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In the spring of 2017, the couple moved west to Kelowna, where Cashen grew up, and after months of searching for the right spot, they found a commercial location just north of Reid's Corner for their brewery. |
Wild Ambition Brewing opened its doors on Dec. 8, and Cashen and Kehoe were blown away by the turnout. |
“Our opening Saturday was incredible ... we couldn't have imagined a better response,” Cashen said, adding people came from nearby UBC Okanagan and other businesses in their industrial park, in addition to beer lovers coming from across the city. |
Cashen and Kehoe's beer is made a little differently than most, focusing on “mixed-fermentation” brewing, which utilizes different types of yeast and other microbes to produce unique flavours instead of relying solely on hops and malt for taste. |
“That kind of mixed-fermentation beer rather than just fermenting with a single, purified monoculture of brewer's yeast is something that not a lot of people in Canada are doing,” Kehoe said. |
“When Mitchell sets his mind to something, there's no stopping him in terms of the amount of information he's going to try and absorb and research and experiment with,” Cashen added. |
Wild Ambition had three beers for sale when they opened, and they added a fourth on Friday – a dark sour beer that was aged for several months in French oak barrels from Okanagan wineries. |
The brewery, located at 1-3314 Appaloosa Road, is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday. As the brewery is only a two-person operation at this point, weekdays are for brewing. |
The Pentagon has relocated $1bn to army engineers to build a portion of the wall along the US-Mexico border, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has said. |
Shanahan said late on Monday in a memo to Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen that the Department of Defense had the authority to support counter-narcotics activities near international boundaries. |
Shanahan authorised the engineers to begin planning and executing the project that would involve building 98 kilometres of five-metre-high fencing, constructing and improving roads, and installing lights within the Yuma and El Paso sections of the US-Mexico border. |
The infrastructure was described as "fencing", not a "wall". |
Building a wall along the two country's border was a key campaign promise for Republican President Donald Trump in the 2016 election. The opposition Democrats have vehemently opposed the efforts to build a wall. |
After weeks of bickering, Republicans and Democrats agreed to a compromise during budget talks in February that saw Trump allocate $5.7bn for building a wall - much less than he had hoped for. |
In response, Trump declared a national emergency last month, clearing the way for the president to take money from the Pentagon's construction budget and drug forfeitures and use it for wall construction. |
Trump overruled a move by Congress to block the declaration of a national emergency on March 15, using the first veto of his presidency. |
Democrats are hoping to block the veto in a vote on Tuesday, but they are not expected to muster the two-thirds majority required to do so. |
Even if they are successful, they would require that same majority in a second vote in the Republican-controlled Senate. |
Read the side effects of Olopatadine Hydrochloride as described in the medical literature. In case of any doubt consult your doctor or pharmacist. |
♦ A hole or fissure in nasal septum, nose bleed, ulceration, and drowsiness. |
Prime Minister David Cameron and President François Hollande held a mini Anglo-French Summit today at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire. Military co-operation was part of the discussions, with advancing the Anglo-French drone programmes a key item on the agenda. While there is little detail yet, it has been announced tha... |
The Future Air Combat System is a programme of ongoing work on future unmanned combat systems. The UK MoD awarded £40m of funding to this programme in January 2012 and in July 2012 France and UK jointly awarded Euros 13m towards the programme. |
In November 2010, David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy signed The Declaration on Defence and Security Co-operation (dubbed ‘the entente frugale’) which contained a specific commitment to work together on unmanned systems. BAE Systems and Dassault immediately announced they were working together on plans to develop a new M... |
In February 2012 Cameron and Hollande signed a new declaration, again affirming their commitment to working together on unmanned systems but there was little detail. The two countries agreed to investigate the possibility of working together on an advanced combat drone, with France agreeing to evaluate the much delayed... |
Rather than working together to build an alternative to Reaper, the focus is now on developing the next generation of drones under the Future Air Combat System. These drones will be much faster, stealthy, more autonomous, have a greater range and be able to defend themselves from attack unlike the Reaper generation. |
In the US, we have seen over the past year Northrop Grumman’s X-47b advance unmanned combat drone undertaketest flights from an aircraft carrier and Lockheed Martin revealed that it has been working on plans for the SR-72, an unmanned hypersonic aircraft. |
In the UK, BAE Systems have been working on their Taranis drone and it is thought that the work on the Future Air Combat System is separate but parallel to this project. |
Brian Passey reviews the Utah Shakespeare Festival's 2017 production of "Treasure Island." |
Taking on the task of converting an epic tale like Robert Louis Stevenson’s beloved “Treasure Island” to a stage play must be somewhat daunting. |
Yet that’s just what contemporary playwright Mary Zimmerman has done. And director Sean Graney has brought it the Randall Theatre stage for a regional premiere at the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s 2017 season. In many ways it’s a grand and entertaining adventure. But occasionally its daunting nature shows through, boggin... |
There are moments where the exposition seems overly detailed and needlessly forced. Part of the problem could be with the script itself but some of it might also lie with the actors and their comfort level with their lines. Hopefully, as the play progresses this season, that comfort will increase, resulting in better t... |
However, the exposition doesn’t seem to phase Sceri Sioux Ivers, a festival regular for a few years now who is finally coming into her own as our hero, the cabin boy Jim Hawkins. Ivers delivers even these narrative pieces with such childlike enthusiasm that the plays seems to speed up. The positive aspect of being cons... |
As mentioned in our review of “Shakespeare in Love,” Ivers risks being typecast in these roles. Yes, her short stature lends itself to playing a boy and her acting chops have made her quite convincing. The problem is a lack of roles for women that might give her more options. Like film and television, women characters ... |
But her experience playing “the boy” has finally landed Ivers a well-deserved lead role alongside a number of Equity actors. This is a triumph for her and a joy for us as an audience. |
Like other standout roles this year (Cassandra Bissell in “As You Like It,” Kelly Rogers in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Betsy Mugavero and Leslie Brott in “Romeo and Juliet”) Ivers owns this play and gives us a hero to unabashedly cheer for with her portrayal of Jim Hawkins. There may not be an equity of roles for wom... |
Aside from the moments of slow dialogue and an unfortunate loss of steam after intermission, “Treasure Island” is often a swashbuckling good time, from the pirate sing-along before the show to the triumphant finale. |
This effort is aided by a cast of colorful characters. Some of the actors play as many as three named characters each but Brenda Van Der Wiel’s vivid costumes are so stunningly detailed and distinct that you’ll have to confirm their multiple identities in the playbill. |
Geoffrey Kent is mesmerizing as Billy Bones, the epitome of storybook piracy, and almost unrecognizable later as the endearingly mild-mannered Redruth. But Kent’s greatest contribution to the play is his impeccable fight choreography. It’s strong throughout the play but the early fight with J. Todd Adams, in character ... |
Adams is solid in his three roles but especially entertaining as the nutty castaway Ben Gunn, bringing the same energetic physicality he gives Oberon in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Michael Elich, a scene-stealer as Jaques in “As You Like It,” often does the same here as Long John Silver, a character with complexity mi... |
A few technical aspects prove distracting throughout the play. Long John Silver’s parrot lacks … something. The voice effect at least could use some work. |
However, the worst part of the entire play — in fact, the worst part of the entire festival season — is a slamming hatch often used as part of the schooner set. Every time the crew comes through, they slam it and the sound is piercing, even when you are expecting it, and downright startling when you’re not. There must ... |
Otherwise, the props and set are wonderfully detailed and help to further the story. There’s even a scene as they first set sail where they truly appear to be on deck, darting along under blue Caribbean skies. While not as dazzling as his scenery for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” designer Jason Lajka has done another fi... |
It is unfortunate that some of the storytelling and that horrible slamming hatch bring the production down because it has great potential and is often highly entertaining. Hopefully greater comfort with the script and perhaps some padding for the hatch will improve the play as the season progresses. |
“Treasure Island” continues through Sept. 2 in the Randall L. Jones Theatre at Southern Utah University’s Beverley Center for the Arts, 195 W. University Boulevard, Cedar City. Visit Bard.org or call 800-752-9849. |
Just what did Elizabeth Warren, the persistently unhinged Democrat senator from Massachusetts, expect to gain from releasing a DNA test proving she isn’t a Native American while insisting the test indicates that she is? |
Perhaps it was the glowing-but-hilarious Boston Globe headline which read “Warren reveals test confirming ancestry.” That in and of itself may have been enough — though the Globe story going with that front-page headline Monday advertised Warren’s heritage as 1/512th Native American. |
And then the Globe retracted that claim due to what it called a “math error,” and admitted it was going with a different number — 1/1024th. |
The average white American’s lineage, according to the Genetic Literacy Project, is 0.18 percent Native American. Warren’s DNA test puts her in a range between 0.098 percent and 3.0 percent, which means statistically she’s likely no more Native American than anybody else in the country. |
And it means she’s no less a liar today about the American Indian heritage she claimed as a means of making herself an affirmative-action baby than she was when she originally claimed it. |
This woman is whiter than Liquid Paper. She’s whiter than the inside of an Oreo. She’s whiter than a snowflake. Go and have yourself a couple of bourbons on the rocks and you’ll have more alcohol in your blood than Liz Warren has Native American in hers. |
In a sane world it would not be possible for Elizabeth Warren to release the results of this DNA test. In a sane world there would be non-disclosure agreements, threatened lawsuits, and riveted-shut lips about the issue, and Warren would never raise her claims of Cherokee heritage again — for fear that she’d be hooted ... |
This isn’t a sane world, however. In this world, Elizabeth Warren is claiming she’s a real-life Pocahontas and her pals in the partisan Democrat media are dutifully lapping up the lie. |
Yeah, right. As if 1/1024th Native American blood gets you so much as a free pull on a slot machine at the reservation. |
Let’s just say that people who aren’t invested in the ridiculous idea of Liz Warren as a 2020 presidential candidate were a bit less impressed with all the smoke signals today. For example, here was the Secretary of State for the Cherokee Nation, Chuck Hoskin, Jr., with his own take on Warren’s triumphal claim. |
Sovereign tribal nations set their own legal requirements for citizenship, and while DNA tests can be used to determine lineage, such as paternity to an individual, it is not evidence for tribal affiliation. Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is in... |
Let me get this straight. The left is permitting Elizabeth Warren, who has less native heritage than I do, to appropriate native culture so that they can call Trump racist for making fun of her for appropriating native culture to get into Harvard. It’s getting hard to keep up. |
If the Left will accept [Sen. Elizabeth] Warren as “Native American” because she might have had one Native American in her family tree sometime between 180 and 300 years ago, then they have embraced the end of identity politics. By that measure almost everyone in America is a minority. |
The unfortunate bit to all of Monday’s idiocy is it won’t dissuade Warren one bit. She’s like every other leftist demagogue on the political scene today — incapable of shame. Liz Warren is Anthony Weiner without the sexting; she likes the attention, even if it’s negative. To her, conservatives scoffing is just more pro... |
Speaking of fighting harder, that was the message Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder were vomiting forth last week to those sharing their ideology, and that’s what we got. |
In Portland, the Antifa mob has taken over the city’s downtown in something eerily similar to the Munster rebellion — complete with the violent apprehension of the disbelievers and weekend street brawling when non-leftist groups attempted to demonstrate for the return of law and order to the Rose City. And in New York,... |
Again — Antifa instigated the violence, though they decidedly lost the fight. And like in Portland, the local law enforcement had scant interest in doing anything about what is clearly a domestic terror group. New York’s governor, the buffoonish Andrew Cuomo, actually had the temerity to blame the Proud Boys for appear... |
Nothing about Antifa, though. Just like Portland’s mayor Tim Wheeler has nothing to say about them as they destroy his city. |
You can’t deny it anymore. Antifa is the paramilitary wing of the Democrat Party in areas the Democrats think they can get away with having them. Just like the Ku Klux Klan was the Democrats’ paramilitary wing in the post-Civil War years when they were doing their level best to keep Republicans from gaining a foothold ... |
But tell them that and they’ll deny it to the hilt. Just like Holder denied he meant violence when he told supporters to “kick” the political opposition. |
Hurricane Michael passed through the Florida Panhandle on its way through the Southeast last week, and for all the strength it carried — including 155 mph winds and a nine-foot storm surge — it could have been a whole lot worse. |
Generally speaking, you probably couldn’t have plotted a storm track for the central Gulf of Mexico which would have taken the storm over a less-populated area. Yes, Panama City was very close to the eye of the hurricane, and damage there is extensive. But compared to what would have happened had Michael scored a direc... |
That said, it’s little comfort to the people from tiny Mexico Beach just southeast of Panama City Beach, where the eye made landfall. Put simply, Mexico Beach isn’t there anymore. Most of its 1,200 residents don’t have a home in that once-beautiful community, and may never have one again. The beach cottages which made ... |
Another perhaps permanent victim of the storm, lying between Mexico Beach and Panama City Beach, is Tyndall Air Force Base — which also took the full force of Michael. So much so that most of the airplane hangars and support buildings at Tyndall lie in some state of destruction and as many as 12 F-22 fighter jets stati... |
Why on earth would the Air Force allow a dozen of its front-line fighter planes be destroyed in a hurricane? Well, if those planes couldn’t be flown out there was no real way to evacuate them from Tyndall. And the current supply chain for F-22 parts isn’t adequate to getting those planes airworthy. The 12 planes likely... |
Thank Barack Obama and his management of the Department of Defense for that tale of woe. |
Simultaneous Polls: Aye Or Nay? |
On this week's episode of The Big Fight, we debate whether holding simultaneous elections is a good idea or not. What does 'simultaneous elections' mean? Niti Aayog defines it as follows: It involves the structuring of Indian election cycle in a manner that elections to Lok Sabha and State Assemblies are synchronized t... |
A. Yes, you will be entitled to the special retirement supplement when you reach your minimum retirement age. To estimate how much the SRS would be, take the estimate of your Social Security benefit provided by the Social Security Administration, multiply it by your full years of FERS service, and divide the total by 4... |
1. You mean I can actually eat what's inside of here?!? |
2. And I can cook with what's in here?!? |
3. And here's three jaw-droppers in a row! |
4. No more sore butts! |
5. Guess who's going home and going back to sleep! |
6. Added bonus...we all get out of here sooner! |
8. You mean she's not running on CPT? |
9. You mean I can ask "Why," and get more than a four word response? |
11. You mean it's not within reaching distance? |
12. Hallelujah!! Praise the Lord! |
13. And we don't have to order off the dollar menu?!? |
14. But I don't want to lose my melanin! |
Senator Wants Names Of Red Cross Officials Who Did Not Cooperate With Inquiry : The Two-Way Sen. Chuck Grassley has sent a letter to government investigators that also asks for a list of documents and information the charity failed to provide. |
Sen. Chuck Grassley is asking federal investigators to give him the names of officials at the American Red Cross who did not cooperate with the government's recent inquiry into the charity. |
Grassley, an Iowa Republican, sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office Monday morning saying that the Senate Judiciary Committee, which he heads, "has received additional information that Red Cross personnel did not provide unfettered access to the GAO even after multiple requests for relevant information.... |
Grassley is asking investigators for a list of all the documents the GAO requested but "the Red Cross refused to provide," any records or emails the charity wrote that cite reasons for not providing records, and "a list of all the officials that did provide the material GAO requested." |
"The Red Cross is a federal instrumentality created by Congressional charter," Grassley wrote in the letter, "and receives millions of dollars every year from donors across the country. As such, the Red Cross should have shared as much information as possible in order for GAO to perform a complete and thorough study." |
The GAO completed its inquiry this month finding that the Red Cross needs "regular, external, independent and publicly disseminated evaluations," after a string of problems in its disaster response and questions about how it spends donors' money. The GAO asked Congress to consider legislation — the strongest recommenda... |
In a statement, a Red Cross spokeswoman said the charity cooperated with the inquiry. The statement says the charity "worked cooperatively with the GAO to address their questions, provide interviews with disaster services leadership, and share documents about our programs. We had discussions with the GAO and members of... |
The GAO said earlier this month that it always strives for unfettered access to its records and documents but that it "did not get that in this case." |
GAO spokesman Chuck Young says the office will review Grassley's request as it does whenever lawmakers ask for additional information and decide what can be made available. This process typically takes several weeks, he says. |
The Red Cross' problems with the GAO inquiry date to at least last summer when Red Cross CEO Gail McGovern wrote a letter to Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi who requested the inquiry, and asked him to "end the GAO inquiry," according to a copy of the letter obtained by NPR and ProPublica. McGovern gav... |
Thompson has introduced the American Red Cross Sunshine Act, which calls for regular outside audits of the charity and requires the Red Cross to open its books during all future GAO inquiries. |
Grassley is also conducting his own look at the charity's records, examining questions related to how to the Red Cross spent half a billion dollars after the 2010 Haiti earthquake. |
Are Trump's Moves a Springtime for Neoconservatism? |
With the appointment of Mike Pompeo, the Iran Deal is null and void. |
With his firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and appointment of the hawkish CIA director Mike Pompeo to replace him, Donald Trump has remained true to form. Chaos, not predictability, is what he promised during the campaign and it is what he is delivering, especially in foreign policy. The Brookings Institution ... |
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