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One of the biggest rites of passage for a teenager is the acquisition of a driver's license when they turn 16. As parents, we dread that milestone, both because of the dangers of driving, and also because of the annoying sense of entitlement that teenagers are frequently prone to.
With regard to the latter point, a recent discussion over at Pennock's Fiero Forum showed that there are some pretty great kids out there. How great? Well, how about a 12-year-old girl who convinced her parents to let her buy a car with her babysitting money and then spend the next four years fixing it up?
In a posting over at the Fiero Forum, Jerry DiMaria described the start of his daughter's four-year project:
A few months ago our 12-year-old daughter came in and said, "Dad, Mom, can we talk for a minute?" We agreed, and she presented us with something she had been thinking about. She said that she would like to buy a car with her babysitting money. We were like, you are only 12.
Now I should tell you that she is 12 going on 22, but she presented these arguments to us.
1. She would like to buy a Fiero because she saw one at a show and thinks they are cool
2. She makes the argument that it gets reasonably good gas mileage
3. It is relatively inexpensive, so she would be able to afford it
4. She could completely restore it in the 4 years until she turns 16
5. She would learn about how cars work, it would be a cheap education for the money
6. She would only have the capacity to take one friend along with her, so there would be less distraction
7. She wants a manual so she would learn how to drive stick
8. When it is done it would be a cool historic sports car
9. She would pay for it all herself
The discussion thread at the Fiero Forum runs 19 pages long, and covers the progress of the car over the past two years. Father and daughter have both been active in detailing the progress of the project, with lots of photos and discussion of the successes and setbacks along the way. The story has generated a lot of interest, leading to donations of spare parts and other supplies from 3M and other generous individuals.
Also, be sure to check out the nice piece that ABC News did here here on Kathryn. In fact, next time your teenage driver whines about having to pay for gas, show him or her that video...


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Those "whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." The Greek middle classes, who, with inimitable stupidity, voted for the multi-factional neo-communist party of Syriza, deserve their fate. Like Hitler's Nazi party in 1933, a communist party has taken power in 2015, not through revolution, not through the bullet but through the ballot of a moronic electorate that fell victim to the blandishments of populism.
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Dear readers – what follows is a much longer post than I would normally write (& yes, at times I write some quite extensive posts!). This is because the current post constitutes my 'portfolio' to support nominations from my students for an e-learning award offered by my institution. I decided to write the portfolio in this form because blogging is a medium that I feel comfortable writing in, & because it's so easy to add hyperlinks, files etc. (Consequently many of the links lead to my own reflective writing elsewhere on this blog, and to presentations I've given.) Plus I would really very much value feedback & comments – I don't regard myself as anything approaching an expert (or even a journeyman) in this field and I know that my future practice will benefit from your insights.
That said, please do read on!
Technologies such as Moodle, panopto, AdobeConnect & the like allow access to learning opportunities in a much more flexible way than the 'traditional' university environment, and this is going to become more and more important in the future as student demographics change. For example, as the number of people in the 18-25 age group continues to decline while the 50+ cohort continues to grow, then we will need to offer education to 'non-traditional' students and in 'non-traditional' ways. From an institutional perspective, using learning technologies in an interactive way can also help to ensure that we enhance retention and meet graduate profiles. For example, the graduate profile for our BSc says that students can communicate using a range of methods including multi-media (which includes web-based resources and activities), can work cooperatively, and have the skills necessary for self-directed learning: acquisition of all these attributes (plus the more usual acquisition-of-knowledge outcomes) can be supported by learning technologies, particularly those that are interactive.
So then, what does this look like in the context of my own teaching practice? I know some people see me as an 'early adopter' of classroom technologies like these, but on reflection I think my activities in this area have grown organically – much like my teaching career, I suppose.
Moodle and Facebook:
Alison is constantly introducing new ways for us to learn through technology. From educational videos and other resources on Moodle to an accessible Facebook forum for students to share their own passion for biology, she has been experimenting successfully with the digital resources available to teachers at the University of Waikato.
Great at technology, innovative ideas (eg facebook page for 101)
Very helpful both during lectures and tutorials. Very active on Moodle, promptly responds to forum questions, has created a Facebook page for the paper.
(Student nominations, 2014 e-learning award)
I've used Moodle ever since it became available: paper outlines, study guide notes, powerpoints of lectures, assessment materials, quizzes, discussion forums, useful links & readings – it's all there. Once panopto came on-stream, links to lecture recordings went up on moodle as well, thanks to the WCeL wizards. I've always encouraged students to ask questions, join discussions, and post materials on Moodle (I have colleagues who'd rather receive individual emails but honestly! why answer the same question multiple times?) but interestingly, it was the first-year students who were most active in doing this.
However, in the last couple of years I've seen this activity drop right off, and it's been something of a concern. Being asked for feedback on Moodle as part of the University's process of identifying a new student management system really made me reflect more closely on this, partly in light of my own use of other on-line communities (not least of them, Facebook). From talking with students I gained the impression that moodle can be very 'clunky': it takes at least a couple of steps to arrive at a resource, whereas on FB links are right there and obvious. The students complained that they were continually having to log in to moodle during the day, in contrast to remaining logged in on FB, and that they preferred the FB notification system. This got me thinking about how best to use this as an additional way of supporting my students' learning and increasing their engagement. (This is not to say that they don't use Moodle: a recent survey I carried out with our 2nd-year students shows that they clearly do – but they just don't engage to any great extent.)
There's a lot of literature available now about using Facebook to support teaching and learning. Fittingly, I was introduced to some of it through the Ako Aotearoa Academy FB page that I administer, but I've since talked more widely about it with colleagues at other institutions and started delving more deeply into recent publications; for example, Dougherty & Andercheck, 2014 (my reflections on that paper are here), and Kent & Leaver's 2014 e-book, "An education in Facebook?". And I sounded out my students, who were extremely positive about the idea. The result: we have a Facebook page for the first-year biology class, where they regularly post material & start discussions, and where I post course information and questions or polls (all mirrored on our Moodle page), along with links to other, science-based, FB pages.
My thoughts after a semester? Yes, it's a bit of additional work, because notices, polls and so on must be posted in two places rather than one, and because there's the need to interact with other posters. It would be good to see more students there – at present just over half the class is present and at least observing on FB – but (and it's a big 'but'), commenters are far more lively and engaged than on Moodle, which seems to be reserved for 'serious' questions. That engagement is important, as it contributes to enjoyment and performance. Plus there's also evidence that engagement (or lack thereof) with study, with teachers, and with the institution – can affect student retention.
As an aside, the lack of 'personal' feel to many MOOCs is a shortcoming of this method of content delivery; as the author of this blog post has said,
I think most MOOCs are just textbooks for the Internet age. A brilliantly delivered lecture or a brilliantly written book are both good content delivery systems. But without interaction, feedback, and mutual accountability that is all they can be.
We have to ensure we deliver that personal touch!
Anyway, next year I'll be more systematic about my use of Facebook in relation to my teaching, in the sense of examining whether there is any correlation between use of the page and academic outcomes. And I'll use tools like 'question of the week' – on both Moodle and FB – to try to lift engagement further.
I leaped early into the panopto pool, and I've been splashing around in it ever since
Incorporates technology. Records every lecture for panopto and makes good use of moodle.
regular and helpful facebook user. encourages students to get involved in various online activities.
(Student nominations, 2014 e-learning award)
Panopto's a tool for capturing classroom teaching and making it available on-line for students to access whenever they please. I first became aware of it when the University was gearing up for its i-TunesU presence, and decided that the technology had a lot to offer me and my students as a tool to enhance teaching and learning practices. (I am definitely not a fan of technology for technology's sake – it needs to have a pedagogical benefit.) And I've been using it ever since – for lectures, for podcasts, for catching up when I've had to cancel a lecture due to illness. I promote it whenever I get the chance, in tearoom conversation but also at conferences and symposia (e.g. Fun with panopto). (I also use it to review and reflect on my own classroom performance; the recordings are really useful when considering whether something could have been better communicated, although they are certainly unforgiving when it comes to things like mannerisms and use of voice!)
Students certainly value this technology. It gives them the flexibility to balance workloads, manage lecture clashes, revise for tests and exams, and to be absent due to illness or family commitments. Of course, it also gives them the ability to simply skip class and promise themselves that they can catch up later, something the literature shows doesn't necessarily happen. I believe that we (academics) need to be more forthright in communicating with students around this, but that's not to say that we should reduce our use of lecture recordings!
Able to pause and go over things i don't understand. Can also do them in my own time.
For me, Panopto is most valuable during study week for revisiting explanations rather than for catching up on missed lectures.
Usually if I don't watch an entire lecture on panopto it was because I preferred the text-book or other material to the lecturer's style of teaching, or because the lecture recording failed, or because I listened to the lecture on podcast.
(2014 student feedback via surveymonkey)
There's a lot more to lecture recordings than this. They can be used for 'catch-up' snippets – recordings of the slides at the end of the lecture that you didn't get to because there were concepts that needed additional explanations. But panopto also supports more active learning techniques such as flip teaching, where a lecturer can prepare a short recording for students to watch ahead of class, and the actual classroom time is used for group discussions and problem-solving. For a couple of years now I've been running 'Design-an-animal/Design-a-plant' classes (described in the previous link) to consolidate student learning in a fun and cooperative way, during the A semester.
(2013 student feedback: Aspects of the paper that should be maintained)
The design a plant exercise. This exercise ties the knowledge we have acquired in past weeks, producing a
comprehensive well developed understanding of the adaptations and functions of different plants
the "designing a plant" was a great activity that was very interesting and exciting
the flip class which was really fun.
And in the B semester this year we had a session on DNA technology, where the class decided they'd like to hear more about GMOs: I provided short explanatory clips on gene cloning and PCR & DNA sequencing for them to watch ahead of time, so that we could spend the 'lecture' on discussion (and a very wide-ranging discussion it proved to be!).
Furthermore, techniques like this have a clear and significant positive effect on student learning (eg Deslauriers, Schelew, & Wieman, 2011); Haak, HilleRisLambers, Pitre, & Freeman, 2011) and we need to encourage their wider use as we reshape ourselves as a true 'university of the future'.
Educators aren't just using techniques like this simply because the technology has become available. There have to be positive outcomes for the students. I touched on some of these at the beginning of this post, in the context of ensuring that students have gained the attributes we describe in our graduate profiles.
However, another big plus for digital learning technologies is the way in which they allow us to meet the different learning needs of students. (I'm inclined to agree with the author of this post regarding different learning styles, mind you.) For example:
- They really open up the options for students for whom work commitments, or geographical isolation, mean that they can't attend classes in the 'normal' university hours.
- For all students, the ready availability of lecture recordings means that they can review a class, or part thereof, as often as they need in order to gain understanding of concepts and information.
- Students who are ill, or have lecture clashes, or sudden family commitments, don't have to stress too much about missing classes (but see the following paragraph :) )
- The fact that recordings are downloadable as mp4 files means that students can use them pretty much where & when they choose – on the bus, perhaps, or sitting in a comfy chair at home.
- It's easy to incorporate video clips, or even music (albeit with a scientific message) into classes. This opens up a whole new range of resources to use with our students (and breaks up the 'lecture' format, re-energising the classroom). This has occasioned some 'interesting' discussions over the use of such material from other institutions: it's not "our" learning material, and students should be seeing our resources and ideas. This is true, but why re-invent the wheel? If an excellent resource exists, then use it! – and enhance the role of facilitator of learning, rather than simply someone delivering facts.
- Technologies also empower students in ways that we might not always consider – for example, setting up a Moodle discussion forum for anonymous use means that someone who might be too shy to speak up in the lecture theatre can ask their questions, & make comments, in a less-threatening environment.
- And having just attended a session on the use of AdobeConnect, I can see (& will make use of) the potential in being able to set up a 'virtual' pre-exam tutorial, synchronous with an actual class, for students who can't make it onto campus for that particular session: they can see & hear what's going on & ask questions of their own, for example. (It looks like panopto on steroids so I will admit that I'm left wondering what will happen to the latter in the future.)
I feel very strongly, however, that while we definitely need to provide learning opportunities for academic staff around learning technologies, we also need to educate students around their use. Despite the frequent use of the term 'digital natives' in discussion around our students and e-learning, the description really doesn't fit our current cohort particularly well, and there's a very interesting discussion of the term here. (It may be another story when the current crop of under-5s reach tertiary classrooms as many of them have truly grown up immersed in and using on-line technologies. And having said that, we also need to remember that there remain sectors of society who simply cannot afford to access the hardware to enable such learning. How do we enable them?) This means walking the class through what's available on moodle, for example, or how to download an mp4 file of a panopto recording. But it also means discussing with our students – very early on in the piece – the perils and pitfalls of relying on recordings as an alternative to actually being in class eg the frightening ease with which you can fall behind in watching lectures after the event. This should be done with all first-year classes: many of this cohort have difficulty adapting to the different requirements, expectations, and learning environments of the tertiary system as it is and, lacking time management skills, can very easily fall off the wagon – something that has implications for both completion and retention.
She is very helpful and she knows her topic well. Very organised and goes beyond her duty to make sure students are getting everything in order to succeed.I think she is a really great lecturer and has used a range of different tools to help us learn in her lectures such as a drawing tool on the computer and has also created a Facebook page for BIOL102 to make it more interactive and fun to learn for everyone enrolled in the paper.She is a really great lecturer, who makes a lot of effort to ensure her students get all the information they need to learn about what she is teaching. she also takes the time to make sure that students questions are answered, and always keeps in mind that because students have different learning levels, that she gives all the information required.Demonstrates a real passion for what she teaches.(Student nominations, 2014 e-learning award)
e-LEARNING & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
As I said earlier, I definitely don't see myself as an expert in this field! This means that I frequently reflect on my classroom practice and the things I've learned (the focus of many of the posts here on Talking Teaching!), and I take advantage of professional development opportunities as often as I can. In the past I've attended quite a few workshops on various aspects of Moodle (and the on-line support materials are very useful too; thanks, WCeL team!). The university's Teaching Development staff run regular Teaching Network sessions, where participants learn from each other on a whole range of teaching-related issues, & I go to these at every available opportunity. The most recent session, by Alan Levine, introduced the idea of pechaflickr as a tool for engagement and for learning, and that's led me to think about using a pechaflickr session in tutorials, as a fun change of pace but also of a means of checking understanding of particular concepts. Definitely one for next year.
Sharing is good. And so I promote these technologies when I get the chance :) This year I facilitated a session on flip teaching at our annual WCeLfest (where I gained a lot from the participants' feedback), but was also invited to take part as a panellist in a discussion of what our university might look like in a future where distance and blended learning make much more use of digital learning & teaching technologies. And I've previously shared their application at other conferences – in a 2013 discussion around how teachers' roles are changing from disseminators of facts to facilitators of learning, for example. In addition, I led a discussion about MOOCs at a UoW Council planning day earlier this year, which also formed the basis of this particular post.
Learning technologies also have huge potential in terms of outreach to the wider community. For example, since 2005 I've been running Scholarship Biology preparation days for students – and their teachers – preparing for the Scholarship Biology examinations, which has involved travelling to deliver sessions in the Bay of Plenty, Taranaki, Auckland and Hawkes Bay, as well as in Hamilton itself. (I also write another blog, originally intended to support these students and still containing a considerable amount of material that's useful to them and their teachers.) But these face-to-face sessions are one-offs, as it were, so this year I decided to set up a Facebook page so that interactions and support could continue. Feedback from the teachers is very positive. Sadly, the students have not been so engaged on the page, although the teachers tell me their students are definitely using material from the page in class, which is a great outcome from my perspective. I'll leave this one up and running and hopefully, as resources build up and teachers encourage their students to use it from the beginning of the year, we'll start to see some more active student participation. I can also see the value in using AdobeConnect to run occasional virtual tutorials for this far-flung group of students – it would be particularly valuable for those students who are the only one at their particular school sitting this exam, as they'd get the opportunity to interact with others (&, if I can work out how to set it up!) work cooperatively with them to solve problems in an on-line active-learning world.
If you've read this far – thank you for staying with me :) I appreciate your company on what is for me a continuing journey of self-reflection and learning around my teaching practice. I'll be grateful for your feedback – and I do so hope you don't feel you'd have been better off sitting at home in your bunny slippers :)
best wishes, Alison


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Flash Extraction Goes to Work
Winemakers excited about effects on phenolics, flavor isolation
The 6,000-gallon stainless steel tank doesn't stand out much at the Monterey Wine Co., a custom crush facility in King City, Calif., that can process 9,000 tons per year. But the intermittent explosions—pop, pop, pop, every few seconds—get your attention.
This is Flash Détente in action. The French machine—and similar flash extraction equipment developed in Italy and being used in Woodbridge, Calif.—is used to increase the extraction of color and skin tannins, while also reducing pyrazine compounds and the aromas associated with rot and mold. The latter uses proved to be especially handy during the cool, damp 2010 vintage, when mold and rot were problems in many vineyards and, in some cases, late-maturing grapes didn't have the chance to ripen properly.
Flash extraction has been around for more than 10 years and used in Europe, South America, Australia and elsewhere. But the first commercial unit in the United States wasn't installed until just before the 2009 harvest, at Monterey Wine Co. That first year, Flash Détente was used on about 500 tons of grapes, MWC winemaker and general manager Eric Laumann says. He estimates that this year, 3,000 tons of grapes from all over California would undergo Flash Détente—roughly a third of the winery's production. MWC's unit can process 20 tons per hour.
At first, Laumann says, winemakers were "flashing" their grapes to reduce pyrazines. "Now they're using it for everything," he says.
"I've never seen anything as transformative as this technology," says winemaking consultant Barry Gnekow, who has used both the French and Italian equipment.
The Flash Détente equipment is manufactured by Pera, based in Florensac, in France's Languedoc-Roussillon region. The process involves a combination of heating the grapes to about 180ºF and then sending them into a huge vacuum chamber, where they are cooled. The cells of the grape skins are burst from the inside—the audible pop, pop, pop—allowing for better extraction of anthocyanins and skin tannins. Because this takes place before any alcoholic fermentation, the more bitter tannins, particularly seed tannins, aren't extracted. (Because the seeds don't contain water, they don't explode.)
Flash Détente, which translates roughly as "instant relaxation," also creates steam that goes into a condenser, and the condensate is loaded with pyrazines and other aromatic compounds. "Anything with a low boiling temperature will blow off," Laumann says.
Because vapor has been removed, the sugar level is increased in the remaining must by about 6%. The winemaker can work with the higher Brix level, add back the condensate, discard the condensate and add water or a combination. Most discard the "flash water." Smell the condensate and you can see why: Flash water from a load of Cabernet Sauvignon at MWC had a very light pink color and a greenish, acetone aroma.
When the flash process concludes, the must has been cooled to 82º. Then the winemaker has two choices for fermentation. The grapes can be pressed and the juice (after clarification through filtration or a centrifuge) fermented, similar to a white wine. Or, the must can be sent to a tank for a more traditional fermentation with the pulpy skins, usually for five to six days.
Della Toffola's Thermoflash unit at Lodi Vintners, a custom-crush facility in Woodbridge, Calif., uses similar technology, although the process for heating the must is slightly different and the system is more compact. The Lodi Vintners equipment, which the winery owns in partnership with Hahn Estates, can process about 30 tons per hour. Lodi Vintners general manager Tyson Rippey estimates that 4,000 tons would be run through it in 2010. Rippey says he's looking at getting a smaller Thermoflash unit—about half the size of the one in Woodbridge—for Carneros Vintners in Sonoma, Lodi Vintners' sister operation, in time for the 2011 vintage. Carneros Vintners operated a mobile Della Toffola unit with a capacity of about one ton per hour toward the end of the 2010 vintage.
Rippey says the total cost of the Thermoflash in Woodbridge was about $1 million, including installation and infrastructure. Laumann estimates that the Pera equipment, including infrastructure—plumbing, electrical, etc.—was about $2 million.
Paul Clifton, winemaker at Hahn Estates in Monterey County, has battled pyrazines in his red Bordeaux varieties for years. He says that when he and Gnekow first tasted a French Merlot that had been flashed, they also tasted the condensate, which he describes as "pure veg."
"Barry and I looked at each other, and we just thought, 'My god, this is the key.'" Clifton subsequently put all his 2009 Merlot through Flash Détente, after October rains forced him to pick earlier than he wanted. "It saved our Merlot program," he says. He also used it for Merlot in 2010.
Laumann says he's seen the best results on Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir, and Clifton has used it on both. Clifton says he was "blown away" by the results on Cabernet from a high-quality vineyard. "I wish I would've put more through it."
As for Pinot Noir, he has flashed fruit from Lodi and from Monterey County, working in both Woodbridge and King City. Clifton has experimented with several methods of vinification, post-flash. "The stuff that we fermented on skins was really intense," Clifton says. "As a blending tool, it's an excellent option to have." He has also tried adding unfermented Pinot that was pressed right after being flashed to a tank of Pinot that was being fermented traditionally. Although the wine was still fermenting when we talked, he was pleased with the early results, saying that it had good Pinot mouthfeel.
Flash technology differs from traditional thermovinification, because the traditional method doesn't involve a vacuum (no exploding grapes), and there is no flash water produced as a byproduct. Winemakers familiar with both say the tannin extraction with thermovinification is also less. Laumann says that flash does everything thermovinification does, and does it better, in addition to removing pyrazines. "I'm not using (other thermovinification) very much anymore now that I have flash," he says.
Some fear that use of flash extraction may lead to the loss of varietal character, although several winemakers mentioned that flashing the grapes seems to intensify fruitiness. It's a question that researchers at the University of California, Davis, have been studying, using samples from Monterey Wine Co.
Linda Bisson, professor of viticulture and enology at UC Davis and one of the researchers working on the project, says they are looking at what characteristics are lost or retained by grape variety. They are also looking at the character and structure of tannins in flashed wines. Bisson is particularly interested in the effect of flash on Pinot Noir.
Researchers have collected samples of the original must, the flash water and the must after flashing, and they will also analyze wines post-fermentation. The analysis is ongoing, but Bisson says that based on some preliminary sensory analysis, she thinks the process results in more intense but less complex fruit characters. In Pinot Noir, she says, flashing amplifies spiciness but reduces the intensity of any floral notes.
And Bisson adds that even if the end product is less complex, "you've gotten rid of the negative stuff." She suspects that some volatile components will come back eventually, if they exist in a bound (or glycosylated) form. But pyrazines don't exist in that form.
From red to purple
During a harvest-time visit, Laumann pointed to a tank of Monterey Wine Co. Pinot Noir. "This is our marketing tank," Laumann says. He had sent oak dust through the flash process with the grapes—which, he says, helps stabilize the color—then fermented the grapes on the skins. He's shown the wine to a number of winemakers. "Just the color shift" from red to more purple tones "gets them going," Laumann says.
We tasted several samples of flashed Pinot. One, which had been pressed and fermented without the skins, showed a lot of sweet, nouveau-style fruit. Laumann called it "a fabulous blending component." Another sample, which had been fermented on the skins, was dark and structured, but its flavors were unmistakably Pinot Noir.
As for the color, Bisson notes that a stable purple hue in Pinot Noir "in today's market is not a disadvantage." Laumann adds that winemakers looking to enhance the color in their Pinots can flash part of the blend and make a wine that is 100% Pinot, rather than adding a percentage of, say, Syrah. "Who is more of a purist?" he says.
"I would rather have (flashed Pinot) as a blending tool than use Syrah," says Hahn's Clifton.
French research indicates that Flash Détente not only accelerates and increases the extraction of anthocyanins, but wines that have been subjected to the process also hold their color longer.
Given that flash technology is so new in the U.S., winemakers are still trying to figure out its best uses. "Everyone wants a recipe, but that can't happen yet," says Rick Jones, a winemaking consultant who is working with Della Toffola.
In its early years in Europe, the equipment was used primarily for lower quality grapes with problems that needed to be "fixed." Flash offered the benefit of consistency by mitigating the effects of a bad vintage. But use of the technology gradually expanded, and proponents like Gnekow argue that "it's applicable to all levels of the business."
Winemakers still learning
Pyrazine reduction is an obvious use, as is intensifying color in certain reds. It could perhaps be used to create fruitier styles of wine. At this point, winemakers are still learning which grapes will benefit from the treatment and tweaking of fermentation techniques to get the desired results.
Gnekow says he's used the process on overripe grapes to remove a raisined character. He didn't think initially that flash technology would remove those flavors. He says, however, "I have the flash water to prove it."
He has even used flash—thought of primarily as a tool for reds—on Chardonnay and says it seemed to intensify the fruitiness.
"You start discovering all these different options," Clifton says.
Turning flashed grapes into a standalone wine is a possibility, but most winemakers see it as a tool for creating blends. As Bisson puts it, "It's something on your spice rack to blend back with."
But it's not a panacea. Flash extraction won't produce stellar wines from bad grapes. "It's not loaves and fishes. You can't create something that isn't there," Gnekow says.
Instead, like other winemaking technologies, it's a useful tool for specific vintages, specific vineyards and even specific wine programs.
"It's an adjunct to traditional winemaking," Jones says. "It's not a replacement for traditional winemaking."
A resident of the Santa Cruz Mountains, Laurie Daniel has been a journalist for more than 25 years. She has been writing about wine for publications for nearly 15 years and has been a Wines & Vines contributor since 2006.


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The long-running dispute over the ownership of the domain itunes.co.uk is over.
In the summer, one-time teenage dotcom entrepreneur Ben Cohen sought a Judicial Review to try and overturn Nominet UK's ruling forcing him to hand over the itunes.co.uk domain to Apple.
But the judge dismissed the case noting that Cohen's company, Cyberbritain Group Ltd, should have used the appeal process which forms part of Nominet's domain resolution service. And although Cyberbritain sought a further hearing, this request has now been withdrawn and the case dropped completely.
Edward Phillips, Nominet UK's Company Solicitor, said in a statement: "I am pleased that the judge refused to allow this case to continue as it was totally inappropriate and would have been a waste of money and time for all concerned. The Dispute Resolution Service is a Nominet success story and attempts at litigation such as this just distract everyone from the good work it does for small business and registrants."
In March, Apple was awarded control of the domain iTunes.co.uk after the computer firm accused Cohen of cybersquatting. Cohen rejected Apple's allegations saying that he registered the domain before Apple registered the i-tunes trademark.
Apple pursued its claim and took its case to Nominet UK Ltd, the outfit responsible for the issue and regulation of domain names within the UK. Nominet found in favour of Apple.
Defiant to the end, Cohen told us that while he had a sound case, he could not compete against the deep pockets of Apple and domain registry Nominet.
"We just can't compete with Apple and Nominet who have lots of cash. This is might against right," he said. ®


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Deng leads Bulls over Mavericks 101-78
Chicago rebounds after blowing 27-point lead against Bucks Monday
CHICAGO — Luol Deng had 22 points and six rebounds to lead the Chicago Bulls over the Dallas Mavericks 101-78 on Wednesday night.
Five Chicago players scored at least 11 points to help the Bulls (7-7) beat the Mavericks for the fourth straight time.
Nate Robinson came off the bench and added 14 points and six assists for Chicago, and fellow reserve Jimmy Butler scored a career-high 13 points, including 9-of-10 shooting from the line.
Joakim Noah chipped in 13 points, 10 rebounds, five assists and three blocks as Chicago avoided its first three-game losing streak at the United Center since losing five straight from March 1-19, 2010.
Shawn Marion scored 18 points for Dallas, which shot just 35 percent from the field to lose for the eighth time in its last 11 games.


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*This giveaway is now closed. The winner of the cookies is Wendopolis! Well done, Wendopolis! I will be in touch and your cookies will soon be winging their way to you.*
It's been a schizo week. I was very crabby at first, moving to sweet (I had such fun being Guest Buyer of darling baby things for Etsy); and now it's 100% sweetness, my friends.
The lovely Thea of Gumdrop Cookie Shop is offering a pack of heavenly choco-chip cookies to a lucky Crabmommy reader this Val Day. Gumdrop Cookie Shop, you ask? C'est quoi? (Why, yes, I do take every opportunity to show off the fact that I majored in le francais...since I never have used that language since). What were we talking about? Ah! Cookies. And the Gumdrop Shop.
It's this super-awesome cookie shop online where you can order up all sorts of divine things, from uploading your own images and messages to be placed onto cookies in an edible format, to purchasing this scrumptious range called the Van Gogh: these are yummy sugar cookies that arrive frosted in white, with edible markers so your tots can scribble on them and give them away as treats. Clever, eh?
For the sweet and lovey-dovey season, the store is baking up seriously fancy Valentine's cookies, designed by a student at the Parsons School of Design. As my little one would say, they're de-scrumptious! Check it, y'all:
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Val Day Giveaway! Yay!
*This giveaway is now closed. The winner of the cookies is Wendopolis! Well done, Wendopolis! I will be in touch and your cookies will soon be winging their way to you.*
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29 comments:
- B, Esq. said...
pick me!
- January 29, 2009 at 11:04 AM
- mj said...
Majoring in a foreign language and then never really using it again except at totally random moments = awesome! (Mine is Russian. But I wish I knew French.)
Those cookies look deliciously beautiful.
- January 29, 2009 at 11:21 AM
- Unknown said...
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- January 29, 2009 at 11:47 AM
- Unknown said...
My kids need those cookies because they think I'm trying to kill them with fruit smoothies and the like!
- January 29, 2009 at 11:50 AM
- Stacie said...
I so want dem cookies! Yummy!
- January 29, 2009 at 12:13 PM
- Tricia said...
Pretty and yummy!
- January 29, 2009 at 12:29 PM
- cathy said...
Who can resist a cookie giveaway?
- January 29, 2009 at 1:37 PM
- Page Posse said...
Maybe the luck of the valentine is with me!?
- January 29, 2009 at 1:38 PM
Yum cookies!
- January 29, 2009 at 1:49 PM
- Carolyn G said...
Oh my those cookies look fabulous!! I wanna win!
- January 29, 2009 at 2:25 PM
- Jus said...
yum. and pretty too.
- January 29, 2009 at 3:39 PM
- jenarow said...
I want the cookies
- January 29, 2009 at 4:16 PM
- The Mother said...
WAY too pretty to eat.
- January 29, 2009 at 5:19 PM
Don't pick me. I gained weight over the December holidays. And I know darn well I wouldn't share the cookies.
- January 29, 2009 at 5:45 PM
I'd love these, they look so delicious!!
- January 30, 2009 at 7:00 AM
- Lucky Mom said...
Me want cookies, gotta have cookies, need them cookies! :)
- January 30, 2009 at 7:38 AM
- Ellen W said...
Being pregnant removes the guilt of eating cookies..
- January 30, 2009 at 8:31 AM
- Kim said...
- January 30, 2009 at 11:29 AM
- Amber Bare said...
cookies are my favorite food group.
- January 30, 2009 at 12:34 PM
- Muffin said...
delicious. need i say more. yumm!
- January 30, 2009 at 1:42 PM
- Sarah said...
Those look delicious!
- January 30, 2009 at 5:54 PM
- AnnDeO said...
Want em, need em!
- January 30, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Gimme. And am I the only mom who sneaks/hides goodies so that my kids don't get any? (I have a perfect hiding spot picked for those already.)
- January 31, 2009 at 5:39 AM
pick me CM!
Also the first gumdrop cookie link isn't working.
- January 31, 2009 at 8:35 AM
- February 1, 2009 at 9:55 AM
- Alexis said...
Yes, please.
- February 1, 2009 at 9:34 PM
- Sir Thrift-A-Lot said...
Give 'em to me baby, uh huh uh huh!
- February 1, 2009 at 11:44 PM
- Unknown said...
- February 2, 2009 at 7:27 AM
AH Crap!
- February 2, 2009 at 6:33 PM


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A pair of twin brothers has been sentenced for swindling sports fans who paid for out-of-town sporting events, and the pair once played a similar scheme on nearly 200 junior-high aged children in the early 1990s, according to court documents.
U.S. Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced Friday that Anthony "Tony" Casias and Leopold Casias, both from Chicago, were sentenced to years behind bars after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for scamming unsuspecting sports fans using their company, L & T Sports Events, Inc.
According to prosecutors in the case, Anthony and Leopold Casias' scheme comprised of having sports fans pay L & T Sports Events, Inc up front for tickets, transportation, flights, and hotels for out-of-town sporting events.
However, once the fans arrived at their destination, they found they had no tickets or hotel.
To make matters worse, the fans were stranded because the Casias brothers had only purchased one-way tickets.
Instead of booking what their clients paid for, in most cases, the brothers ended up spending the money on themselves.
The brother's scheme knew no bounds as even their mother's rosary group was swindled, according to a comment made by the judge in the case.
Court documents outline nightmare after nightmare experienced by customers who paid in advance for sporting events only to later find they had been scammed.
In one case in November 2011, just over a dozen fans purchased game tickets, flights, and hotels from the Casias brothers to watch the San Diego Chargers play against Chicago Bears in Chicago. Once the fans arrived in Chicago, they found the brothers had paid for a one-way flight, but little else.
In the end, some of the fans ended up finding a hotel and getting into the game after buying tickets from local ticket brokers.
Court documents detail another set of the Casias' victims, a father and son, who were stranded in the Bay Area on New Year's Eve 2011 after they paid in advance to watch the Chargers play the Oakland Raiders.
In this case, the father and son – again left with no game tickets, hotel room, or flight home – ended up having to make the hours-long drive back to San Diego and watched the game on television.
Court documents show the brother's victims were located in several states, including in California, South Dakota, Philadelphia, and Colorado.
The brothers also arranged trips to the annual NFL game in London, England, with which they offered special extensions to Paris and Rome, according to court documents.
Again, sports fans who paid for the trips found themselves stranded, this time overseas, having received nothing more than a one-way flight for what they paid.
While overseas, at least four clients were further scammed by the Casias brothers who used their client's credit cards to pay for other client's trips and also the brother's phone bills and car payments.
The brother's even went so far as to use the credits cards to pay their own delinquent Chargers season tickets, according to sentencing documents.
Judge John A. Houston sentenced Anthony Casias 36 months in prison and Leopold Casias to 33 months.
"This was not a sophisticated scheme. This was an old fashioned, salt of the earth swindle," Judge Houston said in court. "You were heartless. You just didn't care."
Both men were also sentenced to three years of supervised release.
According to U.S. Attorney Duffy, this isn't the first time the brothers have been convicted for scamming.
Public records show the pair was convicted in the early 1990s after they stranded 193 middle school students in Washington D.C. for what was supposed to be an educational trip.
At the time, the brothers were reportedly offering educational trips to the east coast.
Organizers of the student trip raised over $270,000 from parents, students, school officials, and events to fund the trip. Records showed that when they paid the money to the Casias brothers, the pair ended up using the money to fund other trips instead.
A parent chaperon said the Casias brothers callously joined the children and their group at the airport to see them off, fully aware the kids would arrive thousands of miles away in Washington D.C. to find no hotel rooms, transportation, or a way home.
The parent said the students ended up having to stay on cots in military barracks after they found out they had been scammed.
The Casias brothers will appear in court again on Feb. 8 for a hearing to determine the amount of restitution they owe to the victims of the sporting event scams.


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- 1 tablespoon vegetable shortening
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 6 large eggs, separated
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 (12-ounce) can evaporated milk
- 2 (14-ounce) cans sweetened condensed milk
- 3 cups heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon confectionersí sugar
- Position rack in bottom third of oven and preheat the oven to 350?F.
- Lightly grease a 13 by 9-inch baking pan with 1 tablespoon of the shortening. Add 1 tablespoon of the flour to the greased pan and shake it around to coat the entire pan with the flour. Shake out excess flour. Set aside.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, beat the egg whites on medium speed until soft peaks form. Reduce the speed to low and gradually add the sugar with the mixer running, beating until stiff peaks form.
- Add the egg yolks one at a time, beating well after each egg is added.
- In a small mixing bowl, sift together the flour and baking powder.
- Add the flour mixture to the batter in stages, alternating with the whole milk, beginning and ending with the flour. (Do this quickly so that the batter does not lose its volume.) Add 1 teaspoon of the vanilla extract. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and place in the oven.
- Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Using oven mitts or pot holders, remove the cake from the oven and place on a wire rack to cool for 10 minutes.
- In a blender, combine the evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk, and 2 cups of the heavy cream. Replace the cover and blend on high for 45 seconds.
- Remove 11/2 cups of the milk mixture, cover, and refrigerate until ready to serve the cake.
- Pour half of the remaining milk mixture over the warm cake.
- When the cake has soaked up most of the liquid, pour the remaining half of the milk mixture over the cake, and cool to room temperature. Cover and refrigerate until well chilled, at least 4 hours or overnight.
- When ready to serve, beat the remaining cup of heavy cream in the electric mixer until soft peaks form. Add the confectionersí sugar and remaining 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla, and beat until stiff peaks form. Spread the whipped cream over the chilled cake.
- Serve the cake with the reserved chilled milk sauce.
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A Day for Celebration
Today marks 2 years in our new home in the Forest of Dean. The move away from East Yorkshire, family and friends, was planned and chosen, but none the easier for that. But it was the right time and, we hoped, the right place. Somewhere to settle for our retirement. A place where we could walk and become part of a community whilst living in a village surrounded by forest.
It's proved to be everything we hoped for. We arrived in the middle of winter. So far, we've had one day with a dusting of snow and a few morning frosts. Not bad for two years in England. We've discovered over 50 walks we can take from our front door, with a public footpath leading into the forest about 80 yards from the front of our house. The local shop and post office serves our immediate needs and we can reach it most days with a walk through lanes that take us off the road.
There's a medical centre with doctors and a pharmacy; essential as you grow older. The local garage services and repairs the car. There's a decent fish and chip shop, a good hairdresser catering to both our needs, and a local pub at the bottom of the hill. That's just been taken over by new management and food will be served there soon.
The village hall is a hub of local activity, with the drama society putting on a few performances each year; entertaining and comic. I've become a trustee of the charity that overseas the venue and we meet monthly to discuss how we can improve and better use this wonderful facility.
Valerie is a member of the local bowls club and enjoys busy summer seasons, travelling to local clubs for matches with her teams.
The day started at a reasonable hour as I rose just before 08:00 and spent an hour or so in my study, writing the second book in my Generation Mars series. I managed around 1300 words before breakfast. Afterwards, we both returned to our computers and Valerie continued her research for our family trees whilst I turned out another 1200 words for the book and dealt with emails, Facebook, etc.
Just before we were due to set out for lunch, Sid Phelps popped by for our signatures to nominate him as the Green Party candidate for local council elections. He's a local man with plenty of knowledge of the forest, so ideal for the role.
We donned walking shoes, stuffed our ordinary shoes in the small backpack, and set off for the Royal Spring, where we'd booked a table for lunch. It's an interesting walk about 2 miles away, with climbs and descents along tracks, paths, some lanes and a couple of sets of concrete steps.
The sun was occasionally present on our trip up to the pub and we had a good walk, arriving with the feeling that we earned our lunch. A quick stop at one of the outside tables to change our walking shoes for ordinary footwear and then into the bar to be greeted by landlady, May.
We were seated in the porch, with views over the valley of the River Wye, and May brought our bottle of celebratory Prosecco whilst we chose our meals. I indulged in the wild boar sausages and Valerie, who doesn't eat meat, plumped for the day's roast, without the meat, of course. The food was, as always, very tasty and, once we'd finished our wine, we ended with white chocolate cheesecake. Wonderful.
The walk back was by a slightly different route, since we were no longer concerned about the time. A little further but full of interest, even though the sun was now in hiding behind grey clouds. On the way, we popped into the local pub at the bottom of the hill leading up to our house, as some locals in the Royal Spring had mentioned that the new management of the Jovial Colliers were doing a Sunday Lunch tomorrow. Normally, one meal out a week is more than enough for us, but we want to support local ventures, so we went in to book a table. We discovered booking was unnecessary as this is an experimental effort, to see what sort of response they get.
So, another lunch tomorrow. That will see the month out for us as far as meals out are concerned! Whilst there, a young woman arrived looking for the new proprietor, Matt, as he'd offered to help her move a piano into her cottage up the road. He was otherwise occupied and not home, so we volunteered to help as the place was on the way up the hill back to our home. With six of us around the piano, we eased it out of the van and into place in the house, meeting another couple of new neighbours in the process.
Back home and back to the computers to continue our morning sessions. So, a good day.
It's hard to believe we've been here two years. In some ways it seems like only yesterday we made the move and in others we feel as if we've spent our lives here. Looking forward to another interesting year as 2017 unfolds.
14 Responses to "A Day for Celebration"
I really enjoyed reading about this little slice of your life! The scenery is gorgeous, and your descriptions make it sound so pleasant 🙂 I haven't explored the more rural parts of England before, but I once went to the Lake District and was stunned by the natural beauty there. Definitely makes me want to explore places like the one where you live!
What a wonderful day and I applaud your pick for a new home! It seems you made the absolutely right decision and may you keep on walking for years more!
How nice. What a beautiful couple. I loved the pics. I could easily live in a place like that.
Brilliant insight into your lifestyle and English semi-rural life (do I call it that?) in general.
I reckon the bit about the piano removal (mental pictures pinging wildly there!) possibly warrants its own dedicated post.
I read that author J. K. Rowling lived on the southern edge of the Forest of Dean at Tutshill from 1974 to 1983.
Sorry Stuart, but just looking at those landscape photos of yours conjures wild thoughts of a Miss Maple type murder mystery. So many places to hide a body! These twisted thoughts on my part possibly have their origins in the fact I've just finished reading a book on the Moors Murders (1963-1965).
Great pics. Great words. And the photo of you and your wife is such a happy shot. On that note, I'll leave you with a quote about retirement I heard recently, which may or may not appeal –
"When you retire you switch bosses from the one that hired you to the one that married you".
Well done Stuart!
You want to be careful, Stuart. We'll all be following you across there. It looks a truly magical area.


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Do toning belts really work? The answer is yes, but it depends on how you are using it. Generally, it is recommended to use these belts between 10 and 60 minutes every day, though a 20-30 minute session should be effective enough. A study was conducted to see if Slendertone abdominal toning belts would work even without engaging in any physical workout and they did. Does Slendertone strengthen your core? Should I buy the Slendertone Connect Abs; Electrical muscle stimulation is going to strengthen and train your abdominal muscles, promoting growth and development, it will still count if your body fat percentage is high enough for them to not be visible.
How can I lose tummy fat fast? Effective tips to lose belly fat (backed by science). Eat plenty of soluble fibre. Avoid foods that contain trans fats. Don't drink too much alcohol. Eat a high-protein diet. Reduce your stress levels. Don't eat a lot of sugary foods. Do aerobic exercise (cardio) and cut back on carbs, especially refined carbs. Do Ab Machines Burn Belly Fat? The answer is yes. Ab rockers, coasters and rollers are the right kind of machines for burning belly fats. Ab machines strengthen and tone ab muscles and they burn belly fat.
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Hawk Performance will serve as primary sponsor for the No. 2 Team Penske IndyCar at two events and three races in 2014 – the dual race weekend on the streets of Toronto, Ontario, July 19-20 and the series race at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on Aug. 3. The high-performance friction product manufacturer will also be an associate sponsor for the balance of the season and the company's logo and branding will be featured on the front wing of the Team Penske machine driven by Montoya for the remaining 15 races that make up the 18-race IndyCar Series schedule in 2014.
While this marks the first primary sponsorship opportunity with Team Penske for the company that designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of products, Carlisle has been a member of the organization's partner lineup since 2011.
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The Colombian-born Montoya, the 1999 CART champion and 2000 Indy 500 winner, makes his return to American open-wheel competition this season after competing in NASCAR and F-1 for the last 13 years.
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He photographed legends and his pictures have become iconic in American cultural history, but the vast majority of music photographer Jim Marshall's work has never been seen. Since his death in 2010, Marshall's estate has been combing through millions of unpublished negatives. This month, a new book and two gallery shows will debut many never-before-published images from Marshall's coverage of the Rolling Stones 1972 tour, as well as singular portraits of musicians including Johnny Cash, BB King and Joni Mitchell.
The spectacle and energy of live performances are at the center of many of Marshall's photographs–but arguably, it is his quieter shots that make his work special. Marshall got the pictures that others couldn't–sunlight falling on Mick Jagger's face as he peers out an airplane window, a young Bob Dylan crossing a littered New York sidewalk and Miles Davis leaning back on the ropes of a boxing ring. Taken backstage, in hotel rooms, tour buses and homes, these intimate portraits and moments are the result of Marshall's insistence on having total access to the subjects he photographed.
"It's really astounding when you look at the breadth of his work," said Steven Kasher, of the Steven Kasher Gallery which will show Marshall's work in July. "Jim was able to penetrate the inner sanctum and be welcomed both on stage and offstage."
Marshall was also insistent about which of his frames made it to publication. He was a meticulous editor known for being incredibly protective of his work– a quality that helped him to gain the trust of his subjects by never allowing incriminating or embarrassing photographs to be published.
"He had an innate sense and a natural ability to pick a photo that was spot on and that represented the musicians," said Amelia Davis, Marshall's longtime assistant. "He knew his work so well and was also friends with the musicians so he really, I think he felt that he knew what would represent and convey them the best."
Davis is now the manager of Marshall's estate and has spent the past two years going though his massive archive. The decision to release new work, Davis said, came from her desire to share the pictures, which Marshall referred to as his "children," that he had not released in his lifetime. "He was the hardest editor on himself," said Davis. "Going through his work, you find out how incredible it was. I want to celebrate that and share that art of Jim with the world."
Accompanying the release of the book will be gallery shows on both coasts. An exhibit of the Rolling Stones pictures will be on display at Seattle's EMP Museum beginning July 14 and on July 5, the Steven Kasher Gallery in New York will open "The Rolling Stones 1972, Photographs by Jim Marshall."
The New York gallery show will feature a section dedicated entirely to the Rolling Stones work, made up primarily of images that have never been seen before. A second room will display a survey of the prolific photographer's coverage of more than 30 folk, rock and jazz artists. The Kasher gallery will also display a grid of 150 original record covers that feature Marshall's photography.
Looking forward, Marshall's estate would like to continue to find and release new collections of work from the archives. "They're pieces of history," said Amelia Davis. "It's important to share that with future generations."
"Jim Marshall: The Rolling Stones and Beyond" will be on display at Steven Kasher Gallery in New York City through September 8, 2012.
The Rolling Stones 1972 will be released this month by Chronicle Books.


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