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So I got an email last week from a 15 year old girl named Logan who wanted to start a food blog. She sounded sufficiently crazy, keen and well-versed in the ways of the blogosphere; a perfect candidate for her own online forum. (And hey, is that a photo of her with Paula Deen?) She called it Teen Culinarian– cute, don't you think? And she's already doling out some good advice. Her second post tackles cranberry, orange scones with pecans, which I rook as as good an excuse as any to bake scones on a Sunday morning. You know, not for my sake, but as a personal favour to a friend. You know how it is. Splitting them open and dragging them across the block of butter because all the knives were in the dishwasher – I only do that for people I really like.
Of course I had no oranges and was out of pecans, so lemon-walnut it was. When I add any sort of citrus zest to scones I like to add it along with the butter, which I typically blitz into the flour in a food processor (not necessary, but keeps the butter cold by virtue of not being touched by warm hands). When dough is sticky like this, I pat it out into a circle on a baking sheet, cut it into wedges and then gently pull them apart before baking – that way you don't gum up your cookie cutter.
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2 cups all-purpose flour (or half all-purpose, half whole wheat)
1/4 cup sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1/3 cup butter, chilled
grated zest of a lemon
1 large egg
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup cold milk
a handful each of dried cranberries and chopped walnuts
Preheat the oven to 375F. In a large bowl (or in the bowl of a food processor), sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Add the butter and zest and pulse in the food processor or mix with a pastry blender, fork or your fingers until well blended with pieces no bigger than the size of a pea.
In a measuring cup, whisk together the milk, egg, and vanilla. Add to the flour/butter mixture and stir with a spatula until almost combined; add the cranberries and walnuts and stir just until you have a soft dough.
Pat out into a circle that is about 1″ thick on your baking sheet; if you like, brush the top with milk and/or sprinkle with coarse sugar. Cut with a biscuit cutter or cut into wedges with a knife and pull each one apart slightly to allow them room to bake. Bake for about 15 minutes, or until pale golden.
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Hey all,
I need some help figgerin' this out. On my site, I have a page with links to other pages within the site. Before those links take you to the pages they point to, I want ya'll to log in first. Then after you've logged in, you will go to the page. I can handle the login page and checking a session object to see if login is true or not, but what I can't seem to figger out is how do I know which page ya'll clicked on. If you click on link A and login is false, I can force you to login in and do response.sendRedirect("linkA") but what if you click on link C? response.sendRedirect("linkA") isn't right anymore. How do I figger this out?
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Use Form based authentication. It manages this for you.
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While using Form Based Authentication is a quick and easy solution, I don't always find it the best solution. Specifically, I try and make most of my webapps run in any container (
, Resin, etc). And most vendors Form Based Authentication mechanisms differe slightly. Usually just in how it is configured.
For what you want to do, the process goes like this...
User clicks link that requires login
requested page is stored in the session
user redirected to login page
upon successful authentication, user redirected to page from session
I usually use a ServletFilter to process such things. I typically call it a SecurityFilter and it handles who gets to where in my application.
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User clicks link that requires login
requested page is stored in the session
user redirected to login page
upon successful authentication, user redirected to page from session
That's kinda how I had it thought out. I guess my brain is having trouble with the page stored in session and getting it out of session bit. If it is a link and you click on it, how do you store that and send the user somewhere else? For some reason I just don't get that part.
Does each page need to have a check for login and if false redirect to login page and then return or does the main page immediately go to the login page (no matter what link was clicked on) and check for login and if successful or true redirect to linked page?
It can't be this difficult, my gray matter is just sleeping today.
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Actually, if you want transparent access control, it's not the presentation part that's of concern, it's the authentication framework. In other words, what's really meant here is Container Based Authentication being used with an authentication Form as opposed to a Dialog or other request for credentials.
And, as far as this being server-dependent, container-based authentication is part of the
standard as expressed in the schema (formerly DTD) for web.xml. I know of no modern server, be it simple (Tomcat, Jetty) or full (WebLogic,
, WebSphere or JOnAS) where you would be obliged to make any mods to the deployable
when you ported the app.
Different appservers have different ways (often multiple ways) to configure the container's authorization configuration, but that's an operational concern, not a software design consideration.
As a matter of fact, at the moment I'm in the process of converting our apps from container-based database security to container-based Active Directory security. The only changes that I've been forced to make to the apps are those where the original design used foreign keys on the application schema to refer to user definition tables now being replaced with LDAP entries. Which would be an issue whether we'd used container security, wrapper security (filters), or security coded internal to the apps.
I do make one qualification to this assertion. In Tomcat4, I discovered that it wasn't a good idea to include external references (CSS, graphics, etc) on the login forms themselves, since the diverter wasn't handling them properly. So my login pages are all self-contained.
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New York Yacht Club Invitational Regatta is to be held in Newport, Rhode Island, USA from Sunday 11 September to Saturday 17 September 2011. Royal Cape Yacht Club, Cape Town, South Africa is proud to announce its entry in the prestigious event.
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This highly competitive regatta, presented by Rolex, has attracted 22 entries from 15 countries on six continents and represents the top Yacht Clubs from around the world. It will be sailed on identical Swan 42 yachts supplied by NYYC and crewed by Corinthian (non-professional) sailors only.
'This invitation is a great honour for RCYC ' said Commodore John Martin. 'I am very proud to be leading the specially selected Team who we believe have an excellent chance of a podium finish.'
'The Team headed by seasoned sailors who have achieved internationally, include Dave Hudson, Olympic Campaigner and well placed in all events in which he participates; Nicholas Mace, winner of most major Offshore events and Hylton Hale winner of numerous SA Hobie Cat Championships and other Offshore events.'
'With Martin Lamprecht, Gui Verhovert, Gary Sindler, Colin Whitehead, Carl Richter and Nic Baigrie aboard, this team pose a formidable challenge and we are all very excited and motivated to take part in this glamorous event.'
'We are also very pleased to announce that Wadi Xayimpi, one of our stars from the Izivunguvungu Sailing Development Programme, will be included in the Team. Izivunguvungu is a sailing school, funded by RCYC and others, dedicated to developing the youth in sailing.'
Under the guidance of Springbok Sailor, Rick Nankin, the team have been training hard over the past months, aboard Windpower, a yacht very similar to the Swan 42.
Said Martin: 'At the eleventh hour, I was able to put a naming rights sponsor together from African Access Holdings (Pty) Ltd. This is a wholly owned Black Empowerment Company who have acknowledged the work we at RCYC, Isivunguvungu, Race Ahead and others are doing for Youth Development Sailing and the transformation in this sport.'
'We are delighted to welcome African Access aboard for this prestigious event.'
'Their gesture epitomises how, since 1994, we have grown together not only in this Sport, but in our country and we shall utilise this opportunity to the maximum to market our country internationally.'
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|Researchers now recognize that affluent youth experience tremendous achievement pressures, yet contributing factors or outcomes are rarely explored. Using a sample of affluent adolescents, the present study investigates the mediating role of goal orientation (GO) on relations between school motivational climate (MC) and adolescent adjustment. Adolescents from four high schools completed measures of MC (i.e., Performance and Mastery), GO (i.e., Ego and Task), and adjustment (i.e., depressive symptoms, anxiety, and life satisfaction). Performance climates were associated with more adjustment problems while Mastery climates were associated with fewer adjustment problems. Adolescents with higher Ego orientation reported more depressive and anxiety symptoms, while adolescents with higher Task orientation indicated fewer depressive symptoms and greater life satisfaction. Adolescent Task orientation mediated the relations between Mastery climate and two adjustment outcomes (i.e., depressive symptoms and life satisfaction). Results suggest the importance of non-competitive achievement-oriented values and collaborative school contexts in adolescent adjustment.
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A Vernal businesswoman has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for pretending her 4-year-old daughter was suffering from cancer in order to collect cash donations.
Abreail Winkler, 30, was charged in August in 8th District Court with one count of third-degree felony communications fraud, which is punishable by up to five years in prison.
Winkler on Wednesday pleaded guilty to a lesser class A misdemeanor count of communications fraud and asked to be sentenced immediately.
Judge Edwin Peterson placed the woman on probation for two years. In addition to the jail time, Winkler must complete counseling and pay a $1,000 fine. The issue of restitution has been left open.
Winkler collected $3,183 from fundraisers and private donations, which well-wishers expected would help cover the young girl's medical expenses, according to court documents.
Instead, Winkler, who owns the business Tenacious Clothing, told police she used the money to pay her own bills.
Police have said Winkler told them she made up the cancer diagnosis to get the attention of a man, but "things got out of hand," according to court documents.
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Parliament - Government will decide by September whether Eskom will receive a cash injection or further guarantees, Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown said on Tuesday.
An inter-governmental task team had come up with several options for Eskom's financial problems, she told Parliament's portfolio committees on energy and public enterprises.
"They have come up with 13 different scenarios. I'm saying bring us two scenarios... of what is more possible for Eskom," Brown said on the sidelines of the meeting.
"Is it a public sector injection into Eskom or is it a relook at the funding model of Eskom. All of this must happen before September because September is when the credit ratings agencies will come along and they will be either downgrading Eskom and the country then, or they will be saying we're okay."
Eskom has been asking for an equity injection of at least R50 billion to solve its cash flow problems.
The power utility on Tuesday painted a gloomy picture of its books, telling MPs it faced a R225bn revenue shortfall, partly as a result of being granted lower-than-expected tariff increases by the National Energy Regulator of SA (Nersa).
"During the MYPD3 (multi-year price determination) application we assumed certain sales growth, 2.9 percent, and the reality has been that we have seen quite a significant decline," Eskom finance director Tsholofelo Molefe said.
"If you look at the 2013/14 financial results... we have actually lost over 9000 gigawatt hours which translates to R5.8bn rands of revenue."
Eskom was still awaiting a decision on its application to Nersa to evaluate and approve the regulatory clearing account (RCA) balance for its previous multi-year price determination control period, between April 1, 2010 and March 31, 2013.
The RCA is a regulatory mechanism that allows Eskom to adjust for over-or under-recovery of revenue, as initial price determinations are based on projections and assumptions.
Consumers could see an increase or decrease in the price of electricity as a result of Eskom's submission.
A tariff adjustment alone would not solve Eskom's problems.
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Edinburgh and Glasgow to Islay (3 nights)
We will spend today touring to the Queen of the Hebrides. From Edinburgh we travel westwards to Glasgow, Scotlands largest city. There is sure to be a song in yourt heart as we make our way along the "bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond. Enjoy the wonderful views of Ben Lomond as we travel towards the pretty little villages of Crianlarich and Tyndrum.
See the romantic ruin of Kilchurn Castle on Loch Awe. For centuries the loch was the natural protection for the Campbells of Inveraray against their enemies from the north. We go through the Pass of Brander, where in 1308 Robert the Bruce routed the Clan MacDougal. Watch out for the Falls of Lora as we make our way into Oban, an attractive fishing port that it is situated on the Firth of Lorne. We will have a chance to discover the bustling community for ourselves when we make a stop for lunch.
From Ardrishaig there are fine views over Loch Fyne all the way to pretty Tarbert from where we turn towards West Loch Tarbert. At the port of Kennacraig we board our ferry for our crossing to Islay.
Overnight: Bowmore, Isle of Islay
Days Two and Three
Discovering Islay
The exact itinerary for these days will vary depending on weather, seasonal and natural attractions. Our flexible approach will ensure that you get the very best experience.
The island of Islay (pronounced "eye-la) has always been blessed with nature's bounty - rich farmlands which each autumn witness clouds of geese arriving to winter on the mild pastures. Loch Gruinart in the north is the island's main reserve, with barnacle and white-fronted geese flying in from Greenland. Elsewhere keep your eyes open for golden eagles, seals, otters, whales, dolphins, wild geese, red deer and much more.
Peat is still cut from the mosslands which cover much of the interior, giving the unique flavour to the 'Islay malts' - world-famous whiskies such as Bowmore, Laphroaig and Ardbeg. Well make visits to 3 distilleries so you can watch the production process and, even better, sample their delights!
Islay has a number of traditional villages clinging to the rough Atlantic Coastline, ruined castles, golden beaches and a proud Gaelic culture that extends back over a thousand years. A visit to the Kildalton Cross will transport you back in time more than 1200 years and you will discover the ancient seat of the Lords of the Isles at Finlaggan. Bowmore, Islay's main town, has a unique, round church, said to have been designed to ensure that evil spirits had no corner in which to hide.
With two full days to explore the island, you will be spoilt for choice of things to do.
Day Four
Inveraray and the Rest and be Thankful
Sadly we board our ferry and bid a fond farewell to Islay. On our return to the mainland we will retrace our steps to Lochgilphead then follow the banks of Loch Fyne to Inveraray. This pretty whitewashed town sits in the shadow of Inveraray Castle, the splendid home of the Duke of Argyll, the Chief of the Clan Campbell.
We are in Rob Roy MacGregor country now and as we travel towards the impressive Rest and be Thankful pass there will be stories of cattle rustling and ancient clan rivalries to be told. Our descent will bring us into the Argyll Forest Park and then the little village of Arrochar. A short drive will take us back to Loch Lomond. It has 30 islands and we will get a good views of some of the larger ones as we make our way southwards.
The Kilpatrick Hills will guide us towards Clydebank, the famous shipbuilding town and then Glasgow. Once we have bid farewell to our friends who are leaving us here we travel across Scotland to Edinburgh and the end of our tour.


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Clinton Church of God to hold fish fries
The Clinton Church of God, 640 Buchanan Road, will hold its annual fish fries from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday and March 15. The dinner includes a delicious fish sandwich and choice of two sides. The sides are coleslaw, macaroni and cheese, pierogies, cabbage and noodles, and green beans. Tickets are $8 each. Extra sides will be available for $1. Buy an extra fish sandwich for only $4.50. You can eat in or takeouts are available. For tickets, call Charlie Hall at 724-455-1073, Ken Layman at 724-455-3280 or Keith Richter at 724-455-3485. All are welcome.
The Cook Township Community Center auction will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday at 1698 Route 711 in Stahlstown. There will be lots of antiques this week. The kitchen will be open, so come hungry. It's a nice evening of family fun.
The Bullskin Opry will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday in the Wooddale Grange, 938 Pleasant Valley Road in Bullskin Township. This is on Route 982 between Laurelville and Connellsville. Doors open at 6 p.m. Food and drink will be for sale. Jam session will be downstairs and the stage upstairs. Springtime Hill Barn Band will be hosting this event and providing the sound. For more information or to schedule bands, call 724-455-3919.
Little League sign-up for Springfield Township will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday for one day only in the Mill Run fire hall.
The Normalville Volunteer Fire Department will sell hoagies on Saturday at the intersection in Normalville.
The Saltlick Township Volunteer Fire Department will hold a Hunter's Banquet from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday in the Donegal Community Center, 113 Community Center Lane. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. Twenty-five guns will be given away. Tickets are $20 and can be purchased from a firefighter or a local business.
The Kecksburg Volunteer Fire Department, 5128 Water St. in Mt. Pleasant, will hold an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday. The cost is $6 for adults, $3 for children and free for children 4 and younger. For more information, call 724-423-9540.
Come have some old-fashioned buckwheat cakes or pancakes, sausage, home fries, eggs, cold drink, and coffee from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 9 in the Mill Run firehouse, 755 Mill Run Road. All the cakes you care to eat will be available. The cost is $8 per person. Benefits go to the Springfield Township Volunteer Hose Company.
The Normalville Volunteer Fire Department Ladies' Auxiliary will hold the following events at the fire hall, 3387 Springfield Pike in Normalville. For more information, call 724-455-6510 or 724-455-2477.
• Enjoy a fish lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 8 and 15. The cost will be: fish lunch, $6.25; chicken lunch, $6.25; fish sandwich, $3.25; chicken strips, $3.25; macaroni and cheese, $2; coleslaw, $1. Eat-in or takeout will be available.
• A basket bingo will be held March 17. Doors open at 1 p.m., and bingo starts at 2 p.m. Admission is $5, and extra cards are $1 each. A light lunch will be served.
• The Ladies' Auxiliary will hold a fish dinner from 4 to 7 p.m. March 22 in the fire hall. The cost will be $8 for adults and $4 for children. A choice of fish or chicken planks will be available. Eat-in or takeout.
• Bring your dogs and cats to a rabies clinic from 1:30 to 3 p.m. March 30. The cost is $8 per animal. Parvovirus shots are available for dogs for $10.
• Come try your luck at a cash bash April 13 in the fire hall in Normalville, 3387 Springfield Pike. Doors open at 5 p.m., and the bash will be held from 6 to 10 p.m. Tickets are $20; see any firefighter for tickets or call 724-455-6510 or 724-455-3509. The bash benefits the Normalville and Saltlick Township volunteer fire departments.
Mt. Zion Christian Academy in Acme (behind Bear Rocks Community) has opened enrollment for the 2013-14 school year. The school is taking registrations for students entering grades K-12 this fall. Some financial assistance is available. Information can be found on the school website at www.mtzionacme.org or by calling 724-547-3028 during business hours.
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The combination of salty, sweet, crunchy, and smooth gives these confections a special place in my heart. That, added to the fact that they made an appearance at every bridge and mahjongg game my mother ever hosted, elevates their status to serious nostalgia food. You can find cans of Chinese chow-mein noodles in the Asian food section of the supermarket. The ones you want are cooked and ready to eat like crackers.
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Believe what all the other reviewers say. The chocolate gets hard so fast you can't mix it with the other ingredients. Don't make it.
argh, what a waste of 2 lbs of chocolate! i too wish i had read the reviews before trying this recipe. i tried twice to melt the chocolate and it seized both times. i have successfully melted chocolate before and have no idea why it seized both times. the butter quantity? i would not recommend this recipe to anyone.
This recipe made me feel like a complete idiot. I am a decent cook and should have paid attention to the other reviews - everything was going fine until the chocolate turned hard. We panicked - added more butter (didn't help), and eventually added milk to thin it out some. Now I have disgusting looking lumps of chocolate covered stuff that won't set up and hold together. SO frustrating.
I am known around the office as a good baker but I did not have good luck with this recipe at all. I made two separate batches and on both, the chocolate completely seized up, just like MissizSherman mentioned. I had to add several more tablespoons of butter to get it somewhat useable. I was very disappointed and will not make this recipe again.
I am known as a good baker around the office but I made two batches of these and both times, the chocolate seized up. It was very frustrating to make. I will look for another recipe similar to this one but will never make these again. The clumps I ended up with are edible but not up to my normal standards.
I made these with blanched slivered almonds, which I toasted, instead of peanuts, and would try them next time with mini pretzel sticks instead of the noodles to try to cut out the rather impressive amount of partially hydrogenated oils. Taste-wise, these are great. But -- did anyone else find their chocolate turned into a big hard ball instead of actually melting? I'm a fairly seasoned cook, and I didn't know what to make of this!
These could not be any easier. I will try them next time with milk chocolate chips. These would be great to make with children, too!
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Wizards expecting to see 'a different John Wall'
High school honors Wizards guard Bradley Beal
The Wizards open training camp Sept. 29, but most of the 15-man roster already has gone to work at Verizon Center. Coach Randy Wittman recently talked to CSN Washington about the task ahead for a team that only won 29 games last season and hasn't made the playoffs since 2008 but is expecting a turnaround.
Thursday's key question: Which player will show the most growth for the 2013-14 season?
Wittman: "John (Wall) has had another good summer. I see him not only physically, on the court, but I think his maturity is at another level. People forget how old John is (23). Going through what he's gone through this summer, his work in becoming a better player, his contract, the responsibility of that I've been really pleased with his development. I see a different John Wall.
"Kevin (Seraphin) is a more confident person in himself right now. He's had two years where he's played. Once you realize and believe that you belong, you carry yourself differently. I noticed that in him. Bradley (Beal) has had a really good summer. He was a little disappointed in the amount he missed having to sit through the first part of the summer to get him healthy (because of a stress injury to his lower right leg). He had a great July and August. Emeka (Okafor) was in town just about every day working on his body. There was a lot of good things we were able to accomplish and we still have time to. ... (Otto) Porter has no hamstring issues. He's been full-go the last three weeks. Martell (Webster) and is great. He's been back here since the third week of August and he's been a full-go. No problem with the (abdominal) strain. I expect a fully competitive training camp."
Wednesday's take: Vesely's off-season form gives Wizards hope
Tuesday: This is how Harrington opens up the floor
Monday: Full-speed ahead with Nene


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Work began on extending the canal westward from Lowtown in 1789. The company had already
experienced problems with a section of bog on the Barrow Line at Ballyteague and there had
been some discussion of how to tackle the Bog of Allen. William Chapman had suggested to the
directors that it was important to have the level of the canal sufficiently below the surface to
allow for subsidence, which was completely opposite to the views expressed some years earlier
by John Smeaton, who was acting as consultant engineer to the company at the time. He had
recommended: "Avoid a bog if you can, but by all means possible, the going deep into it". In
other words he said the canal should be driven through the bog at the existing level.
Smeaton's advice was followed and it fell to his pupil, William Jessop, who took over as
consultant engineer to the company, to oversee the work. No centre channel was dug out
initially but two parallel drains on either
side, leaving a centre pyramidal core to
be taken out as drainage occurred.
Transverse drains were also opened
up gradually. What Chapman had
predicted happened: the water drained
from the bog into the channels, which
subsided on either side of the line of
the canal and, with the surface of the
water in the canal at the original level
of the bog, they were left with large
unstable embankments. Travelling
across this part of the canal today, you
can observe the original level of the
canal some distance away, with the
subsided area in between on either
side of the canal.
When these first canals were built it was done with human endeavour, being prior to any mechanical steam assistance. The work was mainly undertaken by small private companies, an amalgamation being Henry, Mullins and McMahon (1808). Some perspective on the manpower required is taken from the 1790 workforce of 3,944 men on the Grand canal alone. (Figure taken from 'Industrial Ireland 1750-1930' by Colin Rynne).
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Baseball is back, and with it comes another season of Thirsty Thursdays at Asheville's McCormick Field ballpark, when draft beers are just a buck for national brands and $2 for craft brews.
The year's first Thirsty Thursday is April 21, but the Asheville Tourists ballclub and Highland Brewing are turning on the taps early this week.
A Thirsty Thursday kickoff party happens 5-9 p.m. Thursday at the Highland Tasting room, 12 Old Charlotte Highway.
This bash includes almost everything except the grand old game including $2 beers, $2 ballpark food specials, a T-shirt giveaway to the first 100 visitors and a special Thirsty Thursday ticket package ($50 for all 10 Thursday games, a real steal).
It's also a chance to see the new Tourists uniforms. What a cool way to open up the season.
Going, going
Tickets are selling fast for the second annual Beer City brew festival, June 4 at Pack Square Park. More than 1,100 tickets have been sold, leaving fewer than 900.
Sales are much faster than for last year's debut Beer City festival, which sold out.
Tickets are $40 and available only at the area breweries no online sales this year.
Get details on the bands and participating breweries at www.ashevillebrewersalliance.com/beer-city-festival.
Getting it brewed
Meanwhile, brewing slots are also about gone for the Just Brew It craft beer festival, May 1 on Pack Square Park. Fewer than 10 brewer slots are still open for this celebration of homebrewed beer.
At last count, five local breweries have agreed to make one of the winning beers at the festival, and assortment of prizes will be awarded.
To attend, you must join Just Economics of WNC for $16. Learn more at http://justeconomicswnc.org.
Meet the Masters
The new Asheville Beer Masters tournament hosts its first qualifying round at 6 p.m. Monday at the Mellow Mushroom, 50 Broadway St. It's a fun way to test your beer knowledge. Some of the questions will be easy, and some will be tougher.
Qualifying rounds will continue in April at such spots as Jack of the Wood, the Thirsty Monk, the Universal Joint, Brixx Pizza, Barley's and Pack's Tavern.
The competition is open to just about everyone (exceptions include brewery and beer distributorship owners).
Learn more at the Asheville Beer Masters page on Facebook.


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Minutes from May 10, 2004 – CDGC Club meeting:
Ralph Vickers, Bill Jacobson, Sam Nicholson, Dave Marchant, Doug Singleton and
the lovely, Rob Kelly, Wit, Joy4lly, Barry Luker, Kelli McClerin, Todd Stewart,
Zeb Campbell, Alan Beaver
1) Club Officers:
Voted on and approved unanimously.
2) $am 'Money Bag$' Nichol$on'$ update:
$1219.55 in the bank after all is said and done
3) World's Biggest: Weather and Park Watch conspired against us but it was still
a break-even event financially.
We now need to jump through the hoops of government to be able to hawk any
merchandise for any reason at the parks – even fund raisers and charity. Alan
Beaver (big wig in Parks & Rec) will be a big asset in this. Alan also suggested
that Parks & Rec suggested the club getting a $1M insurance policy for our
events. PDGA events have their own insurance.
4) Courses Updates:
Kilborne 8 short collar still damaged. Other than that, all pins will be in the
short for the Iron Man event this Saturday – I am not sure these guys really
want to be true ironmen :
Sugaw – Parks & Rec are cleaning up this Sat.
Squirrel Lake – Ralph is meeting with them this Wednesday. Hopefully progress
will be made.
5) Membership: Gold Membership has been bumped to $40 from $35 due to price of
fundraiser candy plastic that is included.
6) Points Bonanza:
Due to higher fees and payout thresholds per event set by the PDGA, all events
will be C-Tier. We were hoping for B-Tier for Sat & Sun, but we do not want to
price the event out of many people's range.
Lots of discussion about fund raising and sponsorship. That will be formalized
in an email and sent out to the club mailing list.
7) Disc Golfers for Cancer – 24 hr Charity Event
We will be hosting. Dave Marchant is point man/TD. Potentially will be held 7/24.


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Consistency, like this foul ball, has been just out of reach for Hideki Matsui, the Yankees and their fans so far this season.
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The room at the house in Ossining provides an XL-sized, 50-inch flat-screen view of their beloved Yankees. So there are times when Cheryl Lavery, the husband Shawn, the teenage son Colin, and the two teen daughters, Jessica and Melissa, will all gather around to watch.
"And the dog," Cheryl said.
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Ray Sherman departure first sign that Jason Garrett does have final say on staff
Jerry Jones' declaration that Jason Garrett will have final say on what form his staff takes was hailed by some and greeted with skepticism by others who have trouble believing the owner will ever step back in these matters.
Well, we don't have to wait for the defensive coordinator hire to see that Garrett does have control over who will be working for him.
The decision not to retain Ray Sherman as wide receivers coach was Garrett's all the way. Three days after Sherman spent three hours in Jones' office to interview for the head coaching vacancy, Garrett called Sherman into his office for a much shorter meeting to let him know his contract would not be renewed.
Sherman did a good job with the receivers and had a good rapport with all of them. He was well liked. There was no obvious conflict between Garrett and Sherman.
But Garrett wants to put his stamp on this organization. One of the first steps in that process is the composition of the coaching staff. You can't put your stamp on anything if every time an assistant's contract comes up, you renew it.


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Kirk Walden of Nashville, Tenn., will be the keynote speaker. Walden is a former crisis pregnancy center director, a sports writer and professional golfer. He also was a single father for nine years. The program includes a presentation by an Ark-La-Tex Crisis Pregnancy Center client.
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Cutting to the chase. From The Telegraph:
Criminal law is not the appropriate means to preserve a social taboo," the German Ethics Council said in a statement. "The fundamental right of adult siblings to sexual self-determination is to be weighed more heavily than the abstract idea of protection of the family."
Essentially the German Ethics Council wants to get rid of the laws which ban incest between brothers and sisters, and while I'm not sure what the full scope of the Council encompasses, it sounds like it is a major factor when it comes to determining a society's mores. And the reason I bring it up here is because what happens in Europe eventually makes it's way to the US. We shouldn't be shocked because conservatives have been warning about this for years and Erick reminds us we will be made to care.
Notice the term sexual self-determination in that quote. It is the justifying argument which has allowed the LGBT movement to entrench itself into every aspect of our lives from schools, to jobs, to the sanctity of marriage. We are expected to no longer ignore it but accept and, in fact, embrace it. Many conservatives argued if society demonstrates approval of behavior of gays then we have started on a slippery slope. What next? Incest, bestiality, pedophilia, necrophilia, and on and on.
But NO, the LGBT community was quick to point out. Just because they wanted to be with their lovers did not mean everyone should go meet up in the barn with their little pony. No, the gay community is just about consenting adults not all those 'other' things. Conservatives were blowing things out of proportion.
Well, apparently sibling lovers want their time in the sunshine now. They want to be recognized. They want us to care. And really its just a hop from brother and sister to brother and brother and, of course, parent to child. And since it is only the tip of the slope this conservative maintains we will slide down into accepting the pedophilia relationships and bestiality involving partners that are unable to make ( or voice) a knowledgeable decision about the arrangement.
But take heart, we do have a few good soldiers fighting in this matter. According to the article. Angela Merkel's Christian Democrat Party has suggested the government there was " unlikely to adopt" the council's recommendation. That's good. Now we just have to pray they stay in power for a very long time.
If you go to the telegraph article you can get synopses of the cases which brought the issue of incest to the Council's attention. Thank you for reading this. Now back to the war.
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If you crave a big orchestral sound, the Albany Symphony is going to deliver one this weekend in two concerts at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall.
The program for both shows is titled Bach's Magnificat, and will featured the combined forces of the ASO and Albany Pro Musica, the "Capital Region's preeminent choral ensemble." In addition to the magisterial Bach piece, the ASO/APM combo will perform John Corigliano's Fern Hill (a setting of the Dylan Thomas poem) and a symphony by Haydn.
Albany Symphony Orchestra and friends will perform Saturday (Oct. 13) at 7:30 PM and Sunday (Oct. 14) at 3 PM at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall (2nd and State streets, Troy). For ticket prices and reservations, call the ASO at 694-3300.


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by Deb Bataller, CBN Asia
James Nablo used to walk away from God. Not knowing his life's purpose, he walked farther and farther away from his purpose and destiny. Yet after all his rebellious acts, there's one thing he proved: He can't escape God.
His Rebel Years
James grew up in a Christian environment. His aunt, a Born-Again Christian, raised James and became his guardian. Since both his parents could not take care of him, James had no one but his aunt.
"My aunt is a dedicated worker in church, and she would get me involved in activities like vacation Bibles schools, the music team, and the arts team. At an early age, I was already exposed to Christian values and teachings," he said.
But as he grew older, being in church became a half-hearted obligation. Although he was involved in different ministries, he was looking for something else. James could not find true service in the activities he was doing, and so he started going out of the church's covering and tried exploring other things.
"I became so stubborn and rebellious. I started disobeying my aunt and the church, and eventually I ran away. I found all the worldly things. My life became a mess, a total wreck. Instead of finding my purpose, I found disorder and confusion."
But God did not forget James. He still has a calling to fulfill.
A New Direction
One night, after getting drunk in a party, James suddenly felt meaningless and worthless. As he was walking home, he thought of ending his life by jumping off a bridge.
That was his plan. But God had another plan in mind.
"While I was thinking of jumping off the bridge, I suddenly heard a couple of young people singing 'One way, Jesus! You're the only one that I could live for.' I was taken aback. While these kids are praising God, here I was, doing the opposite."
That night, God saved James from death and even revealed to him a part of his wonderful plan for his life.
"Together with the young people I met that night, I went to their church to attend a Bible study. At first, I was just looking around, eyeing pretty girls," he confessed. "But as soon as the message of the pastor ended, I found myself in tears. That unforgettable night, May 7, 1996, I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior, and I committed my life to Him."
James at Present
After that night, God did so many wonderful things in James' life. He found a new life and a new beginning in Christ. He is now one of the students attending the mobile Missionary Training Program (MTP) being conducted by Asian Center for Missions (ACM) in Lucena.
With a heart close to the young generation, James's heart is to help the youth know and find Christ in their lives, just like how he found Him.
"My heart is geared towards the young people, especially in places where the Gospel is scarce. I want to help the youth dedicate and surrender their lives to Christ, and ACM is helping me achieve that goal through MTP."
He added, "Through this training, I am learning how to develop more of myself as a missionary inside and out. The lessons are very applicable and meaningful. I now understand more how it is like to be a missionary in relevance to the mission works that I have been doing. I am expecting the experience more about my calling to be in the field, because I know that one of my roles as a Filipino is to fulfill the Great Commission. ACM and its MTP have been very helpful to me. They are God's instruments for me to discover more of his perfect plans."
Being a missionary is not an easy task for James. But he decided to take the call and follow wherever God will lead him.
"Now that I have discovered my purpose in life, I just let God's will be done. I am on my way towards fulfilling the Great Commission, and God is definitely preparing me."
James is currently the youth pastor of Atimonan Good News Church. He is also finishing the MTP and is praying for the country where God will lead to Him to minister.
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Andrew Stolper, Former Federal Prosecutor, Fends Off Critics of His Litigation-Finance Firm
Andrew Stolper eyes the foam running down the glass of the craft beer he just took a swig from at the SideDoor in Corona del Mar as he launches into an explanation of his noble experiment.
The former federal prosecutor and his ex-FBI agent business partner recently opened Crux Capital, a new Irvine litigation-finance firm.
What is litigation finance? Imagine you own a small company that was screwed royally by a large corporation. You want to go to court to right that wrong, but the cost may be prohibitive because the corporation has legal teams that, even if they can't beat you on the case's merits, they can drag the proceedings out for years to bleed you dry financially and make you go away worse off than when you started.
Litigation-finance firms, which are relatively new to the United States, can look at your case, judge its merits and invest in your legal team in exchange for a percentage of a jury award or financial settlement. Conceptually, Stolper tells me, litigation finance is an old idea that has been practiced with gusto the past 25 years in the United Kingdom and Australia. He believes it can help level the playing field in court and lead to more justice.
But the United States Chamber of Commerce is pushing back hard to stop litigation finance from flourishing here. Lisa Rickard, president of the U.S. Chamber's Institute for Legal Reform, tells the Weekly her office is calling for "commonsense safeguards to prevent third-party financing from undermining our justice system."
Interestingly, the U.S. Chamber routinely opposes government regulation of businesses, saying it should be up to industries to police themselves. But Rickard maintains that relying on the legal community to monitor litigation finance "will further turn our courthouses into cash machines while bogging down our legal system in a continuing flood of lawsuits."
"Third-party litigation financing encourages merit-less lawsuits, since one windfall can subsidize many losses, and investors verify a lawsuit's 'jackpot' potential, not its legitimacy," Rickard says.
This is nothing Stolper has not heard before. But he finds it curious the U.S. Chamber, which is supposedly all about protecting small businesses, is essentially siding with big corporations who might've screwed over, say, a mom and pop shop.
"My clients are members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce," Stolper notes. "My clients are not likely to be big businesses. They have their own lawyers. What does the U.S. Chamber have against smaller American businesses?"
Rickard counters that companies like Crux Capital will not help small businesses as advertised.
"At its core, third-party litigation financing is about making money off of the little guy," she claims, "not benefiting him or advancing justice."
Stolper calls it "fair criticism" to fret about more junk cases clogging our courts, but he adds the idea behind Crux Capital is not to generate more litigation only to help offset mounting legal costs.
Now that Crux Capital is up and running full-time, Stolper and partner Peter Norell are dealing less with critics than they are potential investors and hedge fund managers. Anyone can invest but that won't give you a vote in which cases Crux Capital gets behind, Stolper notes.
"They are betting on us to make the right calls"--or, to put it in baseball terms, those investments will reap dividends overall if Stolper and Norell "have one or two outs, five or six doubles and triples and one or two homers."
He is certain that Crux Capital will get behind--now we're switching from round ball to horse racing--the wrong thoroughbred in some situations. The success of his company, he says, will hinge on being right more often than being wrong.
Controversy is not new to Stolper, who left the U.S. Attorney's office in Santa Ana earlier this year.
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Living in Tucson apartments for rent is a smart move for those wanting to live in a scenic and cultural area. Tucson is a beautiful city located just 60 miles of the Mexico border. Four mountain ranges surround the Tucson city as it is located along the Santa Cruz River. Along with the natural grand scenery, Tucson has a variety of gardens and parks in the city. Tucson's largest park is the Reid Park that has the Reid Park Zoo and Hi Corbett Field. Tucson apartments for rent are found throughout the city and near these parks.
Tucson is a word meaning "at the base of the black hill". If wanting to further your education, take a look at the main college in the area, University of Arizona. Tucson has been revitalizing itself with the downtown area divided into districts. The beautiful cityscape includes high rise buildings like the Bank of America Plaza. Residents of Tucson apartments can enjoy their free time at the Art Deco Fox Theater, the Hotel Congress, and St. Augustine Cathedral.
A few other buildings in the downtown area are on the National Register of Historic Places. A day outing could include shopping the 4th Avenue Shopping District and roaming the El Con Mall. The Tucson International Airport sees many visitors in and out of the city and is a transportation hub for the area. If you're having visitors over, you can show them the great city sites while housing them in your Tucson apartment.