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Heidi Klum shows VW love at L.A. Auto Show
Supermodel, TV host, mother, wife and Volkswagen fan Heidi Klum added even more glamour to the L.A. Auto Show on Wednesday when she showed up to introduce the new VW Eos, making its world debut at the event. Klum was introduced by VW Group of America President Jonathan Browning, who said she knew a lot about style.
"I know a lot about style, you say? I know a lot about cars too," quipped Klum, adding she owns "a lot" of VW cars including a "beautiful bug" and "Tiguan."
Her take on the new convertible Eos? "I think it's very beautiful and very stylish.... I like cars that are not super big that you can move in and out of the city and do your shopping and go back home and look stylish at the same time. I love convertibles because I live in Los Angeles. That's why we live here -- to drive convertible cars, no?"
When Browning asked, "Sun roof or hood fully down?" Klum said, "It depends where I'm going and what kind of hairdo I have."
Klum was wearing a convertible-frirendly low chignon at the event.
-- Susan Carpenter
Photo: German top model Heidi Klum unveils the new Volkswagen EOS convertible during the press day of the LA Auto Show. Credit: Al Schaben / Los Angeles Times.

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Born in Vitebsk, Belarus, Russian pianist Yuri Polubelov studied piano at Lvov Secondary Music School with Alexander Eidelman. He gave his first solo recital at the age of thirteen and became winner of the Ukrainian Young Musicians' Competition in Kiev. Polubelov graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire (piano class of Vera Gornostayeva and chamber ensemble class of Konstantin Adjemov). Polubelov has participated in festivals in Germany, France, Italy, Slovakia, Estonia, Russia and Ukraine. He has performed both as soloist and in chamber ensembles with prominent Russian musicians such as Alexei Lubimov, Tatiana Grindenko, Ivan Monighetti, Alexander Rudin, Nelli Lee and Mark Pekarsky. He has also given premières of a number of works by contemporary Russian and Ukrainian composers and pays special attention to rarely performed works by composers such as Zemlinsky, Schoenberg, Webern, Krˇenek, Hindemith (Marienleben) and Brahms (choral works with piano). Polubelov has helped organize several festivals in Moscow and served as artistic director and pianist in stage performances of chamber operas by V. Rebikov and A. Zemlinsky in Russia and Germany.
As a Duo Svetlana Savenko and Yuri Polubelov have performed together since 1997. Their repertoire comprises more than 350 songs for voice and piano, from Stravinsky and Schoenberg to Russian composers. They have given a number of world premières, among them compositions written specially for the Duo, such as the song cycles of Valentin Silvestrov and the vocal pieces of Leonid Hofman and Alexander Knaifel. The Duo are also committed to promoting vocal repertoire under special themes, for instance "Silhouettes of the Silver Age", "In Schoenberg's Direction", "Hundred Years of New Music", "Stravinsky: Nursery and Music Hall".


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ALCOHOL: Somabar looks to button up drink orders at range of establishments.
For everyone who has struggled to get a bartender's attention – and who hasn't – Somabar Inc. has a plan to ease your pain.
The Westwood firm launched a pilot program earlier this month for its commercial-grade cocktail machine at Westwood's House of Meatballs. The company is ramping up production runs in Shenzhen, China, and getting ready to take preorders from eateries.
"It's the simplest way for you to have professional bartending drinks and you don't need to know a damn thing about mixology," said Christopher Hameetman, Somabar's president, who co-founded the business with Chief Executive Dylan Purcell-Lowe. "Put a glass underneath, press a button, it pours in five to seven seconds."
Named after the hallucinogenic drug soma from the novel "A Brave New World," Somabar's Keurig-like contraption for cocktails started preselling units for $499 on Kickstarter in 2014, taking about 2,000 orders. But the co-founders have opted since then to focus their attention on selling to restaurants rather than individual consumers. The company has received outside capital from 20 investors, according to Hameetman; raising about $1.9 million in total, according to Crunchbase.
To meet commercial standards, the company started using industrial grade pumps, bacteria-resistant piping, and rewired electronics in its products. Those upgrades lengthen each machine's lifecycle to about 100,000 drinks, according to Hameetman, enough to last for years at a moderately busy venue. The improvements will raise the machine's price tag, though an exact number has yet to be decided. However, he said the cost should amount to less than the hourly wage of a bartender over a machine's lifetime.
"We are going to be, (compared) to the equivalent of a bartender, pennies an hour," he said.
Other cocktail-making machines on the market are priced above $4,000 and rigged with tubes that need to be inserted into various liquor bottles.
Somabar has avoided that by outfitting each machine with six detachable clear-plastic pods to store various spirits and ingredients, such as grenadine or club soda. A smaller pod for bitters is stored in the back. The equipment is preloaded with 300 drink recipes from the International Bartenders Association.
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Gennaro Morra, proprietor of House of Meatballs, said he has been testing the Somabar machine in his Gayley Avenue restaurant since May 4 and has quickly taken to the equipment.
"What I like about it is one button, one push, and you get what you want," he said. "It doesn't require much training. I have just regular young kids as waiters and they find it very efficient."
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Talk:Creating packages
If I understand it, makepkg is a script file that uses the information in another script file entitled pkgbuild. Two questions: First, why do they have different emphasis in color and capitalization? Second, where do they come from? Are they included in base-devel? Can anyone help with that? Thanks all. - KitchM 00:30, 8 February 2010 (EST)
makepkgis a command; a
PKGBUILDis simply a file, and is sourced by makepkg; not executed. -- pointone 20:43, 10 February 2010 (EST)
- Not knowing what you mean by "sourced", am I correct to assume that the makepkg program (which is not a script, but a binary executable) uses the script file "pkgbuild" as a "source" for instructions and information? And if so, can that be explained in the article? - KitchM 01:50, 11 February 2010 (EST)
The article mentions makepkg quite a bit, but it fails to tell us how to find it. Does anyone know where it comes from? - KitchM 00:22, 11 February 2010 (EST)
- "makepkg" comes from "pacman", "pacman" is always installed. --Beroal 11:25, 17 November 2010 (EST)
Creating_Packages#The_package.28.29_function is based on that forum thread and "man PKGBUILD". Info is not obtained from developers. --Beroal 11:51, 17 November 2010 (EST)
"tar archive"
I'm curious as to the proper thing to write when referring to an archive made with tar. As tar is short for, "tape archive," obviously writing, "tape archive archive," is wrong. Simply saying tar, though, sounds wrong as well. A lot of people say tarball, but that isn't very descriptive. Your thoughts, please. Ratfink 15:50, 2 February 2011 (EST)
- See Wikipedia:RAS syndrome. "Tar archive" is fine in my books; consider "an archive created using the tar utility." -- pointone 17:01, 2 February 2011 (EST)
Clarification of Overview
Initially, I completely missed where the files listed in the Overview come from, I also confused the .PKGINFO with PKGBUILD. I think it would be clearer if this line:
"An Arch package is no more than a tar archive compressed using xz, or 'tarball', which contains:"
"An Arch package is no more than a tar archive compressed using xz, or 'tarball', which contains the following files generated by makepkg:"
--Mloskot (talk) 22:30, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
- Seems reasonable, I think there's no harm if you add that clarification. -- Kynikos (talk) 10:07, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
Confusing Sentences
This is a bit confusing for me:
In old packages, there was no
package() function. So, putting compiled files was done at the end of the
build() function. If
package() is not present,
build() runs via fakeroot. If
package() is present,
build() runs as the user calling makepkg,
package() runs via fakeroot.
I'm guessing "putting" should be either "placing of" or "packaging," but I'm not sure. I'm also completely confused about the last sentence. - Zeniff (talk) 23:35, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
- Putting = arranging or installing into the pkg/ temporary staging directory, ready to be packaged by makepkg; i.e. what the package() function is now for. Maybe if it said "putting files into pkg/"? The last sentence is saying what normally happens: only package() runs in the fakeroot environment, and build() runs without any special privileges (so cannot set file ownership, etc). Vadmium (talk) 22:54, 29 January 2013 (UTC).


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School enchantment (compulsion) [chaotic, evil, mind-affecting]; Level 3
Casting Time 1 minute, or creation time if creating more elaborate signs (2 phases of half the casting time)
Components S
Optional Components F (a copy of the King in Yellow gives a +5 insight bonus on all skill checks)
Skill Checks Craft (painting) or Profession (Yog-Sothothery philosopher) DC 15, 1 success (diagram); Knowledge (geography) or Profession (Yog-Sothothery philosopher) DC 15, 1 success
Range touch
Diagram The Yellow Sign may be drawn at any size, and its difficulty is not affected by size; sometimes the inscriber gets carried away in crazed artistry and makes it into an elaborate baroque sculpture or hides it such that it can only be seen as graffiti on multiple buildings from a certain angle, and these require higher Craft (painting) checks or other appropriate skill checks
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Duration permanent
Saving Throw Will partial; Spell Resistance no
This ritual—which can only be performed by insane devotees of Hastur and the King in Yellow—inscribes the Yellow Sign, which can only be noticed or identified by insane creatures or those who have read The King in Yellow play. If a creature has read The King in Yellow and sees the Yellow Sign, the creature automatically becomes shaken and must succeed at a Will saving throw or be confused for 1d4 rounds. If the creature becomes confused in this way, it has a percentage chance equal to the save DC of becoming permanently insane in a way defined by the caster of the ritual. If a character or creature goes permanently insane from seeing the Yellow Sign, they become obsessed with it, the King in Yellow, and Carcosa, effectively becoming a cultist of the King in Yellow.
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LUBBOCK — It was a familiar site to Texas Tech fans Saturday night at Jones AT&T Stadium, as they watched a big surprise unfold as an underdog took it to a favorite and showed no mercy.
Only this time, the Red Raiders were the ones on the receiving end of it.
One week after pulling out an upset victory on the road against No. 3 ranked Oklahoma, Tech hosted Iowa State, which was winless in four previous Big 12 games. But nothing has been a sure thing one way or the other for the Red Raiders this season, as their rollercoaster season continued with a 41-7 loss to the Cyclones.
Tech coach Tommy Tuberville gave no excuses for his team's disappointing performance in a game where the Red Raiders (5-3, 2-3) never seemed to get in sync.
"It's pretty obvious we got beat on both sides of the ball and the kicking game," Tuberville said. "We weren't focused and I'll take the blame for that. We have no reasons why. We'll look at the film and try to learn from it."
It was a far different postgame atmosphere than a week earlier, when the Red Raiders jumped out to an early lead and held on to beat Oklahoma 41-38. Even though Tech never led Iowa State (3-5, 1-4), beating the Sooners gave the faithful of 59,260 who showed up some hope.
But the hangover from beating Oklahoma appeared to be too strong to overcome.
"The players get patted on the back and talked about and it's hard to handle a lot of those things," Tuberville said. "You have to give credit to Iowa State."
The offensive performance was especially uncharacteristic for the Red Raiders. They threw for a relatively modest 191 yards, and saw a string of 69 straight games of throwing at least one touchdown pass come to an end.
Things were rough in the first half offensively and defensively, as Tech trailed 24-7 at halftime. As it turned out quarterback Seth Doege's 8-yard touchdown run in the second quarter turned out to be Tech's offensive highlight of the game.
The Cyclones moved the ball efficiently the whole game, finishing with 512 yards total offense.
"It comes down to (the Cyclones) were ready to play and we weren't," said Doege, who completed 16 of 32 for 171 yards and two interceptions. "They were incredibly prepared and we weren't."
Iowa State jumped out to a 21-0 lead in the first quarter, crisply moving the ball on the first two possessions of the game, as redshirt freshman quarterback Jared Barnett (making his first career start) and Jeff Woody concluded the first two scoring drives with touchdown runs. The Cyclones were especially successful running the ball in the first half, as they ran for 171 yards.
On the first play from scrimmage after Woody's touchdown, Doege was intercepted by Ter'Ran Denton, who returned the ball to the Tech 1-yard line. Two plays later, Barnett hit Darius Darks on a 2-yard scoring pass to make it 21-0.
The Red Raiders moved the ball much more successfully in the second quarter, as they finally got on the board midway through the quarter on Doege's run. However, the Red Raiders could have gotten closer in the first half, as they drove from their own 1 down to Iowa State's 2 earlier in the quarter, but Aaron Crawford was stuffed for no gain on fourth down.
"We drive it 97 yards, go for it on fourth and one and don't make it," Tuberville said. "And when you can't do that, obviously, especially at home, everything's going to be very hard to get."
On the third play of the second half, Iowa State's Duran Hollis took a handoff and burst through a huge hole up the middle for a 71-yard scoring run to give the Cyclones a 31-7 lead, effectively taking all the air out of the Red Raiders and their fans. James White led Iowa State with 138 yards rushing while Hollis added 101.


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I spent the day perfecting Mint Chocolate lip balm (with real Ghirardelli bittersweet chocolate!) and it's awesome, with the perfect minty kick. Mom says it smells just like Junior Mints. :-) They'll be in the shop soon, and I'll be sure to make plenty of samplers when I get the mini tubes next week.
I also worked on a solid perfume stick with light and vitamin-rich oils- the prototype is fragranced with Gardenia and it smells SO good. The fragrance seems to stick around a lot longer than spray perfume, and it just takes a small swipe to apply. Very convenient! The next fragrance will probably be Red Clover Tea- we've got some family members and friends who just can't get enough of it, but it's such a light fragrance that it can get lost on the skin. We're hoping that in a perfumed oil form it will have more staying power. I also shouldn't forget the solid colognes we'll be making for the gentlemen! We'll update when they're out of the experimentation stage and in the shop. :-)
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A number of representatives of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, Interagency Working Group participants, and National Climate Assessment authors (Federal and non-Federal) will be attending the 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting from December 11-15 in New Orleans, Louisiana. We hope you will join the USGCRP community for the
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National Climate Assessment
On behalf of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, we are pleased to announce major milestones in the timelines of three important reports. The first of these is the Climate Science Special Report (CSSR), which represents Volume I of the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4). The final version of CSSR is released today as a step toward
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National Climate Assessment
Let's start with the big news: As of last week, first drafts of all 28 chapters and five appendices of the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) were submitted and are now in the hands of the editorial team at the Technical Support Unit (TSU). A huge thank you goes out to our volunteer author teams for their dedication and hard work over the
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Engagement, National Climate Assessment
NCA4 author teams, staff, and regional collaborators have been hard at work gathering input from stakeholders across the country through regional engagement workshops, webinars, and other public events. Chapter teams have received extensive training on chapter development, scientific resources and tools, and assessment writing through a chapter leadership meeting and regular webinars with all authors. Development of full, first order chapter drafts for interagency review in June is underway and on-schedule.
PostedFeb 3, 2017
National Climate Assessment
Building on the success of the third, and most recent, National Climate Assessment , production of the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) is now underway and is expected for release in late 2018. Recent efforts are laying the foundation for a robust, inclusive assessment process that responds to information needs across the country.


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The transport group behind nearly a third of UK rail journeys suffered a profits fall as the double-dip recession hit demand for one of its key commuter lines. Go-Ahead said operating profits at its rail arm fell 17 per cent to £40 million in the year to June 30, with its Southern franchise, which connects Brighton and much of Sussex with London, seeing revenues at the end of the period 2 per cent weaker than it forecast when it bid for the franchise in 2009. The Newcastle-based firm, which also runs Southeastern and London Midland, said group pre-tax profits fell 3.4 per cent to £94.2 million. Pressure groups:
Environmental impacts
Another main issue for transport is the control of environmental impact. Go-Ahead takes its responsibility to this very seriously. Because more people already travel by car, this has had a poor impact on our surroundings. Public transport must therefore provide a viable and convenient alternative. Go-Ahead has produced environmental and social responsibility reports on all its operations. The Group came top of the public transport companies that took part in the Business in the Community Corporate Responsibility Index. 66% of public transport journeys are made by bus. Go-Ahead prides itself on operating fleets of buses that are well ahead of European environmental standards. They use ultra-low sulphur diesel as well as particulate traps, which cut exhaust emission levels and improve air quality in cities.
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The first USDA-certified organic fast food restaurant in the country, The Organic Coup opened its' doors in Pleasanton on November 10, 2015. The eatery is located at 4825 Hopyard Road near the intersection of Hopyard and Stoneridge. A great addition to the dining options in Pleasanton, The Organic Coup features it's signature chicken sandwich, a spicy air chilled chicken breast fried in coconut oil with spicy shredded veggies on a toasted artisan bun. All ingredients are organic and you can top the sandwich off with organic sauce choices: Mustard Vin, Spicy BBQ Ranch, Sesame Ginger or Ranch. Other selections include a wrap and bowl. Check out the menu HERE.
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In challenging economic times for luxury real estate marketing professionals, it is often discovered that your old success formulas are no longer working. For many, facing this brutal fact plus realizing that there is a pressing need for change is the toughest part of all. However, welcoming change and going through the process of re-inventing yourself can be one of life's most exhilarating and rewarding experiences even though it can be painful at first.
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- Look for Evidence of Good News! Champion those people who are succeeding despite the economic news. Forget being jealous. Find out what they are doing right. For example, in Beverly Hills, the famous William Morris Talent Agency buildings recently sold for a record price per square foot with foreign financing.
- Give Yourself an Attitude Adjustment . Be Kind to Yourself. The process begins by accepting your circumstances and even more importantly by accepting yourself, fully. You must completely factor out of the equation what other people might be thinking about you. Stop judging yourself by other's standards. Your business is none of their business.
- Mind Your Own Business, Literally! Avoid the temptation to compare yourself with others. No one can really know what you are going through. Only by being kind to yourself and minding your own business can you clearly perceive the opportunities to reinvent yourself.
- Pick Yourself Up. Brush Yourself Off. Start All Over Again. When you were a kid and you were learning to walk, then fell that is exactly what you did. Remember?
- Stay Positive. Use any excuse in the book to feel good. Staying positive in difficult times IS the way out.
- Hang out with Upbeat, Optimistic People. Seek out positive news and positive people as much as possible.
- Discover Where the New Opportunities Are. Except in extreme emergencies, business does not come to a complete standstill. Repeatedly ask yourself and others, "where are the opportunities?"
- Acquire Some New Skills. Take some classes. Learn more about your market. With a little bit of focused attention you can learn some new skills that can make all of the difference in the world. For, example you may want to learn about 1031 Exchanges that do not necessarily require new financing.


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Review of Cherry Hill's How to Think Like a Horse
At a bookstore a couple of months ago, I spotted this book and spent the rest of our visit flipping through it. Although I love Cherry Hill's books, I read about half of it during that visit and decided I didn't think it was worth buying. After checking it out from the library, though, I've changed my mind — there was actually a lot of useful stuff in the book, and it wasn't geared toward beginners quite as much as I initially thought. I will probably end up buying it at some point, as it seems like a good one to have on my bookshelf.
I really like many of Hill's thoughts about horses. I have another book of hers, Cherry Hill's Horsekeeping Almanac, which I've been reading in bits and pieces for a while now, and I love it. Her ideas about horses seem to be practical and sound, and I like her balance between traditional and natural horsemanship.
One of the things I noticed is that this book supports something I've always said, that I think it's just fine, and even helpful, to use voice commands with your horse. Some people who follow natural horsemanship claim that voice commands are unnecessary and confusing, but I personally find that they are useful and comfortable for both me and Panama. Here are a few things that Hill has to say about it:
"Good horsemen can often be observed communicating with a horse in a type of low-level 'breaking patter,' a term from bygone cowboy days. It describes a type of low-volume mumbling a cowboy might use around a horse that he is training. The soothing tones calm the horse. Hence the term horse whisperer." (page 30)
"Although horses don't verbalize the way we do, they do respond to our voices. It is appropriate and productive to use voice commands when working with horses, especially for ground training, and especially when you are the main person handling a horse.
"The reason clinicians do not advocate voice commands more often is because most of them are talking constantly to the audience, and it would be difficult for a horse to distinguish a voice command out of all that. Voice commands are not customary in most show ring settings but they can be a means to an end such as "Whoa" when a reiner asks his horse for a sliding stop. In most at-home training situations, voice commands are not only appropriate but also very effective." (page 124)
Another thing I've often said that Hill appears to agree with me on is that you need to maintain a position of alpha over your horses. By this I don't mean an aggressive alpha, but I do mean a leader who must also be respected. Hill says:
"Humans occupy a position in the horses' pecking order, as well, so we must convince them not only that we are the top horse, but also that we are wise and fair leaders. For safety and smooth management, a human must be the top horse.
"Pecking order is most evident at feeding time. You can easily tell a human's rank among horses by watching as she feeds them. If the horses come charging into the person's space and she drops the feed and turns tail, one of the horses is definitely on top." (page 59)
There is an awful lot of information in this book, far more than the quotes I remembered to mark so that I could blog about them later. The book covers everything from body language to bad habits to training, and is a great resource for both beginners and people who already own horses. A little something here for everyone!
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YouTube now lets you loop videos without extra software
We've all come across those ginormous 10-hour video loops on YouTube for one reason or the other – perhaps to keep that song you like playing in repeat. You might've even used an extension to loop the videos yourself.
Well, you finally won't need any extra software to repeat videos yourself. If you're on a desktop browser, you can just right-click on a video and select the new loop option.
Once selected, the video will replay immediately after finishing.
Simple enough, right? There's no way to do this on the mobile YouTube apps yet, but hopefully Google will add an equivalent option soon enough.


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HeliComfort - Adaptable power density coating for energy efficient heating of cockpit and cabin
Today's cockpit & cabin heating is mainly driven by hot engine bleed air pick-up and mixing with (cold) outside air. The air is carried into the cockpit & cabin through a complex pipe and valve system, and the warm-up is achieved by air convection. Due to the high level of air leakages on e.g. helicopters' unpressurized cockpit & cabin, the heating power losses are not negligible and the homogeneity of the heating comfort over the interior space is quite poor. In addition without the engines running, on-ground pre-heating of the cockpit & cabin cannot be achieved.
HeliComfort aims at developing a novel, energy-efficient heating system, using an electrically conductive, non-transparent polymer as a coating. The coating is added to several selected surfaces in order to provide increased comfort to the crew and passengers by using IR radiant heat. This will also eliminate or at least reduce the need for bleed air with the future goal to make it completely redundant. Furthermore, by using ground power supply, the pre-heating of the cockpit & cabin will be possible even when the main engine is switched off. This feature can enhance the comfort and working environment for passengers as well as the crew, especially for medical staff and even more for a patient in an emergency medical Service helicopter, or for VIP transport service customers.


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On March 10 we begin our new series Outlier*. During the series we will be investigating Jesus' life together as a church. Because no other person has had as wide an influence of Jesus on history, no other person is as worthy of study as Jesus. Our LifeGroups will be synced up with the sermons throughout the series.
As a way to assist in the study, we've published an e-book as a companion to the series. The e-book follows along with the series week-by-week, but also provides exhaustive extra resources and material to help you and your LifeGroup dig deeper into the life of Jesus.
A couple things worth knowing about the e-book:
- Easy-access links. Whenever you see a word underlined in red, the text acts as a link, taking you online to sources, online bibles, and additional information. Just clicking on the link in the PDF will take you to the browser on your mobile device or computer to find out more about what you're reading.
- Interactive discussion questions. While you can print off the e-book to fill in your answers to the discussion questions, most computers will allow you to type your answers directly into the PDF. (Note: interactive questions may not work on some mobile devices.)
- Charts and graphs. We've included some tongue-in-cheek charts at the end of each chapter to help show all the ways in which Jesus was the greatest Outlier* who ever lived.
- Just add community. The e-book was written and published with our LifeGroups in mind. If you're not in a LifeGroup, you'll miss a lot of what the series and e-book has to offer. If you'd like to sign up for a LifeGroup, do that here.
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Freida Rothman is a leading designer of luxury accessories, launching her first jewelry collection in 2010 and expanding shortly after into the lifestyle brand FREIDA ROTHMAN. Each lifestyle category, including sunglasses and leather goods, incorporates her signature jewelry elements.
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What are you doing tomorrow night?
I'll be at Bloggy School. As an on and off (more frequently off…) blogger, I'm looking for some inspiration & information to keep me on the blogging train after November.
Bloggy School will be taught by 2 of my favorite Austin bloggers: Kristin & Corrin.
I'm looking forward to learning a bit more about editorial calendars.
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"The elegance and complexity which Viura gains over time, shows itself in a vivid and lively manner in this wine.Its limpid aromas, which have evolved delicately within the bottle, are perhaps the most valuable aspect of our cava."
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- Manuscript letter in the hand of Wiliam Lloyd Garrison, for publication to advertise a "mass celebration" of the anniversary of the emanciaption of 800,000 slaves to the West India Islands [undated, but probably 1846]. On back in red, "Insert this evening - Wednesday morning - Thursday morning and evening." Addressed to Mr. R. F. Wallent, Antislavery Office, Boston.
- Letter from Arthur G. Homer, of New York City, to Francis Jackson asking for funds to help purchase two slaves belonging to a Williamsburg, Virginia, planter William Havis. They are the wife and child of a free black residing in New York, who has already procured several hundred dollars to buy their freedom.
- Twenty-five page manuscript letter by George W. Putnam addressed to the Agency Committee of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Soceity, Wendell Phillips, Francis Jackson, and Samuel Philbrick, for publication in The Liberator, defending his "extravagant" expenses while on lecturing tours for the Society.


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Baskit Snugfit Seamless Trunk Review
I've been traveling a lot for work – and who doesn't need comfy underwear when they travel, right? I got home from almost 2 weeks on the road and had a nice envelope from the PR company for Baskitwear. I hadn't had a lot of contact with them before, so I was intrigued.
Inside was a pair of white boxer briefs . White mesh boxer briefs. I read the note they sent – they are the new Snugfit Seamless Trunks. As I looked at them, my boyfriend and I both thought "wow, those look small." Even though they were sized L/XL (I have a 34″ waist and run between M and L depending on brand).
I was just about to head out for another 2 day trip and had a ~3 hour flight to take. So I decided to put them to the test.
The next morning, I woke up, showered and put on the trunks. All I have to say is WOW. The material was some of the softest I've felt – and they stretched handsomely for a perfect fit. Now I get why there are only 2 sizes (S/M and L/XL). The mesh material was breathable but supportive. And did I mention SOFT?
After a 3 hour flight and a full day of meetings, the briefs held up well. They were still in great shape when I got back to my hotel room that night – the legs didn't creep up. The waistband didn't roll – it was almost a perfect day with my underwear.
Honestly, I didn't have high expectations – and mesh underwear always seems suspect to me, but these were some of the best trunks I'd ever worn. I actually looked at Baskitwear's web site and noticed they come in briefs as well. After the great experience with these, I'm going to order a few for myself – and a couple for the boyfriend as well.
I don't make recommendations often but these were awesome trunks. Absolutely loved them.
The Snugfit Seamless Trunk is seriously the best underwear I had worn since the Calvin Klein Steel collection. And the mesh is kind of fun and hot… I have to admit!
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2012 CEDIA People's Pick Award Winner, Home Theaters Category
Winner, 2012 People's Pick Award: The owner of this theater developed a large LEED Platinum home. The private theater was expected to perform at similarly high levels sonically, visually as well as efficiently.
The screen is a native 16:9 design with motorized masking panels for watching 2.35:1 aspect movies.
The ventilation system is silent due to geothermal cooling and ultra low voltage LED lighting.
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Rink Ramblingsby Nick Nickson / Los Angeles Kings
The 2014 Winter Olympics featured Kings captain Dustin Brown and goalie Jonathan Quick on the USA squad. Both players were participating in their second straight Winter Games. In checking back over the years the Kings have had consistent ties to the U.S. Men's Hockey teams that have played for gold.
In every Winter Olympics since the Kings franchise began in 1967 the U.S. team has had at least one player that played for the Kings or would eventually play or coach for the Kings.
In the 1968 Winter Games, Doug Volmar represented the U.S. and later would play briefly for the Kings in the 1972-73 season. In 1972, Robbie Ftorek, a Needham, Mass. native, played for the U.S. and he would later coach the Kings beginning in 1987. The 1972 team took the silver medal. In 1976, Steve Jensen and Bob Miller (the player, not broadcaster) played for the U.S. and Jensen would become the first former U.S. Olympian to become a regular for the Kings. He played four seasons with the Kings beginning in 1978. The 1980 "Miracle" gold medal team had future Kings Steve Christoff and Neal Broten on its roster.
Four players from the 1984 Olympic team would one day play for the Kings including Scott Bjugstad, Paul Guay, Corey Millen and Ed Olczyk. Millen was also on the 1988 team that had Tony Granato and Kevin Stevens. In 1992, forwards Steve Heinze and Shawn McEachern were on the squad and in 1994, Craig Johnson made the team. Johnson would go on to play 429 career NHL games with the Kings. This total is second to Brown in terms of games played by a Kings player that also was a former U.S. Olympian.
In 1998, NHL players were allowed to participate and Mathieu Schneider, Adam Deadmarsh, Jeremy Roenick and McEachern were selected for the U.S. team for the Winter Games in Nagano, Japan. Four years later in 2002, Deadmarsh and Roenick were repeats for the team along with Aaron Miller. The 2002 Winter Games were held in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the U.S. won silver that year. In 2006, Schneider, Miller, Craig Conroy and Jason Blake took part with the Winter Games in Turin, Italy.
In Vancouver four years ago Jack Johnson, Brown and Quick were part of the team that won silver, losing the final game in overtime to Canada.
All tolled 24 individuals have represented the United States over the years that have the Kings on their hockey resume. Brown, Quick, Millen, McEachern, Schneider, Deadmarsh, Roenick and Miller are in a select group that has played for their country in two Olympic Games.
The Dallas Stars underwent a makeover in the off-season with the hiring of a new general manager in Jim Nill and a new head coach in Lindy Ruff. Nill's assignment as GM of an NHL team is his first after years working with Detroit's GM Ken Holland as Holland's assistant. Recently we spoke to Nill about his decision to hire Ruff.
"I'm a big fan of continuity," Nill stated. "When I looked around for who was available to coach the Stars and saw Lindy was available, I saw somebody who was with one team (Buffalo) for 17 years. He must have done something right. Buffalo went through a lot of ups and downs during Lindy's time there. They were a good team that went to the Finals, they were a team that went through a bankruptcy, and they've been through ownership changes. I knew that he'd seen everything and that would serve him well coming to our team – a team in transition. There are going to be good days and bad days here. I'm confident Lindy can handle it. He's seen it all."
Nill spent 15 years as an assistant GM in Detroit prior to joining Dallas and he spoke to his experience with the Red Wings.
"The number one thing, and I think any NHL GM would agree, is patience. It sounds like it's easy but it's a competitive business and it's all about wins and losses. There are going to be times when you have to take some losses in order to move forward in the long term. I think the Kings are a great example of that, and it has paid off for them. I think patience is the big thing along with drafted and developing players. That has always been a big part of Detroit's success for years. I want to bring that same type of model to Dallas."
On the ice, Dallas has to feel good about the fact that they can build around two young forwards in Tyler Sequin, 21, acquired from Boston last summer, and 18-year-old Valeri Nichushkin, their first round pick in the 2014 Entry Draft.
The Kings have been on a pretty good run lately in terms of developing goaltenders. Jonathan Quick, who has been the Kings number one goalie for six seasons now, was a product of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft. Jonathan Bernier was taken by the Kings in the first round of the 2006 draft and served as Quick's back-up for three seasons before being dealt to Toronto in the off-season.
Jeff Zatkoff and Martin Jones shared the goaltending in Manchester (AHL) for two years before Zatkoff was acquired by Pittsburgh in July of 2012 as a free agent. Zatkoff, drafted in 2006 out of Miami of Ohio, is now Marc-Andre Fleury's backup in Pittsburgh. Jones is now in his fourth pro seasons after being signed as a free agent by the Kings prior to the 2008 season. Jones made his NHL debut December 2 in Anaheim, and beat the Ducks 3-2 in a shootout. The 23-year-old Jones won his next seven NHL starts while filling in for the injured Quick. Jones became only the second goalie in NHL history to post wins in his first eight games. He did so in impressive fashion, allowing only eight goals in those eight games. He also became the first goalie in 75 years (Frank Brimsek) to record shutouts in three of his first six games. One of his shutouts was in Montreal on December 10, 2013, when he back-stopped the Kings to a 6-0 win. He became the first goalie ever in Kings history to shutout a Montreal team. The shutout came in the Kings 136th game vs. the Canadiens.
Jones and Ben Scrivens combined to go 14-7-3 in the absence of Quick who was sidelined with a groin injury. The performances of these two kept the Kings among the league's elite teams in the first half.
Nick Nickson is in his 33rd season of calling Kings' action on the radio. He and his partner, former Kings left wing Daryl Evans, can be heard on KTLK AM 1150 and along the Kings Radio Network. Nick and Daryl invite all Kings' fans to join them for "Kings Talk" on the radio after every Kings home game. Call 1-877-Kings08 or 1-877-546-4708 with questions and comments or watch the show LIVE as they broadcast from The Mixing Room at the JW Marriott LA Live.


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This important book comprises the proceedings of The International Symposium on Integrated Coastal Zone Management, which took place in Arendal, Norway between 11–14 June 2007. The main objective of the Symposium was to present current knowledge and to address issues on advice and management related to the coastal zone. The major themes of papers included in this book are:
- Coastal habitats
- Impacts on coastal systems
- Integrated Coastal Zone Management
- Coastal governance
Comprising a huge wealth of information, this timely and well edited volume is essential reading for all those involved in coastal zone management around the globe. All libraries in research establishments and universities where fisheries and aquatic sciences are studied and taught will need copies of this important volume on their shelves.
Section 1: Coastal habitats.
Chapter 2: The challenge of establishing sustainable utilization of our coastal resources.
Chapter 3: Evaluating the geomorphologic stability of an estuarine sandy beach.
Chapter 4: Macro–algae habitat as fish nursery: evaluation of function as predation refuge.
Chapter 5: Predictive probability modelling of marine habitats – a case study from the West coast of Norway.
Section 2: Impacts on coastal systems.
Chapter 6: EU Indicators to monitor the progress in ICZM.
Chapter 7: The response of hyperbenthos and infauna to hypoxia in fjords along the Skagerrak: Estimating loss of biodiversity due to eutrophication.
Chapter 8: Environmental characterisation in the Augusta harbour (Sicily, Italy) using benthic foraminifera: the effects of human impact on benthic environment.
Chapter 9: Eco–friendly sustainable shrimp aquaculture in Bangladesh: A way of minimizing coastal degradation.
Chapter 10: Bioshields and ecological Restoration in Tsunami–affected areas in India.
Chapter 11: The population density and urbanisation at the North–East of Baltic Sea, the time–spatial analysis.
Section 3: Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM).
Chapter 12: Future challenges in Environmental Policy relative to ICZM (keynote address).
Chapter 13: Legal framework for integrated coastal zone management.
Chapter 14: Lobster reserves in coastal Skagerrak An integrated analysis of the implementation process.
Chapter 15: Efficiency of Fishing Vessels Affected by a Marine Protected Area The Case of Small–Scale Trawlers and the Marine Protected Area in Nha Trang Bay, Vietnam.
Chapter 16: Socio–economic impacts of sea use change in the German North Sea: A scenario based assessment in the context of regional development.
Chapter 17: Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) in Guyana: development barriers, opportunities and recommendations.
Chapter 18: Strategies for the beneficial use of dredged material in Japan.
Section 4: Coastal governance.
Chapter 19: Management or Governance, Environment or Ecosystem; What are the Differences and Does It Matter? (keynote address).
Chapter 20: Assisting decision–makers in complex water issues A case study: Rotterdam Mainport, The Netherlands.
Chapter 21: Local coastal zone planning and stakeholder participation in Norway.
Chapter 22: The Evolution of Governance Mechanisms for the Eastern Scotian Shelf Integrated Management Initiative.
Chapter 23: Climate Change, Coastal Communities and Governance: Developing solutions for change, Australia.
Chapter 24: Map of Coastal Zone Vulnerabilities to Wave Actions – Application to Aveiro District (Portugal).
Chapter 25: Managing Coastal Vulnerability: New Solutions for Local Government
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This is a quick at a glance summary on the key points in the manifesto of particular interest to local government
1. Make local government more accountable and responsive to local people by introducing fair votes for local elections in England. (NB: By 'fair votes' the Lib Dems mean proportional representation)
2. Reform local taxation. The Council Tax is an unfair tax. Liberal Democrats believe that it should be scrapped and replaced with a fair local tax, based on people's ability to pay. It is necessary to pilot Local Income Tax to resolve any practical issues of implementation before it can be rolled out nationally, so we would invite councils to put themselves forward to be involved in the piloting phase in the second year of a Parliament.
3. Return business rates to councils and base them on site values, as a fi rst step towards the radical decentralisation of taxation and spending powers to local people.
4. Review local government finance completely as part of these tax changes, including reviewing the unfair Housing Revenue Account system and the mainstreaming of central grants.
5. Scrap nearly £1 billion of central government inspection regimes on local councils
6. Scrap the Government Offi ces for the Regions and regional ministers.
7. Implement the Sustainable Communities Act Amendment Bill, which gives local communities the right to propose actions in their area to improve sustainability.
8. Setting a £400 pay rise cap for all public sector workers, initially for two years, ensuring that the lowest paid are eligible for the biggest percentage rise.
9. Cutting back burdensome regulation of local authorities
10. Reforming public sector pensions to ensure that they are sustainable and affordable for the long term, with an independent review to agree a settlement that is fair for all taxpayers as well as for public servants
11. A wholesale review of value for money in the public sector
12. Support the establishment of Local Enterprise Funds and Regional Stock Exchanges. Local Enterprise Funds will help local investors put money into growing businesses in their own part of the country and support the development of new products from research to production.
13. Setting aside extra money for schools who want to improve the energy efficiency of their buildings.
14. Reform Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) to focus solely on economic development, removing duplication with other parts of government and allowing substantial budget reductions. We will give responsibility for economic development to local authorities
15. Encourage community-owned renewable energy schemes where local people benefi t from the power produced.
16. Increase the funding of the most disadvantaged pupils, around one million children. We will invest £2.5 billion in this 'Pupil Premium'. This will allow an average primary school to cut classes to 20 and an average secondary school to introduce catch-up classes for 160 pupils
17. Axe the rigid National Curriculum
18. Local authorities will not run schools, but will have a central strategic role, including responsibility for oversight of school performance and fair admissions
19. Integrate health and social care to create a seamless service
20. Empowering local communities to improve health services through elected Local Health Boards, which will take over the role of Primary Care Trust boards in commissioning
21. help to maintain independent local sources of news and information by…. limiting publicly-subsidised competition for paid advertising from local council free-sheets.
22. Strengthen the Youth Service by making it a statutory service
23. Pay for 3,000 more police on the beat, affordable because we are cutting other spending, such as scrapping pointless ID cards.
24. Give local people a real say over their police force through the direct election of police authorities… with more power including the right to sack and appoint the Chief Constable
25. Give people a direct say in how petty criminals and those who engage in anti-social behaviour are punished by setting up Neighbourhood Justice Panels (NJPs),
26. Free councils to borrow money against their assets in order to build a new generation of council homes, and allow them to keep all the revenue from these new homes
27. Give councils greater powers to regulate bus services according to community needs
28. Abolish the Infrastructure Planning Commission and return decisionmaking, including housing targets, to local people.
29. Give local authorities the power to set higher Council Tax rates for second homes and the option to require specific planning permission for new second homes
30. Scrap the intrusive ContactPoint database which is intended to hold the details of every child in England


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When Remodeling Your Condo, Do You Play by the Rules?
If you live in a condo, you know the truth about this: You often have to jump through hoops to do a remodel. There's the board to consider, and the neighbors. And the rules.
Frank Nelson wrote an interesting article on remodeling a condo, in today's Real Estate section.
As he writes: "Any homeowner who has lived through a remodel can attest to the stress of the experience. But for condo owners governed by association rules and regulations, this additional layer of oversight can heighten the strain and lead to conflicts with neighbors and boards." Read the whole story.
So that got me wondering, when remodeling your own condo, were you successful keeping your neighbors and the board happy? Did you even try?
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Civil War Is The Final Act Of The Captain America Trilogy
Ever since details started leaking out about the feud between Captain America and Tony Stark in the upcoming Captain America: Civil War, there have been two huge questions on everyone's minds.
The first question, obviously, is whether Cap and Tony will settle their differences with a no-holds-barred naked cage fight. (Which nobody will admit is happening, but nobody's denied it, either. So.)
But the second question is, what will this mean for the Avengers — and for the place of Captain America in future Avengers movies?
While at an LA event celebrating the in-home release of Avengers: Age of Ultron, MTV News asked Marvel mastermind Kevin Feige about it, and he was unequivocal… that this is totally the wrong question. Because Civil War is, first and foremost, a conclusion to the triptych saga of Captain America Steve Rogers.
"It's very much, in a certain way, the completion of a Captain America trilogy," Feige said. "I think one day you'll look back and watch —Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Captain America: Civil War—and it'll be one of the most unique and different trilogies ever around a single character."
However, Feige confirmed that the non-Cap characters had an important role to play, too, saying, "[We're] bringing in some of the other players, most importantly Tony Stark, to tell that Civil War story. But it is very much a sequel to Winter Soldier."
Which brings us to a third question, because we can't help noticing that Feige keeps saying things like "completion" and "unique" and "single character." And Civil War will clearly be the conclusion of a discrete three-movie arc for Cap.
Here's the thing about trilogies: They tend to come full circle. So if The First Avenger began with the birth of Captain America, then, um, how will Civil War end?
Are the rumours true? Is Captain America is going to… die?
It's tempting to analyze Feige's comments for proof of Cap's demise, but it's also unlikely that the Marvel studios prez would drop such a giant hint on purpose about the possible impending death of one of their biggest heroes, so let's not jump to conclusions.
After all, even when Civil War is over, Cap will still have plenty of important unfinished business to attend to.
Avengers: Age of Ultron is out now on Digital HD & Disney Movies Anywhere, and on Blu-ray this Friday.


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Romney and "Conservative Doctrine"
There is apparently nothing that Mitt Romney can say that will shake David Frum's confidence in him (via Andrew):
That vivid phrase, "doom loop" gets the headline—and nicely obscures the way in which Romney has otherwise popped open the escape hatches from conservative doctrine.
"There is also a recognition in this country" nicely elides the question whether Romney himself believes in any parallel between America's situation and those of Greece, Spain, and Italy.
The "conceivably" is an elegant extra-distancing touch. A lot of things are conceivable, including many things that are impossible.
I admit that I don't understand support for a candidate based on the assumption that he is a slippery weasel unwilling to state publicly his own views on important issues. Here Frum is arguing that Romney is thoroughly disingenuous and engages in deceptive wordplay, and he describes this as Romney's "leadership secret." Scott Galupo is almost certainly right about how Mitt Romney would govern if elected, but I have to think that moderate and reformist Republicans are deluding themselves into believing that Romney secretly agrees with them in spite of everything he has said during the campaign. This is reminiscent of the persistent efforts of some foreign policy realists and moderate Republicans to ignore the content of Jon Huntsman's policy proposals, which were antithetical to most of what most of his admirers claimed to want, and to pay attention only to his temperament and personality.
For what it's worth, this gives Romney too much credit for cleverness and too little for staying on message. One of Romney's regular themes is that he is opposing Obama's efforts to make America more "European," by which I believe he means an America with a larger welfare state. Romney has made the comparison with Greece explicit on several occasions:
On Hannity, in a repeat of an earlier comment that's looking to become a signature Romney campaign line, the former Massachusetts governor tied Obama's policies to those of the Greek government, suggesting that America's growing debt is driving the country towards a Greek-style bailout [bold mine-DL].
"We are moving toward the Greek-type numbers. My guess is at the Democratic convention, [Obama] will not be appearing in front of columns like in Denver. He won't want to remind people of Greece," Romney said.
There doesn't seem to be any "escape hatch" here. Romney may or may not believe that the comparison with Greece is valid, but he seems to be doing everything possible to associate himself with that idea.


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Epic is the only word to describe the vast, untouched and immensely photogenic Namibian landscape. The open space and the scale of the diverse scenery is mind boggling .
Would I want to live somewhere so remote? Not on your Nellie. Would I visit again? In a heartbeat.
There is more, so much more to write about Namibia, but here's a quick summary of our highlights:
We had red sand in our pockets
Golden dune sand in our shoes
Epic landscapes stretched forever
Got the post Namibia blues
Drank a Windhoek beer in Windhoek
Saw fairy circles, oryx, stars
Got a flat tyre in the desert
'Cos roads are gravelly, not tarred
Scoffed apple pie in Solitaire
Drove to the farm that time forgot
But the sunset was to die for
And the weather roasting hot
There was action and adventure
Dune-boarding downwards at high speed
Quads and camels in the desert
Thankfully no pants were peed
Pelicans, seals and flamingoes
Champagne and oysters out at sea
A tall burly German sea captain
A lonely shipwreck and seaweed
A return trip in the planning?
Plenty more things to be done
Salt pans, ghost towns and cave rock art
Explore a whole new can of fun
When planning for our trip I collected 5 essential 'know-before-you-go' tips for travelling to Namibia from friends who had already been, it's worth a quick read if you're planning a holiday there. We found them useful, number 5 would never had occurred to us.
Namibia is epic.
Go. See. Do. Be.
Planning a trip to Namibia? Check out our family road trip highlights. We travelled from Windhoek to Sossussvlei and then headed on to Swakopmund.


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New lady in the house: Sorelle's Russo Red
Sorelle Winery – a boutique sized vineyard and winery recently established by the Scott family at the southern edge of the Lodi AVA – is poised to release a rare Lodi grown Super Tuscan style red wine: their 2010 Sorelle Russo Red ($34). The svelte yet sinewy Russo is crackling with affability – bright red currant, provocative black licorice, cute little Post-its of composted earth – embedded in a medium-full body underlain by moderate tannin, with subtle, smoky, cigar box-like oak embellishments.
What is Super Tuscan wine, and why should you care? First, because the Russo tastes so darned good — for something so substantial, yet not bruising or overweening.
Second, because a Super Tuscan style wine is something of a gutsy move: the reason why you don't see zillions of other wineries in Lodi or anywhere else in California jumping on the bandwagon is because American wines of this ilk have not exactly been lighting up the market (for more on this, please see our June 2012 post, Sorelle's Sangioves defies all odds).
"Super Tuscan" refers to a rather nebulous style of red wine, usually (but not always) involving Sangiovese – the traditional red wine grape of Italy's Tuscany region – in combination with French grapes such as Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot. Sorelle's Russo is a blend of 75% Cabernet Sauvignon (grown for Sorelle by the Mettler family's Arbor Vineyards) and 25% Sangiovese (from Sorelle's own vineyard).
Sorelle was founded by Mike Scott as a winery specializing in Italian varietals like Sangiovese, Barbera, and Primitivo (the latter, a clonal variation of Zinfandel brought into California by U.C. Davis from Sicily in Italy); but according to Mr. Scott, "Cabernet Sauvignon has been my favorite wine for a long time now, and so a twist on a Super Tuscan style wine was a must. The name 'Russo' pays homage to (Scott's wife) Joanne's mother and grandparents, who came over on a boat from Italy with their family name, 'Caporusso.'"
Adds Chad Joseph, Sorelle's consulting winemaker: "The Russo was aged in barrels for over two years, and was bottled unfined and unfiltered. There are many Cabernet Sauvignons and blends made primarily from Cabernet Sauvignon out there, but not too many of them blending Cabernet Sauvignon and Sangiovese. By doing this, we offer a great Lodi Cabernet with an Italian twist that I find intriguing, complex and unique."
The idea of Super Tuscan style wines first popped up in Tuscany during the 1970s, and then went on to become, well, super-popular among discriminating wine lovers around the world in the 1980s and 1990s. It has never been an officially recognized or regulated style of wine: it's sort of like a "wine of the people" – only, the kind of people who can afford $75, $150, or even more than $200 for a single bottle with a fanciful name like Tignanello, Solaia, Ornellaia, Sassicaia, Messorio or Fontalloro (they all ring romantico when pronounced with an Italian accent).
Long story short: Super Tuscans first came about in Tuscany's sub-region of Chianti, where wine production is strictly regulated by the government's Denominazione di Origine Controllata (i.e. DOC) laws. In the 1970s, for instance, if you wanted to produce and sell a "Chianti," you could not use more than 70% Sangiovese in the wine, and you were also required to blend in at least 10% of one of the local white wine grapes (such as Trebbiano and Malvasia).
Many of the top Tuscan producers, like the Antinori family, decided to rebel, and for good reason: they felt that the idea of using white wine to "lighten" a Sangiovese based red was not only grossly antiquated, if anything the problem with Sangiovese was that it needed to be bolstered by grapes that could make the wine even darker, fuller, richer, fresher, and more complex. Grapes like Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, which were native to France, not Italy, but could be grown beautifully in the Mediterranean climate and rolling hills of Tuscany.
So these disgruntled Tuscan producers decided to strike out on their own, producing wines that they did not have the right to call Chianti because they contained no white wine in the blend, more than 70% Sangiovese, and blended with non-traditional grapes like Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot. Ironically, these new fangled wines proved to be even more popular among the connoisseurs than top-of-the-line Chianti Classico; and to a great extent, the commercial success of Super Tuscans was also the reason why plantings of Sangiovese increased in California – from less than 200 acres in 1989, to more than 3,000 acres by 2003.
Eventually, in 1996, DOC laws were loosened up, and Chianti producers were allowed to make red wines more at their discretion: utilizing larger percentages of Sangiovese (75% to 100% now allowed), 0% to 10% white wine, and up to 15% "other" red wine grapes. Italy's still-unregulated Super Tuscan category, however, continues to proliferate; and today these wines are made in styles almost too numerous to count: 100% Sangiovese, 100% Merlot or Cabernet Sauvignon, and blends utilizing any number of grapes, from Italian varieties like Sangiovese, Canaiolo and Malvasia Nera, to French grapes like Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Syrah, and even Pinot Noir. These wines have become like ladies of the night — they'll be anything you ask them to be.
In Tuscany, and now also in Lodi, the attitude is "why not?" If it tastes great, then it's worth your attention!


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We have the beautiful but dark "Crimson Cross" and "Tale of a White Night."
Crimson Cross
Karl is a holy vampire hunter from an infamous Van Helsing family…who's been turned into a vampire himself. Though the evil Elliot now knows the taste of his mortal blood, Karl has somehow retained the faintest sliver of his humanity. How long will Karl's tortured soul continue to waver between shadow and light? And are he and Elliot doomed to try to destroy one another…for eternity?
*Kyoko Negishi (Author), Sakae Maeda (Original Story)
Tale of a White Night
In a small quiet village – There is a folk story of a beautiful female demon; nobody knows who she is but the locals calls her "Oni." The story has it that she killed people and collected parts of their body to make a perfect human figure. A young man named Sho, is spending his summer with his grandmother and meets Oni while he's taking a walk in the woods. Blinded by his beauty, he is lured into Oni's house… she is about to add his legs to her collection… Nobody can hear him crying for help…
*Tooko Miyagi (Author)
On the other hand, we also present the book that will make you laugh out loud! The cute and funny Itazura na Kiss Vol. 3!
Itazura na Kiss Vol. 03
Kotoko can't believe that her beloved Naoki is moving out of the family house! He's told their parents that he needs to live like an adult and make his own decisions, but how will Kotoko clean up her messes without his (constant) help? Does this spell the end of Kotoko's unrequited love…or will she step up to the challenge of winning her dream man's heart once and for all?
* Kaoru Tada (Author)
Enjoy all three different and fantastic stories!