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Last week, I was one of around 60 contestants in the Manitoba Wine Tasting Championship, an event put on by The Winehouse (1600 Kenaston Blvd. -- one of Winnipeg's private wine stores). In our individual prescribed time slot, each contestant was given five wines (one white and four reds) to taste blind -- that is, without knowing the grape, country, region, or vintage. It's those qualities in the wine we had to guess -- up to 10 points total awarded for guessing those characteristics of each wine.
The tasters with the eight highest scores were invited to a live tasting final taking place March 15 at The Winehouse, although the overall champion will be crowned from the initial round's scores. And wouldn't you know it, it just so happens I made it through to the final eight. While you always hope for the best, I honestly had no expectations of making it through.
Blind tasting is a fun and humbling way to taste wine. Preconceived notions about a wine based on where it's from, who made it or how much it costs go out the window.
For me, the key to distinguishing between wines made from different grapes isn't so much in the tasting as it is in the sniffing. A wine's aromatics reveal many more subtle differences than just tasting it. Yes, there are differences in flavours as well, but when it comes to nailing down whether a wine is a Cabernet Sauvignon or a Merlot, for example, the nose knows best.
Whether you're getting together with some serious wine tasters or are throwing a BYOB dinner party, consider keeping the bottles concealed in brown paper bags and making it a blind tasting. You may just come away with bragging rights as the night's best wine taster.
(Marlborough, New Zealand -- $16.99, Liquor Marts
and beyond)
For textbook Sauvignon Blanc, look no further than New Zealand -- it's their signature white wine grape. Green apple, lemon juice, lime rind and grapefruit aromas are rounded out by a modest tropical fruit component. It's a light-bodied, crisp white offering fresh citrus fruit and light grassy notes on the palate, with medium acidity that doesn't turn too sour. Try with grilled shrimp, chicken souvlaki, or soft cheeses. 86/100
CONO SUR 2011 VISIìN PINOT NOIR
(Colchagua Valley, Chile -- around $20, private wine stores)
Cono Sur does a particularly great job with Pinot Noir in a country where big, robust reds are far more common. Sourced from a single vineyard with some of the country's oldest Pinot Noir plantings (dating back to 1968), the Visión brings big floral, cherry, earth and cola aromas, with secondary spice and subtle hints of mushroom in there as well. A juicy, light-plus-bodied Pinot Noir, the cherry, toffee, spice and earthy notes work well together, offering complexity and delicacy while retaining a core of ripe red fruit. Try with smoked salmon, portobello mushroom burgers or pork tenderloin. Obtained at The Winehouse. 90/100
DELAS 2010 SAINT-ESPRIT CîTES-DU-RHîNE
(C¥tes-du-Rh¥ne, France -- $17.99, Liquor Marts and beyond)
Ripe raspberry and strawberry aromas are pretty and pure on the nose, with cherry juice, spice and a hint of vanilla in there as well. This medium-plus bodied Rh¥ne Valley red blend is somewhat restrained in the fruit department on the palate, with modest cherry, cranberry and blueberry notes duking it out with pepper and black tea notes from medium tannin. This could use a skirt steak, chili or some big meat dish. 87/100
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Whether you're doing a extensive blind tasting with wine geeks or are just having fun trying out new wines with friends, there are a few key descriptors that apply to most examples of popular grape varieties. Here are some key aromatic/flavour components to look for, as well as some suggested food pairings in case you want to make a dinner party out of the whole thing.
White wine
Dry, medium/full-bodied, red apple, peach, vanilla (oaked),
Food pairing: chicken dishes, salmon, lobster
Dry, light-bodied, citrus (grapefruit, lime), grassy, herbal
Food pairing: light salads, grilled seafood, mild cheeses, Greek cuisine
Dry to off-dry to medium-sweet, lemon, red apple floral, petrol
Food pairing: sushi, ham/pork dishes, American Chinese cuisine
Dry to off-dry, apricot, tangerine, spice
Food pairing: Thai cuisine, mild to medium-spicy Indian fare, wings
Red wine
Dry, full-bodied, blackcurrant, mint, anise, eucalyptus
Food pairing: beef dishes, ribs, steak
Dry, medium/full-bodied, plum, blueberry, cocoa,
Food pairing: casseroles, burgers, pasta in a red sauce
Dry, full-bodied, ripe cherry, black pepper, licorice, spice
Food pairing: lamb, spicier Mexican/Latin American fare, pizza
dry, light-bodied, cherry, mushroom, earth, raspberry
Food pairing: salmon, mushroom risotto, pork tenderloin


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A group of people from the Seattle area walked from Central Park in New York City to the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia at the beginning of April.
The walk started as a 75th-birthday celebration for Queen Anne's Kathy Biever and her friend Marjorie Clasper from Windsor, England. Slowly, friends from her Seattle Sound Striders walking group joined the trip, and in the end, 13 people ages 63 to 76 made the journey. Overall, they walked more than 120 miles in 9 days.
Twenty-five years ago, when Biever turned 50, she walked from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. When she turned 70, she walked from Bunker Hill in Boston to Central Park. She didn't want to wait till she was 90 for her next big walk, so she planned this one for her 75th.
Setting the route
The North Striders meet in North Seattle each Tuesday, and the South Striders get together each Thursday. But many of the members do both walks each week, always between 5 and 6 fast-paced miles. And the groups always start and end at a coffee shop.
About a month before the walk, the trip group started adding an additional 6 miles to its biweekly walks to prepare.
After about three days into the trip, "all of a sudden, your body just expects to walk," said Maple Leaf resident Al Barnes.
Each day of the trip, the group would meet at 8 a.m. Then they'd walk all day, stopping for lunch, and be back to the hotel for happy hour and dinner together. The group only stayed in three hotels during the journey: Each day, they'd take the train back to where they stopped walking the previous day.
Leaders were selected to be the "captain du jour" to lead the group each day. They would determine the route and select the lunch spot.
The route was decided on the shortest distance. It took Biever more than a month to figure out where they'd walk.
"Sometimes, we'd ride the train for an hour to get back to the site where we completed the previous day," said Fremont's Cheryl Johnson.
One day, when Clasper, the fellow 75th-birthday walker from England, was captain, she led the walk with facts about each of the towns they walked through. That night, people were back in their rooms doing their homework so they could share facts with the group when it was their day to lead.
Annie Downing, from the University District, said, "We learned a bit about the area as you're walking through. I thought that added a lot."
The group walked about 13 miles a day — a half-marathon, Biever calculated. Sometimes, they'd walk an additional mile to and from the train station.
"The group was just an amazingly cheerful group," Biever said. "We walked 13 miles a day, and we're still getting along."
The 'carrot'
Biever's husband, Keith, didn't walk with the group but drove a van, transporting luggage, driving ahead to check out the route and providing backup in case anyone needed roadside assistance. Sometimes, he would drive ahead and spot something that would make them change the group's walking route. Biever loved how flexible the group was with the changes.
At night, some members of the group would relax and pamper their feet for another day of walking. Others snuck away one night to see a play in New York City.
Lunches were the group's favorite time. "We'd be willing to walk 10 miles for a really good sit-down lunch," Downing said. Lunch was selected by the day's captain, with the help of Google or Yelp. The group never ate at a chain restaurant and, instead, rediscovered classic diners that are still a stronghold on the East Coast. Sometimes, the group would be on a "forced march" to find a good lunch spot, Johnson said.
"We'd keep pushing if we knew there was something better," said Downtown Seattle resident Kathleen Leahy, about the restaurants. "Lunch was our carrot. And we ate like crazy every time we stopped."
The pace of walking allowed them to see things as they passed by, Johnson said. Some areas were beautiful and urban; others were blighted. And some were "once beautiful [but] had really lost their vitality and their people," she said.
Johnson had expected the walk to be mainly urban. But the group traveled through cities, along the Delaware Canal and on trails. There were places that were very oriented to vehicles and didn't even have sidewalks.
One day, the group had to walk single-file along a road. Downing, the day's leader, was in the front, wearing bright colors and calling on her old cheerleading skills to signal cars with one hand and direct the group with her phone in the other. The group was big and visible enough that safety wasn't much of a concern, Biever said.
"I think it was more likely a car would hit another car gawking at us," Leahy said.
Some neighborhoods were rough around the edges and looked like pictures you'd see of Detroit, Barnes said. But people would always say, "How y'all doing?' as the group passed them on their porches.
"People actually kind of like it that you were walking through their neighborhood," he said.
Heading back for more?
Each group member has his/her own favorites of the walking tour. For some, it was exploring historic, small towns; for others, it was touring a synagogue for the first time.
Judy Woland laughs when she remembers heading into Germantown in Philadelphia, looking for a train station. The people they passed would wave. One man outside a drugstore asked, "'You guys mountain climbers? We ain't got no mountains in Philadelphia,'" she said.
The group got a lot of curious looks, and many people didn't quite understand what they were doing. "One lady peaked out her window and said, 'Y'all going camping?'" Downing said.
The members each had the same objective, Downing said: "[With] 13 different personalities, it's so much fun to talk on a one-on-one basis, and you have all day to do it."
Before the group had even finished its walk, the members were planning their next one. Many members have momentous 65th and 70th birthdays in the coming years, and they want to do more walks.
Barnes said, "The minute I got home, I just wanted to start planning another walk."
To read the group's blog about the walk, visit radiex.com/treks.
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I spent a few years as an urban nomad, hopping from one apartment to the next, and boy do I wish I'd had this great furniture line from Legare. It ships flat and pops together in a few minutes... without any tools! Since it can be disassembled and re-assembled again and again, this desk really can follow your child to college. It's eco-friendly, too.


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Today the Hong Kong-based Fung family further enlarged their empire of Western luxury brands when Trinity Limited, the Hong Kong-based, publically-listed subsidiary of Li & Fung Group (whose two main shareholders are Victor and tk Fung) announced it had agreed to purchase British tailor extraordinaire Gieves & Hawkes from Wing Tai Properties Limited.
The deal was priced at £32.5 million "plus annual payments for 18 years up to a cumulative maximum of £60 million" accoding to the announcement.
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Men's Results | Women's Results
Princeton, N.J. – In a competitive field of runners, the University of Pennsylvania men and women cross country teams placed sixth among the Ancient Eight in the Heptagonal Championship at Princeton's West Windsor Field. The biggest race of the season consisted of the top-ranked men's teams in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast Regions as well as the second-place women's teams in those respective regions.
The first event of the day was the men's 8K, and the top five finishers included three seniors, a junior, and a sophomore. Thomas Awad was the lone sophomore, finishing first for the Red and Blue and third overall, with a time of 23:44.8. First-Team All-Ivy, Awad's finish was the best for a Quaker since Dave Merrick placed first in 1975.
Next to cross the line for Penn was sophomore Brendan Smith with a time of 24:35.1. Freshman Brendan Shearn (24:38.2), senior captains Conner Paez (24:39.9) and Conor Nickel (24.49.2) followed to wrap up the top five runners for the Red and Blue. Also placing for the Quakers was junior John Trueman (25:12.0) and sophomore Clark Shurtleff (25:12.9). The seven runners averaged a time of 24:29.5.
Other runners for Penn included Sam Miner (25:18.4), Nick Tuck (25:18.9), William Meadows (25:23.2), Chris Hatler (25:39.2), and Lyle Wistar (25:46.4).
After the men completed the race, the women took the field for the 6K. The top four Quakers finished within six places of each other. Coming in first for Penn and 28 overall was freshman Cleo Whiting with a time of 21:39.6. Two places after, twin sister Clarissa Whiting crossed at 21:42.6, followed by sophomore Gabriella Cuccia at 21:44.5. Sophomore Elyssa Gensib took 33 with a time of 21:47.2. Also placing for the Red and Blue was freshman Madison Holleran (22:04.3), senior captain Chelsea Delaney (22:34.4), and freshman Ashley Montgomery (22:46.9). The eighth runner to cross the line for the Quakers was freshman Emily Quinn (23:04.0). Penn finished with an average time of 21:47.7.
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During my early teenage years, I was THE biggest fan of 'Greaase' and all things involving the fifties. I'm extremely sad to report that ,after years of battling addiction, 'Grease' and 'Taxi' star Jeff Conaway died Friday after falling into a coma two weeks ago, TMZ is reporting. He was 60.
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TWO men have been jailed for robbing a McDonald's restaurant at gunpoint.
Sean Andrew Jarvis, 25, of Hollin Bridge Street, Black-burn was jailed for six-and-a-half years, and 19-year-old Andrew Eric McDermott, of Crossroads Refuge, Accrin-gton, was sent to prison for four years and eight months.
In October, the men burst into the Livesey Brand Road outlet with what appeared to be a hand gun and dem-anded money from staff.
One of the robbers then headbutted the supervisor and forced him to open a safe, before they made off with £1,800.
The robbers fled on foot, but dropped £400 worth of coins and notes in the car park.
Two members of staff were in the restaurant at the time, but it was empty of customers.
The men were arrested in a dramatic raid by armed police just days later.
Officers wearing bullet- proof vests swooped on Hollin Bridge Street, and the men were led from a house with their hands up, while neighbours watched from behind barricades.
The men were jointly charged with robbing Kenneth Cheng of £1,410, and possessing a firearm, a Tanfoglio Witness 1911 gas-powered BB gun, with intent to cause Mr Cheng to believe unlawful violence would be used against him.
Speaking after the sentencing, at Preston Crown Court, Detective Sergeant Nicola Mason said: "I am pleased with the sentences handed down to Jarvis and McDermott reflecting the severity of this frightening ordeal which involved a weapon, believed by the victim to be a hand-gun, being pointed at him when he was only trying to do his job.
"I hope that this now brings him some closure and sends out a warning that this type of criminality will not be tolerated in Lancashire ."


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Maui Peaks > Haleakala > Climber's Log
Haleakala Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|good time on Maui
Date Climbed: Jun 1, 2008
|I spent a couple of days roaming around Haleakala. I drove the Hana Highway to the Kipahulu coast area and saw the awesome waterfall, and took a dip in Oheo Gulch. I then drove to the the top to see a great sunset. The next day I went back and did parts of the sliding sands trail, which is great. What an amazing place!
|Posted Jun 11, 2008 4:55 pm
|Drive-in summit
|How can you fail if you don't run out of gas?
Visited several times while stationed at Pearl from 1978-1982. Always wanted to do some overnights in their cabins, but my visitors never were the "overnight" type.
|Posted Feb 3, 2008 10:44 am
|Shirley Lam
|Poor Mom and Dad
Date Climbed: Mar 4, 2007
|My bf and I left my parents at the top while we went for a long trail run down into the crater and across to another trailhead where they were supposed to pick us up. They wanted to hike down the crater a little ways, so we forewarned them about how easy going down would be and not to underestimate having to hike back up the trail with the altitude. Well, over eight hours later and an hour overdue, we got worried and started walking back up the road to the top. Eventually, we found them, but long story short, guess what happened?
|Posted Jan 30, 2008 11:18 pm
Date Climbed: Mar 4, 2007
|The hardest summit ever...I almost couldn't do the 50 feet between the parking lot and the top. In the end I conquered.
|Posted Dec 29, 2007 9:56 am
Date Climbed: Jul 1, 2007
|Drove to the top. Checked out the sunrise. Looked around the summit for a bit. Went to the beach for some relaxation. I only felt guilty for a little while.
|Posted Oct 3, 2007 12:15 am
|No Board Shorts
Date Climbed: Jan 3, 2007
|A friend and I drove to the top, took some photos and hiked around a little bit. Even high elevations in Hawaii can be harsh; the wind was some of the most intense I have experienced. It's a whole other world compared to the beach. This was the first time I had ever been at sea level and over 10,000ft in one day.
|Posted Aug 2, 2007 4:37 pm
|A very nice day
Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2007
|Hiked down Sliding Sands, across to the Bottomless Pit and up the Halemauu trail courtesy of Banana Bungalow. Very diverse environment and flora. Met quite a few people on horseback, who didn't seem to be enjoying themselves too much. Silversword in bloom. Clouds set in above Koolau Gap unfortunately, obscuring the views, turning the place into something resembling the Emyn Muil... Fantastic sunset from the summit (dress warmly)!
|Posted Jul 11, 2007 8:14 am
|Drove to the top
|I was browsing through the site and realized this was a mountain page. My parents drove me to the top when we visited Maui. I don't remember much except for the observatory and the big crater.
|Posted Jul 9, 2007 9:42 pm
|cool mountain awesome view all the way down to the ocean, when clouds werne't in the way
|Posted Apr 22, 2007 10:35 pm
|beach to summit on foot
Date Climbed: Apr 16, 2007
|ty and i started our hike on the beach just past kaupo at 5:30pm. we hiked up the kaupo gap. strong wind and rain during the night made it very cold. made it to the summit by 4:50am in time to huddle in the summit pavilion for sunrise. dozens of tourists piled in to the pavilion to photograph the sunrise in the protection from the wind. some nice tourists gave us a ride back down the mountain. we've been thinking about hiking beach to summit in one push since we moved here nine months ago. glad to have finally done it. very special mountain! :)
|Posted Apr 17, 2007 7:20 pm
|Swallowed my Pride
Date Climbed: Sep 23, 2005
|I swallowed my pride and drove up. I have to say if you are too hard core to do that then you are missing out on one of the most amazing sunrises on the planet.
|Posted Apr 11, 2007 2:44 pm
|Drove up, rode down
Date Climbed: Apr 17, 2002
|I was driven up to top, spent about 1/2 hour looking around, and then got on my rented mtn. bike for the sweet 27 mile downhill ride.
|Posted Mar 9, 2007 11:10 pm
|Sliding Sands Trail
Date Climbed: Aug 6, 2006
|Once we drove to the top, my wife and I hiked approximately 4 miles into the crater basin and back out. It's a beautiful place not unlike the rest of the island. I can't wait to plan a multi day hike from sea level some day.
|Posted Feb 15, 2007 12:26 am
|2 times a drive up
|Twice in a two week period drove to the top with my mother. Not sure if I reached the tippy tippy top or just the highest parking lot twenty feet below, memory lost. Very cloudy both days, had a amazing view of the peak when my plane took off.
|Posted Nov 15, 2006 1:47 am
|Joerg Marretsch
|Awesome sunrise!
Date Climbed: Oct 22, 2006
|Awesome sunrise and the fastest possibility in the world to reach 10000 ft from sea-level in 100 minutes (without a plane). Drove up with rental car.
|Posted Oct 28, 2006 2:32 pm
|Drive up
|On my honeymoon. Make sure you don't run out of gas
|Posted Aug 31, 2006 7:35 am
|Route: Hosmer Grove to Kaupo Village
Date Climbed: Jul 11, 1978
|A wet tropical adventure for one of my first Backpacking/Peakbagging experiences. Hiked the first day and night in the rain. Woke up in the morning to a sureal sunrise view overlooking the tops of the clouds. Exited via Kaupo Gap. In 1978 Kaupo was a remote village on the south shore of Maui, without paved roads or electricity. It was there that I shared the best luke-cold beer of my life with my friends Jim and Carlos.
|Posted Aug 22, 2006 3:45 pm
|Drive up
Date Climbed: Dec 26, 2003
|One of about a couple thousand other successful summit bids that occured that day. I owe it all to the tenacity and fortitude of my rented chevy malibu.
|Posted Jul 23, 2006 9:05 pm
|Da Road
|Tough summit in our rented HHR. Very cool mountain and Island though. Drove up for sunset after a hard day of snorkling. Came back a few days later and explored the crater a bit more
|Posted Jul 12, 2006 5:18 am
|What a great place
Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2006
|My first trip to Hawaii, on my honeymoon, we made the drive up to the top. We stuck around and watched the sunset since my wife wasn't too interested in being cold and crowded for the sunrise. From what I could tell it was every bit as nice as the sunrise. I was very impressed and I'm pretty sure she was too.
|Posted Jul 8, 2006 4:01 am


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NEWARK - Strange things happen in some NHL cities where GMs are pressured by ownership, media or even fans to go down certain paths.
Not in Winnipeg, however, where Jets GM Kevin Cheveldayoff has his own map, keeps it to himself and then follows it almost religiously.
In Vancouver the owners and fans didn't like Alain Vigneault anymore. Out. Philadelphia owner Ed Snyder pushed GM Paul Holmgren into a $23-million mistake named Ilya Bryzgalof. It happens all the time when unqualified people get their hands on the wheel.
Unfettered control of a franchise does not guarantee a GM success but it does afford him the opportunity to do the job he was hired to do and follow his vision.
Sooner or later, all GMs are judged by their records; and in the case of Cheveldayoff, when that day of reckoning arrives it will be based on the merit of his work. No interference also means no excuses.
After two seasons and three drafts the one thing we can say for sure about the Cheveldayoff regime is it's his plan and he's doing things his way.
Will it ever pan into playoff gold and the long-term success he says his blueprint is engineered to provide? We don't know the answer to that just yet.
Cheveldayoff strode to the podium on Sunday afternoon and calmly selected Joshua Morrissey with the 13th pick in the first round despite the player being ranked later in the first round by most forecasters.
Cheveldayoff took Mark Scheifele earlier than most draft experts predicted back in 2011 and was immediately rapped in some corners for the choice.
Now the Morrissey selection also comes as a bit of a surprise. But it shouldn't.
Cheveldayoff isn't transparent about much as he likes to keep his business and thoughts on hockey matters to himself but one thing he is happy to expand on is the Jets' need for organizational depth.
The Morrissey pick has to be viewed as a long-term project. It's unlikely he'll be a regular in a Jets uniform for a number of years. Despite having a rep for being competitive and possessing superior hockey smarts, he's undersized and will need some physical growth before he's NHL ready. Morrissey won't help the Jets next season and probably not the year after. He needs time.
Cheveldayoff, undoubtedly, is in a position to take a long view of things. Factor in the Jets financial comfort level with sellouts guaranteed for a number of years and corporate support locked in for a decade. Winning might be a priority but not in an "at all costs and right now," fashion.
The Jets can do what they think is right for the organization. That sentence might seem self-evident but it's not the case with every NHL franchise where a variety of pressures can influence decisions. If the Jets want to select a player they think will be better than his peers in three or four years regardless of the immediate perception, that's what they can do.
Fans might grate a bit but in reality it's the position they've put the organization in by committing their dollars for years and not on a year-by-year basis as some franchises are forced to live.
Cheveldayoff will never come out and say, "We're going to do what we think is right and the fans can bide their time." But it's what his actions say at every turn.
Getting into the playoffs may be the goal of some teams. It's not Cheveldayoff's. Winning the playoffs, as in the Stanley Cup, is what his process is based on.
Short-term success is fine but it's not really on his radar. Turn the clock back to this year's trade deadline when the Jets were on the bubble to be a playoff team. Cheveldayoff had prospects and picks to peddle in order to strengthen his team. He resisted and the Jets eventually faded and missed out.
Many griped, but watching the playoffs and quality of play it was clear Cheveldayoff would have been burning good wood and getting little heat in return.
Winnipeg just wasn't ready, and a couple of deadline loaners wouldn't have dramatically changed that fact.
Sunday he added a roster player in a trade of picks for Michael Frolik and then continually called names, making 10 selections.
Immediately better? A little. Frolik has skill and will improve the Jets. But it would be a stretch to suggest he makes them a playoff team.
Long-term better? Without a doubt. More prospects, more options and more depth. All part of the Cheveldayoff plan.
If you wanted a quick fix, Cheveldayoff clearly was not your man. Jets fans have no other choice but to be patient and hope his process one day delivers a winner.
When? That's the question many have been asking for some time and will continue to ask.
Cheveldayoff will give us the answer. When the plan says so.
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Excessive aflatoxin levels in corn grain and silage can be detrimental to dairy animals of any age. However, clinical signs of toxicity are generally more pronounced in younger animals, explains David Wilson, extension veterinarian at Utah State University.
In the September 2012 Utah State University Dairy Veterinary Newsletter, Wilson shares a list of the clinical symptoms associated with aflatoxicosis.
"The key to avoiding it is testing feed levels, and ideally feeding aflatoxin-free feed," Wilson writes. "However, in drought conditions like this year, feeding some aflatoxin can be virtually impossible to avoid."
Wilson also discusses clinical signs of nitrate poisoning in livestock, which also is a concern in a drought year.
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TWO people died in a car accident near the Loudwater junction of the M40 this morning.
The two-car collision happened at around 5.10am and emergency services were called shortly afterwards.
Police have this afternoon confirmed that two male occupants of one vehicle were declared dead at the scene.
Officers have also confirmed that four other people were taken to hospital to be treated for their injuries - initial police reports had earlier suggested that six others had been injured.
Officers have been unable to confirm any further details at this time.
The collision left the northbound stretch of the M40, between junctions 2, Beaconsfield, and 3, Loudwater, closed this morning as accident investigation work got underway, leaving morning rush hour traffic heavily delayed throughout the area.
The motorway was reopened late this morning.
If you have any information about this incident please contact the Roads Death Investigation Team at Three Mile Cross via the Thames Valley Police Enquiry Centre on 101.


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I've worked at different digital production companies such as web development, mobile app development and agencies. I co-founded a company under the name of Office Cats with a group of students (discontinued in 2009).


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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
In researching our cover story topic, we discovered Funnelholic.com, a fun and insightful B2B blog by Craig Rosenberg, an independent consultant based in Northern California. In his Jan. 5 post titled "Ridiculous ramblings about the marketing automation market," Rosenberg talked about the changes this new software platform has already experienced.
We reached him on the phone. Here are some of his thoughts from that discussion.
What are we talking about when we talk about marketing automation?
The way I would describe it is the application to manage your leads and manage your lead generation process. That includes the ability to track and follow and report on what's happening with your leads and lead generation program and the ability to manage interactions with those leads over time.
There is a mentality shift, which is lead gen used to be a one-time field – a campaign or a tradeshow. Now, we've gotten smarter and we know now that leads take time to become opportunities and we have to manage that and we have to represent that. That's what marketing automation allows companies to do.
Just because someone has decided to hit your website does not mean that they're ready to talk to you. In the past, that was just not a good lead. Now we realize that is a good lead, it's just not ready yet. To get them ready we're going to continue to market to them via our marketing automation and we're going to watch them, to the extent that we can watch their "body language" to really understand when they are ready to have a conversation with us. We have the ability to do that with the marketing automation platform.
So if it's not a good time to contact them, what might be a good next step?
The other movement has been the content marketing movement. A lot of companies have moved away from flooding people with brochures. Instead, over time, they are closer to what you do than what the old vendors do. They're going to write articles and create webinars, events and white papers that are focused on helping buyers through their purchase process. You want to create a website that has a lot of information that brings people back.
When did marketing automation hit the scene and has there been an evolution?
I don't know the date and time, but I can tell you that all of the vendors had the same message. How we describe marketing today – nurturing, scoring, all of them did a great job of changing the way marketers look at the world. That has been a success. Most marketers don't disagree with that anymore. It's a business run for marketers by marketers. You can imagine how good they all are at marketing. They have done an amazing job of changing the way people look at the world. Over the course of the last two or three years it's now this widespread view of the world that has been driven by the marketing automation vendors and all of the influencers who surround them. The overall numbers, the marketing automation market is not big if you compare it to a lot of other software markets. But a lot of these vendors are in hyper growth. They are hitting their numbers. There is triple-digit percentage growth for a lot of these vendors. My own qualitative assessment from talking to people is everyone feels they have to have it, similar to a CRM system.
The people who build marketing automation platforms talk a lot about "lead scoring." Explain how that works.
What the marketing automation vendors said was instead of saying this lead is good and that lead is bad, you should score them and allow leads to self-select themselves into higher scores over time. As folks continue to visit your site or open your emails or attend your event, those are the kind of things you track and, based on how you value those activities, that will change their scores and their scores will tell you when you should go have a conversation with that potential buyer.
Is it expensive and hard to shop for?
It depends upon the size of your company. Most of the marketing automation vendors have settled in to where they are really good. Most of the applications do the core functions of lead scoring, lead nurturing and those types of things. They might have slight variations and they might have certain features that others don't. I believe people are typically looking at the same marketing automation vendors. I don't think they're having a problem of finding out who they should go talk to. You can't go wrong with the core functionality, and then there are specific needs to your organization that will make you choose one or the other. I used to think it was a real muddy area figuring out who you should talk to and what you should talk to them about, but one of the things about the marketing automation market is they advocate for people to put out as much free content as possible. The market is pretty well informed.
In my opinion it's cheap for the value, but I might be in the minority. I feel like it's worth a lot more money than they charge. For an application, I feel like the value is worth a lot more than the cost.
Your blog sounds a bit skeptical about marketing automation in some points. Are you a believer in it?
I definitely believe. The only thing I will say, and it's not unique to me, the really smart people in the space will tell you that marketing automation does not create leads. Process, people, a strategy, best designs comes first. The automation supports it.
It happened with CRM. I met with a client and he said, "I bought CRM and I'm not seeing more revenue." In the marketing automation space, I don't know how many times a lot of smart guys just assumed that they could buy this software and their lives would change. But there is a lot of thought and strategy and process that have to go with it in order for you to be successful. That's a big deal.
You also talk in your blog about the top providers of marketing automation software already resisting the use of the term "marketing automation" and you ask, "Should my blog have been titled 'The death of marketing automation?'" What are you getting at?
What I meant is these guys, to their credit, are viewing what their providing people as a real platform to manage their entire marketing process so they are actually thinking big. Marketing automation is focused on the ability to create leads and there is so much more that happens in marketing and I believe these guys are starting to expand their horizons and really starting to think big for all of the things that are about to happen in the marketing space. I didn't mean that marketing automation is dead, but rather the branding around the phrase might be going away and they might be going bigger with it.
Does marketing automation help a company answer the age-old question about which half of their marketing spending actually works?
Think of this way: You may actually want to go to tradeshows because you'll be able to track their effectiveness. It does truly allow you understand what expenses drive revenue. The people who really drive a high-class demand-generation organization actually spend more money now because they know how to turn it into revenue.
People are cutting tradeshows no matter what, but the old way of marketing was to take the bingo cards and hand them over to sales. That didn't work. Now you can go to tradeshow and dump them into a marketing automation system, nurture them over time, and they eventually become leads. That is a more effective way to market. That actually may drive higher ROI from tradeshows. Having a real understanding of what's really driving revenue – that kind of enlightenment is really exciting.
Where do we go from here? What's next in the use of this tool?
For years demand generation was a thing you checked the box and it didn't work. Now there is a new way of thinking about things that everyone needs to get on board. That's a big deal. The B2B sales and marketing folks need to realize that if you don't have an organized and effective way of driving demand, then you can and you should. You should think first about how to create a lead management process that considers what happens to your process along the design cycle, creating marketing that supports that, and then go to sales and say, "Here is a definition of a lead that I will provide you."
As hot as marketing automation is, everyone is talking about it because it's so new, bright and exciting, but it's actually still small. There is still a lot of room to grow.
Craig Rosenberg blogs at funnelholic.com


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Cheesy Onion Bread Recipe
It's impossible to stop nibbling on warm pieces of this cheesy onion bread. The sliced loaf fans out for a fun presentation.
- 1 unsliced round loaf (1-1/2 pounds) sourdough bread
- 1 pound sliced Monterey Jack cheese
- 1/2 cup chopped green onions
- 1/3 cup butter, melted
- 2 to 3 teaspoons poppy seeds
- 1. Cut the bread lengthwise and widthwise in a curvy pattern without cutting through the bottom crust. Insert cheese between cuts. Combine onions, butter and poppy seeds; drizzle over the bread.
- 2. Wrap in foil; place on a baking sheet. Bake at 350° for 15 minutes. Unwrap; bake 10 minutes longer or until cheese is melted. Yield: 8 servings.
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Brent crude oil settled lower and U.S. crude settled slightly higher on Tuesday as traders weighed concerns about demand and the possibility of a prolonged pipeline outage in the U.S. Midwest.
Brent crude oil rose early, then reversed to fall as much as $1 a barrel, before settling down 39 cents a barrel at $110.69. U.S. crude fell in the morning, then rebounded to settle up 12 cents at $97.19.
U.S. crude slipped in post-settlement trading, and was down 22 cents at $96.85 as of 4:12 p.m. in New York (2012 GMT).
Uncertainty surrounding the impact of the ruptured Exxon Mobil Pegasus pipeline in the U.S. Midwest has kept U.S. light sweet crude prices volatile. The premium of Brent to U.S. light sweet crude ended at $13.50 after the spread between the two widened as much as $14.66.
"Clearly the big factor is this Pegasus pipeline, and I don't think anyone has a firm handle on how long it's down for," said Andy Lebow, vice president at Jefferies Bache in New York.
"The guesses I've seen have been from five days to 10 days to two weeks. The longer it's down for, the more it will support Brent at the expense of U.S. crude."
Traders said the pipeline problem is likely to keep crude oil bottled up in the Midwest, depressing prices, as stockpiles of oil build near the delivery point of the U.S. crude oil benchmark contract in Cushing, Oklahoma.
Brent May crude hit an early high of $111.79. The session low of $110 a barrel was below the 200-day moving average of $110.17.
The Brent/U.S. crude spread narrowed in choppy trading to settle at $13.50 a barrel, after widening to as much as $14.66 during the session.
Exxon said it was developing a plan to excavate, remove and replace the ruptured portion of the Pegasus Pipeline, shut on Friday after a leak released thousands of barrels of crude into a housing development in Arkansas. The company had not yet provided an estimate of when it might reopen the nearly 65-year-old pipeline, which can carry more than 90,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude to Texas from Illinois.
U.S. gasoline futures posted the biggest percentage drop in the oil futures complex, falling more than 2 percent to below the 50-day moving average of $3.0477 a gallon, a technical level closely monitored by chart watching traders and analysts.
"RBOB got below the 50-day moving average and that triggered sell stops and sent it down more," said Mark Waggoner, president at Excel Futures Inc in Portland, Oregon.
Gasoline futures settled down nearly 2 percent, or 6 cents, at $3.0408 a gallon.
While gasoline futures fell, U.S. heating oil rose more than a penny, as the benchmark distillate futures contract continued to attract buyers after the jumbo 4.5-million-barrel drop in stockpiles reported by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) for the week to March 22.
The EIA's report that refinery capacity use jumped 2.2 percentage points in the same week had some brokers and traders expecting refined products production to rise in coming weeks.
Analysts are also expecting U.S. crude inventories to have risen last week, according to a Reuters survey, adding to stockpiles already above 385 million barrels.
The American Petroleum Institute's weekly inventory report is due at 4:30 p.m. EDT (2030 GMT) on Tuesday, with the EIA report following on Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 GMT).
A stronger dollar put pressure on dollar-denominated oil prices, while the euro weakened against the dollar on euro zone data showing the region was well into economic contraction last month.
British manufacturing also remained in contraction, and European Union (EU) data showed unemployment in February was steady at 12 percent.
The gloomy data from Europe followed Monday's report that U.S. factory activity grew at its slowest rate in three months in March, indicating a loss of momentum at the end of the first quarter.
Investors await Friday's closely watched U.S. March nonfarm payrolls report for an indication if the headwinds from a tighter fiscal policy, the sequestration or automatic spending cuts, have slowed the economy of the No. 1 global oil consumer. (Additional reporting by Robert Gibbons in New York, Peg Mackey in London and Luke Pachymuthu in Singapore; Editing by Andrew Hay, Bob Burgdorfer and Grant McCool)


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I thought you might enjoy a few new desserts to try for Christmas, New Year's Eve/Day or any family dinner you prepare.
Frozen Key Lime Delight
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup salted cashews, chopped
1/2 cup flaked coconut
1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup butter, melted
2 cups heavy whipping cream
1 1/2 cups sweetened condensed milk
1 cup key lime juice
3 teaspoons grated key lime peel
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Whipped cream and key lime slices
In a small bowl, combine flour, cashews, coconut and brown sugar. Stir in butter. Sprinkle into a greased 15-by-10-inch baking pan. Bake at 350° for 20 to 25 minutes. Bake at 350° for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown, stirring once. Cool on a wire rack. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine the cream, milk, lime juice, peel and vanilla. Refrigerate until chilled. Fill cylinder of ice cream freezer 2/3 full, freeze according to the manufacturer's directions. Sprinkle half of the cashew mixture into an ungreased 11-by-7-inch dish. Spread Ice cream over top. Sprinkle with remaining cashew mixture. Cover and freeze for 4 hours or until firm. Garnish servings with whipped cream and lime slices. Serves 8.
Tipsy Apple Pie
1 sheet refrigerated pie pastry
1 21-ounce can apple pie filling
1/4 cup brandy
1 teaspoon crystallized ginger, finely chopped
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup old fashioned oats
1/4 cup cold butter, cubed
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon salt
Unroll pastry into a 9-inch pie plate, flute edges. Combine the pie filling, brandy and ginger in a large bowl. Pour into crust. Place brown sugar, flour, oats, butter, cinnamon and salt in a food processor. Cover and pulse until coarse crumbs form, sprinkle over pie. Cover edges of pastry loosely with foil. Bake at 450° for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 350°, remove foil and bake for 40 to 45 minutes or until crust is golden and filling is bubbly. Cool on wire rack.
Peach Raspberry Crisp
1 lemon
1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
3 tablespoons brown sugar
1/2 cup plus 3 teaspoons granulated sugar
10 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
6 ripe peaches, peeled and halved
1 pint raspberries
1/4 cup cornstarch
1/8 teaspoon salt
Whipped cream or ice cream
From lemon, grate 1 tablespoon peel. Squeeze 3 tablespoons juice. In large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, brown sugar, 3 tablespoons granulated sugar and lemon peel. Blend in butter until small and large clumps form. Refrigerate 15 minutes. Preheat oven to 375°. Cut peaches into 3/4-inch thick slices. In bowl, toss peaches, berries, cornstarch, salt, lemon juice and 1/2 cup granulated sugar. Let stand 15 minutes. In 2-quart ceramic baking dish, spread fruit. Top with crumbs. Bake 40 to 50 minutes or until filling is bubbling. Cool 20 minutes. Serve with whipped cream or ice cream.
Ambrosia Cherry Trifle
3 red grapefruits
6 oranges
1/2 cup sugar
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
Orange juice
1 8-ounce carton sour cream
1 teaspoon milk
1 16-ounce jar maraschino cherries, drained well
2 cups tiny marshmallows
1/2 cup shredded coconut, toasted
Maraschino cherries with stems
Segment grapefruit and oranges over a bowl to catch juices, set segments aside. In a medium saucepan, stir together sugar and gelatin. Measure citrus juice, then add enough orange juice to equal 1 3/4 cups. Add juice to saucepan. Cook and stir over medium low heat until gelatin is dissolved. Remove from heat, gently stir in citrus segments. For trifle assembly: Layer 1 - Pour citrus gelatin into a shallow 9-by-10-inch-diameter, straight sided clear glass bowl or trifle dish. Refrigerate at least 3 hours before adding remaining layers. Layer 2 - Stir together sour cream and the milk, then spread on the citrus gelatin layer. Layer 3 - Spread cherries on sour cream layer. Layer 4 - Top cherry layer with marshmallows.
Winter Blackberry Cobbler
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 3/4 cups teaspoons powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup shortening
2/3 cup milk
2 cups sugar
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
2 16-ounce packages frozen blackberries
1/4 cup butter, cut into 1/4-inch pieces and divided
1 tablespoon sugar
Vanilla ice cream
Preheat oven to 425°. Whisk together first three ingredients in a medium bowl. Cut shortening into flour mixture with a pastry blender or fork until mixture is slightly crumbly. Add milk, stirring with a fork until dry ingredients are moistened and mixture is soft enough to form a soft ball. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead 6 to 8 times. Divide dough in half. Roll one dough half to 1/4-inch thickness on a lightly floured surface, and cut into 1-inch wide strips. Place on a lightly greased baking sheet. Bake strips at 425° for 15 minutes or until lightly browned. Transfer strips to a wire rack and let cool completely. Reduce oven temperature to 350°. Meanwhile roll remaining dough into 1/4-inch thickness, cut dough into 1-inch wide strips. Sprinkle 2 cups sugar, 1/3 cup flour and lemon juice over frozen blackberries in a large bowl and gently stir. Spoon half of blackberry mixture into a lightly greased 13-by-9-inch baking dish. Break each baked dough strip into 2 to 3 pieces and place on top of blackberry mixture in baking dish. Dot blackberry mixture with half of butter pieces. Spoon remaining blackberry mixture over baked dough strips. Arrange unbaked dough strips in a lattice design over filling and sprinkle with 1 tablespoon sugar. Dot blackberry mixture with remaining butter pieces. Bake at 350° for 50 to 60 minutes or until pastry is golden and mixture is bubbly. Serve with vanilla ice cream.
Decadent Banana Cake with Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting
2 1/2 cups plus 5 1/2 tablespoons cake flour
1 tablespoon baking soda
Pinch of salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
2 large eggs
4 large ripe bananas, mashed (about 2 cups)
2/3 cup buttermilk
1 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened
2 tablespoons butter, softened
3 1/2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
2 teaspoons milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups sweetened flaked coconut
Sift together first three ingredients. Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Add granulated sugar and brown sugar, beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating until blended after each addition. Beat in bananas at low speed increase speed to medium and gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture, alternately with buttermilk. Beginning and ending with flour mixture. Pour batter into two greased and floured 9-inch round cake pans. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes. Remove from pans and cool completely on wire racks (about 1 hour). For frosting: Beat cream cheese and butter at medium speed with electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add powdered sugar alternately with milk, beating at low speed until blended. Add vanilla and beat until smooth. Stir in coconut. Spread coconut cream cheese frosting between layer and on top and sides of cake.
Peppermint Ribbon Cake
1 18 1/4-ounce package white cake mix
1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
1/2 teaspoon red food coloring
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons crushed peppermint candies, divided
1 cup confectioner's sugar
1 tablespoon milk
Prepare cake batter according to package directions. Transfer 1 cup to a small bowl, stir in the extract, food coloring and 1/2 cup crushed candies. Spoon 2 cups of remaining batter into a greased and floured 10-inch fluted tube pan. Carefully top with peppermint batter, do not swirl. Top with remaining plain batter. Bake at 350° for 35 to 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. Combine confectioner's sugar and milk. Drizzle over cake. Sprinkle with remaining crushed candies. Serves 12.
Cherry Crisp Pie
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter or oleo
3/4 cup quick cooking or old fashioned oats, uncooked
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup pecans, chopped
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 21-ounce cans cherry pie filling
1 9-ounce prepared graham cracker crust (10 inches)
Melt butter in medium saucepan. Remove from heat and stir in oats, flour, brown sugar, pecans and cinnamon. Spoon pie filling into crust. Sprinkle oat mixture over top. Place pie on baking sheet and bake in preheated 375° oven until topping is golden brown, about 40 to 45 minutes. Cool on wire rack then refrigerate at least 4 hours before serving.
This will give you a few new recipes to try to go with your Christmas or New Year's dinner. Hope you enjoy! Happy Cooking/Baking! If you need to reach me, you can email me at email@example.com or drop a line to my attention to the BCR, P.O. Box 340, Princeton, IL 61356. Hope you all have a wonderful Merry Christmas and a fun safe Happy New Year.


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Casinos may appeal to high-net-worth (HNW) Asians but so, it appears, does Sydney's commercial property market.
Figures from property company Knight Frank show a surge in sales of property across the Sydney commercial market between $2 million and $50 million to Asian investors in the past year.
These Chinese, Singaporean, Malaysian and Indonesian individuals are moving their cash into Australian investments to take advantage of the positive spread between cost of debt and yield, which is exceeding investment returns across Asia.
A prime example is one of my Malaysian contacts, who has made money out of mining and regularly visits Sydney for board meetings. He recently told me that rather than gamble his money at the Star casino, he would prefer to invest in commercial property in the city.
Australia's other appeal is its outwardly stable and transparent market, as well as the opportunity to invest in what is at present one of the world's strongest currencies.
Sydney is also the city of choice largely based on lifestyle factors - nice weather, great food, golf courses, harbour-side houses and good schools and universities.
I recently had a group of 20 HNW Chinese investors fly down to Sydney to look at hotels, office buildings, central business district shops and apartments.
Many are keen to establish dual citizenship and educate their children here.
For Singaporeans, the low return on capital investments at home has motivated them to seek out investment opportunities in Australia for a vastly better yield.
Many of these investors are familiar with Sydney and, after accumulating wealth in Asia, they are looking to diversify their investment portfolios.
One such investor, with whom I have been dealing for many years, is flying to Sydney next week to buy two assets in the CBD for about $10 million. These assets combined will give his club of investors a circa 8.5 per cent net yield and a weighted average lease expiry of circa seven years.
Similar investments in Singapore would show only a circa 2 per cent net yield.
If capital values continue to soar as they have in the past 12 months in the Asian region, it is likely this stream of investment into Sydney's commercial property will gain further momentum.
John Bowie Wilson is the NSW director of city sales at Knight Frank Australia.


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Boortz echoed Hannity, NewsMax mischaracterization of 1984 Mass. executive order
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Radio host Neal Boortz echoed a gross mischaracterization of an executive order issued when Senator John Kerry (D-MA) was lieutenant governor of Massachusetts in 1984. On the August 18 edition of the nationally syndicated Neal Boortz Show, he said, "I mean, my God, when he [Kerry] was the lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, he signed -- he authored, wrote -- an executive order saying that the state of Massachusetts would not participate in any defense measures against a nuclear attack. And this is the guy that now wants to be in charge of our defense measures against nuclear attacks."
As Media Matters for America has noted, ABC Radio host and FOX News Channel host Sean Hannity mischaracterized the same executive order to criticize Kerry five days earlier. The executive order was not a "no nuclear defense executive order," as Hannity claimed, and did not say that "Massachusetts would not participate in any defense measures against a nuclear attack," as Boortz asserted.
As MMFA documented when Hannity issued the false charge -- which stemmed from a flawed article published on right-wing website NewsMax.com -- the executive order (which, incidentally, does not bear Kerry's name) endorsed the development of a Comprehensive Emergency Management strategy to use in case of an "attack by a hostile power, whether nuclear, conventional, terrorist, chemical or an attack accomplished through biological warfare." The one civil defense strategy rejected by the executive order -- "crisis relocation planning" -- had been determined to be ineffective and "impracticable," as the order observed.
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The Sacred Bridge will be the Bible Atlas of Record and Standard Work for the coming decades. Exhaustive in scope and rich in detail, with its comprehensive documentation of the Near Eastern background to Biblical History, this Bible Atlas from Carta is one more stepping stone on the way to the study and understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
To meet the need for clear and accurate information, Professors Anson F. Rainey and R. Steven Notley have now come forward with an atlas that traces the course of Near Eastern history from the Chalcolithic Age (c. 3500 BCE) to the defeat of Bar Kochba's fighters and their retreat to the caves east of En-gedi. The Atlas provides 300 state-of-the-art maps to show as far as possible in terms of modern knowledge the changes and historical processes that affected the lands of the Bible. Included are all historical and biblical episodes that can be depicted cartographically—migrations and settlements, battles and conquests, the location and detailed movement of individual historical and biblical characters. In addition, The Sacred Bridge—Carta's Atlas of the Biblical World draws on information from all known ancient sources-Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Roman and others—to reveal trade routes, economic determinants, and the development of international relations. Maps, many of them never before attempted, are presented chronologically, with extensive interpretive texts alongside. Finds, tools, artifacts, inscriptions and other documents from each period also appear in conjunction with the maps.
The ultimate usefulness of any complex reference work depends on its index and its bibliography, and The Sacred Bridge—Carta's Atlas of the Biblical World provides everything that could be asked for in the way of organized assistance to the reader. Each person or site can be located. An invaluable chronological table correlates historical activity in the East (Mesopotamia and Anatolia), the southern Levant, Egypt, and the Greco-Roman West from 2800 BCE to the second century CE. The superb reference sections contain every article, book or document consulted.
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'There's something kind of magical that happens'
Timber Creek Therapies uses horses to teach empathy, problem-solving
by Rebecca McKinsey
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Sonnet Santella, 8, who was recently diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, hugs Belle, a Haflinger horse, during a session at Timber Creek Therapies.
Sonnet Santella, 8, who was recently diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, talks with Lynnea Andersen, center, a social worker, and Beth Johnston, a therapy aide, during a session with Belle, a Haflinger horse, at Timber Creek Therapies. Andersen and Johnston use the horse to work with Sonnet and teach lessons such as empathy and personal space.
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It is much more difficult to lead a horse through an angry obstacle course than a happy one.
That's a lesson 8-year-old Sonnet Santella, who has Asperger syndrome and often avoids talking to people, learned during her second horse-assisted learning session at Timber Creek Therapies in Guthrie Center several weeks ago.
Using an arena, obstacle courses, metaphors and one large catalyst - horses - the Timber Creek therapists teach social skills and problem-solving through one of the center's newest offerings.
Despite the fact that they stand on four legs, horses' gaits are similar to those of humans, making them an ideal therapy tool. For more than 10 years, Cindy McCarty, owner of Timber Creek Therapies, and her employees have offered physical, occupational, speech and language, aquatic, and cognitive therapy for children with mental and physical disabilities or social maladies, often with horses in the mix.
Most recently, the center has begun regularly offering sessions based on the EAGALA model - it stands for Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association - which refers to horse-assisted therapy and learning.
Lynnea Andersen, a licensed master social worker from Panora who works at Saint Jude Hospice, has been certified in the EAGALA model since 2007 and leads the sessions. She has known McCarty for years and thought Timber Creek was the perfect place to combine her social-work experience and her lifelong love of horses. Although she has offered equine-assisted therapy and learning here and there for some time, it was just this past summer she started seeing more clients for those sessions.
Although many of those who go to Timber Creek undergo speech, occupational or other types of therapy from atop a horse, those who work with Andersen work from the ground, alongside the horse, rather than riding it.
"This is a program in which you use groundwork with the horse and incorporate different activities that are metaphors for life," Andersen said. "All of the activities (involve) the horse."
Clients interact closely with the horses - grooming and walking them, and often, building obstacle courses in the center's arena and leading the horses through them.
Andersen works with both children and adults, and not everyone who benefits from equine-assisted learning has a mental-health diagnosis, she said. Some have autism or Asperger syndrome, while others have problems with aggressive behavior or depression. However, equine-assisted learning has also been found effective when working with veterans and groups of people participating in leadership or teamwork activities.
"There's really nothing that could come to us that someone is dealing with that wouldn't benefit from it," Andersen said. "The activities are really looking at what's going on, relative to what is going on with their life. If they can overcome this, there's other things they can overcome."
For clients with a history of abuse, working with the horse can create an important bond.
"A lot of adult clients will say, 'Just being around the horse just makes me feel this unconditional love,' " she said. "If someone's been sexually abused, physically abused, verbally abused, the horse doesn't try to fix them and say, 'You'll be OK.' They're just there, just this unconditional love a horse can give that we can't give."
Sessions vary widely and are closely tailored to what a particular client needs, Andersen said. Some clients will spend an entire 45-minute session doing nothing but grooming a horse.
Although clients don't always work with the same horse from session to session, they do develop relationships with the animals they see. Andersen tries to consider a client's needs when choosing a horse - for instance, one of the horses at the center that was abused earlier in its life is often paired with adults who have been abused.
"There's something kind of magical that happens with that," she said.
Sonnet Juliet Brianne Santella - so named because of her mother's love of Shakespeare - is one of Andersen's newest clients.
The Bagley third-grader, who was recently diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, has undergone speech therapy at Timber Creek for some time, but she has only had several sessions with Andersen.
Her first was focused on grooming and becoming familiar with the Haflinger horse, Belle, with whom she is working. She was immediately comfortable with leading the horse around the arena, said Beth Johnston, a therapy aide who has worked at Timber Creek for three-and-a-half years after volunteering there while in high school.
Establishing comfort with the horse, who stands at least as tall as the 8-year-old, was important, said Sonnet's mother, Megan Widen, of Bagley.
"Before we came here, Sonnet was scared of animals, especially big ones," Widen said. "I didn't think this would work at all, but she just took to it."
For her second session, Sonnet was first directed to make a "sad or angry" obstacle course. Using bright orange cones and colored balls, blocks, rings and rods, the girl crafted a short, straight, tightly-spaced-together line that was carefully color coordinated.
The tricky part: she had to lead Belle through the course. Girl and horse, both small, were barely able to squeeze through two cones at the course's end.
Make a happy course, Andersen suggested next - as big as you want.
Sonnet's second creation was curved and spaced farther apart, although equally as intricate as the first. After one run-through with Belle, she spaced it out even more, making the trek with the horse much easier.
The third-grader is already exhibiting changes that her mother and grandmother, Pat Santella, trace back to Timber Creek.
"People at church say, 'What happened?' " Widen said. " 'She's talking all of a sudden.' "
Timber Creek is a family affair for 9-year-old Mei - nicknamed Mei Mei.
She and her brother, Tai, both adopted from China, both attend sessions at Timber Creek. Tai rides a horse during speech therapy - his favorite is Buffy, Belle's half-sister - and Mei Mei has been working with Andersen for several months.
Therapy techniques geared toward grief and loss are also able to address some of the adoption-related challenges children face, said Anne Riordan, the children's mother, an educator at Springbrook Conservation Education Center.
Working with the horse helps Mei Mei, who started working with Andersen several months ago, better understand visual and spoken cues. The skills she learns from interacting with the horse come into play with family and friends, her mother said.
"They're teaching her respect and responsibility," Riordan said. "They're teaching her to have empathy."
As she has worked more with Andersen, the obstacle courses Mei Mei builds have become more open and spread out. Instead of asking for help or company, she builds them by herself.
"I see patience I wouldn't normally see," Riordan said. "I see her try things she'd never have tried before. ... I think there's something magical about this place."
As Mei Mei tried to place a halter on Belle during a session earlier in December, Andersen called out several of her actions - reminding her not to ignore the horse and to be careful not to get too close.
She reiterated that those lessons apply to people, too.
"She probably doesn't like me now," Mei Mei said after the horse shied away from a swift movement.
"Do you think she holds grudges?" Andersen asked. "Just because you were in her face, she doesn't like you?"
After several tries, Mei Mei successfully placed a halter on the horse and led her through the obstacle course she had created with colored balls and rings - a path crafted around the entire arena. Along the way, Andersen and Johnston stood in her way, forcing her to come up with solutions on the spot - saying "excuse me" or turning and going in the opposite direction. It's all about problem-solving, Andersen said.
The center is a quick drive from Menlo for Riordan and her kids.
"That's the real beauty of it," she said. "It's cutting-edge therapy. People would drive forever for this, and it's right down the road for us."
Beyond the normal therapy sessions, Timber Creek employees find small ways to teach and work with clients. They offer to let Mei Mei take a horse for a quick loop around the arena after her brother's weekly sessions are finished or ask Tai to help tear up a hot dog for the center's resident dog, Jack, to eat.
Riordan said she hopes her children will grow up to become volunteers at Timber Creek, so that they can assist with other children's therapy.
Timber Creek Therapies seeks to address a wide variety of needs. In addition to Andersen's sessions and the various therapies, the center offers a camp called Hearts and Hooves for children who have lost someone close to them. It also works with New Hope Village to offer a therapeutic riding program.
The center has more than a dozen horses of various types, and visitors can also find an alpaca, a pile of cats and Jack, the dog, spread throughout the center's acres. Financial assistance is available to those who need it through Timber Creek Charities . Those interested in learning more about the centers services can visit timbercreektherapies.tripod.com or call (641) 747-3225.
"I've just seen such beautiful things happen out there," Andersen said.
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