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Courses offered by the Department of Drama are listed on the Stanford Bulletin's ExploreCourses web site under the subject codes DRAMA and DANCE.
The Drama Department integrates theory, criticism, and performance. Convinced that scholarship is strengthened by direct engagement in performance, and that performance is enhanced by practitioners whose analytic skills have been honed in scholarship, the department produces more than a dozen productions each academic school year, including canonical plays, commissioned dance works, experimental projects, and the works of visiting artists.
The mission of the undergraduate program in Drama is to provide a strong non-conservatory program for students studying Drama and Dance in a liberal arts context. Joining academic research with performance and technical practice, department majors pursue areas of interest in acting, directing, playwriting, dance, design, stage management, performance theory, and cultural studies. Students explore these fields in a collaborative environment with close faculty contact. One of the requirements of the major is to fulfill a stage management course, generally in the junior year, which allows students practical exposure to managing and/or crewing a production. It is essential that students understand the concrete workings of theater in order to appreciate its history and literature. With faculty collaboration, students of Drama and Dance integrate research, theory, intellectual engagement, and performance. During the senior year, students have the option of completing a senior project in addition to completing the 60 units required for the major.
the ability to find organic and meaningful ways of integrating theory and practice.
the ability to perform critical and theoretical analysis within the discipline.
effective research and writing skills that complement practical work.
The mission of the graduate program in Drama is to produce students who work on the leading edge of both scholarly and performance practice. The Ph.D. program in Drama emphasizes the combination of theory and practice. Graduate students complete a program with a study of critical theory and textual history and an understanding that such theory is informed by practical elements in directing, acting, writing, and design.


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An investment advisor's duty is to form an opinion about the future to make decisions in the present. However unpleasant this task appears, given tenor of the presidential race, we'll soldier on. White House policies modestly influence capital markets in the short-term, but have little effect on economic fundamentals in the long-term.
Hilary Clinton has the best chance to win the White House, despite her disfavor with the general public. The House will probably remain GOP. The Senate is a toss-up but neither side will be able to gain a filibuster-proof majority. Thus, a gridlock scenario lends itself to a terrific bipartisan cooperation opportunity.
Pursuing a divisive agenda with bitter debates only makes Clinton's reelection chances worse. Her best bet is to get substantive things done in her first term. Areas of consideration include narrowing the deficit, fixing the tax code, repairing infrastructure, rebuilding the military, reforming immigration and shoring up entitlement programs.
The good news is Speaker Ryan is eager to tackle the big problems and Senate leaders Schumer and McConnell are action-oriented, in touch with their base.
The finance sector will probably be hit with further regulatory pressures but the big banks won't be broken up. Insurers and 'price gouging' bio-tech firm will experience pain from needed healthcare reform, but hospitals will feel fine with an expanding patient base.
Fossil fuel firms will fizzle in light of Clinton's alternate energy mandates while solar and electric cars will have their day in the sun through subsidies. Industrials benefit from a infrastructure push, though Obama's plan didn't work.
One big issue which won't see much progress is tax reform, due wide differences in the parties' world view. We may see the hedge fund manager's 'loophole' closed, but not much more.
Entitlement reform will also have a difficult time working through each side's differences, but the yawning deficit could force their hand.Trade may be the surprise, although she has tacked away from reform. A wide swath of the electorate stands to gain.
Fortunately, the underlying economy is in good shape with stable labor markets and prices while the consumer continues to spend. No matter what happens, we expect markets to be OK for 2017.
SCM's Quarterly Consensus Survey, conducted at the beginning of the fourth quarter. It found real GDP forecast consensus slide further to 1.7 percent for 2016 and 2.3 for 2017. The continued below average GDP growth is disappointing. On the other hand, chances of recession are still low due to strong consumer spending and solid labor markets.
Industrial production is expected to dip –0.8 percent in 2016 and 2.0 percent in 2017. Capacity utilization estimates trended slightly lower to 75.6 percent for 2016 and 76.6 percent for 2017, not helpful to capital spending on Tech products.
Positive housing trends remain in place. Starts are set at 1.2 million units for 2016, and may rise to 1.3 million units in 2017. Unemployment rate forecasts held steady at 4.8 percent in 2016 and should be 4.6 percent in 2017, giving a boost to the recovering housing market and, along with plummeting gas prices, buoying auto sales.
Inflation expectations remain low, held down by soft energy prices and restrained global demand. Below average money supply turnover should keep a lid on prices near term. Continued easy monetary policy is contingent on low inflation. One more interest rate hike is expected in 2016.
CPI estimates dipped to 1.4 percent for 2016 and 2.3 percent for 2017. Other indices, such as GDP Price Deflator and Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE), show a similar path, trending toward continued moderate inflation.
The yield curve will elevate but retain a flat shape in 2016, with T-bill rates rising to 0.53 percent and 0.8 percent in 2017. Ten-year Treasury yield expectations are 1.7 percent in 2016 and 2.0 percent in 2017.
Amid the political conventions of the last weeks, the markets hit record highs but slid back to end the month, still in favorable territory.. Economic news was mixed and political developments didn't seem to have a material effect.
The Dow was up 2.8% for July after reaching a record 18,622 on July 26. The S&P was up 3.6% for the month. These highs were in contrast to the 20% plunge in oil prices. This is seen by some as bearish on the stocks.
Real GDP was up a mere 12.2% for the second quarter which was better than the prior quarter's .8% but no where near the historical 3.2%. The short fall from expected 2+% was blamed on inventory liquidation and weak oil prices.
Retail sales were healthy but businesses are not spending. Its cheaper for them to hire workers and then firing them when things slow than investing in expensive equipment and then having it sit idle.
Odds slightly favor the Dems retaining the White House, GOP holding onto the House and the Senate is a tossup. Implications for the economy and markets are not favorable but recession is not expected in the nex year. The Fed may hike rates in December but a lot could happen between now and then.
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SCM's Quarterly Consensus Survey, conducted at the beginning of the third quarter, saw real GDP forecast consensus slide further to 2.2 percent for 2016 and 2.3 for 2017. The continued below average GDP growth is disappointing but chances of recession are still low due to strong consumer spending and solid labor markets.
Industrial production is expected to rise 0.1 percent in 2016 and 2.0 percent in 2017. Capacity utilization estimates trended slightly lower to 76.2 percent for 2016 and 76.7 percent for 2017, spurring capital spending on Tech products.
Inflation expectations remain low, held down by soft energy prices and restrained global demand. Below average money supply turnover should keep a lid on prices near term. Continued easy monetary policy is contingent on low inflation. Only one or two interest rate hikes are expected in 2016.
CPI estimates dipped to 1.3 percent for 2016 and 2.2 percent for 2017. Other indices, such as GDP Price Deflator and Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE), show a similar path, trending toward continued moderate inflation.
The yield curve will elevate but retain a flat shape in 2016, with T-bill rates rising to 0.5 percent and 1.1 percent in 2017. Ten-year Treasury yield expectations are 2.0 percent in 2016 and 2.4 percent in 2017.


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Michael Steele, chairman of GOPAC and former lieutenant governor of Maryland, waves before speaking at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008.
Steele's in for RNC chair: 'I want the gig'
By ALEXANDER BURNS
Former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele shook up the emerging race for chair of the Republican National Committee Thursday, announcing that he would join the contest in an appearance on Fox News' "Hannity & Colmes."
"I want the gig. I'm ready to lead this party," Steele said. "I think we have been kind of wandering and doubting ourselves for far too long. I think this past election was the culmination of that self-doubt, which has to end. We have a message, I think, of empowerment and ownership and opportunity that resonates with Americans. We just need to get back to that."
With Republicans out of power in Congress and a Democrat in the White House, the next RNC chairman could prove to be an unusually high-profile leader for his party, with the opportunity to shape and articulate a new vision for the GOP on a national stage.
Steele, who chaired the Maryland Republican Party and lost a 2006 bid for Senate to then-Rep. Ben Cardin, also picked up the endorsement of Sean Hannity, the popular Fox News host.
The former lieutenant governor currently heads the conservative group GOPAC. He addressed the Republican National Convention in September and is one of the party's highest-profile minority members. He is regarded as a strong public communicator, and has substituted for Hannity on his show in the past.
Steele's announcement complicates an already muddled leadership battle. Earlier this week, Michigan Republican Party Chair Saul Anuzis became the first candidate to formally declare his entry into the race, announcing his intentions on a Twitter feed in a move designed to highlight new ways of connecting with voters.
"We will invest in the tools and the team we need to reach young voters, and reach more voters," Anuzis wrote on his campaign website Wednesday. "Today it's text messages and Twitter, but who knows what tomorrow will hold. We must be at the forefront of that advancement."
In addition to Steele and Anuzis, numerous other Republicans are considering the race for party chair, including incumbent RNC Chair Mike Duncan, former Iowa Congressman Jim Nussle, Texas Republican Party Chair Tina Benkiser, Florida Republican Chair Jim Greer and South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Katon Dawson, who is holding a conference for conservatives in Myrtle Beach, S.C., this weekend.
Chip Saltsman, who ran former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign, and Chuck Yob, the former RNC committeeman for Michigan, are also exploring the race.
At the Republican Governors Association conference in Miami on Thursday, several GOP governors approached Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who chaired the RNC during the 1990s, about returning to his old job. Barbour dismissed the idea.
The 168 members of the RNC will vote on a new chairman at a meeting in January.

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State v. Eckartz
The ACLU of Georgia filed a motion on behalf of Charles "Skip" Eckartz, a 63-year-old disabled Vietnam veteran, to waive the nearly $9,000 in fines and fees of his probation. Mr. Eckartz and his wife survive on a fixed monthly income of $966, which comes from Social Security and VA disability benefits. His financial position makes it impossible for him to pay his probation fees and fines. Georgia has the highest probation rate in the nation, and probation violations send people back to prison at an alarming rate.
On August 19, 2016, the police raided the Eckartz home, found marijuana, arrested him and his wife — a homemaker — on charges of manufacturing marijuana, and put them in jail for five days. Mr. Eckartz had no criminal record, so he pleaded guilty as a First Offender. Charges against Ms. Eckartz were dropped. While serving in the Air Force in Vietnam, Mr. Eckartz suffered a broken back and thigh from jumping out of a helicopter. Although cannabis oil, which is legal in the state of Georgia, is an effective treatment for his injuries, it remains legally unavailable.
After the arrest, the couple were no longer able to afford to remain in their home in Elbert County and moved in with their daughter in Florida where medical marijuana is legal and available. However, the conditions of Mr. Eckartz' probation prohibit him from having in his possession or being in the presence of controlled substances including those that his doctor prescribes for pain from military-related injuries.
The motion asks for two modifications to Mr. Eckartz' conditions of probation. First, the motion asks the court to waive all fines, fees, and court costs of his probation because of his financial position. By law, the judge must modify, waive, or convert probation fines and fees depending upon an individual's financial circumstances.
Second, the motion asks the court to permit Mr. Eckartz to obtain legally available medical treatment options that his doctor prescribes where he lives in Florida, including THC oil and medical marijuana which are legal in that state.
Attorney(s)
Kosha Tucker, ACLU of Georgia
pdfACLUGA-MotionModifyProbation_CEckartz.pdf
pdfEckartz-modified-probation-order.pdf
https://www.acluga.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/acluga-motionmodifyprobation_ceckartz.pdf


September 11, 2018 -- Vancouver, British Columbia -- Miranda Gold Corp. (TSX-V: MAD) (the "Company") announces that it is offering on a non-brokered private placement basis up to 6,000,000 units at a price of $0.25 per unit for gross proceeds of up to $1,500,000. Each unit will consist of one post-consolidated common share and one share purchase warrant exercisable into a post-consolidated common share at a price of $0.50 per share for a period of five years. This offering replaces the financing announced in the Company's August 29 news release.
Prior to completion of the offering, the Company plans to consolidate its outstanding common shares on the basis of 10 existing common shares for each post-consolidated common share. The Company's name and trading symbol will remain unchanged.
Proceeds from the private placement will be used to advance exploration on the Company's Columbia projects and to fund potential acquisitions in Colombia, as well as for general working capital. The Company may pay a finder's fee of up to 6% cash on a portion of the private placement. All securities issued in connection with the private placement will be subject to a four month hold period from the closing date. The share consolidation and the private placement are subject to TSX Venture Exchange approval.
After completion of the share consolidation and the private placement, the issued and outstanding capital of the Company will be approximately 19,251,757 common shares before exercise of outstanding options and warrants as adjusted for the share consolidation.
Miranda is a gold prospect generator active in Colombia. Our emphasis is on acquiring gold exploration projects with world-class discovery potential. Miranda performs its own grass roots exploration and then employs a joint venture business model on its projects to maximize investor exposure to discovery and minimize financial risk. Miranda has ongoing relationships with IAMGold Corporation and Newmont Mining.


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Fresh off a 2019 Juno nomination for Contemporary Roots Album Of The Year, The Deep Dark Woods have been crafting their brand of prairie psychedelics and a "loose grungy folk sound" for over ten years. The sound is rooted in tradition, drawing inspiration from sounds out of the UK and Appalachia, and employing rich storytelling: these heart-rending works have caught the attentions of legends such as Peter Eden and Shirley Collins.
Where past albums have focused more on retelling stories of the past, Turning Toward The Morning, their upcoming 2020 release, is raw and intimate. It is a picture or Ryan Bolt, the band's songwriter and singer, at his most vulnerable. The stories that Bolt tells are timeless - they are stories of love found and lost, stories of grief and haunting depression, stories of hope springing forth again. Known for his deep voice, Bolt experiments with new registers on this album, floating up into a delicate falsetto that emphasizes the intimacy of these songs.
Turning Toward The Morning features a cast of musicians near and dear to the band. Kacy Anderson and Clayton Linthicum (of Kacy & Clayton) feature heavily on the album, with Clayton also assisting with arrangements. Together, the band creates a solid home for these songs, showering the songs with bursts of unbridled psychedelia. The effect is an album that requires multiple listens for its subtle intricacies and depth of emotion. But multiple listens are easy to do, because this is an album that feels alive with every spin.
With the album to come in 2020 The Deep Dark Woods are over in August to play Parkenfestivalen in Bodø:
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UK's new Defence Secretary states "Russia is ready to kill" UK citizens "by the thousands"
UK Defense Secretary: "Russia is ready to kill us by the thousands"
by Alex Christoforou January 27, 2018 5.9k Views 24 Votes
UK citizens were treated to this shocking and ridiculous fear mongering headline…
"'Russia is ready to kill us by the thousands': Defence Secretary warns that Moscow could cause mass casualties by crippling crucial energy supplies."
Newly appointed UK Defence Secretary, Gavin Williamson has quickly jumped on the Russophobia bandwagon.
Zerohedge reports…
Recently installed in office, UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson is already beating the drums of a new Cold War while seeking to expand Britain's defense budget, claiming a new 'Russian invasion' of sorts is coming. In an interview with The Telegraph Williamson warned that Russia is actively seeking to bring about Britain's economic collapse by attacking its infrastructure which he said will cause "thousands and thousands and thousands of deaths". Meanwhile, Russian officials were quick to mock the scenario as "worthy of a Monty Python sketch".
Tory Defence Secretary Williamson, considered by many to be a possible successor to Prime Minister Theresa May described the 'Russian threat' as more subtle than an outright conventional military invasion, saying "The plan for the Russians won't be for landing craft to appear in the South Bay in Scarborough, and off Brighton Beach." Instead, he explained "the real threat" as term of a cyber and electronic warfare doomsday scenario of "creating total chaos within the country."
Williamson told UK's The Telegraph…
"What they [Russians] are looking at doing is they are going to be thinking 'How can we just cause so much pain to Britain?'. Damage its economy, rip its infrastructure apart, actually cause thousands and thousands and thousands of deaths, but actually have an element of creating total chaos within the country."
And Williamson's evidence for such sensational claims of an impending attack that would bring down nearly overnight civilizational collapse? Zerohedge explains…
He offered the following: "Why would they keep photographing and looking at power stations, why are they looking at the interconnectors that bring so much electricity and so much energy into our country," and said further, "If you could imagine the domestic and industrial chaos that this would actually cause. What they would do is cause the chaos and then step back."
To underscore that in his mind, he's not envisioning this threat of a Russian-induced apocalypse far off in either the medium-term or distant future, nor advancing hyperbole or some imagined war game scenario, he added, "This is the real threat that I believe the country is facing at the moment."
"They are looking at these things because they are saying these are the ways that we can hurt Britain," Williamson said. Thought not stating who "they" are in terms of specific persons or organizations caught or observed in the act conducting such surveillance and war-planning as described (other than the ominously sinister 'Russians'), he went on to delineate some 'what if' scenarios: "If we lost our interconnectors, which would be something that we know that they are looking at, there would be 3 million homes without electricity. In a few years' time there will be 8 million homes that would be dependent."
Shortly after the interview was published, UK energy and infrastructure experts addressed Williamson's statementabout losing electric interconnectors, dismissing the scenario of chaos, mass death, and "millions" without power as absurd and clearly based in scaremongering. One leading energy expert, speaking to The Guardian, admitted candidly, "It does sound a bit like scaremongering really. If you take out one interconnector it's clear the UK can survive. We saw that last year with the one to France."
Williamson's warning echoed a scenario laid out previously by Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach in December, who warned that Russia could in an instant end 97 percent of global communications capabilities and disrupt trillions in daily financial transactions, ushering in a "catastrophic" economic collapse, as he claimed Russia has long targeted the roughly 200 international undersea network cables while seeking disruption of Western societies and the global economy (which nonsensically would undermine Russia's economy as well).
Though a pattern of reckless Russia-baiting hysteria now seems to have become the default backdrop for any and all public discourse related to national security in the US and UK, it has remained a rarity for someone of Williamson's rank and office – occupying the highest civilian position over the armed forces – to appeal directly to the common citizenry and Western world in general essentially with words of, "Russia is ready to kill us!"
Well, let's just call it a slightly less sophisticated version of Condoleezza Rice's infamous Saddam scare tactic line, "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." Like with the deceptive and failed Iraq war, such statements – now recognized by much of the thinking public as worn-out jingoistic clichés – by design aim to immediately shut down critical thought or inquiry, whipping up a desperate survival mode mentality, as well as of course raising those defense budgets.
As with everything in life, follow the money to find the real reasons behind Williamson war mongering stance.
The new UK Defence Secretary sent the nation's top general to push for expanded defense spending with Moscow as the primary justification for the change in a speech before the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).
The Guardian reported early this week…
Military chiefs calling for more spending is almost as regular an event as the first cuckoo call. Usually, the calls are left to retired generals and admirals. It is safer for them to make the case; for serving officers it is harder, with the risk of clashing with political masters….
He [chief of general staff Sir Nick Carter] is making the plea now because the government is about to announce a new defence spending review and the next few months will be dominated by a push by Williamson and the MoD for a rise in the £36bn defence budget.
According to Zerohedge, Moscow was swift to respond, albeit in an appropriately humorous way, with Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov saying Secretary Williamson had "lost his grasp on reason" and that the comments were "worthy of a Monty Python sketch". The Russian Embassy in London quickly tweeted in response, "Some British politicians bear no responsibility for their words," and later in the day issued a formal statement.
The formal statement, issued through the Russian Embassy in London's homepage and social media, slammed Williamson's comments as cheap manipulation of the British public using "confrontational rhetoric" for the sake of getting "a couple of billions of extra pounds from the budget."
The statement reads in part…
We can see a wide rift between the opinions prevailing in the British society in favour of repairing our bilateral relations – and those among the military and political elite, who prefer to intimidate their own population just to get a couple of billions extra pounds from the budget.
In the modern world, you just can't build a respectable policy on confrontational rhetoric. In the long run it will turn out badly for the prestige of the country itself, just like it was after UK actions in Iraq, Libya or Syria.
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Home Sports ICC World Cup 2019: Team India stranded in England till WC final on July 14: Reports
ICC World Cup 2019: Team India stranded in England till WC final on July 14: Reports
NEW DELHI, JULY 12: India has left the World Cup but the World Cup is yet to leave the Men-in-Blue as Virat Kohli and Co are forced to stay in England till the final of ICC World Cup 2019. India's sudden exit from the semi-final after an 18-run defeat to New Zealand on Wednesday, has not only left billions of fans heart-broken but it has also given rise to a piercing headache to the Indian Cricket Team's logistic manager. The BCCI has reportedly failed to arrange return tickets for the Indian side on time, leaving Kohli, Dhoni and others including the coaches and support staff stranded in Manchester till Sunday.
The logistic planning went for a toss after India's exit from the World Cup on Wednesday. The BCCI tried its best but the tickets could not be arranged on time and as per reports it will only arranged on or after Sunday, July 14 – the day England and New Zealand will play in the World Cup final at Lord's.
The Indian cricketers, however, left their team hotel at Manchester on Thursday but are expected to remain in the city till Sunday. "Most of the boys will be in Manchester till July 14 and leave from there. Tickets are being booked after the campaign came to an end yesterday," a senior BCCI official was quoted as saying by Quint.
India will now be gearing up for a Test and limited-overs tour of West Indies starting August 3.
While a few players are set to return to India, some others are expected to stay back or leave for different destinations for a 2-week break after being on the road for past 7 weeks.
"The players will start leaving in batches and groups to their preferred destination as per availability of tickets," a BCCI source told PTI.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, whose future is the subject of swirling speculation after what is being considered his last assignment in national colours, is expected to return to his hometown Ranchi after a few days.
Skipper Virat Kohli, at the end of the match on Wednesday, asserted that Dhoni has not told him anything about his future plans but it is learnt that an announcement on it might come once the 38-year-old returns home. The team has been together since reporting in Mumbai on May 20 before leaving for the United Kingdom the next day.
The series against the West Indies comprises 3 T20 Internationals (August 3 to 8), 2 of which will be played in Florida, USA.
This will be followed by an ODI series from August 8 to 14 and the assignment will end with a 2-match Test series from August 22 to September 3.
The Tests are set to be West Indian swashbuckler Chris Gayle's last outing in national colours. (Courtesy: HT)
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How the built environment of the security state reflects the anxieties of the modern age.
All that is known about this photo for sure is that it was taken after 1986. The Headquarters Building for the National Security Agency is the one in the back, a modest nine-story structure that resembles an anonymous apartment complex. It was completed in 1963; the lower, mall-shaped building, Operations Building 1, predates it by a decade. The more prominent towers—a pair of blue-black boxes, Operations 2A and 2B, clad in copper to block electromagnetic signals, like a Faraday cage—were finished in 1986.
That much is knowable thanks to a 2012 document published by the NSA for its 60th anniversary. The agency itself would not confirm when the buildings had been finished (or if they even were), according to Jack Self, a writer for the U.K. magazine Dezeen who dug into the history of the NSA campus a couple years back, revealing the unlikely architects behind the structures.
Photos of Winner, a 25-year-old woman who lives in Augusta, Georgia, are circulating widely. So is the official photo of the NSA campus in Fort Meade, Maryland—one of the most striking architectural images of the moment. It is a reminder that the built environment of the security state has taken dark turns over the last 30 years.
Like the FBI Building, the NSA headquarters is a metaphor for the agency it hosts.
The NSA headquarters building is as compelling as it is unsettling—much like the J. Edgar Hoover Building, the headquarters for the FBI. The hundreds of cars parked around the building stand in for the thousands of intelligence workers inside—the serfs of the deep state, as it were. The photo anonymizes them: It's not possible to make out the make or model of most of the vehicles, much less any information about the lives of the employees who drive them. Dots of colors of vehicles reflected in the mirrored building envelope betray nothing about what happens inside. Fort Meade looks like it might be the end of the earth, an exurb you never hope to have reason to visit. Like the FBI Building, the NSA headquarters is a metaphor for the agency it hosts.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives headquarters in Washington, D.C., is another piece of security architecture with a design pedigree. It was built by Moshe Safdie, who is best known for designing Expo 67 in Montreal and Crystal Bridges in Bentonville, Arkansas. Elsewhere in D.C., he designed the U.S. Institute of Peace, a building that is more frequently mentioned in connection with Safdie's name locally than the ATF Building.
A paranoid style is easy to spot in even the more sophisticated national security designs from the post–9/11 era. Consider the forthcoming U.S. Embassy in London, a $1 billion landmark designed by KieranTimberlake. While (soon-to-be former) Rep. Jason Chaffetz described the project's glass curtain wall as "opulent looking," his comments came during a discussion about whether Congress could rely on claims that this façade would be utterly blast proof. As my colleague Amanda Kolson Hurley explains for CNN, critics say that the embassy—which also gets its own moat—is too forbidding. The architecture of the security state is awesome: terrible in its implications, but also an almost poetic reflection of national anxiety.


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This is a really friendly and fun restaurant right on the square in Montrichard. The food is good; the service is good and the location can't be beat. We've eaten there a few times, the first time on recommendation from friends.


If you have seen the latest TIGER BALM ad, you'd know…there's this woman who's hanging her wash on the clothes line. One of her dupattas falls off and she jumps after it (sick!!!). Madam wonderful catches hold of a television cable and jumps from one corner to another. But before our dear-Ms-Dupatta-lover-Bahujaan can catch the oh-so-precious dupatta, her dear, darling Sasurji catches it for her, coming to the rescue all thanks to the TV cables, again (makers, pl let me know which cable you used… Will come to help sometime…).
Our bahujaan immediately wraps the dupatta around her head and says-"mama ji" in the most respectful tone… Ah… kyaa maryaadha…kyaa commitment, yaar!!! Aise logon ko tho aqward milna chahiye! All thanks to TIGER BALM!!!
Crap! Mega fools! What the hell were the makers thinking, when the conceived this idea? This is ridiculous!
In an age where creativity is what is appreciated, originality lauded and intelligence admired, such stupidity can JUST NOT BE TOLERATED, by me. Personally I've loved advertisement from when I was young and have greatly admired many an ad!
Creativity need not be shown by being different, but idiotically so! And standing out of the crowd need not mean you need to go 'out of the way' (pun intended) in working it out! In all the world's greatly scripted masterpieces, in any field that you may choose, it's not the dramatic, but the simple, yet beautiful things that are featured. With Elegance, style and simplistic-contemporary style, you can make an impact, trigger a thought process, make a difference and affect the thinking\outlook\ opinion. A lot can be conveyed in two deft strokes, that can't be through repeated brushwork!
I saw that ad and had the same reaction on my face. Not too angry (maybe cos im a guy, hehe) but I thought it was extremely silly too!
Appo what will you do if you see the Fair&Lovely ads where girls won't get married if they don't use the cream and become "white" in complexion LOLZ!
Hey your blog is totally "my kind of blog". Thanks for letting me know abt it on my blog.
I agree. The tiger balm was definitely stupid. I have no idea why ad-creators make such ads. Maybe it's to catch our attention. If so.. then they are doing a pretty good job. But it's totally pointless.
Parachute ad? I have yet to see it. But the Indica advertisement always makes me laugh. Indica's ads are usually good. Either funny with the 'Katrina proposed to me yesterday.. Boom!' .. or do you remember the romantic couple out on a night setting? The guy pulls out the table, chair from the back of his car.
Even the new 'Mutual' funds ad is pretty good, if you ask me. Very witty with remarks..
Ah well, I would list more but I can't remember them strangely.
In any case, just wanted to say 'hi'. I have been visiting your blog lately and it's really nice to meet (or read?!) an insightful person like you, Sandhya.
sorry ma.. me that ad no see..
airtel ads have been my fav., topping them would be the one where Rahman appears. but one of the last few airtel ads where this guy goes about saying "cha line pogamaatengudu" and trying to call from a public phone where a woman is busy discussing a serial...height of stupidity. and as vinesh says, those fairness ads are so irritating i'm gonna launch a campaign against them when i'm in this industry!
the Indica V2 ad is good, too...you might've watched it....ads like these and airtel so cutely drive the point home....it's time we make more like these!
A guess... ad creativity has gone up and down in phases.. sometimes.. people just want to promote their product and don't really care how they do it..
. but believe me Sandhya.. u shd see ads in US... most of them are ridiculous.. so much that we long to see the ads we used to watch on TV back in India..


Researchers have already established the link between a healthy sleep cycle and well-being, but there's still a lack of clarity when it comes to what factors contribute to a good night's sleep. One thing for certain is that the environment, in one way or another affects our sleep.
This fact would explain as to why 'peace' is a prerequisite to healthy sleep. But this isn't all; there are plenty of other ways that environment can impact our sleep cycles and make our bodies more suited to sleep at certain times of the day.
How The Environment We Sleep In Affects Us?
Certain conditions in our surrounding environment can affect the way we sleep and if we sleep well or not. The temperature, noise, and light in a room can influence how comfortable we are while sleeping. Most importantly, however, is whether your bed and covers meet your preferences regarding warmth and comfort.
Noise in a person's sleeping environment can impact how to wake up and go back to sleep continuously. Studies show that people exposed to noise, such as traffic and indoor noise, have less-intensity periods of rest which led to them waking up more often, increased stress levels due to surges in hormone secretion.
Further research proved that aside from short-term effects such as poor cognitive performance and sleep inertia, poor sleep quality can lead to increased risks of cardiovascular disease and need to take medication.
Surprisingly, short bursts of sounds disturb sleep far more than noise which is continuous. Electronic disturbances are also a factor which poses a hindrance to getting good quality of sleep. That's why doctors and psychologists strongly recommend putting all electronic devices away before going to bed.
It may not have occurred to many people, but light can interfere with proper sleep as well, and it doesn't mean that people can't sleep with the lights on. Exposure to more light during the evenings is the result of an invention known as the light bulb. It's highly possible that humans' inner cycles have changed ever since then, leading us to prefer bed-times that are later.
Similar to our hectic lives, our inner physiology also follows a schedule of its own and scientists call a circadian rhythm. These influence what occurs inside the body and responds to the light and darkness in the surrounding environment.
On the other hand, biological clocks are somewhat different because they are a timing device. Biological clocks consist of different types of proteins and make certain changes within the body at a cellular level.
Lastly, there is a master clock which integrates the information from all the clocks and coordinates them. By doing so, it successfully syncs all the clocks present in a body, which may explain how your body may be tuned to suit a particular routine without you having to try.
Any disruptions caused to circadian rhythms or biological clocks are the result of a change in the light exposure, which means that inconsistent light can cause circadian rhythms to fail and in more extreme cases, it can change the entire cycle.
Both circadian rhythms and biological clocks have the potential to affect one's body if people aren't careful. Imbalanced circadian rhythms lead to changes in the body's function such as hormone secretion.
Biological clocks, on the other hand, create circadian rhythms and these are likely to be irregular. An irregular rhythm is the worst since it stems from many chronic health issues that deteriorate one's inner systems.
Circadian rhythms impact the sleep cycle and patterns because the master clock produces a hormone known as melatonin which creates the effect of drowsiness and a feeling of being sleepy. The occurrence of this effect is when the brain interprets the meaning behind less and more light detected by the optic nerves.
In low light conditions, the optic nerves send signals to the brain which increases the secretion of melatonin. Currently, researchers are studying how working late shifts, and exposure to light from electronics are impacting our circadian rhythms and cycles of sleeping-waking up.
Many adults are still unaware as to proper sleep cycles and often inquire as doctors by asking them 'how many hours of sleep do I need' but the answer of eight hours is only a minimum. Sleeping times can differ based on the physical activity of individuals.
Since the body's cycles and clocks are all influenced by the amount of light exposure, it's no secret that this changes how people wake up as well. Ever since humans have begun existing, they have been predisposed to hunt during the day, sleep in the dark of night and most importantly, wake up at dawn when the first rays of sunshine pierce the horizon.
This practice may draw some criticism because waking up at dawn is perceived as being too early and people even wonder are seven hours of sleep enough? But the reason is quite simple, indoor or artificial lighting wasn't invented until much later on and the sun, being the only source of brightness, was pretty hard not to miss.
Humans are predisposed to wake up to natural light, and now scientists are thinking of ways to integrate this finding into ways that can be used to alter circadian rhythms. So far, they have a few findings that include exposing oneself to more light during the day to wake up earlier.
Natural light is the right answer here because it is much stronger than artificial light when compared regarding lux (the unit used to measure light emitting power). The strongest of artificial light sources have a power of almost a 100 lux while sunlight, even on a partially cloudy day, gives out a whopping 10,000 lux.
So next time you ask yourself how many hours of sleep do adults need, try checking in with your circadian rhythm?


What a wonderful day spent with enthusiastic students in a great studio-classroom at SJCC! I'm oh so grateful to Michelle Gregor, professor, artist and dear friend, for a memorable visit to the Bay Area, and her great program.
I demonstrated the quatrefoil tile tesselation/surface activity project I have done in the past with students in Florida, as Michelle's students are poised to begin a tile project of their own.
Laying down the tile pattern onto a slab.
On a bisqued set of tiles, painting glaze into a waxed pattern of concentric circles, which will become part of the final layer.
Such an engaged, welcoming group of students!
Over the shoulder of a student, taking notes.
Current Exhibition: Biomorphic, at AMOCA in Pomona, CA. Pleased to have been invited.
Following the kiln building workshop and Gail Nichols' soda firing workshop, I settled in to making some work of my own. I had little time, and no pressing exhibition to prepare for, so it was a rather relaxed, explorative, and playful stretch of time.
I built three groups of work: lamp/lantern forms, arch forms, and tiny botanical forms to be paired with roughly-made slabs as bases.
Having used every clay the studio produces, I planned to fire all of it in the soda kiln, without slips or glazes. In fact, though, I was only able to complete a single firing with Hillary and Sally (Gaya CAC's director and intern respectively), and so left the majority of my work behind to be fired at their convenience. Some of the work will make its way into the anagama firing planned for December, and the rest will go into the soda kiln as enough other work accumulates to fill the kiln.
Oh, hi, I didn't see you there...Just caressing my sculpture over here.
Lattice lanterns and hanging lamps, unfired.
Arches and Hillary's very elegant towers in the kiln. You can see, with work of this scale and odd shape, how it would take a lot of smaller work to fill the kiln and justify a firing. We were in need of more small work, and that's why we couldn't fire more of the big stuff before I left.
The beautiful Hillary Kane, in her natural habitat.
We fired using Gail Nichols' techniques, and scheduled our firing along the same lines as her firings, with a reduction water cooling.
Tinies, warm out of the kiln. No slip or glaze.
A few of the tinies paired with their slabs.
My arch form made from Gaya's raku clay body. Incredible flashing.
Oh yes, and I made a few vases as well. This is Gaya's anagama clay body.
I spent the months of July and August in Ubud, Bali, first to co-lead the BaliCat soda kiln build workshop, then to stay on during Gail Nichols' soda firing workshop to assist and troubleshoot if need be for the kiln, and finally to make my own work and fire it in the new kiln.
Brian Kakas designed a beautiful kiln, taking into account the needs of the Gaya CAC studio, the local materials, as well as Gail's particular process. We built it using hard brick for the floor, arch base and chimney, but the arch itself was raw, locally made bricks from local clay, whose shrinkage rate we did not know! We got the arch form built and the floor set up before students arrived, and then set them to work on day 1 building up from the floor and putting up the arch.
The build went very smoothly, which was a huge blessing considering we had no time for setbacks: we had to cure-fire the kiln and have it cooled in time for Gail's group to load it with tests on the first day of their workshop, which followed directly on the heels of ours! In fact, from the first cure-firing, that kiln did not cool all the way down for three weeks. Gail's group fired it three times, and as soon as the workshop ended, we had our own work ready to fire, and proceeded to fire two more times.
Every single firing was smooth, timely and efficient. Indonesia's first and only soda kiln fires like a dream.
Brian and I laying out the arch bricks to determine our form shape and the key brick.
The lovely arch form, as seen from the back of the kiln, with the chimney base in the foreground.
That magic moment after we pulled the arch form.
Bricking up the door for the first firing. You can see the very wet cob over the arch, and the spots of carbon on the barely-bisqued door and arch bricks.
Before we could even light the burners, a Balinese blessing ceremony had to be performed. Everybody was present and participated. As soon as the ceremony was complete, burners were lit, and our inaugural firing begun.
Gail, explaining the results from the test firing to workshop participants.
Getting very excited about the 50th Anniversary NCECA conference next week in Kansas City! I'll be there, often at Booth 424, representing Gaya Ceramic Art Center, where I'll be sharing my enthusiasm for their fantastic programs, including my kiln building workshop coming up in July!
In addition, I have a piece in the Montana Clay show, "Small Works From A Big State."
It's going to be a great week of reunions, the best ceramic art, and discourse!
I recently had work, titled "Accretion," in the Alexander Brest Gallery at Jacksonville University in Florida.
I've been exploring new glazing/decorating processes on pots lately which more closely relate to my drawing practice. All pots are fired to cone 6.


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Q: Creating shipment programatically issue in Magento 2 I am facing an issue with creating a shipment programatically. This is my code:
    // Magento\Sales\Model\Convert\Order
    $shipment = $this->convertOrder->toShipment($order);
    foreach ($order->getAllItems() AS $orderItem) {
        if (!$orderItem->getQtyToShip() || $orderItem->getIsVirtual()) {
            continue;
        }

        $shipmentItem = $this->convertOrder->itemToShipmentItem($orderItem)->setQty($orderItem->getQtyToShip());
        $shipment->addItem($shipmentItem);
    }
    $shipment->register();
    try{
         //Magento\Sales\Api\ShipmentRepositoryInterface
         $this->shipmentRepositoryInterface->save($shipment);
    }catch (Exception $exception) {
        $this->logger->error(sprintf($exception->getMessage()))
    }

The script above, works, I got my shipment, but I still have the Ship button:

I would expect that button to be no longer available, once I created a shipment.
Any idea what am I doing wrong ? with my script . Thank you

A: Just keep this script in your magento root directory and run after your store url also do not forget to replace you order id in the script
<?php
use \Magento\Framework\App\Bootstrap;
include('app/bootstrap.php');
$bootstrap = Bootstrap::create(BP, $_SERVER);

$objectManager = $bootstrap->getObjectManager();
$state = $objectManager->get('Magento\Framework\App\State');
$state->setAreaCode('frontend');

$orderInterface = $objectManager->get('\Magento\Sales\Api\Data\OrderInterface');

//Use this if you have orderId
//$orderId = "100"; //Order Id
//$order = $orderInterface->load($orderId);

$incrementId = "000000165"; //Increment Id
$order = $objectManager->create('Magento\Sales\Model\Order')
        ->loadByAttribute('increment_id', $incrementId);

if ($order->canShip()) {
    // Initialize the order shipment object
    $convertOrder = $objectManager->create('Magento\Sales\Model\Convert\Order');
    $shipment = $convertOrder->toShipment($order);
    // Loop through order items
    foreach ($order->getAllItems() AS $orderItem) {
        // Check if order item has qty to ship or is virtual
        if (! $orderItem->getQtyToShip() || $orderItem->getIsVirtual()) {
            continue;
        }
        $qtyShipped = $orderItem->getQtyToShip();
        // Create shipment item with qty
        $shipmentItem = $convertOrder->itemToShipmentItem($orderItem)->setQty($qtyShipped);
        // Add shipment item to shipment
        $shipment->addItem($shipmentItem);
    }

    // Register shipment
    $shipment->register();
    $shipment->getOrder()->setIsInProcess(true);

    try {
        // Save created shipment and order
        $shipment->save();
        $shipment->getOrder()->save();

    } catch (\Exception $e) {
       echo "Shipment Not Created". $e->getMessage(); exit;
    }

    echo "Shipment Succesfully Generated for order: #".$incrementId;
} else {
    echo "Shipment Not Created Because It's already created or something went wrong";
}

hope this helps! thankss

A: Eventually,
I missed this part: $shipment->getOrder()->save();. By adding it , it fixed my problem!

A: Try below
$shipment->register();

try{
     $shipment->getOrder()->setIsInProcess(true);
         //Magento\Sales\Api\ShipmentRepositoryInterface
         $this->shipmentRepositoryInterface->save($shipment);
    }catch (Exception $exception) {
        $this->logger->error(sprintf($exception->getMessage()))
    }

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Q: C++ / priority_queue / Expression: invalid comparator EDIT
I included a screenshot of the compile error with reworked code. compile error screenshot
ORIGINAL POST
I am writing a little program to practice my knowledge of priority_queue containers. I am trying to create a priority-queue that takes in Person objects that have an age and sex. The queue is supposed to prioritize older ages and then females over males (ie. older females are prioritized over younger females and females are prioritized over males). I've written a predicate that should handle the prioritization but I get a Expression: invalid comparator error when I try to compile the code snippet below. Can anyone explain what the problem is with my predicate?
#include <stack>
#include <queue>
#include <list>
#include <vector>
#include <iostream>

class Person
{
public:
    int age;
    bool isFemale;

    Person(int Age, bool Female)
    {
        age = Age;
        isFemale = Female;
    }

    bool operator < (const Person& compareHuman) const
    {
        bool bRet = false;

        if (age < compareHuman.age)
            bRet = true;

        if (isFemale && compareHuman.isFemale)
            bRet = true;

        return bRet;
    }
};

int main()
{
    std::priority_queue<Person, std::vector<Person>> humanStack;
    humanStack.push(Person(15, true));
    humanStack.push(Person(42, true));
    humanStack.push(Person(76, true));
    humanStack.push(Person(65, false));
    humanStack.push(Person(21, false));
    humanStack.push(Person(35, true));
    humanStack.push(Person(15, false));

    while(humanStack.size() != 0)
    {
            std::cout << "This person is age " << humanStack.top().age << std::endl;
            humanStack.pop();
    }
}

A: The problem is your less than predicate isn't implemented correctly. As written a value will compare less than itself if isFemale is true. A value should never compare less than itself with a valid predicate. You probably want something like this:
bool operator < (const Person& compareHuman) const
{
    if (age < compareHuman.age)
        return true;
    else if (compareHuman.age < age)
        return false;

    // Note the ! added on this line
    return isFemale && !compareHuman.isFemale;
}

A: Your code compiles w/o error for me using C++11. (clang).
In c++03, the compiler complains about vector<Person>> humanStack - to fix that, insert a space between the two angle brackets thus: vector<Person> > humanStack


: the contact stated while driving and depressing the brakes for any length of time the brakes light fail. The lights over heat and smoke then explode causing them to fail. The vehicle has not been inspected nor has the manufacturer been alerted.
Driving the car to work on a regular basis and it seems every two months the tail light bulbs need replacing. I keep replacing them but it is not working. It is dangerous because one minute they work. Drive down the road and it is not working. Is there a recall on this? there should be.
Plastic base of sylvania 3057 dual filament tail lamps melt causing stop lights to fail.
The brake light was inoperative.
My brake lights are continueing to not work. I have replaced bulbs etc. The issue is the bulb sockets are over heating and the right side brake light socket is beginning to melt due to excess heat.
Consumer states that the brake lights on the vehicle do not work properly the consumer has replaced the bulb several times but the problem still occurs. Contacted dealer.
When brakes were applied right side brake light didn't work. Had fuse and bulb checked, nothing wrong with them.
All 4 back brake light bulbs burned out and appeared to be somewhat melted on the connection part of the bulb. Replaced, 4 weeks later drivers side bulb burnt out again. Fuses are blowing if I have the passenger side bulb panel connected.
Right brake light is inoperative, electrical wires are corroded and water is leaking into brake light cover. Dealer has yet to be contatced.
Due to bad connection the right brake light burned out.
Shorlty after purchasing this vehicle while it was still under warranty we had the passenger side headlight assembly replaced because of condensation building up. Then a couple months later somone told me that my stop lights on the passenger side were out, I thought it was the bulbs but it wasn't, it was because of water building up inside. I contacted several orginizations to see if this was possibly recalled, it wasn't. since they want $250 for the light assembly I've been waiting to see if they would recall them considering that just in the central mass area I have seen 2 - 3 dozen Malibu's with that stop light not working. I have been able to get it working by taking it apart drying it out and cleaning the electrodes with a wire brush but within a week of any rain it blows out again. I even went as far as two weeks ago resealing the seal around the housing and when we got rain that day went out and checked it and there was about a pint of water inside.I pulled the whole assembly out still together, tipped it every way possible and could not get the water to leak out from anywhere. I feel this is a safety issue because it is the stop lights. The other lights still work(the backup, directional, and even the 2 marker lights on the same bulb as the stop) its just the stop lights. Now I've noticed a little condensation in the left side assembly. I hope something can be done about this. Thank you jason jerome.
Rear brake lights continued to fail. Brake lights have failed approximatley 5 times within past year. Dealership changed bulbs, but had failed to correct repeated failure of brake lights, either right/left or both lights. Please provide any additional information/attachments.
Brake lights light bulbs power melt plastic of cover, causing no vision for other drivers on brake lights. Please add additional information.
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Two major economic crises have hit the Asia-Pacific region in the past 13 years. Our society has to be resilient against these economic shocks. To facilitate discussions on the development of social safety nets in this region, the Japan National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (JANCPEC) launched the Social Resilience Research Project (SR Project) in 2009 as a PECC international project.
The SR Project consists of four teams – pensions, medical insurance, unemploymentinsurance, and macro analysis of savings/consumption – and each team comprises two to seven research members. This is the first time that PECC has addressed these particular social issues; heretofore it has been exclusively concerned with measures to liberalize and promote trade and investment.
A financial crisis of a "once-in-a-century" scale has struck at the underpinnings of social safety in the Asia-Pacific region. The earlier 1997-98 crisis saw vigorous debates over social safety nets, but these debates quickly faded after 2003 because, with Asia's export markets in Europe doing well at the time, the crisis was overcome simply by pursuing the liberalization of investment and trade. The situation this time is different in the sense that market conditions in Europe and the US are worse than in Asia, inspiring little hope for economic growth by relying on exports to these economies. On the other hand, we are in a similar situation to the previousfinancial crisis in that the debates over social safety nets are about to fade again as the economy in this region starts to recover, led by the robust development of emerging markets in Asia. Many economies in this region are gaining economic impetus by increasing exports to developing Asian economies.
Economic crises have hit our economies almost every ten years during the past two decades. Being aware that we must consider not only economic rescue policies in the short term but also the resilience of infrastructure against frequent economic crises in the long term, we launched the Social Resilience Research Project (SR Project) last year as a PECC International Project.
The SR Project is designed to shed light on the importance of social safety nets and to closely examine the mechanism of their roles in the domestic economy. This topic has never been discussed in depth among APEC economies. Overly focused on the liberalization of investment and trade, APEC has let slip opportunities to discuss the sense of security of those persons who underpin liberalization and brisk domestic demand as well as social safety nets for them in connection with a major paradigm shift toward the construction of a resilient model for sustained economic growth. In this regard, the SR Project is a very good opportunity to focus more on the social and living conditions of people and to share good or bad practices for social safety nets in the Asia-Pacific region. Comparative research on the actual status of Asian social safety nets would definitely be useful if we are to make our society more resilient against economic crises that may occur again in the future.
The economies in this region are recovering steadily, and now is the time to pay more attention to organizing domestic social safety net systems. Instead of missing this opportunity again as we did in the late 1990s, we should highlight the significance of constructing a resilient society and take action as soon as possible.


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Sixpoint has been right in the middle of the spectrum. One was slightly less than average, and the other was slightly better than average. This one could be their breakout hit, right? I'm not sure that the energy drink cans or the strange names are doing these beers any favors, but packaging and marketing are not what I'm about - I'm about drinking and appreciating beer.
The beer is a cloudy orange with a head that boils off to a thin trickle of bubbles with a familiar ring around the edges. The aroma is oranges, a bit of bread, and graininess. The delightful hops are really inviting, and the smell is just enough without being harsh. If the taste matches the smell, this might be the best Sixpoint yet.
I tried the hard cider that Jack made for Helen, and it was okay, but I was far from impressed. This one is made from pears, so it might be just wacky enough to be unique and flavorful enough to be good. I have no reason to think that Jack doesn't have it in him to do great things, so I expect this will be a magical experience.
The beverage is surprisingly shaded as pear juice. Could it be that this isn't actually apple cider, and it is pear cider instead? I hate to say it, but I kind of hope it is. I like new things, and that would be a very new thing for me. The carbonation pretty much is like the last one, as it fizzes, but it does not have any kind of staying power. The aroma is a very slight hint of pear at the fringe of wine. I might even just say that this is a white wine, if I didn't know what Jack said it was.
I'm not sure what to make of all of these special large-bottle Angry Orchard hard apple ciders. The fact is, the two that I've already had have given me the impression that these larger, smaller batch bottles are just not as good as the average Angry Orchard offering. If this one continues the trend, I may just stop buying them on principle.
The deep gold beverage is clear as a bell and has a surprising head when it is just poured. The bubbles are big and energetic, so they fizz out fairly quickly. Still, not all is lost, as the ring of bubbles that accompanies so many beers is present here - and it's a welcomed sight. The aroma is more apple juice than wine, but the wine aroma is in there with it, that is unquestionable.
I don't know why I got a bunch of these Belgian beers lately, but I'm on a kick, so don't try and stop me. This one made it hard to find the actual brewer's name on the bottle. Normally, it's in big, bold letters on the front, but this one just tells me it's a Tripel Karmeliet (Dutch for Triple Carmelite). I don't know why they are hiding.
The faintly hazy golden beer has an aggressive white head that wants to take over the world. I swear, I poured this slowly down the side of the glass, and THIS is the head that it arrived at. Five minutes later, it was down about half, so I poured in some more beer; seems like this is going to take some time for me to get into. The aroma is distinctly blonde with cold grains and wheat blowing in the breeze.
I had two Belgian ales recently that were both good, but they weren't what I wanted to get from these things. I want an abbey ale that brings back the goodness of the best of the bunch. This one has a downright comical picture of a monk... and having known a few monks, this is exactly the kind of thing they would pick for the front of their beer.
The color is a deep, deep brown with a dense center that doesn't let light through at all. The head is big and frothy, but it's not dense. The bubbles are big, but they have staying power. Eventually, the head dissipates to a thick enough uneven pillow across the top of the beer. The aroma is oak, thin bread, and a stronger kind of astringent smell. It's unlike previous Trappist Ales, but I'm still looking forward to it.
From the sleepy town just north of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania comes this beverage that was named after the wife of the blended it, so he must like it. If it's that good, I am looking forward to it. I know I swore off of ciders a while ago, but I ran into a few more recently, so I'm just going to try them and write them up, okay?
The color is a very pale yellow (looks like someone has the right amount of water intake). Even in a perfectly clean glass, there are many points of nucleation that cause lots of streams of bubbles going to the top, and they show no signs of going away. The aroma is apples, but they are kind of sweet-tart to the point that they almost cancel each other out.
Another Belgian beer with an exotic name, a frothy head, and a nutty font that makes me wonder if they actually want people to read the label at all. Why don't they just go with Comic Sans, as they have such a distaste for the pleasure of the readers of their labels?
The fluffy white head sits atop a very cloudy golden beer with an aroma that smells of lemons and fresh, unbaked dough. The presentation is better than the last Belgian beer I had, so it may get better than the 2.5 that it got (although it was a dubbel).
These Belgian beers have a special place in my heart. They all have flowery fonts, they are steeped in history, and they imply that they are all made by monks who do it for the love of beer/God depending on the monastery. This beer is another that also has a name I can probably pronounce, if there was a gun to my head, but I didn't even try when I picked it up.
Despite what the picture may tell you, this is not black. There are no linguistic gymnastics necessary to call it ruby or so-dark-it-appears-black or something along those lines. Instead, it is definitely ruby red; it's a DEEP ruby red that absolutely allows photons through right in the center. The copious head is thick and full, and it is a prime example of the heads I tend to see on these Belgian beers. The aroma is strangely ginger and sweet malt.
One of the best beers I've ever had was a Scottish-style ale produced by Stoudt's Brewing in Pennsylvania. Any version of the beer since then has been directly compared and generally found wanting. Maybe this beer from a very small town in TN will evoke the same feelings.
The beer is a deep red with a very minimal head that never quite goes away completely, but it is actually very surprising how little head there is immediately after the pour. The aroma is wood and grains. My hope to repeat the joy of previous beers of this style is still riding high.
First sip is pretty watery. There's still wood (not oak, but wood) with a bit of caramel and something else lingering under there, but it's pretty nuts how little flavor these is. This beer needs to be more. Speaking of nuts, though, I think I tasted a bit of a nutty flavor in there, but who knows for sure? Time to dig in with a full mouth.
Angry Orchard has been the best of the hard cider brewers. The last one I had that was specially bottled like this was the worst of the bunch, but I assume it is because these are more experimental than the ones that come in six packs; I'm fine with a skilled artisan trying new things in small batches and letting me try them.
The deep gold beverage boils its head away completely. The aroma is more wine-like than pretty much any cider I've encountered so far. It absolutely reeks of white wine. With it's ABV of 10%, it's already pretty wine-like, so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. Is this just another cider to drop into the list? Well, I assume the special packaging implies it should be set apart.
Another beer from a brewer I've never heard of. It seems like this situation happens a lot, but I'm never more likely to find a good beer than when I... decide to open one, I guess. A black IPA, like a black lager, is a strange beast that is really, really hard to get a handle on. I take each beverage as they come, though, so let's dig in.
The dark caramel colored beer sports a thin tan head that leaves lacing as an after thought. The aroma is more malty than hops, and that belies the claim that this is an IPA. They know more about brewing beer than I do, I'm sure, so I'll take their word for it. I only know about drinking beer, and that's what I plan to do.
Alpine has had a good run - let's keep it going. This one is a wheat beer, and I have had a checkered past with wheat beers. This promises a bit with the addition of vanilla (which is featured by the name, so I expect it to potentially even overwhelm the beer).
The slightly cloudy, pale yellow beer doesn't have much of a head once it's poured, and then it dissipates even more. Eventually, the bubbles are a semicircle of stragglers. Points of nucleation continue to generate bubbles coming to the top, but their lives are short. The aroma they accompany is almost nothing. I can sense vanilla and grains, but they are on the very edges of smell.
Never heard of North Coast Brewing Company, and that means I must love them. I love any new brewery, as they give the me opportunity to try new beers from someone who thinks they have something special. Occasionally, they do, and that's a win-win. This beer supports Jazz education, so I like to think of this as my little exercise in philanthropy.
The beer looks almost brown at first glance, but putting some light to it, it glows a ruby red. The relatively thin head is a ring around the top with a few small patches floating freely. The aroma is sweetness, dark fruits, licorice, brown sugar, raisins, and wet bread. It's certainly complex as hell, and I'm pretty sure a sip won't cut the mustard, but I have a process, so I'm doing it.
Third in my Mill Creek series, and the other two were definitely better than your average beer. If we start a pattern, I'm going to have to really keep an eye out for the local brewer. I assume they'll make more than the three beers I was able to find at City Sliquors (my favorite beer and liquor store) and I look forward to trying them all. But, the lager is up now.
The color is a hazy, deep gold. The head is pretty thin, but it's there, striving valiantly to be as much as it can be. The aroma is... missing. I stuck my nose pretty deep in there, and I can't smell a damn thing. I guess that's nothing major for a domestic lager, but I really expected something different from the craft brewer from Nolensville, TN.
My second Mill Creek beer, and the first one was surprisingly good. While 3.0 may not seem like the greatest beer out there, my rating scale is documented, and anything over a 2.5 is better than average. The fact that this brewer is in the relatively small Nashville suburb of Nolensville means I just didn't expect beers to come from them that tasted like they could be larger, more established brewers.
It's a very hazy orangish brown with a patchy head that leaves pretty much no lacing joy. That's okay, I'm not here to stare at it. The aroma is wheat and grains more than anything else. My experience with these ales is that they are pretty smooth drinking, and I can pretty much knock back one after the other because they are so damn drinkable.
I was gifted this beer by the fine folks at City Sliquors who I go on and on about all the time. They didn't brew it, so I don't feel any particular obligation to give it a good review or anything, but I wanted to be up front about the fact that I didn't have to pay for this beer, yet I'm going to review it as if I had. I will definitely want to thank Jeremy for the hook up, though.
The beer lacks significant carbonation while in the glass. It was definitely there when I poured it, but there is very little going on from a point of nucleation perspective. Still, a thin puddle of bubbles forms in the middle of the top well enough. The color is mostly golden yellow with a very slight orange tint. The aroma is very heavy malt filled with warm rolls.
A leftover from when my sister-in-law and brother-in-law visited, I figured I would go ahead and see what they found alluring in this mas produced light lager. The fact is, I haven't had one of these in many, many years, and it's possible that it's better than I remember. At the very least, it's paid for already, so that means it meets the requirements I had back then.
Yellow and headless, this beer is a combination of the worst traits of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman. The aroma is stronger than I expected with sweet malt, lemon, and bread. Did I say sweet? Because it's particularly sweet. I genuinely didn't expect anything from the beer, based on very distant experience with it, but I was WAY younger then, so my memory is just failing me.
My recent experience with brettanomyces yeast has left me questioning this beer. Mind you, I have waited a year to drink this, so I'm going to freaking enjoy this, come hell or high water. The most similar beer to this (in theory) was the very good Stone beer of a similar name (two, actually), but from the other direction, as it was billed as being best when drunk as close to the date it was brewed. This one, however, makes me wait. It tasks me, and I shall have it.
The yellow beer with the sticky, gloppy, delightful head smells of light grains backing the overwhelming yeast. I'm not surprised that the beer is overwhelmed by the yeast - the other beers suffered the same fate at the hands of that sour, strong ingredient.
As far as I know, this is the last of the Coney Island beverages, but I could be completely wrong. I can tell you that this is the last one that my local store had, so it's the last one I try until they have others. Their hard root beer was very good, and their orange cream ale was very interesting, so why not try the ginger ale?
The beverage is the color of ginger ale - a kind of toned-down apple juice color. While it has carbonation, it has pretty much no head, and that's probably as it should be. The aroma is sweet ginger ale and a bit of a sting of alcohol. I'm starting to think that they just add alcohol to the process, and that's all there is to it.


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Autumn 2007 Edge series
Starring Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, and Jeremy Davies
Rated 14A	· 2h 6m
Werner Herzog is one of the greatest, most prolific and controversial masters of modern cinema. He has taken several of his favourite themes — the challenging of physical and spiritual boundaries, the battle between man and nature, and between man and himself — and infused them, almost obsessively, into his body of work. His documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) told the extraordinary story of a German-born American Navy pilot, Dieter Dengler, who crash-landed in Laos during the Vietnam War. He was imprisoned in a POW camp and brutally tortured before he engineered an extraordinary escape with the other inmates. He was finally rescued by United States helicopters that happened to fly over the area.
Herzog has now returned to this story, crafting a dramatic reconstruction in the utterly unique Rescue Dawn. Christian Bale (The New World) plays Dengler and it is one of this accomplished actor's most breathtaking performances. From all-American wisecracker to beaten-down victim, to Messianic, rifle-toting outlaw, Bale inhabits his character with a fierce and passionate intensity recalling the similarly riveting performances of Herzog's previous leading man, Klaus Kinski. Overall, the film's survivalist snarl, its intense anti-heroism, Dengler's Sisyphean attempts to overcome predatory Mother Nature and Herzog's abiding love of freakish wise men figures recall many of the filmmaker's earlier masterpieces.
Bale is matched step for step by a group of accomplished character actors, including the wonderful Steve Zahn (Hamlet) and Jeremy Davies (Dogville) as fellow POWs. The camerawork is characteristically stunning, although perhaps simpler and more direct than in Herzog's past films. This clarity actually is a blessing. It allows us to quickly intuit Herzog's motives for making the film at this historical moment; Rescue Dawn is set during the Vietnam War, but it could easily be transplanted to a modern-day setting. Relentlessly focused on Dengler's harrowing experiences and his fascinating eccentricities, the film is one of the most unique entries into the pantheon of contemporary war films.


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