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The Dominican nanny accused of killed two children before trying to slash her own throat was having emotional trouble before the horrifying killing and apparently "snapped," her relatives say.
Yoselyn Ortega was apparently going through financial trouble, but it remains unclear why she decided to take the life of two young children she had been taking care of for over two years.
"She snapped," the nanny's sister, Celia Ortega, told The New York Post. "We don't understand what happened to her mind."
Yoselyn Ortega, 50, remained hospitalized Saturday from self-inflicted stab wounds, including a deep gash to her throat.
Police said Marina Krim, the Manhattan mother who employed Ortega, returned to her Upper West Side apartment Thursday to find two of her children, ages 2 and 6, dead of knife wounds and the nanny stabbing herself with the blade.
Yoselyn Ortega's motive remains a mystery, even to those who knew her, but a picture of a life in distress has begun to emerge in the days since the killing.
"Apparently over the last month she was not herself," said police department spokesman Paul Browne.
But relatives in Ortega's native Dominican Republic said they were shocked by the allegations.
Miladys Ortega, the nanny's older sister in the Caribbean nation, told The Associated Press on Saturday that her sister "loved those children." She said the family felt the nanny was "unable to do that."
"Yoselyn is fair, loving, loving with those children. She loved them," Ortega said at the family home in Santiago de los Caballeros, about 150 miles north of the capital, Santo Domingo. She spoke as she prepared to attend Mass after visiting the grave of their mother.
She said the Krims had visited the Dominican Republic last February with Yoselyn and stayed at her home in a middle-class district of Santiago.
"Those children were here," Miladys Ortega said tearfully. "They were happy, running, playing."
She said Yoselyn is the youngest of six siblings, most of whom live in the United States. Her sister emigrated to the United States in the early 1980s after graduating from accounting studies at Santa Ana College in Santiago.
Yoselyn Ortega worked as the manager of a print shop in Manhattan, until she separated from the father of her child. She returned to Santiago for a while, but then went back to the U.S., her sister said.
Miladys Ortega said that when her sister got back to New York, she couldn't find an accounting job and decided to work as a nanny because she loves children.
During her last conversations with Yoselyn, her sister didn't say anything that seemed unusual.
"Yoselyn always was a normal person. When she was a child, she played, always played a lot. We would go into the countryside," she said. "As an adult, she dedicated herself to working. She was always working."
Juan Pozo, a 67-year-old car service driver who formerly rented a room from the Ortega family, told The New York Times that the nanny's sister told him Friday that she had "felt like she was losing her mind" lately, and had recently been taken by relatives to visit a psychologist.
Police said they were unaware of any significant history of psychological problems for Ortega, but were investigating whether she had recently sought treatment.
Neighbor Ruben Rivas told reporters she seemed to have suddenly aged in recent weeks and had lost weight. Other friends said that while she was paid well by her domestic employers, Kevin and Marina Krim, and seemed happy with her job, she had suffered a financial setback when she had to give up an apartment she had rented in the Bronx, and recently moved back in with her sister.
William Krim, grandfather to the slain children, told the Times he wasn't aware of any conflicts between the family and the nanny.
"We're just the most stunned people in the world. I mean, they treated this woman so well," he said.
Based on reporting by The Associated Press.
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Using Wing with PyQt
Wing is a Python IDE that can be used to develop, test, and debug Python code written for the PyQt cross-platform GUI development toolkit. Two versions of Wing are appropriate for use with this document: Wing Pro is the full-featured Python IDE for professional programmers, and Wing Personal is a free alternative with reduced feature set.
If you do not already have Wing installed, download it now.
This document describes how to configure Wing for PyQt. To get started using Wing as your Python IDE, please refer to the tutorial in Wing's Help menu or read the Quickstart Guide.
PyQt is a commercial GUI development environment that runs with native look and feel on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS, and mobile devices. While Wing does not include a GUI builder for PyQt, it does provide the most advanced capabilities available for the Python programming language and it can be used with other available GUI builders, as described below.
Installation and Configuration
Take the following steps to set up and configure Wing for use with PyQt:
- Install Python, PyQt, and Wing. The Quickstart Guide provides installation instructions for Wing.
- Start Wing from the Start menu on Windows, the Finder on OS X, or by typing wing6.1 on the command line on Linux other Posix systems. Once Wing has started, you may want to switch to reading this How-To from the Help menu. This will add links to the functionality of the application.
- Select Show Python Environment from the Source menu and if the Python version reported there doesn't match the one you're using with PyQt, then select Project Properties from the Project menu and use the Python Executable field to select the correct Python version.
- Open examples/demos/qtdemo/qtdemo.py into Wing (located within your Python installation) and select Add Current File from the Project menu.
- Set qtdemo.py as main entry point for debugging with Set Main Debug File in the Debug menu.
- Save your project to disk. Use a name ending in .wpr.
Test Driving the Debugger
Now you're ready to try out the debugger. To do this:
- Start debugging with the Start / Continue item in the Debug menu. Uncheck the Show this dialog before each run checkbox at the bottom of the dialog that appears and select OK. You can visit this dialog again later by right clicking on qtdemo.py in the Project view and selecting File Properties or by right clicking on the editor.
- The demo application will start up. If its main window doesn't come to front, bring it to front from your task bar or window manager.
- Next open menumanager.py from the examples/demos/qtdemo directory and set a breakpoint on the first line of the method itemSelection. Once set, this breakpoint should be reached whenever you click on a button in the qtdemo application.
- Use the Stack Data tool in the Tools menu to look around the stack and the locals and globals for the selected stack frame.
- Select Debug Probe (Wing Pro only) from the Tools menu. This is an interactive command prompt that lets you type expressions or even change values in the context of the stack frame that is selected on the Debugger window when your program is paused or stopped at an exception. It is a very powerful debugging tool and also useful for writing new code in the context of the live runtime environment.
- Notice also that when the debugger is active, typing in code that is on the stack (such as in itemSelected) shows auto-completion in the editor and calltips and documentation in the Source Assistant tool that is sourced from the live runtime state of your application.
See the Wing Tutorial and Quick start for more information.
Test Driving the Source Browser
Don't forget to check out Wing Pro and Wing Personal's powerful source browser:
- Add package Lib/site-packages or site-packages (inside your Python installation) to your project with the Add Directory item in the Project menu. On OS X this is located inside your Python.framework/Versions/#.#/lib/python#.# directory.
- Next bring up the Source Browser from the Tools menu. You can select the view style at the top of the window, to browse by modules, by classes, or only the current file. The Options menu on the right will filter what types of symbols are being displayed in the browser.
- Double clicking on the browser will show the corresponding source code in the source editor area.
- Use the right-click menu on the Source Browser to zoom to base classes. In general, right-clicking will bring up menus specific to the tool being clicked on.
- Related to the Source Browser is the auto-completion capability in Wing's source editor. Try typing in one of the PyQt source files and you will see the auto-completer appear. Tab completes the currently selected item, but you can set the Completion Keys preference to also complete when the Enter key is pressed. See the Quickstart Guide for information on this and other commonly used preferences.
- See also the Source Assistant tool in the Tools menu. This provides additional information about source constructs in the active source editor as the insertion cursor or selection is moved around. Note that this tool is also integrated with the source browser, and with the auto-completer in the editor, Python Shell, and Debug Probe (in Wing Pro).
Using a GUI Builder
Wing doesn't currently include a GUI builder for PyQt but it can be used with an external GUI builder. Wing will automatically reload files that are written by the GUI builder, making for a fairly seamless integration.
A Caveat: Because Python lends itself so well to writing data-driven code, you may want to reconsider using a GUI builder for some tasks. In many cases, Python's introspection features make it possible to write generic GUI code that you can use to build user interfaces on the fly based on models of your data and your application. This can be much more efficient than using a GUI builder to craft individual menus and dialogs by hand. In general model-driven GUIs also tend to be more maintainable, and the Qt widget set was designed specifically to make hand-coding easy.
Related Documents
Wing provides many other options and tools. For more information:
- Wing Reference Manual, which describes Wing in detail.
- PyQt home page, which provides links to documentation and downloads.
- Quickstart Guide which contains additional basic information about getting started with Wing.

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DENVER – Dillon Companies, Inc., owners of the King Soopers supermarket chain in Colorado, will pay $80,000 to a mentally challenged employee who worked at its Lakewood, Colo., store and furnish other relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
According to the EEOC's suit, filed on Sept. 18, 2009, King Soopers supervisors Gabby Sedillos, a head clerk, and Rachael Scott, a service manager, repeatedly subjected a ten-year employee, Justin Stringer, to repeated bullying and taunting because of his learning disability. The EEOC alleged that this harassment ultimately led to Stringer's termination.
Such alleged conduct violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The EEOC filed suit (EEOC v. Dillon Companies, Inc., Case No. 09-cv-02237-ZLW-MEH) in U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
In addition to the monetary settlement, King Soopers will provide training to all of its supervisors and managers about the ADA and how to properly interact with employees with special needs. King Soopers will also make periodic reports to the EEOC concerning all complaints of disability discrimination for the next three years.
"Employees with disabilities must be treated with the same dignity and respect as all other members of the work force," said EEOC Regional Attorney Mary Jo O'Neill. "The EEOC will continue to enforce the ADA to protect the rights of disabled employees and applicants."
Nancy Sienko, director of the EEOC's Denver Field Office, added, "We commend King Soopers for working with our Denver Field Office to resolve this case, and for its commitment to education about the ADA. We believe this resolution will help foster a discrimination-free workplace."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. The Phoenix District Office covers Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Arizona and part of New Mexico. Further information is available on the EEOC's website at www.eeoc.gov.


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Many marine species cannot disperse as adults, but have planktonic larvae that are transported by coastal currents; larval dispersal is important to ecologists and habitat managers because it controls the exchange of individuals between distant populations. Dispersal is difficult to measure because we are unable to track larvae in the environment. Larval ecologists increasingly rely on physical oceanographic models to predict larval dispersal patterns, but without larval behavior information these models are poor predictors of larval dispersal. Our immediate goal is to characterize the responses of mussel larvae to turbulence and downwelling flow, and ultimately we will incorporate these behaviors in a physical transport model to estimate mussel dispersal in Cape Cod Bay.
We lack an appropriate turbulence-generation system for our study of mussel larvae in turbulence, and propose to build a double-grid-stirred turbulence tank for this purpose. The use of two stirring grids is a significant improvement in the production of homogeneous turbulence appropriate for behavior studies. The tank will reside at the Rinehart Coastal Research Center (RCRC), and will be available for use by other researchers. Other potential uses of the tank include studies of particle dispersion, predator-prey interactions, or phytoplankton sedimentation rates in turbulence.


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Aside from mini-game compilations, the Wii has become quite well known for its growing library of fitness titles. From EA Sports Active to the ubiquitous Wii Fit, there are plenty of games for the Wii designed to help players get active. When I first picked up All Star Karate, I was expecting another title in this vein. A karate simulator on the Wii would certainly make sense, and I was hopeful that All Star Karate would be an interesting new take on the fitness genre. However, instead of teaching users real Karate basics or featuring some interesting mechanics, All Star Karate instead has nonsensical controls, a weak premise, and almost no real value to anyone.
When you first start up the game, you are given a choice of how to control it. You can either use the Wii-mote and Nunchuck to control the game, or two Wii-motes (with optional Wii MotionPlus support.) If you do not have two Wii-motes, I do not recommend even attempting this game. The Nunchuk's motion controls are definitely not up to par in this title and do not respond at all. The Wii-mote controls are much more responsive, and you don't even really need the Wii MotionPlus. However, even though the controls work better when you use dual Wii-motes, the experience still isn't pleasant.
Once you have selected your control scheme, you'll launch into an extremely brief tutorial mode. The controls are extremely simple. When a blue punch icon appears, waggle your right hand to punch. When a yellow punch icon appears, waggle your left hand to punch. To perform kicks, the same waggle rule applies, except you will have to hold the B button while waggling. The waggling controls do not even resemble anything like real karate, which pretty much shoots this title's credibility down right off the bat. I was instantly annoyed with the fact that in a karate game the mechanics involved no more than just Wii-mote shaking, as there was so much potential for this game to actually teach users real karate.
Even if you can get past the annoyingly simple mechanics, I'm afraid there still isn't much to explore in All Star Karate. You'll play as either a male or female karate wannabe who gets attacked by random ninjas while walking to a movie theater. Fortunately, by using your natural karate waggle power, you attract the attention of a karate master who agrees to train you for some reason. After you agree to training, you will learn new karate moves aside from just regular kicking and punching, and will even unlock the ability to use a wooden training stick.
The training stick missions are actually the most entertaining part of the game. When you are using the Wii MotionPlus, you can actually see the 1:1 movement of the stick, and it can be quite fun. However, if you were expecting a realistic fighting experience, you will be sorely mistaken. All you have to do is move your hands from side to side, and all the enemies will be defeated (or weapons deflected). There is no skill involved, and as long as the fighting stick on the screen is moving from side to side (like a windshield wiper), then you are winning.


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'Unknown' is #1 at the box office
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Spanish director Jaume Collet-Serra's new movie "Unknown," an action thriller starring Liam Neeson conquered the box office this weekend. The film with Diane Kruger and January Jones, debuted in first place with $21.8 million.
In the film, Neeson plays a doctor on a trip to Berlin who wakes up from a taxi crash to discover that another man is living his life and his wife (January Jones) doesn't recognize him. The police think he's crazy and assassins are on his tail. His only ally in unraveling the mystery is a taxi driver (Diane Kruger).
In the movie, Neeson believes he is fighting for his identity, an issue that has become very real with the advent of computers. The actor said he fears the computer after having his information stolen in the past.
"I Am Number Four" came in second place at the box office with $19.5 million.
In a close third is the animated feature "Gnomeo & Juliet" with a $19.4 million haul for three days.
Meanwhile, the Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy "Just Go With It," comes in fourth place. The film made $18.2 million in its second week in release, raising its domestic sum to $60.8 million.
Rounding out the top five is the weekend's other new wide release is the Martin Lawrence's comedy "Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son" with $17 million.
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Senate May Cave on Egypt Coup
A behind-the-scenes battle is brewing in Washington over bending a United States' human rights law "to give the administration some flexibility" in supporting the Egyptian military which is now placing President Mohamad Morsi on trial on capital charges after overthrowing him July 3, 2013. The changes are likely to be debated behind closed doors in the Senate committees on foreign relations and appropriations. "It's all about not breaking US defense contracts and incurring the penalties," says one observer.
The Egyptian generals' coup has tongue-tied President Barack Obama because officially designating the July 3 overthrow as a "coup" would require a suspension of $1.3 billion US military spending. The Obama administration is under fierce lobbying pressure from Israel and Saudi Arabia to back Egypt's military junta with weapons and dollars. The Israelis consider the military junta a more reliable ally than Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, while the Saudis are driven by sectarian hostility. Both Israel and Saudi Arabia also are openly angry with Obama's alleged "failure" to bomb Syria, fearing that Obama will "soften" his policy towards Iran as part of a future deal.
Many secularists and liberals in Egypt and the US initially supported the July 3rd coup, further hemming Obama into a lonely position. They claim that Morsi so exceeded his mandate that he should have been forced to step down, but the generals quickly hijacked the anti-Morsi sentiment to overthrow the elected government, imprison Morsi and other key officials, murder thousands of Morsi protestors in the streets, and impose a full-scale police state apparatus.
Obama tried to reduce some military aid, mainly military hardware like Apache helicopters, in keeping with American law, while still maintaining US support for Egypt's counterterrorism programs in the Sinai and its embrace of the Camp David treaty with Israel. Secretary of State John Kerry has been awkwardly apologetic about the partial US suspensions. Kerry shocked many observers by defending the coup in its immediate aftermath as "restoration of democracy" and then last week showed up in Cairo to dialogue with the generals on the very day their military trial of Morsi was beginning. As a dignified Morsi shouted against the coup in the courtroom, and as tens of thousands marched in Egypt against the new dictatorship, Kerry managed only to assert that, "the road map (to democracy) is being carried out to the best of our perception." The New York Times described the statement as cryptic.
The New York Times also reports that National Security Adviser Susan Rice, herself a military hawk, is trying to exclude dealing with the Egyptian coup from the list Obama second term Middle East priorities. That approach should disturb serious human rights advocates and Senators concerned about protecting laws which they have written. Since the US doesn't control events on the ground, a back burner policy of minimal engagement might set off a deeper violence in Egypt.
Since the Obama policy violates the human rights obligations under the foreign assistance act, Obama and the hawks remain in a quandary. US funds cannot be released without a Senate debate and consenting vote. The impasse is causing the pressure for "flexibility" in application of the law, perhaps even a circumvention of the vote requirement.
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By Heather Barr, Special to CNN
Editor's note: Heather Barr is Human Rights Watch's Afghanistan researcher. Follow her @HeatherBarr1. The views expressed are her own.
In Afghanistan, this year's observance of International Human Rights Day, December 10, began with the murder of a rights advocate.
An unknown gunman shot and killed Najia Sediqi, acting head of the Afghan government's Department of Women's Affairs in the eastern province of Laghman, as she traveled to work that morning. Sediqi's murder is appalling, but not surprising.
Sediqi had held her post only a few months following the murder of her predecessor, Hanifa Safi. Safi was killed on July 13, when an improvised explosive device attached to her car was remotely detonated. Safi's husband and daughter and six other civilians were wounded. No one has claimed responsibility for Safi's murder, nor for Sediqi's. There have been no arrests in either case.
The murders of Sediqi and Safi are more than just a measure of Afghanistan's ongoing slide toward lawlessness and violence that is likely to accelerate as the international community draws down its support in concert with the departure of international combat troops by the end of 2014. They are also highly symbolic attacks on the tentative progress toward women's rights, embodied by the Department of Women's Affairs offices, since the U.S. invasion toppled the repressive Taliban regime in 2001.
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Each of Afghanistan's 34 provinces has a Women's Affairs office. These offices, outposts of the Ministry in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, are the front line in the Afghan government's effort to advance women's rights – and to fight violence against women. The overall effort by the Afghan government to promote women's rights has fallen far short of what it should, but no one can question the challenges that the staff of the DoWA office face, working every day to help women in often insecure provinces in a country where many view women's rights as an affront to Islam and to national sovereignty.
Under these desperately difficult working conditions, some Women's Affairs officials show exceptional courage and compassion. For example, Human Rights Watch has heard of cases where, in provinces with no shelter for women fleeing violence (there are only 14 such shelters in all of Afghanistan) Women's Affairs staff members have protected battered women in the staffers' own homes, at great personal risk.
They have their work cut out for them. The roll call of Afghan women and girls who have been victims of targeted violence just this year is far too long to recount. But a few cases tell the story of many more women and girls: Anisa, 22, was a student and polio vaccination campaign volunteer shot to death in Kapisa Province in December; Giseena, 15, was killed and nearly beheaded in November in Kunduz Province by a rejected suitor and his friend; Mah Gul, 25, was murdered by throat slashing in October in Herat Province, allegedly for refusing her in-laws' demand to become a prostitute; Sabira, 15, was lashed 101 times in September in Ghazni Province for immorality after reporting that she had been raped; Benafsha, 22, an actress, was murdered in Kabul in August; Najiba, 22, was killed in June by her husband in a public execution in Parwan, which was filmed and watched around the world.
There are many more cases, including some investigated by Human Rights Watch. Friba, 35, who is deaf and mute, was raped in April or May in Parwan Province, and has tried to kill herself repeatedly, while also being threatened with "honor" killing by her family. Rabia was burned to death in Kunar Province in August, in what her in-laws say was an accident but her parents believe was murder. Masoma, a teenager, was executed in September in Herat Province after running away to escape forced marriage; the man she ran away with was also killed.
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission reports that 4,000 cases of violence against women occurred in April through October of this year, an increase of about 1,000 cases over the same period in 2011. When President Hamid Karzai signed Afghanistan's Law on Elimination of Violence Against Women in 2009, for the first time, many forms of abuse of women were made a crime. However, enforcement by police and prosecutors has been desperately lacking.
Foreign support for women's rights in Afghanistan is also on the wane. International engagement in Afghanistan is declining sharply, with cuts in assistance already under way. Foreign aid, including for essential services for women and girls, is likely to decline dramatically in the years ahead. With increasing rates of violence, declining international interest, and a national government unwilling to make protecting women a priority, the reality is sinking in that guarding the slow-but-important gains in women's rights in Afghanistan will only get harder in the years ahead.
Gains in women's rights have been an undeniable, if fragile, victory over the last decade. As Afghan women face an increasingly dangerous future, there has never been a more important moment for the United States and other countries that have been so closely engaged in Afghanistan for the last 11 years to lay out solid commitments for how they will support Afghan women in the hard years ahead.
More evidence that the Communists should have won that country's civil war some 30 years ago. The suffering of these women in Afghanistan today proves that very fact. The West needs to stay out of these countries and mind it's own business!
So you want all MIddleeasterners to move out of the West and mind their own business and stay put in the East and all westerners to move out of the East and mind their own business. Good luck.
Towel Head men must really be afraid of women. What a bunch of p_u_s_s_i_e_s!!!!!! Hahahahahahahahaha
The fact that there are only three responses (so far) to this article is telling.
When a young woman is betroth to a male, it is not called slavery of women. It is called culture. The groom might not even like the girl. It was talked over by parents, among them the mothers.
The young bride in her time may not do that to her children. Nothing keeps her to stick to old culture should she decide to practice different.
Afghansitan is one of the worst places on earth for women. Especially in rural areas, where tribal culture prevails, violence against women is most evident. Women have to do all the chores and perform their duties, but have absolutely no rights whatsoever. There's little hope that their lot will be improved in the near future, much is uncertain after withdrawal of Western troops and the presidential election in 2014.
If the endless wars stopped and foreign occupation ended their lives would improve. The pipeline from Caspian Sea to Karachi may never happen-so it is all for nothing.
Only when the women realize Islam is dark religion. Islam will on subs-agate the female race to third or fourth class citizen to please it twisted male overload.
Writing about human rights on the subject of Afganistan is just foolish Imperial Propaganda.. Afganistan is under occupation and foreign values are jammed down people's throats. Unfortunately jornalism serves only our oligarchs that profit from endless wars – they care less about human rightds.Many drone kills make the human right conversation ridiculous.


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What do Ernie Ladd, Angelo Mosca, and The Rock all have in common? Each of these superstars got their start on the football field before transferring into the world of professional wrestling.
Add Nick Hannah to the list of gridiron bruisers who traded shoulder pads for a chance at stardom inside the ring.
The East Wenatchee, Washington native will do just that this Saturday as he makes his official squared circle debut for the Canadian National Wrestling Alliance in Edmonton.
After playing college football for Eastern Oregon University, Hannah was signed by the National Football League's Indianapolis Colts in 2005, but never cracked the lineup. The linebacker spent a year playing ball in Europe for the Amsterdam Admirals before returning to North America and joining the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League in 2007. A stint on the Toronto Argonauts practice squad as well as time in another U.S. league wrapped up Hannah's days of helmets and chinstraps.
Now out of football and working as a successful personal trainer, a chance meeting with Hall of Famer, Ted "The Million Dollar Man" DiBiase
, would put the 31-year-old on a totally different path. "Ted and I met through a mutual friend who runs a ministry in Phoenix, Arizona," explained Hannah to SLAM! Wrestling. "We hit it off and talked a lot of football. After a couple of hours we discussed the business of pro wrestling and how I could be considered."
DiBiase was en route to a Raw Legends show and asked Hannah for his football resume and some footage that he could bring along to give to WWE talent development. "Within a couple of days WWE notified me that I caught their attention and would be invited to a future workout," said a thrilled Hannah. "I called Ted immediately and he told me I needed to 'learn how to wrestle.' I was given Vance Nevada of CNWA's phone number to get started and off I went."
The 6-foot, 225-pound hopeful was linked up with trainer Sean "Massive Damage" Dunster at CNWA's training facility in Edmonton only six weeks ago and has been working around the clock to be ready for his time in the spotlight.
"My daily routine: weight room at 11 a.m.; 1-on-1 training with Sean and CNWA Monster Pro Champ Tyler James at 1 p.m.; pro camp at 7 p.m.; and another gym workout at 9 p.m.," detailed Hannah. CNWA Live Events Coordinator Vern May added, "though still a novice, Hannah has his eyes on the WWE and is hopeful that his Canadian experience between the ropes will help to vault him to new heights."
When beginning a career in something as unique as professional wrestling, Hannah was glad that the first two days of training were largely focused on terminology and safety. He compared the business to his football experience: "It's similar to learning a new playbook. Basically it's learning a new language and the faster I picked it up the more Sean Dunster threw at me."
"Football and wrestling to me are both about becoming comfortable with the job you are there to do," he continued. "Once you understand that, things slow down and I try to welcome any mistakes, fix them immediately, and strive to improve each day."
Of course, one of the most important components to becoming a successful sports entertainer is your in-ring persona. Hannah decided to use a stage name that he has been called since high school, "NZO" (pronounced Neezo). "NZO is a babyface who is a technically sound wrestler with a rare blend of size and explosiveness," he elaborated.
NZO will battle "Future Legend" Kyle Sebastian at Alberta Avenue Community Hall, Saturday October 6 at 7:30 p.m.
Like anyone in pro wrestling who takes a hiatus, Andy McNamara inevitably returned to SLAM! Wrestling and hopes to receive a 2011 Royal Rumble Diesel-style pop. Andy is a sports broadcaster and journalist for CBC Sports, NFL, CFL, the National Lacrosse League's Toronto Rock, as well as for minor league and collegiate sports. He has been a contributor to SLAM! Wrestling since 2005.


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I wanted an expression of a mood, and I think I got it. I also think
I'm far too familiar with this mood.
See the Beyond Madness Webring Homepage. They have taken this image and have framed it far better than this, and have made it actually useful for a good cause. I can't ask for anything better than that, and I consider it an honor and a blessing. (There as of 8/2001)
Doodling while on the phone, letting out a lot of pent up nervous, frustrated, mixed-up energy. (It's a long, personal story.) I don't know why, but this piece appeals to me in a seismograph kind of way. I think that, if the aikido people are right about living calmness = relaxed, infinitely small, infinitely rapid vibrations, then this shows the confused, messed-up, tense, unhappy, circular nature of my thinking. Yes, a seismograph of a long mental earthquake. I wish I were joking....
Attempting to capture the happy, exuberant eagerness in the expressive eye of a dog. I was thinking mostly of a particular dog (long passed on, alas), but I think most dogs have that glint of joy and hope that speaks of living 100-percent in the moment.
Which reminds me: I learned the antidote to sullen misery is hope. Which means hope is something we need to fight to find, to keep, to grow, to give away (a key part of keeping it). We have much to learn from the happy dogs of the world. And maybe much to give them too (I should walk the dog...).
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Who is the target and what is the desired endstate? Does the Navy specifically have a role? What do we uniquely contribute that other forces cannot?
IO campaigns are typically targeted against people. Naval Forces, beyond NSW and NECC, don't typically interact with the local population in the way that ground troops do. So what exactly would a Naval force contribute to IO beyond broadcasts and pamphlets?
That question really needs to be asked while taking into account the phases of conflict and what your specific objectives are. Additionally, the question needs some kind of context because the implications at the tactical level are vastly different than the implications at the strategic or operational levels.
From a tactical level influencing individuals (KLE) or target audiences (MISO), the interaction with a population is important. What about virtual interactions through social media? Did we send a tactical message when we sent a couple Navy combatants to do counter-piracy in GOA? Why is a low altitude overpass sometimes in the ROE for the escalation of force? Would we do that if we assessed the target audience wouldn't see that "message" as credible? What about maritime capabilities leveraged to delivery other types of messaging? At the operational/strategic levels, what kind of message does our government send when they park a couple of CSGs off the coast of a foreign adversary? How is that action synchronized with SLEs between senior government officials of two or more nations? Does that synchronization amplify the intended message?
We can provide smart, strategic, critical thinkers who can help translate foreign policy into military strategy, which the services then use as guidance to do their jobs. At the very tip of the most pointy spear (or the deepest bowls of the most remotely operated warship) this stuff may seem inconsequential in the moment, but we (the U.S.) isn't in this for the short game. We NEED to be in that conversation because to ignore it means we continue operating in our stovepipe of excellence. If Information is really a warfighting domain and we consider it important in today's military, then we represent TWO elements of national power that absolutely must be leveraged in constructive ways.
All credible, important work. By why WE, as in the CWO community? Other than a misstep labeling us IW for a few years, we are plenty engaged in our current mission set -- SIGINT, Cyber, EW. And we can fill all of those jobs as it is. So why WE? Without additionally manpower, we shouldn't even consider it. Pretty certain, in fact, we are divesting for this very reason.
Great question. Before I give you my initial take on it, I would like to point out another misstep that's gone on for as long as I can remember (and I'd love to hear from others in longer, as well). This misstep is taking our unique skillsets and shoving us under N2/N6 when two out of our three main skillsets are quite clearly N3/J3 functions. Now, if you buy that, then it becomes clear that as IWC members we are probably best aligned to merge those technical, analytical, and operational considerations across all phases and levels of warfare. I couldn't help but smile today when someone chimed in during RADM Filipowski's Q&A about our over-reliance on technology. I had been thinking the EXACT same thing at that very moment, and had been about to jump in to assert that where we most often fail isn't technologically... we fail to manage the information that the technology gives us access to and we fail to smartly allocate limited resources (time, people, money, etc.). If every single one of us isn't questioning processes and looking for better ways to manage resources, then we're going to fail, even if we have the best tech and know-how money can buy. Someone has to be multi-faceted in the IWC. Leaving it to the flag deck isn't the right answer. I don't see Intel, Metoc or Space doing it. And for us to NOT do it means we leave it up to a terminal O-5 URL dude to do it for us.
The manpower issue you bring up is another hot button issue. I can say that all we keep hearing at the CCMD is how CYBERCOM needs more people and more money, but they can't tell us how they plan on using those scarce resources to support GCC requirements. They have CYBERCOM requirements. I'd argue that if your organization can't tie resource allocation decisions back to GCC/SOCOM warfighting requirements (phase 0 included), then you are wasting money. I was sitting in a room with a CYBERCOM LNO, NSA LNO, ARCYBER LNO, and half a dozen multi-service O-5's in a meeting not too long ago and, exasperatedly, asked to see the CMT's CAPES and LIMS doc. What the hell should a CMT be able to do? When was the GCC asked to inform the nominal team capabilities? What is the REQUIREMENT? Dude, you should have seen the looks on their faces. The NSA guy (former TAO'er, national mission team dude) just smiled at me. No one could say such a document exists. How do you man, train, and equip to a mission you haven't fully defined? I mean, that's planning 101. Conduct some mission analysis, maybe get some OR guys in a room to help you go through some COA models.
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Singer Kelly Clarkson is one step closer to becoming a married woman after obtaining a marriage license in Tennessee.
Clarkson and her fiance Brandon Blackstock filed for the legal document in Sumner County, near Nashville on Tuesday, giving the couple 30 days to wed.
The singer recently revealed they were planning to marry in a small ceremony by the end of October, after previously contemplating a massive celebration.
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Sidecar Cocktail
The sidecar is a classic cocktail which most bartenders know, but seems to be rarely ordered. Part of this is because it is poorly made, and more often than not made with sour mix instead of fresh ingredients. Properly made this drink should be made with cognac (or brandy), Cointreau, and fresh lemon juice. There are however a variety of ways these ingredients can be combined, the secret is how to do so in a way that presents a perfect balance.
2 oz cognac
1 oz Cointreau
1/2 oz lemon juice
Shake with ice.
Strain into a cocktail glass.
Garnish with a lemon twist.
Robert Hess 17 Aug 2007
8:30 am
Some folks often give me a little grief for using a high-end product like Cointreau (~$35 a bottle), and then using a "cheap" (~$20 a bottle) brandy. Frankly, I find that it works quite well. The brandy I use here can't hold a candle to a higher end brandy when sipped straight, but I find that it works really well in the Sidecar. It has also become popular these days to use "Metaxa" in a sidecar (it would then be called a "Metaxa Sidecar"). Metaxa technically isn't a brandy, but a "flavored" brandy, since there are additional flavorings that go into it.
Erin Stillmayer-Wagner 1 Dec 2007
11:15 am
I really enjoyed your presentation thank you. I've been bartending and running a bar business for eleven years now. When I make a sidecar I like to cut the lemon in half and squeeze the juice directly into the shaker and then also drop the lemon into the shaker as well. Then I proceed to shake the cocktail. I really enjoy having the flavor and consistency of the lemon pulp in the cocktail.
I hade some customers last night insist on having sour mix in their sidecars, I think it completely ruined the cocktail.
Robert Hess 1 Dec 2007
3:27 pm
I've had people tell me that my Margarita recipe can't be right since it doesn't use sour mix… sigh…
For me, using sour mix in a cocktail is like using instant rice to make your paella. But I guess some folks don't realize what a difference real ingredients can make to a drink.
Al Nelson 26 Dec 2007
8:41 pm
Would it be too foward of me to ask whose recipe was used in the pocket guide?
Rani 1 Jan 2008
2:20 am
I tried this tonight with some Cognac I had not been using (as I usually drink Whisky). I must say this drink is simply amazing. I'll definitely be ordering this when I go to the bar next time. Hopefully they're version is as balanced as yours.
Robert Hess 1 Jan 2008
4:54 pm
Often, this drink is served more on the sour side then my recipe presents. And "lesser" bars will often use sour mix instead of fresh lemon juice. But give it a try and see what you end up discovering!
Rani 11 Jan 2008
6:36 pm
I ordered this at a bar last night to see how it differed from your recipe. I wasn't able to catch what their measurements where exactly although thankfully they used fresh lemons. To be honest I was a little distracted from the measurements as they rimmed half the glass with lime and sugar and placed ice cubes in the glass itself (which strikes me as unorthodox). Still the drink itself tasted along the same lines as the Sidecar you made here.
I also ended up having a Mojito and Manhattan both of which where made very well. They had an interesting method for my Mojito whereby they clapped their hands together with the mint in the palm of one of their hands before putting it in the glass.
In regards to the Manhattan I was offered the choice between two bitters (Angostura and Peychaud's) which was welcome.
It was a very welcome experiment and was definitely an enjoyable change from drinking Whisky all night. I'm very thankful that I came across this site.
blair frodelius 8 Mar 2008
11:01 am
Are there any French Cognac VSOP Brandies that you would absolutely not recommend using in a cocktail? The reason I ask is that I have seen prices between $20-$50. Since, I won't be sipping these, it don't want to overspend for a blending brandy.
Robert Hess 8 Mar 2008
10:22 pm
I am sure that there are some brandies/cognacs which are below the bar when used in cocktails, but the real choice is up to you. I'd start out with a "cheap" brand, and then when that starts to run out, buy something better, and do a taste comparison between the two when used in cocktails, and figure out for yourself if the cost is worth the difference.
Reggie P 10 Jul 2008
9:34 pm
I ordered this drink at five national chains and each were incapable of making it, they just no, they dont know. All of them had the ingredients at the bar. I finally had it at an independent restaurant and I liked it so much it started my cocktail hobby. I'm extravagant, I use Hennesey VS. An excellent drink to introduce people to the art of bartending.
Al Nelson 12 Jul 2008
8:41 pm
Reggie P sounds like an ass.
Al Nelson 12 Jul 2008
8:49 pm
Reggie P, that comment was not ment for you, but for the guy who wrote:
"This drink is my favorite. It's a bit sweeter. The ingredients you have posted are good, It will make the drink more stronger and tastier. It's a must for Hot drink fans."
Appears like that post was removed.
Walt Bauer 22 Jul 2008
11:42 am
At the Tales of the Cocktail event in New Orleans I had a Sidecar prepared with Martell cognac at the spirits awards. Very good. What would it have tasted like if you used an acholado style pisco like Inca Gold Pisco and would you use the same ratio of ingredients, i.e. 4 brandy, 2 cointreau and
1 lemon juice?
Robert Hess 24 Jul 2008
12:56 pm
A Sidecar made with Pisco is sort of a variation of a Pisco Sour (no egg white, and Cointreau instead of simple syrup). I've never tried specifically to just replace the brandy with Pisco, but it might work in the same 4-2-1 ratio I use here. The key thing you are looking for is a careful balance of flavors, with the spirit still standing out nicely. Why don't you give it a try and let me know? I know you have plenty of Inca Gold laying around :->
A Margarita is also a variation of a Sidecar using Tequila instead of Brandy.. but the 4-2-1 doesn't work for that (for me anyway). A Margarita I make in a 3-2-1 ratio.
Mark Kreger 6 Aug 2008
10:42 am
On a recent business trip to New York I tasted an excellent sidecar variation that used Calvados in lieu of brandy or cognac, and was told the ratio was 5 parts Calvados, 3 parts Cointreau and 2 parts lemon juice. Has anyone else experienced this variation?
Rob McMahon 5 Jan 2009
6:42 pm
Great drink. I had made one tonight. i used a little more lemon juice than you used in the video, but it turned out ok. The first time i made i didn't like it all that well. It may have been because i haven't been drinking very long and my palette is not as developed as it probably should be. I had some bad experiences with liquor when i was younger. But, now that I am older i can say that i appreciate a well made cocktail instead of mass consumption of alcohol. Keep up the good work.
Indiapale 10 Mar 2009
4:38 pm
Do you recommend any other cocktails besides the side car for beginner cocktail aficionado's?
Robert Hess 10 Mar 2009
6:08 pm
Lewis, While the Sidecar is perhaps my "standard" cocktail to recommend for beginners, it is not the only one.
The issue is to pay attention to the "approachability" of a drink. A Manhattan, Martini, Sazerac, Opera, Vieux Carre, or (properly made) Old Fashioned, are not what I would call an approachable cocktail. However drinks that aren't quite as "spirit forward" as those drinks can provide beginners with an excellent introduction.
Most, if not all, of the champagne based cocktails work good here, as do the "sour" style cocktails (Sidecar, Margarita, Dairquiri, Cosmopolitan, etc). If you are a cocktail afficionado, then you should be looking at various cocktail and measuring them against the flavor profiles you think would be appropriate to people who are not quite as comfortable with the more intense flavors as you are.
Paul Amy 3 Apr 2009
12:24 pm
This is a great cocktail! However, I'm curious how it would affect the balance to use a different brand of triple sec, say Grand Marnier or Curaçao.
As a side note, I ordered a Sidecar while out to dinner, and the bartender had obviously used a sour mix instead. I'm fairly new to the business of cocktails and whatnot, being only 22, so I have to ask, what's the etiquette of requesting a specific mix of ingredients? Is it ever considered rude to ask for the cocktail to be made a specific way—not just which brand of a spirit to use, but the proportions as well?
Robert Hess 3 Apr 2009
1:20 pm
Paul, you raise some good issues.
Many reicpes for the sidecar will simply call for "Triple Sec". Cointreau is essentially a "top shelf" triple sec, and I feel it really makes a difference. When I first started teaching myself how to make cocktails, the Sidecar was the first cocktail I really wrapped my head around. I tried all of the different recipes and variations I could find, and soon discovered that using "Cointreau" instead of just triple sec, makes this drink sing.
You specifically asked about Grand Marnier or Curacao… in truth, those are not triple secs, but they are "orange flavored liqueurs". Just as Cointreau is a top shelf triple sec, Grand Marnier is a top shelf Curacao. The main difference between triple sec and curacao, is that curacao uses a brandy base, and triple sec uses a "neutral spirit" base. The result of this is that curacao has a little more "depth" and roundness to it's flavor, while triple sec is a little brighter and the orange flavor comes out a little more.
When ordering drinks in a bar, and trying to make sure you get it made the way you want it, your first order of business is to pick a bar that can at least come close to the type/quality of cocktail you are interested in. Bars come in all shapes, sizes, and levels of quality, just like restaurants. Some bars for instance may not have fresh juices, or Cointreau. And sometimes the bars are of the attitude and workload that they really aren't prepared to take the time to get too customized in how they make their drinks.
...but that said, as long as you are in a bar that takes pride in their cocktails, there is nothing wrong with providing the bartender some guidance in how you want your drink. For me, the sidecar I show here represents a perfect balance of sweet to sour and strong to weak, and using quality ingredients. It makes a difference.
Patrick 17 Jun 2009
9:42 pm
I have loved all of the "Cocktail Spirt" recipes I have tried thus far (esp. the Old Fashioned), but for some reason the ratio for this Sidecar tasted a bit off, almost vague. I don't think it is a question of palate, given that I agree with most of the other ratios Mr. Hess calls for. I tried a number of variations and, using a mid-range Cognac, Cointreau, and fresh lemon juice, I think I prefer the 1:1:1 ratio called for by a few others; it's just a bit tighter and more defined - both sweeter and more tart (if that's possible). In my opinion there is an almost lackluster quality to the 4:2:1.
Everyone's a critic, as they say, and I love this website (and by extension www.drinkboy.com), and I am not trying to be presumptuous. I would love to hear others' thoughts.
Robert Hess 18 Jun 2009
4:05 am
One thing that I have discovered over and over again, is that there is no "one way" to make a cocktail (or practically anything for that matter). My 4:2:1 ratio for a sidecar is what I arrived at through a lot of trial and error in order to find a drink which tasted right to me. But that is not to say that it is the right ratio for everybody. By all means adjust any of the recipes you see me make to see if there is a different ratio that you prefer.
David Embury prefers an 8:2:1 ratio, with Cointreau in the trailing position.
blair frodelius 19 Jun 2009
1:58 pm
Just have to share this story.
I went out last night with some friends to a bar that was recommended by a representative from Pernod-Ricard as having top notch cocktails. So, I looked over their spirit selection, and they certainly had a decent variety (rhum, cachaca, and several high end tequilas being some of the more interesting selections). I asked for a cocktail menu, and was told they didn't have one, but they could make anything I asked for.
So, I decided to try a Sidecar and see how they would make it ratio-wise. The bartender said, "Help me out. I haven't made one of those in a while." I said, it called for cognac, Cointreau and fresh lemon juice. She said, "We don't have any whole lemons. How about if I juice some of these wedges"? That was my first clue that this would be a different Sidecar altogether. I said, "Sure, give it a try."
What I received was the lamest cocktail ever. It was drinkable, but definitely NOT a Sidecar by any stretch of the imagination. It consisted of a rocks glass (sans sugared rim) filled to the brim with soft ice in which she had left the muddled lemon wedges (plus seeds) and an undetermined amount of Martell VSOP and Cointreau.
I never fail to be surprised by what uninformed bartenders will call a cocktail.
Robert Hess 19 Jun 2009
2:10 pm
Thanks for the story Blair! It sounds like the sort of thing that unfortunately happens fairly regularly.
One thing that I've learned fairly quickly, is that unfortunately there are many liquor reps who are somewhat "out of context" when it comes with understanding good cocktails, or more importantly the bars which serve them. They can also be unaware of what constitutes a good cocktail using the very products they market. Usually they err on the side of the drinks which seem to be the "best selling", which unfortunately isn't the same thing as "best quality". Sort of like a rep for "US Beef", when asked about a good restaurant, to be pointed at McDonalds, instead of a local steak-house.
That's not to say that there aren't well informed reps out there, because there are. Charlotte Voisey from Hendricks, and Simon Ford from Plymouth, are shining examples of what I like to see.
graysonh 22 Jul 2009
4:47 pm
Hey Robert,
Loved your presentation, I live in New Orleans and have had many, many a Sidecar in a city filled with great cocktails. Have a few questions about making a Sidecar. While I disagree on the proportions, I see it as totally an issue of personal taste. But I am curious about the quailty/type of brandy you prefer. I recently did a little experiment with some Sidecars and friends by varying the quality of triple sec and brandy. We used LeRoux Triple Sec and Cointreau. And for the brandies we used E&J VS, E&J VSOP, and my favorite, Tiffon VSOP. Always used fresh lemon juice of course. Basically what we decided was that the Cointreau was always superior, so that settles that. When it came to the brandies, both VSOPs were decidedly better, but amongst the E&J VSOP and Tiffon VSOP, the taste was more different than better. Yes, the Tiffon had a slightly less boozy taste and with more depth, but only slightly , and it wasn't a . Basically my question is whether you think there is a specific brandy that suits a Sidecar best. What about non cognacs like a good jerez, pisco, or armagnac? Thanks for a great presentation and any help. Laissez les bon temps rouler.
Robert Hess 23 Jul 2009
3:55 am
Like you, I find that Cointreau and _fresh_ lemon juice are the key ingredients to a perfect Sidecar, the brandy/cognac then becomes simply the foundation which allows those two ingredients to shine. Different brandies "will" make a difference, but such differences usually just reflect themselves in a certain character of the drink, instead if its overall quality. So no, I don't personally think there is a specific brandy which suits a Sidecar best.
sissy 24 Jul 2009
7:33 pm
Hi Robert, thanks for the great presentation. I am a sake lover and recently was at a wonderful bar that made a Raspberry Eastern Sidecar with sake in it. It was delicious, though very elaborate and almost over-the-top with a spice infused sugar rim. I'm looking forward to trying a REAL sidecar as you've demonstrated next time I have the chance.
Federico Cuco 18 Aug 2009
6:49 am
Contrieau and French brandy or Congnac are the way to the real Side Car. When I started to work as a bartender, my first teacher said "Federico, you have to use Cointreau or Grand Marnier to prepare the classic cocktails, because using cheap Triple Sec ruins/destroys cocktails". The other thing this old man taught me was the difference between a good cocktail and a bad cocktail is only a lazy bartender. Fresh lemon, orange and lime juices aren't that hard to make, but they're difficult to find in a regular bar.
harrydosanj 29 Jan 2013
8:54 am
hi robert
i was planning having a sidecar on my menu but would it be ok to use st remy brandy or a local calvados instead of cognac? i dont want to upset sidecar fans! harry
Robert Hess 31 Jan 2013
7:31 pm
You can't use Calvados in a sidecar and still call it a sidecar. Calvados is apple brandy, and therefore a different beast. For any drink you list on your menu, you should try to provide one that is the best example of the drink (within reason). You should gather together a few different cognac/brandies and blind taste test them against each other in a sidecar and see which one you think provides the best quality drink for your customers.
harrydosanj 31 Jan 2013
8:31 pm
thank you robert. taste taste taste as they say i guess


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BEFORE: This was the bedroom that was right next to the kitchen.
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The black countertops are made of Wisconsin Black Granite that I had done in a "leather" finish, so it is not shiny.
AFTER the AFTER: we replace the Wolf with a Bluestar Range. I LOVE THIS RANGE!
BEFORE: The closet at the other end of that bedroom.
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BEFORE: We tore a hole in the bedroom wall facing the driveway, so we'd have a way to easily get in with groceries.
(picture by Wing Ta of Canary Grey for MSP magazine)
AFTER: You can see the new door at the far end of the island. And to the right of the door is my chalkboard.
BEFORE: This is the wall between the bedroom and old kitchen.
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