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Stan Wawrinka may appear tantalizingly fit on the glossy pages of ESPN's Body Issue, but looks aren't everything for the 30-year-old Swedish tennis champ.
Here are some highlights from the upcoming interview:
On achieving that body:
My body is for my tennis, it's for my sport. I'm not a model at all. I don't work out to go to the beach, I work out to play well and to do well on the court.
How he trains for play:
I can keep my fitness and strength at a high level for hours and hours and hours. I can play really powerful from the baseline and I can keep my level up — that's why I'm playing well in five-set matches. I've done it many times, in many long matches, many times longer than four or five hours and it wasn't a big problem for me. It's not a strategy to make matches longer, but I know that I can keep up. That is always good for my confidence.
But what's your tat say?
I have a Samuel Beckett quote tattooed on my arm. I got it a few years ago now: "Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No Matter. Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better." That's a little bit how I see life in general, but especially in tennis, because even if you play well, even if you're top-10, you still lose matches. So you need to accept that and take the positives from that.
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This is a short update on what is going on the eruption in Fagradalsfjall mountain that is part of Krýsuvík-Trölladyngja volcano system.
- The eruption continues as before with few hours of eruption and few hours of no activity. (This is my personal view of the situation) Each event is an active eruption as it would happen with any other volcano. The time between eruptions now is just shorter than in any volcano in Iceland. Its hours, not decades between eruption. I don't know why this is happening like this.
- Cracks have appeared in the viewing area hill closest to the erupting crater. Why this is happening is unclear. There are two explanations for this. The first one is that this are tension cracks because of the eruption and lava flows nearby to this hill . The second explanation is that this is deformation cracks because magma is about to start erupting in this part of the hill. Formation of new cracks was observed early on in the eruption in Fagradalsfjall mountain few days before an eruption started in that area.
- There is now slightly less lava flowing from the crater. Current flow is up to 9m3/sec according to latest reports about the lava flow. This studies are done by Earth Science of University of Iceland and Icelandic Metrology Office.
This eruption remains small. Currently it is even smaller than Hekla volcano 2000 eruption that was the smallest eruption in Hekla in recorded history (according to the news). While the eruption remains this small the lava is not going to flow far or is going to do so slowly. Most of the lava is just going to build up next to the crater and next nearby area.
People continue to walk out in the lava and that is extremely dangerous. The lava field, where it is deep enough has large caves full of 1100C hot lava and if the roof breaks and people fall into it there is no saving anyone from this. Just break in the lava field crust allows for lava flows to break out with same deadly consequences.

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How to Throw a Roaring 20's Speak-Easy Birthday or New Year's Party
One of Kitty's dream jobs is to be a party planner. She finds joy in planning parties for children and adults alike!
Celebrate in Flapper and Gangster Style!
What better way to celebrate a big event than by throwing a party, roaring '20s style?! No one partied better than the flappers and dapper men in the underground speak easies, during Prohibition. Why you ask? Well, think about it...alcohol was prohibited from use and sale, so that made the young, wild folks want to do it even more. Speak Easies popped up all over the country in many cities and housed a variety of illegal alcoholic beverages that so many party-going folks craved. They were a place where young men and women (and even old) could go to have a fun time and get a little loosey-goosey without having to worry about getting in trouble for doing so. Many speak easies even had a secret hallway or passage in the back of their buildings facilitated as a means to sneak the customers out, if by happen-chance the police showed up. You can see how a speak easy would make for a great party theme, right?
The first thing to think about is the invitations. How do you want them to look? Do you want to do online or mailed invitations? Who would you invite? You will also want to think about what day and time and the location, as these things are required for invitational purposes. If you want to send out invitations via the Internet, evite.com has a wonderful assortment of cocktail and alcohol themed invitations. Using online invitations is always the simplest and cheapest way to go; however, sending out invitations via the mail adds a classy and unique touch. I also believe that it can add to the preliminary element of the theme that you are trying to create.
Fortunately there is a whole cornucopia of options for invitations, should you choose to make them yourself. There are vendors on Etsy.com that provide wonderful printable templates for a 1920s party, including the alluring flapper invitation (created and sold by lynetteart), pictured below. Lynette gives you the ability to add whatever text you would like to the invitation and then print them from your own printer. Saving time is the objective that is achieved here. Whatever the type of invitation you send, just ensure that you are writing something fun and enticing to grab your friends and family members' attention. For example:
"Come drink & dance the night away at our Roaring '20s Speak Easy Party. The booze will be flowing like milk and honey, honey!"
Decorations: Creating a 1920's Ambiance
Now that you have created and sent the invitations to your friends and loved ones, you may begin planning and purchasing decorations for the party. For obvious reasons, you are going to want to promote an ambiance of a retro bar atmosphere. One idea is to purchase old-looking bottles online or from a thrift store (usually you can find them at a thrift store for pretty cheap). Use your computer, printer, and printer labels to create your own alcoholic beverage stickers. Have the labels say things like, "Prohibition" (like the label pictured to the right), "Flappers' Fizz", or "Capone's Moonshine"...be creative with it. Do your research on the time period and you will find inspiration for alcoholic labels.
If you are having the party at your house or somewhere that has a tub, fill the tub with water and dye it a bright color...you can call it "bathtub gin". I would say dye it yellow, but that might not look very appealling and might have a tendency to scare off your guests...so maybe a nice blue or orange would be a better choice.
Search for flapper inspired or 1920s inspired art online and print it on photo paper. Let the ambiance of the roaring twenties adorn all of the walls. Any Art Deco type prints or (once again) vintage-like alcohol ads would also be perfect. Other pictures you could place as centerpieces on tables or on bars could be of Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, or any other famous gangster of that time period. The Speak-Easies were a bit more upscale bars as opposed to the dive bars, so I suggest decorating the party atmosphere to appear a little less like a hole-in-the-wall and a little more like a classy club. Throw white linen tablecloths on any tables you may have, maybe some linen napkins (if available) with shiny red or black tableware. You could even hang some beads or feather strands from the doorways or entrance-ways to create a flirty flapper appeal.
Another suggestion - get rid of anything that appears too modern. You don't really want any modern day appliances out in the open, unless you are using a television to play old silent films in the background. Play music but hide your modern-day, high-tech stereo system with an antique linen or another tablecloth.
As for what to use for the drinks, use teacups and saucers, as this was the traditional way to serve alcohol at a speak-easy back in the times of the roaring twenties!
Watch old movies through Netflix or youtube (I've posted one below) and find inspiration for your decorations. Be creative! Do your research on the time period and look at websites such as etsy.com for unique vintage decorations (that could be used again at future parties) or partycity.com to find party favors and items that scream (or roar) 1920's!
An Authentic 1920s Menu
For a speak-easy shindig, I recommend serving appetizers and drinks only. You will most likely want this party to occur at night, so people will probably already have had dinner. I pulled the following appetizer recipes from one of my antique cookbooks and SURPRISE - the cookbook itself was published in 1927, so the food is authentic to the 1920s!
Cheese & Olive Canapes:
Beat a cream cheese light with a little sweet cream, or cottage cheese may be prepared in a similar fashion. Slightly salt and add paprika or a little cayenne. Butter square crackers, 1 for a portion, spread with cream cheese, putting it on in a little heap with a fork, then sprinkle with finely chopped olives, plain or stuffed.
Soda Brown Bread:
Mix with sifting 1 pint cornmeal, yellow or white, 1 cup white flour, 1 cup rye flour and a teaspoon salt. Mix again with 1/2 cup molasses, enough sour milk to make a thick batter, and add a teaspoon soda dissolved in a tablespoon warm water, beat well, turn into well greased pans. This amount will make 2 small loaves; bake in a moderate oven for 90 minutes.
You may also want to serve some authentic 1920s desserts, such as a Lady Baltimore Cake:
Sift 1 and 1/2 cups granulated sugar and cream 1/2 cup butter, then cream the two together. Sift 3 cups pastry flour with 3 teaspoons baking powder 3 times and measure. After creaming butter and sugar, add 1/3 cup cold water and a cup of flour and beat thoroughly. Add 2nd cup flour and beat thoroughly. Then add 3rd cup flour and 2/3 cup water, also 1/2 teaspoon each almond and vanilla extract and beat again. Last of all, fold in the well beaten whites of 4 eggs, with which has been beaten a small pinch of salt. Bake in 3 layers.
So what about drinks you say? Well, I am fairly sure I don't need to give out any recipes for alcoholic beverages...you should know the lot! Serve gin and tonics (refer to the drink as bathtub gin), moonshine (some sort of vodka mix), jack and cokes, etc. Whatever drink you feel would fit the prohibition days, serve it! Ensure that everyone has their very own glass, maybe even give them to your guests as party favors?
1920's Costumes
You have sent out your fabulous invitations, gathered and prepared all of your decorations, thought of the music and entertainment, but have you thought of what you want to wear to this 20's extravaganza? The 1920s has a few style of costumes to choose from. For the ladies: the typical flapper - short finger-waved or bobbed wig with a feathered headband, fringey cocktail dress and a sexy pair of heels. If you have a talent or a knack for doing your own hair, try styling your hair with finger waves...there are instructional videos on youtube that you can use in the process. You could even top your look off with a long cigarette holder. Sometimes you can find this accessory at costumes stores, or for a more vintage look - search ebay or etsy! Another option for the ladies - gangster lady. Find some pictures of Bonnie (from the infamous Bonnie & Clyde crime duo) and get inspired by her 1920s look. Or go online to www.buycostumes.com and do a search for gangster lady costume...you'll find some really cute options there. Another option is to go totally unique as a circus performer from the 20's. I found an antique gold sequined circus costume from the 1920s on sale at etsy.com for less than $100! Find yourself a sparkly tutu or shimmery leggings and a feathered tophat and VOILA...1920s circus performer extraordinaire!
For the fellas - I suggest going with the gangster look, all the way! Emulate the style of Al Capone or Clyde...think pin-striped zoot suits with fedora hats. Check out ebay's supply of men's gangster costumes, you can find a great deal! If you want to do something a little different from the majority of men attending this speak-easy party, wear a henley shirt with long trousers and suspenders. Top it off with a hat and maybe a flask and you will have a genuine 20's look, but stand out a bit from the mob of gangsters that will attend this party!
Get Inspired By Real Parties from the '20s
Inspirational Pics from the Roaring '20s
© 2011 Kitty Fields
Missweanie on February 14, 2019:
I love this idea , our tennis team has to do the banquet next month, so I am presenting this as a possible theme, for about 100 people,I'll post again if it is accepted
Kitty Fields (author) from Summerland on February 12, 2014:
Thanks WriterJanis!
Janis from California on February 12, 2014:
You stopped by my 1920s party post, so I wanted to check yours out. You have some really good ideas here. In looking for this hub, I saw quite a few interesting titles of other hubs you have written. I look forward to reading more of your work.
Kitty Fields (author) from Summerland on March 31, 2011:
hey, alastar! thanks for visiting again. i love the style and attitude of the 20s...people seemed to be breaking free from the limitations that they had previously...women's rights were starting to come into effect and i love the fact that the women were starting to become more daring and bold. love your idea for g-men or police and staging a raid. really great concept that i never even thought of! thanks and have a great day!
alastar packer on March 31, 2011:
How very, very kewl.Not in the funds to throw one at the moment but would most certainly attend any invitation! Perhaps one could even have G-men or 1920s style police stage a raid at the end...if there were to be one. Bottoms up!


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'Honey, this isn't my beer.' Two meaderies set to open
Breweries, brew pubs, wineries and even a distillery.
Delaware's booming alcohol industry might seem like it has all the bases covered.
But one thing it doesn't have is a meadery.
At least not yet.
Two honey wine brewers are working to change that this year by launching combination tasting rooms and production houses at opposite ends of the state.
Liquid Alchemy Beverages will be the first meadery on the block when it opens in a converted warehouse near Elsmere in the coming weeks.
Brimming Horn Meadery is slated to follow in late summer in a newly constructed building just a few miles east of Harbeson.
Both will be run by avid home brewers who have been working for years to get their new businesses off the ground.
But they may find that opening the doors will be the easy part compared to educating the public about mead.
"I would say 75 percent of the population has never heard of it," said Jerry Hill, the so-called marketing czar for Liquid Alchemy. "The remaining 25 percent think it's a wine that Vikings drank or something you only find at a Renaissance fair."
Others simply misunderstand the word, according to Jon Talkington, co-owner of Brimming Horn.
"Sometimes when I talk to people about mead they think I'm saying meat," he said. "Everyone knows beer and wine, but there is going to be some education involved when it comes to mead."
Hold on to your goblet
Mead is similar to wine and beer, but also distinct.
While wine is made from fermented grapes and beer from fermented barley, mead is made with fermented honey.
As with beer, the production process also involves yeast.
The naturally gluten-free finished product is often enjoyed in either mugs or wine glasses.
With alcohol content ranging from 7.5 to 15 percent, a typical mead retains the flavor of honey, while replacing sweetness with the heat of alcohol, similar to the difference between wine and grape juice.
"The flavor really depends on the type," Talkington said. "It can be dry like a white wine or sweeter from a riesling to a dessert wine, like a sherry or port."
One of the best parts of mead is how malleable the flavor can be, Hill said.
"With beer and wine, there are only so many flavors you can make that work," he said. "But with mead, you can make it taste like anything you can think of."
While mead is still commonly associated with medieval castles, ancient battles and Viking movies, the golden nectar actually pre-dates Nordic culture.
One of the oldest forms of alcoholic libation, the drink is believed to date back more than 9,000 years and, in one form or another, was enjoyed from Russia to South Africa.
More recently, mead has become the fastest growing segment of the American alcohol beverage industry with commercial brewers suddenly springing up throughout the country.
The American Mead Makers Association, a national trade group first formed in late 2011, reports that more than 250 meaderies are currently in operation today – four times the number from just five years ago.
That's still minute compared to the 1,400 brewpubs, 1,800 micro-breweries, and roughly 8,000 wineries in the United States.
But the segment is quickly picking up steam as drinkers with a taste for the new and unique seek out the latest trend to quench their thirst.
Mead sales jumped 130 percent from 2012 to 2013, according to the latest figures from the AMMA. If those numbers are to be trusted, that means mead is far outpacing the growth rates of spirits, wine, beer and even its fellow blossoming trend: hard cider.
The mead awakens
So if mead was once so prevalent, how did it become relatively obscure until recently?
"Our understanding is that it was a factor of history and economy," said Jeff Cheskin, who co-founded Liquid Alchemy with his fiancée Terri Sorantino.
"Honey was mostly an item of local trade and people realized they could make beer and wine more cheaply and quickly," he said. "Honey also didn't become a mass produced item until the 1800s and, by then, people already had wines and beers, so mead was pretty much forgotten."
Talkington agreed that basic economics were to play in mead's decline .
"As agriculture took hold, grapes and grains become more prevalent and less expensive, while cane sugar replaced honey so mead went to the back burner," he said.
Cheskin, a chiropractor with a practice on Limestone Road in Stanton, had never heard of mead until he and Sorantino, a personal trainer, took a trip to Portland, Maine, in 2012.
"We actually had it for breakfast," Cheskin said. "You don't expect to drink booze for breakfast, but our waitress got excited when we asked what it was and brought us a sample. About three seconds later, we had full glasses coming our way."
Back home, the couple had a hard time finding mead at their local liquor store, so they set out to brew their own – a trial-and-error process made only slightly easier by Cheskin's microbiology degree from Rutgers University.
"The first couple of tries didn't taste so good," Sorantino said. "But then we discovered orange blossom that was spot on."
A few months later, the couple took a sample of their concoction to their first First State Brewers meeting, where they met Hill, a teacher at A.I. du Pont Middle School, who arrived with his own homebrewed honey wine.
"About 15 minutes later, we were kindred spirits," Cheskin said.
Talkington said his interest in mead began when he was in high school about two decades ago.
"I was always a big mythology fan and when I was younger I kept reading about mead in Beowulf and Norse or Celtic myths," he said. "Eventually, I found some recipes and began brewing it at home. I never expected it to become as big as it has."
Brewing a business
For the last 11 years, Talkington has been brewing beer for a living at Dogfish Head, the Milton brewery that famously touched off the craft alcohol movement in Delaware in the mid-1990s.
Dogfish also has produced a handful of one-off batches of beer-mead hybrids with names such as Beewolf Braggot, Cham'Pain Domain and Jormungadr's Revenge. The brewery's Midas Touch Golden Elixir won a gold medal at the 2007 International Mead Festival in Colorado.
Talkington said Dogfish owner Sam Calagione has been supportive of Brimming Horn, a partnership with fellow brewery employee J.R. Walker, even though the new endeavor means the duo will soon strike out on their own.
"Sam has given us some business advice and some good feedback," Talkington said. "I've learned a lot from him over the years."
Liquid Alchemy has been receiving sage advice from the Delaware Small Business Development Center, a unit of University of Delaware's Office of Economic Innovation and Partnerships.
"Our advisor put us in touch with some students who did everything for us from researching all the meaderies in the country to creating our website, Facebook page and Twitter account," Sorantino said. "They even did some tastings so we could get some feedback on what they liked."
After an exhaustive search, Sorantino and Cheskin finally found a home for their future meadery in a roofing contractor's former warehouse on Brookside Drive, a narrow street off Maryland Avenue (Del. 4) lined with auto repair shops and other light industrial businesses.
The couple bought the nearly 4,300-square-foot building last year and spent most of 2015 rehabbing it. Last month, Liquid Alchemy received its federal and states licenses and successfully completed a $14,000 Kickstarter fundraising campaign. The business is now planning an opening close to Valentine's Day.
Talkington and Walker, meanwhile, won a conditional-use permit from Sussex County Council last spring. Construction is set to begin on Brimming Horn's new 2,000-square-foot brewery this month, while the duo awaits approval of its federal and state license applications.
A taste of things to come
Liquid Alchemy will start out with 8 mead varieties, mostly focused on melomels, or fruit flavored mead, and metheglins made with herbs and spices.
That initial slate will include meads like the chili pepper and lime flavored Thai-grrr, a cherry and vanilla combination called Red-Cowabunga, the citrus powered O4 and Pucker-Up-Baby, made with fresh, dried hibiscus.
Brimming Horn is still developing its brews but plans to offer a mixed palette of fruit-and-spice flavors along with more traditional, barrel-aged varieties aimed at the beer-loving crowd.
Both meaderies plan to serve customers on site with a range of flavors on tap. Mead lovers also will be able to purchase growlers and take-out bottles from both locations.
The meaderies' bottles, similar in size to traditional wine bottles, are expected to range from about $10 to $20, while single glasses will run from $5 to $10, depending on the type of mead.
Each company expects to produce about 2,000 gallons per year to start.
And both promise to source ingredients as locally as possible.
Liquid Alchemy will buy its honey from Harvey's Honey, a family-owned apiary in Monroeville, New Jersey, while its lavender will come from Lavender Fields near Harbeson.
Brimming Horn will buy blackberries, lemongrass and other ingredients from a local farm near Georgetown. It is still negotiating a source of honey.
Yet neither meadery sees the other as competition.
"Having two of us just means we're both going to be building a market and that means better business for everybody," Talkington said.
Hill agreed that a rising tide of honey wine should lift both meaderies.
"Once a market is there, any success we have will translate to them and vice versa," he said. "I think that's true among everyone in Delaware's craft booze industry."
To help nurture that market, Liquid Alchemy and Brimming Horn each are planning to offer small museum spaces on site where their customers can learn more about the history of mead.
"We want people to leave our place having not only enjoyed the beverage but also having gained knowledge they can share with their friends," Hill said. "That way, our customers can help spread the word that there's something more than beer, wine and liquor out there. And it's delicious."
Contact business reporter Scott Goss at (302) 324-2281, email@example.com or on Twitter @ScottGossDel.


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Department of Docks and Police Station
Berenice Abbott ( American, 1898 - 1991 )
- 1936, print 1983
General Description
The following is the caption by Elizabeth McCausland accompanying the original 1939 edition of Berenice Abbott's Changing New York publication.
Gateway to the city, the Department of Docks Building at Pier A, North River, welcomes many distinguished visitors. Taken off incoming liners and whisked up the harbor in a marine police boat, these have ranged from Lindbergh to Queen Marie.
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Elizabeth McCausland, caption for "Department of Docks and Police Station," in New York in the Thirties [former titled: Changing New York], (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1973; New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc.,1939), plate 3 (np).
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National Museum of Women in the Arts
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Park Geun-hye called on Friday for a meeting of five countries, excluding North Korea, to discuss the North's nuclear program alongside long-stalled "six-party talks" that include Pyongyang.
Park's comments came amid a flurry of diplomatic exchanges involving Washington and Beijing as the international community seeks to impose fresh sanctions on North Korea for its fourth nuclear test, on Jan. 6.
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The first wave of the release of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Revisited is available for download. This wave consists of the 720p MKV (high definition, no menu).
The MKV is a compressed 8 GB but still HD version of the film, with no menus or audio options. This file can be played on your computer using a program like VLC Player, on your TV through a lot of Smart TV and Blu-ray players, or converted to a file format of your choice.
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1 What keyboard symbol has seen vastly increased use in the last 20 years and is known in French as 'l'arobase'?
2 Already an Olympic silver medallist, in what track and field event did Parisian Kévin Mayer become world champion in London in August 2017?
3 What is the English name of the island in the Atlantic known in one of the official languages of the country to which it belongs as 'Terre-Neuve'?
4 Which Lennon & McCartney composition was performed in 1964 by Johnny Hallyday under the title 'Quand je l'ai vue devant moi'?
5 What is the usual two-word English name for the fungal grape infection Botrytis cinerea which imparts a distinctive flavour to Sauternes wines from the Bordeaux region?
6 One of the most famous 20th century poems in the English language, who created the work which contains the words, "Et O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!"
7 Former French Republican politician Michel Barnier was appointed to what role within the European Union in December 2016?
8 Cultivated in order to complement the local Mediterranean cuisine, between half and two thirds of all wine produced in the vineyards of Provence is of what general type?
9 By what diminutive name is Margaret of Valois, wife of Henri of Navarre, known in the title of a 1994 French film in which she was played by Isabelle Adjani?
10 Who was pictured in a famous photograph taken on the front terrace of the Palais de Chaillot on June 6th 1940, with the Eiffel Tower in the immediate background?
11 In the title of an 1850 novel by Alexandre Dumas, the Dutch city of Haarlem offers a 100,000 florin prize to anybody who is able to grow what, specifically?
12 What is the name of the Franco-Ukrainian women's activist group famous for topless public protests, whose leader Inna Shevchenko issaid to have inspired the 'Marianne' image in 2013?
13 What ancient German city on the river Moselle, much coveted by France during the 17th and 18th centuries, is known by the name of Trèves in French?
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15 Twenty three examples of what type of historic building in northernmost France were added in 2005 to a list of 33 similar structures in Belgium in the name of a Unesco World Heritage Site?
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17 What kind of entrepreneurial organisations are the Unione Corse the Brise de Mer and the Famille Jean Jé Colonna?
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19 Which red-haired actress appeared in seven films directed by Claude Chabrol, beginning in 1978 withViolette Nozière in which she played the title role?
20 East Levenshulme in south-central Manchester once bore the name of which famous French diplomat, who is supposed to have been briefly exiled there after the French Revolution?
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Just How Expensive is Bottled Water?
There are times when a quick nerd-fix can be fun.
Seven years ago I worked out how many 600ml tap water refills I could get for the cost of a 600ml bottled water. It was 9 years and 11 days. It's time for a recheck…
In 2014, for the cost of one bottle of Mt Franklin from Woolworths, you can refill your bottle nearly 1900 times, and hydrate yourself for 5 years 73 days.
That's an awfully large price people are putting on convenience. If you up the price to $3.30 for a convenience store, you get 7 years of refills.
As an aside, the difference in quoted kiloLitre costs is substantial: $1.264 vs $2.168. 90.4 cents a kiloLitre, or an increase of about 71.5%. Love to see what industry is paying, and how much it has gone up.
Oh, and how much would 1,899 bottles of Mt Franklin from Woolworths cost? $4,690.53 instead of $2.47.
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Boomerang Guy posted a topic in General DiscussionThis is where you dump all of the random thoughts and ideas you get on a random basis. Why? Who knows.
Ookla the Quark posted a topic in Cosmere DiscussionWhat do you think spren from different shards would be? Other than the three we know for certain have spren, the ones on Roshar.
Bearer of all agonies posted a topic in Stormlight ArchiveI was going to post this topic a few weeks ago, but then I decided that it was betterto wait until Rhythm of War came out. I was going to talk about how I wished Brandon would make Dabbid recover. Well, thanks Brandon. I'm really glad that Dabbid made a recovery, because I felt really bad for and and Rlain. The good thing is, that Brandon gave both of them a oretty big role in the book, so I'm happy about that. Any thoughts on Dabbid's Recovery? Do you think he will play a bigger part in book five?
Dragon Reborn posted a topic in Stormlight ArchiveI am kind of jealous of the future readers of the Stormlight Archive. Because one day when the series is finished someone could pick up The Way Of Kings and be finished with the whole series in like a year. They will not understand the pain of having to wait for each book to release, Mostly because they couldn't have our pain.
Benedictify posted a topic in Stormlight Archive...because he's not ready to accept that there are some people he can't save. He keeps trying to save everyone, it's deep down in his personality that he has failed every time he couldn't save someone, as if he killed them himself. Maybe he kills himself a little inside every time he loses someone. (and I just had the thought that Gavinor and Oroden (Kaladin's new little brother) are gonna be best buds. Just sayin.)
Nathrangking posted a topic in Creator's Corner@Archer, @Ookla the Apostate What do you think now? What do you all think about this description as the basis for a novel that I'm working on. Any questions can be addressed to me either here or in DM. Back of Book Description.docx
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Savanorn posted a topic in WarbreakerSo I recently finished my reread of Warbreaker and, more than MB Era 2, it really holds up. I was actually surprised how much I liked it and I think for Sanderson it has the best dialogue. Like, I don't know about the rest of you, but I found that Lightsong was far more witty and amusing than either Hoid or Shallan who it must be said often come across as a little...try hard. Vasher is still one of Sanderson's best males so far as I am concerned and especially given the very little screen time he gets relatively to many others. I really enjoy the perspectives of Vivenna and Siri and they honestly seem like some of the most genuine and absorbing PoV characters. Vin is probably the only one I liked more. One of the things I really like is how smooth of a read it is. Knowing the rules of the magic and who each character is makes a lot of the tricks and references a lot better but it doesn't have places that drag like I found Stormlight does. The big letdown on reread was Denth. Like a lot of Sanderson villains he comes across as a lot more one-note than I remember and his mercenary comments kind of grated. Plus for one of the Five Scholars his showing is really quite unimpressive. One thing I like about it was the Awakening system, and I forgot how cool it was to see Vasher use it. Like using the single rope to strength a leg and hop down the palace and how it can somehow be used to alter the mindset of a person. I actually didn't realise how little we as readers know of awakening, and it definitely seems the magic system most open to advancement at the moment. Colour me impressed all over again.
Khyrindor posted a topic in General DiscussionSo I had a random thought. Is it colossuses, or colossus, or colossi when speaking about a colossus in plural form. (No I have no idea why I'm asking about this on this forum, but anyone have an idea?)
bridgerald posted a topic in Cosmere DiscussionTL;DR - Spiritwebs mystify me. This is going to be pretty long, and I'll probably add more that I forget or leave out later. I'll just be throwing some of my wild ideas, speculations, and ramblings down here to see if anyone has any input. First off, if this has been done and discussed before, I apologize. I just needed to put all my scattered thoughts in one place. Also, if any of this has been confirmed or denied, please let me know. I need to put my wearied mind to rest. I can't recall any times when we see someone survive being used to charge a Hemalurgic spike. I'm unsure if this is because they die from the physical aspect (such as bleeding to death from having a chunk of metal stabbed into a bindpoint and such), or through the spiritual aspect. Tied to this is the question of whether someone who is used to charge a Hemalurgic spike loses all of their Power (read: access to their magic system). I assume they do, but if we took a Twinborn, would it be possible to steal only their Allomantic power, but leave their Feruchemical Power? Unless, of course, being the "chargee" for the spike is inherently fatal. I seem to recall there being mentions of preferring to use Mistborn in the creation of Inquisitors. These Mistborn clearly don't survive, but is it because they die from the physical side or the spiritual? I know that snapping is a near-literal term, in that your spiritweb receives "cracks" that investiture can now fill. I see most (if not all) of the Investiture in the Cosmere as falling into one of two main categories. 1) Your Spiritweb receives "cracks" so that Investiture can fill them, granting access to the relative magic system or 2) You are born already Invested Under number one, we have Allomancy, Surgebinding, the Returned, and Elantrians. You have the obvious Snapping, the need to be "broken" to form a Nahel Bond, dying and receiving the Divine Breath, and the Shaod (more on this in a moment). Under number two, you have Breaths, Feruchemy, and Soul Stamping. As far as I know, you are born with the ability to use these without the need for a damaged Spiritweb. I suppose you could add a third category for things such as Hemalurgy and potentially the Dakhor Monks, where you intentionally alter your spiritweb at the cost of another's. (Interestingly enough, the categories appear to line up with the net-positive/ neutral/ negative system. I'm not sure whether that applies to all magic in the Cosmere, or specifically the magic on Scadrial.) Back to the subject of the Shaod. I briefly mentioned my thoughts on it in a reply to a post, but I'll put them here as well. I have two highly speculative theories. The first is that the Shaod is/ is guided by some (more or less) sentient being/ force, perhaps like the mist in the Mistborn Trilogy, the Highstorms in the Stormlight Archive, and Returning in Warbreaker. The second is that the Dor, being described multiple times as a force trying to push it's way through the Aons, is... "corrosive" to the local's spiritwebs. That, or simply being surrounded(?) by the Dor alters spiritwebs over time. Plenty of holes in both, they're just food for thought. Sorry for the wall of text. If you read that entire thing, I'd love any thoughts, ideas, counter-theories, or suggestions. (I'll add in supporting quotes from the texts, WOB, and other theories when my brain isn't melting out of my head.)


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(Rich suggested that this is my Obama-Hannibal pumpkin with all of those toothpick supports. I tried.)
Pumpkin Curry Soup
Flesh of one large pumpkin
1 heaping tablespoon Muchi curry powder
1/2 tablespoon ground jamaican allspice
1 teaspoon salt
Igo seasoning or other Basque sweet red pepper spice.
12 ounces chicken broth
8 ounces half and half
4 ounces cream
cutting away skin and stringy seed part, place chunks of pumpkin in 9 x13 baking dish with 1/2 inch of water on the bottom. Bake at 350 degrees until mushes with a fork, adding more water if dish goes dry. Takes about one hour.
Run pumpkin through food processor, adding in broth and spices. Check for taste- should be nice blend of mild curry plus sweetness of pumpkin and allspice.
Transfer to large saucepan and add dairy, stirring until blended, heat to less than a boil.
dish and sprinkle just a smidge of Igo seasoning on top. Serves 6.
(Pumpkin seeds, sea salt, 1/2 teaspoon olive oil. 1 hour at 325 degrees)


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"A girl of sixteen deserves no credit for her looks. Beauty at sixty is her souls doing."
Who does not want to look youthful and pretty through their forties, fifties and on? I am sure every one does. But the interesting things is that the most young looking women I saw were the women of the "Third World countries"!
During my trips to China and the Philippines I was blessed to meet a number of wonderful women well into their 80s, who still kept their minds alert, bodies lean, and ****skin soft and youthful. My "field research" confirmed the fact that the state of our skin is directly dependent on what we eat (forget about vegetarianism!) and how we nourish our skin (the more we use commercial creams and moisturizers loaded with petroleum products, hydrogenated oils, synthetic perfumes, coloring agents, and other awful chemicals, the faster our skin tends to age!). Therefore, if you want to have a good-looking skin no matter what age, a good rule of thumb is to use natural skin-care remedies and a**void undesirable poisons** contained in endless commercial products.
"I take care of my skin well by using organic anti aging skin care products as possible. When I purchase beauty products off the shelf I am careful in reading the list of ingredients at the back. Who knows that scientifically sounding ingredient could be plugging my pores or perhaps scarring my skin gradually?"
Timeless Beauty
**1. Good diet** is crucial! Eat traditional foods and traditional fats, including organ meats, organic meat and poultry, deep-ocean fish, cultured dairy products, natural butter, coconut oil, and fresh or lacto-fermented fruit and vegetables in season. Remember that your skin is a reflection of your overall health.
"Calorie Restriction is the process of limiting caloric intake with the intention of slowing down aging. Some people refer to the concept as an anti aging diet. Research into Calorie Restriction has continued for many years - concluding that the lifespan of many animals is extended when calorie intake is restricted. The difficulty of Calorie Restriction is that sufficient nutrition (vitamins and minerals) must be maintained while lowering energy intake as much as possible."
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Everyone knows that feeling of helplessness when you're passing a semi, and you start to see them gravitate to your lane. Should you slam on the brakes? Speed up, even though you're already doing 10 mph over the speed limit? Honk? 18-wheelers can be extremely dangerous on the road – not because they are bad drivers, but because of the dangerous vehicle that they operate. Semi-trailers are usually about 53 feet long and have very large blind spots, so it's important to know how you can be safe while driving around them.
- Know their blind spots. The back half of their trailer on both sides is a common area for truck drivers not to be able to see, as well as directly behind the trailer. Steer clear of these areas! An easy rule of thumb is if you can not see the truck's side mirrors, then they can not see you.
- Do not make sudden stops or drive aggressively when around them. We all know that 18-wheelers can not stop on a dime, so stopping in front of them quickly puts you and the truck driver at risk. Never speed dangerously around a semi, as they might not see you sneak up on them.
- Make sure to use your signals. Giving the semi plenty of time to prepare for you to come into their lane and making sure that they know where you are headed will cut down on the opportunity for accidents to happen.
- Anticipate those wide turns! Trailers are no smart cars, so their turns can be very wide. For some, they must use the middle lane to turn right – so don't get caught in the right lane when they're turning! When stopping in a turn lane at a stoplight, never stop past the line – it's intended to make sure that trailers can make the turn without hitting you.
- Use common sense. Driving aggressively around semis can only boost the chance of you getting into an accident. Honking or trying to make a truck driver go faster will not help the situation and will only make everyone involved angry. Another thing to pay attention to is the weather – this makes a large impact on semi driver's driving.
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As modern businesses become increasingly digital, it is also essential for enterprises to have a high-pace network. Until recently, more and more small and midsize enterprises may be well aware of 10 Gigabit network, for it provides more energy efficient and lower utility costs. To meet different demands, this article introduces some basic information of 10Gb switch and several types of 10G Ethernet switches for your preference.
An Ethernet switch is a kind of switch that is based on the Ethernet to transmit data, and it has many pairs of ports to connect multiple servers at the same time – that is a multi-port network bridge. Each port is directly connected to the host and generally works in full-duplex mode. Typically, Ethernet switches mostly utilize RJ45 ports with a quick transmission rate which is easy to apply to adapter cable and transmission medium. Many 10G Ethernet switches also feature high speed uplink ports where modules can be purchased to connect fiber optic cabling supporting speeds of 1 Gigabit/10 Gigabit per second or more. Cables are used to plug into the ports on the switch and then into the Ethernet device on the other end.
The advanced technology and improved performance of the network enable 10 Gigabit Ethernet to be deployed in more areas, broader deployments of 10 Gigabit Ethernet are being accelerated by increasing bandwidth requirements and the aggregate growth of enterprise applications. And now, many small and medium sized organizations may take advantage of cost-effective 10GbE switching solutions to support high speed networking requirements. Therefore, 10G Ethernet switches are increasingly picked by these enterprises. And the rapid growth in 10G Ethernet switches can be attributed to lots of advantages, including:
- Lower price – the number of ports provided by 10G Ethernet switches can flexibly and effectively extend the bandwidth performance.
- Higher speed – 10G Ethernet switches can reduce or eliminate the collision on the network which significantly speeds up the network.
- Higher security – Because 10G Ethernet switches exclusively send the point-to-point transmission packets to the port associated with the destination address of the packet, the user of the other address can not receive the data.
- Broader deployments – the availability of new optics now enables 10 Gigabit Ethernet to be deployed anywhere from the data center to the wiring closet, using existing fiber cabling.
- Extended interconnectivity and operating distance – with the deployment of 10G Ethernet switches, the operating distance of these switches may be up to 20 km.
FS S3900-24F4S is a powerful and affordable 10G Ethernet switch that provides 20 100/1000Base SFP ports, 4 10GE SFP+ ports, 4 (RJ45/SFP) combo ports, and 1 (RJ45) console port. This switch is designed with reliability, flexibility and performance, which provides IPv4 static routing for more effective use of network resources and advanced Quality Of Service (QOS) design for improved network performance. In addition, loop protection, link protection, and device protection are supported for improved reliability. The FS S3900-24F4S is the perfect 10G switch for smaller enterprises that ensures peak operation at all times in a wide range of environments and work loads.
The Cisco Catalyst 4948 10G Ethernet switch offers 48 ports of wire-speed 10/100/1000BASE-T with 2 ports of wire-speed 10 Gigabit Ethernet (X2 optics) that provide 20G Ethernet wire-speed uplinks for outstanding throughput of traffic. A single, dedicated 10/100 console port and a single, dedicated 10/100 management port are designed for offline disaster recovery. Besides, it also offers exceptional performance, bandwidth, and reliability for low-density, multi-layer aggregation of high-performance servers and workstations and delivers a comprehensive set of management tools to provide the visibility and control required for server switching.
The XS708E consists of 8 10G copper ports and 1 combo 10G Fiber SFP+ port that deliver up to 10Gbps of dedicated, non-blocking bandwidth per port. On top of the plug-and-play 10G Ethernet connectivity, it is a simple, yet useful network set-up which will help optimize the performance of business networks such as VLAN, QoS, IGMP Snooping, Link Aggregation (LAG), rate limiting and traffic monitoring. The Netgear ProSafe XS708E 10G Ethernet Switch is the ideal switch for SMBs considering simple and affordable 10GE connectivity into their 10GE-capable servers and storage devices.
A 10G Ethernet switch can provide your groups with significant advantages in network performance and availability. I believe that these products may be the most cost-effective solutions for you to find a suitable 10G Ethernet switch.


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The Poca Post is pleased to publish a commemorative stamp honoring the Coon Hound.
The Coon Hound has a long history on the Poca River. Early settlers supplemented their larders with small game. The 'coon dog was an indispensable aid in the hunt. Over the years the need for a hunting partner declined, but the 'coon dog had become part of a way of life.
In more recent times, the 'coon dog has been used for the sport of chasing raccoons up a tree. The dogs are released and the owners simply follow the baying of the hounds until they hear the characteristic baying that means a raccoon has been treed. Then the dogs' owners and friends go look at the raccoon.
The most famous Poca River 'coon dogs were two Blue Tick Hounds named "Black" and "Blue". They were owned by Mr. Vassel Snodgrass of Pliny-on-the-Poca (West Virginia). In the autumn of 1952 "Black" and "Blue" treed a record 47 raccoons in one night. This record has not been topped by even a whole pack of 'coon dogs.
This stamp has been issued in a pane of 9 stamps in the demonination of 9 pu.


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After she won the bronze at 2012 London Olympics, India's Saina Nehwal came close to quitting badminton. The reason was attributable to her form that took a nose dive in the next year-and-a half. Saina found it hard to see her slipping in BWF world rankings and decided to call it quits. There were factors that Saina couldn't control; she suffered from injuries and began losing to many lower ranked players in some tournaments. Her doting parents, who had been supporting her since the childhood, were worried as well. Saina was world no.2, when she won the bronze at London but a series of disappointing failures brought her down to no.9. Luckily for her and India, Saina found a mentor in Vimal Kumar. She left Gopichand's academy in Hyderabad and moved to Bangalore. Vimal Kumar's system of coaching was vastly different from the hard grind at Hyderabad and suddenly Saina felt different as she began winning tournaments and her ranking kept going up. Much before the Jakarta World Championship, she reached the no.1 position, though it was a short time since Spain's Carolina Marin soon overtook her. However, Saina is now back again to the no.1 spot. Like Saina, Kidambi Srikanth also scaled new heights in the current season and broke into the top 5 of the BWF rankings. He took the national no.1 position from Parupalli Kashyap, won his maiden India Super Series, Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold, China Open and reached the final of Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold in January 2015. He acquired the world no.3 spot behind China's Chen Long and Denmark's Jan O Jorgensen. On August 29, 2015, Srikanth was bestowed with the prestigious Arjuna Award by the President of India.
These days, when Saina plays in major tournaments, one cannot miss the faces of Vimal Kumar and Madhumita Bisht, who keep a close watch on her game. While Vimal is Saina's coach and mentor, Madumita represents Badminton Federation of India. Saina believes that Vimal Kumar's methods have brought the turnaround in her game, when she was literally down and out. Though she lost in the final of world championships at Jakarta, she firmly believes that the recent improvement in her game is completely attributable to Vimal Kumar. In a period during 2013-14, Saina had slumped to no.9 in world rankings and wanted to quit badminton. But the advent of Vimal Kumar changed everything. However, Vimal Kumar feels a sense of pride in getting an opportunity to coach someone like Saina, who is committed to work ethics. The coach was disappointed, when Saina lost to Carolina Marin in the World Championship final after playing wonderfully against Wang Yihan of China earlier. That was a classic, in which Saina brought out her best. After losing nine times to Yihan, it was a sweet victory for Saina. In big matches, the composure of the player is more important and Saina demonstrated that in full measure against the Chinese. Saina had displayed similar calmness against Japan's Sayaka Takahashi in her third round match. It is now one year for Rio Olympic Games, which is the next big stage for Saina but before that, she will play in Japan and the Euro Circuit. Lot of things need be done to fine-tune her game. As per the latest BWF ranking, Saina has come back to occupy the top spot ahead of Spain's world champion Carolina Marin.
Just as Saina improved her form, Kidambi Srikanth also broke new barriers. He became the first Indian male player to win a BWF Super-Series Premier. That was the 2014 China Open and Srikanth defeated none other than the great Lin Dan in the final. Until few weeks ago, Srikanth was ranked as world no.3 by BWF but he has since been displaced to no.4 by Japan's Kento Momota. However, Srikanth has scaled phenomenal heights despite a battle with meningitis in July 2013. As soon as he began playing again, he became better and better. In recognition to his achievements, Government of India bestowed him with the prestigious Arjuna award, which he received from the President of India 10 days ago. Srikanth revealed recently that he was inspired by the encouraging words from legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, who said that the ace shuttler would soon become the world no.1.