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Date of Stay: January, 2014
The park is in need of work. It appears that there has been little or no maintenance on the park since October 2013. We were here January 10. There is tree limbs on sites and roadways, fire pits are full of debris, trash, cans, ashes, many sites still have paper tags from Oct 27 checkout still hanging. This could be a great campground, but someone needs to start doing some work around here. We used passport and paid $43 for first nite and got second nite free - so for $22 it was not a bad deal and the lake front sites are awesome.
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Stayed here for 3 different weekends in July. Looked at all the choices in Boone area for campgrounds and this was by far the best choice. The road from Hwy 105 to campground can be a little tricky - but easily done. They have a main lodge area, game room, nice pond, and plenty of room to let our dogs run - open field near front! The new owners are fantastic. Changes being made already and they are doing it right. Excellent customer service. Our electric box had weak breaker when we hooked up 9 PM, and they sent someone right out to replace it. Across the street, they forgot the cable hookup and they brought them one right away. Ice and firewood delivered to your campsite. Saturday night movies on big screen in the main field and campfire for families - had 75 plus at the movie this weekend. Some sites are tricky to get into and some are uneven, but again they are making the investment to keep this our favorite spot in the Boone area!
Date of Stay: July, 2012
Very clean little park, but very tight. Our site backed up to the stream, and with our awing out we were almost touching our neighbor. Their sewer connection was 5 feet from our picnic table. Nice area to walk the dogs around in, and the folks their for the whole summer were very friendly! We just did not like the tight sites. Also coming east off Grand Father mountain we could not make left hand turn into park. We had to go up the road and make u-turn and come back down to campground.

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(CNSNews.com) – Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) announced today that he is supporting a 47-word long bill to repeal the 2,400-page long health care bill that was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on Tuesday.
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Desert Willows HOA President Ed Swenson Adams Kessler Attorney Mr. Swenson used home owner money for gambeling and Mr. Kessler is protecting him Desert Hot Springs California
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In January of this year the treasurer of our HOA discovered multiple ATM withdrawals made from casinos in the financial statements. He confronted the holder of the ATM card who is the president, Ed Swenson. Mr. Swenson refused to resign. the board at that time thought that Mr. Swenson had paid back the almost $2,000.00 because that is what the management company told them....yet no proof of repayment was offered. The board decided to not censure Mr. Swenson. The community then decided to recall Mr. Swenson. Mr. Swenson then hired Mr. Adams of Adams & Kessler. There was a secret meeting called at the management company office (Personalized Property Management). The attorney was there as well as the manager of PPM Mr. Shuey. Basically intimidation practices were used to try to silence myself and the treasurer. The treasurer was fired.
During the period of time since, Mr. Adams has aided Mr. Swenson in the use of financial intimidation against this elderly community. Mr. Swenson has gone door to door intimidating the elderly residents and threatening to sue them and take their homes away. Mr. Swenson has published the names of the people who signed the recall petition in a way that made them seem like a "small group of trouble makers". Mr. Swenson has issued restraining orders against the homeowners associated with the recall, and has issued strange non compliance with architectural variance rules against us as well. These homeowners then had to hire and pay for an attorney, find their way to court, find transportation, and go throught the stress of all of this. For sale signs started to appear.
Mr. Adams used the cumulative voting procedure to help Mr. Swenson beat the recall.
At this time Mr. Swenson still has that ATM card in his pocket and still has access to our funds. The homeowners have had to pay thousands of dollars to Mr. Adams. We are totally helpless in this.
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#1 Consumer Comment
Ed Swenson's misuse of HOA funds
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, November 26, 2013POSTED: Tuesday, November 26, 2013
I am one of the concerned homeowners who tried to have Ed Swenson recalled for financial misuse of homeowner funds. My background is in accounting and my husband and I have had several successful businesses.
When I requested from the treasurer, in writing, the financial records of the HOA, it was provided. I performed an audit by tracking bank transactions and matching them to the journal entries and purchase receipts. I found over 30 items that were expensed by our property management company, PPM, where there were missing receipts. To date, these receipts have not been provided.
I also discovered money withdrawn out of the HOA bank account by using a debit card at casinos, nine separate times over a six-month period. The president had possession of the debit card.
The president, Ed Swenson, was asked to resign. He was also informed if he did not resign, the entire HOA community would be informed fully of his actions. He refused to resign.
Two other board members were approached to ask them to remove him from office of president and to remove his access to our HOA funds. They were reminded of their fiduciary duty. They also refused to act.
Ed Swenson claims that on four of the casino withdrawal events, he gave the money to the in-house cleaning lady since the association owed her money anyway. She invoiced, and was paid by cheque from, our management company and was paid in advance of cleaning services. We did not owe her any money at all.
A campaign was started to recall Ed Swenson from the board. We went door to door and wrote letters to the homeowners supported by the documentation which proved Ed's misuse of funds.
Ed Swenson went to the homeowners who signed the recall petition and threatened them with lawsuits if they did not remove their names off the petition. I have witness statements from some of the homeowners who were threatened. Some of those people contacted, were scared into removing their names off the petition. Then Ed Swenson posted the amended petition with the remaining names on a public notice board under lock and key. Surely that must be morally and ethically wrong?
The HOA board sent a letter to all homeowners informing them that an investigation had been performed and Ed Swenson was exonerated from any wrongdoing. According to the previous treasurer who would still have been a board member at that time, no such investigation took place.
My husband and I went to the police to discuss the issue. A case file was initiated. Evidence was given to the police.
Ed Swenson started his own smear campaign. We were called liars and s****.>
The treasurer of the HOA board was fired at an "Executive Session" for providing confidential information to a homeowner, namely me. He was not removed from office. Legally he is still a treasurer, but not a board member. At the same meeting, the board replaced the treasurer with another person. She was not legally appointed.
Another board member and I met with the chief security officer of one of the casinos in question and asked him about the casino withdrawals and asked if there was video evidence. He informed us that he had already met with the police and that "damning evidence" had been handed over to the police.
Ed Swenson went to a conference in Las Vegas on a scholarship offered by CAI. He won the entry fee to the conference as well as up to $500 towards his travel expenses. Ed Swenson submitted his travel expenses to our HOA and we paid for all his travel. He also submitted the very same receipts to CAI for reimbursement of expenses. He received a payment in the amount of $500. He has kept the money for himself. When there was a question as to whether or not he had actually received the scholarship payment, CAI issued a second cheque to Ed Swenson. Ed Swenson "donated" the second cheque back to our HOA at a public HOA meeting. When CAI admitted they had made a mistake and wanted their second cheque back, our HOA repayed the money. Not Ed.
A letter was sent to the assistant DA. The DA's office wrote to PPM asking PPM to provide details and evidence of the investigation that PPM and the board claimed to have done in order to exonerate Ed Swenson. PPM met with the DA's office. We don't know what PPM gave to the DA's office and whether it was completely truthful or not. According to Robert Roberts, Ed Swenson's partner in life who wrote the rebuttal above, the DA issued a statement which states, in part, "it is my opinion that there is insufficient evidence of illegal conduct to warrant further action by this office". This does not mean that there was no evidence and that Ed Swenson did no wrong.
A source has informed me that members of the Desert Hot Springs Police Department were "up in arms" over the situation we are facing here. They handed over their investigative evidence, and yet the DA's office would not act on the evidence provided. Without knowing what PPM discussed and gave to the DA's office, we don't know why the DA won't act.
Now each homeowner is being hit with a special assessment related to the recall on the guise that it wasn't budgeted for and homeowners must pay. However, last year, the president has spend approximately $10,000 to further his own education in property management which wasn't budgeted for (and there are other over-budget expenses as well) and no special assessments were handed out then for those. This is purely a tactic to intimidate the homeowners for daring to stand up for our rights and to protect our community.
Don't get me wrong, I love this community and most of the people here. But when someone starts treating the HOA like their own bank account and spending HOA money without any regard for the community, that person must be stopped.
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#2 General Comment
Mr. Swenson Did Not Misuse HOA Monies
SUBMITTED: Saturday, August 17, 2013POSTED: Saturday, August 17, 2013
~~ The casino ATM withdrawals in question were because Mr. Swenson was attending an HOA-related conference being held at a major Las Vegas casino. The only ATMs available are at the casinos along the strip (duh!) Any 'questionable' transactions were quickly settled by Mr. Swenson, and both the Desert Willows board and Personalized Property Management (PPM) concluded that there was not any intent to defraud anyone.
~~ Mr. Swenson refused to resign when it was demanded because he had done nothing wrong.
~~ When a certain group of "concerned homeowners" (not the entire community as you would have us believe) decided to proceed with a recall election, Mr. Swenson did not hire an attorney. Most homeowner associations are incorporated, and are subject to state statutes that govern non-profit corporations and homeowner associations. Therefore, the Desert Willows board was forced to hire an attorney because recall elections are strictly governed.
~~ The treasurer was fired for illicitly divulging privileged information.
~~ Mr. Adams, the attorney with Personalized Property Management (PPM), did not aid or direct Mr. Swenson in the use of any manner of financial intimidation upon anyone. He couldn't legally do so, even if he wanted to.
~~ The group of 'concerned homeowners' went door to door making all manner of alarmist accusations. You cannot justifiably claim that Mr. Swenson's door to door efforts to explain otherwise constitute intimidation.
~~ Certain homeowners associated with the recall physically threatened Mr. Swenson (there are ample written witness reports for that). That he sought restraining orders was his right. That the said homeowners felt the need to hire an attorney, find their way to court and go through all the stress is a real tear-jerker.
~~ Mr. Adams, the PPM attorney, did not use any means whatsoever to help Mr. Swenson beat the recall. An independent agency formally conducted the recall election, and strict rules were followed. Mr. Adams' presence at the recall election was required by law.
~~ Mr. Swenson does NOT still have the ATM card, nor does he enjoy unfettered access to association funds.
1. You didn't make clear that you are one of the 'concerned homeowners' who demanded the recall.
2. Two different Desert Willows boards, and Personalized Property Management, determined that there was no deliberate wrong-doing nor intent to defraud on the part of Mr. Swenson, but that didn't deter the group of 'concerned homeowners', who have behaved with all the finer qualities of a cackle of hyenas, displaying nothing short of a lynch mob mentality, making unfounded accusations and using scare tactics.
3. It is this same group of 'concerned homeowners' who forced the Desert Willows board to hire an attorney because, as already pointed out, the board was legally required to do so.
5. Someone decided that all of this should be a matter for the Riverside District Attorney and filed a complaint: "embezzlement of HOA funds." After reviewing all the available information, the office of Riverside DA Paul Zellerbach issued a statement on 30 July 2013 which states, in part, "it is my opinion that there is insufficient evidence of illegal conduct to warrant further action by this office".
6. From a recent cost breakdown issued by Personalized Property Management, the actions of these 'concerned homeowners' has amounted to a total cost to the Desert Willows HOA of nearly $7,900 -- that's just shy of EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS.
Is the group of 'concerned homeowners' willing to pony up for that?
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Jennifer Brady is the type of woman to try to see the best in life even when the best of times turn to heartache.
"The nature of life is you're going to be dealt some cards you weren't anticipating. It's all about how you approach it. Cancer sucks. It's not pleasant," she explained. "But if you have to deal with it, just deal with it. Attitude is 90 percent of it. Medical, in my opinion, is 10 percent."
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Jennifer had successfully battled lung cancer, and been told she was cancer free.
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"I was on a business trip in Vermont when I found out. My first reaction was anger, lots of obscenities in my rental car by myself," Jennifer recalled. "There were a lot of tears."
She was 22 weeks pregnant and had many questions, including how treatments would affect her unborn baby.
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"The kid is already getting blasted with chemotherapy so I opted not to have anesthesia with some of my other procedures," she said. "I wanted to limit how much the baby was exposed to, but I obviously had to have chemotherapy for either of us to have a chance at survival."
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Police think an Arverne teen who limped into Peninsula Hospital Center with a gunshot wound last weekend may have accidentally shot himself at home, sources told The Wave.
Calvin Johnson, 19, walked about a mile from the Ocean Village housing complex, where he lives, to PHC last Saturday after he shot himself once in his left leg, a police source said. Hospital staff notified the 101 Precinct upon Johnson's arrival at the emergency room.
Officers responded to the hospital and interviewed Johnson, who said he was shot by an unknown man as he was crossing the street near the apartment complex. Police continued their investigation and discovered evidence inside the apartment unit where Johnson lives suggesting the incident occurred there, the source said.
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This post is from new contributor Kali Hawlk who's documenting her journey to quitting her day job and starting her freelance business.
There are two elements in life that most of us feel we will never have enough of. The first is money.
The good news for side hustlers and aspiring solopreneurs is that you don't need to have much money to establish a side hustle alongside your full-time job (and some get the ball rolling without any upfront investment at all).
As a freelance writer and content manager, my startup expenses have been minimal: I paid for two websites, my portfolio and my blog… and that's about it.
The total cost? About $300 for everything, which included two domain names, three years' worth of hosting, and premium themes for both WordPress sites. Many people have beaten me on expenses and have gotten set up for far less.
The second element that we all feel we don't have enough of is time. Finding the time to work on our businesses while having a full-time job is the biggest challenge that solopreneurs will have to overcome.
Here are 3 ways to harmonize your side business and make room for it alongside your full-time job.
1. Think of your side biz as an investment
Time is trickier to handle than money. My startup costs were an investment; the first month of freelance writing brought in a return of about $600. Not only did I cover my initial expenses, but I was able to allocate some of my profit towards taxes and had a little left over to put back into building my business.
The initial time I put in, however, is not something I can make more of. Sure, the time I invested did pay off in the form of a growing business — but that simply means more clients, more connections, or more money. It does not mean more time.
It's crucial for those of us who are aspiring to take our side businesses full-time learn to manage our time wisely and do everything in our power to maximize what is available to us. We all get the same 24 hours in a day, and that's it. So today, I want to share exactly what I did to free up more time to devote to my business.
2. Negotiate with your boss for office freedom
The number one time drain on any aspiring solopreneur who is working to take their business full-time is the day job they already have. Working on someone else's arbitrary schedule is, in my opinion, utter nonsense!
People are not machines, and we don't necessarily function at our highest capacities between the hours of 9am and 5pm with a one hour break slapped in the middle.
And yet, for most of us with desk jobs in someone else's office, this is what we're expected to do. We don't exchange a job well done for our paycheck (if we did, we'd come into the office when we wanted, get stuff done, and leave when we had satisfactorily completed all our tasks).
Instead, we exchange time. The agreement is that we sit at our desks for at least eight hours per day and every two weeks we get a paycheck — even though we're all well aware it doesn't necessarily take 40 hours per week to do a fantastic job.
I knew I had to do something to create a better schedule for myself in order to be more productive. Initially, I approached my boss and asked to work remotely full-time. I had a clear, logical argument that I presented that explained why it made sense for me to work at home.
Unfortunately, my employer is extremely old-school and thought this was very bad for "office unity." Fighting to not roll my eyes, I stood my ground and worked to negotiate a deal that we could both live with.
Now I work in the office from 7am to about noon, and then I go home to work remotely for the afternoon.
3. Work remotely to boost productivity
While I am resigned to a set schedule in the mornings, I have the rest of the day to prioritize my own tasks. I'm always logged into my company's system remotely so I can immediately handle things like emails, but I tend to focus on my side business in the afternoon and take care of my job's assignments at night.
I still have to work my full-time job, but working remotely brings several positive changes:
- I'm not a night owl, and am more energized and creative in the afternoon hours than I am in the evening — which is exactly what I need to do great work for my clients. My full-time job is data entry. I don't need creative juices for that!
- I'm also not a people person. I hit the social anxiety jackpot: I'm not only introverted, but shy as well! This does not mean I hate people, but it does mean being around coworkers all day long becomes extremely wearing. Working remotely has re-energized me and I'm a million times more productive now that I have plenty of time to work independently and alone.
- I have the freedom to devote more time to my side business if I complete assignments for my full-time job ahead of schedule (which often happens).
- I'm happier in general. I learned that being forced to sit in an office day in and day out is really bad for my mental and physical health. Working in that office full-time on a schedule that made no sense for my natural productivity levels caused me to be more depressed, anxious, and stressed than I have ever been. And fellow office-workers will understand how physically draining it is to be shackled at a desk for more than 8 hours a day, forced to be stationary and confined.
How to negotiate your own remote work
If you want to negotiate with your current employer for a more flexible schedule, keep these tips in mind:
Make sure you are doing absolutely outstanding work in your current position before you approach a boss to ask for anything. Prove your value and your worth, and they'll likely be more willing to work with you to keep you happy.
See the situation from your employer's point of view. In your negotiations, you'll need to be able to tell them exactly why allowing you to do some work remotely benefits everyone.
Have your argument prepared before you ask for a change in schedule. This doesn't mean you go in and actually argue with your boss! Simply take the time to be prepared and capable of answering questions, explaining why this is a logical step, and reminding anyone what an excellent, valuable employee you are. Don't approach the situation like you're asking for a favor. You're not — you're seeking a better work schedule for you so that you can perform at even higher levels for your employer.
Be ready to negotiate. Depending on how innovative your company is, you may or may not have to negotiate with your manager. Forward-thinking companies will likely be more open to non-traditional working arrangements.
Having more freedom to work on your own schedule is one of the best ways you can balance your side business with your current full-time job. Remember, this isn't an excuse to get out of doing excellent work in your position for your employer. You'll still have a full-time job, but it should be a bit easier to work your side business' needs into your day when you have more control over your schedule.
You can devote your best working hours to your own clients and projects, and you can spend more of your day in an ideal environment rather than in someone else's office. We may not be able to fit more than 24 hours in a day, but we can put those hours to the best use possible.
That starts with freeing ourselves from the confines of the offices of our day jobs, and beginning to establish our own schedules and surroundings that allow us to do our best work possible.
What's one thing you do to create room for your side hustle alongside your full-time job?


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How to Cure a Fanatic
by Amos Oz
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In these essays, Amos Oz, the Israeli thinker and novelist, gets to grips with the argument between the Palestinians and the Israelis. The situation is tragic, he says, because it's not a fight between right and wrong. It's a fight between right and right. Also, it's a squabble between two victims. Israel and Palestine are "two victims of the same oppressor". That oppressor is the colonial Europe of the past. Part of the current tragedy exists because both of these victims look at each other and see, not a fellow victim, but "the image of their past oppressors". Beautifully put.
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
In another town, they break into the office of a friendly lawman, the Sheriff of Cabron County Ray Bledsoe (Jeff Corey) where he is sleeping. They desperately try to convince him that want to quit their lives as outlaws, go straight, and immediately enlist in the Army to serve in the Spanish-American War - to come under government protection from the posse. As they tie and gag him - as a ruse - he warns them that their days are numbered in the West, they're going to "die bloody," and that they are foolish to think otherwise:
You are crazy. You are, both of you, crazy! They'd throw you in jail for a thousand years each...They (the government) forget all about the years of thievin' and robbin' and they'd take you into the Army - which is what you want in the first place. There's somethin' out there that scares ya, but it's too late. No, you should have let yourself get killed a long time ago while you had the chance. You may be the biggest thing that ever hit this area, but you're still two-bit outlaws. I never met a soul more affable than you, Butch, or faster than the Kid. But you're still nothin' but two-bit outlaws on the dodge. It's over! Don't you get that?! Your times is over and you're gonna die bloody. And all you can do is choose where.
The scared outlaws continue to be chased, riding on one horse and entering into more mountainous terrain. When Sundance fires at a sound behind him - a gila monster - the gunfire echoes off the boulders and alerts the posse to their exact location. Butch tries to be upbeat: "They can't track us over rock...They're beginning to get on my nerves." They desperately wonder at the forces of the law which close in on them. They speculate that the posse is aided by a "full-blooded Indian" named Lord Baltimore, an expert tracker: "He could track anybody. Over anything. Day or night...Whoever it is, it sure the hell is somebody." Butch is becoming more and more exasperated: "Don't they get tired? Don't they get hungry?" They scramble up a rocky area, breathing heavily, exhausted, sweating and terribly out of breath. They wonder if the superposse is led by the "toughest" lawman in the West - a sheriff named Joe Lefors, identified by a white-straw hat ("a white skimmer"). When they abandon their horse, Sundance expresses confidence in his buddy: "You're the brains, Butch. You'll think of somethin'."
They are trapped and cornered by the posse on a ledge at the edge of a steep rock canyon with nowhere else to go. Their frequent comic, self-deprecating bantering is a highlight of the film, especially illustrated when they overlook raging rapids fifty feet below and are faced with a choice between a hopeless shoot-out and a near-suicidal leap:
Butch: DAMMIT! Well, the way I figure it, we can either fight or give. If we give, we go to jail.
Sundance: I been there already.
Butch: But if we fight, they can stay right where they are and starve us out or go for position - shoot us; might even get a rockslide started and get us that way. What else could they do?
Sundance: They could surrender to us, but I wouldn't count on that. (He watches the posse maneuver.) They're goin' for position, all right. Better get ready. (He loads his gun.)
Butch: Kid - the next time I say, 'Let's go someplace like Bolivia,' let's go someplace like Bolivia.
Sundance: Next time. Ready?
Butch: (looking into the deep canyon and the river far below) No, we'll jump.
Sundance (after looking down): Like hell we will.
Butch: No, it'll be OK - if the water's deep enough, we don't get squished to death. They'll never follow us.
Sundance: How do you know?
Butch: Would you make a jump like that you didn't have to?
Sundance: I have to and I'm not gonna.
Butch: Well, we got to, otherwise we're dead. They're just gonna have to go back down the same way they come. Come on.
Sundance: Just one clear shot, that's all I want.
Butch: Come on.
Sundance: Uh-uh.
Butch: We got to.
Sundance: Nope! Get away from me!
Butch: Why?
Sundance: I wanna fight 'em!
Butch: They'll kill us!
Sundance: Maybe.
Butch: You wanna die?!
Sundance: (waving his pistol at the river far below) Do you?!
Butch: All right. I'll jump first.
Sundance: Nope.
Butch: Then you jump first.
Sundance: No, I said!
Butch: What's the matter with you?!
Sundance: (wildly embarrassed) I can't swim!
Butch: (guffawing at his partner) Why, you crazy - the fall'll probably kill ya!
Sundance shakes his head as he ponders the insanity of actually jumping to escape their pursuers. He grabs a gun belt held out by Butch, jumps with him in tandem, and wails:
Ohhh . . . s - h - i - i - i - i - i - t !
The swift current carries them away. The white-hatted posse member stands atop the cliff watching them spinning and turning in the foamy water below. Sundance nearly drowns his life-saving companion while clinging to him.
The two outlaws return to Etta's place, where she informs them about the newspaper reports of their demise: "The papers said they had you...They said you were dead." They learn that Baltimore and Lefors (with Jeff Carr, George Hiatt, and T. T. Kelliher) were on their trail, hired by Harriman of the Union Pacific Railroad to pursue them until they are killed: "He resents the way you've been picking on him so he's outfitted a special train and hired special employees. You've spent the last couple of days avoiding them. It's really sort of flattering, if you want to think about it that way."
Butch criticizes E. H. Harriman's expensive efforts to eliminate their menace once and for all:
A set-up like that costs more than we ever took...That crazy Harriman. That's bad business. How long do you think I'd stay in operation if every time I pulled a job, it cost me money? If he'd just pay me what he's spending to make me stop robbin' him, I'd stop robbin' him. (Screaming out the door at E. H. Harriman.) Probably inherited every penny you got! Those inherited guys - what the hell do they know?
Their notoriety and the professional reliability and interminable pursuit of the SuperPosse makes it difficult for them to continue their state-side activities: "They'll show up here, sooner or later." They decide to high-tail it to South America (Bolivia) ("wherever the hell Bolivia is"), believing it will be easy and safe living there. They propose that Etta join them: "It would be good cover goin' with a woman. No one expects it." Etta decides to go there with them with one caveat:
I'm twenty-six, and I'm single and a schoolteacher and that's the bottom of the pit. And the only excitement I've known is here with me now. So I'll go with you and I won't whine. And I'll sew your socks and I'll stitch you when you're wounded, and I'll do anything you ask of me, except one thing: I won't watch you die. I'll miss that scene if you don't mind.
Dressed up for travel and ready to leave Etta's place, Butch shoves the bicycle away, sending it crashing into a puddle. He spitefully exclaims:
The future's all yours, ya lousy bicycles.
In a closeup, the bicycle wheel spins slower and slower and comes to a stop, as the film turns to sepia-tones for a second time.
The next segment of the film depicts the end-of-an-era New York City during the three fugitives' stop-over on their way to Bolivia. With over a hundred stills-tintype photos and period music, a romanticized, stylized, and nostalgic glimpse is given of turn-of-the-century life in an imaginative montage. Butch, Sundance, and Etta are spliced inside many of the vintage, sepia photos - enjoying the city's elegance and modernity in Central Park, on Fifth Avenue or at Coney Island. Their portrait is taken by one of the society photographers of the day. They book steamship passage to South America from New York.
The film returns to color as the dapper-dressed trio step off a Bolivian train in a country village (Santa Ines) in the middle of a god-forsaken landscape, filled with llamas, pigs, piglets, chickens and adobe huts. Butch and Sundance exchange cynical, caustically-humorous banter about their predicament:
Butch: Well, you know, it could be worse. You get a lot more for your money in Bolivia, I checked on it.
Sundance: What could they have here that you could possibly want to buy?
Butch: All Bolivia can't look like this.
Sundance: (infuriated) How do you know? This might be the garden spot of the whole country. People may travel hundreds of miles just to get to this spot where we're standing now. This might be the Atlantic City, New Jersey of all Bolivia, for all you know.
Butch: Look, I know a lot more about Bolivia than you know about Atlantic City, New Jersey, I can tell ya that.
Sundance: Ah-hah! You do, huh? I was born there. I was born in New Jersey, brought up there, so...
Butch: You're from the East? I didn't know that.
Sundance: The total tonnage of what you don't know is enough to...
Butch assures Etta that Sundance will feel better after returning to their old profession:
He'll feel a lot better after he's robbed a couple of banks.
Casually watching from across the street, Butch and Sundance case the Banco de Los Andes. But their first Bolivian bank hold-up is short-circuited because they cannot speak Spanish. Stunned, Butch walks out of the building and leaves Sundance standing there. Back at their hotel room and at a restaurant, Etta teaches them phonetic Spanish in "unison recitation" for a useful, "specialized vocabulary" of instructional Spanish phrases:
- This is a robbery. - "Esto es un robo."
- Raise your hands. - "Manos arriba."
- Raise them! - "Arriba!"
- All of you. - Back against the wall. - "Todos ustedes - Arrimense a la pared."
- Give me the money. -
- Where's the safe? Open it. - "Donde esta la caja? Abrala."
Their next attempted bank robbery is clumsily executed - Butch shouts out the wrong lines and checks out his "cribsheet" while Sundance becomes exasperated with him during the bungled theft: "They got 'em up. Skip on down...Skip on down...They're against the wall already!" Etta - dressed as a man, holds their horses outside when they emerge. The bank officials identify them as bandidos Yanquis. After they escape with the money, they are pursued by blue-uniformed corregidors, but the outlaws scare them off with gunshots. Butch beams: "Well we're back in business boys and girls, just like the old days." Music accompanies a series of successful, clever and amusing heists, as Etta assists them. Their outlaw reputation revives their status as hunted criminals, and wanted posters appear for the arrest of the marked men - "Bandidos de los Estados Unidos." Again, life becomes dangerous when their reputation spreads from town to town. Butch fears that the white straw-hatted lawman Lefors from the railroad posse has pursued them to Bolivia. Although Etta is unsure of the identity of the man: "You don't know for sure it's Lefors," Sundance believes that they will be killed and wants to strike back immediately: "He wants to finish us here. He's gonna wait for us to pull another job and then he's gonna hunt us down just like before. And if he misses us, he'll wait for the next job and he'll get us then. Let's finish it now, Butch, one way of the other." Butch surmises: "He's gotta wait for us, right, to pull another job. Well, what if there isn't another job?"
They attempt to reform and go "straight," serving as payroll guards for a mining company. They are employed by Percy Garris (Strother Martin), an old prospector who can't spit tobacco juice straight into the dust, to protect the transport of gold shipments from "payroll thieves." But he tells them that he cannot promise to pay them. "You see, every mine around gets its payroll from La Paz. And every mine around gets its payroll held up. Some say it's the Bolivian bandits and some say that it's the banditos Yanquis." Sundance displays his skill with a gun after Garris asks: "Can you hit anything?" His first immobile shot misses the mark, but when allowed to move, he obliterates the target: "I'm better when I move."
Paranoid about ambushing bandits behind every tree and bush on their first trip the next morning, Garris cautions his new hires:
Garris: Will you two beginners cut it out?
Butch: Well, we're just tryin' to spot an ambush, Mr. Garris.
Garris: Morons! I've got morons on my team. Nobody is going to rob us going down the mountain. We have got no money going DOWN the mountain. When we have got the money on the way back, then you can sweat.
On the trip back after collecting the payroll from a bank that Butch and Sundance hit in June, Garris tells them to relax:
You've gotta get used to Bolivian ways. You got to go easy...(patooiee!!!! Damn it!)...like I do. Course you probably think I'm crazy, but I'm not. (patooiee!!!! Bingo!) I'm colorful. That's what happens when you live ten years alone in Bolivia - you get colorful.
In an ambush, Garris is shot to death by Bolivian peasant bandits as he finishes his sentence. They heave the payroll bags filled with money toward the concealed bandits. As the Bolivians are preoccupied dividing the loot among themselves, Butch and Sundance confront them. Sundance instructs Butch to speak to them in Spanish: "Tell them we were hired to take it back. It's our job. Tell them the money isn't ours." Legitimately hired to protect the money that isn't theirs, Butch and Sundance survive the shoot-out, but it is the first time in his life that Butch is forced to kill.
Sundance: Can you take the two on the right?
Butch: Kid, there's somethin' I think I oughta tell ya. I never shot anybody before.
Sundance: One helluva time to tell me.
After the gun battle in which the bandits reel backwards in slow-motion (reminiscent of the finale in Bonnie and Clyde (1967)), the two numb and shattered guards stare down at the bloody scene. Sundance tells Butch that their efforts to go straight have failed, and that the job proves more violent than robbing banks: "Well we've gone straight. What do we try now?"
At a nighttime campsite, Etta suggests other straight professions without killing: "There are other ways of going straight. There's farming. You could buy a place...What about a ranch then?" Knowing that their days are numbered, she decides to return to the U.S. ahead of them - presumably because she fears that they will be killed and she doesn't want to see them die.
With Etta gone, the two offbeat outlaws resort to their old ways - robbing a payroll mule train, but Butch is exasperated: "From now on, jungle work is out." They transfer the heavy payroll bags to a white mule, identified with a brand from the mine. In a small Bolivian village while they sit down to eat on an open patio, the stable boy recognizes the mule's brand and alerts the Bolivian constabulary. They are served food by the restaurant owner: "The specialty of the house and it's still moving." Bullets strike their table and they scramble for cover. Butch jokes: "That settles it. This place gets no more of my business."
To go for more ammunition from the mule's pack, Butch decides that he must go, since Sundance would provide better protection: "Why am I always so damn smart?" The fearsome gunfire from all directions wounds both of them. While cornered in an empty stucco building, the two agonized, wounded men still bicker with each other, giving a mocking, ironic edge to their words:
Butch: Is that what you call giving cover?
Sundance: Is that what you call running? If I knew you were gonna stroll...
Butch: You never could shoot, not from the very beginning.
Sundance: And you were all mouth.
They are unaware that a whole regiment of hundreds of Bolivian cavalry arrives to move into position and surround them - the "dos hombres" or "banditos Yanquis." While bleeding badly and tending to their wounds, they wistfully daydream and optimistically talk of new places to go, even debating about the possibility of emigrating to Australia and starting a new life there:
Butch: I got a great idea where we should go next.
Sundance: I don't want to hear it.
Butch: You'll change your mind when I tell ya.
Sundance: Shut up.
Butch: OK, OK.
Sundance: It's your great ideas that got us here.
Butch: Forget about it.
Sundance: I don't ever want to hear another one of your ideas. All right?
Butch: All right.
Sundance: OK.
Butch: Australia - I figured secretly you wanted to know, so I told ya. Australia.
Sundance: That's your great idea?
Butch: Oh, the greatest in a long line.
Sundance: Australia's no better than here.
Butch: That's all you know.
Sundance: Name me one thing better.
Butch: They speak English in Australia.
Sundance: They do?
Butch: That's right, smart guy, so we wouldn't be foreigners. They got horses in Australia. And they got thousands of mountains you can hide out in. And good climate. Nice beaches. You could learn to swim.
Sundance: No swimming! It isn't important. What about the banks?
Butch: They're easy. Easy, ripe, and luscious.
Sundance: The banks or the women?
Butch: Once you've got one, you've got the other.
Sundance: It's a long way, isn't it?
Butch: Ah, everything's got to be perfect with you.
Sundance: I just don't want to get there and find out it stinks - that's all.
Butch: At least think about it.
Sundance: All right, I'll think about it.
The two are unable to comprehend the reality of their doomed situation that awaits them outside. Their ironic sense of humor makes their inevitable fate even more difficult to accept. Escape is impossible. After they have loaded their guns and positioned guns in their hands, they ready themselves for a gallant dash toward the horses:
Butch: When we get outside, when we get to the horses, just remember one thing. Hey, wait a minute!
Sundance: What?
Butch: You didn't see Lefors out there, did ya?
Sundance: Lefors? No.
Butch: (confidently) Oh, good. For a moment there, I thought we were in trouble.
They emerge with guns blazing from their hiding place for their last stand shootout against impossible odds in the courtyard, drowned out by the merciless sounds of thousands of guns firing on them from all angles. Rather than ending the film in bullet-ridden deaths, the picture ends with the well-known freeze-frame of their final charge - mythologizing and immortalizing the two for posterity. The image freezes, blurs, and then keeps a sepia-toned focus on the legendary, eternal bravura image of the two compadres in their final moments as they meet their fate together. [The third sepia-toned, nostalgic segment of the film captures their images as legendary, carefree characters, making good guys out of bad guys.]


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Two new shows opening today at CORE New Art Space couldn't be more different: One artist's works are small and full of all the space and mystery of Giorgio de Chirico's metaphysical worlds; the other's are large, funny and bluntly colorful mixtures of popular and found imagery. But they're similar, too, in more ways than you might imagine. Both artists are visual storytellers; this is the first CORE show for each; both found their way back to making art after taking professional detours; and they are the best of friends.
Grade-school art teacher Anne Thulson rediscovers (or, as she puts it, "re-enchants") sometimes-forgotten landmarks and people from the long-razed Chappell House that once stood at 13th Avenue and Logan Street to regional WPA artists who now seem like footnotes to an era in dreamy style for her gallery offering, One Hundred Famous Views of Denver. In contrast, Mark Penner-Howell, who toiled in the advertising business for twenty years before quitting to redefine his artistic ambitions, mixes everything from Dick and Jane textbook illustrations to SPAM e-mail titles after first collaging the images in Photoshop for his paintings, on display in Destinesia. "I might be new talent, but I'm really not so new," Penner-Howell says of his delayed entry into the art world. One look at his canvases will have you asking why it took so long.
Both shows stay up at CORE, 900 Santa Fe Drive, through February 10; attend an opening reception Saturday, January 26, from 6 to 9 p.m. For details, visit www.corenewartspace.com or call 303-297-8428.
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Date: August 23, 2011 01:14PM
In the excerpt for annual letter of Seth Klarman in 2010, he has mentioned to investors the framework investment success. I think that would be very useful to share the main ideas with others here
Seth Klarman discussed two vital elements for successful long-term investment. The first is to answer the question, "What's your edge?", and possibilities from the toolkit are truly long-term capital; a flexible approach to search for opportunities across broad array of markets, securities and asset classes; deep industry knowledge; strong sourcing relationships, and a solid grounding in value investing principles.
Second, the investor should consider the competitive landscape and the behavior of other market participants. Stay out of the hot market and focus on what people ignore. If other investors are rigidly committed to fast-growing technology stocks, you might not outperform. If the competitors are dumping Greeks equities or U.S. housing debt, these asset classes may be worth the attention, regardless of currently poor fundamentals that are driving others' decisions. Where to best apply the focus and skills depends partially on where others are applying theirs.
Focusing on the approach of competitors and their processes, not the short-term results, as short-term performance envy may cause many of the shortcomings that lock most investors into a perpetual cycle of underachievement. Watch the competitors not out of jealousy, but out of respect.
Most traditional investors are limited by a lot of constraints including narrow skill-sets, legal restrictions or psychological inhibitions. A drop in a stock's price gives investors enough reason to sell the stock, or when a bond is downgraded, or a company omits its dividends. Such behavior often creates supply-demand imbalances where bargains can be found.
Price is the single most important criterion in sound investment decision making. The investors in all asset classes are fond of simplicity, rosy outlooks. They prefer full buildings and trophy properties to fixer uppers that need to be filled, even though empty or unloved buildings may be a far more compelling, and even a safer, investment.
Further, a majority of investors feel compelled to be fully invested at all times. If investors invest full time, one important tool from investors' toolkits is removed: the ability to wait patiently for compelling opportunities that may arise in the future. In addition, an investor who is too worried about missing out on the upside of potential investment may be exposing himself to substantial downsize risk precisely when valuation is extended.
There is much information but not everyone knows how to select information. Investors are often quite short-term. Everyone can ask questions, but not everyone can identify the right questions to ask. Everyone searches for opportunity, but most look only when the searching is straightforward, even if undeniably highly competitive.
The full excerpts of the annual letter to investors of Seth Klarman can be view in the following link:
Excerpts from Seth Klarman 2010 annual letter
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Rio Tinto CEO pays price of calamitous acquisitions
By Clara Ferreira-Marques
LONDON (Reuters) - Rio Tinto sacked chief executive Tom Albanese on Thursday and revealed a $14 billion writedown almost entirely on the value of his two most significant acquisitions, the Alcan aluminium group and Mozambican coal.
An engineer who became the miner's first American boss, Albanese will be replaced by Australian Sam Walsh who heads Rio's operations in iron ore, where it is the world's second largest producer.
Doug Ritchie, the heavyweight former energy boss who led the acquisition of Mozambique-focused miner Riversdale, was also shown the door after almost three decades with the company.
New Jersey-born, Alaska-trained Albanese had until now survived the consequences of his disastrous $38 billion acquisition of Alcan in 2007, a bruising top-of-the-market deal when Rio was under pressure from rivals to bulk up or be bought.
The deal, just two months after Albanese took the reins, turned bad as markets crumbled and aluminium prices slumped, battering Rio's balance sheet, nearly forcing it into the arms of Chinese state-owned Chinalco and triggering a $15 billion rights issue. Rio has since suffered years of losses in aluminium, with Alcan adding to problems at its original business, and has taken some $29 billion in impairments.
Walsh was already in charge of the division that accounts for nearly 80 percent of profits and his appointment hints at a back-to-basics strategy as shareholders demand better cash controls throughout the mining sector.
Walsh was welcomed by investors and analysts on Thursday as a safe pair of hands, but many also questioned whether a 63-year-old veteran would be a long-term solution, raising concerns over management at a group that also announced the departure of its chief financial officer last July.
"It's another black mark in terms of (Albanese's) M&A record and I suppose, given the magnitude of this writedown ... I'm not surprised that he's stepping down with this, nor am I surprised that Doug Ritchie is," analyst Jeff Largey at Macquarie said. Continued...


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Jennifer Aniston's decision to put off having children is being cited as the reason why she and husband Brad Pitt have ended their five-year marriage.
According to the New York Post, Pitt, 41, wanted to start a family while Friends star Aniston didn't "want to endure the physical effects that giving birth will have on her sexy body".
Citing unnamed sources, The Post said on the set of the upcoming movie Mr and Mrs Smith, Pitt "spent hours" in co-star Angelina Jolie's trailer.
But the attraction was not the curvaceous star, but her 3-year-old adopted son, Maddox.
"It's about the children," the New York paper quoted an unnamed "pal" as saying. "She just doesn't want kids right now - and he wants kids."
Last month Pitt, who is starring on the big screen in Ocean's Twelve, came close to tears on a US television show when asked about whether he wanted children.
"I'm going to say it - kids, family, I am thinking family," he told interviewer Diane Sawyer.
"Yes, I have got family on the mind. Jen and I have been working something out. Little girls, they just crush me - they break my heart."
In 2002 Aniston, 35, told People magazine the couple would probably start a family, but "not for a while".
The Post said Pitt will move out of the couple's $US13.5 million Beverly Hills mansion.


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Billed as one of the oldest and largest cultural events in the country, New York's International African Arts Festival (IAAF) has become more than a showcase featuring top artists and performers from around the world. It is, for the numerous vendors, media sponsors, and corporate partners, an increasingly reliable revenue stream, guaranteeing the participants a good time and profitable returns on their investments. "Each year, the event has grown larger, and for all involved the bottom line is economics," says noted publicist Julia Shaw, who has been affiliated with the IAAF for 10 years. "This year, we will have about 250 vendors and, given the products on hand, we can expect the money from our community to circulate several times before leaving it."
Shaw says the vendors have to feed their families and pay the rent, and if the turnout is as strong as it has been over the years, the vendors should not only be able to take care of their families, but earn enough to share the wealth with other vendors. The means to obtaining a profit for the vendors is certainly a key concern for Mzee Moyo, who has been with the festival since its inception 35 years ago and who currently is the event's chief of operations. "For many years we held the festival at Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn, which allowed us to earn money at the gate," he says. "But since we are no longer at a place where there is a gate, we have to find other ways to gather the funds to ensure our existence."
This year the five-day festival will take place daily at Commodore Perry Park from June 30 through July 4. The spacious park is located in down- town Brooklyn.
If the festival itself is somewhat short of its investment returns, most of the vendors are doing very well, Moyo continues. "One of our past vendors—Carol's Daughter—that sells health and personal care products has gone on to national acclaim," he says. "She is but one of the vendors who began with us and went on to establish a name for herself in business."
The festival began in 1971 as a fund-raiser for the Uhuru Sasa School—a community-based initiative that educated youth and adults about African culture. The fund-raiser was a small festival with about 20 arts and crafts vendors, local entertainers, and food prepared by parents. Almost 2,000 people came to the event and the fund-raiser was a success. That early format of entertainment, food and marketplace drew increasing crowds annually and became known as the African Street Carnival.
"We plan to continue the same process," Moyo explains. "For example, this year we are featuring a tribute to the late percussionist Ray Barretto. In the past we've been graced with such notables as Lauryn Hill, Eddie Palmeri, KRS-1, India-Irie, and The Mighty Sparrow. Along with the talent, which we're in the process of finalizing, we're presenting the works of many local, national and international artists from across the diaspora. Our dance, music and spoken word programs consist of a range of traditions from Yoruba to Rastafarian; art forms from steel bands to gospel choirs; genres from jazz to reggae; and nationalities from Senegalese to Garifuna."
Another redeeming feature of the festival, Moyo adds, is that it's family-oriented, which means there are products, entertainment, and food for all to enjoy.
Enjoyment clearly has been a watchword for many of the thousands who have attended the festival over the years, and, given the legacy Moyo and his crew are striving to retain, there's no reason to doubt the success of this year's festival, no matter what venue they choose.
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Two weeks ago I checked this trap and found 6-10 bees milling around inside. Trap is a double medium, top box has foundation (one frame partially drawn) , bottom is foundationless frames. Strapped to the tree about head high. I thought this late in the year I may catch a small swarm or two.
Got a text today that said "Houston, we have a problem!"
Arrived to find a bunch of bees that love the outdoors. Not sure why they aren't using the inside.
The plan is to go back before dark and rubber band as much comb as possible into frames.
Leave the hive in the same place until after dark and then I can move it 10 miles to my place or set it on a stand right there at the base of the tree.
Part of me says to leave them there because they are foraging and building comb. There's a pasture full of wildflower next to them.
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Vietti Barbera d'Asti Tre Vigne 2011
Barbera from Asti, Piedmont, Italy
Winemaker's Notes
Ruby purple color with ripe red cherry aromas with hints of mineral and vanilla. A dry, medium bodied red wine with refreshing acidity (making it perfect to pair with food) and soft tannins, the Barbera d'Asti Tre Vigne is well balanced with good integration of oak, good complexity and a finish of more red cherries.
Antipasti, rich salads, grilled seasoned vegetables, hearty soups, pastas or with breaded veal, pork, chicken with light sauces.
Critical Acclaim
International Wine Cellar - "("our business card," noted Currado, who produces 40,000 to 44,000 bottles of this wine and ships most of them to the U.S.; he began bottling the wine in a series of installments last spring): Deep ruby-red. Distinctly blacker on the nose than the Tre Vigne, offering rather powerful scents of black cherry and crushed blackberry sweetened by caramel oak. Plush, strong and deep, with black fruit and licorice flavors complicated by oaky torrefaction (the wine was in small barrels until November of 2012, then spent a few months in big casks before being moved to stainless steel to await bottling). Distinctly more tannic and clenched than the Tre Vigne and less exclusively about fruit. "
Tasting Panel - "Fresh and rich with juicy plu and black raspberry; clean, balanced and vivid; lively and bright with balance and gobs of charm. "
Vietti Winery
The history of the Vietti winery traces its roots back to the 19th Century. Only at the beginning of the 20th century, however, did the Vietti name become a winery offering its own wines in bottle. Patriarch Mario Vietti, starting from 1919 made the first Vietti wines, selling most of the production in Italy. His most significant achievement was to transform the family farm, engaged in many fields, into a grape-growing and wine-producing business.
Then, in 1952, Alfredo Currado (Luciana Vietti's husband) continued to produce high quality wines from their own vineyards and purchased grapes. The Vietti winery grew to one of the top-level producers in Piemonte and was one of the first wineries to export its products to the USA market.
Alfredo was one of the first to select and vinify grapes from single vineyards (such as Brunate, Rocche and Villero). This was a radical concept at the time, but today virtually every vintner making Barolo and Barbaresco wines offers "single vineyard" or "cru-designated" wines.
Alfredo is also called the "father of Arneis" as in 1967 he invested a lot of time to rediscover and understand this nearly-lost variety. Today Arneis is the most famous white wine from Roero area, north of Barolo. Setting such a fine example with Arneis, even fellow vintners as far away those on the west coast of the United States now are cultivating and producing Arneis!
With 35 hectares of vineyards, Vietti expects to not only increase production, but having greater control over the vineyards, looks to continually improve from a qualitative perspective. It is poised to excel well into the 21st Century. View all Vietti Wines
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Notable FactsNot just regulated to red wine, Piedmont also produces some notable whites, particularly those near the district of Gavi and Asti. Gavi produces still white wine from the Cortese grape. The wine is dry with a crisp, citrus-like acidity – fairly neutral but pleasant. Arneis is another grape/wine made in the area, creating a fuller wine that displays some nuttiness in the aroma and taste. Asti is well known for its sparkling wine – in particular Asti Spumante and Moscato d'Asti. Asti Spumante is typically higher in alcohol, sweetness & fizziness, while its higher-class cousin, Mostcato d'Asti, contains lower alcohol levels, a few less bubbles, and a more restrained and delicate representation of Moscato fruit.
About Italy
A little ditty about Italy...This country has about as many wines as its had governments. With 20 different regions, hundreds of DOCs and even more indigenous varieties, the amount of wine made in Italy is mind-boggling. Most of the juice, however, remains in the country for thirsty Italians. Wine is food in Italy and its rare that a meal is consumed without a glass of vino. That said, it's not common to find many folks drinking wine without food either. In turn, it's a match, and a mighty good one at that. In fact, it's safe to say that Italian wine is a foodie wine – one that goes on the table for a myraid of meals.
For regions, the most popular are Tuscany (home of Chianti), Piedmont and the Tre-Venezie, which includes Veneto, Trentino Alto-Adige and Friuli. Other communes of note are in Southern Italy, and a few good wines are made elsewhere in the country. The islands of Sardinia and Sicily are members of the Italian winemaking community as well.
Customer ReviewsSign In to Add Your Review43.9 out of 5 stars
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wine educator - Eugene, OR47/8/2016Anonymous - Dedham, MA42/21/2016anthony montemuro - Brentwood, TN47/9/2014
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A wine that gets better over time from opening. Great food wine with nice acidity and spiciness. Medium bodied with lots of bright red cherry,raspberry fruit. Finish with savory spice and minerals is refreshing if a bit short.Would buy again.Also has a slight bitter flavor that those who love Italian wines will enjoy, others, not so much.Cigarman45 - Sanford, FL44/1/2014
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Just finished 2nd bottle last night. Paired with Lasagna dinner. Smooth, fruity, and just the right grip. A little short on the finish, but over all a great everyday dinner wine. Have bought Vietti wines many times, and never dissapoints. Will stock more soon.Grilliant Ideas - Vista, CA32/15/2014
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Strong Blueberry smell and taste. Light and fruity. Short sugary finish. More like a dessert wine with sweet tooth visions.
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Whirlpool Kitchen Range - No heat from coil burners (all) or bake & broil elements
Whirlpool Kitchen Range (4-coil burners), solid state oven control panel.
Model no. RF315PXYNO, Serial Number: FCO516834
240 volts at terminal posts on back where 3-prong cord connects, checked continuity from the cord's ring lugs (they go over the posts) to the connectors on the wires leading up into the back of the range, from the three posts. Also checked each hot leg post for 120v to the center post.
All burners, bake & broil elements not the slightest bit warm. Raised the deck that holds the burners, inspected wires, receptacles - saw nothing wrong.
Inspected bake & broil elements, checked them for continuity. Both were about 20 ohms.
Inspected all wires and connections on back of switches, thermostat, oven selector - all tight and clean, except for brown color around ceramic socket of oven light (around one of the connections) - was just a little loose on one of its wire connections, but didn't think that would cause this problem. Didn't check to see if light was working.
When burner switches are turned on, the red indicator light on control panel comes on. The indicator light for the oven selector knob (or maybe it was the thermostat knob - forgot now) does not come on when selector knob is moved from off to one of the on positions.
I have both the thermostat module (with its sensor) and the oven selector switch, removed from the control panel. Some one told me one of these was probably the problem, so I went looking on the Web for testing instructions for each one. Found nothing yet. I can test them for continuity and/or resistance values, if anyone can tell me how. I could draw a pic of the back of each one, showing the arrangement of the posts and the markings for each post, such as L1, N, FLA, etc. if that would help.
Are there fuses in this wiring harness. If there are, I sure didn't see them.
Didn't see anything that looked like an inline fuse. The only thing (wires) I couldn't follow to any termination, were two white wires going from back of stove, below control panel into a hole near left upper corner of back of stove. I believe the hole was just above the light socket sticking out of back of
Is it possible to get voltage from the circuit breaker up to the terminal posts on back of the stove, but no current, if there is a burned connection in that circuit somewhere, like on the back of the breaker at service panel or inside the 240v receptacle in the kitchen? Never checked this yet.
Thanks for any help.
interesting problem, I don't suppose you found a wiring diagram on the stove anywheres. Since none of your top burners or your elements work, I would have to guess that somewheres between the terminal block and the control panel you are losing 1 leg of your 220 v. There are no fuses in the wiring so I would trace and ohm each of the hot wires from the terminal block to the panel.
Ok hardware man - will check the wires as you said. No, didn't find a wiring diagram.
Thx for your reply.
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