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STAGE TUBE: First Look at Robert Petkoff, Tony Sheldon and More in TUTS' CAMELOT
by Stage Tube Jan. 22, 2013
Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) presents Camelot, running Jan. 22 - Feb. 3, 2013 at Hobby Center for the Performing Arts. Set in a land where honor and chivalry reign, Camelot follows the love triangle of King Arthur, his Queen Guenevere and the young Lancelot. Dazzling and spellbinding with sweeping romance, historic grandeur, and heart-breaking drama, Camelot is the definitive musical theatre fable. BroadwayWorld has a first look at highlights of the production below.
Veteran stage actor Robert Petkoff will play the legendary King Arthur. Making her TUTS debut is Margaret Loesser Robinson as love-torn Guenevere. Appearing as Lancelot is Sean MacLaughlin. Tony Award nominee Tony Sheldon will grace the TUTS stage as the comedic Pellinore. Alongside him will be Charles Krohn as Merlin. Adam Shonkwiler will depict the evil Mordred. Two Humphreys School of Musical Theatre (HSMT) students, Scott Fonseka and Ashton Lambert, will act in the role of Tom of Warwick.
Completing the cast are Michael Andrako, Blaire Baker, Karolina Blonski, Mark Donaldson, Preston Ellis, Sean Ewing, Rob Flebbe, David Grant, Laura Elizabeth Henning, Julia Krohn, Alexander Levin, Leisa Mather, Molly Mustonen, Natalie Newman, Patricia Noonan, Ian Parmenter, Jonathan Stahl and Shannon Lea Smith.
Richard Stafford will lend his talents as director and choreographer. Eddy Robinson will serve as the musical director and conductor. Joining on the creative team are sound designer Kit Bond and lighting designer Richard Winkler.
Camelot features the work of the famed theatre duo Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe.
Tickets (starting at only $24) are available on-line at TUTS.com, by phone at (713) 558-TUTS (8887), outside the Houston area at (888) 558-3882, or in person at the Theatre Under The Stars Box Office, located at 800 Bagby at Walker, Monday - Friday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., and Saturday - Sunday 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
LAVERNE & SHIRLEY Star Cindy Williams Passes Away At 75
Cindy Williams, a star of stage and screen and one half of the iconic duo, 'Laverne & Shirley' has passed away at the age of 75.
Nominees Announced for 37th Annual Helen Hayes Awards
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BWW Flashback: A Look Back on the Exceptional Career of the Great Hal Prince
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Broadway Bares to Take Place This June at NYC's Hammerstein Ballroom
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Get a first look at Atlanta Lyric Theatre's production of Next to Normal, which begins performances February 16th through February 26th.
Watch as Javier Camarena sings excerpts from Nemorino's arias in Acts I and II in the final dress rehearsal. The production is directed by Bartlett Sher and conducted by Michele Gamba.
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Holiday hosting how-to: Party pointers from three of Napa's premier winemakers
The holiday season is about to hit full swing. This special time of year is synonymous with many things, including gatherings with family and friends.
Each year, holiday hosts face the challenge of setting their seasonal soirées apart from all the other parties guests attend between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. Such a challenge is nothing three of Napa Valley's top winemakers haven't faced before. Each year, Chimney Rock Winery's Elizabeth Vianna, Markham Vineyard's Kimberlee Nicholls and Rutherford Hill's Marisa Taylor play host to family and friends and each have their own unique take on holiday hosting.
Break free from first-time jitters
It's common to feel pressure when hosting a holiday get-together for the first time. Many families have traditions that date back several decades, so being tasked with carrying on those traditions can sometimes be daunting. But Taylor, a wine country native and veteran host, notes that honoring family traditions while simultaneously creating a festive and fun atmosphere is nothing to be afraid of.
"People are sometimes intimidated by holiday entertaining," says Taylor, whose Rutherford Hill Merlot has long been a benchmark for Napa Valley varietals. "But the truth is, just a few small touches can create an ambiance that elevates the whole experience. I think it even makes the food and wine taste better!"
Taylor incorporates family history with her own unique hosting touches by bringing out vintage family photos and heirlooms that guests can pass around her stylishly decorated dinner table.
Let new traditions take root
Another way for hosts to set their holiday parties apart from the masses is to try something new at the dinner table. Each year, Vianna, who presides over the production of the popular Stags Leap District Cabernet Sauvignons, hosts a special kind of dinner for friends who help her get through the often exhausting harvest season. Dubbed "Friendsgiving," the celebration takes place at the end of autumn harvest season and includes friends, family and colleagues who contributed to another successful harvest. Vianna even encourages "Friendsgiving" guests to bring a postcard from somewhere around the world to use as a dinner table place card. This simple, yet creative idea inspires interesting conversation at Vianna's holiday table, and hosts can incorporate their own creative touches to make their parties more memorable and enjoyable. For example, each year, Nicholls, whose award-winning varietals at Markham include Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc, assembles a graceful tablescape using marble and wood serving trays, vintage tablecloths and a tiered cake stand to create an elegant display guests won't soon forget.
Family always make the holiday dinner guest list, but Nicholls notes that holiday hosting is about opening our homes to people, whether those people share our last names or not. Inviting some fresh faces can stimulate engaging conversation and lift the spirits of someone who might not be able to make it home for the holidays.
"I've been known to invite people I meet at Markham winery who might not have anywhere else to go for the holidays," says Nicholls. "Somehow there's always enough food."
To enjoy a Napa Valley holiday of your own, Chimney Rock, Markham and Rutherford Hill wineries are offering a chance for two lucky winners to visit Napa Valley complete with airfare, lodging, behind-the-scenes vineyard tours, VIP lunches with scenic views overlooking the Valley and even the chance to blend your own Merlot. Visit the Napa Valley
Holiday Pinterest page at www.pinterest.com/NVHoliday for more information.
How families can cut screen time
Conquer campus life with top tech
(Family Features) Make each day in the classroom or lecture hall an educational success with technology that makes learning more enjoyable and managing all of life's little details easier. From wearables that keep you connected to gadgets that encourage creativity, get educated about this season's top technology to take to school.
Discover more options for tech-driven learning at qualcomm.com/education-laptops.
Lightweight, Powerful Computing
Designed to move with you throughout your day, the Galaxy Book Go 5G combines the best features of your smartphone with personal computer performance and productivity. You can answer emails over a latte before school, take notes during class, browse social media during lunch or video call a loved one before dinner with always on, always connected flexibility. Powered by the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 5G Compute Platform, the device delivers instant boot speeds that allow you to turn on and immediately use your laptop, and lightning-fast 5G connectivity speeds to complete assignments and submit work quickly from nearly anywhere.
Any of today's smartphones support more than basic call functions, but the Samsung Galaxy S22 powers creativity and self-expression all at once. Built on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Mobile Platform, this smartphone also inspires a creator's mind with a high-end camera, intelligent personal assistant and elite gaming experience. It delivers groundbreaking innovations in artificial intelligence, photography, gaming and connectivity, and is built with a bold, environmentally conscious design that makes it as aesthetically pleasing as it is high performing.
Time for a Watch that Does More
A powerful smartwatch won't just help you make it to class on time; it's a handy way to stay connected, keep tabs on your health and more. For example, theFossil Gen 6 Touchscreen Smartwatch runs WearOS by Google and is powered by the Snapdragon Wear 4100+ Platform, providing users faster application load times, highly responsive user experiences and more efficient power consumption. Key features include increased battery charging speed, upgraded health and wellness sensors, a swim-proof speaker and microphone, improved connectivity with Bluetooth 5 and more.
Sensational Sound
There are wireless earbuds then there are Noble Audio's Falcon ANC equipped with Snapdragon Sound, enabling these earphones to deliver robust connectivity with high-resolution music streaming, low latency for immersive gaming and super wideband voice for crystal-clear calls. With hybrid noise canceling and multi-pairing, multipoint connection capability, these earbuds offer a high level of versatility for downtime entertainment. You can further customize your experience with the app that allows you to finetune a wide selection of settings.
Headset Hero
Designed from the ground up to drive advanced features, Snapdragon XR2 is the force behind the Meta Quest 2 headset's freedom of movement and high-resolution display. This headset allows you to become completely immersed in the virtual reality applications and games you play for maximum adventure experiences. Even better, hundreds of hit games, one-of-a-kind experiences and a growing community await users of this next-level hardware that's both easy to set up and safe to use.
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Upgrading your home oasis
(Family Features) Picture this: You've purchased your home. You're on the land you've dreamt about and you've got great ideas to turn your property into the personal oasis you've always wanted.
As you consider developing your land, building with environmentally sensitive choices becomes more important than ever. According to LightStream's 9th Annual Home Improvement Trends Survey, more than 93% of homeowners see the benefits of undertaking renovations that have positive environmental impacts. Yet, one of the top barriers to making eco-friendly upgrades is that people don't know what to do (27%) nor where to begin (24%).*
As a first step, homeowners can take on renovations to make their existing home or building greener. Among the many smaller-scale eco-projects are new insulation, HVAC systems, lighting or appliances.
"One popular upgrade is installing custom windows and doors that are thermally broken, meaning they're designed to keep out cold or hot temperatures," said Sean Cain, president of Morton Buildings, a specialized construction company with decades of experience in eco-conscious construction. "It's a big improvement that is not only energy-efficient, but it will immediately impact the overall comfort of your building and save money on energy expenses."
Reflecting larger visions, the survey also found that many homeowners are thinking outside the home itself, enhancing their properties by adding a separate garage, hobby shop, barn, office or accessory dwelling unit.
"Today's homeowners are looking for a solid property improvement investment as well as construction specialists with the unique knowledge and know-how to deliver eco-friendly best practices and sustainable products," said Todd Nelson, senior vice president at LightStream, an online lending division of Truist Bank.
In addition to return on investment and environmentally sustainable upgrades, homeowners are also increasingly interested in the longevity of their improvement projects.
"People today are keenly interested in the long-term sustainability of their building decisions including construction of ancillary buildings on their property," Cain said. "Post-frame buildings with steel exteriors have advantages both for longevity and recyclability whereas shingle roofs or vinyl siding may need replacement more frequently, which often results in additional waste that cannot be recycled. Moreover, they have protective benefits as well, helping to mitigate inclement weather and extreme climate events. Most of all, their design flexibility makes them modern and stylish."
FROM START TO FINANCE
Sustainability begins with material selection and production.
"There are many ways to make the manufacturing processes more sustainable, such as recycling or repurposing unused or misdirected materials and even capturing and reusing water," Cain said.
Managing the Costs
Sustainable building options can also be more affordable, particularly if you're looking at cost savings over time.
"Reducing energy costs is important to many building owners," Cain said. "Make sure your building or home is well-insulated because this can save you a considerable amount of money."
Consider the Options
As consumers seek sustainability in their residential structures, more are considering their long-term financial impacts, too.
"We're in era of rising interest rates," Nelson said. "A fixed rate loan can save money and be the right choice for many reasons."
Visit LightStream.com to see how unsecured, affordable home improvement loans can help finance your renovation.
*The 9th Annual LightStream Home Improvement Survey was distributed by Ipsos among 1,301 U.S. homeowners, between January 4, 2022 and January 13, 2022.
Truist Bank is an Equal Housing Lender. Member FDIC.
Photos courtesy of Morton Buildings, Inc.
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Get fit: Tackle goals with fitness-friendly tech gadgets
(Family Features) Committing to getting fit and actually doing it aren't always one and the same but relying on tech devices can be an effective way to tackle your fitness goals.
From watches and phones to earbuds and virtual reality headsets, technology can make it easier to track your progress and create a more enjoyable workout experience. See how some of the latest technology is fueling new devices ideal for amping up your workouts this winter with these trendy ideas.
Find more inspiration to energize your fitness regimen at Qualcomm.com.
Wellness You Can Watch
Powered by the Snapdragon 4100+ Wear Platform, the Fossil 6 Wellness Edition watch provides the speed, power and performance you need to efficiently track your health, all with extended battery life, Bluetooth 5.0 LE connectivity, rapid charging and more features to elevate your experience. The watch detects movement and starts a workout for you. In addition, not only does it allow you to monitor how hard your heart is working and provide estimated blood oxygen measurements so you can see how well your body is circulating oxygen, but it also measures your cardiorespiratory fitness, allowing you to track the amount of oxygen your body utilizes during exercise. In addition to keeping tabs on your active hours, the watch also helps you understand more about your sleep habits, including sleep quality and history, restfulness and progress against sleep goals.
A Smart Workout Buddy
If he's like most golfers, chances are your dad spends a few minutes each round searching for his ball after a wayward tee shot. Save him some precious time on the course with the extra golf balls he needs so he doesn't have to worry about leaving one (or two or three) in the woods. Even amateur players sometimes prefer a certain ball, so don't be afraid to sneak to the garage and check his current supply so you can put his favorite brand in your cart.
Sound to Motivate More Movement
An energizing workout requires a soundtrack to get you pumped up and moving. Enhance your listening experience with LG Tone Free T90 wireless earbuds, which feature Dolby Head Tracking and Snapdragon Sound. These earbuds identify the location of sound as you turn your head, recalibrating to enable a more natural sound experience so you're always in the center of the scene. The speaker driver is made of a strong, lightweight material that delivers better overall audio clarity and reduced vibration so you can hear every sound come alive. Exceptional audio combines with superior connectivity for music, movies, crystal-clear voice calls, gaming and a low latency fit for aptX Adaptive compatible devices.
Play Your Way to Fitness
If your workout regimen needs an infusion of playful fun, the Meta Quest 2 virtual reality headset may be just the ticket. This VR headset is your ticket to the metaverse (and so much more), whether you're working out, gaming, meeting up with friends or going on a virtual field trip. Industry-leading graphics and immersive audio put you in the middle of the action. The portable device is ideal for workouts on the go, and you'll find a wide range of apps that let you work out amid stunning scenery, compete against friends and participate in challenges. The immersive experiences break up the monotony of a boring, basic workout, making exercise fun and playful.
Music to Power Your Workout
Enjoy stereo-quality sound wherever your workout takes you with a state-of-the-art smartphone like the Motorola Edge+ Gen 2, powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Mobile Platform. Giving you up to two full days of power, lightning-fast speeds and pro-quality features for doing more of what you love, this smartphone can provide music that motivates you regardless of your exercise style. When it's time to rest and recover, you can enjoy days of entertainment on a beautiful display that wraps around the edges.
Setting fitness goals starts with a plan and achieving them requires strong work ethic and, just as importantly, the ability to track progress so you can enjoy the success. The ultimate expression of ultra-portability and versatility, the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 5 Chromebook is powered by the Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 Compute Platform. Slim and sleek, this 2-in-1 features a detachable keyboard to transform from a tablet to a laptop so you can keep an eye on your fitness goals whether you're working out at home or on the go, and 15 hours of battery life means you can enjoy usage from day to night.
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Inter-European Division Committee in Madrid
Madrid, Spain. November 1, 2013. [CD-EUDNews. Corrado Cozzi]. This year the Inter-European Region (EUD) Seventh-day Adventist Church leadership met in Madrid. Every year this committee brings together executive members from EUD countries.
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Madrid, Spain. [CD-EUDNews. Corrado Cozzi]. This year the Inter-European Region (EUD) Seventh-day Adventist Church leadership met in Madrid. Every year this committee brings together executive members from EUD countries.
The business meeting started on November 1st with a seminar on leadership. It was lead by Lowell Cooper, Adventist world vice president, focusing on the role and profile of a church leader.
The topics, inspired mainly for business and ethics of leadership, governance, etc., challenged those present, who were mainly leaders at different levels of the EUD church.
The seminar was divided in three parts and the participants enjoyed the presentations. The topics covered were: leader's code of conduct, church organization and concepts of fundamental governance. "This was not something completely new," said Corrado Cozzi, EUD Communication, "but the way Cooper presented it was simply awesome and it encouraged me to develop this important leadership concepts."
Among the topics presented by Cooper was the question of unity as one of the duties of church leaders. "What holds the church together?" he asked. "No need of mechanical tools, only commitment to the Holy Spirit, worldwide mission of the church body and willingness to keep striving together." And he concluded "Policy is the result of unity and not the cause of it." All leaders need to make this concept their own.
"It was a positive initiative in training the EUD church officers, taught by someone who knows church organization inside-out" said Ruben de Abreu, Adventist Franco-Belgian Union President. "What impressed me most was the openness and transparency with which the questions were addressed. I believe that this kind of training should also be shared at the pastoral level, to better understand church function and coherent practice," Ruben de Abreu concluded.
"The leadership seminar with Lowell Cooper was extremely very interesting. The first presentation was especially helpful to improve work done in committees and the importance of training board members. Thank you Elder Cooper for this inspiring seminar!" said Olivier Fitchberger, Adventist Austrian Union Executive Secretary
"The seminar demonstrated the right form of leadership, it was motivating and I saw that the topic is not only for pastors and church leaders, but also for church members," said Milen Georgiev, Adventist Bulgarian Union Executive Secretary. Cooper insisted that the correct understanding and implementation of leadership should help the church stay united and help members develop and exercise their leadership skills and their talents.
"We need information and practice with training like this," said Franco Evangelisti, Adventist Italian Union President. "It gave me new ideas and a desire to better manage the organization of our Union and follow the directions of the policy which is a great source of wisdom." The material presented by Cooper is so fundamental that every new committee member should know. Even more, this material should be given to all new appointed church officers in all departments so that they can be ready to match the huge task received.
Purpose of the Church
Continuing this inspiring trend, Lowell Cooper gave a personal message to the members of the executive Committee on Sabbath morning.
Leaders have to know the purpose of the church, "not my purpose, but God's purpose" said Cooper.
"We learned about the four purposes of the church of God," said Elsa Cozzi, EUD Children's Ministries director, "this is what I'm promoting for Children's ministries in my training for the Kids in discipleship project. 'Pay attention to God and not to me' seemed to be the message, but how often we fall into temptation and focus on the skills of awesome speakers and follow their thoughts. Our great work is to reveal Christ to the world in a direct and simple manner.
Doing this fulfills the second and third purpose of the church that is, to be training classroom for discipleship.
"The church is called to be a community of broken people: do we welcome people who smell of tobacco, alcohol, or have tattoos in our church?" added Cooper. "We have to transform our communities into a new attitude of relationship with God and others." To become a community of acceptance, a place where everybody can have hope, forgiveness, and freedom to receive counsel and direction for a new life.
And finally, the church is called to meet the needs of the people living in the world. Jesus invited us to follow in his footprint, "that is included in the parable of the final judgment (see Matthew 25:31-46)" said Cooper. "We cannot feel separated from the world" said Paolo Benini, EUD Personal Ministry director, "our task is to work in partnership with God in favour of searching humanity." "Weakness of mission is to concentrate more on religion than on the needs of humanity" affirmed Cooper.
May we concentrate on these purposes in the church.
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WhatsApp responds to criticism over new privacy policy: Here's what it said
WhatsApp has finally responded to the criticism that it is facing over its new privacy policy. In a response to a petition in the Delhi High Court last week, the Facebook-owned messaging app said that other tech companies have similar policies and that they collect more data in some cases.
In the affidavit filed by the company in the Delhi HC, WhatsApp has cited the privacy policies of other tech companies including Zomato, Ola, BigBasket, Koo and government's Aarogya Setu app. The application reviewed by Inc42 also cites US-based tech companies such as Microsoft, Google, Zoom and Republic TV's website, Republic World, to prove its point.
"A review of the privacy policies of many internet-based applications and websites confirms that such policies include provisions describing the information they may collect that are similar to — and in many cases much broader than — those in the 2021 update," the company wrote in its response.
ALSO READ: WhatsApp will limit features for accounts that don't accept privacy policy
Furthermore, the company in its application to the Delhi HC has claimed that blocking its update will not only undermine the users' freedom to contract with a privacy policy but would also impact other tech companies in the country such as the ones that enable users to make doctors' appointment or the ones that facilitate home delivery of groceries among others.
It is worth noting that the order comes shortly after WhatsApp rolled back its May 15 deadline for accepting its new privacy policy. The company recently clarified that no accounts will be deleted and that no WhatsApp users in the country lose functionality of the account for not accepting its new Terms of Service.
Originally Appeared On: https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/whatsapp-responds-to-criticism-over-new-privacy-policy-here-s-what-it-said-71620899615053.html
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I live almost on the other side of the country from my extended family so I don't get to see them very often. However, in the last month I was able to visit twice: once for my grandmother's 80th birthday and then again for my younger sister's university graduation.
Every single one of my family members from my dad's side was able to make it to the 80th birthday party which was awesome because not only is it difficult to get everyone into the same city at the same time, but also because I hadn't seen some my family since I was very little.
We all wanted to be there because my grandmother has done a lot for us over the years. She puts a lot of importance on reading, education, manners, and physical activity (at 80 years old she still plays golf, often without taking a golf cart).
Gran is a certified accountant (CA) and knows a lot about the stock market and investing. When I was very little I received some stocks from her as a gift that I still have today. Not exactly a traditional gift for a child but one that I always thought was cool and at this point is more valuable than a toy or game.
She started a family tradition when she took my oldest cousin Aaron (pictured here) to Israel on a trip to learn about the culture. After that, she took each one of my cousins on a trip with her when we turned 13 to a different part of the world.
I have a lot of cousins so Gran was busy traveling for many years and at this point there are only a few countries that she hasn't been to. When I was 13 I went to China, Japan, and South Korea with her and during that trip I gained an interest Asian culture and food which I still have today (especially the food part.. omgyum).
Although I'm more likely to learn about banking than baking from Gran she still has some recipes that she makes when guests and grandchildren come over (even non-bakers have a delicious go-to recipe or two that they rely on). One of them is for thin crispy butterscotch cookies from a recipe that she received in 1953 from a friend.
I was surprised to learn that there is no butterscotch in the cookies, they get their flavor from the brown sugar and vanilla in the recipe.
When I was making them for myself at home I tried to squish them down as flat as possible with a fork before baking because my grandmother's are very thin. The first couple of trays were not thin enough and I hadn't baked them long enough for them to be as crispy as hers.
The next couple of trays I managed to get it right though. Squished them extra flat and baked them an extra minute or two and I was rewarded with lightly sweet, crunchy cookies that have a distinct butterscotch flavor.
3/4 cup butter at room temp.
2. Stir together the flour and baking powder in a separate bowl. Then stir into the butter mixture until smooth and well combined.
3. On a greased cookie sheet or one lined with parchment paper take small rounded teaspoons of the dough and place them two inches apart (I used an actual teaspoon measure for this part). Dip a fork in warm water and use that to squish down the cookies.
4. Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes (all of my trays that were successful took the entire ten minutes). Let cool on wire racks.
These keep very well at room temp or in the freezer and taste better on the second day.
Stephanie this is a lovely post! How fabulous that you were all able to get to your gran's 80th (I was at my nana's 90th in Australia a few years ago, that was really special!) and what a great recipe. I'm working my way through some of my mum and nana's recipes right now - they're the best, even if they are not the best recipe writers (they take a lot of knowledge for granted!!) Great post!
Sounds like sweet sugary goodness! I'm going to try these the next time I make cookies, great post!
So generous are you sharing with us your family recipe, adorable post!
Your grandmother is a beautiful and very smart lady! I hope that I am still able to golf when I am 80.
Her (your cookies) look and sound delicious.
What a sweet post. Your Grandma sure sounds like a special gal :) Love that fantastic old photograph.
I'm going to try those cookies this weekend. Can't wait!
What a great sounding grandmother!
There is no "butterscotch" in the ingredients list because butterscotch is made from brown sugar, and there is only brown sugar in the recipe. Caramel is made from white sugar. So you essentially have the butterscotch flavor being made right in the cookie from the brown sugar, without separately cooking the brown sugar and then breaking it up and putting it into the cookie. Sounds like a pretty smart recipe to me!
Your Grandma sounds like such a cool lady!
Thanks for sharing your grandma's recipe and for your story!
What a lovely post, I love family get-togethers. And what a cool idea to travel the world with her grandkids in tow! You've inspired me to look through my great aunt's recipe box which I inherited last summer. I'm sure there are some gems in there, too.
What a fabulous grandmother your have! Butterscotch is one of my favorites. I must try these cookies!
Your gran looks very glam! It's really great to share family recipes - I've definitely got quite a few from both my grandma's and my mum.
These are wonderful! I made them yesterday and brought them to work, and they're almost gone. Simple and delicious. My favorite kind of food! Thanks.
I don't know if this is the same recipe, but it looks like it might be. (I just asked my sister if she has it.) My mother mashed the balls with the bottom of a tumbler and marked a little flower in the middle with her pie-edging tool.
Yummy, love the sugar overload here!
I made these last week & they were DELICIOUS!!!


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The city of Santiago is an independent city in the province of Isabela, Philippines. Santiago is situated 79 kilometers south of Ilagan City, the provincial capital city, and about 326 kilometers North of Metro Manila. The city sits on a vast area of predominantly flat and fertile land in the Cagayan Valley, surrounded by the Caraballo Mountains to the south, the Great Sierra Madre to the east and the Cordillera Mountain Range to the west.
The origin of Santiago City can be drawn from the first native settlement discovered by the early Spanish missionaries at the bank of the old Carig River (now Diadi River) from which its original name, Carig, was derived. The earliest inhabitants were the Gaddangs and the Ibanags. When the Spanish settled in, the city was named a Pueblo of Santiago Apostol de Carig, with Santiago as the Spanish name of Saint James the Apostle. In the early 1950s, the Municipal President Vicente Carreon changed the name to simply Santiago.
Royal Decree, Santiago was among the towns relinquished to the newly created province. The first five barrios after the Cadastral survey in 1927 were Patul, Batal, Nabbuan, Buenavista and Dubinan.
It was said that there were only about three Filipino-owned sari-sari stores in Santiago in 1917. The settlers acquired most of their merchandise and other provisions from Chinese traders in Echague, the landing zone for products intended for Santiago and other towns, owing to its proximity to the Cagayan River.
It was when the Villa-Verde Trail was opened when things were set in motion. It facilitated the entry of immigrants from various provinces in Luzon to the Cagayan Valley and Santiago absorbed a sizable share of these travelers. The new route served as an impetus for growth and introduced new technologies and business opportunities.
Santiago survived through world wars, although badly damaged, and from then on developed to become the leading commercial and industrial city in Cagayan Valley.
In 1942, occupied by the Japanese forces entered in the town of Santiago.
Regiment of the Philippine Constabulary and the recognized guerrilla fighter unit against the Japanese Imperial forces under defeated during World War II.
On December 17, 1993, the bill converting Santiago into an independent component city was approved by the Lower House. On the following year, the Senate Committee on Local Government approved another public hearing dated February 23, 1994. Signing of Republic Act 7720. seated from the left; starting from the third seat is former Mayor Jose "Pempe" Miranda, President Fidel V. Ramos and House Speaker Jose De Venecia On May 5, 1994, by virtue or Republic Act 7720 signed by His Excellency, President Fidel V. Ramos, Santiago was pronounced as an independent component city, the first in the Cagayan Valley Region. This made Santiago, self-governing and autonomous city from the rule of the provincial governor. Republic Act 8528 repealed this statute transforming it back to a component city. It was not until December 29, 1999, when the Supreme Court contested the validity of the latter decision and favored Santiago to be once again an independent component city.
Santiago City is Cagayan Valley's pioneer city. It ushered more development not only in Isabela but in the whole region. It motivated other towns to grasp for more progress and to uplift the people's standard of living. The city is highly equipped with facilities in health, education and security, making it a first choice in terms of settlement.
Considered as the commercial and industrial Center of Region 2, several business enterprises, banking institutions, educational entities, as well as manufacturing companies are present in the city.
Some of the biggest companies that can be found in the city are Vista Land-Camella Isabela, ABS-CBN, GMA7, San Miguel Corp., Pepsi Cola, Purefoods, Digitel and PLDT. The National Food Authority also maintains its presence in the city, competing with local traders as a strategy to stabilize prices. Different car companies like Mitsubishi, Toyota, Nissan, Isuzu, Hyundai, General Motors, other car companies as well as Yamaha and Honda Motors maintain their presence in the city. Kia Motors and Ford Mazda are set to open their branches in this city soon.
Santiago also houses some of the biggest and highly equipped hospitals in the region. The University of La Salette Hospital is said to be the biggest having a capacity of at least 350 beds. De Vera's Medical Center, Callang General Hospital and Cagayan Valley Sanitarium are also equally equipped private hospitals. The Santiago City Emergency Hospital and Flores Hospital are now considered Medical Centers.
Agriculture, however, is still the main source of livelihood. The main crops are palay, corn, high value fruits and vegetables. The city is where imposing grain stations can be found, buying agricultural crops coming from Ifugao, Kalinga, Quirino, Nueva Viscaya, and parts of Isabela. These crops are later transported either to Nueva Ecija, Bulacan, Pangasinan or Batangas. In addition, the city's new product is Muscovado sugar. The city aims not only to sell this product locally but also to export the same. Rice mills are also present.
The City celebrates Pattaradday Festival or dubbed as Araw ng Santiago. Pattaradday is an Ibanag word which means unity. It celebrates the unity of the ethno-linguistic groups that have merged in the city to make it the melting pot of culture of Region II and contributed to the city's progress and development-unity in action. It is celebrated every May 1- May 6 the founding anniversary of Santiago.
In 2007, The City was given a Presidential Award for the Most Child-Friendly City under the leadership of Mayor Navarro.
Santiago was formerly called Carig. It was formerly a barrio of Echague. The towns Cordon, Diffun, Saguday, San Mateo and Ramon were formerly its barrios. The first five barrios after the Cadastral survey in 1927 were Patul, Batal, Nabbuan, Buenavista and Dubinan. The area bounded by the Provincial road on the NW Carreon St on the SW Abauag St on the NE and the lot of the Methodist on the SE was the site of the first public school building before it became a market site.
The present site of the PNB was the site of the old municipal, sold to PNB during the administration of Mayor Andres Acosta for P1.00. The lot now occupied by the heirs of Santiago Lumidao fronting the NAWASA was formerly the old Spanish Cuartel. The present Dubinan School and North Central School sites were former cemetery sites.
The lime used in the construction of the church in Santiago was quarried from Potia, Mt. Province. The first rural bank in Northern Luzon is in Santiago. The La Salette Fathers headed by Fr. Conrad Blanchet arrived in Santiago on December 21, 1948. The first native Doctor of Medicine, Lawyer, CPA, Dr. of Dentistry, and Pharmacists are Dr. Pascual Fernandez, Atty. Domingo Maddumba, Lucas C. Taguinod, Dr. Jose C. Tumanut and Nenifa Carreon. Eustaquio Bayaua, reportedly a strong man, singly brought the bell up to the church tower thru the spiral stair of the old church. Pacifico Alvarez of Santiago became Division Superintendent of Schools. The long hike by the Boy Scouts was recorded by the La Salette Scouts in 1955 from Gamu to Manila under the leadership of Fr. John Pelissier, MS. No native was ever elected Mayor of Santiago since the Philippine became a Commonwealth. Santiago was liberated from the Japanese on June 13, 1945.
Have a patupat, Santiago City's native delicacy. It is a native rice cake cooked by soaking malagkit (sticky rice) wrapped in coconut leaves in a boiling juice of sugarcane for hours. Other sugar cane products such as molasses or pulitipot, muscovado sugar, sinaklob, and sugarcane vinegar and wine are readily available.
Santiago City is situated in the Province of Isabela at about 79 kilometers south of Ilagan, the Provincial Capital of Isabela and is located at about 326 kilometers north of Manila. It is about six hours drive from Manila. Public vehicle is available 24 hours in Baliwag Transit, Victory Liner, Florida Bus Line, and Nelbusco Bus Companies in Manila.
Likewise, Dalin, Royal Eagle and Dagupan Bus Line going to the City of Tuguegarao pass through the city of Santiago. It is an eight-hour drive.
By air, Cebu Pacific, Zest Airline, and Air Philippines are available flying Manila to Tuguegarao. Bus companies such as Baliwag Transit, Victory Liner, Florida Bus Line, Nelbusco, Dalin, Royal Eagle, and Dagupan Bus are available in Tuguegarao City bound for Santiago. Vans for hire are also available.


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California wildfires 'not particularly' affecting wine country
By Lisa Riley
The wildfires currently raging in California have 'not particularly' affected wine country.
So far, it seemed that the fires were mainly in grasslands and woodlands away from the major wine producing regions, the California Wine Institute (CWI) told Harpers
"These fires are not particularly affecting wine country, although the fire near Thousand Oaks is just over the coastal range from Santa Barbara County and the Santa Ynez Valley they would have harvested everything in those areas by now," UK director Justin Knock MW said.
Similarly, the fires up around Paradise were in and around Sacramento where there are some vineyards (part of the Central Valley), but again these would also have been harvested and didn't seem to be directly impacted, he added.
"But it is terrible to have to be talking about awful fires again so soon after the summer and last year," he said.
The latest wildfires sweeping California follows the summer fires this year and come just over a year after the devastating wildfires that ravaged northern California in October 2017, with the most impacted regions Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino.
Several wineries were destroyed in the latter, including Signorelli, and there was significant damage to both Darioush and Stag's Leap.
While not affecting wine country, the current wildfires now equals the deadliest on record in California, with the death toll having risen to 31 and 200 people still missing, according to officials.
An estimated 250,000 people have been forced to flee their homes to avoid three major blazes in the state.
With strengthening winds threatening to spread the flames, California Governor Jerry Brown has urged President Donald Trump to declare a major disaster, a move that would harness more federal emergency funds.
The appeal came a day after Trump threatened to cut funding for California, blaming the fires on poor forest management.
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Money available for low and zero emission vehicles
Businesses are invited to apply for funding to help develop vehicle technologies that significantly reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and improve air quality.
Innovate UK is offering £30 million through the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) to support the long-term development of low and zero emission vehicles in the UK.
The funding is part of a 10-year, £1 billion joint government and industry investment to accelerate development of low carbon propulsion technologies and to help the UK take advantage of the opportunities that this field offers.
The APC is a government-industry body that aims to make the UK a global centre of excellence for low carbon vehicle development and production.
It is seeking projects that develop low and zero emission on-vehicle technologies for on or off-road vehicles in the following areas: alternative propulsion systems; electric machines and power electronics; energy storage and energy management; lightweight vehicle and powertrain structures; and thermal propulsion systems.
Projects must have a proven technology concept, Innovate UK explains, and demonstrate that there is a clear route to market.
With the APC offering some £30 million three times a year, it is anticipated that project costs will be in the range of £5 million to £40 million and last between 18 and 42 months. Innovate says that businesses could attract up to 70% of their project costs.
Applications are invited from business-led partnerships which must include a small and medium-sized (SME) firm and either a vehicle manufacturer or a Tier 1 supplier.
Further details can be found at https://bit.ly/2JirKeo. The competition opens on 30 April, with the deadline for applications being 27 June.
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ET joins the Craig School of Business
Effective this fall, the Department of Engineering Technology will join the Steven L. Craig School of Business to form the Steven L. Craig School of Business and Technology. Dr. Jeanne Daffron, who had been serving as provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, noted that this will help the University be more effective in addressing regional business and technology needs.
"Our engineering technology programs work closely with the area business community to provide internship opportunities to our students," Dr. Daffron said. "Those partnerships will thrive and grow in the Craig School of Business."
Get a Griffons debit card and help us earn money!
Citizens Bank & Trust is now offering a Griffon Visa debit card. For every purchase made using the card, Missouri Western will receive five cents. The card is free; you just need a Citizens Bank & Trust checking account to get one. Learn more at gocitizens.bank.
New options and lower tuition rates for military personnel
Missouri Western is now a participant in the U.S. Air Force Air University Associate-to-Baccalaureate Cooperative (AU-ABC) Initiative. As a member of the AU-ABC, the University now offers a completely online bachelor's degree to members of the Air Force. They can transfer in their Community College of the Air Force degrees or other military credit to use as the basis of Missouri Western's Bachelor of Science in Technology degree.
Last year, Missouri Western became a part of the General Education Mobile Program with the CCAF. That partnership means members of the Air Force can take general education courses online through Missouri Western to earn their Associate in Applied Science degree from the CCAF.
Additionally, the University now offers in-state tuition to all military-affiliated students, spouses and dependents who qualify, regardless of where their state of residency is.
For more information, see missouriwestern.edu/military.
St. Joseph start-ups funded
The Innovation Stockyard announced that two new companies received funding through its recent partnership with Digital Sandbox KC.
The Sandbox partnered with the Innovation Stockyard in 2017, along with the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce, the City of St. Joseph, Buchanan County, the Missouri Technology Corporation, Missouri Western and other local organizations, to drive new business growth and jobs in St. Joseph and throughout northwest Missouri.
The companies selected for support are DocuLock and WHETStone Devices. DocuLock helps businesses archive, index and digitize paper documents, protecting valuable business information from threats and making them accessible from any web-enabled device. WHETStone Devices developed an innovative brace to provide plumbing companies a secure and easy-to-install solution for water heater expansion tanks.
Businesses selected receive as much as $15,000 in project development funding and co-working space for three to six months at the Innovation Stockyard, located inside the Kit Bond Incubator on campus.
Jacob Blaylock '17, Steve Craig and Nathan Nold '18.
Nold awarded RMCF store
Nathan Nold, who graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree in May, won an opportunity to own and operate a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory store in Petaluma, California.
Nold, of Savannah, Missouri, was one of the finalists from a senior-level applied entrepreneurship class this past spring who prepared business plans and presented them to a panel of judges that included Steven L. Craig, benefactor of the Craig School of Business, other business leaders and Missouri Western graduates who won franchises in previous years.
Nold joins 17 owners who have opened 27 businesses across the country. In 2017, the businesses boasted 361 employees, sales in excess of $13.7 million, and a payroll over $2.4 million.
Entrepreneurs recognized
At the Craig School of Business's annual entrepreneur dinner, two people received the Champion of Entrepreneurs Award in recognition of their support of young entrepreneurs: Bill Severn and Sherry Sansone Scott. Three alumni of the franchise program, Leslie Burris '11, Cassandra Cyril '07 and Erica Ricker '09, were honored with the Outstanding Young Entrepreneur Award for paying off the loans for their stores.
Pam Klaus '03, director of the franchise program, noted that the program alumni contributed almost $79,000 to the CSB in 2018, and more than $260,000 since the program began in 2009.
FY19 Budget Approved
The Board of Governors approved an operating budget of almost $56 million for fiscal year 2018-19 on July 2. The budget included a 2 percent cost-of-living increase for Missouri Western employees and a $900,000 increase in the scholarship budget for students.
Dr. Robert Vartabedian, Missouri Western's president, noted that the University experienced a larger than expected increase in the number of out-of-state students taking advantage of the Griffon Rate Scholarships, so that line item in the budget increased accordingly.
The budget does not rely on the spending of reserves, thanks to stable state appropriations and a budgeted increase of approximately $1.4 million in student tuition and fees, based on a projected increase of approximately 3 percent in credit hours.
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Q: Get Endpoint HTTP verb/command attribute in middleware - .NET Core Problem: Given a .NET Core web API endpoint that looks like this:
[HttpPost]
public async Task<ActionResult> MyEndpoint () { }

When a request is made, I want to be able to know in all cases, in the middleware layer, that the endpoint is defined as [HttpPost].
Entire issue at hand:
I want to add global error logging to every endpoint. So I decided to add some custom middleware.
public void Configure (IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env)
{
  app.UseRouting();

  app.UseMyCustomLoggingMiddleware(); // my custom middleware

  app.UseCors();
  app.UseAuthentication();
  app.UseEndpoints();
}

In my custom middleware, in the success case I can easily check the endpoint verb/attribute using the Endpoint class.
public async Task InvokeAsync (HttpContext context)
{
  Endpoint endpoint = context.GetEndpoint();
  // endpoint.Metadata has the information i need! it knows it's a POST!
}

However, the error case is what I'm struggling with. MyEndpoint above is defined as a [POST] endpoint, so if someone attempts to make a [GET] request against it, I want to be able to log that error specifically. The same for other mismatched HTTP commands.
But, because we Configure our app to app.UseRouting(), in the error case, when we use the incorrect HTTP command, the call to Endpoint endpoint = context.GetEndpoint() stops returning the actual Endpoint where we can access the metadata/verb (likely because it can't find it because of the mismatched HTTP verb\command), and instead returns an empty Endpoint object set to {405 HTTP Method Not Supported}.
If I register my custom middleware before the call to app.UseRouting() in an attempt to get the default routing to not automatically return 405, then the Endpoint endpoint = context.GetEndpoint() call simply returns null, which is also bad.
How can I get the fact that the target endpoint is defined as a [HttpPost] in all cases?
I would like to avoid reflection if at all possible because I am logging high noise events and don't want to be hampering our performance.

A: I would probably create two middlewares.

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*Error middleware

*Logging middleware

Invalid requests will not pass the routing and you can hardly know the endpoint definition before it.
public void Configure (IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env)
{
  // here you can handle the errors raised in the routing
  app.UseMyCustomErrorMiddleware();

  app.UseRouting();

  // log valid requests here
  app.UseMyCustomLoggingMiddleware();

  app.UseCors();
  app.UseAuthentication();
  app.UseEndpoints();
}

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James Pascoe switches SAP support to Rimini Street
New Zealand retailer James Pascoe Group has switched to Rimini Street support for SAP ERP applications used by its eight retail brands in New Zealand and Australia.
Stolen Twitter accounts can fetch US$1,000
According to researchers at Kaspersky Lab, cybercriminals are trying to sell hacked Twitter user names and passwords on-line for hundreds of dollars.
An analysis of the value of analysts
On the website of mega research firm Gartner there's a section titled IT Budget Optimisation, which, among other things, offers for sale 20 research papers on strategies for cutting IT expenses.
The real appeal of software-as-a-service
If we are ever to cut through the hype in order to determine how good SaaS (software as a service) really is, the best way would be to talk to companies that use SaaS. Of course, each application or service must stand on its own — SaaS can't turn a pig's ear into a silk purse, as they say — but I've been wondering what it is that's inherent to all or most SaaS applications that makes the model so appealing to mid-size and larger companies.
Aussie researchers develop tool to measure the real value of IT systems
Organisations can now measure the value of enterprise IT systems using a new tool being developed by researchers from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT).
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The CFO as Technology Evangelist is a research report commissioned by Oracle and Accenture, in collaboration with Longitude Research, that explores how modern CFOs and finance executives are adopting emerging technologies within their finance functions to enable the development of new capabilities and to transform the role of finance.
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Q: How to compile and run `tap` tests with `webpack`? I can't find any right config to run tap (or tape) tests in the browser while compiling with webpack + babel.
Here is a dead simple example:
import test from 'tap';

test('random test', function(t){
    t.ok(true, 'great!');
});

Trying to compile the above generate following errors as nodejs modules aren't polyfilled:
ERROR in ./~/tap/lib/test.js
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'child_process' in /Users/arnaud/projects/chrome-tap/node_modules/tap/lib
 @ ./~/tap/lib/test.js 30:12-36

ERROR in ./~/tap/lib/test.js
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'module' in /Users/arnaud/projects/chrome-tap/node_modules/tap/lib
 @ ./~/tap/lib/test.js 33:13-30

ERROR in ./~/tap/lib/test.js
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'fs' in /Users/arnaud/projects/chrome-tap/node_modules/tap/lib
 @ ./~/tap/lib/test.js 34:9-22

Or with tape:
ERROR in ./~/tape/lib/default_stream.js
Module not found: Error: Cannot resolve module 'fs' in /Users/arnaud/projects/chrome-tap/node_modules/tape/lib
 @ ./~/tape/lib/default_stream.js 2:9-22

I can compile and run tape tests using browserify + babel but I'd be interested in using webpack instead.
Alternatively, is there any pure ES6 (ie non nodejs) TAP library?

A: I use karma to run tape tests via webpack. This blog post was really helpful in helping me get it set up -- there are karma addons for tap, webpack and for istanbul (if you want coverage). Basically you tell karma you're using webpack, add your webpack config to your karma config, and make the webpack entry point a module that requires all of your spec modules.
I had to add
node: {
    fs: "empty"
}

to my testing webpack config to prevent a reference error somewhere along the way.


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Time to Let the American "Enabling Act" Expire
Date: February 4, 2014Author: captaindonn 0 Comments
In an all too rare display of chutzpah in post-September 11, 2001 America which has been hammered home incessantly as 'the day when everything changed' for nearly twelve and a half years by fascist opportunists there is a growing move to pushback against Obama's NSA Stasi and its illegality. Without delving into the depths of speculation and conspiracy trafficking it is apparent that the USA PATRIOT Act was to 9/11 what the Enabling Act was to the Reichstag Fire in the terms of historical analogies. While admittedly less ostentatious than the depraved Nazi regime and their orgy of state sanctioned thuggery and oppression, this anti-American piece of legislation has largely served the same purpose in empowering a criminal state to act with impunity.
With the firewall of the surveillance state and all of its proctor – like the unhinged fascist demagogue Mike Rogers who is popping off today aboutstringing up journalist Glenn Greenwald by his balls for doing his job – flying like antibodies to protect a diseased system against any attempts to implement even the most tepid of controls over the NSA spying monstrosity which are destined to fail. The corruption is just too deeply entrenched and there is too much money and power at stake to expect a failed political system to function by implementing the now laughably outdated term of 'checks and balances'. So it is now being proposed to just let the American enabling act expire which would be a good start, having a national holiday every September 10th to celebrate the public burning of this fascist travesty and toast the trial and imprisonment of all who have foisted it upon us would be ideal.
That being said and according to a story in The Guardian (the state media is too busy performing necrophilia on the corpse of Phillip Seymour Hoffman to be bothered with covering actual news) members of the House Judiciary Committee boldly challenged Obama/Holder lackeys from the Justice Department. In demanding that the NSA bulk collection of telephone "metadata" be reigned in and the USA FREEDOM Act be supported that the most insidious piece of legislation in the lifetimes of all Americans currently alive be allowed to simply expire come renewal time in June of 2015 – a mere decade after a sunset clause was to have rid of us all of this abomination. The "metadata" phone collection also does not cover the actual content collection which the Obama regime and the filth like Mike Rogers are so desperate to keep secret therefore the regular "two minutes hate" sessionsdenouncing Greenwald and former government contractor turned NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden who are both rising to the top of that kill list that El Presidente presides over. That it is Congressman James Sensenbrenner, a father of the PATRIOT Act himself who is now one of the most vocal opponents is telling, it is his very own Frankenstein monster careening through the village today.
I excerpt from the Guardian piece, entitled "House committee urges US government to get behind NSA reform bill":
Members of Congress who want to end the National Security Agency's mass collection of Americans' phone data sharply warned the Obama administration on Tuesday to get behind a bill to end the controversial practice, or risk losing the counter-terrorism powers provided by the post-9/11 Patriot Act.
Deriding the paucity of legislative alternatives after President Obama's announcement last month that he wants to transfer the responsibility for bulk collection out of the NSA, congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, the co-sponsor of the USA Freedom Act, told deputy attorney general James Cole at a House judiciary committee hearing that "you will get nothing" if the administration does not endorse the bill.
John Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the panel, warned that permitting bulk data collection to continue unabated risked congressional support for the entire portion of the Patriot Act the government claims authorizes it, known as Section 215, a provision set to expire on 1 June 2015. "We should address bulk collection today, or we risk losing all of Section 215 this time next year," Conyers said.
Much as support for bulk surveillance is a bipartisan position in the House intelligence committee, opposition in the judiciary committee is bipartisan. Liberal Democrat Zoe Lofgren and conservative Republican Darrell Issa, both of California, probed Cole to say on the record that the NSA phone records trove includes legislators' call records, something the NSA has been hard-pressed to deny on the record.
"202-225 and four digits. Do you collect it?" Issa asked Cole, referring to the prefix of office numbers for members of the House of Representatives.
"Probably we do," Cole answered.
Issa rejoindered that he had been in touch with the deputy prime minister of Lebanon after accusations emerged that the official had given money to Hezbollah, warning that a senior member of Congress was only two degrees of separation from terrorists.
It is about damned time that Congressman Issa stopped pissing away taxpayer dollars on politically motivated witch hunts and devoted some time and effort towards getting these fascists not only under control but stripped of their God mode power to spy on everything that millions of law abiding American citizens do. Not only that but to also address the ongoing data-mining and exactly why that massive NSA facility sitting in a remote area of Utah is needed if the American Stasi is NOT collecting content for future persecution of dissidents. The USA PATRIOT Act should be stricken from the law of the land and the Constitution restored. All that it is going to take is a bit of effort from a failed and feckless Congress but at least there are signs of life albeit they are faint.
Were this to be allowed to happen I would be the first one to volunteer to kick in some money to deport Mike Rogers to a country where they have a similar contempt for journalists – Egypt seems to be a prime location these days and if that doesn't work there are plenty of other authoritarian regimes that would love to have a deranged swine like this guy as a key member of their intelligence service goon squads. As I have previously noted, he conjures up valid comparisons to the similarly minded thug Reinhard Heydrich and would very fittingly have belonged in a prior historical era given his blatant and constant state of venomous contempt for anything other than the most tyrannical of political systems.
There will be no stopping this ongoing use of the Constitution as so much toilet paper until the USA PATRIOT Act is revoked and relegated to our national history as the shameful attempt to eliminate our very cherished freedoms that it has always been.
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The original church follows, in the general outline, the classical architectural type of cross-in-square plan with a dome. However, the large dome differs in type from the traditional Athenian style because it is divided into two tiers. The repairs made in 1908, the industrially produced tiles and the covering of the walls with bluff cement plaster have changed the aspect of the church enormously.


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The History and Future of the Solar Eclipse
Solar Eclipse with the moon covering the sun creating a Wedding Ring with clouds
As I write this, the Moon is shining brightly outside my window. It's in the first quarter phase at the moment, where you can see half of its surface iluminated by the hidden Sun, the other half in shadow. Over the next week, it will wax to its full phase, then wane for the rest of the month. By the 2nd of July it will reach it will be a new moon, passing between the Earth and Sun. And on that day it will cast a shadow upon the Earth. The darkest part of the shadow will pass across northern Chile, creating a total solar eclipse.
For about a year that date has been marked in my calendar. Since then I've been making various arrangements to be in the path of totality. Others have been making plans for years. Come July, people from all over the world will flock to Chile to stand in the shadow of the Moon for a brief moment of time.
The date and location of this South American eclipse has been known since the late 1800s. In 1887 Theodor von Oppolzer published his great Canon der Finsternisse (Canon of Eclipses) which listed all solar and lunar eclipses between 1207 BC and 2161. It was a huge computational achievement.
A page from Canon der Finsternisse, showing the predicted 2 July 2019 eclipse in Chile.
Theodor von Oppolzer
Throughout much of recorded history astronomers have calculated paterns, or cycles, in solar eclipses. By 20 BC Chinese astronomers had calculated a 135-month pattern now known as the tritos cycle. Ancient Mayans noted a similar pattern in eclipses. Around the same time astronomers in Mesopotamia calculated a 223-month Saros cycle. These patterns and others allowed early astronomers to predict a solar eclipse to the day. But they couldn't predict where the Moon's shadow would fall, the so-called path of totality. Because of Earth's rotation, your calculations are off by even an hour, your predicted path of totality will be off by hundreds of miles.
Halley's description of the 1715 eclipse.
The first truly accurate prediction of an eclipse was made by Edmond Halley. He predicted the path of totality across England for the eclipse of 22 April 1715. His prediction wasn't perfect, but it was accurate to within 20 miles of the observed path. Accurate observations of other eclipes allowed astronomers to refine predictions. Within a century, accurate predictions of eclipses were routine.
Eclipses were once seen as dark omens, which is perfectly understandable. It must have been terrifying to see the Sun grow suddenly dark without understanding its cause. But such powerful events also call to us. Having observed an eclipse, early astronomers strove to understand them. That curiosity and drive is part of what makes us human. It's why so many people flock to the location of an eclipse. But that's a story for another time.
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Direct flights between Kolkata and Paro make it now possible to combine a Pandaw river expedition with a visit to the ancient Kingdom of Bhutan, one of the world's most intriguing countries. Discover Bhutan's famous cliff-top monasteries, soaring mountain peaks and unique way of life.
Transfer to airport for domestic flight Kolkata - Paro.
Five nights accommodation at advertised hotels (or similar), including breakfast and meals as advertised, excursion and entrance fees as per itinerary, one flight Kolkata – Paro including check-in luggage of 20kg, Bhutan visa and permit fees.


All lessons subject to instructor availability. Please pre-book your lessons to guarantee an instructor by calling Powder King at 1-866-769-5464, a credit card is required to reserve your lessons. If you miss your lesson, your credit card will be charged the full lesson amount. If you need to cancel, please call & talk with our office staff or leave a detailed message.
Our beginner lesson package is intended to give new skiers or boarders the foundation they need to become comfortable on the hill. Each lesson package consists of four lessons with one instructor, rentals, and one day lift ticket per lesson for a total of $150. Lesson packages are non-transferable and non-refundable.
Lessons are oriented for students to get familiar with equipment & mountain lifts. Students will learn how to stop, slide & turn! Learn to Ride Package is $50 per person and it includes Complimentary Full Day Pass & Full Rentals. (PLEASE NOTE that the complimentary lift pass will only be given out AFTER the lesson has been completed). This package is intended for students who have never been on skis or a snowboard before. The same person cannot use the Learn to Ride Package twice.
Lessons are oriented for students to get familiar with equipment & mountain lifts. Please note that in a group lesson, how far you will advance is somewhat dependent on the group's abilities.
At this level students must be comfortable riding the chair lift. Riding techniques will focus on carving, slide turns & riding powder! Please note that in a group lesson, how far you will advance is somewhat dependent on the group's abilities.
Advanced session's focus on refining riding skills. Develop Alpine (off groomers: powder/trees), Freestyle (jumps & rails), or Boarder X /Ski X (race & carving) riding techniques.
The Pine Pass Ski Club is excited for the start of its 3rd season. We still have room for more intermediate skiers between 5-16 that are interested in developing their skiing level in a fun racing setting! We are available to assess any skiers that are uncertain of their skill level.
We are also looking for Enthusiastic Coaches to join our team. Training is available for the right candidate.
We train Saturdays on a variety of terrains and in the gates. Our program runs for about 10 weekends and our fees will remain at $250. Powder King generously offers a 50% discount on Regular Priced Season Passes for our racers. Attending races is encouraged but not mandatory.
Powder King is currently looking to open a snowboard club at our hill.
We are looking for enthusiastic and committed members to start a Snowboard Club at Powder King Mountain Resort.
If you are interested in joining please contact the Powder King Office at 1-866-769-5464.


There are hundreds of cafes and drinks stalls in Ho Chi Minh city (Saigon) for anyone to stop, drink and relax. Sugarcane Juice with Kumquat Juice, Tea with Kumquat and Honey, Corn Milk, Chinese Herb Tea, Coconut Water with Kumquat Juice are drinks you should try on your trip to Saigon. These drinks are all cheap, healthy and easy to make. But they are favorite drinks of all ages in this city. Just have some drink while looking at people on the streets, you will find out how the city beautiful is. Let's me tell you about Top 5 Refreshing Drinks in Saigon.
Iced Sugarcane Juice with Kumquat Juice is one of the most popular and cheapest drinks on Saigon streets. Just putting some ice into sugarcane juice with a half kumquat or kumquat juice, Saigon people have created the best drink ever. The drink with kumquat juice has very sweet and a little sour taste. It also attracts you with green-yellow color and fresh smell of sugar cane and kumquat. Why not try a glass of this amazing drink on Saigon street? You will feel like locals.
It's very easy to make this refreshing drink. All the cook need to do is putting the kumquat into a half, putting it into brewed tea, putting a spoon of honey and mix them as well. Lastly, the drink is added some ice and decorated with la bac ha. Iced Tea with Kumquat and Honey is available everywhere on the streets. It will help anyone to beat the hot in the summer. Maybe you can enjoy other drinks similar to this iced tea, but Iced Tea with Kumquat and Honey in Saigon, Vietnam has a different taste.
You may consider that why kumquat is used to make most of popular drinks in Saigon. It's right that sour and smelling kumquat is a perfect choice to mix with sweet juices and make the drinks tastier. Saigon people love to drink coconut water and also the mix of coconut water and kumquat juice. Some prefer coconut water with fresh kumquat juice and some prefer the one with salt-preserved kumquat. We also put shredded coconut meat or slices of young coconut meat into the drink. Of course Coconut water with Kumquat Juice is served cold. You can easily find this drink around many parks in Saigon.
In China Town Saigon, there are a lot of drink stalls which serve Herb Tea with secret recipes. Most of herb tea stalls are owned by Chinese. They have brown or black color and special smell. These teas are consider to be healthy, refreshing and delicious. This drink is a good choice to make you cool.


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access and judge the quality of information is of paramount importance. The art of anthroposophic medicine includes taking medical history, dealing in a scientifically founded way with fever and many acute and chronic illnesses, using basic anthroposophic medicines, knowing the limitations of anthroposophic medicine and understanding enough about eurythmy therapy, speech therapy, music therapy, rhythmical massage, art therapy etc. to be able to prescribe them and communicate with the therapist.
As doctors and therapists we have power. Power requires wisdom if it is to be used for the good of all. Therefore it is necessary that we think very clearly about our relationship to our patients, to society and to money on a micro and macro level. Such thinking can lead to contemplation, meditation and the wish to engage in one's own inner path. Further, we need to become acquainted with important skills and concepts regarding our own time and selfmanagement in order to prevent ourselves and our staff from burnout. We also need to know something about the rights and limitations of anthroposophic medicine, who is responsible for what, how we can contribute to a healthy and solid development of medicine in general and AM in particular, and what successful models of practice exist.


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Am I The One With Commitment Issues?
I swear I want a real relationship, but I keep dating guys who are already taken.
by Logan Hill | Dec 20, 2014
Q: I'm 29, and I have been in two "real" relationships; however, I seem to follow a pattern when it comes to dating. It seems like the only men that are interested or that I am interested in are unavailable. Married or in a long-term relationship, I've dated them all. I swear I want a committed relationship, and I'm very quick to assume it's the men that don't want one. But I'm starting to wonder: Am I the one with commitment issues?
A: I wouldn't say you're the only one with commitment issues. After all, the guys are cheating on their partners by dating you. But, yes, you do have commitment issues.
You know it. And you know what the problem is: You are not dating available guys because some part of you is afraid of a real relationship and all the vulnerability that requires. It's self-defeating, but you know that too. And you need to stop sabotaging yourself if you're going to build something real.
I get it: It can be hot to be the other one. And the lure of an illicit affair is often that you get this rush of passion—this thrill—that can feel exciting, almost as if it's actually love. But it's usually just an empty high. There's nothing brave about cheating with an unavailable guy, because you're only risking getting caught. Because you're not risking a real relationship and because you know there's no chance of your relationship going anywhere, you're not being bold. He might be risking something of value, but you're not. Emotionally, you're playing it safe. That's why the turn-on inevitably turns off.
So, yes, stop dating married guys. Take a real risk on a relationship that might actually go somewhere. If you really want a committed relationship, stop playing it safe by taking superficial risks. You've got to be bold enough to open yourself up to someone who can break your heart: They're the only ones who can really make you happy.
Q: My boyfriend and I have been dating for a year, and recently things have started to go downhill. Enter my best guy friend who I've been friends with for two years. He recently admitted that he had feelings for me and would rather be with me than his current girlfriend, which is awesome because I've always had feelings for him, like really strong feelings. Everyone around me is telling me to see where things go with my best friend, but I feel like maybe we're just both in a rough patch at the same time and it would be a mistake. What should I do?
A: Think of this like you're Tarzan. Sure, we all want to see the next vine before we let go of the one we're swinging from. But if you try to grab both at the same time, you'll fall. Or get stuck in between.
So think of this as a two-step dilemma. You need to separate the matter of your boyfriend from the question of your guy friend. First step: Decide if you want to be with your boyfriend. This might seem like it's all caught up in the idea of your flirtatious guy friend, but it shouldn't be. Don't use this specific guy as your reason. You shouldn't just be leaving your boyfriend just because you're turned on by someone else. And you shouldn't stay just because there's no other option. Forget about the friend for a minute and decide on the merits of your relationship with your boyfriend alone: Do you think you could be happier with someone else? If so, break up with him.
It's better to make the decision yourself, make a clean break, and feel good about it. Self-sabotaging the relationship by starting an affair—or a heavy flirtation—may seem like the easy way out, but actually it's not. Not only does it cloud the issue with your current boyfriend, it would make the beginning of your relationship with the new guy messier than it needs to be. Sure, lots of us have made this mistake. People leave a relationship for someone else all the time. But that's just unnecessary hassle. Honestly dealing with the issue is healthier than cheating.
Once you make that first decision (break up with your boyfriend or not), step two is easy: Decide whether you want to be with this friend or someone else. With a clear conscience, that decision should be a whole lot simpler.
Besides, you can't count on this other guy. He's got a girlfriend of his own. He's no sure thing, because he might not leave her, no matter what he says. But that's not your problem yet. Do the two-step: Make a decision about your boyfriend first. Then think about this other guy. And if you do decide to start something up with him, tell him that you're not fooling around until he ends things with his girlfriend. You don't need—or deserve—that hassle.
Q: My husband and I have been married for a little over a year. About nine months after we married, I deployed to the Middle East. After two months, I found out he had an email/fake Facebook and had joined 30+ dating and hookup sites 10 days after I had left. He claimed he never met anyone on the sites, even though he messaged upward of 50 girls asking them to come over and have wine in our hot tub. I am still deployed, but we have said we don't plan on making any decisions until I get home about our future. However, I keep finding him caught in lies such as going out to the club with his friends or ex flings that have texted him, etc. He claims he wants our marriage to work, but [even] faced with the chance of divorce, he's still lying and sneaking around. Is there even a point in trying to believe he will change?
A: There are exceptions to every rule. And I try not to give ironclad advice here, whether that's "definitely dump him" or "definitely marry him" because each one of us is complicated, and a relationship multiples that complexity times two. And we all know a couple that made things work when every clue signaled an obvious breakup and everyone thought they were doomed.
But. Come on…
You're serving your country overseas and putting your life on the line. You are clearly someone who cares about honor and a code of behavior. Meanwhile, he's inviting dozens of women to get drunk innyour hot tub. That is such bullshit.
And it's worse because he's still lying to you. You nail what's most wrong about this perfectly: "He claims he wants our marriage to work, but [even] faced with the chance of divorce and he's still lying and sneaking around." That's honestly all you need to say. You cannot trust this guy.
He knows it hurts you. He knows he's putting your marriage at risk. But he won't stop disrespecting you, and it's just a little more than one year into your marriage. I've got to think this is only going to get worse.
You loved this guy enough to marry him, so you could look hard at what's motivating this disrespectful, awful behavior—but it won't excuse the behavior itself. I don't see how you move forward with him. And, honestly, since he's the one who abused your trust, it's up to him to move heaven and earth to convince you to stay with him. I don't know how he could regain your trust. But that's not for me to say—or for you to fix— anyway. This is on him.
Do you have a question for Logan about sex or relationships? Ask him here.
This article originally appeared on Cosmopolitan.com. Minor edits have been made by the Cosmo.ph editors.
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Legal ruling 395
Franchise Tax Board - Legal Division
Franchise Tax - Protests and Petitions for Reassessment by Transferees
The transferee of a suspended taxpayer can file a protest or petition for reassessment contesting any of the elements of transferee liability except the liability of the transferor. The transferee of a taxpayer which is not suspended can file a protest or petition for reassessment contesting the liability of the transferor. The transferee of a suspended taxpayer cannot file a protest or petition for reassessment contesting the liability of the transferor.
Advice has been requested concerning the right of a transferee to file a protest against a proposed assessment or a petition for reassessment against a jeopardy assessment.
The transferee may contest any of the elements of transferee liability except the liability of the transferor, even if the transferor is suspended.
Sections 23301 and 23301.5 of the Revenue and Taxation Code provide that a suspended corporation loses all of its powers except the power to amend its articles of incorporation in order to acquire a new name. A suspended corporation therefore may not file a protest or petition for reassessment.
Section 25701a of the Revenue and Taxation Code provides for the assessment of transferee liability. The section states that, with certain exceptions not applicable here, transferee liability is to be assessed in the same manner as the tax. Thus the protest and petition for reassessment provisions of the law are applicable to transferee liability.
The nature of transferee liability is discussed in Appeal of A. Brigham and Zelletta M. Rose, Cal. St. Bd. of Equal., August 1, 1966, CCH 203-361, P-H 48,417. That case held that Section 25701a is similar to Internal Revenue Code Section 6901(a)(1)(A); ". . . the existence and extent of a transferee's liability" under the federal statute must be based on local law; local substantive law is also determinative with respect to Section 25701a; and that Section 3439.04 of the Civil Code is the applicable law in California.
That Civil Code Section requires a conveyance to be made without the receipt of fair consideration by a debtor ". . . who is or will thereby be rendered insolvent . . . ." These same elements are also necessary to establish transferee liability under the federal transferee liability section. In addition, under the federal statute the government must exhaust all reasonable remedies against the taxpayer before proceeding against the transferee.
Clearly the suspended status of the corporation has no bearing on the existence of any of the elements of transferee liability, with the exception of the liability of the transferor, which will be discussed below. Therefore, a transferee of a suspended transferor may file a protest or petition for reassessment with respect to any of the elements of transferee liability except the liability of the transferor.
If the transferor has not been suspended, the transferee may file a protest or petition for reassessment contesting the liability of the transferor. Under the provisions of Section 3439.04 of the Civil Code only existing creditors can qualify for relief. TWM Homes, Inc. v. Atherwood Realty and Investment Co., 214 Cal.App.2d 826 (1963). Also, under the federal transferee liability section, it is a requirement that the transferor be liable for the tax. Five Star Dresses, Inc., 17 TCM 190, 202 (1958). Therefore, since the transferee has the right to protest or petition for reassessment as discussed above, the transferee may include the liability of the transferor in the protest or petition if the transferor is not suspended.
If the transferor has been suspended, the transferee may not contest the liability of the transferor. A suspended corporation cannot file a protest or petition for reassessment. The assignee of a suspended corporation has the same disabilities as its assignor. Cleveland v. Gore Bros. Inc., 14 Cal.App.2d 681 (1936). The transferee of a suspended corporation should also be subject to the same disabilities as an assignee.
Transferee liability in equity, which appears to be the nature of the liability established in Appeal of A. Brigham and Zelletta M. Rose, supra, is based upon the transferee receiving from the transferor property or funds and is a proceeding in rem. United States v. Floersch, 276 Fed.2d 714 (CA 10, 1960) The recipient should be in no better position than the transferor.
Therefore, the transferee should not be able to protest or petition for reassessment with respect to the liability of the transferor when the suspension of the transferor occurs prior to the transfer of the assets. To hold otherwise would encourage avoidance of the suspension provisions of the law. For example, a suspended corporation could transfer its assets and the transferee would then acquire powers not held by the transferor, even though the suspended transferor does not have the power to make a valid transfer of its assets.
Even if the suspension of the transferor occurs subsequent to the transfer of the assets, the transferee should not be able to protest or petition for reassessment. To allow the transferee to do so would permit a taxpayer to transfer its assets and then allow itself to become suspended. The suspension provisions of the law could be avoided by simply transferring the assets before suspension occurred. Such a result could not have been intended by the Legislature.


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Oyster Pop-Ups
Make the rounds in and around the Triangle
Freshly shucked oysters (a couple with tiny pea crabs) stay cold on a bed of ice. Oysters are available by the dozen, half dozen, or as singles.
By Erica Hinton
Photography By Bryan Regan January 3, 2023
On a Wednesday evening in November, Donald "Tres" Hundertmark and Doreen Rivers Graham set up a display of shucked oysters on a large bed of ice in the dining area of State of Beer in Raleigh. Since 2019, they have been hosting oyster pop-ups, an opportunity for oyster lovers to try a sampling of several North Carolina offerings (shrimp, too), while grabbing a cold beer or cider.
Their business, NCOyster365, which they run with events coordinator Kyle Rivers, moves all over the state for these pop-ups, landing in the Triangle area a few times a month. They are so passionate about sharing their love of oysters — and great offerings that come from this state — that they trademarked the phase "The Napa Valley of Oysters," a term that comes from Rowan Jacobsen, author of books such as A Geography of Oysters and The Essential Oyster that chronicle North Carolina's bivalve bounty.
Doreen Rivers Graham and Donald "Tres" Hundertmark
"We often equate oysters to wine in our explanation of them," said Hundertmark. "If you line up six chardonnays, they will all taste different. The same with our North Carolina oysters."
Hundertmark explains that North Carolina has the second largest amount of estuaries in the nation, and oysters require both fresh and saltwater to exist. "We have a great opportunity for oysters and a variety of flavor profiles, including green gill oysters," he said.
In addition, oysters are fundamental to water quality, with each one filtering pollutants from up to 50 gallons a day, added Graham. They are also low in calories, yet loaded with nutrients, including protein, healthy fats, vitamins, and minerals.
A selection of North Carolina Oysters inclue Carolina Gold from North River.
At one of NCOyster365's events, you may find Permuda Island Selects or Tarheel Tiderunners from Stump Sound, an area between Sneads Ferry to North Topsail Beach; Sticky Bottoms from Hatteras Island; Siren Salts from North River in Carteret County; Currituck Select from Spencer Bay in Hyde County; White Oaks from Swansboro in Onslow County; Core Sounders from Jarret Bay in Beaufort, NC; Chadwick Creeks from Bayboro in Pamlico County; Savage Inlet Salts from Oregon Inlet on the Outer Banks; and Top Seacrets from Topsail Island.
"An oyster's flavor profile can vary tremendously. Most North Carolina oysters have a high salinity. Oysters in the Pamlico area have a lower salinity," said Graham. "An oyster's flavor profile depends on tides, what they eat, and in the waters they grow. So an oyster is not just an oyster, and the taste can vary. NC oysters can be very salty, some metallic, or high salinity with a sweet finish. There are a lot of factors for an oyster's flavor."
Tres Hundertmark and Doreen Rivers Graham shuck oysters right as they are ordeded.
At the pop-ups, oysters are sold steamed or raw by the dozen, half dozen, or as singles. Accompaniments include oyster crackers, lemons, mignonettes, a homemade cocktail sauce they will soon be bottling for sale, and a variety of hot sauces. You may even get lucky and find a tiny pea crab, a soft-bodied stowaway that lives in bivalves like oysters and mussels. "When you find a pea crab, it is a good sign that the area the oyster is growing has very good water," said Graham. "Pea crabs are delicious!"
Also on the menu is fresh NC shrimp, which are boiled in garlic, onion, and Old Bay. Every item is made to order, and prices range from $2.50 to $25.
Fresh NC shrimp are boiled in garlic, onion, and Old Bay.
Like their name NCOyster365 suggests, oysters are available year-round, not just during months with an "R" in them, which Graham explains was a "rule in a time where refrigeration was nonexistent on boats. Plus, there is more monitoring and regulation than in the former days of oyster farming. Also, the 'R' rule mainly was for the wild oysters. Wild oyster season has a short window of time. Wild oysters reproduce in the warmer months. It is not that you cannot eat wild oysters in warmer months, but they give off a strong flavor because they are mating. Most people do not like the taste during that time. Farm-raised oysters are usually triploid oysters, which do not reproduce."
A dozen oysters and a glass of cider make for a perfect meal in front of the fire pit at State of Beer.
There is also a second side to NCOyster365's business: brokering oysters. "It is very difficult for North Carolina oysters to get into other markets because of a bias of warm-water oysters," said Graham. "We have had distributors refuse oysters below Virginia. We share the same ocean. Virginia is considered a Southern state, so it makes no sense for any seafood purveyor to refuse an oyster from the same coast and ocean as the neighboring state."
Despite the challenges of brokering oysters, Graham said she is happy to see people come out to their events and share her excitement. "I am very pleased that people dig what we do," she said.
Visit ncoyster365.com for a calendar of upcoming pop-up events.
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