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What if someone gave you $60,000 and said "Take this money and use it to make our Jewish community a better place." What would you do? You could be part of a group of 23 Jewish teens answering this question. Interested Denver and Boulder Jewish 10th, 11th, and 12th graders can apply to be part of Rose Youth Foundation. Become a philanthropist. Make a difference. Visit www.rcfdenver.org/RYF/ to learn more.
Bronfman Youth Fellowships in Israel
THE BRONFMAN YOUTH FELLOWSHIPS IN ISRAEL educates and inspires exceptional young Jews from diverse backgrounds to become active participants in Jewish culture throughout their lives, and to contribute their talents and vision to the Jewish community and to the world at large. The alumni network focuses on promoting the following values: Jewish learning, pluralism, engagement with Israel, and social responsibility.
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Jewish Farm School
The Jewish Farm School is an environmental education organization whose mission is to practice and promote sustainable agriculture and to support food systems rooted in justice and Jewish traditions.
Aspirations of the Jewish Farm School are driven by the traditions of using food as a tool for social justice and spiritual mindfulness. Through our programs, we address the injustices embedded in today's mainstream food systems and work to create greater access to sustainably grown foods, produced from a consciousness of both ecological and social well being.
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The American Jewish Society for Service
The American Jewish Society for Service links social conscience to Jewish consciousness, engaging teenagers in acts of tikkun olam—repairing the world—one house, one park, one community center at a time.
The mission of the AJSS is to build Jewish leaders. Our summer program inspires teens to put their Jewish values into action as they provide significant service to communities in need in communities all across the United States.
To apply and for more information, visit www.ajss.org.
The Martin Buber Summer Youth Kibbutz
Participants will experience kibbutz-style cooperative living while learning about Jewish social philosophy, Jewish environmental ethics, conflict-resolution, and working on an organic farm.
For more information and to apply, visit www.bubersummer.org.
Etgar 36
America is the journey and destination of any Etgar 36 journey. Etgar 36 is a cross country summer journey in which you experience the sites, sounds, culture, food, and people of each city. You will learn about the American history that shapes us, our Jewish heritage that binds us, the issues that confront us and how the political process impacts us.
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Spring Skiing and Sun Protection
This weekend I purchased sunscreen for my family on our way out for three hours of cross-country skiing. UV-B rays are just as intense in the winter and spring and can cause serious sunburn, we all should be very careful about being exposed unprotected to the sun for any extended period of time. And reflection from snow increases the risk of damage to your skin. While I lather sunscreen on every... »

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Last night, Bridgette made a very foolish decision, and one she will live to regret.
She flipped on a light switch.
At that fateful moment, the light in our entryway briefly dimmed before going dark altogether. We soon realized that light switches and power outlets throughout north half of our house weren't working. Half of our home became shouded in a still, penetrating blackness that enveloped our very souls. I checked our fusebox and tried yelling all the swear words I know really loud, but nothing seemed to work.
Oh well. I didn't particularly like that half of the house anyway.
Tonight, my father – an electrical engineer and level 8 enchanter – will join me in a quest to restore electrical power to the rooms currently blanketed with inequity. Strange that our cat, named Ben Franklin, would be of no help in this electrical quandry. During the crisis, he seemed more interested in licking his own anus than in offering help of any sort. Just like the real Ben Franklin, I suppose.
Hopefully Bridgette will learn a lesson from all this and refrain from flipping light switches without my expressed, written consent.


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Hi Jeff, >I followed the instruction in the current Gentoo >Handbook (Alpha edition), which says to do a "make && >make modules_install" (after a "make menuconfig" of >course). Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't it used >to be something like "make bzimage" on Alpha? Is the >handbook wrong? > > Nope, the handbook isn't wrong. 'make bzImage' was used for 2.4.x kernels I believe. Just to be sure, check that you're copying the right file to your /boot partition. it should be /usr/src/linux/arch/alpha/boot/vmlinux.gz . Other images you may find in the directory structure seem to be intermediate files, including the one that ends up in the kernel's root directory (/usr/src/linux), which always struck me as being strange, but hey, I'm no Linus Torvalds... :-) I always do this after a kernel compile (I'm sure it's pretty standard stuff, so it could be made into a script of some sort...) : cp arch/alpha/boot/vmlinux.gz /boot/vmlinux.gz-<version> cp System.map /boot/System.map-<version> cp .config /boot/config-<version> cd /boot rm vmlinux.gz # remove symlink to old kernel ln -s vmlinux.gz-<version> vmlinux.gz rm vmlinux.gz-old # remove symlink to old old kernel (if that makes sense...) ln -s vmlinux.gz-<previous version> vmlinux.gz-old I always keep entries in AlphaBIOS's boot menu that boot vmlinux.gz and vmlinux.gz-old. It's proved to be a useful habit... :-) The third boot option is a straight MILO prompt, for times when I need to boot off the LiveCD or whatever. Good luck, J-S -- ___________________________________________ Jean-Sébastien Guay jean_seb@... http://whitestar02.webhop.org/ -- firstname.lastname@example.com mailing list
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Biotronik proceeds with MRI-safe ICD study in the U.S. as initial patients join in
A few weeks after the FDA allowed Biotronik to expand its ProMRI trial to implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, the company hasn't wasted any time moving ahead. The German cardiac device company said it performed initial ICD surgeries for the study at hospitals in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, Virginia, New York and Oregon, generally involving its Iforia devices.
St. Jude cardiac devices win CE mark approval
St. Jude Medical gained a pivotal CE mark for two next-generation lines of implantable cardioverter defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators, advancing in Europe even as its rivals win U.S. approval for competing devices.
Medtronic wins FDA nods for next-gen cardiac devices
Medtronic is padding its fleet of U.S.-approved cardiac devices, winning the FDA's blessing to market new Viva and Evera implants.
Biotronik nabs FDA nod for single-lead ICD
Biotronik got the FDA's final approval on Lumax 740 DX, a first-in-class single-lead ICD designed to treat atrial fibrillation that the company says could vastly improve care for patients.
Medtronic grabs CE mark for next-gen ICD
Medtronic snagged CE mark approval for its Evera line of ICDs, planning to launch devices the company says offer increased longevity, lower risk of shock and a 30% reduction in skin pressure.
Biotronik's home monitor cuts unintended ICD shocks by 52%
Biotronik is touting positive data for its Home Monitoring device, reporting that its tech, designed to keep tabs on ICD patients, reduces inappropriate shocks by 52% compared to traditional in-office follow-ups.
ICDs and pacemakers may be safe for MRI use after all
With all the worry that people with pacemakers or implanted cardioverter defibrillators can't have an MRI, a new study concludes the procedure may be fine for these patients anyway.
Boston Sci closes $150M deal for Cameron, new ICD
Boston Scientific has taken another step toward turning around its flagging defibrillator sales, closing a $150 million deal for Cameron Health and acquiring that company's S-ICD device.
Boston Sci wins FDA nod for heart failure devices
The FDA has given its blessing to Boston Scientific's ($BSX) INCEPTA, ENERGEN and PUNCTUA CRT-Ds and ICDs to treat heart failure and sudden cardiac death. In a release, the company touts the devices'
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Spiritual Guidance: Priests, shields and AoE healing in Mists of Pandaria {WoW}
Feb 21st 2012 8:03AM I believe the reason they are ok with stacking spirit so you can spam your biggest spell is because you have to give up other secondary stats in order to do that. So you have 9k spirit, but you only have 3k haste and 3k crit, rather than 5k spirit, 5k haste, 5k crit.
In the end, coefficients and balancing are all important.
Take the WoW Ironman Challenge {WoW}
Feb 8th 2012 4:18AM I found the IronSally articles certainly interesting, but the key thing to note is that she is not doing the 0 deaths part. She is doing the no-buffs, only white items, no talents, etc. But she's died quite a few times getting to 85. And certainly had a really hard time doing it.
Ironmin seems to be doing the best with the no-deaths rule:
But is only lvl 67. Given the difficulty bump in *green* items from 80-85 if you don't have corresponding grey/white items to give a similar increase in damage and survivability, I can see that being very difficult.
WoW Moviewatch: WoW Hardware Store {WoW}
Jan 18th 2012 4:50AM The best item is the Automatic Circumcisor. I can't say I've ever found that in my local hardware store...
The Care and Feeding of Warriors: The newly 85 warrior tank blues {WoW}
Aug 14th 2011 7:41AM Thanks for writing this up. As a primarily 5-man tank, I tend to look for 20 Expertise and 5% hit. That is enough to be hit/dodge capped vs same-level enemies. It makes trash pulls *much* easier, and it does decrease the chance bosses will miss those first couple of hits.
Paragon releases heroic Ragnaros 25-man kill video {WoW}
Jul 27th 2011 11:45PM I think the big thing for a bear is that they do more dps than other tanks. I don't know how big the spread is post nerf, but I definitely remember it pre 4.2. Given that they were doing what 4-healers to be able to handle the enrage timer, they would certainly take whatever tank added the most dps to the mix.
Arcane Brilliance: Patch 4.2 changes, clarifications and legendary staves {WoW}
May 22nd 2011 2:21PM Actually, with 948dps, it is probably BiS for 2H melee users. Sure you lose some Strength/Agility (druids), but it is still about 250dps more than the 372 weapons.
I assume they are going to nerf the weapon dps sometime soon. Because it definitely isn't itemized as a caster weapon.
WoW Rookie: How to get up to speed for heroics {WoW}
Feb 11th 2011 6:54PM I'm pretty sure you meant Finish Twilight Highlands, not Uldum.
Also note, there is some blue 333 gear that drops from the quests in TH. Especially the ring event.
The Queue: Stonecore frustrations {WoW}
Jan 26th 2011 5:30PM I'll mention that one of the things that made Corborus infinitely easier is that the adds spawn and you can attack them before they start spreading. As the tank, I go stand right next to the crystal barrage. Once the nameplates pop up, I move in, Thrash, and run the hell out. I'll often do a significant amount of damage on them, and I can just kite the boss away until the dps finishes them off.
Anyway, melee dps *can* quite easily contribute one good aoe before they have to all run away. We even finished Corborus without wiping after both Hunter's died to the dust of laggy death. Just me, a frost dk, and the healer.
The Queue: Heroic as heck {WoW}
Dec 11th 2010 4:31PM As of Friday, I think they hotfixed the dust-vs-essence drop rate. I was having a terrible time, then on Friday I suddenly got about 60 dusts doing my regular "buy cheap greens and DE them". Fortunately the prices for Dust hasn't yet fallen on the AH, so I've put 60 of them up for about 30+g each. Pretty good income. I usually by all green items that are less that 30g. I used to do it at about 7-10g in Wrath, and that was mostly for the essences. It was enough to break even on Dust and make money on Essence.
WoW Moviewatch: Sentinel Hill {WoW}
Dec 6th 2010 1:04PM Probably having a 3-year-old made this more poignant, but damn it made me cry. The video was very well done, showing the progression in a very nice effect. Growing up through Tanaris/Dark Portal/Honor Hold, on to Northrend, etc. It was a little unclear if some of the Tier characters were supposed to be her son, or if it was only the guard at various stages.
Still, great concept, growing up, growing strong, but far away from your family.


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Arcane Brilliance: Mages hate Warlocks, and then Warlocks drain our hate and kill us with it. {WoW}
Mar 15th 2008 3:17PM as a warlock, i have to admit that this much is true, mages are basically free honor points in the BG. i can be staggering away half-dead from a scuff-up with a warrior with all my cooldowns blown, and run into a fully buffed, topped-out mage, and still pretty much take him down.
so yeah, its not fair. but at least i'm on the winning side.
Jump from Netherstorm to Hellfire Peninsula {WoW}
Jan 2nd 2008 4:17PM that video reminds me of this one...
Enter to win a $5k Dell WoW Edition notebook {WoW}
Dec 19th 2007 4:38PM sign me up for a hordie edition, lol
Enter to win a $5k Dell WoW Edition notebook {WoW}
Dec 14th 2007 12:25PM ooh, sign me up for a hordie one!
AT&T issues statement on iPhone data-only plans for hard of hearing customers {TUAW.com}
Dec 3rd 2007 5:42PM its ridiculous for deaf people to pay for phone service (and phone minutes) that they will never use. i have a iphone with what.. 400 minutes a month that i never use. i'd gladly trade that in for extra text messages or a cheaper plan.
im not asking ATT to discriminate against anyone. they can offer this plan to everyone for all i care. all im asking (and other Deaf customers) is a phone plan that fits our general phone use needs better.
Eyonix delivers: Focused Will, Natural Perfection, and Discipline {WoW}
Oct 31st 2007 7:56AM my guess is that they'd make discipline more like paladin-type healing. being able to heal even while being whacked on, and focusing on short heal types.
while holy will be for the big fat heals.
Blizzard's "Next-Gen MMO" project continues {WoW}
Sep 11th 2007 3:50PM Really makes sense. Instead of sitting around and waiting for some other company to come out with a newer, better MMO that will steal market-share from WoW, Blizzard is just going ahead and inventing that "newer, better MMO" themselves and keep the money going their direction (while picking up a some more).
Lot of things are said about Blizzard those days - but one thing they are is a smart outfit that looks ahead.
Forum Post of the Day: You're old school when... {WoW}
Sep 4th 2007 2:24PM for a while, warlocks could enslave those elite Hederine Slayers in Winterspring and wtfpwn all the way up to 60. That one got shut down really fast. :)
Ashbringer quest in Utgarde Keep {WoW}
Aug 10th 2007 4:34PM This actually makes sense when you consider what Tigole said about Naxxramas in the expansion. Tigole has said he plans to bring around a re-tuned Naxxramas into Northrend. If that occured, its likely that the old Naxxramas would disappear.
And given that so few people (relatively) were able to loot the Corrupted Ashbringer from the original Naxxramas, I think Blizzard wanted to open it up to a wider section of people. And so rather than making it an lootable object in the re-tuned Naxxramas, they probably figured they'd just make it available via an separate quest.
Giveaway: super rare E Ink watch! {Engadget}
Jul 6th 2007 3:57PM I dont have an watch to replace, so this would be an addition instead. :)


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The following is a good reference for co-worker harassment: In "The Sexualized Work Environment: A Look at Women Jail Officers" (Prison Journal 77:41-57), co-authors Mark R. Pogrebin and Eric D. Poole describe a "sexualized work environment" in jails and detention facilities in which female deputy sheriffs are forced to endure sexually humiliating and degrading behavior from their male colleagues. Inmates, of course, get it a lot worse.
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Raising the Roof
First of all, I would like to say thank you for being the one paper in the state whose number-one goal does seem to be to find the truth and report it. Second, I must question both the staff and many of the readers of Westword on their anti-Christian slant.
The letter that specifically inspired this note was by John Ottem and was published in the January 13 issue. Mr. Ottem bases his entire letter on what I would believe is a bad experience at a "mega" church, or maybe a bad experience with someone from a "mega" church. I am a youth pastor at a church in Mr. Ottem's own community, Thornton. Our building is worth about $250,000. Mr. Ottem, we have no stained-glass windows, but we do have a couple of cracked ones. Choir loft -- nope! Our preacher being paid $100K -- nope! What we do have is a building that we love and utilize as often as possible. That means we have educational classes and a worship service on Sunday mornings, as well as a Sunday-evening Bible study; we also allow the Disciples of Thunder (Christian "biker" organization) to use the building for their meetings and have free self-defense classes by certified trainers, a weekly ladies' prayer rally, midweek classes, a Thursday-night assembly for high-school-age students and countless other activities. I appreciate Mr. Ottem's idea that we could do more if we sold our building and met at a gymnasium; however, as a staff member of a church that did that for years, I must object. When renting a gymnasium, you do not get educational space, and you can't use the facility for any of the other assemblies I mentioned earlier in this paragraph. Nor could a food bank be run out of a gymnasium, or premarital counseling offered. And what of grief counseling, funerals and weddings?
In Mr. Ottem's final analysis, he asserted that Christianity is about "big money" and that Christianity sees itself as the "only way." Is Christianity about big money? Yeah! So are professional sports, Microsoft, the United States government, US West and Doc Marten shoes. Christians didn't make the world, but we have to live in it. That means we have to live by the same rules that everyone else does. That means we have to also have an "equal" base from which to work. Sure, there are some rotten and crooked churches out there, but to lump us all into the same category is like saying all Democrats are lying, cheating, drug-using scoundrels just because a few in the White House have displayed those behaviors. Also, I grow weary of hearing people attack Christianity for its "exclusionist slant." Islam also believes it is the only way, Jehovah's Witnesses assert that only 144,000 souls will enter heaven, and most branches of Hinduism and Buddhism believe that you must be attuned to their beliefs and practices to reach enlightenment. So are we asserting anything that most of the major belief systems don't believe? No.
Mr. Ottem and other Westword readers/staff, I invite you to Vision Fellowship Assembly any Sunday or Wednesday. Please come see what Christianity is really about!
Lynn Ault
Wife Goes On
Regarding C.J. Janovy's "Take My Wife, Please," in the January 13 issue:
Apparently there are two different films with the title I Can't Believe I Married a Lesbian. The film Janovy described in her article could not possibly be the same one I watched. I thought the filmmaker's handling of this most difficult and personal subject was tasteful and well-balanced. He allowed his subjects to steal many scenes and let the film follow its natural course.
Janovy's comment that it seems "suspiciously like a personals ad" is right out of left field. Why do you think this -- because he's showing he's successful and trying to move on with his life? If you go by that argument, any and all films, books, songs, etc., pertaining to a failed relationship could be relegated to simple personals ads. Perkin even admits in his second ending that he's now trying to be more honest. Give the guy a break.
This film is painful to watch because of its raw honesty. Is that what bothered Janovy so much? Perhaps there is something in it that touched a nerve? That's the only thing I can think of to explain such a biased and skewed review of a fine film. Perhaps she should begin her own journey of self-discovery!
Nell Carson
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I appreciate your publication and really want to express my appreciation of Laura Bond's review of a great new band, mamaSutra, in "Please Release Me," in the January 27 issue. I have seen this gang a few times now and must say that I think Bond is right: Their music is soon to be on all of the KBCOs across America. I would love to think this letter might make it into your publication, 'cause I want to encourage everyone who read the review to take a shot at seeing this band live. The studio CD is great, without question, but not even close to the pure funk and booty-shakin' (there, I said it) grooves that you are in for when you see these guys go at it live. I think Bond called it "damn sexy" in her review, and there is no argument there. Although I contest that live, the hip-hop gets a lot further than "lighter than a fat-free potato chip" and "harmless," I don't want to make Bond mad and risk a bad review in the future for these guys. I know she did give them plenty of props, too, so I just want to encourage all of the readers to check them out live.


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Climate Change: Costs and Benefits of the Cap-and-Trade Provisions of H.R. 2454
This report examines seven studies that project the costs of H.R. 2454 to 2030 or beyond. It is difficult (and some would consider it unwise) to project costs up to the year 2030, much less beyond. The already tenuous assumption that current regulatory standards will remain constant becomes more unrealistic as time goes forward, and other unforeseen events (such as technological breakthroughs) loom as critical issues which cannot be modeled. Hence, long-term cost projections are at best speculative, and should be viewed with attentive skepticism. The finer and more detailed the estimate presented, the greater the skepticism should be. In the words of the late Dr. Lincoln Moses, the first Administrator of the Energy Information Administration: "There are no facts about the future."
But if models cannot reliably predict the future, they can indicate the sensitivity of a program's provisions to varying economic, technological, and behavioral assumptions that may assist policymakers in designing a greenhouse gas reduction strategy. The various cases examined here do provide some important insights on the costs and benefits of H.R. 2454 and its many provisions.


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From Canyon Village to Madison, you travel along the edge of the Yellowstone Caldera passing a seemingly endless array of thermal attractions. Steamboat Geyser, Artist Paintpots, Monument Geyser Basin. The list goes on. Enjoy the drive.
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D'oh (55 comments)
I wasn't logged in, but that was my post.
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D'oh (55 comments)
I wasn't logged in, but that was my post.
4PM? For chickens? (990 comments)
What kind of weird-ass chickens do you have? This time of year, it's too hot to be feeding them at 4pm. They eat in the morning and again around 7pm.
Ham Radio (562 comments)
That's the one really important thing that you've got, that most others don't—a ham radio. That would be worth its weight in gold in any isolating disaster that lasted more than a couple of weeks.
Flood and Forest Fire (562 comments)
Well, flood and forest fire, yes. My home has a galvanized aluminum roof and is clad in cement fiberboard, so forest fires aren't liable to affect me. And my home is cited on the slope of a mountain perched between a pair of ravines (not that severe, but you get the idea) down which water drains, so flooding would require that the sea level rise a thousand feet.
But we didn't spring for the astroid or volcano-proofing.
Um. No. (562 comments)
Congratulations, you found my home address in...er...1992. Now you just need to create a time machine!
I'll Tell You (562 comments)
How many ducks and deer do you think there *are*? If there was an actual disaster, the deer, duck, quail, and lizard populations would plummet as a teaming horde of well-armed people suddenly ravage the landscape.
Cornell University Cooperative Extension: "Today there are over 20 million deer in the United States and numbers are rising. [...] Densitites may exceed 40 deer per square mile in some rural areas, and over 100 deer/square mile have been documented near many eastern metropolitan areas. [...] As long as adequate food resources are available, deer populations can double in size every 2-3 years. Eventually some form of population management is needed to control herd growth and maintain deer numbers within the social carrying capacity."
There are plenty of deer.
Firearms (562 comments)
I almost forgot: firearms. We've got a 12-gage shotgun, a
If you have never hunted, note that there is nothing about owning a gun that prepares you to do so. If you're thinking "hey, I see deer around—I could eat those," then you are wrong. Learn to hunt now. Get a license. Find somebody to teach you how to gut and butcher a deer. Otherwise, if you do wind up in a bad situation, you might get lucky enough to actually shoot a deer, only to find that you have no idea of what to do with it. Worse still, it'll be gut-shot, and you'll wind up getting some horrible disease from eating venison streaked with deer shit.
Moderately Prepared (562 comments)
My wife and I like to stay fairly well prepared.
First, our home. We live in a very rural area, on the side of a treed mountain. We built our home last year, and it's passive solar, sited to take maximum advantage of the sun, built very tightly (LEED gold-ish, but we didn't bother to get certified). We maintain the forest, have large piles of wood in rotation being seasoned, and keep a large stockpile of planked wood on hand (milled from the trees on our land). Our neighbors have cows, goats, and sheep, from which they produce milk and meat—handy to have When The Shit Comes Down®. (I use that phrase facetiously—it's a generic term that my wife and I use to refer to anything that may or may not happen in our lifetimes that would disrupt supply chains, limit movement, or otherwise require short or long-term independence.) We paid a few thousand bucks to have an enormous propane tank buried next to our house, in which we maintain a two-year supply of propane. Soon enough we'll have a propane generator, a few solar panels, and a small windmill, which should allow us to maintain ~1.5 kWh of power during about half of the day, but make it possible to peak to 5 kWh when demand requires (until the propane runs out, and then we top out at 1.5 kWh).
Second, food and water. We always keep about ten pounds of oats, twenty pounds of flour, ten pounds of sugar, ten pounds of rice, and ten pounds of dried beans on hand. We always have 20 gallons of fresh drinking water stored, 55 gallons of rainwater, and we maintain a spring. Also, we have a stream. We have a small flock of chickens, a horse, and we're about to get ducks. Six months out of the year we have what's either a large garden or a small farm, and we put up a lot of food in the fall. Not enough to get us through a winter, but we do alright, and feel confident that we could ramp up production significantly, if need be. We save our seed, so the notion of increasing the size of our garden by tenfold with four months of lead time (seasonally depending, of course) isn't totally unreasonable.
Third, medical. We've got potassium iodide on hand (there's a nuclear power plant ~35 miles from us), a dose of Tamiflu for each of us, two very complete medical kits, moderate training in first aid (with more coming soon—see below), and we generally maintain a three-month supply of our medications.
Fourth, general supplies. We have an oil lamp (and, of course, lamp oil), a bunch of candles, several fire extinguishers, a NOAA radio, a hand-cranked AM/FM/shortwave radio, matches, lighters, a flotilla of batteries of all sorts, headlamps, and flashlights. We keep a couple of canisters of propane on hand (rotated through annually, thanks to grilling season) and have a propane heater that can heat our entire house for a couple of days with one of those plugged in.
Fifth, evacuation preparedness. We keep a 72-hour pack by the front door, ready to go, with a couple of hundred bucks in cash, a few days food, tinned water, flashlights, blankets, tarps, matches, fire starters, and so on. We've got sleeping bags and internal frame packs on hand for each of us. The idea is to make sure that if sheltering in place isn't safe, that we can leave without delay.
Finally, a flotilla of books (not all of which we've read, I admit) on wilderness medicine. This Tuesday we're starting an eight-week Community Emergency Response Team training course (held just once a week). This is available in most areas—google around to see if you can take it in your area. That's where you can learn to be helpful in an emergency, rather than somebody who needs help—learn to use a chainsaw, direct traffic, suture a wound, lead a panicked group of people to safety, etc. Recommended highly.
I've come to relish when we lose power in good weather. It's a chance to test out our plans. There are a lot of basic aspects to preparedness that would just never cross your mind until you actually need to carry out that plan. You know how, without power, you keep flipping light switches every time you walk into a room, or thinking "well, I'll just google that...*DOH*"? The same applies to all kinds of things, like having candles...but no matches.
Vermont? (252 comments)
Both sides of my family are from Vermont—Rutland, on one side, and the White River Junction area, on the other. I've spent a lot of time there, and I think I'm about as familiar as somebody who doesn't live there could reasonably be. And I can say that with fair confidence that Vermont's rural areas are no more rural or isolated than the rural areas of Virginia, where I live. (Compare Vermont's population density and Virginia's population density. While you're at it, compare the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Green Mountains. If you were blindfolded and kidnapped, when the blindfold was taken off, you'd be hard pressed to know if you were in Vermont or Virginia.) Good luck finding any USPS address that has no other USPS address within five miles.
And I'm not at all frustrated about the lack of universal postal service—it's no problem for me at all, having been the case for me for much of my life.
That's Already How It Works! (252 comments)
Congratulations, you've just described exactly how the USPS works.
Bajillions of people who live in rural areas (like me) pick up their mail at the post office, because the cost of delivery to their homes is prohibitive. Universal service is not, in fact, universal, and never has been. Even UPS won't deliver to my house—I've got to pick up their packages at the post office (!), too.
Also, your example is ludicrous. Have you ever heard of a house so isolated that it's in a "neighborhood" (?) five miles away and yet, mysteriously, this five-mile-long stretch of road, devoid of any homes or businesses, has a 20 MPH speed limit on its road? Because I can't summon any scenario in which that would be the case.
No (221 comments)
I've put a bunch of time into this for a project of my own. The short answer is, no, I have found no such program. I've experimented with a few older programs, but they're useless. Sorry.
YES (563 comments)
I considered putting this very system into place on a site of mine a half-decade ago, until I realized that I would just be informing attackers which passwords are in use.
Not Appointed (617 comments)
Actually, Cuccinelli wasn't "appointed" as attorney general—he was elected. He defeated Democrat Steve Shannon by a huge margin. We chose to have this guy as AG, and it wasn't even close. Any informed voter should have known what they were getting into with Cuccinelli. He's really, really far right, and he's never hid it. It doesn't speak well of Virginia.
It's a Tool (624 comments)
Face it, a gun is purely designed to maim or kill. It is not a tool and is not designed for any other purpose.
Wrong. A gun is a thing that's designed to a put a hole in that thing over there. Just last week I was using my Mossberg to put holes in targets and, to spectacular effect, a full can of shaving cream. In a decade of ownership, I've never once used that particular gun to maim or kill.
Re:I've Been Following This (847 comments)
She's not acting in the manner of a journalist, by which I mean that there is no goal to her coverage, no public interest being served, no story being pieced together. She's simply taking private information about private individuals who happen to work for the local government (albeit in a very private capacity) and making it public.
First, I don't think you're in any position to judge whether or not she's acting in the capacity of journalist or if the free speech she is exercising is worthwhile.
If none of us are in the position to judge anything, then I think we can safely shut down the
The whole point of free speech is that no one gets to judge what is and is not worthwhile.
Yes, that's the point, but that's not really how it works out. Here in Virginia, for instance, we have a shield law that's been established by the judiciary. If a reporter follows around police officers for the purpose of writing a story in the public interest, that's not stalking, that's journalism. But if an individual does it in order to...well, in order to just harass them, that's illegal.
The only criteria is if the speech is infringing upon someone else's human rights as protected under the law.
"Human rights"? Um. No.
Second, isn't all the information she gathered public information. She just followed people around in public and gathered together public records that a lot of people don't know are public.
You haven't been reading Slashdot very long if you think that the gathering of lots of ostensibly public information about an individual and making it public isn't an abuse of privacy. A listing of all of the websites that you visit is public information, in the sense that it's probably possible for me to track it down, with a little sleuthing and calling in a few favors from friends at DoubleClick and Google. (I'm talking in the abstract here, obviously.) You don't post under your real name here, but I'll bet I could find it out. That's public. Hell, given that, I bet I could figure out and post your address, phone number, e-mail address, social security number, criminal history, home value, workplace, career history, educational background, etc., with some spare time and a big of legwork. But you probably wouldn't want me to make all of that public, because it would totally freak you out and definitely be a violation of your privacy...despite it being public information. One might even call it "stalking."
But then, equating a secretary at a courthouse and police officer in this instance is slightly disingenuous as they have different levels of authority and pose different levels of risk to the people from abuse of that authority.
It's not disingenuous, it's making the point that the notion that a "public employee" vs. a "private employee" is a false dichotomy. The fact that somebody works for the government (as do I, in a roundabout away) does not suddenly make their private life an open book. What a police officer does on his own time, provided it's not illegal, should as private of a matter as what a secretary does, or what anybody else does.
Further your selection of a position of secretary and pronouns indicating it is a woman while the stalker is a man seems like something of an emotional, fear based appeal.
That's right. The point being that we can't have laws that are different for different sexes. Is it OK for a woman to follow a man, but not a man to follow a woman? Of course not. You're paying attention -- that's good.
I've Been Following This (847 comments)
I've been following this story for a few years, or rather following it as it developed.
Her ex-husband is Kevin Strom, a prominent white nationalist and white supremacist* who was arrested for possession of child pornography and beating his wife (while threatening worse if she testified against him) a couple of years ago. He'd been stalking a ten-year-old girl, regularly cruising by her house, giving her gifts, sending her love letters, and proposing to her. (The kid's parents were none too thrilled.) It turned out, bizarrely, that none of that is illegal -- but possession of child pornography landed him in prison for a couple of years. He was released earlier this year. He was also, incidentally, an inveterate troll of one of my blogs, so I've got a special dislike for the guy.
Anyhow, Elisha is every bit as much of a racist as Strom, only she's also a feminist, which means that racists think she's scum, meaning that basically everybody hates her. Based on her blog entries, commenters on my blog have come to the conclusion that she was having an affair with one or more of these police officers. To my knowledge, she's never had any interaction with JADEâ"that is, neither she nor her husband have been busted for drug possession by them. So her interest in them appears to be romantic. Spurned, she's started stalking them, and expanded her interest to include all members of JADE.
What I can't shed any light on is whether or not this arrest is appropriate. I've been involved in a couple of high-profile bloggers' free expression cases (as a defendant in both cases), and though you'd think I'd rush to defend somebody in her positionâ"cretin though she may beâ"I just don't think it's cut-and-dry enough. The fact that she's putting this stuff on a blog seems to be irrelevant, by which I mean it's not a special form of expression here. She's not acting in the manner of a journalist, by which I mean that there is no goal to her coverage, no public interest being served, no story being pieced together. She's simply taking private information about private individuals who happen to work for the local government (albeit in a very private capacity) and making it public.
The question here is simply, I think, whether stalking laws are meant to cover people who are public employees. If a racist who advocates violent rebellion against black Americans starts following the a black secretary who works in the county office building, documenting her every move publicly, can the police intervene? Or is that his right, because she's opted out of a right to privacy by working for a government agency? There is a legitimate argument to be made that it is his right, in order to be consistent with what is to be expected for more prominent public employees. But a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds, after all, so maybe we should put less thought into being consistent and more into protecting our citizens. I'm not being vague to be cute -- I really don't know what's right here.
* I regret that covering these nutcases involves learning things like that there's a difference between being a white nationalist and a white supremacist.
The Definition of "Design" (434 comments)
Those of us who are website developers will recognize the misuse of "design" committed by ABC News here. To a layperson, "design" means "make" when it comes to websites. They're not spending $18M to redesign the website (presumably), but presumably on a total overhaul of the thing.
We've Had This Discussion, Guys (111 comments)
We all discussed Aneesh Chopra on
Re:Good Choice (252 comments)
A guy can dream.
Good Choice (252 comments)
I worked with Aneesh earlier this year on an open government project here in Virginia. He asked me to function in a very small role in developing stimulus.virginia.gov, basically to serve as a programmer/open government guy to advocate from the inside for increased openness and strong adherence to public, open data exchange standards on the website and its API. Aneesh isn't a geek, but he "gets it," if I may return to that old chestnut that we all employed round about 2000. He might not know Unicode from Latin 1, but he surrounds himself with people who do know the difference, he gets the gist of it from them, and chooses the path that provides the most accessibility for the most data to the most people.
The guy is, incidentally, utterly exhausting to try to keep up with. I'm somebody to whom people say constantly "when do you sleep?", and even I find Aneesh an absolutely whirlwind of activity.
The only downside for me here is that Aneesh had expressed interested in me joining Governor Kaine's cabinet as "Senior Advisor for Open Government" (or something like that). I'd been in talks with my employer about taking a leave of absence. Now, of course, that won't happen. But since the (apparent) tradeoff is having Aneesh as the nation's CTO, that's A-OK by me.
I never thought that I'd use this journal system, but I just want to point out how amused that I am to have my very own troll. Gosh, I'm just so proud.


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Creating greater transparency and clarity can only be better for both the tax payer and tax administrations, says ACCA (the Association of Chartered Accountants) today in response to Government proposals to combine income tax and national insurance payments in one single figure.
Earlier this year, ACCA conducted research into the UK public's understanding of the tax system, which showed that:
- Over 90% of respondents were unaware of the full impact of indirect taxes on their paypacket (an additional 22% of the average salary is spent on other taxes after income tax has been deducted)
- There is widespread confusion as to items affected by VAT
- Only 14% knew the state retirement age for men and women would be from 2020
- Only 47% of respondents had checked their tax code with HMRC despite well-publicised coding problems that have led to tax over- and under-payments
Chas Roy-Chowdhury attended the Government briefing today (14 November) and says: 'Policy-wise we need to strive towards a tax system which people understand and do not feel disenfranchised from- essentially we need a tax system which does exactly what it says on the tin.
'People should have a right to know exactly what their tax rate is and why it is that rate. And while proposals for change are being made, we should show taxpayers much more clearly what their tax deductions are being spent on rather than keeping it wrapped up in the publication of the Budget Red Book – which not a lot of people have the time to source or search through.
'Modernising the Administration of the Personal Tax System is an important document and we'd urge people to take part; but we shouldn't forget the fact that businesses need a simple tax system too,' concludes Chas Roy-Chowdhury.
In relation to National Insurance Contributions (NIC) and Income Tax (IT) CRC said: 'If we had a different starting point we would have encouraged a merger of the two taxes but as things stand we welcome all possible moves to align and simplify the two regimes. But we would NOT welcome a merger as pensioners and the self-employed among others could lose out enormously.
We will seek to work closely with the Government on these two worthwhile and difficult initiatives.'


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I do. I love this thing. It's thirty years old and still running pretty darn good. It was a huge financial deal for us, only a few years married, but we considered it an investment. We bought it and turned over a huge garden in southern Indiana clay soil, added loads of amenities, and used the tiller for cultivating. Of course, to add to the madness I planted over 100 tomato plants. (Omigosh, what was I thinking?!?!) You really can walk beside it and hold it with one hand while it works, it's so well balanced. We moved to a place where the soil is gorgeous black loam, and sometimes the tiller didn't get used for years. Yet every single time, it started up on the first or second pull. The throttle isn't taching up the engine like it should and the reverse is gone, yet it still turns over the soil. I've wondered if I need to replace the tiller, yet I haven't yet seen anything comparable to the quality of those old Troybilts of the 70s and early 80s. We were dismayed to see them one time in Sears. It was red; but it wasn't the same machine at all. It looked like every other cheap junk thing out there. We took this tiller to a local small engines guy about two years ago, and he put on new tines and gave her a tune up. He spoke reverently about these old ones. He agreed; the quality was extraordinary. I really miss the old days of the exceptional customer service from their company. They encouraged people to work on their own machines, and encouraged you to call if you needed any help. They put out newsletters focusing on different owners, gardening advice, parts, and recipes. It looks like most of those people are gone now and I believe the company was sold. Anybody else have one? Is it still running? What are your challenges with it?
I can't say about the old ones,but I will never buy anything labeled Troy-bilt again.I fell for the crap they show on tv and bought one about 10 yrs ago.Worse than worthless for busting sod.If you have a garden spot you've worked up for 20 years they're a dandy cultivator,they'll do the same job as a $2 hoe from a flea market.And that bs about composting corn stalks is exactly that,bs..you'll end up with a ball of cornstalks bigger than the tiller wrapped around the tines.Your money won't be any further down the drain if you send it to me rather than TB.At least I'd use the money for good purposes,TB will use your money to make more lying commercials.I hope no one ever buys from them again.
We inherited one a few yrs ago from an old family friend (as in 98 yrs old). It had not been run in at least 10 yrs at that point so we sent it to the local tractor repair guy for a tune up before it came and it has run like a charm since. We even hauled it from NY to Alaska last yr and there was a LOT of stuff that didn't make the "moving" cut!
We've got a "medium old" one. It's red, but was built with a Briggs and Stratton engine. I'm guessing it's 20+ years old (it came with our house when we bought it as an extra side deal). We LOVE it. It has been used and abused and this year it finally demanded some attention when the shear pin went. We took it to the small engine repair in the neighbourhood and it got an overhaul - new tubes in the tires, carbs cleaned, new shear pin. Got it back and used it to break sod this weekend for a new fruit treee spot. Love it, love it, love it. And you really can walk beside it and hold it with one hand. I can't imagine doing without it, or having to replace it.
i've got one that blew up after 25 years of great service to my family. it started on the second pull, after being in storage all winter, and never missed a beat. the only issue i ever had was that the carb would vibrate loose once a year and one of the bolts was difficult to get to. the big downside is that is it next to impossible to find a replacement engine. all of the retrofit kits listed for sale are for models just a couple years newer than mine. so i have decided to rebuild the engine no matter what the cost.
this message has probably been edited to correct typos, spelling errors and to improve grammar... "All that is gold does not glitter..."
Bought my Troybilt Junior in 1985 and think I paid like $400 at the time (which was alot). It has been/still is a workhorse. Minimal repairs over the years and has always started so easy. Broke sod with it, tilled in corn stubble, etc. No regrets. If it dies, not sure what I'd replace it with.
My parents bought one in I gues, 82 or so. I remember it being a BIG BIG deal. HUGELY expensive for us. We drove 2 hours to St. Louis to look at them, drove back a week later and bought it. Man, you would have thought they had bought a New, 4x4 truck with a PTO and a 3 point. That thing made such short work of our rather large garden. We had been using a 1960's or so Craftsman until then and THAT thing would rip your arms out. It had become one of my jobs to till and cultivate at this time (I think Iwas 7 or so). I HATED the Yellow Monster...thats Big, Red, Shiney Troy was my new best friend. When I was looking for a riding mower I almost bought a Troy Built, based on my childhood memories,...then I looked at the parts and fasteners...very disapointing. Went to our local farm store and bought a little JD...that is nice, too.
We bought one in 1983. Love it. Only used it a few years and it has since sat in the shed. Nothing wrong with it at all, just have had raised beds for most of the years. We have hauled it every where we have moved also...
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly.
We've got one from the early 70s that's been a true workhorse up until this spring when the engine blew. I forget what DH said broke but it can't be fixed. He says it's shattered into little pieces on the inside. Anyway, he's going to replace the engine rather than buy a shoddy new tiller.
I have one too, just like Bluesky's. What a great piece of equipment. I bought mine used and it came with a generator attachment, I can't recall how many power failures that little thing has gotten us through. Cherish it and maintain it, it will last forever and you can't replace it today. My TB tiller and same vintage Gravely are my two best pieces of equipment. KB
ours was new in 2002 when we had our housefire we bought it
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We have an older, big model TB, and it worked fine for 2 seasons (bought it used). Then it quit, won't start, and the small engine repair guy says the engine is shot. Says a new engine would run over $200. Don't know what to do, really love using it but he also said it's impossible to get replacement parts, so maybe he's talking new engine? But which one?
I have the old Garden Way Troy-Bilt Horse 8 hp Kohler engine.Bought it in the early eighties.Never had a problem other than the pull cord broke once,thats it.I still tend a few rows with it, and use it to till between my grown corn to plant cover crops.
We have a TB pony thats about 30 yrs. old and have never had a problem with it. We bought a great big used pto one that is pulled by our tractor. It does a fast job with our big garden but still need the TB for the work between rows. The only thing I don't like the TB is that it will take off without me if I have it set too deep when I hit hard area.
The Garden Way Company, originally built "Troy-bilt" tillers, to "last forever", which they seem to do. Garden Way went bankrupt - go figure. We have a '80 Pony. Paid $200 for it at an auction, not even knowing if it ran (pull rope was missing). Fortunately it runs great and starts with one pull. Leaks a little bit of oil. It has electric start, but only works so-so and i don't have time to restore the starter. MTD now owns the "troy-bilt" name (and factory) and still builds the same Horse and Pony models, that are similar to the originals. The other "Troy-bilt" models are of lesser quality and price. Riding mowers, string trimmers, etc, just have the name on them and are not necessarily high, or even good quality. Garden Way only made tillers (Horse and Pony), when they were in business. One tiller habit, which I cannot ever understand, ruined a lot of great Troy-bilts. That habit is those who leave their tillers, sitting next to the garden, usually uncovered, YEAR ROUND! WHEN IS THIS A GOOD IDEA! I won't leave my Pony sitting out - overnight. They still command high prices for good reason.
We have one of the original TB Horse models, with a Kohler engine. Love it. Actually, we have two, but the other one is "just for parts" in case we have problems because they are so hard to come by. Wonderful machines.
This world is not my home; I'm just a'passin' through.
The Troy Bilt..it's a love hate relationship that only a Troy Bilt owner understands. If or when you have soft loamy soil you look like the guy in the commercial. If you have rocks or are trying to break new ground you would make a good funny home video. Only a Troy Bilt oner that's experienced it would understand. We've had ours over 25 years and it's still going strong. Unfortunately now replacement parts can be a problem and of course the replacement might be junk. We've got a Garden Way cart also, it's also about 25yo.
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence" Robert Frost
We bought our electric start Horse in '97 at an auction. We've since found out it was built in '88. DH did a complete overhaul when we first got it with the owner's manual and customer support as guides but I took it to a professional last spring after mice chewed the insulation on some wires. Including labor, my cost was just under $90 and it runs like new. The man who did the work said that there were several engines that could replace the original with little cost and it would run another 22 years. We also found Garden Way carts at auctions--the large as well as the small. I used the large one today to pick apples because it will hold more boxes and baskets than the small one but both get regular use. Love those two carts!
Yes, I have a Garden Way cart, too. Still going great, and about 25 years old. *sigh*
My dad has a troy built he bought 30 years ago. He has always had close to an acre of garden and used this tiller to maintain it. He replaced the engine once, and it has a few other small problems, but it works great. Usually I borrow it instead of using my rear tine craftsman because it works so much better.


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The Cleveland Middle School wrestling team clinched another tournament title last weekend at the Lake Forest Bruins Brawl.
The tournament was a 10-team dual tournament with two pools of five teams. The Raiders dominated their pool with wins over Westside (60-24), Rhea Central (64-18), Alcoa (72-12), and Lake Forest (63-15). In the other pool wrestling, Dalton (Ga.) made it through undefeated which included an impressive 40-39 victory over McCallie. The finals were set with Cleveland to square off against the always tough Dalton team for the title and Lake Forest and McCallie for third place.
With the finals starting at the middle weights, Dalton opened with two pins by Roger Quintero and Maddux Houghton. Cleveland responded with the next three weight classes with a pin by Dylan Liner, picked up a forfeit to Seth Garcia and got another pin by Robert Anderson. The Raiders held an 18-12 lead, but it did not last long with Dalton's two big guys, Tucker Sumner and Gabriel Arriola, earning pins to take the lead at 24-18.
"We started out at the toughest part of their lineup, but I knew if we could keep it close we would win with our little guys," said Cleveland head coach Eric Mountain.
The Raiders responded by winning the first three weight classes, with Bryce Pond earning a pin to even up the score. Cody Mathews regained the lead for CMS with a technical fall and Logan Whiteside increased it to 32-24 with a decision. Dalton responded one last time with a pin by Leo Adame to narrow Cleveland's lead to 32-30. But, the Raiders finished the dual up with three pins by Fide Galvan, Joseph Bowers, and Alec Bowers and clinched the title with a 50-30 win over Dalton.
Coach Mountain said, "I am excited about how our guys are getting better every time we step on the mat. We wrestled really well today, and I am proud of how our guys are representing Cleveland Wrestling."
McCallie ended the tournament in third behind Cleveland and Dalton, with Lake Forest in fourth.
The CMS wrestling team is now 17-1 and has earned first place at the Spring Station Invitational, Raider Rumble Dual Tournament, and the Bruins Brawl. The raiders will wrestle again at the Baylor Holiday Duals Saturday.


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You're going to spill beer on your shirt. That part is guaranteed. But when people understand why the owners of Black Shirt Brewing have decided to serve their red ales exclusively in glasses with slanted rims, it will all make sense.Jonathan Shikes Black Shirt Brewing will use both of these Offero glasses in its tasting room.
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Made by Offero Vessels in Golden, the glasses are based on a coffee-mug design that is engineered to capture the aromas of a beverage as you bring the glass to your lips.
"It will make people slow down and consider what is going on in that glass," says Black Shirt co-founder and head brewer Branden Miller. "When people first see it, it's a little off-putting, and the beer will end up on your shirt. But it's a risk I'm willing to take."
But it's not the only risk. Miller and his brother Chad and Chad's wife, Carissa, have put everything on the line for Black Shirt, which is tentatively scheduled to open in August in the River North neighborhood, and they are doing things a little differently.
First, there's the beer. "My dad always told us you should focus on one thing and do that one thing better than anybody else," Miller says. "So, we are brewing one style and one style only, red ales, in hopes of showcasing the four ingredients in beer." For instance, they plan to brew an imperial red rye IPA that will bring out the bready flavors of certain rye malts; their red saison, meanwhile, will highlight a Belgian yeast strain.Black Shirt co-owner Branden Miller can't stand regular pint glasses.
Then there's the neighborhood. Located right next to a liquor store on busy Walnut Steet between 38th Avenue and Downing, Black Shirt won't be the first brewery in RiNo, but the Millers have incorporated a lot of RiNo into the feel of their place.
The bar and the tables in the taproom are all made from the flooring of box-car trains -- and, in fact, you can watch the trains go by from the back deck of the brewery, where Black Shirt is growing its own hops and vegetables. A light-rail station is also being built just a block away to complement the bus stop right outside the bright red front door.
Miller, who works at Duo, will also have a small food prep area inside the brewery, where he hopes to get some of his chef-minded friends in the restaurant business to whip up plates of cheese or charcuterie or whatever they want.
But it's the red ales and the Offero glasses that will really set Black Shirt apart.
The brewery will start with 250 stemmed glasses, which it will use for full, twelve-ounce pours, and 250 stemless glasses, which it will use for beer flights.
To drink from one of the glasses, you raise the lower portion of the glass to your lips, letting the higher side rest against your forehead (or glasses, in some cases). It can be awkward at first, and if you've had a few or forget what you are doing, it's very easy to spill.
The effect, though, is similar to what happens if you cup your hand behind a glass of beer or wine, or a mug of coffee, to trap the aromas against your nose. Doing so elevates your senses, while the glass design actually forces you to pay attention to every sip, changing the experience of drinking into a much more active one.
And that's exactly how Offero founder Mitch Bangert, a Wyoming fly-fishing guide, came up with the idea for the slanted design. A coffee geek, he was at a tasting when the host asked everyone to cup their hand behind their mugs as they were drinking.
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Last month's winners, Evil Geniuses, placed third in this year's tournament, not doing quite as well as the last time around. That's almost to be expected, and they even said as much in an interview GotFrag held with them prior to the tournament. Being last year's winners, they had a great big target painted on their backs and a lot of teams probably spent a fair amount of time doing little more than scouting out EG and their moves. It's actually rather impressive they still walked out in third despite that, and it's a testament to their skill and ability to adapt. Evil Geniuses walks away with $3,000.
The next tournament will be next month in Dallas, Texas. Orz is looking for a new sponsor, but even if they don't find one I'm sure we'll see them there. That $12k has to go to some use, right?
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