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On April 30, the Austin City Council approved Stubb’s request to waive on-site parking requirements, with the exception of handicap parking, and to become classified as an outdoor entertainment venue.

The expansion will add 4,295 square feet to the restaurant, 6,445 square feet to an outdoor concert amphitheater, and a new 35,753 square feet indoor auditorium.

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O’Malley’s also working with Jimmy Buffett on a TV show based on the characters the Margaritaville main man sings about.

“We’ve been out to a few networks and hope to have a commitment by Christmas,” he said.

Paper maps had some real drawbacks:  They make a lot of noise when you open and fold them, they wear-out rapidly, And if they get wet, they turn into mush.  Someone in MI-5 got the idea of printing escape maps on silk. It’s durable, can be scrunched-up into tiny wads, and unfolded as many times as needed, and makes no noise whatsoever. At that time, there was only one manufacturer in Great Britain that had perfected the technology of printing on silk, and that was John Waddington, Ltd.

When approached by the government, the firm was only too happy to do its bit for the war effort.

By pure coincidence, Waddington was also the U.K. Licensee for the popular American board game, Monopoly. As it happened, ‘games and pastimes’ was a category of item qualified for insertion into ‘CARE packages’, dispatched by the International Red Cross, to prisoners of war.

Under the strictest of secrecy, in a securely guarded and inaccessible old workshop on the grounds of Waddington’s, a group of sworn-to-secrecy employees began mass-producing escape maps, keyed to each region of Germany or Italy where Allied POW camps were located (Red Cross packages were delivered to prisoners in accordance with that same regional system). When processed, these maps could be folded into such tiny dots that they would actually fit inside a Monopoly playing piece.

As long as they were at it, the clever workmen at Waddington’s also managed to add:
1. A playing token, containing a small magnetic compass,
2. A two-part metal file that could easily be screwed together.
3. Useful amounts of genuine high-denomination German, Italian, and French currency, hidden within the piles of Monopoly money!

British and American air-crews were advised, before taking off on their first mission, how to identify a ‘rigged’ Monopoly set —– by means of a tiny red dot, one cleverly rigged to look like an ordinary printing glitch, located in the corner of the Free Parking square! Of the estimated 35,000 Allied POWS who successfully escaped, an estimated one-third were aided in their flight by the rigged Monopoly sets.  Everyone who did so was sworn to secrecy Indefinitely, since the British Government might want to use this highly successful ruse in still another, future war.

The story wasn’t de-classified until 2007, when the surviving craftsmen from Waddington’s, as well as the firm itself, were finally honored in a public ceremony. Anyway, it’s always nice when you can play that

‘Get Out of Jail Free’ card.

CNN version of this story…..

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Anheuser-Busch brews over 40 different beers and malt liquors, which
have won 12 World Beer Cup awards.

Budweiser Family
Budweiser (World Beer Cup Bronze Medal, 1996)
Bud Light
Budweiser Select
Budweiser American Ale (available October 2008)
Bud Dry
Bud Ice
Bud Ice Light
Budweiser Brewmaster’s Private Reserve
Bud Light Lime
Budweiser & Clamato Chelada
Bud Light & Clamato Chelada
Bud Extra

Michelob Family
Michelob
Michelob Light (World Beer Cup Bronze Medal, 2006)
Michelob Honey Lager
Michelob AmberBock (World Beer Cup Bronze Medal, 1998)
Michelob Golden Draft
Michelob Golden Draft Light
Michelob Bavarian Wheat
Michelob Porter
Michelob Pale Ale
Michelob Dunkel Weisse (available Late 2008)

Ultra Family
Michelob Ultra (World Beer Cup Bronze Medal, 2004)
Michelob Ultra Amber (World Beer Cup Silver Medal, 2006)
Michelob Ultra Lime Cactus
Michelob Ultra Pomegranate Raspberry
Michelob Ultra Tuscan Orange Grapefruit

Busch Family
Busch
Busch Light
Busch Ice
The Natural Family
Natural Light
Natural Ice

Specialty Brews
Bud Extra
Bare Knuckle Stout
Anheuser World Lager (discontinued)
ZiegenBock
Ascent 54 (Colorado only)
Redbridge (gluten-free)
Rolling Rock
Landshark Lager
Shock Top (Formerly Spring Heat Spiced Wheat)
Skipjack Amber Lager (Mid Atlantic Only)
Wild Blue

Seasonal Beers
Sun Dog (New in 2008) (spring)
Beach Bum Blonde Ale (summer)
Jack’s Pumpkin Spice Ale (fall)
Winter’s Bourbon Cask Ale (winter)

Non-alcohol
O’Doul’s (World Beer Cup Gold Medal, 2006)
O’Doul’s Amber (4 World Beer Cup Medals)
Busch NA
Budweiser NA (Saudi Arabian Market)
Budweiser NA Green Apple (Saudi Arabian Market)

Energy Drinks
180 Blue
180 Sport Drink(discontinued)
180 Energy
180 Red
180 Blue Low Calorie
180 Sugar Free

Specialty Organic Beers
Stone Mill Pale Ale
Wild Hop Lager
Specialty Malt Beverages
Bacardi Silver
Peels (discontinued)
Tequiza
Tilt

Spirits and Spirits Distribution Alliances
Jekyll & Hyde
Bluecoat Vodka
Cape North
Hammer and Sickle Vodka
Ku Soju
Margarittaville Tequila
Purus Organic Wheat Vodka
Vermont Spirits

Malt Liquors
Hurricane Malt Liquor
Hurricane Ice
King Cobra (World Beer Cup Silver Medal, 2004)

Minority ownership brands
Red Hook Brewing
Widmer Bros. Brewing
Craft Distribution Alliances
Goose Island Beer Co.
Kona Brewing Co.
Ray Hill American Pilsner
Starr Hill Brewing
Fordham Brewing
Dominion Brewing

In addition to brewing its own beer, Anheuser-Busch also is
responsible for the importation and distribution of the following
international beers in the U.S.:

Harbin Lager
Tiger Beer
Kirin
Bass Ale
Boddingtons
Beck’s
Hoegaarden
Leffe
Stella Artois
Löwenbräu
Tennent’s Ale
Budvar Czechvar

Specialty beverage distribution deals
Borba Skin Balance Water
Monster Energy Drink
Lost Energy
Rumba Energy
Icelandic Glacial Spring Water

All of these brands can be verified by visiting this link.

The study ranked exit 235 to Martin Luther King Boulevard and 19th St. the worst in Texas and 62nd worst in the country. The 0.35-mile stretch is congested 34 hours per week, slowing commuters to an average speed of 9.8 miles per hour when congested.

Exit 233, to Riverside Drive, was the state’s second-worst and 75th worst in the nation, with vehicles traveling an average of 17.1 miles per hour during 57 congested hours per week.

Overall congestion in Austin/Round Rock is ranked as the 26th worst in the nation. Dallas, Houston, San Antonio all ranked worse than Austin.

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Technorati Tags: Austin, Traffic

A Swiss pilot strapped on a jet-powered wing and leaped from a plane Wednesday for the first public demonstration of the homemade device, turning figure eights and soaring high above the Alps.

Rossy, 48, had stepped out of the Swiss-built Pilatus Porter aircraft at 7,500 feet and unfolded the rigid eight-foot wings strapped to his back before jumping.

Passing from free fall to a gentle glide, Rossy then triggered four jet turbines and accelerated to 186 miles per hour, about 65 miles per hour faster than the typical falling skydiver. A plane that flew at some distance beside him measured his speed.

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From the Discovery News web site

The ship was laden with tons of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins — and cannons to fend off pirates.

Da Beers had cleared and drained a stretch of seabed, building an earthen wall to keep the water out so geologists could work. One of the geologists saw a few ingots, but had no idea what they were. Then the team found what looked like cannon barrels.

The geologists stopped the brutal earth-moving work of searching for diamonds and sent photos.

In later years, sailors with sophisticated navigational tools avoided [this section of the African coast]. The only tools found on the wreck were [ Mariner's ] astrolabes, which can be used to determine only how far north or south you have sailed.

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Technorati Tags: Shipwreck, Treasure, bounty

AT&T (NYSE: T) and Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) is making the wireless Internet service free to all qualified AT&T broadband and U-verse Internet customers. AT&T officials say they have 12 million of these customers. The company also has another 5 million remote access service business customers that will be able to use the service.

AT&T now has more than 17,000 U.S. hot spots and more than 70,000 globally.

Starting this spring, Starbucks is also giving its card holders two free hours of free Wi-Fi service per day at participating locations.

I will have to see how this plays out as the service is really in my roommates name. I have the account number but not sure what else I will need to be able to connect at a Starbucks.