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2011 Belle Oiseau
As many of you know, we are enamored with the wines of Alsace. So we were thrilled when our friend Andy Fortgang (of Le Pigeon and Little Bird Bistro in Portland) approached us a few years ago to create a traditional Edelzwicker blend for one of the restaurants. Edelzwicker literally means "noble blend", so is made from some combination of the "noble" varieties of Alsace: Riesling, Gewurztraminer, Pinot Gris, and Muscat.
Although many wines labeled as Edelzwicker today tend to be sweet and innocuous, Andy was after a classic dry style to match with the house-made charcuterie at Little Bird. So we sat down with the individual varietals, and concocted the Belle Ouiseau "formula": roughly equal parts Riesling and Pinot Gris with a splash of Muscat. Initially served exclusively at the restaurant from kegs, we did a small experimental bottling in 2010, and a more extensive one in 2011.
The 2011 Belle Oiseau (bell woz-oh, which means "Pretty Bird") includes 45% Pinot Gris from Walker Vineyard, 40% Riesling from Yamhill Vineyard, and 15% Muscat from Stag Hollow Vineyard. The Pinot Gris contributes weight and body, the Riesling freshness and vibrancy, and the Muscat brings aromatic lift. It is a terrific Oregon original with a noble Alsatian pedigree. Perfect as an aperitif, with raw oysters, moderately spicy Asian-influenced dishes, and of course charcuterie!
323 cases produced $18/bottle Purchase Information
2010 Willamette Valley Riesling
As with all of our Rieslings since 2007, the grapes for this wine are exclusively from Yamhill Vineyards, less than one mile from the winery on the "back side" of our hill here in the heart of the Yamhill-Carlton appellation. The vineyard was planted in 1984 on soils and at an elevation very similar to our Belle Pente estate vineyard, and has been a source of Riesling for us since 1998.
With the cool summer and beautiful, lingering fall of 2010, we waited to harvest the grapes until early November. Netting around the vines protected the fruit from the swarms of birds that attacked the vineyards during October, and allowed us to wait until the fruit was fully mature.
Since roughly 25% of the clusters were showing signs of botrytis, we sorted those out from the unaffected fruit and processed them separately. The "regular" fruit was destemmed and pressed immediately. The botrytized fruit was crushed and left to macerate on the skins for 5 days prior to pressing. The two lots were kept seperate through vinification, and blended together prior to bottling. The botrytized / skin contact portion made up about 1/3 of the final blend.
Oregon Riesling often reminds me of a hypothetical blend of Alsace, Austria, and Australia. This 2010 version, with it's modest 11.8 alcohol level, might send you to one of the more southern German regions like the Rheinhessen or Nahe. The botrytis contributes elevated spiced apple and pear aromas, along with wet stones in a spring-fed creek. The palate is rich, ripe, and focused with great freshness and a crisp, clean finish.
Enjoy this captivating Oregon Riesling now and over the next decade as an aperitif or with shellfish, raw or in cream sauces.
152 cases produced $18/bottle Purchase Information
2006 Willamette Valley Gewurztraminer
This is our third (and final) vintage from Hyland vineyard in McMinnville (we are actively seeking a new source). The wine features an exuberant floral, spicy, nose and a broad, rich palate. It strikes a wonderful balance between the hedonistic side of Gewürztraminer and it's more restrained, food friendly personality. This wine will make a wonderful accompaniment to traditional holiday meals, and is a great match with almost any kind of cheese.
145 cases produced $18/bottle Purchase Information
2010 Belle Pente Vineyard Chardonnay
Our 100% Estate Grown Chardonnay comes from a little 2 acre parcel planted in 1999 on a steep southwest facing slope with rows running up & down the hill from north-east to south-west. This 2010 version continues a string of very compelling wines that started with the 2004 vintage. It is also exciting in the broader context of what is happening with Chardonnay in the Willamette Valley in general. Over the past decade, the quality level of these wines has risen to approach the point of parity with Pinot!!
In keeping with our normal practice, we divided the block into an "early" and a "late" picking, harvesting half of the grapes on October 14th and the balance on October 22nd. The earlier harvest date allows us to maintain good natural acidity in the wines, and the second provides more developed and nuanced flavors and aromas. Blending the two lots together allows us to achieve complex, balanced wines every year. With the cool growing season, the alcohol came in at 13%, and even with a complete malolactic fermentation, the wine is bright, fresh, and lively.
We have pioneered the use of Oregon oak in Chardonnay, deploying them 50/50 with French oak barrels for over 10 years. The wines are 100% barrel fermented, but with very modest use of new oak, typically in the 10-15% range. This allows the toasty oak characteristics to play a supporting role vs stealing the limelight, to provide an accent vs being the main attraction. Elevage was over 12 months with frequent lees stirring, and the wine was assembled, lightly filtered, and gravity bottled in early October of 2011.
At almost 4 years from vintage, this wine is beginning to hit it's prime. Enjoy now and over the next six years with rich white fish dishes, baked mac and cheese, fresh pesto, and dozens of other white and green foods!
330 cases produced $30/bottle Purchase Information
2011 Murto Vineyard Pinot Noir
Two thousand eleven was the latest harvest on record at Belle Pente. The grapes for this Murto Vineyard Pinot were actually picked during the first few days of November, and the wine went into barrel the day before Thanksgiving! Bud break occurred several weeks late, and warm, dry conditions during flowering in early July set the stage for a sizable crop. Given the "lateness" of the season, rigorous crop thinning was necessary to get the yields into a manageable range. Even with diligent work in the vineyard, we were just barely able to achieve full ripeness by the end of the season.
As fans of Mike and Robin Murto's Dundee Hills vineyard know, this is a high elevation site that can struggle to get ripe in cool vintages. However, these 30+ year-old vines somehow manage to pull it off every year! This particular wine started out "lean and mean", but went through a profound transformation during it's second winter in barrel, and has continued to evolve beautifully over it's first year in the bottle. This is perhaps our most "Burgundian" Pinot Noir to date, checking in at whopping 12.3% alcohol! It is fun to drink today, but has the balance and structure to age beautifully for many, many years.
We have made single vineyard Pinot Noir wines from Murto since 1996. Over the 16 vintages, we can see significant variation in the textural aspects of the wine, but the core sensory characteristics are remarkably consistent from year to year: red fruit, fresh earth, and spice. This 2011 version reveals reticent strawberry and red cherry flavor and aromas, with alluring notes of cinnamon, nutmeg, Asian 5-spice, sandalwood, white and black pepper. It is medium bodied with moderate, polished tannins and bright, fresh acidity.
620 cases produced $35/bottle Purchase Information
2011 Belle Pente Vineyard Pinot Noir
As mentioned above, 2011 was our latest harvest ever. Bud break occurred around May 7th (3 weeks later than normal), and full bloom came between July 6th and 8th. Summer didn't start until the 15th of July, and was pretty much over by mid-August. Fortunately, the early fall was relatively warm and dry, with significant precipitation holding off until early November. Our Pinot Noir harvest at the estate vineyard commenced on October 17th, and concluded on the 28th.
Fruit set in the vineyard was quite heavy, much more than we could possibly ripen in a cool year. We made an unprecedented 4 passes of crop thinning during the season! After an initial round to get close to our target levels, we made additional "hi-grading" passes to improve the consistency and quality of the grapes prior to harvest. And even with that we discarded another 10% on the sorting line! In the end, we averaged 2.8 tons per acre ... prior to thinning, we might have had 5!
This "flagship" Pinot from our Belle Pente Estate vineyard included grapes from all 8 blocks representing 6 different clonal selections (mostly Pommard and Dijon 115, but with sprinklings of 114, 113, 777, and Wadensvil). Vine age ranges from 11 to 18 years. As always, over 2/3 of the grapes come from the east blocks of the vineyard, which get morning sun, but are shielded from the intense afternoon heat that we get in the west-facing blocks.
This wine echoes the freshness and vitality of the Murto but with somewhat riper characteristics. Our Yamhill-Carlton wines always lean more towards the dark fruit end of the spectrum, with black raspberry and blueberry notes revealed in this 2011 version. The fruit is complimented by complex overtones of coffee, fresh herbs, and flowers. The tannins are firm but smooth with a savory quality that keeps you coming back for more. Intriguing now, this wine will continue to evolve in a very positive direction for at least 10 more years.
675 cases produced $35/bottle Purchase Information
2010 Estate Reserve Pinot Noir
Since it's first release in 1997, our Estate Reserve Pinot Noir always represents the "best of the best" from our home vineyard. Visitors to the winery often ask "what makes it the best", or "how do you know it's the best"?. It's a great question, and to answer it requires a short digression into our vineyard design and winemaking practices.
Our Pinot Noir vineyard is divided into 8 blocks, all planted between 1994 and 1999, with 6 different selections (aka clones) of Pinot Noir planted on 8 different rootstocks. We harvest each of these combinations separately,and keep them isolated during the entire winemaking process, so each barrel of wine in the cellar relates back to a specific sub-section of the vineyard. By tasting through the barrels in the cellar over the course of several vintages, we are able to identify the "sweet spots" of the vineyard that consistently produce the best wines. Our favorite barrels from these special parcels are the ones that become the Estate Reserve bottling.
The Estate Reserve invariably includes most of the grapes from our original 1994 planting. By virtue of being the oldest vines on the property, they always display the broadest range of flavors and aromas. This block (known as the M1) always produces the most complex wine in the cellar.
The other vines that form the core of the Estate Reserve come from a steep southwest facing block (called the M2) planted to the Wadensvil selection of Pinot Noir. This part of the vineyard has the shallowest soil, and is also the warmest part of the vineyard. The individual grapes here are always smaller than in other blocks, providing a higher skin-to-juice ratio which produces very concentrated wines.
However, in 2010, only 60% of the blend came from these two blocks. As our vineyard matures, other sections are really starting to show their stuff, making the barrel selection process harder every year!
This 2010 version is classic Estate Reserve. The long growing season produced a wine of great complexity and concentration at a very modest alcohol level. Although there is no great sin in opening a bottle to enjoy tonight, this wine's best days are 8 to 10 years out in the future!
Josh Raynolds of Steve Tanzer's International Wine Cellar summed it up very nicely in his recent review:
"Bright ruby-red. A highly complex bouquet displays sexy red berry preserve, incense and candied rose scents, along with suggestions of cola, mocha and allspice. Sappy, deeply concentrated cherry and raspberry flavors are lifted and braced by juicy acidity and show excellent clarity and thrust. Closes with palate-staining intensity and sweetness, leaving suave floral and Asian spice notes behind. Impressively balanced and fine-grained, with serious cellaring potential. 93 points"
275 cases + 120 Magnums produced Purchase Information
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The chancellor George Osborne has spent over £43,000 of taxpayers' money defending bankers' bonuses, according to new figures.
The chancellor George Osborne has spent over £43,000 of taxpayers' money defending bankers' bonuses, according to new figures.
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This week's announcement by HSBC of the extent to which they are circumventing European Union rules limiting bankers' bonuses provoked more than usual outrage.
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The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) yesterday made it official: high earners delayed their bonuses to take advantage of Cameron's top rate tax cut.
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TSA: Leave iPad in your baggage unless instructed otherwise
The TSA (Transportation Safety Administration) have deemed Apple's new iPad magical enough to pass through airport security scanners mostly without your having to remove it from your travel bags. Mostly.
The Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday that in general you should not need to remove your iPad from your bag. That's because it's relatively small and people who carry the device often don't have bulky accessories like plugs and external drives that clutter the image when computer bags are screened.
Screeners may still ask you to remove your iPad if they can't get a clear image of the device.
You might also find a few screeners not yet familiar enough with the policy or the iPad, so again, leave your iPad in your bag unless and until you're asked by the men and women in uniform to take it out. Then take it out.
We haven't heard about other countries yet, but if you have let us know in comments!
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TSA: Leave iPad in your baggage unless instructed otherwise
Wow - reason number 189 why I need an iPad.
I have a few friends that work for TSA. I'll ask and see if I can get my hands on a policy letter from them.
Well at least the TSA is ahead of the game this time. I wonder how many iPads Steve had to send them to get this ruling?
I distinctly remember Macbook Air users getting perp-walked simply for showing up with one: http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/tsa-cant-believe-macbook-air-is-a-rea...
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An Ocala man believed to have shot into an occupied home early Sunday was arrested after he was shot in the leg by someone within the home, authorities said.
Ocala Police Department Sgt. Matt Bos said early Sunday the agency received a call about at 4:45 a.m. about a shooting in the 800 block of Southwest Silver Springs Place.
When they arrived, they found Sampson Robinson, 28, with a gunshot wound to the leg several blocks from the scene near the intersection of Southwest Ninth Avenue, Bos said.
Robinson was taken to Ocala Regional Medical Center where he was treated for non-life threatening injuries. Bos said Sampson was arrested on a charge of aggravated assault with a firearm.
No one in the home was injured. The name of the person in the home who shot Sampson was not released.
Bos said detectives are still searching for the weapon Sampson allegedly used and are also trying to determine if a second person was involved.
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The upcoming fantasy romance film BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, features Emmy Rossum (Shameless), Thomas Mann (Project X), Viola Davis (The Help), Zoey Deutch (Ringer), Alden Ehrenreich (lead in Beautiful Creatures). The film is slated for February 13, 2013. Check out the clip and official trailer below!
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The supernatural love story "Beautiful Creatures," is based on the New York Times best-selling novel of the same name - the first of a hugely popular series written by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl - is a hauntingly intense coming of age story set in the South. BEAUTIFUL CREATURES is about two star-crossed teenage lovers, local boy Ethan (Alden Ehrenreich) and a mysterious new girl, Lena (Alice Englert), who uncover dark secrets about their families, their history and their town. The film features Emmy Rossum (Shameless), Thomas Mann (Project X), Viola Davis (The Help), Zoey Deutch (Ringer), Alden Ehrenreich (lead in Beautiful Creatures). The film is slated for February 13, 2013. A few of the cast members will be participating in Comic Con New York on October 13
Who are the "casters"?
"The casters are sort of a higher species, you know. They're a sophisticated group of witches, but you can't call them that. They don't like it," explained Alice Englert, who plays Ethan's caster love Lena Duchannes.
"They're supernaturals, they're not immortals. They're people who have powers beyond the finite abilities of most mortals," added director Richard LaGravenese, who also adapted the screenplay.
Each caster has his/her own unique ability, but there's another caveat that makes their powers even more complicated. You see, on their 16th birthday, each caster is claimed for a side: light or dark. Lena, whose milestone year looms large, hopes to go light, especially after the cautionary tale of her dark caster cousin Ridley, played by "Shameless" actress Emmy Rossum.
"Casters are either dark or light. Some of her family is dark, some are light," Rossum said. "Lena is a natural, her powers are magnified. If she becomes a dark caster, she will become the most powerful dark caster in the world, and the same for the light."
"Lena's 16th birthday falls on the most powerful solstice in 5,000 years, and more energy will be released than ever before and transferred to her. It's a big deal," Englert added.
In addition to boyfriend Ethan, Lena has a handful of allies, including her reclusive uncle, Macon Ravenwood (played by Jeremy Irons). Click play on the video above to meet Macon, plus get a glimpse of Viola Davis as seer Amma!
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Chevy Volt: A Car Before Its Time?
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I researched 15 articles about them, and not one single thing is EVER mentioned about who pick up the tab after all these tax dollars are used to push this garbage onto the public, nor do they ever state just what the "fee" will be to charge them. Oh but that one above does mention that businesses will be able to share in the "profits" from the user fees.
Thanks for that website! That is a whole 'nother issue… I thought about it when I took the picture of the charging station. Actually, I was wondering if any of the stations at this particular store had ever been used.
It's too bad the Volt is so much more…. also. Some have recommended that I watch this documentary called "Who Killed the Electric Car?" to judge whether it is the technology that is costly, or the idea itself.
The technology has been around since the 19th century. It is just that electric cars can not compete with good, comfortable, affordable fuel-burning cars. I,m in Florida, and nobody down here spending a good amount of time in their car goes without AC. To run a car AC really takes some juice, even more than running a heater for half the year up North. The main problem with the Volt is that very few owners of one ( if you can find one) will be honest about the drawbacks and just what kind of mileage they can get from one charge while driving around comfortably, IMO. They started out with a lie to market the Volt also. It was deemed an "electric car" yet comes with a 9 gallon gas tank. That makes it a hybrid, period. Manufacture a good solid, comfortable car at an affordable price and they will sell like hotcakes without millions of dollars of fake advertising.
My husband had a friend who argued that the Volt was not a hybrid as I used for my example. I don't know what you should call a car that uses a gas back-up other than a hybrid. No doubt, there are some who will find the limited electric range of the Volt within their travel desires. My guess, not too many here in the Phoenix area, especially as we, like you in FL run the A/C most of the time.
Teresa has certainly done her homework here,resulting in some pretty realistic numbers on the cost of the Volt and comparisons to other "hybrids." 2 observations: The Volt cost is for 12k a year driving- that may be at the low end of the working class Americans yearly mileage driven. Also I find it difficult to believe the yearly total cost for electricity to charge it. It takes a 10 hour charge, all night long, and charging those huge batteries takes a lot of juice.
Of course under "ideal conditions" it may squeak out that kind of mileage per charge- but ( as noted below graph) AC, heat, defrost,wipers, headlights, radio etc reduce mileage. Pretty miserable driving without using those battery-draining things on the list there.
Personally, while it is aways best IMO, to buy American, the Volt is at the bottom of my preferences on the list. I agree that the 2 yr old Prius would be the best bang for your buck.
*Note: I hear that relacing the batteries on a Volt is real wallet-busting experience, yet my neighbor just replaced the batteries on his 4 yr old Prius for less than $300 bucks. ( his is still under the 10 year warranty period) The Prius batteries are about $2500- http://www.ers.usda.gov/briefing/cpifoodandexpenditures/consumerpriceindex.htm
The Volt's batteries warranty are 8 year/ 100,000 miles.
Thank you for your comments and observations. I agree that 12,000 miles is low. The government shows that the average for working age is about 15,000.http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8.htm Still, just thinking of my immediate family in the Phoenix area, more than half drive 20-30 miles each way to work. As a commuter car, the Volt appears aimed at the professional who drives 10-20 miles or less each day.
I also found an interesting comparison between the Volt and the Cruze where they calculate it would take 200,000 miles before the Volt is cost effective. http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/oneyear/1106_2011_chevrolet_volt_arrival/
The battery replacement cost is also an interesting issue. Because both Chevrolet and Toyota offer warranties of 8 years/100,000 miles I did not include these costs. I did see, as you listed, the price for the Prius and though I couldn't find resources, many hope Chevy will be in that range. Initially the Volt battery was $8,000.
The charging cost estimates came from the Edmunds.com website. Cost of electricity varies widely across the country. In our area many of us also have rates based on time of day usage.
I also share your ideal of buying American and come from a long line of GM car owners. In our family a mixed marriage is if one marries a Ford owner.
Thanks for the reply Terese. :o) Long line of Chevy-owners here in this family too. Make that EX-Chevy-lovers. Never thought I,d see the day when we would end up rooting for Ford Motor Company (our nemesis for decades) When the government stole long term investors shares in GM, (for pennies on the dollar) only to give them to the UAW, and then GM not paying a penny in taxes in 2011 while falsely claiming to have made record profits, I had to say no more GM support from me, sadly enough. Let any company in America avoid $3 billion in taxes in 2011, and they would show record profits too, regardless of their performance.
Ha ha! Yes, the old "Fix Or Repair Daily" acronym. We do admire Ford for not taking the bailouts. Had a friend who worked for the company and saw the restructuring they went through two years before GM issues became public.


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Return migration and development in Nigeria : Circular migration in perspective
LABOUR in the context of migration is a migratory resource. Through migrations, human efforts and economic activities are converted to labour across regions. However, although labour is considered a resource in migration and development corners, migrants as vital resources do not officially enjoy the same codification as capital, goods and services. Migration and development nexus therefore are often difficult to appropriate.
This is more so when the focus is on return migrations/circular migrations. While it would be ordinarily expected of migrants to return after a period of sojourn abroad due to age, level of success and affection for 'home', few actually return and the actual returnees contribution, and potentials to contribute, to national development is still not clear largely in real terms.
In terms of proportion of return for instance, in Nigeria, while most Nigerians intended to emigrate and many have emigrated, according to the United Nations data of 2009, the Average Annual Net Migration for the country – 60.0/thousands. Regardless, eventual return and circulation are perceived as gains as returnees/circular migrants have capacities to drive domestic investment innovations and bring capacities for jumpstart and mobilise development. This return option in circular migration for development construct become appreciate due to the experiences of matured diasporas like Singapore, Korea, China, India and South Africa who have leverage on circular migrations to galvanise development at 'home.'
Generally therefore, circular migrants are seen as potential engines of growth and development due to their transfer of learned ideas, technical skills and international networking. While these interests and orientations are necessary, important background dynamics/issues must be well comprehended.
Unfortunately this has not been the case as the dynamics and the nexus of circular migrations and national development have not been sufficiently investigated by research projects leading to partial and anecdotal understanding of the development potential and contribution of circular migrations to national development in Nigeria.
Furthermore the contribution of circular migrants has not been robustly captured beyond data on remittances to home country. There is indeed no visible coordinated effort to fill this gap either at national or regional levels. Reasons for this attitude may be absence of institutional capacities, ignorance of the potential of circular migration to national development or lack of political will.
For example, the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo between active participants and contributors to national development aspirations. The former president was doubtless encouraged by the well known successes of nationals in Diaspora of countries like India, China and Israel to national development.
In the same way, circular migrants contribute to national development in different ways beyond remittances. Unfortunately, attention to and documentation of global best practices in circular migrations are particularly lacking in the ECOWAS region In light of the importance of circular migration to national development and in order to bridge the knowledge gap in this area, Human Development Initiatives, one of the leading not for profits organisation ion Nigeria with the support and collaboration of ECOWAS-Spain Fund for Migration and Development is implementing a research project in the West Africa sub region with the aim of capturing the role of circular migrants to national development. The research project will annex the dynamics of circular migrations for development and explore global best practices appropriate for designing in ECOWAS strategy for circular migration.
Specially, the project will use qualitative and quantitative data on circular migration and development to discover the real contributions of circular migrants to national development. It will also document the perceived contributions of circular migrants to national development and benchmark these against global best practices in circular migration.
It is hoped that Nigerians who have emigrated and have lived abroad in regions like Europe and America for as much as five to 10 years but have returned to Nigeria in the last five years will cooperate to share experience and information on the role played towards national development.
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GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) -- Cleveland Indians pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez was suspended for five games and fined by Major League Baseball on Monday for intentionally throwing at Colorado's Troy Tulowitzki during a spring training game. Jimenez will serve his suspension during the first five games of the season unless he asks the players' association to appeal the decision by MLB senior vice president Joe Garagiola Jr. Before the penalty was announced, Jimenez said he wasn't going to apologize to Tulowitzki after hitting his former Rockies teammate on the left elbow Sunday. Jimenez didn't think he should be suspended for drilling the star shortstop and said his primary concern is being ready for the season. "Players are hit by pitches every day," Jimenez said Monday. "With a guy like him, you have to go inside. I can't get the ball to go where I want every time." Jimenez said he would not reach out to Tulowitzki. Earlier this spring, Jimenez revealed he was unhappy in Colorado before bei...
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Restless crowd wants Tacoma to keep control of Click network
Posted by Kate Martin on April 10, 2015
The future of Tacoma's Click cable network is in question. A passionate audience filled the lower tier of seats at Stadium High School's theater Thursday night to hear a proposal to lease the network and voice their thoughts.
City leaders are mulling a 40-year lease to Wave, a growing company based in Kirkland with more than 430,000 customers in three states. In exchange, Wave would pay Tacoma $2 million per year, and make $1.5 million in annual upgrades to the network's infrastructure. Click bosses say the value of the 40-year deal is worth $380 million in today's dollars.
Mayor Marilyn Strickland and Tacoma Public Utilities board member Mark Patterson gave a brief overview of the history of Click, while Click general manager Tenzin Gyaltsen talked about Click's finances and the specifics of Wave's proposal.
Restaurant owner Blondin announces bid for Tacoma District 3 race
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Tacoma restaurant owner Kris Blondin announced Thursday that she will run for Tacoma City Council District 3.
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Tacoma Public Utilities has an offer from Wave of Kirkland to lease the Click cable infrastructure for 40 years. Thursday's meeting at Stadium High School is the first of two public meetings on the topic.
Rumors intensify: Will state Sen. Andy Hill run for WA governor?
Posted by Melissa Santos on March 12, 2015
The state Capitol and political types have been a-whisper for some time that state Sen. Andy Hill, R-Redmond, may be considering a 2016 run for governor. Hill hasn't said he plans to seek statewide office. But an email that may or may not be authentic shows either A) that he is thinking about running, or B) that some people out there want us to think he's thinking about running.
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State Sen. Pam Roach, R-Auburn, was chastised again in writing late last week for her behavior at the Legislature.
Mello to defend Tacoma council post
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Tacoma City Councilman Ryan Mello announces his run for District 8 at-large seat.
Tacoma state of the city event to be held in Feburary
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Mayor Marilyn Strickland's speech, "Tacoma Rising," will highlight major accomplishments of 2014.


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anyone watching? Tito's fight is up next
anyone watching? Tito's fight is up next
im watching it
Just got back from watching Godzilla, anybody got something for me
wow im actually surprised to see tito win. should i be happy for him? lol
Godzilla was AMAZING and kept true to it's ROOTS.
There are many paths to freedom, not all are peaceful
Tito's stand-up looked pretty bad, i can't see him winning against a good striker at LHW. Its fun to see him fighting again though
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When Amanda was around 10, her mother met and later married Chris Mellas, an IT specialist ten years her junior.
I knew only that the hit was commissioned; the man who took the contract was a specialist.
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Possibly the biggest waste of money and talent. Shot in less than 50days, yes? Well, Puri J should have taken more time to THINK about what he was doing: shooting a film is not like painting a cinema screen red: it should show some creativity. There is none in this Bakwaas film. People clap for Mahesh's performance, I think he was BLIND not to see that Puri had a vacant screenplay and story. Just because you are a director's actor doesn't mean you shouldn't have any input. As far as I know, Srideviji had enough guts to intervene in Yash Chopra's Hit films from the screenplay stage. She certainly helped in making them classy and classic films. Now, that's how an artist should be. Not just run after friendships and... money?
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PITTSBURG, Kan. — Two Pittsburg State University engineering students are building an easy-to-assemble shelter they hope will someday be used by refugees and disaster victims around the world.
The Joplin Globe reports Austin Leake, of Independence, Kan., and Cody Frieden, of Lamar, Mo., will enter their design next month in a national contest in Arkansas.
The World Vision/John Brown University Disaster Shelter Design Competition offers a $1,000 prize. But just as important to Leake and Frieden, the winning design will also be given to World Vision to use in building shelters for refugees in Syria.
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- Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Tennessee, 1979
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- B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Tennessee, 1975
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- 1998 Honorary Distinguished Professor, Institute of Technology of Santo Domingo
- 1993 Moisseiff Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers for the paper "Instability of Buildings Subjected to Earthquakes," Journal of Structural Engineering, 118(8), 2239-2260.
- 1989 Hayes Engineering Award for excellence in research, Northeastern University
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- Bernal, D. (2010). "The zero-order hold in time domain identification: An unnecessary operating premise", Structural Control and Health Monitoring.
- Bernal, D. (2010). "Load Vectors for Damage Location in Systems Identified from Operational Loads", Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 136(1), 31-39.
- Bernal, D. (2009). "Damage Localization from Transmission Zeros of Delta Systems",Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 135(2), 93-99.
- Hernandez, E. and Bernal, D. (2008). "State Estimation in Structural Systems with Model Uncertainties," Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 134(3), 252-257.
- Bernal, D. (2007). "Optimal Discrete to Continuous Transfer for Band Limited Inputs",Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 133(12), 1370-1377.
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Professor Dionisio Bernal has received a $161,580 grant from the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) from the National Science Foundation to estimate damping in buildings during earthquakes.
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Long story short, I'm trying to write some toast-style popup notifications (similar to Growl) which should appear next to the system tray and stack as appropriate.
I can handle the instantiation/location/etc... but I want to add a capability for non-rectangular toasts. I'd also like to have Alpha transparency so a semi-transparent background PNG on the toast form would blend with the desktop or windows behind it.
So... To get the obvious out of the way:
Form.TransparencyKey is not sufficient for my needs as it's an all-or nothing transparency effect I want to get 50/50 foreground/background in some places, 0/100 in others, 100/0 in yet others etc.
My initial approach is to override the OnBackgroundPaint() method, comment out the call to MyBase.OnBackgroundPaint and use the graphics object in the eventargs to draw exactly what I want to a form.
This seems to work to start with - at the moment, I'm just drawing some rectangle for testing purposes so a PNG may present new difficulties but I haven't got there yet.
What I haven't been able to accomplish is updating the graphic - The first time the form is rendered, it shows perfectly as I'd expect (no border, just some rectangles floating on a desktop). If I move the windows behind the transparent window, the transparent window doesn't update/re-paint
I believe that I need to be calling Me.Invalidate() to force a re-draw but am unsure when I should make the call - How do I know a window behind me has changed its' contents?
Am I taking the wrong approach?
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Edit: I tried putting a Me.Invalidate() inside a timer just to test how the redraw happens - it seems that it does trigger a re-draw but the re-draw opccurs OVER the existing form background - ie an area that was originally 50% opaque is now 75% opaque (50% + 50% of what was there before)
So, after a couple of Invalidate()s, my form is showing as a black box - I need to clear the background of the form before re-drawing but Graphics.Clear(Color) seems to simply do a fill with the specified color - and obviously for the purposes of this question, Colors.Transparent doesn't really mean transparent - It seems to be a trick used when rendering the window to "show contents of control beneath this" which just doesn't work when we're dealing with the form itself
In case anyone wants to replicate easily, the code for my form is below:
Imports System.Drawing
Public Class TransparentForm
Private Timer As Timers.Timer
Private Sub TransparentForm_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Timer = New Timers.Timer
AddHandler Timer.Elapsed, AddressOf Timer_Tick
Timer.Interval = 100
End Sub
Protected Overrides Sub OnPaintBackground(ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs)
For x = 0 To 9
New SolidBrush(Color.FromArgb(CInt(x / 10 * 255), 127, 127, 127)),
CInt(x * Me.Width / 10),
CInt(Me.Width / 10),
End Sub
Sub Timer_Tick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
End Sub
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This year Truro will be filled with festive street entertainment on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Look out for Mother Santa and enjoy the Christmas cheer! Here is the line up at a glance.
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Camborne Youth Band 6pm Boscawen Street & 8pm Lemon Quay
Rock Choir 6pm Lemon Quay & 7pm Boscawen Street
Heyl Town Band 7pm Lemon Quay & 8pm Boscawen Street
Raost 6pm & 8pm Lander Gallery
Celtic Chords 7pm Lander Gallery
Kids Christmas Puppet Show 6pm Victoria Square
Julestone Waterstones 6pm Boscawen Street
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Busking Group 10.30am Boscawen Street & 11.30am Lemon Street
Jumping Out Duo 3.30pm Boscawen Street
Truro Baptist Church 10.30am Lemon Quay
Cornish Connection Barbershop Harmony Chorus 11.30am Boscawen Street
Camborne Youth Band 12.30pm Boscawen Street & 1.30pm Lemon Quay
Heyle Town Band 1.30pm Boscawen Street & 2.30pm Lemon Quay
Lanner District Silver Band 2.30pm Boscawen Street & 3.30pm Lemon Quay
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By Jeannie Kever | September 26, 2012 | Updated: September 27, 2012 10:42am
Photo By Danny JohnstonThe prices are changed this week at a gas station in Little Rock, Ark. The national average was $3.81 a gallon on Wednesday.
When Gulf Coast refineries began shutting down ahead of Hurricane Isaac late last month, analysts predicted the resulting gasoline price spikes would be short-lived.
But nearly a month later, the average price for a gallon of gasoline remains higher than it was before Isaac barreled through the Gulf, forcing the temporary shutdown of virtually all drilling and refinery operations.
"Prices are stubbornly high," said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst for the Oil Price Information Service. "I'm pretty confident prices will drop in the fourth quarter."
Prices remain highest on the West Coast and in New York - above $4 for a gallon of regular gasoline, according to AAA - with a national average price of $3.81 on Wednesday.
That compares with $3.75 a month ago, just before Hurricane Isaac hit the Gulf.
In Houston Wednesday, a gallon of regular cost $3.58, according to AAA. That's down from $3.64 a week ago but up slightly from $3.55 a month ago.
Crude oil prices are down by about $10 a barrel since early September, Kloza noted.
"People are flummoxed," he said. "They see (oil) prices down, and gas prices, they're moving down at less than the normal pace."
Prices normally begin dropping after Labor Day, when the summer vacation season ends. Refiners also switch to a less-expensive winter blend of fuel in the fall, which also drives prices down.
Still, Kloza said, gasoline prices are almost certain to fall significantly in November, the month when the biggest drop typically occurs.
He noted that demand for gasoline has dropped only 1 percent on a four-week average from last year.
"With portions of the country above $4, and much of the country above $3.80, I'm surprised demand is not down as much as I might think it would be," he said.
Oil futures ended at $89.98 on Wednesday in New York trading, down $1.39. The drop came as protests in Greece and Spain offered visible reminders that Europe still is struggling to resolve its debt crisis. However, wholesale gasoline rose 11.4 cents to end at $3.08 per gallon. U.S. gasoline inventories slid for a ninth week, down 481,000 barrels to 195.8 million.
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Apparel designed for winter (COLDGEAR), summer (HEATGEAR), and year-round (ALLSEASONGEAR) wear accounts for about three-fourths of sales. Footwear and accessories such as hats, bags, and gloves contribute about 15% and 10%, respectively.
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Headquartered in Baltimore, Under Armour operates its business globally. It has European and Asian subsidiaries and sources from suppliers worldwide. Besides North America, where it generates about 95% of sales, Under Armour's products are sold primarily in Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, and the UK. It sells its wares in Japan and Korea, as well, through a third-party licensee.
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Under Armour generates nearly 70% of its sales through its wholesale business. Its customers include the likes of Cabela's and the Army and Air Force Exchange, as well as Dick's Sporting Goods and The Sports Authority, which as a pair accounted for 22% of Under Armour's 2013 revenue. The company's direct-to-consumer business is also growing rapidly; Under Armour operates about 130 of its own factory house and specialty stores.
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Under Armour has shown strong growth in both revenue and net income over the past decade, with 2013 sales of $2.3 billion, 27% higher than the prior year. The company saw about 25%-30% growth in all categories (apparel, footwear, accessories), as well as in licensing. The results were powered by an increase in direct to consumer sales (Under Armour opened 18 new factory house stores in 2013), new product offerings, and higher average selling prices. Net income that year rose a quarter to about $162 million on the strength of revenue.
After a huge jump to nearly $200 million in 2012, cash from operations fell to $120 million the following year as the company spent more than $160 million more in inventory to support its international and direct-to-consumer operations and deal with supplier delivery issues from the prior year.
Under Armour is working to double its business by 2016 with more offices located outside North America than inside. In 2013 the company began selling directly in Mexico instead of through a distributor, and it launched its products in Brazil and Chile. It also opened more stores in China and has entered into partnerships with sports teams across the globe, including the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club in the UK, the Welsh Rugby Union, and Chile's Corporacion Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo football club.
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