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Palette Fit for a Queen
Pantone and Leo Burnett London chart six decades of style for Queen Elizabeth II with the launch of a limited edition Diamond Jubilee Colour Guide
LONDON, 1st June 2012 – In celebration of Queen Elizabeth II's 60 colourful years on the British throne, Pantone, the global authority on colour and provider of professional colour standards for the design industries, and leading advertising agency Leo Burnett, have teamed up to launch a limited edition colour guide to mark the Queen's fashion-forward colour statements.
For over 60 years, Her Majesty has opted for a full spectrum of perfectly colour coordinated ensembles, from the Primrose Yellow she wore at Will and Kate's wedding in April 2011 to the tasteful Lilac Snow outfit she wore last year during a visit to Northumberland.
To mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, this bespoke, limited-edition, numbered colour guide is designed to capture and commemorate some of the Queen's most memorable colour choices since her coronation – featuring PANTONE® Colour references and citing the date and location that determined her outfit colour choice.
Justin Tindall, executive creative director at Leo Burnett London, said, "When you see footage, or read commentary, of Queen Elizabeth on her official engagements, at a Royal Wedding or even watching her horse race at the Derby, there is always mention of what she's wearing. It has been an ever-present subtext to the 60-year reign of our Monarch. The Diamond Jubilee Colour Guide is a celebration of that reign through colour and its meaning – a blend of Leo Burnett's creativity and Pantone's expertise in honour of the Diamond Jubilee."
Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Colour Institute®, commented on the Queen's colour choices: "The Queen's decision to favour one colour in every outfit is a strong style statement. Monochromatic colour schemes make the wearer appear taller, delivering a more stately air – perfect given that Queen Elizabeth is not tall at 5'4''. Choosing one colour theme also ensures the outfit does not detract attention from the wearer – which is particularly important if you're the Queen."
Selecting feature colours from the Queen's wardrobe, Leatrice reflects on some of the most notable colour selections:
PANTONE 13-0755 Primrose Yellow "The Queen's royal wedding outfit from 2011 was Primrose Yellow. Yellow is a colour that speaks to the future with hope and optimism. William's wedding was a time of national celebration and this choice of yellow complements the joyous mood of the occasion. It's a colour that is high visibility (befitting a queen), while still not detracting from the bride."
PANTONE 13-4411 Crystal Blue "Blue is a colour staple in the Queen's wardrobe, it's a colour that communicates constancy and it is also symbolic of her devotion to the British people. Blues traditionally have calming properties and she is often seen wearing them during difficult times. Blue is also seen as de-stressing so it's no surprise she was sporting a serene blue to a Royal Garden Party in 2010.
PANTONE 16-2124 Pink Carnation "Queen Elizabeth wore lighter tones of pink more frequently when she was younger, adding softness to her role as Queen and make her seem less austere, for example the PANTONE 16-2124 Pink Carnation she wore to the Chelsea Garden Party in 1967. In recent years however, she has been seen in trendier bright pinks, defying her age and communicating that she is a monarch modern in thought and spirit."
PANTONE 13-5414 Ice Green "During the Queen's landmark state visit to Ireland, the first since the country gained independence in the 1920s, she was seen in a cool shade of green. Her colour choice echoed the sentiment of her visit as green is widely seen to symbolise new beginnings, fresh thoughts and rejuvenation."
To make this possible, the guide was printed by Precision Printing using HP Indigo technology. Comprising 60 images of the Queen, the challenge was matching the colours and printing the ultra short run of 60 copies. Precision Printing used its HP Indigo 7500 Digital Press and the 7-colour (CMYKOV) HP IndiChrome on-press PANTONE emulation, simulating PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM® that can match 97 percent of the PANTONE Colour range, to achieve exact colour matching.
A special presentation box was made for the book to be presented to Her Majesty.
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I have not posted more about my father because, frankly, I did not know where to go with this topic. There are just some things I really do not know.
I mentioned that in 1938 my grandmothers second husband had died and my father quit high school in his Junior year to help support the family.
My father was born in 1918 and he would have been twenty at the time. WHY, my grandmother held him back for two years so he and his brother Richard could start together. What was she thinking? Was it easier for her to keep them together, did she have trouble with her parents who would have been her main support? I think this will remain a mystery.
At some point in time he met my mother. She was five years younger than him and initially he though she was too young and just a "kid" His buddy Bill, was dating Mary. Mary and my mom were best friends and classmates who graduated from Duquesne City High School in 1940, she was seventeen at the time.
What I can surmise is that they met a second time and were bridesmaid and best man at Mary and Bills wedding. They started dating again after that. Funny, I had never asked for the who, what, where, when and how about this.
December 7, 1941 was a warm and sunny day and Thomas was outside washing his car, when over the radio came an announcement stating that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. He said at the time he knew right then and there that we would be going to war.
Tom was working as a machinist for the railroad and I can only surmise that his job perhaps had given him a type of deferment. On 3 May 1943 he was drafted and shipped out to the south of the USA. They were short of equipment and once it was mentioned that the men were learning how to shoot with broomsticks instead of rifles. It sounds like the USA was ill prepared for this war.
After the New Year he received his orders and called my mother and they were married 4 February 1944 and spent five days together before he had to leave.
Some of his relative were angry that he married, he was the sole support of his mother. The allotment he received was divided between his mother and his wife. But, he said he wanted to get married.

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On the Perils of Single‐Issue Politics
NPR ran a story this morning, "NRA Targets One Of Its Own In Tenn. Race," that nicely illustrates the perils of single‐issue politics, although you'd never learn the principle of the matter from the NPR account. It seems that the NRA has launched a $75,000 ad campaign against state Rep. Debra Maggart, a long‐time NRA member and avid gun‐owner who a year ago had an "A+" rating from the NRA. Her sin? She and several other Tennessee Republican officials opposed a bill that would have allowed employees to keep guns in their cars while parked in their private employers' parking lots.
The NRA's Chris Cox, who's spearheading this political vendetta and, in the process, is supporting Maggart's tea‐party backed opponent, invokes both "our First Amendment right to assemble to petition our government" and, of course, the Second Amendment, seemingly oblivious to the fact that neither is relevant here. In fact, the issue could not be simpler: individuals, including employers, have a right to determine the conditions on which others may enter their property.
The Second Amendment prevents the government, not private parties, from infringing your right to keep and bear arms. If a private party can ban you from his property for any reason, good or bad, he can do so for carrying a gun. So too with the First Amendment: it limits what governments, not private parties, may do; government may not violate your rights of assembly and petition, none of which is happening here.
As so often happens, here again we see how single‐issue politics, in the name of liberty, ends up undermining liberty. The tea party should know better.


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Transporter Room 3 returns with Phil Pirrello and Scott Collura dropping nerd knowledge on all things Star Trek, and this week we tackle the most important topic of our -- nay -- any age: Was Tasha Yar's death the best thing to happen to Next Generation?
Think about it. Had Data's virginity thief lived long and prospered for more than 23 episodes in the main timeline, we would have had many TNG episodes considerably less awesome than "Yesterday's Enterprise." Hell, we may have been forced to revisit "Code of Honor"'s Planet Racism! Had Tasha lived, Worf probably never would have gotten the bump to tactical and the solid run of Klingon-centric episodes that came with it. So did Tasha deserve to die? Or should she have gone all #7seasonsand4movies with the rest of TNG's crew? Debate along with us!
Also: Our hailing frequencies pick up a mailbag from one brave listener who confuses "Second Skin"'s Cardassian Kira with KARDASHIAN Kira. *throws up every meal since 1994* We also reach back in time for another Red Shirt of the Week: Lt. "Frostbite" Torres from "Encounter at Farpoint," the first TNG victim of Q's brief use of Mr. Freeze-ing folk. All this AND the debut of Phil's speed-metal band, Detector Cirkit, await you on this most glorious of podcasts!
Don't forget to subscribe to our RSS feed (click the icon), "like" us on Facebook (or Q will turn you into a Gorch!), and while you're at it, give us the Internet equivalent of a "good game" ass-pat by star-rating us on iTunes.
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Understanding Your Finances
Everyone who lives and works within the UK works hard for the money that they earn. It is for this reason that so many people seek valuable information which relates to understanding their finances. When you take into consideration that saving for the future, combined with debt management, is a difficult endeavour, it is not wonder why it might seem easy to give up. This is definitely true in cases where the debt has become so difficult that it makes you constantly worry about your financial future. Additionally, understanding your finances allows you to buy the things you want, without stretching yourself thin.
Debt management is a huge issue for residents of all major regions in the UK. Young adults, or those between the ages of 18 and 25, often find themselves mired in debt problems. The reason for this is simple. Many people in this age range procure their first "real" job. What seems like a significant amount of money on the surface, is actually not enough to achieve your goals. It only appears to be in relation to a previous income. Thus, many people buy cars or sign up for credit cards without thinking about the consequences. Bills stack up quickly, and hidden costs, such as car insurance and taxes, are often not considered as important. Once a debt becomes too great for you to handle, it makes other expenses seem more daunting.
Another reason why it is so important to understand your finances, is that you do not want to miss out on great investment opportunities. While it is true that some investments are fruitless, many more are excellent choices. If you invest your money wisely, then you stand to make a great deal of money over time. The key is to understand which investments are worth the money. Certain types of investments, such as investments in stocks, require a working knowledge of the market. It also pays to seek professional advice before you take on any investment opportunity.
Overall financial planning is another major issue for many people throughout the UK. Financial planning encompasses a wide range of areas. One of those areas is planning for starting a family. Some people choose to get married, have children, and then considering the financial consequences at a later date. However, if you are able to do so, it is best to plan your family according to what you can handle. Consider the fact that your children might wish to seek a higher education in years to come. You must plan in order to set money aside to meet these needs.
Businesses, both large and small, must be run with a secure financial plan in mind. Owners of these businesses must understand realistic financial goals. This means that revenue generated must exceed operating costs. Unfortunately, some people foolishly enter into business relationships which are not beneficial. The business often ends up becoming a failure, and all parties involved are forced to start over again from scratch. Make wise investments in the beginning, in order to secure your businesses' future.


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Salesforce1 Mobile App Drives Internet of Customers
May 27, 2014 11:23 AM PT
Salesforce.com has announced that its Salesforce1 Mobile App will be generally available in the company's summer release.
The app will be accompanied by an enterprise ecosystem consisting of some 65 partner apps, a new connector for SAP, and a slew of new features around sales, service and marketing functionality, Michael Peachey, senior director of mobile products for Salesforce.com, told CRM Buyer.
There are also new operating system platform capabilities, he said.
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The app will play a key role in Salesforce.com's Internet of Customers approach to the market, Peachey said. "Mobility and mobile is the center of everything in the Internet of Customers, and the phone in particular is driving that."
If they haven't already, businesses will have to put the smartphone -- and mobile in general -- at the center of their operations.
The problem for companies to date, though, as they push toward a mobile-centered operating model, has been a clear shortage of business apps for the mobile environment, Peachey said. "It has been hard for enterprises to build and customize these apps, and they are hard to connect to back-end data and business processes."
Facebook is one company that has cracked the mobile code, at least among consumers, he continued, and Salesforce.com intends to mimic its model in the business environment.
"Facebook is a connected platform with an extensive app ecosystem," observed Peachey. "You can go shopping, listen to music, catch up with your friends -- all within Facebook."
Companies will be able to integrate the third-party apps in the Salesforce1 Mobile App with new Canvas functionality, he pointed out. Two examples are FinancialForce's accounting app and Kenandy's ERP app.
Companies also will be able to build custom apps for any business process that needs to be tailored to their particular mobile environment.
In addition, there will be new SAP connectors from Informatica and Mulesoft from which companies can build mobile workflows that integrate back office data.
New Features
The Salesforce1 Mobile App is launching with some 30 new features, a number of which just focus on enhancing user productivity. This is an area that, in particular, has been neglected by the mobile app community, Peachey said.
"Only 4 percent of time spent on mobile apps is devoted to productivity," he noted, based on Flurry statistics.
Salesforce.com has peppered its new platform with productivity tools, such as the ability to drill down into the reports supporting the dashboards that populate the app, Peachey said. "So, if you are looking at a dashboard of a particular pipeline, this new feature lets you drill into each of those opportunities."
Another productivity-oriented feature lets users access offline data, functionality that has been demanded by legions of customers who travel and occasionally do not have Internet access, he added.
"There will be read-only offline availability," Peachey said.
A third feature, Account and Community Switcher, lets users toggle between their internal environment and a community environment.
For the service function, the app includes such tools as Knowledge, Questions & Answers, and Email and Social Case Actions, allowing service agents to tap corporate databases and workflows from their mobile devices.
There are features for marketers that let them access their Contacts' Social Information, Campaign Members, and Marketing Collateral data from their devices.
It's a BYOD World
In a nod to the now entrenched Bring Your Own Device trend, Salesforce.com has expanded its OS footprint.
Now, in addition to Apple and Android operating systems, users can access the Salesforce1 Mobile App from the BlackBerry Z10 mobile browser, Good Access Secure mobile browser and Windows Phone 8 browsers.
Salesforce1 Mobile also can deliver notifications on Samsung wearables.


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In anecdotal detail and with self-effacing humor, Jack Welch gives us the people who shaped his life (most notably his Irish mother) and the big hits and the big misses that characterized his career. Starting at GE in 1960 as an engineer earning $10,500, Jack learned the need for "getting out of the pile" when his first raise was the same as everyone else's. He stayed out of the corporate bureaucracy while running a $2 billion collection of GE businesses - in a sweater and blue jeans - out of a Hilton in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
After avoiding GE's Fairfield, Connecticut headquarters for years, Jack was eventually summoned by then-Chairman Reg Jones, who was planning his succession. There ensued one of the most painful parts of his career - Jack's dark-horse struggle, filled with political tension, to make it to the CEO's chair. A hug from Reg confirmed Jack was the new boss - and started the GE transformation. The riveting story of his last year - the elaborate process of selecting a successor and the attempt to buy Honeywell - is also told in compelling detail.
This is classic Jack Welch: down to earth, powerful, and filled with common sense.
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- Plato777
- 31/12/2002
Truly inspiring!
With this honest review of his business life -and not only- Jack Welch allows us to see how a truly inspired and determined businessman changed the culture of one of the largest companies in the world.
Well written and beautifuly narrated. A real joy to read (listen).
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- Yoed
- 08/10/2004
Get it, you won't regret it.
Easy listen. Very interesting character. This books is Jack's auto biography on his life - of which his role as GE's CEO is a prime focus. I love it as its a break from your traditional business books - it doesn't try to be a business book. This is simply Jack telling the stories of his approach to business during various positions in GE. It's not preachy; you have to derive the lessons out of it yourself.
Get only the unabridged. Facinating guy.
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- Amazon Customer
- 30/06/2003
Jack hits a homerun
Jack's message is clear and consistent: if you want your business to excel, you've got to provide the right culture, hire great people, reward the best employees and always expect more. Of course its not easy, I don't remember hearing that word much in the program. However, Jack provides the blueprint for making it happen; find out what works in your business or industry and duplicate it. Find out what doesn't work and fix it or get rid of it.
This book is full of examples of what worked and what didn't. There are plenty of stories to inspire you to find ways to shake up your business and break down the barriers that limit your company's potential. It's easy to sit back and say these strategies can't work for me. It's much harder to wake up every morning and make them happen.
Listening to this program will be the shortest 14 hours you'll ever spend.
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- Andy
- 15/02/2003
easier said then done
Jack Welch makes it sound easy, but we all know it is not. However, the listener gets a clear understanding of the handful of management levers that Welch used consistently over the years, in order to build GE into one of the best run companies in the world.
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- 01/08/2008
Great entrepreneurial resource
I wanted know
a.how big companies operate
b.work and life style of CEOs
c.How an employee can grow from shop floor to helm
d.How to build a Company
e.Many more about entrepreneurial skills
This book had answers to all my questions. Great insight.
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- Scott B. Arbeit
- 04/06/2004
Inspiring and educational
A great story of how Jack came to lead GE, and how GE changed over the years to improve. If you're looking for the human story of Jack Welch, you'll be listening to a lot of talk about the business in between those moments. If you're looking for the story of Jack Welch, and his insights and lessons learned from running GE, then you really want to listen to this. My impression of GE has changed considerably after listening, and I'm going to dive into learning about Six Sigma after seeing what it has done for GE.
It's not simple to lead a large organization, but I derive some confidence after hearing the stories of the various people at GE that, in my career, by sticking to principles, and staying creative and flexible, that I can go as far as I choose to.
The unabridged is definitely worth the extra time to listen to....
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- Liam
- 07/09/2005
Captivating, Educational and Informative
From the early days in Plastics to the Board Room, the book offers a glipse of the internal construct of one of the largest companies and how Jack Welch has made a positive impression. Jack's way of taking complex situations & issues and formulating a straightforward solution & process (leveraging the very talented and capable people Jack surrounded himself with) provides for an education on GE and how it has been so successful over the years. Like similar reviewer commented, Barnicle sounds just like Jack and captivates the listener throughout.
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- Randy
- 04/10/2004
If your in business it is a Must Read
Probably the best management book you can read. It demonstrates that a company is nothing more then a box which contains people. People are the company and without "good" people you have nothing. The quality of people is everything and Jack takes this theory to the maximum.
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- Najam
- 16/04/2004
Honest, Intriguing, and insightful!
Excellent! Spanning 20 years, this was more of a private history lesson on GE, Globalization, deal making, six sigma, and executive succession. A real inside look at how culture can make or break a company and an inside view of the world of movers and shakers. It was 14 hours worth of listening, that I finished in two days. A must read for all in corporate world.
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- Mr. M Metwally
- 29/08/2003
Excellent book
An excellent book to hear. One of the best I have read about advanced office politics. Inspirational, and very well written. A five star quality book. The only reservation I have is that Jack used the book to settle few accounts. Certainly not the best parts of the book!
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A woven fabric is said to be cut on the bias, or cross-grain, when the fabric's warp and weft threads are at 45 degrees to its major seam lines. Every piece of woven fabric has two biases, perpendicular to each other. Non-woven fabrics such as felt or interfacing do not have a bias.
To make a triangular fringed shawl, choose a wool fabric that is about 60" wide or more. You will need a square of fabric, so be sure to purchase two yards. Remove the selvage on the fabric and trim it to be a square. Woven fabrics can be ripped along the grain to get a straight edge. Use a rotary cutter and ruler to cut the fabric diagonally, at a 45 degree angle, through the square of fabric.
You can use one of the bias cut triangles as your shawl or you can cut on the bias in the perpendicular direction to your first cut and seam the four triangles together. Overlap, about a half inch, each connecting edge to the adjacent triangle's edge and machine sew each seam with two straight stitches about one quarter inch apart. This will make your shawl a bit larger.
For the leather fringe, follow the same instructions as the scarf. For a 60" wide piece of fabric, my resulting bias cut triangle needed about 50 tassels along each side, starting from the point of the 90 degree angle.


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It's Halloween, a time of the year when thoughts turn to closing your eyes, looking deep in your soul, stepping outside of yourself, and letting your mind go. I've heard that they also say it's also the time of year when frozen eyes stare deep in your mind as you die. Jeepers.
Elizadeath and Matt (a werewolf) at the Old Town Ale House (8657 E. 116th Street, Fishers, IN 46038, (317) 841-0800) with a scream from the grave:
Hi there...this week's current draft lineup...Minion of Satan Andrew at Brass Monkey Brewing Co. (115 East Sycamore Street, Kokomo, IN, (765) 457-4659) is cooking up something in his cauldron:
Founder's Pale
Upland Wheat
Oaken Barrel Razz Wheat
Warbird T-6 Red Ale
Oaken Barrel Apple Buzz
Bell's Lager
Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout
Breckenridge Vanilla Porter
Dark Horse Crooked Tree IPA
Wyder Pear Cider
Two Brother's French Country Ale
BBC Jefferson Reserve Bourbon Barrel Stout
Left Hand Milk Stout
Stone Smoked Porter
Brugge Tripel de "Ripple
3 Floyd's Robert the Bruce
Stone Ruination IPA
Goose Island Matilda
She Devil Pale Ale
Norrebro Skaarsgaard Porter and Chimay Grand Reserve have joined the bottle list.
Happy Halloween...we're tapping a keg of Founder's Breakfast Stout on Friday!
Matt & Elizabeth
We just tapped our next beer in our One & Done line. 9th Wonder is a hoppy American porter made with columbus and centennial hops. It's coming in at 6.1%Todd of the dead at Keg Liquors (617 East Lewis and Clark Parkway, Clarksville, IN) gives us a heads up (and chops heads off) with this update from Indiana's southern edge:
Several new things down in the Southern part of the state. Keg Liquors moved into their new building at the beginning of October. We went from a 2700 square foot building to a brand new 5000 square foot building. We now have a 28 door cooler for beer and wine, including 10 doors just for craft and good imports.Mike Sprinkle Holy Water at Crown Liquors has an update (and a crucifix and wooden stake):
New beers this week include: Goose Island Bourbon County Stout, Founder's Backwoods Bastard, Boulder Killer Penguin, 2008 vintage, Great Divide Hades, Great Divide Fresh Hop Ale, Breckenridge Christmas, and what seems for the first time, and almost unlimited amount of Founders Breakfast Stout. No allocation on it for the first time.
Founders Breakfast Stout is re-supplied, case stacks in our 6 main beer stores by the end of the week! Also by the end of the week Dogfish Head Theobroma, brewed with Aztec Cocoa powder and nibs w/ honey, chiles and a few other choice ingredients. Dark Horse Perkulator Coffee Dopplebock, more Founders Harvest. Great Divide has a couple new ones that are coming today, but forget the names. Broodoo hopefully next week. Keep your eyes peeled for my next RateBeer/Beeradvocate tasting coming in the next couple weeks.John at the Black Sparrow Pub (223 Main St.
Great Divide Fresh Hop 22oz (1st time to Indy, very limited)
Great Divide Hades (Belgian Golden Ale) new everyday sku
Great Divide Hibernation
Boulder Killer Penguin
De Dolle Oerbier Reserva '07
Triple K '03 Mags
Chouffe Mags
N'Ice Chouffe
Beer Geek Breakfast
Norrebro North Bridge Extreme
Norrebro Little Korkny Barley Wine (only case in the state!)
40th Anniversary Thomas Hardy's
Scaldis Noel nippers and 750ml Premium
Dupont Avec le Bon Voeux
Cheers and thanks!
Lafayette, IN. 47901, and a name spooky enough to not need embellishment) with an update:
The Black Sparrow Pub will be having a Halloween Party this Friday. Beer special will be 22oz Rogue Dead Guy bottles for $5.75 (can't beat that price!). We will also have a rep from World Class Beverages (Rogue's distributor in our area) giving away Rogue gear all night. Costumes are mandatory.Hey it's another John! This one from Big Red Liquours in Bloomington! They're attacking! Shoot!
No cover.
Also, new fall/winter beer bottle list was rolled out last week. (Click here to download that list.)
Draft selections right now:
Delirium Nocturnum
Founders Dry-Hopped Pale Ale
Stone Oaked Arrogant Bastard
Victory Prima Pilsner
Left Hand Octoberfest
Oaken Barrel Superfly IPA
2 Brothers Oh Brother! Triple
Breckenridge Oatmeal Stout
Coming Soon (this weekend or next week, whenever lines free up):
Left Hand Sawtooth
Ommegang Hennepin
Founders Red's Rye
Thirsty Dog Leg Humper Porter
Founders Breakfast Stout
A bunch of other really exciting drafts that we have allocated coming throughout the fall/winter.
John Olakowski
The Black Sparrow
Big Red liquors has a number of New items this week:This just in from Killer Kirk at Mr. G's Liqours (Noblesville):
Boulder Single Track
Breckenridge Christmas
Great Divide Hibernation
Boulder Never Summer
Ridgeway Santa's Butt
Breckenridge Agave Wheat
Kinmount Willie
Old Jock
Black Douglas
Merlins Ale
Hebrew Jewbelation
Thomas Hardy Ale
Boulder Obovoid Empirical Stout 9 (1 cs only) Allocated item
Great Divide Fresh Hop (1 cs only) Allocated item
Boulder Killer Penguin ( 1cs only) Allocated item
Great Divide Hades Belgian style. ( 1 cs only) Allocated item
Meantime Porter
Koningshoeven Quadrupel
Boulder Never Summer
Expect to see Next week:
Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence
Founder's Backwoods Bastard
Founders Breakfast Stout (round two)
Also starting next week:
The Big Belgian Beer Sale is Back!!!
All Belgian beers are on sale.
Buy 6 and get 10% off.
All multi pack items count as one unit of the 6. (4pk, 6pk, 12pk are at a discounted price compared to the singles)
Stock up for the holidays or refill your cellar.
New this week:Gabriel (like the angel, except EVIL!) from The Goose (Indy) has some words of beercouragement:
Mad Anthony Auburn Lager
Mad Anthony Gabby Blonde
Mad Anthony IPA
Mad Anthony Ol Woody Pale Ale
Mad Anthony Old Fort Porter
Warbird Mustang Gold
Warbird Thunderbolt Wheat
Warbird Irish Shanty
Warbird Warhawk Pale
Warbird T-6 Red Ale
Founders Backwoods Bastard
Great Divide Hades
Great Divide Hibernation
Boulder Never Summer Ale
Achouffe N'ice Chouffe
Dubission Scaldis Noel
Dupont Les Bons Voeux
Saison Dupont Farmhouse Ale
And just got another shipment of Founders Breakfast Stout!
Mr G's
The Cellar at Goose the Market has picked up the following brews:This press release came to our email box from someone WE DON'T EVEN KNOW. Spooky:
Founder's Backwoods Bastard
Barley Island Beastie Barrel Stout
Bell's Special Double Cream Stout
Dark Horse Sapient Trip Ale
Dogfish Head Raison D'Etre
Rogue Morimoto Black Obi Soba Ale
St. Peter's IPA
Victory Hop Wallop
Three Floyds Broodoo Harvest Ale
Harviestoun Old Engine Oil
Broughton Black Douglas
Boulder Beer Looking Glass Never Summer
Great Divide Hibernation Ale
Great Divide Oak Aged Yeti
We were also able to get a bit more Founder's Breakfast Stout!
Morton's The Steakhouse Hosts Chimay Beer Tasting on November 11Here's the latest from Ron Smith. He owns a black cat:
Portion of Proceeds to Benefit Make-A-Wish Foundation®
Morton's The Steakhouse in Indianapolis is offering a divinely delicious Chimay beer tasting event on Tuesday, November 11 at 6:00p.m. Chimay is the world-renowned Belgian ale created and brewed by Cistercian Trappist monks for more than a century at the Abbey of Scourmont in Chimay, a small town in southern Belgium. Morton's guests will sample three different authentic Chimay ales accompanied by Morton's Petite Filet Mignon sandwiches, Tuna Tartare Canapés, Sliced Smoked Salmon and Morton's Legendary Hot Chocolate Cake. The ticket price of $45 per person includes tax and gratuity and Morton's will donate $5 from every ticket to the Make-A-Wish Foundation®. Guests will also receive a special gift – a Chimay glass goblet – as they quench their thirst for a great cause. Morton's will offer expert tips on savoring the legendary ales, which are brewed in the monastic tradition at the Abbey and made with all-natural ingredients and water from the Abbey springs.
Please call 317-229-4700 for tickets or information. Morton's The Steakhouse is located at 41 E. Washington in downtown Indianapolis. Dinner is served Monday through Saturday from 5:30 p.m. until 11 p.m. and Sunday from 5 p.m. until 10 p.m.
The Chimay selections at Morton's tasting event will include:
* Chimay Première – First introduced and brewed by the Trappist monks at Chimay in 1862, this original-recipe ale has a warm dark red color and a soft fruity taste with a slightly bitter touch.
* Chimay Grand Réserve – This dark brown ale has relatively dry taste with a caramel touch and a complex aroma.
* Chimay Cinq Cents –This golden blonde ale offers a subtle balance between softness and fresh bitterness, with a fruity aroma.
The monks of the Abbey of Scourmont at Chimay have been brewing their legendary ale since 1862. Chimay is always brewed on site at the Abbey, which guarantees its authenticity and quality. The production and distribution of Chimay Trappist beers is performed by S.A. Bières de Chimay. Chimay is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its introduction to the United States.
Morton's is donating a portion of the event proceeds as part of its national "30 Wishes for 30 Years" campaign to raise funds for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The first Morton's steakhouse opened in Chicago in 1978 and Morton's is celebrating its 30th anniversary as a fine dining leader. Through a series of special events, Morton's has raised more than $150,000 so far to help the Make-A-Wish Foundation and its mission of granting the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions.
1) Last Call for November Beer MBA Classes (November 8th, 15, 22nd). They will run from 3:30 - 6:30 pm. If you are interested, please let me know ASAP and/or go to the website and sign up (www.BeerMBA.com). So far, we have created some happy and very satisfied alumni. As people are saying, "If you like beer, even a little, then definitely make time for this course – You won't regret it!". I'm getting some great testimonials from attendees on these classes, and I hope to get some posted to the website soon, but overall everyone is finding them to be a lot of fun, very educational and a great value. A lot of people have been waiting for a Saturday series, so sign up ASAP before it sells out. See more info on the classes below or visit www.BeerMBA.com.
2) This Saturday, Nov 1st is National Teach-A-Friend-to-Brew Day, so to celebrate, that's exactly what I'm going to do! Starting at 9:00 am, at my home near 116th and Michigan Rd. on Indy's NW corner, I will start from scratch and brew a 10 gallon batch of beer. Also, there are now 3 others signed up to brew, so there will be a variety of systems being used and styles being brewed. If you have any interest in brewing, or brew already, but want to learn more, etc., this will be a great opportunity for you. There is no cost to attend, but consider bringing some beer and snacks to share. I will supply some beer to sample as well. Brew days are long, so we probably won't finish up until around 4:00 or so. Plan to stay for the whole day if you can (and if you really want to see the whole process), or just stop in when you can. Either way, let me know if you are interested. Also, if you plan to attend, please remember to drink responsibly and/or arrange for a designated driver. This will be a fun day. Let me know.
3) Several people have asked about Gift Certificates for the Beer MBA classes. These are available and are a great idea! Consider purchasing them for the November series and giving them as an early Christmas gift. I don't know exactly when the next series of classes will be, but they will be after the first of the year (probably Jan or Feb), so if you prefer that perfect gift for Christmas Day, this is it. I will supply you with an attractive Gift Certificate "Scroll" placed inside a capped empty beer bottle that must be opened with a bottle opener to get to (you just pay the shipping or pick it up at no additional charge from my NW Indy office). For an added effect, use this bottle to replace one of the bottles in a 6-pack of great beer and give the whole package. That way, the recipient gets something right then, as well as later (I can even help with recommendations on the beer if you wish). Let me know about this as soon as you can, since I probably won't sell more certificates than what would fill one class.
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Bonus reading: Here's a NY Times article about Six Points Brewery in Brooklyn.


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One of Gaddafi's military orders a Libyan freedom fighter to say "al-fateh" (in reference to Gaddafi's 1969 revolution) and say that Gaddafi is the 'King of Kings'. The Libyan freedom fighter refuses and instead repeatedly says "La ilaha illa Allah, Muhammad Ar-Rasool Allah" (There is only one God and Muhammad is His Messenger). Gaddafi's agent then pours gasoline on the freedom fighter and burns him to death.Qaddafi apologist Steve Walt of Harvard University wasn't telling the truth when he said in Foreign Policy, 4 April 2011, that "Despite ubiquitous cellphone cameras, there are no images of genocidal violence," while implying that claims of atrocity "smacks of rebel propaganda."
Even though many of the YouTube channels that once carried this material have disappeared, there is still plenty of video proof of Mummar Qaddafi's wanton disregard for human life. Consider this brief selection, watch them for an education, but be forewarned, they contain extreme graphic violence:
- More Than 200 Executed by Gaddafi Mercenaries in Tripoli | 21 Aug 2011
- Gaddafi's Mass Grave: 700 Dead Bodies Found in Gargerish | 5 Oct 2011
- Gaddafi & Sons' Forces Massacre in Jalu | 30 Apr 2011
- 53 Libyan Civilians Gunned Down and Burned by Gaddafi, Tripoli | 26 Aug 2011
- Some Civilians Bombed By Gaddafi's Forces in Misurata | 1 May 2011
- Mass Grave: Gaddafi Hides Bodies From His War Crimes, Joudayam | 10 May 2011
- Gaddafi's Forces Use Banned Cluster Bombs in Misurata | 18 Apr 2011
- Libyan Soldiers Loyal to Citizens Burnt by Gaddafi | 21 Feb 2011
Tyrant Gaddafi burnt soldiers in Benghazi, Libya who refused his orders to attack innocent citizens in Libya. About 60 were burnt with a military flame blower. The hysterical crying of men can be heard.The same day that video was uploaded Qaddafi's forces slaughtered seven hundred peaceful protesters in Green Square. I reported on it in February 21st - Tripoli's Long Night. The burning alive of his own soldiers demonstrates the methods Qaddafi used to get his forces to commit such atrocities. This is how he ruled Libya for 42 years with extreme terror and violence among his many methods.
In February 2011 a widespread revolt against his rule became the Libyan contribution to the Arab Spring. Everywhere it was met by massive state violence. As a result, the fight against the dictatorship soon became an armed struggle. It was strongest in the East where rebels first armed themselves by taking a local military post with home-made weapons. When Qaddafi sent General Abdul Fattah Younis east to put down the revolt and he instead joined it, together with his command of 8,000, including 3,000 Libyan Special Forces, it was "game on."
Very quickly, Qaddafi loyalists where routed from Benghazi and much of eastern Libya. Tobruk, Misrata, Bayda, Zawiya, Zuwara, Sabratha, and Sorman were also freed from Qaddafi rule. He also lost the important harbors at Ra's Lanuf and Brega. Tripoli was six hundred miles away and mercenaries had to be flown in from as far away as Ukraine and Zimbabwe.
Video: Mercenaries from Chad, Niger, Mali & Sudan Captured in Zliten | 9 Aug 2011
Video: Gaddafi's Ukrainian Snipers Caught in Abu-Salim, Tripoli | 25 Aug 2011
Video: Gaddafi's Mercenaries from Chad & Mali in Nafusa Mountain | Jun 2011
It took time to bring up reinforcements. Then came the counter-attack. When it came, it was brutal. This was before NATO got involved.
By 15 March Qaddafi's army had captured Brega and was advancing on Ajdabiya, a city of 76,000 that stood on the strategic roads to Tobruk and Egypt and was the gateway to Benghazi, a city of 670,000. Ajdabiya had been liberated in the first days of the revolution. After pro-Qaddafi snipers killed 10 protesters in anti-government demonstrations, 17 February 2011, protesters burned down the local government building and declared it a "Free City."
Now this city, and its civilian population, were under a merciless assault by the Qaddafi forces. They had been subjected to three days of air strikes and artillery barrages before the ground assault began. The Libyan navy had also been pounding the city from the sea. By the end of that day Qaddafi's tanks had made it to the city center. As night fell, the tanks withdrew to the outskirts of the surrounded city as the artillery barrage was resumed. The Telegraph quoted Sherif Layas, 34, who was a marketing manager before he took up arms and joined Libya's revolution:
"They are bombing everywhere. They are killing people, civilians, whatever"The next day, 16 March, the fight was back and forth all day as the rebels put up stiff resistance. They managed to open a small corridor between Ajdabiya and Benghazi and bring in some reinforcements but by the morning of the 17th, the city was once again firmly surrounded and more government troops had landed in an amphibious attack from the sea,
Inside a hospital in the city of Ajdabiya, Libya, March 16, 2011. Today, Gaddafi's Air Force bombed the city indiscriminately.
After subduing Ajdabiya, Qaddafi's forces set their sights on Benghazi with its much larger population. A movement was building in the United Nations to take concrete steps to avoid this coming massacre. The United Nations Security Council had earlier condemned the use of lethal force by the Libyan government against the protesters with Resolution 1970 on 26 Feb 2011; however, this did nothing to deter Qaddafi. Now they were debating their own use of force to stop him.
In a radio interview provocatively timed just before the UNSC vote, 17 March, Qaddafi told the people of Benghazi:
"We will come zenga, zenga [neighborhood by neighborhood], House by house, room by room." ... "We are coming tonight," ... "there won't be any mercy" and "We will find you in your closets."The Libyan air force had already carried out three air raids over Benghazi when he said this.
In spite of these words, backed by indiscriminate bombing, Steve Walt thought "the threat of a bloodbath ...slight," and while he admits that Qaddafi threatened "no mercy," he apologetically adds "but Gadhafi directed this threat only at rebels," as if the new "Left" position was to support the right of a fascist dictator to threaten massacres as long as "his violent threats to wreak vengeance on Benghazi were directed at those who continued to resist his rule, not at innocent bystanders."
At the Doha conference on Libya, April 2011, Qatar's Sheik Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani cut through this sort of "Left" nonsense that distinguishes between "rebels" and "innocent bystanders" in the fight against fascism when he said "And what are the rebels except civilians who have taken up arms to defend themselves in a difficult situation and an uneven battle?"
The question of how seriously to take Qaddafi's threat might be an academic one at Harvard and MIT, but in Benghazi, at the time, it was no joke. They knew what Qaddafi was capable of. They had just seen what he had done to Ajdabiya. They were hearing first hand from the Ajdabiya refugees that where pouring into Benghazi, and now the promise was that Benghazi would be next!
Extremely Graphic Video: Gaddafi's War Crimes in Ajdabiya | 26 Mar 2011
In Tripoli, Qaddafi's son, Saif el-Islam, spoke defiantly about the upcoming UN vote on French TV:
"Military operations are over. Within 48 hours everything will be finished. Our forces are almost in Benghazi. Whatever the decision, it will be too late."The Qaddafis were crowing because their heavy weapons were already on the road from Ajdabiya to Benghazi and the almost a million people in that area were going to be their next targets.
17 March 2011, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1973 which demanded the establishment of a ceasefire and an end to all attacks on civilians. It also imposed a no-fly zone over Libya and authorized all necessary means to protect civilians and civilian-populated areas except for a "foreign occupation force." Wikipedia reports Qaddafi's response to the ceasefire demand:
On 18 March, Muammar Gaddafi's government announced that they would comply with the resolution and implement a ceasefire.[11] However, it quickly became clear that no ceasefire had in fact been implemented.[12]NBC News reported:
Earlier Saturday in Libya, Gadhafi's troops pushed into the outskirts of Benghazi after a unilateral cease-fire declared by his government failed to materialize, prompting western leaders meeting in Paris to announce the start of military intervention.
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This video was taken as Gaddafi's forces were advancing to take the city of Benghazi (Libya) on March 19, 2011. The convoy is shown in the area between Gmenis and Tika. The video was confiscated from a captured soldier who was with Gaddafi's military convoy. Later that evening, the French air force bombed Gaddafi's troops and saved the city from a total annihilation.
Video: Brave Libyans Face Gaddafi's Tank in Benghazi | 19 Mar 2011
The UNSC ended the meeting that passed Resolution 1973 authorizing military action at 23:20 GMT on the 17th. Qaddafi's tanks were already in the outskirts of Benghazi when French war planes first struck Qaddafi's advancing column less than 42 hours later at 16:45 GMT on the 19th. Shortly after that US and British submarines hit air defense targets in Libya with cruise missiles.
Video: Precision Bombing by French Air Force of Gaddafi's Military Convoy, Gymenis | 19 Mar 2011
Video: Gaddafi's Military Convoy After the French Attack Near Benghazi | 20 Mar 2011
There should be no serious doubt that these French air strikes and the air campaign that followed saved many lives in Benghazi. Tom Malinowski, Washington director of Human Rights Watch, spoke truth a week later when he said, 27 March 2011:
[W]e should acknowledge what could be happening in eastern Libya right now had Qaddafi's forces continued their march. The dozens of burned out tanks, rocket launchers, and missiles bombed at the eleventh hour on the road to Benghazi would have devastated the rebel stronghold if Qaddafi's forces had been able to unleash them indiscriminately, as they did in other, smaller rebel-held towns, like Zawiyah, Misrata, and Adjabiya. Qaddafi's long track-record of arresting, torturing, disappearing, and killing his political opponents to maintain control suggests that had he recaptured the east, a similar fate would have awaited those who supported the opposition there. Over a hundred thousand Libyans already fled to Egypt fearing Qaddafi's assault; hundreds of thousands more could have followed if the east had fallen. The remaining population, and those living in refugee camps abroad, would have felt betrayed by the West, which groups like Al Qaeda would undoubtedly have tried to exploit.
On Democracy Now last week, we heard how an icon of the Left now discounts these events of four years ago. Aaron Maté was interviewing Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor emeritus Noam Chomsky and the question of Libya came up:
AARON MATÉ: You spoke before about how the U.S. invasion set off the Sunni-Shia conflict in Iraq, and out of that came ISIS. I wonder if you see a parallel in Libya, where the U.S. and NATO had a mandate to stop a potential massacre in Benghazi, but then went much further than a no-fly zone and helped topple Gaddafi. And now, four years later, we have ISIS in Libya, and they're beheading Coptic Christians, Egypt now bombing. And with the U.S. debating this expansive war measure, Libya could be next on the U.S. target list."Warring militias" sounds more like restless natives than political struggle and class warfare. The struggle against counter-revolution in Libya today is a direct continuation of the revolution against the fascist regime. Sweeping aside evidence that Qaddafi money and influence has played a role in promoting this chaos and the Islamist militias causing it, or that attacks on Africans living in Libya was a biased but inevitable result of Qaddafi's use of African mercenaries to terrorize his people, Noam Chomsky is intend on laying the whole blame for the mess that is Libya today at NATO's doorstep. To accomplish this sleight-of-hand he is forced to revise recent history, write the Libyan people - their suffering and their heroic struggle - out of the story, and prettify Mummar Qaddafi. His strongest condemnation of the Libyan revolution reflects his entirely Western priorities, "It's gotten to the point where they can't even export their main export, oil." Chomsky's last three sentences sound like a warning against any revolution, anywhere, ever.
NOAM CHOMSKY: Well, that's a very important analogy. What happened is, as you say, there was a claim that there might be a massacre in Benghazi, and in response to that, there was a U.N. resolution, which had several elements. One, a call for a ceasefire and negotiations, which apparently Gaddafi accepted. Another was a no-fly zone, OK, to stop attacks on Benghazi. The three traditional imperial powers—Britain, France and the United States—immediately violated the resolution. No diplomacy, no ceasefire. They immediately became the air force of the rebel forces. And, in fact, the war itself had plenty of brutality—violent militias, attacks on Africans living in Libya, all sorts of things. The end result is just to tear Libya to shreds. By now, it's torn between two major warring militias, many other small ones. It's gotten to the point where they can't even export their main export, oil. It's just a disaster, total disaster. That's what happens when you strike vulnerable systems, as I said, with a sledgehammer. All kind of horrible things can happen.
The dishonesty of these voices of the Left in their defense of Qaddafi is amazing. I found this Counterpunch version of these events while researching this blog post. Contradicting all the other reports of Qaddafi's march on Benghazi, Counterpunch says in it's "The Top Ten Myths in the War Against Libya:"
Not only did French jets bomb a retreating column, what we saw was a very short column that included trucks and ambulances, and that clearly could have neither destroyed nor occupied Benghazi.If we bother to follow the link that has been provided, presumably as a show of support for the "retreating column," we get a very different story:
A French defence ministry official said "a number of tanks and armoured vehicles" were destroyed in the region of Benghazi, with initial action focusing on stopping Gaddafi's forces from advancing on the rebels' eastern stronghold.Please remember again the Harvard professor's distinction between "rebels" and "innocent bystanders."
Gaddafi's troops pushed into the outskirts of Benghazi on Saturday after a unilateral ceasefire declared by his government failed to materialise, prompting leaders meeting in Paris on Saturday to announce the start of military intervention.
Residents set up make-shift barricades with furniture, benches, road signs and even a barbecue in one case at intervals along main streets. Each barricade was manned by half a dozen rebels, but only about half of those were armed.
Hundreds of cars full of refugees fled Benghazi towards the Egyptian border after the city came under a bombardment overnight. One family of 13 women from a grandmother to small children, rested at a roadside hotel.And this is the link Counterpunch provides as support for their myth of Qaddafi in retreat on the eve of UN action. This is simple, banal, intellectual dishonesty that illustrates why you should believe nothing you've read in Counterpunch that you haven't second sourced elsewhere.
"I'm here because when the bombing started last night my children were vomiting from fear," said one of them, a doctor. "All I want to do is get my family to a safe place and then get back to Benghazi to help. My husband is still there."
In the besieged western city of Misrata, residents said government forces shelled the rebel town again on Saturday and they were facing a humanitarian crisis as water supplies had been cut off for a third day.


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Our topic for Conversations this week was EarthCast09 which led to a discussion about broadcasting live with students. Sheila shared her experiences in broadcasting with her 7th grade students during EarthCast08. Matt Montagne joined us near the end of the hour to talk more about Earthbridges and EarthCast09 and his students' work with Gator Radio.


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The capacitated single-allocation hub location problem revisited: A note on a classical formulation (2009)
Denote by G = (N;A) a complete graph where N is the set of nodes and A is the set of edges. Assume that a °ow wij should be sent from each node i to each node j (i; j 2 N). One possibility is to send these °ows directly between the corresponding pairs of nodes. However, in practice this is often neither e±cient nor costly attractive because it would imply that a link was built between each pair of nodes. An alternative is to select some nodes to become hubs and use them as consolidation and redistribution points that altogether process more e±ciently the flow in the network. Accordingly, hubs are nodes in the graph that receive tra±c (mail, phone calls, passengers, etc) from di®erent origins (nodes) and redirect this tra±c directly to the destination nodes (when a link exists) or else to other hubs. The concentration of tra±c in the hubs and its shipment to other hubs lead to a natural decrease in the overall cost due to economies of scale.


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Harmony Grove isn't a small cemetery, it is huge and on a large hill. My ancestor and immediate family were buried feet from the main road, so I was fortunate. With too many new names for me to digest, I returned a week later, and was given two detailed packets of information (one shown below), in addition, the receptionist went through their books and wrote out all the information for each individual! Information like their parents, age, cause of death, spouse and so forth. Must have taken hours to do it. On my 3rd trip, I brought her a box of fudge, and wrote a letter of recommendation for her file.
After all these years, I still remember how helpful she was, and that was the only time I brought a gift or wrote a letter. A few months ago I was thinking about her, and called the cemetery, the same wonderful Administrative Assistant answered. We chatted like old friends...she remembered me, the name, the fudge and how excited I was. When I found out she is retiring in two years, I said I would be back, and she suggested lunch. What a nice gesture.
Below are the excellent records for my Poole family as supplied by Harmony Grove Cemetery in Salem, Massachusetts. The earliest was 1796, a transfer from another cemetery. In addition, I have the Daniels line there.


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What it means to be a woman in America
Two women drive across the country looking for stories. It's a pretty typical road trip—except these women have a mission. Nona Willis-Aronowitz and Emma Bernstein are criss-crossing the United States in order to interview people about feminism, what it means to them and how it fits into their lives. And they're blogging about it with the hopes of turning the whole enterprise into a book upon their return.
Some of the people they've already interviewed or hope to talk to are names you might recognize, like Andi Zeisler of Bitch Magazine. But most of the people Emma and Nona interview aren't celebrities or magazine editors. They're college students, performance artists, working mothers, aspiring actresses, professors and even porn producers.
One of the issues that keeps coming up in the vignettes is calling yourself a "feminist" in the first place. A lot of the women interviewed shy away from the term, and their reasons are intriguing.
From San Francisco:
Nadiah, 23, grew up in Bowling Green, Ohio with a Libyan dad and a Mexican mom. She works as a paralegal during the day but wants to do art, and recently had her photography shown at a gallery. Nadiah tells us what many women have told us recently—that she doesn't consider herself a feminist because she's not familiar enough with the concepts. "I grew up thinking about issues of race, not gender," Nadiah says, although she acknowledges that she is engaged in some of the issues that come with it.
From Tucson:
Liz is from a progressive family, and was raised Unitarian. "I saw gay couples at church, so was aware from a young age of alternative lifestyles." She first experienced sexism in the activist groups and hardcore punk circles of Ohio. "I knew there was something wrong with all these boys ruling the mosh pit and the political arguments. I knew this "something" needed a name, and that was feminism."
From Portland, Oregon:
The next morning, we met with Eileen (right), another woman we only know the name and number of. Eileen is from Connecticut, outdoorsy, and does not consider herself a feminist because she doesn't like labels–"people get scared away by them." She is aware that "we live in a patriarchy" but doesn't identify with the term "if it has a connotation of being superior to men."
And from San Diego:
Becky is 20, originally from Chicago and La Verne, CA, and is in the midst of applying to law school to be involved in reproduction law and maybe become a lobbyist. She sees the problem of feminism's bad rep as directly correlated to education: "People should be educated on a high school level on what it means to be a feminist. What you don't know about doesn't exist, unless you think and talk about it, exactly what we're doing now."
Emma and Nona are still on tour and talking to people across the country until mid-December. (via Metafilter)


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Sometime around May 2012, you will open your BGE statement and react with mild pleasure, perhaps, on seeing that your bill is reduced by $200 or so.
True, this might be considered a long shot. History has held out such rebates before and then yanked them away. But there are reasons to believe that this time households will pocket a payoff tied to the sale of Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. and parent Constellation Energy.
Which is to say that Exelon Corp.'s proposed $7.9 billion buyout of Constellation, announced last week, will go through.
Gov. Martin O'Malley, whose support is indirectly critical to the deal, seems to be getting along better with Constellation boss Mayo A. Shattuck III. Shattuck is working really hard to keep it that way. Lower electricity prices mean regulators and legislators who could also throw up obstacles aren't getting angry phone calls about BGE bills.
Rules installed under O'Malley regulators a couple of years ago mean BGE customers are better protected from possible financial disasters involving an out-of-town owner. So the Maryland Public Service Commission might be more comfortable now with a buyout, although it still must make triply sure that Exelon can't loot or otherwise degrade BGE.
Federal regulators, who apparently never met a corporate merger they didn't love, are highly unlikely to be a problem.
For BGE and Constellation, their fourth attempt in two decades to sell themselves off will probably be successful. But you wouldn't be blamed for noting precedents that suggest otherwise.
The failure looming largest is Constellation's deal with Florida-based FPL Group, announced in 2005 right after Hurricane Katrina disrupted natural gas supplies and drove electricity prices to the clouds. Combined with the end of a multiyear rate freeze that would have led to higher costs anyway, the Katrina aftermath drove prices for BGE households up by 72 percent.
It was an election year. The legislature went nuts. Candidate O'Malley became Governor O'Malley largely by blasting Constellation. The FPL merger died despite the companies' pledge to give BGE households $214 million in savings over a decade. Legislators, besieged by unhappy electricity customers, wanted a bigger giveback.
Inadequate customer rebates were also a deal killer in BGE's attempted merger in the 1990s with Potomac Electric Power Co. Constellation's shotgun engagement two years ago to Warren Buffett's MidAmerican Energy didn't lead to marriage, either, but that was because Constellation opted instead for a bailout by the French EDF Group. The EDF investment didn't involve outright sale of the company.
Shattuck and Exelon CEO John W. Rowe seem determined to make this attempt work.
How determined? A week before the announcement, they made a pilgrimage to Annapolis to try to sell O'Malley on the deal personally, according to reporting by my colleague, Hanah Cho.
Their opening offer to policymakers and BGE customers is more generous than in previous deals — $250 million in charity, electricity rebates and investments. And it's right up O'Malley's alley, with millions promised for renewable energy projects.
Even if O'Malley never gets to build his expensive wind farm off Maryland's shore, he will have assembled an impressive environmental portfolio if it includes the $50 million in solar- or wind-driven generators pledged by Constellation and Exelon.
Exelon and Constellation's opening offer for BGE customers is $100 per household — at a total cost of $110 million. Surely the PSC can raise that substantially. In 2008, to settle allegations that deregulation cheated electricity customers, BGE and Constellation rebated $170 to each BGE residence.
This time, even $200 per BGE customer, at a cost of $220 million, is less than the merger will save Exelon and Constellation in operating costs every year.
But scoring a one-time bonus for electricity users is not the commission's main job. As always, it is to insulate BGE and other utilities from the frequently volatile wholesale electricity market.
Bankruptcy occurs with some frequency among unregulated power companies. It happened to Enron, which owned a utility in Oregon. It almost happened to Constellation in 2008. By the sheer fact that Exelon is the biggest operator of nuclear reactors in the country, it might be most at risk for a Fukushima or Three Mile Island-type disaster.
The PSC needs to make sure that the "ring-fencing" safeguards it installed around BGE two years ago —bankruptcy restrictions; limits on cash flowing from BGE to affiliates; and red tape insulating the utility from the parent — stay in place with any purchase by Exelon.
If it's satisfied that's the case, the sale is likely to go through. Losing a Fortune 200 corporate headquarters is not in Baltimore's best interests. But it's the PSC's job to make sure that hidden downsides to the deal don't come along with the obvious ones.
- Business
- Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers
- Electricity Production and Distribution
- Restructuring and Recapitalization
- Petroleum Industry
- Politics and Government
- Disasters and Accidents
- Bankruptcy
- Renewable Energy
- Executive Branch
- FPL Group
- Hurricane Katrina
- MidAmerican Energy Company
- Potomac Electric Power Company
- Exelon Corp.
- Warren Buffett
- Mayo A. Shattuck III
- Martin O'Malley


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There's a lot of debate about whether to throw money at the big-three Detroit automakers or just let them go down the drain. I think we can do neither, and still solve two problems at once.
Suppose instead of giving the automakers bailout money or loans, or buying bonds from them, we took on their health benefits obligations. This would dramatically lower their per-car cost of production, going a long way toward making them competitive in U.S. markets and plenty of overseas ones.
As it happens, Obama proposed legislation that would do that back in April 2007.
The Health Care for Hybrids Act would address the unique challenges of the U.S. auto industry and reduce our country's dependence on foreign oil at the same time. This bill would set up a voluntary program in which domestic automakers could choose to receive federal financial assistance to cover 10% of their annual legacy health care costs through 2017. The companies that participate in the program would be required to invest at least 50% of their health care savings into manufacturing fuel efficient cars, such as hybrids and advanced diesel vehicles in the United States, or helping domestic parts suppliers retool their manufacturing plants to produce advanced parts.
To me, that seems like an enormous step in mostly the right direction, though awfully convoluted. If we want to decrease gas consumption and increase fuel efficiency, we already have laws to do that. We already have the CAFE standard, just increase the number. (Step #0: include SUVs.)
As for supporting hybrids, respectfully, I ask, why? I mean, they're a great set of technologies right now, and maybe the way to go, but why have the government pick the winning technology in advance? This seems like a great area for letting the market decide. The only real example we have of the government picking an alternative energy has been ethanol, a politically-driven disaster of a choice. (And frankly, the U.S. automakers are years behind with their hybrids. We should pray they come up with something better.)
The car companies claim that each and every car "contains $1,500 in health costs that their Japanese competitors don't face," according to the libertarians at the Reason Foundation. Another way of looking at it – and the numbers here derive from some at the Labor Research Association, a labor advocacy organization – is that health-care amounts to about 8-9% of the wages+benefits that autoworkers get. So taking on health care would be the same as letting Detroit slash autoworker salaries by that amount, without having to make the slightest dent in autoworker paychecks.
As I say, Obama's 2007 legislation seems overly complicated. Why don't we simply put them into the Government Employees Health Association, the same health insurance that millions of federal workers, including Congress itself, has?
It would cost the government something like $6 billion a year, which is in the range of the lump-sum $25-50 billion being contemplated for a bailout (with a smaller up-front cost). Most importantly, it would offer Detroit real relief, helping them compete in the marketplace, while not impeding the forces of market destruction and renewal that ought to be operating here. In other words, if the car companies still fail, so be it. And one thing we won't have to worry about is a million autoworkers suddenly losing their health benefits.
Finally, it would use the current crisis to jumpstart a process that needs to take place anyway – getting all Americans covered by some form of health care. The problem with Obama's campaign proposals for health care is the same as the problem with his Health Care for Hybrids Act. Each makes too many concessions to the status quo – they're not radical enough.
The Health Care for Hybrids Act locks us into hybrid technologies. Similarly, Obama's health care proposals just lock us further into the absurd system of making employers responsible for health care. Doing so universalizes the very problem that the automakers have – adding the cost of health care to a business's costs of production, when its foreign competitors don't have comparable production costs.
Ironically, this problem started in Detroit, so it would be sweet irony to solve it there. As Malcolm Gladwell wrote a couple of years ago in The New Yorker (The Risk Pool), back in 1950, the president of General Motors, Charles E. Wilson,
"was in contract talks with Walter Reuther, the national president of the U.A.W. The two men had already agreed on a cost-of-living allowance. Now Wilson went one step further, and, for the first time, offered every G.M. employee health-care benefits and a pension.
Reuther had his doubts. He lived in a northwest Detroit bungalow, and drove a 1940 Chevrolet. His salary was ten thousand dollars a year. He was the son of a Debsian Socialist, worked for the Socialist Party during his college days, and went to the Soviet Union in the nineteen-thirties to teach peasants how to be auto machinists. His inclination was to fight for changes that benefited every worker, not just those lucky enough to be employed by General Motors. In the nineteen-thirties, unions had launched a number of health-care plans, many of which cut across individual company and industry lines. In the nineteen-forties, they argued for expanding Social Security. In 1945, when President Truman first proposed national health insurance, they cheered. In 1947, when Ford offered its workers a pension, the union voted it down. The labor movement believed that the safest and most efficient way to provide insurance against ill health or old age was to spread the costs and risks of benefits over the biggest and most diverse group possible. Walter Reuther, as Nelson Lichtenstein argues in his definitive biography, believed that risk ought to be broadly collectivized. Charlie Wilson, on the other hand, felt … that collectivization was a threat to the free market and to the autonomy of business owners. In his view, companies themselves ought to assume the risks of providing insurance.
Pension systems throughout the U.S. are in bad shape as well. Back in 2006, Gladwell noted
America's private pension system is now in crisis. Over the past few years, American taxpayers have been put at risk of assuming tens of billions of dollars of pension liabilities from once profitable companies. Hundreds of thousands of retired steelworkers and airline employees have seen health-care benefits that were promised to them by their employers vanish. General Motors, the country's largest automaker, is between forty and fifty billion dollars behind in the money it needs to fulfill its health-care and pension promises.
If GM's health and pension obligations were at least mostly funded two years ago, we can only imagine how they're doing in a stock market that's lost nearly half its value since then.
This crisis is sometimes portrayed as the result of corporate America's excessive generosity in making promises to its workers. But when it comes to retirement, health, disability, and unemployment benefits there is nothing exceptional about the United States: it is average among industrialized countries—more generous than Australia, Canada, Ireland, and Italy, just behind Finland and the United Kingdom, and on a par with the Netherlands and Denmark. The difference is that in most countries the government, or large groups of companies, provides pensions and health insurance. The United States, by contrast, has over the past fifty years followed the lead of Charlie Wilson … and made individual companies responsible for the care of their retirees. It is this fact, as much as any other, that explains the current crisis. In 1950, Charlie Wilson was wrong, and Walter Reuther was right.
We could kill another two birds with one stone by fixing and expanding Social Security and folding in all these failing – and soon to be failing – pension plans and 401Ks. But let's take on only one pair of crises at a time.


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Wildfire near Cal Expo doesn't stop fireworks show
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire that broke out near the Cal Expo fairgrounds in Sacramento forced the evacuation of a water park and the cancellation of a minor league soccer game.
But the fire didn't stop the fireworks.
Officials said the brush fire near Cal Expo burned 40 acres and damaged 10 cars before it was contained early Friday evening several hours after it began.
Members of the public and staffers at Cal Expo, including those at the water park, were evacuated because of smoke, and the evening's Sacramento Republic FC soccer game was canceled.
A late evening Fourth of July fireworks show, however, will go on as planned.


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In The Name of Creativity (2007-07-27)Edison, Benz, Crapper. These are just some of the names of the greatest inventors of the 20th Century. Recently, some of the Redwolf team have been busy creating something...erm...special. It's not quite Crapper by name, merely by nature. We're not sure what our genius inventor was thinking, but he probably had the film "Peeping Tom" in mind.
|Look at those optics - phwoaar!
|Good for head shots.
This creation comprises of optics from two different markets, combining the latest Red/Green Dot Scope from King Arms with the excellent glass from Nikon. The idea is very simple, it makes photo-taking more masculine, less pervy; feel the hairs growing on your chest, as you pretend to be a sniper, looking through the optics, targeting your prey with the Red/Green Dot, and letting rip with a head-shot. Once you've configured the sight, and zeroed the Reticle, you can be assured that what you're aiming at will be shot with maximum precision, providing you with confidence to snap away at 3fps (Nikon D70). You can hold the sight around 10cm from your face, and the approximate field-of-view you see through the sight is equivilent to the 70mm focal length.
|Getting Tactical.
|Dressed like the T1000
The best thing about it is that it will fit to any standard flashmount hot shoe and requires absolutely no taste at all to fit one on. It works best with an SLR with a 70mm focal length lens. The King Arms Muit Multi Red/Green Dot Scope is available for purchase right now, click the pic below to buy!


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BBC News
- Coronavirus: School safety plans will keep groups apart
- Jeffrey Epstein ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell charged in US
- Café Rouge and Bella Italia owner falls into administration
- Coronavirus: Dozens of countries not in UK quarantine
- Brexit: Serious differences over trade deal, say UK and EU
- Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked
- David Starkey criticised over slavery comments
- Man charged with murdering sisters in Wembley park
- Coronavirus: Face coverings to become mandatory in Scottish shops
- Katie Price calls for penalties for online abuse
- Derek Owusu: Stormzy-signed author wins Desmond Elliott book prize
- BBC announces cuts to English regional TV, radio and online output
- Coronavirus: When will schools reopen?
- Coronavirus: Leicester schoolchildren kept at home in local lockdown
- Coronavirus: Rowan Foods staff in Wrexham 'do not feel safe'
- Pubs in Wales to open outdoors from 13 July
- Visitors to Dorset beaches must act 'responsibly'
- Coronavirus: Why has Bedford got a high infection rate?
- Coronavirus: Many wait over 24 hours for test results
- Local lockdowns: Misleading claims circulate online
- Coronavirus: How will local lockdowns work?
- Coronavirus: Cross-border 'cluster' of virus cases investigated
- Leicester lockdown: Boundary line branded 'stupid' by residents
- First pantomimes cancelled ahead of make-or-break Christmas for theatres
- Coronavirus: Kate Silverton on her fear for children's mental health
- Coronavirus: New seating plans for cinemas and restaurants
- Coronavirus grief: 'Lockdown makes a bizarre situation ten times worse'
- Coronavirus: The children doing sports day in lockdown
- Leicester lockdown: Oadby 'guilty by association'
- Russia report: Intelligence committee faces credibility challenge
- Councils 'need culture change' to boost diversity, campaigner says
- The secret phone system broken up by National Crime Agency
- Stanley Johnson Greece flight raised in Commons
- Cash, drugs and guns seized in huge international police operation.
- Warnings curry houses may not reopen after lockdown
- 999 Cenotaph: Planned Emergency Services Memorial updated to include PPE
- MOT rules in lockdown: How to get your car out of lockdown
- Coronavirus: Greater Manchester Police leave cancelled for pubs reopening
- Coronavirus: Distancing rules relaxed for children in Scotland
- Bobby Storey funeral: Arlene Foster calls for Michelle O'Neill to step aside
- Coronavirus: 1,730 Airbus jobs to go at Broughton and Filton
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An afternoon nap is a rare pleasure. Say it's Saturday and you've been running errands all day and decide to lie down and read for a bit. It's two in the afternoon and you nod off. Then nobody calls, the dog doesn't bug you, and all distractions disappear against the white noise backdrop of winter rain. Suddenly it's six o'clock and half the day is gone. This presents the odd situation of being fully awake at midnight and hungry as a bear. I decided to pan-cook a steak, have a bit of wine, and watch a movie.
Here's the 2004 Dow Douro Reserva Vale do Bomfim from the Upper Douro Valley of Portugal. $12. 40% Touriga Franca, 40% Tinta Roriz (Tempranillo), and 20% Tinta Barroca. Light spice, raisin, and anise aroma, cherry flavors with firm tannins. I think anyone who likes Port should try regular Portuguese white and red wines from time to time to remind them what the grapes taste like before the fortification.
For a fun side dish, I steamed a bag of baby zucchini, though the package used the British/French name courgettes, which I think is a lovely word. On top of that, this meal sounds like a band from the 50s: T-Bone and the Courgettes. Yes, ol' TB&C, famous for their novelty jukebox hits "Dr. Grillopolis" and "Sham-a-lam-a-squash-tastic". Largely forgotten in the grand scheme of things, their recordings on the Green Gourd label remain highly prized among doo-wop enthusiasts in eastern Iowa. Formed by a short-order cook and his three waitresses when the diner burned down, the story of the magical musical quartet tragically ended when their tour bus was buried under a mountain of prize watermelons at the 1959 Indiana State Fair.


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Actually, no.
In addendum to the Easy Softie Ball in 12 Pieces, there exists an even easier way to make a ball in six pieces. The 6-piece version, like the 12-piece, only requires the copying and cutting out of one form, but there are only half as many copies to make. Ergo, easier. Yay!
Now, if you're interested in the math behind the form, a 6-piece from peels is actually a little more complex than a 12-piece from pentagons. The 12-piece ball isn't actually a ball in Euclidian geometry: it's a dodecahedron that becomes a ball when you sew it up and stuff it because the pressure of the stuffing inside applies evenly across the planes, seams, and vertices. The 6-piece ball, on the other hand, is an actual, true sphere in design and execution. This is because it employs the relationship between the circumference and diameter of the circle formed by the cross section of the final sphere at maximum diameter.
And you thought this was a post about softies. >w<
By now, you might be asking "hey Ku, what am I supposed to do with all these plush balls?"
Inexpensive, unbreakable, toddler-safe Christmas ornaments. Ta-da~!


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by Len Lear
In the 1990s Jim Coleman was a virtual one-man media conglomerate and one of the hottest chefs in the country. The burly native Texan who once owned three restaurants in Dallas was executive chef of the Rittenhouse Hotel, cookbook author, host of a call-in show, "A Chef's Table," on the local National Public Radio affiliate, host of "Dream Meals" for visiting celebrities like Bruce Willis and Robert Redford, and the only local chef to break into Channel 12's imposing Saturday afternoon lineup of cooking shows with his "Flavors of Philadelphia," and he was featured on the CNN show, "On the Menu."
But the thing I will never forget about Jim (which he related to me in an interview about 12 years ago) was the fact that he was an eyewitness to the Tienanmen Square murder of hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing, China, in 1889 by the Communist government. Coleman, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, was there because he was executive chef overseeing five restaurants in the Great Wall Hotel, a 1,000-room behemoth close to Tienanmen Square that hosted diplomats, heads of governments, corporate executives, etc., from all over the world. "The demonstrators were jovial and having a good time," Coleman told me, "so it was a complete shock when the soldiers started shooting and killing them."
Coleman left China because occupancy at the hotel dropped by 70 percent after the massacre and the mood among his employees was relentlessly somber. He returned to the U.S. and in 1992 joined the Rittenhouse Hotel, which he eventually left to open "Coleman," an upscale restaurant in Normandy Farm, a hotel and conference center on Route 202 in Blue Bell, right across the street from the Blue Bell Country Club.
Last year, however, Coleman left his eponymous restaurant in Blue Bell and his radio show on National Public Radio, spent about a minute and a half at World Cafe Live in University City and is currently "between jobs." (A more accurate expression is probably "burned out.") Meanwhile, Normandy Farm spent four months renovating Coleman restaurant and reopened it as The Farmer's Daughter on Feb. 25, expanding it to include a 2,100-square-foot bar with 90 seats, hand-blown chandeliers and a 40-foot fireplace. The dining room has a farm chic ambience with dark woods and exposed beams; is beautifully decorated with a color palette of slates, blues and creams, and the reclaimed wooden farm tables are well spaced apart from each other.
Chef Corey Fair, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, grew up on a ranch in central Texas (he rode bulls, which could come in handy with unpleasant customers) and therefore believes in supporting local farmers. He insists he is on the phone two or three times a day with farmers like those from Birchrun Hill for cheese made with that morning's milk and Living Hope Farm, which he says provides nearly 90 percent of the vegetables he offers. Some of Fair's menu staples include grass fed beef and lamb, local produce and fresh seafood. Appetizers range from $7 to $16 and entrees from $19 to $30, although you can also opt for a three-course, limited-option dinner for $35, and you can even BYOB if you're willing to pay a corkage fee of $10 for a regular-sized bottle of wine or $15 for a magnum.
Dinner begins with a basket of great breads from Metropolitan Bakery along with braised kumquat marmalade, blackberry puree and apple slices in mustard sauce. Nice touch.
A rock shrimp appetizer with hearts of palm and cashews was divine but too small for the $13 price tag and was not served hot enough. Cobb salad was a wonderfully fresh cornucopia of lettuces, cheese, marinated vegetables and more, reasonably priced at $8. All dishes are aesthetically presented.
A diver scallops entree, accompanied by housemade bacon, capers, apple salsify puree, sea foam and other good stuff, was another tasty mix of tastes and textures but was not served nearly hot enough ($26). An entree of Virginia striped bass with red beet risotto, brown butter parsnip puree and braised leeks was another taste treat, but the portion size was too modest ($24).
Pastry chef Colleen Winston and her assistant, Tia Bennett, are national treasures, as far as we are concerned. Each of us tried a different trio — small portions of three different sweets for $9 — and all six confections were sublime. Our favorite was the caramel gelato over pop corn. It may sound a bit decadent, but this is definitely one for the space capsule. The jasmine pear sorbet is not too far behind. Our server, Matt Greene, is a Temple U. grad who knows the menu inside and out and has a great personality.
There is a huge wine list, and in addition to wines by the glass, there are wines by the flight: three glasses of different wines, three ounces each, for about $15 to $19. I tried two flights; a Sauvignon Blanc from South Africa, Mulderbosch, was magical, with strong citrus notes, but the other five whites sampled were nothing special. A Kir cocktail was sensational while a "Lemonade" cocktail was way too sugary. There are also 12 microbrews available on draft.
The Farmer's Daughter is open seven days a week for lunch and dinner. Normandy Farm Hotel & Conference Center is located at Route 202 and Morris Road in Blue Bell, PA. Call 215-616-8300 or www.normandygirl.com for more information or reservations.


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New Yorkers are living longer than Americans overall, and the margin is increasing, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, as he praised his administration's health policies.
A New Yorker born in 2010 has a life expectancy of 80.9 years, 2.2 years longer than the national life expectancy of 78.7 years at the time.
Since 2001, New Yorkers' life expectancy has increased by three years, against 1.8 years at the national level, according to data released by Bloomberg and the city's health department.
Women in New York are now expected to live 83.3 years and men are expected to live 78.1 years.
Bloomberg has aggressively pushed for sweeping public health policies. In 2003, he banned smoking in bars, restaurants and places of work, a measure widely reproduced elsewhere.
He again stirred controversy this year by announcing a limited ban on super-sized soda drinks he blamed for a national obesity crisis.
"Not only are New Yorkers living longer, but our improvements continue to outpace the gains in the rest of the nation," Bloomberg said.
"Our willingness to invest in health care and bold interventions is paying off in improved health outcomes, decreased infant mortality and increased life expectancy."


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Tom Hanks accidentally dropped the f-bomb on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Friday while discussing his new film "Cloud Atlas."
Hanks immediately popped out of his chair and apologized after the innocent slip.
The gaffe occured after ABC's Elizabeth Vargas asked Hanks to use the same British accent he uses in the upcoming film. Although Hanks playfully said the voice was used "mainly for swear words," Vargas quipped back, "If you say it with an accent like that, they won't know."
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But they knew. A few words later, Hanks accidentally dropped the no-no word.
"Man, oh man, I'm sorry," Hanks said on the show. "I have never done that before. I want to apologize to the kids in America watching right now. And let me say the next time I'm on the show there will be a seven-second delay. ... Man oh man."
You can watch a clip of the slip here, but be warned: it's uncensored.
"Cloud Atlas," which also stars Halle Berry and Hugh Grant, is set for an Oct. 26 release.