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Virtual Tastings: #Cabernet Day
Rick Bakas and St. Supery Winery are hosting another installment of their virtual tasting series on September 2nd. The idea behind #Cabernet Day is that anyone, anywhere in the world, can contribute to the conversation simply by including the hashtag #Cabernet in their posts on Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Gowalla, personal blogs, and all other forms of social media. People are encouraged to drink Cabernet the day of, and engage others doing the same with conversation, tasting notes, and suggestions.
There are some big name sponsors and participants contributing to the event. For example, those looking for a port in the storm can cruise into outposts such as St. Supery in California, O'Vineyards in the Languedoc (Southern France), and others in Oregon, Australia, etc.
Numerous other wineries will be participating virtually, including famed Napa wineries like Caymus and Cakebread, and prominent Washington wineries like L'Ecole No. 41 and Woodward Canyon.
For more information and a full list of particpants check out the #Cabernet page
You can follow @StStupery and @RickBakas on Twitter.
Ryan O'Connell | Friday, August 13, 2010
I'm so excited. Some pretty legendary wines will be attending at each participating winery and we're going to have a lot of fun connecting with Cab lovers across the Atlantic and round the world. Thanks for mentioning my participation through O'Vineyards! :)


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IterationControlParameters — Class for representing the parameters relevant for SCF iteration control within self-consistent electronic structure models.
The accuracy which the SCF loop must reach before termination.
Type: float > 0.0Default:
The maximum number of iteration steps the SCF loop should execute.
Type: int >= 0Default:
The mixing strategy employed on the mixing variable in the SCF loop.
Type: PulayMixerDefault:
The fraction of the output value of the mixing parameter which is mixed into the next step.
Type: float in (0,1]Default:
The total number of history steps to take into account for the mixing algorithm.
Type: int > 0Default:
The total number of steps to wait before the mixing algorithm is used.
Type: int >= 0Default:
The mixing variable used in the SCF loop.
Type: HamiltonianVariableDefault:
The preconditioner used in the SCF loop
Type: Preconditioner.Off | Kerker()Default:
Pulay steps which have a linear dependence lower than the threshold are discarded.
Type: float >= 0.0Default:
A IterationControlParameters object provides the following methods:
This object supports cloning. See the section called "Cloning of ATK Python objects".
(): Return the mixing algorithm stored by the IterationControlParameters object.
(): Return the damping factory stored by the IterationControlParameters object.
(): Return the linear dependence threshold value stored by the IterationControlParameters object.
(): Return the maximum steps value stored by the IterationControlParameters object.
(): Return the mixing variable stored by the IterationControlParameters object.
(): Return the number of history steps value stored by the IterationControlParameters object.
(): Return the preconditioner stored by the IterationControlParameters object.
(): Return the step to start mixing after value stored by the IterationControlParameters object.
(): Return the tolerance value stored by the IterationControlParameters object.
Setup iteration control parameters for difficult convergence case
iteration_control_parameters = IterationControlParameters( damping_factor=0.05, number_of_history_steps=12, ) calculator = HuckelCalculator( iteration_control_parameters=iteration_control_parameters, )
Setup iteration control parameters with a preconditioner for a large system that is difficult to converge
iteration_control_parameters = IterationControlParameters( damping_factor=0.2, preconditioner=Kerker(0.02*Hartree, 0.5*Hartree, 0.01), mixing_variable=HamiltonianVariable, number_of_history_steps=12, ) calculator = LCAOCalculator( iteration_control_parameters=iteration_control_parameters, )
Currently the only SCF mixing
algorithm is a
PulayMixer . The Pulay Mixer implements the Pulay-Kerker method
where is the input value and is the output value of the
mixing_variable at iteration
. Currently there is support for using
HamiltonianVariable for mixing. The parameter is the
damping_factor and the
number_of_history_steps used for finding the input value for the
next iteration. The variables are obtained by minimizing the
Residual error of the
mixing_variable assuming a linear relation
between the residual errors of different iteration numbers.
A few notes on the variable
are listed in the following.
tolerance in ATK is not relative, but absolute. For
the total energy and the band-structure energy the internal unit is Hartree,
thus for these quantities the tolerance gives the accuracy as measured in
Hartree. For iteration control of a matrix (e.g., the Hamiltonian or the
density matrix) it is maximum value of the difference between the
corresponding matrix elements of the old and new matrix.
This means that the tolerance should be interpreted as given in Hartree.
tolerance parameter itself should, however,
be given without any unit. The
tolerance parameter is the
maximally tolerated difference between an element of the Hamiltonian in two
successive self-consistent iterations.
In order to achieve a better
accuracy than the one corresponding
to the choice of default values, it is often a good idea to decrease the tolerance
by one or two orders of magnitude. Often, but not always, this
will only add a few extra iterations to the calculation, since the Pulay mixing
algorithm usually performs very well once it approaches equilibrium.
If only a fast rough estimation of the results is needed
the accuracy can be lowered by increasing the tolerance value.
It is possible to add a preconditioner within the SCF loop. For
HamiltonianVariable mixing the
preconditioner will damp the variations in the low Fourier components of the Hartree
potential. Currently a Kerker style preconditioner is available.

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First, let me confess my unpopular opinion. Sometimes I don't mind a bit of Kirstie Allsopp. Yes, she is privileged and she is the daughter of some nobleman or whatever and I am not entirely sure what qualifies her to offer property advice and we have very little in common politically and she is apparently the kind of person people like me are meant to want to line up against a wall and shoot, but sometimes she is dead right when she tells house-hunters not to be so damn picky. When you're house-hunting on a limited budget, there is always a gap between hopes and reality.
But Kirstie this week illustrated a massive gap between hopes and reality of a different kind. I find myself scratching my head and sighing in response to her comments about advising girls to skip university, buy property and find a "nice boyfriend" this week.
Above all, I am confused.
The mother of two sons said she'd tell her phantom daughter not to go to university. When it comes to female fertility, these are her words: ""Women are being let down by the system. We should speak honestly and frankly about fertility and the fact that it falls off a cliff when you're 35."
Honestly, there is so much noise out there about women's body clocks and how we must all breed before it's too late and, oh my God, you're over 30 and still no babies, you'd best hurry up, and if you don't have a partner, there are other ways to get pregnant but you'd better bloody have a baby or else you'll regret it for all time and you will feel you'll have missed out on an important part of womanhood and that would be the worst thing ever...
Trust me, Kirstie, we're aware of Mother Nature being a bitch when it comes to fertility. Talking about fertility "falling off a cliff" is a tad melodramatic but we know. My God, Kirstie, we know.
We also know that, thanks to advances in modern medicine, there has never been a better time in the developed world for women over 35 to have children. And we are painfully aware that not everyone who wants to have a baby will do so. We also know that adoption is not always as easy as it should be and that is something worth talking about instead of creating further fertility panic.
And then Kirstie took a radical departure from the real world and from the advances that have been made to help women out of subservience and poverty. Education is the best tool we have to fight poverty, especially among women. This has worked well in the developed world and in developing countries, there are direct links between girls being educated and economies improving.
So why has Kirstie come back to discouraging young women from going to university in favour of buying a flat and finding "a nice boyfriend"? Sure, some women get jobs straight out of school and go on to earn enough money for a deposit on a flat. Perhaps if Kirstie had said that there is an obsession with going to university at the expense of vocational training, there might not be so much ire. After all, university is not for everyone and there are plenty of vocational courses that lead to rewarding careers.
By the time I left school, the old cadet system of training journalists had gone the way of the woolly mammoth. If I could have left school at 16 and worked my way up from being a copy kid to a journalist and beyond, I would have done so. But by 1994, it was all about getting a degree to be a journo. I agree that getting a degree has become fetishised but not going to university does not have to be the same as being untrained and uneducated. Perhaps a little more nuance from Kirstie here might have kept a few wolves at bay.
Instead, Kirstie plonks her ficitional daughter in a parallel universe where young people get amazing jobs after leaving school and it's all hunky dory. And to be fair, it probably would be hunky-dory for Kirstie's daughter as she goes on to say: "Start work straight after school, stay at home, save up your deposit."
Yes, because that is always an option for every young person...
And then there's the clincher when Kirstie tells this privileged imaginary daughter: "I'll help you, let's get you into a flat. And then we can find you a nice boyfriend and you can have a baby by the time you're 27."
Yes, because every parent not only wants their kids living at home long after they're no longer kids, but they have the means to help out with a deposit. In the meantime, let's all raise daughters with no experience of living independently before moving into a flat bought with the help of Mum. These "nice boyfriends" who are keen to breed with a woman with no life skills before the age of 30 are simply everywhere!
Sure, some men do become parents at an early age and they do a damn fine job. Some women find partners at an early age, have babies, and it works out perfectly well and that is also wonderful. But we have moved into an era where more women are delaying childbearing until they are financially secure and plenty are doing it without a partner. And lesbians can do it too in this era where sex with an actual man is not required to achieve pregnancy. And none of this amounts to the collapse of civilisation. For what it's worth, I actually don't believe Kirstie Allsopp is some raging homophobe but the whole "nice boyfriend" thing was cringeworthy.
Kirstie says she was lucky to find a partner who was amenable to starting a family right away. Good for her! Just as she was lucky enough to find love, she is also able to help any offspring buy property and, it appears, she has matchmaking skills for her phantom daughter that would put Cilla Black to shame.
And then there was Kirstie's notion of urging kids to breed first and then simply have a career later. Just like that! Again, it has been done, it is not outside the realms of possibility but, seriously, good luck to any woman who spent her 20s having babies and not getting any work experience or training if she somehow magically wants to start her career in her 30s. Human biology may not be fair but neither is the job market. I am curious to know what sort of jobs this woman might apply for. How much money can she expect to earn? Will she be able to afford childcare? Hell, will she able to afford to buy property if she doesn't have a Bank of Mum and Dad to rely on?
But, please, let's return to the real world.
Plenty of women would like to be so fortunate in love but, for so many reasons, life just doesn't always work out that way. And for others, a "nice boyfriend" just isn't a priority. Or having kids. Sometimes we just need to let young people get on with their lives even if it's not a parental-approved path they take. Sometimes buying property isn't someone's ultimate goal. But if someone wants to buy a place, the fact remains that educated women tend to do better financially and Kirstie, as a "passionate feminist" as well as a purveyor of property porn should encourage that.
And if there are young men out there who aren't interested in educated women, frankly, that is their problem.


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When it came time to get stops, only one team was capable of that.
Carmelo Anthony scored 35 points, 12 in the third quarter when the game turned into a rout, and the Nuggets beat the Knicks 108-96 Monday night.
"The key was our defensive effort in the third quarter and Melo kind of taking control of the game offensively," Nuggets coach George Karl said.
The Knicks trailed by only five points at halftime, but the Nuggets outscored them 25-15 in the third quarter. Denver limited New York to 35 percent shooting in the period and outrebounded the Knicks 16-9.
"We had a nice flow in the third quarter where we had a lot of confidence in our defense and they had difficulty controlling Melo and our transition game," Karl said.
Andre Miller added 16 points and former Knicks center Marcus Camby had 10 points and 18 rebounds for the Nuggets, who pulled away in the second half and improved to 3-1 on their season-high seven-game road trip.
Stephon Marbury scored 25 points for the Knicks, who have lost two straight and have the NBA's worst record. Channing Frye added 16.
Before the game, Knicks coach Larry Brown responded to Marbury's recent remarks that he needed to change his game and play more offensively. Brown said the Knicks wouldn't win until they played better defense and took better care of the ball - and he sure looked right Monday night.
Denver shot 51 percent and forced the Knicks into 16 turnovers.
"We get beat on turnovers every night," Brown said. "We can't get to the free throw line as much as our opponent, we don't create turnovers or block shots (or) get loose balls. So that's the end result, we give up a lot of points, a high field goal percentage."
Marbury thought the Knicks should try to push the tempo, because the Nuggets had played Sunday night in Boston. But Brown argues that a team can't run if it doesn't get stops - and even Marbury agrees the Knicks have trouble with that part.
"We're just not a good defensive team," Marbury said.
Anthony hit consecutive jumpers to cap a 10-2 surge that extended Denver's lead to 80-66 with 3:22 left in the third, then he took a seat on the bench shortly after for the remainder of the period. Denver led by 15 at the end of the quarter.
He re-entered early in the fourth after the Knicks scored six straight points to get within 14, and Anthony promptly scored on a dunk and a jumper as the Nuggets pushed the lead to 95-77 to put away the game.
"I want to win the game," Anthony said. "I don't worry about taking over the game unless I have to."
About the only thing the annoyed Madison Square Garden crowd had to cheer was a rare appearance by rookie Nate Robinson , popular with the fans but not with Brown. He had been inactive for the last eight games and played only once since winning the slam dunk contest at All-Star weekend last month, but entered Monday to a loud ovation late in the third quarter.
The 5-foot-9 Robinson hit a 3-pointer seconds after getting on the court and even enjoyed a rare height advantage while playing 5-5 Earl Boykins .
Jerome James , starting for the ailing Eddy Curry , scored 11 of his season-high 13 points in the first four minutes as the Knicks opened a six-point lead. New York led by seven in the quarter, but the Nuggets shot 55 percent in the period and scored the final eight points to take a 29-28 lead.
The Nuggets led by as much as 12 in the half before taking a 61-56 lead into the break. Marbury had 17 points and Anthony had 15 at halftime.
"The first half was kind of loose, more of an offensive game," Karl said. "In the third quarter defensively for the first eight to nine minutes we made it kind of hard for them."
Denver played the second half without Kenyon Martin , who has been troubled by knee and leg problems for much of the season and recently missed four games. He appeared to be near tears while holding his left leg during a first-half timeout.
Knicks G Quentin Richardson played the second half with his left thumb taped. He sprained the thumb while having a shot blocked in the first half and X-rays were negative. ... With James starting for Curry, who was out with a stomach virus, the Knicks used their league-high 36th different starting lineup. ... The Nuggets have worn their home whites in consecutive games. Boston was wearing its St. Patrick's Day green jerseys on Sunday night, and the Knicks wore their throwback blue uniforms Monday.


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A week after the county commissioners were complimented for what appeared to be a new openness by citizens frustrated at their inability to get time on the agenda, those complaints were renewed and amplified.
The commissioners have been discussing a policy for how to handle public comment and prepare the weekly agendas in the face of restrictive interpretation of the year-old open meeting law revision from county counsel Robert Troy.
Chairman Bill Doherty has refused to include time outside of public comment for residents to air their concerns about the interrelationships between county staff, the Cape Light Compact and the Cape and Vineyard Electric Cooperative (CVEC), despite numerous requests to do so.
Last week, those residents were encouraged after a wide-ranging discussion among the three commissioners that seemed to point the way to access to the agenda. This week, Doherty again excluded any agenda item to address these concerns, resulting in renewed complaints.
The commissioners are working on a mechanism for other commissioners to override the chairman if a request for time on an agenda is turned down by the chairman.
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WAVERLY TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WZZM) -- Deputies say three people were sent to the hospital in an accident involving a motorcycle and a van in Van Buren County.
It happened around 4:30 p.m. Sunday on M-40 south of M-43 in Waverly Township, north of Paw Paw.
Deputies say a motorcycle carrying a Paw Paw couple was southbound on M-40 when a northbound van made a left turn to enter a private drive. The motorcycle operator could not avoid hitting the van, and he and his passenger were thrown from the bike.
The driver and passenger of the motorcycle suffered serious injuries, including head trauma. They were not wearing helmets at the time of the crash. They were taken to Bronson Hospital Kalamazoo.
The van driver was also taken to the hospital complaining of chest pains.
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Authorities in Catawba County say they know who was driving the vehicle that struck and killed 27-year-old Renardo Funez last Monday morning.
According to our Foothills Bureau, the State Highway Patrol says 23-year-old Tiffany Jade Vassello was driving the Nissan Xterra that struck Funez last week.
Troopers reportedly met with the a representative from the Catawba County's District Attorney's Office yesterday, but haven't said how they plan to charge Vassello.
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The show's producer, Craig Zagan, made the announcement earlier today, saying, "We are thrilled to have Seth MacFarlane host the Oscars. His performing skills blend perfectly with our ideas for making the show entertaining and fresh."
Of course, by "entertaining," Zagan means "anti-semetic" and by "fresh," he means abortion jokes. (Deadline)
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Matt Martin Story
This story about Matt Martin was picked off a blog by a supporter of DTBL and avid fan of Matts. She wanted to share this story with you:
I'm not sure if all you Isles fans are aware of the Matt Martin story but it is a pretty incredible story that most of us Sarnia fans got to witness first hand while he played here.
Just over 4 years ago this kid was playing Junior C hockey as a 16 year old in Ontario trying to make it as a player that wasn't even drafted to the OHL and hoping to get noticed. Well he didn't get noticed very much but he was committed to succeeding at hockey and came to Sarnia to ask Dave McQueen if he could be a walk on and try out for the Sarnia Sting.
He came out to camp and impressed the hell out of all the coaches. They described his play as "an extremely determined individual that never gave up on a play and hit everything in sight". He may not have been the most talented individual at the time but he was raw and he earned his way onto the team and split time most of the year between the Sarnia Blast Jr. B club and the Sting.
He made the Sting the year after as a full time player and thrived playing with Steven Stamkos and Justin Dibenedetto. Even though he did benefit from having these two guys on his line, he did his job exceptionally well and really progressed as a player as the year went on.
He came back the next year and was named Captain of the team and had an exceptional year developing and leading the young group of guys into the playoffs. I have been following him quite a bit this year and he has started off pretty well in the Isles organization and is fulfilling his role as expected.
Today he finally gets the call up to the big club and debuts with 2 assists. This story is a really good example about a player having a dream and never giving up on that dream no matter what the odds were. McQueen who is still the Head Coach of the Sting today still spreads the word of the "Matt Martin Story". You guys have one hell of a determined individual on your hands that is only going to become a more dominant hockey player as the years go on because of his unbelievable work ethic and determination.
For those of you that already heard the story I'm glad it has been spread to the point that people outside the city of Sarnia have heard it and for those of you that haven't I hope it provides a little inspiration and a feel good story you can remember Matt Martin by.