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The scholarly project begun in the Renaissance demanded increasingly sophisticated techniques of scholarly annotation, techniques which problematize the relationship between primary texts and the secondary texts which comment upon them. The "scientific" textual criticism of Bentley, Wotton, and Theobald, for instance, held that the ostensibly disinterested Moderns might mediate the Ancients' claims to authority: that the plodding meticulousness of a Zoilus or a Tigellius might overshadow a Homer or a Horace. For the partisans of the Ancients, adherents of the "humanist" tradition,3 this ascendancy of the ingenious over the genius threatened a cherished order. When Sir William Temple's Essay upon Ancient and Modern Learning drew first blood in the battle of the books, it was in defense of this threatened humanistic order. His curious reaction in a situation so seemingly innocuous requires attention, particularly now, when such scholia are the norm and their self-definition as disinterested and "scientific" is taken largely for granted.
The Renaissance was an age of voluminous classical scholarship, but the beginnings of humanism, paradoxically, departed from its predecessors by trying to pare down the Scholastic commentaries the texts had accumulated. The 1491 Venice edition of Tibullus, Catullus, and Propertius,4 for instance, is an editorial masterpiece, but free of pedantic small print. It lacks page numbers: it is to be read through or dipped into at random, but not used as a research tool. The margins are wide enough for readers' comments -- few Renaissance volumes are without some early reader's marginalia. A later text, a 1519 Horace,5 includes a number of advances. A seven-page index nominum at the front of the volume points to page numbers, making it possible for the reader to search out passages without reading the volume through. Most notable is the swelling of the commentary to take over the text: four sets of marginal commentaries surround the text, crowding out readerly annotations. At the end of the volume are twenty-eight pages of Annotationes in Horatium.
Richard Bentley's scholarship is a watershed in textual criticism. His Horace,6 for instance -- a more accurate text than ever before -- did not, however, come without a cost, at least to the humanists. His annotations completely take over the text, burying it in discussions of verb forms, manuscript families, syntax. Rounding out the volume is an index, fully 239 pages on points of syntax, accidence, and etymology without number.
Bentley did not fight the Moderns' war alone. Thanks to the skewering he received from Swift, posterity remembers William Wotton as another arch-Modern.7 His 1705 Observations upon The Tale of a Tub brought about the travestied apparatus Swift added to the fifth edition of the Tale. Another was Lewis Theobald, who entered the quarrel in 1726 with Shakespeare Restored.8 His stated goal is "retrieving, as far as possible, the original Purity of his Text, and rooting out that vast Crop of Errors" introduced by such incompetent editors as Pope. The scholarship is indeed sound -- certainly better than Pope's9 -- but his methods are the pedantic plodding that so offended the humanists. After 132 pages of minutely documented "restoration" of Hamlet, for instance, comes an appendix: "The Examination of this single Play has drove out into such a Length, that I am almost afraid to think of an Appendix to it. But" -- But indeed. "Almost afraid" was not enough to forestall a sixty-two-page appendix in eight-point type set solid.
All of this was new, exciting to some and threatening to others, and both sides were struggling to understand (and to master) the implications of this new vision of textual authority. What Gérard Genette calls an "allographic" apparatus -- one added to the text without authorial sanction -- at once affirms and challenges the status of the primary text. A sympathetic apparatus may serve as an ancilla, but in the hands of a hostile critic it questions the authority of the text on which its existence ostensibly depends: it challenges the author to engage in a dialogue, to speak as an equal. Commentary questions its text, forces it to justify its existence. What cannot be explained by the critic must be rejected or amended. This principle lies behind Theobald's boast about his editing: "Where SHAKESPEARE has ... labour'd under flat Nonsense, and invincible Darkness, I can, by the Addition or Alteration of a single letter, or two, give him both Sense and Sentiment."
For the partisans of the Ancients authorial hegemony was beyond question, and the parasitical addition of commentary was a subversion of poetic genius, a modern appropriation of ancient authority. Annotation redirects the meaning of the text, aspiring to be not a supplemental excrescence but a complementary participant -- and one that needn't be cooperative. Though scholarly annotation borrows the guise of a disinterested deixis toward truth, it can also be a bid for a share of textual authority, an assertion of the modern will over the ancient text. Small wonder that the locus classicus for the conflation of scientific inquiry and intellectual hegemony is in Nietzsche, a classical philology prodigy at Basel, who daily confronted the bids for authority made by textual apparatus: "What urges you on and arouses your ardour, you wisest of men, do you call it 'will to truth'? ... That is your entire will, you wisest men; it is a will to power."10 Nor is it surprising that the most important theorist of institutional power relations is Nietzsche's intellectual heir, Michel Foucault.
The new scientific criticism works by regarding the text as a Royal Society scientist might regard a specimen on his dissecting table. The term "scientific" is apt, for though it popularly connotes disinterestedness, Foucauldian analyses of the scientist's engagement in power-play reveal a different scene. Ostensibly disinterested textual critics remove the author's control over his text, making room for the critic's participation in the creation of meaning -- transforming the object, in one fashionable pair of terms, from work to text; in another, from the Bakhtinian catechistic to the dialogic. Theorists working in Structuralism's wake have labeled this participation "play," a term popularized by Barthes and Derrida.11 The term is perhaps unjust, for play connotes innocence, while the humanist defenders of the ancients found it more pernicious.
The humanists were also disturbed by the social relation implied by annotation, for the scholar-annotator envisions the vulgus as unprepared to approach a text. Though what Derrida calls the decentering of the author -- Barthes goes so far as to call it his death -- seems tantamount to the apotheosis of textual play, not all readers can play properly. Some textual consumers must have their text pre-played. Annotation strives to control both the author's meaning and the reader's participation: crowded pages leave no room for amateurs' comments. Professionals thereby snatch literature from the dilettantes, who must be certified competent before they can be let loose on texts.
The humanists did not watch these developments in silent dismay. The first satirical volley in the English Quarrel came shortly after Sir William Temple's Essay upon Ancient and Modern Learning. The debate found a local center in the dispute over the authenticity of the Epistles of Phalaris.12 We have already seen Wotton's and Bentley's scientific and philological approach to the question. Temple's opposition opinion appears in the 1699 Character of the Epistles of Phalaris:
Several Learned men ... have not esteemed them Genuine.... But I think he must have little skill in Painting that cannot find out this to be an Original; such diversity of passions upon such variety of actions and passages of Life and Government, such Freedom of Thought, such Boldness of Expression, such Bounty to his Friends, such Scorn of his Enemies, such Honour of Learned men, such Esteem of good, such Knowledge of Life, such Contempt of Death, with such Fierceness of Nature and Cruelty of Revenge, could never be represented but by him that possest them.13The syllogism in short: the ancients are admirable; the Epistles are admirable; therefore the Epistles are ancient. Temple had little faith in scientific philology: "I know not what to make of it; and less how it came into the number of the sciences.... He must be a Conjurer that can make these Moderns, with their Comments and Glossaries, and Annotations, more learned than the Authors themselves."14 For Temple, philology cannot effect ethical improvement, and if he was sometimes forced to be a textual critic by chance, he was perpetually a moralist.
Boyle, Temple's first champion, also recognizes the Moderns' appropriation of authority, and his discussion of pedantry provides insights into humanist notions of the decorum befitting scholarship. "The first and surest Mark of a Pedant," he observes, "is, to write without observing the receiv'd Rules of Civility, and Common Decency: and without distinguishing the Characters of Those he writes to, or against: For Pedantry in the Pen, is what Clownishness is in Conversation; it is Written Ill-Breeding." Bentley's "Itch of contradicting Great Men" shows the unspoken rule Bentley has broken: social presumption, addressing his betters without due deference.
Atterbury's contribution to the third edition of Boyle's work is a minor masterpiece of humanist invective, and his attack on pedantry takes on the voice of a pedant: "A Short Account of Dr BENTLEY, By way of INDEX," an index of exactly one entry -- "Bentley" -- with personal invective under neatly arranged subcategories. A typical extract:
Dr Bentley's true Story of the MS prov'd false by the testimonies of
----Mr Bennet. Pag. 6 ----Mr Gibson. p. 7 ----Dr King. p. 8Atterbury masses the Ancients' troops on Bentley's border, in several entries armed with devastating sarcasm: "His modesty and decency in contradicting great men, -- Plato ... Grotius ... all the Moderns ... Erasmus ... Everybody."
However illuminating and even occasionally amusing the work of Temple, Boyle, and Atterbury, though, they hold little interest for modern readers. But the reaction against annotation produced at least two masterpieces, Swift's Tale of a Tub and Pope's 1729 Dunciad Variorum. The two use similar techniques in similar causes, differing only in the names of their opponents.
Swift knew of ancient annotations, but he dissociates ancient annotators from the Ancients generally. Zoilus and Tigellius in particular, though chronologically Ancients, anticipate Modernity by meddling with the texts of their betters.15 Pedantic annotation is uncharacteristic of a "real" Ancient, and "Ancientness" is not only reserved for but actually defined by humanistic accolades.
Swift therefore responded to Wotton's presumptuous 1705 apparatus on the Tale of a Tub with a withering attack on all apparatus, and his satirical instinct led him to the master-stroke of making the attack in the very form of an apparatus. The arsenal16 of the Moderns' scholarly tools is vast, and Swift, insofar as he can be said to perform anything systematically, takes aim at each. A Tale of a Tub ridicules marginalia, the footnote, the pamphlet, the lexicon, the index, the preface, the appendix, even the use of typography -- each of these is at least ridiculed, and most are travestied.
Swift was of course no disinterested defender of the Ancients; he was himself an author in what he considered the ancient tradition, and his actions are naturally self-interested. By swatting at the flies swarming about Homer's corpus, he hoped to keep them from settling on his own, to restrict the meaning of his text to what he intended. Authorship is for him essentially rhetorical: the text is a vehicle, a means of bringing about effects in the receptive reader in a transaction which has no place for Wottons.
Swift's satirical appropriation of the scholarly apparatus belies the objective status claimed by modern scholarship and brings to light its insidious potential. The most obvious parodic scholarly annotations in the Tale are the footnotes attributed to Wotton -- some correctly, some spuriously, but always with the effect of making Wotton appear ridiculous. By conflating allographic and authorial annotations, he exposes the annotation's bid to share in textual authority. Swift, though a master of textual play in much of his work, becomes fiercely jealous when his contemporaries try to join in his game. When Wotton intrudes on the margins of his text, Swift responds by crowding him out with his own marginalia, and his new text is, in effect, pre-played. Swift's own play, often in Wotton's name, anticipates the attempted play of future critics and pushes them out of the game. This concern with future play recalls the original sense of the word prevent, at once to anticipate and to prohibit. By satirically interrogating the truth claims of scholarly annotations, Swift prevents play and preserves his authorial jurisdiction over meaning.
Pope develops Swift's techniques in The Dunciad. Pedants are favorite targets even in the 1728 Dunciad, but the 1729 Dunciad Variorum adds mountains of burlesqued apparatus to the earlier edition. Most visible are the pedantic annotations to nearly every line of the poem, the first of which asks of the very title "whether this be a right Reading. Ought it not rather to be spelled Dunceiad, as the Etymology evidently demands?" followed by a learned exchange on the letter E. The attribution to Theobald comes from Swift's similar treatment of Wotton, and in any case would have been impossible for Pope to resist after Theobald's vision of glory in Shakespeare Restored: "The Alteration of a Letter, when it restores Sense to a corrupted Passage, ... is an Atchievement that brings Honour to the Critick who advances it ... as long as the World shall have any Esteem for the Remains of Menander and Philemon."
The victors in the annotation wars are evident to anyone in academia, where commentaries that outweigh the texts they presume to elucidate are now the norm. The Renaissance humanist scholarly project was paradoxical and therefore probably doomed from the beginning: the recovery and reinvigoration of the classics was possible only by means of the techniques which would later embalm them. Swift's and Pope's defiant satires very nearly constitute an emblematic last stand for the humanists.
Miriam Starkman expresses the paradox in the humanist gesture in the opening words of her book on the Tale of a Tub: "Rarely has so great a book been written in a lost cause." Whatever the bellettristic success of the Tale and the Dunciad -- and their status as satiric triumphs is beyond question -- they fail as polemics to stave off pedantry. Bentleys, Wottons, Theobalds were on the ascendant. In the Phalaris controversy, posterity has (perhaps grudgingly) come down on the side of the dunces. Wotton and Bentley were correct: the epistles of Phalaris were spurious. And modern critics, even those sympathetic to Swift and Pope, would be unable to work without the scientific scholia excoriated in the Tale and the Dunciad, which now, in their standard editions, groan under their accumulated scholarship.
Swift's rear-guard Apology to the 1710 edition of the Tale is a fitting postscript. Swift may successfully prevent some textual play by anticipating it, but no parodic outworks can keep the intruders away forever. His parting comment on annotation in the Apology has been underscored with a bitter historical irony:
The Author is informed, that the Bookseller has prevailed on several Gentlemen, to write some explanatory Notes, for the goodness of which he is not to answer, having never seen any of them, nor intends it, till they appear in Print, when it is not unlikely he may have the Pleasure to find twenty Meanings, which never enter'd into his Imagination.This passage is undermined by the very scholarly apparatus he seeks to satirize: Guthkelch and Smith, editors of the scholarly edition of the Tale, have appended a footnote: "Swift certainly saw the 'explanatory Notes' before they were published. They were sent to him on 10 July 1710." An annotation thus reaches across two centuries and redirects Swift's meaning: a scientific concern for the text has destroyed the rhetorical sleight of hand Swift hoped to achieve. But the Tale of a Tub and the Dunciad survived the enemy encroachment where so many works have been forgotten, and they save the battle of the books from becoming a mere footnote to intellectual history.
2. The literature on annotation is still fairly sparse, but seems to be attracting increasing attention, especially in Renaissance studies. Peter W. Cosgrove's "Undermining the Text: Edward Gibbon, Alexander Pope, and the Anti-Authenticating Footnote," in Stephen A. Barney, ed., Annotation and Its Texts (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1991), is an important look at the role of the satiric footnote in the eighteenth century. In addition to all the contributions to Barney's volume, see Lawrence Lipking, "The Marginal Gloss: Notes and Asides on Poe, Valery, 'The Ancient Mariner,' the Ordeal of the Margin, Storiella as She is Syung, Versions of Leonardo, and the Plight of Modern Criticism," Critical Inquiry, 3 (1977), 609-55; Frank Palmieri, "The Satiric Footnotes of Swift and Gibbon," The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 31 (1990), 245-62; and Jean-Paul Forster, "Swift and Wotton: The Unintended Mousetrap," Swift Studies, 7 (1992), 23-35. See also Harald Stang, Einleitung -- Fußnote -- Kommentar: Fingierte Formen wissenschaftlicher Darstellung als Gestaltungeselemente moderner Erz hlkunst (Bielfeld: Aistheses Verlag, 1992).
3. In settling on the term "humanist," I follow Paul Fussell's description of eighteenth-century humanism in The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism: Ethics and Imagery from Swift to Burke (London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1965), though the term is not entirely satisfactory; "humanist" carries with it Renaissance connotations which aren't necessarily applicable to the Quarrel.
4. Tibullus Catullus & Propertius cum commento (Venice, 1491). The text of Tibullus is annotated by Bernardinus Veronensis; of Catullus, by Antonius Parthenius; of Propertius, by Philippus Beroaldus.
5. Opera Q. Horatii Flacci Poet am nissimi cum quatuor commentariis, Acronis, Porphyrionis, Anto. Mancinelli, Iodici Badii Ascensi accurate repositis. Cumque adnotationibus Matthei Bonfinis: & Aldi Manutii Romani a Philologo recognitis: suisque locis insertis & ad finem ex integro restitutis (Paris, 1519).
6. In Q. Horatium Flaccum notae & emendationes Richardi Bentleii, 2 vols. in one (Cambridge, 1711).
7. As is always the case with satirical targets, this characterization is neither fair nor accurate. Wotton was careful to balance the claims of the Ancients and the Moderns, giving each side its due: "This Extream can be no Way more easily avoided, than by stating the due Limits of Ancient and Modern Learning; and shewing, in every Particular, to which we ought to give the Pre-eminence" (Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning [London, 1697], sig. A7r). As Levine observes, "Wotton proposed himself ... as neither an ancient like Temple nor an unqualified modern, ... but rather as a mediator between the two" (pp. 34-35). In fact all of the most vilified Moderns are portrayed as caricatures of their actual selves.
8. Shakespeare Restored: or, a Specimen of the Many Errors, as Well Committed, as Unamended, by Mr. Pope in his Late Edition of this Poet. Designed Not Only to Correct the Said Edition, but to Restore the True Reading of Shakespeare in all the Editions Ever Yet Publish'd (London, 1726).
9. As James Sutherland points out, "Here was an exposure of [Pope's] incompetence as an editor, all the more galling for being in the main justified." The Dunciad, ed. James Sutherland, third ed., in the Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope (London: Methuen; New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1963), p. xi. See also Peter Seary, Lewis Theobald and the Editing of Shakespeare (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990) for a fair assessment of Theobald's accomplishments.
10. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, tr. R. J. Hollingdale (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961), p. 136 (Part II, sect. 12).
11. See, e.g., Roland Barthes, "From Work to Text," in Image, Music, Text, pp. 155-64, and Jacques Derrida, "Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences," in Writing and Difference, pp. 278-95.
12. Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris, Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, and Others; and the Fables of Aesop (London, 1697), printed with the second edition of Wotton's Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning; also A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris. With an Answer to the Objections of the Hon. C. Boyle (London, 1699).
13. The Epistles of Phalaris, Translated into English from the Original Greek by S. Whately ... to which is added Sir W. Temple's Character of the Epistles of Phalaris (London, 1699), sig. A1r.
14. Temple, Miscellanea, The Third Part, cited in Levine, p. 42.
15. See, for instance, A Tale of a Tub, To which is added The Battle of the Books and the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, ed. A. C. Guthkelch and D. Nichol Smith, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958), p. 94.
16. I am not alone in resorting to military metaphors for annotation: the contributors to Barney's Annotation and Its Texts turn to military imagery often. Cosgrove, for instance, describes the footnote as "a humble subaltern in the ranks of the apparatus" (p. 131). Thomas McFarland, in the same collection, likens himself to Vauban in constructing the elaborate apparatus to his Coleridge and the Pantheist Tradition: "I generated the documentation defensively, ... my aim being nothing less than an impregnable fortification for my own argument" (p. 164), while Ralph Hanna III figures his allographic notes as military offense: "As annotator I am always enveloping my author, always in the act of invading him, of delimiting his possible meaning and relevance" (p. 182).


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Month: December 2013
MERRY CHRISTMAS and/or HAPPY HOLIDAYS
Where I'm at Wednesday is going to be a quick update, due to the holiday festivities.
I had something tragic happen. Last week, I mentioned that I was working on chapter 18; however, it got sent into the world of "Never To Be Seen Again". Yup! When I went to retrieve the chapter from off my iPad, it was gone. And iCloud didn't back it up. So, I painstakingly had to rewrite it.
After I cleared my head of doubt and discouragement, I focused on the issues and conversations in chapter 18. The rewrite is going slower, but I think it is better.
This isn't the first time my work was erased. In To Desecrate Man, an entire chapter was accidently deleted. I will admit that I cried. It was at the pinnacle point—the energy and heartfelt emotions gushed out of the chapter; only to be obliterated. Starting over was not easy. The overwhelming feeling to give-up compressed me. It took awhile to recoup, but then I continued. When I finished the book, I felt so accomplished!
If you are a writer—don't give up! We all suffer setbacks.
Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays!
"Where I'm at" on The Omphalos of Delphi
I am still working in chapter 17, and am very happy with the direction it's going. But, I will try not to get too attached, because it might change during final edits.
Recently, I started researching Copenhagen, Denmark. It is beautiful!
Even though the characters aren't going to stay long (maybe an hour delay), I'd like to know their surroundings. Then we're off to London! Thank goodness, I have friends and family members to help answer questions pertaining to England.
TRUE and INTERESTING FACTS about The Sphere Of Archimedes:
—Professor Donovan Spiegler is modeled after UC, Berkeley Professor Richard A. Muller, and Cary Grant's character: Dr. Noah Praetorius in People Will Talk.
—The character "Ms. Sloth" (not her real name) was my seventh grade teacher.
—Oliver's "shopping overload" with his mother and sister, was my experiences as a child. My mother and grandmother would take me on long trips to the mall. They spent hours and hours of sifting through racks of clothes.
—Donovan's narrative, about being bullied, was my uncle's story. The only difference: When my uncle went to punch his tormentor, he turned his head. Consequently, the bully was struck in the throat.
—Joshua (boy on the cover) couldn't stop giggling for the photo shoot. When handing him the glass orb, I said: "This sphere sucks-up bullies." It made matters worse! We had to take a few moments to compose his laughter.
—Oliver's obnoxiousness is based on a combination of my youngest daughter and husband. My oldest daughter is the source of Amy's character.
—Our family DOES own a tarantula.
—Gumble's disposition is based on our dog, Boomer. Sadly, Boomer died a few weeks after I had finished the book; however his goofy, loveable-self is forever immortalized in this book.
—I have only been to the South Rim Grand Canyon once when I was 10 years old. In order to write about North Rim, I had to study the geography of the park, the trails, and stations in the area, because I've never been there.
—My mother had a business meeting in Flagstaff, and we stayed in the Little America Hotel™. They DO have the fattest squirrels and chipmunks I have ever seen!
—I knew the road trip from Phoenix to Wyoming was going to be long and boring, so I added many distractions from the drabness of driving.
Special thanks to Google Earth and caffeine!
Wednesday's update on The Omphalos of Delphi
Ah—the holidays. It's a time to relax, enjoy friends & family, reflect on our blessings, and eat. I trust you had a marvelous day?
Shortly after Thanksgiving, the reality strikes us that Christmas is on its merry way. I enjoy the festivities, but not the shopping. Crowds send me into a panicked state. I don't know why, but maybe it wouldn't be so bad if people weren't rude during this time of year. Is the toy, electronic device, or stuff really worth the irritation? If holiday cheer and glee accompanied the shopping experience, maybe it would be less cumbersome. Also, since I've worked retail most of my life, I take pity on the cashiers enduring those endless lines, and snippy people. I've been in their shoes, and I wouldn't EVER want to work in retail again!
Okay, on with where I'm at! Guess what? I finished chapter 16, and am currently writing chapter 17. Finally, my characters get to move to different sceneries. Believe me, it is VERY difficult to write about cold weather, when I live in a desert. Seriously, I stuck my head in the freezer several times, to get the feel of being cold. Some of my close friends managed to attain a full-body snowsuit, so it could help with the visual aspects of writing. I'm happy to envision different terrain.
In this chapter there's a bit of excitement. Our hero proves his valor – risking his life for another, even if it is just a dog. Next, my characters are going to Denmark. It wasn't a planned destination, but research revealed the modes of transportation only go to Copenhagen. Even though the characters won't be staying long, I am excited for the opportunity to research Copenhagen, Denmark
Join me each Wednesday for the insights of The Omphalos of Delphi. Leave comments, questions, or give feedback here by clicking the title of the blog. Like, follow, or just stay tuned.
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From a corporate standpoint the level of deductibility of certain types of compensation and the expensing of options has put a burden on the company to be more creative in both compensating executives properly and making sure that the company can take advantage of the various expenses related to those compensation packages.
Editor: How can an experienced tax professional work with clients to develop an appropriate executive compensation package?
Maglio: We have found that companies are still trying to sift through new rules like Section 409A. Separately, there is a great deal of misconception on the application of the AMT to stock options and the various administrative requirements for equity compensation plans. I work with companies and the individual executives to give them specific guidance on the intricate issues that Section 409A has created for executive compensation packages so they can address the issues properly and so they do not overlook any potential concerns.
General counsel, board members and benefits professionals have been given this added responsibility which requires them to deal with tax issues that they are not accustomed to dealing with. We can provide guidance to executives that the corporations are not positioned to provide and offer advice that benefits both the executives and the company.
Editor: The SEC requires corporations to file several documents throughout the year disclosing the activities of the corporation with its executives and directors. Why is it important for a company to coordinate these filings with experienced tax professionals and legal counsel?
Maglio: I typically rely on outside counsel and general counsel to handle the SEC aspects of these filings. After Enron, the SEC introduced some more specific guidelines for insider's filings accelerating the time frame for recording and disclosing certain stock transactions. That has enhanced the effect of certain regulations including Rule 16B.
Legal counsel needs to be the guiding force in filing these forms. Many companies have worked with counsel to create specific guidelines for all insiders, officers and directors so they comply with the filing requirements on a timely basis.
Editor: Are the required filings under Rule 16B for insider trading transactions likely to trigger negative tax consequences for an executive and his company if not properly coordinated with other SEC filings?
Maglio: The main concern involves Rule 16B's six month moratorium on trading for insiders and deemed insiders. Some executives attempt to offset a portion of the tax cost resulting from the stock option exercise by selling some of the underlying shares immediately. The key is to time these transactions so that you do not violate Rule 16B's requirements and you have the needed cash available to pay the requisite tax when due. This is most important when an unexpected AMT exposure is recognized upon preparation of an executive's tax return.


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text: This is what can happen when you mess with Mother Nature. In 1985, Australian scientists developed a program to kill off non-native cats on the island of Macquarie, a United Nations World Heritage site, because the felines were preying on native burrowing birds (see the February 2009 Journal of Applied Ecology online). Freed from the predators, the island's rabbits, also non-native, bred as rabbits tend to do devouring native vegetation and wreaking havoc on Macquarie's landscape and ecosystem. Now ecological intervention isn't new, and clearly this isn't the first time that managing an ecosystem has produced unforeseen complications. Those who are loyal to the idea of balancing resources in accord with the needs of humans are far from buffaloed. Today prominent scientists, world leaders and citizens are calling for more unified systems of Earth's management – systems that would grow out of cooperation among leaders in research, technology, politics, social science and economics. Critics dismiss the ideology as arrogant or, at best, a pipe dream.Not so fast. Our early failures are not much different from those that preceded some of our greatest achievements. History suggests that, with time and industry, we may succeed in developing new, enlightened and resourceful ways of balancing our lifestyles, our planet and our resources.Almost 90 years ago, Soviet geochemist Vladimir I. Vernadsky wrote that humans were becoming a geological force, shaping the planet much as geological forces such as water, wind and earthquakes do. He envisioned a society enlightened by science that would lessen the impact of humans on Earth and its resources, calling it the "noosphere," a planet of the mind or "life's domain ruled by reason.""We've come through a period of finally understanding the nature and magnitude of humanity's transformation of the earth," Harvard biologist Dr. William C. Clark told Andrew Revkin of The New York Times in 2002. "Having realized it, can we become clever enough at a big enough scale to be able to maintain the rates of progress? I think we can."The satellites, imaging technology and computers already exist, and there are voluminous libraries of data and imagery already collected. Earth summits are becoming more plentiful and environmental concerns more familiar.In many senses, we're just out of the gate. The tasks are daunting: Tens of thousands of decisions must be made to gain every inch of progress. Hurdles such as cost, consumption and the hoped-for alliance of vastly different countries, cultures and governments lie ahead. But weigh that against the prospect of a world coalition dedicated to monitoring and balancing all the forces on the planet.Imagine that. I can.


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SAN DIEGO -- The more opioids a patient took in the hospital to recover from cesarean delivery, the more she took once she was discharged, according to a small prospective study presented here.
There was an association between inpatient opioid use and outpatient opioid use post-discharge (correlation r=0.429, ANOVA P-value <0.001), with patients who needed more opioids taking more and those who needed fewer taking less, reported Jenna Emerson, MD, of Brown University in Providence, and colleagues.
Moreover, on average, 53% of all opioids prescribed were not taken within 2 weeks after cesarean delivery.
Emerson said that while cesarean delivery is the most common major surgery in America, extremely limited data exists on assessing patient's post-operative opioid needs.
"There are no national guidelines or specific best practices for prescribing opioids for outpatient pain," she said at a presentation at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' annual conference. "We are left to guess how much our patients require."
Researchers recruited 100 postoperative patients after cesarean delivery. Inclusion criteria included: English-speaking, available for follow-up, delivered a live, viable infant, with postpartum hospitalization of less than 8 days. They collected data through a patient information survey, data abstraction from the patient's medical record and a follow-up phone call 2 weeks after hospital discharge.
Seventy-five patients were included in the final analysis. The mean age was 30, 63% Caucasian, most had at least a high school degree and roughly half were covered by public insurance. About half also had repeat cesarean deliveries and three-quarters were breastfeeding.
Overall, patients had a mean 59 morphine milligram equivalent use in the final 24 hours (equivalent to 8 tabs of APAP/oxycodone or 12 tabs of APAP/hydrocodone). The mean prescription was 35 pills per patient, with oxycodone accounting for nearly all of prescribed opioids.
Researchers divided patients into tertiles comparing their inpatient and outpatient opioid use and found a significant between group difference:
- Inpatient range of <40 MME: Outpatient mean 53 MME
- Inpatient range of 41-70 MME: Outpatient mean 111 MME
- Inpatient range of >70 MME: Outpatient mean 195 MME
Mean outpatient morphine milligram equivalent was 126, but in total, only 47% of opioids had been consumed at the time of follow-up. In addition, 73 out of 75 patients said they were no longer using opioids after 2 weeks -- leaving 1,538 tabs of unused prescription opioid medication.
Emerson said that based on these numbers, she estimated that there could be 27 million leftover opioid pills in the U.S.
"We need a better way of prescribing enough, but not that much," she noted.
Asked for her opinion, Joanne Stone, MD, director, maternal fetal health at Mount Sinai Health System, called these results" a little surprising." She said that clinicians might have a standard order, so they might be "prescribing the same thing for everybody."
"We often don't take into account what their use is within the 24 hour period before they leave the hospital, but it does need to be individualized," she told MedPage Today in an interview.
Not surprisingly, psychiatric comorbidities were linked with outpatient opioid consumption (172 MME with psychiatric comorbidities versus 103 MME without psychiatric comorbidities, P=0.046). However, there was no relationship between increased opioid use and breastfeeding, cesarean type or cesarean timing or demographic variables such as ethnicity or insurance status.
Stone noted limitations to the data -- that it wasn't a "huge study," that there was not 100% follow-up and that use at 2 weeks after discharge may be a little far out because "most patients are using medication about a week out." She added that she would be interested to see what the data looks like a week after discharge, but said that more data is needed.
Emerson added that additional research with predictive models is needed to address what patients can use to help control their pain.
The authors disclosed no conflicts of interest.
- Reviewed by Henry A. Solomon, MD, FACP, FACC Clinical Associate Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner
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American College of Obstetricians and GynecologistsSource Reference: Emerson JB, et al "Outpatient opioid use after c-section" ACOG 2017; Abstract 20OP.


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SCS CAS challenge. I was thrilled to see that they had used my CAS card here as inspiration for today's challenge...thank you kindly I am honored! I have used the gorgeous paper pack from Teresa Collins called Christmas Home...such bold and vibrant designs and colors...luv it! I have used a combo of stamps the sentiment is Verve's new release set Peace on Earth and Teresa Collins set Noel. I added more banners this time, so it is not as CAS, but still very CAS for me...*grin*. I hope you have a super fabulous day...enjoy!
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I've made it about halfway through the book "winner take all society", and I don't know if I'll finish.
My opinion of the book can be summed in a response to a statement on the one hundred seventh page of the book:
"If the goal is to maximize society's total income, how many should compete for the recording contract?
I answer this with another question: Whose place is it to decide the contestants in such a contest, anyway? Sure, letting too many people compete for such a contract may be inefficient from an economics perspective (though I think the verdict is out on THAT conclusion), but if faced with a choice between inefficiency and freedom, I will choose the latter EVERY TIME. I think Ben Franklin said it best: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
This "safety" includes economic safety as well. Our society would do well to remember that.


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With her Lucite heels, cheeky schoolgirl pigtails and silky, hot pink
disco shorts exposing admirable curves, the petite dancer is a textbook
picture of urban eroticism.
Nimble, feminine and impressively
toned, she grips the towering pole, launching her taut, muscular frame
with astounding athleticism. She follows with midair splits, more twirls
and acrobatics, spinning in a complete arc not once, twice, but three
times with exacting finesse. Her routine, set to the haunting tones of
The Dresden Dolls' "Missed Me," ends with a barrage of catcalls and the
crowd in rapture -- yet not even a single crumpled dollar bill litters
the stage.
No, it's not another recession-weary night at Spearmint
Rhino. And Nadia Sharif is not your typical stripper, dancing to
finance future tattoos or a recreational drug habit. In fact, Sharif
isn't a stripper at all. She's an electrical engineer, specializing in
robotics at the petroleum behemoth BP.
She's here on this autumn
night competing in the final round of the third annual California Pole
Dance Championships. And so, unlike the average seedy strip joint in the
sprawling plains of the San Fernando Valley, tonight's venue,
Hollywood's Highlands nightclub, features all the trappings of a major
sporting event. There's a panel of judges, a wholesome 7 p.m. start time
and an audience that shows its appreciation with cheers rather than
singles stuffed into outstretched G-strings.
Which suits Sharif just fine.
"I don't do it for money," she says. "It's just a leisure activity."
the last five years, pole dancing has become less about the male gaze
and more about fitness and competitive sport. There is now a global
network of official organizations and federations, as well as local,
national and international competitions -- and even some organizations
lobbying for pole dancing's inclusion in the 2016 Olympics.
started dancing in 2007 as a hobby. After seeing videos of dancer Felix Cane on YouTube, she realized pole dancing could be a fitness alternative: "I set up a pole in my house with a rail from a closet and just started practicing the moves from the video." She then discovered a pole dance studio, advanced her skill level via lessons and started to
September's championships offered $1,000 to the
first-prize winner. (Sharif, who finished second, took home $500.)
Still, competitions are about kudos more than prize money. Top dancers
really cash in by giving workshops -- as many as four a week, with 10 or
more students paying $75 each -- and doing personal appearances.
has never danced in a strip club. Yet most people react predictably
when she confides her favorite hobby. "When I tell people I compete in
pole dance competitions, they usually assume I'm in strip clubs," she
She doesn't perceive her dancing to be in any way seedy or
taboo: "It really is just like salsa or cha-cha. It's about being strong
and sexy."
Of course, there are those Lucite heels. While many
pole dancers perform barefoot, Sharif chooses to wear stilettos. Even as
she trains for her sport five days a week, she wants to retain its
sexuality: "Just like a ballerina wears ballet shoes, as a pole dancer I
wear high heels," she explains.
The number of pole dancing
studios in Los Angeles is growing. Anjel Dust, also known as Glyness, is
an instructor who runs Sherman Oaks-based studio Anjel Dust
Productions. A dancer for more than 10 years, she is also a key
organizer behind the California Pole Dance Championships.
type of people we get in our classes is increasingly diverse, from
people in their late teens to Valley housewives in their mid-40s," Dust
says. "Nowadays there are very few who are training to perform in a
strip club. It's all about fitness or competitions. There is no longer
the stigma. I think pole dancing is being seen more as an art form."
Wood is the founder of Pole Dance Magazine Online and another proponent
of pole dancing's artistry. A former elementary school teacher who
lives in Maryland, she developed her interest in 2007 after seeing a TV
spot that highlighted the sport as an exercise alternative.
is now the center of the pole dancing scene in the U.S. It has a
dominant presence and is the real trendsetter," Wood says. "It was
initially something taboo, though it is now more about gymnastics than
The U.K.-based International Pole Sports Federation is
the key body lobbying for pole dancing's inclusion in the 2016 Summer
Olympics, to be held in Rio de Janeiro. Wood says she has heard there
will be a pole dancing demonstration as part of the opening ceremony at
next year's Summer Olympics in London.
There's also a Pole Fitness
Association, based in Utah, as well as a group called the United Pole Artists, based in the San Fernando Valley. Its founder, Annemarie Davies, is one of the few involved in the competitive pole dance scene who still performs in clubs, namely the iconic Jumbo's Clown Room in Hollywood. She also teaches pole dance classes. (Annemarie estimates that she spends up to 30 hours a week on a pole.)
She says she started to practice pole moves after working shifts at Spearmint Rhino, when pole dance
studios were unheard-of. "I think as the economy got worse over the last
five years, stripping changed," Annemarie says. "It got more dirty,
and girls were willing to do more than just dance. I decided I wanted
less to do with that side of things."
These days, Annemarie gives
lap dances only to women. She sees pole dancing as a wholesome pastime.
"This sport will be huge during the next 10 years. It's great for
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EDITOR'S NOTE: A previous version of this story misspelled the names of Nadia Sharif and Annemarie Davies. It also misidentified the organization founded by Davies. Correction appended at 9 a.m. December 5.
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ORIGIN OF APRIL FOOL's DAY
There are several explanations for the origin of April Fools' Day, but the following is the most plausible one. April 1st was once New Year's Day in France. In 1582, Pope Gregory declared the adoption of his Gregorian calendar to replace the Julian calendar and New Year's Day was officially changed to January 1st. It took some time for everyone in France to hear the news of this major change, and others obstinately refused to accept the new calendar, so a lot of people continued to celebrate New Year's Day on the first of April - earning them the name 'April fools'. The April fools were subjected to ridicule and practical jokes and the tradition was born. The butts of these pranks were first called poisson d'avril or 'April fish' because a young naive fish is easily caught. A common practice was to hook a paper fish on the back of someone as a joke. This evolved over time and a custom of prank-playing continues on the first day of April.
April Fools' Day Pranks
While Americans will typically shout, "April Fools!" after pulling off a prank, Europeans sometimes refer to the holiday as "April Fish," as many observers will tack a paper fish to another's back and yell "April Fish!" However, the individual pranked is still referred to as the "Fool." Fish are often featured on European April Fools' Day cards. Traditional pranking often stops at midday in the United Kingdom, and if one pranks after this time, they themselves become the fool.
Hunt-the-Gowk Day is Scotland's version of the holiday, where one sends a messenger back and forth between another person, each time saying that they need to contact the other before the issue can be resolved. However, this practice is dying out in modern times. The Persian New Year falls on April 1st, which is marked in Iran with one of the oldest pranking traditions that still exist. This is actually another theater as to the holiday's origin.
Many other cultures celebrate April Fools' day similarly to the United States, and others may designate a "joke" day on another day of the year, such as May 1st for those living in Denmark.
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Thomas takes Easterns apart with six for 26
Medium-pacer Alfonso Thomas, who has made his name as an obdurate lower-order batsman in his first season with North West - he has a century and an unbeaten 95 to his credit already - destroyed the Easterns batting line-up with a career-best six for 26 as they were shot out for 106 in Benoni on Thursday.
By the close, the visitors had piled on the agony by moving to 117 for three, with Morne Strydom on 21 and Craig Light on eight. North West opener Andrew Lawson had to leave the field when he was struck on the elbow by Albie Morkel with his score on 25.
Easterns' failure to get a batting bonus point put a big dent in their aspirations of reaching the Supersport Series final, with an away match against Boland, their rivals with Border for a spot in the showpiece match of the South African first-class season against Western Province, completing their programme next weekend.
Thomas was introduced to the attack in the 16th over and struck with the sixth ball of his spell, having Aldo van den Berg caught at first slip by Riaan Niewoudt for 16. By lunch, the home side were 74 for five from 32 overs, with Thomas sitting pretty on five for 15 from 12 overs, the wickets of Dylan Jennings, Mike Rindel, Andre Seymore and Derek Crookes added to the bag.
He also grabbed the final wicket to fall, having last man in Brendan Reddy caught at gully for four to wrap up a disappointing Easterns innings. After lunch, they crawled through 33.3 overs, adding just 32 runs in that time. Ant Botha, who remained unbeaten at the end of the innings, faced 108 balls and was at the crease for 148 minutes in scoring 14, only one of which came off his first 62 deliveries.
For North West, opener Niewoudt got the reply off to a cracking start, with a rapid 44 off 49 balls, including seven fours and a six off Kenny Benjamin in the first over.


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A trio of UFC champions have been nominated for ESPY Awards. Ronda Rousey, Jon Jones and Chris Weidman are all entered into various categories.
Rousey, the UFC female bantamweight champion, is up for "Best Female Athlete" and "Best Fighter," while Jones is also part of the "Best Fighter" category.
Weidman is included in the "Best Upset" category for his first victory over Anderson Silva. The middleweight champion returns to action next Saturday against Lyoto Machida, the same night Rousey defends her belt vs. Alexis Davis.
Jones, the light heavyweight titleholder, is scheduled to put his title on the line against Alexander Gustafsson later this year.
The ESPYs take place JUly 16 and air on ESPN at 9 p.m. ET. Voting is conducted online and winners are determined by fans.
Joining Rousey in the female category are Maya Moore, Mikaela Shiffrin and Breanna Stewart. The five up for top fighter include Jones, Rousey, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Andre Ward.
In the "Best Upset" category, Weidman is joined by Mercer's win over Duke in the 2014 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, along with Connecticut's run to the NCAA title.


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S-Perfume: 100% Love? 100% Vile
So, tonight I stopped into Barneys Coop to find a birthday present for a friend's upcoming Very Big Birthday. While at the cash register, I noticed two different perfume testers: one was Frederic Malle's Outrageous, and the other was 100% Love by S-Perfume and Sophia Grojsman, available only at Barneys. I picked up what I thought was the former, sprayed it on my inner wrist, set it down and waited for it to dry, then noticed I'd accidentally sprayed the latter, 100% Love. While the girl was ringing up my purchase, I took a quick whiff of my wrist. Again, nothing. And then... I. Almost. Fucking. Died.
Now, I know I tend toward descriptive hyperbolics, but I almost never barf, and I am NOT exaggerating when I say that I immediately almost vomited and as I write this, even now, I continue to fight back the dry heaves.
Okay, lemme see if I can do justice to the foul malodor that befell me. You know that sickening sweet-and-sour smell that five-week-old milk has and how when you sniff it, it feels similar to an electric shock minus the high voltage? That's the sensation that passed through and over me when I sprayed that shit. Iller than all ills. On the train ride home, I kept hoping no one would see me surreptitiously stealing sniffs of my arm, even though people do and sniff far worse on trains. Part of me was afraid I looked a little nuts, but the other part of me was so taken aback by the heinous self-inflicted destruction seeping into my skin that I almost wanted to grab the stranger sitting next to me and ask them to smell it so I could be sure my nose was still working properly and I didn't all of a sudden have some kind of skewed wiring leading from my nose back up to my brain. I just had to keep smelling it because I was just in such disbelief. Seriously, packed 2nd Avenue F train platforms in the dead of August don't smell as bad as this shit does.
Anyway, at this point, my arm smelled like rotten milk, warm baby formula, undercurrents of stinky cheese, bold notes of urine and just a hint of fetid tangerines. I can only hope and PRAY that the tester bottle I picked up had, in fact, turned under all of those bright, hot Barneys lights, because nothing SHOULD smell like this on purpose -- certainly nothing one should be expected to pay for.
The fragrance is described as: "The pulpy erotic part of a secret red fruit, the rich, deep and velvety skin of a dark natural rose by L.M.R., a ray of green sap from the rose's thorn, a mystical "concoction" of incense and black cacao."
Reviews I've found describe earlier versions of the fragrance as sweet like candy and roses... uhhh... what? All I know is that I was afraid to walk into my home lest my cat sniff me and keel over.
I'm afraid of what I might need to remove this scent from my sad little arm, and I pray it doesn't involve gaoline or matches.
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You description makes me wanna smell it!
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Circles Advocacy Drop-in, Ayr
Thursday 23 May
Circles Advocacy helps people aged 16 or over who live in South Ayrshire to understand their rights, get the right information to help them make informed choices, raise issues they are worried about and safeguard people in situations where they are vulnerable.
They hold a monthly drop-in at South Ayrshire Life, 57 Newmarket Street, Ayr, on the fourth Thursday of the month from 1pm to 3pm.
No appointment necessary - come in for help and advice.


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Get you Grower Fill on!! These are the Growler Filling Stations around the state to get fresh NC craft beer.
If you have a favorite growler filling station that isn't listed on our map, please let us know and we'll add it!
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|AB Bottle Co.
|311 Atlantic Beach Cswy, Atlantic Beach, NC 28512
|Beer and wine bottle shop right off the Atlantic Beach causeway.
|Beer Durham
|404 Hunt St, Suite 110, Durham, NC 27701
|Fresh growler fills - Bombers - Sip & shop. Cheers!
|Beer Growler - Winston-Salem, The
|3420 Robinhood Rd, Winston-Salem, NC 27106, United States
|A craft beer shop for fresh craft draft beer to go! 48 curated taps of the best soda, cider, and beer we can find. M-Th 1-9 F 12-10 Sat 11-10 Sun 12-6
|Beer Study Shop & Drink
|106 N Graham St Chapel Hill, NC
|Beer Study is Chapel Hill's first bottle shop with in-store drafts and seating.
|Big Mike's Brew N Que - Apex
|2045 Creekside Landing Dr Apex, NC 27502
|Big Mike's Brew N Que - Cary
|1222 NW Maynard Rd Cary NC 27513
|Boonies Beer and Wine
|102E Moyock Commons Drive, Moyock NC 27958
|A craft beer and wine store with 4 draft lines last week for Growler fills.
|8111 Creedmoor Rd, Raleigh, NC 27613
|Brew 515
|Charlotte Area
|515 S Main St Kannapolis, NC 28081
|We always have 24 or more on draft, bottles and boutique wine and a great retail shop to come with make your own 6 packs and great wine selections for you to take home.
|Brown Mountain Bottleworks
|115 E. Union St, Morganton, NC
|Located in Downtown Morganton, craft bottles, cans and fresh pints all in one place. Hope you are thirsty!
|1201 Hwy 70E, New Bern NC 28562
|Buffalo City Jug Shop
|4104 S Virginia Dare Trl Nags Head, NC 27959
|Buffalo City Jug Shop is the Outer Banks first growler to-go store with 24 craft beers on tap, hundreds of bottles and cans, and even a little wine!
|Buffalo City Jug Shop
|1900 South Croatan Hwy, Suite B, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina 27948
Located on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Buffalo City Jug Shop is the first growler store on the beach. Satisfy your taste for craft brew with 24 taps, and a full selection of select bottles and cans.
|Butcher & Block
|807 East Ocean Trail, Corolla NC 27927
|Cellar 55
|1351 East Broad Street Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526
|Cellar 55 is a fine wine and craft beer store that allows our customers to explore, taste, learn about and enjoy the world of premium wine and beer.
|City Lights Cafe
|3 E Jackson St, Sylva, NC 28779
|Local hangout next to an independent bookstore offering coffee, light bites, beer, wine & a patio.
|Cornelius Drafthouse and Bottle Shop
|Charlotte Area
|19818-c North Cove Road, Cornelius NC
|Unique craft beer. Bottles. Growlers. Kegs.
|Craft City Sip-In
|2130-a New Garden Rd, Greensboro, NC 27410, United States
|Craft Beer & Wine Tasting Room & Store Growlers Bring Your Own Food...Menus Available Flights Kegs 12 taps!! Gift Baskets Free Wi-Fi!!
|Craft Room Growlers
|1987 Hendersonville Road Suite C, Asheville NC
|South Asheville's Growler fill station and craft beer destination. If you're looking for high quality fresh craft brewed beers, stop in and check out our ever changing selection.
|Craft Tasting Room and Growler Shop
|Charlotte Area
|1320 South Church St, Charlotte NC
|Duckworth's Grill & Taphouse
|Charlotte Area
|4435 Park Rd, Charlotte, NC 28209
|Duckworth's Grill & Taphouse
|Charlotte Area
|14015 Conlan Cir, Charlotte, NC 28277
|Duckworth's Grill & Taphouse
|Charlotte Area
|330 N Tryon St, Charlotte, NC 28202
|Gate City Growlers
|1724 Ste 103 Battleground Ave, Greensboro, NC
|Grapes & Grains
|2535 Lewisville-Clemmons Rd. Clemmons, NC
|We are a full-service fine wine and craft beer shop with wines and beers by the glass as well as bottles. We have 12 taps for pints and growler fills! These consistently rotate with new selections being added daily and we try to focus on smaller NC breweries for our draughts (beers you can't find in grocery stores and most traditional outlets). We also do regular tap takeovers with NC breweries. Live music weekly and free beer tasting events every Thursday 6-8pm!
|Greenlife Grocery Asheville
|70 Merrimon Ave, Asheville, NC 28801
|Growler Grlz
|4810 Hope Valley Rd Suite 110 Durham, North Carolina 27707
|Growler Filling Station
|Growler USA - Ballantyne
|Charlotte Area
|12206 Copper Way #124, Charlotte, NC 28277
|Growler USA - Raleigh
|314 South Blount Street, Raleigh, NC 27601
Our taps are complemented by delicious cuisine in a welcoming, beautifully-designed neighborhood atmosphere. Join us for lunch or dinner seven days a week — and make sure you try a craft beer flight when you stop in! Let our Cicerone® Certified Beer Servers recommend beverages to complement your gastronomical choices from our menu.
|Hey Beer Bottle Shop
|4405A Wrightsville Ave Wilmington, NC 28403
|Hey Beer Bottle Shop is a small shop with a big selection. Mix n' match with over 400 different singles from around the globe to create the package that you want! 4-packs, 6-packs, 22oz & 750ml bottles, 4 rotating growler taps.
|High Country Taproom
|10 Sugar Mountain Dr Sugar Mountain, NC
|All NC Beers - Fill up Growlers and for the winter, cans & bottles to go!
|High Craft Beer Market
|2716 North Carolina 55, Cary, NC 27519
|Hopsail Island
|2660 NC Highway 210 E, Ste 105 Surf City, NC
|House of Hops
|6909 Glenwood Ave, Suite 100, Raleigh, NC
|Growler Filling Station
|Jarvis Street Bottle Shop
|Coastal Plains
|211 S Jarvis Street Greenville, NC 27858
|Specialty bottle shop selling craft, local brews, imports, wine, growlers and kegs. Stay tuned for upcoming tastings, featured beers, and more.
|Juggheads Growlers & Pints
|4843 Country Club Rd, Winston-Salem, NC
|Growler Refills and Pint Sales
|Lowes Foods #149
|3372 Robinhood Road, Winston-Salem NC
|SIP-N-SHOP. Enjoy beer and wine by the glass while you shop.
|Lowes Foods #160
|266 Central Park Avenue, Pinehurst NC
|SIP-N-SHOP. Enjoy beer and wine by the glass while you shop.
|Lowes Foods #161
|2501 Lewisville-Clemmons Rd, Clemmons NC 27012
|SIP-N-SHOP. Enjoy beer and wine by the glass while you shop.
|Lowes Foods #162
|6430 Tryon Road, Cary NC 27513
|Lowes Foods #165
|2890 Reynolda Rd, Winston-Salem NC 27106
|Lowes Foods #167
|11312 Highway 15 501 N., Chapel Hill NC
|SIP-N-SHOP. Enjoy beer and wine by the glass while you shop.
|Lowes Foods #171
|177 Lowes Foods Drive, Lewisville NC
|Lowes Foods #177
|267 New Market Centre, Boone NC 28607
|SIP-N-SHOP. Enjoy beer and wine by the glass while you shop.
|Lowes Foods #184
|5400 Apex Peakway, Apex NC 27502
|SIP-N-SHOP. Enjoy beer and wine by the glass while you shop.
|Lowes Foods #185
|1845 Aversboro Road, Garner, NC
|Lowes Foods #187
|12524 Capital Boulevard, Wake Forest, NC, United States
|Lowes Foods #188
|1236 Guilford College Road, Jamestown, NC
|Lowes Foods #189
|3001 Widewaters Parkway, Knightdale, NC, United States
|Lowes Foods #190
|930 High House Road, Cary NC 27513
|Lowes Foods #191
|9600 Strickland Road, Raleigh, NC, United States
|Lowes Foods #199
|5309 Carolina Beach Road, Wilmington NC
|Lowes Foods #203
|2205 Oak Ridge Road, Oak Ridge, NC, United States
|Lowes Foods #205
|Hwy 801 North, Suite 258, Bermuda Run NC 27006
|Lowes Foods #206
|5034 Peters Creek Pkwy, Winston-Salem NC 27127
|Lowes Foods #207
|112 Bass Lake Road, Holly Springs NC 27540
|Lowes Foods #210
|Charlotte Area
|4445 School House Commons, Harrisburg NC
|SIP-N-SHOP. Enjoy beer and wine by the glass while you shop.
|Lowes Foods #215
|341 South College Road, Wilmington NC
|Lowes Foods #226
|8440 Louisburg Road, Suite 110, Raleigh NC
|Lowes Foods #228
|1191 University Drive, Burlington NC
|Lowes Foods #239
|932 Gateway Commons Circle, Wake Forest, NC, United States
|Lowes Foods #243
|5820F North Church Street, Greensboro NC
|Lowes Foods #254
|3010-A N Center Street, Hickory NC
|Lowes Foods #260
|2421 Gum Branch Road, Unit 200, Jacksonville NC 28540
|SIP-N-SHOP. Enjoy beer and wine by the glass while you shop.
|Main Street Pizzeria & Taphouse
|151 S Main St Sparta, NC 28675
|36 beers on taps with proper growler filling equipment.
|Marshall Container Co.
|10 South Main Street Marshall, NC
|Growler Filling Station
|Mountain Energy Shell Station
|377 Long Shoals Rd Arden, NC 28704
|Mountain River Tap & Growlers - Fletcher
|95 Terminal Dr Fletcher, NC 28732
We are a chain of craft beer tasting rooms and growler filling stations inside Triangle Stop Food stores in Mills River, Saluda and Brevard and Fletcher
|Mountain River Tap & Growlers - Mills River
|4197 Haywood Rd, Mills River, NC 28759
We are a chain of craft beer tasting rooms and growler filling stations inside Triangle Stop Food stores in Mills River, Saluda and Brevard and Fletcher
|Mountain River Tap & Growlers - Triangle Stop Food Stores - Mills River
|4197 Haywood Road Horse Shoe, NC
We are a chain of craft beer tasting rooms and growler filling stations inside Triangle Stop Food stores in Mills River, Saluda and Brevard and Fletcher
|Office Imported Pub, The
|2826 Raeford Rd, Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States
|Peabody's Wine and Beer Merchants
|1104 Highway 105 South, Boone NC
|Great selection of fresh beer for your growlers!
|Pintville Craft Beer
|Charlotte Area
|329 Main St Pineville, NC
|Real McCoy's
|3325 Rogers Rd Wake Forest, NC 27587
|At Real McCoy's, we're Tar Heels born and bred. So why not proudly feature the amazing beers that are crafted right here in our home state? North Carolina breweries are known far and wide for quality, integrity, and innovation. We are honored to share this carefully chosen list of (mostly) local brews with you.
|Red Line Beer & Wine
|10 Horne St, Raleigh, NC
|We offer instant delivery for a wide selection of import, domestic and craft beer, wine, champagne, and tobacco. We serve Raleigh and Cary Community.
|Rushing Buckets
|119 Oleander Dr, Clayton, NC
|A gourmet pizza shop and growler filling station at Flowers Plantation in Clayton NC.
|Southern Pines Growler Company
|205 W. Penn Ave, Southern Pines, NC
|We fill growlers with fresh poured draft beer. There is a selection of 30 specialty craft beers on tap at all times.
|Southern Range Craft Beer & BBQ
|Charlotte Area
|151 S Stewart St, Monroe, NC, United States
|Stella Brew
|1305 S. Hawthorne Rd, Winston Salem NC, 27103
|Growler Filling Station
|Swingbridge Beer and Wine
|106D N New River Drive, Surf City NC
|Growler Filling Station
|Tank's Tap
|Charlotte Area
|224 E 7th St Charlotte, NC 28202
|TapLine Growler
|1110 Kentworth Drive, Holly Springs, NC, United States
|TapLine Growler, Holly Springs' only growler filling station and tasting room.
|Tapped Bottle Shop
|Coastal Plains
|650 Firetower Rd Suite N Greenville, NC 27858
|Greenville, North Carolina's premiere selection of craft beers for both on and off premise consumption. Enjoy local artisan foods in an inviting and family friendly environment. Featuring 20 draft beers for flights, pints, & growlers with 200 plus cans, bottles, bombers and more!
|Temple Mojo
|Charlotte Area
|195 N. Trade Street Matthews, NC, 28105
Temple Mojo Growler Shop opened in the heart of downtown Matthews and has become the go-to spot to get your growler fills and pints of local craft beer and cider as well as wine by the glass. We feature beers and ciders that are usually unavailable to buy in bottles or cans. But you can take these products home with our growler fills.
|The Beerded Lady Bottle Shop
|1350 Fifth Avenue Suite 170 Garner, NC 27529
|We are a craft beer bottle shop offering 12 rotating drafts & retail options including single 12oz bottles, 22oz bombers, 32oz & 64oz growlers, and 6packs.
|The Casual Pint - Rivergate
|Charlotte Area
|14126 Rivergate Parkway, Suite C-1-500, Charlotte, NC 28273
The Casual Pint Craft BeerMarket, offers a relaxed, family friendly atmosphere much like a coffee shop, with a focus on Craft Beer. Our expert "Beer-tenders" can serve up Craft Beer by the pint from our tap wall, by the can or by the bottle to enjoy in our store.
You can grab your beer to go with Growler Fills, Mix-A-Six Packs out of our bottle & can cooler or packaged beer off the dry shelves. Kegs are also available for those special occasions.
|The Glass Jug Beer Lab
|5410 Hwy 55, Durham, NC 27713
|Located on Hwy 55 in the Greenwood Commons Shopping Center, The Glass Jug is the Triangle's first counter-pressure growler filling station, craft beer bar, and bottle shop!
|The Growler Bar Atlantic Beach
|2610-E West Fort Macon Road Atlantic Beach, North Carolina 28512
|The Peak Tap Room
|205 Roland Avenue Suite C, Surf City, NC 28445
|The Spirited Cyclist - Huntersville
|Charlotte Area
|9905-a Rose Commons Drive, Huntersville, NC 28078
|Tonic Delivers
|625 W Main St, Sylva, NC
|Tonic Delivers is part craft beer market, part restaurant take out service. Offering an array of local and national brands, the company felt it was time Sylva had a location for craft beer enthusiasts, run by craft beer enthusiasts.
|Total Wine & More
|Charlotte Area
|8709 Townley Rd, Huntersville, NC 28078
|Growler Filling Station
Purchase a new 32oz or 64oz beer growler in-store, or bring your own for us to fill with fresh draught beer from our taps.
|Total Wine & More
|Charlotte Area
|5341 Ballantyne Commons Parkway, Suite 100, Promenade on Providence, Charlotte, NC 28277
|Total Wine & More - Myers Park
|Charlotte Area
|1600 E Woodlawn Ave, Charlotte NC
|Growler Filling Station
Purchase a new 32oz or 64oz beer growler in-store, or bring your own for us to fill with fresh draught beer from our taps.
|Twisted Fork Restaurant, The
|3751 Sumner Blvd #170, Raleigh, NC 27616
|Growler Filling Station
|Veggie Wagon, The
|608 B South Lake Park Blvd Carolina Beach, NC 28428
|We offer 10 different tap options!
|Whole Foods - Cary
|102 New Waverly Pl, Cary, NC
|Growler Filling Station
|Whole Foods - Charlotte
|Charlotte Area
|6610 Fairview Rd, Charlotte, NC
|Growler Filling Station
|Whole Foods - Huntersville
|Charlotte Area
|9129 Sam Furr Rd, Huntersville, NC 28078
|Whole Foods - North Raleigh
|8710 Six Forks Rd, Raleigh NC
|Growler Filling Station
|Whole Foods - Raleigh
|3540 Wade Ave, Raleigh NC
|Growler Filling Station
|Whole Foods - Winston-Salem
|41 Miller St, Winston-Salem NC
|Growler Filling Station
|Winslow's Deli, Tavern and Market
|Coastal Plains
|120 W 5th St, Greenville, NC 27858
|Winslow's is Eastern North Carolina's premiere spot for craft beer selections! We offer a tapline of 46 American Craft Beers, Micro- Brews and Seasonal selections for the Beer lover!
|Zillie's Island Pantry
|538 Back Road Ocracoke, NC
|890 West hwy 70 Havelock, NC 28532


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Human growth hormone is used to stimulate growth in children who are deficient in their rate of growth or those of short stature. Pediatric studies reveal that males treated with human growth hormone reached a height 9.2 centimeters taller than untreated males, according to the National Institutes of Health.
When discussing human growth hormone, it is worthy to note that it is considered a banned steroid in sports, and it has been implicated in several doping scandals, according to NCBI. Its approved uses are for muscle wasting, chronic kidney insufficiency, Turner syndrome, pituitary tumors, short-bowel syndrome and neonatal insufficiencies. Only muscle wasting, pituitary tumors and short bowel are the only approved uses for adults, reports WebMD.
Human growth hormone has been marketed to adults as an anti-aging medication, a remedy for being of short stature and a cure for baldness. None of these are approved uses in the medical community. These types of claims are made because the human body naturally decreases production of human growth hormone as it ages, and some companies claim that this product brings back a youthful appearance. Possible side effects include joint pain and swelling, edema or swelling due to fluid retention in the body, carpal tunnel syndrome, and high cholesterol, according to WebMD.


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FOX Nashville Weekend Watch (Aug. 19-21)
This weekend you can see two different plays at the summer season of Shakespeare in the Park. If you like comedy you can see Comedy of Errors and if you like tragedy you can see Macbeth. Comedy of Errors plays on Saturdays and Sundays, and the set and costumes are all Nashville-themed. Macbeth is played in the round, on Thursdays and Fridays. Denice Hicks, the Executive Artistic Director of the Nashville Shakespeare Festival tells Fox17, "Doing any sort of performance outside is exciting. I always tell our actors the sky is the limit, just play big, play out. But really for the audience it's a great experience because here they are sitting in this gorgeous park, with stars, a full moon this weekend, there's been meteor showers, and it's just such a beautiful experience, to be here and then to get a play of this quality is a great bonus I think." The show starts at 7:00 p.m. each night. It's family friendly and you can pack a picnic or buy dinner from one of the food trucks at the park. Admission is free, but they do ask for a $10 donation.
The Full Moon Pickin' Party returns to Warner Park this Friday night. This is an outdoor bluegrass and beer event, featuring some of the best pickers in the south. $25 gets you 4 beers and a night of live music.
The Nashville Sounds play Friday night at 7:05 p.m. And be sure to stick around after the game for Friday night fireworks sponsored by Fox17.
On Saturday morning you can start your weekend off with craft beer and yoga at the Black Abbey Brewery. $30 gets you an hour-long yoga class and a pint of beer. Proceeds benefit Nashville's Hope Clinic for Women. Yoga starts at 9:30 a.m. and the party goes to noon.
The Musicians Corner concert series returns to Centennial Park this weekend. This is a free outdoor concert series that runs May, June, August, and September. From 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. you can enjoy live music, food trucks, a beer garden, and a kids zone.
Belmont mansion is hosting a fundraiser Saturday called Dueling Cocktails. You can sample a variety of original cocktail recipes and then vote for your favorite. The party goes from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Tickets are $125 and proceeds will help with restoration projects at the mansion.
You can head to Centennial Park on Saturday night for the Big Band Dance. They'll have live music and free dance lessons from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. And if you work up an appetite there will be food trucks on location.
And the Grassy Knoll Movie Nights returns to Five Points this Sunday. So once a month, from now through October, you can head to Bongo Jana on 11th street, for an outdoor movie watching party. Admission is $5, the movie starts at sunset.
Jazz on the Cumberland returns to Cumberland Park this weekend. It's on Sunday from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Admission is free. If you can't make it this weekend, there are two more dates coming up this year


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Linlithgow Rose made a shock Scottish Junior Cup exit to Shotts Bon Accord – meaning every West Lothian team is now out of the famous competition.
Last year's beaten finalists were heavily tipped to make another deep run in the competition and potentially go all the way this time.
But no one told Shotts, who turned in an outstanding performance to knock out the Rose on their own turf.
While the East Superleague champions enjoyed the lion's share of possession throughout the match, it was Shotts who looked the most dangerous and combined outstanding defending with clinical finishing to record a fantastic victory.
Things were pretty even for the first half-hour, with the home side seeing more of the ball while Bon Accord created more chances.
The best of these early opportunities fell to Chris Walker, who crashed a header against the bar from a corner before Gary McStay had another header brilliantly saved by Christie between the Rose sticks.
Linlithgow knew they were lucky to be level and cranked up the pressure on Bon Accord but failed to create any clear-cut chances, despite being camped out in the opposition's final third and forcing plenty of corners.
Shotts opened the scoring five minutes before the end of the half when Andy Cross was released through the middle and the winger slotted the ball past the keeper with aplomb.
Bon Accord did not create as much in the second half, with Linlithgow keeping possession as they relentlessly pursued the equaliser.
The Shotts back line was resolute, keeping Linlithgow at bay for the most part.
However, Rose's Tommy Coyne hit the bar with a great effort from the edge of the box before wasting a good chance minutes later when he was one-on-one with Gary Whyte, with the keeper saving easily down to his right.
With just over an hour played Sean McKenna turned his defender and was clean through on Christie but was blocked off by the covering centre half.
However, the chance had not passed, with the striker laying off the supporting McStay, who slipped in Cross to smash his second under Christie.
Highlighting the difference in the strength in depth both sides enjoy, Rose made a treble substitution while the BA did not even have three fit replacements on the bench.
The home side deservedly got one back with 10 minutes remaining when the ball fell to Gordon Herd, who coolly placed it in the corner to set up a nervous finish for Shotts.
However, the expected Rose bombardment did not materialise as the clock wound down and, with Jordan White on to help McKenna, the BA actually looked dangerous again before the referee blew for full time.
Gutted Rose boss Mark Bradley said: "We didn't start playing until we were 2-0 down but well done to Shotts, who had a game plan."
The Rose will now return to league duty and focus on defending their Superleague title.
They are currently second in the league but have three games in hand over leaders Newtongrange Star.
The Rose host West Lothian rivals and Superleague newboys Armadale.


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On my first day of work as Operations Manager at MTS I happened to mention that I had done some research into the family crest seen in an earlier blog post by Michelle Drummey entitled A Warrior in our Midst. Naturally, I was conscripted to share my discovery with you.
Given the geographic proximity and the mountainous terrain of Tsushima, the So have been a prominent fixture in Japanese-Korean trade and relations since the late 12th century. Despite years of mutually beneficial trade, So clan members did participate in the unsuccessful invasions of Korea in the 1590s. But in the early 1600s So Yoshitoshi, Han of the Tsushima Shogunate, actively worked to restore diplomatic and economic relations between Japan and Korea of his own accord, despite having participated in the invasion. His efforts were continued by his successors, with no less than 12 embassies traveling to Korea between 1611 and 1800.


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TC Bird/Wildlife Strike Report - Default in Aviation SMS SoftwareAirlines and airports around the world have been implementing aviation safety management systems (SMS) since 2006 to comply with the ICAO SMS mandate. One aspect of formal SMS programs is hazard reporting. Several world class Web based software programs have sprung up since 2006 to satisfy regulatory requirements. SMS Pro is one of the most popular Web-based aviation SMS software programs.
Not All Bird/Wildlife Reporting Forms are the Same
Custom reporting forms are not uncommon in SMS Pro's aviation safety database. They are quick and easy to produce and integrate nicely into the aviation risk management framework.
SMS Pro now includes the Transport Canada Bird/Wildlife Reporting Form as a default reporting form. Since the Canadians are among the leaders in implementing formal aviation SMS programs, they represent an appreciable customer base for SMS Pro. This reporting form is available to all SMS Pro users, regardless of whether you are a Canadian based airline, airport, flight school or maintenance facility.
Key Features of TC Bird/Wildlife Reporting FormTransport Canada Bird/Wildlife Reporting Form is available in English and French, the two national languages.
Dropdown lists are configurable for aircraft make, model, engine manufacturer and bird/wildlife common species. Only SMS Admins can edit these lists. These configurable lists ensure users are not bombarded with information not relevant to their operations.
Besides using the Web based reporting form to submit issues into a company's SMS database, SMS Pro's TC Bird/Wildlife Reporting Form can be used to optionally submit reports directly to Transport Canada. If desired, safety managers can desensitize reports before transmitting reported issues to Transport Canada.
More InformationAviation Hazard Reporting Software
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If your airline or airport requires a unique reporting form, contact firstname.lastname@example.com. For sales information, contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
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About NWDS - founded in 2003 by six software engineers, NorthWest Data Solutions (NWDS) provides custom computer programming and systems design services. NWDS creates many types of software, including e-commerce, financial, defense, engineering, logistics, aviation and more. In 2007, NWDS developed SMS Pro™ a web based SMS application that supports an organization's overall SMS through safety reporting, safety documentation, safety risk management and safety assurance. SMS Pro™ is currently used by aviation organizations in the U.S., Canada, Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East to help manage their SMS programs. NWDS continues to support SMS Pro™ and add new functionality. NWDS offers custom contract programming services in the U.S. and Canada and is managed by Chris Howell, one of the founders. Their headquarters is in Anchorage, Alaska. For information on NWDS visit their website at www.nwds-ak.com and www.asms-pro.com to learn more about SMS Pro™.


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