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I would be very interested to see the tasting responses of someone who did NOT know the differences between the three samples. Want to do science? BLIND YOUR TEST.
IME. the OP's tests have very little grounds for use with actual batches of mead. Or at least with those I've made to date. I made three batches in 2010. One was a blackberry melomel the other two were traditional batches. I bottled up two batches (one of the traditional and the melomel) after about 6-8 months from pitching. The melomel wasn't good at that time. 1-1/2 years later, it's significantly better. I also left the second traditional batch in bulk for about a year. That included over a month on oak cubes. That part was significantly better than the batch bottled earlier. The melomel went to 14%, didn't finish dry (used D47) and the traditional batches both used EC-1118 and also didn't finish dry. Even at over 1-1/2 years from mixing, the traditional batches had a bit of an edge to them. That has pretty much gone away once we hit the two year mark (from mix/yeast pitching). I also agree with fatbloke about how making mead is more akin to making wine, NOT brewing beer. As with making wine, a LOT of how it comes out has to do with what you use when you make it. Using cheap/crappy honey will not produce a good mead. BTW, just because you like your low OG meads young and cold, doesn't mean that the aging 'myth' is dispelled at all. Had you not dumped the two batches, you could have seen how they developed over time. IMO, you might as well have not made them at all. IME, making great mead isn't for those who want something in their glass fast. You can make ok mead, with a low ABV, faster. Doesn't mean it's going to be better than a batch that's been given the amount of time it needs to become great. Maybe if the OP did some blind testing, and documented flavor differences over several months (12-24), where others provided the blind tasting. I do agree with devianttouch that the tasting should be done where those sampling have NO idea which batch they are tasting. Otherwise, it's all bunk IMO.
I missed the part about using craptastic honey, thought this was a serious thread! You probably just showed you can quickly ferment high fructose corn syrup. WVMJ Originally Posted by WVMJ View Post Read my posts, I keep saying the same thing, keep the yeast happy, give it nutrients, add acid blend to create the correct fermentation enviornment, also dont overload it at the start with to much honey and step feed if you want to boost the alcohol. Our melomels are ready as soon as they clear but we do age them about a year or until I need the carboy for the next seasons batch. I would save your honey and not waste it on future experiments and just adopt your best results and go from there. WVMJ
Missed the part about craptastic honey, thought this was a serious thread. WVMJ I use EC1118, K!V1116 and Pastuer Red all the time, depends on what we want in the end. We also add a lot of fruit to our melomels so loosing a little fragrance isnt hard to overcome. If hunter would have used a standard mead yeast and bottled them up to taste later it would have been a better long term experiment but that doesnt seem to be his goal, the goal was early drinking of mead. My meads are drinkable young, but after a year, and 5 years + they get better, even the EC1118 WVMJ
Ok, from what I saw of your experiment basis. All three are good methods but it is generally agreed that a few things can help the taste of mead a lot. 1. From what I read, step nutrients are a must. I haven't done it yet but I find good results with my current methods. 2. Making a yeast starter is a neccessary arangement. Me I just mix the yeast starter up when I begin my processes. First thing I do, by the time I toss the yeast it is about 1/2 hr later. 3. temp control is good. Generally I have found that the meads that I do in the winter more tasty. My brew room is about 55-62 degrees without any help. But if you narrow your temp variance to 50% range of what the yeast goes for you should be fine. I also find that oaking makes a mead drinkable sooner. Given that, I still need to wait 6-8 months after bottling (I bottle age) before drinking. I have found that it is neccessary. Many times I have opened up a mead bottle too early and got poor results, especially prominent in Melomels due to the fact that the fruit flavor takes some time for the fruit flavor to come back. Mostly when the advice to be patient and let it age for at least 6 months if not a year it is not meant to be discoraging to the nebie brewer. Most brewers love to hear someone starting brewing. It is not a myth that wine and mead needs to age, indeed mead has more in common with wine than beer but I consider it an entirely different brew process than either. You really can't equate them. Mead takes techniques from both beer and wine. This fall I plan on doing an experiment of step nutrients vs no step nutrients and seeing the difference. I did one with oak and no oak and the answer on that was difinitively Oak. The oaked came out less harsh and less bite. I then did a test with the three types of oak. Light, Medium, Heavy. And found the taste difference so that I can match the oak toast level with the type of brew I want. Light fruity Melomels need light toast. A robust taste yet still sweet medium toast. A less sweet more scotchy or smoky taste use heavy toast oak. I did not do a test with different types of oaks. Hungarian, French, American are the most common. So really, as a mead maker, you develop better and better brew through your care and processes. In my development, I plan on learning about what different processes and ingredients do what and then use that knowledge to tailor the taste that I want and refine it. That's the fun of brewing. So, your experiment is interesting but I don't feel that the batches were really different enough to judge if you can make an ageless mead. Sure it's possible but at what cost. Hope your next experiment goes well. Matrix
From what I have seen, experienced, and read it is not a question of does my mead need to age. We are looking more at the fact that aging makes it better. I do not deny that your experiment has shown the importance of temperature control and step feeding. However if you browse the forum, you will notice that the same members that encourage aging your mead will also be the ones encourage the use of nutrients and temperature control. The experiment was not a waste of time, it was not done poorly, and it is nice to see people still running experiments. The problem was the conclusion you came up with. No myths were dispelled, aging your mead is still a good idea. Some meads, despite proper temperature control, yeast nutrients, acid management, using good quality honey, keeping the lees to a minimum, and being careful with all other factors, will still require aging before it can be properly enjoyed. Yes, HBT patrons have said that 2 months is not enough time to brew good mead for a wedding/anniversary/birthday. This is meant to discourage potential mead makers, but when a brand new mead maker is looking for a fast and good mead ready is a ridiculously short amount of time, we do not want to see them disappointed by their experience. The chances are that someone new to the art will not be able to pull off a perfect mead that is ready to drink in a short amount of time. If a new brewer goes in with these high expectations for their first mead, something will almost certainly go wrong. Did your first brew go exactly as you planned? (if it did, you are one of the very lucky few) Even if the mead is drinkable in 2 months, it will probably be 100 times better, 6 months, 1 year, and 2 years later. No new brewer should try to make a fast ready to drink mead. It takes experience and hard work as your experiment shows. The main reasoning I have heard for aging your mead has been when people have complained that it doesn't taste good. With mead, aging fixes most flavor issue (not all, but most). It can help an inexperienced mead maker salvage a less pleasant brew, it can help clam a wild mead with a high ABV, and it can help bring back some of the desired flavors that the brewer was striving for. Please, keep experimenting, but be careful with your conclusions. And remember, that if you are going to contest a wide held belief like aging your mead, try comparing your young mead to an aged version of the same mead. If you kept those "hot" meads around for a year, they may have been phenomenal. Another suggestion, try not drawing large encompassing conclusions like "you don't need to age mead" based off of such a small scale experiment. There are so many factors you did not look at like ABV, different recipes/ingredients, different honeys, and personal tastes of many other people. I am not trying to criticize or discourage you, I am just trying to share some knowledge. Good luck with your future brews and experiments.
I am no expert at making mead. I would like to say, however that saying a brewer has to keep the temps in line and a meadmaker also has to because both are using "yeast" is not scientifically accurate information. Yeast alter their fermentation characteristics to their environment they are in. So yes, fermenting at cooler temps may reduce the amount of fusel alcohols in the finished product, but this may not necessarily be the case. For starters, there is a reason why certain yeasts are preferred for making mead and wine. They have a higher alcohol tolerance, different pH preference, etc. And they may work better in the food source they are given. Fusel alcohols may not be as big of a problem for mead due to the type of yeast normally used, or because the wort/must may not cause excessive fusels to be leaked from the cell walls. There are still lots of answers to be found. I admire the fact that you are experimenting and I don't doubt that your results are accurate as far as you've taken it. But I also think that many people here already understand that yeast need proper temps. What would be great would be further experimentation with lots of other variables, and even some analysis with specialized equipment that can pinpoint just how much of certain compounds are in the mead at specific intervals along the fermentation period.
Id love to see more experementing done homercidal.. unfortunately i dont have the equipment to conduct such tests. Again i was contesting the satement that mead NEEDS to be aged, which is incorrect. You may want to age mead,but its entirely possible to make a table mead in two months.. or even less. Yes I agree aging can bring out more honey character and residual sweetness. If I had a better source for bottles I would have aged them, but at $3 a bottle I would have more in bottles than it was worth seeing as the honey was cheap and very craptastic. matrix I think your confused on what I meant by yeast starter. Its essentailly rehydrating the yeast [which is what you described] then pitching the rehydrated yeast into a low gravity must [usually in the low 1.050s for me]. It gives the yeast a chance to get used to the high pressure on there cell walls before dumping them into a high gravity must.the concept behind it is essentailly controlled introduction of osmotic [sp?] pressure. It increases yeast health and decreases cell death. For those who seem to think im new to mead making, I'm quite a few batches in, bout 4 years expierence. Far from a master but not a novice either. pardon spelling errors typing quickly and in a hurry
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#17 Eric Byrnes (51.86) vs. #34 Johnny Damon (123.24)Fifty. That's the number that is driving the value of Eric Byrnes this year (it was his stolen base total, by the way). Of course, those who talk up that number fail to realize that he had never stolen more than 25 bases in a season previously. He was also caught only seven times last year despite all that running, so one would have to think that a little correction there could obviously lower his overall number. People also seem to be forgetting that this is a guy who hit .226-10-40-49-7 as recently as 2005, so it's not like there is some huge track record of success. Here are a couple of other factors to conside: First, Byrnes has never hit more than 26 home runs or knocked in more than 83 runs in a season. He also has only one 100-run season in his career and has never hit higher than .286 in a season (career .267). He also has a long history of totally falling apart after the All-Star break, as his average drops 51 points (to .239), while his OPS falls 156 points (down to .695). On the other side we have Johnny Damon, who was awful last year, right? Well, as bad as he was, he scored only 10 fewer runs than Byrnes (103 to 93), knocked in 63 runs and stole 27 bases. Big deal you say, right? Remember, before last season Byrnes had never stolen that many bases or scored that many runs in a season, and this was Damon's worst year since 2001. Damon will still hit at the top of a loaded Yankees lineup which almost guarantees him 100 runs scored, a total that he reached nine straight seasons before last year's 93. Damon has also stolen at least 18 bases every year since 1998, and he has put up double-digit homers in nine of the last 10 seasons. Damon also owns a .288 career average, and recall that Byrnes' season best mark is .286.Byrnes will likely steal more bases and hit more home runs that Damon in 2008, but it's not as if you are getting dead weight with Damon. Plus, Damon can be had 70 picks later, and will likely produce comparable all-around numbers
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Busting the credit myths
There are many misconceptions about what affects how lenders rate customers for credit - and this means people could be doing their finances long-term damage.
Myth 1: A quarter of Brits believe that missed credit card and mortgage payments DO NOT affect credit scores
Myth 2: Almost 80% of Brits believe that being turned down for credit by one lender WILL have a negative impact
Myth 3: One third believe having an online gambling account will negatively affect how lenders view them
Experian CreditExpert surveyed nearly 1,500 Britons and discovered some of the most common myths and misconceptions that exist about credit scores, credit reports and applying for credit.
Among the most startling credit myths uncovered are:
1. One in four Britons believe that missing mortgage payments (26 per cent) or credit card repayments (24 per cent) will not impact their credit score. In actuality, missed payments can have a significant negative effect on your credit score and credit rating as they show poor credit management skills, a key criteria lenders look for when deciding to extend credit or not.
2. 78% of those surveyed believed that being turned down by one lender will have a negative impact. In fact a lender's decision in whether or not to extend credit is not registered on an individual's credit report. However, the footprint of a potential lender's search is recorded for 12 months. if you are repeatedly and rapidly applying for credit, too many footprints with harm your score as it appears that you are in financial distress. If you have been turned down by one lender, ALWAYS ask the lender why and check your credit report to improve your credit rating before applying again.
3. A further third also think that having an online gambling account will negatively affect how lenders view them. In truth, the names of lenders are not recorded on your credit report that lenders see - only how well you manage the credit that a lender has extended to you.
4. 50% of respondents are not aware that joining the electoral register is one of the quickest ways to help improve your rating. This is because the lenders want to corroborate where you live and this is one of the tools used to ensure there is not potentially fraudulent activity at play.
In addition, of those surveyed who have been turned down for credit in the past, a staggering 73% did not find out why!
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Ousted President Mohammed Morsi's supporters in the Muslim Brotherhood are calling for mass protests in Egypt, where it's feared there will be clashes between them and soldiers in the streets of Cairo and other cities on Friday.
As The Associated Press writes, "some former militant extremists have vowed to fight." NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, who is in Cairo, tells our Newscast Desk that they plan to march through the city's streets in a "day of rage" to protest both the removal of the president and the arrest of key Brotherhood leaders, including the group's revered Supreme Guide. Authorities accuse them of inciting violence in the days leading up to Morsi's removal.
Al-Jazeera adds that "crowds are expected to swell further after Friday afternoon prayers" in the Muslim nation. "Meanwhile, Egypt's military has appealed for conciliation and warned against unrest, as police rounded up senior Islamists ahead of the planned Brotherhood protests on Friday."
The Guardian, which is among the news outlets live blogging events in Egypt, says "there is a heavy army presence at the scene of a planned pro-Morsi rally."
The army, as the BBC says, has pledged to allow "peaceful protests." Muslim Brotherhood leaders have said their followers will not resort to violence, but have also warned that things could quickly get out of control.
We'll keep an eye on the news from Egypt and update as warranted.
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-- "In His Final Days, Morsi Was Isolated But Defiant." The AP looks at events leading up to Wednesday's move by the military to remove the democratically elected Morsi from office and replace him with interim leader Adly Mansour. The AP's report begins with this dramatic scene:
"The army chief came to President Mohammed Morsi with a simple demand: Step down on your own and don't resist a military ultimatum or the demands of the giant crowds in the streets of Egypt. 'Over my dead body!' Morsi replied to Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday, two days before the army eventually ousted the Islamist leader after a year in office.
"In the end, Egypt's first freely elected president found himself isolated, with allies abandoning him and no one in the army or police willing to support him."
-- "For Islamists, Dire Lessons On Politics And Power." The New York Times writes that "from Benghazi to Abu Dhabi, Islamists are drawing lessons from Mr. Morsi's ouster that could shape political Islam for a generation. For some, it demonstrated the futility of democracy in a world dominated by Western powers and their client states. But others, acknowledging that the coup accompanied a broad popular backlash, also faulted the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood for reaching too fast for so many levers of power."
-- "Economic Instability To Cause Further Problems In Egypt." Morning Edition host Renee Montagne talked with Farah Halime, an economic journalist and blogger based in Cairo about the prospects for Egypt's economy now that Morsi has been ousted.
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Russell Westbrook and KB3: A friendship
May, 20, 2012
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That wristband you see on Russell Westbrook's right arm is important to the Oklahoma City Thunder star. It bears "KB3," for Khelcey Barrs III, Westbrook's friend, teammate and fellow basketball standout when the two grew up in Los Angeles.
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Episode 14 of the grand romp I call The Delivery is available for your listening, downloading, and subscribing pleasure.
I don't have a lot to say about this episode. I'm settling into a rhythm and getting quite comfortable with my format. The show is becoming more fun to do, if you can believe that. I could easily knock down a two-hour show with a guest every week. SuperMegaProducer Mike did his usual great job and there are a couple holiday announcements from our Big Voice Guy, Roch that, again, made me laugh out loud.
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Grants Pass voters rejected a schools bond that would have helped pay for school improvements. The five year, $17 million bond failed with 51 percent of voters in opposition.
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Republican Senator Scott Brown of Massachusetts has reached across the aisle in his first five weeks on the job. But his interest in dissolving gridlock doesn't extend to supporting the healthcare bill.
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In the five weeks since being sworn in as the Senate's 41st Republican, Sen. Scott Brown (R) of Massachusetts has often sided with Democrats – and seen some reach across the aisle in return.
It's a sharp break from the culture of a highly partisan Senate, where gridlock is the new normal.
"We're seeing a good free flow of ideas," Senator Brown said on Wednesday, after voting with Democrats to end debate on a $140 billion package to extend tax breaks and benefits for jobless Americans. Then, he voted against the bill, which passed, 62 to 36.
"I'm not supporting the bill, but I do think the process needs to work better – and I hope my gestures do not go unnoticed," he said.
Indeed, they have not. In a rare move, four Democrats broke ranks to vote with Brown and all other Republicans on an amendment to move some $60 billion to taxpayers in a six-month payroll tax holiday – Brown's first legislative proposal. The measure failed, 44 to 56, on March 4.
"I think Senator Brown is showing he wants to work with us on bipartisan legislation much of the time," says Sen. Charles Schumer (D) of New York, who chairs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.


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Jimmy Savile scandal: Hospital abuse helplines set up
Victims of Jimmy Savile's abuse at Leeds General Infirmary, Stoke Mandeville and Broadmoor hospitals are being asked to contact new helplines.
The phone lines and email addresses will help to provide evidence for four NHS investigations - including an internal inquiry at the Department of Health - into the late TV star.
Terms of reference for the four inquiries have also been published.
They include how his role as a fundraiser related to his abuse.
The entertainer - who police believe may have abused as many as 300 people during 40 years - was given extensive access over decades to the three NHS hospitals.
Each hospital will carry out its own investigation, with the DoH internal inquiry looking into how Savile was appointed in 1988 to lead a taskforce overseeing management at the high security psychiatric hospital Broadmoor.
Kate Lampard, a former barrister who is overseeing the inquiries, said it was important "that victims of this abuse can be certain these investigations discover exactly what happened and what went wrong".
Ms Lampard, who is also vice-chairman of south of England NHS regional authority, said that, by ensuring "all the investigations are working to the same goals, I'll be able to undertake a lessons learned exercise to ensure any relevant findings benefit the wider NHS".
Jimmy Savile inquiries
- Operation Yewtree: Scotland Yard criminal investigation into sexual abuse claims
- BBC investigation into management failures over the dropping of Savile Newsnight report
- BBC investigation into culture and practices during Savile's career and current policies
- BBC investigation into handling of past sexual harassment claims
- Department of Health investigation into Savile's appointment to Broadmoor "taskforce" and his activities at Broadmoor, Stoke Mandeville Hospital and Leeds General Infirmary
- Director of Public Prosecutions review into decisions not to prosecute Savile in 2009
Other terms of reference outlined include considering whether Savile was given special access or privileges and whether he was subject "to usual or appropriate supervision and oversight" at the hospitals.
Reviewing "past and current complaints and incidents concerning Jimmy Savile's behaviour" at the hospitals is also among terms of reference.
The health service says the investigations should be completed by the second half of 2013.
Savile, who died last year aged 84, was best known as a Radio 1 DJ and the presenter of the Jim'll Fix It show on BBC One.
The BBC has announced two inquiries as a result of the abuse claims, and a further review into the current sexual harassment policies at the corporation.
There is a further investigation into the circumstances surrounding the dropping of a Newsnight investigation into Savile.
Other inquiries being carried out into Savile's behaviour include Scotland Yard's Operation Yewtree criminal investigation into sexual abuse claims and the Director of Public Prosecutions' review into decisions not to prosecute Savile in 2009.


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Some are asking why the case of Mohammad Taheri-azar isn't being called terrorism. I'm wondering why it's not, at least, being called a hate crime.
Burning a cross is a hate crime.
Shouting racial slurs is a hate crime.
Beating up a gay guy is a hate crime.
But a guy who drives his car into a crowd with the admitted intent of killing Americans to avenge Muslim deaths around the world is not a hate crime?


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Suncorp systems push minimises flood damage
PUBLISHED: 23 Feb 2011 10:51:00 | UPDATED: 24 Feb 2011 04:52:52PUBLISHED: 24 Feb 2011 PRINT EDITION: 24 Feb 2011Paul Smith
Suncorp chief executive Patrick Snowball has lauded earlier than expected benefits from a wide ranging rationalisation of its key technology systems, for offsetting some of the ravages of the Queensland floods and first Christchurch earthquake on its balance sheet.
Releasing the firm's half yearly results yesterday morning, Mr Snowball said the so-called "building blocks" strategy, which was initially announced last May, was ahead of schedule.
The plan involves changing the company's underlying systems, to standardise business processes across its 25 brands. It targets at least a 3 per cent improvement in margin in the next two years from measures including a single pricing and claims "engine".
The program is intended to result in annualised savings of $235 million by 2013.
"The building blocks program is progressing ahead of schedule with a single enterprise employee agreement approved, and single systems for managing the group's finances and customer base already in place," Mr Snowball said.
"In general insurance, we are at an advanced stage of transitioning all of our brands to single pricing and claims systems."
A single finance system, a single human resources and payroll system and a single customer system for marketing have gone live.
The final area of the plan aims to ensure all of the brands are based on the same business processes. This is focused mainly on insurance brands including AAMI, GIO, Suncorp Insurance Vero, Asteron and Apia.
The company this morning announced that the largest technology challenge of the project, moving its AAMI business from a bespoke proprietary platform to a new Suncorp-wide general insurance pricing engine, already used by Suncorp and GIO, had been completed.
Suncorp said the new platform would enable pricing of individual risks such as flood and theft, and therefore improve both risk selection and financial returns in the long term.
The firm's Apia brand is expected to transfer to the system before the end of June.
Meanwhile Suncorp is also deploying a web-based claims system called Guidewire ClaimCenter across its home and motor insurance brands. It told investors today that this program was progressing well.
Late last year, Suncorp's head of enterprise services, Paul Cameron, one of the key information technology executives charged with changing the systems, told The Australian Financial Review that extensive virtualisation work carried out on the company's infrastructure during the post-merger integration of the Promina business had given it a jump start.
Virtualisation allows a server to run as multiple machines, meaning businesses get more use out of each piece of equipment.
It has also enabled Suncorp to adopt an array of internet hosted or "cloud computing" services.
"When we took on Promina there were great aspirations of banging the companies together and getting great savings and we did bugger all of it really," Mr Cameron said.
"But we really did the infrastructure component and that has made us ready for what is now coming."
Suncorp also completed an ambitious overhaul of its online banking platform last October. Chief executive of Suncorp's shared business services, Jeff Smith, said the company had required a more robust internet banking platform that could connect more easily internally and with external facilities like Citibank for real time credit card management.
Suncorp had previously been using an off-the-shelf product called Corillian, but had built the new one with its internal development team.
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@clintflint - That shows how our entire attitude should change though. I know when I was a kid I would never have dreamed of telling someone my problems, because I just didn't think that was the normal thing to do.
I kept waiting for someone to show an interest in me, and to solve my problems for me, because that's the way life was portrayed to me in fiction.
If I had been told from an early age that it was good to ask for help and good to take initiative and get what I needed to be well, then I think I would have sorted out my problems a lot sooner.
Youth development has to be about changing the attitudes of the adults around them, because the youth don't live in an isolated world.


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The Expert View: Merlin, Dixons and Thomas Cook
Our daily roundup of the best analyst commentary on shares, also including Kier and Lonmin.
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Lego film fillip for Merlin Entertainments
The Lego Movie has helped to boost Legoland owner Merlin Entertainments (MERL), with the company trading ahead of analyst expectations.
Panmure analyst Karl Burns reiterated his 'buy' recommendation and target price of 446p following the company's latest trading statement, covering the 18 weeks to 3 May. Shares were flat yesterday at 355p.
'Merlin Entertainment has reported… like-for-like sales increasing by 12%, well ahead of our around 3% full-year forecast,' said Burns. 'However, this significant increase in like-for-likes is driven by favourable weather in North Europe, strong promotional activity and the launch of The Lego Movie benefiting the two Legoland parks and Discovery centres in the US.'
However, he added that despite the outperformance in the early part of the year management had not changed its full-year forecasts.
'We retain our full-year forecasts but note Merlin is currently trading ahead of our estimates,' said Burns. 'We believe Merlin remains attractive with five-year double-digit earnings per share growth.'
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Kier's hardy outlook propels it ahead of peers
Building company Kier Group (KIE) has been upgraded as its latest trading update shows it will benefit not only from a recovering property market but is ahead of its peers in constructions.
Numis analyst Howard Seymour upgraded the stock from 'add' to 'buy' and retained a target price of £21.25. Shares were yesterday up 30p, or 1.8%, at £16.76.
'Kier's [trading statement] points to a more positive construction outlook that its peers, the benefits of its enlarged services business coming to the fore and property continuing to benefit from an improving market,' said Seymour.
He added that Kier was one of the few companies in the sector showing increasing dividends and that it remained 'our favoured stock in the construction service space to benefit from the improving macro conditions'.
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Strikes and production woes hit Lonmin
Strike action and a 'defensive' business model is hitting platinum miner Lonmin (LMI).
Following a trading statement from the company, Investec analyst Marc Elliott retained a 'sell' recommendation and reduced the target price from 258p to 238p. Shares fell 7.4p, or 3.8%, to 254p yesterday.
'The interims highlighted numerous challenges as strike action continues and platinum prices show little response thus far,' he said. 'The financial position was reasonable with net cash of $71 million (£42 million). However, the business model appears to be increasingly forced towards a more defensive stance, with capital programmes to be delayed and a focus on maintaining the production profile as market conditions cannot justify investment in growth.
'We see long-term value but not at current levels.'
Elliott noted the strike action in South Africa was hanging over the company as four workers have died in recent violence and unions are resisting miners returning to work.
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Dixons to be winner from Carphone Warehouse merger
Dixons (DXNS) is tipped to be the winner from its merger with Carphone Warehouse by Cantor analysts.
Analyst Freddie George retained a 'buy' rating and target price of 60p for electrical goods retailer Dixons following a trading update which was 'broadly in line with market expectations, with sales behind market expectations but margins significantly better than forecast'. Full-year 2014 forecasts were moving towards the top end of the range, he added. Shares yesterday tumbled by more than 10% to 45.7p.
'The anticipated merger of the company with Carphone Warehouse will overshadow the trading update,' he said. 'Carphone Warehouse…is seeking to develop sales in adjacent categories, such as tablets, while Dixons has been openly looking to increase its mobile offering…the merger in our view is more compelling to Dixons.'
George said that while there was scepticism about combining two companies with very different cultures 'we believe the deal will be beneficial to Dixons'.
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Thomas Cook on earnings upgrade path
After teetering on the brink of collapse just three years ago, the recovery at Thomas Cook (TCG) continues to go from strength to strength.
Jefferies analyst Mark Irvine-Fortescue retained a 'buy' recommendation and increased the target price from 200p to 230p. Shares yesterday fell 12.6% to 156.1p.
'Thomas Cook is on a multi-year earnings upgrade path and we see [the first half] update as the next catalyst,' he said.
He noted the company was not only trading in line with expectations but a further £20 million of cost savings had been identified in a cost-cutting exercise known as 'wave 1'. A second exercise – 'wave 2' – is expected to identify £150 million of benefits for the company.
'We continue to see better value at Thomas Cook than TUI Travel,' said Irvine-Fortescue. 'We think that its superior growth prospects and self-help opportunities mean that the current valuation discount [of TUI] is difficult to justify.'


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So, I totally forgot I even wrote this story to begin with. This is my first fan-fic where everyone is the way they are in the books, so bare with me through this.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "It's beats for you, Ness." Jacob whispered in her ear. She giggled and snuggled closer to him. "How come Seth didn't come see me?" "He wanted to." Jacob ran his fingers through her curls. "But Sue wanted him home for supper." "Speaking of supper." Esme walked out from the kitchen holding a large plate in on hand, and a tiny pink one in the other. "Yum!" Renesmee jummped up and sat beside Jacob, letting Esme hand her the plate. To me, the chicken, potatoes, and green beans looked gut wrenching, but if Renesmee would eat it, I was all for it. It was rare she actually ate solid foods. I heard Bella's laugh of bells beside me. "You know," She wrapped her arms around one of mine, holding my hand. "You did eat that at one time. It's not poliet to curl your nose at our daughter." Me unbeating heart would jump in my chest when Bella refered to her as 'our daughter'. It was always a reminder that Bella and I made something of a merical. That, that little girl was a part of her and I. We had done it together. (No pun intended). "I would never." I chuckled. "It was at Jacob." She laughed aloud, making my mind swim with the sound. I loved making Bella laugh and smile. She brought out the sun in Forks when she did. "I'm done!" A tiny muffled voice came from the couch. I looked over to see Renesmee to see her holding up her newly clean plate. Bella let go of my arm and walked over to her. "Renesmee, you know it's not good manners to talk with a full mouth." She gently took the plate from her hands. "Yeah kid." Jacob poked his fork at her, making me want to growl, his mouth fuller than her's had been. "You too, kid." Bella jerked his fork from his hand before he could react. "Poke at her again and see what happens." She chucked it back at him and I could help but smile toward him. Don't get me wrong...I still didn't like that fact that he imprinted on my daughter. Freakin' new born daughter and he thought he had some claim on him. I scoffed. What's wrong?" Bella's voice flooded my mind. I shook my head and quickly got a wet cloth to wipe Renesmee's mouth. I sat down beside her, and she stuck her smiling chin out at me. She began to sing in her head the song I sang to her when giving her a bath. Little, grimmy, dirt a bugs, I wash away with soap and suds, to get my baby sqeaky clean. I chuckled and wiped away the potatoes. Get into her warm pajama's, then go say goodnight to Mamma, because it's time to go to sleep. She laid out her hands, and I wiped the chicken juices off. "Thank you, Daddy." She smiled and kissed my cheek. "You're welcome, Little Love." I kissed her nose. "Can me and Jake watch a movie Nana Esme?" She asked. "Of course." She smiled. "If Jacob is up to it." "I'm up for it." He yelled from the kitchen. I heard him set his plate down on the counter and walk back into the room. "What do you want to watch?" "Um..."She bit her full little lip, a habbit from Bella, and thought. "Oh! How about Tangled? That's Repunzle." "Sound's good to me." He shrugged. "Hey!" She yelled. "How about everybody can watch the movie." We all laughed at the corny jokes made, giggled at Renesmee laughing from in between Bella and I. Jake sat infront of her as she played with his hair. She fell asleep before the movie was over, so we all said goodnight and Bella and I took her to the cottege. I changed her into her blue nightgown and laid her in her yellow sheets. I kissed her head after Bella, tucked her in, and closed her door after she breathed in deeply. Tomorrow, she would be 1/16th of an inch taller, her hair would be 1/12th of an inch longer, and her tiny hands would be 1/22nd of and inch wider. If only I could keep her little forever. I guess, since I do get to keep her forever, small or big, it's was a farely nice trade from losing her later. I felt Bella's arms wrap around my torso, her lips placing light kisses on the middle of my back. "Come read with me?" She asked. "Only read?" I looked over and cocked an eyebrow at her. "Mm hmm." She grind. "My antomy." She was gone in a flash, but my eyes knew exatly where she went. A growel rose from my chest when I heard the heavy denim of her blue jeans hit the hardwood. A crooked grin spread across my face. "Oh, Bella?" I whispered, knowing she could hear me. I pulled my shirt over my head and threw it into the room. I heard her gasp when she saw it and the groan. I chuckeld. "Were you planning on hiding?" I asked, unbuttoning my jeans as I walked, unzipping the zipper loudly. "Because I can smell you anywhere. I can hear your heavy breathing, I can feel your need radating. You can't hind from me, Love." A body slammed into my back and her legs wrapped around my waist. "I may not beable to hide." She whispered, biting my ear. "But I'm pretty damn good at running." I slid her around to my front. "And you ran to me." She smile lightly. "Well, I wouldn't want to run away. Not unless you were running with me." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Okay, I know, this is a Edward and Nessi story, but you wouldn't have her without Bella and Edward :) The manip below is not mine! It belongs to nawelh on live journal. She's amazing at manipulations, you can check her out. The link is [url]]http://nawelh.livejournal.com/[/url] |
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Mrs_twiLautner said:
It was nice i wrote one a couple of days too, but not like this . yours is different and really cute i liked it are you going to write the next part? i'll read it.
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I have so many stories I'm writing write now. I love writing but I can never find the time to write them all at the same time. but yea, I will be continuing when i can :)
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- Hulley, P.A. 1990 Myctophidae. p. 398-467. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI; Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 1. (Ref. 4479)


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Memorial service will honor decorated Vietnam veteran Gary Shipston
Memorial services for Gary Shipston are at 4 p.m. Friday (Dec. 14) at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, 16290 Arnold Drive, Sonoma.
A decorated Vietnam veteran, Gary died Dec. 9 after an 18-month battle with leukemia. He underwent a stem cell transplant in late June and spent the past five months at Stanford Hospital and Clinic in Palo Alto.
The Sonoma community rallied around Gary and his family during his illness. Donors waited more than an hour (or two) at a blood drive in his honor last spring. Both he and his wife, Jennifer Shipston, are registered nurses with a wide circle of friends throughout Sonoma Valley.
They received an outpouring of support during Gary's stay at Stanford.
Known as a "homebody," it was fitting that Gary was able to return home from Stanford just a week before his death. He died at home surrounded by his family. He was 62.
The Shipstons met while working on different units at Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in Southern California. They moved to Sonoma in 1989.
Gary was born in Niagara Falls, N.Y. on Jan. 27, 1950. He was raised in both Niagara Falls and Akron, Ohio.
Gary was a graduate of Long Beach State University. He earned a degree in anthropology before switching professions and obtaining a nursing degree.
He worked at North Coast Rehabilitation before joining the nursing staff at Sonoma Developmental Center. Known for both his skills and compassion as a nurse, he saved at least one patient and was bestowed with an appreciative "Saved the Doctor's Ass" award.
When not at work, Gary loved jazz, reading, good wine and going to the movies with friends. He loved spending time at home with his family.
A modest and unassuming man, few knew he earned two bronze stars for his service to his country in Vietnam.
A proud veteran, he was a member of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars in Sonoma Valley.
Gary was the proud father of Melissa Shipston, 19; Mark Shipston, 15; and Megan Shipston, 10. In addition to his wife and children, he is survived by his mother, Lorraine Shipston of Paradise; his brother and sister-in-law, Greg and Elise Shipston of Lancaster, S.C.; his sister and brother-in-law, Lisa and Jim Devito of Austin, Texas; and his nephew, Austin Shipston, and niece, Brittany Devito. He was predeceased by his father, Clark Price Shipston.
Gary also leaves many friends who will remember him "just as a good guy. That's what people would say," his wife said.
Donations may be made to a trust fund for his children in care of Jenny Shipston at Redwood Empire Credit Union.
Jennifer Shipston said the family is grateful for the outpouring of support from friends, deacons at their church (St. Andrew's) and from her co-workers at the Sonoma Valley Hospital Home Care Program.
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The free bumper sticker in my hands says "If you don't love Jesus, go to Hell! – Billy Joe Shaver." I've just seen a show at the Redwood that felt less like a country show than a Jonathan Richman performance, complete with spoken word recitations and changes in mood from silly to spiritual and back again. Yet Billy Joe Shaver is the man that launched a thousand record sales for folks like Waylon and Willie and captured the wanderlust son-of-a-gun spirit of the '70s in ways that the Eagles and Burrito Brothers could only catch a glimmer of in their Nudie suit sequins. Shaver—like Dick Cheney—has the distinction of shooting a man in the face recently, and hopefully I won't receive the same fate, though the stocky gentlemen with pompadours who seem to make up his entourage don't look happy with me for taking up their hero's precious time in the Redwood Bar's rum-barrel decorated back room. This interview by Dan Collins.
There was a fight tonight! Do you think your music inspires brawls?
Billy Joe Shaver: No, they usually don't have fights.
There were two guys going at it! You don't inspire the pugilistic instinct?
Billy Joe Shaver: I doubt it! No, we play them skull-horses at home, and they never have fights. We sing all them old rowdy-ass songs, a whole lot rowdier than that, and they don't have fights.
Maybe when you play less rowdy, people have more fights!
Billy Joe Shaver: Yeah, we gotta get more rowdy.
I was reading about the history of your music as played by Waylon Jennings, and I read that to get him to listen to your music, you had to go through a couple Hells Angels.
Billy Joe Shaver: I didn't have to go through 'em, but no, they could have got me. Waylon stopped 'em. I told him I was gonna whup his ass. 'Listen to my songs!' Because he'd been ducking me and dodging me. And those two guys started toward me, and Waylon stopped them. It was a good thing! I was in pretty good shape; I could have held my own for a while! But he took me back and told me to play one tune. And I played one, and he said, 'Well, if I like the next one, I'll listen to another.' And before long, we'd hit 'Honky Tonk Heroes' and 'Old Five and Dimers.' And he got up, and I said, 'I know what I gotta do now!' And he went back out there, and changed everything around, brought his band in, and we recorded 'Honky Tonk Heroes.'
I noticed tonight that a lot of the versions of your own songs that you played were slower than the ones Waylon put on record. Was that on purpose?
Billy Joe Shaver: Well, what we got is a brand new guitar player. don't even know him! I just met him tonight. He's good, though, but we hadn't got used to it.
You were Kinky Friedman's spiritual advisor on his gubernatorial run [for Texas]! What was that like?
Billy Joe Shaver: I kept trying to drill into his head that it's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. And he didn't know what I was talking about! Ha ha, I'm just joking. Yeah, he did! Kinky's a good guy. We've been friends since 1966.
As a former rodeo bum who became a poet, are you jealous of Rod McKuen, who did the same? You're a better poet than him, but he sold more books.
Billy Joe Shaver: No! I'm not jealous of anybody. I like Rod McKuen. I've never met him, but I've read some of his books.
Do you think you'll outlive him? I think he's 93.
Billy Joe Shaver: Whaaaaaa! I don't want to! Looks like I'm going to live forever, whether I want to or not.
My own dad is just eight years younger than you. What does he have to do in the next eight years to become as stylish as you?
Billy Joe Shaver: I doubt he'll ever catch me! I think that's about it, now, isn't it?
I guess so! You have one more thing to tell our L.A. RECORD readers?
Billy Joe Shaver: Simplicity don't need to be greased. Like a wheel? Simplicity don't need to be greased.