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February 20, 2018 /in Uncategorized /by taxi.admin
In the next few months you can look forward to several events related to beer and brewing (if you're of age and enjoy this category of beverage, that is). There is no need to feel the wintertime blues when you can plan on attending at least one of these six events. Read about each beer festival happening around St. Louis in the article below, and if you end up going to one don't drink and drive! Rely on a safe ride from a taxi/car service like Chesterfield Taxi or a designated driver!
Mark your calendar for 6 upcoming St. Louis beer festivals
By Ian Froeb | Feb 15, 2018
Yes, it's only February. But spring training has begun, we're tired of being housebound and we're already drinking a beer. So why not preview some of the beer festivals taking place over the next few months?
Centennial Beer Festival
When Thursday through Feb. 24 • Where Moulin Events & Meetings, 2017 Chouteau Avenue • How much $40-$43 • More info centennialbeerfestival.com
The 10th annual Centennial Beer Festival promises some 200 beers available for tasting from local, regional, national and international breweries.
The tasting event is divided into three sessions: 6-9 p.m. Feb. 23 and 2-5 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. Feb. 24. The Feb. 23 session is $40; each Feb. 24 session is $43. (Prices do not include tax and ticket fees.)
Each session features live music, and Feb. 23 includes a home-brew competition.
A VIP ticket, which includes tastings of rare and limited-release beers, is $25 in addition to the general admission ticket.
Other Centennial Beer Festival events include a five-course dinner at 6 p.m. Thursday with beers from Cathedral Square Brewery paired with dishes by chef Ryan Luke. Tickets are $65 (plus tax and a 20 percent service charge).
From noon to 1 p.m. Feb. 24, the Local Brewers Brunch will offer three courses paired with local beers. The cost is $40 per person. Make reservations by calling 314-241-8989.
Old Bakery Beer Buzz'd Beer Festival
When 1-5 p.m. March 4 • Where 400 Landmarks Boulevard, Alton • How much $30 • More info oldbakerybeer.com
The Alton brewery honors its third anniversary with a celebration of pollinators, with beers featuring honey, flowers and fruit. More than 20 local breweries will offer tastings. There will be food available for purchase and live music.
Festivale
When 7-10:30 p.m. March 23 • Where The Midway at St. Louis Union Station, 1820 Market Street • How much $65-$85 • More info festivalestl2018.eventscff.org
The 10th annual Festivale is slated to feature tastings from more than 40 local, regional and national craft breweries to support the Gateway Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. A $65 ticket includes beer and food tastings as well as a tasting glass. The $85 VIP ticket lets you begin tasting an hour early at 7 p.m.
Schlafly Stout & Oyster Festival
When 5 p.m. to close March 23, 11 a.m. to close March 24 • Where Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust Street • How much Free • More info schlafly.com
Tens of thousands of oysters are shipped to the Schlafly Tap Room for this beloved annual event pairing the bivalve with several variations of stout. Admission to the Schlafly Stout & Oyster Festival is free, with food and drink available to purchase. However, for $150 you can get the Pearl Pass, which includes unlimited oysters and beer (with private restrooms) from 5 to 9 p.m. March 23. There will be live music throughout the festival.
St. Louis Microfest
When May 4-5 • Where Forest Park • How much To be announced• More infostlmicrofest.org
The annual St. Louis Microfest features more than 100 beers for tasting over three sessions: 6-10 p.m. May 4 and 1-5 p.m. and 6:30-10 p.m. May 5. Tickets for these sessions and VIP packages (including tastings of rare and limited beer, a plate lunch or dinner, and a private hospitality area) go on sale March 1. Other activities include a home-brew competition, live music and the Goose Island Beer Co. demo tent.
4 Hands Brewing Co. Lupulin Festival
When Noon-4 p.m. May 19 • Where The Midway at St. Louis Union Station, 1820 Market Street • How much $55 • More info lupulincarnival.com
4 Hands' annual carnival celebrating the release of the brewery's War Hammer IPA returns to Union Station for the second year. The event features tastings from several breweries (the exact list has yet to be announced) as well as live music and traditional carnival entertainment. Designated-driver tickets are $15.
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Greece, the democracy that turned into an oligarchy, is fighting for survival.
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Prediction is a pastime for fools, so there's no telling where Greece's extreme-left party Syriza will take the most miserable, bruised economy in Europe. Until a year or two ago, it had been unthinkable that the young radical party, established just 10 years ago, would win the reins of government in Greece. But two weeks ago it did. Syriza, which won just 5% of the vote in 2009, got 36% last month, giving it 149 out of 300 seats in the Greek parliament. And Alexis Tsipras, who named his second son Ernesto after Che Guevara, is the sitting prime minister in Athens.
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You might think the story of Greece's collapse is about its entry into the European Union and its collision with the EU over austerity. But Greece's new finance minister, a professor of economics and influential intellectual named Yanis Varoufakis, says his first goal is to tear down the Greek oligarchy, consisting of tycoons who control the business sector and, through it, control government. In fact, Syriza has marked a very specific sector as the root of the oligarchy disease: the television networks and the press.
At this stage it is more interesting to investigate the change in sentiment and mainly how the veteran social-democratic party PASOK wound up with a mere 5% of the popular vote. Some quotes I shall bring below, from interviews in late 2012, may sound only too reminiscent of a country closer to home.
The Financial Times, a capitalist U.K. daily that believes in free markets and competition, wrote just before Syriza's triumph that one of the extremist party's biggest contributions was to expose the function of the Greek tycoons in the protracted collapse of the Greek economy, which had been a taboo subject in Greece – mainly because all the newspapers and TV channels were owned by a small group of tycoons.
The U.S. magazine Foreign Affairs analyzed the Greek system six months ago and showed that the TV and press played a special role in destroying the Greek economy, because it wanted to preserve the status quo that was so convenient to the two most powerful groups in the nation: unions in the public sector, which have grown to monstrous proportions in the last decade; and the tycoons and bankers. They constituted an alliance that ruled Greece for more than 20 years and were protected by the media, by commission and omission.
Taboo subject
The first time I grasped the degree to which the Greek press was part of the problem was during a visit just over two years ago. The press was ignoring, or burying, the huge story that broke in October 2013: the "Lagarde list," which outed thousands of Greek tax evaders from the cream of the Greek business world. The Financial Times covered it extensively, as did another U.K. daily, The Guardian. The Greek press did not.
The way it ignored the corruption of the tycoons is reminiscent of Israel in 2011. In July and August of that year, the FT, The New York Times, and news agencies Bloomberg and Reuters began to report that Israel had a huge problem with economic concentration – a small group of rich people controlling the economy and politics, and corrupting the country. But most of the Israeli press ignored the story, minimized the problem or denied it outright.
In June 2012, the FT wrote in its editorial that Israel is lauded for the dynamism of its high-tech sector, but its economy has another side to it. Operating through pyramidal ownership structures, the FT wrote, less than 20 families control concerns together worth half the value on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. The result is monopolistic power that stifles competition and creates corrupt relations between businesses, politicians, government officials and the press – which in turn stain democracy, worsen inequality and undermine the legitimacy of the market economy.
This is what the FT wrote last week in regard to Greece: "'The real enemy to market competition in Greece is the oligarchy, but it's a taboo subject – politicians don't discuss it and the media don't write about it,' said Aristides Hatzis, a professor of law and economics at Athens University. One reason is that Greece's private television channels, along with influential news websites and daily newspapers, are, in many instances, controlled by oligarchs with editorial influence."
The FT goes on to describe an American embassy cable outed by WikiLeaks, which explicitly wrote, "Greece's private media outlets are owned by a small group of people who have made or inherited fortunes ...and who are related by blood, marriage or adultery to political and government officials and/or other media and business magnates."
These magnates are tied, by blood or marriage or sex, to government officials and to politicians, to media barons and others, the FT adds, and restraining them isn't going to be easy. Greece has been in the throes of economic crisis for seven years now and not one single member of the oligarchy has gone down, though they are believed to be responsible for some two billion euros in unserviced bank loans, "as advertising revenues collapsed and handouts from state-controlled companies disappeared," the paper wrote.
The unaffiliated Greek journalist Kostas Vaxevanis, who exposed the Lagarde list, told The Guardian in November 2012, "Greece has a tremendous problem, a democratic one at its core. The country is controlled by a poisonous combination of politicians, businessmen and journalists who cover one another's backs."
A self-muzzled press
Another Greek journalist, George Kapopoulos, told me that same month that Greece had plenty of financial newspapers, and most, if not all, were losing tons of money. How did they survive? Because they belong to people who have other interests, mainly to influence the banks and government, he said. "Most of the journalists and news networks censor themselves. They know exactly where the boundaries are and who not to mess with. We have six or seven families that control most of the economy, and we don't have a press that can write about them. They don't compete with one another, either."
They're like the mob: they divided up the market and even the left-wing press doesn't report about it, Kapopoulos told me.
Kapopoulos proved prophetic. He foresaw the rise of an extreme left party that would expose the real face of the social-democratic party as it served the powerful interest groups in the public and private sectors. He also noted that the problem isn't confined to Greece: a lot of European countries have the disease. "We're just a testing ground. If they continue with their austerity measures, you will see extremist parties from both sides gaining strength," he predicted.
Greece doesn't have a high-tech industry like Israel does. Its debt is double Israel's; it doesn't have gigantic foreign exchange reserves like we do; and its public expenditure has been racing toward 60% of GDP – which was Israel's level at the height of the 2002 financial crisis.
But the political structure of Greece in recent decades is highly reminiscent of Israel. Kapopoulos explained how in Greece, two big political parties control the big public-sector unions. That is how the left, in the form of PASOK, controlled the country. Then the right discovered that was the road to government and embraced the unions too, Kapopoulos said. "In Greece, the public sector is like India's sacred cows – you can't touch them." Five years of talk about cutbacks resulted in practically no layoffs, because it's impossible; the ones hurting the most in Greece are the people who work in the private sector or who own small businesses, he said.
Greece's left isn't "left" in the European sense of the word, he adds: it's mainly engaged with protecting the privileges of the unions. The left's leaders hail from the unions and can't understand the problems of other Greeks, he said.
There are social-democratic countries where a big public sector is the foundation and power of the welfare state, and of prosperity, I told him. "Don't believe the statistics we publish," Kapopoulos responded. "The problem is much worse. We have the most bloated public sector in Europe. France also has a big public sector, but it's efficient and provides good services to the people." The Greek public sector acts like a private one and sits on the taxpayer's neck, he concludes.
The unions that support the social-democratic state and the unions in Greece are different, Kapopoulos said, noting that, for instance, the German unions agreed to pay cuts. And other countries, such as Spain, Italy and Portugal, are likely to go the same route as Greece, which featured the rising neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, he said in our 2012 conversation.
Kapopoulos is right that Spanish politics has been changing drastically, with the rise of Syriza's "sister," Podemos, a left-wing party founded in 2014. He was wrong about the neo-Nazis: the power that rose in Greece was Syriza.
Greece is not Israel, but it would be a mistake to assume we can't go that route, moving along an axis that runs between powerful interest groups in the public sector and big business and their desire to maintain the status quo. But the Israeli public has been waking up in the two years since I visited Greece, and here's a final thought, from a lawyer, Harris Ikonomopoulos, also from late 2012, which tells the story of Greece in terms every Israeli could understand: Look around you. It's an amazing country, with an amazing history. We could be in a completely different place; it's up to us. This is a country betrayed by its elites, who also betrayed its people and themselves. The politicians, the business people, the academics were all preoccupied with themselves and their own interests and privileges. I hope we wake up before it's too late.
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Q: Identical Android apps with different package names I have two Android apps that are identical except for the package name. This question has been asked before, and the recommendation was to refactor the package name as required, but I do not regard this as satisfactory. To my mind putting all the code in a source library would be preferable, but is there a better solution?

A: Putting the shared code in a Library Project is the recommended approach. See http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/projects/projects-eclipse.html#SettingUpLibraryProject

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Home » Golf » Phil Mickelson set to pip Tiger Woods to £6m PGA Tour bonus
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Phil Mickelson will pick up a £6 million bonus from the PGA Tour after coming out on top in the 2021 Player Impact Program, according to GolfChannel.com.
Aside from becoming the oldest man to win a major at the PGA Championship in May, Mickelson endured a below average season on the course in 2021 by his usual impressive standards.
However it is his work off the course that has earned him a cool £6 million bonus after reportedly topping the charts of the Tour's newly introduced Impact Program.
The new scheme implemented for 2021 aimed to reward players who bring in keen interest to the PGA Tour across five different elements: Google searches, Meltwater Mentions (global media exposure), MPV Index (social media reach), Nielsen score (network broadcast exposure) and Q-Score (familiarity and appeal).
Players are then ranked accordingly with the top 10 being rewarded with a financial bonus following the end of the calendar year, however the list is said to be kept confidential.
Despite not featuring on the Tour for over 13 months, many expected golf's poster boy Tiger Woods to be the man who scooped the top prize due to his gargantuan appeal and reputation.
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And the 15-time major champion's tipping to take away the £6 million bonus grew even bigger, after it was revealed he was the second most googled sports person of 2021.
However it seems that Tiger's longtime rival has pipped him to the PIP prize, as Mickelson took to Twitter to inform his 802,000 followers of his crowning.
The six-time major winner tweeted: "I'd like to thank all the crazies (and real supporters too) for…………………Helping me win the PiP!!
"To get the 2nd half of the money I have to add an event I haven't played in awhile. See you in Kapalua.
"P.S. I'll try and find another hot controversial topic soon"
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One fan was quick to respond to Lefty's claim, replying that Tiger was the man who would take top spot, tweeting: "In your dreams Phil! Tiger accomplishes that feat with 1 post."
To which Mickelson confirmed that the golfing great actually came in second, a position he has often found himself in behind Woods throughout his career.
He responded: "He [Woods] got 2nd. I can empathize with that"
Mickelson's move to the top of the Program may come as a surprise on the surface, however the American has proved more than active on social media throughout 2021.
Ironically one of his most interacted posts surrounded his great rival Woods, after the 51-year-old's tweet about Tiger's return to golf landed over 42,000 likes.
He wrote: "As I'm hanging in Montana, it's great to see Tiger swinging a golf club again.
"I know he can't stand me holding a single record so I'm guessing HE wants to be the oldest to ever win a major. I'll just say this. BRING IT!"
However it was one of his most recent posts that brought in arguably the biggest online traffic, as Lefty's thoughts on the spread of COVID-19 variant of Omicron landed over 11,000 retweets, and an impressive 60,000 likes.
He posted: "Serious question since I'm not a dr. If omicron is contagious but not deadly(25,000 cases in Africa with no deaths) why try and control it?
"Why not let it go and let people get it and develop immunity? Especially for those who won't get vaccinated? Pls no hate, I'm just curious."
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JIMI: ALL IS BY MY SIDE: HENDRIX FILM PREMIERS SEPTEMBER 26!
Just received an email about a new film featuring André 3000 (Benjamin) called "JIMI: All is By My Side," written and directed by Oscar-winning John Ridley (12 Years a Slave). It opens nationally (including Detroit's Landmark Main Street 3) on September 26.
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OutKast's André Benjamin stars as Jimi Hendrix in this revealing biopic from Academy Award®-winning writer-director John Ridley (12 Years A Slave). Covering a transformative year in Hendrix's life from 1966-67, in which he went from a New York City backing musician to making his mark in London's music scene up until his Monterey Pop triumph, the film presents an intimate portrait of the sensitive young musician on the verge of becoming a rock legend.
Legendary producer Danny Bramson (Almost Famous, Lord of the Rings) teamed up with renowned session guitarist Waddy Wachtel to create original music creating the ambiance of the period before Jimi Hendrix wrote his own music; as well as selecting and securing historic tracks from that moment in history from Dylan, Cream, The Beatles, and more.
To capture the influence and power of that musical period, we are creating some song playlists using the streaming service Rdio.


Lady and the Tramp is one of Disney's most underrated and underrepresented films, with an incredible romantic theme, beautiful scenes and powerful music. Now the classic film arrives with in digital version, new extras and a Sing-a-Long version.
Fans can easily enjoy three different versions of the classic film: the original theatrical presentation, a singalong version, and one with Walt's story meetings being visible. In the extras is a 1955 interview with Walt Disney, where we learn about all of the dogs in Walt's life, from his boyhood days in Marceline to his poodle named Lady.
Full list of new extras are listed below.
The new gem is "Lady's Pedigree: The Making of Lady and the Tramp," nearly an hour of Disney historians, animators, and Marceline residents revealing the untold story about the making of the film. This was available back when the full screen bonus feature was produced and stands tall for fans of Lady.
A historical look at the film will only add value for the viewers who can better see the film through the lens of Disney's "Nine old men," crafting a masterpiece.
Another fine extra is "Finding Lady: The Art of the Storyboard" (13:03) with Animator Eric Goldberg, who teaches fans about storyboards and reveals artwork from Lady and the Tramp.
The Walt Disney Signature Collection release repeats the exact same restoration and transfer as the previous Diamond Edition release. There is a noticeable step down in quality with the DVD version.
It's a bit tricky to evaluate the film against the previous releases, but fans can surely appreciate this classic, well restored and packaged for modern audiences.


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The CIA's chief recruiter of the '60s argued that hiring minorities meant racism against white people
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At universities throughout the country, the two big beverage manufacturers, Coca-Cola and Pepsi, contract exclusive rights to stock vending machines and soda fountains with their products, and in September, MuckRock began asking its audience to help us understand just what else ends up in those agreements.
This week's round-up: FEMA's "floating hotel," Michigan State University flooded with Larry Nassar requests, and a rare "reverse FOIA"
by Carolyn Komatsoulis
Records released this week through FOIA requests show the Federal Emergency Management Agency paid millions for a 'half-empty floating hotel' last hurricane season. Plus, Michigan State University struggles to keep up with records requests about Larry Nassar, Humana's "reverse FOIA," and an exciting job opportunity with the New York Times, all in this week's round-up.
Puerto Rico looks to privatize its prison system
As part of efforts to rebuild and restructure Puerto Rico after last fall's destructive hurricane season, the island territory is actively planning to use private prisons on the mainland to house a third of its current inmate population.


ROYAL OAK, Mich. — Some visitors to the Detroit Zoo will soon be able to add animal droppings to their souvenir list.
Free buckets of 5 pounds of animal manure, dubbed Detroit Zoo Poo, will be handed out on April 14 as part of the zoo's GreenFest celebration. The event precedes Earth Day and will showcase how the zoo recycles waste.
Buckets will be available to the first 1,000 visitors to the zoo's anaerobic digester educational display.
GreenFest is part of the Detroit Zoological Society's effort to improve green practices and facilities at the zoo in Royal Oak, north of Detroit.


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Postcards from the Edge No.43: Open & Shut Case
July 6, 2020, by Will Ziebell
Last Tuesday afternoon, the doors to Jimmy's Tap & Barrel opened for the first time in nearly three months. A dozen fresh beers were lined up to pour through the Ascot Vale pub's taps and owner Niraj Joshi (pictured above) was ready to welcome people – albeit a smaller number than usual due to social distancing requirements – back inside.
At the same time, a list of ten postcodes was being read out by Victorian Premier Dan Andrews. It wasn't a list in which you wanted to appear as these were the suburbs set to enter another month of lockdown. In Ascot Vale – postcode 3032 – this meant nobody would be allowed to dine in.
"On the inside I'm definitely weeping right now but you do just have to deal with it I guess," Niraj told The Crafty Pint.
The new, postcode-based lockdown means the craft beer bar is back to selling takeaway alcohol and filling growlers. Niraj says this keeps some money coming in; however, it pales compared to what they can take over the bar.
"We've just tapped 12 beautiful beers and we need to get rid of them," he says. "We'll be doing growlers and whatever we can for takeaway."
They had initially hoped to open on June 22 when restrictions in Victoria changed to allow alcohol consumption without a meal, but maintenance work on the bar's tap system pushed that back.
"It took us a week to get that sorted out and put a big dent on our pocket as well," he says. "Obviously, the worst time to be incurring these kinds of expenses, but that was a priority because we had to get the bar up and running."
As we talk on the phone, there's an army presence at nearby Melbourne Showgrounds, where one of the many pop-up coronavirus testing sites has been established in one of the city's hotspots. Victoria's police have started checking people entering and leaving hotspots to make sure they have a valid reason for being in the area.
Since we spoke, two more postcodes – which includes the suburbs of North Melbourne, Flemington and Kensington – have been added to the list of those in lockdown, while residents in nine high-rise towers in those suburbs are unable to leave their homes for any reason. While this morning (July 6) Premier Andrews announced the borders between Victoria and New South Wales would close.
The harsh reality for residents and business owners in the hot spot areas is that while most of the country is easing restrictions and freeing up social movement things are looking very different in parts of Melbourne's north and west.
Niraj says the government has provided some support – there are grants of $5,000 available to businesses within the impacted postcodes – it's a small amount for anyone whose business had already been closed for months and had then reinvested to reopen.
"They've offered $5,000 but the kegs to sell that we got in … all that stuff is pretty expensive," he says. "So that five grand is going to come in and it's going to go out."
Niraj says the challenges when it comes to obtaining rebates or grants at both state and federal level can be like wading through a jungle. And he believes the government could have looked to waive tax payments entirely from March to help small businesses during the closure.
Through social media, Niraj has thanked everyone who made it in during the brief window in which he could open, as well as those who couldn't make it in but have reached out and the breweries who have offered logistical and financial support.
As for the future, like all Melburnians Niraj is concerned other suburbs might be next, and he fears for the longevity of many small businesses.
"I see four weeks as a minimum and if people start jumping around from these affected areas into other areas … they will start spreading it. If they do it, then we'll be looking at a city-wide lockdown."
On the day Victoria became the last state / territory in Australia to reopen its venues, we published an article looking at the challenges that lay ahead for local beer and hospo business, particularly if future lockdowns were put in place. You can read that here.
As part of the #keepinglocalalive campaign we're running Postcards from the Edge stories, highlighting the ways in which people are adapting to survive. If you've got a story you think is suitable – or have something to add to the campaign resources online – get in get in touch.
Will Ziebell is a history graduate who knows more about The Wire than he does about beer. He was awarded the AIBA Best Media trophy for 2018; HBO have told him to please send his fan mail elsewhere. He can be found on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok.
Spending time living in the UK (and backpacking across Europe) when I was 21 certainly gave me a better understanding of the beer and different styles of the world. But I'd say it was a holiday to the High Country a little while later when lunch and a tasting paddle at Bridge Road Brewers created an obsession with Australian breweries and locally made beer.
Boatrocker's Miss Pinky: It's a raspberry-packed Berliner Weisse that neither looks or tastes the way many people conceive of beer.
Bad Shepherd Hazelnut Brown: A luscious mix of chocolate and hazelnut that can appeal to the sweet tooth within us all.
Stone & Wood Pacific Ale: As the father of my oldest friend once said to me: "It's the perfect refreshing pint that smells like they've loaded it with the God's herb."
Garage Project's DFA while sitting at the bar at Miss Moses as the sounds of The Rolling Stone drifting in the background.
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Postcards From The Edge No.7: Made By Mongrel
Fancy food and beer delivered to your door complete with a suggested soundtrack? The team at Mongrel in Brisbane have been moving fast to survive since their venue closed. Will Ziebell spoke to founder Annie Bingley. read on
Postcards from the Edge No.18: From Menulog To Menudog
If you live around Carlton North you may have seen an unusual form of home delivery service in recent weeks. The Great Northern team have been sending beer and food out via their security dog and barman on skateboard... read on
50 Days Of Shutdown
It will be a long time before we know the full impact of COVID-19. But on day 50 of the momentous decision to shutdown the country's venues, we asked people throughout the industry for their thoughts. read on


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Hurricane to Hell
Posted by ImNoSaint on August 9, 2014 July 8, 2018
One of the many great things technology has done for mankind is diminish the frequency of the turn of phrase, there's only one way to find out, the very words uttered (or so we imagine), when Lorrel "Sixty" McInnely put his bulldozer in gear towing a compressor across two felled lodgepole pines that spanned the gap of Box-Death Hollow fifteen hundred feet below. I can also imagine that "Sixty" got his name when it was discovered that one of his testes weighed thirty pounds.
But, I'll come back to the rest of the story in a minute.
We've gone all Summer without a true breaking out into the backcountry save for a day trip late July, so on the last weekend of the season we set out to drive and camp along the road that goes to Hell's Backbone on the Grand Staircase National Monument. We packed up Friday evening and left Hurricane early Saturday morning, getting into Zion Canyon when the sun was up above the east rim.
If you've never made the Utah Highway 9 traverse of the canyon, you should know that it is by no means a shortcut to Highway 89, but it is always well worth the time it takes. One of the slowing influences is the obligatory traffic control turning the two-way flow through the Zion tunnel into one-way whenever an RV over a certain size presents itself, much like the one above. The tunnel is a mile long and was engineered at a time when caravans this size were unimaginable, at least in making their way up to the tunnel to begin with.
Highway 9 opens up on the east side and the eyes are always treated to the awe that is the geology of this area.
We stopped for breakfast fare at a new attraction along Highway 9 just north of Orderville at Forscher German Bakery.
We went in to find a beautiful assortment of authentic pastries, but oddly absent were the odors one would associate with early morning baking. I had a currant strudel while the wiser Mindy had a warm roll. The strudel was good, but was not fresh as one might expect from a bakery. But, this is a backcountry report, so who cares.
We decided to retrace our earlier route along the Skutumpah Road, this time going all the way to where the road intersects the paved road that connects Henrieville and Kodachrome National Park.
Just as Skutumpah drops down into the Kodachrome Basin travelers are treated to this view, one of dozens along the way.
Fathers' Day a year ago my kids and I did a camping trip through here, but Mindy had never been so we made the little tour.
Chimney Rock is a must-see in Kodachrome Basin, a formation that gets everyone scratching their head. Another attraction in the campground, not pictured here, is a rock formation that gets everyone shaking their head; think Lorrel "Sixty" McInnely. And yet, it appears to be this state park's eight thousand ton guerrilla with no mention of the formation's name, though the park is known among locals as Phallus Park.
From Kodachrome, coined by the National Geographic Society in 1949 after the type of film it used (a name conferred only after permission from Rochester, New York), we joined the All American Highway that is 12 at Henrieville and drove pavement to Escalante where we had Calzones at Escalante Outfitters, the best folded pizzas west of the Mississippi.
We picked up 300 East on the north side of Escalante (if you've hit the Hole-in-the-Rock trail you've gone too far) and headed north along the paved road. Three point three miles in, the road turns to graded gravel with much washboarding. Airing down enough to smooth things out a bit is recommended. Hell's Backbone Road starts at an elevation of 5,700 feet and summits at 9,200. The road is passable for passenger cars and appears to be well maintained having passed a grader along the way.
There are trails rating in the sixes such as McGath Lake Trail that feed from this road that provide greater challenges. Given our passengers, Ginger and Maryann, we spared them the jostle and stomach turning, having learned this the hard way on the Barracks Trail.
About half way through Hell's Backbone we turned off the trail and headed up to the Blue Spruce Campground, seven sites, six of which are bordered by the clear Pine Creek. It was mid-afternoon, and the mossy green forest floor and the small falls of the creek bid us abandon of any further driving in favor of relaxing instead.
Not sure if it was karma, the odds or just dumb luck, or all three, but we had the entire campground all to ourselves. We wondered a bit if all the beware-of-bear warnings were the reason for this ghost campground, but that didn't deter us, bear spray handy.
If you follow the exploits of Ginger and Maryann, you know they were right at home here. Plus squirrels. Dog heaven. Makes me wonder why we as humans are so hard to please.
As the shadows grew longer I attempted a fire to create some coals for our foil-wrapped veggies, but the area fuel was too wet, so we cooked them on the Volcano along chicken breasts. Cous cous rounded out the fare of a delicious evening meal. By the way, if you're not familiar with the Moroccan pasta, cous cous is a great camp meal starch in its ease of preparation and mild taste that blends wonderfully with herbs and fungi. Just don't eat it raw and drink a lot of beer. The Belgians tortured Algerians this way.
We were serenaded to sleep by babble and flow of Pine Creek.
Sunday morning we broke camp after instant oatmeal – a great and easy hot meal to prepare, enjoy and clean up – and coffee and grapefruit juice, and joined FR 153 to Hell's Backbone Bridge.
About four miles from Blue Spruce the road's view opens up to the Box-Death Hollow.
With a little Geology 101 we can guess at the effects of wind and erosion on the Grand Staircase, but whatever forces created this tree's gnarl escape the imagination.
Another 1.8 miles and we crossed the great Hell's Backbone Bridge 3.0.
Yes, this is the third bridge. Version 1.0 was the one traversed by Sixty on his bulldozer pulling behind him a trailered compressor in 1933. The Great Depression's relief of the Civilian Conservation Corps were the ones responsible for the double-pine-trunk crossing under the tracks of Sixty's dozer. He inched across, having tied a rope around his waist in the event that the logs should fail, trusting in whatever method used to secure its other end. He didn't need it, though, since he and his heavy gear made is across without incident and went on to plow and build the road we traveled.
In the photo above in the shade of the bridge are what appear to be version 1.1, a number of long pines that seem to span the gap. A second bridge of more concrete engineering was erected in 1940 and was then replaced by the current version.
Box-Death Hollow from Hell's Backbone. Box-Death? What's that about, anyway? It's about cattle plunging to their death trying to cross Hell's Backbone.
That's why we kept the dogs in the H3.
On the Boulder Mountain side of the backbone the trail descends back to Highway 12 just south of Boulder. Back on pavement we were treated to our favorite part of our favorite roads in Utah, Hogsback Ridge through Calf Creek Canyon and up the slick rock of Escalante Basin. This area is hemmed by the Colorado Plateau of which the basin is a part, along with the Aquarius Plateau to the north, the Circle Cliffs to the east and the Kaiparowits Plateau to the west.
We stopped for lunch on the quarter-mile stretch of the Hogsback Ridge.
The afternoon began driving back on Highway 12 to Henrieville where we doubled back just short of Kodachrome State Park and mounted the Cottonwood Canyon Road, a little over 37 miles long that terminates south at Highway 89 between Paige and Kanab.
The shot above is from a vista reached shortly after the Butler Valley Draw, looking north.
Below is panned east and looks back upon Powell Point and Kodachrome Basin. Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, whoa yeah.
Looking south.
Eleven miles into the Cottonwood Canyon Road is the geological anomaly (what isn't) of Grosvenor Arch.
This is a rare double arch named after Gilbert Hover Grosvener, a one-time president of the National Geographic Society.
The Cottonwood Canyon Road continues along the Cottonwood Wash filled with, you guessed it, Cottonwoods, making several shady and tucked-away primitive camp areas.
While this is a graded road, it is not maintained as well as the Hell's Backbone Trail. We've had recent monsoons that have wreaked a bit of havoc in the washes, but otherwise the road is pretty passable. Every vehicle we passed was a rental car of crossover DNA.
Further south is the amazing Cockscomb, a long geological feature of a serrated ridge that with enough imagination might have one think a dragon is buried alongside the Paria river.
It's a boundary of two distinct geological worlds smashed up against each other and receded. The road crosses the Cockscomb twice.
Once through the Cockscomb we entered the Rock House Cove where the H3 felt as if it turned into a Mars Rover.
And then, into our parting shot of the badlands.
What a great trip, and all within a couple of hours' drive from our home. Sixty is my new hero, and even if he may have never uttered the words, there's only one way to find out, this has always been the impetus behind putting it into gear, opening the throttle and going.
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RS passes CAB with 125 votes in favour, 99 against
Shah says Muslims have nothing to fear
NEW DELHI, Dec 11: Rajya Sabha today passed the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, completing the legislative process for giving Indian citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, with Home Minister Amit Shah asserting that Indian Muslims have nothing to fear as they will not be affected by the law.
The Opposition termed the bill, which was passed by Lok Sabha on Monday, as "unconstitutional", "divisive" and "an assault on the democratic and secular fabric of the nation".
As many as 125 MPs voted in favour of the Bill in the Upper House and 99 against it, according to Rajya Sabha sources.
BJP's former ally Shiv Sena, which made all the noises of opposing the bill on grounds that it ignored citizenship for migrants from other neighbouring nations, made a quite exit from the House just before the voting. Earlier, Shah had taken a dig at Sena asking what made it change its stand overnight after supporting the bill in Lok Sabha.
Besides NDA constituents such as the JD-U, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and AIADMK, the legislation was supported by the BJD, TDP, YSR-Congress and independents.
Apart from the three Shiv Sena MPs who were not present during voting, two members each of Samajwadi Party and NCP as also one of TMC were absent.
Earlier Rajya Sabha rejected a motion to send the bill to a select committee of the House with 124 members voting against it as compared to 99 in its favour.
The House also rejected several amendments moved by opposition members to the bill, most by voice vote. The Bill will now go to the President for his assent.
This was the second attempt by the Modi government to amend the citizenship law. In January, the legislation was passed in the lower house but lapsed with the 15th Lok Sabha as it was not brought in Rajya Sabha where the Modi government lacked the numbers.
Replying to a six-and-a-half-hour debate on the bill, Shah on Wednesday rejected the Opposition charge that the bill was anti-Muslim.
He repeatedly stressed that the legislation will not take away anyone's citizenship and was only intended to help minority communities facing religious persecution in the three neighbouring countries.
"No provision in citizenship bill touches citizenship of Muslims," he said.
"Indian Muslims are citizens of the country and will remain so…. Citizenship bill is not to snatch anyone's Indian citizenship. Muslims have no need to fear or worry," he said.
To a reference made by Samajwadi Party MP Javed Ali Khan, Shah said India will never become "Muslim-mukt even if you want so."
Shah hit out at Kapil Sibal, saying the Congress leader should not teach him the idea of India.
"My seven generations have been born here. I have not come from abroad. We were born here, we shall die here. Don't teach us the idea of India," he said.
Shah also said that the opposition should not spread fear among Muslims.
On why persecuted minorities from countries such as Sri Lanka were not part of the legislation, Shah said 8-9 lakh Tamils from the island country had been given Indian citizenship in the past and the present law is to tackle a specific problem.
To repeated questions from opposition on why Muslims were being left out, he said Muslims from other countries have the right to apply for Indian citizenship as per existing rules.
As many as 566 Muslims have been given citizenship in recent years, he said.
Rejecting opposition's criticism that the Citizenship Amendment Bill discriminates against Muslims, Shah referred to the Nehru-Liaquat pact to justify the new legislation.
Since the Nehru-Liaquat pact of giving minorities freedom to practice their religion was not followed by neighbouring countries, Modi government has to do the needful, he said
Liaquat Ali Khan was the prime minister of Pakistan when he and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru signed the agreement in Delhi in 1950 confirming minority rights. It was inked in the backdrop of large-scale migration of people belonging to minority communities between the two countries in the wake of attacks by majority communities in their respective territories.
Shah attacked the opposition Congress saying statements by its leaders match those of Pakistani leaders not just on the citizenship bill but also on scrapping of Article 370 and triple talaq.
Asserting that neither the citizenship bill, nor the previously passed legislation making practice of triple talaq punishable and the scrapping Article 370 are anti-Muslim, he said the bill seeks to correct the wrong done by the partition of the country on religious lines.
He hit out at the Congress for alleged double speak on the issue, saying the party had during its rule given Indian citizenship to 13,000 Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan without raising a word about the same for other communities.
He also said the bill does not violate Article 14 of the Constitution as it does not prohibit laws based on reasonable classification.
"There is a specific class. We are taking of all minorities in these three countries," Shah said. Muslims have not been included for giving citizenship because the proposed law is for persecuted minorities in the three countries, he said.
Rebutting the charge that Muslims were living in fear, he said India not only fulfilled its promise of protecting minorities, Muslims have gone on to become President, Vice President and Election Commissioner in the country.
"India kept its promise, the three countries did not," Shah said.
The Home Minister asked the Opposition why religious minorities who have come to India to save their families and the honour of women should not be given citizenship. Referring to Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad's comment that the Government has no data on persecuted religious immigrants, Shah said it is because of laws made by Congress that people are afraid of revealing their foreign identities.
He also dismissed the opposition's claim that the legislation was unconstitutional and against the principle of secularism.
Article 14 of the Constitution does not prohibit Parliament from making laws in this regard if there is reasonable classification, he said.
"We have included six religions. There is no appreciation. The only focus is on Muslims. Are Muslims in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan minorities? Isn't it secularism. Will it be secularism only if Muslims are included," Shah said.
Shah reminded Congress that Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot had written to the then Union Home Minister P Chidambaram requesting that Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan be given relief and 13,000 of them were given citizenship.
"What Congress does is secularism. How long will you fool minorities".
Shah also quoted a Congress resolution dated November 25, 1947 and a prayer meeting speech of Mahatma Gandhi (September 26, 1947) wherein references were made to Hindus and Sikhs only from Pakistan being given Indian citizenship. "Why did Congress accept religion based partition," he asked.
He also read out tales of atrocities suffered by several refugees living in India and their happiness over the legislation.
At the time of introduction of the Bill, Shah said the bill provides Indian citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians who illegally migrated to India from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The Government, however, does not want to give citizenship to illegal Muslim migrants from other countries.
"Do you want that Muslims who have come from Pakistan should be made citizens? Muslims who have come from Bangladesh should be made citizens? Muslims who have come from Afghanistan should be made citizens?. Should we give citizenship to Muslims coming from all over the world? How can we run the country like this?" he asked.
Describing the proposed legislation as a historic bill, Shah said it will rekindle a new ray of hope among lakhs of people who were harassed in neighbouring countries.
"They can now follow their religion with respect, they can protect the dignity of their women," he said
The Home Minister said minorities in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh are not treated equally and their population has declined by 20 per cent as "they were either killed, or forced to convert or migrated to India".
"They took refuge (in India) but were barred from availing basic facilities like homes, jobs, healthcare and education," he said.
Shah said the BJP had clearly indicated its intent to bring such legislation in its election manifesto for the 2019 general election and the people of the country voted for it overwhelmingly.
"It is not vote bank politics. We told the people before the elections and won the people's mandate and approval," he said
According to the provisions of the bill, non-Muslim migrants from the three countries who came to India till 2014 will get Indian citizenship.
"They will not face any legal consequences," Shah said, adding that cases against them for their illegal stay or for overstaying their legal permit will be withdrawn.
The citizenship law goes hand in hand with another contentious programme, the National Register for Citizens in Assam. All 3.3 crore residents of the state had to prove, with documentary evidence, that they or their ancestors were Indian citizens. About 20 lakh people were left out of the state's citizenship rolls after that exercise.
Meanwhile, Assam turned into a battleground on Wednesday with massive and violent protests across the state against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.
As thousands of people including students hit the streets in Assam, police fired rubber bullets and tear gas shells and baton-charged the protesters leaving many of them injured, while curfew was imposed in Guwahati and a clampdown on internet services was announced across several districts of the state.
Similar protests rocked several other North-Eastern states, but the bill was passed by majority later in the evening in Rajya Sabha after a hours-long debate, two days after it was cleared in Lok Sabha. The bill now requires President's signature to become a law.
Army deployment was announced in Tripura and Assam, where the influx of Bangladeshi immigrants has always been an emotive issue for natives of the state. The Centre also airlifted 5,000 paramilitary personnel to Northeastern states, including Assam, for maintenance of law and order duties.
Agitated students, protesting against the proposed law that seeks to grant Indian citizenship to all but Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, blocked road and rail traffic, pulled down barricades and even lobbed back the shells fired at them by the police.
A motorcycle rally was also organised against the bill, while discarded tyres, wooden logs and vehicles were set on fire as chaos prevailed on highways.
They also damaged a stage erected for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's proposed summit meeting with his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe on Sunday, while pulling down hoardings and banners advertising the government's welfare schemes and made a bonfire of those before the secretariat.
Though no single party or student body had officially called for a shutdown, the protesters fought pitched battles with security forces in the restive state, including in front of the secretariat, the seat of the state's BJP government, plunging the state into chaos of a magnitude unseen since the violent 6-year movement by students that ended with the signing of the Assam accord in 1985.
Anti-CAB protests were also held in the national capital at Jantar Mantar and in several other parts of the country, even as the government strongly pushed for the bill in Rajya Sabha despite vociferous opposition by several parties who alleged the proposed law was a direct attack on the Indian Constitution and on the country's secular character.
The RSS, meanwhile, readied plans to launch a nationwide campaign in favour of the proposed law, with a top functionary saying the bill would have a limited impact in Assam but will benefit more than 1.5 crore people across the country, including over 72 lakh in West Bengal itself.
The RSS and BJP leaders said the persecuted Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists who have been staying in India for a decade will benefit and asserted that that they are "natural citizens" of the country.
Govt has no data on minorities: Azad
Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad asked today why the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill does not include Hindus from Sri Lanka and Christians from Bhutan, as he alleged that the Government has no data on persecuted minorities in neighbouring countries.
Intervening in the debate on the Citizenship (Amendment Bill), 2019 in the Upper House, the senior Congress leader also asked that if the entire country was happy with the proposed legislation, why protests were taking place in Assam, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya and Nagaland.
"Honourable Home Ministerji, you brought demonetisation, GST, (legislation on) tripple talaq, NRC, Article 370 (related law) and Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in the same pattern. You bring such bills every four or six months to divert the attention of people from unemployment, problems of farmers, poverty….," Azad said.
The former Union Minister also stressed that Muslims too were persecuted in Afghanistan. Muslim women have been persecuted a lot in Afghanistan, he added.
Claiming that lakhs and crores of minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan have faced religious persecution, Azad took a jibe at Home Minister Amit Shah by saying that the Government does not have any authentic data on such people and was befooling the public.
Countering the charges, BJP member Subramanian Swamy said in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, Hindus, Christians, Buddhists etc have been singled out for ill-treatment and persecution.
"As far as Ahmadiyas and Shias are concerned, they would any day prefer going to Iran, which is a Shia country, or Bahrain, where Ahmadiyas are accepted as Muslims…so they cannot come into this category.. I don't think a Pakistani Muslim wants to leave and come to our country. So there is no need to include them also…," he said.
He added that Sri lankan Tamilians did not come to India because of religious persecution but because there was a full-fledged war. (PTI)
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