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Sangiovese from Tuscany, Italy
Winemaker's Notes
Intense ruby red color, a wide range of fruity aromas on the nose with nicely expressed hints of liquorice and ripe blackberries. The palate is very well-balanced and complex with good acidity, elegantly backed up by the fruit. When released the Badia a Passignano 2005 was very stylish and well-rounded with characteristic integrity and distinctively lingering throughout the tasting.
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The Wine Advocate - "The 2005 Chianti Classico Riserva Badia a Passignano is a rich, dense wine loaded with dark fruit, new leather, tobacco, earthiness, smoke and sweet spices. This juicy, plump red reveals excellent persistence and a long finish in a surprisingly concentrated style for this vintage. The wine can be enjoyed today or cellared for a few years for readers who prefer more tertiary complexity. The Chianti Classico Badia a Passignano is Sangiovese that spends 14 months in French oak. Anticipated maturity: 2009-2015. "
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The Antinori family of Florence, one of the world's oldest and most distinguished wine producers, has lived in Tuscany since the 14th century and celebrated its 625th anniversary as wine makers in 2010. The current company president, Marchese Piero Antinori, believes in the tradition that the primary role of wine is to accompany food and enhance the dining experience. In Florence, the Antinori family has led a "Renaissance" in Italian wine making by combining long traditions, a love of authenticity and a dynamic innovative spirit. View all Antinori Wines
About TuscanyView a map of Tuscany wineries (TUSS-can-ee) Sangiovese. Most of the wine coming from Tuscany is made from some clone of this varietal, but a growing trend, started by the renegade winemakers of those Super Tuscans, is to incorporate more international varietals.
Notable FactsThe most well known sub-districts of Tuscany are Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano (note that Montepulciano here refers to the local village, not the grape variety found in the Italian region of Abruzzi). Wine labeled from these regions is DOC-regulated and Sangiovese-based blends. Quality wine from these DOC areas has been on the rise for decades, with top-notch winemakers and wineries shedding the low-quality image once held for Tuscan wine by producing consistently outstanding bottlings that range from deliciously drinkable to highly ageable. Newer to the scene are regions like Bohlgeri and the Maremma, home to of what are now termed "Super-Tuscans," named for the wine coming from the Tuscany area, but not following all of the DOC or DOCG laws required in Italy. In the 1970's, some pioneer winemakers began buying land outside of Chianti and Montalcino, and planting not only Sangiovese, but also international varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. The wine they produced only fit into the lowest Italian category of "vina da tavola," but the winemakers sold the wine for high prices, creating an almost cult following, and spurning a new wine category called IGT.
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For regions, the most popular are Tuscany (home of Chianti), Piedmont and the Tre-Venezie, which includes Veneto, Trentino Alto-Adige and Friuli. Other communes of note are in Southern Italy, and a few good wines are made elsewhere in the country. The islands of Sardinia and Sicily are members of the Italian winemaking community as well.
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Ron Lieber had a well-reasoned "Your Money" piece in the NYT that discussed the merits and pitfalls of buying a home with a low down payment. However it may have misled readers about the findings of the research.
It noted that some people have raised concerns about the risks of default on low down payment mortgages (it linked to a post by me) and then it referred to others disputing that low down payments are associated with higher risks, using "fresher data." The fresher data in question is a study by the Urban Institute which actually shows a strong inverse relationship between the size of the down payment and default risk for every year analyzed.
For example, in 2001, people with strong credit scores (FICO above 750) had a 0.2 percent default rate if they put 20 percent or more down on their house, their default rate was six times as high, 1.2 percent, if their down payment was between 3-5 percent. For people with low credit scores (below 700), the default rate was 2.2 percent with a down payment of 20 percent or more, it was 5.1 percent for a down payment between 3-5 percent.
The comparable numbers for 2007 were 4.5 percent for people with strong credit scores and 20 percent or more down, compared to 13.5 percent for people with strong credit ratings and 3-5 percent down. For people with low credits scores, and putting 20 percent or more down, the default rate was 20.9 percent compared to 30.6 percent for those putting 3-5 percent down.
The way the study implies a weak relationship between down payment and default risk is by comparing default rates for people who put between 5-10 percent down and people who put 3-5 percent down. Since almost all the the people in the former category are putting just 5 percent down, the study is effectively telling us that the default rate is not much higher if people put 3 percent rather than 5 percent down. This is probably true.
Due to Japan's national debt, which is well more than twice its GDP, Japan's children are burdened with interest payments that are close to 0.8 percent of GDP. That sounds pretty awful right? How are the kids going to be able to make it?
If the sarcasm isn't obvious, then you need some basis of comparison here. The interest burden in the United States is now 1.4 percent of GDP. When our children were really being crushed by the burden of the debt back in the early 1990s the interest burden peaked at a bit more than 3.0 percent of GDP, a bit less than four times Japan's current burden. In fact, the figure of 0.8 percent of GDP overstates the true burden since much of this money is paid to Japan's central bank and then refunded to the government.
The prompt for this discussion is an article in the Washington Post about the prospects for Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his economic program, now that he has called snap elections. To get an assessment of the impact of Japan's debt on the welfare of future generations the Post turned to Kayoko Kamiya, who is identified as "a 43-year-old housewife."
"Well, we are only shifting the burden to my children, so it's tricky, ... Raising the tax [a consumption tax increase that had been scheduled to go into effect in April, but now has been delayed by Abe] earlier would make things at least easier later. I feel unsure if it's right that the current generation doesn't take care of the debt."
The piece also tells us that the bond rating agencies (yes, those people who rated subprime mortgage backed securities as Aaa) are threatening to downgrade Japan's debt. It might have been worth pointing out that the financial markets appear to disagree with the bond rating agencies. The interest rate on 10-year Japanese government bonds is 0.40 percent.
In a piece providing an assessment of the economy's performance under Abe, it would have been worth noting that Japan's employment rate has risen by 2.2 percentage points since Abe took office at the end of the 2012. This would be the equivalent of adding more than 5 million workers in the United States.
This piece wrongly asserts that Japan has been in a deflationary spiral over the last 15 years. This is not true. It has consistently had very low inflation rates that did in some years turn negative. However, the deflation rate never exceeded -1.0 percent and it has not accelerated, as would be implied by a delfationary spiral. The basic problem in Japan is the same as in Europe, the inflation rate has been too low over the last two decades.
The NYT seems intent on hiding the elephant in the living room. Yesterday it gave us a piece on why men are leaving the labor force, today it gives us a piece on why women are leaving the labor force.
Both articles raise some interesting and important issues. The article on women and work in particular gives an excellent discussion of how most other wealthy countries are far ahead of the United States in providing support for working mothers in the form of paid family leave, paid sick days, and affordable child care. (These are all areas in which CEPR has done considerable research.)
The failure of the United States to meet the needs of working parents largely explains why so many countries have passed the United States in the percentage of prime age (ages 25-54) women who are employed. This figure now stands at 69.9 percent in the United States. By comparison, it is 78.4 percent in Denmark, 76.1 percent in France, and 72.0 percent in Japan.
But the failure of the United States to meet the needs of working parents doesn't respond to the headline of the piece, "why U.S. women are leaving jobs behind." The answer to this question is very clearly the state of the economy. After all, the employment to population ratio (EPOP) for prime age women peaked in 2000 at 74.2 percent, coincidentally the peak of the business cycle. After the stock bubble burst and threw the economy into recession in 2001 the EPOP for prime age women declined. It bottomed out at 71.8 percent in 2004 and then started to rise as the economy began to create jobs again. It peaked at 72.5 percent in 2006 and 2007 and then tumbled to a low of 69.0 percent in 2011. Since then it has inched up gradually as the labor market has begun to recover from the downturn.
Anyhow, it is good to see the NYT draw attention to the failure of the United States to provide adequate support for working families which leads to unnecessary hardships for both parents and children. But it is seriously misleading to imply that the causes of the drop in employment of women in this century can be found anywhere other than the failed macroeconomic policies originating in Washington.
In other words, U.S. women are leaving the labor force because Alan Greenspan and other financial regulators and the economics profession were too incompetent to recognize an $8 trillion housing bubble. And they are leaving the labor force because Washington politics are dominated by a cult of balanced budgets. This cult is so powerful that even the politicians who know it is nonsense are scared to challenge it. Washington politics is also dominated by powerful interest groups (e.g. Walmart, General Electric, the financial industry) who benefit from an over-valued dollar and don't care about the millions of jobs lost due to the resulting trade deficit.
Anyhow, these macroeconomic forces are not really questionable. Unfortunately they are rarely discussed in the media. Stories like the one today and yesterday badly mislead the public by largely ignoring these forces.
A NYT article on a change in other countries' attitudes towards the United States role in global warming negotiations seriously understated the basis for other countries' anger toward the United States on this issue. It referred to reactions to President Obama's inability to get Congress to pass a law to reduce greenhouse gas emissions:
"the United States went back to being viewed as the world's largest economy and largest historic greenhouse gas polluter, refusing to change course."
Actually, if the United States were just polluting in the same ratio to GDP as other wealthy countries that would be an enormous step forward. However, we have taken few of the steps that Europe has done over the last four decades to reduce energy consumption. In addition, because we have taken gains in productivity growth rather than leisure, we emit more than twice as much greenhouse gas (GHG) as people in western Europe, even though we have comparable living standards.
If it were just a question of the U.S. emitting a lot of GHG because we are the world's largest economy, those concerned about global warming would be much more pleasantly disposed toward the United States.
The NYT had an interesting piece on the decline in employment rates among prime age male workers. While it discusses many of the causes of this decline, it missed the most obvious: policy decisions that have depressed demand in the economy. Many readers of the piece may wrongly believe that the current low employment rate is primarily the result of a long-term trend. This is not true.
From 1979 to 2000 the employment to population ratio (EPOP) fell by 2.1 percentage points. If it had continued this pace of decline, it would have fallen by roughly 1.4 percentage points since 2000. In fact, it has dropped by 5.1 percentage points. The most obvious explanation for this more rapid rate of decline is weak demand. The weakness of demand is in turn caused by a decision to keep down the size of the budget deficit and to sustain an over-valued dollar. These are both policy decisions made in Washington that have nothing to do with the character and skills of the workers who do not have jobs.
It's also worth noting that wages for the jobs that these men may be able to get would be considerably higher if the government decided to run a high employment policy. As Jared Bernstein and I show in our book, wages for those at the bottom of the income distribution are strongly influenced by the unemployment rate.
I apologize for a bit of a digression here for personal reasons (my wife has chronic Lyme disease), but if you'll bear with me, I think I can make some connections. The immediate prompt for this post is a snide article in Slate by Brian Palmer, warning readers that, "New York is about to change its medical misconduct law to protect quacks."
The "quacks" referred to in the article's sub-headline are doctors who provide long-term antibiotic treatment for people who have chronic Lyme disease. As the article tells us, chronic Lyme does not exist:
"The Infectious Diseases Society of America—the association of scientists and clinicians who study this sort of thing—has repeatedly characterized chronic Lyme disease as 'not based on scientific fact.'"
It's great that Palmer can be so confident of this assertion, but it turns out that the evidence is far weaker than the association of scientists and clinicians who study this sort of thing might lead you to believe. There are actually very few studies that have tried to evaluate the effectiveness of long-term antibiotic treatment of people who believe themselves to be suffering from chronic Lyme.
As explained in an analysis by Brown University researcher Allison DeLong, one of the studies was poorly designed so that it would have been almost impossible for it to have found a significant effect from antibiotic treatment. A second study did find evidence that treatment alleviated symptoms, however this finding was dismissed because the symptoms returned after the treatment stopped. (Effectively this study was testing whether six months of treatment would cure patients, some of whom had years of prior treatment. It really shouldn't have taken too much background in science to know the answer to that one would be no.)
The third study actually did find statistically significant evidence that treatment improved patients' outcomes by its main measure, a survey on fatigue. However it dismissed this finding because the researchers decided that the blind nature of the study had been compromised. When surveyed after the fact, 70 percent of the control group wrongly guessed that they had been treated. However two-thirds of the treatment group somehow recognized that they were being treated. Therefore the researchers decided that they could not accept the results, since the people in the treatment group knew they were being treated.
I'm not making this up. You can find the study here. It was published in a major medical journal and its negative findings are routinely cited by doctors arguing that chronic Lyme disease does not exist and long-term antibiotic treatment is pointless. (If you haven't figured it out yet, the study found exactly what you would want in the comparison between the control and the treatment group. The same percent of people in each group thought they were being treating. This means that the blind nature of the study was not compromised.)
Thomas Edsall has as interesting piece this morning discussing the changing plight of working class whites in the United States and their increasing estrangement from the Democratic Party. He gets much of the story right. Certainly they can no longer be assured of a comfortable middle class existence. And, if they do manage to get middle class jobs, they certainly cannot guarantee that their children will be as lucky.
However some of the argument is misplaced. Edsall notes the sharp growth in single mothers among women without college degrees. He then refers to research showing worse outcomes for children of single parents, implying that the problems for children stem from the increasing ability of parents to get divorced. This does not follow.
To take the simplest story, imagine a world in which no one is allowed to get divorced. Some children grow up in happy families with two committed parents. These children are likely on average to do well in life. On the other hand, some children grow up in dysfunctional families where parents regularly fight and a father may be abusive, alcoholic, or have other serious issues. These children will probably on average do less well in life.
Now suppose we allow couples to divorce. Presumably the happy couples stay together and the unhappy ones get divorced. If we compare outcomes of the children we would likely find that the children raised by two parents do better than the children raised by single mothers. However, it would be wrong to conclude that the problems for the children of single mothers stemmed from the fact that they are divorced, it would stem from the fact that they had been in bad relationships.
Given that divorce and single parents are a reality, the obvious policy response is to ensure that children get the education and support they need regardless of their family background. Good public child care, access to pre-K education, and affordable college education seem like obvious policy responses to these circumstances, along with laws that guarantee family friendly workplaces (e.g. paid sick days and paid family leave). These are policies that the Democrats have typically advocated.
The other set of policies for the white working class that the Democrats could (and sometimes have) advocate have to do with full employment. As Jared Bernstein and I argued in our book, Getting Back to Full Employment (download is free), full employment disproportionately benefits those at the middle and bottom of the wage distribution. The only period in the last four decades where these workers enjoyed sustained real wage gains was in the period of low unemployment from 1996 to 2000. Barring other changes in the economy, we will have to return to unemployment rates below 5.0 percent before most workers will again see substantial real wage gains.
There are three policies that the Democrats can push to again get the unemployment rate down to these low levels. The first involves additional government spending which would boost demand, growth, and employment. Unfortunately, superstitions about budget deficits makes this unlikely in the foreseeable future.
The housing bubble was apparently too far in the past for many of the people writing about housing to remember. Part of the problem was that many borrowers got loans that they were ill-situated to repay.
One of the factors that is a strong determinant of whether people will be able to pay a mortgage is the size of the down payment. The equity from a down payment serves as a cushion in bad times. It also reduces the risk to lenders, since this is money they stand to recover in the event of a default.
The NYT misled readers about the relative risk from low down payment loans in an article on the decision by the government to allow Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase loans with just 3 percent down payments. The piece cited several commentators saying that the risk of defaults would not increase substantially by lowering down payment requirements.
A study by the Center for Responsible Lending found that the default rate for loans with down payments of between 3 to 10 percent was 6.8 percent. This is 45 percent higher than the default rate it found for mortgages with down payments of 10 percent or more. The gap would be even larger of the comparison was restricted to those with down payments between 3 to 5 percent, with mortgages with down payments of 20 percent or more.
It is dubious housing policy to encourage moderate income people to take out mortgages on which they are likely to default. Furthermore, since the median period of homeownership among low income homebuyers is less than five years, a relatively small portion of households who are able to buy homes through this policy will accumulate any substantial amount of wealth. By contrast, the policy is likely to help the banking and real estate industries accumulate wealth.
In response to the questions in the comments, the study did not directly give the 57 percent figure, you had to back it out from the numbers they did give. According to their data, the additional low down payment mortgages raised the overall average from 4.7 percent to 5.2 percent. In order for this to be the case, the default rate on the additional mortgages had to be 6.8 percent -- in other words, 45 percent higher than the higher down payment mortgages.
In fact, assuming their analysis is like every other analysis of default rates, it found a strong inverse relationship between the size of the down payment and the default risk. The likelihood of defaults for those putting down 3-5 percent is probably close to four times as high as those putting down 20 percent. I think it's great to help low and moderate income people get good housing. But this policy is about helping banks get their bad mortgages insured by taxpayers.
One more point, it is a lie to say that this is an issue about people being able to get a mortgage with a low down payment. This is an issue about people being able to get a government guaranteed mortgage with a low down payment. We are talking about people paying a higher interest rate that reflects the actual risk associated with their mortgage.
Correction: An earlier version had put the difference at almost 80 percent due to an arithmetic error. Thanks to Bill Sermons, at the Center for Responsible Lending for calling the error to my attention.
Catherine Rampell's column on Uber is well worth reading. The basic point is very simple and should be obvious. There are good reasons for regulating cabs. They should have proper insurance, meet safety standards (both car and driver), and should also be limited in number. (Cabs create congestion and pollute.)
Whatever regulations are established should apply across the board. Uber doesn't get an exemption because it is run by incredibly rich twenty somethings.
Sorry, I usually find Matt's stuff interesting, but I couldn't resist the cheap shot. Anyhow, Matt seems to have gotten himself stuck in the mud of a silly debate between Obama haters and Obama apologists.
The haters are saying that all the jobs created under the Obama administration are part-time jobs -- pointing out that full-time employment is still below the pre-recession peak. Meanwhile the apologists are pointing out that most of the jobs created under Obama have been full-time jobs. With the wisdom of someone other than Solomon, Matt pronounces them both right.
Okay, let's step back for a moment and deal with two separate issues. The first is overall employment. We saw a huge fall in employment that began before Obama stepped into the White House and continued for his three months in office. Since that point the economy has gained back more jobs than it initially lost. However since part-time employment (both voluntary and involuntary, a distinction to which we return momentarily) is well above pre-recession levels, full-time employment is still below its pre-recession level.
How should this appear on the Obama scorecard? Well, it's pretty damn silly to blame Obama for the downturn. He walked into an economic disaster that was not of his doing. We can argue that the recovery should have been more robust. I know the Republicans blame Obamacare, taxes, regulations and the Redskins' defense, but none of these explanations can pass the laugh test.
The more obvious explanation, which some of us did say at the time, is that the stimulus was not large enough to fill the hole in demand created by the collapse of the housing bubble. There is a question as to whether Obama could have gotten more stimulus through Congress, either at the time or in subsequent efforts, but the main problem was congressional opposition, not the actions of President Obama.
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Help! Asparagus Ferns making me nuts!
We had a landscaper who installed plants when we first moved in. Everything is pretty tightly spaced and the looks very cluttered. To top it off, after searching for info in the plant he used for ground cover for a large area in the front of our house-they're asparagus ferns. Florida seems them an "invasive" plant! Now I know why-it looks like a big bushy mess!
What can I do? Cut them all the way down and hope they look a little more groomed/less cluttered? Pull some out and cut down? Or pull all of then out and start over? Don't want to pay for more plants, but if these things are a real booger, I would rather start again with something a little easier to maintain...
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You could try giving it a haircut periodically. However, if you really don't like it, dig it out soon and get all the roots and the tan ovalish things underground. I understand not wanting to waste the money so I recommend putting them in pots where bushiness is ok and you can control them.
Until you decide what to replant, just cover the area with mulch. You may decide just to leave it unplanted, especially if it helps with the "cluttered" look.
Thank you for the advice! I am thinking that I'll try to cut them way back and see how they look. If it doesn't help (or it just looks weird!) I'll remove them and may, as you suggest, just mulch the area. It's right by our front door so of course it's bugging me!
Thanks again!
Putting them in a pot won't control their spread. When they drop berries, you'll have new plants sprouting around the area. Would you be able to add a pic of the spot in question? It would be easier to make a specific suggestion about it that way.
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Here is a pic of the area--sorry... it's not the best quality, but hopefully you can see the ferns! You cant see in the pic, but there on ferns also on the other side of this same walkway-all leading up to the front door. (PS I really don't know much at all about plants/gardening! Our installer tok all of the little tags from the plants with him :-/ DO you happen to know what kind of plant that is right behind the ferns? I'm wondering if I need to prune them back for fall...Thanks!
Yes, that pic helps a lot. Looks like the house/front door is off to the right?
The little shrubs may be azaleas. If you can take a closer pic & put a post on name-that-plant forum, they will help you figure it out. Those shrubs are probably enough for that area, should be much bigger in a few years. They may be a bit crowded, depending on what they are, IDK.
The a-ferns look like they would still be easy to dig up, hopefully haven't dropped berries/seeds yet. I would definitely do that. Then buy a couple bags of mulch to re-cover the area. The pic may be deceiving but it looks like a very thin layer. Thicker mulch will help prevent weed seeds (that are dropped by birds or blown in with the wind) from sprouting *as much,* as well as keep the soil from drying out as quickly, and add tilth and fertility to the soil.
While the shrubs are still small, you could put something (where the a-ferns were) like a bird bath, shepherd hook with hanging pot, large urn pot, annuals (which in your area would be one thing for summer, then traded for something like mums, pansies, snapdragons for winter,) or something perennial (lives indefinitely) like creeping phlox which kind of looks like a chunk of grass and makes a 'carpet' of cute little flowers in the spring.
Not sure which way this is facing, how much effort you want to make in the future, if there are any big trees nearby, the amount of light and time of day that it shines on that area would help folks know what to suggest more specifically if you did want other plants there.
Shrubs ID'd as Pittosporum.
The small spot of a-fern in the first pic here looks easy to dig up. The other spot pictured in the other discussion probably has a lot of roots from the palm, hopefully but unfortunately. I might smother all of that instead of trying to dig, even if I wasn't concerned about slicing up a bunch of roots of my palm tree. It looks like adding anything would raise the level above the bricks. Not a visual problem, IMO, but the runoff from the bed area could stain the bricks, and even move the mulch onto the bricks in a heavy downpour. It looks like hopefully the rain would flow from brick into bed?
If so, this is what I would do. Get large pieces of cardboard with no tape, staples (but easy to remove if it has these,) or glue, which usually needs to be cut off. Cover the a-ferns completely, and about a foot out of their area, overlapping well so it can't get through, on all sides that aren't brick or grass. Then cover with enough mulch to cover it and hold it in place. If you weed-wack the a-ferns first, it will be easier for the cardboard to lay flush with the soil surface. After it's covered with mulch, moisten it lightly, then walk all over it, to eliminate any space the a-ferns could use to keep growing. They now have no space or light. As long as this smother isn't disturbed until they are dead, and nothing escapes through a rip, crack, or edge, that should be the end of the a-ferns. I would do this ASAP, before berries show up, then not disturb until after uncovering a small test plot next year.
If you have access to some more of the same bricks, I might consider adding one more brick-high around the edge of the bed. Keeping a few inches of mulch saves a lot of hassle with quantities of weeds, as well as keeping landscape from dying in times of less rain. But you don't want to have to sweep it back in bounds constantly, or stain the bricks.


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Can sweet potatoes grow in straw like Irish potatoes?
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I was thinking of planting sweet potatoes in a big, half whiskey barrel, but it would be awfully heavy/messy to tip over the barrel and not crazy about having to reach in up to my elbows to dig them out by hand.
I'm trying Irish potatoes in straw this year since it sounds a lot cleaner to harvest that way... has anyone tried the same with sweet potatoes? Or any other suggestions to make harvesting easier?
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A wide variety of the most popular Latin styles of dance are taught at MLD including Salsa, Bachata, Samba and Reggaeton. Our classes are taught by our team of friendly and well trained instructors at our centrally located studio in Richmond.
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A typical village woman, Y. Anjamma draws a blank if anyone asks her about her age. Crime and investigation are too big words for her to understand.
But she strongly believed that her husband Y. Narsimhulu, was innocent when the Nallakunta police arrested him two months ago on charge of murdering a couple in local Padma colony. With the Narayanaguda police arresting another person, Ramachandra Rathore, in the same case recently, the poor woman's stand gained strength.
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Narsimhulu's son, Yadaiah, who discontinued studies after Intermediate, says his father was in their house on the intervening night of July 2 and 3 when the double murder was committed. "He woke up around 5 a.m. and left for our Veerlapally village in Ranga Reddy district on some work. If my father killed the couple, why did not sniffer dogs even enter our house," he questions.
Arrest of Narsimhulu, a building watchman earning Rs. 3,000 a month, came as a rude jolt to his family. While his wife and elder daughter Manjula work as maids, the younger daughter Roja is in fifth standard.
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Risk allocation should be at the center of every construction contract negotiation. Conscientious owners, contractors, subcontractors and design professionals should attempt to limit their own legal exposure by shifting duties, obligations and liabilities to other parties in the contracting chain, as leverage allows. Continue »
Risk Management: A Blueprint for Success
The correlation between risk and reward is fundamental in business and certainly a concept with which contractors are all too familiar. However, understanding the need to formalize the risk management function inside the contractor's business varies immensely. Continue »
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Things aren't the way they used to be when it comes to obtaining surety bonds. The days of a contractor requesting a bid bond and receiving immediate approval are long gone, and the annual check-in meetings with surety companies are a thing of the past. Continue »
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Clauses providing for the precedence of one contract document over another, in the event of conflicts between them, are common in construction contracts, considering that the contracts incorporate promises found in many different "contract documents" that are drafted from different perspectives for different purposes.
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"A Risky Business" is how the May 2014 issue of Construction Executive labeled the industry in an article providing three stakeholders' perspectives of risk management. Why is risk so pronounced for subcontractors, and what can they do to manage it?
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Subcontractors that use plans sent via email, or downloaded from a project Website, may be risking responsibility for extra costs if the plans prove to be incomplete. They also may be transmitting confidential information embedded in the electronic records that is not intended for public viewing. Continue »
Subcontractor Default Mitigation and Recovery Strategies
Subcontractor defaults are seldom expected yet remain a serious risk for general contractors to manage as part of a successful construction project. Generally, they occur when a subcontractor fails to meet its contractual obligations. Financial insolvency is among the leading cause of subcontractor defaults. Other hallmarks cited for defaults include the inexperience of the subcontractor, over-extension on other projects, and lack of effective business systems and practices such as estimating or accounting.
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Subcontractors Should Preserve Claims for Schedule Changes
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If you particularly, have the Canon 5D Mark III, you'd probably soil your pants when we tell you that a team of developers have figured out how to enable HDR video on your camera, and yes, you can do it right away. The feature is called Dual ISO, and before we get into it, first, a little background.
As great as the camera may be, there is always scope for improvement and there is a bunch of developers at Magic Lantern who swear by this philosophy. They have been working extremely hard at developing a custom firmware that will take the 5D Mark III to the next level, and a few weeks ago, they finally managed to do so.
The first version of the Magic Lantern Firmware for the 5D Mark III was released as what the team calls a "nightly build," a highly experimental version of the firmware not even qualified to be considered a beta. The firmware, which runs through the SD card (in this case) is a soft-mod, meaning it does not permanently alter any firmware code that Canon writes to the camera's ROM.
Major Disclaimer Alert – If You Don't Read This, Your Camera Will Die a Fiery Death.
We're not going to write our own warning, as the guys at Magic Lantern have done an amazing job of drafting one. With reference to the nightly build of the CFW of the 5D Mark III, they say
"This code changes low-level sensor parameters. In the technical doc you can see how this method messes with the feedback loop for optical black, for example. Therefore, it's safe to assume it can fry the sensor or do other nasty things. My 5D3 is still alive after roughly one week of playing with this, but that's not a guarantee. We don't pay for repairs. Use it at your own risk."
You can read the technical document explaining the coding magic behind the Dual ISO feature right here.
The Math, Science, Absurdity and Wizardry of Dual ISO ExplainedThe Dual ISO feature works only on the 5D Mark IIIand the Canon 7D (but photo only on this one). The reason behind this, according to A1ex, one of the Admins of the site and the co-creator of the firmware, is that the sensors on the Canon 5D Mark III and the Canon 7D both have an 8 channel read-out, as compared to the 4 channel read-out on every other Canon DSLR. Canon uses a signal amplifier circuit in all other cameras with a 4 channel readout, so for an 8 channel read-out, they speculated the presence of 2 amplifier circuits and designed the code that would program them to operate at two independent ISOs.
What Dual ISO is Actually DoingWhen the mode is activated, it is essentially capturing two ISO frames at the same time. However, the image is quite garbled, so the light and dark frames must be separated and then recombined with usable information from both frames to yield one proper image. The downside for photo of this process is that the image yielded is technically a half resolution file (the image will still read a full 21 megapixels, but if you zoom in at 100%, you notice scan lines). For web-work, it shouldn't matter, but if you're looking to make billboard sized prints, we recommend using the bracketing approach to capture maximum dynamic range. As for video, it should be obvious that since it's a frame-by-frame alternation of ISOs, if you get motion in your footage, it will look unnatural. However if you want to shoot a video for interiors, go right ahead and exploit this technique.
Okay, Okay, I Get it! How Do I Get it on My Camera?Before we begin, here is a list if things you will need:
1) 1 Canon 5D MarkIII running official Canon firmware version 1.1.3
2) Magic Lantern firmware files, which you can download from here. Let's call this "File-Set-A"
3) The Dual ISO module which you can grab from here. Download the whole thing as a zip file. Let's call this "File-Set-B."
4) An SD card, 8GB of less, with a minimum write-speed of 30MB/s
Getting the Firmware onto the camera.
1) Once you have downloaded the ML firmware, extract it to a folder on your desktop into a folder called "Custom Firmware." You can call the folder anything you like, but we like to calls ours "custom."
2) In the folder, you will see three files, one of which is a PDF file for users (this doesn't need to go on the camera). The other two are "ml-5D3-113.fir" (this is an actual custom firmware file) and a folder called ML (with several subfolders). Within the ML Folder, create a new folder called "MODULES" (make sure it's all caps).
3) Now open Fil-Set-B.zip and delete the 7D folder (you don't need this). Now copy all the files with the extension ".MO" into the Modules folder you created earlier. Copy autoexec.bin and place it in the root (outside the ML folder). It should be giving company to the firmware file.
4) Now you have your package ready, so plug in your SD card into your PC. Use a card reader (plugging your camera just won't work)
5) Copy the firmware file, autoexec.bin and the ML folder to the ROOT of your SD card.
6) Eject SD card and insert into camera.
7) Turn on camera and go to the update firmware option. This you can do by pressing "Menu> Settings (the yellow wrench icon)> Fourth page > Update firmware.
8) Hit update firmware
9) Pray to god your 5D MarkIII doesn't explode from supercharging the living shiznits out of it. (No seriously!)
10) Wait for the red lights to stop blinking. Once they stop blinking, wait for a few minutes just to be sure. Now your firmware is installed.
1) Magic Lantern usage instructions say that once the firmware is installed, pressing the "Delete" button on your camera would bring up the menu, but that instruction is for sanctioned firmware and DOES NOT APPLY to this particular, highly experimental one.
2) If you press the Delete key right now, nothing will happen. Turn off the camera at this point.
3) Turn it back on.
4) Press the Delete key
5) Go crazy as the Magic Lantern welcome screen welcomes you.
6) Go to "Modules" tab (the last one on the right) and enable "Autoload Modules on Startup." All dots should turn green.
7) You can enable Dual ISO from the Movie or Shoot menus and set the corresponding values for the two ISOs you want the camera to shoot at.
You now have successfully loaded the custom firmware onto your 5D Mark III. We have been using it for over a week, with the camera shooting almost everything on Dual ISO mode and the results are actually quite nice. However, given the highly experimental nature of the firmware, we strongly recommend waiting till a more stable version of the firmware is made available. But if you absolutely must use this, we will be serving up a guide to using the Dual ISO mode in the coming few days, so watch out for this space. In the meantime, enjoy this one sample video.


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Fernando Verdasco sends Rafael Nadal packing at Miami Open
Rafael Nadal was eliminated Sunday in the third round of the Miami Open by fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco, 6-4, 2-6, 6-3. Nadal, who was seeded second, has never won the tournament in 11 appearances. It's the only event he hasn't won in so many attempts. Verdasco, seeded 29th, lost the first 13 times he played Nadal but has now beaten him twice in a row. The other victory came...
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PARIS (AP) Fernando Verdasco advanced to the third round of the Paris Masters by beating 15th-seeded Gilles Simon 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 Tuesday. Verdasco, a former top-10 player from Spain, broke Simon on match point when the Frenchman sent a forehand long. In the first round, Tommy Robredo of Spain beat Vasek Pospisil of Canada 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (5), Jeremy Chardy of France defeated Kenny De...
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Defending champion Grigor Dimitrov advanced to the quarterfinals of the Stockholm Open by defeating Russia's Teymuraz Gabashvili 7-5, 7-6 (4) on Wednesday. The Bulgarian, who had a bye into the second round, was put under pressure in both sets but needed just one match point to seal his tie-breaker victory. Spain's Fernando Verdasco beat Jarko Nieminen of Finland 6-3, 6-4 to set...
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Fernando Verdasco is through to the second round of the Stockholm Open after beating Marinko Matosevic of Australia 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 on Tuesday. The Spaniard hit eight aces and saved as many break points to advance. Fifth-seeded Leonardo Mayer also reached the second round after a 6-4, 6-4 win over Donald Young, while Frenchman Adrian Mannarino rallied after dropping the first set to...
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HOUSTON (AP) Fernando Verdasco won the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship on Sunday for his sixth ATP World Tour title and first since 2010, beating Spanish countryman Nicolas Almagro 4-6, 7-6 (4).
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Ben Bernanke may not have overtly mentioned monetary policy during prepared remarks for a...
Ben Bernanke may not have overtly mentioned monetary policy during prepared remarks for a commencement address at Bard College Saturday, but he did reference Yogi Berra, and in the process made a statement that those of a cynical persuasion might say could have been pulled not only from the quips of a baseball legend, but from any recent speech by hawkish regional Fed presidents (I, II, III): "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." Some would undoubtedly say the Chairman should consider this sage advice when making conjectures about the supposedly benign effects of policy tightening.
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I'm guessing he prints $85 billion a month for at least the next 3 months to coincide with the summer selling season of housing. Then I'm guessing he reduces purchases to $70 billion per month.
America's QE will taper off. The dollar will remain strong (the dollar is a far better choice than gold, which produces no value) and the world's reserve currency. Japanese yen is going to get hammered at levels hard to imagine today. Smart people would never put their money in China's corrupt communist system or currency; their economic "growth" is starting to fall off the cliff; get ready for bloodshed over there. Europe's uncompetitive, socialist economies are finished, just circling in the toilet waiting for the Euro to break apart, and for their societies to be slowly taken over by Islamic extremism.
Viper, I think you nail key points but go to extremes.
The likely outcome...the future...is not particuylarly hard to predict. You water the garden; it grows. You turn off the spigiot; it withers and wilts.
He spoke at Bard College at Simon's Rock, a small college (~ 400 total students) in Great Barrington, MA. His son previously graduated from Simon's Rock. Matriculants and graduates of Simon's Rock are awarded doctoral degrees in greater proportion that any other USA college or university.
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obviously a roaring equity market makes the Fed Chairman's job a lot more..."choice oriented" than saying..."dealing with a massive double dip depression scenario" folks such as he envisioned when ZIRP policy was first advocated and then introduced...then reintroduced...then reintroduced again...ALL to favorable results. this recovery is still a dog...something the Chairman has been "at paens" to point out over the totality of this "jobless prosperity" as David Rosenberg memorably called it oh these many years ago now. where is that "recovery for the rest of us" indeed. the goal should be to see to it that the trillions in "unforgiven tax revenues" is used towards maximum jobs growth so that this recovery can't start moving to a "second level" as computer gamers like to call it. i'm not the pro in that field but to me that says a ruthless knife to corruption (ideally in the back) and ferocious focus on every penny the Government has offered up to it in the form of non military "largesse" programs.
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Extended Stay America - Fremont - Newark, Fremont
Situated in Fremont, Extended Stay America - Fremont - Newark is a family-friendly aparthotel close to Newpark Mall, Fremont Hub Shopping Center, and Olhone College. Also nearby are Aqua Adventure Water Park and Pacific Commons.
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Extended Stay America - Fremont - Newark has a fitness center and a seasonal outdoor pool. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available in public areas. A complimentary breakfast is served each morning. Additional amenities include laundry facilities, coffee/tea in the lobby, and a safe deposit box at the front desk. Self parking is complimentary. A total renovation of this property was completed in June 2012.
The 200 air-conditioned guestrooms at Extended Stay America - Fremont - Newark include coffee/tea makers and hair dryers. Complimentary wireless high-speed Internet access is provided. 32-inch flat-screen TVs are equipped with premium cable channels and DVD players. All accommodations provide desks and phones; free local calls are offered (restrictions may apply). All units have kitchens with stovetops, full-sized refrigerators/freezers, microwaves, and cookware/dishes/utensils. Additional amenities include irons/ironing boards and blackout drapes/curtains. Housekeeping is offered weekly.
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- Check-out time is 11 AM
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- Children (17 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- Pets allowed *
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- 2 per room
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Free self parking
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- Free continental breakfast daily
- Coffee/tea in the lobby
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Fitness facilities
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Laundry facilities
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Television in lobby
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- Air conditioning
- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Private bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- Hair dryer
- 32-inch flat-screen TV
- Premium TV channels
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- Desk
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- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
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- Weekly housekeeping provided
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A valid credit card is required at check-in for incidentals/damages otherwise a US$100 cash deposit per stay, per room will be collected. The deposit is refunded at check-out after satisfactory inspection. If refund is over US$100 a check will be mailed within 14 days of departure.
Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation.
Children under 18 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool or fitness facility without adult supervision.
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Deposit: USD 100 per stay (cash only)
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Weekly housekeeping is provided; fees apply for additional cleaning
Pets are allowed for an extra charge of USD 25 per accommodation, per day (maximum USD 150 per stay)
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.