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Football season is upon us, which means that thousands of angry, horny, feisty pretend fans will converge upon this great nation's red cup-littered parking lots to participate in traditional tailgating revelry. These are not those stories
This series will run on MONDAYS this year. Again, consult the initial post if you'd like to help us out with this.
The following isn't your typical FAILgate story. It doesn't involve cops, fights, trips to the drunk tank, or wang exposure to the innocent (at least that we were aware of). It's a story about a man and his hair-color-matching vest.
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It was February 2006, about a dozen friends and I had descended upon the parking lots of Lambeau Field for a truly epic sporting event. Our beloved Wisconsin Badger hockey team was taking on the Ohio State Buckeyes in the first ever hockey game at Lambeau. We knew that a certain level of intoxication must be achieved to watch outdoor hockey in Green Bay that time of year, so we arrived early for the afternoon puck-drop.
The tailgating scene was fantastic, and we quickly made friends with the other reasonably sized groups of Badger fans nearby. And then an hour or two into it, we saw him. He was wandering around our area, completely shit-canned, and he was dressed in layers, topped off by a vest that remarkably was the exact same color as his hair. At the time, that aspect for some reason was hysterical to most of us. Thinking he was with one of the other groups, we asked around only to discover nobody really knew who he was. Could it be? Had destiny placed him in our midst?
Not caring enough to know his actual name, he immediately adopted the nickname Vest (did I mention his vest was the same color as his hair?). And Vest meant fucking business as he decided to impress us with his beer slamming abilities. We formed a circle around Vest, started a slow clap, and began to chant…
He ripped through that first PBR and triumphantly hurled the can one aisle over into a group of unsuspecting tailgaters, much to our delight. We suspect Vest might not have been drinking the entire can, as it doesn't seem there's any way one could throw an empty beer can that far. But I also didn't think a person could so perfectly match a vest to the color of his own hair.
Thinking he had done the job, Vest attempted to exit the circle. But we wanted more. The circle tightened as others gathered in, and someone tossed him another beer.
A group of probably 30 of us at this point were cheering on Vest as he continued to pound and hurl his somewhat empty beer cans with everything he had, miraculously not drawing the attention of cops who were patrolling the lot. This scene repeated itself for probably 5 total beers until Vest, clearly overcome by the enormity of his accomplishment, yacked all over the ground and himself.
Presumably using the motto "to be the best, you gotta beat the best," a friend of ours challenged Vest to a series of Franzia-bongs. Because if you're going to consume Franzia, it had better at least be through a beer bong. The challenge was also issued through a sumo pose of sorts…..I remember it making perfect sense at the time.
After the two successfully completed a few Franzia-bongs, Vest was gone just like that. Off to where, who knew? Well, we didn't know at the time, but now have an idea. After the weekend when I uploaded my pictures, I noticed something about Vest that a lot of us somehow had missed while we were in his presence; Vest was wearing a press pass, as you can see in the previous picture. Had we been blinded by the vest? Possibly. Either way, this leads one to believe that Vest had left our tailgate to head into the stadium with soaked clothes while reeking of PBR, Doritos, and stomach acid, and drunk off his ass to perform a job, one which he possibly had to interact with other people. Vest was clearly not about to let a job get in the way of a good tailgate, and for that he deserves the utmost respect.
The legend of Vest has lived on amongst our group of friends, as we frequently reminisce that glorious day. Roughly a year later, we heard a story about a writer for a Badger sports website who showed up at a Badger road football game to cover the game and ended up getting kicked out of the press box because he was wasted, argumentative with other reporters, and passed out during the 2nd quarter. Could this have been Vest? Who knows...maybe that's just how he rolls? Frankly I'm not sure I even want to know. I'm perfectly content remembering him as the mystery man who inspired dozens that frigid afternoon with his grit, his determination, and his exuberance. And also his vest.
USC doesn't typically start games at seven fifteen (7:15) Pacific time. It's just disrespectful. We don't go later than five p.m. EVER. Today was an exception, so when the tailgate occurred (which typically starts at one (double parentheses 1) or two (double parentheses again, 2) and went until kickoff, I felt like the end of the first quarter was halftime. This guy, however, felt like he got hit by a Taylor Mays full of vodka. Take a gander:
There's even a finger pointing at his epic failgateness. There's a puddle of drool/alcohol spilling from his body. But this only culminated his day of alcohol consumption:
Mr. Blackout not only spent his morning/afternoon pounding hard A, but found a cozy spot next to Tommy Trojan to nap the game away. What occured right before the passout was the epic part of this tory. Fulfilling his role as THE incoherent drunk, yet entertaining, fellow, we decided to bribe him 50 bucks to go and seduce the best milf next our spot. He obliged with out hesitation and found this disgusting cougar from washington. But instead of using his mouth to spit game or lick her, as promised, he used her as a kickstand for three seconds before vomiting right down her top.
As she sprinted down Trousdale to the nearest bathroom, he was showered with chants of "PUSSY," (why this has to do with vomiting on a chick's cleavage, I have no idea) followed by his stumbling onto the nearest steps across from Tommy Trojan, falling into a drunken slumber and subsequent drooling.
Nobody ponied up the Grant bill, and the USC Department of Public Safety escorted him to his residence on frat row. He's now a legend, just like Matt Barkley but with a slightly less positive connotation.
In October 2001, I was leaving Foxboro Stadium after a New England Patriots game had ended, and thousands of fans were pouring out of the stadium and onto the street. For those of you on the interwebs not familiar with the Foxboro, Massachusetts area, after games local police rope off the sidewalks and force people to cross the street at certain spots. At least they did at the time. Now that it is Gillette Stadium/Patriot Place they may have ramps constructed over the road...
But one particularly drunk fan was determined to meander where he felt like it – ropes be damned. Approximately 35-years-old, he was clearly stumbling with his shirt completely unbuttoned to offer a better view of his happy trail-covered beer gut. My memory may be wrong on this, but in my head he will forever look like Zack Galifianakis from "The Hangover".
Without any friends to help him (my guess is they abandoned him) a horse–mounted police officer approached the man and asked him to go back under the rope and onto the sidewalk. The man refused, of course, and kept walking in the street. The officer followed him and once again ordered him to get back behind the ropes.
At this point, the man turned around and had a very natural reaction any well-balanced, sober person would have: he reeled back and cowboy punched the horse in the face. Punched. A horse. In the face.
The horse, to put it mildly, freaked the fuck out. The cop half fell off, half jumped off the horse while trying to grab the drunk at the same time. He managed to tear the man's shirt off as he fell, and the horse-puncher wiggled free and bolted down the street. But he didn't make it far.
Maybe it was the post-9/11 feelings about police. Maybe everybody assumed this guy was not a Pats fan. Or maybe people just seem to freaking love horses (see: Barbaro). But the fans definitely stepped up in a true act of…Patriotism? Heroism? Hilariousism? First, an older, bearded gentleman (think Gorton's Fisherman) ducked the ropes and basically dove in front of the man to trip him. As the man went flying to the ground, three or four equally drunk men tackled him. While the cop and a couple of bystanders wrangled the horse and calmed it down, these men held the now shirtless man down with a knee to the back and repeatedly bashed/smooshed his face and chest into the pavement. Not hard enough to kill him, just enough to say "hey guy, what in the sweet Jesus god is wrong with you that you would punch a horse."
The cop finally came over and arrested him, and the other fans, some would argue heroes, disappeared back to the crowd. My only hope is that the guy was charged with assaulting a police officer.
I was completing my final semester of college at Western Illinois in the fall of 2006, a school that has a good party rep. I was working on a live remote for the campus radio station during a tailgate before a Leatherneck game one fall morning, which consisted of handing out cups and other station swag to buzzed/drunk college kids. A truck had pulled up next to our spot and the guys and gals were having a merry ol' time with alcohol and our swag.
Also occurring on this day, the local Boy Scout troop was walking around the tailgate to promote fire safety or something like that. After a couple hours into the tailgate, one of the youngsters walked by our area, and one of the guys in the truck thrust a can of beer in front of the Boy Scout, urging him to chug it.
The Boy Scout (assuming that he was around 12 years old) proudly took the can and started chugging it. Unfortunately, he was chugging it right in front of a cop. The Boy Scout was dragged away, the tailgaters in the truck were subdued, and had to leave the party.
It was one of the funniest moments I had tailgating that year.
Attention tailgaters. It's a long season so please help us with this project and send along any and all shady stories, ridiculous videos, and photos from your tailgating experiences from this season. Or last season. Or 1952. Just make it funny/sad/gross/shocking. Email to firstname.lastname@example.com. Subject: FAILgate


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HAPPY VALENTINE's DAY 2019 to all my followers, fellow bloggers and friends out there. This recipe is coming as a treat for the Valentine day celebration. Make this easy dessert for your valentine this Valentine's Day.
Panna Cotta on its own is an awesome dessert by itself. But I have combined it with a layer of chocolate cake, so it has become a decadant dessert that can be served at parties. As this is just a small serving it reduces the mess of cutting and serving, and also it is perfect for parties. Many may not know what is panna cotta or mustn't have tasted it anywhere. Even I didn't know until we stayed in a hotel on full board, where they served this as a dessert. I have tried it few years ago. Think the blogging mind in you allows you to do more research on the new dishes you try and make it yourself. All bloggers will give a hi fi on this……….
Getting back to Panna Cotta – It has its origin from Italy. It is nothing but Sweetened Cream which uses gelatine or agar agar to set like a pudding. It is so easy to prepare and is a Classic on its own.
I have combined a Chocolate sheet cake and the panna cotta together in shot cups to serve as a decadent dessert after a get together. The recipe of the Chocolate Sheet Cake is here. Just cut the sheet cake and place them in the cups you want to serve and then make the panna cotta mix and pour it over the cake and allow it to set in the refrigerator for at-least 4 to 6 hrs. AND the Chocolate Panna Cotta layered cake mini's are ready to be served. You can skip the Cake part and just make the Panna Cotta alone as a dessert option.
Do try this easy and yummy dessert for your next gathering and let me know if you enjoyed it.
Sweet Valentine – Delicious & Dolce Dessert Challenge::
This recipe is going to be a part of Valentine Dessert Challenge hosted by Sophie of My Dainty Soul Curry. She is a good friend of mine and she has a beautiful blog with lot of healthier options. We knew each other via a WhatsApp group of food bloggers, who help and give suggestions to make our blogs a better place for all.
Below are the links of the other bloggers recipes participating in the challenge.
3 Ingredient Banana Nutella Ice Cream by My Dainty Kitchen.
Vegan Keto Sesame Cookies by My Dainty Soul Curry.
Coconut Palmiers by LathisKitchen.
Mini Chocolate Panna Cotta Layered Cake
Cuisine: Italian | Category: Dessert Recipes | Prep time: 15 mins | Set Time: 6 hrs | Servings: 14 Shot Glasses & 6 Small Ramekins | Recipe Source: Here
Ingredients for Making Chocolate Panna Cotta
- Water – 1/2 Cup
- Unflavoured Gelatin – 5 tsps
- Bittersweet Chocolate – 7 1/2 ounces
- Milk Chocolate – 5 ounces
- Whipping Cream – 2 1/2 Cups
- Whole Milk -2 1/2 Cups
- Sugar – 1/2 Cup + 2 tbsps
- Vanilla Extract – 1 1/4 tsps
- Vanilla Beans – 1 1/2 ( Split Lengthwise)
METHOD with VISUAL CLICKS : :
Note : If you are a vegetarian just replace the gelatin to equal amount of Agar-Agar flakes. If using Agar-Agar Powder then substitute 1 tbsp. of the flakes to 1 tsp of the powder.
You should note that the texture while using Agar-Agar is slightly different compared to Gelatin. Agar-Agar gives a firmer texture and Gelatin gives a smoother texture.
While heating the mixture on the stovetop don't use high flame then the chocolate will burn.
The Panna cotta alone can be served as a dessert without the cake. It is super easy to churn the whole thing together.
Another method to always be safe is by taking milk, sugar, vanilla and whipping cream in a saucepan and allowing it to come to a boil. Then switch off the stove and add the gelatin mixture to it and mix everything then finally add it to the chopped chocolate.
Chopping the chocolate is very important, otherwise it will not melt easily and there will be lumps of chocolate.
The Mini Chocolate Panna Cotta Layered Cake is ready to be served. Try and let me know if you liked it.


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From Gun Digest Book of the AR-15 Volume 4 by Patrick Sweeney:
The Advanced Armament Company has been making suppressors for some time now. In the process, they had to learn a whole lot about how rifles work. You see, simply hanging a "can" on the muzzle can do a lot to change the gas flow dynamics of a system. You keep the pressure higher, longer than the system was designed for, and that can cause difficulties.
The big one for 5.56 users is that a whole lot more gas than normal gets pumped back through the gas tube. So much so that the receiver can have the lube cooked or blasted, and a lot more powder fouling/soot builds up.
So when it came time to design a cartridge and build an upper to house it, they knew a thing or two about the job.
The cartridge is the .300 AAC Blackout, aka 7.62X35, made and loaded for them by Remington. It is an AR-magazine-length .30 caliber round that fits an unmodified 5.56 bolt, and as such the only real modification you need to make to your AR (or a new upper for it) is a replacement barrel. And while plugging new barrels into existing ARs can be fun, the real fun is in seeing what a maker decides they want in their own-built upper or rifle.
In order to make the deadline for this volume, I could not lay hands on a complete rifle. I was competing with every other writer out there, and a slew of paying customers as well. So, I had to wait until AAC did a short run of carbine-length uppers.
The 1/7 twist barrel is of medium weight (you really can't make a lightweight, or pencil-barrel AR barrel, and do so with a .308" bore in it) and the 4150 steel alloy is black nitrided inside and out. The muzzle is threaded for the standard .308" bore AR threads: 5/8-24, so you can use any flash hider that would work on an AR-10 or other big-bore self-loading rifle. The one sent to me has the AAC Blackout® flash hider and combo suppressor mount on the end. The Blackout® is built to be a very effective flash hider, while also allowing a quick-attach system for the most-excellent AAC suppressors. As if that wasn't enough, AAC makes the Blackout out of an unspecified aerospace alloy, to withstand the hard work of muzzle blast and the vibration of a suppressor in the end.
The barrel is plugged into a flat-top upper from Keyhole Forge, and marked on both sides with the lineage. One side is just "AAC" while the other side has "300 AAC BLACKOUT (7.62X35) ADVANCED ARMAMENT COMPANY" on it. Inside is a parkerized carrier and bolt, with a standard 5.56 bolt face.
The handguards are where things get really interesting. Since the rest of the exterior is (as our British cousins phrase it) bog-standard, you could put any handguards you wanted on the .300 AAC Blackout upper. And I'm sure there are those who will insist on installing what they feel are the perfect handguards. But this upper came with the perfect handguards already in place.
It came with a Knight's Armament URX II Mid-length forearm in place. Woo-hoo! While railed forearms can be a bit bulky (some can even be described as "porky"), the Knights are among the slimmer ones. And even with the rail covers in place, it is not too bulky until you start shooting with winter gloves on.
The really cool part of the Knight's URX (besides being hard to obtain, and the same company that provides many of our high-speed low-drag military units) is the front sight. What, you don't see a front sight on it? That's because it folds down. And when folded, it appears to be just another section of the upper rail. Really, it is so low-profile that if you didn't tell someone there was a sight there, they might mount a light or laser over it. And as a final bit of coolness, the Knight's sight has its own thumbwheel elevation. Best to zero it and paint-mark it, in case one of your buddies decides to play with it in a moment of boredom.
The AAC upper fit just fine on a cross-section of my rifles and lowers, so I didn't have to dedicate it to any one of them. The feeding was flawless, and the ammo I had (at this time, I can only lay hands on the subsonic, 220 grain open-top match load) worked without fail.
Accuracy was top-notch, and you would not have any problems tagging a deer in typical woods distances, or a sentry at "across the clearing in the moonlight" distances. Actually, the 220 grain subsonic load is a lot more accurate than just across the clearing, but the trajectory is quite a bit to deal with. If you really are planning to use it at more than 25 yards distance, you would be well-served to find a ballistics program, calculate the trajectory, check it at the range, and keep a printout with you when you are loaded.
One thing I liked about the AAC upper was that it came with an owner's manual. The corrective actions pages are good, as they tell you correctly that most of the problems are solved by unloading, cleaning and lubing your rifle. However, they still instruct the reader that the gas rings have to be turned so the gaps don't line up, or the rifle will short-stroke. Alas, this is not the case, but it is very difficult to get such things out of the collective consciousness, once they get lodged there.
But the rest is good info, and the upper is primo. I just wish they wouldn't use an SBR as the demo rifle in the photos. Each time I see it, I have to fight back the urge to consider moving to a friendlier state.
The ammo I had available that was real-deal, honest-to-god .300 AAC Blackout was Remington 220 OTM subsonic. However, the chambers are close enough that I had to test, because I know you guys will. I had on hand Hornady .300 Whisper and Cor-Bon .300 Whisper ammo. In the Hornady, I had the 110 V-Max and the 208 A-Max loads, and from Cor-Bon I had 125 JHP self-defense rounds.
They all worked just fine. The velocities they delivered were right in line with other rifles of the same barrel length, and the groups were on the point of aim and as good as you'd expect from top-notch ammo makers.
I think what we're going to see from the short .300s in the future is a lot of reloading experimentation going on. Everyone out there with one or the other is going to load up, test, report and advocate their loads.
As long as you're using an upper or rifle as top-quality as this one, you won't get bad results.
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NBC's Pete Williams hailed for accurate reporting of Boston story
Pat Cunningham
HERE's a guy who thinks it's more important to get it right than to get it first:
NBC's Pete Williams is currently trending worldwide on Twitter — and not without merit. On a major story that has been defined by inaccurate and conflicting reports and wild speculation, Williams has been calm, diligent and correct.
Inside the studios of NBC, Williams is being widely referred to as a hero, a source told POLITICO. He has resisted the praise: When one NBC News staffer told Wlliams that he was trending on Twitter yesterday, Williams laughed and replied: "I dont want to ...


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I can already hear you saying "Bee, this is the Advent Calendar of HOTNESS! Where is my well-chiseled bare chested hunk? Because…for gawd's sake, did I really wait all day for TIM THOMAS?!!"
YEAH, I DID THAT, ALRIGHT?! Awesomeosity = hot in my humble opinion. And Tuukka Rask was in net last night so the only time I got to see Timmy was when Hockey Night's camera followed him into the locker room or something looking all business-like until he did this funny deke thing towards the camera. IT WAS CUTE, OK?!!
Also, last I heard, he was still sporting in Movember stache. He looks a bit too Gerald McCraney in this pic (below) for me, which may be a slight improvement over looking like Drew Carey.
But here's the thing about Thomas: he's 37, he was a late comer to the big league, he's a Vezina and Conn Smythe winner, he's in the Top 5 so far this season in wins, save percentage and goals against average (12, .936, 1.93) and…people love him! He's funny and personable and a joy to watch. And he does stuff like this:
But I also love that he never forgets where he came from, hometown-wise and hockey-wise. Just watch this clip below that aired the night the Bruins won the Cup in June: see who his teammates name as the hockey player they worshiped growing up, and then listen to who Thomas mentions.
EXACTLY! This guy.
Funny, great goaltending skills, not a prima donna streak to be found. Seriously, if you can't find it in yourself to like Tim Thomas, ask yourself if you have a soul.
Yeah, I went there.


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Jenny Sparks / Loveland Reporter-Herald
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Ken Wind/ Special to the Reporter-Herald
Loveland police responded to a call Monday afternoon of a bear in a neighborhood on Durango Drive and West 22nd Street.
The bear continued to move throughout the neighborhood as police searched for it.
Ken Wind and his wife, Lauvan, are from Iowa and were visiting relatives Dave and Donna Christians on Kiowa Drive. The couples were sitting on the porch when they saw the bear.
"We kind of watched him come across and go to the neighbor's yard. Then we saw him straddling the fence," Donna said. She said they first noticed a police car driving slowly and then saw the bear.
"I've lived here over 35 years … but I've never seen one before. I do a lot of hiking," Donna said.
Frank Lendman, another neighbor, also saw the bear.
"I've seen him twice. He left the yard one time across the neighbor's yard and he came back," Lendman said.
Later Monday evening, the bear was spotted eating from bird feeders on Kansas Place, to the northeast of where he had first been seen.
The bear had one green tag on each of its ears. The Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife tags bears that have to be relocated after staying too long near humans. The second time a bear becomes a problem, the division kills the bear, according to the agency's website.
Although black bears are not necessarily aggressive, if they find food, they become too accustomed to being around people and could cause injury or damage.
An officer from the Division of Parks and Wildlife arrived at the scene to catch the bear, but it escaped to a irrigation canal in the area.
The Division of Parks and Wildlife recommends the following to avoid bear visitors:
• Never leave trash, recyclables or even empty containers out at night.
• Clean containers regularly so they don't smell like food.
• Keep windows and doors that are easily accessible locked.
• Do not leave birdfeeders out in active months for bears because seeds are a natural food for bears.
• Don't leave anything that smells like food, including air fresheners, in your vehicle.
• Clean grills after each use.
• Pick up fallen fruit and pick any fruit before it ripens.
• Discuss these recommendations with neighbors.
Contact Reporter-Herald Staff Writer Saja Hindi at 970-669-6050, ext. 521 or at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Back in January, columnist Susan Bigelow looked at a number of bills on tap for this session, including one from Sen. Joe Markley who wanted to scrap mandatory fluoride in the water supply. She asked "What does he have against teeth?" Well, CTNewsJunkie caught up with Markley last week. It turns out his answer is twofold.
First, Markley doesn't have anything against teeth. His problem is more rooted in an opposition to municipal mandates than it is anything rooted in gum tissue. He said he had been talking to businesses and municipalities about the various requirements the state places on them.


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Valentine's Day research focuses on romance
We'll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Stanford news every morning.
Business school might be a great place to meet a spouse but what else determines your choice of partner? Research from Stanford Graduate School of Business shows that political affiliation is an important determining factor.
"Someone with a graduate degree is considered attractive but shared politics has a similar effect," says Neil Malhotra, associate professor at Stanford, who conducted the research.
Working with Gregory Huber, political science professor at Yale University, Prof Malhotra analysed thousands of interactions from an online dating website in the US and posed questions to users. Their findings, presented in the research paper titled Political Sorting in Social Relationships, shows political affirmation rivals level of education as criteria for a perfect match.
Participants in a follow-up lab experiment also evaluated online candidates more positively when they showed the same political ideology and level of interest in politics – as well as finding them more physically attractive.
Shared political affiliation, for example, increased messaging rates by 9.5 per cent, shared levels of political interest increased messaging rates by 10.7 per cent and shared ideas on how to balance the budget increased messaging rates by 10.8 percent.
This may be a popular method of sorting through dating profiles but the danger, according to Prof Malhotra, is that households could become echo chambers of extreme views if individuals with similar political beliefs stay together and have children.
"Children who grow up in a household where both parents have the same political beliefs tend to have more extreme views," he says. In contrast, children with parents who have differing views are ultimately more moderate in their thinking.
For the Silicon Valley based professor, this is of particular concern when faced with a growing polarisation within US society.
"At the highest levels within our political system, we increasingly see that people are unwilling to work and communicate with each other," he says. "America is becoming this place where there is increased choice: you choose your media, where you live, etc." So much so, he adds, that whole neighbourhoods are becoming more homogenous and failing to relate to others.
As a way of combating this situation, he recommends budding romantics be more open to change when choosing a partner, as well as valuing diversity in the workplace as an alternative source of political debate.
For those safely ensconced in a relationship yet facing the minefield of gift-giving, meanwhile, a study from London Business School shows cost is not as important as many believe.
"Givers think the more they spend the more appropriate the gift, but for receivers there is no correlation between price and appreciation," says Gabrielle Adams, assistant professor of organisational behaviour at LBS, who co-authored the study, titled Money can't buy love: Asymmetric beliefs about gift price and feelings of appreciation.
Focusing on engagement rings, for example, the study asked recently engaged Americans from a popular weddings website to complete a confidential survey. Answers showed men believed the more they spent on an engagement ring, the more appreciative the receiver would be. However, female respondents were not more appreciative if the cost was more.
"We recommend finding other ways to show thoughtfulness - handmade gifts, for example," says Prof Adams. And if choosing a ring, better to find one the receiver will like, one that is tailored to their style rather than the price.


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Melbourne's Southbank is set to be home to Australia's tallest building.
At 356.2m, the Green Spine building will feature two towers with a twisting geometric glass facade and vertical green spaces, on a $2 billion-plus development site.
Dutch architects UNStudio and Melbourne based Cox Architecture were named the winning designers on Wednesday after a six-month global search.
The development, by Beulah International, is scheduled to start in 2020, subject to planning approvals.
It will have a "strong focus on culture, paying homage to Melbourne's diverse population" and feature a publicly accessible garden in the sky.
It will also include a school, library, cinema, commercial offices, hotel, specialty restaurants and bars.
Currently, Australia's tallest building is Q1 on the Gold Coast, which is 322.5m high, followed by Melbourne's Eureka tower at 297.3 metres.
But this will be pipped by Victoria's Australia 108 building, which once complete, will soar 317m tall.


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Man, we're getting so close to landing Canyon Blue planes in Panama City. Every time I see new aerials I'm thoroughly impressed with how far along the new Northwest Florida International Airport (actually, formally named Northwest Florida Panama City International Airport) is. Lets get right down to it!
This shows the huge progress made on the terminal. You can see the airtraffic control tower to the left and the main parking area in the upper left side of the image.
You can see down the length of the runway in this image. the darker pavement to the left is the main taxiway. To the left out of frame, there is space prepared for a parallel 10,000 foot runway that could be built in the future when demand is met.
In this image, the terminal actually is looking pretty complete. Well, actually from the outside, it pretty much is. I have no idea what those buildings are in the bottom right hand segment of the image.
In this image you can see one of the retention ponds. Across the site there are several large retention ponds to help deal with run-off and run it through a series of complex filtration systems before it is circulated back into the environment.
This is looking out past the terminal area, it looks quite small in this image. Not actually sure what that area is right in the middle of the frame, does anyone know?


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Last year, I mostly viewed the scutwork the seniors demanded as an exercise of their power, nothing else. I did it, of course, but I couldn't really see why they didn't just do it themselves. Why the interns and juniors had to write all of the notes in the morning, write most of the post-op orders for the seniors' own cases, write the post-op notes on the patients the seniors had just been operating on – it seemed rather pointless; or rather, too pointed: they got the fun of operating, and I got all the busywork.
Now, with a little more experience in the OR, I can see more reason to it (or perhaps, now only a year away from being a senior myself, I'm starting to rationalize giving a lot of the work to the intern). For one thing, the work hour limits hurt the chiefs a lot: simply being present for all their cases takes pretty much all the available time. Being in the hospital a few hours early every day to round would put them way over. Nevertheless, the good ones seem to know more about their patients than I do, for all they spend less time on it. The most fearsome chief I had this year seemed to be able to put me in the wrong every time we sat down to run through the list: despite having been in the OR all day, and me not, there was always some test result, some lab value, some change in the patient's condition, which he knew about and I didn't. He wasn't trying to do anything in particular to me, either; he was just taking care of his service.
For the rest, writing orders and helping to get cases started, I've realized that "simply" doing three or four cases in the day can be quite tiring, and it's only kindness to the seniors to use my energy instead of theirs to move in and out of the OR. (My hospital has an inefficient OR setup; neither the OR staff nor the anesthesia staff has any motivation to move quickly. It doesn't decrease their workload or their hours, or improve their pay, to turn things around quickly. This leaves the surgery residents as the only people who really care whether it takes twenty minutes or fifty minutes to get the next case started, so the day will move more quickly if there's one of us turning up to make sure that the patient has in fact arrived in pre-op holding, that their pacemaker is being turned off appropriately, that the CRNA is aware when the scrub tech is ready for them to come back to the room (instead of both parties sitting waiting for the other to call, as I frequently find them doing), that there are enough hands available for transport and to finish setting-up details in the room.)
So, I think my approach has changed since the beginning of internship: instead of figuring out what the chief was going to check to see if I'd done, now I look for any work at all that needs to be done, and take care of it, regardless of exactly whose responsibility it technically is. I wish I knew how to teach this work ethic to the new interns; but luckily, I think it's primarily transferred by example, so I just need to keep doing my job properly.


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I am pleased to announce, whilst it may not be pretty, it is now back online.
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Sadly, the file dates (date modified, date created etc) were lost. Just in case you wonder why they've all got the same date.
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Australian consumer confidence has improved after more encouraging jobs and retail news and milder weather eased the bushfire crisis.
The ANZ-Roy Morgan Australian Consumer Confidence index gained 1 per cent last week after news on building approvals, job vacancies and retail sales.
The weekly measure of consumer mood, released on Tuesday, is based on about 1,000 face-to-face interviews conducted in people's homes on Saturdays and Sundays.
The result offers hope for some recovery in consumer spending after what appears to be a very subdued Christmas retail season, ANZ Head of Australian Economics David Plank said as the report was released.
"With milder weather seeing the intensity of fires diminish, though not by enough to present further tragic loss of life, and some better economic news in the form of building approvals, job vacancies and retail sales, it is not surprising that much of the weakness in economic conditions reversed," Mr Plank said.


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An examination of Kentucky emergency department, inpatient hospitalization and mortality data over an 11-year period revealed an alarming increase in drug overdoses in Kentucky.
Drug overdose mortality rates among Kentuckians increased 282 percent between 2000 and 2010, from a rate of six overdose deaths per 100,000 residents in 2000 to 22.9 deaths per 100,000 residents in 2010, according to a drug overdose morbidity and mortality report released this week by the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center (KIPRC).
KIPRC, located in the University of Kentucky College of Public Health is a bona fide agent for the Kentucky Department for Public Health. Preliminary 2011 data indicate that drug overdose numbers and rates continued to increase in 2011, for an estimated fatality rate of 23.9 per 100,000.
"This report contains some landmark findings that will help all those concerned about public and mental health issues to better understand both the current status of and trends related to drug overdoses in Kentucky," said Dr. Stephanie K. Mayfield, Commissioner of the Department for Public Health. "For the first time, we have an analysis of multiple data sources that shows just how fast drug overdoses are increasing and who is being affected by them. The report provides a baseline from which we can measure potential improvement, and as a result of HB1, the comprehensive prescription drug control and enforcement act which was enacted by the legislature in 2012, and other efforts."
The impact on Kentucky is costly. Additional analysis showed hospitalization and emergency department billing for drug overdoses totaled $78 million, of which Medicaid was billed for over $21 million.
Prescription and non-prescription drug overdoses accounted for 979 deaths, 4,348 hospitalizations and 4,770 emergency department visits among Kentucky residents in 2010. The highest numbers of Kentucky drug overdose emergency department visits involved opiates (697) and benzodiazepine- based tranquilizers (693). The highest number of inpatient hospitalizations for drug poisoning involved benzodiazepine-based tranquilizers (1,335) and the highest number of deaths were related to opioid ingestion (443).
In 2010, Kentucky females were hospitalized more often than males for intentional drug overdose-related self-harm, and women had a higher number of drug overdose-related emergency department visits than men. Kentucky males, though, died more often than females from unintentional drug overdoses.
"The use of multiple strategies is necessary to substantially reduce prescription drug abuse among our residents," said Terry Bunn, director of KIPRC. "It will take a cooperative effort among Kentucky legislators, doctors, public health advocates, law enforcers, educators and concerned residents – a united Kentucky – to address these alarming facts and create a safer environment for all Kentucky residents."
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This "random" title just serves to catch me up, post a few fotos that haven't worked into any other posts.
This is my first sighting of Atlantic Salvor, 1976, frequently on this blog. With new paint and who knows what else, she's just back in the sixth boro from a trip to Lake Erie. She spent Christmas somewhere on the St. Lawrence downstream from Montreal. Now that was a trip I coveted a berth on.
Catherine Turecamo and James Turecamo, (1972, 1969, respectively) in midafternoon twilight, waiting to escort in inbound ship outside the red 28.
Oyster Creek (2011) passing the Statue, where a new yellow sculpture has been erected?
Reinauer Twins, less than six months at work. More than once, I've heard folks identify a unit like Twins and RTC 104 as a ship.
And here I can't identify this, although I would have said Sea Bear. Note the raised
steel letters on the port bow.
Diane B, Peter F. Gellatly, and Kristy Ann Reinauer. (1980, 2008, and 1962)
And now for some fotos from the road, Mary Bennett (1977) in Newport News,
and Corpus Christi (2009), married to
Petrochem Supplier, with a very bright
deck lamp. A week after I took these fotos in Wilmington, she was in New York. And to give some idea of her range, check out this incident report from 2010.
Margaret McAllister (1966) had a similar intense light as she saw Louise Knutsen (2010)out towards sea on the Cape Fear River.


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New plastic telescope ammo machine gun is light as a rifle
Every soldier could get heavy-weapons firepower in future
So why aren't people buying it like hot cakes?
There are other advantages: the new LMG's novel rotating chamber (shown in action in the vid below) doesn't heat up as an M249's does, and plastic cases are more heatproof than brass ones, thus reducing or eliminating the issue of "cook off". This is where a round is chambered and then goes off immediately due to the chamber being hot from prolonged firing, regardless of whether the trigger is depressed at the time.
Certainly this bloke isn't finding it too heavy.
All in all, the new LMG and its plastic-cased ammo would seem like a no-brainer: but there is as yet no certainty that it will see service. Changing from NATO standard 5.56mm brass cartridges would be a move with international implications, and would involve massive expense and logistic trouble. There would probably need to be, if not a rifle to shoot the new ammo - the new LMG is more or less a rifle, just a much more powerful one** - then a shorter carbine type weapon. The Picatinny engineers are working on one, but it isn't ready for sustained trials yet.
Then, having made the massive effort to switch to cased-telescoped, the Western-aligned militaries of the world might find they needed to do the same thing all over again. This is because the Picatinny boffins are also working on caseless ammo, in which the entire cartridge apart from the bullet burns up on firing. This would potentially make the ammo lighter still, and further lighten weapons by removing the need to eject spent cases. Caseless ammo has been successfully developed before, however - for the German G11 rifle of the 1980s - and failed to gain adoption despite its undoubted virtues.
Perhaps fully caseless ammo is too long a step to take in one go: even manufacturer AAI, assisting the Picatinny boffins with the new kit, admits that caseless is "higher risk". Plastic-cased-telescoped is simpler to achieve and seems to offer major advantages right off. You can read more about it courtesy of the US Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command, here, here and here, and from manufacturer AAI here in pdf. ®
The reluctance on the part of the world's militaries to move on to new and improved small-arms technologies is understandable, as it would involve noticeable expense and trouble. However the developed world's armed forces routinely spend vastly greater sums and overcome much greater technical obstacles in order to build improved jet fighters, submarines, heavy tanks etc. Even back during the Cold War when these things were very important it was foot soldiers carrying individual weapons who actually did most of the fighting and dying, however: and nowadays infantry warfare really ought to be the most pressing priority for every advanced military.
It seems downright perverse to us here on the Reg defence desk to be spending billions to further increase Western fighter pilots' and submarine captains' already excellent chances of victory in future conflicts that are vanishingly unlikely to happen (as we are doing) and not spend the much more modest sums that would give our hard-pressed combat troops - who are actually fighting a real war right now - better firepower in lighter packages. ®
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*Section, in British usage. The section/squad is split into two fire-teams of four, each with one machine-gunner.
**Perhaps it's time to revive the 1920s-1930s term "machine rifle", under which Colt marketed the Browning Automatic Rifle - an early military squad-auto weapon - to civilian customers, generally lawmen.


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This is horrifying and barbarous.
Saudi authorities have executed a woman convicted of practicing magic and sorcery.
There is no such thing as magic or sorcery, so this is murder for a crime the person couldn't possibly have committed. But then, there's a little clarification…
The London-based al-Hayat daily, however, quoted Abdullah al-Mohsen, chief of the religious police who arrested the woman, as saying she had tricked people into thinking she could treat illnesses, charging them $800 per session.
That's still horrifying and barbarous, but quackery at least is a real offense. It's an offense not deserving of execution, however.


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump vows to bring back the millions of American jobs lost to China and other foreign competitors if voters put him in the White House.
Economists say he wouldn't stand a chance: Trump's boundless self-confidence is no match for the global economic forces that took those jobs away.
Since the beginning of 2000, the U.S. economy has lost 5 million manufacturing jobs.
A study published last year by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that between 2 million and 2.4 million jobs were lost to competition from China from 1999 to 2011.
Announcing his presidential bid June 16, Trump declared: "I'll bring back our jobs from China, from Mexico, from Japan, from so many places. I'll bring back our jobs, and I'll bring back our money."
Economists were unimpressed. "It's completely implausible," says former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Alan Blinder, a Princeton University economist who has studied the offshoring of American jobs.
Companies shifted low-skill jobs to China in the 2000s because American workers couldn't compete with Chinese workers earning around $1 an hour. Now China itself is losing low-wage manufacturing jobs to poorer countries such as Bangladesh and Vietnam.
If America tried to block foreign-made products and make everything at home, prices would skyrocket and foreign countries would likely retaliate by blocking U.S. goods from their countries. "You can't turn back the clock," Blinder says.
But there's an even bigger problem for those who want to restore U.S. manufacturing employment (now 12.3 million) to its 1979 peak of 19.6 million: Technology has taken many of those jobs for good. Today's high-tech factories employ a fraction of the workers they used to. General Motors, for example, employed 600,000 in the 1970s. It has 216,000 now - and sells more cars than ever.
"No matter who becomes president," says economist David Autor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "I cannot foresee a scenario where 5 million additional manufacturing jobs ... reappear in the U.S. in the decades ahead."
That's especially true with U.S. unemployment at a seven-year low 5.3 percent, a rate close to what economists consider full employment.
"If you took all the jobs we outsourced and brought them back, you'd have negative unemployment," says Harold Sirkin, senior partner at the Boston Consulting Group and an expert on manufacturing competitiveness worldwide. "We'd have to bring in people from other countries to do the work."
Trump, author of "The Art of the Deal," says he could have protected American jobs by negotiating smarter trade agreements with U.S. competitors. "When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let's say, China in a trade deal?" Trump said in June. "They kill us. I beat China all the time. All the time."
But economists say trade deals - for all the political heat they generate - play only a modest role in job creation. "Better trade deals are unlikely to be a panacea," says Eswar Prasad, professor of trade policy at Cornell University.
Prasad says U.S. policymakers should focus more on investing in things that will improve America's competitiveness over the long haul - schools, roads and airports, for example. And Blinder says the U.S. should do more to retrain American workers who lose their jobs to foreign competition.
Companies often decide where to locate factories and hire people on factors that can change: labor costs, energy bills, transportation expenses, proximity to customers.
Currently, several of those factors favor the United States over China. The fracking boom has cut energy costs for U.S.-based factories. Chinese wages have soared, while American wages have been flat. In parts of America, land is cheaper than in China.
So some American companies already are bringing jobs back, and some Chinese companies are investing in plants in America. Last year, for example, Chinese glassmaker Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co. announced plans to take over an abandoned GM plant in Moraine, Ohio, near Dayton, and create 800 jobs.
The Reshoring Initiative, which encourages companies to bring operations back to America, says the number of manufacturing jobs created in the United States by returning American companies and foreign investors exceeded those lost to offshoring last year by 10,000 - modest, to be sure, but a big change from the massive job outflows of the 1990s and 2000s.
Trump declared: "I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created. I tell you that."
But Daniel Rosen, partner at the New York economic research firm Rhodium Group, says: "Global direct investment - including from China, Mexico and Japan - is already flowing into the United States, not due to God's political leanings but because the U.S. economy is open both to those who would invest here and those who would decide to move abroad."


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You may have forgotten what you did on vacation last summer -- but you probably remember how much it cost to fill your gas tank for the trip.
Last July, soaring gasoline prices had everybody talking. Presidential candidates called for energy independence. Congressional leaders hauled oil company executives in for hearings. Gas prices seemed to jump by a dime a day. They topped $4 per gallon and looked as if they'd never stop climbing.
Yet suddenly they did. A global recession slashed demand and gas prices fell, dropping back to today's roughly $2 per gallon.
But that doesn't mean our energy problems are over. In the months and years ahead the global economy will improve; the demand for oil will increase, and prices will rise again.
That means today's cheaper prices are an opportunity. The U.S. needs to act now so we'll have enough supply in the years ahead to keep costs reasonable. The key: increase domestic oil production.
Last summer President Bush took a sensible first step, lifting an executive order (put in place by his father) that prohibited oil drilling off America's coasts. A few months later (even though gas prices were finally falling) Congress allowed its own moratorium to expire. Together, these bans had kept about 85 percent of America's territorial waters off limits to exploration.
Even with lower gas prices, Americans grasp the need for more drilling. A Harris Interactive poll taken in February shows that 62 percent support "increased domestic access to offshore oil." Only 26 percent oppose it. Yet our government isn't moving quickly enough.
The Interior Department has taken a tentative first step. It has announced a draft program to provide offshore leases, and it has given the public 60 days to comment. Unfortunately, President Obama's new secretary of the interior, Ken Salazar, has already (long before the initial comment phase would have ended) announced he'll extend it for six months. He's also told his agency to gather additional information on the estimated amounts of oil and natural gas in these offshore areas.
To be fair, drilling offshore is hardly a crisis that needs immediate action. But some steady progress would help. Unfortunately, Salazar seems determined to slow any progress as much as possible. He called the two-month comment period "a headlong rush of the worst kind." Really? Even though the public had plenty of time to comment?
Meanwhile, he's hinted that he may want to delay exploration indefinitely. "The Bush administration was so intent on opening new areas for oil and gas offshore that it torpedoed offshore renewable energy efforts," he's said, ignoring at least one offshore wind project Bush promoted. Besides, electric wind farms are completely different from oil fields, as Salazar must know.
It takes years to develop an oil field, which is why we should get started this year, while prices are still low. Salazar's own Interior Department estimates there are 19 billion barrels of oil available in U.S. waters, and such estimates tend to be on the low side. But we won't know until we start looking.
This isn't the first time Salazar has opposed exploration, by the way. Last summer, when the Bush administration wanted to sell some public land in Western states so oil companies could take a closer look at harvesting fuel from oil shale, Salazar disliked the program.
"A fire sale will not lower gas prices. It will not accelerate the development of commercial oil shale technologies," he wrote in The Washington Post. Again, true as far as it goes. But without exploration, we'll never know if oil shale can be made to work.
Our country needs more oil exploration, as quickly as is prudent. Otherwise, prepare for the eventual return of $4 or higher gasoline.


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"To a certain extent trust has been lost, but we do not think we are to blame," Putin said in a televised phone-in with the nation.
He said it was U.S. hypocrisy that had brought relations to their worst level since the Cold War: "The United States can act in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya but Russia is not allowed to defend its interests."
The two countries have been at odds over a range of issues, from U.S. missile defense plans to NATO expansion and the civil war in Syria. To improve ties, Putin said, the United States should respect others' interests and international law.
"I want to emphasize once again, Russia is interested in growing relations with the United States and will do everything to ensure that this confidence is restored," he said.
The United States has imposed sanctions against some Russians to punish Moscow for the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, and says it is ready to adopt harsher measures if Russia intervenes further to destabilize Ukraine.
Putin also accused NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in his previous role as Danish prime minister, of secretly taping and leaking a private conversation between them to the press.
"I could not believe my eyes and ears ... what kind of trust can there be after such incidents?" he said. But he added that Moscow was not interested in souring ties with Europe, and that he hoped the feeling was reciprocated.
"We do not intend to spoil the relations between Russia and Europe and hope that this is not part of our European partners' plans," Putin said.
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What accessibility issues should I address when planning student events?
As increasing numbers of people with disabilities pursue educational opportunities at all levels, the accessibility of student organizations and events increases in importance.
To make student events accessible to everyone, employ principles of universal design. In other words, think about how you can design the event so that people with a broad range of abilities, disabilities, ages, reading levels, learning styles, native languages, cultures, and other characteristics can feel welcome, attend, and participate fully. Preparing your event to be welcoming and accessible to potential participants will minimize the need for last-minute, unexpected changes.
The following suggestions can guide you in making your student organizations and events universally accessible. Consider those that apply to your situation. These suggestions are taken from the checklist provided in the publication Equal Access: Universal Design of Student Organizations. School staff who support disabled students may also be able to assist you in increasing the accessibility of your event. This content does not provide legal advice. Consult your campus legal counsel or ADA/504 compliance officer regarding relevant legal issues. Consultation with your regional Office for Civil Rights (OCR) can also help clarify issues.
- Consider diversity issues as you plan and evaluate student events and activities.
- Assure physical access, comfort, and safety within an environment that is welcoming to visitors with a variety of abilities, racial/ethnic backgrounds, genders, and ages.
- Make sure staff and volunteers are prepared to work with all students.
- Assure that publications and websites welcome a diverse group and that information is accessible to everyone.
- Assure that everyone feels welcome and can participate in events sponsored by your organization. For example:
- Are events located in wheelchair-accessible facilities? Is the accessible entrance clearly marked?
- Is information about how to request disability-related accommodations included in publications promoting events sponsored by your organization?
- Is accessible transportation available for events where transportation is arranged for others?
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Bill Gates has called for capitalism to contribute more effectively to the big social and environmental issues of the emerging century. What is creative capitalism? A working definition might be capitalism which places the resolution of social needs as a primary goal of economic activity, rather than a secondary consequence
The most successful capitalist of the late twentieth century calls for a shift in capitalist philosophy and actions for the twenty first century. The speech at the Davos conference follows his earlier efforts at creating a foundation to channel funds towards the social good. And where Bill Gates leads, others follow.
The parallel with science is worth a moment's thought. Scientists for many years considered their contribution to the well-being of society was an indirect spin-off from their discoveries. Science and ethics were as much two worlds, as were the two cultures of C P Snow (Science and Humanities).
Over time, many critical issues arose at the interface between science and social responsibility: the applications of nuclear energy, stem-cell research, communications technology, surveillance and personal freedoms. The social responsibilities of science become acknowledged as a vital component in the development of improvements to the quality of life around the globe.
Old and new capitalism
As for science, now for capitalism. The old arguments were that entrepreneurs and businesses created wealth. It was up to society to decide how the wealth was redistributed, and resources allocated to social causes. The blind variation of capitalist growth seemed to have few more direct conduits to social amelioration. [And yet, the most ruthless capitalists of the nineteenth century tended to convert their amassed fortunes into trusts and foundations for the betterment of the less fortunate.]
Gates is proposing a different relationship between capitalism and the creation of the social good.
Gates at Davros
The Davros meetings have become synonymous with the powerful getting together to reflect on the human condition and what to do about it. For some, the meetings conceal a conspiracy of the most dangerous and monstrous kind. For others, it indicates where global change is needed, and what might be done about it.
Gates has the power to shape those changes, and may well bring others into line. If so he is yet another capitalist who has undergone a process of re-evaluation of self and the legacy he wants to create for himself
According to the BBC, Mr Gates said
"We need a creative capitalism where business and non-governmental organisations work together to create a market system that eases the world's inequities,"
He gave examples of the sort of thing he had in mind, such as the Red campaign, itself launched two years ago in Davos by Bono, now to be partnered by Dell and Microsoft in committing proportions of earnings to sovial anti-poverty causes. He also mentioned the contributions from drug companies that were selling vaccines to Africa for a much lower price than in developed countries.
So what is creative capitalism?
As a working definition, we could start with what is implied in Mr. Gates' speech. He challenges the old touchstone that capitalism does not have to concern itself directly well-being of people. Maybe we could see this as a challenge to that economic petty but benign deity which operates in mysterious ways, Adam Smith's invisible hand in the interplay of the market forces.
Uncreative capitalism took for granted its benefits to all, through its mechanisms of social Darwinism, competition, and evolutionary success of the fittest. Creativity was a by-product of economic change – creative destruction Schumpeter called it. Exogenous sources of variation, muttered the neo-classical economists.
In contrast, creative capitalism places the resolution of social needs as a primary goal of economic activity, rather than a secondary consequence of accumulation of resources ('rents').
It's only a working definition. We can argue whether the examples offered by Bill Gates are 'sticking plasters' leaving the economic sickness largely unaddressed. But the plaster is being administered with care and professionalism. At least two cheers for Gates at Davros.
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Concord grapes are a bridge between summer and fall. They're one of those items that show up in the markets and people go a little wild—in some circles, these purple beauties are touted as the ultimate grape. These three cocktails showcase Concords with a fresh puree and an easy Concord grape syrup. They're worth whipping up for the color alone, but the flavors would impress even if your guests were blindfolded.
Scotch, Sherry, and Concord Cocktail
"Don't tell the others, but this cocktail is a new favorite of mine."
With alternating smoky, nutty, and jammy notes, this cocktail plays up the complexity of the Concords' flavor. It features a Concord grape syrup, which is bold enough to stand up to the base of blended Scotch. Dry oloroso sherry, which has a nutty richness, brings everything together. The result is a bit of a confounding cocktail: three assertive flavors that marry amazingly well. Don't tell the others, but this cocktail is a new favorite of mine.
Cardamaro Concord Cocktail
Cardamaro is relatively mild, sweet amaro made from wine infused with cardoon and blessed thistle. It's definitely reminiscent of spiced or mulled wine, although a bit more complex, so it's perfect for cool-weather sipping. Paired with robust bourbon and a bright, fresh Concord grape puree, this is just the drink for ringing in the season.
Fall French 75
Playing up the tart, fruity side of Concord grapes, this drink pairs fresh grape puree with floral St. Germain elderflower liqueur. Although Concords rightfully have a reputation for having a very bold flavor, they're just as at home with lighter spirits in this dressed up take on the classic French 75—a mix of gin, sparkling wine, fresh lemon juice, and sugar. The gorgeous color that the concord puree brings this drink is just a nice bonus.


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Fans trade vinyl, CDs, 8-track tapes for all I know (hey, they're making a resurgence). Admission to the main event from 10 a.m. to 3 pm is $3, but if you want to beat everyone else, get there early, and trade with the real players, show up between 6 and 10 a.m. and pay $20. All proceeds go to keeping the great station on the air.