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More natural gas vital to Queensland's electricity generation mix
Queensland's Natural Resources Minister Dr Anthony Lynham has reportedly told a conference on the Gold Coast that gas-fired power provided the "perfect co-existence model" alongside renewable energy sources such as solar, hydro and wind.
"The Minister has described gas as a "fuel of the future". All credible analysts agree with him," said APPEA Chief Executive Dr Malcolm Roberts.
"This is refreshing honesty in an often polarised energy debate. Queensland needs a mix of energy technologies to deliver reliable, affordable and cleaner electricity. No single technology can meet all these needs."
Queensland Natural Resources Minister Dr Anthony Lynham Gas has called gas "a fuel of the future".
The use of gas should be expanded as the use of renewables expands, because gas can be rapidly switched on or off to meet falls in output from intermittent wind and solar.
Failing to increase use of gas in step with expanding renewables will undermine emissions reductions as well as energy security.
"Gas-fired generation is unique in our energy mix," Dr Roberts said.
"It alone can supply electricity within minutes to meet spikes in demand or falls in output from other generators. It is ideal for supporting intermittent renewable energy because of this rapid response.
"The International Energy Agency has modelled how the world's use of energy will change to meet the challenge of cutting emissions. The IEA forecasts that, in a carbon-constrained world, the global use of natural gas will increase to 2040.
"The same point has been made for Australia. The most recent modelling for the Climate Change Authority indicates that we will need to more than triple output from gas-fired plants to meet our 2030 emissions targets.
"The Minister's comments are welcome. Gas should be playing a greater role in Queensland's future energy mix because it is cleaner burning, reliable, affordable and perfectly complements renewables," Dr Roberts said.
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Delray Beach-based Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse, Inc. (AVDA) is asking local realtors to help identify affordable rentals and educate landlords on the financial impact domestic violence has on survivors and their credit, often preventing them from accessing independent housing.
The initiative is part of a recently launched Economic Justice Project.
Previously, Sanchez served as the shelter's Victim Advocate. Now, she will head up the new project. AVDA is one of 42 certified domestic violence centers in the state of Florida. It began serving clients in 1986. AVDA has a new state-of-the-art emergency shelter, an outreach program and a transitional house that helps focus on economic self-sufficiency with a goal of obtaining permanent housing.
AVDA's mission is to promote violence-free relationships and social change by offering alternative choices to end violence and domestic abuse. AVDA annually provides services to over 10,000 individuals from Palm Beach County and surrounding areas.
Through the new program, AVDA will provide financial literacy classes to victims of domestic abuse.
Participants will increase their understanding of how to efficiently manage their finances. The program will also provide Financial Empowerment Workshops using part of Allstate's "Moving Ahead Through Financial Management" curriculum. The main objective is for the participants to acquire both the confidence needed to remain independent, as well as to develop the ability to successfully identify resources within their communities, which will help them secure housing and employment.
AVDA will also be collaborating with community agencies in order to better serve survivors. Affordable housing remains difficult for survivors to access. AVDA is currently seeking business attire donations for the Employment Workshops.
Sanchez hopes to hear from area realtors and landlords, so that she can share additional information and work with them to identify affordable rentals that will rent to people who have been in domestic violence situations and had their finances compromised.


"Bread made to order and delivered fresh to you from my micro-bakery. All ingredients are seasonal and locally sourced."
Find Rise 'n' Shine Bakehouse regularly at our Emsworth Farmers' Market. Find Foccacia, bagels, baguettes, french toast, sourdough and much more!
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Introducing the Stone Roses Cocktail!
The uber-cool Blackdog Ballroom weren't going to miss out on two of the biggest events going on in June: Forever Manchester Week and the return of The Stone Roses.
When you think of the Stone Roses, you may well be thinking you want to be adored or even a resurrection. How about the prominence of the lemon in their artwork? An absolutely iconic piece of Mancunian history.
It would be quite tragic to make a cocktail dedicated to Stone Roses without it featuring lemon, and Blackdog Ballroom don't disappoint.
This zesty number will have you reliving fools gold and telling everyone near to you that this is the one. The other ingredients are Finlandia vodka, raspberry puree, pineapple and soda. Sounds refreshing.
Forever Manchester will be receiving 50p from every single Stone Roses cocktail that is sold during Forever Manchester Week. An amazing gesture we will all look forward to getting behind.


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'I felt a sense of relief' | North Carolina opens vaccine appointments to front-line essential workers
Gov. Roy Cooper announced North Carolina will open COVID-19 vaccine appointments for all essential front-line workers starting Wednesday, March 3.
Author: Chloe Leshner (WCNC), Richard DeVayne, Hank Lee
Published: 5:25 AM EST March 3, 2021
Updated: 6:05 PM EST March 3, 2021
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — One year after North Carolina reported its first lab-confirmed case of COVID-19, all essential front-line workers are eligible to get vaccinated against the disease.
They're the employees who have not been able to work from home or slow down, so that some aspects of life could remain business as usual.
Some have witnessed first hand the hardships local families have faced because of the pandemic.
"In 2020 with almost no volunteers we fed 120,000 people," said Paige Stryker, IT director for Loaves and Fishes. She can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Working for Loaves and Fishes makes her an essential frontline worker. Wednesday morning, she scheduled a vaccine appointment for later in the week.
"I'm just so excited to move forward and kind of be able to escape what we've all been dealing with for the past year. I felt a sense of relief that finally there's an answer, there's a solution for the pain and hurt this illness has caused a lot of Americans," she said.
Gov. Roy Cooper announced Tuesday that the state was opening vaccine appointments to the remainder of Group 3 one week ahead of the previously announced date of March 10. Now, pharmacies across North Carolina, in stores like Walgreens and Harris Teeter, have some appointments available, including some this week.
"The state and our providers continue to work extremely hard to get people vaccinated in a way that's fast and fair," Cooper said. "The third vaccine and improving vaccine supply will help us get more people vaccinated more quickly. Our essential front-line workers have remained on the job throughout this pandemic and I am grateful for their work."
Group 3 includes first responders and emergency personnel such as police and firefighters, people who work in-person in manufacturing, food and agriculture, grocery stores, government workers, and clergy, among others. The state will begin Group 4 vaccinations on March 24.
"They're ready to feel like they have some protection. Our clerks are required to wait on customers even without masks, and they have these plastic shields up but that doesn't protect everything," said Miriam Bell, a Charlotte-area USPS worker and president of the local APWU chapter.
Postal workers are among those that became eligible to get vaccinated on Wednesday.
"While I might get COVID and I'm okay, you could get covid and you could suffer debilitating illness from it or even lose your life. I think its important that people who can be vaccinated are," said Bell.
Allowing more people to get the vaccine is good news and shows vaccine distribution is gaining momentum. But, getting an appointment will be more competitive until the supply grows.
"While we're going to move into group 3, if the amount of vaccine allocation remains the same our efforts can't really be expanded," Dr. Jerome Williams with Novant Health said.
And until there's enough vaccine for everyone who wants it, those working on the front lines will be better protected.
"It's going to help us feel safer when we're in the community providing these necessary services and it's also going to help us provide more services because we'll be able to be better available in different pockets in the community," said Stryker.
Read more details about North Carolina's Vaccination Group 3 and Group 4.
Cooper received his first COVID-19 vaccine dose on Wednesday. He is eligible under group 3 because he is an elected official.
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As the race to vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as possible continues, tens of thousands of doses of the recently approved Johnson & Johnson vaccine will arrive in North Carolina Wednesday. State health leaders are expecting more than 80,000 doses, with 10,000 of them going to Mecklenburg County's health department. Those 10,000 shots will be shared with Atrium Health and Novant Health, the area's two largest health care providers.
"When you've been vaccinated you are incredibly well protected from covid. And as more and more people in our communities are vaccinated, we can get back to life," said Dr. David Priest with Novant Health.
The Mecklenburg County Health Department will begin booking appointments from March 10-31 starting at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 4.
"I think the main point here is that this is a fluid process as we learn more about what vaccine is available, and I think all of us are working as hard as we can to get those folks who need to be vaccinated," Health Director Gibbie Harris said.
State officials say people who can work from home should wait to get vaccinated with Group 4 if they qualify then or later.
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Have a relative or friend in another state and want to know when they can get vaccinated? Visit NBC News' Plan Your Vaccine site to find out about each state's vaccine rollout plan.


It is momentarily dismaying to approach a ski resort and see the entry road lined with half-completed, Tyvek-wrapped 8-story buildings. Under other circumstances I could get excited about a master plan that includes all these beautiful ski-in/ski-out accommodations except this dream has been on hold now for nearly ten years. As Village Drive curves around this puzzling scene, the parking lot shows definite signs of life with a cluster of yurts dotting the base area, and chair lifts rising above gladed trails and bowls buried in white.
When it opened in 2004, Tamarack was on its way to becoming North America's first permitted four-season resort since Beaver Creek, Colorado, opened nearly a quarter century earlier. Then the financial crisis of 2008 struck. The yurts, intended to be temporary housing for the ski shop/day lodge and a couple of restaurants, have been permanent fixtures for nearly a decade.
Investors flocked to purchase vacation abodes, many with views of Lake Cascade, a 47-square mile reservoir on the North Fork of the Payette River in west central Idaho. But rather than enjoying winters playing on the slopes, and summers chasing golf balls, a few years ago they watched in dismay as one of their chairlifts was repossessed. Homeowners who have held their breath to see what happens next took action last fall and purchased the resort operations.
As one of the newest resorts in North America, Tamarack is a determined survivor. They have a word for the grit needed to overcome their challenges: Tamitude.
Unloading at the 7,700-foot apex of West Mountain, the Summit Express serves up a variety of blue and black runs. Glades and bowls dot the upper portion of the mountain, but it takes a few minutes before you're ready to explore while you take in the 360-degree view encompassing the Payette National Forest, the Long Valley and Lake Cascade.
A prime cruising run, Lower Bliss ripples in steps and drops along the boundary of the resort (Photo by Vicki Hoefling Andersen) Heading far skier's right, Upper Bliss is a double-blue more comparable to a black at many resorts, but so smooth it sets up a rhythm under your feet as it undulates in endless stair step fashion along the boundary line of the area. Mix it up by opting for Oo-La-La, a black run that tickles your fancy for a bit before dropping you midway into Bliss.
Skier's left off the Summit serves up some short black pitches and great cruisers. Like many of Tamarack's runs, Salsa and Upper and Lower Serenity make you want to turn the boards lose in high-speed, wide-radius turns that seem to go on forever. With the lack of crowds, you feel you can do so safely at Tamarack.
Also in Discovery Square, the Seven Devils Pub is a great place to enjoy local craft beers while warming up next to the fireplace and enjoying big screen TVs. Dig into a Grilled Cheese Bruschetta or Crispy Fish Tacos, and follow it up with a Molten Chocolate Cake if you dare. Then head back outside and burn off some calories. Next door, the menu at Canoe Grill & Vertical Bar includes items like burgers, soups and pizza, and when the weather is inviting, take your food and libation out to the patio.
In addition to accommodations, the Lodge at Osprey Meadows features Morels Lobby Bar with craft beers and top-notch wines. The Lodge is also home to The Spa at Tamarack where patrons can pick among a menu of massages, facials and other treatments. Wildhorse Daycare is a state-licensed facility situated conveniently in Discovery Square, and accepts children as young as six months.
While many resort projects await completion, there are ample hotel rooms and vacation homes available for rent. It's worth spending some time exploring all the snowsliding options at Tamarack Resort. To mix it up a bit, snowmobile rentals and tours are available in nearby Donnelly or McCall. If you visit in late January-early February, don't miss the McCall Winter Carnival, drawing folks for over fifty years to a week-long celebration that includes everything winter from snow sculptures to snow golf and snow bike races. To unwind from all this activity, head to Gold Fork Hot Springs in Donnelly.
However long you stay, and whatever other activities you take in, you'll thank yourself for putting a winter sojourn at Tamarack Resort on your list.


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Sequim mastodon creates mystery about the first humans here
The death of a mastodon nearly 14,000 years ago is helping reverse scientific thinking about the origins of human settlement in the Americas. Clearly, sophisticated hunting took place without any spread of culture from Alaska down the West Coast.
Daniel Jack Chasan
Clovis spear points
Who killed the mastodon? Now we know, as we had long suspected, that the beast probably didn't die of natural causes. Somebody stuck a spear into it. The bone point remained in its ribs. For 13,800 years.
The basic story has been well-covered recently: In 1977, Emanuel Manis was using a backhoe to dig a pond on his property in Sequim, when he unearthed the remains of a mastodon, one of the big, hairy elephant-like critters that inhabited much of North America during the Ice Age. Manis called in Washington State University archaeologists to look at the remains. WSU's Carl Gustafson found a piece of sharpened bone embedded in one of the mastodon's ribs. He concluded that the bone was a projectile point, that some early hunter had used it to do the mastodon in, and that this had all happened some 13,800 years ago.
At the time of Manis's find, people figured that the continent's earliest inhabitants had belonged to the Clovis culture, whose craftsmen made fluted stone points. Clovis people had obviously killed and butchered mastodons and mammoths — their distinctive points have been found with the bones — and they had obviously lived all over what is now the United States. But they had appeared in America — which is to say, their earliest spear points had been dated to — only — only! — 13,000 years ago. When Manis scooped those dark, curving tusks out of the mud, the archaeological mantra was "Clovis first."
If Gustafson was right that the mastodon had been killed by people rather than dying of other causes, Clovis wasn't first. In fact, someone had beaten the Clovis culture to the Northwest by 800 years.
Until the latest developments, most scientists were skeptical that there were any peoples in the area before the Clovis culture. "That Clovis-first model really took root into the psyche of archaeologists," says archaeologist Michael Waters. The mastodon tusks and bones were displayed at the Museum & Arts Center in Sequim. Gustafson retired. The Manis find became a kind of footnote to regional history.
Waters, who directs the Center for the Study of the First Americans at Texas A&M University, and colleagues took a new look at the evidence. They ran the rib through a powerful CAT scan. They sampled DNA from both the rib and the point embedded in it. They dated protein from the rib. Their conclusion: Gustafson was right all along. Someone really had speared the mastodon. And it really had happened 13,800 years old.
That conclusion seems less revolutionary now than it did in 1977. Evidence of pre-Clovis people had been around since the 1950s and '60s, Waters explains, but most archaeologists didn't want to believe it, and they always found a plausible reason not to. Then came Monte Verde: Papers published in the late 1980s suggested that people had lived at a site in Chile at least 14,800 years ago.
"Monte Verde was really the big turning point for a lot of us," Waters says. "But it wasn't the turning point for a lot of people." After all, "it was only one site." But Monte Verde no longer stands alone.
Archaeologists keep finding new evidence of pre-Clovis people. Waters himself has excavated a site in central Texas that may date back 15,500 years. There's another pre-Clovis site in Wisconsin, others in Pennsylvania, Virginia and elsewhere, and one in the Paisley caves of central Oregon where coprolites — mummified turds — have yielded human DNA dating back 14,500 years, the oldest human DNA found on this continent. Earlier this year, archaeologists identified delicate points found on California's Channel Islands as artifacts of a non-Clovis people who may have both preceded and coexisted with Clovis culture. "Clovis first" seems on its way to join such historic slogans as "Nixon's the one" and "all the way with LBJ."
Which begs the question of who these guys were, if not Clovis. At this point, no one knows.
Did small groups of Ice Age guys with bone- or stone-tipped spears wipe out whole species of megafauna? Probably not. At least not single-handedly. The Ice Age was over. Nicholas Wade wrote in The New York Times two years ago, "Whenever modern humans reached a new continent in the expansion from their African homeland 50,000 years ago, whether Australia, Europe or the Americas, all the large fauna quickly disappeared." One could evoke climate change and other explanations, but "circumstantial evidence from the fossil record suggests that people's first accomplishment upon reaching new territory was to hunt all its all large animals to death."
Sediment cores from old bogs have shown that spores of fungi that grow on the dung of large mammals were abundant 15,000 years ago. The number of spores and presumably of animals started dropping 14,800 years ago. They became gradually less abundant for 1,000 years. Then, about 13,800 years ago, spore numbers dropped sharply. By 12,700 years ago — about the time the mastodons and mammoths go extinct — they were gone. What happened 13,800 years ago to the critters whose dung nourished the fungi that produced spores? The Manis mastodon offers a clue: People with bone points and atlatls started killing them.
Or did they? In writing about the implications of the dwindling spores, The Times' Wade suggested that on the other hand, it isn't "clear that the pre-Clovis people had the technology to take down large game like mammoths."
Well, evidently the Manis site makes it clear. Those pre-Clovis people out in Sequim evidently made a habit of taking down large game. Not only did somebody kill the Manis mastodon, Waters and colleagues also found that somebody had killed it with a point made of mastodon bone. And, Waters explains, old mastodon bone would be too brittle; any pre-Clovis toolmaker would have used fresh bone.
But could those pre-Clovis guys really have driven even a nice, fresh mastodon-bone point into a mastodon rib? Waters doesn't see why not. For one thing, he says, the point itself, thin, tapered, shaped much like a bullet, penetrates extremely well. "Bone projectile points are really durable weapons and really lethal weapons," he explains.
For another, those early hunters must have used atlatls or spear throwers, which extended the length and therefore the leverage of a human arm. Waters says that some people have built and experimented with such weapons. Not surprisingly, the researchers have found that those old tool makers knew what they were doing. "I saw a fellow take one of these spears," Waters says, "and launch it with an atlatl, and it went through quarter-inch plywood."
He recalls that there was "an old car out there in the field, and he shot it at the old car, and it went right through the door." These guys weren't primitive. Clovis points, while they had more cutting power, wouldn't have penetrated a mastodon as well, Waters says.
Maybe the hunter threw his spear in a long arc that came down into the animal's side, Waters speculates. Or maybe this mastodon was on its last legs, and the hunter launched his spear close up. Either way, would a single hunter have taken on a beast that large? "I don't think anybody would have gone alone," Waters laughs. He envisions those late-Ice-Age hunters working in groups, the way African hunters have worked to bring down elephants: A lot of people drive spears into the animal, then they follow it until it finally bleeds out.
The hit men had arrived. But who were they? Clearly, they weren't Clovis ... yet. Perhaps, eventually, they became Clovis. Why not? Someone did. We don't know much about the Clovis people, but they evidently didn't bring their fluted stone point technology down from Alaska. Fluted points found in Alaska are 1000 years younger than those found in the Lower 48, which suggests that the culture spread south to north. "Pretty clearly," Waters says, "Clovis did not come from Alaska." But you don't have to imagine that culture arriving from somewhere else.
"All the antecedent technologies that could become Clovis are present in North America" before Clovis appears, he says. University of Oregon archaeologist Jon Erlandson, co-leader of the project that found and dated the spear points on the Channel Islands, hypothesizes that maybe the seafaring people who left the points there continued down the coast to the Isthmus of Panama, from where some continued south and others turned north, eventually making their way to the interior United States, where they developed the Clovis culture.
'It makes logical sense that the people who were here before Clovis became Clovis," Waters theorizes. "Now the big question is why? ... Why did Clovis all of a sudden appear on the landscape? How did Clovis spread? ... What was the spark?"
How one Yakama Nation fisherman inherited the fight for salmon
After 150 years of broken treaties and declining salmon populations, Randy Settler worries there won't be enough fish for future Indigenous generations.
Tony Schick &
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Study reveals internet access inequities in Seattle and Portland
CenturyLink offers some poorer neighborhoods with more residents of color slower internet for higher prices, an analysis found.
Kaylee Tornay
Daniel Jack Chasan is an author, attorney, and writer of many articles about Northwest environmental issues.


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Five Minutes with a| Gaz Regan
by Jack Robertiello |
Oct 20, 2009 12:25pm
Gaz Regan, the bartender formerly known as Gary, just released his latest book, The Bartender's Gin Compendium (Xlibris Corporation, August 2009). He graciously offered to sit still for an interview for our inaugural issue.
NCB Mix: Why The Bartender's Gin Compendium?
Regan: I was trying to clean up my computer to make it easier for me to find stuff, and I noticed that I had lots of material about gin. I like gin. I thought, "Wait a minute, I bet if I did a lot of copying and pasting, I'd have a book in no time at all."
That's not how the book came together, though. I started to do more research and one thing led to another, and before I knew it two years had passed. Books have a long gestation period, you know.
NCB Mix: Here's where you make your sales pitch: Why should any bartender or industry pro buy this book?
Regan: If you have a question about gin, the answer is in this book. It covers all styles of gin, describes how each is made, goes into the history of all gins, and I peppered the thing with barroom tales, quotations, trivia and hundreds of cocktail recipes old and new.
NCB Mix: Why is gin so hot now among bartenders?
Regan: It's been hot for a few years among bartenders. The big news is that it's hot among consumers right now, so bartenders need to know this category inside out.
NCB Mix: Can you define the various types of gin for us?
Regan: Four: Dry, Genever, Old Tom and Plymouth.
Dry gin can be broken into four styles: Compound gin, made by adding oils and essences to vodka; distilled dry gin, made by re-distilling vodka with various botanicals, juniper among them; New Western dry gin; and London dry gin.
London dry gin has just been re-defined by the European Union. Here's an excerpt from the book that will, hopefully, explain.
"The powers that be in the European Community saw fit, in 2008, to redefine gin, and they didn't do a bad job of it, but they weren't bloody wizards when it came to gin, either … I think it's necessary to point out one aspect of these mandated guidelines that threw a spanner in the works when it comes to that beautiful style of gin that we've lovingly known as London Dry Gin for over a century.
"London Dry Gin, as a category, probably needed some tightening up, since it used to refer to any distilled gin that was made 'in the style of' London Dry—a pretty vague definition. One of the aspects of these new regulations has made it necessary for some gins to take the word 'London' off their labels. Since these new regulations went into effect, you see, in order to use the phrase 'London Dry,' the gin must be made by having all its botanicals distilled into it in one fell swoop — and that's not easy.
"The temperature at which gin distillers run their stills makes a massive difference to the end product, mainly because, in lay terms, some botanicals release their flavors better at different temperatures than others. It might be desirable, therefore, to distill the botanicals separately, each one at the appropriate temperature, and then marry the resultant distillates to make gin. Or perhaps the botanicals can be distilled in, say, three different batches, each at a different temperature, before the three 'flavored vodkas' are united in a gin bottle. This sort of stuff can make quite a huge difference to the finished product.
"There are quite a few styles of Genever, but it's fairly safe to say that in order to make this style of gin, a mash of grains (basically beer) is distilled into a whisky-like spirit known as malt wine. The malt wine is then married to another spirit that's essentially a dry gin, made by distilling botanicals, including juniper, into neutral grain spirits. The percentage of malt wine in any bottling of Genever will drastically alter the flavor of the spirit, of course, and if Genever is aged, then this, too, has an effect on the product.
"Old Tom was probably a euphemism for gin in the 1700s, and at some point in the early 1800s, when distillers started adding sugar to their gins, probably to disguise their badly made spirits, Old Tom became a term that used to describe sweetened gins. These gins could have been Genever, or Genever-style gins that might have been aged, or could have spent time in wood when they were transported, thus getting just a little age on them. By the end of the 1800s it's more than likely that most bottlings of Old Tom gin were sweetened dry gins.
"In defining Plymouth gin as a category, it's possible only to say that Plymouth is a gin that's made in Plymouth. But we can say that Plymouth gin has less juniper up front than traditional London dry gins, and because more sweet root botanicals and fewer bitter botanicals are used in its production, Plymouth gin certainly has a style all its own. Call it a somewhat gentler gin than London Dry, but a gin with tons of character all the same. And strangely enough, because of the newly written E.U. regulations that define styles of gin, Plymouth gin could legally be called a London dry gin, since all the botanicals are distilled into the gin in one fell swoop."
NCB Mix: You also mention New Western Gin — what's that?
Regan: Ryan Magarian, one of the producers of Aviation Gin, wrote a definition for me (it's in the book):
"This designation seems to have evolved over the past nine years, as a result of efforts from both large brand houses and regional distillers in Europe and in the United States. In taking a good hard look at today's rather loose definition of dry gin, these distillers realized a greater opportunity for artistic 'flavor' freedom in this great spirit and are creating gins with a shift away from the usually overabundant focus on juniper, to the supporting botanicals, allowing them to almost share center stage. And while the juniper must remain dominant in all dry gins, these gins are most certainly defined, not by the juniper itself, but by the careful inclusion and balance of the supporting flavors, creating what many experts believe to be an entirely new designation of dry gin that deserves individual recognition."
NCB Mix: How do you tell quality gin from those that are poorly made?
Regan: Bad gins are lacking in complexity, and they usually bear a glycerine oiliness, too. They are pretty easy to spot.
NCB Mix: What's your favorite gin cocktail?
Regan: The East Ender, which is my creation; though it's actually just a Sweet Martini circa 1900, with a lot of bitters, unless you want to call it a gin-based Manhattan.
The East Ender
3 ounces London dry gin
1 ounce sweet vermouth
3 to 5 dashes Angostura Bitters
Serve on the rocks or straight up with an orange twist garnish (optional).
NCB Mix: Anything you'd like to share about the book that we haven't touched on?
Regan: I need to sell tens of thousands of these babies if I'm gonna make the rent this month.
Spirits Bartenders Cocktail ideas Beverage trends
Jack Robertiello
Founder - Drinks Ink


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667 F.2d 1385 - ARMSTRONG v. ALABAMA POWER CO., United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
676 F.2d 152 - IMFC PROFESSIONAL, ETC. v. LATIN AM. HOME HEALTH, United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit B
737 F.2d 435 - SPENCER v. NEW ORLEANS LEVEE BD., United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
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298 So.2d 848 - COX v. W. M. HEROMAN & CO., INC., Supreme Court of Louisiana.
376 So.2d 340 - GOAD v. MAY, Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.
370 So.2d 521 - LOTT v. HALEY, Supreme Court of Louisiana.
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305 U.S. 382 - MINNESOTA v. UNITED STATES, Supreme Court of United States.
355 U.S. 41 - CONLEY v. GIBSON, Supreme Court of United States.
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Katha team feels to bring importance of the day in the life of Swami Vivekananda. The date only is chosen from His life of 39+ years. When He has given a lecture, we shall bring salient points of the lecture and give its link which will instantly make it available to you. We request you to read it so that our becoming Vivekanandamayam will pick up speed. Katha Team would be happy to have your suggestions / views.
15 January 1897 : On 16 Dec1896 Swami Vivekananda boarded the train and via France, Italy reached Naples. There on 30 Dec, he boarded Prinz-Regent Leopold and started towards India - His Motherland. He reached Colombo on 15 Jan 1897.
Swamiji was received as a 'conquering hero' meaning that His reception was an appreciation of the fact that he had stormed the citadel of Western materialism and placed on it firmly and securely the banner of Indian spiritualism. The reception showed how He had roused the national pride.
In all the welcome addresses that were presented to Swamiji, the common points are : thankfulness for His true exposition of the truths contained in India's sacred books, thus disabusing the minds of the Westerners of their prejudices, and bringing home to His countrymen the value of their glorious heritage, thankfulness in particular for having drawn the attention of the West to the characteristic Hindu doctrine of Harmony and Brotherhood of Religions and the Hindu ideal of a universal religion, and above all, best wishes for the success of the great movement initiated by Him for the propagation and revival of Indian religion and philosophy. His proving of the capability of Hinduism to provide a basis for a universal religion, in bringing the West and the East nearer to each other and thus paving the path for human brotherhood was also welcomed by India with all warmth and sincerity.
Sri Coomaraswamy read out the welcome address.


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I have a a client base at a residential facilty for people who are developmentally delayed and have been going there for over two years now to see clients. I always enjoy my days there and make sure to take time and talk to residents who aren't my clients. It's always nice to walk in the workshop and hear several voices calling my name excited to tell me their latest news, whether it is they got a letter from dad with $10 in it, if they got a phone call from their brother, if they get to go into town and go shopping on the weekend or even if it is just for them to say hi and ask how I am doing.
Yesterday I had gotten one of my clients, who has the sweetest nature and disposition you can ever imagine, and asked if she wanted to walk "the circle". "The Circle" is a sidewalk that goes around the inside of the campus and links to each cottage on the campus. She was very eager to go outside and walk after being "rained in" all day. She quickly began telling me how she had stood up for herself and made a decision to break up with her boyfriend and get a new boyfriend who "is nicer to me". I was praising her about her good work when all the sudden she says "OH! There is a grasshopper!". She moved quickly to catch the grasshopper and cradled it in her hand. She spoke softly to the grasshopper and asked him "do you want to take a walk with us?" We walked further talking and she would make comments to the grasshopper occasionally asking such things as if he was enjoying the walk, if he was comfortable and was he enjoying the beautiful day after all the rain. I kept reassuring her what a wonderful job she did on being assertive and how I was so proud of her. She smiled sweetly at me and said she was proud of herself.
At one point I looked at her hand and noticed the grasshopper was just sitting calmly on her thumb, not moving, not trying to jump away, but instead like he was just listening to our conversation and very aware of the fact that she was just trying to take him on a little walk. We discussed some of the past issues she had about letting others "take advantage" of her and how she doesn't want to do that anymore. She looked up me and said "you know what?" and I smiled back at her and said "no I don't know". She suddenly had a very serious look on her face and said "I feel safe now. I feel like I can stand up to people and they listen to me". I told her "That is because you have become a stronger person now". With her free hand she grabbed my hand and made me stop, she looked up at me and said "Thank you. You have helped me become a strong person". Of course I smiled at her and let her know she had done the work, that I was just a tool for her to build herself stronger.
She let go of my hand and we continued to walk and talk until we got closer to the building where she works. Suddenly she stopped for a moment and bent over and told the grasshopper "Okay it's time for you to go now. I hope you enjoyed your walk with us Mr. Grasshopper". I told her "oh I am sure he enjoyed it since he didn't ever try to run off". We finished the last little bit of our walk just chit chatting about her work assignment and how she has the right to make the decision where she works, me always reassuring her that she was in charge of her life and her choices. As we got back to the door she just simply said "okay I gotta get back to work now but I will see you at group tomorrow, right?" I told her we would indeed have group tomorrow and then I was off to get my next client.
On my drive home I got to thinking about this client of mine and how joyous the simple things in life are to her. How taking a grasshopper for a walk gives her joy, how learning to stand up for herself and be assertive with others gives her such a sense of pride and it made me think of how to be thankful for the little things in my life. Sometimes I think we get so involved in the materialistic belongings, hustle and bustle of family affairs, stress of our jobs, etc. that we forget we indeed have small things in our lives to enjoy and for which to be thankful. Maybe we all need to learn to take a grasshopper for a walk every now and then, thinking about how wonderfully blessed we are and be thankful for every little thing!
True statement Okie! Good reminder to start the day with and I hope you find another one of life's "grasshoppers" to walk with again today!
Amen to that Okie we often overlook the miracle each day give's us and when someone like you friend Or my Son Rory reminds us, we truly can count our blessings.
Do you know my story of the child and the rainbow? May I share it?
About three years ago I was working one day in The special needs school that Rory my youngest attends. Not in the same class I hasten to add or no work would be done!
It had been a horrible morning with heavy rain and wind and the children had not been out and were becoming a little stir crazy. Seeing a break in the weather We rushed to get their coats on and shoo them outside for some fresh air before the weather turned wet again. well they all had a round round and let off some much needed steam. and as we were taking them back inside one child from the class next to ours was still outside ignoring the rain but carrying a cup.......As I watch him he is catching the raindrops. when intrigued I asked him what he was doing. He replied "
I'm trying to grow a Rainbow miss".
It makes me think, maybe we should all take some time to try and grow a rainbow.
You are ....Oh so right!!!
It the little things that you find most important. And hardly ever is it a material thing!!
Wow Okie! What a powerful message! You really touched my heart this morning.
Okie, as the grandmother of two mentally challenged young men, your post today truly touched me. Your posts often make me laugh, but today I had tears in my eyes! (It's okay Okie, they were "good" tears!) My DD and SIL are considering whether or not it is time for their oldest son to join a group home...if that is the choice they make, I hope there are people there like you! Now, I am off to see if I can find a grasshopper to see if he would like to go for a walk! Thank you for myself and for these special people you encourage!
What an awesome young lady! She seems to have a great understanding of the important things in life. Makes me think I need to "take a grasshopper for a walk"! Thank you so much for sharing.
I very much enjoyed this today. I crave the time when life was simpler and more laid back and it seemed I enjoyed things more. Now, I just seem to get so caught up in so many things that have to get done and feel so overwhelmed. This reminds me that we have to take the time and remember what is truly important.
Thanks for blessing us with this story. I have a 12 yr old son with Down syndrome and he is such a blessing to our family and he reminds us of what is really important in life.
Okie, thanks for sharing such a beautiful message. I've had a rough few days and it helped lift my spirits.
I usually don't read your posts until they arrive in my inbox, a day later, but I am so glad I ended up at your blog today. Thank you for sharing such a beautiful truth. We truly are too busy, and we forget to enjoy life.
What a truly wonderful story! You really need to think about writing for Chicken Soup for the Soul. This is a perfect story for it. Thank you for the reminder that we need to take time to "take a Grasshopper for a walk"! God Bless you!!!
Thank you for sharing this beautiful story, and the life lesson that it teaches us.
Such a profound story. Thanks.
You really need to get a "like" button on here! What a great story and lesson for all of us. Thanks.
Thank you for sharing your story. I work with children who have been abused and neglected and they too can bring special moments in your life. It can make one sit back and reflect on how fortunate some of us are.
Your post today took my breath away. Loved it and love you.
Beautiful, Okie. You said it very well. Today I'm looking for grasshoppers.
This is so beautiful. I spent 16 years of my life working with people with intellectual disabilities, and I love them. God bless you for taking time to walk a grasshopper.
Wow! What a wonderful story! Thank you for sharing that, what a difference you have made both to your clients and also to all of your readers! That will certainly be a story I will not forget! Thank you!
love you for sharing. Thanks Okie!
What a lovely message ... I needed that reminder today!
Ahhh Okie this is wonderful! Thanks you!
I totally agree and "ditto" all the above comments!! If you write a book, please title it "Walking with a Grasshopper". I know we will all buy it!. Thanks for the perspective on simplicity and little blessngs!!
I'm going to walk this weekend...not around a busy grocery store or a crowded mall or in a rush to get somewhere else...just an easy walk with no purpose other then to enjoy the little things and not feel guilty about it!
What a beautiful story! Thank you so much for sharing.
Thankyou for this story. It helps to be encouraged by others. Wonderful.