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State Rep. Will Davis (D-Hazel Crest) is sponsoring a bill to impose a 25-cent tax on the purchase of athletic shoes, which are described in the bill as any "shoe designed primarily for sports or other forms of physical activity." | File photo
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They want to put a 25-cent tax on gym shoes. It's time for them to realize people don't have money to pay these taxes. They are hurting people and driving businesses out of Chicago. It is ridiculous.
If you do the crime then you must do the time. There should be no excuses about being sick or anything else. We had a former governor who lost his wife. He has to do his time. Man up and do what you're supposed to do. Stop covering things up.
Does anyone find it a little disconcerting that the business section in the Chicago Sun-Times comes after the obituaries?
A lot of people make it seem like just because you can't speak or read English that you somehow can't learn to drive or that you will be dangerous on the road. What does a red octagon sign mean other than stop? Traffic signs are standardized to be recognized by shape. Did you know the top light on a traffic signal is always stop and the bottom light is always go? That's so people with color blindness can still use the roads. These people are not denied a driver's license. Just because people cannot understand English doesn't make them stupid.
All we have in government is Ringling Bros. against Barnum & Bailey. Let's get together and get the circus working.
A Speak Out commenter stated that he didn't want to read about these professional athletes and their attitudes. Their attitudes start in high school. All you do is read about yourself in the newspaper. I think that is why 90 percent of high school athletes have attitude problems. They think that they are better than the rest of the student population. I'd like to see more professional sports in an encompassing sports section in the SouthtownStar.
Isn't it strange how Social Security retirements have a maximum but pension retirements do not?
To the person who commented on WGN-TV (Channel 9) meteorologist Tom Skilling: It's very simple. Turn the channel. There are plenty of weather forecasts. If someone bothers or upsets you why would you continue to listen to them and complain?
What a sorry state America is in that we have companies like Arrangement Finders. It seems like college girl prostitutes promoting adultery. Yes, what every parent wants is their daughter to sell herself to strange men. How sad! And yes, I think the billboard in Chicago's River North neighborhood is offensive.
Would you expect to make more than the owner of a company you worked for? Of course not. That would be ridiculous. The firemen don't realize that they work for the taxpayers. They keep asking for more yet I think they make more than taxpayers can pay. That's when we need to cut funding.
I think former Chicago Ald. Sandi Jackson and her husband, former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., should be behind bars for more than five years. Why should they get only five years for what they have done? I think they should go to jail for at least 20 years. Let them pay back all of the money. Are they special people? I think this should be taken care of in the same way everybody else is taken care of.
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A lot of ideas are being put forth about what to do about the gang problem. While the ideas may sound good they will not get at the root cause. We need to empower our police officers again. The politicians need to step back and start supporting them. We need to bring back the tactical units and the stop-and-frisk policy. When you pinch a gang member you should check his family for welfare benefits and cut them off. A lot of times the kids provide an income for families that don't want to work.
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It seems like everyone is asking about what happened in Benghazi, Libya. Who is wrong? Who is right? I think they are asking the questions to the wrong people. They are asking former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and a general who wasn't there. They are asking questions of everybody who wasn't even there. For goodness sake, ask someone who was there and was an eyewitness. Get them on the stand and leave the outsiders outside.
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Our Judeo-Christian principles on which America was founded are being undermined and destroyed every day in our modern and immoral culture.
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It seems like every time the policemen's, firemen's or city workers' contracts come up the city of Chicago cries, "Poor." This is ridiculous. They find money for everything else. How can they not afford to pay these people their proper salary? Now they want to mess with policemen's, firemen's and city workers' pensions and health care. Don't they realize that these are something they can't fool with? And don't blame the taxpayers. All they want to do is nickel and dime us. Every time you turn around they are raising stuff.
Orland Park is giving incentives to a car dealership to upgrade their facility so they can sell the smart car. I know Tinley Park has given incentives to businesses to fix the place up. Why don't the homeowners ever get some kind of incentives to fix their place up? We all have expenses too. Why don't you spread it around a little bit?
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio gave the rebuttal to the State of the Union speech in English and in Spanish. Is this the Republicans way to try to win the Hispanic voters?

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Wycliffe (WYC) | New International Version (NIV) |
19 The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Lo! a man a glutton, and a drinker of wine, and a friend of publicans and of sinful men [and friend of publicans and sinful men]. And wisdom is justified of her sons. | 19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Here is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and "sinners." ' But wisdom is proved right by her actions." |
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She's not Shy'm! Singer wears see-through dress then kisses female dancer at NRJ awards
SINGER Shy'm stole the show last night at France's NRJ music awards turning up in a see-through dress before snogging a female dancer on stage.
The R&B star arrived on the red carpet at the ceremony in Cannes wearing a skin-tight backless black dress which turned completely transparent as she was snapped by photographers.


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Thank you @nfl for upholding the truth! To the 12s Thank you your faith is rewarded! Thank you lord
Check out the comments from the haters on profootballtalk.com.No one in there right mind wants to face us in the playoffs and if there is a rematch with Green Bay I feel comfortable with Sherman & Browner playing.


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November 9th 2012. ANDY'S UNPOPULAR TRUTHS. The "Fiscal Cliff" is NOT the Problem, It's a Step Towards the SOLUTON.
During the last 40 Years Most of the people in Washington DC have been WRONG most of the time. This is a PROVEN FACT.
I'm not bragging, but the simple FACT is that for over 40 years on the MEGA ISSUES I've been 85% Correct when Washington DC has been 75% Wrong. Statistically, ALL popular Washington DC ideas have a 75% probability of being mainly Wrong. The current popular Washington DC idea that the "Fiscal Cliff" is a problem is an example of a Wrong View.
Most of the people in Washington DC see the January 1st 2013 Increase in Taxes, and the Cutting of Federal Government expenses AS THE PROBLEM. They are as usual, WRONG. It's NOT the Problem, it's one step towards the must have Solution.
FACT: America DOES have a Large and GROWING Financial Disaster. America CANNOT keep living off of a Trillion Dollars + of Queer Money EVERY YEAR for the next 100 Years.
FACT: America is on the DOWN SIDE of its Bell Curve. Bernanke's Queer Trillions Always had ZERO CHANCE of Painlessly & Magically Returning America to 1985.
FACT: Bernanke's Queer Trillions were Never anything except Financial Masturbation.
FACT: Bernanke's Queer Trillions have been and ARE the BIGGEST kicking the Can down the Road.
FACT: For over three years I've been pointing out that THE MATH is basically 4th Grade. The Federal Gov MUST Cut expenses by at least 500 Billion dollars Per Year, and it MUST Increase Receipts by at least 500 Billion dollars Per Year.
FACT: Math is God's native Language. 2+2=4 here on Earth, and if you go to the far side of God's Universe a 100 Billion light years away 2+2 still equals 4. There is NO magical Queer Bernanke Math where 2+2=10.
FACT: Bernanke's Queer Math is the Karl Marx Queer Math of the 21st Century.
FACT: The "Rich" DO NOT even come close to having enough money to close America's Trillion Dollar gap. Anyone who says they do is one of three things: (1) Unable to look at the income FACTS on the Internet and do the 4th Grade Math. (2) They are Lying, or (3) Both #1 and #2. The rich NOT having enough money to close the gap is NOT my opinion - it a Provable Fact that Anyone can check for themselves.
FACT: Yes, the Rich are going to have to pay MORE in Tax, - along with EVERYONE ELSE who lives in America and uses the Government's services.
FACT: In front of the TV cameras both the Republicans and Democrats are spinning their kissy-face, "We want to work together." Sure, and the Tooth Fairy is real. Behind closed doors BOTH the Republicans and Democrats are saying the USUAL, "We're ONLY going to raise taxes on the people who Don't vote for use, and we Don't like. We're ONLY going to Cut the Programs of the people who Don't vote for us, and we Don't like."
FACT: If President Obama and Congress CANCEL the "Fiscal Cliff." What are the future chances of a fair-and-equal, "share the pain," 10% across the board Cut in Federal Spending? Let's be honest, if this chance is missed a future chance is LESS THAN ZERO.
If you go to an Orgy: drink two bottles of Vodka and another bottle of who knows what. Eat a hand full of assorted pills. Suck down a hand full of cocaine, and screw everything with two legs. Guess what? The next morning you're going to be very Sick.
One of the Basic Rules of History is that Big Mistakes come with Big Price Tags. America has been making Big Mistakes for over 30 Years. Yes, financial Rehab WILL definitely be Very PAINFUL. But if NOT Now - then When?
The Federal Government has been party boy River Phoenix for the last 30 Years. The Party is Over. There WILL be a BIG Hangover. The so called "Fiscal Cliff" is NOT part of the Problem, it's part of the unavoidable painful Solution for getting better.
NEGOTIATIONS? The "Fiscal Cliff" Does NOT Raise all of the Receipts Needed, and it Does NOT Cut all of the Expenses Needed. After the Fiscal Cliff there is Round Two of More Taxes, and More Cuts. Even After the Fiscal Cliff goes into effect, the new Congress in 2013 will still have a LOT of every unpleasant Work to keep them busy.
WHY NOT SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT? Mr. Obama does NOT have to run again. Why doesn't he do the right thing and let the Fiscal Cliff START the needed process of raising taxes and cutting costs? The same applies to all of the DEFEATED Congressmen who will return to Washington DC in a few weeks. Why not do the what's needed? If Not Now - then When?
The Unpopular Truth is that the "Fiscal Cliff" is NOT the Problem, it's one Step Towards the Solution.


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"We have enough hotel rooms, but living spaces are tight," admitted Hugh O'Reilly, Whistler's third-term mayor, when I met him for coffee one afternoon. A former competitive skier, O'Reilly moved here from California in the seventies, joined the ski patrol, opened a chimney-sweeping business, and stayed. "This is a real village, not just a resort," he told me. "Whistler has the strongest residential-worker program in North America. Seventy-five percent of our workers actually live here." Thanks to O'Reilly and others, Whistler also has restrictive building codes, a "warm bed" covenant (owners must keep their units in the rental pool most of the year), an extensive hiking-trail system toward which developers must contribute, insistence on the use of natural materials, and a strict design panel whose members must approve absolutely everything. "We're surrounded by traditional industries, and we saw what they were doing to the environment. We recognized that tourism can be hard on the land," he said. "We have the best public transit system in B.C. We compost our sewage. We're making use of geothermal heat. Our product is about nature. If you don't have clean air and water, a cute village isn't going to cut it." When I brought up the coming Olympics, O'Reilly didn't hesitate: "We spent thirty years building this resort and we're not going to destroy it in seventeen days." Beck agreed: "Sustainable is a word that gets bandied about, but Whistler has really done it. The Olympics will be a superb opportunity for the village to make a philosophical statement, to become the leading environmentally sustainable ski resort in North America. And it's great for the Olympics to have Whistler as well."
Despite the most cautious planning, Whistler's future can still sometimes seem to be careening toward its present like an out-of-control snowboarder. Black Tusk, a prominent local peak and a symbol featured on every brochure, is now the site of new cellular towers (Whistler has great cell-phone reception). And what of the whistling marmot, from which the town took its name?"I've never seen one," James the bellhop had lamented. After just a week here, I, too, wanted Whistler to stop growing. Yes, the wines and seafood are exceptional and the hotels luxurious. But that's not what makes this the best ski resort in North America. On my last day, I shared a lift chair with another ski instructor, Leslie, who'd arrived for a visit many years before and never left (she named her son Winter). As we reached the top, we both gazed out at the spectacular views. At the newly opened Flute Bowl, with 700 acres of patrolled backcountry-style terrain. At the four new "peak-to-creek" runs. Preparing to dismount, Leslie pulled her goggles on and grinned at me. "It's all about the mountain," she said. And off she flew.
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CHENNAI: After colleges, it's now schools that will be rated for the facilities they provide. A quality assessment and accreditation scheme introduced by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will cover all aspects of a school's functioning, including curricular and co-curricular activities, infrastructure and so on.
The move will improve the quality of education in schools by providing them an incentive to improve their quality and help them in capacity building, say observers. "We strongly welcome the accreditation scheme as it will be a good benchmark to rate the quality of schools," said N Vijayan, principal and correspondent of the Zion Matriculation School.
"This will encourage healthy competition among schools to improve the quality of their infrastructure and instruction," he said.
Many parents welcome the move. "There is a need for an agency that will monitor whether schools are providing the quality of services that they promise the parents," says Manju Singh, a parent. "The regulatory body should conduct both announced and unannounced visits to the schools to ensure that they are worthy of the rating that they have been given," she adds.
However, there is a worry that higher rankings may make school admissions more difficult. "Today it is very difficult to gain admission to a good CBSE school in Chennai. When such a scheme comes into force, it will become almost impossible to get into a highly ranked school," says Singh. CBSE has prepared criteria for schools that want to get accredited. The accreditation will be first done on a pilot basis.
All CBSE-affiliated schools would be required to get themselves accredited within three to five years after the scheme comes into affect. An expert advisory committee will oversee the implementation of the scheme. The accreditation will be done by agencies other than CBSE, which will assess and accredit schools on the criteria and fees decided and approved by the board.
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The Rangers acquired International League Most Valuable Pitcher Anthony Ranaudo from the Red Sox for left-handed swingman Robbie Ross, the teams announced Tuesday. MORE » -
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Left-handed prospect Stephen Tarpley went to the Pirates along with a player to be named later in a trade with the Orioles for big-league outfielder Travis Snider. MORE » -
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Copia Contributes Towards Subscription Based Digital Learning in Australia
Posted by: | CommentsCopia hails itself as one of the best known names in the field of digital classroom solutions, and has announced its association with the LearningField project in Australia that aims to provide a complete digital makeover to education in that country. Led by Copyright Agency (described in Wikipedia as "an Australian company incorporated under the Corporations Code for the purpose of providing institutions, especially educational institutions the use of copyright material, in print or electronic form"), LearningField also enjoys the backing of several industrial houses in Australia and is targeted at students aged 7-10.
"LearningField is like the 'Spotify' for secondary education, allowing teachers to tailor exactly the content they want to the specific needs of their students, as they can select any chapter of any text in the catalogue," explained Ben Heuston, director of LearningField. "We have achieved the delicate balance of a model that is flexible and affordable for schools, while ushering in exciting, new revenue models for publishers in the digital age."
The entire project is built around a per-student based subscription model comprising of two tiers, $160 which covers the subjects of English, Mathematics, Science, History and Geography, and $250 that covers all 45 subjects. Both the teacher and the student will have at their disposal the entire course material that has been designed as per the Australian, New South Wales, and Victorian curricula. The course material has been devised with input from various publishers which includes Cambridge University Press, Wiley, Oxford University Press, Pearson, and Cengage.
Some of the inherent advantages of the LearningField project are that teachers will have complete control over the entire process, be it assigning texts and assignments or keeping track of student progress. Students will have a lot of tools to draw upon, which will help them to engage in group studies or consulting with their teachers, even in private.
"A Copia-powered LearningField can be a model for integrating technology, education and publishing around the world," said Ben Lowinger, executive vice president of Copia. "This initiative creates an environment that provides personalized differentiation to enable meaningful instruction for students at various learning levels. Combined with immediate access to a broad selection of relevant materials from the leading educational publishers, Australian secondary school educators using LearningField will be the first in the world to use this innovative platform. Copia is excited to be part of such a forward-thinking approach."
"Schools have been hoping for a 'one stop shop' across multiple resource providers that works on multiple devices," said Mark O'Neil, executive director of Cambridge University Press. "We currently provide 72 titles to LearningField, a ground-breaking solution that meets the digital needs identified by some of our customers."
John Wiley Partners with TED for Educational Push
Posted by: | CommentsJohn Wiley announced today a new collaboration with TED, the non-profit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading, to create and supply instructor materials for the recently launched series of "TED Studies."
Many schools and educational institutions love to incorporate TEDTalks into their curriculum. It adds a new dimension to lectures and course study material, and it's about it get kicked up a notch. To support the demand for integrating TEDTalks into classroom coursework, TED created TED Studies – 21 collections of curated talks, organized into popular academic subject areas. Wiley will commission instructor materials to accompany TED's offering to educators. These materials will be offered at no cost with TED's video content on iTunesU, Wiley.com, and other platforms around the world.
Many academics who are very specialized will be developing the instructor materials for Ted Studies. Each set of instructor materials will include contextualizing essays, assignment questions and activities, key debates, experiments, and glossaries relating to the TEDTalks. Links to related content from Wiley and other publishers will be included for lecturers to share with students, or for lifelong learners to interact with directly.
"Combining the TEDTalks series for academia with Wiley's high-quality, customized educational materials and expertise creates a powerful new resource for effective, flexible, and personalized teaching and learning," said Stephen M. Smith, Wiley's President and Chief Executive Officer.


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Cereal-box prizes make parents breathe sighs of relief by keeping the breakfast table quiet, and now Soapsters are going to revolutionize bath time. Designed to entice kids into sudsing and scrubbing more often, each glycerin Soapster soap bar holds a toy in the center--accessible only when the soap is used up.
More than 100 different toys are featured in the 13 Soapster lines, which feature animals from around the globe, including sea life, jungle creatures and zoo animals. Kids can lather up with poison dart frogs from the Amazon, spiders, beetles, cats, teddy bears, dinosaurs, fish and horses. Soapsters also feature Halloween, Christmas and Hanukkah holiday toys. The soaps come in several kid-friendly scents, including grape, green apple, orange blast, bubble gum and jungle punch. Each 2.7-ounce bar is made of all-natural, vegetable-based glycerin soap.
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transitive verb \ˈtaks\: to require (someone) to pay a tax
: to require someone to pay a tax on (something)
: to require a lot from (something or someone) : to put demands on (something or someone)
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noun, often attributive: an amount of money that a government requires people to pay according to their income, the value of their property, etc., and that is used to pay for the things done by the government
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noun (Concise Encyclopedia)Government levy on persons, groups, or businesses. Taxes are a general obligation of taxpayers and are not paid in exchange for any specific benefit. They have existed since ancient timesproperty taxes and sales taxes were known in ancient Romebut tariffs were favoured over internal taxes as a source of revenue. In modern economies, there has been a trend away from tariffs in favour of internal taxes, which provide the majority of revenues. Taxes have three functions: to cover government spending, to promote stable economic growth, and to lessen inequalities in the distribution of income and wealth. They have also been used for nonfiscal reasons, such as to encourage or discourage certain activities (e.g., cigarette consumption). Taxes may be classified as direct or indirect. Direct taxes are those that the taxpayer cannot shift onto someone else; they are mainly taxes on persons and are based on an individual's ability to pay as measured by income or net wealth. Direct taxes include income taxes, taxes on net worth, death duties (i.e., inheritance and estate taxes), and gift taxes. Indirect taxes are those that can be shifted in whole or in part to someone other than the person legally responsible for payment. These include excise taxes, sales taxes, and value-added taxes. Taxes may also be classified according to the effect they have on the distribution of wealth. A proportional tax is one that imposes the same relative burden on all taxpayers, unlike progressive taxes and regressive taxes.
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Another NFL IOU to Charles Bowser for Severance
We just received this from retired Miami Dolphins Killer B's Charles Bowser regarding his missing $10,000 Severance Check:
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I would sure like to know the latest status of Burt Grossman's unpaid severance claim. I now find myself in a similar situation with my former team, the Miami Dolphins. I received severance checks for four credited seasons when I retired in 1988. Then I just found out this year that I was never paid severance pay for the extra credited season I was later awarded in 2005 when I applied for early benefits. I was advised by the NFL Benefits Office that there had been a mistake: it turns out I was entitled to an extra credited season because I was physically unable to perform during my last year with the Dolphins while I was still listed on the roster.
When I contacted the NFL Player Benefits office regarding this matter, they sent me a letter along with a W-2 and a copy of the front of a severance check claiming that the Dolphins paid me for the extra credit season in 1993! I was shocked because I had no memory of receiving a severance check from the Dolphins in 1993. I had no way of disputing it so I contacted the IRS, Social Security AND the State of Maryland tax office. I found out from the State of Maryland that they had no records of me reporting the 1993 severance pay nor did they have records of the Dolphins reporting the severance income. After reviewing my yearly Social Security statement, I noticed that the 1988 FICA severance the Dolphins withheld ($3379.00) was also not credited to my FICA account. When I contacted Social Security requesting the credit, I was advised that the Dolphins reported the severance income as exempt – I was shocked!
I then contacted the NFL Benefits office who told me that they would contact the Dolphins and get back to me – never heard back from them. I then filed Article IX Non-injury Grevance claim against the Miami Dolphins for reimbursement of unpaid severance pay. I received a letter from the NFL Management office (NFLMC) stating that the Miami Dolphins denied my allegations. Here – just like Burt Grossman – I have Federal and State documentation that clearly backed up my claim, yet the NFLMC AND the Miami Dolphins tell me that what I provided them isn't good enough or true! What are they saying – the State of Maryland and Social Security documents are a bunch of lies?
I truly believe that players will be denied severance pay reimbursement from their former teams no matter what documents they provide to them. There was nothing in the NFLMC denial letter demanding that the Dolphins provide any type of documents or copies of canceled checks validate their denial – amazing! Even though I provided the NFLMC with a detailed 1993 Maryland tax statement, as far as the NFLMC was concerned, the official government documents didn't prove my claim to them! As far I'm concerned, what the Dolphins did is fraud, plain and simple! I investigated the statute on fraud which states that an individual has three years from the date of discovery to file a suit. Using a government agency to deceive an individual is serious fraud and a crime!
I have to say that this severance matter with the Miami Dolphins is very disappointing. Here's a former 1985 Miami Dolphins Superbowl starter, former player on a famous Dolphins defense – The Killer B's – having to fight his former team over a lousy $3379.00 FICA withholding and a $10k severance check! I would never have imagined the Dolphins and the NFLMC would dispute my claim with all the Federal and State documentation that I provided to them.
After receiving the denial letter from the NFLMC, I responded by asking the Dolphins to do the right thing and contact Social Securiy, clear up the matter and apply the funds to my FICA account. Also told them that I no longer wanted the 1993 $10k for myself and to apply those funds instead to the Miami Dolphins Player Assistance Fund. I would then consider this matter resolved. It will be interesting to see the NFLMC and the Dolphin's response to my settlement request now since I am no longer asking for reimbursement of the severance funds to me.
I hope you'll post this on Dave's blog for all the other retired players AND the fans to read.
Charles Bowser
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Coincidentally, we just heard back from Burt Grossman over the weekend (REALLY!). He now has an arbitration hearing scheduled in Philadelphia (!) late in November over his Severance Pay – what's there to arbitrate? The Eagles owe Burt $40,000 in severance pay just like Charles Bowser and all the other players who have only recently been discovering that they had it owed to them all these years. The NFLPA's lawyer Tom DePaso has been working with Burt and his attorney, Daniel Anastasia, on this case. (Click on the thumbnail to view the document.)


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Does not voting in a Democracy forfeit your right to complain?
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No as I hate both candidates sometimes and cant stand either one. The best thing to do is not vote. Frankly one vote doesn't matter anyway with the whole voting process.
When you vote for any politician, all you're really doing is encouraging them!! I could argue that when you actually DO vote for one of them you've lost your right to complain since you have made a real choice. My complaint would be about the actual choices in front of me!!
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Jürgen Habermas, a highly influential philosopher, have argued the value of a public debate as essential to a democracy. A society that begun to lose its public sphere have begun losing it's democracy. When elections become routine, when only media or elected politicians present the issues and represent the only debates that are heard, when forums for people communicating with eachother are closed down, democracy is dying. The argument that a person forfeit their right to complain by not voting isn't democratic. It's in fact a directly anti-democratic sentiment. The capacity to speak out, both in being free to speak and having the tools to speak, are the building blocks for a democratic society. Not adherence to social systems or bureaucracy. |
not voting in an election of for a particular office is a choice. not voting at all though is altogether different and more of a mindset rather than a flexing of any democratic right but more that apathetic response of someone who truly doesn't give enough of a shit, despite their probable eagerness to complain.
fight apathy…or don't and its untrue that that are usually only 2 canditates, their maybe only 2 potential winners, or one for that matter but its called doing research, putting support behind canidates that have value and princeples that you care for. i voted green for president in 2012 for that very reason. i believe obama is good president even though hugely flawed, and his actions on a number of issues meant i would not vote for him twice. instead of bitching about it though i voted green. also if you can't find a canidate or small party that cares about some of the issues you do, well you might be a sociopath. people everywhere, especially in this country need to drop the emphasis on winning (and whining for that matter). strugles take years and just because your issues may not carry the day in a election or even a lifetime is no excuse to say one/your vote doesn't matter. in the end it all adds up and siting on the sidelines in elections, proves only that some people want to be neutered sheep. |
read this in Freakonomics
A statistician ran into another at a polling place just as his colleague came out of the booth. They were each highly embarrassed. The second statistician said, "My wife made me." The first responded, "Mine too." The laughed, smiled, shook hands and left after agreeing to both not mention it ever again. |
Ehm, no - why would it?
AFAIK, we don't need a right to complain. |
I rather agree to JemyM.
Discussion is the ground source of all democracy. Because it helps people make up their minds. |
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I think most countries have the option to vote blank? As in: Vote, but not on a particular candidate, to indicate that you are part of democracy, but you find the current candidates incompetent.
Election law varies state-to-state over here so I can't really speak nationally, but Indiana does not have a "null" vote and Ohio didn't back in the day. We are allowed to "write in" a candidate that isn't on the ballot (thus, Mickey Mouse regularly getting votes for President), which could functionally serve as your null vote.
Aaah, who to pick? Donald Duck or Mickey Mouse? Truth be told, that's a fairly tough call.
At any rate, it does sound like it could be used as a blank vote. Sort of. It's probably better than not voting at all - which will not be considered a protest by any politician, it will simply be considered lazy. |
Also, if you can't stand any option, you can always do like I did last time we had elections - writing on the voting paper your thoughts about them: thieves, criminals, mafia. Your vote won't count of course, but you have every right to express your thoughts and here it's legal, noone can sue you for writing those stuff on the voting paper. Which would be my answer on the thread title. If you didn't vote for whatever reason, your future whining should be ignored. In any case, I can't believe ppl just skip to vote. Usually with explanation - I just can't be arsed. Did you choose to forget that in recent history not everyone had rights to vote? Also, did you forget or you're just ignorant that in some countries one of the major punishments is/was not just a death penalty but also denying voting rights to a person? |
Complaining is one of the most basic rights in a democracy, so of course: no. Telling complainers to shut up, grow up, and do something, is of course likewise covered! ;)
That's nailing the topic, good job GBG! |
(speaking of the US here). I get so tired of people complaining that there are only two choices (Democrat or Republican) and when I point out there are many choices they respond with "well, only two that can win". Gah! They've bought into what the two main parties are pushing. Others *can* win but only if people start voting for them (see Governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota). Even when they don't win they can make a big difference in both the election and what comes afterward (see Ross Perot).
I don't think not voting is forfeiting your right to complain. You have the right to vote in most countries, not the obligation to vote.
This means you are still allowed to complain afterwards as you have the right to speak and think too in most countries. By most, I'm talking about Western-type democracies. |
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House Democrats Reject Bailout by Same Margin as GOP
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Awesome. I was rooting for it to go down in flames. They want me and my three kids to foot the bill for their stupidity? Maybe they should think of something else.
The Dem failure to support is not *too* surprising. Popular opposition to this bill is pretty widespread; obviously most of what I get exposed to is the right/conservative perspective against it, but looking purely at the class lines and the beneficiaries you can see that poor people don't get diddly from this bailout (at least up front). I would guess that Dems who listened to their constituents instead of their party leadership would almost all be opposed to this bill.
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holy crap, the dow is falling so freakin fast. this is crazy. i really don't want the bail out, but everyone is panicked. thank god we have a credit union and not a bank.
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Yah, I think Dave is probably right… I see another article that notes
'Ample no votes came from both the Democratic and Republican sides of the aisle. More than two-thirds of Republicans and 40 percent of Democrats opposed the bill'.
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The dems are only against it because they know their allies in the media will help hang this on the GOP. By doing so they think they can win the election.
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no one wanted this bill to pass. i would have voted against it as well. the problem is what is the alternative and i haven't seen a good choice from anyone. the credit market is closed so i suspect that things will go down real fast.
but here is what i am thinking. if this is all about mortgages – why don't we spend the $150 billion and purchase the 10% of the bad mortgages, loan another $60 billion to the banks to open the credit market and the government can work directly with homeowners to help those that can afford to keep their houses stay in them. that would cost far less then the $700 billion they are talking about right now.
and i don't think its cool for the bush administration to wrap this around the neck of the next president.
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i don't think its cool for the bush administration to wrap this around the neck
Bush certainly shares a lot of the blame for this debacle, but you can't really fault him for the timing, which is totally out of his control…
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Your corrected headline is still inaccurate. 40% of Democrats voted against the bill. 67% of Republicans voted against it. That's not the same margin.
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scott, democrats didn't want the bill which is why it didn't pass. no one wants it. something may eventually get passed but so far no one has convinced the american people that this is the right path. but the failure does fall on bush and paulson. they presented the american people with a 3-page plan for a complicated issue. that was mistake number 1. mistake number 2 was to present it as america's last hope. then they continued their bad selling of the program.
and when i say bush wrapping around the next president's neck, i am referencing the entire mess that is the american economy.
i'm not cool with bailing out these banks. they created fancy financial instruments then leveraged those securities, followed no rules or regulations, created a $516 trillion derivative market and now that the house of cards has fallen, they want the tax payer to bail them out.
yeah… there is blame enough for both parties and we can punish them in november. but my guess is that most will return and we'll be back here again in about 10 years.
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If this was so good, and the "donkies" so unified, the Dems could of passed this without any Republican votes in the House. But the public "melted the phones" these past few days and enough politicos listened. Just like the imigration bill crackdown, the Dems and Repubs got the jist of the electorate's displeasure.
They aren't the only ones pissed right now. There are a lot of foreign banks who got into this with the reassurances from US banks/govt that these notes were "AAA" rated……BZZZZZZZZZ, wrongo boyos.
1. Don't reward stupidity and greed
2. Bring back professional RISK MANAGEMENT. All the rules and gov't regulations don't mean squat if management doesn't do it's job. Also, government should not meddle in the risk management process, dump vast amounts of cheap money (aka: temptation) or act as a safety net giving management cover to act stupid.
3. A house is a priviledge, not a right (nor a political patronage scheme)
4. Get your own financial house in order and treat credit with respect
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Clearly you're not very good at math, since it's obvious that the percentage of GOP who voted against the bill was significantly higher than the percentage of dems who did.
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Bbartlog: Doyle voted FOR the bill:
Dave Hussein & Crusty: yeah, so what?


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"Baccarat is a brand that has always been about a way of life—it is not a luxury jewelry brand adapted to the hotel space," Rohm said. Referring to the French crystal company's historical role to enhance the lives of kings and queens, Rohm said Baccarat Hotel & Residences New York will continue that tradition, "creating a destination for home owners and travelers who want more out of life."
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Members of the Board of Regents took time this week to dedicate a special new portrait of Saul and Joyce Brandman that is now gracing the walls of the central administration building in Irvine. Mr. Brandman was a successful Orange County businessman who founded the Brandman Foundation. After his passing in 2008, Joyce took over as the President of the Foundation. The Brandman's made a very generous gift to the university, which is why our institution is named Brandman University. Brandman Hub was there for the dedication and Joyce was kind enough to share a few words with us. See the video below.
Next to the portrait is a special message that reads: "The Brandman Foundation has supported countless charitable endeavors in the spirit of its founder, Saul Brandman. His passionate commitment to education is a driving force for the Foundation. Since his passing in 2008, Joyce Brandman has served as the Brandman Foundation president, working tirelessly to support nonprofit organizations that are making a significant impact in communities around the world. The foundation's $10,000,000 gift has enabled our institution to help countless students achieve their dreams.
On January 13, 2009 the Board of Regents recognized the foundations incredible gift by naming our institution Brandman University."
The generous gift from the Brandman Foundation has helped us transform the lives of countless students.


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3 Each year Elkanah and his family would travel to Shiloh to worship and sacrifice to the LORD Almighty at the Tabernacle. The priests of the LORD at that time were the two sons of Eli -- Hophni and Phinehas. | 3 Year after year this man went up from his town to worship and sacrifice to the LORD Almighty at Shiloh, where Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were priests of the LORD. |
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I have wild perilla, the green kind, but used to have the dark red kind, growing in my yard. I searched the internet for a recipe and found the Korean Sesame recipe.
1/4 cup soysauce
Plastic lid and bowl
Most recipes say not to cook the leaves, but the one I found said to simmer them for 3 to 5 minutes. First you add all the ingredients accept the leaves and sesame seeds, put it in a small sauce pan, heat until boiling, then take down to a simmer, add the green leaves until 3 to 5 minutes. They were so wilted the first batch I made, it was like separating cooked spinach into flat pieces. You layer them with the sprinkles of peppers and sesame seeds, one layer at a time. The second, they were cooked for 5 on even lower heat, and they were in between cooked and not cooked, easier to handle, but stil very wilted. I liked the wilted kind much better, but I saw videos of most other recipes, the leaves are used raw. What is the real tradition? To do it again, I would shred the perilla, mix the mix mentioned above, add the shredded perilla, mix good stirring occationally for 3 minutes, sprinkle the sesame seeds on, maybe add 1 tablespoon, mix good, and then it's easier to serve. Also I'll bet this same recipe could be used for mustard, collard, and turnip greens, accept you would cook them longer. So am I losing the real Korean dish making it a commercial American one instead, or do they cook the leaf slightly before they eat them? It was really good, and anything with soysauce marinated in it is going to taste good. Can't find the "Kitchen" or "Recipe" forum, so posted in herb. Perilla is in the mint family. |
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- Posted by scarletdaisies 6 (My Page) on Mon, Jul 18, 11 at 14:33
Forgot to add 1 teaspoon of sugar is included in the recipe. Does no one cook with perilla? Shiso Plant/Beef steak plant? Just wondering. |
- Posted by fatamorgana Zone 5/6 (My Page) on Mon, Jul 18, 11 at 17:37
Oddly enough, I've never been able to start this one from seed. It's been a while since I tried so I'll have to try again. But since fresh isn't really available, I've only used the Japanese yukari shiso salt. I've used it in Japanese styled quick pickles. Adds tang and color. As for fresh shiso, I would use it if I could grow it. :) FataMorgana |
- Posted by scarletdaisies 6 (My Page) on Mon, Jul 18, 11 at 20:03
Yeah, I was so diappointed when the same plant from my other house didn't grow from seed collected by it. I was disapointed, until I saw another lady's collection of herb plants, some photos she had on facebook. It was the same green weed I kept pulling out of my garden, the thing is uncontrollable. If you can't grow the purple/red variety, grow the green one. You can't kill it, it's a mint! I've already made this 3 times, watched 2 videos, but I like my greens cooked thoroghly, so the videos prefer to use the green leaves and wrap them around rice with their chopsticks. I didn't have the patience to wait for the rice to get done, I really liked the taste of the soy sauce mix over it, it didn't need anything else. The green ones do not taste as well as the wilted ones, and it's very easy to wilt perilla/shiso. Not so easy to wilt mustard, so I would add more cooking time before anyone start the soy recipe. All I know is I can eat this every day, no complaints here, and what a surprise that it grew as a weed in the yard. If you can't grow you other one, grow the green variety, it's hard not to grow, seedlings sprout every day. |
- Posted by fatamorgana Zone 5/6 (My Page) on Mon, Jul 18, 11 at 20:31
Yeah, I've always tried growing the aka shiso (red shiso). Maybe I'll try the green. Thanks for the suggestion. I have grown mitsuba (Japanese parsley or hornwort) and shungiku (edible chrysanthemum) which are plants with unique tastes. I'm trying red malabar (another asian plant) this year. Reminds me of purslane in taste but with a climbing habit. Very pretty edible. I took the suggestion of another poster here and tried Kitazawa for Asian veggies this year. I'm growing some Japanese pepper (Shishito & Yatsufusa) and eggplant (Konasu) varieties I got from them. Too early in the season to comment on those yet. But it's a nice place to try if looking for Asian seeds. FataMorgana |
Here is a link that might be useful: Kitazawa Seed Co.
- Posted by scarletdaisies 6 (My Page) on Tue, Jul 19, 11 at 15:17
Those sound good to try, my lettuces didnt grow well, so I may just use that space for something like you mentioned. I'll look at those. Thanks!! What's the best flavor? I'll bet all can be used for that recipe. |
- Posted by fatamorgana Zone 5/6 (My Page) on Thu, Jul 21, 11 at 8:15
Best flavor between mitsuba and shungiku? Mitsuba. Shungiku has a powerful taste and a little bit goes a very long way. Mitsuba has an herbal taste, akin to parsley's or cilantro's herbal tastes although uniquely mitsuba. Shungiku is a flowering and very pretty edible. FataMorgana Shungiku: Mitsuba: |
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'Unconscious Bias' and the Perils of Prejudiced Recruiting.
Analysis by Steve McNally, Communications Director of Equality Law and Ecom Digital.
You're biased. And I am too. In fact, everyone is biased. You're not a human being if you don't naturally 'pre-judge' in some way. So it's hardly surprising that 'Unconscious Bias' and how it can affect the recruitment process is becoming an increasingly vexed issue.
If you think this is something of a sideshow to the mainstream cut and thrust of modern day recruitment, then consider this: how many recruiters in your organisation genuinely believe that they can identify the perfect candidate the moment they set eyes on them (or even from a glance of their CV)? Quite a few, right? But should we be surprised? As animals, we all find it easier to relate to people who we believe share similar characteristics and values to ourselves. It's then just a small but dangerous step to make assumptions about the wider similarities they might share. And that is where problems of prejudice can translate into seriously stereotypical recruitment - and all the attendant perils of group thinking.
A recent and fascinating article by Tim Smedley in the FT showed how 'current' the phenomena of 'Unconscious Bias' really is. The award-winning business journalist quoted Robert McHenry, executive chairman and business psychology consultant at OPP, on the prevalence of unconscious bias. "When you meet someone you make a judgement about them very quickly, and that judgement is based on categories that you have already stored and built up. So in a sense we pre-judge everybody and when we meet them we try to fit them into a category that we already know. We do that very quickly and therefore without awareness."
Perhaps surprisingly, Mr McHenry believes there is "actually a lot to be said" for a manager's gut instinct. However, as Tim Smedley explains, the dangers occurs when instinct based on experience gives way to prejudice. Or, as McHenry says: "Prejudice occurs where you haven't had much experience with someone from a particular category, so you just make it up. You aren't using knowledge or experience or facts. But if you teach people the facts, you eliminate a lot of the bias that comes from ignorance."
Smedley, a regular contributor to the CIPD's People Management magazine, has an intimate knowledge of the UK workplace and goes on to note that April marked the first anniversary of the UK government's Social Mobility Strategy, which aims to ensure everyone has a fair opportunity to fulfil their potential, regardless of background.
As an integral part of this, the Office for the Deputy Prime Minister launched the "Business Compact", which has the declared aim of eradicating bias from recruitment decisions. Businesses have been invited to sign up to an agreement to "ensure that recruitment processes don't allow people to be inadvertently screened out because they went to the wrong school or come from a different ethnic group".
As Smedley stresses, this, "could include increased use of name-blank and school-blank applications where appropriate". The idea of blanks on an application is that if you know nothing of the applicant other than their skills and experience, bias is less likely to affect the selection process.
Rachael Frame, occupational psychologist at Work Group, sees this as a good evolution. "Sometimes in order for this kind of change to take place, organisations need to see that the government is giving clear guidelines," she says.
"When you look at the organisations that have signed up, there are some serious employers who believe that this is the right thing to be doing.
"As those messages start to seep through, that does start to raise people's awareness." Indeed, the organisations signed up include KPMG, Allen and Overy and Microsoft.
But she adds: "If employers are not clear about the capabilities and behaviours they are looking for then they might be screening for completely the wrong things, irrespective of whether somebody put their name or school on the form."
Smedley balances his study by noting that The Business Compact has also come in for criticism, especially from those who fear US-style rules on what can and can't be asked at interview. Indeed, he poses the question: "If you cannot even ask someone their name, what is there left?"
McHenry also has some sympathy with this view: "I have a company in the US where it really is very difficult. I was interviewing somebody for a job in California and I was given by the lawyer a very long list of things I couldn't touch on at interview. I believe that is the wrong direction."
Coming from Northern Ireland, he has witnessed the impact of removing names and religious background from civil service applications to combat sectarianism. "But people could still use other clues, such as the district of Belfast etc," he says.
"If you don't give people information they will actually work very hard to find the information that allows them to categorise. The less good information you give people, the more they have to guess, and the more likely they are to put somebody in the wrong category and make the wrong judgement."
In fact, McHenry believes that some level of bias in recruitment is based on more than simple discrimination.
Some recruiters see positive traits in candidates out of a willingness for them to be right for the post, to the point where they ignore evidence to the contrary. Most characteristics are distributed over a U-shaped curve and most people are in the middle of that, says McHenry.
"When I work with people who are making decisions they are often reluctant to say 'this person is in the middle'; they try to pick out things that make them exceptional – but statistically that is very unlikely. People make too much effort to find an exceptional person, and the truth is there are not very many of them.
"So they will fix on something in somebody and exaggerate that characteristic in an effort to justify the selection of an individual." This, he believes, becomes more prevalent the more senior the vacancy.
Mr Smedley poses a final question that should make all of us think twice." Can there be such a thing as a necessary bias – interviewers are, after all, looking for someone who will fit in with the culture of an organisation and get on with their colleagues. So could relying on judgement be the best indicator of that?
"When you talk about someone fitting in, it depends on how you define it," answers Ms Frame. "A lot of the work that we do is helping clients to pin down and understand how they define the culture of their organisation and the types of behaviours that their successful performers typically demonstrate. You can challenge their thinking about what this 'right fit' individual actually looks like and pin it down to measurable characteristics."
Recruitment freed of decisions based on bias, yet without going down the hand-wringing route of not asking anyone anything, is an achievable goal, argues McHenry.
He recommends the recruiters he works with to try simple exercises, "such as using a check-list of adjectives, giving someone a category and asking them to choose 10 adjectives that fit the people in that category. Those are ways that people can share their biases and talk about them. You expose people's bias and judgements, and then say 'actually that's not a good judgement – here's a better judgement'."
The recruitment process could, therefore, be coming to terms with the problem. "The more people who recognise and understand the biases they have, then the more likely they are to start managing them," says Ms Frame.
"But no employer will completely eradicate it because that would involve fundamental changes in human behaviour."
A work in progress, evidently.


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Munich, without beer
The Martini Club in Munich aims for a prohibition-era New York speakeasy vibe. (Martini Club)
Munich is unmistakably a beer city. It is where the beer garden was invented, where the beer hall was perfected and where the world's largest beer festival is held every year. But beyond the pilsner-soaked tents of Oktoberfest is a sophisticated wine and cocktail scene that challenges Munich's reputation for being a hoppy haven.
A long-standing stalwart is Schumann's on Odeonsplatz, a large square in the city centre. It is the sort of place that attracts the affluent and the beautiful, and looks more like a buzzing US hotel lobby bar than a Bavarian beer hall. Reservations are advised for anyone wanting to get a table on its ultra-busy Thursday evenings.
Schumann's offers a classic example of something that Munich's best bars pride themselves on -- a drinks menu in the form of a thick booklet. Theirs contains a good collection of single malt whiskies and an enormous cocktail list, with many of the entries marked with the date they were created. But the real speciality at Schumann's is Campari, a dark red, bitter-tasting aperitif with a sweet edge. The shelves behind the bar are lined with Campari bottles, and on a recent visit, a classic Campari and soda was being enjoyed at most of the bar's tables. Slightly more adventurous patrons could be seen sipping a Negroni – a mixture of gin, vermouth and Campari.
On the other side of Munich in the Isarvorstadt area, Königsquelle is Munich's real whisky haven. From the outside, it looks like a standard pub in a residential area, but inside the dusty, almost museum-like space (with a fish tank bizarrely located in the the middle) the many wall-mounted cases of tiny whisky bottles give the game away. There is no printed menu and the bar staff admits they have given up counting how many bottles they have in stock, but hundreds of bottles line the shelves. Rare whiskies are sourced from distilleries in Scotland, Ireland and the US, and all are handwritten onto a special menu. Unfortunately for repeat visitors, the selection is on a "when they're gone, they're gone" basis, with past offerings including a 1999 port cask-finished MacDuff and a double matured 1995 Tobermorey.
A couple of blocks southwest, the Toskana wine bar has a similar shambolic charm. It is essentially a wine store with a few chairs and sofas shunted into the gaps. Patrons are encouraged to share a table and socialise, while the knowledgeable owner Constance Heuberger serves up her favourite wines from Tuscany, as well as other Italian wine regions, and occasionally gives in-store seminars about Italian viticulture.
For a more conventional wine bar experience, Giesel's Vinothek at the Excelsior Hotel near Munich Hauptbahnhof, the city's central station, has more than 600 options by the bottle, with a fair proportion available by the glass, including ice wines from Canada and bottles from Greece and Turkey. An emphasis is put on showcasing new German wines -- the sauvignon blancs and pinot blancs that have emerged in the last decade rather than the traditional rieslings. Under the painted, vaulted ceilings, Vinothek also offers wines grown in traditionally beer-loving Bavaria, such as the J Hoffman Bacchus which uses a native German grapecalled Bacchus to produce a light, fruity, summery white.
Rum is the speciality at the Roosevelt Bar in the Lehel neighbourhood just to the east of the city centre. It is an unassuming place that mixes a local, cafe-terrace vibe outside with a colonial look complete with wooden ceiling fans inside. Owner Uthoff Kai proudly stocks about 245 different rums, arranged by origin at the back of the bar. They come from as far afield as Hawaii, Mauritius and the Philippines, although the aged Caribbean and Latin American rums are best for sipping neat. Diplomatico from Venezuela, Zacapa and Botran from Guatemala and Barbancourt from Haiti are among the ones Kai personally recommends.
A Brazilian spin on the rum bar can be found at Ver O Peso in the Haidhausen district on the eastern side of the Isar river, where Valdemar Da Silva rules over a small, dark, wood-panelled bar. He sources obscure cachaças (Brazilian cane sugar rums) from across Brazil, mixing them up into cocktails on request. The caipirinhas are most popular, but the Ritmo do Brazil – a mix of cachaça, vodka, chocolate liqueur, acerola juice and lime juice -- is excellent too.