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Sandoval joins elite company with 3-HR game"We played our last game only two days ago," Sandoval said. "We're still hot. Of those, Sandoval is the only one to homer in his first three at-bats of the game. Sandoval added a single in the seventh inning to improve to 4-for-4 on the night. Sandoval an… (more)Source: ESPN.com
What a break: Sandoval's bat headed to HallPablo Sandoval said after Game 1 that he broke his bat after his second of three consecutive home runs. The white Marucci bat was in a sleeve and headed for the Hall of Fame, the second time this season Sandoval has given up a bat to Cooperstown, along …Source: MLB.com
Sandoval's 3 homers lead Giants to Game 1 winPablo Sandoval hit three home runs and joined Reggie Jackson, Babe Ruth and Albert Pujols as the only sluggers to do it in the Series, and the Giants jolted Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tigers 8-3 on Wednesday night in Game 1.Source: ESPN.com
World Series Game 1: Giants thump Tigers 8-3 behind Pablo Sandoval and Barry ZitoScore and situation: Paced by Pablo Sandoval's historic performance, the San Francisco Giants struck first off Justin Verlander and struck often on their way to an overpowering 8-3 win over the Detroit Tigers in the World Series opener. Leading lads: Th…Source: yahoo.com
Pablo Sandoval And The Giants Rocked Detroit For A Shocking Game 1 WinThere were many predictions being tossed around in the minutes before Game 1's first pitch, but what most folks generally agreed upon was that Tigers ace Justin Verlander would have little-to-no problem with this Giants lineup. By the same token, there …Source: deadspin.com
Sandoval joins Ruth, Reggie, Pujols in Fall Classic loreSAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- San Francisco's Pablo Sandoval became the fourth player to hit three home runs in a World Series game.Source: CNNSI.com
Pablo Sandoval joins short list of men to hit three home runs in one World Series gameSAN FRANCISCO - The Babe, Mr. October, King Albert and now the Kung Fu Panda. Pablo Sandoval improbably joined three baseball immortals on Wednesday night, clubbing home runs in each of his first three at-bats in Game 1 of the World Series. The San FranSources: yahoo.com deadspin.com
Dale Murphy Saw Pablo Sandoval's Homers Last Night And Wished He Had Been Fat When He PlayedThe pudgy Pablo Sandoval spanked lean, mean Justin Verlander during Game 1 of the World Series last night. Fat Ichiro-that's one of his nicknames-hit three home runs. This was improbable. Sandoval hit only 12 all season. Verlander allowed only 19 allSource: deadspin.com


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Shake it real hard now.
Wait til Chip (pun intended!) finds out the Penny's ate half the Pringles. And you can bet Burl will avail himself of the free breath mints. Did the GinkoBilboa go bad or what?
Re: Ginko Biloba, umm, I forget.
Crust Foods is right up there with Customer Service. Free parking from 10 pm until 5 am, always a crowd pleaser. Though sadly, all their courteous checkers except on Saturday have had their jobs sent overseas. (Bain Capital?) But they still have their ideals; they still mark their food either "fresh" or "not." Life is good.
This find it was easy.
I think they put out the Breath Mints FOR the Pennys…..
whenever they see them coming, they hurry to tape up the sign.
Crust Foods is not a generous place, as you can see….
But after a few close encounters with Burl in his normal state, everybody who ever works the customer service desk
was pleased to put in 50 cents to help cover the price of a 10 pound bag.
They do have to warn the new employees …. just put 5 or 6 mints in the dish … otherwise Burl would leave the store 10 pounds heavier.
Burl has probably been saving the broken chips from the last few Pringles containers to put back in this one to complain and get a free can. When it comes to Penny complaining, there is always a devious plan for getting something undeserved for nothing. True customer service scammers, all the stores know the type.
The problem with Pringles is you seldom find one that looks like Jay Leno…. ! ! !
Most look like the Pennys, big beige oval and blank expression with plenty of salt.
Chip should tell him what Mr. Rockwell, the music producer, once told Fred Flintstone (in the infamous episode w/Hoagy Carmichael! Yow!) : "Good! You might find the little pieces easier to chew!"
Do the Pennys chew their snacks? I thought they inhaled them thus the little pieces can cause choking.
I thought for sure Burl would have already had his hand in the free breath mints container. The boy must be slipping as he's so focused on acquiring a new can of Pringles™.
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Members of the Dutch Women's National team were in the IL offices this week. In addition to talking about the future of their national team — they just finished up their first-ever appearance in the U-19 games and will compete in their second World Senior Games in 2013 — Dieke Spitzen, Jessica Stokhof, Marloes Verstegen and Marian Buchly dished on everything from life and lacrosse in Holland and their trip to the United States and more.
What's your best lacrosse skill?
Jessica: Ground balls
Dieke: I'm not sure.
Jessica: Dieke has good stick skills and is good at catching passes that are way off.
Marloes: Roll dodge
Marian: Crease roll
What's your favorite food?
Dieke: Frikandel. It's a food from a snack bar and it's meat and fried. It's fast food and very common.
Jessica: Risotto
Marloes: Boerenkool. It's like mashed potatoes with vegetables in it. It's a typical Dutch thing.
Marian: French fries, Dutch french fries. They're better.
What's your favorite thing about living in Holland?
Dieke: I don't like living in Holland.
Marloes: The beach.
Dieke: I do like the people over there.
Marian: I would say the atmosphere over there.
What's the one piece of lacrosse equipment you can't live without?
Dieke: I just got a new stick — an STX Ntrance
Jessica: Anything by STX. I really love the brand.
Marloes: I have the STX Tilt
What's your favorite band or musician?
Marloes: Guus Meeuwis
Dieke: We have a team song for the Hague team (their club team in Holland). "De Ober"
Jessica: It's translated "The Waiter"
Dieke: It's a weird song but we use it to pump up the team
Jessica: Krezip (a Dutch band)
Favorite vacation destination?
Dieke: Spain
Jessica: Rome or Washington
Marloes: The Phillipines
Marian: San Francisco
Favorite candy?
Dieke: drop (Dutch licorice)
Jessica: Werther's Original
Marloes: Skittles
Marian: lollipop
Who's your favorite athlete?
Jessica: I have a few. Jen Adams. Lance Armstrong. And a Dutch field hockey player, Janneke Schpman. She got hit with a ball in the face and after that they introduced facemasks.
What's your favorite sport outside of lacrosse?
Dieke: I like basketball.
Jessica: I like a lot of sports. Field hockey, but I also like swimming, running and outdoor sports. I like canyoning, which is jumping off rocks.
Marloes: Judo and snowboarding.
Marian: Soccer
What's your biggest fear?
Marloes: Spiders
Marian: Bees
Name something on your bucket list.
Dieke: I want to play in a World Championship and would like to go to Africa and work over there as a nurse. And move to Spain. That's high on my list as well.
Jessica: I want to swim with white sharks in a cage. I would love to do that.
Marian: And after that you will be dead. They will enter and kill you.
Dieke: When you're 80, do it.
Marloes: I want to do a lot of traveling.
Marian: I would like to move here for six months.
What's the coolest thing about the U.S. and the not coolest thing about the U.S.?
Dieke: I think the coolest thing is the lacrosse over here and the attitudes people have toward lacrosse. We met a lot of different people here and I liked the way they talked about lacrosse and they were really open to talk with us about lacrosse and help us. The not so positive thing is the food here. I think my stomach is still hurting.
Jessica: I do like the big portions of food, that's the coolest thing! And being able to bring home a doggie bag. I do not like the openings in the public toilets.
Marloes: I think the lacrosse is the coolest thing and the not coolest thing is the traffic. They drive like crazy.
Marian: I really like the architecture in the cities. And I don't like some people's attitudes. Some people are so nice and then there's a group that's so not nice at all.


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Sound: The long awaited album has come. Steven Wilson's first solo album "Insurgentes" has arrived. Well at least the special deluxe edition, but the retail album will be released in Feb. But getting to the point, this is an amazing album. It has all the professional work you would expect from Steven Wilson, with some of the most experimental work he has done. Fans of Porcupine Tree and Blackfield will look at the Steven Wilson completely differently after looking at the album. The most standard rock song on the album is "Harmony Korine" which gloriously opens the album. After that each song shows off Wilson's many sounds. Backing him the entire album is the amazing drummer Gavin Harrison. The sound of the album would be best described as a mixture of standard rock with drone, ambient and even shoe-gaze. All this brings a totally unique sound to the album which has never been heard by the likes of Porcupine Tree, Blackfield or any other SW project. // 10
Lyrics: Steven Wilson is my favorite vocalist ever. Hands down. His relaxed vocal style fits perfectly within his music. Moving from incredibly warm to oddly creepy and brutal. One odd innovation you'll notice in the music is that sometimes the vocal line will play backup to another idea coming from guitars or other instruments. The lyrics... are sometimes endlessly confusing, but always work well with the music. "Get All You Deserve" shows this perfectly. // 10
Overall Impression: Good God this is an awesome album. It shows a truly unique sound and leaves you begging for more. My personal favorites from the album are "Harmony Korine" "Significant Other" and "Insurgentes". The only thing I don't like about this album is how "Venamo Para Los Hadas" sounds very similiar to "We Lost the Skyline" from the Porcupine Tree album "Sky Moves Sideways". Still a good song, but it annoyed me a little bit. Otherwise, absolutely awesome album. // 10
Sound: The album is very hypnotic and fascinating on an intimate level. At first I thought album was a bit boring, it took a few listens for me to start feelings its effects. I find it to be very complex and with many moments of subtle and vibrant beauty. I listen to it often and find its grows on me more with each listen. Each time I listen to the album start to finish I hear something new that I had not noticed ever before. The sound quality is of the up most finest. // 10
Lyrics: Vocals sound great. Wilson is a very good lyricist. Though the lyrics are not included in the booklet, they are very clear and easy to understand. I find the lyrics relate very personally in a strange twisted way. They are very well sung and quite beautiful, awesome and expressive. // 8
Overall Impression: Its a very mysterious and unique album. The subtle brilliance of each instrument (especially the percussion) brings about a very think and rich atmospheric quality from start to finish that I often find myself lost in. With a very reserved dramatic expression, its pretty easy to for some amazing moments within the songs to fly right over your head at the end of "no twilight within the courts of the sun" there is a hauntingly strange piano and hypnotic piano part then silence. Then the drums start to really rip out a double bass blast beat type pattern and things get pretty heavy for a moment then the songs over. I love it, it sounds so cool and yet its so subtle and easy to miss. The photography in the book is pretty cool as well. // 9
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Mobile Phone Case Study : Comparison of ecological impacts and equivalent CO2 emissions of mobile phones marketed as 'eco-friendly' over those not marketed as 'eco-friendly'
Mobile phone users in the United State grew from 34 million to 203 million from 1999–2009 [1]. Awareness of the material consumption, energy use and e-waste represents by this compels some consumers to purchase 'eco-friendly' products believing it reduces ecological impacts. Using a screening Life Cycle Assessment tool, the effectiveness of commonly employed 'eco-friendly' practices is evaluated.
This case study examines ecological impacts and equivalent CO2 emissions for mobile phone components, assemblies and life cycle phases to determine if 'eco-friendly' practices offer impact reductions. 'Eco-friendly' practices examined are alternative plastic housings, recycling programs, recycled packaging materials and power consumption reductions. While 'eco-friendly' practices offer reductions in ecological impacts, they do not significantly reduce equivalent CO2 emissions relative to phones not marketed as 'eco-friendly'. Furthermore, it appears the most effective 'eco-friendly' practice is to reduce power consumption.
Examination of each practice offers insight into its effectiveness. Using recycled plastic housings
reduces ecological impacts by up to 50% over a non-recycled plastic housing due to reductions in ocean acidification. Using an approximated phone
assembly, recycling offers 66% reduction in ecological impacts and 5%
reduction in equivalent CO2 emissions over incineration. These results are limited due to caveats of take
back programs and limitations in process options found in Sustainable Minds [2] LCA
software. Specific packaging and
instructions scenarios that incorporate recycled feedstocks can result in more
than 90% reductions in equivalent CO2 emissions over non-recycled
feedstocks. Reductions in equivalent CO2 emissions can be 80% more those due to recycled plastic housing. Finally,
use-phase ecological impacts and equivalent CO2 emissions
overshadow those of the other practices combined. Including the worst cases of each design
practices in a combined evaluation, shows energy consumption comprises more than 80% of environmental
impacts and up to 98% of CO2 emissions. This reveals the other 'eco-friendly' practices offer only marginal reductions in impacts and greatest impact reductions are achieved by focusing on reductions in energy
In conclusion, considering only material, manufacturing and end-of-life phases, reducing or eliminating packaging and encouraging recycling are more effective at addressing environmental impacts and climate change than changing housing materials to recycled or bio-based plastics. Expanding the system boundaries to include use-phase, these practices have little impact. Reduction in power consumption offers the largest reduction in impacts. Each percent improvement in energy efficiency results in a corresponding reduction in impacts. Other studies, such as the 2008 paper by Scharnhorst on Telecommunications [3], indicate the issue is more complex, which suggests an expanded, comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment should be completed on the findings of this study.


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Gas in Denmark
Recoverable reserves44.7Mtoe
Production6.1Mtoe per year
Production ratio7years
The Danish WEC Member Committee reports data provided by the Danish Energy Authority (DEA), which does not use the terms 'proved', 'probable', 'possible' and 'additional' reserves, but employs the categories 'ongoing', 'approved', 'planned' and 'possible' recovery. The DEA expresses natural gas volumes in normal cubic metres (Nm3), measured at 0oC and 1 013 mb. For the purpose of the present Survey, all such data have been converted into standard cubic metres, measured at 15oC and 1 013 mb.
Denmark is a net exporter of natural gas. In 2010 it exported approximately 3.2 bcm of gas: 46% to Sweden, 32% to Germany and the rest to the Netherlands. Today, all natural gas for the Danish market comes from the fields in the Danish sector of the North Sea. DONG has purchased all the gas produced from the Danish fields. The biggest producer of natural gas in Denmark is Dansk Undergrunds Consortium (DUC), which produces gas from a number of fields. In addition, the South Arne Group produces natural gas from the South Arne field.
DONG purchases and transports all natural gas for the Danish market and also distributes gas to customers in Southern Jutland and parts of Zealand. DONG is a state-owned limited company. HNG distributes natural gas in the Greater Copenhagen Area. In Central and North Jutland, natural gas is distributed by Naturgas MidtNord, and on Funen, it is distributed by Naturgas Fyn.
The major part of the national consumption is related to gas-fired CHP plants, manufacturing industries and the residential/commercial sector.
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Poor guy, about 3 & 1/2 weeks ago Chesney had to have Elongated Soft Palate & Stenotic Nares surgeries. We drive over an hour & 1/2 to go to his vet in Lakewood, Colorado. We love Dr. Sylwester & he knows his Bullies! On the way home, We totalled our SUV on the Interstate, not good! Thank God for pain meds & tranquilizers!! We finally made it home safe & sound, sore & bruised, but very lucky to be alive! Ches had a pretty good recovery considering.
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In the true spirit of this blog's title, "Evolutionary Entertainment," I bring you Part I in an ongoing series on the daily life of Homo professoris.
"At long last, here we catch a glimpse the rarely seen professorial primate in his home habitat while he grooms his nasal passages in advance of the first day of classes. He has evolved this grooming habit to minimize distractions that students in the first row would otherwise experience. And because he descended from East Persian Ashkenazi Jews.
This is the next-to-last preparation for the start of fall classes. His final step will be to ensure that his fly is fully zipped."
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If you enjoyed this then you might enjoy my other short posts in this ongoing series:
Homo professorus, Part II: The Email Reply
Homo professoris, Part III: The 'Show Me Your d' Lecture
Homo professoris, Part IV: Survival of The Blender Avoider?
Homo professoris, Part V: The Born Again Evangelical Atheist
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this blog do not necessarily reflect the views of Psychology Today and the University of Scranton, or me, and certainly not the views of my friends, family, probation officer, gut bacteria, darkest thoughts, and personal mohel.
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Food Forum
Rhubarb fine for sauce, butter, jam — and pie
Usually, when we grow a plant for culinary use, we eat the fruit of it. Sometimes, we eat the leaves instead. But for how many plants do we ignore both of those things and eat the stalk?
The list is pretty short: Celery is the most common, though asparagus, Swiss chard and fennel are also stalk vegetables. But one stalk vegetable stands out in a crowd, if only because of its bright red color: Rhubarb.
Rhubarb has been cultivated for thousands of years, starting with the Chinese, who used it for various medicinal purposes. Over the centuries, it was carried by trade routes across the continent to Europe, then across the ocean to America (including by Benjamin Franklin).
Of course, it's easy to overlook that rhubarb is a vegetable at all — when's the last time you had a side of rhubarb with your dinner? No, rhubarb is too tart for that sort of thing. So instead, it's used like a fruit, which gives us an excuse to add some sugar to temper that bite.
Stewed with a bit of sugar, rhubarb chunks can easily be put to good use, starting with the most simple application, rhubarb sauce, which merely requires cooking down the rhubarb with water and sugar until it softens, then mashing it up a bit if needed. Cook it until it thickens into a paste if you'd rather have rhubarb butter to spread on your toast, biscuits or pound cake. Or you could make things a little more complicated by cooking it until soft, mashing it up and adding in some pectin and a little bit of lemon juice to make rhubarb jam; a dash of cinnamon or nutmeg (or both) wouldn't go amiss here. You could even cook the rhubarb with plenty of water, add sugar and strain it to make rhubarb juice.
The most common use for rhubarb, though, must be as a foil for berries in strawberry-rhubarb pie. The tartness of the rhubarb keeps the strawberries' sweetness from being too cloying, and when baked inside a buttery, flaky pastry, well, it's a little slice of heaven (or a big slice, if you have less restraint). It's no wonder that strawberry-rhubarb is one of the most popular pie flavors. In fact, one nickname for rhubarb is "pie plant."
Of course, while rhubarb will be coming into season pretty soon, strawberries won't be in season for another month or two, so you might want to stock up on rhubarb now and freeze it until then. Make sure to get enough for a strawberry-rhubarb crisp, too . . . or maybe some strawberry-rhubarb muffins . . . or, well, the possibilities are nearly endless.
Then again, the berry possibilities are pretty open, too. Why limit yourself to strawberry-rhubarb recipes when you could have raspberry-rhubarb, too, or cherry-rhubarb, or blueberry-rhubarb?
You might want to be careful not to overdo it, though: While it has plenty of culinary uses, rhubarb is also known to be a natural laxative.


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From the nearest airport in Bukhara: Distance: 5 km Transportation options: You can take taxi in airport in Bukhara. Time cost: 5 minutes by a taxi from the airport in Bukhara to the our hotel Old City. Money cost: 4$ From the nearest railway station in Kagan city: Distance: 12 km. Transportation options: it will be better to take taxi. Time cost: 15 minutes Money cost: 8$. From the near bus station in Bukhara: Distance: 5 km. Transportation options: Better to take taxi. Time cost: 5 minutes. Money cost: 6000 sum per car. The hotel's place is behind the main stadium of the city.


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The 2014 Touring Stars, a combination of veterans and new faces, will lead the ARCA Midwest Tour presented by SCAG Power Equipment into a full season of short track racing throughout the Midwest.
To qualify for this program, competitors must adhere to strict guidelines that ensure the highest quality of driver talent and the strongest level of competition among the Touring Stars. Touring Star positions were selected this year based on a variety of different requirements ranging from; overall past and current racing success, series success and racing stats, years of racing with the Tour and prior Touring Star status. Consideration is also given to how the driver represents himself, his sponsors and the series.
"The Touring Star program is something the series has taken great pride in since day one. These are the cars and stars of the Midwest Tour and this allows us to build that excitement for fans that attend their local race track and look forward to seeing their own hero's, "their local stars," battle against the travelers at each event. That's what short track racing is all about and we are proud to bring the best of the best to tracks around the Midwest," said Steve Einhaus, vice president of the ARCA Midwest Tour.
Each of the drivers below has met the criteria and will represent the ARCA Midwest Tour in 2014.
Nathan Haseleu
Nathan Haseleu, the first ever ARCA Midwest Tour champion, has made every race since the inception of the Tour in 2007; the only driver to do so. He has seven Tour wins, 10 fast qualifier awards, 41 top-fives and 65 top-tens. Two of his victories included the inaugural Joe Shear Classic at Madison Int'l Speedway as well as last year's Oktoberfest 100 at LaCrosse Fairgrounds Speedway.
In 2001, Haseleu competed in 12 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races accumulating four top 10s. In addition he has numerous wins all over the state of Wisconsin since the beginning of his career which started in a hobby stock when he was 16 years old.
In 2014 Nathan will once again be sponsored by RaceTeamGear.com and The Swiss Colony.
Andrew Morrissey
Andrew Morrissey, the 2011 Tour champion, also returns as a Touring Star in 2014. Morrissey has 69 starts, two wins, 16 top fives and 32 top tens since his career began with the Tour.
Morrissey got his first win in 2012 winning the Joe Shear Classic. His second win came last fall at Elko Speedway in the Thunderstruck 93.
Andrew will be sponsored by Spring Green Health Mart & Pharmacy, DMJ Trucking of Deerfield, WI and B&B Racing Engines.
Jonathan Eilen
Jonathan Eilen was the 2012 Midwest Tour Champion. He has 73 starts, five wins, one fast qualifier award, 23 top fives and 36 top tens in the series.
Eilen started racing in the Thunder Car division at Elko Speedway where he immediately found success, which continued to follow him as he moved up through the ranks.
Eilen joined the Midwest Tour in its first year. He became the first ever winner in the series in 2007 taking home the victory at Elko Speedway. He also found himself capturing the first ever Rookie of the Year honors that year.
He will return in 2014 as a Touring Star sponsored by Eilen and Sons Trucking/Landscape Supply's, B&B Racing Engines, and TraLo Trucking.
James Swan
James Swan is the newest Midwest Tour Rookie of the Year, taking home the honors in 2013. He has nine starts and two top tens so far in the ARCAMT.
Swan has been successful in anything and everything he has ever raced. Swan has five series championships, including a championship in the Midwest Truck Tour in 2012, his rookie year in the division. He also has countless track championships and victories in various divisions.
In 2014, he will be sponsored by Elements by Hankscraft, Durham Hill Auto Sales and DRM Industries.
Chris Weinkauf
2014 will be the fourth year that Chris Weinkauf will be with the ARCA Midwest Tour. In his 38 starts, he is fifth in the overall most fast qualifier awards with five. He has eight top fives and 18 top tens.
Weinkauf is a State Park Speedway track champion and a winner of the Trickle 99. The Merrill, Wis., native will be sponsored by Jay VanDerGeest Cattle, Professional Drywall, and Breber Music.
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Peter Auret: Turning the Tide
Starting his career as a drummer in rock bands, and later earning international acclaim through his work with the Afro-Jazz ensemble Tsunami, Auret ultimately found his life's passion in jazz. Fronting the Peter Auret Trio, last year he celebrated the release of his debut album as a leader, Turn the Tide (Afrisonic, 2010). A moody, atmospheric album largely of original compositions, Turn the Tide helped to confirm Auret's reputation as a remarkable new talent in South Africa's jazz scene.
In addition to his own work, Auret has created a collective of local artists to promote through Afrisonic Records, and is planning to create a series of showcase concerts to further advance the scene. As South Africa's jazz industry continues to feel the loss of nearly all of its jazz clubs, Auret's vision may prove a viable way forward in developing platforms for creative artists to perform and showcase their works.
All About Jazz: While your work nowadays is focused heavily in jazz, originally you were a rock musician, correct?
Peter Auret: Yes, and I still play a fair amount of rock, based on the fact that I'm a full-time musician and perform freelance. But obviously my love is jazz and it's something that I got into after school. A lot of my friends were studying jazz at Pretoria Technikonwhich is now called TUT [Tshwane University of Technology]and they introduced me to it. I didn't like it at first, but it soon became my thing.
AAJ: Who were some of the first artists you heard then?
PA: The first jazz artist that I got into was Stanley Clarkehis older stuff, like Return to Forever. It had that jazz-rock vibe, which made it accessible to me. I also listened to artists like Herbie Hancock, who were working in jazz-funk. I didn't initially like straight-ahead swingit didn't appeal to me. Then I heard a Mike Stern album called Standards (Atlantic, 1992), and I fell in love with it. At that point, I started playing with jazz artists, though I didn't really know what it was about. Now it's switched completely, and I hardly listen to rock music. In fact, jazz fusion isn't my first love anymore either.
AAJ: Although your band Tsunami performed in a fusion vein.
PA: Yes, definitely. The project was started as a collaboration between me and guitarist Max Mikula, who actually introduced me to that Mike Stern album. Max and I met as part of a backing band for a pop singer. At sound checks, we'd jam, and decided to do something together. We wanted to do improvised music with strong African roots, and so the band had a contemporary sound with pop elements, but also improvised elements.
AAJ: Concord Nkabinde played bass with this group, correct?
PA: He performed with us a few times, co-produced our second Tsunami album, From Clay (Gallo, 2004), and I think he played on two tracks. But he mainly did production. We've come a long way with Concord, as I've worked with him for nearly 10 years. I played on his first album, and his second album I mixed and recorded at my studio, Sumo Sound. He also just recorded a live DVD, and I did the mixes for that as well.
AAJ: How did you start working with experimental artists like Jonathan Crossley and Carlo Mombelli?
PA: Jonathan and I actually live in the same area, and we're about the same age. I was in my mid-20s when I met him, while we were playing in a jazz-funk band, and we decided to start doing more work together. But we also did freelance work together in backing bands for various artists. We used to play with a local saxophonist that worked the local club scene. I met a number of great musicians through that band, like Reza Khota, who now plays guitar for the band Babu. I learned a lot in that band, because we did swing and funk. It was a nice place to learn. From there, I progressed to working with Jonathan. I met Carlo Mombelli through Jonathan, and we've played together a number of times since then.
AAJ: Let's talk about your Afrisonic Label. The two releases your album and saxophonist Kevin Davidson's Breathing Winston, Living John (Afrisonic, 2011) seem to be a coming together of a number of paths in your career. You do recording and production work, you're running the label, and playing on the albums.
PA: What happened was I recorded my own album, Turn the Tide in 2009, having worked on it for a long time. It took me about a year before I released it, because I wasn't sure how to go about it. You see, when I was with Tsunami, we were signed to a major label, and they handled much of this.
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Dark matter, the modern aether
The reason this makes me rather nervous is because of the rather obvious parallel with aether. Just like the luminiferous aether, dark matter is something that was postulated when no physical evidence justified it, in order to preserve existing theory.
Those of you who were already dabbling in physics during the 1850s1 may recall that luminiferous aether was hardly a ridiculous idea at the time. Aether was very simply the medium carrying light waves, much like air or water carry sound waves. It was initially postulated by Isaac Newton to explain things like refraction. According to Wikipedia, Augustin Fresnel proposed in 1818 a theory of light as a transverse wave in aether. To quote Wikipedia, from this point on, no one even seems to question its existence. In other words, the existence of aether was postulated in order to preserve the existing theory of waves. All existing waves required a medium, such as air or water, therefore it was natural to assume that light waves also needed a medium to carry them.
The key point to remember here is that the brightest minds of the time did not question aether at all. Some of them, like Newton or Fresnel invented it. Later, the vast majority of scientists were busy trying to refine the concept to make it work. Yet today, luminiferous aether is seen as the canonical example of an obsolete physics theory. Einstein's relativity made the very notion of aether not just useless, but actually wrong. Relativity simplified things by removing the need for a system of coordinates that would be special, but this simplification meant that aether could not exist, because otherwise aether itself would have defined a system of coordinates that was unique.
Back to dark matter. We find ourselves in a similar situation today. There's something about the universe that we very plainly, very visibly do not understand. The original problem, as identified by Fritz Zwicky, was that galaxies do not spin the way they should according to our best theory of gravitation, general relativity. They behave as if there was more matter in them than we can see.
The operational keyword here is as if. At the moment, we really have no idea whether it's the theory of gravitation that is flawed, or whether there really is 95% of the universe's mass that we can't detect. Talking about "dark matter" is choosing one option over the other. It's pretending that we know, when in reality we still lack a model that really explains all the evidence. In my humble opinion, the jury is still out on what this model will look like.
In short, I'm unhappy about references to dark matter made as if it was a settled topic, a known, validated scientific fact on a par with photons or Pluto. Maybe the problem is with the terminology. Talking about dark matter rather than, say, "gravitational anomaly in galaxies" (GAG) is a good way to preserve the illusion that we know what we are talking about. It makes it sound real. But just because we gave it a fancy name doesn't make it more real than aether or the tooth fairy.
Let's be humble and honestly face the simple fact that our model of mass and gravitation breaks down in face of quite a bit of physical evidence. We find ourselves in the situation of physicists in 1850 whose aether-based theories predicted phenomena like aether drag and aether wind, which experiments repeatedly didn't find. It's exciting, it's fun. It's a good thing for physics, because it means there is something new to be found.
Note 1: My editor tells me it's considered bad taste to live past 150 on this planet. My apologies to those of my readers I might have offended...
5 comments:
- Mauro said...
Ever heard of Modified Newtonian Dynamics? It's an alternative to dark matter that fits the observed data quite well.
- June 17, 2010 at 6:40 PM
- Mauro said...
... oops, I should have read your post more carefully. Apologies. Please ignore my other comment.
- June 17, 2010 at 6:42 PM
Yup, Dark Matter is now common middle school "knowledge".
Jimmy Neutron Season3,Episode11...
"Evil Jimmy wreaks havoc around town and creates a cloned Earth with a dark matter chip! "
If there was indeed dark matter and luminuferous aether, we'd have a lot of gray matter. It's clearly not the case, so one or both theories must be false. Wow! I'm now a physicist. :)
More seriously,
I think your gripe is misplaced: If anything your complaint should be that we should teach clearly that physics is a set of models. It can be assumed to be exact until we find it flawed, or reaches the limits of its precision. Most often teachers teach knowledge as hard indisputable fact.
There's nothing wring with saying there's dark matter. Is newtonian physics obsoleted by quantum physics or relativity, or other screwed up model?
I guess you call a model a theory until enough rocks have been thrown at it that it doesn't fall apart while applied for the scope it was dreamed up in the beginning. Eventually the armor gets chinks and a new way of looking at things is tossed on the table.
- October 24, 2010 at 7:17 AM
- Christophe de Dinechin said...
Thanks for the link to the Jimmy Neutron episode. It reinforces my point that dark matter is now considered a scientific "fact".
I think your gripe is misplaced [...] There's nothing wrong with saying there's dark matter.
My gripe is about the un-scientific process of inventing an entity with the sole purpose of fitting experimental data, of preserving the theory against evidence. It's very hard to disprove something that is defined as having exactly the properties you need.
If Newton had talked about the "apple harvesting fairy" to denote this invisible, undetectable entity that makes apples fall on the floor exactly as we observe, what knowledge would we have gained? Instead, his theory was about all objects. It was predictive. That's the reason it can still be used to compute the motion of most objects today.
What is predictive about dark matter? How is this a theory or a scientific fact, something that we can falsify? We don't look at a galaxy and say "based on some theory, I predict that there will be such and such amount of dark matter, therefore stars will move like this." Instead, we look at the galaxy and say "based on how it moves, it must have this and this amount of that invisible, undetectable stuff."
And it doesn't even work right without adding another bit of invisible stuff called dark energy!
I much prefer approaches like MOND or scale relativity. At least, these ideas try to address the issue from a theoretical angle, rather than merely fit theory to data.
- October 26, 2010 at 6:32 AM
- Nathan said...
I completely share your assessment of dark matter. It is disheartening that there is so little dissent in the scientific community against a theory that has no observable evidence.
I would add to your argument that because dark matter and the aether are both unobservable, they are free to take on increasingly bizarre properties to accommodate whatever evidence mounts against them. With the aether, theory required it to be rigid enough to vibrate 400*10^12 times per second, yet to be of such a density that it produced not the slightest observable resistance to an object moving through it. With dark matter, theory requires it to have properties unlike any other observed form of matter, yet to not have any known mechanism for production, and to exist in increasingly bizarre patterns around galaxies. Furthermore there are galaxies that have rotational discrepancies (the same kind that led to the dark matter hypothesis in the first place) that are proven not to have any dark matter! http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2459
Dragan Hajdukovic of Cern has an alternate theory of dark matter (different from MONDs) that I find very appealing: http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.0847
- March 24, 2012 at 8:40 PM


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Former staff from the UK arm of defunct high-frequency trading firm Eladian Partners have begun to resurface at rival organisations, including JP Morgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Tower Research Capital, Financial News has learned.
Eladian Partners employed 17 people in London, according to internal documents seen by Financial News, as part of a workforce of over 60 that had been assembled across the US and Europe since its founding in 2010.
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Swanson and Kent are now focused on an orderly wind down and closure of the firm's positions and other business. Eladian Partners Europe LLP had its registration with the UK's Financial Services Authority withdrawn on November 30, according to the FSA Register.
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MARTIN: Rush Limbaugh has been highly critical of First Lady Michelle Obama for eating ribs.
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MARTIN: He said that she's telling us to eat tofu and all this food with no taste --
BROWN: Okay.
MARTIN: But at some event she was eating ribs, and it was 1500 calories.
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MARTIN: (laughing)
BROWN: -- and then you at a rib shack. It just don't sound right.
RUSH: "[H]e's kind of partially right about that. You can't have us eating tofu and you eat at a rib shack. It just don't sound right." So even the brothers are kind of throwing a curve there to our old buddy Roland Martin. But then it continued. The other guests on this show were Kym Whitley, a comedian; and Buddy Lewis, and they all then got in on it.
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- Could edge-lit type Ia supernovae be standard candles?
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- Regos, Eniko; Tout, Christopher A.; Wickramasinghe, Dayal; Hurley, Jarrod R.; Pols, Onno R.
- Abstract
- The progenitors of Type la supernovae (SNe Ia) have not been identified. Though they are no longer fashionable, we investigate the consequences if a significant number of SNe la were edge-lit detonations (ELDs) of carbon/oxygen white dwarfs that have accreted a critical mass of helium. Our best understanding of the Phillips relation between light curve speed and peak luminosity assigns both these phenomena to the amount of Ni-56 produced. In ELDs there are two sites of Ni-56 synthesis. If the peak luminosity is determined primarily by the CO ratio in the core it is primarily a function of the initial main-sequence mass of the progenitor of the CO white dwarf. If the light curve decay speed is determined by the total mass of iron group elements ejected this is a function of the total mass of the ELD at the time of explosion because both the CO core and the He envelope are substantially converted to Ni-56. In general, binary star evolution ensures that these two masses are correlated and an empirical relation between peak luminosity and light curve shape can be expected. However when we perform population synthesis for progenitors of different metallicities we find a systematic shift in this relation that would make distant ELD SNe la fainter than those nearby. The abundances of alpha-rich isotopes, such as Ca-44, in the solar system indicate that only about 40 per cent of SNe la could be edge-lit so any systematic effect that could be present would be correspondingly diluted. A systematic effect is still expected even if we examine only the small subset of ELDs that accrete from a naked helium star, rather than a He white dwarf.
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- New Astronomy, Vol. 8, no. 4 (May 2003), p. 283-294
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- 2003
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- Binaries; Chandrasekhar mass models; Cosmology; Decline rate; Distance scale; Evolution; Explosion; Galaxies; Light curves; Models; Nucleosynthesis; Observations; Progenitor; Supernovae; White dwarfs
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- Elsevier
- 1384-1092
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- Copyright © 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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Marlins vs. Cardinals Game 1 postgame thoughts
A perfect day for Marlins fans. Hanley apologized to Fredi Gonzalez and he exploded with three hits on the day. 5-1 the score on a Marlins win. Uggla and Maybin hit HRS as soon as Tona La Russa took out Jaime Garcia out of the game after just five innings. This win gives our Marlins a 2 game winning streak heading into game 2 aainst the cardinals.
Marlins vs. Cardinals game 1 pregame thoughts
It's B.C.B.M with my thoughts about tonight's game. Anibal Sanchez vs. what some people ay is a talented southpaw.Pitching=Cardinals The reason for this is because against top teams Anibal Sanchez has pitched below average.Hanley is most likely going to be out of the lineup while the rest of the marlins lineup has to face a talented lefty.Batting=Cardinals
Gaby Sanchez has proven to show his progress on first base as a fielder. Also Brett Hayes has already shown outstanding progress at home plate. Fielding=Marlins
Possible outcomes=Cardinals 7 Marlins 4
Cardinals 2 Marlins 6
First CONTROVERSIAL post!
Whassup marlin fans! anyway everyone in baseball knows about the Ramirez/Gonzalez feud that has recently arose. so im asking everyone whose side ar you on RAMIREZ or GONZALEZ
Personally i go with ramirez. lets face it ramirez has been s productive besides he was injured what do u expect from an injured player?


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Free Easter Lesson: Washed Clean
"'Washed clean' involves a simple chemical reaction which provides a great object lesson for young people."
Free Easter Lesson
Use this illustration involving a simple chemical reaction to help engage your students in the Easter story.
From Grahame Knox, "What's so special about Easter? Why did Jesus die on a cross? What does it mean? Was it a big mistake? Is it important? How does it affect me?"
This lesson includes:
- Preparation list
- Presentation notes
- Discussion questions
- Reflection ideas
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Health Department Urges Testing for Hepatitis C
For Immediate Release: May 3, 2007
Media Contact: Communication Office
BURLINGTON – People can be affected with hepatitis C for years or decades before they know they are infected with the virus. During May 2007, National Viral Hepatitis Awareness Month, the Vermont Department of Health is working to raise awareness about hepatitis C.
Hepatitis C is a potentially fatal liver disease that is among the most common bloodborne illnesses. An estimated 25,000 to 30,000 Americans are newly infected each year. In Vermont, hepatitis C is the second most commonly reported communicable disease. In 2006, there were nearly 900 newly identified cases. However, based on national statistics, there are as many as 12,000 Vermonters who have hepatitis C.
"Most people living with hepatitis C are not aware that they have the disease," said Acting Health Commissioner Sharon Moffatt, RN, MSN. "A simple blood test can detect the virus, and people who are most at high risk for exposure to the virus are encouraged to get tested."
People are most at risk for exposure to hepatitis C from:
- Using needles, syringes, and other "works" that have been used by others and may have infected blood on or in them.
- Anyone who received - prior to July 1992 - blood, blood products or solid organs from a donor whose blood contained hepatitis C.
- Long-term kidney dialysis.
- Frequent contact with blood on the job as a healthcare worker, especially through accidental needle sticks.
It is important for people to know whether they have hepatitis C. There are drugs to treat the infection and other ways to reduce damage to the liver, such as not drinking alcohol. The hepatitis C virus can cause chronic liver disease. Unlike hepatitis A and B, there is no vaccine for hepatitis C. The only way to prevent hepatitis C is to avoid contact with infected blood.
In March 2007, the Health Department started a new program that offers free and anonymous hepatitis C testing at the three syringe-exchange programs in Burlington, St. Johnsbury and White River Junction. Because injection drug users are at highest risk for exposure, low-cost sterile syringes are are also available without a prescription at some pharmacies in Vermont.
Possession of needles and syringes as part of a needle exchange program is not in violation of Vermont's paraphernalia law.
For more information about hepatitis C, visit the Health Department website at http://healthvermont.gov/prevent/hepatitis_c/


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According to a February 25, 2011 Department of Justice (DOJ) memorandum, federal agencies may pay from their general lump-sum appropriations local fees for treating and managing stormwater runoff. The process will make it simpler for localities to obtain federal payments. The document, Reimbursement or Payment Obligation of the Federal Government Under Section 313(c)(2)(b) the Clean Water Act, addresses a recently enacted law (Pub. L. 111-378) that clarifies federal responsibility for stormwater pollution. It specifically clarifies that reasonable service charges payable by federal agencies include certain stormwater assessments. DOJ's memorandum opinion responds to a request by EPA, which asked the department to determine whether the new law bars federal agencies from paying stormwater assessments unless Congress makes a specific appropriation or whether agencies may use general, lump-sum appropriations for these payments. DOJ indicated that section 313Ic)(2)(b) does not impose a specific-appropriation requirement and federal agencies may pay appropriate stormwater assessments from annual, including current, lump-sum appropriations. The DOJ opinion stated that the stormwater amendment passed by the Senate (S. 3481)and House last December reflected an effort by Congress to resolve the controversy over whether local governments could levy stormwater assessments against the federal government for its facilities.
The issue emerged in April 2010 when several federal agencies announced they would not pay stormwater fees assessed by the District of Columbia, claiming the fees amounted to a tax that the agencies were not required to pay. The Government Accounting Office (GAO) had sent a letter on March 14 to the District of Columbia Department of Environment stating that as a result of the recent enactment of legislation requiring federal facilities to pay local stormwater fees, the GAO was reversing its prior refusal to pay the city's stormwater charge and will now pay the fee without further legislative action.


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One of this Fall's most talked-about new releases is Dishonored, and the word that crops up in almost every preview of the game is "steampunk." The assumption is made that the audience at large knows what steampunk is, but it's not a genre everyone may know by name.
With Bioshock Infinite, which could also be considered steampunk on the horizon we're probably going to be talking about this genre very often in the near future, so what is steampunk and where did it come from?
Steampunk as a genre of fiction is generally predicated on alternate histories in which advanced technology exists in much earlier eras than the technology existed in the real world. Much of the fiction that's considered steampunk is set in the 19th century when steam power was one of the primary sources of power for machines, hence the" steam" part of the name.
The origin of "punk" is less clear but usually understood as a reference to cyberpunk, another genre in which technology plays a central or defining role in the creation of fictional worlds, but where cyberpunk takes place in the future steampunk takes place in the past.
The novel The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling is a quintessential example of steampunk. The story takes place in Victorian England, but in this alternate reality the inventor Charles Babbage succeeded in developing the first computer. In the real world, Babbage did conceptualize the computer but his designs were never completed. In the world of The Difference Engine, the introduction of punch card-driven computers leads to a rapid advance of other technologies such that Great Britain's military is much more powerful than it was in the real 19th century, and Britain's ability to intercede in world affairs leads to a much different Earth than the one we know.
Another well-known example is the comic book series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. Here the existence of advanced technologies in the Victorian era is presented less overtly than in The Difference Engine but giant, gun-riddled airships and the construction of a land bridge between England and France are part of the League's alternate world. The film adaptation is much more obviously steampunk as it includes elements like Captain Nemo's automobile and the advanced weapons developed by the villain, Professor Moriarty.
Steampunk has also been applied to the American West. The 1999 movie Wild Wild West is fairly identified as steampunk as it's loaded with gadgets and fantastic machines that clearly didn't exist in the real world. The definition of the genre is still developing and is fluid. Whether Bioshock and Bioshock 2 constitute steampunk is an open debate among fans of the genre, but it's difficult to ignore the argument that both games could be considered steampunk when they feature automated flying turrets and machines that can be "hacked," all of which according to the fiction were built before the 1960s.
Steampunk offers creatives a kind of leeway in world design that other, established genres do not. It is generally considered a hybrid genre that blends facets of science-fiction, fantasy, and horror, which means design elements from all of those genres can be made to blend together seamlessly in a steampunk world. For game developers this is a potential goldmine. Two pen-and-paper tabletop role playing games that utilize steampunk are Space:1889 and GURPS Steampunk. Steam-powered space travel, flying ironclads, and magic are all par for the course in these RPGs.
The appeal of steampunk to video game developers, and particularly first person shooter developers, makes sense when we consider how played so many of our genres have become. Modern military shooters and science-fiction shooters featuring space marines are par for the course nowadays, but there haven't been many steampunk-inspired video games yet. That makes the genre fertile ground for new IP or for invigorating existing franchises.
Dishonored is set in a society that is clearly inspired by the Victorian era. It features mechanical enemies like Tallboys who use armored, stilt-like contrivances to their tactical advantage. Main character Corto Attano employs magic powers as well as gadgets to accomplish his assassination missions. All of these elements blend together without any sense of discordance, which might not have been possible without the development of the steampunk genre.
Bioshock Infinite's city of Columbia is something that on the surface sounds like a science fiction element. A floating city in the sky may summon thoughts of anti-gravity fields or huge turbines holding the city aloft, but if you work within the steampunk genre giant hot air balloons holding up an entire city isn't a silly proposition. Nor is a giant clockwork man, or the special powers that help define the franchise. A steampunk aesthetic allows Irrational Games to wrap all of these elements around an ideology of American Exceptionalism that's tied to the 1893 World's Fair and a city in which women wear petticoats and men sport spats and nothing feels out of place.
Guns of Icarus Online is a great example not only as to how flexible the steampunk genre is in terms of what belongs and what doesn't, but also what defines the genre. No historical time period is cited in the fiction of Guns of Icarus, instead it is sometime after a Great War and now humanity uses blimp-like technology to travel the skies. The steampunk of Guns of Icarus doesn't lie in alternate histories; it's in the art design and the aesthetics.
Steampunk is also a sub-culture lifestyle. The San Diego Comic Con regularly sees a ton of steampunk cosplayers and offers cosplay panels. If you watch the sixth season of The Guild you can get an idea for what goes on in the steampunk cosplay world.
The more deeply ingrained and popular steampunk becomes in geek culture, the more we can expect other video game developers to follow the examples of Dishonored, Bioshock Infinite and Guns of Icarus and tap into the rich tapestry of the genre. This first wave of steampunk games could well become a rising tide in the not-too-distant future.


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The wait is just about over. Tiger Woods is about to make his 2013 debut in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship.
It will be the start of the latest installment of his rivalry with Rory McIlroy, although it will be a brief revival since neither will play again until the World Golf Championship-Match Play in late February.
The storylines surrounding Woods, who is never far from the glare of the spotlight, are varied and interesting.
Check out my list of six of those storylines for Woods.


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5 Drinks to End the Summer With
Toast the end of summer with these tasty cocktails.
With the days getting shorter and the breeze getting a little chillier, it can only mean one thing: brace yourself folks, summer is almost over.
But don't be too sad just yet. Before the short shorts get put away and the leaves begin falling off the trees it's time to make the most of every summer moment we've got left. And what better way to do it than with your friends by your side and a delicious cocktail in hand?
All the best #AbsolutNights start with the right cocktail. So get ready to toast summer 2016 with these perfect drinks to mix at home or ask for at the bar on your big night out:
Sea Breeze
1 part Absolut Vodka
2 parts Cranberry Juice
1 part Fresh Grapefruit Juice
How to mix
Pour all ingredients into a highball glass filled with ice cubes and garnish with a lime wheel.
Bloody Mary
2 Parts Absolut Vodka
4 Parts Tomato Juice
1 Part Worcestershire Sauce
½ Part Lemon Juice
4 Dashes Hot Sauce
1 Teaspoon Horseradish
Salt To Taste
Ground black pepper To Taste
1 Stick Celery
1 Wedge Lemon
How to mix
Stir all ingredients in a mixing glass. Pour into a highball glass filled with ice cubes. Garnish with celery and lemon.
Elderflower Collins
2 Parts Absolut Vodka
1 Part Lemon Juice
½ Part Elderflower Cordial
Soda Water
1 Wheel Lime
How to mix
Fill a shaker with ice cubes. Add Absolut Vodka, lemon juice and elderflower cordial. Shake and strain into a chilled highball glass filled with ice cubes. Top up with soda water. Garnish with lime
2 Parts Absolut Vodka
1 Part Lime Juice
Ginger Beer
1 Wedge Lime
How to mix
Fill a chilled highball glass with ice cubes. Add Absolut Vodka and lime juice. Top up with ginger beer. Garnish with lime.
2 Parts Absolut Citron
1 Part Lime Juice
1 Part Orange Liqueur
½ Part Cranberry Juice
1 Twist Orange
How to mix
Fill a shaker with ice cubes. Add all ingredients. Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with orange.
1 Part Absolut Citron
4 Wedges Lime
2 Teaspoons Sugar, Superfine
How to mix
Muddle lime and sugar, superfine in a chilled rocks glass. Add Absolut Citron. Stir. Fill with crushed ice.