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This family-friendly hotel has a year-round outdoor pool and spa tub with a seasonal poolside bar. The hotel's restaurant, American Brasserie, serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily. Around-the-clock facilities include a fitness center, a business center, and a lobby gift shop. 3 meeting rooms totalling 1408 square feet are available. Wireless Internet access is complimentary throughout the hotel. Parking is free, and coin-operated laundry facilities are on site. Shuttle service (surcharge) is available to the Anaheim Convention Center and Disneyland® Park.
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Unless someone who hated him uploaded some photos of someone else's kids in an attempt to frame him...
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False advertising. Ooops. It doesn't work with all of Mac OS 10.x - only the more recent versions.
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In that case, "fired" can mean more than one thing, I guess...
Probably those mp3's that get you high....and he doesn't want anyone messing with his 'stash'!!
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I'm just going to go ahead and say what everybody is thinking: What's wrong with putting up hot, young chicks for the European elections? They'd give Italy some real clevage. Imagine that it's your job to persuade old white men to do things. Now imagine that you are a hot, young, Italian woman. Easier? I think so.
Berlusconi is jackass he should be performing in comedy central or sitcom :)
Hard to understand the rational of this article, quite obviously not written by the usual Economist's man in Italy.
For the first time an article in The Economist lists a certain number of important achievements made by the Berlusconi government.
As no Italian can remember any equally important achievement obtained by any other previous Italian government – and presumably not even the Editor of the Economist can – how come the conclusion of this article is that it would be better if we get rid Berlusconi? The obvious conclusion would appear to be the opposite, at least for your average dumb Italian: try explaining better.
I know, it's hard to admit that fifteen years of anti-Berlusconi articles were just about as wrong as all those pro turbo-capitalism related articles that we've been reading till the big financial meltdown, but as the Economist admitted that they were partly wrong on this second issue, wouldn't it be nice if they admitted being wrong, or at least partly wrong, also on the first issue?
After all already after the 2001 Berlusconi victory the editor admitted that not having investigated deeply enough the unmentionable misdoings of our judiciary which were the main reason Berlusconi entered politics. Not that they ever investigated the matter since, but still it was an admission.
Try going one step further, make a little effort: the anti Berlusconi bias so lightheartedly admitted in the first part of this article is not really suitable for one of the Supposedly Most Authoritative Magazines in the world
Berlusconi, not a special friend of Germany- his Government worked hard to torpedo Germany`s efforts to becoming a permanent UN security member-promised his compatriots in case of his re-election,that he would clean up Napel`s rubbish.
With the help of German racketeers, incompetent politicians, Berlusconi was able to fulfill his promise, increasing his popularity at home by sending much of the rubbish to Germany.
Where are those German politicians who understand the political business of "Giving and Taking", submitting the bill to Berlusconi`s government for their long-standing obstruction? Instead they risked citizens`s health and violated German pride by allowing garbage imports to green Germany.
Germany`s political incompetence and naivity, however, has tradition: Forgetting German UN interests, the government had earlier agreed to Italy`s (undeserving) admission to euro- currency membership. Thus, Italy saddled with extra-ordinary high public debt way above Maastricht criteria, benefited from low interest and gave little, nothing, in return.
German politicians should hire Berlusconi`wife as a consultant to learn the basics of a (political) marriage.
This is an excellent piece on Mr Berlusconi and on Italy, at last. No more biased opinions on his "larger than life" character, very different from the "berluscanisation of Italy" article which had no reason to be published by your excellent magazine. Mr Berlusconi has been the only Prime Minister who has been able to finish his term - ever-, he is trying to address some of the long standing issues (such as the rotten educational system, the unuseful public administration, and even the judcial system where court cases on average can take 8-10 years to get through). Italy is overall weathering this economic crisis well, and Mr Tremonti, Mr Draghi, Mr Napolitano, Ms Marcegaglia are doing their bit. Talk about them, mention all italian companies going abroad (Finmeccanica, Eni, Impregilo and so on) and how well they are doing even now.
Italy has great potential, the Economist is right, discuss this. Mr Berlusconi dyes his hair and may not be the most faithful husband? So what?
T1980 has a keen insight. Unfortunately in B's mind ruling a country means doing that from his personal throne possibly (definitely, rather) being beamed into Italians' living rooms sitting uncritically in front of the Tv screen; that indeed is the very key problem engraved within Italy's Dna by now, taking in just about everything the Tv is telling them dramatizing the "pneumatic void" mirrored all around the country and being delivered daily through the "Government Tannoy", i.e. Mediaset news. (If they were less unilateral - but I find this utopian - then maybe there would be a light at the end of the tunnel.) My feel is that there is an alternative to the "Truman Show" way the country is run, go tell that to the ones that do not believe the hype, that find almost impossible to make ends meet and live day by day from hand to mouth.
The Economist article here offers its opinion on the Italian leader's government one year after election, and it is quite right to focus on the Government's achievements, ambitions and shortcomings.
Nevertheless, it is acceptable for people to discuss a political leader's wife filing for divorce stating that her husband 'frequents under-age girls' as is happening with Berlusconi, perhaps less relevent with this article, it would however be a refelection on 'the Berlusconisation of Italy' if that subject should be kept mute.
The reqaders' comments are sometimes better than the articles themselves! This is one of those articles!!!
Finally, an article that goes at the hearth of the problem. Why don't we discuss about this topic instead of talking about totallly useless things like Mr. B. relationships, daughters and whatever? Why doesn't the Italian press raise the point in a serious way? Why also journalists, like Travaglio, who constantly crusade against Mr. B. don't raise these points? Aren't they capable of doing that?
We know the man, I don' care if he makes international gaffes and I don't want to know anything about his private life. but I want him to rule the country. I'm not sure I agree with the economist article published last week, about the causes that drove the "berlusconization" of Italy. I'm sure that that is happening, but I'm uncertain on whether the causes listed are the ones that matter.
Why do we talk about his conflict of interests? Does this prevent him from reforming the country in the right way? These are all minimal points that do not tackle the real issue. The real issue is that in 2001 and also now (maybe) he has been elected to do reforms in order to improve the country. Is he capable of that? Nobody dares to ask him anymore. When we will foces on this issue (in particular the actual opposition), instead of talking about meaningless issues maybe we will improve. This is particularly true, since the quality of opposition may influence the quality of government. The problem is that we don't have any realistic alternative to him. Recognizing the problems and tackling them is the only way to move forward (does the Italian "left" know that?): is there a third way which avoid both the "pseudo intellectual" radical chic gauche and the protests in the street of the old communist parties? It is necessary to start from here. Then it is possible to challenge Mr. B. and forces him to do the needed reforms.
Reading your article and many comments about it I must admit to be quite crazy to hope that our PM can improve my country. Luckily I am not the one crazy in Italy as the majority of italians are supporting his govern.
Prodi's government fell because for the very first time he was constructively doing something about tax-evasion and OBVIOUSLY was stopped by Mastella and his acolytes implementing a neologism recently coined and found in the very latest updated dictionaries of Italian language; a "berlusconata" (bair-loos-koh-nah-tah) or berlusconade (noun): "act of severe social psychopathology affecting the mind." Example: "Prodi government was brought down with a berlusconata."
It is my opinion that Berlusconi is not as strong in Government as he is in campaigning, and it was his campaigning that got him the huge majority that he now presides.
Berlusconi's political strength is sourced from the findings of the Finivest (65% Sivio, 7% each child from his two marriages) owned advertising and market research agency Publitalia.
Berlusconi's political motivations are entirely selfish.
Last year's election was motivated by the impending Mills corruption trial. His election allowed him access to change the law to prevent him being put on trial, he was a defendant in the Mills trial, accused of corrupting Mills - a witness in a previous Berlusconi tax evasion scam trial. When the trial eventually progressed it passed a guilty verdict on Mills (to which he has a constitutional right of appeal), as such Berlusconi would have faced the same undignified end.
Were he a real politician, and not using politics to escape court action, he would have sat happily picking at the extremely vulnerable Prodi Government as opposition, and collecting the benefits after the economic crisis (which his party apparantly foresaw) had hit and damaged the Prodi Governments economic estimations.
Silvio popped his lot before the best bit!
Didn't Mr Berlusconi also said several times that Italian women needs a platoon of soldiers to guard because they are so beautiful (more likely the guards will also steal the treasure)? I think he is a great populist politician.
The first paragraph sums up the Economist pretty well, it is not just a magazine, but involves itself globally in swaying public opinions and giving directives on political concerns to its readers. One would think they are nuts, but just look at the reader comments you will be surprised how many equally nuts are reading it.
Dear Bloggers,
let me re-state my comments posted on the other Economist's article on Mr Berlusconi on 30 Apr.:
"When Mr. Berlusconi will really , factually fight and halt fiscal evasion, when he will factually fight and stop corruption in public works, beginning with Real-estate building business and seriously invest in scientific and technological innovation, then will we be able to truly say that Berlusconi has modernised Italy, that he has SUSTAINABLY improved the well being of the WHOLE country and security of all its "peopleS". "
Some additional notes:
- I am glad to observe that there are many country fellows aware of the adverse (long-term) impact on our country of our Prime Minster's conflict of interests. (although I respect those who do not have our views).
Maybe, if we get together, a serious not improvident, nor bickering Italian opposition will stick together!
- The Economist is right: no Prime Minister is now in a better position than our Prime Min, to pass long-term badly needed economic reforms; because there is no opposition and he has so much appreciation at home, he can indeed launch even "unpopular" yet badly needed reforms, e.g. a thourough revision of the construction market and legislation in Italy (tougher penal and financial sanctions and controls; investment to check the stability of Italy's strategic buildings: schools, hospitals and prefecture -L'Aquila earthquake docet-).
I have been observing for quite sometime that economist is being an advocate of neo-liberalism. All articles published in here blatantly support liberalization and severely censure everything and everyone who doesn't conform to neo-liberal tactics.
It is very shameful that even after a recession instigated by the very same neo-liberal policies Economist hasn't changed its perception of the tumultuous Neo-Liberalism. If Italians aren't regretting MR Berlusconi leadership, There must be something credible about his leadership. He might not be good at PR, but may be his policies are. In this article I see a very devious way of twisting facts and and I hope all literate folks out there agree with me on this front.
(I am no Italian. so my views can be considered unbiased to Italians under any account )
Let's take a closer look at what freedom house writes.
"Italy slipped back into the Partly Free category with free speech limited by courts and libel laws, increased intimidation of journalists by organized crime and far-right groups, and concerns over the concentration of media ownership"
It mentions concerns over the concentration of media: that there is something strange in Italian Media we all know, but anyone who can use his brain to add figures also well knows that the regular interpretation voiced by many on this blog – and by this Supposedly Authoritative Magazine as well – that Berlusconi controls most of the media is a plain a lie and in fact Freedom House does not mention it. It is what back in Italy is called News Simplifications, another word for superficiality and a well trodden path to outright propaganda and infinite crap.
So much so that all Italian Media Outlets are using those few lines as a proof of their propaganda and avoiding to mention the first reason mentioned by Freedom House which points clearly – yet again – to the disgusting situation of our Judicial System which, as some might understand, is what is implied by "courts and libel laws".
The interesting thing – one which changes the whole perspective of this piece of news – is that the person who most of all has made libel a way to wealth is the supposed value first man, Di Pietro who has become a millionaire winning such legal battles and quite obviously the source of inspiration for many of the ranters who frequent this blog.
It is also very interesting to note that same Di Pietro – who has made a big success ranting against the immunity granted by the infamous Lodo Alfano to Berlusconi – has recently been declared guilty of libel by some court for insulting ex judge Verde.
You know what happened: Di Pietro does not have to pay the 150.000 euro fine he should because at the time of those insults he was a member of the European Parliament and, as such, was granted immunity.
The interesting thing about this story is that is been mentioned only en passant by a few media and never made it to the headlines, which not only proofs that Berlusconi DOES NOT CONTROL ALL THE MEDIA but it also gives insight to the fact that the real cause of alarm for Italian media is not the lack of freedom of press but that mainstream media outlets have evolved from watchdogs of democracy to a pack of rabid dogs who distort facts for political interests.
This is not a problem concerning only Italy: just wait and see how this Supposedly Authoritative Magazine will interpret these few lines from Freedom House. More or less the same may be said if it chooses to overlook this story.
Last, but not least, I think that the Italian correspondents of Freedom House are the Radicals who not only are a political party – and therefore hardly definable as unbiased – but have been talking about lack of freedom of press long before Berlusconi entered politics, and even before he owned televisions.
@Ismael X
very insightful picture, as close to the "truth" as anyone could wish probably, although I disagree with your sour finale:
"But what is worse, we italians are not the men and women fit to solve italian problems. And that's not something you can't straighten with a Messiah, whoever might he be.
Only a slow development of more mature attitudes can lead us to salvation. But that takes generations to come true"
your account (like all) relies on quite a few stereotypes. Take them away, look at and talk to your neighbor with your heart and mind open ... it does not take generations, it is there right now, at everyone's reach, and there's plenty of people doing it already.
For sure Mr B loves and lives of stereotypes, which puts him in a pretty uneasy position, given his recent personal developments ...
Good Luck Veronica
In the article quoted in guardian.co.uk it suggests of Berlusconi that "He has not closed a newspaper or TV station".
The Berlusconi majority, however, boycotted its members of the parlimentary commission on broadcasting (informally and inacurately described as the 'parliament's supervisory commision on RAI') thereby removing the required quorum for electing the commission's president. Nominated was the fundamental anti-Berlusconi Italia dei Valori (Italy of Values) party parliamentarian Leoluca Orlando.
The commision supervises all broadcasting, not just public owned public service broacastor RAI but the privately (and Berlusconi) owned Mediaset, as well as Rupert Murdoch's SkyItalia. An overtly anti-Berlusconi president might impinge on the operation of the Prime Ministers business interests (and the favouritism that Mediaset channels lend to their owner's political career).
The quorum was only found many months later when another candidate, still from the opposition block, for commission president was named despite not having the backing of his own party. That elected president was then removed, against his will and only by disolving that commission, when both main opposition and government powerbrokers decided on another name for president, an esteemed journalist- aged 86 - that currantly holds the role.
During the failed elections of the broacasting commission president, Rupert Murdoch SkyItalia pay-tv, in direct competition with Berlusconi's Mediaset Premium pay-tv, faced a instant 10% raise of value added tax. Mediaset Premium launched a discounted subscription offer at the same time as its owner's Government raised the taxes on a competitor.
Some might say, that only a half-wit would screw Murdoch over and think they could get away with it.
The only reforms made in Italy by the Berlusconi Government serves its leader, and the only political muscle he and his blinkered supporters excert is directed against his political and business rivals.
reading the Berluscones truppen on "Il Giornale" one can think that Italy has really been Berlusconized
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When, earlier this week– in her latest, excruciatingly public quarrel with her husband – Silvio Berlusconi's wife, Veronica Lario, referred to him as an "emperor", she was doing more than just sniping at his conceit. She was echoing what is fast becoming the dominant theme in Italian politics – the rightwing media tycoon's burgeoning power and fears he is drifting into using it in undemocratic ways.
Such concerns are scarcely new. But next week, when the 72-year-old Berlusconi marks the first anniversary of his return to office, he will be celebrating an accumulation of influence and popularity no other leader of Italy has enjoyed since the fall of its fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini.
Few would quibble with the judgment of Massimo Giannini, the author of a recently published book on Berlusconi that, in the last 12 months, Berlusconi has "definitively recaptured Italy". Italy's ebullient, perma-tanned prime minister has an outright majority in parliament and a unified party behind him. His poll ratings are enough to bring tears of frustration to the eyes of other recession-battered leaders. And his grip on the Italian media is stronger than ever.
Of the seven main national television channels, three are answerable to him as the principal shareholder and another three, run by Italy's public broadcasting service, RAI, are indirectly answerable to him as prime minister. In the latest Freedom House report on the international media, Italy was downgraded from "free" to "partly free", putting it on a par with countries such as Albania and Ukraine.
Lario is not alone in fretting over where all this could lead. Gianfranco Fini, one of two deputy prime ministers in Berlusconi's last government, from 2001 to 2006, warned earlier this year of the dangers of "Caesar-ism".
Three separate processes have been at work over the past 12 months.
One is the homogenisation of Berlusconi's government. It no longer has to depend for its survival on a party of mutinous rightwing Christian Democrats, who walked out of Berlusconi's coalition before the last election. In March, the two biggest remaining groups – Berlusconi's Forza Italia party and the National Alliance, which grew out of Italy's neo-fascist movement – merged to form the so-called Freedom People. In a country used to governments lasting months, or even weeks, the present one is universally expected to see out its full five-year term.
A second factor has been the retreat of opposition in all forms. Faced with the prospect of Berlusconi leading the country until 2013 (by which time he will have governed Italy for 11 of the previous 19 years), it is as if many of his critics had resigned themselves to his ascendancy.
One after another, centres of resistance to his influence on society – in the universities, the unions and politics – have imploded. When, in 2003, Berlusconi first tried to pass a law securing himself immunity from prosecution, there was uproar and it was later revoked by Italy's highest court. Last year, his new justice minister tabled a modified version and pushed it quickly through parliament and on to the statute book against a background of little more than token indignation.
Leftwing students staged noisy protests last year against cuts in the education budget. But in November's elections for student representatives at Italy's biggest university, La Sapienza in Rome, three of the five seats in the senate went to candidates backed by government parties.
Several formerly leftwing intellectuals have declared a newfound admiration for Berlusconi. The writer Alessandro Baricco astonished a TV interviewer by calling the PM "someone who has great fascination for the future" and a "mental openness capable of imagining projects that surprise us every time".
The trade unions, whose general strike 14 years ago helped to bring down Berlusconi's first government, are split. Last December's "general strike", in protest at the government's response to the global economic crisis, was backed by only one of three main trade union federations and was generally judged a flop.
More conspicuous than anything, though, has been the collapse of Italy's parliamentary opposition. Its leader, Walter Veltroni, was discredited when his plan to collaborate with Berlusconi on a programme of reforms in the national interest was torpedoed by the victorious incoming prime minister. After a disastrous showing in a regional ballot on Sardinia in February, in which his Democratic party won just 24% of the vote, he resigned.
All of that points to a third factor at work since last May – the growth in Berlusconi's popularity. "I'm at 75.1%", he declared yesterday. "The polls I know about say Obama is at 59%. So mine is an outright record." The survey he cited was conveniently unpublished. But even the most recent published poll, prepared for the centre-left newspaper La Repubblica, gave him an approval rating of 56%.
Some of the billionaire TV proprietor's critics see it is the unavoidable consequence of his power to influence what Italians think.
"Berlusconi's television channels have moved not just votes, but the entire nation," the film director Nanni Moretti argued recently. "The majority of people, and not just those on the right, now consider it normal that one man should have a monopoly of TV, be a politician and even head of the government. That is his triumph."
For Pierluigi Battista, deputy editor of the Corriere della Sera newspaper, Berlusconi's media influence has become an excuse for the Italian left's own shortcomings.
"I'm reminded of what Brecht said: 'If the people are against us, we shall change the people'. When the left won [in 2006], all this rhetoric about Berlusconi and his media power mysteriously stopped," said Battista. "Now, for the first time, we have a government that can move swiftly – not because it is made up of people who are more intelligent but because they have more support and can thus pursue their aims with greater determination."
Certainly, an important reason for its popularity has been its response to voters' concerns about law and order. Polls reveal an abnormally high level of fear among today's Italians – fear of crime, fear of immigrants and fear of the consequences of globalisation.
Although key aspects of its programme have been ruled unacceptable by the European commission in Brussels, the government has implemented a law-and-order crackdown, elements of which go far beyond what is considered acceptable in other parts of Europe. Roma camps up and down the country have been demolished and the Gypsies have been fingerprinted (a plan to fingerprint their children was dropped following protests).
Parliament is poised to approve a law to legalise vigilante patrols and extend to six months the period during which asylum seekers could be held in special "identification and expulsion centres". It also contained a provision encouraging doctors and nurses to report suspected illegal immigrants to the police, but that was dropped after protests. The way to tackle illegal immigration, the interior minister, Roberto Maroni, recently declared, was to be "nasty".
No one has disappeared in mysterious circumstances since Berlusconi returned to power. None of his critics has been jailed or exiled. He has not closed a newspaper or TV station. He has not threatened parliament. But he has created a new party in which he has untrammelled powers.
At its founding conference last month, he was acclaimed, not elected by the delegates. Berlusconi has repeatedly mocked and defied the judiciary. He has twice referred to certain judges as a "cancer" and, in January, his cabinet approved a decree that would have overturned a decision of Italy's highest court had not the president, Giorgio Napolitano, refused to sign it.
In the name of efficient government, Berlusconi has frequently used procedural measures to curb parliamentary debate.
Pier Ferdinando Casini, who preceded Fini as speaker of the lower house, has complained of the "systematic representation of parliament as a bunch of loafers, a useless entity."
Most worryingly of all for his critics, Berlusconi has made it clear he intends to reform the constitution to create a directly elected president with much broader powers. On more than one occasion, he has said he sees no reason to get opposition backing for the changes. It has long been reported that Berlusconi hopes to stand for the presidency after stepping down as prime minister.
Battista believes the concerns surrounding Berlusconi's ambitions are misplaced. He says the US and France both have presidential systems, yet neither country's democratic credentials are questioned.
"It is Italy's past that creates this spectre," he says. Its disastrous experience of fascist dictatorship led to the introduction of electoral and constitutional arrangements intended to ensure that power was fragmented.
La Repubblica's Massimo Giannini argues that Italy "is too disenchanted to fall under a true 'regime' in which the fundamental liberties are trampled". In any case, it belongs to a European Union "in which relapses into the abyss of 20th century tyranny would not be permitted".
Nevertheless, the country that Berlusconi governs is fast becoming one marked by "the absence of autonomous powers that balance the overweening power of the executive," Giannini said.
Italy, he believes, risks joining the ranks of what the international relations guru, Fareed Zakaria, has dubbed "illiberal democracies".
It is unquestionably true that several of the international statesman with whom Berlusconi has established a special rapport govern countries that could qualify as such. One is Russia's Vladimir Putin. Another is the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
In October, after a visit to central Asia, Italy's prime minister added to the list a less well-known name. He told a meeting of the Italian national retailers association that they should "all go to Kazakhstan on holiday" because "there's a gentleman there who is my friend. Not by coincidence, [he] has 91% of the vote and has done extraordinary things".
The man he was referring to was Kazakhstan's president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has been accused of, among other things, rigging elections, intimidating opponents, concentrating power in the hands of his family and altering the constitution to ensure he remains in office, which he has done for the last 19 years.
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Batesville JV gridders finish with 6-1 record
MOUNTAIN HOME — The Batesville Pioneer junior varsity high school football team wrapped up its season here Monday night with a 38-15 win over their counterparts from Mountain Home.
Eli Childress, who later provided a pass interception, got the scoring going with a 5-yard touchdown run. Childress also ran in the 2-point conversion.
After the home team scored, the Pioneers struck back with a Nick Morton-to-Wesley Rudd 70-yard TD pass. Phillip Archuleta ran in the 2-point conversion.
Batesville led 16-7 at halftime.
IC boys, Midland girls win big
BROCKWELL — Trenton Hatman scored 23 points to lead the Izard County Cougars past the Rector Cougars by a 58-40 count Monday night.
Jake Dockins led the winners in rebounding with eight. Preston Harmon topped the charts with seven assists and three steals.
The visiting Lady Cougars won 63-38. In a losing cause, Izard County's Makayla Gross scored 12 points.
Midland 77, Guy-Perkins 46
With 5-0 run, little help Pioneers eye title
BLYTHEVILLE — Now, for another 5A-East District football championship and a top seeding into the Class 5A State Playoffs.
With the Batesville Pioneers' 56-21 walloping of the Blytheville Chickasaws at Haley Field here Friday night, and the Greene County Tech Eagles' 54-49 win over the Beebe Badgers in Paragould, a victory at home on Senior Night this coming Friday night against the Eagles, or a win at Beebe in the regular-season finale on Nov. 4 will accomplish both for the Pioneers.
Concord splits with Bay in Joe V. Jones Jamboree
MONETTE — Concord split with Bay in Joe V. Jones Jamboree high school basketball games here Saturday.
The Lady Pirates defeated the Bay Lady Yellowjackets 46-28 as Kayla Richardson scored 12 points and grabbed 10 rebounds. Emanda Reaves chipped in 11 points for the 2-1 Lady Pirates.
The Yellowjackets, defending Classs 1A state champions, defeated Concord 54-44. No other details were available at press time.
Friday in Concord, Mount Vernon-Enola and Concord split senior games. The Lady Warhawks won 67-48 as Catherine Bartley scored 15 points and Sidney Davies added 12.
T-wolves win, move out of 2A-3 District cellar
AUGUSTA — The Cedar Ridge Timberwolves recorded their first football victory of the season, and they moved out of the 2A-3 District cellar.
That spot now belongs to the Augusta Red Devils. They and the T-wolves shared it until the visitors' 40-21 decision here Friday night.
Trailing 15-8, quarterback Justin Lovell passed to fullback Matt Hudson for 85 yards and a touchdown late in the second quarter. Hudson ran in the 2-point conversion for a 16-15 lead and the T-wolves didn't trail again.
Cave City starts fast, routs Southside
CAVE CITY — Brandt Mathews scored twice in the first half and the Cave City Junior Cavemen thumped the Southside Junior Southerners 30-6 in a 4A-2 District football game here Thursday night.
Mathews, a 6-foot-2, 220-pound fullback, scored on runs of 40 and three yards.
The Junior Cavemen led 24-0 at halftime as Cody Childers added a 10-yard TD pass reception from Cobie Robinson. That pair also hooked up for a 2-point conversion. The other 2-pointers were scored on runs by Jordan Ables and Tristian McSpadden.
The games: Oct. 21
Stuttgart at Cave City
If the Cavemen are going to have a shot at downing this 4A-2 District championship contender, they will have to move the football, Cave City Coach Jon Bradley said. "If we don't, it's going to be a long night. Stuttgart is big and fast — a very good football team that does a lot of things right." Especially on defense, Bradley added. "Number five for them (Waymon Johnson, a 6-foot-3, 211-pound junior) looks like Darren McFadden.
Lyon College v-ballers win toughie in Conway
CONWAY — Suzanne Fincham hit for 21 kills and Samantha Comet added 10 as the Lyon College Scots battled by the Hendrix Lady Warriors in a nonconference volleyball match here Thursday night.
"Fincham came up huge for us," Lyon Coach Ray Green said, "and then Sam Comet hits for 10 kills. Anytime you can get double-digit kills that's really big."
And they were needed, the coach said.
Concord juniors take two from White County visitors
CONCORD — Concord's senior teams opened the basketball season with a sweep of visiting White County Central here Thursday night.
The Lady Pirates won 51-31 as Emanda Reaves scored 16 points and Kayla Richardson snared 10 rebounds.
The Pirates won 70-33 as Ryan Cornelison poured in 19 points, Jacob Roark added 12 and Ethan Hebert reeled in 14 rebounds.
The visitors avoided a sweep with then WCC junior girls won 27-24.
Southside v-ballers fall
WALNUT RIDGE — The Southside Lady Southerners did not get what they wanted out of this volleyball state tournament tune-up.
The Lady Bobcats won 25-17, 25-23, 19-25, 25-20.
"This was intended to be a tune-up for next week's state tournament, but we didn't play very well at all," Southside Coach David Shilkitus said. "We looked sloppy and disorganized out there, and we definitely have some things to fix between now and next Tuesday. There was a definite lack of focus and intensity."
T-wolf sophomore Spencer Reaves reaches semifinals of state tennis
JONESBORO — Cedar Ridge sophomore Spencer Reaves posted a good showing at the Class 2A State Tournament for tennis at Allen Park, advancing to the singles semifinals before falling.
On Wednesday, the first day of the event, Reaves defeated Walnut Ridge's Clayton Hufstedler 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, and won in straight sets (6-4, 7-5) over Kyle Coke of Parker's Chapel.
On Thursday, Conway Christian's Drew Dodge knocked Reaves out of the championship round, winning 6-4, 6-1. Reaves won the third-place match, defeating Riverside's Logan Meurer 6-3, 6-3.
Nettleton Lady Raiders blank Lady Pioneers in v-ball finale
JONESBORO — The Nettleton Lady Raiders swept the Batesville Lady Pioneers 3-0 in a high school volleyball regular-season finale here Thursday night.
The home team won 25-20, 25-16, 25-24.
Batesville's Jayme Shell and Kassie Foreman combined for 28 kills. Shell led with 15. Lainey Rumans led the assist chart with 19, and Morgan Huff added 11 digs.
Nettleton's junior varsity squad won 25-17, 25-19.
In a losing effort, Arden Kven dug up 15 shots, Amy Everett recorded nine digs and Hailey Hastings added eight digs.


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Angry Birds and pizza — two of modern life's most addictive things — come together in this nifty photo, which was posted on Deviant Art user Ilovetohavfun's account.
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I've heard of snakes, alligators, horse, pigs, monkees, but a Buffalo?
This buffalo gives the expression "home on the range" a whole new meaning. At Jim and Linda Sautner's house in Alberta, Canada, Bailey Junior is just another member of the family
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White House insiders are often accused of "living in a bubble" — but this is ridiculous
The internet is abuzz over this photo of what looks like a face screaming in agony. Why is it creepy? Because it was found on the ultrasound of a man's testicles.
This photo has been circulating the internet over the last couple days, eliciting cooing sounds and begging the question "Is this the cutest puppy ever?" Honestly, we can't decide if it's cute or ridiculously creepy.
Since 1935, current and would-be St. Nick impersonators have received instruction at the Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School in Midland, MI on being the best jolly fat guys they can be. Now that Halloween is over, school is officially in session.
Interesting photos. I'm not sure I'd describe the house "a pigpen", however they are the photos shown in court. You decide.
Michael Jackson may have died in a clutter-filled house that looked like a pig pen, but according to a prop maker for his 1995 video, "Scream," Jackson was a germaphobe who wanted every speck of dust removed from the set
A 1,818.5 pound pumpkin that currently holds the world record for the largest pumpkin is being carved into a macabre spectacle of flesh-hungry zombies.
The folks at 'Today' offered up a gallery of spectacularly bad Halloween photos culled from the Awkward Family Photos website.
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Hi, I have only 1.5 yrs experience with a few roses, acquired by chance, description below.
In my limited experience with these roses, miniature roses are very prone to powdery mildew and black spot, by comparison to groundcover roses, growing side by side, infecting groundcovers. Some of them were described as disease resistant. I had to remove minis to another side of the house.
Is this common for miniature roses, or it's just my own rotten luck? If there are really disease resistant mini-floras and miniature roses, please advise on what to look for. Any low-growing rose will do, not only minis. Zone 6a, cold wet weather from fall to late spring, Great Lakes, full sun.
I really like HT-shaped large flowers and glossy dark green leaves of Vanilla Cordana and would prefer not to use small- and flat-flowered one, if there will be some choice.
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The only other roses I have are Flower Carpet groundcovers, pink, yellow and red (this one is least disease resistant). In comparison to my minis they are care-free.
The use of the term "disease resistant" is really tricky. For one thing, it's relative, as all roses have at least "some" susceptibility to one disease or another if given just the right (bad) conditions. I've found that minis vary in their level of disease resistance just like larger roses do, but in general tend to be similar to other modern roses. It's often helpful to pick the brains of rosarians that live in your location for information of recommended varieties, as it can vary a lot for a given rose variety depending on where it is grown. I am inclined to suggest some of the old garden rose varieties that are especially disease reistant, such as the polyantha Pinkie, or the noisette and china roses that have fairly small blooms, but your climate may be much too cold for them, I don't know. Good luck. I hope someone in your area adds to this thread.
p.s. you probably don't want to hear this, but some regular preventive anti-fungal spraying can work wonders for the health of your roses, even the one's touted as being "disease resistant."
Overall, miniatures are my most blackspot prone roses. Minnie Pearl is the most disease resistant I have. It stays clean with occasional spraying. If I neglect spraying it develops mild BS (25% or so of leaves affected) but does not totally defoliate like a lot of other minis do. Above average in disease resistance relative to other minis are Amy Grant, a light pink, and Breath of Spring, a new light yellow from Bridges. Mildew has not been much of a problem with my minis with the exception of a couple of the dark reds ones - Red Cascade & Miss Flippins. They are my fungicide indicator plants; when they start to mildew, I know it's time to spray.
Interesting. I have always considered minis pretty much bulletproof here. PM can be a problem with some of our big roses. Never seen any pm on the minis. I rarely spray here and don't bother spraying the minis when I do. I'm not an experienced mini grower. I never grew them before I met Deb. The grocery store minis she bought were so healthy and hardy we began getting 'named' minis in 2001.


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Hey All, I've been brewing for a little over 4 years now, and a few of my friends have asked about making a gluten free beer given their intolerance. I'm trying to soak up as much info as possible from some of the existing threads on the forum, but had some questions I'm hoping people can give some insight towards.
I plan to pick up some Redbridge to see what kind of flavors are out there, and if the local stores have it some New Grist by Lakefront Brewery (I hear it's not that bad).
1. So the typical "sorghum" flavor that people describe as citrusy/fruity/sweet...is that something that can be completely offset by a stronger hop profile? I'm thinking based on the Briess 1:1 substitute claim you could make an IPA-ish beer with stronger bittering additions (centennail, columbus, warrior...) to counter-balance that. Am I wrong?
2. Does boil time affect the "off" flavors produced by the sorghum? In typical all-grain brewing, especially with pilsner malts, a longer boil time decreases the risk of having to much DMS in the beer. Would going to a 90-minute or longer boil be beneficial with the sorghum syrup?
3. I read on one of the threads that aging the beer longer can help the "off" flavors mellow out. Is is best to keep longer in primary as well as longer in the bottle or just 1 of the 2?
4. I assume that the regular maintenance and cleaning of brewing equipment would be sufficient, but would I need a dedicated fermenter for gluten free to ensure a true "gluten free" beer? I would think StarSan or Iodophor would take the risk away, but again you guys would know better than I do. To that end, if you need a dedicated fermenting vessel, I'd assume you'd need dedicated Gluten Free bottles!
I think those cover my initial questions. Hopefully some of you who've been at the GF thing for a while can help me out. When I get around to a recipe I'll definitely let everyone know what I do and how it goes.
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IPA would be an excellence choice if you are trying to avoid off flavours. I dont see a reason to increase hop additions compared to a regular IPA. There are some really good recipies floating around in here, pick one and have fun. As far as cleaning goes just be very carefull to clean everything like usual. You should be fine. Oh and dont have to high of expectations for redbridge in my opinion it is even more watery tasting than a bud light with a very sorgumy aftertaste.
4) While proper cleaning and sanitation should be sufficient, some people prefer to know that the item is produced on "a dedicated line" or better "dedicated facility", meaning equipment has less of a chance to come into contact with a gluten contaminant.
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1. I've made an all centennial IPA, around 60IBU's. Was very tasty and hid the sorghum flavour well. I'm planning a couple of single hop ipas (amarillo fermenting and citra hopefully soon), but I think a multi-hop IPA would be great.
2. I don't know, would be interested in your findings.
3. Depending on what your beer is made of (what hops and if you used fruit), it can improve or deteriorate over time. Mine never last long enough for a definitive answer on that.
4. It really depends how sensitive the person you're brewing for is. I've had stuff brewed off non-GF fermenters that was fine, but really with the amount it costs for ingredients and time I'd do it right. All of my gear is kept separate.
My gluten free home brewing blog.http://gfhomebrewing.blogspot.com/
Drinking: Hopped Honey IPA
Fermenting: 2 Ciders with S-33 Yeast, Summer Pale Ale and a West Coast IPA
Planning: Belgian Triple, Blood Orange Wit and American IPA
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Thanks for the tips everyone!
NoGBrewer - I don't have high expectations at all for Redbridge. I basically want to try it so I can see first hand what sorghum tastes like in beer.
KevinM - I agree that it would probably give people peace of mind knowing that the beer was produced on a dedicated line. I think for the first batch I'll take extra steps in sanitizing all the equipment to make sure they like the beer first before I go off and pick up extra carboys.
Spaced - Nice brew blog! I'm glad to know that running hops up into the IPA realm can be beneficial. I noticed you put maltodextrin in a few of your recipes for mouthfeel...is 4oz (per 5 gallon/20L batch) a pretty good amount or will you be adjusting that on future brews? I only ask because I've heard that a beer made with sorghum as the dominant fermentable can be very thin.
I'll take inventory of my hops and let you all know what my brew plan is. Assuming it doesn't tank and my friend likes it I'll probably throw some variation in there (longer boil, etc) and see how things go from there. Thanks for the help!
Try Bard brand gf beer. It's surprisingly good. There's also one from England called Green's or something like that and it's pretty good too.
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