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How many thrillers could put the outcome in the title and still provide as many white-knuckle moments as "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29"? Although common wisdom says docs can't draw a crowd, producer-director-editor-d.p. Kevin Rafferty's film is so much fun it could prove an exception, especially given the word of mouth that will surely follow widespread festival play.
Rafferty's unadorned sports saga is built around the broadcast of the Nov. 23, 1968, match-up and Don Gillis' play-by-play, which provide the thrills in a game in which Yale led 29-13 with 42 seconds to play.
But the heart comes from interviews with the players, who revisit an extraordinary football game, played at a time when the country was a political powderkeg: The two Ivy League squads, both of which entered the contest undefeated, included members of both the paramilitary ROTC and the antiwar SDS, and at least one battle-scarred Vietnam vet.
But politics were forgotten at kickoff time, the players remember. War protestors and Wall Street alums put their differences aside on Saturday afternoons to rah-rah-rah.
The Harvard Crimson were the underdogs, despite their record, Yale having been powered all season by prodigious quarterback Brian Dowling, who hadn't been on the losing side of a football game since seventh grade. (It was Dowling who served as the model for the character B.D. in "Doonesbury," drawn by Yale classmate Garry Trudeau.) Yale also had Calvin Hill, who would later play for Dallas in the NFL.
The former players are almost uniformly witty, charming, funny and reflective; Rafferty shoots them straightforwardly, without much comment, although when he does ask a question, the answer is usually hilarious. The ex-players include Tommy Lee Jones, who was on the team, too (if not a pivotal part of the game), and the actor is generally so humorless that this becomes funny in and of itself.
While "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29" would seem an unusual choice for the politically minded Rafferty ("Feed," "The Atomic Cafe"), the game does serve as something of a metaphor for both coexistence and tenacity, given its time and place. One implied lesson arises from how the men have lived with the results over the last 40 years — "It was just a football game," one says, almost blasphemously, but putting the whole of collegiate sports in perspective.


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The dynamics of policy change: lobbying and water privatization
Richardson, J.J. and Maloney, W.A. and Rudig, Wolfgang (1992) The dynamics of policy change: lobbying and water privatization. Public Administration, 70 (2). pp. 157-175. ISSN 0033-3298Full text not available in this repository.Request a copy from the Strathclyde author
The privatization of the water industry was one of the most controversial and turbulent privatizations of the 1980s. The government undertook the project somewhat reluctantly, then the first plans had to be withdrawn, but eventually, the privatization of the industry was successfully completed in 1989. In this article, we first set out to provide a thorough account of the process of privatizing water, based on primary sources and exhaustive interviews. In doing so, we identity some major problems of established theories of British policy making: the process of water privatization clearly does not conform to any single model of policy making. Instead, individual 'episodes' of the policy process conform to different models. Arguing that existing theories of British policy making may have focused too narrowly on routine decision-making processes, we propose that a theory of the transformation of policy communities is required to understand the dynamics of radical policy change in Britain.
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Beyonce concludes Glastonbury 2011 in style
Star closes Sunday night with an explosive performance
Photographer:Sara Bowrey
United Kingdom | by Chris Eustace | 26 June 2011
Having kept the huge crowd waiting for 15 minutes, she kicked things off in spectacular style, emerging from her own mini-pyramid
to play 'Crazy In Love' as fireworks went off either side of the stage.
Telling the crowd "You're witnessing my dream, I always wanted to be a rockstar", 'Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)', 'Naughty Girl' and 'Baby Boy', featuring a brief cameo from Tricky, followed, with Beyonce getting the crowd to sing 'Happy Birthday' to her friend Steve.
'If I Were A Boy' featured a snippet of Alanis Morrissette's 'You Oughta Know', while a cover of Prince's 'The Beautiful Ones' segued into Kings Of Leon's 'Sex On Fire'.
The crowd were asked to sing the first half of 'Irreplaceable', before a rapturously received medley of former group Destiny's Child's hits, featuring 'Independent Woman Part 1', 'Bootylicious', 'Bug-A-Boo', 'Say My Name', 'Jumpin' Jumpin'' and 'Survivor', as well as Lady Gaga's 'Telephone'.
The singer then played the cover of Etta James' 'At Last' that she sang at President Obama's inauguration, before rounding things off with 'Run The World (Girls)' and a closing 'Halo', coming down to the crowd barriers at the end of the song, telling the audience that she'd "never forget this."
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How to Make It
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Heat a large nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray over medium-high heat. Add corn; sauté 5 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool.
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Deborah Swackhamer, a prominent water chemist, was dumped as chair of a key science panel at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday as part of a dramatic restructuring of how the agency gets scientific advice.
Swackhamer, a retired University of Minnesota professor, has drawn the public spotlight this year for sharply criticizing EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. She said Tuesday that Pruitt is turning the agency's scientific advisory boards into committees that will "rubber stamp his agenda: deregulation."
Late Tuesday, Pruitt announced he would appoint new leadership to three panels: The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), which guides the agency on the science underlying regulations; the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee; and the Board of Scientific Counselors. Swackhamer recently chaired the latter board, and she will remain a member at least until March.
At the same time, Pruitt announced a new policy that would disallow anyone who receives EPA research funding from serving as an adviser.
That will, in effect, bar many of the nation's top academic researchers — experts in everything from toxicology to public health to cancer — because the agency is the primary source of funding for environmental research.
The new policy will ensure that advisers are independent and free of conflicts of interest, Pruitt said in a news release.
"Whatever science comes out of EPA shouldn't be political science," Pruitt said. "From this day forward, EPA advisory committee members will be financially independent from the Agency."
The new policy does not rule out other potential conflicts of interest, such as advisers accepting research funding from corporate interests regulated by the EPA. Critics, including Swackhamer, pointed out that the boards instead will include representatives from industries that the EPA regulates and state officials who in the past have challenged the agency's regulatory efforts.
For example, the new chair of the SAB, which Swackhamer headed for four years, is Michael Honeycutt from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. He has fought air pollution standards on ozone and published a paper arguing that tightening the standard would not improve public health.
"These are not unbiased people," Swackhamer said of the new appointees. And many will not have the qualifications needed to provide scientific guidance on regulations, she said.
EPA spokeswoman Liz Bowman said in an e-mail that membership on the three boards consists of qualified scientists who will "help strengthen public confidence in EPA science." Members who have current grants from the agency can decide if they want to continue serving or if they want to give up their funding, she said.
Swackhamer does not have any EPA grants, she said. As a result, she is expected to continue serving her term on the board of counselors, Bowman said.
She will continue to speak out against the changes at the EPA, she said. She has already appeared before a congressional committee, where she said she believes Pruitt intends to "marginalize" science, and she's been quoted widely in the national press about changes underway at the EPA.
"I didn't ask for this — this is not my comfort zone," she said. "Now I feel even more compelled to speak up, and as long as someone listens, I will continue."
Pruitt, the former attorney general from Oklahoma, has made good on his promise to change direction at the EPA. He's expressed skepticism about the consensus of climate scientists that man-made carbon emissions are the primary cause of global warming, and rolled back the clean power plan that would have reduced greenhouse gas emissions. He also overruled the consensus among top staff who recommended pulling a top-selling pesticide from the market after peer-reviewed studies showed it damaged children's brains and was linked to autism.


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In 1955, David Levin and Reubin Askew founded the law firm of Levin & Askew. The two were the sole attorneys in the firm, assisted by just one additional staff member. As did most young attorneys, David and Reubin accepted virtually every case regardless of the area of law involved.
In 1961, David's brother Fred Levin joined the firm and quickly became recognized as one of America's premier personal injury lawyers after achieving several multi-million dollar jury verdicts, including one in 1980 that was the largest compensatory damage verdict in U.S. history at the time.
To date, Fred has received more than 30 jury verdicts in excess of $1 million. At various points in his career he has held the national record for jury verdicts involving the wrongful death of a child, the wrongful death of a housewife, the wrongful death of a wage earner, the wrongful death of an African American, and the largest personal injury verdict in the state of Florida.
Fred has been listed in every edition of Best Lawyers in America; is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates (limited to 100 of the nation's top trial attorneys); and was inducted into The National Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame. Fred is best known, however, for rewriting Florida's Medicaid Third-Party Recovery Act to allow the State of Florida to sue and recover billions of dollars from the tobacco industry for smoking-related illnesses.
In 2014, New York Times bestseller Josh Young published a comprehensive biography of Fred's life. It's called And Give Up Showbiz? How Fred Levin Beat Big Tobacco, Became a Chief of Ghana, Earned Boxing Manager of the Year & Transformed American Law. In 2015, Mr. Levin was named Trial Lawyer of the Year by The National Trial Lawyers.
More than thirty years ago, Mike Papantonio joined the law firm and started one of the most respected mass torts departments in America. His work in complex litigation involving prescription drugs and medical devices has placed Mike at the center of the nationwide mass torts and class action legal community.
In 2004, Mike helped launch a nationwide organization called Mass Torts Made Perfect. Today, this organization holds annual conferences attended by the top personal injury attorneys across America in an effort to develop successful litigation strategies for confronting wrongdoing by multi-national corporations.
Mike is listed in the publications Best Lawyers in America and Leading American Attorney. In 2008, he was selected by the Public Justice Foundation as a finalist for its Trial Lawyer of the Year. In 2011, he was awarded the Perry Nichols Award, the highest honor given by the Florida Justice Association. In 2015, he was inducted into The National Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame. Today, he hosts the international television show "America's Lawyer."
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Much has changed for our law firm since it was formed more than sixty years ago. Reubin Askew, one of the two founders, went on to become a two-term governor for the State of Florida and candidate for President of the United States.
The firm now has 40 lawyers; has successfully represented thousands of clients throughout the country; and has received jury verdicts and settlements in excess of $4 billion.
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President Donald Trump told Fox News' Sean Hannity on Tuesday that any deal with North Korea must be approved by Congress.
Trump appeared on Hannity in an interview conducted in Singapore, shortly after the president wrapped up his summit with North Korean Kim Jong-un.
Trump's remarks came in the midst of a discussion of the flaws in earlier international agreements, including the Iran nuclear deal (4:27 to 4:48 in the Fox News video):
TRUMP: I would say that the Iran deal was one of the worst I've ever seen. I will say, speaking of the Iran deal, since we got out of that deal — and we could do it very easily, because they never had it approved by Congress, it was just President [Barack] Obama —
HANNITY: This must be approved by Congress.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I want it to be approved by Congress, 'cause otherwise it's really, doesn't mean very much. I would think anybody would want it approved by Congress.
President Obama refused to send the Iran deal to the U.S. Senate for ratification by a two-thirds majority, as the Treaty Clause of the U.S. Constitution arguably required.
His administration resisted, then reluctantly signed, the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, which theoretically allowed both houses of Congress to disapprove of the deal by a majority vote. However, that law allowed Obama to veto a motion of disapproval, and to defeat an override easily simply by marshaling more than one-third of either house behind the deal. And in the end, the Democratic Party filibustered a vote on the Iran deal in the U.S. Senate, meaning Congress had no say at all.
Trump's commitment to bring any deal with North Korea to Congress could be a sign that he respects the Constitution more than Obama did. It could also indicate that he understands negotiation far better than Obama.
By declaring that any deal with North Korea must be approved by Congress — which, certainly in the case of the U.S. Senate, would mean earning the support of a significant number of his political opponents — Trump is showing North Korea that he has very little room to compromise. By tying his own hands, so to speak, he gains leverage in future talks. To reach a deal, it is the North Korean dictator — ironically, perhaps — who will have to be flexible.
In the same way, Trump's domestic critics — including Democrats like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Never Trump Republicans like Erick Erickson — are helping him, unwittingly, by showing North Korea just how difficult it will be to reach a deal unless it can approach the high standards Trump's opposition demands.
President Obama never understood the way he could use constitutional constraints, and domestic opposition, to strengthen his negotiating position with Iran. Instead, he accused his critics of making "common cause" with the hard-liners in Iran shouting "death to America." In so doing, Obama showed the Iranian regime that he would be willing to defend almost any deal, and the result was a weak agreement.
Trump is clearly following a different tack.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He was named to Forward's 50 "most influential" Jews in 2017. He is the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.


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Visitors to the Eastern Townships are often struck by the number of churches they find. Indeed, it is not uncommon to find three or four, even five churches, of different denominations within close proximity to one another in a single village. In some cases, such as in Way's Mills, they stare at one another from opposite sides of the street.
At one time, for example, five churches -- all clapboard, all white -- lined Main Street in Beebe Plain, where the Baptists, Anglicans, Methodists, Adventists and Roman Catholics all vied for their share of the faithful.
Enthusiasts of the back roads are surprised to discover churches at the loneliest of crossroads, seemingly in the middle of nowhere. They soon realize, however, that that picturesque little church may be all that remains of a once thriving community.
The older churches in the Townships are strongly reminiscent of New England. This is so for good reason, since it was during the first waves of settlement (c.1810s-1840s) that organized religion first took root in the region. Settlers from south of the border - in particular New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts - brought with them their faiths, and their architecture. The Universalist Church in Huntingville, for example, looks like it was transplanted from somewhere in New England. It dates to 1844.
At first, the Eastern Townships, especially the region along the border, were
served by itinerant preachers. Baptists, Methodists, Universalists, Congregationalists, and later Adventists all played a role in bringing God to the new settlements.** Evangelist ministers would hold meetings wherever it was convenient and wherever a sufficient number of followers could gather to hear the Word. Often this meant meeting in someone's home. In time, as communities took root, permanent places of worship, typically fairly plain in design and adornment, and usually made of wood, were built.
The "established" Protestant denominations -- the Church of England (Anglican) and, to a lesser extent, the Church Scotland (Presbyterian) -- began to flourish really only after the arrival of significant numbers of immigrants from Great Britain in the 1830s and 1840s. Unlike other denominations, the Anglicans benefited from government support. St. Peter's in Cookshire is one of the more picturesque Anglican churches in the Townships. It was built in 1868 and is unusual in that it is built of fieldstone.
With the arrival of large numbers of French Canadians in the second half of the 19th century, and the colonization of large tracts of land in the northern and eastern parts of the Eastern Townships, the Roman Catholic Church began to make inroads in the region. By the early 20th century, most of the larger towns had a Catholic church and corresponding Catholic parish. More often than not, the Catholic church was the tallest building in town. And unlike most of the more modest Protestant churches, many of the Catholic churches were built in brick or stone. Some, like the church in Tingwick, are quite elaborate. Of course, in the newer French Canadian settlements there were only Catholic churches.
The importance of religion in the daily lives of Townshippers has declined as it has elsewhere in North America. As a result, many congregations are finding it difficult to survive. This is true both of the Catholic and the various Protestant (largely English-speaking) denominations. In the case of the English-speaking community, out-migration, assimilation, an aging population, low attendance rates, and rising costs associated with maintaining church property have forced the closure of many small churches. In some towns and rural areas, the number of parishioners has fallen so low that services are held only occasionally -- in some cases once or twice a year. Added to this is the difficulty (and expense) of finding ministers to serve these small communities. Yet, many churches have managed to survive, preserving their original vocation, albeit some with precariously small congregations and only occasional services.
Many of the churches that have closed have been sold off and converted to other uses. They now serve as community centres, concert halls, town halls, even private homes, like the former United Church at Farnam's Corners. Some, like the former United Church in Tomifobia, have fallen into decay, a sign of a no longer viable community.
Taken as a whole, these churches -- and former churches -- represent an important part of our architectural heritage, and an integral part of our physical landscape.
*Note: In the 1920s, Canadian Methodists, Congregationalists and Presbyterians (at least some of them) joined to form the United Church of Canada.
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The whole design community has gathered in Milan Design Week to showcase innovative new products, furniture design, art installations, and artistic collaborations at Salone del Mobile. There were so many novelties at Salone del Mobile 2018 and while we will share all the revelations from iSaloni with you, it is time for selecting the best pieces, the ones that catch the eyes of the visitors. So, take a look at the top 10 best pieces of this year's Salone del Mobile.
Boca do Lobo's Imperfectio Sofa and Eden Series center table create the perfect luxurious area yet comfortable in a peculiar way to excite and provoke. Definitely one of the most viral pieces on Instagram trends about Salone del Mobile.
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Empire Chandelier by Luxxu is inspired by the stunning architecture of The Empire State Building. It's a masterpiece with an extravagant shape, capable to transform every space into a stunning scenario.
The Dutch entrepreneur and former Moooi co-founder Casper Vissers have just launched a new design brand called Revised, evoking styles from the early 20th century.
Soleil chair by Boca do Lobo, released at Salone del Mobile, is a synthesis of styles and senses. Inspired by the spirit and mission of the famous Cirque du Soleil, the purpose is to invoke, provoke and evoke. And that was what happened at the luxury brand iSaloni stand.
Baraka Desk from BRABBU opens the door for a new room design of the luxury brand. This new piece, from Earth Collection, in partnership with Pullcast, stands out outside of historical time will enhance the beauty of Baraka energy into your modern living room set.
Milanese fashion house Dolce & Gabbana just unveiled the latest additions to its collaboration with Italian appliance manufacturer Smeg. The kitchen will no longer be a bored room ate your home interiors.
Diamond center table born from one of the best sellers of Boca do Lobo, the iconic Diamond sideboard. It is a reflection of the furniture jeweler's expertise and quintessence, undoubtedly deserving its title.
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Marijuana, also known as cannabis or pot, has a long history of human use. Most ancient cultures didn't grow the plant to get high, but as herbal medicine, likely starting in Asia around 500 BC. The history of cannabis cultivation in America dates back to the early colonists, who grew hemp for textiles and rope. Political and racial factors in the 20th century led to the criminalization of marijuana in the United States, though its legal status is changing in many states.
The cannabis or hemp plant originally evolved in Central Asia before people introduced the plant into Africa, Europe, and eventually the Americas. Hemp fiber was used to make clothing, paper, sails and rope, and its seeds were used as food.
Because it's a fast-growing plant that's easy to cultivate and has many uses, hemp was widely grown throughout colonial America and at Spanish missionsin the Southwest. In the early 1600s, the Virginia, Massachusetts and Connecticut colonies required farmers to grow hemp.
These early hemp plants had very low levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the chemical responsible for marijuana's mind-altering effects.
There's some evidence that ancient cultures knew about the psychoactive properties of the cannabis plant. They may have cultivated some varieties to produce higher levels of THC for use in religious ceremonies or healing practice.
Burned cannabis seeds have been found in the graves of shamans in China and Siberia from as early as 500 BC.
Cannabinoids are a diverse set of chemical compounds that bind to special receptors in the human body that make up what is known as the endocannabinoid system. The "key and lock" metaphor is often used to describe this process. The human body possesses specific binding sites ("locks") on the surface of many cell types, and our body produces several endocannabinoids ("keys") that bind to these cannabinoid receptors (CB) to activate or "unlock" them.
In 1992, researchers detected an endogenous substance that binds to cannabinoid receptors for the first time. This substance, known as anandamide, comes from the Sanskrit word "Ananda" for bliss and "amide" due to its chemical structure. A second endocannabinoid was discovered in 1995, 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG). These two endocannabinoids are the best studied so far. Today, it is thought that about 200+ related substances exist, which resemble the endocannabinoids and complement their function in what has been termed the "entourage effect." Several endocannabinoids do not only bind to cannabinoid receptors, but also to a possible CB3 receptor (the GPR55 receptor), to vanilloid receptors and further receptors.
In addition to endocannabinoids, scientists have now identified cannabinoids found in the cannabis plant (phytocannabinoids) that work to mimic or counteract the effects of some endocannabinoids. Phytocannabinoids and terpenes are manufactured in resin glands (trichomes) present on the flowers and main fan leaves of late-stage cannabis plants. The amount of resin produced and its cannabinoid content varies by plant gender, growing conditions and harvesting time. The chemical stability of cannabinoids in harvested plant material is affected by moisture, temperature, light and storage, but will degrade over time in any storage conditions.
When a cannabinoid causes a receptor to act in the same way as it would to a naturally occurring hormone or neurotransmitter, then it is labeled "agonist." On the other hand, if the cannabinoid prevents the receptor from binding to the naturally occurring compound, thereby causing the resulting event (e.g., pain, appetite, alertness) to be altered or diminished, it is labeled "antagonist." Research is mounting to better understand how specific cannabinoids can unlock (or lock in some cases) specific receptors.
Over 100 phytocannabinoids have been identified in the cannabis plant, many of which have documented medicinal value. Most are closely related or differ by only a single chemical part. The most talked-about and researched cannabinoids found in the cannabis plant are tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) for its psychoactive properties ("high feeling") and cannabidiol (CBD) for its healing properties.
Cannabinoids can be administered by smoking, vaporizing, oral ingestion, transdermal patch, intravenous injection, sublingual absorption or rectal suppository.
An Endogenous Cannabinoid System (ECS), commonly referred to as an "Endocannabinoid System," is found in every animal and regulates a broad range of biological functions. The ECS is a biochemical control system of neuromodulatory lipids (molecules that include fats, waxes, sterols and fat-soluble vitamins such as vitamins A, D, E and K and others) and specialized receptors configured to accept certain cannabinoids. In general, a given receptor will accept only particular classes of compounds and will be unaffected by other compounds, just as a specific key is needed to open a lock.
Specialized receptors are located throughout the human body, including but not limited to, in the hippocampus (memory, learning), the cerebral cortex (decision-making, emotional behavior), the cerebellum (motor control, coordination), putamen (movement, learning), the hypothalamus (appetite, body temperature) and the amygdala (emotions). When a specific cannabinoid or combination of cannabinoids bind to a specialized receptor, an event or a series of events, is triggered in the cell, resulting in a change in the cell's activity, its gene regulation and/or the signals that it sends to neighboring cells. This process is called "signal transduction."
Clinical endocannabinoid deficiency (CEDC) is a proposed spectrum disorder that has been implicated in a range of illnesses, including fibromyalgia, migraine and irritable bowel syndrome. So far, very little clinical research has been conducted on this speculative disorder. It is quite possible that these very common conditions may respond favorably to cannabinoid therapies. However, this will only happen if more research is conducted.
The concept of the entourage effect was introduced in 1998 by Israeli scientists Shimon Ben-Shabat and Raphael Mechoulam. The theory is that cannabinoids within the cannabis plant work together through a network of coincidental relationships as part of a greater organism and affect the body in a mechanism similar to the body's own endocannabinoid system. Basically, these compounds work better together than in isolation.
The longstanding, successful use of cannabis as a whole makes it necessary to find a rationale for its medicinal superiority in comparison to products containing isolated, single components of the cannabis plant, or synthetic cannabinoids trying to replicate the natural components.
Research on the benefits of THC and CBD in isolation is well established. THC demonstrates analgesic, anti-emetic, and anti-inflammatory properties. CBD possesses anti-psychotic, anti-seizure, and anti-anxiety properties. However, evidence is mounting that by isolating these cannabinoids or creating them in a lab, that the resulting effects may have limited therapeutic use. It is also the reason visits to a doctor or emergency room have increased. When delivered in high concentrations, THC can cause overdosing. Although an acute THC overdose rarely requires medical intervention, the side effects can be very unpleasant. Good evidence now shows that THC and CBD work together. CBD is known to lock out THC at the CB1-R. Therefore, applying the entourage effect, increasing CBD in the case of an overdose may lessen the effects of THC.
The synthetic cannabinoid, Marinol, is another example. Marinol is a pure, synthetic form of THC. When the drug was first introduced in the mid-80s, it was thought it would have the same effect as the cannabis plant as a whole. However, it soon became clear that most patients were not responding the same as when THC is consumed by smoking or ingesting naturally-grown cannabis. Researchers soon realized that other compounds, such as CBD and various terpenes, play a larger role than previously realized.
The passing of Medical Marijuana bills allows patients to obtain a medical marijuana card if they have a qualifying medical condition and a licensed physician believes they are likely to receive therapeutic or palliative benefit from the use of medical marijuana. Some conditions to consider.
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Alzheimer's disease
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
The treatment of these conditions; or a chronic or debilitating disease or medical condition or its treatment that produces one or more of the following: cachexia or wasting syndrome, severe and chronic pain, severe nausea, seizures (including but not limited to those characteristic of epilepsy), or severe and persistent muscle spasms (including but not limited to those characteristic of multiple sclerosis).
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CBD is not an acronym it stands for cannabidiol the name of the entire group of chemical compounds also known as cannabinoids which can be found naturally in the cannabis and hemp plant. Cannabis plants contain THC the psychoactive chemical that provides the "high" or "euphoria effect". Many varieties of cannabis are grown for medical purposes specifically and are bred to have a high CBD and very low THC content. The THC acts as a driver for the CBD which is commonly known as the "entourage effect". Strains are created for specific medical conditions and when titrated just right will provide relief and immediate benefit for patients.
CBD is an anti-inflammatory agent. It is not the same as THC. CBD has no side affects or contraindications. CBD has no psychotropic affect. So whatever you are taking for various health and physical issues you do not have to worry about adverse drug interactions.
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Have you ever wondered why cannabis has a distinct sometimes skunky smell. Well blame it on the terpenes. Terpenes provide each plants distinctive scent or essence. Like roses or spices different strains of Cannabis have unique odors ranging from sweet to acrid and skunky to floral. Scientists believe that terpenes account for some of the medical benefits of Cannabis including painkilling and anti-inflammatory effects.
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Chilly temperatures and light rainfall did not deter hundreds of people from gathering at the Museum of Pop Culture (formerly known as the Experience Music Project) in Seattle Center to pay tribute to Chris Cornell. "The clouds tonight somehow feel right for an artist who brought us so much dark, beautiful music," said Jasen Emmons, MoPop's artistic director, in his opening remarks. In a later speech, Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan referenced the changes in Seattle since Cornell's youth, but added that the new buildings, booming tech economy, and coffee shops don't represent the soul of Seattle. "The soul of Seattle is what Chris Cornell knew," Durkan said. "He pulled from places within himself that were amazing and poured it into us."
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Tuesday Tunes – "Certainty" by Sloucher
Today's tune is a catchy number from Seattle's own Sloucher. Don't let the band's name fool you; it's evident from the first listen that these guys put a lot of heart into their music. "Certainty" […]
Tuesday Tunes – "The Sound" by Noah Gundersen
Tuesday Tunes is back and this week, I'm featuring the newest single from Noah Gundersen, "The Sound." Released yesterday with a lyric video, the song marks a change in direction for the Seattle-based singer-songwriter as he adopts a heavier electric sound. The new sound is not a complete surprise, though, as Gundersen's full-band project Young in the City leans in this direction, as did some songs on his last solo album, Carry the Ghost.
Chris Cornell's Death Hurts So Much Because He Was One of Us
An essay on Chris Cornell, untimely death, and the act of communal release.
Tuesday Tunes – "Helplessness Blues" by Fleet Foxes
"I was raised up believing I was somehow unique / Like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes, unique in each way you can see. / And now after some thinking, I'd say I'd rather be / A functioning cog […]
Tuesday Tunes – "Blossom" by Noah Gundersen
Today's tune comes from Noah Gundersen, a singer-songwriter from Seattle, Washington who's behind one of my favorite albums of 2015, Carry the Ghost. "Oh, you hold my heart forever. / I can't hold on to what's not […]
Album Review: Dust & Gold by Rafe Pearlman and Jonathan Plum
"Let me hear you," Rafe Pearlman sings in "Even The Stars," the opening track of his album with Jonathan Plum, Dust & Gold. "…Through dust and gold now / The echoes that showed how / Harder […]
Tuesday Tunes – "Dyslexic Heart" by Paul Westerberg
After a mac 'n cheese cook-off and fireworks show on July 4, I watched Singles, one of my favorite feel-good movies, with a relative who'd never seen it. I got inspired to watch the film again after seeing the Facebook event for a screening of Singles at the Seattle apartment where it was filmed, which ultimately did not happen (bummer). Since then, "Dyslexic Heart" has been stuck in my head on repeat. Usually I like to feature weightier songs, but hey, some Tuesdays call for catchy, upbeat tunes. Reminder to self – you can enjoy music that doesn't punch you in the gut with its heaviness.
Tuesday Tunes – "You Avoid Parties" by The Posies
The first Tuesday Tune of 2015 comes from one of my favorite bands, The Posies. "You Avoid Parties" appears on the band's second album, Dear 23, released by DGC Records in 1990.
Dear 23 is one of my favorite albums and since the first listen, I've considered "You Avoid Parties" a standout track, largely due to its great vocal harmonies and well-crafted lyrics. Its story is told in second person and every verse reveals a new layer of the narrative. I've always thought this song described someone's struggle with depression as they gradually pull away from the people and things they once enjoyed. Each thing this person avoids – parties, fathers, and thinking – remind them of who they used to be. In particular, the following lyrics stand out to me:
Tuesday Tunes – "Lucky" by Mychal Cohen
*Listening with headphones is recommended
Mychal Cohen is a film and television composer who also serves as the lead singer and guitarist of Seattle-based band The Weather (formerly known as Campfire OK). Just before this video was filmed, Cohen and cinematographer Christian Sorensen Hansen shot the music video for Bryan John Appleby's "Cliffs Along the Sea." As they rowed back to shore, Cohen began playing this song. Hansen captured a beautiful, spontaneous moment and the ambient sounds only enhance it. As much as I believe that some spontaneous events are best experienced without documentation, there are certain times, such as this one, that I'm grateful a moment was captured on video. I have some additional thoughts on documenting moments, so I'll expand on this topic in a future entry. Anyway, I hope that we'll get a studio version of "Lucky" on a future album from The Weather.


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still waters run deep
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Possibly inspired by Shakespeare, c. 1590, in Henry VI, Part 2, act 3, sc. 1:
- Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep;
- And in his simple show he harbours treason.
- A person with a calm appearance has, or may have, considerable inner emotion, character, or intellect.
- 1822, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, "A New-England Tale":
- I always knew she was an artful jade; 'still waters run deep;' but she shall be exposed, the mask shall be stripped from the hypocrite.
- 1885, Thomas Hardy, "A Mere Interlude":
- But still waters run deep; and no crisis had come in the years of her early maidenhood to demonstrate what lay hidden within her, like metal in a mine.
- 1903, Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, ch. 58:
- Baxter had never known of any goings on in that quarter, but, bless you, still waters run deep, and these girls were all alike, one as bad as the other.
- 2003 June 8, Alice Elliott Dark, "Book Review: Rainy Day Woman," New York Times (retrieved 9 July 2008):
- Isabel Pierce, the central character of Sweetwater, Roxana Robinson's fluid third novel, gives the appearance of being a thoughtful, reserved, quiet woman who won't rock any boats in her life. Yet she harbors passions; it might be said of her that still waters run deep.
- 1822, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, "A New-England Tale":
a person's calm appearance may be misleading
See alsoEdit
- Gregory Y. Titelman, Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings, 1996, →ISBN, page 308.


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from Atlantic Magazine.
For purposes of discussion. I consider Atlantic Magazine an excellent supplement to your life if you do not already get it.
Quote:Students don't seem to be getting much out of higher education.
How... can anyone call higher education wasteful in an age when its financial payoff is greater than ever? The earnings premium for college graduates has rocketed to 73 percent—that is, those with a bachelor's degree earn, on average, 73 percent more than those who have only a high-school diploma, up from about 50 percent in the late 1970s. The key issue, however, isn't whether college pays, but why. The simple, popular answer is that schools teach students useful job skills. But this dodges puzzling questions.
First and foremost: From kindergarten on, students spend thousands of hours studying subjects irrelevant to the modern labor market. Why do English classes focus on literature and poetry instead of business and technical writing? Why do advanced-math classes bother with proofs almost no student can follow? When will the typical student use history? Trigonometry? Art? Music? Physics? Latin? The class clown who snarks "What does this have to do with real life?" is onto something.
The disconnect between college curricula and the job market has a banal explanation: Educators teach what they know—and most have as little firsthand knowledge of the modern workplace as I do. Yet this merely complicates the puzzle. If schools aim to boost students' future income by teaching job skills, why do they entrust students' education to people so detached from the real world? Because, despite the chasm between what students learn and what workers do, academic success is a strong signal of worker productivity.
Suppose your law firm wants a summer associate. A law student with a doctorate in philosophy from Stanford applies. What do you infer? The applicant is probably brilliant, diligent, and willing to tolerate serious boredom. If you're looking for that kind of worker—and what employer isn't?—you'll make an offer, knowing full well that nothing the philosopher learned at Stanford will be relevant to this job.
The labor market doesn't pay you for the useless subjects you master; it pays you for the preexisting traits you signal by mastering them. This is not a fringe idea. Michael Spence, Kenneth Arrow, and Joseph Stiglitz—all Nobel laureates in economics—made seminal contributions to the theory of educational signaling. Every college student who does the least work required to get good grades silently endorses the theory. But signaling plays almost no role in public discourse or policy making. As a society, we continue to push ever larger numbers of students into ever higher levels of education. The main effect is not better jobs or greater skill levels, but a credentialist arms race.
Lest I be misinterpreted, I emphatically affirm that education confers some marketable skills, namely literacy and numeracy. Nonetheless, I believe that signaling accounts for at least half of college's financial reward, and probably more. Most of the salary payoff for college comes from crossing the graduation finish line. Suppose you drop out after a year. You'll receive a salary bump compared with someone who's attended no college, but it won't be anywhere near 25 percent of the salary premium you'd get for a four-year degree. Similarly, the premium for sophomore year is nowhere near 50 percent of the return on a bachelor's degree, and the premium for junior year is nowhere near 75 percent of that return. Indeed, in the average study, senior year of college brings more than twice the pay increase of freshman, sophomore, and junior years combined. Unless colleges delay job training until the very end, signaling is practically the only explanation. This in turn implies a mountain of wasted resources—time and money that would be better spent preparing students for the jobs they're likely to do.
Arum and Roksa cite a study finding that students at one typical college spent 13 hours a week studying, 12 hours "socializing with friends," 11 hours "using computers for fun," eight hours working for pay, six hours watching TV, six hours exercising, five hours on "hobbies," and three hours on "other forms of entertainment." Grade inflation completes the idyllic package by shielding students from negative feedback. The average GPA is now 3.2.
What does this mean for the individual student? Would I advise an academically well-prepared 18-year-old to skip college because she won't learn much of value? Absolutely not. Studying irrelevancies for the next four years will impress future employers and raise her income potential. If she tried to leap straight into her first white-collar job, insisting, "I have the right stuff to graduate, I just choose not to," employers wouldn't believe her. To unilaterally curtail your education is to relegate yourself to a lower-quality pool of workers. For the individual, college pays.
This does not mean, however, that higher education paves the way to general prosperity or social justice. When we look at countries around the world, a year of education appears to raise an individual's income by 8 to 11 percent. By contrast, increasing education across a country's population by an average of one year per person raises the national income by only 1 to 3 percent. In other words, education enriches individuals much more than it enriches nations.
How is this possible? Credential inflation: As the average level of education rises, you need more education to convince employers you're worthy of any specific job. One research team found that from the early 1970s through the mid‑1990s, the average education level within 500 occupational categories rose by 1.2 years. But most of the jobs didn't change much over that span—there's no reason, except credential inflation, why people should have needed more education to do them in 1995 than in 1975. What's more, all American workers' education rose by 1.5 years in that same span—which is to say that a great majority of the extra education workers received was deployed not to get better jobs, but to get jobs that had recently been held by people with less education.
As credentials proliferate, so do failed efforts to acquire them. Students can and do pay tuition, kill a year, and flunk their finals. Any respectable verdict on the value of education must account for these academic bankruptcies. Failure rates are high, particularly for students with low high-school grades and test scores; all told, about 60 percent of full-time college students fail to finish in four years. Simply put, the push for broader college education has steered too many students who aren't cut out for academic success onto the college track.
The college-for-all mentality has fostered neglect of a realistic substitute: vocational education. It takes many guises—classroom training, apprenticeships and other types of on-the-job training, and straight-up work experience—but they have much in common. All vocational education teaches specific job skills, and all vocational education revolves around learning by doing, not learning by listening. Research, though a bit sparse, suggests that vocational education raises pay, reduces unemployment, and increases the rate of high-school completion.
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Cinematic, Improvisation, Soundscapes
Steve Reich, Jaga Jazzist, John Hollenbeck
John Ghost (Gent, BE), the sextet around guitarist / composer Jo De Geest, draws influences from jazz, rock and contemporary classical music.
Minimalism, electronics and a cinematic atmosphere characterize their instrumental music.
John Ghost is ingenious and accessible, often described as a symbiosis between the sounds of Steve Reich, Nils Frahm and Jaga Jazzist.
On Sep 27th 2019 they released their second album, 'Airships Are Organisms', through Sdban Ultra. Herein the band was accompanied by Jørgen Træen, producer of, among others, the Norwegian electro-jazz group Jaga Jazzist, Kaizers Orchestra, Hubro and Sondre Lerche.
Jo De Geest – compositions, guitar, loops
Rob Banken – alto saxophone, bass clarinet, flute
Wim Segers – vibraphone, marimba, percussion
Karel Cuelenaere – piano, Fender Rhodes, synth
Lieven Van Pee – bass
Elias Devoldere – drums, percussion
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Flying and palatable cuisine are usually as far apart as the traveller's destination.
However, Globe@YVR is bucking the trend according to a list of the world's best airport restaurants, complied by The Daily Meal.
The New York City-based publication recently ranked the restaurant, located in the Vancouver International Airport, as the fifth best airport restaurant worldwide.
To compile its 35 Best Airport Restaurants list, The Daily Meal researched existing rankings from the Travel Channel, CNN and Conde Nast Traveller. The online magazine also polled a selection of well-travelled chefs and food writers to determine the best location for a culinary layover.
Globe@YVR reached fifth place due to its expansive space, high ceilings and upscale lighting. The restaurant's baked Mediterranean tart with eggplant and goat cheese; cedar-wrapped British Columbia salmon with whiskey maple sauce and smoky buttermilk fried chicken and watermelon feta salad also received mention.
Globe@YVR's dinner menu specializes in local, Pacific Northwest cuisine and the Ocean Wise program. The restaurant is located in the Fairmont Vancouver Airport hotel, directly above the United States departures terminal. Globe@YVR previous ranked No. 20, in The Daily Meal's 2013 list.
LEE Kitchen by Susur Lee at Toronto Pearson International Airport also made the list at No. 22. The Daily Meal noted Lee's unique blend of Asian And French-inspired cuisine, including a full dim sum menu and menu items like cheeseburger spring roll lettuce wraps and spicy beef tacos with goat cheese.
The Gorgeous Kitchen at Heathrow Airport in London ranked No. 1 on the list.


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The Ultimate Guide: 10 Things to Do in Santa Claus Village
Santa Claus Village in Arctic Circle is the home of beloved Santa Claus, but the area has a whole another dimension, too. For those hundreds of thousands people who come here annually to meet Santa Claus, there's plenty to do and see! In addition to meeting Santa Claus every day of year, you can:
1. Post A Christmas Card from Santa Claus Main Post Office
If you're already in Santa Claus Village, it's better to let your friends and family back home to know it. In Santa Claus Main Post Office, you can write a card to your dearests and let the cheerful elves to post it forward. You can write your card any time of year, even in summer, and the elves will take care that it'll be delivered in Christmas.
2. Say Hi to Huskies & Reindeer
In Arctic Circle Husky Park you can try husky sled rides in winter and visit the husky park in summer. Bearhill Husky's dogs are in Santa Claus Village in winter, but in summer you can book company's Kennel Tour.
Reindeer you can find from Santa Claus Reindeer, where you can rides of various lengths. In addition, you can accomplish a Reindeer Driving Licence. In summer, when the reindeer cannot pull a sled on snowless ground, you can meet and feed the animals.
3. Try Snowmobiles or / and Visit Snowmobile Exhibition
Arctic Circle Snowmobile Park has mini-sized snowmobiles that even the youngest can ride. They also offer snowmobile safaris and other types of safaris. During the snowless season, when riding a snowmobile isn't possible, check Santa's Home of Snowmobiles –exhibition. It's a tribute to snowmobiles.
4. Snowman World (winter)
Snowman World is – naturally – a whole world made of snow. Experience adventures with snowman characters, admire ice sculptures in art gallery, and enjoy a drink in an ice bar. To give your experience a little bit of something, spend extraordinary night in Glass Resort and enjoy dinner in an Ice Bar.
5. Accommodate in Extraordinary Places
In summer, Santa's Igloos Arctic Circle let you experience Lapland's unusual white light. In winter, in the same place, be amazed by the colorful show of northern lights that dance through the glass roof.
The cabins of Santa Claus Holiday Village offer you the softest beds to land on after a day-well-spend. Santa Claus Holiday Village is open year-round. In summer 2018, new accommodation, Hotel Santa Claus Village, was opened just behind Holiday Village's cottages.
Nearby the forest's line stands Nova Skyland hotel's comfortable and lush apartments. Be steamed by cabin's modern sauna and relax in front of a fire place after. From the corner nearby, you'll find the luxurious, Scandinavian-styled rooms of Arctic TreeHouse Hotel that treat you with panoramic view into nature.
6. Eat Well
Active days require energy, right? Good news: There's many places to sit down and taste Lapland. In Rakas Restaurant & Bar, enjoy Scandinavian-inspired food made with local ingredients.
Nova Skyland's lunch buffee runs every day from 11am – 3pm. From 5pm onward, taste Lappish and Asian meals from a la carte –list.
During the winter season, enjoy your meal or drink in icy conditions of Snowman World's Ice Bar and Ice Restaurant.
From Santa Claus Holiday Village's reception building, you'll find Three Elves Restaurant, that serves you with Lappish-styled breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Lapland Restaurant Kotahovi is located Santa Claus Reindeer Park and is owned by Reindeer Family Körkkö.
7. Visit Elf's Farm Yard
In the traditional rustic atmosphere in the Arctic Circle, north side of Santa Claus Village, lives sheep, goat, rabbits, hens and rooster. You can familiarize with domestic animals in their daily activities in Arctic weather conditions. In winter time, Elf's Farm Yard offers an opportunity to cross the Arctic Circle with traditional Lappish wooden skis. All needed equipments are provided. Have a little picnic by campfire and enjoy safe ride down on snowy slide hill!
8. Visit Santa Claus' Home Cave Santapark
Christmas is there, underground, all year. Join elves in their magical world, taste classy gingerbread in Mrs. Gingerbread's Kitchen, see Ice Princess' Gallery and take memorable ride in a Magic Train. Santapark is open in summer and Christmas season.
9. Bring A Memory
Santa Claus Village has dozens of shops from local handicrafts to the most popular Finnish design brands. Find, for example, Taigakoru's jewellery and the famous souvenirs of Lappituote.
If your baggage is already full, note that the elves in Santa Claus' Main Post Office will post also Christmas packets for you for Christmas. You can post any time of year, and receive the packet next Christmas.
10. Last But Not Least: Cross The Magical Line of the Arctic Circle
Drawn on the ground, just in front of Santa Claus Office all its way towards the main road, lies the geographical line of the Arctic Circle. Take a photo when crossing it to show back home how north you've been.


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Top 10 Kosher Wines Over $30
Our annual list of the Top 10 kosher wines from the previous year costing $30 or more/bottle along with a review of the Laphroaig 18 year old Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky.
By Joshua E. London and Lou Marmon
Washington Jewish Week September 14, 2015
At this time of year, around the Yamim Noraim (the Days of Awe), we are supposed to reflect on the past year and where we should be going in life. It is a perfect time to look back and select our top wines from the previous year. This week we will focus on wines costing $30 or more that are worthy to collect and cellar or, better yet, to share with family and special friends. Next week we will look at the top 10 value-priced wines we especially enjoyed this past year.
So here we go:
Shiloh Legend II 2010 ($35): A rich, hefty yet elegant, full-bodied, fresh, balanced blend exhibiting aromas and flavors of black fruits, tobacco, eucalyptus and lovely spices, all structured with enough acidity and smooth tannins to provide a little longevity.
Jezreel Red Blend 2012 ($32): A delicious, easy drinking fusion that displays a slightly smoky dark fruit aroma that leads into strawberry, red cherry, cassis and plum flavors with accents of herbs, spice and oak.
Shirah Wines, White Hawk, Syrah 2012 ($55): Intense with nice acidity and booming notes of blackberries, blueberries, and mild black pepper with perhaps a touch of cassia or nutmeg, some leafy tobacco, distinct notes of oak, with a long, hearty, drying tannic finish.
Shirah Wines, Luna Matta, Aglianico 2013 ($65): A wonderfully balanced wine displaying lovely dried red fruit, licorice and mint aromas leading into supple black plum, strawberry, fig, dark chocolate, leather and exotic spice flavors, in a medium frame and a poised lengthy finish.
Black Tulip 2011 ($80): A full-bodied, concentrated Bordeaux-style blend that expresses a host of aromas and flavors including black currant, cassis, dark cherry and tart blackberry accented with vanilla, Mediterranean spices and bits of dark chocolate.
Covenant Lavan Chardonnay 2012 ($38): This begins with scents of white flowers and apples that extend into a medium frame of pear, fig, and citrus, along with hints of minerals, anise and toast, all following through the poised and polished finish.
Covenant Cabernet Sauvignon 2010 ($87): Cassis, black cherry and chocolate aromas and flavors flow smoothly and persist in this full-bodied, velvety-smooth beauty, along with red currants, coffee, graphite, mint and oak, all leading to a prolonged finish
Hagafen Brut Cuvée 2012 ($37): Full-bodied with a lovely, bright peach hue and a robust head of large, lively bubbles, this dry sparkler offers aromas and flavors of peach, apple, strawberry, a touch of melon, citrus, dollops of cream, a touch of yeast, and an inviting smidge of brioche; there is also a generous hint of sweet syrup, finishing in a long citrus and green almond finish.
Elvi Herenza Rioja Reserva 2009 ($67): A seriously elegant wine with expressive earthy aromas and flavors intermingled with dark plum, red cherry, licorice and herb notes with firm tannins and a vanilla accented finish.
Joseph Mellot Sancerre La Gravelière 2012 ($34): Opens with opulent floral and grapefruit aromas that lead into vibrantly rich flavors including tart green apple, peach, and passion fruit with a lively, long citrus infused finish featuring hints of grassy herbs and stone.
Spirits-wise, in the remaining space allotted to us this week, we thought we'd doff our cap to one of our great favorite whiskies which is being discontinued. Beam Suntory announced that supplies of the Laphroaig 18-year-old have run dry and that the product is no longer being offered. No replacement is expected next year, the company said. We love all things Laphroaig and are sad to see this expression go. There are still plenty of bottles out there, but not for very much longer, so seek, find, save, and savor. We bid it a fond adieu, while savoring a dram of:
Laphroaig 18 year old Islay Single Malt Scotch Whisky (48%; $90 – $140 – so shop around): An awesome, simply brilliant whisky! Laphroaig's signature flavor profile—an untamed yet complex beast of smoke, peat and iodine thrashing at its cage—is here domesticated, mellowed and even refined, with wonderful, big and complex aromas and flavors of peat smoke, charcoal, tar, iodine, honey, creamy vanilla, toffee, sweet malt, grain-bread toast, citrus, fruit compote, dark chocolate, orange marmalade, subtle brine, anise, ginger, and citrus. Time in the glass unleashes even greater depth and subtlety. A most rewarding, delicious, rich, flavorful, creamy and absorbing whisky! Not to be missed. L'Chaim!


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America has a trend running through it's veins. It seems that everyone is looking to play the victim. Here is how it happens. You wake up one morning and you realize that your life is all messed up. Nothing is going the way that you planned. You don't own a house. You don't have a white picket fence. You don't have two kids, one boy and one girl. You don't have a successful career. Everything that could go wrong seems to be going wrong. You wonder how you got into this mess so you begin to reflect on your past.
You don't have a house because your parents never taught you how to handle your finances. You don't have a picket fence because someone told you the American Dream is dead. You don't have have two kids, one boy and one girl because when you were 14 someone called you ugly. You don't have a successful career because a high school counselor suggested that you major in underwater basket weaving in college. You have decided your position or lack of position is not because what you did but what someone else has done to you. You are a victim. Your past is defining you. Your past is your prison keeping you doing what God called you to do.
Prison is not the place for victims. No, prison is the place for those guilty of a crime but your past has put in prison. You can't move forward in life because your past screams, "You can't do that!" You don't have the talent. You don't have the this or you don't have that. You can't move because the prison cell of your past is holding captive, but your past was never to be used in this way.
How is your past to be used in your life? First, your past does not have your be your prison. Your past was meant to be your testimony. When life says, you are failure! You don't own a house." You respond, "I may not have a home in this life but God has a mansion for me just over the hill top. You don't have picket fence. You don't have the American Dream. You respond, "No I don't have a picket fence and I don't have the American Dream but I have a God given dream. I know that God is going to do something great in my life. When life says, "You can't do that for God." You respond, "Yes, I can because I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me."
When God is in control of your life, your past is not your prison. It is your testimony. You past is not to keep you from doing things for God. Your past is the key to unlocking someone else's future. Your past, your testimony is someone else's inspiration to follow Christ. Your past is to show people what God can do in their lives if they will let him. The problem becomes that we want to use our past as our prison to explain our future failures.
Today, I want to encourage you to not be a prisoner to your past. Give your past to God. Watch God heal your past. Watch God work out the bad things in your past and change them into God things. Watch God turn your life around. Then tell others what God has done for you then you will be able to watch God use your past to change someone else's future. Don't be the victim! Be the victor in Jesus' Name!


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Swedes save more lives with policy of keeping kids in rear-facing car seats for longer
Accident research figures from Sweden confirm the country's policy of keeping children in rear-facing car seats for longer is continuing to save lives. While German accident data shows a significant peak in the number of one year-olds killed, with 37 fatalities over a five year period, none died in Sweden.
Lotta Jakobsson, a senior safety specialist at Volvo Cars, commented: "When comparing data from Sweden and Germany [over the last five years], it becomes evident that the Swedish habit of transporting our smaller children in rearward facing seats for longer protects this age group."
In Sweden children travel in rear-facing seats until they are three or four years old; in Germany, as in most other countries, children start to sit facing forward from around the age of 12 months. This is changing as more rear-facing seats become available. In January, Britax launched the Max-Fix, a Group 0+/1 rearward facing ISOFIX-compatible car seat that allows parents to kep their children rearward facing until around the age of four (or 18kgs).
How rear-facing car seats work
In the most common and the most severe car accidents, the occupants' head is thrown forward with force. Its momentum propels it downwards onto the breastbone and then back up again. While most adult necks can withstand this strain, a small child's neck cannot. In a rear-facing seat, the force is distributed throughout the child's spine instead of being concentrated into its neck and head. This video explains it well:
The rearward-facing car seat was invented in 1967 by Swedish safety genius, Professor Bertil Aldman. Aldman was inspired by the special seats used by Gemini mission astronauts during take-off and landing, which were moulded to distribute G forces over the whole back. The same principle is what protects children in car accidents. The whole of the child's back takes the strain of the impact, not just its much weaker neck.
You might also want to know how to choose the best infant car seat.
Excellent video, thanks to all involved, how do I get a copy?
There are 9 times as many citizens in Germany as Sweden, and Germany is smaller geographically. Germany is also located in centrally in Europe, meaning they get a lot of through traffic. Comparing traffic accident statistics in two such different countries is, essentially, meaningless.
Road safety education is a big (understated) problem in Germany. They have no patience at all and don't know how to deal with (race)bikes on roads. Not to speak about old people who clearly should not be on roads anymore.
But the biggest problem is safety distance at high speeds. It's sheer irresponsible and incredible how most drivers driving > 150 km/h behave, leaving maybe 3m distance when being blocked by a slower car which is overtaking. What do you expect with such a big car lobby, leaving roads unsave for the "sake of economy".
Well if none died in Sweden it's quite easy, it's 0 per 100,000.


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You've scrimped and saved. You've opened new lines of credit. You've denied yourself so many things to finally afford your dream bike. The dream bike.
It's rumored that the carbon tubes were designed by aerospace engineers. No doubt, every piece of the bike has been worried over and perfected. I mean, look at that parts spec! Professional athletes have ridden your bike over the Galibier during product testing, hitting 65mph on the descent. Velonews even called your bike, the greatest thing ever made.
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The leeches for medicinal purposes were used for another 1000 years before Christ.Even in the Bible and the Koran have been mention of them.Egyptian pharaohs were rescued with the help of their high blood pressure and pain.The great doctors of ancient Greece and Rome to alleviate the suffering of patients in this way: on the skin laid little bloodsuckers and waited until patients become easier.Even the famous Avicenna and Hippocrates believed this method of treatment is very effective and is often used in his practice.
Such therapy has become widely known throughout Europe in the Middle Ages as it is today adhesive tape or iodine.Medical leeches are sold everywhere, they are prescribed for all diseases.Sometimes up to 250 for one time.But as you know, even the good medicine in such large quantities can turn into poison.Over time, we started to forget about hirudotherapy.But in recent decades, I remembered about her, and I must say, is not in vain.Modern scientists have estimated all useful qualities of nature and the small healers have proved that this method of treatment has a positive effect on the entire body, not just on a single disease.Therefore, it is used to treat various ailments, ranging from the banal colds and ending with severe diseases of the internal organs.This surprising effect can not be achieved by other therapies.
Medical leeches: the description of the appearance of
form rounded at both ends positioned sucker body in dorsoventrally slightly flattened.In the center of the front of the mouth is a sucker.For once hungry leech weighing 2 grams can suck 15 ml of blood.Moreover, its mass increases in 8-9 times.The stomach can hold such foods up to 2 years.At the same time the blood does not clot.Special bacteria help to cope with the alien microbes patient.Color brown-olive on the back can be easily seen six red and yellow stripes.Both sides, it can stick to an outside body.Remember that in the world there are about 400 species of such "vampire", and you will approach only for the treatment of special medical.Ever wondered what purpose leeches buy at the drugstore?Conventional natural "healers" of the pond will not cure you, but even harm the organism.
Medical leeches storage at home
It is desirable that the conditions for storage of leeches houses were the same as those in hospitals or pharmacies.The best place to hold - a regular refrigerator.But you can still put them in three-liter jar.There are, of course, survive less.Change the water once a week is necessary.Better yet, how notice blurred, drain and pour a new defend that does not contain chlorine.Everyone is obliged to care for their own "pets."They feel the attitude of the owner.A week before the start of treatment, place the jar of them on the windowsill.Desirably, the sun heated it.
Where to buy leeches?
Today leeches are grown in artificial conditions.Here are constantly conducted a veterinary examination.Each party has a quality certificate, do not hesitate to ask your pharmacist to review this document.After all, you already know what purpose leeches buy in a drugstore: to treat.
- Cardiovascular diseases: atherosclerosis, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, hypertension and more.Diseases of this system are very serious.Do not neglect the treatment that appointed doctor.Do not harm the non-traditional methods of treatment, such as hirudotherapy, herbal medicine, physiotherapy.These treatments are very effective, but their effect is not as fast as we would like.You can not replace them pills.It is best to combine the two methods.Be sure to tell us about the desire to use hirudotherapy doctor, he will advise you and tell you the necessary treatment regimen.
- urological diseases.Hirudotherapy in this area is particularly effective.Most often it is prescribed for the following diseases: prostatitis, prostate adenoma, secondary infertility, urolithiasis.
- gynecological diseases.In this area, leech therapy is very well known.The result is always positive.Abroad, such as the main method used in the treatment of diseases such as chronic inflammation of the uterus and appendages, mastitis, uterine fibroids, menopausal disorders, menstrual disorders.But keep in mind, for what purpose leeches buy at the pharmacy.Leech therapy has proven itself in the treatment of female infertility.Although the disposal of current physician has a huge list of drugs (which have many side effects) are often prescribed treatment unconventional.
- Dermatologic diseases: psoriasis, abrasions.
- chronic bronchitis and allergies.
- Neurology.
- Endocrinology.
- injuries of varying severity.
- Cellulite.
- overweight.
To purchase these miracle healers, contact the sales department of the medicinal leech.
Secret magical properties
Mystery leeches is a special composition of their saliva.Upon contact with a person, it inevitably enters the body.Recent data tell us that the leech saliva contains about 150 enzymes, the main substance of which - hirudin responsible for rolling processes.
You will not believe!
Leech began to use in surgery.They are indispensable in organ transplants.Natural healers supply the body with hirudin.It, in turn, prevents the formation of plaques and blood stasis.It is important to use a special medical bloodsuckers, and for what purpose leeches buy at the pharmacy, you've learned a little earlier.
girudoterapii main advantage - the absence of side effects, contraindications, and a small list of beneficial effects on the body as a whole.


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Best Icons and Iconsets for Web Designers
The field of web design is loaded with talented designers, many of whom release their work for free online. Icons are one of the most sought after resources because not all designers know how to create icons. A free iconset will add quality accents into any layout design.
This post includes some of the best icons for web designers working on any type of project. In the past, we've covered social media icons but these are only useful for social links. The following iconsets cover a broad multi-purpose spectrum and they're all completely free.
Sometimes you'll want to purchase a set of icons, too, usually due to more lenient licensing. For that, I recommend browsing through what Graphic River has to offer.
Architecture Blueprint
Designed with construction in mind, these blueprint icons are perfect for any website following a similar theme. This set includes over 50 icons which shine on a dark blue background.
With over 100 unique icons to choose from, Stylistica is a great choice for any site. Each icon uses the flat design style fixed within a circular container.
Shine Icons
The incredible Shine iconset includes over 500 detailed icons for various uses. This detailed style may not work for every site, but it can provide a breath of fresh air when incorporated properly.
Coquette is one of a series of iconsets with a cute vector style. You'll find dozens of similar icons in the sets of Coquette #1 all the way to Coquette #9.
Christmas Magic
Christmas icons blend nicely with a website bringing some holiday cheer. This Christmas Magic iconset is sure to prove valuable in a Christmas-themed project.
Terse, dark, and right to the point. Symbolize is a 100+ piece iconset using dark gradients and simple shapes to get the point across.
Basic Game Elements
Graphics are a big part of advertising when it comes to entertainment like mobile apps & games. These basic game element icons are completely free and guaranteed to spruce up any website or banner design.
Random Stuff Iconset
This freebie includes a lot of random stuff as the name suggests.
Flattastic plays the role of flat icon design in the best way possible. This set is completely free and includes 100 icons in EPS, PNG and SVG formats.
Line Iconset
While not the traditional line style, this line iconset is perfect for almost any website. The icons are created with outlines and use a bit of grey in the BG to add color into each icon.
Google Material
Google's latest material design craze has spurred a number of related iconsets. This particular freebie includes all the default material icons made specifically for Sketch users.
Free Vectors
These 12 vector icons are tilted sideways for dramatic effect and use bright colors to capture attention.
84 Line Icons
This iconset can prove valuable whether you use Photoshop, Illustrator, or Sketch. These line icons are made to be thin yet crisp from a distance.
Green Sketch Icons
Here is yet another thin line iconset dedicated to Sketch users. This is actually a recreation of an older free iconset that was made for Adobe users.
Designer's Everyday
Creative, unique, and perfect for any portfolio website. The Designer's Everyday iconset relies on bright colors and circular shapes to build captivating icon styles.
Vintage Icons
Vintage styles are still popular when used in the right setting. This vintage iconset includes devices ranging from a television set to an old-timey radio.
Vector Office
Dark yet palatable, these office icons can apply to any style corporate or creative.
Internet of Things
A very colorful set of circular icons with flat glyphs relevant to Internet users. This set runs the gamut which makes it super easy to apply into almost any project.
Full Screen Icons
User experience icons can be difficult to build from scratch. These free vector screen size icons are perfect for any UI, and they're easy to customize with different colors as well.
Vector Documents
Everything from books to certificates and push pins, this document iconset is made for graphical effects directed at digital documents.
Web Icons
While the name is rather bland, the icons are far from it. This icons set follows a web 2.0 design with shiny gradients and glossy FX.
Material Web Icons
These icons are designed to be super flat and super material. If you're a fan of Google's material design then you'll certainly enjoy these creative material web icons.
Credit Cards
Every eCommerce site can use a set of detailed credit card icons. This pack from EpicPxls should fit any occasion with 4 vector card icons for Mastercard, Visa, Discover, and PayPal.
Epic Multicons
What I like most about this style is the use of 2 repeating colors. The multicons are just simple line icons, but they jump off the screen by combining a dark grey and light blue in each icon design.
Simple Line Icons
Clear design and razor thin lines are the cornerstone of line icons. This line iconset is great for any project including 20 unique icon styles.
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SANTA CLARA, Calf.—It's been five years since Marc Andreessen wrote an essay published in the Wall Street Journal that proclaimed "software is eating the world." By now, we can consider networking just about chewed and swallowed.
We are beginning to realize how much software-defined networking is changing everything. As ON.Lab Executive Director Guru Parulkar puts it, the "softwarization" of networking is not only changing how users manage networks, but everything the network touches.
More precisely, it is open-source software that is leading this movement. Open-source projects like the OpenDaylight and ONOS (Open Network Operating System) controllers and OPNFV (Open Platform for Platform for NFV) are driving new business, service and technology models, especially for telecommunications vendors.
Although the concept is less than seven years old and still growing fast, SDN (Software Defined Networking) is ready for prime time. The proof is the speed at which global carriers like AT&T, Verizon, Korea's KT and SK Telecom, China Unicom and NTT Communications are rebuilding their networks on the fly.
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At the Open Networking Summit here, AT&T presented ECOMP, its "playbook" for orchestrating virtual network functions. ECOMP, which has been in use for a year, is built on open source and AT&T's own code. AT&T and the telcos also are heavily involved with CORD (Central Office Re-architected as Data Center), a new open reference design announced here that is built around ONOS. The CORD name is a mouthful, but it's apt. With ONOS and CORD, monolithic telecom "central offices" can be shrunk down to racks of commodity servers and switches running open software.
That level of commitment hasn't yet reached the enterprise, where there is interest, but very few deployments. The growing volume of open-source code is hard to digest. Rival open networking projects like the Open-Orchestrator Project and Open Source MANO are starting up as we speak, causing uncertainty among IT network administrators and business executives alike. Also there are very few enterprise use cases for SDN, so there's no motive for replacing tried and true—though expensive—proprietary gear, for now.
"There is a certain disappointment that we have not succeeded in bringing more enterprises to open networking," Parulkar said. "But it's a matter of time. For the large enterprise the economics are the same. They can't keep buying proprietary boxes and paying top dollar."
Ironically, the market for network gear from the big players like Cisco and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise could be disrupted, even though both are leaders in the open communities. They are not in danger in the enterprise yet.
But with network functions abstracted away as software, white box vendors like Pica8 and Edge-Core suddenly have more value for building out hyperscale networks for telcos and cloud providers.
Other vendors, such as Inocybe and Ciena, also are taking the opportunity to apply what Red Hat and Mirantis have done for Open Stack and creating their own distributions of OpenDaylight and ONOS, respectively.
What is happening in open networking is very similar to what is happening with containers and the cloud. The developer is now a first class citizen.
Networks no longer need to be managed by hardware. They can be coded, modeled and programmed, giving application developers much more control over how an app works without having to account for the network. More to the point, the same tools and methodologies being used today in cloud DevOps are being used to program networks. ONOS routers and switches run on containers in the cloud.
"It's the world of the developer right now," said Peter Levine, general manager of the Andreessen Horowitz venture capital, who spoke at the conference. "Infrastructure is fading away in favor of the application and that's very much in favor of the developer. The developer has a new buying power in a company, and is [in] a very interesting place to start where products are getting adopted and used."
Scot Petersen is a technology analyst at Ziff Brothers Investments, a private investment firm. He has an extensive background in the technology field. Prior to joining Ziff Brothers, Scot was the editorial director, Business Applications & Architecture, at TechTarget. Before that, he was the director, Editorial Operations, at Ziff Davis Enterprise. While at Ziff Davis Media, he was a writer and editor at eWEEK. No investment advice is offered in his blog. All duties are disclaimed. Scot works for a private investment firm, which may at any time invest in companies whose products are discussed in this blog, and no disclosure of securities transactions will be made.


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The University of Colorado is celebrating homecoming this weekend with a parade, pep rally, alumni awards ceremony and a football match-up between the Buffs and Arizona State University.
This is the 102nd homecoming celebration for the Boulder campus.
The homecoming parade is combining with the Stampede on the Pearl Street Mall at 6:30 p.m. Friday. The parade will feature appearances by mascot Chip, the Golden Buffalo Marching Band, CU's spirit squad and members of the football team. The parade ends at the Boulder County courthouse lawn with a pep rally.
The CU Boulder Alumni Association is hosting a celebration at The Lazy Dog that is free for alumni at 5 p.m. Friday.
Also this week is a homecoming concert featuring Gallant and RKCB. The concert begins at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the University Memorial Center's Glenn Miller Ballroom. Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for community members.
The university is holding an alumni awards ceremony and dinner at 5:45 p.m. Thursday in the University Memorial Center's Glenn Miller Ballroom.
This year's winners include David Grusin, a composer, jazz pianist, 10-time Grammy winner and Academy Award recipient; W. Harold "Sonny" Flowers Jr., a Boulder attorney who helped establish the Black Alumni Association and created an endowed scholarship for students of color at Colorado Law and the University of Denver; and Kathryn Tobey, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin Special Programs Line of Business and advocate for women in STEM careers.
The homecoming football game begins with the CU Alumni Association's pre-game event, Ralphie's Corral, at 3 p.m. Saturday on Benson Field. The event will include performances by the CU marching band and spirit squad, a family fun zone, concessions and an appearance by Ralphie the buffalo.
Kickoff is at 6 p.m.
For more information about homecoming at CU, visit colorado.edu/homecoming.