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TIPSY-TURVYBy MICHAEL CHEANG
Resisting the pre-requisite pirate joke, our columnist checks out some sugar cane-based spirits – rum and cachaça.
WHERE has all the rum gone? Beyond the usual bottles of Bacardi and Havana Club, we don't usually see a lot of rum around Malaysian clubs and pubs.
In fact, there is very little awareness about the spirit in this country, beyond the fact that pirates drink it, and that you can make mojitos or you can mix your Bacardi with Coke. (Some people I've spoken to didn't even know Bacardi was rum!) And let's not even mention cachaça, which while technically a type of rum, is in a whole different category of its own.
Rum and cachaça (pronounced ka-sha-sa) are cane spirits derived from the by-products of sugar cane such as molasses and juice. Most of the rum in the world is made in the Caribbean, Central America and South America, while cachaça (although technically a rum) is associated most exclusively with Brazil.
According to mixologist Ben Ng of Fluid Alchemy, a local beverage company, there are basically two kinds of rum: industrial and agricultural.
"Industrial rum is made from thick black sugar cane molasses. It is a cheaper way to make rum – when you plant sugar cane for sugar, you will get molasses at the end of it; and instead of throwing it away as waste, the molasses is used to make rum," he explained. "When you use molasses to produce rum, it results in a more subtle kind of sweetness. It's gentle, but gives you more bite in the drink itself."
With agricultural rum, the sugar cane is actually planted specifically to make rum, and the rum is made exclusively from sugar cane juice. "When you smell agricultural rum, you get the smell of freshly pressed sugar cane. It also retains the original flavour of the sugar cane in it," said Ng.
Rum certainly has a dark history to it. Besides being the spirit of choice for pirates of the Caribbean (and we're not just talking about the movies here), it also used to be a precious commodity that was used as a bargaining tool in the slave trade. The British Royal Navy also used to hand out daily rations of rum to their sailors to keep them happy (the practice was only stopped in 1970).
While it is hard to truly categorise rum properly (there's light rum, gold rum, aged rum, dark rum, spiced rum and flavoured rum), it's easier to differentiate the type of rum by the country each one is produced in. Most rum originating from Spanish-speaking countries like Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala or Colombia tend to be light rum, while English-speaking countries like Jamaica, Bermuda and Barbados tend to make a darker, more flavourful kind of rum. Then, you have the agricultural rums that are mostly based on old French recipes and made in the French-speaking countries like Guadeloupe and Haiti.
According to Ng, light rum caters mostly to the white spirits market and is used mostly in cocktails and long drinks. Then you have the dark rums and aged rums, which are drunk almost on a connoisseur level.
"The rum market in Europe, Australia and Britain is very well-developed. People drink high-end stuff like JM or La Mauny, on the rocks or straight," he said.
Spirit of Brazil
While technically a type of rum, cachaça has earned its right to its own category by virtue of being the only spirit that truly captures the culture and spirit of Brazil.
"Technically, cachaça is a kind of rum as well, but it has a very rich culture and heritage behind it," said Ng.
Allegedly first produced by Portuguese colonists more than 400 years ago, cachaça is made exclusively with sugar cane juice and has a lot more sweetness and flavour to it than most rum.
What makes cachaça so special is that it is the main ingredient in Brazil's "national cocktail" – the caipirinha (of which the basic ingredients are cachaça, brown sugar and lime).
During our interview at Celsius in Fahrenheit88 in Kuala Lumpur, Ng whipped up several cocktails using a cachaça called Sagatiba, which is one of the higher-end varieties available in the market right now. We also tried several variations of the caipirinha.
"(The popularity of) Cachaça has grown thanks to the cocktail culture, specifically because of the caipirinha, which is very popular in Europe. It became even more popular when bartenders introduced the twisted versions of caipirinha by adding fruits and flavours to it," said Ng. "As a result, more cachaça brands started coming into the market, including Sagatiba, which is seen as the first luxury cachaça."
According to him, cachaça has a sweet tone, and fresh grassy taste to it. "Cachaça has a very well rounded and easily accepted flavour. It doesn't have a dominating flavour, so can mix well with anything," he said. "Good ones like Sagatiba go well with fruits – it has a very fresh subtle sweetness so when you add fruits, that brings out the character of the fruits in the drink. It also works well with Asian ingredients like lemongrass or ginger, or even chocolate.
"Personally, I like my Sagatiba with ginger ale and a twist of lime in it. In Malaysia, we love having a bottle at our table. So why not have a cachaça with a few mixers where you can mix your own long drinks and enjoy them all night long?" Ng concluded.
Michael Cheang still has to resist the urge to go 'Arrrr!' every time he drinks rum.
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Drinkers unite!
THE recent Budget 2011 may have spared us a higher tax on alcohol, but the fact remains that Malaysia is one of the most expensive countries to have a beer, cocktail or any sort of legal alcohol, for that matter.
With that in mind, a group of consumers have formed a group called Alcohol-Consumer-Rights Group Malaysia (Alcon) to campaign for lower prices for alcoholic beverages.
"Malaysians pay the highest price for alcohol in the world, next to Norwegians who earn a lot more than we do," said Deepak Gill, spokesman for the group. "A majority of us are just social drinkers who drink moderately, and we should not be penalised with such high prices."
He added that the high price of legal alcohol also leads to more smuggling and related illegal activities, and could force people to turn to cheaper and more harmful alternatives like moonshine or locally made compounded hard liquor.
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A few more key figures for you. Weight is down by 110kg, power is up by 20bhp to 621bhp, torque rises to 590lb ft, 0-60mph drops to 3.7 seconds. Oh, and the price goes up to £163,000. The gearbox has been tweaked and the four-wheel-drive system has been altered so that more torque is sent to the rear wheels. In a normal Conti, it's a 50:50 split. But in the Supersports it changes to 60:40 front to rear.
The effect is a more brutal Bentley. It's not a lightened car to the extent of a Clio Renaultsport Cup, so you still get all the luxury you'd associate in a Bentley, but this is the Continental for the racer in you. The fact that 'GT' has been removed from the name tells you a lot.
You get a sense of the purpose of this car even before you hit the accelerator. There are no rear seats, the front seats have a manual adjustment, carbon fibre adorns the dash and the mostly leather steering wheel has an ultra-sticky band around it. Luxury is less overt here.
The noise and power delivery is much more savage and it does feel lighter. The steering could do with more feel, but as you turn into the corner, the car is more eager to follow your directions. In the Conti GT there's a hesitation, but in the Supersports the chassis is much sharper. You can even adjust it slightly on the throttle mid-corner.
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"My dream and purpose in life has always been to battle for an Orissa that was—where every village had a wildlife tale to tell, where coming across tigers was an ordinary thing, where endless expanses of Sal stretched across the state; where the air, water and food were not laced with toxins and where the hills, forests and wildlife weren't blown up for short-term, myopic goals. I dream of an Orissa that was... It isn't too late. We still have our forests. All we need to do is revive the life in them by protecting our wildlife." At 27, this is the evolved vision of Aditya Panda, winner of the Sanctuary Young Naturalist Award, 2007. To this end, he spends his days working towards safeguarding and reviving the tiger and elephant habitats of his home state Orissa as well as in the larger Eastern Central Indian region including adjoining states such as Jharkhand. He serves as the Deputy Editor of TigerLink and is a conservation partner of the Bagh Foundation.
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"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination," says baseball player Tommy Lasorda. And determination is something Vishal Prabhakar Bansod has never lacked, given his designations of Nature Education Officer with the Nature Conservation Society in Amravati and Coordinator for Kids for Tigers. His is a familiar name in 39 villages of the Melghat Tiger Reserve, where he imparts environmental education to locals, conducts raids and designs field guides to help officials as well as the communities to understand the content and purpose of wildlife laws.
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Meghraj Saini
Young Naturalist Award 2013 winner Meghraj Saini is a tiger protector, crusader and wildlife activist. When Kids for Tigers, the Sanctuary Tiger Programme, was launched in 2000, Meghraj Saini was just three years old. At 17 years, he now travels from village to village near the Ranthambhore Tiger Reserve, organising meetings to win support for the tiger.
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Young Naturalist Award winner Riddhima Yadav is a youth advocate, citizen journalist and wildlife lover engaged in biodiversity conservation since the age of 10. Currently a part of the vibrant Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN), she was selected to attend the National Geographic Student Expedition 2011 to Costa Rica for Biodiversity and Conservation. Articulate and inspiring, at the age of 14, Riddhima has launched her own taskforce, Youth for the Environment (YFTE).
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Britney Holds Auditions: Brit was back to work Wednesday auditioning dancers for her upcoming new video, "Womanizer" at the International Dance Academy in Hollywood, People reports. The video will start shooting "very soon," a source told the mag. Following her search for dancers, Brit enjoyed dinner at the Little Door.
Denise Richards Renewed: Fear not Denise Richards reality show fans (we know you're out there somewhere!) — "It's Complicated," Denise's reality show is returning for a second season, Us Weekly reports. "It's coming back for another season," Denise said at the "Passion for Pink" pre-Emmy luxury suite in LA on Tuesday. "We start filming in a few months." Phew! We were worried there would be a lack of celebrities in the reality TV world.
"Dark Knight" Star Spotted: Aaron Eckhart, who played Harvey Dent and Two Face in this year's biggest blockbuster, "The Dark Knight," was spotted by Access feeling the crunch at the pump at a gas station in Hollywood Wednesday afternoon. The actor looked casual in track pants and a UCLA baseball cap. We can guess which football team Aaron will be rooting for this weekend. Go Bruins!
Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft Ads Crt+Alt+Del'ed: It appears the rest of the country was as perplexed and disappointed with the Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates ads as we were — and Microsoft is moving the commercials to the recycle bin, Vallywag.com reports. "All along we said we were having a teaser campaign," a rep for the software giant told Us Weekly. "We're getting ready to start the second phase. This was the plan all along." No word on Justin Long's reaction (the Mac guy), but we're assuming he's making the "I told you so look," right about now.
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Wednesday - 8/21/2013, 3:30am EDT
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Washington (AP) -- An Afghan farmer shot during a massacre in Kandahar Province last year took the witness stand Tuesday against the U.S. soldier who attacked his village, cursing him before breaking down and pleading with the prosecutor not to ask him any more questions.
Haji Mohammad Naim appeared Tuesday in the courtroom at Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Seattle, where a sentencing hearing began for Staff Sgt. Robert Bales in the slayings of 16 civilians killed during pre-dawn raids on two villages on March 11, 2012.
The hearing afforded some victims and relatives their first chance to confront Bales face-to-face.
With a thick gray beard, a turban and traditional Afghan dress, Haji Mohammad Naim testified in his native Pashto through an interpreter, speaking loudly and quickly and frequently waving a finger in the air. He pointed to where he was shot in the cheek and neck.
"This bastard stood right in front of me!" he said. "I wanted to ask him, 'What did I do? What have I done to you?'... And he shot me!"
Bales pleaded guilty in June to avoid the death penalty. Now the six jurors must decide whether he is sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole or without it.
Naim, who is about 60 years old, said he has suffered from numbness in his hand and a stutter since the shooting. He became emotional, often speaking over the interpreter, as prosecutor Lt. Col. Jay Morse asked what it was like to have someone come into his home uninvited. He eventually stood up and said he'd had enough: "Don't ask me any more questions!"
The prosecutor asked him for one more favor: to sit down and see whether the defense attorneys had any questions for him. He complied, but Bales' lawyers said they didn't need to ask him anything.
Naim's two sons, Sadiquallah, who is about 13, and the older Faizullah, also testified.
Sadiquallah spoke quietly, responding with a simple "yes" when asked if he cried about being shot. Faizullah, who was not at home during the attack, said his father has trouble picking up even simple objects because his hand is so weak.
Seven Afghans testified. Four were hurt in the attacks. Three others were relatives of the dead or wounded.
Among the other victims who testified was a man who goes by the name Samiullah. His teenage son, Rafiullah, was shot in both legs. His daughter, Zardana, survived after being shot in the head.
"He wakes up with nightmares. He thinks the Americans are coming after him," Samiullah said. "Zardana was a bright girl. She was shot in the head. Half her brain is missing. She is no longer the same person."
Earlier, Morse told the jury that Bales felt "inadequate as a soldier and as a man" when he left his remote post in Afghanistan in the middle of the night and attacked two mud-walled villages, gunning down men, screaming children and elderly women.
He opened the government's case by reading a 32-page "stipulation of facts" -- an unbearably gruesome recitation of Bales' actions that night, describing how he executed a young girl who was screaming for him to stop beating her father, how he fired indiscriminately into rooms full of children and how he slaughtered 11 members of a single family, many of them still asleep on their blankets.
"The accused placed his weapon on 'burst' and murdered everyone in the room," Morse said.
Offering the most detailed single account yet of the attack, Morse recounted the killings compound-by-compound and room-by-room, describing at one point how a widow was left clutching bits of her husband's skull when the killer finally left. Bales looked away as prosecutors displayed pictures of some of his bloodied victims.
Bales, a 39-year-old Ohio native and father of two from Lake Tapps, Wash., was serving his fourth combat deployment when he left the outpost at Camp Belambay in the pre-dawn darkness. He first attacked one village, returning to Belambay only when he realized he was low on ammunition, Morse said.
He then woke a fellow soldier, described his actions and said he was headed out to kill more. The other soldier didn't believe him and went back to sleep. Bales left again.
The massacre prompted such angry protests that the U.S. temporarily halted combat operations in Afghanistan, and it was three weeks before Army investigators could reach the crime scene.
At the time, Bales had been under heavy personal, professional and financial stress, Morse said. He had complained to other soldiers that his wife was fat and unattractive and said he'd divorce her except that her father had money. He had stopped paying the mortgage on one of his houses because it was assessed at $60,000 less than he paid for it, and he was upset that he had not been promoted.


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Will Watanabe finds himself in the crosshairs once again. He shoots, legally, in a homemade range in his back yard. This time, though, he is the target in an Island County Commission meeting room.
Watanabe fires off his guns less than 200 feet from the home of his neighbor, Jack Lyons. Lyons is a veteran and an NRA member, but shooting in a residential neighborhood triggered him to ask County Commissioners to designate certain communities no shooting zones.
I believe the 2nd amendment gives us the right to bear arms, but not to shoot anywhere we want, Lyons told KING 5. This is just too dangerous.
Scores of homes in Lyons s neighborhood could be considered within the line of fire, but Island County Sheriff Mark Brown has deemed the range safe.
This is just the latest salvo in an intensifying battle over gun rights in Island County, and across the country.
Armed with the outrage from the Newtown school shootings, gun opponents have seized the opportunity to push for stricter gun control laws, but have been met with fierce opposition. In Oak Harbor last month, the city council overturned an ordinance banning guns in local parks when a passionate, persuasive, not to mention pistol packing crowd made their feelings public at a council meeting. Many said they were inspired by defiant remarks made at the time by NRA president Wayne LaPierre.
At the Island County Commission meeting on Wednesday, members told the crowded room that they didn t have the resources to pursue the gun issue at this time, with other, more pressing financial issues on the table. They refused to move the issue to a council vote, killing it.
I can t imagine how someone would be opposed to this, said Lyons. It s about keeping people safe.
Lyons also believes a climate of cooperation has been co-opted by extremists.
Personally, when I was going around gathering signatures on petitions, I was followed. After I did my first interview with KING 5 I got intimidating phone calls three minutes after the interview ended.
Will Watanabe was there for the decision, as well.
Good prevails, he said.
Watanabe maintains this issue is about property rights, not gun rights, adding it's simply about common sense.
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A proposal to restrict shooting in neighborhoods goes on the firing line in Island County. The idea has support from both NRA members and gun opponents, but it remains a divisive issue.
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Heidi Klum's marriage to Seal might be over, but that doesn't mean she's just moping around the house.
On Wednesday, the supermodel mom of four got back to work, stepping out for the first time since she and her hubby of seven years called it quits.
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During a sit down with CNN's Piers Morgan airing Friday, the Grammy winner revealed that he wouldn't totally rule out reconciliation with Klum. "Never say never," he said candidly.
As for why he's still wearing his wedding ring? "Because I'm still married to this incredible woman," he said. "And you don't all of a sudden one day to the next—unless you're those type of people—just say I hate you and take off your wedding ring. What this means to me and what it stands for, it stands for respect. It stands for loyalty, it stands for incredible memories and it stands for these four little miracles and Heidi making five that have come into my life over the past eight years."
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