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Using the SQLXML Managed Classes
By now you probably know that SQL Server 2005 (formerly code-named "Yukon") will include tight integration between SQL Server and the .NET Framework, as well as new XML features. But did you know that Microsoft regularly releases a library of .NET and XML add-ons that works with SQL Server 2000? Called SQLXML, this library can help you with quite a few XML-related tasks. In this article, I'll give you a quick look at the bridges that SQLXML provides between SQL Server 2000 and the .NET Framework.
Getting SQLXML
SQLXML is a free download from Microsoft that is updated quite frequently. As I write this, the current version is SQLXML 3.0 SP2. You should always be able to find a link to the most recent version at the SQLXML and XML Mapping Technologies developer center on MSDN.
After you've downloaded SQLXML, installation is simply a matter of running the setup file. You'll need to have a recent release of MDAC (version 2.6 or later) installed, and you need the .NET Framework installed to use the managed classes. If you want to use the Web Services functionality built into SQLXML, you also need to have the SOAP Toolkit installed. As the SOAP Toolkit is deprecated and scheduled to be retired this year, though, I wouldn't recommend going down that particular path.
SQLXML also depends on having the MSXML parser installed on your machine, but the SQLXML setup will install MSXML if it's not there already, so don't worry about it.
The Big Picture
Before I drill down on the managed classes, I should let you know what else you get in this package. Remember, SQL Server 2000 already has a base level of XML functionality with the FOR XML clause in the SELECT statement, which allows you to return query results as XML. SQLXML adds these features to the mix:
- An ISAPI extension that provides the ability to query SQL Server data through HTTP requests.
- Client-side FOR XML processing to ease the load on the server for XML query output.
- XML view creation via annotated XSD schemas.
- XPath query support for both HTTP and XML views.
- Updategram support for modifying data by sending XML messages containing before and after data.
- A COM object that provides bulk loading of XML data.
- The SQLXMLOLEDB provider, which exposes some SQLXML functionality to ADO.
- The SQLXML Managed Classes to expose SQLXML functionality to .NET applications.
- Web services support for directly exposing SQL Server data via SOAP.
All in all, there's quite a bit of code here. Even if you're familiar with all of the relevant XML specifications, plan on spending a few days exploring if you decide this library might be right for your application.
The SQLXML Managed Classes
The SQLXML Managed Classes consist of three classes in a single .NET library:
SqlXmlCommand, which allows you to send various XML-flavored commands to SQL Server.
SqlXmlParameter, which provides parameter support for the
SqlXmlAdapter, which lets you easily hook up SQL Server XML data to the standard ADO.NET
A couple of examples of using these objects will give you a sense of the tasks that the SQLXML Managed Classes are suited for.
Filling a DataSet From an XSD Schema
An XSD schema lets you describe tables, columns, and relations in a standard XML format. If you've ever built a strongly-typed DataSet with .NET, you've used an XSD schema behind the scenes. You can also use an XSD schema to define a subset of data from a SQL Server database; roughly, this is equivalent to defining a view with XML. For example, here's an XSD schema that specifies three fields from the Northwind Customers table:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
<xsd:element name="Cust" sql:relation="Customers" >
<xsd:element name="FName"
type="xsd:string" />
<xsd:element name="LName"
type="xsd:string" />
<xsd:attribute name="CustomerID" type="xsd:string" />
To put the pieces together in VB .NET, I built a little test form. This first
test calls code to retrieve data from the local SQL Server, using the XSD file
as the specification for the data, and then drops the results into a DataSet.
From there, the DataSet gets displayed on a DataGrid control. To use any of the
SQLXML managed classes, you need to first set a reference to the
Microsoft.Data.SqlXml library, and then include an
Microsoft.Data.SqlXml statement at the top of the module. With that done,
here's the code from the button:
Private Sub btnLoadDataset_Click( _
ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
Handles btnLoadDataset.Click
' Load XML data from SQL Server directly into a DataSet
Dim strConn As String = "Provider=SQLOLEDB;" & _
"Server=(local);database=Northwind;" & _
"Integrated Security=SSPI"
' Define the XML command
Dim cmd As SqlXmlCommand = New SqlXmlCommand(strConn)
cmd.RootTag = "ROOT"
cmd.CommandText = "Cust"
cmd.CommandType = SqlXmlCommandType.XPath
cmd.SchemaPath = "Customers.xsd"
' Load the DataSet
Dim daSql As SqlXmlAdapter = New SqlXmlAdapter(cmd)
Dim ds As DataSet = New DataSet
' Display the results
dgCustomers.DataSource = ds
dgCustomers.DataMember = "Cust"
End Sub
Figure 1 shows the results. One of the nice things about this technique is
that it makes it easy to change, at runtime, which data will be retrieved. Just
edit the XSD file and the
SqlXmlCommand object will pick up the new
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Join the club! I'm in LOVE with hot sauce. Not only is it low in calories, but (like all spicy foods) hot sauce is also known to help slow down your eating, which is a good thing. I especially love Buffalo-style sauces that make everything taste like hot wings. Most of these have 0 - 5 calories per teaspoon... which is practically nothing! My heart belongs to Frank's RedHot (the Original kind). It has just the right consistency and the perfect level of spice. Tabasco, while not my favorite brand of hot sauce, has some unique flavor options. The garlic one ROCKS! I also recently discovered Saucy Mama Hot Wing Sauce, which tastes like a creamy version of Frank's. A tablespoon of that stuff has 15 calories and 2g fat. If you want some serious heat, try adobo sauce. You can get canned chipotle peppers packed in it, and the combo is perfect for making chili. And for Asian-style foods, like this spicy shrimp dish and this Thai-inspired omelette, I like Sriracha hot chili sauce. It has a really unique, garlicky flavor. And there are some spicy BBQ sauces out there with impressive stats, like the kinds in Guy's Award Winning BBQ Sauce line. As for how I use my hot sauce... You name it, I've probably tried it! It's delicious in scrambled eggs and omelettes; on salads, pizza, and burgers; and mixed into deli salads. This guilt-free makeover of a classic Buffalo-chicken dip is an HG fave. Give your veggies a splash of hot sauce and then sprinkle 'em with reduced-fat Parm. YUM! The cheese has only about 10 calories and half a gram of fat per teaspoon. Lean protein, like chicken or shrimp, is also great as a blank canvas for hot sauce. Basically, the sky's the limit when it comes to how to use these spicy sauces. And if you're concerned about the sodium content, just use a few splashes -- a little goes a long way. Enjoy!
Hi Lisa, I know you're a big fan of using Fiber One Original bran cereal to make pie crust. I've tried this a couple of times and really don't like the taste (sorry!), even though I regularly eat Fiber One cereal for breakfast. Do you have any other recommendations for a lower-calorie pie crust? Just the Crust
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Rosenort Fellowship Chapel (Rosenort, Manitoba, Canada)
The Rosenort Fellowship Chapel began services and formally organized in 1968. The first building was occupied in 1968, with a subsequent building program in 1976. Melvin Dueck is considered the founding leader of the group. The congregation originated through urbanization; it was founded by the Rosenort Evangelical Mennonite Church.
It was established as a outgrowth of the Rosenort Evanglical Mennonite Church because of a desire to have a church in town.
In 1975 there were 97 members; in 1985, 175; in 1995, 195; in 2000, 175. The congregation has been affiliated with the Evangelical Mennonite Conference since 1969. The language of worship is English; the transition from German occurred in the 1960s.
Pastoral leaders have included: Melvin Dueck (1968-1975), Fred Friesen (1975-1980), Stan Plett (1980-1990), Michael Derksen (1991-1994), Pastor John Klassen (1994-2000), Milton Fast (Interim, 2001), John Driedger (2001- )
The congregation's address is Box 188, Rosenort, MB, R0G 1W0. (204) 746-8360. The church is located at PR # 205.
Canadian Mennonite (8 October 1968): 1.
Wiebe, John, ed. Rosenort Fellowship Chapel. 1975, 35 pp.
Church records at the church.
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The self-proclaimed guidette of "Jersey Shore" fame was voted the worst celebrity date for Valentine's Day in an online poll of 2000 Americans.
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Today, President Obama is ending his holiday vacation short and heading back to the capital, to work with other political leaders towards a deal for avoiding the fiscal cliff. But before donning on his presidential leader hat again, the president and his family returned back to his home state of Hawaii for some holiday R&R.
The Obamas have vacationed in Hawaii for several years in a row now. This year they returned to the same home they rented last year for their holiday Hawaiian vacation. Located on the windward side of the island of Oahu, the home is situated on Kailua Beach.
The property is 6,000 square feet with 5 bedrooms, 6 baths and an contemporary Asian theme. Supposedly it was to be listed after the Obamas vacationed there last year for $7.9 million. It's unknown if plans changed to sell the house or if the property just never sold. Either way, the Obamas are sure to have had a good time in this luxury beachfront home.


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The old adage that we can only learn how to do something by trying it ourselves may have to be revised in the light of recent discoveries in neuroscience. It turns out that humans, primates, some birds, and possibly other higher animals have mirror neurons that fire in the same pattern whether performing or just observing a task. These mirror neurons clearly play an important role in learning motor tasks involving hand eye coordination, and possibly also acquisition of language skills, as well as being required for social skills, but the exact processes involved are only just being discovered. In particular the relationship between mirror neural networks and social cognitive tasks has been unclear, and greater knowledge of it could shed light on problems such as autism that may arise when this process goes wrong.
This emerging field of mirror neurons in social cognition was discussed at a recent workshop organized by the European Science Foundation (ESF), which laid the ground for the first common research network dedicated to this fast emerging field, within the EU's 7th Research Framework Programme running until 2013.
The role of mirror neurons at all levels of social interaction is even greater than had been realized, according to convenor of the ESF conference Riccardo Viale, president of Rosselli Foundation in Turin, Italy and professor of Cognitive Science (University of Milan). "Most of the speakers highlighted how the mirror mechanism is crucial for both more basic forms of emotional recognition and also higher aspects of empathy," said Viale.
Just as the same mirror neurons fire when observing and doing certain tasks, so other mirror neurons may be triggered both when experiencing a particularly emotion and when observing someone else with that emotion. At the ESF conference it emerged that mirror neurons involved in emotion resided in both the insula and cingulate cortexes, two regions of the brain known to play roles in emotions and feelings. However until recently the mechanisms of interaction between these two had been largely unknown. "In the case of emotions, we can say that there is a good deal of overlap between areas from the insula and cingulate cortexes," said Viale. "These areas become active both when individuals feel an emotion (e.g. disgust) and also when they watch someone else feeling that emotion."
Mirror neurons were discovered in the 1980s by an Italian group led by Giacomo Rizzolatti, which placed electrodes in the inferior frontal cortex of macaque monkeys' brains to study neurons dedicated to control of hand movement. This led to the surprising observation that some of the neurons responded in the same way when monkeys saw a person pick up a piece of food as when they were doing it themselves. This introduced the principle of the mirror neuron as a neuron capable of being triggered by imitation, as a mechanism both for learning and empathising in social situations.
While mirror neutrons cannot be observed directly in humans because electrodes cannot be inserted into their brains, the action has been inferred by imaging of the whole brain using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This showed patterns of brain activity consistent with the firing of motor neurons.
More recently motor neurons have also been discovered in birds. "This suggests that such a sensory-motor mechanism is not confined to primates, but is shared by different phyla," said Viale. However the mechanism is not thought to be present in more primitive animals, including the lower cold blooded vertebrates, that is fish, reptiles and amphibians.
The ESF workshop took the field forward by highlighting growing agreement over the role of mirror neurons in social cognition. "The main outcome of the workshop was substantial convergence on some key points concerning the basic mechanisms of social cognition," said Viale. "In particular, most of the invited speakers agreed on the relevance of mirror-based action and emotion understanding in the phylogeny and ontogeny of mind-reading abilities." There was also agreement on the need to develop a multidisciplinary approach to the different levels of social cognition. The ESF workshop, Mirror Neurons and Social Cognition, was held in Turin, Italy, in September 2008.


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ECLECTIC RANT: Will the Palestine Authority Seek Non-Member Status in the United Nations?
In September 2011, President Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, formally requested full United Nations membership for his as yet undefined country. The initiative developed during a two-year impasse in negotiations with Israel that followed the latter's refusal to freeze its settlement activities in the West Bank. The request failed because Palestine was unable to garner enough support in the UN Security Council, and faced strong opposition, including the threat of veto, from the United States.
Now the Palestinian Authority (PA) announced plans to seek non-member state status in the UN, which would only require a majority vote of the members of the General Assembly. It would not need approval of the Security Council. There is every reason to believe that it would get majority approval.
The PA presently has observer status, which gives it the right to speak at UN General Assembly meetings, participate in procedural votes, and to sponsor and sign resolutions, but not to vote on resolutions and other substantive matters.
Non-member observers, on the other hand, are recognized as sovereign states. This would give the PA access to UN's institutions like the International Criminal Court, and, it would make clear that they are living under occupation, not in what Israelis sometimes call "disputed territory."
Why would the PA seeking non-member status? Because peace negotiations with Israel have been long stalled and Israel continues settlement building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which the PA considers illegal. For example, for the first time since 2005, new unauthorized outposts were established in the West Bank: "Nahalei Tal", north-west of Ramallah, and "Tzofin North" (or "Tzofim North"), adjacent to the settlement of Tzofin, north of Qalqiliya. These are as opposed to the sporadic outposts that are created by the hill-top youth and evacuated every few weeks by the security forces, It is evident that the two new outposts are highly supported by the authorities.
In addition, the economic and political conditions in Palestine have deteriorated, for which many Palestinians blame the PA. At most non-member status would be symbolic but it might calm the Palestinian populace.
The U.S. and Israel will probably retaliate against the PA if it seeks non-member status. In fact, on November 6, 2012, Israel announced that it was pushing ahead with construction of more than 1,200 houses in two Jewish enclaves in East Jerusalem. This is an apparent warning to the PA to rethink asking for non-member status at the UN.
Netanyahu began his tenure with the Bar Ilan Speech promising to promote the Two-State-Solution, and is now ending his term, after breaching almost all his promises. After the government rewarded the lawbreakers that built on private Palestinian lands in Migron and the Ulpana with alternative homes and other benefits, the government continues to make a mockery of the rule of law and to allow a radical minority to establish new outposts, which create facts on the ground that harm the possibility of an agreement with the Palestinians.
On November 1, 2012, PA President Mahmoud Abbas called on Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to return to the negotiations table and discuss the two-state solution based on the 1967 borders.
But consider that Israeli elections for the 120-member Knesset, or parliament, are set for January 2013. A Dahaf poll suggests that a new hawkish bloc led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will win the most seats, with the centrist labor party behind it. The poll indicates that the more liberal, centrist Kadima party would not have any representatives in the Knesset, thus, creating a right-wing government less likely to engage in meaningful negotiations.
Will the PA formally seek non-member status in the UN or will it be cowed by U.S. and Israeli threats of retaliation? By doing nothing, Israel will slowly take over the entire country and drive out the non-Jewish population.


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"Tell me what you think it is." The liquid Christopher Nicolson pours into my glass from a dark, label-less, 500-milliliter bottle shines in the late-afternoon sun like melted gold bullion, so rich and deep that it points my brain toward the lustier end of white grape varietals. Before I can even get my nose in the glass, the aromas drift up and I sigh—it's utterly tropical, but also rich, spicy and heady with the smell of honey and vanilla beans.
"A barrel-aged Chardonnay?" I ask. Nicolson, winemaker-in-residence at Brooklyn's Red Hook Winery, shakes his head and grins. "Nope, try again." I'm totally hoodwinked; it's not at all what I expected. It's super-dry and as grippy as a mountain climber on my palate and yet has a luxurious texture, like wearing cashmere over thermals. It's briny and spicy and leaves me feeling like I've been sucking on a peach-pit, but in a good way. As I'm standing there scratching my head over what the heck this is, Nicolson reveals the mystery: It's a skin-fermented Sauvignon Blanc, and I've never had anything quite like it.
This is orange wine. White wine that has been left to get chummy with the grape skins and seeds. It's a technique most wine drinkers aren't used to, since white wines are typically stripped from their tannin-holding grape skins to create the more familiar Pinot Grigio, Sauvignon Blanc and steel-tank Chardonnay profiles. But skin fermentation makes for some incredibly unique wines, and the technique has actually been used for thousands of years, with ancient roots in European regions like Georgia, Slovenia and Friuli, Italy. But it's modern-day New York winemakers who are leading the charge in America to bring these sometimes bizarre, sometimes mind-blowing and always food-friendly wines out of the amphorae and to a table near you.
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"I've been intrigued and inspired by the category of skin-fermented whites since they started appearing more in the marketplace in the late '90s," says Christopher Tracy, the innovative winemaker at New York's Channing Daughters Winery on the South Fork of eastern Long Island. "That's when Gravner's first skin-fermented whites were coming out." Tracy is referring to the famous Friulian oenological Italian cowboy, Josko Gravner, who was disenchanted with how certain modern winemaking techniques seemed to strip away not just the true character of grape varietals, but the ancient craft of winemaking altogether.
After studying the writings of ancient Roman viticulturist Lucius Columella, Gravner decided not only to ditch the modern chemicals he'd been using and spontaneously ferment his wines via natural yeasts, but to do so on their skins—a technique not often used for whites these days anywhere in the world—and to bury the whole kit and caboodle underground in clay amphora jars at his winery near the Slovenian border. The results were fascinating—white wines that were richly colored, spicy, smoky, intense. Some were even oxidized in character, like the dry, briny whites from Jura, France, or even a sherry.
Sommelier and wine director for the Momofuku family of restaurants, Theresa Paopao has served several skin-fermented New York whites at Momofuku Ssäm in Manhattan, something she fell for after a tasting experience in Friuli, Italy, near the Slovenian border. Paopao visited the cellar of Stanko Radikon—a contemporary of Gravner who was simultaneously in the mode of returning to a more natural (and food-friendly) style of vinification for whites in the town of Oslavia "It was there that I had my first real taste of skin-fermented wine, out of the barrel," she recalls. "I hadn't heard of orange wine at that point, and I don't even think the term had been coined yet. I was tasting a suspiciously bronze and cloudy wine that was exploding with a range of flavors and textures I had never experienced before in wine made from white grapes."
Gravner's and Radikon's experiments not only inspired some of his nearby peers in Friuli—winemakers now famous for their own esoteric skin-fermented whites, like Carlo Schiopetto, Silvio Jermann, Paolo Bea in Umbria, Frank Cornelissen in Sicily, among many others—but winemakers in America, too. Around the time Gravner's wines were turning heads in the late '90s, Tracy began working at Channing Daughters, making his first wines in 2001 and taking over as the full-time winemaker in 2002. By 2004, he released New York's first skin-fermented whites, and to very good reception: Meditazione, a blend of Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Tocai Friulano, Muscat Ottonel and Pinot Grigio garnered a page-long opus entitled "The Best White Wine in America" from Paul Grieco on the wine list at his Hearth Restaurant in Manhattan. The heady, exotic, richly hued Envelope is composed of Chardonnay, Gewürztraminer and Malvasia and named as a cheeky nod to that very thing Tracy likes to push.
Both of those wines have become staples of the Channing Daughters portfolio and have spurred him to work with more skin-fermented white wines, like his field-blend Mosaico and the more recent Ramato, which he makes from 100% Pinot Grigio and which you can find by the glass at spots like Daniel Boulud's DBGB, Momofuku Ssäm and Roberta's in Brooklyn.
Like Gravner, the pioneering Tracy kicked off a whole new facet of New York winemaking and inspired other New York producers, as well. Since those first releases in 2004, Abe Schoener of Red Hook Winery, Anthony Nappa, Alie Shaper of Brooklyn Oenology and Conor McCormack at Brooklyn Winery have all been drawn to uniquely textured orange wines. It's a mouthfeel your typical crisp, easy-quaffing whites generally don't have, thanks to the healthy shot of tannins these wines get from macerating and fermenting on their skins from anywhere from a week or two to a year. "The chemistry is going to change over time," says Anthony Nappa, who launched his eponymous label, Anthony Nappa Wines, in 2007 while still the winemaker for Shinn Estate Vineyards in Mattituck, New York. "It's like a red wine—if you tasted a red in barrel now and then in a year and a half, it will change dramatically, and that's the case with orange wines."
Under the Shinn name, Nappa crafted two skin-fermented white wines in the 2009 vintage—a golden, slightly cloudy, unfiltered Chardonnay, and a mauve-orange colored dessert wine called Veil, in large part because Nappa feels that wines made in this way need time to soften. "Oxidation [the exposure of wine to air] is something we choose to do, to drop out some of the tannins and bring them back to balance," he says. "Only problem is when you drop out too much tannin, you lose a lot of fruit flavor, too. And if you're going to skin-ferment, you need really ripe skins but at the same time a lot of acid."
Which is why New York producers are able to yield such lovely results—even though each vintage brings its own surprises in the northeast, the climate generally affords the right amount of ripening, but with high levels of balancing acid. "We were surprised by how good skin-fermented whites were in New York," says Abe Schoener, a California winemaker who's also a partner in Brooklyn's Red Hook Winery. "We thought the level of ripeness in California might be absolutely essential to avoid harshness and to balance the acidity."
A philosophy professor turned winemaker, Schoener gained fame for the boundary-pushing cult wines he makes with his label, the Scholium Project, but his experience with orange wines began in the early 2000s when he took over as winemaker of Luna Vineyards in Napa, California, where the previous winemaker's experiments with skin-fermented whites inspired Schoener to make one himself. "The upper management considered that experiment wacky, but I convinced them it was one of the best wines we made, and I continued making it every year," he recalls. "The best was a Tocai Friulano that had a 30-day skin contact. It went against all of my expectations."
Schoener continues to defy expectations with the stunning skin-fermented whites he makes at Red Hook Winery, which opened in 2008 on a quiet corner of the hard-scrabble, waterfront neighborhood it's named for. Schoener divides his time between the Scholium Project in California's Suisun Valley, where he's made several skin-fermented whites, and New York, where he works with day-to-day winemaker Christopher Nicolson on wines crafted from all-New-York–sourced grapes.
In 2009 he had six different skin-fermented whites in progress, but don't call them orange wines. "I tend to avoid that term because the orange [color] can come from two sources that are different," Schoener says. "Chardonnay, for instance, can turn from golden to orange from exposure to air, but others don't oxidize as readily, like Tocai and Sauvignon Blanc," he says. "But the orange color can leach out from the seeds under influence of alcohol, too. So often people think the color simply comes from oxidation, and in many cases it has nothing to do with it; it's from the tannins and lignin, which is a general term for what makes woody stuff taste, well, woody."
Even barrel-tasting Schoener's skin-fermented whites at an early stage in their liquidy life is breathtaking; they have the kind of luscious structure, incredible aromatics and cleat-like tannins that make you wonder why the entire winemaking world isn't producing wines like this more often. They also show how the choice of how long to leave the skins and seeds in the mix can transform certain recognizable varietal traits into entirely new facets of flavor and aroma.
For instance, recently bottled are two Sauvignon Blancs—one that spends about a month on its skins and shows typical Sauv Blanc grassiness and grapefruit but picks up dry, briny, peach-pit characteristics. The other was the one that kept me guessing when tasting it with Nicolson—for that one, Schoener and Nicolson ferment only a portion of the grapes on the skins in steel for about five weeks, but it winds up with such intensity that you'd swear it was a Chardonnay or Viognier that had been in a barrel. It's something Nicolson gets nearly giddy about: "Every one of these will have its own little story to tell."
Bronze Ambition
Alie Shaper, owner and winemaker of Williamsburg's Brooklyn Oenology, just made her first orange wine—63 cases worth—from 100% Pinot Gris from New York's northerly Finger Lakes region. Its color is stunning—a bright, glorious hue that lies somewhere between rosy and burnt orange, from fermenting on the skins in neutral oak barrels for about two weeks and macerating with them for six weeks. The aroma is like a mandarin orange lollipop mixed with pears, daffodils and an underlying cigar-box spiciness. In the mouth, it's a wash of dry citrusy pith, hazelnuts, baking spices and pears. The finish is a long echo of dried apples. "It's a funky little thing!" Shaper laughs, "I still don't know what it is yet."
But for Shaper, it's what making wine in New York is all about. In addition to the "how's it going to turn out?!" excitement that trying something new can engender, Shaper saw white wines of this ilk as a way to stretch her creativity—to do something outside of the guidelines within which she'd been working so far. "New York City is a particularly educated wine community, and it gives me the opportunity to turn out something offbeat," she says. "When New York was coming on the scene as a wine region, it was the same time the American public became wine drinkers. We've all grown up together as a region and found our identity. We get to do our own interpretations of classics here."
And orange wines seem to be holding the attention of New York's finicky wine drinkers. More and more, skin-fermented vino from Europe and New York is showing up in shops and on wine lists around town—on Bryan Burnett's Italian-centric list at Lincoln; at downtown darling DGBG and understated Bushwick pizza joint Roberta's, which both serve Tracy's Ramato by the glass; at Grieco's Terroir; and at Má Pêche and Blue Hill, which have embraced Red Hook Winery's outpourings with open arms.
Beyond novelty, skin-fermented whites are remarkably versatile at the table—which is why they've been the slow-burn darling of young sommeliers across the city, delivering both the stand-up qualities of reds that make them work with meatier, weightier meals and the aromatic, palate-refreshing qualities of whites. "You can put them in places where you would normally drink a high-acid red, like Barbera or Pinot, because you still have that acid and those tannins to cleanse a fatty dish, like pork belly," says Tracy. "I was blown away the other day. I took some short ribs with roasted root veggies that we had for dinner one night, pulsed the leftovers in a Cuisinart, stuffed ravioli with it, and served it with my Envelope. And we were like, 'Wow!' It sang."


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June 14th, 1982, fell on a Monday. Day 165 of 1982. Decade: 1980s.
37 years, 11 months and 23 days have passed since June 14th, 1982.
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The early 80s saw a minimalist approach to fashion, with some trends carrying over from the late 1970s. Sweaters, fur-lined puffer jackets, tunics, ripped jeans, leotards, velour tracksuits, tube tops, knee-length skirts, high-waisted pants and embroidered jeans were all popular during this period. The colors during the early 1980s were subdued, quiet and basic. Varying shades of brown, tan, and orange were in fashion.
Between the 22nd of September, 1980, and the 20th of August, 1988, an armed conflict was being fought between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Iraqi Republic.
"Always on My Mind" by Willie Nelson would go on to win a Grammy for 1982's Song of the Year.
"The Computer" is named as the Time Person of the Year in 1982.
"Gandhi" won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1982.
Movies released in 1982 included E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Tootsie, An Officer and a Gentleman, Rocky III, Porky's, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, 48 Hrs., Poltergeist, Annie, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Blade Runner, Rambo: First Blood, Conan the Barbarian and The Thing.
Popular music artists in 1982 included Olivia Newton-John, Survivor, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, The J. Geils Band, The Human League and John Cougar.
The Falklands War is occurring between Argentina and the United Kingdom.
Steven Spielberg's movie "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" would have been showing in movie theaters at this time.
The 1982 FIFA World Cup is taking place in Spain. The competition is won Italy after they defeat West Germany 3-1.
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On my second professional model, now that I thought I was an expert 😉 , my manager came to me and said "Prove this…". He had the very common situation where an associate wanted to make a major investment, but could not convince upper management. This is a perfect application for simulation – a model can provide objective information on which to base such a decision.
This was a much better situation than my first experience. This time I had a motivated, involved stakeholder. I had a clear objective. I had important meaningful work. Life was good.
For a while.
Until the model started to "dis-prove this". Experimentation led me to believe that other alternatives might be better. I told myself that I must be wrong. I double checked but I could not find any errors. Then my boss and the stakeholder told me I was wrong. I triple checked but I could still not find any errors. Life was no longer so good.
What went wrong?
We started with the result. When I set out to prove a conclusion, I put my integrity at risk. The best I could hope for was that the model actually "proved" what they wanted. A typical client reaction to that situation is an empty "I already knew that!" feeling and the perception on his part that I provided very little value. Worse is when the model contradicts their conclusion. It does not support a "known fact". In that case, stakeholders might think I am incompetent or that simulation offers no value.
But the worst case of all would have been if the model disproved what the stakeholder wanted, but I kept "fixing it" until it supported their conclusion. My client may be satisfied, but do you think he will ever bring me real work? Unlikely. I would have just proven to him that a model can be made to produce whatever result you want, and that my integrity is low enough to do that.
When similar situations arose later in my career, my responses were:
–I will be happy to evaluate that situation for you, but I cannot promise what the results will be.
–If what you really want is just a supporting statement, I cannot provide it without objective criteria on which to base it.
While the above does not always create good will, it does allow me to keep my integrity. As much as I hate to admit it, intentionally misusing a model to create invalid results is often easy. Integrity is often the most important thing that you and I can provide as simulationists. A simulationist without integrity should look for another line of work.
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2,4,6, 8, who do we appreciate?! Bring it On: The Musical! Universal Studios' 2000 hit movie has now turned into an acclaimed hit musical that has captured the hearts of cheer fans and theatregoers alike! This hilarious tribute to ultra competitive realm of high school cheerleading features music and lyrics by Tony Award winner Lin-Maunel Miranda and composer Tom Kitt.
Ever since she was a child, cheer enthusiast Campbell (Taylor Louderman), has fantasized about being the captain of her high school squad, and at the start of her Senior year, all of her dreams are about to come true. With her ditzy best friends and co captains Skylar (Kate Rockwell) and Kylar (Janet Krupin) by her side, nothing could possibly go wrong! But when perky and innocent Sophomore newcomer, Eva (Elle McLemore), takes over as captain in the wake of a school redistricting, Campbell's hopes are crushed. As Campbell is forced to take on wrong-side-of-the-tracks Jackson High, she finds the students to be a far cry from her spirited teammates back at her old school.
Determined to continue her cheer legacy at get back at the conniving and scheming Eva, Campbell bands together the best of the Jackson hip hop dance crew, including sassy queen bee, Danielle (Adrienne Warren), to help her take the national title.
You'll be delighted to watch some of cheerleading's toughest and most elaborate jumps, lifts, kicks, flips and tricks, choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler, set to catchy, upbeat tunes with plenty of witty banter in between.
Crowd pleasing numbers include, title track "Bring It On", "Do Your Own Thing", "Killer Instinct" and the explosive "Cross the Line", only to name a few.
Bring it On: The Musical is a high-spirited good time that has audiences standing and cheering for more!
Bring it On: The Musical plays at the Cadillac Palace Theatre until March 25.
Performance schedule is as follows:
Tuesdays at 7:30 p.mm
Wednesdays at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. (no afternoon show March 7)
Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.
Fridays at 7:30 p.m.
Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Sundays at 2 p.m. (there will be a 7:30 p.m. show on March 11)
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Atlantic Sun Conference named its Women's Indoor Track and Field Academic All-Conference Team on Tuesday, with Lipscomb garnering six of the 12 spots team. Junior Dani Walker received the top-honor as the Scholar Athlete of the Year, going 3-for-3 on the top post season awards.
"We always take pride in our academic achievements, as much as our ever increasing athletic accomplishments," Bill Taylor, director of cross country and track and field, said. "It is a big point of emphasis in our program."
Walker earned the top honor with a 3.41 GPA as an Exercise Science/Kinesiology major. Walker also claimed MVP of the A-Sun Indoor Championships and the Women's Top Track performer awards previously from the indoor season.
"Dani has certainly put the two together, along with missions work and being a team captain," Taylor said. "She takes care of everything and strives for excellence in all things. This is another well-deserved, well-earned honor for her."
Joining Walker on the All-Academic Team as unanimous choice is Maggie Lawrence. Lawrence is a sophomore Biology major who competes in track and cross country with a perfect 4.0 GPA.
Also with a 4.0 GPA is sophomore Brenna Thompson. Thompson, majoring in Biology, finished fourth in the A-Sun Championships in the 400 meter dash and competed on the record-breaking distance medley relay squad.
Tessa Hoefle, a two-time all-conference honoree this season, was named a member of the academic squad with a 4.0 GPA in English. Hoefle, a junior, earned all-conference honors in the 3000-meter run and 5000-meter run.
Katie Bunker, also a member of the DMR team, joined the all-academic team with a 3.71 GPA in Biology. Bunker, a junior, claimed all-conference honors by finishing third in the 800-meter run at the A-Sun Championships.
Sophomore thrower April Terry joins the squad with a 3.82 GPA in Psychology. Terry, who had a record-breaking year in both the shot put and weight throw, earned all-conference at the A-Sun Championships by finishing second in the shot put.
"I'm really happy we are really well represented on the Women's Academic All-Conference team," Taylor said. "This is what being a student-athlete is all about and I am proud of our team for performing at the top of the conference in all aspects."


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The tourists -- the world's top-ranked side in 50-over cricket -- head into Tuesday's finale at Old Trafford having already lost the five-match campaign at 3-0 down after a trio of crushing defeats was interrupted only by Wednesday's total washout at Edgbaston.
Australia's latest loss saw them suffer an eight-wicket thrashing at the Riverside here on Saturday when, albeit in bowler-friendly conditions, they were restricted to a modest 200 for nine, having collapsed to 96 for six.
"I want to see a bit of 'mongrel' come Tuesday, I really do," said Arthur.
"I think we've been a bit submissive this whole series," the South African added. "We've been allowed to be bullied, and we're better than that.
For Arthur it is the comprehensive manner of defeats by 15 runs, six wickets and now eight wickets that has been tough to take.
"I'm disappointed and really shocked. We haven't played anywhere near our real potential and that could be to the fact that we haven't been allowed to play to our potential or haven't grasped the moments when they've been there.
"We haven't found a way to put England under any sort of pressure and that's really disappointing and infuriating me a bit.
"We've been outplayed. We're better than that. That's the real disappointing thing for me."
Arthur insisted his remarks to reporters were no more severe than what he'd already told his players, who so far this series have been bested with both bat and ball by England.
"I've just had a real good meeting with the team, a tough meeting, a hard meeting," Arthur said. "I spoke some home truths, I think.
"I want to see how they respond on Tuesday. I'm looking to see how they stand up, how they respond."
Australia have struggled to get enough runs on the board or make significant inroads with the ball into an England line-up where they believe the lower-order batting is vulnerable.
"I'm searching, I'm looking for those answers, I'm looking for that mongrel, looking for that guy who's going to stand up and change the game," Arthur said.
"We're looking for the guy who's going to take responsibility and say 'I'm the champ, I want to change momentum in a game'.
"We seem to be a little bit submissive -- we haven't stood up and we haven't grasped an opportunity like England have.
"We've spoken at length that if we can get them three down we're into (Craig) Kieswetter, then we're into (Tim) Bresnan.
"Well, we've seen Kieswetter bat once at Lord's and we haven't seen Bresnan bat yet. And yet our batters, who are world-class, seem to be getting out and put under the pump.
"Again, hats off to England, they're outstanding -- but they're only doing the basics well.
"Cricket's about basics -- we've got to do the basics better, we've got to be nailing those basics."
However, Arthur insisted: "I'm not having a character assassination of our team at all. I'm looking for answers that are going to strengthen our team and lift our team again. It's certainly not a character assassination of them.
"I know those guys are busting a gut to go out and do well. For us as management it's about finding that balance between their talent and performance but somehow they are just not transforming that.
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6 month investigation, $20k in stolen goods, 2 charged
Fort Dodge police report two people have been arrested and charged in a six month investigation into stolen property.
Police said a series of burglaries and thefts have been reported in the Fort Dodge and Webster County area.
Friday, Michael Redenius, 29, of Fort Dodge, was charged with ongoing criminal conduct. Brittany Cook-Redenius, 23, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a controlled substance – marijuana and disorderly conduct.
The two were taken to the Webster County Jail.
Investigators said they recovered more than $20,000 in stolen property including a variety of hand and power tools, chain saws, vehicle and heavy equipment tires, all-terrain vehicles, lawn and yard equipment, and a moped.
Police said they are working to identify the owners of the stolen equipment.
Anyone with information on the case should call the Fort Dodge Police Department at 515-573-1426 or Crime Stoppers 515-573-1444, online at www.wccrimestoppers.com or by texting "LEC" and the tip to CRIMES (274637).


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WASHINGTON, U.S. - In a shocking about-face, the U.S. President Donald Trump's top lawyer Rudy Giuliani has changed his stance on the alleged collusion between Russia and Trump's 2016 Presidential campaign.
Despite the conclusions drawn by U.S. intelligence agencies, that have said that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election campaign to bolster Trump's side, both Trump and his lead lawyer have repeatedly and publicly denied any collusion.
However, this week, in an interview with CNN, Giuliani retreated from his previous statements.
Trump's personal attorney said that he had no idea whether any aides colluded with Moscow during the time of the election.
Giuliani clarified during the interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo that there's "no chance" that Trump colluded with the Russians, but added that he can't say the same about the President's campaign aides.
The former New York City mayor, who has been one of Trump's earliest supporters, said that he "never said there was no collusion" between Russia and the Trump campaign during the election.
He pointed out that he has only stated that Trump wasn't the one doing the colluding.
Giuliani claimed, "I never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in the campaign. I said the president of the United States. There is not a single bit of evidence the president of the United States committed the only crime you can commit here - conspiring with the Russians to hack the DNC (Democratic National Committee)."
During the 2016 Presidential election, DNC servers were hacked and emails exchanged between the teams were released publicly.
Later, confirming his statement during the interview, Giuliani repeated, "The president did not collude with the Russians," and pointed out that he only represented Trump.
Giuliani said, "I know the president wasn't involved in collusion. How would I know about anybody else? I wouldn't know."
So far, federal prosecutors leading a probe into the alleged collusion, have charged over 30 people as part of their probe, including Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Over two dozen Russian individuals and entities have already been charged as part of the investigation being led by the Justice Department appointed Special Counsel, Robert Mueller.
Ever since the probe was initiated, Trump has repeatedly denied any collusion and has called Mueller's investigation a "witch hunt."
Meanwhile, Russia has also denied any meddling in the election.
'Polling data shared'
Last week, CNN quoted sources as revealing that while serving as Trump's campaign chairman, Manafort tried to send internal polling data from the Trump campaign with two Kremlin-supporting Ukrainian oligarchs.
The sources quoted in the report claimed that Manafort sent this data through his associate Konstantin Kilimnik, who is a Russian national linked to Russian intelligence.
Commenting on the report, Giuliani said in the interview that Trump never shared the polling data himself and only found out about it recently in the news.
Trump's top lawyer added, "Donald Trump wasn't giving polling data to anyone. He did not know about it until it was revealed a few weeks ago in an article."
Following the interview, Cuomo commented on Twitter through the show handle, Cuomo Prime Time that "Giuliani allows for the possibility of collusion with the campaign while saying it didn't happen."
It quoted Giuliani as saying, "If the collusion happened, it happened a long time ago. It's either provable or it's not. It's not provable because it never happened.... there's no chance it happened."


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Recorded live at The Arnolfini, Bristol, 27th October 2007 by the doyen of sound recordists, Chris Watson, using 2 x Sony ECM 77s with a Nagra P11 Ares flash card recorder, and from desk to hard drive. The recording was mixed, edited and mastered by Touch stalwart BJNilsen, in Berlin during March 2009. This concert was part of Touch 25 Live, which also featured a performance of Storm [by Chris Watson & BJNilsen]. Biosphere is Norwegian composer and performer Geir Jenssen, and this is his sixth release for Touch. In the early 1990s he was a pioneer of so-called "ambient techno," but since then, he has refined his sound into something more magnetic and enduring. His last album, Dropsonde, wasn't a soundtrack like the interwoven Substrata, nor an episodic journey in the way that Autour de la Lune is. It pushed new directions towards the jazz colors of Miles Davis and Jon Hassell, while re-invigorating the pulse and projection of his signature sound: a hypnotic combination of pleasure and dread. Here Geir Jenssen takes this further, incorporating samples of field recordings by Jony Easterby and trumpet by Anders Karlskås, invoking a sparser, more arresting sound. A landmark release for Biosphere, his first live album, heralding new beginnings without jettisoning the past... TOUCH


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Enemies Of The Poor [US Republicans]
NYTimes.com – The Opinion Pages
Jan. 12, 2014. Paul Krugman, Op-Ed Columnist
Suddenly it's O.K., even mandatory, for politicians with national ambitions to talk about helping the poor. This is easy for Democrats, who can go back to being the party of F.D.R. and L.B.J. It's much more difficult for Republicans, who are having a hard time shaking their reputation for reverse Robin-Hoodism, for being the party that takes from the poor and gives to the rich.
And the reason that reputation is so hard to shake is that it's justified. It's not much of an exaggeration to say that right now Republicans are doing all they can to hurt the poor, and they would have inflicted vast additional harm if they had won the 2012 election. Moreover, G.O.P. harshness toward the less fortunate isn't just a matter of spite (although that's part of it); it's deeply rooted in the party's ideology, which is why recent speeches by leading Republicans declaring that they do too care about the poor have been almost completely devoid of policy specifics.
Let's start with the recent Republican track record.
The most important current policy development in America is the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, a k a Obamacare. Most Republican-controlled states are, however, refusing to implement a key part of the act, the expansion of Medicaid, thereby denying health coverage to almost five million low-income Americans. And the amazing thing is that they're going to great lengths to block aid to the poor even though letting the aid through would cost almost nothing; nearly all the costs of Medicaid expansion would be paid by Washington.
Meanwhile, those Republican-controlled states are slashing unemployment benefits, education financing and more. As I said, it's not much of an exaggeration to say that the G.O.P. is hurting the poor as much as it can.
What would Republicans have done if they had won the White House in 2012? Much more of the same. Bear in mind that every budget the G.O.P. has offered since it took over the House in 2010 involves savage cuts in Medicaid, food stamps and other antipoverty programs.
Still, can't Republicans change their approach? The answer, I'm sorry to say, is almost surely no.
First of all, they're deeply committed to the view that efforts to aid the poor are actually perpetuating poverty, by reducing incentives to work. And to be fair, this view isn't completely wrong.
True, it's total nonsense when applied to unemployment insurance. The notion that unemployment is high because we're "paying people not to work" is a fallacy (no matter how desperate you make the unemployed, their desperation does nothing to create more jobs) wrapped in a falsehood (very few people are choosing to remain unemployed and keep collecting benefit checks).
But our patchwork, uncoordinated system of antipoverty programs does have the effect of penalizing efforts by lower-income households to improve their position: the more they earn, the fewer benefits they can collect. In effect, these households face very high marginal tax rates. A large fraction, in some cases 80 cents or more, of each additional dollar they earn is clawed back by the government.
The question is what we could do to reduce these high effective tax rates. We could simply slash benefits; this would reduce the disincentive to work, but only by intensifying the misery of the poor. And the poor would become less productive as well as more miserable; it's hard to take advantage of a low marginal tax rate when you're suffering from poor nutrition and inadequate health care.
Alternatively, we could reduce the rate at which benefits phase out. In fact, one of the unheralded virtues of Obamacare is that it does just that. That is, it doesn't just improve the lot of the poor; it improves their incentives,because the subsidies families receive for health care fade out gradually with higher income, instead of simply disappearing for anyone too affluent to receive Medicaid. But improving incentives this way means spending more, not less, on the safety net, and taxes on the affluent have to rise to pay for that spending. And it's hard to imagine any leading Republican being willing to go down that road — or surviving the inevitable primary challenge if he did.
The point is that a party committed to small government and low taxes on the rich is, more or less necessarily, a party committed to hurting, not helping, the poor.
Will this ever change? Well, Republicans weren't always like this. In fact, all of our major antipoverty programs — Medicaid, food stamps, the earned-income tax credit — used to have bipartisan support. And maybe someday moderation will return to the G.O.P.
For now, however, Republicans are in a deep sense enemies of America's poor. And that will remain true no matter how hard the likes of Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio try to convince us otherwise.
Tags: Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax
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White LG Nexus 4 Arriving in June
Updated 28/5/13: It's official: LG has just announced that the white Nexus 4 will first launch in Hong Kong at the end of May, then roll out over Asia, North America and Europe over the next several weeks. But besides the change in color, the white Nexus 4 will be similar to the original black Nexus 4 in every way.
It's not the first time we've seen a white Nexus 4 in the wild, but Android and Me says that they managed to snag one at the Google I/O conference and that it will reportedly be available on the Google Play Store on June 10th. Besides the different color, the white Nexus 4 will apparently ship with Android 4.3. It seems the white Nexus 4 will not come with a larger 32GB of storage and LTE support as previously rumored.
We reviewed the LG Nexus 4 last November and found the device to be lightning fast. It also boasts good build quality and a great design. However, we did not like its below average battery life, subpar imaging performance, lack of memory card slot and no 4G LTE support. The Nexus 4 is also now available in Singapore, but for a higher retail price (S$668 for the 16GB model) than you would get from the Google Play Store (US$349, or S$437 by today's exchange rate) but which doesn't ship to Singapore.


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ILOPERIDONE (EYE loe PER i done) is an antipsychotic medicine. It is used to treat schizophrenia.
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Talk to your pediatrician regarding the use of this medicine in children. Special care may be needed.
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The Forgotten Australians website, exhibition and oral history project
The National Museum and the National Library of Australia, no strangers to investigating and interpreting traumatic experiences, are collaborating to record the stories of the Forgotten Australians, the 500,000 Australians who experienced institutional care as child migrants or as wards of the state, often leaving them with damaged lives and painful memories. In November 2009, the then Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, apologised on behalf of the nation to the Forgotten Australians for the treatment that they had endured. This followed his apology to the Stolen Generation of Indigenous Australians in February 2008. The National Museum is developing a three-dimensional exhibition on the Forgotten Australians, and the National Library is conducting an oral history project. Photos and other documents, and testimonies by the Forgotten Australians can be accessed through a website, Forgotten Australians: Our History, at http://forgottenaustralianshistory.gov.au/index.html
Exploration and Endeavour: The Royal Society of London and the South Seas
The National Museum also collaborates with institutions overseas – in this case the Royal Society of London – to bring documentary heritage to Australia, and give access to documentary heritage to a potential worldwide audience. The current exhibition in the Museum's Studio Gallery, Exploration and Endeavour: The Royal Society of London and the South Seas, not only displays key documents in the history of the Royal Society's role in widening the understanding of people in Britain and Europe of the cultures of the Pacific region; but also demonstrates advances in scientific approaches to navigation, hygiene and diet, meteorology, astronomy and zoology.
The documents also illuminate the characters of some of the leading players in the story of early European contact with the Pacific, notably James Cook and Sir Joseph Banks, who are brought alive again through their words written on yellowing 18th century paper. For those who would like to see more than what is on display in the Studio Gallery or who cannot come to the exhibition – or both – the museum's website provides access to each page of every document, and even allows the reader to zoom in on specific areas of a page. The whole exhibition is on line at:


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AYER – The Ayer Police made three drunk driving arrests over three consecutive days – Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
On Friday, Dec. 21 at 4:42 p.m., Officers Brian Cunningham and Richard Krasinskas were called to the parking lot of Sovereign Bank at the corner of Park and Main Streets downtown. Upon arrival the officers suspected the driver was operating under the influence of alcohol. After asking the man to perform field sobriety tests, 53-year old Walter McCurley of Gardner was arrested and charged with following too closely, a missing license plate and his third OUI/Liquor offense.
On Saturday, Dec. 22 at 6:44 p.m., Krasinskas stopped a vehicle on Fitchburg Road for speeding. The officer detected an odor of an alcoholic beverage and conducted field sobriety tests. Thereafter, 34-year old Amy Lee Pasciuto of Littleton was placed under arrest for speeding and OUI/Liquor.
And on Sunday, Dec. 23 at 10:45 p.m., Krasinskas stopped a vehicle on West Main Street for speeding. The officer detected an odor of an alcoholic beverage and conducted field sobriety tests. The operator, Michael Morse of Sandy Pond Road, who celebrates his 22 birthday on Christmas Day, was likewise arrested for OUI/Liquor.
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What's that you're doing, Ms. Stube? "I'm helping a coworker to roll this Boeing 747-8 tire into the warehouse. As logistics specialists, we are responsible for keeping a stock of spare parts of all kinds and sizes, and for almost all of the regular aircraft types – that's around 149 000 different components in Frankfurt alone. The day after tomorrow, we are expecting an A380 to arrive next door at Lufthansa Technik. It's due for its next C-Check, which is one of the more extensive regular maintenance inspections. It's our job to have all of the necessary spare parts at the ready. The technicians know beforehand which components are routinely replaced. This time, they have ordered around 150 parts – all kinds, from bolts to an emergency chute. Sometimes, though, damage is only discovered during the check. Then we have to move fast because unplanned downtime costs money. That would be a case for our round-the-clock AOG (Aircraft on Ground) desk. All orders placed there are given top priority."