Review: Isis Restaurant in West Asheville

A Yelp reviewer offers an in-depth take on the new West Asheville casual fine dining venue, soon to add music. Pretty much spot on, IMO.

I?ve had the chicken breast with mushroom cassoulet he?s hoping to try next time, and it was DELICIOUS:

Tonight my wife and I tried the new Isis Restaurant & Music Hall on Haywood Road in West Asheville.

Overall the Isis is more upscale, more enjoyable and more of a positive experience than I expected. The food didn?t totally knock me out, as it does at C?rate, Limones or Fig, but it was well prepared and more sophisticated than I thought it would be. I imagine it will get better as the kitchen gets in gear (the restaurant has only been open about a week.)

The owners have done a wonderful job renovating what was Pastabilities and at one point was the old Isis theater, which opened in 1937 and closed in 1957. ?I?ll date myself, but as a small child my brother and I used to walk from St. Joan of Arc school to take in shows at this theater. ?I remember that we saw ?Forbidden Planet? there one time. My favorite barber shop is next door, so I?ve watched for going on two years as the restaurant was being renovated and the parking lot upgraded. I love the exterior front of the restaurant, which has a marquee that looks like the old movie theater.

One the ground level, there?s a mid-size dining area in the front of the restaurant ? with the requisite exposed ducting ? and the main music stage at the back (where the movie screen was), with a bar, with restrooms across the hallway, connecting the two areas. On the second level (you can enter via either of two stairs) there?s a more intimate bar/lounge, with a piano and small stage, ideal for a lounge singer or jazz trio. Overlooking the main music stage is an Orange Peel-like standing area for drinkers. ?It would have to be a big act to fill this area. ?Right now the Isis is basically just doing the restaurant; the music will come soon, I?m told.

On a Tuesday, the Isis was busy though not full, and the noise level got fairly high in the main dining room. ?Full, it might be a tad too loud.

Now, as to the food and drink.

We started with cocktails. ?My Dewars and soda ($6) was fine and reasonably priced. ?My wife didn?t particularly care for her Jack Daniels Old Fashioned, but at just $7 why complain?

For an appetizer we shared the Hoppin? John, with yellow eye peas, red quinoa, bacon and three shrimp ($8). ?I didn?t know exactly what to expect, but it turned out to be delicious.

For an entree my wife had the seared rainbow trout with chard and that quinoa again ($15), which my wife termed very good. ?I had one of the specials, a small sirloin with Yukon potatoes and broccoli ($20). It wasn?t the best steak I?ve ever had, and it was small for the price, but I enjoyed it. Next time I?ll probably try the grilled chicken breast, Frenched and served with a white bean-mushroom cassoulet ($15).

No espresso here (what?s up with that at so many Asheville restaurants?!) but the Beanwerks French press coffee ($3) was excellent.

Bottom line: ?I think this is exactly the kind of place West Asheville needs. It?s by far the most upscale spot in West Asheville, priced fairly and while the food may not yet be up to Admiral standards, it?s a lot classier joint. I don?t how the music hall aspect will work out, but I?ll definitely go back for the food.

Dinner for two, with a total of two cocktails, one glass of wine ($7 for a merlot), one shared appetizer, two entrees and one coffee came to $72 with tax but before my usual generous tip. ?If entrees were 10 or 15% cheaper, I?d be happier, but I shouldn?t complain.

Source: http://www.ashvegas.com/review-isis-restaurant-and-music-hall

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Video: Two-legged robot ?walks? a tightrope

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John Roach , NBC News

Researchers have modified a two-legged hobby-kit robot with the balance and dexterity required to inch its way along a thin?steel wire.?

Japanese robotics researcher Masahiko Yamaguchi, who goes by the name Dr. Guero, modified the $1,800 hobby kit robot with grooves in its feet to catch the wire, akin to the way human tightrope walkers do with their toes, according to Gizmag.?

The arms have fewer moving parts than the original to provide greater stability.

Instead of walking ? that is putting one foot in front of the other ? the robot inches its way across the wire, which is about an eighth of an inch thick. Walking with alternating feet, Dr. Guero notes on his website, should be possible, but will require more work.

No word on whether the robot will walk a wire between skyscrapers akin to Philippe Petit's 1974?stunt between the World Trade Center towers featured in the Academy Award winning "Man on Wire," but given the robot's nerves-of-steel such a feat should be as easy as cruising over table inside a lab.

Visit Dr. Guero?s website (in Japanese) to view more of his creations, including a robot that can ride a bike. ?

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Switched On: Sell the hardware, attract the apps

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

Microsoft has finally revealed details on the pricing for the all-singing, all-dancing Surface RT. True to Steve Ballmer's word, the Windows RT device is priced competitively with the iPad. It is, in fact, the same price as the entry-level, now not-so "new iPad" and with double the flash memory, an advantage that may change by the time the Surface ships.

The commercial shows off the device's signature hardware features -- the kickstand and touch keyboard cover -- and plays up the "click" they make when they attach to the Surface, which is of course similar to the "click" made when an Apple Smart Cover connects to an iPad. And in a bit of irony for a product that is more focused on tapping than the mouse clicks of the desktop mouse, its campaign slogan is "click in." (It also raises the question as to why people would be constantly attaching the sold-separately touch keyboard when it doubles as a cover, but it is a commercial after all.) While expensive relative to the price of the device, Microsoft's keyboard covers represent an extension of one of Apple's best-conceived iPad accessories (the Smart Cover) that far exceeds one of their worst (the original iPad keyboard dock).

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Holy Motors winner of the 48th Chicago International Film Festival ...

Michael Kutza, Founder and Artistic Director, Mimi Plauch?, Programming Director, and Programmers Alex Kopecky and Penny Bartlett proudly announce the winners of the 48th Chicago International Film Festival Competitions.

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French filmmaker Leos Carax?s exuberant and euphoric HOLY MOTORS leads this extraordinary group of films with three awards. Carax?s first film, BOY MEETS GIRL, premiered in Chicago in 1984 as part of the 20th Chicago International Film Festival?s International Competition.

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Many of the winners will be showcased during the Festival?s Best of the Fest program, Wednesday, October 24 at the AMC River East 21 (322 E. Illinois St.). The Festival runs until Thursday October 25 when Closing Night film FLIGHT, directed by Chicago-born filmmaker Robert Zemeckis and starring Denzel Washington, receives its Chicago Premiere.

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International Feature Film Competition
Representing a wide variety of styles and genres, these works compete for the Festival?s highest honor, the Gold Hugo, a symbol of discovery.

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The Gold Hugo for Best Film goes to HOLY MOTORS (France/Germany) for the sheer beauty, originality and breathtaking scope of its cinematic vision. Director: Leos Carax.

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The Silver Hugo Special Jury Prize is awarded to AFTER LUCIA (Mexico/France) for being a film of great simplicity and restraint, that nevertheless moved and shocked the jury. Director: Michel Franco.

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The Silver Hugo for Best Actor goes to Denis Lavant in HOLY MOTORS (France/Germany) for breathing life into a character who is alternately tragic, hilarious, shocking, profound, hideous, beautiful, wise - but always human - and, quite simply, unlike anything we've ever seen before.

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The Silver Hugo for Best Actress goes to Ulla Skoog in THE LAST SENTENCE (Sweden) for showing, with great subtlety and skill, the depth, complexity and humanity of a seemingly "ordinary" human-being. Director: Jan Troell.

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The Silver Hugo for Best Cinematography goes to Yves Cape and Caroline Champetier of HOLY MOTORS for images that were achingly beautiful and inventive, and somehow managed to be always perfectly in sync with the confounding universe of the narrative.

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The Silver Hugo Special Mention goes to THE REPENTANT (Algeria/France) for exploring with great sensitivity the aftermath of atrocities in Algeria and the challenges of reconciliation. Director: Merzak Allouache.

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The International Feature Film Competition Jury includes Dani?le Cauchard, Patrice Ch?reau, Alice Krige, Joe Maggio and Amr Waked.

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New Directors Competition
This selection of first and second feature films receiving their U.S. premiere in Chicago celebrates the spirit of discovery and innovation upon which the Festival was founded.

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The Gold Hugo goes to THE EXAM (Hungary), a film which combines the intricate plotting of a Cold War secret agent thriller with the serious undercurrent concerning deeper issues of personal loyalty versus the police state; it exudes a quiet confidence, remarkable in a new filmmaker. Director: Pet?r Bergendy.

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The Silver Hugo is awarded to FLOWERBUDS (Czech Republic), a glum image of current Czech society that is illuminated by quirky observation and even an occasional touch of humor. An impressive and sophisticated beginning. Director: Zdenek Jirasky.

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The New Directors Competition Jury includes Dan Berger, Rebeca Conget, Jonathan Miller and John Russell Taylor.

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Docufest Competition
This selection of international documentaries competing for the Gold Hugo go beyond the headlines in telling those true stories that surprise, entertain and challenge us.

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The Gold Hugo goes to THE BELIEVERS (USA). This tightly constructed cinematic argument with strong characters puts a human face on scientific research and discovery acknowledging our universal understanding of human failings in our desire to achieve success. In THE BELIEVERS, the filmmakers remind us just how inexact science really is sometimes. Directors: Clayton Brown and Monica Long Ross.

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The Silver Hugo goes to NUMBERED (Israel). Visually stunning, compelling stories with surprising humor and wit edited into an impactful whole to remind us that the past lives on for the next generations. NUMBERED clearly demonstrates the importance of documenting the collective story of the Holocaust and other world genocide. Director: Dana Doron and Uriel Sinai.

The Docufest Competition Jury includes Reiner Veit, Alicia Sams and Ruth Leitman.

After Dark Competition
This competitive program of scary movies from around the world takes audiences on a journey to the darkest corners of the human soul.

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The Gold Hugo goes to ANTIVIRAL (Canada/USA), one of the more ambitious feature film debuts in recent memory. Writer-director Brandon Cronenberg's ANTIVIRAL is a work obsessed with perversions of the flesh, in the areas of science and sexuality. The film is the work of a budding visionary--full of inventive and effective artistry, and a clear sense of where we are going as a celebrity-worshipping society. Director: Brandon Cronenberg.

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The Silver Hugo goes to SLEEP TIGHT (Spain). Jaume Balaguer?'s gift as a director of thrillers is his way with psychological tension, digging out worrying new ways to describe how the world is simply not ever a safe place to be. In SLEEP TIGHT, not even bed and a little bit of sleep are safe. Director: Jaume Balaguer?.

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The After Dark Competition Jury includes Jayme Joyce, Steve Prokopy and Ray Pride.

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Short Film Competition
The Gold Hugo for Best Short Film goes to RETURN (Israel), awarded for its extraordinary exploration of cultural dislocation as seen through the eyes of a young man who returns to his Israeli home after a life-changing trip to India, director Shay Levi wisely chooses to avoid obvious melodramatic touches. Instead, he tells the story through nuance and the subtle play of a moving camera. The result is that we are taken into the pained and confused mind of the protagonist yet given enough information to empathize with the people to whom he can no longer relate. The jury wishes to recognize that this achievement is all the more noteworthy because RETURN is the work of a student filmmaker. It gives us hope for a future of challenging and rewarding films from Mr. Levi. Director Shay Levi.

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The Silver Hugo for Best Narrative/Live Action Short goes to PAUL (Israel), awarded for its effective mix of a fantastical story with the visual elements of noir, and for a central character whose plight is lovingly conveyed with Keatonesque simplicity. This tale of a dog-faced man who sets out to find his stolen pet fish brilliantly walks the tightrope between magical realism and a dark night of the soul. The fact that there are no missteps is due to its effective mixture of cinematic dexterity and a keen eye for the foibles of human behavior. The jury was particularly impressed by the central performance. Little more than a bodysuit made of crepe, Paul proved to be one of the most fully rounded and emotionally affecting characters that we have seen in a long time. Director: Adam Bizanski.

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The Silver Hugo for Best Short Documentary goes to PARADISE (USA). With a moment of calm daybreak followed by harnesses, ropes, and the calculated preparation of a great heist movie, director Nadav Kurtz drops the audience of his short film PARADISE into a meditation through the perspective of three Chicago window washers. Topically a film about men at work, this documentary incorporates fluid camera movements, beautiful photography, steady editing, and a lovely yet understated guitar soundtrack. The subjects discuss marriage, growing old, death, the afterlife, and teaching the next generation while building inhabitants continue downtown - living, working, playing, and going to Starbucks. Director: Nadav Kurtz.

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The Silver Hugo for Best Animated Short, the highest for an animated short film, goes to OH, WILLY (Belgium) due to its stunning originality. The jury found the film to be a treat, full of narrative surprises and delightful tonal shifts, and that rare beast of a film ? one where the material design itself (a world covered in fuzzy wool) lends an unmistakable expressivity to the landscape of the film and characters in it. The narrative?s tender, scary, and surreal episodes culminate in a fantasy with an unexpected and captivating conclusion. Directors: Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels.

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The Gold Plaque for Best Student Film is awarded to NEXT DOOR LETTERS (Sweden) both for its brave style (balancing a digi-folksy aesthetic with a hint of the grotesque), and its effectively shaped narrative. Based on a true story of teenage longing and burgeoning queer identity, the jury found it a touching and an impressive achievement. Director: Sascha F?lscher.

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The Gold Plaque for Animated Short is awarded to EDMOND WAS A DONKEY (Canada/France) for its unique story of a young office drone who comes to accept the image others have of him, as well as for its ability to effectively and cinematically capture the essence of fable. Mixing black and white imagery, ironic voiceovers and a Bu?uelian sense of the absurd, EDMOND WAS A DONKEY is that rare film that delights us with what it has to say as much as how it says it. Director: Franck Dion.

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The Silver Plaque for Narrative/Live Action Short is awarded to VOICE OVER (Spain). On another planet, attacked by monsters, crawling through mud to save loved ones, and being dragged to murky depths by a vessel thought to be your salvation - there is no explicit way to describe the feelings outlined at the culmination of Martin Rosete?s VOICE OVER. The jury awards a Silver Plaque for the film?s art direction, technical mastery, riveting script, compact editing, elegant yet tongue-tied narrator, and a reminder of adolescent and adult struggles for life and love. Director: Martin Rosete.

A Special Mention for Narrative/Life Action Short goes to CAF? REGULAR, CAIRO (Egypt) for its effective and well-directed use of improvisation to create an intimacy not only between the characters onscreen, but between them and the audience as well. Director: Ritesh Batra.

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The Short Film Competition Jury includes Melika Bass, Ronald Falzone and Andrew Suprenant.

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INTERCOM Competition
One of the longest-running international competitions of its kind, INTERCOM honors a wide range of corporate-sponsored, educational and branded films.

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The Gold Hugo goes to HANDTMANN ? IDEA FOR THE FUTURE by Naumann Film, a compelling and elegantly cinematic evocation of the ways manufacturing and technology connect human beings in the 21st century.

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The Gold Plaque go to SAVE BOWLING by Brad Bischoff. BBBS by Bengar Films; MAY FOOD KEEP US TOGETHER: "LAST STALL STANDING" by Peoples Production Limited; and SWISS LIFE - CORPORATE MOVIE by Seed Audio-Visual Communication AG.

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The INTERCOM Competition Jury includes Ronald Falzone, Anne Willmore, Hannah Dallman, Zoran Samardzija, and Dan Rybicky.

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Chicago Award
The Chicago Award, presented to a Chicago or Illinois artist for the best feature, short film or documentary, goes to CONSUMING SPIRITS, directed by Chris Sullivan, a truly independent and lovingly crafted portrait of Americana that is by turns surprising and touching.

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The Chicago Award jury includes Julie Ford, Kevin B. Lee, and Michael W. Phillips, Jr.

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Special Awards

The 48th Chicago International Film Festival recognized JOAN ALLEN?s outstanding achievements and contributions in both theater and film with a Silver Hugo Career Achievement Award on October 14. HELEN HUNT?s rich career will be similarly recognized on October 20 during a Special Presentation of Ben Lewin?s much anticipated film THE SESSIONS at the AMC River East 21. The red carpet event starts at 6:30 pm.

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VIOLA DAVIS will be presented with the Career Achievement Award, Monday October 22 at the Festival?s annual Black Perspectives Tribute to be held at the AMC River East 21. A powerhouse talent of stage, television and film, the Academy Award?-nominated actress (DOUBT, THE HELP) will join the ranks of past recipients including Morgan Freeman, Halle Berry and Sidney Poitier as she accepts a Silver Hugo for the rich characters and nuanced performances she has embodied throughout her career. The red carpet event begins at 6:30 p.m. and is followed by the tribute presentation and celebration of Davis? work.

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The Festival also honored Spanish filmmaker JUAN ANTONIO BAYONA with the Emerging Visionary Award for bringing fresh insight, dynamism, and humanity to familiar genres during a Special Presentation of his critically-acclaimed film THE IMPOSSIBLE on October 18.

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FESTIVAL SPONSORS
Led by Presenting Partner, Columbia College Chicago, the 48th Chicago International Film Festival's sponsors include: Official Airline - American Airlines; Producing Partners: AMC Theaters, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Major Partner: Intersites; Supporting Partners: DePaul University School of Cinema and Interactive Media, Stella Artois, Chris Pagano - Realtor, Land Rover, WBBM NEWSRADIO 780 AND 105.9FM, ShutterBox Photobooth, Cultivate Studios; Participating Partners: iN Demand, EC Charro Tequ8ila, Brugal Rum, Creative America, Gibsons Restaurant Group, Second City Computers, Optimus; and the Festival's Headquarters Hotel, JW Marriott Chicago.

Source: http://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/editor/holy_motors_winner_of_the_48th_chicago_international_film_festival

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Decade-Long Study Suggests Multivitamins Lower Cancer Risk ...

If you diligently take your multivitamin every day believing it?s got to help somehow, a new study has got your back. In a?recently completed large clinical trial of older men, a link was established between taking a daily multivitamin and a moderate decrease in cancer rates.

Specifically, nearly 15,000 U.S. male doctors aged 50 and older participated in the placebo-controlled study over a median range of 11.3 years. Patients took a daily multivitamin (Centrum Silver from Pfizer) or a placebo. A statistically significant reduction of 8 percent in total cancer incidence was observed among those taking the multivitamin daily. The study was recently published online in The Journal of the American Medical Association.

So it?s not a cure, but every little bit helps when it comes to cancer.

But like all studies, there are some important caveats to consider. For one, this study not only included only older men, but those men just so happened to be physicians as well. That?s an important component to the findings because older physicians likely have quality healthcare and have had it in the past. Furthermore, their knowledge base about medicine means that they?re likely to have more awareness about their health and preventative medicine in general. That isn?t to say that they are altogether healthy either. Doctors are notoriously overworked and under enormous stress as well as struggling with weight issues like many Americans.

Another important point to consider is that the reduction in cancer incidence seemed to vary with the type of cancer. While the number of cancers reported overall was lower, there was no difference in the number of prostate or colorectal cancers reported. This could be because the sample size was not large enough to resolve a difference or because of the specific role the multivitamins play.

It remains to be seen whether the multivitamin benefit of this study is universal or helping a particular segment of society that is has a specific kind of lifestyle.

It?s a safe bet that Pfizer will be adding cancer prevention language to its Centrum Silver marketing.

Still it?s good news for multivitamins and dietary supplements in general,?especially with experts casting doubt lately on their usefulness. For example, a?recent federal report stated that 20 percent of supplements are improperly labeled or make claims that have not been scientifically proven. While research at one time suggested the health benefit of fish oils, a slew of recent studies?have cast doubt on those claims. With all the negative press,?a third of Americans still take a daily multivitamin and half take some kind of supplement.

It wasn?t that long ago?when another widely available pill became the cancer prevention golden child: aspirin. Last spring, three separate studies were published linking daily aspirin with lower cancer incidence in the range of 20 to 30 percent. At the same time, however, other studies have shown no effect with aspirin on cancer rates. More recent studies suggest that aspirin may help prevent cancer?s spread and recurrence, yet these are focused on specific types of cancer only.

Although cancer deaths in the U.S. continue to decline, increases in longevity ensure that cancer will affect more people as they live longer.

So what?s going on here? Why do new studies come out every few months, some of which correct or negate previous studies? And why does it seem like nothing about cancer prevention seems definitive?

One of the biggest problems with cancer is that it?s not just one disease. In fact,?a recent genomic study?identified four separate and distinct types of breast cancer alone. Furthermore, cancer varies with gender, race, age, and culture. It also makes a significant difference where the cancer originates in the body. Many men, for instance, get prostate cancer and survive, but the same cannot be said for pancreatic cancer. How the disease affects the body has a lot to do with physiology, which is influenced by a multitude of factors including diet and drugs. Finally, scientists are just starting to unravel cancer at both the molecular and genetic levels. As it stands, we don?t really understand all that is going on with cancer, but what is known is that?it?s fairly complex.

All this means that cancer is probably the greatest medical challenge in history. Though we are closing in on a cure, it is a long road full of small successes, which now includes this latest news about the preventative benefits of multivitamins. Hopefully, this finding can be verified or at least help to further unravel the mysteries of cancer.

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Source: http://singularityhub.com/2012/10/20/decade-long-study-suggests-multivitamins-lower-cancer-risk/

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Thousands gather for Lebanese official's funeral

BEIRUT (AP) ? Thousands of Lebanese waving the national flag packed a central square in downtown Beirut Sunday for the funeral of a top intelligence official assassinated in a car bombing that many blame on the regime in neighboring Syria.

Lebanese soldiers set up road blocks and cordoned off Martyrs Square, where Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan's coffin, draped in a Lebanese flag, was to be brought for burial.

Al-Hassan, 47, was a powerful opponent of Syria in Lebanon. He headed an investigation over the summer that led to the arrest of former Information Minister Michel Samaha, a Lebanese politician who was one of Syria's most loyal allies in Lebanon. He was among eight people killed in the attack on Friday.

"He was killed while he was defending his country," said Samer al-Hirri, who traveled from northern Lebanon to attend the funeral.

Ahead of the burial, there was a memorial ceremony attended by government officials and al-Hassan's wife Anna, his two sons, Majd and Mazen, and his parents.

Even before Friday's bombing, the civil war in neighboring Syria had set off violence in Lebanon and deepened tensions between supporters and opponents of President Bashar Assad's regime. The attack heightened fears that Lebanon could easily plunge back into cycles of sectarian violence and reprisal that have haunted it for decades.

France's foreign minister said it was likely that Assad's government had a hand in the assassination. Laurent Fabius told Europe-1 radio that while it was not fully clear who was behind the attack, it was "probable" that Syria played a role.

"Everything suggests that it's an extension of the Syrian tragedy," he said.

Dozens of anti-Syrian protesters erected eight tents near the Cabinet headquarters in central Beirut, saying they will stay until Prime Minister Najib Mikati's government, which is dominated by the Shiite militant group Hezbollah and its allies, resigns. Hezbollah is Syria's most powerful ally in Lebanon, which for much of the past 30 years has lived under Syrian military and political domination.

"The Syrian regime started a war against us and we will fight this battle until the end," said protester Anthony Labaki, a 24-year-old physiotherapist who is a member of the right-wing Phalange Party. He said the protesters will not leave the area until Mikati's government resigns and those behind al-Hassan's killing are uncovered.

Syria's hold on Lebanon began to slip in 2005, when former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, an opponent of Syria, was assassinated in truck bomb along Beirut's Mediterranean waterfront. Syria denied any role. But broad public outrage in Lebanon expressed in massive street protests forced Damascus to withdraw its tens of thousands of troops from the country.

For years after the pullouts, there was a string of attacks on anti-Syrian figures in Lebanon without any trials for those responsible. Assad has managed to maintain his influence in Lebanon through Hezbollah and other allies.

Samaha, the former minister arrested in al-Hassan's investigation, remains in custody. He is accused of plotting a wave of attacks in Lebanon at Syria's behest.

Syrian Brig. Gen. Ali Mamlouk, one of Assad's most senior aides, was indicted in absentia in the August sweep that saw Samaha arrested. Samaha's arrest was an embarrassing blow to Syria, which has long acted with impunity in Lebanon.

The car bombing struck Beirut's mainly Christian Achrafieh neighborhood and also wounded dozens of people, including children.

Al-Hassan will be buried in Beirut's Martyrs Square next to the late Hariri. Security was tight as thousands of people headed to the capital from around the country to attend the funeral.

Al-Hassan's body will first be taken to police headquarters for an official procession to the square.

Policemen and soldiers cordoned off the square, searching people trying to enter and barring vehicles. Giant posters of al-Hassan were set up around Beirut ahead of the funeral, calling him a "martyr of sovereignty and independence."

On Saturday, Mikati linked the bombing to the Samaha case.

"I don't want to prejudge the investigation, but in fact we cannot separate yesterday's crime from the revelation of the explosions that could have happened," he said.

Mikati, who opponents say is too close to Syria and Hezbollah, offered to resign after the bombing. But President Michel Suleiman asked him to stay so as not to add to the instability.

Many of Lebanon's Sunni Muslims have backed Syria's mainly Sunni rebels, while Shiite Muslims have tended to back Assad. Assad, like many who dominate his regime is a member of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

Al-Hassan was a Sunni who challenged Syria and Hezbollah.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/thousands-gather-lebanese-officials-funeral-105224090.html

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The Spammer

I Hate SPAM

I am one of those people who absolutely detest SPAM. Spammers are unscrupulous, dishonest people too dumb to use proper Internet Marketing techniques. For me, annoyance turned to disgust when a genealogy forum I created became inundated daily with spammers, including porn. Every day, I removed the spam only to have it show up the next day. Finally, I tracked it down to a company called SEO Profiler who spread their client?s garbage wherever they could over the internet. I had to threaten them with a lawsuit before they would stop.

The laws that finally came into effect regarding spamming saw a rise in the hijacking of someone?s email address so that they could use that email address and not be subject to the law. Many of us have had to change our email address due to this.

How do spammers get our email address?

There are email address spiders that search the web and harvest a list of victim's email addresses that they find in various places. Another method is to send out ?tribute? and ?inspirational? emails. ?If you respect our troops?, ?if you love Jesus?, ?if you are my friend?, ?if you hate bullies?, etc., send this on or send it back to me to show you care.

How to prevent your email address being hijacked

I know that pretty well every one of you have friends or loved ones that are simply not very internet savvy. If you send some of these folks jokes or cool things to watch, there is a good chance that they will forward your email to others. That is fine but they often simply click on the forward and send it on to their friends, leaving your email address showing. It is just a matter of time before your email will become hijacked and thousands of people will be receiving spam emails, supposedly from you.

I try my best to prevent this in these ways.

First, I go over the email I intend to forward, making sure that any email address showing is deleted.

Secondly, I use BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) method to select recipients. That creates a single address of undisclosedrecipients@........com instead of individual personal email addresses. There is nothing to harvest.

Lastly, I put the following as an automatic signature on each email.

Thank you for deleting my email address & personal history before you forward it.

Thank you for using BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) instead of "To" and "CC" when sending group e-mails. This helps prevent SPAM & hackers.

Example of a real Spammer

I received a SPAM this email morning. The creep used my friend's email address to disseminate it and it was just a single link to a "Raspberry Drops" SPAM web site. The spammer had used a copy of the Fox News website to try to fool people into thinking they had published the article. This incredibly intelligent person left the O out of the web address to pretend it is from Fox. When you go down the page and try to leave a comment, of course, it does not work and more than the raspberry drops would. Also, each of the links at the top go to a "buy my raspberry crap" page.

Not long ago, I switched to Gmail and found it to be very good at detecting and preventing SPAM. If a SPAM email does get through, click on the ?mark as SPAM? and everyone else on Gmail will be protected in the future from this same email.

There is a never ending list of trolls, thieves and unscrupulous people out there on the web. So, protect yourself and others as much as you can.

Source: http://www.streetarticles.com/spam-blocker/the-spammer

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Galaxy dance of death creates starburst shockwave

Joanna Carver, reporter

(Image: Gemini Observatory/AURA)

Meet a poor crazy mixed-up galaxy, NGC 660. It's a lenticular galaxy, meaning it's not a crowd-pleasing spiral or a shapeless blob elliptical, but essentially both. Visible in this image from a Gemini telescope on the mountain Mauna Kea, Hawaii, is a surrounding ring of gas, dust and stars, which is what's confusing astronomers.

First, some bad news: in a few billion years, the Andromeda galaxy (which, on a clear night you might be able to see from your backyard without a telescope) is going to swallow the Milky Way. That's us. It's nothing personal, it's just what galaxies do sometimes. Anyway, this won't happen until long after apes have taken over the Earth.

At first, that seemed the easiest explanation for how NGC 660 formed.

However, when that happens, we usually see a collapsed core at the galaxy's centre and sudden heightened activity of star formation, not to mention an extra supermassive black hole at the centre of the new galaxy. Also missing are the tails of ejected stars, gas and dust that get thrown out of the newly merged galaxies as a result of the violence of the event.

Brian Svoboda of the University of Arizona believes the ring came from a "tidal accretion event scenario" - in simplest terms, the gravitational dance of death of a pair of galaxies resulted in a massive shockwave.

The shockwave created gigantic blue stars, in this case 100 times the mass of our sun. They exploded, adding to the chaos, creating more and more shockwaves and turning NGC 660 into a starburst galaxy, one of the most intense star-forming environments.

"It really is the most incredibly picture I've seen of the galaxy," Svoboda said. "None of the other images I've seen, including those from the Hubble Space Telescope, show the star-forming region with such clarity."

To top it off, NGC 660's host galaxy and ring rotate at velocities inconsistent with the amount of gas they contain. This points straight at the existence of huge amounts of dark matter, that invisible, elusive substance that is thought to make up the huge majority of the universe. This weird, wonderful galaxy further may offer some clues, if it feels like talking.

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Women's soccer host final two games this weekend ? Athletics ...

News Feed (goheat.ca), Soccer (W) | October 19, 2012

Last games of regular season.

Women?s Soccer?? vs. Vancouver Island University, Saturday (1 p.m.) at Nonis Sports Field, UBC?s Okanagan campus
Women?s Soccer?? vs. Capilano University, Sunday (12 p.m.) at Nonis Sports Field, UBC?s Okanagan campus

Women?s Soccer (CCAA ranking: No. ??After a successful weekend in which the Heat won both games at home on the Nonis Sports Field ? Saturday 2-0 over Langara, and Sunday 3-1 over Quest ? the Heat have now clinched one of the top four spots in the league with their 6W-1L-5T record, and have guaranteed themselves a spot in the PACWEST Provincial Championships hosted by Quest University in Squamish, BC on Oct 26-27.

A team that has always given the Heat fits, the Vancouver Island Mariners (2W-5L-5T), will be the first matchup of the last weekend of play. Saturday?s match between these two squads will begin at 1 p.m. In their only other meeting of the season the teams played to a 1-1 draw on Sep 22.

Sunday at 12 p.m. the Heat women take on the always pesky Capilano Blues (1W-8L-3T); the two teams played to a 1-1 draw in North Vancouver on September 23rd.

Sunday will be senior?s day at UBC Okanagan as this will be the last time fifth year and graduating players are able to compete on their home field. The women?s soccer team has one fifth year player and one graduating athlete but both have meant a great deal to the program.

Keeper Sabrina Gasparac (Langley, BC) has played keeper for the Heat for the past five years and will be joined on senior?s day by graduating defender Liz Babcock (Calgary, AB) ? these two arrived here the same year as head coach Claire Paterson and have been integral to the growth of the program to the national contender it has been for the past three seasons.

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Source: https://news.ok.ubc.ca/athrec/2012/10/19/womens-soccer-host-final-two-games-this-weekend/

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The Artists' Studio: Oct. 18, 2012 | the570.com Northeastern PA's ...

Gold Leaf. Digital photography by Susan Scranton Dawson
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Born That Way

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The word ?natural? has been so abused by manufacturers seeking to redeem their factory-processed conveniences, it?s become just another empty-calorie filled marketing gimmick. Once upon an ancient time the word was derived from Latin root word for birth (nacor) and suggested the essential or innate properties of something. As our habited world grows increasingly artificial, ?nature? has come to stand for anything left unmanipulated by man.
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Nine of the region?s most respected artists known for environmental subjects will share their more recent visual?meditations?on the natural world in a new exhibit opening in Marywood University?s Mahady Gallery on Saturday. Artists showing in natureSEEN include mixed media and installation artist John Bromberg, ceramic artist Nannette Burti, photographers Susan Scranton Dawson and Marguerite I. Fuller, illustrator Trudy Gerlach, painters Earl W. Lehman and Leigh Pawling, printmaker, painter, and mixed media artist, Karl O. Neuroth, and sculptor and glass artist Karen Reid. Many of the artists will speak about the work at a public gallery talk on Wednesday, Oct. 31 at 3 p.m.
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Also opening this week in the Suraci Gallery on the second level of the university?s Shields Center for Visual Arts is a colorful collection of instinctive, exploratory Ren?e Emanuel still-lifes titled Talisman. A reception featuring live music by Rogue Chimp will be held in celebration of both exhibit openings on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. While natureSEEN is only on display through Nov. 18, Talisman will remain on display until Dec. 2. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, and from 1 to 4 p.m. weekends. Call 348-6278 x 2428 for more information or visit www.marywood.edu/galleries.

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Bacchante Reaching Down. Oil on linen 36? x 46.? Brian Keeler

More Than Nude

A new exhibit of light-filled landscapes and figure paintings by Brian Keeler running through Oct. 31 at the Orazio Salati Gallery in Binghamton, N.Y., serves to mark the debut of a new instructional DVD by the Wyalusing-based artist. The three-disc course focuses on the drawing and painting of the nude. Keeler described the disc in recent correspondence as ?very comprehensive ?covering the process of doing studies in oil an charcoal with explanations about perspective, color and historical influences.? A series of five short videos of the artist at work in his studio on a recent oil figure painting on linen of a model staged in an Umbria (Italy) morning sun bath can be viewed on his website at www.briankeeler.com.
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The Orazio Salati Gallery is located at 204 State Street (returning visitors will want to look across the street from the venue?s previous location) Call (607) 760-9766 with questions or send email to buffst72@aol.com.

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Digital photograph by Lucian Palmer a.k.a. Kathryn Scott Adams

Venerable Heritage

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What?s in a nom de plume? Scranton-born photographer Kathryn Scott Adams chose to honor both of her artistically-inclined parents (Ruth Palmer Conrad) and (LeRoy Lucian Scott Jr.) with the professional alias Lucian Palmer. Inspired by the historic vessels housed at Scranton?s Steamtown National Historic Site, Adams captured the rich, rusted colors and textures of their neglected forms in a digital format using high dynamic range (HDR) with an extended tonal spectrum of highlight and shadow for a greater intensity of definition. Select images from her portfolio will be displayed in a new exhibition titled Ghost Trains of Scranton in the historic site?s Changing Exhibits Gallery Nov. 4 through the end of the year. Admission is included in the park?s standard admission fee.
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Describing the artist?s HDR process, critic Colleen Creamer (B&W + Color Magazine) offered, ?To better convey a sense of the trains? powerful character and time-tempered beauty, Adams combined different exposures of the same subject, which gives her photographs an almost vertiginous depth. This is especially apparent in images like ?Ghost Car,? which pulls the eye irresistibly down a long, narrow corridor, past a jumble of upended, decaying seats, to a door at the far end leading to another compartment and another corridor, as if one were traveling further and further back in time.?
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Steamtown National Historic Site is located in downtown Scranton on Cliff Avenue off Lackawanna Avenue. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Call 340-5200 or visit www.nps.gov/stea for more information.

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Meet Some Brewers, Drink Their Beer | Sydney Craft Beer Week ...

Ever wondered where beer comes from? You don?t grown it on a tree, that?s for sure. Beer is made by men and woman called Brewers. The collective noun for brewers is ?A feast of brewers?. I know! Weird, right?

Through out Sydney Craft Beer Week we have a whole bunch of oportunies for you to sit down and have a pint with the person who made the pint. And I present:

PERSON WHO MADE THE PINT or MEET THE BREWER

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Scotty Morgan, Rocks Brewing/Harts Pub
Scotty Morgan is the head for for Rocks Brewing who?s beer you will find all over Sydney and at Harts Pub in The Rocks.?He started brewing at University as a way to make cheap beer but he had a beer revelation involving Samuel Adams beer while working in the USA. Harts has become an institution in Sydney and a craft beer pilgrimage for those living far from a decent pint.

You can thank Scotty in person at Harts Meet The Brewer night.

Richard Adamson,?Young Henry?s
Richard?s brews have been downed at BBQs across Australia, pubs in London, bars from New York to Los Angeles, nightclubs in St Petersburg and pool halls in Beijing. Having established Barons Brewing?s core range of beers, including the innovative Native Range, Richard?s passion is to bring the whole beer experience to new and old drinkers through Young Henrys.

Meet Richard on just about every day.?Young Doctors in the East Village,?Young Henrys at the Little Guy, Young Henry?s Open Day, Young Henry?s House Party, Young Henry?s Tap Takover, Young Henry?s/Two Birds Collab Launch?and at Bloodwood, Newtown.

Paul Holgate, Holgate Brewhouse
Most young Aussies head over seas to check out the world beyond our sunburnt shores, and Paul and Natasha Holgate were no exception. On holiday trips to the USA and Europe in the 1990s they were amazed at the whole world of beer and beer styles out there.?The USA was an inspiration to the young Holgate?s, who saw the thriving microbrewing industry there and decided to just do it! Both of migrant families ? Paul?s family from Manchester England and Natasha?s from Sri Lanka ? they decided to quit their corporate jobs and follow their passion. Paul originally found his love of baking cakes and pastries, making jams and ginger beer from his Mum at home as a youngster and converted that to all-grain brewing from first principles while at University.

Meet Paul at Beer and Bites at The Oak Barrel.

Craig Wealands, Thirsty Crow
About 18th Months ago Craig opened Wagga Wagga?s first brewery and brew pub with his folks. In such a tiny amount of time the chap has achieved an aweful lot. His Vanilla Milk Stout took out Champion Hybrid at last Friday?s Champion Hybrid and a Bronze for their light beer at the?2011 Australian International Beer Awards.?Elsewhere on the lineup you?ll find the likes of a kolsch (their biggest seller), an English bitter and a US style pale, all excellent examples of style.

Meet Craig and show some appreciation at the Thirty Crow Tap Takeover at Yullis.

Brad Rogers, Jamie Cook, Ross Jurisich from?Stone and Wood

Brad, Jamie and Ross established Stone & Wood Brewing Company in Byron Bay in 2008 after many years of working in the beer business. Their dream was to quit ?working for the man?, shed the corporate garbage and get back to basics. This year the lads were took home an award for Best English Summer Ale from the biggest beer comp. in the world ? The World Beer Cup.

Meet the lads at The Big Pig Out?or the Food Truck Ambush

Steve ?Hendo? Henderson from Southern Bay Brewing

In just a few short years, Hendo has turned Southern Bay from primarily a packaging and contract brewery in to one of the best craft breweries in Australia. Sit down with the chap and ask him how he did it, all while having your head blown off by one of his hop?extravaganzas.

Hendo will be at Bloodwood for an intimate 16 person dinner. Join him why don?t you?

Ben Kraus from Birdgroad Brewers

Budding young winemaker Ben Kraus headed to Italy at the start of the Millennium to learn more about the art of making wine. Somewhere along the way, he got distracted on the ski slopes of Austria and ended up working at Tiroler Bier, a traditional microbrewery in Innsbruck, and returned to Australia a brewer, steeped in the traditions of the amber nectar.?Founding Bridge Road Brewers in his dad?s Beechworth backyard, he quickly established himself as one of Australia?s finest craft brewers and later installed his brewery at the High Country town?s old Coach House and Stables. There, visitors can sit among wooden clad tanks sampling a wide range of beers (and occasionally cider) while watching the brewers at work (This bio taken from the?Crafty Pint).

Ben will be at Bloodwood, Three Blue Ducks?and Brewers and Chewers.

Dave Golding ? Red Hill Brewery
Red Hill Brewery is located on the Mornington Peninsula and was founded by Karen and David Golding. Red Hill Produce a bunch of award winning beers and Dave has become known as a master of style. The brew on an 800l steam fired vessel and produce three main beers ? a Golden Ale, a Wheat Beer and a Scotch Ale. Sounds great1

Dave will be at Brewers and Chewers Dinner at The Local Taphouse

Luke Nicholas ? Epic Brewing
Luke Nicholas head brewer and owner of Epic Brewing in New Zealand. He is also the creator of the website RealBeer.co.nz, previously head brewer of the Cock & Bull?s beers, international beer judge, industry commentator, founding president of SOBA, and previously vice president of the Brewers Guild of New Zealand. All round legend, obviously.

Luke will be at Brewers and Chewers, Epic Alestars?and Cuz I?m Epic Bro

Dave Padden ? Riverside Brewing
Dave Padden got the idea to open a brewery a long time ago, fostered out of a love of home brewing. Padden is the founder of the casual western Sydney home brewers? club, and he speaks fondly of brewing as a great personal passion. He says the original plan for the brewery was something smaller???not quite a nanobrewery???although the initial vision has evolved a lot over the eighteen months. One thing that has remained constant, Padden tells me, is the need for a sense of community.

Tim Thomas ? Hopdog Beer Works (New South Wales)

Chris Willcock, Andrew Tweedle ? 4 Pines Manly
4 Pines began out of a desire to offer people great taste sensations through variety in their beer, quality craftsmanship, natural ingredients, traditional time honoured techniques (no short cuts). Something they wanted to drink & that their mates would be proud of! Their?stamp; ?Handcrafted beer brewed naturally? means in a nutshell that when you drink our beer you are getting the best of natures goodness.

Meet Chris at Brewers and Chewers. Andrew will be at the Beer Mimics Food Launch and a bunch of other events unofficially

Jayne Lewis ? Two birds
Jayne?studied a Bachelor of Science in Viticulture and Winemaking and worked in wineries in Margaret River and the US, before seeing the light and landing a role as a Brewer at Little Creatures in WA in 2004. She was involved in developing Pipsqueak Cider before moving to Melbourne in 2007. She worked casually at Matilda Bay Garage, Dandenong before accepting the role as Head Brewer at Mountain Goat Brewery, Richmond in 2008. Jayne has completed a Diploma in Brewing through the Institute of Brewing and Distilling in the UK ?and has judged at the Australian International Beer Awards, BrewNZ and the Perth Royal Beer Show.

Meet Jayne at Brewers and Chewers, High Tea at Harts Pub, SCBW Tweet Up At The East Village?and Young Henry?s/Two Birds Collab Launch

Jeff Wright -?McLaren Vale
For the last 18 months Jeff Wright has been heading up the brewing team at McLaren Vale Beer, formulating and brewing some unique and complex boutique amber draughts. Originally a viticulturist by trade, Wright was growing grapes for McLaren Vale wines when he decided that beer was where his heart lay. ?I?ve been home brewing for quite a few years? I suppose it?s where the passion was?. (Bio and pic from Time Out)

You can meet Jeff at The McLaren Vale Meet The Brewer afternoon at The Union.

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Shawn Sherlock at Murrays Brewing Co
From humble beginnings in Taylors Arm (population 50) on the New South Wales north coast around, Murray?s relocated to Port Stephens in 2009 where today they run a heck of an operation in a funny place called Bob?s Farm. Recently they opened their first Sydney venue, Murray?s Brewery Restaurant and Bar at Manly. Shawn brews some of Australia?s most innovative beers and Murray?s is without a doubt of the best breweries in Australia.

Meet Shawn at the Murray?s Hoptoberfest Dinner

Rocks Brewing

Andrew Robson, The Lord Nelson
The Lord Nelson is Sydney?s oldest brew pub, having started brewing beer in house in 1985. Head Brewer Andrew Robson will be hosting The?Brewer?s Table gathering and explore the pairing of ale and food with a particular nod to seasonal ingredients. It will also provide an opportunity to sample Lord Nelson Brewery Ales whilst discussing their production first hand with the Brewer.

Andrew will be at The Brewers Table

Neil Whittorn,?Matilda Bay
The longest-established of all Australian craft breweries, Matilda Bay was founded by Phil Sexton in West Australia back in 1984, making small batches of beer for sale in Fremantle?s Sail & Anchor pub. First off the production line was the Redback wheat beer ? the first of its style made in Australia and still winning awards today.

Come meet Neil Whittorn?at?Waltzing Matilda at the King Street Brewhouse

Doc from Doctors Orders
Doc is homebrew royalty around Sydney. He has played an integral role in building the homebrew community in Australia and for the past few years he has been running the most excellent nano-brewery this side of Earth. His beers are always epic ?and beer nerds flock to their locals whenever he has a new release.

Doc will be at?Doctors Orders Tap Takeover and Beer Launch, Young Doctors (Night Nurse) Beer Launch

Source: http://sydneycraftbeerweek.com/2012/10/18/meet-some-brewers-drink-their-beer/

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Build Your Own Dark Paper Craft Gods With Foldable.Me

I've been avoiding writing about Foldable.Me for a while because I find the process of paper craft to be in the realm of obsessive hobbies that require a degree of intensity and sufficiently unsweaty palms that I simply do not possess. But, we must ask ourselves, what if a start-up did the hard, hard work of printing out laser cut paper craft models for you without all that mussing about with an X-Acto and an aversion to mature adult relationships?

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KCET, Link TV to Form New KCETLink

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PepsiCo's profit dips amid turnaround push

In this Monday, Oct. 15, 2012, photo, a bottle of Pepsi is displayed next to popcorn in Pembroke Pines, Fla. PepsiCo Inc.'s net income dipped 5 percent in the third quarter, as the food and beverage maker poured more money into bolstering its flagship brands and developing new products that cater to shifting consumer tastes. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

In this Monday, Oct. 15, 2012, photo, a bottle of Pepsi is displayed next to popcorn in Pembroke Pines, Fla. PepsiCo Inc.'s net income dipped 5 percent in the third quarter, as the food and beverage maker poured more money into bolstering its flagship brands and developing new products that cater to shifting consumer tastes. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

NEW YORK (AP) ? PepsiCo Inc.'s net income dipped 5 percent in the third quarter, as the food and beverage maker poured more money into bolstering its flagship brands and developing new products that position it for the future.

The company, which makes Frito-Lay snacks, Tropicana juice and Quaker Oats, stood by its guidance for the year and profit came in above Wall Street expectations.

As part of a turnaround push that began this year, PepsiCo is working to raise the stature of its key brands, such as its namesake cola and Gatorade sports drink. The company, based in Purchase, N.Y., is betting that this will help cultivate customer loyalty and make the products more resilient to competition and price hikes.

In its flagship beverages unit in the Americas, however, the company said sales volume fell 3 percent during the period; sodas fell 2 percent and non-carbonated drinks such as water fell 7 percent. Without giving details, the company said the drop in the latter figure was partly because it got rid of less-profitable juice packages.

Operating profit also fell as costs for ingredients and marketing rose. After losing market share to Coca-Cola in recent years, the company has been staging an advertising blitz with pop stars and athletes to burnish its Pepsi brand.

CEO Indra Nooyi said in a conference call with investors that results for the North America beverages unit were "mixed" and that a few areas were a "work in progress."

For example, she said Gatorade volume was down in the high-single digits in part because of pricing actions. But she said the company didn't want to fall back into the trap of marketing Gatorade as a general hydration drink, as it did in 2004-2006, just to boost volumes.

"If we go back to that, we are again renting volume," she said. By instead positioning Gatorade as a drink developed specifically for athletes, Nooyi said PepsiCo will be able to charge higher prices over the long term.

The same was true of packaged bottled waters; Nooyi noted that there was a "hell of a price war" in the segment and that PepsiCo was moving away from simply chasing short-term volume spikes. PepsiCo's water brands include Aquafina.

PepsiCo is also developing drinks and snacks that cater to shifting consumer tastes. Next year, for example, Nooyi said the company has launches planned for the rapidly growing energy drink market.

She also noted that people still love the taste of cola, even if they have concerns about sugar and artificial sweeteners. As such, she said PepsiCo is looking at the launch of a "differentiated core product" toward the end of 2013, suggesting the company is working on a diet cola with natural sweeteners.

Overall, the company said new products accounted for 8 percent of revenue. Some of those products include a mid-calorie soda called Pepsi Next, Gatorade chews and Real Medleys, which are instant oatmeal cups that come packed with fruits and nuts.

In the company's Frito-Lay North America unit, volume edged up by 1 percent, and Quaker Oats saw a 2 percent increase. But the operating profits of both units were pressured by higher costs for ingredients and marketing. Volumes for the Latin America foods division and the Asia, the Middle East and Africa unit saw double-digit gains.

In China, Nooyi said PepsiCo isn't feeling the impact of the economic slowdown because people still spend on small-ticket items, such as sodas and chips.

"If you're on the ground in China, you don't really sense the slowdown," she said.

Overall, the company's core operating profit declined 8 percent, reflecting higher costs for ingredients, increased advertising and marketing and higher pension expenses.

For the period ended Sept. 8, PepsiCo said it earned $1.9 billion, or $1.21 per share. That's compared with $2 billion, or $1.25 per share, a year ago. Earnings from core operations were $1.20 per share, better than the $1.16 per share analysts expected.

Total revenue fell 5 percent to $16.65 billion, partly because of unfavorable currency exchange rates and the refranchising of its business in China and Mexico. That means that revenue in those countries is now recorded by PepsiCo's local partners.

Analysts expected revenue of $16.96 billion.

When excluding the impact of unfavorable currency exchange rates and other structural changes, the company said its revenue rose by 5 percent in the quarter. The increase reflected a 1 percent jump in sales volume and 4 percent bump in pricing.

PepsiCo expects costs for ingredients to moderate in the fourth quarter. But for the full year, the company still expects adjusted earnings to fall by 5 percent.

Shares of PepsiCo rose 19 cents to $70.49 in morning trading.

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Honduran supreme court rejects 'model cities' idea

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