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With over 120 years of hard work dedicated to the richest and most flavorful beers, Berghoff Beers still face the challenge of satisfying every customers' lips with a cold bottle of brilliance. There's only one thing more enjoyable than a good beer and that's the perfect beer.
There is a long-standing tradition of brewers making special beers for winter, both as a little holiday present to their customers, and also because a bigger, stronger, darker beer simply tastes great in the dead of winter. This rich, smooth, copper-colored ale is brewed with six malts for a lot of aromatic complexity, with cookie, caramel, raisin and toasted marshmallow notes. New World versions of noble hop flavors bring a certain European elegance, but with a little more brash personality, topped off with the floral-and-citrus that the all-American hop—Cascade—delivers.
This beer is a superb Old World classic with a modern "Made in America" stamp. It is crisp and clean as a traditional European Pilsner should be, Berghoff Pilsner is a reinvigorated and fully modern version of the timeless classic. The union of American and German 2-row malts create a blend of New and Old World character, and use of non-traditional and unique varietals of German hops reimagine this New World Pilsner, but still remaining rooted and respectful of its Old World heritage. Our Pilsner pours a golden straw color topped with a heavenly white foam leaving intricate white lacing on the glass. The body is classically delicate yet complex with a balance of maltiness and herbal hop character balanced with a pleasing bitter finish, this beer will have you wondering if you have been transported to a biergarten in Germany.
Berghoff IPA has a beautiful orange-amber color with a nice hoppy nose along with fruity, floral and citrus notes; a nice blend of refined European character with a hint of more forward West Coast flair. Maltiness is also present on the nose, mostly of light raisiny notes from the caramel malt. The taste is balanced between rich and dry; while the bitterness is very clean and steadily builds to assertive levels as appropriate for the style. The finish is clean, bitter and tinged with toasted caramel and cookie malt notes. We didn't hold back, but we didn't over-complicate it either. Enjoy its great flavor in mindless pleasure.
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This beer combines two great beer styles--hefeweizen and maibock--to create something unique and new, offering clean bright flavors and just the right amount of sustaining richness and complexity. Wheat adds a nice creaminess as does a little rye, also bringing a deep spicy/fruity character. Rockin'Bock presents some clean phenolic aromas with a bit of light toasted caramel, along with plenty of fruity notes. On the palate, it shows just a little richness balanced by a sweetly spicy middle quickly changing to a crisp, dry spicy/fruity finish and a long, spicy aftertaste. All in all, just a perfect beer for spring--bright and smooth with a hint of sustaining richness and the promise of warmth right around the corner.
Lighter Seafood Dishes
Chocolate and Caramel Dishes
Berghoff has always taken great pride in its history and roots. Yet, as a new generation of Berghoff Beer drinkers emerge on to the craft scene, it's time for us to distinguish ourselves. It's time to be trendy. It's time to be exceptional. It's time for the future. It's time to get ROWDY. Rowdy Root Beer is an alcoholic root beer that comes in at 6.6% ABV. Rowdy Root Beer is a unique brewed product mixed with root beer flavoring. The root beer mix is all natural sugar cane product. The aroma is that of a delicious draft root beer, leading into a smooth finish. The after tones taste of some of the delicious malts that the beer is created with. So it's time. Grab your blow horns and get Rowdy.
Oktoberfest beer as we know it has been a part of classic Bavarian lager repertoire for over 150 years, although the celebration itself dates back to 1816. The familiar rich amber lager we now know by this name originated in Vienna and migrated to Bavaria by the 1850s. Like the classics, our version is deeply malty, with just enough hops to provide a sense of balance. But our version lightens up the body a little to avoid being too sweet, making for a crisper drinking experience. We start with the classic Vienna and Munich malts, and use a few other types as well, for greater complexity as well as an easy drinkability. Slightly more hop bitterness as well as some pleasing hop aroma gives the Berghoff Oktoberfest a bit more punch and personality than the original.
Scratch the surface of the German beer tradition and you find gems like this: a crisply bitter golden ale from Northern Germany that faded into obscurity a hundred years ago. With its subtle honey notes and small dose of molasses which gives it a lightly nutty character, this is a beer that deserves a much wider audience. We follow the classic recipe, with a mix of three types of malted barley, plus wheat and a dash of oats for a creamy texture, plus tiny amounts of Wisconsin cranberry honey and light molasses, both of which add subtle shading of aroma. Hopping is vigorous, and along noble lines, but amped up a bit with some North American varieties as well, just to keep it fresh-tasting and bold. It's an ale fermentation, so there is a hint of fruitiness that plays nicely with the honey and molasses notes.
In the old days, most dark beers had a reputation for being heavy, even sweet. Not this one. By reinterpreting some historic German traditions, including the ancient "altbier" style of Düsseldorf and adding a decidedly 21st century American twist to it, we've created a dark beer with a dry, refreshing character and a ton of personality. We start with a mix or pilsner and pale ale malts for a complex, dry maltiness, then layer on specialty malts that add toasty, cookie and a little dark toffee character. All of this is balanced by a hop mix that adds to Sir Dunkle's crisp complexity. Lagering rounds off any rough edges, leaving a satisfyingly dark-beer flavor with a clean drinkability.
Wit, or "white" beers—so-called for their hazy appearance—are a grand old family of beers that date back a thousand years in Northern Europe. Their longevity is justified; witbiers are complex yet subtle, dry but creamy, and always delightfully drinkable. Solstice is a carefully updated classic that starts with the traditional mix of super-pale 6-row malt and unmalted wheat and oats, giving the classic hazy appearance and rich creaminess on the palate. We use a specially selected coriander and an exotic Asian citrus called calamansi for a bright, tantalizing nose; then add a dash of hops for another layer of aroma. And, as with any good witbier, it is unfiltered.
In Bavaria, wheat beers were once the exclusive province of royalty, and it's easy to see why. With their reliance on costly wheat, a refined aroma and a magical combination of complexity and easy drinkability, wheat beers tickle just about everyone's fancy. They deserve wider appreciation. Straight-Up Hefe-Weizen is brewed with 60 percent malted wheat and 40 percent pilsner and other malts. It is an unfiltered beer with a cloudy appearance due to yeast and proteins that add a rich creamy mouth feel. A classic Bavarian wheat beer yeast is used, adding subtle layers of banana, bubblegum and spicy clove, the signature trio for the style. The finish is creamy, dry and just a touch tangy.
We used recipe details from a number of period sources, putting together a slightly modernized version, following tradition as much as possible. Berghoff Stock Ale uses the classic combination of lager, caramel and black malts along with some Belgian brewer's brown sugar to lighten the body a little to improve drinkability. It is then hopped up to a respectably high level with the original American hop, Cluster. Finally, East Kent Goldings and Hallertau Hersbrucker hops give it a unique old-school aroma. Fermentation is done with an ale yeast and in the presence of toasted oak, which adds a little soft vanilla aroma and a nice, crisp, slightly tannic finish.
Fire-Grilled Steak
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Your father's red ale was pretty to look at but not much to drink, seriously in need of a personality transplant. But over the years, red ales have turned into the real deal, with a character as lively and big as any pale ale. Reppin' Red blends seven malts for layer upon layer of caramel and toasted toffee with the uniquely peppery spiciness of rye and tops it all off with a mix of selected Pacific Northwest hops, chosen for their lively flavors and sophisticated aromas of flowers, pine and citrus. It's a big beer that demands big food. Reppin' Red is fantastic with grilled meat and steaks, and totally rocks a burger. For something different, try it with blue cheese or a nice, sweet slice of carrot cake—you'll be amazed.
Dortmunder is still famous as a brewing center, but its namesake beer is something of a rarity these days. The great beer writer Michael Jackson described the style as halfway between the austere crispness of a German pils and the lush maltiness of a Munich helles—in other words, a perfectly balanced all-malt beer. Starting with a base of U.S. 2-row pilsner malt, we add just enough lightly-kilned Vienna and Munich malts to add a slight caramel character. Hops are New World versions of European classics, smooth and clean, but with some real personality as well.
Your father's red ale was pretty to look at but not much to drink, seriously in need of a personality transplant. But over the years, red ales have turned into the real deal, with a character as lively and big as any pale ale. Reppin' Red blends seven malts for layer upon layer of caramel and toasted toffee with the uniquely peppery spiciness of rye and tops it all off with a mix of selected Pacific Northwest hops, chosen for their lively flavors and sophisticated aromas of flowers, pine and citrus. It's a big beer that demands big food. Reppin' Red is fantastic with grilled meat and steaks, and totally rocks a burger. For something different, try it with blue cheese or a nice, sweet slice of carrot cake—you'll be amazed.
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In the charming Med-side town of Chiavari, here's wishing
all the GB vet competitors success.
Seconded - and wonderful to see such a large entry from GBR. Best of luck everyone
Results link - http://www.europeanfencingmaster.eu/...esult/?lang=en
Good luck to all competing..
Wish I could have been there.
Oundle, Peterborough & Stamford Fencing
Great to see my old foil guys doing well;
John Troiano - 3rd (Over 50's) Really good result as he'll be in the over 60's soon.
Paul Wedge - 2nd (Over 60's)
A special cheer for my friend Mike Medhurst. Made the L8 (Over 60's) and missed the semi's by 1 hit. Great result from Mike!!
Sorry to see Tony Bartlett go out in the L16. He'll be back!!
Hope to meet up with all you guys at the Worlds some time in the future.
I hope anyone flying today did not get mixed up with the baggage problems at Gatwick this morning..
Oundle, Peterborough & Stamford Fencing
Great to see 5 GB medals yesterday and another one today. Great effort by the Vets.
Shout out for Michelle Narey and Jenny Morris too in WS, bronzes cat 2 and 3 respectively.
Michelle was hobbling about at the Herts Open the weekend before, thought she'd goosed her chances!
Congrats to Gillian Worman for bronze in this category. Final streamed live and looked full on !
Final medal count
Gold - 2
Silver - 4
Bronze - 10
Total - 16
GBR ended up 5th after Italy, Germany, Russia & France on the medal table.
Well done to everyone..
Oundle, Peterborough & Stamford Fencing

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For 30 years, since 1978, Georg Majewski has been on our masthead as "Preservation Liaison." This will be the last issue. After a long illness, at age 88, Georg has gone to his eternal rest.
Georg, a devoted amateur, was our man in Israel on preservation matters. He guided and coordinated our sporadic efforts over the years to encourage and foster preservation of excavated Biblical sites. A successful, retired businessman, he was sensitive to the human situation and a master in dealing with people.
As I write, we are still working on a site BAR preserved in 1978: Ebenezer (Izbet Sartah), where the Israelites mustered to battle with the Philistines. This early work was overseen and coordinated by Georg. It was a wonderful job of consolidation, all explained in handsome signs. Alas, today it is so overgrown as to be almost unrecognizable, and the signs have been destroyed by vandals. We have scheduled a visit to the site with the new mayor of Rosh Ha'ayin, where Ebenezer is located. When I called Georg to join us, his wife Shula told me the sad news. Georg will be an inspiration to us as we return to Ebenezer. We will miss him.—H.S.
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Beer & Blogging
Beer - Soon
Really, we are working at it. We are dealing with State and Fed licensing. We are dealing with subcontractors. We are dealing with suppliers. We are dealing with the City. And the City. And the City. All told, we are way behind where we thought we would be and wanted to be, but, that said, we are making progress.
Can I tell you when you will hold a River City Brewing beer in your hand? No, not yet. But I can tell you with 100% assurance, that you will have that opportunity. Let's just say that we are going to ring in the New Year with a keg of River City Red and then anything ahead of that will be considered a victory, eh? At least a minor victory. But I do expect it will a lot sooner; I just can't tell you for sure when it will be.
Blogging - Now-ish
This blog will start to tell the story of River City Brewing and the ongoing saga of Coeur d'Alene Brewing Company over the next several weeks. Lots of pictures. Probably lots of words. A few videos even. And then we will move on to commentating on all things. Beer and bikes being the top of my personal list, but lots of other topics will be addressed.
Come back soon. For beer and blogging, but admittedly, blogging first.
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Loyola Theatre ends season with Shakespearean classic
March 2, 2012
The Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at Loyola University New Orleans ends the season with William Shakespeare's classic play, "All's Well That Ends Well," in Loyola's Marquette Theater on March 16, 17, 22, 23, 24 at 8 p.m. and March 18 at 2 p.m.
Directed by theatre professor Artemis Preeshl, this production leads the audience on a journey to attain one's true desire. With constant twists and turns including love, rejection, healing, dirty tricks, reconciliation and union, the play telegraphs a spiritual pilgrimage in which the heroine dupes her family and follows her anti-hero husband in the opposite direction.
As the play begins, we learn that the Countess Rousillon is happy that her ward, Helena, wishes to marry her son, Count Bertram. Although Bertram does his best to avoid the union, his plan is thwarted when Helena saves the life of the King of France, who then decrees that she can choose any man in his court as a husband. She selects Bertram for her husband, who promptly refuses to marry her because of her low social rank. The King orders Bertram to marry Helena, which he does before immediately sending her back to the Countess before the marriage can be consummated. Bertram then goes off to war rather than live as a husband. Undaunted, plucky Helena uses her feminine wiles to get her way.
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A white stretch limousine carrying nine women to a bachelorette party burst into flames Saturday night, killing the bride and four other passengers.* Despite witness accounts of the accident on the San Mateo Bridge in the San Francisco Bay Area, officials are still unsure how the deadly limousine fire started. How do investigators determine what caused a fire in a vehicle?
Through examination and elimination. Investigators start by examining the vehicle as it stands after the fire. Three main zones are examined: the engine compartment, the passenger compartment, and the trunk. Each area is divided into sections; damage is compared from section to section in each of the zones.
In the engine compartment, investigators look for localized damage and spills from different fluids (such as brake fluid or transmission fluid) in each section to determine where the fire originated. In the passenger compartment, five sections are examined closely for clues: the front, back, left, right, and console. (Nowadays, drivers carry so many items in the console that it receives its own separate investigation.) In extended vehicles, like limousines, several additional sections exist within each zone.
Burn marks are key to this process. For example, V-shaped patterns are associated with initial flames—a telltale sign of where the fire began. By examining what was burned and what wasn't, in addition to specific burn patterns, investigators can gather more information about what happened. After the vehicle is towed from the scene of the fire, the patterns on the ground can provide additional clues.
If an investigator observes a deeper burn on one of the seats in the vehicle, part of the seat will be cut out and taken in for testing for ignitable fluids. Investigators also note if there are any strange odors that could indicate the presence of ignitable fluid.
The vehicle's history also can provide clues to the cause of the fire. If the car's model was recalled in the past, investigators will take note. Details such as the presence of customer-installed features are also important—modifications may have been installed incorrectly and become potential sources of ignition.
Investigators may also use supplemental evidence, such as accounts from surviving witnesses, if there are any. Details like an odd smell, smoke, or even prior malfunctions with the electrical system are highly telling. Information from passersby, as well as any photos or videos from surveillance cameras, are helpful in reconstructing a timeline of the incident.
Explainer thanks Capt. Anthony Czepik of the Fire Investigation Bureau of the City of Baltimore and Dr. John D. De Haan, co-author of Kirk's Fire Investigation.
Correction, May 7, 2013: This article originally stated that the bride was a bride-to-be. She had already gotten married. (Return.)


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Trading versus investing. Those terms are kicked around on Wall Street all the time and if you're new to the market you may think they're interchangeable.
They're not.
Typically trading means moving in and out of positions over a short period of time, sometimes in the same day. An example would be betting on a stock's move immediately after earnings are reported. That's a trade.
Investing involves longer time horizons, as much as a year or more, and it typically involves themes that have breadth such as the renaissance in housing or the resurgence of banks.
Cramer doesn't typically advocate that 'home gamers' trade. That's the deep end of the pool and something he thinks is better left for the pros.
"I have deliberately skewed the last 500 some odd shows away from trading and toward investing because there are so many more obstacles to trading than investing these days," he said. "You have to watch your positions like a hawk, to the point where it's very hard to do your full-time job and also follow the market."
However, if you're among those Cramer fans who loves the thrill of trading - that is moving in and out of positions with relative aplomb - Cramer does have some advice. It follows:
1. Make sure you have a catalyst
"I would do no trade if I couldn't explain exactly what the company did and why I liked it and what I expected to happen," he said.
2. Develop an exit point
"Do no buying of anything unless you have an exit strategy in place from the moment you put the trade on," said Cramer. And that doesn't just mean a level at which to stop out if the trade goes against you. It also means knowing at what level you'll ring the register if you have profits.
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"If you have little confidence, you can easily be shaken out by the broader market," Cramer said. Sometimes stocks decline before they advance. You need to believe in your thesis each and every day.
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this book would be perfect for my coffee table...i die!
This looks like a really cool book to have in the collection and I'm hoping to get a copy very soon. Thanks for posting the pics.
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I have a really random question that I have been wondering for awhile now.
Since you live in Switzerland, why is your Twitter and Blog and everything else in English? What is your primary language and why don't you write in that?
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primary language in switzerland is german. i decided to write in english to give more people access to my blog.
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NEW YORK — There is the dread of leaving the house that morning. People might stare, or worse, yell insults.
Prayers are more intense, visits with family longer. Mosques become a refuge.
Eight years after 9/11, many U.S. Muslims still struggle through the anniversary of the attacks. Yes, the sting has lessened. For the younger generation of Muslims, the tragedy can even seem like a distant memory. "Time marches on," said Souha Azmeh Al-Samkari, a 22-year-old student at the University of Dayton in Ohio.
Yet, many American Muslims say Sept. 11 will never be routine, no matter how many anniversaries have passed.
"I get a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach every year," said Nancy Rokayak, 45, of Charlotte, N.C., who covers her hair in public. "I feel on 9/11 others look at me and blame me for the events that took place."
Rokayak, a U.S.-born convert, has four children with her husband, who is from Egypt, and works as an ultrasound technologist. She makes sure she is wearing a red, white and blue flag pin every Sept. 11 and feels safer staying close to home.
Sarah Sayeed, 41, who lives in the Bronx, said that for a long time, she hesitated before going out on the anniversary. The morning the World Trade Center crumbled, she rushed to her son's Islamic day school so they could both return home. The other women there warned that she should take off her headscarf, or hijab, for her own safety. She now attends an interfaith prayer event each Sept. 11, keeping her hair covered as always.
"There's still a sense of 'Should I go anywhere? Should I say anything?' There's kind of that anxiety," said Sayeed, who was born in India and came to the U.S. at age 8. "I force myself to go out."
Emotions surface, attitudes shift
The anniversary brings a mix of emotions: sorrow over the huge loss of life, anguish over the wars that followed, but also resentment over how the hijackings so completely transformed the place of Muslims in the U.S. and beyond.
A poll released this week by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that 38 percent of Americans believe Islam is more likely than other faiths to encourage violence. That is down from 45 percent two years earlier.
It is now common in U.S. mosques for Muslims to preface public remarks by saying they know the government is eavesdropping but Muslims have nothing to hide.
"It put a lot of Muslim Americans in the position of, 'We don't blend in as much as we thought we did,'" said Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, 32, a native New Yorker who lost a college friend in the World Trade Center.
Some of the Muslims interviewed for this story said they have been subjected to insults, though not on the Sept. 11 anniversary. Sayeed remembers a man walking by and calling her "Taliban." Closer to the attacks, an anonymous caller told Rokayak to get out of the country.
Abdul-Matin, 32, said he avoids TV news on the anniversary "if it's too much of this drumbeating or warmongering, if the focus is on `what they did to us.'" He prefers spending the day with his relatives, especially his mother, who was with him in Brooklyn the morning of the attacks.
"It's a family day," Abdul-Matin said.
Bracing for the future
This year, the anniversary falls on a Friday, the Islamic day of congregational prayer, and during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, when mosques are usually packed. Muslims expect their prayer leaders, or imams, will at least mention the significance of the date in their sermons.
Asim Rehman, president of the Muslim Bar Association of New York, was at the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan when the planes hit. He said he passes the day "as a proud New Yorker" in "prayer and reflection" for the victims, their families and others.
Not all mosques will commemorate the day. A significant number of U.S. Muslims contend that no one of their faith could have perpetrated the hijackings. They resist suggestions that they should be monitoring their own communities for extremism.
Kamran Memon, an Illinois lawyer, has taken a different approach, founding Muslims for A Safe America, which challenges fellow Muslims to learn more about national security. The debates and talks he leads at mosques throughout the Chicago area start from the position that Muslims were behind the attacks.
On the anniversary, Memon keeps his work schedule light and prefers to stay home. He reflects on what happened, but his thoughts are more focused on what could be ahead. Some Muslims are convinced that if the U.S. is hit with another terrorist attack, the government will put them in internment camps, he said.
"There's this fear about what down the road this will mean for my daughter's future. What kind of life will she have here?" he said. "People may be less angry or less hostile toward Muslims in general, but if there's another attack, what then?"
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'Bernie': Death Becomes Her, He Decided
- Director: Richard Linklater
- Genre: Comedic Crime Drama
- Running Time: 100 minutes
Rated PG-13 for some violent images and brief strong language
With: Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey
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If there is a dream team in modern American comedies, it might just be Richard Linklater and Jack Black. The two haven't worked together since 2003's The School of Rock — a film that bore all the hallmarks of successful collaboration — and since then Black, aside from a passable turn in King Kong, has been confined mainly to guest spots on television comedies and voice work in big-screen animation.
Not until Bernie, however, has any project been so tailor-made for his talents. To tell the mystifying, jaw-dropping story of Bernie Tiede, a real-life East Texas undertaker's assistant who confessed to killing his aging benefactress, Black sings, dances and charms his way around a character whose larger-than-life personality almost demands parody.
Yet the wonder of Black's performance here is its empathy and balance: inasmuch as he can disappear into any role, he dissolves into this one with no hint of mocking remove. It's a beautiful thing to see.
In fact, Black exerts so much command over the role that we wish his director had trusted him to fully embrace the darkness of the material; Linklater's comedic tone remains soft gray rather than jet black.
"What you're fixin' to see is a true story," a title card informs us, its winking tone continued in the film's mockumentary structure. Introduced as he delivers a seminar on appropriate corpse cosmetology — "You wouldn't want a mechanic to have the nails of a flight attendant, would you?" — Bernie and his fastidious fingers are all over the tiny town of Carthage. Charismatic and devout, as active in local musical theater as in the embalming room, ever ready to raise his voice in praise and comfort the bereaved, he is universally beloved.
Especially by the town's DLOLs — dear little old ladies — who adore him while gleefully debating his sexual orientation. But when Bernie becomes the constant companion of 81-year-old Marjorie Nugent (a scowling Shirley MacLaine), the town's meanest and wealthiest old biddy, whose own family loathes her, the demands of the relationship soon begin to chafe.
"Bernie became her property," confides a local worthy with a tight-lipped nod, as though straining to suppress more salacious revelations. These chatty interviews, sprinkled liberally throughout the film and delivered straight to camera by a gaggle of the town's residents, are so rich in folksy pronouncements that they effortlessly ground the film in a very specific small-town sensibility.
The sense of place is so strong, in fact, that it can drain focus from our roly-poly protagonist, and at times Linklater, a native Texan, seems more committed to portraying community loyalty than to delving into the mind of a killer. As a result, Bernie himself appears sui generis, an asexual enigma with no past, no relatives and apparently no motives. This last is both blessing and curse for the town's crafty D.A. (Matthew McConaughey, having a high old time), whose prosecution of the town pet presents an uphill battle.
Shamelessly predisposed toward its subject, Bernie (based on a 1998 Texas Monthly article by Skip Hollandsworth) is an eccentric delight. We may know little more about its antihero at the end than we did at the beginning, but the journey is more than worth the price of admission. (Recommended)


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- When I painted my kitchen white I left one wall unpainted, on purpose of course. I'm slowly transitioning my kitchen from a traditional look to a rustic industrial space. I'm doing this by making mostly cosmetic changes as well as removing some cabinets to open the space up. The unpainted wall is the frosting on my cupcake. …
- SOOO many questions about my mirrors… So here we go. I bought 3 cheap frameless mirrors from Home Depot, glued them to plywood and then trimmed them out… Then I stained them dark walnut. I wanted to lighten them up a bit so I used Rust-Oleum Chalked paint in linen white and went over the stained wood and then sanded them down a bunch. Fun weekend project! The entire tutorial is on our site… Just search dining room mirrors! ❤ shanty2chic diy diningroom
- What is a French cleat? A French cleat is a way to hang heavy items onto walls. A single piece of wood is split in two at a 45-degree angle. Alternatively, two pieces of wood are cut at 45-degree angles to fit one on top of the other. Use a French cleat for mounting shelves and bookcases on a wall.
- DIY: Easy Peel Stick Wood Wall Decor Could use it to make the wall by bottom bunk look like the hull of a ship
- Welcome to another original design by LoveLifeWood 💁🏻 INTERNATIONAL POST ~ If you do not see your country listed please message me so I can source the best price Information – The Valknut (pronounced "VAL-knoot") is one of the most widely-discussed yet enigmatic of all of the symbols that appear in connection with Norse mythology. It is comprised of three interlocking triangles. Archaeologically, it appears on several runestones and pictorial memorial stones that date from the Viking Age and stands on the Swedish island of Gotland. A Norwegian compound word that means "knot of those fallen in battle" and was introduced by Norwegians who lived long after the Viking Age Materials used – Scots pine is a common wood I use and comes largely from Scandinavian countrys It comes with strong hooks attached to each top tip for wall hanging should you wish to please bare in mind this is a piece made by myself by hand, and the wood used has a variable appearance to the picture as knots and other markings grow differently naturally Measurements approximately ~ Width – 55cm Height – 52cm Depth – optional 3 ,3.5 ,4 Finished in a Danish oak oils then waxed for protection Shipping ~ My up to date handling times are 5 working days Caroline ❤
- Moving aint cheap! If youve only got pennies left over from your move and can only afford a cheap table and mismatched chairs, dont get yourself down. Spruce them up with some spray paint and make your miscellaneous look masterful. Check out our pin about painting furniture for tips!
- SAVE WITH THESE NEW COUPON CODES… use the code GOOD10 for 10% off ($50 minimum). BETTER15 for 15% off ($75 minimum). BEST20 for 20% off ($100 minimum). This listing is for one set of REVERSIBLE Give thanks/ jingle bells… one side thanksgiving/ fall decor and give it a little turn and they are christmas blocks… The overall size when set up is 7×24 ish… give or take 🙂 To see the other reversible item check out my other listings… . thanks STICK WITH ME VINYLS…Look for my Facebook page www.facebook.com/stickwithmevinyls for more ideas and upcoming events. Thank you for stopping by my little shop… I hope you enjoy. All of my items are hand made by me. The wood cutting, painting, sanding, vinyling and packaging. There maybe some imperfections in the wood (knots, holes, etc.) I try my best to fill any holes or cracks but it is wood and they might be noticeable… I will not make you a new one because of this…I am a busy mom of 4 very active hockey children so please check for current turn around/shipping times . The day of the sale is not included in this. Sometimes life gets crazy around here with hockey, school, homework, gymnastic and soccer so please understand I am working as fast as I can but things can come up and it may take a day or two longer. Unless otherwise noted. Some orders of 3 or more items may take longer to fill so please be patient. Please convo me with any questions. Or Rush orders… Any order that does not specify which color combo you would like, will be made in the color of the sample. So please specify if you would like a certain color… Every once in a while I may make a mistake… I am just one person… Please let me know if that happens right away so I can fix it ASAP. All items are shipped to the address in your etsy account so please double check that you have an updated address. The customer is responsible for the address information. So if the incorrect address is given, the customer will be charged actual shipping charges to reship. Refused or Returned packages… Shipping is very expensive these days. so if the customer refused the package actual shipping charges will be deducted from any refunds. Which means the refund will be less than what you paid… Once I ship an item it is out of my hands… I have no control over the post office… which sometimes may take a while to ship. I ship all of my items in flat rate priority packaging… which typically take 1-3 days to ship.. But some times during the holidays and busy seasons may take longer.. this is not my fault.. I only have control over me and my little shop not the PO If you would like this to be shipped as a gift please note a different address. If you would like to add a special little note PLEASE use this listing to cover the card. https://www.etsy.com/listing/128824915/add-a-thank-you-congratulations-we-love? Thanks Again… and have a good day


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Airports Ancient
The companion work to the rather larger volume 'Airports Modern', this intriguing coffee-table book includes details of the Ithaca Aerodrome, the great landing plains of the Nile Delta, and Ninevah International Transport Hub.
Interjection Jesus
We know from the gospel of Luke that even as a boy of twelve Jesus was found in the temple, debating with the elders. But the author of this theological study has found more details in the apocryphal gospel of Leslie, revealing that the young messiah was in fact a right little know-all, given the nick-name 'Interjection' Jesus by his rabbis from his habit of piping up during talmudic debate with comments such as 'Yes, obviously'; 'Doesn't sound like Dad to me' or 'Tell you what -shall I just ask him?'
Overseas Patella
The inspirational story of little Chrissie Brown of Newfoundland, who in 1983 was involved in a serious dogsled accident, and urgently required a knee transplant. But so uniquely knobbly was her kneebone that the only suitable donor that could be found was an old man in a remote village in the Scottish Highlands. And so began a thrilling dash across the Atlantic to track down the donor, forcibly remove his knee, and return it to Chrissie before it went all green and manky. Heart-warming.
Quran Ropework
Islamic boyscouts! Impress your troop leader and the Almighty in equal measure with this guide to rendering the 99 names of Allah in knotted twine! Instructive, but potentially blasphemous if you're hamfisted.
Surveillance Tea
Suspicious of how much work the builders are doing while you're out of the house? Worried about what the au pair or babysitter gets up to? Surveillance Tea is the answer, according to this brochure from Janus Security Devices Ltd. Brew them a pot before you leave, flick the in-handle camera and the up-spout microphone to 'on', and prepare to learn the worst.
Tuesday, 29 August 2006
Volumes of a set of encyclopedias in the British Library which I think would make rather good book titles in their own right.
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10 comments:
- James Casey said...
The 'Interjection Jesus' one made me laugh a lot. So I told it to a nun later on. She laughed too.
- 7:29 pm
- John F said...
I'm very impressed. I wouldn't know how to begin finding a nun, if I wanted to tell one something. Mind you, for full marks, you need to tell the 'Quran Ropework' one to an Imam.
- 12:09 am
- James Casey said...
Well, she started it, by telling me a joke about a monastery with three taps: Hot, Cold and Holy.
- 12:29 pm
- John F said...
Yes! Yes she did. Good old Mrs Barton for remembering me! I would have thought the only BMS teachers I might stand a chance of being remembered by would be Mrs Wright, because of the time I dropped those chairs in the pond, and Mrs Cotton, because of the time I tried to boil water on the hob in a plastic jug. I was a delightful child.
(NB for anyone else reading this: Mrs Wright (and Mrs Reid) taught English, and Mrs Cotton taught Home Economics. Because just occasionally life is like that. We also had a Miss Old, who was young; and a Mrs Young, who was old.)
- 2:08 am
- James Casey said...
How did you *drop* chairs in a pond? Were you flying over at the time?
- 1:37 pm
- John F said...
We were carrying them back from the assembly hall to our classroom, across the courtyard, and over the pond via, if you can believe this, large stepping stones. Thinking about it, if the teacher saw no potential snag in a class of eleven year olds carrying chairs across stepping stones, the fault may not entirely lay with me.
- 3:24 pm
- John F said...
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Off topic.
As a fan of the Now Show, Dead Ringers etc. My wife is curious to know whether she taught you at Broadstone Middle school.
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I love the idea of the "Surveillance Tea" ; but tell me, are microphones boiled-water-proof ?
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WASHINGTON, DC — Now that Donald Konz is back at the helm of Sport & Health Co. as CEO, he plans to make some changes, which will grow this $80-million company by 50 percent in the next few years, he said.
Konz and Jonathan Adler, who becomes president and COO, teamed with a group of real-estate developers and investors to purchase Sport & Health's 26 clubs for $75 million. The deal was announced in early January. The ownership group is called Sport & Health Holdings LLC.
"By adding to the size of facilities and streamlining marketing and sales, we expect each club to do better revenue," he said.
Konz plans to spend as much as $25 million to enlarge and improve current locations.
"Some of the current locations are so good that we couldn't replicate them," he said. These clubs are located on high-club in renovations, he said. He has also earmarked $2.5 million for new exercise equipment.
Another growth strategy involves "filling in" locations in the DC area where the company is not yet represented. Securing property for these new locations shouldn't be difficult considering the majority of the other owners are local real-estate developers and investors, he said.
"We still think that DC is as good a market as anywhere in the country," he said. "It's certainly as affluent and growing as well as anywhere in the country, so that would lead you to believe that it's a great market."
Others apparently share Konz's view of the DC market. Eden Prairie, MN-based Lifetime Fitness has already moved into the area while California-based LA Fitness and Chicago-based X-Sport will open clubs there soon. While Konz said that his company is mindful of these new players, Sport & Health attracts a different market than most of these clubs.
The company will face these new competitors without one major member of the old management staff. Mitch Wald, former CEO, has left the company and was hired as the COO at Maryland Athletic Club & Wellness Center. The company also eliminated the vice president of sales position because of a change in organizational structure. Up until now, programmers and group exercise employees reported to their corporate level vice president, said Konz, but now programmers, group exercise and sales people will report directly to the club managers.
"It gives the club managers more authority to make decisions at the club level to reflect each of the club's idiosyncrasies," he said.
Many of those idiosyncrasies stem from the fact that while all the clubs are mid to high-end, Sport & Health clubs attract varying demographics depending on their location.
"We're more opportunistic. We build a club in a good market — good older market, good singles market or whatever. We don't have a formula. That has led to some confusion about our brand and our image," Konz said.
He intends to address the brand-imaging problem by focusing the club's marketing on its high-end image — regardless of its age niche.
Whether or not that strategy will work remains to be seen, but Konz developed his plans as someone who is uniquely familiar with Sport & Health Co.'s "good, bad and ugly" sides. In 1973 Konz founded Courts Royal Clubs, which merged in 1980 with the Arlington Tennis & Squash Club, which in turn became the Sport & Health Co. He served as the company's president and CEO from 1997 to 2003.
After just a month back at the company, Konz is having fun again. The fitness industry is more his cup of tea than the investment business, he said.
"I can't tell you how thrilled to death I am to be back," Konz said.


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker women's basketball team defeated Converse College (0-22, 0-18) 80-51 on Saturday (Feb. 16) in Conference Carolinas action. The win improves the Cobras to 14-10 on the year, and 10-8 in league play.
Angie Lawrence led all scorers on Saturday, with 18-points in the competition. Lawrence has scored 18-points in her last two games. Amber Lau was second on the scoring list with 16-points, followed by Theresa Jackson-Henderson with a season high 14 and three blocks. Jackson-Henderson and Autumn Lau both logged the team high nine rebounds.
Coker took control of the game right away when they went on a 14-4 run within the first six minutes of the competition. The Cobras stayed in attack mode and proceeded to take a commanding 43-23 lead into the locker room.
The second half proved to be more competitive, as Coker outscored the Valkyries by just nine points in the final 20-minutes. However, a 20-point first half cushion allowed Coker to record a 29-point victory.
Coker dominated in almost every aspect of the game. The Cobras shot nearly 48-percent from the floor and 40-percent from deep. They also collected 44 total rebounds, including 17 offensive boards. Coker scored 40-points in the paint, and created 26-points off of 19-converse turnovers. Nine different Cobras scored during the competition, including 34 bench points.
Coker will hope to take their momentum into Wednesday's (Feb. 20) home game against Pfeiffer University. The Cobras will be looking to split the regular season series with the Falcons, after losing their first match-up in January. Tip-off will begin at 5:30 p.m., followed by the men's game at 7:30 p.m.
McDonalds Player of the Game: Theresa Jackson-Henderson.


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Warring Syrian sides to meet Saturday
Syrian government negotiators threaten to leave Geneva if the talks don't get "serious" by Saturday morning. Meanwhile, both sides meet separately with UN negotiator. (Jan. 24) AP
GENEVA (AP) — U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi says a Syrian government delegation and the Western-backed opposition will meet together Saturday "in the same room."
Friday's announcement came after three days of discussions between two sides that have not come face to face for talks in three years of fighting.
Brahimi met separately with the two sides, hoping to broker peace in the civil war that has left 130,000 people dead.
The development came after Syria's government handed an ultimatum to a U.N. mediator hoping to broker peace in the country's civil war, vowing to leave if "serious talks" do not begin by Saturday.
The government delegation that traveled to Geneva met for less than 90 minutes Friday with Brahimi as part of a peace conference that has been on the verge of falling apart ever since it was conceived.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem told Brahimi that if "serious talks don't begin Saturday, the official Syrian delegation will have to leave because the other party is not serious or ready," according to Syrian state television.
Direct talks planned for Friday between the Syrian government and the Western-backed Syrian opposition were scrapped.
The Syrian government blamed the opposition Syrian National Coalition for the lack of direct negotiations, which were seen as the best hope for an eventual end to the three-year civil war.
The bloodshed has destabilized the entire region and turned Syria into a magnet for al-Qaida-inspired militants.
As the peace conference has unfolded, fighting raged throughout parts of Syria. Government forces bombed rebel-held areas in the northern city of Aleppo, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and local activists. Fighting also raged in towns around the capital Damascus, activists reported.
Underscoring the extent of foreign involvement in the conflict, Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah fighters fought alongside forces loyal to President Bashar Assad around the area of eastern Ghuta, the British-based Syrian Observatory said. The rebels clashing against them included extremists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, a hardline group dominated by foreign jihadis, the Observatory reported.
In Switzerland, Bouthaina Shaaban, an adviser to Assad who traveled to Geneva for the talks, questioned whether the opposition coalition — made up largely of exiles based in Turkey — was prepared to negotiate an end to the violence.
"We came here with Syria and the Syrian people on our mind, only while they came here with positions and posts on their mind," she said.
The coalition's head, Ahmad al-Jarba, said late Thursday that he was committed to the talks and would give his negotiators full authority on their pace and scope. But on Friday, his chief of staff said the negotiations were never expected to be easy or quick, insisting that the coalition was simply not yet prepared to meet directly with the government.
"Everyone knows that these are proximity negotiations," said the aide, Monzer Akbik. "And for the time being, that's the way it is going to be."
Both sides have spent their time so far in Switzerland affirming positions hardened after nearly three years of fighting. They blamed each other for turning a once-thriving country into ruin and called each other terrorists.
But their willingness to meet with Brahimi — even separately — gave the first sense that the negotiations might bear some fruit. Brahimi himself has said both sides had shown willingness to bend on humanitarian corridors, prisoner exchanges and local cease-fires — even if the terms were still murky.
The Syrian National Coalition, which is made up largely of exiles, lacks influence with an increasingly radicalized rebellion, which has been pulled apart by an influx of militants. Infighting among rebels has left 1,400 people dead in the past 20 days, according to activists, who have counted more than 130,000 deaths since the rebellion began in 2011.
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Grave matter: Faux flower ban riles
Em Collier is really upset. The silk flowers on her parents' graves she faithfully changes with the season have been pitched, and she's been told straight out: No fake flowers.
Collier's father was buried at Buck Mountain Episcopal Church in Earlysville 27 years ago, and her mother joined him in 1995. An infant brother, Bobby, Collier says, was buried there 60 years ago.
When she went to retrieve her summer flowers and put fall flora on her parents' graves, she found the pink-and-white silk bouquet on her mother's grave missing. All that remained of the Father's Day/Fourth of July arrangement she had placed on her father's grave were two American flags.
"Some lady said she'd taken them off because they were an eyesore," says Collier. She says she doesn't understand why her flowers don't pass muster when her family members have been buried there for 60 years.
However, Doug Simon, trustee and senior warden at Buck Mountain, says the ban on artificial flowers is nothing new and was already in place when he became a trustee around 1986.
"We've told her time and time again," says Simon. "This is a private cemetery, and we have every right to have rules."
The church rules are natural blooms only. And if dead arrangements are not cleared off in a timely manner, "We'll remove them," says Simon.
Collier's mother, Alice Lee Dunn Marshall, was born and raised in Earlysville, attended the 275-year-old church, and bought 10 cemetery plots in the 1940s while her husband, William Marshall, was in the military service, according to Collier. Collier says she never heard about the flower ban until this year.
"Mrs. Collier claims she has 10 plots," says Simon. "She has two. She has no deed."
"My mother's house burned down," says Collier of the missing paperwork. "They're supposed to have a plat in the church with our section marked off."
A clearly exasperated Simon says, "She's not a member. She doesn't give money to the church. She has no documents and no legal rights. For all practical purposes, she's a squatter."
"It's really troubling to me," says Collier. "I just can't afford live flowers."
She wonders about the policies at other churches. At St. Paul's Ivy, "This question has never come up," says the Reverend Miller Hunter. Silk and plastic flowers join natural plantings in the Civil War-era cemetery.
Historic Emmanuel Episcopal in Greenwood just redid its cemetery guidelines in April and now forbids artificial flowers– at least as far as new plot-holders are concerned.
"People who've been here for three generations, we're not going to tell them they can't do that," says church secretary Janice Fischer, who describes some of the arrangements as charmingly eccentric.
"Our warden is taking his time talking gently to people," she adds.
And over at Grace Episcopal Church in Keswick, site of the annual Thanksgiving Blessing of the Hounds, artificial arrangements are allowed and removed only when they become old and raggedy.
"If they were faded and dirty, I could see that," says Collier of her arrangements. "This is really bothering me."
"I've explained and explained," says Simon. "Personally I think that woman has a screw loose. She's been calling up everyone and pestering the minister. We're going to get a restraining order. I've had it."
Collier wants other people who have relatives buried at Buck Mountain Episcopal to know what's happened to missing flowers of their loved ones.
"I know it's an old church and an old cemetery," says a distraught Collier, "but I should be able to put flowers on my parents' graves."
Buck Mountain Episcopal's ban on artificial flowers has kept Em Collier from putting silk sprays on her parents' graves.


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To Praise or Not to Praise?
It is very common these days to hear parents saying, "Good job!" to their young children for everything from putting their hats on, to eating their dinner, to cleaning up their toys. Not all observers of behavior find this useful. Alfie Kohn, who has studied motivation and punishment in schools and in the corporate world, has found that praise of this sort often backfires, creating children (and in comparable situations, adults) who are afraid to try things they think they may fail at. Praise, it turns out, may do more harm than good. Continue reading