scaling down some of his already tame "hope" agenda in response to the crisis.
Fourth, both candidates know that their own parties and key players in their campaigns were centrally involved in key policy moves that created the context for the current financial debacle. During the late 1990s, McCain's longtime ally, associate, and (until recently) economic adviser Phil Gramm was the leading Congressional force behind legislation that exempted numerous toxic financial instruments ("credit swaps," "over the counter derivatives," "credit defaults" and the like) from regulatory scrutiny. Gramm also led the way for the fateful undoing of basic federal (from the New Deal) firewalls between commercial banking, investment banking and the insurance industry [8].
The top Obama advisor and funder Robert Rubin was an even bigger agent of the fateful deregulation of the financial industry and the related drastic over-escalation of financial asset prices during the 1990s "
Perversely enough, Rubin was one of the first to personally profit from the abolition of the separation between commercial and investment banking. Getting out of Dodge before the dot.com asset inflation bubble burst in 2002-2001, Rubin moved from Treasury to become co-director of Citigroup, a newly merged investment-commercial banking conglomerate [10].
Fifth, both McCain and Obama are deeply beholden to the very financial elites and Wall Street firms who created the current mess and who stand to gain from the Bush-Paulson-Bernanke proposal. Through August of 2008, McCain's top 20 contributors include: Merrill Lynch (#1 at $298,000); Citigroup (#2 at $209,000); Morgan Stanley (3 at $233,000); Goldman Sacs (4 at $208,000); Credit Suisse Group (8 at $150,000); UBSAG (10 at $140,000); PriceWaterhouseCooper (11 at $140,000); Bank of America (13 at $129,000); Wachovia (14 at $122,000); Lehman Bros (15 at $116,000), Bear Stearns (19 at $99,000), and Pinnacle West (20 at $98,000)
Of all the leading
Obama's top 20 contributors include Goldman Sachs (#1 at $692,000), Citigroup (#3 at $449,000), JP Morgan Chase (#4 at $405,000), Lehman Bros. (#10 at $371,000), and Morgan Stanley (#16 at $319,000). Note that Goldman Sachs has given three times the amount to Obama it has contributed to McCain and that Citigroup's Obama giving more than doubles its investment in McCain. Obama's #16 contributor – the investment bank Morgan Stanley – gave Obama $20,000 more than McCain got from his top contributor (the investment banker and brokerage house Merrill Lynch).
FIRE is also Obama's top contributor, granting him $24,860,257, more than $2 million more that sector gave to McCain [12].
It is darkly interesting to note that the Obama campaign's finance chair, the Hyatt heress Penny Pritzker, was one of the leading originators of the toxic sub-prime mortgage instrument during the late 1990s, when she served on the board of the Superior Bank in
Also worth noting, Obama initially tried to hand his vice presidential nominee vetting process to Jim Johnson, a former CEO of mortgage lender Fannie Mae (recently re-nationalized in the wake of its financial collapse). Johnson was a top player in the meltdown of the financial system [14].
As the prolific author and Wall Street critic Kevin Phillips noted on the Public Broadcasting System's Bill Moyers Show last week, "But then, you've got Obama with Bob Rubin and he doesn't seem to have any problem with the hedge fund types. I mean, one of the
"So I don't exactly see Obama as this fellow riding in on a horse who represents all kinds of reformism. It's an important thing probably to have to change from the Republicans but I don't see that he is free of the ties to finance and Democratic Party financial types….."
When Moyers noted many Democrats' hopes that a new New Deal – involving tightened financial regulation among other progressive reforms – is in the offing under an Obama administration [15], Phillips responded with understandable skepticism, explaining that:
"there's several difficulties here. First of all, at this point, what you've got are the Democrats are the party right at this point that's getting most of the financial money. When Franklin D. Roosevelt won in 1932, we know he wasn't getting most of the financial money."
"The second thing is I don't think we're more than partway through. The Democrats think it's going to be another 1933, they get in there, they can do all the New Deal stuff. My feeling is that they're coming in halfway and they're going to have to make hard decisions that are going to eat the Democratic coalition like a bologna sandwich. They're going to start civil wars…."
Phillips added that McCain probably "osmossed …much less sycophancy toward Wall Street and the money crowd" growing up in "a naval family" than what Obama would have "osmossed at Harvard Law School." (But Phillips also noted that McCain who is an economic idiot, as evidence by his willingness to be advised by the ridiculous Gramm)[16].
The sixth and final factor is that both Obama and McCain are open enthusiasts of American so-called "free market capitalism." This shared ideological commitment to the profits systems is of course mandatory for "viable" presidential candidates under the rules of American "dollar democracy," the "best democracy that money can [and did] buy." It does not leave a lot of room for serious public confrontation with the privileges and dictates of capital, no matter how dysfunctional and dangerous masters of finance have become for the common good.
The supposed "radical leftist Obama" [17]identifies himself as a "pro-market" and "free trade" "guy," saying things like, "Look, I am a pro-growth, free-market guy. I love the market" [18]. But as Laurence Shoup recently noted in Z Magazine, Obama "fail[s] to note that the market loves and rewards those who already have money and power, not those lacking these advantages. To say that you 'love the market' is akin to saying that you love the ruling class (the top 1 percent of the population that controls 20 percent of the country's wealth and nearly 40 percent of the country's wealth) and do not care about the great majority (the 60 percent of the population that controls only 25 percent of the income and 5 percent of the wealth). To say 'I love the market' – at a time when the financial system is deflating because of decades of lies about how great unregulated markets are which fueled rampant speculation, phony valuations, and deceitful assurances – is to be deaf to the reality of powerful interests are protected by the government while everyone gets a lecture on personal responsibility. 'Change we could believe in,' would involve confronting the perversity of market-driven capitalism…." [19]
Cowards, fools, whores, and defenders of unjust privilege and concentrated wealth do not make great popular leaders in times of crisis or stability. The cautious and conservative approach of the two dominant party presidential candidates to the current state-capitalist financial fiasco reminds us of the need, in John Pilger's words (on the back cover of my recent study of the Obama phenomenon) to "reveal power as it is, not as many of us wish it to be." It is also, to quote Adolph Reed, Jr. (also writing on the back of my new Obama book) a "bracing reminder that progressive agendas will not be advanced through vesting hopes and aspirations in candidate-centered politics, that there is no quick and easy substitute for the task of building a serious, institutionally grounded, working-class based political movement – from the bottom up and top down" [20].
Veteran radical ex-historian and activist
1. Michael Hudson, "The Paulson-Bernanke Bank Bailout Plan," CounterPunch (September 22, 2008), read at http://www.counterpunch.org/hudson09222008.html
2. Dennis Kucinich, "Protecting the Public Interest in Any Economic Bailout" (September 23, 2008), read at www.Kucinich.us
3. Vikas Baja, "Rescue Plan's Basic Mystery: What's All This Stuff Worth?," New York Times, 25 September, 2008, p. A1.
4. Michael Hudson, "
5. Sheryl Gay Stolberg, "Lawmakers' Constituents Make Their Bailout Views Loud and Clear," New York Times, 25 September 2008, p. A25.
6. Charles Babington, "Obama, McCain Cautiously Watch financial Debate," Associated Press (September 23, 2008); Gail Collins, "Bring On the Rubber Chickens," New York Times, 25 September 2008, A29; Elizabeth Bumiller and Jeff Zeleny, "McCain for Delay," New York Times, 25 September 2008, A1, A23.
7. William Grieder, "Goldman Sachs Socialism," The Nation (September 23, 2008), read at http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081006/greider2
8. Alexander Cockburn, "Is This the Stake Through Neoliberalism's Heart? It Should Be, But…", CounterPunch (September 20/21, 2008), read at http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn09202008.html; Lila Rajiva, "Putting Lipstick on an AIG," CounterPunch (September 20,21, 2008), read at http://www.counterpunch.org/rajiva09202008.html.
9. Rajva, "Putting Lipstick on an AIG;" Cockburn, "Is This the Stake?;" Robert Pollin, Contours of Descent:
10. Pollin, Contours of Descent, p. 32.
13. "Truthteller," "REVEALED: Obama Finance Chairwoman Pritzker the Toxic Catalyst of the current Financial Crisis," No Quarter (September 22, 2008), read at http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/22/revealed-obama-finance-chairwoman-pritzker-the-toxic-catalyst-of-the-current-financial-crisis/
14. Johanna Neuman, "Barack Obama Advisor Jim Johnson Quits under Fire,"
15. This is the fantasy behind a smart but silly book by the liberal economist and American Prospect editor Robert Kuttner: Obama's Challenge:
16.Kevin Phillips Interview by Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal(September 19, 2008), read transcript at http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09192008/transcript2.html
17. The ridiculous description of Obama advanced by the right-wing hit-man Jerome Corsi in his best-selling book "Obama Nation." For a (I hope) useful review of Corsi's preposterous neo-McCarthyite (and yet best-selling) account of Obama, see
18. Naomi Klein, "Obama's Chicgao Boys," The Nation (June 12, 2008), read at http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080630/klein.
See also Barack Obama, Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (
19. See Laurence H. Shoup, "Obama and McCain March Rightward," Z Magazine (September 2008), p. 27.
20. Paul Street, Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (


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Welcome to the 2nd week of Happy Hour Friday. Guess it's official now that I've managed two full weeks in a row!! My trip to Boulder Distillery and the Vootbeer were so well received last week that I'm encouraged that people are enjoying Happy Hour Friday on Creative Culinary. If you have a cocktail or appetizer that you would like to share; be sure to add them each Friday at the end of the post.
I noticed recently that National S'mores Day was August 10th and that among the many s'mores recipes floating around the net there were a couple of cocktails, including this article for a smores type martini. I planned this as a special treat for my daughter's birthday but she's at that age where birthdays and parents are two words that she finds hard to mesh. She wants to be with friends and I admit I might still wish for the little girl that wanted to have a birthday party put on for her by her mom. So, I've got the goods; she'll make it over soon enough; in the meantime I decided to give it a try for myself and my neighbors/testers (they have assured me they do not mind).
Say S'mores and I most often think Girl Scout camp. I've mentioned I'm from a big family; as the oldest daughter I always had a lot of responsibility so getting away was especially exciting for me. Going to my Grandma's for a weekend was huge but going to Girl Scout camp for a whole week? Heaven. So this drink evokes all of the special memories of friends, staying up late, sneaking to meet a boy from the neighboring Boy Scout camp and yes…my first kiss. In the annals of history it may not go down as something especially romantic but even if only a peck on the cheek, he was cute enough to keep the memory cherished for all of these years. So cheers to my daughter Lauren and that boy named Paul; you will forever be connected to s'mores!
A wonderful cocktail reminiscent of campfires and childhood memories!
- 2 jiggers vodka
- 2 jiggers Chocolate Liqueur
- 2-4 jiggers half and half (depends on how strong you want them to be!)
- 1/4 cup marshmallow creme
- 1/4 cup milk chocolate chips
- 2 graham crackers, crushed
- Melt marshmallow creme and chocolate chips in a shallow bowl for 1 minute on half power in microwave bowl or over warm water.
- Roll outside of glass rim in marshmallow/chocolate chip mixture and then dip into crushed graham crackers. Put in refrigerator to cool.
- Fill cocktail shaker or pitcher with 2 cups of ice.
- Pour vodka, chocolate liqueur and half and half over ice. Shake well. Pour into cooled, rimmed glass.
- Spear marshmallows with toothpicks or long skewer; toast marshmallows over flame and garnish cocktail.


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Cops Corner
Date: July 9, 2009
by: Compiled by the Observer Staff
June 28
Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't
6:11 p.m. — 3400 block of Queens Street. Criminal Mischief. A man had his mother's car parked at his apartment complex overnight. As he was driving the car to his mother's hose the next morning, he noticed something felt wrong. He checked the wheels and noticed that someone had removed all the lug nuts from one of the rear wheels, which caused significant damage to the wheel.
At least he's being honest
7:30 p.m. — Midnight Pass Road and Siesta Key Circle. Driving with a Suspended License. A sheriff's deputy noticed a car driving erratically, swerving in and out of a single lane several times. He pulled the driver over, and the man behind the wheel told him: "I'm in trouble. I don't have a license. I am suspended." The driver's license was indeed suspended, and he was taken to jail.
June 29
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2:45 p.m. — 8200 block of South Tamiami Trail. Arson. A fire broke out in a bathroom stall in a movie theater restroom. The theater manager said the flames nearly rose above the stall walls, but the fire was quickly extinguished before the fire department arrived. It appeared someone intentionally ignited a metal receptacle that held several rolls of toilet paper and paper towels.
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11 p.m. — 600 block of Avenida de Mayo. Burglary. A family visiting from Pennsylvania had a stack of cash stolen from a kitchen table. Someone quietly opened a sliding glass door and grabbed $2,700 in $100 bills on the table. A laptop computer and other valuables sitting on the same table were not disturbed. The victims were sleeping when the crime occurred.
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2 p.m. — 8200 block of South Tamiami Trail. Suspicious Person. A middle–aged man buying a necklace at a novelty shop in the mall disturbed three female employees enough that they called security. After one employee rang up his purchase, she told the man to have a nice day. His response: "Everyone should die." He then told the employees that they should burn the place down and said he would burn it down. He then said he was going to the North Trail to pick up prostitutes. As he walked out of the store, he pointed at a group of teenage girls and gave them the finger. The man got on a bus and left.
June 30
Everyone's a suspect
12:20 p.m. — 2900 block of Poplar Street. Theft. A woman reported that a week ago she held an all-day barbeque for family and friends. Sometime during that event, a laptop computer, videogame system and other items went missing. She said she delayed reporting the incident, because she hoped the thief would return the items. Because only family and friends were there, the woman could not think of a prime suspect.
Inside job
3:09 p.m. — 3500 block of South Tamiami Trail. Theft. A department-store manager was caught stealing money from the store. He allegedly created a false employee number to enter into the computer. He would use that number to make a purchase. He would then return the purchase and pocket the cash. Police say the manager had been doing that since March. Store officials believed he stole $3,800, but an officer said after interviewing the manager that he believes more money was stolen.
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Every dog has its day
Consulate Health Care of Sarasota's beloved service dog, Danielle, retires after providing five years of therapy to the residents and patients at Consulate.
Run to Remember raises $13,000
Pines of Sarasota's "Run to Remember" raised $13,000 for its Memory Care Unit.
Wonderful weekend
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PITTSBURG -- Andra Bailey led five Pitt State players in double figures with 16 points as the Gorillas claimed a 79-70 victory over Washburn Wednesday (Jan. 11) at John Lance Arena.
Pitt State (10-5, 6-3 MIAA) converted 36 of 50 free throw attempts in a game slowed by 55 combined fouls -- 28 on the Ichabods and 27 on the Gorillas.
Pitt State used a 12-4 run to stretch a five-point game into a 64-51 advantage with 7:45 to play in the game. Washburn (10-5, 5-3 MIAA) battled back to make it a 70-65 game with 4:03 to go, but the Gorillas got baskets by Sam Pugh and JaVon McGee and a free throw by Marky Nolen to stretch it back to a 10-point game with 1:43 to play.
Bailey added eight rebounds with his team-leading 16 points, while Nolen added 12 points and a game-high nine rebounds. Courtney Ingram (12) and McGee (11) also finished in double digits.
Will McNeill led all scorers with 18 points for the Ichabods. He was the only WU player to reach double figures.
The Ichabods shot just 37 percent in the game (19 of 51) but WU made 27 of 34 free throw attempts in the contest.
Pitt State will return to action Saturday (Jan. 14), hosting Fort Hays State in a 3:30 p.m. (CST) contest at John Lance Arena.


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One East Texas elementary school teacher is taking the lessons she's been teaching her students for more than 30 years and is now sharing them with all of us.My kindergarten teacher, Evelyn Addis of Canton, recently sat down with me to share the message of her new book, "Monday Morning Leadership for Kids." Mrs. Addis has taught me many lessons over the years, including how to be a good person - and now, in her first children's book, she's sharing some of those lessons with others."You are not too little to be a good driver of your character," Addis read to her class.Addis adapted "Monday Morning Leadership for Kids" from the adult book by the same name.In the book, eight-year-old Baxter takes a Monday morning trip with his Paw Paw - and along the way, Paw Paw teaches Baxter eight character attributes, including making good choices, being obedient to those responsible for you, doing the right thing when it's hard, having friends who help you be a better person, using your time wisely and completing all tasks, being a bucket filler and not a bucket dipper, and staying in the learning zone.They are lessons Addis teaches her class by giving each student a key and a driver's license."When you turn your keys in first and tomorrow you turn your driver's license in, that means you did something wrong," said kindergarten student Isaac Gebert."Young children want to know what do you want me to know? And this book, to me, it gives them exactly what we are striving for every day, just to build better citizens," Addis said.Addis developed the story with her class last year, but it wasn't until art teacher Matt Loughmiller joined the project that Paw Paw and Baxter came to life."I just tried to imagine a place that I would like to live - small town and nostalgia," Loughmiller said. "And I tried to make Paw Paw look friendly and Baxter look like a kid, but a teddy bear."Addis and Loughmiller both hope this will become a teaching tool that teachers, parents, and grandparents will use time and time again."This is not a book that you read just one time to a child and put it on the shelf," Addis said. "It is a book to be read over and over and over so that these character attributes are instilled in these young children."Addis says she hopes the book becomes a coffee table book in a lot of homes so it's easy for children to learn the eight character attributes.
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The ship as a whole was impressive and very regal. Does not have the glitz and glamor of other cruise ships. It has lot's of wood railings and paneling. The ship was constantly being cleaned. I found the ship's staff very personable. Always wishing us a good day.
The food in all areas was very good. We had moments when we didn't feel like getting dressed formally and enjoyed the option of having a meal as we desired in the buffet. We also enjoyed the Todd English restaurant. Very good and the service was exceptional. Our service in the Princess Grill was very memorable. The whole restaurant staff were very personable and we were greeted at all meals with a smile. Our staff included Robert, Gordon, RoseMarie and Sanntosh. Our sommelier, Silvanna was very knowledgeable and gave us exceptional service. Patou and Yonell....... our Maitre D's were proper and meticulous. We enjoyed coming for our meals and having the exceptional service we expected at that level.
The shore excursions were wonderful.
The only caveat may be the cigarette smoking. As a non smoker...... it was not comfortable to have your next door neighbor smoking on his deck. We would have to close our deck door for a while. And parts of the interior had a smoky aroma.
We have taken a few cruises and know there are glitches. We accept those as part of traveling. We have met so many new friends that we keep in contact today on previous cruises and this cruise is no exception. I was involved with an informal aviation group meeting on sea days and enjoyed the impromptu discussions.
The disembarkation was easy and orderly. Our concierge finalized our arrival and made the journey a wonderful memory for my beautiful wife and our 25th anniversary.


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Deborah S. Tompkins, 64, a lifelong Rushville resident, passed away Tuesday evening at her home in Rushville.
She was born Jan. 25, 1949 in Rushville to Allen Riegle and Fay L. (Crawford) Rardin. Debbie married Larry Tompkins June 16, 1995; he survives.
Debbie was a member of the Rushville Eagles Lodge, the Eagles Riders and was a trustee with the Ladies Auxiliary. She was also a member of American Legion Post #150. She worked nearly 25 years as an aid in respiratory therapy at Rush Memorial Hospital. She and her husband Larry also were owners of Rush County Tire for many years.
She is survived by her husband, Larry of Rushville; her mother, Fay Rardin of Williamstown; a son, Jerry Haynes of Rushville; a daughter, Angie Turner of Shelbyville; step sons, Larry Tompkins of Knightstown, John Tompkins of Danville, Ky. and Mikey Beihl of Rush County; a step daughter, Anna Fay Tompkins of Danville, Ky.; sisters, Kimberly and husband Nathan Grimmett and Rebecca Bowling, both of Anderson; two grandchildren; five step grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Debbie was preceded in death by her father, Allen Riegle; and step father, Oliver Rardin.
Services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 29 at Moster Mortuary, Rushville, with Danny Shelton presiding. Friends are welcome to visit from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 29 at the mortuary. Cremation will follow service.
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Trae Elston, a three-star safety in the Class of 2012 according to Rivals, has committed to Mississippi during ESPNU's National Signing Day special.
Elston, a high school teammate of four-star linebacker Kwon Alexander, was considering LSU and Oklahoma State along with Ole Miss, but chose to go with the Rebels and Hugh Freeze's new staff over the more established national powers. Elston cited feeling like family and the chance to change the culture in Oxford as parts of his decision, and unzipped a hoodie to reveal a Rebel red tie to announce it.
Elston is a big pick-up for Freeze, who will have to do a lot of work to build Ole Miss into a contender in the SEC West. But any time Mississippi can snag a player who was considering LSU, the Rebels will likely be happy with his commitment.
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Rikuzentakata's Kibou no Ippon-matsu, or One Pine Tree of Hope, was the sole standing 200 year old pine out of the 70,000 that once made up the Takata-Matsubara (高田松原) forest. The fact that this single tree remained standing gave many people hope for the future. Much effort went into trying to save the tree but as of late 2011, arborists determined that the salt water damage to the roots was too great. The land had subsided in the area after the quake and the tree resides only 5 metres from an already eroded coast line. The continued saturation of the roots in salt water was basically poisoning the tree to a slow death. As a result, the valiant effort to save the tree was abandoned. Months earlier though, grafts from the pine had been taken with the purpose of producing many seedlings which will be planted in the future. The pine tree is no longer producing any resin (it is drying out), it's needles have turned brown, and any pine cones are discolored.
This video is dedicated to this single pine tree and the people of Tohoku Japan.
4 months after the March 11th disaster, efforts are underway to save the only pine tree which remained standing in Rikuzentakata's Takata Matsubara (which before the tsunami, was a 2km beach lined with tens of thousands of pine trees).
A special camera is used to capture imagery from the tsunami devastated town of Otsuchi. The resulting videos are edited together for projection onto a planetarium-like dome where it gives the viewer a better sense of the scope of the disaster. The message that is being conveyed is that people need to head for high ground as soon as possible.
This is a new graphical mapping system which will be utilized for post-disaster reconstruction. The system makes use of 360 degree composite video footage
Three months since the March 11th earthquake and tsunami may be too short of a period for people to begin carrying on after losing family members to the disaster. Many are trying to figure out how to deal with their grief. One of them is Mika Sato; she has been searching the rubble for memories of her daughters short life.
A nursing school in Ishinomaki holds its entrance ceremony which had been previously cancelled due to the March 11th disaster. One of the new students, Asuka Suzuki, received her admission letter on March 11, 4 hours before the earthquake hit. She had always wanted to be a nurse since kindergarten and went to see her grandmother to tell her the news. The grandmother who had always encouraged Asuka was thrilled to hear about this. While the two were talking, the earthquake struck. Her grandmother said she would be fine and suggested that Asuka should head back home. Soon though, the tsunami hit the area including her grandmothers home.
May 14, 2011 english dubbed broadcast of Science Zero - this episode looks further into detail about the mechanics of the March 11th megaquake and its impact on future events. Shinji Toda also discusses his Kanto Fragment hypothesis.
April 2, 2011 english dubbed broadcast of Science Zero - the latest research at the time of its airing regarding the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
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The abundance of testing Gems and the great support for testing in the Rails framework make it really easy to write tests. But often enough, its not quite obvious to a developer where to put the tests and how to test. Here I will give you some guidelines how and where to test what and why you should test it that way!
Lets take a look at the components that are usually involved in a user request and how they are usually tested:
- Routes - Untested: Implicit testing trough acceptance tests
- Controller - Integration: Controllers are tightly coupled to Rails (ActionController::Base) and often horizontal Libraries like Devise. Stubbing out Rails and horizontal Libraries is complex and makes your application most likely less maintainable.
- Model - Integration: Against the Database. Isolation makes no sense most of the time.
- Application Logic - Isolation
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A typical, minimal user request has to at least involve the routes, controller and view step but most requests will go trough all 7 layers. Two of this layers need a little bit of explanation because they are not part of many Rails applications as of today, but absolutely should: Application Logic and Service Facades.
Service Facade
Service Facades are thin layers between your Application and a 3rd Party Gem. The advantage in using them lies in the possibility to change dependencies quickly. An example: If you are using the Facebook API you probably rely on a external Gem to provide that functionality. The Service Facade is a wrapper above this Gem that brings a little bit of app-specific logic to the Gem and gives you a layer of abstraction if you want to change out the Gem.
So how would you test a Service Facade for Facebook? You could stubb out the Gem, but given the rapid development in Gems and the possibility that you want to exchange this Gem for another thats not a good candidate. You could also simulate the Facebook API and write your own little Facebook Server stub, but that can get complex very quickly.
The best approach is to stub out the network. This is extremely easy with tools like vcr-gem. You simply record the requests to the Facebook API once and replay them each time you run your Service Facade integration tests.
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Most books, tutorials and other resources for Rails are centered around application logic living in the Model, Controller or even View. This approach has some drawbacks, especially when you are designing for testability. The Application Logic is the core of your application and you want to test it easily, have all the functionality in one place and you should test it in isolation for speed and reliability reasons.
In a modern Rails Application with good architecture you will find a Application Logic component which relies on exactly two other components: Model and Service Facades. The big advantage of this structure is, that you have full control over the boundaries of your application logic. This is a huge improvement over a architecture where your business logic lives in the model layer. In such an application you have to integration test your logic because you rely on a external service which you don't control, the database. The same applies to the Service Facades: without them you have a external boundary, the Gem/API.
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Reviews by Lawl3ss:
3.98/5 rDev +3.6%
Chilled bomber into two shaker pints, no visible bottling date. 2012 (orange bottle) release.
Look- darker than expected, hazy brown with orange highlights. Opaque. Two fingers of toasted coconut head, decent retention, sparse lacing.
Smell- Aromatic, brown sugar, pumpkin/squash, cinnamon, mace, fairly sweet. Something vaguely fruity, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Candied grapefruit? Nice.
Taste- Similar to the aroma, straightforward but nice. Brown sugar, roasted pumpkin, vanilla, autumn spice. A touch of darker roast towards the middle, toasted biscuit. finishes with cinnamon and mace, aftertaste is light, whipped pumpkin pie filling.
Mouthfeel- Medium body, smooth carbonation. Full but not too heavy or syrupy, creamy feel.
Overall- Just what I was expecting, a well executed pumpkin ale with layered caramel, spice, and roasted pumpkin. Well done, certainly better than the average pumpkin beer. The price tag's a bit hefty at $10/bomber, but I'd certainly try it on tap.
12-15-2012 02:32:01 | More by Lawl3ss
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North Carolina
4.03/5 rDev +4.9%
Poured into an imperial nonic a deep pumpkin orange with a billowing sticky one and a half finger slightly off white head atop.Aromas mainly of vanilla and roasted pumpkin,not overly spiced wich is good.Not sweet at all on the palate,one of the dryer pumpkin ales I have had.Roasted pumpkin,vanilla,light pumkin pie spice,and a almost earthy finish.This is a top notch pumpkin beer,it has the pumpkin flavor,a little spice,but a drying finish wich makes it very drinkable for the style.Well done by Rogue here.
10-25-2012 20:16:29 | More by oberon
2.61/5 rDev -32%
Back in VA for work. At Yard House in Virginia Beach. Served in a pint glass from the tap.
Appearance: dark pumpkin color I'm growing accustomed to seeing in the type. No head.
Smell: Pretty typical for the type with pumpkin pie. Less spicy than say the 25th anniversary Lakefront.
Taste: to be blunt... Disappointing. Fizz covers up the flavor. Tastes like a seltzer water with pumpkin notes.
Mouthfeel: again, like seltzer water. Ugh.
Overall: pedestrian. Lacks a real pop to it. Watered down. Huge disappointment.
10-07-2013 01:14:08 | More by don1481
4.5/5 rDev +17.2%
08-17-2014 21:23:37 | More by mojohawk21
3.75/5 rDev -2.3%
10-19-2013 15:36:42 | More by aszatk01
Ontario (Canada)
3.5/5 rDev -8.9%
03-22-2013 10:31:18 | More by beerhunter13
3.75/5 rDev -2.3%
08-15-2013 00:06:12 | More by Tiernan
3.75/5 rDev -2.3%
07-14-2013 05:47:33 | More by EastBay_Nick
3.75/5 rDev -2.3%
01-05-2014 18:14:27 | More by Kappakoosh
4/5 rDev +4.2%
11-28-2012 02:33:07 | More by warnerry
3.05/5 rDev -20.6%
750 ml bottle. Pours hazy ruby amber with a big rocky off white head that retains well and leaves some lacing.
The aroma is very nice pumpkin pie spices - a good blend of cinnamon, nutmeg and all spice.
The flavor is a bit subdued compared to the nose - some sweet caramel malts with very light spices (a little cinnamon) with a grassy bitter finish. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with smooth carbonation.
Overall, an OK pumpkin beer.
11-05-2012 05:47:09 | More by Beaver13
3.68/5 rDev -4.2%
The beer pours a dark brown color with an off-white head. The aroma is full of cinnamon and a bit of nutmeg. I also get some other assorted spice notes, as well as some toffee. The flavor is more of the same. I get some pumpkin and caramel/toffee notes, as well as a good bit of spice. I get a bit of cinnamon, nutmeg and clove notes, with a hint of allspice mixed in. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation.
11-07-2012 05:00:21 | More by Mora2000
New Jersey
3.75/5 rDev -2.3%
05-17-2014 20:33:15 | More by ImFlyerThanYou
3.8/5 rDev -1%
Poured very cold from the bottle. A very nice orange/brown colour with a perfect cream-coloured head. The smell was not overly pumpkin like most of the pumpkin beers that are out there. The pumpkin taste is also A LOT more subtle than the majority of the pumpkin beers available. Some of them are over-spiced or under-flavoured, but this on is quite balanced. Overall a nice pumpkin ale.
This beer is part of their GYO (Grow Your Own) movement. It is made with their own hops, malt, and pumpkins.
Would I buy it again? Yes. It was a very good pumpkin beer.
11-19-2012 01:39:28 | More by NilocRellim
3.55/5 rDev -7.6%
First Growth Pumpkin Patch Ale (2012 bottling) opens to a rich, pumpkin pie aroma, the spices and pumpkin very nicely balanced to quite closely approximate that of a good pie: nutmeg, clove, allspice, and cinnamon mingling well with good measures of pumpkin meat. Unlike many pumpkin beers, the pumpkin and spice notes here are, while strong, not overwhelming; indeed, the nose has to be decently close to the brew to pick up a scent. The pie notes are supported by the sensation of a homemade graham cracker crust, with light toast crust notes for extra texture. Sugars from the malts add a layer of whipped cream, as well as caramel. Hops add a thin rind of pine scent, adding to the holiday/festive feel. As a whole, the nose is very nice, presenting a solid, understated pumpkin pie aroma.
On the tongue, the beer continues its resemblance to a well-made pumpkin pie, the spice notes – again, nutmeg, clove, allspice, coriander, with additional touches of white pepper – nicely mingling with pumpkin meat. The spices come across slightly heavier here than on the nose, and while not overspicing the beer, they do somewhat outshine the pumpkin. And the pumpkin notes, while mainly good, do have a slight raw edge to them, as if not fully baked. Toast crust and floury baguette add a pie crust rim, and light touches of apricot fruit esters add an interesting fruity complement to the pumpkin. Very light pine notes from the hops, though these do grow slightly late in the mouthful as the sugars die off, adding a resinous texture to the late notes. The aftertaste is much the same as the main mouthful, though with slightly more resinous hops, and lingers for a decent while. Mouthfeel is a watery medium-light, and carbonation is medium.
Overall, this is nice pumpkin ale, and perhaps a good introduction to the style for many. But I found the complexity and potency of the ale to lack somewhat, and the flavors (as well as the mouthfeel) to be overly watery. A measure or two more of ingredients, resulting in, among other details, a higher ABV, would have done this beer wonders.
11-14-2012 20:07:42 | More by jondeelee
4.25/5 rDev +10.7%
12-14-2013 16:54:53 | More by Moo5152
4.5/5 rDev +17.2%
10-26-2012 17:37:33 | More by ryser2k
3.75/5 rDev -2.3%
01-12-2014 00:33:32 | More by rwilde
4/5 rDev +4.2%
10-19-2012 10:30:25 | More by WaydeRafnel
4.18/5 rDev +8.9%
A - Pours a murky burnt amber with a one-finger head that hangs around for quite a while.
Shows a nice amount of visual carbonation, almost akin to certain sour ales.
S - Reeks of pumpkin spice, which is a good thing, in this case. Nutmeg, clove, and cinnamon, with a hint of underlying earthy funk. It begs to be paired with pumpkin ale ice cream, which I made with this beer last year when it first came out. Hit me up for the recipe if you're feeling froggy... it's damn tasty. I've also made the ice cream with Tilburgs' Dutch Brown ale when pumpkin ale is out of season.
T - Dry, and a little creamy. The nose nods to the taste, with caramel malt backing up all the spices and pumpkin-seed notes. Unlike some of the other "Pumpkin" ales out there, this one delivers what it promises. (We're looking at you in disappointment, Sixpoint...) Not too heavy on any of the ingredients, this is a great beer for sipping, (Or if you can afford it, at $10 a bottle) chugging. Makes a great chaser for Bullit Rye Bourbon too.
M - Dry, almost to the point of being tannic, but that's likely a result of all the spices apparent in this beer. Not much heft to it, for being as dark in appearance as it is. Proof that the lovibond scale isn't always an indicator for mouthfeel. Carbonation is an afterthought here, but that's okay, because this is a tasty little monster!
O - One of my favorite pumpkin beers from last year, as it delivers what the label promises.
Also one of the best installments so far in the "Chatoe Rogue" series. Another nifty thing about this beer is this : Rogue grew all the ingredients for this beer, and ended up with around 1,100 pumpkins, when the recipe only called for about 350. The rest were donated to charitable organizations, and town carnivals for children to paint, and carve, in most cases free of charge. I think that's pretty rad. If you're in San Antonio right now, the HEB off of 280 has a few cases left, and has the bottles marked for only FIVE BUCKS EACH.
Cheers, People... Have a good-good!!!
01-30-2013 23:50:05 | More by StuporJew
New York
3.75/5 rDev -2.3%
09-29-2013 14:56:21 | More by TheLevi4000
4.25/5 rDev +10.7%
10-24-2013 02:44:27 | More by bpascale
3.23/5 rDev -15.9%
This has not be the year of the pumpkin, at least for me. This Rogue Pumpkin did have more of the real pumpkin flavor that I enjoyed so much in different pumpkins last year.
There wasn't much of any nose on this one, sure, the typical pumpkin spices, but nothing alarming. Now, onto my tasting:
Initial Sip, I was hit with the cinnamon, clove, allspice and all the other pumpkin spices. Perhaps a bit too much. Then slowly the pumpkin started to come out. It was richer than some of the other pumpkins I've tried this year.
Now on the back end, I felt there was too much carbonation in this ale.
I would have enjoyed this one much better, if the spices were tamed a bit and take a notch or two out of the carbonation
10-07-2013 00:15:53 | More by rdilauro
Alberta (Canada)
3.63/5 rDev -5.5%
650ml bottle. Shouldn't the power to the people fist on the label be cradling a gourd, instead of the usual hop vine clench?
This beer pours a dark, murky golden brown hue, with two fingers of tight foamy pale beige head, which maintains some pretty sturdy retention, eventually leaving some swooping arches of lace around the glass. It smells like zingy pumpkin pie - cinnamon, cloves, vanilla, and sweet pumpkin mush, with a slight bready malt. The taste is a heightened bready malt, fleshy pumpkin, more sedate autumn victual spices - a bit of nutmeg and clove, for the most part, and a twinge of warming alcohol. The carbonation is frothy, but not all that strong, the body an unassuming medium weight, and generally smooth, a little carbonic prick getting up in its grill. It finishes more malty than anything up to this point - and with the pumpkin abated in flavour, if not in vegetal sweetness, the lack of off-setting hops becomes just a little too clear.
A decent enough pumpkin (pie) ale, all of the associated points are duly nailed, and recorded for posterity. I could just stand a bit more (or any) proper bitterness spread around. That would help with the beer vs. dessert conflict currently mucking up my consciousness...
11-09-2011 23:58:35 | More by biboergosum
Ontario (Canada)
4.4/5 rDev +14.6%
Hazy burnt orange colour with red highlights. Pale beige head is large and tightly formed, but not very retentive. Patchy lace. Malty brown sugar aroma with pumpkin, orange zest, and spice notes. Toasted malt up-front followed closely by a vegetal note from the pumpkin puree and a melange of spices. Nutmeg and cinnamon are more prominent than clove. A nutty character persists throughout. Almost medium bodied with moderate carbonation and a soft, gentle mouthfeel. The pumpkin and spice character is strong enough to be easily noticed, but restrained enough to allow the base malt character of the beer to shine through. There is some sweetness to it, but not a whole lot. It certainly isn't Pumking. An extremely well balanced take on a style that many find either overpowering or underflavored. This one finds the middle ground.
11-28-2012 01:28:54 | More by mintjellie
Rogue Farms Pumpkin Patch Ale from Rogue Ales
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GNOME Cleartext Passwords: Bug or Feature?
The current discussion in the Ubuntu forums is about a possible security hole in GNOME, specifically about GNOME registered users having their passwords appear as cleartext on the keyring. Not a bug, say its defenders, but the security concept behind the GNOME keyring.
In the discussion thread, the discoverer of the "blatant security flaw" gave an example of how it happens in Ubuntu 9.10. The user starts Ubuntu and registers on the desktop. The path through the Applications | Accessories | Passwords and Encryption Keyrings menus arrives at the keyring manager. Clicking on the Login folder shows the application processes and programs (including WLAN and mail accounts) and their respective passwords.
A right mouse click on an entry shows a context menu of properties, one of its tab being for keys. Clicking Password pops up a screen asking whether keyring access is allowed, for which no restrictions exist. The passphrase then appears and can be viewed as cleartext.
Critics of this approach provide a scenario whereby a profile owner has multiple users allowing access to the account. Operating in WLAN mode he wants to ensure that his keyring passphrase is secure. The suggestion is to further secure it through the user password so that guests need to know the profile owner's password before discovering what the keyring passphrases are. As it is, so goes the argument, users without much technical knowhow can easily steal the passphrases, so that additional password protection would deter "99% of potential identify thieves."
Defenders of the GNOME keyring strategy assure that only registered users have access to passphrases, the solution being to "lock your screen if you walk away." Defenders refer to the gnome-keyring security philosophy that suggests just that: locking the screen and creating guest logins. For those who still consider this a problem, so far no hard and fast solution exists. However, it is being actively discussed, among other places in the gnome-keyring mailing list.
It is a massive holeIt is an incredible, massive hole in security - anyone with physical access to the keyboard and display can reveal all passwords in plain text. I can think of many situations where "lock your screen" simply does not apply, because you are in a hurry, because you are forgetful, because you are socially engineered into leaving your screen unlocked.
There are many environments where this level of incompetent insecurity is simply unacceptable, where as a consequence Linux is unacceptable - including environments with a Clear Desk Policy which I have worked in.
UselessSounds like KWallet for GNOME.. and I'll remove the useless pile of rubbish as soon as I figure out how.
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We thought that maybe the design principles we developed through Renegade production could be transferred to other skis suited for other purposes. We continued the innovation spawned by the Renegade and developed the Hoji; a lighter ski, with a tighter turning radius and narrower waist, but still featuring Reflect-Tech. We found the Hoji excelled in areas we thought the Renegade didn't. Essentially the two skis complemented each other perfectly.
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Kingdom Farm and Food Days are coming up August 22, 23, and 24 with chances to tour farms, take workshops, taste local foods at area restaurants, visit an apple orchard, ride on a hay wagon, and much more. The public is invited to celebrate with a farm-to-table dinner and bonfire at the end of the weekend.
Three days of festivities about local food will be put on by the Center for an Agricultural Economy in Hardwick, High Mowing Organic Seeds in Wolcott, Pete's Greens in Craftsbury, Sterling College in Craftsbury, New England Culinary Institute (NECI) in Montpelier, Northeast Kingdom Travel and Tourism Association in East Burke, Eden Ice Cider in Charleston and Newport, Caledonia Spirits in Hardwick, and Green Mountain Farm to School in Newport.
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Kingdom Farm and Food Days kicks off Friday, August 22, with tours of llama and alpaca farms, including the Agape Hill Farm in Hardwick and the Log Cabin Alpaca Farm in East Albany. The Hardwick Farmers Market at Atkins Field on Granite Street in Hardwick is open on Friday afternoon from 3 to 6 p.m.
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. the Craftsbury Farmers Market is open for business on Craftsbury Common. Children's gardening activities with Green Mountain Farm to School are on the agenda at Craftsbury Academy School Gardens that morning and, starting at 11 a.m., Pete's Greens will offer tours and hay rides. Saturday afternoon, from 3:30 to 5:30, Sterling College will offer tours and workshops. Pizza making in an outdoor oven is on the agenda. Saturday evening, discounts will be offered at area restaurants for participants in the Kingdom Farm and Food Days events.
Sunday morning kicks off at 10 a.m. with a visit to the Eden Ice Cider orchard in Charleston, where people can tour a biodynamic organic apple orchard. From 1 to 4 p.m., High Mowing Organic Seeds will host field days and workshops. NECI will put on a dinner at High Mowing Seeds starting a 4:30 p.m., and everyone is invited to a bonfire afterward.
For more information, please see the Kingdom Farm and Food Days website kingdomfarmandfood.org. — from the Center for an Agricultural Economy.
For more things to do, see our Events page.


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