text: Hi eric, Thanks for starting the thread! I picked up the complete series and like the threads that allow us to share/comment on episodes. I have watched many episodes and still to this day these episodes capitivate me. It is hard to pick episode as my favourite as their are many. I have, however, watch some episodes that people on this thread have picked like hitchhiker. The hitchhiker was amazing episode, especially the ending!! I could also talked about the episodes with William Shatner as well, especially the fortune teller machine. The fortune teller machine was a great, especially how william shatner's character continue fascination with the machine. I like also the episode with the actress going back to her home town and the ending!! Rod Serling did some right with how the plots solve themselves over the episodes.

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Legal Question in Immigration Law in California
I am a US Citizen and i just filed form I130 for my son who is above 21
- My son is currently single but was married in 2006 and divorced in 2010
I've selected Divorced in form I130 and mentioned his marriage end date.
My question
Which category would my son come under F1A or F3? or any other category?
Thank you for your time
Asked on 7/09/13, 3:51 pm
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Marlene Hemmings Marlene Hemmings, Attorney at Law
He is F-1, because he is unmarried. It doesn't matter if he is unmarried due to divorce, death,or never having been married. As long as he was not married when you filed the I-130 & remains unmarried, then his category shall remain F-1.
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If you're looking to buy the N7 Collector's Edition of Mass Effect 3, you might want to place your order soon. Major retailers are reporting that they've sold out their supplies of the bundle.
"Due to high demand (and possibly the imminent Reaper invasion), we have unfortunately run out of our pre-order allocation for Mass Effect 3 - Collector's Edition for Xbox 360," reads a note on Amazon. "We are looking to secure additional allocation from the publisher and will update this page if that occurs. Please note -- if you have already pre-ordered this edition -- do not cancel as you may not be able to re-order."
Gamestop's website, meanwhile, lists the PC and Xbox 360 versions of the CE as "currently unavailable online." It would seem that that retailer has burned through their supply as well.
Though Amazon said that they're looking to get more copies of the CE, that's unlikely to happen.
"Sorry, there simply cannot be any more physical CEs made before launch," said BioWare's Chris Priestly on the BioWare Social Network. "The items included in the physical edition cannot be made in time for launch. Sorry, it will not happen. This is why, back in November, I started warning people that the CE would run out."
The CE comes with an artbook, comic, and exclusive DLC. It's priced at $79.99. Retailers started listing it for pre-order back in June.
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would this annoy you??
I quit smoking 4 months ago. When I did smoke it was very rare with the kids in the car. And I never ever smoked in my house. Co workers never knew I smoked cuz they couldn't smell it on me.
To my point. I pick up the kids and they reek. Like their dad and gf smoked a pack each while around the kids. They both smoke in the car and in the apartment. I had to bathe them when we got home because I didn't want that smell in my house. Yes it does transfer.
I've asked him to stop doing it with the kids in the car. But he just gets pissy. DD just told me last night they smoke in the apartment. To each their own. But why can't they walk downstairs to the outside? I have tons of beef with him. And he just seems to add to it.
I would be mad that he is smoking around my children. If he makes the choice to smoke, so be it, but he should not force that choice on the children.
I could care less about the clothes or the smell, I'd be more concerned about the second hand smoke that he is subjecting my children too, and for that, I'd want to ring his neck
yes it would annoy me but thats not really anything you can do about it.
some states have laws where you cant somke in the house or in the car with children. i would look into that
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That's why I stopped allowing my kids to go to DHs grandmothers house. She and her husband chain smoke inside. Even though they don't smoke inside while the kids are there (which I guess I appreciated), we still all came home smelling like cigarettes. It was disgusting.
it annoys the crap out of me! Both my husband and I are non smokers and hate the smell. He dips but it smells like wintergreen.
You can not control what others do in their own home. I think it's gross but since they are adults and the ex is the father he gets to decide.


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SXSW Music: I Want Candy
Charli XCX headlined Monday night at Mohawk
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12:20PM, Wed. Mar. 12, 2014
What do you get when you cross a SXSW party sponsored by Mike's Harder Lemonade and headlined by Brit pop star, Charli XCX?
Sugar overload, obviously.
As the headliner on a night of lesser-known acts, Charli XCX took the Mohawk stage just after 10pm and just in time for the rain.
But that didn't stop the 90s-inspired singer from wearing her sunglasses at night and flipping her curls. And it definitely didn't stop the drunk-on-Mike's crowd from cheering, dancing, and jumping on stage.
After several songs Charli, backed by an all femme-band, broke into a cover of Bow Wow Wow's… I mean the Strangelove's 1965 hit "I Want Candy" (who knew that song was that old?!).
It seemed like pure fate that we, as an audience, would all be holding onto a can of Mike's Blood Orange (this stuff tastes like Red Bull meets cherry cough medicine), and singing along to "Candy on the beach, there's nothing better / But I like candy when it's wrapped in a sweater."
A great show to kickoff the SXSW music portion, the night definitely touched upon the conference's sweet tooth.
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Sherrington: Mavs' offensive potential is obvious — now if they could only play some defense
One of the best things about this year's Mavs is that they're not last year's Mavs, who were so challenged at times they were lucky to get past midcourt with all their clothes.
What we've learned about this team is that Monta Ellis can fill it up. Jose Calderon provides a calming effect.
Dirk Nowitzki isn't dead yet.
All of which is pretty much what we expected and a good thing, at that, because not much has changed otherwise.
Occasionally, as in Sunday's 116-106 win over the Pistons before 19,662 at American Airlines Center, the Mavs manage most of what Rick Carlisle recommended before the game. Play a little defense, rebound, try not to throw the ball to the other team.
Unfortunately, they haven't demonstrated much ability to accomplish all of the above on a regular basis. This has been a liability, in fact, since about 2011.
"We've got to find a way to get more consistent," Shawn Marion said, "on offense or defense."
If it's only going to be one or the other, Shawn, which is it?
"Which one's been better so far?"
"I'll probably stick with that."
A smart bet, too, and not just because Nowitzki scored 28 points in 32 minutes and Devin Harris apparently is in mid-season form. The Mavs aren't always going to shoot 58 percent, and they can't always play the Pistons. But their offensive potential is obvious. Led by Harris' 14 points, the Mavs' deep bench supplied 46 points Sunday. This really shouldn't be too much to ask of a team with the seventh-best offensive rating in the league, though you'd hardly know it lately, the way they've been throwing the ball all over the gym.
"Chaotic," is the way Marion described some of the offensive play Sunday. Ellis had eight turnovers all by himself. What has to happen from here on out, Carlisle said, is that if the players expect to get a free hand to run the flow offense that Kidd made popular here, they can't "go off half-cocked and make [expletive] mistakes."
They may get away with those kinds of mistakes against the Pistons, but it won't work against the Rockets, who will be here Wednesday. They also must tune up their offense if they harbor any hopes of finishing higher than the eighth seed.
They've got to do something to shake themselves out of their state of mediocrity, even if history says not to expect much.
The Mavs didn't have a lot of great defenders in their championship season, either. Basically, it came down to Tyson Chandler and DeShawn Stevenson. But the Mavs' defensive rating still ranked seventh in the league because of a great team concept, hustle and a high basketball IQ.
Dallas ranks 20th in defense these days. Marion's ability to guard anyone on the floor more than makes up for Stevenson's D. But Sam Dalembert is no Chandler, not even if you throw in the heads of Brandan Wright and DeJuan Blair. Not that we expected them to come up so big.
Still, a more consistent effort might close the gap a little, which might be enough to keep the Mavs from having to play Oklahoma City or San Antonio or Portland in the first round and beating a quick exit from the playoffs.
A sports culture primer: I realize what Carlisle is proposing to his charges. Asking any athlete who isn't a good defender historically to suddenly rise up against his nature can work for a game, maybe even a week. But sooner or later he reverts to what he's always been, especially under duress.
Still, the Mavs are capable of a better effort. They proved that Sunday against the Pistons. Andre Drummond, who, at 6-10, 270 pounds, looks like he could fold Brandan Wright into a lawn chair, came into the game third in the league at 12.6 rebounds a game. The Mavs held him to six.
The Pistons still outrebounded them, 41-39, but at least it was close. That's the thing. They don't have to be outstanding across the board. Just keep it close enough to remain competitive.
No one's expecting a championship run anymore. Just a little consistency, enough to make the playoffs and maybe avoid beating a quick exit.
Capitalizing on the offensive potential of this team and playing just a little better defense hardly seems too much to ask. But you never can tell with this team. Take the 10-point lead at halftime. A good sign, right? Not so fast. Given that the Mavs have blown five games with leads of 17 points or more this season, you're excused if a big lead makes you nervous. The way these guys play, it could get to be a habit.


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Tampa (Fla.) Wharton defensive back Vernon Hargreaves III started the year off by displaying his skills at the Under Armour All-America Combine in Orlando, Fla. Since that event, he has used just one weekend to focus on the recruiting process.
"I went to Florida's junior day two weeks ago," Hargreaves said. "I liked the visit a lot."
The 5-foot-10, 177-pound defensive back talked about what stood out during his time on campus with the Gators.
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"I like Gainesville because I like the atmosphere surrounding that program and the college town," Hargreaves said. "I really didn't talk with Coach (Will) Muschamp much, but we went through academics, talked about nutrition, and all of that stuff. It was really fun."
It wasn't Hargreaves first visit to Gainesville. He said that on previous visits he has spoken with the coaching staff, specifically Travaris Robinson, about how the Gators would use him if he were to end up in orange and blue.
"When I first went up there, my very first time, he told me they would use me in the nickel the most," Hargreaves said. "That is fine with me. I just want to get on the field."
Hargreaves currently claims offers from Florida, Florida State, Miami, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Purdue, South Florida, and Virginia. While there is no denying that Florida has made a major impression on Hargreaves and that they are in a good position, he didn't name them as a specific leader at this time.
"They are all really the same because I haven't seen a lot of the schools that have offered me," Hargreaves said. "So I can't really pick right now."
As for upcoming visits, the talented defensive back isn't positive where he will step on campus at next.
"I don't have anything scheduled right now," Hargreaves said. "I'd like to take a visit to USC and Clemson. I really want to see them. I just don't know when I will."
Hargreaves is a versatile player for Wharton contributing in all phases of the game. He recorded two interceptions as a junior. He made a major impact on the scoreboard though as he accounted for 11 touchdowns on the season.


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STATE OF IOWA, Plaintiff-Appellee, vs. BRIAN LEE HANSON, Defendant-Appellant.Annotate this Case
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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA No. 0-876 / 10-0222 Filed March 7, 2011 STATE OF IOWA, Plaintiff-Appellee, vs. BRIAN LEE HANSON, Defendant-Appellant. ________________________________________________________________ Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Pottawattamie County, Timothy O Grady, Judge. A defendant appeals from his convictions of delivery of a controlled substance, failure to affix a drug tax stamp, and ongoing criminal conduct. AFFIRMED. Mark C. Smith, State Appellate Defender, and David A. Adams, Assistant Appellate Defender, for appellant. Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Linda J. Hines, Assistant Attorney General, Matthew D. Wilber, County Attorney, and Amy Zacharias and Shelly Seldak, Assistant County Attorneys, for appellee. Considered by Sackett, C.J., and Vogel and Vaitheswaran, JJ. Tabor, J., takes no part. 2 VOGEL, J. Following a jury trial, Hanson was convicted of two counts of delivery of a controlled substance (methamphetamine) in violation of Iowa Code sections 124.401(1)(b)(7) (2009) (more than five grams) and 124.401(1)(c)(6) (five grams or less); failure to affix a drug tax stamp in violation of Iowa Code sections 453B.3 and 453B.12; and ongoing criminal conduct in violation of Iowa Code sections 706A.1(5), 706A.2(4), and 706A.4. Hanson appeals. He challenges the sufficiency of the evidence and asserts that the district court erred in instructing the jury on joint criminal conduct and aiding and abetting. Our review is for correction of errors at law. State v. Spies, 672 N.W.2d 792, 796 (Iowa 2003) (sufficiency of the evidence); State v. Kellogg, 542 N.W.2d 514, 516 (Iowa 1996) (jury instructions). Hanson was charged with delivery of a controlled substance, failure to affix a tax stamp, and ongoing criminal conduct as either a principal or an aider and abettor.1 1 The evidence presented at trial demonstrated that in January The jury was instructed, Instruction No. 28 When two or more persons act together and knowingly commit a crime, each is responsible for the other s acts during the commission of the crime or escape from the scene. The defendant s guilt is the same as the other person s unless the acts could not reasonably be expected to be done in aiding the commission of the crime. Instruction No. 29 All persons involved in the commission of a crime, whether they directly commit the crime or knowingly aid and abet its commission, shall be treated in the same way. Aid and abet means to knowingly approve and agree to the commission of a crime, either by active participation in it or by knowingly advising or encouraging the act done in some way before or when it is committed. Conduct following the crime may be considered only as it may tend to prove the defendant s earlier participation. Mere nearness to, or presence at, the scene of the crime, without more evidence, is not 3 2009, a confidential informant worked with police officers to conduct two controlled buys from Hanson. Before both of the buys, the informant met with police officers, was searched and given a digital audio recorder, which recorded and transmitted audio to the officers. On January 13, 2009, the first controlled buy occurred. Before going to Hanson s house, the informant phoned Hanson and arranged to purchase five grams of methamphetamine for $500. The informant and Hanson negotiated a price, 80 cents for a hundred, which the informant and the State s expert witness testified that .08 gram is referred to as 80 cents. The officers dropped the informant off near Hanson s house and watched him go into Hanson s house. While the informant was inside Hanson s house, Scott Hart arrived at the house with methamphetamine. Prior to this, the informant did not know that Hart was going to be involved in the sale. The informant described the transaction, [Hart] stepped inside the door, handed the drugs to [Hanson]. [Hanson] handed me the drugs. I gave [Hanson] the money. [Hanson] gave it to [Hart]. [Hart] never come all the way in. He took one step inside the door and that was it. .... I sat in the house with [Hanson] . . . [Hart] walked in. . . . When he got there, he knocked on the door. [Hanson] answered the door. They didn t go past the bar by the front inside the front door when you walk in, there is a bar to the right. They sat there and did their deal. . . . They changed wares, [Hanson] come exchange with me, give [Hart] back the money and The informant never spoke to Hart. After leaving Hanson s house, the informant gave the methamphetamine to the officers and reported what had happened. aiding and abetting. Likewise, mere knowledge of the crime is not enough to prove aiding and abetting. 4 Sometime later that month, Hanson phoned the informant and asked if he knew anyone looking for drugs. The informant and Hanson negotiated a price, which was again 80 cents for a hundred. The amount Hanson sold to the informant during the first buy was 1.8 ounces less than they had agreed. The informant testified that Hanson was supposed to make up for the gram and 80 cents the last one was short, too, because he thought it was for the same people. The informant arranged to purchase a half-ounce of methamphetamine from Hanson for $900. occurred. On January 22, 2009, the second controlled buy The informant again went to Hanson s home, after which Hanson phoned Hart and Hart brought the methamphetamine to the home, but did not go inside. The informant described the second transaction, A. . . . . Brian went out and got it and brought it back to me. Q. And who did you give the money too? A. Brian. .... Q. And what who gave you the drugs? A. Brian. Hanson and the informant spoke about the quantity and quality of the drugs. They discussed the color of the methamphetamine, which was yellow and Hanson claimed the quality was good in spite of this coloring. Immediately after leaving Hanson s house, the informant turned the drugs over to officers. Hanson challenges the sufficiency of the evidence. Hanson first argues that neither of the delivery convictions can be sustained because there was no testimony that he delivered the methamphetamine.2 Delivery is defined as the 2 In challenging the sufficiency of the evidence supporting both delivery convictions, Hanson also argues that there was no evidence that he possessed the methamphetamine. [P]roof of possession is not necessary for proof of delivery. State v. Spies, 672 N.W.2d 792, 796 (Iowa 2003); State v. Welch, 507 N.W.2d 580, 582 (Iowa 1993) ( [D]elivery does not require possession. ); State v. Grady, 215 N.W.2d 213, 214 5 actual, constructive, or attempted transfer from one person to another of a controlled substance, whether or not there is an agency relationship. Iowa Code § 124.101(7). Prior to each controlled buy, the informant and Hanson negotiated a price and quantity and Hanson agreed to sell the informant methamphetamine. In each instance, Hanson contacted Hart so that Hanson could obtain the methamphetamine, and physically transfer the drugs to the informant. We find there was sufficient evidence to support both of the delivery convictions. Next, Hanson argues the tax stamp conviction cannot be sustained because there was no testimony that he possessed the methamphetamine. Possession is an element of . . . failure to affix a drug tax stamp. State v. Padavich, 536 N.W.2d 743, 750 51 (Iowa 1995). Hanson arranged for Hart to come to his house, and Hanson went outside and physically obtained the methamphetamine and brought it inside his house. See State v. Maghee, 573 N.W.2d 1, 10 (Iowa 1997) (explaining that the defendant had dominion and control over the room where the cocaine was seized and thus, had constructive possession); Padavich, 536 N.W.2d at 751 ( A person who has direct physical control of something on or around [his or her] person is in actual possession of it. ). Hanson had the methamphetamine in his hands and gave it to the informant. We find there was sufficient evidence of possession to support the tax stamp conviction. (Iowa 1974) ( [A] person might act as a broker in the drug trade, effecting delivery of a controlled substance by transfer of title or sale, without ever having possession of the material. . . . Thus, possession is not a necessary legal element of delivery. ). Hanson s argument is without merit. 6 Hanson also argues the ongoing criminal conviction cannot be sustained because (1) sufficient evidence does not support the underlying delivery convictions and (2) there was no evidence that Hanson had a specific purpose or intent to gain financially from any of the alleged transactions. Because we found sufficient evidence supported the underlying delivery convictions, Hanson s first argument must fail. Iowa Code chapter 706A (Ongoing Criminal Conduct) defines specified unlawful activity as any act . . . committed for financial gain on a continuing basis, that is punishable as an indictable offense . . . . Iowa Code § 706A.1(5). There was sufficient evidence that Hanson as the principal had the intent to gain financially Hanson had separate dealings with Hart in order to obtain the methamphetamine; the informant and Hanson discussed the cost, quantity, and quality of the methamphetamine being sold; and the informant testified that a person selling drugs generally receives drugs or money, along with the State s expert witness s testimony that the sale of drugs are generally for profit. We find Hanson s convictions are supported by sufficient evidence. Last, Hanson challenges the aiding and abetting jury instructions. He argues that because there was no evidence of Hanson ever possessing or delivering the drugs to the confidential informant, there was not sufficient evidence to support giving the aiding and abetting instructions.3 As discussed 3 Hanson also asserts that the district court erred in instructing the jury as to aiding and abetting because aiding and abetting was not pled in the trial information. It is unnecessary to allege in the trial information whether the one charged directly committed the act constituting the offense or aided and abetted its commission. Iowa Code § 703.1 ( All persons concerned in the commission of a public offense, whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense or aid and abet its commission, shall be charged, tried and punished as principals. ); State v. Black, 282 N.W.2d 733, 735 (Iowa 1979) ( [W]e hold there was no fatal variance between the information charging 7 above, Hanson was not merely present at the scene of the crime, but was a participant is the sale of the methamphetamine. Having found his convictions for delivery of a controlled substance were supported by sufficient evidence, his argument regarding the aiding and abetting jury instruction must also fail. We affirm. AFFIRMED. the defendant as a principal and the proof that he was an aider and abettor[.] ). Hanson s argument is without merit.


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Friends and family of a fallen police officer gathered in his Illinois hometown Monday night to honor him.
St. Louis county Officer Blake Snyder was shot and killed Thursday, while answering a disturbance call.
Snyder grew up in Alton, Illinois and graduated from Alton High School. Monday night, loved ones packed the community football stadium for a special ceremony in his honor.
Organizers wrapped blue ribbons and balloons around the trees and handrails, and collected donations for the family at the entrance. Police from St. Louis County and Alton escorted Snyder's wife and son, as well as other relatives into the stadium.
The ceremony included an honor guard, several speakers, and a video tribute to Officer Snyder.
"The number of community members and law enforcement personnel here tonight, I think it speaks for itself what kind of impact Blake had," P.J. Bennett, a longtime friend of Snyder, said Monday night, "and what he means to this community."
"He was the quiet kid who played in the back. He did not say much, but he was the hardest worker on the team," added Greg Nasello, Snyder's former soccer coach who later recruited him to coach, too.
Missy Raley graduated AHS with Snyder, and helped plan the vigil.
"He was probably one of the nicest guys that you have ever met, and he was just so kind," she said. "We just thought it was appropriate for the city of Alton, the community, to be able to celebrate him here, where he grew up."
The ceremony ended with a candlelight vigil, and a balloon release. Money collected during the event will be donated directly to Snyder's family.


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James R. Harris, MD
His loving and steadfast family memorialized Dr. Harris's passing with a 10-year celebration of his life this summer, a decade after he lost his battle in 2004 with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, after the baseball legend who died from the illness). He was 79 years old. Dr. Harris passed away surrounded by his family in his Swarthmore, PA home, and in the loving and devoted hands of hospice care.
He was an accomplished psychiatrist and tireless advocate for the mentally ill and veterans. He brought humanity to the Veterans Administration in Pennsylvania where he worked for many years. He was one of the pioneers of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and a champion of Vietnam combat veterans. When he ran the Norristown State Hospital in Pennsylvania he was instrumental in developing an innovative in-patient forensic unit for juveniles, among other notable triumphs.
Dr. Harris was an open-minded student of life, an artist, and a lover of music, history, and philosophy—Jean-Paul Sartre, in particular. He was also known to be mischievous and loved a good joke. His legacy of care, professionalism, and community involvement lives on through his eight children and his wife of many years, Peggy Harris.
Donations to NAMI Pasco have been made in his honor.
William Konomos
NAMI Pasco grieves the loss of Will Konomos, who passed away in mid July 2014 at age 56. A resident of Pasco County, FL. until recently, Will was one of the warriors, serving as a member of the NAMI Pasco Board of Directors and a valiant advocate for mental health awareness. He lived heroically with bipolar disorder, sharing his life experiences and supporting others as an outstanding NAMI Pasco Connection facilitator, for which he trained in March 2010. Will impacted people in positive ways, not only leading support groups, but educating local law enforcement about mental illness Will is survived by his loving parents and his devoted children, Michael and John Konomos and family, as well as grandchildren and brother Dean Konomos and family. Rest in peace, Will, "You fought to the end and never gave up."
In lieu of flowers the Konomos family asks that donations be made to NAMI Pasco:
P.O. Box 412
Elfers, FL 34680-0412
Nancy Vanderhei
October 22, 1940 – July 16,
Nancy J. (Maney) Vanderhei, 73, of Land O' Lakes, FL, passed away Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Nancy was born in Waukesha, WI, and moved to Florida in 1996. She was a retired caregiver who loved spending her extra time gardening. Nancy was also an advocate and voice for the rights and proper care for folks with mental illnesses.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Bernard R. Maney and Florence Rose Maney; son, Vincent; and two brothers, Fritz and Hank. She is survived by her three sons, Robert and his wife, Terri; Greg and his wife, Kristin; and Mark; two daughters, Julie Campbell, and her husband, Kenny Wojtowicz, and Fran Dowd and her husband, Jason Dowd; two sisters, Betty Ann Peterson and Joyce King; five grandchildren, Jon and his wife, Ashley Campbell; Nick and his wife, Debbie Campbell; Britni Campbell; Crystal Vanderhei; and Robert Vanderhei Jr.; six great-grandchildren, Lily, Camyrn, Addison, Owen, Colton, and Van; and nephews, nieces, and friends. Donations in Nancy's memory may be made to NAMI/Pasco:
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In memory of Nancy J. Vanderhei
P.O. Box 412
Elfers, FL 34680-0412
Daniel "Dan" Michael Mezzanini
Dan Mezzanini, 39, passed away on May 7, 2014. Dan was born in Syracuse, NY and graduated from East-Syracuse Minoa High School and Syracuse University, earning two Bachelors Degrees with a dual major; one in marketing, the second in logistics. Later he continued his academic career at Saint Leo University in Saint Leo, FL, where he earned an MBA.
Dan had a varied work career. He was employed by Carrier Corporation, AgwayEnergy, General Electric and, lastly, at Saint Leo University as a financial analyst and media buyer. His passions were mostly mechanical. He could fix most things, including his car, electrical items, plumbing, and his 1968 Chevy ice cream truck given to him by his grandfather. Dan's first job was refurbishing the 22-year-old truck and starting an ice cream peddling business at age 16. He represented the fourth and last generation of the Mezzanini ice cream vending business. This entrepreneurial endeavor helped him pay for his college education.
Dan was a kind, gentle, generous, loving, compassionate, and hardworking person and will be missed by many, especially his immediate family, Frank and Phyllis (Zizzi) Mezzanini, his parents, who live in Wesley Chapel near Dan's home in Zephyr Hills; his brother Paul and sister-in-law Robin, of Webster, NY with their children Benjamin, Eleanor, and Robert James. Dan leaves his maternal grandmother, Michelina Zizzi, of Utica, NY, the last of Dan's grandparents. His Aunt Elizabeth Dow and her husband Raymond, who reside in Syracuse, NY with their two children, Anne and Marie Dow. His aunt Julie Beckett of Niagara Falls, NY. Julie has two living children, Dale Beckett of Ilion, NY, and Tina Beckett of Utica, NY. Dan also leaves behind his uncle, Joseph Mezzanini, Jr. also of Utica. Dan will be resting in peace with his grandfathers, Vito Zizzi and Joseph Mezzanini Sr., his grandmother Helen (Zuchowski) Mezzanini, and his cousin Dawn Beckett.
A mass to celebrate Dan's life and final peace, was officiated by Father James Cesta at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church/Blessed Sacrament Church in Utica on May 23, 2014. A memorial mass will was held at the Saint Leo Benedictine Abbey located next to Saint Leo University in St. Leo, FL on May 30, 2014.
In lieu of flowers, all monetary gifts received will be donated in Dan's name to the Pasco County chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness; or preferably, checks may be sent directly to the local chapter at NAMI Pasco, P.O. Box 412, Elfers, FL 34680.


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PARIS/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A female founder member of the Kurdish PKK rebel group and two other female activists were shot dead in Paris overnight in execution-style killings that cast a shadow over peace moves between Ankara and the guerrillas.
The bodies of Sakine Cansiz, who promoted the role of women in the armed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) group, and the two other women were found soon after midnight on Thursday in an institute in central Paris with close links to the PKK.
They appeared to have been shot in the head, a French police source said. Kurdish media said one woman was also shot in the stomach. Workers had broken in to the room in the Information Centre of Kurdistan after seeing blood stains at the door.
Cansiz had been a prominent figure in the PKK before falling out with the group's factionalised leadership. A 1995 photograph shows her standing next to militant leader Abdullah Ocalan, wearing olive battle fatigues and clutching an assault rifle.
It was not immediately clear who had carried out the killings; but the PKK has seen intermittent internal feuding during an armed campaign in the mountainous Turkish southeast that has killed some 40,000 since 1984.
Turkish nationalist militants have in the past also been accused of 'extra-judicial killings' of Kurdish activists but such incidents have been confined to Turkey.
Among the crowd gathered behind police lines at the Paris institute were onlookers chanting slogans and waving yellow flags bearing Ocalan's likeness.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said it was too early to apportion blame.
"This may be an internal reckoning. Aside from this, we are engaged in a struggle against terrorism ... but there are people who don't want this. This could be a provocative undertaking by these people," he said during a visit to Senegal.
The killings came shortly after Turkey announced it had re-opened talks with Ocalan, the PKK leader jailed on the prison island of Imrali, near Istanbul. The talks to end the conflict would almost certainly raise tensions within the movement over demands and terms of any ceasefire.
"Rest assured that French authorities are determined to get to the bottom of these unbearable acts," French Interior Minister Manuel Valls said at the scene, adding the killings were "surely an execution".
France is home to a large number of Kurds, many of them having emigrated in the 1960s and 1970s, but there is also a number of Kurdish pro-PKK exiles such as Cansiz. Other Kurdish activists have settled in Germany and Sweden.
Any Turkish government contacts with the PKK, deemed a terrorist group by Ankara, Washington and the EU, are highly controversial in the Turkish political establishment.
Last summer, the months preceding the move to talks, saw some of the worst bloodshed of the three-decades-old conflict. Television footage of soldiers' coffins returning home draped in the red Turkish flag inflamed nationalist tensions.
Valls identified one of the victims as the head of the centre and said homicide and anti-terrorism units had been assigned to investigate the murders. A police source confirmed their nationality as Turkish.
The two other victims were named as Fidan Dogan, 28, and Leyla Soylemez, 25.
"This is a political crime, there is no doubt about it," Remzi Kartal, a leader of the Kurdistan National Congress, an umbrella group of Kurdish organisations in Europe, told Reuters.
"Ocalan and the Turkish government have started a peace process, they want to engage in dialogue, but there are parties that are against resolving the Kurdish question and want to sabotage the peace process," he said.
The Kurdish question has taken on a particular urgency with the rise of Kurdish groups in neighbouring northern Iraq, where they control an autonomous zone, and in Syria. Turkey fears that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could encourage Kurds to feed militancy in Turkey.
Many Turks fear such autonomy the PKK is seeking could stoke demands for an independent Kurdish homeland, in Turkey and beyond Turkish frontiers, and undermine Turkey.
The Firat news agency, which is close to the group, said another victim was the Paris representative of the Brussels-based Kurdistan National Congress. It said the murder weapon was believed to have been fitted with a silencer.
"A couple of colleagues saw blood stains at the door. When they broke the door open and entered they saw the three women had been executed," French Kurdish Associations Federation Chairman Mehmet Ulker was reported as saying by Firat.
Female militants have played a significant role in the PKK's insurgency, partly reflecting a principle of equality within the group's Marxist ideology. In some cases, desire to avenge the killing of other family members was the motivation for joining, for others it was a way out of family repression, analysts say.
The government and PKK have agreed a framework for a peace plan, according to Turkish media reports, in talks which would have been unthinkable in Turkey only a few years ago. Ocalan is widely reviled by Turks who hold him responsible for a conflict that burns at the heart of the nation.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has introduced some reforms allowing Kurdish broadcasting and some concessions on language; but activists are demanding more freedom in education and administration.
Turkish broadcasters reported police as saying the women retained links to the PKK and may have been victims of an internal feud.
Several members of the Kurdish community in Paris said that Cansiz, who was in her fifties, was an emblematic figure who had been imprisoned in Turkey before obtaining asylum in France.
"She was in charge of communicating information on events in Turkey, she would denounce arbitrary arrests, unsolved murders" of Kurds in Turkey, said a member of the Arts and Culture Academy of Kurdistan who asked not to be identified.
Turkish political analyst Emre Uslu, who previously worked in Turkey's counter-terrorism police unit, said in a blog that the killing of Cansiz could point to a split within the PKK.
He said Cansiz was a leading member of a faction within the PKK that had in the past opposed Ocalan's moves towards peace.
"This group ... could at any moment sabotage the peace talks which will be held with the PKK," Uslu said. "For Turkey to sit down with the PKK before its internal problems are solved is considerably problematic."
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy (BDP) opposition party, two of whose members were allowed to pay a rare visit last week to Ocalan on the island in the Marmara Sea where he has been jailed for the last 14 years, condemned the killings.
"We call on our people to hold protest meetings wherever they are to condemn this massacre and stand up for the Kurdish people's martyrs," the party's leaders said in a statement.
Additional reporting by Nicolas Bertin and Yves Clarisse in Paris, Diadie Ba in Dakar, Jonathon Burch in Ankara; Writing by Nick Tattersall; editing by Ralph Boulton


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My Wish - Poem by Babatunde Aremu
My mind wanders
For some wonders
Desires flood my mind
Where I am
What I am
Where my eyes is seeing
Goes beyond the present
So I constantly wish for something
Some are achievable, few are real
A lot are by faith
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BEHIND every aerial drone is a human operator. Thousands are civilians, working for contractors such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin. Civilians may not fire missiles, but they fly spy planes and fix them when they break down.
Andrew Lohmar, for example, piloted ScanEagle surveillance drones for the American navy for over five years. He was stationed in Iraq, on ships and even on an oil platform in the Persian Gulf. When his two-man team provided reconnaissance for the rescue of American hostages from Somali pirates aboard the Maersk Alabama, a container ship, in 2009, they worked around the clock for five days straight. Small wonder that a 2011 study by the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine found nearly half the operators of spy drones suffering from high levels of stress.
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There is a sex industry because people are willing to pay for it. There is a sex industry because men (mostly) want to have sex, yes, but also because we want to be aroused by it.
Last night I attended a screening of Nefarious: Merchant of Souls, a Christian documentary about the sex industry. It focuses on the lack of freedom that the women and children have who are servicing the "Johns."
They are entrapped. They are enslaved. They are held there through physical and psychological coercion.
There were two bright spots in the film, one of them in the progress that Sweden is making in cutting down on its sex industry.
Sweden criminalizes the hiring of a prostitute at the level of what would be a felony in the U.S.
And the prostitutes? They are treated as people who need social services, counseling, protection, and rehabilitation in order to escape the industry, recover their dignity, and reenter society.
The chief enforcement officer of Sweden's sex industry policies demonstrated what it takes to institute these kinds of laws. Here's the mentality behind them:
Every act of prostitution is a degradation of a woman.
Every act of prostitution is an exploitation of a woman.
Prostitution is not sex, it is a man masturbating inside of a woman.
Sweden's laws are undergirded by a cultural shift in understanding of how to think about sex for money.
In America, we are in no place to institute such laws because all of us, all day long, are paying for sex.
Every time we buy our clothes at Abercrombie and Fitch, we are paying for the sexual titillation they have offered us through their hyper sexualized ads.
As Julie Clawson was lamenting earlier this week, NBC won't even try to sell us Olympic sports where women are large athletes or compete fully clothed or covered.
And we're not even talking about the $13 billion dollar per year porn industry. (In the U.S., that is.)
There is a sex trade industry because there is a market for it, a market that does not contain solid borders from which those of us who have never paid a sex worker are hermetically sealed. It is a market whose black fades to grey in the everyday purchasing of sex that drives our marketing- and consumer-dollar economy.
Men want sex. A lot. And we pay for it in various ways, even when sexual intercourse is not the actual product we're buying. (The year that I worked in a restaurant, women servers typically made more money than men; men typically were paying the bill.)
The point in this is that treating women as sex objects, and exploiting that deep seated tendency, is a deeply seated disposition in our hearts and in our culture.
Behind the terrible stories of girls being kidnapped, of mob bosses paying for safe border crossings, of terrified children huddled in out of the way apartments–behind all of this is a market. Men who want sex. Men who will pay for it. Men who are paying for it every day even when we're not soliciting prostitutes.
As I reflect on my week–watching the Chick-fil-A dust-up, reading Julie's article on the Olympics, watching a little Olympic coverage here and there, and now screening this film, I'm humbled by a couple of things.
First, most of us are complicit in the selling and buying of sex. And I might say that all of us men are so complicit.
But second, I'm struck afresh by the message that the Church has been sending in the latest wave of our culture wars. We are acting as though the most egregious thing a man can do sexually is to desire and have sex with another man.
While all the time there is this multi-billion dollar sex industry, representing one of the gravest human slavery industries in the modern world, being driven, mostly, by men's insatiable desire for women.
If only we could redirect our righteous indignation here, against the objectification of women that runs right through the middle of not only the dark alleys but our own living rooms. If only we could agree that the selling of women for sex is degradation and exploitation–and see, also, how we're all complicit.


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Well folks, you know what they say about the best laid plans? We travelers know things don't always turn out they way you expect. The trick is not to let it spoil your trip. Here is our unusual Aruba adventure.
We chose Aruba because we were told you are virtually guaranteed a rain-free vacation even during hurricane season. Supposedly Aruba is so far south it is below the hurricane belt and it is not affected by hurricanes. WRONG!!
We were there from Nov 3-10, 2010. We stayed at the Radisson which we loved and highly recommend. We booked through MCM/Player's Choice tours which I also recommend. Our plan was to swim and snorkel near the hotel, take a few excursions such as the Jolly Pirates and the submersible, and NOT to rent a car.
But none of those things happened. Why? I'm glad you asked. Two words: HURRICANE TOMAS. Yes folks, mean ole Tomas changed everything. First of all, it rained almost the entire week we were there. We had an hour or two of sun here and there, but that's about it as we never had a day w/o rain. The beach outside our hotel was too rough for swimming and advisories were posted everywhere urging us not to get into the water. A few people did anyway and they had a heck of a time getting out, as the current had a bad undertow. The water was murky and a lot of seaweed and other stuff washed ashore. The pier next to the hotel had to be closed and all furniture was removed as the waves were pulling wooden slats out of the pier. By the end of the week the pier was still standing but needed repairs and was still closed.
Now for the excursions. As I mentioned above we were going to do a few of those including the submersible and the Jolly Pirates snorkeling tour. Nope, didn't happen as all excursions were cancelled due to rough seas and murky water. "Crap" we thought, "what will we do?"
DH isn't quite as adventuresome as I am and he hates driving anywhere in the world. I suggested we should get a rental car and of course I would drive. At first he didn't like the idea but I told him that's the only way we will get out of the hotel and actually see some of Aruba. I had read about a place called Baby Beach in our guidebook and suggested we go there. I don't know why, I assumed Baby Beach would be murky and rough like the beach by our hotel but I wanted to see it anyway. DH finally agreed and we got the last rental car available at the Hertz desk at our hotel.
We soon discovered driving is easy in Aruba. They drive on the right and most drivers are civilized, unlike what we have experienced on other islands. (those other islands shall remain nameless but some of you know what I'm talking about) We went across the island to Baby Beach and much to our surprise the sun came out. Baby Beach was not rough our murky like the hotel beach, probably because it's sort of a cove and it's protected by rocks that act as a barrier. We had about 2 hours of sunshine for snorkeling at Baby Beach and it was great. If anyone reading should ever go to Baby Beach, the good snorkeling is by the rocks. Another thing we liked about Baby Beach is the people there were mostly Aruban. Not that I have anything against being around other tourists but it's good to be in a place the locals enjoy. Baby Beach is in a strange location, with a refinery on one side and a prison on the other.
Over the next few days we went back to Baby Beach again and again. Once we drove all the way down there expecting a sunny day, only to have the sky open up and rain really hard. Then we drove back in hard rain and flooded streets but somehow we made it. That was a bummer so we spent the afternoon at the hotel bar. But the next day we took our chances again and had a nice sunny afternoon at Baby Beach. The rain came later.
On another day we drove to the north end of the island to see the lighthouse. The views up there were gorgeous, in spite of heavy clouds looming in the sky. We also saw some beautiful geckos of all different colors and I wondered if this is a sign we should switch to Geico insurance. We drove back and stopped at a few beaches along the way, however we didn't get into the water because it looked so mean. I read in my guidebook these beaches are usually good for snorkeling but there's no way it was possible on that gloomy day. Tomas was rearing his ugly head again making the seas really rough. We did enjoy seeing waves crashing up on the rocks.
After a few days we turned the car back in and just bummed around the hotel. When the sun came out we hit the hotel pools, when it was rainy we vegged out in the room. We checked periodically to see if the excursions had resumed but that never happened during out time in Aruba. We also enjoyed the casino at night, as well as hanging out at the bar by the pool. Even in the rain it was fun to see the ocean at sunset.
If you skimmed through my report that's OK, but please read this part. On our last visit to Baby Beach my DH somehow lost his wallet. We don't know how this happened since the wallet was locked up in the car while we were at the beach. We think it fell out of the car somehow, or maybe DH put the wallet on the roof of the car and we drove off before realizing what happened.
We drove from Baby Beach to the hotel, and when we got back to the hotel he noticed it was missing. We frantically searched the car, our beach bag, etc but no wallet. Panic was just setting in and I was about to stop all of our credit cards when a miracle happened. The concierge called to tell us a guy was on his way to the hotel to return DH's wallet!! The guy left his phone # so we called him and offered to meet him somewhere at his convenience. He said he lived across the island by Baby Beach but he was already on his way to our hotel. DH and I were stunned, not only that we were getting the wallet back but that he would drive so far to return it. The reason he knew where to find us is DH's room key was in the wallet, so the guy knew we were at the Radisson.
When the guy arrived we offered him a cash reward but he refused. We begged him to take it but he stood his ground and kept refusing. He said he was a photographer for the Aruban news and all he wanted was permission to put our picture in the paper and tell the story. We agreed, posed for the picture, then on the day we left we took home a copy of the newspaper with our picture and a little blurb about how we got the wallet back.
So in spite of all the bad weather and closed excursions, this was a fabulous trip. The highlight of the trip for me was when the guy brought back the wallet. I know it sounds strange that is my fondest memory but it is something most people wouldn't do and it left a great memory for us. We also enjoyed being at the Radisson and there is no question we would stay there again. Aruba is my favorite Caribbean island and I hope we will return again soon. But not during hurricane season.
So remember friends, if your best laid plans do not come true, there's no reason to let it ruin your trip. Just remember you are on vacation and go with the flow. If life gives you lemons then you must make lemonade. Or better yet, make limoncello. In our case, if not for the rain we might not have gone to Baby Beach, hence we would not have met the honest man who returned DH's wallet.
Thank you for reading.
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P_M's unusual Aruba adventure
Well folks, you know what they say about the best laid plans? We travelers know things don't always turn out they way you expect. The trick is not to let it spoil your trip. Here is our unusual Aruba adventure.
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You really are a treasure, PM. Loved the report, loved your attitude.
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cmcfong you are so kind, thank you.
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No, thank you. It is posts like yours which make this such an entertaining place to be.
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I knew about the wallet from earlier and it makes me get one of those warm glows that people are still good and honest somewhere ..
Some people might sit and moan and complain but you two had as good a time as Tomas and Aruba allowed...
I always can count on you for a good story with a nice moral to it
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Rainy time turned into vacations to remember! where to next?
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What a wonderful trip report! I'm glad you and your husband were able to make the best of somewhat difficult situation. And I agree with you--if it had happened to me, the lost wallet experience would have the best memories, too.
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Great report, P_M.
Yes you had bad weather in Aruba, but I bet it was much better than the weather on islands farther north. Picking Aruba this time of year was still a good choice.
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This is the time of year we tend to treat ourselves to the in-between wines. Not just the reds and still whites we drink all the time, but bottles plucked from all points along the strength, carbonation and sweetness spectra. Some of the best current offerings are listed below, grouped by the occasion that demands them.
Palate sharpeners
There are few greater bargains in the world of wine than unbranded sherry. These are wines aged for decades in barrels in Jerez and still cost less than a decent one year-Australian Chardonnay - and much less than a port of the same age.
Berrys Fine Dry Oloroso (£6.75 Berry Bros & Rudd of London SW1 and Basingstoke 0870 900 4301)
This dark, nutty wine from Barbadillo of Sanlucar is certainly an antique and is so dry that it would buck up the appetite at the same time as comforting the chilly.
12-year-old Solera Especial Amontillado (Half bottles £6.99 from major Marks & Spencer stores)
Anyone buying this for the easy sweetness of a commercial sherry labelled Amontillado would get a shock. This example from a 50-year-old Williams and Humbert Solera (12 is presumably the average age of the wine) is pale, taut and excitingly bone-dry.
Amontillado Pastrana, Hildalgo (£17.95 Berry Bros & Rudd of London SW1 and Basingstoke 0870 900 4301)
Lovely rich start and then bone-dry finish providing the same sort of jolt as a Sercial madeira. Perfect for Christmas morning - or indeed any morning after.
Sparkling stuff
Dry fizz is of course quintessentially celebratory and widely served as an aperitif, but there are also champagnes so big and intellectual that they are really better served at a special meal - see below. Deals on champagne abound but be wary of bottles on sale for less than about £14.
Amyot NV Champagne (£14.99 or £8.99 a half, 37.5cl, The Winery of London W9 020 7286 6475)
This mainly-Pinot blend from the Aube is certainly not short of character, though will be too heavy and toasty for some. Not fine but nutty and interesting. You could drink it with food too.
Le Mesnil Blanc de Blancs (£15.95 The Wine Society of Stevenage 01438 740222, £16.99 larger Waitrose stores)
This grand cru champagne comes from the co-op in a very fine village on the Côte des Blancs, Champagne's Chardonnay heartland. It may not be as dense as neighbour Salon but it is well made, appetising champagne, a vivacious counterpart to the Amyot style.
Laurent Perrier NV Champagne (£16.95 Lea & Sandeman of London SW10, W8, NW3 and SW13 020 7244 0522 as part of a mixed case)
One of the best deals around as this is serious stuff. Or you could buy an unmixed case of Laurent Perrier 1993 which works out at £24.95 a bottle. Both these wines will continue to improve in bottle for several years.
Nyetimber Classic Cuvée 1994 (£16.95 Berry Bros & Rudd of London SW1 and Basingstoke 0870 900 4301)
English wine's pride and joy. This Sussex wine operation has just been sold by its American owners but wines like this rich, full, complete copy of a mature NV champagne won them serious recognition. I prefer this to the leaner 1993 Blanc de Blancs.
Charles Heidsieck Blanc de Blancs 1982 (£90 Waitrose Direct 0800 188881)
This is probably the only 1982 champagne you can find for this price and is just gorgeous today. Most de luxe champagnes at this sort of price need time to show their best but this is an unusually reasonable price for full maturity. Not a penny has gone into fancy packaging, just lovely wine that demands to be drunk.
Dom Pérignon Oenothèque 1964 (£495 Harrods of London SW1 020 7730 1234)
Perhaps of minority interest but a quite stunning, relatively recently disgorged bottle straight from Moët et Chandon's own cellars to drink with even strongly flavoured food. It stood up manfully to poached pigeon and date sauce.
With sweet things
Our sugar intake surely reaches an all-year high over the holidays, so why worry about a bit of residual sugar in the wine? Remember that, because of its counterbalancing acidity, the wine should be sweeter than the food served with it.
The Pioneers Raisined Muscat 2001 Miranda Wines (£4.49 or £3.49 if you buy two from Majestic)
Australia can offer scores of great stickie wines, notably Rutherglen's tooth-rotting Muscat, but this is surely the best value (and will be followed by many an imitator and a price hike). Muscat of Alexandria grapes are picked, then dried like an Italian passito before being pressed. Pale, extremely tangy golden syrup.
Waitrose Solera Jerezana Rich Cream (£5.59 Waitrose)
You can tell how old this sherry is by the greenish tinge to its tawny. This is lively, tangy and raisiny with both age and life! Congratulations to Diego Romero for producing a perfect wine to drink with Christmas cake or Christmas pudding.
Moscato d'Asti 1999 La Morandina (£9.99/£6.95 a half The Winery of London W9 020 7286 6475)
This featherlight (5.5 per cent alcohol) style of wine is a godsend. It refreshes with its gentle sparkle yet is sweet enough even for plum pudding (though it is better with fruity desserts). Lemon sherbet in the best possible form.
Coteaux de l'Aubance, Les Trois Demoiselles 1997 Domaine Richou (£13.25 per 50cl Haynes Hanson & Clark of London SW1 and Stow-on-the-Wold 020 7259 0102)
Pure Loire Chenin Blanc that is bursting with life and richness.
Coteaux du Layon, Clos des Bonnes Blanches 1999 Domaine Ogereau (£14.65 for 50cl Caves de Pyrène of Artington, Surrey 01483 538820)
Almonds, apricots, and extreme richness. An enormous wine that manages to be beautifully well balanced. A knockout. (Waitrose ask £18.99 for 50cl of a Bonnes Blanches from debut winemakers Agnès and René Mosse).
Escherndorfer Lump Riesling Beerenauslese 2000 Horst Sauer (£30.99 for 50cl Noel Young Wines of Trumpington 01223 844744)
Very exciting, razor-sharp nectar with some lime flavour and great depth. From one of the best growers in Germany's Franken region, it comes in one of those funny flask bottles that fit into no wine rack. No matter; it is already lovely.
Grande Cuvée Trockenbeerenauslese No 10 1998 Alois Kracher (£25.99 a half Noel Young Wines of Trumpington 01223 844744)
The 1998s are some of this genius's finest sweet wines from the Neusiedlersee in eastern Austria. Sixty per cent Chardonnay, 40 per cent Welschriesling and 100 per cent noble rot plus new oak equal a tooth-rotter with seven per cent alcohol and 330g/l residual sugar. The number 10 means it's the vintage's sweet bombshell.
After the meal
In theory, we sit by the fireside after the meal, minimising any additional pressure on our digestive systems with gentle sips of a fortified wine, traditionally port.
Dow's Crusted Port 1997 (£12.99 most Waitrose)
This thick, sweet heart-thumper may be too exciting for after a copious meal. Decant it as a treat after cold turkey.
Smith Woodhouse 1990 Bottle Matured Port (£15 Nicholas Corke Fine Wines of Holbeach 01406 365654)
Pruny nose with a certain flowery elegance and some maturity already. Decant this wine bottled at four years old (a real Late Bottled Vintage) and drink it any time over the next four years.
Taylor's 10-Year-Old Tawny Port (£14.99 Majestic, £16.49 Sainsburys, £16.99 Safeway)
Vigorous and not too sweet.
Henriques & Henriques 15-Year-Old Bual Madeira (£24.77 Edward Sheldon of Shipston on Stour 01608 661409, £26 Selfirdges of London W1 020 7629 1234)
Madeira is so useful because it remains vibrant in an opened bottle for weeks. This is one of the best value: smokey gunpowder whiffs on a gentle, reverberating palate. Much, much deeper-flavoured than the same firm's 10-year-old.
Wiese & Krohn Colheita Port 1965 (£49 Inspired Wines of Cleobury 01299 270064)
Colheita ports are made from a single vintage aged in wood and can be enjoyed as soon as they are bottled. This example, bottled this year, delights with treacle toffee, orange peel, very sweet, full and fat - just the present for an old crone (the word Wiese does not appear on the bottle).
Quinta do Noval Nacional 1960 (£260 Berry Bros & Rudd of London SW1 and Basingstoke 0870 900 4301)
For a real thrill, blow £260 on a bottle of this pale red slice of pre-phylloxera history with a wild, gamey nose and layer after layer of licorice. Amazingly, there is still some tannin here. Although it is delightfully gentle there is a fiery sweetness too. Absolutely no hurry to drink this wonderfully old-fashioned bottle (marked Da Silva). It would make a very special present.
For the USA
This is the time of year we tend to treat ourselves to the in-between wines. Not just the reds and still whites we drink all the time, but wines that are much fizzier, stronger and/or sweeter than our usual choices. Some of my favourite current offerings are listed below, grouped by the occasion that demands them.
Palate sharpeners
There are few greater bargains in the world of wine than unbranded sherry. These are wines aged for decades in barrels in Jerez and still cost less than a one year-old Californian Chardonnay - and much less than a port of the same age.
Several of the most passionate sherry producers currently operating - Hildalgo and Barbadillo spring to mind - are based in Sanlucar de Barrameda, the riverside town responsible for Manzanilla, the tangiest of all sherries and the one that acts best as a true aperitif, a drink to refresh the most jaded of palates and restore appetite. Any Manzanilla is worth a punt (it certainly will not be overpriced) but ask your retailer how long it has been in stock. If the answer is more than four months the wine may have lost its freshness.
Hildalgo's Amontillado Pastrana is one of the finest dry sherries around. Its lovely rich start and then bone-dry finish provide the same sort of jolt as a Sercial madeira. It would be perfect for Christmas morning - or indeed any morning after.
Sparkling stuff
Dry fizz is of course quintessentially celebratory and widely served before meals, but there are also champagnes so big and intellectual, such as most of the luxury bottlings, that they are really better served at the table. Deals on champagne abound as there is still surplus stock in the supply chain which means that most bottles should have sufficient age on them to have rubbed off the green edge of very young champagne.
My favourite producers of classic non-vintage blends, the bread and butter produce of virtually all champagne houses, include Billecart-Salmon, Delamotte (good value), Charles Heidsieck Mise en Cave bottlings, Laurent Perrier, Louis Roederer, Pol Roger, Vilmart.
There are bargains to be had away from the big names, however. Look kindly on anyone who is offering you a champagne direct from a grower - although check that the letters on the label before the numerical code are RM for récoltant-manipulant and not RC for one whose wine is made by a cooperative or NM for a producer who, like all of the big names, buys in grapes or wine. CM is the code for a wine made and sold by a co-op and MA means that this is just a label stuck on by a contract bottler.
Vintage-dated champagne from a house with a decent reputation is generally serious and interesting, although you are expected to pay through the nose for the extra ageing these wines are given before release - and even then they can often still benefit from two or three more years in bottle.
For serious luxury, and price tags of over a hundred dollars and more, Dom Pérignon, Krug and Roederer Cristal all make gifts that would thrill even the most hardened wine enthusiast. A new name in luxury champagne to me is Henri Giraud whose 1993 Äy Grand Cru in a simple but eye-catching bottle is sumptuously creamy.
With sweet things
Our sugar intake surely reaches an all-year high over the holidays, so why worry about a bit of residual sugar in the wine? In fact this is a great time of year to indulge in wines designed to be drunk with desserts - a category strangely neglected by the majority of wine producers in the United States, despite America's notably sweet tooth. Remember however that, because of its inherent acidity, the wine should be sweeter than the food served with it.
Producers in one corner of Australia on the other hand have a long and unbroken tradition of producing top-quality sweet wine. Around Rutherglen and Glenrowan in north-east Victoria, almost on the border with New South Wales, make wondrous wines rightly known as stickies, which until recently were called Liqueur Muscat and Liqueur Tokay depending on whether they were based on Brown Muscat or Muscadelle grapes respectively. Today some law forbids them to use the L-word (presumably reserved for such natural delicacies as Tia Maria and cherry brandy) but they are as dark, rich and satisfying as ever.
The grapes reach sterling sugar levels and the resulting ferments are fortified before being aged in old oak casks in baking hot sheds. The result is a curiously refreshing mixture of the rancio of oak ageing with an intense and often grapy sweetness so marked that they can be paired with virtually anything. Chambers and Campbells are two of the most respected producers of these dentists' nightmares; Grand and Rare the two finest categories.
Top-quality sweet sherry such as a fine Pedro Ximenez or Gonzalez Byass' Matusalem is often overlooked as a great-value sweet wine, although it is always high in alcohol. At the other end of the strength spectrum is Piedmont's flirtatiously elegant Moscato d'Asti. La Morandina's 1999 is a fine example.
Of course the classic dessert wine is Sauternes and Barsac but, like everything from Bordeaux, if it is very good it tends to be very expensive. Better value and often more exuberant are the best sweet whites of the Loire valley such as great Vouvrays from the likes of Huet and intense Coteaux du Layon from the likes of Domaine Ogereau's Clos des Bonnes Blanches 1999.
And then there is Germany, whose Beerenauslese and Trockenbeerenauslese are miracles but tend to be on the light side for drinking with food. Horst Sauer in Franken is making exciting wines with more guts than most.
And if it is sweetness and guts you are after, you could hardly do better than to track down the Austrian sweet whites of Alois Kracher (imported by Lauber Imports of New York 1 800 247 9243) whose Grande Cuvée Trockenbeerenauslese No 10 1998 is a miraculous blend of nobly rotten Chardonnay and the local Welschriesling. These grapes plus new oak equal a tooth-rotter with seven per cent alcohol and 330g/l residual sugar.
After the meal
In theory, we sit by the fireside after the meal, minimising any additional pressure on our digestive systems with gentle sips of a fortified wine, traditionally port.
To the most traditionally reliable names of Dow, Fonseca, Graham, Taylor and Warre should be added the much newer house of Churchill run by a youngish Englishman and Niepoort run by the cosmopolitan Dirk Niepoort who believes every bit as passionately in Colheita port (wine from one year aged in wood) as in the Englishman's favourite vintage port (the same aged in bottle).
Dow, Graham and Warre are all owned by the Anglo-Portuguese Symington dynasty but their second-tier labels Quarles Harris, Gould Campbell and, especially, Smith Woodhouse can all be excellent value, especially in vintage port. Their great rivals the Fonseca/Taylor's group has recently acquired port shippers Croft and Delaforce which will provide them with considerably extended vineyard and winemaking capacity.
Perhaps the most exciting development in the port trade recently however has the been the dramatic upgrading of Quinta do Noval under the managment of the AXA insurance group. This shipper's 10-year-old Tawny is one of the most vigorous on the market and its Late-Bottled Vintage 1996 is extremely creditable too.
One of the most exciting wines I have tasted recently pre-dates the AXA régime at this port farm by many years. Quinta do Noval have always bottled two vintage ports, the Nacional bottling being made from a specific top-quality vineyard that is planted with ungrafted vines. Quinta do Noval Nacional 1960 is a thrilling, pale red slice of pre-phylloxera history with a wild, gamey nose and layer after layer of licorice. Amazingly, there is still some tannin here. Although it is delightfully gentle there is a fiery sweetness too. There is absolutely no hurry to drink this wonderfully old-fashioned bottle (marked Da Silva). It would make a very special present and is available at £260 from Berry Bros & Rudd of London SW1 (www.bbr.co.uk) who regularly ship wine overseas.
Madeira, like sherry, is shamefully overlooked. Indeed the Symington family now own so much of it - Blandy's and Cossart Gordon for a start - that it must be rather a handful to steer the good ships Port and Madeira at the same time. The vineyards of this anomalous Atlantic island, a green cone rising up from the ocean many hundreds of miles off Portugal, are in a state of transition. For years the wines were named after the classic vinifera vines grown there but actually made from a much less distinguished hybrid Negra Mole. Labelling has been made more stringent however and any wine labelled Sercial, Verdelho, Bual or Malmsey (local word for Malvasia) should be made from these grapes.
One exciting independent madeira shipper is Henriques & Henriques who own a considerable amount of vineyard. H & H's 15-Year-Old Bual is wonderfully deep-flavoured and rich - just the thing with nuts - or nothing. Madeira is so useful because it remains vibrant in an opened bottle for weeks.


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As his teammates took batting practice before the finale of the Padres-Phillies series at Petco Park, Jake Peavy was dozing on a table in the trainer's room.
The status of Peavy's viral upper respiratory infection – and the fact that Friday's originally scheduled starter, Josh Geer, had to pitch in an emergency Tuesday night – has placed the Padres rotation in a state of flux.
Peavy was ill for two days before his one-inning outing Tuesday. He was still noticeably under the weather Wednesday.
"Jake's still not 100 percent," Padres manager Bud Black said. "Hopefully his illness will creep away."
Geer will not start Friday. Thanks to Thursday's off day, Chad Gaudin can slip into that start on normal rest. Ditto for Kevin Correia on Saturday night.
Then it gets interesting. Sunday's starter will be either Peavy or Geer. And Monday's starter in the unusual four-game series against the Diamondbacks will again be either Geer or Peavy – unless Peavy is still ill, in which case Chris Young would be available on normal rest.


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Well, I'm here in not-so-sunny Monterey CA for ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009. Great fun being had by all.
AT&T cell reception sucks! I can barely make a call at all. The hotel offers t-mobil hotspot (which is part of our room rate) but when you get this many geeks together at once, we tend to burn through bandwidth.
I'm spending most of my time in my room putting together my presentations. I have taken some great walks though.
Anyway, when I do get out, I seem to end up in videos. Check out these videos by Eddie Awad. For some reason, we are being called the ACE babes. ;-)
My favorite video: [Video] Stanley the ACE Vest at ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009
[Video] ODTUG Kaleidoscope - June 21 2009
Eddie also put together a great video of our ACE Director briefing at Oracle HQ. Watch that one and see if you can name all of the ACE Directors that you see.
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This Week in Watches: July 8, 2014
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All season, the No. 10 Wootton boys' lacrosse team felt underestimated. Montgomery County's lacrosse Web site didn't name a Patriot to its preseason all-county watch list, and the Patriots took note. When other outlets called perennial power Churchill most likely to finish atop the Montgomery 4A/3A South division, the Patriots remembered that, too.
Saturday, the Patriots replaced the chips on their shoulders with targets on their backs, emerging as county front-runners with a 14-6 win over Churchill, the team that knocked them out of the playoffs each of the past two seasons.
"We definitely feel like we proved something, but we knew we could do this," said Wootton attacker Austin Schoenfeld. "We liked it that way: No one paying attention to us or scouting us as hard as they should have maybe."
Schoenfeld ensured his name would appear in future scouting reports with a five-goal performance, which combined with a seven-point day from fellow attackman Jake Mitchell to propel the Wootton offense. But the standout showing of the day came from defenseman Cole Abid, who the Patriots (10-0, 4-0 Montgomery County 4A/3A South) handed the unenviable task of marking Maryland-bound Churchill attack Louis Dubick
Abid studied "more film than his coaches and teammates combined" on the Bulldogs, according to Schoenfeld, and asked teammates to mimic Dubick's go-to moves in practice. Dubick had scored 86 points in 10 games before Saturday, but Abid held him scoreless.
"I don't think Dubick has ever been shut out in high school, so Cole had a great game," Wootton Coach Colin Thompson said. "He's a heck of a defender."
Abid said he didn't give a thought to Dubick's stats throughout the game, and only did so when a teammate told him afterward.
"I was like, 'Oh wow, cool!,' " Abid said. "He beat me a couple times today, but he did a good job getting open. He definitely deserves to be going to Maryland, it took a lot of hustle to guard that kid."
With Dubick silenced, Churchill (9-2, 3-1 Montgomery County 4A/3A South) couldn't mount the kind of comeback it needed to respond to a first-half Patriots barrage, which left the Bulldogs trailing 8-2 at halftime. When Bulldogs found their way to the Wootton net, Patrick Cornelius had answers, particularly in the midst of a third-quarter rally during which Churchill continually looked ready to pour in goals — only to see chances stifled in Cornelius's stick.
The victory is Wootton's first against Churchill in its past three tries dating from 2012. With the victory, the Patriots leap to the top of the 4A/3A South regular season standings.
"It's a really good feeling, a solid team win," Abid said. "It's a lot of retribution after they beat us the past two years. It was a great game showing the skill we have and potential we have to go far in the playoffs. It's so great to finally get back at them."


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Mike Smith, former BYU, L.A. Clipper, and Boston Celtic basketball player and current L.A. Clipper color analyst, will speak at USC's Spirituality and Sports Program on April 11th at the Ronald Tutor Campus Center.
In the event titled "A conversation with Mike Smith", the discussion will be about ethics in sports, faith and family, and Mike's transition from professional athlete to sports broadcaster. USC's Dean of Religious Life, Varun Soni, will moderate the conversation.
The qflbg April 11th Spirituality and Sports event is a program by USC's Office of Religious Life which explores the spiritual dimensions of sports including the transformative powers of organized sports to the ritual, pilgrimage, and community orientations that organized sports share with organized religions. This program hosts discussions with Olympic athletes, sports stars, and USC Trojan legends in order to uncover the rich layers of meaning, purpose, and identity that sports imparts to its practitioners. Previous speakers include Matt Leinart, Ryan Khalil, Wes Parker, Louis Zamperini, Peter Vidmar, and John Naybor.
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Servo motor series has high torque
The 8KS servo motor series by B+R Automation provides up to 140 kW of power and stall torque up to 555 Nm and features a resolver interface and optical encoder.
B&R Automation has expanded its product line to include servo motors with high torque and an extended range of speeds. The highly efficient motors in the 8KS series provide up to 140 kW of power and stall torque up to 555 Nm. Available in two sizes with speeds up to 3,000 rpm, 8KS motors open up new possibilities for applications in a wide range of industries that require high power. In addition, these servo motors are available with either axial or radial fans, water cooling and optional mounting feet.
The servo motors in this series come equipped with a resolver interface, an optical encoder with EnDat interface and an embedded parameter chip, ensuring seamless compatibility with Acoposmulti drives and easy integration into B&R's system landscape. As a result, 8KS motors can be installed and operated with the same comfort and ease that has come to be expected from all B&R motors, the company said.
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Before the calendar turned, 2016 already had the makings of a pivotal year for manufacturing, and for the world.
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The Arizona Fall League wraps up its regular season on Thursday. Catcher Christian Vazquez has already finished up his AFL season and transferred to Manati of the Puerto Rican League. In 10 games with the Surprise Saguaros, Vazquez hit .257 with a home run and three RBI.
Right-handers Brock Huntzinger, Chris Martin, Ryan Pressly, Pete Ruiz, infielder Michael Almanzar, and outfielder Bryce Brentz are still with Surprise.
Brentz is batting .327 with two home runs, 11 RBI, a .397 on-base percentage, and .500 slugging percentage in 14 games. Almanzar is hitting just .186 with a .266 OBP and .214 SLG in 19 games.
Both appeared in the Rising Stars Game.
Several other players from the Sox organization are also playing in winter leagues, including left-hander Franklin Morales, who is on the roster of Leones del Caracas of the Venezuelan League but has not made an appearance yet.
In the Dominican League, right-handers Josh Fields and Tony Pena, Jr., who is a free agent, are with Aguilas Cibaenas, with Triple-A Pawtucket pitching coach Rich Sauveur. Former Sox slugger Manny Ramirez is expected to play for the Aguilas on Wednesday. Right-hander Stolmy Pimentel is with Estrellas de Oriente; right-hander Sandy Rosario and infielder Nate Spears are with Gigantes del Cibao; knuckleballer Steven Wright, catcher Matt Spring, and infielder Mauro Gomez are with Leones del Escogido (as is former Sox shortstop Julio Lugo); and catcher Dan Butler is with Toros del Este.
In the Mexican League, right-hander Marco Duarte is with Aguilas de Mexicali; and outfielder Jeremy Hazelbaker is with Yaquis de Obregon.
In the Puerto Rican League infielder Ivan de Jesus is on the roster of Atenienses de Manati, along with Vazquez; right-handers Jose De La Torre and Anthony Ranaudo are pitching for Criollos de Caguas; right-hander Jeremy Kehrt is pitching for Indios de Mayaguez; and outfielder Henry Ramos is with Indios de Ponce.
In the Venezuelan League left-hander Ricardo Betancourt, right-hander Luis Diaz, and outfielder Ronald Bermudez are with Morales in Caracas; infielder Heiker Meneses is on the roster of Tiburones de La Guaira; and former Triple-A Pawtucket manager Buddy Bailey is managing Tigres de Aragua.


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Equitable Gas will not drill in a Doddridge County flood plain.
The county commission issued EQT a flood plain permit, and then rescinded it after landowner Joye Huff objected.
Friday, Judge Tim Sweeney ruled the county's flood plain ordinance unconstitutional because it doesn't give fair notice to the landowners.
Huff said she's relieved by the judge's decision.
"I understand Equitables or any gas company wants to drill but production can't come at the expense of safety," Huff said. "That's been our whole purpose all along so we'll continue to fight for that, the county has a lot to get their ordinance in order."
EQT said it will ask the county commission to compensate it for the money it spent securing the permit.