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February 19. 2013 9:15PM
Prudential honors young Windham volunteer
By APRIL GUILMET
Union Leader Correspondent
Windham Middle School eighth-grader Anne Macleod, center, accepted a silver medallion from her principal, Dan Moulis, left, and Prudential spokesman Tim Skwiot, right, during Tuesday night's Windham school board meeting. Macleod earned the 2013 Spirit of the Community Award for her volunteer efforts teaching water-skiing to disabled athletes. (APRIL GUILMET PHOTO)
WINDHAM - A Windham Middle School student with a passion for water-skiing is one of two students in New Hampshire to be honored for her extensive volunteer efforts working with disabled athletes.
Anne Macleod, an eighth-grader, was recently named one of the state's two leading teen volunteers in Prudential's 2013 Spirit of the Community awards program.
MacLeod was presented with a silver medallion at the start of Tuesday night's Windham School Board meeting.
Dan Moulis, middle school principal, said he was particularly excited to hear the news since it's the first time one of his students received the honor.
"Needless to say, this is a huge deal for us," Moulis said.
Tim Skwiot, a financial professional with Prudential, said the company has been honoring student volunteers for the past 17 years.
"Annie's volunteerism with disabled folks really says a lot about her as a person," Skwiot said.
Macleod said she's spent her summers at Squam Lake for as long as she can remember and began water-skiing at the age of 6.
After hearing about New England Disabled Sports, which provides yearround adaptive sports instruction to kids and adults with physical and cognitive disabilities, Macleod knew she wanted to share her knowledge.
"I always had a connection with kids, and when I found out I could teach something I loved so much it kind of just clicked," she said. "Knowing they have to overcome a lot of obstacles in their everyday lives makes it very satisfying."
Macleod said she plans to continue volunteering this summer.
"I feel like I've already established my building blocks and now I'll be ready to help even more," she said.
Having wanted to be a teacher "for as long as she can remember," Macleod said her volunteering experiences have inspired her to consider becoming a special education teacher.
The insurance company selects two young volunteers for the honors each year, with one middle school student and one high school student selected from a pool of hundreds of candidates.
Derry's Mariah Larocque, a junior at Pinkerton Academy, was chosen as the state's high school representative.
As state honorees, both young women will receive $1,000 and an all-expenses-paid trip in early May to Washington, D.C., where they'll join more than 100 other top honorees from across the country for several days of national recognition events. Ten of them will be named America's top youth volunteers for 2013 at that time.


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Drum roll, please! These rolls are fantastic, even though I tweaked a couple of things. I had an added bonus, that I can't wait to tell my brother about. As a Christmas gift, he gave me a bottle of Savannah Bee Organic Honey (he found at Williams-Sonoma). I had to take a photo of the roll that I slathered in butter and drizzled with honey. My eyes are still rolling in the back of my head. This recipe is going into my Hall of Fame Recipe Binder. Love it!
Note: Not until my rolls were baking, did I find a great article from Fine Cooking on how to shape perfect bread rolls. I thought I'd share the link with y'all.
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The Internets lit up like a Christmas tree yesterday after news of a 3D demo of Halo: Reach being shown at the European Gamescom show was being passed around. But Bungie later clarified it had nothing to do with the 3D tech.
When conventioneers saw a 3D video of Halo Reach being played on a giant screen at Gamescom, it wasn't long before bloggers and news websites started posting about it. The images spread like wildfire and the rumor mills began cranking as gamers posited about the implications of a 3D version of the classic Xbox 360 shooter franchise...
Lame, I like how people shrug off 3D on the ps3 but when they thought that Halo would be in 3D they got excited. How retarded
I think Halo: Reach would have been great in 3D. It looks like a relatively bright game, and light colored visuals work a lot better in 3D than dark visuals do. Just look how bad the Last Airbender 3D was, you could barely make out anything.
"Microsoft has been clear on its stand that it sees absolutely no value in steroscopic 3D gaming at this point. However, it has said the Xbox 360 is capable of producing content if developers want to."
clear but however.... MS knows like most gamers, 3D will be mainstream, akin to BR... MS missed the boat with a next gen drive with their failure of HDDVD...they dont wanna miss 3d, hence their waffle stance
but HOW can the 360 do 3D, linky ne1


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Do you know what a Twitter card is?
Do you wonder which one is a fit for your business?
Twitter cards enrich your tweets with additional content, media and calls to action.
In this article I'll share eight types of Twitter cards, how to install them and their analytics options.
#1: The Summary Card
If your business has a blog or any page devoted solely to information, then you need the summary card. The summary card lets you include the title, description, a thumbnail image and Twitter handle attributions for a page.
There is also a summary card with large image, which includes just that—a larger image from the page, as opposed to a square thumbnail image.
If you have a global audience, @Google's tips for internationalizing homepages is worth reading: https://t.co/muSOLxBLEd
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Four rescued after boat crash on Lake Winnipesaukee
October 06. 2013 2:56PM
Four adults were brought to safety by Center Harbor rescue workers after their boat hit rocks on an outing on Lake Winnipesaukee.
Police said the group was on a boat that hit rocks on the lake at about 7:30 Saturday night. After striking the rocks, the boat became inoperable and then started to take on water.
Center Harbor Fire and Rescue crews responded and brought the people and their vessel to safety.
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Sean Hannity threw the first verbal punch, but it was Jimmy Kimmel who decided Sunday that their blossoming feud was over. "While I admit I did have fun with our back and forth, after some thought, I realize that the level of vitriol from all sides (mine and me included) does nothing good for anyone and, in fact, is harmful for our country," Kimmel said in a statement, suggesting that Hannity's supporters had made "vile" threats against Kimmel's wife and infant son.
re. @seanhannity pic.twitter.com/DMtWJTMsDU
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) April 8, 2018
Kimmel, who always seemed like he was having more fun during the short-lived grudge match, went on apologize to those "members of the gay community" insulted by the nature of his "lampooning Sean Hannity's deference to the president," and said first lady Melania Trump "almost certainly has enough to worry about without being used as a prop to increase TV ratings," though he didn't say if he meant his or Hannity's. (Presumably, Hannity's.)
In any case, Kimmel appears done with the TV and Twitter fight, for whatever reason — it got boring, or he's trying to be the bigger man, or ABC decided that while "ass clown" may be on-brand for Fox News and Hannity it wasn't appropriate to dissect the phrase on a Disney-owned network. Hannity, who has demanded (but didn't really get) an apology to Melania Trump, said on Twitter that he will "have a full and comprehensive response tomorrow" on his TV show Monday night. That suggests he still has stuff to get off his chest, but if only one person is still fighting, it isn't really a feud anymore, it's just trolling. Peter Weber
A communications aide working with the Senate Judiciary Committee on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation process has resigned in connection to a past sexual harassment allegation, a committee representative confirmed Saturday.
The aide, Garrett Ventry, denied all "allegations of misconduct," but a committee statement said despite the denial "he decided to resign to avoid causing any distraction." Ventry was in a temporary position on leave of absence from a public relations company; he resigned from that role as well.
Politico reports, citing an unnamed source, that Ventry also resigned in 2017 from a role with North Carolina House Majority Leader John Bell for allegedly misrepresenting his work with the 2016 presidential campaign of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). Two former Rubio staffers told Politico Ventry was also accused of harassment while on the campaign. Ventry denied these allegations as well.
This comes as the committee grapples with the sexual assault allegation against Kavanaugh himself, a development that has stalled the confirmation. Bonnie Kristian
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will sit for a deposition on a question about U.S. citizenship that has been added to 2020 census forms, a federal judge ruled Friday evening.
"Applying well-established principles to the unusual facts of these cases, the court concludes that the question is not a close one," wrote U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in his decision. "Secretary Ross must sit for a deposition because, among other things, his intent and credibility are directly at issue in these cases."
The deposition is part of a suit brought by New York, as well as other cities, states, and counties, seeking to exclude the new question. Critics have argued the citizenship question will distort census results because some immigrants may choose not to participate in the survey.
Ross is the first Cabinet-level official in two decades to be deposed in a civil case. The Department of Justice argued that to "demand for a Cabinet secretary's deposition is extraordinary, unnecessary, and unsupported." Bonnie Kristian
Ted Cruz attacked Democrat Beto O'Rourke for demanding transparency and accountability in police shootings
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and his challenger, Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas), wrangled at a contentious debate in Dallas Friday night. And the fatal shooting of Botham Jean — the black man killed in his apartment by a white Dallas police officer who says she mistook it for her own home — was a key issue of division between the candidates.
The evening of the debate, Cruz's Twitter account shared a video of O'Rourke speaking to wild cheers in a majority-black church. The clip shows an impassioned O'Rourke arguing Jean's case has yet to see justice. "How can we continue to lose the lives of unarmed black men in the United States of America at the hands of white police officers?" he asks.
In Beto O'Rourke's own words #TXSenateDebate pic.twitter.com/uUzW7DSqgo
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 21, 2018
The tweet's caption suggests the Cruz campaign sees this plea for better police accountability and a transparent public investigation into Jean's killing as self-evidently damning.
At the debate itself, Cruz argued his opponent consistently "sides against the police," claiming O'Rourke has "described law enforcement as modern day Jim Crow." O'Rourke's actual comment, made Wednesday, referenced the book The New Jim Crow to note black Americans are subject to demonstrable discrimination in the U.S. justice system.
"With the tragic shooting death of Botham Jean, you have another unarmed black man killed in this country by law enforcement," O'Rourke said at the debate. "Now, no member of law enforcement wants that; no member of this community wants that; but we've got to do something better than what we've been doing so far."
The latest polls show Cruz and O'Rourke are in a dead heat. Watch their full debate below; the discussion of policing begins around the seven-minute mark and continues through minute 16 with a discussion of NFL players' pre-game protests of police brutality. Bonnie Kristian
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Brock Long will not be fired for his inappropriate use of cars owned by the government, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Friday.
Long used federal vehicles and personnel for his weekend commutes from Washington, D.C., to North Carolina. He had a driver take him home, and reportedly brought aides with him, housing them in hotels using taxpayer money. He was investigated by the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general.
Nielsen said Long, who will repay the government an undisclosed amount, was acting in line with a longstanding but unofficial FEMA practice intended to keep the administrator accessible in case of crisis. That practice has now been discontinued.
"We had a productive conversation where we discussed my expectations regarding the agency's use of government vehicles going forward," Nielsen's statement said. "The administrator acknowledged that mistakes were made, and he took personal responsibility." Bonnie Kristian
China on Friday canceled scheduled trade negotiations with the United States, citing the Trump administration's tariff escalations. President Trump announced a new round of tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imports Monday and is expected to target another $257 billion in products this coming week.
"Nothing the U.S. has done has given any impression of sincerity and goodwill," said Chinese Foreign Ministry representative Geng Shuang. "We hope that the U.S. side will take measures to correct its mistakes."
China also slammed new U.S. sanctions punishing Beijing for purchasing weapons from Russia. "The U.S. approach is a blatant violation of the basic norms of international relations, a full manifestation of hegemony, and a serious breach of the relations between the two countries and their two militaries," said a Chinese Defense Ministry statement promising "consequences." Bonnie Kristian
President Trump seemed to respond Friday night at a rally in Missouri to the day's report that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein considered invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from the Oval Office.
"Just look at what is now being exposed in our Department of Justice and the FBI. Look at what's going on," Trump said, never mentioning Rosenstein by name. "And I want to tell you, we have great people in the Department of Justice. We have great people. These are people, I really believe, you take a poll, I gotta be at 95 percent. But you got some real bad ones. You've seen what's happened at the FBI. They're all gone. They're all gone. They're all gone. But there's a lingering stench, and we're going to get rid of that too."
President Trump takes aim at the DOJ & FBI: "There's a lingering stench and we're going to get rid of that" pic.twitter.com/K4NfxQTDLG
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) September 22, 2018
Trump also again weighed in on the sexual assault allegation against his Supreme Court nominee. Brett Kavanaugh is a "fantastic man" who was "born for the U.S. Supreme Court," the president said, promising his audience the confirmation would go through. "We have to fight for him, not worry about the other side," Trump said. "And by the way, women are for that more than anybody would understand."
A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll published Thursday found a plurality of Americans now oppose Kavanaugh's nomination, and his rising unpopularity is significantly due to shifting attitudes among women since the allegation came to light. Bonnie Kristian
At least 24 people were killed and more than 50 injured Saturday when gunmen opened fire on a military parade in the Iranian city of Ahvaz, state media reported. Civilians, including children and members of the press, were reportedly among the dead.
"Terrorists began shooting from a long distance while inside the park, at the armed forces as well as civilians watching the parade," said Brig. Gen. Abolfazl Shekarch. Three of the attackers were killed and one was arrested, and the attack was claimed by the Patriotic Arab Democratic Movement, a separatist organization.
Officials said the shooters were disguised as military members and accused Saudi Arabia of connection to the attack. "Terrorists recruited, trained, armed & paid by a foreign regime have attacked Ahvaz. Children and journos among casualties," tweeted Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. "Iran holds regional terror sponsors and their US masters accountable for such attacks." Saudi Arabia has not responded to the allegation. Bonnie Kristian


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69Chevy wrote:Nice set up, and almost wanted to join, except the final settings ;
The winners of these two games will face off in a 2 player final which has these settings:
Luxembourg, Standard, Sequential, Automatic, Escalating, Chained, Sunny, No Trench, 2 Players, 30 Round Limit.
A 1vs1 is pure luck, specialy on this map, mabye put this up as a best out of 3 or 5, seems more fair to me , of course as everybody who aready joined agrees with it.
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RVM (Ruby Version Manager) is a command line tool which allows us to easily install, manage and work with multiple Ruby environments from interpreters to sets of gems.
- 1 Installing RVM
- 2 Using RVM
- 3 Troubleshooting
Installing RVM
The install process is very easy, and is the very same for any distro, including ArchLinux. You have two choices, one system-wide, another as a user. The first is for production servers, or if your are alone on your machine. You'll need root privileges. The second is the recommended for multiple users on the same machine (like a development test box).
As an observation, installing RVM with gem is not recommended anymore. This article uses the recommended documentation with minor tweaks to make work on ArchLinux.
$ pacman -S git curl
System-wide installation
First we will use the script that rvm docs recommends to install:
$ bash < <( curl -L http://github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/raw/master/contrib/install-system-wide )
If you want to check the script before:
$ curl -L http://bit.ly/rvm-install-system-wide > rvm-install-system-wide
Inspect the file here, then:
$ bash < ./rvm-install-system-wide
After the script process, add this to the last line of /etc/bash.bashrc
$ [[ -s '/usr/local/lib/rvm' ]] && source '/usr/local/lib/rvm'
Now go to post-installation procedures.
User installation
User-wide installation have a similar procedure to the system-wide install:
$ bash < <( curl http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/releases/rvm-install-head )
Then add to your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc:
$ [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"
Post installation
After the installation, check with this command:
$ type rvm | head -n1
The response should be:
$ rvm is a function
If you don't get a response, you may need to source /etc/bash.bashrc:
$ . /etc/bash.bashrc
Check if the rvm function is working:
$ rvm notes
Using RVM
Here's some RVM usage examples, for general usage no more is needed.
Installing an environment
To install a Ruby environment, run:
$ rvm install <environment/ruby version>
For example, to install Ruby 1.8.7 one would run the following command:
$ rvm install 1.8.7
This should download, configure and install Ruby 1.8.7. Make sure, you have gcc or another fitting compiler installed.
Listing Ruby Environments
To see all available Ruby environments, run the following command:
$ rvm list
This would generate a list like so:
~> rvm list
rvm Rubies jruby-1.5.0 [ [i386-java] ] => ruby-1.8.7-p249 [ i386 ] ruby-1.9.2-head [ i386 ] System Ruby system [ i386 ]
The ASCII arrow indicates which environment is currently enabled. In this case, it is Ruby 1.8.7. This could be confirmed by running:
$ ruby --version ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [i686-linux]
Switching Environment
To switch from one environment, to another simply run:
$ rvm <version/environment>
For example to switch to Ruby 1.8.7 one would run the following command:
$ rvm 1.8.7
It can be confirmed by running:
$ ruby --version ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [i686-linux]
RVM update
Simply use:
$ rvm update
Revert the default ruby to system ruby
$ rvm system
And check if the version complies with your system installed package:
$ ruby -v $ pacman -Q ruby $ which ruby
"which ruby" must be pointing to /usr/bin/ruby
You'll need to take care with rvm installations, since ArchLinux is very well updated, and some earlier ruby's patchlevels don't like it. RVM many times don't choose the latest patchlevel version to install, and you'll need to check manually on the ruby website, and force RVM to install it.
Ruby 1.8.x won't compile with RVM
This is a known issue on Arch Linux, and is caused by a problem with openssl. Arch uses openssl 1.0, lower patchlevels of 1.8.7 assumes 0.9.
You can use newer patchlevels, like p299 or newer with:
$ rvm remove 1.8.7 $ rvm install 1.8.7-p299
Another approach is to install local openssl via RVM:
$ rvm package install openssl $ rvm remove 1.8.7 $ rvm install 1.8.7 -C --with-openssl-dir=$HOME/.rvm/usr
Ruby 1.9.x won't compile with RVM
Like with 1.8.x, earlier patchlevels don't like the OpenSSL 1.0. Then you can use the very same solution above, by installing openssl locally on RVM.
$ rvm package install openssl $ rvm remove 1.9.1 $ rvm install 1.9.1 -C --with-openssl-dir=/usr/local/rvm/usr


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Jaian General itinerary:
Bali: Monday 21-May-12 to Wednesday 23-May-12 (bars, beaches and water sports)
Kuala Lumpur: Wednesday 23-May-12 to Thursday 24-May-12 (basically an overnight stopover, with a day for sight seeing)
Hong Kong: Thursday 24-May-12 to Tuesday 29-May-12 (the highlight of the tour for me, focused around food, Buddhas and bars)
Phuket: Tuesday 29-May-12 to Thursday 31-May-12 (hire a speedboat for a day trip aroudn the best beaches/islands)
Singapore: Thursday 31-May-12 to Saturday 2-Jun-12 (food, bars and amusement parks!)
Bali: Saturday 2-Jun-12 to Monday 4-Jun-12 (last minute shopping before heading home)
Airfares starting in Bali, going through all the countries and back to Bali again came to about USD $250, though I did get the tickets on sale. Guessing the actual airfare prices would be close to double that?
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Yet there's more to this nation in Central America than the mighty Panama Canal, and travellers lucky enough to end up in Panama will be delightfully surprised by the uncrowded beaches, sensational surf breaks, magical rainforests and splendid colonial towns. It's high time the world's wanderers added Panama to their adventure agendas.
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Australia: Yes - on arrival
Belgium: Not required
Canada: Yes - on arrival
Germany: Not required
Ireland: Not required
Netherlands: Not required
New Zealand: Yes - on arrival
South Africa: Yes - in advance
Switzerland: Not required
United Kingdom: Not required
USA: Yes - on arrival
The cost of a tourist card on arrival varies by nationality.
Tipping (although not mandatory) is considered polite in Panama. Tip 10-15% in restaurants and cafes, and leave a small amount of money for porters, guides and taxi drivers
Travellers will be able to access the internet at cyber cafes and hotels in Panama's large cities and tourist areas. Access to the internet is generally less common in rural and remote areas.
Mobile phone coverage is generally good in Panama's major cities, but may be less reliable in remote or rural areas. Ensure global roaming is activated before leaving home if you wish to use your mobile phone.
Panama has a combination of modern, flushable toilets (found in cities) and more modest squat toilets (found in rural areas), so prepare to encounter both while travelling in Panama.
Bottle of soft drink = 1 PAB
Bottle of local beer = 1.50-2 PAB
Snack at a market = 2-3 PAB
Lunch at a café = 5-7 PAB
Three-course dinner at a restaurant = 20 PAB
Tap water is considered safe to drink in Panama unless marked otherwise.
Major credit cards will be accepted by large hotels, shops and restaurants in the cities of Panama, but less so in rural and less developed areas. Be sure to carry other modes of payment just to be sure.
Panama's major cities and tourist-orientated towns have ATMs readily available. It's advisable, however, to withdraw cash before leaving the city as ATMs may not always be available in regional areas.
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For more information on insurance, please go to: Travel Insurance
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BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is on his way to Biloxi. Despite Tropical Storm Karen still spinning in the Gulf of Mexico, the governor just sent out a tweet that said, "I'm taking my Nomad down to Cruisin the Coast."
In that tweet, Bryant said, "We're still keeping a close eye on Tropical Storm Karen, but it looks like the storm is weakening."
A spokesman for Bryant expects the governor and his 1955 Chevrolet Nomad to arrive in Biloxi by 4:00 p.m.
A visit to Cruisin' the Coast is an annual tradition for the governor, who showed off his classic car at last year's event.
"I have had it since I was 16. I bought it for $450, from the guy I worked for" Bryant said in 2012. "I wouldn't sell it for anything. I am going to let my children fight over it. A big day in the estate sale."
Bryant said the Nomad was his high school car, and he wouldn't sell it for anything in the world.
"I do all the mechanical work. My dad was a mechanic, so he taught us how to do that. So I have done all the mechanical work, rebuilt the motor, ah just about everything on it, that has been done, I have done it."
The Nomad even has the original vacuum operated windshield wipers and original orange bolts on the engine.
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March 17. 2013 10:50AM
Nashua fire started in flower box used as an ash tray
NASHUA — A fire early Sunday morning at a two-story residence at 4 Laconia Ave. was caused by an improperly disposed of cigarette.
According to Nashua Fire Department, the cigarette appears to have been only partially stubbed out in a flower box.
When the resident returned home about 2 a.m. Sunday morning, the building was on fire. No one was inside at the time and there were no injuries, according to the fire department.


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When a new visitor subscribes to your mailing list, or creates an account on your site for the first time, it's always a good idea to have a workflow in place that will allow you to send emails to new customers on your mailing list.
Send them an email thanking them for subscribing, with subtle reminders for offers or sales.
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Your customer experience will be enhanced by welcoming your customers and offering thanks with a new customer workflow.
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Emails triggered by shopping cart abandonment can massively contribute towards more sales and is usually the first email workflow a brand will create. Customers will often add products to their cart and forget about them, or change their mind and abandon cart.
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Homebrew Kit Review: Brewer's Best Imperial Pale Ale Beer Sessions
After our initial homebrewing success, we decided we wanted to step up our game! Brewer's Best has a line of homebrew kits perfect for newbies like us who want a bigger challenge than those straight extracts, but aren't quite ready venture out on our own with an all-grain recipe. We chose an imperial pale ale and got to brewing!
Kit Contents: These kits come with all the ingredients you need, pre-measured, along with grain bags and instructions. This kit uses extract for the base, but has you add special malts and hops for better flavor and more hands-on experience. A kit like this is still walking you through every step, but you get more of a feel for the whole process.
Our kit contained:
• Three Specialty Malts - Crushed Crystal Malt, Crushed Dextrine Malt, and Crushed Victory Malt
• Malt Extract - "Golden Light" malt extract (concentrated malt syrup) and a packet of dried malt extract
• Corn Sugar
• Hops - The kit used all Columbus hops, but they were separated into three packets to be added at different points during the boil for bittering, flavoring, and aroma purposes.
• Yeast - Safale US-05 Dry Ale Yeast
• Priming Sugar
The Process: We started out with boiling 2.5 gallons of water. As you can see, we'll need to invest in a bigger pot pretty soon! Once the water came to a boil, we steeped the specialty malts at around 160° for 20 minutes. The specialty malts were then removed.
Next, we brought the liquid (wort) back up to a boil and added in the malt extracts along with the first dose of hops. After 30 minutes, we added the second dose of hops, and after 55 minutes, we added the last packet.
Adding the hops at separate points in the boil like this affects the final flavors and aromas of the beer in different ways. Various compounds in the hops break down or are released depending on how long they've been cooked. To be honest, we're still a little fuzzy on the science of this!
Once the wort was finished boiling and all the hops had been added, all we had left to do was get it cooled down and mix it with some extra water to get about 5 gallons of total beer. We pitched the yeast and let it ferment away!
Original and Final Gravity: The original gravity of the beer (taken right after brewing) and the final gravity (taken after fermentation is complete) are used to determine your beer's alcohol content. Our original gravity came in at 1.070, a bit lower than the information in the kit instructions predicted.
Our final gravity at the time of bottling was 1.015. Using a handy formula, we determined that our alcohol by volume (ABV) would be around 7.2%. This is still a little lower than the kit predicted, but we were satisfied. Tinkering with the recipe to get an ABV closer to what you want is definitely possible, but that's still a little beyond our skill at this point. Baby steps!
Tasting the Finished Beer: It's hazy amber brown in color with a surprisingly decent head of tight foam. The aroma is floral and distinctly hoppy, and the taste follows suit. It's bitter and refreshing, with a good dose of thick malts to give it some body and balance the hoppiness. This is a fairly straight-forward beer without a lot of subtly or nuance, but the flavors are clean and crisp.
We definitely felt like giving ourselves a pat on the back for this beer! It's not going to win any awards any time soon, but it's been a good beer to come home to at the end of a long day.
Overall: For us, this kit was great for guiding us through the steps of mashing and hopping our own beer. We have a much better grasp of how it would be to start playing around with recipes or do an all-grain mash (using no malt extract). We were very pleased with the final product, too!
Have you done any of the Brewer's Best kits? Any other similar kits to recommend?
Related: Beer Guide: All About Pale Ale
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Delivering thanks in a box of food
Stuffing mix, margarine and pie crust rode on top of a variety of canned goods along with eggs and bread.
Twelve boxes overflowing with food held everything to make a traditional Thanksgiving meal, except we carried the turkey and bag of potatoes separately.
It's a heart-warming experience to deliver holiday food boxes to families that may not be able to put the whole spread on the table this week.
It's also quite humbling to receive such a gift.
I've been on both ends of that scenario.
How does a person begin to write thank-you cards to all of the people in a community who have taken care of a neighbor like that?
I knew we could never pay back the generosity that came from others so my family decided to pay it forward instead.
Food pantry donations from all over town fill the boxes each year. We help as volunteers who deliver them.
It's one thing to give non-perishable food items to someone anonymously through the pantry or another charity. It's another to personally hand over a heavy load of goodies.
Nothing compares to tears of gratitude. To see the appreciation flow from a person's face makes every second of preparation worth it.
And there are only a few lessons as important as teaching our children the gift of generosity, whether it is giving an extra can of green beans or an hour of our weekend.
When my family gathers around our table this Thursday we will say a prayer of genuine thanksgiving, grateful not only for our own turkey and pie but also for the opportunity to share with others.
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Trebuchet places second in contest
Physics class flings ball 333 feet to place second
ARTHUR—The lessons that come with building a catapult cross over into many areas of physics, a few of which might include motion, gravity, energy, rotational dynamics.
But the seven members of Erin Duncan's physics class in Brady didn't see building a trebuchet for a contest as a physics lesson. They looked at it instead as a fun way to put knowledge to work outside the classroom.
The Brady class competed in the first-ever Thrills in the Hills contest at the Arthur County airport on May 8.
There were seven schools involved: North Platte, Ogallala, Axtell, Anselmo-Merna, Platteview, Arthur County and Brady.
The teams were given a few regulations to meet with their catapult but were not limited on imagination.
The catapult had to have a trigger of at least 20 feet and could not be larger than 25 feet long, 15 feet wide and 15 feet tall, excluding the lever arm.
Each team was allowed three practice throws and then three competition throws, competing for the longest distance reached by a 16-pound bowling ball.
The best throw for each team was considered in the final scoring.
Brady's catapult was a trebuchet, according to Duncan.
"It had a counterweight on one end and a sling and pouch on the other," she said. "The sling starts under the throwing arm and as the counterweight is released, the sling swings around and one end of it is released opening the pouch and allowing whatever projectile is in the pouch to be thrown."
The Brady team, nicknamed the Ball Slingers, had official throws of 333 feet, 312 feet and 327 feet.
They finished second to the host Arthur County team, which achieved 348 feet on their second attempt.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man was arrested Friday in last year's shooting deaths at a Coast Guard communications station on Kodiak Island that left two employees dead, the U.S. attorney said.
James Michael Wells of Kodiak is accused in a federal murder complaint of killing Petty Officer 1st Class James Hopkins and retired Chief Boatswain's Mate Richard Belisle on April 12.
Another Coast Guard member found the victims shortly after the two would have arrived for work at the station, which monitors radio traffic from ships and planes. Their bodies were found in the rigger building, where antennas are repaired.
The Kodiak Island Coast Guard base is home to cutters, helicopters and rescue swimmers that aid mariners in the Bering Sea and Pacific Ocean.
FBI agents immediately flew to Kodiak Island from Anchorage, about 250 miles away, to investigate the case as a double homicide.
Few details were released in the weeks after the deaths, although FBI spokesman Eric Gonzalez in Anchorage said shortly after the murders that there was "no credible evidence" that the community was in danger. He also said there was no indication the homicides were related to terrorism.
Wells' arrest came after "an extensive investigation" led by the FBI and the Coast Guard Investigative Service, with support from the Alaska State Troopers, U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler said in a statement.
Wells is expected to appear in court next week in Anchorage, Loeffler said.
No one was immediately reachable by phone Friday evening at the U.S. attorney's office to provide additional details.
Hopkins, 41, was an electronics technician from Vergennes, Vt. Belisle, 51, was a former chief petty officer who continued service to the Coast Guard as a civilian employee.
Reached by telephone Friday evening, Gonzalez declined to discuss specifics of the case, saying the complaint and underlying affidavit are under court seal. He said he expected those documents to be unsealed next week.
Gonzalez declined to comment on a possible motive, what led investigators to focus on Wells or whether any other arrests were expected.
"I just can't comment on anything about this case," he said.
In their jobs with the Coast Guard, Belisle and Hopkins were involved with the installation, maintenance, repair and management of electronic equipment.
Approximately 60 enlisted personnel and civilians work at the base's communications station. That's a small fraction of the estimated 4,000 Guardsmen, families and civilian employees at the Kodiak Island base, the service's largest in the nation.


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LONDON (AP) — Rupert Grint is following his "Harry Potter" co-star Daniel Radcliffe onto the stage.
Producers announced Friday that Grint, who was ginger-haired wizard Ron Weasley in the Potter films, will play a pill-popping gangster in a West End revival of Jez Butterworth's "Mojo" later this year.
Ben Whishaw, Daniel Mays and "Downton Abbey" star Brendan Coyle are also in the cast of Butterworth's savagely funny drama about London's 1950s' underworld.
It will be directed by Ian Rickson, who also led the play's original 1995 production at the Royal Court Theatre. Butterworth went on to write Tony-winner "Jerusalem."
"Mojo" begins previews at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London in October.
Radcliffe has taken stage roles in London and New York and is currently starring in "The Cripple of Inishmaan" in London.


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UPDATE: The deal is now done, with Harley-Davidson issuing a press release.
Expected to be closed within hours, Harley-Davidson is on the verge of selling MV Agusta to Claudio Castiglioni. Castiglioni was able to leverage the purchase of MV Agusta by using the funds that would have been generated by his stock buy-out, which is rumored to be between €20 – €30 million. Castiglioni is today's big winner in the deal, as the Italian is basically buying back the company he sold to Harley-Davidson for pennies on the dollar, while Harley-Davidson is left holding the tab on a hefty purchase price and cash infusion into the Italian company.


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Hello I am using 5641 R Transceiver and 5600, 5610 to down up converters. What I wanna do is:
-downconvert the incoming signal an UMTS signal (with a power density of about -80dBm)
-using the FPGA I want to amplify the signal
-upconvert the signal
-transmit the amplified signal
I am compiling a really simple FPGA code to introduce a configurable linear gain
It works ok with a DIGITAL gain up to 2 (linear scale) but if I multiply the incoming signal with a higher value, the output power doesnt increase
I know I can use down and upconverter gain, but I also want to digitaly amplify the signal. (I want to get a power near -1.5 dbm at the output of the IF Transceiver, that is the maximium output according with specifications)
why is the maxomium scale factor 2 ??
(also the VI "NI 5640 DAC Config IQ" has an input called "output scaled factor", and its maximium value is 2 )
any advise?
Jonathan Rueda
Solved! Go to Solution.
Hi I just realize that each multiplier can produce a gain of 2, next time I will try before asking, but still components should be more intelligent than users
Were you starting from one of the examples? I am not sure which multiplier you are talking about. If you are talking about the multiplier from the Process Data VI in the Analog Input and Output example, then it is not limited to multiply by 2. The reason it may seem that way is that the fixed point number that you are scaling by has been configured to have a word length of 18bits and a integer word length of 1bit. This means that the range would be 0-2 with a resolution of 7.6294e-6. You can right click on the fixed point number control and change this representation to have a different integer word length. For a given "Word Length", increasing the "Integer Word Length" will widen the range of values, but decrease the resolution that you can achieve.
Hope that helps. Let me know if I didn't understand your problem correctly.
I am adding a AGC to my solution. That was exactly my problem. Thankyou!


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With allTunes.mobile you can find and choose a song you are interesting of, or an album, new hits from charts, favorite musician or group. All this is available without a PC - it is enough to have a phone. We do not have DRM, and you can copy any file to your MP3 player or PC without restrictions. Our prices start from $0.05 per track.
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Purple Garlic from Las Pedroñeras
Purple garlic
Which area of Spain is it typical?
- Autonomous region: Castilla-La Mancha
Garlic is one of the main condiments used in the cuisine of this country. The county of Las Pedroñeras is one of the main areas for producing garlic, which is of high quality.
Originally from the East, it has been grown for more than 4,000 years and, as with the onion, many curative effects have been attributed to it. In the Middle Ages, it was used to combat the many epidemics, among them leprosy, a fact that is probably associated with the magic properties that have also been attributed to this product. Garlic reached the Peninsula from one of the Crusades and, in this county of La Mancha, among others, it found an ideal site for being developed. The unusual features of this area's climate and soil have made this ecotype of the garlic plant emerge. Las Pedroñeras purple garlic is between medium sized and large. It is made up of between 8 and 10 cloves, with the their main feature their purple colour, covered by a white coating, forming the "heads of garlic". It has a strong smell and a spicy, stimulating taste.
More information
Product information
- Type of product: Vegetables
- Season: Quite late 15 to 30 June. Late, 15 July onwards.
- Origin: This protected geographical designation covers garlic from the cultivation area, sold by handling and packing companies based in La Alberca del Záncara, Mota del Cuervo, Las Pedroñeras, El Provencio, San Clemente and Santa María del Campo Rus. Las Pedroñeras is the main point of production.
- Recipes: Potted pork loin
Nutritional information
- Energy: Low
- Cholesterol: 0
- Comments: High fibre content.


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EDISON — It's not too late to start college. At Middlesex County College, a special "Fall II" program of accelerated courses begins Sept. 26. Courses are offered day, evening, and through the internet.
"At Middlesex, we're here to help you succeed," said Aretha Watson, director of admissions and assistant dean of enrollment and student support services. "We know you have a busy schedule so we offer flexible programs, with two separate Fall terms; we offer the traditional 15-week semester, as well as a shorter term for select classes. This is the perfect opportunity to take a class in an area that interests you, or to start your college career. We have classes offered at our Edison campus, the New Brunswick and Perth Amboy Centers, as well as online courses you can take at home."
Classes include art, business, English, computer science, writing, history, ethics, psychology, criminology, public speaking, sociology, Spanish and philosophy.
For a complete list of classes and more information, visit www.middlesexcc.edu.
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Farmers can gain $2,500 awards for community projects
Nebraska farmers have the opportunity to win awards to help community non-profit organizations that are dear to their hearts.
The awards are available through Monsanto Fund's America's Farmers Grow Communities ProjectSM, a new program being offered in select counties in California, Kansas, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina and South Dakota.
Through the program, farmers can enter to win the chance to direct $2,500 awards to local non-profit organizations that are important to them and their communities.
The program is intended to benefit non-profit community groups such as ag youth organizations, schools and other civic groups. Farmers can apply online at www.growcommunities.com or by calling 877-267-3332 to obtain an application.
"Farmers in Nebraska and across America work hard to feed, fuel and clothe our country and the world," said Brett Begemann, Monsanto fund chairman. "But they are passionate about their local communities. That's why we created the America's Farmers Grow Communities Project.
"From local FFA Chapters and 4-H Clubs to fire departments, community centers and schools, we're proud of the investments farmers are making through this program, and the lives that we will touch together."
Farmers, age 21 and over, who are actively engaged in farming a minimum of 250 acres of corn, soybeans and/or cotton, or 40 acres of open field vegetables, or at least 10 acres of tomatoes, peppers and/or cucumbers grown in protected culture, are eligible.
The application period runs May 1 through July 31. The program is open to all qualifying farmers, and no purchase is necessary in order to enter or win. In Nebraska, one winner will be drawn from each of the state's 71 participating counties. Monsanto Fund will announce winning farmers and recipient organizations that were chosen in August.
"The America's Farmers Grow Communities project was originally launched as a pilot program by Monsanto Company in Iowa and select counties in Missouri and Arkansas in January," said John Raines, vice president of customer advocacy for Monsanto Company. "With more than 7,500 farmers participating and more than $500,000 benefitting non-profit groups in farming communities, we were very pleased with the program."
To obtain a copy of the official rules for this program, click here or send a written request to Jane Winburn, 914 Spruce St., St. Louis, MO 63102.
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NEW YORK (AP) — MTV says its upcoming series "Slednecks" about a wild group of young people in Alaska isn't "Buckwild" on ice.
The production company that made "Buckwild" is behind "Slednecks," too. Clips of the new series shown to advertisers Thursday featured loud arguments, a snowmobile rider flipping and crashing, and people jumping naked into a lake through a hole cut in thick ice. The show is expected to premiere this fall.
"Buckwild" was a big hit for MTV, featuring a group of hard-partying West Virginia residents, but was abruptly canceled last year. That came after one of its stars, Shain Gandee, died of carbon monoxide poisoning when his SUV became stuck in a mud pit, its tailpipe submerged.
The series had already attracted negative attention from some less rowdy West Virginia residents who felt it presented a negative image of their state.
MTV President Stephen Friedman said "Slednecks" will not be a version of "Buckwild" in a different setting. Production companies can make a wide range of different series. Zoo Productions has also made "Family Game Night" for Hub, "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader" for Fox and "Girls Behaving Badly" for Oxygen.
Friedman on Friday compared "Slednecks" to past MTV series "Jersey Shore" and "Laguna Beach" that focused on the unusual experiences of a different group of people.
"'Buckwild' was really unique to West Virginia, the phenomenal cast and the experiences they had," he said. "We always felt we would continue doing what is an ethnographic reality, where you're going into a culture and shining a light onto what is going on."
"Slednecks" features some Native American cast members and the show will illustrate how they mix with other cultures, he said.
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Your Food Through a Filter: Readers Cook The Kitchn
This past month you've been making and sharing our recipes on Instagram, and it's been fun to follow along. There were some wonderful Thanksgiving photos – including the hot cranberry punch, sweet potato rolls, and a delicious lookin' apple pie.
As always, these are a few of our favorites Instagram photos you shared, but you can check more out on our Pinterest board if you're looking for inspiration. If you click through the photo gallery you can see all the Instagram users who are grammin our stuff. If you look below, you'll get the recipes that correspond to each photo.
1. Spiced Lentils with Egg
2. Scallops with Lime and Cilantro
3. Pizza with Crispy Kale, Butternut Squash, Bacon & Smoked Mozzarella
4. Eggnog Breakfast Bread Pudding
5. How to Make Limoncello
6. Double Crust Apple Pie
7. How to Make Soft Pretzels
8. Pumpkin Buttered Rum
9. Hot Cranberry Punch with Sage and Peppercorns
10. Sweet Potato Dinner Rolls
11. Sparkling Apple Cider Sangria
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August 30. 2013 8:33PM
Manchester burglaries net guns, computers and jewelry
By KATHRYN MARCHOCKI
New Hampshire Union Leader
— Three stolen handguns are on the streets as a result of a surge of burglaries Thursday in which thieves also took computers, a television and jewelry.
The first of the four break-ins happened about 9 a.m. and the last one was reported at 10 p.m. They included one home that was broken into while the 65-year-old resident was asleep on his couch, police said Friday.
They are among an alarming increase in burglaries this summer, not just in Manchester but statewide, which authorities largely blame on drug-addicted thieves seeking easy money to fuel their habits.
Manchester police will host a community meeting Sept. 5 to answer any questions members of the public may have about the rise in burglaries, home safety or any other concerns. It will be held at 6 p.m. at the Officer Michael Briggs Community Center/Manchester Police Athletic League at 409 Beech St. All are welcome.
Two .45 caliber pistols, ammunition, coins, and a tablet and a laptop computer were stolen from a 320 Manning St. home while the homeowner was at work during the day. He came home to find his rear basement door forced open and the items missing.
Another gun — a 9 mm pistol — was stolen from a 405 Manchester St. apartment along with a laptop computer and television. The homeowner returned about 10 p.m. to find the items missing. There was no sign of forced entry.
A 99 Dionne St. homeowner returned home about 4:30 p.m. after being out for several hours to find she had been burglarized. Thieves pushed in the first-floor window air conditioning unit and stole jewelry and her jewelry box.
Burglars entered an unlocked 423 Amherst St. apartment between 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. and stole medications and cell phone from the coffee able while the resident slept on his couch nearby. They also took cash.
This brings to 105 the total burglaries that occurred between Aug. 1-30, Lt. Maureen Tessier said. There were 84 burglaries during the same time last year.


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Landscape designer to discuss ecological stormwater solutions Nov. 27
Internationally known sustainable designer and teacher Penny Livingston-Stark will present the Iowa State University Department of Landscape Architecture's annual P.H. Elwood Lecture at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 27, in Kocimski Auditorium, College of Design. She will speak on "Water and the Landscape: Ecological Design Approaches and Innovative Solutions for Management of Stormwater Runoff." The lecture is free and open to the public.
Every winter is a crash course in driving across snow and ice
Now is the time to drive extra carefully when the forecast calls for snow. A paper by researchers at Iowa State University's Center for Transportation Research and Education reports that the rate of winter weather crashes on Iowa's primary roads is highest in November. The rate plummets as drivers relearn winter driving skills.
ISU prof sees Christian privilege in public schools, offers advice for religious equity
Warren Blumenfeld, an assistant professor of multicultural and international curriculum studies at Iowa State, authored an article titled "Christian Privilege and the Promotion of 'Secular' and Not-So 'Secular' Mainline Christianity in Public Schooling and in the Larger Society," for a professional journal. It documents examples of Christian privilege -- including celebration of Christian holidays -- and offers guidelines for bringing about more religious equity.
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Iowa State-based transportation center to focus on safety
Iowa State University, the University of Iowa and the University of Northern Iowa are working together to establish a transportation center supported by $3 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The center will support research aimed at developing tools so departments of transportation can consider safety when planning and managing roadways.
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ISU forensic statisticians hunting for hidden messages
Two Iowa State mathematicians have developed software that will detect secret files in seemingly innocent digital images. Jennifer Davidson and Cliff Bergman, both professors in the math department, are fine-tuning the artificial neural net (ANN). When plopped into a computer, the ANN will work like radar that culls out suspicious images.
Holiday recording features Simon Estes
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Saturday night, while the high school band was marching and Santa was waving from a flatbed and his elves were handing out stuffed animals, someone snuck into the town's nativity scene and stole baby Jesus.
FROSTPROOF | Saturday night, while the high school band was marching and Santa was waving from a flatbed and his elves were handing out stuffed animals, someone snuck into the town's nativity scene and stole baby Jesus.
A public works employee, walking back to his car from the parade, noticed the empty manger and called his boss.
"We'd like to think it was some kid walking by who picked up the doll, maybe their parents didn't even notice," said public works director James Keene. "But it couldn't be just that because of the donkey."
That would be the "4-foot tall by 6-foot wide realistically painted plywood donkey," as recorded in the Polk County Sheriff's Office report.
More than 1,000 people lined the parade route that night, which followed Scenic Highway U.S. 27, right past the spotlit creche. But no witnesses came forward. The thief left no ransom note or clues.
The Sheriff's Office asked the public for information that might help catch the criminal. Crime stoppers offered a $1,000 reward.
On Thursday, detectives got two anonymous tips and set out to track them down.
And City Council member Diana Biehl found her daughter's old doll and slipped off its pink dress.
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The Department of Justice doesn't keep statistics about Nativity-nappings. But in the last two decades, newspapers have published 353 stories about such crimes.
Figures are pilfered outside city halls and shopping malls, from churches and old folks' front porches. In Massachusetts, a thief left a note: "We have Jesus. We will hang him unless the police leave five cases of Budweiser here Jan. 1." In Oklahoma, a company offered GPS devices so if someone swiped your Jesus, at least you could track him.
People in Frostproof say manger crimes are unprecedented in their tiny town, where everyone knows everyone. "The Friendly City" is home to about 3,000 people and a dozen churches.
"The Christian presence in everybody's life around here is quite strong," said council member Biehl. In the spirit of forgiveness, Biehl doesn't want whoever took the town's doll to go to jail. She just wants the baby back. "Whoever did this needs a serious talking-to," she said.
Frostproof's nativity figures are life-size: three wise men, two shepherds, three camels, two lambs and the proud parents. Town workers carved them from plywood more than 20 years ago and repainted them last fall.
Jesus was the only three-dimensional character, a cloth doll with a plastic head and painted eyes. "I'd be surprised if the whole thing was worth $50," said Keene, whose employees also built the palm-frond stable. "But it isn't about the money. It's about: Why would anyone take Jesus?"
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Five days after the parade, Flat Mary and Joseph were still staring down at the Spanish moss that filled the empty crib.
And detectives still had no suspect.
"We got two leads, which they're checking out right now," Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Carrie Eleazer said Thursday.
A woman directed investigators to a man she said had taken the doll. He was with a friend that night, he said. His alibi checked out.
"Turns out the tip came from a disgruntled girlfriend," said Eleazer.
Another caller said the plastic savior was in a cemetery. Detectives combed all four graveyards around Frostproof, but didn't find the doll — or donkey.
"We have stepped up patrol around the nativity," Eleazer said, in case someone tries to take other figures. And in case the thief returns to the scene of the crime.
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Biehl couldn't bear the stark symbolism: Christ was missing from the Christmas tableau.
She called her daughter, who is 37. Remember that baby doll you used to take everywhere? The one that's still sitting in the rocking chair in the guest room? Of course her daughter remembered Cynthia. And she would be honored to donate her to such a worthy cause.
"I didn't have anything to dress her in, so I just wrapped it in white trash bags," Biehl said.
On Thursday, she laid the replacement Jesus in the manger and called the public works manager. "Can you find some better clothes?"
Keene draped a cranberry tea towel across the toy, but he wasn't sure about this imposter. This baby had a huge head and thick, brown hair. It looked older than a newborn, not so holy.
That night, he asked his wife: Was there a better doll he could borrow? "You can have mine, Daddy," said his 10-year-old daughter, Brana. "Just make sure you bring her back."
So on Friday morning, with the city manager at his side, Keene took the hairy baby out of the manger and set the bald doll in its place. Keene tucked the tea towel around its cloth body, then walked to his truck. "Oh wait," he said. "I better find something to secure it."
By noon, Frostproof's third holy infant seemed to be slumbering peacefully, his tiny wrists zip-tied to the manger.
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March is going out more like a lion than a lamb, as forecasters are calling for a chance of snow and near-freezing temperatures early Tuesday just in time for the school rush hour.
March is going out more like a lion than a lamb, as forecasters are calling for a chance of snow and near-freezing temperatures early Tuesday just in time for the school rush hour.
The National Weather Service in Greer, S.C. is calling for a 40 percent chance of snow for Henderson and surrounding mountain counties Tuesday, with a rain-snow mixture possible at lower elevations.
Temperatures will struggle to get above freezing until later in the day Tuesday, forecasters said. That could mean schools will be delayed, if predictions hold.
"Right now, we're expecting the precipitation to begin after midnight Monday night, with a better chance as we run through mid- to late-morning on Tuesday," said NWS Meteorologist Bryan McAvoy on Sunday evening.
McAvoy said Henderson County could see "a half inch or less" of powdery snow as a cold air mass from Canada known as an "Alberta Clipper" moves across the region, dropping temperatures on Tuesday morning to around 31 or 32 degrees.
"A rain-snow mix is not out of the question," McAvoy said. "At some point during the day, it might warm up. But right now, the thermal profile looks cold enough for snow... In Henderson County, I'd say by noon (Tuesday) it should be over."
However, snowfall is expected to continue in high-elevation counties along the Tennessee border. Those areas could see as much as 2 inches of snowfall, McAvoy said.
"There won't be abundant moisture associated with this system, which will limit the precipitation amounts," he said.
As the front approaches, daytime temperatures on Monday are not expected to get above the upper 40s, McAvoy said, but sunshine will prevail.


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The battle over a copper and gold mine near one of the world's premier salmon fisheries is headed to the ballot in a vote next week that has turned a normally sleepy local election into a national environmental debate.
Voters in southwest Alaska's Lake and Peninsula Borough are deciding whether to ban large-scale resource extraction activity, including mining, that would destroy or degrade salmon habitat. The measure is aimed squarely at Pebble Mine, the massive gold-and-copper prospect near the headwaters of Bristol Bay.
The debate surrounding Pebble has attracted the attention of chefs, Robert Redford and big-name jewelers who have vowed not to sell any gold coming from the project
But Tuesday's vote will almost certainly not be the last word on how _ or whether _ the mine is built.
"Among other things, the question in front of the Lake and Peninsula voters is about changes to land use that the Alaska attorney general says is unenforceable as a matter of law," said Mike Heatwole, a spokesman for Pebble Limited Partnership, the group promoting the mine project.
Pebble Partnership sued to keep the "Save the Salmon" initiative off the ballot, arguing in part that the measure would improperly bypass the role of the local planning commission. State court Judge John Suddock denied that request, noting Alaska's Supreme Court has given deference to initiatives absent proof they would do something unlawful. He put the case on hold until Nov. 7, to allow for the vote and challenges.
The vote is the latest skirmish in the fight over a project that supporters say could create up to 1,000 long-term jobs in economically-depressed rural Alaska but that opponents fear could fundamentally change the landscape and disrupt, if not destroy, a way of life.
The mine is a joint venture of Canada-based Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd. and Anglo American plc of the United Kingdom.
The companies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars scoping out the deposit, which Northern Dynasty has described as the largest undeveloped deposit of its type in the world, with the potential of producing 53 billion pounds of copper, 50 million ounces of gold and 2.8 billion pounds of molybdenum over nearly 80 years.
The mine would be directly above Iliamna Lake, the largest producer of sockeye salmon in the world.
This year, the commercial harvest of salmon was valued at nearly $138 million, which doesn't include fish caught by Alaska Natives for subsistence. The Bristol Bay Native Corp., which has more than 8,000 shareholders with ties to the region, is opposed to the mine.
Jason Metrokin, Bristol Bay Native corp.'s chief executive, recently said in a statement that Pebble presents an "unacceptable risk to Bristol Bay salmon, which have supported our communities for thousands of years" while providing an important commercial, food and cultural resource.
Pebble Mine would be located 200 miles southwest of Anchorage and has been described as the potentially the world's largest man-made excavation. Though Heatwole said Pebble hasn't completed a pre-feasibility study or formally submitted a mine plan, critics say the potential footprint of the project could cover 15 square miles, with an open pit and network of roads and power lines.
"It's not a NIMBY thing so much as a survival thing," said Scott Kendall, an Anchorage attorney for the Save Our Salmon ballot group. He likened it to putting a nuclear plant next to an elementary school. "To these people, it's completely inappropriate and incompatible with the life they want to live."
The region around Bristol Bay is sparsely populated, dotted by small communities mostly cut off from the road system and generally accessible only by plane. About 1,600 people live in Lake and Peninsula Borough, which is roughly the size of West Virginia, covering about 23,780 square miles.
The landscape is pristine, stark, rugged, boasting wildlife like walrus, moose, bears and caribou. For a short period each summer, the area bustles with fishing activity, a leading sector of the local economy.
Over the last several years, there's been lobbying surrounding the project both sides. Ads, alternately touting the mine's economic potential or casting it as dangerous and wrong for Alaska, frequently appear on statewide TV.
For Greg Anelon, the vote is less about Pebble Mine than it is about land-use rights.
Anelon, a fisherman who works at the Iliamna Development Corp., a subsidiary of another Alaska Native corporation that is involved in a number of businesses, said he hasn't made his mind up about the proposed mine, and wants to first see a plan of development. Nevertheless, Anelon is working to defeat the initiative. He worries the measure is the wrong tack to take in fighting the mine, arguing that it could affect other activities, like gravel extraction, a claim that Kendall denies.
The initiative would ban any work covering more than one-square mile and impacting waters significant for salmon. Kendall said there's never been another project of that size in the borough.
Lisa Reimers, chief executive of the Iliamna Development Corp., said the measure is poorly worded. If it passes, she said people will read it how they want to read it, leading to possible litigation over housing and other projects.
"They make it sound like all fish will die if you don't support the initiative," she said. Reimers' group has contracts with Pebble Partnership but she said that is not the reason that it got involved.
The ballot group claims polling it has done has shown an overwhelming majority in favor of the initiative but elections depend on turnout. About 380 of the 1,190 registered voters in the borough voted in the last municipal election. Elections are conducted by mail. They must be postmarked by Tuesday but results aren't expected until the canvass board meets Oct. 17.
Heatwole declined to speculate on what impact the vote may have on Pebble's plans.
Save Our Salmon spokesman Art Hackney said the measure "is clearly aimed at making Pebble Mine confront what they've promised: that they won't kill salmon streams. If they can engineer it so it does not destroy salmon streams, by all means they can develop it." He added: "Our contention is simply that this is trying to cast in concrete what Pebble Partnership has been saying all along, they won't hurt salmon."
The proposed mine has attracted worldwide attention. Actor and director Robert Redford has blogged about it, and spoke out against the mine in an ad in the New York Times.
More than 200 chefs from around the country have sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency protesting the mine.
And some of the nation's leading jewelers, including Zale Corp., Tiffany & Co., Helzberg Diamonds and Ben Bridge, have pledged to support the "No Dirty Gold" campaign and not purchase precious minerals from Pebble Mine.


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After two Irene cancellations, expect pent-up energy to enhance fine acting, staging and special effects in the last seven shows of this comedy about mis-communication
The lines of communication were abuzz all last week as first an earthquake and then a hurricane shook up our complacency. Natural phenomena often herald unwelcome change, and so it is in 2nd Star's latest comedy about language, Larry Shue's The Foreigner, which opens as a thunderstorm, ushers two Brits into backwoods Georgia, home of Southern hospitality and small-minded xenophobes.
This award-winning show played to critical acclaim at the Bay Theatre last winter. 2nd Star's The Foreigner, with its accent on humor, is just as winning. Fine acting, staging and special effects complement the director's delightful sense of playfulness on the subject of miscommunication.
Americans see foreigners in two ways — exotic or strange, friends or foes — and language, or how we perceive it, accounts for much of our interpretation. Language is our most powerful tool. We use it to confide and cajole, educate and entertain, disrupt and disguise. Without a common language, we are reduced to charades, mimicry, reflective silences and imagination — and we hear what we want to hear, good or bad.
This storm blows in a British munitions expert, Froggy (Tim Sayles), who is a favorite guest at Betty's (Barbara Webber) hunting lodge. He comes on business regularly to teach American soldiers how to blow stuff up in the woods, and this time he brings a friend in need, Charlie (Steve English). Poor Charlie is a tongue-tied dullard, downtrodden by life and in need of some solitary R&R. But when Froggy discovers other guests will be present during his extended absence, he concocts a story to safeguard Charlie's privacy, claiming he is a foreigner who doesn't speak a word of English. The foreigner becomes Betty's greatest delight in an otherwise joyless spell as money troubles darken the future of her establishment.
Charlie's perceived inability to communicate affects each guest differently as he progresses from accidental eavesdropper to confidant and friend, discovering volumes about each confessor in the process.
To anxious socialite Catherine (Erin Lorenz) he is a sympathetic ear privy to her innermost fears regarding her impending marriage to David (Devin Wootton), a man of the cloth who sports a white collar by day and a secret white hood by night. To David, Charlie is an audience for his evil schemes to rob Catherine and her half-wit brother Ellard (Steve Love) of their inheritance. To Ellard, Charlie is a playmate and prize pupil. The interplay between these two accounts for some of the show's funniest moments when a lesson in table etiquette evolves into English instruction, for which Charlie shows remarkable aptitude. The ruse frees his inner actor, and Charlie the raconteur of broken English becomes as popular as Charlie the shy Brit was unpopular.
The villainous property inspector Owen (Ken Kienas) — who is David's redneck buddy — has the most pointed reaction to the stranger. Foreigner baiting ain't pretty or politically correct, but when Charlie later turns the tables with his barely intelligible gibberish, it's hilarious. But as in real life, bully baiting is a dangerous game, especially when the victim is part of the Ku Klux Klan.
Brotherhood triumphs over hate when the under-armed group of friends joins forces in an ingenious plot, with Froggy arriving in the nick of time to ensure success.
In Charlie's made-up language, the phrase blosny blosny means "ain't that nice," and This Foreigner is. The cast is uniformly excellent. Even the most novice felt as real as long-cooking grits. Opening night, jitters aside, was a well-attended hit followed by two cancelled performances due to the weather. So this weekend's energy should be extra high.
Director and set designer: Jane B. Wingard. Costumes: Joanne Wilson and Wingard. Lights and sound: Garrett Hyde.
Playing thru Sept. 10 at 8pm Th-Sa; 3pm Su Sept 4 at 2nd Star Productions at Bowie Playhouse, 165000 White Marsh Dr., Bowie. $20 with discounts; rsvp: 410-757-5700; www.2ndstarproductions.com.