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Dept. of Word Lists
Upper West Side Story: Living the Riverine Life
Once again award-winning writer and educator Bob Greenman takes us on a journey through words selected from More Words That Make a Difference, a delightful book illustrating word usage with passages from the Atlantic Monthly.
As I approached the bustling Manhattan intersection of West 110th Street and Broadway, two fire engines drew up to the curb. No sirens, no flashing lights and, most unusual of all, no hurry, as only two firemen emerged from each vehicle and walked jauntily into the West Side Market. Of course, I then realized, they're shopping for the makings of their firehouse dinner, the way firemen across the city do every day.
jaunty JAWN tee
lighthearted and self-confident in manner ("jauntily" is the adverb)
It will be remembered how jauntily Sir Walter Scott, when he wanted a motto for the heading of a chapter in one of his novels, used indifferently some snatch of a Scottish song, or two or three lines of his own, invented on the spur of the moment, and accredited to some indefinite Old Ballad or Old Play. So it was with Whittier. If he had a story or legend handy when he wished to give expression to some poetic thought or kindly sentiment, well and good, he used it; but if he had not, then he made it; and many of his poems which have all the air of a leaf out of some old book, as "The Gift of Tritemius," for example, are wholly his own. —Horace Elisha Scudder, November 1894
It was a scene I'll witness again and again, I'm sure, dwelling only a few blocks from the market as a new resident of Manhattan's Morningside Heights neighborhood, whose focal point — and the reason its streets abound with young people — is Columbia University.
abound uh BOWND
to be plentiful
Birds, as Messiaen never tired of saying, were earth's first musicians, and to his ears the best. People have been mimicking birds in music since the dawn of time. Certainly the Western canon, from Rameau, Vivaldi, and Bach on to Wagner, Strauss, and Stravinsky, abounds with owls, nightingales, cuckoos, and larks, evoked in picturesque but simplistic approximations. Until Messiaen the challenge of catching the complexities of contour and timbre of any but the plainest birdsongs went unattempted. —Matthew Gurewitsch, March 1997
I'm familiar with the area, having for decades taught high school journalism workshops for the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. But though I spent many hours on its streets and in its shops during my weeklong sojourns, I was always just a visitor. Now, as a denizen of the neighborhood, I am seeing it through different eyes and making it my own.
sojourn SOH jern
a brief or temporary stay at a place
Travel and sojourn in strange lands teach us more about ourselves than about those lands and the people living in them. They give us a view of ourselves from a new angle, and standards of measurement which bring out our traits in curious and previously unperceived proportions. —Leland Hall, October 1929
Ever since our children were living on their own (I refuse to use the term "empty nesters"), Carol and I have planned to emigrate from Brooklyn to Manhattan, our hearts set on having an apartment in the Lincoln Center area, from which we could walk a block or two to Avery Fisher Hall to attend a New York Philharmonic concert, not with tickets bought months in advance, but on the spur of the moment, asking at the ticket office, "Anything left for tonight?"
And we'd see foreign films and indies at the Lincoln Plaza Cinema, pictures that never played in Brooklyn's Sheepshead Bay neighborhood, where we raised our children contentedly and where they attended excellent schools, but where today theaters play only potential box office hits and there isn't a bookstore for miles.
On the first day she took us looking, our real estate agent, Sabrina Seidler, showed us several apartments in buildings close to Lincoln Center — one was directly across the street from it, for goodness sake — but the rooms were too small. We knew we'd never find an affordable apartment as capacious as our house, but we hoped for one with two decent-sized bedrooms, one to serve as an office with a couch that opened for overnight visitors.
capacious kuh PAY shuhs
able to contain or hold much; roomy; spacious
Never will I allude to the English Language or tongue without exultation. This is the tongue that spurns laws, as the greatest tongue must. It is the most capacious vital tongue of all, — full of ease, definiteness, and power, — full of sustenance, — an enormous treasure house, or ranges of treasure houses, arsenals, granary, chock full of so many contributions from the north and from the south, from Scandinavia, from Greece and Rome — from Spaniards, Italians, and the French — that its own sturdy home-dated Angles-bred words have long been outnumbered by the foreigners whom they lead — which is all good enough, and indeed must be. America owes immeasurable respect and love to the past, and to many ancestries, for many inheritances, — but of all that America has received from the past from the mothers and fathers of laws, arts, letters, etc., by far the greatest inheritance is the English Language — so long in growing — so fitted.
—Walt Whitman, April 1904
When Sabrina showed us the rest of the day's agenda, my heart leaped, for there, next to last on the list, was the Ansonia, one of New York's most beautiful and legendary apartment buildings, a place I wouldn't have imagined had an apartment available, much less one that we could afford. On Broadway, between West 73rd and West 74th Streets, the century-old building stands like a vision, a fabled palace, a 16-story French pastry. It would be a dream living there. Sabrina said it was a sublet, but we still wanted to see it.
We were thrilled when we entered the 12th-floor apartment. The windows of the circular living room — 20 feet in diameter — faced one of Manhattan's most exciting vistas, a constant swirl of life — cars, taxis, trucks, buses and bicycles; people walking, shopping, waiting for buses, hailing cabs. And in view, Lincoln Center, five blocks away. The kitchen was small, and curved, like the living room, and the two bedrooms, both overlooking Broadway, were each big enough for office space. It was wonderful, and even though the building manager told us the owner planned to return in, at most, two years, we were nevertheless willing to move in for just that brief time.
It was not to be. A few days later, Sabrina called to tell us that the owner preferred subletting the place to someone who wanted it for only 18 months. We weren't disconsolate, but we were certainly disappointed. Immediately, though, a family maxim kicked in: When you lose out on something you want, something better will come along. It has to. Why, after a letdown, would you accept anything less?
disconsolate dis KAHN suh lit
so unhappy that nothing will comfort; cheerless; gloomy ("disconsolately" is the adverb)
Everyone knows the story, so popular with success magazines, of the old man who bravely turns his business over to the younger generation and goes off, freed at last to live his own life. Soon he is back again to haunt the arena of his former triumphs, pottering about disconsolately, a jealous or wistful critic of his successor's policies. If some turn of events gives him a chance to "muscle in," he is soon ensconced again in the old swivel chair, radiating authority and action. — Earnest Elmo Calkins, May 1933
A few days later, after a morning of again looking at Lincoln Center apartments with tiny bedrooms and luxurious lobbies, Sabrina said, "I'd like you to look at something farther uptown."
"How far?" I asked.
"Riverside Drive and 115th."
"Too far. Really," I replied.
"Just have a look," she said. "We can be there in 10 minutes."
Five minutes after we emerged from the taxi we realized that we had found the apartment of our dreams, and were quite thankful that our Ansonia hopes had been dashed. The rooms in this 11th-floor apartment were not only larger than the ones in the home we were selling; two of them overlooked the Hudson River for miles on each side and New Jersey's hilly shoreline, while around the corner and up the block, on Broadway, was the Columbia University campus, an oasis in the midst of one of New York's most densely populated neighborhoods.
Along Broadway stretched a vibrant street life of small shops, restaurants, specialty food stores, bookstores (four of them!), a public library and a post office, all a five-minute walk from our apartment.
I counted a dozen restaurants between 110th and 116th Streets — Mexican, Korean, American, French, Cuban, Italian, Chinese, Middle Eastern — most of them with outdoor seating. And people were actually eating at them on that stifling day! (Please tell me why people do that. Although I always prefer indoor to outdoor dining — I even shun picnics — I can appreciate the charms a sidewalk café holds for diners. But tell me, please, how al fresco charm holds up in 95-degree cement-radiated heat when even Bedouins would opt for the a.c.)
As a creature of the neighborhood now, I can walk its streets in a more leisurely fashion than I did during lunch hours between workshop sessions at Columbia — I can saunter, actually — and in that fashion have made some acquaintances among the street merchants.
saunter SAWN ter
to walk in a relaxed, leisurely way; stroll
I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks, —who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering: which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going à la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean. —Henry David Thoreau, June 1862
(Thoreau's derivation of saunter is charming but not borne out by modern etymological research. While its origin is obscure, it may have come from the Middle English santren, to muse, be in a reverie.)
Like Adhemar Ahmad, one of several sidewalk book sellers along Broadway near Columbia, who keeps a chessboard set up to play with passersby, although not for money, unlike the chess hustlers I've seen on New York's streets.
"Ahmad doesn't charge anyone to sit down and play," Lenore Apsel, a long-time friend and regular at his chessboard, told me. "He also teaches a few children in the neighborhood and refuses to accept any money from the parents." His business, she said, is selling books, the chess games are strictly an avocation.
avocation a voh KAY shuhn
an activity engaged in for the enjoyment of it, in addition to one's regular work; a hobby
A handful of musicians — the Perlmans and Pavarottis — can make in one night what the average orchestral player earns in a year. Several thousand others — either freelancers (known as "gig pigs") putting together a living with pickup groups, teaching, and commercial work, or the musicians in the country's twenty-seven full-time orchestras —support themselves as musicians, earning incomes that place them in the middle-class professions. For everyone else the choice is between keeping your day job and leaving music as an avocation, and living a monastic existence playing in subways and on street corners. —David Schiff, August 1997
The river scene from our windows changes constantly. To begin with, as the tides change the Hudson flows backwards a good deal of the time, pushing upstream as far as Troy, New York, 135 miles away, We are living a riverine life.
riverine RI ver een
on or near the banks of a river
Riverine data in some form have been collected by all civilizations, so essential are rivers to commerce and agriculture. Records of the annual high-water level of the Nile, for example, are complete all the way back to A.D. 622, save for one large gap in the early modern period. —Cullen Murphy, January 1995
Sailboats, modest and impressive, pass under our window; small powerboats and opulent yachts; commuter ferries and tourist boats circling Manhattan with hundreds of passengers; kayaks and jet skis; New York City police boats, armed U.S. Coast Guard boats with guns on their bow; and ships operated by New York City's Department of Environmental Protection.
Tugboats push and pull barges hauling oil, coal and scrap metal in both directions. At night, brightly lit barges sleep in the middle of the river a half-mile apart from each other, moored to their tugboats, waiting until morning to continue their journey north and south. Bruce Richards, vice president of marine transportation at Moran Towing (you know their tugs by the big "M' on their smoke stacks), told me that those sleeping barges are usually empty, awaiting a berth somewhere in New York Harbor, farther down the river.)
Autumn will come and acres of leaves on Riverside Park's trees will be yellow, brown and red. They will drop and winter will come. The trees will be bare, and for the first time we'll see the cars on the Henry Hudson Parkway zipping by, traffic that has hummed steadily since we've been here but haven't seen. Rather than an intrusion on the river scene, on Riverside Park's greenery, and on the beautiful sunsets across the river, it will add to the vitality of our life here. We're looking forward to it. We didn't move to Manhattan for the tranquility.


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ELC Europe 2012 Presentations
Presenters, Demo-ers, Participants: Thanks very much for your participation in Linux Foundation's Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2012.
This page is for collecting the presentations that were made at the conference. During and after the conference we will collect materials from the presenters and place them here. Please watch this page if you are interested in a particular presentation - and if it doesn't show up, please send me and email and we'll try to track it down.
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|Session Description
|Mark Shuttleworth, Founder at Canonical
|Advancing the User Experience
|Dave Engberg, CTO Evernote
|Why Evernote Runs Their Own Linux Servers Instead of "The Cloud"
|Brian Stevens, CTO and VP Worldwide Engineering at Red Hat
|Jonathan Corbet, Editor at LWN
|The Kernel Report
|Matt Locke, Texas Instruments
|Are We Headed for a Complexity Apocalypse in Embedded SoCs?
|Catarina Mota, Founder at openMaterials
|Research Into Open Hardware
|Linux Creator Linus Torvalds and Intel's Open Source Technologist, Dirk Hohndel
|Linux: Where Are We Going
|Session Description
|Day 1, 10:10am
|Matt Ranostay
|Beaglebone: The Perfect Telemetry Platform?
|Jim Huang, 0xlab
|Implement Checkpointing for Android
|Wolfram Sang, Pengutronix e.K.
|Maintainer's Diary: Devicetree and Its Stumbling Blocks
|Day 1, 11:05am
|Matthias Brugger, ISEE 2007 S.L.
|A War Story: Porting Android 4.0 to a Custom Board
|Kishon Vijay Abraham
|USB Debugging and Profiling Techniques
|Alan Ott, Signal 11 Software
|Wireless Networking with IEEE 802.15.4 and 6LoWPAN
|Day 1, 2:00pm
|Day 1, 3:00pm
|Day 1, 4:15pm
|Day 1, 5:15pm
|Day 2, 10:15am
|Day 2, 11:15am
|Day 2, 3:00pm
|Day 2, 4:00pm
|Day 2, 5:00pm
|Day 3, 10:15am
|Day 3, 11:15am
|Day 3, 2:30pm
|Day 3, 3:45pm
|Session Description
|Chris Simmonds, Freelance Embedded Linux Consultant
|Workshop 1: Outside the Box: An Introduction to Embedded Linux and Hardware Interfacing Using the Snowball Board
|Karim J. Yaghmour
|Workshop 2: Embedded Android Workshop
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We're always down for a makeover, so when Cosmo's Beauty Director Leah Wyar told us she wanted to switch up her hairstyle and get bangs, we had to go along for the ride.
We headed to Sally Hershberger's downtown salon to meet up with her stylist Matt Fugate—and the hair games began. Before the first cut, Leah told us that she was most nervous about how she was going to style her bangs everyday since they're usually high-maintenance.
So what motivated her to make a bold move? "I feel like I've had the same haircut for a year and Matt and I have been working really hard to get it to a place that I love, but now I'm a little bored with it. And while I'd love to go for a more dramatic look—I'm obsessed with Miley's current haircut—I don't want to lose any length. So by adding bangs, I feel like I can get an entirely different look but still keep my hair long. Plus, since everyone seems to be getting bangs like Kim Kardashian and Michelle Obama, it gave me that push to want to go for it."
In the chair, Leah's last words before the first big cut were, "Before, my hair was crazily layered and now it's more one-length with blunt ends and the texture is good, so we don't want to change that, we just want to enhance my haircut with blunt bangs. Plus, there is a huge trend right now in hair that's more wide than it is sleek and straight, so we're going for that effect."
Matt worked his magic and cut an edgy fringe that was customized to frame her face. And since she voiced that she was nervous about styling them, especially since she has a cowlick that's hard to tame, he gave us pearls of hair wisdom along the way, including:
- "Never apply product to your bangs—it makes your forehead break out and your fringe get greasier faster."
- "To style your bangs, use the roundedness of your forehead, instead of a round brush, and gently pull downward on your ends while your dryer is on low air and high heat. This will give you a sleek, flat finish instead of tell-tale 80's bangs. The same tecnique also helps breakdown annoying cowlicks. Then, after they're dry, hold your hand on the root of your bangs and blow the ends to the left and right for added texture and movement."
- "If you don't have time to use your blow dryer to style your bangs, throw on your winter hat, which will smash your bangs down against your forehead, again allowing the roundedness of it to shape them."
A few other cool things we learned from Matt about bangs: "Not only do they make you look more badass and edgy, but they also instantly make your eyes the focal point. Plus, they make you look younger!" Leah's take: "It's natural botox, in my opinion!"
So, what do you think of Leah's new fringe? And has she inspired you to take the blunt bang plunge?


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Meet the free software gang
by Matt Lee Contributions — Published on Jul 08, 2010 01:03 PM
Meet the pieces of free software working together to build a complete free software system.
There are thousands of pieces of free software, many of which are listed in our directory of free software, but of these projects, a few dozen are extremely common — we call these the free software gang.
- Amarok — listen to CDs, downloaded music, streaming radio and podcasts
- VLC — watch DVDs, videos from YouTube and other downloads
Office and database
- LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org — word processing, spreadsheets and presentations
- MySQL — a full-fledged database that works with OpenOffice.org
Web and email
- Drupal — run your website in style
- Firefox and GNU IceCat — browse the web at high-speed and in safety
- Thunderbird — send email like a pro!
- Mozilla — the all-in-one browser, email and web-editing software
- Blender — make 3d animations and edit video
- GIMP — touch up and crop photos from your digital camera and the web
- Inkscape — make flyers, postcards and printed materials
- PHP programming language — the language that powers Wikipedia and the White House website
- Java — used in everything from your cellphone to your bank
- Perl language — the system administrator's swiss army knife
- Python language — popular with Google and NASA, also runs this website!
- Ruby language — used by many of the Web 2.0 websites
Operating system and friends
- GNOME — the graphical desktop for many of the GNU/Linux systems, including Trisquel
- GNU — the fully free operating system
- Gecko — the same powerful code that powers Firefox and Icecat, in your own software
- KDE — another popular graphical desktop, favored by many for its powerful features
- Linux — together with GNU, Linux powers the GNU/Linux operating system
- Nautilus — the GNOME file manager


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text: Linda R. Hirshman retired as the Allen/Berenson Distinguished Visiting Professor at Brandeis University. With almost no effort, she landed spot No. 77 on Bernard Goldberg's 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America. She is the author of Get to Work ... And Get a Life Before It's Too Late, in paperback May 28.


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The Natural West
Check out these fantastic landscapes of the American West! Thanks to all participants who submitted and voted on these images.
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Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park
by — Photo I took of the Grand Prismatic Spring while visiting Yellowstone National Park.
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New East Bay Vegan Grocery Store: Republic of V
FINALLY!!!! An all-vegan grocery store in my neck of the woods! *happiest of happy dances* If you live in the East Bay, mosey your cute tush on over to Republic of V in Berkeley, CA. (1624 University Ave). If you've ever been to Portland, it's very much like Food Fight! grocery store… has a nice selection of vegan foods (frozen, packaged, baked goods, snacks, seasonings, etc.), cookbooks, shirts, accessories (belts, purses, wallets, jewelry), and all of your favorite vegan beauty essentials (skincare, makeup, lip balm, etc.)
I went there for the first time today with my boo thang and mini baby boo thang, and we picked up some Phoney Baloney coconut bacon and some tasty Punk Rawk Labs and Door 86 cashew cheese—YUM!
Have you been to Republic of V yet and if so, what did you get? 😀
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i go there every time i am in the east bay!
W00t!!!! I don't live super close to there (I'm in the south bay) but I will definitely have to check this place out! Hmmmm… it may even be worth it just to make a special trip over that way…. 😀
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Bigger Than Life
Jigsaw puzzles are always challenging. And even if some are more challenging than others, assembling a jigsaw puzzle has never been an easy task. For those who like big challenges and don't easily give up, puzzle makers are constantly trying to make it harder, by creating larger and more difficult puzzles. A couple of months ago, the biggest jigsaw puzzle you could find on the market was Life, the Greatest Puzzle, a 24,000-piece marvel. Educa, the Spanish manufacturer behind this huge puzzle, asked Royce B. McClure to design it. The artist combined images from some of his previous paintings in order to make the puzzle challenging and attractive, and the result took thousands of hours of work. Once you complete it, you can use it to decorate any wall in the house due to its amazing 428 x 157 cm breadth. Today, Life doesn't look so big anymore. And that's because Ravensburger created something bigger than Life: a 32,256 pieces jigsaw puzzle, part of the special series called Keith Harring. The Double Retrospect weighs 57,056 pounds and measures an impressive 544 x 192 cm. Since September 2010, it is the official record holder. But if you look at the image, you have to appreciate Life more than Double Retrospect. The details on the image look great even on the full scale jigsaw puzzle, not only on the box, and the assembling is a lot more challenging due to the richness of the image and the intricacy of the details. While Double Retrospect looks good enough and is the new biggest jigsaw puzzle, it is an assembly of 32 smaller images, like a filmstrip, rather than one large continuous image.


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(Lenexa, Kan., Jan. 17, 2014) - The Removal Action for the Iowa-Nebraska Light & Power Former Manufactured Gas Plant Superfund Site will begin on Jan. 20, 2014. The project will consist of building demolition, soil excavation and backfilling operations located at the corner of Norfolk Avenue and 7th Street, in Norfolk, Neb.
The site work will result in closure of the southbound lane of 7th Street between Norfolk and Madison Avenues beginning Wednesday January 22. Intermittent road closures of the northbound lane along with the southbound lane of 7th Street between Norfolk and Madison Avenues will also occur throughout the site work. An increase in truck traffic will occur during the project time frame of Jan. 20, 2014, and lasting through project completion, currently planned for the end of April 2014.
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When a little 10'x10′ box in New York becomes our home for the better part of a week, it can only mean one thing: the National Stationery Show! It's when the world of paper converges on the city to put on their smiles and peddle their wares to buyers from across the country — and, as ever, the energy and creativity on display was a real inspiration.
The concept (above): With our booth, the idea was to bring a bright, little patch of Palm Beach to the Javits Center. We started our moodboard (see above) back in January, and what emerged over the months was: kelly green, sisal carpet and storage bins, sunburst mirrors, crisp white frames and jewel-tone ottoman stools.
The end result (above): Et voila! We were delighted to see all these elements fall into place in the stage set we created for J.Falkner. And there must have been something lucky in that gorgeous shade of green — we had our best show ever, with great stores reordering and new stores discovering us.
Cards were ranged along white shelves (see above). "Fabulous. (Is what you are, my friend.)" is from a new card collection we launched at the show.
After spending the days cooped up in the convention center, everyone's ready for a good party. The Louie Awards are always a high point, and this year we were greeted by dramatic swirls of paper cut-outs (above), which became even more incredible as one looked to see the details of flying birds and airplanes.
Though our nominated card didn't win, it was wonderful to be welcomed into this special crowd, and see, hand-cut into one of the paper airplanes, the letters of J.Falkner Cards (above).


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Comes in a nice bottle in leathery bag.
Dark color, smell of leather and tobacco.
Taste of tobacco, in the middle there's a hint of vanilla and ends with mild bitterness.
Not too sweet, not too dry. You can't go wrong with this rum!
Beautiful color led me to beleive this could rival the el Dorado's for flavor. It was slightly disappointing though based on the beautiful reddish black. It has nice molassas and vanilla with a little bit of butterscotch on the nose and just a hint of oak spice. There is something I cannot place when I swirl it covered and then sniff. Almost a buttery nougat or toffee. Very light on the palate with a tinge of bite. It finishes very smooth giving more molassas and vanilla. A little bit of clove and burnt sugar were also present. Very good sipper and I highly recommend it as a change up. Tried it again and wow. The spices you.get just holding it in your mouth are great. Try to enjoy it slowly and really switch it around.
Very good rum. Perfect choice for those, who don´t like sweet rum, but want top quality tasty rum. The first tase is spicy but then after second try you will feel very interesting taste. One of my favorite even if it isn´t A.H.Riise.
Awesome nutty and sweet taste. Cant go wrong with this sipping rum. Do not waste by mixing it. An ice cube will help tone down its sweetness.
Nice smooth sipping rum, like a more upmarket Chairman's Reserve. No alcohol burn but leaves a nice lasting warm belly sensation
A 8 year age rum, solid with a very complex sensory notes, round and balanced, at sight its deep amber color shows us its long, its intense but deep with complex aroma of wood, vaibilla, caramel, dried fruits and chocolate, is the art of blending, winner 5 times gold medal in San Francisco World Spirits Competition
The Pampero Aniversario is a dark rich amber colored rum with a wonderful smell that opened my noise up. I don't remember the exact smell of the rum, but I do remember the way my noise opened up to the rum. This was an incredible buy for around $35 that had tones of sweet flavors from the molasses, and hints of vanillas. The finish on this glass was a bit stiffer, which I liked, slimier to a bourbon. This finish comes from the pre-aged bourbon barrels the rum is blended in, and is currently my favorite rum that is put in bourbon barrels. This rum is far better than the Flor da Cona 12 year, and is half the cost. I would recommend this to any bourbon fan, or blended rum fans.
Good value for money.
Stand out compared to other rum's that cost just as much.
Tabaco, leather and and hint of vanilla and a fruity note.
Pampero really nailed the presentation on this one. Lovely bottle and an amazing colour. A great sipping rum for those who dont like their rum really sweet.
Great sipping rum. Not as rich as Diplo Reserva Exclusiva, but in the ballpark. Sweetness is subtle. A personal favorite to have with a flavored seltzer (usually lime or orange-vanilla).
Pampero Aniversario - like it for well balanced aroma and taste.
Good tasting rum, good nose, mouth and finish. For the price it is what i would call a reasonable purchase. I like it with one rock or neat. No sweetness just plain ole man's rum. Arrrrrgg.. update as this has aged it has stepped up a level I like it and it is very enjoyable as it ages. Get us sum uh dat!
This is a delightfully dark sipping rum that has a great finish! I love the lite fruity and slightly vanilla taste. This rum equals or surpasses many higher priced rums. Definitely worth having on hand.
Pampero Aniversario, venezuelský skvost vyráběný od roku 1963, kdy byl společností Pampero uveden na trh u příležitosti 25. výročí firmy, zraje v dubových sudech 4-6 let, ( a ne 8, jak chybně můžete najít na stránkách některých českých prodejců).Obsah alkoholu je 40%, obsah lahve 0,7 litru.
Prodává se v pěkném koženém pytlíku, v němž najdete soudkovitou láhev s pečetí s logem firmy. Logo firmy znázorňuje gauča, pasáka dobytka z pampy, odtud pochází také název Pamero.
Aroma: Rum Pampero Aniversario je velmi tmavý, v lahvi až mahagonové barvy, ve sklence je přece jen průsvitnější, řekl bych kaštanový odstín.
Opojná vůně se line z lahve už při nalévání. V krásně vyzrálé vůni cítím máslový karamel, tmavou melasu, vanilku, snad trošku dřevo. Úplně láká k napití.
Chuť: V chuti objevíte po prvním až máslovém dojmu karamel, dřevo, kávu, nasládlé koření, dozvuk je krásně hřejivý a kořenitý.
Shrnutí: Stálice mého baru, jako plus je velmi přijatelná cena.
Body: 90
Most prominently in the taste is a leathery and bitter tobacco flavor with a touch of vanilla. This is masterfully balanced out with brown sugar. Although this rum is very refined, I prefer to mix high-end drinks with it, which I personally think makes better use of the bitter taste. So far my favorite drink with this is a classic Mojito.
If you drink it straight up, I find that its character is much improved when you let it rest in the glass for at least 5 minutes.
A local liquor store (colonial wine & spirits, Little Rock, AR) has this on sale for under $30. Quite a few steps up from the cheapest Bacardi and Capt. Morgan rums. Dark amber, you can hardly taste the alcohol, don't mix it! It's absolutely perfect by itself in a shot glass, room temp.
I've got a bottle of this rum about 30 years ago from my then ex-girlfriend as a goodbye present when she found her love for live in Venezuela. The rum was delicious so it was kind of fair enough. It was the first rum that was not that white Bacardi stuff that you could only drink mixerd with coke. That first bottle lasted quite long because I only took some on special occasions and sipped it very slowly. But inevitably there comes the moment when every bottle is empty. But the Pampero Anniversario imprinted my love for good Rums in my brain. A bit more than 15 years later I started my first rum collection and one store in town had (still has) an impressive selection of all kinds of spirits including very nice rums. One time I told the shop owner that the Pampero Anniversario would make a excellent addition to his rum section and some 1-2 months later there it was in the shelf! They had an open bottle for tasting and I immediately remembered the dense, almost oily texture and the delicious taste of sugar cane and some vanilla, ripe fruits with a hint of orange that immediately spreaded over my mouth mucosa without being either too sharp or too sweet. Very well balanced. The color is pretty dark brown copper. Just a week ago I discovered the Pampero Anniversario in a large supermarket at a reasonable price and right now I'm sipping and sniffing on a glass of it.
I thought the Pampero Anniversario would make a rather good first rating here and I promise that my upcoming ratings won't be this long! Just one last thing: I don't quite understand the difference between the Pampero Anniversario and the Pampero Anniversario Reserva Exclusiva, as "Reserva Exclusivo" is even written on both labels. My guess is that they are actually both the same. Can someone teach me better?
Great rum that I consistently find around $33. It's good enough to drink on the rocks, but also great for a dark n stormy. Great value in this smooth drinking rum
It definitely worth's to test it, for that money it is good and I would say nothing more. Package and bottle is stylish and color of the rum is very promising. But over all I would say it is just average, good choice for someone who is able to find there more than just a obvious tastes, I would say this can really evaluate professionals.
It has a smooth taste... you can drink it alone or combined with coke.. a bit pricy for what it is
Beautiful design with the leather pocket and beautiful barell like bottle. Flavour is tasty, full and spicy. I like this rum very much
What can I say about this rum? It's smells nice, one of those that become quite better with a little bit of air. But still, the good smell is not on the surface.
The same with the taste. It has that hard and bitter leather with tobacco taste, wich is nice. But (the Obvious but), it is not as good as it suppose to be. At least that is what I kept thinking. I liked it, but something was off there.
This rum left me guessing, like the flirt of a lady you saw that afternoon on the station. Was it a flirt, or something you wished for?
Sehr mild auf der Zunge, schmeckt nach mehr :-) !!!
I like this rum as part of Venezuelan heritage. A bit strong on favors compared to others "reservas" in the market but with a smooth body.
Try with dry orange and a bit of ice and the fruity flavor will kick in.
Given to me by the widow of a collector friend. There will be many more reviews, sadly, that begin this way. But on to the rum. Caramel toffee, and dry. An excellent sipper. This is an old bottle (check label). The cork stopper split upon opening. Actually, I had to decant it.


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We are WaKi Apps, an iPhone development company focussing on innovative medical applications for the iPhone and iPad.
Our iPhone app "Travel Health" will be featured on the Apple iTunes App Store's front page. The app is a resource that helps travellers look after their health while they're overseas.
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This particular graphic ad would be targeting the younger backpacking/adventure travellers rather than older business travellers. Think "Lonely Planet" type of traveller.
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As a small business owner that works long hours each day, are you carving out some time to keep in shape? Do you allocate time in your busy schedule to work out and get some physical fitness? Staying physically fit will help you stay mentally fit and enable you to do a better job in running your business. Your health is more important than your bottom line.
So how do you do this?
Step one: Put it on your calendar. Just like business meetings or internal meetings with your employees, scheduling time on your calendar to get some exercise is a must.
Step two: Don't erase the workout event on your calendar. Yes, things will come up that will tempt you to do so, but make your workouts as important as anything you are doing to run and grow your small business.
You can kill two birds with one stone by combining business with fitness. Instead of sitting around a table talking about your business plans, take a walk (or run) with your team and discuss business while you're walking, not sitting.
Scheduling a morning workout is much more realistic than during the day or after work. Most small business owners will tell you if they don't work out in the morning, it won't get done.
If you're traveling, that's no excuse either. Most hotels have workout facilities and all you need to do is schedule a wake-up call. Staying fit while running a small business will improve your energy level and mental aptitude, which will in turn help you more successfully run your small business.


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Microsoft has confirmed that it is engaged in informal talks with European regulators to deal with competition concerns over its search deal with Yahoo!
The 10-year agreement is also being investigated by the US Department of Justice, which recently made a second request for information to the two firms.
"As we said when the agreement was announced, we anticipated that this deal will be closely reviewed in the United States and EU, and discussions in both geographies continue. We remain hopeful the deal will close in early 2010.", a spokesman told Reuters.
The Competition Commission concerns seem to be a long way from either a formal or informal investigation and it would be standard practise for the companies involved to inform eurocrats of some of the details of a deal of this size.
Microsoft has claimed the deal is pro-competitive in that the combined search will offer a more robust alternative to the market dominance of Google. Google is no doubt doing its best to persuade Brussels and Washington of the opposite view, so maybe Microsoft is just getting its retaliation in first. ®
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Preload with a constant force
fig. 1). With springs, the kinematic behaviour of the bearing does not influence preload under normal operating conditions. However, a spring-loaded bearing arrangement has a lower degree of stiffness than an arrangement using axial displacement to set the preload. The spring preload method is standard for spindles used on internal grinders.
Guideline values for the most common spring-loaded bearing arrangements are listed in table 1. The values apply to single CE and ACE design bearings. For bearings in tandem arrangements, the values should be multiplied by a factor equal to the number of bearings preloaded with the spring force. The specified spring preload forces are a compromise between minimal difference in operating contact angle at the inner and outer ring raceways, and axial rigidity at high rotational speeds. Heavier preloads lead to higher operating temperatures.
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Prince crowned AL Player of Week for first time
It's still way, way too soon to make a case that Prince Fielder is on his way to becoming the Tigers' next American League Most Valuable Player Award winner, but some people in Detroit are thinking about it already. Winning AL Player of the Week, at least, is a very good start.
The way Fielder hit last week, especially in Oakland over the last few days, it wasn't much of a contest. Fielder went 12-for-19 (.632) over six games, with four doubles, two home runs and 11 RBIs. Add in nine walks, two of them intentional, and a hit by pitch, and the 28-year-old first baseman reached base safely at a .733 clip.
Both of Fielder's home runs came over the weekend in Oakland, where his three-run homer accounted for all of Detroit's runs in Friday's series opener. Fielder went 4-for-5 in that game, then added a solo shot Saturday in a 2-for-3, two-walk performance. His RBI double contributed to a 10-run Tigers outburst in the series finale on Sunday.
Fielder went into Monday leading the AL with a .429 batting average, tied atop the league with 19 RBIs and second with a .527 on-base percentage. It's the kind of start of a year many believe could take his game to another level for several reasons.
Fielder has had a year to get to know AL pitchers and how teams around the league defend him, but he still batted .313 last season. Just as important, he has protection behind him in the lineup that he didn't have in 2012 with Victor Martinez back from last year's knee surgery.
Martinez hasn't been a major deterrent for teams to pitch around Fielder so far, but he made the A's pay for intentionally walking Fielder in the first inning Sunday by delivering a two-run single.
How often Fielder walks this season could impact whether he could contend for a home run or RBI title. Even if it does, some in the organization believe he's a good enough pure hitter to contend for a batting crown.
Fielder's teammates have already started building his case for the AL MVP Award, putting him on the path that Justin Verlander and Miguel Cabrera took over the last couple of years.
"I don't think it's any stretch of the imagination that he has a good chance of being an MVP in this league," Verlander told reporters on Saturday.
Player of the Week honors are nothing new for Fielder, who won four of them in the National League during his time with the Milwaukee Brewers. This is the first AL honor, having been arguably overshadowed last year by Cabrera's historic Triple Crown season.
If Fielder keeps up anywhere near this type of hitting for a good stretch, he's going to be difficult to ignore, either for more of these awards or for the MVP conversation at year's end.


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This kit is a simple PC board assembly you can build in an evening and still have time left to operate your radio! Once completed, it simply plugs into an IC socket inside the PK232 and provides you with a 'Standard' TAPR modem disconnect header. This header provides a convenient place to connect the DCD State Machine upgrade kit , the TAPR 9600bps modem, PSK modem, or other items that need this connection. The result is a no-holes enhancement of your PK-232 (or Heath HK-232).
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Vibration-based structural health monitoring of a wind turbine system. Part I: Resonance phenomenon (2015)
This paper is focused on a resonance phenomenon of a wind turbine system in 5 MW class, on the basis of dynamic signals acquired continuously from the tubular tower under normal operational conditions during two years. Firstly, technique specifications of the wind turbine system are introduced and a finite element model is developed to characterize the structural dynamic properties. The following part describes the continuous dynamic monitoring system integrated with an automated operational modal analysis procedure using the poly-reference Least Squares Complex Frequency domain (p-LSCF) method. Subsequently, variations and mutual relationships of environmental/operational factors such as vibration amplitude, temperature, wind speed, rotation speed of blades, pitch angle and nacelle direction are also presented. Finally, significant resonance is observed due to the fundamental frequency of the tower matching with the harmonic frequency induced by the rotation of three blades. As the rotation speed of rotor approaches to 8 rpm, the vibration amplitude of the tower increases significantly and the corresponding damping value decreases. With the further rising wind velocity, the rotation speed of blades stops increasing and the input energy just contribute to accumulate the vibration amplitude of tower. Such observation indicates the Sommerfeld effect that aggravates the resonance phenomenon. A vibration control device is necessary to minimize the excessive structural responses. A companion paper will further discuss the environmental/operational effects on dynamic properties of the wind turbine system under the operational conditions.
Vibration-based structural health monitoring of a wind turbine system. Part II: Environmental/operational effects on dynamic properties (2015)
The second part of these companion papers mainly researches environmental/operational influences on structural dynamic properties under normal operational conditions during two years, in order to extract a statistical based damage-sensitive indicator for health monitoring of a wind turbine system. The correlation analyses between experimental identified frequencies, damping values as well as mode shapes and environmental/operational factors such as rotation speed of blades, wind speed, pitch angle, temperature and nacelle direction are presented. It is observed that the frequency estimates are influenced by the nacelle position, the activation of rotor, the rotation speed of blades and the wind speed as well as the temperature. Regarding to the damping estimates, they are mainly associated with variation of the aerodynamic damping due to the increasing wind speed. Besides, the resonance phenomenon is also observed in higher modes. The harmonic frequencies due to blades passing by tower are found and the corresponding damping value decreases. Moreover, the mode shapes in some modes are strongly affected by the position of the nacelle. Subsequently, two types of simulated damage including the reduction of stiffness in both the rotor blade and the tubular tower are successfully detected by applying the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) based methods to these temperature-sensitive frequency estimates. Comparison of change of the extracted health features indicates that they are more sensitive with the tower damage.
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Guillain-Barré syndrome is a rare condition that causes the immune system to attack the nerves outside of the brain and spinal cord. It is characterized by numbness, tingling, weakness, or paralysis in the legs, arms, breathing muscles, and face. It can affect all ages.
The exact cause of Guillain-Barré syndrome is unknown. However in about three-fourths of people, a recent infection or surgery triggers an autoimmune response. This autoimmune response attacks the peripheral nerves, leading to weakness and a loss of sensation.
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Guillain-Barré syndrome is more common in men, and in the those aged 15-35 years and 60-75 years old. Other factors that increase your chance of Guillain-Barré syndrome may include:
- Recent gastrointestinal or respiratory infection by viruses or bacteria
Recent vaccination—especially
- The swine flu vaccine given from 1976-1977 was linked to excess cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome. Since then, influenza virus vaccines have been associated with only a slight increased risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome.
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- Pain—the lower back pain is the most common complaint
- Progressive muscle weakness on both sides of the legs, arms, and face
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Family History: Truth or Fiction?
In family history, the real question is which survives longer or stronger?
That depends, bien sûr, on two things in every generation: the level of interest among assorted family individuals, and the abilities of a family historian.
One of my main blog goals has been to reach extended family members who feel the occasional curiosity regarding their antecedents, their cousin relationships, or perhaps their biological inheritance. Now I'm seriously questioning this goal. Not that I will stop my mission, because family history contributes a much wider significance to the grass roots of ALL history. The necessary mental gymnastics themselves are a singular challenge and satisfying reward.
My particular subject of the moment is Family Stories—a special source my fellow genealogists will recognize at once, rolling their eyes. We have other terms for the same concept: derivative sources, oral tradition, family legends, family lore, hearsay, word of mouth, and so on.
My personal favourite is mythinformation, a coinage oh-so-suitable for historical/genealogical permutations. A few generic stories seem to cross all ethnic and genetic boundaries in the New World ... e.g., the Indian Princess ancestor, or The Three Brothers who arrived to go their separate ways, just waiting for us to hook them up again. By the time you reach the bottom of this post you will get the connection between the aforementioned goal and mythinformation.
Stories of the olden days are often what capture us to first explore our unique piece of history. Some ancestors were more colourful than others. Their exploits and events—heroic or scandalous—tend to alter as the years go by. Parts of a story get embroidered or censored. Bits get added or omitted. Sometimes the years blur two ancestors into one person. By the time a few generations pass, we researchers understand that it takes a certain amount of the proverbial salt to digest the stories.
It's like that old parlour game with a circle of people. The first person whispers a fairly simple statement into the ear of the next person. The second person whispers what she or he heard to the next person. The whispers continue around the circle. Last person compares what she/he heard with the original statement. Hilarity ensues. Point taken: how little the statements resemble each other.
Family stories can be vivid for "adding flesh to the ancestral bones" as we say. Lord knows, anecdotal evidence can be useful when trying to describe long-gone people in writing. But they are only stories, identified as such, until otherwise researched. We spend a lot of time trying to track down the truth behind stories-gossip-rumour handed down to us. And it sure ain't ever easy, separating the wheat from the chaff.
Example: An articulate cousin, at every family gathering, takes centre stage with tales of Highland glory and our imaginative descent from Simon Fraser the explorer. The indulgent audience is always rapt. I gave up arguing privately with him because I finally understood his need to repeat the fond stories without factual spoilers from me.
Searching for the truth is an obligation that comes with the genealogy package—at the least, doing our best to verify the straight goods. Biographical writing of real, documented ancestors, even if it looks slim at times, is the result of intensive research. We pay tribute to the ancestors who contributed so much to make US who and what we are.
However, that presumes perhaps impossible interest from the very family members we try to reach: enough genuine curiosity, and some respect for the researcher who's writing it down :-)
Notice the emphasis on old family stories, and the passage of generations. How can we tell if the morphing into mythinformation began in mere carelessness or if more deliberate motives were at play?
To my surprise and regret, I find bizarre family stories propagating in my lifetime about an ancestor whose life events I've researched in contemporary, original sources. I hear: rum-running during prohibition! Military honour awarded by the Queen in greatest secrecy! Murderous post-war hunting of Nazi criminals! Yowser. Sounds like an unwritten novel. Idle minds? Wishful thinking?
Readers and GeneaBloggers, I ask you: Any similar experiences? Is there a moment when we stop proselytizing, if that's what we're doing, and forget the "audience"? Just work on family history for the sheer joy and peer support?
If any family members are lurking along, remember you can comment anonymously! Or do I detect a movement to lock up the crazed genealogist in a computer-unfriendly environment?
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- M.C. Moran said...
To my surprise and regret, I find bizarre family stories propagating in my lifetime about an ancestor whose life events I've researched in contemporary, original sources.
Oh yes. I hear you on the mythinformation. I hear family stories, the details of which might have been lifted from the lyrics of an Irish ballad: so romantic! and such a lovely story; and so completely undocumented, and generally altogether improbable. Documented proof to the contrary is often no match for the appeal of a good story.
I think that if it's worth doing at all, it's worth doing carefully. But probably only a tiny fraction of one's family/audience/readership will appreciate that attention to detail, sources, standards, and so on.
It's probably not so different from broader, national, e.g., history, though, in terms of evidence versus mythology. There's the source-based, socio-economic-political account of the War of 1812, for example, as exhaustively researched in archives by several generations of historians; and then there's the legend of Laura Secord. Most Canadians know of Laura Secord, if only from the chocolates (and that's okay! I think), but not so much about the nitty-gritty details of that conflict, which tend to be less dramatic and personality-based, and more about boring geo-political context and such. I guess the difference with family history is that you might have to field questions/objections much more directly and intimately, from a great-aunt or someone else in the family who is already committed to a certain narrative, no matter what details you might turn up.
- Tuesday, 09 November, 2010
- Diana Ritchie said...
Hi Brenda ~ Oh definitely similar experiences!! I had a great-uncle who loved to tell stories about ancestors/relatives from Scotland. (Both of his parents were born in Scotland) Basically anything of note that happened at any time in Scotland, some relative of ours must have participated. He once told me about someone who married the "daughter of a prominent Edinburgh professor" (everyone in our family was apparently "prominent") When I finally traced that one down I found the father as the school master in a small village. That was the problem - I could never discount Uncle George entirely ...there might be some small grain of truth hiding in the stories.
I have decided that the stories tell me something about Uncle George more than about the family. I "keep" many of them - recorded as stories from Uncle George - just because the family members who never met him can get a glimpse of what he was like.
Not sure I've answered your real question - I guess I keep on just for myself - it's an obsession and I can't stop!
- Tuesday, 09 November, 2010
I too had some mythinformation in my family history. My mother told me that a South African cousin trained Christian Barnard and another cousin was a rabbi in Boston. Thanks to the Internet, I've just connected with a distant cousin who confirmed both stories. He's the son of the doctor and told me the first person to receive a heart transplant was his father's patient! And, yes, another branch of his family went to Boston where one was a rabbi. So, it does pay to record these stories because you never know when the grain of truth will sprout.
- Wednesday, 10 November, 2010
My grandmother, Nanny, used to claim that she was descended from the composer Handel. Only problem: all the authorities state that Handel died childless. At this point, those with a fleeting regard for fact and proof would think, "Do we have a scoop!" The anticlimactic truth is that Nanny's Welsh great-grandfather was given the middle name Handel by his musical parents. It turns out this was quite a common practice in Wales in the first couple of decades of the 19th century. Haydn was even more popular than Handel. So while I can't yet prove with a certainty I'm not descended from Handel, the odds have lengthened astronomically.
- Wednesday, 10 November, 2010
- BDM said...
Many thanks for your comments! It goes to show that careful family historians often have their work doubled in a sense ... not only trying to prove ancestry but disproving (or hopefully confirming!) family legends. I hear you, M.C., about the tiny fraction we might have to be content with. Diana and Ruth are right that we mustn't discount a potential kernel of truth in all the husks. And Paul, a story "disproven" but so great to add the investigative part to the family history!
I think the research tales of such legends are as compelling as the original stories!
- Wednesday, 10 November, 2010
- Caverly said...
Hi Brenda,
Yes there are a few family stories we may never be able to confirm or deny. In some ways I am trying to create a family story in producing a history on my 3 generations of great-grandfathers I want to publish for family. Where I run into the lack of information is my 5th great grandfather (1786-1854). To create information on his early years I have relied on local history and made assumptions regarding what he may have been doing up to the point I could find some information. I have cautioned my readers that I made up this part of the story based on local history facts. Since I did not write any exaggerations others should find the details acceptable but perhaps boring.
Paul Caverly
- Friday, 19 November, 2010
- BDM said...
Paul C, nice point (bearing on the further back we go, the more difficult it is to find personal information). I too search for local, contemporary material to add 'substance' and context for early ancestors, because that's usually all we have in additional resources to make a family history appealing to our relatives. If carefully written and cited, no-one accuse you of attributing wild stories to the family heritage! (smile)
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