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Daughter: "every time you buy a pair of shoes from TOMS another pair is donated to children across the globe that can't afford shoes"
Me: "True. And yet, still pretty pricey!"
Daughter: "Can I have 2 pairs? I really want to give"
Me: "ummmm….sure?"
TOMS Shoes was founded in 2006 by Blake Mycoskie, an entrepreneur from Arlington, Texas. Inspired by a trip to Argentina (where Blake was competing on 2nd season of The Amazing Race with his sister), Blake returned a few years later to do some volunteering and was moved at the sight of so many shoeless children running around the streets just outside of Buenos Aires.
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"Mycoskie had learned that the lack of shoes was a problem that had a serious impact upon these youth, threatening the ability of the children to go to school, prevent infection, and so forth.[10]
A new model of corporate social responsibility, aptly named "Cause Marketing" was born. And from that, TOMS "One for One" campaign, whereby for every pair of shoes sold, Toms would donate a pair to a child in need of a pair of shoes, came to be.
What is Cause Marketing?
Cause Marketing refers to a type of marketing that involves the cooperative efforts of a "for profit" business and a non-profit organization for mutual benefit.
The term is sometimes used to refer to any type of marketing effort for social and/or charitable causes, including in-house marketing efforts by non-profit organizations.
Cause Marketing differs from corporate giving (philanthropy), because the latter generally involves a specific donation that is tax deductible. Cause Marketing, on the other hand, is a marketing relationship that's not necessarily based on a donation. For example, TOMS Shoes is a for-profit organization that holds a separate 501(c)(3) named Friends of TOMS.
Since its inception, a number of companies have popped up, presumably inspired by Toms, with their own brand of "One For One". Toms has gone on to expand into the eyeglass world as well, with the same message. I saw a display with my own eyes, no pun intended- a few weeks ago in a tourist shop, when thinking of writing this article. I had no idea they were into glasses.
Trust me, TOMS understands that being an advocate for children, as well as being able to defend that advocacy with ease, will alleviate the price barrier and sell more shoes. And yet, still, is it a bad thing?
Their marketing strategy has been a 3-pronged approach:
- Social media
- As of only 1 year ago, in Nov. 2013 their first paid media campaign marketing campaign- and even that was a non-traditional furay to encourage folks to purchas holiday gift purchases from a marketplace of like-minded socially conscious companies who, like Tom's, had a bigger picture in mind
- Events such as the ones listed here
• GET IT DONE: At these events, TOMS invites artists to come and paint a pair of their shoes, creating a one-of-a-kind, wearable work of art that can be auctioned off. The proceeds are then donated to likeminded charities.
• STYLE YOUR SOLE PARTY: These parties encourage people to come together and paint their own TOMS shoes at baby showers, youth groups meetings, and sorority events… another great way for TOMS to raise awareness and to sell in bulk.
• ONE DAY WITHOUT SHOES: Participants go without shoes for a day in order to raise awareness for all of the children that must go without shoes… 2 years ago, there were 1,600 of these events in over 25 countries — with over a quarter of a million participants choosing to go barefoot!
The company has made major headlines, not all positive (keep reading)
- In February 2010, FastCompany named TOMS #6 on their list of Top Ten Most Innovative Retail Companies
- At the 2011 South by Southwest conference, Blake gave the keynote address
The sales and distribution speak for themselves:
- 2006 – TOMS sold 10,000 pairs for these 'plain' shoes in a short 8-month span
- 2007 – Sales skyrocketed to 50,000 pairs
- 2009 – Sales jumped again to 140,000 pairs
- 2010 – As of January 2010, over 400,000 pairs of shoes have been distributed worldwide.
- This spring, Toms gave away its 10 millionth pair of shoes
Toms has taken some heat over the last few years for its' "shallow" and "self serving" attempts at making a difference. Here's what I say to that: It is so easy to be an armchair critic; much harder and impactful to actually do something. Could Mycoskie take it to the next level and use Toms to impact real socio-economic change? Sure, and I've read recently that he is in fact building factories in the countries that he is serving with shoes right now. But to say that his 'buy one give one' model, or the companies One Day Without Shoes event is without value is akin to saying that Doctors Without Borders, or the International Red Cross is a failure because they are not changing the health system or infrastructures of third world countries. Just my humble opinion.
Come on. As a mother of 2 girls, what they have learned about giving from philanthropic companies like this has been priceless. To give without expecting? To become aware of the millions of kids who walk around without shoes and contract deadly diseases? To put their money where their mouth is? We are raising socially conscious kids with real values because of companies like TOMS and people like Mykoskie. AND it's great marketing. That's right, I said it.
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Inspired by drawing while listening to Pink Floyd's The Wall, Helen writes,
"This started off as trying to fit Sandy Hunter's fabulous pattern, Cruffle (one of my absolute faves) into a square. … You can get some neat effects by the way you fill it, or if you switch the direction of the initial s shaped lines, too."
Helen doesn't "do" Zentangle® per se, but her large Zentangle-inspired and pen and ink drawings are so lovely to enjoy and appreciate. And every now and again she comes up with a pattern to share. Helen illustrates the steps-by-step instructions for drawing Ripples here on her blog. Be sure to have a good look around at her creations.
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We proudly present the latest version of our product. The UNMS team prepared the biggest update so far for you with hundreds of smaller upgrades, so for the sake of your time, we will list just a dozen of the most interesting ones here. If you are not sure what UNMS is and you want to get acquainted please see this link. Maybe you already know UNMS and you would like to try it out? You can either try the demo or simply install it right away. Do you have questions? You'll find lots of friendly people in our Community, ready to help you out or share some advice. From there you can also send us your feature requests.
Topology Map
This is the most important feature of the 0.13.1 release by far. The ability to create a topological map of a user's network is of course quite useful by itself, but it represents a stepping stone to many advanced features in the future as well. This complex new feature took several months of development as it demanded complex changes in the actual structure of the UNMS code. Although this is already a great feature, please note that it is just a first step and we will continue to improve the topology map in the future. One of the future upgrades will be a full automatization of the topology map creation. Right now UNMS can create datalinks between wireless and fiber devices, but Ethernet connections need to be added manually. Our goal is to make this process completely automatic.
There will be two levels of the network topology map. The Overall view will show only sites, and the Detailed view will focus on a single site or client and show all network elements connected to it. This is a preview of the Overall view:
Here you can see the preview of the Detailed view:
Third-Party Devices
In order to display a complete topology map of your network, including third-party devices, we created basic support for third-party devices. Those represent elements in the network that UNMS knows very little about and will basically only include their IP, hostname, and interfaces. This is still very useful information in order to monitor non-Ubiquiti devices you may have in your architecture.
The ability to precisely measure data throughput for individual clients is a critical step on the road to integration with UCRM. NetFlow is a brand new module which will not only measure data throughput but also recognize unknown IP addresses in a network and use that information to create a third-party device. The data acquired with NetFlow will allow UNMS to provide better graphs for your new client and site dashboards.
Multicore Support
Performance is a priority for us, just second after security. In earlier releases, we focused on single-core optimization, so this time we're introducing multicore support and optimization. There are some significant improvements under the hood, including support for multiple Node.js workers with load balancing capability. We also moved most of the unstructured device data into the PostgreSQL database to allow faster processing and network status analysis in the future.
Wireless Configuration for airMAX AC/M Devices
With this update, UNMS further improves the scope of airMAX device configuration capability.
Monitoring for airFiber
In our ongoing effort to broaden the scale of devices manageable by UNMS, we are introducing monitoring support for airFiber models. Please note that it is necessary to have UNMS compatible FW as well. For example, firmware version 4.1.0-beta.6 is required for UNMS management of the AF11X, AF24, AF24HD, AF5, AF5X, AF4X, AF3X, and AF2X.
Dashboard for airFiber LTU
This release includes a well-arranged dashboard tailored specifically for airFiber LTU devices.
Improved Device Discovery Tool
Device discovery is one of the most user-friendly ways of adding devices to UNMS. Initially, there were some limitations to this tool, so we decided to get rid of them. With this release, device discovery can target devices in public IP ranges thanks to support of the TCP/IP protocol. This will significantly improve the customer experience for many users, especially if they need to add many devices at once.
Site/Client Dashboard
For each site/client, we designed new dashboards that present useful information in an intuitive overview format. The goal of these new dashboards is to conveniently show all the data you need including the new NetFlow, Alerts, Device Links, Photo Gallery, and more. With this step, UNMS GUI also comes closer to being integrated with the UCRM user interface.
Device Maintenance Mode
This frequently requested feature allows exclusion of devices from the overall network health measurement. This is particularly helpful when the network administrator wants to keep devices with known issues connected to UNMS for administrative or other strategic reasons. With this feature, you can easily mark any device to exclude it from the overall network health measurement and prevent it from generating outage alerts.
EdgeSwitch Ports Statistics
UNMS can now display some useful statistics for EdgeSwitch ports.
New Login Screen
The very first thing that catches your eye after you first run the 0.13.1 version is the new login screen featuring handpicked pictures taken by members of our great community. If you have a great picture of Ubiquiti hardware which you would like to share with other UNMS users, please feel free to send it to email@example.com. We will select the best submissions and add them to the login screen gallery for the next release.


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A reader told me to search on Google for "Amazon Digital Video" site:amazon.com. There was a lot of excitement earlier this month when AdAge reported that Amazon was launching an ad-free movie download service, so I started poking around.
I believe that this is the first peek at the upcoming Amazon Digital Video Service:
Very few of the menu options work, and the page is gone from the Amazon site (it's only available in the Google cache).
Note the menu options under the "Digital Video" tab:
Amazon Digital Video - The current page? Television Central - Will this be a link to the existing DVD/TV site, or a place to purchase episodes of TV shows? View Your Download Queue - Downloading movies, even over cable or DSL takes time, so this is probably a status screen and/or a digital locker. How to Get Video to Your TV - This is a huge problem, as very few people will want to watch movies on a computer screen.
At the bottom of the page there is one vendor listed: Lumiere. If you click through, you'll see a selection of movies with prices:
I checked Amazon's price for Napoleon Dynamite DVD, and it's $13.99, but $14.99 on the Lumiere page, so it might reference a digital version.
Does anyone else have any additional information about Lumiere or the Amazon Digital Video Service?
Update: I totally missed PaidContent's story and screen capture, which was the first to find the new Amazon site, before it was removed.


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Cemo Hall: Building Upon Success
UH Bauer College of Business will continue to strengthen its presence as one of the nation's leading business schools with the construction of a second building, the Michael J. Cemo Lecture Hall and Academic Center. This 34,000 square foot LEED-Certified building will undoubtedly usher in a new generation of students who will benefit from the educational tools the school provides. Named in honor of Cemo ('68), a UH alum and former regent, the two-level $50M facility was designed by green building experts BNIM and constructed by J.E. Dunn. Not only does the new building fall in line with the Campus Master Plan, it also will house a state-of-the-art lecture hall, writing center, career center, and numerous classrooms and teaching assistant space. Located between Melcher Hall and Calhoun Lofts, Cemo Hall will be the second building constructed on the campus devoted to business education.


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According to APP, the details of Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) and Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) personnel were accessed by the hackers.
Nongovernmental personnel and Fort Monmouth visitors are also affected by the breach.
The hack, discovered on December 6, exposed names, dates of birth, social security numbers and salaries, Army representatives said. After the incident, the targeted databases have been taken offline.
CECOM and C4ISR were relocated from Fort Monmouth to Aberdeen Proving Ground back in September 2011.
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Your baby's skin
Specific features of babies' skin
A baby's skin has the same structure as an adult's skin, but it does not yet have all of its functions. Fragile and not yet fully developed, it needs a good three years to strengthen so that it can properly perform its role as a protective barrier. Its delicate nature can be attributed to several factors:
- At birth, the skin's pH is close to neutral. Its pH gradually decreases, becoming more acidic into adulthood. This difference means that a baby's skin is more sensitive to infections and irritations.
- The hydrolipidic film is thinner in babies than in adults. So it is less effective at protecting the epidermis against drying out and dehydration. Your baby's skin is therefore much more vulnerable to attacks from the world around it.
- The baby's corneal layer is also more fragile. The corneocytes are not joined together so well, meaning that they are more permeable to outside factors and infections.
- The dermis is three times thinner.
- And relative to weight, the surface area of a baby's skin is between 3 and 5 times bigger than in an adult. This means that a substance that manages to penetrate the skin ends up being considerably more concentrated in the body – increasing the risk of toxicity.
New research carried out within the framework of a programme scientific studies led by Mustela has resulted in another major discovery about babies' skin. Its extraordinarily rich fund of cells also differentiates it from the skin of an adult: it has a wealth of original cells that are at their maximum strength at birth, but extremely vulnerable during the first few years of life – the period during which the cutaneous barrier is being formed. This wealth of cells, which are fragile and remain unique throughout life, are a valuable resource for your baby's skin. As your baby grows and develops, it will restore and maintain his skin's overall equilibrium. It is therefore extremely important to protect it – to look after the qualities of your baby's skin, both today and for the future.


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During his school vacation, Lyle cared for his neighbors' pets while the neighbors were away. He got paid for each visit to each house. Lyle made 36 trips in all. He had to keep track of the number of times he went to each house.
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Aston Martins & Balconies
Today I announced the impending arrival of Blash Strategy Version 4, now that may mean nothing to you and that's fine. But essentially its not a strategy, its a trading philosophy based on common sense. Version 3 was 35 pages long and is revered by those that follow it as a bible in common sense trading.
It got me thinking about all the common failures you see within every Facebook trading ad, and the people it attracts. Everyone loves a get rich quick scheme, you are easy money for these vultures. If you sign up to a service because you see a post of someone leaning across an Aston Martin's bonnet, you may as well throw your money into the autumn bonfires. You've lost the game before you even begin.
It isn't about money, it really isn't. Its about life, its about wanting to be free, its about keeping hold of and compounding your savings as a percentile not a dollar sign. Not throwing 50% account risk on a Bitcoin buy because some moron on Instagram told you to do so when you joined their Whats-app group. If you want to grow your funds, put in the time to educate yourself, ignore the money and find what works.
These people in their flashy cars, generally pay a lease. A lease bought with yours and everyone else's subscription fee's. Fast cars are not the answer to life problems. My 1.6 Renault Megane with the window that doesn't open and the squeaky wheel bearing, that does me just fine. Common sense does not dictate that I waste money on a flash car at this stage in my life. Discipline within Forex should transpose itself into everyday life, including how you spend your money & how you treat your family. It doesn't need to be used to entice poor individuals into becoming emotional about money before they have even begun treading the trading journey. I find it funny that everyone apparently owns a penthouse apartment and leaves their laptop open on a coffee table with an MT4 chart on display with a beautiful view. You don't really fall for that do you?
When you think about what you actually get out of these schemes, you literally have a return of 0. If you're lucky they may teach you some basic's about their personal strategy which is the best ever created and so you can hugely over-leverage your account to be part of the action. A little lesson for you, something that may work for them probably wont work for you. There is no sustainable value for you, even if you do gain a little money, education is far more valuable for the longevity of your trading career. I'll summarise 90% of these groups up for you.
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- Multiple Lots at huge account risk.
What you're not told is that price can stay overbought/oversold for hours on short time-frames, that's where you lose your money. Because the trade goes against you and your account blows, but its not your fault, because you don't know any better.
That's why we don't show you that stuff here. I can show you trade idea's before and after, I can show you how to enter and find confirmation, its a large hand guiding you down your own path using your own style in conjunction with common sense trading under the umbrella of Blash philosophy. Its nothing fancy, there's no hype, there's no bullshit. Its just trading. I can show you how to make 20% a week, its happened many times here. With just 2% risk per trade. We're talking about losing pocket change if for some reason it doesn't go your way. Its a no brainer.
I want longevity in a trading team. In a shorter time than you think, you will be helping me and others around you instead of their being a focal point of one trader. Its already like that here, its brilliant.
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He pulls the golf cart onto the right side of the gravel path: "Let me show you some of this viognier." Carrington King, vineyard manager at King Family Vineyards in Crozet, stops the driver of a Kawasaki golf cart heading in the opposite direction of the tasting room, toward the processing facility, loaded down with bright yellow crates called lugs, each filled with 25 pounds of grapes. The crates are marked with the name Roseland in black, the name of the farm and the name of a chardonnay/viognier/petit manseng blend the winery produces. King plucks a cluster of grapes and holds it up to the afternoon sunlight to show how these berries, part of a second harvest of viognier this season, are starting to raisin and dehydrate.
"See how it's drying nicely, no rot? And that"—he points to a brown discoloration—"that's a little sunburn, but it's perfectly fine."
He pops a few grapes in his mouth.
"Super, super sweet. A year like this you can do interesting projects like this."
Steeped in history
Our region is part of the Monticello American Viticultural Area, the state's oldest AVA, founded in 1984. It's named for the estate of one of the biggest proponents of American winemaking, Thomas Jefferson, who dreamt his home would be surrounded by flourishing vineyards that could compete with the Old World style of winemaking. Jefferson enlisted the help of notable Italian winemaker Filipo Mazzei, who researched the local terroir and planted thousands of vines around Monticello and at farms nearby. Although the American Revolution cut down Jefferson's dream, if he walked the Monticello Wine Trail today he might see something closely resembling his vision.
The Monticello AVA, which includes Charlottesville and the four surrounding counties of Albemarle, Greene, Nelson and Orange, is made up of 33 wineries and encompasses 800,000 acres in the area on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains. About 30 varieties of grapes are grown here, with some of the most prominent being chardonnay, cabernet franc, merlot and our state grape, viognier.
Virginia winemaking saw a resurgence in 1976 with the founding of Barboursville Vineyards by Gianni Zonin, heir to a family wine enterprise in the Veneto region of Italy. In August, the Daily Meal, which gathers input from wine industry professionals and factors in awards and accolades from wine publications, named Barboursville No. 8 on its 101 Best Wineries in America list (Michael Shaps Wineworks came in at No. 57, Jefferson Vineyards at 94).
What makes it Virginia wine?
Vineyards and wineries in which 85 percent of the fruit comes from the Monticello AVA, with the remainder made up in local grapes from around the state, may enter the Monticello Wine Cup Awards each April.
Statewide regulations are a little less strict: 51 percent of the grapes have to come from Virginia land owned or leased by a winery for that wine to be considered a Virginia farm wine (the label will read American wine).
Some of the larger wineries operate under a different classification: 75 percent of their grapes must come from within the state. And the wines of any winery with 75 percent or more grapes grown in Virginia are labeled Virginia wines.
But Virginia is often overlooked when it comes to making the grade as a top wine region in America, with heavy-hitters like Napa and Sonoma, and New York's Finger Lakes and Oregon's Willamette Valley getting all the national headlines. In fact, some wineries in California produce as much wine as all of the wineries in Virginia together. Sadly, in early October, wildfires in Northern California killed 42 people and scorched 240,000 acres, destroying six wineries in the Napa and Sonoma regions.
Locally, we also battle Mother Nature: This fall's lack of rain caused City Council and the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors to issue mandatory water restrictions earlier in the month—no watering your lawn, take brief showers—to help offset the lower water supply levels (the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir fell to 42 percent capacity in just two months).
But our hot, dry autumn is actually good news for grape growers and vineyard owners. A drier season with more mild temperatures means a longer growing season, which allows the fruit to fully ripen on the vine. That means they are picked at the perfect point of ripeness, when the balance of sugar and acid levels for each variety is at its peak.
This year could not only be a banner year for Virginia winemakers in terms of grape yield, quality of the fruit and thus quality of the wine produced, it could be the year that puts Virginia wine on the map, many say.
Hearty harvest
Emily Pelton couldn't believe what she was tasting. It was the end of July, and the first sample of sauvignon blanc grapes had just come in from the field at Veritas Vineyard & Winery in Afton, where Pelton is head winemaker.
She expected the berries in a random sampling to be tart, like they usually are, but instead Pelton was hit with a punch of sweetness: "Oh, that's nice!" she thought.
That was one of the first signs that this year would be "a vintage in our books," she predicts, up there with her favorite vintages in 2009 and 2010.
Although the area also experienced a drought in 2010, that one caused a surge in sugar in the grapes and fast ripening, which led to a smaller yield, Pelton says. This year, she says they hauled in 382.2 tons of grapes between the 50 acres under vine at her family's winery and another 50 on farms within 30 minutes' drive, which will make about 26,000 cases of wine (there are 12 bottles in a case). An average year would yield 15,000 to 20,000 cases for the vineyard.
Several factors contributed to this year's bountiful harvest, says Joy Ting, production manager and head enologist at Michael Shaps Wineworks. For one, there was an early bud break in the spring, which generally makes winemakers and growers nervous, because one cold snap could wipe out their crops. But the milder temperatures held, translating into a longer grape-growing season. Most wineries started picking their first white grape crops at least a week early—Pelton says they started picking August 10, almost two weeks ahead of schedule. King Family picked its first chardonnay grapes for its sparkling wine August 3—a full week earlier than it's ever harvested. In addition, wineries were still harvesting their last red varieties at normal times (early to mid-October), and were even able to do second-round pickings of certain varieties, such as King's viognier.
The small amount of rain (our area dodged residual effects from Hurricanes Irma and Maria) meant the threat of disease such as rot was lessened, and it also allowed grapes with more concentrated flavor because the vines could focus on their job—growing fruit.
"I feel like the cabernet franc this year is some of the best cabernet franc that I've seen since I've been in the industry, about five years," Ting says. The sauvignon blancs, viognier and rosé don't need to go through malolactic fermentation, which reduces acidity, and will be released in late summer 2018. Most of the reds like cabernet sauvignon, tannat and petit verdot will continue to age in barrels for another year after being pressed and undergoing malolactic fermentation. They will be available in late 2019. "But I would hesitate to say that, only because I really feel like across the board the fruit was very high quality. From the very early whites all the way through the reds…for Virginia, I feel like it was a really wonderful growing season for us."
Down to a science
As Carrington King passes by blocks of grapes, he points out their labeling system of using cattle tags on each row: red for merlot, pink for cabernet franc, yellow for petit manseng. We stop near a block of viognier, where people are hand-picking the second harvest of the grape, which will likely be used for a small-batch orange viognier (a method of winemaking in which white grapes are fermented on the skins like a red wine, creating an amber hue and giving the wine "nice tannin"). King's brother's father-in-law is out in the field, as is King's mother, Ellen, picking alongside year-round employees. The vineyard is a family endeavor—David and Ellen King started the vineyard in 1998, and the couple's three sons now help operate the 327-acre farm and vineyard.
King says all the grapes are handpicked—"It's hard to find them, you have to hunt way up high," he says. Gathering berries for sampling (which begins about a week after veraison, when the red grapes go from green to red and the white grapes start softening) is not a very scientific process: Someone grabs a Ziploc bag and walks along a path with a row of vines on either side. While looking straight ahead, he'll reach in and grab some berries off a cluster, sometimes off the top, sometimes off the bottom, and ping-pong between the two rows to ensure a sampling of berries that get both morning and afternoon sun. By not looking at the berries you pick you're ensuring as random a sample as possible–our eyes are naturally trained to flesh out the best-looking berries.
"When we're sampling and trying to get tons per acres we do berry weights and cluster weights. On average our berry weight was lower than most years," King says. "Typically a winemaker would love to have smaller berries, especially in a red where the ratio of juice to skin favors better color, better tannin, better extraction, because your ratio of juice to skin is higher on the skin side. Now, in central Virginia we don't know what to call average because it's been so variable every year."
Once the sample comes in the process does turn scientific. The berries are crushed and the juice is strained into a beaker, and a pH meter and a refractometer measure the pH level and percent of soluble solids—the sugar level of the juice. As the sugar accumulates in the grape, the pH level increases. When the grapes are first tested the pH might be 2.8 or 2.9, increasing to 5.3 or 6, as it gets more basic (7 on the pH scale is neutral). But acid is good for wine—if it's not acidic enough the wine won't taste balanced. Chardonnay used in sparkling wine, for instance, is picked at a lower pH level of 3 to give the wine an "acidic tingle and freshness," King says.
"When it gets closer to harvest (three weeks after veraison) we might take samples every few days, to try to say what's the progression of sugar accumulation and how quickly is the acid going down, to try to find the right balance point of when it's the right time to pick that grape," Ting says. "And that's one of the nice things about not having rain coming. We get to dial that in a little more carefully. If it's going to rain, we'll usually pick it before the rain, if we feel like it's close to ripe. This year we would take samples, and we would almost be able to predict 'well okay, it looks like it's gaining such and such sugar per day, so it looks like this weekend it should be right where we want it to get' and it would be right about where we expected it to be."
Michael Shaps, which has about 80 acres of vineyard under lease or management in eight counties in the state for its own wines, also does contract winemaking for clients who bring in grapes from their own vineyards, and Ting says grapes from all over the state saw similar consistency this year. Shaps was the original winemaker at King Family, and was succeeded by Matthieu Finot in 2007.
Finot, whose lab is housed in the "newish" production facility at King Family (it's their fourth harvest in the new building), echoes other winemakers in their love of this year's crop with good acid, which keeps freshness in the wine and helps it age well.
"I'm very excited with the chardonnay, and the cab franc will just be wonderful this year: good ripening, good color, good tannin extraction," he says. "I think it's going to be a key vintage for what we do. We had some rain at the beginning of September, just to give us harvest, then it went back to nice, sunny and dry. On a whole I'm very happy with it. Usually when you talk to the winemaker at this time they're all depressed…here, it's like yay!"
Experimental thinking
When asked what her favorite varieties this season are, Pelton lets out a little yelp and squirms in her seat. It's like asking her to pick a favorite child. She concedes that her sauvignon blanc was "killer" this year—not that the viognier wasn't—but the sauvignon blanc stands out for its intense aromatics. You can pick out distinct notes of grapefruit and passionfruit, specifically pink grapefruit.
"You can really start diving in there and saying, 'Ooh, I can smell this!'" she says.
For reds, she names both cabernet franc and petit verdot, but finally settles on cab franc.
King also names their cabernet franc and petit verdot as the red varieties he's most excited about this year: "The chemistry was amazing," he says.
King Family hauled in 240 tons of grapes this season from its more than 30 acres, which translates to 12,000 cases. King says demand is going up every year, as is production and new plantings: In 2016 they made 2,200 cases of Crosé, which lasted in their tasting room until July. The year before, they produced 1,800 cases that sold out in September. Each year they're selling out earlier: They will bottle 4,000 cases of the 2017 vintage of the cult favorite rosé, a staple at summer polo matches at the vineyard.
Although King Family mainly sticks to its stable of wines, it created its small batch series four or five years ago to allow Finot to experiment, and in a banner year like this there's a little more room to play.
"What's really fun for us is making these little tiny batches to make very select bottlings," King says.
Newly released this year for King Family is a wine called Mountain Plains, which was the original name of the family's property when a 22-year-old Thomas Jefferson, then an attorney, signed the deed. The "super meritage" is a blend of petit verdot, merlot and cabernet franc—two barrels of each.
Currently being processed in King Family's production facility is a whole cluster petit verdot–pressed with stems and all–much the way they would have done in the Old World when grapes were crushed underfoot. The stems give the wine more tannins, Finot says, but that can be risky. He points to a similar experiment a few years ago with a dry petit manseng that is now being served in the tasting room. When he first tried it he thought it was very harsh and acidic, out of balance, and he considered dumping it. But he kept aging it in barrels, and after two years he ended up with a drinkable wine.
"Now it's one of the wines I really love," he says.
Berry good
Although the viognier grape, which has intense, complex aromas of stone fruit with tropical notes, was named our state's signature grape in 2011 (its thick skin can stand up to Virginia's heat and humidity), it comes in as No. 6 in grape production totals from a 2016 commercial grape report prepared for the Virginia Wine Board. Here are our state's top five:
1. Cabernet franc (929 tons)
2. Chardonnay (760 tons)
3. Merlot (620 tons)
4. Cabernet sauvignon (533 tons)
5. Petit verdot (495 tons)
Blenheim Vineyards, which made roughly 4,500 cases in 2016 and will bottle 8,000 cases this year, has added the albariño grape, which generally flourishes in Spain, to its portfolio. Ting points to Bleinheim and Afton Mountain Vineyards as early champions of the grape variety, good for making a fresh white wine. Kirsty Harmon, winemaker and general manager at Blenheim, says both the albariño and sauvignon blanc did well this year, and she made a little wine out of pinot noir, which she hasn't been able to attempt in years past.
"I'd say that it is potentially the best harvest at Blenheim since I've been winemaker for 10 years," she says.
And Veritas' Pelton is experimenting too, but less with grapes and more on winemaking styles and the growing process. In 2014 she helped found the now statewide Winemakers Research Exchange in which wineries in Virginia can submit experiments for blind taste tests. Last year the exchange had 10 different tastings; Pelton submitted four or five projects.
The future of local wines
Today there are more than 260 wineries statewide compared with 193 in 2010. In 2015, the wine and grape industry brought in $1.37 billion, and wine production nearly doubled in that time frame from 439,500 cases to 705,200, according to the Virginia Wine Board's 2015 Economic Impact Study.
Today's wineries, with careful site selection for plantings and fruit monitoring along with evolving winemaking, are a far cry from the early days 40 years ago, King says. He says he's often asked who his competitors are. His answer: He doesn't have any. He says all the winemakers, vineyard owners and grape growers are friendly with one another and eager to share insights to create the best wine and customer experience they can.
"It's a very intimate thing to sell something that you're going to imbibe—it's not tennis shoes or a belt buckle. It's going in your body," King says. "If someone has a bad experience somewhere, they might write off Virginia wine."
Two weeks ago Pelton traveled to Charleston, South Carolina, for a luncheon hosted by Garden & Gun magazine. Only Virginia wines, including Veritas and Early Mountain Vineyards, were served, and guests didn't know what they were drinking until Pelton walked around to each table to chat with the luncheon's attendees. Their feedback? They were surprised by the wine's origins, but they loved it.
"I would just like to point out we have such pride in our Southern food culture," Pelton says. "I'd like people to start having the same [feeling] about their local brewery, winery and cidery."


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Utah speedskater headed to Sochi after recovering from horrific injury
Kearns, Utah - The reminder is inescapable.
Before every training session, before every race, before any moment Kelly Gunther snags her skates and preps for time on the ice, she's required 15 to 20 minutes of treatment on her lower left leg. It needs stretching out if her blades are to get her where she wants to be.
On Sunday afternoon, Gunther's whirlwind journey from narrowly missing the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver to nearly losing her foot in a horrific, double-compound fracture crash in March 2010 was complete.
She'll skate in Sochi.
The 26-year-old West Jordan resident finished fourth in the women's 1,000-meter Olympic trials qualifier at the Olympic Oval in Kearns, on the same ice where her career was suddenly flung into the unknown nearly four years ago when her leg snapped in an American Cup 500-meter final.
"I'm a really big believer that everything happens for a reason - there's a reason for that, there's a reason why I fell at this rink, so making this 2014 team is just icing on the cake with everything I've been through and skating every day," Gunther said.
The icing was also a personal-best time of 1 minute, 16.43 seconds, beating our her previous best time of 1:16.58 set on Dec. 13, 2009. Aiming for a new personal best in the 1,000 was a goal Gunther set out for entering the event. Before starting the 12th of 14 heats, she took laps rocking to Miley Cyrus' "Do My Thing."
"I kept my cool," Gunther said. "I wasn't really nervous at the line."
It showed.
The former figure skater and in-line World Cup circuit medal winner stamped her spot in Sochi.
"For Kelly to go through what she went through four years ago now is something really special," said longtime friend and 1,000-meter world record holder Brittany Bowe. "Talk about perseverance and never giving up - that's the definition of it right there."
But it took some time. Six months after the gruesome injury, Gunther healed in Colorado Springs, Colo., at the Olympic Training Center after having 10 screws and a metal plate inserted into her foot to keep the broken bones together. Never had she been away from the ice and her skates for that long.
"Having them off for six months was very hard for me," she said. "I had to fight back and knew I could do it."
True to form, Gunther fought her way back onto the ice, into shape and in 2011 garnered a spot on the World Cup team. On Sunday, the Lorain, Ohio, native held a bouquet of flowers and smiled standing on the podium next to fellow 1,000-meter qualifiers Heather Richardson, Bowe and Sugar Todd.
The memory of the crash which left her foot dangling from her leg is always there for Gunther. That necessary 15-to-20-minute window prepping for each race is simultaneously recalling what happened and moving forward.
"It's a reminder every day actually how bad it was," she said. "To keep fighting and how strong [the leg] is now, it's almost stronger now than before I had fallen."
One day after being disqualified in the men's 500-meter event for not wearing his ankle transponder, Utah resident Jonathan Garcia punched his ticket to Sochi finishing fourth in the men's 1,000-meter qualifying race. Two-time Olympic gold medalist and world-record holder Shani Davis won the event as Brian Hansen and Joey Mantia also earned qualifying nominations.
Once the final heat concluded and Garcia earned his spot, he took a victory lap, holding each ankle transponder to the sky.
"Not to sound weird or cocky, but I kind of feel like I already made the team," Garcia said. "This obviously feels really great, because now I'm actually on the team and I'm going to Russia. Don't get me wrong, it feels awesome - it feels amazing."


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — One of the biggest boogeymen of the financial crisis and, by extension, today's miserable housing market, is the Community Reinvestment Act.
That's the law that required banks to make loans to lower and moderate income owners within the areas served by the banks. CRA was enacted in 1977, but it quickly became seen by critics as a financial affirmative action. These lower- to middle-income borrowers were most often urban, black and Hispanic.
When the financial crisis was in full swing, CRA was blamed. Although loans and mortgages granted to under-served areas didn't default at rates any higher than more affluent neighborhoods — in part because those loans weren't subprime.
The problems stemmed from the overextended borrowers, the liar loans, the teaser-rate mortgages and home equity loans that blew up. CRA default rates were substantially lower because they had greater supervision and low interest rates, according to a study by Traiger & Hinckley LLP, a real estate law firm. Read study on CRA lending versus the overall market.
The study also found that CRA loans actually kept the mortgage crisis from getting worse.
"Without the CRA, the subprime crisis and related spike in foreclosures might have negatively impacted even more borrowers and neighborhoods," the study concluded. "Compared to other lenders in their assessment areas, CRA Banks were less likely to make a high-cost loan, charged less for the high-cost loans that were made, and were substantially more likely to eschew the secondary market and hold high-cost and other loans in portfolio."
Not only did CRA have positive benefits for the housing market, it was bolstered by the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, a 1975 law that requires banks to report on lending. Part of that analysis, made annually, did have an affirmative action component. It required lenders to report to regulators what they were charging minorities on loans, and how those loans compared to loans they gave white folks.
Each year, this data has become available at the end of March. And while the inequities usually created a minor kerfuffle before the financial crisis, the data has been overlooked since the financial crisis. There's just too much bad news about the banks for their potentially racist lending patterns to grab the big headlines.
Matthew Lee, head of Inner City Press and Fair Finance Watch, parses these numbers every year. Now, a lot of people don't like Lee. The banks certainly consider him a nuisance. And now CRA bashers have joined in saying he's just another one of those "community organizers" who, like ACORN members, probably gives out advice on how to hide your brothel's finances from the Internal Revenue Service.
Regardless of what you think of Lee, the numbers he collects from the thousands of pages filed by the banks don't lie. If banks charged customers more than Treasury yields plus 150 basis points, the loan was above market rates. That's a federal standard.
Citigroup Inc.
-1.57%charged African Americans a higher rate 3.38-times more than other borrowers last year.
For J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
-2.47%, the rate was higher 2.21-times more frequently. Wells Fargo & Co. WFC, -2.49%clocked in at 2.28 times for the demographic.
Regional and often better-thought-of banks, such as KeyCorp
-3.34%and U.S. Bancorp USB, -1.72%, charged African Americans a higher rate 1.7-times and 2.13-times more, respectively.
Two banks, Bank of America Corp.
-1.44%and Capital One Financial Corp. COF, -3.89%, didn't meet the filing deadlines.
And the list really doesn't end there. Across the board, most banks charged African Americans and Latinos higher interest rates twice as often, or more, in almost every case.
The banks, of course, don't see it this way. And many of them pointed out that the data Lee is getting his information from is a small or tiny slice — in some cases less than 2% — of their overall lending the majority of banks made during 2011. More complete numbers will be available in August.
Moreover, the banks say that the numbers are skewed. Even when those numbers are released there will be no credit scores, to loan-to-value or income information that can be used to make a detailed analysis. In other words, you can see the bank argument: we didn't care if they were purple, they didn't qualify for our best rates.
Capital One, Citigroup and J.P. Morgan did not respond to requests for comment. A spokesman for Bank of America declined comment.
Wells Fargo said in a statement, "We take our commitment to serve all customers across the credit spectrum very seriously. Wells Fargo lends without bias."
KeyBank said its own data differed substantially. The bank said its average APR for loans to African Americans with a rate spread between 1.5 and 2.5, is 5.36%, which represents 95% of the bank's loans above the threshold. KeyBank argued that its loan rates are not appreciably higher than those offered to non-African-American customers, and when non-public credit data is taken into account, they have found no evidence of lending discrimination.
"Careful lending controls are in place at KeyBank," the bank said in a statement. "We lend based on factors such as credit scores, debt-to-income ratios, and loan-to-value ratios. We do not lend based on race, and we work hard to ensure our standards are consistent among all applicants."
Lee, who has been tracking these numbers for more than five years, says government numbers tell a different story and — more worrisome — the trends are deteriorating. "Even after the bailouts, lending disparities grew worse and not better," he said. "Regulatory laxity, at least on fair lending, has continued despite the financial meltdown caused by predatory lending."
Keep in mind the distinction Lee makes. These banks aren't considered "predatory" in the eyes of most critics. We usually think of payday loans and pawn shops when we envision predatory lenders. These banks are the household names that most Americans count on for fair financial products.
And if you think it's fair, then perhaps you also think it would be fair to charge black and Hispanic customers more on their phone bills, to eat at a restaurant and to go to the movies.
Such practices are even more deplorable when you consider that the industry has been bailed out without any sort of strings from the government other than paying the money back with interest.
When the statistics show a systematic racism in place, it's racism nonetheless. And the irony is that we have a president who is proud of his black heritage watching it all from the White House.
Wonder what sort of deal he got on financing?


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For the first time, the series that changed console gaming forever comes to PC with six blockbuster games in one epic experience. This bundle includes all titles in the collection that will be delivered over time and available for individual purchase, beginning now with Halo: Reach. Featuring Halo: Reach along with Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 2: Anniversary, Halo 3, Halo 3: ODST Campaign and Firefight, and Halo 4, the Master Chief Collection offers players their own exciting journey through the epic saga. . Each adds its own multiplayer maps, modes and game types, building a unified multiplayer suite that expands over time. When completed in 2020, the collection will contain over 140 multiplayer maps and 67 campaign missions, making this the PC collection Halo fans have been waiting for.
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When you're designing a board game, sometimes the theme comes first, sometimes the mechanics come first and you add a theme around them. Every so often though it's the components that come first. You'll find some part or bit that you just have to incorporate into your next game. It's with that in mind that I recently visited The I.D.E.A. Store in Champaign. For those Season 4 competitors who might not have a firm game concept yet, or for anyone who hasn't been to the I.D.E.A. Store at all, here are some of the eclectic products they have to offer, and some of my own ideas on what sorts of games you could build around them.
First we got a big ole' bucket of CDs. Yes you read that right, 10 CDs for just 25¢. For that price, why use cards for your game? Instead use CDs with stuff written on them! Sure shuffling would be harder, but I'd buy any game with playing CDs instead of playing cards in a heartbeat.
If these "Compact Disks" are too newfangled for you, the I.D.E.A. Store has some other options that may be more to your liking.
These genuine floppy disks are two bucks per pound. I'm not sure what you could use them for. Maybe you could do some kind of Carcassonne-style game using floppy disks instead of tiles? They've got 3.5 inch floppies for sale as well.
Rings Fit for a Lord
Most games about brave Hobbits and such have like a single ring maximum in the game box. You however, could buy all of these rings for a few dollars and use them for whatever you want. Or really go the distance and make a whole game around them. I'm thinking some kind of collectable ring game that you can play standing up which involves moving rings from finger to finger to perform actions/attacks.
Soda Tabs
If you're making any kind of post apocalypse game, you should really be using these aluminum can tabs as your game's currency. Or victory points. Really all of your tokens should be different sized pop tabs. (The I.D.E.A. Store has tons bottle caps as well, if you want to be not at all innovative and just a copycat).
Eggs and Cartons
There's a lot of possibilities here. First group that makes a game that involves plastic eggs of different colors and fits entirely inside a standard egg carton will have my undying respect. Such a game would likely involve hidden information of some kind contained in the eggs. Then they get passed around or something? I dunno just make it happen!
Trophy Bits
The I.D.E.A. Store has lots of trophy parts.
the shiny middle bits….
Like, seriously a bunch.
Obviously somebody needs to buy up all these parts and develop a dexterity game about building the tallest trophy. Call it Trophy Towers or somesuch. I'd play the crap outta that game.
"But Tom!" you proclaim in a whiney/horrified voice. "If I use any of these recycled parts in my game, how would I be able to get it published??!" Let me tell you about some games called Burp and Neolithibum. These two published games, both by the same designer, use stones picked from the his own back yard as primary game components. Thus, no two copies of the game are alike, and that's pretty cool. Also, using unique components in unique ways is sure to put you in the running for this season's Innovation Award.
There is a lot of wacky items at The I.D.E.A. Store, but even if you aren't looking for something weird to build a whole game around, the Store has things that every team needs. Dice, pawns, cards, paper, art supplies, and tons of small containers perfect for holding game bits. If you've never visited The I.D.E.A. Store you should! And even if you have been there before, they get new stuff all the time so you should give it another look. You seriously never know what you'll find there.


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In cities throughout the UK there are a huge amount of conversion projects where large Victorian or Georgian houses – or more recently office blocks) have been converted into flats or rooms for residential purposes. Unfortunately designing for sound insulation is not always shown the highest priority on these types of projects, so many converted dwellings suffer from adverse noise transference between the floor and wall partitions. This can be extremely stressful to the occupant's well-being is a major cause for concern.
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Zip Line vs. Zip Ride
With the Association for Challenge Course Technology (ACCT) and Professional Ropes Course Association (PRCA) both introducing new standards for Zip Lines, and with the International ASTM standards organization developing standard ASTM F2959 to establish criteria for total design, manufacture and installation of aerial adventure courses (to include zip lines, challenge courses, aerial trekking courses, etc), the question arises,
"It's just a bunch of cable strung between two structures, isn't it?"
For better or worse (and that will primarily depend on how the standards are written and applied), this industry is changing and growing. Personally, I find it exciting. New technology, new opportunities, and new experiences seem to be appearing on my Google Alerts every day… and I think that is just great. At the same time, I have some concerns about the new direction of standards and the evolution of the zip line.
I often receive inquiries about whether zip lines can be designed to arc, pass intermediary anchors and do physically amazing things. I also receive similar questions as to the nature of increasing cycle times and supporting a nearly perplexing numbers of riders. The answer is "yes, zip lines can be designed to arch and defy gravity" and "yes, I have a solution to reducing cycle time and supporting a perplexing number of riders." The answer is "A ROLLERCOASTER". The good news is that it has already been invented and designers and manufacturers are available worldwide.
If to traverse a length of cable between two structures a motorized trolley is required, should the ride be called a zip line? If cables are used to suspend a steel tube with arcs and undulations that thrill riders as they descend on a multi-sheave pulley, should the ride be called a zip line? These are questions that we need to answer.
Additionally, there is a growing concern, perpetrated I believe by rumors and builders making grossly inaccurate claims, that hand-braking systems and systems with additional human involvement are dangerous. First, all zip lines are dangerous. Second, recent studies by the insurance companies have shown that while there are slightly more claims on hand-braking courses, the severity of injury has been less than those claims for course using other methods of control.
Let's for a second compare a few different "zip lines" through a video comparison.
ArborTrek Canopy Adventures – Smugglers' Notch, Vermont
Zip Rider – Icy Straight, Alaska
Sun City South Africa
Soaring Eagle Zip Line
Moto-Zip – Branson, Missouri
YMCA Camp Piomingo – Louisville, Kentucky
Personally, I have not had the opportunity to ride the Sun City Africa zip line, Moto-Zip, or the Camp Piomingo, but I would like to ride them all. I selected these examples because I believe they are representative of some of the new experiences that are emerging. I'm a fan of innovation and experience and I found the zip lines that I did experience above to be tremendous fun. I also found it hard to call some of them zip lines.
In the example of the hand-braking zip line and camp zip line, gravity was the chief propellant and the users were given opportunities to participate in the experience either by stepping off the platform, or in the case of the zip line canopy tour, steering and controlling their speed. The Zip Rider at Icy Straight is awesome! But I didn't have the opportunity to choose when to go. In fact, I didn't have any control in the system other than to sit there. I enjoyed the experience, but it was akin to be a passenger in a vehicle driving at high speeds rather than being the driver… and I like to drive.
So, here's the quandary. Are all of these really zip lines? I believe they are… but I believe they are in the same way that motorcycles, buses, RV's, carts, buggies and automobiles are all vehicles. As the industry begins to expand, I think it is important that we keep this in mind and that we really start considering the terminology we use to define these structures.
I will make a bold prediction. All of the regulation and standards that are developed in the next five years will do less to reduce the risk to participants than would spending time to look ahead and define the market and develop proper terminology. The growing popularity of "zip lines" and commercial attention is not good for the industry. It misleads participants.
In one recent commercial aired during the Super Bowl, Jerry Seinfeld zips through Manhattan on "his personal network of zip lines" (simply hanging from a t-bar) and executes a flawless dismount. Holding on to a t-bar and supporting ones body weight looks easy in the commercial, but most participants cannot do it. In another commercial, Maxwell the Pig, Geiko's newest mascot, soars down a cable with ease, clipped into the system with a 99 cent keychain carabiner mouthing "Pure Adrenaline" between squeals of "Weee! Weee! Weeeeee!"
I love the commercials and the new experiences, but they are dangerous. Zip lines, whether hand-braking, non-hand-braking, or commercialized ARE DANGEROUS! There are inherent risks involved in soaring along cables at high speeds at dizzying heights, and users need to be aware of what these risks are before entering a course.
Unfortunately, most guests are NOT well educated on these risks. It never fails to surprise me how little people read or how willing they are to enter in to a risky environment without educating themselves despite warnings and plentiful resources. I'm a fan of hand-braking courses. To me, hand-braking provides a more intimate experience. I like the control, the feeling of the cable whizzing by, and the warmth that seeps through the glove and into the palm of my hand as I squeeze the cable. I'm bored silly by zip lines (regardless of how long or fast and in fact perhaps more so by how long) when my only ability to participate is to scream "Whoopppeee!" There's no learning curve or opportunity to develop. But, hand-braking experiences and traditional zip lines that require participants to control their direction of travel and speed run the risk of being sabotaged by new technology which automates and removes the participant from the experience.
So, here's what I propose. The term zip-line should be broken down into two categories: 1) traditional zip lines, and 2) zip rides.
Traditional Zip Lines: Traditional zip lines require user input (if even to just take a step off of a platform and initiate the experience). Such input may require the user to control some or all of the following: position, speed, direction of travel, dismount, take-off.
Traditional zip lines should be further broken down in to two categories: 1) requires user input, and 2) does not require user input.
Zip Rides: Little to no user input is required. Input in to the system is purely for amusement and not required as part of the safety system.
By more accurately defining the experience and preparing users who enter the course, risk to the general public can be further mitigated without creating regulatory standards that prohibit user experience, stifle innovation, and create scenarios where "big money" investing in zip rides and amusement rides create regulatory standards that destroy participant opportunity.Zip coasters are the newest evolution in the zip line craze. Riders descend a steel tube which rises, falls, turns, and undulates.[/caption]
"It's just a bunch of cable strung between two structures, isn't it?" No. It's not.
The difference between zip rides and traditional zip lines is that of whether or not zip lines are amusement park devices. I assert that traditional zip lines are not amusement park devices. They are adventure sports. Zip rides are amusement park devices.
In hand-brake systems, users must be properly trained and they must demonstrate the ability to master basic skills and show improvement along the course of the experience. The user's input is imperative in the experience just as a climber's ability to position his body, grasp holds, find foot placements, and route-find is imperative in rock climbing, another adventure sport. The experience is one of adventure and psycho-motor skill development, not simply thrills and amusement.
Zip rides, at their core, are thrill rides, pure and simple and they should be treated as such. The duty of care is placed solely on the operator. User input is required only as a means to increase the thrill or amusement and not to mitigate risk.
As members of the amusement park and challenge course communities move forward in their quest to develop new standards, and as regulators and interested parties seek to protect the public, I encourage them to adopt the new terminology and to embrace the differences and rewards inherent in each of the experiences.
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Art and Audience Participation: What Can We Expect from the Future?
August 12, 2013
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In a little more than three decades, digital technology has reshaped human communication, causing a profound impact in all aspects of culture, where new modes of creation, dissemination and consumption of cultural value have already created and erased whole industries. I will use the subject of art to explain what happened during the 20th century, and I will show how electronic and digital media played a key role shaping a new set of "Contemporary Art" principles. Furthermore, I will show how these principles find a perfect match in the digital medium itself, where objects are replaced by systems and processes, and contemplation is replaced by interaction and participation. Inspired by these principles, I will describe a series of software pieces that deal with issues of creativity, audience participation and cultural value:
- The Tiny Icon Factory is a tool and gallery for the anonymous creation of black and white low resolution icons. With over 200,000 anonymous and uncensored contributions in under two years, The Tiny Icon Factory is an ongoing exploration of creative expression.
- PictureXS was an anonymous picture aggregator. It featured an embedded tracing tool, a self-regulated censorship system, and tags. Before it was turned off in January 2011, PictureXS had collected over 30,000 pictures, 1000 drawings and 500,000 tags, reporting activity from across the world.
- Running from 2005 to 2008, OpenStudio was a pioneering experiment in creativity, collaboration & commerce. Participants created and sold artwork in an online marketplace using an embedded drawing tool and virtual currency.
I will share some high-level insight based on the content produced by the users of these programs.
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Luis Blackaller currently works as an Art Director and UI/UX Designer in the Los Angeles based Digital Creative Studio WemoLab, and holds a part-time teaching position at the Institute of Multimedia Literacy at USC. Luis has a multidisciplinary background that covers aspects of entertainment, science, design, art and storytelling. He holds a Mathematics degree, and has worked as a designer, artist and animator among academy award winners in films like Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel. He holds a MS from the MIT Media Lab, where he developed software to explore creative social systems and their relationship with artistic expression and communication. After graduating from MIT, Luis worked as a Producer and Creative Director for the Next Billion Network at the MIT Media Lab, where he designed and supervised the execution of alternative strategies of communication and promotion of research. Luis has a big cranium that can only be matched by the size of his imagination.


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How can I boost my metabolism?
A question I often get asked so I thought I would write this post to clear up a few things.
Firstly, what is your metabolism?
Your metabolism is all the chemical processes that go on inside your body on a daily basis to keep you alive.
I am talking about your organ functioning, breathing and digesting food.
All these functions require ENERGY, which we get from our food.
The minimum amount of energy your body requires to carry out these processes is called your Basel Metabolic Rate (BMR). Maybe you have heard of this before.
Everyone's BMR is different, it determines how many calories you should be eating per day in order for your body to carry out all relevant functions.
Your BMR can be determined by various factors such as your genes, gender, age and body size.
One important point is people that have more muscle mass (more muscles) will have a higher BMR. This is in comparison to people that have a higher fat mass. It is because muscle cells require more energy than fat cells.
I have a slow metabolism!!
It's a bit of a fluffy term to be honest.
Many women when they get older believe their metabolism slows down but actually this is what happens.
When you age, generally you lose muscle mass and gain more fat mass.
Maybe you aren't working out as much or doing any exercise. This means you lose some muscle mass and gain more fat, this in turn decreases your metabolism.
So yes your metabolism could be slowing down but this would be the most common reason with age.
There is not a great deal of evidence that suggests a slower metabolism is responsible for weight gain.
The point above is considering the general public. Some health conditions such as PCOS or an underactive thyroid would impact a persons metabolism and make it easier for them to gain weight and harder to lose.
Research shows that people EAT MORE than what they think they do. When people are asked to report what they consume over a day, generally people under report.
Is this because they are too busy and are constantly eating on the go or not being honest with themselves, it's hard to know.
The biggest reason people are gaining weight is NOT because of a slow metabolism it's they are consuming more food than what their body needs. They are eating too many calories each day, eating above their BMR.
Do crash diets impact my metabolism?
When you go on a very low calorie carsh diet, less than 1000 or 800 the body starts to look for energy. This is because you aren't putting enough energy in. Therefore it starts to break down muscle mass for energy, this then means lower muscle mass and then slower metabolism.
It's better to work with a qualified Nutritionist or Dietitian that can help you determine your BMR then a healthy calorie deficit. So that you can get consistent results without impacting the speed of your metabolism.
Can you speed up your metabolism?
Well there are enough products on the shops to make you think so. Unfortunately these products will only burn a hole in your pocket and not burn calories.
The evidence around drinking green tea, teatox and various metabolism boosting pills is very weak and pretty much non existant.
So what can you do to speed up your metabolism?
Build more muscle!
When you have more muscle, your body needs more energy and so you have a higher BMR. Your metabolism increases.
Exercising in general will be beneficial to improve results especially if you hit a weight loss plateau.
The more active you are, the more calories you burn.
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The BBC has launched a new version of its homepage in beta. The emphasis is shifted from news, sport and weather to the iPlayer, which was still in its infancy when the current homepage was launched in 2008.
The new site is clearly built for the tablet age. The entire homepage fits inside the screen of an iPad, which can handle less than half of the current BBC homepage.
Phil Fearnley, general manager of News and Knowledge, BBC Future Media, said: "The BBC Homepage attracts over 9 million unique browsers a week across devices and the new page is designed to meet the challenge of serving this mass audience by showcasing the breadth of what we create on the web, whilst enabling the simple filtering which users have come to expect."
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Popular YouTube celebrity Simon "Honeydew" Lane is now available as a brand new participant in Sega's Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed on PC.
Developed to help raise money for SpecialEffect -- a charity that helps people with disabilities enjoy video games -- the new DLC character can be picked up for $4.99 (£2.99/€3.99), with 100 percent of the proceeds donated to the charity.
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I hate eating the same thing all the time! It makes me feel as if I'm "DIETING".
And I hate that feeling of being DEPRIVED.
So instead of eating the same ol' brown rice all the time, I like to switch it up or shall I say JAZZ IT UP!
Like this veggie rice I whipped up the other day. It took me minutes to make and I actually made it with leftover jasmine rice I had in the fridge.
Its good to be prepared my friends!
I always make more rice than we need because I know I can jazz it up all kinds of different ways during the week. Like My Mediterranean Warm Brown Rice Salad from My Eat To Be Fit Healthy Recipes Book. I love it because it tastes amazing and also because it is so easy and quick to make. Its so good, I could have it all week and be happy. And you know I don't like to eat the same thing all the time.
I have a few other YUMMY & HEALTHY "Rice Recipes" on My Pinterest Boards. Like my Green Rice and my Tex-Mex Pilaf. Sooo yum, check them out, I think you will love them.
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Ok, I hope you enjoy this easy rice recipe as much as I did.
1 cup cooked rice
1 cup edamame, shelled and thawed
1 cup black beans, rinsed and drained
1/2 red pepper, chopped
1/2 red onion, chopped
1 garlic clove, chopped
1/4 cup cilantro, chopped
In a saute pan with a little stock, cook the onions, peppers and garlic. Once softened, add in the black beans and cook for a few minutes. Then add in the edamame and cilantro and fold in well. At the end mix in the cooked rice, fold well.
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Multi-tasking as a producer, director, writer, editor and cameraman, Stone has over the last 30 years developed an esteemed international reputation for his unique and critically acclaimed feature-documentaries about American history, pop-culture, the mass media and the environment. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly called Stone "one of our most important documentary filmmakers," for directing "two of the most explosively insightful documentaries of the last decade." His best-known work includes Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (2004), which premiered at Sundance and went on to become one of the most highly-acclaimed theatrical documentaries of the year. The film was followed by the documentary feature Oswald's Ghost (2007) for which Stone earned his second Emmy nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Non-Fiction Filmmaking. Earth Days (2009), which premiered as the closing night film at Sundance, traced the emergence of the environmental movement in the United States, from its beginnings in the 1950s to the first Earth Day celebration in 1970 and the political action that followed it. Pandora's Promise (2013), an audience favorite at Sundance, prompted considerable controversy by telling the intensely personal stories of environmentalists and energy experts who have undergone a radical conversion from being fiercely anti- to strongly pro-nuclear energy.
Stone's latest work, Chasing the Moon, is an epic political and social history of the race to the moon, broadcast on PBS as a three-part six-hour miniseries to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing. Stone also co-wrote, with Alan Andres, the companion book Chasing the Moon, published by Random House. Stone is a co-author of the Eco-Modernist Manifesto and co-founder of the non-profit group Energy for Humanity, both inspired by his filmmaking on environmental issues. He is also the creator of a 22-part permanent film installation at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston.
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