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It's been quite the week for Houstonians, our beloved baseball team Astros just won the MLB World Series against Los Angeles Dodgers, Hooray! To celebrate this happy occasion, we want to share a very fun and cheery design project that was recently completed by our super talented designer Erika. This home has some interesting details throughout. While you look at the photos, don't forget to focus on the little things that makes the room come alive.
In this week's blog we will continue our tour of this sophisticated and 'high fashion' remodel in The Woodlands, TX! This spectacular home was designed by one of our amazing designers, Erika Barczak, and remodeled by Keechi Creek Builders! In this blog, we will focus on four exquisite bedrooms!
Every Tuesday morning we look forward to our vendor breakfast meetings! These meetings provide us with an inside look at the very latest and greatest products including fabrics, furniture, tile, rugs, accessories, and the list goes on! We also focus on keeping our training as up to date as possible, as there are always new innovations and new designs in the field of interior design!
It is amazing to see how far Sunbrella fabrics have come since their introduction to the market in 1961. Over ten years ago Sunbrella branched out from their outdoor "canvas look" to the beautiful world of luxury interior and exterior fabrics and they have been impressing us ever since!
Lamps can provide the ambient lighting that we all love, but as designers, we think lamps can do so much more! They can add texture, pattern, whimsy, sparkle or an organic element into the space! They can be like a sculptural piece of art, because when you think about it, most of the day they go unlit, so why not incorporate them into the design!We will explore some fabulous lamps in the upcoming weeks!
This week we will continue to look at neutrals in a whole new way! Great design can elicit a variety of feelings. The exciting thing about neutrals is that you can create different moods depending on the warmth or coolness of the "colorless colors" you bring into a room!
Neutrals are making a comeback as people are taking a break from bold, bright colors. Beige has been given a bad rap as boring and safe but we can show you how to revamp colorless design in fresh, new ways! We can create stunning looks with neutrals by layering materials, playing with textures and adding shapes to a space!
Every High Point Market we visit one of our favorite showrooms, Century Furniture, and always leave feeling so excited about their new product! In this video, Tim Hall explains the Century Cornerstone program which has so many fantastic options! With a fabulous selection of fabrics at our studio, we can help you design the custom sofa of your dreams!
We had a great 2015 at By Design Interiors and we look forward to making your dreams come true in 2016! We wanted to thank all of our clients and vendors and wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a blessed 2016!
If you live in the south, you have waited for this weather all year long; temperatures in the 70's, no mosquitos and a chance to enjoy the outdoors without having to be immersed in water! Outdoor living areas have become more popular than ever as manufacturers are designing more durable products and designers are space planning beautiful designs for the outdoors from the very beginning of the home building process.
With Christmas right around the corner, it is down to crunch time! Maybe you have had all the decorations out and set up the day after Thanksgiving? Maybe you haven't started yet?! Somewhere in the middle of it?! If decorating causes you more stress than cheer, why not consider hiring one of our talented interior designers next year?
There is an exciting trend in the design world as the lines begin to blur between indoor and outdoor living!Outdoor furniture is the fastest growing market in the furniture industry, with new variations that include more durable frames, wicker resins, recycled materials and stain resistant designer fabrics!
Thanksgiving is a time for being thankful for our blessings, eating too much food and being with the ones we love. Often times as the hosts, we focus so much on the food preparation, that table decorations can become an afterthought! These quick and easy inspirations can make a gorgeous setting for all that delicious food and set just the right ambiance!
We found so many amazing chair backs at High Point Market that we decided to continue the blog this week! The attention to detail on all sides of a piece of furniture takes it from ordinary to extraordinary!
As designers, we really appreciate when a great deal of thought is put into designing a piece of furniture. It has to look good from all angles! When a chair has that extra attention to detail it really stands out!
As the weather cools and the leaves change colors (or if you live in Houston, the pine needles fall) we are drawn to cozier fabrics, and nothing says fall like plaid! This traditional pattern is transitioning straight from the runways into home décor!
are back from High Point Market and eager to share the latest and greatest!
Channel style quilted furniture certainly caught our eye this October! It is a blend of
modern, clean lines but a little puffy and inviting at the same time!
For our third and final segment
on our icebreakers series, we will focus on unique art that is a real
conversation starter! While we love paintings and photographs, we are going to
focus on three dimensional art that will really make your walls feel alive and
get noticed!
Typically, lighting is one of the last things to be
considered on a remodel or new home. We think it is time to move it up on the
list of priorities! With all the fantastic lighting options, you can not only
brighten up your space but you can also bring in elements of your personality!
These creative lighting fixtures push the envelope and make a statement!
Have you ever walked into a room and an eye catching object
grabs your attention straight away and immediately makes you want to talk about
it? These conversation starter pieces are a creative way to say something about
your personality and passions. In a three part series, we will show you some
novel furniture, accessories, lighting and art that will make you do a double
Throughout history, the chair has symbolized different
periods of history like no other piece of furniture. The chair has been witness
to an ever changing evolution of interiors; from Ancient Greece, to Medieval times to
Mid-Century. Chairs pose a design challenge because they need to combine form,
function and be aesthetically beautiful!
This month's "Spotlight on Design" features another one of our talented and creative designers, Ashton Morgan, and a sampling of her beautiful designs! In her own words, Ashton will invite you to revisit the world of wall coverings and the gorgeous, modern selections available to you! If walls could talk… they would say they need attention too!
Just what is it about velvet that makes it so
appealing?! Maybe it's the rich colors,
the luxurious feel, the sumptuous look, or all of the above and then some! Velvet
has been around for thousands of years but its allure has not faded!
One of the best ways to visually expand a space is to add a
mirror! Mirrors can add depth and dimension to a space as well as adding
brightness and luminosity. With the correct placement of mirrors, you can
reflect and emphasize a gorgeous design!
Whether it is in your kitchen, master bathroom, bar or
powder bathroom; backsplashes can infuse personality into a space! Backsplashes
can be a stunning focal point in a room by adding color, texture or dimension
to a room! As designers, we consider the backsplash to be an exciting design
element where we have the opportunity to combine materials to create a custom
design like no other!
month's "Spotlight on Design" features another one of our truly talented
designers and her gorgeous "Modern Elegance" project !
Mary Blair will take you through the intricate thought process behind her
design, the detailed process itself and the fantastic end results!
By Design Interiors had the amazing opportunity to tour the
Teracea Factory in Mexico this past week! It was truly incredible to see up
close and in person the amount of beautiful handcrafted detail and thoughtful
care each step of the process is given! Teracea prides itself on being a unique
and different high end furniture line by using unusual recovered lumber,
reclaimed woods and by using an artisan system to produce each piece.
Powder baths can be transformed into the ultimate accessory
rooms, like the jewelry box of a home! These half bathrooms are so much fun to
design because you can really let your creativity flow freely and take some
risks. Because of their small size, you
can try intense colors, unusual materials or use dramatic features without fear!
love luminous, sparkling things like crystal and glass, but acrylic has the added
benefit of not breaking, chipping or shattering! Although
acrylic furniture gives a space a weightless, light and airy feel, it is
actually quite strong and heavy!
Once again, interior design is following
the runway fashions and birds, feathers and flocks are turning up in
accessories, art and even furniture! Designers are putting a modern twist on
these longtime favorite subjects with glamorous golden tones and creative
In this week's blog we will continue to explore how the
economic upswing is positively affecting the interior design world! Interior
designers and furniture designers are combining modern glamour with classic
sophistication to give us luxurious looks! The great thing about these bold and
bright metal accents and exquisite material choices is that they coordinate
effortlessly with modern, transitional and traditional design aesthetics!
One way to add personality and whimsy to a room is to
incorporate animals! In years past we saw a lot of owls and foxes but this year
elephants and fish are popping up in designs everywhere! Using animals in your
interior design can help define the overall feel of the space.
A growing trend in the
interior design world is the inclusion of opposites in a space. Combining a traditional furniture piece with
modern art, mixing smooth surfaces with textured surfaces or using light and dark elements make a
space visually interesting and appealing. We found the classic opposite color palette of black and
white on everything from furniture to textiles to accessories at High Point
Market this spring!
When you think about adding pattern into a room, the use of
fabrics and wallpaper may come to mind first.
As we saw last week, designers are finding unique and creative ways to
incorporate pattern into furniture, accessories and even lighting! Pattern is
an important design element that can add visual interest and movement to a
One of the most prevalent trends we observed at spring
market was the virtual explosion of pattern! Literally, pattern was everywhere
you looked! It was amazing to see pattern on everything from furniture to fabrics
to lighting.
By Design Interiors was once again fortunate to attend the semi annual High Point Market in North Carolina. High Point Market is the largest industry trade show in the world bringing together more than 75,000 people to shop the greatest selection of furniture, lighting and accessories, to get inspired by fabulous designers and to see the latest trends up close and personal! One of our favorite stops was at the exquisite Fine Art Lamps showroom.
In the past few years, tile has undergone an exciting evolution
due to new manufacturing techniques combined with a push for creative and
exciting tile designs! New tile is being produced today that was unthinkable
even a couple of decades ago.
Our designers often take pieces of furniture and
transform them from something dated and worn to current and fabulous with a
great new fabric and a little help from our professional upholstery
workrooms! Being able to see beyond the
surface imperfections and determine if a piece is salvageable is first and
foremost. If the frame is interesting
and in good shape and if there is a functional spot for the piece to go, then why
not consider reupholstering?
Trim – It's the Little Things That Can Make A Big Difference
What takes a pillow, a window treatment or a piece of
furniture from good to extraordinary? Sometimes, it is the little things! Trim
can have a remarkable impact on the overall design of a space. You can walk into a room and sense that a lot
of thought and experienced skill went into creating the space because of the attention to detail.
Color Preferences - Finding Your Happy Color In our last two blogs, we discussed how color trends and
color psychology affect our color choices.
For the third and final segment of our color series, we thought it would
be fun to explore how color affects our designers at the studio!
Color Psychology – Creating a Feel Good Home
We often choose paint colors based on personal aesthetics
but it is interesting to see how color can affect our emotions and behaviors. Different
colors create different moods in a home and it is important to know how color affects
us before we break out the paint cans and brushes!
Color Trends Throughout the Decades
In 2015,
Sherwin Williams introduced Coral Reef as the color of the year! As designers,
we are intrigued by color trends and what is behind these shifts in the popularity
of colors.
Animal Prints – From Tame to Wild and BeyondAnimal prints continue to be popular in interior design for
many great reasons. They can bring an exotic yet inviting feel to a space! Animal prints can be subtle and chic or bold
and playful. They can stand out and get
noticed or lay back and quietly add interest to a room.
Designer Details – Taking Furniture to the Next Level What is it that makes a piece of furniture stand out? I mean really get noticed and in a good
way?! It is the attention to every last
detail, innovative designs and hand crafted quality that takes it to the next
Sweet Dreams – In Your Custom Bedding
When you think about it, we spend one third of our lives
sleeping. Wouldn't it be wonderful to
come home to an extraordinary bedroom that is your sanctuary, your retreat to
escape from life's stressors?
Valentine's Day Gifts – Think Outside of the Chocolate Box! Do you struggle with what to get your sweetheart for
Valentine's Day? Instead of falling back
on the old standbys of flowers and chocolates, how about putting a unique and
romantic spin on the holiday with a gift that may be a bit out of the box but
that can be treasured forever?
To make a wool, hand tufted rug it is an easy process.
Step 1) Buy a sheep....
Last week we told you a few of our favorite tips and tricks on how to pick and place your rug! This week concludes our miniseries and wraps up our expert advice.
Choosing a rug for your space can surprisingly be one of the hardest things you do. There are SO many options! You have to select the size, shape, pattern, color, and texture. It can be a lot to think about!
We here at By Design Interiors, Inc. are gearing up for a bit of a re-model. It is as they say, "Out with the old and in with the new!" While we love everything here, it just simply can't all stay.
The life of a designer is never boring. Our job description is to make a space as beautiful and functional as possible, but that can entail quite a lot. Recently, one designer and her assistant found themselves installing a house full of art!
The By Design Interiors family would like to wish you a happy and safe Independence Day!
Gray has become the next big, fabulous neutral, and let me tell you it is here to stay! While gray has been popular for modern and contemporary spaces for years, using the overlooked neutral is gaining more and more popularity in traditional and transitional homes.
We all have those areas in our home that are unused. Whether it is an underutilized closet or that awkward space under your stair case, we have some unique ideas to help you make the most out of your waste of space.
This October begins an exciting time here at By Design Interiors! We will be turning 25 years old, and we could not be any more excited!
By Design Interiors has some great news! We are excited to announce the launch of the By Design Interiors Instagram page!
We have a new Marketing Director here at By Design Interiors. Meet Erin!
Erin graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University with a degree in Interior Design.
Every month in 2014, we are sharing some inside tips, tricks and knowledge from our very own designers. Here is January's tip of the month.
It's a new year, let's start the year off right with a new start! What about your home IS NOT working?
Too small, dated or generic, unorganized, or not function! We can help with that and much more!


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THQ continues to milk the living hell out of its best thing going with today's release of the Penthouse Pack for Saint's Row the Third, bolstering the ranks of players' gangs with a quartet of models from America's minor league nudie mag.
Minor league might be a little harsh, really. I'd say that Penthouse has a lock on fourth place in the "men's magazine" category, behind Playboy, Hustler and Maxim (which isn't technically in the same category). It features women who aren't as airbrush-friendly as the ones in Hugh Hefner's mag yet possess enough self-esteem to say no to Larry Flynt's publication.
For 240 Microsoft points or $3, Nikki Benz, Justine Joli, Ryan Keely, and Heather Vandeven will join your squad, bringing their various talents to bear in the war against the Syndicate.
They don't seem to bring any special bonuses, statistics or weapons with them, so I am not quite sure what the selling point here is supposed to be. If anyone needs me I'll be taking a nap in Oblivious Land.

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On the last day of classes every semester, the University of Texas holds a foam sword fight along Guadalupe Street, the Austin campus's main drag. It's one of those silly traditions that's said to be a way for college kids to "blow off steam" even though they likely partied more than they studied throughout the previous semester. The foam sword fight is supposed to look like this, but today's event got off to a somewhat different start when a bus ran a red light and one eager student jumped the gun a little too soon. He was reportedly taken to the hospital and released.
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More Spring: How Spring Inspires
Spring may just be the most beautiful of the seasons. Personally, autumn is my favorite. I like the crispness and the sweaters and the hot cocoa, but spring is the prettiest. We all know the signs of spring, and we eagerly await them as the snow melts and the rain starts drizzling. The geese dot the sky as they return from their southern trek, the flowers burst and bloom, the cherry trees and daffodils spring forth as if from nowhere, and the chirps of the birds wake us up in the blue mornings. It's a season of renewal and freshness. It's a season that inspires. Today I have some new puzzles that I think are emblematic of spring, and some nice words written by people about the way these gorgeous signs of spring have affected them.
Hummingbirds by Cobble Hill. 500 pieces. "One day a hummingbird flew in— It fluttered against the window til I got it down where I could reach it with an open umbrella— When I had it in my hand it was so small I couldn't believe I had it—but I could feel the intense life—so intense and so tiny— ...You were like the humming bird to me... And I am rather inclined to feel that you and I know the best part of one another without spending much time together— —It is not that I fear the knowing— It is that I am at this moment willing to let you be what you are to me—it is beautiful and pure and very intensely alive." —Georgia O'Keeffe
Better Together by SunsOut. 1000 pieces. "Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet." —Bob Marley
Canada Geese by Cobble Hill. 1000 pieces. "You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, call to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting— over and over announcing your place in the family of things." —Mary Oliver
Bouquet for Bluebirds by SunsOut. 550 pieces. "There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you." —Charles Bukowski
Red Poppies by SunsOut. 300 pieces. "There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro' the moss the ivies creep, And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep, And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep." —Alfred Tennyson
Spring Fever by White Mountain. 750 pieces. "Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it." —Winston Churchill
Tulip Garden by Springbok. 1500 pieces. "I hated roses. I hated them for being so trite, so clichéd, a default, all-purpose flower that said I love you, I'm sorry, and get well soon. Give me peonies and tulips, orchids or gardenia. Those were flowers with character." —Justina Chen
Covered Bridge in Spring by SunsOut. 2000 pieces. "I want To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees." —Pablo Neruda


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|Darko Rundek & Cargo Orkestar Live in Youth Club Belgrade (CD)
|Darko Rundek, adventurer and cosmopolitan singer-songwriter-composer, was
drawn from his home town Zagreb / Croatia to Paris during the civil war, where
he gathered a new family around him: Cargo Orkestar. The French magazine
Vibrations has called him a melange of d'Higelin, Gainsbourg, Bertrand Cantat
and Bashung, the Daily Times put him in the category of post-modern
troubadours like Tom Waits and Paulo Conte.
This album was recorded live on March 24th 2007 in Belgrade, during the promotional tour for MHM A-HA OH YEAH DA-DA. It is peppered with songs from various periods of his work, arranged by Cargo.
Live in Belgrade serves as the living proof that Darko Rundek, ex-frontman of the legendary new wave rock band Haustor in ex-Yugoslavia, still enjoys a dedicated crowd of fans in the Balkans. Though Rundek is not a great fan of live recordings, he could not but agree to the release of this album because it has captured such a special concert full of magic and brilliance.
Experience the extraordinary world of Darko Rundek and his musical poetry together with the beautiful and virtuosic performance of his Cargo Orkestar in an outstanding live show that celebrates music from the Balkans, Central Europe and the Mediterranean area as well as reggae and even Latin American music.
Released by Piranha Distribution Service, 2009, Format: CD
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Sep 27, 2011 | ISBN 9780771019593
"Our top pick this Remembrance Day, not for its novel mix of format and subject but for its stunning success in bringing home the real foot soldier's experience…"
—Toronto Star
"Profoundly moving…"
"Two Generals is a compelling portrait of two Canadian officers during the Second World War, with an extreme attention to detail in the dress, troop movements and battles, and especially their day-to-day lives…an endearing success…"
—National Post
Praise for Northwest Passage:
"A . . . swashbuckler of a comic-book tale."
— Toronto Star
"[A] thrilling historical adventure."
— Publishers Weekly
"[A] rich, suspenseful, action-packed story (with some fascinating historical details)."
— Booklist
"Scott Chantler [has a] knack for suspense."
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Several Bay Area cities want a chance at Google Fiber, Google's free high-speed Internet access, and it seems San Jose is hoping it's a frontrunner.
San Jose needs all the luck it can get because it's competing with neighbors Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Santa Clara and Google's hometown of Mountain View, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal. In all, 34 cities applied to the program and had a May 1 deadline to share data with Google about is "infrastructure, permitting process, code and potential legal issue," the report said.
So far, San Jose must still figure out locations for fiber huts, or 28-foot long structures that will contain Google Fiber.
U.S. & World
City spokesman David Vossbrink said that the city is already looking at potential locations and has $100,000 to help with implementation. If both Google and San Jose can agree on the huts, the city could move to vote on high-speed Internet service by May 13.
Google said that it hasn't made its selection yet, but it would likely make a decision by the end of the year.
"It's kind of like applying for college," Vossbrink said. "You've got to get all your stuff in by April 30, and then you wait until November to hear back."
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Innovation Through Collaboration
The Clinton Climate Initiative serves as convening partner for ESB retrofit
April 6, 2009 – The Empire State Building is once again leading the way in the commercial building sector as it prepares to undergo an energy efficiency building retrofit project to improve building efficiency, reduce its carbon footprint, and save on utility costs. The Building Retrofit Program of the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) – designed to bring together many of the world's largest building owners, energy service companies, financial institutions, and cities to lower greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption in existing buildings – is one of the key facilitators of the Empire State Building retrofit project. A cornerstone of the fight against climate change is to address emissions in existing buildings.
In the United States alone, existing buildings contribute 50 to almost 80 percent of urban greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, 80 percent of building lifecycle costs are incurred after initial construction, with 18 percent of this from utility costs alone, according to the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA).
As of March 2009, CCI has helped initiate more than 250 retrofit projects across the public and private sectors, encompassing over 500 million square feet of building space in more than 30 cities around the world.
From its inception, the retrofit of the Empire State Building has been a truly collaborative process. Under the leadership of owners Empire State Building Company, a team comprised of Jones Lang LaSalle, Johnson Controls Inc., the Rocky Mountain Institute and CCI have worked to combine expertise and ingenuity to create a deeply sustainable project that sets a bar for building retrofit in the commercial building sector.
The Empire State Building will apply for LEED certification under the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) LEED program. With the increase in energy efficiency achieved by the project, and other sustainability measures undertaken by ESB ownership, the building will be able to pursue Gold level LEED certification as an existing building. The USGBC and CCI are strategic partners and are working together to accelerate the number of existing buildings that can achieve LEED certification, become more energy efficient and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
"One of the more remarkable takeaways from this historic retrofit project goes beyond the technical expertise and creativity – and that is the extraordinary benefit that comes from collaboration and teamwork," said Kathy Baczko, CCI New York City Director. "Although in some ways they could be considered competitors, all members of the Empire State Building team came together as partners right from the start. It was an honor for CCI to act as a convener and catalyst and then watch the experts deliver such amazing results. Our expectations are that the Empire State Building will show others the way by sharing these best practices."
For many building owners, capital costs are a barrier to investing in building retrofits. Using energy performance contracting (EPC), a building retrofit generates guaranteed energy savings that, over a number of years, can be equal to the cost of the project including financing costs. Typically, owners can keep these savings or apply them toward the debt repayment on the project.
Using this EPC model, ownership can pursue maximum energy savings while minimizing the financial risks. Johnson Controls is providing a unique set of contracting terms and conditions including streamlined procurement, transparency in pricing, and other processes to reduce project cost and development time, and guarantees that the energy savings will be achieved.
The work includes several types of energy efficiency technologies including high-efficiency window glass replacement, redesigned heating and cooling systems and controls, lighting improvements, and radiative barriers. The project also incorporates behavior changes including management and operations updates and tenant engagement. Together these steps cost-effectively could reduce energy use by 38 percent and save 105,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions over the next 15 years.
For CCI, this project also represents an exciting opportunity to work with a leading commercial building owner on a project using contract documents and tools created specifically for the commercial market by BOMA International and CCI.
The Empire State Building retrofit project will demonstrate that buildings can effectively reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. It will show that a holistic building retrofit is a smart business proposition, which improves the building's marketability, asset value, and operating costs. For building owners and tenants -- and the climate -- commercial building retrofits can deliver a win-win outcome for all.
For more information about the Clinton Climate Initiative and the William J. Clinton Foundation, please visit: www.clintonfoundation.org


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- 11. Diane Douglas Underwater; Frank Riggs Swimming to the Top
According to a recent Capitol Times Yellow Sheet Report titled "Underwater is a Bad Place to Be," Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas is going to have an uphill battle to get reelected.
A recent poll by GOP consultant Chris Baker shows incumbent Douglas with ratings of 15 percent favorability and a whopping 47 percent unfavorability. Another 38 percent had no opinion. "I think Diane Douglas has probably reached the point of no return," Baker told the Capitol Times reporter.
As stated in the article, "the poll surveyed 500 self-described likely voters (all of whom have voted in at least one of the last two general elections) from June 14-15, with a partisan breakdown of 35 percent Republicans, 31 percent Democrats and 33 percent independents. Of those 500 voters, 70 percent were contacted on landlines via autodial, while 30 percent were interviewed by live callers on their cell phones. The poll had a margin of error of plus-minus 4.9 percent."
This is what happens when a novice takes office with no business or executive experience.
Arizona needs a strong, tested and proven Superintendent with the right combination of executive experience, managerial skills, knowledge of education policies and practices, integrity, and judgment to lead our state's K-12 schools! That person is Frank Riggs.Click here to read more
- 12. AZMerit High Stakes test now accounts for 90% of a school's letter grade
An article published on April 28, 2017 in the Arizona Daily Independent, reports on a recent vote by the Arizona State Board of Education to use the results of Common Core-aligned AZMerit high stakes test to grade public schools.
Arizonans Against Common Core, Mommy Lobby AZ, and Opt Out AZ, released a statement after the vote: "Parents advocating for their children and teachers are dismayed by the A-F Accountability plan adopted by the Arizona State Board of Education. One high stakes test now accounts for 90% of a school's letter grade. This decision reveals the SBE believes parents are incapable of selecting schools on their own. Few other factors matter to the state; however, parents make thoughtful school choices based on their own values, research, and judgment."
So, the AZ. State Board of Education is using the controversial, unvalidated, one-size-fits all, secretive, high stakes AZ Merit to "evaluate" every public school in Arizona. The only people who have seriously donned their thinking caps are SBE board member Jared Taylor, Choice Academies president Ms. Lisa Fink, and commentators "Listen to a Mom" and Edward Cizek. The letter grade a school receives using AZ Merit scores as the most critical criteria, will be useless to parents. Do the board members actually believe otherwise? What a waste of time, effort, and money. Ms. Fink, who is quoted extensively, uses Consumer Reports as an example of what truly passes for an evaluation of a product. I would add that we use far more criteria evaluating the nutritional value of canned soup and cereal.Click here to read more
- 13. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Common Core Standards
Golly, I don't know who to believe. Diane Douglas or my own lyin' eyes?
(Slide of the above image provided by Robert Michael.)
To read the Common Core Math Standards compared to the "Replacement," click HERE.
To read the Common Core ELA (English/Language Arts) Standards compared to the "Replacement," click HERE.
You don't need a college degree to see that Arizona hasn't "replaced" Common Core. All you need is the ability to put on your thinking cap and read.
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- 14. How Much of the Common Core Standards Really Changed?
Wouldn't you think that, by now, most Arizonans know that Superintendent Diane Douglas is lying when she repeatedly tells people that Arizona's "new standards are 'No way' Common Core-like"!! I guess she thinks that, if she repeats the lie often enough, people will believe it.
Gilbert Watch has published two side-by-side comparisons, which were put together by a mother with the Mommy Lobby: 1) The old Common Core Math compared to Arizona's New Math Standards, and 2) The old Common Core English/Language Arts standards compared to Arizona's New English/Language Arts standards.
Recently, a mother with the Mommy Lobby produced a simple, two-sided flyer that you can distribute to your friends, family, legislators, parents, children, by-standers, curiosity seekers, etc: "How Much of the Common Core Standards Really Changed?"
For anyone who wants to know everything there is to know about Common Core, so you, too, can be sick to death of it, see below. As for me, I'm researching homeschooling.Click here to read more
- 15. Arizona's Newest K-12 English/Language Arts Standards No Different than Common Core
As clearly shown in a previous article titled Arizona's Newest K-12 Math Standards No Different than Common Core, the same is true of the English/Language Arts (ELA) Standards.
One of the mothers with the Mommy Lobby has completed a 93-page side-by-side comparsion of the old Common Core K-12 ELA Standards to Arizona's Final "repealed and replaced" Draft.
Click HERE to see with your own eyes how the Math Standards compare.
Click HERE to see with your own eyes how the English/Language Arts Standards compare.
So, the next time you hear someone say how Arizona's Common Core standards have been repealed or eliminated, you will know it's a lie.
You have the evidence at your fingertips.Click here to read more
- 16. Comparing Common Core's Kindergarten English/Language Arts Standards to Arizona's 2016 "Final"
We are at the point where many children who are being taught under Common Core will never recover those lost years. These children will be sent out unprepared into the world. I have no faith that the "State" is capable of, or committed to, providing a quality education to Arizona's children. Our only hope is that more parents understand that they are far more competent and far more concerned about educating their children. "Public and private teachers are but proxies, substitutes, surrogates for those ultimately responsible--the parents." Dr. Ray E. Ballmann
The purpose of this article is to show you that Arizona's Final ELA standards have changed very little from the original Common Core. These standards are detrimental to a quality education.Click here to read more
- 17. Arizona's Newest K-12 Math Standards No Different than Common Core
Superintendent Diane Douglas may have conned members of the state legislature, who have far more on their plate than to question her "repeal and replace" Common Core shell game. She may also have successfully deceived the low information voters.
But, no matter how much she rants, raves, and bullies, she didn't succeed with the Mommy Lobby, members of the Arizona Standards Development Committee, Arizonans Against Common Core, Breitbart, Itasca Small writing for the Arizona Daily Independent, Seeing Red Arizona, or various Stop Common Core facebook groups: Click HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
One of the mothers with the Mommy Lobby volunteered her time to do a 73-page comparison of the old Common Core K-12 Math Standards against Arizona's Final "repealed and replaced" Draft.
Judge for yourself. You don't need a college degree to figure it out. Unless your definition of "repeal and replace" is "tweak," anyone who actually looks at the old versus the "new," can see with their own eyes that the newest version is the same old, despised, age-inappropriate Common Core.
Diane Douglas, in so many words, is telling everyone: "Who are you gonna believe? Me, or your lyin' eyes"?Click here to read more
- 18. Why are Comments from Achieve, Inc. all over Arizona's Redline version of the ELA and Math Standards?
Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas, whose campaign promise was to "eliminate the Common Core standards," issued a Dec. 19, 2016 Press Release to the public stating, "These new standards represent the final step in the repeal and replacement of Common Core in Arizona and they reflect the thoughts and recommendations of thousands of Arizona citizens."
Nowhere does she mention the role that Achieve, Inc. played in reviewing and commenting on Arizona's "Redline" versions of the English/Language Arts (ELA) standards, the K-5 Math Standards, and the 6-8 and High School Math Standards. You will find literally hundreds of comments from this organization, more than from anyone else.Click here to read more
- 19. State Board of Education Ignores Governor, Parents, and Own Policy; Rubber Stamps Common Core for Another 7 Years
Members of the State Board of Education's Arizona Standards Development Committee (ASDC) speak out.
"Preempting the Arizona Standards Development Committee (ASDC) that was about to conclude 18 months of work, on December 19 the State Board of Education (SBE) voted to impose Common Core standards on all Arizona schools---likely at a tremendous cost to the state's recent education gains!
In 2010, the SBE adopted "Common Core" for Arizona schools. Parents and teachers soon started having difficulty learning and teaching them.
Like many government mandates, Common Core benefited those who place profits above our children's future. Children who loved math started to hate math. Children who loved writing started to hate writing. Parents recognized a problem. Sometimes, parents with engineering and math degrees couldn't help their children with basic arithmetic.Click here to read more
- 20. Please Comment on Arizona's Existing Science Standards (2004) and Social Studies Standards (2005)
As you recall, public comments regarding Arizona's 2016 Draft English/Language Arts and Math Standards ended October 3, 2016. Thank you for commenting on them!
We now have the opportunity to comment on the existing Science Standards (2004) and Social Studies Standards (2005). The public survey to provide feedback on these existing standards will be available through December 3, 2016.
Click HERE for the direct link to the Science Standards (2004).
Click HERE for the direct link to the Social Studies Standards (2005).
To provide feedback please visit Science and Social Studies Standards - Public Feedback. According to the Arizona Department of Education, educators (K-12 and higher education) may apply to serve on a revision committee for each of the content areas. The application for committee members will remain open for the duration of the revision process.Click here to read more
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An amateur prospector in Australia came into a bit of a windfall yesterday while searching for hidden gold. The man found a giant gold nugget weighing 177 ounces – worth approximately $295,000 at today's market prices.
The discovery was made in the town of Ballarat in the Australian state of Victoria.
According to the BBC, this is the biggest gold nugget local experts have ever seen:
"I have been a prospector and dealer for two decades, and cannot remember the last time a nugget over 100 ounces (2.8kg) has been found locally," said Cordell Kent, owner of the Ballarat Mining Exchange Gold Shop.
"It's extremely significant as a mineral specimen. We are 162 years into a gold rush and Ballarat is still producing nuggets - it's unheard of."
The caption of a video posted on YouTube showing off the nugget told more of the story:
This 177 troy ounce gold nugget (5,505 grams - 5.5kgs) was found by a prospector with a hand held metal detector near Ballarat, Victoria, Australia on January 16, 2013.
What a find!!! No it wasn't me.... It was found at a depth of a little over 60 cm (2 ft) with a modern detector with a small coil. The prospector said it sounded like the bonnet of a car through the head phones. It was lying flat (broad side up) and he carefully dug it up. In this video it hasn't been cleaned. It is approximately 220mm long, 140mm wide and has a maximum depth of 45mm.
Ok, this nugget was found with a Minelab GPX5000 super metal detector, with an Advantage Plus 'Sadie' mono elliptical coil, and a Rooster Booster audio enhancer (used with an external speaker).
The prospector said he heard the signal, kicked off about 100mm (4 inches) of leaf mulch from the surface, and thought the ground looked in original condition ie it hadn't been dug previously.
It was lying flat in the ground, and was over 60cm (2 feet) deep in the earth/clay/gravels. So this means he and his detector heard it at an incredible depth from the search coil (the disc that is at the end of the hand held detector).
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What I recall so clearly is the audience, as the credits rolled, sitting in profound silence, until the crying started. A few people were standing, as if to leave, but they just stood. It was a small theater, and after the credits, the projectionist left off the lights to give the weeping audience time to dry our eyes, switch the cell phones back on, and walk back out into the city.
Please visit the website of The Katyn Memorial in Baltimore.
Last year at this time, I posted a blog about my father and what he told me about Katyn. I'm posting it again this year:
April is the month when many of the killings at Katyn Forest took place during World War II. Poles try to remember this every year, and I've been thinking about Katyn recently. I've been thinking about Katyn and my father.
When I was a child, he told me a lot of stories about what happened in the war, about things that happened to my mother's family and his family and to Poland. One of the stories that he came back to repeatedly was about what happened in the Katyn Forest near the Russian town of Smolensk in 1940.
He told me about how the Soviets took 15,000-20,000 Polish Army officers and killed them. Nobody knows the number for certain.
My father used to say, "It's hard to count bones."
These soldiers were mainly reservists; that means they weren't professional soldiers, just civilian soldiers. In their daily lives, they were doctors and lawyers, teachers and priests. My father used to say that they were the future of Poland. He said that the Soviets didn't want Poland to have a future, so they took these doctors and lawyers, scientists and librarians and tied them up and blindfolded them and shot them in the back of the head. They were buried in mass graves.
One of the things he also told me was that people knew about this, countries likes the US and England knew about this, and nobody did anything about it. The Soviets, of course, denied it, and so did other countries. They didn't want to bring it up. I guess they figured what was the point of talking about massacres and genocide.
My father never wanted me to forget about Katyn.
Years ago, I wrote a poem about it for my book Lightning and Ashes, and I want to share the poem with you on this 68th anniversary of the Katyn Massacre.
There are no Great Walls there,
No towers leaning or not leaning
Declaring some king's success
Or mocking another's failure,
No gleaming cathedral where you can
Pray for forgiveness or watch
The cycle of shadows play
Through the coolness of the day,
Through the coolness of the day,
And soon not even the names
Of those who died will be remembered
(Names like Skrzypinski, Chmura,
Or Anthony Milczarek).
Their harsh voices and tearing courage
Are already lost in the wind,
But their true monuments
Will always be there, in the dust
And the gray ashes and the mounds
Settling over the bodies over which
No prayers were ever whispered,
No tears shed by a grieving mother
Or a trembling sister.
Here's a trailer for the Oscar-nominated film KATYN by Andrzej Wajda.


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(Bloomberg) Google Inc. (GOOG), the world's biggest seller of Web-search advertising, is getting one-upped in the surging $7.6 billion market for online-video ads from a six- year-old startup one-tenth its size.
BrightRoll Inc., a San Francisco-based company that helps marketers place video ads on websites, has surpassed Google when ranked by number of online video ads in two of the last three months, according to researcher ComScore Inc. (SCOR)
Google makes money from selling slots for commercials that run before users view clips on YouTube, which it owns and operates. BrightRoll matches marketers to competing websites, and takes a cut. That has helped it to siphon advertisers away from Google in a market that, according to AccuStream Research, jumped 52 percent last year as more people watch television and movie programming online.
"BrightRoll and Google are neck-and-neck," said Dan Piech, a senior product manager at ComScore. "BrightRoll has been doing an amazing job in growing their business."
Like an old-fashioned ad agency, BrightRoll acts as an intermediary between marketers and content providers. Instead of buying ad space during a television show on behalf of clients, BrightRoll finds websites and companies seeking to run video ads, gets them together, and then takes a cut when they make a deal. While Google concentrates mainly on selling ads on YouTube, the biggest Web-video site, it also competes with BrightRoll with a similar agency-style service.
BrightRoll has kept up the pressure by offering advertisers a network of more than 6,000 mobile applications and websites to target a wider audience, and also offers tools to help them measure the effectiveness of their campaigns.
Reaching Scale
About five percent of large television advertisers' media budgets are going into Web videos, and the percentage is higher for industries such as cars, according to Tod Sacerdoti, chief executive officer of BrightRoll. Video will account for 14.5 percent of all U.S. digital-ad revenue in 2016, up from 7.9 percent last year, according to EMarketer Inc.
"Online video is finally at the scale that's big enough for national advertisers," said Sacerdoti, previously an executive at online address-book provider Plaxo Inc. "It's large enough to matter."
Co-founded in 2006 by Sacerdoti, BrightRoll has also partnered with Arlington, Virginia-based Veenome Inc., which helps advertisers find content and track campaigns. Veenome is just one of several video-ad technology startups -- including Eyeviewdigital Inc. and Brainient Ltd. -- that received venture funding in the past year.
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BrightRoll, which has 220 employees, has raised $46 million in venture funding to date, Sacerdoti said. The last investment round of $30 million in November 2011, was led by Trident Capital, and included existing investors True Ventures, Scale Venture Partners and Adams Street Partners.
After trailing BrightRoll in October and November, Google took back the lead in December by serving 2 billion video ads on personal computers in the U.S., versus 1.83 billion for BrightRoll, ComScore said. While Google delivered more ads, BrightRoll's network of video providers reached a larger part of the population, at 43 percent, compared with Google's 32 percent in December. ComScore's data excludes some video ads that reach Google's sites from third-party networks, including BrightRoll.
BrightRoll works with 90 percent of the top 50 U.S. advertisers, and has doubled revenue annually for the past five years. At that growth rate, BrightRoll "could easily be doing over $100 million per year in revenue," according to Tom Taulli, an independent analyst who covers initial public offerings.
Google, YouTube
Growth in search-based advertising -- Google's main cash cow -- has fueled a 30 percent gain in the company's shares over the past year, compared with a 12 percent rise in the Nasdaq Composite Index. Google, based in Mountain View, California, rose less than 1 percent to $753.68 in New York yesterday. Three-quarters of analysts tracking the stock rate Google a buy, at an average price target of $824.83, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Google acquired YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion to boost its video content, which attracts more than 800 million monthly unique visitors. Google generates video-ad revenue of about $1.3 billion a year, said Brian Wieser, an analyst at Pivotal Research Group LLC.
Video-Ad Tools
Many advertisers remain reluctant to plunge into online video ads because much of the content is created by consumers. They're concerned that commercials might appear alongside low- quality or inappropriate content, according to EMarketer.
"The content is often unsafe for brands, or too short to support advertising," said Clark Fredricksen, a spokesman for EMarketer.
This year, Google and BrightRoll plan to introduce new analytical tools that would provide advertisers with better data on responses to their ads. Both are also stepping up efforts to target viewers on mobile devices. Google subsidiary AdMob, which delivers ads to mobile devices, added BrightRoll as a video-ad provider in May. The partnership lets AdMob offer its clients a wider pool of video providers to advertise on mobile devices, an emerging area of online advertising.
BrightRoll also lets advertisers bid for online commercials in real-time, as they are delivered.
"Real-time bidding is the fastest-growing part of our business," Sacerdoti said. "It will be the biggest growth driver in the next 24 months."
Interactive Commercials
BrightRoll has also introduced tools that make it easier for advertisers to analyze ad-campaign performance against benchmarks, and roll out interactive online commercials, which let viewers design a car, for example.
"We are able to target the right consumer easier," Bob Arnold, associate director of global digital strategy at cereal- maker Kellogg Co. (K), said in an interview. "Sometimes it can be cheaper, and we feel we have a little more control."
Aside from bringing more original content to YouTube, Google already offers a number of channels on topics such as cars, entertainment and fashion. It has also pioneered new ad formats, such as TrueView, which lets viewers select which video ads they want to watch.
"Viewers are choosing to watch the ads," Baljeet Singh, group product manager at YouTube, said in an interview. "The lines between ads and content are starting to blur."
About 182 million U.S. Internet users watched 38.7 billion online content videos in December, according to ComScore.
"We've been gaining share, and a lot of it has been driven by having a platform that's working," Sacerdoti said. "YouTube is a huge player, but there's very strong interest in alternatives to YouTube."


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Hong Kong to get harborside observation wheel
Hong Kong may well get its own observation wheel next year. The government Lands Department has posted a tender notice for short-term tenancy of the plot in front of Central piers 9 and 10 on Hong Kong Island.
The approximately 9,620-square-meters of prime waterfront real estate is up for grabs by any operator of an observation wheel who can set up and manage the facility for at least three years.
The "Hong Kong Eye" should be at least 50 meters in diameter and the tenderer should have at least 10 years of experience.
The closing date for submissions is at noon on December 14, 2012. It also says that the construction period should take a minimum of 12 months. So the fastest we would see an observation wheel on the Central harborfront would probably be Christmas of 2013.
Also on CNN: World's largest Ferris wheel set to spin in Vegas
Back in August of 2011, the Hong Kong Eye was first proposed to the Harbourfront Commission by The Hall Organisation and Great City Attractions Global, the people behind the Singapore Flyer.
The British-based companies proposed the R60 model of observation wheel that is 60-meters-tall, covered in white LED lights. It can hold a maximum of 10,000 people a day and each ride would last 10 to 15 minutes, costing HK$100 (US$13) per person.
Feedback from readers of our article on the initial proposal was generally negative.
One comment says: I understand that the HK tourism board is looking to add another attraction on their flyer ...but this is really ridiculous and would turn victoria harbor into a circus. [sic]"
Read the original post at: Hong Kong Eye proposed
Freij Entertainment International Limited also proposed an 80-meter-tall observation wheel before the tender notice came out. They wanted to set it up at the Kai Tak development.
The Dubai-based company was in charge of Winter Wonderland Hong Kong and currently operates the Roue de Paris, a 60-meter-high Ferris wheel that tours the world.
So the Hong Kong Eye is inevitable! What do you think about this new addition to the waterfront?


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Flor De Cana Gran Reserve 7 is produced in Nicaragua using a three-column still process. Distilled according to a precise recipe, the rum is aged for seven years in charred oak barrels that previously held Jack Daniels Tennessee Whiskey.
Flor De Cana is part of the Grupo Pellas, Compañia Licorera de Nicaragua, SA. The name, Flor De Cana, means "flower of the sugarcane.
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Does not seem to be sweetened like so many "aged" rums, so might not appeal to fans of Zacapa and the like. Subtle flavors of smoke, tobacco, leather, dark fruits. It can often be found for under $20 at which price it is a good bargain.
This is my go to rum. No tricks or gimmicks here. Inexpensive. Good to drink straight up. I prefer with a little ice and lime. Rum to ya!
While not as complex as the 12 & 18 yr, FdC 7 yr is smooth enough to drink neat. This dry rum may not suit those who prefer artificially sugared rums but for me the notes of caramel, vanilla and oak blend well enough to make this a decent sipping rum.
This rum has a nice color. The nose has some caramel, hints of vanilla and some charred oak. Tasting provides nice caramel, vanilla, oak and liquorice. The alcohol afterburn is really nice and enjoyable. A good rum for any collection!
I first found the 7 year several years ago when I was returning from Aruba. I've since limited myself to the 18 year and mixed with the Extra Dry 4 year. I just found a bottle of this in Kentucky and I realized how much I liked it as an every day sipper. Good middle of the road sipper.
The first rum I tasted on it's own, and still one of my favourites. Good enough to drink straight, but you wouldn't feel bad about putting in some ice, a slice of lemon or, why not, a dash of coca cola (but only a dash). Flor de Caña always keeps its distinct molasses-taste, also in this younger brother of the family.
This is my standard rum of choice. Oddly enough, I found it mixed best with sweet tea.
Light to medium color. Delicate honey nose, very pleasant. This is a really nice, fairly light bodies sipper. A friend gave this to me, and having had the 12 (not wildly impressed) I expected little. Needless to say I'm surprised at how pleasant it is. A nice caramel touch up front, with a short fruit finish. I actually wouldn't recommend this for mixing as its charms would be buried. Not a world calss sipper, but for the money, you can't miss.
Aged for 7 years, Flor de Cana Gran Reserve offers the option of drinking it neat or mixing it in a cocktail or with coke. With a price tag of about $20, you don't have to pay an arm and a leg for a satisfactory rum either.
Think about trying the other fine rums in the Flor de Cana family as well! You can't go wrong...CHEERS!
I like this rum, not real smooth but nice robust flavor and makes a good Rum and Coke. Decent drinking compared to the 18 year which i was a bit disjointed with.
Natural tasting rum with a grassy Agricole-like base flavor and some mild aged flavors like vanilla and oak over the top. I do mean mild when I say mild. This has a little more bite than the 12 yr and maybe a little more flavor as well but it's still a light simple tasting rum without much sweetness or any particular flavor popping out at you. I can say that it tastes like rum and not a bourbon or sweet wine finish. Ok to sip and excellent mixer.Update: i had some again recently and the flavor is kind of blah to me at thia point, i taste predominantly charcoal and a bit of sweetness. Im now calling this the vodka of rums cuz thats what it tastes like.
Having first familiarized myself with Havana Club 7, I assumed FdC 7 would be similar (direct competitors, even). Tasting this one, and then both side by side, I was surprised to find that they are remarkably different! While the HC is rich, oaky, and smokey, this FdC is rather lighter-bodied... off-sweet, with notes of vanilla and caramel. To me, the Flor de Caña is like a dryer version of the candy-like Plantation Barbados 5! (Which can only be a good thing.) However, it also has some off-putting high-notes at first pour.
So, although I'm a little disappointed not to have found a HC doppelgänger state-side, and am no longer sure quite what flavor profile to look for when a classic recipe calls for Spanish-style/Puerto Rican rum, I'm satisfied with my purchase and enjoying mixing with it very much.
Kudos for FdC for not adulterating their rums with gobs of sugar! I may decide to use this as my go-to Gold/Spanish-style column-distilled aged rum, with Mt. Gay Eclipse (which is blended) as a budget back-up.
Very appealing 's a sipper. Mixes very well and is a good rum to have in the cabinet. It's quality belies the price point it is at.
On the rocks this is a winner, without ice its a bit rough.
Very good as a drink mixer!
I hate this rum because anytime I open a bottle it just gone! Magic.
This my favorite rum and my friends have the same oppinion, it is good sipping and just exploited with mixing; cubata, floridita, punch, maitai all of them are special with this single state rum
Very similar to the 12yo, but with a comparatively needed lack of smoothness. A steal of a price too.
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Sugar: 0 gpl. This is a very good rum for mixed drinks. I tried this several times which means I drank several bottles of this for mixed drinks. It's good value for the money and as a Gold Rum it is my go to for mixing.
Decent rum for the price. its a good mixer although it could def use some improvement, to smooth out the alcohol taste. its a good everyday rum and better than most others for the price. Dont know if I want to keep buying this one might switch to Appleton V/X
Very smooth and deep taste for a very reasonable price, one of the finest aged rums to date for me!
While you can enjoy this rum on the rocks, it's not complex enough to justify sipping on it's own. But it will clearly make your Cuba Libres better than your standard Bacardi or Havana Club.
This was my go-to for budget mixing rum for many years. Smooth flavor that goes great in coke or other mixers, and just couple dollars more than captain. I still get a bottle every once in a while, amazing rum for the price! It's acceptable on the rocks, but I feel it really shines as a mixer.
Very similar to other aged. Great with darl cola for an all night drink. Smooth with creamy Oak flavors.
Not as nice as the 12 or 18 but still a really nice rum on the rocks or with coke
Hace tiempo que no lo veo pero por los 7'95€ que me costó la última botella está bien, lastima lo de los números enteros, yo no soy de mezclar, este tampoco lo mezclaría


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The Alfa Romeo 4C has just hit the streets and already Hyundai has a concept to attack the mid-engined Italian, which is a Porsche Cayman rival. Boy, those Koreans are fast.
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I see some McLaren and Lamborghini going on here, rather than Alfa 4C. But it's not a big car, not much more than 13-feet long and not much longer than the Alfa. Hyundai says it's powered by a 1.6-liter turbocharged four-cylinder making 270 horses. Funny, that's also similar to the 4C's 1.8-liter turbocharged four.
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SPRINGFIELD — Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of the Catholic Diocese of Springfield in Illinois released a statement regarding Father Thomas Donovan. This statement was distributed after all the Masses at St. Aloysius Church in Springfield this past weekend.
Bishop Paprocki asks for prayers for Father Donovan and the parishioners of St. Aloysius Parish.
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January 19, 2012
There have been many stories circulating in the media and on the Internet about the 911 call for assistance made on November 28 by Father Thomas Donovan, Pastor of Saint Aloysius Parish Springfield, Illinois. Since some of those stories are untrue and even defamatory, I wish to provide as much factual information as possible about what happened and how it is being addressed.
As described in the transcript of Father Donovan's 911 call and in the police report, both of which have been released to the public, Father Donovan had bound himself in handcuffs and called for assistance when he was unable to remove them. The police officers state that he was alone and fully clothed when they arrived at the rectory. There was no indication that anyone else had been present. No crime was committed, no one was arrested, no alcohol or drugs were involved.
I was first informed of this incident on December 6th. On December 8th, I met with Father Donovan and Monsignor Carl Kemme, my Vicar General, in my office at the Catholic Pastoral Center. Father Donovan said that he was mortified by what happened and acknowledged that the information that had been reported to me was basically accurate. He insisted that he had been alone the whole time of this incident and denied that there was any sexual component to this.
Following our discussion, Father Donovan requested a leave of absence, which I granted. Monsignor Kemme celebrated the Masses at St. Aloysius Church on the weekend of December 15-16, informing the parishioners of Father Donovan's leave of absence and my appointment of Monsignor David Lantz, Pastor of St. John Vianney Parish in Sherman and St. James Parish in Riverton, as temporary parochial administrator of St. Aloysius Parish. Monsignor Kemme also read a statement to the parishioners from Father Donovan in which he said, "While I have not been involved in anything illegal or anything otherwise jeopardizing the safety, welfare, or morals of other persons, I have been responding to the stresses of priestly ministry in a way that has come to compromise my own personal safety and welfare. I am under the care of a doctor to get the assistance that I need."
With Father Donovan's consent to disclose private patient information, I wish to inform you that he is being treated by a clinical therapist and is receiving appropriate medical care. A thorough review of Father Donovan's work and lifestyle patterns reveals multiple significant unresolved stressors derived from parish ministry, and severely-compromised patterns of self-care with respect to diet, exercise, sleep, work hours, and unreasonable personal expectations of himself as a pastor.
The unfortunate result of such patterns of life—in no way limited to the experience of Catholic priests—is that persons often find themselves seeking patterns of 'self-medication' to soothe emotional turmoil. Alcoholism, the use of illicit drugs, compulsive gambling, sexual acting out and the use of pornography are some of the more common manifestations, none of which were present in this situation. Instead, according to the clinical therapist, Father Donovan is suffering from a psychological condition that manifests itself in self-bondage as a response to stress.* The clinical therapist also confirms that the strict absence of illicit sexual behaviors, relationships, and patterns reveal that this self-bondage is to be understood as non-sexual in nature.
Father Donovan appears to have been completely forthright with me in his account of this event, which is consistent with the public record. In the face of the embarrassment of these revelations, the subsequent attention of the press, and the widespread distribution of misinformation found on the Internet and elsewhere, he asks for the basic respect of accurate reporting of the event, the correction of untrue defamatory information arising from unsubstantiated rumors and claims, and the privacy now to heal from the trauma of this event and the original stress that precipitated it.
Although the psychological explanation of non-sexual self-bondage provides some context to what occurred, yet the details of this incident are understandably disturbing. In order to address these concerns, Father Donovan is on an indefinite leave of absence for an extended period of professional help and spiritual renewal in order to understand and address the issues that have resulted in this very tragic situation. I know he would be most appreciative of your thoughts and prayers during this time of soul searching, healing, and rebuilding of his priestly life.
It is my intention to present his case to a special panel established by my predecessor, Archbishop George Lucas, which is chaired by Mr. J. William Roberts, former U.S. attorney and former Sangamon County state's attorney. In particular, I will seek the guidance and direction of this Special Panel for Professional Responsibility and parish leaders on the question of Father Donovan's suitability for return to ministry.
In the meantime, as I pray for Father Donovan and the people of Saint Aloysius Parish, I ask that you pray for them also.
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*Non-Sexual self-bondage as defined by clinical therapist: "Non-sexual self-bondage is a not well-researched phenomenon in which a person administers some form of physical self-restraint for the purpose of reducing stress or tension build-up but without sexual arousal. Many people are aware of sadomasochistic sexual bondage between two or more persons and may be aware of self-bondage for the purpose of sexual arousal. However, non-sexual self-bondage occurs when a person who has experienced significant stress in youth, or in a mature work environment or other traumatic situation such as war, chooses to use bondage as a way of lessening the perceived stress carried in the body and mind. This choice appears to be a maladaptive means of stress reduction because it can be dangerous, cause public embarrassment, and be linked to negative self-acceptance which results when a person is not using stress reduction that is more obviously self-care and conforms to cultural or societal expectations. Mental health diagnoses are based on the problems caused to the person by that person's own behavior or the behavior of others to which the person responds in a way that his or her society deems not only strange but potentially dangerous to the person of the patient or others. Non-sexual self-bondage is not a recognized mental health diagnosis at this time."


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LONDON, England (UPI) - Archeologists say they have discovered evidence of ancient Sun worship that ties Britain's Stonehenge site into the surrounding landscape.
Researchers from the University of Birmingham and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection say two huge pits positioned on celestial alignment at Stonehenge shed new light on the monument's association to the sun.
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