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He would not be a part of it but Pakistan's disgraced former captain Salman Butt is delighted that bilateral cricket ties with India would be revived with the limited-overs series in December.cricket Updated: Jul 18, 2012 12:02 IST
He would not be a part of it but Pakistan's disgraced former captain Salman Butt is delighted that bilateral cricket ties with India would be revived with the limited-overs series in December.
Butt, who is serving a five-year ICC ban for spot-fixing and returned home recently after serving a jail sentence in the United Kingdom, said he was happy to hear that India have invited Pakistan for a one-day and Twenty20 series in December.
"It is indeed good news but given that we are playing a bilateral series after five years efforts should have been made to also have a Test in the series because the significance of a Test match is very different from one-dayers or T20 matches," Butt said.
The former Test opener said it was now up to the Pakistan Cricket Board to play their cards right and get a commitment from India to send the team here sometime next year.
"Definitely a bilateral series is only possible because the governments support this concept now. But the PCB after sending its team to India should now try to get a commitment from the Indian board for a return tour next year," Butt said.
"We have been deprived of international cricket at home for the last three years and I don't blame the PCB for this. Because it is the government's duty to guarantee security of touring teams and without their assurance no team will come to Pakistan including India," he added.
Meanwhile, cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has also hailed the revival of the bilateral ties insisting that Indo-Pak rivalry in cricket was good for the sport.
"As a former player and politician I say any steps taken by both governments that can encourage more dialogues between both countries and increase people to people level contact is good for Indo-Pak relations," Imran said.
India have also invited Pakistan's domestic Twenty20 champions Sialkot Stallions for the Champions League to be held in South Africa this year.
Imran said he had always said Indo-Pak cricket was good for the sport as it is one of the greatest rivalries.
"When Pakistan and India play against each other it is good for the sport as millions follow the matches across the world and this is good advertisement for cricket," he said.
"I always enjoyed the matches against India and this special tension as it brought out the best in the players of both sides. The team that keeps it nerves always wins in such contests," he said.
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Burkina Faso Population: 19,512,5331 VISITOR FROM HERE!
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|Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta) achieved independence from France in 1960. Repeated military coups during the 1970s and 1980s were followed by multiparty elections in the early 1990s. Former President Blaise COMPAORE (1987-2014) resigned in late October 2014 following popular protests against his efforts to amend the Constitution's two-term presidential limit. By mid-November, a framework for an interim government was adopted under the terms of the National Transition Charter. An interim administration, led by President Michel KAFANDO and Prime Minister Yacouba Isaac ZIDA, began organizing presidential and legislative elections planned for October 2015, but these were postponed during a weeklong failed coup in September. The rescheduled elections were held on 29 November, and Roch Marc Christian KABORE was elected president in the first round. Burkina Faso's high population growth and limited natural resources result in poor economic prospects for the majority of its citizens.
Landlocked savanna cut by the three principal rivers of the Black, Red, and White Voltas
|Western Africa, north of Ghana
|Geographic coordinates:
| total: 274,200 sq km
land: 273,800 sq km
water: 400 sq km
Size comparison: slightly larger than Colorado
|Land Boundaries:
|total: 3,611 km border countries (6): Benin 386 km, Cote d'Ivoire 545 km, Ghana 602 km, Mali 1,325 km, Niger 622 km, Togo 131 km
|0 km (landlocked)
|Maritime claims:
|none (landlocked)
|tropical; warm, dry winters; hot, wet summers
|mostly flat to dissected, undulating plains; hills in west and southeast
|Elevation extremes:
|Natural resources:
|manganese, limestone, marble; small deposits of gold, phosphates, pumice, salt
|Land use:
| agricultural land: 43% arable land 20.8%; permanent crops 0.3%; permanent pasture 21.9% forest: 20.4%
other: 36.6% (2011 est.)
|Irrigated land:
|550 sq km (2012)
|Natural hazards:
|recurring droughts
|Current Environment Issues:
|recent droughts and desertification severely affecting agricultural activities, population distribution, and the economy; overgrazing; soil degradation; deforestation
|International Environment Agreements:
| party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
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| noun: Burkinabe (singular and plural)
adjective: Burkinabe
|Ethnic groups:
|Mossi 52.5%, Fulani 8.4%, Gurma 6.8%, Bobo 4.8%, Gurunsi 4.5%, Senufo 4.4%, Bissa 3.9%, Lobi 2.5%, Dagara 2.4%, Tuareg/Bella 1.9%, Dioula 0.8%, unspecified/no answer 0.1%, other 7% (2010 est.)
|French (official), native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population
|Muslim 61.6%, Catholic 23.2%, traditional/animist 7.3%, Protestant 6.7%, other/no answer 0.2%, none 0.9% (2010 est.)
|19,512,533 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2016 est.)
|Age structure:
| 0-14 years: 45.04% (male 4,402,311/female 4,386,518)
15-24 years: 20.08% (male 1,966,644/female 1,951,722)
25-54 years: 29.28% (male 2,898,407/female 2,813,923)
55-64 years: 3.16% (male 267,763/female 349,433)
65 years and over: 2.44% (male 178,127/female 297,685) (2016 est.)
|Dependency ratios:
| total dependency ratio: 92.2%
youth dependency ratio: 87.6%
elderly dependency ratio: 4.6%
potential support ratio: 21.7% (2015 est.)
|Median age:
| total: 17.2 years
male: 17 years
female: 17.3 years (2016 est.)
|Population growth rate:
|3.01% (2016 est.)
|Birth rate:
|41.6 births/1,000 population (2016 est.)
|Death rate:
|11.5 deaths/1,000 population (2016 est.)
|Net migration rate:
|0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2016 est.)
| urban population: 29.9% of total population (2015)
rate of urbanization: 5.87% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
|Major urban areas - population:
|OUAGADOUGOU (capital) 2.741 million (2015)
|Sex ratio:
| at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 1.01 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.77 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.6 male(s)/female
total population: 0.99 male(s)/female (2016 est.)
|Mother's mean age at first birth:
|19.4 note: median age at first birth among women 25-29 (2010 est.)
|Maternal mortality rate:
|371 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
|Infant mortality rate:
| total: 73.8 deaths/1,000 live births male: 80.9 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 66.4 deaths/1,000 live births (2016 est.)
|Life expectancy at birth:
| total population: 55.5 years male: 53.4 years
female: 57.6 years (2016 est.)
|Total fertility rate:
|5.79 children born/woman (2016 est.)
|Contraceptive prevalence rate:
|16.2% (2010/11)
|Health expenditures:
|5% of GDP (2014)
|Physicians density:
|0.05 physicians/1,000 population (2010)
|Hospital bed density:
|0.4 beds/1,000 population (2010)
|Drinking water source:
| improved:
urban: 97.5% of population
rural: 75.8% of population
total: 82.3% of population
urban: 2.5% of population
rural: 24.2% of population
total: 17.7% of population (2015 est.)
|Sanitation facility access:
| improved:
urban: 50.4% of population
rural: 6.7% of population
total: 19.7% of population
urban: 49.6% of population
rural: 93.3% of population
total: 80.3% of population (2015 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
|0.83% (2015 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
|95,300 (2015 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - deaths:
|3,600 (2015 est.)
|Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
|5.2% (2014)
|Children under the age of 5 years underweight:
|26.2% (2010)
|Education expenditures:
|3.9% of GDP (2015)
| definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 36%
male: 43%
female: 29.3% (2015 est.)
|School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
| total: 8 years male: 8 years
female: 7 years (2013)
|Unemployment, youth ages 15-24:
| total: 3.8% male: 4.6%
female: 2.9% (2006 est.)
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|Country name:
| conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Burkina Faso
local long form: none
local short form: Burkina Faso
former: Upper Volta, Republic of Upper Volta
etymology: name translates as "Land of the honest (incorruptible) men"
|Government type:
|presidential republic
| name: Ouagadougou
geographic coordinates: 12 22 N, 1 31 W
time difference: UTC 0 (5 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
|Administrative divisions:
|13 regions; Boucle du Mouhoun, Cascades, Centre, Centre-Est, Centre-Nord, Centre-Ouest, Centre-Sud, Est, Hauts-Bassins, Nord, Plateau-Central, Sahel, Sud-Ouest
|5 August 1960 (from France)
|National holiday:
|Republic Day, 11 December (1958); note - commemorates the day that Upper Volta became an autonomous republic in the French Community
|several previous; latest approved by referendum 2 June 1991, adopted 11 June 1991; amended several times, last in 2015 for setting a two-term limit for presidents; note - constitution temporarily suspended between late October and mid-November 2014 (2016)
|Legal system:
|civil law based on the French model and customary law
|18 years of age; universal
|Executive branch:
| chief of state: President Roch Marc Christian KABORE (since 29 December 2015)
head of government: Prime Minister Paul Kaba THIEBA (since 6 January 2016)
cabinet: Council of Ministers appointed by the president on the recommendation of the prime minister elections/appointments: president elected by absolute majority popular vote in two rounds, if needed, for a 5-year term (eligible for a second); election last held on 29 November 2015 (next scheduled for November 2020); prime minister appointed by the president with consent of the National Assembly
election results: Roch Marc Christian KABORE elected president in one round; percent of vote - Roch Marc Christian KABORE 53.5%, Zephirin DIABRE 29.6%, Tahirou BARRY 3.1%. Benewende Stanislas SANKARA 2.8%, other 10.9%
|Legislative branch:
| description: unicameral National Assembly (127 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote to serve 5-year terms)
elections: last held on 29 November 2015 (next to be held in 2020)
election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - MPP 55, UPC 33, CDP 18, Union for Rebirth/Sankarist Party 5, ADF/RDA 3, other 13
|Judicial branch:
| highest court(s): Supreme Court of Appeals or Cour de Cassation (consists of NA judges); Council of State (consists of NA judges); Constitutional Council or Conseil Constitutionnel (consists of the council president and 9 members) judge selection and term of office: Supreme Court judge appointments mostly controlled by the president of Burkina Faso; judges have no term limits; Council of State judge appointment and tenure NA; Constitutional Council judges appointed by the president of Burkina Faso upon the proposal of the minister of justice and the president of the National Assembly; judges appointed for 9-year terms with one-third of membership renewed every 3 years
subordinate courts: Appeals Court; High Court; first instance tribunals; district courts; specialized courts relating to issues of labor, children, and juveniles; village (customary) courts
|Political parties and leaders:
|African Democratic Rally/Alliance for Democracy and Federation or ADF/RDA [Gilbert Noel OUEDRAOGO] African People's Movement or MAP [Victorien TOUGOUMA] Congress for Democracy and Progress or CDP [Achille TAPSOBA] Le Faso Autrement [Ablasse OUEDRAOGO] New Alliance of the Faso or NAFA [Rasmane OUEDRAOGO] New Time for Democracy or NTD [Vincent DABILGOU] Organization for Democracy and Work or ODT [Mahamoudou SAWADOGO] Party for Development and Change or PDC [Saran SEREME] Party for Democracy and Progress-Socialist Party or PDP-PS [Francois O. KABORE] Party for Democracy and Socialism/Metba or PDS/Metba [Philippe OUEDRAOGO] Party for National Renaissance or PAREN [Tahirou BARRY] People's Movement for Progress or MPP [Roch March Christian KABORE] Rally for Democracy and Socialism or RDS [Francois OUEDRAOGO] Rally for the Development of Burkina or RDB [Celestin Saidou COMPAORE] Rally of Ecologists of Burkina Faso or RDEB [Adama SERE] Union for a New Burkina or UBN [Yacouba OUEDRAOGO] Union for Progress and Change or UPC [Zephirin DIABRE] Union for Rebirth - Sankarist Movement or UNIR-MS [Benewende Stanislas SANKARA] Union for the Republic or UPR [Toussaint Abel COULIBALY] Youth Alliance for the Republic and Independence or AJIR [Adama KANAZOE]
|Political pressure groups and leaders:
|Balai Citoyen [Herve KAM] Burkinabe General Confederation of Labor or CGTB [Bassolma BAZIE] Burkinabe Movement for Human Rights or MBDHP [Chrysigone ZOUGMORE] Burkinabe Society for Constitutional Law or SBDC [Abdoulaye SOMA] Center for Democratic Governance or CGD [Thomas OUEDRAOGO] Coalition for African Renaissance or CAR [Herve OUATTARA] National Independent Union of Burkinabe Magistrates or SAMAB National Union for Health Workers or SYNTSHA National Union for Primary Education Teachers or SYNATEB other: watchdog/political action groups throughout the country
|International organization participation:
|ACP, AfDB, AU, CD, ECOWAS, EITI (compliant country), Entente, FAO, FZ, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (NGOs), ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINUSMA, MONUSCO, NAM, OIC, OIF, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNISFA, UNITAR, UNWTO, UPU, WADB (regional), WAEMU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
|National symbol(s):
|white stallion; national colors: red, yellow, green
|National anthem:
| name: "Le Ditanye" (Anthem of Victory)
lyrics/music: Thomas SANKARA
note: adopted 1974; also known as "Une Seule Nuit" (One Single Night); written by the country's president, an avid guitar player
|Diplomatic representation in the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador (vacant); Charge d'Affaires Seydou SINKA (since 1 November 2014)
chancery: 2340 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008
telephone: [1] (202) 332-5577
|Diplomatic representation from the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador Andrew YOUNG (since September 2016)
embassy: Rue 15.873, Avenue Sembene Ousmane, Ouaga 2000, Secteur 15
mailing address: 01 B. P. 35, Ouagadougou 01; pouch mail - US Department of State, 2440 Ouagadougou Place, Washington, DC 20521-2440
telephone: [226] 25-49-53-00
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Burkina Faso is a poor, landlocked country that depends on adequate rainfall. About 80% of the population is engaged in subsistence farming and cotton is the main cash crop. The country has few natural resources and a weak industrial base. Cotton and gold are Burkina Faso's key exports - gold has accounted for about three-quarters of the country's total export revenues. Burkina Faso's economic growth and revenue depends on global prices for the two commodities. The Burkinabe economy experienced high levels of growth over the last few years, and the country has seen an upswing in gold exploration, production, and exports. Burkina Faso experienced a number of public protests over the high cost of living, corruption, and other socioeconomic issues in 2013, while the fall of the COMPAORE government in 2014 and failed coup in September 2015 disrupted economic activity and strained government finances. A new three-year IMF program was approved in 2013 to focus on improving the quality of public investment and ensuring inclusive growth. Political insecurity in neighboring Mali, unreliable energy supplies, and poor transportation links pose long-term challenges.
|GDP (purchasing power parity):
| GDP (purchasing power parity): $32.99 billion (2016 est.) $31.35 billion (2015 est.) $30.14 billion (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars
|GDP (official exchange rate):
|GDP (official exchange rate): $12.01 billion (2015 est.)
|GDP - real growth rate:
|5.2% (2016 est.) 4% (2015 est.) 4% (2014 est.)
|GDP - per capita (PPP):
| GDP - per capita (PPP): $1,800 (2016 est.) $1,800 (2015 est.) $1,700 (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars
|Gross national saving:
|8.2% of GDP (2016 est.) 7.7% of GDP (2015 est.) 11.7% of GDP (2014 est.)
|GDP - composition, by end use:
| household consumption: 45.1%
government consumption: 22%
investment in fixed capital: 28.7%
investment in inventories: 0.7%
exports of goods and services: 34.5%
imports of goods and services: -31% (2016 est.)
|GDP - composition, by sector of origin:
| household consumption: 45.1%
government consumption: 22%
investment in fixed capital: 28.7%
investment in inventories: 0.7%
exports of goods and services: 34.5%
imports of goods and services: -31% (2016 est.)
|Agriculture - products:
|cotton, peanuts, shea nuts, sesame, sorghum, millet, corn, rice; livestock
|cotton lint, beverages, agricultural processing, soap, cigarettes, textiles, gold
|Industrial production growth rate:
|4.2% (2016 est.)
|Labor force:
|7.692 million note: a large part of the male labor force migrates annually to neighboring countries for seasonal employment (2013 est.)
|Labor force - by occupation:
| agriculture: 90% industry and
services: 10% (2000 est.)
|Unemployment rate:
|77% (2004)
|Population below poverty line:
|46.7% (2009 est.)
|Household income or consumption by percentage share:
| lowest 10%: 2.9%
highest 10%: 32.2% (2009 est.)
|Distribution of family income - Gini index:
|39.5 (2007) 48.2 (1994)
| revenues: $2.442 billion
expenditures: $2.779 billion (2016 est.)
|Taxes and other revenues:
|20.3% of GDP (2016 est.)
|Fiscal year:
|calendar year
|Inflation rate (consumer prices):
|Inflation rate (consumer prices): 1.4% (2016 est.) 1% (2015 est.)
|Current account balance:
|-$723 million (2016 est.) -$706 million (2015 est.)
|$2.771 billion (2016 est.) $2.515 billion (2015 est.)
|Exports - commodities:
|gold, cotton, livestock
|Exports - partners:
|Switzerland 53.3%, India 14.5% (2015)
|$2.872 billion (2016 est.) $2.863 billion (2015 est.)
|Imports - commodities:
|capital goods, foodstuffs, petroleum
|Imports - partners:
|Cote dIvoire 23.1%, France 11.1%, Togo 7.5%, China 4.8%, Ghana 4.6% (2015)
|Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
|$333.4 million (31 December 2016 est.) $259.6 million (31 December 2015 est.)
|Debt - external:
|$3.092 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $2.669 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
|Market value of publicly traded shares:
|Exchange rates:
|Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF) per US dollar - 605.7 (2016 est.) 591.45 (2015 est.) 591.45 (2014 est.) 494.42 (2013 est.) 510.53 (2012 est.)
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|Electricity - production:
|700 million kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - consumption:
|1.2 billion kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - exports:
|0 kWh (2013 est.)
|Electricity - imports:
|600 million kWh (2014 est.)
|Electricity - installed generating capacity:
|300,000 kW (2014 est.)
|Electricity - from fossil fuels:
|86.6% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from nuclear fuels:
|0% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from hydroelectric plants:
|13.4% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Electricity - from other renewable sources:
|0% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
|Crude oil - production:
|0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
|Crude oil - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Crude oil - imports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Crude oil - proved reserves:
|0 bbl (1 January 2016 es)
|Refined petroleum products - production:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - consumption:
|22,000 bbl/day (2014 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - imports:
|20,890 bbl/day (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - production:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - consumption:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - exports:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - imports:
|0 cu m (2013 est.)
|Natural gas - proved reserves:
|0 cu m (1 January 2014 es)
|Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy:
|1.4 million Mt (2013 est.)
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|Cellular Phones in use:
|total: 14.447 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 76 (July 2015 est.)
|Telephone system:
| general assessment: system includes microwave radio relay, open-wire, and radiotelephone communication stations
domestic: fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular usage, fostered by multiple providers, is increasing steadily from a low base
international: country code - 226; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2015)
|Broadcast media:
|2 TV stations - 1 state-owned and 1 privately owned; state-owned radio runs a national and regional network; substantial number of privately owned radio stations; transmissions of several international broadcasters available in Ouagadougou (2007)
|Internet country code:
|Internet users:
|total: 2.156 million percent of population: 11.4% (July 2015 est.)
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|23 (2013)
|Airports (paved runways):
| total 2
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 (2013)
|Airports (unpaved runways):
| total 21
1,524 to 2,437 m: 3
914 to 1,523 m: 13
under 914 m: 5 (2013)
| total 622 km
narrow gauge: 622 km 1.000-m gauge
note: another 660 km of this railway extends into Cote d'Ivoire (2014)
| total 15,272 km
note: does not include urban roads (2010)
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|Military branches:
|Army, Air Force of Burkina Faso (Force Aerienne de Burkina Faso, FABF), National Gendarmerie (2011)
|Military service age and obligation:
|18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription; women may serve in supporting roles (2013)
|Military expenditures:
|1.39% of GDP (2012) 1.34% of GDP (2011) 1.39% of GDP (2010)
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|Transnational Issues
|Disputes - International:
|adding to illicit cross-border activities, Burkina Faso has issues concerning unresolved boundary alignments with its neighbors; demarcation is currently underway with Mali; the dispute with Niger was referred to the ICJ in 2010, and a dispute over several villages with Benin persists; Benin retains a border dispute with Burkina Faso around the town of Koualou
|Refugees and internally displaced persons:
|refugees (country of origin): 32,017 (Mali) (2016)
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Mitigation and cleanup of spills requires knowledge of resources at risk. Because many source locations and pollution paths are possible, strict prioritization of protection strategies is difficult. However, identification of resources potentially at risk before an incident and discussion of their relative importance by the appropriate trustees are useful processes, both technically and from communications and human standpoints.
Environmentally and Economically Sensitive Areas are identified in the Inland Sensitivity Atlas series, a set of Geographic Information System (GIS) products intended to provide contingency planners and spill responders in Region 5 with the most accurate and relevant information possible for spill preparedness and response. The atlas series includes data about sensitive environmental, economic, and cultural resources; potential spill sources; and response resources within US EPA Region 5, including portions of the basins of the Upper Mississippi River, the Ohio River, and the Great Lakes. GIS products from this joint effort are made available as paper atlases and in digital format, including an online Inland Sensitivity Atlas viewer and publications on CD-ROM.
Information mapped includes:
Types of environmentally and economically sensitive areas are detailed below, including agencies and programs that can be contacted for further information. Owners/operators should also incorporate information on locally managed environmentally and economically sensitive areas into their FRPs.
Identification of culturally sensitive sites in the vicinity of a spill can be accomplished by contacting the appropriate State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO). This individual is generally associated with the State Historical Preservation Office or Society, which may or may not be within a department of State government. Contacts for individual States are provided in the table below.
The National Parks Service (NPS) has responsibility for sites located on Federal lands within the Region. NPS maintains a registry of historically and culturally significant resources, the National Register of Historic Places, which can be accessed via the National Register Information System at www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/database-research.htm.
Specific procedures and Federal OSC responsibilities regarding these sites are set forth in the Programmatic Agreement on Protection of Historic Properties During Emergency Response. Further information about the NPS History and Culture program can be found at www.nps.gov/history/
USFWS Field Response Coordinators are the primary Federal contact for information about migratory birds, endangered and threatened species, and fish and wildlife at risk as a result of spills in the inland and coastal zones. See Appendix VII, Fish and Wildlife Annex for further information.
Each State has fisheries and wildlife biologists, who may be assigned to a Department of Natural Resources or other State agency. These personnel are assigned to geographic areas within a State (district or region) and are listed in Appendix VII. They can also be identified through State emergency response agencies or USFWS Pollution Response Coordinators.
The Inland Sensitivity Atlas includes inventories developed by each State's Natural Heritage or Natural Features Inventory.
The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC) can be a source of technical assistance in understanding Native American fish and wildlife management and cultural values. Another source of valuable information is the National Animal Poison Control Center.
Sea Grant Universities and Extension Agents may be a source of local knowledge outside the public sector. These agents have contact with local scientists, fishermen, environmental groups, and other sources that may supplement information provided by regulatory agencies. They can be contacted through the NOAA SSC.
Updated information on protected habitat and economically and environmentally sensitive environments is provided in this plan in three separate indices, one for each of the three drainage basins in Region 5: the Great Lakes basin, the Mississippi River basin, and the Ohio River basin. Each index contains detailed information, in digital format, regarding the environmentally and economically sensitive areas, and Tribal interests.
Descriptive information, maps, and emergency contact lists are also included. The text in the indices provides further instructions on accessing the data available on the disks.
A variety of protected areas such as forests, parks, preserves, reserves, and management areas are managed by public or private organizations such as The Nature Conservancy/Heritage Foundation. Additional sources of this information include Federal or State land management agencies, which include the Departments of the Interior, Agriculture, and Commerce at the Federal level and their counterparts at the State and local levels.


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From the known board game Eclipse exists now an android app:
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Even though the UI is looking good in a graphical way, it is not very helpful...everything is so small. Instead of those slider menus I would have preferred full modal pages for those. Can't say much about the game play, guess the app is only for people that know the board game.
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Postfinance and UBS set up collaboration - Yellow loans to be launched in 2003
Beginning in May 2003, Swiss Post will join forces with UBS AG and add loans to its range of financial services. Closing this gap in the lending business will enable Swiss Post to retain its customers in its profitable core business - payments - and to develop new sources of earnings at the same time. The Yellow Credits for private and business customers will be easy to understand and highly standardized. The product design and pricing structure will follow Postfinance specifications. UBS will handle risk and capital management plus refinancing. A successful partnership between Postfinance and UBS has existed for several years.
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MISENHEIMER, N.C. --- The Lees-McRae women's lacrosse team dropped a 22-1 decision to No. 11 Pfeiffer in Conference Carolinas action Saturday afternoon at NE Lefko Field in Misenheimer, N.C.
The Falcons (8-2, 2-0 CC) saw Kristi Korn net a hat trick in the first five minutes while outshooting LMC 31-3. The Bobcats (3-6, 0-4) played for the first time in 10 days while Katelin Rooney (Naples, Fla.) scored LMC's only goal.
PU showed why it is ranked in the 15 in the country while jumping out to a 10-0 lead in the first 9:46 of the contest.
Korn scored three of her game-high four goals, including two in 36 seconds, while Stephanie Athens notched a pair of her six assists.
Haley Gourdie notched two goals before Rooney made it 11-1 at the 13:15 mark of the first half.
Sophomore Mia Emmerson (Orlando, Fla.) earned four of her five saves in the first half.
Eight different Falcons netted a goal in the final half while scooping 29 groundballs in the contest.
Sophomore Jenah Tracy (Naples, Fla.) led the squad in shots (two), groundballs (three) and draw controls (three).
Freshman Samantha Yantz (Leander, Texas) forced two turnovers.
LMC welcomes Young Harris to Tate Field on Wednesday, April 2 at 4 p.m. for a nonconference tilt.


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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Top-seeded Springfield College outscored No. 4 MIT, 9-3, in the second half en route to a 13-4 victory in the semifinals of the Pilgrim Lacrosse League tournament on Wednesday night. Freshman Graham Francis (Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.) paced the Engineers with two goals and an assist as they finished the season with a 5-10 record.
Freshman Luke Verdi (Middletown, Md.) posted one goal and an assist while senior Sean Burke (Centennial, Colo.) tacked on a goal for MIT. Junior Joel Santisteban (Lawrence, N.Y.) along with freshmen Chris McPherson (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Jake Shearman (Hertfordshire, United Kingdom) each picked up two groundballs. Senior Christopher Rullan (Wexford, Pa.) registered seven groundballs and 20 saves, including 13 in the first half.
The Pride outshot the Engineers, 23-4, as it established a 3-0 lead at the 5:22 mark of the second quarter. A solo effort by Burke put MIT on the board almost a minute later but Springfield found the back of the net with 17 seconds to go before halftime.
Francis brought the Cardinal and Gray within two (4-2) after 2:37 elapsed in the third quarter; however, the hosts generated a three-goal spurt to gain some breathing room. MIT stopped the run when Verdi connected on a feed from Francis with 2:39 left in the quarter but Springfield quickly found the back of the net to make the score, 8-3.
The Pride increased its margin early in the fourth quarter but the score remained unchanged until a flurry of activity occurred during the final four minutes of regulation. Springfield started the burst with 3:52 on the clock which was followed by Francis redirecting a feed from Verdi 30 seconds after the faceoff. The Pride then closed out the game with three straight goals.


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A native of France and a resident of Historic Greenbelt, Isabelle Gournay received a professional degree in architecture from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and a doctorate in art history from Yale University.
She co-edited Paris on the Potomac. The French Influence on the Architecture and Art of Washington, D.C. Ohio University Press, 2007 and authored The New Trocadéro (Pierre Mardaga - Institut Français d'Architecture, 1985) and the A.I.A. Guide to the Architecture of Atlanta (University of Georgia Press, 1992), as well as numerous articles, book chapters and encyclopedia entries published in the U.S., France, Great Britain, Canada, Italy and Holland.
On behalf of the Canadian Center for Architecture, she guest curated the exhibition Ernest Cormier and the Université de Montréal (1990) and Montréal Metropolis 1880-1930 (with France Vanlaethem, 1998) and edited their companion publications.
Prof. Gournay has been the lead researcher (with Professor Mary Corbin Sies, American Studies) for a groundbreaking study of the Modern Movement in Maryland sponsored by the Maryland Historical Trust. With the help of graduate students in Historic Preservation, Profs. Sies and Gournay have authored many National Register nominations and helped save modernist landmarks from demolition, including the Lustine automobile showroom in Hyattsville.
Many of her publications explore connections between urbanism, architecture and housing in France and the United States, such as the impact of the U.S. home builder Levitt around Paris. Her current research focus is on "Architecture Students at the École des Beaux-arts and the North American Scene." The resulting book, undertaken with Marie-Laure Crosnier-Leconte, conservateur en chef du Patrimoine and with the support of the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art in Paris, will provide the first comprehensive synthesis on the extraordinary contribution of these American, Canadian and French designers and teachers to the history of Western architecture and to social history in the United States and Canada, between 1850 and 1940, as well as their little known but significant impact abroad and on Franco-American relations. In Fall'10, Prof. Gournay will be a scholar-in-residence at the INHA to work full time on this project.


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During this year's National Prayer Day Breakfast, President Obama sat helplessly as Dr. Carson methodically dismantled the proposed efficacy of a national liberal agenda.
Rarely does a person come along who truly inspires. But every so often one rises up, with a clear voice, offering a confident message brimming with hopeful determination. Dr. Benjamin Carson is the man responsible for the delivery of such a message. During this year's National Prayer Day Breakfast, President Obama sat helplessly as Dr. Carson methodically dismantled the proposed efficacy of a national liberal agenda. Not only did Dr. Carson cover all the essential conservative talking points, but he did so with enthusiasm and authority.
A self made man who delivered himself out of poverty, the good doctor experientially knows that of which he speaks. Throughout his 27 minute speech, the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, passionately endorsed the importance of education, morality individuality, free thought, self reliance and personal accountability as essential components for a vibrant America.
The wonderful thing about Dr. Carson is that the 'powers that be' just assumed he'd fall in line. The reality is he could have played it safe and nobody would have noticed. But the good doctor would not deny a golden opportunity to speak the truth, and with that opportunity Carson has restored hope in a God enlightened humanity.
Overall, it was a very brave and inspiring showing by Dr. Carson. We may have to seriously get behind the increasing possibility that Benjamin Carson gives a shaken and disjointed GOP it's best opportunity for a victory in 2016. He stands above the politics, he's fearless, he believes his message 100 percent, and there's nothing phony about him. The Republican Party currently has some impressive young guns (i.e. Ryan, Paul, Rubio) who are poised to make a good showing, however, I don't think any of those other guys, including Rubio, can change the voter tide. Benjamin Carson is the right man, with the right message, at the right time.
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BAGHDAD, April 19 (UPI) -- At least 27 people, four of them children, were killed Thursday night when a bomb exploded in a Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad, police said.
Investigators said the bomb, believed to contain more than 6 pounds of explosive, was concealed in a plastic bag, CNN reported. It went off at 10 p.m. in the coffee shop, on the third floor of a building in the al-Amriya neighborhood that also holds an ice cream parlor and doctors' offices.
More than 50 people were injured. Most of the victims were young men.
Iraqis are scheduled to vote Saturday in provincial elections, which have been preceded by a wave of violence. Martin Kobler, the U.N. secretary-general's special representative for Iraq, urged increased security so Iraqis can go to the polls safely.
"I am calling on all women and men to cast their ballots for a better future for them and their children," Kobler said. "My appeal goes particularly to young Iraqis, because you are the future of this country."


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Not a day goes by that John "Lucky" Luckadoo doesn't wonder how he could have made it past his 21st birthday, never mind his 91st — which he celebrated Saturday.
Luckadoo, who's lived in Dallas since 1960, was one of the original pilots in the 100th Bomb Group, known as the "Bloody Hundredth" in World War II. Part of the 8th Air Force based in England, the group flew the iconic B-17 Flying Fortresses on bombing missions over Germany and France.
At that point in the war, there may have been no more dangerous assignment than to be one of the 10 men in the crew of the huge B-17 Flying Fortresses lumbering over Germany, loaded with up to 5,000 pounds of bombs. With the D-Day invasion a year off, the fate of the war remained very much up in the air. Allied pilots, mostly young British and Americans in their late teens and early 20s, waged ferocious battles in the skies against the Luftwaffe, the German air force.
On its first mission, the 100th Bomb Group lost three B-17s and 30 men. During one mission to Berlin, 15 aircraft were lost. During this time, Luckadoo flew his B-17 on raid after raid after bloody raid.
"They were cutting us to ribbons," Luckadoo said of the German defenses. "We were playing against the pros, on their turf, and we were paying a heavy price."
This week, 68 years after Luckadoo last flew in a B-17, he once again climbed aboard a Flying Fortress. He was invited to be part of a short flight from Denison to Dallas as a guest of the Wings of Freedom Tour at the Frontiers of Flight Museum at Love Field. The event runs through Sunday and includes an exhibition of rare WWII-era bomber and fighter aircraft, including the B-17 Flying Fortress, the P-51 "Mustang" fighter and the German Messerschmitt 262.
Luckadoo is a trim 6-footer, with a strong voice that still commands authority. He didn't hesitate when asked if he'd like to be at the controls of the B-17 again. Though he isn't certified to fly anymore, he said he wouldn't turn down the chance to "take the stick for a minute or two if they allowed me."
College to combat
Even before the country entered the war late in 1941, Luckadoo had combat aircraft on his mind. In 1940, after graduating from high school in Chattanooga, Tenn., he and a buddy hatched a plan to join the Royal Canadian Air Force. They wanted a head start on the world war they knew would eventually pull in the United States.
Luckadoo's dad refused to give consent. With the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Luckadoo got his wish. He left college to serve in the Army Air Forces and graduated from flying school in February 1943.
He was immediately assigned to the newly formed 100th Bomb Group. The outfit flew B-17 heavy bombers that traveled in large formations during daylight raids against strategic targets such as weapons factories, oil refineries and shipyards. They could be in the air for up to eight hours.
Luckadoo, a second lieutenant co-pilot, and his fellow crew members would soon be involved in many epic air battles over Germany. In October 1943, Luckadoo embarked on a particularly dangerous mission to bomb shipyards in the German industrial town of Bremen. He later described the events in an article he wrote in 1993 for the 100th Bomb Group association. The flak shot at the B-17s from anti-aircraft guns on the ground was so thick, Luckadoo wrote, he could have "put down our wheels and taxied on it!"
German fighter planes attacked them from all directions. Of the 18 planes that the 100{+t}{+h} Bomb Group sent out that day, only six returned. The rest, Luckadoo said, either exploded in the air, crashed or were shot down. Bullet holes in the fuselage of his plane let in so much freezing air that he developed frostbite in both feet as he struggled to get the craft back to England.
Thrust into leadership
A year ago, Luckadoo appeared at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado to speak at a symposium on leadership.
"We were thrust into a position of leadership, whether we wanted to accept it or not, because of circumstances," he recalled telling the young cadets. "You have to reach inside to discover the qualities you need to lead. It comes down to acceptance of responsibility for the welfare for others and yourself."
He insists he was more lucky than good as a pilot and said there were many better pilots who were shot down. Of those who never came back, he said: "I'll never forget them. When they're gone and you're still here, you think, 'Why them and not me?' "
Luckadoo left the military after the war, settled in Denver with his wife and became a real estate developer. They moved to Dallas in 1960, after he built Big Town Mall in Mesquite, a fixture for more than 40 years. He retired in 1987.
Luckadoo never figured he'd get another chance to fly in a B-17. "First time back in one in 68 years," he said.
As luck, or fate, would have it, the weather Wednesday afternoon was perfect for flying — sunny and cool. Luckadoo boarded the B-17 in Denison and squatted down in the radio operator's seat — just a few inches off the floor.
The B-17, owned by the Collings Foundation, completed 140 combat missions during World War II. About 2 p.m., the old, coffee-colored workhorse appeared on the horizon of Love Field and taxied down the runway adjacent to the museum.
A few minutes later, Luckadoo crouched through a side door wearing a tan jacket and khakis and a 100th Bomb Group commemorative blue cap. Smiling with sunglasses, shaking hands, joking, and looking relieved and exhilarated, he offered a glimpse of the young second lieutenant just after a mission some 70 years earlier.
The trip couldn't have gone smoother, said the man who'd seen some rough rides in his time.
"I'm just glad we didn't get shot at," he said.


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Katie Monnin talking about the Graphic Novel Workshop on WJXT
Posted by Josh Jubinsky on January 11, 2011
WJXT's Morning Show did a segment last Saturday with Katie Monnin, who was promoting her book "Teaching Graphic Novels" and her upcoming class for parents and kids at the Main Library. Watch the news segment here.
Get more details about the class in our original post here. The class is Saturday, January 15 from 3-4pm, and you must register to attend!
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thanks for the post josh!!! 🙂 you rock!!! looks like i might be doing the much ado about books for the jax public library event, etc. will you be there??? katie


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Portland, Maine is the Promised Land for beer lovers in the Northeast. In the seafaring city of 64,000, British-beer enthusiasts can sip malty brews from Shipyard and D.L. Geary, and fans of Belgian-style and barrel-aged ales can opt for Allagash. Hop heads have Maine Beer's fragrant pale ales and IPAs, while Rising Tide's inventive hybrids, such as a lightly smoky black ale, satisfy adventurous imbibers. Toss in Peak Organic's flavorful eco-conscious ales and the farmhouse-style suds of nearby Oxbow Brewing, and most every major beer category is covered.
Despite the embarrassment of brewed riches, veteran brewer Tom Bull noticed one style was strikingly absent. "No one was doing lagers," says Bull, 40, who previously brewed at Portland's Gritty McDuff's and now-defunct Stone Coast Brewing. "I saw the gaping hole in the market."
He hoped to fill it with a recipe for a rounded, golden-hued Munich Helles lager (helles means "bright" in German), which he spent 15 years refining on his homebrew rig. This is somewhat unusual for homebrewers, as lagers' bottom-fermenting yeasts require a lengthy cold fermentation in a stable environment. "I have one of the most tolerant wives in the world," Bull says, laughing.
Of their three refrigerators at home before starting the brewery, "one was dedicated to food, one was dedicated to primary fermentation and another was dedicated to lagering." Confident in his recipe, Bull partnered with local businessman Allen Jagger to found the Bull Jagger Brewing Company and, last October, debut half-liter bottles of Portland Lager. "The time is right for a craft-brewed lager," Bull says.
The last decade has seen brewers venture to the far fringes of flavor, crafting increasingly bitter, brawny ales. Tradition played second fiddle to innovation, as craft brewers distanced themselves from the dominant American beer style, the lager. Done properly, a crisp, nuanced lager is an easy-drinking thing of beauty. But in the brew kettles of beer behemoths the American lager lost its way, and lager became synonymous with lowbrow. "We want to show people that not all lagers are PBRs," Bull says, a rallying cry echoing among brewers crafting complex lagers that can stand head-to-head with ales. "I believe lagers can have as much flavor as ales," says Matt Brophy, the brewmaster at Maryland's Flying Dog Brewery, which recently released UnderDog Atlantic Lager. It's a notion catching on nationwide, as New Belgium's newest year-round release is the aromatic lager Shift, while Oregon's Full Sail offers a range of year-round lagers, and the IPA mavericks at San Diego's Ballast Point regularly feature seven lagers in rotation. Even more committed is Chicago's Metropolitan Brewing, which exclusively focuses on lagers and German-style brews, as does McMinnville, Oregon's Heater/Allen Brewing.
Don't Be Bitter
For much of the 20th century, lagers defined American beer. If you were sipping a beer, then you were likely drinking a lager. So when the craft-brewing movement started percolating in the '80s and '90s, brewers did not mimic the mainstream. "In the early days of craft brewing, there was a predisposition toward ales," says Bryan Simpson of Fort Collins, Colorado's New Belgium, which launched with the fruity Abbey and the biscuity amber ale Fat Tire. "Brewers wanted to get back to bigger, fuller-bodied beers." Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Deschutes Black Butte Porter and Stone IPA were drastic departures from the status quo, demonstrating that beer and flavor were not mutually exclusive concepts.
This is not to say that breweries completely shunned lagers. Many trot out robust, full-bodied märzens for Oktoberfest.Samuel Adams Boston Lager and Brooklyn Brewery's namesake lager are iconic. And the pale lager known as pilsner is a common offering, though the intense aromatics are more in line with pale ales (and the word lager is conspicuously absent from most packaging). However, these are exceptions to the ale rule. That's largely because lagers are time-consuming to brew. From grain to glass, it can take six or seven weeks for a lager to finish fermenting, and the style leaves little margin for error. Defects can't hide behind heaps of hops or dark malts. By comparison, warmer- and faster-fermenting ales can be ready to consume in as little as 10 days, and the fruity flavors are more forgiving. For a start-up brewery desperate to pay down debt, focusing on lagers makes little economic sense. "If you have a choice between doing a lager or doing two batches of an ale and selling it, the choice is simple," says Rick Allen, 59, the founder and brewmaster of Heater/Allen Brewing.
Allen did not take the easy route. After more than two decades as a homebrewer, he founded Heater/Allen in May 2007 with a focus rarely found on the hop-mad West Coast: German- and Czech-style beers, such as the roasty, subtly smoky Schwarz, dark and complex Dunkel and the lively, grassy Pils. "People often say, 'This is a lager?' " Allen says. "I tell them they can come in all shapes, sizes and colors."
Whereas Allen's beers were once curiosities in an IPA-packed marketplace, he now sees the pendulum swinging away from palate-wrecking flavors. "People's tastes are changing," Allen says. "You're getting a backlash to the IPA. People want something that's crisp, refreshing and not heavy on the palate, and lagers fit the bill."
Those were the same guidelines that Flying Dog brewmaster Brophy followed when designing the UnderDog Atlantic Lager, which is a departure from the company's lineup. Flying Dog is known for full-throttle brews like the Gonzo Imperial Porter and Raging Bitch Belgian-Style IPA. While delicious, these are not beers suited for all-night imbibing—"and we like to have more than one beer," Brophy says. "Pretty much everybody in the brewery felt that we needed to have a crisp, flavorful lager."
Clocking in at just 4.7%, the golden UnderDog drinks brisk, with a soft and appealing fruitiness that leaves you craving another sip. "You could argue that you could have two of these beers for every double IPA," Brophy says. "People have gone to the extreme and are now coming back."
When Innovation Met Cold Fermentation
Concerning ales, American brewers have tossed guidelines into a trashcan and set them ablaze. Styles like IPAs and stouts have been altered willy-nilly, with brewers' creative impulses leading to deliciously mutated branches of beer's family tree. Not so with lagers. By and large with lagers, brewers are indebted to tradition, preferring to turn out pitch-perfect interpretations of age-old brews. "American brewers are really innovative with ales but not really with lagers," says Doug Hurst, 43, the brewmaster and co-founder of Metropolitan Brewing. "I'm out to prove that lagers can be flavorful."
When Hurst first fell under the sway of craft beer in the late '90s, he sought out imperial stouts, double IPAs and "anything with more hops." But after spending six weeks in Munich, Germany, studying brewing, he developed a deep appreciation for lagers' nuance and variance. "I was drinking the same beers we get imported here, but they were so much better," Hurst recalls. "It was a matter of freshness."
Hurst was so smitten by lagers and German beers that he made them the focus of Metropolitan Brewing, which he founded with his wife, Tracy, in December 2008. Their roster includes the toasty, spicy-scented Dynamo Copper Lager, the smooth and crisp Flywheel Bright Lager and the kölsch-style Krankshaft (a German ale fermented at cooler temperatures). They're terrific riffs on classic styles—none of which you'll find in his Urban Evolution Series, where Hurst's creative urges run unchecked. To date, he has devised a dunkel-style dark lager dosed with rye ("It adds a flavor like pumpernickel bread," he says), a lager brewed with chipotle peppers, a lager-fermented Baltic porter aged with toasted oak and even a hoppy IPL: that is, an India pale lager. "There's so much room to explore with lagers," Hurst says.
There might be something brewing with the India pale lager, which marries a fragrant IPA with a brisk lager. In Massachusetts, Jack's Abby Brewing makes the Hoponius Union, while Colorado's Avery offers its own take. Heater/Allen is toying with the notion of doing a fresh-hop lager, and New Belgium's Shift Lager is dosed with juicy, passionfruit-like Nelson Sauvin hops—a white-hot IPA ingredient. "We wanted to put a craft spin on lager beer," says New Belgium's Simpson.
Naturally, hops-mad Southern California has no shortage of this burgeoning style. IPA-lager hybrids are occasionally brewed by Pizza Port, Karl Strauss and Ballast Point, which does the Fathom India Pale Lager. "I'm always searching for hops to be the focus in the beer," says Colby Chandler, 44, Ballast Point's specialty brewer. "With ale yeast, the fruit flavors and esters kind of mask the hops. With lager yeast, you get much cleaner, crisper flavors and none of that ale fruitiness battling the hops."
Though lauded for hoppy ales like the Sculpin IPA, Ballast Point produces a range of eight lagers throughout the year, including the Abandon Ship Smoked Lager and the brawny Navigator Doppelbock that's occasionally aged in brandy barrels. "I don't think I've seen anyone age a doppelbock in an oak barrel," says Chandler, whose lager experiments will continue this winter with a schwarzbier (a black lager) made with California bay leaves, oysters and black sage. It's a beer guaranteed to start a conversation, which might be the point. "Hopefully people will start to ask the same questions about lagers that they do about dry-hopping or strong, high-gravity beers," he says.
Watch Your Rep
American lager's return to respectability is not as simple as breweries creating a quality product. A tough issue to overcome is perception—brewers must undo decades of damages to lager's reputation. "People hear the word lager and they assume that a lager is going to be light, not hoppy and have very little malt presence," says Metropolitan Brewing's Hurst.
Compounding that is a lack of baseline consumer knowledge. "Even though Portland, Maine, is a great beer town, I still do lots of lager education," Bull Jagger's Tom Bull says. Many people ask, 'What's the difference between an ale and a lager?' "Part of the problem is that little fanfare surrounds lagers, as breweries prefer to light fireworks around the latest barrel-aged this or imperial that. The spotlight might be slowly shifting, as craft breweries have begun debuting specialty lager divisions designed to tweak drinkers' attitudes toward lagers. In addition to its Session lagers, Full Sail produces the LTD line of limited-edition lagers, while Brooklyn-based Sixpoint Brewery has its Crisp Lagers division. This spring, Eugene, Oregon's Ninkasi Brewing unveiled its Prismatic lineup of rotating lagers (the first release was Helles Belles). "We love our lagers as much as we do our hoppy beers, and we are super-excited to bring these beers to the world," says founder Jamie Floyd.
The swell of lager production can partly be attributed to increased capacity. As breweries add equipment, they gain leeway with their brewing schedule. "When you have extra tanks, it makes sense to throw a lager in there and let it sit around for a while," says Heater/Allen's brewmaster, Rick Allen. Underscoring that, New Belgium has undergone a series of expansions, and Flying Dog recently added 650 barrels of fermentation space (one barrel equals 31 gallons). Of course, one brewery's windfall is another brewery's shortage. Allen is eager to expand capacity, but "wait time for tanks used to be two or three months," he says. "Now it's nine or 10 months. I'd really like to have new fermenters for summer, but we'll see if we can get them."
Owning extra tanks is important for smaller lager producers, who can't crank out loads of beer like clockwork. "We can produce half as much beer as an ale brewery," says Metropolitan Brewing's Hurst. "It was a concern, but we felt it was worthwhile to sacrifice a bit here and there."
The sacrifice means that Metropolitan only has four employees, which is two more than Heater/Allen. "I have one employee, and it's my daughter," Allen says. Bull Jagger is too new to have capacity concerns, and the brewery is happily humming away producing a small but steady eight barrels a week of Portland Lager, Original No. 19 Baltic Porter, Big Claw Pilsner and, soon, a märzen. "I'm going against that trend of strong hop bombs," Bull says, excited to alter people's drinking habits, one crisp pint after another. "Beer drinkers are finally coming full circle."


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Bioshock wrote:It really is astounding that Despres continues to sit.
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morning, seniors from Hartsburg-Emden, Lincoln and Mount Pulaski
high schools gathered at Lincoln Christian Church for the annual
Workforce Readiness Expo. The expo is put on each year by the
Lincoln/Logan Chamber of Commerce.
The day began with welcoming
comments from chamber director Andi Hake and an address from keynote
speaker Patrick Doolin.
Doolin, the owner of Integrity
Data in Lincoln, talked to the kids about his career choices and how
he followed a desire to work with numbers and also to think up
new and innovative ideas. He talked about how some ideas are
good and some aren't, but you don't know until you try them out. Doolin punctuated this
by telling a story of when he was a kid, he and
his brother mounted a rocket engine on a model car and set it off
just to see what would happen. That story didn't end well for
the two brothers, as their childhood home ended up with an ugly black
burn mark on the white siding. But they would not have known it
was a bad idea had they not tried it.
also talked about a good idea, one that many said was a crazy idea:
the restoration of the Scully Building. He talked about the
skepticism of some who said trying to make the burned-out building
viable again was going to be an insurmountable task. In the
end, though, it was a good idea. It took a lot of work and
dedication, but Doolin is quite pleased that he was able to save and
make useful again a historic building that was important to his
He spoke about his decision to
build his successful business in Lincoln. He said he deals
with companies all around the world and works with such well-known
firms as Microsoft, and he does it all from his hometown. He
stressed there is opportunity in Lincoln and Logan County for young
minds and new ideas.
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he did that, but in the end he came back to what he knew and loved. He talked about his love for the small town, hometown feel and said
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running around in that park.
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that their success can happen in Lincoln, and some of the reasons
are that home is the place where people will believe in
them, encourage them and want to see them succeed.
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The midfielder has been with the Albion academy for three years and has represented England at U16 and U17 level, and the Baggies will not let him go unless a suitable compensation package can be agreed.
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West Brom's sporting and technical director Richard Garlick said: "We are disappointed by Chelsea's offer.
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Stu Hart: Lord of the Ring
ECW Press, 2002 - Biography & Autobiography - 266 pages
Celebrated weekly on WWF by such superstars and commentators as Y2J, Chris Benoit and Lance Storm, Stu Hart is the father of modern day wrestling. First a pro wrestler himself, and later the living legend who trained some of the most formidable athletes in the sport in his own basement, Hart and his family's story reveals the true triumphs and tragedies of professional wrestling. In this insider's account, readers will learn about the horrific death of Stu's son Owen, the rise and fall of his son Bret, and all of the colourful characters and moments in between.
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