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Stock Futures Flat After Jobless Claims Data
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- U.S. stock futures were trading near the flat line Wednesday after domestic weekly initial jobless claims came in as expected and as discussions on Greece hit an impasse
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were down 3 points, or 6.96 points below fair value, at 12,756. Futures for the S&P 500 were up 1.29 points, or 3.36 points above fair value, at 1387. Futures for the Nasdaq were up 2 points, or 1.12 points above fair value, at 2595.
The major U.S. equity averages closed mixed Tuesday, paring losses that followed in the wake of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke weighing in on the fiscal cliff.
Eurozone finance ministers, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank failed at their meeting this week to reach a consensus on how Greece could achieve debt sustainability and a lowering of the financing gap of €14 billion through 2014; they were aiming for an agreement to be reached before unlocking additional financial aid for Greece.Talks are scheduled to reconvene on Monday. "Judging by the reaction of futures this morning, investors share our sense of 'ho hum' about the Greece news," said Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at BTIG. "It's important to remember that the ultimate goal of these negotiations is to reduce the debt burden to somewhere around 120% of GDP. That is a terribly high number and the math used to get Greece to that debt level is ambitious despite the considerable progress that Greece has made over the last several years." "Ultimately, we like many others see no way Greece can return to debt sustainability without further write downs of outstanding debt, including obligations in the hands of the public sector," he added. The Labor Department said initial jobless claims for the week ended Nov. 17 fell 41,000 to an as-expected 410,000 from the previous week's upwardly revised figure of 451,000. The four-week moving average was 396,250, an increase of 9,500 from the previous week's average of 386,750. Continuing claims for the week ended Nov. 10 fell 30,000 to 3.337 million from the prior week's upwardly revised level of 3.367 million. Economists, on average, were expecting continuing claims to come in at 3.345 million. "Jobless claims remained above the 400k mark despite the sharp 41k drop in the pace of initial jobless filings to 410k," said Millan Mulraine, an economist at TD Securities. "The decline comes on the heels of the upwardly revised pop to 451k the week before. The elevated level of claims is due in part to the continuing impact of Hurricane Sandy, which will likely continue to distort the data for another few weeks." At 9:55 a.m., the final read on University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index for November is forecast to come in at 84.5, down from the 84.9 preliminary reading. At 10 a.m., the Conference Board's leading economic indicators index is expected to have risen 0.2% in October after increasing by 0.6% in September. The FTSE 100 in London was down 0.06%, while the DAX in Germany was up 0.06%. Japan's Nikkei average settled up 0.87% on Wednesday and Hong Kong's Hang Seng index closed higher by 1.39%. Gold for December delivery was up $2.70 at $1,726.30 an ounce at the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, while January crude oil contracts were up 81 cents at $87.56. The benchmark 10-year Treasury was up 1/32, lowering the yield to 1.667%. The dollar was up 0.06%, according to the U.S. dollar index. In corporate news, Deere (DE) shares were sliding nearly 3.5% after the agricultural equipment maker posted fiscal fourth-quarter earnings below analysts' estimates amid higher production costs and increased selling, administrative and general, and research and development expenses. The company reported earnings of $1.75 a share on revenue of $9.79 billion; analysts, on average, were expecting a profit of $1.88 a share on revenue of $8.85 billion. Salesforce.com (CRM), the cloud computing company, on Tuesday delivered a 35% year-over-year revenue increase in its latest quarter. The company reported non-GAAP earnings of $49.6 million, or 33 cents a share, for the third quarter on revenue of $788 million. Analysts expected profit of 32 cents a share on revenue of $776.5 million. Salesforce.com forecast non-GAAP earnings of 38 cents to 40 cents a share in its fiscal fourth quarter on revenue ranging from $825 million to $830 million. Wall Street's current consensus view is for a profit of 40 cents a share on revenue of $829.9 million. News Corp (NWSA)has expressed interest to CBS (CBS)about acquiring its Simon & Schuster book business, according to people familiar with the talks, The Wall Street Journal reported. News Corp owns HarperCollins Publishers and the Journal. The people described the discussions as preliminary and cautioned that a deal isn't imminent, the newspaper said. News Corp shares were up 0.54%. Zale (ZLC), the jewelry retailer, reported a wider-than-expected fiscal first-quarter loss on Tuesday. Zale said it expects to be profitable for fiscal 2013. Shares were falling 14%. Scholastic (SCHL), the publishing company, lowered its fiscal-year outlook after Tuesday's closing bell. Scholastic shares were plunging 23%. Cirrus Logic (CRUS) shares were popping more than 6% after the board of the high-precision analog and digital signal processing components supplier approved $200 million in share buybacks. -- Written by Andrea Tse in New York.
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Report: Justin Upton blocks trade to Seattle Mariners
According to a report by FoxSports.com's Ken Rosenthal and Jon Morosi, the D-backs (for now) right fielder blocked a trade that would have sent him to the Seattle Mariners.
Seattle is on the list of teams Upton can veto a trade to.
The D-Backs would have received a package of young talent from the Mariners, sources say, but the identity of the other players in the trade is not known.
Upton's rejection of the Mariners could be an attempt by him to leverage the Diamondbacks into sending him to a more preferred destination. The D-Backs, meanwhile, could be telling Upton that Seattle is his only option if he wants to leave Arizona, and for that reason it's always possible that a deal could revive.
Though Upton has been on the trade block for the better part of the last three years, this would seem to be the first time a deal was struck that would have sent him out of Arizona.
The 25-year-old Upton is coming off a season in which he hit .280 with 17 home runs and 67 RBI. It was a down year for both the player and his team. He is owed $38.5 million over the next three years, which is a reasonable rate given the production he can give a team.
However, many wonder why the Diamondbacks seem to be so set on trading the former number one pick. An MVP candidate just two seasons ago, it's possible Upton's best years are still ahead of him. Moving him now, before he even reaches his prime, could come back to haunt the Diamondbacks for years to come, regardless of what they get in return.
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Poll: What is The Single Biggest Issue Leading to Bad Officiating in Boxing?, And Why?
Poll: What is The Single Biggest Issue Leading to Bad Officiating in Boxing?, And Why?
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I always hear when their are really bad decisions in boxing, from either refs or judges, they are usually broken down into one of three categories:
Here is my take on each issue:
Incompetence: It happens with officials who do not have the experience to judge or ref fights. However, I believe that if most fights could be attributed to incompetence, you would have almost a 50/50 split with "stupid" votes going to journeymen fighters and the other half of the time, marquee fighters not getting the nod. If incompetence was the issue, we would be seeing more fighters with weaker records getting the benefit of the doubt from officials.
Favoritism: In my view, the biggest problem in boxing. Judges often lean for the hometown fighter, the undefeated fighter with the big name, or the boxer with a flamboyant and powerful prompter and too often fear the consequences when they don't. Ref Octavio Meyran defended his officiating in the Douglas-Tyson fight over the controversial "long" count incident. Don King, Jose Sulaiman of the WBC, wanted Douglas stripped because they could not stand the idea of a 42-1 long shoot winning over the at the time best P4P fighter in the world. When Octavio Mayran was NEVER assigned to another high profile fight something just did not seem right with that decision. The scoring of the two Japanese judges carding a draw, and having Tyson a point ahead and the negative attitude the powers that be took toward Buster for those 36 hours or so before everyone agreed he was champion, show political bias that can not be forgotten.
Corruption: It's been in boxing since the beginning of time. Do you think it is just as rampant as it was in the 50's-60's when the mob controlled boxing? What specific instances of proven corruption have you seen in boxing that go beyond incompetence or Favoritism? You can go back to Jake Lamotta's sworn testimony for his fight against Billy Fox, where he told a Senate sub-committee that he had thrown the fight and had to, to get a shot at Marcel Cerdan. Does boxing have a new kind of mob with the alphabet federations, Arum and King, non-respected weight classes?
How do you prove corruption in boxing to get a conviction in a court of law?
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That's why it's so hard to bet on boxing. Even if you pick the winner, it's not likely that he'll be declared as one.
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Deck is missing the tensioning spring and/or tensioning mechanism for applying tension to the bellt that drives the three blades. Ordered Binder's owner's manual for the deck, but it doesn't show a picture. The adjustable pulley is attached to the deck but needs some way of applying tension. Belts interfere with simply attaching spring to deck and adjustable pulley thereby applying tension.
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"Lore" gets right down to business. We're in Germany at the end of World War II, watching a large, once-prosperous family pack hurriedly to avoid the onslaught of Allied forces. A Swastika emblem on a discarded piece of clothing tells us we're dealing not with mere German citizens but Nazis. No wonder the mother looks petrified as she torches documents and the father flees at the first opportunity.
Other than the rather slovenly father, this is one gorgeous family. The mother might as well be Marlene Dietrich in her prime. The eldest daughter looks like a Leni Riefenstahl Aryan goddess. Her four younger siblings have been spared none of the stunner genes. That these Hitler Youth are easy to watch on a superficial level seems part of director Cate Shortland's strategy: We are about to see these beauties trudge through every muddy, thorny stretch of the Black Forest, into the kind of indignities and horrors their parents' political party inflicted upon the Jews. We know where this is going pretty early on, but that doesn't prevent "Lore" from being riveting stuff, start to finish.
The focus shifts from the mother, doomed to face Allied justice for her and her husband's apparent connection to a concentration camp, to Lore (Saskia Rosendahl), the daughter whose coming of age happens alongside her awakening to the truth: Hitler, her Santa Claus, her Jesus, presided over genocide.
Shortland is a sensualist, using constantly shifting handheld cameras shooting tight and close to make each step of Lore's education a palpable event. When she leads her siblings through the forest on a quest to grandmother's house, it ain't fairytale stuff. We see poorly shod feet set down in mud puddles, skin scratched and bruised by jutting branches, the air crowded with insects, smoke, mist, rain. Shortland seems determined to represent every kind of sensation and yearning in image and sound.
Which is why it doesn't raise eyebrows much when this film starts to become as obsessed with Lore's sexual awakening as it does her political one. Shortland's way into a scene is holistic: Lore's physical and emotional response to events merit equal scrutiny; each draws current from the other. When the kids meet up with Thomas (Kai Malina), an apparent concentration camp escapee who also happens to be a volatile and daring young man, his courage attracts her; his possibly being a "dirty Jew" repulses her. He circles the family discreetly but relentlessly, following them through the countryside like both a predator and a protector. But whenever they're in trouble, he steps in and takes charge. There are moments where we're unsure if Lore and Thomas will tear each other's clothes off or eyes out or both.
There's a style of filmmaking widely known as "Shaky-Cam" which increasingly threatens to cause an audience revolt as the new century rolls on. Shaky-Cam movies deploy handheld cameras to record the events of a screen story in pseudo-documentary style. When done sloppily and incoherently (usually in action films) it earns scholar Matthias Stork's designation, "Chaos Cinema. When done with inspiration and control, you get the realist classics of the Dardenne brothers and Ken Loach, the earthy lyricism of new classics like "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (2012) and the Andrea Arnold "Wuthering Heights" (2012).
"Lore" belongs in the inspiration-and-control camp. It makes dizzying flourishes out of moments that would pass as filler in other films. A sublime shot of Lore's younger sister skipping rope on a dirt floor sings of their rapidly vanishing youth with such slow-motion grace it aches. (It also evokes Riefenstahl's "Olympia.")
Very little of this style-to-burn would mean much without actors to give it a pulse. All of the children are living fully in their moments of terror, disillusion and heartbreak. It's slightly disturbing to see such young kids, down to the swaddled infant, put through such an ordeal, but the payoff justifies the torture.
Here's the payoff (no, not a plot spoiler): The protagonists are stand-ins for us. Wherever "Lore" is apt to screen, most audience members are likely to be citizens of the 27 NATO countries that signed onto America's War on Terror. How many of these folks are as loyal and unquestioning of the war's aims and practices as Lore is of her Fuhrer early on? How many Americans among them believe in extrajudicial killing of fellow citizens "suspected" of ties to terrorism -- and in assassination-by-robot-plane of individuals thought to be linked to Al Qaeda? How many Westerners subscribe to the "better there than here" philosophy that has kept thousands of foreign civilian deaths out of our sight? (An international treasure, thenausea.com, was censored off the web a few years ago, due to its raw images and videos of war atrocities that shame governments on every continent.)
I'm referring to a specific contemporary situation, but "Lore" offers up its lessons for all time. Citizens everywhere are often lost in the fog of their nation's propaganda, until reality comes crashing in. Lore's mental breakdown begins at an exhibit of fresh holocaust photos. The Americans taunt her and her neighbors with stark black & white images of concentration camp bodies piled high. Denial and acceptance push her to the verge of suicide. This can't be real. I don't live in a country that could do this to innocent people.
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Texas Assessment of Knowedge and Skills (TAKS Exams) Single Year Data 2007
Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) Scores for one year by Student, Grade and School.
Student IDs are anonymized, but consistent from year to year. Some of the data is scrubbed to comply with NEPA privacy regulations.
The Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) is a standardized test used in Texas primary and secondary schools to assess students' attainment of reading, writing, math, science, and social studies skills required under Texas education standards1. It is developed and scored by Pearson Educational Measurement with close supervision by the Texas Education Agency. Though created before the No Child Left Behind Act was passed, it complies with the law. It replaced the previous test, called the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills or TAAS, in 20032.
The TAKS data comes in three varieties: student level data, campus
level data, and data about tests. For all three types, data is
gathered annually as another round of examinations are administered to
Texas students.
Each type of data consists of records with identical structure. In
the original TAKS data, as received from the Texas Education Agency
(TEA), this was not the case. Campus data in some years would have
columns differing from campus data in other years.
The data you're working with is a normalized subset of the data given
out by the TEA. For each year, only the columns of the data (student,
campus, or test) that are common to all years were included. Almost
all the interesting columns span the full period of the dataset so
this constraint essentially removed oddball columns. For more
information on the original data, contact the TEA directly.
Student Data
- FERPA Masking
Student level data is not freely given out by the TEA. It was
originally obtained by Dhruv Bansal (firstname.lastname@example.com) via a
Freedom of Information Act Request and cost hundreds of dollars.
In accordance with FERPA guidelines, the data was masked by the TEA in
such a way if one can construct a query which might single out a group
of students numbering five or less (and one can, easily) then the
scores from these students will be set to NULL.
This masking, though inconvenient for a researcher, is intended to
protect the privacy of the individuals comprising this data. It is
because of this masking that the TEA has authorized the general
release of this data online.
- Normalization
Each student in Texas is granted a unique identifier by the TEA which
is used to track that student through examinations. Students may sit
for examinations multiple times in the same grade. The result of each
such set of examinations is a row in one of the original files
produced by the TEA — while the student may have sat for only the
mathematics exam, this row will also contain (blank) columns for all
other subjects as well.
The row will also contain repeated information about tests that is
actually common to all students who took a particular examination.
These problems have been eliminated in the data you are working with.
Each student has one row per grade which contains the best results
recorded for the student across all examination sessions. Redundant
information about tests has been moved to the tests file (see below).
Campus Data
Campus level data is actually available directly from the TEA because
there are fewer privacy concerns than with student level data.
What the TEA hands out is in a very messy format with the campus
properties changing willy nilly from year to year.
The data you are working with has been cleand so that only the common
columns are kept across the years (this winds up being most of them).
The schools were also geocoded with latitude and longitude.
The campus data is, unfortunately, not as complete as might be hoped
for; many of the files the TEA makes available are missing data.
Test Data
Test data summarizes the common characteristics of each test that was
taken by the students of Texas.
Test data was originally intermingled with student data, each row of
which having columns like H_IKEY and M_IKEY, representing the correct
answers to the history and mathematics exams, respectively. These
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Hador can refer to:
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- House of Hador, the Third House of the Edain.
- Hador (T.A. 2245 - 2395), the seventh Ruling Steward of Gondor.
- hador (word), a Noldorin word meaning "thrower".
- This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title. If an internal link referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.


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Many Candler students choose spiritual direction as a way to learn more about God and themselves. The OSP provides resources that help students interested in pursuing this form of discernment, including a basic introduction to spiritual direction and assistance in finding a spiritual director who is a good match.
The OSP offers opportunities for vocational discernment through a variety of workshops, panel discussions and other information sessions. Students learn from chaplains, pastoral counselors and campus ministers as well as spiritual directors, nonprofit leaders, social advocates and others using their theological education in creative ministries and professions. Candler alumni are invited to mentor and encourage Candler students as they discern how they can best use their gifts and passions.
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How to Tell Why Your Child is Struggling
By Dianne Craft
Many children who are not struggling have one or two of the characteristics in the checklists below. It is a matter of degree, and how it is impacting the learning process that we will consider in determining the needs of the learner.
Many educators who follow brain research believe that there are four learning gates that need to be properly functioning for a child to have an easy time learning.
The four learning gates are:
These checklists show some of the characteristics that a child exhibits when a learning gate is not working properly. Also included is a list of informal evaluations that you can perform at home. In addition, you will find some resources for correction that can be done at home, or with a professional. Learning is all about energy output. Read the following characteristics and see if you can find where your child is experiencing an "energy leak."
Compensation or Correction?
Before you begin evaluating your child, you should know that once the process is complete you might face a fundamental choice: compensation or correction. Many educational experts debate whether it is more beneficial to help a struggling learner compensate for the learning processes that are difficult, or if time and effort should be spent in the pursuit of a correction of the processing problem.
An example of compensation would be for a child to use a keyboard at a very young age to write papers when he or she struggles with handwriting. A correction would be to do a handwriting exercise that eliminates reversed letters, for instance, and helps the child write more neatly. Another common compensation is to reduce the spelling list required at a grade level for a child who is struggling with spelling. A correction would be to train the child's photographic memory so that the task of spelling is easier.
Many times this does not need to be a debate. One can easily pursue both compensation and correction simultaneously. Compensation makes the learning task easier while the correction reduces the stress in the child's learning system so that learning can flow. We call this "opening up the child's learning gate."
Sensory Integration Issues
Many times a child who appears to have great difficulty with focusing and attending to a task is really struggling with a sensory processing problem. The child's sensory system is not functioning correctly, resulting in errant signals. An example of this would be a malfunctioning sensory system that shouts "pain," when a tag on a shirt touches the skin. Another example is when a child covers his ears at fairly minor unexpected sounds, because the sensory system is giving the errant signal that the sound is too loud. This child is not just distracted by his outside environment, but is distracted by his inside environment as well.
The following are some of the typical symptoms of sensory dysfunction:
Resources for Correction
A Right Brain Learner Stuck in a Left Brain Curriculum
You may have noticed that your children have totally different learning styles. Your left brain child tends to like workbooks and working on his own. The right-brainer, on the other hand, likes discussion, prefers projects to workbooks and tends to be a little higher maintenance during the school day, requiring more of your interaction time.
Since most curriculum teaches in a more left brain manner, focusing on auditory and sequential aspects, as well as writing, our children who are more right brain learners often feel left out, and even struggle with learning and retaining material using this same curriculum. Once we have identified the right-brainer who is struggling because he is stuck in a left brain curriculum, then we can tweak our teaching process to help these right brain children get in touch with the "smart part of themselves."
Before we explore these many different teaching strategies, let's identify the common learning styles of these children.
Common Characteristics of a Left Brain Learner
Common Characteristics of a Right Brain Learner
Many right brain dominant children can adapt to left brain curriculum without much effort. If that is the case, then no changes need to be made for this child. However, if a child is struggling to be successful in learning, then some accommodations need to be made. Sometimes just putting the struggling child in a more right brain friendly curriculum, makes all the difference in the world in how easy his school day goes.
Other times a child needs a totally different strategy to make learning easy. That is when we turn to right brain teaching strategies.
Who Needs Right Brain Teaching Strategies?
What Are Right Brain Teaching Strategies?
In 1981 Dr. Roger Sperry received the Nobel Prize for his split brain research. Prior to that, little was known about the separate responsibilities of the two brain hemispheres. President George Bush declared the 1990s as the Decade of the Brain. Much brain research came to the forefront during that time. It has been a very exciting time in beginning to understand the processes of learning.
The right brain is responsible for long-term memory storage. Ultimately, we all store learned material in our right brain, for easy retrieval. Generally this process of storing material in the short term memory (the left brain's responsibility), and then transferring it to our long-term memory (the right brain's responsibility) is automatic, and we don't even think about the intricate process that is taking place. However, when the left brain methods of repetition (either orally or in writing) is not transferring to the right brain long-term memory storage unit, then we need to look at ways to make this transfer more efficient. This is where right brain teaching strategies comes in. When we use right brain teaching strategies with our children, they are required to use much less energy to store learned material. Both right and left brain learners love these techniques!
Right brain teaching strategies involve using "visual Velcro" to easily memorize material. For example, if learning math facts through oral repetition, games, or writing them isn't working, then by making little stories (not rhymes because these are auditory) with emotion, and adding picture and color to the math fact, the child finds that it is easy to recall. This is using an easy, inexpensive learning strategy that totally transforms how a child remembers something as important as math facts. This type of teaching applies to all areas of curriculum. When a child says, "I can't remember," then it is time to use right brain teaching strategies to make the memory process so much easier. Let's explore some of these troublesome learning areas:
Sight Words
Reading Comprehension
Following Directions
Study Skills
Possible Remedial Solutions for Daily Teaching
As a special education resource teacher for remedial reading and language arts I developed this method of teaching these bright, hard-working, but struggling students. The key for you is to have your struggling child work with you in a one-on-one situation for defined periods of time during each day. Struggling children do not learn independently, but need much teacher involvement to be successful. Using this method, I regularly saw a two-year growth in one year in both reading and spelling in the children I worked with, even if they had dyslexia and were non-readers at the beginning. Feel free to modify the plan in any way that works for your family. There are many other methods that work. This is just one of them.


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- Types of Dengue Fever
- Diagnosis of Dengue Fever
- Treatment for Dengue Fever
- Complications of Dengue Fever
- Prognosis of Dengue Fever
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Dengue is the most important mosquito-transmitted viral disease in terms of morbidity and mortality 'Dengue' is a homonym for the African 'ki denga pepo'.
Dengue fever usually affects people living in tropical regions and it manifests with a sudden episode of high fever.
More serious form of Dengue fever is called Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) and Dengue Shock Syndrome (DSS) and affects a small proportion of patients who are affected by dengue fever. It is believed that there is a secondary infection by a different dengue virus serotype that leads to the development of DHF.
In Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever there is leakage of the plasma and its escape from the blood stream leading to bleeding. Lack of blood clotting is also observed. About 20-30% who suffer from DHF develop shock and this is known as Dengue Shock Syndrome (DSS).
The severity and risk factors for DHF depends upon:
Strain and serotype of the infecting virus
Age of the patient
Immune status of the patient
Genetic predisposition of the patient
DHF is a more severe form of dengue, which can be fatal if unrecognized and not properly treated.
Dengue is endemic in 112 countries of the world and affects almost 50 to 100 million people every year with over 500,000 reported cases of DHF/DSS.
Fewer dengue cases have been generally reported in the black population than in other races. Fewer cases of DHF/DSS have been reported in men than in women.
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Hi all, if u have a fever in this season get your blood test done for dengue, ASAP.If fever accompanied with pain between eyes, head ache, vomiting etc are symptoms of the disease. Far as i have known there is no medicine except the home concoctions that can save you the agony of Drip/ hospitals transfusions etc: 1] Juice extracted from 2 papaya leaves twice a day. 2) Goats milk [fresh and not boiled/ just filtered) approx 250 ml twice a day. 3) To take care of the fever you can have the Crocin/ Tylenol that the doc prescribes. These concoctions are life savers, when medicine seems to have no answer.
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ghaley Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Dengue is a very dangerous disease; however one can get cured through proper treatments. I had suffered from Dengue a couple of years back. It took me about two weeks to recover completely.
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My husband was hospitalized due to dengue. After 5days, his blood platelet count back to normal with no fever at all. After a day he was discharged from the hospital, we noticed again that he has rashes in his body, arms and legs but he doesn't feel anything, no fever, has appetite and no muscle pain. Can I have your advise please?
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soccastillo Wednesday, December 26, 2012
rpg490 Monday, April 08, 2013
rpg490 Monday, April 08, 2013
Today morning we came to know that our daughter 2 years old is infected by dengue So she is admitted in hospital ..is there any peculiar medicine ???? and pls tell how it will spread.....and how to prevent this in future.....
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Although flu season is usually thought of as occurring in the winter, the severity and timing of flu season actually varies from year-to-year.
Flu Season
Flu season is the time of year when you are most likely to get sick from the flu.
In general, flu season can start any time in late fall, peak in mid-to-late winter (usually January or February), and continue through early spring.
2013-14 Flu Season - flu season is over - 107 deaths in children
2012-13 Flu Season - an early and intense flu season that lasted slightly longer than usual - 171 deaths in what the CDC described as a moderately severe flu season.
2011-12 Flu Season - was a mild flu season - 34 deaths in children
2010-11 Flu Season - started in December, peaked in February, and ended in April - 123 deaths in children
2009-10 Flu Season - 2009 H1N1 pandemic flu virus continued from the summer and fall of 2009, peaked in October, and ended in December - 282 deaths in children
2008-09 Flu Season - seasonal flu season started in December, peaked in February, and ended in April, but then cases of the 2009 H1N1 virus began in May 2009 and continued throughout the summer and fall of 2009 - 133 deaths in children
2007-08 Flu Season - started in January, peaked in February, and ended in April and was considered to be more severe than the previous three flu seasons - 88 deaths in children
2006-07 Flu Season - started in December, peaked in February, and ended in April - 68 deaths in children
2005-06 Flu Season - started in February, peaked in March, and ended in April, but was considered a mild flu season - 41 deaths in children
2004-05 Flu Season - started in December, peaked in February, and ended in April - 39 deaths in children
2003-04 Flu Season - started in October, peaked in November, and ended in December, and was considered to be a moderately severe flu season - 152 deaths in children
Theories about Flu Season
Why is the flu virus so active in the winter? People used to simply blame the fact that kids are in school and are inside more because of the cold weather, but those were never really satisfying explanations.
Recent research gives an even better explanation - the flu virus is transmitted best at colder temperatures in low humidity, just like we see in the winter.
Flu Season Facts
- Flu season most commonly peaks in February (50% of the time).
- In the Southern Hemisphere (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, etc.), flu season actually occurs in the summer months.
- You can view past flu season reports at the CDC flu website.
Also Known As: cold and flu season
Alternate Spellings: influenza season
Examples: It is a good idea to get a flu shot before the start of flu season so that you don't get sick with the flu, but even a late flu shot provides protection, especially when flu season lingers into April or May.


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Auerbach Pollock Friedlander has completed work on the Mesa Arts Center in Mesa, Arizona. The Center is a new 212,755 sq. ft. performing and visual arts complex with four performance venues: the 1,582-seat Ikeda Theatre, the 553-seat Repertory Theatre, the 200-seat Playhouse, and the 150-seat Studio Theatre. In collaboration with DWL Architects + Planners and BOORA Architects, Inc., Auerbach Pollock Friedlander provided theatre consulting services for the facilities and systems that support them.
In each space, ETC Sensor dimmer racks are used, and an ETC Unison architectural processor controls house lighting. A complete ETCnet DMX over ethernet system is also installed for each theatre, as well as a full complement of theatrical lighting fixtures.
For the Ikeda, the Repertory, and the Playhouse, structural systems were designed for scenic loading over the stage and audience. Electrical systems are designed to support touring company needs with a variety of switches and equipment power distributed throughout the theatre. K-rated transformers were installed for lighting and audio power in these three spaces, and working areas over the stages and audience were equipped to support motorized spot winches.
The Ikeda Theatre is a performance space for a wide variety of touring productions including symphony orchestra, dance, musical theatre, drama, film, and lecture in proscenium seating configuration. Lighting positions, control booths, and technical support are seamlessly integrated into the architecture of the room. A computer controlled motorized variable acoustic system fine tunes the audience chamber for the specific acoustic requirements of the various types of events.
The orchestra enclosure includes an overhead canopy including integral concert lighting and a motorized proscenium reflector. Manually configured shell towers may be set up in various configurations to meet the needs of different orchestral configurations. An orchestra pit lift supports audience seating, pit orchestras, or stage extension.
The fly tower has a grid height of 92' above the stage floor. A fly gallery is located 24' above the stage floor, and there are two loading galleries at 76' and 84' above the stage floor.
Fifty-five general-purpose counterweight linesets have 72' battens using seven lift lines each with a load compensating system for smooth operation. A network of front of house catwalks allows technicians access to lighting and forestage rigging positions over the auditorium. A full complement of stage draperies is included in the base systems package. A full stage gridiron has a load-bearing floor for flexible point-load rigging at any point over the stage.
Seven racks of ETC Sensor dimmers are installed. Dimmer racks include 564 20A performance lighting dimmers, 10 50A performance lighting dimmers, and 49 20A high-rise time house light dimmers. Forty-five Ethernet network taps are installed throughout the theatre. An ETC Obsession II dual processor system is provided with a designer's remote console.
A wide variety of computer controlled motorized electro-mechanical devices deploy and store over 12,000 sq. ft. of acoustically absorptive draperies for acoustic tuning of the hall to the specific needs of each performance type. Pushbutton control makes this operation easy and economical for a single technician to achieve.
A push-chain orchestra pit lift enables rapid changeover from musical, drama, or concert setup via the forestage area. The lift stops at stage level, house seating level, orchestra pit level, and chair wagon storage level where 64 seats on three tracked seating platforms are stored. Controls for the orchestra pit are located in the production control panel on-stage and via a hardwired umbilicus, which plugs into a floor pocket on the lift. Safety features include dead-man pushbuttons for lift controls, door and railing interlocks, as well as astragal pressure tape switches at all shear points.
The Repertory Theatre has a proscenium opening of 40'x24' and is designed for local and touring drama, dance, film, lectures, and modest musical performances. The orchestra pit lift adds flexibility, playing in several positions including orchestra pit level, audience seating level, and stage level.
The fly tower here has a grid height of 56' above the stage floor. A fly gallery is located 24'8" above the stage floor, and there are two loading galleries at 43' and 51' above the stage floor. Fifty general-purpose counterweight linesets are installed with 56' battens using six lift lines each.
Theatrical lighting control and distribution includes three full racks and one half rack of ETC Sensor dimmers. Dimmer racks include 286 20A performance lighting dimmers, 2 50A performance lighting dimmers, 13 20A house light dimmers. Thirty-seven Ethernet network taps are installed throughout the theatre. An ETC Expression Emphasis Series console is provided along with an Emphasis server and 3Dvisualization software.
A push-chain orchestra pit lift is similar to the one in The Ikeda Theatre. The lift here also stops at stage level, house seating level, orchestra pit level, and chair wagon storage level where 33 seats on shoes and stretchers are stored. Safety features include dead-man pushbuttons for lift controls, safety interlocks, and astragal pressure tape switches at all shear points.
This space is primarily for drama, musical theatre, children's theatre, and lectures, as well as the resident space for "Stageworks at Mesa Arts Center." With a proscenium opening of 30'x18', the audience chamber features steep tiered seating for children's sightlines over adult heads.
The pro-proscenium zone is configured flexibly to allow scenic elements to extend beyond the arch into the audience environment. The fly tower has a grid height of 51' above the stage floor. A fly gallery is located 23' above the stage floor and the loading gallery is at 42'-6"' above the stage floor. Thirty-seven general-purpose counterweight linesets are installed with 44' battens using five lift lines each.
The lighting and control system includes two racks of ETC Sensor dimmers. Dimmer racks include 180 20A performance lighting dimmers, one 50A house light dimmer, eight 20A high rise time house light dimmers. An ETC Unison architectural processor controls house lighting in the Playhouse Theatre and the Signature Theatre. Twenty-three Ethernet network taps are installed throughout the theatre. An ETC Expression Emphasis Series console is provided complete with an Emphasis server and 3Dvisualization software.
This studio "black box" incubator theatre is designed as a flexible, multifunction space for various uses including drama, receptions, rehearsals, and classroom functions. The space includes masking legs and borders, cyclorama on a curtain track, and black backdrop. Walls include lattice of channel for attachment of scenic elements.
Rigging features a pipe and uni-strut grid dead-hung 16' above stage floor. Dimming and control includes one full rack and one half-rack of ETC Sensor dimmers. Dimmer racks include 132 20A performance lighting dimmers and five 20A high-rise time house light dimmers.
A portable seating and riser system for various audience configurations including: endstage, thrust, two sides, and arena.
Theatre Consultants: Auerbach Pollock Friedlander (Steve Pollock, ASTC, principal in charge, principal designer; Michael McMackin, ASTC, principal and project manager; Kent Conrad
Prime A/E: DWL Architects + Planners - Jeremy Jones
Architect: BOORA Architects - Michael Tingley
Structural: Paragon Structural Design - Kurt Kinderman
Mechanical: Lowry Sorenson Wilcoxson - Paul Sorenson
Electrical: Lowry Sorenson Wilcoxson - Lance Jones
Civil: CMX Group - Don Dillon
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The Senior Seminar is a capstone experience for English majors who wish to undertake intensive independent research and writing on a literary text or topic of their own choosing, with the approval of the English faculty. The Seminar will provide instruction in framing a research question, developing a theoretical approach, conducting library research, evaluating criticism, and structuring a substantial essay. Seminar participants will write and revise their papers in stages, read and critique the papers of others, and present their papers aloud. Students who elect this senior experience must submit a proposal to the English faculty a semester ahead.
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This thread is motivated by a number of posts in the ATM section, where the usual things we think we understand are blithely tossed about as being meaningful in the Planck regime (or era, or at the Planck scale, or ...) - length (or space), time, energy, mass, ...
GR and QM are mutually incompatible, and this mutual incompatibility becomes extreme in the Planck regime.
But what does this mean, in respect of how we might use terms like 'time', 'space', or 'energy'?
It's easy to say that one theory (GR) is 'background independent', and the other (QM) 'background dependent', and that the scale at which these two theories become nonsense, when one is interpreted in terms of the other, is the Planck scale.
How best to demonstrate this incompatibility, using 'time', 'energy', 'space'?
What are some good explanations - other than those using the math of each theory - that you've come across which show this incompatibility?


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Pietro Germi
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Comedy Focus
Baron Ferdinando Cefalù (Marcello Mastroianni) longs to marry his nubile young cousin Angela, but one obstacle stands in his way: his fatuous and fawning wife, Rosalia. His solution? Since divorce is illegal, he hatches a plan to lure his spouse into the arms of another and then murder her in a justifiable effort to save his honor. Director Pietro Germi's (Seduced And Abandoned) hilarious and cutting satire of Sicilian male-chauvinist culture was awarded the 1962 Academy Award® for Best Original Screenplay.
Year: 1961
Part of Comedy, Italian Style: This year, the Festival celebrates Italian cinema with a look back at beloved comedies covering five decades.


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Dietitian's tip: Instead of the usual breaded and fried fish, this fish is grilled, Mediterranean style. You may substitute swordfish, halibut, sea bass or any other whitefish, and the calorie values are similar.
Prepare a hot fire in a charcoal grill or heat a gas grill or broiler. Away from the heat source, lightly coat the grill rack or broiler pan with cooking spray. Position the cooking rack 4 to 6 inches from the heat source. In a small bowl, combine the basil, parsley, minced garlic and lemon juice. Spray the fish with cooking spray. Sprinkle with black pepper. Top each fillet with equal amounts of the basil-garlic mixture. Place the fish herb-side down on the grill. Grill over high heat. When the edges turn white, after about 3 to 4 minutes, turn the fish over and place on aluminum foil. Move the fish to a cooler part of the grill or reduce the heat. Grill until the fish is opaque throughout when tested with the tip of a knife and an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the fish reads 145 F (about 4 minutes longer). Remove the salmon and place on warmed plates. Garnish with green olives and lemon slices.


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Reviews by phishgator:
2.58/5 rDev -27.1%
Poured into a tall Lederer glass with a handle (22 oz). The aroma is of grass and earthy hops. The taste is not as crisp or bitter as a pils ususally is. Carbonation is medium and the head retention is a foamy white head of three fingers. Very light in color, pale straw with a little chill haze. A very bland pils that is not what I am looking for at a nice beer bar.
01-17-2011 20:51:02 | More by phishgator
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4.35/5 rDev +22.9%
I have tried this beer several times at several different places, most of them being World Of Beer.
Apperance: Served in .3 Liter Lederer Pilsner glass, which I was allowed to take home. The beer is a clear golden color with a large light head, which takes a few minutes to disappate leaving a constanct quarter inch head.
Smell: Mild sweetness, hop notes, and a bit of spice.
Taste: Very crisp and clean, flavorful malt notes, noble hops as well, earth/grass notes. None of that skunky flavor you may associate with other pilsners (ie heineken). It has a crisp bite at the end as well, which may explain the alligator logo (are there even aligators in Germany?)
All in all, this is an excellent example of a pilsner and is indeed one of my go too beers. Be aware that it does have a bit of a bite, however, a pleasant one that most should find enjoyable.
12-17-2012 20:04:52 | More by ScholarAndAGent
4.8/5 rDev +35.6%
I'm a huge fan of good quality pilsners. So maybe i'm biased. Also, never had this out of glass - only tap from my local german bar. But its a great pilsner.
A - very beautiful pale golden color but not super clear (which is a good sign on quality pilsners). White and light frothy head.
S - wonderful subdued pilsner malt sweetness with a bit of noble hop earthiness and grassiness.
T - I really love this beer. Totally flawless as far as off tastes go (no metallic notes or diacetyl or anything bad). You get a rich, pure, pilsner malt sweetness with cracker followed by a phenomenal woody, foresty, earthy character from the hops. I LOVED the hop character to this beer - just crazy intense yet elegant german noble hop essense. You either love that or hate it. I love that earthy, grassy, flowery, slightly piney essence. Finishes dry and soft with the hops ligering nicely - and you can tell the water used in this beer is so soft soft soft
M- nice texture! light feel, yet seems so full and a bit grainy.
D - off the charts. I could drink this beer all night long.
I loved this beer. If you love high quality pilsners you will love this too. Some beer snobs sneer at pilsners but I find them to be beautiful in their simplicity if done correctly.
03-12-2011 18:53:36 | More by RichScherle
3.5/5 rDev -1.1%
01-02-2014 03:20:26 | More by PhillyStyle
1.75/5 rDev -50.6%
01-17-2013 13:09:48 | More by gnikola
3.25/5 rDev -8.2%
01-03-2013 21:12:16 | More by mixed_master7
4.25/5 rDev +20.1%
09-11-2012 23:45:30 | More by Lovely85
2.78/5 rDev -21.5%
Poured into a Spalter Pils glass with an initially large head that quickly faded in a matter of minutes. Most Pilseners have heads that are supposed to last much longer and be thicker. The smell is exactly that of a beer which is quite skunked and very similar to that of any other major European brew such as Beck's, Stella, Warsteiner, etc. The taste is nothing to write home about either, but it wasn't by any means terrible and like the aforementioned beers, very easy to drink.
06-02-2009 12:45:51 | More by germanbeer1
2.5/5 rDev -29.4%
12-27-2012 20:36:37 | More by jmathis
4/5 rDev +13%
06-15-2013 23:43:08 | More by CampusCrew
3/5 rDev -15.3%
This was on tap at the hotel bar where I stayed in Nurnburg...very basic beer, not awesome, not horrible. Pour was light golden, with a frothy white head. I thought the aroma was reminiscent of rye bread. The beer had a very light mouthfeel, so not highly carbonated. I didn't find the taste very strong...it wasn't watery or anything, but let's say it was very mild.
02-28-2004 12:52:23 | More by PatandDavid
New Hampshire
3.98/5 rDev +12.4%
Started the drinking day at the Nürnberg Altstadtfest (visited on 26SEP09) with a Pils... a 0.3l glass for 3.20EU.
The tall, slender flute was filled with a light golden colored liquid, almost straw like. It was clear, with a steady, fine stream of carbo. Head was marshmallow white, smooth and creamy, lasted well and deposited decent lacing on the glass. Aroma was a tad bready, with lots of grassy hops and a hint of sharpness. Body was not quite medium, with lots of carbo airiness and some prickle on the tongue.
Flavor was light on the malt, with a bit of crackery sweetness present. Grassy hops were quite pleasant, being a touch flowery, too. Lingers quite well on the palate; a solid Pils.
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | drink: 4
10-06-2009 12:09:20 | More by Bierman9
4.33/5 rDev +22.3%
A: single finger white head with excellent retention on a clear bright golden straw body. Excellent lacing. This is as good ad a pilsner can look.
S: light grains, herbs, lemon and lime.
T: very clean. The grains and pale malts are flavorful without harsh notes or aftertaste. Some mild peppery zest and light lemon lime citrus. Hops are mostly herbal.
M: light body and moderate to high carbonation.
Overall: may be the smoothest and best pilsner I have had. I don't know if this style deserves many 5s but this may be as good as a pilsner gets.
06-23-2012 21:06:54 | More by kylehay2004
3.75/5 rDev +5.9%
09-11-2012 23:27:11 | More by nickfl
4.28/5 rDev +20.9%
Ap: Golden metallic like color. Very beautiful.
Ar: Nice refreshing hop notes and spicy bitterness.
Ta: A crisp and engaging pilsner. Tastes mildly bitter with a sweet crisp bite at the end. A faint apple presence.
Mf: Refreshing and smooth. Very enjoyable.
Ov: One of my favorite pilsners along with Prima Pils. This is a very sessionable beer. Enjoy all night. Cheers!
06-07-2012 01:27:23 | More by LiquidSanity
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A Colorado woman was impaled by a light pole after she crashed because she was texting and driving.
Prosecutors from across North Carolina are making a plea for help. It order to adequately protect us all from violent crime they say they need more resources.
They're driving that message home with a video that is difficult to watch.
It shows the victims of violent crimes. There are photos of them in happier days, juxtaposed against photos of their bodies at crime scenes.
Prosecutors hope to send home the message that their jobs are difficult, trying, and mentally draining.
The 44 district attorneys across the state of North Carolina say they need more resources including more money and additional prosecutors on the job to reduce case loads so they are better able to protect North Carolina residents.
"Prosecutors are in the trenches every day. On the front lines fighting evil. So the public has to understand we need the resources, and prosecutors and the money so we can get the best and brightest to protect this community," said Mecklenburg County District Attorney Andrew Murray.
The DA's are asking lawmakers, local government,community leaders, faith-based organizations and business leaders to come together to promote crime prevention and to support the criminal justice system.
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Would lukewarm reviews keep Netflix from renewing its new animated comedy BoJack Horseman? Neigh!
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When his grouchy attitude gets him kicked out of the park, Surly the squirrel hatches a plan to rob Maury's Nut Shop to stock up for winter.
The first-ever full-length theatrical LEGO movie follows Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO mini figure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared.
It's time to go nuts for this action-packed comedy featuring the all-star talents of Will Arnett, Brendan Fraser, Gabriel Iglesias, Jeff Dunham, Liam Neeson, Maya Rudolph and Katherine Heigl. Surly (Arnett) is a mischievous squirrel with a mission: to find the tastiest nuts for winter. When he discovers a whole store filled with his favorite food, he plans a heist of nutrageous proportions. But the place turns out to be owned by ruthless bank robbers, so it's up to Surly and his furry friends to stop the nearby bank heist and save the town. The fur is sure to fly in this hilarious adventure that critics are calling "Funny and witty! For kids of all ages!" (Jeffrey Lyons, Lyons Den Radio, WCBS)
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Ratings: 71 | Reviews: 31 | Display Reviews Only:
Reviews by TaylorK:
3.75/5 rDev +46.5%
01-18-2014 03:42:21 | More by TaylorK
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Ontario (Canada)
2/5 rDev -21.9%
10-03-2012 00:48:02 | More by beerhunter13
New York
1.5/5 rDev -41.4%
10-24-2012 22:51:43 | More by csmartin6
3.5/5 rDev +36.7%
09-29-2012 04:02:03 | More by NilocRellim
New York
2.83/5 rDev +10.5%
A: Light copper color very clear. Thin quarter inch head dissipated quickly. Tiny bubbles slowly rising to the surface.
S: Slight sweet honey aroma, not much hop presence.
T/M: Crisp and light, pretty sweet on the tongue. I wish there was a little more bitterness to balance the sweetness. Slight butter note maybe? Something is sweet and creamy in the finish.
D: Crisp and kind of refreshing but a little too sweet for my taste, but as far as gluten free goes, it's not as bad as I thought it was going to be.
01-25-2011 21:13:28 | More by kylers
1/5 rDev -60.9%
05-19-2013 01:12:56 | More by freewill35
1/5 rDev -60.9%
02-01-2014 16:14:52 | More by Schwegler
Ontario (Canada)
3.38/5 rDev +32%
Purchased at the LCBO as a single to try. 355ml bottle served at 8deg C in a draught glass.
No statement here on Advocate so on the bottle... 4.7%
A- Pretty good. Opens well, pours golden clear like a Bud
S- Nothing there
T- Nice carbonation. Light tasting. Easy drinking. Mild all around
M- Average at best.
O- Nice easy drinking beer. This is one for a hot day working in the yard. If the price point was better I would buy again
Food Pairing
This nice light flavored beer pairs well with... Hamburgers
04-13-2014 02:35:55 | More by DaveBar
1.5/5 rDev -41.4%
02-11-2013 21:54:35 | More by matjack85
2.68/5 rDev +4.7%
The head is thin and the bubbles seemed large making it seem even lighter. The color is a classic dark apple juice and absolutely crystal clear. In the nose I get a lot of malt and caramel apples. It has a sweetness that is very pleasant. There is a lot of carbonation that cause the beer to instantly fizz when it enters my mouth. The sweet apple continues from the nose to the back of the tongue while drinking. the apple is what makes this "beer" work. The malt lingers on the roof of my mouth with a bit of a spice on the end. If I had to drink beer that was gluten free, I would be happy that someone has put the effort into making something that is drinkable and fairly close to a beer.
12-03-2010 18:55:01 | More by claybeer
3.5/5 rDev +36.7%
Bard's The Original Sorghum Beer has a medium, white head and a clear, gold-amber appearance, with a good amount of streaming bubbles and essentially no lacing. The aroma is of syrupy-sweet grain, and the flavor is of that, as well as grass, a slight bitterness, and a subtle, underlying health-food store taste. Mouthfeel is light watery, and Bard's The Original Sorghum Beer finishes mostly dry, refreshing, and drinkable. No unusual off flavors, here. I found it to be surprisingly good.
05-13-2013 22:15:48 | More by RonaldTheriot
3.03/5 rDev +18.4%
12 oz. bottle, with PD 09/05/2012 printed on the bottleneck, so I'm entirely sure what they're trying to say there. Patented on date? I don't know. I acquired this bottle as part of a mixed six pack at the local Binny's, so I am confident that it's fresh. "The original sorghum malt beer". "Contains no wheat, barley, rye, or oats". No abv listed on the bottle anywhere, so for now it remains a mystery.
Poured into a clear balloon snifter.
A - Pours the typical clear golden orange with good clarity. Two fingers of head that fizzles away quickly. Not much lacing to speak of. Looks okay.
S - The smell is hardly comprised of anything at all, really. Some mustiness, green apples, and a bit cidery. "Ricey" if that makes any sense to anyone.
T - Taste follows the nose - mustiness, cidery green apples, and a bit of earthy yeast presence noticeable. Lightly vinous / grapey / wine-like at times, also.
M - Feel is crisp, clean, & semi-dry. Wine / cider like on the finish like the other sorghum malt beers I've tried. Light-medium bodied with good carbonation.
Overall, similar and on par with the others that I've tried - less than memorable and not very good. Not a beer I would have again, that's for sure, but it's a viable option for our gluten-intolerant friends.
Bard's ---3/5.
04-23-2014 14:20:03 | More by mfnmbvp
Costa Rica
1.78/5 rDev -30.5%
Appearance: light yellow, no head at all
Smell: medicinal
Taste: slightly grainy, water down light beer kinda flavor
Mouthfeel: dry and astringent
Overall: Is good to find this options at the supermarket for patients intolerants to gluten but it is a beer very different from other beers
07-26-2013 23:22:00 | More by jcbogantes
3.25/5 rDev +27%
06-04-2014 19:46:18 | More by cmbeddoe7997
Ontario (Canada)
1.75/5 rDev -31.6%
12-14-2013 05:43:19 | More by DamageCase76
3.11/5 rDev +21.5%
This one pours a very clear and light golden color with a thin white head and little to no lacing on the glass.
The nose is malty sweet with little notes of the hopping. There is a subtle spice to it as well. Kind of weak.
The flavor is OK and is effervescent and dry with subtle hopping as well.
Not a remarkable beer but still drinkable and easy going. could be a good alternative for something lite on hot days.
10-18-2013 02:31:59 | More by AtrumAnimus
2.6/5 rDev +1.6%
Appearance: Clear medium-golden body, with a moderate, fairly dense white crown, which retains fairly well. The lacing is thick and patchy, and there is profuse, fine, slow-rising carbonation.
Aroma: Cereal notes dominate the aroma, along with modest herbal hops, and a light fruitiness.
Taste: The flavor is odd at the open, with a combination of cereals and light fruit, not really beer-like. It is somewhat reminiscent of unfermented wort. There is a slight sour note throughout. The taste draws to a close with a burst of herbal hops and a rather dry finish.
Mouth feel: A bit thin, with stinging carbonation.
Drinkability/notes: Its OK, not really beer-like, but not revolting. Just OK.
Presentation: Packaged in a standard twelve-ounce brown glass longneck bottle, served in a New Belgium Brewing chalice.
11-25-2013 15:13:11 | More by Pegasus
3.38/5 rDev +32%
Poured from an 12 oz bottle into a clear pint glass. Paid $9.79 for a six pack at Life Source Natural Foods in Salem, OR. Bottled 11/02/2011.
A-Pours a very clear amber with a one finger white head that dissipates quickly. A vigorous pour produces a two finger head without much improvement in head retention. One of the better appearing gluten-free beers brewed in America - i.e., it looks like normal beer.
S-The aroma is not very close to barley based beers. What is there is grainy with slight herbal hops. Smells more like a mass produced adjunct lager than craft brewed ales. Sorghum is not barley, unfortunately for the gluten intolerant.
T-Hop bitterness and some earthy spice. Doesn't have the sour cider like twang other sorghum beers have. I suspect this fermented out very dry, but it needs more hop flavor.
M-Light and dry, but a bit thin, as in watery.
O-This is one of the better sorghum based gluten-free beers available for a reasonable price. Green's gluten-free beers have been my favorite, but they cost $6 a 500ml bottle. This is best the closer to bottling date and I suspect the quality deteriorates quickly. The first one I had in late September was bottled in early May and was unacceptable. Very glad this brewer uses bottle dating.
12-01-2011 03:41:32 | More by velosuds
Ontario (Canada)
3.21/5 rDev +25.4%
355 mL bottle picked up at the LCBO as a single; listed at 4.7%. I don't have celiac disease, so I mostly review these beers out of curiosity and a lack of other things to tick - I've certainly never had a GF beer I wanted to drink more than once. Served well-chilled.
This one pours a deep golden-yellow colour, with one finger of fizzy, bone-white head that snaps and crackles as it fades away before my very eyes. A very thin collar and an island of film supported by the carbonation are the only visible remnants... this is a flat, dull-looking beverage reminiscent of apple juice. The aroma is fairly mild, consisting of some vegetal sweetness, apples, and floral hop notes.
I was expecting a bomb, but I am actually pleasantly surprised by this one. It has a grainy malt flavour, with some pear fruitiness and sour apple notes. That boiled vegetable flavour I find in these GF beers is still noticeable, but the floral hop bitterness in the finish helps mask it, and dries the palate out with each sip. Quite light-bodied, almost watery, with fairly mild carbonation. I'm not big on the mouthfeel, but otherwise this is drinkable enough.
Final Grade: 3.21, a C+. Bard's Original Sorghum Malt Beer is probably the most beer-like of the handful of GF brews I've so far imbibed - it's light, refreshing, and a little fruity, reminding me more of a blonde ale than anything. All other things (e.g. price) being equal, I'd take this over most cheap lagers, but in the real world there's no real reason for me to bother with this one again. If you're a beer drinker who needs to start avoiding gluten for one reason or another, this seems like a passable option and I'd probably recommend it in that case.
04-13-2014 18:01:18 | More by thehyperduck
2.5/5 rDev -2.3%
02-05-2014 03:11:11 | More by BryantForestry
1/5 rDev -60.9%
09-06-2013 01:59:11 | More by ygtbsm94
2.5/5 rDev -2.3%
12-21-2011 03:38:29 | More by ATADakaCHAD
1.75/5 rDev -31.6%
08-31-2014 15:14:39 | More by IrishTank
2/5 rDev -21.9%
06-04-2012 06:45:15 | More by richie
3.08/5 rDev +20.3%
Enjoyed this 12oz bottle out of a small snifter glass.
A: Pours a clear light orange hue with a thin 1-finger white head that quickly dissipates into a wispy lace.
S: Sweet aroma – and I smell hints of butterscotch.
T: Sweet flavor also with that butterscotch taste. Smooth caramel like middle with a slight hoppy presence.
M: Medium body and carbonation
O: This was an ok beer – from what I understand making a gluten-free beer is extremely hard so I can appreciate the labor behind this brew – that being said I am extremely glad I can tolerate gluten.
11-10-2012 02:30:06 | More by ckollias
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Max Factor is one of the best 5.11 finger cracks in Vedauwoo. Locate this beauty at the far end of the crag from the parking lot, just around the corner right from the Tubes. The climbing is positive with excellent finger locks until you reach a distinct crux just before the crack bulges. There are good smears for the feet on the right, and if you utilize your left toe well in the crack then relying on the shallow, technical jams at the crux won't seem so desperate. Still, it seems that one short section is a show-stopper for a lot of climbers. Above, the positive locks resume. Lower off of the (new) bolts on the underside of the big bulge (this is the top of P1 of Grand Traverse) or continue up the 5.10+ crux bulge of that route (possible in one pitch). This climb was tried many times by many climbers before Australian Kim Carrigan onsighted it, and compared it in difficulty to Fish Crack in the Valley (5.12b). It has cleaned up considerably since then; in 1980 the crack was filled with gravel, loose bits of rock, and vegetation, and felt like 5.12 to me. Today most climbers will agree it is 5.11 something-or-other, and an area classic.
Medium wired nuts work well on this climb. I would bring a good selection from wireds, TCUs to 1" cams, and singles up to 3", or something like that.


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Even before Washington State fired Paul Wulff and hired Mike Leach, Jim Walden made it clear: the school should not have made a change at head coach.
And then he said it: Mike Leach "is a joke".
That comment, among others, was made during an interview with Jim Moore, a personality on KJR radio in Seattle. Moore blogged about the interview and wrote a column even before the debacle with receiver Marquess Wilson over the weekend.
Walden, a former WSU coach and radio commentator, said "this guy (Leach) represents everything not to do in coaching."
That was a comment in direct reference to how Leach coaches: the "calling out" of players, criticism both in person and in the media, and the use of other colorful words.
"I don't know who this guy is, and I don't care if he goes on to big wins and big seasons. I don't want to be around someone who treats people this way. I can't sort out being a Cougar and being around this guy. I'm proud of the Cougar way and how Cougars operate and the culture of which they are. He's embarrassing my profession. He's taking me somewhere I don't want to go."
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Documentary 'The Flaw' tries to explain causes of recession
More than three years after the housing and financial markets collapsed like a house of cards, triggering the recession, people still want to know how and why.
That was clear Thursday night when about 130 spectators filled a room at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks to watch a documentary that tries to explain those causes.
Clearly, the roughly 80-minute feature "The Flaw" that director David Sington created in 2010 to demystify such a far-reaching event was not an easy undertaking.
That's because the information-packed piece ties together interviews of several Ivy League economists and mortgage brokers with animated line graphs and the remorseful stories of people who lost their homes. Sington adds cynical humor by juxtaposing all of that against snippets of historical cartoons touting free markets.
He even named "The Flaw" after Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, who described the collapse as "a flaw" in the world's free market model during a congressional hearing.
" 'The Flaw' makes one thing clear from the outset — there was nothing simple about the U.S. financial collapse of 2007," writes a reviewer with the Sundance Film Festival. Woven in between myriad interviews in the film, backed by statistics and economists' comments, is Sington's theory that income inequality was an underlying key factor.
"I thought the explanation of the credit bubble relating to income inequality was fabulous," CLU economics professor Jamshid Damooei said in a post-screening discussion.
In Sington's documentary, economists attributed the progressive flattening of middle-class and working-class wages to a collective shift in investing more in assets such as real estate and less in manufacturing. Lower wages fueled a borrowing frenzy, which perpetuated exotic subprime loans, then the bundled sales of good and bad debt, and finally the shocking drop in home values.
"It opened my eyes," said CLU physics and engineering professor Bob Rumer of Camarillo. "I didn't realize that money is just playing around in the asset market and not going into manufacturing."
Linda Witt of Thousand Oaks, who came to the screening with her college-age daughter Audrey, said the documentary was "very interesting" and "fair" about income inequality.
"There is big income inequality. It's a fact," Witt said. "I feel really bad for everyone who bought at that time." But, she added, "I think in this country, people tend to overextend themselves too much."
That we borrowed ourselves into the situation was clear from the piece. But it also was clear that mortgage brokers, lenders and banks figured out how to capitalize on that.
Sarah Ludwig, co-director of the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project in New York, talked in the documentary about how poor and minority neighborhoods were historically "red-lined," which made it hard for minorities to get loans.
But that changed in the 2000s, Ludwig said, and the communities became flooded with credit agencies.
"Wages were not rising, so this has been the way for people to raise their income," a financial planner with asset management firm Dynamic Credit Partners in New York said during the documentary. "But now that's gone, and it's devastating to see that ripple through the economy."
Sington also interviewed New York Times business correspondent Ed Andrews, who lost his home to foreclosure. Audience members said they appreciated the personal stories because they provided a fuller view of the effects of the problem.
Andrews talked about getting his $460,000 mortgage, called a "no ratio" loan. It was easy to get because he didn't have to report his income, he said.
He knew it was questionable and blames only himself, he said, but buying a home meant "a return to normalcy" after his divorce.
Not all magazine film critics applauded the documentary. Variety magazine said it "doesn't introduce new ideas," while The Daily Beast wrote that it was "a far less blistering critique of Wall Street than "Inside Job" by Charles Ferguson.
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Police report several crashes on icy roads, one involving trooperThe Associated Press | December 26,2013MONTPELIER - Vermont State Police are urging drivers to be extremely careful on Interstate 89, where ice has caused several accidents, including one involving a state trooper.
Trooper Ben Katz was heading south on Interstate 89 when his cruiser went off the road in Williston, flipped over and landed wheels down in the median. He was taken to the hospital as a precaution.
Meanwhile, about 600 people remain without power following the ice storm that hit the region over the weekend.
The Vermont Electric Coop reported about 740 customers without power Thursday afternoon. The company estimates most repairs will made by late Thursday night.
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JACKSON, Miss. – Senior right-hander Kaleb Manuel tossed the first complete game of his career Wednesday and the Southeastern Louisiana University baseball team cruised to a 7-4 win at Jackson State.
Southeastern (15-7), taking advantage of five Jackson State errors, came from behind in the middle innings to take the lead for good.
Trailing 3-2 entering the sixth, Jameson Fisher led off the inning with a single up the middle. After moving to second on Sam Roberson's ground out, Fisher got caught in a rundown on Cory Bryan's fielder's choice. The shortstop threw the ball into the third-base dugout, allowing Fisher to score. Bryan, who wound up at third because of the error, scored on Brett Hoffman's sacrifice fly.
In the seventh, Ladd Rhodes scored from first on a throwing error by Jackson State pitcher Brandon Gregory after Ben Hernandez bunted for a base hit. Winding up at third, Hernandez scored on Harry Slade's single to right field. After Fisher was hit by a pitch, Roberson extended his hitting streak to 12 games with an RBI single to right.
Roberson scored the Lions' first run of the game after drawing a one-out walk in the second. He moved into scoring position after Hoffman was hit by a pitch and scored on Alex Marse's single to right.
Jackson State (10-11) scored an unearned run in the second off Manuel to tie the game, 1-1, and added two more runs in the third to take an early lead.
The Mamou, La., native settled down after the third, retiring 18 of the game's final 19 batters in order. After having set down nine-in-a-row entering the seventh, JSU shortstop Gary Thomas doubled down the left-field line. He moved up to third on a deep fly to center that Bryan tracked down and scored on Stephen Curtis' groundout to short.
Manuel (2-1) earned the win for Southeastern, fanning a career-high 10 batters, while Tiger reliever Alexander Juday (0-1) suffered the loss.
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When California ColorOfChange members went to the polls last year to help elect Kamala Harris as the state's Attorney General, this was exactly the type of bold action they were hoping Harris would deliver. Harris, California's first elected black DA and the nation's first elected South Asian DA, announced this week that she would ally with Nevada's AG to investigate misconduct and fraud in the mortgage industry. In other words, Harris said 'no' to an in-the-works plan to let the big banks off with a $20 million settlement-- a slap on the wrist that in no way compensates for the devastation brought on by their predatory practices.
For months, Harris has been pressured by the Obama administration to accept that deal. ColorOfChange members called on her to stay strong and demand accountability for Wall Street's worst offenders. She heard the message, and we later thanked Harris for her courage in opposing any settlement that would let banks off the hook.
As the Los Angeles Times reports, the alliance between Calilfornia's and Nevada's AGs could raise the stakes for the banks, forcing them to propose a better settlement or risk investigation. The two states have been particularly hard hit by the foreclosure crisis, with 1.2 million California homeowners have faced foreclosure in the past three years. And people of color are more than twice as likely to lose their homes to foreclosure than whites. These numbers are disturbing, and the banks responsible can't be allowed to operate with impunity. We applaud AG Harris for this week's announcement, and for once again working in the best interests of her constituents.