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Ford Fairlane ZC
Ford Fairlane ZC
1969 - 1970
6 cyl. & V8
250ci 6 / 302 - 351ci V8
140hp 6 / 220-290hp V8
3/4 spd. man / 3 spd. auto
Top Speed:
188 km/h (351 ci)
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The ZC marked the first noticable change to the Fairlane, swapping from horizontal to vertical headlamp orientation. For long a U.S. styling device, it was unusual that Ford in Australia would go to this design after it had been abandoned across the Pacific.
By necessity it did raise the front wings to accomodate the lights and this gave the ZC a larger and more imposing look.
As per the previous models, the Custom was fitted with the 6 cylinder motor, while the Fairlane 500 continued with the 302ci V8.
Importantly, for the first time the whopping 351ci 5.75 litre V8 was available as an option.
The options list on the ZC was extensive and not confined to just the engine size - although the "bonet emblem" was to be no more (replaced with a crest). But there was plenty of chrome, and upmarket red stripe inserts to the tyres.
The six-cylinder Custom was fitted with a three-speed
manual transmission
, bench front seat, drum
all round and cross-ply
and cost $3330 (suprisingly only a mere $30 more than a 3.6-litre Fairmont).
$4370 would see you driving away in the V8-engined '500', which came with standard disc brakes, fully-reclining bucket seats, a fake woodgrain dash and distinctive sill mouldings.
As was traditional for the time, the three speed manual stuck with a column mounted shift, while the four speed was mounted on the floor, and necessitated bucket seats.
Although the Fairlane was considered a luxury car, you may be surprised to learn that even basic items such as the radio were optional ($123), air-conditioning ($407) and Australia's first factory-fitted steel sunroof ($163). Ford had made much of the sound deadening and insulation used in the car - and with justification as the ZC offered a very quiet and refined ride.
12,500 ZC's were manufactured between July 1969 and November 1970.
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Saying that Dick Morris is sounding alarms all Americans should heed is like saying that people living in the path of a hurricane should evacuate.
In their new book, Here Come the Black Helicopters: UN Global Governance and the Loss of Freedom, Morris and his writing sidekick, Eileen McGann, present volume 2 of Screwed!, a book warning of the coming surrender of our sovereignty and independence as a nation if the United Nations globalists have their way. While we Americans have been distracted with ObamaCare, Bengazi, Fast and Furious, budget deals, elections, Solyndra and more, the Obama regime has been busy behind the scenes negotiating away American supremacy through treaties sponsored by the UN, and resurrecting other treaties and protocols denounced by previous administrations.
Morris begins the book with a recap of how the UN came to be and the goals that all traditional Americans recognize as being the purpose of such an international body: in short, the bringing to heel the USA as a superpower. This is the fundamental reason why we resisted the original League of Nations when Woodrow Wilson proposed it and why so many of us now believe that the UN has outlived its usefulness. The term "Black Helicopters" is explained in a way that puts perspective to much of the rest of the book as the "black helicopter crowd" are supposed crack-pots who claimed in the 80's that they were being pestered by government officials with such machinery having to do with Fish and Wildlife Compliance (that turned out to be true). If the globalists, like the named David Rockefeller, Jacques Chirac, Bill and Hillary, etc., get their way, the UN will be sending black helicopters all over the world and into outer space to control every aspect of trade, living, business, communications, military matters and more just as soon as the UN treaties reduce the USA to "just another nation." Dick Morris lays out the ways this could happen. As our Constitution says that treaties are binding, the globalists are counting on using the Vienna Convention as a means of by-passing the required senate ratification process since all that has to be done, in the eyes of the globalists and the Vienna Convention, is for a president to sign a treaty for it to take effect. Not only that, apparently, such treaties would hold a higher level of law than any of our state and federal laws. (the Vienna Convention was signed by a US president, but not ratified. This is binding?)
After thirty pages of why we the people of the USA (not the "leadership" and political class crowd) would never tolerate a global governing body, Morris moves on to the first big step toward American emasculation: "UN Forces Gun Control on America". Deep in our heart of hearts, we Americans know that the reason we still have any sort of representative republic left is because, by the highest law in the land, the citizenry is armed. That means that the government has reason to fear the people if we are pushed too far. Take this away, as so many other countries have done, and the people will fear the government, or in this case, the UN. Since 2009, members of the State Department – including the Secretary, Hillary Clinton – have been negotiating the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) to stop the sale of small arms. Morris catalogues the number of 2nd Amendment defense groups opposing this treaty (for good reason) and the foreign policy implications if such a treaty were to become a reality. To be blunt, we'd all need to learn really effective knife skills.
It seems that the previously rejected by Ronald Reagan and Lady Thatcher Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) has been resurrected and is in danger of being ratified by leftists and RINOs in the senate. This treaty, if enacted, would give an international body the right to impose taxes on off-shore oil and gas drilling as the sea is really the property of the entire world and therefore the third world countries deserve a slice of the pie. Doesn't matter that they aren't doing any of the work or figuring out how to exploit any sort of deposit off-shore, the poorer nations want us to fork over some of the profits and the technologies used which would go where ever a newly created agency says they will. Maybe even to our enemies and adversaries. Scary thing is that this treaty was all but done when Reagan took office. He refused to entertain the idea and it's been sitting in political limbo ever since, even if Bill Clinton signed it. There's quite a bit more in the book regarding usurping the US Navy and disputes over the South China Sea. If this treaty is ratified, as the current push is banking, any ocean transport would be under international jurisdiction and our navy would have no legal way of defending commercial fleets.
The next part is dedicated to the UN power grab at control of the internet. Any advances in communications by Americans, where we are free to speak our minds, MUST be controlled in other countries doncha know. This is why the UN has the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which was originally put in place to regulate transatlantic cables over a century ago. Now, naturally, as several other member countries of the UN do not have freedom of the press, a free and open internet just isn't doable, so the UN would like to go the Goebbels route and regulate, censor, etc., the internet, and, oh, yeah, charge taxes. As the internet has not simply been a conduit of free-flowing information, but is also a tremendous driver of innovation and business in the US, any surrendering of control would be detrimental to us. Negotiations are due to step up in Dubai in December. (This information was made possible by an anonymous information leak and so far the identity of the leaking party is safely nameless and faceless.)
As if that wasn't bad enough, there's more:
- Global sustainability is making a comeback in Rio+20 and our Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton pledged $2 billion of our tax dollars toward a fund that would supposedly help third world nations achieve "sustainability" and "green goals". In this case the green is actually dollars, not plants.
- International Criminal Court – no due process, no jury of peers, no attorney, no real trial…no way Americans should support it. Obama regime criminals disagree. (Even George W. Bush got this one right, and it seems he can't go to Switzerland any longer because there he's considered a war criminal.)
- Hillary Clinton has promised to abide by a European code of conduct that will hobble our defensive and commercial capabilities from space. If various treaties are ratified, space exploration costs will be beyond even our reach.
- Taxes, taxes and more taxes all without representation. (Note to the rest of the world: that's how the USA got started. We still have a problem with this.)
- Globalists seem to want us all to live in cities so that we can walk, ride bicycles and take public transportation rather than driving cars all the time. Personally, I would prefer the better public transportation route, but that should be by public vote, not a dictate. (If people want to commute forty five minutes or more every day and can afford the gas, that's their business.) There's a lot more in the book about controlling living conditions and how this would be achieved.
Morris then explains a few things about the other 190-something countries of which we would be just one if the globalists get their way. Very few countries around the world have the land mass, population and infrastructure that we do. There is no way the smaller countries could understand what it takes to run a nation this size. Several of the larger countries are, in some way, our adversaries in various endeavors. In a global governing body as is being proposed and which the Obama regime is negotiating, our vote would be one against the rest with no veto power. That serves no one but the corrupt dictators and despots around the world with their eyes on our treasure. The stark reality is that we are hated due to our success and that many third world countries are convinced that they are entitled to our wealth, according to Morris. He presents a good case for this concept.
What is more troubling, though, is that throughout the book, the specter of either a second Obama term (which now seems unlikely, crossing fingers) or a lame duck period with multiple senators either not up for re-election or being voted out of office and wanting to make one last statement is constantly mentioned. This is a serious threat. Obama did try to ramrod legislation through congress during the lame duck period after the 2010 elections. If the House and Senate go Republican this time, there should be no doubt he will try it again, just as Jimmy Carter did in 1980.
Far from crying wolf or playing Chicken Little, Dick Morris is sounding an alarm all Americans should heed and heed now, election or no. There is vital information in this book that all informed citizens should have at their fingertips. Here Come the Black Helicopters is essential reading this November as the danger of losing American sovereignty is upon us.
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ST. PAUL, Minn., Apr 20, 2012 -- To commemorate Earth Day, USDA Rural Development State Director Colleen Landkamer announced three projects to improve water and wastewater services and the environment in rural Minnesota.
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- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 2 medium onions small diced, about 3 cups
- 2 jalapenos, stemmed and minced, optional
- 1 tablespoon salt, plus more for pasta cooking water
- 2 pounds extra lean ground beef
- 5 tablespoons Mexican chili powder
- 1 tablespoon Mexican oregano
- 2 tablespoons minced garlic
- 1 (28 ounce) can whole plum tomatoes, broken with your hands, with juices
- 2 cans kidney beans, drained
- 1 pound elbow macaroni
- 1 pound medium cheddar cheese
- Sour cream for serving, if desired
Heat olive oil over medium-high heat in a 6-quart soup pot. Add onions, jalapenos (if desired), and 2 teaspoons of the salt and cook until soft, 2 minutes. Add ground beef, chili powder, oregano, and garlic and cook, breaking up any clumps of meat with a spoon, for 5 minutes. Add tomatoes, beans, and 1/2 cup of water, stir, and bring chili to a boil. Reduce heat to a simmer and cook until thickened to chili consistency, about 20 minutes. Taste and add 1 more teaspoon salt, if needed.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
While the chili is simmering, cook macaroni according to package directions in boiling salted water, drain in a colander, rinse under cool running water and set aside. Grate cheddar cheese and set aside.
Place a 9 x 13.5-inch or other 3-quart casserole dish on a baking sheet. Once chili has finished cooking, fold in the cooked macaroni and 1/3 of the cheddar cheese. Transfer chili-mac to the baking dish and top with remaining cheese. Bake until heated through and cheese is melted, about 10 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool 5 minutes before serving. Serve each portion garnished with a dollop of sour cream, if desired.
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- Dish Type: Entree
- Cuisine: American
- Cooking Method: Combination
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- Effort Level: Simple
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TULSA, Okla., March 20, 2011—The number one seeded Kansas Jayhawks (33-2) take on the Fighting Illini of Illinois (20-13). KU's head coach used to coach at Illinois adding intrigue to this match up.
The crowd is about 80 percent Kansas fans and they are already loud. This is like a home game for the Jayhawks. Will that be enough to get them to the next round? Stick around and chat.
Kansas is on fire! With 14:19 left to play they lead 16-6 already. KU got off to a slow start against BU. Not tonight.
I just realized that the Kansas fight song is the same fight song from junior high school. I think my voice just changed again.
Kansas is still in control, but Illinois is coming on. The score is 20-13 Jayhawks. I cannot explain enough how much this crowd is for KU. They are loud and are definitely helping with the momentum of the game.
KU came out kind of slow and sluggish in the First Round. They came to play tonight. When a player scores they look to the bench with a nod. They are getting and-1's. They are ready.
Kansas continues its domination: up by 10 with 7:01 left to play. Since my bracket is going to be burned at half time anyway, let's hope that the Fighting Illini can come back and make this into a game. Even if it's just for entertainment's sake.
Here come the Illini! 4:45 left in the half and they have chipped away at the Jayhawk lead. Now KU leads by only six making the score 28-22.
Kansas has the ball and runs down the shot clock to four before taking a shot and missing. Sloppy possession.
Illinois takes a time out to regroup. The crowd has fallen silent.
The Illini try to change that by playing "Wichita" by the White Stripes. How this became such a big band song I'll never know, but I think every marching band knows it.
Kansas runs the shot clock down again. This time they drew a foul with five seconds left, but I am a little surprised they are not being more aggressive. You could give some credit to the Illinois defense.
That's the first half. Kansas was up big but then went a little conservative while Illinois made a little run. 33-29 at the half.
Both teams come out firing in the second half. Trading buckets. Kansas still up by four.
Still trading buckets but the Morris twins are starting to click. 15:51 Kansas up by six.
Marcus Morris is down where he was obviously fouled. He has been down for a while but appears to be okay because he is staying in the game. The Kansas fans are not happy.
Marcus Morris taking over. He is making moves and getting to the line. The Illini are becoming a bit unraveled.
Just when you think they are out, they pull you back in. The Illini get to within five 56-51. They won't go away.
It's the Morris twins show tonight. They keep getting dunks and the crowd is losing it. One of them (I can't tell them apart) was waving to the crowd to keep it going and they got even louder.
3:41 left. The Illini keep hanging around but can't really get a hold of this game. I think it's over.
Markieff hits an ally oop slam and the place goes nuts. Illinois answers with a lay up. Kansas comes back down the court. Marcus has the ball and looks to throw another ally oop but Markieff waved his hands to say, "Let's slow it down."
Self has given the signal to run the clock and get out of the state of Oklahoma with the monkey off their backs.
Here come the "Rock Chalk" chants. I think it's time for me to get the heck out of here because it is weird.
In a day full of upsets, the Jayhawks move on to the Sweet Sixteen. KU wins 73-59.
It's been fun. Time to go watch "Big Love" series finale!
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Because we have other Gold Medal Wine Club reviews and videos that talk about each club individually, I want to focus in this post purely on giving Gold Medal as a gift. Todd and I will show you what you can expect your recipient to receive when you send them a Gold Medal Wine club.
The PackagingFrom the instant you get your Gold Medal box, you know that there is something special inside the box because it has a red sticker on the front telling you that a gift card is enclosed. When you open the box, you will find the wine placed inside a decorative inner box. In addition, a full-sized personalized gift card is packaged on top of the box.
My box featured a one-of-a-kind artist-commissioned, illustrated Wine Country Gift Box. It was nice that the card matched the box as well. When I opened the box, each bottle of wine was wrapped in tissue paper with a bow. I have never before seen that from a wine club! As far as presentation goes, it was the best that I have ever seen.
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The club I received was the Gold Series, which is 2 bottles a month starting at $35 plus shipping and handling. (Shipping and handling will vary depending upon where it is being shipped). I haven't tried my wine yet, but both Eric and Todd have tried theirs and assured me that everything they have received from Gold Medal so far has been top notch.
Want to know more about the wines? Be sure to read the enclosed newsletter, The Wine Press, to learn more about the wine, the winery, and the winemaker. Plus find recipes to pair with your new wines.
What's great about their club offerings is that you can choose from 5 different clubs depending upon the taste of the recipient and how much you want to spend. You can spend less than $40 or up to hundreds of dollars. You can even choose whether you want to send only 1 month or up to 12 months.
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If you are thinking about sending Gold Medal as a gift, you want to know what you are sending. You don't have to rely on their description or even our pictures. Todd and I have posted a video showing exactly what each of us received from them as part of the Gold Series. The other clubs will be similar but obviously with different wines. Check out the video below and see for yourself why Gold Medal wines would make a great gift for everyone on your list.Order The Gold Medal Wine Club
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Moving the men's magazine website to Drupal has given Maxim's Web developers more flexibility, including the ability to add social features to online events such as voting for "hot hometown girls."
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Back when the web was new, colleges and universities were among the most enthusiastic early adopters. Faculty, staff, and students launched their own web sites to support research projects and educational activities using the innovative development tools of the day. A few even invented new technologies in their labs and dorm rooms. For example, Dries Buytaert, co-founder and CTO of Acquia, started the Drupal project in 2001 while a student at the University of Ghent.
The announcement by NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology division of NYSE Euronext, that it is expanding the terms of its partnership with the Warsaw Stock Exchange, illustrates how the exchange company expects to significantly increase revenue by commercializing its own technology.
NYXT, as the unit is known internally, generated $490 million in revenue in 2011, up from $444 million in 2010 and $363 million in 2009. Management says the company is on track to hit $1 billion in revenues by 2015. NYSE also sees commercialization of its technology as a wedge allowing it to develop relationships with blue chip customers for its financial exchange businesses.
Bob Kerner, chief digital officer for NYSE, says the technology organization has been able to ramp up to support this aggressive growth strategy by using Drupal, an open source application used to build web sites and tools for collaboration and knowledge management. Drupal was first released in 2001, but has gained in popularity since 2007. Kerner's team also uses a software development methodology called Agile, which is characterized by rapid, iterative development cycles and close collaboration between developers and their internal customers.
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There are many different ways to build a website these days. When I first started in this business, you wrote HTML files directly onto a local web server and, if it all looked good, then uploaded these files to the live web server.
Later, the introduction of scripting languages made the need for such a staging server all the greater, because links between pages and menus were (and often still are) hand-coded, and so in danger of becoming broken.
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Rob: Rob Gill, I'm Director of Operations for NBC Universal's O&TS, Operation Technical Services. We're shared corporate organization that tries to promote best practices.
Chris: I'm Chris Herring. At NBC Universal, we use Drupal as a centralized publishing system for a lot of the NBC Universal brands.
Rob: Across company, we have 30, 40 brands: Bravo, SyFy, Telemundo. We have films, parks and we're in a unique position to work with all of those different brands and their digital properties. We had tried a lot of the enterprise content management systems out there. They were very content-specific so there might be a really good blogging platform and if you want to build a website out of it, you could modify that blogging platform and sort of get it to do most of what you wanted it to do. Drupal was one of the first, if not the first, platform to come out. It was more of a global solution to a website as opposed to using something and then trying to make it work for everything else.
Chris: The fact that there's a community behind Drupal made a huge difference, particularly around time to deploy for a new site.
Rob: Another major, major factor for us is on the editorial side. We have, in some cases, brands that have 30 editors that are entering content and very specifically, Drupal scaled really well on the editorial side. We consider our primary customers the editors that use the system and they have been incredibly happy with it so that was the success that we've built on. As we push - continue to try to push Drupal as our standard across the company, being able to back that up and have an Acquia-type company, has been very helpful.
Chris: We tend to use Acquia as a knowledge resource so when we're researching a particular use case or a business problem, we tend to use Acquia to help us make that final determination on which module we should use. The few times that we have engaged Acquia for that sort of architectural guidance and advice, it's been really interesting to me because each time, not only were we told the right way to go, but the options we were considering we shouldn't have even been considering. They helped filter a lot of the noise that is out there in the community down to the exact right option to solve a business problem.
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In many ways, fame has agreed with Kate, who has slimmed down to a size 4 and keeps her skin a deep bronze with regular visits to a tanning booth. She's written two best-selling books about their family, Multiple Blessings and Eight Little Faces, and aspires to follow Oprah's lead. ''There are no mom-centered talk shows,'' she explains. ''I think that would be a very comfortable thing for me to discuss.'' Then there are the downsides to celebrity life. After Jon quit his job as an IT analyst in November 2007, fans criticized him for his lack of outside employment. ''It's hysterical,'' says Kate, adding that coordinating their family life and the reality show about their family life is a full-time job. ''I thought nursing was hard, but you ain't seen nothing until you see how late we're up working, doing e-mails, conference calls...'' Kate is also regularly lambasted on websites (like the Gosselins Without Pity blog) for her harsh words to Jon. Still, the producers are loath to sanitize the couple's exchanges. ''It's real and it's raw, and that's what has made the show popular,'' explains series producer Jeff Lanter. ''If we water it down, we lose what we've built in the past four seasons.''
Today, the state of Jon and Kate's marriage threatens to overshadow everything the show was originally about. In February Jon was photographed with two coeds at a bar, and in April paparazzi snapped pictures of him leaving a local club with Hummel. (Hummel's brother recently told Us Weekly that his sister and Jon were definitely having an affair.) While Jon won't address specific allegations, he insists the encounters were innocent. ''I may be guilty of choosing the wrong time and place to hang out with my friends,'' he says, ''but I am not guilty of cheating on my wife.'' The scrutiny has worn on the couple: ''Jon's poor judgment and irresponsible behavior has...caused some added tension and stress between the two of us,'' says Kate. The March 23 season finale which was taped around the time the first tabloid story broke played like a cliff-hanger, with Jon hinting about shutting down the show, saying ''I can't just be Jon I have to be Jon & Kate Plus Eight.'' Back in her sitting room a month later, Kate confirms that the duo had considered pulling the plug; for TLC's part, O'Neill says the couple currently has a multiyear contract, but ''we're considerate of what they want to do.''
So what made the Gosselins change their minds about coming back for season 5? ''I decided it was to benefit my kids,'' admits Jon. ''I don't like the public life. [But] there's a lot of positives, obviously the house, an education for our kids, car, whatever. Material things.'' The new season of Jon & Kate will incorporate the issues that their fame (and infamy) have brought. ''It will touch on our lack of privacy,'' says Kate, ''but also some other big events.'' She and the producers won't reveal much like why the family recently took an outing to get passports but say the younger kids will be chattier than ever.
The tabloid coverage may only increase interest in the Gosselins and their series, but that's not why Kate thinks fans continue to watch. ''People want to see our kids grow up. At this point I almost feel like I owe it to them. They've seen [our children] since they were 15 months old. And so to stop now would be like 'What ever happened to them?'''


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Apr 23, 2013 Which companies show up the most on business expense reports?
Why a senator shouldn't eat spaghetti with the president, and 9 other tips
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Mar 13, 2013 President Obama sat down for a meal with Republican leaders to talk about the budget. So what do you eat, when you're working while eating?
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Nov 12, 2012 What happens when you take buttoned-down, MBA-toting business professionals, and turn them into video game designers. And, the internet goes interplanetary.
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[1188] 338. Mrs. O'Rourke asked the Minister for Finance when his Department will issue a decision in the case of the new house grant appeal submitted to them by the Department of the Environment on behalf of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he is aware of the special mitigating circumstances of this case.
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Tenancingo de Degollado is a city and the municipal seat of the municipality Tenancingo located in Mexico State, Mexico, although both are commonly known as Tenancingo. It is 26 miles (42 km) from Toluca, southwest of Mexico City. The name Tenancingo means "small (outdoor) walls" in Náhuatl.
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Falconer Foundation Scholarship Applications Open!Posted by Christine McKeever on Thursday 14 August 2014 at 10:20 AM
August 2014
Application for Glen Hay Falconer Foundation Brewing Scholarships
For your convenience, the application is located here
In collaboration with the American Brewers Guild, we are offering a full-tuition scholarship to the Guild's Intensive Brewing Science & Engineering program.
The Intensive Brewing Science & Engineering course is a 22-week distance education program with a final week of residential instruction. The course is designed for brewers and homebrewers who lack formal training in brewing science and covers all the fundamentals of beer production and quality assurance.
The American Brewers Guild is a premier school for the craft brewing industry dedicated to providing a comprehensive learning experience that focuses on the technical, scientific, and operational matters and issues that brewers face in a craft brewing environment.
The American Brewers Guild is now accepting applications for the Glen Hay Falconer Foundation slot in the Intensive Brewing Science & Engineering course that runs from January 19, 2015 through June 26, 2015 with the final week of onsite instruction in Middlebury, Vermont. The full application must be received no later than November 11, 2014. Note: This class is full except for this scholarship slot.
The scholarship is open to professional brewers and homebrewers from the states of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii and California's northern geographic region (San Francisco/Monterey Bay areas and north). The full-tuition scholarship also includes a $1,000 stipend to help offset travel and lodging expenses for the residential week in Middlebury, Vermont. Full details and scholarship applications are available at http://www.abgbrew.com.
The Glen Hay Falconer Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing educational opportunities for professional and aspiring craft brewers from the Pacific Northwest to further their knowledge and expertise. For more information on the Foundation please visit www.glenfalconerfoundation.org and follow us on Facebook.
Scholarship NewsPosted by Christine McKeever on Thursday 5 June 2014 at 11:43 AM
We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2014 Greg Noonan Scholarship. This award was developed to continue Greg's legacy and honor his contributions to craft brewing.
Congratulations to Brett Bauer from Watertown MA.
The caliber of candidate was exceptional and all were deserving of winning the scholarship. Choosing a winner was a painstaking and incredibly difficult process. The winning candidate was chosen by a panel of experienced and credentialed brewmasters from across the country. The panel consisted of:
Dan DelGrande
Brewmaster/Owner, Bison Brewing Company, Oakland, CA
Russ Fitzgerald
Brewmaster, Vermont Pub and Brewery, Burlington, VT
Nick Funnell
Brewmaster, and Sales rep for Brewers Supply Group
Scott Shirley
Brewmaster, Harpoon Brewery in Windsor VT
The winning candidate Brett Bauer impressed several of the panel with his motivation and approach to getting into the industry. One of the panel said of Brett, "he exemplifies the characteristics that I believe would make a great brewer: he is passionate about craft beer, hard-working, enthusiastic, a continuous learner and is overall and outstanding candidate."
Congratulations to Brett Bauer, winner of the 2014 Greg Noonan Scholarship!
To learn more about available scholarship programs, visit our scholarship information page.
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June 2014 Classes are underway, and graduate this fall at the American Brewers Guild classroom and brewery at Drop In Brewing in Middlebury, Vermont.
January 2014 classes are finishing up and graduating this July.
This summer we are hosting a residential program to facilitate a recording of new material. This will allow us to stay current with the latest developments, and trends, in the vibrant craft brewing industry. Many industry figures will be stopping by to help teach our classes.
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The 3 Kinds of Work (including 2 you should be doing less of)
There are three kinds of work you do a regular basis.
First, there's work that gets immediate results. It might be actually delivering the service you provide or creating the product you sell. It could be writing on your blog or updating product descriptions. It could be ordering supplies or promoting your work.
Second, there's work that should be done by someone else. This varies depending on your business and your strengths within that business. It could be fiddling with your website, sending out emails, or scheduling clients. It could be writing copy or creating advertisements. It could be shipping packages or bookkeeping.
Third, there's the work that contributes to long-term growth. Often this is work that requires your expertise but that isn't the hands-on work that you sell. It's systems work. It's process work. It's relationship building. It's working on the vision (and the byproducts of it).
You probably do a lot of the first and second kind of work. You are constantly after immediate results (they feel good, right?) because immediate results are better than no results. And you do a lot of work that you really have no business doing because you have chosen not to invest the time or money in having someone else do it.
That means that the work that contributes to long-term growth gets the short shrift. When you don't work towards the future, you leave yourself in the hamster wheel of constant hustling. Sound familiar?
…while you're doing it, doing it, doing it, there's something much more important that isn't getting done. And it's the work you're not doing, the strategic work, the entrepreneurial work, that will lead your business forward, that will give you the life you've not yet known.
— Michael E Gerber, The E-Myth Revisited
If you're beginning to lose faith in the dream of having a business that takes care of you (instead of you taking care of it), then it's probably because you find yourself doing so much of the first two categories of work. When that type of work is disproportionate to the results you see, frustration is the natural byproduct.
When you exercise your responsibility to long-term growth work, even if you're not seeing immediate results, you can better weather the ups and downs of entrepreneurship. If a particular idea doesn't work out, you have the systems or relationships in place to get you through. Or you have the comfort of knowing your next idea or opportunity is already in the works.
If you're ready to do more long-term growth work and less of the rest, you need to schedule it. Put it on the calendar. Honor it like it was a client appointment or a project deadline. This is the work that will keep your business in business – respect it.
Once you've got that kind of work on the calendar, make sure that you're creating systems that reduce the amount of other work you're doing. Use your scheduled time to create a training or on-boarding process for an assistant or business manager. Also use that time to plan for new products or services that require less effort or active time from you. Plan to shift your business model to one that leverages your time & talents.
Bottom line: how would you spend your time if doing work that contributed to long-term business growth was your primary responsibility?
'Cause it is.
Kick Start Labs designed a brand-new Lab to help you get out of this rut and into strategic product development. It's call Product Development 101. It's available for a limited time on its own or as part of a Kick Start Labs membership. Click here for more info.
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I swear you are in my head.
My buddy Jenn has been nagging me to get off my duff and find some help. So, I finally created an online application and I found two people with the right set of skills to assist me with my new home decor line. Giving out work and depending on someone to give the same attention to detail and speed to your products is hard to do, but it is hard to pull myself in so many directions when I could be focusing on the most important parts of my business.
thanks Tara…I needed this!
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This really connected with me today, especially because I'm just starting my business and feeling impatient for the SALES. But I realize that putting the systems in place BEFORE the sales come will save my sanity later… I am a visual artist/illustrator, and of course, I can't sell my prints OR communicate my vision without artwork. So, thinking about how working toward long-term success looks for me, would you say that putting more time into developing a unique style and philosophy in my work is more important than just cranking out the work? And I have a creeping feeling that translating all of my "about" stuff into German (since I live in Germany!) is another essential to relationship-building and longevity that needs to be addressed instead of put off again and again. Thanks, Tara, for giving me something to think about!
1, 2, 3… all very obvious, but it's always good to have what you (probably), know reinforced from outside sources. In the day to day running of businesses/lives etc. you can easily get distracted and become less productive. Keeping your eye on great information from good sources like this is invaluable. After all you can't get too much motivation can you?
I am happy to find your distinguished way of writing the post.But i dislike your 3rd opinion because no one depend on
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I converted a 5 gallon cooler to a MLT using flyguy's instructions and when I used it yesterday it took forever to drain. Couldn't find anything searching through the forums so I was wondering if anyone else has this problem or atleast how long does it usually take them to drain their MLT?
I'm using a SS braided hose with a plastic hose inside (just like in Flyguy's instructions). I mixed in 4.55 quarts of water with 3.25lbs. of grain and barely got 3 cups of wort out of it before it just started to drip out.
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I tried two different braids. They both worked great for their first uses, but did not work as well on subsequent brew days. It was taking 30 min to drain the MLT. I ended up changing to a copper manifold and it drains much faster. I need to vorlaugh a little longer with the manifold, but sparging is much faster overall.
What about the grain bed getting too compacted? Sometimes if you open the valve too fast, or don't have any rice hull with a fine crush the grain bed turns into cement pretty quickly.
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what was the grain bill? You may have just had a stuck sparge. I never have had a problem with my MLT draining I also have the SS braid but with no hose inside. maybe the braid is wrapped to tight on the hose ?
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I'm totally confused here. Why are you adding holes to the inner hose? You should remove the inner hose.
yeah - just pull the inner hose out. It is not needed. It will work like a charm.


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I had off work today. The building I work in still doesn't have power after Friday's storm. Luckily, we never lost power at home. MIL took Edie so I could get some stuff done here. She'd never let me do this. We had an hour long tantrum when I tried to put away laundry.
Anyway, heres their teeny room. The 2nd crib will go where the blue chair is. We'll get rid of the blue chair. There's a bookcase right under where I'm taking the photo. We'll get rid of that too. I don't know what we'll do with her books.
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BelshazzarPosted by keris9 under Blu-ray , Handel, George Frideric , Mehta, Bejun , Harmonia Mundi , Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik , RIAS Kammerchor , Aix-en-Provence Festival , Belshazzar , Nel, Christof , Jacobs, René , Tarver, Kenneth , Joshua, Rosemary , Hammarström, Kristina , Davies, Neal
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George Frideric Handel - Belshazzar
Grand Théâtre de Provence, Festival Aix-en-Provence, 2008 | Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik, RIAS Kammerchor, Christof Nel, René Jacobs, Kenneth Tarver, Rosemary Joshua, Bejun Mehta, Kristina Hammerström | Harmonia Mundi
Belshazzar, written in 1744, was among the first English oratorios composed by Handel after he had abandoned the Italian opera form, and consequently has an interesting place among the composer's works, still retaining some the dramatic content and style of opera composition. The dramatic content comes about due to the nature of the subject, which is biblical in nature, if not entirely a religious piece of work. So while there are contemplative hymns to God and fervent pleas for deliverance sung throughout, the historical and religious conflicts means that there is a bit more variety to the content and the tone, as well as the opportunity for a staging to apply other meaningful references that could have some present-day significance.
Taking place in 539BC, the Babylon of King Belshazzar is under siege from Cyrus, Prince of the Medes and Persians. The king's mother Nitocris has a grim foreboding that the city will fall, and this is confirmed by the prophet Daniel. Cyrus has comes up with a plan to divert the Euphrates, and enter the city through its channel while Belshazzar and his men are celebrating the feast of Sesach, the god of wine. Despite warnings and pleas from Nitocris and Daniel, Belshazzar uses the occasion to extend the drunkenness to sacrilegious behaviour that horrifies the Jewish population that are held in captivity in the city. Cyrus enters the city and liberates the Jews from bondage, promising to set up a new Jerusalem.
The plot is not overly complicated for a three-act, almost three-hour oratorio, but there is a certain amount of dramatic ground to cover, which means that there is more opera seria-like recitative in Balshazzar, and consequently, it may not be always quite as musical and melodious as later Handel oratorios. And if the individual sections are not the most memorable or notable Handel however, the impact of the oratorio is on a dramatic level and in the piece as a whole. It's staged here for the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2008 by Christof Nel in a manner that doesn't set any modern agenda or updated interpretation of the work, letting the dramatic action be dictated by the words of the libretto. One can see nonetheless that Belshazzar is not just a biblical or historical work, but that it applies as much to the role of a monarch or ruler, which has meaning for the period that the work was written, as well as having relevance to present-day conflicts not so far away from where this is set in antiquity.
René Jacobs conducts the Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik and the RIAS Kammerchor through a fine live performance of Belshazzar at Aix. The singing in English, from principals and chorus soloists alike, is uniformly wonderful across the whole range of voices – tenor, counter-tenor, soprano, mezzo-soprano, bass and male alto – that Handel brilliantly composes for and blends together. Bejun Mehta (whose crystal clear countertenor can also be heard to terrific effect in a recent production of Handel's Theodora) is notable here as Cyrus and Kenneth Tarver is fine as Belshazzar, but even more impressive are Rosemary Joshua as Nitocris and Kristina Hammerström as Daniel. Such fine singing could not have been easy either with the acting demanded – a drenched Tarver clearly finds it too much – but a good balance between both is achieved in the staging.
I'm not entirely happy with the HD transfer on the Blu-ray from Harmonia Mundi. Even though it's on a BD50 disc, the encoding is not great, resulting in a faint jerkiness and blurring when there is movement on the screen. The effect may be variable on different players with better refresh rates, but this is the first BD I've come across with such a problem. There isn't enough movement on the screen for this to become a significant issue, but it could be a minor irritation. The audio tracks are in the standard PCM Stereo and DTS HD-Master Audio 5.1 and are both fine for the demands of the orchestration and the singing. Subtitles are in English, French and German only. Other than a text synopsis, there are no extra features on the Blu-ray disc.


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With at least half of the NBA's 30 teams represented, the D-League Elite Min-Camp gave minor leaguers another chance to prove they're ready to battle LeBron James.
And if not lock horns with the Miami Heat star and four-time league MVP, at least make a contribution off someone's bench.
After a day and a half at the Chicago camp, no one looks quite as ready as Lester Hudson, according to those in attendance.
NBA fans mostly remember Hudson from his time with the Cleveland Cavaliers in the lockout shortened season of 2011-12.
Hudson is a 6-foot-3 guard and played 13 magical games with the Cavs that year, averaging 12.7 points per game and bringing back memories of World B. Free by burying big shots and displaying serious guts.
The Cavs, however, let Hudson walk after his second 10-day contract expired, and he was barely heard from again. He finished the year with the Memphis Grizzlies, but played in just three games and averaged 3.0 points.
Prior to last season, Hudson was dropped by agent Tyler Glass after Hudson failed to show up for a workout with the Charlotte Bobcats.
"I worked so hard to get him a workout, and he didn't show," Glass told FOX Sports Ohio in September. "The Bobcats were annoyed and they should have been. They're a professional organization. You don't skip out on workouts."
Hudson signed in China, then finished back in the D-League with the Austin Toros, in March. Now, it appears that at the very least, he'll be on someone's summer league team.
One scout even called Hudson, who turns 29 years old in August, the equivalent of a late-first or early-second round draft pick in this year's draft.
So stay tuned. Based on the D-League camp, Hudson's run in the NBA may not be done.


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Visual Effects Society Award Winner, Jan-Marcel Kühn From Filmakademie (Germany) Who Was Honored For Outstanding Visual Effects In A Student Project For The Short Film "Natalis" With Autodesk Senior Vice President, Chris Bradshaw. (Photo: Business Wire)
For the fifth consecutive year, Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) extended its support for tomorrow's artists, animators, designers and filmmakers by sponsoring the Visual Effects Society's (VES) award for "Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project" at the 11 th annual VES Awards held on February 5, 2013, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Chris Bradshaw, senior vice president at Autodesk, presented the honor to Jan-Marcel Kühn from Filmakademie for "Natalis."
Visual Effects Society award winner, Jan-Marcel Kühn from Filmakademie (Germany) who was honored for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project for the short film "Natalis" with Autodesk Senior Vice President, Chris Bradshaw. (Photo: Business Wire)
Filmakademie students Daniel Brkovic, David Kirchner and Jan-Marcel Kühn's graduation short, Natalis, travels alongside an Android into forest foliage that unveils life-altering visions of the future. Tools from the Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite, including 3ds Max, Maya, Mudbox and MotionBuilder, were used to create lush backdrops, intricate characters and whirling particle effects.
Established in 2009 in response to a challenge from Steven Spielberg ( see related video) to recognize the amazing visual effects work being done by students, the award provides a unique opportunity for students embarking on a career in visual effects to gain wide industry visibility.
"Five years ago, Autodesk and the VES came together to invest in the future of visual effects through this annual student award. We're thrilled to provide this platform for incredible student work, and the amazing talent that we see year in and year out provides an inspiring glimpse into the future of the movie industry," said Jeffrey A. Okun, Chair of the VES.
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