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Original post made by Grace, Highland Oaks, on Jan 15, 2009
Pleasanton Weekly, community groups -- anything you know of where people can quickly organize to help out locally?
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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jan 16, 2009 at 9:01 am
I saw this announcement, too, but haven't seen any media coverage locally. I can't believe that there are no events around the area to pitch in for the environment or seniors or others in need of a hand!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jan 17, 2009 at 8:40 pm
The only listing for January 19 service opportunities in Pleasanton on USAservice.org was for blood donors for the American Red Cross. After signing up for that and having a confirmation call, I was disappointed to get a later call informing me the Blood Bank was closing for the holiday. I like the concept of making MLK Jr. Day a day of national service -- of "Rebuilding America Together" -- and hope our community agencies will begin planning now what volunteer opportunities they will list in 2010. Perhaps our city council could help make this happen. Pleasanton missed a chance to join in a nationwide effort to make a difference.
a resident of Highland Oaks
on Jan 17, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Thanks for posting and the feedback, JL. I was really hoping that something would materialize where people in Pleasanton could pitch in and join the national effort... I know some might ask "why don't YOU organize something if you're the one suggesting it?", but I don't currently have any ties with volunteer organizations, although I'm interested in becoming part of one.
I think it's a great idea that the incoming president is asking for citizen participation, both in the political arena and on a more personal, local level -- fellow human being to fellow human being. I know that the national day of service on MLK day is a symbolic effort, hopefully the beginning of a year of volunteerism and compassion... and beyond.
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on Jan 19, 2009 at 9:24 am
Hi -- There wasn't much organized here in Livermore either, but there is a no-hosted "Clean-Up Your Community" event that I registered for. I'm going to one of my favorite walking paths and am planning to pick up trash for awhile today. I agree that it would be great if more organized events were planned. I agree that we should see if we can get our communities more involved before next year.
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Album Rating: 2.5Another amazing review from you. These guys are completely generic and boring.
I loved the shot at Alternative Press, even though I still somewhat read it.
Hardcore music in general is usually generic and boring.
Album Rating: 2.5You need to look harder Cravinov.
Okay, maybe I'm just confused. Throw me a couple bands that you think are Hardcore before I make that my final decision.
Album Rating: 2.5Well there's a lot of different styles of hardcore. There's straight up hardcore like Terror and Madball and stuff, then there's melodic hardcore like Thrice, Strike Anywhere, Marathon, etc. then post-hardcore, which is broad and can range from a band like As Cities Burn to Trophy Scars, metalcore, which has a lot of cool bands like Dillinger Escape Plan, Botch, With Resistance, and Converge, and lastly I'd say there's popcore, which is stuff like Underoath. Tons of variety. I feel the most interesting is post-hardcore (see The Fall of Troy, Trophy Scars) and the most straight forward is plain hardcore (but this genre has a lot of cool bands that are including more melody and cool instrumental things like With Honor).
Also, this band is anything but boring and generic. As Cities Burn does a lot of good things but tends to waste them on songs that are 60% cheesy pop punk, 40% ill.
Dillinger Escape Plan is mathcore. And don't get on my case, it's an official statement if you read Revolver by the band.
Thrice is okay... Madball's pretty good, but if tjose are typical hardcore, I'm not a fan.
Album Rating: 2.5Crav, check out Refused. They blend different styles.
I pretty much agree with Grateful Dead on this one.
Shai Halud does not have a scene following at all. As Cities Burn sounds like a more contrived version of new Underoath but ends up being only slightly more bearable. Good review.
Refused are okay... but then again, they are not pure hardcore.
Album Rating: 2.5Grateful Dead, I guess I just wasn't in the zone while writing this review.
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A very bland album, I would even go to say Underoath is better. I really like Bane and With Honor in terms of Hardcore music. But then there is Comeback Kid, which I guess would be a totally different version of Hardcore, Im not really sure what to classify them as. Oh and post-hardcore, I guess These Arms Are Snakes are pretty good.
Album Rating: 2.5Yes. I just "gotta" respect a person who criticizes me for doing no musical analysis even though my review pretty clearly takes a bite out of the album theoretically and aesthetically, when said person writes a whole lot of fluff about Britney Spears.
Album Rating: 2.5Don't read into that. I was obviously making a joke.
I know you're not criticizing the music. Either you can't read or are insane. I fairly obviously engaged in a measured analysis of the music rather than going on a vaguely relevant ran. Did you even read the review?
I linked to the Britney review so that other people could see what I was referring to.
I don't know what has incited this odd response. It's as if you planned to say that I didn't analyze the music no matter what I wrote, even though I did, and even though your reviews don't even come close to the depth of my reviews.
Album Rating: 2.5It's funny that you say it's just a website. I talked about the workshop I had with this guy in my jazz class in the jazz forum and the guy googled his name, found my comment on mx, and e-mailed it to my jazz teacher and he brought it up in class yesterday, so I guess this does sort of correlate to real life.
Out of curiosity what constitutes a detailed analysis?
Album Rating: 2.5I guess vividly describing how a band combines elements of two different bands to forge their own sound by analyzing theory, aesthetic, tone, and instrumentation isn't enough to give you a reasonably good picture of what to expect if you were to buy the album. That's unfortunate.
this album is one of the best albums ive heard in awhile. if you want to say they are generic and boring then you can go off and get your face hit in a damn mosh pit. Hardcore like Madball and Terror are generic and boring all they play are breakdowns and have shitty vocals. Yea Shai Hulud is good, but ACB is much better
Album Rating: 2.5Don't put words in my mouf boy. Madball sucks just a little more than As Cities Burn.
Album Rating: 5.0why must hardcore bands always be measured next to underoath in some way or another? you cant expect a band to be perfectly 'unique' and write an album 'different' from the previous others. ya know, occasionaly, people like bands because theyve heard other bands that sound like them. i didnt pick up the acb cd and say ''this sounds too much like underoath..forget it''. i bought the cd because i enjoyed it and i also bought underoaths. there are thousands of bands out there that are trying to write music that is THEIR OWN and unique, making it nearly impossible for others to do just that. its very difficult, obviously, to write an album that hasnt, to some extent, already been written. this is what seperates the great bands from the good. but in my opinion..as cities burn is pretty unique. they throw in unexpected, off beat, all-over-the-fret-broad picking guitar parts if you know what i mean. you cant bash hardcore bands for sounding like underoath. you cant even read an album review without seeing UNDEROATH.
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"Knowing the Chinese, as we do, they don't do anything without deep thinking and long-term vision of what they want from those relationships," he said.
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Puhoi, north of Auckland, is likely to miss out on a connection with a dual-carriage highway to Wellsford costing up to $2 billion.
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Called a "social movement," "Vagina Monologues" here Feb. 14
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Since last November, several Austin Peay students have been studying and preparing for V-Day.
Taking place on Feb. 14, V-Day is a worldwide movement to stop sexual violence against women and girls and to proclaim Valentine's Day as a time to celebrate women and demand the end of abuse.
According to APSU senior theatre major Ashley Robison of Cadiz, who is serving as APSU's V-Day College Campaign organizer, APSU is one of 700 colleges nationally participating in V-Day activities. V-Day events are planned in 31 countries around the world.
In Tennessee, five universities are participating in V-Day activities: UT-Chattanooga, Tennessee Tech, Vanderbilt University, Rhodes College and APSU.
Austin Peay is the only university in the country awarding three credit hours for a cross-disciplinary course for upper-division students in social work, theatre and women's studies. Fifty-four students enrolled in the class. Others were turned away because the class filled past capacity.
Preceding V-Day at APSU, there will be an art exhibit and sale of V-Day t-shirts, but the centerpiece-both internationally and at APSU-is Eve Ensler's highly acclaimed "The Vagina Monologues."
The play was performed Feb.14, 2001, before a sold-out audience of 18,000 at Madison Square Gardens, raising $2 million to fight violence against women.
A review in "The Los Angeles Times" (10/16/00) said: "'The Vagina Monologues' is not just a play anymore. It's a social movement." A "New York Times" reviewer in 1999 wrote: "It has become something of a phenomenon, performed around the world, in London, Stockholm, Athens, Zagreb and Jerusalem"
Last year, a performance of "The Vagina Monologues" was presented by a local drama group in a chapel on the Vanderbilt University campus. This year the performance will be staged in the Clement Auditorium at 12:30 p.m. A second performance will be offered at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 19 in Clement Auditorium.
Admission is $3 per person. Ten percent of all money will go to the nonprofit V-Day Organization to sponsor Afghan refugee women. The remainder is designated for local social service agencies that assist female victims of violence, according to Professor Glenn Carter, chair of the social work department.
The $3 admission fee is a bargain, says Carter. Tickets to an upcoming performance of the play at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) are selling for $22-$45. Award-winning singer Kathy Mattea will join a national touring company for the TPAC event.
Celebrities who have acted in previous productions include Glenn Close, Calista Flockhart, Amy Irving, Phylicia Rashad, Brooke Shields, Marlo Thomas, Marisa Tomei and Whoopi Goldberg.
In addition to the APSU performance during the day, "The Vagina Monologues" will be broadcast nationwide on HBO on the evening of Feb. 14.
"Both men and women come away more enlightened after 'The Vagina Monologues." If you believe violence against women is a problem of limited scope, you're mistaken.
Somewhere in America, a woman is battered every 15 seconds. The batterer is often her partner. (United Nations Study on the Status of Women, 2000).
A woman is raped every 26 seconds in South Africa. (UNISA, 1998). A woman is raped every 21 hours on each college campus in the United States (Campus Outreach Services). More than 130 million girls and women worldwide have been subjected to genital mutilation and an additional 2 million girls are at risk (World Health Organization, 1997).
Speaking of the controversial title of her play, Ensler said, "I just don't get that 'vagina' is a dirty word. 'Rape' and "plutonium' and 'acid rain' are dirty words…yet they're on the front page every day."
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Major Amendment 16 - GLASSIA, March 15, 2010
Date: 3/15/10
To: To File STN 125325/0
From: Ewa Marszal, PhD; CBER/OBRR/DH/LPD, HFM-345, 301-402-4368
Through: Dorothy Scott, MD; CBER/OBRR/DH/LPD, HFM-345, 301-827-3016
Basil Golding, MD; CBER/OBRR/DH, HFM-300, 301-496-4396
CC: Cherie Ward-Peralta, RPM; CBER/OBRR/DBA/RPMB, HFM-380, 301-827-9170
Applicant: Kamada
Product: Alpha-1-Proteinase Inhibitor (Human)
Proposed names: GLASSIA
Subject: Major amendment – Amendment 16
- Recommendation: Review cycle extension. The submitted information in 125325/amendment 16 contains a substantial amount of new manufacturing or facility information not previously submitted to, or reviewed by, the agency. According to CBER SOPP 8402, this submission constitutes a major amendment.
Amendment 16 dated 3/11/10, contains new information resulting from a change in the manufacturing process implemented recently due to equipment malfunction and --(b)(4)-- yields resulting from process optimization and the use of --------(b)(4)--------- ------------------------------- then that used in the early full scale manufacturing runs. The following information is submitted:
- Validation of ----(b)(4)---- at the -----(b)(4)---- step supported with the following reports (final container lots reported in the original submission were manufactured using only ----(b)(4)---):
- Summary of Mixing Validation for Vessel -(b)(4)- for the AAT Product (Rep-VL-100332-PQ)
- Conformance Report: AAT ----(b)(4)---- Process Using a Combination of -(b)(4)- ---------- in Vessel -(b)(4)- (Rep-VL-100339-PV)
- Validation of the -----------------(b)(4)--------------------- supported with the following validation protocols and reports:
- Summary of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin (AAT) Uniformity of Filling Validation (Rep-VL-07704-PV/A2)
- Protocol for the Validation of ----------------(b)(4)------------------ for the -(b)(4)- ------------ of API (Alpha 1 Proteinase Inhibitor) Viability Study (VL-100291-PQ)
- Report: Validation of ----------------(b)(4)----------------- for the -------(b)(4)------ of API (Alpha 1 Proteinase Inhibitor) Viability Study (Rep-VL-100291-PQ)
- Protocol for the Validation of ----------------(b)(4)------------------ for the -(b)(4)------------- of API Bacterial Challenge Study (VL-100293-PQ)
- Report for the Validation of -----------------(b)(4)----------------- for the --(b)(4)------------- of API (Alpha 1 Proteinase Inhibitor) Bacterial Challenge Study (Rep-VL-100293-PQ)
- Risk assessment for -----------(b)(4)------------ API Drug Product Formulation Lot --------------(b)(4)------------- (RM-017)
- Updated list of process quality attributes based on the agreements reached during the inspection.
- Modification of ---(b)(4)-- reporting requirement at the critical steps to agree with the accuracy level of the ---(b)(4)---.
Also, BLA chapters 3.2.S.2.2, 3.2.S.2.4, 3.2.P.3.2, 3.2.P.3.4, 3.2.P.3.5 and 3.2.P.8, which were updated due to the modifications listed above, and the revised Attachment 43-1 of Amendment 14 are included.
This submission qualifies as a major amendment and, thus, the review cycle should be extended by 3 months.


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A customer of the British bank Lloyds TSB discovered the bank had changed his account password because someone on staff apparently couldn't take a joke.
Steve Jetley had created the password "Lloyds is pants" after he had a dispute with the bank over free travel insurance that was supposed to come with the account.
But when he tried to access his account over the phone, a call center representative told him the password didn't match what was in his file. The password had been changed to "no it's not."
When Jetley asked to have his password changed back to the original, the bank refused, saying the password was inappropriate.
"I asked if it was 'pants' they didn't like, and would 'Lloyds is rubbish' do? But they didn't think so," Jetley told the BBC.
"So I tried 'Barclays is better' and that didn't go down too well either," he said.
The bank also didn't like "censorship."
The bank has since apologized, saying that Jetley can choose any password he likes and that the worker who told him otherwise was wrong. The employee who changed the password has been relieved of his employment.
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In the personal environment, you can store all your fun apps and personal messages. To switch to the business profile, you must enter a password. Within that business profile, all your work and information is fully encrypted, and compliant with your finicky IT department.
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Kanokon 11
Beach episode finally. I'm surprised it comes in so late in the show's run, considering it's one of the customary cliché's that every ecchi/romance harem anime must have.
Surprisingly, it's "normal" episodes like this, free from youkai hijinks and shouta gattai's, are the ones I enjoy most in Kanokon. Just the whole gang having a bit of normal fun, spiced with some extreme swimsuits (note: bandaids ARE NOT swimsuits) and a little bit of character development (I "awww"'ed when Asahina went to thank Tayura for saving her from a watery doom) are the episodes that I can lay back and enjoy.
Anyways, time for the slideshow. Not really much, but enjoy ^^.
Asahina has a surprisingly bold choice of swimwear, wearing a black frilly two-piece. Still, Nozomu's choice of "swimwear"….
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text: Show Hide image Politics 3 April 2012 Scruffies against the straights How much longer can the Catholic Church resist change as its influence shrinks? Sign up for our weekly email * When Cardinal Keith O'Brien, Primate of Scotland, went all Dirty Harry last month on proposals to legalise gay marriage, the wider world witnessed fissures within Catholicism more reminiscent of the Anglican Communion than the Church of Rome, with its presumed conformity. It was "madness", the cardinal declared, to advocate gay marriage. It "represents a grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right". It was like bringing back "slavery". Meanwhile the Catholic Archbishops of Westminster and Southwark, Vincent Nichols and Peter Smith, issued an irenic "pastoral" letter. "We have a duty to married people today," they wrote, "and to those who come after us, to do all we can to ensure that the true meaning of marriage is not lost for future generations." Evidence of disagreement on this and other matters was more conspicuous in the Catholic media, where much of the fragmented state of Church identity is played out. In the broadest terms, Catholicism in the west is divided between the "scruffies" – who strive for an inclusive "big tent" Church (accepting a pluralism of viewpoints and practice, especially on sexual morality and gender) – and the "straights", who espouse a strictly defined identity, obedient to papal teaching, and declare, for instance, that you can't help it if you're gay but it's a grave sin to get up to anything. The Catholic journalist Damian Thompson, a vociferous "straight", attacked the inclusivist-inclined Archbishop Nichols from his Telegraph blog, accusing him of "PC waffling", and of currying favour with Catholic homosexuals by allowing "rainbow activists" to celebrate "diversity" with gay-friendly Masses in Soho. Archbishop Nichols, he opined, had become wobbly on same-sex legal unions. Thompson, nicknamed "the blood-crazed ferret" by liberal Catholic journalists (charity is not high on the virtue agenda of Catholic bloggers), is a former editor of the conservative Catholic Herald. That paper weighed in to praise Cardinal O'Brien for his "courage", blaming the gay marriage proposal, and its defenders and fence-sitters, on "metropolitan liberals". Included in the Herald's liberal hall of infamy was its chief competitor, the international weekly newspaper the Tablet, a routine victim of Thompson's sharp tongue. The Tablet had roundly criticised Cardinal O'Brien for his "ill-chosen words", accusing him of doing "a disservice to the cause he is trying to support". The paper also hosted in its pages an article by the feminist Catholic theologian Tina Beattie, who opined that "maybe we heterosexuals need the marriages of our homosexual friends to help us to understand what marriage looks like when it's not corrupted by traditions of domination and subordination". Papal stick As the prospects for schism in the Anglican Church loom large with Rowan Williams's imminent departure from Canterbury, the Catholic Church is obviously not speaking with one voice. The Anglican Communion lacks a pope to impose conformity by putting a bit of stick about; and Benedict XVI has not been slow to declare that marriage is "by nature" designed for the procreation of children. Yet many scruffies who yearn for more local discretion and freedom of thought and expression believe that the papal stick is part of the problem of Catholicism's centrifugal tendencies, not the solution. Up to the 1950s, we Catholics knew what we believed. We walked in step – even though it felt at times like a goose-step. We attended an identical Mass the world over, incomprehensibly in Latin (liturgical conformity is not always what it's cracked up to be). With a Darwinian instinct for survival against all predators, we were conscious of the difference between Catholic and non-Catholic – me and not me. Then came the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s, when the Catholic Church began to engage with society, other Christian denominations and other religions. The Council called for a decentralised Church. The leading metaphor was a "pilgrim people of God on the move", instead of the "Citadel" of previous modern popes. Catholics were invited to converse rather than merely listen and obey. So we discussed sex and gender issues: contraception, divorce, remarriage, married priests, women priests, being gay . . . We discussed; but nothing much changed, except that 100,000 clergy left the priesthood, mostly because they no longer wished to remain celibate. Through the 1970s and 1980s, as the post-conciliar enthusiasms settled and soured, the Church was dividing between conservatives, who believed that the surrender of authority from the centre had gone too far, and progressives, who believed that the process had gone full speed into reverse. A case in point was Pope Paul VI's verdict against contraception in 1968. Had the bishops and the faithful been given the freedom to decide, in keeping with the proposed decentralised norms, on whether contraception was a sin or not, Catholics would have been allowed to practise contraception in good conscience. Paul VI's verdict meant that they could not. Under Pope John Paul II, the clawing back of authority continued. He became the great centraliser, keeping a tight grip on the nomination of bishops, oppressing dissident theologians, outlawing liberation theology in South America. Contraception, he pronounced, was a "grave" sin comparable with abortion, to be forgiven only in confession. Aids victims who used condoms to protect their partners from infection were also in grave sin. Most married Catholics were on the Pill at some point or another. Incapable of making a "firm purpose of amendment", they stopped going to confession – yet they continued to go to communion. The split between practice and teaching had opened up a chasm. John Paul II was the darling of conservatives who longed for a return of the Church of the ice-box control freak Pope Pius XII (1939-58). That John Paul had helped topple communism and was a man of great charisma enabled him to keep the liberals onside; but only just. The election of Benedict XVI has been a huge disappointment for liberals. Given his age, it is largely seen as a caretaker pontificate, continuing the policies of John Paul II, and yet there is an underlying atmosphere of unreality, of suspense, as the faithful await the next papacy. As well as the split between teaching and practice, a central problem is Catholic moral influence. The testing ground for Catholic moral authority in anglophone countries has been located mainly in church-state relations. In the United States, bishops have been in dispute with Barack Obama's administration over new health-care insurance arrangements, determined to ensure that these will not provide workers with coverage for contraception, sterilisation and abortion-inducing drugs. The Irish government has been wrestling with the Catholic hierarchy over rules to eradicate future clerical sexual abuse. In Britain, the Labour government clashed with the hierarchy over equality issues as practised by Catholic adoption agencies – specifically, the state's requirement that same-sex couples not be discriminated against. But who speaks authentically for the Catholic moral viewpoint? And is anyone taking notice? A crucial catalyst for the decline in Catholic moral influence has been the scandal of paedophile priests. Catholics are fundamentally divided over its systemic causes. Conservatives blame the liberalising tendencies of Vatican II; the progressive view (shared by many non-Catholics) blames Catholic clericalism – its secrecy, entitlements, privileges, celibacy. The scandal has noticeably weakened the Catholic Church's moral voice, even in its work relating to poverty. Its "Common Good" social ethics, invoking grass-roots responsibility and action, have made a positive contribution to the postwar world, but its influence has been diminished by papal intransigence on the use of condoms to combat the spread of Aids in Africa. Against this background, Cardinal O'Brien's huffing and puffing appears both comic and grotesque. Apart from those conservative constituencies that think O'Brien "courageous", many Catholics in England and Wales object to the implication that his views represent Catholic identity. Small wonder that the Catholic commentator Clifford Longley, an author of the Common Good document in Britain, opened an edition of Radio 4's Moral Maze by saying that the cardinal's outburst was encouraging him to "join the other camp". Yet Longley's comment is hardly dissent: for dissent requires opposition to recognised authority, and disagreement over what constitutes authentic Catholicism can be seen at every level. Outside Detroit last summer, a group of Catholics known as Call to Holiness, including bishops, priests and laypeople, held their 13th annual conference to promote strict obedience to papal teaching and to condemn liberal Catholicism. Up the road, a liberal group known as Call to Action, similarly composed of lay and clerical delegates, met to repudiate the claims of Call to Holiness and all it stands for. When the local bishop refused to espouse either side, the influential conservative online Catholic World Report condemned him as a liberal. Meanwhile, a neighbouring diocesan bishop excommunicated 13 members of Call to Action, arguing that they were heretical. Kiss of peace Catholic factionalism is rife across the globe, from the Roman centre to the peripheries of the developing world. Take the ultra-conservative television and radio news operation in North America EWTN (the Eternal Word Television Network), run by an Ohioan nun, Mother Angelica. She reaches 148 million homes and countless viewers and listeners in 144 countries. When she disagreed with a pastoral letter on liturgy promulgated by Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles, she trashed it as a liberal hotchpotch peddling sociology at the expense of religious mystery. She instructed the audience to accord "zero obedience" to the cardinal. EWTN has also been known to promote creationism and calls Darwin "a fraud". The station's critics call it "fundamentalist", yet its fans proclaim it as "Catholic mainstream". The proliferation of opinion and internecine bickering has been given prodigious impetus by Catholic internet sites, with their unstoppable capacity to challenge and subvert Rome's authority. Rome may lay down the law through lapidary encyclicals and pastoral letters, but hosts of liberal, progressive, conservative, neoconservative, restorationist and reactionary factions then have their say on the web. I attend a Catholic church called Corpus Christi in Covent Garden, London. The congregation is made up of workers from local restaurants, bars and hotels and, on weekdays, office workers. Looking about the church, one gets an impression of the parishioners' lands of origin: there are some 60 nationalities, I am told. It is a reminder that 70 per cent of the Catholic faithful live in the southern hemisphere, and that the Church's centre of gravity has moved to the developing regions of Latin America and Africa, and to Pacific countries such as the Philippines. We sit and stand and sing together, share the small wafer of bread and exchange the kiss of peace. Most of the congregation would be surprised to learn that the Catholic Church is in crisis. Yet, even while the Church might thrive in their far-flung countries of origin, our congregation in Convent Garden cannot for long escape the greying of the priesthood in Britain, or the defections of the young, the marginalised and the discouraged who have lost heart and turned away. If all those members of the faithful who came from Ireland, and their families and descendants, had kept the faith, there would be 15 million Catholics in Britain by now. Because of defections, there are just over four million who call themselves Catholic. Since the mid-1960s, regular attendance at Mass has dropped from two million to a million – not even a quarter of the nominally Catholic population. Of these, about 40 per cent of married couples will divorce and remarry; most will have practised contraception and sex before marriage; hardly any go to confession. Many Catholics expected, some hoped, that Benedict XVI would expel Catholics, including priests, who did not follow the strict teachings of the Church. A new pope may well do so, risking divisions similar to those in the Church of England. The Cambridge historian Eamon Duffy once described the Catholic Church as a "conversation" reaching back and forwards in time and space; but there are other current images. There is talk, even in the Vatican, of the Church as a black hole, a dysfunctional family. As Cardinal Ratzinger, Benedict XVI once referred to the Church as a collapsing star, the detritus of dissent and relativism spinning in orbit around the shrinking mass of the true remnant. Catacombs Great world religions do not survive when they begin to yield to sectarianism. The unifying power of the papacy still holds the warring factions together in a semblance of cohesion, but is mere lip-service to papal authority enough to secure this? The conservatives of the Church stick close to papal dictates, appropriating for themselves the identity of true Catholicism. At what price for Catholic moral and spiritual influence in the world, however? Benedict XVI once commented that Catholicism might well shrink and retreat to a catacomb existence in order to retain its authentic identity, allowing dissenters to do their thing outside the Church. He has not acted on that vision. And this month, he turns 85; he is increasingly frail, and the clock is ticking. His successor, possibly a younger conservative reared in the ambience of the staunch former Cardinal Ratzinger, may yet make the catacomb a reality. The result would almost certainly be a widespread revolt of the faithful, clergy and bishops. There is a view among liberal Catholics that the Church of England is a kind of laboratory, in which the future of the Catholic Church is being worked out in advance. If this is the case, Catholics cannot afford to be complacent about the problems of their Anglican brethren. Certainly they can take no comfort from a Church of England that seems destined for ever greater fragmentation, division and ultimate schism. For the Anglican Church today could be the Roman Church of tomorrow. John Cornwell's most recent book is "Newman's Unquiet Grave: the Reluctant Saint" (Continuum, £18.99). 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Bovo is part of the KDE project http://www.kde.org/.
Bovo can be found in the kdegames package on ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/, the main FTP site of the KDE project.
For detailed information on how to compile and install KDE applications see Building and Running KDE Software From Source
Since KDE uses cmake you should have no trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the KDE mailing lists.
Connect five of your own pieces in an unbroken row vertically, horizontally or diagonally.
The first time Bovo is started it is launched in demo mode where two AI players battle each other. You can always start a new game using the New button on the toolbar, the Game → New menu entry on the menubar or using the default shortcut Ctrl+N.
Note:If you are the first player - start the game by placing your pictogram anywhere on the playing field. If you are the second player wait until the first player places the pictogram and then do the same yourself. You can place your mark into any square on the field, unless it's already occupied by another game piece (regardless of whether it's your pictogram or that of your opponent's).
Because the first player always has an advantage over the second player, Bovo will alternate the players, switching them every new game.
You have to place your pieces in a way that prevents your opponent from connecting five marks in an unbroken row vertically, horizontally or diagonally. In the same time you have to connect five of your own pieces in an unbroken row vertically, horizontally or diagonally. Whoever succeeds in doing so first – wins the round.
Game Rules.
Players take turn to place their respective marks on the playing board.
A player cannot move their already placed mark or put their mark upon an already placed mark.
Players cannot forfeit their turns.
Player who reaches five marks connected in a straight line (be it vertical, horizontal or diagonal) wins the game.
Game Tips
When Bovo is started the first time, it needs resizing. Resize the game window to desired size, and Bovo will scale up the playing board.
The first time Bovo is started it is launched in demo mode, where two AI players battle each other.
When Bovo is exited prior to game over, the active game is auto saved. If Bovo detects an auto saved game at startup, it is restored. If not, Bovo launches a demo mode.
You can always start a new game with the New button in the toolbar, the Game → New menu entry in the menubar or with the default shortcut Ctrl+N.
If a new game is started when a game is already active, it is counted as a loss.
Changing the difficulty can be done with the Difficulty drop down box in the right end of the status bar, or from the Settings → Difficulty menu in the menubar.
The effect of changing difficulty takes place immediately.
You can switch the theme of Bovo from the Settings → Theme menu in the menubar. The theme is then switched immediately.
Animation can be switched on or off as you like from the Settings → Animation menu in the menubar.
If you just realized you made a very bad move, you have the possibility to undo your last move from the toolbar, the menubar or with the default undo keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Z.
You can keep on undoing moves until you reaches the beginning of the game.
If you don't know what move to make, you can get a hint from the computer player with the Hint button. The game piece suggested by the Bovo AI then flashes for a brief period of time.
When a game is over, the Replay action is enabled, which starts a replay of the last game.
Interface Overview.
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Game → New (Ctrl+N)
Starts a new game.
Game → Replay
Replay the last game.
Game → Quit (Ctrl+Q)
Selecting this item will end your current game, and exit Bovo.
Move → Undo (Ctrl+Z)
Undo the last move you made.
Move → Hint (H)
Display a hint for the next move. The game piece suggested by the Bovo AI then flashes for a brief period of time.
Settings → Theme
Choose one of the themes Scribble, High Contrast, Spacy or Gomoku for the game.
Settings → Animation
Switch the animation on or off.
Settings → Difficulty
Choose the game difficulty from various levels from Ridiculously Easy up to Impossible.
Additionally Bovo has the common KDE Settings and Help menu items, for more information read the sections about the Settings Menu and Help Menu of the KDE Fundamentals.
Frequently asked questions.
I want to change the way this game looks. Can I?
Yes. To change Bovo's visual theme you can use the Settings → Theme option on the menubar
Can I use the keyboard to play this game
No. The game of Bovo cannot be played using keyboard.
I have to quit the game now, but I am not finished yet. Can I save my progress?
No. There is no "Save" feature in Bovo.
Where are the highscores?
Bovo does not have this feature.
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Volume 11, Issue 1: Eschaton
Jack Van Deventer
Remember back in the 1970's when just about every Christian you knew was eagerly anticipating the end times? The Late, Great Planet Earth set the stage for an enthusiastic expectancy of the "any moment" rapture. This event was supposed to whisk us away from all our hurts and heartaches. It was a time when the Jesus Movement was catching on, the charis-matics were flourishing, hippies were turning to Jesus, Bob Dylan had supposedly converted to Christ, and Norman Greenbaum (who never sinned) had "a friend in Jesus" and a top hit with "Spirit in the Sky."
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For those of you who want to (or have to) cover your arms during your ceremony, you'll want to pay attention. Yesterday's Pronovias Barcelona Spring 2012 show was full of super-pretty ideas for covering up without looking stodgy, and I'm excited to show them to you!
First, you'll have to excuse my terrible, terrible photo quality, but the prettiness is so obvious, I'm sure you'll get the gist and be excited, regardless. Now, let's examine the back of three very lovely gowns:
First, an embellished sheer poncho-shawl:
Next, a lacy, long-sleeved bolero (how delicate!):
And finally, a Kate Middleton-esque lacy long sleeve:
You'll have to wait until photos are released to see the front, hehe, but I hope you're inspired by this lil' sneak peek!
And, before I leave you to discuss the dreamy styles above, I MUST show you this photo of perhaps my new favorite model:
BAM. Look at those arms! Love, love, love how sexy those muscles are looking on a runway—especially a bridal runway!
Will you be covering your arms for your wedding? Would you consider one of these options for your ceremony, or are you going to be trying something else?
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Two Jiffy bags have exploded within 24 hours at companies which help administer penalty tickets.
Last night, firms, councils and police forces linked to motoring fines were put on alert over concerns that more bombs could be in the post.
A blast yesterday left two male workers at the accountancy firm Vantis in Wokingham, Berkshire, with injuries to their hands and upper bodies.
The explosion came a day after a parcel exploded at the UK headquarters of Capita, which runs the congestion charge scheme in Central London. It injured a woman postroom worker.
All the victims' injuries were minor but detectives warn that the next victim could be seriously hurt.
Possible links to three letter bombs sent in January to addresses in Oxfordshire and Birmingham are being investigated. Officers previously thought they were sent by animal rights extremists.
Vantis handles accounts for road camera operator Speed Check Services. The bomb was addressed to SCS managing director Paul Davey.
His wife, Mary, said her husband phoned just after the device went off to warn her not to open the mail.
She said: "It was terrifying but we can't let this person win, so we will carry on as normal."
The firm, which is based in Camberley, Surrey, uses Vantis as its official registered office.
Vantis's address appears on SCS letters to motorists. It operates a network of SPECS digital cameras which catch speeding drivers out by reading their numberplates and measuring their average speed between two points.
Touted on the firm's website as "the ultimate deterrent", such cameras are partly responsible for the rising number of speeding tickets issued each year.
The Capita bomb – addressed to chief executive Paul Pindar – was opened in Victoria, Central London, on Monday morning.
The injured woman is still being treated for cuts to her stomach and hands but is making a good recovery.
More than two million fixed-penalty tickets are handed out each year, generating around £120 million.
They are triggered by more than 6,000 cameras administered by operators such as police forces and local "safety partnerships".
But many fine and debt collections are carried out by firms such as Capita. The rapid increase in fines for illegal parking, speeding or failing to pay tolls has angered many motorists and speed cameras have been vandalised, burnt and even stolen.
Anti-camera campaigner "Captain Gatso", director of Motorists Against Detection, said last night: "We're not responsible for these attacks and do not condone causing injury.
"However, there is a war against motorists and it seems this is an act of retaliation."
The five letter-bomb attacks are being investigated by the National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit – a police squad that deals with domestic fanatics – with the help of anti-terror officers from Scotland Yard.
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I've given up on yet another Southern California Cadillac dealership. Some of you may recall the two shocking incidents I had with Mark Christopher Cadillac over my oil filter that had been tightened with channel lock pliers or the like, and on a separate incidence, their reluctance to replace a battery that was clearly defective. But thanks to many on this forum, Mark Christopher Cadillac's reputation was thoroughly destroyed as the service advisor that I was dealing with attempted to save face by posting on that very thread, which of course only further propagated the thread's popularity, which eventually earned itself as being the number 2 link to appear on Google when one searched for "Mark Christopher Cadillac." It currently occupies the fourth position. Never underestimate the power of the internet.:worship:
My story with Crestview Cadillac (of West Covina, not Rochester) goes back to my first mistake of purchasing my car from those retards and my initial frustration with them as they told me that the CTS-V doesn't come with a factory alarm. In any case, after the two disastrous cases with Mark Christopher, I decided to try Crestview's service to see if it would be any better than Mark Christopher's. My initial impressions were good, but after receiving my car back the first time, I quickly realized that they must have had the new guy who was just promoted from car washer work on my V.
Long story slightly shorter, my sunvisor was replaced due to the fabric peeling from under the Homelink unit, but the idiot forgot to plug it in. One would think they would've at least flipped the mirror to check to see if the vanity light worked but that is asking too much, especially when GM pays so little for warranty work. The worst of it was that I brought my car in for a loud rattle coming from the rear suspension area. They replaced the shock certain that it was fixed. Sure enough, on the drive home the rattle was there and just as loud. So I take it back for the sunvisor and the rattle, and they argue with me that the rattle has to be gone because they were certain it was the shock. Turned out that whoever worked on the car didn't tighten the shock properly and it was still rattling.
So, like an idiot, I take my car back to them a few weeks ago for the whine, the sunvisor yet again, traces of oil leakage around the oil pan, sunroof rattle, door panel rattle, NAV unit peeling, grease leaking from the driveshaft (no joke, and the replacement driveshaft seems to have eliminated the clunk:thumbsup: but made the 6th gear whine far worse) and a loose A-pillar; basically just maintenance stuff for a GM.:bigroll: So I get the car back and they claim the whine is due to the GM wheel hop bushings that they didn't even know were made by GM and if I want to argue about it then they will just send out Larry Marvin (who I was later informed by this forum is now at Saab), the sunroof rattle is normal and there is nothing GM will do about it without the regional reps approval, the loose A-pillar is also normal and the door panel rattle which is so apparent on any type of bumpy road they claimed they could not reproduce. They also tried to blame my B&M short throw shifter for the whine saying that the foam is missing (complete BS, in fact I've added more foam), and my Falken RT-615's claiming that they are far noisier than the runflats, which is not true also. But they did do something about the traces of oil by resealing the oil pan.
While I appreciate their meager efforts, the last straw that finally compelled me to warn my V brothers of the incompetence that is Crestview Cadillac, is the fact that their resealing of my oil pan has resulted in a full blown oil leak! After my experiences with these goons, I do not believe that it is at all premature or with presumption that I bestow upon them the title of, "The Kings of Incompetence."


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Originally posted on NESN.com | Last updated 9/13/13
The quack attack is back, Jack. The Anaheim Ducks will pay homage to their roots when they celebrate their franchise's 20th anniversary this season. The team announced that the players will wear commemorative patches on their sweaters all season, and Ducks goalie Viktor Fasth is getting in the throwback spirit with his new face mask art. The mask features the classic purple and teal color scheme of the original Mighty Ducks, and it was designed by Dave Gunnarsson as a tribute to the Mighty Ducks' first goalie, Guy Herbert. "On a distance it is a classic old school design, and when you come closer you will discover all the details and the mask enters a new dimension with all the DAVEART trademarks effects," Gunnarsson said on his Facebook page (via Puck Daddy). "Among the details you will find the Duck years, Hebert's player number and much more." Gunnarsson said the mask was made to like it had traveled through time 20 years as it has scratches and scuff marks along with "rust" around the screws. "It's like Viktor found this 20 years [sic] old mask in the attic and just dusted it a bit and started to play," Gunnarsson said. Check out the epic throwback mask in the photos below. Photo via Facebook/DAVEART.com Filed under: Alison Smith, Headlines, NHL
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Date of Stay: September, 2005
We are easy to please and over many days this was the only CG in AZ/NM we were not pleased with. First, the good is that there are some nice views and the staff initially nice. Pleasant smell with small juniper trees throughout. Unfortunately, very uneven sites and on this I wish we had heeded some previous reviews. The "pool" is very small and the "movie" theatre is just a small TV set up in front of a few chairs. Staff nice at first but not responsive about poor restroom condition. We moved on after one night to the KOA up the road and found it much more satisfactory in every way (including price!).
Date of Stay: August, 2005
We moved here after finding a campground (a mile or 2 down the same road unacceptable and had a terrific stay here. Staff incredibly helpful. Sites have many trees but are typically the short junipers found in this area. We had a "roomy" site. Convenient to Santa Fe (15 min) and to Pecos National Forest (15 min). We camped here in 2005 as part of a long trip and it was one of our nicest places. Would go back if in area.
Date of Stay: August, 2005
Outstanding in every way. Very clean and private restrooms with private showers. Even sites with great views, many on Lakefront. Nice fishing and canoeing and beautiful trails. Very quiet. Probably the best site on our long AZ/NM trip.


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Is There A Time Limit In Which I Need To File A Lawsuit For Medical Malpractice?
According to statute, a medical malpractice action for personal injury or death must be filed within two years from the date of the alleged act, omission, or neglect. A minor under the age of six has until his eighth birthday to file a lawsuit. Legal disability does not toll the medical malpractice statute of limitations.
Unlike most medical malpractice statutes of limitations, the Indiana law measured the limitations period from the time of treatment and not from the moment of reasonable discovery. The Indiana Supreme Court found the twoyear statute of limitations unconstitutional as it applied to a victim of undiagnosed breast cancer and held that it cannot be constitutionally applied in cases where the long latency period of a medical condition prevents the injured party from discovering the malpractice within two years. When this exception applies, the claimant may file within two years of the discovery of the malpractice and resulting injury; or when it reasonably should have been discovered.
Speak to an Experienced Medical Malpractice Attorney Today
This article is intended to be helpful and informative. But even common legal matters can become complex and stressful. A qualified medical malpractice lawyer can address your particular legal needs, explain the law, and represent you in court. Take the first step now and contact a local medical malpractice attorney to discuss your specific legal situation.
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The other day, you gave us some suggestions on how to prevent computer theft, but what if it's already happened? What are we supposed to do if our computers are stolen? It hasn't happened to me, but I did have a friend who had their laptop taken from them and I'd just like to know what we're supposed to do in that kind of situation. Please share any tips you may have!
There's nothing like being prepared and that's exactly what you're doing for yourself by asking this question, so I give props to you! Yes, the other day (on Wednesday to be exact), I wrote an article that gave you some tips on what you can do to prevent your computer from being stolen. That tip was mainly for laptop owners, because they often have their laptops with them wherever they go, but it could happen to desktop owners as well. If you use a desktop computer, you're not exempt from the theft that goes on from day to day. It could happen to anyone!
If you've ever had your computer stolen, you know how stressful it can be. It's always an unfortunate thing, but there are some things you can do to fight it. These are things every computer user should know, so even if it's never happened to you, it's a good idea to keep these things in mind. I really hope it never happens to any of you, but like I said before, there's nothing like being prepared just in case. Below are a few suggestions on what you should do if your computer is taken from you. Let's take a look!
1.) Contact the Authorities – As with any other crime, computer theft should be reported to your local authorities as soon as possible. If your computer was taken from your home, you should report a burglary so that a statement can be written up about your missing property. The sooner you do that, the easier it might be to find your computer and get it back to you. Also, if your computer is stolen, you'll probably want to put an insurance claim on it and insurance companies always ask for a police report, so you'll just be saving yourself some time in the end.
Now, what if you have your laptop with you outside of your home and it's taken from you? What do you do then? Well, for example, if your laptop is stolen while you're at the airport, always notify the airport security about the situation. They will be able to write up an incident report for you there and then get the police involved if need be. Or, maybe you take your laptop to work with you. In that case, it's always possible that one of your fellow employees will take it. If that happens, you should contact one of your superiors or even the human resources department. They should be able to help you in that type of situation. No matter where it happens, always contact a superior and they should be able to help you get things straightened out.
2.) Always Protect Yourself – After contacting the authorities, you should then worry about protecting the information that was on your computer. To do that, you will need to be on a computer, so if you can, use a friend's computer, go to the library, a school or just any place that has an available computer with Internet access. Once you've found a PC to use, you should do the following:
Log in to any accounts you had set up on your computer (bank accounts, your e-mail account, PayPal, iTunes, eBay, any instant messaging accounts, etc.) and change your passwords. If that information was saved on your computer, whoever stole it could have easy access to all your personal information, so you want to shut that avenue down right away.
- If you have any other sensitive information saved on your computer (any of your bills, bank PIN numbers, credit card information, cell phone numbers and so on), you should contact those companies to either flag your account or change it altogether. Some companies can even monitor your account for you, just to be sure no unusual activity is going on.
- Next, you should contact the manufacturer of your computer to let them know what has happened. They can make a note in their database that your computer has been stolen and if anyone tries calling in for support on it, they can notify you.
- You should also take the time to learn more about identity theft, because with your computer gone, you're at more risk of it happening to you.
- Depending on what you use your computer for, you may have some of your work information saved on it. If any of it is confidential company information, government related information or stored personal information of others, you should notify your employer right away so that they can take the necessary steps to protect themselves as well.
3.) Getting It Back – Once you've taken care of everything else, you can then think about getting your computer back. You will definitely need your computer's serial and model numbers, so if you don't have that information written down, contact the manufacturer and they should be able to get it for you. You should then give that information to your local authorities as well. That way, if they happen to find your computer, they will know exactly what to look for and they can easily contact you about it.
You can also try leaving some of your "not so sensitive" accounts open to see if any activity occurs on them. For example, a MySpace account, a Facebook account, a Flickr account, a YouTube account, etc. If you log in to those accounts from another computer, you will be able to see if anyone else has been using them. If you do notice some activity, that may help in identifying the thief. You should also keep an eye out at local pawn shops and even in the newspaper want ads to see if the thief is trying to sell your computer. You can even try placing an ad in the newspaper for a lost computer. Make sure you describe your computer the best you can and include its serial number. You may even want to offer a reward if it's found. One last thing you can do is visit such Web sites as www.stolencomputers.org. Their main purpose is to list and find stolen computers, so they may be able to help you out as well.
Hopefully some of these suggestions will help those of you who have gone through the awful experience of computer theft, as well as, preparing the rest of you just in case it ever does become reality. Stay safe!
~ Erin


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How long has he been doing this? How long after eating does he vomit and is it after every meal?
He throws up after every meal for a couple of days, then nothing for several days, then again for a couple of days. We used to think it was because of him eating too much too fast, then we worried it was because of moving too much, but we have been at the same place for a while now and he just started doing this about a month ago.
Thanks for the information. There can be several possible reasons for this problem. One could be hairballs. Even though he may not bring hairballs up in the vomit, he could have hairballs in the intestines that slow the transit of food out of the stomach and can cause vomiting after eating. Feeding him laxatone or petromalt 2-3 times a day for 2-3 days should help remove any hairballs and if that stops the vomiting, then it was probably the problem.
Another possibility is that as he has aged, his intestinal tract and stomach may have become more sensitive and more easily irritated. In this case, feeding a food designed for sensitive stomachs may help him tolerate the food and more easily digest it, which usually reduces the problem of vomiting. I have had good results with Hills sensitive stomach or Hills i/d. It may take a few weeks of feeding these foods to see results.
Vomiting is not usually a classical symptom seen with dental problems so I agree that this is not likely to be the problem. Another thing I see in older cats is development of liver or kidney disease which can cause intermittent vomiting. This can be diagnosed by a blood test from your vet.
When I see a case like this, I typically try the laxatone first, the food next and if these don't help then the blood tests. If he becomes lethargic, stops eating or develops other symptoms, then the blood tests may need to be done soon to see if there is internal organ (liver/kidney) disease present. Another thing you could try is feeding the sensitive stomach food in very small amounts every 2-3 hours to see if that makes a difference. Try feeding 1/8 of a cup or less every 2-3 hours.
He is still very active, and is certainly not losing any weight, so hopefully that will make it stop. He never does cough up any hairballs.
As some cats age they can develop a slower motility through the intestinal tract and the combination of very small meals and easily digested food can help . Since he is active and alert , this may be all that he needs and would certainly be worth trying. Again it may take a week or 2 to see results from these suggestions.
Your advice has been great. I do have one more question. We have been giving him a hairball control food. Which, like I said, hasn't made him cough up hairballs but can these foods keep portions of the hairballs in his system? We have been feeding him Iams.
I have had some cats with hairballs that need something a little stronger than hairball food. It seems that the ingredients in hairball removal foods is enough to possibly prevent hairballs, but not enough to remove hairballs that are already present. The laxatone or petromalt usually does a better job at removing hairballs. The only reason I mention these is that it is easy to address hairballs and shouldn't hurt anything even if there are no hairballs.
Thank you oh so much. We will definitely start with changing to a sensitive food diet and giving him the petromalt. Is there a way to contact you back to let you know his progress?
Yes this question should be open and available for several weeks for updates.


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I'm starting to get sick of the sweet Italian vermouth each week, and dream of the day when juice will come to save me.
I know I'm being silly about vermouth, but it's going to be a weekly ritual and maybe by next month I can find some appreciation for it.
This week's "hard to find" ingredient was the bitters.
The United States bitters market is in a boom, and its getting very hard to find any style of bitters not in production.
I called around to some of my cocktail supply stores looking for Boonecamp or Boonekamp to find none available. I then in desperation did a search on eBay to find a group in San Francisco building one. I put my order in and when it came found out that it was just another anise ploy.
My first feeling was great vermouth and anise – what a sign of the times! I can't seem to get away from the taste of black liquorice and vermouth.
Original recipe
Three fourths Scotch
2 dashes Italian Vermouth
Dash Boonecamp Bitters
My try on the recipe
Two ounce Balvenie 15
One ounce sweet Italian vermouth
1 dash San Francisco Boonekamp Bitters
Add all ingredients to a glass with ice, and stir with the bar spoon. Use your julep strainer and strain into your chilled cocktail glass.
I have no idea why this bitters and vermouth did what it did. They both tamed the Scotch and made for a decent cocktail. This cocktail made it in my top three so far. It's still very dry, but it's refreshing where the cocktails with Sherry and vermouth have not been. I don't taste any anise in this drink, and that's a good thing from my point of view.
If you're following along with the book also you will see that next week I'm going to skip the Blanchard for the Bobby Burns. I find that the Blanchard is just another Ballentine, and I'm not sure my taste buds can do another week of that.