text:
What Is MyMSD NZ? Here's All You Need To Know

Date May 14, 2021
Blog category Broadband
By Tina M.

All you need to know about MSD in New Zealand:

Whether you’re looking for work or are in need of financial assistance, the Ministry of Social Development or MSD in New Zealand is here to help you out.

MSD through MyMSD is a government initiative where Kiwis can apply for financial aid for the following:

  • Employment
  • Income support
  • Funding to community service providers
  • Social policy and advice to the government
  • Student allowance and loans, and
  • Social housing assistance

For your student needs and requirements, you can visit our previous article about student allowance here

Some of you might already be under the assistance of Work and Income NZ or WINZ for school, graduate studies, clothing allowance, and other of your living expenses. MSD also provides these services through numerous business groups and agencies, including WINZ.

How to apply for MSD benefits?

First, you need to register for MyMSD using your mobile number or email address. Once you’re verified, MyMSD login should allow you to manage your profile, check payments and make changes regarding your information. You will also receive a 9-digit client number, which is your reference code every time you need to re-apply, renew, or access your account in my.msd.govt.nz

For faster and easier access to your online accounts, upgrade your internet plan by comparing deals here at CompareBear!

Here are the following benefits you can get when you’re registered with MyMSD:

Jobseeker Support

With the help of MSD, you can still support dependents even if you’re out of work, looking for a job, or in part-time employment. You can apply for MSD benefits through WINZ provided that you meet certain requirements:

  • You have a health condition or disability affecting your ability to work.
  • You reduced your working hours or decided to stop for a while.
  • Over 18 years of age.
  • You’re an NZ citizen or permanent resident who has lived for at least 2 years in the country.

When you’re application has been approved, you can get a weekly payment which amount will be based on your circumstances and the amount of your partner’s salary if any.

Solo Parent Support

There’s another way to support your children’s schooling, allowance, and pay for home expenses through WINZ while looking for work at the same time. You can apply for this type of benefit when you meet these requirements:

You’re at least 20 years old.

  • A single parent with one or more children under 14 years old.
  • You’re not in a relationship (single).
  • You don’t have enough financial resources from family members.
  • You’re an NZ citizen or permanent resident who has lived for at least 2 years in the country.

Supported Living Payment

In some cases, you might not have enough financial resources to support your medications or care for someone with a severe health condition. By applying through WINZ, you can get weekly payments to aid you with your medical expenses. You can be approved for this benefit when you are:

  • Permanently and severely restricted to work for more than 2 years due to a health problem, injury or disability
    • Have a life expectancy of less than 2 years and can’t regularly work more than 15 hours weekly in open employment.
  • You’re totally blind.
  • Caring for someone at home (whether it’s your child, a family member or someone from your community) who would otherwise need hospital care or a special facility.
  • You’re an NZ citizen or permanent resident who has lived for at least 2 years in the country.

Young Parent Payment

Those who are not qualified to get a Solo Parent Payment from WINZ can get weekly compensation by applying for a Young Parent Payment. You should be at least 16 to 19 years old and meet the following:

  • You have a child or children with you
  • You’re an NZ citizen or permanent resident who has lived for at least 2 years in the country.
  • You’re available for full-time education, training towards an NCEA level 2 qualification or higher qualification.
  • You’re in a teen parent unit if you have a one-year-old.
  • You’re working with a Youth Service provider for managing your money.
  • You attend a budgeting course.
  • You attend a parenting course.
  • You enrol your children at a medical centre with a qualified doctor.
  • You register your children under 5 years old with a WellChild service.
  • You have your children attend Early Childhood Education or other known or suitable childcare while you’re in training.

For instances where you’re in a de facto relationship at 16 or 17 years old, you need to acquire consent from a Family Court judge for you to be approved for Young Parent Payment.

Emergency Benefit

For those who are not qualified for any of the benefits enumerated, they can apply for an emergency benefit through MyMSD and talk to one of their agents. This may include single parents supporting children who have disabilities, illness and other sicknesses.

All of these benefits should be renewed yearly through MyMSD in order to determine whether you’re given the right support for your current circumstances.

Other benefits include:

  • Disability assistance for those who are caring for children with serious disabilities.
  • Hardship assistance which includes funeral grants, live organ donor assistance, civil defence payments, temporary additional support, temporary accommodation assistance and special needs grants.
  • Special Circumstances Assistance for Kiwis who are victims of domestic violence and witness protection cases.
  • Recoverable Assistance for people who are in need of specific items or services such as washing machine and fridge.
  • Work Assistance for beneficiaries, those receiving low-income, students and former beneficiaries to assist them to obtain and maintain employment.
  • Winter Energy Payment
  • Best Start Tax Credit for families who are supporting their children’s early years.
  • Working for Families Tax Credit for families with dependent children (18 years or under).
  • Retirement benefits which include NZ Superannuation and Veteran’s pension.
  • Accommodation Costs for boarders, renters, and homeowners with limited income and assets to meet their accommodation fees.
  • Student Financial Support through StudyLink including allowances, loans and scholarship and awards to tertiary students and teachers.

You can find other inclusions in MSD’s Statement of Intent 2018-2022

In addition to these benefits, you can also apply for food grants through MyMSD if you’re a solo parent, disabled, sick, elderly or currently out of work. You can also use your Green Card to purchase food. Here's how:

Do more research about MSD and your eligibility with a reliable Broadband plan! Compare the best deals in your area here at CompareBear!

About the author
Tina M.

Tina M. is a content writer and an aspiring law practitioner. She mainly writes about real estate, finance, and investing. Ever the creative, she loves painting, home renovating, and getting meme ideas from reality TV.

Previous Article

Adulting 101: Power Bill Payment Options In NZ

Next Article

Compare: Which Savings Account Is Right For You?


Content-Type: application/http; msgtype=response

WARC-Identified-Payload-Type: text/html

WARC-Type: response

text:
How is Jesus' sacrifice propitiation for our sins?

The definition of propitiation is to appease or to satisfy. In many religions, people seek to appease God or the gods with a variety of actions or rituals they believe will make their God or gods pleased. In contrast, Christianity reveals that Jesus Christ is our propitiation, the One who has satisfied the Father on our behalf so we can be forgiven of our sins and have eternal life.

How did Jesus become our propitiation? Hebrews 2:17 explains, "Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people." By taking on a human form, Jesus came and offered Himself as a sacrifice on our behalf through His death on the cross.

Three other passages in the New Testament also note the important role of Christ's propitiation. Romans 3:24-25 says we "are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith." Here, the blood of Jesus shed on the cross is emphasized as what appeased God or served as our propitiation.

In 1 John 2:2 we also read, "He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world." This verse reveals the extent of Christ's propitiation. Christ's sacrifice was sufficient to pay for the sins of every person in the world. This does not mean that every person is saved and will go to heaven. Instead, it refers to the truth presented in John 3:16 that God will give eternal life to anyone who believes in Jesus Christ.

First John 4:10 offers an additional insight regarding the biblical view of propitiation: "In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." God's love led to the radical decision to send Jesus to die in order to pay the penalty for our sins. Propitiation, or satisfying God's requirement for salvation, was paid for by Christ Himself. Salvation is a free gift from God, not something we earn. As Ephesians 2:8-9 teaches, "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast."

What is clear in these passages is that Jesus is the only way sufficient to provide eternal life and be saved. John 14:6 teaches, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." Acts 4:12 adds, "there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."

Many other biblical passages speak in other ways about the importance of Christ's death. His sacrifice paid the price for our sins so we can be forgiven. Yet we also rejoice in His resurrection, knowing that Jesus defeated death and revealed His power as Lord (Romans 10:9). As Scripture teaches, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame" (Romans 10:11).

Copyright 2011-2021 Got Questions Ministries - All Rights Reserved.

warcinfo:
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-25
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for June 2021
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-217.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/


text:
Term of the Moment

mobile data offloading

Look Up Another Term

Definition: email verification

Making sure a list of email addresses is valid. Email verification is a service used by marketers to ensure that messages will be sent to valid recipients. Marketers with routine email campaigns do not want a high rate of bounces, which can cause them to be blacklisted as a spammer by their email provider. People leave companies all the time, and emails sent to their old company will bounce back to the sender. Addresses may be incorrectly spelled; for example, sarah@computer@language.com. In addition, email domain names are also verified to ensure there is a valid mail server at the receiving end. See DaaS and data scrubbing.


text:
Skip to main content

Dr. Angela Alberga

Assistant Professor, Health, Kinesiology and Applied Physiology

Dr. Angela Alberga
Office: L-SP 165-06
Richard J. Renaud Science Complex,
7141 Sherbrooke W.
Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext. 3371

Born and raised in Montreal, Dr. Alberga completed her BSc (Major Exercise Science, Minor Psychology) at Concordia University. She then completed her MSc and PhD in the School of Human Kinetics, specializing in exercise physiology at the University of Ottawa. She was awarded a Canadian Diabetes Association Doctoral Research Award for her research focused on improving the cardiometabolic health of children and adolescents with obesity through exercise. It is through these experiences that she learned how prevalent and harmful weight-based stigma is and has since been devoted to research, teaching and knowledge translation efforts to reduce weight discrimination in society. Dr. Alberga was awarded an Eyes High Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Banting Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Federal Government of Canada at the University of Calgary supporting her research on weight stigma reduction in education, healthcare and public policy.

Alongside her interdisciplinary research training in health promotion and disease prevention, she has over 15 years of experience working with children, youth and adults as a camp counselor, educator, mentor, coach, instructor, personal trainer and clinical exercise physiologist in academic and community settings across Canada.

Banting CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Calgary
Eyes High Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Calgary
PhD, Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa
MSc, Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa
BSc, Major Exercise Science, Minor Psychology, Concordia University

Research interests

Research program: An interdisciplinary approach to weight-related issues: Implications for population and public health.

Dr. Alberga’s research program focuses on better understanding how (i) societal, and (ii) school and other institutional factors, influence weight-related issues including obesity, eating disorders, physical inactivity and weight stigma.

Teaching activities

EXCI 420: Epidemiology of Physical Activity

EXCI 458: Pediatric Exercise Science

Back to top Back to top

© Concordia University


text:
HOA Software
By CondoAssociation.com • January 11, 2020

Can non-resident owner still use swimming pool?

Can an owner who rents his unit still have unlimited pool access and bring over multiple guests?

Please drag open the comment box from right bottom corner to make it larger.

Please note that blog comments and postings are not legal advice, rather only the opinions of our readers.
Visit Our Sponsors
Condo Management Software
new 300x500_surety-one-ad-border

Blog by Topics

See all

Subscribe Here!


text:
Whisky Connosr
Shop Join

Woodford Reserve

Average score from 22 reviews and 107 ratings 82

Woodford Reserve

Product details

Shop for this

What next?

  • Add to cabinet
  • Add to wish list
Woodford Reserve

Here in Canada, this bourbon is called "Distiller's Select" but I believe it's the same whiskey that's sold under the Woodford Reserve name in the U.S.A. This whiskey was only really sipped "attentively" 3 or 4 times. It was my "well bourbon" for company over the last few months. And in that regard, it's quite successful. This is an ideal bourbon to introduce your non-whiskey drinking friends to neat sipping whiskey. It's bottled at a low enough proof that it isn't going to knock anyone's socks off. And it's readily available, so even the most "traditional" whiskey drinker can't get too upset if someone adds ice or, heaven forbid, coke or ginger ale to it.

I believe the mash bill is 72/18/10 (Corn/Rye/Malted Barley)

Tasting Notes

  • Nose (undiluted): cherries, vanilla, icing sugar, oranges, maple, pecans, a bit of rye spice
  • Palate (undiluted): gentle arrival, medium-bodied, sour cherry candies, brown sugar, orange peels
  • Finish: medium length, slight oakiness, clove, a touch of honey, some lingering barrel char

Water doesn't change much. The orange notes become a bit more prominent and the whiskey becomes a bit thinner, no surprises there. Overall, this is a solid bourbon. It's not mind-blowing, but there are no flaws either. No sharp ethanol aromas, no "off" bitterness on the palate or finish, not too sweet. It's a bit of an odd one to score, but I suppose I'll do my best.

According to my sources, Woodford Reserve is triple distilled in copper pot stills. The mash bill contains 10% malted barley, 18% rye 72% corn. The distillery, which can be found in Versailles (Kentucky, USA, obviously not in France) belongs to Brown-Forman. The batches of the Distiller’s Select have some variation, but all are bottled between 42.2% and 43.2%. The one I am trying now is at the lower level.

Very soft and accessible nose on all kinds of fruit like plums, cherries and pears – I was not expecting that last bit – with loads of caramel and some toasted oak up front, while some soft spices and some wood glue join at the back. New leather too. After a few moments it turns a bit floral. Violets. Honey blossoms! I must say, I quite like this.

The body is good. The strength as well. The sweetness kicks in from the get-go – with the caramel in the lead and the fruit in second place – supported by a lovely spiciness. Think cinnamon, nutmeg and a little peppery note. Nice balance.

The finish is not bad either. Medium long, gently spicy with some roasted nuts at the death;

Well, that was a pleasant surprise. And very affordable as well.

A miniature bottle of this at 45.2 % ABV was what got me into bourbon. I bought the larger 43.2 % ABV bottle based on my experience with the miniature. I have to say I enjoyed the miniature more than the larger bottle. But as an introduction to bourbon, it was ok, a stepping stone to better bourbons.

The mashbill is 72% corn, 18% rye, 10% malted barley, and it is triple distilled.

Color: nice honey gold, oily slow running legs

Nose: alcohol, honey, vanilla, maple syrup, caramel, sweet stewed apples and some oak, clove, pepper. The nose weakens a bit as you get to the last third of the bottle. I get a plasticy note which is unpleasant.

Palate: medium bodied, there is some alcohol burn up front, some roughness on the palate, a bit of an alcohol burn at the back of the throat, not too smooth. Peppery, cinnamon, rye spice, caramel, dry nutty note. When you get to the last third of the bottle, it becomes sweeter due to oxidization .

Finish: short to medium, pepper and butterscotch, sweet and mildly bitter finish.

This is a mid shelf bourbon, an intro to bourbon. However once you have it, you'll want to move on to different bourbons. I will not be buying this again.

Woodford Reserve was the whiskey recommend to me by friends as a solid introduction to Bourbon. I bought a bottle and it has proved to be a difficult relationship so far. There are thing about WR that are growing on me, but the hard and harsh burn and hit on the first sip, is something I still cannot entirely get past.

Colour: Tawny sunset amber to clear brown in the glass, tawny brown in the bottle.

Nose: This is very bold. Lots of maple syrup, tree sap, raisin, prune, cake, banana, caramel, sweetness, touch of sherry, toasty and burnt/charred oak wood, maple wood, cedar wood, vanilla, burnt sugar and all spice in the nose. It's alluring at first, and complex, but every time I take a lingering deep breath, there's a hard alcoholic and slightly petrol like fume that overwhelms me. More complex and bolder than something like Buffalo trace, but also hard and raw.

Taste: As always the first hit of this is a hard and raw burn. Big hit of alcohol and spice, burn on the lips and you have to sit and wait for the hotness to subside and for the flavours to emerge. There's lots of spice, toasted oak wood, vanilla, then the sweetness of maple syrup, burnt sugar, caramel. I'm finding it hard to get past the booziness of this, to get to the flavours. It's just to hot on the palate.

Finish: This is hot for so long, you have to really wait for the finish. It's spicy, tree sap, vanilla, tangy, some prune and raisin. For a Bourbon with such a bold nose and punch the finish is surprisingly short. I'm struggling to pick out well defined rounded flavour. Too much of it is hot and spicy for me, and lacking balance.

I'll keep trying with this.

I am quite new to whiskey tasting and Jack Daniels acted as my gateway drug, so I thought I would begin by exploring different Bourbons. I recently brought a bottle of Woodford Reserve and have enjoyed it so much I thought I'd post my first review.

Initially I smelt a sweet, vanilla-y aroma and then I think I caught some honey too. As I tasted it, the initial hit was was citrusy and sharp, then it mellowed out into a fruity, smooth taste. I felt like it improved with every taste.

I really enjoyed Woodford Reserve and will be keeping my fledgling collection stocked with it! At £25 it was a pretty reasonable price too.

I have been a long time whiskey enjoyed, but never Sat down and took careful note of my whiskey experiences. Fortunately, the other night I had occassiom to really sit down and collect my thoughts. The whiskey I chose was Woodford Reserve, one of the whiskeys I tend to prefer out of my cabinet. The bottle has been open for well over a year.

I should say I welcome any critique or pointers on how to appropriate describe and note a whiskey, as I'm just beginning.

Nose: the onset is cool and refreshing. Cotton candy, wintergreen, followed by the always recognizably Woodford banana bread, deepening to lime. A deeper whiff reveals something complex and divine: perhaps a blue-raspberry oatmeal. There is some rubbing alcohol burn throughout, but not over-powering and often continues that "cool" wintergreen scent. this is the first whiskey I've written notes on but I have to imagine the nose to be among the fruitiest, most sweet and fun I will ever experience.

Taste: Has a hot kick to it and plenty of oakiness from the barrel. surprisingly different from the nose. Some vanilla and burnt apples. thin mouth feel. I find it tastes underwhelmingly flat and sour after such a promising nose.

Finish: peppery, smoldering wood. Unseasoned jerky. is "worms" even a possible taste? very little to no nuttiness or much quality to it, really. more of a "seltzery" aftertaste. It seems to linger for some time. It's an improvement to the unfortunate palate of this otherwise heartily enjoyable whiskey.

What a bottle! The contents aren’t bad either. This is one that’s grown on me a fair bit. It’s just a touch different than the other bourbons on my shelf, and it’s one I tend to reach for more in the summer. This is my fifth bottle of Woodford, and I like it more each time. My first review for this is a bit inadequate and outdated, so here's the re-take.

Nose: Butterscotch, pine, menthol, cinnamon, roasted honey, red apples, pears, overripe bananas, and allspice. Very fresh

Palate: Light bodied and grainy. Vanilla, maple, charred oak, Christmas cake, sweet sultanas, and menthol.

Finish: Medium finish. Oak, cedar, menthol, pine, pine resin, maple syrup, orange rind, citrus, cherry, and bitter chocolate. Again, quite grainy.

I really like this profile. It’s more high-pitched and grainy than most bourbons. Also, I’m a fan of how light and drinkable this is. It’s not thick or cloying, as bourbon can often be. An easy sipper with a unique profile and a fair bit of complexity. This bourbon is a nice alternative to, well, other bourbon.

It is interesting how differently people perceive things,...though clearly from having sampled different bottles. To me Woodford Reserve always seems thick, woody and low-pitched. Few bourbons seem particularly thick to me, but this is one of them. Others? Old Forester Signature, Elijah Craig Barrel Proof, William Larue Weller, George T. Stagg, and some very old Willetts.

I am sampling some now to check my observations. What do I perceive? Yes, there is some high-pitched grain, but I see it set against very strong low-pitched wood flavours, AND THOSE ARE THE FLAVOURS WHICH I MOST NOTICE AND MOST STRONGLY REMEMBER. Need it be this way? No, of course not...it is just an idiosyncrasy of my individual perceptive faculties.

Keep on truckin', @hunggar!

I'm not a huge fan of Elijah Craig 12 year old either. For the price point here ($23) though, it is a relatively good bourbon that I don't mind keeping in stock. Obviously, my locale being next door to Kentucky gives me a great variety of bourbon to choose from. So Elijah is one of those kinda ehhh, take it or leave it bottles. Not going to turn my nose up to it, but not going out to stock up cases of the stuff in the event of a zombie apocalypse either! I will say that my last, now dearly departed bottle, definitely changed for the better after 3-4 months of air. The spices mulled and the wood took on much more depth and sweetness came out. I'm still waiting for my new bottle of Woodford to oxidize into top form.

I have had this on a few occasions. My friend had a friend in graduate school (so yes, that is a friend of a friend) who was a bourbon snob. When he returned from his tour in Iraq my friend bought him a bottle of Pappy 20yo (this was back when you could still get your hands on it). Anyway, this friend of a friends’ go to bourbon was “Woodford Reserve.” So I have tried to give it a fair shake on a few occasions.

Nose: Biggest alcohol nose of the night (next to Knob Creek, Maker’s Mark, and Evan Williams Black). More roasted apple (burned is more like it) with caramel glaze. Much deeper sweetness then Makers or Evan. With time it is all on perfume notes and plastic. Least favorite nose. Tone: contra alto.

Taste: Sweet sugar cane. Thinner then Makers but not as thin as Evan William Black labe.

Finish: Very much sweet corn and candied yams. Smallest and shortest finish . . . yup, round, short, and boring.

Balance, Complexity: Not terribly complex, however, it was balanced in the sense that it was a very singular note across the board.

Color, Body, Aesthetic experience: Lightest golden amber of the bourbons . . . nope in the glass it is just as dark as the Makers and perhaps darker. Very light bodied for a bourbon. It is a great bottle that looks super impressive and a very decent price. Love the aesthetic, and wish the bourbon was more to my liking.

Conclusion: This is a bourbon that bourbon lovers seem to love. I don’t love it. If find it flat, bland, and tame. Not my style. Maybe I am not a bourbon lover? I love some bourbons (Stagg, WLW, and ECBP). But, if this is a traditional bourbon style then I don’t love it. I am glad that there are bourbons I enjoy.

I think that it would be fair to say that "traditional style" "sipping" bourbons are very frequently enjoyed and sold at 45-50% abv, and that bourbons in that ABV range typically do not appeal to you. Clearly the bourbons that you like are typically at 62% abv and up...the more the merrier, thick, intense, hard-core beasts of bourbon.

Those are my favourite bourbons too, of course.

Woodford Reserve is made at the Labrot & Graham Distillery, which is owned by Brown Forman. Other Brown Forman brands include Jack Daniels, Old Forester, and Early Times. The reviewed bottle # 10747 is from batch # 484. The reviewed bottle is 80% full, has been open for 2 years, and preserved with inert gas for the last 14 months

Nose: rich maple, vanilla, confectioner's sugar, oak, hickory, baking spices from rye grain...the nose has gotten richer with oxidation. A very rich and a very good bourbon nose

Taste: good translation to the palate, with anise/black licorice added. The degree of refinement of the flavours is good, but not excellent. The wood flavours are especially strong here. Personally I don't like the anise note

Finish: long and strong, with bitterness on the close

Balance: this is a good rich standard bourbon...I don't like the anise note and I most especially don't like the bitterness on the close. Bourbon should not be bitter. Bitterness in a bourbon is caused by substandard wood. With better wood this is easily a 90 point whiskey

Last night I was sipping some Slate bourbon. And it was great. I had it in a tasking glass and was enjoying it very much. But I can't do that with this whiskey, because it is too alcoholic.

Granted, it is a nice dram but it's not worth the money. With Scotch if you double the money you spend you really notice it. Not with [this] bourbon it seems. While I can taste that this bourbon is a cut above, say, a Wild Turkey, it's not much of a cut, it's not worth double the $$. Ill definitely go for a Wild Turkey next time.

But back to the alcohol. It perenially frustrates me it is the fashion to bottle whiskys at higher than 40% alcohol. I'm sure this can work with a more powerfully flavoured whisky - like some Islay malts, and maybe even something like Talisker - but it's just a pissing contest in my opinion, a marketing trap which many a 'connoisseur' is only too hyperventilatingly, arm-flappingly willing to fall into, convincing themselves that this whisky must be special. And because they're drinking it; hot-damn, they must be special too! Anyway, all of this leads to me sitting here with a whisky which tastes fine, don't get me wrong, but the nose, the aroma, is vile because all I can smell is alcohol.

This review is just bizarre. You're probably the only person on Earth that wants the bottler to add more water, especially with Bourbon. Pretty much all 80 proof bourbon is watery enough for most people that they either avoid it entirely or mix it. Maybe whiskey isn't for you.

broadwayblue: It's not rocket science. The more alcohol in a bottle, the less they water it down, the more they charge. May as well have it at drinking strength with appropriate water added rather than your tap water, not to mention the trouble of doing this.

SMC: Your entire statement is undermined by the fact that this bottle is NOT 80 proof!

With my new found interest in bourbon, I decided that I’d grab a miniature bottle from my local booze peddler. Bourbon is not popular here in Taiwan. In fact, most shops don’t carry anything more than standard Jim Beam or Jack Daniels offerings. When I got to the store, I realized that I had literally tried all of the bourbon minis he had in stock, save one. I hadn’t heard of Woodford Reserve before, so I figured I’d give it a go. Here’s my take on it…

Nose: A particularly sweet nose on this one. Butterscotch, spearmint, cinnamon, black pepper, nutmeg, cinnamon, roasted honey, and treacle. Some of the notes here, such as red apples, pears, overripe bananas, and spice, almost remind me of a sherry-matured scotch. The wisps of oak are quite musty, like a dusty, old, dry rocking chair that’s been sitting in an attic for a few decades. In a good way. Quite a nice nose overall.

Palate: The nose was quite sweet, but the palate is surprisingly bitter and spicy. Mouthfeel is quite thin for a bourbon. Even with a couple drops of water there’s some spicy tang to this. Tangerine, burnt vanilla, bitter dark chocolate, maple, and singed Christmas cake.

Finish: Medium finish. The spice lingers for a while. Musty oak. Spearmint and maple give this a lovely sweetness. In contrast, orange rind and bitter espresso offer a tart counterbalance. Good stuff.

I like this, but it’s not perfect. There are some lovely flavours in here, but it’s not the most balanced bourbon offering to be had. It jumps back and forth from sweet to bitter quite dramatically. Also, I usually prefer a thicker, richer mouthfeel. On a positive note, the nose here is particularly pleasant. I also like how the oak is presented. The spiciness is at times pleasant, and at times a bit rough around the edges. Never overly so. I’m used to spiciness in scotches, but it’s rarely this pronounced in a bourbon. While it may not win any awards for balance or smoothness, there is no doubt that this offers quite a rich and tangy flavour profile that is quite pleasant overall.

@hunggar, interesting to hear that you can't find much bourbon in Taiwan. @CanadianNinja tells me that Japan is teaming with bourbon and bourbon-drinking these days. Yeah, it sounds strange to me too, given their domestic malt industry.

There are quite a few bourbons which are spicy, generally the ones with the higher rye mashbills, but it is also true of many of the wheaters. Spice in bourbon can come from rye, wheat, or the wood itself. There are differing nuances of spiciness in the spicy flavours from each of those three sources, but they should be generally identifiable by source with practise.

I find Woodford Reserve to be very woody for a 'standard' bourbon. I've been sitting on tasting notes to do a review of this myself for awhile, and I expect to rate it at just about the same score as you did.

@Victor: As connosr's go-to bourbon authority, I'm sure you're right. But as you know, my experience is still quite limited, so I was a bit struck by the spicy notes in this dram.

Interesting to hear that they are popular in Japan. Whisky is SO popular in Taiwan, but every time I go into a whisky store here and ask about bourbon, I always get the same response. "Taiwanese don't really drink bourbon." Hopefully that will start to change soon.

On a more positive note, I recently found a different store with a slightly more respectable choice of bourbon. Elijah Craig 18 will likely be my next purchase. Looking forward to that one. ;)

Whiskey tasted neat.

Appearance: copper-toned.

Nose: Crisp and clean but with some richness to it as well. Some apple, butterscotch, a hint of nuttiness.

Palate: Bold butterscotch and maple sweetness balanced by mild spice (mainly cinnamon and pepper), light oak, and crisp green apple. Extremely smooth and easy to drink.

Finish: Medium-long and with a good mix of lingering sweetness, light spice and oak.

Overall Impressions: Very nice whiskey. Smooth, easy to drink, very little alcohol burn or astringency, and elegantly balanced flavours, but a little bit mild and lacking a bit of complexity. The finish was quite nice and is probably the highlight of this whiskey.

Disclaimer: I'm not really a Bourbon guy.

There's definitely a sweetness to this dram on the nose and on the palate. My conundrum is this: without a splash of water, it's a bit aggressive for me but with water it's a bit too cloying.

I was very impressed with the body of the drink. It was nice and rich.

After tasting it a few times I've decided I prefer it neat. Not my favorite Bourbon, but way better than my least favorite.

This is the second Bourbon I've tried and let me say that I'm impressed. It's a well rounded Bourbon and at the price, simply cannot be beat! It's outstanding!

Nose: The nose on this Bourbon is intense. You really need to take your time with this one to fully appreciate it. Initially, the first thing wafting up my nose is fudge chocolate. After 10 minutes it completely changes. You can smell toffee, coco, cloves, nutmeg, floral notes, charred oak, varnish. Adding some water mellows it, now it's smelling of maple syrup.

Palate: It's a light to medium Bourbon and very smooth. Sweet palate initially. Has a tad bit of spice. There's some orange, cinnamon, bitter chocolate, butter with very burnt toast, and of course, an oak/woody taste.

Finish: It's a long finish. Your left with a floral aftertaste. This is accompanied by oak and an earthy taste. It's not oily like other whiskys, it's more as if your mouth is coated with butter. Your tongue is left dry and sticky rather than oily.

Overall quite enjoyable.

I don't have lots of experience with America's defining liquor, Bourbon. After consuming Jim Beam White label, I strayed away from bourbon yet I came back for W.T. 101 which renewed my hopes in this quintessential American beverage but wasn't enough to make me buy bourbon until now.. Introducing Woodford Reserve Distillers Select..

Nose: A sweet nose; hints of brown sugar, oak, orange, and maple syrup. For some reason this nose reminded me of an assortment of syrups i.e. maple, simple bar syrup, and a tad bit of honey. Its not a sickly sweet its just different since I've been starting my scotch adventure and I haven't smelled anything this sweet.

Body:Full, rich, and smooth when I swirled this in my glencairn glass I had noticed thick and slow legs moving down the sides.

Taste: Spice (cinnamon and a little pepper), dark chocolate, oak, walnut, and Id go as far as saying banana bread. Hopefully that's not to far-fetched.

Finish: Long and lasting and a tad bit spicy. I taste rye and maybe a little herbal bitterness (mint?), it seems to break down into floral notes and things I cant quite put my tongue on. Relatively smooth, 6-7 years of spending in oak definitely helps. This can linger awhile on the palate if you let it.

Overall: A nice change in pace from scotch but I still have some unfinished business regarding it so I will be back at it soon.

P.S. I had decided to smell the empty glass for the first time and I had found it to be quite enjoyable. I found fall baking spices, vanilla, and maple syrup again very sweet almost liqueur- like. Still quite enjoyable..

Upcoming mini bottle No. 4 of 4 Barrel Proof: Wild Turkey Rare Breed

Batch 622, Bottle 02145. The 750ml bottle has a very interesting flatter shape. I drank this neat with a glass of water on the side. The nose is woody, sweet vanilla. Flavors I found were caramel, sugary maple syrup, nuts, and wood. I found this to be smooth overall but at times I had a slight burn going down. I was looking for something sweeter and this definitely fit the bill. This is a fine bourbon and overall I found this to be quite enjoyable.

Physically. It's a beautiful bottle. I want to believe I'll stick a candle in it or something when I'm done but I probably won't...the bourbon is dark and honeyed looking, very alluring. I love whisky bottles and the different shapes and sizes, but a part of me wishes every whisky came in one like this. Once you've had your first dram, put the stopper back in and tilt the bottle. The sound is the sound of whisky to me. If I was judging it purely on ear and eyes this would be a score of 100!

Nose: Tiramisu. Rum&Raisin ice-cream. Caramel.

Mouth:Minty, fruity, sweet but I can't put my finger on that sweetness. So lively in the mouth it almost seems to fizz for one half of a second. Then burnt brown sugar (maybe a little more than you'd want).

After:Caramel/toffee re-emerges. Warming, lasting, but a little bit to sweet for my Scottish palate.

This was my first bottle of Bourbon I bought and I bought another because I enjoy it very much. I wanted an alternate to the peated whiskies I normally drink and I heard they use copper stills (we don't know how much of that spirit is in the standard bottling).

I love bourbons mainly because I love oak and burning wood (like the toasted / charred casks bourbon is aged in). The nose is very floral and very perfumed, slightly overwhelming at first until you let it air out. Very nice smells and it is very fresh smelling. The arrival is paced, delicious and incredibly smooth. The amount of filtration used in bourbon and the corn based mash makes for a smooth and sweet delivery of sugar, oak and a clean spirit.

As the bottle gets consumed the perfume notes are tamed and the oak really comes through. The finish is medium to long, clean and crisp.

I highly recommend this but I will warn that this is not a normal bourbon. I didn't get the thick vanilla and spices and charred oak flavours like I do in Bulleit and Makers Mark. If you are looking for a traditional bourbon experience, this isn't it in my opinion.

After drinking more and more of this the thin mouth-feel just bothers me a LOT. Score kinda drops to 80/100 lately and it's not worth the $47 in Ontario. Should be $35. Four Roses Single Barrel is $45 and twice the whisky this is. Still good and in fact tastes almost identical to Glenkinchie.

This bottle was an interesting experience for me. I picked it up a year ago when it was on sale ridiculously cheap. I'd heard great things from friends and online, so I didn't hesitate to pick it up. Imagine my surprise when I tried it, and all I tasted was a sickly syrupy sweetness and harsh alcohol without much else going on. Well, I hadn't spent a lot on the bottle, so I was just a bit disappointed that this whiskey that everyone else had told me was great, was a huge let-down for me.

Anyway, once in a while I'd try another dram, even mixing up some old-fashioneds, but it always just had too much full-on sweetness to be enjoyable. After half a year (and half the bottle), I resigned to banishing it to the back of the cupboard and using it for cooking someday. In the end it actually made a really nice Bourbon BBQ Sauce! Then, when there were only a couple of drams left in the bottle I decided to give it a last chance, mainly to compare it with the Elijah Craig 12 which I've been loving over the last few weeks. Another surprise: it tasted good! Not as good as the Elijah Craig, but definitely enjoyable and nothing like what I remembered. Now, this bottle had been sitting with only a small amount left, in warm weather, for a few months. I wonder if some of those harsh alcohol flavours evaporated and the sickly sweetness mellowed due to this. Or did my perception of bourbon change since enjoying the Elijah Craig so much? Who knows, but it was certainly an eye-opener!

Here are my notes(from the final tasting!):

Nose: Custard, charred oak, stewed apples. Toasted almonds, coconut. Ripe bananas.

Palate: Sweet, light fruitiness. Bakewell tart. Maple syrup, bittersweet oakiness. Maybe some bitter almond?

Finish: Brown sugar, dried apple, nutmeg. Sweet oaky vanilla.

In summary, quite a sweet bourbon with ripe fruits and maple syrup featuring more than oak or spice.

Deep rich golden colour. The nose is loaded with vanilla and toffee as well as some sweet oak. Burnt sugar and some lovely light fruitiness. A little bit of white pepper and a touch of mintiness on the back. Silken palate with some lovely light floral character as well. Makes a fine julep as well.

The nose is immediately filled with the wafting of vanilla and some floral sweetness. As with all my American bourbons I prefer to serve on an ice cube with a rest before tasting to allow the cube to melt a bit.

I'd imagine this would go well with the right meal like a simple grilled steak or other cut of beef. Smoother than Maker's Mark and a great first whiskey for the beginning palate.

I just sampled this for the first time this past week. This is the kind of bourbon I could come to appreciate daily. Smooth and sweet were my first impressions. I think I might just try this tonight.

Nose: tons of vanilla with beautiful undertones of cedar wood, varnish and peppermint. Almonds. Crême brûlée. Some pear. There’s even a hint of charcoal. It’s very rich and certainly has an individual character, different from other bourbons. Mouth: immediately woody (maybe a tad too much, slightly tannic) and spicy. Mint again. Burnt caramel and maple syrup. Something metallic as well (like licking a battery). A little tobacco towards the finish. Finish: sweet and spicy. Echoes of vanilla. Medium length.

I won't add a full review, as I agree with most of the nose and mouth observations above. I must say that I have never tasted anything remotely metallic in WR; that mystifies me. For my palate, I've tasted no better bourbon. I would have given it a solid 8, but this is indeed a unique bourbon. Likely it isn't the favorite of everyone, but it sure is for me!

I recently received a one-liter bottle as a gift, but it has a higher ABV. Mine is 45,2% and it's a batch 122, bottle 02235. I'll give it a try soon.

Popular Woodford Reserve whiskies


text:
Christian Haase’s Email & Phone

Christian Haase Contact Details

Berlin Area, Germany
No work experience info found.
No education info found.

Christian Haase is skilled in: English, SPSS, Mac OS X, MS Project, Spanish, French, MS Office, Google Mobile SEM, Mobile Performance Campaigns, SEM, Campaigns, Mobile Devices, Mobile Marketing, Google Adwords, Online Advertising

Looking for a different Christian Haase?

Get an email address for anyone on LinkedIn with the ContactOut Chrome extension
Install the extension - it's free!

ContactOut is used by recruiters at 76% of the Fortune 500 companies

Similar Profiles to Christian Haase

Recruiters looking for Christian Haase also viewed
Most popular profiles
Related profiles
  • No profiles to display.


text:
Mark Steele’s Email & Phone

Mark Steele Contact Details

Greater New York City Area
No work experience info found.
No education info found.

Seasoned leadership experience in multiple program management, infrastructure development, network administration, strategic planning, budgeting and relationship building initiatives in cutting-edge and high-tech business environments. Highly skilled as top performer in all aspects of new process introduction, technical support, contract administration, competitive analysis, financial reporting and early/late-stage product development. Profitable development and execution of high-impact business plans, process

Looking for a different Mark Steele?

Get an email address for anyone on LinkedIn with the ContactOut Chrome extension
Install the extension - it's free!

ContactOut is used by recruiters at 76% of the Fortune 500 companies

Similar Profiles to Mark Steele

Recruiters looking for Mark Steele also viewed
Most popular profiles
Related profiles
  • No profiles to display.


WARC-Identified-Payload-Type: application/xhtml+xml

text:
Thank goodness for good faith

09 04 2014

Case note on Australian Postal Corporation v Digital Post Australia [2013] FCAFC 153 In the first instance In 2012, Australia Post, the Applicant, issued proceedings in

Full Article

Need an expert law firm
you can trust to help with registering a trademark?

Contact us today for a free 30 minute consultation for your expert legal advice today

Get your Free Consultation

Some of the clients we have worked with


text:
Grow your business.
Give your business a boost with a beautifully crafted homepage.
Learn More

We’re a manufacturer who is committed to buying, building and manufacturing in USA

Learn More
Reach out to us today.
And learn how Cornucopia Tool and Plastic can help serve your needs!
Contact us
Copyright © 2020 Cornucopia Plastics.
All rights reserved.
Website created by SocialCatnip


text:
Home,Ocean View, Additional Building Dominical ( Puntarenas, CR - 6350) Built

Costa Rica Retirement Vacation Properties

Robert Shannon Robert Shannon 506-2293-2446 (Office) -506 8415 6881 (Office) +506-8820-5627 (Cell) Request More Info

  • Type: Residential
  • Style: 2 Storey
  • Bedrooms: 1
  • Bathrooms: 2
  • Size: 112 sq. m. "1206 Square Feet"
  • Development Level: Built
  • Lot Size: 3.81 acres
  • Year Built: 2007

2 Story Home, Ocean View, Additional Building Site, Dominical

Mountain & Ocean view property with a small house (garage-Studio) located in the Central Pacific mountains of Portalon.

The house was built in 2007 and it offers solid construction, prime location and direct views of the Manuel Antonio rocks. The elevation is around 820 Ft above sea level.

Surrounded by the forest this property offers a 1 car garage with bathroom on the first floor, laundry/work counter area & a full kitchen, dining area, living room, big bedroom and bathroom looking out the ocean.

The house comes fully furnished. There is an additional/Main building site at 7 meters higher cleared and flat across the creek from the existing home. The access road leading to your property gate is manicured with a row of 30 coconut palm.

Gated access with voluntary maintenance for road and water of $800 a year
River with natural swimming pools and waterfalls within a 10-minute walk distance.

Pristine beach Playa Matapalo within 10 minutes ride and Playa Linda 15 minutes
l World known marina Pez Vela and Manuel Antonio national park at 25 minute

Information is deemed to be correct but not guaranteed.


text:
Toy store

Home / Toy store

Buy toys & books and donate to Cotlands to help fill a toy library.

Play Video
Role play | Imagination and creativity | Developing social skills | Ability to play with others | Exploring concepts and relationships by acting them out
Hand-eye coordination | Foot-eye coordination | Spatial awareness | Direction Mobility | Balance | Roll it, kick it and control it
Identification letters, symbols and written word | Developing receptive and expressive language | Developing comprehension for daily conversation | Understanding what is said | Describing, explaining, sequencing | Develop vocabulary | Identification of words | Identification of their name
Hand-eye coordination | Writing | Holding small items | Buttoning clothing | Turning pages
Identifying colours and shapes and numbers | Develop an understanding of quantity and size | Matching shapes and sizes | Sequencing
Shape discrimination | Manipulation | Perceptual | Motor integration | Develop Vocabulary | Classifying | Visual closure | Manipulation | Develop logical thinking
Encourage children to experiment & explore | Satisfies children's curiosity | Helps generate ideas | Understand things through evidence
Hand-eye coordination | Language development | Develops fine motor skills | Creativity | Imagination
A variety of themed kits consisting of learning resources for lessons used by ECD practitioners.
Learning resources for children with special needs


text:
Thank you for your support

Home / Thank you for your support

Thank you we have received your payment for The Adventure of the Little 5 Activity eBook.

Please can you provide us with your email address and we will send an eBook to you shortly.

Your generosity will help us develop more young children and prepare them for formal school.

We truly value your support.

The Cotlands Team

The Adventures of the Little 5


text:
Nevada County Clerk (Arkansas)

The Nevada County Clerk's Office keeps and preserves public records for the Nevada County, Arkansas government. As part of this job, Clerks maintain Nevada County vital records, including birth certificates, marriage records, death certificates, and divorce records. These documents list personal information such as names, dates of birth, and other identifying information, and they may be required to obtain Arkansas government identification or to receive government services. These documents establish identity and can be used for Nevada County genealogical research. Nevada County Clerk Offices may also keep records on Nevada County property ownership, property taxes, and title deeds, as well as property sale records. The Clerk Office maintains multiple different county records and services, which may be available online.

Nevada County Clerk Prescott AR 215 East 2nd Street North 71857 870-887-2511


text:
McLean County Clerk (Kentucky)

The McLean County Clerk's Office keeps and preserves public records for the McLean County, Kentucky government. As part of this job, Clerks maintain McLean County vital records, including birth certificates, marriage records, death certificates, and divorce records. These documents list personal information such as names, dates of birth, and other identifying information, and they may be required to obtain Kentucky government identification or to receive government services. These documents establish identity and can be used for McLean County genealogical research. McLean County Clerk Offices may also keep records on McLean County property ownership, property taxes, and title deeds, as well as property sale records. The Clerk Office maintains multiple different county records and services, which may be available online.

Livermore City Clerk Livermore KY 105 West 3rd Street 42352 270-278-2113

Mclean County Clerk Calhoun KY 210 Main Street 42327 270-422-2152


text:
EVSC cancels school for Wednesday; district to use another waiver day

Abbey Doyle
Evansville Courier & Press
View Comments

Update: Evansville Catholic schools will also be closed Wednesday. Offices at the Catholic Center and Catholic Charities will operate on a one-hour delay, and will open at 9 a.m.

Warrick County schools will also be closed on Wednesday. It will be an e-learning day for Warrick students.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. —The Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp. announced Tuesday that schools once again would be canceled citing road conditions and forecasted additional snow for the reason.

"Road conditions throughout Vanderburgh County remain snow and ice covered following yesterday’s winter storm," a message from school officials read. "As a result, the EVSC will be closed tomorrow (Wednesday, February 17). We will utilize another state-approved waiver day for this cancellation, so there will be no virtual assignments made or make-up day scheduled for a later date.

More:We got how much snow? Snowfall totals for the Evansville and Henderson area Feb. 15-16

More:3 odd stories from past Evansville-area snow storms, including a car delivery to remember

More:Forecasters: Evansville, Henderson will get 'heavy snow' up to 12 inches, second storm

"The EVSC applied for, and received, a waiver from the Indiana State Board of Education to count instructional minutes this year. This resulted in the EVSC having 8 waiver days to use in the event of winter weather-related closings. Tomorrow will be the sixth of these authorized days. As always, we will monitor all areas of the city and county to determine when road conditions will allow us to safely return to school.

"We are aware there is additional winter weather expected Wednesday and Thursday that may further impact road conditions. While it is too early to predict what the situation will be at the end of the week, we know that our last eligible waiver day would be Friday, should there be a need to cancel for the remainder of the week."

View Comments


text:
Author Joan Lowy

Washington journalist Joan Lowy talks about her book, Pat Schroeder: A Woman of the House.

You Care.

You are one of the CPR readers who wants to know what is really going on these days. We can help you keep up - The Lookout is a free, daily email newsletter with news and happenings from all over Colorado. Sign up here and we will see you in the morning!


text:
You are here

Nuffield Health Ipswich Hospital Good

Overview and CQC Inspections

Latest inspection: 16 and 25 August 2016

Report published: 30 November 2016

Who runs this service

Nuffield Health Ipswich Hospital is run by Nuffield Health

  • Mr Nicholas Carlton Ernest Jackson
  • Registered Manager
  • Mrs Carol Kefford
  • Nominated individual

CQC inspections & ratings of specific services

Type of service

Diagnostic and screening procedures, Family planning services, Physical disabilities, Sensory impairments, Surgical procedures, Treatment of disease, disorder or injury, Caring for children (0 - 18yrs), Caring for adults under 65 yrs, Caring for adults over 65 yrs


text:
Mitsubishi's Guy Wilks took the honours in the Tesco 99 Octane MSA British Rally Championship on day 1 of the Wales Rally GB, the sixth round in the series.

The result after a foreshortened event means that the championship will go down to the wire on the seventh and final round in the BRC - legs two and three of Wales Rally GB on Saturday and Sunday.

The battle still depends though on whether championship rival Mark Higgins can repair his badly damaged car. He retired on the second stage of the day, rolling his car after hitting sheet ice.

Patrik Flodin meanwhile, who registered at the start of the season for BRC points, took second place, but as he is not in the title hunt, the result merely took points from third placed David Higgins, who had a tricky event but who hopes to improve his car for tomorrow.

Gwyndaf Evans was next up and fourth although he had been higher until he lost around three minutes in a deep ford in the Myherin stage. Wilks' Mitsubishi Motors team-mate did enough however, to keep them level with rivals for the Teams' Championship, Team's boss Hugh Evans rounded out the BRC top five, the result helping keep the Teams' battle alive.

Loading Comments...


text:
These online browser girls games are for mobile android and iOS tablets or phone device or computer. They include girls games such as Cannons and top girls games such as Cars Traffic King, Feet s Doctor, Fire Glow, Flood, Fish Rescue 2, Forest Jump, Genius, Glow Explosions, Glow obstacle course, and many more free girls games at crazygamesonline.

© Copyright 2020


text:
• GRADE:   USDA Prime
  • PROGRAM:   Prime Black Angus Beef. Grass fed and grain finished in the midwest.
  • PACKAGING:   Product ships frozen and individually vacuum sealed.
  • QUANTITY:   1 brisket flat
  • WEIGHT:   Available in 3 different weight ranges: 5-7 lbs, 8-10 lbs. and 11-13 lbs.

*Offer good while supplies last.

Creekstone Farms USDA Prime grade brisket flats are perfect for large gatherings and celebrations. Pulled from the highest quality of black angus beef, our Creekstone Farms brisket flats have wonderful flavor that is sure to please. The brisket flats are more lean than a full packer brisket and are delicious when sliced and served to guests.

USDA Prime Grade Brisket Flats

You may also like


text:
Update — Apparently I wasn’t clear enough below for some readers.  Her is the deal: I have so far about 340 candidate companies for 24 positions in my upcoming reality TV series.  That means I have to reject 93 percent of all nominated companies.  Chances are that your startup will not be selected.  So I thought it might be a good idea to point out to those who are true believers in what they are doing that this might be a great time to emphasize more than just the technology and the business.  Emphasize the people who have been, in nearly all nominations so far, ignored.  If you want a better chance of making the top seven percent, then make a greater effort to sell me on your company.  If you can’t edit your nomination, then nominate yourself again or — better still — reach out directly to me with those new details and I’ll make sure they are considered.  What isn’t clear about that?  As for Mrs. Cringely’s remarks, they were a joke. — Bob

I’ve been going through the 300+ nominations for companies to be in this summer’s Cringely (NOT in Silicon Valley) Startup Tour and I am ready to share some conclusions with you. There are three ways to make the final 24: 1) you can have technology that will change the world for the better; 2) you can have an amazing business model that will change the world for the better, or; 3) you can have fascinating people who may not change the world but just might change my world by meeting them.

So far hardly any companies have tried this Door Number Three.

Technology — business — people, that’s what it comes down to, with people being the easiest, frankly, yet I don’t see much personality in these nominations or even in most of the companies.  It’s there, I’m sure, but how can I tell?

Where are the funky company videos? Where are the good natured (or even foul natured — that works, too) founders? Where are the companies relying on smoke, mirrors, and attitude? Where, even, are the single mothers and the Sudanese immigrant company founders?

I am especially disappointed with the entertainment category in this regard. You’d think those people would be the hippest of the hip but they are not. At this point I can see one entertainment company making the cut, maybe two.

We can’t all be another Google but we can present what we have with good humor, of which I am seeing darned little. And that simply doesn’t reflect the startups I’ve known and worked in over the years. Startups are fun, but these seem all too grim.

We have a month to go in this selection process. I’m about to sign that major cable network I’ve been alluding to. This web and TV series is going to happen and it is going to have the crap run out of it over and over on TV until tens of millions of people have seen it.

Don’t you want to be part of that?

Then prove that desire by doing something to stand out from the pack.

One more thing, a word from the very real Mrs. Cringely. I am not making this up, though I’ll tell you right now I don’t condone it. Still, I know which side my bread is buttered on, if you know what I mean and I think you do:

Dear Start Ups,

I thought it might be helpful if you knew the following information….

I’m petite. Extra small should fit just fine. I like fine shoes, especially high heels. My U.S. shoe size is five. I love jewelry. I prefer unique, unusual and funky stuff, not conservative, old lady crap.

Mary Alyce Cringely


text:
Fourteen years ago I gave a speech to the National Association of State and Provincial Lotteries at their annual meeting, held that year in Minneapolis. They gave me a hand-carved wooden duck decoy that’s on my bookshelf today. My topic was this thing called the Internet and what it would mean to state lotteries and organized gambling in general. I told them it would rock their world. And it has. But thanks to a ruling last week from the U.S. Department of Justice, the lotteries may finally be in a position to fight back.

What amazed me back in 1998 was that the lottery folks weren’t Las Vegas-type gambling executives but more like the people down […]


text:
Type your text, and hit enter to search:

Liverpool University leads evaluation of large-scale emergency exercise at major international airport

A research team from the University of Liverpool has provided evaluation and support to a multi-agency exercise, codenamed ‘Operation Raptor’, at the second busiest airport in the world, London Heathrow.

Raptor, which was held over two days, involved more than 1,200 people, including the research team from the University’s Psychological Science’s department, police, fire and ambulance services, as well as staff from Heathrow Airport Ltd, and a large number of individuals paying the role of casualties.

The exercise was not carried out in response to any specific threat or intelligence. It was played out in the decommissioned Terminal 1 building, which was reopened by Heathrow to allow emergency services to run the event.

Decommissioned terminals such as Terminal 1 are extremely rare and provide a unique environment to test out responses to incidents in a real setting, while allowing for control and exercise evaluation.

The live exercise began on Saturday, May 12, and involved a simulated armed terrorist attack scenario in the terminal building. It tested the initial armed police response to deal with and neutralise the immediate threat to the public, as well as the police response to hostage and siege situations.

This was followed by the respective search, rescue, casualty management and recovery responses from the London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade. Heathrow staff also tested their own processes and procedures in partnership with the emergency services response.

Day two of the exercise, which took place on Monday, May 14, focused on victim and casualty identification and recovery, and tested investigative and forensic recovery processes. This was carried out within the context of a major international airport and the additional complexities that brings.

Extreme decision-making

Professor Laurence Alison, who has worked with law enforcement agencies internationally for nearly 30 years, said: “This was one of the most impressive exercises we have been involved with – not just in terms of scale and size but in terms of the challenges it presented for all participants and the extent to which it achieved a fully immersive experience.

“Our role now is to support that effort by examining decision-making, communication, response to casualties, as well as the actual effectiveness of the exercise for training. Although the data is complex, preliminary observations indicate that responding agencies were able to develop accurate situational models of what was going on from complex, fast-moving information, prioritise actions, anticipate problems and work towards common goals so as to preserve life and neutralise the threat.”

He continued: “These are all hallmarks of expertise in extremis decision-making – where high stake decisions must be made under considerable adversity, risk and uncertainty. Our role is to assist all participants involved in the exercise to learn from the experience as well as, through our research, to pass this learning on to other forces and airports.”

This exercise tested a number of different functions within the Metropolitan Police Services (MPS), including command and control, intelligence, firearms response, communications, and counter-terrorism investigation. Specialist teams from the London Fire Brigade (LFB) and London Ambulance Service (LAS) were also involved in the exercise.

Around 500 volunteers from MPS and LAS also wore special effects make-up to simulate realistic wounds in order to expose the first responders to the types of injuries that they might face should they be dealing with it for real.

Dr Michael Humann, working out of the University of Liverpool's London campus, said: “It was a privilege to be involved in the exercise – both for our academic staff who are working on the evaluation and for our students from the MSc Investigative and Forensic Psychology course, who got to see the complexity and challenges of such events first hand. Everyone benefitted in terms of understanding both impact and the need for systematic research in this arena.”

Superintendent Dawn Morris, the exercise lead for the Metropolitan Police, commented: “The challenges of dealing with any major incident at an airport the size of Heathrow are, quite simply, exceptional and the learning that we and our emergency services colleagues have gained through this series of exercises has been invaluable. This will not only benefit us in London, but we will share any learning we can with other forces and airports across the country.”

Chris Garton, Chief Operating Officer at Heathrow, noted: “The safety and security of our passengers and airport colleagues is our utmost priority and this exercise is a key part of preparing an effective response, if the worst should happen at Heathrow or any other UK airport. What’s more, exercises like Raptor allow us to identify areas to strengthen and collaborate on in our partnership with the emergency services and police so the likelihood of an incident like this taking place can be even further reduced. We are proud to have taken part in such a complex and important exercise, and we will work with our partners to share the lessons we have learnt.”

More information about the University's Centre for Critical and Major Incidents can be found here and more information about the University's Institute for Risk and Uncertainty can be found here.
University podcasts in relation to this subject can be found here and here.

    Tweet       Post


text:
Type your text, and hit enter to search:

A review of the San Bernadino public safety response to 2015 terrorist shooting incident

A critical incident review titled Bringing calm to chaos, looks at the San Bernardino public safety response to the 2015 terrorist shooting incident at the Inland Regional Centre, reports Roger Gomm for CRJ.

The full report can be read online at the Police Foundation's website - click here. Alternatively, it can be downloaded in the link given at the end of this blog

On December 2, 2015, at 10:59hrs, the Inland Regional Centre (IRC) in San Bernardino, California, came under attack. The incident began as what is now known to be two shooters, dressed in all black, entered the IRC, a building in which San Bernardino County Environmental Health Department employees were meeting, and began shooting.

In a matter of minutes, the couple fired more than 100 .223 rounds, before they fled in a rented SUV. The attack led to a midday shootout between the police and Rizwan (male criminal) and his wife Tashfeen Malik (female criminal), as well as a search for a third subject some officers believed had fled the suspects’ vehicle (it was later determined that there was not a third suspect). Law enforcement officers killed both assailants on a normally peaceful residential street.

The incident left 22 civilians wounded, 14 civilians dead, and two officers injured. Two days later, after an investigation into the assailants’ background and motivation, it was realised that this was a premeditated act of terrorism.

This incident was a fast moving and challenging incident for responding agencies operating in the full glare of the media. The purpose of this Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) Critical Incident Review was to: “Critically, objectively, and thoroughly examine the public safety response – including preparation and aftermath – to the December 2, 2015, terrorist shooting in San Bernardino.”

This review provides a detailed overview of the incident response; lessons learnt to improve responding agencies' policies, procedures, tactics, systems, culture, and relationships; and guidance to other agencies and first responders as they prepare for responses to terrorist, active shooter or other hostile events, or mass casualty incidents.

Some of the key themes include the following:

  1. Build relationships: leader-to-leader, organisation-to-organisation and police-to-community prior to a critical incident: At both the operational and strategic levels, the responders who were interviewed attributed much of the success of the response to these attacks to the relationships they had built regionally through training and working with others.
  2. Review, study, and apply lessons learnt from critical incident reviews: Lessons learnt from the Police Foundation review of the Christopher Dorner incident in 2013 contributed to the response to the December terrorist shooting at the IRC.
  3. Regional public safety partners should plan and exercise unified command for complex incidents on a regular basis. The need for an ‘understood’ multi-agency incident command structure to manage a marauding terrorist attack or other hostile events would seem obvious but, in reality, the key is regular joint training and implementation during routine events and emergencies.
  4. Conducting regional multi-agency training improves response: The report highlights the need to ensure that training is inclusive, involving public safety agencies, medical community, legislators, other governmental organisations, faith leaders, mental health providers and others. Training should extend past the initial response into transition to victim extraction and all the way through family notifications.
  5. Prepare and use equipment and technology to keep officers and community members safe and informed.
  6. Attend to community, victim, and officer wellness: Active shooter or other hostile events are devastating to a community, to the victims and to the public safety personnel responding to them. It is critical that departments plan and work with mental health, faith, and other partners to accommodate victims and witnesses and provide the necessary welfare resources.

It is worth reflecting on the US State and local law enforcement organisations’ structure as there are many, different in size and capability, which emphasises the need for co-operation highlighted above. In 2015/16, San Bernardino Police Department had 248 officers and 173 civilian staff. The terrorist shooting at the IRC and the final shootout between the terrorists and law enforcement occurred within their jurisdiction. Their officers were first on scene and the department, in conjunction with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department (which serves 14 of the county’s 24 cities and has 3,571 employees) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), maintained primary incident command. Such operational understanding does not happen by chance and they should be congratulated.

I would recommend the report to all agencies developing plans for the response to and recover from a marauding terrorist attack or similar incident.

The full report is available in PDF format here

Roger Gomm QPM, is Advisor, Trainer, Consultant, Associate Lecturer, Cabinet Office Emergency Planning College, UK and a Member of CRJ's Editorial Advisory Panel

Roger Gomm, 23/09/2016
    Tweet       Post


WARC-Truncated: length

text:
Naberus Needs 'Space To Breathe' In New Video

Aussie melodic death-thrashers/metalcore hybrid Naberus released a video clip for the new single "Space to Breathe"! Click play on the player above and get your fix. The song comes from the band's upcoming sophomore full-length album entitled "Hollow" coming June 29th via Eclipse Records. Pre-order information can be found here.

"Hollow" was produced by James Ash at Kremation Studios, mixed by Henrik Udd (Bring Me the Horizon, Architects, A Breach of Silence) and mastered by Ermin Hamidovic (Architects, Periphery, Devin Townsend) at Systematic Productions. The album art was designed by Chris Sheppard (check it out below).

The track listing can be found here:

1. Slaves 2. Space to Breathe 3. Split in Two 4. Shadows 5. Webs 6. Hollow 7. I Disappear 8. The End 9. Seas of Red 10. The Maze 11. My Favorite Memory 12. Fading 13. The Burrow 14. The Depths

#Naberus #melodicdeathmetal #melodicmetalcore #EclipseRecords #deaththrashmetal #musicvideo

3 views0 comments

Recent Posts

See All


text:
New Life, Steve Arterburn Daily Devotionals
<< Daily New Life with Steve Arterburn

New Life Daily Devotion - August 25

  • 2020 Aug 25

Good News About Bad News

Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.  -  2 Corinthians 4:1-2

No one’s a stranger, or a welcome recipient of bad news. Yet listen to Bill Gates’ wise take on bad news in his book Business @ the Speed of Thought:

 “You have to be constantly receptive to bad news, and then you have to act on it.  Sometimes I think my most important job as CEO is to listen to bad news.  [But] if you don’t act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention.  And that’s the beginning of the end.  The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for the CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth.  Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need.”

I’ve learned that bad news usually contains a redemptive element - It’s important that we don’t respond to it with avoidance and denial but work through it.

“Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.” - Colin Powell (1937-     )

To purchase Devotionals or other New Life resources please click here

Taken from The Life Recovery Devotional: Thirty Meditations from Scripture for Each Step in Recovery by Stephen Arterburn and David Stoop. Copyright © 1991 by Stephen Arterburn and David Stoop. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.

More Daily New Life with Steve Arterburn Articles


text:
FTX Lands Naming Deal With Esports Giant TSM for $210 Million | Cryptonate

FTX Lands Naming Deal With Esports Giant TSM for $210 Million

FTX Lands Naming Deal With Esports Giant TSM for $210 Million

On Friday, FTX Exchange announced signing a naming rights deal with U.S. professional esports organization TSM for $210 million. The cryptocurrency exchange’s multi-year partnership arrangement will allow the crypto firm to rename the company to “TSM FTX.”

Esports Firm TSM Will Change the Organizations’ Name to ‘TSM FTX’

FTX Exchange has acquired another naming deal after the recent arrangement with the Miami Heat’s arena in Florida. According to the exchange, the company has entered a multi-year partnership with the esports organization TSM for $210 million.

TSM is an organization that fields players in a number of online competitions with games like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, PUBG Mobile, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, League of Legends, Apex Legends, Valorant, Hearthstone, and Super Smash Bros.

The deal is between FTX Trading Limited, West Realm Shires Services Inc, and TSM. With exclusive ownership of the naming rights to TSM, the organization will now be known as “TSM FTX.” According to the announcement, the plan is to expand the operations and enter new markets in South America and Asia. Andy Dinh, the founder and CEO of TSM, praised the FTX Exchange executive Sam Bankman-Fried.

“When I met Sam Bankman-Fried, I immediately knew we had to work together,” Dinh said. “Not only did TSM FTX fit perfectly as a brand, Sam is an innovative CEO that is in every way ahead of his time. Against all odds as a young ambitious entrepreneur, he has been able to disrupt markets by making smart decisions and by surrounding himself with smart people.”

Major Philanthropic Initiative in the Works

According to the announcement, “TSM FTX’s mission and focus” is looking toward social impact, and the rebranded firm plans to reveal a “soon-to-be announced major philanthropic initiative.” The initiative will hone in on things like “developing financial literacy” and “increasing educational opportunities,” the announcement explains.

“In the end, our partnerships will only be as strong as we make them,” Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and CEO of FTX Exchange remarked. “We think that TSM will be able to help massively expand the presence of digital assets outside the traditional landscape. We’re also proud to work with them to give back to the world,” the exchange executive added.

What do you think about the naming deal between FTX and TSM? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

News $210 million Andy dinh Apex legends Crypto Cryptocurrency Deal Esports Esports company Ftx exchange Hearthstone League of legends Miami heat arena Naming rights Partnership Rebrand Sam bankman-fried Six siege Super smash bros Tsm Tsm ftx Valorant


text:
EPA carbon limits: an 'Obamacare' for climate change

The EPA will unveil new regulations to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 30 percent by 2030. The EPA power plant rules are the most aggressive of President Obama's Climate Action Plan and have already provoked heated debate over a complex issue.

Charlie Riedel/AP/File
A coal-fired power plant generates electricity in Holcomb, Kan. In drafting a 30 percent emissions reduction on existing US power plants, the EPA will aim to strike a balance between environmental stewardship and economic growth.

In an effort to slow the release of heat-trapping gases into Earth’s atmosphere, the world’s second-largest carbon polluter will propose rules Monday to cut emissions from the most carbon-heavy sector of its economy by 30 percent by 2030.

The first-of-their-kind standards will cap carbon dioxide emissions from existing US power plants, leaning on a little-used provision of the 1970 Clean Air Act.

The sweeping cuts and accompanying rules that give states options for reaching their individual targets suggest an "Obamacare" of climate policy – bold, signature, and controversial action on complex challenges of global and historic consequence. The rules are seen as integral to accelerating innovation of clean-energy technologies and meeting emissions-reductions commitments ahead of next year’s international climate negotiations in Paris. Critics say more regulations on the power sector will raise energy costs while scarcely reducing global emissions – placing undue stress on the economy for little or no environmental benefit.

Originally expected to unveil the rules himself, President Obama instead touted the carbon standards in his weekly address Saturday, stressing the transition to low-carbon energy as a defining issue of our time.

"One of the best things we can do for our economy, our health, and our environment is to lead the world in producing cleaner, safer energy," the president said Saturday. "The shift to a cleaner energy economy won’t happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way.  But a low-carbon, clean energy economy can be an engine of growth for decades to come."

A 30 percent cap on emissions from the utility sector is likely to have a far greater climate impact than any other action Obama can take in the time he has left in the White House, experts say. Existing power plants make up 40 percent of the country’s carbon dioxide emissions – the primary source of human-caused climate change. That makes the power sector a bigger target for climate action than the controversial Keystone XL pipeline or other high-profile issues.

Not everyone is on board with the administration’s climate initiatives. Business and fossil fuel groups warn of ballooning energy costs and steep job cuts as plants shutter in communities that rely heavily on coal for electricity and economic activity. The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, an industry lobby group, has raised concerns that a rapid shift away from coal – which supplied 39 percent of the nation’s electricity in 2013 – would make the grid more vulnerable to power shortages, particularly in the case of extreme weather. Critics challenge the environmental benefits, too: Even the most dramatic cut in US carbon emissions would be a small fraction of the world total necessary to keep global warming within a safe range.

The US Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy released a report last week projecting that the new rules will costs tens of billions in economic losses and hundreds of thousands of jobs each year. Senior administration officials and other analysts have criticized the report, saying it makes inaccurate projections based on proposals that may or may not end up in the final rules. No one can say for sure what the exact costs or benefits of the rules will be, but the Chamber’s Energy Institute and others say more time is needed to analyze the effects.

“[The administration is] moving fairly quickly here, and we’re saying, ‘Let’s get it right,’ ” Matt Letourneau, the institute’s senior director of communications, says in a telephone interview.  “Let’s slow down and figure out what the actual costs are, and not put this in place and say, ‘We’ll fix it later if it doesn’t work.’ ”

Advances in efficiency and new energy technologies have helped communities, businesses, and nations ease the tension between economic development and environmental stewardship. Many utilities across the country have made significant progress toward decarbonizing their power fleet, and overall US emissions have remained in check or even declined in recent years as the economy has grown. The administration's hope is that Monday’s rules will bolster that positive trend without undermining an economy that is still shaking off the effects of a global recession.

“There’s an opportunity to develop a lot of win-wins where we will introduce policies that both help us meet goal of delivering diverse, reliable power to citizens, and at the same time reduce greenhouse gases from generation of power,” says Tim Profeta, director of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University in Durham, N.C.

Many of the tools utilities use to manage the risks of delivering reliable power are actually the same tools that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Mr. Profeta says in a telephone interview. Those include increasing energy efficiency, using "smart grid" technologies to better manage energy demand, and incorporating a diverse range of power generation technologies.

The administration has already implemented or proposed ambitious carbon-reduction schemes for vehicles and future power plants. Last summer, Mr. Obama unveiled his Climate Action Plan (CAP) – a portfolio of executive orders and cabinet-level actions intended to sidestep congressional gridlock over climate and energy. The proposed rules are the administration's most aggressive climate action yet – the cornerstone of the CAP.

“Everyone is waiting with bated breath to figure out what the content of rules is,” says Conrad Schneider, advocacy director at the Boston-based Clean Air Task Force, an environmental coalition that promotes clean energy, in a telephone interview. “But I don’t think there’s any question that [Obama’s] legacy rests on what happens with them.”

The EPA's top-level emissions reductions will primarily affect coal-fired power plants. Because electricity mixes vary widely across the country, some states will have to cut emissions more than 30 percent, others will cut them less. It will be up to states to come up with their own plans to meet those goals. Strategies could include retiring coal plants, making existing plants more efficient, or creating regulatory cap-and-trade systems that allow utilities to buy and sell pollution permits. Eventually, some plants may install new technologies that capture carbon emissions and store them underground. After being proposed Monday, the rules will go through a period of review and comment before being finalized next June.

A dramatic transition is well under way in the energy sector with or without the rules. Booming natural gas production and the rise of renewables are slowly edging out coal’s longstanding dominance of US electricity. That shift – combined with efficiency measures and zero-carbon nuclear power – have allowed many utilities to get a head start on reducing carbon output. Power plant emissions from the nation’s top 100 power producers fell 13 percent between 2008 and 2012, according to a new report from a group of contributors led by Ceres, a Boston-based sustainability advocacy group. But emissions cuts vary widely by region because of the wide range of resources, economies, and politics across the country.

Entergy Corp., which delivers electricity to 2.8 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, was among the major power producers to achieve the deepest emissions cuts, according to the report (on which Entergy collaborated with Ceres). Chuck Barlow, Entergy's vice president of environmental strategy and policy, says the company accomplishes those cuts by making plants more efficient and relying heavily on nuclear power, which does not directly emit carbon dioxide. That has put the company in a better position to comply with the rules to be outlined Monday.

“For our company, it’s been a good story; It’s been a pretty good process,” Mr. Barlow says in a telephone interview. “I’m sensitive to the fact that it’s harder to do for some of our brethren in the industry. If you’re heavily reliant on coal, in a region that’s reliant on coal, then this is not as easy, and it’s not as easy for their customers. I’m not saying everyone should have done what Entergy did, but this is what we did, and it has worked in our part of the country.”

You've read  of  free articles. Subscribe to continue.

Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to CSMonitor.com.


text:
Butterscotch Cream Cheese Brownies

Written by: Georgina Ingham | Posted 09 June 2008 19:53

Here’s my latest baking recipe, Butterscotch & Cream Cheese Brownies, right before they hit the oven; so pretty don’t you think?

I just love brownies and I’ve tried loads of different recipes; some good, some amazing and some downright dreadful but there’s nothing like the satisfaction of creating your own recipe and it working out perfectly. That’s what happened today, they’re gooey, moist and chewy, not too sweet and slightly crisp on the top; my idea of a perfect brownie.

I’ve had a busy day baking for up and coming blog challenges and getting them all blogged and saved ready for future publication but when I’d finished that I didn’t want to rest, I wanted to get baking again. Brownies were the perfect option, easy, hassle free and quick, so I began to jot a few notes down about flavour combinations and that’s when it struck me how good cream cheese could be in brownies, combined with the butterscotch chips I’d got hidden at the back of my chocolate cupboard that would be brownie heaven.

The only problem with them is that they’re so hard to resist, I doubt there’ll be any left by morning unfortunately and here I was planning to spoil my work colleagues.

What Our Followers Say

More Food For Thought

Foodies100 Index of UK Food Blogs
Buy me a coffeeBuy me a coffee

my foodgawker gallery


text:
Dodge Cummins Diesel Forum banner
  • Hey everyone! Enter your ride HERE to be a part of this month's Ride of the Month Challenge!

badge free

  1. back end badge free

    back end badge free

    still has temp tag. now it has window tint and cab lights. Next up is leveling kit and 315s


text:
Located directly across the street from CU’s Wardenburg Health Center, this top floor apartment is situated away from Broadway facing the mountains. For past CU students this apartment is known as the “Tree House” because of its top floor location, built-ins and rustic finishes. In addition views of the mountains, lots of windows, a deck, and an amazing lizard-head wood carving inlaid into the built-in dining table (booth style) make this place one of a kind. Both of the bedrooms are a nice size. 2 off-street parking spaces included! Value of $150.00/month.

2 People: 2BR / 1BA

Price: $2,600 per month (average $1,300/bedroom)

Google Map

Google Walkability Rating: Very Walkable 80 out of 100


text:
Romantic Clutch Purse With Handmade Flower Adornment And Pearls- Blush

Bring out your glamorous side on your big day with this fabulous clutch purse made of blush-colored duchess satin. I used two handmade flowers with pearls to enhance the design of the purse. This 6" x 3" purse looks so simple but it exudes much elegance. It is undeniably beautifu!

View Shipping & Maker Policies

Made in Arlington, VA

By The Button Tree Co.

All of our products are handmade
by expert makers.

More Projects Like This

Also Appears In


text:
Canada Book Day 2022

April 23, 2022 in Canada

Canada Book Day is observed on April 23, 2022. Canada Book Day is a yearly event celebrated in Canada to promote reading and books. The week surrounding April 23 is celebrated as Canada Book Week. This day aims to create public awareness on Canadian Writers and the Canadian English language. It was created by the Writer’s Trust of Canada, a charitable organization which supports Canadian writers. The best way to honor Canada Book Day is to start reading a book written by a Canadian writer. On the same day World Book and Copyright Day takes place but there is no official connection between the two.

Where is Canada Book Day?
When is Canada Book Day?
Saturday, the 23rd of April 2022
Only 307 days left!

More dates:

Canada Book Day 2022 - Canada - Apr 23, 2022 – Copyright © 2021 Cute Calendar


text:
Ready to Start Your Career?

To Mouse or not to Mouse: That is the Question, Part 1

Ka0sDem0n 's profile image

By: Ka0sDem0n

December 21, 2017

Click-click, click… click… click… click….

The sound most mice make “click”. In this article, I would like to show you how in Windows to minimize the number of mouse clicks using your keyboard. Many users don’t know how to navigate with just a keyboard. This article will focus on the “Windows” key.  The windows key is really a powerful tool to help keep your hands on the keyboard, without moving to the mouse. Only knowing how to navigate the Graphical User Interface (GUI) with either a touchpad or a wired mouse can be limiting. I’ve interviewed techs that use Ubuntu and ONLY understand the GUI they didn’t know anything about terminal or windows commands. One of them during the skills test for the interview was asked only using the keyboard to open specific windows, he literally was pressing every single key on the keyboard as if there is a macro setup. Occasionally when I’m in the field talking to clients previous techs they had out couldn’t even work on the system because the mouse wasn’t working for one reason or another.

Let’s start and look at some commands!

Windows 7

  •  Win + Space bar activates Aero Peek. Reassigned in Windows 8.
  •  Win + P toggles between the devices that receive video card's output. The default is computer monitor only. Other options are video projector only, both showing the same image and both showing a portion of a larger desktop.
  •  Win + ↑ maximizes the active window.
  •  Win + ↓ restores the default window size and state of the active window, if maximized. Otherwise, minimizes the active window.
  •  Win + ← or → to align the window to the corresponding side of the screen, tiled vertically.
  •  Win + Shift + ← or → to move the window to the next or previous monitor, if multiple monitors are used
  •  Win + T to iterate through items on the taskbar from left to right.
  •  Win + Shift + T to iterate through items on the taskbar from right to left.
  •  Win + + or Win to zoom into the screen at the mouse cursor position using the Magnifier Utility.
  •  Win + - to zoom out if the Magnifier Utility is running.
  •  Win + Esc to exit zoom.
  •  Win + 1 through Win + 9, Win + 0 to either start or switch to the corresponding program pinned to taskbar.  Win + 0 runs the tenth item. Press multiple times to cycle through the application's open windows. Press and release quickly to keep the taskbar's preview open (which allows you to cycle using arrow keys).
  •  Win + Home minimizes/restores all windows other than the active window.
  •  Win + D minimizes/restores all windows.
  •  Win + L Locks the computer screen.

Windows 8

  • Windows 8 introduces the following:
  • Win + C opens the charms.
  •  Win + F opens Search charm in file mode to search for computer files. If the Search charm is already open, switches to file search mode.
  •  Win + W opens Search charm in settings mode to search for Control Panel applets. If the Search charm is already open, switches to settings search mode.
  •  Win + Q opens Search charm in app mode to search for app shortcuts and executable files. If the search charm is already open, it has no effects.
  •  Win + H opens the Share charm.
  •  Win + K opens the Devices charm for printing, connecting to a second screen/projector, or pushing multimedia content via Play To.
  •  Win + I opens Settings charm, where app-specific settings, network options, and shutdown button is located.
  •  Win + X opens Quick Links menu and grants access to several frequently used features of Windows, such as accessing desktop or File Explorer. With Windows 8.1 update, it includes a shortcut to shut down or restart the computer.
  •  Win + Z or right click opens the command bar for Metro-style apps. This bar appears at the bottom of the screen and replaces both context menu and toolbar in Metro-style apps.
  •  Win + Tab invokes the app switcher and changes between Metro-style apps. Unlike Alt + Tab , the app switcher does not include windows that appear on desktop.
  •  Win + Space bar changes input method. Unlike Alt+ Shift, this combination also causes a pop-up notification to appear.
  •  Win + PrtScr or Win + Volume up instantly saves a screenshot to the "Screenshots" folder in "Pictures" library. All screenshots are saved as PNG files.

Windows 8.1

  • Win + O locks device orientation
  •  Win + S activates the Search Everywhere charm, opening a sidebar at the side of the screen.
  •  Win + U activates the Ease of Access Center control panel applet
  •  Win + V cycles through notifications

Windows 10

  • Win + A opens Action Center.
  •  Win + V or Win + ⇧ Shift + V cycles through notifications.
  •  Win + C activates Cortana listening mode.
  •  Win + G opens the Game DVR bar when a game is open.
  •  Win + Alt + R starts or stops recording. All recordings are saved in the "Captures" folder in the "Videos" library as an MP4 file.
  •  Win + Alt + G records the last 30 seconds when background recording is turned on for the game.
  •  Win + Alt + T shows or hides the recording timer.
  •  Win + Alt + PrtScr instantly saves a screenshot to the "Captures" folder in the "Videos" library. All screenshots are saved as PNG files.
  •  Win + I opens Settings.
  •  Win + F opens the Feedback Hub.
  •  Win + Tab ↹ opens task view.
  •  Win + ↑ + ← through Win + ↓ + ← to align a window snapped to the right or left to the corresponding quadrant of the screen.
  •  Win + Ctrl + D creates a new virtual desktop.
  •  Win + Ctrl + F4 closes the active virtual desktop.
  •  Win + Ctrl + ← or → switches between virtual desktops.

Microsoft Office

  • Additional installed software may introduce other shortcuts using the Windows key. For example, various Microsoft Office applications add shortcuts of their own:
  •  Win + S to take a screenshot for OneNote; conflicts with Win + ⇧ Shift + S on Windows 8.1.
  •  Win + N to open a new side note in OneNote.
  •  Win + ⇧ Shift + N to open OneNote.

In my next article, we will look at fun things to do with the Run Command (Win+ ‘R’).

“We are Samurai... the Keyboard Cowboys” – The Plague (“Hackers” film 1995)

Schedule Demo
Build your Cybersecurity or IT Career
Accelerate in your role, earn new certifications, and develop cutting-edge skills using the fastest growing catalog in the industry