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Chris Brown
- 1989
A Little Dancing Brown
Clinton Brown and Joyce Hawkins welcome their son Chris. Influenced by King of Pop Michael Jackson, Brown begins teaching himself to sing and dance at a young age. "I was 11 [in my house] and watching Usher perform 'My Way,' and I started trying to mimic it," Brown tells PEOPLE in 2005. "My mom was like, 'You can sing?' And I was like, 'Well, yeah, Mama.'"
- 2005
Chris' Music Debut
After signing with Jive Records at 15, Brown's self-titled debut album is released. "I hope I can be the next Michael Jackson," Brown tells EW. "He made music that's for every age. It's right in the middle so everyone can have it." On the strength of such hit singles as "Run It!" and "Gimme That," the album peaks at No. 2 on Billboard's 200 albums chart, eventually selling 1.9 million copies in the U.S. and more than three million worldwide.
- 2006
Grammy Acclaim for Chris
Brown receives a pair of Grammy nominations for Best Contemporary R&B Album and Best New Artist, where he is in the company of fellow new artist nominee Carrie Underwood. "I was actually under the weather when I first heard it," Brown, who performs at the Grammys in February 2007, tells Canada's National Post. "But at the same time, I was so amped and excited." The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, is also impressed: "I love Chris Brown. He got down on the Grammys and he's as bad as he wants to be. He's definitely Numero Uno!"
- 2007
Chris Brown Acts Up!
Brown makes his film debut in Stomp the Yard and a three-episode stint on The O.C., where he plays Will Tut, a new kid in the rich Orange County scene, opposite Mischa Barton's onscreen sister, Kaitlin Cooper (played by Willa Holland). "I wanna be a mogul," Brown tells PEOPLE. "I wanna be a singer, actor, entrepreneur, have a clothing line, be an executive everything." In November, he also has a supporting role in the holiday film, This Christmas.
MTV Breakthrough
Although Britney Spears' lackluster performance at the MTV Video Music Awards garners headlines, it is Brown who puts on the best performance. He leaps from table to table, flies over the heads of audience members like Diddy, and even performs with Rihanna. Afterward, Justin Timberlake says, "Whatever Chris Brown just did, reminded me how much I'm getting older, 'cause damn." Brown later tells EW, "I just had a lot to prove. So when I got out there I was like, 'Lemme show you what I could really do'."
Chris Brown's Exclusive
Brown releases his sophomore disc, Exclusive, which peaks at No. 2 on Billboard's albums chart. His single "Kiss Kiss," featuring T-Pain, hits the top spot on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, while his second single, "With You," peaks at No. 2. A Rolling Stone review states that Brown has grown from Usher's "temporary substitute to an undeniably major pop star. He seals the deal with Exclusive, an all-grown-up album on a level with Justin Timberlake's Justified, Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad."
- 2008
Chris Gets Wet with Rihanna
After losing the Best Rap/Sung Collaboration Grammy to Rihanna, Brown is romantically linked to the beautiful songstress. "He's one of my closest friends in the industry," Rihanna told Allure in January. "He makes me feel like a teenager. I have to act and think like an adult so much. He makes me feel young again." In February, the pair is spotted awfully close in a pool in Jamaica.
- 2009
Brown Allegedly Beats Rihanna
Brown and Rihanna are embroiled in a domestic violence drama that results in Brown, 19, being charged with two felonies in the alleged beating of his girlfriend. A week after the incident, Brown says in a statement, "Words cannot begin to express how sorry and saddened I am over what transpired." In June, he's sentenced to five years probation and 180 days of community labor.
Chris Finally Apologizes
Brown finally breaks his silence, publicly apologizing for assaulting Rihanna. "I am very saddened and very ashamed of what I have done," he says in a video message posted to his official Web site. "I have told Rihanna countless times, and I am telling you today, that I am truly sorry and that I wasn't able to handle the situation both differently and better."
Writing on the Walls
After starting his 6-month community labor sentence in Virginia, Brown releases his third album, Graffiti. But the singer soon becomes upset with retailers for allegedly not selling his album, taking to his Twitter account to express his frustration: "I'm tired of this s----. Major stores r blackballing my CD. Not stockin the shelves and lying to costumers. What the f--- do I gotta do."
Photo Credits
BIOGRAPHY (top to bottom): amazon.com; Kevin Mazur/WireImage; John Shearer/WireImage; amazon.com; Roland Henry/INF; Kevin Mazur/WireImage; amazon.com
- Name
- Chris Brown
- Real Name
- Christopher Maurice Brown
- Date of Birth
- May 05, 1989
- Birth Place
- Tappahannock, Va.
- Relationships
Karrueche Tran, ex-girlfriend (2011 to 2014, off and on)
Rihanna, ex-girlfriend (2008 to 2013; off and on)
Jasmine Sanders, ex-girlfriend (2010)


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Refinements and corrections continue to the present day, but some of his fundamental premises have become part of the business landscape. The travel industry is no exception--albeit most people espousing the concept deviate significantly from the standard definitions and describe the ecosystem to meet their unique business objectives.
Refinements and corrections continue to the present day, but some of his fundamental premises have become part of the business landscape. The travel industry is no exception--albeit most people espousing the concept deviate significantly from the standard definitions and describe the ecosystem to meet their unique business objectives.
A few other commentators have observed that a company selling tickets without owning or directly operating the equipment used to fly the routes shouldn't be called an "airline." Whatever PeoplExpress might be, the media miss the point of an experiment so poorly conceived, planned, and operated.
One leased plane--down from two. A schedule with routes from Boston to New Orleans. Very few contingency plans--and inadequate one at that.
If this were a travel agency project, the criticism would be intense.
- PeoplExpress Starts Operations June 30, 2014 (wardellblog.com)
- PeoplExpress apologizes online for weekend delays (wardellblog.com)
- People Express plane hit by truck, leaving Newport News-based company with one plane, delays (dailypress.com)
- Flights canceled today for People Express (dailypress.com)
There's something disturbing about this piece from the Virginian-Pilot (August 12, 2014). The article superficially discusses an apology circulated via Facebook by a senior PeoplExpress executive. The incident involves an air service disruption and the events surrounding it.
Read the piece carefully and then see my thoughts below. I don't believe the image the company tries to create is successful.
PeoplExpress is a strange concoction. I paid a bit of attention to it a couple years ago because Newport News is about 20 miles from where I live. The more attention I paid, the less interested I became. Rather than a brave aviation experiment, PeoplExpress seems more of a case study in failed business planning and development practices.
Here are but a few:
The essential marketing strategy for the company has never been clear, apart from reliance upon what I refer to as the "Doctrine of Cheap Things." This being that, if you sell something cheap enough, some people will buy it, regardless of whether it adds any real value. The on-line travel seller's market is also filled with such outfits.
There are frequent references to the company's customer-friendly intentions, and a "cheap with a smile" attitude, but no one has ever explained how precisely this is going to work. Delivering the same or a similar set of miserable customer services as most every other aviation company, but doing it with a better attitude, seems to be an amazingly shallow strategy. If the company is somehow expecting service enhancements, it's never been clear what these might be, how they will be affordable within a "cheaper is better" business model, and why this approach might be sustainable.
As many others more qualified that I have remarked, the company's fleet and operations strategy simply doesn't make sense. In this context, that which doesn't make sense usually doesn't work either. There are exceedingly rare exceptions, but that's a poor way to plan a business.
The business planning failures are even more striking, especially when you consider them in the context that they do contain some partial logic--but you have to have been there to appreciate it.
PeoplExpress appears to have been contrived by a very small group of people who shared some basic assumptions. None of these appear to have been validated either by the marketplace (one assumes that the service launch in a few days will be part of that exercise), or by adequate research and planning.
One is that there remains some value and goodwill in the PeoplExpress name. I've never met, or even heard of, anyone apart from the management team who believes this. Most travel industry people old enough to remember People Express Airlines have the opposite, or at least conflicted, recollections.
Another is that Newport News is a logical place to base an airline.
In a way, it is. Some commentators have remarked that there is no logic in trying to complete with a perfectly adequate and well-served airport in Norfolk. There is--but only if you live here.
I never fly from Norfolk--never. I'll drive to Richmond, which is somewhat further (and just as well-served), or occasionally to Washington, which is a lot further. The reason is that there is no good way to get to or from Norfolk International from this part of the Virginia Peninsula. It can take 30 minutes, or three hours. There's no way to predict and it's a miserable trip on a good day. That route is notorious in local thought and urban mythology. If there were such things as trolls, local people would be assuring you that they are found in abundance underneath the bridge that forms part of the route that you have to travel.
If you've ever spent an hour in a car stuck in traffic in a tunnel underneath the Chesapeake Bay, you'll understand what I mean.
However true that may be, it's an inadequate business strategy. It's usually a fatal mistake to base strategy on what you personally find appealing--unless you've been able to prove that large numbers of other people happen to agree with you.
The 200,000 or so people in the direct service area for Newport News on this side of the water will probably agree that more service from Newport News / Williamsburg International is a good idea. The million or so people on the other side probably will not. No one has convincingly tested either of these assumptions, by the way.
Early on, PeoplExpress tried to get support from Norfolk to establish its base there--the idea was rebuffed. The company's first business office was in Norfolk.
Newport News is a delightful airport to use because almost nobody uses it. As soon as it becomes busy, it is a far less attractive facility.
All this is why there is a market for good consultants. By that I mean equally aviation and business experts who will look at situations objectively and tell you the truth. There are far too few of these.
PeoplExpress is an idea that is so flawed in concept and execution that it's impossible to rationalize how it even might succeed.
"In this GSA Travel Data Challenge, the public is asked to develop a technology-driven solution using GSA travel data that allows an agency to identify opportunities to reduce costs. As such, GSA challenges the public to create a tool using GSA travel data that could be replicated across government to every agency, using their own travel data."
This exercise is described as "crowdsourcing" in other publications that usually pay little attention to how the GSA administers its travel programs or analyzes travel data--one supposes because the novelty of the approach somehow makes it important.
The Travel Data Challenge raises a number of questions that are equally worthy of some attention. Here are some of the most obvious:
1) The competition offers $35,000 for a winning submission; lesser amounts to other categories totally $90,000 in all. This is but a fraction of what such a solution would likely earn in the open market, which makes one wonder why any established developer would want to participate.
2) Participants grant the government a perpetual, royalty-free license to any and all intellectual property comprising the winning entry. A good deal for government, but a bad deal for a truly innovative developer. While the terms of the contest go on to say that "All other rights of the winning entrant will be retained by the winner of the competition," since the rules also say that "The final tool should be in Open Source Code," we are left to ponder how little those remaining rights might be worth.
3) The GSA has existing contracts-holders for a variety of travel management and analysis products. Why isn't the innovation and creativity the agency desires forthcoming from these presumably well-funded and well-compensated sources? Perhaps the agency should be questioning whether its procurement and program management practices are truly adequate to deliver the sustained innovation it seeks, or if that is not the problem, then whether the incumbent vendors are up to the job?
4) The Organization and operation of the event give the impression that many aspiring participants are unprepared for the task. Travel data analysis and interpretation is a complex and highly specialized field. The agency has provided only the sketch of what it wants to accomplish, and many of the online questions posted on the event site indicate that an understanding of the sources, tools, and objectives of successful travel management are equally barren within the community of interest developers. A much more thorough developer briefing is needed if all sides of the contest are to avoid wasting their time.
This analysis appeared February 24, 2014 in Cornerstone Information System's "Insight & Opinion" section:
You need competent people to help you address technological challenges, but you don't need to be in the computer business. There are enough products and services on offer now, too many developers who don't know what they're doing, and too much imprecision hiding behind innovation.
Because technology is an important part of travel distribution, it's easy to be overtaken by the sights, sounds, and outright glamor of technology. In recent years it's become much easier (though by no means simple) to find investors for technology companies.
We're used to hearing about technology start-ups with modest resources and still more modest ideas, to the point that people start to believe they should be part of the fun.
The Essential Differences
Succeeding as a technology developer is difficult, time-consuming, risky, and costly. While the marketplace makes room for genuinely good ideas, finding them is almost always harder than building them.
I read a recent contribution from a travel technology developer who suggested a few strategies for starting a travel technology venture. Among these were "doing the opposite of what already works," and "recycling old ideas." i
There's a certain logical flaw in basing development projects on practices that, by definition, don't work. The notion of having a genuinely good and innovative idea is something that entrepreneurs frequently neglect along the way.
Nor is it more than a remote possibility that most technology start-ups will succeed. It's true that some start-ups pay big rewards to a few early investors and employees, but most simply spend their early capital without delivering more than the most trivial results and products.
There is a significant difference between having what seems to be a good idea and transforming that idea into a commercially practical product or service. Most travel technology products, web sites, and related gadgets accomplish very little and quickly fail the consumer's "why should I care" test.
Although this may seem to be a heretical view, most travel technology is neither good nor useful--never has been. Apart from the handful of start-ups who are struck by the lightening of unanticipated success, most travel distribution success stories are told by people who had the rare talent of discerning between what works and what doesn't.
Travel is a service business and successful participants in the industry must never lose sight of their customers and what they really want to buy. Understanding and correctly answering that question usually means the difference between success and failure--and is the essence of delivering customer service.
Travel customers, as an example, want to take vacations, do business in distant cities, visit their families, and a variety of other things. They don't want someone to give them data, collect their data to give to someone else, or offer them pointless Amazon-like product suggestions because of past purchases that are no longer relevant.
I've frequently observed that almost nobody in travel distribution delivers customer service, or is able to do so. ii We're so obsessed with recycling old ideas and focused on what our customers have bought that we can't discern what they will buy, and therefore act accordingly.
Here are my own ideas for you to consider as you look for ways to employ technology as a business tool in travel distribution, and profit from it. They may sound simple, but effectively putting them into practice is sufficiently challenging to assure their competitive merit.
1) Become The Best User Of Other People's Tools
Skilled travel industry managers decide what their business goals are, how technology can help them reach those goals, and what partners have the requisite expertise to make that happen. They then move forward with those partners and don't let themselves be distracted by short-term events and new but irrelevant ideas.
I've been CIO of multinational travel and transportation companies more than once. It was always a challenge to convince other parts of management that being the best user of tools that other people build can be as much, and often more, of a competitive advantage than was our own technology.
We want to believe that access to proprietary technology in itself creates an advantage, while we overlook the expense and risk creating that technology imposes and assume that we can succeed at maintaining and enhancing it.
In most instances using technology and what it provides well is more important than proprietary tools. Your competitors are usually not good technology managers, and you can exploit opportunities when they assume technology risks that you don't have to.
2) The Best Tool Is No Tool
Technology is attractive and we are conditioned to believe that the solutions it delivers work better, last longer, and are more efficient than answers we find elsewhere.
The secret here that takes experience and insight to understand is that many problems "solved" through technology were really unresolved management problems that could have been cured more efficiently in other ways--or the problems never existed in the first place.
Look for business opportunities and solutions that don't depend upon new technology developments and you're ahead of your more development-inclined competitors.
3) Seek Scarcity, Then Exploit It
Forget recycling old ideas. If you're looking for technology-driven opportunities, you'll find them where people have demonstrable business needs that are not addressed in other ways.
These are difficult to find and still harder to develop, but unless you're counting on that bolt of lightning, they are the only reliable path to successful products.
There's plenty of scarcity, in ideas, management, products, and customer service throughout travel distribution to provide more than enough profitable opportunities that don't depend upon starting a technology venture for entrepreneurs with the foresight and skill to pursue them.
Not Quite That Special
Here are a few final questions for you to consider:
- When was the last time you heard a law firm say that the "LexisNexis" user interface isn't what it should be, so it's time to build our own legal database search engine?
- Do you know of an accounting firm that is developing software because Oracle, Microsoft, Best, or SAP have nothing to offer and don't understand the company's unique business objectives?
[i] Alex Bainbridge, EUREKA! Where Could Your Travel Startup Ideas Come From?, (Tnooz, February 3, 2014).
[ii] As many times as I've made that observation over the last 20 years, I've frequently been told what a shocking thing it is to say. I've almost never had anyone question whether or not it was true.
"There is a long standing belief in business that people performance follows the Bell Curve (also called the Normal Distribution). This belief has been embedded in many business practices: performance appraisals, compensation models, and even how we get graded in school. (Remember "grading by the curve?")
"Research shows that this statistical model, while easy to understand, does not accurately reflect the way people perform. As a result, HR departments and business leaders inadvertently create agonizing problems with employee performance and happiness."
Read Josh's complete, and very interesting, comments here.
Its business case has never been fully or adequately developed. No one has ever successfully demonstrated, using adequately supported data and research, that Open Booking (to the degree it is described and understood) even works, financially or operationally.
Some of our colleagues also claim too much for Open Booking. There is a tendency to believe that Open Booking is inevitable because there are serious flaws and failings with how travel management is conducted. Open Booking is not the sole alternative--there are equally, if not more valid management techniques that can be employed.
It's one choice among many, and based upon the answers that are available it isn't a very good choice. It would be great if more solid information were forthcoming, but even asking questions carries its own challenges.
Here's an experiment for you to consider.
While the setting is intended to be light-hearted, the issues discussed are quite real and the responses are all based upon incidents in my own experience with the Open Booking Question.
Pick any of the national, regional, or larger local travel management companies that specializes in business travel, or an on line travel agency with the same specialty. Call someone from the sales department, introduce yourself and your company, and tell them that you'd like a few questions answered.
Begin by asking for a detailed explanation of how the would propose to handle your business. Respond to their questions directly and intelligently, and listen to their explanation. You may not like what you hear, but you'll be told in sometimes painful detail how their operation works and where you fit in.
Ask all the difficult questions you want that reflect your real concerns, possible issues and contingencies you may have heard about, and criticisms of their process that you may have heard from competitors or read in the trade press. Typically, answers will be immediately forthcoming or a quick follow-up call will offer clarification.
Then, pointedly ask how they will "prove" to you that their service is any good, how it is cost-effective compared to their competitors, what evidence they will provide as to their ongoing purchasing efficiency, and how they can project and measure your savings. Remember to ask where their data come from and why these are accurate.
Without much hesitation, you'll probably be told about benchmarking, reporting tools, econometric models, and various gadgets and systems that the person on the phone is convinced are just what you want.
Some of the answers you will receive will be interesting, others quite inventive, and still others less so--but the point is that you will get answers. These are legitimate inquiries and the business development area within travel distribution is happy (even anxious) to address them.
Try the same process on someone who is anxious to talk about the inevitability of Open Booking (or Managed Travel 2.0) and the benefits that idea provides.
You'll be challenged to get a comprehensive description of how Open Booking works, largely because no one has adequately defined the operational details and how they apply in the real world. People have their own ideas but there is no shared view--and the experts create explanations as they need them.
Even though Open Booking has been a popular topic for some time, difficulties continue to pop-up that no one has thought through (see here for example). The list of questions that should have been considered and have not is long and tedious.
You're likely to learn that Open Booking is a concept that you must apply in ways that suit your own situation. Patiently remind the person that, if this is true, Open Booking has descended to the level of how you've been handling your travel for the last 40 years, and suggest that the proverb "there is nothing new under the sun" may also be true.
Remind them that the apostles of the Open Booking doctrine want the industry to adopt it as a premise for doing business, as an overriding concept that reshapes how managed travel is understood in the current century, and as an inevitability brought about as a result of how traveler attitudes and expectations have been reshaped in the Internet age.
In such a toplofty setting, some comprehensive definition, description, and attention to detail is not too much to ask.
Next, take a deep breath and ask your contact to prove to you that the operational system they have described to you (to the degree this has happened) can and will work, that they have considered all relevant details, and that sustainable savings (offset by any costs and business risks that you might incur) have resulted in other settings and will result for you.
Remember to insist on clarity as to where the data come from, how reports were developed, and why they are accurate. Don't be content with unsourced figures pulled at random or comments from published materials with an equal lack of transparency.
Your spokesperson will likely be affronted at your having the temerity to ask such questions. You may be informed that "proof" is unreasonable and impolite, and that countless satisfied travelers are enjoying excessive (but unspecified) savings and satisfaction through Open Booking, so it is up to you to join their happy throng.
Such requests for "proof" will likely be dismissed by comments such as "that's what the marketplace is doing."
As you politely close the conversation, a gentle reminder that it is the "marketplace" that just asked the question may be in order. When the call is over, you might also reflect upon how long a TMC that gave a similar answer would remain in business.
What Have We Learned?
I'm not sure why many observers are prepared to give Open Booking "a pass" in settings where other parts of the travel distribution system are held to a much higher standard.
This may be because Open Booking sounds technological or scientific, that they are beguiled by its promises that amount to the benefits of managed travel without much of the work, or that it's simply (at least for many) an attractive and new idea.
Open Booking is none of these things. It is essentially the same complaints and objections to managed travel that have been wandering about for decades, now in a new suit of technological clothes, with the promises that gadgets, web sites, and reporting methods have succeeded in changing human nature.
Travel buyers should rightly expect better answers to how Open Booking works, how real-world problems can be affordably addressed, and the financial benefits it delivers (in all instances using better data and analysis than has been forthcoming thus far).
Advocates of Open Booking should consider it their obligation to provide nothing less.
Open Booking, lacking better evidence, simply doesn't make sense. Because many people believe Open Booking to be a good idea, I'd have thought that an adequate, specific, detailed business case would not only be easy to produce but would have been forthcoming long ago.
I'm anxious to see it.
"Open booking presents a serious legal problem that no one has yet touched on: By allowing employees to use the public websites and mobile apps offered by suppliers and online travel agencies, travelers and their employers waive all of the contractual and other legal rights that they normally have under U.S. law."
Read his article at:
Corporate travelers surrender rights with 'open booking' - Travel Weekly
"AT LAST, it seems, something is to be done about the dysfunctional way America's patent system works. Two encouraging events over the past week suggest the patent reformers are finally being heard."Complete article here.
An interesting piece that credits much of the current patent mess to miscalculations by President Carter in the 1970s.

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JohnnyCsah: In answer to your question, they settle to sidestep the prospect of losing, ostensibly to avoid the bigger sum that would result from a loss. Usually, howver, that's just hooey and the so-called litigators don't litigate at all. They file stuff, talk trash, and settle becuase it's not their money they're doling out. It's OURS!
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Bullhead ? Why does the agency always settle ? Let it go to court if you followed the law
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Gotta love living in WV. I may pay a fortune in taxes, but the entertainment value is priceless. This is what 80 years of one party rule "buys" you.
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The first very wet winter in four years is upon us! This year's El Niño, caused by elevated surface water temperatures in the South Pacific, is expected to bring about heavy rains and cooler nights. El Niño rains promise a limited replenishment to our water-starved soils…..if we can keep the water from running away! Fortunately, the rains that we've had so far have been wonderfully easy, with a handful of daily accumulations totaling not more than 0.9 inches. Since July 1, 2015 we've recorded 8.3", over 2" more than this time last year! What does this mean for the vineyards? Those frequent, light rains allow the soil to slowly absorb the water, which, over time, help to flush out the salts that have accumulated from the prolonged drought. Our concern over heavy downpours at Adelaida is that the steep slopes will simply allow the water to run off, carrying with it our valuable topsoil. To combat this possibility, just before the first rains began to fall we planted lots of peas, beans, white and yellow mustard, daikon radish, and triticale to build up the biomass of our soils. Right now, the vineyards look beautiful with lots of greens and colors, and we know that we've done as much as we can to work in stride with Mother Nature.
The 2013 harvest was the earliest on record for Adelaida due to low winter rainfall and steady warmth throughout the growing season. Total yields were about average and quality was excellent. At this early stage, with most of the wines still completing their secondary fermentation in barrel, the reds are deeply colored and the whites are showing great richness and vibrancy.
This year was our first farming organically. The dry conditions allowed us to limit the number of passes we made in the vineyard to control fungi, and, even with those drought conditions, we severely limited irrigation to occasions where the plants would have suffered without it.
On August 19 we picked the first fruit of 2013: A small amount of Chardonnay, Pinot noir from 6 rows in the northeastern part of our HMR vineyard, and syrah from our Viking vineyard. Simply put, the fruit was ready to come off the vine. By way of contrast, and as a demonstration of the effect of temperature on harvest date, in the cool 2011 vintage, we picked the first Chardonnay on September 19, the first HMR Pinot noir on September 23, and the Viking syrah on September 21.
Our final pick of 2013 was muscat for our dessert program from Bobcat vineyard on November 11. We made two passes in the muscat, the first being clean fruit with high sugar and relatively more acid (31 brix) and the second with a little botrytis (at 33 brix). The botrytis infection was limited because of dry growing conditions, and we hope to see more in 2014.
We brought in significantly less zinfandel and cabernet sauvignon in 2013, much to our disappointment. The cabernet berries, in particular, were very tiny, and the Viking vineyard, which was planted in 1991, showed its age by not producing as much fruit. But what that vineyard lacked in fruit quantity it made up for in quality.
The zinfandel vines from Michael's block, named after our stellar ranch manager Michael Whitener, bore the combined effects of drought conditions and dry farming. The fruit struggled to reach its typical sugar levels, and we made several surgical passes throughout the growing season to balance the amount of fruit with the vine's ability to ripen it. We're happy that we did, as the wines so far show great finesse and spice.
In between the first and final picks, we saw much to admire in 2013. The red berries had thick skins, which they synthesized as a result of several environmental and cultural factors, including sunlight, temperature, shoot positioning and low rainfall. The resulting wines have great color and extraordinary tannin. The whites grapes benefited from cool nights, which helped retain their acidity, and careful farming, which kept leaf cover over the fruit to minimize sun damage. Our switch to night harvesting in 2013 kept the fruit nice and cool when it arrived at the winery.
As of June 28, a high pressure system has settled on the entire West Coast, and weather experts are forecasting several days of high heat and possibly record-breaking temperatures. With that projection in mind, and with seeds beginning to harden and veraison on the near horizon, we decided to give the plants some water.
While we employ a technique known as deficit irrigation to control shoot growth and increase grape quality, we want to keep the plants alive. Over the next several days we'll continue to feed the plants enough water to counterbalance evaporative losses.
These early-season high temps are preferable to those that occur late in the season, as the intense heat induces the green grapes to make sunscreen in the skins, which will provide protection throughout the summer.
When the heat recedes we'll finish our cluster thinning pass, which we began several weeks ago. This involves culling excessive clusters and those on weak shoots with an aim to balance the fruit load to the age of the vine, its size, the size of the canopy, and the size of the shoots.
With the strong belief that the best wines come from the best fruit, we have begun making a series of major investments in all of our vineyards (HMR, Anna's, Viking, Michael's and our newly planted vineyard.) Our two key goals are that every bottle of Adelaida wine represents our vineyards and that our farming practices ensure the long-term vitality of the vineyards.
For starters, we are doing away with herbicides. While convenient, cheap, and certainly effective in the short term, herbicides are unnecessary at best and at worst they disturb the natural habitat of beneficial insects, among other things. To combat weeds, we have purchased a cultivator that cuts weeds in the vine rows without harming the plants.
Next, we are looking to build up the soil health by choosing cover crops that match each ranch and each soil type within each ranch. The cover crops will provide nutrients, erosion resistance, and a home for beneficial insects. As part of this program we will introduce organic compost into the vineyard in the winter.
We are taking a closer look at vine nutrition. As the saying goes--and with some caveats--struggling vines make great wine. This adage has its limits, of course. We don't want to kill the vines, but we also don't want them fat and happy. So, we will be measuring the vines' uptake of nutrients at critical points during the growing season—bloom and veraison—to determine whether they require supplemental micronutrients. And we will also be measuring how much water the vines are seeing by using a pressure bomb.
In the spring of 2013 we planted 23 acres of new vines comprising Zinfandel, Alicante Bouchet, Grenache and Carignan. They are on a steep hillside facing south. We will head-train these plants—that is, they will grow up without a trellis-- and we will farm this area without irrigation.
Finally, we have retained Daniel Fischl of Eartrumpet Consulting to help guide us to reach our goals. Daniel is an experienced viticulturist with clients in Australia, China, Italy, Israel and Napa. His current and former clients include Screaming Eagle, Harlan, Bond, Aubert, Peter Michael, and David Abreu.
We're excited about the way the 2012 wines are developing. While their baby fat is still very much present, the wines reflect in their underlying richness and precision the nearly perfect growing season of the vintage. Not only did warm temperatures return after two consecutively cool years, but yields were up, too.
Rainfall between November and April (when the bulk of the annual precipitation occurs) was slight, especially in contrast to the previous two years, but not critically so, and there was rain into May. We saw budbreak first in our Upper West Block of Pinot noir, followed closely by Syrah and Grenache in Anna's Vineyard. Budbreak finished in the Lower Viking vineyard with Cabernet Sauvignon.
From the end of May into June daytime temperatures were in the 80s and 90s, with occasional spells of heat, which led to even and successful flowering. July temperatures were unusually erratic, with some days in the 70s followed by days that eclipsed 100. Fortunately, the nights were largely cool, which allowed the vines to recover.
The return of seasonably warm days (compared to 2010 and 2011) snapped veraison—the period when the skins soften, sugars accumulate and, in the case of red varietals, color pigments known as anthocyanins are synthesized-- back to its normal schedule.
The heat continued into August, in which we recorded two weeks over 100, but our top-notch vineyard crew stayed on top of thing and metered out enough water to keep the plants transpiring. September was virtually perfect, with warm days and cool nights and only a handful of hot days.
On August 29 we harvested Syrah from Viking Ranch vineyard as our first pick of the year off the estate. From that point on, the action was non-stop for six weeks, as the vineyard and production crews worked tirelessly to bring in fruit at its optimum and process it in time for the next pick. By the time we finished our last estate pick—Picpoul blanc, on October 18—and our last off-site pick—Carignane from Camp 4 in Santa Ynez Valley--we were exhausted but also elated by the vintage's prospects.


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There are a lot of television shows involving criminal investigations and murder. The public must love them otherwise there wouldn't be so many. I have to admit that I've been sucked into a few of them. I've seen:
Foyle's War
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The Shield (We no longer have this one)
The Closer
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The Jesse Stone Series
Over the weekend I picked up season one of "Criminal Minds" on dvd. This show follows an elite team of FBI criminal profilers that specialize in creating detailed profiles of criminals after a crime as taken place in a local community. They are called the "Behavioral Analysis Unit" of the FBI. What's interesting is that this really does exist! Despite what you might think of profiling, this show does an excellent job of showing how profiling helps catch criminals quickly. There's a lot of law enforcement jargon in the show, but they reveal what it means in subsequent episodes. So, if you're into police shows and criminal investigations, here's another one to check out. See the trailer below.
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President Obama delivered a $3.7 trillion dollar spending plan to Congress. The budget blueprint includes cuts to popular entitlement programs and tax hikes on the wealthy. Sally Kidd reports from Capitol Hill.
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"WTF? you suck shit man!"
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an entry point to a room for those...of special intelligence, or of great altitude and velocity.
dude...the Retard just "dropped" in...through the ceiling!
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What your wife is contemplating changing the color of while you have sex with her.
Becky considered 7 possible color changes to the ceiling during the 42 seconds that her husband spent "making love" to her.
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He proposed putting a 3 hour ceiling on gaming time.
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Sabres announcer Kevin Sylvester is used to being on the sidelines calling games.
On Friday, he'll be taking center stage as one of eight local celebrities matched with a professional Western New York dancing studio in "Suneel's Celebrity Gala," a ballroom competition modeled after "Dancing with the Stars."
"It has been quite the challenge – like learning a foreign language. I basically had the John Travolta disco moves or the 'running man,' where you stand and run in place – that was pretty much the extent of my dance moves," Sylvester laughed.
But after being paired with Paula Iacono of Iacono Dance Studio in Amherst, he said he's much better prepared. "I don't think I'm going to embarrass myself," Sylvester said. "Actually, we have been working very hard, and Paula has been extremely gracious in putting the work in and being very patient with me."
The event, which runs from 6 p.m. to midnight at Statler City, is a fundraiser for Suneel's Light Foundation, a local nonprofit committed to raising money for research into treatments and a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The neuromuscular disorder, characterized by a progressive weakening of the muscles, is the most common lethal genetic childhood disease.
The foundation is named for Suneel Ram, now a 10th-grader at St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute. It was founded by his mother, Dr. Neera Manning of Williamsville. "There are wonderful developments happening scientifically and pharmaceutically, and from a clinical trials perspective, and I feel all the approaches are really coming together," Manning said. "It's an exciting time – I think we're on the brink of some really big developments for our boys."
Suneel is more focused on school – and his new passion of being an announcer for freshman football and basketball games. He even got to call a bit at a Niagara University hockey game recently.
"Suneel loves announcing because he's part of the team. That makes a big difference in how someone feels, if they feel a part of things and are contributing," Manning said. "St. Joe's has been wonderful to Suneel."
Suneel was awarded a "Golden Mic Award" at the school's recent sports banquet.
Attorney David B. Smith, the event's co-chairman with Lihann Jones of Iacono Dance Studio, praised the dancers and their trainers as they go through their final paces learning four ballroom dances before Friday's event.
"They have gone above and beyond the call for this very important cause," Smith said.
Buffalo Zoo Director Donna Fernandes, who is teamed with Arthur Murray Dance Studio in Amherst, said she's ready to give it her all for a good cause. "I'm a little nervous, only in that no one wants to look really foolish. I have no prospects of winning, but I just don't want to look stupid. I said to my instructor, just make sure I don't look embarrassed," Fernandes laughed.
WIVB Channel 4 anchor Diana Fairbanks, paired with Fred Astaire Studios in Williamsville, said she's looking forward to the event.
"It's going to be a great venue. When would you have the opportunity to do something like that at the Statler? It's going to be gorgeous," Fairbanks said. "Dmitri, my partner, is very stern but also very well mannered. He has very high expectations that I'm not sure I can deliver on, but I'm trying."
Also participating are Maryalice Demler, WGRZ-TV Channel 2 anchor; Joel Giambra, former Erie County executive; Dave Jickster, 97 Rock FM radio personality; Stephanie Matczun, Buffalo Jills director and part-time host of AM Buffalo on WKBW-TV Channel 7; and Aaron Mentkowski, WKBW-TV Channel 7 meteorologist. Former Rep. Kathleen C. Hochul will serve as one of three judges.
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A male version of a fashionista. A male devoted to fashion clothing, particularily unique or high fashion.
Neil Alvin is a fashionmista
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The male version of the fashionista.
A man who loves fashion.
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Yo' check out that fashionmista - he's working it big time!
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Adam Levine
- 1990s
Musical Roots
Born in Los Angeles to parents Fred and Patsy, Levine forms his first band, Kara's Flowers, while attending L.A.'s prestigious Brentwood Academy with best friend Jesse Carmichael. The group plays local bars and children's birthday parties before making a demo in 1996 that helps them land on an episode of Beverly Hills, 90210. The band eventually morphs into Maroon 5.
- 2002
Love & Loss
Trading college for open mic nights, Levine falls for "the most beautiful girl" he's ever seen. Though the relationship doesn't last, the singer pours his heartache into music. "When we broke up, my heart was broken. I didn't have money or a job. All I had was a girl I was in love with and the dream of being a famous musician," he tells Paper magazine. "I was like, 'I need to turn this into something good or it's going to be a bad thing.'" The result is Maroon 5's debut album, Songs About Jane, which is re-released in October 2003, making its way into the top 10 albums chart.
- 2004
Going for Gold
Following the success of their singles "This Love" and "She Will Be Loved," Maroon 5 picks up their first Grammy Award for best new artist. "These are my best friends, and this is the trippiest thing I've ever gone through in my life," Levine says in his acceptance speech. A year later, "This Love" earns the quintet their second statuette for best pop performance.
- 2007
A 'Long' Shot
After collaborating with Kanye West on the hit "Heard Em Say," Levine and Maroon 5 release their sophomore album, It Won't Be Soon Before Long, which climbs to No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The album also produces the No. 1 hit "Makes Me Wonder," which earns Maroon 5 their third Grammy for best pop performance.
Man About Starlets
With his heartthrob status on the rise, Levine gains a reputation as a ladies' man, reportedly romancing Cameron Diaz, Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Simpson and Maria Sharapova. Though he neither confirms nor denies the women he's involved with, he admits the rumors about his lifestyle are true. "There are two kinds of men. There are men who are f––king misogynist pigs, and then there are men who really love women, who think they're the most amazing people in the world. And that's me," he tells Details. "Maybe the reason I was promiscuous, and wanted to sleep with a lot of them, is that I love them so much."
- 2010
A Model Romance
Sparks fly between Levine and Russian-born model Anne Vyalitsyna, whom he meets at a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue release party. "He knew what he signed up for," the Victoria's Secret Angel tells PEOPLE of her sexy career, adding, "He has a million girls drooling over him." Following more than two years of dating, the pair calls it quits in April 2012.
- 2011
Reality Bites
Levine joins Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green and Blake Shelton as a judge and mentor on the singing competition The Voice, which becomes a surprise hit for NBC. "This has been one of the coolest experiences of my life, and I've had a lot of cool experiences," Levine tells Rolling Stone of the reality show.
- 2012
Buddying Up
With his Voice success, Levine finds a new friend in country costar Shelton, and their "bromance" lands them on the cover of PEOPLE. "We started [complaining] about something early on, and I was like, 'I love this guy. He's as much of a pain as I am!'" Levine says of Shelton, who adds, "It's just like we're sitting around the bar, making jabs at each other."
New Girl
Three months after splitting with Anne V, Levine steps out with Namibian model Behati Prinsloo. The pair is spotted enjoying a romantic dinner and hand-in-hand stroll through New York City.
Oh, the Horror!
Levine makes his small-screen debut on FX's American Horror Story: Asylum, starring alongside Jenna Dewan-Tatum as one half of a married couple who set out on their honeymoon to explore the country's most haunted locations. "I'm slightly apprehensive, because I don't know if I want to watch myself," he tells The Daily Beast of the show's notoriously graphic content, explaining, "I don't like that kind of stuff. It bugs me out."
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A while back we had a thread about those that were raised by hoarders, had family members that were hoarders, or grew up in a generally cluttery environment. I commented on there that my Grandmother was pretty much a hoarder and my mom was not much better (very cluttered). While I am better then both of them by far I feel like I never developed the skills to keep a neat clutter free organized home.
So I have a few "hot spots" that I know are a problem that I would like to start with and wanted to see if I could get some input/help. Maybe even some pictures of how you do it. LOL, maybe I will get brave and post some pictures of my cluttered unorganized hot spots later tonight.
Hotspot 1. The paper. So so so much paper comes into the house, the mail/bills, the school notices, homework, art projects, etc etc etc. I feel like there are just stacks of it everywhere. I have all these great ideas for it BUT it is just so overwhelming to get it done since by now there are (in some cases) years of it. Like papers to keep and kids artwork.
Bills and important papers: What do you keep and what do you toss? I used to say a years worth of bills. But now that everything is pretty much online I am thinking about keeping nothing except important tax papers and warranty receipts. Is this nuts?
Kids art: How, Where, and What do you keep? Your going to think I am nuts. I even keep some of the little doodles/ silly sketches DS makes because I want to scan them and put them in a photo book.
The dreaded paper piles: Admittadly some times I don't have time to open the mail or read through the kids shool stuff, so it piles up. Then the piles so damn big its intimidating and then I fucking move the pile, like into a box in my room to deal with later (stupid I know). So give me healthy habits to STOP this.
Hotspot 2. The mud room. The coats,shoes, hats, gloves. and outdoor gear and toys....etc. We don't have a closet near our front door but we do have a large mudroom, BUT its un-heated. I have put hooks and bins in there but it seems the bins always end up over flowing and the shoes and coats always end up in the middle of the floor where we trip on them. Help!!! What do you neat freaks do about this crap.
Hotspot 3 Tupperware, dishes, water bottles etc: All I can say is too much, way too much to organize. But whats the right amount? I feel like each water bottle is "special" in its own way and one for each person would not be nearly enough. Would it? How many tupperware containers? Do you store the lids together with the tupperware or seperate? How many dishes, glasses, mugs, etc do you have? Do you think that dishes/kitchen stuff should follow the same rules as your closet, if you haven't worn it/used it in 6 months (or was it a year?) then toss it or store it somewhere else?
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The Apple Macintosh portable line of computers. Many think of them as sleek, thin, stylish, powerful, and long-lasting.
My PowerBook 140 from 1991 is still alive and kicking on the internet, through our broadband modem!
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When it was introduced in 1991, it was one of the most revolutionary designs of the time for laptops, with a trackball between the user and the keyboard. Later PowerBooks were the first with 16 Bit internal stereo and trackpads in the portable consumer market. Nowadays they are extremely powerful, and hold their value quite well.
My PowerBook 100 from 1991 starts in 10 seconds and shuts down in 1 second. Dang that's fast.
von joe bob 26. Februar 2005
Easily the sweetest notebook computer ever made.
What the hell is that dude that is fucking beautiful.
Its my Powerbook
Its my Powerbook
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i got my new powerbook!!!11
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Trustees Release Annual Report
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Hi All,
I am implementing ecc-pi-mdm, all configuration is done, but when sending multiple records from ecc to mdm, only 1 record is reaching to mdm.
what could be the problem, which configuration is needed.??
Nitish Sharma
Dear Jun
why you are always so much exited, you can ask in a good manner, isn't it??
yeah ecc send out data and data reach to pi, the thing i want to ask is, is there any configuration needed in ecc or pi to deal with size of an idoc. May be this is the problem.
Nitish Sharma
Hi Nitish,
First please check the file which PI is sending to MDM in the port folder.
If the file has multiple records try to manualy process the file using the same map in import manager.
Revert back your findings.
Neethu Joy
Dear Neethu
I tried with manualy import also with import manager, but i can see only 1 record coming again and again.
Nitish Sharma
Hi Nitish,
Ohkk so the file has only one record and i guess this is the pattern in which system is configured to send one file-one record at a time.
If you want to process all records together then as per your scenario setting needs to be done in PI where in for a cretain limit PI will wait to reach a count or some time and bind all the records from different file into one file and will process it but again it depends your specific scenario .Consult with PI consultants.
Neethu Joy
Hi Nitish,
Whats the extraction method?
One way to control this from Block size mentioned while extraction.
One more question,do you mean 1 file is reaching MDM or many files are coming in but only 1 record is getting created?
I am sending multiple records in 1 idoc. files are reaching mdm but only the first record is being sent from PI. I can see all the records in the file in PI but not in MDM.
HI Nitish,
This strongly suggests that the xsd node is not unbounded,which should be to hold many records.
Check the node which is expected to be repeating.
Lets say you want told multiple vendor records then LFA1 segment defined in xsd should be unbounded or maxOccurence should be something like "9999" etc.
Kindly let me know your findings.
Hi Nitish,
Please update.
Hi Nitish,
Kindly update or close the thread.
Hi Nitish,
It is remarkably surprising that you could not update or close the thread while being one of the most active members in recent times.
Hope to see you as active in your posts as in others.
Hi Ravi
I am also surprised to see such things from top contributor like you......
by the way i already mentioned in my other thread (you can check) that there is some maintenance work going on server, so i am not able to work on it for now.......i'll update as soon as maintenance is over......Thanx to show interest in this thread.....
Nitish Sharma
Hi Nitish,
Thanks for the update.
Its not about points rather about communication.
If you see the flow of posts above you will get what I meant.
Hi Ravi
I can understand.....as we both are giving our best for this solution....i'll update ASAP.......thanx......
Thanks Nitish!
I really appreciate that.


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First we take a look at the IRM admin GUI where we can see the application user _HotFolderApp having the "Sealer" Role in the Public context. This means in short that this user has all the rights to be able to seal documents to the Public context. Next, we see how we start the Hot Folders application and finally we drop a new document into the HF-Public folder and we see how the documents gets sealed automagically!
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Each sang three songs: a pick from Idol creator Simon Fuller, a contestant's choice and the original song that would be the crowned champ's debut single.
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"Your soul comes through when you sing at the piano," said Lopez. "It makes me feel things I've never felt," while Urban called her a "trailblazer" and "true artist."
Johnson chose to re-sing "Maybe I'm Amazed," which Connick originally called "phenomenal," but the judges felt was a bit less than this time around, saying it lacked heart and emotion.
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And so it all came down to a single song, which was as different as each performer.
Irene's original "We Are One" was an up-tempo pop-dance tune that Urban "loved" and said was "perfect" for her, while Connick stated it was "just as strong as when you did it in the studio."
Johnson's winner's single, "As Long as You Love Me," was, of course, a rock song that had Connick comparing the two singers to Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali, saying it was "a puncher vs. a boxer."
"I'm dying to see what happens tomorrow night," said Urban, while Lopez concluded, "Good luck, America!"
Who will take the title? Tell us who you think will be the next American Idol in the comments below.
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