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This may be the subject of a future rant, but the only people who seem to really
dislike high alcohol wines are some super high-end wine geeks, some winemakers,
and the wine journalism establishment (many of whom I think secretly like those
wines but are now being pressured into saying they don't).
Here in the USA the future is called The Young Winos of LA, and if you read this you just might believe that they will change the world of wine.
An excerpt: The Millennials popped onto the wine industry radar in 2003 as drinkers remarkably different than those of previous generations. They like to learn through experience, by drinking instead of reading or tracking point scores from big-name critics such as Robert Parker. They glean information through Internet search engines rather than from books, magazines and newsletters aimed at people who aspire to be collectors. "They don't go for any of the folderol," Gillespie says.
The statistics bear that out, he says. Of the wine purchased by the 70 million Americans ages 21 to 30, 40% is imported. That purchasing tendency has been credited with pushing the rate of growth in sales of imported wines ahead of domestic wines, Gillespie says. Gen-Xers (the 45 million people ages 31 to 44) buy imported wines 32% of the time, whereas imports account for only 26% of wine purchased by 77 million baby boomers.
The alcohol debate resurfaced this morning in my copy of the San Diego Union Tribune. Much of the information in the article is old news. But it, again, raised the question in my mind of just how many wines have high alcohol? According to some we seem to drowning in high alcohol wines. Are we?
Its not a simple question to answer. First you have to define high alcohol; I'm not going to go into the speculation about how or why alcohol levels have been increasing over the last few decades. Some would argue that anything over 12.5% is extreme. Others, like Darrell Corti, put the limit at 14.5%. For me there is no cut-off level. I agree with my wife, who after looking at the article in the Union Tribune said, "Isn't it simply a matter of whether the wine tastes good?"
Second, once you have set your limit you need to start counting wines. However most of the critics of increasing alcohol don't seem to do this. Instead they simply note that average alcohol levels have been increasing (usually over the last few decades). But I'd like to see some real numbers. Are we (actually it really should just be you) up to our butts in high alcohol wines? Our chests? Our heads? Or are they just nibbling at our ankles? Well again it depends on your definition but fortunately we can get an idea by using the numbers in a recent post by Alan Goldfarb on Appellation America. Goldfarb wrote "At the recently concluded ZAP (Zinfandel Advocates & Producers) annual Zin Drench at Fort Mason in San Francisco, an informal survey by this reporter of about 140 wines revealed some startling statistics. Of the approximately 140 presented at the event exclusively for the press, 54 Zinfandels stated on their labels that they contained alcohol levels of 14 to 14.5 percent. Another 11 listed their alcohol content as less than 14 percent. That's an astonishing 46 percent of wines that have relatively low levels of alcohol in a varietal category that consistently registers alcohol percentages to the 15 to 16 plus mark. (For the record, five of those 140 wines indeed had stated alcohol numbers of 16 to 16.9 percent - yikes!)"
So how drenched in alcoholic Zins are you? If you are Darrell Corti your about up to your waist because 46% (65 of the 140 wines) were 14.5% or less. If you draw the line at 16% then you only have a few ankle biters to worry about because about 4% were 16% and above. But if you draw the line below 14%, like Randy Dunn, then you better start swimming because 92% (129/140) of the wines were higher than your definition. Me? I'm on dry land enjoying the view. There is no way I'm going to drown over the alcohol in wine. And neither should you.
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The previous post links to an article in which researchers show that two drinks may not be all that good for your heart. The health effects of drinking wine have always been a little contentious because excess consumption does have serious health consequences and yet moderate levels of alcohol have been shown to have significant benefits. But what is moderate consumption?
In Australia the guidelines to limit health and social risks suggest that:
Men should drink no more than 4 standard drinks a day, on average
And never more than 6 standard drinks in one day.
Women should drink no more than 2 standard drinks a day, on average
And never more than 4 standard drinks in one day.
Everyone should have 1 or 2 alcohol-free days every week.
In the USA the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, drinking in moderation is defined as having no more than 1 drink per day for women and no more than 2 drinks per day for men. This definition is referring to the amount consumed on any single day and is not intended as an average over several days.
Moreover heavy drinking, in men, is typically defined as consuming an average of more than 2 drinks per day. For women, heavy drinking is typically defined as consuming an average of more than 1 drink per day.
So the interpretation of moderate alcohol consumption can vary between countries, but what about the definition of a standard drink? According to the International Center for Alcohol Policies "Official "drinks" or "units" generally contain between 8 and 14 grams of pure ethanol, although the measure varies among countries", and they are not kidding! For example in the UK its 7.9 grams of alcohol (by weight) while in Japan its 19.75 grams. That is a 2.5 fold difference. And that is reflected in the drinking guidelines for the same countries.
What is the take home message? Its quite simple. When you see a report proclaiming the good (or bad) health effects of wine (or alcohol) consumption make sure you check how much alcohol (weight or volume) was involved. Don't just rely on information about how many drinks are recommended.
UPDATE February 19, 2008: Dr Spaak has confirmed that the calculation used to determine the alcohol content was in error (see below).
Canadian researchers have come up with data showing that, unlike one drink, two drinks significantly increases several measures of heart function. Seems about right, I know two glasses of a good wine will increase my heart rate! Although I never find myself all that stressed about it. I wonder why? Should we take this research at face value?
The amount of wine ingested was adjusted for body weight and sex so that one glass (155 ml, or 5.2 oz) of wine with 12% alcohol content given to a 68-kg man equaled 18.6 g of ethanol; the wine was a Wolf Blass 2001 pinot noir (1). The first drink was ingested over 5 min, and the second when blood alcohol had fallen to 25–30 mg/dl. Based on Figure 1 in the study it looks as though both drinks were consumed within one hour. Consuming two drinks in an hour is probably reasonable but one in 5 min is pretty quick, at least for me.
Another problem is the amount of alcohol given. Their own statement argues that they consider one drink to contain 18.6 grams of ethanol. Not only is this high but it seems to be an error brought about by confusing the alcohol content by volume rather than weight. If calculated on a volume per volume basis then 155 ml of a 12% (ABV) wine equals 18.6 mls of alcohol, but not 18.6 grams of alcohol as alcohol (ethanol) is lighter than water (density of ethyl alcohol is 0.789g/ml). So one drink (155 ml of a 12% ABV wine) contains 14.7 grams of alcohol, and two drinks contains 29.4 grams.
In Australia a standard drink is 10 grams of alcohol (calculated using the density of ethyl alcohol as 0.789). In the USA one standard drink is 13.7 grams of alcohol. So the study subjects getting two drinks or 37.2 grams of alcohol consumed 3.7 standard Australian drinks and 2.7 standard USA drinks. If they consumed 29.4 grams then they consumed 2.9 standard Aussie drinks and 2.1 standard USA drinks.
If the authors of the study have made an error in calculation (and its possible that the error only exists in the figure legend) then their study still has relevance. Its all a matter of what you define as a standard drink. I'd also like to know if you really need to drink that first glass in five minutes to get arterial dilation?
1) The verbatim quote from part of the legend to Figure 1 is as follows "The first dose (dose 1) of wine or ethanol in the present study was adjusted for body weight and sex to reflect 1 glass (155 ml, or 5.2 oz) of wine with 12% alcohol content given a 68-kg man, which equals 18.6 g of ethanol."
A large explosion at Drayton Family Wines has killed two people and severely injured a third. Among those killed was Trevor Drayton, a fifth generation member of the Drayton family and winemaker for the family owned winery. The second person killed may be a grapegrower cousin of Drayton (identity has not been released). Assistant winemaker 27 year old William Rikard-Bell is in critical condition after severe burns to 80 percent of his body. Apparently Rikard-Bell had the presence of mind to run 100 yards to a small dam and immerse himself in the water.
The explosion produced a huge fireball that blew off the roof of the winery and burnt areas 50 meters away. The bodies of the two dead have not yet been removed from the site due to the instability of the structures following the blast and fire. The explosion is believed to have been caused by sparks from a welding machine igniting fumes from stored ethanol.
The Drayton family has had a history of tragedy. Half the family was lost to typhus during the trip to Australia in the 1850s. In 1994 his uncle, the retired winemaker Reg Drayton, and his wife Pam died in a plane crash on their way from Williamtown to Lord Howe Island. Their bodies were never recovered. Seven years earlier winemaker Barry Drayton was suffocated by fumes when cleaning out a wine tank. And Barry Drayton's wife Rhonda unexpectedly died shortly before from hepatitis and their deaths orphaned four young daughters.
Drayton's established their presence in the Hunter Valley in the 1850s, and have been grape growers and wine makers since that time. I have never seen any Drayton Family wines in North America, although the description from James Halliday's online Wine Companion indicates that they do export to the USA. Production is 90,000 cases of typical Hunter wines. I remember drinking Drayton wines back in the "70s, but that would have been before Trevor Drayton was even through wine school. Trevor Drayton graduated as Dux of his Oenology course at Roseworthy Agricultural Training College in South Australia and was also the current President of the Hunter Valley Vineyard Association.
Audio Slideshow at Sydney Morning Herald.
Regular readers will know that Miranda and I share our house with three standard poodles, and four cats (of an imagined Irish heritage). These animals also occupy various parts of our bedroom, but the most conspicuous occupants of the bedroom are the bookshelves on either side of the California King. Mine, the really small one, is stacked with books on a multitude of topics including wine. Well in truth, most books on my side of the bed are about wine. This book fetish creates a problem when I travel as I can't carry the whole bookshelf with me. So I select a book, or two. And hope that I will find the time to read. On my trip to Australia last December I packed a half-read copy of Campbell Mattinson's "Why the French Hate Us". It's a passionate book. Worthy of purchase. But the second half is a less interesting read than the first. So, wandering around LAX. I snapped up a soft cover copy of Jay McInerney's "A Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine". I have it in hard cover. I've never looked at it. Its collecting dust in another room of our house in San Diego. A quick skim of the LAX purchase suggested that I might find some interest in a few of the chapters; why is it that non-Aussie wine writers find it so difficult to write about the most innovative and interesting wine continent?
Never mind, Oz is filled with good bookshops. And Dubbo, at the periphery of the (wine)outback, is no different from anywhere else. With little else to do but hook up the laptop to the internet in my cousin's Darrell Lea chocolate shop, and hope that my work email might function correctly. I decided to walk the main drag in search of wine books. The Book Connection at first proved uninteresting. But in a little alcove a few used gems. A 1979 copy of "Wine Australia" by The Australian Wine Board ($7AUD) slouched next to Max Lake's "Hunter Winemakers" (1970); the inside covers filled with copies of wine labels of decades past. Ah, the memories. Another eight bucks. And then a few spines further along. An almost pristine copy of "Wines and Wineries of the Barossa Valley" by Bryce Rankine (1971), and even more wine labels. Another $7. The little bedside table in a bedroom once occupied by the most forgiving of grandmothers was beginning to buckle.
Off to the big smoke, Sydney. And my mate Ted's little house on the edge of national parkland in Warrimoo. The Blue Mountains. A hell of along way from anywhere and central to everything. Ted has a small idiosyncrasy, he collects pretty much everything. Well OK, for many years its just been Australia prints (but its a bloody diverse range of artists, Ted), books and periodicals on art, and now postcards. His excuse for the latter is that he is writing a book on photography of the Blue Mountains.
Ted is celebrated for something else. He thinks of his mates or more specifically his mates' idiosyncrasies when he's on the hunt for more acquisitions. So after we have gone through a few bottles of (rather obscure) Aussie wine I am presented with a foxed but otherwise excellent copy of H E Laffer's "The Wine Industry of Australia" (1949). It cost him $8. Thanks mate.
There is one more book to add to the bedside table. Halliday's "2008 Australian Wine Companion". Dymocks in the city has it. It makes my checked luggage "overweight" but the ticket counter lady does not even notice. Home, James!
A regional manager for Australian drinks giant Fosters says he was forced to destroy two bottles of Penfolds Grange at Melbourne airport due to security restrictions.
Having just come back from Australia with 11 bottles of Seppelts fortifieds in my luggage I think the above story says more about Foster's employees than the difficulties of taking wine onto a plane.
Some of the comments here are, well, interesting!
An additional note. Mr Grant estimated the two bottles were probably worth about $3000. In the Langton's Auction sale of Dec 17 the two vintages of Grange went for less than $350AUD each; the 1980 for $332 and the most expensive bottle of 1982 was sold for $326. Works of art indeed!
Geoff Kelly, the noted New Zealand wine academic and writer, has updated his notes on Judging Syrah, and the Syrah Ripening Curve. Anyone interested in Syrah/Shiraz will find this little contribution overflowing with information on Syrah, not only as it relates to New Zealand but Syrah/Shiraz in general. His listing of the aroma profile of Syrah as it ripens to physiological maturity should be memorized by all Syrah lovers, and detractors as well!
Its no secret that Geoff Kelly is Eurocentric in his wine preferences – he would say he favors the "mellow beauty" of wine. This makes him no lover of Australian Shiraz, but this in no way detracts from the knowledge readers can gain from his all too infrequent writings.
"There is much experience and scientific understanding to verify that these wines age poorly." Clark Smith, Grapecrafter.
I'm currently in Australia, but before I boarded the puddle-jumper from San Diego to LAX, and then QANTAS to Sydney, Miranda asked me to select some wines from the cellar that she could drink in my absence; she didn't want to fall afoul of cellar theft! I thought that was very considerate of her so I put together a mixed group of mainly reds that will suit her palate and those of any friends that visit. In the course of searching out these wines in what is quickly becoming a very disorganized cellar I found a wine that we had not tasted for quite a while. There were three bottles. We could try one with dinner and the other two would be added to her little stash, after all it was a wine that she had purchased when we toured Napa and Sonoma 4 or 5 years ago. Besides the label said 15.5% alcohol and described the wine, when young, as "a ripe port-like wine". And as all the experts will tell you these high alcohol wines are just rubbish, and they don't age anyway.
The wine was to accompany a very tasty beef pie; that would send the evening even further downhill because, as all the pundits cry from the rooftops of their ivory towers, these high alcohol wines just don't go with food. Before the pie was served I decided to decant the wine which was approaching its 10th birthday. There was not a lot of sediment, but enough to warrant the ceremony. The anti-high alcohol league will call that another waste of effort.
The color of the wine was vibrant, with a mahogany red center that faded to orange/brown at its edge. A few sniffs revealed an enticing and charming bouquet that continued to change during the evening. First caramel sweet toffee, then spices, tobacco, pepper, and licorice. And then Bonox, and then raisins: I just couldn't keep up!
On the palate the wine was full bodied with excellent carry of flavors and the remaining drying astringency carried through to a lengthy finish that was enhanced by a note of sweet cold tea. Juicy acidity framed the package with a hint of sharpness suggesting that the wine had approached its zenith some time before. But it was still a palate pleaser, well aged, and refreshingly complex. In style it could almost be an aged Shiraz or even a Petite Syrah. Would it go with the beef pie?
I have tasted very few wines that have been so abundantly transformed by food. The markers of age, the slightly drying tannins, and the faintly piquant acidity dissolved and were replaced by a fullness and roundness that grew on the palate; it literally seemed to seduce my mouth. That sweet, spicy bouquet exploded in wave after wave of flavor. The meal became a simple process of eat a mouthful of pie, sip some wine, and then sit back and let the senses enjoy themselves. Rubbish high alcohol wine. Who could possibly enjoy this?
What was the wine? Hop Kiln Russian River Valley Zinfandel (Primitivo Vineyard) 1998. This bottling was the first from a replanted vineyard, but when I visited the winery site online to see if more recent vintages were available I could find none. That should please the anti-high alcohol league.
I'm one of those individuals who likes to take notes when I drink wine. I believe that putting down my impressions of a wine in written form helps focus my powers of vision, smell and taste; helps me appreciate the wine. A tasting note is what I like to think of as one part of a complete wine experience and, importantly, it is an aid to remembering the taste and smell of the wine. I'm also a wine drinker who likes to compare wines. Yes, I'll even taste multiple wines in one sitting and, God forbid, I'll even rank them in order of how my palate perceives their quality. And just to add insult to injury I'll give the individual wines a score. After all wine, to me, is a beverage and even though some may try to argue the point, not all wines are the same. In fact very few wines are the same. And even though a wine may provide great pleasure (even intense disgust) resulting in an emotional response I don't view wine with the same emotional attachment that a film, or a painting, or a book may evoke. Yes, I've admired the bottle, read the label, become one physically with the cork (or screwcap), appraised its color and legs, and maybe even viewed enticing pictures of video about it in cyberspace.
But I've also smelled and tasted it. I've taken in too much information for a simple like or dislike response, or even an emotional association with some pleasurable event in my life. During the viewing, smelling and tasting I've been accommodating an entirely new combination of attributes recorded by my senses, and fitted them into a new space in the wine library in my brain. And to help me recall that experience I've documented the smells and tastes. I've put my senses through a series of tough hurdles, trying to discern if its plum, blueberry, blackberry or mulberry that is the predominant aroma. And is there a little bit of vanilla here, perhaps a hint of violets, and maybe just a few molecules of Brett! I'm not being subjective. I'm forcing my senses to be as objective as they can be. An objectivity gained by over 30 years of absorbing as much written knowledge about wine that I can, collecting wine, comparative wine tasting, visiting wine regions and talking with winemakers, even trying to make sense of Robert Parker's tasting notes. I've invested too much into this mad pursuit to wax lyrical about a wine, comparing it to a summer's breeze or a woman's breast. I want to score it! I want to give it some credibility with its peers. Place a number on it, give it a medal. Not frame it on a wall, or confuse its qualities by comparing it to a subjective, emotional fragment of existence that only I may have experienced.
And so I score, and score, and score. Wine deserves to be scored, some wines call out for a really BIG score. Others whimper, and accept a lesser accolade; both they and I know they deserve it. I trust my senses of sight, smell and taste so I know I'm correct in my judgment. OK, I will go back through the wines again, from least to best, just to confirm the agreement of my palate with the ranking I've recorded.
But how do I score wine? Those who read my Tasting Notes blog know I score out of 20 and then convert that to 100 by simple multiplication. Out of respect for Dan Murphy, a wine taster has to give a score out of 100. Yes, I know that my inactivity with the TN blog means that fewer and fewer of you visit there, but who knows I may want to share all my hard work scoring with you again, so be patient.
Do I need to use just numbers? No, I could score with stars, or medals, or any other method as long as it can provide an objective ranking, none of this subjective imagery. Of course all the forms of ranking should be comparable. How is that done? Its very simple really, you steal someone else's graphic of wine scoring. I'm going to steal Geoff Kelly's. Why? Because it actually makes sense. I look at it and think yes, that fits neatly with being objective about wine. That is a thoughtful, clear assessment of how wine ranking methods compare.
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Fresh Start at Kauffman Stadium
We are 9-21 at home this season after going 5-13 at Kauffman in May.
Not the record we were hoping for in front of the home crowd to start the season. In an article in the KC Star today, reporter David Boyce touches on this fact and even quotes Teahen jokingly blaming the fountains.
Well, it turns out the grounds crew guys had their own theory as to the Royals' home struggles and it has nothing to do with the water spectacular.
Thursday morning with the team heading out of town for a seven-game road trip, they ripped up all the infield sod. In all honesty, replacing the grass is something that was scheduled prior to the recent homestand and happens a handful of times throughout the season. But, looking for a fresh start at home, we'll chalk it up to this: new sod + new month = better results at Kauffman Stadium when the team returns home to face Philadelphia on June 8.
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i have tickets for this saturdays game versus the tampa bay devil rays my purpose for seeing is this game is to see ross gload play he is a player that came from the town next to where i am from and i am wondering will he be at this game seeing that he has been on the dl. i would like to know if he is off the dl and is he traveling with the team. thank you.
What we need at the top of the lineup is speed. We have a guy in AAA, Joey Gathright….that same guy we traded JP Howell for. He has been doing a great job in the minors and it is time to call him up and bat him in the leadoff spot and play him in CF. Move David to LF and bat him 3, followed by Sweeney, Teahen, Shealy, Gordon, Grudz, Buck, Pena.
I agree about Gathright, I enjoyed watching him play last year, and he didn't do that bad. He was/is the only guy on the team with speed. Couple that with the fact that he has been doing well in Omaha this season and I don't see any reason not to.

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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - The Porterfield Invitational is still relatively new.
However, the meet is quickly become one of the most competitive and awaited events of the track season.
The third annual meet was held Friday evening at chilly and windy Red Devil Stadium with a solid field of 16 boys and girls squads competing.
The John Glenn girls prevailed, scoring 113 points to surge past Martins Ferry, which led much of the evening, by 15.5 points. Thornville Sheridan, meanwhile, repeated on the boys' side of the competition, scoring 93 points in the 17 events. Tri-Valley was third with 76.
Coach Rich Materkoski's talented Riders, who had won the Bellaire Early Bird and their own invitational on Tuesday, still put forth an impressive showing winning two events.
Junior speedster Sarah Applegarth paced the Riders with a victory in the 400-meter dash. She posted a 63.78 to prevail by better than half a second in the 400. Her time was a new meet record.
Senior standout Courtney Crolley actually got the winning started for the Riders with another victory in the pole vault. She soared over 10 feet to earn the gold medal.
However, the Lil Muskies prevailed in seven of the events for 70 points.
Steubenville Catholic Central was fifth overall with 62 points. The Crusaders' lone victory came in the final event. The foursome of Michaela Gotta, Kara Kakascik, Monica Rigaud and Taylor Zapolnik posted a 4:18.65 to win the 1,600.
The Red Devils captured a pair of events en route to a sixth-place finish.
Defending state shot put champion Alyssa Robinson came to the track with a purpose and delivered in a big way. The Penn State signee set a meet and personal record with an impressive throw of 46 feet, 6 1/2 inches.
Her mark was her second throw of the competition and second that surpassed the 46-foot plateau.
"I was just feeling really good," Robinson said. "I came to the meet with the mindset that I was going to put forth a big throw ... and I did it. It felt good to get that throw (early in the competition). I needed that for a confidence booster because I had been hitting sort of a plateau, but I knew I was due to pop one."
A short time later, Robinson shifted to the discus circle where she finished second with a twirl of 113-7, which gave her a share of the high-point field award.
St. Clairsville's other victory came in the 1600 meter run where senior Juliana Madzia, an all-Ohioan in cross country, turned in a solid 5:13.36 to set a new meet standard.
All told, on the girls' side of the action, there were 10 meet records established.
The Riders once again got off to a good start in the field. Senior all-Ohioan Sean McGee earned the high-point award in the field by virtue of winning the shot put with a meet-record toss of 53-5. He finished second in the discus with a twirl of 147-1.
The Riders posted two victories on the track and the same foursome pulled the trick. The team of Brian Styles, Hunter Hill, Andrew Watts and Jack Fitch posted a 1:33.16 to run away from the field in the 800. The same team passed the baton around the oval to a tune of 45.01 to win the 400.
The Red Devils finished fifth overall with 62 points and 40 of those came via a victory.
Junior speedster Jaylon Brown was impressive in sweeping the two short sprints. A fomer all-Ohioan, Brown won the 100 in 11.08, which equaled a meet record and he ran away from the field in the 200 with a solid 22.62 clocking, which set a new Porterfield standard.
Standout middle distance runner Drake Walker broke his own 800 meter meet record. He blazed two laps in 2:00.52, which broke his mark by nearly six full seconds.
In the field, junior Michael Eaton captured the pole vault crown, which stretched well into the evening. Eaton, who was breaking in a new pole, flirted with elimination at every height before soaring over on his final try. His top clearance was 13-6, which broke the meet record by a foot.
Union Local's Collin Jones earned a piece of the high-point track award by posting two victories. He swept the hurdles, winning the highs in 15.67 and the intermediates in 42.11.
Steubenville's JaQuan Lavender ran a 51.07 to take the 400 meter dash, breaking the meet record by more than a full second.
In the boys' competition, there were a total of 10 records either broken or tied.


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We installed the trial version of the network edition, to run it internally at our offices, but also as a way to evaluate it for future clients (we're a small linux system integrator). Since we have a few windows users in-house we decided to try the Network Edition for the outlook integration, but both our windows users have been so happy with the web interface that we don't need to outlook integration, and hence don't feel we should be spending that kind of money until we have managed to sell the zimbra solution to a few clients.
I was wondering what will happen when the trial runs out? and is there a way to downgrade from the network edition to the open source edition without needing to start over?


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|Superstorm Sandy devastates east coast
|Written by Chris Lee
Hurricanes aren't something folks in the Midwest have to deal with. That is unless of course one is traveling at the same time a massive storm hits the United States.
That was the reality facing Denise Smith and daughter Janna as they were looking to head home from the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis, Ind. early last week.
Janna had just been presented with her National FFA Degree and she and her mom were looking forward to flying back home.
In an effort to save some money on plane tickets, the Smiths experienced a layover in Washington, D.C. at Dulles International Airport. What they didn't know is that they were going to be late getting back to Holyoke. In fact, they were three days late.
Denise and Janna were supposed to fly out Sunday, Oct. 28 but they didn't get home until late Wednesday, Oct. 31. As it turns out, the airline was having trouble getting a crew for their Sunday flight.
Luckily, Denise's brother, Richard Kafka, lives in D.C. so they were able to stay with him as they waited to get a flight back west.
It turned out to be a welcomed vacation of sorts as they spent some quality time with each other. As they hunkered down, the area they were in received some rain and winds. Their lights flickered a bunch but the power never went out.
Lincoln Hayes, a native of Holyoke, currently lives in New York on the west side on 116th Street in South Harlem. He said they are situated on a hill and didn't experience any flooding, just some rain and high winds. He said at one point, his fiancée, Rachel, said the wind sounded like a strong roar or howl.
Hayes said they were fortunate and didn't lose power, just some flickering. The biggest inconvenience was they both were scheduled to be in a play Monday, Oct. 29 but it had to be rescheduled.
Hayes and his fiancée had been planning a trip to Orlando, Fla. to visit Disney World with some friends. Their flight was scheduled to take off last Thursday but it was canceled due to the storm and the fact that the airport runways were pretty much flooded.
They in turn rented a car and proceeded to drive south to Florida. They crossed the Lincoln Tunnel into east Jersey and Hayes remembers looking back at the Manhattan skyline and it being dark. "It was spooky," he noted.
Driving south along Interstate 95, Hayes remembers looking out at the industrial shipping area and realizing he was only seeing things because of the full moon. There was no power to light anything up.
Along the way, they began seeing lines of cars in right lanes leading to exits. They later found out those vehicles were in lines waiting for gasoline. Luckily, their vehicle was good to go and they made it far enough south before needing to stop for fuel.
Hayes and his fiancée have been keeping up with Facebook and noted a lot of their friends have been affected by the storm. Some lost power, others apartments. More friends live in New Jersey and Hayes said they are dealing with complete loss in areas.
The 2003 Holyoke High School graduate said he knows of friends that have been turned away from volunteer stations because there were just too many people wanting to volunteer. "There is just an outpouring of support, aide and volunteerism," Hayes said.
Hayes and his fiancée are scheduled to fly back to New York Thursday and they hope they won't be delayed this time. As of Tuesday morning, Nov. 6 there was a nor'easter that was scheduled to bring more rain, wind and brutal cold to the already battered areas of New Jersey and New York.
An article on CNN stated, "The National Weather Service warns of high winds, coastal flooding and beach erosion, adding that localized flooding from heavy rain and wet snow could potentially bring power outages and dangerous travel."
The newest storm could make it even more difficult and demoralizing for those still without power.
According to CNN, New Jersey still had 780,000 outages and New York 540,000 as of Monday.
Gentry Lock took this photo from her 12th floor office window Friday, Nov. 2. Her building was still without power last Friday. Police officers can be seen on the streets below directing traffic. The tall building in the distance is the Tower 1, aka The Freedom Tower, of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan.
Another Holyoke native, Gentry Lock, lives in Astoria in Queens across from the East River. She, like Hayes, is located higher up and didn't lose power or experience flooding.
Her office, however, is located in lower Manhattan and lost power due to the storm. Lock said she wasn't able to work all of last week—something she was kind of happy about.
She said it was taking people five hours to make it into the city due to the city's disabled subway system and crowded buses and cabs.
Lock is a landscape architect and is currently the project manager for a project site at Coney Island. She was afraid to find out what damage had been caused, but found out it wasn't nearly as bad as she thought it would be. She noted some topsoil was installed prior to the storm and that will need to be tested. She also noted the parachute jump at Coney Island was submerged in salt water, but much to her surprise there wasn't that much damage.
Her project trailer was overturned due to the wind but she said she didn't have anything too important inside.
In all, she said what could have turned out to be a two-month delay will most likely only be a two-week delay.
In preparation for the storm, Lock said she purchased items in case she would lose power. She took all the precautions of filling the bathtub with water in case she would lose water.
Lock was able to fully return to work Monday, Nov. 5 as her building's power was restored last Friday. She actually made it down to the office last Friday and up to her 12th floor office. She took a photo out of her window looking south down 6th Avenue towards lower Manhattan. Down on the streets, police officers were directing traffic.
On her way to the office, she noticed how eerily quiet it was. Since the trains weren't running, things were a lot quieter.
She had to walk from 34th Street to her office on 23rd because the train wouldn't go any further south. While walking, it was apparent where the dividing line was of places with power opposed to those without power.
Lock is a 2001 HHS graduate and has lived in New York since May of 2008.
Sandy affected at least 24 states from Florida to Maine and west to Michigan and Wisconsin. The most severely damaged areas were New Jersey and New York. The storm moved ashore near Atlantic City, N.J. early on Oct. 29.
The unprecedented 13-foot surge from the storm hit New York City Oct. 29 and flooded streets, tunnels and subway lines.
Millions upon millions of people were reported to have lost power as Sandy hit and in the subsequent days following.
Initial estimates had damages in the United States alone reaching around $50 billion. An estimate of 113 people were killed as a result of the storm, with that number likely to grow.
The storm closed stock trading in the U.S. for two days. It was the first time the New York Stock Exchange was closed for two consecutive days due to weather since 1888 when a blizzard struck the city.
"We knew that this was going to be a very dangerous storm, and the storm has met our expectations," New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is reported to have said. "This is a once-in-a-long-time storm."
The storm put a halt on the presidential campaign trails as both President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney canceled campaign functions just a week before the election.
It was reported Monday, Nov. 5 that New Jersey residents displaced by Superstorm Sandy would be allowed to vote in Tuesday's election via email or fax. It was the first time civilians in the state had been allowed to vote remotely.
Holyoke Enterprise November 8, 2012


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Nestling in a cove, this small town on the island of Lipari is a good base for excursions to white beaches (spiagge bianche) which can be accessed via a footpath. Here, both the beaches and the sea are covered by pumice powder, which comes from the now partly disused Porticello pumice stone quarries.


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Alt-click in the center of your mountain. Since you're set to sample all layers, you'll get the black and grey of your normal brush, the white underlayer, and transparency around it.
Create a new layer to hold your mountains and change its blend mode to multiply. This will allow the background to show through, but the white will still mask out the mountains beneath!
For best results, you'll want to make several different variations of your mountains, but since they're all stored in that palette area to the side of your document, when you want to change to a different mountain, all you need to do is to alt-click the mountain you want to use, then stamp away.
The clone stamp can also be used to take bits from one image and stamp them into another, so if you want to keep all of your isometric mountains and trees in a single document that you use for every map you make, you can just keep that image open to one side and sample from it instead, saving you the time of prepping the palette inside your working doc.
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Vina del Mar, Chile (Sports Network) - Last year's runner-up Carlos Berlocq
was an easy first-round winner Tuesday at the $410,000 VTR Open.
The eighth-seeded Berlocq blew past Russian Andrey Kuznetsov 6-2, 6-1 on the
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Berlocq lost to Juan Monaco in last year's all-Argentine Vina del Mar
Also on Tuesday, Frenchman Guillaume Rufin handled Spaniard Ruben Ramirez
Hidalgo 6-3, 6-4, Chilean teenage wild card Christian Garin doused Serbian
qualifier Dusan Lajovic 6-3, 6-4, and former world No. 5 and 2011 VTR Open
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The top seeds here are former world No. 1 star Rafael Nadal and the
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Nadal will play his first tennis since last June after being sidelined with a
knee injury. The Spanish great, who owns 11 Grand Slam titles, including a
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Homemade Christmas: Glue Snowman Ornament
13 comments:
- Linda said...
So sweet!
- December 13, 2009 at 7:36 AM
- danita said...
sweet! snowmen can be any color, i think!
- December 13, 2009 at 8:36 AM
- Rebecca said...
- December 13, 2009 at 1:51 PM
- Kari said...
I think our daughters are sisters!!! My big girl LOVES "creating" with glue. We have projects that have taken weeks to dry.
Have you given your Mini-Saurus the glitter glue yet?? ;) It's divine (but takes even longer to dry).
- December 13, 2009 at 2:31 PM
- Jessica said...
Adorable...I love its pinkness!
- December 13, 2009 at 5:26 PM
- teachmama said...
I love this--LOVE it--and will definitely try it after the holidays.
MaryLea--can we hang out and can you finally be my bff at SITS in Baltimore?! Please, please say you're going...
- December 14, 2009 at 11:23 PM
- Thankfully Thrifty said...
- December 14, 2009 at 11:29 PM
- Melissa said...
This is so cute! My little guy is a big fan of glue as well. I think it's adorable when they come up with art activities on their own. Her project turned out great!
- December 15, 2009 at 2:40 AM
- The Blonde Duck said...
Popped in from SITS! How cute!
- December 15, 2009 at 12:02 PM
- JDaniel4's Mom said...
Love the snowman!
Stopping by from SITS!
- December 15, 2009 at 4:12 PM
- Mama King said...
Sweet! I like how you could see the beauty in her pink glue blob...reminds me of Charlie Brown's Christmas tree.
- December 15, 2009 at 8:24 PM
- Yarni Gras! said...
I love that! When I was a kid I ADORED white glue (no, I didn't eat it...) But I would make puddles and drops, etc. of it on paper....and color them with magic marker when they dried. Ha!
- January 4, 2010 at 5:18 PM
This reminds me of my fave free art for preschoolers: Add food coloring to glue. Put foil on a cardboard backing (or the round insert from a frozen pizza). Let the kids draw with the colored glue on the foil. After many days of drying, you have a fancy poster.
- August 22, 2010 at 2:53 PM
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BALTIMORE (AP) - Descendants are paying tribute to a War of 1812 veteran who, as a teenager, played a key role in the Battle of Baltimore.
The Baltimore Sun reports that a new headstone, listing rank, service and dates of birth and death, now marks the burial site of Henry Lightner at Baltimore Cemetery (http://bsun.md/U9W1Ay).
The family added an engraved footnote referring to Lightner as "Drummer Boy of Fort McHenry."
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|Many events to entertain all ages during the Fair
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
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With the 2010 Phillips County Fair underway, there are many activities for the public to get involved with over the next few days while "Keepin' It Growing."
Friday events planned
With many things happening Friday, July 30 at the Phillips County Fair, make sure to head over to the fairgrounds for some fun.
Those entering garden, floriculture, foods, crafts, fine arts, quilts and other things, open class entries need to be turned in between 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Horseshoe pitching will kick off activities at 1 p.m.
After a day of browsing the animals and open entries, head on over to Homesteaders Park for a barbecue from 5-8 p.m.
While eating, be prepared to enjoy a talent show, air guitar contest and more.
Carnival games will be held from 6-9 p.m. with many prizes up for grabs.
At 7 p.m. head over to the grandstands and enjoy the fast-paced stock car races featuring IMCA modifieds, stocks, hobby stocks and sport mods.
Family Day is Saturday
After resting up from Friday, head downtown at 10 a.m. for the parade. The parade will travel north along Interocean Avenue from its start at City Park. Participants must first register at the Re-1J Administration Building located at the corner of S. Morlan Ave. and E. Hale St. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. and everyone must be in line by 9 a.m.
The exhibit building (Heginbotham Hall at Phillips County Event Center) will be open for viewing from 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Those with furry little loved ones should head to the pet show at the show arena at 11 a.m. All animals are welcome, except snakes.
The hard hitting combine derby will be held at 12 noon followed by a busy afternoon.
A petting zoo, pedal tractor pull and horseshoe pitching all are scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.
The parade of champions will be held at the show arena at 1:30 p.m. After that, mosey on over to Homesteaders Park at 2 p.m. for the kids' races and stick horse rodeo.
Carnival games will be held from 3-9 p.m.
Another round of metal on metal action will take place at 8 p.m. with the pickup derby.
Other fair activities
Other events taking place during the week include an amateur/youth rodeo at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 28.
Thursday will be packed full with animals to keep fairgoers busy. Carnival games will be available from 6-9 p.m.
The Cowboy Chorus will take the stage at 7 p.m. as part of the evening entertainment. New to the fair this year is cow patty bingo scheduled to be held at 8:30 p.m.
Phillips County Fair activities will wrap up Sunday, Aug. 1. A community church service led by special guests Randy and Heidi Gunn will begin at 9 a.m. at Homesteaders Park. A round robin will take place at 10:30 a.m. at the show arena followed by the annual antique tractor pull at the grandstands at 12 noon. During this time, all exhibits will be released.


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Markets calm on default, for now
As the government shutdown grinds on, Washington is refocusing on a more terrifying possibility: the first federal loan default in U.S. history.
Treasury officials say default is likely by the end of the month if Congress and President Barack Obama fail to raise the nation's debt ceiling.
Lawmakers are right to worry. Aside from an asteroid strike or some other global catastrophe, it's hard to imagine anything worse for the economy than destroying the status of America's federal debt as a "risk-free" asset.
But there's a problem with this doomsday scenario: Hardly anybody was buying it last week.
The bond market was incredibly calm, with some notable exceptions that I'll get into later. And stocks as measured by the S&P 500 were slightly higher, possibly reflecting Wall Street's view that political showdowns can be good for the economy if lower deficits are the result.
On balance, it seems that the world's notoriously jumpy investors have more confidence in politicians than politicians have in themselves.
"There is a better chance of the sun not rising in the east than there is a chance of the U.S. defaulting on its sovereign debt," said Herb Morgan, the CEO of Efficient Market Advisors, a wholesale investment firm in Del Mar Heights that manages money for retail brokers.
"If there was any potential for a coupon miss by the Treasury, the Treasury (bond) market would be tanking, and it's not," he said. "It's trading at a significant premium."
Indeed, the benchmark 10-year Treasury yielded 2.66 percent Friday, down from nearly 3 percent last month and well below the historical average. If investors thought repayment risks were rising, they'd demand higher rates and send bond prices lower.
That's not to say there aren't warning signs.
Yields on one-month Treasurys jumped above those due in three or six months, suggesting concern about hiccups around the debt ceiling date.
And prices have been rising for credit default swaps, a form of insurance.
But fear hasn't spread into the broader market for Treasurys, which is the world's biggest and most liquid, and represents the closest thing to reading investors' minds.
The relative calm comes as tension rises in Washington.
On Tuesday, the government partially shut down for the first time since 1996, as Congress deadlocked on whether to roll out provisions of the Affordable Care Act and failed to approve a budget.
Yet spending still surpasses tax revenues, so the debt ceiling looms as the next political crisis. Congress has acted 78 times on the debt limit since 1960. But it hasn't always been easy; both parties used the ceiling as leverage in negotiations.
In a report Thursday, Treasury warned that it had exhausted "extraordinary measures" and will be down to $30 billion by Oct. 17, about enough to last a week or two.
The federal government normally spends $60 billion a day, borrowing about a quarter of the total.
Technically, the U.S. hit its borrowing limit in May, but Treasury has been paying the nation's bills using a variety of accounting tricks, including not making new investments with cash in the Postal Service pension fund.
Obama and his fellow Democrats in Congress have refused to accept spending restrictions as a condition of raising the debt limit. Likewise, Republicans have refused to raise the limit without spending restrictions.
The Constitution is vague on what happens if Congress doesn't reach a deal in time.
Legal scholars have debated whether Obama can pay the nation's bills without legislative consent. The president, a former Constitutional law professor, has said he can't.
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January 8, 2013
WHEELING — West Virginia would allow four more cities or towns to pursue increased governing powers through a successful "home rule" pilot program, under a draft bill discussed by lawmakers Monday....
Wonder why the mayor and officials declared the pilot a success but fail to ask the people they represent what they think of the program… Smaller government, less rules and less taxes would be a success for the people and government.
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West Virginia Municipal League is a special interest group with their own agenda but even they must admit they need more training on topics of ethics and the state's open meeting law. Don't you think if they have not been able to master ethics and open meetings then Home Rule is too complicated for the local cities and the State is better in controlling the rules .
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Wonder why just a few cities want home rule and the 99% of cities are happy with the State making the rule? Less rules and less government mean less taxes.
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Any city wanting HOME RULE should have to have 2/3 vote to change to this with 50% of the registered voters voting. Instead of having a election like BOE having elections on Saturday by itself where the majority of the vote is the minority employees of BOE voters.
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First complete government transparency and penalties for failure to respond to the citizens and violations of the ethics and transparency. Put the burden of violation on city government with fines and penalties. HOME RULE has not been the success ever politician wants it to be in running city government. Fixed the corruptions and ethics problems before turning over home rule power to part time politicians back by local special interest. The State can do what home rule does without letting local cities and towns making their own rules.
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Early wreck in Daytona 500 takes out favorites
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. Tony Stewart dealt with more Daytona 500 heartache.
And he wasn't the only contender whose run at the checkered flag ended long before the finish.
Stewart, Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick all won secondary Daytona races during Speedweeks. Just not the Daytona 500.
Stewart, who won the crash-marred Nationwide race Saturday, never got the chance to be in the hunt. With one big wreck, the sentimental favorite to win the Daytona 500 turned into a handyman. He grabbed his tools and banged away on the No. 14 in the garage for do-it-yourself repairs.
Told the accident spoiled the start of his season, Stewart wasn't buying it.
"To hell with the season," he said. "I wanted to win the Daytona 500."
Harvick, the driver to beat in Speedweeks, had his bid at a second Daytona 500 win end in the same crash that took out Stewart. Matt Kenseth had the dominant car and led a race-high 86 laps until an engine issue forced him from the track with the lead.
"You can't drop out and win championships," he said. "We had all the right things, we just didn't make it to the end."
Harvick and Stewart were collected in an early crash that knocked out several top contenders, shaking up NASCAR's opener and paving the way for underfunded rides driven by Regan Smith and Michael McDowell to finish in the top 10.
Stewart made it 0 for 15 in the Daytona 500 after another failed effort in a strong car. In 17 seasons spanning NASCAR and IndyCar, Stewart has been able to cross most everything off his to-do list. He still has a big checkered flag to chase at Daytona.
Stewart eventually returned to the track - 82 laps back. He finished 41st, and Harvick was 42nd.
"If I didn't tell you I was heartbroken and disappointed, I'd be lying to you," Stewart said.
The wreck ended Harvick's attempt to become the first in NASCAR history to win the exhibition Sprint Unlimited, a twin qualifying race and the Daytona 500 in the same Speedweeks.
"It was just one of those deals," Harvick said.
Harvick stripped his firesuit down to his waist and rode off in a golf cart, a more solemn ride than his two trips to Victory Lane this week. Harvick had dominated in Speedweeks as the prelude to his final season driving a Richard Childress Chevrolet. He won last weekend's Sprint Unlimited and one of the Duel races, each time plopping infant son Keelan into the cockpit for a quick rub of good luck.
This time, his battered No. 29 couldn't be saved.
The early nine-car wreck started when Kasey Kahne let off the gas to slow as they neared the first turn at Daytona International Speedway. Kyle Busch tried to do the same, but couldn't avoid contact.
Busch sent Kahne spinning across the track. Juan Pablo Montoya, 2010 race winner Jamie McMurray and Brad Keselowski also were involved. So were Kurt Busch and Casey Mears. Montoya is a former Indianapolis 500 winner. Kurt Busch won the 2004 Cup title. None of them had a chance to pad his resume.
The accident came a day after a horrific wreck in a second-tier NASCAR series race hurled chunks of debris, including a heavy tire, into the stands and injured nearly 30 people.
The next nine-car wreck came 105 laps later and took out Carl Edwards. Edwards said his team was ready to come back and dominate at Phoenix after a miserable month at Daytona.
Joe Gibbs Racing also needs to rebound after a promising 1-2-3 run by Kenseth, Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch quickly fell apart. Kenseth's smoky No. 20 hit pit road with engine woes and Busch's race soon ended with a blown engine. Busch was furious as he walked alone back to his hauler.