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Keeping It All In Perspective
That's me and my new husband! *smile*
Sorry for my recent absence, but thanks to some great friends and business partners, I was able to enjoy my wedding week and honeymoon as every bride should…worry-free regarding work!
It's Not Life or Death – For Most
It's so important that throughout our lives we keep everything in perspective. Very few of us work in truly life-or-death situations and even though we all have deadlines and commitments, we must be realistic about where our priorities lie. And every person's is different. You have to figure out what those are for you!
Advice from a Friend
While I could have been a workaholic before my honeymoon, trying to cram all my new ideas into the calendar before I left, I received an influential response email regarding a new idea I proposed to a business partner a few weeks before the wedding. He said, "As your colleague, I say let's do it! But as your friend, I say hold off and enjoy your wedding."
Thanks, Karl Richter, for helping me keep what's truly important in perspective.
So hold on to your hats, folks, because Cara's back from vacation and setting things in motion for a great next quarter! Watch for more!


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This was the first book I've read by this author. The story was very lengthily and filled with so much angst, along with unwavering love. The full impact of the title was revealed with each painful memory Dominick was burdened with many nights as this story unfolded over the vast canvas undertaken by this author.
Dominick's story was compelling and lovely. He and his brother Kevin were very smart and easygoing kids until their world spiraled out of control after an incident involving their father. The incident scarred Dominick to a point, but he was a survivor. Dominick attended the university where he met the young lady who would eventually take a hold of his heart strings and pull them tightly. Their initial meeting was odd, yet connected in a way. Denise was however connected to a guy who was not at all whom he presented himself as; the good guy.
Readers will discover that a sheep in wolves clothing was amongst the friends. As the story unfolds it bogs down a bit with details repeated a few times more than needed for this reviewer. Denise's character was an anomaly for a portion of the story as I could not get a bead on her inner person initially. Over the course of the story, It was easier to see her true persona. It just took a while for it to surface.
The story was nicely written, and it flowed better mid story. The chemistry between the characters was overwhelmingly apparent with each glance and with each encounter. The back story with Kevin, Trinity and Denise's ex Chris added more drama to the story. Nearing the conclusion of the story the title became more relevant and explained Dominick's struggles. He was scarred but he was slowly healing with Denise's help. At the conclusion of the story, It was somewhat exhausting and exciting, if that makes any sense…Moreover, the story felt completed in the end. This was a 4.0 star read for this reviewer.
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Not Chicken, Not Beef, it's a Patek Philippe Neptune
We told you about the Calatrava ref. 96 that started it all; the new splits second chronograph ref. 5204; and the rare perpetual calendar ref. 2499–well known and desired pieces. But Patek Philippe has other models on the menu you might not be aware of, but taste just as good.
Sometimes when you enter a nice, high end restaurant there are dishes from which you don't know what to expect. Most people have this when the menu offers an Ostrich steak. What is Ostrich? What can you possibly expect from an Ostrich steak when you have never had it? Will it be like chicken? Maybe like steak, but that makes you instantly think of beef. Bottom line: a lot of guess work and not a step closer to knowing what it actually is before trying. Most people, for that reason and that reason alone, will leave it and choose something else. With watches it is often the same; we want something familiar, a nice dress watch for example, or a nice sports watch, both will do, of course, but in the same watch….?
That hesitancy is probably also what most people felt about the Patek Philippe Neptune. It's Luminova coated hands and numerals combined with a screw down crown give you the idea that it is indeed a sports watch. Especially since Patek also offers it in steel, just like the Nautilus and Aquanaut. And when named after the god of the sea, one would almost expect that this is the watch to rule them all. But there is doubt; elegant lines, Roman numerals, alligator straps…not even with rubber lining, a bracelet that would go great with a suit and tie, khaki's and polo's if it has to, but please, not something too casual.
Patek not only knew this when they introduced the collection in 1996, but even did it on purpose. They referred to it as a leisure watch calling it, "Ideal for sportswear, the supremely elegant Neptune is, at the same time, the perfect dress watch". They even went as far as saying that they believed that the watch was destined to become a contemporary classic. And that is where they are perfectly right! Yes, a Neptune will probably not be in many Patek collectors' top-ten list of watches to get, and that is exactly why you should buy one!
The Nautilus may be a nice Filet Mignon, and the Aquanaut a juicy Tenderloin but any restaurant has them and most Patek-lovers can't live without theirs. But why not go exotic? The Neptune couldn't hold a candle to the success of both other watches, and that makes it just a little harder to find, more rare, and in the end, more exclusive. A true conversation piece, even or perhaps especially amongst Patek enthusiasts. Did I already mention that Patek even offered this watch in steel/gold?
The watch itself gives you very little to complain about. Just like the Nautilus and Aquanaut of those days, the Neptune is also powered by caliber 315 SC. With a height of 3.22mm it is sufficiently slender to prevent the need for a bulky case, yet at the same time sufficiently robust to feature in a watch for more active wear. This caliber also has a beautiful, full size gold rotor, which you can't see since the Neptune has a screwed in case back. Patek offered the Neptune with either a black, silver or salmon pink dial, giving the watch distinctly different looks. Combined with the various different (precious) metal options, the Neptune collection was not only full of choices, but also offered something for everybody, especially when you count the various Joaillerie models that were available for both men and women.
So if those people who would pass up the Ostrich steak actually tried it they would have been rewarded with perhaps the juiciest and most tender steak they had ever eaten. If those people also tried the Neptune, they would experience what is perhaps the best "hybrid" watch of all.
You might like to look at some other Patek Philippe's featured on The Watch Review Site such as the Patek Philippe 5204 Platinum or the Patek Philippe 7140 Ladies First Perpetual Calendar or even the Patek Philippe Ref. 5940 Ultra-thin self-winding perpetual calendar
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the moral bankruptcy of ruairi quinn
Ruairi Quinn was responding to claims on this website about his visits to ageing priests and nuns and his demands to them during these visits that they pay more money in compensation to any person claiming to have been sexually abused at any time by a member of their religious order.
No other Irish journalist has troubled to critique the Marxian atheist Ruairi Quinn's attempts to extort money from ageing priests and nuns.
So he read it here.
It's surprising how word gets around.
And hence his denial this week.
Now let's look at another compensation fund a little bit closer to Ruairi Quinn's Marxian atheistic heart.
A few months ago, the Irish government of which Ruairi Quinn is a part, bailed out the corrupt bankrupt gangster bank styling itself AIB.
Ruairi Quinn's brother Lochlainn is a board member at AIB.
So it's Ruairi Quinn's brother's bank.
And the Irish anti Catholic Fine Gael Labour Party government have just forced me and you to bail it out.
They've mortgaged my future, your future, the future of the general populace, and the future of the unborn generations, to bail out Ruairi Quinn's brother's bank.
Having done this, having bailed out this worthless entity, they then purchased, purchased no less, took into full ownership, yes purchased, Ruairi Quinn's brother's worthless corrupt gangster bank on behalf of the nation, purchased it using the nation's money, for the bargain basement fee of ten thousand million Euros.
Ten thousand million Euros for something that's worth nothing.
That is to say, the government of which Ruairi Quinn is a part, spent ten thousand million Euros which they borrowed against the rest of us, to purchase Ruairi Quinn's brother's worthless corrupt gangster bank, paying precisely ten thousand million Euros for it more than it was worth.
Well Marxian atheists have destroyed countries before.
And fascist gangster bankers have destroyed countries before.
But it took Ruairi Quinn and his brother Lochlainn to create the grand alliance between Marxian atheists and fascist bankers.
How much of Ireland do you think will survive them?
I have another point I'd like to make.
Since Ruairi Quinn has been strong arming ageing priests and nuns to pay what he considers is their share of the vast sums of money being given to anyone who claims to have been abused by a priest or nun, presumably Ruairi Quinn will also have been equally concerned to ensure that the multi millionaire Lochlain Quinn and members of his Quinn family entourage, will divvie up something to go towards the squandering of public money on the purchase of Ruairi Quinn's brother's bank.
Exactly how much have Marxian atheist government Minister Ruairi Quinn and his multi millionaire banker brother Lochlainn, exactly how much have these two opprobriously wealthy and piously hypocritical characters, put towards the insane price that Ruairi Quinn's government have forced the general public to pay in order to buy Lochlainn Quinn's utterly worthless AIB?
I'll tell you.
They've given nothing.
One other thing.
While Ruari Quinn and his political acolytes have made much about their noble extortion of buckets of cash from ageing priests and nuns in order to lavish benefits on anyone who claims to have been abused by a priest or a nun, while indulging in this pogrom against Catholocism based on a contrived presumption of group guilt, while pursuing this malign and falsely motivated vendetta, I say, this same Ruairi Quinn and his cadre of atheistic Marxists and their media allies, have ignored the 99.99 percent of sex abuse victims who WERE NOT abused by Catholics.
In fact just this week, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Ireland, informed a woman who had been abused as a child, by a teacher at an independent school overseen by State inspectors and licenced to practice by the State, that the State would not be obliged to pay her any compensation at all for the abuse she suffered.
The teacher had abused her when she was eight years old.
The Supreme Court of the Republic of Ireland actually ruled that she would remain entirely uncompensated.
Apparently since her abuser wasn't a priest, the abuse didn't count.
Government Ministers in the former Fianna Fail government had insisted that compensating such victims, ie the vast majority of victims who were and are abused in State care, would bankrupt the nation. (They mean "bankrupt the nation again," since Fianna Fail and later Fine Gael and the Labour Party have already bankrupted it to rescue their brother's bankrupt banks.)
Let me try to sum this up in a single sentence.
The collective guilt that Marxian atheist Ruairi Quinn, and his Fine Gael Labour Party combo government, and the Supreme Court itself, (packed as it is with anti Catholic atheistic Marxian political appointees), the collective guilt that these political hoor masters have contrived and reserved for the Catholic Church whenever a Catholic Church employee commits abuse or is accused of absue, this guilt is apparently not going to be consistently applied to the institutions of State in which the vast preponderance of sex abuse victims were violated and in which the worst cases of sex abuse arose and continue to arise at the hands of non Catholic people.
The little vein on my forehead is throbbing.
In response to this blog, Ruairi Quinn stated this week that he wasn't trying to bankrupt ageing priests and nuns.
He added that the ageing priests and nuns possessed other assets aside from the accumulated wealth of their Religious Orders.
He was referring to the hospitals and schools that the Catholic Church has established and run in Ireland for 1500 without any compensation.
The hospitals and schools where priests and nuns worked for no wages to provide health care and education to the Irish peasantry while our governments or whatever passed for governments were busy elsewhere.
These hospitals and schools are assets as far as the atheistic Marxist Ruairi Quinn is concerned.
And he wants to get his hands on them.
Ruairi Quinn I know you're reading this.
No one gets away with it forever Quinn.
Someday you will have to give an account of your actions to a higher court.
No not the High Court Quinn.
I know that's been packed with your supporters.
To God Quinn.
You will have to answer to God for what you are doing to his Church in Ireland.
I would counsel you to put your house in order before then.
Oh and by the way.
You're starting to annoy me.


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Publisher: Clarion Books; 1 edition (August 1, 2011)
Language: English
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Once a Witch REVIEW
Since the gripping conclusion of Once a Witch, Tamsin Greene has been haunted by her grandmother's prophecy that she will soon be forced to make a crucial decision—one so terrible that it could harm her family forever. When she discovers that her enemy, Alistair Knight, went back in time to Victorian-era New York in order to destroy her family, Tamsin is forced to follow him into the past. Stranded all alone in the nineteenth century, Tamsin soon finds herself disguised as a lady's maid in the terrifying mansion of the evil Knight family, avoiding the watchful eye of the vicious matron, La Spider, and fending off the advances of Liam Knight. As time runs out, both families square off in a thrilling display of magic. And to her horror, Tamsin finally understands the nature of her fateful choice.
Let me just say... I REALLY LOVE THIS SERIES! They are quick reads but full of fantasy and magic! I enjoy the time traveling back to the 1800's and I loved all the characters. The book is plenty full of detail and the author does a wonderful job of explaining what 1800's New York looked like. Tamsin is my favorite character. She is smart, witty and a great witch. Gabriel, her boyfriend is protective, funny and very nice lookin'. He is also a great wizard! He wasn't in this book as much as I would have liked, but when Gabriel shows up, he takes over the pages when you are reading, he really steals the show. I don't care too much for Rowena (Tamsin's sister) she kinda drives me crazy. She's snooty, bossy, demanding and manipulative, Rowena is a nice added touch to the storyline, even though I want to punch her!
This book takes Tamsin back to the mid 1800's to warn her family about Alister Knight (families nemesis). She gets a job working for the Knight family as a chamber maid. It gets really intense, since she is left all alone in this home with her families enemy. This book is fun, captivating and thrilling. If you haven't started this series and like romance or books about magic, maybe both... your gonna love this series!
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Decades of Peacebuilding Must Not Be Undone By One "Misencounter"
Decades of peacebuilding must not be undone by one "misencounter"
It is difficult to think rationally when you are experiencing great emotional distress upon seeing many dead bodies of young men killed in what DILG Secretary Mar Roxas first described as a "misencounter" between members of the police Special Action Force (SAF) and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), later joined by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Mamasapano, Maguindanao last Sunday.
And then mainstream media are spinning the grievous incident in a way that promotes demonizing propaganda, framing the narrative as an "Us versus Them." Reinforcing the mistrust between the predominantly Christian Filipino population and the Bangsamoro people and sowing doubts on the wisdom of pushing through with the passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL).
MILF peace panel chair Mohagher Iqbal's first reaction was: "It was self-defense." I could understand why he would say that from the point of view of the MILF in the area seeing armed troops in camouflage entering their territory without warning in the middle of the night (or at three in the morning). If I were a warrior who have experienced several betrayals from the government (the point why I joined the liberation movement in the first place), my first thought would be "we're under attack." And although we are a little high-tech now, I don't think armed rebels would reach for their cellphones first to text or call whoever to verify what this unidentified group of armed men are doing in their territory disrupting their sleep and making them nervous. Of course, they would reach for their guns and be in full battle mode. That's the knee-jerk reaction of an armed combatant. It's the warrior instinct that will kick in. I am not making excuses for the violence, I am just trying to understand where they could be coming from.
But what is the excuse of some of our government leaders? How do they explain their knee-jerk reaction of withdrawing their support from the BBL because of this "misencounter"? Why are they participating in demonizing propaganda and creating more divisions among already divided people? What happened to the rhetoric of giving peace a chance?
As 1-BAP Party List Representative Silvestre "Bebot" Bello III, a member of the Ad-Hoc Committee on the BBL, told his colleagues in the House: "Now is not the time to suspend the hearings on the BBL or to withdraw support. In fact, what happened in Mamasapano underscores the importance of the BBL and the peace process to make sure incidents like that will not happen again."
The tragedy happened last Sunday and we have yet to hear from the leader of our nation, the one who wants the BBL passed before his term as president ends (it is Wednesday afternoon and PNoy is expected to give his public statement later this evening). Three full days of silence. Not even a message of sympathy to the families of his elite police force who were killed. No assurances of this government's commitment to peace. No firm resolve to get to the bottom of this. Three days is too long. It makes one think of many scenarios.
Either PNoy knows more than what they want us to know and he is still looking for the most convincing way to spin the story to save himself from culpability or his administration is not behind him all the way in supporting his peace agenda. It's not looking good either way.
The MILF, on the other hand, already came out with their official statement reiterating their "full commitment to the peace process with the Philippine government." In a statement signed by MILF Chairman Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, they clearly declared: "An enduring peace and justice remain to be our primary objective. In this regard, all actions and pronouncements of our political and military units of the MILF should advance and adhere to this primary objective as much as possible and with due regard to the safety and security of our people and communities."
Sadly, the PNoy administration cannot say the same of the actions and pronouncements of its political and military units. With the demonizing propaganda directed against the Moro rebels, most people already expect them "to do the worst" ("We are better than them."). But, as for the Philippine government, still supposedly inspired by the recent visit of Pope Francis, we expect more mercy and compassion and better appreciation of the bigger picture. Decades of peacebuilding must not be undone by one "misencounter."
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Came across this amazing tree house in my internet travels today, thought it was worthwhile blogging. Love to live somewhere like this!
Glad to see the blog restored to full working capacity again. Found this interesting article about "dazzle pattern" camouflage, used to disguise and break up the outlines of ships on the horizon. It was mainly employed during World War 1. I had always thought they were grey, black or white, so was surprised when reading this article I found out many of them were bright colours! They look like pieces of floating modern art. Check the article below.
well folks, having a bit of a technical problem with my pic uploader for the blog. So the art stuff is going to have to wait. Will be back with pics once this is up and running. In the meantime check out the latest from the Liquid DNB website's Bass Drive show!
I think it's about time i started posting a lot more art and design as promised from around the online world...and I will. From now on every week I'll try and do an update of stuff. Today I stumbled upon the amzing sci fi art of Kentaro Kanamoto. The landscapes are beautiful, and it's art like this that is making me want to either pick up the brush and start painting sci fi canvasses again like I did when I was in high school, or learn a digital 3D package, or both. Check his stuff out here www.kentarokanamoto.com/


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HA NOI (VNS) — President Truong Tan Sang yesterday congratulated the nation's athletes for their achievements at the recently concluded Southeast Asian Games 28 in Singapore, saying they would motivate development of the sports sector in Viet Nam.
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Phil Hatlen, Superintendent
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Abstract: Dr. Phil Hatlen discusses the issues facing our state and the nation related to individuals with visual impairments and the importance of keeping existing VI systems intact.
Key Words: News & Views, blind, deafblind, education, rehabilitation, systems, visually impaired professionals
We should be forever thankful that blindness and low vision are low prevalence disabilities. However, when a child becomes blind or low vision, we must be prepared to offer the family and the child the very best developmental and educational services possible. A lesson we at TSBVI continue to learn is that what we do has potential to impact children throughout the U.S. And what a teacher in Montana, for example, does, may well effect how we teach children at TSBVI. We are a small profession serving a small number of children and families.
When it comes to serving blind and visually impaired students, there should be no city, region, or state boundaries. I care very deeply about the education being offered to children in Oklahoma, in Maine, in Oregon. We mutually benefit from one another if are always open to sharing and communicating. We also often face the same issues.
Challenges in the education of blind and visually impaired students exist everywhere, and I want to share some of these with you—we are not an island, but a part of a state and national system of education.
At the national level, our country continues to suffer from a chronic shortage of teachers and orientation and mobility specialists. This is not a mild shortage—it is massive, and those charged with attempting to minimize the shortage have not yet found a solution. Imagine if you were a parent of a blind child and were told by your local district that no teacher was available for your child! This happens in some form countless times in this country where we place such a high value on equal opportunity for all of our citizens.
Nationally, there are issues regarding who is blind and who is low vision, issues around appropriate placement, issues related to delivery of the expanded core curriculum, issues about vocational preparation, issues about quality services to blind and visually impaired infants and preschool children. I'm sure some of you could name many more vexing issues, but the situation is clear—we still do not have all the answers we need in order to provide the services we should to blind and visually impaired students. The National Agenda is an excellent, positive step forward, and all of us need to be active in its progress.
At the state level, issues of children living in rural areas continue to defy solutions. While we have made significant progress toward minimizing the teacher shortage, thanks to the collaborative efforts of Texas Tech University, Stephen F. Austin University, and TSBVI, we have not closed the gap enough, and there is soon to be a mass exodus of a very large graying population of teachers and O&M specialists.
One of the critical keys to the success of a continuum of service model in Texas is the Education Service Centers (ESC). The presence of expertise in both education and O&M in these regional offices makes a tremendous difference in the quality of services in local school districts. Since I've been in Texas, there has been a precarious feeling about the continuation of this expertise at the ESC level. Also, Texas is very fortunate to be one of the only remaining states that has a consultant at the state level who is an expert in visual impairment. However, it seems that every year this person is given more responsibilities that have nothing to do with her expertise.
Both national and statewide issues involving the education of blind and visually impaired students impact TSBVI every day. We are part of a national and a statewide system, and we do our job well in large part because the rest of the system works well. If one part of the system were to disappear or be severely damaged, it will affect the entire system, including TSBVI. This why we must be vigilant and persistent in communicating to policy-makers and legislators about how vital it is that at the national, state, and ESC level, there be expertise in education and O&M for blind and visually impaired students.
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New Moon's Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson both have new flicks in theaters — she stars in The Runaways while he heads up Remember Me — but when it comes to box office rivalry, the 19-year-old doesn't seem concerned.
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Stewart hit up Pattinson's NYC premiere of Remember Me, but he skipped her premiere because he was in the U.K. walking the carpet for his drama.
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Growing up during and after World War II, I had a stamp collection that included wartime German stamps that featured large swastikas printed on them, as shown here. For me and most of humanity, that symbol was and continues to be linked with Hitler and the Nazi horrors.
That is why it was a surprise -- and something of a shock -- to come across a pre-Prohibition brand of liquor called Swastika Whiskey. The liquor was produced by the Paul Jones Distillery of Frankfort KY and the trademark registered with the federal government in the early 1900s. Its slogan was "Pride of the Capital." Moreover, Sunny Brook Whiskey, a Chicago-based outfit with a distillery in Louisville, issued a Pre-Prohibition good luck piece with a rampant. swastika.
These discoveries led me to do some additional research. It revealed that the symbol of the swastika -- until the Nazis appropriated it -- had been considered a harbinger of good luck. The swastika is an ancient symbol, dating back 3,000 years to India. It also is an Native American icon, with origins in prehistory. .
A postcard produced by the E. Philips Company, an American publisher, emphasized the "good luck" aspect of the swastika. It copyrighted the image in 1907. That firm may also have produced the startling (by today's sensibilities) postcard image of the American flag in tandem with the swastika. American pilots reportedly used the icon on their planes when they fought for the French in World War One. It also was the symbol for the Ladies Home Journal-sponsored Girls' Club. A town in Ontario, Canada, was named Swastika in 1911 because of a lucky gold strike.
Given its positive history, it is no wonder that organizations like Coca Cola, and the Boy Scouts found it an appropriate symbol. Coke used it as the shape for a key chain or watch fob and the Scouts displayed it with an ax on the spine of their 1903 "Handy Book."
Note that swastikas can bend to the left or the right. Legends from India tell a story that the left-bending kind are beneficial and the right-bending are evil. It may be just a coincidence but the Nazis chose the right-bending kind.
A stroll through the Internet reveals that some people are trying to rehabilitate the symbol as one involving peace and good luck My comment: "Lotsa luck!" Given the tragic events of the last century, I have a hunch is that the swastika will not be reborn anytime soon.
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Friday, August 21, 2009
What the Heck Are Nordhausen Kornschnapps?
My first artcle about Nordhausen Kornschnapps was published in 1992, featuring stoneware liquor jugs with highly interesting underglaze transfers. Since that time I have collected some and identified others until it seems appropriate in this post to revisit the subject of Kornschnapps jugs (and their "cousins" the Kornbrantweins) -- and to provide a list of known versions.
The jugs shown here are pre-Prohibition. The one sure confirmation of their age is the Nordhausen Kornschnapps jug featuring a chalet. An illustration of it appears in a 1902 liquor ad from Chicago dealer Simon Hasterlik. Prohibition brought the sale of alcoholic beverages to a screeching halt in the United States in 1920 for about 15 years. After the end of the Dry Era, all liquor containers required a federal warning for the ensuing 30 years. No kornscnapps jugs have it. Conclusion: The marketing of kornschnapps in quart ceramic jugs ended in the United States with the Volstead Act.
Kornschnapps, although identifiably German, was aimed at an overseas audience and these containers are found as far away as Australia and New Zealand. German émigrés and their descendants almost certainly were the principal market. The end of the 19th Century in the U.S. liquor merchants merchandised their wares by appeals to the "old country." Irish whiskey was decorated with shamrocks and harps; Scotch with thistles and bagpipes. Kornschnapps containers involved script, names, words and images easily associated with the Fatherland. Moreover, since the Middle Ages the town of Nordhausen has been a well-known German distilling center.
While some kornschnapp jugs were made in Scotland by potters such as Port Dundas, others were produced in the United States. Catalogues from the early 1900s indicate that some, like the "Onkel Karl" jug shown here, were designed and manufactured by Sherwood Brothers Pottery of New Brighton, Pennsylvania.
What kind of liquor was inside these bottles is anybody's guess. Schnapps is a name given to a wide range of alcoholic drinks. In Europe the term generally is applied to a vodka-like liquor made from grain or potatoes. Many Germans use the word to denote any strong spirits, according to Rosalind Cooper in her book Liquors and Spirits. She says kornschnapps can taste like London gin, Dutch genever or even American rye whiskey -- a very wide range,
I have compiled a list of the known kornschnapps jugs, along with some indication of rarity. The ratings are notional and based almost entirely on personal observation. Although this list has remained unchanged for at least a decade, other ceramic examples may exist. Anyone wishing to make a contribution to the list or challenge the ratings should be in touch with me via email.
1. Man in Cockaded Hat-Signed, "Berthold Schreiber"-Common
(in black or blue)
2. Man in Cockaded Hat - "Corn Whiskey"-Uncommon
3a Chalet with Pine-Signed, "Langerli Arierbach" - Common
3b Chalet with Pine- Signed "Fritz Oflinbarger" - Uncommon
4. Man with bowtie-No signature-Uncommon
& glass
5. Man with nightcap - Signed, "Berthold Rebenhorst" - Uncommon
& glass
6. Taller bottle, man in - "Korn und Malz...Gotterhalt's" - Rare
7. Rooster - "Nordhauser Kornbrantwein" - Uncommon
8. Rooster - "...Type...Corn Whiskey"- Uncommon
9. Art deco with - "Kornschnapps Style Liquor" - Rare
flaming torches "Product of Ohio"
10. Block of buildings - "Eicher Alter...Kornbranntwein... - Very rare
with side medallions Mihalovich, Fletcher...Cincinnati"
11. No picture, fancy letters - "Nordhausen Kornschnapps" - Rare
12. No picture, plain letters - "Nordhauser Corn Schnapps" - Common
inside circle
13. Man with pipe - "Onkel Karl's" - Rare
& glass
14. Half-pint, letters in two lines, - "Nordhausen Kornschnapps" - Uncommon
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Swigging the Pig
The picture shown in my last post of a pig drinking from a jug of moonshine triggered some thinking about how many porker shaped bottles there are and the fact that the swigging hole is located at a particularly unattractive place at the rear of the animal. Many believe that this was an anti-alcohol message and cite the Kirkpatrick brothers, Cornwall and Wallace, as the example.
After having failed in the pottery business in Mound City, Illinois, the Kirkpatricks in 1859 founded a pottery in Anna, a small town in southern Illinois, and called it the Anna Pottery. Their new location was successful because of rich deposits of clay in the neighborhood and access to railroad transportation to ship out their regular line of utilitarian stoneware and earthenware products.
Both men were staunch Prohibitionists with strong opinions about drinking, a habit they associated with political corruption. The Kirkpatricks set out on a single-minded campaign to create pottery containers that would discourage people from imbibing alcohol. These included jugs with snakes crawling over them and, more important for our purposes, a wide range of pig flasks. In an 1869 article for a local newspaper, the brothers summed up their feelings this way: "It is rather a hoggish propensity to be guzzling whiskey, and if the habit is indulged in, will soon reduce a man below the level of the hog and cause him to wallow in the gutter."
In addition, drinking from the rear of the pig was assumed to be disgusting. The first flask shown here purports to provide a "railroad and river guide" on its body but also extols "a good little old Bourbon," that it apparently contained. The wording may indicate a certain ambivalence, or perhaps sarcasm, on the part of the Kirkpatricks,
Today Anna Pottery jugs and flasks are among the most valuable American pottery bottles. They never fail to elect considerable attention whenever they are displayed and usually sell for multiple thousands. The first pig flask shown here recently sold for $23,000. The second flask also is from Anna Pottery, again showing rail and water routes., Despite displaying kiln burns, it sold for $12,000.
As for the Kirkpatrick Brothers , Cornwall died in 1890 and Wallace in 1896, spelling the end of Anna Pottery. Thus, neither saw the passage of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution that brought National Prohibition for which both men had campaigned with so much vigor and imagination.
Although Anna Pottery's pig flasks command top prices, others produced similar containers both before and after the Kilpatricks--but with very different motives. Considered emblems of prosperity at the end of the 19th Century, pigs ate corn, the same grain from which whiskey was made. Moreover, pigs generally were considered "cute." Seizing on porcine popularity and presumed appropriateness, distillers issued pig figurals as a marketing gimmick.
Among them were the honey brown flask advertising Lancaster Whiskey from Bardstown, a major whiskey-making town in central Kentucky. Pigs could get political, as demonstrated by this Albany slip covered hog advertising the 1880 candidacy of Grover Cleveland, two time President of the United States. This item sold recently for $1,725.
Pottery pigs are not the only one inviting swigs. Glass examples abound as well. The dark amber Berkshire Bitters bottle was the product of Amann & Company from Cincinnati, Ohio, founded by Anthony and Edmund Amann in 1869. It was appropriate for them to put their highly alcoholic bitters in a pig bottle since Berkshire is a well-known breed of swine. Boars can weight up to 750 pounds. Suffolk Bitters similarly featured a pig flask, green and embossed "Life Preserver."
The Theodore Netter Distilling Company of Philadelphia offered a swallow of whiskey in a clear glass pig bottle given away to customers. Having left a partnership with two other brothers, in 1898 Theodore set up his whiskey business with wife, Hilda. With success they also opened branches in Chicago and Cincinnati but finally succumbed to Prohibition and closed in 1920. Netter's oinker was a practical item: Once the contents were emptied it was meant to be filled with sand and used as a paperweight.
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Embedded System
Instructional Objectives
After going through this lesson the student would be able to
- Know what an embedded system is
- distinguish a Real Time Embedded System from other systems
- tell the difference between real and non-real time
- Learn more about a mobile phone
- Know the architecture
- Tell the major components of an Embedded system
Digital Electronics, Microprocessors
In the day-to-day life we come across a wide variety of consumer electronic products. We are habituated to use them easily and flawlessly to our advantage. Common examples are TV Remote Controllers, Mobile Phones, FAX machines, Xerox machines etc.
However, we seldom ponder over the technology behind each of them. Each of these devices does have one or more programmable devices waiting to interact with the environment as effectively as possible. These are a class of "embedded systems" and they provide service in real time. i.e. we need not have to wait too long for the action.
Let us see how an embedded system is characterized and how complex it could be? Take example of a mobile telephone: (Fig. 1.1)
Fig. 1.1 Mobile Phones
When we want to purchase any of them what do we look for?
Let us see what are the choices available?
|Ring tones
|/ Size
|Phone 1
|88.1 x
|47.6 x
|4 x Zoom
|23.6 mm
|116 g
|Phone 2
|89 x 49
|x 24.8
|and MP3
|123 g
|1 M Pixel
|Phone 3
|133.7 x
|176 x
|Symbian and
|69.7 x
|games or
|built in.
|packaged on
|MMC cards
Besides the above tabulated facts about the mobile handset, being a student of technology you may also like to know the following
Network type GSM2 or CDMA3 (Bandwidth),
Battery: Type and ampere hour Talk-time per one charge, Standby time
- Short for thin film transistor, a type of LCD flat-panel display screen, in which each pixel is controlled by from one to four transistors. The TFT technology provides better resolution of all the flat-panel techniques, but it is also the most expensive. TFT screens are sometimes called active-matrix LCDs.
- short form of Global System for Mobile Communications, one of the leading digital cellular systems. GSM uses narrowband Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), which allows eight simultaneous calls on the same radio frequency. GSM was first introduced in 1991. As of the end of 1997, GSM service was available in more than 100 countries and has become the de facto standard in Europe and Asia.
- Short form of Code-Division Multiple Access, a digital cellular technology that uses spread-spectrum Unlike competing systems, such as GSM, that use TDMA, CDMA does not assign a specific frequency to each user. Instead, every channel uses the full available spectrum. Individual conversations are encoded with a pseudo-random digital sequence. CDMA is a military technology first used during World War II by the English allies to foil German attempts at jamming transmissions. The allies decided to transmit over several frequencies, instead of one, making it difficult for the Germans to pick up the complete signal.
From the above specifications it is clear that a mobile phone is a very complex device which houses a number of miniature gadgets functioning coherently on a single device.
Moreover each of these embedded gadgets such as digital camera or an FM radio along with the telephone has a number of operating modes such as:
- you may like to adjust the zoom of the digital camera,
- you may like to reduce the screen brightness,
- you may like to change the ring tone,
- you may like to relay a specific song from your favorite FM station to your friend using your mobile
- You may like to use it as a calculator, address book, emailing device etc.
These variations in the functionality can only be achieved by a very flexible device.
This flexible device sitting at the heart of the circuits is none other than a Customized Microprocessor better known as an Embedded Processor and the mobile phone housing a number of functionalities is known as an Embedded System.
Since it satisfies the requirement of a number of users at the same time (you and your friend, you and the radio station, you and the telephone network etc) it is working within a time-constraint, i.e. it has to satisfy everyone with the minimum acceptable delay. We call this as to work in "Real Time". This is unlike your holidaying attitude when you take the clock on your stride.
We can also say that it does not make us wait long for taking our words and relaying them as well as receiving them, unlike an email server, which might take days to receive/deliver your message when the network is congested or slow.
Thus we can name the mobile telephone as a "Real Time Embedded System" (RTES)
Now we are ready to take some definitions
Real Time
"'Real'-time usually means time as prescribed by external sources"
For example the time struck by clock (however fast or late it might be) . The timings generated by your requirements. You may like to call someone at mid-night and send him a picture. This external timing requirements imposed by the user is the real-time for the embedded system.
Embedded (Embodiment)
"Embodied phenomena are those that by their very nature occur in real time and real space" In other words, A number of systems coexist to discharge a specific function in real time
Thus "A Real Time Embedded System" (RTES) is precisely the union of subsystems to discharge a specific task coherently. Hence forth we call them as RTES. RTES as a generic term may mean a wide variety of systems in the real world. However we will be concerned about them which use programmable devices such as microprocessors or microcontrollers and have specific functions. We shall characterize them as follows.
Characteristics of an Rtes
Here "single-functioned" means specific functions. The RTES is usually meant for very specific functions. Generally a special purpose microprocessor executes a program over and over again for a specific purpose. If the user wants to change the functionality, e.g. changing the mobile phone from conversation to camera mode or calculator mode the program gets flushed out and a new program is loaded which carries out the requisite function. These operations are monitored and controlled by an operating system called as Real Time Operating System (RTOS) which has much simpler complexity but more rigid constraints as compared to the conventional operating systems such as Micro Soft Windows and Unix etc.
Tightly Constrained
The constraints on the design and marketability of RTES are more rigid than their non-real-time non-embedded counter parts. Time-domain constraints are the first thing that is taken care while developing such a system. Size, weight, power consumption and cost4 are the other major factors.
Reactive and Real Time
Many embedded systems must continually react to changes in the system's environment and must compute certain results in real time without delay. For example, a car's cruise controller continually monitors and reacts to speed and brake sensors. It must compute acceleration or deceleration amounts repeatedly within a limited time; a delayed computation could result in a failure to maintain control of the car. In contrast a desktop computer system typically focuses on computations, with relatively infrequent (from the computer's perspective) reactions to input devices. In addition, a delay in those computations, while perhaps inconvenient to the computer user, typically does not result in a system failure.
4 Very few in India will be interested to buy a mobile phone if it costs Rs50,000/- even if it provides you a faster processor with 200MB of memory to store your address, your favorite mp3 music and plays them , acts as a small-screen TV whenever you desire, takes your call intelligently
However in USA majority can afford it !!!!!!
Common Architecture of Real Time Embedded Systems
Unlike general purpose computers a generic architecture can not be defined for a Real Time Embedded Systems. There are as many architecture as the number of manufacturers. Generalizing them would severely dilute the soul purpose of embodiment and specialization.
However for the sake of our understanding we can discuss some common form of systems at the block diagram level. Any system can hierarchically divided into subsystems. Each sub-system may be further segregated into smaller systems. And each of these smaller systems may consist of some discrete parts. This is called Hardware configuration.
Some of these parts may be programmable and therefore must have some place to keep these programs. In RTES the on- chip or on- board non-volatile memory does keep these programs. These programs are the part of the Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and continually run as long as the gadget is receiving power. A part of the RTOS also executes itself in the stand -by mode while taking a very little power from the battery. This is also called the sleep mode of the system.
Both the hardware and software coexist in a coherent manner. Tasks which can be both carried out by software and hardware affect the design process of the system. For example a multiplication action may be done by hardware or it can be done by software by repeated additions. Hardware based multiplication improves the speed at the cost of increased complexity of the arithmetic logic unit (ALU) of the embedded processor. On the other hand software based multiplication is slower but the ALU is simpler to design. These are some of the conflicting requirements which need to be resolved on the requirements as imposed by the overall system. This is known as Hardware-Software Codesign or simply Codesign.
Fig. 1.2 The System Interface and Architecture
The red and grey spheres in Fig.1.2 represent interface standards. When a system is assembled it starts with some chassis or a single subsystem. Subsequently subsystems are added onto it to make it a complete system.
Let us take the example of a Desktop Computer. Though not an Embedded System it can give us a nice example of assembling a system from its subsystems.
You can start assembling a desktop computer (Fig.1.3) starting with the chassis and then take the SMPS (switched mode power supply), motherboard, followed by hard disk drive, CDROM drive, Graphic Cards, Ethernet Cards etc. Each of these subsystems consists of several components e.g. Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), microprocessors, Analog as well as Digital VLSI circuits, Miniature Motor and its control electronics, Multilevel Power supply units crystal clock generators, Surface mounted capacitors and resistors etc. In the end you close the chassis and connect Keyboard, Mouse, Speakers, Visual Display Units, Ethernet Cable, Microphone, Camera etc fitting them into certain well-defined sockets.
As we can see that each of the subsystems inside or outside the Desktop has cables fitting well into the slots meant for them. These cables and slots are uniform for almost any Desktop you choose to assemble. The connection of one subsystem into the other and vice-versa is known as Interfacing. It is so easy to assemble because they are all standardized. Therefore, standardization of the interfaces is most essential for the universal applicability of the system and its compatibility with other systems. There can be open standards which makes it exchange information with products from other companies. It may have certain key standards, which is only meant for the specific company which manufactures them.
Fig. 1.3 Inside Desktop Computer
A Desktop Computer will have more open standards than an Embedded System. This is because of the level of integration in the later. Many of the components of the embedded systems are integrated on to a single chip. This concept is known as System on Chip (SOC) design. Thus there are only few subsystems left to be connected.
Analyzing the assembling process of a Desktop let us comparatively assess the possible subsystems of the typical RTES.
One such segregation is shown in Fig.1.4. The explanation of various parts as follows:
User Interface: for interacting with users. May consists of keyboard, touch pad etc
ASIC: Application Specific Integrated Circuit: for specific functions like motor control, data modulation etc.
Microcontroller(µC): A family of microprocessors
Real Time Operating System (RTOS): contains all the software for the system control and user interface
Controller Process: The overall control algorithm for the external process. It also provides timing and control for the various units inside the embedded system.
Digital Signal Processor (DSP) a typical family of microprocessors DSP assembly code: code for DSP stored in program memory
Dual Ported Memory: Data Memory accessible by two processors at the same time CODEC: Compressor/Decompressor of the data
User Interface Process: The part of the RTOS that runs the software for User Interface activities
Controller Process: The part of the RTOS that runs the software for Timing and Control amongst the various units of the embedded system
Fig. 1.4 Architecture of an Embedded System
The above architecture represents a hypothetical Embedded System (we will see more realistic ones in subsequent examples). More than one microprocessor (2 DSPs and 1 µC) are employed here to carry out different tasks. As we will learn later, the µC is generally meant for simpler and slower jobs such as carrying out a Proportional Integral (PI) control action or interpreting the user commands etc. The DSP is a more heavy duty processor capable of doing real time signal processing and control. Both the DSPs along with their operating systems and codes are independent of each other. They share the same memory without interfering with each other. This kind of memory is known as dual ported memory or two-way post-box memory. The Real Time Operating System (RTOS) controls the timing requirement of all the devices. It executes the over all control algorithm of the process while diverting more complex tasks to the DSPs. It also specifically controls the µC for the necessary user interactivity. The ASICs are specialized units capable of specialized functions such as motor control, voice encoding, modulation/demodulation (MODEM) action etc. They can be digital, analog or mixed signal VLSI circuits. CODECs are generally used for interfacing low power serial Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs). The analog signals from the controlled process can be monitored through an ADC interfaced through this CODEC.
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It's good news for us Red Wings fans! Helene St. James at the Detroit Free Press is reporting that Ericsson and Lidstrom will both be able to play tonight in game one. Datsyuk is questionable and Draper is out. The rumor is that Draper and Lidstrom both have groin problems. Lidstrom is ready to go but Draper has a ways to go yet. Datsyuk is close to returning from his foot injury. They all skated in practice yesterday except for Ericsson but he's still expected to play.
It's hard to believe that Ericsson will be able to play so soon after have an appendectomy. He must be one tough hombre!
I think it's very important that Lidstrom play and that he's fully healthy. He did such a great job last year, along with the rest of the defense, of shutting down Crosby and Malkin. In fact, as I recall, Hossa was the Penguins most effective player last year.
The Penguins are a better and more experienced team this year, but so are the Red Wings. If the Wings can stop Crosby and Malkin as well as they did last year this should be a slam dunk. But that's easier said than done. I won't be surprised if Crosby and Malkin are a lot better against the Wings than they were last year. If that happens we could be in for a game seven.
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