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Rated 3.7 out of 5 by 118 reviewers.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Warren Attractve Needed an outdoor work station for washing hands and other cleaning projects related to gardening, etc. I believe this will fill the bill. Also, as the article was delivered missing some minor parts, I called the number on the invoice and had the parts in four days. Great customer service. February 15, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by BKER Outdoor Garden Sink This sink is perfect for the part-time gardener or gardener with limited space providing a work space with access to water for replanting etc. My particular unit arrived with two of the three screws, that hold in the drain plate, pulled out. Fortunately they were still in the box and I was able to re-install them and they appear that they will hold the plate so as not to allow leakage around the drain. Overall, pretty impressive in design ad function. April 8, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Happy2beeoutside This is exactly what I needed. I have had the sink for about a year, still in the box. I didn't want to permanently mount it anywhere. This is the perfect solution. It looks nice, is easy to move and has great features. April 14, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Orchids4me Great outdoor sink!! I had this same sink at our other house and after we sold the house I new I would get one for the new house. It's so nice to have a sink outside while working in the yard. I bought the potting table that fits around it so I feel like I have my own outdoor kitchen. The quality is good and it was easy to assemble and is very durable. Would highly recommend it. April 16, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by MsSusie Outdoor Garden Sink An awesome product and one which keeps the "yard work" dirt outside. You no longer have to take those dirty hands into the house to clean them. We find our garden sink to be an indispensable part of our outdoor activities. I highly recommend this product! April 20, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Speedlimit42 Love this outdoor sink! I have been wanting this kind of sink for a long time so a big THANK YOU to IMPROVEMENTS for the opportunity to buy one ! The price is very reasonable and shipping and delivery is as good as it gets! I am an avid gardener and this is perfect for my Spring planting and cleanup, without running inside each time I need to wash my hands. Thank you so much IMPROVEMENTS! I will be ordering from you again soon! May 8, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by mander this product is a must have This is a really great product, wish i would have known about it years ago. already purchased a second one . Also just showed my friend and gave all the details and hes buying one this week.. I'm thinking of other places that i could use one. May 10, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by kelly54 Wow Wow I should of gotten this years ago, love it. Can wash hands ,paint brushes, flower pots, kids hands, outdoor shoes. It works great .... May 14, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by plannerk As good as you think. I've been eyeing this, but I didn't want to attach it to my vinyl siding. The workstation pushed me off the fence. I had to send the first one back. The manufacturer forgot to put the holes in it for the screws. Improvements was very nice about it, and I got the replacement in a couple of days. I'm very happy with it. My husband agrees that it is a good thing, and is glad for the workstation as well. May 20, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by GoBucks Great Outdoor Sink This sink is made of quality material. Was very easy to install but does NOT include the mounting hardware. We use it all the time. Great Idea!! May 21, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by ValH Great outdoor product Built one myself previously and this is comparable to it. Would have been happier if i both pieces were sold as a unit so all the hardware was included and it might have been less expensive June 8, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by HONEYBUNCH Great features I love the product however it was missing the main screws to put it together so had to purchase. June 17, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by DarlafromIowa The outdoor sink I am really happy so far with this product. I live in Iowa where it rains a lot so I'm a little concerned about how it will weather June 18, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Cajin Surprised at my good fortune! I received an outdoor sink as a gift 8 years ago. Last year the water connection became separated on the inside. I could not fix it and called Improvements to order a new one. After some research they found the original order. They told me this product has a lifetime warranty. They would issue me a gift certificate for the price paid for the original sink and I could order the new and improved one for just the difference in price. I received the new one in a few days and installed it immediately. It was easy to install and works very well. Thank you Improvements!! June 21, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by BigHal Our Outdoor Garden Sink It works great. It replaces an older one I had installed several years ago. It had a roll-up drum for the hose that never did work well and finally failed altogether. This new one replaces the drum with a neat place to roll up the hose, which works great . . . . . especially for the new lightweight expandable hoses! It is a very welcome and useful addition to our backyard! July 16, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Shoozie Work Station & Sink Very Easy & Perfect Addition to Backyard This spring (4/2013), I purchased the work station, as well as the outdoor sink. Yes, you need to order both as one works with the other. If you want to put hose on the front of the bottom of the sink, think smaller diameter because it does not hold much - 5/8's and 100 ft. would be too much. I am still able to use it with the adaption of the hose size and it works quite well. The finish is beautiful on the workstation and is easily put together. Do use boiled linseed oil on the wood workstation at the end of the season to keep it fresh looking. The cover for the workstation and sink is a must, but as I can see Improvements is sold out at this time. The sink is small, but you can wash your hands outside with soap which is a real time saver. The faucet can be hidden away in the sink (it just folds down into the sink) and the two plastic side pieces slide over the sink to cover it when not in use. I use this sink every day and the workstation holds all my extras like pots and sprinklers. I absolutely love it. P.S. You will need an extra hose piece for the sink drain; otherwise, everything about it has spoiled me and now I can't live without it. Thanks Improvements! October 4, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by shoppinlaura Convenient - just what we wanted. We haven't used it yet - waiting for the warmer weather. But it looks great. March 26, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by BBBinAZ Great Outdoor Sink! This outdoor sink set-up works well for those planting project cleanups when you'd rather not have to go back into the house to clean up!! The additional wooden cart station makes it mobile. April 22, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by Carlinutah Great value at the price and looks like it will last for many years to come We had been using an outside sink for 6 or 7 years and this one looked like a good replacement. It was easy to assemble and mounted up nicely to our brick wall. I am having a little problem getting the water source connection snug so that it doesn't leak under pressure, but I like the design and functionality. It looks a whole lot neater than the old one we were using. Also the water drain connection is an improvement on previous designs. I think it's a great value. June 22, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by lizzybit garden sink and wooden holder Love it! Looks great. Fits perfect. Not too big not too small. My only comment is I wish the hose holder came out... our regular hose is too big. Going to buy one of those new flexible hoses. I would highly recommend. June 26, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by Nancy70 Outdoor Garden Sink I had purchased this sink some 20 years ago and just had to replace it now. The quality is great and living in the Northeast it has endured very harsh weather especially this last winter. So after 20 years I think it was time to get a new one and I was really happy to find it on your site. Thank you and keep up the great quality. September 16, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by Vice4Value Better in person than on line We have a small area for a sink, and this one fit perfectly. Prompt delivery and easy installation.This was our first purchase from Improvementscatalog.com but not our last. Sign us "fans" April 23, 2016
Rated 4 out of 5 by Widman Handy sink for outdoor I like the design. The 1st sink came and after assembly, the faucet leaked due to poor seals but the replacement works fine. It remains to be seen how long the plastic will last against the sun's rays. May 24, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by Mountainhome Handy outdoor sink Like the looks and neatness of it when not in use. Hard to find outdoor sinks - we looked many, many places. Glad to find it and it's exactly what we wanted. May 24, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by HicksnTX Difficult to mount Since the instructions refer you to your local handyman for mounting it probably isn't as good a buy as I thought. Also the photo is misleading since it looks like the garden hose hooks up to the sink instead of it being a drain hose from the sink. May be if a different color was used for the garden hose and the drain hose that would make it clearer. As it appears now I thought the garden hose was hooked up to the sink. I am looking forward to using it. June 2, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by HomeGardener Good for the home gardener I purchased the sink as it looked like a durable product that would be a convenient way to keep clean while potting plants. The moveable shelves are great and I really like the retractable faucet. The hose keeper holds up to a 50' hose, and there is a compact storage area for tools or a towel to dry my hands. I did have problems putting it together as the plastic pieces are stiff (need a little muscle). Also, it didn't come with mounting hardware or the 2 hoses for connection to the water source or drainage from the sink ( I purchased 4' hoses at a hardware store). I also needed to purchase a Y connector to the water source so I could use both the sink and my garden hose at the same time. All these extras added to the cost which were unexpected. June 25, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by VirginiaGardener Easy to assemble but..... It took me all of 15 min to assemble the sink. Instructions were easy to understand and relatively straight forward. All parts were included and service worthy. The only problem I have is that the holes drilled in the sink body for the tracks to hold the sliding covers were not drilled in the proper place. Consequently the covers do not fit in the lip properly and do not close tightly. We decided this was not a critical problem and did not return the sink. We are enjoying the convenience of having an outdoor sink next to our potting bench. Only time will tell whether the flaw mentioned above will effect its performance. June 27, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by Redstickleaper Was a Great gift and appears to do the job. First box I received was missing all of the connection pieces and the instructions. Improvements was more than willing to immediately ship another one and pick up the defective item. The sink assembly was easy to assemble and install and I believe it will do a sufficient job for it's purpose of cleaning my father's hands, veggies from the garden and giving him a place to clean his fishing catch. It is appropriately priced for the quality of the product. I would not believe this will last years given the heavy sun and rain exposure we receive in south Louisiana, but at this price, replacing it every few would not be a big deal. He loved it as a Father's day gift and that's what matters. June 28, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by htg1969 Great Product My wife needed an outside work area for her gardening and potting needs and this garden sink was the perfect idea. Assembly was quick and easy. It is well built and designed for years of use. My only problem is the box was delivered without all the parts so I have had to delay installation for over two weeks now. When the replacement box arrived it was also incomplete so now I have to wait even longer before I can complete this project. July 7, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by GeorgeF A nice outdoor sink - just what my wife was looking for. This is a nice looking unit , my wife loves it and uses it for clean up after her gardening activities. My only complaint is with the assembly instructions - they are unnecessarily cluttered and confusing. The assembly itself is a straightforward affair and the instructions could be greatly simplified. August 22, 2012
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hose reel
how do you roll up the hoes? is it automatic: how much weight can it support hoes and other items?
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Answer:We just wrap the hose around the holder and it's OK so far. We have room for another hose holder which may be more convenient.
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Answer:It's manual - it's just a ledge that you put the hose on. The middle portion is where the faucet and drain connections happen, and many of us had leaks in that area.
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Answer:The hose hanger is designed to hold a 50 ft hose but it is not automatic. You have to hand wind the hose onto the hanger. As long as your sink is firmly and properly attached to the wall it will hold the hose and several small items on the sliding tops with no problem. Just remember it is made from plastic so it can't hold a great deal of weight at one time.
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Answer:You need to roll up the hose yourself. Shouldn't deter you. This is a great outdoor addition!
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Size of hose
My question is what size of hose can you hang on the hose holder?
50 ft-75 ft?
50 ft-75 ft?
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Answer:50 foot is the most that I can see it holding - I've put both 25 and 50 on it.
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Answer:The garden sink is designed to hold up to 50 feet of hose. Anything longer than that won't fit.
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Answer:I have a 50 ft hose on mine. Not sure if 75 ft will fit.
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What is the length of the drain hose?
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Answer:The drain hose that is included goes from the drain to the manifold on the side - there is a make connector there for you to add you own hose. The supply hose that is included is about 2-3'
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Answer:It doesn't come with a drain hose, so you can make it as long as you need to. It's a great opportunity to use an old hose that has otherwise served its usefulness.
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Answer:The drain hose is approx 6 feet long.
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The plastic part that goes into small line instantly broke when trying to position in place. This is the main water line connection with a small plastic connector that goes into the small plastic tube. It snapped off with very little pressure, poorly designed piece, this should be metal. Does anyone know where I can get a replacement ASAP?
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Kailua, Hawaii, USA
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Answer:Happened to me - you need a garden hose to 1/4" ID barbed connector - which I could not find. I was able to rig a solution:
My water intake broke - i.e. the plastic flange connection broke right in the clear plastic hose that connects to the manifold. I repaired it with the following:
0. Disconnect the manifold, pull out faucet/basin assembly
1. Clip off part of hose that had the broken plastic flange inside.
2. Connect hose to a brass hose barb 1/4" ID x 3/8" MIP (Watts LFA-193).
3. Connect that piece to a 1/2" MIP x 3/8" FIP brushing
(Watts #LFA-828) -- I used teflon tape for a tight seal.
4. Drill out bottom hole in manifold to a 1" hole
5. Put the above two piece connection through the hole, and apply teflon tape to the threads
6. Attach to a swivel garden hose adapter (Watts #LFA-660) and tighten.
7. Attach garden hose intake and turn on water. I have the intake hose connected to a shut-off at the main connection and only open it a tiny bit, enough to ensure water flows but doesn't blast out.
It took about $16 in parts at Home Depot, which is what Improvements credited me for my trouble.
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Answer:You should go to Improvements home page and click on Contact Us for additional information on how to obtain your replacement parts.
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What are the dimensions of the sink basin? I have small dogs to wash.
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Answer:If you have a 2-5 lb dog maybe
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Welcome to the Guild, and a Fantastic first post.
Hi! I just joined the community this evening, and was going to post this
after I finished it, but everyone seems to be really responsive and helpful
with suggestions/critiques so I figured I'd toss up a WIP.
First ever colour map attempt, did some DnD type doodles back in
highschool. A fantastical version of the Caribbean as part of a
graphic novel project. All under copyright I'm afraid, but I'll post some
freebie ornaments and such if there's interest.
[Photoshop CS3E / Painter X | intuos 2 | About 36 layers | lots of brush lag]
To Do: (Quite a bit more colour.)
I'll be coloring the ornament in the upper right and land masses as well as
labelling islands and I'm puzzling out a way to depict detailed current
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Here's the flow map I pieced together from a weather site, going to try to
incorporate this concept... just prettier. >.> Any ideas would be appreciated,
it's 4:28am and my creative juices ran dry a couple hours ago.
Best I can figure is to do little arrows like this, just lower the opacity and make
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That is a nice looking map indeed. Sweet! I'd go for transparent and stylized bigger arrows.
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Impressive, most impressive!
I especially like the text banners top and bottom, appropriate and imaginative words. And that parchment look is top notch. I would love to see a tutorial on how to accomplish that.
I think you are on the right track with your idea on how to make wind arrows, interesting to see how you can incorporate them and keep it stylish.
You have given me inspiration and ideas, thank you so much
And good luck with your mapping!
Wonderful! If this were the final image, I'd be impressed. I can't wait to see where you're headed!
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The first idea that popped into my mind was Poseidon blowing wind. At least I think it is Poseidon. I've seen similar pictures before with an old man blowing the wind into a sail, or making the sea tumultuous.
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You might want to try showing the currents using something like contour lines...(though I'll admit I have never seen this before)
Here is a quick mockup on the gulf chunk of your map. I just posterized a greyscale "flow-density map" that was a little too flat in the middle... Ideally instead of continual lines, if you could use segments that taper at both ends it might look nicer...
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Ding, ding, ding! Once again RobA submits an incredible idea/map. I like that approach! REPPED!
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But then you'd still arrow heads to show the direction the current is flowing in unless there's a more cunning way to show direction of flow without using arrow heads...dunno. You're the waterman, RobA - you figure it out!


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Time to update everyone with our most recent places where you can find Black Cloud Pinot Noir.
O'Hares The wine selection at this store is very good. One of the better ones I've seen outside of the urban scene. Staff take an active role in rating the wines - all the wine notes are written in-house.
Gudrun This place has been getting great reviews since it opened. Meticulous care is given to every aspect of the menu and beverage list. It's all about rare cheeses, artisanal meats, eclectic beers and, of course, great wines!
Hamilton Street Grill The 'HSG' is one of the stalwarts of Yaletown. A traditional big-city steakhouse that you can depend on to deliver the goods. My favourite with my robust Pinot? The "16 unapologetic ounces of marbled certified angus" ribeye.
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The harvest in Canada's famed Okanagan Valley and across BC is coming to a close for the wine business. Virtually all that remains are the vines designated for ice wine or late harvest wines.
It has been a truly exceptional year with a number of weather anomalies that kept wine growers guessing right to the end. Punishing winter temperatures last year resulted in smaller crops for many varietals. A late spring left growers wondering when they'd get a break. The summer growing season was long and warm. September, the month we must have perform, was beyond optimistic desires. And then, just a few days ago, the temperature plunged to record lows and abruptly slammed the door on the season. Milder weather is in-bound, but the vines are finished for the year and the crop is being pulled in.
Black Cloud Pinot Noir fared extremely well. A slightly smaller crop resulted in remarkable flavours. At this time, the Pinot is residing in French oak. It's finished alcoholic fermentation and is just beginning malo-lactic fermentation.
A more detailed report will follow in a few weeks.
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The Black Cloud Pinot Noir grapes are coming in now and it looks like it's going to be a stellar year for quality. Two rugged winters in a row mean that volume is down a little on a per vine basis. But with all the recent vineyard start-ups lately things should even out.
Lower yields generally mean excellent fruit. That's what we're looking for as we prepare to harvest our 2009 Pinot Noir from Remuda Vineyard in Okanagan Falls. As we work through this vintage, we'll be documenting the whole process so fans of the Cloud will be able to see the process step-by-step.
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No easy way.
On my way to the Wine Bloggers Conference in Santa Rosa.
I thought I'd just outline what's been happening over the past week as I've tried to ship 24 bottles of wine to the conference.
In case you don't know, I live in Canada and I'm a Canadian citizen. The shipping of alcohol by private citizens into the U.S. is pretty well prohibitive. It's the same going the other way as 'authorities' want to inspect everything and get a piece of the action. As an example, outside of the allowed 2 bottles (roughly) Canadian customs permits, the border folks collect the 117% (approx) the BC government monopoly demands. But I digress.
The conference is in the United States. I'm allowed to bring a couple bottles of alcohol across the border each time I make a crossing. So since May of 2009 I've been visiting my mother's summer home in Washington State. Slowly, I've been stockpiling wine for the enjoyment of my fellow bloggers.
Like most Canadians, I live within a short distance of the international boundary so this has not been an onerous task.
On Monday, I visited the shipper in Oroville, WA to send the wine. I was aware that shipping of alcohol from this particular depot was illegal. I also know that people do it all the time and there existed a "don't know, don't tell" attitude. Put it in an approved shipping container with no outside markings and say its vinegar if asked. Everything went very smoothly.
Or so I thought.
I was in line to return to Canada a half hour after shipping when I got a call from the shipper to return to the depot a claim my wine. Evidently they took it upon themselves to open my boxes and decided to reject the shipment. Indeed, when I returned, the boxes were opened.
Now I was a bit desperate. I had to ship that wine. How?
I put out a call on Twitter and @ksyrah responded saying she would help if I could get the wine to Burlington, WA. After some consideration, that looked like a good plan. Scheduling and commitments prevented me from getting to Burlington until yesterday. I was flying out of nearby Bellingham which made the 4.5 hour drive manageable. So I overnighted it and, with any luck, it will be at the Flamingo in Santa Rosa before I will be.
I hope it arrives and we all get to enjoy it. Maybe some day this will all seem quaint but I don't hold out much hope.
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Relax, if you can't make it, we're having a couple more this year.
What's a safety meeting? It's our euphemism for a casual get together in a rather plain setting.
Friday, July 10 at about 4:30 to whenever.
Place: Township 7 crushpad at 1450 McMillan, Penticton
We'll be supplying some beer, some BBQ and some BlackCloud Pinot Noir. You bring a side dish or appetizer and something to drink. Well-behaved kids and dogs are welcome. It's a good idea to bring a folding chair. And bring a friend.
Who's going to be there? Lots of people from the wine industry especially from along the Bench and other places. People who like wine and want to hang with the producers. People on vacation who would like to get some 'authentic' into their Okanagan experience. We always encourage people from all walks to represent!
If you're reading this, you're invited!
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Lately I've enjoyed fielding a few comments and questions regarding the Okanagan and the conditions under which we grow grapes and make wine. These days, most of the discussion takes place on Twitter. One hundred and forty characters is a difficult constraint for this subject so I thought I'd expand a couple ideas here on the old blog.
As people become more acquainted with something like wine, it's normal to expect a desire for more knowledge to surface. Depending on the individual, this can be a passive absorption of what comes their way or a single-minded compulsion. Most of the time it's somewhere in between. Personally, I find these discussions invigorating.
I think I made a comment about a vintage being typical. This led to some retorts about what defines typical in our neck of the woods. I now realize I was making one of the first mistakes of good journalism: assuming your reader already has a lot of the information. It occurred to me that I need to define Okanagan typical. So first, what are the factors that make this area unique among wine growing regions?
I want to try to establish what "cool climate" wine growing is and how it fits in to what we are doing in the Okanagan Valley. And finally, what kind of wine can you expect from the Okanagan in typical and atypical years?
There's a popular saw these days that sounds like this: there are no more 'good' or 'bad' years in the world's wine regions anymore because technology and spread of good cultural practices in the age of information have given producers the tools to eliminate or obscure some of the serious deficiencies of past vintages.
To a great degree this is true. The modern winemaker has a vast array of tools in the kit. There really is no excuse for the release of flawed wine. (Was there ever?) The grape grower also has many newish developments over the past decades to tap into. Together, a lot of factors can be manipulated.
At the end of the day, grapes and wine that have had a heavy hand applied will tend to be more homogeneous in style and quality.
Notice I didn't say good or bad. All I'm saying is that robust handling results in a displacement of the wine's sense of place.
(Well, I can hardly believe I wrote that last bit because, out here in the wild North west, terroir and all that is probably a few decades off. Or is it?)
The Okanagan is a wine producing region that knocks loudly on the doors of unconventionality. We grow a huge variety of different grapes, tended in a number of fascinating ways, harvested under a myriad of conditions and regimes. It's impossible to get a consensus-building answer on the right way to do anything wine and grape-wise in this valley. Wine makers and growers from all over the world bring their influences and teachings and put them to work. The result is: a Syrah made by me has almost no resemblance to one made by Jackson Triggs just down the road.
(old world wine growing regions: restricted by law or custom to a few varieties in each region, in-grained growing practices that differ little from one vineyard to the next, winemakers that are produced generationally at the same institutions)
Having said that, why not throw a couple more cats in the bag?
The climate here is unlike anywhere else. It doesn't allow that same Syrah to ripen like anywhere else in the world. We're farther north than anywhere on the globe that seriously grows grapes. We lucked out by having a chain of lakes that moderate the winters (and summers) so that all this is possible. Otherwise, it'd just be a dusty, sand and gravel extension of the North American desert system: arid and violent. Too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter.
Another factor that defines the Okanagan and causes the wines to be the way they are is the short growing season. When our pals in California are enjoying bud break and the beauty of wild mustard blooming we're still shoveling snow and breaking snot-sicles off our noses while we prune. The vines, though, are sort of pre-programmed. Cabernet Sauvignon needs in excess of 180 days of growing season. That's six months. IF April is nice you may see the buds emerge late in the month. Do the math. Has it been a long, warm summer? You MIGHT have ripe grapes by the third week of October. But probably not.
One thing in our favour: in the warmest part of the year, because we're so far north, the sun shines harder and longer than in points south. This is only good for a couple months but, hey, we'll take what we can get.
If you combine some of these factors you get degree days. It's a way of measuring the value of the sunshine. We rock. We often exceed a lot the 'classic' wine growing area like Germany and Bordeaux when it comes to degree days. Problem is: we have little shoulder season. It takes a long time to warm up and the season goes off a cliff around October 10th, give or take a few days.
So those are some of the factors that makes the Okanagan wine region 'unique'. We are cool climate wine growing. We are extreme cool climate wine growing. Next time you hear somebody from a 200 day growing season or anywhere south of 45 degrees latitude (northern hemisphere) wax on about cool climate conditions, give them a light cuff to the occipital and remind them that winter temperatures that hover near freezing do not make a region cool climate. If at harvest all you're worried about is a little rain, that's not cool climate. Try looking at your vineyard heavy with Merlot and 1 brix short of target and the weather man is saying the first Arctic Express is poised to break-out and head your way. That, my friend, is cool climate.
And that is unique.
Typical Okanagan vintage. Hmm. difficult to define. Because of our wild conditions, vintages here are less consistent or typical than other regions. But here's what: budbreak in early May, generally May is nice. Pray we don't get a killing frost during the first 15 days of May to whatever deity you wish. A couple of days or even weeks may see temps in the low 30'sC but the nights are still cool. June is encouraging at first but usually there are a couple weeks that seem a little too rainy. Usually during flowering which is a bummer. July it suddenly goes heat crazy with long periods of mid-30'sC. Nights are still refreshingly cool. But then the temps spike, temperatures in the south end are in the mid-40's and the nights don't dip below 20C. You get massive growth from vines that don't shut down in the mid-30sC (some do). August is when the grapes begin to colour and start tasting like grapes. If we get a heat spike in August there is rapid ripening (at the expense of flavour complexity) and we start picking grapes in September.In a normal year, September is our golden child. We need 20/20. We need 20 days at 20C (daytime median) and then we should have it in the bag. Anything after that is bonus time, hang time, whatever. If the weather is dry you get to call the shots and wait for more on-vine flavours to develop. But don't wait too long, my friend. In a matter of days, you can go from crisp sunny days to 10 cm of snow in the vineyard and not a leaf on the vines.
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Just a few weeks now until hundreds of enthusiastic wine types will converge on Santa Rosa, California for the second wine blogger conference.
This is a rare and excellent opportunity for any winery operation to see how it works and how blogging and social media can work for their operation.
As new media and social media begin to carve out their own turf in the world of information transfer (our world of ideas), wineries are beginning to make some interesting discoveries.
Like many businesses, the give and take between customer and producer in the wine world has always been present. Now with blogging and other forms of social networking, wineries and their fans can feel like they're one step closer to each other.
For some, it means they can skip the role a large media conglomerate plays. They don't have to worry about censure, interpretation or house policies. Bloggers are citizen winedrinkers who simply post their opinions about something they enjoy and, in some cases, feel very passionate about.
Wine bloggers come in many styles. Some work for wineries; helping to link the consumer directly with the producer. Some are pure reviewers; they drink the wines and post their scores and thoughts for anyone to read. Others deal with the business side whether that be growing grapes or devising clever sales campaigns.
So where do I fit in?
I've been blogging about my wine making life since about 2005. At times it's lacked focus. And it's always been haphazardly scheduled. I'd be surprised if I blog more than 3 times a month on average. Others are much more productive like this one. I think she's posted at least daily for the last half year! WTG, WannabeWino!
There are not a lot of wine maker bloggers. Some are ghosted by other writers and some wineries have other staff doing the company blogging. Until recently, I was independent. Now, of course, I blog to promote my own label Black Cloud . Despite this change, I'm still one of the laziest bloggers I know.
At the conference I hope to: find out if another platform will be better for my blogging, discuss ways to monetize the efforts, discuss collaboration projects with other bloggers, and try to determine if the knowledge I've acquired is worth anything. Or should I just leave it to the experts?
One thing I do know, it's time to engage! I urge wineries, wine marketers, wine writers and food people to attend or sent their representative. It's a great deal for the dollar, too!
Here's the link:
Wine Blogger's Conference
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Winemaker's Dinner in the Gallery
Part proceeds support children's programming at The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford.
Saturday, May 23 marks the first fundraiser at Abbotsford's new gallery-museum, The Reach.
On behalf of The Reach, Chef Michael and his culinary team at The Ramada Plaza & Conference Centre, winemaker Bradley Cooper of Township 7 Vineyards & Winery, and Whatcom Wine & Spirits bring you an evening of gourmet food paired with highly acclaimed B.C. wine, right in the centre of art and artefacts.
The evening starts with a stand-up reception that includes warm and cool appetizers and Township 7's Seven Stars sparkling wine, made in the traditional method. The evening then moves through four more courses paired with viognier, chardonnay, cabernet sauvignon, and merlot, and finishes with the much sought-after (very few cases were produced) Black Cloud pinot noir paired with dessert.
Between each course, Chef Michael and winemaker Bradley Cooper will talk to guests about their respective picks for food and wine. Seats are limited to 48, so you know the evening will be intimate, with Chef and winemaker able to pay personal attention to guests.
Six courses and six wines in support of children's programming at The Reach: $125 per person. Tickets go on sale May 9 at Whatcom Wine & Spirits. Call 604-870-1050 ext. 6170 to reserve yours.
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Very flavorful but I added chopped onions and used ground turkey. There are too many noodles for the amount of other ingredients. I would not use more than 3/4 of the noodles, if that, depending on how many people you have to serve. (But I think there are too many noodles when I make the regular mac and cheese too.)
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Ha Ha, I hear ya Bitterroot! There are a few good holes here & there where we've stumbled on these type of elk, we call them dumb elk! (grin) They are very cooperative! Unfortunately they are far & few in-between!
Steve, stay with what works Sir! But I will say in the defense of calling that it does work, Timing & use of sounds is very crucial as many of these OTC herd bulls have been around the block once or twice! (grin) The classic bugling & cow calling will not get it done, 90% of those will end up in hang-ups or turn bulls into runners if not handled correctly or understood.
95% of the elk we take (over 65 herd bulls) are via calling! They may start out as Spot or Call & Stalk but end up that some sort of aggressive calling is needed to seal the deal. Yes, we hunt all OTC & heavily hunted zones, the success rate for a bull here is under 6% with last year sporting over 6000 hunters in our unit not to mention the wolves! We have pressure but calling is still the #-1 source of our success! This is why I would recommend it to those who wish to go that route. It takes a lot of work to master this art, it's no accident to consistently call in herd bulls or satellites. This doesn't mean you have to be the worlds best caller or have to know how to make tons of sounds, but more importantly you must understand what sounds you are using/saying & what the elk are saying?
This is where hunters go wrong! Most do not know the differences between classic location bugles or a lip bawl bugle or a round up bugle or a calling cows away from another bull bugle or a re-gathering bugle, not to mention selective cow sounds, etc. Recognize these different sounds & it will open up a whole new outlook on how you approach elk hunting! Not saying we shouldn't Spot & Stalk but consider other successful avenues to avoid being one dimensional when the stalk starts to go sour! Be very versatile is key! (grin)
Knowing when & where to call is equally as important! Good Luck elk seasons getting close! (grin)


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Two prominent Democratic congress members say a $3 million settlement between Cintas Corp. and federal workplace safety regulators is insufficient because it downgrades the severity of the company's violations and gives it two years to install new safety equipment.
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is suffering from a poor economy and continuing financial trouble.
The center announced today that they will be laying off 17 full-time employees, by the end of the year, leaving a staff of 47.
The museum will also no longer be open on Sundays.
Last year, the Freedom Center was caught up in a battle at City Hall when Councilman Chris Monzel attempted to redirect a proposal to give the center $800,000 to pay for speed humps.
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Humana announced Wednesday that they'll be adding 700 jobs to their Cincinnati operations by 2010. With the struggling economy, this is welcome news.
Procter & Gamble is continuing its legal struggle with Kraft. What, you may ask, is vexing them?
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Politics is often a game of strategy, and an area anti-tax group is well-known for taking the offensive on most issues it advocates. A recent dispute over a referendum on a payday loan law, however, has the group facing stinging criticism for getting its facts wrong and overstating its own influence.


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In 1984, Irving Penn commented that he saw his role at Vogue as 'selling dreams, not clothes'. Selling Dreams is the first touring exhibition from the V&A's Collection to explore the work of international fashion photographers and to draw together such a broad range of important historic and contemporary fashion images. The exhibition includes approximately sixty works by more than twenty major fashion photographers, as well as original magazine spreads from publications such as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. The photographs reflect key themes in fashion photography throughout the past hundred years.
Although varied in their practices, the photographers featured in Selling Dreams share a vision that goes far beyond a simple recording of fabrics and surface detail. The exhibition charts how the medium flourished with the rise of illustrated magazines and how influential editors and art directors such as Alexey Brodovitch, Alexander Liberman and Diana Vreeland collaborated with photographers to shape generations of style throughout the past century. Exposing the medium's evolution and the fascinating dialogue between fashion photography and fine art photography, this exhibition is beautiful and scholarly, glamorous and insightful.
Kids can pick up an activity sheet to colour and complete on their way around the exhibition - just ask at Reception for a free copy and coloured pencils.
Selling Dreams: One Hundred Years of Fashion Photography is organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
The V&A is home to the UK's National Collection of the Art of Photography. The Collection comprises over half a million works including many hundreds of fashion photographs by international names such as Edward Steichen (1879-1973), Irving Penn (1917-2009), Richard Avedon (1923-2004), Helmut Newton (1920-2004), David Bailey (b.1938) and Tim Walker (b.1970). Through displaying the greatest highlights from the Collection and many rarely exhibited works, this touring exhibition explores the range of approaches to fashion image-making, from the earliest years of the twentieth century to today.
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The agony of victory
Special Issue | Daniel Libeskind has had one of the hardest jobs in America. Will the architect's redesign at Ground Zero satisfy the nations and the generations to come?
"The agony of victory" Continued...
To be the master planner of the new site at Ground Zero, one has to navigate the wishes of the design jury, the landowner, the leaseholder, the mayor of New York City, the governor of New York, the FBI, the families of 2,749 people who died there, and the 115 nations that lost citizens at the site and believe they have a stake in how it's rebuilt.
One has to bring together past and present for future generations who will ask what happened there.
And one has to enjoy the prospect of working with New York's city fathers, its cut-throat business leaders, and jealous fellow architects-for about the next decade.
To be the man to accomplish this, one has to be Daniel Libeskind: a latecomer to the design competition, an outsider in the New York architecture scene, a teacher whose designs had never been built until he was 52, a man who stands about 5 feet tall in this vast audience of jury and judges, and an incurable optimist.
What's his secret? How can one man prevail in the face of such a task and given such odds? In Libeskind's case, by knowing whom to listen to: his mother, his wife, and Saint Augustine.
Libeskind heeded the words of Augustine from the bowels of Ground Zero on a rainy day in November 2002. He had bested over 400 design entries to become one of seven finalists in a design competition many denounced as premature, pushed by leaseholder Larry Silverstein to recoup his 10 million square feet of office space destroyed on 9/11.
The other finalists were content to survey the site from an office window at 1 Liberty Plaza, but Libeskind wanted to go into it. With a Port Authority worker, he and his wife Nina descended a ramp to bedrock. This was the pit: a hole in Manhattan 16 acres in size at the surface and 70 feet deep that opened when the twin towers fell.
Here, Libeskind said, he felt "the enormity of the loss." Seven stories of foundation and infrastructure that once lay beneath the World Trade Center, gone.
But down in the pit Libeskind discovered the "slurry wall," a dam far beneath lower Manhattan, holding back the Hudson River and serving as the western foundation to the World Trade Center site. It was intact. Had it split with the force of the World Trade Center's collapse, the New York subway system would have flooded and the city likely would have been underwater.
Libeskind says that at that moment, his hand pressed to the cold, damp slurry wall, he heard the same voice Augustine reports hearing in his Confessions. "Take it and read it. Take it and read it." For Augustine it was a call to take up the Scriptures; for Libeskind it was a call to "read" the slurry wall, "a revelatory experience," he says, and a metaphor for what remains when everything else falls down.
Libeskind scratched what he had designed up to that point and began again, looking this time, he said, not to his penciled sketches on paper napkins but to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for inspiration-the bedrock values of human life and liberty, the things in America that lasted. He had six weeks.
At its unveiling the Libeskind plan "struck a common nerve," wrote Wall Street Journal critic Ada Louise Huxtable: "You could tell by the sustained applause and tears that this is what people really wanted." At 57, the son of immigrants, who grew up in public housing in the Bronx, had won what may be the most ambitious architectural project in New York City this century.
His winning design was something utterly different from the other finalists' entries: four slender ascending towers culminating in a premiere landmark building-the Freedom Tower-standing 1,776 feet tall and finished in a glass spire mirroring the Statue of Liberty torch. In the center of the site, where the twin towers once stood, a memorial garden cuts below ground to reveal the slurry wall. The design's open spaces allow a wedge of light from above to penetrate the site, recalling the sunlight on the towers at the moment each was fatally struck by aircraft.
Libeskind told WORLD, "I believe when finished it will convey the depth of what was experienced at the site and without contradicting the vitality of New York."
At that point, despite victory, Libeskind was far from finished. The trek from competition to construction would prove long and messy. Leaseholder Larry Silverstein demanded more office space in the five towers. City and federal officials demanded more security. Architects for each component of the site threatened to tinker with individual buildings in ways that compromised the whole. Protesters denounced the site's failure to include low-income housing.
George Pataki, whose term as governor of New York ended last year, repeatedly intervened to preserve the master plan's integrity, and New York papers kept logs of the drawn-out battles: Freedom Tower architect David Childs refused to meet with Libeskind, Libeskind walked out of a meeting with Childs, etc.
The battles have added years to the completion date. At one time Freedom Tower was scheduled to be finished this year, but its construction is only about to reach above ground level. Now construction at the site is slated to conclude in 2014. "The end will come and the project will be built," Libeskind said earlier this month from his studio in lower Manhattan. But he acknowledged that it remains "a complex road."
Technically, Libeskind is the master planner while other architects, including nemesis David Childs, are architects of record for each component of the project. Childs, whose firm lost to Libeskind in the master planning competition, is the architect of Freedom Tower. He has repeatedly fought to increase the footprints of each building and to diminish the open spaces for pedestrian traffic and memorials to 9/11 victims.
To survive the tug-of-war among Ground Zero's stakeholders, Libeskind listens to Nina, his wife of 38 years and mother of their three children. Nina has long been a partner in Studio Daniel Libeskind projects, but her collaboration on a project the whole world is watching has proved vital. She sensed political maneuvering away from the master plan and helped Libeskind plot necessary compromises while remaining stolid about what he considered the essential and symbolic features of the site: the slurry wall, the 1,776-foot height, the wedge of light, and the torch emblem.
Libeskind's wife serves as both confidante and spokesman. At a recent B'nai B'rith real estate luncheon at New York's Cornell Club, she told the audience that Libeskind's studio "would fight tooth and nail" the downtown interests who want the 9/11 memorial at grade rather than its planned slope to 30 feet below grade. "There is a need to have the sanctity of the site preserved and the need to show the slurry wall," she said.
In the end Libeskind is confident the reconstructed site will become a new neighborhood with "a feeling of human scale in the midst of grand buildings, something emotional, moving, not simply an abstraction."
Libeskind generally is affable about ongoing disputes. The slurry wall is being readied, he notes, and the construction closely resembles his original plan. "I continue to be concerned with all the details and all aspects of the project, but the great controversies are over," he said. He's also not surprised by the give-and-take. "The Greeks considered the city the polis, and it has always been about politics, about people. Architecture is difficult because it is art on a public scale. You can think to write a book in your room. But to build a building you have to do it with civic empathy."
Libeskind's decision to become an architect is the result of listening to his mother. Libeskind wanted to be an artist like Andy Warhol. "Varhole?" she said. "For every Varhole there's a thousand penniless waiters. Be an architect." Architecture, she told him, is both trade and art form.
Dora and Nachman Libeskind were Holocaust survivors from Poland. After the war they tried to recreate family life in their hometown of Lodz, which had a Jewish population of 220,000 before the German occupation and 5,000 after.
Life under the Soviets was equally bad, and the family immigrated to New York in 1959 when Daniel was 13. Dora worked in a sweatshop dying fur collars. Nachman took a job in a printshop only blocks from the World Trade Center site. "My parents were survivors of a special kind," Libeskind said. "They never gave up hope."
Much of Libeskind's architectural philosophy is grounded in wide reading of Jewish philosophers, Hindu literature, and the Bible. It is cemented in a reaction against the dehumanizing work of the Holocaust and the collectivism and oppression his family suffered under Soviet invasion. Human faces are important inspiration in his designs and he is unembarrassed to talk about searching for the soul of a building. "Too often architecture is considered something abstract, as if it were the placing of an object in a place. But it is always set down in time, always part of history, always part of communication," he explained.
Fellow architects chortle at his soulful approach and his patriotism, but Libeskind has never gotten over America. When his family arrived in New York, "every person in the street looked to us like a hero, a god," he wrote in his 2004 book, Breaking Ground. "These were the people who had beamed us Radio Free Europe." Prohibited from speaking Yiddish in Poland, even in Israel where his family lived a brief time, his family discovered in New York that "anyone could speak any language-and did." Asked to contribute to Rolling Stone a list of items for "what's cool," Libeskind named fusion, Emily Dickinson, the Bible, and the Bronx.
Despite the tags of tradition, Libeskind's buildings have stirred controversy and traditionalists accuse him of deconstructive design. "Is there a sell-by date for Libeskind's expressively jagged architecture?" asked Architectural Record critic Suzanne Stephens after Libeskind's expansion to the Denver Art Museum opened last year.
Libeskind rejects the deconstructivist label but doesn't deny that his buildings could be called outlandish: "My aim is to design something very specific to the address to which it is being built. But I don't believe that means you have to be conformist. Buildings like the [Berlin] Jewish Museum respond to context by establishing a new context. They fit the context but are also dynamic. And they create their own dynamic. In time they become beloved, a reinforcing aspect to the city because they are visible and a serious contributor to the future."
With ongoing projects that take him around the world, Libeskind is eager to prove both his and the Ground Zero project's staying power. "People say I should get out of New York, get away from Ground Zero. But I don't want to. I live here. I work here. I see it out of my window each day. I believe in it. Investors will come and go. Politicians come and go. People's emotions come and go. I am here to stay."


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A few words from a Gen Xer to Gen Y
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It's a terrible thing when older people attempt to categorize younger people. We're all individuals, with our own talents, desires, hopes and dreams.
Tens of thousands of millennials have stood on the front lines in Afghanistan and Iraq in defense of our nation. These young men and women were not forced into military service. They joined of their own free will, knowing that they would likely be put in harm's way. They were ready to sacrifice their lives –– the most selfless act of all.
As an editor at a paper that hires many 20-somethings, and as a Hofstra professor, I interact with millennials nearly every day. The overwhelming majority are industrious and kind.
So, to our graduates, I say this: Stay true to thine own selves, to paraphrase Shakespeare, and let the bluster about your generation blow in one ear and out the other. Work hard and have fun. Before you know it, you'll take over the world.
According to Time, Generation X spans 1961 to 1980. It includes, I am proud to say, President Obama, who was born on Aug. 4, 1961.
Scott Brinton is senior editor of the Bellmore and Merrick Heralds and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Graduate Journalism Program. Comments? firstname.lastname@example.com or (516) 569-4000 ext. 203. Brinton's profile and posts can be found at facebook.com/scottabrinton.
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Actually Barack Obama has never held a real job in his life. His wife Michelle was the big shot as she was head of Legal Dept for a large hospital.
Part of problem is even poor people are far richer and have it easier than somewhat well off people of days gone by.
My "rich uncle" back in the 1960s had a cheesy split in the burbs, mowed his own lawn and had a 19 inch color TV with a whopping few channels and in the window airconditioner and he drove a 1969 Chevy Impala and his wife a 1967 Dodge.
Rest of us folk had a few kids, lived in apartments with no AC in Queens or Bronx etc, had one black and white tv with rabbit ears and no car.
Today my "rich" uncle would be laughed at. Kids dont know how to jump a car, change a tire, do minor home repairs, properly interact with adults, even know how to answer a phone and go to car washed, have their nails done, maids, lawnservice etc. And this is blue collar kids. New cars leased and Disney vacations. Even "jobs" they have are cushy.
I had a series of jobs in college, janitor, house painter, drove a bull dozer and worse one disposing hazmat stuff by redbagging them. Tons of dead cancer ridden cats, rats, rabbits, mice etc. Demeaning, hard dangerous jobs that made me appreciate school.
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I found that doing Zumba has really helped with my back pain. They have the games you can get for your wii and such and they also have many classes I have done Zumba since before I was pregnant so my midwife gave me the a okay to continue as long as I keep my heart rate under 120. I am due in July and have noticed that the back pain started up a few weeks ago mostly at night and it keeps me up sometimes but the evenings I do zumba I seem to have no back pain. I would talk to you midwife to make sure that this is okay for you though.
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This thread by Jezelf contains great tutorials on creating landmasses, it's an involved process but produces good results.
This thread by Ascension is also a great way of having some control over your coastlines but also making them look good.
Well title says it well.
I'd like to know how to draw the countries themselves and the regions with in them. A link to a tut would be fine too.
I ask this because well anytime I draw a boundary I feel it is too round.
This thread by Jezelf contains great tutorials on creating landmasses, it's an involved process but produces good results.
This thread by Ascension is also a great way of having some control over your coastlines but also making them look good.
As far as political boundaries, you can go with a mix of terrain-based and arbitrary lines. Some features make natural barriers that could sensibly have been the edge of somebody's territory - a river or a ridgeline. Impassable mountains could easily have different political units on either side, even if both are part of a larger political entity.
When a land has been long settled and has seen territory change hands many times, the edges of a political unit could look totally random - all of Johnson's farm, then eastward along the old Druesh Barony, then for four kilometers down the center of the King's Post Road - that sort of 'random'. Another arbitrary border could be geometric lines - "along the 44th parallel" or "the line connecting Druid's Peak with The Riggernhorn". There's even boundaries based on a certain radius from a city center.
If all that's too ordinary, there's the potential for subsequent modifications... take the several places along the Mississippi River where a state's border was defined as the west bank as of a certain date. That very twisty river later could (and did) shift its course, leaving loops and slivers of the former east-bank state isolated on the western bank. In other places the definition might have been "the center of the main channel (no matter what)" - in an extreme case a whole city might swap back and forth on such a technicality. Or take the case of surveying errors - there's places where a straight line was defined, intending to tough the edge of a part of a circle - but subsequent better surveys made the join inexact, calling for a later renegotiation.
Then there's the fact too often ignored that territorial ownership need not be attached. Look at the multitude of German states in the 1500's and 1600's - a patchwork of discontinuous chunks. Those could arise from dynastic marriages and from split-ups of multiple heirs.
If by "too round" you mean too smooth, not "realistically randomly jagged", then first determine where some of your rivers and mountains lie, then follow them. Add some more seemingly jaggy connections, figuring that the cease-fire-line of the Treaty Of 2716 was wherever the trenches were, and wherever the lance corps had held vs. fled. Do a little basic imagining of what lands lay across your map BEFORE the current set. Maybe it was all one empire ruled from afar, and that bureaucracy's cartographers divided part of "those distant and worthless lands" in simple geometric shapes. Elsewhere they may have drawn arbitrary lines where they assumed control, and subsequent "ground truth" proved major tribes, people groups, and other divisions lay sprawled across the neat colonial masters' borders -- see the whole history of Africa for 300 years.
Some blobby, "roundish" borders are fine - in an earlier day when knowledge of the borders one claimed were sketchy, a swoop through the middle of Ye Olde Impenetrable Swampe might have been totally adequate. Only when oil gets discovered beneath said swamp, or taxpayers settle its islands, does a more precise border become necessary.
Depending on the situation, you might consider not drawing borders at all. Use the names, symbols, or whatever to give an idea of the centers of the regions but don't sweat the boundaries.


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Afghanistan: Fathers and sons learn a trade together
Multiple generations are learning new job skills like carpentry in Afghanistan's Helmand province, where decades of conflict have limited opportunities to earn an income.
Ethiopia: Women transform small loans into progress and purpose
Like clockwork, every time I visit the Addis Ababa, Ethiopia-based Women in Self Employment (WISE) organization, my very first impressions are of the wonderful hospitality of the Ethiopian people.
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South Sudan: Fighting prompts staff to evacuate border town
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Afghanistan: Behind the camera: Chickens that change lives
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Japan: Biodiesel enterprise fuels economic recovery
If you had never visited Japan's tsunami-ravaged coast until this week, the bleak landscape where homes and businesses once stood would be sobering.
Kenya: Kids in Kenya
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Haiti: Female entrepreneurs bounce back
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Historically, a flag needed to have a few important attributes:
Be instantly recognizable on the battlefield
Be able to fly from a pole (it's why flags pretty much universally have at least one flat edge)
Be able to produce relatively cheaply (simple designs with a few colors are much easier to produce than flags with lots of parts and fancy embroidery).
A somewhat less important attribute is recognizable by various types of color blindness.
Flags also tend to inherit features from their progenitor flags (the British flag, for example, is a couple of flags mashed together). http://quizwithderan.blogspot.com/20...-of-world.html has an interesting map that shows flags attached to their countries. Similar areas may have similar flags, and former colonies may have flags very similar to their parent empire.
If the black field is part of the flag then I don't think it's a bad design. It's similar in some respects to the Japanese rising sun flag, except red and green on a black field instead of red on a white field. If the black field isn't part of the design, then I'm not sure hot to attach that flag to a standard...