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For weeks you have been deluged with merry messages about barbequing.
Coop, Lidl, Migros and many more fill the papers and TV stations with ads about meaty seductions. As if you would not know what to eat at the moment. But you do – do you not?
And you also know very well which spices and marinades you should use to better your BBQ products. And because you are PanoramaKnife customers, you also know the sharpest knives to cut the results of your fiery feast into palatable pieces.
You may, however, not know that the two family enterprises Stedy from Weinfelden and PanoramaKnife from Ermatingen now co-operate. Well, now you do.
As a customer you can now profit from a very unique and limited offer:The 3 favourite BBQ Spices (Fleisch-Gwürz (Meat Spices), Schtiek Huus Pfäffer (Steak House Pepper), Härdöpfel Gwürz (Potato Spices), the 2 most delicious marinades (Chicken and Appenzeller) and 4 of the most emotional Steak-Knives are now available as a set. Instead of CHF 139.- only for you now at CHF 119.-. You save CHF 20.- if you buy now.
Just click of the picture and arrive at your enjoyment. Including your heart.
You will overjoy them and us. The offer stays valid until – summer is over. And Coop tells us that we all have to eat venison now :-)
Of course for culinary items that need an ultra sharp knife: steak, bacon, Salsiz, Pizza, vegetables, tomatoes – you name it, it will cut it and everything else you want to serve your guests.
Available in a set of 4 only, but featuring the 20 most beautiful mountain peaks of Switzerland. Best of Switzerland has never before been more suitable.
99 CHF only in a nice slipcase.
That is how east Swiss see it. And it is true, at 2502 metres height, the Säntis is certainly not the highest mountain of the Alps, but the one that enables you to see nearly all of the great peaks of Switzerland.
We are giving away 10 Säntis train-tickets for return trips. We will draw the winners from all those PanoramaKnife fans, who will have sent us, until Tuesday after Ascension Day (6th July 2017), a photograph of a PanoramaKnife doing it`s job. Either you post it on Facebook or you send it to info(at)panoramaknife.ch.* It can look anything like the samples below:
The most beautiful we may use in our advertising!!
By the way – if you do not own a PanoramaKnife yet because you have given them all away as gifts but still want to participate at the competition, you can borrow one here at our Hotel Ermatingerhof (8272 Ermatingen).
And if you do not fancy taking a photograph but still want a little something – all orders until and on the 6th of July 2017 will receive our beautiful key ring as a gift.
We would really love to see from you.
Using the code PK-Porto will save you the shipping costs for Switzerland and Liechtenstein during the very same time. Well? Is that nothing?
*The winners will be notified in writing. There will be no correspondence about the competition. Cash payment and legal recourse are not possible.
By the way – dearest: our customers ordered so heavily in February that we were able to support the Hotel Sternahaus in Feldis at Domlesch with CHF 4040 via the mountain help. A big thank you to all those who have donated.
By the way – dearest 2: If you are bored between the 12th and 21rst of May, why not make a trip to the MUBA in Basel. Visit us for half price at the Stand 2.2/G005. Use the code muba2017-8statt15 when ordering the tickets at www.muba.ch and profit.
And in between all these dates, Grandpa, Kevin, Laura, Lucca, Heinz and Kim have their birthdays; the cold Sophie even has nameday. Does it need more reasons to take a new, closer look at PanoramaKnife? The brand for those who have everything or those for whom choosing a present is a real pain.
1. Our new pocket-knives design collection featuring the 9 functions of the Best of Switzerland peaks:
The groundhog, one of the favourite animals of the alps, very strange that nobody uses it for a coat of arms. With us it gets the attention it earns.
The Mountain- or Snow-Hare which delivers the easter eggs in the mountains, they say. And gives a lot joy to their loved ones while carving.
In Ticino there is quite a flock of brown bears. As soon as one sticks it`s nose into Switzerland, it risks to be shot. As a memory to M13, Reana has designed this pocket-knife. How sweet.
The normal price for these design knives is 109 CHF.
Using the code PK-Festefeiern you will get a rebate of 10 CHF on all orders above 99 CHF.
2. The beechwood cutting board with the Matterhorn hole suitable with the Matterhorn cheese crusher:
Beautifully manufactured with a leather string to hang it up on walls. Works perfectly as a serving board for the breakfast table. Even at easter. The price: 49 CHF. Together with the cheese crusher: 88 EUR. By the way – the cheese crusher is honed on one side – so not only cheese can be cut with it but also hard boiled easter eggs. Is that not cool?
And again: orders starting at 99 CHF will get a discount, using the code PK-Festefeiern, of 10 CHF. Valid up to the 15th of May, the day of the cold Sophie.
Since you all were so good and bought our products, there will be a little gift with every order until the end of March. We will explain later, first let us introduce two brand new products:
Without Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden (today Nid- and Obwalden) there would be no Switzerland. That is where the medieval heroes came from that took the oath on the Rütli in 1291 AD. That is the reason the Swiss are also called confederates. (Literally translated, Eidgenossen means brothers in oath.) Be one of them now with the 11 most impressive mountain peaks oft he first canton. Since it has more peaks than most of the others, it is more difficult to produce and will therefore cost CHF 89.-.
In 2014, when Winterthur had its 750th anniversary we introduced the Winterthur knife, featuring the anniversary logo on the back. We now have revised the design, a little lighter lasering, but showing the same landmarks of this attractive town. Oh, by the way, there is no Zürich knife – yet. Winterthur, like all the town bread knives, will cost CHF 89.-.
Some of you have already ordered the 2 Items Set. The one with the marvellous dish towels from Meyer-Mayor. Or the 4 Item Set with the cult Melamin cutting boards. Either one of them will now be given to you for free. Either a towel or a cutting board. You cannot chose, so it will come as a surprise. First we will add the towels, then the boards. Which enables you to direct the action a little. Watch out now: order above CHF 200.- will receive both – a towel and a cutting board. Not bad, isn`t it?
A hotel can be as personal or as charming as possible – however, without a toilet or a shower, nobody wants to stay there. Even the Sternahaus in Feldis in the Domleschg needs a renovation desperately. Together with PanoramaKnife and the Swiss Mountain Aid you can help to secure the future of this unique hotel.
Dear customers and friends of the PanoramaKnife.
For once we do not have any product news, combined offers or rebates to communicate. We want to help to help. In a time when a lot less is being donated than for example shortly before christmas or after big catastrophies.
So – for each of your orders between the 26th of January and the 28th of February 2017, we will donate CHF 20.– to Daniela and Dominik Hächler of the Sternahaus in Feldis for the inevitable renovation of their hotel. The nice one for you – it will cost you nothing, on the contrary, we will give you the CHF 9.– shipping costs on top to enable you to help as much and as uncomplicated as possible.
To make this work for every order, please use the code PK-Berghilfe and write "Sternahaus" into the remarks. Or you order by phone: 041 71 663 20 35 or by E-Mail: email@example.com.
We will inform you at the end of March how much we will have generated for this small, unique mountain hotel.
Thank you so much and kindest regards
Andy and marie-Anne Hostettler-Cobigo
P.S. In future, we will get more and more engaged for the Swiss Mountain Aid. This foundation supports people who make sure that our beautiful mountains stay alive and as they are. You can, of course, support the Swiss Mountain Aid directly without having to buy something from PanoramKnife (smile). Simply use the donations account 80-32443-2 (IBAN CH44 0900 0000 8003 2443 2) or donate via the homepage www.berghilfe.ch.
PanoramaKnife manufactures new Special Design Editions of the pocket knife. Our designer Reana Hostettler has designed them and our Laser Artist Salomon Leu of Urwyler&Hostettler has engraved them into the shell made from Thurgau Appletree-Wood.
Please choose from the wonderfully rural motifs featuring real Swiss cows, an ibex and classic embroidery which can be found on the original Swiss cow bells or cow collars.
The new designs will be a little more expensive than the "pure" pocket knife, asking for 109 CHF instead of 99 CHF. The gift box including knife, chain and leather sheath and it`s use as a lunch box, will be 149 CHF. There is, however, a lot of love and craftmanship in it. Is that not nice?
Big size for big connoisseurs. We always wanted to make one. But we had to find a way to manufacture the handle from the right kind of beech wood. On top: "Who wants a cheese crusher when Sbrinz gives one away for free?" Well, yes, but not such a beautiful and valueable one. And on no account one bearing the shape of Switzerlands most famous mountain. The... well – look it up yourself. 39 CHF.
We would not have needed it, but because we always listen to our customers we have produced one. Or, rather, the Prima Pelle company from Ticino has. Made from cow hide, very soft and perfect for your knives and fingers. The protector is available for Bread- and Universal Knives. The noble item sells for 19 CHF.
Switzerland is a country full of drivers but also a country full of Alpine passes. There are more than 50 passes that are situated at 1200 metres above, let`s say the dutch sea level.
These passes connect our valleys which in turn only exist because we have a lot of great mountains. Who is surprised then when Mr. and Mrs Swiss as well as thousands of tourists greatly enjoy to conquer these passes by car? Just for fun. They are touring. And for the same reason they reward themselves with a souvenir which up to now, did not even exist: the one and only pocket knife that uses the mountains to cut, screw, carve, drill and open. Available featuring five different passes, designed by Reana Hostettler and produced by Salomon Leu.
Our slogan "For people who have everything" is slowly losing bite, so we permanently have to think up new ideas or co-operations in order to keep it fresh and exciting. This, of course will bring wonderful gifts to your table of presents. Made by carefully selected partners whose quality corresponds to that of the knives. And which will, given as a set, evoke lots of joy.
Here is our selection for you and your loved ones, available a tour online shop:
...as we think. The people from the MUBA or the Car Show may see it differently but OLMA has a PanoramaKnife stall. And many lovely things to experience.
Once you are there, why not visit us at our stall F2. 11.
You can chat with us and test our latest products live:
1. The Universal Knife St. Gallen City with wooden cutting board. Available until the end of the year only at the OLMA, at Markwalder in St. Gallen and our Online-Shop. Beautiful, isn`t it?
3. Our first bread-box.
Enough room for large loaves of bread and fitting our large wooden cutting boards (Size 40 x 25 cm) with or without magnetic knife holder. Made from maple wood with the help of the handicapped of the Ekkharthof Foundation. It will be CHF 159.- without a lid (for people who already have a cutting board) and with a lid-cutting board (choose from more than 20 different panoramas) it will come to CHF 258.- in the basic version and CHF 328.- including a magnetic knife holder. What? You do not have a knife for it? Well...
Will you visit us?
If not, you can still order enjoying free shipping using the code PK-Design, until the end of October in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
A beautiful board made from nutwood with maple-wood inlays that, thanks to
invisible strong magnets and the hanging devices on the back, becomes a magic
magnet wall. Showing the most important Swiss mountain peaks –
Best of Switzerland. Suitable for our knives, dish towels and wooden cutting boards.
Pretty pretty nice. Available in two sizes. Helps you to keep your kitchen organised or serves a keyholder next to your apartments door. Enjoy it.
All that in less than three and a half years. Thank you so much dear customers. You drive our family. You wish for new regions and new functions. We will do our very best. Sometimes we think it is crazy what happened during this short time and cannot wait to present a new product.
It goes without saying that our own talks at the table have changed due to your loyalty to our knives, cutting boards and fabrics. All we want is to make sure that you know that we immensely enjoy to experience a brand, together with you, that triggers so many emotions. And we will not rest, oops, that happens to be the UBS slogan and they probably need it more than we do. We have you. That is more than enough. Thank you!
Good thing that there is "Dörig Fisch", for René Dörig is the absolute salmon expert. He holds the representation of Scotland`s hottest smokehouse for sustainable smoked salmon. Dörig has found out that our universal knives cut the back fillets of his fish in an optimal way. He will send those, in combination with the knives, all packed into a refined cool box, to your home or that of your clients.
Our combination offer for you:
1 PanoramaKnife Universal Knife of your choice and 400 g of fillet of the "Royal – St. James". There is no better way to celebrate Pentecost or to surprise clients or friends. The price: CHF 109.- plus CHF 9.- shipping costs. Deliverytime approx. 5 days.
The fantastic kitchen board with milled groove ( 50 x 32.5 x 4.5 cm) from
Ermatingen. Showing the "Best of Switzerland". The front will grace your
kitchen workspace and the back is a cutting board with a milled groove.
For expensive, but valuable 249 CHF. Cannot do it cheaper, but it is very beautiful.
Our first partner offer with Peel Appeal.
A small but very nice family company, also from the Thurgau, has developed the probably most beautiful vegetable-peeler as well as the most practical cheese-grater in the cooking history of mankind. The universal peeler and our universal knife "Best of Switzerland" are available as a set for 79 CHF instead of 84 CHF. The cheese-grater and our cheese knife "Best of Switzerland" will only cost you 89 CHF instead of 94 CHF. Simply click on the pictures.
Our February present for you:
The sought after breakfast boards made from melanin, for cutting and serving. Heat-resistant up to 150° celsius. Orders exceeding 100 CHF will get one of these boards free. Until the 15th of March 2016. Exceeding 150 CHF will get you 2 boards and offers over 200 CHF will make you the proud owner of all four different breakfast boards.
The fact that Robert Niederer, yes, the one from Glasi Hergiswil,
has developed and distributes a cheese-plate, made specially and only for PanoramaKnife cheese-knives, is like being on New Years Honors List for our brand. The Glasi products can be found in every Swiss household. For the last 199 years. Maybe a PanoramaKnife can also be found in one oft he households. Well, one is allowed to dream. In any case – this is the way to the offer. As a set – or by single piece. Yeah.
You may think us crazy. But the success of our very young brand PanoramaKnife inspires us to take two bold steps, celebrating our third year. A big thank you to all of our customers, male and female.
Beginning in October the first PanoramaKnife pocket knife will be available, manufactured manually in Premana (IT), but still more Swiss than any other pocket knife. Apart from the cork screw all other tools will function with one of the most beautiful and important Swiss mountain peaks. Check yourself. It will cost 99 CHF. When ordering until the 30th of September, you will profit by saving the shipping costs by using the code "PK-Sackmesser".
Another crazy idea, requiring a lot of courage is PanoramaChocolate. But what is more obvious than Switzerland, mountains and knives? Exactly – Swiss mountains and chocolate. Both make fabulous gifts. We co-operated with Chocolat Stella/Bernrain from Kreuzlingen and have developed a wonderful milk chocolate, featuring 37% of cocoa. Available from September at many Tourist-Shops and important special shops. You can also order online from us (only 4-piece sets in a functional lunch box). We will, of course only ship it when the weather allows. Right? Melt!
Slowly but certainly the PanoramaKnife conquers the European Community. After Austria and Germany we now
have two motifs from France. The Universal Knife Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur showing the most beautiful landmarks and buildings of the south of France and, who would have thought that, a Cheese Knife featuring the most important landmarks of the city of lights, lovers and fashion.
PanoramaKnife starts the new season with 4 new models. The existing 9 Universal Knives will be supported by 4 very special new ones. 2 of them bear city panoramas. For the first time in Switzerland one can get the, designed and drawn by Reana Hostettler, city panoramas on an Universal knife. This will also support the touristic regions. Well, they seem to need it. Wonderful presents for yourself or your best friends. On top, the long awaited Lake Geneva and Churfirsten (the latter being the perfect peak for both sides).
These 26 cm long knives (15 cm blade) are perfect for all kinds of meat. Juicy steaks, bacon, Mostbröckli or Salsiz from AlpenHirt but also for Pizza or tomatoes. They cut better than common knives because they have the very special serrogated grind fom the knife forgery Klötzli in Burgdorf.
Summer can come - yeah!!!!
Two Startup award winner team up for a special offer. Adrian Hirt, a young entrepreneur who has won the Start Award in Graubünden for his honest and transparent refinement of Bündner Meat, based on old traditions now co-operates with PanoramaKnife. This means that us two small ones will support each other wherever we can. At trade fairs, exhibitions and tastings - and with combined offers.
Just look at these 2 fabulous gift boxes:
200 g of the world`s finest Bündner Meat, the Universal Knife and a noble cutting board for 189 CHF. Or 4 AlpenHirt mountain Salsiz with an Universal Knife for 89 CHF.
Available online only or at the AlpenHirt in Tschiertschen and the Hotel Ermatingerhof in Ermatingen.
A knife and a board. A knife and the knife-block. A knife, a board and the knife-block. We are still in the kitchen.
Or on the dining table. Real mountain aficionados, however, can not use a Victorinox knife on a PanoramaKnife
cutting board. Or a panoramaKnife on a marble slab. In order to stay reasonable with the pricing the rule is: the more you order the fairer the set prices will be. Of course we want to make a revenue. But we do not want to rip our customers. Christmas should stay a feast for all of us.
It is not as if everybody in Switzerland already has a PanoramaKnife, but our little family business dares to take the
step over the lake, as seen from Ermatingen – just in time for christmas.
We have often been asked and encouraged by the KaDeWe, to also offer german panoramas. So we will start this with two highlights. "Zugspitze" seen from the Munich Olympiaberg and "Berlin", probably the most beautiful of city panoramas – until now. The two views are now available as bread knives, universal knives (for snacktime) and the respective cutting boards made from walnut wood and maple.
Right, dear neighbours, suppress your usual reluctance and give something that hardly anybody owns. To people who have everything. Or fight your homesickness if you live in Switzerland already.
Dear friends of PanoramaKnife!
There is a clear christmas spirit in our little hotel. In order to receive your presents in time, people from Switzerland should place their orders before the 18th of December. For Germany it should work, if placed before the 16th.
You can, of course, order later, but then we cannot guarantee delivery in time. Please also note that we are out of stock for some products. They are marked in the shop. In case of emergency look at our dealers list, some of them might still have the desired item.
Dear customers!
In a few days we are expecting the "Best of Graubünden" Bread Knife, the Universal Knife and the the one with the "Best of Switzerland" markings. By the way, did you know that there is a wooden Cutting Board for nearly all our Panoramas? Large, 40x25 cm, plain or with a magnetic knife holder. And small, suitable for Cheese Knife and Universal Knife, 30x20 cm. We manufacture them in Ermatingen!!!! The wonderful dish towels come from the Toggenburg. Yeah, have fun choosing. Isn`t it fabulous that we have come such a long way so that our clients now have to actually search for their favorites?
No. As long as we have ideas and your support, it would be quite stupid to stop producing new and beautiful things
for you.
Today we have two wonderful announcements to make:
Our first All-Purpose Knife.
Perfect for steak, bacon, dried meat or pizza. Version Berner Oberland. Six further panoramas are available from September. We have learned that Asians do not eat bread or cheese and therefore neither need bread knives nor cheese knives. The success of the PanoramaKnife rests completely on the shoulders of natives and our fans in Europe. Now there is a PanoramaKnife for those who already have everything. A little bigger than a normal steak knife making it ideal for everything that has or wants to be cut. Good fort he afternoon snack at home or an alpine hut. Yeah.
Our first PanoramaKnife for Graubünden.
The holiday corner of Switzerland has endless amounts of mountains but not many coherent panoramas. That is why we start with a cheese knife "Best of Graubünden" before we work our way through all the valleys. By the way – the Bündner, even their tourist offices are a little cautious. They have not yet realised what an important role a PanoramaKnife could play for their tourist towns. If you know somebody who wants to move things – let us know.
Perhaps we are taking it a step too far, honored ladies and gentlemen. But it is so much fun to offer our brand for
the complete eating, cooking and table wear segment. The mountain panoramas are so beautifully emotional that they make ideal presents. Even for giving yourself a gift. The kitchen towels from the traditional Toggenburg company of Meyer-Mayor complement our knives, our wooden and slate products in an ideal way. Made from best Swiss Hotel-Quality in half linen and if someone wants to know how high the peaks are - well that someone simply needs the according PanoramaKnife. Have fun!
Four new products turn spring into something worthwhile. We are happy to be able to introduce four new products
at the same time. The Best of Switzerland PanoramaKnife, made especially for the Swiss Tourism Heritage foundation. It lets you cut with a collection of the most beautiful of Swiss mountain peaks. At their bases one will find hotels: small and large ones as well as palaces. The heritage of Swiss tourism.
Much older is the slate which we now use for making beautiful cutting boards and coasters. The dark, hard slate comes from Oberfranken in Germany and is seen as one of the most functional and beautiful in the world. There will be seven different ones, featuring our most favorite panoramas.
Another object of cultural value is the breakfast board, manufactured in Germany since the fifties. We have produced 4 important panoramas which exactly fit the respective knives – and can only be bought as a combination offer online. The boards cannot be found at retailers.
Perhaps you did not know this – all our knives are handmade. Beginning at the little workshops above Como, the hands of the members of the manufacturing families touch them at least 18 times. The wooden handles need 4 steps to make them. If you also count the controlling, packaging and posting at Ermatingen, each knife experiences 25 loving touches. Instead of industrial production. Just look at the two pictures.
Exclusive in more than one way. Limited to 600 pieces only. Let us tell you a little story about this. A Gstaad company builds very exclusive houses for a very exclusive clientele and was in need of an exclusive christmas present. What could be better than an exclusive PanoramaKnife? And since the 1. of January we are allowed to offer it to our favourite customers, in other words, you. It costs 89 CHF because there are not very many of it and the basic manufacturing costs have to be met. Cut your bread like the royals. Cool, is it not?
They do not have mentionable mountains. Instead they have a 750 year long history of independence. And lots of beautiful buildings. Nice ones, practical ones, important ones and famous ones. And because the inhabitants of Winterthur are in reality the faster Zurichers, they now have something no other town has: click here and it will soon lie on your kitchen table!
One of the most popular foods in Switzerland is, without doubt, cheese. All sorts of cheese. Hard, soft, creamy, melting or smelly. And in order to keep our hands clean when cutting cheese we need a cheese knife. Now you can cut and share your cheese in style. And pick up the morsels with the Matterhorn and the Finsteraarhorn. While admiring the other important Swiss peaks at the same time.
Angelo Ferrari has made it possible. The cutler in Schwanden and Näfels enabled us to produce this incredible special edition. He wanted a PanoramaKnife showing the view from Glarus, not from Zürich. But he added something on top: Every year on the 12th and 13th of March and on the 30th of September and the 1st of Oktober, and only then, the sun will shine through the Martinsloch (Martinshole) directly onto the church at Elm. So if you hold it correctly under your kitchen lamp – it will burn a hole into your bread.
If it had not been for Andreas Klinger and his friends and the Toggenburg Tourist Office, this PanoramaKnife would not have seen the light of day. Or not as fast. Andreas founded a facebook-group which nearly forced us to transform one of the most beautiful mountain chains of eastern Switzerland into one of the sharpest knives in the world.
The Toggenburg Tourist Office understood that theses knives can be of great value for the Toggenburg tourism and motivated the funding partners to support them. Now we are manufacturing it. Like from the Toggenburgers for the Toggenburgers. And all those who also love these marvellous mountains. It now goes into production. But you can already order it. It will be delivered beginning 10th of October. Congratulations to Andreas and – thank you Toggenburg Tourist Office. Let us call this "crowd urged product development".
So sweet. That is what most people think about Liechtenstein. Even though they now are a full member of PK3. Like the G8, the PK3 is the expression of a certain market force. In our case related to the amount of PanoramaKnives per household. We believe that Liechtenstein will soon overtake it`s PK3 partners Switzerland and Austria. Not because of the large amount of knives but because of the small amount of households. We are proud to have you with us. Buy from us or directly from Patrick Greuter, Exordium, Media & Consult AG, Meierhofstrasse 2, 9490 Vaduz. www.exordium.li, firstname.lastname@example.com, Tel.: + 423 262 91 50
Well, foreign country... the Austrians are quite similar to us. And if we plan to found an autonomous Alp-Republic they will probably support us. Even the famous Ötzi knew where to die in style. In the divine Austrian Alps. It is a certain lie when people claim he had a stone PanoramaKnife with him. But if he had had a Grossglockner PanoramaKnife, he surely would have made it home. Because it will cut the hardest of bread easily.
Listening carefully to our customers gave birth to another special design: a cutting board for the PanoramaKnife. Designed as a universal cutting, chopping and serving board. Knowing that our PanoramaKnife not only cuts bread, and if, producing way less crumbs, we abstained from lattice bars. Therefore it can be elegantly used to serve alpine cheese and meat specialities.
For details about the two versions of the board as well as interesting package offers (cutting Board + PanoramaKnife), see accessories and our online shop. It is deliverable from the beginning of June.
Thanks to Frau Egger of the Saas Fee city butchers. Because of her there is now a PanoramaKnife featuring the highest Swiss mountain that actually rises completely in Switzerland: the Dom. Did you know that? The Matterhorn and the Dufourspitze may be higher but only parts of them are in Switzerland. Right. In Saas Fee you can buy the PanoramaKnife with the plastic handle and online you can order it with the rosewood handle. Beginning mid-March the Matterhorn will follow as well as the central Switzerland knife. Well, well, lots of lovely news.
PeakFinder is by far the most successful swiss paid App. Suitable for Apple- and Android devices as well as PC and Mac. More than 300.000 people worldwide are using it for walking and climbing. At the moment, it is available for Europe and North America. Wherever you are, PeakFinder will recognise the mountain peaks you are looking at and will show them in panorama pictures while at the same time naming them. A special binocular function will name even the most distant peaks. Just load the App onto your smartphone and you will find a little surprise under Info/Products. Isn`t that cool? www.peakfinder.org


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"What we believe is a core value is not the small size of the school, but the small, intimate learning experience for our students," Assistant Superintendent Scott Laurence told the board on Tuesday, speaking on behalf of the High School Task Force.
The task force — composed of one student, parents, school staff and district staff — was created by the board last year to study how to deal with growing high-school enrollment in the next five years.
In a series of fall meetings, the group worked around a demographic projection that the current 3,584 students could grow to 4,600 by 2013, according to Palo Alto High School parent and group member Suzanne Attenborough.
Superintendent Kevin Skelly eliminated a third comprehensive high school from the group's focus and members decided not to look at building a third specialty high school. As a result, findings presented on Tuesday focused on personalizing education while schools grow.
Building future facilities for flexible use is crucial, Gunn Principal Noreen Likins said.
A large room with moveable walls would provide enough space for students to work on individual projects or in small groups, she said. Or two classes could also combine, something no rooms at Gunn currently allow.
"I don't want a space that is divided into the same four walls we have now," she said.
Parent and student surveys led the group to conclude schools should offer students choices, Laurence said.
Adding extra periods before or after school allows pupils to choose when they learn best — and sleep more, he said.
Self-motivated students interested in very specific topics would be well-served by online courses, he said.
Flexible days and online classes are already used but could be expanded, he said.
Current alternative programs such as Middle College, which allows high-school students to take Foothill College classes, and Alta Vista — a smaller, more intimate Mountain View high school — should also be reviewed, he said.
Group members also pointed out that larger schools are not necessarily bad for students.
"My daughter feels like Gunn is getting too small for her. She's been there, done that. So I think it really does depend on the student," Gunn parent and group member Joan Jacobus said.
And bigger schools provide a larger pool from which to make friends, Gunn's Student Body President Max Keeler said.
After the group's presentation, Skelly asked for and received board consent to re-evaluate school-size policy, noting the district had a habit of setting limits, then exceeding them.
Both schools are approaching the current district limit of 1,950, with 1,871 students at Gunn and 1,686 students at Paly, according to 11th-day enrollment numbers.
The district will craft a new size policy for board approval by spring, Skelly said.
Yet board members struggled to make sense of the group's several-page-long recommendations, which Laurence summarized.
Board member Melissa Baten Caswell asked if any of the ideas were prioritized.
The suggestions were more like "a laundry list," Jacobus responded.
Under "facilities," the group listed parking and traffic mitigation last, but it was a top priority, she said.
The lengthy findings will help guide the upcoming strategic-planning process and the drafting of a bond measure slated for June, Laurence said.
And the analysis will help in the schools' upcoming accreditation process with the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, according to Paly Principal Jacquie McEvoy, also a task force member.
The process requires focus groups of students, teachers and parents to evaluate schools and map out the next six years — drawing on precisely the kind of brainstorming the group completed, she said.
The group spent less than half of the $80,000 originally allocated to their task, Laurence said after the meeting.
The full list of High School Task Force findings is available online at http://pausd.org/community/board. Click on "Meetings and Materials" and select the Dec. 18 board packet.


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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - At some point over the next month, Jason Kubel will look over from his spot in left field and see two teammates who weren't in the outfield with him when the 2012 season began.
Kubel's Arizona Diamondbacks have gone from Chris Young in center field and Justin Upton in right to Adam Eaton and Cody Ross in those spots. But Kubel himself seemed fairly close to moving elsewhere this past offseason and in fact was mentioned in trade talk.
"I didn't know," said Kubel, a graduate of Highland High in Palmdale. "I was just ready for whatever."
That speculation ended when the Diamondbacks traded Young and Upton, and Kubel is again expected to start in left for Arizona in 2013.
"Not to say people didn't have interest in him," Diamondbacks general manager Kevin Towers said, "but we like him a lot. We brought him here for a reason. He supplies a lot of power, tough out, sees a lot of pitches, works the count. We're glad that he's still here."
The Diamondbacks seemed set in left field for the 2012 season with Gerardo Parra, who brought excellent defense, speed and the ability to hit for average. But Kubel and his power hitting were deemed high priority, and the club signed him to a two-year, $15.5 million contract before that season began.
Kubel made his new bosses look good with his numbers through July. His batting average hovered around .300 until about the final week of the month. He hit 11 home runs in July, and ended up with 30 homers and 90 RBIs for the season.
Then came a slump that saw him hit .159 in August and .186 over fewer games in September and October.
"I don't know what it is," Kubel said of the slump. "If I would have known, I could have fixed it. Just looking forward to getting started again and keep that up all year.
"I've hit homers before. I haven't hit 30, but got close. I know I hit some but I was hoping to hit a little better last year," Kubel added.
It might have been the increased playing time in the field that was required of him in the National League after he came over from the AL's Minnesota Twins, a shared opinion in the organization. Or decreased playing time as the Diamondbacks looked at other players over the last month of the season. Or the opportunity for opposing pitchers to have developed a scouting report on his tendencies by the latter part of the season.
"Probably playing every day in the outfield. He wasn't used to that in Minnesota," Towers said. "Half the year, he probably DH'ed and his legs, just kind of lost his lower half. Just the daily grind of going out there and playing in our outfield, which is pretty quick and it's an offensive park so you're pretty active every day."
Towers said Kubel hired a personal trainer in the offseason and came to spring training in "probably the best shape he's been in in a long time."
Whatever the case, Kubel will be more familiar with everything come April.
"In our division I've seen everybody (pitchers) so far, so I know what to expect," Kubel said. "Hopefully, I can just keep it going."


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Environmental implications of the whole supply-chain of products, both goods and services, their use, and waste management,
Environmental implications of the whole supply-chain of products, both goods and services, their use, and waste management,
Life cycle perspective: all phases ("from the cradle to the grave") of the life cycle of a product (goods or service) are assessed with regard to all relevant material and energy flows from the extraction and processing of the resources, production and further processing, distribution and transport, use and consumption to recycling and disposal.
Cross-media environmental approach: all relevant environmental impacts are taken into account,
LCA represents an integrated methodology for environmental assessment, in which a wide number of scientific domains and expertise are involved. The capitalization of existing sectorial scientific knowledge, its cross-cutting integration and the provision of robust support to decision making are the key challenges for increasing strength and credibility of LCA also as key tools for sustainability assessment.
Several methodologies have been developed for Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA) and some efforts have been made towards the harmonization of methodologies such as, for example:
The Life Cycle Initiative partnership of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), which has enhanced the role of life cycle based approaches and thinking in several ways since the late 1990s [
The recent development of ReCiPe methodology, which resulted from the implementation of a collection of LCIA methods that have been harmonized in terms of modeling principles and choices [
Apart from efforts towards harmonization at the methodological/scientific level, it is considered of the utmost relevance to develop a science-to-policy interface, due to the broad implications of the decisions supported by LCA.
In the Communication on Integrated Product Policy (IPP) [
In this context, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (EC-JRC) led a "science-to-policy" process: gathering, capitalizing and evaluating existing knowledge in order to provide robust support to policy decision making. This resulted in the International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) Handbook. The ILCD Handbook is a series of detailed technical documents, providing guidance for good practices in LCA in business and government, serving as a "parent" document for the development of sector- and product-specific guidance documents, criteria and simplified tools. For LCIA, the Handbook provides guidelines for methods and assessments to analyze the emissions into air, water and soil, as well as the consumption of natural resources and assess them in terms of their contributions to different impacts on human health, natural environment, and availability of resources. Various methods and models for LCIA were reviewed, covering different impact categories such as climate change, ozone depletion, photochemical ozone formation, respiratory inorganics, ionizing radiation, acidification, eutrophication, human toxicity, ecotoxicity, land use and resource depletion. In order to support the comparison of the methods and the selection of those which represented the best practices, criteria for good characterization modeling practices were developed in advance for each category of impact. The criteria include scientific, applicability and stakeholder acceptance issues.
The guidelines for LCIA thus represent the result of a comprehensive process of evaluation and selection of methods based on a set of scientific and stakeholder acceptance criteria and involve extensive consultations with domain experts, advisory groups and the public, during a public consultation. In this process a number of research needs, critical issues and challenges for Life Cycle Impact Assessment were identified to improve the robustness of the models and the reliability of characterization factors which form the basis for further development in LCIA.
The purpose of this communication is twofold: (i) reporting the peculiar elements of the ILCD process, its context of development and the stakeholder involvement; (ii) presenting and discussing the critical issue merged from the process and the consultation, in order to identify research needs, outlook and prospects towards comprehensiveness in dealing with environmental sustainability.
The document is organized as follows: in
LCA is successfully used in the private sector, e.g., for: continuous environmental improvement of products; internal strategic decision support; evaluating risks and opportunities along the supply chain; communication on strategic aspects with stakeholders at company and association level and communication with customers on products, e.g., via Environmental Product Declarations (EPD), carbon labels and footprints.
Despite the current use of LCA, a wider mainstream of life cycle thinking as key approach to environmental sustainability is still needed. This requires increasing the interaction among stakeholders involved in the development, application and use of the LCA results (such as the scientific community, business associations and policy makers) [
Since 2005, the JRC-IES set up the European Platform on LCA [
Life cycle data and methods are the basis for supporting sustainable production and consumption tools/approaches such as: ecolabels, green public and private procurement, environmental product declarations,
The activities and deliverables of the European Platform on LCA aim at:
improving the quality and reliability of life cycle data and assessments, ensuring scientific robustness;
increasing the availability of life cycle data, supporting practicality and affordability;
facilitating knowledge exchange, capitalizing on existing practices and knowledge;
promoting networking amongst various stakeholder to reflect current best practices and improve their overall acceptance in order to achieve the best attainable consensus. The main stakeholders consulted are: the European Union's 27 Member States and Commission services; representatives of non-EU national LCA database projects, as well as with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP); an Advisory Group of European-level business associations; an Advisory Group of LCA software and database developers; and an Advisory Group of LCIA method developers;
providing long-term support.
The main deliverables of the Platform are: the International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD), the European Reference Life Cycle Database (ELCD), the LCA Resources Directory and LCT Forum mailing list.
The ILCD Handbook has been built upon the ISO standards for LCA (ISO 14040 series [
Overview of the structure of the International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) Handbook.
The upcoming ILCD Data Network will provide consistent and quality-assured data on resource consumption and emissions (Life Cycle Inventory—LCI) based on requirements of the ILCD Handbook. The ILCD Data network is a decentralized network, open to all providers globally, such as businesses, national LCA projects, researchers and consultants on their own terms and conditions (e.g., free or for a fee). The data owners maintain their own data and give access via their own servers, based on their own license conditions. These data are to be ISO-conform, properly documented and independently reviewed, and for emissions and resource consumption they must use the common ILCD elementary flows as specified in the ILCD elementary flow database. As one foreseen contribution those data sets contained in the European Reference Life Cycle Database (ELCD) that fulfill at least the entry level requirements of the ILCD are intended to be made available via the ILCD Data Network, covering core LCI data relevant to the European market.
Several LCIA methods are available to assess the different potential impacts on human health, the natural environment, and the natural resources, from the inventory flows of the life cycle. There is not always an obvious best choice amongst them. In spite of similarities amongst some of them, there can be significant differences in their results [
Building on recommendations from SETAC and the UNEP/SETAC's Life Cycle Initiative's scientific working groups as an important starting point, the EC-JRC has enhanced the development of recommendations for LCIA through the ILCD. This was done in consultation amongst others with several non-EU countries, UNEP and scientific experts.
The resulting ILCD Handbook on LCIA addresses the need of clear guidance on models, indicators and characterization factors that should be used in LCIA. It supports the calculation of indicators for different impacts such as climate change, ozone depletion, photochemical ozone formation, respiratory inorganics, ionizing radiation, acidification, eutrophication, human toxicity, ecotoxicity, land use and resource depletion for use in a common integrated framework, such as LCA. The midpoint level as well as the endpoint level are addressed in the recommendations.
A scheme of the impact categories at midpoint and endpoint covered in the Handbook is provided in
These guidelines and the selection of LCIA models and indicators are the result of a "from science-to-decision support" process based on a set of scientific and stakeholder acceptance criteria and involving experts, advisory groups and the public.
The steps of evaluation are reported in three relevant ILCD Handbook documents dealing with LCIA:
Analysis of existing Environmental Impact Assessment methodologies for use in Life Cycle Assessment [
Framework and Requirements for LCIA models and indicators [
Recommendations based on existing environmental impact assessment models and factors for Life Cycle Assessment in the European context [
In this process a number of research needs (e.g., issues not yet covered by existing methods, methodological limitations
As mentioned above, several methodologies have been developed for LCIA and some efforts have been made towards harmonization. In order to support the selection of the methods for each environmental impact category, criteria for good characterization modeling practices were developed in advance to be used in the evaluation and comparison of the methods that passed over three stages, starting from the first pre-selection of existing methods [
The content of the three guidance documents is briefly presented.
The purpose of the Analysis of the existing methods document [
In the Framework and requirements document [
a description of the environmental mechanism (cause-effect chain) for each impact category to provide a common understanding of what needs to be modeled;
a set of model requirements for the specific environmental impact categories that are commonly addressed in an LCA;
a set of criteria, sub criteria and recommendations against which models and indicators for use in LCIA should be evaluated for each impact category. The criteria deal with required scientific qualities (completeness of scope; environmental relevance; scientific robustness and certainty; documentation, transparency and reproducibility; applicability), and the aspects that influence their acceptability to stakeholders. The main criteria were detailed into a number of sub-criteria, some of which are specific to the considered impact category. The total number of sub-criteria varied between 35 and 50 for the different impact categories.
In the Recommendations for LCIA document [
Scheme of the impact categories dealt with in ILCD Handbook on Life Cycle Impact Assessment at midpoint and at endpoint. In green, impact categories for which a method was identified and
The recommended characterization methods (models and associated characterisation factors) are classified according to their quality into three levels: "I" (recommended and satisfactory), "II" (recommended but in need of some improvements) or "III" (recommended, but to be applied with caution). A detailed description of the levels is provided below:
- Level I: Recommended and satisfactory. These models and characterization factors are recommended for all types of life cycle based decision support. Although further research needs may have been identified, these needs do not prevent the models/factors from being seen as satisfactory given the current state-of-the art.
- Level II: Recommended, some improvements needed. The uncertainty of models and the resulting characterization factors are to be more strongly highlighted. The need for dedicated further research is identified for these methods/factors to further improve them in terms of precision, differentiation, coverage of elementary flows
- Level III: Recommended, but to be applied with caution. These models and characterization factors are recommended to be used but only with caution given the considerable uncertainty, incompleteness or other shortcomings of the models and factors. These models/factors are in need of further research and development before they can be used without reservations for decision support especially in comparative assertions. It is also recommended to conduct sensitivity analyses applying—if available—other methods than those recommended at level III and to discuss differences in the results, e.g., in the interpretation of the LCA. However, the level III recommended method should remain the baseline.
Two further classifications exist for methods that are identified as the best among the existing but not of a sufficient quality to support a recommendation:
- Interim: immature for recommendation but the most appropriate among the existing approaches. The methods and characterization factors defined as interim are to be used only with extreme caution, and limited to in-house applications, given the considerable uncertainty, incompleteness or other shortcomings of the methods and factors.
- No recommendation. For some impact categories the state of the models was so immature that it was considered irrelevant to even identify the best among the existing. For these impact categories, no method is mentioned—even as interim—in the ILCD system as the level of maturity and/or available documentation is considered too limited to facilitate general use.
The fact that an impact category at midpoint or endpoint has no recommended methods hence does not mean that it is not relevant to include in a study but merely that at the moment no existing method was found to be mature enough for recommendation. In
At different stages various groups of stakeholders were invited to provide comments on the three ILCD Handbook documents dealing with LCIA. The points emerged by the public consultation contributed to the identification of research needs (presented in detail in the recommendations report [
availability of inventory data for fulfilling the requirements of being ILCD compliant. So far, for some impact categories incomplete data was reported in the inventory phase.
comprehensiveness of the set of impact categories. This refers to the need to identify impact category at midpoint and endpoint in order to comprehensively cover the environmental impacts;
geographical coverage. This refers to the need to account for geographical validity of models and factors; Life Cycle Assessment typically has a global scope as the supply chains behind products tend to be global in nature. As far as possible, global models have to be used—also for regional impacts. In absence of sufficiently sound global models, a choice has to be made in favor of models that, apart from representing the state-of-the art in environmental modeling for the concerned impact category, represent large heterogeneous regions qualifying them as proxies for a global situation.
In dealing with comments and inputs received, in order to integrate them in the final recommendations as far as possible, it was often a critical task to find the right balance between e.g.,
scientific robustness of available models
allowing limited assessments on a few impact categories with a high degree of certainty
cementing the status quo, towards "stability" of the recommendations over time,
enhancing the comparability of LCAs by being prescriptive
The abovementioned aspects are crucial for any sustainability assessment methods and requires actions by several stakeholders (from methods developer to policy making) to ensure applicability and efficacy. In these evaluations, one guiding principle was the question of how the robustness and quality of LCA and specifically LCIA can be further improved to lead to better informed decisions in policy and in business. Furthermore, the three LCIA Handbooks [
Enhancing the environmental pillar of sustainability assessment increasingly requires the adoption of methodologies for environmental integrated assessment. In the context of environmental sustainability, major challenges are posed by the actual feasibility of integrating models and methods towards a harmonized framework.
LCIA is an active field of research, and for some impact categories, new developments have already been published [
the number of substances/flows covered by existing methods, e.g., number of chemical substances in the ecotoxicity and human toxicity models cover a relatively small percentage of the overall existing chemicals (around 3000 have characterization factors compared to 90,000 chemicals registered in the EU for the REACH directive [
the target of impacts: e.g for ecotoxicity, the models mainly cover freshwater ecotoxicity. Epigean and hypogean terrestrial ecotoxicity and marine are still less developed;
the number of impact categories: e.g., to tackle emerging issues, such as noise, desertification, indoor impacts and work related impacts, accidents, GMO's;
cause–effect modeling: as completeness and robustness of endpoint methods are not entirely satisfactory at their current development level. Indicators and factors are presented at both midpoint and endpoint in a consistent framework, but the latter are in many cases still too immature to be recommended for use;
capability of integrating the carrying capacity concept into the impact assessment (so far, few attempts have been made).
From the policy making side, there is a need to balance the stability of the recommendation (to be applied in a business and policy context) and the thriving scientific development in the field of impact assessment. Furthermore, finding the best solution to guarantee comparability among studies and being open to updated models and factors are of paramount importance. In this context, this work also contributes to other activities within the Commission, such as the development of a method for measuring Environmental Footprints of Products and Organizations [
The guidelines for LCIA also derived from the comments provided by stakeholders involved in the public consultation. The process has pinpointed a number of critical issues and research needs which must be addressed in order to achieve a complete and robust framework for LCIA, as well as for other integrated environmental assessment procedures. The robustness of models and the reliability of characterization factors must be the basis for further development in LCIA. To foster the robustness and acceptability of existing and new methods, some of the points under discussion are:
Further developing the completeness and robustness of endpoint methods, which are not entirely satisfactory at their current development level. Indicators and factors are presented at both midpoint and endpoint in a consistent framework, but the latter are in many cases still too immature to be recommended for use;
Integrating impact categories that are not widely agreed upon or are still under development and that do not yet have complete models and factors (such as noise, accidents, salination);
Establishing a common framework and glossary to enhance the possibility for domain experts outside LCIA to understand how to contribute to the further development of LCIA;
Developing characterization factors; as some promising environmental models with potential for application in the context of LCIA lack algorithms or methodologies on how to calculate characterization factors. Even if the models are scientifically robust, and some broadly accepted within their scientific community, a straightforward integration into LCIA and application in LCA is not feasible without characterization factors;
Fostering the geographical and temporal differentiation within methods, to better integrate different level of impact evaluations: from the global to the regional/local scale and impacts occurring in different geographical regions or continents.
Developing a structured framework for addressing uncertainties
Further improving the decision support function of LCA and LCIA, e.g., by developing and agreeing on ways to communicate LCA results so that they are more condensed and easier to understand.
As discussed by [
The presented process was co-financed by DG Environment through several Administrative Arrangements. The authors wish to thank the drafting team of the ILCD Handbook, all the stakeholders contributing to the public consultation, as well as all the JRC staff that contributed to the European Platform on LCA and the ILCD Handbook, especially Marc-Andree Wolf, Kirana Chomkhamsri and Miguel Brandão. Despite being a communication, the text was subject to the evaluation of four anonymous reviewers; we thank them for their precious contribution.


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Apfelbaum Cottage is a cozy little house located in the beautiful german community of Hermann Missouri, in the heart of Missouri's wine country. The cottage is casual and comfortable, perfect for a quiet retreat, but near many activities.
Within walking distance of the cottage are antique shops, restaurants and award winning wineries. Outside Hermann are eleven more wineries and numerous small towns full of wonderfull shops. The rolling, river filled, hills of Central Missouri are ideal for nature lovers. You can fish, canoe, kayak, hike, bike or do just about any outdoor activity you can think of. For day trips, St. Louis, Six Flags, Jefferson City and Columbia are all less than 1 hour away.
Apfelbaum Cottage accommodates up to four adults, with a queen size bed, and a queen size sofa sleeper. Aside from the warm and inviting living room and bedroom, the cottage also boasts a country kitchen and a spacious bathroom. Each room is stocked with everything you need to be comfortable, including all bed linens, cookware, dishes and towels.
Make yourself at home, the space is all yours to take in a good movie, some music, or sit back with a book. A flat screen TV with cable and built in DVD player, a small DVD library, and a stereo with CD player are provided for your enjoyment. Need more sleeping space? The sofa pulls out to provide a second queen size bed at night.
Decorated in a rustic Americana theme, this room is warm and inviting. Curl up under the cozy comforter and enjoy a restful night's sleep, or an afternoon nap.
The homey, country kitchen provides the perfect place to partake in a home cooked meal, or sit around the table and play a game. Everything you need to create that meal, including a full size refrigerator, stove, microwave, cookware, and fun, colorful Fiestaware dishes are provided for your use. For your added convenience, there is also a washer and dryer located in the closet.
A large bathroom with shower and private toilet enclosure will meet all your needs and you won't have to share it with other guests...it is all yours.
The yard is completely fenced and has a picnic table and grill.
Below is a list of some of our favorite things to do in and around Hermann. If that is not enough, search the web, you will find something to keep you busy.
Wineries - Hermannhoff Winery and Stone Hill Winery are a short distance from the cottage and five more wineries are a short drive away.
Restaurants - Hermann has a number of casual restaurants as well as fine dining at the Vintage Restaurant at Stone Hill Winery. We recommend the Rivers Edge Restaurant in Fredericksburg MO for fun casual dining and The Cottage Restaurant and Gallery for fresh hand-grafted dishes.
Shops - Many quaint antique and specialty shops line 1st St., 4th St. and Market St.
Biking - The Katy Trail is located just across the Missouri River and a new bridge has been built with a bike lane for direct access. For more serious riders the rolling hills that surround Hermann are favorites.
Museums - Deutschheim State Historic Site and German School Museum are only a few block from the cottage.
Golf - Loutre Shore Country Club is three miles away offering a semi private 9 hole course.
Fishing - The Missouri and Gasconade Rivers are favorite fishing spot of locals and visitors alike, as are the many lakes dotting the area.
Canoing & Kayaking - The upper and middle Gasconade are some of the best floating areas in Missouri without the crowd of the Maramec. But, if you want the party of the Maramec it is only an hour away.
Hunting - There are plenty of hunting grounds in the area.
Hiking - Many state and national parks surround Hermann.
Wineries - Besides the wineries mentioned above,eleven more are within a short drive. You can spend a couple days traveling the beautiful countryside sampling Missouri's best wines.
More Shops - Just poke around, you will be amazed at what you will find.
Six Flags - Fun for the whole family only is an hour away.
St. Louis - Home of the Gateway Arch, Rams Football, Cardinal Baseball, Blues Hockey, museums, festivals, etc, is only 1 1/2 hour away.
Jefferson City - Our state capital is an hour from Hermann.
Columbia - At just over an hour away is University of Missouri among other things.
Purina Farms - A Small animal farm that is fun event for the whole family.
Rafting - An endless number of fantastic floating rivers cover central and southern Missouri.
Keywords: House, cottage, pet friendly
In 2000 my wife and I were hiking in the Mark Twain National Forest when we came upon a bluff and looked out over the Missouri River. Just across the river was a quaint little town looking like it came out of a post card, so we decided to check it out. It was Hermann, and we fell in love. We came back over and over again, visiting at least three times a year always dreaming of living there.
Since real life prohibited us from live in Hermann we decided to purchased a small place where we could spend our weekends. In 2007, that idea became the Apfelbaum Cottage. We are very proud of our 2nd home, as quaint as it is, and love to share it (and Hermann) with others. Welcome!
The Owner purchased this house in 2007
Wine, hiking, biking, shopping...and more wine!
Your maticulous and artistic (and loving)renovation provided a most comfortable and relazing fall break for us. The cottage is delightful. We admire your commitment to preservation. Wolfie loved it too. We are always grateful for a place that will occommodate him.
We visited Hermann, MO for our 29th wedding anniversary and thoroughly enjoyed our time at this cottage. It was Maifest weekend, so lots going on in Hermann! The cottage is quiet, clean, nicely decorated, comfortable and stocked with everything you'll need for your stay - and the location is great - with lots to do within walking distance. The pictures on this site are accurate. The back yard is fenced, shady, and includes a picnic table. The only suggestion for improvement is it would have been lovely to have some lawn chairs to relax in the back yard. Eric was easy to work with and responsive. Would stay here again and would recommend!
This was perfect accomadations for our family we were all in a wedding at Hermann Hill and rehearsal dinner at Stoney hill both beautiful places! Cottage is in great location!!! Walking distance to gas station very good experience
After an initial mix-up, which was taken care of very quickly, we completely enjoyed our stay at the Apfelbaum Cottage for our 30th anniversary get away. The pictures are a true description of the place. If we return to Hermann, we would stay here again.
We stayed at the cottage this past weekend, there were a few issues regarding our stay - the biggest issue was the sofa sleeper and how uncomfortable it was. The mattress was horrible - thin, lumpy, sunk in the middle, and wires poking at us. It was so bad we had to switch nights sleeping on it so we could get one good night of sleep. Also, the pillows were absolutely gross (for both beds) stained and yellowed (we wished we'd brought our own). Other issues we had while we were there - the ceiling fan in the bedroom didn't work, the rugs in the bathroom were dirty and the coffee maker took 45 minutes to make a pot of coffee. I can over look the last few issues but not the condition of the sofa sleeper mattress and pillows. I'm requesting a refund on the additional fees we were charged for the use of the sofa sleeper. Had I known how bad the sofa sleeper was I would not have booked the cottage. I sent two emails and left a voice message and didn't receive a response.
I stayed in the Apfelbaum Cottage for four days and loved every minute of it! Not only was it immaculate and charming, it was within easy walking distance to all of Hermann's downtown attractions. The bed was comfortable, the shower was hot, the cottage was well stocked, and the owner was really nice! The house is in a residential neighborhood, and I awoke each morning to a rooster crowing. While you're there, be sure to visit the local bakery for fresh sourdough bread, enjoy homemade chocolates of all sorts at the Chocolate Box, and take a few hours to check out local history at the Deutschheim State Historic Site and the Old German School Museum.
Perfect for a long weekend getaway! Cute, cozy cottage with a fenced-in yard for the fuzzy family members; perfect for resting between antiquing, hiking, and walking the riverbank. We enjoyed it, loved that it is pet-friendly (too few vacation rentals are!) and would love to visit again sometime!
Wineries, Breweries, Hunting, Canoeing, Rafting, Endless outdoor activies
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|Notes: Rates are based on 2 guests; add $30 per night, per additional guest
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Norton Rose and Lovells have become the latest casualties of the magic circle's increasing dominance of the banking sector.
Norton Rose has lost its monopoly over trophy client HSBC Holdings, having missed out on a string of key instructions from the clearing bank to Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Meanwhile, Clifford Chance has confirmed its position over Lovells as Barclays' primary legal adviser.
Earlier this month, Freshfields advised HSBC when it paid $1.1bn (£590m) to double its stake in Ping An, China's second-largest life assurer. Norton Rose, which historically advised HSBC on virtually all of the bank's corporate work, advised selling shareholder Morgan Stanley.
But in the past 12 months, the magic circle firm has also beat Norton Rose to two other key roles for HSBC. Freshfields advised the bank on its acquisition of a 19.9 per cent stake in Bank of Communications, China's fifth-largest lender, and is also understood to have been instructed on a potential multibillion-pound counter offer for Korea First Bank.
During the same period, Norton Rose has advised HSBC on just one publicly announced deal – the acquisition of Marks & Spencer's financial services arm.
Freshfields has been targeting HSBC in Asia for some time to try and take advantage of a perceived weak spot in Norton Rose's relationship with the bank.
Norton Rose lost its place on HSBC's Hong Kong panel following the termination of its joint venture with Johnson Stokes & Master (JSM) in 1998. Despite Norton Rose's return to Hong Kong in 2002 and its return to HSBC's Hong Kong panel later that year, rival firms have been trying to cosy up to the bank.
Norton Rose Asia managing partner David Stannard denied that the firm's relationship with HSBC had weakened. "We work with HSBC on a regular basis and have been advising the bank on a number of deals that aren't in the public domain – it's unfortunate we're unable to disclose that information," he told The Lawyer.
Norton Rose's relationship with HSBC is beginning to mirror that of Lovells' links with Barclays. In 2000, Lovells advised the bank when it bought Woolwich Building Society. But more recently, Clifford Chance has become Barclays' adviser of choice on its own account work.


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After years of keeping her private infertility struggles a secret from the press, Jaime King is sharing her story.
Reaching out to fans and fellow moms on Instagram, the actress who welcomed son James Knight Newman last October wrote, "For all the struggling women & moms out there that think they are alone – This is the truth about conceiving my son and struggles after. 8 yrs of pain and undiagnosed PCOS & endometriosis."
The message posted Friday continued, "9 doctors until Dr. Randy Harris diagnosed me & saved my life from a severe ectopic, 5 miscarriages, 5 rounds of IVF, 26 IUI's, most with no outcome, 4½ years of trying to conceive, 26 hours of brutal labor, early delivery b/c of sudden preeclampsia, tearing and tearing after the stitches were in once I was home, milk supply issues, painful mastitis, uncontrollable crying while breast feeding, worked until the day before I [gave] birth and went back after 6 weeks after because I was afraid of letting others down."
Jaime King, whose son with Fanboys actor Kyle Newman is now happy and healthy at 10 months old, went on to write, "For all the women out there who think they are alone in this #youarenotalone #ihavetobebravetosupportothers #realtalkthatterrifiesus."
Many have written back to the 35-year-old actress and shared their own stories of infertility and loss, while many others have simply written, "Thank you for sharing."
It's heartbreaking to me to read Jaime's story or anyone else's, to be given an unprecedented glimpse into years of personal struggle and pain, but also in some small way heartwarming to see the conversations happening. No one should be forced to share their story before they're ready, but I hope that whenever anyone from a famous actress to a regular gal feels they want to that they'll receive support.
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Give God your weakness, brokenness, and failures, and He will make a life out of it. The promises of God and His divine patterns for transformation are hope for humanity. God sees our wounds, and He sees them not as blemishes but as virtues He uses to mold us into His image. If we understand the mind of God and His eternal purposes, we might eventually thank God for our very weaknesses and failures. We all have wounds, and it is from the place of our greatest suffering that we can see the … [Read more...]
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Redesigned database program has better window management and security measures.
In recent years, Access users have started to wonder about the fate of their favorite database program. Will Microsoft keep Access around and still pack in new features? Or will it eventually replace Access with some version of SQL Server that has a few fancy design tools?
For now, the speculation is on hold. Access 2007 constitutes a major overhaul of the aging database app, adding significant new features and streamlining the interface. For people who manage data in Access regularly, it's a worthwhile upgrade.
Access Tames Its Windows
Previous versions of Access have forced users to deal with a dozen floating windows at once. Access 2007 removes the clutter and organizes its windows into neat tabs. At the left, a navigation pane lets users choose the database object they want to work with. The pane is permanently visible, but you can collapse it into a narrow bar if you want more workspace on your screen. The difference is dramatic: Working in the less congested new interface is much easier and more enjoyable.
Fortunately, Microsoft hasn't forgotten about old-school Access users. A buried setting lets you bring back the overlapping windows, which are still useful if you want to see several database objects at a time. Access 2007 handles databases created in previous versions of the program without a hitch, though the new display environment and code security settings will force long-time users to adjust a bit.
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One of the niftiest new features in Access is the Attachment data type, which permits you to embed entire files in your database. It's a great way to store pictures, documents, and other files alongside a related record. But the program's 2GB database size limit means that you can forget about using Access to store movies, music, and other rich-media files.
Interestingly, an attachment field can hold as many files as you want, which makes it an all-purpose container for extra bits of information. For example, if you have a table of employees, you can throw in a personal picture, a recent resume, and whatever else you want.
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Great databases use code, and code can do bad things. Previous versions of Access handled buggy code by popping up a stream of warning messages that users had to click through every time they opened a database.
Access 2007 uses a simpler approach. When you open a database, the program quietly disables all potentially unsafe macro actions and code. A slim security message then appears at the top of the window, informing you that your database has been restricted. You can switch your code back on with a couple of clicks, or you can place your database in a folder that you specifically designate as a trusted location. Once you've done the latter, you'll never see an unnecessary security warning again.
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Designing data-entry forms and reports in Access can be a bit tedious. To get the exact arrangement of information you want, you have to drag each piece of information to the right place individually. Access 2007 improves this situation dramatically with a feature called layouts, which keeps information together in neat columns or tables.
Best of all, layouts are a breeze to work with because Access includes a new WYSIWYG form designer and report designer. Using these tools, you can apply formatting and see the results immediately--a feature that previous versions of Access sorely lacked.
Changes like these make the $229 ($110 as an upgrade) Access 2007 a solid revision for long-time users, and a tempting choice for anyone who needs to manage a large amount of information in a desktop environment.
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The French DJ is going to have the Young Money first lady and 'Low' rapper Flo Rida make cameo appearances in the video.
David Guetta has teased a music video which was filmed for his new single "Where Them Girls At". The short preview revealed two A-list cameos who are going to share screen with the French DJ. They are none others than his own featured guests Flo Rida and Nicki Minaj.
The song was first debuted by Guetta at a Carnaval of Salvador de Bahia in Brazil last March. "The first single of my new album," he told the crowd when introducing the song. "So many boys in here, where do I begin?/ I see this one, I'm about to go in," the hook was sung by Minaj.
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1964 Alexander A. Maldonado Born: Mazatlan, Mexico 1901 Died: San Francisco, California 1989 oil on canvas 21 1/4 x 27 1/4 in. (54.0 x 69.2 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. 1991.96.3 Not currently on view
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Known primarily for his paintings of spaceships and futuristic scenes, Alexander Maldonado endowed this harbor scene with a radiant, visionary quality. Searchlights, a moon, and a brilliant sky illuminate the glowing water. We enter the frame alongside the artist, standing behind him in the bow of a boat in the center foreground. The boat cuts through the choppy waves, while a military plane crosses the sky. On the shore, the buildings are covered with dots of intense color that give them a wonderful texture. Maldonado further emphasized his illumination theme by painting small images of upward-shining spotlights on the frame's lower corners---a touch that gives the frame a stagelike quality. The setting is almost certainly San Francisco, where the artist lived nearly all his life. He worked in the shipyards until he retired at the age of sixty, when his sister encouraged him to take up painting. (Tom Patterson, Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum: Contemporary Folk Art, 2001)
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JAZZ band "Spirit of New Orleans" plays at Delph Band Club, Lawton Square, tonight from 8.30pm. Free entry.
DOBCROSS Band Club presents a Christmas "Comedy Cracker" dinner tomorrow to raise funds for the village's Whit Friday celebrations. The dinner stars Yorkshire comedian Mike Farrell and entertainer Mike Sweeney. Tickets £30, includes four-course dinner. Call Peter Young on 07875661976 for tickets.
LISTEN to the true Christmas story, acted out by youngsters from the Family Church of Saddleworth at Uppermill Conservative Club on Sunday. Sing along with carols, too. Starts 2.30pm, call 07933090884 for more information.
ENJOY the film "The Pirates in an Adventure with Scientists" at Denshaw Village Cinema, on Sunday at 6pm and 8.15pm. Book seats by calling 01457870348. Homemade refreshments available. £5 for adults, children under 14 £4.
DIGGLE School Choir and Saddleworth Musical Society will join forces to present a Christmas Concert, with carols and orchestral music on Sunday from 7pm. Proceeds in aid of Saddleworth Museum. Tickets available from Turners Dry Cleaners or by calling 01457875917.
SHOP until you drop at Diggle Band Club on Tuesday from noon-4pm. Floral art demonstrations, stalls, gifts, gluhwein and mince pies. Tickets £2 from the band club or call 07729423970.
SADDLEWORTH Male Voice Choir and Augmented Ladies Choir present their 50th performance of Handel's "Messiah" with the Pennine Orchestra on Saturday, December 22, from 7pm, at Uppermill Civic Hall. Tickets £15 adults, £12 concessions, £10 children, and are available from Saddleworth Museum or Uppermill Post Office.
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