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There are two aspects that make Canyon Wind Cellars unique in Colorado. First, its birthday is in 1991, making it one of the oldest vineyards in the state.
It is also an estate winery, meaning that all growing, winemaking and bottling are done on site at the Palisade vineyard. It appears Canyon Wind is the only winery in Colorado that can claim that type of intimacy in all aspects of production.
Owner and founder Norman Christianson, a trained geologist, picked the vineyard land because it so closely resembled the terroir of Bordeaux (which if you are keeping track at home is a pretty decent wine region).
It's no surprise that some of the key wines coming out of the family operation—son Jay and wife Ellen are deeply involved in all aspects of the business—are Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot, Merlot and Cab Franc, which are the classic reds of France's most storied growing region.
The winemaking process has been boosted with the help of Bob Pepi, who has built a stellar reputation in Napa (Robert Pepi Family Winery) and serves as winemaker.
The result has been a reputation for great Colorado wines, numerous awards and accolades, and wines with staying power—the winery just re-released five cases its 1997 Merlot out of the library, making it one of the oldest local wines available commercially.
Canyon Wind also boasts itself as an eco-friendly winery. In the vineyard, the Christiansons shy from herbicides, only spray organic pesticides, use computer-monitored low drip watering systems, and take steps to avoid erosion.
The winery is also built around environmental practices, utilizing an underground barrel cellar to naturally cool wine and gravity to transfer the juice. Only natural renewable cork is used in bottling, too.
Perhaps the most endearing quality of Canyon Wind (at least for the Front Range wino) is its two tasting rooms. One is on the estate serving Western Slope residents and tourists who've come to the heart of Colorado's wine country. The other is right of I-70 in Georgetown, just an hour's drive from Denver.
Best wine from the winemaker's perspective: "Either our 1998 Cabernet Sauvignon or the 2007 IV. Both wines show tremendous depth, clarity of body, and excellent full mouth integration," Jay Chirstianson.
Awards highlights:
- 1998 Cabernet Sauvignon: Silver London World Fair
- 1997 Cabernet Sauvignon: 87 rating in Wine Spectator (tied for the highest Colorado ranking to date
- 2005 Petit Verdot: Gold Dallas Morning News Wine Competition
Prices: Most bottles are between $15-$25, with reserves and specialty releases reaching $100
Wine club: Four shipments annually of three to six bottles. Cost is generally less than $75 for three bottles, plus shipping if necessary
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By Deirdre' Straughan on May 07, 2008
After the general party at Moscone Center (footage to come), there was a somewhat smaller party at a nearby bar/restaurant.
We had quite a bit to celebrate - and quite a bit to celebrate it with!
A number of cool non-Sun people were present, including \^ Jay Edwards (one of the handful of engineers who runs one of my favorite online services, Twitter). I had to have a photo taken with him, to impress all my Italian twithead friends.
\^ Jesse Silver, who had done such a fantastic job organizing the Developers' Summit, and Silona Bonewald, whom I'll be seeing more of at next week's Grid & Cluster conference. Silona is wearing our trendy green and blue opensolaris wristbands.
\^ Jim Huges unites opensolaris (temporary tattoo logo on his forehead) with MySQL's dolphin mascot. Hey, I didn't get one of those! (Nor did I get one of the very cool "Build your community" t-shirts from CommunityOne, wah! But I do have two different opensolaris t-shirts.)
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Relive the nostalgia of the 1950s with these one-of-a-kind accessories, from the practical to the whimsical. This exhibit showcases a fun and fashionable collection of the popular accessory from the fifties. Aprons on display range from practical to stylish and bring to mind the housewives, waitresses and hostesses who wore them. A section of novelty aprons, such as those made from handkerchiefs, and travel souvenir aprons will also be on display.


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As mentioned in a previous review, Mystic Brewery in Chelsea, MA is brewing beers with the intention of resurrecting simple, old world brewing styles for a modern palate. Part of the brewing method involves using an in-house Renaud yeast strain, similar to the Table Beer, also in the farmhouse family of beers. Yet while the Table Beer was meant to be a low alcohol beer that could placate the wife and kids, the Saison Renaud does a good job of providing flavor, as well as a floral, spicy kick that can win over any Saison fan.
According to the brewers, this is a beer best served at 45 degrees in a tulip glass, which can be achieved by letting the beer sit at room temperature for about 5 minutes after being removed from the fridge. This is recommended for most yeasty beers because it allows the yeast to bloom and round out the beer's overall flavor. It pours out as a light tan beer with a strong head that gives off a nice aroma of lemon and spice. This is an improvement over Mystic's Table Beer, which didn't feature much of an aroma at all (and even less in the taste department).
Speaking of taste, this Saison lived up to its name. The Saaz hops and Pilsner malt combine with the house yeast to elevate the fruity, spicy notes in the beer, while allowing it to remain crisp and clean while providing a good flavor profile. It is as drinkable as the Table Beer, but thanks to the 6.5% ABV, it has more flavor, and an all-around better drinking experience.
The main downside with this beer is that, along with the Table Beer, the Renaud yeast might not be used to it's full capacity here either. It came across in the Table Beer as a bready, almost flat taste, while the Saison allowed it to work in tandem with the malt and the hops. It tasted good, but it also felt like there was something being held back. The flavors never really hit a crescendo, even at different temperatures, which is kind of disappointing given the growing competition in the style from other local breweries.
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The Global Conservation Group of Watertown is calling on Green Bay Bishop David Ricken and Outagamie County Sheriff Bradley Gehring to resign.
On August 10, 2014, St. Patrick's Parish in Stephensville, Wisconsin hosted an event known as "pig wrestling" in which pigs were punched in the face, kicked, body-slammed, yelled at, and thrown onto a barrel. After the event, all 37 pigs were brutally slaughtered.
This illegal animal fighting event is in violation of Wisconsin Crimes Against Animals Chapter 951.08, however, church officials and local authorities refuse to take action.
It turns out animals weren't the only ones being abused and mistreated. Children were encouraged to enter into a mud pit to "tackle" and "wrestle" grown pigs, which was full of contaminated swine urine and feces.
In addition, video footage of the event recently released depicted what appears to be numerous minors consuming alcohol, while church officials and the Outagamie County Sheriff's Department did nothing but encourage such behavior.
Sign and share the petition: https://www.change.org/p/green-bay-bishop-david-l-ricken-resign-for-enab...
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A screenwriter's conflicts with his director, producer and wife (Brigitte Bardot) form the backdrop for Godard's mischievous deconstruction of Hollywood filmmaking.
Sunday, October 13, 2013
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Contempt ostensibly concerns a screenwriter torn between a proud director, an arrogant producer and a disillusioned wife (Brigitte Bardot). It's all pretense, however, for the director's mischievous (and yes, contemptuous) deconstruction of Hollywood filmmaking, potently infused with film-buff in-jokes, astute observations about love, stardom and artistry, and enough glossy style to suggest that Godard had mastered the craft he so willfully rejects. D: Jean-Luc Godard, France, subtitled, 1963, 103m
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Metro and GlassFish on the road to yet better interop with Microsoft's Web Services stack
By alexismp on Mar 25, 2008
The latest stable version of Metro (which ships as part of GlassFish v2) has been extensively tested with Microsoft's WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) version 3.0. The next version of .Net 3.5 is already out and the team is working hard to achieve the best possible interoperability with this new set of WS-\* implementations.
Harold and Rama report on the most recent "plugfest" with Microsoft engineers. The work involves moving from some non-standard technologies (such as WS-ReliableMessaging 1.0 which is "just" a specification, not an open standard) to the OASIS version (OASIS WS-RM 1.1, dated July 2007) for better interoperability. The set of test scenarios is comprehensive and results very promising.
Check out Metro's roadmap here for an idea of when to expect stable releases. In the mean time, you can get the nightly builds.


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Check out Good Housekeeping's foolproof guide to cooking the perfect steak, just in time for Father's Day! On stands now for only P120.
Worried about a persistent headache? Your baby's temperature? Dad's hypertension? The experts give the 411 on the top health concerns of your family. Scroll through the gallery to learn about diseases and other health problems dads, moms, kids, and babies experience and how to deal with them.
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Fix the delicious sync - mine isn't working!
I've connected the accounts via Yahoo, but so far nothing I've bookmarked in Diigo is syncing to Delicious.
Maybe the Delicious API is broken or something, but it would be nice to have it working so I thought I'd check. :D
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Nothing escapes Big B's blogs. And his current favourite is our boxing champ from Manipur When Mary Kom qualified for the semi finals of women's… Read Article ▶
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The women's tennis team added two additional postseason honors with the recent announcement of the 2012 Intercollegiate Tennis Association regional awards, which recognized seniors Taylor Lindsey and Courtney McLane. Lindsey was named the region's recipient for the ITA/Cissie Leary Award for Sportsmanship, while McLane earned the ITA Arthur Ashe Jr. Sportsmanship & Leadership Award. They are now eligible for the national awards, which will be announced later this month.
The ITA/Cissie Leary Award for Sportsmanship is given annually to an NCAA Division I women's player that displays inspiring dedication and commitment to her team, which has enhanced her team's performance and exemplified the spirit of college tennis. The award is in memory of the late, and widely admired, Penn women's tennis coach Cissie Leary. Lindsey, who served as team captain, has been instrumental in the success of this season's team that reached as high as No. 7 in the nation and finished No. 2 in the Southeastern Conference. She worked tirelessly after sitting out the entire 2010 season due to injury to come back in 2011 and make a significant impact in doubles and in those singles matches she competed in. This season, Lindsey became the first player at Alabama to be named to the SEC All-Tournament Team after helping to clinch the doubles point against Arkansas in addition to winning both of her singles matches in straight sets while dropping a combined four games.
The Arthur Ashe Collegiate Award honors Arthur Ashe and the vision that he embodied of the importance of education, sportsmanship, and leadership. In her four-year career, McLane has excelled in all three of those areas, serving as the prime example of a student-athlete during her time at the Capstone. The Lawrenceville, Ga., native earned her undergraduate degree in management in three years while holding a 4.0 GPA and will complete her master's degree in marketing this year, where she also holds a 4.0 GPA. McLane, who is a two-time winner of the SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award, has earned numerous awards for her academics and athletics including a spot on the 2011 Capital One Academic All-America Season Team. She has been a member of the Dean's List throughout her entire career and was named to the President's List for three semesters. Last summer, McLane interned with Growing Leaders, an Atlanta-based non-profit organization created by Dr. Tim Elmore to develop emerging leaders. She was also named one of the recipients of the 2012 Peach of an Athlete Roll Model Awards.


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Cascadia Conservation District is offering a workshop as a tool to help people choose the right plant for their projects in conjunction with the annual Native Plant Sale.
The workshop will be held Saturday, February 4th in Wenatchee, and Felicia Ollan, Project Coordinator for Cascadia Conservation District, says they anticipate the workshop to fill up fast.
Cascadia Conservation District offers a variety of Native Plants during the sale as a way to promote wise stewardship of all natural resources in ChelanCounty.
Felicia says the variety of plants change from year to year, but ensures us that they are always native and they each offer something unique.
So again, the Native Planting 101 Workshop will be held Saturday, February 4th at the ChelanCounty PUD Auditorium from 12:30-4:30.
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How Does a Share Sales Charge Work?
Original post by Ciaran John of Demand Media
When you purchase shares of a mutual fund, you become a part owner of an investment portfolio that contains various different securities and instruments. Some fund companies impose a sales charge called a load, and this fee covers the cost of paying commission to the brokers who sell the fund. Some funds assess a fee at the time of purchase while others require you to pay the fee when you sell your shares. Although many so-called "no load fund" mutual funds do not impose a sales charges, you still may have to pay a fee or fees.
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Mutual fund companies sell different classes of shares within the same fund. Front load shares have an upfront sales charge and mutual fund companies refer to these as A-class shares. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) caps upfront sales charges to 8.5 percent. This means that you could pay a commission of up to $850, on a $10,000, share purchase, for example. Many funds charge fees well below the maximum, and FINRA limits the fees further if the fund company charges shareholders other types of fees. When you buy a significant number of shares within a 13 month period, you may reach breakpoints at which you receive a discount on the sales charge. In some instances, you can avoid the sales charge altogether if you invest $1 million or more in a particular fund.
Contingent Deferred Sales Charge
Class B shares are a type of share for which you pay a contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) at the time of share redemption. You pay nothing when you buy your shares, so your entire investment goes toward buying shares. The CDSC decreases over time and you pay no back-end load or sales fee if you hold onto your shares for seven years. However, you do pay annual operating fees, and these fees are much higher than the ones for A-shares. These fees mean that B-shares become more expensive than A-shares over the course of time, so fund companies usually convert B-shares to A-shares after seven years or more.
When you buy class C shares, you do not pay a front-end sales load. You can avoid paying a back-end sales load if you hold onto the shares for at least 12 months. However, many fund companies assess a 1 percent redemption fee if you sell your shares within 12 months of purchase. However, C class shares have higher annual operating costs than A or B shares. This means that, despite the lack of a sales charge, C shares often become more expensive than other share classes for long-term investors.
Many investors attempt to reduce costs by investing in no-load funds. While these funds do not charge actual sales loads, nothing prevents a fund from charging other fees, such as a purchase or redemption fee. Technically, purchase and redemption fees are not classified as so-called loads because the fees are paid to the fund company and do not cover broker's commissions. Furthermore, the operating costs of these funds often exceed the costs of load funds. Carefully review the investment prospectus to find out about all of the costs involved before investing in a particular fund.
- Securities and Exchange Commission; Mutual Fund Fees and Expenses; August 2007
- FINRA: Understanding Mutual Fund Classes
- FINRA: Breakpoint Disclosure Statement
- Morgan Stanley Smith Barney: Mutual Fund Share Classes and Compensation
- FINRA: Mutual Fund Breakpoints: Are You Owed a Refund?
About the Author
Ciaran John began writing in 1994 with contributions to "The Hourly Press" and "The Sawbridgeworth Observer." He holds a Florida Life, Health and Variable Annuity license as well as series 6 and 63 securities licenses. He has a Bachelor of Arts in theology from Kings College in London.


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A long time ago, when the heroes of Azeroth were still but fledgling adventurers, there existed a powerful lord of lava known as Ragnaros. Azeroth's finest traversed the cavernous molten lair of the fire-borne villain, hunting down and slaying each one of his sinister minions until finally they found him, towering over them in a swirling pool of lava, pronouncing their doom. Unfortunately for Ragnaros, the heroes' resolve was unshakable, and he was sent back to the elemental plane from whence he came.
Most of World of Warcraft's players know the story of Ragnaros, even if most of the current players likely have not been there first hand to witness the fire lord's defeat - in Molten Core or in the Firelands. With each new expansion, the game seems to shed some of its veteran players and take on brand new ones, and old content, especially the raids, seems to fall by the wayside.
It is not Ragnaros's story we are revisiting today. The elemental beast has twice been slain - and in all likelihood, this time for good. But when the heroes of Azeroth struck down this mighty foe, they neglected one minor detail: Ragnaros was a foster parent for a baby corgi rescue puppy.
World of Warcraft is proud to present The Most Amazing Pet Ever: THE MOLTEN CORGI! pic.twitter.com/CMwCcEDKXl
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Our heroes will soon have a chance to do the right thing and take the little molten corgi under their protective wing. Too long has he been orphaned, roaming the fiery caverns of the Molten Core underneath Blackrock Mountain.
Did that work? No? Still don't find the little guy cute enough to adopt? Cue Sarah McLachlan's Angel.


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Celebrated and adored by millions, she was the Queen of people's hearts, yet the bittersweet story of the last man to truly capture hers has never been told.PT2M14S http://www.theage.com.au/action/externalEmbeddedPlayer?id=d-2spfz 620 349 August 28, 2013
Critics have been lining up to take a swing at the movie Diana following the London premiere of the Princess of Wales drama starring Naomi Watts.
The awful truth is that, 16 years after that terrible day in 1997, she [Diana] has died another awful death.
The film charts the last two years of the princess's life and her romance with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.
Naveen Andrews as Dr Hasnat Khan and Naomi Watts as the People's Princess in Diana. Photo: Supplied
Giving it one star out of five, The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw called it "an excruciatingly well-intentioned biopic laced with bizarre cardboard dialogue".
"I hesitate to use the term 'car crash cinema'," he writes. "But the awful truth is that, 16 years after that terrible day in 1997, she [Diana] has died another awful death."
Mass-market tabloid The Daily Mirror was even more vicious about the film, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, best known for the movie Downfall. He also only gave the film one star.
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Naomi Watts, right, poses for the cameras at the world premiere of Diana. Photo: Reuters
"The Queen of Hearts has been re-cast as a sad-sack singleton that even Bridget Jones would cross the street to avoid," writes David Edwards.
He panned Watts in particular for looking "utterly, completely and entirely" not like Diana.
"Wesley Snipes in a blonde wig would be more convincing," he adds.
London's Daily Telegraph is a little kinder, conceding Watts makes a "decent fist" of the role.
"But ultimately, what's the point of Diana," writes David Gritten. "It's hardly fascinating. It doesn't offer new facts about the Princess's life. And it certainly doesn't explain her complexity or contradictions."
He gave the film three stars.
Earlier, Watts set tongues wagging after cutting short an interview with BBC Radio 5 host Simon Mayo.
"A first for me and @wittertainment as Naomi Watts walked out of an interview!" Mayo tweeted afterwards. "She seemed a tad uncomfortable with the questions. Shame."
Later he said he was "baffled" by the star's reaction to his questions.
Watts herself has had nothing to say about the incident, although later on the red carpet in London's West End she admitted to being nervous about the reaction the movie would receive from a British public for whom Diana is a de facto saint. "In the beginning, I just thought how do you possibly take on the most famous woman of our time, when everybody feels they know her so well," Watts told a press conference at a hotel in Mayfair, not far from Diana's former Kensington Palace home.
"When you play real life characters there's always an extra sense of pressure because of the responsibility to tell the story in the most truthful and accurate way.
"And certainly in the case of Princess Diana there's no one as well known as her to date, or as much documented."
But Watts, who has twice been nominated for a best actress Academy Award, said she could not turn down the opportunity (or the challenge) in an acting world dominated by strong male leads.
"How often do we stumble across such fascinating characters? They're quite hard to find as a woman."
Dr Khan, portrayed by Lost star Naveen Andrews, declined to participate in the making of the film. His reticence is a major plot device in the biopic, with the media intensity around Diana driving a wedge between the couple.
Khan was recently quoted in the UK media saying that the film was "based on gossip".
During the scenes that took place between Diana and Khan, Watts said: "Liberties had to be taken and poetic licence. Actors bring nuance to it and, because it's not a documentary, I think it was OK to do that."
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