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THIS instalment brings us to the second strong lager in this series on the subject of high-strength beers. And this one looks at Carlsberg Special Brew. Why am I looking at this one next? Well the last one I tried was Skol Super, and that was brewed by Carlsberg UK. This is the same size and strength as Skol Super, but from Carlsberg's Danish parent. And that sets this review up for an interesting comparison…
Like most other can's I've looked at in this series, Carlsberg Special Brew is cheap and available from most corner shops. It does have a unique look about it however. The beige background adds some extra respectability compared to the cheaply printed cans of its competition.
Something else I like about the 'front' of the can is the Danish connection. Above the 'Special Brew' banner is the text "By Appointment to the Royal Danish Court". If that means the same as it does here in Britain, it means that someone in, or who works for the Danish Royal Family, drinks this stuff. And that raises expectations considerably. This is reinforced with references to "Carlsberg Copenhagen" and around a graphic of the Danish crown, the words "The Original Strong Lager". Original anything is good in the beer world, so this is setting the expectations high. At least higher than with Skol Super.
Have a look at the bottom of the 'front' of the can. The words "Enjoy Responsibly" are more prominent than on any strong beer/cider/lager I've seen so far. A small acknowledgement of how controversial this type of drink has become perhaps. You could say that they are finally taking social responsibility. Or completely failing to do so by having it in such small writing.
Again, the details and small print are spread between two opposite 'sides' of the can. Here's a photo of the side without the barcode.
Annoyingly, most of the text is at a 90 degree angle if you have the can upright. So you either need to tilt your head or the can to read this side properly. If you do decide to read it, you'll see the 9% and 4.5 UK units of alcohol most prominent on the white band. The obligatory address of the drink aware website, and consumer helpline are there. As is a nearly complete list of ingredients. Which in this instance, are water, malted barley, syrup, hops and carbon dioxide. None of which really tell us what to expect from the taste of Special Brew.
Over on the 'side' of the can where the barcode lives, the writing is thankfully the right way up again. The tiny sentence of the story behind the drink doesn't need to be summarised for the review, because here it is: "Brewed since 1950, Carlsberg Special Brew is the original strong lager". What more is there to say?
Also on this 'side' is the message "Best shared well chilled". A nice different to the usual 'best served well chilled'. Clearly the people of Denmark are more responsible than those here, in that they share a strong can instead of downing it by themselves. It's a nice suggestion that I doubt anyone will follow. If you've ever shared a can of Special Brew or anything similar, leave a comment, because I find it hard to imagine anyone doing that.
Annoyingly, this 'side' doesn't actually confirm that Special Brew is imported from the continent. All we get is a "brewed and canned in the EU for Carlsberg UK Ltd". That could mean it was churned out of a cheap factory in Eastern Europe. Come on Carlsberg. I want to know where it came from. And so does everyone else who buys your drinks.
And that's it from the outside of the can. But what does it taste like? Time to find out.
Once out of the can, and into my big Continental style glass, everything looks in order. There's a big frothy head. The liquid is gold in colour. And there's plenty of gas bubbles making their way to the top.
The smell is good too. Definitely better than Skol Super. The soft smell of barley and hops seems somehow, to have that 'premium' quality. But will that carry across to the taste?
A few gulps down, and so far, the answer is yes. It doesn't taste cheap either. It holds on to that bitter/sour taste and aftertaste that lager suffers from, but this is a big improvement over Carlsberg's Skol Super. That aftertaste simply isn't as strong and doesn't linger as badly. And that makes Special Brew the most drinkable strong lager I've yet tested.
Working my way through the can, I was delighted to find it not as gassy as I had been afraid of. And the alcohol didn't go straight to my head. Although that could have more to do with my doing this review straight after dinner than anything else.
How to sum up Carlsberg Special Brew? It's a super-high-strength lager that comes cheaply in very tall cans. Yet it's also pretty good quality, for a lager. And surprisingly drinkable, for a lager. The can promised a lot with its mentions of the Danish Court. And, amazingly, it actually delivered. That surprised and impressed me. No wander alcoholics love this drink.
Rating: 3.4 plus two ASBO points and one homeless alcoholic mark.
Have you tried Carlsberg Special Brew? What did you think?
Any suggestions for what I should review next?
Comments below please…
A huge thanks to all the readers and commenter's who've made this 'review' one of the most popular on my blog. Your comments are brilliant. There's no other way to describe them. That's why I've come back nearly two years later to update it, and the other unexpectedly popular super strength lager reviews, with some new photos.
While I had all the 9%er cans handy, it made sense to try them all again. Only this time with the benefit of having read all of your comments beforehand. Incidentally, I've done the same for the other 9%-ers. Check my updates for them after you've finished reading this.
This time, I made sure that the can was very cold. And to drink it straight from the can to avoid accidentally smelling it. That's why I haven't updated the photo of it in a glass. I was also, watching out for it tasting worse as it warms up.
How did it taste this time around? It's definitely more drinkable. But drink quickly before it warms up. It contains syrup which makes it weightier than normal lager. It also makes it more bittersweet than without it. It's a strong, bland, slightly sour and syrupy malted barley tasting lager in flimsy can.
How did it compare to the other 9%-ers I re-'reviewed' it against? Against Tennent's Super, Carlsberg Skol Super and Ketral Super, It ended up 3rd. Above the ghastly at any temperature Skol Super, but without the surprising hoppiness of Tennent's Super and instant addiction to Kestral Super.
What do you think? How else can you make it taste better? Or less horrible? The comments section below is a goldmine. Add your nugget of wisdom now!
P.S. My 'reviews' of Carlsberg Special Brew's equally popular competitors are at Carlsberg Skol Super, Tennent's Super and Kestrel Super.
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This year's event will take place June 2nd and 3rd at the Liberty Memorial Park from 10:00 am to 11:00 pm.
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This information was emailed to me recently. If readers are looking for an impromptu summer road trip with a knitting and crocheting destination this might be just the thing.
Activities will crowd the schedule for knitters and crocheters from across the country at the Knit and Crochet Show 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, June 29-30, and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, July 1, at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, N.H.
Education will get top billing, starting Wednesday, June 27. Because The Knit and Crochet Show is co-sponsored by the Crochet Guild of America and The Knitting Guild Association, nonprofit associations dedicated to excellence and creativity in crochet and knitting, the show will feature 92 technique classes with 21 teachers and authors.
Crocheters can increase their skills in Tunisian lace, bead crochet, knooking, socks, finishing and pattern writing.
For knitters there will be sessions in twined knitting, provisional and invisible cast ons, Fair Isle and steeks, set-in sleeves, lace, understanding Japanese patterns and more.
Some classes combine both stitching disciplines to teach computer-aided design, freeform patterns and yarn substitution.
A fashion show at each association's banquet lets members see their creations take a stroll down the runway. Bids on silent auction items will benefit the Helping Hands Foundation Needle Arts Mentoring Program to help young people across America learn the needle arts. A Crochet Design Competition will culminate in awards and displays.
Chapters will gather to share ideas and to report on what they've been doing since the last conference. Designers will have time to meet with publishers and editors.
Crocheters and knitters working through the masters program can get encouragement and critiques on their work.
Members of the associations enter the show floor free of charge. Admission to others, is $10, $5 for each additional day, free to children under 12. Two-dollar off coupons may be downloaded at the show website.
Association memberships are available online or on-site at the show's registration counter for those who want to join and save.
For information, visit KnitandCrochetShow.com.
Parents seeking ideas for nature craft for their children need look no further than familyfun.go.com. Posted on the website are easy instructions for many crafts using materials one can gather outdoors. My four favorites are:
• A mermaid wand made with small seashells glued to a cardboard star;
• Flower fairies made with children's drawings of people and "dressed" with petals and leaves;
• A note pad bound with an elastic band and a twig; and
• Rings made with sea glass glued to ring blanks available at craft stores.
Also, go to marthastewart.com to find instructions for a nature walk bracelet made from duct tape and plastic wrap.
And don't forget to spend time with the young ones making sand castles at the beach.
A Christmas in July Craft Fair will be held 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, July 21, at the Bangor Grange hall, 1192 Ohio St. in Bangor. Table space is available for rental for $10. Refreshments will be available. Call 973-3976 to reserve space or for information.
Beginner's beading class emphasizing basic stringing and finishing will take place 1-4 p.m. Sunday, July 8, The Gifted Hand Shop, 169 Main St. in Ellsworth. Create a pair of earrings and a necklace with instructor Lisa Salsbury. The class is open to those age 8 and up. The cost is $25. To register, call Lisa, at 460-1077 or email email@example.com, or sign up at the shop. For information, call the shop at 460-1243 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


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WASHINGTON � Congress's latest attempt at crafting a budget plan is on track to end up the same way as others have in the past decade: with little or no agreement.
Negotiators have little chance of breaking this string of futility, even after a 16-day government shutdown in October that cost the U.S. economy $24 billion. If they do, it'll only be to curb automatic spending cuts, including $19 billion that hits the Pentagon starting in January.
Now budget experts, labor unions and business groups are saying enough's enough, and questioning why lawmakers can't live within their means the way ordinary Americans do and instead lurch from one budget standoff to the next.
"It's a stupid way to run a country," said Maya MacGuineas, head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt, a non-partisan advocacy group whose members include business leaders and former lawmakers. "Change comes from two possible things: a crisis or leadership."
One of the co-chairmen of the campaign is Michael Bloomberg, founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg and the New York City mayor.
Unlike with previous budget panels, including the failed 2011 supercommittee, there are no immediate consequences if the budget conference misses its Dec. 13 deadline � the United States won't default on its debt and the federal government won't shut down for lack of funding.
The committee's lack of progress is frustrating outside groups, especially business executives, who say congressional lawmakers' habit of governing by crisis and temporary spending bills is hurting the economy and costing jobs.
"The uncertainty has a chilling effect on job creators, households and anybody who's trying to see around a corner," said MacGuineas, who is also president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a fiscal advocacy group.
Congress in 2009 last passed a budget resolution, the equivalent of a household budget that sets spending parameters for the federal government.
In 2010, disagreement over how to handle the scheduled expiration of tax cuts enacted under former President George W. Bush prevented agreement on a budget resolution and Republicans won the House majority, creating a divided Congress.
The current panel is the fifth bipartisan attempt in three years to address the nation's debt and deficit. The others, starting with the 2010 debt-reduction commission appointed by President Barack Obama, ended in failure.
This one may, too, said Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, a panel member and the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee. "Negotiations have to accelerate significantly if we're going to get something done," he said.
The conference committee was supposed to mark a return to so-called regular order, where the chairmen and members instead of ad hoc negotiating groups work to craft a budget for the coming fiscal year and figure out a way to replace some of the automatic cuts known as sequestration.
Instead, they're stumbling over the same obstacles that have prevented past agreements. Democrats want to end some corporate tax breaks while Republicans say they oppose any changes to the tax code outside a broader deal. Republicans want to cut spending on entitlement programs, which Democrats oppose without considerable revenue concessions.
The panel's progress so far has been limited to agreeing that its objective should be to replace the automatic cuts for one to two years with more palatable spending reductions, Van Hollen said.
"That's a much more narrow target, but that doesn't mean we'll hit the target," said Van Hollen, noting the full committee has met just twice.
The conference, headed by Sen. Patty Murray of Washington and Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, chairmen of their chambers' budget committees, is the first panel in the past three years to set such a narrow goal. Murray, a Democrat, and Ryan, a Republican, made clear from their first meeting that they weren't striving for a grand fiscal bargain.
Now, they're struggling to achieve even a deal in the range of $50 billion to $100 billion just to reapportion automatic spending cuts that lawmakers of both parties agree are stunting investments in the military, scientific research and education.
"It's demonstrating how difficult it is even to hit a very low bar, which is kind of depressing when you think of how much work really needs to be done," said Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a fiscal advocacy group.
For long-term deficit reduction, lawmakers would need to make changes to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, which make up almost half of federal spending. Many lawmakers are hesitant to trim the programs amid lobbying from interest groups including AARP, the nation's largest seniors' lobby with 37 million members.
It was in 2011, with the U.S. on the brink of a debt default, that Congress created the deficit-reduction supercommittee, empowering it with authority to expedite any agreement through Congress. No deal was reached.
The panel was the fourth such bipartisan commission formed in the preceding two years to deal with the nation's growing debt and deficit. They included the president's 2010 commission led by former President Bill Clinton Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, a Republican, who couldn't get the votes to send their $4 trillion plan to Congress.
A separate bipartisan group of six senators negotiated a similar plan that never made it to Congress for consideration because of Republican opposition to revenue increases through proposed changes to the U.S. tax code.
Earlier, in mid-2011, Vice President Joe Biden led another group of congressional leaders in talks to raise the debt ceiling and curb the deficit.
The group fell apart after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., dropped out of talks over Democratic demands that tax revenue be included. With each attempt, the debt-reduction target was scaled back, with Biden's group aiming for a $2 trillion reduction over 10 years.
In November 2011, the supercommittee struck out amid disagreements on revenues and entitlement programs. That triggered the automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense programs now in effect. Murray and Ryan are now trying to reapportion the cuts to blunt their effects on the Pentagon and domestic programs such as Head Start that serve poor children.
While the two continue to negotiate over the Thanksgiving holiday, aides say they haven't come to terms on revenue.
Talks are further complicated by a recent demand by House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican, that a deal shouldn't include cuts to farm subsidies, removing one of the few areas where both parties agree reductions are needed, Van Hollen said.
"The math doesn't work if you start doing that," he said.
Even if Ryan and Murray reach a compromise, it would have trouble winning approval by the full committee, let alone passage in a divided Congress.
"A budget conference committee of 29 representatives and senators is so unlikely to agree on anything that, unless they want to go hungry, they had better delegate to a single staffer the authority to decide what to order for lunch," said Stan Collender, managing director of Qorvis Communications in Washington and a former congressional appropriations aide.
The real deadline is Jan. 15, when government funding again expires, said Bixby, and there is a chance that Ryan and Murray can hammer out a deal by then.
Meanwhile, businesses are growing frustrated with Washington's inability to bridge its differences to replace spending cuts that no one thinks are good policy.
"Uncertainty holds back growth and investment," Dorothy Coleman, vice president of tax and domestic economic policy at the National Association of Manufacturers in Washington, said in an emailed statement, urging Congress and the administration to work for policies to provide stable growth.
"Given the divisions between the parties and our experience over the last three years, it's difficult to be optimistic," Dan Stohr, a spokesman for the Aerospace Industries Association, said in an email.
The Arlington, Va.-based industry group's members include defense contractors General Dynamics Corp., Lockheed Martin Corp. and Raytheon Co. Lockheed, the largest U.S. government contractor, will cut 4,000 jobs in response to declining federal spending.
"We cannot keep lurching from crisis to crisis," Stohr said. "It's having a very detrimental effect on investments" for the trade group's members, including layoffs and less money for research and development, that prevents businesses from being able to plan ahead.


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Dry hair is usually caused by day-to-day wear and tear, regular heat styling, and hair chemical processes such as hair coloring, perming and chemical hair straightening. The environment can also zap all the moisture from your hair just through daily exposure to the sun, wind or chlorine and sea water if you're an avid swimmer. Dry hair can also just be part and parcel of your natural hair type.
To try and help you to combat the problems caused by dry hair, and to repair some of the damage caused, we've put together our best hair tips for dry hair.
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The first tip for looking after dry hair is to switch to a moisturizing shampoo and conditioner so that when you wash your hair you'll help to boost and nourish your locks. Just remember to only wash when you need to as over washing your hair will strip out all of your natural hair oils and dry your hair out even further.
Add to your hair washing routine a weekly intensive conditioning treatment or hair mask and you'll be giving your hair strands the best chance of repairing themselves. We recommend also asking your hairdresser about any dry hair salon treatments the next time you're getting your hair cut or colored.
If your locks are seriously dry then using hair oils can help. Hair oils that feature coconut or olive in them are great for long hair, and lighter oils with jojoba or almond will suit fine hair types.
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As for hair styling products, serums are good if you have dry hair and will coat and moisturize your hair strands.
Also, don't forget to protect your hair strands with heat protection products before even firing up your heated styling tools, and try to stick to just one type of heated tool (for example, just a blow-dryer or just a hair straightener - not both!) to limit hair damage.
By using these hair tips you should be able to minimize and repair dry hair. And if you team them with long term solutions such as a diet full of healthy foods and water to keep your strands well looked after from the inside, and a new hairstyle or cut which requires less styling time for you (and causes less stress and dryness to your hair strands) you should be well on your way to much healthier hair!


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André Kuipers in training
ESA's next space-bound astronaut, André Kuipers, has spent most of the summer intensively training for his upcoming mission to the International Space Station.
André and crewmates Oleg Kononenko and Don Pettit have spent days in the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (GCTC) in Star City, not far from Moscow in Russia, at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, and at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA.
These photos tell the story of his summer time – rather different to the usual holiday snaps!
André is also writing in Dutch about his busy life in his blog André Kuipers logboek and you can follow his progress on Twitter in both English and Dutch: @Astro_Andre.


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NBC's Matt Lauer, in an exclusive interview with the President on Tuesday's Today show, bought into Barack Obama's contention that opposition to the health care bill by Republicans was motivated solely by partisan and not ideological grounds as he underlined: "So you're saying it's all politics. It's, it's not about the inner workings of the bill, it's all politics" and clarified for the President "the fix was in, is what you're basically saying." Lauer also asked Obama how he will be able to overcome the Republicans to get anything done: "The vitriol, the rhetoric, the sniping, the threats, how are you possibly going to continue with any kind of legislative agenda when your opponents have said to you, 'I'm not gonna cooperate with this president, with these Democrats, unless it's a matter of national security.' How do you move on? [audio available here]
However Lauer did manage to ask some questions from the right as he pointed out 50 percent of people are opposed to his health care plan and cited the Wall Street Journal's Daniel Henninger, who pointed out that not having any Republicans, not even Olympia Snowe, vote in favor of the bill proves it's not exactly "legislation for the generations."
The following a portion of the interview as it was aired on the March 30 Today show:
MATT LAUER: Let's talk about health care reform. Health care law, now we can talk about. It's, it's seen as a huge victory for you, your presidency, for Democrats. It is a tough pill to swallow for Republicans. It's been described in a lot of different ways. Your, your vice president described it in colorful terms. How do you describe it?
BARACK OBAMA: I think it is a critical first step in making a health care system that works for all Americans. It's not gonna be the only thing. We're still gonna have adjustments that have to be made to further reduce cost. Now what we have is a system in place that preserves the employer-based system but says, number one, insurance companies, they have to behave themselves. We're gonna have a private system in insurance, but you can't bar people from getting insurance because of pre-existing conditions. You can't drop people when they get sick and need coverage most. So you can't game the system. The second thing is we've set up what's gonna be called an exchange, but it's basically just a marketplace where individuals who right now have to go out on their own and buy insurance and have no leverage are suddenly gonna be part of a pool of millions of people, including, by the way, members of Congress. And that gives them more buying power – the same way Walmart has more purchasing power when it buys from its suppliers. That will force insurance rates down for the vast majority of people. So what we now have is the basic principle that in a country as wealthy as ours, nobody should have to go without basic health care. My hope is that this year we're gonna see some very concrete benefits that people get. Small businesses are gonna get billions of dollars in tax breaks to provide insurance to their employees. Parents are gonna be able to put their children on their health insurance up to the age of 26. Insurers are not gonna be able to just drop people from coverage because they feel like it.
LAUER: This version of health care reform did not receive one Republican vote. You almost have to say that again, to let it really sink in. Not one Republican vote. And a lot of people wonder how a bill, or now a law, could be good for the American public in general, when it didn't receive one single Republican vote, and when a recent poll said 50 percent of people aren't in favor of this plan. How do you respond to that?
OBAMA: Well, look. I think that the Republican Party made a calculated decision, a political decision, that they would not support whatever we did. Alright? There was a quote by a well-known Republican senator who said, "This is gonna be Obama's Waterloo. This is gonna, we're gonna bring him down, just the same way that we brought down Bill Clinton, by making sure that health care fails." And I think that's unfortunate because when you actually look at the bill itself, it incorporates all sorts of Republican ideas. I mean a lot of commentators have said, you know, this is sort of similar to the bill that Mitt Romney, the Republican governor and now presidential candidate, passed in Massachusetts. A lot of the ideas in terms of the exchange, just being able to pool and improve the purchasing power of individuals in the insurance market. That originated from the Heritage Foundation and-
LAUER: So you're saying it's all politics.
OBAMA: Well-
LAUER: It's, it's not about the inner workings of the bill, it's all politics.
OBAMA: I will say that, that any objective observer looking at this bill would say that this is a middle of the road, centrist approach to providing coverage to people and making sure that we are also reducing costs. I am frustrated that Republicans who I think had an opportunity to help shape this bill declined that opportunity. That's not to say that on specific provisions there might be legitimate concerns that they had, philosophical concerns that they had. Some of them I think sincerely believed that we should do more on, you know, this aspect of the bill or that aspect of the bill. But the overall architecture of it was actually something that was, was right down the middle.
[On screen headline: "Today Exclusive, Health Care: Not One Republican Vote"]
LAUER: Daniel Henninger, who's the deputy editorial page editor at the Wall Street Journal had an interesting take on it, Mr. President. He said "If you produce a bill that even Olympia Snowe of Maine cannot vote for, you have not produced legislation for the generations, you've produced once-in-a-lifetime legislation that no Republican, from any constituency across America, can vote for." What's your response to that?
OBAMA: And my response is, well number one, the Wall Street Journal editorial page generally is not favorable to much-
LAUER: Right.
OBAMA: -much of what I do. I think what's interesting is that if you actually break down the specifics of the bill, you will see that this historically has had a lot of Republican support. There historically was a lot of Republican support for the notion of an individual mandate, that everybody should take responsibility. There was, historically, a lot of Republican support for the idea that we should make sure that entitlement reform exists within Medicare. There was historically a lot of Republican support for the idea of the exchange, which is the centerpiece of the bill. So if you actually look at the particulars, these are all things that in the past others, including the Wall Street Journal editorial page, have endorsed, and yet oddly-
LAUER: What you keep coming back to, is that the fix was in, is what you're basically saying.
OBAMA: I think, I think what happened is that they made a calculation, which if you are thinking in terms of short-term politics, you, you can see the argument. Their, their attitude is, "Well if we stop this bill, if we paint it as-
LAUER: And stop this president here.
OBAMA: "-then and we stop this President here, then that will give us a lot of political benefit in, in November." What I've tried to say throughout is, I will continually reach out to Republicans, I will continue to incorporate their ideas even when they don't vote for the ideas that I've presented, but what I'm not gonna be dissuaded from is us going ahead and taking on these big challenges that are critical in terms of America's long-term economic health.
LAUER: When we announced we'd be sitting down with you here at the White House today, our in-box filled quickly from e-mails from viewers all around the country. And Jeff in Minnesota asked a question I'd like your response to. He said, "Mr. Obama, the CBO just issued a statement this past week that social security had reached the tipping point a full six years earlier than they had originally estimated. With that said how can we believe their figures on your health care plan that says we'll save $138 billion over 10 years?"
[On screen headline: "Today Exclusive: Can We Believe Health Care Budget Numbers?"]
OBAMA: The reason that the tipping point was reached a little bit earlier is because the recession was so devastating. And presumably if growth picks up then you'll see that adjustment made again. Now social security generally has to be reformed to ensure long-term sustainability. But in any given year or any given period it might end up being way off from estimates because of something like the financial crisis. Here's the interesting thing though. The Congressional Budget Office, historically has actually underestimated the savings whenever Medicare has been reformed, whenever we've made changes. And that was true the last time it was done. So we actually feel pretty optimistic that not only is $138 billion gonna be saved in the first 10 years, but more significantly, $1 trillion is gonna be saved in the second 10 years.
[On screen headline: "Health Care Rhetoric: 'Overheated And Overblown']
LAUER: Let's talk about where we are politically right now. And I don't have to tell you that this passage of this bill and, and, and turning it into law has left this country as politically divided as I think it has been in a long time. You might be able to cite some other examples, but the vitriol, the rhetoric, the, the, the sniping, the threats, how are you possibly going to continue with any kind of legislative agenda when your opponents have said to you, "I'm not gonna cooperate with this president, with these Democrats, unless it's a matter of national security." How do you move on?
OBAMA: Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the rhetoric has been overheated and overblown and this is what happens in Washington when you have a big debate. Suddenly the passage of this bill is Armageddon. And as I pointed out, the next day after I signed it, I looked around, and no asteroids had hit the planet, no cracks had appeared in the, in the earth. This is a bill that is going to help a lot of people and help to lower costs of health care, but it is not a radical departure from what we've done in the past.


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A tranquil escape
Alta Vista de Boracay opened its doors to the public in 2009 as a project of DMCI Homes, a residential developer. Six years into its operation, the resort-hotel, under the management of DMCI PDI Hotels, Inc., continues to serve as an alternative accommodation for Boracay visitors who prefer to experience the quiet side of Boracay and away from the party noise and the maddening crowds.
Your exclusive niche in Boracay
Alta Vista de Boracay is located on a hillside in Brgy. Yapak, so get ready to enjoy sweeping views of the island and its captivating natural wonders. While the resort may not be located in the center of the action, there's no need to worry because the peace and quiet that you will experience will definitely make up for it. It has a tranquil vibe that is reminiscent of the Boracay of old when the inherent beauty of the island reigned supreme and was not overshadowed by the raging parties. You also don't need to worry about getting around because the resort offers complimentary shuttle services to the Boracay proper for all of its guests.
Another thing you will love about staying at Alta Vista de Boracay is its proximity to Puka Beach. Guests will enjoy exclusive access to this private beach that features white sand shores and clear, blue waters to entice all beach bums.
A beautiful abode
Alta Vista de Boracay features a unique design that takes inspiration from Southeast Asian aesthetics. This out-of-the-box design sets it apart from other accommodations in the whole island and makes it seem more peaceful and relaxing.
The resort's guestrooms are spread out among seventeen mid-rise condominiums, giving guests plenty of options for accommodations.
Lush accommodations
There are two room options at Alta Vista de Boracay that you can choose from. There's the Studio/Deluxe Suite and the Loft Suite.
The Studio/Deluxe Suite is roomy at 45 square meters, giving you enough space to lounge around. It is equipped with two queen-size beds and while it is good for two persons at basic pay, you can just pay the extra charge if you want to accommodate up to two more adults. This room has its own balcony, where you can get amazing views of the mountains and the sea.
If you want to go all out on your Boracay vacation, then you might want to stay in the Loft Suite. It is 62 square meters of pure relaxation and also comes with its own balcony with access to sea and mountain views as well. With a separate living area, the spacious suite is perfect for big groups like families and barkadas. It can accommodate two people at basic pay and four extra persons for an extra charge.
No matter which room type you choose, you can expect that all of them feature gorgeous designs and have all the essential amenities that guests look for in an accommodation and more. The rooms are all air conditioned and have their own private bathrooms equipped with hot and cold showers where you can take refreshing bath after a day's worth of exploring Boracay. Each also has a television equipped with cable channels for your entertainment. A safety deposit box is available for storing your valuables and a telephone that you can use. If you're in need of refreshments in your room, you can use the coffee and tea maker or you can take advantage of the minibar. A refrigerator is also provided if you have some drinks or perishable food to store.
A wide array of features
Alta Vista de Boracay aims to make your stay even more comfortable beyond your room, which is why you'll discover that it has an assortment of facilities which you can enjoy at your disposal.
If you're wondering where to grab a bite, you need not go far as the resort has its own restaurant. Alta Veranda treats guests to a wide array of local and international cuisines to suit their varied tastes. There, you can order anything from Filipino comfort food like kare-kare to sumptuous American baby back ribs.
Apart from serving great food and offering them peace of mind for their stay, Alta Vista de Boracay makes sure that its guests get their dose of fun and excitement. The resort has various facilities that will give you that rush of satisfaction that you have been craving for. One of the must-try activities at the resort is swimming in its infinity pool. This pool gives way to a marvelous view of a state-of-the-art golf course, so not only are you treated to a refreshing soak, but you are also giving your eyes a treat.
Another spot at the resort which is perfect for sightseeing is the Dinara View Deck. Surrounded by lush nature, it is where you can gaze upon a mesmerizing panoramic view of Boracay. If you want to sneak a peek at Boracay's stunning sunset, here is the best place to do it.
Meanwhile, the karaoke room is great for some bonding time with your family or barkada. Have a great laugh as you sing your hearts out to your favorite songs. And if you get parched after belting a number, head on over to the sports bar to have a drink or two and engage in conversation with your friends or the other bar patrons.
Alta Vista de Boracay also has a special treat for the young ones. At the play room, they are free to have the time of their lives as they run around or make use of the toxic-free toys.
Aside from recreational facilities, Alta Vista de Boracay also has other features that cater to your special needs. It has a function hall that can accommodate up to 60 persons. There, you can hold a variety of events from business affairs like meetings and conferences to life's special celebrations like intimate weddings and birthday parties.
For a peaceful and memorable Boracay getaway, consider Alta Vista de Boracay as your home in paradise. With its secluded and quiet location and its wonderful features and dwellings, expect to enjoy a tropical experience like no other. (Show More) (Show Less)


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Eastland Mall in Harper Woods to head to auction
The end is near for Eastland Center in Harper Woods. The mall that was once a thriving part of the Detroit area will soon go the way of Northland Mall and will be auctioned off the highest bidder.
The old mall has been facing battles in recent years with major department stores vacating and fewer cars parked in the parking lot. It's already been through bankruptcy and now, the owners plan to auction it off.
"There's not much left so I understand why they're going to do it," Stephanie Peterson said. She was shopping at what few stores were left on Monday.
Stan Osborne was also there Monday and says Eastland Center means something, even today.
"It supports the surrounding area, gives the people a place to go and the stores are leaving so it's not a good thing, I don't believe," Osborne said.
Harper Woods is facing the same decision Southfield had to make about Northland Mall. The northern suburb now owns that mall and is working to redevelop it. So what's next for Eastland?
It will go up to auction in a couple of weeks and the city hopes to partner with the winning bidder.
The 640,000-square foot mall on the auction block does not include the old Macy's or Target. The city envisions a mixed use space - both residential and retail - and would include moving Harper Woods city hall and public safety to that space.
"What about the people that work here? People losing their jobs might have to relocate because they're no longer employed. So what's the big picture? It's makes you wonder," Osborne said.
The city says the mall isn't even at 40 percent capacity and they're concerned about safety at the mall. In 2015, Eastland was the scene of a deadly shooting.
City leaders are now hoping for a fresh start for this space that would benefit harper woods and the surrounding cities.


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Since we updated our blends a few months ago (http://www.hasblog.co.uk/big-news-new-blends) we've been looking at a blend change a month, our aim is to have each blend last for about 4 months before moving into a different composition and so with 4 blends changing about once every 4 months that's 1 change a month overall.
This month we see our Black blend making a change to a new set of coffees, same delicious flavour profile but made up of different coffees with a different name.
Black Tower
50% Guatemala El Limon Natural Caturra
30% Guatemala El Limon Black Honey x Natural
20% Nicaragua Finca Limoncillo Natural Bourbon
First production roast will be tomorrow so if you fancy a bag make sure to order before 1300hrs and select at least First Class postage to get a bag for the weekend.


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See photos from the WestJet Christmas "miracle" here.
Cameras, Android tablets, Samsung Galaxy smartphones - for the lucky passengers on two WestJet flights recently, Christmas came early.
Passengers on two flights - one flying out of Toronto Pearson International Airport and the other from John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport - were asked by "Santa Claus" via an interactive screen what they wanted for Christmas.
Behind the scenes, WestJet staffers took notes, matching the requests to the passenger lists. Then, as soon as the two flights took off, more than 150 staffers sprang into action, rushing out to buy the gifts and then wrap them.
By the time the two flights had landed in Calgary, WestJet's "Christmas miracle" was complete and ready to be unveiled to the unsuspecting guests. Passengers waiting for their bags were disbelieving, then ecstatic and even tearful, when instead of luggage, gifts started coming down the carousel.
Perhaps happiest was the Hughes family, who received a 50-inch TV. Possibly saddest was the guy who asked for socks and underwear.
Clearly, however, the biggest win was for WestJet, which scored huge PR and social media kudos with the stunt. A WestJet executive said planning for the "miracle" began back in August, and all of it was recorded on 12 hidden cameras.
This is WestJet's second annual "Christmas miracle"; last year, the airline organized a Christmas flash mob.
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When you hit a rough spot in software development, it's nice to know that someone has been there before. The domain experts at ThoughtWorks share what they've learned in this anthology, bringing together the best field-tested insights in IT and software development. You'll benefit from their experience in areas from testing to information visualization, from object oriented to functional programming, from incremental development to driving innovation in delivery. You'll find yourself referring to this collection of solved problems whenever you need an expert's insight.
The ThoughtWorks Anthology, Volume 2: More Essays on Software Technology and Innovation
by ThoughtWorks
The ThoughtWorks Anthology, Volume 2
More Essays on Software Technology and Innovation
by ThoughtWorks
About this Title
Pages: 248
Published: 2012-10-11
Release: P1.0 (2012-10-10)
This new collection of essays from the experts at ThoughtWorks offers practical insight and advice on a range of challenges faced daily by software developers and IT professionals. It covers a broad spectrum of software development topics, from tuning agile methodologies to hard-core language geekery. This anthology captures the wide-ranging intellect and diversity of ThoughtWorks, reflected through practical and timely topics.
In it, you'll find from-the-trenches advice on topics such as continuous integration, testing, and improving the software delivery process. See how people use functional programming techniques in object-oriented languages, modern Java web applications, and deal with current problems in JavaScript development. Scan an overview of the most interesting programming languages today and the current state of information visualization. And it's all field-tested insight, because it comes from the practical perspective of ThoughtWorks experts.
Each essay focuses on extending your skills and enlarging your toolkit. And each is drawn from practical experience gained in the field.
You'll benefit from this book if you are involved in developing, deploying, or testing software, either as a manager or developer.
Contents & Extracts
- Languages
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- Extreme Performance Testing
- Take Your JavaScript for a Test Drive
- Building Better Acceptance Tests
- Issues in Software Development
- Modern Java Web Applications
- Taming the Integration Problem
- Feature Toggles in Practice
- Driving Innovation into Delivery
- Data Visualization
- A Thousand Words
ThoughtWorks is a well-known global consulting firm. This collection of essays, selected by well-known ThoughtWorkers such as Neal Ford, Martin Fowler, Ola Bini, and Rebecca Parsons, brings together contributions from well-known authors along with others you may not know yet. The ThoughtWorks Anthology gives burgeoning authors a voice, and gives the outside world a glimpse of the water cooler conversation at ThoughtWorks.


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South American imports Quick Casablanca and Calidoscopio headline the Grade 2, $200,000 Brooklyn Handicap at 1 ½ miles on the main track, one of two graded stakes on Friday, the day before the Belmont Stakes.
The Brooklyn Handicap for 3-year-olds and up is the first leg of the Brooklyn-Belmont Stakes Double, which requires bettors to select the winner of both races.
Quick Casablanca, a Chilean-bred, won Group 1 races on two surfaces in South America in 2012, taking the Grade 1 El Derby on the turf in his native country and the Group 1 Asociacion Latinoamericana on the dirt in Argentina.
In his final start in South America, Quick Casablanca finished third in the Group 1 Gran Premio Hipodromo Chile in May 2012. He was subsequently sent to North America by owner Pablo Gomez and placed with trainer Christophe Clement.
In his lone stateside start to date, Quick Casablanca raced evenly to finish third, beaten 2 ½ lengths by Grade 1 stakes winner Teaks North, in the Good Reward overnight stakes over Belmont's inner turf course on May 15.
"He came out of the race in good order and has had two breezes since," said Clement. "I know he stays, so it's a fun race to see how he runs on dirt. He might be a little one-paced, so he might be better on dirt than on turf. We'll try. It's a bit difficult comparing North American form to Southern America. He was second best to a horse named Omayad who has been running in the U.S. but hasn't had too much success, so it's a difficult form to assess."
Joel Rosario has the return assignment aboard Quick Casablanca, who drew post position 3, was assigned 120 pounds, and installed at 4-1 on the morning line.
The Brooklyn will be the third start in the United States for Argentine-bred Calidoscopio, who registered a 17-1 upset in the Grade 2 Breeders' Cup Marathon in November at Santa Anita in his final start for trainer Guillermo Frankel. Transferred to Mike Puype, Calidoscopio finished a non-threatening fifth in the Grade 3 Tokyo City Cup on March 23 at Santa Anita, the 10-year-old's lone start this year.
"He's a horse who continues to have his little issues, but he'll be ready to run this week," said Puype. "The ultimate goal is to have him ready to run a mile and three quarters in the Breeders' Cup this fall, and we need to find some races out of town with him because there isn't much [in California] for him."
Aaron Gryder, aboard Calidoscopio in the Breeders' Cup and Tokyo City Cup, will ride the Stud Dona Pancha color-bearer once again in the Brooklyn. The 122-pound highweight was made the 5-2 morning-line favorite and drew post 4.
The top three finishers of the Albert the Great overnight stakes – Percussion, Fast Falcon, and Birdrun – have been entered back in the Brooklyn.
In the 1 1/8-mile Albert the Great on May 12 at Belmont, Percussion set the pace and held off Fast Falcon in a lengthy stretch battle to prevail by a nose, with Birdrun, the 2011 Brooklyn Handicap winner, finishing an additional 13 ¾ lengths behind in third.
The Brooklyn field also includes recent optional claiming winners Keep Me Informed and Flashy Sunrise, as well as Ruler On Ice, the 2011 Belmont Stakes victor who was second in the Majestic Light Stakes on May 25 at Monmouth Park.
In the Grade 3, $150,000 Jaipur, Mr. Commons will cut back in distance and take on a pair of opponents from Bruce Brown's barn in the seven-furlong turf event.
Mr. Commons, a St George Farm homebred, has made 14 straight starts in turf races at one mile, including a pair of wins in the 2011 Grade 2 Sir Beaufort and the 2012 Grade 2 Arcadia at Santa Anita. He is winless in eight starts since the 2012 Arcadia, but has placed in races such as the Grade 1 Frank E. Kilroe Mile Handicap and Grade 2 Del Mar Mile Handicap in 2012 and the Grade 1 Maker's 46 Mile this year.
In the Maker's 46 Mile, his most recent start, Mr. Commons lacked the necessary rally in the stretch and finished third, beaten three lengths by reigning Horse of the Year Wise Dan on April 12 at Keeneland.
"He's a very consistent horse; he always runs his race," said trainer John Shirreffs, who brought a string to Belmont Park for the first time this spring. "He's been the victim of sometimes bad pace, sometimes traffic. We really feel he hasn't had the perfect trip yet. With a little bit of luck, he should be right there."
Shirreffs said he wants to run Mr. Commons at longer distances, but opted to have the 5-year-old compete in the Jaipur because he thought Saturday's Grade 1, 1 ¼-mile Woodford Reserve Manhattan Handicap would be too ambitious of a spot to try testing him over additional ground.
"[The Woodford Reserve Manhattan is] a tough race to experiment in, so we'd rather have him in a race we know he's capable of handling," said Shirreffs. "I do want to stretch him out at some point, but it's his first race back after a while."
Luis Saez will ride Mr. Commons, the 9-5 favorite on the morning line, from the rail.
Bruce Brown entered a pair of runners, both with proven stakes form in turf sprints at Belmont, in the Jaipur.
Night Officer is unbeaten in two Belmont turf sprint starts, including a neck victory in the Around the Cape overnight stakes on May 16. It was his first win in seven starts since being claimed by Brown and owner Chalk Racing out of a $50,000 optional claimer last July.
Joel Rosario has the call aboard Night Officer, tabbed at 12-1 on the morning line. The duo will leave from post 3.
Brown's other entrant, Spring to the Sky, won Belmont's Groovy overnight stakes by a half-length back in September, then was last of nine in the Grade 3 Bold Ruler Handicap on Belmont's main track in October. He has made one start this year, setting the pace and yielding late to Ben's Cat in the Jim McKay Turf Sprint on May 17 at Pimlico.
Like his stablemate, Night Officer is 12-1 on the morning line. He'll leave from post 4 with Javier Castellano in the irons.
The Jaipur field also includes Next Question, a Grade 1 winner who was third in the Around the Cape; stakes winners Beau Choix, Summer Breezing, and Artest; and Big Screen and Joes Blazing Aaron. Politicallycorrect, Reload, and Souper Speedy were entered for the main track only.
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Future Of Watchmen Still Unsure
A Los Angeles federal judge has moved the trial for Watchmen back two weeks to Jan. 20 after declining to issue a ruling on whether Fox or Warner Bros. controls the rights to the project.
Judge Gary Allen Feess set the new trial date Monday, noting that he's required to handle a criminal matter on Jan. 6. He also refused to make a pre-trial summary judgment — as requested by both sides — because, he said, the contracts between Fox and "Watchmen" producer Larry Gordon are so open to interpretation that a trial is required.
Warner Bros. has not backed off a release date of March 6 for "Watchmen," directed by Zack Snyder and starring Patrick Wilson and Jackie Earle Haley.
Fox's suit, filed in February, contends that it retains distribution rights to the graphic novel penned by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons. It asserts that Gordon's option to acquire Fox's remaining interest in "Watchmen" was never exercised, thereby leaving Fox with its rights under a 1994 turnaround agreement.
Warner Bros. has denied Fox's assertions and contended Fox doesn't hold the copyright.
Fox spent more than $1 million developing "Watchmen."
Credit: Variety
Tags: Fox, Lawsuit, Warner Bros., Watchmen


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Topic: Jango vs D'harhan
So far D'harhan has been unstopable, so how will Jango fair against him?
Message Boards - Boba Fett Fan Club → Role Playing → Jango vs D'harhan
So far D'harhan has been unstopable, so how will Jango fair against him?
Jango would probably win, I think. Jango would figure out a way around the massive laser turret, right? He'd be able to do something like shoot an ion blast at D'harhan and then kill him afterwards. Or wrap the laser with his whipcord and hold it in one place while he shoots D'harhan repeatedly. Etc.
Jango. Gets. Wasted.
There is no way Jango could survive.
Does Jango even have ion weaponry?
As much as I like D'harhan, I believe that Jango would probably find a way to beat him. Probably.
Something as simple as jet-packing behind him and destroying his targeting system, leaving him blind...really depends on the factors of the environment.
I am not sure on this one... Jango is a smart fellow, but D'harhan could probably kill Jango with one good shot. I think my vote his going to D'harhan.
Yeah, Jango has ion weaponry. Boba got one of the IG-88s with a mini ion gun thing he had on him, why wouldn't Jango have the same thing?
I vote for Jango
just a note, that jodo kast/aurra sing is still tying so can ppl still vote in that match, so we can have an oppenet for Boussh
By a whisper, Jango defeats D-harhan.
Not a chance. Jango relies almost solely on his skeletal Westar-34s. He is most definitely NOT intelligent, and nowhere near as resourceful or well-prepared as Boba. He wouldn't have the ion cannon, and his suit is actually more bulky than Boba's, so he won't be as fast as you all think he will.
it's not my choice sorry, just how the voting went
I'm with Jango,because come on he is a fett after all.
I'm with D'harhan, because while a Fett, Jango brings shame to the name. I rhymed...cool.
I can just imagine this pair of smoking legs after D'harhan fires a single shot, while Jango was spinning his blasters around his fingers
Go jango.
This topic was very dead.
As long as the topic is still leading to good discussion, it's not dead. If it is dead, one of us will lock it.
Jango would probably just nuke D'harhan off the face of whatever planet there on with his jetpack
D'harhan is somewhat lacking in the brain and agility department.
D'harhan is somewhat lacking in the brain and agility department.
I agree, and cast my vote with Jango.......
I don't think either combatant would win outright, the victor would probably be very injured(it would be an fight!!)
yeah, missing a limb or two.
Have I voted, cuz I thought I voted here.
I vote for D'harhan. From what I've read, he is a ruthless, vicious creature who will stop at absolutly NOTHING to catch his prey. I agree he's skower than Jango, but has very effective weapontry, and that's what would make this such a great fight. And from the illistrated fan art I've seen, he looks really hard to beat!( Especially with that massive laser turret!)
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Specification: The Automatic Control Valve shall be a Ductile Iron Body and Cover design. The Valve shall have a resilient seal disc, guided top and bottom; Bottom guide will be vanes, sliding in a stainless steel seat arrangement, single seated line pressure operated, diaphragm actuated, pilot controlled, valve. The valve shall seal by means of a stainless steel seat. All parts are to be replaceable in the field without removing the valve from the line. All flange dimensions including face to face lengths shall conform to ISO Standards.
Function: Through the interchangeability of operating pilot the Beeco ACV can be used to perform any hydraulic control function such as pressure control and regulation, flow control, water level control, remote electric control and other functions or combination of functions. During the closing procedure, the pace slows down automatically, reducing or mitigating the risk for water hammer or surges in the line.
Features: The capability to regulate "near zero" flow, completely eliminates the need for special low flow devices such as throttling or plug type valves and there is no need for a low flow bypass valve. The internal floating shaft, allows for no friction or leakage eliminating the need for shaft sealing. The unique design of the shaft provides for easy field maintenance. All control ports are protected with Stainless Steel inserts. Valve shall have the ability to easily convert to a double chamber valve when needed, without changing the internal mechanism. Valve Trim shall be able to be serviced and lifted by hand, with no lifting machinery. Standard valve has a very low Cavitation Index without the need to add Anti-Cavitation devices. This is a great choice when UL Certification is required by designers' specification. Several functions are available with UL certification among the large range of hydraulic control functions of the Series 300. A unique pilot regulator addresses the largest range of pressure with one spring. Dorot's UL Valves work perfectly at very high flows with minimum pressure loss with no need for bypasses at low flow conditions; an extremely high cavitation index makes this valve an excellent choice for demanding situation and for long term projects.
Ratings: Flange Standard ANSI B16.1 Class 150, 250 PSI rating, Operating Velocity of 18 ft/sec, Water 33° F to 180° F. 350 psi rated valves are available upon request.


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Series: LPGA Tour
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Jaye Marie Green shot a 10-under 62 on Wednesday to take the first-round lead in the LPGA Tour's final qualifying tournament.
The 19-year-old Green, from Boca Raton, had 11 birdies and a bogey on LPGA International's Jones Course. She was 29th on the Symetra Tour money list this year.
"It hasn't sunk in yet," Green said. "You know how people say, `if I just made putts I would have shot this?' Well it was just one of those days that the putts went in and I did shoot it. It was cool. The putting was just on point."
South Korea's Seon Hwa Lee, a four-time winner on the LPGA Tour, and Tiffany Joh were tied for second at 66. They also opened the 90-hole event on the Jones Course.
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The top 20 players after the final round Sunday will earn full privileges (Category 12 status), Nos. 21-45 and ties will receive partial membership (Category 17), and the other players who make the 72-hole cut will get Symetra Tour status.
Megan Grehan and Nicole Jeray were the top players on the Hills Course, shooting 67. Kathleen Ekey, Japan's Haru Nomura and Denmark's Line Vedel shot 67 on the Jones Course.
Amy Anderson, the 21-year-old former North Dakota State star who won the second stage of qualifying, had a 68 on the Jones Course. She won a record 20 college titles.
Lorie Kane, the 48-year-old Canadian who has four LPGA Tour victories, was tied for 48th after a 72 on the Jones Course. South Korea's Birdie Kim, the 2005 U.S. Women's Open champion, was tied for 88th after a 74 on the Jones Course. Cheyenne Woods, Tiger Woods' niece, had a 77 on the Jones Course.


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3 men, one horse: Seabiscuit looks like a winner
There hasn't been a successful horseracing movie since– I don't know: National Velvet? The makers of Seabiscuit must have breathed a sigh of relief when Pirates of the Caribbean became a hit, reviving another moribund genre.
While most of Hollywood relies on the tried and true, bored critics keep preaching that if you make a good movie, people will come to see it. From a risk-reduction standpoint it didn't hurt that Pirates had name recognition from the theme park ride, and Seabiscuit is based on a best-selling book by Laura Hillenbrand.
Once it gets you in the theater it helps that Seabiscuit is an example of good old-fashioned filmmaking enhanced by new-fangled technology. Gary Ross (Pleasantville) moves to the A-list as both writer and director with this story of the four-legged "Rocky" that lifted America's spirits during the Great Depression.
Ross strains for metaphors to show how downtrodden Americans identified with this horse that was hardly the pick of the litter but became a champion. Even more, it's the story of the three men who stuck by him– and each other– in a time when a handshake meant more than a contract does today.
Yes, this is a glorified picture of the American myth, ignoring the fact that the freedom to dream of unlimited possibilities was restricted to straight white men– and more than 99 percent of them had to enjoy success vicariously through a winning racehorse.
Seabiscuit begins in 1910 and devotes a full 40 minutes to the individual stories of its principal human characters before destiny brings them together. Tom Smith is one of the last of the cowboys and has a mystical way of communicating with horses. He saves a lame horse from being shot saying, "You don't throw a whole life away just because he's banged up a little."
Charles Howard (Jeff Bridges), a bicycle repairman with one eye on the future, moves from New York to San Francisco and becomes a successful automobile dealer. He marries and buys a ranch with a stable that he fills with cars. The death of his son is the death of his marriage, but he finds a new wife, Marcela (Elizabeth Banks), on an R&R trip to Tijuana.
We meet Johnny Pollard at 16 in Alberta, Canada, where the kids in his middle-class family are drilled in classic literature. They lose their house in the stock market crash and, like thousands of families, live in their cars on the road. In a somewhat ambiguous scene, his parents leave Johnny with a racetrack owner who will give his life some stability. Years later Johnny, now known as Red (Tobey Maguire), is doing some jockeying and some boxing to get by.
The three men come together around a seemingly worthless horse named Seabiscuit with Howard as owner, Smith as trainer and Pollard as rider. Red is "pretty tall to be a jockey" but keeps his weight below 115 if he has to invent eating disorders to do it, at least until Howard tells him, "I'd rather have you strong than thin."
With a big jockey on the small horse, Seabiscuit becomes a champion and the hero of the out-of-work working class. He and Red both sustain injuries that evoke predictions they'll never ride again, but they've defied the odds from the beginning. I'm reminded of a line– I forget what it's from– to the effect that, "If this ain't the way it was, it's the way it should have been."
Most of the comic relief is provided by William H. Macy as radio commentator Tick-Tock McGlaughlin, who punctuates his patter with sound effects and is given a clever but anachronistic line when he calls Seabiscuit "the biggest sensation on four legs since Hope and Crosby" (who hadn't yet made the first of their Road films).
Ross' script is corny but effective in the way it weaves everything together: Red needs a father (we never learn what happened to his), Charles needs a son, and America needs a miracle. Bits of history with appropriate photographs are woven in painlessly, and as director Ross manages to find new alternatives to the usual clichéd racing shots.
A minor shortcoming is that Seabiscuit himself is not as prominent or recognizable as he might be. That he was a plain bay is part of the point, yet there should be something distinctive (aside from his red racing hood) to let us tell him from other horses when he's not in the winner's circle. Perhaps the film should have been called Jockey (which would also have helped score an underwear tie-in for promotional purposes).
Real jockey Gary Stevens makes his acting debut as George Woolf, "the greatest jockey in the world," and bears a striking resemblance to the Henry Fonda of the period in question.
Seabiscuit is beautifully filmed with the skill in all technical areas Hollywood should be capable of lavishing on all its films but rarely does. At this point in the year it looks likely to cross the finish line during awards season.


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Proper Brake System - The Friction Factor
Maximizing Brake Performance To Minimize Lap Times
Few things on a race car are as regularly underappreciated as the brake system. Yes, stock car racing is about going fast, but that's all the way around the track, not just the straightaway. The best braking system for your race car is one that allows you to slow the car quickly without upsetting the car so you can roll through the turn smoothly and get back on the gas as soon as possible.
Pleasing the Driver Of course, when it comes to brakes, it's as much about finding the pedal feel the driver is looking for as it is pure stopping power. How firm do you like the pedal? How much pedal travel do you prefer? Do you like the front brakes to be significantly stronger than the rear so that the brakes will not cause the car to be loose on turn entry, or do you prefer a more balanced feel? These questions are all about making the driver comfortable behind the wheel, but they are important.
Try to think of your brakes as a comprehensive system, from the pedal all the way to the rotors. In fact, let's go further than that: Continue your consideration all the way to the cooling duct inlets in the front bumper cover. After all, brakes that receive a steady flow of cool air will last longer and feel better late in the race than brakes that have boiled the fluid in the calipers and are only a little more effective than dragging your feet on the asphalt.
When it comes to pedal feel, the master cylinders are an important consideration. All things being equal, a master cylinder piston that is smaller will push less fluid for a given amount of pedal travel, but will create a higher line pressure. A larger master cylinder piston will have less line pressure but will push a greater volume of brake fluid, which means less pedal travel.
"The bigger the bore size you have, the more volume it pushes and less line pressure it creates," explains Derek Spencer of Perform- ance Friction. "You can use this to dial in a pressure split [balance] between your front and rear brakes. The most common setup with dual master cylinders for a typical short-track asphalt car is a 71/48-inch bore master cylinder for the front brakes and 1-inch bore master cylinder on the rear brakes.
If the driver wants more feel, you can drop the bore size-perhaps to a 131/416 in the front and a 151/416 in the rear. That will give you more feel and also a softer pedal, or more travel. That's because the smaller pistons are pushing less fluid, and it takes more pedal movement to push the pistons out of the brake calipers. If you go the other way with larger master cylinder bore, it will give you a stiffer, harder pedal. The greater volume of fluid moved by the larger pistons will require less pedal movement to move the pistons in the calipers, but because it produces less line pressure you have to push harder to get the same amount of braking forces.
"The opposite is true if you are working with the piston area in the brake calipers. A larger piston requires more fluid to move it, so it makes the pedal feel softer and requires more pedal travel. Racers will run into this when they change racing classes and run a different style of calipers. For example, I have witnessed a lot of racers have trouble when they move from Late Model Stock with the GM single-piston slider caliper to a series where four-piston racing calipers are allowed-like Super Late Model. They are used to the single, huge piston in the calipers that can contribute to a softer pedal, and when they go to a four-piston caliper, which is really better for racing, they have a hard time getting used to the stiffer pedal it produces."
A Matter of Balance A brake bias adjuster can be an incredible tool for a knowledgeable racer. A bias adjuster can easily change the amount of braking pressure sent to the front brakes versus the rear. As fuel burns off or the track changes with the setting sun, you may prefer to change the brake bias more to the front or to the rear. A bias adjuster within the driver's reach is perfect for that, but it is often too tempting to use the bias adjuster to cover other handling sins.
Carl Bush of Wilwood Engineering agrees that the balance bar should only be used for fine adjustments to compensate for tire wear, fuel burn-off, or changing track conditions. The key is finding the car's balance, the correct front/rear bias with the balance bar centered, or neutral. "Typical asphalt stock cars run on average at about 70 percent front brake bias," Bush says. "A big-block dirt Modified will use nearly the exact opposite. Dirt Late Models fall somewhere in the middle. If a racer is always adjusting the balance bar completely to one end of the car or the other in an attempt to correct the handling during braking, you probably need to re-evaluate your component mix."
Your options for changing what's called the static bias, or brake bias, without the use of the balance bar are numerous. They include rotor diameter, caliper piston size, master cylinder piston size, and even brake pad compounds. Increasing rotor diameter increases the braking power, or bias, at that tire.
You should try to have your brakes in this range with the bias bar centered. As conditions change at the track, the bias bar is available to you to make changes. If the bias bar is cranked all the way to the front or to the back to make up for a poor setup at the drop of the green flag, you've lost it as a tuning tool.
Spencer recommends spending a little testing time at the track to find a well-balanced braking setup. Tracking brake temperatures just as you track tire temperatures can tell you a lot about what your car is doing. On asphalt, Performance Friction representatives say they generally like to see front brake temperatures 150-300 degrees higher than the rear. If it's greater, then you are probably not getting the full potential from your rear brakes. This will result in the front brakes being overworked, and the fluid in the calipers will boil, which will seriously degrade your ability to slow down in the turns. If the split is less than 150 degrees, you probably lose on entry under hard braking.
Choosing the Right Combination Finding the best combination of parts for your braking system can be daunting. If you are racing a series that does not place many restrictions on what you can run, your options are nearly unlimited. One of your best options is to choose a manufacturer or dealer you trust, preferably one that will work with you closely and not just from behind the parts counter, and start with their recommendations.
Bush assists racers with their brake setups at every level and recommends relying on a manufacturer's experience. "Wilwood has been deeply involved with racing for 27 years," he says. "In many cases, not only do we have a recommended baseline for a particular type of car or series, we also have a baseline for the specific track you plan to run. That information can be used as a starting point, but car style, driver preference, and chassis setup can all require adjustments."
As we mentioned earlier, a larger-diameter rotor will increase braking force. This is because the pads are moved farther from the axle centerline, and that essentially increases the leverage the brakes have on the wheel. There are several other advantages of a tall rotor, but racers by and large tend to avoid putting large rotors on their race cars because of the additional weight.
Any weight added at the wheels can be difficult to swallow because it is rotating weight. Not only does it add to the overall weight of the car, but it must also be spun, significantly increasing its inertia. Also, given the same amount of weight, the farther it is from the axle centerline, the more difficult it is to spin. That's why many racers have difficulty with the idea of adding taller rotors that are also heavier. But if you consider that the entire brake and caliper assembly fits inside the wheel and tire, which can be just as heavy, you realize that an incremental increase in rotor weight and diameter does not make a significant change in the rotational inertia at each wheel.
"When considering rotors, you have to consider what they actually do," Bush adds. "One advantage of the rotor diameter is to provide leverage to the caliper to slow the wheel. A bigger rotor will give more leverage and help with braking power. The trade-off here becomes higher rotating inertia from the larger diameter and added weight. But the extra weight can be a secondary advantage. Another function of the rotor is to absorb and dissipate heat. Overall weight and cooling vane areas are the primary considerations here. For example, a 48-vane, 12-pound rotor will cool and heat cycle far better than a 32-vane, 9-pound rotor. There is a never-ending battle between trying to run the lightest possible part and having it be heavy enough to endure the event. If the rotor is too light, it may crack or become heavily grooved. Inadequate cooling capability can also allow the pads and calipers to become overheated and possibly fade. However, if a rotor is too heavy, it will certainly cool and last longer, but it can also cost a little in terms of lap times.
Of course, a lighter caliper can only shave tenths off of your lap times if it is straight. Spencer points out that another advantage of beefier rotors isn't just longer life span, but also an increased ability to stay flat. "The inertia you get rid of by going with smaller, lighter rotors can result in slower lap times," he says. "Because when the rotors become warped, they drag. This leads to loss of control, inconsistency, overheating, and modulation problems, all of which ultimately affect lap time.
"When rotors get hot, they grow," he continues. "When they cool, there is contraction. This is a constant dynamic event. If you have rotors that are too light, the lower thermal capacity will cause it to heat up much faster. That means it's going to grow and distort, or warp, much faster than a larger rotor. When that happens, the rotor will get out of round, and part of it is going to be touching the pads as it spins. The drag this produces robs horsepower and slows you down all the way around the track. You think you may be cutting your lap times with the smaller rotors, but if they're causing more drag, that can just kill your performance.
"It's easy to tell if you have this problem. Just spin the wheel when the brakes are hot in pit lane. If the calipers are true to the disc face, that wheel should spin free. But if it makes half a turn and then slows dramatically or stops, then you know you have brake drag or something else wrong. Check your rotors. If they are out of round, meaning the rotor face isn't flat, you might want to try a bigger rotor that can handle more heat."
There are also several important considerations to make when choosing brake calipers. "Caliper selection is based on two main criteria," Bush says. "One is the required pad volume, and the other is matching the piston area to both the master cylinder volume or pressure output and the overall bias requirement. Heavier, faster cars running longer races in sustained heat will wear pads far more quickly than a light car running short sprints on a light-breaking track. The pad wear rate dictates pad size requirements and therefore the overall caliper body size. But it's the actual piston area size that must be considered when trying to set up bias or affect clamping power. Going to a larger-caliper body doesn't necessarily give you more stopping power unless it also has increased piston area or is capable of effectively running at higher line pressures. But, it will certainly take longer to wear through the larger pad."
Caliper MaintenanceYou religiously bleed your brakes and even flush the fluid at scheduled intervals. You keep a sharp eye on your rotors for cracks or signs of warping. Pads are properly bedded. Lines are checked for leaks. You've got it all covered, right? But how often do you rebuild your calipers? Do you even have a caliper maintenance program? If not, you need one. Carl Bush of Wilwood Engineering has specific tips for keeping your calipers in prime condition:
"A good way to judge caliper maintenance intervals is based on pad wear. After a caliper has been used long enough to wear through a set of pads, some basic routine maintenance should be performed. Please note that it's not necessary and usually not recommended that the caliper halves be separated during a rebuild. As the pads wear, the pistons become extended from the bores.
"Before reseating the pistons into the bores to accommodate the installation of the new pad set, the pistons should be removed from the body, fully cleaned, and inspected for wear. Never use anything coarser than fine steel wool to clean the pistons. The pistons should be clean and completely smooth on the outer surfaces. They should slide freely in and out of the caliper bores when the seals are not present. Damaged or worn pistons should be replaced. New O-ring bore seals should be installed and the pistons then fully seated into the caliper body. The caliper should also be cleaned inside and out and blown completely dry before reinstalling them on the car.
"This is also the time to completely flush the system with fresh fluid. Any brake maintenance should also include a routine inspection of the entire caliper body, including the areas around the mounting lugs, the bridges or bridge plates, bleed screws, and fluid tubes-if so equipped. Worn, damaged, or suspect parts should be replaced. The system should also be flushed and the calipers equipped with new seals at the beginning of each new season. If a person does not possess the equipment or knowledge to confidently and correctly carry out the maintenance procedures, they should seek the assistance of an experienced and capable technician."


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My good friend Yue Wu has taken over Le Salon (Atelier Galerie) and has been drawing people for two weeks! I really wish I was in Paris for this! If you are, here's the Facebook Event. It wraps up in two days but you might still be able to book a session!
Yue's drawn some famous faces, Busy P, Breakbot – take a look below! PS I stole all these images from his Instagram, follow him @wuyue5.