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Uncorked Ventures Blog
How We Taste Wine, Winemaker Testing
Before I forget, Happy January...the grind begins again.
Hey, guys. Mark Aselstine with Uncorked Ventures.
First, a happy January to everyone as we start to get back into normal business. As I'm sure, everybody's finally back to work. At least it seems that way in the Bay area. Most of the folks that we know are off for the entire region around the holidays. One of the questions that's come up a few times over the last week or two is, how do we taste wine and how is that different than both our wine club competitors but then also as consumers?
These, I think, are a pretty good example.
One thing that we like to do that I think is an opportunity if you work in the wine industry that you don't necessarily have as a consumer. I always like to say, "What does a winemaker like to do?" We have these super star winemakers, Phillipe Melka, Michel Rolland from France, who is maybe more of a consultant than a winemaker at this point. These guys who, if you drink wine [inaudible 00:00:47], in essence have become household names.
One of the things I like to try to figure out out is, "What are they doing that's just a little bit different than the competitors?" While you can make these broad generalizations about these folks, I think the only way to really tell is to be able to drink stuff that is made from the same vineyard and the same vintage and then try two different winemakers to see what the output is and how it's different. I think I have a good example here.
We talked a little bit about Lennox Vineyards a few days ago, and I love Mike to death, and Mike makes some good juice from, what in essence is a back yard vineyard. He just happens to live in Sebastopol which is in Sonoma, in western Sonoma County, and it's a really good place to grow grapes. Envolve Winery may be a household name, and at this point. It may not. If you ever watch the Bachelor TV show, this is the juice. If you look at the bottom there, you will see the Lennox Vineyard insignia. In essence you have a really professional trained winemaker, professional enough to even get a reality show out of it, and then a guy who has taken a few classes at Davis and makes some good juice of his own. I think that you can really tell where the finesse comes in and in essence, the the big difference between these two bottles. Envolve you get a little bit more acidity. The wine is truly, a little bit cleaner. It's a little bit lighter on your pallet and you can really see what they're going for with the Pinot Noir.
I think that one really interesting way to drink wine. Especially when you get into Napa and you start having larger vineyards, or especially when you start traveling up Atlas Peak and you see the folks at VinRoc, or Dos Lagos is another great example where they have quite a famous winemaker making their wine in Bob Foley. You can see what folks are going for as winemakers versus what kind of other people who might not be as famous, or is kind of [flowned 00:02:41] out in the profession end up going for.
Once again, Mark Aselstine with Uncorked Ventures. Lennox Vineyards, it's a good example of how do we taste wine that's different than other folks? As consumers, how can we do this and enjoy it? This is an interesting point to make. It's something we like to do with friends and family is opening two bottles, same vineyard, same vintage and saying, "Hey, what do you like better?" You're kind of surprised at the results sometimes.
I hope everybody had a nice holiday season, and I will be returning emails, phone calls and everything else here in the next 24 to 48 hours, as quickly as we can. Thanks again. Have a good one.
Through the Holidays & The 10's
We'll have a more complete-what's coming up post early in the new year.
Hey guys, Mark Aselstine with Uncorked Ventures.
We've been pretty quiet over the last few weeks as far as on the video blog front and that's in large part, like most retailers, we're just desperately trying to get shipments out as fast as possible. I think we hit most of the deadlines this year, wine club shipments definitely pretty much on the ball. Gift baskets for the most part got at as well. Those are a little bit more of a challenge because they take a little bit extra time and there's kind of some inventory control issues that come into play. I don't mind sharing that but in essence we've gotten rid of the backlog of orders and we're happy to be moving on to a regular schedule.
First if you're watching this and you received a gift from someone, we do do a large percentage of wine club gifts over the holidays. Your January shipments will probably go out around the 10th or so. I tell a lot of people that I grew up with my parents owning an ice cream shop in San Diego and I hated the fact that they had to watch the weather so often and now I have to watch the weather for the entire country. While we can't predict more than a few days out at least it does look like the early January weather should be fine so we'll be getting out wine club shipments both for our regular monthly wine club members as well as gift recipients in early January.
Also this is the time of year when you hear about New Year's resolutions, we certainly make those in my house too although maybe I don't take it as seriously as others. You tend to do that at work too in a lot of places and it's a good time to kind of reflect what you're doing and try to set up a new range of offerings for folks. For us you're going to see a few different things this year. First and foremost you will finally see a new range of gift baskets. More excited about those and those will start rolling out kind of at the end of January or early February. Second, I'm joined today by a, as you can see this is a 375 milliliter bottle which is a half bottle of wine and you can see absolutely no markings. This was a barrel sample. We've been doing a little bit of this, we do it for work and for try to get an idea of where vintners and wine makers are going. But this was a little bit more specific. For our four years in business we've long kind of struggled with the fact that many of our competitors offer discounts and more severe discounts on reorders than we do. From our part at Uncorked Ventures we haven't been comfortable offering huge discounts on reorders because quite honestly it pisses winers off. A lot of the folks that we work with flat out wouldn't work with us if had to do that. We've kind of had to go about it a different way and we've said we want to provide some extra value to wine club members but how can we do that? We're going to have a range of wines, I believe they're going to be called The 10's and there will be a very good reason for that. Ten dollars a bottle add a tier on club shipment for free shipping and I think that's going to be an exciting thing. It's something that we're working with wine makers on currently, it's something that I'm going to continue to work with them on as time goes by. I hope it's a way that we can both grow our wine club base but then also offer something as a ... You know, we all go to Trader Joe's, we all go to Safeway, Ralph's, whatever, Kroeger, whatever you call your local grocery store and buy Tuesday wines. We're hopeful that we can add a range of Tuesday wines to the site without killing everybody on shipping charges. You can look for that with us here in the New Year, it's going to be called The 10's. We may roll out with just two or three wine examples in that range but hopefully over the course of the year that we'll be able to source more and more different stuff that's interesting and quite frankly we'll be doing at break even. But it's something that I think our customers deserve and I think it's something that they want and I think it's a good value added feature. I hope you'll look for that in the new year.
Once again Marked Aselstine with Uncorked Ventures. If you have questions, concerns about an order please don't hesitate. Call us, email us we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks again.
Murphy's Law Riesling and More
A short intro to Murphy's Law Riesling, Riesling in Washington state and why, I think, we're a different type of wine of the month club:
Hi guys. Mark Aselstine with Uncorked Ventures.
It's been a while. Truthfully, I've been under the weather pretty much and I didn't think anybody wanted to listen to me hacking on a video. I hope everyone is having a nice holiday season. We're certainly in full swing. We're having a couple of ... we have shipments going out every day and so if you need a tracking number or anything ... sometimes they end up in the spam ... e-mail us or shoot us a phone call. We're happy to help.
I wanted to spend a couple minutes talking about a wine that I really like that some of our customers are receiving right now. This is Murphy's Law Riesling. It's made by a company called Local Wine and Spirits based up in the Pacific Northwest. I think this is a good representation of something that we do well and perhaps, if I should be so brave to say, that some of our wine club competitors perhaps don't do as well.
We handle Oregon and Washington in addition to California and most folks don't. That's because most wineries are really, really small. After prohibition the Federal Government set up wine sales to be what's called a three-tier model. The theory is the winery sells to a distributor. The distributor is supposed to kind of take these thousands of wineries and condense them into the good ones and then sell them to retailers. The retailers are just supposed to take that and then condense it and sell it to people. In reality what's happened is that there's about four nationwide distributors, Southern Wine and Spirits, Chambers and a couple other ones. It's really difficult to get a placement with a huge distributor if you're a small winery. Each individual State usually requires at least a pallet of wine which is 56 cases, you know, 700 bottles give or take. Small wineries have issues getting larger distribution.
That's where we come in and we try to in essence help them find a market for themselves with consumers that are interested in getting 90+ point quality wine at an affordable price. As an example, for this month a lot of folks received a Napa Valley Sangiovese from Benessere Vineyards. It's a retail $35 or so, just an incredible, incredible wine. It's a great story. We'll do a video on that one shortly too as well because I think it's so interesting. If you're paying $40 for a Wine Club and you get a 30- or 32-dollar bottle of wine, you're going to get something that's cheaper. This Riesling, the price point, you'll see it online for anywhere from the suggested retail of 12 up to 20, so in essence the price went up a little bit for most retailers because it got rated between 87 and 90 points from most major wine critics.
I think it says two things. First small winery projects in the Pacific Northwest are making really, really good wine and they're doing it in kind of a hands-off version. This is a classic Riesling. You'll see kind of hints of minerality and then the sour apple and they'll kind of affect those classic flavors that you get from the soil at a fraction of the price. That's what they're kind of looking for. It's more acidic than you might be used to if you've only been drinking a lot of Chardonnay but price point's a lot lower too. Murphy's Law, it's made by a company called Local Wine and Spirits. I think Riesling's an interest grape on a couple levels. Napa hit it big when they had Cabernet and Chardonnay both kind of take off at the same time for them. There's a big question right now is if Chardonnay is going to be able to kind of keep up that market share and if it doesn't, what should be that other white wine grape that people are starting to move towards? While Sauvignon Blanc might be the most logical first place to try, a lot of people think that Riesling might be the long term winner and that's because ... I'm in my 30's. I think that's fairly obvious. People drink Coke, juice, whatever, as Millennials and as you grow up, maybe that taste of sweetness is a little bit more ingrained in your palate than it would be for people that have been of previous generations. Riesling can be made in a wide variety of sweetness levels to the point of ... you know the Finger Lakes in New York that have sweetness, a little chart that they put on the back of every bottle. This one doesn't have it. They don't particularly use it as often in Washington because this one is more off dry than actually sweet. A lot of wine makers and a lot of people within the industry think that natural gravity towards sweetness is going to be something that helps Riesling gain more plantings and more consumer acceptance as time goes on. Really that kind of minerality and that kind of biting acidity that you can get with Riesling, is a good combination for a lot of food that we typically eat. I think in the United States, especially here in California more so maybe than other parts, you're moving ... big cities too ... moving away from kind of this typical burger and fries fare and getting more internationalized with different kind of food groups and all the [current 00:04:38] flavors that come with those. Asian fusion is something that pairs really well with Riesling if you eat Thai very often. In fact, even if you were going to go down to your local taco shop, assuming that you have one, Riesling is something that fits pretty well. Once again, Mark Aselstine, Uncorked Ventures. I hope you guys are having a good holiday season. I hope you'll consider a wine club membership for yourself or one of your friends. We also do arrange a gift basket so I hope you also look at those too. I hope everybody's having happy holidays and if I don't get a chance to say it before then, Merry Christmas. Thanks again.
What is a Meritage Wine?
What is a Meritage wine?
It's a question that comes up every so often, in this case it was asked by someone who had seen our introduction to Korbin Kameron the other day.
A Meritage wine is a blend of two or more of the five official red wine grapes of Bordeaux. Those are Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Petite Verdot and Cabernet Franc. These days the Meritage Association has added Carmenere to the list of acceptable grapes for Meritage red wine blends.
If you're looking for a Meritage white wine, it needs to be a blend of two of the traditional Bordeaux white's. Those are Semillon, Sauvignon Blanc and Muscadelle du Bordelais.
Another interesting note about Meritage, no single grape can make up 90% of the blend. That's one thing that's a bit strange to me because if a single varietal makes up at least 75% of the blend, it can be a varietally labeled wine, so there's some overlap.
Lastly, the name Meritage itself is a combination of merit and tradition. Blends in Bordeaux typically don't contain enough of any single grape to be a varietally labeled wine & vintners in America thought they were losing out on some marketing opportunities because of it.
Hope you've enjoyed this introduction to Meritage, it's a name that has meaning within the wine industry, but perhaps not as much as it once did. If you're thinking of joining an Uncorked Ventures wine club, you'll see these most often in our Special Selections Wine Club just based on the average price point of production in California and elsewhere on the west coast.
Lennox Vineyards An Introduction to Micro-Wine in Sonoma
A short intro to Lennox Vineyards and how micro-wineries are popping up in Sonoma and elsewhere.
Hey guys. Mark Aselstine with Uncorked Ventures.
This is a video that I can't believe it's taken me this long to make as far as an introduction to a winery that I think deserves some attention that it basically can't receive because it's so small. Lennox Vineyards is a small project. It's a family owned, husband and wife. Mike worked in the tech industry for a long time and wanted kind of a simpler life for his kids as he raised them. They kind of have this quintessential wine country experience. They walk across the vineyard to get to school kind of thing.
Lennox is based in Sonoma County. It's based just outside of the city of Sebastapol which is frankly one of my favorite places to visit in Sonoma. If you think about where the Berkeley liberals went after the '70s were over and prices started to get more expensive, Sebastapol is kind of one of the spots where they landed, kind of western Sonoma County in general. Sebastapol is part of the Russian River and so it's a warmer growing environment than many that you hear talked about kind of in national wine magazines these days where kind of cooler is always thought of as better. Sebastapol as part of the Russian River is one of the cooler aspects of it. Lennox came to us.
We shipped the wine a few months ago in our Explorations Wine Club, maybe a year ago at this point, from Envolve which, if you watch any Reality TV, was the bachelor's winery. That's undergone some ownership changes over the past few months but let's say it's the bachelor's winery. What people didn't realize when they watched the show was that they didn't actually grow their own grapes. They were sourcing them from Lennox Vineyards. Mike and the folks at Lennox, they have two kind of vineyard sites. The first is 9 acres and that's a few blocks from where they live.
Then they have this 2/3 of an acre, kind of a home estate parcel and they have what they consider a micro-winery. In essence they have a really nice garage set up with the home office that's been parceled out and cut in half and so they have kind of their entire wine making operation right there on site. There's a full chemistry laboratory. There's enough space for, I don't know, I'd say 10 or 12 barrels of wine and then they have kind of what we say in the wine industry, finish case storage or where they put the cases after everything's been bottled.
Over the past few years there's been kind of this rise of ... people don't have bottling operations themselves or on site. They're not doing them by hand like I spent a day in San Diego County doing but they have a mobile bottling truck come out. They bottle the whole thing in an hour and then you're done and it's a heck of a lot better kind of setup.
Lennox deserves attention I think, because they grow some outstanding grapes. We said this in the newsletter when we shipped this wines that if you bought a small parcel of land in Sonoma County and you had some basic rudimentary wine-making experience from a couple UC Davis classes. If I think about it, how many times do I walk by my strawberry patch and stuff in the backyard every day, it's a small handful. If you were growing grapes for sale, you might do it more than a handful of times.
If you visit Lennox, that's kind of the idea that you get. You see kind of this immaculate vineyard set up. It's 2/3 of an acre. In essence, Mike can tell you every single vine and what it's produced in over the last three or four vintages and if it's doing well, if it's not doing well. There's kind of this hands-on aspect that people are really craving in the wine industry. There's nothing generic here at all. At the same time, Mike himself, he's improved his wine making skills a lot if you kind of taste from one vintage to the next but at the same time, is this guy the next Phillipe Melka, you know? Eh! But at the same time, he's pretty good. To me that means a lot and so that means that's somebody that I want to support. The prices also are really, really reasonable.
Retail on the Pinot is 32. You'd be hard pressed to find another single Russian River Valley Pinot for $32. Chardonnay, I don't think they have any right now. They've been grafting Chardonnay vines over to Pinot. Quite frankly it's the smart business decision. The Pinot's just more value as you might expect. The Chardonnay I think you'd see run in the $15 to $20 range.
Again, one of the absolutely cheapest versions of Russian River Valley Chardonnay. These are really nice wines. There's a nice balance of fruit and acidity. I think, as people that really, really like wine, people are kind of drawn to stories and the guy and his wife pruning the vines by hand and picking them literally by bunch as they come in for fermentation says a lot about where we hope this industry can go and how we hope this industry can support these type of farms and these type of small scale wine operations because they're interesting and in my opinion they're much more interesting than the large scale Gallo or whatever the case may be, where they're making millions of cases.
I hope if you have a chance to try Lennox Pinot you will not only give it a try but you will also appreciate it for what it is. This is just in essence exactly what you get from the grapes growing in the ground in this vineyard. That's to me something that's really, really special. There's no kind of outside intervention here. It's truly kind of a family plot and a family project. I'm really excited about it. I love tasting these wines as they come out of each vintage because I think they're important and I think is shows kind of where we hope the industry can go.
Once again, Mark Aselstine with Uncorked Ventures. I hope you ... if you haven't received a Lennox Pinot from us or a Lennox Chard and you're joining a wine club or giving a wine club membership as a gift over the holidays, your folks will probably get something that we have remaining of these but we're starting to run a little bit low. Hopefully Mike will work with us again in the future. I hope if you can find him locally that you do although at a couple hundred cases total, you probably won't. Shoot him an e-mail or give him a call. It's highly worth the time and like I said, the prices are really, really fair.
Once again, Mark Aselstine, Uncorked Ventures. Have a good one.
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Grilled Salmon with North African Flavors
From EatingWell: Spring 2004, EatingWell Serves Two, The Essential EatingWell Cookbook (2004)
Our version of the classic North African herb paste known as chermoula serves as both a marinade and a sauce for this richly flavored salmon. If it is too cool to grill outdoors, you can roast the salmon at 450 degrees F for 12 to 15 minutes.
Makes: 4 servings
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Nutrition Profile
Diabetes appropriate | Low calorie | Low carbohydrate | Low saturated fat | Low sodium | Heart healthy | Healthy weight | Gluten free |View Our Nutrition Guidelines »
- 1/4 cup low-fat or nonfat plain yogurt
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 1/2 teaspoons paprika
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon salt, or to taste
- Freshly ground pepper, to taste
- 1 pound center-cut salmon fillet, cut into 4 portions (see Tip)
- 1 lemon, cut into wedges
- Stir together yogurt, parsley, cilantro, lemon juice, oil, garlic, paprika, cumin, salt and pepper in a small bowl. Reserve 1/4 cup for sauce; cover and refrigerate. Place salmon fillets in a large sealable plastic bag. Pour in the remaining herb mixture, seal the bag and turn to coat. Refrigerate for 20 to 30 minutes, turning the bag over once.
- Meanwhile, preheat grill to medium-high.
- Oil the grill rack (see Tip). Remove the salmon from the marinade, blotting any excess. Grill the salmon until browned and opaque in the center, 4 to 6 minutes per side. To serve, top each piece with a dollop of the reserved sauce and garnish with lemon wedges.
Tips & Notes
- Tips: Keeping the skin on when grilling salmon helps hold the fish together and protects the delicate flesh from the searing heat. Once cooked, the skin slips off easily.
- To oil a grill: Oil a folded paper towel, hold it with tongs and rub it over the rack. (Do not use cooking spray on a hot grill.) When grilling delicate foods like tofu and fish, it is helpful to spray the food with cooking spray.
Per serving: 229 calories; 14 g fat (3 g sat, 6 g mono); 67 mg cholesterol; 1 g carbohydrates; 0 g added sugars; 23 g protein; 0 g fiber; 134 mg sodium; 452 mg potassium.
Nutrition Bonus: 452 mg potassium (23% dv), 9 mg vitamin c (15% dv).
Exchanges: 3 lean protein, 1/2 fat
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Loos in Siena
Favorite thing: There are toilets signposted at the entrance to the old town - with the huge numbers that often visit here its really important and handy to have good sign posting as to where to find these important conveniences!
So gratefully there are loos here for your arrival, and there were toilets signposted in a number of places around the streets that would normally have an influx of people heading into the centre - main Piazza
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Via di Citta
Favorite thing: Via di Cita is the main street of Siena and considered the most elegant in the city. It is formerly Via Galgaria, the street of shoemakers and most of the locals still call it by that name. This street is shopping paradise of Siena offering fancy cloths, fine shoes, Tuscany handcraft ceramic products and inevitable Pizzicheria de Miccoli.
Santa Caterina Benincasa
Favorite thing: Santa Caterina Benincasa (1347-1380), also known as Caterina da Siena, was Scholastic pholosopher and teologian. Although she hadn't long life have left behind alot of important works in teology. In 1970 Caterina Benincasa was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church. Santa Ceterina is a patron saint of Siena, but at the same time she is patron saint of Italy and Europe aswell.
At the age of six Caterina recieved her first vision and from that moment onwards the child began to follow a path of devotion. At the age of 15 she joined Dominicans and become Tertiary sister, working tirelessly to help the sick at the hospital of Santa Maria della Scala. Her fame spread throughout the Europe and she travelled abroad to act as mediator for the Papacy, spending some time in Avignon where she urged Pope Gregory to bring the Papal Court back to Rome from its exile in France. On returning back to Siena, Caterina founded Monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli in the castle of Belcaro.
Caterina died at just 33 of age and was buried in Rome at Church of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva. In 1461 Caterina was proclaimed a saint by Pope Pius II.
Terzo di Camollia
Favorite thing: Terzo di Camollia is very pitoresque part of Siena, up and downhills with rare flat grounds. I got impression it's kind of working class area because I haven't seen much of classy houses or imposing sacral objects around here. But in spite of that downhill streets of Camollia are of exceptional beauty.
Fondest memory: The most intriguing question for me was, how do this people drive car in this narrow streets?
Favorite thing: I was on my way out of the town, trying to find another perspective for the panoramic pictures. There was a side local road partly in dirt but I didn't care much about it because was so much attracted by the landscapes, one more beautiful then other. Some crazy ideas crossed my mind, was thinking to go astray here and explore this beauty for few months.
Fondest memory: Tuscany is very cultivated area with exceptional landscapes.
Seen around town
Favorite thing: Just wanted to share a few of the things that we saw while in Siena, other than the major tourist sites of course. Like this "bridge" three stories up, made of different material from the two buildings it connects, so obviously a later addition. Was it used as an actual room or just a connection between the two buildings. WHY connect the two???
A small church, but with a beautiful facade of enormous columns and two commanding statues bracketing the entrance (which was NOT arched, also unusual).
Then a building with windows that brought to mind those on the bell tower, wondered which came first.
Last but not least a ceiling detail from a porch, yes a porch, that we saw. Could not find any explantion signs or entrance fees to the building (which had a tall metal fence closing the entrance to the porch), so no idea what the building was, but the ceiling was great, I just stuck my hand and camera through the fence and "snap-snap".
- Historical Travel
- Architecture
- Photography
On the streets of Siena
Favorite thing: Wandering the streets of Siena brought us many scenes that we took home in our memories, like the "Golden Boy", a guy pretending to be a statue, guess he is to lazy to actually ACT. But the girls liked him.
Then there is the cockroach of the bird world, the PIGEON, evident everywhere, flying and crapping on everyone and everything...many of the beautiful ancient statues found in Italy carry a covering of pigeon ***, usually most thick on the heads of warriors, statesmen and goddesses.
But then you have the everyday scenes on the streets, not just the tourists scurrying of to the next place their guide is leading them, but the everyday people of the city, off to work, getting groceries, picking ups some mushrooms, or just having a cup of coffee with friends in the nearest cafe.
- Castles and Palaces
- Historical Travel
- Architecture
Tourist Office has a lot of free information
Favorite thing: Siena's tourist office has an excellent location directly at the Campo (approx. in the middle of the half round opposite of Palazzo Communale). And they have an excellent selection of free information brochures about the city and its surroundings. Especially the brochures are a piece of art itself with marvellous photos and excellent text. I especially liked the ones Val d'Orcia, Le Crete and Terre di Siena – holiday with the bike. These are available in Italian, English, German and French.
Most of the information is also provided on their (excellent) website. From what I could see they also have more brochures than the ones I picked, available as a "flash flip-through" version. In addition, the website has short atmospheric videos about each region (each approx. 2-3 minutes) and much more specific details. A really good and well-thought-out site!
Piazza Campo 56, Phone: +39 – 0577 – 280551
Opening hours, winter: 8:30 – 13:00, 15:00 – 19:00
Opening hours, summer: 8:30 – 19:30
Sundays closed.
Terre di Siena
© Ingrid D., November 2010.
Learn Italian: Dante School is excellent!
Favorite thing: Where I live we have the change to take 5 days "educational leave" per year (employee pays lessons, company provides free days), 10 days can be accumulated. I didn't take advantage of this for a long time and this year (2010) I thought that it is time to polish up my Italian. However, my country being bureaucratic to the bone, we can only book lessons with a specific, listed reference number. This ruled out my teacher Edvige Galasso in Gubbio and Perugia's school which don't have applied for such a number. And I didn't want to go to Tropea, Milano, Roma or Firenze where schools and teachers had this number. But with Siena's Dante Alighieri School I finally found both: number and location. When I contacted the school to book my lesson (2 weeks, private individualised teaching), they sent me a 3 pages need analysis. I asked for private teaching, and that I need to talk, talk, talk, to make sure my daily conversation skills would be improved. When I arrived for my lesson, I was thrilled how perfect my needs were met. I had three teachers (Francesca, Letizia and Claudio), each for a specific part of the day. Each of them was different with different interests and teaching methods and this was really perfect to make sure that I don't get "used" to one specific style. I had lessons from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with one hour lunch break. When it rained we stayed in the school, when the weather was better we went outside and talked there. At the end, not only my Italian was improved but all three showed me exciting parts of Siena which not everyone would notice without a local explaining and showing them.
The school has everything one needs: space enough for many groups, internet access, a fabulous secretary, a recreation room with a piano and soft drinks and coffee machines. The school is located in an old house in Siena's south, a nice building itself. On the message board I saw countless evening and weekend events, the teachers offered, such as cooking, wine tasting, hidden Siena, trips to the surroundings, etc.
Thanks Dottoressa Alexandra (the boss of the school) for your brilliant idea with the three teachers, thanks Francesca, Letizia and Claudio for your lessons and our stimulating and inspiring discussions! And thanks Serena for your help with the car!
Oh, and since we also had "internet lessons", it was easy to convince Letizia to become VT member.
Oh, I should mention that Toscana dialect is a bit difficult in the beginning for those who speak a bit of Italian. The pronounciation of "hard c" is soundless. That makes for example casa sound like "(h)-asa"...
Dante Alighieri School, Siena.
Adress: Via Tommaso Pendola, 37 - 53100 Siena (IT).
Tel: +39 - 0577 - 49533.
© Ingrid D., November 2010.
My Name is Duccio - Combined Ticket
Favorite thing: One of the best ways to see Siena's sights is the combined ticket called "My Name is Duccio", named after the medieval Sienese artist, Duccio di Buoninsegna. It costs, as of 2009, €10.00 and allows the visitor to visit the Duomo, Baptistry, Crypt, Museo dell'Opera + Facciatone and the Oratory of San Bernardino. Normally, each one of these sight charges about €3.00 entry fee. The card is valid for three days and is well worth the little investment.
See the following web-site for more information:
- Museum Visits
- Historical Travel
Where to take snaps of surrounding landscape
Favorite thing: Siena's location on the gentle rolling hills of Tuscany makes it an ideal alternative base for exploring the region called Il Chianti - one of Italy's most enchanting areas characterized by rolling hills and gentle valleys blanketed with vineyards where some of Italy's most famous wines come from.
Within the historic center of Siena, there are a few spots where these marvelous topography could be preserved for posterity by shutter-happy tourists. My recommendations:
Via San Giovanni Dupre, near the gigantic Chiesa di Sant' Agostino - sweeping views of the nearby hills covered with vineyards with lovely medieval structures seemingly popping out of the hills, with the Basilica di Sta Maria dei Servi a very prominent landmark. Directly below Via San Giovanni Dupre is a park that makes for an ideal venue for leisurely walks (and burn those calories from Siena's many wonderful restaurants).
Via del Comune just off Piazza San Francesco - around sunset on a clear day, the reflection of the rays of the setting sun on a medieval church across the other hill is simply enchanting. Getting here is a bit tricky - from the town center along Via del Rossi, take a left turn on a small alley before reaching Piazza San Francesco. At the time of my visit, the distinguishing mark are some bold graffiti on the walls of the building beneath which the alley could be accessed.
The park around Fortezza Medicea - close to the local stadium,Stadio Comunale, there is a park from where you get good vantage points to take pictures of the Duomo and the old historical center. More dramatic lighting around sunset, too.
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- Architecture
Gotta go?
Favorite thing: Ok, this wasn't my favorite thing, but it was important nonetheless. When you leave the parking lot, and walk to the entrance of Siena, you will find the rest rooms located near the entrance of the Basilica of San Domenico. Just look to your right, go down the stairs, and you will find what you need.
There may be a person collecting money for using the facility, but I was told that it was not required to pay. I was grateful for the clean facility, so readily available, so I gave the woman a coin!
Terzo di Citta
Favorite thing: Terzo di Citta was the original residential nucleus of Siena that relied on the Castelvecchio for its defense. It is the oldest part of the town, concentrated around the Cathedral, and certainly one of the most beautiful and pitoresque in whole of Siena.
- Family Travel
What Contrada is?
Favorite thing: Every Sienese lives the life of his Contrada (district), which still plays a civil role in organizing its members' free time. There are seventeen districts in the town of Siena with precise territorial organizations (the marks are visible everywhere in the town) which gather together the citizens of the same neighbourhood. For twelve months of the year the life of the Contrada is in fervour, but during the days before the Palio the atmosphere becomes really explosive.
The names of Contrade are curioius and symbolic;
Terzo di Citta: Aquila, Chiocciola, Onda, Pantera, Selva, Tartuca
Terzo di Camollia: Bruco, Drago, Giraffa, Istrice, Lupa, Oca
Terzo di San Martino: Civetta, Leocorno, Nicchio, Torre, Valdimontone.
Terzo di San Martino
Favorite thing: The quarter of San Martino, which is situated right next to Piazza Campo, is characteristic by its unusually tall 4-5 storey houses. It was the original residential nucleus of Siena that relied on the Castelvecchio for its defense. Starting from the 16th century, it was the ghetto, area of the city where the Jews were forced to live.
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corn burner or pellet stove or?
Someone asked in the fireplace forum but got no response except from me. we are looking for a small stove for use when the power goes out. They want a jotul type stove with the glass door. I'd settle for anything that would put out enough heat for one room and a space for a pan or skillet on top so I could at least warm up some soup. I've never had any kind of stove like that and have no idea what to look for.
You might want to take pellet stoves out of the list based on your needs. The pellets are fed by an electric auger into the fire box. Without power the pellet stove will also be down and out. In a previous home I had a Vermont Castings natural gas stove in a lower level room. It had a glass front and produced a nice flame pattern on the "logs" inside. It was attached to it's own thermostat and worked even with no electricity. That type of stove is also available in LP gas and attached to a large tank in the yard if your home is not piped for natural gas. Some of the newer stoves can be vented in a manner very similar to a clothes dryer, right through the wall with just a small vent on the outside of your house. Gas Logs work without electric if you already have a fireplace/chimney to use them with but then I suppose you would just burn wood.
Some brands of pellet stoves can be run off a marine battery. We have one and if needed it can run for about 24 hours off a marine battery and then it will trickle charge it when the power turns back on. luckily, we have never had to try that.
Pellet stoves can get hot, but I have tried to cook on my old one (our new one doesn't have a grate on top) and it never really worked that well. My mom used to cook on an old wood stove when our power went out and that worked awesome. Pellet stoves are not really designed for that and we have one that heats up our 1800 sq ft house. One that is small (for one room) would not work well for cooking or warming food items. In general, they are much more insulated that wood stoves. Our first one didn't even get hot on the sides when it was going full blast. You should go and check one out, they work much differently than wood stoves. They have fans, electronics panels and augers.
I think certain gas stoves may work, although my parents have one for their sunroom and it doesn't get hot enough on top for cooking or anything.
Corn stoves also require augers but I am sure that some would run off a battery if need be.
I know it is more work, but have you thought about an old -school wood stove? That may be ideal for what you want. you can get a lot of styles now too, but you do need a chimney (unlike some pellet stoves and gas stoves that can direct vent)
>Vermont Castings natural gas stove>
March 2008 I took out my LP furnace, water heater and sold everything. LP tank and all. Stupid? Sometimes I'm sure of it. But now that the farmers are using so much LP to dry corn maybe I was smart after all. Who knows? Venting out the wall like a dryer sounds promising.
...old -school wood stove...
As of today, I am. Two years ago I was without power for 7 days. Hauled water. Ran a little generator for the furnace but now with the heat pump, my generator won't run it. I'd like a little stove that could provide heat, a little light and somewhere to warm something up. I wouldn't have to cook raw meat but a can of soup would be divine!
I guess I could do that. I wasn't crazy about filling the generator every 4 hours. I thought a wood burner inside the house sounded so much cozier! I could stack firewood in the attached garage. But now that you have me thinking.....the little generator could run the space heater and some lights. and a hot plate. Maybe the toaster oven? Maybe the TV! It's pretty boring without electricity in the dark. Move my recliner to the bathroom. It's the smallest room. Thanks. Guess I was stuck on stupid today.
While we are at it(I need to say I live in an old schoolhouse) I keep a coleman lamp that runs on batteries, I have oil lamps filled, and for cozy, I have one of those small electric heaters that looks like a wood burner. Cute and keeps one room warm. I hope I am ready for power outage. Always something. Barb in Ar.
Barb in Ar, what's your plan to keep the small electric heater that looks like a wood burner going without electricity? Do you have a generator? Having lived through a whole week outage a couple of years ago, it's the pits! I'd come home from work and fire up the generator. Let it run to warm up the old two story farm house while I did chores with hauled in water. "Cook" on the table top grill in the garage. And did I mention it's dark? And it's dark everywhere! I timed the refil on the generator so I could fill it just before I went to bed. Then as soon as I was dressed in the morning, fill and fire up the generator again. All of this outside. Go to work, come home and do it all again. A litte stove inside the house is much more appealing. It won't warm the whole house but it could be good enough.
I'll second that. We live on a line with only eleven customers on it. We're often the first line to go out and obviously the last to come back on. We have two generators but they're only used for my greenhouses. A few years ago, we had a power outage for three days in a snowstorm, the g'houses were full of crops and all of them were sold already. We had to pull two hour rotations to keep the generators running and filled and it was h-e-double toothpicks. So, if you don't have a big unit hooked up to a gas main or LP tank, you do the dance, and hope you can get out on the road to buy more gas. If you can't, you're stuck. You also have to have a cut-off to the lines so you don't inadvertently feed power back into the system and possibly electrocute some poor lineman working on them. I can't remember what the one we install cost, but it cost but it cost more than the generator, and had to be to the power company's spec and approved. Also I've heard some horror stories about damage to appliances and electronics from being run on generators.
I started looking for ways to be comfortable off the grid we could depend on. If you are on a gas main or use propane, there are some really efficient gas grates and fireplaces you can get for heat, not dependent on electricity for thermostatting. The one in our kitchen is cast iron. We have a huge old farmhouse and the one grate keeps three rooms comfortable if necessary. It holds heat even when the fire is out for awhile. I even installed a pitcher pump in the kitchen so we wouldn't be dependent on the electic pump to bring in water from our spring water cache basin. As soon as a gas line came through, I got rid of the electric stove and got a gas cook-top with a pilot light. I have lanterns in each room and seriously am considering installing a gas light in the kitchen. You can get them code-approved for U. S. use from a company in Canada. I even have a treadle sewing machine. Non electric kitchen gadgets like a manual can opener. And I keep a stocked pantry.
We may not have a television for a few days, or a computer.......but I also don't have to listen to a gas engine running night and day.
There are small wood-burning heat stoves you can buy with surfaces suitable for a pan or pot to cook on. My folks used to have one in their river cottage. It had a small fire-box and had to be tended and cleaned out more often than a larger stove, but served the purpose. It didn't take the larger pieces of wood like you'd maybe use in a fireplace, either.
This doesn't look just like it, but is similar.
Here is a link that might be useful: small woodburning stove you can cook on
I like the price on that one a lot! Too bad it doesn't ship here. A glass door would be perfect.I'm also going to have to give up a significant amount of floor space for it; and hopefully it isn't something I'll HAVE to use often.
Yes, to get out to buy gas was also added to my day. And then I had 5 gal. gas cans stored too near the house to suit me. I just don't want to do it again. One day, maybe, but not longer.
O.K. I have you all beat!Two weeks without electricity. Fireplace going 24-7. That is work! A generator to heat up the water (I did have water) and sometimes for the heater or tv.I have a battery radio.Roads were blocked until a neighbor came with the chainsaw. I am so old I remember those days of no electricity. Came in handy, and I learned some new lessons. One is, be prepared. later, I had to teach a few hurricane refugees too. Sorry, I meant Evacuees.
Be prepared. Makes me think of the Homeland Security site. Now THERE'S a joke! Three days worth of food and water, a roll of duct tape and a package of plastic. You'll be fine. I'm more prepared than that every day of my life. Maybe it's because I don't live across the street from a grocery store. I expect to be snowed in so I keep everything on hand I might need. I'm so old I know how to do it.
Same here. I took a lot of kidding about my survivalist mentality until the person in question found out what it's like to go a week without electric. Or was snowbound for the first time. Three days of supplies is a joke and I agree. Three weeks is more like it, minimum. I grow most of my own food, and am big into canning and preserving. In wintertime, I always keep rations for the chickens stocked up so they'll never starve to death if I can't get out. We could eat for six months without ever going to a store. LOL.
Even though we have main gas backup, we have about a month's supply of seasoned firewood set back too. DH never understood why I make him trim up the downed trees and stack it, and I hope he never has to find out.
calliope, I've cooked oatmeal and baked corn bread for the chickens! They give me eggs in exchange. Good trade, don't you think? Yeah, I have almost as much critter food stored as people food. Stores easily in the winter, I don't keep as much on hand in the summer. And the chickens and horses can eat off the land in the summer, too.
My sister and BIL run a pellet stove business... I don't know the correct 'lingo', but when they installed my little pellet stove (that I *LOVE*!) she told me there are pellet stoves that you can buy that will run for at least 3 days without power. By "run", I mean that they will continue to feed pellets automatically and continue burning. I don't remember the technology used to accomplish that, but they are specifically equipped so that they will continue working for fairly long power outages.
pinch_me, I re-read your original post. Are you interested in the pellet stoves that have the backup power system to continue running when there's a power outage, or are you interested in pellet stoves that have top heater units (like to warm soup on)? I'm pretty sure that both kinds exist.
My sister says:
Thelin is the only one that has back up for days - you can buy battery back up for any stove but that will only last a couple of hours, and it's $$$$ to get a generator instead. Any cast iron stove will keep food warm but not cook it (like bake bread or a roast) but would probably warm up soup.
Thanks. I'll investigate the Thelin. I have a generator but it won't run the heat pump. I guess it could run an auger for little stove though. How long will one of those run on a fill of pellets? An hour? A day? Something inbetween? Can you hand fill them? I could do that while I'm here.
Of course you can cook on a simple little cast iron heat stove. I've eaten more than a few meals cooked on them and I'm not talking just warming soup. No batteries, no generators and no looking for pellet fuel. I used to work in the section of a home improvement box store where we sold alternate fuel stoves. I got call after call all day long of people looking to buy the fuel. They went clean into the next county to try to get it. The next year, there was plenty of it available but the price went waaaaay up.
You can find really inexpensive, decent little wood burners used. And if you have land or connections, the wood is cheap or free.


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These Mini Wine Bottle Jingle Bell Ornaments make a great addition to your Christmas tree! Made from single-serve mini wine bottles (you can also use hot sauce bottles), these adorable ornaments ring out with Christmas cheer! You could also arrange a series of these little ornaments in a hanging window arrangement or display them in a garland and drape it around your mantel. Either way, these cute Mini Wine Bottle Jingle Bell Ornaments are sure to get you in the holiday spirit in no time!
- Generation Green (g2)™ Bottle Cutter
- 3 Discarded Miniature Bottles (single serve wine bottles or hot sauce bottles work great)
- Assorted Ribbon – Approximately 60" for 3 Bottles
- Assorted 1/2 - 1" in Diameter Glass Beads (small enough to fit through the opening of your bottle)
- Assorted Buttons (we chose white, cream, gold and blue buttons)
- 3 Small Corks
- 6 - 5/16" Screws
- Screwdriver
- Craft Knife
- Scissors
Read and carefully following the instructions contained within the Generation Green (g2)™ bottle cutter manual.
Cover the work area with craft or newspaper.
For our bells we used a vanilla extract bottle and two single serving wine bottles. Measure up from the bottom of each 1" and mark with a Sharpie®.
Using the bottle cutter, follow the instructions for scoring and separating bottles. Separate jar where indicated.
Smooth the rough edges as instructed in the bottle cutter manual.
Clean your bottle inside and out with a window cleaner or for a more natural cleaner use a mixture of 1 cup of water to 2 tablespoons of vinegar. Dry glass surface.
Using the craft knife, shave off the sides of old wine corks until they fit the top openings in each bottle. Once you have cut the corks to fit, set the bottles aside.
Cut a 12" length of ribbon, using a 5/16" screw; secure the ribbon to the center bottom of the cork. Insert the cork with the ribbon into the mouth of the bottle. Allow the ribbon to hang down, slide a glass bead onto the ribbon and push the bead up inside of the bottle so it sits about mid-way down the bottle, secure in place with a knot and glue the tail end of the ribbon together.
Cut a 6" piece of ribbon, using a 5/16" screw; secure both ends of the ribbon to the top portion of the cork to form a loop.
Repeat this process for the remaining two bottles.
Embellish glass bells by gluing assorted buttons and additional ribbon on each bottle (see image for embellishment suggestions).
Add addition details by gluing on assorted buttons and ribbons. For the blue bottle, we made a bow and placed two buttons on it, then for some added winter charm, we selected 3 different sized and similarly colored buttons and glued them to the tail of the ribbon to form a snowman!
- Hang these festive bells on the Christmas tree or anywhere in the your home for some holiday charm. Tip: Avoid placing any embellishments on the body of the bell, the less you have the louder your bell will clang!
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RECIPE: Recipes/Suggestions for using 6 in1 tomatoes
I received my order of 6 in 1 Tomatoes and so far all I've used them for is Pizza Sauce. I know y'all can give me lots of suggestions.
TIA, Jude
This is a tomato sauce I make all the time and freeze in small containers.
Simple Tomato Sauce
Recipe courtesy Giada De Laurentiis
6 cups
* 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
* 1 small onion, chopped
* 2 cloves garlic, chopped
* 1 stalk celery, chopped
* 1 carrot, chopped
* Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
* 2 (32-ounce) cans crushed tomatoes
* 4 to 6 basil leaves
* 2 dried bay leaves
* 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, optional
In a large casserole pot, heat oil over medium high heat. Add onion and garlic and saute until soft and translucent, about 2 minutes. Add celery and carrots and season with salt and pepper. Saute until all the vegetables are soft, about 5 minutes. Add tomatoes, basil, and bay leaves and simmer covered on low heat for 1 hour or until thick. Remove bay leaves and check for seasoning. If sauce still tastes acidic, add unsalted butter, 1 tablespoon at a time to round out the flavors.
Add half the tomato sauce into the bowl of a food processor. Process until smooth. Continue with remaining tomato sauce.
If not using all the sauce, allow it to cool completely and pour 1 to 2 cup portions into freezer plastic bags. This will freeze up to 6 months.
One of my favorite soups:
Cream of Tomato Soup Winter Style
1 16oz. can whole tomatoes
1/4 c. chopped onion
1/2 c. chopped celery including leaves
2 TB butter
1/2 t. dried basil
1/2 t. dried oregano
1 t. salt
2 TB tomato paste
1 TB brown sugar
2 TB butter
3 TB flour
2 c. beef broth
1 c. milk
In a sauce pan over medium heat, simmer tomatoes, onion, and celery in the first 2 TB butter with the basil, oregano, salt, tomato paste, and brown sugar, uncovered for 10 minutes. Puree with an immersion blender or cool a little and blend in a blender or food processor.
In another pan, melt second 2 TB butter, stir in flour, cook 1 minutes. Sitr in broth to make a smooth, thick sauce, Beat in milk. Add the tomato mixture. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve at once. Makes 6 servings.
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Thanks Teresa. You seem to always come through with answers for me. I did make the sauce and like it a lot. Now ...stupid question. The soup recipe calls for a 16 oz. can of tomatoes and 2 Tbs. of tomato paste. How much of the 6-in-1 would I substitute. Since the paste is so concentrated, would I use the entire 28 ounces? I know....how dense can an old woman be, but I may as well be honest. It's the substitute amounts that confuse me.
Thanks, girl.
I would use 2 cups of the tomatoes and perhaps skip the paste as these tomatoes are canned in puree already. Just my opinion. If you prefer a stronger tomato taste after making it one time w/o the paste, then you can try it again to see if you like it better with the paste added.


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AutoCAD is a CAD utility (Computer-aided design) that will assist you with your images and designing objects. This software allows you to program free templates and designs in an easy way and to download different elements from the Internet.
Developed by Autodesk Inc. AutoCAD creates and modifies drawing in 2D and 3D. Its assisted functions make easier the workflow, thanks to the intelligent features that are included in this program. The reason for choosing a CAD tool is because of its way of processing figures and the aid the tools offers to you when you create your different projects.
Those who have tried this kind of application know how handful is a bit of help when you have to design a building or a big object as soon as possible. This software can help you with your work.
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One of the classical uses of AutoCAD is architecture of industrial design, but it really does what you need. It is not an easy program and it will take you time to get used to all its functions. You can take a look around the Internet and look for some tutorials to get into 3D Modelling & CAD.
Once you know how the application works you will start creating all kind of objects or modify default items. There are plenty useful functions included such as 3D rendering or scanned drawing capture.
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AutoCAD provides you with some interesting functions that will make easier the creation of your different designs. Among these there is the 3D Free-Form Design Tool which allows you to manipulate the objects, pulling different sides and changing its shape. AutoCAD also has scanned drawing capture which is pretty useful; it consists on digitalize your hand drawing and it allows to alter the item.
However, if don't have enough with the tools it offers by default you can get more with add-ins. This allows you to have even a greater variety of functions for your work. Thanks to its high performance engine all the objects you create with this application will have a great quality.
Competitors like Ashampoo 3D CAD Architecture or FlashCAD ccan't get to its level and are considered more basic tools that are available to download in case you are interested. If you need a great a powerful design tool this is your best option.
AutoCAD 2015 Features
Below there are the main features of this CAD utility:
- Design Feed option to let you communicate with your co-workers
- Files sync thanks to Autodesk 360 connectivity and improved Ribbon interface
- Social media integration (Facebook and Twitter)
- Library to view, select and edit materials
- Improved Autodesk Exchange App
- User Interface can be customized for specific projects
- Connection between your design and real environments (live maps)
- Design free 3D shapes
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- Autodesk Inventor Fusion
- Option to delete duplicate objects
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AutoCAD is the CAD utility more complete nowadays. It will fulfill your expectations once you get used to its free and intuitive workflow.
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Enhance your designing experience with Auto CAD tool it is the best
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Today in the field of computer and technology everything is done in computer, AutoCAD is the best computer aided design tool developed by auto desk Inc.; it is a computer aid tool that allows you to design and create objects the way you want. Intelligent features included in this program make your workflow easy and perfect. It is a famous series of product designed for industry needs. Most architecture and designers in civil engineering industry uses this AutoCAD to create and design computer aided models professionally.
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Its high performance engine and useful pretty functions creates high and great quality products. It is a complete application that always fulfils your needs.
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AutoCAD 2015
People involved in architectural designs and other kinds of big object design have a lot to thank AutoDesk Inc who developed this fantastic program. The work of images and objects design have gone along way after the program's development. It comes with very well designed features and tools that enables users to produce object images of high quality in very short times.
You can create and modify drawings in 2D and 3d using its intelligent features and assisted functions making workflow become extremely easy. This program can store and download free templates that can be used to lessen workload.
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The materials browser and editor can be used for editing and one can be able to share documents on social media. The design tool which is 3d in nature can generate design ideas which can be used in design creation and enhancement.
The best and most amazing thing with this software is that one only requires windows 7, a 2GB memory ram, internet connection and a 6GB hard drive space for installation.
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Engineers not allowed free movement in the zone under bird sanctury
Patna: Inordinate delay in denotifying a 3-km stretch of land under a bird sanctuary by the Nepalese authorities may make the task ahead daunting for Bihar engineers plugging the breach caused by turbulent Kosi river at Kusaha in upper Nepal.
We have faced myriad problems in maintaining the embankments in the past and will face it again if the 3 km stretch of land, falling between the western and eastern embankments, declared as forest zone under a bird sanctuary is not denotified by the Nepalese authorities, State Water Resources Principal Secretary Ajay Nayak said.
The Kosi had, last year, caused unprecedented deluge in the districts of Purnia, Araria, Supaul, Saharsa and Madhepura, after it breached its embankments at Kusaha. Several people had lost their lives and thousands of families were rendered homeless in the worst-ever floods caused. The delay in denotifying the area by the Nepalese authorities, also considered as one of the reasons that led to the breach as engineers were not allowed free movement in the zone, was likely to hinder the maintenance work of the river's embankments as its spurs on the eastern afflux bund were the first to be affected.
Official sources expressed concern over the delay which is happening despite the fact that the Centre had already acquired the land after paying the required amount to its neighbour.
We hope that the Centre will raise the issue at its next meeting with the Nepalese authorities and amicably settle it, they said.
Meanwhile, the latest satellite imagery showing the direction of the of river at its entrance point inclining towards the eastern afflux bund which had breached last year, has further complicated the task of the engineers. An additional channel has to be dug for the realignment of the main river course because of the problem, sources confided.
At present, 50 per cent of the water is diverted towards the western side through three pilot channels. But the engineers apprehend that during the rainy season, when the discharge would be higher, the river may move towards the breached site, breaking the coffer dam.
Instructions have been given to the engineers to build another 800 metre channel for full flow of the river towards the diversified direction, they said.
Meanwhile, taking a lesson from last year's floods, the State Government is gearing itself up to fight the floods with full vigour and reach relief to the people at the earliest. --PTI


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Westwood holds steady amid criticism
When Lee Westwood captured the St. Jude Classic last year for his second PGA Tour victory, it kick-started a run that carried him past Tiger Woods to No. 1 in the World Golf Ranking on Nov. 1.
Westwood returns to TPC Southwind this week looking up at someone else in the rankings, this time another Englishman, Luke Donald, who beat him two weeks ago in a playoff in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.
"I don't turn up to a tournament and worry about who is in front of me," said Westwood, who also was unseated by Martin Kaymer of Germany briefly earlier this season before regaining the No. 1 spot with two victories in Asia.
"I just turn up to try to get everything I can out of my game during the week. And I know if I do that, I'll be (near the top of the leaderboard), or thereabouts."
His battles with Donald and Kaymer have taken a back seat, at times, to situations he has had to deal with off the course since he passed Woods.
Although Westwood tried his best to enjoy the ride as the best player in the world, there were some rocky moments, including some criticism when he said it meant more to him than winning a major championship.
On top of the worldThere has been a shift in the World Golf Ranking. See how Luke Donald climbed to No. 1.
First, he had to endure the talk that he wasn't really the best player in the world because he has not won a major. Of the 15 golfers to achieve the No. 1 ranking, only Westwood and Donald attained that lofty perch without ever capturing one of the major events.
Westwood has come agonizingly close, finishing second twice and third three times in majors since 2008.
In addition, he was skewered by Phil Mickelson and other American players, not to mention the U.S. media, for skipping the Players Championship because he couldn't fit it into his schedule. He is permitted to play in only 10 PGA Tour events as a non-member.
So when he played in and won the Indonesia Masters and the Ballantine's Championship in South Korea to regain the top spot from Kaymer, the buzz was that those victories came against inferior fields.
As if it weren't enough to hear it from players and the media, Westwood complained recently that he might have to close his Twitter account because of comments made by some of his followers.
This came on the heels of Wayne Rooney, the great striker for Manchester United, being threatened by one of his followers on Twitter.
Not surprising for soccer, but who ever heard of golf hooligans?
"It's social media, not social slagging," Westwood said a few weeks ago while playing in the Volvo World Match Play Championship in Spain. "It's losing its meaning with the sort of stuff that's gone on just recently.
"It seems to have turned into that for some people, having a go, which is a bit unfortunate. We all get the odd idiot here and there. It's just pathetic."
Westwood also had a testy exchange with a member of the UK media at Wentworth for supposedly disparaging the tee-to-green game of Ian Poulter, who beat him in the Match Play event.
The back and forth went on for several minutes, even as Westwood explained that he was complimenting his Ryder Cup teammate's scrambling ability, saying he got up and down from everywhere and anywhere.
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And he added that Poults didn't take offense, as others seemed to.
"We're good mates," Westwood said, admitting that there was a little banter about the incident the next time they were together. "He gives it; I take it. I give it, he takes it. It's just one of those things. There's nothing more to it than that."
As for skipping the Players Championship, it will be interesting to see how that plays out down the road.
Westwood, one of several Europeans who criticized the American stars for not showing up at the BMW PGA Championship, passed on the so-called Fifth Major, along with Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland.
Both are represented by Andrew "Chubby" Chandler, founder of International Sports Management, who some have said is trying to become a power broker in the mold of the late Mark McCormack, founder of sports management giant IMG.
Chandler has called the Players "the 10th-most important tournament in the world" and seems to take delight in tweaking the PGA Tour and commissioner Tim Finchem any chance he gets.
And right now, Chandler definitely is wielding a lot of power in the game as the agent for Westwood, McIlroy, Ernie Els, Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel and others.
"They made a mistake (by skipping the Players)," said Brandel Chamblee of the Golf Channel, who also has said that Westwood's swing might be the best in the world. "They both have the same manager, and I'm not sure that's a coincidence.
"I'm also not sure Lee didn't influence Rory and not sure what kind of power play is being enforced there."
If he were trying to pull some type of power play, Westwood knows he does not have the same amount of juice he had only a few weeks ago, admitting that there is a "massive difference," between No. 1 and No. 2 in the world.
Despite all that goes along with being on top, Westwood said he was able to come to grips with it.
"People do demand more of your time and you have to be very wary of what you say at certain times, as well, and how you act," said Westwood, whose only other PGA Tour title came in the 1998 Freeport-McDermott Classic. "So you have to be on your guard a little bit more. There's a lot more to do.
"And, obviously, when you turn up to a tournament, and you're the best player there, then there's a certain added pressure to that. I suppose a slight responsibility in the back of your mind to put on a show and play well.
". . . But the longer you are at No. 1, the easier it gets, no doubt about that."
He obviously wants it back, and this week is step one.
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2800 Highlands Parkway SE
Smyrna, GA 30082
Phone: (678) 309-1200
Fax: (678) 309-0590
Clayton Springs Farms
4940 Steele Road
Ellenwood, GA 30294
+1 770 968 0934
Mo to Su from 09:00 AM to 06:00 PMThis farm is not far from downtown Atlanta, and offers a sweet retreat from city life. Trail rides, picnics, and many other activities are offered on this 100-acre (40-hectare) estate, which features both farmland and woodlands. Perhaps the most popular events are the moonlight hayrides, offered nightly throughout the year in fair weather. Business retreats, office picnics, and private events can all be organised, and 15 acres (six hectares) can be for camping.
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Heuchera Alphabet A summer 2012
ilovetogrow z9 Jax FloridaJune 21, 2012
We seemed to have slowed and I have played this game on other forums. It is also an excellent way to show off your plants and for us to build a library. So every couple of days we start a new letter to keep it going for a while. I am new to heucheras and my plants are first year. What fun!
Apple Crisp
Autumn Leaves This one is going to be a beauty.