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moreDwelling in the highland areas of Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar) and southwest China are hundreds of ethnic groups known as 'tribes' in popular literature. Some groups number barely more than one hundred, others millions. Together their population adds up to 80 million, more than any of the countries (bar China) they inhabit, yet in each they are designated and treated as 'minorities.' They have been forced to dwell in the highlands while their enemies have occupied the more fertile lowlands. This, coupled with the fact that they are so little known abroad and even at home, has caused their way of life and cultural distinctions to come in jeopardy. This book offers hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on about 200 groups, the six countries they live in, some of their leaders, and their political, economic, social, cultural and religious aspects. The chronology covers important events. The introduction discusses both the diversities and similarities of the groups' ethnicities, languages, religious practices, and customs. And the bibliography supplements the dictionary entries. less
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The main bartender at Skeeter's Bar and Cocktails and the town sports bookie, the Bartender's one of South Park's usual lovable rednecks. He has a good rapport with his boss Skeeter, even when they end up arguing about who they do and don't take kindly to. He's not always a big fan of letting kids in the bars but he's let the rule go plenty of times as well. If there's a political issue to be had, expect him to be right along Skeeter. He also permits smoking in the bar, and the viewing of exciting episodes of Cop Drama. He also sent out one of his redneck friends to get help when Snooki appeared in the bar.
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Here is the initial lineup for Willamette Week's MusicfestNW, scheduled for Sept. 7-11, 2011 in Portland, Oregon, and it's pretty great. The multi-venue fest includes big outdoor performances by Band of Horses (Sunday, Sept. 11), Explosions in the Sky (Saturday, Sept. 10), and Iron & Wine (Friday, Sept. 9), in addition to shows with everyone from Archers of Loaf to Big Freedia to Butthole Surfers to Neurosis. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 3rd. Check out the full list below...
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The hardest, and probably the most impossible, request you can ask the person who loves you is for them to forget you. #HuaMulan2009 #tragedy #feels #notcrying
Someone once said, go too far from home and you will loose your roots. Kill too many people and you will forget yourself. If you die in a battle, your life will sink into the ground like rain and vanish without a trace. If at that time, you fall in love with someone, hope will blossom again from the earth and embrace life with passion. Wentai, thank you.
The movie Hua Mulan is so gorgeous and makes me cry so much.
The worst feeling ever is to be in so much pain and have nobody to even know how bad you are hurting.
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Shade knew that at the Wally family private offices nighttime didn't mean the lights went out and everyone went home. His grand-uncle was a notorious workaholic as well as a tyrant. Shade didn't understand how a man like that managed to live so long on so little sleep and with so much responsibility and not keel over into an early grave. People quietly expected his grand-uncle to pass away from his illnesses, if not from old age, and soon, yet Wayne Wally still made his will known to everyone beyond his oak carved doors.
Shade half-suspected his grand-uncle of being a vampire. Considering that his great-grandfather was reputed to be an occultist as well as a mad inventor, and that on his great-grandmother's side was a lineage of supposed sorceresses, Shade thought it likely that there could be at least one monster in the family.


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"Fuck you Daily Mirror"
I don't understand the U.K. tabloids. What the hell were they trying to achieve here? So believe none of what you hear, half of what you see I guess? Oh well, carry on.
If she were JUST a pothead she'd still be with us!!!
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I was so upset when Amy died. I was just talking with someone in London about her and how she was such a timeless artist so quick! Fuck! I had DJ Two Stacks mix something together for a tribute because, I had a show the same day! It makes me so mad we have to lose such great artists to poison.


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The answer is that until it gets to court no one knows. HIPAA represents
1000's of pages of requirements that are ambiguous at best and contradictory
at worst. HIPAA's useful function is the standardization of procedure codes
saving the health care industry and in turn consumers untold sums. For
implementing HIPAA security compliance, best bet is to secure the
infrastructure to DoD standards and industry best practices. Include in your
contract that you will not represent your clients in court as if you end up
in front of a judge it's anyone's best guess as to what may happen.
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From: Jason Hastain [mailto:hastain () sbcglobal net]
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 1:29 PM
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Subject: HIPAA certs
hey all,
I have a few clients who are doctors running small practices. They have
small LAN's and DSL connectinos behind a simple NAT router/firewall in one
case and persoanl FW's in the other (unfortunatly not my decision in either
Each has approached me about the HIPAA certs in the last week. I have read
through what seams reams of pages on it b ut have been unable to deduce
anything other than general good security practices. Strong passwords,
offsite encrypted backups, real firewalls, etc and so on.
Can anyone shed some light onto this subject or point me to a document with
only the IT requirements prefereably boiled down to something simple?
And also has anyone had any experience yet with the HIPAA investigators or
quality control people checking on a site? any ideas what they are looking
I understand it is a 20k dollar fine for each infraction so I would hate for
it to be on my watch.
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Maybe this approach is aimed at weathering a late season five-game stretch against New England, Pittsburgh, Green Bay, Chicago and the New York Jets that will almost assuredly make or break the Chiefs season. But is this the right approach? Do you want you guys still learning the system during the first few weeks of the regular season? It does not seem like the most efficient approach to me.
Right 53 doesn't mean anything anymore, if it ever did. Because no definition of "right 53″ includes Jonathan Baldwin, Justin Houston, Jared Gaither and Jerrell Powe. These guys are the exact opposite of what that phrase was supposed to mean. Upside lottery tickets. Hey, I love 'em. But up until this season we all thought Pioli didn't. Its like some guy spent two years telling us he didn't like ice cream and then when he finally had us over to his house his freezer was full of Cherry Garcia and Americone Dream.
Victor, Ladner, Merlin, and Randy after the jump…
Yes, the Pioli Administration has always been notorious for its stonewalling, and its newspeak has been well-documented and well-dissected on this site. But am I the only one who feels this "family business" business has taken it up a notch—and, frankly, is just a little creepy?
Some use the parity method as a microscope to focus on the chance of winning a specific game. But, does that really mean every team in the NFL is equal? Not really. There could be some advantages to using a wider overall picture of each team, like a Hubble telescope, to gain a more accurate picture of the NFL as it spans the decades.
Right now, Jonathan, you are a slob, a talented slob, but a slob. You are the NFL equivalent of the minor league baseball player with fungus on his shower shoes. You have a big decision to make. You can swallow your ego, grow up and learn or you can shut down, wallow in self pity and cash your checks. Do you want to be the next Larry Fitzgerald or the next high profile NFL bust? The choice is yours.
That's the cheap way folks! If you cannot afford that it's completely understandable the economy is tough. But the fact is a season of Kansas City Chiefs football has never been cheaper or better. Affording a game at Arrowhead in my opinion is an economic issue more than it is an issue with the evil Hunt family.
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Very well written agree with you. Besides, I have seen that the Cvs just can't sustain a story on the basis of love and romance and then they end up taking countless leaps and separation tracks. I also, get just bored watching leads romancing in the rain with a Hindi music in the background. This is probably the first time in a serial that the separation will be circumstantial and not because of someone scheming against the lead...that is a refreshing change for me...
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How's your summer going? Enjoying time with the family, at the cottage, soaking up the sun? No? Good. I'm not the only one, then.
The good news is another NHL season is right around the corner, with the first Leafs' preseason game scheduled for September 15. The bad news is that's still 19 days away and until then we're left torturing ourselves with Nazem Kadri and Cody Franson contract updates.
So I decided to do something a little different to distract us from the usual offseason banality. The 2014 Sochi Olympics are coming up this February, and who doesn't love Olympic hockey? To get us ready for what we might expect in Russia in about five-and-a-half months, I'll be breaking down the orientation camp invitees for seven of the top contending countries at Sochi: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden, USA and Canada. (Sorry about that Norway, Switzerland, Latvia, Slovenia and Austria. No hard feelings, right?)
I will whittle down each team's potential pool of players to a final, 25-man roster (22 skaters and three goaltenders). It's important to note that players who didn't make the orientation camp still have an opportunity to be chosen for the final roster, so on rare occasions I might decide to pick a non-invitee (*cough* Carl Gunnarsson *cough*). So not only does this give me something to write about, each country's respective management team gets their work done for them too! I believe the French would refer to that as a gagner-gagner.
As always, leave a comment if I forget a player or you think I'm underrating anybody. I want these lists to be just as much your lists as my lists. So first up: Team Slovakia.
At the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, Slovakia shocked the world by beating heavily-favoured Sweden in the quarter-finals 4-3. The Slovaks were outshot 29-14 in that game, but Jaroslav Halak turned away 26 of them. That set up another tough matchup against the home country in the semis. The Slovaks fell behind 3-0 heading into the third period but stormed back with goals by Lubomir Visnovsky and Michal Handzus to come within one with five minutes to go. That's as close as they came to upsetting the eventual gold medal-winning Canadians, but there's no doubt they punched way above their weight just to get to that position.
It will be difficult for Slovakia to repeat that kind of success in Sochi. Gone are longtime veterans Pavol Demitra, Jozef Stumpel, Zigmund Palffy and Richard Zednik. In there place will come a youth movement led by the likes of Tomas Tatar, Richard Panik, Tomas Jurco and Martin Marincin. Will the kids be ready for primetime international hockey in Sochi? There is still plenty of top-flight veteran talent on this squad to help them along. This is how I think the 25-man roster will shake down:
Tomas Tatar
Michal Handzus
Richard Panik
Tomas Jurco
Tomas Zaborsky
Juraj Mikus
Lubomir Visnovsky
Martin Marincin
Dominik Granak
Jaroslav Halak
- The big question will be whether or not Tatar is ready for big minutes on the top line. The 22-year-old had a very nice year with the Detroit Red Wings' AHL team, scoring 49 points in 61 games. He even saw 18 games with the big club, scoring seven in 18. There's a big hole at centre on this team, and with the 36-year-old Handzus looking a little long in the tooth, Tatar will be counted on to be a big part of the team's offense.
- Remember Miro Satan? The 38-year-old spent last year with the KHL's Bratislava Slovan, scoring 12 points in only 21 games. But the year before, he totaled 52 in 49, albeit playing in the weaker Slovakian league. Assuming he isn't dealing with any major injuries and hasn't lost his desire to play, the team could use his scoring prowess in the top six. If he can't cut it, the 22-year-old Panik should be able to fill that role to some degree.
- The fourth line and extras are kind of a crapshoot, because I don't really know any of these guys. I know Radivojevic, Marcel Hossa and Surovy all played in the NHL back in the day, but they're now all north of 30 years old and aren't exactly lighting the KHL on fire. On a team that will be pretty winger-heavy, they should make the team, but I can't see them playing significant roles.
- Chara is still one of the best defensemen in the world, and will be counted on to log big minutes along with the 37-year-old Visnovsky. The two Andrejs, both veteran NHLers, round out the top six. Meszaros only played 11 games last year due to a torn rotator cuff that required surgery. They'll need him to stay healthy. The 21-year-old Marincin had 30 points in 69 games for the Edmonton Oilers' AHL team last year. The second-round pick in 2010 should make the team. The former NHLer Jurcina will battle Baranka and Granak for the final spot, but the fact he's the only right-handed shot in this group might give him the leg up.
- The goaltending will remain unchanged from Vancouver. Halak had a tough year as a backup with the St. Louis Blues, but has shown in the past he has the ability to get hot and carry his team deep in a short tournament. Budaj actually had a better save percentage in a similar number of games as Halak last season, but doesn't have the same track record. I remember Stana from old NHL video games. I can still hear Jim Hughson saying his name. At 33 years old, he's still going strong in the KHL, posting a .934 save percentage with CSKA Moscow last season.


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In honor of Mixology Monday's theme this time of the smash, here's a variation on one of the great modern classics, the Gin Basil Smash, created in the summer of 2008 by Joerg Meyer of Le Lion, Bar de Paris, in Hamburg. (Photo right by Jay Hepburn, from his great OhGo.sh video of Joerg making the Gin Basil Smash.)
Though you may never have noticed before, basil has flavor notes which harmonize with clove and, surprisingly, chocolate. I've substituted the rich sugar syrup in the original with crème de cacao and added clove bitters and clove garnish to pull out those other flavors and scents.
2 oz gin
3/4 oz Tempus Fugit crème de cacao (or other very high quality crème de cacao)
1/2 oz lemon juice
1/8 oz Bitter Truth Jerry Thomas' Own Decanter Bitters (or other clove-focused bitters)
8 fresh sweet basil leaves
Muddle the leaves in your shaker tin along with the rind of half a juiced lemon, the creme de cacao, and the bitters. Add gin and ice and shake vigorously. Double strain over ice—crushed or cobble ice would be lovely with this—into a coupe or small Old Fashioned glass. Garnish with a sprinkle of ground clove and a fresh basil leaf pierced by a whole clove.
- Dinah
I included this drink in The Art of the Shim: Low-Alcohol Cocktails to Keep You Level after discovering it in William "Cocktail Bill" Boothby's posthumously published 1934 book World Drinks and How to Mix Them. Unfortunately, I was not able to trace its origins back from that book. Boothby expert John C. Burton noted that many of the recipes in it appear to have been added by ghostwriters, as it is much expanded from his immediately prior book, Swallows.
I called the drink the Boulevardier 1934 to distinguish it from the earlier bourbon-based drink found in Harry McElhone's 1927 book Barflies and Cocktails.
Thanks to the research of French cocktail blogger Gaylor Olivier of The Perfect Drink, we can now retitle it the Boulevardier 1929. Based on the information he discovered in a book from that year, Cocktails de Paris by "Rip" (real name Georges Gabriel Thenon), we can assign this drink to 'Robert from Viel', a now defunct Parisian bar located at the time at number 8 Boulevard de la Madeleine. M. Robert took the grand prize with it at the barmen's championship which took place at Theatre Apollo in Paris on February 2, 1929.
To my delight, a full PDF download of this book is available from EUVS.org. The drink list:
(This essay by Dinah first appeared in the Hayes Valley Voice.)
If you haven't gone before 5pm on a workday, you haven't really been to our little neighborhood bar on the green. At opening time—2pm—on a recent sunny Tuesday I stopped in at Brass Tacks to talk with co-owner Matty Conway. My plan was to spend a quiet hour discussing a topic of mutual interest: low-alcohol cocktails. Matty's menu features a couple great ones—my favorite is the sherry-based 'Spanish Prisoner'—and my book, The Art of the Shim: Low-Alcohol Cocktails to Keep You Level, is all about lighter drinks. Shop talk was the plan, but the sun was shining in the open front windows and within moments of my arrival began a steady flow of interesting people joining us.
Off-duty restaurant and bar workers traded good-natured teasing with Matty and sipped wine, beers, and whiskey sours. A serious pair talked business over craft brews. People popped in long enough to say hello or waved as they passed. A trio of Giants fans combined watching the opening day game on the TV over my head with planning for one of them getting married the following weekend.
As they alternated between applauding the team and reviewing the timeline for the big day's events, I was delighted to have Marlena herself, Garry McLain, sit down beside me to enjoy a cool beer after a long hot walk. Since his bar closed so Matty and team could move in, he's been a big supporter of Brass Tacks and, though like me may enjoy a quiet afternoon best, is thrilled to see the bar overflowing on busy weekend nights. After all, he knows how tough running a neighborhood feature can be.
Before his legendary and lamented Marlena's bar opened, that location was The Overpass—aptly named for its position in the shadow of the Central Freeway—and Garry was behind its bar, too. Instead of a thriving neighborhood riding the wave of being acclaimed across the country, Hayes Street west of Octavia was struggling. Storefronts were empty though they could be rented for $400 a month, Garry recalled, instead of more than $10,000 today. Still, neighbors could imagine good times ahead. They gathered, planned, and, step by step, revitalized Hayes Valley. As he confirmed for me, this rebirth wasn't born out of centralized planning, but from local vision of a better place to live.
What role might bars like The Overpass, Marlena's, and Brass Tacks play in shaping the life of the neighborhood? I thought about Europeans sipping aperitifs at café tables on the public square. Beer gardens open to their surroundings. And, yes, bars with open doors and windows, inviting interaction between those imbibing and passers-by. These all support light drinking as a casual activity alongside connecting with a place and its people, as opposed to hiding away with the drab goal of getting hammered. And they all can create an informality and openness within which connections can be made.
As urban design critic, Jane Jacobs noted, "it is possible in a city street neighborhood to know all kinds of people without unwelcome entanglements, without boredom, necessity for excuses, explanations, fears of giving offense, embarrassments respecting impositions or commitments, and all such paraphernalia of obligations which can accompany less limited relationships. It is possible to be on excellent sidewalk terms with people who are very different from oneself, and even, as time passes, on familiar public terms with them." Far from being a source of division, with their acceptance and encouragement of conversation with strangers, neighborhood drinking spots can build bridges. There's a reason my copy of The Death and Life of Great American Cities features on the cover a picture of Jacobs in smiling interaction with others beside her at a bar.
Wonderful conversations and neighborly connections--that's what
cheerful local bars are made for. I may have come in expecting to talk
theory with Matty, but the reality swept me up in a big hug and made
clear why wit and heart combine perfectly in a lighter drink with smiling
strangers, now friends.
This year's categories for the Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards—the cocktail world's premier honor—have been announced and the nomination form is open, reminding us to share our favorites from the last year.
Though we've been enjoying fantastic drinks and great service for years, 2013 marks a new high in the availability of a quality cocktail experience. Bartenders and—significantly—entire bar teams around the world are doing some of the best work we've ever seen. It is a second golden age of the cocktail, which we encourage you to get out and enjoy!
Pleasing as all those top-notch options are, they do make picking favorites very, very difficult. We are definitely not in 'if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all' mode here; omission does not imply a lack of recommendation. Even with that caveat, we throw up our hands in defeat at naming best bartenders. Bravo to all and carry on.
With regard to bars we are slightly more opinionated. In the past, there have often been clear standouts, but now so many bars are operating at such a high level (and we've been fortunate in the past year to visit so many of them), that the choice of a winner has begun to rely on a broader set of criteria. Without breaking a sweat we could name a dozen world-class bars, but to distinguish between them requires consideration of more than the quality of the drinks, the skill of the bartenders making them, and the look and feel of the space. In choosing the best this year, our deciding factor was the often unsung part of the team: the barbacks, hosts, and other service staff who quietly keep everything moving smoothly. Our two winners exemplify this, which is why they're also our nominees for the new Spirited Award (great minds think alike?) for Best Bar Team. From the moment we walk in the door and at every interaction the full team of these bars makes us feel welcome, personally appreciated, and incredibly well cared for. They embody the finest tradition of bartending in their warm hosting, leaving even the most physically beautiful of bars with gliding, silent, supermodel servers rather chilly in comparison.
Best American Cocktail Bar: Comstock Saloon, San Francisco, California
Best International Cocktail Bar: Le Lion Bar de Paris, Hamburg, Germany
It was a busy travel year, so we can report that menus and execution in hotel bars in general are improving. Likewise the options at many airports. Above this general good news, the top hotel bars are displaying glorious style, creativity, and in our international winner's case, a huge sense of fun.
Best American Hotel Bar: Lantern's Keep, Iroquois Hotel, New York, New York
Best International Hotel Bar: Artesian, Langham Hotel, London, England
This year we can commend this nominee not only for the way their publication has entertained us, but also for its usefulness as a research tool, very handy in our work on The Art of the Shim.
Best Cocktail & Spirits Publication: Imbibe Magazine
As we're competitors for the Best New Cocktail/Bartending Book category we are not making a nomination here, but do encourage everyone to check out the finalists for this and past years. The cocktail renaissance is on the printed page as well as in the glass!
Here's the introduction—or invocation—to The Art of the Shim, which incidentally reveals a good deal of our Bibulo.us philosophy.
Why on earth would anyone ever want less alcohol in their cocktails?
At first the very idea seems counter-intuitive. Doesn't 'less booze' defeat the whole purpose of drinking? But that assumes that the goal of drinking is to get drunk. If it were, cocktails could be judged, at best, inefficient. In truth, they are something far better.
A great cocktail is a fleeting jewel, a sensory experience that is inherently transient, but sublime. Chosen with careful consideration of the drinker's mood. Ordered with delicious expectation. Prepared with great attention—the observation of which is no small part of the pleasure of the drink. Presented beautifully. Small enough to remain at its proper temperature and dilution to the last drop. Containing enough alcohol to set it apart from other beverages and elevate the present moment.
If the goal of drinking were to get drunk, cocktails would never be the best route! Instead of treating ourselves to good company, pleasant surroundings, and fine ingredients, we could just stay home, buy any old cheap rotgut, drink it straight from the bottle, and achieve our aim (while accelerating our respective ends, no doubt). But that's not why civilized people drink.
We drink to connect. The connection made is not only with our fellows—be they on our side of the bar or serving us across it—but with our senses and our sense of self. To drink a cocktail properly is to say, "We are here now, together, you and I." Such a simple thing, but so vital when our attention is often elsewhere. Perhaps that is why cocktails are a product of the modern world. As our ability to escape our present surroundings has grown, we've needed a ritual to bring us back.
The Art of the Shim: Low-Alcohol Cocktails to Keep You Level is a celebration of being able to fit more drinks into an evening without getting stupid, sad, or sick. Smart drinking doesn't require giving up cocktails or alcohol entirely, nor must we resign ourselves to a monotonous diet of simplistic, syrupy concoctions. Fans of sophisticated beverages can switch into a lower gear without giving up everything they love about cocktails.
In brief, this book advocates . . .more drink, less drunk.
This is that rare creature: a hot toddy shim.
I (Dinah) was inspired to invent it after a visit to Umami Mart.
The rich chocolate of the crème de cacao and the heat of the whiskey match beautifully with the roasted coffee flavors of the tea. Bright orange notes from the peel tie it all together.
Just the thing to warm you through, like an ofuro, a hot tub.
Everything is fitting into place for the release of The Art of the Shim: Low-Alcohol Cocktails to Keep You Level in September!
You can pre-order the book online and in several stores already, with more coming.
The bookstore launch party will be at The Booksmith in San Francisco's Upper Haight, Monday, September 23rd at 7:30 PM. There will also be some pop-up festivities at the bars featured in the book. Keep an eye on the Bibulo.us Twitter account for announcements.
To get you warmed up, here is the complete list of the book's 53 tested and true recipes:
Adonis, Alfonso, Amaretto Sour, Americano, Antique Sour, Apparent Sour, Backpedal, Bamboo, Ben's Good Humor, Bitter Giuseppe, Bloody Betty, Bored Stiff, Boulevardier 1934, Champagne Julep, Cherry Mixture Cocktail, Chrysanthemum, Coffee Cocktail, Devil's Cocktail, Diamond Daisy Shim, Diplomat, Dubonnet Velvet, Epiphany, Far East Side, Fino Noir, Fire-Breathing Devil, Flor de Jerez, Flying Horseman, Grasshopper, Haberdasher, The Iggy, Jeff's Whimsy Shim, Lindsey's Whimsy Shim, Lodestone, Michelada, Nopa's Grapefruit Cocktail, Pantomime Cocktail, Perfect Thyming, Pimm's Cup, Pleasant Evening, Port of Havana, Port of SF, Rhum Dandy Shim, Rose (fallen), Satan's Whiskers (curled), Sherry Cobbler, The Shortie, Silver Ruby, Sloe Gin Fizz, Snow White, Sophia Loren Shim, Spion Kop Cocktail, Spring Green, Teresa.
Where possible recipes have been confirmed with their creators. When multiple recipes exist, for example with the Pimm's Cup, different versions were tested to select the best. (Thank you to my group of "guinea pigs" and their eclectic palates!)
In 1862, Jerry Thomas would have been happy to make you a Whiskey Smash and it would have gone something like this:
2 ounces of whiskey
1 TBSP water
1/2 TBSP sugar
Stirred to mix, poured into a small bar glass two-thirds full of shaved ice, garnished with two sprigs of mint ("same as in the recipe for a mint julep").
Twenty-nine years later, William "Cocktail Bill" Boothby would have served you something similar. In fact, the recipe in his 1891 book American Bar-Tender consists entirely of "A small Whiskey Julep, with the rum flavor omitted. (See Juleps.)" In other words:
"Fill a large goblet with fine ice and pour a jigger of whiskey over it; then take several sprigs of young, tender mint and place them in a medium-size mixing-glass with a dessertspoonful of bar sugar and just enough water to nearly fill the goblet, in which you have already placed the fine ice and whiskey. Press the mint with a muddler until the sugar is all dissolved and the water is well-flavored with mint, strain into the goblet of ice and whiskey, ornament with fruits and a few sprigs of mint which have been moistened and dipped in sugar, and serve with straws.
Jump forward half a century, to W.C. Whitfield's 1941 book Here's How and little has changed.
"Use Old Fashioned cocktail glass. Dissolve 1 lump of sugar in a few dashes of carbonated water. Add four sprigs of fresh mint and crush slightly. Fill glass with cracked ice. Add 1 jigger of rye or bourbon. Decorate with lemon peel and slice of orange.
Another leap, to 2002, and Dale DeGroff's take on the drink, and we've only gotten a little juicier:
With the same basic recipe Jerry Thomas used 140 years earlier, include two lemon pieces in your muddling and, unlike Whitfield, let the mint serve as the entire garnish.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
Inspired by William "Cocktail Bill" Boothby and his Ruby Cocktail, here's a new drink which pertly rules the center of the bitter/sweet/tart Venn diagram.
This rich burgundy-colored cocktail, in its royal form, is ideal for holiday parties. You can make it in batch in advance, then simply serve from the chilled bottles, garnish, and brighten with a pour of champagne on top.
3 oz Bitter Truth sloe gin*
3 oz regular ol' sweet vermouth (e.g., Martini & Rossi, Cinzano)
1/16 oz Cherry Heering
scant 1/16 oz Parfait Amour**
3 dashes orange bitters
Chill and serve to a few friends, garnishing with an orange twist.
With a champagne float, it's a Sweet King William, and delicious.
*If using another, sweeter brand, use less of the two liqueurs.
** If you don't have this, do not buy a bottle—you will never ever use it up—just put in a little more Cherry Heering.
Remember: if making it for a party and then chilling the bottles (rather than stirring with ice and adding dilution that way as you would when mixing on demand), add water before bottling; 3 parts ingredients to 1 part water. Yep, good cocktails really are 25% dilution.
One of our favorite bars in San Francisco is Tosca Cafe. It feels more right, somehow, than any other bar in the city.
Well, it seems Tosca is in a bit of a rent dispute with their landlord (owner of chain strip joint Deja Vu, on the other side of the building), and they've called in bigger guns than perhaps have ever been deployed over a $500/month rent increase: John Keker of Keker & Van Nest. Keker (for whom Joe used to work) is generally regarded as the best lawyer in San Francisco. Given that John's time quite rightly doesn't come cheap, he's certain to be working without fee, pro bono publico -- or, in this case, we guess, pro bono biberarius.
The man gives good quote:
"What's interesting to me is why this girlie club guy is going to try to take away a San Francisco institution," Keker said. "This stands for a lot of what's wrong with North Beach in general."


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Wedding: 03/24/2013
Services Used: Ceremony & Reception Venue
The White Room is by far the best place to get married in St. Augustine. They have to best views, incredible and professional staff, and best dance floor rooftop! My coordinator Meghan was truly amazing. From start to finish Meghan and the White Room were always there for me. I moved back and forth from the east coast to the west coast and while being a full time college student, they made everything so simple and easy for me. Meghan always got back to me right away and the receptionst Hailee was there to answer questions for me. Not only is it an awesome venue but they provide amazing extras; sparkler light exits, trolley ride pick and drop off for guests! I had so many guest and friends come up to me and say that it was the best wedding ever. Thank you so much the everyone at the White Room and especially to Meghan!! You made it the best day of my life
Wedding: 03/15/2013
Services Used: Ceremony & Reception Venue
We got married at the White Room in their Loft/Rooftop area overlooking the water. The White Room venue is just beautiful and makes for a wonderful destination wedding for all your guests. They have three different areas that are available and they are working on a fourth. So, whether you want an outside or inside wedding, formal or a little more casual, large or small guest list... they have you covered!
Our guests couldn't say enough about the White Room, the staff and St. Augustine. I can't even tell you how many times a guest came up to me and told me how great the White Room is and wanting to know how I found it. Everyone said the food was amazing and the setting was so beautiful and romantic. I even got many comments about how great and accommodating the staff was and that they had never been treated so well at previous weddings.
Meghan Berman was our wedding coordinator and she is absolutely amazing! She made everything effortless... I didn't have to worry about a thing. She and the staff made sure that the entire night ran smoothly and that all of our guests had a wonderful time.
Definitely put the White Room on your list of venues to consider... you WILL NOT be disappointed. And ask for Meghan... she will take care of you.
Wedding: 03/08/2013
Services Used: Ceremony & Reception Venue
I chose The White Room for my destination wedding to St. Augustine through the web and a phone conversation. It was the first venue I clicked on and that was it! The view from the rooftop was spectacular and that's what first drew me. It made for a phenomenally beautiful sunset ceremony. The loft space, which we also had for the affair, was warm and inviting with its brick walls, french doors, columns, wood floors. My florist, Kristen Hendrix of A Happily Ever After Florist (reviewed separately) was easily able to transform this venue into one of elegance and romance given this great base. My guests are still raving about the food which was five star restaurant fare rather than catering hall food. Their set up and service was excellent as well.
I'm not sure what other venues charge because, honestly, I didn't look any further but there is a fairly high minimum to pay whether you have 20 or 150 people. If you're on a budget and having a smaller wedding you might want to look for a place at which you just pay per head. But although my destination wedding dwindled to 50 by the end, the beauty, service, and food of The White Room was well worth it to me. My guests use the words - exquisite, magnificent, perfect - to describe my wedding! :))
I'd also like to review my wedding event planner, Meghan Berman, separately in this review. Fortunately, Meghan answered my inquiry and I felt an instant connection. I'm glad I went with my gut and started working with her. From start to finish she was a joy to work with. I never felt as if I were a bother and Meghan, ALWAYS pleasant and reassuring, handled every "problem" with ease and professionalism. She has a smile in her voice.
Meghan even called me to let me know that I could reallocate funds to get "my money's worth'. She held my hand through it all and helped to make my wedding an awesome event! :) Get her if you can!
Wedding: 03/03/2013
Services Used: Ceremony & Reception Venue
My experience with Jen and the White Room was nothing but pleasant and stress free. I was having a "destination wedding" and most of my communication was through email/phone. Every question I had was answered quickly and all my requests were able to be met within my budget. Our ceremony was on the rooftop which was absolutely beautiful and the reception was in the loft area. I can't even begin to list all the great compliments we received on the wedding. Our guests felt welcome and comfortable in the environment and everything was set up exactly how I requested by Jen and her staff. It was a very chilly evening and they even provided heaters for outside. As a control freak I definitely had my concerns about not being able to do everything myself the day of the wedding but it was all done flawlessly and exceeded my expectations. I would defintely recommend the White Room to anyone looking to get married in a beautiful location and work with a wonderful staff.
Wedding: 03/01/2013
Services Used: Ceremony & Reception Venue
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Pakistan: Now or Never?
Perspectives on Pakistan
Warp and weft:tales from the Pakistani blogosphere
I am going to break a self-imposed rule and recount my latest conversation with a Pakistani taxi driver. His parents live in Lahore, so we got talking about his main worries about Pakistan. The answer - lack of clean water and dengue fever. I am somewhat parodying the tired journalistic device of "my taxi driver said" here (I promise not to do it again) – since you can quote a Pakistani taxi driver without even going to Pakistan (London minus the extra airfare) – but here's my point. People don't always, or even often, talk about the stuff that makes headline news – like relations with the United States, the war in Afghanistan, Islamist militancy, drones, civilian-military competition and political confrontation. Pakistan (190 million people or more) is also cultural, social, economic and historical; it is religious but not only religious, traditional and urbanising; it is the most parochial country to be obsessed with the outside world; the most feudal to be driven by a web-savvy and growing youth; its issues include music and education, the price of onions and the fear of dengue.
To capture some of that, I have decided to start, on an experimental basis, a round-up of some of the latest articles in the Pakistani blogosphere. Apologies to anyone who feels they were unfairly ignored this time around but 1) I notice more those on my Twitter timeline (@myraemacdonald), 2) I am looking at themes that would be worth exploring further 3) I have tried to exclude those about The Big Political and Geopolitical Issues and 4) This is a personal choice rather than a scorecard. I have, however, included blogs from the diaspora with some reservations - inside the space created by the internet, and particularly on Twitter, diaspora/Pakistan conversations appear seamless (especially, for reasons I have never understood, when Manchester United is playing); outside the internet, real world influences are different in ways that are not always obvious.
I shall refine/amend/drop this series depending on what people have to say. But to get started, here are a few blogs/themes that caught my eye.
First up, urbanisation. This is important since much of the support for Islamist groups and for the kind of "stability" which some think can best be provided by the army has come from the urban middle and lower-middle classes. As has been the case in India, anger against corruption has also been driven by the urban middle classes who want a bigger share of the pie, while being presented rather disingenuously as concern for the rural poor. And urbanisation is an essential subject to master for anyone who wants to invest in Pakistan.
Trusting the masses: US tiptoes into democracy in Pakistan
In his book "Where the Wild Frontiers Are: Pakistan and the American Imagination", an edited collection of his Chapati Mystery blog, historian Manan Ahmed complained about the United States' past support for former president Pervez Musharraf, and its refusal, at the time to trust Pakistan with democracy. In an entry written in 2007, he described Pakistan as the "the not yet nation" - a country for which democracy might be a good thing in the long run, but was in American eyes not yet ready.
"We fear the multitudes on two fronts. One is that we conceive of them as masses without politics – forever hostage to gross religious and ideological provocations. Masses which do not constitute a body politic or act with an interest in self-preservation or self-growth. Faced with that absence of reason, we are forced to support native royals to do the job (from Egypt to Pakistan). We justify it by stressing that we may not like these dictators but we know that if we did not have them, the masses would instantly betray us to the very forces of extremism that we seek to destroy," he wrote.
Solving Afghanistan and Pakistan over a cup of tea
I have never read "Three Cups of Tea", Greg Mortenson's book about building schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan. I tried to read the sequel, "Stones into Schools" and gave up not too long after the point where he said that, "the solution to every problem … begins with drinking tea." Having drunk tea in many parts of South Asia – sweet tea, salt tea, butter tea, tea that comes with the impossible-to-remove-with-dignity thick skin of milk tea – I can confidently say that statement does not reflect reality.
So I have always been a bit puzzled that the Americans took Mortenson's books so much to heart. Yes, I knew he boasted that his books had become required reading for American officers posted to Afghanistan; and yes, there is the glowing praise from Admiral Mike Mullen on the cover of "Stones into Schools", where he wrote that "he's shaping the very future of a region". But I had always believed, or wanted to believe, that at the back of everyone's minds they realised that saccharine sentimentality was no substitute for serious analysis. Just as hope is not a strategy, drinking tea is not a policy. (To be fair to the Americans, I have also overheard a British officer extolling the virtues of drinking tea in Afghanistan.)
From Afghanistan to Libya; rethinking the role of the military
In a report this month calling for faster progress on a political settlement on Afghanistan, the influential UK parliamentary foreign affairs committee was unusually critical of the dominance of the military in setting Afghan policy.
"We conclude that there are grounds for concern over the relationship between the military and politicians. We further conclude that this relationship has, over a number of years, gone awry and needs to be re-calibrated … we believe that problems in Afghanistan highlight the need for a corresponding cultural shift within Whitehall to ensure that those charged with taking foreign policy decisions and providing vitally important political leadership are able to question and appraise military advice with appropriate vigour," it said.
Army, Allah and America: on Pakistani pitfalls and the future of Egypt
All countries are unique and comparing two of the world's most populous Muslim countries, Egypt and Pakistan, is as risky as comparing Britain to France at the time of the French Revolution. But many of the challenges likely to confront Egypt as it emerges from the mass protests against the 30-year-rule of President Hosni Mubarak are similar to those Pakistan has faced in the past, and provide at least a guide on what questions need to be addressed. In Pakistan, they are often summarised as the three A's — Army, Allah and America.
Both have powerful armies which are seen as the backbone of the country; both have to work out how to accommodate political Islam with democracy, both are allies of America, yet with people who resent American power in propping up unpopular elites.
In Pakistan, a death foretold
In one of the more anguished posts about the murder of provincial governor Salman Taseer, Pakistani blogger Huma Imtiaz wrote that his assassination "is not the beginning of the end. This is the end. There is no going back from here, there is no miracle cure, there is no magic wand that will one day make everything better. Saying 'enough is enough' does not cut it anymore …"
It was a sense that permeated much of the English-language commentary about Taseer's killing in Islamabad by one of his own security guards. Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Taseer, governor of Punjab province and a leading politician in the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP), was killed because of his opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy laws. A sense that the forces of religious intolerance are becoming all but unstoppable; and that those who oppose them by promoting a more liberal vision of Pakistan occupy an ever diminishing space.
From Thuggees to fake WikiLeaks
The fall-out from the fake WikiLeaks cables in Pakistan continues to be far more interesting than the real WikiLeaks cables. To recap, several Pakistani newspapers retracted stories last week which quoted WikiLeaks cables ostensibly accusing India of stirring up trouble in Baluchistan and Waziristan, cited U.S. diplomats as ridiculing the Indian Army, and compared Kashmir to Bosnia in the 1990s. Since the anti-India narrative presented in the stories chimed with the views of Pakistani intelligence agencies, the alleged cables were then dismissed as fakes and most likely an intelligence plant.
However, just to complicate matters, some of the information in the "fake cables" is also in the "real cables". For example, the real cables do contain allegations of Indian support for Baluch separatists, largely sourced to British intelligence, according to The Guardian. The British newspaper, which had advance access to the cables, also cited them as evidence that India practiced systematic torture in Kashmir.
Pakistan and the narrative of shame
Manan Ahmed has a piece up at Chapati Mystery which should be essential reading for anyone interested in the current state of Pakistan and its prickly relations with the west, particularly with the United States.
Starting off with a re-reading of Salman Rushdie's "Shame" (one of those books that I expect many of us read in our youth without properly understanding) he returns to the original inspiration for the title – "Peccavi", Latin for "I have sinned." According to an apocryphal, yet widely believed, story of British imperial conquest, "Peccavi" is the message that General Charles Napier sent back to Calcutta when he conquered Sindh (nowadays one of the provinces of Pakistan) in the 19th century. He then discusses how the modern-day view of Pakistan is defined by shame, or by a perception which over-simplifies it to "Peccavistan".
Pakistan: street rage and sectarian bombings
One of the more troublesome aspects of the current situation in Pakistan is how subdued – at least relative to the scale of the deaths – are protests against suicide bombings on Pakistani cities. Travelling from Lahore to Islamabad last month, my taxi driver winced in pain when I told him I had a text message saying the city we had just left, his city, had been bombed again. Yet where was the outlet for him to express that pain, or indeed for the many grieving families who had lost relatives?
I was reminded of this reading Nadeem Paracha's latest piece in Dawn on the outcry over Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani neuroscientist jailed in the United States after being convicted of shooting at U.S. soldiers. She has been claimed as the "daughter of the nation" who must be rescued from an American jail.
The skewed narrative on Pakistan flood aid: "help me or I'll kill you"
One of the arguments that comes up frequently for helping the victims of Pakistan's floods is that otherwise Islamist militants will exploit the disaster, and the threat of terrorism to the west will rise. It's an argument that makes me wince every time I read it.
It implies that wanting to help people simply because they are suffering from hunger, homelessness and disease is a hopelessly outdated concept; that until these hungry, homeless and diseased people turn up at a bombing near you, then there is no reason to give them money. (For a great take on this, do read Manan Ahmed's "I am a bhains" at Chapati Mystery).


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Jul 29 2013
Legal Courts And Science
Facebook is like a graveyard in a zombie movie, where old news items rise from the dead to have a second life. I am often asked about news items that are burning up Facebook, only to find that they are years old, but never-the-less they have to be addressed all over again. ]
One such item (actually a few items) is a 2012 news report about the Italian courts awarding money to the Bocca family a large reward because it concluded their 9-year-old son acquired autism from the MMR vaccine.
History here is a useful guide. The courts have historically often been out-of-step with the science, tending to err on the side of awarding compensation for possible harm. For example, until about the 1920s it was thought that physical trauma could cause cancer. Animal studies and epidemiological evidence, however, showed that there was no causal connection. Recall bias and increased surveillance were likely the cause of the apparent association.


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Proposing a learning centre for "earthquake-resistant buildings"
Eslimy-Isfahany, S.H.R., Pegels, G. and Parvizian, J. (2006) Proposing a learning centre for "earthquake-resistant buildings" In: Second International Congress on Education and Training for Disaster Prevention, 26-28 Sep 2006, Madrid, Spain.Full text not available from this repository.
A summary of authors' efforts in education and training activities, which have led to the idea of launching a "Learning Centre for Earthquake Resistant Buildings", is presented here. The activities include a series of four international workshops and three summer schools (from May 2002 until August 2006), as well as participating, and becoming prize nominee, in the first Worldwide Engineering Award (by UNESCO and DaimlerChrysler). The learning centre's primary aim is to increase awareness of the general public as the clientele of the building industry, by demonstrating a sample of earthquake resistant house, as well as providing a practical exhibition for pupils to gain knowledge and share experiences. This article provides an analysis on the role of the centre in public awareness and disaster prevention.
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I read quite a few blogs on management and hiring practices (kudos to my favorite, Ask A Manager), and recently I fell down the rabbit hole of clicking links to related articles at the bottom of a post. That's how I came to learn about the Workplace Bullying Institute (or WBI), "the first and only […]Continue reading
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November is almost here and the holiday season will soon be upon us. For many people, that means weekends filled with cocktail parties. My least favorite kind of party is the one where my wife knows everyone there, and I know no one. Inevitably I end up engaged in small talk and, as it turns out, […]Continue reading


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|The many cultivated and few native junipers have caused contact dermatitis to some people. The copious pollen may also contribute to airborne causes of hay fever. Juniper is related to cypress, not cedar. These plants cause allergies in many parts of the world. In the U.S., it is thought to be the primary cause of asthma and hay fever. Cross reactions are also common between Juniper and Cypress.Most Junipers bloom from early winter into late spring, sometimes releasing so much pollen that the shrubs appear to smoke. Other Junipers bloom sporadically throughout the year, therefore creating an almost constant level of airbourne pollen. Some male Juniper trees bloom several times a year. (Plants without berries are male plants, with berries female plants.)In some areas of the U.S., during the early spring to fall months of Juniper bloom there is so much pollen in the air that it has been estimated that each person inhales hundreds of Juniper pollen grains with every breath.Juniper pollen can also irritate the skin as well as causing inhalent allergy. The fleshy cores (resemble berries), and leaves may cause diarrhea if ingested.
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CHESTERTON | The Water Bird Lakeside Spa & Banquet Center, along with Pat's Liquors, and the Chesterton High School parent Band Boosters Association will host a beer and wine tasting fundraiser. Spirits at the Water Bird will take place from 2 to 5 p.m. March 8 at the Water Bird Lakeside Spa & Banquet Center, 556 Indian Boundary Road.
In addition to the sampling of various wine and beer labels, hors d'oeuvres will be available. There will be door prizes and drawings for select gift baskets. Tickets for Spirits at the Water Bird are $35 per person, or $60 per couple if purchased before March 3. After that date, the ticket pricing will be $40 per person, and $70 per couple. Patrons of this event must be 21 years of age to purchase a ticket and attend. Tickets are available at the Water Bird Lakeside Spa & Banquet Center, and at Pat's Liquors, 1 W U.S. 20, Porter. The proceeds from this event will be donated to the CHS Band Booster Association in support of the CHS Band program.


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Elise Brianne
Elise Brianne grew up on the shores of Lake Ontario in Western New York. She found her voice singing folk spirituals in a church choir in Staten Island NY, and in 2006 she picked up the guitar and started strumming and singing original songs in the New York City area.
In the fall of 2010, she packed up her car and drove to the west coast. After traveling the Pacific Northwest, writing and singing songs in Seattle, Bellingham, and Olympia, Washington for something like four years, she packed up her things again, drove cross country, and is now back in New York City.
"All I Need," "Drift Away," and "Enough" were recorded by Jeff Curtin of The Minstrels in Rochester, NY from 2007 to 2008. They are available for FREE download here. More recent recordings are on the horizon!


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To expand health care for homeless people in New York City as well as bolster emergency preparedness, Care for the Homeless (CFH) will soon launch their newly renovated Mobile Health Clinic, which was upgraded with support from Direct Relief through the Sandy Safety Net Fund. "Who better to assist in a disaster than Care for the Homeless? Our everyday work, […]Read more →
One year ago, Hurricane Sandy – the largest Atlantic hurricane on record – pounded the Caribbean nations of Haiti, Jamaica, and Cuba and then made its way up the mid-Atlantic region of the United States with powerful winds, driving rain, and high storm surges. More than 100 people died, thousands of homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed and tens […]Read more →
Direct Relief was on site at the Ryan-NENA Community Health Center in Manhattan's Lower East Side this morning to present a $150,000 grant to help the center boost recovery efforts and continue providing essential primary health services for residents in the community. "This grant award means we can go forward continuing to care for people on the Lower East Side and […]Read more →
Direct Relief and National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) announce relief to health centers affected by the storm SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 2 – Twenty-six nonprofit health centers in Hurricane Sandy-affected areas of New York and New Jersey learned today that they would receive cash grants — collectively totaling $1,500,000 — to boost recovery efforts and continue providing essential […]Read more →
In the early hours after Hurricane Sandy struck the eastern United States very little was known with reasonable certainty about how the storm was affecting specific areas, particularly those areas with a disproportionate share of low-income and socially-vulnerable people. Direct Relief was busy at the time assembling and cross-referencing datasets on everything from weather forecasts to pharmacy status to electrical […]Read more →
Direct Relief will continue to expand work with technology company, Palantir, as a result of a Commitment to Action announced at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting last week in which the company pledged to help aid organizations utilize Palantir technology to focus assistance where it is needed most before, during, and after emergencies. This commitment is the first of its […]Read more →